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American Interlock Private company taking advantage of People on Ignition Interlock in the State of Michigan Royal Oak Michigan
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Prices seem like a steal in comparison to other companies on face value. However, you soon learn they make up for the difference by charging you for a myriad circumstances, that they do not make you aware of. This company is Predatory They installed a device on my vehicle, I purposefully asked many questions in order to avoid any complications. The technician blankly starred at me and said, "Read the Pamphlet" I later realized that it is in their best interest to "Not" familiarize their customers with best practices, scheduling, etc. Because once problems arise they are able to charge fees. My advice is always send an email telling them "EXACTLY" what you need, or of situations that arise. Otherwise, they have plausible deniability...and trust, they will use it! They charge fees for just about anything, but particularly like to charge for sending notifications to the state.
Previously they sent paperwork to the state saying that I had violations, even though on the dated referenced my car was being serviced. Further, I had called to make them aware of the situation, provided paperwork, and this is the kicker...THEY even went out to service the unit at the service facility. Additionally, as a result of not taking a retest (My inexperience) at the time I was turning off the vehicle, I had my license temporarily suspended. I called American Interlock, and told them of the temporary 2 month suspension. They said "YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE DEVICE ON" I later called the Secretary of State and confirmed, that indeed, I was not required to have the device monitored during this period.
When I called American Interlock back they denied having said they gave me that information....Just deplorable. If you have ever been given that "blank stare and attitude" at the Secretary of State, Social Security office, etc. Take that attitude and triple it. Once you are in the grips of American Interlock, they do their best not to educate you, in order that they can charge you as a result. Justin, and all of the other employees unethical, as they knowingly prey on their customers in a absolute low point in their lives. Please heed my warning and STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. Their low pricing belies the fact they charge you at every chance they get, for infractions that you do not know you are breaking.
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SUBMITTED: Saturday, March 26, 2016POSTED: Saturday, March 26, 2016
Just got done using American Interlock for 16 months in order to restore my driving privledges. I had one incident in which my battery died on a 0 degree MI winter day and I had another where the interlock device wound up with a bad connection just due to living on bad roads and moisture in my 20 year old vehicle. In both cases American Interlock were prompt, polite, helpful, and charged me nothing to take care of the issue. They gave me specific and easy instrucctions on how to take care of it and I was never violated over the course of my use of the device. I consider it an honor and a privledge to have worked with the company and the people there that were so helpful at this time that I may have never even deserved but I got anyhow. I do not know the situation of the original filer, but it has been my experience that as long as I have not been trying to get away with anything, I have not had any issues. I always appeared for every calibration on time and paid every fee on time. I blew in the device when it told me to and never tried to shut it off when it told me to or drive past curfew. Now in 5 days the device is being removed and my full driving privledges have been restored after not having a license for 20 years, having 5 drunk drivings on my record, and some 50+ driving on a suspendeds. I never had any "extra" charges. And this would not have been possible without the wonderful people at American Interlock doing their small part.
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SUBMITTED: Thursday, May 29, 2014POSTED: Thursday, May 29, 2014
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Hope they keep charging your sorry a** for everything...
SUBMITTED: Thursday, May 29, 2014POSTED: Thursday, May 29, 2014
Maybe next time YOU won't drive drunk. I'll bet it wasn't even your first time. Three of my friends have been killed by drunken jackasses, such as yourself. I thank your judge for linflicting this on you. NO sympathy hear. Ain't Karma a B***h.
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Thank you for reply. What I did not mention before was that for iteration we don't care about scoring, so that's not the issue at all. Creating Filter with BitSet seems much better idea than keeping HitIterator in memory. Am I right that in such a case with MatchAllDocsQuery memory usage would be around ( NUM_OF_DOCS_IN_INDEX / 8 ) bytes? We didn't check it yet, but do you think that time for accessing documents (reader.doc(i)) is big enough to make iteration in HitCollector (without accessing any objects) over documents already returned almost un-noticable? And another question - if I don't care about scoring is there a way to make Lucene don't spend time on calculating score (I don't know if that time matters)? HitCollector receives doc and its score (as far as I remember the difference here is that it is not normalized to value between 0 and 1). Is there a way (and does it make sense) to make scoring faster in such a case? And to make things clear - am I right that if I operate on the same searcher over requests for docs chunks I don't see neither additions nor deletions which could happen meanwhile? So if I would like to iterate over point-in-time keeping the same searcher opened would do. Thanks and regards, wojtek 2008/3/26, Erick Erickson <firstname.lastname@example.com>: > Why not keep a Filter in memory? It consists of a single bit per document > and the ordinal position of that bit is the Lucene doc ID. You could create > this reasonably quickly for the *first* query that came in via HitCollector. > > Then each time you wanted another chunk, use the filter to know which > docs to return. You could either, say, extend the Filter class and add > some bookeeping or just zero out each bit that you returned to the user. > > NOTE: you don't get relevance this way, but for the case of returning all > docs do you really want it? > > About updating the index. Remember that there is no "update in place". > So you'll only have to check whether any document in the filter has been > deleted when you are returning. Then you'd have to do something about > looking for any new additions as you returned the last document in the > set... > But remember that until you close/reopen the searcher, you won't see changes > anyway..... > > But you may not need to do any of this. If, each time you return a chunk, > you're using a Hits object, then this is the first thing I'd change. A Hits > object re-executes the query every 100th element you look at. So, assume > you have something like > > (bad pseudo code here) > for (int idx = 0; idx < firstdocinchunk && Hits.next(); ++idx) > { > } > > for (idx = 0; idx < chunksize && Hits.next(); ++idx) > { > assemble doc for return > } > and the first doc you want to return is number 1,000, you'll actually > be re-executing the query 10 times. Which probably accounts for your > quadratic time. > > So I'd try just using a new HitCollector each time and see if that solves > your problems before getting fancy. There really shouldn't be any > noticeable difference between the first and last request unless you're > doing something like accessing the documents before you get to > the first one you expect to return. And a TopDocs should even > preserve scoring....... > > Best > > Erick > > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Wojtek H <email@example.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > our problem is to choose the best (the fastest) way to iterate over huge > > set > > of documents (basic and most important case is to iterate over all > > documents > > in the index). Some slow process accesses documents and now it is done via > > repeating query (for instance MatchAllDocsQuery). It processess first N > > docs > > then repeats query and processes next N docs and so on. Repeating query > > means in fact quadratic time! So we think about changing the way docs are > > accessed. > > In case of generic query the only way to speed it up we see is to keep > > HitCollector in memory between requests for docs. Isn't this approach too > > memory consuming? > > In case of iterating over all documents I was wondering if there is a way > > to > > determine set of index ids over which we could iterate (and of course > > control index changes - if index is changed between requests we should > > probably invalidate 'iterating session'). > > What is the best solution for this problem? > > Thanks and regards, > > > > wojtek > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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> >>>>> "Hans" == Hans Ulrich Niedermann > <firstname.lastname@example.com> writes: > > Hans> P.S: Docbook XSL is not extraordinarily fast: K6-2/300MHz, > Hans> quite a small&simple document takes approx. 30 (thirty!) > Hans> seconds > - There is no DocBook XSL supplied with Cocoon 1 or Cocoon 2. There is a docbook sample file in the cocoon1 samples directory. I presume this is what you are using? Hans: does this include the cocoon strtup time? This seems very slow. Try going to a different sample page to initialize the engines, then to the docbook test. you might find it is much faster C2 compiles the XSL the first time through, so that could also be slowing it down... try reloading the document (as C2 does not cache, this will be a fair test) or loading a different document with the same XSL (? I *think* this will not cause a re-compile?) I an using C2 with teixlite.dtd, a similarly complex dtd, generating a TOC from a 136k xml file, and it takes about 2-3 seconds... chris. -- Chris Stevenson ----------------------- SSABSA -- Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia 60 Greenhill Road, Wayville SA 5034, Australia email: email@example.com phone: (08) 8372 7515 fax: (08) 8372 7590 ----------------------------------------------------
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Don't put those clay pots away yet! Even when the spring is coming to a close, you can use those planters to create these adorable Clay Pot Snowmen! This project from Amanda Formaro is easy and perfect to have on display indoors and out.
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What a fun take on flower pots. If you are not someone with a green thumb, you can repurpose your flower pots to make these antique looking snowmen. Do you have pictures of any in white? I have several ideas for those for family members that want a more modern design for their homes.
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A piece of visual history - the first photo album of the Bulgarian capital after the Communist takeover in 1944.
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This is how Chechen schoolchildren imagine the deportation of their entire nation 70 years ago.
On 23 February 1944 Soviet security forces moved into the area, and loaded hundreds of thousands of Chechen and Ingush people onto lorries, and then cattle trucks. They were moved from their homes to Central Asia and Siberia. About 700,000 people were affected across the North Caucasus, and nearly half of the deportees that freezing winter were children.
It's estimated that 170,000 to 200,000 of the Chechens alone lost their lives. That's over a third of the total Chechen population. The Chechen and Ingush who survived only started returning to their homeland after the death of Stalin in 1953.
To this day the foreign trucks used in the deportation are deeply ingrained in the collective memory – and they're shown in the drawings here. The Chechens were rounded up and loaded onto Studebakers, which were produced and supplied by the US. They were then packed into the freight carriages of trains.
A piece of visual history – Bulgaria's leader Todor Zhivkov lays a 'time capsule' in the foundations of a Communist monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
From the original booklet for the opening of the Buzludja Memorial Complex, summer of 1981 .
As Communist Bulgaria entered the last decade of the 20th century, it prepared to celebrate the 1300th anniversary of Bulgarian statehood with suitable pomp.
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"I think comfort level is going to be important for me," he explained. I don't want to go to school that has a ton of bigs. I want to find a team that's going to absolutely need you. I just want to find a school where I'll have the opportunity to get touches."
In addition to touches, the way a school uses its big men will factor into his decision.
"You want to go to a school where big men are the focus and the offense runs through a big man. You look at other big men in the past, but at the end of the day it's about the man in the mirror. You still have to put in the work to make yourself the best player possible."
Oriakhi said he's familiar with UNC from watching Tar Heel games the last few years and noted he has good relationships with John Henson, Dexter Strickland and Leslie McDonald.
"I know the program and it speaks for itself," he continued. "Michael Jordan, he sponsors them and he went there. The program has great tradition and it's definitely one of the top schools in the country. It's very attractive."
Prior to signing with UConn out of high school, Oriakhi took only one official visit. To make, what he calls, "one of the biggest decisions of my life," Oriakhi plans to be diligent and patient.
"There's really no timetable for a decision," he said. "I'm just weighing my options and taking my time. I have to get this one right -- I can't get this wrong, so I'm taking my time and not rushing. I'll do some research on schools, cut my list down a little and then start taking visits."
When he does pick a school, Oriakhi said he brings toughness, unselfishness and a strong desire to compete and win.
"People know what I'm capable of as player," he said, having averaged 6.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks as a junior, which followed a sophomore campaign where he averaged 9.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.6 blocks for a national championship team. "I'm a defensive-oriented guy. That's what I've always got my name on, blocking shots and rebounds. I have some moves in the post and I can shoot the ball pretty well too… it's just a matter of me getting opportunities. I' m a team guy, very unselfish and I'm all about winning. I've been winning everywhere I've played and I like to win."
While it'll be tough leaving teammates and the school he helped win a title, Oriakhi said he's at peace with his decision to transfer. Due to UConn's projected postseason ban in 2013, Oriakhi is expected to be immediately eligible for the 2012-13 season.
"If this is the worst thing I'll go through in my life, it's not that bad," he said. It's a blessing. A lot of people wish they could have my situation, so I'm not complaining."


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Family upbeat about daughter plagued with flesh-eating bacteria
by: Manuel Bojorquez Updated:
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Though Aimee Copeland remains in critical condition, and her family doesn't want to jump to conclusions, the Copelands were incredibly upbeat Wednesday afternoon.
"I feel great," said Andy Copeland, as he delivered the latest update on his daughter's condition.
He said doctors have been able to move Aimee for the first time since they had to amputate her leg, for treatments in a hyperbaric chamber.
"The purpose of the hyperbaric treatment is to put her in a pure oxygen environment that can aid in the recovery of some of the tissues in her extremeties," Mr. Copeland said.
said doctors removed a breathing tube, but replaced it with a tracheal tube to aid her breathing.
The family
said Aimee continues to show strong brain activity.
"Her intellectual capacity is
100 percent. She remembers family events, things that we've done in the past and that's very encouraging," her father said.
But for the first time, Aimee Copeland was able to see her
hands, which show signs of the flesh-eating bacteria that almost killed her.
"She's seen her hands, and you know
what?" Mr. Copeland said. "I would say it didn't faze her a bit and I just think that talks again about how tough she is."
She does not seem to be aware of what happened to the rest of her body.
said Copeland may still lose her fingers and possibly her other foot, but her family focuses on the positive -- that she's alive after the rare and extreme infection.
Copeland fell off a homemade zipline May
1 in Carroll County and cut her leg. The wound became infected by a bacteria commonly found in water, aeromonas hydrophila, leading to the ordeal.
The Copelands said Aimee is encouraged by the immense support she's receiving from family, friends and fellow students at the University of West Georgia.
On Tuesday, an above-capacity crowd turned out to donate blood in Aimee's name at the university's gym.
So many people came that a second blood drive at theschool has
been scheduled for June 1 to accommodate them.
The blood helps not only Copeland, but other patients at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, where she is receiving specialized care.
"We told her about the turnout and her eyes got big," her father said. "She's really, really excited about people giving blood."


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|Releasing Date : 12 December 2008
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The California Air Resources Board today approved two diesel truck regulations that will dramatically cut the largest source of diesel pollution in the state and are the first of their kind in the United States, according to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The Air Resource Board estimates that the truck regulations are expected to save 9,400 lives between 2010 and 2025 and greatly reduce health care costs.
Leading lawyer calls for Rumsfeld prosecution
The President of the legal nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, has resumed calls for a formal prosecution of ex-Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld following revelations by a Congressional report that Rumsfeld was to blame for the Pentagon's policy allowing torture.
In a statement, he said that the report reaffirms findings he spelled out in his book published this September, The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution. Ratner's group was the first to volunteer an attorney to meet with one of the CIA's "ghost detainees."
CIA Helped Shoot Down 15 Civilian Planes
With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs, in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being sighted, a U.S. lawmaker said Thursday.
CIA Torture Tapes Destoryed After Watchdog Concluded Methods Illegal
The CIA destroyed videotapes showing its agents subjecting high-level al-Qaeda detainees to waterboarding after the agency's inspector general issued a classified report in the spring of 2004 that concluded the interrogation methods used on the prisoners "appeared to constitute cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, as defined by the International Convention Against Torture."
Halliburton accused of supplying rotten food to U.S. forces
KBR 'supplied water which was contaminated, untreated, and unsafe', Eller charged, detailing a number of examples.
He said Halliburton and KBR 'shipped ice served to U.S. forces in trucks that had been used to carry human remains and that still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains.'
The lawsuit says the 'defendants burned medical waste that contained human body parts on the open air burn pit. Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains. The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths.'
U.S. keeps silent as Afghan ally removes war crime evidence
Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who'd surrendered to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Afghan warlord and a key U.S. ally in ousting the Taliban regime.
When the trucks arrived at a prison in the town of Sheberghan, near Dostum's headquarters, they were filled with corpses. Most of the prisoners had suffocated, and others had been killed by bullets that Dostum's militiamen had fired into the metal containers.
"The truth is that General Dostum went out with bulldozers and dug up those graves," Jowzjani charged. "I don't know why UNAMA" — the U.N. mission in Afghanistan — "hasn't said anything in this regard . . . maybe because of fears about his power, or maybe they made a deal."
Colin Powell Slams Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh: "Nothing Wrong With My Value System" (VIDEO)
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at Sarah Palin and the Republican party's emphasis on small-town values during an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakharia that will air this Sunday.
Powell also says that we should rethink its "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals in the military. And he tells Republicans that they should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh:
Troops Do Not Protect Our Freedom - Setting the Record Straight
TvNewsLIES.org editor, Jesse Richard, sets the record straight about the myth that military troops protect your freedom. Our freedom can only be threatened by those who make the laws. Those threats are in Washington DC...not in the Middle East.
Panel Cites White House, Not Soldiers, for Abuse
A new Senate report says the physical and mental abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was the direct result of Bush administration policies and should not be blamed on guards and interrogators.
The report from the Senate Armed Services Committee is the result of a two-year investigation. It directly links President Bush's policies after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, legal memos on torture and interrogation rule changes with the abuse that was photographed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq four years ago.
The report says administration officials publicly blamed the abuses on low-level soldiers but called that ''both unconscionable and false.''
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GUEST COLUMN: Teen Challenge is a blessing
What a pleasure it was to attend the annual Central Minnesota Teen Challenge Banquet at Cragun's Thursday night the fifth. Thanks to the generosity of those in the Brainerd lakes area, this banquet was completely filled out with 544 persons having bought tickets for this event. Talking about generosity by individuals as well as companies in this area, there were three very long tables completely filled up with quality and very nice items donated for the silent auction prior to the excellent meal and testimonies from some of the residents that are in the Brainerd Teen Challenge. While it is very sad and disturbing to see so many young adults and older struggling with very strong addictions that ruins their family life and their own self worth.
We are blessed to not only have this fine facility in Brainerd to help those with these addictions, but are thankful for the excellent fine staff that work there under the direction and encouragement of Mr. Sam Anderson. Talk about a person with the love of not only those that are residents there, but his love of God that radiates with a glow around him whenever he talks about the program. Pastor Rich Scherber, executive director of Minnesota Teen Challenge, commented on how truly wonderful it was to have the support of Brainerd in starting up this program about four years ago as well as the outpouring of support from so many people in the Brainerd lakes area since its inception.
This program in Brainerd is for males only, but in his brief comments Thursday night, Mr. Sam Anderson brought up a vision of his that he is prayerfully looking at, which is to have a facility for women who have children where their children can live with them in the program. Out of the nationwide Teen Challenge 300 or more facilities, there are only a few that offer this program and yet, is very worthwhile and needed to help this segment with addictions. So I would ask that you keep Sam and this vision in yours prayers, as well as the continued support of the Brainerd Teen Challenge.
Thank you and may God bless all of those involved now and hopefully those in the future.
JAMES E. WALLIN is mayor of Brainerd.


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A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade
During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air
America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many Gl's in Vietnam
became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was
used to refine heroin. After a decade of American military intervention,
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As we are entering the 6th week of our Environmental Awareness campaign the numbers are sky-rocketing - 9500 volunteers have joined forces behind one of the largest cleanups in 10 cities across South India. A lot has happened this past week - please read on below. We request you to bring along family, friends, colleagues to the beach (lakes, rivers) on Sunday morning to join in our mega cleanup. The atmosphere among the thousands of volunteers working together for a common cause on 15km of beaches will be electric! Any company, NGO, college, school not yet in the list further below just have a word with them to hop on board:
Like our FB Page to get daily updates on progress, news updates as well as receive photo links post-cleanup:
Key objective behind our cleanup effort is to create a major awareness and sensitize the public against the use of plastics, the impact on our environment and to reduce our garbage footprint.
Just like last year CASA GRANDE has come forward to be the Title Sponsor for the 2014 edition of the Chennai Coastal Cleanup. A big thanks to our title and associate sponsors for covering the expense of this mega event in order to keep it free for all (non-Corporate) volunteers and sponsoring an ad campaign in The Hindu Metro Plus for creating awareness among the general public
And our Associate Sponsors: Indian Oil, Besten, Federal Bank
The first ad appeared in today's Metro Plus:
The Chennai Coastal Cleanup and Operation India Clean Sweep has received the support from 140 Corporates, NGOs, colleges and schools till now and the numbers keeps rising every day... It's awesome to see all joining forces to create a huge momentum towards environmental awareness:
|HP Bangalore
|IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
|Acute Groups
|Virtusa Consultancy Services
|Euerka Child Foundaion
|Cognizant Technology Solutions
|Pasumai-Sevai Karangal
|Vernalis Systems
|WABCO India Ltd
|V R Volunteers & Thozhan
|Aspire Systems India Pvt Ltd
|Spiro HR Management Consultants Pvt Ltd
|Mobius Knowledge Services
|Elysium Residents
|Ramco Systems
|Bhumi Bangalore
|Ernst & Young Foundation
|Saint Gobain Reserach India
|Muthamizh nagar
|Computer Sciences Corporation(CSC)
|Satyam Venture Engineering Services
|CTC Bangalore
|Adityaa Agro
|Shoppers Stop
|Comrade Foundation
|eBay/PayPal India Pvt Ltd
|Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd MRV
|Great Hyderabad Adventure Club
|Pizza Republic
|Namma Beach Namma Chennai
|Shawn Web & Print Media
|Rapid Response
|Mother Earth Environmental Consciousness Society
|Vibrant Velachery
|Access Healthcare Services
|Dell BPS
|Bangalore Trekking Club
|Bilimoria & Associate
|iNautix Technologies India Private Limited
|Bhumi Hyderabad
|Dhanvin Properties
|Godrej and Boyce Mfg Co Ltd
|ADC Academy
|Hyatt Regency Chennai
|WeBe Design Lab
|Seashore Town Plot Owners and Residents Association
|The Green Nest
|Quadrant4 Software Solutions(p) Ltd
|V Trust
|Environmental Foundation of India
|Ponnovi creatives
|Chennai Engg Services
|Bhumi Chennai
|Federal Bank
|Gnana Deepam Trust
|UST Global
|Bharathi Scout Group
|Enzen Technologies Pvt Ltd
|Marina Minnals - Chennai Runners
|Saveetha Dental College
|Angels of Marina
|Govt. Middle School, Kothapurinatham, Puducherry
|Wipro Cares
|Geetha Matriculation Hr Sec School
|Emerson Process Management Chennai Ltd
|Chennai Astronomy Club
|My Master
|HTC Global Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
|F.B. Foundation Pune
|Ananda Marga school
|Kamachi Sponge & Power Corp Ltd
|Bhumi Trichi
|popular vehicles and services ltd
|Bhumi Coimbatore
|JIM Scout Group
|Centre For Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University
|Green Belt Welfare Society
|Thiruvalluvar Gurugulam
|Integra Software Services P Ltd
|Manasika Public Charitable Trust
|Ananda marga school
|Dover India Pvt Ltd
|GLD Movement
|Muthamizh nagar
|Mahindra and Mahindra
|Thiruvalluvar Gurugulam
|L&T Infotech
|Give Smiles
|Ananda marga school
|Photocopier Technician Welfare Association
|SRM University,Vadapalani
|Technosoft Global Services pvt ltd
|Subhas Scout Group
|Tagore Engineering College
|Green and Educational Technologist Foundation
|Rajalakshmi institute of technology
|Chennai Volunteers
|The Study Lecole Internationale, Pondicherry
|National Troopers for Conservation of Nature
|CSI Engineering College
|Pearl Nature Society
|Moderator Polytechnic
|Cognizant Bangalore
|Nellai Nature Club
On Monday The Hindu published a first article on the Chennai Coastal Cleanup
Thanthi has joined as our Television Partner for Operation Indian Clean Sweep and will be providing live coverage of the cleanup as it happens across 10 cities in South. We will be publishing the broadcast timings on our FB page
Tune in to Radio ONE - our Radio Partner - any day at 6am, 8am, 11am, 1pm, 4pm, 6pm, 9pm to listen to our promo
India Today June issue (appearing June 8th) will also feature the Coastal Cleanup. Don't miss to grab a copy.
Earth Recycler is our Recycle Partner. All estimated 50 tons of garbage which will be collected on Sunday will be transported to their premises to undergo second and third level segregation to enable maximum reuse of around 80% and minimize waste going to the garbage dump
First level segregation will be done by the volunteers during the Coastal Cleanup itself into three mayor categories: glass, plastics and others. Requesting all to shake of the sand which will allow better recycling of plastics, etc:
To further increase awareness we are creating a massive sand sculpture at Marina beach this weekend and our lake-cleanup partner Environmental Foundation of India is doing a street play at Eliot beach on Saturday evening.
The multi-city cleanup across South India is only possible through the support of our partner NGOs at Pondichery, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Vizag, Trichi, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari. Today the 11th location got included - Pulicat Lake.
Volunteer headcount in the regional cities has been rising steadily: 1800 and counting.... Don't forget to notify your friends, family and known NGOs, colleges in these cities to join the largest cleanup in South:
Finally, let me introduce the amazing group of organizers from the Chennai Trekking Club who have been working selfless behind the scenes to make this years Coastal Cleanup a success. All of them are brimming with energy to break the records this Sunday!
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Proof of Grace
Like a prayer from a person dying to be shown a reason for faith. The dream of a desperate person wanting to believe that their existence isn't futile
We know that you hide behind the drama you so willingly create out of a desperate need to avoid who you are. A mystery to only yourself. The rest of us see you clearly for what and who you are.
The fascinating surprise is how what we see is good. Truly good. We want to hate you for being yourself in the face of all that could hurt you. We want to hate you because you obliviously show us our own faults and weaknesses. We want to hate you for being that face of grace in this world that will encapsulate us in ignorance if we need it.
Yet we cannot. You are a captivating mystery that is the air we need to breathe. What you have inside threatens everyone who is aware enough to see that it exists. What you have on the outside makes others gravitate towards what you represent, because they never knew to want such beauty, honesty and truth before now.
Only now can she say that her avoidance of herself was due to her fear of being defective and rejected. Only now that she has faced her fear of being told she wasn't good enough and has truly realized that not only does she measure up, can she see that she has surpassed all levels of maximum greatness she was to have achieved in her entire life. She is released from her own fears and free to move on to live in the passion of greatness of spirit that she knows truly is her and is no longer afraid to explore.
Only now can she look at herself with something other than revulsion. She can feel for the first time the dawning or growth of a sprout from seed into its first bloom.
Her path is that of flight – she is on a different plain of existence that shows us there is more than our limited view of the world and our own place in it. It is she that shows you there is reason for hope, she is living proof there is more…
She has faced for the first time her belief in true love and giving herself over to it in its entirety. She has removed all of the safety features and for the first time, she is completely helpless in her desire to be loved and to truly love in return.
Love of self offers protection from the inhumanity of humanity. She knows now that Faith isn't blind, it has its eyes wide open filled with curiousity, humor, trust and excitement.
She knows that history and the generations to come will look back at us, at her and see what we are worth. What we stood for and what we did to give back and generate greatness in ourselves to share with the world.
She no longer fights the grace that is who she is, she embraces it and begins her journey.


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God Bless the USA turns 30!
Does this song stand the test of time? You bet it does. I still get chills listening to the lyrics along with the powerhouse vocals!
Listen to a few of the people in country music talk about this song by Lee Greenwood!
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GBP/USD: outlook for July 18-24
British pound strengthened by more than 3% during the past week. Sterling recovered because of 2 main reasons: return of political stability to the UK and the Bank of England's decision not to ease monetary policy in July.
Theresa May replaced David Cameron as Britain's Prime Minister. Although May was a supporter of the UK staying in the European Union, she underlined that "Brexit means Brexit" and the country will leave the EU. Still, it looks like the leaving will be a long process.
British central bank didn't cut the benchmark interest on Thursday, although such move was already priced in GBP/USD. As a result, traders started closing massive GBP shorts pushing the currency higher. Only one member of the central bank voted for a rate cut. Governor Carney decided to wait for the post0referendum economic data, but gave a strong signal of easing next month.
Next week we may see more covering of GBP short positions, which should provide support for the pound. Note, though, that there are serious resistance levels lying ahead: 1.3500 and 1.3830. Taking into account the fact that more monetary stimulus will almost certainly come from the Bank of England in 3 weeks at the August meeting, investors will likely use the pound's recovery to enter in new short positions. Support is at 1.3120 and 1.3000.
In British economic calendar next week pay attention to inflation figures on Tuesday, labor market data on Wednesday and retail sales and public sector net borrowing on Thursday. Only very week figures could drive sterling significantly lower.


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Jessica is a VCU alumni living in Atlanta, GA and the author of Jess Runs ATL. Since picking up running in the summer of 2013, she has completed 2 full marathons and 7 half marathons (with two more half marathons on deck before race day). When it came time to pick her second full marathon last year, she couldn't think of a better place than Richmond during VCU's homecoming weekend, where her friends and family could be a big part of her race. In 2015, Jess finished the Richmond Marathon with a 28 minute personal record and loved every minute of the race. She knew she would be back again this year, and is looking forward to running through the streets of Richmond for her third full marathon.
Jess moved to Atlanta in 2008, after graduating from the Fashion Merchandising department of VCU. She has since received her MBA from Emory University and currently works in downtown Atlanta. Jess lives just outside of the city with her boyfriend and their rescued Golden/Lab mix, Skipper. When not running, you can find her working on DIY projects and hunting down the best burgers, pizza, and beer Atlanta has to offer.
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Ann Mazur is an elite runner and 200hr RYT with over 900 hours of yoga teaching experience. In 2012, while in her Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia, she founded Runners Love Yoga, the aim of which is to bring yoga to the running community. She firmly believes in the power of yoga as a cross-training tool for runners—both for increasing strength and efficiency and for preventing injuries. Postcollegiately, she now just runs an average of 30 miles per week but supplements her training with at least an hour of yoga per day. With this unconventional method, she has PRed in everything from the mile (5:13.5 road, May 2016) to half marathon (1:21:39, VA Beach 2016) to marathon (2:57:17, CIM 2015). She can't remember the last time she was injured—she wants other runners to experience the joy of running and racing faster and more consistently. As the tagline of RLY goes: "Do Yoga Run Faster." Ann is currently a Lecturer of English at UVa and prolific road racer. She loves teaching English and yoga, and is excited about her most recent RLY project, developing and designing a line of women's activewear for running/yoga, which is due out late summer/early fall and entirely Made in the USA. She loves trail running in Virginia, the half marathon distance, and is excited to run the Richmond Half Marathon this November for another crack at sub-1:20.


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Gilman mourns death of former Mayor Price
Lyle Price was a four-term mayor in the city of Gilman. But he wasn't just the city administrator. He was a friend to all and a devoted civic leader.
The community is mourning the death of Lyle Price. He died Saturday at Iroquois Memorial Hospital in Watseka. Lyle Price was 71.
Price served as Mayor of Gilman from 1993 thru 2009. City officials say Lyle reached out to everyone community-wide.
Lyle owned and operated Price's Barbershop for 49 years, starting the business with his cousin Bill Price in 1966. The barbershop has been home-base for so many pranks, wild stories and just good-old friends.
Lyle was a U.S. Postal Carrier in Gilman for 37 years, a proud member of the Gilman Fire Department, and co-founded the Slow Boys Tractor Club. The Slow Boys Club has taken a lead role in the every-five-year Gilman Old Boys & Girls Reunion. Lyle served as Grand Marshall of the Old Boys & Girls Parade in 2010.
Coffee with friends, car-cruises with his dog, and wild fishing stories were part of what Lyle was all about. Lyle Price never met a stranger. The smile was contagious, always ready for a joke and a prank. And yes, he was "The Best Grandpa."
Funeral arrangements are through the Knapp Funeral Home in Onarga. Visitation is Thursday 10/1 3-9 pm. A funeral service is Friday 10/2 at 11 am at Onarga Cemetery.
Lyle leaves behind his wife, Jean, five children including daughters Michele Schroeder, Jenny Schunke, Kerry Cohen and Heather Harbison, his son Jim Price and brothers Fred and Dr. Nicholas Price. Nine grandkids also survive.


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It's all very well us chefs banging on about making meals from scratch, even on a week night, but then we don't live in the real world, plus we've got a kitchen brigade and all sorts of flash kit at our disposal. Even so, I find the array of ready meals in the shops a bit depressing, especially when I read the ingredients lists. This week's recipes, then, are designed to show that a decent midweek tea needn't take hours (they're adapted from dishes we've served at Mr Coopers in Manchester): once you've cooked the spuds and mussels, the starter's about 12 minutes start to finish; the main's 20 or so minutes (though you do have an extra five minutes' work the night before); and the pudding's about 10 minutes (not including freezing time). In other words, they each take roughly as long to make as it does to heat up an average ready meal in the oven.
Mussels, monkfish, potato and romesco
I always brine fish before cooking: it helps intensify the flavour and retain moisture, and takes only three or four minutes tops, so do give it a go. This dish makes a great main course, too – just multiply the quantities accordingly. Serves four.
200g trimmed monkfish fillet
1 tbsp rapeseed oil
50g unsalted butter
8 boiled new potatoes (ratte, ideally, or charlottes), thinly sliced
8 mussels, steamed open in a lidded pan, and picked from their shells
12 small spinach leaves
Salt flakes
For the romesco sauce
5 red peppers, deseeded and diced
45g toasted whole almonds
45g toasted whole hazelnuts
135g olive oil
2 slices white country-style bread
45g tomato purée
4 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
50ml white-wine vinegar
15g salt flakes
For the romesco, simply chuck all the ingredients in a food processor, blend until smooth, pass through a sieve and set to one side.
In a bowl, dissolve 60g of salt in 600ml cold water, soak the monkfish in the brine for four minutes, lift out and pat dry. Cut the fillet into eight (ie, two pieces per portion). In a nonstick pan, heat the oil and 25g butter, and fry the fish for a couple of minutes on each side, until cooked.
In another pan, melt the remaining butter and gently warm the sliced spuds. Season and lift on to a plate lined with kitchen towel. In the same pan, warm the spinach and mussels.
To serve, spoon a pool of romesco into four bowls, randomly scatter the potatoes, spinach, mussels and monkfish pieces on top, dribble over a little more oil and serve.
Lamb rump, minted courgettes and spiced lentils with garlic cream
The courgettes really benefit from a night in the marinade (though even half an hour is better than nothing). Serves four.
2 tbsp rapeseed oil
4 300g lamb rumps, skin-off but with a nice layer of fat
Salt flakes and black pepper
50g butter
300ml lamb stock
For the courgettes
4 large courgettes, cut lengthways into 2mm-thick slices
1-2 sprigs fresh mint, picked
25g olive oil
15g lemon juice
Salt flakes
For the lentils
250g puy lentils
2 bay leaves
2 cardamom pods, crushed
½ onion, peeled and cut in half
5g ground coriander
1g ground cumin
900ml water
For the garlic cream
4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
250ml double cream
Salt flakes
A few basil leaves, to finish
A day ahead, chargrill the courgette slices and set to one side. Mix together the mint, oil, lemon juice and a pinch of salt, and leave somewhere warm to infuse for 30 minutes. Pour the marinade over the courgettes and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, heat the oven to 190C/375F/gas mark 5. Heat the oil in a heavy frying pan, season the lamb with salt and fry skin side down until nicely caramelised, then turn and do the other side – about five minutes in all. Add the butter to the pan, then transfer to the oven and roast for 15 minutes, basting every now and then. Remove the lamb from the pan and leave in a warm place to rest for five minutes. Pour off the fat from the pan, return to the heat and deglaze with the stock. Reduce by half, whisk in a knob of butter and season.
While the lamb's roasting, make the lentils and garlic cream. Put all the lentil ingredients in a pan, bring to a boil, simmer for five minutes, until tender, then drain and keep warm. For the garlic cream, gently fry the garlic in a little butter until soft but not coloured – four or five minutes – add the cream and bring to a boil. Turn down to a simmer, cook gently for 20 minutes, pass through a sieve and season. Meanwhile, gently reheat the courgettes.
To serve, fold a spoonful or two of garlic cream into the lentils, to taste (save the rest for another use – it's great with greens), season, then stir in the shredded basil. Put a mound of warmed courgettes on each plate with a spoonful of lentils alongside. Carve each lamb rump in two, lay on top and spoon over the pan juices.
Peanut parfait
The meringue mix here may be slightly different from what you're used to – it's called Italian meringue in the trade, and it's a real favourite with pastry chefs because, though very soft, it makes desserts feel somehow more substantial. This salty-sweet parfait is lovely with some macerated berries spooned on top, especially strawberries when in season. Serves four.
For the meringue mix
40g water
180g sugar
15g glucose syrup (you'll find it in the baking section of the supermarket)
90g egg white
For the parfait
150g natural peanut butter
300g whipping cream
125g Italian meringue
Boil the water, sugar and glucose, and bring up to 121C. When it gets to 118C, in a scrupulously clean bowl whisk the egg whites to soft peaks. When the syrup hits the required temperature, slowly pour it on to the egg whites, and whisk until firm.
Line four 9cm pudding basins with clingfilm. Mix the peanut butter with 200g of cream, then fold in first the meringue and then the remaining cream. Pipe into the pudding basins and freeze.
Ten minutes before you want to eat, take the parfait out of the freezer to thaw a little. Tap the parfaits out of their moulds on to the centre of each plate, top with a few berries and serve at once.
• Simon Rogan is chef/patron of L'Enclume and Rogan & Co in Cartmel, Cumbria, and The French and Mr Cooper's in Manchester; he takes over the restaurant atClaridge's in London in April.


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Quantum Racing win Portugal Trophy of Audi MedCup
by Event media on 21 Sep 2008
AUDI MedCup, Portugal Trophy, The crew of "Quantum Racing" celebrate winning the Trophy of Portugal and the AUDI MedCup 2008 Ian Roman/Audi MedCup ©
Terry Hutchinson and the crew of Quantum Racing today added the Portugal Trophy to the regatta wins in Mallorca and Sardinia which contributed to their overall victory in the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008.
After winning the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008 title with a day to spare, Quantum Racing added victory in the Trophy of Portugal to cap their triumphant five months long season over which they won three of the six Audi MedCup Circuit regattas.
Steered by skipper Terry Hutchinson (USA), who started putting the winning campaign together just less than one year ago and has raced on the circuit over each of the three previous years, Quantum Racing won in Cagliari on Sardinia in Italy, at the Breitling Regatta on Mallorca, Spain and now in Portimao on Portugal's Algarve coast.
As well as their three regatta wins Quantum Racing finished third at the first regatta of the season in Alicante. Fifth in Marseille in June was acall to raise their game, according to Hutchinson, and their fourth place last month in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain was enough to keep them firmly on course for the championship title they clinched yesterday.
A first and a fourth placed today for Quantum Racing pushed them to the top of the overall Portugal Trophy standings, winning by four points from Matador (ARG) who were let down by a disappointing 11th in the first race.
Alberto Roemmers' Matador team have been the most consistent over the second half of the season finishing second in Mallorca, second in Murcia and now runners-up in Portugal. Their hat trick of second places ensured that they take third place on the season-long Audi MedCup Circuit standings.
Jose Cusi's Bribón (ESP) finished with a second and a fifth today to cement their best ever season's end finish in four years on the MedCup circuit, second overall.
Steered by Dean Barker (NZL) with Ross MacDonald (CAN) as tactician, Bribón won in Cartagena, was second in Alicante at the start of the season and finished third in Marseille, fifth in Cagliaria and, ironically, had their worst score on the boat's home waters off Palma, seventh.
Winds were light again today and expired entirely in the late afternoon but the re-scheduled morning start allowed two decent windward -leeward contests to be completed. Quantum's sharp starting and acute tactics were key to their victory in the first race, just holding off Bribón by seven seconds.
Bringing the tally of teams which have won a race or more than one race this season to 13, Vicente Tirado's CXG Corporacion Caixa Galicia (ESP) took the final winning gun of the season. Second at the first mark behind Matador, CXG's tactician Andy Horton (USA) spotted better breeze and sniffed out a wind shift isnhore which brought them through to lead at the first leeward mark.
With 53 races completed this has been a long and demanding season traversing most of the Mediterranean and finishing on the Atlantic. Countering the supposition that a new TP52 is vital for success, the second and third placed boats for 2008 are both well optimised 2007 build Judel Vrolijk design boats.
Quantum Racing is the only new Botin Carkeek design on the circuit and is their first MedCup Circuit winner since Pisco Sour in 2005.
The winning Quantum Racing crew are a mix of long-standing friends and some former members of the Team New Zealand team which won the Louis Vuitton Cup with Hutchinson as tactician last year, including Mark Mendelblatt (USA) as Quantum Racing's strategist, navigator Ian Moore (GBR/IRL) and Jeremy Lomas (NZL) bowman.
'We were all friends before and when we have difficult times on the boat and difficult conversations on the boat we can have good open, honest, candid conversations about improvement and in order to get better this season we had to do that, and I can't than them enough for the efforts that they have put in. And to end it like this is for them because of the effort they have all put in.' concluded Terry Hutchinson
'It has been a long hard season with a lot of jobs but everything has worked well. The level of the teams has increased so in general the level of the Circuit is so high now. I think we have the best sailors in the world sailing on this Circuit and any team that enters has to hire the best sailors they can to try to hold the page with the top guys.' says Nacho Postigo (ESP) the Audi MedCup Circuit's technical director.
Ignasi Triay (ESP), Project manager of Bribón (ESP), second overall on the Audi MedCup Circuit.
'We have had six events with several that were very windy, so the season has been a bit of a marathon, but as we have enjoyed it, it has flown by, as time does when you are having fun! We are very happy to finish second with such a high level here in the Audi MedCup; eight new boats on the fleet and our boat being second generation, up against such good crews and a lot of events that weren't with the kind of conditions our boat best respond to. We were fighting the whole time and are all really pleased with our result.
'We always went out to win each event, so sometimes the second is not what you would prefer, but looking at Quantum's performance and level, the taste is sweet. We have stayed in there, toughing it out and never giving up. I think that our most important moment was in Cartagena, certain times when it seemed that we were losing and we came back to win. Our team has shown an incredible capacity to fight back the whole year. Quantum has had an incredible season, not only winning the circuit but three out of six events, and that performance only adds value to our second place in the circuit.'
Guillermo Parada (ARG), skipper-helm of Matador (ARG), third overall on the Audi MedCup Circuit.
'We are obviously happy with the third place overall in the circuit but the second place in this Trophy is painful. After being second in the last two regattas we were really wanting to finish the year with a win. Unfortunately I had a bad start in the first race and we didn't use the opportunities to pass boats well and we just couldn't get Quantum. But they have sailed very well and intelligently all year, and today they did the same making the most of the opportunities we gave them and they are the very worthy winners.
Torbjorn Tornqvist (SWE), Skipper and Owner of Artemis (SWE), fourth overall on the Audi MedCup Circuit, and 2007 MedCup Champion,
'A well deserved win for Quantum, they have prepared their campaign well from the beginning, and just got stronger and stronger, rarely showing any weaknesses. They are the worthy winners, not just today but in all the other regattas.
'I can't deny that it has been a little bit of a disappointment for Artemis, we thought we came out well in the beginning and were kind of fading towards the end. I think that it wasn't an ideal situation with a number of crew changes, which was unsettling but that is sport and you learn from it. For us now it is to take it in the right way and we are going to do everything possible to do our best in the worlds. We are already planning for the next year; I think it is a great event. I personally really love the Audi MedCup and as an amateur it is fantastic for me to be sail with these great sailors. This season has been a little disappointing for us, but sport is sport! And at these moments it is when you have to show what it's all about!'
Paul Cayard (USA), Helmsman of EL Desafio (ESP), seventh overall on the Audi MedCup Circuit.
'Quantum did a great job. They were on the game at the beginning of the season so they got nicely ahead. I think the rest of the group caught up a little and the last couple of regattas got a little bit more competitive and I'm sure it was great for them to win this last one and not just rely on accumulated points to win the season.
'Desafio actually had one of their worst days today, I don't know if we have ever finished last in a race but try not to let it
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