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al-Jab-baar (The Compelling One)
"(He is) the King, the Holy One, the Flawless One, the Granter of Security, the Watchful Witness, the All-Mighty, al-Jab-baar, the Justly Proud."
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Exemplary principles concerning the beautiful names of Allaah.
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Mon., July 17, 2017
The view from on high
She circled overhead as Melquist scrambled up a 24-foot extension ladder to the nest, where he found two chicks. Each youngster was promptly tagged with an aluminum band on its leg, identifiers that will help scientists track trends in the region's osprey population.
"You can see the red eyes," said Melquist, gently handling a downy chick. "When it's an adult, the eyes will turn yellow."
The chicks' feathers looked a bit like Harris Tweed, with a light and dark pattern that helps camouflage them in the nest. When the birds reach adulthood, they'll be dark brown, with a white head and chest and a black, bandit-like eye band.
At about 5 weeks old, the chicks already had impressive talons. Soon, they'll be fledged and learning how to pluck fish out of the water.
Melquist has banded Lake Coeur d'Alene's osprey for more than four decades. He started as a graduate student at the University of Idaho in 1972 and continued the work during a long career with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He's retired now but isn't ready to surrender his federal bird banding license. Full story. Becky Kramer/SR


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Greensboro (N.C.) Day shooting guard John Newman had been leaning toward Clemson heading into his official visit to the school this week.
The visit closed the deal for him, and on Friday evening, he announced his commitment to Clemson.
"They offered me last August, but I really started considering Clemson really deeply about two months ago when I started to dig deeper into things that I wanted in a school, different things that I was looking for," Newman told The Clemson Insider. "And then when I went on my official, it sealed the deal for me. It has everything I want and need, so there was no point in waiting around."
Newman (6-4, 180) chose the Tigers over offers from Georgia Tech, Providence, Virginia and Wake Forest among others, becoming Clemson's first commitment in the class of 2018.
"I feel like the people there are really genuine," Newman said of why he picked Clemson. "The people on campus that I met, I feel like they wanted to get to know me as a person more so than as an athlete, so that was really important. The facilities are great, and they have great networking for life after basketball."
Newman was a priority target for Brad Brownell and his staff, so naturally the head coach was stoked when Newman informed him of his decision.
"Coach Brownell was so excited," Newman said. "He wanted me really bad and I could tell that. I just felt wanted at Clemson, and I could tell that even when I committed."
As a junior last season, Newman averaged 11.8 points per game for a Greensboro Day team that had a 34-4 overall record and won the NCISAA Class 3-A state title.
Newman, an all-state selection in each of the past two seasons, averaged 8.9 points per game and 4.4 rebounds per game with Team CP3 on the EYBL circuit this spring. He shot nearly 58 percent from the field and 43 percent from 3-point range.
"On the court, I'm a good two-way player," Newman said. "I think right now my defense is the strongest thing in my game. I have a good offensive game, but I really get after it on the defensive end. But I'm a good two-way player that's going to bring energy, excitement, and I'm going to play hard no matter what."
Newman is happy to have his commitment behind him, and ready to begin recruiting others to join him.
"It feels great. I'm just glad to wrap it all up," he said. "No more random calls from coaches. It feels good, and to be the first one (in the 2018 class), it just means I get to start my job a little bit early. I get to start recruiting, and I'm going to try to get some dogs with me."
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In this section you'll find the quickest, easiest ways to get organized. If you naturally tend to be organized in other areas of your life, this will be very simple for you.
If not, I'll walk you through step-by-step until you're there. Here's the good news. Once you set up your system for organizing your personal finances, maintaining it is a breeze.
If you want your new found organization to spill over into your entire household, check out these handy tips for a more organized home.
The first thing you need to do to get organized is decide how you will file your financial paperwork.
If you have the room and budget for a small file cabinet, this is ideal.
If not, banker boxes are a good alternative. These are heavy duty cardboard boxes with tops. They come in letter or legal size and are available in any office supply store.
Another good option are the boxes that cases of copy paper are shipped in. Most offices order copy paper in bulk and they throw these boxes away. It would be a good idea to check with offices in your area to see if they have these. If you can find them, you can't beat the price!
Next, you'll want to pick up a pack of folders. Letter size should be fine for most of your paperwork. You can get these at office supply stores or even Walmart.
Once you have somewhere to put your important papers, you'll need to gather them together in one place. When you get organized for the first time, your kitchen table may not be big enough. Take over your living room floor for this project if you need to. Then, gather the following items:
After you've gathered what looks like everything but your birth certificate, you'll need to sort it. There are two ways to do this. The first way is to label folders by month and year. The idea being to put everything that happens in a particular month into that month's folder. This way works best if you have very few bills and other transactions coming and going each month.
The second and most effective option is to have a folder labeled for each company or type of service you have. An example would be a folder labeled "Utilities". All of your paid utility bills would go into that folder with the most current on top. Another example would be a folder labeled "Bank Deposits". All your bank deposit tickets would go there.
Another good idea is to have a "Bills to be Paid" folder. Keep all pending bills there and check it weekly. This way your kitchen counter stays clutter-free. You'll need more folders to do it this way but when you need to find something it'll be quick and painless. The most important thing is to get organized and do it in a way that makes sense for you.
Either way you choose to organize these records, you'll need to hang on to them for a while. It's important to know which financial records to keep and how long to keep them. When you do dispose of your old financial records always shred or destroy them. This will prevent anyone from gaining valuable information about you that could be used to open accounts in your name or make unauthorized purchases. If you do become a victim of identity theft, learn what steps you should take.
Now that you have a filing system and everything is organized, you should have no problem keeping it that way. When bills or statements come in, simply file them away in their appropriate folder.
As you can see, getting organized is more time consuming than difficult. But, once you get organized the system runs like a well-oiled machine. Having everything in one place will save you so much time in the future. Plus it will make creating and maintaining a budget a million times easier.
Speaking of budgets, do you have one? If not, head over to the "Create a Budget" section to find out how to create a budget that works for you.Return from Get Organized to Home


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Mighty House: A new 'tiny home' for Bay Area's exorbitant market
Frustrated with the Bay Area's absurdly expensive housing market, Siena Shaw and her husband, Brian Rubin, spent the past two years parenting and working full-time jobs — and constructing the Mighty House.
The couple and their then-2-year-old daughter had relocated from New York and were living with Shaw's parents in Menlo Park.
"We didn't know where we were going to live and couldn't figure that out right away because of housing costs," she said. "We were like, 'There has to be a better solution to this.'"
Their passion for building sustainable structures combined with a desire to get out of her parents' house, Shaw said, resulted in the Mighty House, a 250-square-foot tiny home on wheels. The Mighty House sits on an 8-by-24-foot trailer and has a sitting area, kitchen with fridge, stove and oven, a bathroom with a shower and toilet, plus a lofted area for a mattress. The median cost for a home or condo in the nine-county Bay Area was $815,000 in November, but the Mighty House prototype cost just $45,000 to build, Shaw said.
She and her family have since settled in Santa Cruz while the recently completed Mighty House sits empty in Menlo Park, but the 36-year-old architect has ambitious plans for the structure: Once the project can be scaled, they want Mighty Houses to shelter those living on the street.
Tiny homes have been cropping up here and there around the Bay Area in recent years as an inexpensive way to house homeless people. Advocates see the small domiciles as an interim solution, because they're cheaper to build and maintain than permanent supportive housing, and they can be erected quicker. Officials in Oakland, San Jose and Sonoma County have embraced different versions of the tiny home movement in the form of sheds or villages to get more people off the streets.
Shaw has a passion for building energy-efficient homes, but it wasn't until she met Gloria Berry, a former candidate for District 10 supervisor in San Francisco, that Shaw contemplated the Mighty House's potential as a solution for the city's housing crisis. Berry visited the Mighty House while she was on the campaign trail.
"The dignity it had, compared to the sheds in Oakland, the level of humanity that the Mighty House has is through the roof," Berry said. "A shower, toilet, kitchen — the houses in Oakland don't have any of that."
But not all advocates for the homeless are as excited about the tiny home movement.
Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, a San Jose nonprofit aimed at ending homelessness, has questioned the tiny home trend as a tenable solution, in part because they do little to address premium land prices in the region.
"When you think about building tiny homes, that's not a very densified development. Generally, those are one story," Loving said. "Are tiny homes the best use of land in an area like the bay? Each acre of land is very precious."
Instead, tiny homes should be used in the same way municipalities use shelters and navigation centers: temporary housing until people can secure permanent living spaces, she said. However, city officials have repeatedly resisted building individual tiny homes in the past, opting for structures that are even more space-efficient.
As a compromise, officials and housing advocates have explored modular housing, or small units that can stack on top of one another to make better use of scarce real estate. In September, San Francisco Mayor London Breed committed $100 million to building modular units to house people living on the streets. Some modular housing already exists in San Francisco, but it's market rate.
Though Berry didn't win her race for supervisor, she wants to see Mighty Houses take root in her district, which has the second-highest number of homeless people in San Francisco, according to the city's last count.
Berry and Shaw are working on obtaining a permit so they can move the Mighty House from Menlo Park to San Francisco. To scale the project, Shaw hopes to incorporate a sweat equity component for eventual residents, similar to Habitat for Humanity, an organization she's worked with in the past.
In her work with Habitat for Humanity, Shaw learned that many of the first-time homeowners the organization helps have trouble maintaining the costs of living in a home, such as electricity, gas and garbage. What sets Shaw's tiny home apart from other models is its energy efficiency, she said. The Mighty House consumes 90 percent less energy than standard homes, bringing those costs down, Shaw said.
"It's really empowering to physically build a space and be able to walk away from it and be like, 'I made that,'" she said. "People own the space and also feel like they're responsible for it in some way I think could be powerful."
Ashley McBride is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @ashleynmcb


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Stitch the 2012 DOM Reboot: April
Welcome to Month 4 of our Stitch the 2012 DOM Reboot! On the last Thursday of every month, we're presenting a brand new version of one of our 2012 blocks. What a great excuse to slow things down a bit and work on our hand-stitching. We love the portability of a hand-stitched project. Where have you taken your blocks? Do you have a favorite spot to do your hand-stitching?
Aurifil offers 270 stunning colors of both our 100% Cotton 12wt thread and Aurifloss, our 100% Cotton 6-strand floss. This year long stitch-along is a wonderful excuse to give some of those colors a try. 😉
These blocks were originally made with Aurifil 12wt. Would you believe that our floss hadn't yet been introduced in 2012? We love that this reboot gives us the opportunity to try the blocks out with either a new thread, a new color way (hello B&W!), or both AND to reconnect with some of our beloved Designers of the Month! So without further pause, let's check out April's block!
Gail Pan created her April Showers block in April of 2012. She selected the image for this block because…
"When I found out I was April, the first thing that popped into my head was "April showers bring May flowers" so since I am April I wanted to use rain… then birds and finally an umbrella flower came to mind with a little bird sheltering underneath."
Have you been getting lots of rain in your part of the world?
Gail used our 12wt in a range of 5 colors for this original block:
- Red 2230
- Orange 1133
- Green 5012
- Brown 1285
- Blue 5005
Learn more about Gail and her block in the original post, right here.
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We love that Gail stitched up this lovely new version of her block! Don't you just love how the red pops against the black and white borders? Gail used Aurifil 12wt in #2460.
And because we love giveaways… Stitch up the block and upload it via the linky party below for a chance to win! Each month, we'll randomly select a winner to win one small Designer Aurifloss Collection. Who doesn't love free thread (especially when partnered with such delightful free block patterns?)
So, in the words of our DOM Queen, Pat Sloan… Let's Go Sew!!
Stitch up your very own version of April Showers and upload a photo of your block to our linky party. We'll randomly select one winner per month to receive a small box of our 100% Cotton 6-strand Aurifloss. Simply click on the button below to head to our link party page to add your block image. Entries will be accepted until 11:55pm on May 24. Winner will be chosen and announced here onMay 25, the date of our next block!
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Charlotte Fleharty!
— Original April 2012 DOM Post
— April Showers Pattern
— Aurifil Patterns Page
STITCH the 2012 DOM REBOOT SCHEDULE
January — Roseann Kermes/Rosebud's Cottage
February — Sherri Falls/This and That Patterns
March — Victoria Findlay Wolfe
April — Gail Pan
May — Thimbleanna
June — Pam Kitty Morning
July — Sarah Fielke
August — Bari J.
September — Amy Ellis
October — Amanda Woodward-Jennings/The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
November — Emily Cier/Carolina Patchworks
December — Lizzie B Cre8ive
Run by industry darling, Pat Sloan, the Aurifil Designer of the Month Program has been a mainstay of the Auribuzz blog since 2011. Each year, Pat brings together a new team of top-notch Designers, featuring one per month throughout the year. Posts generally share an interview, some fabulous images of projects made, studio spaces and more, a FREE block + a chance to win Aurifil thread. At the end of every year, Pat shares a suggested quilt setting. It is a great way to get to know new designers, to try new techniques, to share in a quilt along experience, and to do some collaborative quilting!
To find all of our DOM patterns, please visit: http://www.aurifil.com/patterns
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Very Pretty~ I will continue with these and add to the Current DOM w/ Pat Sloan for 2017 year~ Where are winners of the Aurifil Floss mentioned? Curious?? Anyone know where they are posted?
Does your entry embroidery piece have to be in Aurafill thread or floss? Other than on line, I don't have anywhere I can purchase them. All the place near me only carry the 50wt. Can I use Cosmo or DMC?
Hello, very much enjoying my first hand embroidery experience by doing your 2012 reboot but unable to participate in adding my blocks as it wishes a URL to upload them? Is this open to everyone, if not that's OK, thank you to all the designers for there hard work any lovely designs (I didn't use Aurifil to do my designs, I had never heard of it till recently) again Ty xxx
P.s I have tried sending a message to no avail.
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A LEADING psychiatrist has issued a seven-point plan to help beat Christmas stress.
This Christmas will be the most stressful ever, according Dr Justin Haslam, consultant psychatrist at the Altrincham based celebrity rehabilitation clinic, The Priory.
And he warns that people need to take steps to avoid long term mental health problems caused by seasonal frazzled nerves, frayed tempers, and over-indulgence. Among the tips to prevent psychological problems this Christmas are to expect things to go wrong, take control of situations, and drink less.
"It's important to recognise that stress isn't normal," he said. "Like the rest of life, Christmas can be amazing, appalling, or average, frequently for reasons which are out of our control.
"Essentially, stress is the tension created when people respond to excessive work, family or other pressures.
"Psychological symptoms include anxiety, impaired concentration, poor judgment, frustration and anger, while physical symptoms include muscle tension, headaches, back pain, insomnia, and high blood pressure. If left untreated, these symptoms may lead to serious physical illness."
Dr Haslam explained stress is often referred to as the `fight or flight' mechanism and your body's stress response occurs automatically whenever you feel threatened.
"Your pituitary gland steps up its production of a hormone like an alarm signal going off in the brain which alerts your kidneys to release stress hormones into the bloodstream.
"Everyone reacts to stress differently," he said. "Some people are naturally relaxed about everything, while others over-react to the slightest issue. "
He said that more than two-thirds of GP visits are for stress-related illnesses and stress has been cited as a contributing factor in coronary artery disease, respiratory disorders, cirrhosis of the liver, some accidental injuries and suicide.
"Accept this Christmas for what it is - an opportunity to spend time with family and friends and renew the ties that bind you together. The key to positive mental health during the holidays is to acknowledge the issues facing you, develop a realistic coping strategy, relax when things go wrong and recognise when to let go and try to laugh. If your stress levels are consistently high and self-help strategies aren't working, seek professional help.
"Clinical stress is a real mental health issue which needs to be addressed for your psychological, emotional and physical well-being. Suffering in silence is destructive."
For more information about the Priory Hospital's treatment programme for stress or for a free self-help leaflet entitled "Taking the Strain out of Stress,"contact: Nan Johnston, Marketing Co-ordinator / Diane Ditchfield, Admissions Officer, The Priory Hospital Altrincham, Rappax Road, Hale, Cheshire; Tel: 0161 904 5609/0161 904 5602.
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The Timberjack is Salsa's aluminum hardtail mountain bike that's equally at home on singletrack or bikepacking to places you've yet to discover. Designed with fast-handling Rail Geometry, clearance for either 29" or 27.5+ wheels and super short chainstays, aid in it's nimble agility. Alternator dropouts facilitate diverse drivetrain setups and emergency "just gotta get back to the trailhead" gearing.
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However I was honestly blown away when only about 10 out of 250+ put their hands up, myself included. Being journalists, I would have thought punctuality was a necessity, but I suppose with mobile phones being far more mainstream than they were say 10 years ago, people don't see a need for a wristwatch.
To tell you the truth, my wrist feels naked without one. I'll usually be wearing one unless I'm exercising because I don't want to make my lovely white leather and rose gold watch all yucky (you can see a photo of it in a previous post - What's The Time Mr Wolf?)
I still remember the first watch I had. It had been passed onto me from a family friend, and it had Mickey Mouse in the middle of the face, his arms as the hands of the watch. Pretty cool if you ask me, but as I chewed everything in my sight in those days, I sadly sucked the life (literally) out of the fabric band. Not good.
My Grandma taught me how to tell the time on this this practise clock she'd made herself on the cardboard from a Rice Bubbles packet. Since I was about 7, I've had a watch permanently on my wrist. I can remember the flower-face silver watch I was given one year for Christmas on a stretch-metal band. Its brand was "Girlfriend" (yep, the magazine had it's own brand going) and it was actually genuinely a beautiful watch. A little hard to read perhaps with only two numbers, the 6 and the 12, on display but fancy nonetheless.
I've also gone through the Swatch watch obsession faze. I wanted nothing more than a Swatch watch and was given one for Christmas in 2007 - after which I discovered my friend Bethany was given the exact same watch and we argued the entire year about who actually got it "first" (technically, I did because of the time difference between here and England) and who "copied" the other person. That watch has seen it's fair wear and tear and now rests in my draw. It was also known as the watch that "ticks really loudly" - particularly annoying to those who sat near me alphabetically in exams or to those sleeping over at my house. It was known to tick at the opposite time to my wall clock which could make sleeping a litttttle difficult at times.
Perhaps that was a load of ramble but I just had to say it. Watches don't have to be boring - the bigger the better! I think they often add the final touch to an outfit and they're very handy when someone asks what the time is (avoids the mad scramble in your bag to find your phone - "Can you ring my phone? I can't seem to find it amongst all this junk.").
If you love jewellery but really aren't into the idea of wearing a watch, there are watches that are disguised as a bangle. The one shown above is from ModCloth.com - the quality doesn't look the greatest but there's a million out there if you look.
Do you wear a watch regularly? I'd love to know why/why not. Make sure you vote in the poll on the righthand sidebar :)


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I just want to take a moment to write what will be my final post at bagpipesandbluegrass.com and say "Thank You"! I started this blog just more than one year ago in order to share what was on my heart during the Proverbs 31 Ministries Online Bible Study of A Confident Heart by Renee Swope.
Over the past year the Lord has impressed a strong passion for writing on my heart and at She Speaks in July 2014 the dream was born to start a new blog, a self-hosted website called Sarah Travis 🙂 Why? I don't write about one topic in particular and I never write about bagpipes or bluegrass even though I love them both!! My new website is simply me sharing the truths of Scripture that the Lord lays on my heart. I will continue to write my Fearless Friday posts and I am praying over a couple of other series that I will possibly write.
I would love for you to join me as I continue on my journey writing what the Lord teaches me through Scripture.
I am running a Giveaway that will end on November 6th at 11:59pm ~ head to my Welcome and a Giveaway post on http://www.sarahtravis.org or click on the picture below 🙂
Thank you again for supporting me on the first part of my writing journey and I hope to welcome you into my new home 🙂


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Kendrick Easley Named to National All-Freshman Team
April 2, 2007
Mount Olive guard Kendrick Easley, son of Seahawks great Kenny Easley, was among 10 players nationwide selected to the 2006-07 Division II Men's Basketball All-Freshman Team, as selected by basketball publication Division II Bulletin.
Easley, who was named Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference Freshman of the Year, is the first-ever Trojan to be named to the national All-Freshman Team. A freshman from Norfolk, Va., Easley averaged 14.8 points per game and scored a team-high 21 points for Mount Olive in the first round of the East Regional of the 2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship. Easley scored in double figures in 21 of his first 26 games for the Trojans. He reached the 20-point mark seven times, including a career-high 25 points against Lees-McRae.
Easley, the first Trojan men's basketball freshman in 10 years to start on opening day, is also the first Trojan since Chris McDonald in 1996-97 to be named CVAC Men's Basketball Freshman of the Year. Mount Olive posted a 23-8 record and advanced to the NCAA II Men's Basketball Championship for the fourth year in a row.


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Why Motor Insurance Prices are Increasing
There is no doubt among consumers that insurance prices are increasing , the CSO have reported that insurance premiums have increased by, on average, 24% since August 2014. There are a number of reasons for the increasing prices of insurance premiums.
- The numbers of claims due to accidents occurring on Irish roads are rising.
It has been reported that there are higher volumes of traffic using Irish roads as a result of an upturn in the economy. The CSO have reported a 34.7% increase in vehicles licensed for the first time in January 2016 bactrimsale.com compared to January 2015.
- Low Premiums have resulted in increased losses for insurers over the last couple of years.
Intense competition in the insurance market has forced insurers to engage in a price war over the last few years resulting in poor yields. In an effort to return to profitability insurers have had to increase their premiums.
- Insurance Fraud is on the rise
Insurance fraud is driving premiums upwards. Insurance fraud is occurring under three categories.
- Innocent fraud due to misrepresentation of the facts. Innocent drivers can become victims of insurance fraud if they are involved in an accident whereby other parties either stage the accident or give untruthful evidence of how the accident occurred and the injuries they sustained as a result or if the other party involved in a genuine accident exaggerate injury claims.
- Deliberate fraud occurs when a driver deliberately lies about their age, their drivers licence, penalty point's information or if they amend receipts.
- Criminal fraud is usually a staged accident which is planned ahead and carried out by a criminal gang.
- Uninsured vehicles are driving insurance upwards.
Uninsured vehicles can add up €40 or €50 to a motor insurance policy. Under Irish law motorists are required to have insurance, third party cover is the minimum requirement.
- As a result of the recent MIBI (Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland) appeal on Setanta insurance liability insurers are liable for Setanta losses of approx. €90m which in turn is driving insurance prices up.
- Increasing costs of Financial Services Regulation
Insurance in Ireland is a highly regulated financial services industry, all insurers operating within Ireland are bound to adhere to existing, expected and potential legislation and regulation that apply to the financial sector in general and to insurance companies in particular. Increasing costs associated with this regulation is being passed on to consumers through higher premiums and a 5% government levy.
- Court Settlement and associated legal costs are increasing.
The following table shows that court settlements for personal injury claims are increasing.
High Court Circuit Court
€ €
2014: 304,353 13,550
2013: 227,321 11,941
2012: 252,146 11,452
2011: 215,730 12,362
2010: 219,303 12,662
Source: Courts Service Annual Reports 2010-2014.
It has been reported that there are a number of contributing factors for the increases including higher settlement expectations from claimants driven by the legal profession, inconsistency in court settlement awards, the injuries board award process is experiencing increased legal challenges due to the fact that a greater number of awards are bnot being accepted by the injured parties.
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KINGS POINT, N.Y. (Feb. 5, 2017) – The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy women's basketball team downed visiting Yeshiva University, 58-43, on Sunday at the Liebertz Gymnasium in Skyline Conference action. The win improves the Mariners' record to 11-8 (7-7 Skyline), while the Maccabees fall to 2-16 (0-13 Skyline) in defeat.
Freshman Shelby Peters (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) recorded a double-double for USMMA with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Peters tied for the team-high in points with junior Gabrielle Salazar (Memphis, Tenn.) and senior Rachel Wehlburg (Herndon, Va.), while also tying for the game-high in rebounds with fellow freshman Taylor Hightower (White Plains, N.Y.) and Yeshiva senior Gavriela Colton.
Freshman Kaleigh D'Arcy (White Plains, N.Y.) added eight points and Hightower contributed seven off the bench. Salazar led all players in the game with four steals.
The Mariners scored the first 11 points of the game and charged out to a 21-6 lead by the end of the first quarter. The advantaged reached 17 points early in the second, but Yeshiva responded late in the frame by cutting its deficit down to just eight points, 32-24, at 1:22 after a 18-9 run. Merchant Marine scored the final four points of the quarter to go into the locker room with a 36-24 lead.
The USMMA lead didn't fall under 10 points the entirety of the second half, as the Mariners' largest lead of the day came at 1:38 of the third quarter, when they Wehlburg hit a layup to make the score, 48-26.
Three players scored a game-high 12 points each for Yeshiva – senior Tess Blaustein, junior Michal Alge and sophomore Avigayil Wiener. Alge had a double-double, as she also brought down 10 rebounds. Colton led the team and tied for the game-best with 11 rebounds.
The Mariners' four-game homestand continues on Wednesday night, Feb. 8, when they play host to Skyline opponent Mount St. Vincent. Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Liebertz Gymnasium. Live stats and a live video stream of the contest are available with links on the USMMA Women's Basketball Schedule Page.
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Women's Basketball Defeats Yeshiva, 58-43, At Home On Sunday
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|Merchant Marine (11-8, 7-7 SKY)
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For many years, Christos traveled in mainland Greece and the Aegean Islands, enjoying the intoxicating mix of grandeur and simplicity of the Greek cuisine.
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The twistedly haunting, creepy and unexpected NBC series Hannibal is one of the best shows currently on television. With shocking revelations, psychological cat-and-mouse games, and intricately detailed murders, it certainly stays with you, long after it airs. And after the wild Season 2 finale that left everyone in a state of peril, the anticipation for Season 3 and answers for where it will all go next is growing, as fannibals wait for the show's return.
As part of PaleyFest NY, which is considered the ultimate TV fan festival, co-stars Hugh Dancy ("Will Graham"), Mads Mikkelsen ("Dr. Hannibal Lecter") and Laurence Fishburne ("Jack Crawford"), along with show creator Bryan Fuller, talked about their first encounter with the Hannibal Lecter mythos, how the undercurrent of love between Hannibal and Will shapes their understanding of their characters, that Season 3 will show how much everyone has been changed by the events of the finale, what Hannibal will be wearing now, learning more about the relationship between Hannibal and Bedelia (Gillian Anderson), casting Tao Okamoto as Lady Murasaki's attendant Chiyo, getting back into the lab in the second half of the season, the possibility of the appearance of Clarice Starling, and why the original seven-season plan is now a six-season plan. Check out what they had to say after the jump.
Question: What was your first encounter with the Hannibal Lecter mythos?
LAURENCE FISHBURNE: It was Brian Cox in Manhunter. "I'm sorry, operator. I haven't the use of my arms." Ooh, okay. Smart guy.
MADS MIKKELSEN: I saw The Silence of the Lambs when it came out. I was way too old to be scared that much, but it was a fantastic film. We owe Anthony Hopkins a lot.
HUGH DANCY: I also saw The Silence of the Lambs. What I remember thinking was how beautiful it was, specifically in that crime scene that he creates when he slaughters the two police officers, and they come in to see it splayed out like an angel. I thought, "Oh, my god, that's beautiful!" And then, I thought, "What's wrong with me!" It did that very well.
BRYAN FULLER: I saw Manhunter and thought Brian Cox was amazing. He gets eclipsed by Anthony Hopkins 'cause it's an Oscar-winning performance, but I think Brian Cox is just as good. I think they're two fantastic performances. And then, I went and read the book, and that blew me away.
Bryan, why is it important to you to change the gender of some of these characters and add that female energy to the story?
FULLER: Well, if we didn't change some of the genders of the characters, it would be a sausage party. There would just be a lot of guys. I think we need female energy in all entertainment. What's exciting about Season 3 is that we have a lot more female energy.
Hugh and Mads, there's an interesting undercurrent of love between Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham.
FULLER: He's penetrated him. It's true!
How does that shape your own portrayals, and your understanding of the characters?
DANCY: They love each other. That's unquestionable. I think it's a platonic love, but it's rich. They recognize each other as unique in the world. They reflect each other, in that way. It's a profound recognition and relief that comes with it.
MIKKELSEN: Going through what Hannibal did with Will, in the two seasons, is probably the closest he's ever been to loving anyone. What love means in his universe, we'll have to see, later on. Everything heartbreaking that happens to poor Will is also heartbreaking to Hannibal.
FULLER: One of the reasons that I was really excited about this project was to explore heterosexual male friendship, not just between Will and Hannibal, but also Jack. I feel like there is a three-way between those men. I think Jack has a friendship with these two guys, as well. It's a very interesting exploration of male friendships.
MIKKELSEN: I think there's an honesty to what Bryan writes, and there's an honesty in how we try to give the scenes justice. That mean that there is never the big plan from Hannibal. When I'm with Jack, it's honest. There's no lie. It's an honest relationship. We've become strong friends, as I have with his wife. What I did with Alana was honest. It might change tomorrow. We don't know. But, it's always honest. That's one of the reasons she can walk in that door without the audience going, "No!" There's an honesty in the whole project. We're not trying to be behind the characters going, "Gotcha!" Honesty is one of the keynotes that allows us to get away with some of these things.
Mads and Laurence, how was it to shoot your fight scene that opened Season 2?
MIKKELSEN: That was a really long day.
FISHBURNE: We felt really long and we looked really young, while we were doing it. But the day after, we really felt our age.
MIKKELSEN: We shot that for 14 hours.
FISHBURNE: No, we did 21 hours. You just blocked out the other seven.
MIKKELSEN: That was a beautiful day.
FISHBURNE: It was great.
Bryan, what can you tell us about Season 3?
FULLER: It's radically different than the previous two seasons. I feel like we had such a blow-out at the end of the second season that everybody has to be so changed by what they've experienced. We painted ourselves into a corner, creatively, and the only way out of it is to start knocking down walls. So, we're doing something completely different in the third season.
Hugh, in terms of character development, what new aspects of Will are you most looking forward to portraying in Season 3?
DANCY: He's come out of that kitchen like he's gone through a furnace, in a way. There's some balance now, between his sanity and his insanity. He's still going to have to face up to it, at some point, but he's carrying that with some kind of poise and equanimity. A slightly lighter, on the surface, Will Graham will be interesting.
Mads, what will Hannibal be wearing in Season 3?
MIKKELSEN: Not a lot. Hannibal is on the run, but when he's running, he's not necessarily hiding. So, it might be strangely flashy, what he's going to wear.
FULLER: Also, there will be a greater variety of looks, as he adopts different personalities.
DANCY: "Maybe no waistcoat today."
Hugh, you worked with Mads Mikkelsen on King Arthur together. Did you recommend him for this role?
DANCY: Only in so far as whenever I had heard Mads' named being mentioned, I whooped and hollered and was enthusiastic, to say the least. Maybe the very first time that I met Bryan, I was in New York doing a play, so we met for lunch with Martha De Laurentiis, one of the producers, and inevitably that question came up. Bryan mentioned Mads' name in that conversation, and for me, from that point on, it was set. It turns out that I don't run NBC, so it took a little longer for everybody to agree.
When you realized that you'd be working together again, what did you both think?
DANCY: I was in the theater, in my dressing room, when I got a call from Bryan, just before I went on stage. And thank god because for all great parts that are fantastically acted, there are multiple bad versions. Most good acting is brilliantly navigating your way through many, many potential pitfalls. I had foreseen what a good experience this might be.
MIKKELSEN: We spent six months together on a horse.
DANCY: Two horses.
MIKKELSEN: As you can imagine, we got quite close. We became friends. Since then, every time I was in London, I always called him and we'd see each other. We never really dreamt that one day we might do something together again.
DANCY: Actually, that's not true. When we did King Arthur, maybe after a few beers, Mads was like, "You should make a movie in Denmark."
FISHBURNE: He said that to me, too, so it doesn't really mean anything.
MIKKELSEN: It was just a fantastic gift. These are big shoes, not only for the guy who's playing Hannibal, but for everyone who's involved in it because it's such an iconic film and book. So, spending that much time with a fellow actor, as I knew I would do with Hugh, it was just a fantastic gift that we knew each other. We are not only in the room, but to a degree, we have to be emotionally naked in certain situations. It's just nice to feel comfortable. I think we were all smitten that we knew each other. Everybody became really close, really fast. That is a gift.
What does Brian Reitzell bring to the show, with the music?
FULLER: What Brian does is score and sound design. When we go to the mixing stage, we usually bury all of the foley. The music carries things. Inside the music is a lot of sound design. I love film scores. I've collected film scores since I was seven or eight. I'm obsessed with them. On Pushing Daisies, we had a traditional film score that was very melodic. It was easier to talk about that, with my background. When I first sat down and talked about the show with Brian, I was like, "It's psychological, and I don't know how to tell you how to do that, so I have to trust you completely to develop your own soundscape." It's the first time I've worked with a composer where I just trust him to do whatever he wants, and it's always amazing.
Can you talk about lining up such great directors for this show, including Vincenzo Natali for the Season 3 premiere?
FULLER: Vincenzo Natali is directing five of the first six episodes. It really boils down to the template that David Slade created. I've been a fan of David's since I saw Hard Candy. It was brilliant, and it was also gorgeous and very subversive and smart. David really has a rough elegance to him that felt like it matched the world. So, everyone who's come in, from Vincenzo Natali to Guillermo Navarro, they continue to elevate and personalize their view of the show. Everybody who comes in is so inspired by the cast, in different ways, that you can track who is getting the most emotional kick for that director, in terms of the characters.
You've had some terrific guest stars over the seasons, like Amanda Plummer, Jeremy Davies, Lance Henriksen. How do you line them up?
FULLER: I love actors, and I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing ones who will do us a favor and come in and do a part that they normally wouldn't do because it's a short burst. But, the real reason we get all of those actors is this cast. They're the bait. That's primarily why we get such great guest stars. The dailies for Amanda Plummer were such a joy to watch because she's an actress who is so informed by her environment. And you could see how much fun the actors were having, working with her.
What does Thomas Harris think of the show?
FULLER: We're told that he likes it. I think Martha De Laurentiis keeps him in a zipper mask in a steamer trunk in her basement.
What can you say to preview Bedelia and Hannibal in Season 3?
FULLER: The first episode is all about that. What's interesting about the third season is that every episode is a little movie. It's almost like the first episode is a pilot for a show that's just about Bedelia and Hannibal's relationship. In that, we understand the context of that relationship, past, present and where it's gonna go.
And you just cast Tao Okamoto?
FULLER: Yes. Tao Okamoto is an amazing actress who you might know from The Wolverine. She's a young woman, and we were very excited when she was interested in the role of Lady Murasaki, but Lady Murasaki is an older woman. It's the same story, but the character is Chiyo, who is also from the literature. She's Lady Murasaki's attendant. So, we're expanding that character and her history with Hannibal. There were a lot of things that we needed the character to do, story wise, that didn't make sense for Lady Murasaki to do. With Chiyo, we had a greater rein. I'm very excited to work with her.
The books mention two female lab techs. Have you considered a new member for the team?
FULLER: We will be getting back into the lab in the second part of the season, so they may appear.
Will there be more incredibly gorgeous and disturbing murder tableaus in Season 3?
FULLER: We do in the first couple of episodes. There's a really weird one, and then it gets even weirder in Episode 2. So much of the new season is very much a soap opera. We're out of the FBI. Characters who were in the FBI are no longer in the FBI. It's all different, so we don't have that kind of mechanism. The second half of the season is more about one case. So, we don't have as many this season. Sorry. But, it will be interesting in other ways.
Will we see much of any interaction, this season, between Hannibal and Will?
FULLER: Just because they're separated doesn't necessarily mean that what they're experiencing isn't about each other.
MIKKELSEN: And there's a very important area called the Memory Palace. We might meet each other there, for a little bit.
Will we ever see Clarice Starling?
FULLER: We're gonna try. Every season, we ask them. With the first season and the second season, it was an annoyed no. With the third season, they were like, "Not this year, but ask us again next year."
How might Molly fit in, if we get to see her?
FULLER: We absolutely are going to be seeing Molly and that relationship, so that will absolutely happen in the third season.
You've said that you have a seven-season plan for this show.
FULLER: It's getting shorter.
How malleable is that plan?
FULLER: We deviated a little bit from the plan in the third season. Originally, it was going to be the season where Hannibal was abroad. And then, as we started breaking that story out, we realized that, in order to make that last an entire season, we were going to have to tread water for episodes. If we have 13 episodes, we have no business treading water. So, I thought, "Let's wrap Red Dragon into the third season, and then actually do a Red Dragon mini-series." That changed a little bit. So, that seven season plan because a six season plan. Those seasons collapsed into each other, in a way that actually fuels their own stories and felt organic.


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Chief said that they had a break-out last night, around one in the morning. Ten guys we were holding all made a break for it. I'm not sure how they did it, no one is sure, but it kept our guys busy trying to round them all up.
When I called, they had just brought in the ninth guy back to his cell.
Three wild guesses as to who's still on the loose.
Monday, June 7, 2010
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- AnonymousJune 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Oh dear, oh dear. Were the other nine "important," relatively speaking? Well, more important then Mr. Conaghan in any case.ReplyDelete
Not really. They were all just in there with him. Convenience's sake, I suppose. Doesn't really matter, we got all of them, and we're about to get No. 10 in a little bit.ReplyDelete
The other 9 are a distractionReplyDelete
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Alessio Enzo
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My research concerns classical coordination and organometallic chemistry in solution and is aimed to the development of functional coordination/organometallic compounds, i.e. compounds that, by virtue of their reactivity and/or chemical-physical properties, can be exploited in other, more complex, environments.
In particular, I have two main research lines:
- Development of metal complexes for photocatalysis and supramolecular assemblies (Research area: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Chemistry)
- Development of metal complexes for imaging and therapy (Research area: Drug Design, Synthesis and Formulation)
The synthesis and characterization of the metal compounds is performed by my group, that is typically composed by one Ph D student and a variable number of master students in chemistry. Occasionally, postdoctoral fellows and visiting Ph D students from abroad join the group.
The research benefits of a tight network of collaborations within the Department (in particular with Dr. Gabriele Balducci, Prof. Elisabetta Iengo and Prof. Barbara Milani). In addition, both main research lines have fruitful collaborations with other Departments (Prof. Gianni Sava, DSV) and local Institutions (Dr. Alberta Bergamo, Callerio Foundation; Dr. Nicola Demitri, ELETTRA Sinchrotron Trieste), as well as with Italian (Prof. Luigi Messori, University of Florence) and foreign Universities (Prof. Roger Alberto and Dr. Gilles Gasser, University of Zurich).
I am (co)author of 169 publications on peer reviewed international Journals, including reviews and book chapters, in the fields of coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and anticancer metal compounds and of 10 patents (national and international).
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- total number of citations: 6325
- average number of citations per item: 40.54
I am member of the Editorial Board of the following international Journals:
- Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2012-present)
- European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2012-present)
- Inorganica Chimica Acta (2014-present)
The most relevant result of my research within the "Metals in Medicine" context (Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry) is the development of a ruthenium coordination compound, universally known as NAMI-A, that was demonstrated to have excellent antimetastatic properties on preclinical animal tumor models. For this reason, from 2008 to 2011, thanks to substantial financial support from Fondo Trieste and CRTrieste Foundation, I have been the sponsor of a phase 1-2 clinical investigation at the Netherland Cancer Institute of Amsterdam in which NAMI-A, in combination with gemcitabine, was administered to 32 patients bearing non-small cell lung carcinoma. NAMI-A was the first ruthenium compound worldwide to be investigated on human beings in a clinical study. The results of the clinical investigation are currently being published:"Phase I/II study with ruthenium compound NAMI-A and gemcitabine in patients with non-small cell lung cancer after first line therapy." Invest. New Drugs .... DOI: 10.1007/s10637-014-0179-1.
Below is the front cover of the book 'Bioinorganic Medicinal Chemistry' that I edited in 2011for Wiley-VCH (ISBN 978-3-527-32631-0). Details on its contents can be found in the review published on Angew. Chem Int. Ed. (see attachment).
Since 1992 I have been teaching different courses of Inorganic Chemistry – including organometallic, bioinorganic, and supramolecolar chemistry – to undergraduate, master and Ph D students in Chemistry. I have been the supervisor of more than 35 master students and of 3 Ph D students in Chemistry. Many of my master students have afterwards got a Ph D in chemistry, either in Italy or abroad, with excellent results.
Over the years I hosted in my group several foreign Ph D students and postdoctoral fellows in the context of COST and other international collaborations.
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The 2015 Sioux Center Bridal Showcase was again a great success! We had over 80 brides (from Sioux Center & 23 surrounding towns) and their guests come through, planning their weddings with our fabulous exhibitors and taking in a great style show. It is always so much fun to watch the excitement on the brides' faces as they come in the door and plan their big day...just another added perk to my job!
As I look back at all the work, time and thought that goes into this event, I can't help but think of all our other events and how we are able to accomplish each of them. We do a good portion of the leg work here in the office, but a majority of it is done by the committee.
Each of our events has a committee made up of business men and women who volunteer their time. From Indoor Fair, Ag, Summer Celebration, Golf Appreciation to Women's Expo, 73 people take time out of their busy schedules to attend meetings, prepare and help execute each event. What a great, serving community we live in!
We simply could not do these events without these people. So I would like to thank each and every one of you who is, or has ever served, on one of our committees. Whether you had a big or small part, your work and time are greatly appreciated!
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I think she looks best with minimum makeup. Too much makeup makes her look synthetic.
I think she looks best with minimum makeup. Too much makeup makes her look synthetic.
yeah she does...i thought she looked marvelous in TTE2. loved her weapon!
Currently in love with Bae Suzy...for superficial reasons.
I agree with ya!Originally Posted by Sugar
yes, we all agree that bingbing looks best with just a light touch of make-up, and she looks within her age with a light touch of makeup!
happy mid-autume festival guys!!! had some moon cake lately?
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thanks for the pics NessunDorma.
who's that guy with Bing Bing in the last pic??
happy mid-autume festival ! I love moon cake the one combination Yummy!!! Yummy!
exactly, those pic with her lighter makeup looks very nice.
Am watching some some of that series where she is a fox spirit, pretty
Me too, I like she has light make up too make me her looks more mature
these I get it from other forum.Originally Posted by Bingcute
from Amazing Twin forumOriginally Posted by Bingcute
I heard Bing Bing will get marriage when she hit 30Yrs,, did anyone know who is she dating now?? I heard Ren Quan is the one always support and helping her is he is the one?
i think it's gonna be "me"
and that means i have to wait some more yrs but that's cool with me
i didn't hear bout tat...maybe she'll marry Ren Quan then!
question: out of all the films you've seen of hers, which one was ur favorite?
Currently in love with Bae Suzy...for superficial reasons.
ren quan and bingbign are buddy-buddy, no romance invloved!
bingbing has recently confirmed that she is indeed dating this guy within the entertainment circle, and according to fu chong, a close friend of bingbing who'd revealed on her blog that bingbing has been with this guy for a few yrs now ... their relation is very stable, and until bingbing makes public the name of this guy, she is not going to tell!
it's an open secret among bingbing fans that bingbing has a boyfriend for quite a while now, we nicknamed him "niu mo wang" (bull king).
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so far, my fav modern series is called Homeward Bound, i haven't watch A Beautiful New World yet, but i'm sure i'll love it as much as i like HB, so far, i have heard so much positive comments about bingbing's performance in this series, there is no one, and i'm seriously, there is no one who had watched A Beautiful New World hates bingbing. they either changed their preconception about bingbing's acting skill or love her much more.
see caps on Homeward Bound (2001):
my fav ancient series is PZXY at this time, i haven't finish Feng Sheng Bang. i'm dying to watch Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan, i think Da Tang is going to be a lot better than Feng Sheng Bang, the love story in Da Tang is much intense, and chemistry btw bingbing and zhao wen xuan is great, i can't wait to see this series!
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pictures and news:
as the goodwill amambassador of World Medicine Health Council, here's bingbing appeared in a charity event on 9/13 in Beijing
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Battle of Wits meets the press in Beijing on 10/07, the movie is scheduled to air in Nov. of this yr
what is nick doing? this korean dude in the middle looks like he's having a stomachache~~
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Feng sheng Bang Bing Bing didn't have that much scene at first part hope part 2 there is more scene about her.
I like series Love to Found No Where, Amazing Twin, Muskerteer and Princess, Heroic Legend, Young Detective 2, Jian Lian Tian Xia, Master Ma
I prefer FBB with those long straight hair rather than the wavy curls.
wow...you seem to like alot of her films Beedon. i've watch quite a few myself but only liked sum of the films.
i liked Master Ma only for her and her father. i thought it was great how her father loved her so much even though she wasn't really his. the rest of the cast bored me.
Amazing Twins was okay but bugged me alot.
Muskerteer and Princess had bad plot and its not one of bing bing's better films.
Young Detective 2 i totally adore but it was still not one of BB's better film, and the romance was to far apart and way to little for my liking.
i don't recall LTFNW, JLTX and HL. maybe if u posted posters i would be able to recognised them.
Currently in love with Bae Suzy...for superficial reasons.


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Here's what I know about raising teenagers: Nothing.
I can't give you any advice, and I don't have any words of wisdom; maybe if you check back with me when they're all grown I can look back and come up with an answer or two, but until then Joe and I (like most of you) are making this whole parenting thing up as we go along.
A few years ago I wrote a post about the caveman tendency indicative of teens, and in desperation I visited several Catholic parenting Web sites where I found this, the only thing that has helped me stumble my way through these teen years: the responsibility for developing a healthy parent-teen relationship rests primarily with the parent; that (like it or not) it is really up to us to keep the peace and maintain open lines of communication.
Fast forward a couple of years to this past weekend, and those words once again guided us.
On Friday Joe and I decided to take the family on a last minute trip to the beach. We planned to leave Sunday morning, spend the night in Hilton Head, and return home late Monday afternoon. On Saturday, as we were driving to the Kroc Center for a family workout, we announced the surprise to the boys. Everyone was excited except our oldest.
He didn't want to go.
What?!? The beach, eating out, surf, sand … and he doesn't want to go?
He also wasn't giving us a good reason except to say that he didn't see the point of driving all that way just for 24 hours.
Emotions were swirling: Nicholas was reticent, his brothers were in a state of disbelief, and Joe and I were more than a little angry. I mean, what was his problem? Well. If we decided we were going as a family then he was, too, and that was just that. He huffed, we puffed, and by the time we arrived to the Kroc Center no one was speaking.
It's a good thing we were at a gym as it provided plenty of ways to work off frustrations.
As I was running on the treadmill, I thought about that parental advice from a couple of years ago: a healthy parent-teen relationship rests with the parents (okay, that means us) … it's up to the parents to keep the peace (sigh, us again) … parents need to maintain open lines of communication (right. got it. us again).
After my workout I went to find Nicholas. He, too, was finished and was sitting by the pool watching his baby brother pretend to be Michael Phelps.
I sat down next to him.
"Nicholas," I began. "I'm trying to understand."
And just like that, he began to talk. He explained that he had planned to use this three day weekend to get some things done; that he wanted to finish his proposal for his senior project, study for a calculus test, work on an English essay, and completely finish one of his college applications. He was worried that he wouldn't be able to get everything done before we left on Sunday, and he was worried that he had disappointed us by not wanting to go in the first place.
I listened to my son, and I understood. Totally. I patted him on the shoulder and went to find Joe.
In the end, this is what we decided: Nicholas could stay home by himself. This was a first for all of us, but it was time and he was more than ready to experience a little freedom.
So, while we were in Hilton Head Nicholas worked on his deadlines and his projects. While we were gone he had a friend over for two hours to study, he drove to Nonna and Nonno's house for dinner, he played cards with them, and then he came back home and watched Ocean's 11. While we were gone he enjoyed the freedom of eating in front of the television, of not making his bed, and of listening to the stereo while he worked. While we were gone he was responsible, mature, and finished everything on his to-do list.
And it was exactly what he needed.
And it was exactly what he needed.
Reaching out.
Keeping peace.Maintaining an open line of communication.
Honest to God, parenting keeps us humble. While we may not know what we are doing most of the time … sometimes things manage to work out just right.
And as parents, those are the moments to hold on to.


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Forced disappearance
|Forced disappearance
|"Forced disappearance" of someone is their secret abduction or imprisonment, typically by a political organisation or national government.
In international human rights law, a forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.[1]
International Convention against Forced Disappearance
Parties and signatories to the ICAPED:
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|United Nations General Assembly Resolution
|29 June 2006[2]
|20 December 2006[3]
|23 December 2010[3]
|32 ratifications
On 20 December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which provides for the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance, as well as the right for the relatives of the disappeared person to know the truth. The Convention also contains several provisions concerning prevention, investigation and sanctioning of this crime, as well as the rights of victims and their relatives, and the wrongful removal of children born during their captivity. It was signed immediately by 57 countries, and entered into effect with the 32nd ratification on 23 December 2010. By March 2014, it had 93 signatories and 42 parties.[4]
The area of the world in which the ratification rate has been the highest is South America, where under Operation Condor, tens of thousands of people were disappeared under US-backed military dictatorships. Support is also quite high in Europe, with most EC members ratifying. Notable failures to sign included US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and China.
Selected nations
For a more complete list see the wikipedia article on this topic.
Argentina was the second nation state to ratify the UN convention against forced disappearance.[4]Under the Dirty War, maybe 15-30 thousand people were 'disappeared', tortured by the military dictatorship in the 1970s.
In 2009, Robert Fisk reported that refugee and professor of law El Ghanem had been "disappeared" by the Swiss government, in light of the fact that they were refusing to acknowledge his whereabouts. Switzerland signed the UN convention in 2011, but has still not ratified it (as of March 2014).[4]
United States
At a State Department press briefing, a spokesman said that he couldn't "give you specific reasons here from the podium as to why we didn't sign on to it", but added that it did not meet "our needs and expectations". The CIA engages in forced disappearance of prisoners of war in the course of its "war on terror" as Bob Baer has noted.[5][6]
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The two most famous pupils of the BMW Off Road Skills Course are Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, who last year rode from London to New York on a pair of R1150GS Adventure BMWs and filmed their trip for the TV series Long Way Round.
I asked Boorman about the value of the training in some of the toughest conditions any off-road rider is likely to find: "Ewan learned a lot as he'd never ridden off-road before, picking up all the basic techniques. I've been riding since I was about seven - on a farm in Ireland, doing some motocross, enduro and so on, although not proper competition - so I found it a bit easier.
But what the course did for me was validate what I was already doing and help me understand it. It gave me a lot of confidence on the 1150 too - sometimes this was a bit easier than the 650 in fact, and it was surprisingly nimble.
"We covered all sorts, like what to do if the bike was dropped in water - unscrew the spark plugs, let the starter pump the water out, and don't worry about getting it all out - but Ewan was the first to drop his bike on a river crossing. Getting the bike out was the hardest part; getting it running again was easy.
"The techniques for picking the bike up were very useful, but every single bit of information they taught us, we used a thousand times over on the trip. I'd say do this whatever bike you're travelling on. Simon and Nick have such a good attitude: it's about having a laugh, not being self-conscious about falling off. They teach you so much. I'd like to go back again, just to see how much better I am after the trip!"


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The 5 Myths: Myth No. 4, Cost Prohibitive
The 5 Myths Holding Back Plan Sponsors
Myth Four The Hidden Costs of Defined Benefit Plans
- Myth Transferring DB risk to an insurer is cost prohibitive.
- Fact Transferring DB risk can actually mitigate expenses.
Morgan Stanley found that investors view pension deficits as riskier than corporate debt.
The economic cost of transferring risk is lower than what many sponsors and analysts perceive, be-cause the cost of trans-ferring risk includes many expenses that sponsors will incur even if they don't transfer risk. A disaggregation of the costs of a retiree buy-out is illustrated in Exhibit 4.
In this example, the total cost of the retiree buy-out is 104 percent of the DB plan's Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) liability for its retirees.
Exhibit 4: The Disaggregated Costs of a Retiree Buy-out
For illustration only. Percentages represent present value of estimated future costs.
|Buy-out Valuation
|Economic Value of Plan Sponsor Liabilities
Costs Borne by Plan Sponsors
- Administrative and PBGC expenses: 3%
- Investment management fees: 2%
- Credit defaults and downgrades: 1%
- Mortality: 6%
The buy-out premium includes a capitalization of the following costs that would be borne by the plan sponsor over time regardless of whether or not they transferred risk via a buy-out:
Administrative Expenses and PBGC Premiums
Plan sponsors incur annual expenses related to participant servicing and plan administration. These costs are estimated to be $40 per participant each year. PBGC premiums are $64 in 2016, increasing to $69 in 2017, and $74 in 2018, with indexing thereafter.1
Investment Management Fees
Plan sponsors incur investment management expenses related to managing the assets within a DB plan. The analysis presented in Exhibit 4 assumes investment management expenses of 30 basis points per annum.
Credit Defaults and Downgrades
As an alternative to transferring risk, plan sponsors can execute an LDI strategy that closely matches the plan's assets to its liabilities. Executing such a strategy would require a significant allocation to fixed-income securities, in particular long-duration AA corporate bonds. However, sponsors employing this strategy will incur on-going costs within the bond portfolio related to credit defaults and downgrades. The analysis presented in Exhibit 4 assumes that the cost of defaults and downgrades is 24 basis points per annum.2
Since the buy-out premium is a one-time payment to the insurer, the premium must account for all similar future costs that the insurer will now bear over time. Of course, executing a buy-out also means that sponsors are paying for these costs in advance via a single payment, rather than gradually over time.
Many plan sponsors could issue debt to fund a pension deficit, and this may be particularly attractive in a low-interest rate environment. By doing so, they replace volatile pension debt with contractual, fixed debt obligations. Morgan Stanley found that investors view pension deficits as riskier than corporate debt because when interest rates fall and pension liabilities grow, the pension implicitly claims a greater portion of a company's total assets—to the detriment of its other creditors and shareholders.3 For further insights into the potential benefits of a borrow-to-fund solution, please read our latest research, "Borrowing to Fund Pensions Could Enhance Shareholder Value."


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The kids are both dealing with colds. They're better then worse, then one is better and the other worse. It generally takes Sam quite a bit longer to recover than Rachel and she's noticing the difference in attention.... even if she didn't want it before.
When she had the cold we had to fight to wipe her runny nose. She was very good at whipping her face back and forth so you couldn't get a solid wipe. Now we're not chasing her to do that. Now we're saying, Sam come here, let me get your nose. And as we finish with Sam, there is Rachel coming up to have her 'turn', her little nose poked forward like an offering. ummmm hmmm.
Andrew was away very unexpectedly for a family emergency. He's back now but for 6 loooong tryyying days I was a single parent. Good grief was it hard. It was impossible for me to meet their needs for attention and their behaviour often seemed to spiral out of control. One day in particular was NOT good. They were generally miserable all day, cranky, needy, lashing out at each other and at me. Rachel seemed to cry the entire day. I was reduced to tears mid-day as well. They slept poorly while he was away and were generally a lot more needy....and the second their sibling got attention, the world was ending because they weren't. It was completely exhausting dealing with that much emotion every minute of the day.
I had help for the bedtime routine 3 of the 6 nights. When I didn't I managed alone, making up for the lack of help by keeping things contained to one room at a time and prepping everything in advanced. One night Rachel had an accident in the tub as I was diapering Sam. So I quickly scooped her out and as I was drying her, Sam got into the penaten. I turned around to find diaper cream smeared all over the fancy vent cover, the floor, the drawers, Sam's hand, foot and face. My immediate response was, 'Aaaw Maaaan!' Sam quickly repeated it, aw maaan, and the moment was saved from being totally frustrating. Another night Rachel wailed in her crib and would not fall asleep so we ended up facetiming with Daddy. She kept looking around to see behind the phone as if she could find him back there. After that brief chat she went straight to sleep without a single wimper.
Andrew says they grew up a lot over the week. Sam is starting to repeat words and he has a lot of new sound combinations. They're sturdier on their feet. They seem so much more aware of what is happening around them. They have more hair apparently.
Yes, they may be more grown up but their need for us is perhaps even more apparent at this stage. There is no replacement for Daddy, not even Mommy.


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publication date: Feb 7, 2017
author/source: Dave Moss
by Dave Moss
Arguments about paying to cross Britain's biggest road bridges have raged for 50 yeaers - and nowhere more so than in the Western Group region.
With just over a month to go for submissions to be lodged on the future of the tolls, here is the story so far.
The controversy began in September 1966, when the new Severn Bridge opened to M4 motorway traffic on payment in either direction of 2s 6d (12½p) though motorcycles paid only 1s 0d (5p) - and were eventually exempted.
In 1990 Severn River Crossing PLC ("SRC") successfully tendered to take over its operation - and build and operate a second bridge. It shouldered outstanding debt of £122 million at 1992 prices, plus £330 million in construction costs, and gained the right to collect tolls on both crossings to meet its financial obligations. The new crossing opened in June 1996, when cars paid £3.80, light vans and small buses £7.70, and large vehicles £11.80.
These tolling concessions continue until 2026, or SRC generates a specific cash amount, set in July 1989, and equivalent to £1,028,910,000 at today's prices. With around 25 million vehicles using the two bridges every year, calculations indicate this sum will be reached in late 2017 or early 2018, when bridge ownership will revert to the UK Government.
With that prospect in sight, last summer a "Severn Bridge summit" was held in Westminster, when a group of MPs, transport operators and pressure groups tabled a "wish list," demanding greater Government transparency over the future of these crossings. Top of the list was reducing or ceasing tolls altogether, and introducing automated payment systems and regular user discounts.
The Freight Transport Association has long been critical of these charges, and its Chief Executive, David Wells, who chaired the summit, said afterwards: "The Government must provide some clarity on its plans for the bridges. FTA would welcome a reduction in tolls to maintenance costs only. These are some of the most expensive tolls in the country, administered by outdated payment methods, which just add to congestion."
Its long been argued that both the tolls and peak time toll plaza congestion impact negatively on the economic health of the entire region, outweighing any financial benefit derived from the tolls themselves. Following suggestions in recent Budgets that VAT could be removed and tolls halved by setting them simply to recover costs, the summit learned a full consultation was proposed "in the next six to eight weeks," offering options on the way forward when administration of the Severn bridges passes to the Government.
Days later came the vote to leave the EU, turning those six to eight weeks into a very long time indeed in British politics; the consultation finally appeared on 13 January with pricing centre stage. Since 1997, legislation has required toll prices to remain constant after inflation, with no provision for reductions.
On regaining control, the Government proposes to halve tolls in general, and abolish altogether the existing £13.40 charge for vans and small buses Their toll would fall to just £3.00, the same as that proposed for cars and other category 1 vehicles, currently charged £6.40. Tolls for goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes and larger buses will fall from £20.00 to £10.00. Motorcycles will remain exempt, while TAG-style payments - currently accounting for about 25% of crossings - will continue, with prices falling by similar amounts.
Reduced charges are expected to increase traffic by around 17% by 2028, so to offset possible congestion issues, so-called 'free-flow' charging - as used at the Dartford crossing - is being evaluated. This could allow a return to two-way charging instead of westbound only at present - bringing potential for another 50% price reduction. Also under consideration are ways to reduce toll collection times, including "rounding down" toll payments to whole pounds - minimising numbers of coins needed for both payment and change - and possible daytime-only charging.
Despite claiming to be aware of an independently compiled Welsh assembly report showing that complete toll removal could significantly boost the south Wales economy, the consultation doesn't offer this most hoped-for option. The Government states this prospect, requiring outstanding debt clearance and bridge operation and maintenance costs to be offset against potential increased general taxation revenue, is "an attractive theory."
Neatly avoiding the reality that far more tax is raised annually from road users than is ever spent on roads, the prospect is ruled out by citing longstanding official policy... "users of estuarial crossings should pay for their upkeep."
The Government says it prefers a sustainable solution, balancing user and taxpayer needs - while guaranteeing continued safe running and upkeep of these vast and complex structures. The costs are considerable: consultation documents reveal annual operation and maintenance costs around £15 million, plus another £63 million incurred in fixing latent defects. Additionally, Highways England, which will take over from SRC, estimates that post-concession resurfacing will cost around £12 million.
Thus toll payments will fund the two Severn bridges for some time to come, despite some Government-acknowledged uncertainties over future operating costs. A key issue here is implementation of "free-flow" tolling, where costs could run into tens of millions of pounds. Experience in Britain and elsewhere has also shown on-going system operation is more expensive than booths and barriers, potentially increasing future toll charges. Its claimed halving existing tolls will generate enough revenue for the moment, though further reductions now could expose financial risk.
Ian Gallagher of the FTA, commenting on the announcement, said he's disappointed the Consultation does not go further and said, "While the reductions are welcome, the Government had a real opportunity to provide a boost to the Welsh economy by scrapping the £63 million debt, and introducing lower charges. Realistically, the FTA is keen to see out of hours travel permitted free of charge, as well as incentivisation for the take up of the TAG system."
The consultation runs until 10 March 2017, so if you have any views on the Bridge of Sighs, you have just over a month to get them lodged. See the on-line links below.
The Welsh Assembly report "The impact of the Severn Tolls on the Welsh economy," together with an executive summary, are available at:
Concern and controversy has long dogged the Severn crossings for a whole range of reasons, usually involving money... A number of key issues are covered in this speech in the House of Commons on May 6th 1992 - long before the second Severn crossing opened - by Labour member for Newport East, Mr. Roy Hughes...
The full Consultation document "The Severn Crossings, reducing toll prices and other issues" can be found here...
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