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Jack Palmer
Parts Salesman
Jack has been with Bird-Kultgen since 1972. Originally he unloaded our freight truck deliveries, but has spent the rest of his career working the front parts counter taking good care of our customers. If you are looking for a random part, Jack is your man.
Melvin Coleman
Collision Repair Center Assistant Manager
Melvin joined our team back in 1973. After serving as a technician for 9 years he became our assistant body shop manager.
Peter Kultgen
Peter took the helm from his grandfather in 1986. His passion is community service, and Peter serves on countless boards and projects such as United Way, TSTC, and MHMR. In his free time, Peter and his wife Marge enjoy tinkering with their sailboat.
Richard Solano
Parts Salesman
Richard has been on the Bird-Kultgen team for more than 37 years. He enjoys cycling and running at the dam. He enjoys watching the Dallas cowboys play.
Keith Cosby
Shop Assistant
Keith joined the Bird-Kultgen team in 1975. His talents and awesome personality make him well known as the friendly face of BK. He enjoys all good conversations, visiting friends, and spending as much time as possible with his adorable granddaughters.
Bobby Carrizales
Parts Salesman
Bobby has lived in Waco his entire life. He is married with three lovely children, and is heavily involved in the city's little league baseball program. He has been with the dealership for over 32 years.
James Graves
Heavy Duty Foreman
James joined us in 1980 and works our heavy truck line. An avid musician, James enjoys playing guitar, composing, and recording music in his home studio. He also enjoys simulation Formula 1 Racing in his online racing league.
Tom Lalley
Service Manager
Tom joined us in 1981 after TSTC and has been a technician, heavy truck foreman and assistant service manager, and is now service manager. Married to his wife Paula for 25 years, they have 4 children. In his free time Tom runs and enjoys playing pool.
Cristi Garner
Accounts Receivable
Cristi joined BK in 1982. One of everyone's favorites, she handles payroll and receivables. She and her husband Gary enjoy rock climbing with their Jeep and being outside.
Wes Dawson
Service Advisor
Wes has been a service advisor with us since 1986. He is married, has four children, and one beautiful grandchild.
Linda Gonce
The voice of BK, Linda joined us in 1983, her junior year of high school, after being recruited by her friend and neighbor Janet Schuetz. Linda enjoys working for such a family oriented business, and enjoys spending time with her friends and family and nephew Colton.
Steve Flores
Shop Foreman
Steve has been with us since 1992. Other than cars, coaching select baseball is his biggest passion. He also tries to spend as much of his free time as possible with his four grandchildren.
Bert Hernandez
General Manager
Bert joined BK in 1992 after the Army and 17 years with John Deere. Bert is proudly involved in many community, police, and veteran activities, and he enjoys time with his wife of 46 years, Janice.
Richard Crane
Shuttle Driver
Richard joined the team in 1993 and loves shuttling our customers wherever they need to go. He enjoys spending time with his Bird-Kultgen family and home family, fishing, and watching those Dallas Cowboys play.
Jason Butler
Assistant Service Manager
Jason has been with us for more than 22 years. No problem is too small or big for Jason to handle. When he is not working, he is spending time with his amazing family. He also enters the occasional BBQ cookoff to test his grilling skills.
Alvin Jackson
Make Ready Manager
Alvin is a University High School graduate and joined our team in 1995. He enjoys working here because it's like, "One big happy family." In his free time Alvin can be found fishing and watching the Dallas Cowboys.
James Buckingham
Parts Manager
James joined us back in 1995, and tells us he loves the family atmosphere at Bird-Kultgen. He's been married for a "very long time," has 2 grown children, and enjoys spending time on his farm taking care of his animals.
Randol Langdale
Collision Repair Center Refinish Technician
Randol brings 36 years of experience to our team and has been with us since 1996. His boys are his pride and joy. An avid runner, Randol also enjoys hunting, fishing, and music.
Becky Kroll
Parts Salesperson
Becky has been with Bird-Kultgen for 22 years. She and her husband, Alton, of 38 years have four children, and five grandchildren. In her spare time, she loves to drag race, go horseback riding, and watching her grandchildren play.
Randy Moran
Service Technician
Randy has been with us since 1998. Randy has been married for 5 happy years, has 2 beautiful daughters and a son on the way, and in his free time enjoys watching any and all sports, particularly those Baylor Bears, and LOVES to BBQ.
Phillip Howard
General Sales Manager
Phillip joined BK in 1998, and has been a consultant, finance manager, sales manager, and now leads our sales teams. He and his wife Michelle have 4 kids they chase around. In his free time, Phillip can be found on the golf course.
Tim Pietsch
Sales Manager
Tim's passion for cars began as a child rebuilding projects with his dad. His TSTC degree is in auto body, and Tim worked for Dr Pepper for 11 years before joining BK in 2000. He's been a sales consultant, finance manager, and now manages the pre-owned department. "I love this business, the family that I work for, and I plan on retiring here."
Xavier Almanza
Collision Repair Center Technician
Xavier is a body shop detail technician. His close attention to detail, reliability, and work ethic make him an awesome addition to our body shop team. In his free time, Xavier enjoys his time with his family.
Claire Kultgen McDonald
Vice President
Claire is a proud 4th generation BK family member. She enjoys volunteering with Waco Habitat for Humanity and Redeemer church. She enjoys pursuing hobbies with her husband Theo include mountain biking, sailing, and adventurous things.
Bill Bullman
Sales Consultant
Bill came to work at BK back in 1996. Outside of the office he enjoys spending time with his wife of 22 years, Karla, their 4 kids, 6 granddaughters, and their 4 grandsons. They enjoy working in the yard and remodeling their beautiful old house.
David Gagnon
Service Technician
A UTI graduate, David joined us in 2004 and is a brake, steering, and suspension expert. In his free time he enjoys classic cars, drag racing, spending time with his girlfriend, 2 steps sons (Wesley even works with him) and beautiful granddaughter.
Stephen Long
Shop Foreman
Steve attended school at TSTC and joined BK in 2005. He is a master tech and 2008 employee of the year. His oldest son is in the Air Force and his youngest the Marine Corps. In his free time he enjoys building and racing cars, motorcycles, and traveling.
Leslie McBride
Service Advisor
Leslie joined our service team in 2006. As a professional service advisor, she treasures when customers become friends and her smile is a welcome sight in the service isle. A mom of three grown boys, Leslie enjoys long motorcycle trips with her husband Warner.
Mark Yaussi
Master Service Technician
Mark loves helping customers fix their Fords. We've been lucky enough to have him since mid 2007. When not working, he goes Jeeping across the Texas Hill Country with his family.
Jennifer Pitts
Accounting Manager
Jennifer came to us in 2007, has over 20 years of experience in the industry, and is a 1997 Texas State graduate. She has been married to her husband Kevin since 1998, and they have two wonderful children.
Wesley Leggett
Service Technician
Wesley literally started his mechanic career as a boy- as soon as he could pull a starter string. He took mechanic classes in high school and college and now works at BK with his dad and stepdad. "I am still amazed at the family-type environment here every day."
Johnny Shamburger
Sales Consultant
Johnny has been at Bird-Kultgen since 2009. A proud family man, Johnny has been married for 28 years and has three children: one in recent college grad, one in college, and one in high school. In his free time he enjoys sports, chess, and poker.
Paul Carrizales
Finance Manager
Always willing to help, Paul is here to meet our customer's finance needs. He enjoys golf, softball, and spending time with his family and friends. He and his beautiful wife Jennifer have three adorable girls that mean the world to them.
Stephanie Mirage
Stephanie is our accounts payable expert, and recently moved back home to Waco with her family after spending time in Missouri. She first joined us in 1996 and was with us for 6 years, and we are thrilled to have her back on our team. She has three children that are proud Robinson Rockets. Stephanie is always happy to help wherever she can!
Anthony George
Finance Manager
Anthony enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons. In his free time he enjoys grilling, tailgating, and cheering for BU with his friends. Sic 'Em Bears.
Ernesto Ramirez
Sales Consultant
Ernesto has been in the car industry for little over eight years. When not helping customers, he spends as much time with his fiance and grandsons as possible. He has yet to miss a Dallas Cowboys game, and considers himself their #1 fan.
Vanessa Bounds
Internet Sales Manager
Vanessa has been in the car business for 8 years as an internet sales director. She has two daughters that are her pride and joy. She loves going to the lake, being outdoors, and most of all spending time with her family.
Michael J. Knight
Commercial and Fleet Sales Manager
Mike brings 40+ years of experience to our team. Mike is from an Air Force family and has traveled all over the world and lived in the US and Spain. He joined the Air Force and completed a tour in Vietnam, and moved to Waco in 1969. Mr. Knight is a a self proclaimed sports fanatic and loves his Baylor Bears.
Dave Morgan
Dave is married and is the proud father of one son who is 23. He earned his degree from TSTI in auto mechanics and auto body, and has 34 years of experience in the industry. He is certified in chief EZ Liner, Car-O-Liner, and Spies Hecker Refinishing. We are thrilled to add another collision repair expert to our team. In his free time, he loves driving his Mustang GT.
Michael Kinser
Sales Consultant
Michael joins us after a career at Alcoa. He loves spending time with his 15 year old son. They enjoy watching and playing baseball, football, soccer, and basketball together, and love cheering on the Baylor Bears and Dallas Cowboys. A TSTC graduate, Michael is excited about a new career in sales. He enjoys talking to people and helping them find the Ford that best meets their family needs.
Luhrel Leggett
Parts Salesman
Luhrel brings 20+ years of experience to our team, with a background in both parts sales and automotive repair. He graduated from TSTI with a degree in automotive tech and continues to serve on their automotive advisory committee. He has 2 sons, one of whom works with him here at Bird-Kultgen- Wesley Leggett! His hobbies include fishing and gardening.
Patrick Bell
Estimator, Collision Repair Center
Pat was born in Alaska, but fell in love with a Waco girl and moved here in 1983. He is a proud "Texan by choice." He and his wife have 2 children and 6 grandchildren. If you're looking for an expert estimator, you found him. Pat has been in Waco's collision repair business since 1983. He is an active member at First Baptist Church of Elm Mott and has served as a Lacy Lakeview city councilman since 2000.
David Bakluda
Collision Repair Center Technician
David has over twelve years of experience doing body repair work including aluminum welding. He is a graduate of TSTC. In his free time he enjoys watching movies and sports with his fiance Janie, especially their favorite team the Dallas Cowboys.
Amanda Allen-Brewer
Sales Secretary
Amanda is our sales secretary and handles the paperwork for both our new and pre-owned sales department (which is a lot of paperwork)! She was born in Houston and moved to Waco when she was two. Amanda and her husband Troy have two children and they spend their time with them at various sports and outdoor activities. In her free time she enjoys painting and cooking. When they have free weekends, Amanda loves going out of town for mini getaways.
Jack Aaron
Service Advisor
Jack grew up in China Spring and has proudly been married to his wife Donna since 1988. Jack worked from Bird Kultgen from 1987-2006 and then spent time in the insurance industry and also working with his dad. We are thrilled to welcome him back and have him helping customers in our service department.
Mary Andrade
Quick Lane Advisor
Mary joined our team to help open our Quick Lane in 2015. She has been in the service field since 2012. She loves spending time with her three beautiful daughters, and when it's pretty they like to be outside at the park, feeding ducks, and doing garden work. Mary likes working at Bird Kultgen because of the family environment and enjoys treating our customers like family and helping them keep their vehicles in tip top shape.
Bobby Moran
Service Technician
Bobby Moran joined us in August of 2014. He is a recent newlywed to his bride Carolynn and they have one son JD. Bobby's brother Randy is also a technician in our service department, and their dad David was also a technician here for many any years. In his free time Bobby enjoys shooting, fishing, and bowling.
Ines Potter
Quick Lane Technician
All the way from the beautiful state of Colorado, Ines joined the BK Ford team in 2015 and is loving it. She loves to ride motorcycles with her boyfriend Steve, who is a technician in our service department. Ines loves helping customers keep their rides in good working order. She also has a deep love for animals.
Les Beane
Les is responsible for keeping our facility looking sharp and ready for customer visits. When he's not at the dealership, he enjoys watching sports, bartending, catering, and cooking at the Baylor athletic facilities. Les and wife Gayla have two children, Les III and Ashanti and grandkids Lyrie and Alexis.
Michael Payne
Service Technician
Micheal joined our team in 2015 and helps our Quick Lane customers with their maintenance needs. In his free time he enjoys hiking, fishing, and relaxing weekends on the houseboat with his wife Dani, their son, and two daughters. Michael enjoys helping our customers with their mechanical needs.
Lupe Garcia
Quick Lane Technician
Lupe joined our team in 2015 and helps our Quick Lane customers with their maintenance needs. In his free time he enjoys hiking, fishing, and relaxing weekends on the houseboat with his wife Dani, their son, and two daughters.
Amanda "Cupcake" Larson
Quick Lane Advisor
Amanda joined our Quick Lane team in 2016 and enjoys helping our customers keep their vehicles in tip top shape. She and her husband have been married for 12 years and have 5 beautiful children. Amanda loves her family and in when she's not working they try to spend as much time together as possible. Amanda is always smiling. "I many not be where I should be in life (yet), but I'm not where I used to be."
Freddy Orta
Quick Lane Technician
Freddy was born and raised right here in Waco. He is married and has 3 amazing kids. He loves spending time with his wife and family and is a proud member of the BK team!
Miguel Contreras
Sales Consultant
Miguel joined our team in 2016 and is very excited in his new career in sales, he enjoys working with and meeting new people everyday. He attended Waco High School and is now pursuing his business degree. When he is not at work he loves spending time with his wife and daughter.
Jon Taft
Quick Lane Manager
Born in Temple and raised in College Station, Jon is an AGGIE at heart. He earned his automotive degree from LTI in Dallas, TX and has been in the automotive industry ever since. He started at Garlyn Shelton imports in Bryan as a lube tech and worked his way up to become the parts manager. He has his master certifications in Hyundai, VW, Mazda, and BMWs. He joined the Bird Kultgen team in 2016 and is our Quick Lane manager. He enjoys helping customers with his expert advice on their vehicles every day, and loves spending time with his wife Keri and baby boy Bentley.
Manny Olguin
Quick Lane Technician
Manny has always been fascinated by cars and he enjoys working on them every day. He has his associates degree in automotive and business. Manny knows our Bird-Kultgen customers want the best and he is proud to provide that service for them!
Gary Moore
Collision Repair Center Technician
Gary was born right here in Waco in 1960. He graduated from Axtell High School, and is married with 2 sons and 1 daughter, as well as 4 grandchildren! He has been in the auto body repair business for 26 years. In his free time he enjoys watching drag racing, riding 4 wheelers, working on cars, and playing with his grandchildren.
Kenneth Allen Tucker
Collision Repair Center Technician
Kenny graduated from Axtell High School and then attended TSTC where he earned his degree in Auto Body Repair. He has been married for 19 years and has two beautiful kids. He enjoys watching his kids play sports, drag racing, and camping with his family.
Octavio Garcia
Quick Lane Technician
Octavio graduated from TSTC with his associates degree in Automotive Technology. He loves working on cars, helping customers understand how to take care of them, and always providing excellent service.
Dustin Stiver
Quick Lane Technician
Dustin is a Waco native and Midway High School graduate. His family has a long history repairing vehicles, and Dustin is proud to follow that career path. Dustin started in the automotive industry in 2012, and he enjoys working on all types of cars and trucks. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife and son.
James Holley
Service Technician
James moved to Waco from Northern California. He has worked on Fords since 2010, and takes pride in doing great work. When he's not working James enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and two kids.
Aaron Amundson
Collision Center Technician
Aaron graduated from Clifton High School in 2015. He attended TSTC in Waco and graduated with his associates degree in auto collision and management in 2017. He is ICAR PRO Level III Certified.
Joshua Deyo
Josh was born and raised in Waco and served in the Marine Corps for 4 years. In his free time he enjoys fishing, hiking, shooting, archery, diving, and spear fishing. He loves spending time with his wife, daughter, and two dogs. He is pursuing a degree as a medical technician through MCC, and is a huge fan of the Houston Texans, Rangers, and Baylor Bears.


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Monday, March 26, 2007
Diversity Training - Hyrum Osmond
8 comments:
- Ryan Wood said...
Where's the Osmond magic we always hear so much about? ;)
- March 27, 2007 at 1:13 PM
- Jeff Bunker said...
Where is this VO from. I like the expression when he burst into laughter.
- March 29, 2007 at 10:38 AM
- Seth Hippen said...
Great stuff, Hyrum. My favorite parts are when he hits the beat on "respect" and then how his strait face goes into the laugh. Sweet!
- April 2, 2007 at 9:07 PM
- Mark said...
Hey - just found this blog with Ryan's help! Really impressive stuff, nice acting (on all three)! Keep up the nice work!
- April 3, 2007 at 1:11 PM
- S.T. Lewis said...
This blog's cool... you guys need to post more stuff! I think this clip has more footage at the end that wasn't there last time I watched it. I could be wrong... but I seldom am.
The audio is from the Office, Jeff... the American one that everyone says isn't as good as the British one, but I still like it anyway.
- April 4, 2007 at 8:07 AM
- GhettoFab said...
these are simply INSPIRATIONAL!! Glad to see a blog like this!
- April 4, 2007 at 9:21 AM
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Conclusive Link Now Admitted: Swine Flu Vaccine Causes Chronic Nervous System Disorders
The aluminum present in vaccines makes the mercury, in any form, 100 times more toxic through a process called synergistic toxicity. Aluminum is used in very large doses in vaccines ostensibly to cause an immune reaction. According to a very recent study, "it causes cells to give up their DNA". — Journal of Toxicology; Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 491316.
Finland: 79 Children Develop Narcolepsy After Swine Flu Vaccine; Now Require Lifetime Medical Care
Join me and say, "I do not condone this, I do not consent."
Sunday, 09 October 2011 07:16
'The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that the swine flu vaccine "conclusively" causes narcolepsy, a chronic nervous system disorder that makes people uncontrollably fall asleep. The Finnish government, in acknowledging this link, says it will pay for "lifetime medical care" for 79 children who have been irreparably damaged by the swine flu vaccine.
Narcolepsy isn't the only side effect now admitted to be caused by swine flu vaccines: 76 of the 79 children also suffered hallucinations and "paralyzing physical collapses," say Finnish researchers.
Remarkably, even though the link between swine flu vaccines and permanent neurological damage in children is now openly admitted by the Finnish government, there is absolutely no talk about halting the utterly unscientific ritual of injecting children with flu vaccines in the first place. Not only are flu vaccines harmful to children (as is now admitted), but flu vaccines don't even work! A simple daily dose of vitamin D would do far more to halt influenza than any vaccine.'
Read more: Conclusive Link Now Admitted: Swine Flu Vaccine Causes Chronic Nervous System Disorders
Study: Unvaccinated Children Far Less Prone to Allergies and Disease than Vaccinated Children
70% of Doctors & Nurses Avoid Flu Vaccines
New study: Nations requiring the most vaccines tend to have the worst infant mortality rates. (See also: Published peer-reviewed study.)
Study Finds Direct Link Between Vaccines and Infant Mortality: A shocking new study published in a prestigious medical journal has found a direct statistical link between higher vaccine doses and infant mortality rates in the developed world, suggesting that the increasing number of inoculations being forced upon children by medical authorities, particularly in the United States which administers the highest number of vaccines and also has the highest number of infant deaths, is in fact having a detrimental impact on health.
CDC caught in blatant lies about pandemics and vaccines
CDC vaccine scientist indicted by DOJ in alleged fraud scheme:
Poul Thorsen, the principal coordinator of multiple studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used to deny a vaccine/autism link was indicted on April 13th on 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of money-laundering. The charges relate to funding for work he conducted for the CDC, which claimed to disprove associations between the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, and increased rates of autism.
"The quality of this epidemiological research has always been questionable," states Sallie Bernard, SafeMinds president. "Many biological studies support a link between mercury and autism, but these Danish studies have been used to suppress further research into thimerosal. With clear evidence of Dr. Thorsen's lack of ethics, it is imperative to reopen this investigation." The emails also include requests from Thornsen to CDC asking that the agency write letters to the journal Pediatrics encouraging them to publish the research after it had been rejected by other journals. (Source: Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted for Fraud and Money-Laundering)
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly operated by the FDA and CDC, has received more than 59,000 reports of adverse reactions to pneumococcal and Hib vaccines during the past several years. More than half of these cases – 30,094 – required hospitalization, with 2,169 deaths. About 95 percent of these deaths were in children under three years of age. (Source)
US Supreme Court upholds shielding of vaccine makers from lawsuits: – Why should they go to all that unnecessary extra expense of actually testing vaccines for safety?
Swine Flu Vaccine Makers Get Immunity from Lawsuits: Due to thousands of lawsuits filed against vaccine makers for side effects suffered from swine flu shots vaccine makers and federal officials have now been granted immunity from lawsuits. (Source)
FDA-approved pharmaceuticals kill at least 100,000 Americans every year
Does the mainstream media report on all the dead Americans killed by deadly medications? Of course not. Never mind that the number of Americans killed by medications dwarfs the total body count from all acts of alleged terrorism in the history of our nation (http://www.naturalnews.com/009278.html). Never mind that twice as many Americans die each year from FDA-approved pharmaceuticals as died in the entire Vietnam War. Never mind that even the FDA's own top scientist — Dr. David Graham — blew the whistle on the total corruption of science within the FDA, revealing how just one drug (Vioxx) was proven to cause over 60,000 heart attacks, many of which killed people. (http://www.naturalnews.com/011401.html)
Warn Your Friends and Family: This New Vaccine is Dangerous
Illinois Law Financially Penalizes Public Schools When Vaccination Rates Drop Below 90 Percent
As usual, the concern is
people profits.
U.S. Media Blackout: Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism
Mom asks, "Should I vaccinate my child?"
Rick Perry, as Governor of Texas, in exchange for huge
payoffs "campaign donations", took that decision away from moms in Texas by making Gardasil injections for Texas girls mandatory by law. Moms are not allowed to make the decision. Too bad his lust for money clouded his judgement, and so many young girls had to pay the price.
The Five Things You Really Need to Know About Gardasil HPV Vaccines
Perry's Gardasil Shocker – 17,500 US Girls Hurt
Gardasil Horror – US Girls Just Dropping Dead
Gardasil HPV Vaccines Found Contaminated With Recombinant DNA That Persists in Human Blood
Gardasil Victim Speaks Out After 2 Years:
Ashley Ryburn's life ruined by HPV (Gardasil) vaccine:
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Should Rick Perry be arrested and be sentenced to be injected with Gardasil?
Make a poorly tested vaccine mandatory by law,
Get huge campaign donations.
Bwahahahahaha . . .
Brought to you by: The Evil Genocidal Elite and their army of sell-outs.
Merck's Profits Explode as Government-Backed HPV Shot Gardasil Sales Skyrocket
I'm Rick Perry and I stand firm for one guiding principle:
*** Profits Before People ***
Vote for me!
You know who I work for.
And it isn't you.
Bwahahahahahahah . . .
Guess Who Else Belongs to Gardasil's Army of Sell-Outs . . .
"Under federal law, parents are supposed to get vaccine information before their children are vaccinated to help minimize risks and this new California law raises, rather than reduces, vaccine risks for children." — National Vaccine Information Center Calls New CA Vaccine Law A "Violation of Parental Informed Consent Rights and Federal Law"
Insanity prevailed in California once again today as Governor Jerry Brown signed bill AB499 allowing 12-year-old children the ability to consent to being injected with Gardasil vaccines without their parents' knowledge; yet at the same time the Governor banned the use of tanning beds by anyone under 18 unless they received parental consent (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011…).
For the record, HPV vaccines are widely linked to maiming and even killing countless children while contributing absolutely nothing to the body's real defense of cervical cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/031279_H…). The entire fabrication of quack science behind HPV vaccines is nothing but a corporation fantasy created to drum up sales for vaccines. In contrast to that, tanning beds have actually been scientifically shown to increase vitamin D levels in people who are deficient in vitamin D (http://www.naturalnews.com/024687_V…) — and that includes the vast majority of the population living in California.
(Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/033831_Jerry_Brown_Gardasil.html#ixzz1aSvS3vTs)
Hmmmmm . . . Still not sure if California Gov. Jerry Brown has, or has not, joined the evil elite's army of sell-outs? Take a look at this: CA Gov Jerry Brown Vetoes Cell Phone Privacy Lol! How obvious does it have to be?
Gov Jerry Brown, we thought you were on our side.
We were wrong.
Why did you join the evil elite's army of sell outs?
Actually, we know why.
As always, profits came first.
It's a sad day.
You fell to the siren call of lobbyist money from the evil elite.
No one will dare call you Gov Moonbeam now.
In times of darkness, things are dark.
It's darkest just before the dawn.
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Almost all 16 teams scheduled to play at the Zenith Women's Basketball League have arrived in Abuja, venue of the competition.
The Federation's Secretary-General, Francis Gbiri, confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES.
"We have more than 10 teams on ground with a few of them on their way," Ms. Gbiri said.
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Axel Mescheder, MD, CDO/CMO
Axel Mescheder was appointed Chief Development Office and Chief Medical Officer (CDO/CMO) of Lanthio in 2016. He has more than 20 years of experience in R&D management positions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. He has demonstrated the ability to successfully develop, implement and drive clinical development programs and has a track record of advancing a number of compounds through the various clinical phases that lead to product registration or label extensions, either in Europe or in the US. He joins Lanthio Pharma from Medpace GmbH, Munich/Germany, where he acted as Vice President Medical & Regulatory Affairs Europe. Prior to that, he held the positions of Chief Medical and Development Officer at TopoTarget A/S, Copenhagen/Denmark, and Medigene AG, Munich/Germany. From 2001 to 2003 he worked at MorphoSys AG as a Medical Director. Prior to that, Dr. Mescheder held various management positions in research and development at Genetics Institute/Wyeth-Ayerst Research (Pfizer), Centeon (CSL Behring) and Hoffmann-La Roche. He holds an M.D. from Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany, specializing in pharmacology and toxicology.
Dr. Gert Moll, CSO, Managing Director
Gert combines many years of experience in research management with strong and widely published scientific expertise in the area of biological production of lanthionine-stabilized peptides. Gert did his undergraduate study in Biology at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and his PhD research in the Center of Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology at the same university in collaboration with the CNRS UA530 in Montpellier, under the direction of Prof. Dr. L.L.M. van Deenen. He subsequently worked at the INSERM U251 in Paris, France with Prof. Dr. C. le Grimellec, at the University of Padova in Italy with Prof. C. Montecucco and at the University of Groningen with Prof. Dr. W.N. Konings and Prof. Dr. A.J.M. Driessen. In this last position he focused on lanthipeptides and moved with this specialty to Biomade Technology Foundation in April 2000. He holds a chair as honorary Professor in Protein Modification and Functionality at the University of Groningen.
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Christoph von Plotho brings 13 years of experience from managerial finance roles in the life science industry as well as in depth knowledge as Analyst and Investor from the buy-side to the company. He joined Lanthio Pharma as Head of Business Administration in 2017 from its parent company Morphosys where he amongst other things managed the transaction process that lead to the acquisition of Lanthio Pharma. During his 5 years at Morphosys Christoph initially reported to the CFO as Manager Special Projects setting up group-wide reporting structures and processes for budgeting and legal consolidation. In his last 3 years at Morphosys he joined the Corporate Finance Corporate Development team dealing with strategic initiatives and capital market projects as well as setting-up treasury operations. Prior to his time at MorphoSys Christoph was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager during his 4 years in New York City with Ascent Biomedical Ventures - a Venture Capital investment fund investing in private and public companies of the life science industry. In this time he managed a public equity portfolio and thereby carried out several Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs) in companies such as Phylogica (ASX:PYC)and Epigenomics (ETR:ECX)
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Monday, October 10, 2011
MONSTER MASH MONDAYS on TCM - COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN (Day 10)
It's Monday in October and that means over a half-dozen macabre motion pictures over on Turner Classic Movies tonight:
8:00 pm – The Wolf Man
9:15 pm – The Uninvited
11:00 pm – Dead Of Night
1:00 am – I Walked With A Zombie
2:15 am – Cat People
3:45 am – Curse Of The Cat People
5:00 am – The Devil Bat
6:15 am – Dead Men Walk
THE WOLF MAN is easily the most well known of these eight pictures as the Universal Monster ruled the box office for most of the first fifty years of film. Lon Chaney Jr. was probably the most sympathetic of the monsters being that his condition was no fault of his own. He simply became half-man/half-wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the moon is full and bright.
Did You Know: "The Wolf Man" is Universal Pictures second werewolf movie, it followed the less successful "Werewolf of London" six years earlier?
THE UNINVITED is a beautifully shot gothic tale of a haunting. A bit complicated compared to other haunted house stories, it begins simply with a brother and sister wanting to buy a seaside English home while on vacation. And, as they say, is only the beginning...
Did You Know: "The Uninvited" is based on the novel UNEASY FREEHOLD by Dorothy Macardle?
DEAD OF NIGHT is an early anthology film that begins when a man arrives at a party with a disturbingly accurate account of this very party from a nightmare. The stories told by the guests at the party are a result of his revelation. There is the story of a ventriloquist who believes his malevolent dummy is alive and a story set at a children's Christmas party (that was cut from the American release of the film because distributers thought the movie was too long), one about a haunting mirror and another about two golfers among others.
Did You Know: Cosmolgists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi, developed the Steady State theory of the universe, an alternative to the Big Bang, after seeing "Dead of Night". They said that the nature of the plot inspired the theory.
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE is a traditional zombie story in the sense that it is set in the West Indies and deals with "voodoo" and it's effects on the wife of a plantation owner. It is also a tale of love gone sour, twisted.
Did You Know: The disclaimer at the end of the film reads: "The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictional. Any similarity to actual persons, living, dead, or possessed, is purely coincidental."?
Like so many films that came before special effects could portray transformational moments, CAT PEOPLE had to rely on subtle creative shots using shadow and acting to convey these not so subtle moments. One of my favorites from this era of film...
Did You Know: The film was such a hit at the box office, the releases of the next two Lewton films (I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man) were delayed and that critics who had originally bashed the film were able to see it again and many rewrote their reviews with a more positive spin?
Nearly only a sequel in name to CAT PEOPLE, CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE, is mostly a story dealing with a child creating an imaginary companion. The studio retitled this film to cash in on the great success of CAT PEOPLE.
Did You Know: This is a very well made film, but not a horror/suspense/thriller.
THE DEVIL BAT is, simply put, a reason to not wear after shave lotion. Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who creates mutated bats who will hone in on the smell of that after shave and kill whomever is wearing it!
Did You Know: The Devil Bat is one of the most successful poverty row films?
DEAD MEN WALK is the story of a twin of a small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin summoned his power from the devil.
Did You Know: Although the title implies zombies, it is actually a vampire to fear in this flick.
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A dad of three who had a quadruple heart bypass after drinking eight litres of Irn-Bru a day has admitted he can't kick his habit.
Andrew McSherry, 52, said: "I did give up for a few months but I just couldn't live without it.
"I shouldn't drink it. The doctors have told me not to but I just can't help it.
"My wife's always moaning at me but there are worse things to be addicted to.
"I'm amazed I haven't turned orange."
When his addiction was at its worst in 2011, Andrew, of Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, was swallowing the equivalent of 150 teaspoons of sugar a day. He now drinks four litres of diet Irn-Bru every day.
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If you speak more than one language, you will know that it's a pain to type on the wrong keyboard layout. Different layouts may not provide the language special characters you need, such as the cedilla (ç) in French, the tilde (ñ) in Spanish, the sharp S (ß) and umlauts (ö) in German, as well as accents (ó, à , î) and ligatures (æ) in different languages.
Would you know how to type these on a standard English QWERTY keyboard? There are several ways to deal with language special characters.
First of all you can use the numeric keypad and enter ASCII codes that will create the characters. You will find a thorough list of ASCII codes here.
Pick your code, click the [ALT] key and hold it while you enter the three numbers on the numeric key pad. Finally, release the [ALT] key and your character should appear.
That's one way. However, if you are used to touch typing in a different language, you can simply install the respective keyboard layout under Windows. To change or add keyboard language in Windows, you have to take the following steps:
- Go to > START > Control Panel and open > Regional and Language Options.
- A window will open, switch to the > Languages tab.
- In the > Text services and input languages section click > Details…
- An additional window will open.
- As you see there are two language services installed here already. To increase the selection, click > Add… and yet another window will open.
- Here finally you can select a language from > Input Locale.
- Select > Keyboard layout/IME according to the keyboard you will be using.
- Click > OK and you'll return to text services and input languages.
I added Kyrgyz, a language that applies Cyrillic writing.
- From the list of > Installed Services select the language you want to use per default, then click > Apply.
- In order to be able to quickly switch between keyboard layouts, click the > Language Bar button and a window will open.
- Check > Show additional Language bar icons in the taskbar. You can use this taskbar icon to switch between keyboard layouts.
- Finally > OK all open windows and you should be able to switch between keyboard layouts now.
You will find a list of the standard international keyboard layouts supported by Windows here. The layout will load in a small window.
Now if you can't switch your keyboard, but still want to use the different layouts on your English language keyboard, you may not know which keys are where.
If using different keyboard layouts is not an option because you cannot switch keyboards or you don't know the keys by heart, you can turn to software, for example AllChars. With this nifty tool you can use simple character combinations and they will create the desired special character.
For example the keys ["] and [A] combined will make [Ä]. AllChars only translates these key combinations into special characters after you hit (click and release!) an initiation key, such as [CTRL] or [SHIFT]. You can select a starter key of your choice. If the [1] in the taskbar symbol turns red you will know the key works. The previous examples didn't work for me, I had to select > Win Left from the configuration. Unfortunately, to run AllChars you need Administrator rights.
Language special characters are fun and useful even if you don't really need them, for example they provide material for unique emoticons. :Þ
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Check out the AllChars app. It allows you to type many of the characters needed for languages (other than English) that use the Latin alphabet, simply by using easy to remember key sequences. So: ç ö ß £ ñ û were no problem for me to type - and I didn't have to switch keyboard layout. Very useful when putting together a multilingual document - which I often find myself doing in South Africa.
For those who need to write something in another language only once or maybe get access to familiar keyboard layout when traveling abroad there are a couple of websites.
- http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/lifetype-multilingual-keyboard/
- http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/magictyper-type-hebrew-arabic-russian-greek-keyboard/
- http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/gate2home-online-keyboard-language/
Nice article. Now on a related topic, I have Vista Home Basic. It came pre-installed from the manufacturer in English. Is there a way to change its language to Spanish or French?
nice way..........
I had trouble typing hindi through my keypad.....


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Friday, May 11, 2012
By Manoj Kumawat
Renault Pulse Petrol launched at Rs 4.25 lakh
Sensing the imminent rise in diesel prices and following an attempt to put an entry level model, Renault India has launched the Renault Pulse Petrol at a price tag of Rs 4.25 lakh. Notably, the French car maker had launched the only diesel model of Pulse hatchback at a price of Rs 5.99 lakh. Now that the Pulse is available in petrol and diesel options, it is believed that the Nissan Micra clone could trigger sales. Interestingly, the Renault Pulse petrol launch has been a silent launch in India.
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However, it was all slated to happen, but how sooner was unclear. But Pulse Petrol launch has made it sure that a small car cannot sustain with only diesel variant and a low priced entry level petrol variant is a must. Auto critics are also of the opinion that a price tag of Rs 4.25 lakh still sounds costly for such a small car and a more decent price tag could have done the miracle for the car maker. As per various reports, the petrol Pulse is powered by 1.2 L, three cylinder 80 bhp engine snatched from Nissan Micra.
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In all there are three variants of the Pulse small premium car. The entry level trim which is the Pulse RxE has driver airbag, power steering and air conditioning as standard while the next trim Pulse RxL that is price just Rs 74,000 more than the entry level car has power windows and music system. The top model Pulse RxZ has both driver and passenger airbags, air conditioning with climate control, start stop button, Anti-Lock Braking System and a variety of other features. The booking for the Pulse Petrol have started with the launch and all the dealers are taking bookings for the new Renault car.


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The Greater Swiss mountain dog is a sensitive, loyal and extremely devoted family companion. He is calm and easygoing, very gentle with children as well as other pets. He is protective, alert, bold and vigilant.
As befitting of a dog with working roots, this breed likes the outdoors, especially in cold weather. He needs daily exercise, either a good long walk or vigorous romp. When indoors, he needs plenty of room to stretch out. His coat needs brushing once weekly, more often when shedding.
Major concerns: CHD, gastric torsion, elbow dysplasia
Minor concerns: panosteitis, OCD, distichiasis, entropion
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The Greater Swiss mountain dog is the oldest and largest of four varieties of sennenhunde, or Swiss mountain dogs; the other three are the Appenzeller, Entlebucher and Bernese. The breeds share a common heritage, probably derived from the mastiff or Molossian dogs of the Romans. These dogs were most likely introduced when the Romans crossed through Switzerland. Another theory is that the Phoenicians brought them to Spain around 1100 B.C. Whatever their origin, they spread over Europe and interbred with native dogs, eventually developing along independent lines in isolated communities. They shared the same work ethic, dividing their duties between acting as guardian of livestock and home, herder and draft dog. Many came to be known as metzgerhunde, or "butcher's dogs." Until the late 1800s, all these dogs, which share a common coat color pattern, were generally assumed to be of one breed or type. Only when professor Alfred Heim endeavored to study the native Swiss mountain breeds seriously did he discern consistent differences that allowed them to be categorized as four distinct breeds. The year 1908 can be regarded as the birth date of the Greater Swiss; in this year Heim spotted a magnificent shorthaired dog entered in a Bernese mountain dog contest. He considered the dog a separate breed, and dubbed him the Greater Swiss because of his resemblance to the sturdy Swiss butcher's dogs he had also seen. The breed grew very slowly in popularity, additionally thwarted by the two World Wars. Only in 1968 did the Greater Swiss come to America, with the first litter being born in 1970. In 1985 the breed was admitted into the AKC miscellaneous class, achieving full recognition in 1995.Copyright © 1998, 2005 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. based on
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Making maize decisions in 2017
Maize is proving to be a popular cropping choice for UK farmers, with recent figures suggesting over 170,000ha were grown in the UK in 2016, a 6% increase since 2012.
The crop has become an important component of dairy and beef rations. Farmers are seeing the benefits from the high starch and fermentable energy content, with improved animal performance on both dairy and beef enterprises, explains Wynnstay crop protection manager, Dr Simon Pope.
"The 2016 harvest was a success for many, thanks to the near perfect weather conditions helping to produce bumper yields, with high ME and starch contents as a result. No doubt this is influencing the high volume of seed already being purchased."
Ahead of the 2017 season, Dr Pope highlights the fundamentals to consider before confirming any variety choice.
"There are many factors to consider. The single biggest influence for a successful maize crop is the weather, and of course we have no control over this whatsoever. However, by concentrating on the factors under our control, we can improve the likelihood of a successful outcome at harvest-time."
Dr Pope explains that field selection is always the first step. "Knowing the field history will help determine potential challenges. Has compaction been a problem? Is the field well drained? Are there any known fertility issues which need to be corrected? Are there any problem weeds which require specific control measures? By considering such questions well ahead of time it is easier to draw up an effective plan of attack."
He also explains that it's worth considering the soil type and nutrient status of each field, as this is very influential in determining variety choice and the nutritional needs of the crop.
"For example, important questions to address are, what's the field's pH status, and are you aware of the phosphate and potash indices? These all play a pivotal role in nutrient availability and crop nutrition. If you have not done a soil analysis recently, then get the field tested. The results could be weighed against FYM and slurry applications as part of a Wynnstay bespoke fertiliser plan."
A variety which is already seeing high volumes of seed sales is Reason, which performed exceptionally well last year.
"This variety is very early maturing without compromising yield, and it is very attractive to growers," says Dr Pope.
"In our trading area, yields of up to 64.25 tonne/ha were produced in 2016, and even though this figure is exceptionally high it shows what can be achieved by this variety when everything is done properly. Growers have achieved ME values of 12 MJ/Kg which demonstrates Reason's outstanding feed quality, and this has played a large role in influencing 2017 seed purchases."
Although Reason has been seen as the 'leading' choice for the coming season, there are other options available for growers to ensure a variety for all crop situations.
"Acumen is a strong variety for those growers who have difficult growing conditions, but still want an early maturing crop. It produces DM yields of 16.6 tonnes/ha and ME values of 11.25 MJ/Kg, so again is a great option for inclusion in livestock rations.
"And, for those growers where price is more important than top flight performance, Eurytmi should be considered. The variety has performed consistently in trials, and has good resistance to lodging and disease," he adds.
"There are some superb varieties available, and following the successful harvest in 2016, we're hoping for another great maize season ahead."


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"Culture is like salt." It is with these words that Aleya says goodbye to us, from the door of his souvenir shop at number 2, Imp. Thameur of Sidi Bou Said, in Tunisia. What was meant to be a relaxing yet trivial afternoon of shopping with my friend – if ever there can be anything
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When my friend Diana asked me if I wanted to join her on a trip to Djerba, Tunisia, I immediately said yes. Not so much because I had been wanting to visit Tunisia (you know me, I would like to go pretty much anywhere), but because it was a good opportunity to see her again after


text: © 2016 Squire Patton Boggs. All rights reserved. This report was prepared for the use of our clients and friends. Consistent with fair use, this report may be quoted or reproduced in part without the express prior written consent of Squire Patton Boggs. JANUARY 13, 2016 The State of the Union in 2016 What To Expect In President Obama's Final Year In Office "[The President] shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, And recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;" Article 2, Section 3 US Constitution squirepattonboggs.com 3 Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his seventh and final State of the Union Address before a joint session of the 114th Congress. In it, he departed from past form. Instead of laying out a laundry list of proposed legislative objectives, he spoke more philosophically about the state of the union and in particular the dismal state of US politics. He noted areas of potential cooperation, such as judicial sentencing reform. He put Vice President Joe Biden in charge of the "moonshot" of marshalling federal resources to find a cure for cancer. He looked back on his tenure, lamenting some things that might have been with a different approach. And like his predecessors, he sought to reassure the American public that a brighter future lies ahead if we collectively seize the initiative to address the multiple challenges we face at home and abroad. Speaking on behalf of the Republican Party in the GOP Response, Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) echoed some of those same themes before laying out a vision for how the Republican Party would govern if successful in capturing the White House in the November elections. She indicated, for example, that "if we held the White House, taxes would be lower for working families, and we'd put the brakes on runaway spending and debt." Like the President, she lamented the state of the current political discourse in Washington DC and on the campaign trail. As she put it, "[s]ome people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference. Of course that doesn't mean we won't have strong disagreements. We will. And as we usher in this new era, Republicans will stand up for our beliefs." She noted how the citizens of her state had come together after tragedy this past summer when nine individuals were killed by a gunman during a prayer service, inspiring the nation with their response to horror. In this analysis, we explore what the President and Congress might be able to accomplish this year if they turned down the volume and spoke with – rather than past – each other about how best to advance the interests of the American public. Since this is the final year of the President's tenure, we anticipate that he will focus much of his effort on legacy issues, seeking to accomplish goals through rules and regulations when Congress will not agree on legislation. In his address, he only hinted at what's to come, noting that "there are outdated regulations that need to be changed, and there's red tape that needs to be cut." Naturally enough, he didn't mention that the Office of Management and Budget now has nearly 4,000 proposed rules and regulations in the queue, which the President and his team will be determined to move to completion before he leaves office. In our State of the Union Analysis 2015, we predicted 2015 would be a year of surprising legislative accomplishment that could, in at least some notable ways, defy conventional wisdom about what could be accomplished in a modern-day divided federal government mired in gridlock. We saw mutual desire on the part of key administration officials and congressional leaders to "get some things done," despite the well-documented tensions between President Obama and a Congress that would now be marked by Republican majorities in both chambers. Notwithstanding the challenges, we predicted agreement in three "Big T" areas: trade, taxes, and transportation. In the end, significant bipartisan bills were enacted on all three subjects. Congress provided the President with Trade Promotion Authority, enacted a massive tax extenders bill, and for the first time in a decade adopted a major, long-term surface transportation bill. In addition, Congress and the Administration found common ground in other areas that few would have thought possible with a Democratic administration and a Republican-led Congress. Two significant entitlement reform measures were enacted in the form of bipartisan legislation to permanently replace the long-despised Medicare Structured Growth Rate formula and a bipartisan budget agreement shepherded by outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (ROH) that swapped some of the crude spending cuts of sequestration for longer-term entitlement reforms that will actually address the drivers of the nation's debt. Bipartisan legislation also was enacted to update federal elementary and secondary education programs for the first time since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed in 2002. Consequential new laws were also enacted in areas such as cybersecurity, where a new information-sharing measure became law, and energy policy, which saw the lifting of the decades-old ban on US crude oil exports and an extension of federal tax measures supporting investments in renewable energy. The second session of the 114th Congress is likely to be much different from the first session. Here are some of the ways in which we expect it to differ significantly: The period for lawmaking will be abbreviated. While a window for legislating does exist in 2016, it will mostly close by early summer, as the parties begin their conventions and the focus shifts almost entirely to the presidential election. The only thing Congress really has to do following the party conventions is to ensure that legislation has passed by September 30 (the end of the 2016 fiscal year) so that the federal government does not shut down beginning October 1. It is unlikely members of either party in Congress will be willing to risk shouldering the blame for a government shutdown in the final weeks before a major election, so there is little reason to doubt that this responsibility will be met. The only real question is whether it is met in the form of single large bill – a Continuing Resolution (CR) or an omnibus – or in the form of many bills passed and enacted individually in advance of the deadline, as is "regular order" and was once standard operating procedure. Outside of the appropriations process, there are a number of matters that could properly be classified as "unfinished business" from the first session and could be brought across the finish line in 2016, despite the potential complication of the looming election. (We discuss them separately on page 5.) squirepattonboggs.com 4 Debt limit will not be a factor. In contrast to 2015 and most previous years in recent memory, there are few "cliffs" to be encountered on the legislative calendar in 2016 of the sort that have driven most of the epic legislative wheeling-anddealing that has marked the relationship between President Obama and Congress since the GOP assumed control of the House following the 2010 elections. Consequently, new House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has indicated the emphasis for his chamber in the year ahead will be on using the House infrastructure to advance new policy ideas, rather than actually voting on bills with the expectation that they will be enacted into law. Thanks to the bipartisan budget agreement negotiated by outgoing Speaker John Boehner last fall, Congress will not confront the matter of the next debt limit increase until at least early 2017, sparing President Obama and the leadership teams in both chambers from having to deal with what for years has been the most divisive and politically toxic "must-pass" legislation for either party. Sequestration will not be a factor. The heart of the bipartisan budget pact enacted last fall was an agreement to swap billions of dollars in short-term discretionary spending cuts for longer-term entitlement reforms that will actually help to address the drivers of the nation's debt. Consequently, the shadow of sequestration will not loom as large over this year's budget discussions as it has for those of the past several years. The presidential and congressional campaigns will be a dominant factor. When Americans go to the polls this November, they will elect a new president. Also on the nation's collective ballot will be onethird of the seats in the Senate and all of the seats in the House of Representatives. As the election approaches, political considerations will increasingly freeze out most every other factor for both parties. Some important legislative business could be pushed to the lame duck session between the election and the end of 2016. But in recent years, congressional leaders have become increasingly reluctant to depend on the lame duck period for heavy-duty legislating. The House will be operating under a new speaker, Paul Ryan. By Republicans' own admission, much of the action in the House under Ryan this year will be aimed at promoting ideas, rather than voting on, passing, and enacting bills. That is not to say the action will not be consequential; much of this activity in 2016 could lay the groundwork for actual lawmaking in 2017, when the next Congress convenes and a new president takes the reins of the Executive Branch. As but one important example: fundamental tax reform. As the quip goes when talking about tax legislation, "if you aren't at the table, you are likely to be on the menu." This is a year for business to be part of an important discussion that will have long-term consequences. Speaker Ryan has pledged to place a renewed emphasis on "regular order" in the chamber – meaning most key legislation would originate in committee and the House will be permitted more freedom to "work its will" with respect to changes and amendments. Ryan's predecessor, John Boehner, made a similar vow and implemented similar changes upon taking the speaker's gavel in 2011. Some of the changes Boehner instituted stuck; for example, many appropriations bills throughout Boehner's tenure were considered under "open" or "modified open" rules allowing amendments to be offered and debated with minimal limitations. But the Republican majority in the House under Boehner was frequently forced to put bills on the floor that had not moved through the committee process, particularly when Congress was up against deadlines such as the expiration of the debt limit and debates were raging within the House Republican Conference on tactics for managing such realities. With Congress facing several critical deadlines this past December, Speaker Ryan himself had little choice but to bring to the floor late-inning agreements on appropriations and tax policy – agreements that were enacted without committee markups and mostly negotiated directly by House and Senate leaders and leadership aides. But the new speaker has promised a new way of doing business in 2016, and given the emphasis Ryan has placed on a revamped process since taking office, we believe the new speaker is likely to find ways to deliver at least partially on his pledge. As noted earlier, the debt limit will not need to be raised in 2016, sparing Ryan and his leadership team of at least one huge challenge facing his regular order vow. We provide below an overview of some of the things we expect to be accomplished in 2016. In addition, we offer our projections for what else could be accomplished, if certain stars were to properly align in the months ahead. squirepattonboggs.com 5 Prospects for Success We believe it is likely that legislation will be sent to the President and signed into law in the following areas in 2016: • TSCA modernization. A long-anticipated modernization of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act is widely expected to make it to the President's desk, with both the House and Senate having passed versions of a TSCA overhaul during 2015 with widespread bipartisan support. • FAA reauthorization. Having agreed to major surface transportation legislation last year, Congress will turn its attention this year to modernizing our air transportation infrastructure. Reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration is an important matter of unfinished business, and is expected to begin moving in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure early this year, with Senate committee leaders closely monitoring progress in the House and preparing to follow up once House action has occurred. • Judicial Redress Act. Legislation demanded by the tech community – particularly after last year's EU ruling against the USEU "safe harbor" agreement that had given protection to US tech companies operating in Europe – passed the House overwhelmingly last fall and is under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Given the importance of the measure to Silicon Valley and its relatively noncontroversial nature in Congress, it seems likely that some form of the Judicial Redress Act will eventually be signed into law. • Customs legislation. Customs legislation is another key item of unfinished business from the first session of the 114th Congress. A conference report was completed during the final weeks of 2015 and had been widely expected to go to the President before the end of the year, but a controversial maneuver spearheaded by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) involving the addition of seemingly unrelated legislation to permanently ban taxation of the Internet – without corresponding legislation to provide states and retailers with parity in the rules governing the taxation of online transactions – resulted in the measure being delayed. • Puerto Rico debt relief. The debt crisis in Puerto Rico has worsened to the point where Congress now seems compelled to take action. Speaker Paul Ryan has directed the committees of jurisdiction in the House to develop a response for the chamber's consideration by early spring. The matter could end up being a divisive one within the House Republican Conference, but Ryan appears to have made the judgment that inaction is not an option. It seems likely that some measure of emergency debt relief for Puerto Rico will eventually advance. • Appropriations. As noted above, the only thing Congress really must do following the party conventions this summer is to ensure that legislation has passed by September 30 (the end of the 2016 fiscal year) so that the federal government does not shut down beginning October 1. It is unlikely members of either party in Congress will be willing to risk shouldering the blame for a government shutdown in the final weeks before a major election, so there is little reason to doubt that this responsibility will be met. The only real question is whether it is met in the form of single large bill – a Continuing Resolution (CR) or omnibus – or in the form of many bills passed and enacted individually in advance of the deadline, as is "regular order" and was once standard operating procedure. The leaders of both parties in Congress have signaled a desire to return to regular order and complete the appropriations process this year, but whether this goal is actually achievable in the truncated year ahead will remain to be seen. What Else Could Be Accomplished in 2016? There are also many other areas in which legislation could move to the President's desk and be signed into law this year if the stars were to align properly: • Permanent Internet tax moratorium + online sales tax parity. Proponents of enacting a permanent moratorium on Internet access taxes locked arms with supporters of the Remote Transactions Parity Act (RTPA) in 2015 in an effort to create maximum leverage in support of both long-sought policy goals. A late-year surprise maneuver by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) saw the permanent moratorium attached to the customs conference report in an effort to divide the coalition and outflank RTPA backers. But the maneuver may have backfired, as the ensuing controversy prevented the customs bill from achieving final passage in the Senate before the end of the year. House and Senate leaders must now decide how to untangle the customs bill from the trap in which it has at least temporarily become ensnared. Senate leaders may decide to take their chances and plow ahead. But they may find themselves unable to do so, and thus might send the customs bill back to conference to either remove the permanent Internet tax moratorium or add RTPA to it. Whatever the outcome, RTPA backers have demonstrated their muscle by forcing the delay, and 2016 could end up being the year Congress is forced to finally act to provide the guidance it has been so reluctant to give states and retailers on the matter of taxation of Internet sales. squirepattonboggs.com 6 • Cures/FDA reform. The House overwhelmingly approved the 21st Century Cures Act last summer, the culmination of years of bipartisan work by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO). The Senate, however, failed to take up the bill, with Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) vowing his committee would instead offer and pass its own version of the legislation. The year ended without a bill being unveiled on the Senate side, but Alexander has pledged the matter will be among his highest priorities during 2016. Despite the uncertain outlook in the Senate, we like the chances of Cures-style legislation being enacted before President Obama leaves office. It is a safe bet Upton, who is retiring from Congress at the end of the session, will work with Speaker Paul Ryan and his counterparts on both sides of the aisle in the House to keep the pressure on the Senate to act. And if anything can become law during an election year, it's a bipartisan bill promoting medical research. • Energy legislation. A broad energy bill (S. 2012) championed by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Lisa Murkowski (RAK) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) was approved by the committee last summer and is poised for action on the Senate floor early this year. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton has legislation as well that is aimed at expanding North American energy production and promoting an "architecture of abundance" for the United States in support of an all-of-the-above approach to domestic energy. Democrats in Congress probably hold the key to determining whether a final bill that merges the two products passes both chambers of Congress and goes to President Obama's desk during 2016. • Spectrum. A recent POLITICO analysis summarized the outlook well: "Even though the FCC is expected to kick off a massive auction of TV airwaves licenses in March and Congress passed a budget deal requiring the government to give up another 30 MHz in the coming years, lawmakers are sure to keep looking at filling the spectrum pipeline," a favorite phrase among those eager to free up federally held spectrum for use by the nation's cellphone networks. The House Energy and Commerce communications subcommittee has already passed the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act (H.R. 1641), which would give federal agencies willing to part with their airwaves a cut of the auction proceeds. The bill is likely to pass the full committee with little controversy soon, just as a previous version did in 2014. Meanwhile, Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) continues to hold out hope for his sweeping spectrum bill, the MOBILE NOW Act, which was supposed to be marked up in November or December. Work on that will be carried over to 2016. Thune has been optimistic about reaching a deal on the bill, which would increase the amount of airwaves federal agencies are required to let go." • Drought relief. Legislation to ease government water rules that have complicated the effort to ease conditions in drought-stricken regions of the west has been creeping forward in Congress for years, and appeared to be near the finish line in late 2015, as Republicans and Democrats engaged in negotiations that would have added relief measures to the omnibus appropriations bill that was signed by President Obama shortly before Christmas. But the negotiations collapsed short of the goal line, leaving the path forward for a legislative response unclear for 2016. Senator Murkowski has been urged by a broad, bipartisan group of westernstate senators to focus her committee on producing "west-wide drought relief legislation" early in 2016. Given the bipartisan interest, our expectation is that this effort will proceed and eventually culminate in congressional approval of a response that can be signed into law by President Obama before leaving office. Outlook in Other Key Legislative Areas Appropriations • One way in which Speaker Ryan's vow to recommit the House to regular order may manifest itself in 2016 is in the appropriations process. The leaders of both parties in both chambers have expressed a desire to return to what once was standard operating procedure in Congress, in that each of the 12 annual appropriations bills were considered and enacted individually, rather than as a single massive omnibus package. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempted to restore the practice in 2015, but these efforts eventually stalled as House Democrats threatened to use the process to force politically toxic votes on public displays of the Confederate flag and Senate Democrats adopted the tactic of blocking appropriations bills altogether unless the President's demands for increased spending on non-defense matters were accommodated. There is a strong chance similar forces could eventually derail the appropriations process in 2016, particularly given that it is a presidential election year. But there is also a possibility that Ryan is able to deliver. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Ryan met early this year to discuss the process and emerged with a mutual vow of cooperation. Ryan's chief of staff, Dave Hoppe – a former senior policy advisor at Squire Patton Boggs – has a keen understanding of the Senate, and could be instrumental in forging a strategy with McConnell that actually allows all 12 bills to move, against the odds. But for such a strategy to succeed, Ryan and McConnell will need the cooperation throughout the year not just of Reid, but also of re-election hungry GOP senators and representatives, who may not relish the decisions they'll be forced to make when a wide-open appropriations process gives the minority an open invitation to force politically-charged votes on the Senate and House floors. squirepattonboggs.com 7 Defense • Pentagon Budget. While last year's bipartisan budget deal allows congressional leaders to avoid some of the clashes that have caused challenges for Congress and the Obama Administration in recent years, it doesn't mean everything has been settled. A battle is set to be renewed between Republicans and Democrats on the matter of funding for the Pentagon. A gap of some $17 billion exists between what the Pentagon has budgeted for the next fiscal year, and the amount approved for it in the recent budget agreement. Congressional Republicans argue the Pentagon can tap the offbudget Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund to make up the difference. • Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). The possibility also exists that the White House and congressional leaders will attempt in the months ahead to pass an AUMF to define US military operations against ISIS. Last night, the President urged Congress to take action. But with House Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConnell seemingly in different places on the prospects for adoption of such a measure in 2016 (Ryan has tasked House committees with looking into the feasibility of drafting one, while McConnell has recently said he prefers to wait until a new president has been chosen to avoid tying the hands of the next Commander-in-Chief), the odds seem to be against an AUMF against ISIS being approved by the full Congress before 2017. Tax • International tax reform. Key players on both sides of the aisle devoted considerable energy in 2015 to the possibility of enacting a bipartisan international tax reform package. It did not come to fruition, but that doesn't necessarily mean the matter will fall by the wayside completely until 2017. House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) has made clear he plans to pick up where now-Speaker Paul Ryan left off last fall. The White House has long sought to reform the international components of the tax code, as has Ryan, and both would presumably welcome the opportunity to enact an agreement if it were somehow to emerge in 2016. It is not completely unprecedented for major policy reforms to be enacted in divided government during a presidential election year (think welfare reform in 1996, under President Clinton, a Democrat, and a Republican-led Congress). But it is not likely, either, particularly with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and many of the most conservative members of the House Republican Conference insisting that tax reform be addressed in a "comprehensive" fashion, after Obama (who has made clear he will not sign any tax reform bill that does not raise tax rates on individuals) leaves office. • Online sales tax parity. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is under external pressure from governors and retailers to move online sales tax parity legislation, but has steadfastly resisted moving a bill for several years. Whether leadership forces his hand – or circumvents him – remains to be seen. Speaker Ryan has said he will promote regular order in the committees, which would seem to leave little chance of a leadership-sanctioned "end around" happening in the House in 2016. But for many stakeholders, regular order on the issue of online sales tax parity means no legislative solutions are going to be acted upon during the second session. Meanwhile, the coalition backing a fusion of the Remote Transactions Parity Act (RTPA) with a permanent ban on taxation of Internet access will be tested early in the new year when Senate leaders attempt to pass conference agreement on customs rules with only the latter attached. Trade • Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Congressional action on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may be difficult at best before the November election, but it may be equally or even more difficult to pull off after that. The agreement is expected to be signed February 4 in New Zealand, but what happens to it in Washington DC after that is anyone's guess. Neither House Speaker Paul Ryan nor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed the agreement, which means the work to build the votes on the Republican side of the aisle that will be essential to passing TPP has not even begun yet in either chamber. McConnell recently noted that all of the Democratic candidates for president are against TPP, and that many of the Republican ones are as well. Passing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) through the House and Senate last year was a major undertaking that required months of negotiation, maneuvering, dealing, and arm-twisting. This one will be harder. Everyone seems to agree the fate of TPP lies mostly in the hands of the President and his ability to build a bipartisan coalition willing to push it through. __________________________________________________ The second session of the 114th Congress will be much different than the surprisingly productive first session. It is unlikely to be marked by the enactment of many massively consequential new laws. But that doesn't mean that the work House and Senate legislators do in 2016 will be without consequence. In fact, much of what occurs this year could have significant implications for business in 2017, such as international tax reform. This is the year in which what Congress does now could have real-world impacts for many years to come. We look forward to working with our clients and prospective clients in the year ahead, as the second session of the 114th Congress completes its work, the President seeks to lock in rules and regulations to further his legacy, and the American public heads to the polls with our hope that they will elect leaders who will turn down the volume, listen to each other, and focus on advancing legislation in a new-found spirit of compromise. squirepattonboggs.com 21862/01/16 LOCAL CONNECTIONS GLOBAL INFLUENCE


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Our football match prediction:
Despite scoring four goals in their opener against Sevilla at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Espanyol failed to grab something from Saturday's football match (4-6). The Catalan outfit experienced all sorts of problems in the opening match of the season and they will give their all to try and keep a clean sheet in Friday's game against Malaga. Espanyol are tough to beat at home and we predict that the hosts are going to pick up at least one point from the game. Los Boquerones, on the other hand, played out a 1-1 draw with newcomers Osasuna in the opening match of the season and seeing that the visitors would be happy with one point from the RCDE Stadium clash, we predict that the two teams are going to share the spoils in Barcelona. In their last meeting in La Liga the two teams played out a 1-1 draw.
Highlighted Player (Javi Lopez):
Javi Lopez is Spanish footballer who plays for La Liga side Espanyol. Lopez plays for the Catalan outfit as a midfielder, but he is capable of playing at full back as well. After spending his youth career at Real Betis, he moved to Espanyol in 2007 and he was playing for the B squad between 2007 and 2010. Under Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino he was promoted to the first team and he has been playing for Espanyol in La Liga ever since. He made his Espanyol debut on 4 October, 2009 in a goalless draw with Villarreal. Javi Lopez was born in Osuna, Andalusia, but he lives with his family in Barcelona. The Spanish player was born on 21 January. His contract with Espanyol expires on 30 June, 2018 and it has to be noted that his market value in July, 2016 was €3 million. Following Sergio Garcia's departure he was named Espanyol captain for the 2015/2016 La Liga campaign.
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Malaga Club de Futbol is a Spanish football club from Malaga which host their games in Estadio La Roselado which has a capacity of 28700. The club from the south of Spain is playing in the Primera Division since 2008. In June 2010 sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bought Malaga Club de Futbol.Malaga CF was found in 1994 after a fusion between former clubs Club Deportivo Malaga and Atletico Malaga. After playing down and forth in lower Spanish divisions the clubs managed to play in the Primera Division for the first time in 1999. After a good performance in the Intertoto Cup Malaga managed to qualify for the UEFA cup for the first time ever in 2004.Well known players that played for Malaga in their career are: van Nistelrooij, Cazorla, Monreal, Baptista Saviola and Toulalan.