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Hi there lovelies! Today, I wanted to share a couple photos of Corey and me as we were getting ready for our big day.
girls getting pretty in the bridal suite...with mimosas of course
the dress
Getting pretty. Thanks Kymm of Who's the Fairest
All the accessories. My garter, something old, something new, borrowed
and blue, plus the bracelet Corey gave me to celebrate our wedding day
The rings
Instead of choosing matching engraving,
Corey and I had each other's rings engraved with a couple sweet words for the day and kept it secret until the day came.
Corey had these gorgeous flowers delivered to me on the morning of the wedding
The girls primped and ready to head to the church
On our way!!!
Corey's mom helping him get dressed
A high five from dad
Shots for the boys before heading to the church
Headed to the church!!
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Just a quick update on yesterday's race down in Cornwall, which was part of the Runfurther UK Championship Ultra Trail Series. The race went really well, and it was nice to gain 1000 points for the Runfurther series with first place in 6 hours 35 minutes.
I guess there were around 150 - 175 runners at the start point at Lizard Point, the most southern tip of Britain. During the race it was dry with the sun making an appearance at times, however, the very strong head wind pretty well the whole way had one benefit at keeping the temperature down. The course followed the Cornwall Coastal path the entire way to Lands End, the most western tip of Britain, hence the name of the race the Classic QUARTER, as we ran one quarter of Britain's coast!
With three times winner and current record holder (6:33) for the Classic Quarter Pete Roper not able to run due to injury I found myself running on my own immediately from the start, and ended up finishing 56 minutes ahead of the second placed runner (7:31), who unfortunately I have forgotten his name, likewise for the women's winner who finished 4th overall in 7:34.
So another great event put on by Endurancelife. It felt really good to be racing again. The excitement builds as it is now less than five weeks to go to the Olympic Opening Ceremony, I mean the start of the Montane Lakeland 100!
Hope all of you that raced this weekend had pleasing performances.
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Endurancelife Classic Quarter 44 mile Ultra - Quick Update
Labels: Classic Quarter Ultra, Endurancelife
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Great to see you back online, running and winning Stuart! Really glad to hear that you've come through injury well and are still on top form. See you in five weeks :-). By the way, the Delamere Spartans are manning the Mardale Head checkpoint at the Lakeland 100 so get ready for a good reception there!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 June 2012 at 10:31
That's absolutely brilliant - well done!ReplyDelete
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Allegedly, the Batman vs Superman Trailer leaked last night around 9:00 EST and it, sucked. The trailer is about two minutes long, and for about half of it, all we get is a black screen with voiceovers. I could understand if this was the teaser trailer, but different voices vaguely talking about Superman while all I see is darkness, should not be your trailer to entice. Who was this marketed at – Daredevil?
Then again, this could be the most lavished Internet trailer hoax to date – I pray to the movie trailer gods that it is. I am suspicious of this trailer for the following reasons:
1. The credits roll at the beginning and they look bland. There is no mention of the actors like Ben or anyone else.
We have already seen the official credits and they look totally different (see below)
2. After the credits roll, a colored version of the WB logo appears – that is an odd choice for a Snyder movie.
Especially when a gray version appears immediately after.
3. The next thing we see is a city landscape. It looks ok (a bit blurry), but the water at the bottom right corner looks like video game water. Could it be just poor CGI? You be the judge.
4. What really bothered me was the close-up of Bruce Wayne (played by Ben Affleck). The screen goes blurry immediately (almost on purpose by the faker?) and we never see a clear picture of Ben portraying Bruce. Milliseconds later, the trailer becomes clear again as we see the cape and cowl (the same few seconds of it that were officially released the other day). So, the official video is clear as day but not Bruce's face…hmmm.
5. We get a shot of Batman standing on a tower that looks eerily similar to the one in the Nolan trilogy. Almost as if the faker used the Nolan movie footage but digitally added a different looking Batman on the same tower.
6. The view of Batman emerging from some rubble looks like it was taken directly from a video game.
7. Web sites are running rampant with the video. It doesn't seem like WB is trying to take the video down. Usually, when a trailer this huge leaks, the company does everything it can to take it down. You can watch the video here:
8. The trailer has foreign subtitles, which seems odd. Leaked trailers for movies this big that I have seen have always been American versions. Normally, the movie companies don't want a crappy, leaked version of their trailer out there and will release the official version. So far, 12 or so hours have passed since the leaked trailer hit the net and there has been no response by WB.
Now, I could be totally wrong, and there are some images within the trailer that are clear as day that don't look like they were faked:
Time will tell if this is the real thing or not. If it is the real thing, I'm sorry, but it didn't grab me like the Star Wars trailer did. Consume. Review. Repeat. gives the Batman vs Superman (fake?) trailer a six out of ten Superman smirks.
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The Nazis Want Their Gold Back/
It was a tiny headline posted by the Associated Press ten days ago, gone unnoticed by nearly everybody. "Argentine president says Obama to visit Bariloche." Almost no details were given. Just a quick note that President Obama will be standing in that infamous region known as San Carlos de Bariloche on March 23-24, 2016. Conspiracy circles should be all abuzz. Even if the only thing you know about this region comes from watching the History Channel series "Hunting Hitler," your eyebrows should still be raised.
But Joseph P. Farrell took notice. And he is disturbed. Highly disturbed. His own blog of the news blurb said this:
"But then there's that disturbing possibility that we're all thinking about. Perhaps the meeting is between "certain people" and Mr. Obama, so that the latter can be informed of "the way things are" and to receive new "marching orders."
Farrell has been informing us of the activities of the Nazi International for many years. He's not the only one. Jim Marrs likewise wrote of these developments in his book "The Rise of the Fourth Reich". Both authors have commented on the operation that the Nazi officials carried out long before World War II ended to transfer their gold and assets into safe hands. Marrs said it was code named "Operation Eagle Flight."
Dr. Farrell wrote long ago that this transfer of assets by the Nazi party was set with a time limit. The day would come when they would reclaim their booty. And woe to that man, banker, or nation who stands in their way. Farrell said,
"That marker is going to come due someday and you'd better be able to pay up when they want it."
Six years ago, he gave an audio interview to explain these views based on his then recently-published book "Babylon's Banksters: the Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion." That interview is still available on YouTube, shown here. Below this box, we will transcribe a few of his comments as we had posted them back in 2010 in a blog entitled The Nazis Want Their Gold Back.
We feel these predictions by Farrell may now be coming true at an alarming pace. Acknowledging that the old Nazi party has prospered, reinvented itself with new blood, and split into opposing factions at war with each other will not be easy to swallow. However, the Obama visit to Argentina next week may be a sign of these developments.
Here is a transcription of some of Farrell's comments from that audio near the 11-minute pointer. The notations with [brackets] are my own interpolations.
So ... Nazi Germany is the first nation-state to come along in modern times that understood … the connection between the two different types of financial systems on the one hand ... [the debt-free "open" certificate money versus the interest-bearing "closed" bank notes] ... and the two different types of energy supply on the other hand [the free ether energy of the "open" system versus the resource-depleting petroleum-based "closed" system controlled by powerful, global, corporate elites].
In other words, there is a deep, direct connection between physics and finance.
[Prince] Bernhard was an SS officer. For all intents and purposes he was still answerable to his superiors in the SS chain of command [in the post-WWII Nazi extra-territorial state], one of course would be Martin Bormann. He was also a senior manager at I.G. Farben. The original purpose of the Bilderberg group was to take all that Nazi loot, in terms of liquid cash and assets, that could be moved into western banks in London and New York and laundered. And then laundered back to Europe where that money, under the guise of the Marshall Plan and so on and so forth, would be moved back into Europe to re-create the infrastructure after WWII and to help build the European Union. Incidentally, that was one of Martin Bormann's stated objectives for the Nazi party after the war.
Now the reason why this idea is so significant is that it means, to a certain extent, that all this money was put at the disposal of those western banks. In other words, it vastly expanded their ledger credit-making entry ability because they now had a huge reserve [with which to make loans and stimulate the global economy.] [and you can google the phrase "fractional reserve banking" to discover the long-running impish implications of such a huge Nazi financial reserve.]
But anytime that you are dealing with the likes of Nazis and Martin Bormann, you're dealing with "Dick Cheney without the warmth and charm!" That marker is going to come due someday and you'd better be able to pay up when they want it. Because they've got the organization to take you out and they've been researching the technology to pull the trigger if you don't want to pay up when the time comes.
Now the Bilderbergs have this twin philosophy: kind of a global socialism, i.e, private monopoly, banking control, over the issuance of monetized debt [fake money]. That's the financial thing that they're supporting. But the other thing that they are also supporting is that they intend to keep the world on a "closed" energy supply system of physics [non-renewable, politically nefarious, oil-based economies]. In other words, they do not want to see any real advances made in alternative technologies for energy. And that means that this group has to be active in the suppression of any technologies that would give various nations a relative degree of energy independence. The Financial System and the Energy System go hand in hand. They don't call 'em "petro dollars" for nothing.
Note also that Dr. Farrell is hinting at a struggle, a schism, if you will, among elite factions. Some want to keep the world on a "Closed" system. Others want to hyper-leap the world onto an "Open" system of physics and finance. This is what we talked about in our previous RM blog: the different ways of interpreting the Topological Metaphor. And take note also that just because your world has been moved onto an Open System does not guarantee that men with evil intent cannot cause great destruction. (More about that in future blogs.)
What Does This Have to Do with China?
Let's bring this forward to 2016 and the events that we all have been witnessing with the financial rise of China, the impending takeover of the physical gold and silver markets by Shanghai, and the Migrant Crisis and Debt Disaster threatening the European Union. In his most recent book, "The Third Way: The Nazi International, European Union, and Corporate Fascism," Farrell has called attention to a 1950's document called the "Madrid Circular Letter" and draws on the research of T.H. Tetens' book "Germany Plots with the Kremlin". Farrell and Tetens say this, below, about the Nazi pivot to Asia as part of the New World Order agenda to resume power at some point in the future.
... the Circular also advocates a policy of a German "pivot to Asia":
"Germany's industry will regain its previous position: the markets in East and Southeast Europe, in Latin America and in Africa. China and the rest of Southeast Asia offer us a great future. There we can eliminate the British and Americans from the competition, especially if we conduct our negotiations with the Soviets in a smart way. Our increasing economic power and ability to elbow our way politically, must be employed alternately. A prudent and undeviating policy will make it possible to establish some day (sic) a new political order in the world which will supersede the present colossi -- the United States and the U.S.S.R."
Farrell then summarizes:
Notice that the Circular is essentially advocating the creation of what amounts to the current [BRICS] trading bloc of nations as a means for the expansion of German trade and hence, for the expansion of German heavy industry.
And it goes on like that. We could just conclude, "the rest is history" because that is, in fact, precisely what is happening now. Admittedly, a small group of Neocon thugs have been trying to thwart the advancement of German progress within the BRICS alliance via the anti-Russian sanctions. However, we feel certain that the patience of the Asia-pivoting New World Order crowd has now worn thin. The people of northern Europe are demanding an end to Obama's anti-Russian sanctions.
600+ tractors in downtown Helsinki as Finnish farmers decry anti-Russian sanctions https://t.co/Xnvnht01pRpic.twitter.com/tUulvQDleH
— RT (@RT_com) March 13, 2016
Obama, as the US representative of the "Closed Metaphor" faction has likely been called to heel by the "Open Metaphor" rising faction. That may be the true reason for the sudden trip to Argentina. And his sojourn does not stop with Argentina. In April, Obama then arrives at the heart of the Temple itself, the City of London. Let's keep our eyes open to see what develops after that trip. Do you think he will bow before the Queen? Curiously, all of this is due to happen right around the same time that Shanghai will be taking the lead in the physical metals market. We are truly heading into a storm. The marker has been called.
Treat yourself to a nearly 3-hour interview with Joseph Farrell as he discusses this important topic of the rise of the New Reich that is happening before your eyes.
"Rise of the Bormann Reich (Part 1 & 2)" posted August 2015 .
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"That changed the course of my life," said Sharief. "I was top of my class and always wanted to go to medical school. I wanted to be a pediatric physician."
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Her stewardship of Broward County included the highly successful "Broward Means Business" Initiative that spotlights local independent businesses within the Fort Lauderdale and Broward communities with proclamations and visits to the enterprises. Sharief's expertise at intertwining these proclamations with social media mentions displaying photos of her visits tactfully and skillfully integrated her personal life with her career as Broward County's leader.
Being an African American Woman represents many challenges within mainstream American politics. For Barbara Sharief these challenges helped hone her skills for maintaining calm and discipline in times of crisis.
Sharief's fluency with social media has been a big factor in her popularity. By avoiding divisive partisan politics, the former Mayor was able to build a cross-party support network that advocated many economic and cultural programs in Broward.
Between her astute use of Pinterest and Facebook and her congenial approach to governing, Mayor Sharief exemplifies the bright and committed future of political leadership in the Sunshine State and perhaps beyond.


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Jamal ud Din Yaqut (likewise Jamaluddin Yakut) was an African Siddi slave-turned-aristocrat who was a close associate of Razia Sultana, the first female ruler of the Delhi Sultanate in India. Razia Sultana's support made him a persuasive individual from the court, inciting racial threat amongst the nobles and pastorate, who were both principally Turkish and were already agitated of the guideline of a female ruler.
Jamaluddin Yakut – Closeness to Razia Sultan
Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut ascended in the positions of the Delhi court, and was supported by the first female ruler of the Mamluk Dynasty, Razia Sultana. Yaqut soon turned into a nearby consultant and was broadly supposed in the court and amongst the nobles to be the ruler's lover. Contemporary history specialists were additionally at odds in their evaluation – numerous including Ibn Battuta record that their relationship was illegal and excessively imply out in the open, however others state that Yaqut was only a nearby counselor and companion. A specific occurrence that incited the bits of gossip was when Yaqut was watched sliding his arms under the ruler's armpits to lift her onto a stallion, which was seen as an outrageous demonstration of intimacy. His energy and impact became through his cozy association with Razia Sultana, who delegated him to the imperative post in administration, giving a critical post and testing the force of the Muslim nobles and universal pioneers. She honored him by giving him the honorific title Amir-al-Khayl (Amir of Horses) and later the much higher Amir al-Umara (Amir of Amirs), much to the frustration and shock of the Turkish honorability.
Officially hated for being a lady ruler by the Muslim nobles and priests, Razia's vicinity to an Abyssinian slave (considered racially seconded compared to the Turkish nobles who ruled the Sultanate) estranged the respectability and pastors and soon incited open insubordination.
Jamaluddin Yakut – A reason for rebellion against Razia Sultan – 1240 AD
An insubordination drove by Malik Altunia, the legislative head of Bhatinda (Punjab) broke out against Razia and Yaqut; dreading an attack, Razia and Yaqut decided to go out of Delhi to draw in the dissidents. Yaqut was murdered and Razia was detained until she married Altunia although both Razia and Altunia were in this manner murdered in fight against Razia's sibling Bahram Shah, who successed the thrown after Razia Sultana on 14th October 1240.
Jamaluddin Yakut – African Race – Was subjected to prejudice and inferiority
Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut lived during the reign of the Sultan Iltutmish and afterwards during Razia Sultan, at some point from 1200 to 1240 AD, while he was killed in a rebellion against Razia Sultan in 1240 AD. Yaqut was a habshi. Habshi were oppressed Africans of East Africa drop often utilized by Muslim rulers in India for their physical ability, dedication and loyalty. Jamaluddin Yaqut was an extremely close to Razia Sultan, both emotionally and physically.


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Abu Dhabi: Cigarette packages that do not contain graphic health warnings will be banned from public sale in the United Arab Emirates after January 1 under new laws announced yesterday in Abu Dhabi.
In an announcement on Wednesday by the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (ESMA), only cigarette packages emblazoned with mandatory graphic imagery of the hazards of smoking introduced earlier this year will be legally offered for sale in 2013.
Mohammad Saleh Badri, acting director general of the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (ESMA), said no company is exempt from the rules.
"Esma has met with representatives of tobacco producers and emphasised to them the new standards and the government's keenness to enforce it on time," said a statement from Esma.
The body said that it is working with economic ministry officials in several emirates, the Abu Dhabi Council for Standardisation and Quality as well as Dubai Municipality to ensure the sweeping new rule is enforced across the country.
In an interview last night with Gulf News, Badri said "there won't be any further extension at all" in reference to a six-month extension in June this year of the rules to allow cigarette companies to sell older existing stocks of tobacco products that did not contain the graphic imagery.
The last day of that extension ends on December 31.
Badri said the extension was awarded by authorities this year because "it was impractical to withdraw stock at the time" and he pointed out that some cigarette companies have already withdrawn older products from circulation to fully comply with the law ahead of time.
"We will strictly implement this from January 1. Those who do not comply with this particular rule will face strict penalties," Badri said, adding that penalties could range in severity from fines starting from Dh15,000 all the way up to a "product being withdrawn from the market."


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Here is a rare, 1998 "unexpected" interview with Area 51 Base Commander by my former colleague, Anthony J. Hilder.
It was extemporaneously held during a break time between various speakers at a public hearing held in Las Vegas and organized by NellisAir Force Base to discuss the acquisition of additional 4000 acres of public land as a buffer zone to the buffer zone at Area 51. What was most amazing about this interview was that the Base Commander did not expect such an "interview" which lasted close to 10 minutes.
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101. These guidelines are adopted pursuant to the provisions of § 2879 of the Public Authorities Law and shall be reviewed and approved by the Corporation at least annually.
201. Definitions. The following terms shall, for purposes of these guidelines, have the following meanings unless the context shall clearly indicate some other meanings:
301. Use of Procurement Services Contractors. It is the preference of the directors that services needed by the Corporation be performed by the Corporation employees whenever feasible and economical and that, when procurement contracts are used, contractors be selected from as broad a spectrum of providers as is practical and contracts be awarded consistent with the quality of services required at fair and reasonable prices. Personal services contractors shall be used only when it has been determined by an officer that such service is necessary to the Corporation and (1) that such service is not available from a Corporation employee, or (2) that the performance of such a service requires that it be undertaken by someone independent of the Corporation, or (3) that use of the Corporation employees for such service would not be cost effective. Personal services the Corporation requires are:
The Corporation needs to use outside contractors for the above-enumerated personal services because the expertise required is specialized and the need for the service is not sufficiently constant to justify the employment of personnel with such expertise.
302. Types of Goods Purchased. The types of goods the Corporation requires includes but is not limited to goods of any kind in the actual or estimated amount of five thousand dollars or more.
303. Selection of Procurement Contractors. The Corporation shall select procurement contractors in accordance with the following selection methods:
1. General Requirements
a. Preferred Sources. The Corporation must purchase such goods or services as are available from preferred sources, to the extent required by the Procurement Stewardship Act of 1995.
b. Solicitation of Informal Bids or Proposals. Procurement contracts in the actual or estimated amount of no more than $50,000 may be awarded following an informal solicitation of bids or proposals from no fewer than three potential contractors. Contracts shall be awarded based on such reasonable criteria as the Corporation shall devise.
c. OGS Centralized Contracts. The Corporation may purchase such goods or services as are available on a centralized contract without conducting its own procurement.
d. Contracts Awarded by New York State Agencies, Public Authorities or Public Benefit Corporations. The Corporation may purchase such goods or services as are available through an existing contract awarded through a process of competitive bidding or a competitive request for proposals by a New York State agency, public authority or public benefit corporation without conducting its own procurement.
e. Invitation for Bid. Solicitation of price bids for specified goods or services, to be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. Competitive bids are to be solicited when cost is of primary importance and the goods or services required are of a standardized nature that may reasonably be made the subject of fairly exact specifications.
f. Request for Proposals. Solicitation of specific proposals to be evaluated on the basis of best value, taking into consideration a variety of criteria including qualifications, proposed methodology, management capability and cost. RFP's should be utilized where cost is of relatively less importance in relation to other factors, services are less standardized and specifications less exact. Use of the RFP method may be followed by competitive negotiations with two or more proposers to secure further concessions with respect to both quality and cost.
g. Sole Source. When there is only one source available for the required goods or services, the contract may be awarded without competitive procedures.
h. Emergencies and Critical Situations. In the case of an emergency or a critical situation the contract may be awarded without competitive procedures. An emergency is an unanticipated occurrence beyond the control of the Corporation that threatens the life, health, safety or welfare of any persons or the continued use or function of the Corporation's property. A critical situation is defined as a situation that impacts a significant Corporation operation and requires immediate action including the necessity of meeting the need of a client that is not communicated on a timely basis or that cannot otherwise be met.
i. Single Source. Where two or more vendors are capable of providing the required goods or services, the Corporation may select a single vendor over others where the vendor or his product or services has unique or outstanding qualifications. Such qualifications may include past experience with a particular issue, familiarity with specific agency operations, experience with similar projects undertaken for the Corporation or for other agencies, demonstrated expertise, capacity and willingness to respond to the situation, or compatibility with other products utilized by the Corporation.
j. Experimental Projects. Where the Corporation wishes to test a new product or technology or to evaluate a new source for a product or technology, the Corporation may award a contract without competitive procedures provided that the contract is limited to the purchase of such quantities as are necessary to conduct the experiment or test.
2. Special Requirements and Procedures for Procurement of Certain Services.
a. Architectural, Engineering, Legal, Auditing or Accounting Services. Such contractors must be New York State licensed and in good standing.
b. Insurance. Insurance contracts shall be awarded on the basis of the best proposal taking into account the cost of the premium, the breadth and cost-effectiveness of the coverage and the ability of the broker and/or provider to meet the service needs of the Corporation. Solicitation of proposals shall be undertaken through a qualified insurance broker selected according to these Guidelines.
3. Advertisement Requirements for Competitive Source Selection Methods.
Where required by law, solicitation of bids, proposals or submissions of qualification data or offers for procurement contracts shall be made by publication in the New York State Contract Reporter in the manner required by law. The Corporation may also utilize advertisements in appropriate newspapers or trade journals, direct mailings to firms considered qualified and such other outreach mechanisms as are consistent with the policy of these guidelines, including those related to minority and women-owned business enterprises.
4. Required Approvals.
a. Regardless of the dollar amount thereof, procurement contracts involving services to be rendered over a period in excess of one year must be approved by resolution of the directors and reviewed annually by the directors.
b. The award of any procurement contract the cost of which exceeds $25,000 must be approved by the president, or, in the president's absence, his or her designee.
c. The award of any procurement contract the cost of which exceeds $100,000 and which has been awarded through one of the procurement methods described in §303(1) (f)-(j) must be approved by resolution of the directors.
d. All procurement contracts shall be in writing and shall be executed by such officer or officers of the Corporation as are designated by the president and set forth in the Procurement Manual.
e. Any determination to pursue a non-competitive source selection method pursuant to §303(1)(g)-(j) and/or to forego publication of a notice in the New York State Contract Reporter must be supported by a written report setting forth the reasons for such determination and must be reviewed and approved by the vice president in charge of the division making the procurement, or in his or her absence the designee, and by the Corporation's chief financial officer or in his or her absence the Corporation's president or general counsel. All such determinations and reports shall be filed in the Purchasing Department and copies shall promptly be sent to the Director of Internal Controls and Compliance.
f. Every procurement contract shall be approved by the general counsel or the general counsel's designee prior to execution for compliance with these guidelines and all applicable laws.
g. Every procurement contract shall be reviewed by the Corporation's chief financial officer or his or her designee for fiscal sufficiency prior to execution.
h. Any board resolution required by this section shall be requested by means of a Procurement Summary which:
Identifies the contract by number and a brief description of its substance;
Specifies why board action is needed;
Identifies the method of solicitation and the method used to select the contractor and briefly describes the reasons supporting the award;
Specifies the estimated or actual cost to the Corporation.
304. Promotion of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises. It is the goal of the Corporation to award a fair share of Procurement contracts to Minority Business Enterprises and Women's Business Enterprises. It is also the Corporation's goal to award contracts to those Procurement contractors who have evidenced compliance with the laws of the State of New York prohibiting discrimination in employment. The following procedures shall be followed:
(1) For all Procurement Contracts, the cost of which is expected to exceed $50,000, bidders shall be encouraged to include with their bids separate proposals which would demonstrate how their selection will achieve the goals of this paragraph, such as proposals for joint ventures with, or set-asides for, Minority Business Enterprises.
(2) The purchasing department shall prepare and maintain a list of minority business enterprises by area of expertise and each individual responsible for soliciting bids and proposals shall consult the list and contact appropriate minority business enterprises to encourage them to submit bids.
(3) In selecting a bidder where a minority business enterprise has been identified, due consideration shall be given to the goals of the Corporation in selecting the bidder.
(4) The Corporation shall include in all bid documents provided to potential bidders a statement that information concerning the availability of New York state subcontractors and suppliers is available from the New York state department of economic development, and that it is the policy of New York State to encourage the use of New York state subcontractors and suppliers.
305. Promotion of New York State Business Enterprises. It is the goal of the Corporation to award a fair share of procurement contracts to New York state business enterprises and New York state residents and to encourage procurement contractors to promote such enterprises and residents through the awarding of subcontracts and the purchasing of supplies. The following procedures shall be followed:
306. Contract Provisions. Procurement contracts shall be in writing, shall state the cost of the goods or compensation for the services, and shall detail the goods to be provided or the scope of services to be performed, the time for provision or performance, and where appropriate, any permitted use of Corporation supplies, facilities or personnel. Procurement contracts other than those memorialized solely by purchase order shall also state the timing of payment, the pre-conditions for receiving payment from the Corporation, the duration of the contract, procedures for termination of the contract and any other provisions the general counsel deems necessary or appropriate for each particular contract and shall be signed by an authorized representative of the contractor with an appropriate acknowledgement of the signature affixed thereto. Procurement contracts which require contractors to perform services on the Convention Center premises shall require proof of Workers' Compensation and proof of liability insurance naming the Corporation, the New York Convention Center Development Corporation, the State of New York, the Empire State Development Corporation and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority as additional insureds and shall provide that the contractor indemnifies the Corporation and additional insureds for the negligent acts and omissions of the contractor's employees. If performance of a particular Procurement contract will require the use of subcontractors, the contract shall require the contractor to act affirmatively to secure such participation by Minority Business Enterprises and to report such efforts to the Corporation. Contracts equal to or greater than one million dollars requiring the use of subcontracts will require the Contractors to document their efforts to encourage the participation of New York state business enterprises as suppliers and subcontractors.
307. Limitations on Contracts with Former Corporation Employees. A former officer or employee shall not be permitted to perform personal services for the Corporation where prohibited by § 73 of the Public Officers Law.
308. Monitoring of Contracts. The department requiring the goods or services shall be responsible for monitoring the performance of the contract to ensure that the contract is performed in accordance with its terms.
401. Annual Report. Within ninety days after the close of each fiscal year, the Corporation shall prepare and deliver to the Directors for their approval an annual report on Procurement contracts. Such annual report will include these Guidelines and any amendments hereof, an explanation of these Guidelines and any amendments hereof, a list of the names and addresses of the year's contracting parties, a description of the goods or services provided by each contracting party and the compensation, commissions or fees paid and/or owing to each contracting party, a listing of all procurement contracts entered into, all contracts entered into with New York state business enterprises and the subject matter and value thereof, all contracts entered into with foreign business enterprises, and the subject matter and value thereof, the selection process used to select such contractors, all procurement contracts which were exempt from the publication requirements of article four-c of the economic development law, the basis for any such exemption and the status of existing procurement contracts.
The annual report on procurement contracts, after being approved by the Directors, shall be submitted to the Division of the Budget with copies to the Department of Audit and Control, the Department of Economic Development, the Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
Copies of the annual report on Procurement contracts shall also be available to the public upon reasonable request at the Corporation's main office.
501. Powers of Amendment. Any modification or amendment of these guidelines may be made by a supplemental resolution adopted at any duly constituted meeting of the directors; provided, however, that no such modification or amendment shall abrogate the rights and duties of existing Corporation contracts, the terms of which were established pursuant to these guidelines or to previously existing guidelines for personal services contracts; and further provided that the chairman or the president may make non-material changes in these guidelines.
502. No Recourse Under These Guidelines. No provision of these guidelines shall be the basis for any claim based on these guidelines against any member, officer or employee of the Corporation or the Corporation itself.
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In Reply to: Re: Boat Buying Advice posted by randy on August 29, 2002 at 18:26:20:
The price of the wooden Bayliner might be from a couple of hundred to several thousand dollars. If the complete outfit is there with origional papers and documentation owners manuals etc It could be worth a tidy sum to a bayliner dealer for display purposes. There are antique boat collectors. who collect refurbish and race these old boats.The overall condition of the boat should also be taken into account. There are too many variables to discuss here.
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Centralized or Decentralized?
Centralized or Decentralized?
The issue of managing centralized or decentralized structures presents another issue for business. IT executives forcefully proclaim that it will be the former. According to our Future of IT study, more than three quarters of respondents said they expect IT departments will become more centralized in the future.
Hal Sirkin, global leader of Boston Consulting Group's operations practice and former head of the firm's technology practice, sees IT shops becoming simultaneously more centralized and decentralized. On one hand, businesses will have individual systems that aren't integrated on the corporate level. However, to maximize cost reductions, management of those systems will have to become centralized.
Companies are also looking to grow their global footprint, but operating in different countries forces businesses to navigate varying rules and regulations. Doing so through a centralized IT organization can be arduous, so decentralization will have to come into play.
"It's going to be a tough balancing act for CIOs," Sirkin says. "They're already facing cost pressures--and that will get worse--so they have to do more with less."
The issue has become more complicated as IT service providers expand the scope of their capabilities. The wide availability of services--seen today in the rise of cloud computing--presents another question for IT organizations, says Lynden Tennison, CIO of Union Pacific. "There are two ends of the spectrum," he says. "We do it all and are the technology center for the business, or we have a small staff and outsource everything. Everyone is somewhere in between."
In times of economic uncertainty, innovation can become a victim of reprioritization. Some companies decide that information technology is a key business driver, but others opt to farm out IT operations in search of cost and staff reductions.
The result: an identity crisis for CIOs. Forrester's Cameron says almost 40 percent of new CIO hires come from a nontechnical background, which points to a manifestation of companies trying to make their IT leader into more of a business operative than a techie.
At Union Pacific, Tennison straddles the line between technology and business. His role is much like many other CIOs: His primary role is to drive technology for the company's gain, but he also must serve as mediator between the two realms.
Tennison sees flaws in CIOs acting primarily as business managers. "I've seen more of those not work that well," he says. "It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of having to go down the path of using third parties. Companies that are more technical tend to recruit more people who are technical."
Diamond's Sviokla sees IT organizations taking one of three forms in the future. The first is a traditional IT shop, which today, in many cases, looks and acts like a utility. Then there's the virtual IT shop, where the CIO takes on more of a systems integrator and contract manufacturer role. The third option is what Sviokla calls a "super-deep, super-invested" customized IT organization, where expert technologists interact with business experts in a truly aligned fashion.
The third option focuses on value-add per em-ployee, which Sviokla says is key. Aggressive companies spend about 8 percent of sales on IT, and few go above 10 percent. But when they get to those levels, they have the ability to create what Sviokla calls "knowledge blacksmiths": technical experts who can build technology internally instead of relying on outside providers. Those shops not only differentiate their company, but look much different from other IT organizations.
"Those high-value-added shops generally are not thought of as IT shops," Sviokla says, "because they don't resemble a utility or systems integrator."
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By Neil Labute
Directed by David M. Jenkins
Extended! May 12 – Jun. 5, 2011
Thu. – Sat. 8pm, Sun. 4pm
Tickets: $24.50
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
A love story about the impossibility of love, reasons to be pretty introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, Steph. Unfortunately, he also says something stupid to his best friend, and when it gets back to her all hell breaks loose.
A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, reasons to be pretty is the final act in the trilogy including The Shape of Things and Fat Pig.
"… flows with the compelling naturalness of overheard conversation. " – The New York Times
"It is tight, tense and emotionally true, and it portrays characters who actually seem part of the world that the rest of us live in." – Time Magazine
"Dayton Sinkia gives a near-perfect performance, one so definitive that I can't imagine [Greg] played by any other actor … Kari Goetz as Steph is also superb, passionately upset by Greg's remarks and very funny as she tries gamely to restore her lost dignity…. See it with someone you find gorgeous." – Creative Loafing
"Jobsite brought Neil Labute's Tony nominated play to life in a palpable and refreshingly forward thinking manner I've come to expect. Jobsite's wonderfully gifted cast shines once again in this alarmingly relevant production…. I thoroughly enjoyed reasons to be pretty." – OnstageTampa
"Jobsite's reasons to be pretty has plenty of rewards. Few playwrights have LaBute's gift for dialogue, and the writing in the play's most memorable scenes are indeed masterful." – St. Petersburg Times
"The acting was superb and the fight scenes beautifully choreographed…" – Found Randomly
Jobsite Theater presents production of 'reasons to be pretty' at Straz Center – St. Petersburg Times
Reality play plumbs depths of love – St. Petersburg Times
Reasons to see 'reasons' – USF Oracle
Reasons to be Pretty by Neil Labute – Tampa Entertainment Guide
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Cast & Crew
- David M. Jenkins – Director
- Summer Bohnenkamp – Assistant Director
- Kari Goetz – Steph
- Chris Jackson – Kent
- Grace Santos Feeney – Carly
- Dayton Sinkia – Greg
- Matthew Ray – Stage Manager
- Bridgette Dreher – Scenic Artist
- Alexandra Gonzalez – Intern
- David M. Jenkins – Sound Designer
- Greg Newcomb – Poster Artist
- Brian M. Smallheer – Scenic and Lighting Designer
- Katrina Stevenson – Costume Designer
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Fantastic show. Very entertaining, and great acting. – Alex Algari
Was GREAT! – Cheryl Blocker
Loved the show! Actors did an excellent job as always. – Kelly Lamb Feinerman
AMAZING show tonight! Everyone ROCKED! it made my heart happy 😉 thank you for an great evening! – Jaime Giangrande-Holcom
Saw it last night. Great show!! – Sandra Corona Johnson
Really enjoyed last night! What a great performance! – Carolyn Day
Enjoyed the show! Congratulations on your opening! – Jess Alexander
Wow. Great. What a character study. I knew all those people. Superb performance, guys. – Jim Bowman
reasons to be pretty was another exhibition of excellence from Jobsite on the heels of their masterful Yellowman. The caliber of talent in this area is so high it is embarrassing. Some very real, honest, intense emotions displayed on stage. And a Canadian! – David Hood
Go see Jobsite Theater's play reasons to be pretty!!!!!! It is a funny play!!! – Beth Hyde Hood
Wonderful job last night! – Molly Healy
Nothing like a LaBute play to make you think about how you talk to your partner. Thanks once again, Jobsite, for a powerful, thoughtful performance. – Susan Oliver
Congratulations to Jobsite Theater for another well-done play, reasons to be pretty. BRAVO! – Bob Westphal
It was a great show, very funny and that cast was amazing and very talented! Everyone should go see it! – Frankie Del Roasario
It's a great play and the actors are all great. – Aly Gee
reasons to be pretty was a fantastic show. Go see it. Now. – Alexander Michael McGreevy
Just saw a fantastic play, reasons to be pretty at the Jobsite Theater. (Go see it!) – Kelly O'Brien
Saw reasons to be pretty today. Painful. Funny. Brilliant performances. Some of the best work I've seen out of already impressive folks. – Michael McGreevy
Saw reasons to be pretty on Friday night. Awesome play! Good job everyone! The actors were amazing! – Brandon Schuster
reasons to be pretty was one of the best shows I've seen at Jobsite. Great job cast and crew! – Jen Marshall
The show was fantastic! Keep it up! – Fontaine Schroyer
i had the pleasure of watching my two awesome friends, Grace Feeney and Dayton Sinkia bring their characters to life tonight in Neil Labute's reasons to be pretty at Jobsite Theater… and love love loved every second of it – Janine Phan
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Caterpillar is known for its heavy construction equipment, but in some ways, getting into the ruggedized smartphone market makes a lot of sense. The people who are using a bunch of bulldozers and backhoes are probably also consumers of super-durable phones. Cat released the B15 smartphone powered by Android last year, and now it's showing just how durable it is on video. This isn't just another boring drop test — we get to watch a few tons of steel rolling over the phone.
The B15 isn't going to stand up to modern flagship phones in terms of speed, but it does better than most of the competing rugged phones. The Cat B15 is running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with all the usual Google apps. Inside its durable casing is a dual-core MediaTek processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage. The 4-inch Gorilla Glass screen has a resolution of 800×480 (WVGA). So, obviously you don't buy it for the specs, you buy it for what Cat shows in the video.
The B15 is IP67 certified for water and dust resistance, which means it can be submerged in a meter of water for 30 minutes. A number of other phones, including the new Samsung Galaxy S5 have the same certification, but Cat is starting off slow in this video. A gigantic MH3049 material handler uses its claw to drop the B15 into a pool of water. Of course, the phone is fine once it's scooped out. As an added bonus, the screen on the B15 still works when wet. Many water-resistant phones might survive a quick dip, but the screens won't register touches until you dry them off.
After a drop on the ground (a 1.8 meter fall is no problem), it's on to the grand finale. The final demo requires a few more phones — 600 to be exact. The devices are arranged in two blocks on the ground, ready to bear the full weight of a 4.6 ton bulldozer. Hey, and how about that? The phones survive with minimal damage.
If this is the sort of thing you're looking for in a phone, the Cat B15 retails for about $330.


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The ATI staff, in conjunction with campus and systemwide procurement officers, is developing a template for the incorporation of Section 508 into the procurement process. Tools and resources for the implementation of this process will be available from the ATI website. The ATI staff will coordinate initial systemwide training of this process.


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I've been complaining throughout the World Cup about the vanishing forward — i.e., the fact that many teams have elected to play with only one true strker. Portugal has been a prime offender. Despite all of the brilliant flicks and touches of Christiano Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Deco, and others, they have produced few goals (including none against England even playing with an extra man) because, in my opinion, they play with a lone front-man (the not very effective Pauleta).
In today's semi-final against France, Portugal took the madness one step further. Trailing 1-0 in the 67th minute, Portugal pulled lone-striker Pauleta and replaced him with a winger. Actually, Portugal had "vanished" their forward once before, but that was only after they had been reduced by the ref to nine men and were protecting a 1-0 against Holland.
Today, the experiment lasted for only seven minutes, after which Portugal brought on a forward with their last substitution. And at the very end of the match, they pushed a centerback (Meira) into the box. In fact, a great opportunity fell to their centerback/forward in stoppage time, but he put his shot into row W, as centerbacks tend to do.
After the match, Portugal's highly successful coach "Big Phil" Scolari called France's 1-0 victory "deserved." So was Portugal's 0-1 defeat.


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"When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened, it's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest, because I invented it." – Lady Gaga
When Lady Gaga first tweeted about her forthcoming video for "Marry The Night" – a song she identifies as both her favorite on Born This Way and significant in that it depicts the moment she decided to make her passion for music her lifelong partner – she referred to it as the beginning of a story she has never told us. And when, over a week ago, she released the first minute and 48 seconds of the The Prelude Pathétique, she revealed the prelude to the yet-untold Prelude.
The effect of releasing the video in layers – first as a tweet unmasking it as an untold story and then as the pre-Prelude itself – is that Gaga leaves us questioning her work in a way we haven't done up to this point in her oeuvre. The questions we find ourselves asking now, as we await the release of the full video, and why these questions are significant, will be discussed in more detail later in this piece. Thus far, The Prelude Pathétique presents a story that questions what is real and what isn't – and how we, not only as consumers of Gaga's art but also as people writing our own stories, perceive the difference between reality and fantasy (if we can, indeed, perceive such a difference at all).
This inquiry is of utmost importance to Gaga and her project. By this point, she has repeatedly underscored her hybrid existence as "halfway between" these two worlds, an existence that was initally declared when she re-created herself as a half-woman, half-motorcycle on the album cover for Born This Way. The album title itself embodies this reality/fantasy dualism that is reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez's categorical assertion that "human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves" (Love in the Time of Cholera). In the pre-Prelude, this idea of autonomous, creative re-birth reaches a zenith during the first frames, in which Gaga tells us how she creates her lie and why, as the lie is happening before our eyes.
The Prelude Pathétique opens with a shot of Gaga lying on a gurney, her hair dark and cut short, her face pallid and lifeless. The appearance of the brown hair immediately suggests that we are watching a scene from Gaga's pre-fame past, when she was still Stefani Germanotta. We hear Gaga's voice booming over the ghastly images, in a recording that sounds like it may have been done on her BlackBerry or laptop computer: it's gritty, unedited, and eerily familiar, as if she were sitting next to us, watching the video and describing its contents as the reel turns (one can hear the film reel spinning in the background throughout the video). The effect is unsettling in a number of ways that highlight the omnipresent duality of reality and fantasy, truth and falsehood; Gaga has broken the fourth wall by describing her process of creating her music video. ("Those nurses? They're wearing next season Calvin Klein. And so am I.") We know we are watching a music video that is supposed to reveal a yet-untold story, a secret – and yet Gaga admits she has created the story of her untold story before the untold story has even been revealed. It's not unlike sitting in a theater and watching a play based on a true story, and while the play is happening on the stage, the director's voice booms out over the loudspeakers to share with the audience creative choices such as, "The lead actor stands here with his feet apart to embody that he feels solid and grounded. His female opposite stands far away and facing the other direction to illustrate her fear and shame." Of course, Gaga means to unsettle us; right from the beginning, she wants us to ask, "What's going on here?" Because, ultimately, that's the question she is always asking herself: what's real, and what's fantasy?
Immediately, we understand Stefani is in an infirmary of some kind. And Gaga's voiceover tells us the reason: "Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer; memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. They can be lost forever." The word "trauma" is illuminating but also vague, suggesting that Stefani has been hurt in some way but keeping indeterminate the nature of this injury. More is illuminated with the line, "The truth is, back at the clinic, they only wore those funny hats to keep the blood out of their hair." We know then that the nurses are dealing with physical injuries that may at times include blood. It's also the first time Gaga chooses to use "truth" language, aside from her stated belief at the beginning of the film that her lie is more honest than the truth because she "invented" it. This is the moment we learn that this video is a depiction of events that "truly" happened; to do this, it paradoxically departs in some ways from how the events really unfolded. And of course, because Gaga's self-confessed purpose is often interchanging the truth with the lie, it is tempting here to say that it's still not really clear, even considering her linguistic choices, what "truly" happened and what is a fiction. However, I would argue that because of the peeling away of the video's layers (which began when she announced that she was telling us an untold story), and because of her choice to break the fourth wall and thereby distinguish between what we see unfolding in the video and what she describes as the process of her creating it, we are indeed dealing with events that, at the very least, Gaga perceives as having really occurred. It is her own choice to distinguish between the untold story and her creative retelling of it that supports this position.
This is, perhaps, the only time in the course of Gaga's project that she has openly confessed to creation as a mode of expressing a secret – meaning, before seeing the work, we know it is the telling of an "untold story." One might argue that this is always true of Gaga's work, and even of art in general – that art inherently depicts a story that has yet to be told. And this may be true, but it is not so common that the artist preemptively admits such a circumstance. And in Gaga's case, she has never set up the release of a music video by saying, essentially, "I have a secret to tell, and this is it."
The fact that she released the first part of the Prelude independent of and before the rest is also significant. The effect is that we wonder what happened to Stefani in the past that Gaga has not yet been open about but is still obviously wrestling with ("It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again"). As such, our state of mind as an audience is completely altered – we find ourselves asking questions that we have perhaps never asked before: What has Gaga not told us about her past? How will this information shed a new light on all her prior work? It's the very idea of her confessing to having a secret, and now wanting to reveal that secret, that intrigues us.
The image of Gaga/Stefani knocked out and being rolled around a hospital with overtones of trauma just increases this state of wanting; the idea that Stefani, (though very open about her history with drugs, alcohol and the underground party scene of NYC), experienced some sort of serious but secret trauma pre-Gaga is intriguing because it has the potential to cast a new light on her entire project. This is especially true if – as the end of the introduction suggests – this trauma was somehow self-inflicted: "That girl on the left, she ordered gummy bears and a knife a couple hours ago. They only gave her the gummy bears. I'd wish they'd only given me the gummy bears."
This last sentence is crucial not only for its content but because of its future perfect tense – I would wish they had only given me the gummy bears. It clearly distinguishes the Gaga speaking as an omniscient third person narrator, describing not only what is happening, but also what will happen. She knows the future we're about to watch – because she lived it in the past. This is confirmed by a recent tweet about the video: "It is so true to my life it terrifies me." She suggests not only that she ordered a knife, but that she indeed got it, which in turn suggests some sort of self-injury. This tense change also re-inforces the argument that what we are about to see in the video is a depiction of something Gaga considers to have really happened.
Many questions remain as we move from the Prelude's introduction to the Prelude itself. Will Gaga continue to narrate her own story as she tells a visually amplified version of it? Will the trauma revealed therein cast an entirely new light on her work? Will it re-define her artistic concept of "truth"? Most importantly: will it signal a general transition from the world of "fantasy" to the world of "reality" in her project? Or perhaps the opposite – will it be the final piece of Stefani's puzzle, which Gaga needs to share with us to completely reject the reality she seems to so loathe?
Author Bio:
Meghan Blalock is a writer and editor living in New York City. She edits for Gotham magazine, and has written pieces for the local music blog The Rumpus, Southern Living, Gaga Stigmata, Woman's Day, and other publications. She is also a certified vinyasa yoga teacher. Her poetry has been published in amphibi.us. Her work is viewable here and here.
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