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AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2019, 4(3): 794-806. doi: 10.3934/agrfood.2019.3.794
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Impact of solvent and supercritical fluid extracts of green tea on physicochemical and sensorial aspects of chicken soup
1 Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Government College Women University Faisalabad, Pakistan
2 National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
3 University Institute of Diet and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
4 Centre for Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216, Australia
5 School of Agriculture and Food, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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Owari no AiA Poem by Nightfeather
Will there ever be an end to love or are we trapped to be hurt forever?
Owari no Ai
No pain, no love...
But I did not expect there to be so much pain,
The wounds have closed some time ago,
But the scars won't heal, for the pain won't stop to flow.
All the years of endurance, were only of vain.
Love, pain, tears...
The cycle which leaves one's heart sheer,
Am I fated to loop in the infinity?
While you watch me as I fade away…
My tree holds my memories of you,
But the leaves kept falling before I knew…
But why are they trying to revert…?
Do they want me to be forever hurt…?
I am in a place where no hands will heal,
My heart won't ever reach…
For my hope is drained by my leech,
And my fate is held by a cursed seal
Will my line run straight forever…?
I have to become divergent,
For I want my line to blur.
Erasing the past, so I may be free of this sinless hunt.
It is time to close this chapter,
For I finally know what I am after.
You are my wing…
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Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads - R.C. Sproul
I ran across this article by R.C. Sproul written almost 30 years ago, but was struck by how much it applies to today's situation.
"contentless religion, thoughtless action, and vacuous zeal—fire without light." - Wow, does this describe today's world or what.
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Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads
Christianity Today 26, 100 (Sept. 3, 1982). R.C. Sproul
How can we love what we do not understand?
What do you read first when the newspaper arrives? I dive for the sports pages—an involuntary reflex action left over from a youth spent with visions of Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers dancing in my head. The child within me still suffers more anxiety over league standings than the Falkland Islands. Old reading habits die hard. It is the same with Christian magazines and periodicals. When I first began reading Christianity Today, two columns hooked me quickly. One was "Eutychus and His Kin," the other, "Current Religious Thought." I still go first to "Current Religious Thought," for I know I will encounter some vignettes of intellectual insight to nourish my too-empty head.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. We are not necessarily antiacademic, antitechnological, or antiscientific. The accent is against the intellect itself. Secular culture has embraced a kind of impressionism that threatens to turn all our brains into mush, and the evangelical world has followed suit, developing an allergy to all things intellectual.
The kind of debate waged between Luther and Erasmus or Edwards and Chubb would be unacceptable today. Their reasoning was too acute, their polemics too acerbic, their critiques too rapier-like for our modern comfort zones. Debates, if they are held today, are won by charm and a benign smile rather than by lucid argument. Satire is almost extinct, the verbal gladiators who used it having perished with the fathers. To be sure, William Buckley persists, but he is an anachronism, a refurbished antique whose style is so uncommon that some mistake him for something new.
How I pine for the days of yore when Ad Leitch responded to Tillich's recasting of traditional categories of divine transcendence from "up-there" to "down-there" on the depth dimension of the Ground of Being. Does anyone remember Leitch's article in the early sixties about the impact Tillich's theology would have on church architecture? He said that instead of steeples pointing heavenward we would have to have our church services while assembled in a cavernous open pit. Our search for the Ground of Being would occur not while singing "Rise Up, O Men of God," but rather ''Go Down, Moses."
Kierkegaard, after evaluating the state of the church in nineteenth-century Europe, wrote, "My complaint is not that this age is wicked, but that it is paltry: It lacks passion." The Dane should be alive today. Passion we have —it is reason that is in eclipse. Christianity is an intellectual faith. This does not mean that it flirts with intellectualism or restricts sainthood to an elite group of gnostic eggheads. But though the Word of God is not limited to intellectuals, its content is addressed to the mind. There is a primacy of the intellect in the Christian life as well as a primacy of the heart.
How can that be? To speak of the primacy of both mind and heart sounds like a neo-orthodox creed, a dabbling in dialectics. How can two distinct things have primacy at the same time without resorting to contradiction? Must there not be one ultimate primacy, or at least a primus inter pares? We can, I think, have two primacies if they hold their primacy in different relations. The primacy of the intellect is with respect to order. The primacy of the heart is with respect to importance.
We know that the disposition of the heart toward Christ is of supreme importance. If our doctrine is correct, our intellectual understanding of theology impeccable, it is to no avail if our heart is "far from him." If the head is right and the heart is wrong, we perish. On the other hand, if the head is confused, the understanding muddled, and the doctrine fuzzy, there is still hope for us if our hearts beat with a passion for God. Better the empty head than the empty heart.
Why then bother with religious thought, or speak at all of the primacy of the mind? Precisely for the sake of the heart. How can we love what we do not understand? How can we worship an unknown God? If the character of God remains an enigma to us, all our singing, praying, and religious zeal becomes a useless passion, a beating of the air. Religion degenerates to superstition and liturgy becomes a form of magical incantation.
There is a content to the Christian faith. That content is directed, by way of order, to the mind. The New Testament calls us to be childlike, but not with respect to understanding. It is the plea of the apostolic heart that we not be ignorant in our heads. God has made us with a harmony of heart and head, of thought and action, God the Holy Spirit superintended a Book that is to be read, whose verbal content is to be so understood and digested that our hearts may burn within us. As the ankle bone is connected to the knee bone, so there is a marvelous circuitry fashioned by God that flashes back and forth from head to heart. The more we know him the more we are able to love him. The more we love him the more we seek to know him. To be central in our hearts he must be foremost in our minds. Religious thought is the prerequisite to religious affection and obedient action.
We must have passion—indeed hearts on fire for the things of God. But that passion must resist with intensity the anti-intellectual spirit of the world. The entrance of that spirit into the house of God is like a Trojan horse, concealing within its belly the troops of the enemy who would beguile us with contentless religion, thoughtless action, and vacuous zeal—fire without light. Its only legacy will be a tomb for a forgotten deity inscribed with the epitaph, "To an Unknown God."
Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. (Ephesians 3:21)
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Re: Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads - R.C. Sproul
An interesting portion. But I find it to mainly be a stance against postmodernism. A defense of the modern era. And a review of history as if it is all part of the modern era until now.
Understand that I do agree with most of what Sproul is saying. But in its own way, even considering his allowance for the matters of the heart, it is too bound by intellectualism.
He is right to say that there is in postmodernism a tendency to refuse to consider intellectual matters important enough to debate and consider whether your positions are actually true.
But there is a view that even Sproul is missing. Despite our casting of the theological debates of the early church in terms of modernity, they are not like todays debates. Yes, they follow the rules of debate and of logic, but they are not based on the kind of apologetics that grew in the enlightenment and resulted in the kind of knowledge-based theology that saw its pinnacle in the Brethren and even the Bible churches (of which I am admittedly a part). Those early discussions were centered on the truth, but were part of a practice of faith that included many things the most enlightened of us now reject. They were very engaged in tradition, ritual, recitation, creed. They were still focused on the obedience and righteousness of the believer.
Today, so many have become engrossed in what they know rather in who, what, and how they follow. It is about assent to propositions and not obedience to command. For too many, faith is a matter of declaring that certain things are true. There is little or no requirement regarding obedience outside of refraining from a list of moral no-nos. The very teaching of justice in the Biblical sense has disappeared from the theology and practice of those who claim to believe the most. And it remains with those who have less certainty in how they believe certain things outside of the fact of Christ himself.
I certainly realize that if we dont know at all what we believe we can find ourselves believing in a cosmic mushroom. But if we claim to know what we believe so strongly, yet do not follow as if the words and commands of the one we claim to believe are important, there is a serious lack in your belief.
And Sproul agrees with this when he says . . .
But Sproul must realize that he is speaking from the end of an era in which the content became so great at the expense of what the content was about. And despite his assent to the preeminence of the heart, he then returns to suggest (indirectly) that we all need to know the attributes of God to be good Christians. But that is not the way that the attributes of God became known. It was mostly through the experience of the people first the Israelites, then the church that the things of God were found and revealed as true. The characteristics of God are not for the brain, but for the experience. If you cant experience it, you dont need to know it. And if you experience it, it doesnt really matter if you can express it in words correctly.
For all my gripes against so many things LRC, there was an element of truth in that little article in The Stream magazine back in the early 70s titled Hunky and Dory in the Land of Food. If we believe that reading about it and declaring that we believe it is the way then we are most fooled. The people of the way are those that actually go the way, not just those who have found it on a map and trust that the map is accurate. It is not those who have described the scenery along the way the best based on the written accounts of others. The problem with the LRC, and even much of the evangelical tradition of which I am a part, is that we are just as wrapped up in what we think we know.
And too often wrong about it but unwilling to have open discussion with no presumption that any particular author or teacher simply has it right.
I once thought I was. . . . but I may have been mistaken Edge (with apologies)
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Hip Haus Networking Anniversary Party
The MAY Edition of a FREE Networking Event for Young Professionals – Celebrating the Hip Haus 4 Year Anniversary!
Quite the event last night! I don't go to these things often but I was curious about the Hip Haus. For 3 years I've been
rsvping but never went to an event. So I went finally and talked to some people and generally hung out in a cool place downtown. I was hoping to talk to some business owners looking for websites, but that really didn't happen. More like eveyone was looking for opportunities for themselves, not really looking for service providers.
Still it was fun and The poutine was great! However did not win the raffle prizes :(. Oh well, maybe next time.


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I have a question about the News Bar script as seen on this page,
Although it says the script works with FF1+, when I view that page with
the Firefox browser, the previous and next buttons appear as numbers,
ie. "3" and "4" - instead of [Next] & [Previous]
I tried Firefox 1.0 and then the latest build 1.5.4 - but no luck.
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So I have now watched every Academy Award winning Best Picture, 1928 thru 2014. My initial thought upon completion: eighty-seven films are a hell of a lot of movies.
I wonder who else out there has actually taken the time to watch ALL of the Best Pictures? I would be interested to compare notes. Of course, my friend Mike insists that I should have seen all of the nominees, and not just the winners. But even rounding-down the nominees to five every year, which was not always the case, that is more than 435 nominees! He hasn't seen all of them either, so I think I'm okay just watching the winners for now...!
Looking over the list of winners, there doesn't seem to be any overall trend. Besides the biographical dramas, which are the majority, sometimes there are comedies (so-called) and musicals. Each genre is represented, such as Westerns, crime dramas, sports dramas, and histories. There are mostly large-scale epics (such as Amadeus and Ben-Hur), but there are some "small" personal dramas such as Marty and Kramer vs Kramer.
One thing I did notice watching a film or so a week for more than a year, is Hollywood's tradition of giving themselves a pat on the back. Perhaps because Best Picture is the one Academy Award that all Academy members can vote on, it is not unlikely to see films that are technically brilliant but dull (Birdman, The Artist) or somehow about the process of making art in the first place (Birdman and The Artist again, but also Chicago, Shakespeare in Love, Amadeus, All About Eve, The Great Ziegfield, etc etc).
Is each of these Best Picture actually the best film of its year? In the end, every year has at least four losers. So the winning film was, if nothing else, the right film at the right time. Each film somehow spoke to the members of the Academy as an example of the zeitgeist. For example, two of the most famous Oscar "snubs" were How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane in 1941, and Crash over Brokeback Mountain in 2005. Were the wrong films chosen? Maybe. Just like a popularity contest, sometimes the Best is popular, but sometimes it isn't.
So here is the whole list, from 1928 through 2014. How many have YOU seen? Think about it, and then join me next week to review some of my Best of the Best lists, such as Films I Will Never Watch Again!


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Jan-Willem Paats graduated in September 2018 from the Universiteit Twente with a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering. During the master program, he completed an internship at AkzoNobel (nowadays Nouryon) at the complex metal-organics division and graduated with a thesis on pentafluorophenyl-based single-chain nanoparticles and its use for protein mimicry in the BNT group under the supervision of Dr. ir. Jos Paulusse.
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Believe it or not, there was once a time when the champion sire of Britain and Ireland wasn't housed at Coolmore.
Back in 1989, the championship was won by Blushing Groom, then in the twilight of his stud career at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky. Blushing Groom had been Kentucky-based throughout his career but he was never short of representation in Europe, as had been the case in 1989 when his son Nashwan and daughter Snow Bride won the Epsom Derby and Oaks (Snow Bride was awarded the race on the subsequent disqualification of Aliysa).
With the year arguably defined by Nashwan's victories in the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse and King George, Blushing Groom duly became that year's leading sire, to emulate Northern Dancer and Vaguely Noble as an American-based champion across the pond.
For all that Blushing Groom had yet to come up with a significant sire son by 1989, hopes remained understandably high that one would emerge. After all, there was Nashwan, installed at Nunnery Stud for the 1990 season at a fee of £100,000, and Arc hero Rainbow Quest, then at Banstead Manor Stud, waiting in the wings in Europe. Rahy, Mt Livermore and Runaway Groom, meanwhile, were among those in the U.S.
And those hopes duly materialised, as Rainbow Quest and Rahy in particular each forged highly successful stud careers of their own.
Thirty years on from the year of Nashwan and Snow Bride, however, and the sire line hangs by a thread.
A number of those successful sire sons failed to develop into successful sires of sires themselves. Thus over time, Blushing Groom's influence has dwindled significantly. And were it not for an unlikely representative in Le Havre, who is in the midst of a career-best season, it might well be on the cusp of dying out entirely.
By Red God, Blushing Groom was something of a rarity, being an auction purchase by the Aga Khan. Even so, the Aga knew his family well, having bred his dam, Runaway Bride, and campaigned his brother Bayraan to win a pair of G3s. Blushing Groom, a strong, well-made chestnut bought for 16,500gns as a foal at Newmarket in 1974 through Keith Freeman, would vindicate the decision to return to the well many times over.
Trainer Francois Mathet saddled Blushing Groom to win the 'Quadruple Crown', namely the Prix Robert Papin, Prix Morny, Prix de la Salamandre and Grand Criterium, the latter coming at the expense of the best that Britain supposedly had to offer in J.O. Tobin. At three, he added the Poule d'Essai des Poulains before finding the 1m4f of the Epsom Derby beyond him; nevertheless, he still ran third behind The Minstrel.
Surprising first crop
He ran just once more, when an unlucky second to Flying Water in the Prix Jacques les Marois, and with the menace of contagious equine metritis on the horizon that summer in Europe, was retired with immediate effect to Gainesway Farm in a deal that valued him at $6.26 million.
Surprisingly, Blushing Groom failed to sire a single Group/Graded stakes winner out of a first crop of 2yos sired off a fee of $35,000. Such a start didn't bode well for a horse who had been one of Europe's champion 2-year-olds, but, in a lesson to us all in the pitfalls of writing off a stallion too soon, all that soon changed as a slew of top performers emerged from 1982 onwards to eventually push his fee to a high of $275,000.
They were a varied group that included Runaway Groom, who had each of the American Triple Crown race winners behind him when taking the 1982 Travers Stakes, Kentucky Oaks heroine Blush With Pride, subsequently an outstanding producer, top French colts Groom Dancer and Crystal Glitters, Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Al Bahathri and the brilliant 2yo Arazi, in addition to Nashwan and Rainbow Quest.
Rainbow Quest was many people's idea of a legitimate heir, especially when he consolidated an outstanding first crop that contained Quest For Fame and Saumarez with the likes of Spectrum, Armiger and Millenary. However, many of his better sons disappointed at stud and his legacy ultimately extends through his daughters. Similar comments also apply to the diminutive Rahy - while two of his best sons, Fantastic Light and Noverre, were disappointing at stud for Darley, he did sire Mariah's Storm, herself dam of Giant's Causeway.
Disappointment of Arazi
Groom Dancer left behind a clutch of average sons while Runaway Groom sired Cherokee Run, a successful stallion in his own right but one who has been unable to leave a son of any significance. Mt Livermore, who stood alongside his sire at Gainesway Farm, sired the likes of Housebuster, Orientate and Subordination, but none have left a lasting mark on the breed.
Arazi, perhaps the most brilliant of all of Blushing Groom's runners, was arguably the most disappointing of all. And although Nashwan had his moments, notably as the sire of Swain and Bago, he failed to make the most of the opportunities afforded to him.
It's doubtful that many would have pinpointed Noverre, Arazi's three-parts brother by Rahy, as a legitimate candidate to enhance the line following his sale to India. The Sussex Stakes winner had received plenty of opportunities during his spell under the Darley banner in Ireland yet, at the time of his export in 2008, he had come up with only two Group winners. However, among his juveniles that year was Le Havre, subsequently winner of the Prix du Jockey Club for Jean-Claude Rouget.
Le Havre was quick off the mark at stud, rewarding the investment of his owner, Gerard Augustin-Normand, by siring the 2014 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane winner Avenir Certain in his first crop and fellow dual Classic heroine La Cressonniere in his third. Both were sired out of €5,000 crops and, unsurprisingly, helped prompt incremental fee increases of up to €60,000.
Now with his first €20,000 crop in the midst of their 3-year-old seasons, Le Havre is on a rapidly upward curve. So far, nine stakes winners have emerged out of that crop including Prix Greffulhe winner Roman Candle, Prix Vanteaux heroine Platane and the recent Prix de Psyche winner Villa Marina. Another daughter, Commes, fell only a nose short of becoming his third Prix de Diane heroine in five years.
The one criticism of Le Havre is that he is yet to sire a really good colt - his sole G1-winning male, Suedois, is a gelding. However, there are several smart colts by Le Havre currently in training, notably Roman Candle and Urwald. Perhaps one of them will prove good enough to become their sire's first son to retire to stud.
Meanwhile, with a €40,000 crop of 2-year-olds in the pipeline, not to mention several later €60,000 crops, it's safe to assume that Le Havre will remain at the forefront of the European bloodstock scene for some time to come.
On the other hand, Leroidesanimaux, sire of Sir Michael Stoute's progressive Zaaki, is sadly no longer with us. A brilliant miler in the U.S. for Bobby Frankel, the Brazilian-bred Leroidesanimaux represented the Candy Stripes branch of Blushing Groom, seen most frequently in South America (Candy Stripes is also the damsire of leading sire Candy Ride).
An onus on Animal Kingdom
Leroidesanimaux spent his American stud career under the Stonewalls Stallions banner, split between Kentucky and Florida. Despite never siring crops greater than 72 in his first five seasons, he came up with Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup hero Animal Kingdom in his second crop.
Zaaki, recent winner of the Diomed Stakes at Epsom and narrow runner-up in the Summer Mile, is a member of the stallion's first British-bred group sired following his relocation to Lanwades Stud in Newmarket. Stud owner Kirsten Rausing described the move at the time as 'the reintroduction of the Blushing Groom sire line to the UK', and fittingly it was Rausing who bred Zaaki.
Leroidesanimaux died in 2016, and it seems that if his sire line is to extend further, then matters rest with Animal Kingdom.
Effective on dirt, turf and synthetic, he has duly had every chance across both hemispheres, but it has to be said that an early record of four Group/Graded stakes winners within 539 foals of racing age does not inspire confidence in his ability to enhance the Blushing Groom legacy.
Of the others, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Pounced (by Rahy) and Gladiatorus, the Dubai Duty Free winner who represents an unlikely source in Silic, himself by Sillery, are faring well enough in Italy. Bago has sired ten stakes winners in Japan, among them G1 scorer Big Week, while Nedawi, by Rainbow Quest, remains a stalwart of the Brazilian scene. However, their success remains parochial.
The Blushing Groom line is in a fragile state. Yet it isn't alone, certainly in Europe, where the proliferation of Sadler's Wells and Danehill in particular have resulted in a constricted gene pool. Take the 1990 season, when Nashwan retired, as an example, when breeders had access to fine horses descending from Hyperion (via Forli, Aureole and Tudor Minstrel), Blandford (via Busted and his sons), Sharpen Up and Djebel (via Ahonoora and Blakeney). Today, nearly all of those lines have faded away.
Without Le Havre and a smattering of other representatives, the same could be said of Blushing Groom. With that, here's hoping that Le Havre can leave behind his own son of note.


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Calendar of Exhibitions
August 15 to Nov 15, 2014
Mount Vernon Nazarene Univ.
Schnormeier Gallery
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Contact person: Brian Baby
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Jan 1 to March 31, 2015
Tarble Arts Center
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Glencarin Museum
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Among the 41 pieces in this exhibition there are 10 of the 105 etchings originally intended to be illustrations for an Old Testament Bible and 24 brilliantly colored images from his 1956 and 1960 suites of Bible lithographs. Each is a delightful and colorful interpretation that lets the viewer enter the worlds of the Chagall and the Bible.
It is most interesting that Chagall, a Russian Jew, would have used the Crucifixion in so many of his works, yet numerous of his pieces include the Crucifixion as a reference or the subject of his paintings. Mystical Crucifixion and Christ in the Clock, two colored lithographs in this exhibition, demonstrate his fascination with this theme.
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There's a new man at the helm of distribution powerhouse Tech Data in the Middle East. With a wealth of channel experience behind him, Hanspeter Eiselt has now taken on the managing director role in the region.
|~|he200.jpg|~|Hanspeter Eiselt, managing director at Tech Data Middle East|~|There's a new man at the helm of distribution powerhouse Tech Data in the Middle East. With a wealth of channel experience behind him, Hanspeter Eiselt has now taken on the managing director role in the region. Given his ambitious plans for the continued development of Tech Data's operation in the region, what better time for Channel Middle East to 'Get To Know' Hanspeter Eiselt…
CME:What is your career history to date? How did you end up working in Dubai?
Hanspeter Eiselt:I graduated in the UK and joined Xerox before moving to Compaq in Munich. I went to the US with Compaq in 1993 and headed up various divisions before joining Dell in 1999 as marketing director for Fortune 500 accounts. I returned to Europe to join a power tool company before joining Tech Data in 2004. I was then asked to take on the Middle East region.
CME:What do you expect to enjoy most about working in the Middle East IT market?
HE:Well, based on my previous visits, I believe that I have developed an affinity for the level of customer interaction that occurs here. I want to bring in some of the experience I have picked up in European countries where Tech Data is successful and apply that to the Middle East market. I am looking forward to learning more about the diversity of the region.
CME:What do you expect to dislike most about working in the Middle East IT market?
HE:What will I dislike the most? It is a little too early to say. I expect it will be the long hot summer months. I don't think Europeans do too well when the temperature is 40 degrees plus. It could be a bit of a struggle. Having said that I am looking forward to enjoying the benefits of state-of-the-art air conditioning systems during these summer months.
CME:Which IT industry figure do you most admire and why?
HE:I would have to say from a vendor perspective that it is Michael Dell. What he has achieved in the market actually put a great deal of pressure on the traditional channel — it actually triggered a lot of positive change that the channel is now benefiting from. That includes the development of value-added distribution and a real move towards selling multi-vendor solutions.
CME:What's the most valuable business lesson you've learnt?
HE:The lesson that has had the most impact on my career was actually the birth of my children. It showed me the need to achieve a healthy work-life balance and I think that it influenced the way that I now manage organisations. It may not sound like a business lesson, but I would have to say that is the most important event that has influenced how I work.
CME:What are your top channel tips for the next 12 months?
HE:The goal that we have set ourselves from a Tech Data Middle East point of view is to become true advocates for reseller profitability in the channel. That is something we are passionate about and we plan to introduce a series of customer-centric initiatives during the next few months that will further strengthen our visibility in the market.
CME:How do you like to relax outside of the work environment?
HE:I am actually a passionate yachtsman and sailing is one of my keenest pursuits. I also enjoy a round of golf and have an interest in outdoor pursuits in general. I am really looking forward to finding out what is on offer in the Middle East as it is a new region for me. I have always been a good deckhand so I look forward to making friends with some yacht owners.
CME:What is the proudest moment of your career to date?
HE:The proudest moment of my career to date probably came during my time with Compaq in the US market. During that time we managed to achieve market leadership in the desktop segment in the North American market for Compaq. Achieving that as a German working in the US market made me extremely proud.||**||


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Why Should You Drink Rooibos Tea
There has been a trend in more people changing their diets for a better health. If they don't buy supplements they look for food that is rich have healthy substances that could be missing in their daily diet. What they have learned is that there is improvement in the health of person and the ability to fight off some diseases and health complications. Healthy products promote body immunity and sometimes against a particular disease. For such reasons; the foods are worth the attention. Perhaps, you could think if ensuring that you always take health drinks. If you love tea, then, you can choose the rooibos tea for the cup. Does it offer any benefit to switch to rooibos tea when you can stick to the green tea with proven health benefits? The rooibos tea has some benefits that are worth the attention.
When you take the rooibos tea, you get the benefits of antioxidant. The role of the antioxidants is to remove the free radicals from the body. The free radicals in the body are the cause of some terminal illnesses like cancer. Thus, taking rooibos tea reduces free radicals leading to a better health.
Another benefit that you get from this natural herb is that of anti-inflammation. There are several severe pains that caused by inflammation. Inflammations are highly contained by substances in the rooibos tea.
It has also been shown that the tea promotes skin health. The contents of this tea are the same as those used to make anti-aging products. Thi means that the delicacy offer anti-aging benefits. A beautiful skin is loved by every person. Making this tea and taking daily cup is better than applying several cosmetics some of which are not healthy..
The tea has properties that are good for heart health and circulation. Heart health is important in reduction of problems like blood pressure and overall health. The tea even helps in loosing weight. Take your cup at any time and you are going to reap such benefits.
Bone health is given less attention by most people. However, bone health requires as much attention as the heart health. The rooibos tea contains health compounds including manganese, magnesium and other minerals that promote a healthy skeleton. This method ensures that your overall health is promoted.
it is nice when you enjoy such privileges without exposing your body to any side effect. This means that you are promoting your health while you enjoy the drink. It makes sense to look for more products that contain such health benefits and make them part of your routine diet. Avoid any food that brings less advantage to the body than it harms the body.


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Like for-profit corporations, organizations in the nonprofit sector are not immune from poor financial management and fraud. Unlike for-profits, however, nonprofits are not subject to all the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, of 2002 (SOX), which Congress passed in the wake of numerous corporate scandals to strengthen standards of fiduciary duty and improve corporate governance
Because Sarbanes-Oxley does not generally include nonprofits, some nonprofit leaders and board members may not be taking advantage of the policies and practices it suggests.
Why comply with the requirements of a federal law that doesn't technically apply to your organization, particularly when state, rather than federal, law has primary jurisdiction over nonprofits?
Well, in some cases, state governments (e.g., NY, CA) are pushing for the application of Sarbanes-Oxley to nonprofits; other states (e.g., CT, HI, MA, KS, NH, ME) are requiring that certain nonprofits provide audited financial statements (Blodgett and Melconian, 2012).
Even in the absence of federal or state regulations, because nonprofits are dependent on the public trust, meeting high standards for good governance is important. As researchers Mark Blodgett and Linda Melconian note, "as long as [nonprofits] remain primarily outside the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley, they must take the initiative to increase their understanding and enforcement of fiduciary duties and best practices to sustain the public trust" (2012, p. 200)
To help your organization address the issue of effective governance and financial management, here are some questions to consider.
Policies and Practices
- Have Board members and top-level organizational leaders discussed:
- the organization's ethics code?
- the importance of good governance practices?
- their individual fiduciary responsibilities to the organization?
Internal Controls
- Have key organization leaders (e.g., CEO, Executive Director, CFO) established and maintained a system of internal controls?
- Has an analysis of internal control weaknesses and the potential for fraud been conducted?
- Were any material problems found?
- How were those problems addressed?
- Have there been any significant changes in financial controls since they were last analyzed?
- Might any of those changes make it more difficult to prevent or detect fraud in the future?
Financial Statements
- Are financial statements subject to an independent audit?
- Have key organization leaders and Board members:
- reviewed the financial data?
- satisfied themselves that it accurately represents past operations?
- satisfied themselves that it accurately represents the current financial status of the organization?
Answering the questions above, which were modeled on the key points regarding organizational responsibility in Title 3 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, can help your organization evaluate its current practices, identify areas for improvement, and avoid negative surprises.
Blodgett, M. S. and Melconian, L. (2012). Health-care Nonprofits: Enhancing Governance and Public Trust. Business and Society Review, 117(2): 197-219. [Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2073097 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8594.2012.00405.x]
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Public Law 107-204, accessed from http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ204/pdf/PLAW-107publ204.pdf
Lynda St. Clair, Ph.D., is a retired management professor and co-author of Becoming a Master Manager, now in its fifth edition.


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Hunter ICM-2200 ICC2 22 Station Expansion Module
22-station expansion module (one per controller)
ICC2 is a value-packed, light-to-mid size commercial irrigation controller that delivers more than you expect, just like its famous predecessor. It is designed to control larger projects (up to 54 stations) and offers the water savings you expect from a Hunter controller.
ICC2 can run any two of its four automatic programs simultaneously. The ICC2 facepack and station output modules (with enhanced surge protection) are compatible with the original ICC controllers, in four and eight station increments. An optional expansion module allows up to 54 stations in ICC2 metal enclosures and 38 stations in plastic enclosures.
ICC2 offers simple programming with a high-visibility backlit display and customizable language overlays. It also includes advanced features like Easy RetrieveTM memory backup, Cycle and Soak, and Seasonal Adjustment.
ICC2 controllers are prewired for remote control with Hunter ROAM and ROAM XL transmitters, and have built-in Solar Sync for automatic water savings, with an optional sensor. ICC2 is available as a plastic outdoor wall mount, metal outdoor wall mount, stainless steel wall mount, or plastic pedestal. Optional matching metal pedestals in gray or stainless are also available.
Features & Benefits
- Number of stations: Up to 54 (metal enclosure) or 38 (plastic enclosure)
- Type: Modular, expansion modules in 4 and 8 station increments, plus 22-station super module
- Enclosures: Outdoor, metal, plastic, stainless steel, and plastic pedestal (120/230 VAC)
- Independent programs: 4, any two may run simultaneously
- Start times: 8 per program
- Max station run time: 12 hours
- Warranty period: 5 years
Electrical Specifications
- Transformer input: 120/230 VAC, dual tap Transformer output: 1.4 A
- Current draw: 120 VAC, Standby 0.13 A (3.9W), Max 0.35 A, (19.85 W)
- Current draw: 230 VAC, Standby 0.12 A (5.56W), Max 0.22 A (23.5 W)
- Station output: Up to .56 A
- P/MV output: Up to .56 A
- Sensor inputs: 1 (Clik or Solar Sync)
- Operating temperature: 0 Degrees to 140 Degrees F
- CE, UL, cUL, RCM, FCC
- Enclosure rating:
- Plastic, IP-54,
- Steel, IP-54
- Plastic Pedestal, IP-24
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One of the alumna of my undergraduate institution, Katherine Fusco, recently wrote a post I'd like to highlight: So, I've Been Publicly Shamed: On Writing and Resilience. As with all posts that I write about the works of others, I recommend you read the original piece first to better understand and engage with my post.
Fusco graduated from Geneseo in 2003, long before I began attending, and went on to earn her M.A. and PhD from Vanderbilt. She has numerous publications, teaches courses at the University of Nevada, and holds the Crowley Distinguished Professorship in Core Humanities. She is an excellent role model for a younger alumna like myself, just beginning her journey towards a PhD and a writing career. Recently, Fusco was publicly mocked online for her academic work in the field of film studies.
Fusco's article is well worth a read, crossing the STEM-Humanities divide to speak to every person who publishes work as part of their career. Fusco was mocked on Twitter, where an account I won't name (so as not to give them attention) posted a photograph of the abstract of an academic article she wrote with the caption, "When you're not all too bright but the salary's better in academia than Starbucks." Fusco speaks of old feelings of fear resurfacing as the Twitterverse began to retweet and engage – fear that she was not good enough (as an academic, a writer, a thinker), fear that her coworkers were all laughing at her, fear that her public college undergraduate education was a stain on her reputation in the often-classist structure of academia.
Fusco's work is just one of many to be mocked; much of the ridiculed work relates to women's issues, feminism, or is simply written by women (leaving those mocking them to distribute their picture and comment on their appearance, as Fusco notes happened to her). We could derail into a feminist dialogue here (albeit an important conversation to have), but I'd rather stay focused on something else: As writers/researchers, whether we publish academic work or creative work, we must become prepared to deal with the feelings of anger, fear, and sadness that will come up when we, and our work, are mocked online. Gone are the days when a scientist's work and the critique of their work were largely separated from them as a person.
As a young writer, I worry that I don't have the resilience Fusco displays – that I don't have the maturity, sense of self, and career behind me to overcome being mocked. I hardly have the presence of self to send out work for potential publication or share my poetry with my writing group. In undergrad English courses we talked a lot about how to be resilient in the face of rejection by academic or literary journals, but not at all about how to overcome the feelings associated with being actively harassed for our work. When writers are not able to overcome these feelings of fear, anger, and shame when other ridicule or mock them for their publications, we lose valuable, communal knowledge, stories, truths, etc. as those writers/scientists stop pursuing certain lines of work or publishing.
It's ridiculous to assume that we can stop online trolls but shouldn't we better prepare our young writers/researchers to deal with often personal harassment and ridicule? If yes, how do we prepare them? Fusco offers some advice, as a scholar and teacher, to others who find themselves mocked, saying:
- Writing something better would not have mattered.
- Your work is not you.
- Some people wish you would just shut up and go away.
It's important we teach young scholars and writers these principles (among others like: don't feed the trolls) to prepare them for 'peer review' not by literary or academic publications but by the masses that often engage in 'intellectual crusades' against those that offer alternate views, lifestyles, etc. As our work and our selves become more intertwined with the ever-increasing net the internet casts, we must prepare the next generation of writers/researchers to deal with all kinds of critics, and to know which ones to ignore. We must teach this generation how to heal when ridiculed, how to respond, how to be resilient like Fusco works hard to be. Otherwise, we run the risk of having many writers shut up and go away, letting the trolls win to the detriment of society as a whole.


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August 12, 2019 - /PressAdvantage/ - Crane Network LLC, a Chicago, Illinois provider of cranes for sale online including rental, has revealed that more than 30,000 individuals and companies are relying on their online services to effectively manage their fleet for the sale and rental of cranes and equipment. This means that the company makes it easy for companies or individuals to sell their construction crane. In fact, the company offers marketing packages depending on how long they want their crane to be listed on the site as for sale.
"We have been connecting buyers and sellers of cranes, heavy equipment, parts, and attachments for 20 years," says Paul Paliwoda, chief operating officer at Crane Network LLC. He continues, "As one of the oldest, most recognized names in the online equipment marketplace, Crane Network has maintained its position simply by meeting its mission: To actively assist you in the sale of your equipment. That is why more than 30,000 companies and individuals now depend on us in managing their fleet of construction equipment. If they need to dispose of some cranes, they can come to us and we'll help in selling them. If they need to rent a particular crane, they can also come to us because we have a ready list of equipment for rent."
For instance, Crane Network LLC has a several cranes for sale on their site. These include the 2012 Grove GMK6350L from Marcello Cranes; the Liebherr LTM 1070-4.1 from AMCO Machinery & Consulting; the 2106 Grove GMK5250L from Ayr Equipment International Inc.; the 2008 Demag AC160-2 from Quality Cranes & Equipment LLC; the 2017 Grove GMK5150L from Quality Cranes & Equipment LLC; the 2012 Grove GMK 5165-2 from Quality Cranes & Equipment LLC; and the 2002 Liebherr LTM1250-1 300 US Ton All Terrain Crane from Quality Cranes & Equipment LLC.
Also available are crawler telescopic boom cranes. These include the 2015 Manitex GT50155SHL mounted on a Prinoth® Go-Tract® 4500 tracked carrier from H and H Crane and Equipment Inc.; the 2009 Sany SCC3000 300 ton Hydraulic Crawler Crane from Imperial Crane Sales Inc.; the 2018 Tadano Mantis GTC600 66 ton crawler crane from Exact Crane & Equipment Corp.; the 2015 Manitowoc 11000-1 crawler crane from Ring Power Crane; the 2009 Manitowoc 999 T3 275 ton crawler crane from Ring Power Crane; and the 2015 Grove GHC75 hydraulic crawler crane from Ring Power Crane.
Also available on the Crane Network LLC website are parts for construction equipment. These include the Berulub GD 50 H1 Spray Dust Remover; the Berulit GA 2500 Open Gear Lubricant Spray; drag line bucket chains from Exact Crane & Equipment; the hydraulic clam bucket from Giuffre Bros. Cranes Inc.; the hydraulic dumper with hydraulic bottom doors/ dumpable refuse container from Giuffre Bros. Cranes Inc.; the track pads for Terext HC275 crawler crane from Canlift Crane Inc.; shackles from Empire Crane Co. LLC; the boom dolly from Gorosh Cranes; and the link-belt third drum from Rexco Equipment Inc.
Various cranes are also available for rent. These include the 2018 Tadano GR-550XL from Flaherty Equipment Repair Corp.; the 2015 Manitex GT50155SHL mounted on a Prinoth® Go-Tract® 4500 tracked carrier from H and H Crane and Equipment Inc.; the Potain Igo T130 from Forteza Crane Rental LLC; the 2007 Terex HC275 from Mega Cranes Ltd.; the 2004 Liebherr LTM 12001-1 from Mega Cranes Ltd.; the Terex CBR 36H-4 self-erecting tower crane from Triple Springs Properties; the 2016 Kobelco CK1600G from Cropact Equipment Inc.; and the 2005 Broderson IC-200-2F from Dozier Crane & Machinery Inc.
Those who want to buy a particular crane or construction equipment can also post their requirements on the website. Examples include a telescopic jib for a Grove RT530E-2; an auxiliary tip extension with 2 block for a Link-Belt LS218H crawler crane with tubular bloom; and a second stage boom and any extend cylinder parts for the Mantis 100100MX 50-ton truck mounted telescopic boom crane.
Those who want to offer their mobile cranes for sale online or want to buy or rent equipment, can visit their website, or contact them by telephone or via email.
For more information about Crane Network LLC, contact the company here:
Crane Network LLC
Paul Paliwoda
(214) 612-7626
400 Illinois St., Lemont, IL 60439
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Berkeley Talks with Marlon James
Wed, March 1, 8pm
Zellerbach Hall
Tickets just $5
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About Marlon James;
Jamaican author Marlon James, whose monumental latest novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, earned him the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Praised for his "vaulting ambition and prodigious talent" (The New York Times), James will discuss his writing process, as well as the themes that underlie his celebrated works of fiction: the colonial history of the Caribbean, race and gender in the US and UK, and hip-hop and reggae youth subcultures. The Berkeley Talks series brings intellectuals, public scholars, creators, and innovators to the Berkeley campus to engage in dialogue with Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks on distinctive and timely issues.


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How to Conduct a Capital Needs Analysis
When determining the life insurance need, it becomes critically important for advisors to avoid telling prospects what they "should" or "ought" to do. Rather, the role of the financial professional is simply to facilitate the process of helping the prospect identify what they would want to have happen if, God forbid, they did not make it home tonight.
To create buy-in and ownership, the amount of life insurance the prospect needs should ultimately be the prospect's number, not the advisor's. During the fact finding or discovery process, you will want to conduct a Capital Needs Analysis to determine the appropriate amount of life insurance for the prospect. You do this by saying the following:
"Most of my clients look at three things when determining their life insurance need:
- Typically, they are interested in eliminating any debt they have. They want to make sure the family is able to pay off the mortgage so they can live in the same neighborhood and the kids can attend the same school.
- If college education planning is something that is important to them, they want to provide enough capital to cover the cost of a college education.
- Assuming the debt is eliminated and college is take care of, they want to provide some type of stream of income so the family can continue to maintain their standard of living."
At this point, you are referring to the three factors that most people take into consideration when determining their life insurance needs. Up to this point, you're simply educating the prospect on how to specifically quantify their life insurance need. At this stage of the process your job is to simply review each of the three factors to facilitate the process of helping the prospect determine what they want the life insurance to do for their family. Remember, the final number is the prospect's number, based on their capital needs. It's based on what they want to have happen in the event of their premature death, not what you want.
Debt Reduction
At this point, you begin to specify each of the three factors to their specific situation. You do this by saying:
"As we look at your debt situation, would you want Lisa and the boys to be able to pay off the mortgage and remain in the same home?" Notice that at this point, I am using the names of the spouse and the children. This provides a stronger emotional connection between the prospect and the decision. Prospects are typically going to say yes to debt elimination. If they have any additional substantial debt, like a student loan, you will want to see if they want that debt eliminated as well.
College Planning
Next, if college education planning was important to them earlier in the fact finder, then you will want to bring this up to them. For example, you might say, "Earlier you said that providing a college education for the boys was something that's important to you. Is this something you still want to provide for them if something were to happen to you?" Prospects will typically say "Yes". Remember, it's their number. So, if they so "No", it's not a big deal. You want them to own the number. However, if appropriate, you might challenge the prospect if college planning is something that is important to them if they are alive.
As a side note, here's how you determine the college education need on the spot. College tuition inflation rates have been growing at an average of 6-7% per year for the past decade. If you were to reinvest the death proceeds from the life insurance to provide for a college education, you would have to expect a very conservative rate of return, since the proceeds are earmarked for the family's financial security. Therefore, we could assume we would re-invest the death proceeds in a fixed income type investment earning 5-7% after tax. Therefore, the cost of college tuition inflation of 6-7% offsets the potential rate of return of 5-7%, so it's a wash.
To determine the amount of life insurance needed to address college planning, you simply multiply the average annual tuition by the number of years you need to fund (typically four years), and do so for each child. For example, if they would like to send their two children to a state university with an average annual tuition of $30,000 per year, and they want to fund four years each . . . you would multiply $30,000 times 4, which is $120,000. Then you multiply $120,000 times two for both children. The total amount of capital – death benefit – it will take to fund college for two children in this scenario is $240,000.
Stream of Income
Now we have the amount of life insurance we need to eliminate debt and the amount needed to ensure the children receive a college education. Finally, we are going to calculate how much life insurance it will take to provide a specific stream of income to ensure the family can maintain some standard of living. At this stage in the process we simply say:
"Now that debt has been eliminated and college is funded, how much income would you want to provide for your family on a monthly basis to help them maintain a certain standard of living and how long would you want that income to continue?"
You want to begin by stating the fact that debt and college have been funded. This will help build your credibility and trust because you're helping them identify a realistic number. The prospect might need some help from you to determine what they need based on their budget. Some prospects will want income coming to the spouse for the remainder of his or her life. Other prospects will want the income to continue until the children graduate from college while others will want no stream of income to continue. The important thing to remember is the final number needs to be the prospect's number. I will tell you from experience, the number is always much larger when the spouse is present during the fact finder. Call it social pressure.
There are several methods for calculating the amount of life insurance needed to generate a stream of income. The most accurate would be the time value of money method using a financial calculator, which we will address in a later article. One approach used by advisors as a rule of thumb is to attribute $200,000 of life insurance for every $1,000 of monthly income needed. If a prospect wants to provide $4,000 of monthly income for his or her family, it will take approximately $800,000 of life insurance coverage (that's $200,000 multiplied by 4). Again, it takes approximately $200,000 of coverage to generate $1,000 of monthly income.
Another rule of thumb used in the industry is to divide the annual stream of income needed by the after tax rate of return you would expect to receive after reinvesting the death proceeds. For example, if a prospect told you they would like a $50,000 stream of income coming to their family upon their death, then you would divide that number by 6% or .06, a reasonable after-tax rate of return. Remember, the expected rate of return on the death proceeds needs to be conservative since it is the final dollars the family has available for their financial security.
The question always comes up, "How long can you expect that income to last?" Using these two rules of thumb, you can expect the income to continue for approximately 20-25 years, but not forever.
The final step in the Capital Needs Analysis is to add up the total amount of insurance needed to address the debt, college education and a stream of income. Then, you subtract any existing life insurance (group and individual) from this number. This net amount provides you with an approximate amount of life insurance they need to make these things happen.
Creating Alignment
Once you have determined the amount of additional life insurance the prospect needs, you should ask them, "How do you feel about that amount or number?" You will want to pause after asking the prospect this question. Give them a moment to soak it in and respond. If the prospect says, "Seems like a lot of insurance" or "That's a big number" or something to that effect, you will need to address this concern directly. Remember, ultimately the number is the prospect's number, not your number.
If you receive this response, you should follow up by saying, "Well, as I said before, the amount of life insurance you own is not right or wrong until you compare it to what you would want to have happen if you didn't make it home tonight. So based on that, let's take a look at our analysis of the things you wanted your life insurance to do for you to determine what we should eliminate." The power phrase here is "what do you want to eliminate?" Be sure to use the word "eliminate" specifically. They have to understand the amount can be smaller, but something has to be sacrificed.
After saying this, ask the prospect, "Do you not want to pay off the debt and mortgage? Do you not want to provide for college? Do you want to provide less income?" The majority of the time, the prospect will choose to provide less monthly income in this situation. The most important part of this process is to make sure the final amount of life insurance is the prospect's number and that you come to agreement on the number before moving forward. Again, the stream of income desired is almost always higher if the spouse is present in that meeting.
The role of the advisor in the Capital Needs Analysis is one of simply facilitating the process of helping the prospect identify what's most important to them. In particular, what they want to have happen financially if they don't make it home tonight. The final amount of life insurance needed has to be the prospect's number, not the advisors. To the extent a financial professional can do this, they are creating buy-in and ownership at the conclusion of the discovery phase. Then, the "closing" meeting just becomes the next, natural step in the sales process vs. the stereotypical hard sell
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This rifle started out as a factory Remington 700 in 338 Win-Mag. The accuracy was not good so we installed a new after market trigger and a bell and Carlson aluminum bedding block stock and properly bedded the barreled action into the stock. This improved things but was not to what the customer wanted so we installed a match grade stainless steel #4 contour barrel chambered in 338 Win-Mag.
With all of our rebarreling of factory rifles we blueprint the action, bolt and barrel to make sure everything is trued, squared and concentrick. We also incorporate in a precision ground recoil lug and fit the lug to the action so that it will not rotate.
This rifle also had extraction problems so we fixed it by installing a M-16 extractor which is a very positive extractor. We also threaded the muzzle and installed a brake so a 250 grain bullet is a pleasure to shoot.
This customer does not reload and uses Federal Precision ammo and with factor ammo it would tear one ragged hold.


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Apple is down 3.5 percent today, and has dropped 14 percent from its recent high of about $133 in late April (it was around $132 on July 20th). Despite this decline, the Nasdaq Composite has remained relatively strong. Interestingly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 charts look much more similar to Apple's chart, than does the chart of the Nasdaq (even though Apple is obviously a tech company and the Nasdaq is very tech-heavy).
With Apple rolling over, what should we expect from the overall market?
This is an interesting and complicated question – normally a company as large and high-profile as Apple, with its recent decline, would have driven the Nasdaq down, perhaps by a larger percentage than Apple has fallen. My take is that the story of the market should and will be about market leadership, and Apple is certainly a market leader. The fact that the Nasdaq has not yet reacted much to Apple's decline, is both a testament to the power of the tech sector, and also a warning sign that investors are stubbornly holding out hope that leadership can disappear and the market can still advance. This rarely holds for long.
Apple is certainly not the only significant stock, and not the only significant tech stock, to falter. As we approach September (next month) and the likely first interest rate raise by the Fed, investors will need to weigh the importance of Apple's decline in the context of the overall strength of the Nasdaq and the overall market. Will Apple rebound, taking the market to new, all-time highs yet again, or will Apple's decline be a precursor to the long awaited overall market correction? I don't think we will have to wait long for the answer.


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10 Years Of Great Music with Harriet Gregory
A member of the Melbourne Recital Centre family since our doors opened in 2009.
In 2019, Melbourne Recital Centre celebrates 10 years of great music with our wonderful team members. Harriet Gregory began working with us before our doors officially opened in February 2009. She reflects on her time working with and for the Centre here.
I started at the Centre as one of the inaugural Stage Door staff before the opening in 2009 and immediately became fascinated with the roles of the technicians and stage managers. I'm now currently a Concert & Event Manager.
Over the years I've seen the Centre's program become much more diverse – we were doing about a quarter of the number of shows we do now.
The people and culture are amazing. It's lovely getting to know all the different personalities of the regular artists and people passing through.
You get to see artists literally gasp at the beauty of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall sometimes, which is a wonderful reminder of how inspiring this place is.
A lot of planning happens behind the scenes and in the end it's all about the detail. When the artist finally steps on stage it's such a thrilling moment.