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Other winners include the BBC's dramatic reconstruction "The Day that Lehman Died" and National Public Radio's Web site.
"To those who say all media content is the same, or presented from a single perspective, we offer this great range of material as a response," said Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, in a statement.
"Our selections demonstrate that great work available in 2009 varied widely and appealed to viewers and listeners with very different tastes, interests and concerns," he said.
An award ceremony for the 69th annual Peabody Awards will be held May 17 in New York. It will be hosted by ABC "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer, who will receive an award for "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains," a documentary shot in Appalachia.
Announcing the awards, Cully Clark, dean of UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, said "Modern Family," which follows the ups and downs of an extended family, "reinvents the situation comedy."
Other entertainment programming recognized with a Peabody included "Glee," a musical dramedy about the members of a high school singing club; "In Treatment," HBO's therapy drama; and "The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency," a series about a female detective in Botswana based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.
Blurring the line between entertainment and news, CBS' Scottish-born late-night talk-show host Craig Ferguson garnered an award for an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who helped lead opposition to apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.
The global financial crisis was a common theme among some winners, including "The Day that Lehman Died," PBS' "Frontline: The Madoff Affair" and Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Hard Times."
NPR's Web site was heralded as a model for what a news site should be. The news organization's Kabul bureau chief, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, also got a nod for her extensive coverage of life inside Afghanistan.
Several local news organizations got laurels for their local reporting efforts. They included Houston's KHOU-TV, for its investigative series, "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard," which led to the firing of three Texas Guard generals; reporting by Chicago's WFLD-TV on the sidewalk murder of honor student Derrion Albert; and "BART Shooting," a series of reports by KTVU-TV in Oakland, Calif., on a deadly train station confrontation.
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It is a real privilege for me to be part of this annual banquet tonight – albeit a tough task to follow two such distinguished speakers.
First if all, many congratulations to Peter on being installed as the 17th Master of the Company. It is an important role and I know everyone thanks you for all of the hard work you put in to it and for the humour you bring to it.
I think humour is an important part of business life. We spend so much time at work it's important to be able to have a laugh with friends and colleagues.
One of my colleagues, our erstwhile General Counsel, often says he can tell the state of the business from the level of laughter that comes from my room.
Often that comes from the stories that we all tell each other about things that have happened to us over the years and working at Virgin – as I have for almost 25 years now – you will imagine that there are many stories to tell.
Back in 1994, when my Virgin journey began, we were aiming to make investments available to everyone over the telephone. Norwich Union partnered Virgin to offer personal equity plans to the retail market – a pretty new concept at the time.
We signed the joint venture deal in late December 1994 and wanted to get the business up and running in time to have taken a lot of investment before the 5 April tax year end.
With so many hurdles to overcome, regulators to satisfy, systems to build and people to hire this seemed like a ridiculously short time.
But Richard Branson was having none of it.
'It only took 90 days to launch an airline' he said. 'What can be so complicated about financial services?'
And he had a good answer too when the regulators – IMRO in those days – asked why a brand famous for music and airlines could possibly be fit and proper to enter the serious business of financial services.
'There is no more heavily regulated business than an airline' he said. 'People wouldn't get on my planes if they didn't think they would get off in one piece'.
So we got our approvals and launched the business with time to spare. A real lesson to me to move things fast and to think about things differently.
The business went well and it wasn't long before we were being approached by all the big banks to offer their banking products under the Virgin brand.
But we didn't want to copy another bank's products. We wanted to create something new and different that would really chime with customers.
It was an unlikely source that brought that to us.
RBS wanted to launch a current account mortgage and Sir George Mathewson – then just plain George felt they needed to do that in partnership with us.
When I asked why he said 'two reasons Jayne-Anne. First you've proved you've got the culture to do it and we haven't. And second, if it all goes well I will get half of the profits. But if it all goes badly, with your brand no-one will know I had anything to do with it!'
So started our foray into banking.
We launched the Virgin One account in 1998 and in 2001 RBS acquired it in full and I and my whole team – and the business we had built from scratch, went to RBS – hook, line and sinker.
Richard hand-wrote me a note the day the deal was done.
'If you don't like corporate life' he said 'just pick up the phone and you can come back'.
Timing being everything, in October 2006, having not spoken to anyone at Virgin for a while, I rang Richard and said 'we are ready to come back'.
True to his word, it was all sorted out the following week and I – and in the end about 80 of my colleagues- returned to Virgin in May 2007.
We thought we would relaunch the Virgin One account and Macquarie were all set to provide the funding lines until…..
The queues started to form outside Northern Rock. The liquidity markets closed. And I had 82 people on my hands and no plan.
So we decided to turn our minds to helping Northern Rock.
I can tell you that being part of a banking crisis without having created it was the best experience of my life.
Part of that experience was meeting Sir Brian Pitman who many of you will have known.
Ex CEO and then ex Chair of Lloyds Bank he had brilliant stories to tell as we walked, at his insistence, from meeting to meeting around London.
He had met everyone who was anyone and one day I asked him who the best leader he had ever met was.
His answer surprised me.
It was Ronald Reagan.
During Reagan's presidency, there was a financial crisis in Mexico and the President asked a number of top international bankers to meet him in the White House with a view to putting forward a rescue plan.
Before the meeting, all the bankers agreed that they were not going to use their balance sheets to bail out Mexico and were delighted to finish a two day meeting with their pockets intact.
When they got back to their hotels on each bed was an invite to join the President for drinks in the Oval Office.
When Reagan arrived he thanked them for their time in considering the Mexican crisis and that he noted the outcome of the meeting. 'Now' he said, 'you would be doing America a great Service by saving Mexico from ruin. There's a book on the way out for you to sign to commit your support'.
'And' said Brian 'to a man – for they were all men – every one of us signed like lambs – and Mexico was saved'.
In writing these words it has exercised me to think of how such a meeting might be managed in the Oval Office today.
What I hope is that not all of the people there would be men.
But there is still a long way to go in achieving gender equality in financial services for sure.
Since 2015 I have been the Government's Women in Finance Champion having been astonished and disappointed to find that women hold only 14% of senior management jobs in financial services.
To improve this position we launched the HMT Women in Finance Charter last year, encouraging financial services firms to commit to internally set targets for gender balance in their organisation.
Firms employing over 60% of employees in UK financial services have signed up – and, I'm pleased to say, the majority have disclosed self-imposed targets of getting to a 50:50 gender balance in their organisations in the coming few years.
That is great news.
But it does mean that companies employing 40% of the UK financial services workforce have not yet signed.
That's not good enough and I'd like to enlist your support in making things better.
Because a diverse and balanced workforce is a better place to work. Better decisions are taken. And research shows that return on equity can be up by as much as two percentage points compared with companies that do not embrace diversity.
I'd like to think that we in this room could really lead this agenda and make a substantial change to UK financial services as a result.
Because leadership is important.
I commend the Lord Mayor on his focus on and leadership of the business of trust during his year in office.
At a time when business seems somewhat discredited – trust matters.
The Oxfam story shows how easy it is for a few people to damage the work of so many.
The Presidents Club saga showed that some businesses are still out of touch.
And continued coverage of poor banking practises means that the problems of the past are not entirely behind us.
So it is down to us to change things.
This year marks the centenary of women winning the right to vote.
I can hardly believe it has been only 100 years!
Nor can I believe how hard fought the battle was and how so few brave leaders inspired women everywhere and changed our politics and democracy for ever.
Now we all have the potential to set up businesses – and to do that fast.
We all have the responsibility to make sure our customers are safe wherever they are.
We all have the power to work with people we think can change things – even if we think we can't.
We can all share stories to inspire a new generation.
Maybe we can't all speak with Presidents – but we can use our resources to change things for good.
And we all have a voice to demand equality, diversity and parity for all people everywhere – but especially in our workplaces.
If each of us do this then I believe we will be contributing to the business of trust.
And, as the Lord Mayor has so eloquently said, trust will change things for the better.
Thank you for listening.
Now can I ask you to join me in a toast to the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and to the Business of Trust.


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Strawberry gum pavlova
Serves 6–8
9 free-range egg whites
3 tsp boiling water
300g caster sugar
1 tsp white vinegar
2–3 tsp strawberry gum powder
Wattleseed cream
300ml cream
60g icing sugar, sifted
1 tsp wattleseed extract
To decorate
100g wild strawberries, riberries or muntries
Edible flowers
Use a large bowl (about 20–25cm): turn it upside down on baking paper and trace its outline with a pencil. Place paper on baking tray.
Next, make the meringue. Place all of the ingredients into your mixing bowl and combine with the whisk attachment. Beat on high (9–10) for 10 minutes.
Pile the meringue into the circle on your baking paper and use a spatula to spread evenly to the edges. You can use an upward motion with a palette knife to decorate the edges and try to get a smooth top, which makes piling the cream easier (after the pav is baked). Rough and rustic is also fine.
Preheat the oven to 100°C. Bake for 1½ hours. Turn the tray halfway through. When cooked, turn off the oven and let pavlova crust cool completely in the oven before removing. If not serving within a few hours, wrap in cling wrap or store in an airtight container for up to three days.
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Huawei P10 Price in Bangladesh with details Specifications
Huawei mobile is one of the famous smartphone brands in Bangladesh. Huawei already released lots of new smartphone with good hardware configuration and reasonable price. If we look around us we will found here in Bangladesh many people using this Brand. One of my friend Mr.Faruk Hossain brought the Huawei P10 smartphone from Bashundhara shopping complex. He is using this smartphone from last few months and he is happy with its configuration according to its price. I have asked him to know the best thing about it, as a replay, he told me that, "I have purchased the right smartphone comparing to others available brands because it has the most elegant design, smooth finishing, dual camera and best hardware configuration". Huawei P10 price in Bangladesh is 56,900 Taka. It is released in 2017 March.
From the perspective of the price of Huawei P10, many of us may be not agreed with Mr. Faruk Hoassain. Because some people want high configuration with the lower price. In Bangladesh, two company is currently providing high medium rich handset configuration with the lower price of money. Maybe you have already understood i am talking about Walton and symphony smartphone manufacturers. At present people of Bangladesh can buy high price mobile handset by 3,6 or 12 months EMI. People who have credit cards with available balance can buy the Huawei P10 smartphone from an online shopping cart. Picaboo, Robi, Grameenphone, and Daraz are the top rated an online shopping cart in Bangladesh. Currently, at pickaboo, the available offers of Huawei P10 is 12 months EMI with Free Huawei Gift Box, 20000mAh Power Bank & Tripod.
Before buying any phone it is better to justify its reviews from internet or people who have the exact same phone. If the desired phone has any major issues than it can be found in online reviews. But consider the online reviews only from users who have the exact phone. Let's see few online product reviews of Huawei P10 from some reputed online portal. So here below the pros and cons of the Huawei P10 smartphone.
4 GB RAM and 64 GB internal storage.
Dual Camera 20 Megapixel
Aluminum Body
upgradable to Android 8.0 (Oreo)
Low capacity battery considering the price.
LCD Capacitive Display.
Huawei P10 Price in Bangladesh and full Specifications:
Generally when we decide to purchase a smartphone from an online shop or a general shop which features we compare most? Often we look into only the camera, RAM, Display, Battery, and Storage but most of us not consider the chipset maker, Display type, Display color, Display protection, connectivity and others features as per the below specifications. Here we already discussed Huawei P10 Price in Bangladesh above this article. Now let's see the Huawei P10 full specifications as below.
- Dimensions145.3 x 69.3 x 7 mm
- Weight145 Gram
- ColorsDazzling Gold, Dazzling Blue
- 2G NetworkYes
- 3G NetworkYes
- 4G NetworkYes
- SimNano-SIM
- Dual SimYes
- Display TypeIPS-NEO LCD capacitive touchscreen
- Size5.1 inches FHD
- Resolution1440 x 2560 Pixels
- Display Colors16M
- Pixel Density432 ppi pixel density
- Touch ScreenYes
- Display ProtectionCorning Gorilla Glass 5
- Handsfree3.5 mm
- PrimaryDual 20 MP + 12 M
- Video2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps
- Camera FeaturesF1.8 OIS (Optical Image Stablization) Dual-tone Flash PDAF, CAF, Laser, Depth Auto Focus 2x Hybrid Zoom 4K Video Recording , Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Face Detection, HDR, Panorama
- Back FlashYes
- Secondary8 MP AF, F1.9
- Front flashYes
- Operating SystemAndroid OS, v7.0
- Java SupportNo
- ChipsetHisilicon Kirin 960
- ProcessorOcta-core (4 x Cortex A73 2.4 GHz + 4 x Cortex A53 1.8 GHz)
- GPUMali-G71 MP8
- RAM (Memory)4 GB
- Internal Storage32/64 GB
- Card SlotmicroSD, up to 256 GB
- SensorsFingerprint (Front-Mounted), Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity
- Wi-fiYes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
- Wi-fi Hotspot
- BluetoothYes, Bluetooth 4.1
- USBmicroUSB v2.0
- GPSYes
- ANT+No
- Battery TypeLi-Ion
- Capacity3200 mAh
- PlacementNon-Removable


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Helix House, one of the best known advertising and marketing firm from Scottsdale, recently had a meeting with the press at their office to discuss custom discounts for February. Attended by the top honchos of the company, the event was a huge success.
For the longest time, Helix House has been working with companies and businesses for their branding needs. The company, which comprises of some of the best known marketing experts in business, always likes to make their services for customers, and for the same, they don't hesitate in taking major steps. Their recent event had some major announcements, and the management officials also answered many questions related to their services.
The marketing team head started with a discussion on the need for comprehensive branding for businesses. He decoded the main elements that matter in the current ad landscape, adding that Helix House is committed to make branding easier for every niche. He also assured customers of great assistance on all projects, irrespective of the scale and nature of the job.
The publicist then announced that all new customers and brands will be entitled for a customized discount for the entire month of February. Although she didn't quite mention the extent of the discount, she assured that there will be pleasant surprises. She also added that the discounts will be applicable across all segments of their services, including website designing. Helix House is also expected to offer major discounts to existing customers, as well, given that the team was quite thankful to their customer base.
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6 No Credit Check Loan Red Flags
Warning! Warning!
Welp. A kid just threw a baseball through your window and ran away before you could get his parents' information. Now you need a loan to fix it. But what if your credit score isn't exactly a home run? What are you going to do now?
It's a fact of modern life: a "good" credit score (a FICO score of 680 or higher) can make little financial emergencies like these much more bearable. Unfortunately, just over half of American consumers have weak or bad credit.1 According to credit expert David Hosterman of Castle and Cooke Mortgage, "Customers with bad credit can have trouble financing a home, renting a home, obtaining credit cards, car loans, student loans, and more." And it's not a problem that goes away overnight. Hosterman says rebuilding credit can "sometimes take years to complete."
So how can people with bad credit get a loan if an urgent need arises? One option is a "no credit check loan." And if these loans sound too good to be true, it's because they often are. Many "no credit check" loans are nothing more than financial traps designed to suck away as much of your paycheck as possible. Keep an eye out for these red flags before you end up in an unaffordable situation.
Be suspicious of lenders when…
1. They Don't Care About Your Income
If a lender doesn't want to check your credit, make sure that they do check your employment and income. Why? If a lender wants to verify that you'll be able to afford to repay your loan, it's a signal that they're legitimate and not trying to walk you into a debt trap.
If a lender doesn't check your credit or your income, then it's likely that they're trying to sell you a loan you can't afford. This is a classic predatory practice, because if you can't repay your loan, you'll be forced to roll it over (extending the loan for another cycle) and you'll pay additional fees to do it. Suddenly, you're sinking further and further in debt, and your predatory lender is making more and more money directly from you.
This unfair practice is a hallmark of payday lending, and it can trap borrowers in unexpected debt for months or even years.
2. Short Payment Terms
Any good lender wants you to have a real shot at actually paying back your loan in full. A payday lender, on the other hand, wants you to be trapped into rolling over your loans so that you can give them money forever. They'll require you to pay back the entire loan, with interest, after only a few weeks—and sometimes less!
Instead, find a lender that will offer you an installment loan. David Bakke, a finance expert at MoneyCrashers.com, says that one of the main benefits of installment loans is that they "usually come with fixed interest rates, meaning that you know what your monthly payment is going to be." A good "no credit check" lender will be certain that you have a source of income and then work with you to create a repayment plan over a longer term that you can handle.
3. They Talk About Interest Rates Instead of APR
According to David Reiss, a law professor and editor of REFinBlog.com, "The annual percentage rate or APR shows the total cost of a loan, including fees and interest. APRs allow potential borrowers to make an 'apples-to-apples' comparison between loans. It gives you a full and clear picture of how expensive a loan really is." In other words, it's a number that many "no credit check" lenders would prefer you never see.
They'd rather show you a basic interest rate, even though federal law requires APRs be used in most cases. Not only can that hide all sorts of fees, but it forces you to do some pretty complex math if you want to actually know how much you'll be expected to pay. Friends never make friends do complex math problems, so if a lender isn't talking in terms of APR, they're likely not your friend.
4. They Want Your Car Title
Some "no credit check" lenders will accept your car title in return for a loan. The car is serving as collateral, which means it's being used to guarantee that you'll pay. This might seem like a reasonable deal at first. After all, you'll be fine as long as you pay it back, right? Well, that's a pretty big "if." Since the lender is holding your car's title, they'll be able to seize it if you don't make your payments. In fact, a recent study from the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau found that 1 in 5 title borrowers will lose their car!2 You never know what financial surprises could happen and it's too big a risk to gamble on—especially if you need your car to get to work. If you were in a desperate situation before, having to walk or catch the bus to work certainly won't improve things. These loans are unsafe at any speed.
5. They Don't Have a Customer Service Line
The best "no credit check" lenders should be willing to work with you to make sure you can pay off your loan, even if something unexpected comes up. That's why having good customer service is so important. If you know you're going to have trouble making a loan payment, you should be assured that there's a number you can call for help. E-mail might feel like a more modern form of communication, but nothing is as efficient as talking to another actual person. There's less potential for misunderstandings, and you don't have to worry about whether they're receiving your concerns. Any company offering loans to people with poor credit is either looking to help them or to take advantage of them (read more in How to Shop for a No Credit Check Loan). If they won't even give you a way to talk to them, they aren't worth your time or your trust.
6. They Have Bad Online Reviews
Much like a hotel or a restaurant, you want to be sure your lender has the best online rating possible. After all, you wouldn't give your money to a burger place that makes people sick, so why should you give your money to a lender that's trying to make you broke? You'll get over that burger in a day or two, but a bad loan could make you nauseous for years. When people get ripped off, they don't tend to be quiet about it. Heed their warnings. Taking just a few minutes to look at reviews could save money and pain.
The next time you need a loan, do yourself a favor and watch out for the red flags that indicate you're dealing with a predatory lender. Seek out a safe and responsible loan. You'll be able to repair that broken window without damaging your credit.
- Detweiler, Gerri. "Most Americans Have Bad Credit, Study Finds." Credit.Com. January 30, 2015. Accessed on February 1, 2017 at http://blog.credit.com/2015/01/most-consumers-have-subprime-credit-report-says-107535/.
- "CFPB Finds One-in-Five Auto Title Loan Borrowers Have Vehicle Seized for Failing to Repay Debt." ConsumerFinance.gov. May 18, 2016. Accessed on February 1, 2017 at http://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-finds-one-five-auto-title-loan-borrowers-have-vehicle-seized-failing-repay-debt/.
David Bakke is a finance expert who started his own personal finance blog, YourFinances101, in June of 2009 and published his first book on ways to save more and spend less called ""Don't Be A Mule…" Since then he has been a regular contributor at Money Crashers.
David Hosterman is a credit and financial expert. He began working as a loan officer with Castle & Cooke Mortgage, LLC in 2008 and became a Branch Manager in 2015. David has been featured in CBS Money Watch, Forbes, MSN Money, and elsewhere.
David Reiss is a professor at Brooklyn Law School and director of academic programs at the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship. He is the editor of REFinBlog.com, which tracks developments in the changing world of residential real estate finance.
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Unfortunately, you can't buy XtraColor here in Canada, and I've not seen the White Ensign line around our parts (don't know about Todd's end of the country). Plus of course, Hannants can't ship the paint like they used to either. However for the moment, you can still get the XtraColor through Airline Hobby Supplies but you have to buy a kit too so the paint can be packed in the box.
This any use Robert ?Not sure if Canada is included in ConUS or not ?
Modelling on hold at the moment , doing a bit of a clear out and tidy up of my room including replacing my book unit and clearing out the workspaces.
This 'clearing lark' seems to be all the rage right now eh ? Must be the weather
Quote from: Captain Canada on April 02, 2014, 11:25:39 amThis 'clearing lark' seems to be all the rage right now eh ? Must be the weather That is definitely NOT catching on here!
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Are Distractions Keeping You From Finishing Your Car?
Is it better to have one project you work on steadily or multiple projects so you can fiddle with one while waiting on another? In theory, I like the idea of being able to move from one car to another as new parts arrive, but in practice it just seems to involve waiting on everything. Why? Well, to start with, nothing ever fits. The new radiator for the Charger has the wrong mounting tabs, so while emails go back and forth with the Griffin over whose fault that is, I figured it would be a good time to start the Challenger 505ci stroker assembly.
Somehow the two weeks I thought had elapsed since I got all the parts back from the machine shop was more like 18 months, so all my nice, clean parts had a light dusting of surface rust. Scrubbin' time! The super-cool windage tray/crank scraper I got needed some fitment adjustments, including making space for a dipstick. That's the problem with putting race-car parts on cars you plan to drive daily—they don't always give you street-friendly options. Nobody checks oil on race cars, you just change it when you rebuild the mill between rounds. I briefly considered rebuilding the engine after every commute, but based off my current engine-building speed, decided that might be inefficient.
I spent the morning polishing bolts with a scouring pad while Tom measured crank clearance with a feeler gauge. Just when we finished drilling holes in the new parts, it started pouring rain, which made going outside the shop to clean the block much less appealing. Coincidentally, it was also lunchtime, so we went inside to look at Craigslist and make sandwiches. Gotta pick up something to work on while waiting to work on what we have.


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Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly cut the child rapist's prison term down to ten years from 25 years claiming that "he didn't mean to harm" the 3-year-old girl that he raped.
He also backed the claim from child rapist Kevin Rojano that the young girl initiated the act of sodomy. Rojano said in his own defense that "she asked me to do it."
Rojano was convicted on December 3 of sodomizing a child younger than 10 and lascivious acts with a minor. The pedophile was originally sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Viral Message Verification:- The origin of the story is the highly controversial site yournewswire which was published under the title "Judge Cuts Pedophile's Prison Term Claiming 3-Yr-Old 'Asked' To Be Raped"
A news was published in ocregister, in April 4, 2015 where "In a rare legal maneuver, an Orange County Superior Court judge Friday deviated from a mandated 25-year-to-life sentence for a man who sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl and sent him to prison for 10 years."
As per the site ocregister, Kevin Jonas Rojano, 20, was convicted Dec. 3 of sodomizing a child younger than 10 and lewd or lascivious acts with a minor.
However later in 2017, the accused was ordered for a mandatory minimum term as for the punishment.
During the hearing Friday, Judge Marc Kelly made himself clear to Kevin Rojano-Nieto and his public defender. The judge plans to sentence him to the mandatory minimum sentence for his crime.
"I don't want to mislead the defense or Mr. Rojano, he is going to be sentenced to 25 years to life," Kelly said.
Know some little fact of yournewswire
yournewswire was Founded by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway in 2014. It has published fake stories, such as "claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit."
Earliar Yournewswire.com published a story saying First Lady Michelle Obama had unfollowed Clinton on Twitter. A quick check of Twitter proved the story false.
In the past YourNewsWire has been the source of or helped spread a long string of persistent rumors, including the fake claim that a terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England was a "false flag," or a government plot designed to keep the populace in fear. They also reported the widespread (but completely false) rumor that a second gunman helped carry out the mass shooting in Las Vegas on 1 October 2017.
It's significant to note that YourNewsWire often uses fictional quotes juice up the clickbait value of their stories, sometimes for the purpose of putting outrageous words in celebrities's mouths, and other times to invent stories and attribute them to conveniently–anonymous witnesses or officials.
In our opinion the stories or news covered on this site cannot be trusted and must be well verified before being actually shared and believed.
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Not all roofs need to be replaced. Sometimes, repairing the existing roof is the most sensible thing to do. We're happy to help our clients tackle jobs of various sizes. If you've got a leaking roof, or unsightly markings on your roofing system, feel free to reach out to us today to have the repair work assessed and completed in a timely manner.


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To Cóvet. v.n. To have a strong desire.
The love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith. 1 Tim. vi.
The Bible - 1. Timothy (6)
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I did them each separately so they didn't know each other's answers.
Jeremiah, 5
Josiah, 3 and a half
1. What is something mom always says to you?
Je: i'm sick
Jo: i love you
2. What makes mom happy?
Je: when i hug you
Jo: loving you
3. What makes mom sad?
Je: when you're sick
Jo: when i say i don't love you anymore
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Je: when you make funny faces
Jo: telling stories
5. What was your mom like as a child?
Je: a baby
Jo: girl hair things!
6. How old is your mom?
Je: 25 years old
Jo: uh FOUR!
7. How tall is your mom?
Je: 40 feet
Jo: little. just little.
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Je: work on the computer
Jo: playing
9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Je: go to sleep
Jo: work on the computer
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Je: basketball
Jo: loving
11. What is your mom really good at?
Je: working on the computer
Jo: at the computer
12. What is your mom not very good at?
Je: cutting apples
Jo: hitting me
13. What does your mom do for a job?
Je: read books to us
Jo: working on the computer
14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Je: pizza
Jo: mustard — ????
15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Je: when she gives me her food
Jo: hugging
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Je: jasmine
Jo: giselle
17. What do you and your mom do together?
Je: play
Jo: eat
18. How are you and your mom the same?
Je: we wear the same clothes
Jo: we both like hugging
19. How are you and your mom different?
Je: when we wear different clothes
Jo: our eyes
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Je: because she gives me so many hugs every day
Jo: hugging
21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
Je: because he's your husband
Jo: hugging
22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
Je: NOT at the dr! at the park
Jo: dr


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Austin Ventures is pumping $50 million into a company, as yet without a name, that wants to somehow provide social software to enterprises. The founder, and apparently the reason for the large round, is Jeff Dachis, best known as the cofounder of 90's era web consultancy company Razorfish, that lost billions in market value when the dot-com bubble burst. For a brutal but interesting recap of Dachis' career, see Valleywag.
I've been hearing a lot enterprise software folks talking about integrating social software components, but you can stick the buzzword "social" on many different types of software without creating meaningful products. At least this new company will have the funds to experiment, and anyway, it will be able to hire a strong sales team.


text: We continue our Lenten Journey from Creation to the Cross: The Stories OF God's People, BY God's People, with one of our longest readings for all of Lent, coming in at 27 minutes. Today's reading we hear the beginning of Moses story from his lowly birth in the midst of scary circumstances, to his murderous rage, through his rise as an unlikely leader and his dealings with Pharaoh. Unlike many of our readings up until this point, there has actually be a good amount of time that has passed since we last heard about Joseph and his family. The 12 brothers had grown to quite a large clan, and actually began to out number the Egyptians whose land Joseph worked. This was pretty scary for the Egyptians. Now instead of having the biggest conflict being a family struggle (like it was for Jacob and Esau or Joseph and his brothers) the newest challenge comes from outside the family. Today's story we hear of threatened infanticide, slavery, a crafty mom and older sister (of Moses), murder, marriage, flaming plants, plagues, and more. It may be a long reading, but it is definitely worth hearing, and fairly easy to follow what is going on. Hope you get as much out of the reading today as I had reading it :-)


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A while back I had the privilege of meeting Patricio, an immigrant worker from Ecuador. He worked at a pizzeria in Sunset Park, a largely Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Border Crossings
Invocation of the "Ceased Circumstances Cessation Clause": Is Rwanda Fundamentally Altered Enough?
A review of 'Artists in Exile: Forgotten Iraqi Refugees in Syria,' an exhibition of 27 Iraqi refugee painters.
What is a state? In diplomatic circles, it is a deceptively simple question – at what point and under what circumstances does an area become its own country? In the modern world, it is a question without a simple answer, yet it is one that the global community will likely have to grapple with i
At a recent EU summit in Brussels, the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke with other officials about the implementation of the European volunteer service or, the "Eur
Straight from the annals of the wildly absurd, we have this lovely tale of a American student named Lily Sussman who had her laptop shot – not once, not twice, but three times – by Israeli Bor
This week, I've been pondering over the reported breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. There have been many moments in this sixty year-old conflict that seemed like they would climax in a denouement, but something would always fall apart in the last minute. The latest developments


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#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.
Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.
One of the best ways to get involved in supporting local farms and local food is by giving on #GivingTuesday to Central Valley Farmland Trust.
Your gift can be leveraged to save much more farmland – every $1 gets $3 in matching funds! All gifts, no matter the amount, count. Your support keeps food local, farmers farming, and the economy that provides millions with jobs vibrant and thriving.
This year, we hope you will consider a monthly gift – a small gift made every month to make a huge impact. If you give $20 a month, that's $240 in one year. When we leverage your gift with already committed funds – your gift just turned into $720! Boom! That's enough to save three tennis courts worth of farmland!
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So, here's the plan: join us online on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 for #GivingTuesday and make a gift online through our website – fast, safe, secure! Boom, done, and you're saving farmland (just like that), the farms that feed your family everyday.
To learn more about this global movement visit, https://www.givingtuesday.org


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Do you want your company to use recycled and high-quality raw materials, which will also contribute to a more sustainable production?
Тhe raw materials we extract from used tires, will be of a quality, which is equivalent to primary raw materials.In the conversion process we are using the pyrolysis technology, which is shredding the tires into small pieces, which are then being heated without oxygen. This process has the advantage that the new raw materials are of a higher quality and a better functionality than raw materials extracted with oxygen, because oxygen can damage the raw materials.
Vi kan fremstille petrokemiske produkter, Carbon black pulver, stål og energi, der kan genanvendes inden for en lang række områder.
Genanvendelige råmaterialer:
- Petrochemical products, such as pyrolysis oil, which can be used as oil for generators or cleansing oil.
- Carbon black powder for production of ink and colours for new tires
- Steel to produce new tires or other steel productsStål kan genfødes i produktionen af nye dæk
- Syngas to produce effective solutions for energy such as district heating or electricity.


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Sales managers are busier and more distracted than ever…often at the expense of their sales team. There's a key component often missed: effective coaching.
Sales managers are busier and more distracted than ever, oftentimes at the expense of developing their sales team. The day in the life of the sales manager is truly, in many cases, out of control. They're being hit from every different angle and being pressured to really drive the numbers that they need to drive. They have planning. They have forecasting. They're working on opportunities. They're trying to deal with the customer.
The reality is, there is one key component that leaders often miss, and we refer to it as the X factor. The X factor in this case is all about effective coaching. Sales managers need to dedicate that time on a regular basis with their personnel to have those one-on-one conversations to keep each of their salespeople on track. And in the end, that's a multiplier on their ability to deliver the results.
What's worked best for our clients is when they develop a cadence of coaching for their sales leaders, so the leaders understand what the expectations are for them in coaching their teams and then developing the tools and the guides to ensure that they're successful at getting it done. Think about the coaching that is occurring in your organization, and are you truly taking advantage of the coaching X factor?


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Dengeki Daioh Genesis Magazine's Cancelled after Volume 6
The publication of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh Genesis magazine has been cancelled. Volume 6 will be the last one to be released by the publishing company. Read below to understand which titles will be ceased and which will continue but in different magazines.
Dengeki Daioh Genesis hasn't been having the best of experiences even from the very start. Planned as a monthly magazine, the publication format was changed into a bi-monthly one after just a year and a half of being on the market. No matter this fact, though, many fans have found interest in the various titles that spread on the pages of the magazine.Here is what will happen to these titles after the closure of the media:
Moving to ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh. To resume in Spring 2013
"Yasashii Sekai" no Tsukurikata by Kumiko Takeba
"Evergreen" by Yuyuko Takemiya and Akira Kasukabe
"Tenshoku Crossover" by Miyabi Fujieda
"Yuyupo no Honto no Hanashi" column by Takemiya
Moving to other magazines. To be announced at a later date in Dengeki Daioh Genesis and ASCII's official website
"Monochrome Myst" by You Shiina
"Ashita no Kyouko-san" by Masakazu Iwasaki
"Kanoko Moyou" by Waka Miyama
"Wakuwaku Rokko Motion" by Daioki
"Mariyuki Makase no Tengu Michi" by Juutarou Nishino
"Girigiri Out" by Somatou
Titles that finished on Monday
"Jishou Maoh to Chuuni Cluster" by Shima Matsuda
"Jidou Hanbaiki Tobe-san" by Roots
"Durandal ~Fukyuu no Yaiba~" by Shigeki Maeshima
"Suzulog Suzuro's Logfile" by FLIPFLOP
"Sakurairo Memory" by Koma Amezawa
"Uruwashi Kaitou Alice" by Atsushi Suzumi and Romeo Tanaka
Source: Comic Natalie
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Williamsburg Heritage Dancers. What follows are his recollections.
A fancy 18th Century Ball in a historic setting requires no less than my finest attire: my gold 1750's regalia, manifested in gold brocaded breeches, a gold weskit, and a gold skirted jacket, adorned with a red baldric and a lace jabot. For eye candy, I'm adding an emerald brooch. And of course, I have to wear my gold-trimmed tricorn, the one inspired by Lord Cornwallis' topper in The Patriot. Not only does the outfit befit mannered English royalty, the skirted coat make me appear fashionably portly.
Underneath, I've added a few hidden touches. I'm wearing a new ruffled shirt with ruffled cuffs I saw this morning at a store in Willamsburg. I am also wearing two layers of white stockings, necessary because the new white stockings I have just purchased are a little sheener than I desire. I want my calves to be snow white when I bow to the ladies of Williamsburg, not white tinged with pink.
The neck ruffles in my shirt are tucked into my weskit, away from view. They don't play nicely with my weskit, so I tuck them in and tie on the jabot, attaching it to my baldric with a safety pin to keep it from flying about as I prance the night away. I also pin my baldric to my shoulder with the brooch. This is when the shirt's true value emerges: I accidentally prick my finger and deposit blood spatters on one of my cuffs. Fortunately, the shirt's synthetic weave makes it a snap to remove the offending spots with tap water. My purist friends might frown on anything less than period-correct materials, but I will politely disagree.
I have only a short walk down the halls of my inn to the grand ballroom, so I shan't be needing the carriage. But timing is a question. The announced start time is 7:00, but I am not certain if that's the time of the first dance or the time the reception begins. I split the difference and arrive at 6:30.
Our Colonial dancing hosts are still arranging the entry table and placing the modern-day nametags which we will all use to identify each other. I'm happy not to have to remember names, which I struggle with. Remembering the dances will challenge my memory quite adequately.
The tag reads "Christopher Francis," to my delight. "You fit all 11 letters of my first name on!" I marvel to the hosts.
"We're proud of that," one of them smiles.
As the guests arrive, the color and fancy flourish I am hoping for materializes before me. Ladies are not shy about wearing their wide 18th Century polonaise ball gowns with the farthingdales and corsets. But most of them are skipping the highly-powdered, highly-elevated wigs. Several ladies are fast-forwarding to the late 18th Century, preferring the Regency pillar dress of the Pride & Prejudice era. One lady walks in wearing a hat with a large plume atop her fancy wig. My Lady, how shall she be able to dance in that?
The gentlemen are sporting a few powdered wigs here and there. They run the gamut of the breeches-and-buttons theme: a few townspeople, a few fancy aristocrats, a Continental Navy officer or two. Many are wearing tricorns. And they will keep them on, just like your humble servant as he eagerly awaits the first dance.
The journey to this moment has taken three months of preparation, and many months more of researching and dreaming, along with a electronic correspondence to the hosts...
My Most Honourable Ball Host or Hostess,
Greetings from Tucson!
I am registered for the upcoming George Washington Ball, and I had a couple of curiosities.
First, I notice no mention of a caller. I completely understand this is in the spirit of the time and true to the authenticity of the dance, but I do hope others will be forgiving of my missteps. I have indeed received the instructions, and I plan to attend the "refresher" session on the day of the ball, but many of these dances are new to me.
I have been dancing English Country Dances for about 5 years with a couple of groups here in Arizona, and although I do not consider myself a beginner, I do not consider myself advanced, either. What advice would you give to a newcomer to this ball who will be journeying quite a distance for an immersive Colonial experience? How best can I enjoy the evening without being a burden to more experienced dancers?
I have wanted for some time to dance at a grand Colonial ball, in my finest period attire -- a rare experience indeed, one that is even rarer in Arizona. This is a "bucket list" item for me, and I want to make sure I do things in a manner pleasing to all.
Thank you so much for this opportunity. I pledge I will not be unworthy of it.
Your Humble Servant And Friend In The Dance,
Christopher Francis
Tucson, Arizona
A few days later, I had my reply from Lou, Dancing Master Emeritus, who said he was "delighted" that I would be coming so far. "We pride ourselves at being a very welcoming an accommodating group of dancers," he wrote. He also assured me there would be callers and opportunities to practice the tougher dances.
In closing, he wrote: "In an interesting aside, a dancing master in Colonial Virginia was named Francis Christian, a striking similarity to your name."
Francis Christian. My mouth drops open. The past has caught up again with me once more.
The first dance of the evening is not a grand march, like I am used to, but a minuet, of which I have no practical experience. This is the only dance of the evening we have not rehearsed at a practice session earlier in the day.
"Can I fake one?" I asked one of the instructor/callers.
"You can try, if you know what you're doing."
Which I don't, at least not exactly. The minuet refers to any number of dances, and there is no clue as to which one our hosts intend. But like dancing at a fancy ball, I have also dreamed of dancing a minuet at a fancy ball, and so I intend to do my best.
I bow to a young Regency lady, asking for a dance.
"Do you know the minuet?" she asks. "I don't."
"Well, I don't either," I reply. "But if you follow my lead, we shall both be fine."
Couples are lining up in two columns, facing our trio of musicians: Japanese keyboard, violin and English flute. My dancing partner and I take a position near the rear of a long row. If both of us blow it, it will look fairly inconspicuous.
The secret to my scheme lies in situational awareness. We will need to follow the lead of the couple in front of us, and in front of that couple. Everybody will be doing the same dance the same way. Just what way is about to be revealed.
It starts easily enough, with a courtly bow and a curtsy to the players and to each other. Then the gentleman and lady take hands and begin moving daintily about each other. It's ballet before people knew what ballet was. I'm watching the footwork and the movement of the gentleman in front of me as I try to synchronize my movements. I'm about a second behind as I tread lightly around the lady with a fancy flourish of my hands or my tricorn. It's a beatiful dance, even though I have only a faint idea of what I'm doing.
Five minutes after this charade begins, it is all over with another courtly bow to my partner, who seems pleased and satisfied. The ultimate irony: if she was true to her Regency persona reflected in her dress, she probably wouldn't have danced the minuet in the first place.
The first country dance of the evening is about to begin. Now the real test of my abilities begins. I have rehearsed this dance earlier, but now I will have to do it with little or no help from a caller.
From my experience and travels, a caller is the guiding light in historical English dance. That person is there to help you enjoy the evening by not forcing you to know hundreds of dances, as those Colonial Virginians did. Yet we are not among novices. So the procedure will be this: the caller will briefly walk us through one iteration of the dance, since the steps all repeat in a loop. The music will begin, and the dance will be called during the opening iteration, and then the caller will drop out, leaving us to our own skill... or lack of it. This is where the reassurances of the Dancing Master Emeritus shall be put to the test.
I bow to my new partner and get to it.
If I err, I err slightly. Others are far from flawless. We help each other in the lines, softly prompting each other or pointing where to go. I imagine those Colonial Virginian dancers did the same to guide and correct each other, not in anger but in love.
The first dances fly by, and my apprehensions about the material dissolves. Now I can focus on my other responsibilities... like honouring the ladies.
Many attending have come as couples, but in the courteous tradition of historic dance, the guests are encouraged to dance with as many different partners as possible -- especially the gentlemen.
Some call that a requirement. I call it a blessing. The mathematics of historic dance always seems to favour the honourable; more ladies than gents always attend such functions. In every dance, several ladies end up dancing with each other because there either not enough gentlemen or not enough gentlemen willing to dance.
Not me. I know what to look for. The ladies who are desirous of a dance are nearly always standing on the edge of the floor, looking a bit forlorn or lost, scanning the crowds with their eyes to see if a gent might be walking their way...
"My lady, do you have a partner for this next dance?" I ask in my aristocratic British accent as I bow to a lady, a question I shall repeat as the night progresses. When she says no, true to my suspicions, I add the predicate: "May I have the honour of this dance."
"Honour." Always "honour." Never the vernacular shorthand. Everything is done in honour to the ladies. Every step shows them honour. The mannered Colonial gent shall look his partner in the eye in the spirit of Christian love. When I bow to them, I shall bow low and with great reverence, as if each one of them were The Queen.
"My Lady," I say upon rising. "I thank you for such a wonderful dance. And I thank you for your patience and tolerance of my faults."
I have been told such overly courtly manners are more than what is required. The ladies, however, merely smile and enjoy it, returning the thank-yous with another curtsy and maybe a blush.
One of the many callers of the evening assures us we can master the steps of the last dance before the break for refreshments.
"They look much harder than they actually are," he says after he's walked us through it once.
In his mind, he's right. But for us novices, we need more help with its looping figures which take us inside and outside our little groups of four along the line. At least in my line, several of us are more than a bit confused.
But when the dance begins, his calling dissolves. We are on our own, lost in time and space beyond the first few figures. A few others are getting through, but the dance's rapid pace does not allow them the opportunity to prompt us with a quiet word or gesture.
My partner and I along with the couple next to us do the only thing we can. Stand. Stand and look admirably to each other. Try to keep the dance's progression going as neatly as we can without disrupting the other couples. But like bubbles in a torrid sea, we can't escape our fate as we rise to the top.
Fortunately, our caller has gotten the hint. "All right, let's halt," he says, seeing the need to walk us through it again.
"He needs to call it," I observe to my partner. "Sometimes you just have to call it. This isn't like in Colonial Virginia. We don't do this for a living!"
My partner smiles and curtsies to me again, "Thank you, my kind sir!"
We walk through it again. We amble through it once more as the music resumes. And somehow, we learn it. Our caller is right in the end, but if only the journey was less agonizing.
Circle mixers are my delight, for they allow me to dance with as many ladies as possible -- all in one dance. For the sole one of the night, our leaders choose "Indian Princess," a variant of the dance "Indian Queen," which was originally developed with Pocahontas in mind.
The steps are easy and lively: setting to your partner, passing them by and turning another lady next to you, then returning to your partner, setting to them again, passing them again to the other lady on the other side and turning them. Then you turn your partner a couple of times before progressing three places down to meet a new partner, where everything begins again.
Nobody needs to call this dance, at least not for long. Everyone picks it up right away, in two large circles as we skip around one another and allow our joy to pour out of us.
It is my tradition to raise my free hand whenever I am turning a lady -- an affectation many of my dancing friends at home warmly embrace. Abroad, it is harder to convince others to let their light shine through. It is true for this group... until I spot a gentleman next to me raising his free hand high in exhaultation.
"They're doing it," I laugh to my partner. "They're doing it! HUZZAH!"
I shout more huzzahs when the dance ends over joyous applause.
I am only planning to sit out two dances this evening. One of them is "Prince William," a dance that threw my friend Madame and I into a near fit of frustration at a Scottish ball in Tucson. It is a beautiful dance, but it is also filled with complicated figures and turns and the dreaded "crossover hey." For a pro it's no sweat. For a novice, it's too much all at once.
But as I am walking away from the floor, a lady turns the tables on me.
"Did you want to dance this one?"
"My Lady, as much as I would like to, I didn't do it very well at the rehearsal this afternoon. But I can do it if you lead me strongly."
She agrees she can, and we line up in a three-couple set. A saving grace of the dance is that if a few dancers mess up, the effects can't ripple through the entire ballroom like in longways dances. We could mess up as much as we wanted in our little group of six and the dance police wouldn't pull us over.
So we start the dance, which should look something like this, as demonstrated by another group:
Now imagine that same dance with one lady pointing at several of us to single when to move and who to turn. She did not have to make an exasperating amount of gestures, to our relief. And eventually, we all learn the dance, including that crossover hey, more or less.
"There's a bulge in it," another lady had explained to me at the earlier rehearsal. And by golly, that cleared things up for your humble servant.
The other dance I intended to sit out, "The Punch Bowl," came with fair warning not to attempt to learn on the floor. So I sit it out -- for real this time, with no lady jumping in to rescue and prompt me at the last moment. That's when I encounter a lady in garb at least one century earlier than most of the room.
"I see you have embraced the Renaissance," I complimented.
"Yes! This is from the De Medici era of Italy," she explained, describing her green dress adorned with hundreds of hand-stitched beads. She talks about her life as a Renaissance re-enactor in Crownsville, Maryland. She had shifted timelines from later eras. But she was still fond of historic dance of the Colonial era, even though she was choosing to sit out the second half of the program. Her body would only allow her so much.
A tinge of sadness flashes through me. I know there might well come a time when my "dancing days are done," as George Washington once lamented as he turned down an invitation to join an assembly late in his life. For the life of me, though, I shall fight that day until I breathe my last. You can bury me on the dance floor.
The second half of the ball flies by as quickly as the first. By 11pm, it is time to call the festivies to a close. After a final French contredanse, our orchestra indulges a common wish for a final waltz with the ladies and gentlemen who came together.
Some may waltz. Others will minuet, and that other would be me, as I saunter amongst the couples, holding my hands gracefully in three-quarter time in a solo, improvised caper, but I don't want it to end like this.
I quickly locate another of those ladies standing on the side of the ballroom floor, scanning the crowds, and ask for a waltz.
So we start to waltz. But I have a last request.
"My lady, I often dance an improvised minuet with my partners back home. If you are willing to learn, I can lead you through it. Would you like to try? It's like a country dance we make up as we go along."
She agrees with a smiling nod, and I begin the number, starting by turning her by right and left hands, and then backing away, coming forward, and then turning single before siding to each other. The secret is in the hand signals. I call the next step just before it's done, and the lady follows my lead. It's not in perfect synchronization, but it looks beautiful as the Earl of Suffolk in his gold attire steps stately around a lady of the Colonies in her green and pink floral dress, rosy cheeks highlighting her smiling face. She is a quick learner.
"Thank you for indulging me," I say after a low and final bow.
All during the evening, a Colonial lad thought he spotted a familiar face. After most of the others had left, we met up as I was talking to another.
"Your face is familiar," he said to me, "But I can't place it."
I looked at his nametag. I instantly recognized it.
"I know you!" I explained. "You were at Manassas! You're the guy who saved me from heat exhaustion!"
Now the light was on. In my change from Civil War to Colonial attire, John couldn't place me. But now he remembers, and he's happy to see me both well and not in need of another ice cube pressed up against a major artery.
I know he loves to dance. John had mentioned an opportunity at Manassas last summer, and I knew I wouldn't be able to take him up on it in the short timeframe I had for the trip. "Oh, just break my heart!" I had said.
But now, here we are, neither expecting the other. History repeats. I indulge him to take a few pictures of your humble servant before the time comes to say good night.
The afterglow is with me through the night and into the morning as I walk in Colonial Williamsburg. The ball is like a dream now, something I cannot believe happened, and yet it did. Wistfulness and sadness tinges within me. At times my life is measured as time between fancy balls.
I don't know if I will ever see most of my new dancing companions ever again. Expense and real life will only allow me so many of these ball adventures.
Yet as I walk down Duke Of Gloucester Street, I spot a group of familiar young ladies, who instantly spot your humble servant. I'm not wearing any historic attire anymore -- just shorts, tennis shoes, and a red jacket... but topped with a tricorn hat.
They greet me again, smiling, their ball gowns exchanged for sweaters and skirts.
I remove my tricorn and bow.


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The Young Presidents Organization held a 3-day coaches clinic for 100 participants from around the world. This clinic was billed as an "immersion of champions," and the approach was effective in creating a change in my outlook. Perhaps what I have learned will help you to understand the role of the people in your life. Maybe it will help you maintain your attitude and the role you have to set the stage for your success or failure.
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Lesson 2: Not all champions are athletes. Champions can be found in every field of human endeavor, at every level. Mr. Cirovski's comment was empowering at several levels. It's not about "what we hear that counts." Yes, that is important. However, in Mr. Cirovski's world, "it's what we do with what we hear" that has the effect and makes the difference.
This is a crucial distinction.
What do you do with what you hear? Do you even pay attention? Do you give it quick consideration or just a quick dismissal? Do you use what you hear as a means to further your actions to achieve your personal ambitions? Understanding the difference between "what is heard" and "what we do with what we hear" is the critical step toward greater life effectiveness and personal empowerment.
Lesson 3: Spending time with champions makes you start to think and act like a champion. As you might imagine, with 24 world-class athletes elbow-to-elbow, the theme of the clinic was set: "It's not just the thinking part, but the acting part that determines success." We can all desire something. We can all want something or think about having it. However, after a few days with 2 dozen accomplished athletes, you quickly come to the conclusion that it isn't so much about the thinking, as much as it is about the doing.
So what does one do on an immersion experience with champions? Well, if you said early morning jogs, you'd only be half right. Champions don't jog. They like to do intensive wind sprints. These sessions happened to be led by Eugene Thomas, a former trainer with the Chicago Bears.
The daily exercise sessions were endured by most everyone else, people obviously more fit, more in shape and more athletic than I am. Having learned Lesson 1, I knew that I needed more than a plan; I needed action. So my plan and action were simple: I would run all out as fast as I could to show that I can "push it" and succeed in the presence of these superior athletes.
Those of you that don't know me are luckier than those that do, as they can probably picture me flailing my arms and gasping for air like an asthmatic pelican trying to scoop a fish a few sizes too large. My lungs burned; my legs seized up with pain. I was learning that perhaps I need to temper my actions with—well, judgment comes to mind—then my world changed.
It was not a voice from above (although it made the pain much more bearable). It was Ronnie Lott, former first-round NFL draft pick, All-Pro, Hall-of-Fame cornerback and safety offering his guidance and encouragement.
Lesson 4: Work on your stride. "Work on your stride! Come on now, work on your stride!" That was the wisdom of Mr. Lott. He never said the words, "Improve your process." He never said, "Son, you'd better stick to making parts." In the matter-of-fact way that all of those champions dealt with their challenges, Mr. Lott's words simply acknowledged the reality and fine-tuned the resulting actions. "Focus on the process" is the champion's way of getting to the goal.
So I worked on my stride, aligning my will to stay up with those well-trained athletes. My body's awkward and unpracticed attempts to metabolize sugars into energy moved me rapidly in a forward direction. I am sure that it was not a pretty sight. But, as I worked on my stride, my running became smoother and breathing became a lot easier.
This was my takeaway, my life lesson courtesy of Ronnie Lott: I am going to work on my stride. I am going to understand that running as fast as I can isn't a sustainable plan and doesn't respect the reality of my situation. I am looking at many things a little differently now, including professional, personal and community goals that I would like to accomplish.
I am working on my stride, reaching according to and perhaps a bit beyond my current abilities. Running fast without efficiency doesn't get you to where you want to go. Without efficiency, there is no grace. It's hard to be an effective leader without the grace that is possible.
Lesson 5: The final lesson. With a little bit of coaching and a little bit of positive support, you can act on your desires to achieve far beyond what you would normally expect. That is the lesson for all of us who sprint blindly through our days, hurtling from one crisis to the next. I'm working on my stride thanks to Ronnie Lott, and I hope you act on your stride thanks to this article.


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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that bastion of free enterprise, wants the taxpayers to help pay for BP's oil spill in the Gulf. When asked whether he agreed, House Minority Leader John Boehner, he of the unnatural looking tan, said, "I think the people responsible for the oil spill — BP and the federal government — should take full responsibility for what's happening there." Enter our senator, Bob Menendez, who has been out front on this since BP's oil well blew up. He said:
"At the same time Senate Republicans were angling to protect Big Oil from vehicle fuel efficiency standards, the leader of the House Republicans was angling to protect BP from paying for the economic damage it is causing. This tells us all we need to know about who Republicans stand with. They don't stand with the taxpayers, who they would have pay for the economic damage from oil spills. Instead, they stand with oil companies who want all the profits from drilling, but want taxpayers to pay for spills. The surest way to protect the taxpayers, coastal families and coastal small businesses is to ensure that oil companies that spill are fully accountable for the economic damage they cause. We need to pass the Prevention Act."
Menendez is sponsor of that bill. While it is true that lax oversight and rules favoring oil companies are the responsibility of the federal government, it is big oil outfits like BP that wined and dined lawmakers and made campaign contributions to get favorable conditions. For instance, yesterday the Senate blocked a measure sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska Republican) that would block new mandates requiring American car and truck manufacturers to use less oil.
Canada requires a second drill along with the first in case something like this Gulf blowout happens. It will take BP until August to get the second one to shut off the flow. BP and others don't want a second routine drill law because it would cost $500,000. Right about now that looks like cheap insurance.


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The 3D Street Dancer Full movie of Bollywood superstars Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor premieres in theaters on January 24. Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, and their fans eagerly await the release of the highly promoted dance action movie Street Dancer 3D.
The Street Dancer 3D movie is one of the most anticipated films of 2020 thanks to the incredible combination of Varun Dhawan, Prabhu Deva, and Shraddha Kapoor. Street Dancer 3D is a dance-based movie set in London that involves a rivalry between two dance groups from India and Pakistan.
However, the bad news awaits the creators of the Hindi biography period film "Street Dancer 3D" by Remo D'Souza, highly publicized and on a large budget, since Tamilrockers, a leading torrent site for downloading movies, already leaked the entire movie online.
Will the leak of the download of the Tamilrockers movie from Street Dancer 3D affect the box office collections?
The Street Dancer 3D budget for the production is around INR 100 Crores, which is one of the biggest budgets for Bollywood this year. Given the amount of investment at stake, the early pirate release of the online movie Street Dancer 3D for free download is likely to reduce your earnings.
As emphasized earlier, today's films rely heavily on the opening week's collections as an important source of return on investment. With the advent of Tamilrockers, Tamilgun, Telegram, and other online movie streaming sites, filmmakers face a daunting task of dealing with this situation.
However, Street Dancer 3D Full Movie is promoted quite well and the cast of Varun Dhawan, dance legend Prabhu Deva, Shraddha Kapoor and other superstars will definitely attract fans to cinemas to watch the movie. In addition, Street Dancer 3D promises to be a gift full of visual sperm for the amount of money invested in production and seeing it in a simple 480P or 720P print will not do justice to the images at stake, we believe.
On the other hand, the first-hand reactions of Street Dancer 3D are very promising and we will expect more reviews and reports in the coming days. However, the leak of Street Dancer 3D on Tamilrockers is likely to have a detrimental effect on the success of long-term movies.
Street Dancer 3D Movie Hit or Flop? Street Dancer 3D First-day collection
The collection of the first day for Street Dancer 3D is expected to be INR 11 to 12 million rupees at all ticket offices in India. The first day of collection abroad is linked to INR 3 million rupees in all languages.
Street Dancer 3D has opened to incredible reviews. In addition, the weekend is likely to increase its occupancy in the first week.
Global gross total: 125cr (expected)
The box office collection shows that it has a grand opening and, since it is a long weekend, we hope you keep the box office during the weekend. Word of mouth about the film could help in the long term and hopefully, it goes well at the box office. We will update the box office collections as soon as we receive more updates.
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