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Marlon Scott: Sports Fanalyst Fourthoughts
Clarksville, TN – Welcome to the first edition of Marlon Scott: Sports Fanalyst Fourthoughts
There is the real world, and then there is the sports world. A lot of people happily commute back and forth between the two. This is for those commuters, dressed like Clark Kent, but when they emerge from a McDonald's bathroom (due to lack of phone booths in 2014) they have on their favorite sports jersey and foam finger, ready to talk about the latest update that just popped up from the ESPN app on their smart phone.The format is simple.
Four sports topics with four not so humble opinions from a local sports writer/analyst/fan and a cool quote on the end like an extra cherry in the limeade you pick up during Sonic's happy hours everyday.
No NFL Blues
Right now in sports mythology, the NFL is Zeus, happy to toss a bolt of lightning at all those blasphemers who think otherwise. As a result, we who worship at the NFL altar go into a state of grieving once the Super Bowl has concluded.
In the eight weeks since the Seattle Seahawks became the latest NFL Champions, we have gone through denial and anger and have settled comfortably into bargaining. .. At least we hope our favorite teams are bargaining to improve the roster.
Only 39 days until the draft. Afterwards, depression will set in as we try to traverse the limbo after March Madness, the NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs and games 10-40 of the MLB 162 game season. Does acceptance really ever come before the first preseason games?
March Madness, The Billion Dollar Bust
We were going to fill out a bracket anyway. Even a slim chance to win $1 billion is better than no chance. I know college basketball. I feel lucky.
I can remember so many rationalizations driving me to register my bracket, drooling at my daydreams of how I would attempt to spend $1 billion.
I read some Depaul University Math Professor calculated the odds of filling out a perfect bracket at 1 in 9.2 quintillion. Yet I am confident I was not alone feeling the extra sting when my bracket spontaneously combusted in a flash of light and smoke like a magician just said "Abra-Kadabra!"
Gators have to be the odds on favorite at this point, but it feels like the stars are lining up for the Wildcats. Regardless, the overtimes, upsets, buzzer beaters…the Madness did not disappoint.
College Athletes Unite
Last week the National Labor Relations Board made a decision that could change the landscape of college sports in the future forever.
They ruled that Northwestern football players are employees with the right to unionize, citing primarily the hours they must devote to football and the fact their scholarships are performance based.
Cast in the role of David, former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter is the face of the Northwestern athletes who are looking to "ensure that players have a voice," by forming a union. The recent ruling staggered the Goliath that is the NCAA.
The ruling is being appealed by Northwestern officials and could take years to resolve, inevitably making its way to the Supreme Court. However, until the appeal is settled one way or another, a precedent has been set and what originally appeared as just another protest doomed to fall on the deaf ears of the monolith NCAA, is now a small fire headed toward a fireworks factory.
History is about to be made and I cant wait to look up and see the "Kaboom."
The New APSU
The key word for Austin Peay State University the last few years is new. New dorms, a new stadium, new athletics director, a new head football coach and even a search for a new President …this is not the same APSU alumni from just four years ago attended.
Specifically, a new "visual identity series" including a new primary logo, Governor Peay logo and an updated word mark will be revealed.
It is all the results from a committee formed nine months ago to "enhance the visual identity of APSU athletics." The committee included staff members, alumni and local businessmen.
Merchandise with the new logos will not be available until the summer and teams will not be outfitted with the new look until Fall 2014. The complete transformation of courts, fields are estimated to take four years to complete.
As far as I know, all the cool kids still hate Murray and cheer Lets Go Peay!
"I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time." -Michael Jordan, For the Love of the Game
About Marlon Scott
Marlon Scott is a freelance journalist and writer. He graduated from Austin Peay State University in 2011 with a B.S. in Communications, majoring in Communication Arts with a concentration in print and web journalism.
His writing career began as a sports writer for The All State, the APSU student newspaper, in 2006. He continued working for the paper until his graduation, serving in various positions including Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief.
In 2010, Scott contributed stories and photographs as well as designed and served as Editor-in-Chief for the monograph, Civic Art of Clarksville: The stories behind the pieces.
Scott has also produced 60 stories for The Leaf Chronicle.
You can find him on twitter @theMarlonScott and on Facebook
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thy kingdom come – thy not my
day three of thy kingdom come global prayer. We have thought about what we pray for – for a kingdom where people are freed, renewed, healed, restored. We have thought about whose Kingdom we are asking for – Father God, full of compassion and always ready to embrace us, restore us, and give us his outrageous grace.
When we pray thy kingdom come, we are putting ourselves under the authority of a different King. This means that all our agendas have to submit to his plans and his agenda. The classic example of this is when Jesus prays in the garden "Not my will but yours be done", he had to abandon his hopes and plans – that there would be another way than the cross. In praying this prayer we also have to abandon our plans.
That sounds simple of course, we abandon the folly and futility of sin for something better – but this is not always the most difficult abandonment. As humans we love to "justify ourselves", we find it easy and natural to see others as less worthy; many times we will take our rights and hurts to God and ask him to sort out people who have hurt us, or people who we judge as needing God to help them repent. It is easy – but this simple prayer asks us to lay down our rights and our precious little wrongs.
Please don't hear what I am not saying; there are times to stand to justice, times to pick a fight – but the bible is very clear when it tells us that our battle is not with "flesh and blood" (other people), it is with the spiritual powers and principalities.
So as we so in the last blog, we are called to pray for restoration, for freedom, for healing, for blessing – never that we will be proved right.
just a few lines later in the Lords prayer we pray forgive us… as we forgive. It is a powerful prayer! As we pray "thy kingdom come" we are praying that God would show the same mercy and forgiveness to those we have issues with – as he does to us.
As you pray "thy Kingdom come" today, who do you need to forgive? What hurts do you need to let go of?
thy kingdom come – (2)
So yesterday I blogged about what we should pray for as we pray "thy kingdom come" over our lives, over our friends ad over the city. God has promised a coming Kingdom where there will be peace, healing, freedom; where people live with purpose, resources, long life, and a good creation/ecology.
As we pray into these things over the next 9 days HOW do we pray. The key to this is in the phrase we use "thy kingdom come", it is a phrase that is quoted from the Lords prayer, and the `thy` or `you` points us to the person who is introduced to us as: "Our father, who is in heaven, and whose name is holy"
Our prayers need to be consistent with who God is as father. This is important as it tells us a lot about our prayers. When Jesus answers the disciples question "teach us to pray" he does so very deliberately. He chooses his words carefully knowing that these words will be a pattern of prayer for his followers for ever afterwards. He could have chosen any one of hundreds of names that describe God in the bible, he could have chosen All-powerful, or Creator, or the God of Justice… but he doesn't he uses father, and this is because all of our prayers come from and return to our Father God.
It is as if Jesus wants us to have that picture in our minds as we pray, you know the one – of the father arms outstretched running to meet his boy – as he returns after "wasting all his wealth", still dirty from feeding the pigs – for dirty read "ceremonially unclean" and therefore untouchable. But God as father wraps his arms around him and accepts him, loves him, forgives him…
and it is this God who we are asking "thy kingdom come"
Hundreds of years before, when God introduced himself to Moses, and set down the law, the rules that would always condemn us – because we can never quite make it as good enough. Moses asks God to show himself. In Exodus 33, we are told who God wants to be known as:
18 Then Moses said, 'Now show me your glory.' 19 And the Lord said, 'I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 But,' he said, 'you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.'
This is incredible, unbelievable: When God wants to be known it is as a merciful and compassionate God. Not a God of justice, not a God who will punish evil. He did that once in a great flood – and promised never to do it again!
This is the God we see in Jesus, refusing to condemn a women accused of adultery, accepting children on his knee, stopping to heal the ear of a man who came to arrest him!
We are so human, mostly our prayers ask for things to be put right, because we tend to "justify ourselves" and condemn others (more of that later) – but as we pray "thy kingdom come" we are asking for his fatherly acceptance, his compassion, his forgiveness and love to flood our lives – and our world.
It is a dangerous prayer, will you dare to pray it with many others across the world today?
thy kingdom come – what should we pray for?
today marks the first of 10 days of prayer. The "thy Kingdom Come" global call to prayer is simply asking the church, all across the world, to pray the words contained in the Lords prayer; Thy Kingdom Come.
But what should we be doing, if we have 10 days to pray where do we focus?
As I reflected on this today I was reminded of the end of the story. This is not the end, a world where we are faced by injustice, a lack of compassion, and evil is not the end, when we pray thy kingdom come we are asking for Jesus to bring His kingdom into the here and now of everyday life today. So what does that look like?
The prophet Isaiah give us two pictures of what the Kingdom may look like: In Isa 61, we get a picture of what the entry of the Kingdom may be like:
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion – to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
in other words a transformation of individual lives, the poor, the hurting, the captives find solutions to their troubles and society, our place/ our city becomes a place of hope. What would it take for that to happen?
justice, resources for the poor, well-being and peace for those who have experienced trauma, homes for the homeless, healthcare for the sick, hope for the hopeless, jobs, acceptance of the outsider/immigrant… lots of things to pray for here! … and we know that these are the things God wants in our world, so there is every reason to keep praying.
The second picture is in Isaiah 65:
17 'See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.20 'Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. 21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands. 23 They will not labour in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them. 24 Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,' says the Lord.
This picture shows us the world God wants, the world he is about to recreate, the world where he reigns supreme. Not only are some of the problems with the world now beginning to be put right, not only is there hope… but there is no regret or sorrow over past mistakes and failures, there is an awareness of the lavish love of God for us, there is a standard of long and healthy lives, there is satisfaction in the labour of our hands – whether we are builders or gardeners – there is ecological peace. If this is what the kingdom looks like – these are the things we should be praying for.
I hope and pray that God meets with you and awakens hope within you as you pray "thy kingdom come" over the next 10 days.
old testament giftings
I wrote yesterday about the APEST (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, Teacher) and how we see – in the old testament – great examples of people with these giftings. This is really important, as it shows that these are basic and normative types, and not just a product of the early church, belonging exclusively to the early church. We saw how Abraham leans in to the apostolic, and Moses to the prophetic. So are the other APEST gifts seen in the Old Testament?
Evangelist: if we understand the evangelist simply to be the one who tells the good news, this doesn't exist in the old testament! Jesus hadn't yet come, and salvation was found by being or becoming Jewish! However this is a very narrow definition of the evangelist. At it's heart the fivefold gift of the evangelist is someone who can see and understand culture, and from that point of understanding make the connections needed to explain the message of the good news. With this wider understanding is there an Old Testament evangelist? Yes there is: Daniel. Daniel is taken as a prisoner to Babylon when Israel is taken into exile. He is in an alien culture, and even given an alien name, but right from the beginning he understands the culture enough to find the one point of challenge that will open the door to the message about his God. He chooses not to eat the food prepared for the other exiles and by living on a vegetarian diet persuades his guard that Daniels God is real and powerful. He goes on to understand the culture and society of Babylon so well that he is the advisor to several Kings.
Shepherd: (Pastor) the clearest example of the shepherd in the OT is David, for him life began literally as a shepherd and in his formative years he learned about protecting and nurturing a flock of sheep. Later, on the run from King Saul, we are told he gathered people who were discontent – caring for them and turning them into a loyal band of followers, he cares for Mephibosheth, for the sake of a promise of freindship – exactly as you would expect from a fivefold gifted shepherd. In David we also see the shadow side of the shepherd, he avoids confrontation with Amnon, and with his son, Absalom even though it nearly cost him the Kingdom and ultimately led to the death of both Amnon and Absalom.
Teacher: Much of the old testament was written as instruction, but for me the clearest example of a teacher is Ezra, who works alongside Nehemiah to ensure that the temple is rebuilt, but also takes time to teach the people what the temple means and what they needed to do. Like many teachers he is happy to have the bible read all day, (Nehemiah 8) but also to make sure that the book is explained so everyone understands.
So the OT has people with APEST giftings, this is not just for the new testament era but for all time. We need to make sure we know what our gifts are and then get into teams where all the fivefold gifts are exercised. This way we can avoid some of the worst shadow side effects and be the church we were designed to be.
fivefold in the old testament
Many of us have come across the fivefold or APEST gifts of Ephesians. Although there is still some debate I strongly believe that these gifts are normative for the church and that a mix of the gifts produces a great leadership team.
Quite intentionally when I helped to lead at Majestic Church we had a leadership team of Elders who were Prophetic, Pastoral (Shepherd), Evangelistic, and Teaching. It seemed to work well.
When we hear the fivefold gifts described, we are often pointed to new testament examples, but today I wondered if these gifts are normative can we find great examples in the Old Testament:
a classic example of an apostle is Abraham, a visionary whose inner vision/conviction that God would give him a promised land caused him to keep pioneering all his life. Although he left home, he had enough leadership qualities to bring a large company of people with him, and quick decision making and persuading skills to put together an company to chase down an alliance of Kings.
with all the APEST giftings there is a shadow side, where the strengths have an opposing weakness: With Abraham we see that he didn't read people well, we are not told of what Sarai/Sarah thought of being passed off as his sister, and there was clearly difficulties with having his nephew Lot as part of the company.
If we want to see a Prophet, we only need to look as far as Moses: Here was someone who had been given privilege and opportunity, growing up in Pharaohs palace was like have an MBA from Havard. But we find Moses as the classic prophet – passionate about justice. When he discovers a Hebrew slave being ill-treated he exploded in anger and kills the perpetrator. Here is an immature prophet who is then exiled to the desert for 40 years.
Fortunately the story doesn't end there, (although Moses continues to be impetuous – which eventually leads to his not going to the promised land) through taking the time to listen to and watch what God is doing Moses receives revelation, the law, and takes the people out of Egypt with a whole display of signs and wonders. Yep classic prophet there.
In my next blog I will introduce an Evangelist, Shepherd and Teacher from the old testament.
gospel ecosystem: part 2
I have outlined what I see as a huge problem for us, as the church in Dundee – which I'm sure is also true of other cities across the UK.
Our insistance that we continue to maintain our denominational distinctions, and that we maintain our structures of employing a minister to lead and manage each congregation – primarially through meeting on a sunday morning in a building set aside for that purpose – is killing us!
Our distinctions are not understood, often even by the man in the pew! and end up making us commit scarce resources to things that are not the focus of what the church is: Remember that the church is the partner that Jesus has chosen to display his "riches and glory" as he fills the whole universe (Ephesians 1); the church is the place where Gods reconciliation and salvation are demonstrated through our peacemaking! The church is the place where Jesus is made real in the world, and where disciples are made.
The trouble is that our structures simply do not support this – we become focused in keeping the church going (by which we mean the weekly event(s) not the community of people). We commit our resources into buildings and pastoral ministry (which means we emphasise pastors and teachers – and marginalise prophets, evangelists and apostles who are actually our best hope of making progress). All of which means we end up taking from the city the people and resources we should be generouly investing into the city to demonstrate the kingdom and incarnate Jesus.
Is there a better way? I believe that there is, we need to grasp the nature of the church as a movement, not an institution. We need to have the courage to unite congregations where we can so that "event" church, what we are used to on Sunday mornings is viable – with fewer clergy and less buildings. I still see that there is a need for us all to gather sometimes for great worship and teaching. Alongside this we need urgently to work with the evangelists, apostles and prophets to do church simply. There needs to be a return to house churches where people can gather in a relational way – just being friends over a meal or barbque and naturally exploring the questions of life – including spiritual ones! to integrate worship and learning into the lives of people who are spiritually hungry instead of creating artificial barriers that (although unintended) serve to keep people from God.
There needs to be a rediscovery of church in the community [not community church or church for the community] where all of us who know Jesus are contagious in our faith, empowered to be naturally supernatural, praying for people in streets, workplaces, and homes – rather than feeling the pressure to "bring people to church" so that they can encounter God. A network of people who are drawing people alongside them as fellow disciples instead of being spectators at Sunday meetings.
Above all we need a network, a "gospel ecosystem" that means we are doing all this together rather than in competition with each other. Releasing the people who can bring change and hope to our city.
a gospel ecosystem for the city
I live in Dundee, and I think it is a great city! I realise not everyone agrees but here are some reasons to celebrate the city…
we have a brilliant heritage. From this City great women and men of God have been brave enough to step out into ministry. From Mary Slessor to Murray M'Cheyne, there have been great stories which have resulted in many thousands of people being changed by the power of the gospel…
Today in the city there is a great social conscience, and there are many people doing great work among those disadvantaged. For example someone without the means to prepare a meal can find somewhere to go every day and be given a free meal. Funders like the Rank Foundation have targeted Dundee and fund some of the 200 plus initiatives across the City.
Now – just because I have said the city is great doesn't mean all is perfect – we can do better!
Consider the numbers – Dundee has about 50 churches, and a couple of these are large and vibrant, others are struggling with a few elderly members doing all they can to keep things going. Most attract 50 or so people on a Sunday morning:
If we do the maths this gives us around 2,500 Dundonians who are active attenders of local churches. The population of the city is 148,270. So that is 1.7% at church on Sunday morning.
Our churches are the usual mix of denominations, mostly parish churches (Church of Scotland) which was established as distinct from the Church of England formed by splitting from the Catholics due to King Henry's argument with the Pope about his marriage(s). We also have Episcopalians which is the Church of England in Scotland. And we have some of the original Catholics – established in Britain under Rome after the Synod of Whitby.
Then we have the Free Church of Scotland which split from the CoS because they didn't want the local lairds to appoint the clergy; and the Pentecostal churches who were formed when the established churches didn't welcome the move of the Holy Spirit, and the new charismatic churches who welcomed the Spirit in the 1960's onwards- but weren't Pentecostal enough to join them. and I mustn't forget the Baptists, who broke away from the Catholics over how people are baptised, and the Methodists who formed when Wesley's many working class converts were not welcomed in the CoE, and the Salvation Army for similar reasons:
So all of us are "gospel" churches, we all hold to the truths of the ancient creeds of the church, we all worship a trinitarian God, and celebrate the salvation won for us by Jesus on the cross… There is so much that unites us.
The trouble is that most of the good people of Dundee, 98.3% don't get our differences – and are actually put off by our lack of being able to work together. To them none of these things matter – and they are not big enough things to fall out over!
So how do become relevant to all these people? The people that are supposed to do just that are our clergy – we have appointed them – (and all the churches reley on a model of having someone to lead and be in charge of the congregation) to speak for God to the people of the City. They are specially trained to be able to say wise things (although 98% of us simply aren't listening to them!)
As churches we pay them, averaged out this costs our 50 churches somewhere around £1.2 million pounds each year. And so as active members of our churches we give [these days we don't all manage a tithe or 10%] and this combined giving for our 50 churches is around £2 – 2.5M each year. Then we have to maintain the buildings we have, 50 very special places that have architectural and historic interest. We must spend at least £500,000 on these buildings to keep them warm and well lit and do the necessary maintenance. So actually there is precious little left to fund all of the other things that we want to do as vibrant churches.
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Deriving Optimal Benefits from Hearing Aids
In order to derive the desired benefits from hearing aids, a prospective user must obtain the following services from the dispenser:
- Accurate and comprehensive diagnosis of hearing loss.
- Sufficient knowledge of available options and capabilities of various types of hearing aids.
- Appropriate selection of hearing aids for specific types of hearing loss.
- Proper fitting by an experienced and competent dispenser.
- Right counselling (especially for first timers) on what to and not to expect from hearing aids.
- Excellent back-up services: repairs, up-dates, accessories availability and warranties.
As with most electronic devices, the lifespan of a hearing aid equally depends on its proper usage and maintenance by the owner. This and other useful consumer information are supplied with every purchase from the Centre. In addition we undertake periodic customer satisfaction surveys to ensure that the services provided by the Centre are carefully tailored to meet the needs of our clients. [Useful reference: Article by Bola Olusanya on Professional tips in support of administering hearing aids. NAFDAC Consumer Safety Bulletin, July – September 2002, Vol 1, No. 2: 38 – 39. Published by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control. Abuja, Nigeria].
As a corporate policy, the centre does not trade in, market or supply medical or audiological equipment to third parties.


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At CES 2014, Oculus VR creative director Danny Woodall demonstrated the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift by playing a special version of Portal 2.
The game has been modified slightly for use with the Oculus Rift; for example, the player is able to move an already placed portal for greater precision.
Woodall appears to be using an older prototype of the Oculus Rift. The company unveiled their latest version at CES 2014 (the Crystal Cove prototype), boasting greatly improved features.
The display is boosted to 1080p AMOLED with 110 degrees of vision, motion blur and latency has been reduced, and positional tracking and head-motion movement has been implemented.
In the video below, developer Nate Mitchell discusses the progress of the project, and the engineering and software design challenges.
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"The Syringa Tree"
"The Syringa Tree" tells the story of Elizabeth, a white South African, and her black caretaker and of generations of family straining against the chains of apartheid. Originally written for one actress, this version was adapted for two who play over twenty characters just by changing their physicality. This production was for Theatre Horizon in 2014.
Director: Steve Pacek
Set and Lighting Design: Thom Weaver
Costume Design: Jill Keys
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Erasmus placement in the Esmuc
If you want to do a half year or an academic year in the ESMUC, you must first approach the International Relations Office of your institution. If the Conservatoire or University has an agreement with the School, there are already established channels for sending us your application. Your institution will inform you whether you have been accepted. If there is no established bilateral agreement, it will also be your international office that will deal with the Erasmus application, with other previous processes for establishing an agreement between both institutions.
NOTE: All applications will be taken through the application DREAMAPPLY. Deadline: March 31
You will find the necessary information on the ESMUC study plan on the School website. When you make your application, you must consult this information to decide which subjects you want to do. It is important that you should establish the subject and the period of interest to you, for later it will be impossible to change individual subject decisions, and it is possible that some collective subjects might be closed having reached the limit on the number of students.
The precise establishment of the subjects will be confirmed by approving or not approving the subjects requested in your Learning Agreement, which will be returned to you before the beginning of your placement. If any of the subjects has to be modified later, and this is possible, this must necessarily be reflected in a modification of the original Learning Agreement, which your original centre must also accept.
Living in Spain as a student
European Union citizens are entitled to circulate freely and reside in the country.
Social Security and school insurance
To study abroad it is advisable to have some kind of medical insurance.
European Union citizens covered by Social Security in their country may also have this insurance in Spain. They must obtain the European Health Card before leaving the country.
Contact us
Any query regarding Erasmus may be made by telephone at +34 933 523 011, extension 3902, or through the Web form.


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Copyright © 2018 Albuquerque Journal
When they ran off to Las Vegas, Nev., to be married on Tuesday, Benigna Martinez and Lonnie Escovedo didn't tell anyone.
"We didn't want no family to stop us, nobody to tell us that we can and can't get married," Martinez told the Journal on Thursday. "It was spur of the moment."
Escovedo died before the couple got out of New Mexico, along with his sister's boyfriend, Michael Chambellan.
On their way from Mora, the soon-to-be newlyweds got a flat tire on Interstate 25 outside Algodones, and Escovedo called his sister Dawn, who came to help, along with Chambellan.
Martinez said it was starting to get dark as the men changed the tire on the shoulder of the freeway. So she was reaching into the back seat for a flashlight when deputies say 31-year-old Christie Noriega hit the car, striking 21-year-old Chambellan and 28-year-old Escovedo.
Both men were killed instantly.
Noriega, of Rio Rancho, was booked into the Sandoval County Detention Center later that night on two counts of DWI-related homicide by vehicle.
She was also charged with her second DWI offense and child abuse after deputies discovered her 2-year-old was in the back seat during the crash.
At least two people had called Sandoval County dispatch around 6 p.m. Tuesday evening to report a drunken driver traveling south on I-25.
Minutes later, that same car "flew by" Cynthia Maestas and Kirk Hackler as the couple drove home from skiing at Sipapu.
"She was going way fast," Maestas said. "Little by little, she started drifting into that lane – we thought she'd pull away."
The couple watched as Noriega swiped the side of the car at "80-plus" before her car spun around as car parts flew everywhere.
Maestas called police as Hackler got out of the car to check on everyone, trying to keep the women from approaching the bodies of their loved ones.
"They didn't need to see that," he said. "That's not the vision they want in their heads, the last memory of them."
Afterward, Hackler checked on Noriega, who told him she wasn't injured and asked him for help so she wouldn't "get hit again."
"She wanted me to help her start her car," he said. "I didn't want to tell her what she'd just done – she was very nonchalant about what had happened."
While speaking to Noriega after the crash, Sandoval County deputies say, they noticed a "strong odor" of alcohol, slurred speech and "bloodshot, watery" eyes.
Noriega told deputies she had not drunk any alcohol and did not remember the crash.
Deputies say they saw an open "miniature of 99 pineapple liquor" on the ground beside Noriega's vehicle.
Retired Sandia wrestling coach AJ Pacheco said he was eating dinner when he got a call from Chambellan's mother.
"She told me that Mikey passed away – I didn't believe her," Pacheco said. "She said, 'I am not joking, AJ' – the sincerity in her voice, I knew that we lost Mikey."
Pacheco said he immediately packed his truck full of blankets and scooped up wrestling coaches along the way to meet Chambellan's mom at the scene of the crash.
"It's senseless," Pacheco said, calling drunken driving 100 percent preventable.
"They took away Mikey – and that's something that drives me up the wall."
Pacheco, who coached Chambellan for four years on the Sandia High School wrestling team, said he was "proud" to learn Chambellan was out there to help Escovedo change a tire.
"That's what he was doing – helping other people – unfortunately, it cost him his life," he said. "There will never be another Mikey Chambellan."
Pacheco called him a role model who was always quick to make people laugh and lighten up any situation.
"Mikey was rare. He set the example; he was the standard," Pacheco said.
Martinez, Escovedo's fiancee, called both men very respectful and said she hopes Noriega is prosecuted to the fullest.
"They didn't deserve what happened to them, at all," she said. "That's how I feel – I ain't going to beat around the bush."
Escovedo was her "little class clown" who loved to dance, the 36-year-old said. "As soon as you get him to start dancing, you could not get him to stop – he made me feel young again."
Martinez said she and Escovedo are both from Mora and had been together a year and a half – five months ago, he gave her a ring.
She says she will probably never take it off, just like she will never forget Escovedo's smile, his happiness and the last words they shared as the sun set on the side of I-25.
"How we loved each other and couldn't wait to get out of the state to be Mr. and Mrs. Escovedo," she said. "To me, I think it's a dream and I'll wake up and he'll be there – but I know he'll never be here ever again."


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Welcome to the Alpine District website. The Alpine District serves the greater communities of Fall City, Issaquah, North Bend, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, portions of Newcastle, and the Renton Highlands since 1996. There are 78 Scouting units with more than 750 registered adult volunteers serving over 2,300 youth throughout our District. If you are interested in learning more about Scouting, please contact or visit one of the Cub Scout Packs, Scouts BSA Troops, Venturing Crews, or Exploring Posts in our community.
Starting September 12 2019, Alpine District Roundtable will be held at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front Street South, Issaquah starting at 7:00 PM. See map below.
Alpine District Committee Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month starting at 7:00 PM at the Issaquah Sportsmen's Club.
2020 Alpine District Klondike Derby
January 31 - February 2, 2020
Camp Koinonia, 850 Camp Koinonia Lane, Cle Elum, WA
Cost: $20.00 per person for one night - Includes Patch, $25.00 per person for two nights – Includes Patch.
Registration: Coming soon
Download: pdf Alpine Klondike Derby Leaders Guide 2020 | pdf Alpine Klondike Derby Flyer 2020
Past Photos: 2020 Klondike Photos
If you have any questions, please contact Brent Schmidt at 206-719-7392 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Starting September 12, 2019, Alpine District Roundtable is moving to Our Savior Lutheran Church. Meeting time is the same at 7:00 PM.
Our Savior Lutheran Church
745 Front Street South
Issaquah, WA 98027-4206
Our Savior Lutheran Church website: https://www.oslcissaquah.org
Here is a list of District events to include in your annual planning for 2020.
Klondike - Friday January 31st through Sunday February 2nd, 2020 @ Camp Koinonia
Merit Badge Fair - Saturday March 21st, 2020 (ends at noon for families participating in SFF).
Scouting for Food (Flyer Distribution) - Saturday March 21st, 2020
Scouting for Food (Collection) - Saturday March 28th, 2020
District Pinewood Derby - TBD
High Adventure Camporee - Friday May 8th through Sunday May 10th, 2020 @ Camp Pigott
Webelos Woods - TBD
Training events for 2020.
Wilderness First Aid - Location TBD, March 7 and 14, 2020
IOLS - Youth Activity Center in North Bend, May 29-20, 2020
BALOO - Youth Activity Center in North Bend, May 30, 2020
All activities are listed on the Alpine District Calendar
Every day there's another discovery waiting to be made. When you join Cub Scouts, you get hands-on learning that's hands-down awesome.
Welcoming GIRLS AND BOYS grades K-5th grade.
Find a Cub Scout Pack near you at beascout.org and sign up today!
Not finding what you are looking for online? We can help!
Thank you to David P. for these galleries!
Thank you to the Kitsap District for this flyer.
The Chief Seattle Council is divided into 12 districts with leadership provided by the District Executive, District Chairman, and the District Commissioner. Except for the District Executive, the committee is staffed by volunteers.
District Meetings: The Alpine District Committee meets at the Sportsman Club in Issaquah on the first Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. All are welcome. The voting members of the Alpine District consist of volunteer representatives from each chartered organization having at least one BSA unit, plus annually elected members-at-large who in turn elect the District Chair.
Alpine Calendar Tips
We recommend you download Teamup from the App Store (iPhone) or Play Store (Android) for mobile viewing of the Alpine calendar. Complete instructions are listed at http://seattlebsa.org/calendar-apps. Within Teamup, you can select just the Alpine calendar, or multiple calendars (e.g. Council, Training, OA, Alpine).
To link the Alpine calendar to Gmail:
In Gmail calendar, on the left side there's an "Other calendars" heading with a down arrow button on the RIGHT. Click it and select "Add by URL" in the box that shows asking for the URL paste the following link:
Linking other types of email clients:
How To Subscribe to iCalendar Feeds
The district is working on improving how it gets information to all of its Units, Scouts, and Scouters. We've set up a Mailchimp account that distributes the district's monthly newsletter. We've started with all the emails listed on youth and adult registrations currently registered in the district. Anyone can subscribe to the district newsletter here. For more information visit the Alpine District Newsletter webpage.


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Students will receive their training through a combination of interdisciplinary academic courses, including field courses, close collaboration with industry partners through research projects and internships, and professional development training.
(a) Webcast of university courses in fundamentals of groundwater science and remediation technologies. Students will take core courses in hydrogeology, geochemistry, environmental microbiology, simulation methods, and remediation engineering. Each core course will be offered once annually with the use of videoconferencing to allow trainees from all partner institutions to participate.
(b) Technical short courses: including oxidation, reduction, thermal, and bioremediation technologies. Courses will be delivered by industry experts and students from all institutions will attend in-person.
(c) Professional short courses: short courses will be developed with industry partners in the same framework as in (a), but focused on aspects such as environmental legislation, health and safety, field-based methods, best practices, intellectual property rights, entrepreneurship, and business development. Trainees will be expected to take a minimum of three of these short courses.


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|D'-jia-vu? The Stock Market, 1937, Otis Kaye
Copyright, Jim LaneMemories in Bits and Pieces, 1999, Jim Lane
Artists are no different from anyone else in that we like to make money. Some of us have even painted money a few times. Take it from one who knows, it's tricky. People are so familiar with the appearance of currency, especially smaller bills, that the eye can instantly spot a crudely painted image or any errors the artist may have made. My Memories in Bits and Pieces (left) contains a small portion of a dollar bill along with similar parts of two foreign currencies leftover from one of our memories abroad. That tiny section took three or four hours to paint. I still have the painting so while I may have painted money, I've yet too make any money from it. I have that in common with Otis Kaye. Otis painted little else but money, but in that he never even tried to sell his work, he, too, never made any monrey from it.
Very rarely, if ever, have I spotlighted an amateur artist in this space. There are too many excellent, virtually unknown artist "now and then" for me to get involved with amateurs. Otis Kaye, however in that he always considered his painting as a hobby, would seem to fall into this classification. In terms of his painting skills, though, and creative twists and depth, few professionals could match his efforts. Joseph Peto and William Harnett both painting similar, "fool the eye" stilll-lifes, but neither in any way surpassed the efforts of this exceptional "amateur." His D'-jia-vu? The Stock Market (top), dating from 1937, charts in "real" dollars the ups and downs of the stock market in the years following the crash in 1929. Notice the items included in his object lesson saga besides the cash.
Otis Kaye was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1885. His parents moved to Neemah, Michigan, when he was just three years old (other sources have him being born in Neemah). At the age of nineteen, Kaye spent several months studying art in New York, but as so often happened back then, his family insisted he take up a "real" profession, so he and his mother moved back to Germany in 1905 where he studied engineering. They returned to the U.S. shortly before the war. Kaye married and found work as an engineer until 1929 when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression greatly depressed the market for engineers. Otis Kaye was also greatly depressed so he began painting the one thing he had little of--money.
Kaye painted both cash and coins. But because of a 1909 law making it illegal to paint money, Kay would not, and probably could not sell his work. Moreover, the feds got on his case, harrassing him even though he didn't sell his paintings. Instead he gave them away to friends and relatives. As time went on, Kaye broadened his painting content beyond money to include urban street scenes, paintings and drawings of Rembrandt edtchings (left), and other still-life subjects. Yet his specialty, his obsession even, remained money. Kaye moved back to Germany about eight years before his death in 1974 at the age of eighty-nine. During his lifetime he never exhibited his work, though he may actually have sold as many as two (but don't tell the treasury department). Since his death, his work has gradually come on the market as friends and relatives have cashed in on his "monetary" gifts. An Otis Kaye painting titled The American Dream (below), was recently sold by Christie's in New York for $16,250. Check your attics.
|Chicago Theater Scene in Winter, 1928, Otis Kaye,
one of only two or three of his urban landscapes.
|The One Key to It All, Otis Kaye
|Hidden Assets, Otis Kaye. Items were painted life-size.
|Coin Collection, Otis Kaye
| A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine..., 1953, Otis Kaye.
Due to federal legal restrictions, Kaye often painted outdated currency.
|Rembrandt Etching The Goldsmith
with Gold Coin (illusionary), Otis Kaye.
|The American Dream, Otis Kaye,


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Los Angeles Independent Publishing
Lesbian BooksRed Hen Press, a Los Angeles independent publisher founded by Kate Gale, offers poetry readings, poetry contests, book awards, and more.
The Yellow Doorby: Amy Uyematsu
Publication Date: April 2015
Shop: IndieBound, Barnes & Noble
Sansei Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door celebrates her Japanese-American roots and the profound changes that have occurred in her lifetime. As a woman born after World War II, her six decades in Los Angeles are captured in verse that link Hokusai woodblack paintings, her grandparents' journeys to California, church parties playing Motown music, and Buddhist obon festivals. With the color yellow as a running theme, Uyematsu embraces "the idea of being a curious, sometimes furious yellow." A genuine product of the sixties, she adds her own unique LA Buddhahead twist to Asian American identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Praise for The Yellow Door:
"The Yellow Door is both an exuberant and heartfelt dialogue between the poet's past and present. Amy Uyematsu, now a grandmother herself, now stands in the middle of five generations, pondering decisions made by her immigrant grandparents as well as her younger self. The role of yellow in forming and reforming Uyematsu's ethnic and political consciousness is explored ferociously without apology. Once viewing herself as an outsider, Uyematsu has found freedom to truly dance. A pitch-perfect collection by one of LA's finest poets."
Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Awardwinning novelist
"The Yellow Door is a mature and ambitious book, unapologetic about identity politics and peopled with literary friends of the Asian-American movement and other vivid 'historicized' apparitions. Charlie Chan, relocation camps, Executive Order 9066, sansei brides . . . all the familiar movement monikers will make the reader nostalgic for her activist past. . . . Sigh, those were the days when social protest really mattered! A thoroughly compelling read! An enthusiastic 'thumbs up!'"
Marilyn Chin
"Amy Uyematsu holds nothing back in this insightful, compelling and poetic narrative that gives a personal voice to the history of our nation's Asian-American citizens. Indeed, there are poems of struggle and pain here, but also of humor and joy, for at the heart of this work is the love, honor and rightful pride of a Japanese-American poet whose commitment to freedom and justice combines with dignity and compassion as she unflinchingly engages the world that brings itself to her door. I am terrifically moved by this work."
?Peter Levitt, Recipient of the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry
"Amy Uyematsu is one of LA's best poets, one of our most necessary voices. The Yellow Door takes us on neighborhood walks and beach walks along the Pacific and across generations, enjambing eras and pungent seasons in a phrase, granitic continents and the salt of history folded in the creases of caesura. I'm grateful for this book, which I receive like a bowl offered redolent and steaming with both hands."
Sesshu Foster
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"The Yellow Door" is a powerful indictment and a celebration for poet, Michael Dennis
The Rumpus calls Amy Uyematsu, "brilliant!"
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I've never met my dad and to this day I've never seen a photo of him or even discussed him with my mom. From what I've gathered, my mom and dad were married, and they were divorced before I was born. I know this because we both still have his last name, Hankins.
My mom was a single parent, and we lived with my aunt and my uncle in an affluent, predominantly white suburb of Chicago. She struggled with the cultural differences between the Philippines and America and therefore prioritized making sure I had a connection to our Filipino heritage. I grew up learning how to speak Visayan, spending summers in Cebu, and making friends and learning traditional Filipino dances with kids whose parents were also in the Chicago Filipino doctors' association. Through and through I was raised 100% Filipino.
My mom did everything she could while working full-time to ensure I had a happy childhood. For that I was never left wondering what life would be like with two parents. However, as early as I can remember I recall struggling to explain my last name when I told people I was Filipino (and it was painfully obvious that my last name was not). Because kids will be kids, the questions I regularly faced were extremely direct and would come rapid fire as it would become clear just how different my upbringing had been from theirs. I regularly felt unsafe sharing my story growing up, but this experience taught me the importance of sensitivity and asking the right questions.
Still today when asked about any portion of my identity, I always experience a brief moment of pause that reconnects me with just how complicated identity really is and how difficult it can be to talk about or articulate. Answering these types of questions is rarely simple, especially when there is an natural inclination to put a label on things for the purposes of "simplicity."
I've encountered similar complications in other areas of identity in my life:
- I identify as female, yet accept getting called "sir" almost daily as part of my gender presentation.
- I identify as queer because it feels like the simplest way for me to honor who I am today, while also honoring the authenticity of my previous relationships with men and sincere questioning surrounding being asexual for a period of time.
In realizing the complexities of my own identity at such a young age, early on I developed a curiosity and respect for the nuances of others, and have made a life of creating safe spaces for those struggling with to get comfortable with their own. This is what motivated me to get my law degree and work with local human rights issues. It is why I went on to work in diversity and inclusion with students of color at a New York City area law school. These experiences inform my voice, process, and values as a designer and is what ultimately drew me to working with The Coral Project.
The shocking conclusion of 2016 highlighted the existence of filter bubbles and just how disconnected people were from anyone outside of those bubbles. It called into question the trustworthiness and diversity in journalism as people realized the news they had been digesting didn't completely square with the realities in our nation. At the center of The Coral Project is a belief that restoring that trust begins with being much better at actively building meaningful relationships between newsrooms and readers and working together to improve the stories that are told. Simply stated, journalism needs everyone.
We are creating open-source products and guides that make it easier for newsrooms around the world connect with their audiences, and for audiences to connect with their newsrooms. To build these tools we are learning from the experiences of commenters, non-commenters, non-comment readers, trolls, and people who have been harassed out of the comments across a spectrum of identities, to better understand what motivates participation (or nonparticipation), and how to create safer spaces. One key finding from our research has shown that women's voices often go underrepresented as they participate in news comments in much lower numbers than their male counterparts. Additionally, in an area that has gone completely unstudied, we are partnering with the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas to create Having Our Say: Online News Consumption and Commenting Behaviors Among Women and Non-Binary/Non-Gender Conforming People of Color.
In what ways can we rethink the open-ended text box at the bottom of the article and the features surrounding it to create a more safe and inviting environment for these diverse voices to participate? We have designed our products Ask and Talk with a commitment and eye toward this very question, and built mechanisms for newsrooms to easily structure the conversations they are having with their readers.
We are also studying the workflows and needs of comment moderators, engagement editors, and journalists to identify opportunities where better design can improve efficiency and seamlessly integrate modern engagement techniques into the work they are already doing. Also we recognize how communities may differ in culture, values, and needs from organization to organization, therefore we have made our products open source so that newsrooms can easily build on additional features and plugins that are tailored to their own communities.
The need for newsrooms to listen to and equally highlight the diverse perspectives of their readers has become more important than ever. Journalism must be the platform that elevates the voices of those that have long gone unheard and must create safe spaces for dialog and constructive disagreement to thrive. Through our tools and guides we hope to help newsrooms get to that place, exposing people to perspectives outside their filter bubbles and ushering in a renewed spirit of empathy and respect for the nuances surrounding identity. I look forward to sharing my experiences in those spaces, and am eager to learn from the stories of others.
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Samantha Hankins is a New York City based designer with The Coral Project. The Coral Project is a collaboration between the Mozilla Foundation, the New York Times, and the Washington Post funded by the Knight Foundation to create open-source tools for newsrooms around the world better engage with their communities. Prior to joining The Coral Project she completed a UX design apprenticeship with Bloc. She previously was the Assistant Director of International Law Programs and Multicultural Affairs at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. She holds a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications from Creighton University and a JD from Gonzaga University School of Law. Born and raised just outside of Chicago she is a lifelong Cubs fan.


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Briefs Expressing Concerns of Undue Federal Intrusion into Redistricting
To help court-watchers sort through more than one thousand pages of amicus briefs in Gill v. Whitford, the Brennan Center has prepared an annotated guide breaking down each brief's most important arguments.
Brief for Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly in Support of Appellants
Summary: This brief, filed by Wisconsin's Senate and State Assembly, argues that partisan-gerrymandering claims would complicate redistricting still further and authorize a wave of intrusive litigation targeting states' redistricting processes. Amici further contend that Appellees' theory of the case relies on several flawed assumptions about representative democracy, chief among them a belief that the Constitution guarantees proportional representation. Finally, the brief asserts that the Appellees' standard is not politically neutral, but would instead systematically favor Democrats. The law firms of Kirkland & Ellis and Bell Giftos St. John are co-counsel for this brief.
Brief of the American Civil Rights Union and the Public Interest Legal Foundation in Support of Appellants
Summary: This brief, filed by the American Civil Rights Union and the Public Interest Legal Foundation, argues that a constitutional cause of action for partisan gerrymandering would improperly invite federal intrusion into the states' constitutionally-guaranteed power over their own elections. The Public Interest Law Foundation is counsel for this brief.


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Whenever your Milwaukee, WI home begins to experience any kind of water issue it is very important for you to seek help in taking care of it. Materials like mold and even bacteria can begin to grow if it is not dealt with. These things can be so dangerous that they can even kill you if the problem gets big enough. Office furniture is especially susceptible to flood damage and water damage.
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If you have hundreds of shop vacuums that you dont mind potentially destroying, you might be able to soak up the water, but the problem will not be solved because you may not know what the culprit is. The simplest way to deal with these types of water removal problems is by employing a reputable Milwaukee, WI flood damage restoration company that can come in and help you out with the process. We also have the best tools the market has to offer, which enables us to get the job completed as soon as possible.
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If you attempt to eliminate the water by yourself then you will eventually find that it is almost impossible to do the water restoration job without the right types of tools. But people that call our Milwaukee, WI water damage company end up having all of this taken care of for them, which includes water removal, flood restoration and water damage restoration. The thing you have to grasp is that it is not just about getting rid of the water as you also have to ensure the origin of the water damage issue is repaired and that the house dries correctly.
If you are unlucky enough to have water leaking into your Milwaukee, WI home, then you should make it your main priority to have water removal and water damage restoration done. Our water damage restoration staff at Gasp! Water Damage is capable of performing both the water removal and the water damage repair. As early as you notice water in your residence, please dont hesitate to call us at with 888-491-5860 .
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Having water inside of your Milwaukee, WI home can be a frustrating experience. Fortunately, at Gasp! Water Damage , we have the experience and the required equipment to perform the water damage repair in Milwaukee as quickly as we can. If your Milwaukee, WI residence is not taken care of in a timely manner, then you could be placing the health of you and your family at risk because of fungus and germ growth which could be eliminated by having water removal executed. In the event you ever need to use our water damage restoration in Milwaukee, please call us at with 888-491-5860 as soon as you spot the water.
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Whenever you call us we will send our Milwaukee, WI specialists out to help you asap. The second we arrive on your property, we will immediately begin assessing the damage. We will work to spot the source of the water problem, how much moisture is in the room and what the quickest way to remove the water is. After this process is over, we will make use of our commercial sized vacuums to get rid of all of the water that is on the inside of your residence. The process ends after our fans have been used to dry any leftover moisture from your floor surfaces, walls or roof, and our moisture detectors tell us that everything is reliable again. Also, you must discover various other places for example, water damage restoration Daly City, CA to determine if this site offers services where you live.
The Water Damage Restoration Concept
The last step of the entire technique of water removal is simply going over a few papers with you. We will be able to help you determine how much damage was done, what we were able to save vs what needs to be exchanged and how to file the claim with your insurance provider. On top of this, we can also assist you in locating all of the other paperwork that your Milwaukee, WI insurance firm will need in order to process your claim for reimbursement. Salinas, CA water damage restoration is another location that we service so make certain to find out more about our other top notch cities.
Gasp! Water Damage has been performing all kinds of water damage services in the Milwaukee, WI region for some time now and you shouldn't think twice about giving us a call. No matter what kind of services you need, whether it be water damage restoration or flood restoration, we will be happy to give you a hand. If you need some of these services executed in your household, then you should call us at with 888-491-5860 . We also offer service to water damage restoration Daly City amid other cities and states around the country.


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text: "Community + Business" Community Conversation Series July 26, 2017 Click to view (PDF)Lake City Future First will host a free conversation on Wednesday July 26th about Community and Business in Lake City. The Conversation will be held from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. at the Lake City Community Center, 12531 28th AVE NE, Seattle. Join us for food and discussion and audience Q&A. https://enjoylakecity.org/ Tweet Category: Business, Community Projects, Education, Meeting Announcement Tag: Community Conversations, Lake City


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SEEC has defined three types of companies that typically perform those activities. Moreover, SEEC will rely on companies' previous experience to judge on the quality of their services. Companies with enough past experience will apply for a full license. However, for companies that have a robust financial structure and appropriate qualifications to deliver high quality energy projects but do not have the required record of accomplishment of project delivery in the Kingdom to obtain full licensing can apply for a provisional license


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AS A SENIOR IN 2016-17: Competed in 28 rounds and 10 tournaments … Posted a 75.08 scoring average and 59 birdies … Posted six top-25 finishes and two top 10s … Best finish was seventh at the Greenville Regional Preview … Low round was a 70 … Helped Augusta earn an NCAA Regional at-large bid.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2015-16: Competed in all 10 events and played in 30 rounds for the Jaguars … Led the team in four events and took first place overall at the Henssler Financial Intercollegiate … Finished with a 74.41 stroke average … Hit 80 percent of her fairways and 68 percent of her greens in regulation … Carded a 68 at the UCF Challenge for her low round of the year … Posted six top-20 finishes and three top 10s … Helped Jags finish top-10 in all nine regular-season events … Helped the Jaguars earn a No. 30 national ranking.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2014-15: Josefine posted six top-25 finishes on the year in her 10 events and 30 rounds played … Ended the season with a 75.90 average score and shot par or better three times … Lowest round of the season was a 70 at the Mason Rudolph Women's Championships on Sept. 20, 2014 … Best finishes was a third-place showing at the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate on Oct. 14, 2014.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2013-14: Teed off in 11 events and logged 32 rounds in her first year competing at the collegiate level…Carded her best finish at the Diane Thomason Invitational with her 7th place spot…Shot par or better three times with a low round of 70…Posted a 75.38 scoring average…Had seven top-25 finishes and four top 10s…Helped lead the Jaguars to their fourth NCAA Regional appearance at the Tumble Creek Club at Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Wash.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Osteraker Gymnasium in Alcersberg, Sweden…Attended for three yeas and played golf under Martin Pettersson…Graduated in 2013.
PERSONAL: Daughter to Michael and Margareta Nyqvist…Born on May 25, 1994…Plans on majoring in business management…Enjoys working out, traveling and hanging out with friends…Career goals are to become a golf professional…Favorite food is tacos and the person she admires most in Annika Sorenstam…Favorite TV show is "One Tree Hill".


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Ronin's story
Before we begin with the description and story about the motorcycle codenamed as Ronin, from Tamarit Motorcycles we would like to apologise to everyone who took offense because the designs and colours featured on the fuel tank of this project. Many designs are created just because they look appealing because its shapes or colours, frequently without thinking about that maybe would have other connotation or even an offensive meaning towards certain collectives. Once Ronin was introduced in blogs, social networks, fairs and magazines, we received many mails from Asia, asking about the flag featured on the fuel tank, which we painted just because liked it.
One of those mails explained that the flag, even if there's one version today referring to the Self-Defense Japanese Forces, the centered rising sun flag was for many years the regalia of the Japanese Imperial Army, empire historically known for its eagerness on conquering China and the Coreas, as well as the conflicts of World War II and the Sino-Japanese wars.
Nowadays the flag is commonly related to right-wing political collectives, even though it's represented in many forms of art, commercial packagings etc, it triggers a huge rejection among the asian territories around Japan affected by ancient conflicts. Moreover, the flag was banned during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in order to prevent any kind of friction between the attendants.


text: Terms of Reference of Audit and Risk Committee 1. Membership The Board of Directors of ESB (the "Board") shall, in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee, appoint the members of the Audit and Risk Committee (the "Committee"). All members of the Committee shall be independent non-executive directors of ESB. The Committee shall consist of no less than three members. Appointments to the Committee should be for a period of three years which may be renewed for a further three years, up to a maximum of six years in total. A quorum shall be two members. The Board shall appoint the Chairman of the Committee from amongst the independent non-executive directors. A Board member, other than the Chairman of the Board, should chair the committee. At least one member of the Committee should have recent and relevant financial experience and all should have relevant business and career experience. There should be a standard letter of appointment for each new Audit and Risk Committee member setting out: i. role of the Audit and Risk Committee; ii. duration of appointment and renewal provisions; iii. support and training to be provided; iv. the time commitment involved; v. level of remuneration (where appropriate); vi. rules regarding conflict of interests; vii. performance management arrangements; and viii. termination arrangements. Members should have or acquire after appointment an understanding of the Company and its strategy and values, of its stakeholders and of the Company's governance framework. 2. Secretary, Minutes and Conflicts of Interest The Secretary of ESB shall be the Secretary of the Committee. The Secretary of the Committee shall minute the proceedings and decisions of all meetings of the Committee. Draft minutes of Committee meetings shall be circulated promptly to all Committee members. Once approved, minutes should be circulated to all other members of the Board unless, in the Committee Chairman's opinion, it would be inappropriate to do so. The process for recording declarations of conflicts of interest in the Committee shall be the same as at Board level. 3. Attendance at Meetings No one other than the Committee members shall be entitled to attend Committee meetings. The Chairman and other non-executive directors may be invited to attend and may also request to attend meetings of the Committee. As the business of the Committee requires the Chief Executive, Deputy Chief Executive, Executive Director - Finance and Commercial, Head of Internal Audit, Manager Group Compliance Risk & Environment and representatives of the external auditors, should be requested by the Committee Chairman to attend for specific meetings of the Committee or agenda items except for any meetings or part meetings which the Chairman of the Committee wishes to reserve for Committee members only. The Committee may from time to time invite other persons to attend at all or part of and/or to present to, the Committee. At least once per calendar year the Committee should meet (i) the external auditors and (ii) the internal auditors without executive Board members present. This need not be the same meeting. 4. Frequency of Meetings Meetings shall be held no less than four times a year (to coincide with key dates in ESB's financial reporting cycle). External auditors, internal auditors or senior management may request a meeting if they consider that one is necessary. 5. Authority The Committee is authorised by the Board to: Investigate any activity within these Terms of Reference. Seek any information that it requires from any employee of ESB Group¹ and all employees are directed to co-operate with any request made by the Committee. Obtain outside legal or independent professional advice, at ESB's expense, and secure the attendance of outsiders with relevant experience and expertise if it considers this to be necessary. 6. Duties The duties of the Committee shall be as follows: a. Financial Reporting i The Committee shall monitor the integrity of the annual and half-yearly financial statements of ESB, and the annual financial statements of ESB Finance Limited, reviewing and reporting to the Board on all significant financial reporting issues and judgements which they contain having regard to matters communicated to it by the external auditor. In particular, the Committee shall review and challenge where necessary: a. the consistency of, and any changes to, significant accounting policies on a year-on-year basis across the ESB Group; b. the methods used to account for significant or unusual transactions where different approaches are possible; c. whether ESB has followed appropriate accounting standards and made appropriate estimates and judgements, taking into account the views of the external auditor; d. the clarity and completeness of disclosures in the financial statements of ESB and ESB Finance Limited and the context in which the disclosures are made; and e. all material information presented with the financial statements of ESB and ESB Finance Limited, such as the business review and the corporate governance statements relating to the audit and to risk management. ii. The Committee shall review the content of the ESB annual report (including the ESB financial statements) and advise the Board on whether, taken as a whole, (i) it is fair, balanced and understandable, (ii) provides the information necessary for shareholders to assess the ESB's Group performance, business model and strategy and (iii) satisfies the requirements in relation to the preparation of an annual report applying under the code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies and/or the ESB Regulations. iii. Where the Committee is not satisfied with any aspect of the proposed financial statements of either ESB or ESB Finance Limited, it shall report its views to the board(s) of ESB and/or ESB Finance Limited, as applicable. Audit and Risk Committee of the ESB Board ESB has an Audit and Risk Committee in place to assist the Board with its responsibilities in relation to financial reporting, internal control, risk management and its interactions with the external and internal auditor. a. Internal Controls and Risk Management Systems The Committee shall: Support the Board in carrying out the Board's responsibilities for ensuring that risks are properly identified, assessed, reported and controlled including advising the Board in its consideration of the overall risk appetite, risk tolerance and risk strategy of ESB Group. Review and recommend for approval to the Board the risk policy and risk management plan of ESB Group. Review the key risks of ESB Group and the adequacy of planned mitigation. Monitor the effectiveness of the risk management framework of ESB Group, ensuring its continued functioning and appropriateness and to review reports on any material breaches of risk limits and the adequacy of proposed action. Review the arrangements for business continuity planning for ESB Group. Advise the Board on the need for periodic external review of the effectiveness of the risk management for ESB Group. Ensure that the risk management function is adequately resourced and has appropriate standing within ESB Group. Keep under review the adequacy and effectiveness of the ESB Group's financial and non-financial controls. The Board retains ultimate responsibility for the review of the effectiveness of the system of internal control and must form its own opinion in this regard. Review and approve the statements on internal controls and risk management in the ESB Group Annual Report and in the financial statements of ESB Finance Limited. b. Compliance, Whistleblowing and Fraud The Committee shall: Review the adequacy and security of the arrangements for employees and contractors to raise concerns, in confidence, about possible wrongdoing in financial reporting or other matters and for the raising of protected disclosures under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. As part of its remit the Committee shall review and approve the terms of the ESB Whistleblowing Policy (and any changes thereto) and shall ensure that this policy allows for proportionate and independent investigation of reported matters and appropriate follow up action. Review and approve a report, for publication not later than 30 June each year, in the form and covering the matters required by the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. Review the procedures for preventing and detecting fraud, and shall be informed of instances of fraud and any fraud investigations under way. Review and monitor the systems and controls for the prevention of bribery and receive reports on any non-compliance. Review the effectiveness and adequacy of the controls and procedures adopted across ESB Group to identify and give reasonable assurance concerning compliance with all statutory obligations applicable to ESB Group. Review and monitor the procurement policies and procedures adopted by ESB Group. Review and monitor the processes adopted by ESB to achieve compliance with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies. c. Internal Audit The Committee shall: Review and approve the charter of the internal audit function and ensure that the function is adequately resourced and has appropriate standing. Ensure that the head of internal audit has direct access to the Board Chairman and the Committee and reports as appropriate to the Committee. Review and assess the annual internal audit work programme. Receive reports on the results of the internal auditors' work on a periodic basis. Review and monitor management's responsiveness to the internal auditors' findings and recommendations. Monitor and assess the role and effectiveness of the internal audit function in the overall context of ESB Group risk management system including periodic consultation with the external auditors' regarding the operation of the internal audit function. Be consulted in advance of the appointment or termination of appointment of the head of internal audit. Receive reports from internal audit on compliance with procurement and disposal procedures. Meet with the head of internal audit at least once a year without the presence of management. d. External Audit The Committee shall: Consider and make recommendations to the Board in relation to the appointment, re-appointment and removal of ESB's (and/or ESB Finance Limited's external auditor(s) Ensure that at least once every 10 years (or at such shorter intervals as may be required by law) the audit services contract is put out to tender to ensure compliance with applicable laws and to enable the Committee to compare the quality and effectiveness of the services provided by the incumbent auditor with those of other audit firms; and in respect of such tender oversee the selection process and ensure that all tendering firms have such access as is necessary to information and individuals during the duration of the tendering process. Oversee the relationship with the external auditor, including: a. Making recommendations on their remuneration, including both fees for audit and non-audit services, and that the level of fees is appropriate to enable an effective and high quality audit to be conducted; b. Approving their terms of engagement, including any engagement letter issued at the start of each audit and the scope of the audit; c. Assessing annually their independence and objectivity taking into account relevant professional and regulatory requirements and the relationship with the auditor as a whole, including the provision of any non-audit services; d. Satisfying itself that there are no relationships between the auditor and ESB (other than in the ordinary course of business) which could adversely affect the auditor's independence and objectivity; e. Agreeing with the Board a policy on the employment of former employees of the external auditor(s), and monitoring the implementation of this policy; f. Monitoring the auditor's compliance with relevant ethical and professional guidance on the rotation of audit partner, the level of fees paid by ESB compared to the overall fee income of the firm, office and partner and other related requirements; g. Assessing annually the qualifications, expertise and resources of the auditor and the effectiveness of the audit process, which shall include a report from the external auditor(s) on their own internal quality procedures; and h. Seeking to ensure co-ordination with the activities of the internal audit function. Meet regularly with the external auditor (including once at the planning stage before the audit and once after the audit at the reporting stage) and at least once a year, without management being present, to discuss the auditor's remit and any issues arising from the audit. Review and approve the annual audit plan and ensure that it is consistent with the scope of the audit engagement, having regard to the seniority, expertise and experience of the audit team. Review the findings of the audit with the external auditor. This shall include but not be limited to, the following: a discussion of any major issues which arose during the audit; key accounting and audit judgements; levels of errors identified during the audit; and the effectiveness of the audit process. Review any representation letter(s) requested by the external auditor before they are signed by management. Review the management letter (if issued) and management's response to the auditor's findings and recommendations. Develop and implement a policy on the supply of non-audit services by the external auditor to avoid any threat to auditor objectivity and independence, taking into account any relevant ethical guidance on the matter Make external auditors aware of the obligations outlined in the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies. 7. Role of Committee Chairman and Secretary The Chairman has particular responsibility for ensuring: that the Committee is appropriately resourced; the Committee reviews Internal Audit Reports and management responses and ensures that actions are followed up; reports to the Committee contain relevant information and are provided at the right time in an appropriate format; absent Committee members are briefed on meetings and attendance records are maintained and reviewed annually; they report at Board meetings and submit regular written reports, normally by way of Committee minutes, to the Board containing relevant information; matters arising are reported on at each subsequent meeting; and they are involved in the appointment of new Committee members. Appraisal: Appraisal of the Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee should be overseen by the Chairperson of the Board. The Secretary to the Audit and Risk Committee should: request papers as necessary and support the Chairman in reporting to the Committee; circulate documents and keep and circulate minutes of meetings to Committee members and to internal and external audit as necessary in good time for meetings; for any agreed actions, document the owner, deadline and any advice given by stakeholders and monitor between meetings; together with senior management keep the Committee abreast of developments in the State body; and maintain a record of members' appointments and termination/renewal dates and ensure that appropriate appointment procedures are initiated when necessary. 8. Reporting and Other Matters The Committee Chairman shall report formally to the Board on its proceedings after each meeting on all matters within its duties and responsibilities and shall also formally report to the Board on how it has discharged its responsibilities. This report shall include the significant issues that it considered in relation to the annual report and financial statements and how these were addressed; its assessment of the effectiveness of the external audit process and its recommendation on the appointment or reappointment of the external auditor. The Committee shall make whatever recommendations to the Board it deems appropriate on any area within its remit where action or improvement is needed. The Committee shall compile a report on its activities to be included in the ESB annual report. The report should include an explanation of how the Committee has addressed the effectiveness of the external audit process; the significant issues that the Committee considered in relation to the financial statements and how these issues were addressed, having regard to matters communicated to it by the external auditor. In the compiling this report, the Committee should exercise judgement in deciding which of the issues it considers in relation to the financial statements are significant, but should include at least those matters that have informed the Board's assessment of whether the ESB Group is a going concern. The report of the Committee need not repeat information disclosed elsewhere in the ESB annual report (including in the financial statements set out therein), but may provide cross-references to that information. The Committee Chairman shall attend the AGM and shall answer questions, through the Chairman of the Board, on the Committee's activities and its responsibilities. The Committee shall arrange for periodic reviews of its own performance and annually review its Terms of Reference and recommend any necessary changes to the Board. The Committee shall keep its own training needs under review and ensure appropriate and timely induction for new members. The Committee shall work and liaise as necessary with all other Board Committees and in this regard the Committee Chairman will meet regularly with the Chairman of the other Board Committees to agree and update as appropriate the specific responsibilities of these Committees.


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About Us
Clear Advantage Pantry was designed originally for personal use. We never intended to market it but we were never happy with our pantry cabinet. We could not find anything easily and only the items in front of the pantry were visible. Cans and boxes of food expired before we could use them. We didn't know if we had a certain item and frequently bought duplicates or started to cook feeling certain we had a cabinet staple, but we didn't or we couldn't find it. We wasted so much money.
The final straw for me was when something exploded and was running down the back of the pantry cabinet and I couldn't find what it was. Everything was covered in this mess and I had to drag out every item and wash it. It was then that I saw clearly how many items had expired. I had just had it with my cluttered cabinets and cheap organizers that would only hold tiny items or sagged from weight over time. There had to be a better way, and that's where the idea for Clear Advantage Pantry was born!
We built a prototype. It was a great start, but needed a few tweaks and over time we perfected it. Friends who came over were amazed and wanted to purchase it. A professional kitchen designer saw it and said he wanted one just like it in his kitchen and we should get it patented. It took almost 3 years to perfect and acquire a patent. When we acquired the patent, a large home improvement store liked it, but their contract would have made the product so expensive to the end-user that we decided to start out by going directly to the consumer…YOU!
I love my Clear Advantage Pantry. I use it every single day and it makes my life easier and saves me time and money. I hope you enjoy yours as much as I do. Thanks for stopping in.