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White Ribbon's latest misstep is one too far
Either White Ribbon fully supports women in their decision to have, or not have kids, or it does not, writes SHERELE MOODY.
WHEN White Ribbon Day rolls around next month, it won't be getting a donation from me.
I'll be giving my money to an organisation that fully supports a woman's reproductive rights and I hope you will do the same.
I have long had reservations about White Ribbon but supported it because it shines a very bright light on violence against women and it operates useful school and workplace accreditation programs.
But for me, the relationship is over.
The straw that broke the camel's back - its flip-flopping about abortion.
White Ribbon has removed from its charter a statement that women must have "complete control over their reproductive and sexual health".
"We have withdrawn it (the statement) because we are agnostic until our stakeholders tell us it is important to most of them. My job is to represent a movement of diverse members of a community who range in age and gender and religion and viewpoints," White Ribbon chief executive Tracy McLeod Howe told Buzzfeed on Friday.
Hours later, McLeod Howe issued a statement saying: "We will undergo an immediate and comprehensive consultation process with all members, including ambassadors, advocates, supporters and stakeholders. Whilst the intention had been to remedy the process under which the original statement of support was issued by consulting with a wider body of representatives, this has been misinterpreted as a change in stance around reproductive rights."
A woman's right to bodily autonomy is not an issue that an organisation with White Ribbon's remit should be consulting on.
Either it supports women in their decision to have, or not have kids, or it does not.
This is just another mis-step for White Ribbon, which is coming under increased pressure over a range of issues.
Last year, the organisation was roasted for taking donations from a poker machine operator even though gambling can be a serious contributor to family violence.
It back-pedalled after the media criticised it for dipping into the pockets of an industry that researchers have repeatedly shown contributes to family violence.
White Ribbon also cops heat from women's safety advocates and feminists for having females organise its events while the men folk "just turn up to give speeches"; and for anointing formerly abusive blokes as ambassadors because it considers them "powerful, positive role models".
Just this month, White Ribbon chair Nicholas Cowdrey resigned after making an extremely sexist and tone-deaf comment regarding convicted child killer Keli Lane.
Lane is serving 18 years in jail for the murder of her newborn child, Tegan, in 2011. She has never told police where Tegan's body is. Cowdery was the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions at the time Lane went to trial.
Recently he gave an interview to the ABC, during which he claimed Lane was "not a risk to children" but "she seemed to be a bit of a risk to the virile young male portion of the community''.
Cowdery laughed at his own comment, then stated: "That's not grounds for putting her in prison, of course".
White Ribbon's decision to sit on the fence over women's sexual health and reproductive rights is outrageous.
Worse still, it is letting vulnerable Australian women down by, unwittingly, reinforcing the rights of abusive men to control their partner's fertility through reproductive coercion. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows 77,400 people were raped in 2015-16, with most victims being female.
Children by Choice and domestic violence professionals confirm that reproductive coercion is a significant problem in violent relationships.
This type of abuse includes perpetrators raping women until they fall pregnant, sabotaging or removing condoms during sex and preventing partners from having abortions or accessing the contraceptive and morning after pills.
On the flipside, abusers cause miscarriages by violently beating women until the baby dies or forcing them into having abortions.
White Ribbon's stance on reproductive autonomy is also out of step with community expectations.
On Thursday, Queensland dumped archaic laws that made it a crime for women to have abortions. Ironically, the Queensland Government, which was so determined to fix this issue for the state's women, has rolled out White Ribbon workplace accreditation across at least 13 of its agencies.
NSW is now the only jurisdiction in Australia where abortion is considered a crime, but the rest of the country is ensuring women have safe access to a range of pregnancy options and one suspects this anomaly will be rectified soon.
White Ribbon cannot support a woman's right to live her life free of violence but refuse to fully and categorically acknowledge her right to autonomy over her own body.
The two are incompatible and it is time for White Ribbon to recognise this. Until then, it won't get a red cent from me.
*For 24-hour domestic violence support, phone the national hotline 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.
News Corp journalist Sherele Moody is the recipient of the 2018 BandT Women in Media Social Change Maker Award and has multiple Clarion and Walkley Our Watch journalism excellence awards for her work reducing violence against women and children. She is also the founder of The RED HEART Campaign and the creator of the Femicide Australia Map.


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Fired White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says there are people in Washington working against President Donald Trump. He said there are "elements" within the White House trying to eject Trump, the BBC reported.
He spoke to ABC News for the first time since being sacked last month —after just 10 days in office.
It followed the release of a phone recording in which he launched a strongly worded attack on White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. He also directed profanity-laced insults at chief strategist Steve Bannon.

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T-Mobile Has Already Sold 1.5 Million Android-Powered Smartphones
When Google, T-Mobile, and HTC unveiled the first smartphone running Android last month, Google's many fans were excited by the idea of a mobile phone tied to the online services they enjoy. Other were less enthusiastic, pointing out that Android is an untried operating system and the T-Mobile G1 is only going to be available from a single, relatively small wireless provider in the United States.
Nevertheless, there are enough optimists that 1.5 million G1's have already been pre-ordered, sight unseen. And this number would be higher, except that T-Mobile has sold all the devices it has available to ship by October 22, the launch day.
It had initially put in an order for 500 thousand units from the G1's manufacturer, HTC, for this purpose, but when those quickly sold out the order was tripped. This enlarged order has also already sold out.
iPhone-Type Numbers
As they are both aimed at consumers, many people are eagerly watching to see how Android is going to do against Apple's iPhone. So far, Google's offering seems to be holding its own.
Having 1.5 million people pre-order the T-Mobile G1 stands up well against the one million iPhone 3Gs sold during the launch weekend.
But the competition has just barely gotten started, and only time will tell how these two will do against each other and the other mobile operating systems, like Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Palm OS.
Don't Despair, Android Fans
There are two options available for those who want a T-Mobile G1 as soon as possible but who haven't already pre-ordered one.
When this smartphone launches later this month, there will be about 2 million units in T-Mobile stores across the U.S. Details on where to to find a store are available at www.T-MobileG1.com.
Those not interesting to braving the crowds can put in a pre-order for a unit now, but these won't be delivered until some time after the launch day.
More About the T-Mobile G1
The T-Mobile G1 will be a consumer-oriented smartphone with support for this carrier's new 3G network.
It will include an 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, a QWERTY keyboard, GPS, and Wi-Fi. It will also sport a microSD card slot and a 3.2 megapixel camera.
The G1 will have a highly functional web browser, and will support many of Google's services, like Gmail and Google Maps.
Overall, it will be 4.60 inches by 2.2 inches by 0.60 inches, and weigh 5.6 ounces.
It costs $180 with a two-year voice and data agreement.
The G1 will be released in the United Kingdom in November.
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Points of View
Integrated Design/Digitalization/BIM
"Lifecycle-optimized construction demands that clients receive reliable forecasts regarding the lifecycle in the early planning phases – for this is when crucial decisions are made about the future. These forecasts can only be provided by a digital twin in the form of an effective BIM model."
Herbstkongress 2018, Christoph M. Achammer, 29.10.2018
"We are currently working with Closed BIM, but we also see its drawbacks, so we're considering whether to go into Open BIM."
Ursula Reiner in "BIM - a Construction Site", Building Times, 7-8 2018
"We need a separate collaboration model for each project because we are dealing with segmentation, such as in an office."
Michael Haugeneder in "BIM - a construction site", Building Times, 7-8 2018
"In the future we must provide every sort of building with a range of flexibilities. Firstly, we should create lifecycle-oriented building structures; long-term load-bearing structures, medium-term building services, and short-term finishes. Secondly, we should learn from the automobile industry and develop buildings with a very high degree of recyclability. And thirdly, buildings have to have intelligent spatial and operational concepts in order to be able to react to changes of use."
Christoph M. Achammer, 29.01.2018
"In the future the building site will become an assembly site. Many more things will be prefabricated as single batches. And this will raise them to completely new levels of productivity. A series of studies assume that the current waste potential is between 30 and 50 per cent."
Christoph M. Achammer in "BIM: 'The building industry's current approach to digitalization is completely false'", Solid, 11.12.2017
"The major challenge of integrated design is not how the software works but how the planner thinks … Digitalization will also reach the building industry and the plans of architects and engineers with increasing speed and finally contribute to that growth in productivity which the rest of industry has already achieved."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Following up – the development of BIM since 2015", Detail research, 01.12.2017
"The use of digital tools is only effective if there is already an intellectual and cultural readiness."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Construction is becoming digital", Standard, Special Issue, 30.11.2017
"We have to be aware of the fact that greater upheavals will occur in the next five years than in the past five hundred ... We are going to be confronted with new processes that we can't even imagine today."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Digital dream or digital trauma?" Wohnnet, 24.11.2017
"In a few years we will see completely new planning and construction processes with real cost and timetable guarantees in the earlier phases."
Christoph M. Achammer in "The future of building", Nevaris, 01.11.2017
"We said to ourselves that if we want the BIM method to spread quickly we have to more or less give away this information to most of the building industry. 90 per cent of the market is made up of small companies who could never build up such a quantity of documentation themselves (BIMpedia)."
Lars Oberwinter in "Who's afraid of BIM?" a3 Baumagazin, 01.09.2017
"The merging of the digital and physical worlds in line with the principles of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will also disruptively change the ponderous real estate industry. We consider it right to question every single process phase of the building industry, whose basic model hasn't significantly changed in 150 years, and to help it adopt new methods for improving both productivity and quality."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Digitalization as solution", Solid, 23.08.2017
"We see user satisfaction and enthusiasm as key parameters for excellent health sector buildings. We work alongside stakeholders in questioning existing concepts, applying our know-how and creating new open spaces."
Michael Gräfensteiner in "People are the focus", Architektur und Technik, 03.07.2017
"We can use virtual building models to fine tune processes of interdisciplinary cooperation. We also see the advantage that BIM massively reduces lost communication time."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Digital disruption", Die Presse Immobilien, 25.02.2017
"Thanks to our cooperative design culture we at ATP are perfectly positioned to benefit from its many advantages."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Generation Y? Generation BIM!" Holzmagazin, 01.02.2017
"In the future the building will have to be fully defined when the contract is signed. That is of course a challenge for architects and clients."
Christoph M. Achammer in "All change in the building industry", Bau & Immobilien Report, 01.12.2016
"Rather than the products of individual services it is the overall, joint outcome that counts. This means that the project team can focus all its energy on finding the best and most sustainable ideas and solutions."
Thomas Herter in "Professionals work with professionals", HLK, 30.11.2016
"4.0 – a magic code for anything and everything! And yet the definition is actually quite mundane: the connection of the physical and digital worlds. Not the extension but the connection. The creation of a so-called 'phygital world'."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Industrial building 4.0 – Pioneer for new planning processes", DBZ, 01.07.2016
"In this whole discussion we shouldn't forget that the BIM-supported way of working is no more than a tool. The result of integrated design is a lifecycle-oriented building that is created by architects and engineers on the basis of their professional expertise and creativity."
Gerald Hulka, in "40 years of integrated design" 01.02.2016
"Integrated design is also possible without BIM, but BIM isn't possible without integrated design."
Manfred Huber in "BIM: against rolling design", Hochparterre, 13.01.2016
"All of ATP's 550 architects and engineers work in all offices ... inside common virtual models. ATP's BIM standard ... is one of the bases of the recently introduced Austrian BIM Norm."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Building Information Modeling", AIT online, 28.08.2015
"BIM is the logical tool for the integrated design process and the prerequisite, for... aligning design and building processes with the benchmarks of other industries. Today, we can already see that the productivity gains on the design side are primarily qualitative because, ideally, the amount of work remains unchanged. The executing companies also experience considerable productivity gains… but the greatest improvements are to be expected in building operations."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Building Information Modeling", AIT online, 28.08.2015
"Today's buildings are so complex that only interdisciplinary cooperation between architects and engineers can lead to successful projects."
Christoph M. Achammer in: Teilnahmerekord bei Concrete Student Trophy 2013. APA ots online, 26.11.2013, www.zement.at
"Whether voluntarily or not, the architect has more or less given up the ……. overall responsibility for design and can undisputedly be spoken of as the person responsible for no more than … the artistic aspects of a building."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Integrated Design. A coming-together of equals", a3 Bau, 1-2/2013
"We can see that it works better when teams sit together in one building or in one space."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Integrated Design. A coming-together of equals", a3 Bau, 1-2/2013
"The ability to influence the design process of a building reduces logarithmically as this process proceeds. And the costs of such intervention rise equally precipitously. This means that the key decisions regarding the future construction and – even more significantly – operating costs of a building are made while the client's requirements are being ascertained and the preliminary design carried out (and this concerns all specialist areas - architecture, structural and mechanical and electrical engineering). This demands professional and responsible clients and an equally professional and competent integrated design team."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Nichts gecheckt", a3 Bau, 06/2012
"We don't want to leave any scorched earth to posterity. Our vision is that we use our buildings to make things better."
Horst Reiner in: "Machbar ist alles – wenn der Auftraggeber es will", Wirtschaftsblatt, 14th February 2013
"The design decisions which are taken at the very start are in reality the most important ones."
Christoph M. Achammer in Real Estate Circle 2011 quoted in "Planung am Beginn ist entscheidend", Wirtschaftsblatt, 18th November 2011
"The use of an integrated design approach across the entire lifecycle of a building makes it possible to develop a single calculation which addresses the architectural, organisational and service qualities of a building. Only in this way will our buildings truly fulfil their responsibilities to the next generation."
ATP CEO Christoph M. Achammer at the founding of the IG Lebenszyklus Hochbau quoted in "Lebenszyklus rückt in den Mittelpunkt", Tiroler Tageszeitung, 17th September 2011
"We must transform ourselves from a heterogeneous society based on mistrust into a homogenous one founded on trust."
Christoph M. Achammer on the subject of "The Culture of Building" in: "ausgesprochen", Report Plus, Page 1, September 2011
"The integrated design of buildings is an essential prerequisite for their sustainable economic management. Professor Achammer has been pursuing this belief since the 1970s."
Comment by the ATGA on the occasion of the naming of Christoph Achammer (on behalf of ATP Architects and Engineers) as "Architect of the Year 2011", under the title "The future belongs to the clever" or "Against the continuation of traditional roles", 24th May 2011
"Without an integrated approach, sustainability is simply not possible."
Christoph M. Achammer, "Nachhaltig schon beim allerersten Entwurf", Wirtschaftsblatt, 04th October 2010
Integrated Design ... an alternative to the widely used "sequential" method in which architects, structural and mechanical engineers ... work on a building - often independently from each other and, in any case, one after the other. "90 to 95% of all design processes take this form."
Christoph M. Achammer, "Netzwerken für die Nachhaltigkeit", Die Presse, 17th/18th July 2010
"One secret of ATP´s success is the integrated approach in which architects and engineers tackle projects not one after the other but together."
Alois Vahrner, Tiroler Tageszeitung, 24th July 2009
"By taking off their blinkers and cooperating over real problems, architects and engineers can learn with and from each other."
Christoph M. Achammer, Wirtschaftsblatt, 25th June 2009
"If we architects, structural and mechanical services engineers don´t manage to find a common approach to designing and building we will...continue to play a declining role."
Christoph M. Achammer, Architektur- und Bauforum, 15th June 2009
"For us, refurbishment is always an interesting challenge ... However, as architects and engineers who have been working together integrally for over 40 years, this project represented the special task of refurbishing a training facility for both of these disciplines."
Paul Ohnmacht in "Integrated design for Innsbruck – The rebuilding and refurbishment of two faculties", tab, 01.07.2017
"The trend ranges from retail space with the character of storage space to showrooms ... We create between 200,000 and 250,000 square meters of retail space every year. Now only a third of this is new while the rest results from refurbishment or a change of use."
Christoph M. Achammer in "A second chance for retail buildings", Gewerbeflächen Immobilien, 01.06.2017
"The major challenge of all basic renovation work is the need for normal operations to continue."
Christoph M. Achammer in "The retail building of the future: A real door to a virtual world?" Industriebau, 01.03.2017
"This recognition leads to the obvious conclusion that, in an integrated design team, one understands how to design a building sustainably and another understands how to make it especially user-friendly while another keeps a close eye on the design. These are regarded as equally important tasks."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Integrated Design. A coming-together of equals", a3 Bau, 1-2/2013
"Shoppers and shopping centres are going grey together. 40% of all centres are desperately in need of refurbishment."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Einkaufszentren droht die Vergreisung", Tiroler Tageszeitung, 23rd September 2011
"Refurbishment is the agenda of building for the future. This is the message of Christoph Achammer of ATP (see the enclosed special supplement). ... Resources (including those which we use to build spaces) are, as we know, getting scarce. And this is why we refurbish and extend."
Mathias Boeckl in: "Add-On", Architektur aktuell, Page 1, September 2011
"Europe is fully built. Quantitative growth is no longer possible and now it is time for qualitative growth."
Christoph M. Achammer at the "20th International Industrial Building Seminar" at the TU Vienna, quoted in: "Nachhaltigkeit am Bau ist keine Frage von Gesetzen." Wirtschaftsblatt, 13th May 2011
"Flexibility and the minimal use of harmful substance are key aspects for commercial clients that are often largely ignored during the design process ... Mistakes that are made here can lead to a building which is cost-intensive to operate or in which unsatisfied users make repeated refurbishment necessary."
Susanne Runkel in "Quality has its price", Augsburger Allgemeine, 05.08.2017
"In my experience there is no contradiction between profitability and the aspiration to create good architecture. This is part of Vitruvius' ancient definition of sustainability, which I still regard as unconditional: Utilitas, Firmitas und Venustas."
Christoph M. Achammer in "Can shopping be a sin?" Architektur, 01.10.2016
"We should not forget – that the design process absorbs 1.5 per cent of the total life cycle costs but can seriously influence 50 per cent of these costs. As soon as the design is ready the investment and operational costs are more or less fixed. The notion that a building only becomes expensive when the contractors are commissioned is wrong. This happens much earlier."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Integrated Design. A coming-together of equals", a3 Bau, 1-2/2013
"We don't want to leave any scorched earth to posterity. Our vision is that we use our buildings to make things better."
Horst Reiner in: "Machbar ist alles – wenn der Auftraggeber es will", Wirtschaftsblatt, 14.02.2013
"In order to achieve the best possible results, efficient design tools and a lifecycle-oriented integrated design approach must be used from the very start."
Jens Glöggler, MD of ATP sustain at the 2nd BVL Logistics Day in Tyrol in: "Sustainability as the Management Strategy of the Future", Lager(fläche) www.lagerflaeche.de, 14th November 2011
"Sustainability in building is not a question of laws. Laws can establish the framework but cannot represent complex processes."
Christoph M. Achammer at the "20th International Industrial Building Seminar" at the TU Vienna, quoted in: "Nachhaltigkeit am Bau ist keine Frage von Gesetzen." Wirtschaftsblatt, 13th May 2011
"Four-fifths of the lifecycle costs of a building are covered by the operating costs and just one fifth by the investment costs. And only two of these 20 percent don't relate to the design process, which means that by doing everything right at this moment we can save half the operating costs."
Christoph M. Achammer at the "20th International Industrial Building Seminar" at the TU Vienna, quoted in: "Nachhaltigkeit am Bau ist keine Frage von Gesetzen." Wirtschaftsblatt, 13th May 2011
"Certification is a support to clients and designers in that it makes it possible to quantify sustainability in the design and building processes. This creates a certain sense of security that the term "sustainability" is more than just hot air."
Matthias Wehrle quoted in: Sustainability will be quantifiable. (Zartes Grün im Werkzeugbau. Nachhaltigkeit im Industriebau. Positiveffekte für Klima und Mitarbeiter.) Der Standard, 26th/27th February 2011
"Aesthetic and socio-cultural expectations about life-cycle oriented buildings are essential parameters for the successful industrial architecture of today."
Christoph M. Achammer in: Integrated Design comes from Industrial Building, Wettbewerbe Architekturjournal, 291/292, December 2010
"The aspect of sustainability must be clearly addressed from the very first preliminary design. … We investigate, for instance, lifecycle costs and the concrete impact of integrated design upon sustainability."
Christoph M. Achammer, "Nachhaltig schon beim allerersten Entwurf", Wirtschaftsblatt, 04th October 2010
"A shift towards closed-loop material cycles is also long overdue in the building industry."
Jens Glöggler, ATP sustain, in: "Gebäudezertifizierung und nachhaltiges Bauen. Ökostandards in Österreich", Zuschnitt 39 attachment, Interview: S. 16-19, September 2010
"The design ... determines after all 30 percent of the investment cost and 50 percent of the entire life-cycle costs. "This is a huge tool over which we have control."
Christoph M. Achammer, "Netzwerken für die Nachhaltigkeit", Die Presse, 17th/18th July 2010
"After the completion of the preliminary design, 50% of the possibilities for optimising the life cycle costs of a building have been exhausted; when the detailed design is ready just 20% remain and when the tender documents have been completed the opportunity has gone...."
Christoph M. Achammer, Technikum Kärnten Forschungsgesellschaft
"The key to sustainability lies in space planning; closed building forms have a number of positive effects in terms of resource and energy efficiency."
Christoph M. Achammer, Konstruktiv, 7th/8th July 2009
"Both the direct relationship between the sustainability of a building and the corresponding increase in its real estate value and the desire of our clients for ways of certifying their workplaces are additional attractions for us."
Jens Glöggler, ATP sustain in: Die Presse 18th February 2009
"Life-cycle oriented building design regards buildings as systems and this method is a key aid in the calculation of the true costs – and particularly the energy costs – of buildings."
Architektur und Bau Forum, 9th February 2009
"But we place our knowledge at everyone's disposal. We belong to a sharing economy in which we have to share knowledge. If one retains and fails to share knowledge it won't be productive. We've invested in this – and that's exactly why we are now amongst the leaders."
Christoph M. Achammer in "BIM: 'The building industry's current approach to digitalization is completely false'", Solid, 11.12.2017
"Many years ago we established the ATP Academy in which we offer our own training to our entire group of companies ... for example on the subject of 'Supporting competitions with building services'."
Thomas Herter in "Questions to …" bauingenieur24, 27.11.2017
"I can see that the next generation of my colleagues - who are today around 30 - is already ideally prepared for working in networks."
Christoph M. Achammer in: "Integrated Design. A coming-together of equals", a3 Bau, 1-2/2013
"The science of "Building Membranes" (is) one of the few innovation-rich areas of the building industry which, despite its great economic significance, attracts very little research…"
Professor Christoph M. Achammer quoted in: Studying Zero Emissions. The building of membranes as an area of research ("Master of Engineering" - Programme "Membrane Lightweight Structures" of the Centre of Continuing Education of the TU Vienna). In: Die Presse/Bildung, 5th/6th February 2011
Cooperation and networking are, for Christoph Achammer,..., Professor of Industrial Building at the TU in Vienna (...), essential pre-conditions for sustainable building. … Achammer has already noticed that some of his students are starting to think differently.
Christoph M. Achammer, "Netzwerken für die Nachhaltigkeit", Die Presse, 17th/18th July 2010
"Investing in employees – that was another of Christoph Achammer´s reactions to the crisis. And as well as expanding training, ATP decided to put more resources into acquisition and research."
Architektur und Bau Forum, 27th July 2009
"The discussion of the new curriculum is not about learning more but about a basic change in the relationships between the individual disciplines."
Christoph M. Achammer: Sustainable Designing and Construction – without learning?" Podium discussion of the Sustainability Committee of the Federal Chamber of Architects and Engineers. Vienna, 18th May 2009


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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Investigators believe the gunman who killed a Virginia Tech policeman acted alone and that he changed clothes after fleeing the scene, then killed himself with his handgun when another officer spotted him, state police said Friday.
Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said investigators have not found anything connecting the gunman and the slain officer, Deriek W. Crouse, who was shot in his car Thursday in a campus parking lot after pulling over a driver for a traffic stop. The motive remains a mystery, she said.
"That's very much the fundamental part of the investigation right now," Geller said at a news conference.
The gunman was not a student at Virginia Tech, the scene of the deadliest gun rampage in modern U.S. history in 2007. Geller said investigators were confidant they know the gunman's identity but she declined to say anything more about his name, age or hometown until the medical examiner confirms his identity and next of kin are notified.
The campus shooting prompted officials to lock down the university for hours while police and SWAT teams searched the school.
Authorities have in-car video from Crouse's cruiser that shows a man with a handgun at the officer's car at the time of the shooting.
Geller laid out the most detailed account thus far of the shooting. She said Crouse had pulled over a car driven by a student and was stopped on a campus parking lot with the car in front of his cruiser. She said the driver, who she didn't name, had no connection to the shooting and has been very helpful to investigators.
Crouse was sitting in his cruiser when the gunman walked up and shot him. Geller declined to say if the officer was wearing body armor or where exactly he was shot. He was not able to return fire, she said.
The gunman fled on foot and went to nearby greenhouses, where investigators say he changed out of a pullover wool cap and left them there with his backpack.
Geller said a deputy sheriff on patrol then noticed a man at the back of a parking lot about half a mile from the shooting. The man was by himself and acting "a little suspicious." The officer drove around to approach him, lost sight of the man and then found him on the ground. The man appeared to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a handgun was nearby.
The events unfolded on the same day Virginia Tech officials were in Washington, fighting a federal government fine over their handling of the 2007 massacre where 33 people were killed. The shooting brought back painful memories. About 150 students gathered silently for a candlelight vigil on a field facing the stone plaza memorial for the 2007 victims. An official vigil is planned for Friday night.
Crouse was an Army veteran and married father of five children and stepchildren who joined the campus police force in October 2007. He previously worked at a jail and for the Montgomery County sheriff's department.
Crouse was one of about 50 officers on the campus force, which also has 20 full- and part-time security guards. Crouse received an award in 2008 for his commitment to the department's drunken driving efforts. He was trained as a crisis intervention officer and as a general, firearms and defensive tactics instructor.
The university also said its counseling center would be open all day Friday for students.
"A lot of people, especially toward the beginning, were scared," said Jared Brumfield, a 19-year-old freshman from Culpeper, Va., who was locked in the Squires Student Center.
Associated Press writers Eric Tucker, Kimberly Hefling and Ben Nuckols in Washington; Michael Felberbaum, Larry O'Dell, Steve Szkotak, Bob Lewis and Dena Potter in Richmond, Va.; and Brock Vergakis in Norfolk, Va., contributed to this report


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This wonderful group of friends has been celebrating Christmas…and, well, every thing else also…for a very long time. We always have so much fun, and now we have 3rd generation cuties to make us laugh!
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From start to finish, the party was so much fun….and exhausting for some
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Kate Middleton and Prince William at Royal Dinner Pictures
Kate Middleton Wears a One-Shoulder Gown to Host a Black-Tie Dinner With William
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge got dressed up to entertain at St. James Palace in London this evening. The duo hosted a three-course dinner benefiting the National Memorial Arboretum, which is the location of an Armed Forces Memorial remembering those who have died in conflict. Kate Middleton chose a glamorous one-shoulder Jenny Packham gown for the occasion while Prince William wore a classic tux. Both accessorized their black-tie outfits with a red poppy recognizing the upcoming Remembrance Day holiday.
Kate has been the subject of pregnancy rumors after refusing to taste peanut paste during a visit to a UNICEF food bank in Copenhagen earlier this month. The palace won't confirm or deny the speculation, but it has recently released news about the couple. Kate and Will are planning to move into Kensington Palace permanently in 2013, but first they'll have to endure two months apart when William is deployed to the Falkland Islands as part of his Royal Air Force duties early next year.


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"The Creeping Terror!": While sensationalist host of the TV talk-show "You Are Wrong" Jack Ryder is learning what it means to be The Creeper (which consists of The Creeper and Jack speaking to each other/himself), a
- People are a disease, and I am the cure. I am justice… A difference of methods. He says bring them in, I say kill the scum! … I'll sort them out and give god the day off!
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Creeper (Volume 2) #2 is an issue of the series Creeper (Volume 2) with a cover date of November, 2006. It was published on September 7, 2006.
Appearing in "The Creeping Terror!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Mike "Hagop" Hewsen
- Bolo Hewsen
- The Abomination formerly known as Gavin Sullivan
- Axe-Man
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Synopsis for "The Creeping Terror!"
While sensationalist host of the TV talk-show "You Are Wrong" Jack Ryder is learning what it means to be The Creeper (which consists of The Creeper and Jack speaking to each other/himself), a horrible abomination that used to be Gavin Sullivan is feasting on the flesh of innocents! The Creeper convinces Jack to let him take over, and go beat Mike "Hagop" Hewsen to a pulp. Meanwhile, Bolo Hewsen is mad at his son "Hagop" for the violence he inflicted (last issue). He continues to push Dr. Yatz for his secrets though, until he is attacked by the horrible experiment-gone-wrong from Dr. Yatz's lab. In secret, Batman meets with The Creeper. But, as soon as Batman leaves, he is attacked by the Axe-Man! By the time that The Creeper subdues Axe-Man and makes his way to Hewsen Mansion, it has been leveled. The Creeper finds Bolo Hewsen there, and learns that "Hagop" is dead, thanks to the creature that attacked. The Creeper learns information that leads him to believe that this creature is from Dr. Yatz's lab, and he also learns that Dr. Yatz, who is no where to be found, may have mis-appropriated large amounts of money that he was funded by Bolo Hewsen into his nano-cell skin technology project. The Creeper goes to track down the monster, but it doesn't take long before the monster finds him!
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- Discuss Creeper Vol 2 2 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the Creeper series
- Images from Creeper Vol 2 2
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After completing his BA LLB degree, Martin Sweet articled at a law firm becoming an Admitted Attorney in 1981. He has earned a Higher Diploma in Tax Law, completed a Wits Graduate School of Business Course in Management and Planning and has an industrial relations diploma.
Applying his legal skills in the insurance and assurance industries, Martin migrated to marketing and extended his expertise and experiences to business strategy, experiential marketing, brand building, customer relationship marketing and event management. He served as city councillor for the Yeoville/Bellevue ward from 1989 until December 1994.
As Managing Director of Primestars, he has an impressive track record in conceptualising and managing projects such as Take a Girl-Child to Work Day, the Sowetan – Your Money Club, "My Future, My Career" a Career Guidance project, The "eduCate" Matric Revision Math and Science Initiative, "Smartbucks, Mind Your Moolah" Financial Literacy Project, STEP UP LET'S LEAD inspiring youth leadership and STEP UP 2 A START UP encouraging entrepreneurial development


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Finance Ministry
1st February 1938.
Dear Robert,
I got back here yesterday, and have just now been able to go over the last set of accounts I sent you. I still make the balance in hand at 7th October 1937 £47.9.3. I am afraid I may have commited some copying error in the set of accounts I sent you. I hope we will have an opportunity of checking your two copies and clearing up the small difference.See letters of October 7, 1937; November 10, 1937; December 31, 1937; and January 20, 1938 [2].
I went to Hirsch'sJacob Hirsch (1874–1955), a German-Swiss numismatist, archaeologist, and antiquities dealer. place at Geneva the other day, but he has nothing there to speak of, and seems to have moved everything to Paris. Most of the German dealers have also shifted either to Paris or to London. I have just had a letter from GraupePaul Graupe (1881–1953), a German Jewish art dealer who left Germany in 1937 for Paris, where he founded the company Paul Graupe & Cie. telling me that he has set up in the Place Vendôme and proffering his services.
I have received a photograph of the bronze statuetteBZ.1937.31. which you have got from Brummer. I like it very much. I also have the photograph of the grave maskBZ.1937.32. from Antioch. It does not appeal to me particularly, but perhaps might if I saw the original.
I have a note from Fiedler, saying that he expects shortly to start off on another expedition, and will visit GothaRegarding the Gotha diptych leaf. and Dresden.Regarding two ivories. I will of course let you know the moment there is any news. These two last matters are those I am keenest about for the moment.
I have not yet had time to find out whether I can send off from here the silver bowlBZ.1938.31. and ladleBZ.1938.32. from Bustros.Elias (Elie) Bustros, an antiquities dealer in Beirut, Lebanon. I may have to wait until I can take them to Paris in order to insure them properly.
I am awaiting* your reply to my yesterday's cableSee telegram of January 31, 1938 [1]. about the little find of jewelsBZ.1938.27, BZ.1938.28, BZ.1938.29, and BZ.1938.30. offered by Bustros. I can't [sic] send you the photographs, because he sends them to me on condition that I will give him a telegraphic decision and will return the photographs if I don't take the lot, and I feel it is important to be scrupulously punctilious with Bustros. He attaches no such condition to the photographs of the marble tabernacleBZ.1938.56. which I enclosed in my yesterday's letter. If you decide to take that, I shall tell Bustros to send it to you direct, as it would hardly have time to reach me here before I pull up stakes about the middle of March.
*reply just in. Am writing Bustros.
By the way, my departure from this place, where I have diplomatic privileges, is I am afraid going to make it difficult for me to receive objects, as I have done in the past, and forward them to you. I will try to think of some alternative method of proceeding, and please think about it on your side. The chances are that my life will be even more of a wandering one, in the immediate future, than it has been in the past. I shall be none the less anxious to be of any help I can in forming the Oaks collection, and who knows but my new beats may open up some new opportunities.
Much love
Your cable congratulating in reply to Elisina's is exciting. . . for I don't know what Elisina, from Paris, has cabled you!See cable of January 31, 1938 [2].
I'd forgotten a photo. Kaleb. sent me of a wooly lamb,BZ.1938.35. said to be from Charlier, XII, which I like very much. 30,000 f doesn't seem dear—Not at all.
If you don't like, please return photo to Kaleb.
I don't care for the other thing.In a letter from Kalebdjian Frères to Royall Tyler, dated January 18, 1938, "the other thing" is identified as a statue of St. Fiacre, late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, formerly in the inventory of the Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris. Byzantine Collection, Kalebdjian Frères file. See Arsene Alexandre, "Les Collections Manzi," Les arts: Revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions 177 (1919): 242 (identified as of wood, Burgundian School, thirteenth century).
On re-examining Bustros's photos, I see that I made a mistake yesterday:See letter of January 31, 1938 [1]. there are only 3 jewels.BZ.1938.27, BZ.1938.28, and BZ.1938.29. What I had taken for a locket is the reverse of one of the medallions—but that doesn't detract from its' [sic] quality. I'm offering B.Bustros. $1100 for the lot, $100 for export tax included.


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Keyes Architects & Associates, PLLC is a Full-Service Architectural Firm located in Louisville, Kentucky. The firm was formed in March, 1991, in response to requests by potential clients desiring a more direct relationship with Charles J. Keyes III, who, at that time, was an associate partner in a medium-sized architectural firm.
In our twenty-nine+ (29+) years of business, we have completed or initiated work on over 1800 projects ranging in construction cost from $15,000.00 to $14,800,000.00.
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Employee Told FBI ACORN Works for Democrats
"The radical activist group ACORN 'works' for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday." (Source)
In other news, oxygen deprivation leads to death.
Judicial Watch, a conservative group that exposes and prosecutes government corruption, obtained FBI documents from a 2007 investigation of ACORN, in which employees admitted to voter fraud and that ACORN was working for the Democratic Party.
By the way, the president of the United States used to work for ACORN's Project Vote. He helped register voters in Chicago for former Senator Carol Moseley Braun's campaign. I'm not saying Obama was involved in voter fraud; I'm just putting the information out there.
Although the pimp-advice-giving liberal organization officially shut down operations on April 1, ACORN will continue to live in some form or another.
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Ron Rifkin was born in 1939 in New York City. He has appeared in some of the most memorable TV shows of the past 30 years, including Kojak, Soap, Hill Street Blues and ER.
He's also acted in acclaimed movies Silent Running, JFK and LA Confidential. Rifkin lives with wife Iva in New York. He is currently working on The Paris Letter which opens on Broadway next spring and can be seen in the new series of Alias on Five from September 6.
How much sleep do you need?
"Not more than five hours. Four sometimes is enough."
How do you feel first thing in the morning?
"Great. I'm a morning person. I wake up with the sun. When I lived in LA I was a gardener so I would be up and out first thing so I've trained myself to get up early."
What exercise do you take?
"I was a marathon runner but then my knees gave out. I was also a dancer. These days I am at the gym every day."
Are you carefeul about what you eat?
"Yes I am. I'm an ex fatty."
Are you or have you ever been overweight?
"When I was at college I was about 220 lbs. When I graduated from college I started taking ballet class."
Do you take vitamin and mineral pills?
"No I don't, but I should."
Do you drink or smoke too much?
"No smoking. I do drink but I don't drink whiskey. I only drink wine."
Do you catch a cold most winters?
"Almost never. I live a few blocks from the Hudson River which is freezing so it's toughened me up."
What foods can't you bear to eat?
"Okra because of the texture and I don't like rice pudding."
Do you think you suffer from stress?
"I avoid putting myself in situations that will produce stress."
Have you ever been in hospital?
"Just for minor surgery on my knee."
Does your job affect your health?
"Yes, in a good way. The more I work the better I feel."
How often do you consult your doctor?
"Once a year for a general check-up."
Do you look after your skin?
"Not really. My wife tries to get me to moisturise. I should but I don't."
Are you happy with your body?
"It changes every day. Sometimes on a scale of one to 10 I'm a four. The most it is is a seven. I'm happy with the way my body heals itself and how it works."
Do you take more care of youself as the years go by?
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Robe Bowls Everyone Over at New Age Friendship Concert
Robe moving lights took centre stage for the New Age Friendship Celebration Concert in Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban, South Africa, a Bollywood spectacular following the Standard Bank International Pro20 international cricket tournament between India and South Africa.
This visual extravaganza of spectacular proportions was the first ever such post cricket match entertainment event, and also celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in Africa. Over 40,000 excited cricket fans saw India narrowly beat the Proteas (South Africa), simultaneously making history as the biggest live crowd ever to watch a cricket match on the African continent. The concert was televised live worldwide on ESPN, opening up the potential audience to several million.
Lighting, stage set and visuals were designed by Tim Dunn and full technical production for the Concert was supplied by Gearhouse South Africa, working for producer Katija Ali of AA Media who conceived and proposed the show idea to match organisers, Cricket South Africa (CSA).
The stage architecture was based around symbols and shapes from Africa and India, topped with a 'calabash' style structure made from 16 curved trussing 'ribs', flanked by 3 minaret style stretched fabric domes each side.
To maximise site lines, it was decided that the stage should have no roof! Knowing that the weather was highly likely to be inclement at this time of year, Dunn specified Robe moving lights because he knew they would be reliable and resilient in rain and damp conditions.
It proved a wise and perspicacious decision, as it rained torrentially during the get in and build up to the match and show, clearing only 2 days before play!
Dunn has also used Robe fixtures on numerous other high profile shows - recents include the 2010 South African Music Awards (SAMAs), the 2010 METRO FM Music Awards and the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup - and knows their value as creative tools.
His brief was to produce a lightshow to match the razzmatazz, glitter and glamour of the occasion, with a star-studded live performance schedule headlined by Indian megastar, Shah Rukh Khan.
Crowning the top circle of the Calabash were 10 Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs, ideal for aerial effects, and along the front edge of the supporting structure's top deck were 8 Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs and 6 Robe REDWash 3●192s used for shooting prominent colour and beam effects down into the upstage area.
A ground support system was rigged on the stage to facilitate side, back and mid-stage lighting positions. It was 30 metres wide with 2 levels of trim at 9 and 10 metres, diagonally slung trusses upstage and a mid truss that was moved in during the match to accommodate 3 camera positions on the front of the calabash. On the ground support were another 20 REDWash 3●192s, 6 ColorSpot 2500E ATs and 24 x ColorWash 2500E ATs. These were all used for front and back stage washing, upstage key lighting and combined to produce multiple fabulous, rich and powerful looks.
At floor level, under the side LED screen columns and PA wings were 24 Robe ROBIN 300 Spots, 12 a side, together with 4 ROBIN 300 Washes a side shooting up the scrims and illuminating the logo. Their small size was perfect for being tucked unobtrusively into these positions.
Sixteen Robe ROBIN 300 Washes were positioned along the sides of the stage in the 'shin buster' position, used for zappy slices of cross stage light and low level 'modelling' for the dancers.
Dunn explains how the basic visual challenge was to give the stage a real sense of scale and presence and a defining geometry amidst the stadium's architecturally commanding environment.
The lighting and screen visuals had to fuse seamlessly with the set, as well as working independently to cover the performance space and diffuse the onstage energy out into the audience. The design had to work for both TV and live audiences and contain enough big stadium lighting WOW factors throughout, whilst ensuring that all - from those sitting almost parallel to the stage to those at the far end of the stadium behind FOH to those in the VIP and Presidential areas right in front of the stage - enjoyed a great show experience.
He programmed and ran the show on a grandMA full size console, with Hugh Turner calling follow spots and Marcel Wijnberger operating video/screen visuals on another grandMA.


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Harbhajan Singh produced a brilliant spell of spin bowling to rip out four of South Africa's top-order and leave India within sight of victory in the second Test in Kolkata.
Harbhajan dismissed Andrew Hall, Jacques Rudolph, Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith either side of tea before Anil Kumble sent back Boeta Dippenaar as South Africa closed day four in some trouble on 172 for five - a lead of only 66. Harbhajan caused untold problems for the batsman and ended the day with figures of four for 58 off 22 overs.
The only players to offer any real resistance were Proteas captain Smith, who made 71, and first innings centurion Jacques Kallis, who went on the offensive in the dwindling light to finish the day unbeaten on 52. Much will depend on Kallis on the final day but if Harbhajan and Kumble can repeat yesterday's form then India will very much fancy their chances of winning the Test and in the process clinch the two-match series.
Trailing by 106 after India had taken their first innings total to 411 in the morning session, South Africa were desperate for a good start. But Harbhajan was the tormentor-in-chief and sparked a collapse by dismissing Hall and Rudolph in successive overs just before tea.
The tourists' new-look opening partnership of Smith and all-rounder Hall had started well again.
In the drawn first Test in Kanpur, Hall and Smith put on stands of 61 and 67. They were less successful in the first innings in Kolkata, being parted by the second ball of the day, but were back amongst the runs yesterday.
The pair put on 77 before Hall fell for 21 attempting to sweep Harbhajan, the ball striking his glove and running up his arm before looping to wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik.
Rudolph, fresh from his opening-day 61, could only contribute three runs this time around before he was trapped lbw by Harbhajan.
After tea Harbhajan was quickly back in his stride, rushing out Smith and debutant Amla (two), before Kumble joined in the fun by dismissing Dippenaar for two. Bad light then halted the Indian charge, with Zander De Bruyn on nine after an unbroken 25-run stand with Kallis for the sixth wicket. Earlier, South Africa wrapped up the India innings with Makhaya Ntini striking twice and Shaun Pollock removing stubborn Murali Karthik for 46.


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Hornet's #WeAreOne Campaign: 12 International Messages of Support for IDAHOT
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In advance of IDAHOT — The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, which takes place every May 17 — Hornet, the world's premier gay social network, initiated its very own campaign, #WeAreOne. The campaign has a dual purpose: First and foremost, to draw attention to this international event honoring and celebrating the LGBT community; but also to draw the world's attention to Taiwan, which could soon become the very first Asian territory to recognize same-sex marriage.
Indeed, for its #WeAreOne campaign, Hornet is working in cooperation with the Taiwan Alliance for Civil Partnerships. Here's hoping Taiwan becomes the 23rd worldwide locale where gay marriage is on the books.
There's still time today to join Hornet as it unites millions of people worldwide in support of recognizing human rights for all, irrespective of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. The aim is to draw the attention of decision makers, opinion leaders, the media and local authorities.
Take a look at some of our favorite #WeAreOne messages, which span the globe:
Posted by Wang Chia-Ching on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
"Wishing this world to be more and more beautiful, no more discrimination, no more sadness!"
—Wang Chia-Ching
我們生來如此,沒有人願意走這困難的路但這條路讓我體會了不一樣的人生,懂得樂觀去看待許多事情;更懂得愛的價值!讓我們延伸並分享愛❤,不分性別不分你我#國際不再恐同日 #WeAreOne #勇敢愛無懼 #HornetApp
Posted by Atsuki Sammie on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
"We were born like this, and no one chose to walk this difficult journey; but this allowed me to experience an alternative life, a new optimism/pragmatism to things in life, and I am forever grateful! Let us share the love, regardless of gender, regardless of who you are."
—Atsuki Sammie
เพราะเราเท่าเทียมกัน #weareone #hornetapp
Posted by Ohza Guide Yat on Friday, May 12, 2017
"Because we are equal #weareone #hornetapp."
—Ohza Guide Yat
17 de Maio Dia Internacional de Combate a Homofobia.Num mundo carente de amor e paz qualquer tipo de amor vale a pena, não importa quem e como vc ame… AME! PERMITA-SE!#WeAreOne #HornetApp
Posted by Caio Panighel on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
"In a world starved of love and peace, any kind of love is worth it, no matter who and how you love … love! Allow it!"
—Caio Panighel
"For equal rights and to end discrimination and violence for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people!"
—Poe Na Roda
"International Day Against Homophobia #LoveWins #LoveIsLove #WeAreOne"
—Alesandro Rodrigues
🏳🌈 #WeAreOne! Todos somos uno, hoy por Taiwán, mañana por todos los demás. #IDAHOT Hornet – Gay Social Network 🏳🌈
Posted by PepeyTeo on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
"#WeAreOne! Today for Taiwan, tomorrow for everybody else. #IDAHOT"
—Pepe y Teo
#WeAreOne #HornetApp #luttecontrelhomophobie #journéecontrelhomophobie
Posted by Romain Duchene on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
"#WeAreOne Fight against homophobia"
—Romain Duchene
Сегодня международный день борьбы с гомофобией, трансфобией и бифобией. #WeAreOne #HornetApp
Posted by Oleg Berendeev on Wednesday, May 17, 2017
"Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia"
—Oleg Berendeev
HORNET, EŞCİNSEL EVLİLİK EŞİTLİĞİ YASASININ YAYGINLAŞMASI İÇİN "HEPİMİZ BİRİZ" DİYOR #WEAREONEhttps://t.co/dH1Yz6EaWM#haber @HornetApp pic.twitter.com/BBBpAezWD7
— Gzone Magazine (@GZoneMag) May 17, 2017
"Hornet has created an extraordinary exercise of support for marriage equality"
—Gzone Magazine
??Hoy 17 de mayo día Internacional contra la LGTBI fobia??Por el derecho a decidir.Hoy más que nunca todos unidos #hornetapp #weareaone pic.twitter.com/cCTqH0tIdc
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Great to see this @HornetApp campaign supporting the effort in #Taiwan to become the first Asian country to have #MarriageEquality #WeAreOne https://t.co/3jczQoj36S
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The second annual version of SuperLiga, the eight-team competition featuring MLS and Mexican teams, has just unveiled its schedule at a Home Depot Center press conference.
Last year, the Galaxy lost in a thrilling final and this version will feature Western Conference champions Chivas USA.
The relevant dates for games in Carson (except where noted):
Sunday July 13 – Chivas USA vs. defending champions Pachuca CF.
Wednesday July 16 – Chivas USA vs. Santos.
Sunday July 20 Chivas USA vs. New England Revolution. (Venue TBD).
Full competition details here.


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This sweet Vintage Teapot cushion is part of an eclectic range of vintage, recycled and handmade items on offer online from Winter's Moon.
The cushion features a vintage fabric with a really clean graphic design and great colours that would work really well in a kid's bedroom or one of those lovely big kitchens that have enough room to fit a sofa in.
Priced at £28, you can buy the cushion and see the rest of the range which includes furniture and ceramics here.


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This was at the time I was trying to start my doggie daycare and boarding idea, and because I love animals, I offered to help her out, since she was all in tears about having to put her dog down. So we came up with an agreement that she would pay me $200 a month to foster him until however long it took for her to find a full time job, and a new place to live where she could keep him. At first she estimated it would be about five months or so, but now it seems to be going beyond that, and I'm getting a bit concerned, especially with my plans to move out in the summer time.
So I've had Calvin for the past six months, and at first things went smoothly, but now things are starting to get a bit tense in the house. Calvin is a really sweet dog, and is generally better mannered than my two boys are. But lately he's been getting way too excitable, and it tends to get my two all worked up. And of course it doesn't help that he's not neutered. He's been challenging the "pack hierarchy" in this house lately, which has been giving me cause for concern, because the last thing I need is to have to break up any real fights. Plus he's also kind of damaged any other chance I have to baby-sit any other dogs, since he's decided that anyone new coming into this house he doesn't like. I've been trying not to get frustrated with him, since he's a great dog on his own, but he's really testing my limitations now. He needs to get out of this house and be put somewhere where he doesn't have to compete against other animals, and he can have every bit of attention devoted to him only.
Which brings me to my really big problem: his owner. Now, on first meeting her, she seemed like a really nice older woman, but I've quickly realized just how unstable she is. O.o I've tried explaining the situation with her before, asking her why she doesn't just consider giving him up for adoption, since she hasn't been able to take proper care of him for a year. But she refuses to give him up for any reason at all. She's the type of person who would rather put her dog to sleep than let anyone else have him. She's quoted, "He's mine, or he's no one's. I'd rather know that he's with God and waiting for me up in Heaven when my time comes, then we'll be together again."
Ahem. Not to sound rude, but... that is a load of bullshit. I have NEVER heard of anything so selfish in all my life! >.< So you'd rather kill your dog... the dog that you love SO much, because you don't want anyone else to give him a loving home and actually be able to take care of him? That makes no sense to me whatsoever. She argues that he misses her, and he's in pain and distress, and he can't bare the two of them being apart. And I've tried telling her... he's a dog! You can't place human thoughts and emotions onto an animal like that. How do you know what he's feeling? I mean yes, I'll agree with her that I'm sure he misses her. When she used to come and visit him once a week, he'd run to her and whine and bark and wag his tail and jump around all happy like. Of course! But to say that he's in such utter distress is ridiculous. There are dogs out there that develop anxiety disorders and whine and howl and chew at themselves and scratch and stuff. But he does none of these things. In fact he's adapted to the situations he's been in so well, being in a kennel for six months before he came here, and now being here for six months. He's a bit of an older dog yes, an eight-year-old Shep/Collie cross. But he has such a love for Life, he's still got a good few years left in him! He's a happy, healthy dog, who comes to you with a smile on his face and wags, and gives you kisses. And he plays, and he sleeps, and he romps around outside with the other dogs. He's clearly not shown any signs of distress. But she keeps on saying how, "He's in so much pain, I'd rather put him to sleep that keep us apart any longer." That just makes me so mad. >.<
And so now my plans to move out in June bring up the problem of trying to figure out what to do with Calvin. I doubt that his owner will have a job by then, seeing as how she's been looking for a year, and still hasn't found anything. In fact she still owes me for three months of boarding, and I'll probably never see any of that money. But it's not about the money, because she knows damn well that I'd keep him even if she didn't pay me, because I refuse to let him get put to sleep. But come June, I can't keep him anymore, because it's going to be hard enough to find a place where I can keep my own two dogs. So I've been trying to get in touch with her daughter, to see if she can help at all. I've been trying to get in touch with Calvin's owner, but she's still looking for work and is never able to stay on the phone long enough to have an actual conversation with. She hasn't paid a visit in almost two months, although her daughter came to take Calvin on a two-hour hike, and was also nice enough to chip in $40.
I just don't know what to do anymore though. I mean, by law I could claim the dog as my own, seeing as how I've had him for such a long amount of time. I could just take him by force and adopt him out to a loving home, but I'm afraid of what this woman could do if she got upset. She's already unstable enough as it is, and she could cause some sever problems if she wanted to, since we do have more animals in this house than we should. >.< So I have to be so careful with how I handle this. I don't want to get on her bad side, but on the other hand I have to do what's best for the animal. Right now, the only solution I can think of is trying to find someone else who would possibly foster him for free, since she has very little money to actually pay for him. But trying to find someone who will take care of someone else's animal for free might be asking a lot, unless she can at least come up with money to pay for his food. I don't know, but June will be here in no time, and I have to come up with some kind of solution fast, because this whole situation is just getting nuts. >.<


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Getting Here
We are located in Topsham, Maine. Just a little beyond the bridge to Brunswick, on the corner of Green and Main Street.
From southern Maine and points south
Traveling to Midcoast Maine, take Interstate-295 North to the first Brunswick exit. Follow Pleasant Street and stay in right-hand lane. At third stoplight, continue straight following sign "to Maine Street" (not towards "Bath"). Get in left-hand lane. At second stoplight, turn left onto Maine Street (Brunswick) and travel its length, staying in right-hand lane. Cross Frank Wood Bridge over the Androscoggin River onto Main Street, Topsham. Travel past the yellow Bowdoin Mill on your right, one-tenth of a mile from the bridge to #13 Main at the corner of Green and Main Streets. #13 is a red brick building with a sign that says "Maine Fiberarts." Park in front of our building or in the lot in the eight spaces directly bordering Green Street.
Alternate route from southern Maine
Take Interstate-295 North to Exit 31, Topsham/196 East. Travel Route 196 East for four stoplights. Just before the 5th stoplight, turn right onto Route 201 South following sign for "Brunswick/ Maine Street." Building is located one mile from this turn on the left-hand side at #13 Main Street in Topsham. From northern Maine along the coast: Travel Route 1 South. Take the exit for "Topsham/ Routes 24 & 201" (not the exit for "Topsham/196" which takes you towards Lewiston). Exit puts you on the Frank Wood Bridge. Follow above.
From northern and central Maine
Take Interstate-295 South. After Augusta, be careful to follow signs towards "Brunswick," not Lewiston. Take: "Topsham/Brunswick/196 East" exit. Travel Route 196 East for four stoplights. Turn right onto Route 201 South following sign for "Brunswick/ Maine Street." Building is located one mile from this turn on the left-hand side at #13 Main Street in Topsham.
There are six spaces in front of our building or eight, in the old Fire Station lot directly bordering Green Street. Maine Fiberarts has its own private parking lot. Enter through the trees on the side of the building on Green Street.
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June 14 (Reuters) - West Ham United have signed Spain international attacking midfielder Pablo Fornals from Villarreal, the Premier League club said on Friday.
British media reported West Ham paid 24 million pounds ($30.34 million) for the 23-year-old.
Fornals, who agreed a five-year contract with an option to extend it for a further 12 months, will join Manuel Pellegrini's squad for the pre-season after representing his country at the June 16-30 Under-21 European Championship.
"I feel very good, very happy and very grateful for the opportunity that has been provided to me," Fornals, capped twice by Spain, told the club's website.
"I want the club to continue giving opportunities to young and ambitious people, people who want to do well for the long term.
"Of course, Manuel was a big influence because in the end he is one of the best coaches in the world and who doesn't want to work with people like that?"
West Ham director of football Mario Husillos worked with Fornals at Malaga and he is confident the player will thrive in the Premier League.
"We believe that his style and ability perfectly complements the midfielders already at the Club, and we are very pleased to have secured his signing so early in the summer," Husillos added.
(Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.


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Some additions that catch the eye:
- Added new functionality in the SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition to provide an alternate storage format that can be used to minimize the disk space needed to store existing decimal and numeric data types. No application changes area are required to use its benefits. This new storage format, known as vardecimal storage format, stores decimal and numeric data as variable length columns and can be enabled or disabled at a table level on new or existing tables. If you have declared a decimal or numeric column with high precision but most values do not require it, you can potentially save the disk space needed to store the table. A new stored procedure is provided to estimate the reduction in average row size with the new storage format.
Funny that they add this new datatype only to the Enterprise Edition in my humble opinion. Although I understand they probably have the most benefit of storage saving features.
- Plan cache improvements that provide improved system performance, better use of the available physical memory for database pages, and the ability to return text XML query plans that contain an XML nesting level greater than or equal to 128 by using the new sys.dm_exec_text_query_plan table-valued function.
Sounds very nice but I'd love to see more detail on how exactly this is achieved.
- The value of the BypassPrepare property of the Execute SQL task has been changed to True by default.In earlier versions, the value of the BypassPrepare property was false, which indicated that statements were always prepared. In SP2, by default queries are not prepared. This eliminates errors with certain providers when you try to prepare a statement that uses parameter placeholders ("?").
Seems I'm not the only one with this problem.
- Generate Script Wizard. You can now specify that the scripted objects include a DROP statement before the CREATE statement. Scripting of objects into separate files is now possible.
The fixlist for SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP can be found here


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ST. GEORGE, UTAH- Caylee Underwood had the biggest hit of her career in the opening round of the NJCAA National Tournament.
Underwood's solo home run in the fourth inning put the College of Central Florida softball team ahead for good in a 4-3 win over Lake Land (Ill.) on Wednesday evening.
"That was the turning point," said CF coach Kevin Fagan, whose team rallied from a 3-0 deficit after the second inning.
Underwood's homer sailed over the left field wall and enabled CF to emerge victorious in its first-ever national tournament game.
The No. 9 hitter in the CF lineup now has three homers on the season and upped her team's total to 64 on the season.
"She had a plan when she went up there in the fourth," Fagan said. "They beat her inside the first time she was up and she was looking for that and she really adjusted to what they were trying to do to her."
With the win, the No. 8 seed Patriots (44-13) advance to face No. 1 Arizona Western (49-7) tonight at 7 p.m. EST. Arizona Western knocked off No. 16 Spartanburg (S.C.) Methodist 4-1 in extra innings in the opening round.
"We got a chance to scout them after our game," Fagan said. "Hopefully, it will pay off for us."
Taylor Morrow (2-for-3, double, RBI), Jordan Lane (1-for-2, double, RBI), Jessica Nathan (1-for-2, stolen base, RBI) backed Underwood in the win.
Autumn Hanners (7-4) got the win in relief of starter Jamie Nelson. Hanners finished the game with five scoreless innings and allowed just one hit. Over her past 14 1/3 innings spanning three outings, Hanners has not allowed a run.


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See free & cheap NYC events for tomorrow, Friday, January 9th (more added later today).
Today's Events
Through Wednesday, January 21st: STEM Fest 2015
Thursday, January 8th: 2015 SummerStage Showcase
Thursday, January 8th: 'Something Wonderful: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein'
Thursday, January 8th: First Look at Greenpoint's Newest Park
Thursday, January 8th: Tour the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator
Thursday, January 8th: 'Backstage Pass to Broadway'
Thursday, January 8th: Silver Sound Showdown Music + Video Festival 2015
Thursday, January 8th: Museum Curators, MTA Staff & an Artist Discuss Large-Scale Projects
Thursday, January 8th: 'Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art' + Mixed Media Workshop
Thursday, January 8th: Danielle Walker & 'Against All Grain: Meals Made Simple: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and Paleo Recipes to Make Anytime'
Thursday, January 8th: Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy with Gary Kleppel
Thursday, January 8th: Free Film Screening Inside a Heated Outdoor Cube: 'Enchanted'
Thursday, January 8th: Free Screening of 'American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs' + Q&A with Grace
See more ongoing & upcoming NYC events
Through Summer 2015: Spencer Finch's 'A Certain Slant of Light' Turns The Morgan Into a Calendar Based on the Movement of the Sun
Through Spring 2015: 'Kandinsky Before Abstraction, 1901–1911'
Through Monday, January 19th: 'What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones'
Through Sunday, March 22nd: 'The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters'
Through Monday, January 19th: See the Work of Mac Conner, a 'Mad Men'-Era Illustrator
Through Sunday, February 15th: 'Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe'
Through Saturday, January 31st: Celebrate 45 Years of 'Sesame Street' with NYPL
Through Sunday, January 11th: 'Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life'
Through Sunday, February 8th: 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA
Through Monday, March 23rd: 'Witness at a Crossroads' Showcases Marc Riboud's Post-War Photographs of Asia
Through Sunday, February 1st: 'Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire'
Through Sunday, March 1st: Ice Skating in Bryant Park
Through Sunday, January 25th: 'Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection'
Through Sunday, March 22nd: 'Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power'
Through Saturday, March 7th: 'Light Cycles' Installation Illuminates the Winter Garden
Through Friday, January 16th: MoMA's Film Department Screens Top Picks from 2014
Through Sunday, January 11th: 'Gingerbread Lane' 2014, the World's Largest Gingerbread Exhibition
Through Friday, January 16th: New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show
Through Sunday, November 1st: 'Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye'
Through Saturday, January 17th: 'Afterword' Elaborates on Kara Walker's Domino Sugar Refinery Installation
Through Sunday, February 22nd: 'Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection'
Through Sunday, January 11th: See American Museum of Natural History's 2014 Origami Holiday Tree + Demos
Through Sunday, January 11th: See the Original Manuscript of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'
Through Saturday, April 25th: 'Faking It: Originals, Copies and Counterfeits' in the Fashion Industry with Garments from Chanel & Yamamoto
Through Saturday, February 7th: 'Dust, Dialogue and Uncertainty: Slow Knowledge in Design Thinking and Practice'
Through Sunday, February 15th: 'Sublime: The Prints of J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Moran'
Through Saturday, January 31st: 'Broadway Revealed: Photographs by Stephen Joseph Behind the Theater Curtain'
Through Saturday, February 28th: 50% Off Admission to the Museum of Sex
Through Saturday, January 31st: COIL 2015 Performing Arts Festival
Through Saturday, January 10th: !!! Residency + Mister Saturday Night, Degal DJ
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The new Under Armour Swacket concept Jacket has arrived!
The UA Swacket Jacket is both water & sweat proof! The Under Armour Swacket is a brand new item under jackets for men.
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Lanzo Lining Services was born in 1993 when the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Authority approached its contractor, Lanzo Construction Co. in Pompano Beach, Fla., and suggested entering the pipe lining business. The D'Alessandro family, co-owners of Lanzo Construction, saw the opportunity and agreed, and Lanzo Lining Services was established as a subsidiary.
The company, now known as Lanzo Trenchless Technologies, has announced the opening of a second headquarters in response to the expansion of the company's operations throughout North America and into Central and South America. The two headquarters are strategically located in Detroit, Mich., and Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Lanzo Trenchless Technologies offers a full range of CIPP and infrastructure repair technologies to provide cost-effective, less invasive alternatives to replacing failing infrastructure.
"We work with public, government and private clients both nationally and internationally to solve intricate underground infrastructure issues," says Fred Tingberg, business development manager for Lanzo Trenchless Technologies. "The dual headquarters enables us to provide our customers with the most responsive service in the industry. The ability to have local representation and local crews is what sets us apart from conventional contracting."
To date, Lanzo Trenchless Technologies has conducted trenchless repair on more than 10 million linear feet of pipelines in diameters as large as 120 inches throughout North America. The company handles everything from cleaning and CCTV inspection, to non-circular pipeline renovation and NSF 61 water main rehabilitation.
Some of the company's most notable projects include lining an 18- to 15-inch transition sewer 20 feet below the Greektown Casino and restaurant complex in Detroit, which remained open throughout the project, and 12-inch water transmission mains rated at 100 psi that served the Renaissance Center fountain in Detroit. Another project involved rehabilitating the triple barrel 7- by 8-foot rectangular Joseph Campau B-10 outfall for the City of Detroit. The amount of resin used made it the largest non-circular pipe rehabilitation in the world.
Lanzo also lined a 14,000-foot force main in Boca Raton, Fla. The project, installed in 1996, was one of the first significant applications of inversion lining in force mains and led to several technical innovations.
These projects and others were detailed in the October 2012 issue of Cleaner. To read the complete story, visit www.cleaner.com/editorial/2012/10/born_from_opportunity.
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War Horse is a film adaptation of a children's novel which also inspired both a radio broadcast and an award-winning stage play, but it's an unusual story any way you tell it. On the outset of World War I, English teenager Albert Narracott (Jeremy Irvine) forms a special connection with his horse, Joey. Albert's father sells Joey to a military Captain in order to pay rental debt, and throughout the war, Albert maintains hope that he will see his horse again. What follows is an odyssey across war-torn Europe from 1914-1918 as Albert's horse, Joey, changes hands with each conflict, finding himself on farms, battlefields, and the infamous No Man's Land between the trenches.
The sentiment and schmaltz are laid on thick - almost too thick. Subtlety isn't this film's strong suit, but then again, War Horse is a WWI picture. John Williams' grand and sweeping score announces itself at every turn. The camera regularly soars across the typically understated beauty of the English countryside. There are plenty of lingering shots of characters gazing off at the horizon. It all works, as these feel-good staples are later offset by war violence, and the film's framing and cinematography elevate War Horse above what it would have been in the hands of a lesser director.
Jeremy Irvine plays Albert with sincerity, even though the "boy and his horse" bit seems stranger as Albert gets older. By the time Albert's an adult man serving in the British Army, the only thing that keeps his immense love for Joey from being a little too weird is that the horse has gone through so damn much, and we've gone through it with him. There's a memorable supporting cast of characters: Albert's parents, their landlord, various military officers, two young German soldiers, a frenchman and his granddaughter - all brought to life through fine performances.
When you think of the great war films, few transpire during World War I. Most are World War II films, as WWII provides an easy backdrop for tales of heroism and bravery. Vietnam films often highlight the senselessness and waste of war, but from a historical perspective, WWI stands as the ultimate example of how frivolous and tragic war can be. The war produced over 35 million military and civilian casualties, largely due to dramatic increases in firepower without equal increases in transportation. War Horse shows how technology (or the lack thereof) unleashed new horrors and how few wars have ever seen such uneven odds depending on who had what technology. One scene in particular stands out as an army of soldiers on horseback with swords in hand is mowed down by a line of machine guns.
The final sequence evokes the closing moments of Gone With the Wind's first act, as characters stand silhouetted against an impossibly orange sky. Years from now, I doubt War Horse will stand out in Spielberg's filmography full of masterpieces, but it's a well-told story of bravery and friendship, notable for its beauty and its impressive depiction of World War I. The narrative emerges somewhat disconnected and certainly unbelievable, but amidst the horrors of war, some excessive heart isn't such a bad thing.
For the Parents:
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of war violence.
War Horse is based on a children's novel, but don't be mistaken; this is not a children's movie. It's a war movie, and even adults who are sensitive to war violence should be cautious. The combat scenes aren't bloody, but they are intense, particularly one where the horse runs frightened through the chaos and becomes trapped in barbed wire.


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About White Lake
White Lake is a warm water lake located in the Township of Central Frontenac. Designated as a Fish Sanctuary, White Lake hosts the Ministry of Natural Resources Fish Hatchery. It has an elevation of 213 metres above sea level. The perimeter of the lake is 8.1 kilometres and the deepest point is 29.6 metres.
White Lake supports a warm water fishery, in particular; Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye and Yellow Perch.
At last count in 1970, there were approximately 14 cottages on the lake.
Read White Lake State of the Lake Reports
Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority and its partner, the Mississippi Valley Lake Stewardship Network, are taking action through Watershed Watch, a program designed to protect and enhance the environmental health of lakes within the watershed. The monitoring results are posted as State of the Lake Reports. Each lake in the program is sampled every five years.
White Lake State of the Lake Report 2011
White Lake State of the Lake Report 2006
White Lake State of the Lake Report 2001


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Our History
Originally ProVision Solar Inc. was incorporated as ProVision Technologies, Inc. in 1998 under Hawaiian Electric Industries to take advantage of the growing market for photovoltaic (PV) applications across the Hawaiian Islands. In 2003, Marco Mangelsdorf, one of ProVision's original employees, and his childhood friend, Douglas Bath, purchased ProVision from HEI and have been at the helm ever since. Our roots are nourished by doing right for you, our valued customers, our ProVision ohana, Hawai'i nei and the planet. You will be working with industry leaders who have been in the renewable energy field since the 1970s.
Today ProVision is headquartered in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai'i, the island known for its geographical diversity and strong potential for renewable energy. ProVision Solar serves the Hawai'i community by providing premier solar electric systems for homes, businesses, non-profit agencies and government buildings. We are Hawai'i's first pure PV company and we are locally-owned neighbors who can be trusted. We are committed to providing you with the best service and affordable pricing. We add value to your clean energy purchase by providing customer education, best design practices and an array of financing options .
The ProVision employees are committed to providing you with the highest quality products and unparalleled service. We are a fully licensed and insured electrical contractor (C-13), the only Hawai'i state contractor license classification which can obtain the necessary electrical permits to install PV systems from start to finish. While we are licensed to do all types of general electrical work, we have chosen to focus exclusively on installing PV systems.


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The Tips You Need In Regards To Hobbies
If you struggle to keep busy, you may need a hobby. There are all kinds of hobbies, from woodworking to gardening. If a certain hobby really catches your interest, it may even develop into a career. Read on for wonderful hobby advice.
Making music is a hobby to explore. Do you want to learn how to play an instrument? Then, take lessons from a tutor or learn from books and videos. Start slow and then work hard at it whenever possible so you can get to where you wish to be later on down the road.
For anyone looking to turn a hobby into a money-making business, first you will need a name. Your company name is essential for developing your business. It should be unique, memorable and should connect with your business and whatever products you plan to sell.
One cool hobby is fishing. Fishing is one of those hobbies that will never die out. It is a timeless pastime. You need patience, but you'll jump for joy when you catch a giant fish. You may fish for food or you may catch and release.
Enjoy your hobby with loved ones. Knowing small details about people makes life a lot more special. When you share these little tokens you make from your hobby, people are sure to enjoy them. Allow others to view the things you make, collect or follow. Display your hobby involvement to all. It can open up some new doors and friendships.
Gaming online is a popular hobby that a lot people choose to be involved with. If you spend too much time on them, you can start to lose track of reality. Gaming is a good hobby if you are just looking for a way to pass a significant amount of time.
Share your hobby with your mother. The two of you could attend a cooking class. Both of you can become better cooks from a class, regardless of how good or bad you were in the kitchen previously. Simply get together and have fun learning some new recipes. Incorporate a little competition to make it even more fun! Search the web to find cooking seminars and classes around you.
Star gazing is a fabulous hobby. Star gazing brings you to a place you might miss out on if you didn't look. You'll really begin to contemplate your own existence. Just a telescope and a dark, starry night can change your point of view.
Remember safety when you are doing your hobby. A lot of the time, when we are having fun, we can forget to make sure that we pay attention to safety issues. Safety rules pertaining to the hobby you're pursuing should be followed and not forgotten.
A hobby can be wonderful. You can enjoy your hobby in your idle time and establish a schedule that allows you to practice it a little or a lot. Through your hobby you can express who you are, meet others, and gain some money in the end. These tips will help you out with your hobby.…


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Have you noticed how "white" the protestors are? They are funded by various anarchist and communist groups which unfortunately have 501c3 status, the same status denied to various peaceful Tea Party groups 4 years ago. Don't be fooled--anarchists hate Americans, Jews, Israel, and probably blacks after they've chewed them up and spit them out. Too bad these college kids don't know Soviet or 20th c. Chinese history and who went to trial first or faced hiring squads. If Clinton had won, I think they would have had the same "I've been cheated" demonstrators because it isn't a peaceful transition they want.
The anarchist groups like A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and the various Communist groups will continue to spread the rumors about Trump and find patsies to file complaints. The umbrella trouble makers are global, and by always lifting up the fanciful KKK image which is a fraction the size of their group, they suck in gullible millennials.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Paid anarchists actually have tax status!
Posted by Norma at 11/13/2016 06:38:00 AM
Labels: 501 (c)(3), A.N.S.W.E.R., anarchy, demonstrations
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