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Over the next year and a half, I learned how to be a journalist, including, of course, how to write so that people might actually read what Id written. It was a joy.
Id been raised in a journalistic tradition -- my grandfather city editor of the New York Sun, two brothers in the business, and reading NCR (and The New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News and Newsday) since my early teens. Still, it came as a revelation that a future could be made interviewing cardinals and members of Congress, peace activists and conservative supporters of the contras, mandatory celibacy opponents and Latin Mass advocates. In January 1985, I got a bump up to political affairs reporter (at the princely pay of $100 a week) and spent more time writing and reporting for NCR than on my history studies. (Most of my professors, however, were reading my NCR copy, resulting in some generous grading.)
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Now I return again to NCR, this time as publisher and editor in chief.
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|The performances of German-American violist Peter Neubert have been hailed as "vibrant … precise, passionate, and determined" by the Corriere del Mezzogiorno (Bari, Italy), and as a member of the Ad Hoc, Esterhazy, Heidenheim and Niles String Quartets and the Yamaguchi-Neubert Duo he has performed in countless concerts and recitals across the United States. Currently a visiting instructor in viola at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas and adjunct instructor of strings at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, he has previously held teaching appointments at the University of Missouri, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Preparatory Department of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
An avid supporter of new music, Dr. Neubert has participated in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany and the Ensembleakademie IMPULS in Graz, Austria. As a guest artist at the annual festival for contemporary chamber music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, he collaborated in performances with several notable American composers including Aaron Jay Kernis, Steve Reich, Augusta Read Thomas, and Michael Torke. Dr. Neubert has commissioned several works and received an Encore! Grant from the American Composers Forum for performances of Richard Johnson's Listen to Ravens in Maine, South Carolina, and Texas during 2005 and 2006.
Dr. Neubert received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kentucky. His primary instructors have been Paul Neubauer, Matthew Michelic and Dorotea Vismara Hoffman; further studies have been with Michael Gieler, Barbara Maurer and Vladimir Mendelssohn. Dr. Neubert has studied chamber music with the Audubon Quartet, Jaime Laredo, James Tocco, and Michael Tree, and attended chamber music seminars with Alain Meunier at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy and Boris Baraz at the Estate Musicale a Portogruaro, Italy.
Currently a member of the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Neubert has previously performed with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Des Moines and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago String Ensemble. He maintains an active schedule as adjudicator and clinician during the academic year, and recent solo performances have taken him to Presbyterian College (SC), Southwestern University (TX), the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah. During the summer, Dr. Neubert serves as the operations director of the Abilene Summer Music Festival and teaches at Camp Encore/Coda in Maine.

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Moscow (AFP) Nov 23, 2013
Moscow will allow the foreign crew members of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to leave Russia as soon as they obtain legal status to do so, a high-ranking Kremlin official said Saturday.
"As soon as the issue of how they can leave Russian territory is regulated, I think they will leave," said the Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov, RIA-Novosti agency reported.
"Nobody will hold them," he said.
Interfax news agency reported that the issue hindering the crew members' departure is their lack of Russian visas.
A Greenpeace official said however that local migration officials were not granting transit visas until all charges were lifted against the activists.
A court in Russia's northwestern city Saint-Petersburg this week granted bail to all but one of 30 crew members of the Dutch-flagged ship, which was detained by Russia after several activists attempted to scale a Barents Sea oil rig belonging to Russian company Gazprom in a protest against offshore drilling.
Australian Colin Russel, the ship's radio operator whose case was the first to be heard in a series of court proceedings this week, was denied bail and for now remains in the Saint Petersburg jail.
One of the people to go before the judge Friday, British national Philip Ball, was granted bail but has not walked out of the jail yet due to a technicality, said Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail Kreindlin.
"They don't have visas, they were registered by migration officials in a hotel, but they are free to move around," Kreindlin told AFP.
"Nobody really understands their status," he said, adding that local migration officers told him they would grant transit visas to the foreigners only after all charges are lifted.
The crew is currently charged with hooliganism. They were initially charged with piracy, a heavier crime, but investigators later dropped the piracy charge.
The ship Arctic Sunrise is still detained at port in Russian northern city Murmansk, although a Friday ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, ordered that the vessel and the crew be "released and allowed to leave" Russia upon the posting of a 3.6 million euro bond.
Ivanov said Russia will not react to the ruling.
"The issue will be solved... according to Russian laws, not somebody's political wishes," he said.
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Prepare yourselves for an epic televised showdown between the Guidos and the Gleeks.
MTV announced today that the Jersey Shore cast and stars from Glee will serve as presenters at this year's Video Music Awards. Recent Emmy winner Jane Lynch will be joined by her Glee castmates Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer and Amber Riley to hand out trophies for the event.
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Comparison of prednisolone and lamivudine combined therapy with prednisolone monotherapy on carriers of hepatitis B virus with IgA nephropathy: a prospective cohort study
Fang J, Li W, Tan Z, Li D. Int Urol Nephrol. 2013 Jun 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Department of Nephrology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, No. 2 East Yinghua Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China.
OBJECTIVE: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier status has a critical impact on clinical management of patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) who are treated with corticosteroids, because corticosteroids may enhance HBV replication. This study compared corticosteroids and antivirals combined therapy with corticosteroids monotherapy on patients of IgAN who were also HBV carriers.
METHODS: This was a prospective, open-label cohort study on Chinese adults of HBV inactive carriers with concurrent IgAN (proteinuria ≥3.5 g/day). The patients were self-assigned to combined therapy group (prednisolone + lamivudine) or monotherapy group (prednisolone). Prednisolone 1 mg/kg/day for 2 months, tapered gradually, duration 12 months. Lamivudine (100 mg/day) was administrated 2 weeks before starting prednisolone and maintained 6 months after prednisolone withdrawal. All patients were followed up for 18 months. Outcome measures were rates of complete remission of proteinuria (<0.5 g/day), persistent massive proteinuria (≥3.5 g/day), HBV reactivation (detectable serum HBV-DNA or HBeAg), and significant alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation (>120 μ/L).
RESULTS: Except 3 patients were lost to follow-up, 46 patients (29 of combined therapy group, 17 of monotherapy group) were included in the analysis. There were no differences in baseline characteristics of clinical and histopathological features between two groups (p > 0.05). At the end of follow-up, 19/29 (65.52 %) in combined therapy group and 9/17 (52.94 %) in monotherapy group achieved complete remission of proteinuria (p = 0.399), while 0/29 (0 %) and 2/17 (11.76 %) remained persistent massive proteinuria (p = 0.059). HBV reactivation and significant ALT elevation was 3/17 (17.65 %) of patients in monotherapy group, more than 0/29 (0 %) of combined therapy group (p = 0.019). Three HBV recurrent patients using prednisolone monotherapy were all male and young, with relatively short term of HBV infection history, HBV reactivation and severe liver impairment developed after 3 months of corticosteroids treatment, and daily proteinuria increased remarkably after prednisolone withdrawal.
CONCLUSIONS: This study successfully treated with combined lamivudine and prednisolone in inactive HBV carriers with IgAN. We believe the combination of prednisolone and lamivudine was more efficacious than prednisolone alone in providing long-term viral suppression and liver enzyme normalization in inactive HBV carrier with IgAN.
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CICS Explorer 5.1.1 provides enhanced support for platforms and applications. As a result, CICS Explorer 5.1.1 is capable of deploying platforms and applications only to environments running CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V5.1 with APAR PM81540 applied. PM81540 is a pre-requisite for deploying platforms and applications to these environments. If you attempt to deploy a platform developed using CICS Explorer 5.1.1 to a CICS TS 5.1 environment that does not include APAR PM81540, the deploy will fail and you will see CNX0592E PLATDEF_XML_IN_BUNDLE_INVALID in the CICS Explorer and EYUTI0504E PLATDEF Invalid XML found for file META-INF/platform.xml in the EYULOG of the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface server.
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Apply PTFs UK95606, UK95607, and UK95608 for APAR PM81540, that were made available on 9 July 2013, to your CICS TS environment before you try to deploy your platform.
APAR PM81540 is also required by CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS (CICS CM) V5.1 as detailed in CICS CM APAR PM80814. APAR PM81540 is required for the update application definition (APPLDEF) function to perform correctly. If PM81540 is not applied, CICS CM gives the appearance that the updates were successful and that the operation has completed. No error message is displayed, but when you view the APPLDEF again you see that no fields have changed.
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Software version: 5.1
Operating system(s): Linux, Windows, z/OS
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by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2013
Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice.
"We see a temperature maximum in the middle of the day, but we also see a temperature maximum a little after midnight," said Armin Kleinboehl of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who is the lead author of a new report on these findings.
Temperatures swing by as much as 58 degrees Fahrenheit (32 kelvins) in this odd, twice-a-day pattern, as detected by the orbiter's Mars Climate Sounder instrument.
The new set of Mars Climate Sounder observations sampled a range of times of day and night all over Mars. The observations found that the pattern is dominant globally and year-round. The report is being published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Global oscillations of wind, temperature and pressure repeating each day or fraction of a day are called atmospheric tides. In contrast to ocean tides, they are driven by variation in heating between day and night.
Earth has atmospheric tides, too, but the ones on Earth produce little temperature difference in the lower atmosphere away from the ground. On Mars, which has only about one percent as much atmosphere as Earth, they dominate short-term temperature variations throughout the atmosphere.
Tides that go up and down once per day are called "diurnal." The twice-a-day ones are called "semi-diurnal." The semi-diurnal pattern on Mars was first seen in the 1970s, but until now it had been thought to appear just in dusty seasons, related to sunlight warming dust in the atmosphere.
"We were surprised to find this strong twice-a-day structure in the temperatures of the non-dusty Mars atmosphere," Kleinboehl said.
"While the diurnal tide as a dominant temperature response to the day-night cycle of solar heating on Mars has been known for decades, the discovery of a persistent semi-diurnal response even outside of major dust storms was quite unexpected, and caused us to wonder what drove this response."
He and his four co-authors found the answer in the water-ice clouds of Mars. The Martian atmosphere has water-ice clouds for most of the year. Clouds in the equatorial region between about 6 to 19 miles (10 to 30 kilometers) above the surface of Mars absorb infrared light emitted from the surface during daytime. These are relatively transparent clouds, like thin cirrus clouds on Earth.
Still, the absorption by these clouds is enough to heat the middle atmosphere each day. The observed semi-diurnal temperature pattern, with its maximum temperature swings occurring away from the tropics, was also unexpected, but has been replicated in Mars climate models when the radiative effects of water-ice clouds are included.
"We think of Mars as a cold and dry world with little water, but there is actually more water vapor in the Martian atmosphere than in the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere," Kleinboehl said.
"Water-ice clouds have been known to form in regions of cold temperatures, but the feedback of these clouds on the Mars temperature structure had not been appreciated. We know now that we will have to consider the cloud structure if we want to understand the Martian atmosphere. This is comparable to scientific studies concerning Earth's atmosphere, where we have to better understand clouds to estimate their influence on climate."
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DATE: March 26, 2017
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Gal Fridman:
2004 Olympic Gold Medallist
1996 Olympic Bronce Medallist
Currently Coaching Israel's Mens RS:X sailor Nimrod Mashiah for the 2012 Olympics
Kiteboarding is the newest and most exciting form of sailing now practiced worldwide. Because of Kiteboarding's simplicity, power and mass appeal, it attracts many new sailors into the sport of sailing. Kiteboarding has the speed and performance of the fastest America's Cup Catamaran's, but at a fraction of the cost.
Kiteboarding allows emerging nations to easily and inexpensively start Olympic campaigns, as athletes can become proficient in this sport very quickly. Kiteboarding is easily the most TV/Media friendly sailing event we have to offer the Olympic family. Kitesurfing will put on an awesome show! I look forward to watching Kitesurfing and Windsurfing in the 2016 Olympics.
Michael 'Gebi' Gebhardt:
1992 Olympic Silver Medallist
1988 Olympic Bronce Medallist
Actively involved in the selection of the RS:X as Olympic Windsurfing Equipment
Kiteboarding is pushing the leading edge of performance in sailing. It is the purest and most high-performance expression of sailing, easily outperforming the majority of sailing craft around a race course; absolutely flying in light winds (planing in 4 knots) and dominating Sailing's Outright World Speed Sailing Record - achieving 55.65 kts of average speed on a 500 meter course. (Top speeds exceed 65 knots!). For the price, simplicity of pure power and performance, Kiteboarding is unmatched in sailing, except by Windsurfing.
Kiteboarding is intuitive to learn, attractive and exciting to watch, easy on the body, addictively powerful and makes the sailor feel weightless when sailing. Kiting inspires the X-Games youth of the world, attracting Surfers, Windsurfers, Snowboarders, Wakeboarders, Snow Skiers and Sailors alike. Massive, modern kites are now designed to help generate electricity and power Massive Supertankers across oceans. The options on what you can attach a kite to, for propulsion, are infinite.
Kiteboarding's simplicity and inexpensive access, worldwide distribution make it inclusive to 'Emerging Nations' (it's not weight sensitive), bringing the opportunity for new sailing Nations to quickly develop the possibility of competing for Olympic Medals in 2016 and beyond. IOC is always looking to bring more 'Modern and Dynamic Sports' to the Olympic movement. Kiteboarding represents the premier TV/Media event, sailing needs to remain in the Olympic Family, ensuring an exciting show. Kiteboarding is the future of sailing, now! I vote Kitesurfing and Windsurfing for 2016!
Christoph Sieber:
2000 Olympic Gold Medallist
1996 Olympic fifth Place
Coaching Windsurfing and Kiteboarding
Change is the only consistent factor in life. As a youth coach I experience the competing relationship between sailing, other sports and plenty of activity options which are offered to kids today in western society. We have to get our Olympic sailing sports up to date today to be able to see the tomorrow - less money, less plastic – and more athletic kids having healthy fun. It's time for sailing to embrace the future now.
As Austria's National Youth Sailing Coordinator/Coach - kids want to have fun sailing the fastest and most exciting craft available, like Kiteboarding. I feel that Windsurfing and Kitesurfing both should be in the Olympics for 2016.
Kiteboarding offers amazing visual appeal to the Olympic sailing family. It's easily to learn, inexpensive, fast, entertaining to watch and its beach culture lifestyle would fit perfectly into the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. I look forward to the IOC and ISAF welcoming Kiteboarding into the Olympic Sailing family. See you on the water!
Jan Boersma:
1988 Olympic Silver Medallist
1988 Netherlands Yachtsman of the Year
In 1988, I competed in the Seoul Summer Olympics, ultimately winning an Olympic Silver Medal, (The one and only for my Country) representing the tiny Caribbean Island group - The Netherlands Antilles- from the Island of Curacao. Windsurfing was the coolest and purest form of sailing sports back then, like Kiting is now, appealing to the youth looking for a fast, fun, inexpensive and modern Olympic sailing experience.
Kiting incorporates tactics like any other sailing class and requires great athleticism and refined skills, like all Olympic sports should. The high performance, ease of use and accessibility to everyone of any size, coupled with it dominant speed around a race course, compared to any other sailing craft, make it spectacular to watch and race. Also the IKA / ISAF proposed 'Olympic Racing Format' for kiting will be awesome to watch, guaranteeing spectacular high speeds, lots of passing and even some cool jumping while racing.
Kiteboarding will attract many new athletes from around the world and allow emerging nations that would never get a chance to compete in other sailing classes, the opportunity to take sailing to the next level. I fully support Kitesurfing's bid to become an Olympic sailing Medal Discipline. I think Kiteboarding as an Olympic Sailing Class and event would be a great addition to the 2016 RIO Summer Olympics. Kiteboarding is the future of sailing!
Scott Steele:
1984 Olympic Silver Medallist
Represented USA in the first ever Olympic Windsurfing Competition
I sailed boats in college, learning to Windsurf in 1976, ultimately becoming an Olympic windsurfer when the IOC added Windsurfing to the 1984 Olympics. Windsurfing generated a tremendous amount of new youthful interest and participation in the sport of sailing.Kiteboarding , like Windsurfing has many of the same opportunities to appeal to a broad group; as Kitesurfing race equipment is super high performance, inexpensive, can be sailed from anywhere, is easy to travel with and amazingly easy for anyone to be become competitive in a very short period of time.
Kiteboarding is perfect for allowing emerging nations to compete with the superpowers of sailing and can be sailed by a wide range of competitor body weights. Kiteboarding is fast, fun and meets the future imaginations of generations to come. Windsurfing, like Kiting, is the latest and most high performance expression of sailing. Both sports bring unique athletic skills that are perfect to be showcased in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
You can make it happen - for the future of sailing: Vote Kiteboarding for Rio 2016 !


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Children from the borough are being invited to smash a work record signing event for charity.
SignHealth, which provides a service called Young DeafHope for young deaf people, is hoping 175,000 youngsters will take part.
The charity is hoping to break the attempt for the most people signing and singing a song at the same time.
Schools in Merton are being asked to sign up, while raising money for SignHealth.
Steve Powell, chief executive, said: "The money raised from the event will help us continue our work helping to improve the mental and physical health and well-being of deaf people, which includes our Young DeafHope project.
"The service provides support and counselling for people in Merton between 11 and 25-years-old experiencing abuse.
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The Wealth Effect of Demutualization: Evidence From the U.S. Property-Liability and Life Insurance Industries
This study examines the wealth effect of demutualization initial public offerings (IPOs) by investigating underpricing and postconversion long-run stock performance. Our results suggest that there is more "money left on the table" for demutualized insurers than for non-demutualized insurers. We show that higher underpricing for demutualized firms can be explained by greater market demand, market sentiment, and the size of the offering. Further, contrary to previous research reporting an average underperformance of industrial IPOs, we show that demutualization IPOs outperform non-IPO firms with comparable size and book-to-market ratios and non-demutualized insurers. We present evidence that the outperformance in stock returns is mainly attributable to improvement in post-demutualization operating performance and demand at the time of the IPOs. The combined results of underpricing and long-term performance suggest that the wealth of policyholders who choose stock rather than cash or policy credits is not harmed by demutualization. Stockholders who purchase demutualized company shares either during or after the IPO have earned superior returns. Our findings are consistent with the efficiency improvement hypothesis. Copyright The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2008.
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Vehicle accessories maker
The company reported net profit after tax of $20.9 million for the six months until December 2012, which was a 14.5 per cent increase on the previous corresponding period.
Sales growth of 10.3 per cent was driven by the domestic market, as exports were impeded by the strong dollar.
Trouble out of Africa
"The growth was domestic-driven, but we are still working very hard offshore," ARB chairman
Mr Brown said the company's European operations had been hurt by geo-political tensions in northern Africa.
"One of their playgrounds was Northern Africa, so they used to ship their four-wheel drives to places like Tunisia and Algeria," he said. "So all the problems there have created a real impact on the market."
Nomura analyst Paul Graham said the result was in line with expectations.
"It was directly in line with what we were looking for," he said. "Obviously, it was a good result. It was driven by strong growth in Australia."
Fund manager at Invesco Australia Andrew Perks said new car sales had been strong domestically in the first half of financial year 13, particularly for 4WD cab-chassis.
"ARB's [future] growth should come from supplying accessories to this growing market," Mr Perks said. "The company should also benefit a new factory in Thailand which will ramp up in 2013 and alleviate supply constraints and inefficiencies."
He said he was happy with ARB's management and that the company had been a consistent performer.
Focus on research and development
ARB has a strong focus on research and development with a team of more than 30.
Mr Brown said his company would not be affected by the government's plan to scale back R & D tax breaks for larger companies, and was unconcerned about the precedent it may set.
"We would do it whether the government helped us or not because its a critical part of our business," he said. "That's what's driven this company for 30 years."
He was reluctant to give clues on new products that ARB planned to produce.
"We have spent our lives getting copied so there's no point giving any information on that."
Mr Brown said the company planned to open new stores in Australia, but the number of domestic stores would not "double or anything like that".
He said ARB had invested in a new computer system that would be integrated across the company over the next two years.
"The system will be across retail stores, manufacturing, accounting, everything."
The company announced a fully franked interim dividend of 12.5¢.
Shares closed at flat $12.43 on Wednesday, after falling by as much as 2 per cent during the day.
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ALARM Big Day of Giving 2015
Posted on September 11, 2015
September 11, 2015 My dear friends, On behalf of the entire ALARM family, I want to express my deep gratitude for your participation and contribution yesterday. Because of you, we raised over $92,025—far exceeding our initial goal and our total from last year. With the matching funds, we raised a grand total ...
New Rwanda Country Director
Posted on June 10, 2015
We are honored to welcome Mrs. Liberata Mukandekezi as the new ALARM Rwanda Country Director! Liberata received her master's degree in business administration from Leicester University (England) and her bachelor's degree from United States International University (USIU-Nairobi, Kenya). From Rwanda, Liberata is an experienced manager working with both local and international organizations. Before ...
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We are delighted to share with you our brand-new 2014 annual report! With the support of our faithful friends, ALARM was able to train 15,205 Christian leaders in eight countries across East and Central Africa. Because of your faithful and generous support, we now celebrate the hope and peace that forever alter future generations through these trained servant ...
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On the shores of Lake Kivu in Western Rwanda, the beautiful hills of Cyimbili were once home to one of Rwanda's largest and most prominent coffee production plantations. With 24,000 plants, each producing about four pounds of coffee a year, Cyimbili provided sustainable jobs for many and stability for thousands in the community. Not only did it ...
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Hon. Robert B. Aderholt of Alabama recognized ALARM's 20th Anniversary in the United States House of Representatives on December 10, 2014. We are incredibly grateful for Congressman Aderholf and this prestigious honor! To read the full remark from the Congressional Record, visit: https://www.congress.gov/crec/2014/12/10/CREC-2014-12-10-pt1-PgE1771-5.pdf


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|Margin Notes
|Chap. 330
|Chap. 330
|Choctaw Coal and Railway Company.
|Chap. 330
|Rights, etc., vested in purchaser.
1888, ch. 13, ante, p. 256;
1896, ch. 122, post, p. 595.
|Chap. 330
|Proviso. Land at South McAlester.
|Sec. 2
|Organization of new corporation.
|Sec. 2
|Capital, etc.
|Sec. 2
|Proviso. Stock limit.
|Sec. 3
|Certificate of organization, etc., to be filed.
|Sec. 3
|Proviso. Coal leases.
26 Stat., 650.
|Sec. 4
|Construction of branch roads.
1896, ch. 122, post, p. 595;
1900, ch. 111, post, p. 697.
|Sec. 4
|Proviso. Condition.
|Sec. 5
|Corporate rights.
|Sec. 6
|Annual election of officers.
|Sec. 6
|Action on by-laws, etc.
|Sec. 6
|Sec. 7
|Manner of elections
|Sec. 7
|Sec. 7
|Votes of shareholders.
|Sec. 8
|Amendment, etc.
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Whereas the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Minnesota, and now doing business in the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory under and by virtue of certain Acts of Congress empowering it so to do, is insolvent, and in order to enable the creditors and stockholders
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of the same to reorganize said company in such a way as to secure the completion of the railroad authorized to be constructed by said company, a sale of its property and franchises is necessary: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the purchasers of the rights of way, railroads, mines, coal leasehold estates, and other property, and the franchises of the said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company at any sale made under or by virtue of any process or decree of any court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be, and are hereby, constituted a corporation and shall be vested with all the right, title, interest, property, possession, claim, and demand in law and equity, of, in, and to such rights of way, railroads, mines, coal leasehold estates, and property of the said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, and with all the rights, powers, immunities, privileges, and franchises which have been heretofore granted to or conferred upon said company by any Act or Acts of Congress, or which it possesses by virtue of its charter under the laws of Minnesota: Provided, That such new corporation shall not have the right to acquire and hold any houses or buildings at South McAlester situate off the right of way and depot grounds of said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company.
That the said purchasers of the hereinbefore-mentioned property of the said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company shall meet within thirty days after the conveyance thereof shall have been delivered to them, and organize such new corporation by electing a president and board of nine directors (to continue in office until the second Monday of January succeeding such meeting, when, and annually thereafter, on the said day, a like election for a president and nine thereafter, on the said day, a like election for a president and nine directors shall be held to serve for one year), and shall adopt a corporate name and common seal, determine the amount of capital stock and bonds to be issued to the persons for or on whose account said property may have been purchased, and shall have power and authority to make and issue certificates for the said capital stock in shares of fifty dollars each and bonds, and may then, or at any time thereafter, create and issue preferred stock to such an amount and on such terms as they may deem necessary, and from time to time may issue bonds, and may secure all bonds by one or more mortgages upon the real and personal property and corporate rights and franchises, or either or any part or parts thereof: Provided, That the capital stock shall not be fixed at an amount in excess of the capital of the said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, and that no bonds shall be issued except for value received in cash or property.
That it shall be the duty of such new corporation, within one calendar month after its organization, to make a certificate thereof under its common seal, attested by the signature of its president, specifying the date of such organization, the name so adopted, the amount of capital stock, and the names of its president and directors, and transmit the said certificate to the Secretary of the Interior, to be filed in his office, and there remain of record; and a certified copy of such certificate so filed shall be evidence of the corporate existence of said new corporation. And such new corporation shall also, within the said calendar month, cause to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior a copy certified to as correct by the clerk of the court under whose orders or decrees said sale shall have been made, of any conveyance made to it under or by virtue of said sale of the rights of way, railroads, mines, coal leasehold estates, and other property of the said Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, and this Act shall be construed and treated as an assent upon the part of the United States to the acquisition and holding by such new corporation of the estates and premises thereby conveyed, subject to the right of said corporation to thereafter acquire, and hold such additional property as it may
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lawfully do by virtue thereof: Provided, however, That as to all coal leasehold estates or leases of coal claims or rights to mine coal in the Choctaw Nation, such assent shall be upon condition that the said new corporation shall conform to all the provisions, conditions, and limitations contained, in the Act approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled An Act giving, upon conditions and limitations therein contained, the assent of the United States to certain leases of right to mine coal in the Choctaw Nation.
That it shall and may be lawful for such new corporation to construct and operate branches from its said railroad and for such purpose to take and use rights of way not exceeding one hundred feet in width upon making compensation therefor as provided in the case of taking land for its main line, and to lease its railroads and mines and other property to any company owning or operating a railroad connecting with the railroad of said new corporation on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon: Provided, That the right to construct branches conferred by this section shall exist and be exercised in the Indian Territory only for the purpose of developing and working the leases mentioned in the Act of Congress of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety.
That the said corporation, when organized as hereinbefore provided, shall have and possess perpetual succession and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of record and elsewhere, and shall have power to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws and regulations as shall be proper, necessary, or convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which shall be necessary or convenient to enable the said company to maintain, use, and operate their railroads and mines which it may become possessed of by virtue hereof in conformity with the provisions of the Acts of Congress relating to or affecting the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company.
That the stockholders of the company shall meet on the second Monday in January in every year at such place as may be fixed on by the by-laws, notice of which meeting shall be given in the manner that may be designated by the by-laws, and choose, by a majority of the voters present or represented, a president and nine directors for the ensuing year, who shall continue in office until the next annual election and until others are chosen; at which annual meeting the said stockholders shall have full power and authority to make, order, [alter,] or repeal, by a majority of votes given, any or all such by-laws, rules, orders, and regulations as aforesaid, and to do and perform every other corporate act authorized by their charter; the stockholders may meet at such other times and places as they may be summoned by the president and directors, in such manner and form and giving such notice as may be prescribed by the by-laws. At all meetings stockholders may be represented and vote by proxy.
That the election for president and directors provided for in this Act shall be conducted as follows: The directors for the time being shall appoint three stockholders to be judges of the said election and to hold the same; the persons so appointed shall not be eligible to an election as president or director at said election and shall, respectively, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a notary public or other officer qualified to administer oaths well and truly and according to law to conduct such election to the best of their knowledge and ability; and the said judges shall decide upon the qualifications of voters and when the election is closed shall count the votes and declare who have been elected; and if at any time it shall happen that an election of directors shall not be made at the time specified, the corporation shall not for that reason be dissolved, but it shall be lawful
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Since there will probably be some discussion on the topic of Taylor's album being certified platinum by the RIAA (at the behest of his record label), I thought it should have its own thread -- thanks, Babe, for the heads-up.
I love how unquestioningly this news is presented, as in this example. There is, as those of you who have commented have quickly pointed out, a huge gap between 1 million copies shipped and 572,000 copies actually sold. And when Taylor's selling 11,000 copies last week (and 14,000 the week before), and the album's been out only a month, it seems highly incautious at the least for the label to seek certification so early. There's just no guarantee he'll make up those 400,000-plus albums.
As a Taylor fan, I hope a single and other factors boost his sales pace (I think I said that earlier this week -- deja vu). As a cold-hearted impartial observer, I have strong doubts that this is going to happen. That doesn't mean he won't eventually limp toward platinum in a year's time or so, but the certification seems premature and not very meaningful.
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It is here! Our online feminist book club!
Introducing Radical Readers & Feminisms for Dummies.
Here's how it will work. We will keep a growing list of books we're interested in reading. These books will meet at least one of the following criteria (a list that will likely expand):
1) Written by a feminist and/or a woman
2) Aims to advance women's rights and/or gender equality
3) Looks at the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, (dis)ability, ethnicity, trans identity, nationality, etc.
4) Has a strong female character as one of the main characters and/or contains several female characters
5) Sparks conversations about social justice and gender equality, without necessarily adhering to one of the aforementioned criteria
From this list of books, I will randomly select 3-5 picks to choose from and members will vote on the book to read for the next month.
There will be a central blog for posts and discussions about the themes, issues, ideas, gripes, etc. that come up while we are reading the books. Folks will also be encouraged to write posts on their own blog if they prefer that, and their posts will be linked to on the main book club blog. Discussions will also happen in other spaces, starting with a Goodreads group, as that seems the best space for a book club group and it got the most votes.* Live chats will be held on a case by case basis. Basically, if a book we read strikes up a lot of dialogue, and book club members want to discuss it more deeply with one another, then we will try to set up a live chat.
I want to note that all of these ideas are flexible. I'm laying this out by combining the way I envisioned the book club, along with the feedback and ideas I received when I created the survey. It might turn out that nobody joins Goodreads, or folks change their mind about a group blog, or nobody can keep up with a monthly schedule, or whatever the case may be. We'll just have to see what happens!
Furthermore, as I've already mentioned to many of you, I want to welcome folks even if they don't have time to read every book, engage in all discussions, and write for the group blog. If you can participate heavily one month, but need to work on your thesis or a job transition or life drama the next month, there is no pressure to keep up the same level of engagement. If all you can ever do is read along and follow the discussion, then that's fine too. As long as you're getting something out of it, then you are a book club member, in my eyes. That said, I certainly hope that at least some of you will be ready and willing to be more active than that, or else we'll all be reading books in silence and it would defeat the purpose of the book club. =)
Those who have already provided me with their contact information (through the survey or by emailing me) will be receiving an email from me inviting them to join the Goodreads group and the group blog. I will also be posting a link to both after I've set them up and gotten things more settled. Be on the look-out for that in the next few days, and get ready to start reading!
UPDATE: If you haven't already signed up and would like to, take a moment to sign up here.
*Many of you indicated that you'd like to have a Facebook group as well, so I think that if the book club grows, we should definitely expand to have a group there. Because we are just starting out, I'd rather have us "gather" at one or two central locations as opposed to spreading out over multiple sites. I want to stress a sense of community and a way to get to know each other better, not just reading the same books at the same time.
Labels: bookworm, feminism, women's studies
10 comments:
- At Fri Aug 28, 04:54:00 PM Renee said...
This sounds like a very interesting project.
- At Fri Aug 28, 05:26:00 PM Laura said...
I'm super excited!!
- At Fri Aug 28, 07:09:00 PM danine said...
Sign me up!
- At Fri Aug 28, 07:10:00 PM Linda said...
Sign me up as well!
- At Fri Aug 28, 07:10:00 PM yeomanpip said...
Great idea!
And RE:Facebook Would a 'page' be a better idea?
And will you have a hashtag on twitter (#jumpoffthebridge)
- At Fri Aug 28, 08:00:00 PM frau sally benz said...
Ooh! New sign-ups! If you haven't already, take a moment to sign up here.
- At Fri Aug 28, 08:05:00 PM lauredhel said...
I'm interested!
- At Sun Aug 30, 12:30:00 AM frau sally benz said...
I do like the idea of a facebook page more than a group just as a personal preference, but we shall see!
And a twitter hashtag is a great idea! Maybe #radreaders when we discuss the book club or our books?
- At Mon Aug 31, 02:17:00 AM BenYitzhak said...
I'd like to suggest "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis. It meets 1 and 4, possibly 3, but I'm not sure.
It's also quite funny.
- At Mon Aug 31, 05:41:00 AM Linda said...
Ah! Forgot to mention "Reading Lolita in Tehran" as one of my possible books.
=] Thanks.


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A hand-built carbon frame with an oversized lower headset bearing for front stiffness gives impeccable handling. Of course, if you're not willing to splash that much cash you can pick up the frameset for £3,950 alone and stick your old budget wheels and shifters on – even though it would be a crime against cyclists everywhere.
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About the Book
The basis for the book is the journal, contributed to by all four members of the family (though the wife and mother was by far the most significant contributor), of a family trip to Cooktown for Christmas 1991 and supplemented by photographs taken on the trip. At the time, we did not realise that this was to be our last long holiday trip as a family.
We visited many places on the long drive up from Brisbane; many of them well-known tourist places like Cairns and Mission Beach. But we also visited Blencoe Falls, a little known part of the Herbert River Gorge National Park, and other less well-known places.
Cooktown is intrinsically interesting. Captain Cook and his crew were forced by shipwreck to spend 6 weeks there in June 1770, the longest time they spent anywhere in what was to become Australia. Incidentally, the Expedition's botanists, Banks and Solander, made a survey of the botanical community on the north shore of the river at the anchorage. Contemporary surveys show that the landscape has been substantially preserved to the present day.
Cooktown enjoyed a boisterous prosperity as the port for the prolific Palmer River goldfields. There are many traces of that period that survive to this day also.
My wife and I were both teachers and both of the children have PhD degrees in science. Both were working on their PhDs at the time
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Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
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