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Conjugate gradient method is method to compute systems of linear equations whose matrix is symmetric positive-definite
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Thelda Williams, the former mayor of Phoenix and city councilwoman, died Nov. 14 of cancer. She was 82.
Williams was on the Phoenix City Council from 1989 to 1995, and then again from 2007 to 2021. She was interim mayor three times—once from March to November in 1994, again from December 2011 to January 2012, and for the last time from May 2018 to March 2019.
Flags on city buildings across Phoenix will be lowered to half-mast until sunset on Nov. 21.
Williams served various roles during her time with the city, including as the city’s vice mayor, chair of the Phoenix City Council’s Transportation Infrastructure and Planning Committee, and as chair of the Valley Metro Rail board.
“Thelda Williams’s service to our city has touched and improved the lives of everyone who lives here—from improving Sky Harbor International Airport to strengthening our transit system to making sure that we use our water wisely,” Mayor Kate Gallego said in a press release.
The City Council voted in May to name the transit center at Metrocenter after Williams. In 2019, the city, Downtown Phoenix Partnership, and PetSmart Charities built downtown Phoenix’s first dog park and named it the Thelda Williams Paw-Pup Dog Park.
“Thelda Williams leaves behind a legacy for all of Phoenix that cannot be outshined,” Councilwoman Ann O’Brien said in a press release.
Williams is survived by her son Murry, daughter Cyndi, and three grandsons.
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We have used a kinematic technique to distinguish top quark pair production from background in pp collisions at s=1.8 TeV, applied to 67 pb-1 of data. We define a sample of W+3 jet events in which the jets are produced at large angles relative to the incident beams. In this sample, we find an excess of events with large jet transverse energies relative to expectations from background. The excess is consistent with top quark production; a large fraction of events in this kinematic region contains b jets. We interpret these results as evidence that most of the selected events are from tt decay.
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Watch McKinnon poke fun at Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill.
This weekend’s Saturday Night Live episode featured the evergreen Weekend Update segment, hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che. Current controversial topics ranging from the HBO series Euphoria to the conflict occurring in Eastern Europe dominated the discussions. Another one of these contentious subjects was the Parental Rights in Education bill, most commonly known (especially by dissidents) as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. To discuss it, SNL regular Kate McKinnon joined Jost and, of course, injected ironic humor into the situation.
McKinnon was welcomed to the Update desk while being showered by the warm cheers and applause of the live audience. With a big grin on her face, McKinnon quickly jumps to the topic, saying that she believes the bill “is amazing.” This naturally gets a shocked reaction out of Jost, who most certainly knows that the actress is gay herself. Soon after, it becomes clear that McKinnon appears to have no substantial understanding of what the bill is actually about and acts as if she understood its unofficial title literally.
Having been in middle school in the 1990s, McKinnon explains that the term ‘gay’ was used to bully her, which many can relate to. McKinnon gleefully voices her support for what she has understood the law to be and even adds, “in Florida of all places!” However, the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is not devised to prevent the word from being used as an insult in schools. In actuality, this law limits LGBTQ+ discussions at school, restricting teachers’ ability to have healthy and educational conversations with their students. The bill also gives parents the right to sue schools that permit any kind of gender identity and sexual orientation discussions.
ost shatters McKinnon’s state of happy delusion by telling her the truth. “I’m sorry to break this to you,” Jost concludes “it’s probably going to affect what you have to say.” But instead, in usual McKinnon fashion, the comedian adapts and makes fun of the bill by repeatedly, as if having multiple Freudian slips, letting the words “gay,” “trans,” and “lesbian” escape in place of other words.
McKinnon was one of the best people to bring into the segment to mock the Parental Rights in Education bill. Instead of tackling it head-on as something that personally affects her as a member of the LGBT+ community, she infuses so much irony into the topic that one cannot help see how absurd it truly is.
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Depending on the particulars of your divorce, you may want to sweep the matter under the rug at work. While understandable, are there people at the office whom you should tell?
Fast Company offers tips for handling divorce at work. To set the future of your career up for success, you must have certain conversations and take specific steps at the office.
At the very least, your boss should know about your marital split. You could need to take time off to attend legal meetings or court dates. Also, your work performance may dip because of how your divorce affects your mental health, and your boss should know that in advance.
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Unlike the one number-serves-all emergency unit of 911 in The United States or even 000 in Australia, Switzerland has its own special collection of numbers for different sorts of urgents In the situation of a clinical emergency, you should phone 144.
As soon as hooked up, the driver will definitely put you via to the appropriate company. Make certain to keep tranquil and give the operator as much relevant information as possible.
Health care unexpected emergencies
If you or a person in your household is experiencing a clinical emergency situation, there are actually many amounts as well as services that can aid. It is actually a great concept to always keep these amounts submitted at home as well as in your tissue phone, to make sure that you will definitely recognize what to carry out in an emergency situation. sanitär breitenrain
One of the most essential amount to understand is the Europe-wide emergency situation number 112, which may be called from any phone, including wages phones and also mobiles without credit score. This variety is going to link you to a driver who will definitely send off the necessary solutions for your circumstance. The driver will certainly inquire you for your site and what form of emergency situation assistance is demanded. You are going to need to be very clear and also tranquil when answering these questions.
Normally communicating, the authorities are the very first to arrive in an emergency situation. In Switzerland, the police is not function on a government degree but somewhat through 26 cantons and also some metropolitan areas. The cantonal authorities agencies disclose to a panel of regulating officers. In many cases, the cops will certainly talk English.
The fire emergency solution in Switzerland is named 118 as well as can easily also be actually reached out to using the Europe-wide emergency variety 112. If you are actually unsure which number to call, the driver will certainly help you. If your residence performs fire, try to leave by means of the local fire escape. If you are incapable to leave, keep in an area with the doors as well as home windows finalized and also wait on the firemens to show up.
Mental health and wellness emergency situations
Whether you stay in Switzerland, or are just visiting, it is actually crucial to recognize the emergency situation varieties for the country. Yet remembering all of them in a difficult scenario could be hard. Luckily, there are apps readily available to make traits simpler. These applications use general practitioner to determine the site and after that present the necessary emergency situation companies amount for that country.
For instance, the app Unexpected emergency Medics presents the Swiss emergency number (144 ), along with those for Australia (911 ), the UK (999 ), and the United States (000 ). The app can easily likewise help you discover the closest medical care center. The app is offered for both apple iphone and Android devices.
In a psychological health crisis, the very best point to perform is actually to remain restful and also call 144 for help. This number is answered by a specialist operator that can handle employ several languages. Furthermore, the operator will guarantee that you are actually attached to the emergency situation service that is called for in your situation.
For assistance in a medicine or even alcohol-related crisis, you can also name 143 for Samaritans/Helping Hand (Los angeles principal tendue/Die dargebotene Hand) or even explore their internet site. There is actually also a hotline for Narcotics Anonymous at 0840 12 12 12, and for Alcoholics Undisclosed you can easily find neighborhood English-speaking meetings through getting in touch with 022 304 04 04 or even exploring their website. If you are actually thought about being homeless, call the Salvation Soldiers or even have a look at this list of unexpected emergency vets in Switzerland.
Energy unexpected emergencies.
An absence of electrical energy may possess a disastrous impact on lifestyle in Switzerland. Coming from power fires to abrupt disturbances in the source of fuel or even electrical energy, these unexpected emergencies can intimidate your family’s health and also result in residential or commercial property damages. It is actually therefore important to be capable to realize a power emergency as well as understand what to accomplish when it happens.
Using the pan-European emergency variety 112 is actually the very best way to get to the emergency situation companies promptly and without a language obstacle. The 112 service is actually on call with all member conditions of the European Union as well as a lot of various other nations all over the world. It additionally functions if you possess a foreign SIM memory card or even a pre-paid phone that runs out credit scores; or if your cellular phone is secured, for circumstances.
When you contact the 112 amount, the driver is going to promptly dispatch local urgent action companies to help you. You’ll need to have to offer your area and an explanation of the emergency situation. If you’re in risk, continue to be levelheaded and also keep through a window or even leave to make it possible for the fire solution to rescue you.
To aid avoid these sort of emergency situations, it is actually an excellent idea to create an urgent plan along with your family. Ensure that every person in your house recognizes the emergency situation varieties as well as just how to use them, as well as possess first-aid equipment readily accessible. When an electrical power outage develops, turn off devices (especially those with heating aspects) as well as disconnect any sort of ‘surge-sensitive’ devices including personal computers.
Sexual physical violence happens when folks are assaulted in methods that influence their bodily or even mental health and wellness and also wellness. It can take numerous kinds, consisting of sexual abuse, statutory offense, residential or dating violence, little one abuse, and tracking. It can easily occur to anybody no matter grow older, race, religion, class, gender identity, sex-related alignment, or bodily look.
Sexual misuse frequently involves duress, that includes all kinds of adjustment, threats, demoralizing and exploitation. It can involve a variety of physical and also psychological process, from groping, hand-operated seepage as well as frottage to mutilation (including reducing, burning, striking, hitting, driving, taking, and also booting). The wrongdoers may have rage or even jealousy or even be drunk of alcoholic drinks, drugs, or both. Sex-related brutality can easily additionally be gender-specific as well as include attacks on non-heterosexual males and also ladies and also individuals who are transgender or even nonsexual.
If you have an emergency situation, telephone call 112 on a cellphone, a residential phone, or even a VoIP (Vocal over Web Method) solution in Switzerland. You may also speak to emergency services by utilizing an SMS message, however only after registering for the service. To read more on just how to sign up, see the official web page for 112 Switzerland. You can also use this number to disclose a gas, electricity, or water urgent. The national helplines are available in the country’s three official languages, French, German, as well as Italian, in addition to in English. | <urn:uuid:0b1639a8-24a9-4c6f-88d6-0cf5f0c0488a> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | http://kokomojr-tvchimp.com/emergency-situation-amount-awards-8-reasons-that-they-dont-job-what-you-may-do-concerning-it/ | 2024-03-05T10:51:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948234904.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305092259-20240305122259-00196.warc.gz | en | 0.961816 | 1,443 | [
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On November 16, Sri Lankans will go to the polls to elect a new president, a landmark vote as the island nation struggles with a sluggish economy, security challenges and increasing political polarisation.
Here is everything you need to know: who the candidates are, how the government works, and the implications of the possible outcomes.
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Who are the candidates?
This year’s election has a record 35 candidates running, from across the political spectrum.
Incumbent Maithripala Sirisena, elected in 2015, will not be seeking re-election, leaving the fight down to the two main candidates according to analysts: The ruling United National Party’s (UNP) Sajith Premadasa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the opposition Sri Lanka People’s Front (SLPP) party.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa – SLPP
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the brother of former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his former defence secretary, is the leader of the Sri Lanka People’s Front party. He is running on a platform promising to prioritise security and economic reform.
As defence secretary, Rajapaksa presided over the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war with Tamil rebels in 2009 and has been accused of being responsible for human rights violations committed at that time.
The SLPP is backed by Rajapaksa loyalists, including the outgoing president’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
Rajapaksa is a divisive figure among minorities but has strong support among the island nation’s majority Sinhala Buddhist population.
Sajith Premadasa – UNP
A cabinet minister in current Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government, Premadasa is backed by Sri Lanka’s ruling United National Party.
The son of a former president who was assassinated by Tamil rebels in 1993, Premadasa has been in and out of power since entering politics in 1994.
While he is backed by Wickremesinghe, the two have not always gotten along, including when it came to the question of Premadasa being fielded as the UNP-backed candidate in this election. Premadasa is standing as the candidate for the United National Front (UNF) alliance.
Premadasa is also promising economic reform and will be relying on support from Sri Lanka’s minority Tamil and Muslim populations to get him over the line against a strong Rajapaksa candidacy. The two minorities together form about 20 percent of Sri Lanka’s 21 million population.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake – Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)
Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads the People’s Liberation Front (JVP) alliance, a leftist political movement that abandoned armed struggle against the government to join politics in 1994.
He is a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for Colombo and was chief opposition whip until December 2018.
Despite being in the opposition, Dissanayake became known for speaking out vehemently against the 2018 constitutional crisis which would have unseated Prime Minister Wickremesinghe.
Dissanayake is standing as the candidate backed by the National People’s Power (NPP) alliance.
Mahesh Senanayake – National People’s Party (NPP)
Sri Lanka’s recently retired army chief, Mahesh Senanayake, is seen by many as the candidate for the apolitical voter.
Senanayake retired in August 2019, having served in the military for 36 years, including through the civil war.
His career was not, however, without controversy: In 2010, he fled the country following a presidential election won by Mahinda Rajapaksa, fearing reprisals for having supported Rajapaksa’s opponent.
He returned in 2015 when Rajapaksa was defeated by Sirisena.
What are the key issues?
On April 21, 2019, eight suicide bombers targeted three churches and three luxury hotels across Sri Lanka in a devastating series of attacks timed to coincide with Easter Sunday services. In all, 269 people were killed and more than 400 wounded.
The attacks appeared to take the Sri Lankan government by surprise, and a scathing parliamentary investigation report documented systematic failures at every level of the state’s security structure, including at the prime minister, president and intelligence chief levels.
In this election, voters will be concerned about addressing those issues and ensuring that such attacks do not recur. The blasts also prompted a series of counterattacks and riots targeting the island’s Muslim minority, mainly led by right-wing Sinhala Buddhist leaders, which has led to increasing polarisation in the country.
Burdened with high debt and sluggish economic growth, the Sri Lankan economy could not afford the hit it took following the Easter Sunday bombings.
Tourism numbers plummeted in the months that followed, after having already dropped during the constitutional crisis of 2018.
Whoever takes the helm will have to find a way to ensure growth while also servicing the country’s $34.4bn foreign debt. The current government’s handling of the economy has come under criticism from both the leading presidential candidates, although much of the debt was inherited from Rajapaksa’s government.
Fallout from the 2018 constitutional crisis
In October 2018, President Sirisena attempted to remove Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, from power and replace him with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The country’s top court reversed Sirisena’s decision, bringing back Wickremesinghe.
This presidential election will see Premadasa, the nominee for Wickremesinghe’s party, face off against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mahinda’s brother, for the slot of president.
If Rajapaksa wins, it would set up an immediate face-off with Parliament, which is led by the UNP, and a possible snap election.
Premadasa’s election, however, would not necessarily ensure stability, as the UNP leader also has serious differences with Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, and as president would wield significant power.
How does voting work?
The island nation has traditionally high rates of voter participation, with more than 15.9 million registered voters in a total population of 21.8 million, according to Election Commission statistics.
During the last presidential election in 2015, voter turnout out was 81.5 percent, the highest in the region.
Voting for Sri Lanka’s president is carried out through a modified “contingent vote” system, where voters mark both their first and second preference candidates when casting their ballots.
In the case of a runoff – if a single candidate fails to win more than 50 percent of the vote outright – the second preference votes will be added to the top two candidates’ tally to adjudicate a winner.
Voting will take place throughout the day on Saturday, November 16. If there is an outright winner, a result is expected by November 17.
If a runoff is required – which has never before happened in Sri Lanka – the results could take a day longer.
How is the government structured?
Sri Lanka’s government operates under a semi-presidential system, where the president holds widespread executive authority but governs in partnership with a prime minister he appoints and a cabinet recommended by the prime minister.
The president is directly elected for a five-year term, and can only be removed by a two-thirds vote in Parliament and with Supreme Court approval.
Parliament consists of a single-chamber house of 225 members, 196 of whom are elected in multi-seat constituencies and the remaining 29 by proportional representation from the results of the parliamentary election.
The prime minister and federal cabinet are drawn from Parliament. Under a recent constitutional amendment, the president no longer has the power to dismiss them and they are answerable solely to Parliament.
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Hi everyone, Christine here today with a quick and easy Spring themed gift box using a Keepsake Envelope.
My gift box is a pillow box design. I positioned Crafty Power Tape to the side panels,and trimmed the edges to ensure a perfect seal.
I printed a favorite quote to insert into a 2 x 2″ Keepsake Envelope, there are 10 in a pack – various sizes so great for many projects.
Peeling off the backing I adhered it straight onto a die cut, super speedy!
To affix my flower embellishment I used 3D Foam Squares White Small.
To ensure the decoration is firmly affixed to the gift box I opted for Extreme Double Sided Tape, 1/2″. This is really strong and the red backing is easy to remove.
The finished box – an ideal size for a gift card, jewelry or a handful of chocolates or candy.
It’s a great idea for Mother’s Day or Wedding favors too!
Check out our quick video on Keepsake Envelopes:
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Ocado Unveils Enhanced Robots in Grocery Delivery Push
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Ocado Group Plc has developed new, lower-cost technology that will speed up online grocery deliveries, boosting the company’s prospects as it seeks to license its robotic warehouse systems globally.
The new technology includes lighter grids, more efficient bots and robotic arms able to directly pick products, the company said Jan. 26 at a launch event. Ocado said it can install its “grid” systems more cheaply, quickly and in more locations than before, including smaller buildings and microfulfillment centers.
Some of the new technology could help existing partners including Kroger Co., as well as U.K. grocer Wm Morrison Supermarkets and France’s Casino Guichard Perrachon SA.
Ocado is benefiting as the pandemic shifts consumer habits toward online delivery and companies compete to deliver faster. Dozens of startups including Berlin-based Gorillas Technologies GmbH and Dija in London are now aiming to deliver groceries in less than 30 minutes, building on the growth of services like Uber Eats and Deliveroo.
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“Over time this is going to change the under one-hour grocery delivery industry,” Chief Executive Officer Tim Steiner said by phone.
As part of the changes, Ocado can enable delivery of last-minute orders as well as those with longer lead times, all from the same van. Grocers don’t have to choose between offering a short-term or longer-term service to their customers. The company also unveiled a virtual distribution center that will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help power smaller fulfillment centers closer to customers.
Ocado’s value has soared by more than 500% since 2016 as investors bet that the British company will become the premier provider of online grocery delivery services worldwide.
The company suffered a setback in 2019 when one of its automated warehouses caught fire at a five-floor facility in southern England. Ocado is making “constant improvements” and “all these facilities will be very safe,” Steiner said. Ocado is also engaged in a legal battle over patents with Norwegian rival AutoStore Holdings Ltd. | <urn:uuid:25755923-11f2-4372-9129-d68fae4c4c17> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.ttnews.com/articles/ocado-unveils-enhanced-robots-grocery-delivery-push | 2024-02-23T14:37:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474412.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223121413-20240223151413-00296.warc.gz | en | 0.943009 | 489 | [
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Ohio's top players look to shine in tournament
As another season sifts away and tournament play begins, it's the time for the top players to strut their stuff.
For example, Cincinnati North College Hill freshman O.J. Mayo scored 44, 49 and 34 points in his final three regular-season games as his team capped a perfect season after going 2-18 a year ago. With 617 points, Mayo broke the school season record of 581 set by Leon Murray in 1974-75.
Jon Diebler, the freshman guard who tied Fostoria's scoring record earlier this season with 49 points against Willard, scored 46 in an 81-73 win at Tiffin Columbian. He was 15 of 17 from the field and 14 of 16 from the foul line. The Redmen moved to 15-3 on the year with their 13th win in a row after a 2-2 start. Jacob Diebler, Jon's junior brother, remains the team's leading scorer.
Also scoring 46 points in a game was Whitehouse Anthony Wayne's Joe McVicker, who totaled 20 two-point fields goals and six free throws in an 89-86 win over Toledo Rogers. McVicker, who averages 24.7 points a game, had 25 points in a 63-61 win over Rossford a night earlier.
Lima Shawnee guard Jamar Butler scored a school-record 53 points in the Indians' 107-68 win over Greenville. It was the third time the Ohio State signee has scored more than 50 points in his career. Butler had 46 points in a 92-37 win over Kenton.
McConnelsville Morgan's boys won their first-ever Muskingum Valley League title in 38 years, set school marks with 15 consecutive wins and 18 wins this season (after going 6-15 a year ago) and second-year coach Tom Evans went over the 400 mark in career wins; Cincinnati Turpin, founded 27 years ago, won its first boys basketball league title of any kind, in the Fort Ancient Valley Conference Cardinal Division. | <urn:uuid:4b7d8b85-5243-4af5-927c-b6fb9b27349d> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://vindyarchives.com/news/2004/feb/29/ohios-top-players-look-to-shine-in-tournament/ | 2024-02-24T22:52:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474569.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224212113-20240225002113-00296.warc.gz | en | 0.964649 | 423 | [
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Two people injured at Cedar Point
Posted: Jul 29, 2014 12:42 AM EST | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 6:18 AM EST
Two people were hurt on a ride at Cedar Point when a cable snapped on the Skyhawk ride.
The ride quickly swings riders as high as 125 feet into the air.
A park spokesperson says one rider was treated at the scene. The other was taken to the hospital and has since been released.
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The intriguing accomplishment story of Kahn Brothers unfolds as we delve into the globe of this renowned expenditure company. With a legacy that spans above 4 decades, Kahn Brothers has emerged as a correct titan in the monetary business. Started by the visionary duo, Thomas Kahn and Alan Kahn, the organization has persistently shown astute investment methods and a deep determination to their clients’ financial effectively-currently being. Via a unique combination of expertise, determination, and a genuine enthusiasm for what they do, the Kahn Brothers have solidified their spot as noteworthy figures in the investment decision planet.
At the core of their good results lies their unwavering philosophy that centers about value investing. Although several within the market have succumbed to quick-expression gains and fleeting tendencies, the Kahn Brothers have remained steadfast in their technique. By meticulously examining companies and determining their correct value, they have been able to uncover concealed gems in the stock market place. Kahn Brothers Their disciplined investment philosophy has not only resulted in extraordinary returns for their customers but has also solidified their status for prudence and extended-time period good results.
Leveraging their in depth industry knowledge, the Kahn Brothers have continuously shown their ability to determine flourishing firms with remarkable growth prospective. Their eager eye for undervalued shares has authorized them to consider edge of market place inefficiencies and capitalize on options that other people might have neglected. This exclusive capability to recognize undervalued property has been the driving drive driving their remarkable track file of success.
As we embark on this fascinating journey via the intricacies of the Kahn Brothers phenomenon, we will explore their investment techniques, delve into their noteworthy achievements, and uncover the inspiring tales of the companies they have propelled to new heights. Be part of us as we unearth the tricks guiding their success and obtain useful insights into the globe of Kahn Brothers, the place astute investing fulfills unwavering perseverance in the pursuit of financial brilliance.
The Early Beginnings
In the early several years, the Kahn Brothers embarked on a journey that would at some point redefine the expense landscape. It all started out when Abraham and Thomas Kahn, brothers by blood and companions in enthusiasm, set out to pave their possess way in the globe of finance.
Born and raised in the bustling streets of New York City, the Kahn Brothers ended up no strangers to the rapidly-paced rhythm of urban lifestyle. Their upbringing instilled in them a drive for achievement and a need to make a distinction. Drawn to the entire world of investing, they noticed the immense likely it held and focused themselves to mastering its intricacies.
With a thirst for information and an unwavering belief in their capabilities, the Kahn Brothers commenced their ascent. They devoured guides on finance, studied the market’s every shift, and sought mentors who could offer you valuable insights. This relentless pursuit of comprehension laid the foundation for their long term good results.
Driven by a shared vision and armed with their newfound knowledge, the Kahn Brothers established up their very own investment decision agency. They aimed to construct a legacy dependent on a solid expense philosophy, cautious research, and a commitment to prolonged-phrase worth. Their method was a departure from the prevailing traits of the time, focusing on patience, self-control, and a meticulous evaluation of prospective investments.
As the years went by, the Kahn Brothers’ reputation started to develop. Their keen eye for undervalued assets and their capacity to navigate the unstable marketplaces established them apart from their friends. Traders flocked to their doorstep, in search of their assistance and skills.
In the subsequent area, we will delve further into the investment decision methods utilized by the Kahn Brothers, exploring the important factors that propelled them to prominence. Remain tuned for an insightful journey into the entire world of these impressive economic pioneers.
Kahn Brothers, a renowned expense company, is recognized for its unique investment philosophy that has paved the way for their exceptional achievement in the financial globe.
1st and foremost, the Kahn Brothers firmly imagine in the price investing strategy. They target on figuring out companies whose market price tag, in their view, does not precisely reflect their true intrinsic worth. By conducting thorough study and analysis, they purpose to uncover undervalued securities with the prospective for considerable lengthy-phrase growth.
A important element of their expenditure philosophy lies in their patient and extended-term standpoint. Rather than succumbing to quick-expression industry fluctuations and traits, the Kahn Brothers preserve a steadfast motivation to the companies they spend in. They comprehend that real value often will take time to be mirrored in the market, and as a result they possess the patience to wait for their investments to bear fruit.
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Fluminense vs Santos Betting Tips and Prediction. On Saturday, Fluminense and Santos square off in the Brazilian Serie A.
On Saturday, July 29, Fluminense and Santos will square off at the Estadio do Maracana to begin Brasilian Serie A Round 17.
The Sunday match at the Estadio Couto Pereira saw Fluminense suffer a 2-0 loss to Cotitiba as their road woes continued.
The team of Fernando Diniz has gone eight games without a victory on the road but has 18 straight victories at home.
With 25 points from 16 games, Fluminense is tied for seventh place in the standings with Sao Paulo and Red Bull Bragantino on points.
While Botafogo held Santos to a 2-2 draw at the Estadio Urbano Caldeira last weekend, Santos, like their hosts, struggled to get going.
The team led by Paulo Turra has lost eight of their last 14 games in all competitions.
Santos is 14th in the league standings with 17 points from 16 games, three points, and numerous positions above the relegation zone.
Fluminense vs Santos – Important Points:
Santos has a small advantage in the matchup with 17 victories from the previous 42 encounters.
In that time, Fluminense has recorded two fewer victories while 10 more victories have been shared.
Since a 1-0 defeat in June 2018, the Tricolor has won twice in four home games against Santos.
With four points from seven games, Turra’s team has the third-worst road record in the league after losing five of their last six away games.
Fluminense has won 14 games since suffering a 1-0 loss to Volta Redonda in February and is unbeaten in 18 home games across all competitions.
Fluminense vs Santos – The Prediction:
Both teams are looking for a victory to bolster their spirits after having difficulty in previous weeks.
Expect Diniz’s team to win all three points and continue their streak of unbeaten home games given the Alvinegros’ poor performance away from home.
Prediction: Fluminense 2-0 Santos
Fluminense vs Santos – The Tip:
1: Results – Fluminense
2: Total Goals Over 3 goals – No
3: Less than 5 cards – Yes
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For those curious about operating a reiki school, here is the December calendar from a reiki school I earned reiki master (RM) in year 2019. Reiki Master Teachers (RMT) conduct classes on weekends and can start operating a reiki school of their own.
Once or twice a week, gauging upon the interest, a reiki circle is held in a town’s crystal shop. Seated in a ring of chairs, volunteers consent to a half hour guided meditation while reiki school students practice a synchronized group performance.
Often the same volunteers who are willing to travel to the crystal shop receive the reiki. Monday mornings at 10 AM to 12PM and Friday nights at 7 PM 9 PM.
Each reiki student gets a chance to practice on 1 to 4 other persons. Over three years one student can easily practice on over 500 persons in chairs.
Occasionally, they visit hospitals and retirement centers, depending on the availability and willingness of reiki masters to travel. Crystal shoppers can book appointments with reiki masters in the designated room of the shop.
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A minister tells of his first Sunday in a new parish and of presenting the children’s message. It seems the sanctuary in the new church had some magnificent stained glass windows, so his message centered on how each of us is called to help make up the whole picture of life (the life of the community of the faithful). Like the pictures in the windows, it takes many little panels of glass to make the whole picture.
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Air fryers are the talk of the town from the kitchen appliance department and I can understand why. I mean, who does not want to make their meals quickly and healthily?
One thing is for sure here, the more you will get into this kitchen appliance, the more you will learn about what things can you cook in it and what can you not, and much more.
If you have been using an air fryer for some time now or even if you are a new bee, you must have realized now that there are things that can be done and put in an air fryer and there are things that do not do well in an air fryer.
Just like an oven or a microwave, you cannot just put any cookware in an air fryer the material must be approved to be used in the appliance to avoid any accident.
Today we are going to discuss materials that can be put in an air fryer and that are safe to use. To know more about it, keep the reading going!
How does the Air Fryer work?
The air fryer, despite its name, does not fry food. It does, however, imitate the cooking process of fried food by giving it that outer crispy look and delicious taste.
The air fryer, like a convection oven, uses heat to cook food. The electronic device has a mechanical fan that rapidly circulates hot air. Hot air circulates through the food, causing a convection heating effect that cooks it.
However, unlike a convection oven, an air fryer holds the food in a perforated basket, allowing hot air to circulate and evenly cook the food.
What can cook in an Air Fryer?
French fries, frozen pizzas, fish sticks, and other quick frozen meals may come to mind when you think of air-fried foods. The air fryer, on the other hand, can bake, grill, roast, broil, and even oven fry.
Most meals that can be prepared in the oven can also be prepared in the air fryer. An air fryer recipe will be useful when deciding what to cook in the air fryer, such as fried rice, kale chips, and many other dishes. Here are just a few of the best foods to cook in an air fryer.
- Fried chicken
What can you put inside an Air fryer?
To use an appliance to the fullest, it is important to know all about its dos and don’ts.
Tin foil, steel bowls, oven-proof trays, iron skillets, silicon molds, parchment papers, and toothpicks are safe picks that can be placed in an air fryer and the appliance would not mind at all.
One learns from experience, especially when it is a skill, like cooking food. The more variety we have got now for making food, the more skills we require now to keep us and the kitchen up to date.
I am sure when you started with your air fryer journey, you must be thinking about the ifs and buts of everything because you do not want that money going down the drain with a damaged air fryer due to your lack of experience
Even if not, I am gonna let you know. Here see the table of the things you can put in an air fryer without worrying.
- Tin foil: Foils are often misunderstood as dangerous material. They are safe for air fryers until they are wrapped perfectly.
- Steel bowls are great for cooking evenly especially if they are sealed with foil.
- Oven-proof trays and dishes are a good option to avoid cleaning the mess in an air fryer.
- Iron skillets are a good option for food that has cheese in it. The condition is, that the skillet must be small enough to adjust in an air fryer.
- Silicon molds: Baking is fun when you have cute-shaped silicon molds. You can even use them in an air fryer with no concerns whatsoever.
- Parchment papers: If you are up for making or air frying sticky food, it is important to use parchment paper. Also, it makes cleaning easy.
- Toothpicks: The hot air in an air fryer can make your food fly around, hence, uneven cooking and a mess. Toothpicks are used to keep small foods in one place and for avoiding mess.
These are the materials that are safe for air fryers.
Can you use a metal pan in an Air fryer?
Let me put it in the simplest way possible. YES! you can use a metal pan in an air fryer.
Before doing so, make sure that you have read the user manual provided by your particular brand just to be on the safe side.
One more thing that must be kept in consideration is that the metal pan you are using must be of such dimension that leaves some space in the basket so that the air can pass easily.
The airflow needs to work properly for an evenly cooked meal.
You can also use glass and ceramic dishes to get your work done from an air fryer as these two cookwares are also good conductors of heat just like metal.
Safety comes first!
What are the things that are not safe to put in an Air fryer?
I have already made my point on things that can be safely put in an air fryer without hesitation. Now let’s get into talking about how some materials can be harmful if kept in an air fryer for cooking.
Plastic dishes and paper towels are the two things topping the list of ‘not to put in an air fryer materials’ so far!
Air fryers work by circulating extremely hot air around the dish and if that dish is made up of plastic, there is a high chance of it getting melted and that can end up damaging your air fryer pretty bad.
Also, the heat in an air fryer is not good for paper towels. They can only end up burnt and can your air fryer can also catch fire in the process.
Check out this table to learn the reasons for not putting the following materials in an air fryer.
|Plastic can melt in an air fryer.
|Paper towels can burn from the heat.
|Too much water can reach the machine and cause serious damage.
|Sauces can drip into the machinery and will harm the air fryer.
Why is plastic dangerous for an Air fryer?
Plastic is considered the most dangerous material for an air fryer.
Why? because it can be harmful to your health or your air fryer. Plastic is never considered to be a good pick when using it for cooking.
The air fryer has very hot air inside it for making meals quicker than ever and that hot air makes our cookware choices limited.
Plastic can easily melt in your air fryer and will end up messing up the whole interior of your appliance. This can do some serious damage to your air fryer.
Even if you are thinking to put your plastic dish just for a few minutes with the possibility of the material not getting melted. There is a huge chance of the effects of the material getting into your food.
Plastic can cause metabolic disorders and reduced fertility.
See this video to know better what plastic can do in an air fryer.
Even though air fryers can make almost anything, some things must be kept in consideration when you are using an advanced appliance.
Materials are one thing that gives people a tough time in deciding what to choose and what not. Before getting your air fryer started, keep in mind that,
- There are so many things like metal pans, iron skillets, silicon molds, tin foils, Parchment paper, toothpicks, and oven-approved trays that are a good choice to use in an air fryer.
- Before using anything, be sure that you choose cookware that leaves some space for the air to flow from the basket.
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Introduction by Bonnie Dwyer / 1970 Spectrum article by Roy Branson and Herold D. Weiss
In the second volume of Spectrum, one sees the writers and editors responding in a significant way to the life of the church over issues ranging from missions to race relations and regional conferences to Ellen White. Conversations, scholarship, and articles about Ellen White have filled our pages ever since. While there are several significant articles about her in volume two, Roy Branson and Herold D. Weiss significantly set out an agenda for Adventist scholarship about her.
“Most Seventh-day Adventists know that for some time we have been able to make Ellen G. White say almost anything we want,” they wrote. “Her authority is universally recognized in the church, but what we make her say with authority often depends on who of us is quoting her. In the life of the church, therefore, she speaks with many accents. Sometimes on a single topic we make her voice blare out arguments on both sides of a debate. . . . The result of having so many Ellen Whites is that the Adventist church may soon have no Ellen White at all.”
They suggested that the church needed to make it a top priority to establish a more objective way of understanding what she said. Then they laid out four steps on how to go about that process. But rather than summarize their work, it follows in its entirety my comments here. Your comments would be most welcome following that.
But before I turn you over to Drs. Branson and Weiss, I also want to draw your attention to the first Forum symposium that appeared in Volume Two. While not on Ellen White, it did deal with revelation and centered on a presentation by Baptist scholar Bernard Ramm with responses from Wilber Alexander, Edward Heppenstall, and Jack W. Provonsha. You can read it here: http://spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive01-05/2-1ramm.pdf.
And now over to Branson and Weiss.
Ellen White: A Subject for Adventist Scholarship
From Spectrum Autumn 1970, Vol 2, No. 4
by ROY BRANSON and HEROLD D. WEISS
Most Seventh-day Adventists know that for some time we have been able to make Ellen G. White say almost anything we want. Her authority is universally recognized in the church, but what we make her say with authority often depends on who of us is quoting her. In the life of the church, therefore, she speaks with many accents. Sometimes on a single topic we make her voice blare out arguments on both sides of a debate.
Take the subject of health reform. One Ellen White talks reasonably about the advantages of temperate living. Another Ellen White fanatically demands that we eat only foods grown according to certain rigidly defined methods. Which is the real Ellen White ?
Sometimes we make her march determinedly in opposite directions – as in our discussions of justification by faith versus perfection, or God’s sovereignty versus man’s free will. As important a topic as the universality of salvation throws us into a dilemma when quotations extracted from her writings are simply strung together end-to-end. She appears on both the banner of those who say that the heathen who never hear the name of Christ will be as if they never were, and the banner of those who insist that every man is given light sufficient for a choice determining his eternal destiny.
The result of having so many Ellen Whites is that the Adventist church may soon have no Ellen White at all. Conceivably all that may be left will be a few members shouting at each other in her name; the great majority, having already despaired of understanding her, will only wonder what all the commotion is about.
It should be clear by now that among the top priorities of the church ought to be the establishment of more objective ways of understanding what Ellen White said. The church needs to see a coherent whole in her wide-ranging writings. To find a consistent method of interpretation for these writings should not be thought of as merely an intriguing academic possibility; it is an essential and immediate task for the church.
Up to now, two main ways – both of them wanting – have been used to understand Mrs. White’s thinking. One way has been to compile quotations taken at random from all her works, and then to group these quotations simply by topic. The other way has been to consider as more authoritative those statements that start with the words “I was shown,” or some similar expression.
Both of these ways have sometimes proved useful, but they remain inadequate. A collection of quotations by topic often exaggerates the seeming contradictions among them. As a result, the consistent viewpoints Ellen White actually had are obscured, and her persuasiveness is diminished. On the other hand, to take as authoritative only the statements that cite a specific vision depreciates the value of the many things God “showed” her through the guidance of the Holy Spirit pervading her life. She was led by God even when she could not refer to a particular vision for a specific admonition.
The church has not sufficiently perceived the full significance of Ellen White’s message by using these means. New methods are needed. What follows is a set of proposals to make possible a more consistent interpretation of these inspired writings.
The first step should be to discover the nature of Mrs. White’s relationship to other authors. We know that she borrowed terms, phrases, and historical accounts from others. To find the real Ellen White we must undertake the vast, but absolutely necessary, task of learning exactly what kind of use she made of the work of these other writers. Sample cores have been taken, but the vital information – the nature, selection, and use of the abundant material available to her and integrated by her in her writing – is still a mystery. Until we know more precisely which authors she respected sufficiently to rely on, we will not really know Ellen White or her ideas.
The second step should be to recover the social and intellectual milieu in which she lived and wrote. How can her testimony be understood until the economic, political, religious, and educational issues that were the context of her words are recognized ? Unless we know what meaning specific words had in the culture of her day, how can we know her meaning in using them ? Either Ellen White lives for us first in her own cultural situation or she does not live for us at all. Of course, if we hear her speak within a definite cultural milieu, we do not thereby confine the significance of her words to that context. Understanding her in terms of the nineteenth century does not mean that what she said is irrelevant to the twentieth century. Actually, finding how her words pertained to the past century is a necessary step in establishing their relevance to our own. Like most things in nature, words do not live in a vacuum.
The third step should be to give close attention to the development of Ellen White’s writings within her own lifetime, and also to the development of the church. What was first written as a small series of books grew through the years into the rather voluminous Conflict of the Ages series. Personal letters became articles in church papers, only thereafter to be transformed into parts of books. Events in Mrs. White’s life and currents in the church are relevant to understanding why her writings took the shape they did. Compilations of her writings published since her death should be examined in terms of the issues that confronted the church when the editors did their compiling.
By taking the three foregoing steps we can know with more assurance what the real Ellen White said. By making certain that our investigations follow clearly defined guidelines, we can more completely free our interpretations of conflicting personal biases. When we compare what she took from her sources with what she ignored in them, we can see more clearly a trend in her thinking. By knowing the streams of thinking in which these sources fall, and by being aware of what other alternatives existed for her, we can see for the first time the significance of her choice of sources. By putting ourselves in the crosscurrents of her day, we can see why she used one argument on a topic at one time and another argument on the same topic at another time. Anything we learn about her and the church at every stage in the preparation of her writings can only help draw us further into her mind.
Our final step should then be to apply in our day the words she spoke in her day. We may never be able fully to recapture Ellen White’s original intentions or the absolute truth of what she meant. But if the methods proposed here, or similar ones, were implemented, the church would be much closer to her ideas than it is now. Setting up objective criteria for interpretation would restrain individual prejudice and decrease confusion. With relatively greater consensus on what she said, we would increasingly agree on what she would say today. Her influence, instead of waning, would then become more pervasive.
Using such methods would put the church in touch with a more vital and interesting Ellen White, with nuances and enthusiasms we do not recognize now. This more vibrant Ellen White would not always agree with her modern readers (any more than she did with her original readers), but she would be a more believable person. She would be seen as God’s human spokesman – perhaps less magical and less awesome, but also less obscure and less ignored, and therefore actually more influential than she is now. And if she were more vital and effective, she would thereby be actually more authoritative also. Rather than being an impersonal voice subject to our manipulation, she would become again the living, breathing person who drew men to God.
Following methods like those outlined here would open up far-reaching scholarly enterprises. No one Adventist during his entire life could accomplish the tasks that would emerge. Indeed, no single discipline has adequate tools to do the job alone. It is imperative, therefore, that Adventist scholars from various disciplines bring their different perspectives and insights and equipment to the challenge of understanding Ellen G. White.
This kind of interdisciplinary effort by the Adventist academic community could help more clearly to distinguish the essence of Adventism.
1 An example is William S. Peterson’s article in this issue: A Textual and Historical Study of Ellen White’s Account of the French Revolution.
2 In an unpublished study, Ellen G. White and Fiction, John O. Waller examines the meaning of the word fiction in Mrs. White’s time and relates his findings to her use of the term.
Richard Rice’s article, Adventists and Welfare Work: A Comparative Study (Spectrum 2, 52-63, winter 1970), recounts some of the attitudes and endeavors of social welfare activists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and thus gives an idea of the issues that concerned Mrs. White when she commented on social welfare.
The task of recreating the milieu in which Mrs. White and other early Adventists discussed interracial relations is attempted by Branson in Ellen G. White: Racist
Or Champion of Equality? Review and Herald, April 9, 16, and 23, 1970.
3 In his recent book, Ellen G. White and Church Race Relations (Washington, D. C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association 1970), Ronald D. Graybill has established the setting, in Mrs. White’s life and in the work of the church, of her comments on race in Testimonies for the Church, volume nine (Washington, D. C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association 1970), pp. 199-226.
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Beaming in satisfaction as Arab rulers arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday, Mohammed bin Salman looked like a man in charge. As a succession of planes disgorged heads of state for a regional summit, the Saudi crown prince was there to receive them – standing in for his father at yet another big event.
But as Prince Mohammed ushered leaders of Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain along a purple carpet to a reception hall, the king’s absence loomed large. If the ailing monarch was to reappear in public – a once every five year gathering under his auspices would have been the time and place.
To regional figures, King Salman’s failure to assume his role signalled something more consequential than an heir to the throne being gifted more responsibilities. So significant was the missing monarch that observers in Saudi Arabia say the dynastic shift from father to son has – for all intents and purposes – already taken place.
Over the past 20 months, King Salman has made only one public appearance and has stayed for the duration of the Covid pandemic in the new age city of Neom – the pet project of the man who will one day formally take his throne.
His only recent visit to the seat of Saudi power, Riyadh, was in August 2020 for a successful gallbladder operation. His last audience with a western official was with former UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, five months earlier. When Emmanuel Macron met Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah recently, the king was again nowhere to be seen.
Macron’s visit, the first by a western head of state since the assassination of columnist Jamal Khashoggi three years ago, marked quite a moment for a kingdom anxious to restore standing amid the prolonged global fallout from an extraordinary scandal. King Salman receiving the French president could have been a much-needed kickstart.
Several influential former Saudi officials say they cannot recall a precedent of a Saudi head of state being in the country and not receiving counterparts such as Gulf leaders and Macron, particularly at such a critical juncture. For all intents and purposes, Salman is now king in absentia and seems barely to be performing his duties. Prince Mohammed holds all the reins of Saudi power, and does not seem bothered by who knows it.
Hanging over the absences have been enduring questions surrounding the king’s health. Due to turn 86 on New Year’s Eve, Salman has slowed down since his own years as crown prince. But he is known, both inside the kingdom and in Washington and London, to suffer from a slow onset form of vascular dementia, the symptoms of which were thought to have been mild.
“This has not been a huge factor in recent years, and it is tough to get a read on now with Covid,” said a former western intelligence official. “But it is thought to be more problematic now. It’s certainly a pretext for MbS to keep his father at bay. He is definitely running Saudi Arabia. His father is not.”
Announcing the kingdom’s budget on Monday via video, the king spoke slowly and with a slight slur. Guests who had seen him before Covid brought the shutters down in Saudi Arabia say he was already moving and speaking cautiously. But recent video appearances at cabinet sessions have left some participants speculating about his health.
Whether King Salman’s quasi exile is of his own volition, or is beyond his control, has become the subject of speculation inside the kingdom and around the Gulf, where leaders in the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman had been wrestling with the uncertain dynamic between father and son since the latter’s rise to prominence nearly five years ago.
As Prince Mohammed consolidated his power by eliminating family and political rivals, shaking down business leaders and clamping down on dissent, the role of King Salman had remained hotly debated.
In the aftermath of the Khashoggi assassination, Salman took a more assertive stance, appearing more often and reassembling a sidelined old guard as a veritable “court of the wise”. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, thought the “greybeards” were back calling the shots. He sent a message through the king’s trusted relative, Khaled al-Faisal, that he respected the House of Saud, but not what it was becoming – a pointed barb at Prince Mohammed, whom Turkey, the CIA and other western agencies believe directed Khashoggi’s murder and dismemberment inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
But if Prince Mohammed ever really was chastened, it was not to be for long. By the second half of 2019, officials who dealt with him in Riyadh say he was directing affairs with confidence, ramping up economic reforms and signing off on cultural changes that would have been unthinkable even several years earlier.
King Salman arrived in Neom 15 months ago to sit out Covid. The futuristic Red Sea city has been a viable place to avoid infection and from where to conduct virtual cabinet meetings. But as the crisis has ebbed in Saudi Arabia, so has the plausibility of such a long absence from making in person appearances. The one break from reclusivity came when he received the Sultan of Oman, Prince Haitham bin Tarik in July.
The lineup of missed opportunities includes annual appearances in Mecca for the last 10 days of Ramadan and hajj, celebrations for the seventh year of his inauguration, the festival season in Riyadh and weekly royal court receptions.
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Posting date : 09/02/2024
Requisition ID : 21217
Job Title: Accountant
Department: Finance & Admin
Reporting Line: Accounting Manager
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
About ENGIE Energy Access
ENGIE Energy Access is a division of ENGIE, a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s lowest energy access rate – with over half of its people unconnected. Solving this growing problem requires grand-scale innovation and this is what ENGIE Energy Access offers. As the leading Pay-As-You- Go and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa, our mission is to deliver affordable, reliable and sustainable energy solutions and life-changing services with exceptional customer experience.
The company is a result of the integration of Fenix International, ENGIE Mobisol and ENGIE PowerCorner; and we develop innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy.
The PAYGo solar home systems are financed through affordable installments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,700 employees, operations in 9 countries across Africa (Benin,
Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.2 million customers and more than 6 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to remain the leading clean energy company, serving millions of customers across Africa by 2025.
The Accountant will play a key role on the finance and accounting team. The role is expected to actively participate in the month-end close, preparing or reviewing all monthly reconciliations, and managing other accounting team members. The Accountant will report directly to the Accounting Manager and work closely with all other EEA Nigeria departments.
Responsibilities, Deliverables and Activities
- Ensure timely payment of all payment requests.
- Preparing compliance schedules and ensure timely remittance
- Organize, file, and follow up on and maintain payment support, especially that from the field team.
- Manage the entities Bank accounts to ensure all transactions are correctly accounted for and all bank accounts are fully reconciled.
- Manage the cost line of the entity to ensure all expenses are fully accounted for and relevant accruals and releases are done:
- Coordinate with Accounts assistants to ensure meeting of month end close deadlines and accurate / complete posting of all mobile money including the below:
- Posting / reconciling of all mobile money payments
- Managing accounts payable and ensure ending supplier balances are accurate.
- Preparing and maintaining prepaid expense & fixed asset registers and track all Company assets.
- Preparing month-end reconciliations for mobile money sending, accounts payable, prepaid expenses, and fixed assets (which will be reviewed by Accounting Associate or Sr Accountant).
- Manage and ensure all month end reconciliations under the Accounts payable section and accurately done and ensure outstanding items are cleared on a timely basis.
- Liaise with external auditors during the audit process.
Required Skills and Competences
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- Attention to detail, strong organizational skills,
- Enjoys working with a team to achieve joint goals,
- Demonstration of integrity and honesty,
- Demonstrated resourcefulness in proposing new ways of driving accounting efficiencies.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar position
- Relevant professional certifications (ACA, ACCA, CFA, etc.) Preferred.
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Imbibing Taste Talks
Taste Talks, a two-day conference on Brooklyn Food and Drink, announced its curatorial voice with April Bloomfield (of the Spotted Pig) at its helm. The event, which took place on September 14th & 15th, brought notable food, chefs and taste makers together in a bevy of curated panels, discussions, workshops, and cookouts.
Among the roster of activities, I signed up for three panels and Cook it Raw, a collaborative outdoor event where chefs worked together to create a meal using locally-sourced ingredients and as little electricity as possible – all in under 6 hours. Below are highlights from each, including quotes to add to the Brooklyn culinary repertoire.
Panel 1: Why Does the Coffee in (Some) Restaurants Suck?
“Espresso ain’t easy,” proclaimed this topic in its panel synopsis. Moderated by Oliver Strand, speakers included: Richard Coraine (Union Square Hospitality), Robert Newton (Seersucker), James Freeman (Blue Bottle Coffee) and Robert Thoreson (Kaffa.)
Given the many variables that factor into making a good cup of coffee, the panel determined that the main reason for underwhelming restaurant coffee is that it is often treated as a commodity.
“In general people are less apt to take advice on how to make something, if they make it at home and that’s the position with restaurant coffee,” said James Freeman.
Coffee is a culinary item and as such, should be treated with the same attention and care as food.
“Whatever is in the cup, should speak for itself,” said Coraine.
As coffee palates are re-educated, its consumers will demand better coffee, and that demand will lead to restaurants providing better cups of joe in the future.
“Coffee is a flower. It becomes a cherry and it should taste like it; it’s a wonderful experience but it happens so rarely,” said Thoreson.
Panel 2: Intersection of Art and Commerce
“Even if a million people hate us, there’s ten million left,” said Mario Batali, the panels’ moderator, on pleasing New York restaurant goers.
With a diverse range of disciplines represented; chef Wylie Dufresne, ?uestlove, and artist Jennifer Rubell, it was interesting to hear the thoughts each gave on the idea of commerce and its impact on creating art:
“At this point I like to sit in the dugout and make sure the teams win. Before, I liked to be the star player.”- Batali
“I’m strictly an artist.”- ?uestlove
“I project feelings.”- Jennifer Rubell
“I can live with people liking my plates. I’m happy if they love them.” – Dufresne
“People may not recognize our work by criticism, but with food, its like they’re getting an artifact of you.” – Batali
Panel 3: The Brooklyn Food Boom: From Egg Creams and Pizza to Bentowitz Boxes and Artisanal Pickled Beets
From pushcart peddlers to the modern-day Smorgasburg, this panel surveyed the entrepreneurial history of Brooklyn’s D.I.Y culinary visionaries. Moderated by Sarah Zorn, Brooklyn Magazine‘s food critic, panelists spoke from the purveyor’s perspective on how the food they procure has defined the borough. Below, are some choice quotes:
“When Jewish communities became more religious and smoked fish became more expensive, it was a perfect storm why many Jewish appetizer shops closed. Now we are experiencing a Jewish renaissance – this food is taking people back to their roots, its comfort food and its making people happy.”- Peter Shelsky (Shelsky’s Smoked Fish)
“The diner is so essential to the Brooklyn neighborhood because everyone has their local spot and the diner serves as a nucleus. Everyone doesn’t drink, but everyone eats. We are a place where people can feel cozy, comfortable, welcome and satisfied. The Prospect Heights location is now historically known for being a place protected by the community after the assassination of Dr. King and a symbol of a place that brought people together. The latest expansion to Coney Island brings the same family vibe to that destination.” -Jimmy Kokatas (Tom’s Restaurant)
Saul, the restaurant, was the first in Brooklyn (Boreum Hill) to receive a Michelin star. Early on, founder, Saul Bolton, recognized that there were people there, like him, who lived and died for food and traveled the world doing so. He credits rents in Manhattan pushing people to Brooklyn as part of the driving force for the boroughs food boom.
“The flavor profiles of salty, spicy, sweet and savory are an exciting thing and people are paying attention to them. We have a story and guests come in for that story. The food renaissance is right now.” -Paulie Gee (Paulie Gee’s)
“We opened a fish market in Red Hook and it’s a seasonal town. But, the choice was to do one good thing: we source good lobster. I sell three or four things on the menu. And, it takes me three months to make a recipe. I use the physical space in Red Hook as a flagship for the commissary, food trucks, and the mobile businesses. But, being successful is not just about putting down a tent at Smorgasbord; it’s a lot of hard work– it’s about having a brand and quality food.”- Susan Povich (Red Hook Lobster Pound)
Cook It Raw Brooklyn
The final event of the festival, Cook it Raw, was unveiled in and out of doors at 3rd Ward Sunday night, under twinkle lights and among the sounds of musician and DJ, My Midnight Heart.
Locals mingled and feasted on plates from chefs that included Alessandro Porcelli of Cook It Raw. Chefs used local Brooklyn ingredients, like lobster, eggplant, tortillas, and oysters, with a prep time of six hours to make dishes for attendees. This was the highlight of the festival, not-to-be-missed next year. | <urn:uuid:031bde10-f15d-4ced-bc90-432f245aee7d> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://greenpointers.com/2013/10/18/imbibing-taste-talks/ | 2015-01-30T12:26:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855561.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00144-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955744 | 1,355 | [
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Poll: Whom would you pick as the next Dodgers manager?
The Dodgers have made their pick -- The Times is reporting the team will announce Friday that batting coach Don Mattingly will take over for Manager Joe Torre next season.
Do you agree with the choice of Mattingly, who has never been a manager? Or do you think Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes Manager Tim Wallach, a former Dodgers player, deserves a shot? Or do you have someone else in mind?
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Fire and Flea Sprays: Two Things That Just Don't Mix
The cautions and hazards of topical flea treatments are pretty standard: Don't let your dog lick herself after application; watch for vomiting, lethargy and an excessive thirst; watch for skin reactions like rashes; and make sure other pets in your household don't groom your dog while she's drying. But rarely do we think about the flammable properties of the insecticides we use on our beloved canines.
One owner and dog pair, Jesus Olivas and his 10-year-old pup Ruby of Coral Springs, Florida, learned a hard lesson, according to Miami's NBC6: Don't apply flammable liquids to your pets near an open flame.
Olivas and his wife bathed Ruby in soap and water (a good step before applying flea control chemicals) and then applied the Adam's Flea and Tick Spray to get rid of fleas and ticks. While applying the spray, Telma Botcherby, Olivas' wife, noticed a tick on Ruby. Telma took the tick from Ruby's skin and used a long barbecue lighter to try to incinerate the tick (not a good idea, and we'll tell you why!). Ruby was scared by the clicking of the lighter, got up from her dog bed and ran past the flames and caught fire in the process.
In an act of quick thinking, Olivas grabbed Ruby, opened the patio door and took her for a quick dip in the pool. But the damage was done. According to Dr. Peter Krolikowski of the Margate Veterinary Clinic, Ruby suffered burns to more than 50 percent of her tiny body. Olivas, too, was burned severely, suffering burns to 18 to 24 percent of his body. Ruby is expected to make a full recovery, while Olivas will have to spend two to four weeks in the burn unit of his local hospital.
This instance was a freak accident, but one that could have been avoided for the Olivas-Botcherby family. It's a good reminder to read all warnings when applying topical flea and tick products to your dog, but also a reminder that proper application and handling is key.
As for ticks? You should never burn them after removal -- not only to avoid freak accidents like the one that caused Ruby's injuries, but also so that if you or your pet develop Lyme disease later, health control officials can examine the tick in question. Instead of burning the tick or flushing it down the toilet, get a small container (like a baby food jar) and fill it with isopropyl or rubbing alcohol. Place the tick in the container and label the container with the date. The alcohol will kill the tick and you'll have a sample should your doctor or veterinarian need it.
While Olivas and Botcherby used an over-the-counter product approved for use in dogs, other owners have not been so smart. Flea and tick home remedies, too, can burn the skin of your pooch. An old rural adage advises placing motor oil on your dog to get rid of bugs. It shouldn't even need to be said, but this is an extremely BAD idea -- motor oil can cause chemical burns and is toxic to dogs.
For a home remedy that is harmless and makes fleas jump from your pup, put together a 50-50 mixture of water and apple cider vinegar and spray liberally (preferably outside) to avoid having to treat your home (again) for fleas. The acidity of the vinegar is unfavorable to the fleas and they jump ship, and watered-down apple cider vinegar poses no risk to your dog, although he may come out smelling like a salad. In fact, apple cider vinegar is a good coat conditioner and detangler. If you're worried about the smell (which disappears as the mixture dries) or the acidity, wipe down your dog with a damp cloth or soap and water when finished.
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Read more on fleas and ticks:
- Dog Flea and Tick Treatment Options
- What to Do if You Find Ticks on Your Dogs
- What Are the Treatments for Tick Paralysis?
- Parasites 101: Flea and Tick Control
- Is Your Flea Control Product Hurting Your Dog?
- Bug Off! How to Keep Pests Off Your Dog
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- The 10 Naughtiest Dog Breeds
- The World's Most Popular Dog Names for 2013
- 5 Myths About Dog Behavior That Often Lead to Tragedy
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Eric Posner on Detroit Bankruptcy
Detroit’s bankruptcy filing was unavoidable and largely sensible. But it will help that wounded city little. Detroit’s problems are deeper than its inability to pay its debts. And municipal bankruptcy law gives the courts too little power to impose the radical reform the city desperately needs.
Detroit submitted a petition under Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code, which contains the rarely used provisions for municipal bankruptcy. As a result of the filing, Detroit can block lawsuits by creditors who seek to be paid before they start seizing city property like zoo animals and priceless Renoirs, and the city make all creditors take a haircut on the loan payments they are due. Those creditors include, most prominently, current and former city workers to whom Detroit owes pensions. And they include suppliers and bondholders—people who lent money to Detroit in return for a promise of repayment plus interest.
Municipal bankruptcy bears a superficial resemblance to corporate bankruptcy. The city or company can’t pay its debts, and a court orders the debts reduced, so that revenues (from sales, for corporations; from taxes, for cities) can service the rump portion. As Matthew Yglesias explains in Slate, corporate bankruptcy is a useful legal mechanism, not a plot device in a Dickensian morality play. The same should be true for municipal bankruptcy. | <urn:uuid:9df5a9f5-a093-4820-94fb-4e106069a25d> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/eric-posner-detroit-bankruptcy | 2015-01-30T12:46:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855561.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00144-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937022 | 274 | [
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If you're an author--or have a service, product or creation that you want to share with others--it matters. Readers can't find you if they don't know where to look. Fret not. This doesn't mean you have to change who you are or how you write, just how you tell people about it. Here are 5 sites where I recommend you list yourself:
- Google + Circle time for grown-ups. Google + is purported to be the hot new social networking site that could rival Facebook. Oy. Not another Facebook account to manage. But I dutifully opened my account this week and have started circles and joined circles of like-minded or interesting folk. I'm actually enjoying navigating the stream; very intuitive and not much of a time commitment. Still haven't figured out how it's different from Facebook, but while I do, my meta data is shuttling further into the world wide universe.
- Yahoo I happen to have a Yahoo-supported website that's been a great source of traffic for me. I pay about $120 a year for Yahoo web hosting. There are cheaper options (I hear GoDaddy does a pretty good job), but Yahoo has been good for my search engine optimization because they're Yahoo and I'm a client, so I get my "brand" into their search results.
- Facebook If you don't have a Facebook profile or page, get one. I haven't developed an author page yet, but I will before my next book comes out. Facebook does a great job of linking back to your blog. Once again, because it's Facebook, we're talking access in the millions. This site will come up in the first page of a search somebody does on you.
- Networked Blogs: I've only just linked to this little wizard of a widget myself. Do me a favor and drop by my blog and leave your information in the Networked Blogs section, so I can see if it's working...and so I can network back to you. *wink*
- Start a twitter account, if you haven't already. Most blogs and websites you develop will offer a widget to show your twitter stream. Just a tweet a day, a retweet of someone you follow, or a link to an interesting tidbit will do the trick. Don't be discouraged if you accumulate followers slowly. Accumulate is the key word and that takes time.
And if you're breaking out in a sweat because this all seems too overwhelming. Lift your fingers from the keyboard. Take a deep breath. It'll be fine. Just leave a comment on an existing blog that has a steady following. Like Pop Culture Divas, for example. Include your website when you do so. Time and search engines have a way of accumulating the data trail we leave on the web. (This trail also means you should be conscious of what you write. Be professional. Be generous.)
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And what sites do you visit that you find to reflect back very nicely? Dish, please. After all, sharing is what it's all about.
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(BLOOMINGTON, IN) - The Indiana Hoosiers open their college football season Thursday night when they host the Eastern Kentucky Colonels.
The Hoosiers are coming off a 3 and 9 campaign in 2008.
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Due to shortage of components and other issues caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Sony Corp. may introduce its next-generation portable (NGP) game console only in one region instead of launching it in all major markets, the company said in an interview.
"The new PlayStation Portable, dubbed "NGP", may be introduced in a single region this year instead of starting sales in Asia, Europe and the U.S. in time for the end-of-year holiday shopping season. It may be the straw that says ‘maybe we get to just one market by the end of the year," said Jack Tretton, president of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, in an interview with Bloomberg.
Mr. Tretton declined to reveal which region will be the priority for the next-generation PlayStation Portable. In the past Sony Computer Entertainment usually launched its game consoles first in Japan, then introduced them in the U.S. and afterwards systems hit the markets like Europe, Australia and so on.
It is also unclear shortage of which components may cause the delay of the introduction. Typically, makers of mass consumer electronics try to use components that can be made at different factories by different companies.
The delay of the NGP will undermine Sony's ability to successfully compete against Nintendo's 3DS game console introduced earlier this year. Nonetheless, it should be noted that shortages of electronics components will be felt across the industry and supplies of Nintendo 3DS may also be reduced. Moreover, the launch of the new PSP in only one region and demonstration of the console capabilities in different markets may also lower popularity of 3DS. Still, any delay naturally causes reputational losses.
“It raises the bar on the competitive issues that Sony is going to have to hurdle. As it is now, it’s already going to be almost eight months behind Nintendo, and a delay could push that to a year," said Edward Woo, a video-games analyst with Wedbush Securities. | <urn:uuid:0845b889-6c26-4918-92b3-ec175277e431> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20110405235820_Japanese_Disasters_May_Delay_Sony_NGP_Game_Console_to_2012.html | 2015-01-30T12:24:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855561.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00144-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954393 | 402 | [
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In some areas of British Columbia pine forests, little pouches about ten centimeters wide can be seen hanging from the trees. What is their purpose?
To protect the trees from attack by the mountain pine beetle. The little bags contain verbenone, a chemical normally released by beetles as they lay their eggs just under the bark of a pine tree, telling other beetles that “this tree is taken.” Using verbenone in this fashion is an attempt to curb the destruction caused by these “bark beetles,” as they are commonly called. The destruction is devastating, as is evident to anyone flying over the pine forests of western Canada or the U.S. Rust colored pines, the hallmark of beetle infestation pollute the green landscape everywhere. This pox is not only a visual blight, the sickly brown trees are dry and present a fire hazard. There are also obvious implications for the forestry industry, since any wood harvested from infected trees is of poor quality. Beetles carry out their dirty work by boring through the bark to lay their eggs, in the process damaging the tubules through which the tree is supplied with water and nutrients. And as if that weren’t enough, the beetles also contaminate the tree with the ascomycete fungus which stains the wood blue and wreaks further havoc on the tubules. Foresters have tried thinning forests before an outbreak, removing dead trees, diversifying trees and various insecticides but nothing has been able to stem the onslaught. While insecticides such as carbaryl, bifenthrin or permethrin can dispense with the beetles, they also harm beneficial insects and put animals and people at some risk. Injecting insecticides such as abamectin, emamectin benzoate or imidacloprid into the tree is a safer approach but problematic to apply on a large scale. There is hope that some advantage may be gained by using the beetles own chemistry. Once the bugs burrow into the tree, they use some of the tree’s chemicals to synthesize verbenone, a communicating agent, or pheromone. When this is wafted into the air, the message to other beetles is, “this tree is occupied, look elsewhere.” Verbenone can be synthesized in the laboratory and hung on branches in little satchels, protecting the trees from bark beetle attack. While the technique works, due to the expense involved it isn’t very practical on a large scale, but can be used to protect trees near homes, campgrounds or resorts. Given the prospect of global warming, the beetle problem is likely to become worse as larvae are more likely to survive balmy winter temperatures. | <urn:uuid:452137f0-f58f-49ec-afff-9747b0fc55f6> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/2013/05/24/in-some-areas-of-british-columbia-pine-forests-little-pouches-about-ten-centimeters-wide-can-be-seen-hanging-from-the-trees-what-is-their-purpose/ | 2015-01-31T13:06:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115867507.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161107-00209-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963078 | 560 | [
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- It is estimated that 12,000 to 15,000 New Jersey residents suffer brain injuries from traumatic events each year, of which 1000 are fatal. Approximately 175,000 New Jersey residents currently live with disabilities from traumatic brain injuries.
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Reviewed by Jennifer Croft
“A book is a slow, unavoidable catastrophe,” we read in a late entry to On Elegance While Sleeping, Viscount Lascano Tegui’s fictional 1925 diary. The book is constantly accounting for itself. And though it ambles back and forth between sexual anecdote and aesthetic, or existential, rumination, it hardly feels slow. Its scant 172 pages span the four years from May 19, 18— to May 19, 18—, a vertiginous downward spiral in the life of a lost libertine just down the Seine from Paris. Though it fails, by its own definition, to be slow like other books, it does feel like an “unavoidable catastrophe”; the diarist’s greatest—and final—sin comes almost as a relief after 167 pages of fragmented brooding and foreboding.
Emilio Lascano Tegui (1887-1966) was by all accounts a legendary, if also obscure, figure in the Argentine literary pantheon. The mere fact that he was a self-anointed viscount is testament to his eccentricities, but of course his literary production, too, was markedly odd, and even inspiring, against the backdrop of mainstream Buenos Aires modernism. Of the difference between Tegui and his more famous peer Roberto Arlt, Celina Manzoni notes in her excellent introduction that Arlt’s was a “poetics of labor,” that he traded in “sex and money,” while Tegui wrote of “sex and idleness: a poetics of laissez faire.”
There are many episodes in this diary redolent of sex and idleness, among them an early series of short fragments about falling in love with a lovely white goat; a fit of jealousy at a schoolmate’s inherited cuirass that ends in our narrator buying himself a corset instead—it’s cheaper—and thus comprehending “the secret delectation women must feel as they are silently, constantly, shaped”; an incident of sexual abuse in the narrator’s childhood; a continuation of the story of Don Juan as reimagined by a beloved coach driver, and then as the narrator’s novel, The Syphilis of Don Juan, which is no sooner taken up than it is abandoned.
There is, nevertheless, an equal part of On Elegance While Sleeping that is about the soul, in a surprising mix of sentimentality and cynicism (“There’s nothing more in life than to love someone. To be loved. Such is the happy monotony of my life.”). Such pronouncements endear the narrator to us and make him seem somewhat familiar. He gives voice to the very things we espouse and hope for, but he also articulates the things we feel sometimes but won’t admit to: love is great, and monotonous.
There is just as much about life and death, too, as there is about sex and idleness. Take the following entry:
April 24, 18—
Have I already mentioned that I had a myopic relative who worked as an eye doctor and who fished with a tall reed, looking through opera glasses? His near-sightedness imposed a necessary punctiliousness to his movements and even intentions. As a result, he was meticulous in all things. I inherited his enormous delight in neatness. Seeing is already a pleasure, of course, but clarity makes it a pleasure twice over. Would that I could use microscope lenses as my spectacles. Winter always enticed me to the windows of my room, to watch the sad lives of the townspeople blanketed in snow, and so, in the months beforehand, I always made certain to prepare my observatory: I cleaned the windowpanes with such care that they seemed almost nonexistent in their translucency. Flies, still unaware of the invention of glass, tried to come in from the street, dying from the impact. I’ve watched them dying, in piles, writhing around uselessly, deliciously, trying in vain to prolong their existence. But winter slaughtered them nonetheless in the ambush of my clear glass. And I, behind this glass, watched them die.
Though he departs, as he often does, from among the shadowy figures of his childhood, the narrator is also ruminating here upon his own isolation from the world, a world that he can see but not touch or connect with. He is condemned to watch the flies outside his window die just as he is condemned to witness his mother die at the diary’s opening, or any of the many other deaths that transpire over the course of the diary. (It is his mother’s death that prompts his father, “who was busy dyeing his sideburns,” to tell his son that his “hair wasn’t sufficiently serious for the occasion” and to dye it black. Hair is a recurring image in the novel, and serves as a mark of contingency and change. On this occasion, the narrator notes that the “instability” of his physical appearance, the result of his funereal hairdo, “jolted his inner self, leaving it forever unstable, easily jangled, always rattling around inside me like the clapper inside a bell.”)
This is part of the more extended meditation on the nature of writing that also includes the idea of a book as an “unavoidable catastrophe.” Sometimes Tegui’s pronouncements on style are pithily apropos; sometimes they are directly—and intriguingly—contradicted by the progress of the diary. And sometimes his pronouncements betray his preoccupations with change. Like in Roberto Arlt’s work or in the early poems of Jorge Luis Borges, Tegui talks about a kind of literary revolution that is afoot, provoked by a rapid industrialization in Western Europe that was radically altering the face of Buenos Aires as he was writing this book:
There will come a day when no more poets will be born. The city, in our fearsome urbanized future, will impede their birth. And so, the government will keep the ones still made ill “by beauty and by the past” in gardens, like greenhouses, on the rooftops of skyscrapers, without demanding anything of them—much the way we now provide for the insane—leaving these geniuses free in their cages believing the lie that they might yet prettify the landscape of the apocalypse with their brilliance.
Poets in greenhouses, the narrator in a winter observatory—such is the work of writing, especially at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. In “our fearsome urbanized future”—future to the narrator, present to the author—literature is forcibly removed from society, and writers go on writing in vain. Beauty is lost, irrevocably. The poet is powerless.
This holds true all the way up until the grand finale of the diary, the shock of which shatters all that glass that has separated the writer from the world. “Am I really so different from my fellow men?” says the narrator in the very last line of the book, following a horrifying act of violence. Horror notwithstanding, we’d be hard pressed to argue that he is so different after all—for we, too, experience the same mania to break out of the greenhouse on top of the skyscraper, to effect some change. Even knowing that this, too, will have been in vain
Translator Idra Novey’s prose is stellar. Her translation delights, and renders a diary that is already pleasurably quirky utterly captivating. Inasmuch, then, as an “unavoidable catastrophe” can be a lot of fun, On Elegance While Sleeping is satisfying, even delectable, and a welcome addition to the existing English-language body of twentieth-century Argentine literature.
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Windcrest is one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Holly Springs. Located withing minutes from shopping centers, schools, restaurants and highways, Windcrest is one of the ideal places to live in and around Holly Springs. Windcrest is also very closely placed to Bass Lake Reservoir, Womble Park and Harris Park and Lake and therefore is one of the best places to live in all of North Carolina and not just Holly Springs. And as if all this was not enough, you can also enjoy all week long in the community swimming pool. There’s also a bathhouse and a pond in Windcrest.
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Playsuit: Asos Curve. Hair Flower: Primark. Converse: Kurt Geiger. Satchel: Zatchels. Lipstick: Mac, Lady Danger.
I finally feel like I've gotten my blogging mojo back and I couldn't be happier in that respect! So here I am with another outfit post featuring an oldie but a goodie, I utterly love this playsuit but for some reason it only ever used to come out in the winter when I could wear it with tights but I've decided enough is enough and this summer I'm going to try and get more wear out of my playsuits sans tights! This last week I've been helping my old high school with their performance of Grease and I spent a whole say in a vest top with my arms out and nothing bad happened, so with this in mind I'm going try and get more flesh out (tastefully of course!)
I decided to go a little retro with a matte red lip, which is my lesser worn Lady Danger, I prefer this for sunny days as it's brighter than my staple Ruby Woo. the newest edition to this which I only got a week ago is this amazing satchel from Zatchels, I'll hopefully do a proper post on this soon but I just couldn't wait to show you! I actually visited their factory and head office in Leicester last year and I've been obsessed ever since after seeing how much goes into making them! So when they had the huge flash sale last week I decided to make an investment. My dad was actually nice enough to (massively) help me out with this so I could have the back straps added. I can't wait to pair this with all my circle skirts and pretty dresses! I also went with my fab red converse to tie all the look together.
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Rob Rang, senior draft analyst for NFLDraftScout.com, digs into the Seattle Seahawks draft needs heading into next week’s draft.
Rang lists outside linebacker, defensive tackle, cornerback, receiver and offensive line as primary needs for the Seahawks. And he provides five interesting names as possible fits to fill those needs – LSU DE Sam Montgomery, Connecticut OLB Sio Moore, Georgia SS Shawn Williams, TCU WR Josh Boyce and Georgia DT Kwame Geathers.
Rang: “Young, hungry, physical and talented, the Seahawks are considered by some to be this year’s Super Bowl favorite. If able to win the NFC Western Division and host playoff games in raucous Century Link Field, that might occur.
As talented as its roster is, however, Seattle still has holes to fill.
Fortunately for the Seahawks, their needs tie in nicely with this year’s talent. With 10 picks with which to target their specific needs and Schneider having consistently hit big on later-round picks, don’t put it past the Seahawks to once again go mining for diamonds — perhaps some polished enough to be fitted into a Super Bowl ring one day.”
Here’s my story on the release of Seattle’s schedule on Thursday.
I talked with Colin Paisley and Tom Wassell of 710 ESPN Seattle about the Seahawks schedule in this audio link.
ESPN’s Mike Sando breaks down Seattle’s schedule, noting that the Seahawks play four of their last six games at home.
Clare Farnsworth of Seahawks.com takes a closer look at Seattle’s six most intriguing matchups.
Russell Wilson talks about Seattle’s upcoming schedule in this video link.
Danny O’Neil of 710 ESPN Seattle breaks out his John Schneider decoder ring to figure out what the Seahawks’ GM really said on Wednesday.
JamBase.com reports that Trey Anastasio, lead singer of the groove band Phish, wants Seahawks fans to chant Wilson in honor of the team’s starting quarterback, similar to how fans of his band react when Phish plays the song by the same name.
Check out the video below, in which fans in the crowd are likely doing a lot of this.
Joe Fortenbaugh of the National Football Post lists the Jacksonville at Seattle contest as one of four games gamblers should circle because of Seattle former defensive coordinator Gus Bradley’s knowledge of the Seahawks’ schemes.
Clark Judge of CBS Sports writes that the Niners-Hawks rivalry isn’t just the best in the NFC West, it’s the best in the NFL.
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DD will be 6 months old on Monday. She is happy with exclusive BF of course, but has also been showing interest in whatever I eat and is showing all of the signs of being ready for solids. Earlier this week she was showing a lot of interest in my melon smoothie (I gave her a taste with my finger which she really seemed to like...kept coming back for more! LOL). So I decided to make homemade rice cereal for her to see how she liked it. I put EBM in it to make it runny (maybe too runny?) and she did a pretty good job eating it from the spoon but didn't seem to like the taste very much!!
SO I've been thinking about just foregoing cereal and starting her on sweet potato next week. I read that starting with something sweet like sweet potato or avocado is sometimes more pleasing for BF babes. But her pediatrician says she won't be ready for fruits until after cereal?? Anyone care to shed some light on this??
I also have some cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew left over in the fridge. Has anyone fed their babies these foods first??
I've been thinking about finger-feeding her at first or maybe mixing solids very thin with EBM and letting her drink them out of her bottle (she takes a bottle only 3 times a week at daycare).
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WASHINGTON, DC, July 18, 2012 - The Senate Aviation Subcommittee, chaired by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), today held a hearing on the state of the U.S. aviation industry and how the industry can maintain its global leadership. Pete Bunce, President and CEO, testified on behalf of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA).
In his testimony, Mr. Bunce underscored several items that are key to the success of aviation manufacturing, including improving the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) product certification process, addressing airspace management and aviation infrastructure issues in emerging aviation markets, and making key investments in research and development and workforce training in the United States.
"GAMA commends the leadership of the Subcommittee for convening this hearing which is of vital importance to the competitiveness of the aviation manufacturing industry," said Pete Bunce, GAMA's President and CEO. "We appreciate the fact that the hearing highlighted so many issues that GAMA believes are key to the future growth of GAMA companies. We look forward to continuing to work with the Subcommittee on initiatives that will lead to a stronger general aviation industry and also increased job opportunities for our citizens”.
GAMA is an international trade association representing over 75 of the world's leading manufacturers of general aviation airplanes and rotorcraft, engines, avionics, components and related services. GAMA's members also operate repair stations, fixed based operations, pilot and maintenance training facilities and they manage fleets of aircraft. GAMA fosters and advances the welfare, safety, and interests of general aviation by working with governments and the industry to promote a better understanding of the important role general aviation plays worldwide in economic growth and development. GAMA is headquartered in Washington, DC, with a European office in Brussels, Belgium. For additional information, visit GAMA's website at www.GAMA.aero. | <urn:uuid:6fd0a87e-f541-47fc-a621-212c6a57254e> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/10744226/gama-testifies-before-senate-aviation-subcommittee-about-competitiveness-of-us-aviation-industry | 2015-01-28T18:25:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122276676.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175756-00017-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948511 | 376 | [
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Good morning. Today is the 74th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for March 15, 1902, reported that an organization known as the Brooklyn League was starting a campaign against vice in the borough. The drive targeted “disreputable dives” and hotels in which prostitutes either plied their trade or else rested once their day’s (or night’s) work was done. Interestingly, the article mentioned male as well as female prostitutes, a subject rarely discussed in those days.
In some of these places, the League added, customers were fed drugged wine, then robbed of their possessions. The League was shocked that many of these goings-on took place near Police Headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn, and that many employees of the Edison Illuminating Company (the ancestor of today’s Con Edison) patronized them.
Well-known people who were born today include model Fabio, Brooklyn-born U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, singer Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, singer-musician Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, actor Judd Hirsch (“Taxi”) and singer-musician Mike Love of the Beach Boys.
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Hello Kitty: Rihanna posts snaps of herself dressed in leopard print leotard and a tiger mask after swigging wine from a bottle
There's no denying that Rihanna likes to be naughty and have a good time now and again.
And the global megastar was certainly doing that on Friday night as she had a typically wild night backstage after her Atlantic City concert.
The superstar singer shared some raunchy pictures of herself that will no doubt add to her bad girl reputation.
Wild at heart: Rihanna shared photographs of herself with fans including one of her dressed in a leopard leotard and a tiger mask
First, Rihanna posted an image of herself wearing a leopard print leotard that showed off her legs as she hid her face behind a white tiger mask.
She captioned the photograph 'Hello Kitty' before quickly following it up with snaps of herself drinking straight from a bottle of white wine.
Straight from the bottle! Rihanna didn't seem bothered about finding a glass as she posted a picture of herself necking white wine on Friday
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Nearly gone! The singer later posted another picture of the same wine bottle nearly empty as she continued to drink backstage on her Diamonds world tour
Feeling good? The star seemed keen to take advantage of the fact that she had a day off on Saturday, getting stuck into the booze
And the singer must have been thirsty as in the first snap the bottle was completely full as she posed while taking her first sip, while in the next one it was half empty.
Rihanna has never held back when it comes to sharing her wild ways with her fans, not worried about making a bad impression.
In the last photo, the Diamonds singer sat cross-legged on a furry rug, with the nearly empty bottle in front of her and with her fingers in her mouth.
Sticking to her usual style, the star wore a navy jacket with her name emblazoned across the back, reflected in the mirror behind her.
Stylish step: The singer stood out as she wandered around NYC earlier in the day
Follow the leader: Rihanna supporters flocked behind her as she headed down the sidewalk
She wore her light hair in perfectly curled ringlets, looking casual in leggings and a pair of trainers as she got stuck into the white wine.
Rihanna has just one day off on Saturday, before continuing her North American leg of her world tour in Newark on Sunday, stopping by Washington D.C. and Canada before returning to the Big Apple in early May.
Amidst her hectic tour schedule the songstress is reportedly planning a big surprise for on-off boyfriend Chris Brown's upcoming birthday on May 5.
The superstar was spotted the streets of NYC on Friday ahead of her show, wearing a white Roman-style dress, complete with gaping sides and gold medallion round her neck.
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Because of our moderation system, we have access to a wealth of information regarding how our users moderate, what they moderate, and who they moderate. Obviously, we admins have access to that information via OSNews' backend, but you guys didn't get to see any of that information. A few days ago, we decided to change that, and create a page full of statistics regarding moderation, commenting, users, and stories. You can find it at
Let's walk through some of these figures. It's good to see that there are three times as many "up" votes as there are "down" votes - meaning most comments are actually rated positive. This reflects upon the average comment score, which is 1.77, and only 13500 comments are rated below 0. Some people claim that down-modding affects the flow of comments in a negative fashion, but from the figures we can deduct that only 0.01% of the total amount of comments falls below the average view threshold, which means that there are very, very few 'broken' comment threads.
Often, the OSNews staff gets accused of heavy-handed moderation, heavily influencing the comment and trust scores of users. As you can see in the figures, this is absolute bogus. All admin moderation together accounts for only 0.79% of the total amount of moderation points given. Limiting the OSNews staff to David, Eugenia, Adam, and myself, it means that each of us only account for 0.197% of total moderation points given. Also interesting is to see how many comments we actually removed (designated as "invisible" - we can't actually remove comments) - 578. Of a total of 730000 comments. That's 0.08%. The conclusion we can draw from this is that the influence of the staff on the moderation system is not even remotely significant.
I also want to say a few words about the little tantrum OSNews user kaiwai placed in our conversations section. As it turns out, he was indeed systematically moderated down by two people - which sucks balls. However, the interesting thing here is that this blatant abuse actually showed how well the moderation and trust systems work: despite systematic downmodding, kaiwai's trust rate was the third highest of all our users - the abuse didn't affect him at all. Trust rates are calculated using all sorts of fancy algorithms (Adam knows all about those), and among other things, it shields users from this kind of abuse. The key here is to not be blinded by the scores of your individual comments - you have to look at the bigger picture.
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Prom Night in Mississippi
In 1970, the town of Charleston, Mississippi, allowed black students into their white high school, but refused to integrate the senior prom. Twenty-seven years later, Charleston resident Morgan Freeman offered to finance the prom - under the condition it be integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008, Freeman made the offer again. This time the school board accepted, and history was made. PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI traces the tumultuous events leading up to Charleston's first integrated prom through intimate conversations with students, families, faculty members and Freeman himself. As the film unfolds, we delve deeply into the heated race issues that tear apart this tiny community, and realize that this troubling segregation has less to do with the students than their parents. Ultimately, PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI captures a big moment in a small town, where hope finally blossoms in black, white and a whole lot of taffeta. | <urn:uuid:9aeee2cf-db42-4ed9-921d-aa6fccd645b5> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.vudu.com/movies/?_escaped_fragment_=content/185514/Prom-Night-in-Mississippi | 2015-01-30T06:24:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115856087.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161056-00132-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945364 | 189 | [
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Healing the Wounds of War with Art--Speak Peace Exhibit @KSL
Healing war through children's art..Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children's Paintings, the Vietnamese Children's Art Exhibit debuts in NE Ohio at the Kelvin Smith Library as part of the October 2010 International Peace and War Summit at Case Western Reserve University.
Vietnamese children's paintings of peace and war collected by the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City are partnered with poetry by Americans from all ages and walks of life. This collaborative, international art project fosters creative dialog and cross-cultural communication that began with research born out of the emerging field of trauma studies and the healing powers of creative expression & community sharing.
The Kelvin Smith Library hosts the exhibit, which is open to the general public during Regular Business Hours: Mon.-Thu. 8 am-Midnight, Fri. 8 am-8 pm, Sat. 9 am-5:30 pm,and Sun. Noon-Midnight. Evening access requires a photo ID. The library's main door has a visitor intercom-simply press the intercom & staff will release the door for visitors, asking to see a photo ID upon entry.
The exhibit is sponsored by the National Peace Academy, Writers in the Schools Alliance, England's National Association for Writers in Education, Kent State University Honors College, and the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University.
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Got data? If you have population, demographic, economic, industry, poverty data, this class will show you how to create presentation quality maps & graphs of your information. No prior experience with desktop mapping is needed, although basic familiarity with maps & computing is recommended.
Registration is required. This is a fee-based certificate course taught by ESRI-authorized instructor & Kelvin Smith Library staff member Ann L. Holstein. This ArcGIS course is offered in a series of several Fridays: Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 12, Nov. 19. 9 am-5 pm, and is open to alumni and non-Case individuals.
Note: Registration Deadline is Friday Oct. 22
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Let the Music Move You...Ohio Archives Month Features CWRU image
Once again a University Archives image has been submitted to the Society of Ohio Archivists and selected for their Archives Month poster. The 2010 theme honors the diverse and rich cultural musical heritage of Ohio that is preserved for the researchers of today and the future.
Let the Music Move You...Ohio Archives Month October 2010 features a group photo of the Guitar and Mandolin Club (College for Women), from 1899. (Download the official poster, and look for CWRU on the upper left side.)
CWRU University Archives images have graced the Ohio Archives Month posters: in 2008: Elections in the Archives (student election day, Mather College, 1945, and announcement flyer for 1919 meeting of the WRU College for Women Suffrage Club); and in 2007 for Reunions: Together at the Archives (1955 WRU alumni reunion.)University Archives' collections keep university history alive for the future, whether it's student yearbooks, buildings, coaches & teams, people & presidents, events, and the schools & colleges of our institution.
October is Ohio Archivists' Month, with events, exhibits, and collections featured and shared by museums, libraries, societies and other organizations around Ohio.
Started by the Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) in 1993 as a weeklong event, the Ohio celebrations during the month of October now aim to increase general awareness of archival materials & centers, to focus on materials with broad appeal, to inspire the proper preservation for the ages of an organization's materials, and to continue to foster user interest & involvement for ongoing documentary heritage. | <urn:uuid:9d87aefc-c1a4-401a-be67-a89baf70f439> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/2010/10/index | 2015-01-31T05:31:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115869320.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161109-00197-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918283 | 871 | [
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In his column for the Detroit Free Press, editor Stephen Henderson expresses frustration from the Michigan film incentive’s lack of success in attracting a permanent presence in the state. He writes:
The credits also need a clear end point. The idea behind the subsidy was to encourage infrastructure to take root here for the industry, so that it could thrive even past the credit’s existence. But how long should we be expected to wait for that to happen?
A better way of operating these incentives is to be explicitly clear about what the state expects from it. Failure to meet those goals should cause policymakers to end the program. As I wrote last December:
Legislators stated that they expect a Michigan-based film industry, but two years after the incentive was passed, a studio has yet to be operational, let alone self-sustaining. While industry supporters argue that given enough time, film producers will stay in the state without the incentive, policymakers have not discussed when they think this will occur or how many of these permanent jobs are expected, even though they boast that they will be coming.
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Interview With Lovette
Interview by Dave Rosen, Editor, SCORE Magazine
Originally published in March 2002 SCORE
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Judge rejects intervention of group in Schiavo case
Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published February 11, 2000
CLEARWATER -- Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer will not allow a group of doctors, lawyers and other professionals to intervene in the case of a St. Petersburg woman with brain damage whose family is divided on whether to remove her feeding tube.
Professionals for Excellence in Health Care wanted the judge to allow them to argue that Terri Schiavo, 36, should be kept alive despite her husband's request to let her die.
In his order denying the motion, Greer writes that the group's arguments are philosophical and perhaps should be directed to state lawmakers. The judge is expected to rule in the Schiavo case today.
Greer must decide whether Mrs. Schiavo, who did not write a living will, would have wanted to prolong her life by artificial means. Legally, the burden is on Michael Schiavo, who initiated the trial.
Her husband, Michael, said she would not have wanted to live in what doctors described as a persistent vegetative state.
But her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, are trying to stop him, saying they still hope their daughter will improve.
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Well, last night didn't go well. What can I say? I was tired. By the time Barack and the Irish PM stood up, the President and I had already done two major policy speeches, three nomination announcements, and light dinner banter for a table of twelve. And by the way, that "ad lib" last night about Guinness? Mine.
So why am I going public now, when for the past two years I've let others do the talking? Well, this is a thankless job, and I sure don't want to take the fall for communications missteps. But more important, I expect you'll be seeing a lot more of me over the next few months and years. Barack and I don't go anywhere without each other; we even complete each other's sentences ... well, more mine than his, but let's not split hairs.
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Fall 1963…(Maybe October)…
It’s very rare to see George playing a solid body guitar in the early days.
That’s the Rickenbacker that he purchased while visiting his sister Louise in the US in September 1963.
Very good one!!
Great photo. It’s amazing how Paul’s mic is down….
Maybe they are playing Roll Over Beethoven: George is singing alone (no Paul’s or John’s vocals) and he seems to play D mayor in six and five string….
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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
October 27, 2012
PIER Working Paper No. 12-028
We develop a model of a Parole Board contemplating whether to grant parole release to a prisoner who has finished serving their minimum sentence. The model implies a simple outcome test for racial prejudice robust to the inframarginality problem. Our test involves running simple regressions of whether a prisoner recidivates on the exposure time to the risk of recidivism and its square, using only the sample of prisoners who are granted parole release strictly between their minimum and maximum sentences and separately by race. If the coefficient estimates on the exposure time term differ by race, then there is evidence of racial prejudice against the racial group with the smaller coefficient estimate. We implement our test for prejudice using data from Pennsylvania from January 1996 to December 31, 2001. Although we find racial differences in time served, we find no evidence for racial prejudice on the part of the Parole Board based on our outcome test.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 30
Keywords: Racial Prejudice, Statistical Discrimination, Outcome Test, Parole, Recidivism
JEL Classification: J71, K42working papers series
Date posted: July 17, 2012 ; Last revised: October 29, 2012
© 2015 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Originally Posted by eldithomaso
I think you said it well. If a mainstream product like the 370-570 can produce - with the right internet connection which I don't have yet and most don't have yet given the pricing scheme - video rentals are certainly dead.
As to audio quality, and video quality for that matter, most people are still happy with upscaled or worse plain ol DVD video. They don't care about BD or HDDVD and would be quite pleased if they could get SD Quality with old 2.0 dolby digital on their instant queues. I have plenty of wealty friends who do just that with their TIVO and Netflix queues even though they have systems in their homes costing 40-50k or more.
Convenience is king. Quality - I hate to say - for most isn't even in the Royal court.
I am still curious though - how good is this unit with a fast connection vs a slow connection and can anyone post some comparisions with Netflix, Amazon DVD, upscaled DVD and BD for similar movies.
I have yet to see a demo showing this but it seems the 370-570 make this very close to a reality if they support dual channel N streaming?
The 570 does support dual channel N data links via WiFi right?
This is how I would rate the S570, vis a vis each type of video:
-Bluray: Wonderful picture and sound. I think any bluray player can produce the same quality, though. I rate it a perfect 10.
-DVD: Tough call. I had DVD players better than the S570, like the Toshiba XA2. The S570 is OK, not the best but not bad. I rate it 7.
-Amazon VOD HD: I watched few titles and they were all pretty good, both video and audio. I rate it 8.
Amazon VOD SD: It depends a lot on the title, some are good and some look like an old VHS tape. I rate it from 4 to 6.
-Netflix HD : Not as good as Amazon and audio is very poor. I rate it 6.
-Netflix SD: On a large screen, forget about it. It needs a lot of improvement. Few titles are "watchable" but not better than this. I rate it 3 to 4, depending on the title.
My setup is a Sony BDP-S570, a Pioneer VSX94 receiver and a Panasonic PV65V10 plasma. My Internet is U-Verse 18 Mbps and everything is hard-wired, therefore no network issues.
I measured the bitrate on Netflix HD and it's not higher than 5.5 Mbps (variable). I used "LOST" in HD as a test. I would say a connection of 6 Mbps is the minimum for a decent picture.
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You should really return the gold gourami. They get way too big for that size tank; a six inch fish won't be happy in a 29 gal tank. They can also turn nasty as they age.
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Canada Dry It's Canada Dry Time Ad 1955
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Canada Dry It's Canada Dry Time Ad 1955 This is a September 30, 1955 advertisement. In this picture it appears that the camera is in the inside back of the refrigerator. Two children are peering into the frig as mothers hand reaches over their heads for a bottle of Canada Dry Orange Soda. It reads, Mmmmmmm it's Canada Dry Time. In excellent condition. Photo is taken through plastic and may show wrinkles or crookedness that is not in the ad. This magazine tear sheet measures 10 1/4"" wide by 13 3/4"" tall.
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David Adame Papers, 1918-2005
David Adame was born in Houston, Texas on April 11, 1918. He graduated from high school in May of 1937 and joined the Civilian Conservation Core in Linden, Texas. Adame fought in the Pacific theatre in World War II. During his time in the United States Army, Adame was trained as a Military Police Officer, and he was additionally trained in Post Exchange Operations.
After being discharged from the military in 1946, Adame attended the Southwestern Business College in Houston, Texas. He majored in Business Administration, and he began working as an insurance salesman in the Houston area upon his graduation in 1952. Adame was ordained as a deacon in the Catholic Church on June 8, 1975, and he served as deacon at Annunciation Catholic Church and St. Joseph’s Hospital, both in Houston.
Adame became a member of LULAC in 1948 when he joined Council #60 of LULAC in Houston. Adame served LULAC in a number of offices at the district, state, and national levels including: District Director, State Director, National Business Manager, and National Chaplain. Adame was voted LULAC Man of the Year for 1954-1955 and 1967-1968. Adame served as Chaplain of LULAC #60 six months after joining the council; he also served on the Scholarship Committee for three separate terms. In 1953, Adame declined a third term for District Director of Council #60.
During his time with LULAC, Adame was involved in a number of different national LULAC events. On May 7-9, 1965, Adame presided over the Texas LULAC State Convention that was held in Lubbock, Texas. At this convention, a major topic of discussion was the establishment of the LULAC Jobs for Progress Center in Houston, Texas. Adame, who was at that time the State Director, was instrumental in the creation of multiple LULAC Job Placement Centers throughout the state of Texas, which soon after led to the initiation of the non-profit employment organization, Operation SER (Service, Employment, Redevelopment). Adame then served as State Chairman on the Board of Operation for SER until 1968.
From 1954-2003, Adame was an active member of the Club Recreativo y Cultural Mexico Bello (CMB), a Houston area social club founded in 1924 for Mexican Americans. Adame served as the CMB President from 1954-56. He later fulfilled other offices at the club, acting as President of La Comision de Sanidad and a member of La Comision de Estatutos in 1996. He compiled a short history of the CMB for the celebration of the club’s 50th Anniversary in 1996.
Adame is married to Deamantina (Tina) Adame; they have four children together: David, Anthony, Andrea, and Juanita.
This collection documents the activities of David Adame, who was a member of LULAC from 1948 to 2003. The collection consists of six series: Personal and Biographical; Subject Files; National LULAC; State LULAC; LULAC Sponsored Organizations and Initiatives; and Ephemera. These records are comprised of correspondence, LULAC publications, minutes, membership and dues records, résumés, reports, and organizational documents, clippings, certificates and awards, and photographs of members and events of LULAC.
Personal and Biographical, series one, contains personal records of Adame’s involvement with LULAC, particularly during his candidacies for LULAC Man of the Year; papers documenting his involvement as a deacon in the Catholic Church; and the records of the many recognitions he received throughout his life and career. These documents include his résumés; personal information submitted in relation to LULAC Man of the Year; certificates and awards; loose papers, forms and photographs from his role as a deacon; and personal correspondence.
Series two, Subject Files, is largely composed of papers documenting Adame’s pursuits and civic roles outside of his responsibilities with LULAC. In particular, his participation in the events committee of Club Mexico Bello is documented; this material consists mainly of organizational papers and meeting notes. Also contained in this series are materials regarding the death of President Kennedy in the form of photographs, clippings and a written report. This event was tangentially related to Adame’s role at LULAC. At the time of JFK’s visit to Houston, Adame was acting as the advisor to President of LULAC, Frank Valdez; Adame therefore met and was photographed with JFK only days before the president’s assassination. This series is also made up of papers relating to the ABC Protests of 1995—in which stations that were owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company were picked in most major U.S. cities, because of the network’s lack of positive portrayals of Latinos in prime-time programs—as well as Adame’s collection of newspaper clippings.
National LULAC, series three, makes up the majority of Adame’s papers and pertains exclusively to his various roles in the organization, including his role as National Chaplain and national advisor. This series includes correspondence; administrative documents, reports and proposals; membership ledgers and documents; and programs and materials relating to the National LULAC conventions. Issues of LULAC News have been separated and cataloged. They can be be found through the University Libraries Online Catalog.
State LULAC, series four, is comprised of documents generated from Adame’s tenures as State LULAC Chaplain, State LULAC Director, and District 80 Director. These include documents and programs from the State LULAC Conventions; financial materials and ledgers; membership information; and organizational materials regarding the Texas State Job Fair.
Series five, LULAC Sponsored Organizations and Initiatives, represents the records generated from projects that were implemented with LULAC support. The papers document Adame’s involvement in Junior LULAC; the Little School of 400, later the Headstart Program; Girls’ Club; LULAC Scholarships; and Operation SER (‘SER’ is an acronym for Service, Employment, and Redevelopment, and it also means “to be” in Spanish), an employment organization. Adame served in a leadership capacity in the foundation of the Little School of 400 and Operation SER; therefore, documentation relating to these initiatives comprises the bulk of this series.
Audio Visual, series six, consists of various photographs of Adame and others, including one photo of John J. Herrera and Gus Garcia. It was possibly taken at the 1947 National LULAC Convention's Picnic at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. There are also two cassette tapes, a recording of a LULAC Council 60 meeting and another of Anthony (Tony) Robbins.
Series seven, Ephemera, consists of materials that were are housed separately from Adame’s paper documents including LULAC plaques, campaign buttons, and booklets. These materials were generated through his activities with LULAC and his other civic duties, including his tenure as a Grand Juror.
Oversize Materials, series eight, consists of large format awards certificates and posters, newsclippings, and photographs.
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Cite as: David Adame Papers. Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
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GCC Energy Fund sees rapid expansion in the Middle Eastern Energy Sector
Privatization, market deregulation and the ongoing rise in demand for energy are presenting major opportunities for private equity investment in the region’s energy sector, according to the CEO of a leading specialist investment firm.
On the eve of the Private Equity International Middle East Forum 2007 Adil Toubia, Chief Executive Officer, GCC Energy Fund, commented on the market changes that are opening up new avenues for investment in upstream, downstream, midstream services, the power sector and alternative energy.
Last year in the United States, 183 companies in the energy sector received US$1.8 billion in private equity investments, according to the 2007 MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.
While private equity investment in the Middle East was much lower by contrast, it is showing impressive growth and is set to expand exponentially. “The private equity industry in the Middle East has matured significantly over the past two years, with a number of funds demonstrating their capacity to operate as responsible partners that help develop the operations of privately-held firms,” says Toubia.
“At the same time, the energy industry in the Middle East is becoming increasingly open to private equity investment, particularly as the sector moves further towards privatisation and as more companies look for funds to enable them to compete on an international level,” he added.
As the region’s first private equity fund focused on the energy sector, the firm has already demonstrated the range of opportunities that exist across the value chain of the industry, as evidenced by its diverse portfolio.
Since November 2006, the firm has announced strategic investments in Maritime Industrial Services; the purchase of a 50 percent stake in Stellar Energy (MENA); the acquisition of a controlling interest in Oman’s Dhofar Power Company; and the purchase of a 33 percent equity stake in The Gulmar Offshore Group.
All of these companies have been able to embark on growth and development strategies through the additional resources provided by The GCC Energy Fund.
The fund has benefited significantly from the strong track record within the energy industry of its senior personnel, which enables it to share expertise with its partner companies, and also track the development of the market.
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If you have never experienced larb in any of your favorite Thai restaurants, you must. Larb is typically seen in an appetizer section, or possibly a salad section of a menu. Larb can be done using pork, beef, or chicken, and when you make with any of these meats, you will understand the simple, yet complex flavors of Thai food.
I first encountered larb while living in Dallas and hanging out with my friend Kevin. Kevin and I would frequent his favorite Thai restaurant and do all of the ordering as he was familiar with the cuisine, and language at the time. It was always a real treat to dine with him. He knew how to balance the dishes making the entire meal complete. We would typically start with cold beer, and a bowl of peanuts. Often times we would move onto dishes like larb, fried whole fish, and other really good Thai dishes. All of them were balanced with sweet, salt, and spice.
Larb is something I really like to make. It is a perfect snack, any time of the day. It is kid friendly (minus the chile peppers), and it is a perfect dish to eat with jasmine rice, or better yet, sticky rice.
Ingredients: [Print this Recipe]
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 1 lb of ground chicken
- 2 shallots, minced (approximately 3 tbsp)
- 1/2 cup of fresh mint leaves, chopped
- 1/3 cup of toasted rice powder
- 2-5 Thai chile peppers, minced
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 1/2 tbsp palm sugar, or regular sugar
- 1 whole lime, juiced
- Cooked rice, jasmine or sticky rice
You can find all of these ingredients are your local Asian store.
Begin by adding the oil to a large skillet and warm it to a medium, high heat. Once the oil is heated, add the ground chicken and begin cooking until it is fully cooked. This is will take about 10 to 15 minutes.
During this time, prepare the remaining ingredients. If you have never toasted rice before, add about 1/2 cup of rice to a dry skillet. Bring it to medium heat, and give it a good shake about every 2-3 minutes. Your goal is to brown the rice, and once brown, add it to a coffee grinder to make into a course powder.
Once the chicken is fully cooked, make sure you break it all up with a wooden spoon as you do not want any clumps. Drain off any excess water from the chicken, then add the chicken to a mixing bowl.
Add in all of the remaining ingredients, and give it a good mix. If you are serving kids, I would suggest removing the chile peppers from this recipe, or divide the mixture before adding the chile peppers. I would recommend 1-2 chile peppers for the mild at heart, and 3-4 chile peppers for those that love the heat. Regardless if it is one chile or four, the balance is perfect.
Serve in a small bowl with a side of rice. My entire family loves larb. It is just packed with flavor. That sweet, salty, and spice is just something out of this world, and I think you would agree. Better yet, you have just had something you have never tried before, toasted rice. Well, and maybe even fish sauce or sticky rice. | <urn:uuid:3545b4c6-8547-4b7f-a919-e186a2796f89> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.simplecomfortfood.com/2011/12/10/larb-gai/ | 2015-02-01T00:26:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115857200.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161057-00235-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960594 | 709 | [
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Fire ants to the Alamo, topics have varied
By Forrest Mims : August 24, 2012 : Updated: August 26, 2012 7:46am
Photo By Forrest M. Mims IIISo far no reader has inquired about the unusual ichneumon wasp. This recent photo shows the first one ever seen by our science columnist. The Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III.
This is the 300th installment of this column in the Express-News.
The first column, on Oct. 30, 2006, was about fire ants.
Since then the column has covered albino wildflowers, droughts, floods, walking sticks, coral snakes, the ozone layer, volcanoes, honeybees, Mexican smoke, computers, mockingbirds, African and Chinese dust and the weather during the siege of the Alamo.
These and many other topics have resulted in hundreds of questions and comments from readers.
Many questions concern the identification of flowers, plants, insects and birds. When the column was new, very few identification questions were accompanied by photographs. Now photos are commonly sent, some of which are quite good.
When I cannot answer an identification question, the usual response is to inform the reader that the name of an unknown plant or animal can often be found by entering key words into the search window of various plant and wildlife organizations.
Texas Parks & Wildlife and Texas A&M University have considerable information about Texas species. The Cornell Ornithology Lab is among the best sites for identifying birds. Internet search engines are ideal for finding sites like these. Google's image option is especially helpful.
Another class of popular questions concerns how to eliminate unwanted insects and plants. Not being trained and certified in these areas, I usually recommend that the writer contact a professional or search the Internet for suggestions. Often I note that pesticides can have unintended consequences, like killing walking sticks and fireflies when wasps were the prime target.
Occasionally a topic is not well received. For example, some people believe that contrails painted across the sky by high-flying jets are malevolent "chemtrails" designed to reduce the population. A column that debunked this idea drew a sharp rebuke from a chemtrail believer. He was unimpressed when I explained I had made scientific measurements of contrails and published the results.
So far the most memorable message from a reader remains one mentioned in a few prior columns.
An elderly gentleman rejected my explanation for the bright light over the horizon he was observing in the evening. He firmly insisted that the light was a UFO and not the planet Venus, which I was also watching.
Some readers address their notes to "Dr. Mims," so it's necessary to explain to them (and to remind regular readers) that my academic background is a bachelor's degree in government with minors in history and English.
The science from which I earn a living was not learned in a classroom but at an electronics workbench, through a microscope and from 22 years of monitoring sunlight, haze and the ozone layer with homemade instruments.
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Obsidian Entertainment - Fallout: New Vegas Announced
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This is absolutely great news and i think it's what many old Fallout fans wanted (yup me as well), a version of the game from original Fallout game developer, although not 100%.
Fallout 3 is only "good" enough rpg, and now that Obsidiance is working on another flavor of Fallout game, it surely very interesting and in the future people will compare the two games - same license/game universe but developed under different vision/developer.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Tyler Hansbrough had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Wes Miller added 14 points on his 23rd birthday and North Carolina ruined Arizona's first trip to Chapel Hill with an 86-69 victory Saturday.
Reyshawn Terry and Danny Green each scored 13 points while point guard Bobby Frasor added nine assists with no turnovers for the Tar Heels (12-5), who won for only the second time in the past five games. They shot 57 percent from the field to tie the all-time series with the Wildcats 3-3.
Each of the previous five came at neutral sites, including the final game of Dean Smith's career in the 1997 NCAA tournament. That was the most recent meeting, and North Carolina makes a return visit to Arizona next season.
Mustafa Shakur led the Wildcats (13-7) with 18 points, and teammate Marcus Williams had 17. They had a three-game winning streak snapped in their most lopsided loss of the season.
Arizona's struggles began in the waning seconds of the first half, when holding for the final shot and trailing by five points. Adams missed badly and the ball went out of bounds to the Tar Heels with less than 2 seconds remaining.
North Carolina coach Roy Williams called a timeout, and he had David Noel throw the inbounds pass. It connected with Frasor about 30 feet from the basket, and his shot rattled in to make it 39-31 at the break. When Hansbrough opened the final 20 minutes with an easy layup, the margin was 10.
It grew from there, with nearly everyone contributing. Reyshawn Terry put back his own miss, Frasor drove down the lane and Danny Green made a pair of 3-pointers. Noel and Hansbrough worked inside to score, and Miller converted a turnover into a breakaway layup.
For Miller, who was starting for the third consecutive game, it was only his fourth basket from inside the arc this season. He also was 4-of-5 on 3-pointers, giving him at least two in six straight games.
Arizona led for the final time at 21-20 before Miller swished a 3, and five ties later, the Tar Heels moved in front for good on Hansbrough's tip-in. That came during a stretch when the Wildcats missed six of their final eight shots of the first half, and Frasor finished off the run with his desperation shot. | <urn:uuid:09f510db-3a12-4108-a517-4ab69998d240> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.arizonawildcats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30700&ATCLID=207957219 | 2015-01-30T23:15:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115858727.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161058-00085-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976645 | 516 | [
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In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com.
1. Another threat to newspapers’ business models?
This article in The New York Times last Friday and this one in the National Journal pinpoint two important developments in the media business that could collide to pose yet another threat to the financial viability of journalism.
The Times article describes the rise of “programmatic advertising,” in which new online tracking technologies allow an advertiser to follow a consumer whose profile fits the advertiser’s targeted demographics wherever the consumer goes online rather than just make an educated guess about the websites that consumer is most likely to visit.
Before programmatic advertising, if an upscale restaurant chain decided that its best prospects were well-to-do men who live in major metropolitan areas and travel a lot, it might buy ads in the business sections of high-end newspapers or on business travel sites. Now the restaurant chain can follow those targeted people to any website they visit. It doesn’t have to buy ads on the sites where the target is most likely to be found but can instead simply bid on an electronic ad exchange to buy the cheapest ad that will reach someone with those demographics no matter where he or she goes (a gossip site, for example).
This erodes the premium upscale newspaper sites can charge. The individual consumer is what’s important and now identifiable, not the place where he sees the ad.
Thus, the Times reports in this article, “The shift is punishing traditional online publishers,” and that online advertising revenue at its own newspaper actually fell 2.2 percent in the last quarter as a result of a decline in the rates the Times is able to charge for Web advertising. That’s a trend reflected lately in the results of most other major newspapers.
In other words, on the heels of the Internet having destroyed the readership and advertising revenue of printed newspapers, further advances in digital technology now threaten the papers’ digital ad business.
The principal FTC issue being debated is whether and how to change the current voluntary method of regulating websites’ cookie tracking. As things stand, sites post privacy policies describing the tracking they do, then allow consumers to choose to opt out of being tracked. Privacy advocates have been pushing for rules — already seemingly headed for adoption in Europe — that would flip the process and require websites to get the affirmative permission of visitors before they can be tracked.
This deserves lots more coverage. It has been generally assumed that tighter regulation of cookies of the type being pushed on the FTC by privacy advocates would hurt all advertiser-supported websites, including those of newspaper publishers. But in light of the Times article about programmatic advertising, would a curtailing of fine-grained tracking actually help content-centric websites, particularly those of upscale newspapers, because advertisers would once again have to choose a place to advertise rather than target a person to advertise to? Or, have I got it wrong — and do the content websites still benefit so much from supplying tracking data to advertisers that they, too, will fight cookie regulation?
Beyond that, with major American companies such as Google and Facebook totally dependent on tracking, what would be the economic impact of crippling their ability to track en masse? How much of our economy, not to mention balance of trade, is based on a tracking economy that depends on the masses not opting out?
Who’s doing the lobbying on which side of the cookie issue? Are cookie-less advertising businesses, like print magazine and newspaper publishers and television and radio broadcasters, joining with the privacy advocates?
And how do those opposing tighter regulation rationalize an argument that it is bad public policy to give consumers a clearer choice?
Last year, Internet industry giants like Google and Facebook ignited and benefited from a popular uprising on the Internet that enabled the industry to beat back regulations aimed at making websites more responsible for piracy of copyrighted material. But might the Internet grassroots turn against the industry on the issue of whether consumers are entitled to a clearer choice about whether to be tracked so their data can be sold? | <urn:uuid:cbb3ed49-a575-4e1c-b85e-ffa434ee383b> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_40.php | 2015-01-30T23:22:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115858727.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161058-00085-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949477 | 861 | [
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SALT LAKE CITY — Environmental activist Timothy DeChristopher was transferred Wednesday from federal prison to a halfway house in Salt Lake City, according to his attorney.
DeChristopher, who inspired a national following by posing as a bidder to protest a December 2008 Bureau of Land Management auction, arrived in Utah by train.
"He's most anxious to see his friends and supporters," defense attorney Patrick Shea said.
Following his conviction at a March 2011 trial in federal court, DeChristopher was given a two-year prison term. He spent time in Colorado and later was transferred to Northern California, where he was housed at the Herlong Federal Prison.
Last month DeChristopher lost his appeal before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on convictions for violating provisions of the onshore oil and gas development leasing act and misrepresenting himself as a bidder.
No further appeals are anticipated, Shea said.
DeChristopher, a University of Utah economics student in 2008, had planned to join protesters outside a BLM auction in Salt Lake City, where multiple parcels were on the table for potential oil and gas development. Instead, he went inside, registered as a bidder and was given a placard, No. 70, to raise for bidding on parcels.
The activist ended up winning more than a dozen parcels valued at $1.8 million, though he lacked the money to pay for them. DeChristopher has said too many of the parcels were located in scenic vistas and he bid on them to protect the planet from climate change.
Although his attorneys tried to raise the legal argument that DeChristopher acted out of necessity to protect the environment, that defense was shot down and climate change never became a issue in his legal case.
DeChristopher will be eligible for release from the Salt Lake halfway house to home supervision in February, Shea said. In April, he'll be placed on supervised release, the federal system's version of probation.
Shea said his client intends to remain involved in the environmental movement, to the extent his probation will allow.
"He's still very dedicated to the principles and will continue to be an activist," Shea said. "But he's going to have some restraints from the (U.S. Probation Office)."
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The MIXTAPE that BRENMAR put together for NYC based clothing boutique, OPENING CEREMONY, may not be new any more, but it’s been my favourite mix for the past 2 months.
He’s a Chicago native, born n’ raised, who now resides in Brooklyn. Brenmar made a big name for himself producing beats for HIP-HOP and RnB jams, and he now makes “club music for the present”, which, in this case, appears to mean FUTURE BASS, heavily influenced by 90’s URBAN joints. OLDSCHOOL influence aside, Brenmar’s sound is one of the freshest around. The smooth ghetto flavours that he injects into his tracks give them a unique spin that has been recognized by lovers of sexy booty music all over the world, which now has Brenmar travelling across continents regularly. At this point, he has been everywhere and the influence of his travels is showing, as his productions continue to get more complex and adventurous, and the profile of artists approaching him for REMIX work grows more and more prestigious. If Brenmar is the future of RnB, then the future is looking very very hot!
OPENING CEREMONY MIXTAPE SERIES #4
You could call this RnB if you wanted to. Frankly, you can call it a lot of things, and you wouldn’t be wrong, but you wouldn’t be quite right either. This mix is a difficult one to label. It’s packed with jams that are so fresh sounding that there’s no name or scene to pin them with yet. What they all share in common is smooth and sexy Urban textures with a dirty/naughty twist, perfect for booty popping or slow, hot grinding, depending on what mood you’re in. It could also serve as the ideal soundtrack for boutique shopping in NYC (go figure). Brenmar does his job well.
2. Soulja Boy – My City
3. Graphics – I Don’t Wanna
4. TLC – Silly Hoe (ZUTZUT Refix)
5. Murder Mark – Last Call (Instrumental)
6. TAR – Acid Man
7. FBOM – Love Story Edit
8. Brenmar – Let Me Hit Dat
9 Wildchild Beatz – Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay (Remake)
10. Brenmar – Done (Don’t Luv Me No More) Mike Q Remix
11. Brenmar & T. Williams – YesYes
12. Dj Funeral – Bounce Dat
13. Trey Songz – Can’t Be Friends (K Millz Remix)
14. Shontelle – Impossible (Dj Sliink Remix)
15. Koloah – Fucked Up!
16. The Phantom – Gothic
17. Rustie – City Star
18. Tity Boi – Spend It
19. Kastle – Could U Want Me (Blackwax Remix)
20. Pacheko & Pocz – Cohete
21. Dj Yirvin – Gunchata
22. Lil Zane- None Tonight (Bad Boy Remix Instrumental)
23. Brenmar – Temperature Rising
24. Ginuwine – Pony (Black Market Slowride Mix)
25. Young Jeezy – Bandana
26. Omarion – Bananas
27. Brenmar – Killah Instrumental
28. Emanny – I Messed Up
29. Brenmar – Riding Low (Instrumental)
30. Brenmar – Homerun (Instrumental)
31. Saukrates – Dropt It Down (Instrumental)
HIGH POINTS: If you’re interested in knowing who the future players are on the smoother side of BASS music, take a close look at the above track list. Brenmar is right on top of who’s hot, and is also a leading player, himself. This mix is, no doubt, turning on a lot of heads to some new names, by featuring short samples of absolutely infectious rhythms. Each song plays, individual, for no more than 1 or 2 mins, but each new track is so catchy, edgy, and sexy, that I wanna hear more. This mix had me running to SOUNDCLOUD to check out the full tune more than any other in 2011, and exposing artists to new listeners is one of the greatest achievements of a good mixtape. The stellar selecting is combined with Brenmar’s astonishing ability to seemingly blend ANYTHING smoothly. The beat structure, from one tune to another, drastically changes constantly, which normally drives me crazy and results in a mixt that sounds like a disorganized mess. But Brenmar, purposely or not, finds subtle similarities between the tunes that he combines and then pin points the perfect spot to mix them. It’s silky smooth every time. Technically, this mix is near perfect, and astoundingly executed. Fuck, I’m such a nerd!
LOW POINTS: This is very much a personal opinion thing, but I’m not a huge fan of Hip-Hop instrumentals. Brenmar, quite understandably so, gives a lot of love to backing tracks. My problem with them is that they just sound incomplete. Well produced instrumentals quite literally have a sonic hole in the mid tone frequency spectrum, to leave space for the vocals. Artistically speaking, these loops are made to accompany lyrics, and when removed, I find that the remaining track just sounds like something crucial is missing. I must admit, I like how Brenmar ended the mix with a vignette of his own instrumentals. It serves as a really nice easy and satisfying ride out, but some of the others that are strewn about the set are off-putting to me. The most glaring incident occurs around 34:30ish. Brenmar has concluded a section of half-step ghetto beats, and dub joints, and has gradually built the energy back to the uptempo tropical percussions of DJ YIRVIN. Rather then continue with the vibe that he has spent time to maticulously build back up to, he drops another Rap instrumental, LIL ZANE – NONE TONIGHT (BAD BOY REMIX), and suddenly, we’re back to half-tempo, but only for a moment, because the next tune on deck is Brenmar’s own TEMPERATURE RISING, which is quite high energy. So why the hole in the vibe building? A very odd decision by Brenmar, but certainly not enough to keep me from playing this mix over and over.
I am what I am, which is a HUGE music nerd, and I know it’s highly unlikely that YOU will care about anything other than the fact that this mixtape is sexy as fuck, and filled with enough booty bass to get even the heaviest trunk clappin’.
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Note 2 Earnings Per Common Share
The following reconciles the numerator and denominator of the basic and diluted earnings per common share computation:
(In thousands except average market price)
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|Numerator (Net income available to common shareholders)||$||862||$||1,038|
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|The average market price used in calculating assumed number of shares||$||10.86||$||8.93|
At March 31, 2014, there were 70,903 outstanding options at an average exercise price of $20.83. None of these options has an exercise price below the average market price of $10.86 for the three-month period ended March 31, 2014, and, therefore, they are not deemed to be dilutive. At March 31, 2013, there were 75,022 outstanding options at an average exercise price of $19.69. None of these options had an exercise price below the average market price of $8.93 for the three-month period ended March 31, 2013, and, therefore, they were not deemed to be dilutive. In the fourth quarter of 2011, we issued $2.5 million in 8.75% subordinated notes maturing December 16, 2019. On November 15, 2012, the subordinated notes were redeemed in full at par. Warrants for 107,500 shares of common stock at $5.90 per share were also issued in connection with the issuance of the subordinated debt. These warrants expire December 16, 2019 and are included in dilutive securities in the table above.
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Not only are more kids overweight than ever, researchers have now found that today’s kids can’t run as fast or as far as their parents could at the same age.
Researchers from the University of South Australia’s School of Health Sciences analyzed kids’ fitness between 1964 and 2010 from 28 countries. In the United States, heart health of kids fell an average of 6 percent every decade, and overall today’s kids are 15 percent less fit than their parents were.
“About 30 percent to 60 percent of the declines in endurance running performance can be explained by increases in fat mass," said study author study author Grant Tomkinson, PhD, senior lecturer at the University of South Australia's School of Health Sciences. "If a young person is generally unfit now, then they are more likely to develop conditions like heart disease later in life.”
Experts say that reversing this trend could be difficult, as society overall is more sedentary and eating and exercise habits are harder to change as a person gets older.
High Levels of Vitamin B12 Linked to Higher Cancer Risk
Vitamin B12 is known to help the body absorb iron and maintain the nervous system. But new research shows that high levels of vitamin B12 were also associated with higher levels of cancer.
Danish researchers looked at data from more than 330,000 patients between 1998 and 2010 who did not have cancer when the study began. They had their B12 levels tested, and it was found that the patients with the highest levels of the vitamin also had the highest risk of being diagnosed with cancer.
“I was surprised to see such strong associations to different specific types of cancer,” said study author Johan Arendt, BSc, of the department of clinical epidemiology at Aarhus University Hospital. The researchers found that risk of cancers associated with smoking and alcohol was higher, but the risk of blood-related and hormonal cancers was also elevated.
Drinking Milk as a Teen Doesn't Prevent Hip Fractures, Study Says
We’re told drinking milk in our youth will keep our bones strong, but that may not be the case for teenage boys. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that boys who drink more milk as teenagers don’t see much of a decrease in their risk for hip fractures.
"I don't consider this to be a definitive finding that would change the public-health message concerning milk at this point," said lead study author Diane Feskanich. "But even though we're very focused on milk in this country, we don't really have studies that have documented how people drink milk as kids and then have waited 50 to 60 years to see what happens to their bones.
"What we found was a little surprising. Teen milk consumption was associated with a higher fracture risk among men, but not women," said Feskanich, an assistant professor in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
The study was based on more than 35,000 men and 62,000 women who were tracked for 22 years, who recalled their milk-drinking history for researchers. There were 490 hip fractures in the men and 1,200 among the women.
Ways to Embrace Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine, which provides support and care for the patient’s nutrition, sleep, stress and health needs, is a growing trend in the healthcare industry. How can you explore this trend?
- Make sure your doctor is listening to you and your concerns. Come prepared with any questions or concerns you might have, and take an active role in your health.
- Join group exercise or yoga classes that can have additional physical and mental benefits.
- Meet with a nutritionist or take a cooking class to figure out how to prepare healthy foods.
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Jaguars signed S Chris Harris.
Lions FS Chris Harris (concussion, neck) has been cleared to practice.
Lions S Chris Harris was forced from Sunday's game against the Raiders in the first quarter with an apparent head or neck injury.
Coach Jim Schwartz confirmed that Chris Harris will serve as the No. 3 safety and a special teamer.
Lions claimed S Chris Harris off waivers from the Bears.
Former Bears SS Chris Harris would like to end up with the Broncos or Panthers if he goes unclaimed on waivers.
Bears waived SS Chris Harris.
Bears GM Jerry Angelo said he doesn't expect to trade SS Chris Harris before Tuesday's 4pm ET deadline.
The Bears have granted SS Chris Harris' agent permission to explore a trade.
Bears SS Chris Harris will formally request a trade Monday.
Bears SS Chris Harris is inactive for Sunday's Week 6 game against the Vikings.
The Chicago Tribune reports the Bears will bench veteran safeties Chris Harris and Brandon Meriweather in favor of Major Wright and Chris Conte this week.
Bears SS Chris Harris is active for Monday Night Football against the Lions after missing the last three games.
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Recorded at the premiere performance by the Center for Contemporary Opera in March, 2011, The Secret Agent, with libretto by J.D. McClatchy based on Joseph Conrad’s story, has since been presented at the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and the Opéra Théatre d’Avignon in France. Though the original story was written in 1907, it remains chillingly relevant today in our terror-haunted world. OnStage noted that “… in the tradition of “Makropulos Affair,” “From the House of the Dead,” “Wozzeck” and “Pelléas et Mélisande”— its music is urgent, agitated and intense, with occasional lyrical interludes.” This is composer Michael Dellaira’s third opera and his first collaboration with the noted librettist J.D. McClatchy.
"...Special praise must also go to Jobin and her ad hoc ensemble of 13 musicians. They played with consummate skill, expanding and contracting their sound almost at will as the dramatic situation demanded... this is an interesting work deserving of further performances." - Lynn René Bayley
"... Warmly recommended to enthusiasts of contemporary opera, and American music in general." - David DeBoor Canfield
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What's your potluck dish?
- PaulF Aug 11, 2006 10:15 PM
Will Owen's recent post got me thinking:
What's your potluck dish? The one thing that you bring for everyone to share, whether it's a new group who've never tried your food or a familiar group who actually requests you cook that thing you always bring.
In my house, it's chinese chicken salad, but my wife makes it. Apparently, she makes the best chinese chicken salad in the world. People are disappointed when she doesn't make chinese chicken salad. Funny thing is, I'm not a huge fan -- in general -- of chinese chicken salad. I'm not big on the flavor of the sesame oil in the dressing and I can take or leave raw cabbage. (I like cole slaw and cabbage on a fish taco, I just don't love it). But I'm told it's great chinese chicken salad. I do like it, I just don't love the dish -- generally speaking.
I'm I'm doing the cooking, I bring chili. I make good chile and I show up with the pot I cooked it in.
I have an old boss -- a former boss, actually, she's not old -- who can't cook so she brings boiled edamame.
(If this is a home cooking thread, my bad. I thought that board was for recipes and I'm not including any here. If you want her chinese chicken salad recipe, I'll get it and post it there.)
I already actually have! :) In true 'feed the masses' fashion, I use a Pre-Made Mole Paste (Although in all honesty, I use the one from Guelagetza or one from El Mercadito in East L.A. before resorting to Dona Maria, but in a pinch, La Dona will do just fine...)
Greens with sausage. It's easy to do and appeals to all but vegetarians. I just bring it in a crockpot to keep it warm.
Sometimes a fruit salad or salmon salad.
I'm cheap w/my time if it's for co-workers, so I'll make a salad (either caprese or pasta).
For family, however, I'll take the time to make either cream puffs or a strawberry roll cake.
Bean salad!! Okay, not every time...potato salad, coleslaw, deviled eggs for cold stuff. Green chile quiche for warm. I showed up at a hippie party one time with a big batch of linguini and pesto, and it was the kids who cleaned it out! If we're being fancy, and I'm in the mood, I love to do a layered paté, or a cold poached salmon done up all cute with gelatin-stiffened mayonnaise and lemon scales. Making party food is really the only time I do that kind of thing. | <urn:uuid:f53b3cb1-db46-40d2-accf-de455b63fe43> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/316916 | 2015-01-31T11:13:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122080417.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175440-00077-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944829 | 614 | [
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LyondellBasell PP Applications Contribute to Award-Winning VW Interior
Sep 21, 2012
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 24, 2012 – LyondellBasell supplied polypropylene (PP) compounds for multiple interior applications of the redesigned 2012 Volkswagen Beetle, helping gain the car’s selection among WardsAuto’s 10 Best Interiors for 2012. The magazine cited the Beetle’s outstanding interior design, materials, fit and finish, much of which involved applications using PP from LyondellBasell.
WardAuto’s highlighted the aesthetically-pleasing interior of the redesigned Volkswagen Beetle in a feature story in the magazine and described how the “blazing red trim that consumes the door panels and dashboard…matches the exterior body color, [creating] a sense of design harmony.”
LyondellBasell supplies nearly 100 percent of the polypropylene-based applications for the Beetle’s interior.
The interior trim grades offer low total carbon emission, low fogging and low odor with good scratch resistance to meet VW’s stringent finished parts requirements. These grades also provide for non-tacky finished components, which is a priority requirement for VW worldwide.
LyondellBasell also supplies the polypropylene-based applications on the exterior, including bumper assemblies and the innovative structural front end module carrier, which uses a high performance short glass fiber filled compound.
“LyondellBasell is proud to supply these Hostacom performance TPO products as a part of our global portfolio for Volkswagen,” said Neil Fuenmayor, LyondellBasell Customer Program and Market Development Manager. “These polypropylene compounds are manufactured regionally to the same specifications designed to meet the VW global part requirements. So wherever VW and our customers are, we can quickly and efficiently deliver these products to their global and regional platforms.”
This is the second year WardsAuto editorial staff selected winners from a field of 40 vehicles with new or significantly improved interiors. Selections were based on interior design, fit-and-finish, comfort, ergonomics, safety, material selection, overall value and aesthetics.
The 2012 winners were honored at the WardsAuto Interiors Conference, North America’s only event focused on the automotive interior.
# # #
LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the world’s largest plastics, chemical and refining companies. The company manufactures products at 58 sites in 18 countries. LyondellBasell products and technologies are used to make items that improve the quality of life for people around the world including packaging, electronics, automotive parts, home furnishings, construction materials and biofuels. More information about LyondellBasell can be found at www.lyondellbasell.com.
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YORK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — It took about two and half hours for firefighters to extinguish a house fire in York County Tuesday afternoon.
Just before 1 p.m., a homeowner in the 100 block of Pelican Place alerted the York County Fire Department that a house was on fire, according to Assistant Chief Paul Long.
At the scene, firefighters found a large, two-story house with heavy smoke and fire in the roof. Crews fought the flames for about an hour and were able to bring it under control. The fire was completely extinguished and crews were able to complete and overhaul after about two and a half hours.
The homeowner was at the residence at the time the fire started, but no one was injured.
Long said the home is uninhabitable; the fire caused approximately $350,000 in structural and content damage.
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A few inches due, mostly north and west of cities
You can handle this, Maryland. Not to worry. The National Weather Service is looking for a few inches of snow late today and tonight out of the approaching Alberta Clipper, mostly north and west of the I-95 corridor. The rest of us will likely see less than an inch of accumulation, along with some unpleasantly cold and wet weather.
UPDATE: 4:30 p.m.: Forecasters are losing faith in the ability of this storm system to measure up, even to their much-reduced expectations. Dry air is surging into the storm center, threatening to bring the precipitation to an early end. Sterling may have to lift the Winter Weather Advisories early. Earlier post resumes below.
So focus on the good part: Once we get past mid-week, we can expect sunshine to assist with the nice, slow melt we've experienced so far, while temperatures remain well below normal for this time of year.
The National Weather Service forecast office in Sterling has issued Winter Weather Advisories for counties north and west of Baltimore and Washington (purple on the map below). That's actually good news. It means no more than 3 or 4 inches of snow, which feels like nothing these days. More specifically, they're expecting just 1 to 3 inches in places like Westminster, Frederick, Gaithersburg and Columbia.
Baltimore can expect some snow in the air, starting in mid-afternoon, changing over to a nasty mix of rain and snow, then back to all-snow after dark before ending late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Less than an inch is likely, forecasters said. The rain should speed some melting. Make sure your roof drains, downspouts and storm drains are clear.
AccuWeather.com's MeteoMadness blogger Henry Margusity (map above) keeps the worst of the storm well to our northwest, then moves the heavier snowfall to New England as the Clipper intensifies near Long Island. Says Henry:
"As you can see, Ohio and West Virginia up to the Northeast have the big snow the next 24 hours. New England will end with the 8-10 inches of snow when the storm hits the coast and intensifies. The good news is that the people hit by major snow will get a break from any large amounts of snow with the clipper.... But... there's plenty of winter left and I see the GFS has several storms to watch later in the month."
The student forecasters at FootsForecast.org are now calling for 3 inches at BWI from the new storm.
Eric the Red, a professional meteorologist in Baltimore, says this storm is "kinda shaping up to be a non-event."
He says the storm is tracking farther north, and dragging dry air in toward its center (right-hand side of the dark "u" in the satellite image below) and cutting off the precipitation. Three inches for Central Maryland "might be pushing it," Eric said. Washington could see nothing in the way of snow accumulation.
UPDATE at 4:30 p.m. from Eric: "This event has totally fallen apart, as the dry slot has more or less caught up to the precipitation ... This falls under the 'passing snow shower' category, and I'd be surprised to see anyone in the immediate metro area get more than an inch. In fact, I'd be surprised to even see that."
The weather service says Southern Maryland may see some flakes initially today, but that should change to all rain.
The far western counties may see more considerable accumulations - as much as 7 inches are possible, forecasters said, as the storm passes by and draws cold, moist air in from the Great Lakes as it departs. So far, though, there are only advisories out there, no Winter Storm Watches.
Down the road, forecasters see a small chance for snow showers Wednesday as a weak disturbance slides by late in the day. Beyond that, there is sunshine, with daytime highs in the upper 30s to near 40 degrees. Overnight lows remain in the 20s. The lows are about right for this time of year in Baltimore. But the daytime highs remain cold. The averages for this time of year at BWI would predict highs in the mid-40s.
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|Subject:||Re: Origin and meaning|
|Author:||তন্ময় ভট (guest, 126.96.36.199)|
|Date:||February 14, 2007 at 10:07:57 PM|
|Reply to:||Re: Origin and meaning by Mike C|
This is just a small note to put on record a pretty far-fetched theory. As I pointed out on this board before, I do not know the origin of riyA, and I have no dictionary or usage which shows riyA as a singer in Sanskrit. But, Sanskrit is a big language, and I have over time figured out one possible way riyA can have something to do with singing.
There is a root R (ऋ) which means to move up or be straight. This is the root of words like Arya (from someone with straight or high conduct) and Rju (straight as in a simple path) etc. But, an obscure use of the word is to raise ones voice in singing vedic chants in praise of the gods. This usage could give rise to riyA meaning chanting or singing. If I tried a bit more, I might be able to get singer, but as I said this is already far fetched, and I only wanted to note it since I haven't seen this written down elsewhere.
I am, however, still inclined to believe that this is a foreign name borrowed into India. The earliest Riya I personally know of is probably born around the middle of the 20th century, and spells her name as RYA (ঋয়া) in Bengali, further confirming the theory that it is not Indian (The sound R is rather uncommon in newly coined words), or it is related to Sanskrit R. In north India, R often merges into ri in pronouciation (elsewhere, it often merges into ru).
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Michael Kelley (@hmmm_mikekelley)
Coach Fran O’Hanlon has made it abundantly clear. He needs somebody, anybody, to step up and be “the man” this season if his team is to succeed.
There are options, yes. But the pickings are slim. Gone are the days of Ryan Willen, Jim Mower, and Rob Delaney, all of whom graduated last year.
Featuring just four upperclassmen–two seniors and two juniors–the Lafayette men’s basketball team enters the 2012-2013 season with question marks that will have to be answered by a young, inexperienced, and largely untested roster that is dominated by nine underclassmen. And it is those underclassmen O’Hanlon expects to perform, whether they’re ready or not.
“It’s going to evolve,” said O’Hanlon, who is entering his 18th season as head coach. “Last year, the (underclassmen) always had papa bear to kind of lean on and now, we don’t have that. A lot of it is going to be how quickly they grow up. We’re a work in progress trying to find our identity.”
In the weeks leading up to Friday night’s 8:30pm home tip-off against St. Francis, Lafayette participated in two scrimmages against Division I teams, one, which “went well,” and the other where “our youth was exposed.”
“Coach O’ told us that we looked like we were dependent on Ryan, Jim, and Rob in that scrimmage. We didn’t step up,” said sophomore forward Seth Hinrichs, who earned Patriot League All-Rookie Team honors a year ago after averaging 8.5 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. “We’re going to have to play as one unit and we’re going to have to be the leaders.”
Now a seasoned sophomore, Hinrichs knows that is his responsibility, along with sophomore forward Dan Trist (5.7 ppg, 2.2 rpg) and sophomore guard Joey Ptasinski (5.6 ppg, 1.6 rpg), to show the freshmen the way.
“Coach O’ always says know your plan. We have to pass on that plan to the younger guys,” said Trist, who, as a forward, joined Hinrichs on the All-Rookie Team. “We can’t have that slow transition out of being freshmen to sophomores. We have to play like upperclassmen.”
And for good reason—as point guard Tony Johnson (8.0 ppg, 4.3 apg) is the only member of this year’s roster to have started a full season in O’Hanlon’s system. The captain is pivotal to the Leopards’ success and staying healthy is a necessity, which is why his recent injury is of great concern.
Two weeks ago in practice, Johnson suffered a sprained ligament in his foot, but a recent MRI came back negative, meaning Johnson can begin practice and possibly play tonight.
“I practiced (Wednesday) a little,” Johnson said. “Hopefully, if it’s not too sore, I’ll do some contact. I want to play Friday but I don’t know how much and then I’ll go from there.”
Junior guard Les Smith (2.0 ppg, 0.7 apg) will start if Johnson is unable to play.
Through his career, Johnson has often looked to pass to the array of offensive weapons that Lafayette possessed. But understanding that he is the key to this team’s engine, Johnson will be much more aggressive this season.
“All aspects,” Johnson said, when asked about specifics. “Whether it’s getting into the lane and trying to finish or passing off to our better shooters, it doesn’t matter as long as I feel I am helping the team to be successful.”
Joining Johnson in the senior class is forward and fellow captain Levi Giese, whose career has been riddled with injuries. In last season’s opener against LaSalle, Giese suffered an ankle injury that forced him to miss the next 22 games. This season, a healthy Giese will be needed to provide scoring and contribute to the rebounding efforts. Last season, Lafayette was outrebounded by almost six rebounds per game.
Five freshmen–guards Zach Rufer and Bryce Scott, forwards Ben Freeland and Billy Murphy, and center Nathaniel Musters–join O’Hanlon and Lafayette this season.
Lack of depth may force the freshmen into action early and often.
“I don’t know what to expect for playing time,” Rufer said. “But if I do get in, I’m going to come out hard. I think we [the freshmen] have the ability to contribute.”
All these questions will be partly answered against St. Francis (N.Y.) an NEC team that boasts a wealth of experience and talent.
But the big question may still linger long after the night is over: who will be the man?
Kevin Doyle’s look at St. Francis (N.Y.):
Conference: Northeast Conference
Against the CoBL: @ Lafayette (11/9)
2011-12 record: 15-15 (12-6 in the NEC)
Head Coach: Glenn Braica (30-30 with St. Francis (NY))
- Top Player—Ben Mockford (11.8 PPG, 1.7 RPG, 1.2 APG)—The transfer from Iona became an immediate impact player after sitting out a season. His 83 3PT made ranked first on the team, and he will become an even bigger threat on the offensive end if his game evolves from being exclusively outside shooter.
- Everything in two Tweets…because one isn’t enough—The Terriers have been a game away the last two years from finishing about .500 for the first time since 2004. With their top five players returning, they have the pieces to make some noise in the NEC. Sophomore Jalen Cannon (8.0 PPG, 8.8 RPG) is poised to have a breakout year.
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TV networks continue to come up with new and better ways to morph their shows into continuous advertisements. MTV is already selling ads that are designed to be mini-shows in themselves, and ABC has gone subliminal. Not to be outdone, Turner Entertainment is now telling advertisers that it can strategically insert their ads into commercial breaks directly following part of a broadcast that relates to their product. I'm not sure how this is supposed to make us more disposed to buy crap, but it will certainly make watching movie reruns that much more annoying:
Ms. Yaccarino showed an example as part of her presentation. After the conclusion of a scene from the movie "Anchorman" in which Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell discuss love, the first spot in the next commercial break could be for the eHarmony.com online dating service.
She also described an example of a scene from the movie "Hitch" in which Will Smith suffers an allergic reaction to his food. That could be followed, Ms. Yaccarino said, by a commercial for the Walgreen drugstore chain for the allergy medicine Zyrtec.
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This is my first go on this website, so I hope I am doing it right. I originally posted under a different heading, but didn't get the response I was hoping for, so I am trying here. I have chronic leg & arm pain - 4 years duration. Started out with hemalytic anemia (possible lymphoma) & was treated with chemo (inc. Vincristine) drugs to shock immune system. Anemia cleared up, but leg, now arm pains continue. Have had every test run imaginable - no definative diagnosis. Have tried dozens of meds, including neurotin, all of the restless leg drugs, etc. Narcotics do stop the pain for a few hours, but it returns. I use a walking stick to relieve pressure on my legs, which helps, but is no solutuion. Am tired all the time. Pain sometimes cause me to fall. My pain doc is reluctant to prescribe any more narcotics without a diagnosis. Any suggestions? | <urn:uuid:3a4a7a49-258e-46fd-b4c6-1a5c8f3f734c> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.healthboards.com/boards/open-all-other-health-topics/429919-leg-arm-pain.html | 2015-01-27T06:40:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115861027.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161101-00004-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94674 | 207 | [
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The Love Potion (Mass Market Paperback)
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A love potion in a jelly bean?
Fame and fortune are surely only a swallow away when Dr. Sylvie Fontaine discovers a chemical formula guaranteed to attract the opposite sex. Though her own love life is purely hypothetical, the shy chemist's professional future is assured . . . as soon as she can find a human guinea pig.
The only problem is the wrong man has swallowed Sylvie's love potion. Bad boy Lucien LeDeux is more than she can handle even before he's dosed with the Jelly Bean Fix. The wildly virile lawyer is the last person she'd choose to subject to the scientific method.
When the dust settles, Sylvie and Luc have the answers to some burning questions: Can a man die of testosterone overload? Can a straightlaced female lose every single one of her inhibitions? And they learn that old-fashioned romance is still the best catalyst for love.
About the Author
Sandra Hill is a graduate of Penn State and worked for more than ten years as a features writer and education editor for publications in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Writing about serious issues taught her the merits of seeking the lighter side of even the darkest stories. She is the wife of a stockbroker and the mother of four sons. | <urn:uuid:14b1536a-5716-43a0-8e4c-4eea8f1fca19> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780062019073 | 2015-01-27T06:10:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115861027.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161101-00004-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917587 | 416 | [
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China’s People’s Liberation Army on Thursday confirmed that its military conducted a flight test of a new long-range missile that U.S. intelligence agencies say involved the use of simulated multiple warheads.
The federal government issued a warning Friday about additional cyber attacks using the malicious software from the Sony Pictures cyber attack.
Russian strategic bombers conducted a third circumnavigation of the U.S. Pacific island of Guam last week as other bombers flew close to Alaska and Europe, defense officials said.
North Korea dispatched covert commando teams to the United States in the 1990s to attack nuclear power plants and major cities in a conflict, according to a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency report.
The DIA report, dated Sept. 13, 2004, reveals that five units of covert commandos were trained for the attacks inside the country.
According to the report, the “Reconnaissance Bureau, North Korea, had agents in place to attack American nuclear power plants.”
China carried out a long-range missile flight test on Saturday using multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, according to U.S. defense officials.
The Obama administration is shelving a controversial arms control initiative that would ban destructive tests of anti-satellite weapons following opposition from the Pentagon over concerns the ban would limit U.S. space activities, according to defense and congressional officials.
The arms control plan, first disclosed by the Washington Free Beacon last month, was confirmed by Rose Gottemoeller, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, during a House subcommittee hearing last week. Gottemoeller said interagency talks were held on pursuing an agreement that would impose a moratorium on destructive testing of anti-satellite weapons.
Millions of Americans face catastrophic loss of electrical power during a future magnetic space storm that will disrupt the electric grid and cause cascading infrastructure failures, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document.
A secret North Korean document obtained by Western intelligence states that dictator Kim Jong-il conceived and directed a program to kidnap foreigners and bring them to his communist country to force them to become spies against their homelands, The Washington Times has learned.
The Pentagon is considering the re-deployment of nuclear cruise missiles in Europe in response to a new Russian cruise missile that the United States has charged violates a 1987 nuclear treaty, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Wednesday.
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WI unchanged for last two ODIs
13 May 2005
By: Sudeep Popat
West Indies have retained the 13-member squad for the final two ODIs against South Africa to be played in Trinidad over the weekend.
South Africa have already sealed the series 3-0, after winning the third ODI by a whisker, when Charl Langeveldt picked up a hat-trick, when West Indies looked certain to win with two runs left off four balls with three wickets in hand.
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Canon 1D Mark IV Review
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV High ISO Noise Reduction
As noted elsewhere in this review, the Canon 1D Mark IV delivers a noticeable advance in high-ISO image quality over the 1D Mark III. Its four noise-reduction settings also allow you quite a bit of flexibility in choosing how you want to make the trade-off between subject detail and noise levels. The combination of shooting with NR turned Off and using a good noise-filtering program after the fact can produce very clean images with lots of fine detail in them. (And of course, the 1D Mark IV's CR2 files have no high ISO noise-reduction processing applied to them at all, adhering to the true philosophy of RAW shooting.)
See for yourself how the noise reduction works under both daylight and tungsten-balanced lighting. Click on any of the crops below to see the corresponding full-sized image.
The above crops show the effects of the 4 levels of high ISO noise reduction, under the HMI lighting we use to simulate standard daylight. As you can see, the trade-off between detail and noise can easily be seen at the various noise reduction ettings.
To see how Canon 1D Mark IV High ISO JPEGs compare to other professional SLRs (including its predecessor) at default noise reduction settings, see the crops below.
As you can see, the Nikon D3S is the top performer when it comes to high ISOs; not only within this group, but of all digital SLRs at this time. Its easily out-performs the Canon 1D Mark IV, especially at very high ISOs. The 1D Mark IV does however improve on its predecessor, the 1D Mark III, though its default noise reduction appears to be stronger, as can be seen in the smudged red-leaf fabric.
See the RAW crops page to see how the output from the sensors compare independent from any external noise reduction processing.
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On April 1, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals various concepts behind a newly advanced Phishing Shield. Various anti-phishing protections are covered which incidentally indicates that the new evaluator tool and process associated with the phishing shield may in part use the services from either Google or Symantec. Perhaps that's what Jobs and Schmidt were recently chatting about over coffee – ha!
Internet content is typically provided and presented to users by means of an internet browser, such as Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Europe's Opera. As internet use becomes more common, many businesses have begun to use the internet as a medium through which to interact with customers, both new and existing. Such businesses include existing businesses, such as those providing financial services, seeking to augment services already provided through other means, as well as new businesses established to provide services solely through the internet.
Many of these businesses require customers to provide sensitive or private personal information through a web page in order to gain access to services. Such sensitive personal information may include social security information, address and telephone number, birth date, credit card information, etc. There also exist other types of non-commercial websites that request similarly sensitive personal information.
As the use of such websites has become more common, so has the practice of creating forged replicas of the websites as a means of obtaining sensitive personal information from unsuspecting or less than savvy internet users. The use of forged replicas of websites to obtain sensitive personal information is known in the art as "phishing." Phishing is typically used to obtain personal or financial information in order to enable identity theft or other fraudulent or disreputable activities.
As concern over phishing has grown, developers of internet browsers have attempted to protect users from the practice. One means of protecting users from phishing involves the use of a repository of IP address ranges known to be suspect, made available at a trusted internet location. Internet browsers are often equipped with a means for comparing requested websites with such repositories, and will provide some indicator to users if a requested website is suspected to be a forgery.
Apple's patent generally relates to a method and a system for notifying a user that a requested website is a forgery, and protecting the user from the forged website.
Phishing Shield Example
Apple's patent FIG. 1B shown above illustrates an example webpage as it would if it were determined to be a suspected forgery. The content 102 is displayed behind a graphical element representing a gray-tinted glass shield, 130 which acts as a translucent shield. This shield may appear in an animated fashion when activated. For example, the shield may appear by sliding down from the top of web browser 100, sliding up from the bottom, sliding in from one side or another, fading in and out, or by any other means known in the art. Username entry field 103 and password entry field 104 are disabled. Warning 120 is what is known in the art as a modal dialog box, requiring the user to acknowledge the warning before the user can interact any further with the internet browser.
However, the warning displayed in element 120 does not, when dismissed, also dismiss the anti-phishing protections altering the appearance of content 102 or disabling the username entry field 103 and password entry field 104. The warning simply alerts the user as to why the protections have been activated. A user would have to perform some additional action in certain embodiments, such as navigating to a menu item, or selecting a toolbar icon, to disable these protections, thus preventing a user from hastily dismissing the protections.
The Evaluator Tool/Process
Apple's patent FIG. 2 illustrates an implementation of determining whether a requested URL is a forgery. Web browser 200 receives, at evaluator 201, a request for URL 202. The evaluator sends an IP address range 204, containing the IP associated with the requested URL, to a trusted remote resource 203. The address range may simply be a partial IP address obtained by dropping a fixed number of bits from the IP associated with the requested URL. The trusted resource responds to the IP address range with a list of blacklisted IP addresses, 205, containing all suspicious IP addresses in the requested range. The evaluator then searches this list of suspicious IP addresses for the IP address associated with the requested URL. If the IP address is found then the requested URL has been determined to be a suspected forgery. Otherwise, the requested URL has been determined not to be a suspected forgery. In other embodiments, a value obtained by hashing the IP address may be sent, rather than the IP address range. In either alternative, the purpose of this method of using a trusted remote resource is to protect the privacy of the user, so as to prevent any tracking of exactly which URLs the user is requesting.
As discussed above, the trusted remote resource 203 is a repository with a current list of IP addresses associated with suspicious activity. In some embodiments, trusted remote resource may be a service provided by Google, Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., or Symantec Corp., of Cupertino, Calif.
Apple credits Darin Adler and Kevin Decker as the inventors of patent application 20100083383, originally filed in Q3 2008.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Dr. Scott Rodeo, An Olympic Hero Behind The Scenes
The pride in which the support staff takes in their role is visible and palpable. They wear their country's uniform and colors just as proudly as the athletes themselves. They regularly go beyond the call of duty, quietly, patriotically and humbly.
Dr. Scott Rodeo is one of these unheralded individuals. A former competitive swimmer himself, he has been a member of the USA delegation at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
The Daily News of Open Water Swimming asked the good doctor what he does.
Daily News: What is your role?
Dr. Rodeo: The overall role of the physician is to assure the health and safety of all members of the U.S. delegation. At the Olympic Games the team physician will treat both musculoskeletal injuries as well as medical illnesses. Common musculoskeletal problems include shoulder pain, low back muscle strain, and patellar (knee cap) pain. Common medical illnesses include upper respiratory tract infections, cough, sore throat, and gastroenteritis. Other issues that we address include jet lag, adjusting to new foods, dehydration, and problems with sleep. Swimming in new bodies of water with varying water quality, chemicals, and potential pollutants can lead to sinusitis and other upper respiratory symptoms. The stress of travel and international competition can also lead to transient alterations in immune function and result in some of these illnesses. The team physician’s job is to anticipate and treat all of these issues in a timely fashion.
Daily News: How long are you over in London?
Dr. Rodeo: I am in London for entirety of the Olympic Games. We will first travel to Vichy, France for a training camp, and then to London July 21. After swimming is completed I will stay as a U.S. Olympic Committee physician to assist other sports and athletes until the Closing Ceremonies on August 12.
Daily News: You have worked at the Super Bowl. I know they are two separate sporting competitions, but how does the Olympics compare in terms of athlete’s preparation, media attention, pressure?
Dr. Rodeo: I have had the good fortune to be on the sidelines New York Giants team physician for the 2008 and 2012 Super Bowls. Despite the obvious differences between these events, there are actually distinct similarities. The media attention and associated pressure are similar. Both events are likely the most important of an athlete’s career, and something that they have worked for years to achieve. There are similarities in the level of preparation and planning that goes into these events, both for the athletes and for the support team. Success in both of these scenarios comes from a team approach, with everyone (coaches, managers, physicians, trainers, etc) working together to guarantee the athlete’s success.
Daily News: In the days leading up to the Super Bowl and the Olympics, are athletes more sensitive to colds, injuries and perceived afflictions of various kinds? If so, how do you deal with the athletes, both physiologically and psychologically?
Dr. Rodeo: It seems that athletes may be more susceptible to mild illnesses in the time leading up to a major event. The stress associated with these events may lead to transient alterations in immune function, which could potentially contribute to minor illnesses. It is also likely that the athlete is simply more tuned in to any mild symptoms or abnormalities. The job of the team physician is to recognize these symptoms and know how to re-assure the athlete. It is important not to immediately assume that an athlete’s symptoms are merely due to "nerves". We need to be sure that there is not, in fact, a significant illness. Not only do we have to correctly diagnose and treat any ailment, an even more important job is to know how to manage the athlete’s concerns about illness and to be able to re-assure the individual. Another important part of the team physician role is to communicate the information to coaches, managers, parents, etc. We also have to be able determine when an athlete might have a contagious illness, so that we can protect the other team members.
Daily News: Do you have anything special in your black doctor’s bag for marathon swimmers that you would not have for football players?
Dr. Rodeo: We have medications and equipment for things such as jelly fish stings, hypothermia, and hypoglycemia. My motto is, "If you prepare for problems you won’t have them".
Daily News: What are some of the differences you see between Olympic swimmers and your average age-group or high school swimmer?
Dr. Rodeo: The elite, world-class athlete has both the physical, innate ability, but also the motivation and mental make-up to be successful at that level. At some level, champions are born. They "choose their parents wisely" as genetics certainly play an important role. However, I believe that is only part of the equation. The elite performer has the ability to perform at the highest level in the most important circumstances. In football, it is said that big athletes make big plays in big games. The Olympic athlete or successful professional football player is not afraid to take chances. They are not afraid to fail. To perform at that level, the athlete needs to be willing to risk failure. They have an innate will to win.
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The Other Shore
The Other Shore follows world record holder and legendary swimmer Diana Nyad as she comes out of a thirty-year retirement to re-attempt an elusive dream: swimming 103 miles non-stop from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage. Her past and present collide in her obsession with a feat that nobody has ever accomplished. At the edge of The Devil’s Triangle, tropical storms, sharks, venomous jellyfish, and one of the strongest ocean currents in the world, all prove to be life-threatening realities. Timothy Wheeler’s documentary brings Diana Nyad’s extraordinary adventure to life as Diana sets out to prove that will and determination are all you need to make the unimaginable possible.
2014 Open Water Swimming Almanac
An Almanac for Open Water SwimmingAn almanac is essentially a body of knowledge which is so complete that it enables people in different fields to make predictions about the future of their respective industries.
This, for example, was the purpose of the traditional farmers almanacs. It enabled farmers to determine as accurately as possible which crops to plant for the greatest harvests in a given year.
But the farmers almanac was just one example among many.
There are, of course, many different kinds of almanacs.
In fact, there is even one for open water swimming...
Preview the Open Water Swimming Almanac:
The trends are very clear.
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Java EE 7 Developer Handbook by Peter A. Pilgrim, as the name suggests, is a reference guide and developer handbook for people currently working on Java EE Technology. The book is not for dummies and is definitely not a tutorial; so you must have worked on Java EE 7 technology to really enjoy the book. This book is suited for those who have experience in prior versions of Java EE and want to upgrade their knowledge about the changes that come with Java EE 7.
The book is fairly large and is divided into eleven chapters and four appendices and one online chapter. The topics covered are Java EE7 HTML5 support, Context and Dependency Injection (CDI), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Persistence API and Object Relational Mapping, Java Servlets, RESTful WebServices using JAX-RS 2.0, Java Message Service 2.0(JMS) and Bean Validation. The appendix cover Java EE 7 platform, and XML Configuration, JNDI namespace, Java EE7 Transactions covering ACID principles, and also covers topics like JSON-Processing API and Concurrencly Utilities API. Online chapter is on the support provided by Java EE 7 for Cloud development.
The book is lengthy but not exhaustive and author does not claim to be exhaustive. The book is a good read for people working in Java EE 6 and prior version and looking forward to work on Java EE 7 and want a ready reckoner for that purpose. The chapters does not follow any particular sequence and you can jump around as you want and feel comfortable. It has been a long time that I worked on Java EE application, so after first chapter I jumped to chapter on Java Servlets and then followed the path through RESTful WebServices, JMS, and finally ended with JEJB and CDI.
Overall the book was a nice read and I would recommend anyone who would be interested in Java EE 7 technologies. However, keep in mind that it is not a tutorial but a reference guide
My rating will be 3.5/5.
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Eddie Izzard is a man with a mission, a mission to confuse the living f*ck out of everybody he meets. He's a comedian - a transvestite - a runner - a wordsmith - a blacksmith - alas smith and jones - grace jones - and a candle stick maker. Err? What was I saying again? Oh yes! Eddie Izzard is a man on who needs tuition, tuition with... err... no... what am I saying? Badger? Oh! Read on...
Eddie Izzard Not Autograph
Eddie Izzard Quotes:
- I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup
- I wanna live 'til I die - no more, no less.
- Never put a sock in a toaster.
- So my choice is 'Or Death?'
- I'm a one-man idiot
- Twang him into a tree!
- I'm an Action Transvestite
- They tend to come out a color called 'Pants left in wash'
- Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. And monkeys do too… if they have a gun.
- If you’re a transvestite, you’re actually a male tomboy. That’s where the sexuality is… So it’s running, jumping, climbing trees, putting on makeup when you’re up there.
- I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- We hate our national anthem. Because it’s “God Save the Queen,” you see?... Now the Queen lives in a very big house. She has barbed wire outside and people with guns in front of that. That’s one saved fucking queen, I’ll tell you!
- Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I did an original sin. I poked a badger with a spoon.
- But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!” The dog is saying, “Who are you to judge me? You human beings who’ve had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit?! Is that a crime? People of the world!
- Well, if you put it that way, I think you’ve got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.
- Date of Birth: February 7
- Stated his career in: Television and Stage
- Media: Stand Up Comedian, Actor, and Runner.
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