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Corporate social responsibility-what does this mean? Corporations have moral, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities in addition to earning a fair return for their investors and in complying with the law. Historically, it has been believed that the primary-and maybe only responsibility-is to a corporation's owners or stockholders. In the past, charitable giving-giving to help others-was done through the church and money was distributed as the church saw fit. However today, there is a broader view of corporate giving. Corporations are encouraged to embrace this concept. This type of giving would include their employees, suppliers, and customers; but it also reaches out to the community which might be near or far away, environmental groups, or other special interest groups-which would include numerous foundations and charities.
Many believe that large corporations have huge reserves of both human and financial capital. Therefore, they should devote at least some of their resources to addressing social issues and to helping make the world a better place. The problem comes in deciding which charitable organization to support. Presently in the United States, there are 1.8 million non-profit organizations to choose from. A non-profit organization (NPO) is an organization that does not issue stock shares or does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders. Instead this surplus must be retained for the self-preservation, expansion, or plans of the NPO. So now instead of the community or the church or even the individual, a corporation may have the role of deciding which charity is the best one suited to match its interests.
NPO's take many forms. There are charities, foundations, social welfare or advocacy organizations, professional or trade associations, or religious organizations. Their funds may go to support the arts or humanities, education, the environment, animals, health, human service, or just about anything else that you can think of. Most of the resources of these groups come from individuals (75%) followed by foundations, bequests, and corporations.
How can you learn about these various groups? Some charities choose to knock on doors, call you on the phone, send letters, or perhaps to spread their story by word of mouth. Giving has been made easy. Individuals or corporations can easily donate online, and the fees are minimal; you can give directly by sending a check; or you can sponsor fundraising events. The first step is in making the choice to become involved and to vow to make a difference.We believe that if you are looking for an organization to support that promotes education, improves the health and well-being of many, and cares deeply about the children of the world; then Water4Kids may be exactly the charity you are seeking.
We live in a world where nearly a billion people around the world still do not have clean, safe drinking water. Children and women spend their day fetching water for their families. Because children are expected to do this, they never have the opportunity to attend school or to improve their future. In addition, the water that is brought back to the families is contaminated and instead of giving life; it brings diseases and death. Most do not have medical clinics or supplies nearby to help them in their fight for survival. You have the opportunity to give the gift of fresh, safe water; life-saving medicine; the opportunity to attend school and have the proper school supplies; and most importantly, the chance to deliver hope to those in the most need.
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From: Saturday, November 5th
To see the gospel come alive before your very eyes ~ incredible!! The words of Jesus, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' Every day has been spent in the joy of sharing Jesus' love with his precious children!
Restoration can begin with the most meaningful connection ~ sponsoring a child. Some team members have lovingly supported a child, providing life-saving items to sustain them, to educate them, to give them hope!! This day, many team members got to meet their child for the very first time. A momentous connection like none other was made while hugs and joyous laughter filled the air ~ indescribable, experiencing the beauty of looking into the eyes of love!!
These children who are sponsored are given life! Yes life, physical life as in life-saving medicine, mosquito netting, food, and clothing. Likewise, spiritual life, knowing God's love through the redemptive work of Jesus changes their existence. Because of caring sponsors, light has been brought into their darkness.
Restoration continued in the dedicated work of Wendy Stokes who developed a program for H4KI called Mission 4 Character designed around La Red Business Network. Over 900 secondary kids from around the Tororo area as well as True Vine faculty were given the opportunity to learn 40 Biblically based principles that will help them in business, school and life in general. The Chinese Proverb definitely comes into play… Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
What could be more restorative than life-saving water? Without water, there is no life. At Kijebero well dedication in Kapyanga we were led by the children to witness their previous water source. Seeing first-hand what it was like for the villagers to drink before their new well was drilled was a heart-wrenching experience. No one should be allowed to drink from such tainted water. Thanks to hearts that are moved for change, this day the Pomerado Christian Church group and other team members joined in the dedication of their well. We arrived to loud music playing on a sound system that could be heard for miles. Sadam the sub-county leader in the area, who is a great partner with Hope 4 Kids, met us for the dedication. It's always a joy to see Sam "the hygiene man" teaching the villagers how to keep healthy through hygiene and sanitation.
We blessed the well in Jesus name, opened it up for everyone to drink and officially turned over the well to the village of Kijebero. Afterwards, the team helped deliver 50 mosquito nets to the village children in greatest need.
Once again, another amazing day spent being a part of Restoration for the Kingdom of God!
From: Friday, November 4th
Could our day be spent any better? So much to see and do here in Uganda, while taking part in God's beautiful Kingdom of Restoration. We started our day with breakfast, followed by Family Time, a time to gather and hear words of inspiration. Tom shared from his heart his deep passion to bring Jesus' love in a very tangible way to those who are in such great need. Speaking love and showing love are two very different facets. Words without action have a way of leaving one empty and alone. Actions speak louder than words; showing love through interactions brings great joy, not only to those we are serving, but also to God himself!!
So many opportunities awaited us. Some chose the journey to Juba to visit Vision Nursery School where the children danced while filling the building, as well as our hearts, with their beautiful voices in song. Some chose to Visit Smile Africa where we could not help but be touched by these precious children of Karamojong whose needs are greater than a heart can bear.
Excitement and joy was experienced at the well dedication in Kajarau. It is a life-changing experience for these villagers to have clean, fresh and safe water to drink; it is truly a sight to behold. Our wonderful friends from Loveland, CO had hosted "Walk 4 Water" last May raising the needed funds for this village well.
Before returning back to the Rock for some lunch, we gave 325 dresses to the girls and over one hundred shorts to the boys! A grateful thanks to Carolyn for all her love-in-action-commitment to Dress a Girl Around the World's passion of bringing dignity to these beautiful children. Along with dresses and shorts, 50 life-saving mosquito nets were given to the children to be used in their family dwelling.
After lunch Elizabeth and a few team members visited the village of Seka. It was a joyous occasion meeting the children. Several in the team couldn't leave without sponsoring some of these cherished children.
Rachel was excited to be hosting the Smile Africa/Kingdom Preparation Women's Graduation at Smile Africa. So enthusiastic for this event, she had beautiful pink graduation hats made with lavender tassels. It was a very exciting day to see 19 women graduate after being in our Hope 4 Women International Sponsorship program for one year. Testimonies were given as well as joyous singing and dancing in celebration of their great accomplishment! How beautiful to end the celebration as team members were touched by witnessing these women's success that they eagerly sponsored 13 new women. Thirteen women who now have the opportunity to live a life of dignity, gaining the needed skills to provide for their children, through our empowerment programs! Now that's love!!!
In need of a few provisions as well as the desire to experience the flavor of this new culture we had immersed ourselves in, a visit to the town of Tororo was a must. As we wandered through the market, our senses were greeted with an array of stimuli. We were able to make purchases obtaining some needed supplies at the pharmacy and hardware stores, as well as taking care of some business at the foreign exchange office.
With great anticipation we can hardly wait to see what God will do tomorrow!!
What a special performance we were treated to on our second day in Uganda. Tom with Team #1 (27 people) were greeted by the beautiful children of Vision Nursery School in Juba, performing a special song and dance. Our hearts were filled with joy as we heard these precious children singing of God's love. We couldn't help but be touched as we got a glimpse of Pastor Peter soaking up all the love and goodwill brought to his community from our team!
What a blessing to visit Pastor Ruth at Smile Africa where we had the privilege to feed the children of Karamojong. Nothing compares to holding a cherished child in your arms, knowing you have the opportunity of reflecting Jesus' love to them. Seeing their eyes wide open, and their hearts so full of love has a way of putting ones life in perspective. The kids at True Vine campus were especially lively as we got to trade-in our role as "grown-ups" and play with these beautiful children.
As Team #1's day moved along, Eric with Team #2 (also 27 team members) started their morning drive from Entebbe to Tororor. A "pit-stop" was made along the way at the Source of the Nile River in Jinja. What an experience taking a boat ride down one of the great rivers in the world. "Bucket List" item checked, now on to some shopping before continuing along our journey.
Around 4:00pm we arrived in Tororo excited to check-in to our new digs, Rock Classic Hotel. We soon joined Team #1 and jumped right in the fun at True Vine Ministry, playing some basketball and volleyball while enjoying time spent with the kids. It was such a pleasure meeting with the ministry leaders and hearing all about the exciting things happening here at True Vine.
Talk about family dinner time, all 54 team member were able to gather together to share stories about their day, it was a beautiful nourishing of body and soul. Many of our African friends visited us in the hotel, including Sadam, an LC3 Sub-Country leader of Kapyanga.
Looking forward to unpacking and settling in, we did get the customary welcome ~ our electricity going out a few times for a couple of hours. And yes, the rain… oh the rain, sheets falling for hours with no sign of letting up! Oh well, as they say TIA (This is Africa). So much to be a part of here!!
A safe arrival has been made; both our teams have arrived safely in Entebbe, Uganda. Team members who arrived this afternoon headed straight to Tororo with Tom, checking into our beloved Rock Classic Hotel.
Those who arrived this evening went with Eric Sass to the Golf View Hotel, near the airport, where they will spend their first night. After breakfast those who stayed in Entebbe will journey to Tororo, along the way stopping at Jinja to see the source of the Nile! What an amazing opportunity to see the location where many Bible stories have taken place. They will be arriving in Tororo around 4:00 pm where they will join those team members who arrived the previous evening.
Sleep well our friends!!
Hope 4 Kids International is 501c3 faith-based non-profit committed to help children around the world that are suffering from extreme poverty through Dignity, Health, Joy & Love. www.hope4kidsinternational.org


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Cardinal Nation let out a sigh of relief today after finding out the reason closer Trevor Rosenthal left a live batting session this morning - a right groin strain. Rosenthal said "If it was during the season, I feel like it would be something not worth stopping. With the situation being now, I just thought I would say something. I felt it once, so I said something as soon as I could."
The Cardinals are listing Rosenthal as day-to-day.
Meanwhile former closer Jason Motte believes he'll be pitching in games in April, but ruled out being ready for opening day.
"Even if I'm throwing bullpens at the end of March and I'm firing balls in there that's great but it's still not the same as getting in a game with that intensity, that adrenaline," the righty said. "So you don't want to go straight from there to the big-league ballgame without facing hitters or doing anything back-to-back. April may be a possibility, I don't know."
With a pitcher like Motte, he should be able to come back quicker than other pitchers; he doesn't use off speed pitches, which are usually the last thing a pitcher will throw after having Tommy John surgery. The only concern could be his flat fastball having a little less zip on it.
Finally, lefty starter Jaime Garcia is meeting with the infamous Dr. James Andrews to have his shoulder checked out. Garcia was shut down earlier this week and evaluated by the Cardinal medical staff.
The Cardinals did not release the finding on his shoulder, but meeting with Dr. Andrews is not a good sign; especially since Garcia missed a majority of last season with shoulder issues. This allows the Cardinals to give Joe Kelly and Carlos Martinez a real shot at the rotation.


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These guns were considered to be an excellent weapon by the French, but the ships they were installed on were handicapped by poor fire control and low maximum turret elevations and hence short range. Salvo dispersions at their maximum range of 15,860 yards (14,500 m) was 330 feet (100 m).
Some of the unused guns intended for the never built Normandie class were used to rearm the Bretagne class when they were reconstructed in the 1930s. Other spare guns were later used as coast artillery, with four guns in two twin turrets mounted at Cap Cepet near Toulon. Four additional guns were used with a French version of the German BSG mounting and installed at Plouharnel near Quiberon. Additional spare guns were used on railway mountings. After Provence was scuttled at Toulon in November 1942, the Germans removed her two after turrets and then used them as coastal artillery in Southern France. These emplacements saw action in August 1944 during the Allied invasion where they were fired upon by the French battleship Lorraine and by USS Nevada (BB-36).
In May 1943 the French proposed to the USA that the incomplete Jean Bart be finished in a US yard as a combination anti-aircraft / carrier platform. Jean Bart had already given up her four 380 mm (14.96") guns to re-arm sister-ship Richelieu, so this proposal saw refitting her single main turret with four 340 mm (13.4") guns taken from the old battleship Lorraine together with cradles from the Métline coastal defense battery in Tunisia. All smaller caliber guns were to be removed and replaced with fifteen twin 5"/38 (12.7 cm) mountings and sixteen 40 mm Bofors quad mountings. Six aircraft of either US Avenger or British Barracuda torpedo bomber types along with US Hellcat or British Seafire fighters were to be carried. A second proposed reconstruction saw removal of all aircraft facilities and the secondary battery increased to seventeen twin 5"/38 (12.7 cm) mountings along with twenty 40 mm quads. This latter design also entailed using eight Mark 37 GFCS and twenty Mark 51 fire control systems. The USN decided that their resources would be much better spent turning out new ships - the guns and directors were the equivalent of about six Gearing class destroyers - rather than to use them to rearm an obsolescent foreign warship and so Jean Bart then languished until her postwar rebuild in France.
Gun construction was generally similar to that of the 380 mm (14.96") guns used on the later Richelieu class battleships, but there was an additional C tube and no loose liner. The Welin breech block is believed to have opened horizontally. Actual bore length was 45.82 calibers.
NMN Provence
NMN Bretagne about 1918
Stern turrets on Lorraine
Adding burster charge to 340 mm APC shells
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|340 mm/45 (13.4") Model 1912
|Ship Class Used On
|Bretagne, Normandie and Lille classes
|Date Of Design
|Date In Service
|Gun Weight
|65.89 tons (66.95 mt)
|Gun Length oa
|634.5 in (16.115 m)
|Bore Length
|613.4 in (15.580 m)
|Rifling Length
|521.7 in (13.250 m)
|(102) 0.075 in deep x 0.295 in (1.9 mm x 7.5 mm)
|0.118 in (3.0 mm)
|Uniform RH 1 in 29.89
|Chamber Volume
|15,646 in3 (256.4 dm3)
|Rate Of Fire
|about 2 rounds per minute
|Projectile Types and Weights
|APC M1912 - 1,224 lbs. (555 kg)
APC M1924 - 1,268 lbs. (575 kg)
HE M1926 - 842 lbs. (382 kg)
HE 15A - 1,025 lbs. (465 kg)
HE17 FATO - 981 lbs. (445 kg)
HE FATO 32-6 - 952 lbs. (431.8 kg)
|Bursting Charge
|APC M1924 - 47.8 lbs. (21.7 kg)
Others - N/A
|Projectile Length
|APC M1912 - 49.5 in (125.8 cm)
APC M1924 - 58.9 in (149.6 cm)
HE M1926 - 41.5 in (105.4 cm)
Others - N/A
|Propellant Charge
|APC M1912 - 338.4 lbs. (153.5 kg) BM 16
APC M1924 - 338.4 lbs. (153.5 kg) BM 16
HE M1926 - 308.6 lbs. (140 kg) BM 15
HE 15A - 338.4 lbs. (153.5 kg) BM 16
HE 17 FATO - 390 lbs. (177 kg) SD19G
HE FATO 32-6 - 390 lbs. (177 kg) SD19G
|Muzzle Velocity
|APC M1912 - 2,605 fps (794 mps)
APC M1924 - 2,559 fps (780 mps)
HE M1926 - 2,904 fps (885 mps)
HE 15A - 2,930 fps (893 mps)
HE 17 FATO - 3,005 fps (916 mps)
HE FATO 32-6 - 3,022 fps (921 mps)
|Working Pressure
|17.8 tons/in2 (2,800 kg/cm2)
|Approximate Barrel Life
|about 250 rounds
|Ammunition stowage per gun
|Bretagne: 100 rounds
Others: N/A, but probably 100 rounds
1) Propellant was in four bags.
2) Of the shells listed above, only the first three were used on ships, the others were for Railway guns.
3) It is not known how many ships were modified to carry the significantly longer APC M1924.
4) The APC M1912 was modified to add dye bags around 1940 (K version). These weighed 1,230 lbs. (558 kg) and were 50.9 inches (129.2 cm) long.
|With 1,224 lbs. (555 kg) M1912 AP Shell
|Range @ 12 degrees
|15,860 yards (14,500 m)
|Range @ 18 degrees
|19,690 yards (18,000 m)
|With 1,268 lbs. (575 kg) M1924 AP Shell
|Range @ 18 degrees
|22,970 yards (21,000 m)
|Range @ 23 degrees
|29,090 yards (26,600 m)
|Range @ 47.5 degrees
(as coast defense gun)
|38,749 yards (35,432 m)
|Note: The "Warship Volume X" articles listed below give contradictory ranges for 18 degrees of elevation. The above table attempts to reconcile the data in those articles.
|Two-gun turrets
Bretagne (5)
Quad Turret
(see Note 2)
|As completed: -5 / +12 degrees
|Rate of Elevation
|Forward and aft turrets: about -150
/ +150 degrees
Q turret: about 30 to 150 degrees on either side
|Rate of Train
|Gun Recoil
|Loading Angle
|+2 degrees
1) Data in this table is for the Bretagne class, data for the others is not available. These ships were equipped with electric motors driving hydraulic training and elevation gear. Chain rammers were also electric powered. Each gun had its own hoist which ran from the working chamber under the turret and a second pair of hoists ran down to the magazines. Gun loading cages had three compartments, the lower one for the projectile and the upper two each carrying two charges.
2) As originally completed in 1916-17, all turrets had a maximum elevation of 12 degrees with the exception of Lorraine, whose No. 5 turret was given a maximum elevation of 18 degrees. In 1917 the elevation of No. 5 turret on Provence was increased to 18 degrees. During reconstruction between 1919 and 1923, elevation of all turrets was increased to 18 degrees and increased again later during the 1920s to 23 degrees. Coastal artillery emplacements allowed a 50 degree maximum elevation.
3) The amidships turret was removed from Lorraine in 1934-35 in order to fit an aircraft catapult and additional AA guns.
4) During rebuilds in the 1930s, guns originally intended for the uncompleted Normandie class were used to regun the Bretagne class.
5) Turret No. 2 on the Bretagne class was fitted with an 8.20 m (26 ft) rangefinder during various rebuilds in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
6) For the proposed Jean Bart reconstruction, the coastal battery gun cradles would have allowed a maximum elevation of +35 degrees.
12 August 2006 - Benchmark
22 December 2009 - Added information on proposed Jean Bart reconstruction
07 January 2012 - Added pictures of Lorraine and APC shells
25 February 2012 - Added information on guns used as Coastal Artillery


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UIC Volleyball Wins Five-Set Thriller over Marshall
Sep 6, 2013
CHICAGO - The UIC volleyball team received double-doubles from senior MaryKate Imrie and freshman Kara Johnson on its way to a thrilling 3-2 victory (25-22, 26-28, 25-23, 21-25, 15-13) over Marshall Friday on the opening night of the UIC Invitational. The Flames held a 2-1 advantage, dropped the fourth set but hit .435 in the fifth and decisive set to seal the victory.
UIC (2-3) set season highs in attack percentage (.247), kills (76), assists (73) and total blocks (9.0). The Flames held the Thundering Herd (1-5) to a .239 overall attack percentage and only eight kills on 24 attempts in the fifth set.
Imrie tied her career high with 65 assists and recorded her first double-double of the season with 10 digs. The Orland Park, Ill. native dished out 16 assists in the second set alone and assisted on 11 of UIC's 13 kills in the final set. Imrie also collected two service aces and now owns six on the season.
Johnson finished with a match-high 20 kills on 63 attempts. The 20 kills are a season-high for all Flames players and bests Johnson's previous high of 17 against Navy (Aug. 31). Johnson put down three kills on six attempts in the final set. The Champaign, Ill. native also tallied 13 digs for her second double-double of the season. Her first double-double came against Navy on Aug. 31 when she had 17 kills and 12 digs.
Junior defensive specialist Maggie Strus led the Flames with 22 digs and also dished out six assists. The 22 digs are a season-high for any Flames player. Strus tallied eight of her 22 digs in the fourth set.
Junior Molly McCoy set a new career-high with 19 kills on 35 attempts for a stellar .429 attack percentage. Her previous best of 17 kills came on Sept. 21, 2012 against Valparaiso. McCoy put down seven kills on just 11 attempts in the third set victory and led UIC with four kills on six attempts in the final set.
Sophomore Melissa Nava and junior Sara Sternard both put down 14 kills for the Flames. Nava took 27 swings and committed only three errors for a strong .407 attack percentage. Meanwhile, Sternard led UIC with six kills on nine attempts in the long second set. Sternard also tied her season-high with four total blocks.
Sophomore Tracy Friel and senior Justine Garcia stood out on defense for the Flames. Friel compiled 16 digs while Garcia collected 15 of her own. As a team, the Flames set a season-high with 81 digs.
The Flames conclude play at the UIC Invitational Saturday. Action gets underway at 10 a.m. with Denver vs. Marshall and UIC takes on Chicago State at Noon. Marshall and Chicago State play at 5 p.m. and the Flames close out the weekend with a 7 p.m. matchup with Denver.


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Overview of Kirkland Institute
Kirkland provides attorney training that combines a cutting-edge legal practice with a year-round series of formal training programs including mock exercises, lectures and presentations.
From their first days at our Firm, junior Kirkland lawyers typically have front-line opportunities to take and defend depositions, draft transaction documents, argue motions in court and draft securities filings. By performing such work under the guidance of senior colleagues, Kirkland lawyers learn through hands-on experience.
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In addition to the KITA jury trials, Kirkland's litigation training includes programs on the nuts and bolts of litigation, professional responsibility, evidence, written discovery, working with experts, legal writing and taking and defending depositions. Every year, about three-quarters of the Firm's litigation share partners, including the most senior, personally participate in one or more of the KITA programs, along with a number of the most experienced junior partners.
- Nuts and Bolts of Litigation: This program — offered to all incoming litigation associates within a few weeks of their arrival at the firm — covers exactly what its name suggests: basic litigation responsibilities and tools that associates need to know to work effectively as the junior person at any stage of a case.
- Professional Responsibility: Also one of the first programs to be offered in the fall, this program — presented by the Firm's partner in charge of professional responsibility — covers the important provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct and applicable firm policies.
- Evidence: In advance of and in conjunction with the KITA jury trials, one of the Firm's senior litigation partners offers a refresher on the most common evidence issues faced in the courtroom.
- Written Discovery: This program addresses the rules applicable to interrogatories, document requests, and requests for admission, along with strategies for preparing and responding to each.
- Working with Experts: This program addresses one of the most common situations faced by new litigation associates at Kirkland — finding, retaining, and working with expert consultants and witnesses.
- Effective Legal Writing: This program is conducted every year by Brian Garner of LawProse — a nationally renowned legal writing coach and lecturer. The program covers the five major skills that legal writers need to acquire: framing issues effectively; achieving a lean style; creating smooth transitions from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph; quoting authority well; and using an efficient method for producing written work.
- KITA Deposition Training: This program is again patterned after NITA®. Associates are divided into small groups and alternate taking and defending mock depositions. Senior Kirkland trial lawyers act as judges, providing instruction and critique, and actors are hired to serve as witnesses.
KITA's deposition training and jury trial programs use case files developed by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (two of them based on Kirkland cases) for NITA's advanced trial advocacy program. Each case file consists of pleadings, deposition transcripts, witness statements, and exhibits from a fictional or partly fictional lawsuit. These mock cases involve an accident at a nuclear power plant resulting in the plaintiff's exposure to radiation, the sinking of an ocean-going oil tanker and resulting damage from the oil spill (a file based the 1977 wreck of the crude oil carrier Cadiz off the coast of Normandy); the failure of a suture following a heart-transplant operation resulting in the death of the patient (also based roughly on an actual event); the great Chicago flood of 1992, an insurance coverage claim resulting from millions of dollars of damage to residential housing units from termite infestation, and a claim of breach of a license agreement for video game technology.
Patent Infringement Litigation Training
In addition to the general trial advocacy training provided by KITA, Kirkland's intellectual property litigators receive further training through the Kirkland Institute of Patent Infringement Litigation (KIPIL), which offers monthly videoconferencing with topics covering the legal and procedural issues that recur in patent infringement litigation.
Corporate Training
The cornerstone of the Firm's transactional training program is the Kirkland Institute of Corporate Practice, or KICP.
Each summer, Kirkland partners lead KICP sessions designed to familiarize summer associates with the various transactional practice areas, including private equity, securities, secured lending, tax, intellectual property and real estate. In addition, the New York and Chicago offices offer a one-day negotiation workshop to the summer associates. During this program, summer associates are involved in two mock negotiations in which partners observe and then provide feedback to the summer associates.
The KICP training sessions for Kirkland's new full-time transactional associates are run by the Firm's senior transactional partners. Upon arrival at Kirkland each fall, new associates gather to participate in the KICP Basic Training Academy — one week of discussion-based seminars on the "nuts and bolts" of transactional practice. Lunchtime KICP sessions are held weekly for 12 weeks and cover transaction-related topics, such as initial public offerings, high-yield debt offerings, accounting, credit agreements and fiduciary duties. The final KICP program of the year is a two-day seminar in our Chicago office (for which non-Chicago associates travel to Chicago) focusing on the structuring of complex transactions, such as new business formations, mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, contested takeovers and fund formations.
Restructuring Training
The Kirkland Institute of Restructuring Training (KIRT) offers training on restructuring, insolvency, workout and bankruptcy in a lecture format. KIRT provides the Firm's restructuring attorneys with an opportunity to reinforce and enhance their knowledge and skills through regular meetings with senior members of the practice. These meetings, conducted on a regular basis, ensure that practice members remain current with developments in the field, and provide a forum for the development of the practice as a whole.
Insolvency Training
The Kirkland Institute of Insolvency Training (KIIT) offers litigation training for restructuring attorneys. Attorneys participating in KIIT conduct a mock trial using a case study involving current restructuring topics, as well as recurring issues such as valuation. To complement KIIT, restructuring attorneys also participate in some components of KITA, particularly KITA's deposition training.
Tax Training
The Kirkland Institute of Tax Practice (KITP) offers in-depth training to its tax associates on a wide variety of issues relevant to Kirkland's transactional and controversy tax practices. The semi-monthly sessions are conducted by Kirkland partners and senior associates and are intended to provide the Firm's tax associates, particularly junior associates, with the foundation necessary to be a successful tax attorney at Kirkland.
Private Equity Training
The Kirkland LBO/Private Equity Seminar teaches clients and associates the basics of private equity and leveraged buyout transactions. Senior Kirkland partners have been offering the workshops every two years for almost two decades. The unique training format is designed to make the transaction process more understandable — and the learning curve more enjoyable.
Intellectual Property Training
KTECH offers training for intellectual property attorneys. KTECH begins with an introduction boot camp on the basics of intellectual property law. The boot camp is followed by monthly sessions on issues in intellectual property and technology transactions. These sessions typically run from October through May.
Diversity Training
Kirkland retains, nurtures and advances its diverse professionals by providing development opportunities on an inclusive basis, maintaining training programs that foster diversity and inclusion, and promoting its professionals on the basis of their individual merit and contributions. Kirkland is currently instituting a Firmwide Diversity Training Program. The focus of the program is to promote inclusion by enhancing our lawyers' ability to work effectively across diverse social, economic, cultural and personal backgrounds.
Professional Responsibility Training
Kirkland offers professional responsibility training to all of its attorneys across all of its practice areas. Kirkland's partner in charge of professional responsibility regularly travels to Kirkland's offices to give a presentation on the topic and has developed similar presentations specific to clients' requests.
Continuing Legal Education Seminars & Client Training
Kirkland recognizes the importance of continuing legal education activities and encourages attorneys to attend seminars and conferences to further their legal careers.
Kirkland sponsors a variety of seminars for clients targeted to specific practice areas and topics. These seminars include in-house seminars at Kirkland's offices, seminars at our clients' offices and seminars held in public forums. Many of Kirkland's in-house training programs offer CLE credit. The Firm's offices are accredited providers for CLE credit for the states of California, Illinois and New York.
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Richie hosts a private dinner at his Beverly Hills home with close family and friends
Lionel Richie Slams Reports Daughter Nicole and Husband Joel Madden Are Splitting: 'They Are So Happy' – and 'Laugh At' the Rumors
"They're doing so well," Richie said of his daughter and son-in-law's marriage
Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie Step out for a Valentine's Day Double Date
The newlyweds weren't alone on date night in Santa Monica, California
Is Monday the New Saturday? Weeknight Weddings Are a New Hollywood Trend
Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden are part of the new A-list trend of getting married on a Monday night
Nicole Richie's Latest Project: Her Backyard Oasis
The star's redesign of her Laurel Canyon backyard even includes a teepee
Joel Madden Caught with Marijuana in Sydney
The Good Charlotte singer is not charged; addresses the incident on social media
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Celebrate Second Wedding Anniversary
"Hope everyone out there finds this kind of love," the Good Charlotte frontman writes
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Get a German Shepherd Puppy
The couple adopt their first family pet – and Daddy's got a lot more responsibility!
Maria Menounos, Whitney Port Become Zombies for a Good Cause
Whitney Port, Maria Menounos, Joel Madden and Mena Suvari want to raise awareness about donating blood
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Planning a romantic Valentine's Day dinner isn't hard, it just takes a few details to set the mood. Here are some tips to help you get started.
Don't cook with too much garlic or onion, or you may not be feeling so romantic after your meal. This also goes for foods that are too rich and creamy, which will leave you feeling bloated.
Avoid foods that are messy to eat, like lobster or French onion soup. If you made a salad, make sure that the ingredients are bite sized so it's not hard to get it in your mouth.
If you're choosing pasta, instead of messy spaghetti or fettuccini, choose penne, tortellini, orzo, or ravioli, which will be easier to eat.
If you have pretty plates and crystal wineglasses, bring them out and see just how much they add to the romantic atmosphere. Make this an occasion!
Make a plan to avoid all distractions such as cell phones so that you and your date can be free to enjoy the delicious meal and each other's company. If there's going to be a big game on that night and one or both of you is a big sports fan, you may want to reschedule.
Playing some soft jazz in the background can add to the ambience as long as it's not too distracting or loud.
Candles are essential for a romantic dinner, so light several candles and place them on or near the table.
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04/12/10 Attack on the Baron April 12, 2010 at 12:00 am
If you missed it, I contributed to Unshelved's Book Club with a comic of the Spacetrawler cast discussing Alastair Raynold's "Chasm City." Check it out!
Also, what do people think of a possible iphone formatted strip? Any ideas how to improve on this subject (I'm afraid I don't have the skills to write my own app)
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George and John Hatsopoulos
George Hatsopoulos, John Hatsopoulos, and Arvin Smith together built one of the world's leading producers of analytical instruments: Thermo Electron.
Arvin Smith.
The company was the brainchild of George Hatsopoulos, who as a boy dreamed of following in the footsteps of Thomas Edison, both as an inventor and entrepreneur. In the post-war period Hatsopoulos came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1956. In that same year he launched Thermo Electron.
Initially Hatsopoulos based the company on thermionic-converter technology that he had invented. In the 1970s Thermo moved into the field of instrumentation by manufacturing a chemiluminesce instrument for the auto industry. Heading this effort was Arvin Smith, who had shortly before come to Thermo from NASA.
In the mid 1980s Thermo's instrument business really began to expand. The key to this expansion was George Hatsopoulos's "spinout" strategy, by which Thermo created public-subsidiary companies out of its businesses while retaining a controlling stake in all of them. John Hatsopoulos, George's younger brother and Thermo's CFO, proved a master in selling this strategy to Wall Street.
In 1986 Smith became CEO of a Thermo spinout named Thermo Instrument Systems (THI). Over the next decade, THI acquired, developed, and spun out some of the most storied franchises in instrumentation. Smith demonstrated an incredible ability to transform troubled businesses into profitable ones, and soon THI became the largest analytical instrumentation company in the world.
By 2000, George and John Hatsopoulos had retired from their leadership of Thermo Electron, as had Smith from THI. Today the Hatsopouloses and Smith are involved in a number of ventures, including GlenRose Instruments, a venture they have launched together.
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Greetings Oaklanders. Let's talk about life settlements for a second and also life settlement scamss as is done on this video at YouTube at Zennie62. This year, this blogger's Mom, who lives in Georgia, had a bad experience with Bankers Life and Trust Insurance, and regular readers and viewers over at Zennie62.com and Zennie62 on YouTube may remember the negative story from that post.
Bankers Insurance not only doubled my Mom's premiums because she was approaching 80, they did not tell her about the option of life settlements. In fact, many insurance companies fail to tell their customers about life settlements.As described at "A Life Settlement.com", life settlements are just a way of selling your life insurance policy to an investor, but such that it can cause you to realize as much as 8 times the value of your arrangement. Why would you need a life settlement to start with?
Well, take P. Yeager's situation. She's about to be 80, is living on a fixed income, and while she can work, really would prefer to enjoy her retired years. So she's enjoying the fruits that come with good budgeting, but here comes Bankers Life, who increases her monthly payments. So, she now has less net income and is seeking a remedy. A good life settlement deal can give her a lump sum of cash, and yet she can seek out a new life insurance program. That would give her an immediate financial advantage.
So, how does she get into a life settlements program? Well, for example, visit "A Life Settlement.com" first, and call them or fill out the online form. Then you sign a health records release document and one of their agents will contact you.
Then, an offer is given to you from the fund manager; you choose to have it or not. If you do take it, the amount you get is put in escrow, then change of ownership forms are sent to your insurance carrier, and then your money is given to you. That's how it works. But now, let's talk about the scam side.
The scam side impacts those who are asked to invest in Life Settlements. What happens is the scammy seller promises a guaranteed percentage return on the investor's money. The truth is the investment can fail and for a number of reasons: the fund manager misuses the money, or the insured lives a long time, or the settlement is part of a Ponzi scheme. It's a good idea to check out who you're doing business with on your own, regardless of what you read.
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Denise Richards Movies and Career Information
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Denise Lee Richards is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in films, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The World Is Not Enough as a Bond girl, and in Valentine. She later appeared in Scary Movie 3, Love Actually, Edmond, and Madea's Witness Protection. She appeared in guest arcs on television series such as Melrose Place, Spin City and Two and a Half Men. She also played Monica and Ross Geller's cousin on Friends. In 2008–2009, she starred on the E! reality TV show Denise Richards: It's Complicated. In 2010–2011, she was a series regular on the comedy Blue Mountain State. In 2012, she made guest appearances on 30 Rock, Anger Management and 90210. She currently stars in the ABC Family series Twisted, on which she plays a fallen socialite and mother of a murderer.
- Denise Richards Movies before 2015
- Jolene 2010
- Kambakkht Ishq 2009
- Blonde and Blonder 2008
- Edmond 2006
- Whore (Yo puta) 2004
- Elvis Has Left the Building 2004
- Love Actually 2003
- Scary Movie 3 2003
- Undercover Brother 2002
- Empire 2002
- Valentine 2001
- Tail Lights Fade 1999
- World Is Not Enough 1999
- Drop Dead Gorgeous 1999
- Wild Things 1998
- Starship Troopers 1997
- Nowhere (1997) 1997
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OSHKOSH, Wis. — Fowler Equipment Co., Bloomfield, N.J., recently received equipment manufacturer Continental Girbau's 2012 Vended Laundry Distributor of the Year award, an honor that distinguishes distributors for outstanding performance in the vended laundry market.
Simultaneously, Coronet Equipment, Edmonton, Alberta, received Continental's Canadian Distributor of the Year award for outstanding sales and distribution in both the vended and on-premise laundry markets.
Fowler, established in 1952, is among the largest on-premise, vended and multi-housing laundry equipment distributors in the Mid-Atlantic region.
"Fowler Equipment is a valued distributor and producer – a company that excels in the development of profitable vended laundries," says Joel Jorgensen, Continental vice president of sales.
Boasting 60 years of experience, the Fowler staff works with investors to locate, purchase, equip and market vended laundries, and assists with site analysis, financing, design, construction and operations guidelines. Fowler also boasts a fully stocked parts department and a factory-trained service team.
A service-based organization, Coronet handles Continental on-premise and coin laundry equipment distribution in Western Canada and the Northern Canadian territories.
"They consistently exceed expectations in sales, marketing and customer support," Jorgensen says. "Known for quality service and reliability, Coronet is a full-service distributor that relentlessly pursues customer satisfaction."


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College Hockey:St. Cloud State ranked No. 1 in D-I men's poll for first time in nearly 12 years
For the first time in nearly 12 years, St. Cloud State is the top-ranked team in the USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll.
This week, the Huskies earned 33 first-place votes and 978 voting points. The last time SCSU had the No. 1 ranking was in the Jan. 7, 2002 poll. This current No. 1 ranking is the seventh time the school has claimed the top spot.
St. Cloud swept Minnesota-Duluth last weekend, taking the top spot from Minnesota, which took 14 first-place votes after a tie and win against Michigan State.
Michigan remains third after a win over Ohio State and an exhibition loss to the U.S. National Under-18 Team, Ferris State climbs two spots to No. 4 after sweeping Lake Superior State and also earned three first-place nods. Providence falls one to No. 5 after tying Northeastern.
Boston College swept New Hampshire and leaps three places to No. 6, Quinnipiac falls two spots to No. 7 after tying Rensselaer and losing to Union, Clarkson took both games from St. Lawrence and jumps two places to sit eighth, Massachusetts-Lowell beat American International and fell to Maine and is down a pair to No. 9, while Union is up one to No. 10 with wins over Princeton and Quinnipiac.
No. 11 Yale drops three notches after a loss to Dartmouth and a tie against Harvard, Miami stays 12th after splitting with Denver, Notre Dame holds firm at No. 13 after a split with Massachusetts, Cornell is up one after tying Colgate and with its sweep of Penn State, Wisconsin is up two to No. 15.
Northeastern moves up three to No. 16 after its Providence tie, Lake Superior tumbles three spots to No. 17 after dropping both contests to Ferris State, Rensselaer gets back in the rankings at No. 18 after tying Quinnipiac and defeating Princeton, Nebraska-Omaha split with Colorado College and falls three places to sit 19th and Denver, with its split with Miami, re-enters the rankings at No. 20.
The USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll consists of 50 voters, including 28 coaches from the Division I conferences and 22 beat writers and sports professionals from across the country.
The following is a self-policing forum for discussing views on this story. Comments that are derogatory, make personal attacks, are abusive, or contain profanity or racism will be removed at our discretion. USCHO.com is not responsible for comments posted by users. Please report any inappropriate or offensive comments by clicking the "Flag" link next to that comment in order to alert the moderator.
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New rules that govern the California driving public, including driving under the influence laws, proof of insurance and air bags, will go in effect on Jan.1.
"The changes to California's traffic safety laws are designed to protect the motoring public," said California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joe Farrow. "Citizens are encouraged to familiarize themselves with these new laws in advance of the new year -- adhering to the rules of the road may save your life, or the lives of your fellow motorists."
The following are summaries of some of the new laws taking effect Jan.1.
Driving Under the Influence (AB 2020): The law no longer allows a person who has been arrested and is suspected of driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs, the option of a urine test. Prior to this change, a person had the option of submitting either urine or blood to determine the drug content of their blood.
Charter Passengers: Alcoholic beverages open containers (AB 45): This new law prohibits underage drinking in charter-party carriers (limos and buses) and makes the carrier and driver responsible for communicating this to their passengers. The law requires a designee, who is at least 25 years of age, to be present whenever there are passengers who are under 21 years of age on board the vehicle and alcohol is being transported. The designee shall be responsible for ensuring the rules are followed, and the safety of the underage passengers throughout the duration of the trip.
Electronic Wireless Communications (AB 1536): This law allows California drivers to use hands-free technology to talk and text while driving. This will require the use of a device that is specifically designed and configured to allow voice-operated and hands-free operation to dictate, send or listen to a text-based communication.
Financial Responsibility and Insurance (AB 1708): Drivers will now have the option of providing proof of insurance and registration on an electronic device (smartphone or tablet), when it is requested by law enforcement.
High Occupancy Toll Lanes (AB 2405): This law creates the Choose Clean Cars Act, which allows cars with a Clean Air Vehicle sticker free access to carpool lanes that are converted to High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes.
Autonomous Vehicles (SB 1298): This new law allows driverless cars to be operated on public roads for testing purposes, provided that each vehicle has a fully licensed and bonded operator in the driver's seat to take control if necessary.
Emergency Services for Seniors (SB 1047): Similar to an AMBER Alert, the CHP would activate A "Silver Alert" upon request if a person, age 65 or older, is reported missing to a law enforcement agency.
Automated Traffic Enforcement Systems (SB 1303): This new law establishes consistency in the operations of red-light enforcement cameras throughout the state by requiring governmental agencies to follow specified guidelines regarding intersections, signage and the notice to appear.
License Plates: Obstruction or Alteration (AB 2489): This new law prevents the altering and positioning of license plates from its original markings and clarifies the penalty imposed for obscuring the readability of license plates.
Child Passenger Restraints (AB 1452): Hospitals, clinics and birthing centers will now be required to provide and discuss contact information regarding child safety seat requirements, installation and inspection to parents and caregivers upon discharge of a child, if the child is less than eight years of age.
There are also two new laws related to recreational off-highway vehicles. AB 1595 defines an off-highway motor vehicle to include a recreational off-highway vehicle (ROV) and establishes additional requirements governing its safe operation. The other law (AB 1266), which goes into effect July 1, 2013, prohibits a passenger in an ROV from riding in a seat location not designed and provided by the manufacturer. It also prohibits operation of the ROV if the passenger is not seated with both feet on the floorboard and able to grab the occupant handhold with the seat belt and shoulder belt or safety harness fastened.
Inflatable Restraint Systems (AB 1854): This law makes it illegal for a person to knowingly distribute or sell a previously deployed air bag or component that will no longer meet the original equipment form, function or proper operation.
Driving Under the Influence: Alcoholic Beverage or Drug (AB 2552): Although this change in the law does not take effect until Jan. 1, 2014, it distinguishes whether an individual was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Ultimately this change, singling out drugs with its own subsection in the Vehicle Code, will make it easier to track the prevalence of drugged driving in California. This new law, coupled with the efforts requiring the use of Ignition Interlock Devices, will help reduce impaired driving throughout California.
These points are only a synopsis of some of the new laws adopted. For complete information on chaptered bills enacted in 2012, refer to the Legislative Counsel website at leginfo.ca.gov.


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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
The Painted Lady (family Nymphalidae) is a widely distributed species, present on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. In the U.S., its range overlaps a similar species, the American Lady ( Vanessa virginiensis). The 2 species can, however, be easily distinguished from each other1, especially when good photographs are available. The lower surfaces of the hindwings of the American Lady have 2 large eyespots, while those of the Painted Lady have 5 spots that are clearly visible in the picture above. The upper forewings of the Painted Lady have a large semicircle or circle forming from the black markings (arrow in the picture below). This feature is lacking on the wings of the American Lady. Furthermore, the upper forewings of the latter species have a small white spot on orange. Firefly Forest Blog has a picture of an American Lady identifying these characteristic spots.
1. Glassberg, J. Butterflies through Binoculars. The East. Oxford U. Press. 1999.


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Around May of 1983, approximately 4 months before being shot down in KAL007, Congressman Larry McDonald takes on Pat Buchanan and Tom Braden on Crossfire as they badger him about his new role as Chairman of the John Birch Society. He easily handles them and answers questions concerning the Elite's Conspiracy for a One World Government.
In this 1980 presentation, the late Congressman Larry McDonald discusses the value and potency of The John Birch Society and their role in educating others about the New World Order; introduction by Robert Welch.
Dr. Ron Paul was a big admirer of Larry McDonald and shadowed much of his career. Many allege that Dr. McDonald was assassinated in KAL007. Could this be the reason that Ron Paul – who got the message from the NWO to keep quiet – has moderated his message over the years? What would an American patriotic movement have looked like with statesmen like McDonald and Paul leading the charge for the last 3 decades?


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PR # 245 May 14, 2008
Melanie Morris of High Bridge, Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) assistant professor of Business Law, is a recipient of the 2008 Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology.
Morris was one of 40 faculty members honored last month by the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL). The ceremony, held April 16 in Jacksonville, Florida, honored faculty from across the U.S. and around the world for their innovative contributions to teaching and learning in higher education.
?This award is a way for us to recognize the highly creative contributions that are made day in and day out by outstanding teaching faculty in colleges and universities around the world,? said Jeana Davis, coordinator of the conference. ?It also provides a venue for them to share those ideas with their colleagues at other institutions?improving higher education teaching and learning opportunities for all of us.?
The award was based on Morris? work with learning contracts. Her conference presentation was titled ?Teaching with Learning Contracts: Binding Students to Success.?
Morris, a full-time faculty member in RVCC?s Business and Public Service Department, received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany; an M.B.A. from Temple University; and a J.D., cum laude, from The Temple University Beasley School of Law.
A complete list of this year?s award recipients can be found at the conference Website at www.teachlearn.org .
The International Conference on College Teaching and Learning was established in 1988 to promote the exchange of ideas to improve the teaching and learning process through innovative and effective uses of pedagogy and technology in higher education. Complete conference details are available online at www.teachlearn.org .
RVCC, located on Route 28 and Lamington Road in North Branch, NJ, and serving Somerset and Hunterdon County residents for close to 40 years, offers 90 associate degrees and certificates. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu .
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women worry about breast cancer. Men worry about prostate cancer. But lung cancer is actually the top cancer killer, accounting for more deaths than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancers combined.
As the nation marks Lung Cancer Awareness Month this month, researchers from the University of Michigan offer nine facts everyone should know about the disease:
1. Lung cancer strikes about 213,000 people every year and more than half of them -- 160,000 -- will die from it.
2. Early symptoms include coughing, shortness of breath, weight loss, fatigue, and coughing up blood. Since these symptoms are common in smokers, the disease often goes undetected until it has reached a deadly stage.
3. Late symptoms include chest pain, weakness in a limb, or bone pain. About 75 percent of lung cancer is diagnosed only after the disease has reached this advanced stage.
4. About 90 percent of cases are in smokers or former smokers. The best way to avoid the disease is not to smoke.
5. Lung cancer patients often feel stigmatized, partly because they believe they brought the disease on themselves by smoking.
6. Lung cancer risk is also raised by exposure to radon, asbestos, and hydrocarbons. A few occupational hazards, such as firefighting, have been directly linked to the disease.
7. Lung cancer is difficult to treat, because of the large number of carcinogens in cigarette smoke and the multiple mutations they cause.
8. An effective screening test for lung cancer has yet to be developed.
9. Lung cancer is a worldwide health concern, taking 1.2 million lives every year.
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Shakespeare shuffles off this mortal coil
Thoughts of mortality might have quite naturally been brought on by the imminent marriage of his younger daughter Judith. It is also possible that a lifetime of drinking wine and ale was drunk instead of water - was simply taking its toll. A persistent tale has William falling ill after a heavy drinking session with a party that included his old friend/rival Ben Jonson.
One should also remember that Shakespeare lived for a considerable time as a single man in London, and his work does refer to "strange maladies" possibly syphilis caught during the emotionally tumultuous time that followed the death of his son, Hamnet.
Like many a rock star, writer or actor today, William had lived hard, and in often uncomfortable conditions. The revelations of this year would surely have weakened him further.
In March, just a month after her marriage, Judith Shakespeare and her husband Thomas Quiney are excommunicated for marrying in Lent without a licence. On top of this humiliation, scandal breaks when it emerges that Quiney had got another woman pregnant; the woman had subsequently died in childbirth. A public penance is levied on Quiney, which the family manages to have commuted to a simple fine.
The affair causes William to redraw his will, imposing conditions on Quiney. The will ends with the words "where I have hereunto put my seale." The word "seale," however, is struck through and replaced by the word "hand." Some years later in 1810 a gold signet ring was found close to the Holy Trinity churchyard where Shakespeare would have watched Judith wed. The initials on it are "WS." Had William dropped his ring? Perhaps a combination of weight loss through his creeping illness and the cold had made the ring ill fitting. A gold seal ring emblem of your status - is not something that would be casually cast away.
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I'm an older woman who's been divorced and then became widowed from my second husband. My children are all grown and have moved away and have lives and children of their own. For the first time in my life I am free to be the woman I've always dreamed of being... independent, able to live where I want and do what I want without the limitations of having a partner.
My thoughts were, "Why would I want to have a relationship now?"
For many months after my husband died, I had no desire to be with anyone. For the first time in my life, I truly was alone and it actually felt pretty good, especially after two years of stress, caring for a sick man a whole generation older than me.
I felt fairly balanced, at peace, content with my new situation. I had recently purchased a home, traded in my SUV for a puddle-jumper car that would do better in our snowy climate. I was blessed with having my son and his family in the same town, and life was good. I had made new friends and would take short trips here and there... I felt really free.
Loneliness really didn't bother me. I was so busy with all that was new to me, I didn't think about missing a man's companionship or love, although I did grieve for my late husband and had wonderful memories of our times together. But the thought of finding someone new simply did not appeal to me.
Then my life changed.
Shortly after the anniversary of my late husband's death, I began to think about having a possible relationship... well, maybe some day. I wasn't thinking "now." But I was thinking about it, sort of wondering... what would he be like? Who would he be?
Then, the Law of Attraction kicked in. Our thoughts create. Don't ever doubt that.
Unexpectedly, a new man entered my life. I wasn't looking for this to happen, it just did... out of the blue. We were attracted to one another and before I even knew what hit me, I was smitten.
The new relationship was sudden and intense, what some would call a "whirlwind" romance. It was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me, and it really threw me for a loop. I immediately cast away all my preconceived notions about remaining alone. My focus fell exclusively on him.
Well, almost four months have passed now and my love life has been somewhat of a roller coaster ride. I'm either high or I'm really low... experiencing the ultimate in happiness and fulfillment, only to discover the next day that I'm lingering in the doldrums, wondering to myself, "What the hell happened here?" At times I've even asked myself whether it was worthwhile to let this happen to me.
I have a friend about my age who is totally against having another relationship in her life. She just wants to be by herself, do her thing and not have to worry about the heartaches and misunderstandings and challenges that come with a relationship. She has experienced her fill of relationships and because the last one left her hurt so badly, she feels she just can't do it again.
I, on the other hand, have been weathering the storms and hoping I don't get swept out to sea by an emotional tsunami. Four months is not that long a time to know if a relationship is going to last, but I think I have a pretty good idea by now what I am in for, should I decide to continue with it.
The man I love is quite different from my other relationships. Maybe that's why he is so appealing. He has many great qualities that I find endearing and attractive, one of which is his ability to be blunt and to the point. Being the sensitive woman that I've always been, this has at times caused hurt feelings on my part and caused me to crawl back into my shell, thinking the worst.
This was precisely the reason why my friend insisted she didn't want any more relationships. She could see how I was suffering every time something went wrong. "It's just not worth it," she'd tell me.
The truth was, of course, he was just being himself and meant no harm. We've never had a fight or even an argument, but we have had differences of opinion and misunderstandings. Somehow we've been able to work through them, but not without some emotional expenditure on my part. The fact that we still find each other desirable and exciting is enough to want us both to keep working on improving the relationship.
So what makes a relationship worth keeping?
First of all, two people have to want the relationship to continue. If one wants it and the other is tired of it, there's no use going on. This is what happened in my first marriage. My husband desperately wanted to stay married to me, but I had fallen out of love with him. The relationship just was not worth it.
Trust is number one in relationships. You must trust each other, and in particular the man wants the woman's trust. He needs to know that she trusts him to know what he's doing, that he can take care of her, and that she can depend on him. It really helps if the woman can show that she trusts him by not always trying to tell him what he should do, or point out his mistakes... unless, of course, it's life threatening.
Security is also important. Most of my own issues have involved insecurity. A woman wants to know that she is loved and desired, even when the man pulls away at times to do his own thing. This was one of the most important things I learned in reading John Gray's book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. He talks about how men periodically need to go hide in their "caves" and how women mistake this for abandonment.
The real reason men do this is to contemplate their problems and figure things out. They need their solitary time. Women, on the other hand, tend to solve their problems by venting, by talking with others about what troubles them, and they expect men to be the same. But as the book points out, men and women are entirely different.
Once I read about this idea of men going to their caves and women going into their wells (an emotional cycle of highs and lows), it made sense to me. That was exactly what was happening in my new relationship, only I didn't know why.
The book has many insights and some great pointers on improving your relationships. By discovering our different emotional needs and how to communicate difficult feelings to one another, we can keep our relationships strong and on the right path.
One of the greatest tools in the book is the concept of the "Love Letters," in which you write out your feelings in a letter to your partner, and then you reflect back what you'd like them to respond. It helps you recognize what it is that you need to work on, and enhances communication between you.
Is it worth it? Well, that depends... I suppose there are many women out there, and men too, who probably think it's not worth it. But in my case, I'm willing to put up with a little effort to see this through. Time will tell whether my new man and I get to that point where we are perfectly comfortable and suited to each other. It may take many years, in fact. But I'm willing to do it because he is definitely worth it.
I feel I'm worth it as well. Sometimes the things in life we cherish most are those things we've worked hard at and earned. If you feel that way, buy John Gray's book and find out for yourself.
For more information:
View John Gray in this You Tube video called "John Gray: Law of Attraction & Relationships."


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2007-08: Swam the sprint freestyle events for the Sun Devils... was runner-up of the 100 free "B" consolation at the Pac-10 Championships... clocked in a personal best time of 45.55 in the effort... also earned a personal best of 20.80 in the 50 free... participated in the freestyle relays for the Sun Devils.
High School/Club: 2007 graduate of Palm Desert High School in Palm Desert, Calif. ... earned four letters in swimming, four in water polo and two in basketball... named captain of the swim team in 2005, 2006 and 2007... was the C.I.F. champion in the 50 free and 100 free... also named a High School All-American in the 50 and 100 free... holds his high school's record in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly.
Personal: Contemplated major is business... son of Mirsad and Mirela Terzic... has one older brother, Vanja (22)... lists most exciting moment in sports as the feeling of winning a championship... was born January 12, 1989 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina... full name is Miran Terzic.
50 Free: 20.80
100 Free: 45.55
100 Fly: 52.93


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Tulsa Volleyball Falls To No. 15 Florida, 3-0
Dec. 1, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (TU Media Relations) - The Tulsa volleyball team, making its third straight NCAA appearance, fell to No. 15-ranked Florida 3-0 (25-9, 25-21, 25-21) to see its season draw to a close at the O'Connell Center on Friday during the first round of the NCAA Championship.
Tulsa (26-10) was led by senior outside hitter Tyler Henderson, who tallied 17 kills after recording zero in the first frame. Henderson, with 2,525 kills graduates Tulsa as the NCAA all-time leader in kills during the 25-point rally-scoring era.
"I cannot say enough about my team's fight and their courage," commented Head Coach Steven McRoberts. "I felt like your worst nightmare as a coach is what happened (to us) in the first set. These ladies, just like they have their whole careers, were fighters and competitors. They were not going to go out that way. I am just really proud of my team again and how we fought the way we did.
The Hurricane hit .102 (34-22-118) while the Gators (26-4) hit .317 (43-11-101) during the contest.
Senior libero Jessica Adams tallied a team leading 15 digs as she will leave TU as the all-time digs leader with 2,437, which ranks second in C-USA history.
Junior outside hitter Kellie Culbertson had six kills and eight digs, while sophomore Bailey Clampitt had 12 assists and eight digs.
In the first set, Florida jumped out to a 9-1 lead as it took the frame 25-9. Tulsa hit -.250 in the frame while Florida held an attack percentage of .417.
Tulsa tied the set at 8-8 in the second frame thanks to a kill from Henderson. UF rattled off a 12-6 run to take a 20-14 advantage en route to a 25-21 game victory. Henderson hit .538 in the set, with eight kills.
The Golden Hurricane tied the match at 11, but UF scored five of the next six points to open up a 16-12 advantage. A Henderson kill made it a 21-19 ballgame, but Florida took the set 25-21 to claim the match in front of 1,832 fans.
This loss marked the end of the careers for Tulsa's most decorated senior class in Henderson, Adams, Jordan Clampitt. Diana Silva and Shelbi Pitcher, who won 111 games during their career. The class became the first class to advance to three NCAA Championships and the first class to win an NCAA Championship match.
"I am really proud of our team," McRoberts said." I love this team. I love our seniors; Jessica Adams, Tyler Henderson, Shelbi Pitcher, and Jordan Clampitt have done such an amazing job in their four years with the program; three conference championships, three trips to the NCAA Tournament, a couple of wins in the NCAA Tournament. The first set, we came out a little tentative. It was probably the environment. I think we gave a couple of players from Florida the confidence they needed early. It was tough to slow them down the rest of the way. I am really proud of the way we bounced back after the first set. If we got rid of a couple runs in the second and third sets, we are right there. One of the things that we talked a lot about before the match was we had to play aggressive and be low-error. Kind of our M.O. for the year when we play teams like Florida - is that was not the case. We still did a great job this season of getting kills, but we just gave up points at critical times and it came back to bite us tonight."
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Encyclopedia Astronautica
Selection of links to other Internet sites of value...
This is not a comprehensive list of space links (see the first link for that!).
But here is a list of sites on the net with truly unique space history-related content!
Space News
NASA Watch
- Current space news, rumors, and insider gossip.
JPL Space Calendar
- Current and upcoming astronomical and planetary mission events.
Space Flight Now
- Current space news.
John Hopkins Chemical Propulsion Information Center
- News and data on rocket propulsion.
Space Fiction
Project Rho
- Winchell Chung's web site includes an extensive arcade of proposed and fictional advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Space News
- Current space news, and an immense storehouse of original reference documents, poorly organized...
Space Links
Clark's Favorite Space Links
- The best site on the web for links to other space sites of interest.
Space News
Space Daily
- The best source on the net for space news, edited by Simon Mansfield.
Space History
Jonathan's Space Home Page
- Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik, plus much unique and valuable imagery, launch lists, archives of his weekly Internet newsletter, etc etc.
Russian Space
Sven Grahn's Space History Pages
- Sven Grahn's site includes excellent technical articles on various aspects of current and historic Russian spacecraft.
- Antaoly Zak's site provides articles in English on Russian space topics.
Space History
NASA's History Office
- NASA's Chief Historian, with the assistance of dedicated volunteers, is progressively digitising and posting on the web NASA's many excellent project histories, chronologies, and technical drawings of spacecraft.
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
- One of the first great demonstrations of the use of the Internet, the ever-evolving ALSJ provides complete annotated transcriptions of every lunar landing mission.
Romance to Reality: moon & Mars expedition & settlement plans
- David S. F. Portree's excellent site provides detailed coverage of US manned lunar and planetary expedition studies and projects.
- Outstanding, unique reference for aircraft, missiles, propulsion, and avionics systems.
Marc Lindroos' Space Pages
- Marc Lindroos has compiled a huge amount of space historical material.
- Joel Carpenter's amazing collection of information on UFO sitings and the obscure aerospace vehicles in many countries that may have led to those sitings... now unfortunately discontinued, but portions of the content can be accessed via the Wayback machine (click on link)
Grand Tour! Planetary Exploration Page
- Paolo Ulivi's delightful accounts of planetary probes that made it ... and fascinating projects that never made it to the launch pad.
Russian Space
History of Russian / Soviet Cosmonautics (in Russian)
- Outstanding collection of articles (in Russian) on Soviet space technology and personalities.
Buran Home Page
- This Russian language site, edited by , has an incredible wealth of detail on the Buran and MAKS spaceplanes.
Soviet/Russian Aerospace Memorabilia
- Alex Panchenko's site offers a unique selection of Russian space models, books, artifacts, etc.
My Little Space Museum
- Karl Dodenhoff provides a plethora of imagery of Russian space hardware.
Space History
Space Facts
- Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts.
Russian Space
Encyclopedia Cosmonautica
- Alexander Zheleznyakov collaborated with me in the early days of the Encyclopedia Astronautica and now operates his own excellent Russian-language space encyclopedia.
Space History
The Apollo Saturn Reference Page
- John Duncan's essential site provides Internet versions of press and technical documents on Apollo and Gemini hardware and rocketry.
China Space
Dragon in Space
- Chen Lan's site - sadly no longer updated - was the best source anywhere for information on current news regarding the Chinese space program.
Space History
British Rockets and Satellite Launchers
- Nicholas Hill's delightful ramble through the rockets and projects that could have made the UK a space power rather than the weak space sister of the EU.
Rockets in Europe
- Jean-Jacques Serra's unique information on rocketry history in Europe.
NASA Shuttle Mission Press Kits
- Current and historical shuttle flight press kits available for down load.
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Web Site
- Outstanding source of photos and articles on rocketplanes flown by NASA at Edwards AFB.
NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection
- The source on the web for photographs from American manned space flights.
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library
- JPL's database of spacecraft information.
American Space
NASA Human Spaceflgiht
- NASA's site for current ISS and manned spaceflight information.
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Just a quick post to let you know that not much news will be posted from now until the start of next week as I'm taking a much needed break back home with the parents - We'll still have some reviews for you, though. This weekend I'll be heading to a fairly large LAN with many of the guys from the forums.
Until then, take care and for those going to Morb, see you there!


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Computex Taipei 2013 - Zalman just introduced their new cases, the Z3 and Z3 Plus, and have now introduced a new 'ultimate water cooler' in the Reserator3 Max. Zalman's Reserator3 Max can handle an insane 400W, all while being 'ultra silent'.
The Reserator3 Max has dual radial radiators, which are designed to maximize the air flow structure, and maximized cooling performance with its dual-oath radiator. The Reserator3 Max comes with a 120mm fan, and features a gorgeous design which includes black pearl nickel plated for corrosion prevention. Zalman are really pushing the silent factor here, which is something important when you're cooling down a super-intensive 400W.


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Sample of how to remember your vacation with friends. Makes for a nice gift.
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Fashion Week and blisters go together like peanut-butter and jelly, it's just natural. Running around in heels and flats for long hours at a time for a week straight definitely takes its toll on your feet. New York Fashion Week ended well over a week ago, and I'm still wearing Band-Aids and tending to blisters. Normally you'd think that most of the blisters came from heels and stilettos, but on the contrary – they all came flats.
I decided it would be a good idea to wear my reflective Cole Haan Oxford Flats on the last day of New York Fashion Week, thinking it would be nice way to reward my feet for a job well done, but boy was I wrong. Within the first ten minutes of walking in my oxfords, I could already feel blisters developing and my heels were already beginning to feel raw. My first instinct was to stop by Duane Reade and grab some Band-Aids to avoid things getting any worse, but little did I know, there was nothing that was going to save me at this point. When I was finally in an appropriate area to take my shoes off, I noticed that the skin on my heels had already been completely ripped off and the stinging sensation was almost too much to handle. So I piled on the Neosporin and slapped on a total of seven bandaids (yes, I said seven) and hoped for the best.
While the bandaids helped a tiny bit, (and when I say tiny, I mean hardly), my feet may as well have been screaming. It was so bad, I almost questioned missing a show in fear I just couldn't walk anymore. Walking barefoot did cross my mind for a split second, because, well, I figured, it is Fashion Week and almost anything goes…but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. After what seemed like walking forever, I finally made it home to my very comfy couch and my feet were even worse than I'd imagined. Taking a shower felt like needles shooting straight through my heels; the pain was almost unbearable. For the next four days, I had no choice but to live in my Havaianas and Birkenstocks.
So here I am today, my feet have healed a bit, but I'm still sporting Band-Aids in fear my blisters will resurface. This is the WORST pain my feet have ever been through, and I need you to commiserate with me. What's your worst story of shoe injury?


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I am reading Enderton's Set Theorey, in which he showed proof for a theorem: There is no set to which every set belongs. In the proof, he wrote:
Let A be a set; we will construct a set not belonging to A. Let $B=\{x\in A|x\not \in x\}$.
I have no trouble understanding the proof. My question is: Beside the fact that $A$ is a set whose members are $x$, what is $A$?
$A$ is a set of what?


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Celebrate Meatballs, Chili, Sausages, and Cassoulet!
A meatball slapdown, a chilifest, plus cassoulet and sausage festivals.
Now that Cochon 555 has come and gone with Public's Brad Farmerie turning out the finest swine (coverage here, here, here, and here), what single-food celebrations are next? Click ahead to find out.
The Meatball Slapdown
What: Meatballs from Fatty 'Cue, Lupa, Vesta, Best Pizza, and more are judged by the Franks, Amanda Hesser, Ted Allen, Garrett Oliver, and Amy Eddings.
When and Where: Brooklyn Kitchen, February 3, 6 p.m. till 10 p.m.
How Much: $100, proceeds of which go to Brooklyn Kitchen and Meat Hook's new classrooms as well as the Brooklyn Grange Farm's new City Grower program. More info here.
What: Sample chili from twenty restaurants (Bark Hot Dogs, Fette Sau, Telepan, and others) using beef from Dickson's Farmstand Meats in competion for a $2,000 prize. Musical performances by the Dixons, Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, and the Ebony Hillbillies.
When and Where: Chelsea Market, January 30, 4 p.m. till 8 p.m.
How Much: $30 online prior to the event ($35 at the door), or $40/$45 with beer. More info here.
The Cassoulet Festival Tasting
What: Chefs from Back Forty, Cookshop, Fatty Johnson's, Nuela, Savoy, Vinegar Hill House, and wd~50 will offer their individual spins on the dish.
When and Where: Savoy, February 5, from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
How Much: $65. Make reservations by calling 212-219-8570.
Loreley Williamsburg Sausage Festival
What: Twelve types of sausages (nine from Schaller & Weber and the from the Meat Hook) will be served on platters of various sizes — order more than seven sausages and your table gets a round of .2 liter Koelsch beer on the house. The Jug Addicts will play live.
When and Where: Loreley Williamsburg, from January 26 through January 30.
How Much: Sausages are sold in platters of three ($16), five ($22), seven ($27), nine ($33), or twelve ($38).


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Seymour Duncan
Model:Mosrite Original Mark-I Reissue 1965
Seymour W. Duncan was born in New Jersey. In his teenage years he was focused on guitar playing after being introduced to Chet Atkins, Les Paul and Charlie Christian by his uncle.
After his Telecaster's pickup broke one night during a club gig he rewound his first pickup and a legendary pickup maker found his passion. Since then his pickup company has become the largest pickup manufacturer in the world.


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AP Photo The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad remains idle on Thursday, March 6. ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — With the government's only permanent nuclear waste dump shuttered indefinitely by...
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Jill McLaughlin Photo Protesters from Somos Chaves County, an affiliate of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, chanted outside of the Roswell office of Rep. Steve Pearce, R-Dist. 2, Thursday as part of the group's National Week of Action for Immigration Reform. Jill...
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