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Apparently not all of you got my point in today's column on the ridiculous half-game suspension the NCAA and Texas A&M handed down to Johnny Manziel.
Perhaps you should read the column again.
I'm still in Manziel's corner, and still against almost all that the NCAA stands for.
(A&M brass and their bogus Code of Honor have now earned a special place in my garbage disposal too.)
From my emails, you Aggies want to blame the NCAA for taking advantage of athletes like poor Johnny.
Welcome to the party. Some of us have been criticizing the NCAA for years. Well before it was not-so-poor Johnny being taken advantage of.
It doesn't matter that you're only here because of your Aggie bloodline or a Johnny Football fanboy.
But let's not applaud Manziel for getting away with what we all know he got away with.
Not that I wanted him to be suspended. As I have been saying since before any of you had even heard or Manziel, such rules are ridiculous.
But don't try to portray this as some great victory for those of us who want the NCAA to be turned upside down.
A guy on Twitter suggested that people like me ought to be pleased that Johnny beat the system.
He has missed the point entirely.
It's not about beating the system, but bringing down the system.
I'm not mad at Manziel. I'm disappointed.
What Manziel did is the same as a man in the mid-1950s sneaking food out of a restaurant that doesn't serve blacks. You don't deserve applause for that.
The applause goes to those who walked into the front door of that restaurant, took seats at those lunch counters in protest, risked arrest, beatdowns and worse, and pushed for change.
What did Johnny Football accomplish in "beating" the system?
Well, if you have $65 bucks, you can still buy his No. 2 jersey at the A&M Athletics official website.


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2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards: Check Out The Hip Hop And R&B Nominees
The 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards are set to take place on Sunday, March 11th at the historic Forum in Los Angeles. For the fifth straight year, the ceremony will celebrate the biggest songs and artists heard throughout the last year across radio stations nationwide and the iHeartRadio app ... and the nominees are in!
Receiving multiple nominations this year are Cardi B, Rihanna, Migos, Bryson Tiller, Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar, DJ Khaled and more. In fact, Rihanna, Mars and Khaled have all received five nominations each!
For the first time ever, this year iHeartRadio will present seven awards in the seven nights leading up to the Sunday, March 11th telecast. Each night at 8 p.m. ET, an artist will be presented their award and give an acceptance speech.
The 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards will be simulcast live on TBS, TNT and truTV at 8pm ET/5pm PT on March 11th, as well as on iHeartMedia radio stations across the country and on the iHeartRadio app. The show will feature live performances from today's superstar performers, once-in-a-lifetime artist collaborations, celebrity guest appearances, and more.
And as always, the iHeartRadio Music Awards will celebrate you -- the fans. Music fans will be given the opportunity to vote and decide winners in several new and established categories including Best Fan Army presented by Taco Bell, Best Lyrics, Best Cover Song, Best Music Video, the Social Star Award, Best Solo Breakout, and the first-ever Cutest Musician's Pet, Best Boy Band and Best Remix awards. And during the show, fans will vote via social media for the winners of Best Performance and Best Dressed awards, which will be announced immediately after the ceremony.
Social voting for the Social Star Award and Best Fan Army presented by Taco Bell began through iHeartRadio's social sites and in the iHeartRadio app on January 9th, and social voting for all other categories begin today (January 10th). So, keep those votes coming, because voting will close on March 4th with voting for the Social Star Award and Best Fan Army continuing through the evening of the awards on March 11th. Fans can vote by heading to iHeartRadio.com/awards.
See the full list of the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards' hip hop and R&B nominees below!
Hip-Hop Song of the Year:
"Bad and Boujee" - Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert
"Bodak Yellow" - Cardi B
"HUMBLE." - Kendrick Lamar
"Rockstar" - Post Malone
"Wild Thoughts" - DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller
Hip-Hop Artist of the Year:
DJ Khaled
Kendrick Lamar
Best New Hip-Hop Artist:
21 Savage
Cardi B
Lil Uzi Vert
Playboi Carti
R&B Song of the Year:
"B.E.D." - Jacquees
"Location" - Khalid
"Love Galore" - SZA featuring Travis Scott
"Redbone" - Childish Gambino
"That's What I Like" - Bruno Mars
R&B Artist of the Year:
Bruno Mars
Childish Gambino
The Weeknd
Best New R&B Artist:
Kevin Ross
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Revamping the size of the universe
Excerpt from the May 30, 1964, issue of Science News Letter
SIZE OF UNIVERSE STUDIED — The universe is much bigger than scientists thought as little as 15 years ago, Dr. Ira S. Bowen, director of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, said. It is billions of light years in size as seen from the earth, exactly how big even astronomers can not yet say. The amount of space and matter the world's largest telescope, the giant 200-inch atop Mt. Palomar, can see is so great that how the universe is put together should soon be known…. Before the 200-inch went into operation, the most distant objects in the heavens were thought to be only hundreds of millions of light years away. —Science News Letter, May 30, 1964
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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Tuesday, May 29. All times are Eastern.
Cougar Town (ABC, 8 p.m.): It's been an embattled season for America's favorite show about middle-aged people who hang out and drink wine, but the series has emerged from low ratings and an awful time slot to land a fourth season and a new network home after TBS came courting. In tonight's third season finale—an hour long—Jules and Grayson decide to elope to Napa, but their friends come along. Also, there will be references to Groundhog Day, which should be fun for everybody. Ryan McGee is glad he won't have to say goodbye to the Cul-de-Sac Crew, and we're glad we've finally learned proper AP style for cul-de-sac.
Frontline (PBS, 10 p.m.): The good folks at PBS love having a good time, and they'd love to tell you all about what's up with Al Qaeda's activities in South Yemen, particularly timely given the recent suicide bombing and drone attacks in the area. Meredith Blake checks out just how far things have escalated.
Six Feet Under (1 p.m.): Summer TV Club Classic officially kicks off with John Teti's look at the second season of the seminal HBO series about the Fisher family and their many co-workers, lovers, and friends. Mostly, though, he's just happy to be back, surrounded by all those talking corpses. Who isn't?
Police Squad (3 p.m.): With just six episodes in the show's first and only season, Erik Adams is going to take his time with Police Squad, tackling one episode per week. His initial pitch involved tackling only one episode per year, but we quickly talked him down to a six-week run writing about the show.
Alien Surf Girls (TeenNick, 7:30 p.m.): We could probably look up what this new teen show is all about, but we're just going to assume that Alien Surf Girls says it all. It almost sounds like something we would have come up with in a fevered dream state while screwing around in high school study hall.
The Catalina/The LA Complex (The CW, 8/9 p.m.): Margaret Eby takes on the former, a new reality show about the lives of a hotel staff in Miami Beach, Fla. Myles McNutt looks at the season finale of the latter, which was one of the most intriguing new dramas of the spring and was completely ignored.
Meet The Hutterites (National Geographic, 10 p.m.): National Geographic hasn't met an obscure American subculture it couldn't make a reality show about yet, and damned if it's going to let the Hutterites stop it! The first episode is called "Harvest Party Scandal." You can't see that on Mad Men!
Workaholics (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.): This sitcom took some big steps up in its second season, and we're interested to see what it pulls off in season three. We'll have a review of it up tonight, and if you like the show, be sure to drop in and offer up your page views and comments. We might just keep it up!
Beginners (Cinemax, 8 p.m.): Mike Mills' enjoyable film about Ewan McGregor dealing with his 75-year-old father coming out of the closet, among other things, sparked divided reactions when it was released last year, but Christopher Plummer won his first Academy Award for his role as the father.
Carmen Jones (TCM, 8 p.m.): This musical adaptation of Carmen is notable for its significance as one of the first critically successful, big-budget films to feature a primarily African-American cast and for Dorothy Dandridge being the first African-American woman to get a Best Actress nomination.
MLB Baseball: Tigers at Red Sox (ESPN, 7 p.m.): Detroit's at 23-25 and just four games out of first place in its division, while Boston's 24-24 and four-and-a-half games out of first place in its division. That means this series could help one team and hurt the other or just leave both still mired in place.
Hatfields & McCoys (Monday): Scott Von Doviak watched the entirety of this History Channel miniseries and found it wanting. But how could that be? What could be more interesting than building a miniseries around one of the country's longest-running feuds? Starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton?


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Six years after shipowners ordered too many vessels before the global recession, driving down rates and leaving new ships anchored for lack of cargoes, investors are souring again on oil-product tankers in the face of a new glut.
This time around, some of the optimism was fueled by private-equity firms including WL Ross and Blackstone Group lured by bets on rising demand because of growing U.S. and Middle East exports of oil products. Instead, chartering rates fell by a third as orders for new ships more than doubled. Wilbur Ross, the billionaire known for turning around struggling industries from steel to textiles, pulled an initial public offering last week of a Greenwich-based operator of Medium-Range product tankers because he said the price was too low.
Ardmore Shipping sold shares earlier this month for less than the value of its fleet, according to Global Hunter Securities. Shares of Scorpio Tankers, the largest owner of the vessels, dropped 12 percent this year, compared with a 1 percent gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of U.S. equities.
"People are beginning to realize there's just too many product tankers," said Jeff McGee, the founder of Makai Marine Advisors in Dallas. "Find a good sector with promising demand prospects and over-order. Nobody learned their lesson."
Investors expected product tankers to benefit from rising U.S. and Middle East exports, said McGee, who used to lead tanker research at Poten & Partners, a shipbroker. The U.S. is shipping a record 3.7 million barrels a day of refined fuels, 16 percent more than a year ago, the Energy Department says. Middle East refinery output will reach 8.7 million barrels a day by 2016, up from 7.8 million last year, Morgan Stanley says.
Prospects for rising demand spurred more ordering. Shipyards in 2013 were booked to build 217 product tankers smaller than 60,000 deadweight tons, the size range of Ross's and Ardmore's fleets, according to data from Clarkson, the largest shipbroker. That's more than double the previous year and the most since 2006. Outstanding orders are equal to 20 percent of the existing fleet, up from 16 percent a year ago, the data show.
Rate gains haven't materialized, while the backlog of new vessels could create a glut. Rates for Medium-Range product tankers fell 32 percent in the past year to $10,732 a day, Clarkson data show. Last year's average of $13,226 was the highest since 2008.
Spot rates for the vessels fell this year as the coldest winter in the U.S. since 1982 increased domestic fuel demand and the profit from shipping European gasoline to the U.S. diminished, said Fotis Giannakoulis, a New York-based analyst at Morgan Stanley. The fleet will expand by 5.1 percent next year, the most since 2010, the bank estimates.
"Investors' expectations were significantly higher than reality, and a lot of the stocks were trading with overly optimistic expectations," Giannakoulis said. As fleet growth accelerates, "it's going to be very hard to see meaningful rate increases," he said.Read Full Article
Private-equity firms contributed to the rush to buy product tankers as they invested the most since at least 2008 in shipping, according to Stamford-based Marine Money, an industry newsletter. Blackstone, the world's largest manager of alternative assets, invested more than $100 million in ships in the past two years, including stakes in nine product tankers.
Ross and his co-investors spent about $900 million on 30 product tankers in 2011. It was the 76-year-old billionaire's first venture into shipping.
Since then, the price of a five-year-old MR tanker, the type owned by Ross's Diamond S Shipping Group, of Greenwich, rose 0.4 percent to $28.9 million, according to the Baltic Exchange in London.
"I don't think he will come remotely close to what he was expecting to make on this trade," said Basil Karatzas, a shipbroker and adviser in New York. "His timing was premature, and too many people played the same card."
Ross said he's happy with the investment because the tankers had long-term charters while competitors lost money amid low rates.
"When we originally embarked on the process, there was more market optimism," Ross wrote in an e-mail. "Shipping stocks are very volatile, and we have the staying power to wait until an upturn in charter rates becomes more clear."
Diamond S, which owns 33 tankers for carrying refined fuels, had filed to sell 14 million shares in a range of $14 to $16 each, according to its prospectus. The company, which intended to use the proceeds to buy 10 ships, planned to price the shares March 11. Ross pulled the offering that day. Other shareholders include First Reserve and a unit of Cargill, the commodities trader, its website shows.
Craig Stevenson, CEO of Diamond S, declined to comment.


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Newtown's wake-up call on firearms
The horrific massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month hit close to home for millions of people around the world: We all know young children and teachers like those murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and we all felt an echo of their families' unimaginable grief. To me, the tragedy resonated for other reasons. Two years ago today, I was helping my boss, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a community event outside a Tucson supermarket when a man armed with a semi-automatic pistol and a high-capacity magazine fired on the crowd, killing six people and critically injuring Rep. Giffords. Ten months later, I was elected to the board of a nearby school district, where I am now responsible for the well-being of 19,000 of my community's children.
I have watched Newtown and its aftermath through these two lenses. As a witness to a mass shooting, I have seen firsthand the senseless carnage that can be wreaked by a desperate and deranged person wielding a weapon of war. As a school board member, I must react practically to this new tragedy: What can we do to ensure that our community's children grow up free from violence and free from fear?
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I watched with particular horror as National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre suggested that the solution to our epidemic of mass shootings is to double down on failed policies, putting more guns in our schools and on our streets. With unhinged bravado, he declared, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." In Tucson, what stopped the bad guy with a gun was two unarmed senior citizens who helped to tackle him as he stopped to reload his weapon. A good guy with a gun, a man who had been shopping at a nearby drugstore, came to their aid, weapon at the ready. In the confusion of the scene, he later recalled, he very nearly shot the wrong man.
Thanks in large part to LaPierre, the NRA and the politicians who depend on them, what is missing from our national debate on gun policy is what Americans most want from it: plain common sense.


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The Hunger Games: The Exhibition Mobile Guide is the official mobile companion to The Hunger Games: The Exhibition, at Discovery Times Square in New York City.
The mobile application delves into the world of Panem as imagined in the books and films while also exploring real world historical and cultural references. Presented in the voice of Panem historians and cultural and scientific experts, the mobile guide provides new perspectives and details while chronicling the evolution of Katniss Everdeen from Tribute to" The Girl on Fire", and finally the Mockingjay, symbol of the revolution against oppression. Using location-based technology, the app delivers content related to specific exhibits, providing insights about characters, technology and aspects of Panem's culture.


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Did Joe Simpson Break Up Ashlee And Pete Wentz?
Sources claim Ashlee's father is keeping her from reuniting with Pete Wentz
We were saddened to hear the news Ashlee Simpson was filing for divorce from Pete Wentz. This was only worsened by reports Pete, 31, was desperately trying to reunite with his wife, crying and begging Ashlee, 26, to take him back. Now, it seems like Ashlee's dad Joe has stepped in to make sure they don't get back together.
"Just like when Jessica split from Nick [Lachey], Joe is doing nothing to encourage Ashlee to give the marriage another try, if only for the sake of her son," an insider tells Popeater. "Joe likes being the only man in his daughters' lives."
Meanwhile, Joe is publicly announcing his support for his daughter. He tells OK! Magazine, "We will never let our daughters be alone. We are here to hug them and give them a shoulder to cry on."
And as for his daughter's relationship with the father of her son Bronx, 2? "Things were not right for a while," explains Joe.
Pete went crying to Joe and Tina a day after Ashlee filed, in a failed attempt to smooth things over with her parents and win his wife back. "Joe got rid of Nick, and now he is saying goodbye to Pete," a friend of Pete's says. "Let's hope Ashlee finds more happiness than Jessica did when she finds herself officially single again."


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What is the parking brake and where is it located?
The parking brake, sometimes called the handbrake, emergency brake, or e-brake, keeps your vehicle held in place on hills and can be used to stop your vehicle in a dire emergency. Emergency brakes are a secondary braking system installed in automobiles, and are not powered by hydraulics like the service brakes that slow down and stop your vehicle. Emergency brakes are mechanical and, when activated, bypass the normal braking system which is important in the event that the vehicle experiences a total brake failure while still moving. Using the brake to stop a moving vehicle outside of this type of situation is not something you want to do as it can cause a myriad of issues. The most common use of this brake therefore is as a parking brake when the car or truck is parked on a steep hill, in order to keep it motionless.
The parking brake is activated by a pull handle, a lever, or a foot pedal accessible to the driver. Whatever method is used, it will have a ratcheting mechanism to hold the brake at the level it was pushed or pulled to. The parking brake can then be released with the press of a button, or if it is pushed to the end of its range. Some luxury cars use an electric parking brake where a press of a button or the vehicle's computer system when shifted in to park tells an electric motor to activate or release the parking brake.
The parking brake lever (or other mechanism) pulls on a cable that is attached to an equalizer. The equalizer pulls two cables that run to each of the rear brakes. The equalizer makes sure each brake receives equal stopping power. A cable is used so that the emergency brake can be activated even if your brake hydraulics are not working. That's the sort of emergency that emergency brakes are designed for.
In vehicles with rear brake drums, the cables pull levers that push the brake shoes into the brake drums. Vehicles with rear disc brakes use one of two different systems. Sometimes auxiliary drum brakes are part of the rear disc brakes and act as the emergency brakes. Otherwise, the emergency brake cable pulls a lever on the brake caliper that manually operates the rear brakes.
How do I know if my parking brake parts need to be replaced?
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In some circumstances you may find that your lever itself is the problem. The lever or the button may break or become jammed, leaving you unable to work the parking brake. Also, just like normal brake shoes, parking brake shoes can also rust or wear out over time.
Can I replace parking brake parts myself?
The difficulty of replacing any given part of the parking brake system will vary, but most of them will take a good deal of effort to replace. Replacing a parking brake cable might require you to remove the parking brake lever, the brake drum, or parts of the interior. Once you find the cable, you can remove it at one end and follow it to the other end and remove it there. Then you can thread the new cable.
Replacing the parking brake shoes is much like replacing drum brake shoes, except that you will have to remove the brake rotor first. The parking brake lever, handle, or pedal might be the easiest part of the system to replace. You'll just have to unbolt the old one and disconnect it from the cable, connect the new on and bolt it on. Remember, if your parking brakes aren't working, that it is even more important than usual to secure your vehicle well before working on it.
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Inside AAA is a blog series that provides readers the opportunity to get a glimpse of the people who work for you, the AAA member. In this series, staff members provide insight on their job and themselves.
This week, Inside AAA features Sabrina Booth Phillips. She is AAA's Executive Office Executive Assistant.
What is your favorite on-the-job task?
My favorite task is to organize things that are disorganized.
What is the most rewarding on-the-job moment?
Successfully negotiating student housing for our first summer internship program!
What is the most bizarre object in your office?
My ergonomic footrest. It's quite strange-looking, and everyone wonders what it is when they see it.
What is your favorite activity outside of work?
I have a beautiful garden, and I love to tend it. Hours pass, I'm in the moment, and I'm in complete and total meditative bliss. Gardening is good medicine!


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False Imprisonment Lawyer Representing Clients in Wayne County MI
Speak with a Wayne County MI police brutality attorney if you experienced excessive force, racial profiling, false arrest or malicious prosecution. Do you feel that you have been on the wrong side of law enforcement procedures? The Marcel Benavides Law Firm is proud to offer representation to individuals who have been the victim of police misconduct. Our founding attorney has experience as a former in-house legal counsel for the Chicago Police Department.
During this time, our attorney was involved defending officers who were accused of misconduct. This insider's view and unique understanding of law enforcement proceedings can be beneficial to individuals who have been the victim of false arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force, or police brutality. We offer a contingency-only fee contract for police misconduct victims, meaning you don't pay us unless we win.
In his 15 years of experience, Attorney Marcel Benavides has:
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Leading Police Misconduct Attorney Providing Representation in Wayne County MI
Are you the victim of false arrest (and subsequently false imprisonment), use of excessive force (police brutality), malicious prosecution, racial profiling or any other type of police misconduct?
Police misconduct occurs when an officer violates protocol and is overly aggressive or abusive to a civilian. Police misconduct can happen during the initial point of contact, during an arrest, or even during the interrogation that occurs after the arrest. Whether this is physical, verbal, or emotional abuse of civilians, there are many ways an officer may take their position of authority too far.
At The Marcel Benavides Law Office, we fight tirelessly for victims of police misconduct. Our attorneys understand that you have just been through an incredibly traumatic experience and may have questions about what to do next. No matter how complex the case may be, by choosing to work with us, you can be confident that you have a team backing you that will do all it takes to see that justice is restored on your behalf.
There are numerous examples of police misconduct, including but not limited to:
- False arrest
- False imprisonment
- Malicious prosecution
- Deliberate indifference (ignoring medical needs while in custody)
- Use of excessive force (police brutality)
- Illegal search and seizure
- Racial profiling
- Selective enforcement of power
- Taser abuse
- Unnecessary shootings
- Use of coercion or force to obtain a confession
Over our 15+ years of service, we have represented countless false arrest victims, and we always put our best foot forward in ensuring that the rights of our clients are protected. No individual should have to sit in a jail cell for an invalid reason, and our team works tirelessly to restore justice on behalf of the individuals who have been forced to do so.
What is false arrest and malicious prosecution?
False arrest is when an individual's liberty or freedom is unlawfully restrained. A law enforcement officer needs to have more than just a suspicion before making an arrest, there must be "substantial chance" that criminal activity has occurred. Malicious prosecution is the act of charging an individual with a crime without probable cause, or with the knowledge that the suspect is innocent.
There are many reasons that an officer might make a false arrest, such as:
- Lack of probable cause
- Misidentification of the suspect because of sloppy investigation work
- Malicious intent (i.e. the officer's attempt to frame the suspect)
If the defendant is able to get the undeserved charges resolved in his or her favor, he or she may be eligible to file a prosecution lawsuit against the law enforcement agency. Should you choose to retain our representation, we will do everything we can to help right the wrong that has been done against you. Our founder is a former legal counselor for the Chicago Police Department, giving him an insider's perspective into how police cases are handled. This gives our clients an advantage, as we are able to predict the actions the opposing side may take, and counteract them.
Successful Cases:
False Arrest
Result: Client received a nearly six-figure settlement.
Our client told every single officer that he came into contact on the day of his arrest that they were arresting the wrong individual on an outstanding warrant. Every ranking officer said to not worry since the booking room fingerprinting process would prove if he was the wanted individual. Unfortunately, this identity crisis went unchecked for over 20 days while he sat in the Wayne County Jail. It was not until his criminal defense attorney was able to obtain a court ordered fingerprint analysis that he was able to prove that he was the wrong guy.
The case was referred to us for civil litigation. Upon filing our civil lawsuit, the officers argued that it was just an honest mistake. That is until I exposed that there was a record in existence at the police department on the night of his arrest that actually showed that he did not match the fingerprints of the wanted individual. We obtained nearly a six figure settlement in this case.
Excessive Force
Result: Client received handsome settlement.
Our client was at his home in Pontiac, when the Auburn Hills Police Department officers decided to break down his door, without a warrant or exigent circumstances and viciously attack him to simply ask him questions about a misdemeanor offense. The officers immediately requested to settle this matter as there was no doubt that our client's Constitutional Rights were violated.
We Specialize in Getting Justice for Victims of Police Misconduct
Although you may be feeling overwhelmed at the situation, you are not alone. At The Marcel Benavides Law Office, we have a proven track record of success, and all our police cases are filed on a contingency fee basis. This means that our clients owe us nothing unless we win their case. You have no reason to wait, and every reason to begin your case today. Contact our firm to schedule your free case evaluation.


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Adel Taarabt has completed his loan switch to AC Milan from Queens Park Rangers, the Italian club announced on Friday.
The Morocco forward has joined the Rossoneri for the rest of the season, despite having only joined Fulham on a season-long loan from relegated QPR last summer.
A statement from AC Milan read: "AC Milan announces that Adel Taarabt has joined on loan from QPR, with an option to sign the player at the end of the season."
The 24-year-old striker made just 16 appearances in all competitions for the Cottagers.
Taarabt becomes Milan's fourth reinforcement in the winter transfer window following the arrivals of Japanese playmaker Keisuke Honda from CSKA Moscow, French centre-half Adil Rami from Valencia and Ghanaian midfielder Michael Essien from Chelsea.
Taarabt is unlikely to make his Milan debut in Saturday's game against Torino.


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Photographer Frank Jump documents NYC's "ghost signs."
In 1986, when Frank Jump was 26 years old, he was diagnosed as HIV positive. It was a time when doctors still knew little of the disease. They estimated Jump only had a few years left to live.
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Jump on board the miniature train in Masterton
You've got to love reading the "rules" when boarding the miniature train in Masterton's beautiful Queen Elizabeth Park.
Rule 6 simply states: children must scream in the tunnel. Judging by the shrieks of delight that radiate from the green tunnel during each lap of the $1 ride – yes only $1 – it appears the kids are good at reading here.
Masterton is a 1.5 hour's drive from Wellington and one of five characterful towns that make up the Wairarapa region. It's a vibrant, family friendly town at the heart of the Classic New Zealand Wine Trail.
Since 1972, it has also been the home of the popular red diesel locomotive run by a dedicated group of volunteers from the Masterton Miniature Train Society. The train runs at weekends, school holidays and public holidays between September and Queen's Birthday weekend. If you time it right, you may also get to enjoy a ride on the black steam locomotive, which began life in Dunedin in 1925.
Afterwards walk through QE Park to the fabulous Kids Own Playground, the flying fox, mini golf and the Skate Park or stroll over the swing bridge to the Deer Park. Just along the street you'll also find Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History; the Genesis Recreation Centre and indoor swimming pool; the Masterton i-SITE and The Wool Shed,the national museum of sheep and shearing.
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Although Ghana attained middle income status in 2010 following the discovery of oil, it ranks 138 out of 187 countries in the 2014 Human Development Report and is classified as a low-income, food-deficit country. Its northern regions display many of the same agro-ecological characteristics as Sahelian countries, including poor soil quality, a single and increasingly erratic rainy season, and recurrent floods and droughts.
Northern Ghana lags behind the rest of the country in almost all development indicators. Six out of ten people are poor, compared to just two out of ten in the southern section. The high rate of poverty is linked to a number of factors, including choice of occupation and income generating activities. Nine out of ten households farm on mostly small plots of land (five acres or less), limiting their production capacity to a little more than subsistence levels. A 2012 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis identified poverty as the leading cause of food insecurity in Northern Ghana.
The Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions also have some of the highest rates of malnutrition in the country; four out of ten children under the age of five are stunted or chronically malnourished, meaning they will not be able to meet their full growth potential. Nearly thirty percent of people in the Upper East Region do not have adequate access to food, compared to a national average of five percent.
WFP Activities
WFP works with the Government of Ghana to implement a development programme focused on food security, nutrition, education, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. A recovery operation for Ivorian refugees is also underway.
School meals: Ghana implements a home-grown school feeding programme, which aims to reduce short-term hunger and malnutrition, increase enrolment, attendance and retention, and boost domestic food production. WFP supports the Government to provide school meals to 100,000 pupils in the country's most food-insecure regions and in July 2014, WFP replaced its food distributions with cash to enable caterers to buy food from local farmers and markets, thereby injecting money into local economies. In areas where girls' school attendance is low, WFP also provides take-home food rations for girls, giving families an additional incentive to send girls to school and keep them there. Thirty thousand girls currently benefit from this programme. In collaboration with the Ghana Education Service, a scholarship programme has also been instituted to help brilliant but financially-needy girls who graduate from WFP-assisted schools, to complete their secondary education. In addition, WFP provides technical support to the Ghana School Feeding Programme to improve monitoring, evaluation and policy development.
Nutrition: WFP provides nutritious food supplements to pregnant women and nursing mothers as well as children under two years of age to prevent stunting, a condition found among children who do not receive adequate nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life that causes irreversible cognitive and physical damage. Children under five suffering from moderate acute malnutrition and people living with HIV on anti-retroviral therapy also receive food supplements like Supercereal, a blended cereal fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. In addition, WFP Ghana hosts national and international coordinators of the REACH initiative (Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger), a UN inter-agency consortium working with government and non-government partners to improve nutrition governance and management. WFP is also the UN agency mandated to assist the consortium of civil society organizations working with the government on the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) movement.
Resilience: WFP helps communities prone to natural disasters such as floods and droughts, to build resilience. Through an asset creation programme, communities help reconstruct vital infrastructure in exchange for cash which replaced food incentives in July 2014, to enable people diversify their meals and source food from local markets. Projects include rehabilitation of dug-outs and small dams, tree planting, reforestation, school gardening and construction of fish ponds. In addition, food security and nutrition sentinel sites have been established in five of Ghana's ten administrative regions to monitor potential hunger hotspots.
Recovery operation for refugees: Thousands of Ivorian refugees fled to Ghana following an election crisis in Cote d'Ivoire in 2010. WFP provided them with food assistance under an emergency operation that ended in January 2014. A recovery operation to extend the food assistance began in February 2014 and is scheduled to run through March 2015. The recovery operation is a WFP/UNHCR strategy to gradually phase out food assistance, as refugees benefit from language and skills training from UNHCR to increase their self-reliance. WFP provides food rations to 8,500 Ivoirian asylum seekers residing in three refugee camps (Egyeikrom in the Central Region, Ampain in the Western Region and Fetentaa in the Brong-Ahafo Region).
Purchase for Progress (P4P): WFP works with governmental and non-governmental organizations to support 1,524 smallholder farmers in the Ashanti and Northern Regions, with initiatives aimed at addressing some of the major constraints smallholder farmers face, including low production capacity and difficulty accessing markets. Farmers have benefited from training in business and organizational development, have received basic farming equipment and support to construct simple food storage buildings, and have been helped to access markets, including WFP programmes in Ghana. Since the P4P initiative began in 2011, WFP has purchased 3,900 metric tonnes of maize worth USD 1.9 million from smallholders. The P4P initiative built on WFP Ghana's local procurement activities, which have expanded in recent years; WFP now buys a minimum of 60 percent of its food needs from surplus production areas in Ghana and redistributes to food-insecure regions. Over the past five years, WFP has purchased USD 23 million in food from local suppliers, food manufacturers and smallholder farmers for use in its programmes within the country as well as in other West African countries.
United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot: Ghana hosts one of five United Nations Humanitarian Response Depots (HRDs) in the world. The depot stores and pre-positions emergency supplies and support equipment not just for WFP—who manages the depot—but also for other humanitarian organizations who have registered to use the facility. Since its establishment in Ghana in 2006, the depot has helped to reduce costs and improve users' emergency response time. Dispatches have been used to respond to several emergency operations in Africa and have reached as far as Haiti. A Logistics Intervention Fleet has also been integrated into the activities of the HRD, with the objective of further improving the region's response capacity and eliminating the need for capital investments each time an emergency occurs.


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This is my favorite posting on beer in a long time.
Darron Collins is the president of the College of the Atlantic, a school where studies are seen through the lens of human ecology. Apparently he understand the human ecology of beer. Read what he has to say about it here, including gems such as this one: "I, as any good beer-lover would have done in this situation, sat down on my barley sack, cleansed the pallet with a bite of pretzel, and reached for my glass."


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And remember - signs have TWO sides, so you can get double the great slogans on view.
Six, if the sign board is thick enough.
But only five are really viable (unless you hold it up verrry high).


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Many Japanese SF novels conclude with an essay exploring the context of the book and championing the author. I thought that Toshihiko Onoue's essay for The Ouroboros Wave (in stores today!) was especially interesting as it shows how closely Japanese critics and fans follow English-language SF, so I decided to print it here for you. (Note that this was published in 2002, so some of the material is a bit older and current US space policy is a bit different.) I'd definitely recommend Greg Egan and Vernor Vinge if you're coming to Haikasoru from the manga side of things and haven't read their work yet.
New/Old Japanese SF
by Toshihiko Onoue
The space shuttle program is still plagued with problems, even after the promises NASA made following the nightmare of Columbia's midair breakup. A major rethink also seems likely for the International Space Station. Today, at the dawn of the 21st century and more than three decades since the first Apollo Moon landing, it is hard to suppress a sense of impatience. How long do we have to wait for humanity to claim space as its own? Until that happens, escaping into SF that makes that future seem real isn't a bad way to spend your time. If you agree, then this book is for you.
The Ouroboros Wave appeared in 2002 as part of the Hayakawa SF Series J Collection. Set in our solar system in the 22nd century, it depicts the rich tapestry of experience encountered by human beings who are completely at home in space. A giant project—placing a black hole named Kali, discovered at the edge of the solar system, in orbit around Uranus and creating an artificial accretion disk (AAD) around it to generate energy for use throughout the solar system—serves as a central theme for a series of stories that feature mystery-solving and techno-thriller elements. The social organization adopted by humanity in space; social changes triggered by the impact of communication technologies; conflicts arising from different structures of conscious awareness; the essence of intelligence and the "necessities" it gives rise to; these and other fascinating explorations are woven together, intersecting and interacting on multiple levels.
Since the first of these stories appeared in SF Magazine, they have come to be known as the AADD series. This volume includes all but three published to date, and new full-length installment will soon be available.
Three writers in Hayakawa's J Collection, launched in 2002, gained immediate attention for their work: Housuke Nojiri [note—author of Usurper of the Sun and Rocket Girls—NM] , Yasumi Kobayashi, and Jyouji Hayashi.
Nojiri's work is straight Japanese SF in the tradition of Sakyo Komatsu, focusing on the romance and excitement of technology. Yasumi Kobayashi takes offbeat ideas and explores their logical ramifications, giving his work an unconventional flavor somewhat like that of the acclaimed, hard-SF Australian writer Greg Egan.
In contrast, Hayashi's SF builds realistic worlds using straight-pitch ideas with matter-of-fact detail and minimal window dressing. At first glance his style may seem unpolished, but it is replete with naming games and sophisticated, Japanesque accents and plot twists. Hayashi's method of building worlds on a foundation of detailed simulation probably started with his career as an author of fictional war chronicles. Of the three authors, his work may also be the closest to standard UK/American SF. In the stories collected here, the process of finding a solution to a challenge via creative application of knowledge and technology becomes the story itself. This is nuts and bolts storytelling—Analog-type storytelling, which is somewhat unusual in Japanese SF.
I'm referring, of course, not to analog vs. digital, but to the historic American SF magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact and its predecessor, Astounding Science Fiction, which under the editorship of John Campbell Jr. featured some of the earliest work from such authors as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. Analog eventually became practically synonymous with hard SF. Compared to other SF magazines, Analog's stories are not as literary; the magazine leans toward idea-driven stories that combined detailed, realistic scientific/technical underpinnings with offbeat elements.
Hayashi's work, with its emphasis on problem-solving, bears comparison to the stories Analog often favors. But once cyberpunk came into vogue in the 1980s, Analog-style SF started to look dated, and for a while the genre was completely out of the running for such major prizes as the Hugo and Nebula Awards. But since the late nineties, with standard, space-based SF beginning to attract renewed attention and Analog featuring a new generation of writers, this kind of story is gradually making a comeback. "Analog-type" is a synonym for new/old SF—eager to grapple with new knowledge, new world views, and new challenges, yet presented with an established style.
In terms of concrete comparisons with other writers, Vernor Vinge would probably be a compatriot of Hayashi. Vinge's Hugo Award-winner for 2000, A Deepness in the Sky, contains echoes of The Ouroboros Wave. Vinge's novel tells of the encounter and ensuing conflicts between fleets dispatched by two space-faring human societies, both aiming to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrials in a distant star system. One fleet takes control of the other, and a central theme is the process those who have been subjugated go through to escape their predicament. The novel also features opposing social structures, the challenges of space fleet management and control, and the ways human organizations operate under dangerous conditions. There are major differences from The Ouroboros Wave as well—Vinge's novel is set in the distant future and deals with interstellar travel, to give just two examples—but there are no extreme technologies such as warp drives; everything is a realistic, logical extension of current science and technology. Strictly speaking, Vinge is not a typical Analog-type author, but his work is a good example of the way space-based, new/old standard SF is gaining in popularity.
Vinge also has a great interest in the problems of artificial intelligence. In his essay, "The Coming Technological Singularity," Vinge expands the scope of the term "technological singularity," supposedly first suggested by John von Neumann, which refers to an acceleration of technological development so pronounced that the future beyond the singularity becomes hard to model. Vinge asserts the inevitability of qualitative shifts in artificial intelligence and human psychological processes; Hayashi's depictions of wearable computers and artificial intelligence are fundamentally in line with Vinge's outlook. Wearable computers are personal data processing terminals as well as a core network communication technology; they change the structure of human organizations and of society and culture. There are also artificial intelligences with ways of knowing the world and patterns of reasoning that differ completely from those of humans. Vinge would consider all these elements to be part of the same general vector. Hayashi does a masterful job of depicting communications technologies and AIs in the same unified framework.
As for younger writers with similarities to Hayashi, one could name space SF authors Michael Flynn, Allen M. Steele, and Geoffrey A. Landis. Of course, these authors have very different characteristics and their styles can't be lumped together, except in one sense—they all go to great lengths to depict space as a real environment. Flynn's Fallen Angels (with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) has been published in Japan, but unfortunately, only a few short stories by Steele and Landis are available in Japanese, and if you want to read them, you'll have to search through back numbers of SF Magazine or in anthologies (though I may be criticized for being so SF-obsessed as to go that far). Flynn's popular "Firestar" series depicts the impact that a single individual with will and resources can make on space exploration. Both Fallen Angels and Firestar are near-future SF with realistic depictions of space.
The AADD series explores a vector that also exists in UK and American SF. Is this "happenstance" or "necessity in disguise"? It may be too early to tell, but without a doubt, The Ouroboros Wave not only stands as proof of the richness of Japan's contemporary SF, it represents a new development in the history of Japanese hard SF. I think we can count ourselves extremely fortunate to have outstanding hard SF writers like Hayashi at work in Japan today.
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Tags: Allen Steele, Analog, Geoffrey A. Landis, Greg Egan, hard SF, Michael Flynn, Toshihiko Onoue, Vernor Vinge


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Clostridium septicum
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Related to Clostridium septicum: Clostridium sordellii, Clostridium novyi
Clos·trid·i·um sep·'ti·cum
a bacterial species found in malignant edema of animals, in human battle wounds, and in cases of appendicitis; it is pathogenic for guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, and pigeons and produces an exotoxin that is lethal and hemolytic.
Synonym(s): Vibrion septique
Clos·trid·i·um sep·ti·cum(klos-trid'ē-ŭm sep'ti-kŭm)
Gram-positive, anaerobic bacillus associated with gas gangrene or myonecrosis; infection occurs when the organism contaminates wounds through trauma or surgery.
Clostridium septicum
A species found in cases of gangrene in humans, as well as in cattle, hogs, and other domestic animals.
See also: Clostridium
a genus of anaerobic spore-forming bacteria of the family Bacillaceae. Most are gram-positive rods.
Clostridium bifermentans, Clostridium sordelli
see malignant edema.
Clostridium botulinum
causes botulism from neurotoxin produced during vegetative growth. C. botulinum types B, C and D are associated with disease in animals but the type prevalence varies geographically. See botulism.
Clostridium butyricum
involved in the spoilage of meat.
Clostridium cadaveris
may be associated with colitis X in horses.
Clostridium chauvoei
formerly called C. feseri. See blackleg.
Clostridium colinum
cause of ulcerative enteritis and liver necrosis in quail, turkeys, grouse, partridge and chickens. Not an accredited species.
Clostridium difficile
see antibiotic-associated colitis.
Clostridium feseri
now called C. chauvoei (above).
Clostridium haemolyticum
formerly called C. novyi type D. See bacillary hemoglobinuria.
Clostridium histolyticum
a species found in feces, soil and sometimes wound infections. An important cause of meat spoilage.
Clostridium nigrificans
a thermophilic spoiler of canned meat producing hydrogen sulfide gas and causing purple staining of the inside of the can. Now called Desulfotomaculum nigrificans.
Clostridium novyi
see infectious necrotic hepatitis. See also C. haemolyticum (above). Previously called C. oedematiens. Type A causes malignant edema in cattle and sheep, and big head in rams, type B causes infectious necrotic hepatitis (black disease), and type C has been associated with osteomyelitis in buffalo.
Clostridium overgrowth
see bacterial overgrowth.
Clostridium parabotulinum
a proteolytic subgroup of C. botulinum; not a valid species.
Clostridium perfringens
cause of enterotoxemia. Type A causes malignant edema, type B causes dysentery in lambs and enterotoxemia, type C causes struck in sheep and necrotic enteritis in piglets, type D causes enterotoxemia and type E causes necrotic enteritis. Previously called C. welchii.
Clostridium putrefaciens
causes deep bone taint in hams. See also C. putrificum (below).
Clostridium putrificum
a cause of bone taint in cured hams. There is no detectable abnormality on the surface of the ham.
Clostridium sordelli
cause of a small proportion of cases of gas gangrene in ruminants. See also abomasitis.
Clostridium spiroforme
associated with enteritis and enterocolitis in rabbits, guinea pigs and foals.
Clostridium sporogenes
an apathogenic clostridium often found in lesions of gas gangrene.
Clostridium tetani
a common inhabitant of soil and human and horse intestines, and the cause of tetanus in humans and domestic animals.
Clostridium villosum
found in fight abscesses and pleurisy in cats.
Clostridium welchii
see C. perfringens (above).


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Keeping our airframes light and rigid was always a target for us, but with the Extra MX we have broken all records!
While the Extra MX features a larger wing area than most of the airframes available in this size category it is at least 20oz lighter than its competitors, yet is it one of the robust models around.
Its iPAs package features the most powerful yet most economical set up possible.
In this age of EP models practically any flyer owns a couple of 2200mah 3S packs.
Unlike other models in this category, we designed our Extra to be powered by those exact packs, so you don't need to get a new charger or buy a battery that is dedicated to only one model in your hangar.
We have developed our new PA Thrust 50 motor and PA Quantum 70 ESC with a switching BEC together with the new Extra MX as a whole system that makes the MX extremely responsive providing absolute control, extreme performance and predictability, so you are able to get out of the most difficult situations with ease. All of these without having to make a costly investment for a demanding power setup essential on other heavier models. The two PA 2200mAh allow safe 6 minutes of aggressive 3D/Freestyle flight.
With its fully air-foiled control surfaces, the MX delivers both exciting high speed precision and tumbling as well as some of the best slow speed and 3D controllability available. If you want to practice precision or IMAC flying the Extra MX has the feel of a much larger aircraft. As far as rudder works goes whether it is tight Control Line Turns, Knife-Edge Snakes or just plain old Slips to landing, the Extra MX does them and does them smoothly. No mixing required, just kick out the rudder when you want it and the MX responds the way it should.
If you want to work on landings and basic aerobatics, the MX has a lighter wing loading and better flight characteristics than most "sport" planes.
However, where this plane really kills competition is in no-holds–barred 3D madness! If you want to do Harrier Rollers, Waterfalls, eye-popping Knife-Edge Spins or jaw-dropping Tumbles, then you will want to get your hands on one of these!
For maximum aerodynamics, the aileron design and construction of this model is exceptional, made in such a way that the hinge gap is completely sealed. This is quite complex to produce: the ailerons fit into the wing trailing edge tunnels and are glued and pre-aligned in the factory. Despite the laborious production of this design, we decided to produce the ailerons this way, as it allows perfect aerodynamic flow over the airfoil and results in maximum efficiency of the control surfaces.
Needless to say, the Extra MX is built using finest grade material, all cut by state-of-the-art laser and CNC machines. As any other PA model here too the two wings are removable with a CF wing tube and a CF sleeve which make the Extra MX a compact, durable, and easily transportable model.
In order to attain uniform performance for each and every model produced, we produce the planes on highly precise jigs. Each set of wings are matched individually to each fuselage (this is something most factories don't do even in giant scales production). We assemble each airframe before shipping to ensure wing incidence, alignment and fit. All you need to do is bolt on the wings. The ailerons (as well as the stab/elevators) are already pre-hinged with the gaps sealed.
The Extra MX is one of the most complete ARFs available on the market:
Carbon fiber features
1300W and 10lb Thrust on 2200mah!
How is this possible to get so much for so little? It is a little magic and a much understanding in Electrical Engineering. Electrical Power equals Voltage multiplied by Current. In most cases other mainstream manufacturers derive Power (Watts) by increasing the Amperage delivery of the battery packs and henceforth dictates the absolute need for large capacity pack in the order of 3200mah to over 5000mah to remain below the maximum C-rating of the packs and to obtain the desired minimum flight time. This means going big and expensive everywhere!
However the Power equation also states that increasing the voltage also increases the power without the need to increase the amperage delivery and thus only require low capacity packs in the order of 2200mah or so. Therefore going big the PA-way (which is usually the unconventional way) does not necessarily have to be expensive!
There is an added advantage of going with a higher voltage; that is it lowers the amps and that translates to lower energy lost due to heat making the entire set up more efficient.
What about flight time? As understood, battery capacity is denoted by milliamps hours (mAH), therefore the lower the amps drawn, the longer the flight time would be! In our preliminary beta test, we test flown our prototype drive system doing aggressive 3D/Freestyle for 5 minutes and only consumed approximately 66% out of the 2200mah packs giving a potential flight time (with the same style) up to 7.5 minutes!.


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December 13, 2011
Tom Epley is a "Turnaround CEO." Since starting his career as a young MBA graduate in the management training program at FMC Corporation, Epley has led more than a dozen companies with revenues ranging from $50 million to $1 billion. His friendship with Bob Klitgaard, an acclaimed expert on undeveloped countries and then dean of the Rand Public Policy graduate school, brought a rare opportunity for an extensive visit throughout the area that has since become South Sudan. That led to a three-year research and writing project, resulting in The Plague of Good Intentions - We Broke Africa, Here's How to Fix It. In the book, Epley applies principles from his corporate experience to issues such as food production and infrastructure development in central Africa. His conclusion is surprising. Years of study convinced him that most aid efforts in the area do far more harm than good.
Epley's background as a turnaround specialist provides a context for his view of Africa. He had a string of successes managing diverse businesses at FMC. Then he joined investor Irwin Jacobs who owned the Bekins Company and stakes in many other companies. "We acquired firms, quickly assessed where the values were and rapidly generated returns for investors," he says. Epley moved to California to revitalize Bekins and then went on to do the same with one holding after another.
"Cultural change is the fundamental thing I do when turning around a company," he says. "You have to line up the dynamics of the people in a company - like a magnet lining up particles." One of his axioms is, 'Go northwest.' If north is the perfect strategy, Epley does not spend six months figuring out where true north is. He points a firm in a northerly direction, gets everybody pulling the oars together and gradually adjusts course to get to true north.
But Epley's life changed in 2005 when the opportunity in Southern Sudan arose. "Klitgaard told me he had a contract from The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to spend three weeks visiting local communities all over Southern Sudan, and also engaging with the military leadership and asked if I'd like to go along," recalls Epley. "I said, 'Yes,' before he finished his sentence."
Despite an ongoing civil war, the duo traveled throughout South Sudan and met tribal, village and military leaders. "I went over there thinking, 'I'm an engineer and I'm pretty smart. I bet I can find opportunities for constructive development even though there's a huge history of failure.'" But he discovered a glaring cultural rift between the Sudanese and outsiders. The Sudanese had learned to talk in 21st century language with governments and organizations about modernizing healthcare, education and agriculture. Some of their language was even scripted by outsiders like the United Nations. But he observed a huge gap between their words and their actual commitment.
"The single most important thing I found during three weeks in Sudan was the veneer of 21st Century conversation among the people we talked to," he recalls. "If an NGO asks a village council if they would like to have a hospital, they say, 'Yes, yes.' But if you ask any deeper questions like, 'If the hospital was built and your mother went there for her illness and she died, would anyone in your family ever go there again?' The answer was 'No.' The underlying cultural realities are radically different from the veneer."
Epley concluded that aid initiatives in undeveloped countries can only succeed if they are rooted in the local culture. Otherwise, they will be temporary improvements with potential for a negative longterm effect. In his book, he generalizes this conclusion to the rest of Central Africa. "My feeling was that I couldn't achieve anything constructive with lasting values -- no matter how smart I am or how good my ideas are."
Back in the U.S., Epley read everything he could find about Africa and began putting his experience into writing. "It was the hardest thing I've ever done," he says. "I had no idea how it should be organized or where it was going to come out. After working on it full-time for two years, I concluded both the nuances and the basic organization needed a complete overhaul." So he re-wrote nearly every sentence.
The book starts with historical and cultural background on Central Africa, and South Sudan in particular. Then he discusses the legacy of damage done through what he calls "interference" by outsiders. Through the remaining chapters, Epley develops a concept he calls, "indigenicity."
One example of indigenicity is an AIDS Campaign promoted by Uganda president Yoweri Museveni in the 1990s. "Museveni did something that really solidified the indigenous ideation and drive," he says. "He created a set of people, almost missionaries, who went out to all the towns and villages with an ABC program. That stands for Abstinence, Be faithful and use Condoms. It was clearly an indigenous program, created internally, driven internally, it grew and it worked. Almost alone in the world, Uganda took their HIV incidence rates down significantly, more than ten percent, over the course of six years or so."
Epley also describes when author Jacqueline Novogratz helped a group of women create an orphanage in their village. "They got an old building that needed paint," he says, "so the women asked Jacqueline what color they should paint it. This was a very small thing, but she left it to the women to decide. They wouldn't make a decision for weeks and weeks until finally they came and said, 'We think we should paint it blue.' So she said, 'Okay, let's paint it blue.' Total ownership was achieved by this patient step. It's a wonderful story and I'll bet that orphanage is still going well because the idea, authority and drive came from those women."
Along the way, Epley shows how some of the principles of turnaround management could be applied in areas such as food production, healthcare and infrastructure development. But he insists that every initiative must be indigenous.
Concerning farming in South Sudan, Epley says, "What a country like South Sudan should do is create an indigenous approach to improving agriculture. Many people still farm with sticks. They should create a council with some of the best people to develop a message that farmers will understand. Then send emissaries to the towns and villages."
Epley says it's not just the old adage of teaching someone to fish rather than giving them a fish. He explains that, "If they decide they need to have fish in order to survive, and if they've been trying to get fish out of a pond for generations but can't figure out how to do it, and they say, 'Help us, we need to do this,' and you can give them a one dollar fishing pole for ten cents, and they've earned the ten cents, then you'll get some lasting value. The ideation and drive have to be indigenous."
Epley concludes that one key to bringing about long term positive change is to train the best students in Africa to be future leaders. The African Leadership Academy, founded by Fred Swaniker, a native of Ghana who went to college in the United States, is a pioneer in this effort. Swaniker serves as CEO of the academy, which is based in Soweto, South Africa. The academy identifies top performers when they are juniors or seniors in high school, trains them in academics and leadership, and provides loans for them to attend top universities around the world. When students graduate and return to Africa, their loans are forgiven.
"That's absolutely the right thing to do," says Epley who has contributed to the academy and brought it to the attention of other investors. The program has participants from every country in Africa and is about to have its first graduating class. Every student in the program was placed in one of the world's leading universities.
Epley notes that the African Leadership Academy is a longterm solution and concedes that there are no quick fixes for Africa's problems. But he is hopeful the program will eventually produce a new generation of leaders. "Leadership may be the single most important challenge facing Africa," he says.
In July, 2011, South Sudan became the world's newest country. Many of the warlords and village chieftains Epley visited in 2004 were now running the country. "In November, I had the opportunity to go back to South Sudan for five days and re-engage with many of those same individuals," he says. "This visit provided an amazing insight into the issues and problems of this embryonic country."
"I'd like to say that there's hope," he continues, "but the issues are daunting. A significant portion of the oil revenues, virtually the only commercial enterprise in South Sudan, are already committed to the salaries of a huge government infrastructure. While the factions in South Sudan were united during their struggle for independence from the Sudan, there are new signs of internal strife and the probability of wholesale corruption is high."
On the other hand, Epley notes that South Sudan has great agricultural potential and untapped resources such as gold, diamonds and copper. "We'll see whether they truly want to use these asserts to build roads, schools and hospitals," he says.
"Visiting South Sudan and writing the book comprised an amazing chapter in my life," he concludes. "It had huge impact -- but now it's done." Epley has since resumed his turnaround career as a partner at Vance Street Capital where he works with partners Richard Crowell and Richard Roeder to manage a portfolio of firms. "I enjoy working with companies from a cultural, organizational and tactical standpoint. We take a thoughtful approach and it's invigorating. Now that I'm in my seventies, I can't imagine doing anything else."


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The Sector 9 Skiddles 70mm 78a Yellow wheels are designed for freeriding. With rounded lips and sideset hub for sliding, the soft durometer reduces vibrations produced from rough terrain. Sold in a set of 4 wheels.
Function: Freeride
Terrain: Rough
Diameter: 70mm
Hardness: 78a
Width: 44mm
Contact Patch Width: 29mm
Hub: Sideset
Lip: Rounded
Surface: Stoneground
Spacer Length: 10mm
Weight Set Of Four: 22 oz


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How To Properly Load A Heavy Duty Utility Cart
When it comes to utility carts, every manufacturer has something new to offer with a sweet story to it. But don't get carried away by all the sweet talk since some of these products don't perform as advertised.
What you need is a utility cart that has the right storage components, weight capacity, construction material, and comfort level; without forgetting durability and ease of movement. Still stuck on your search? Feel free to explore our list of the best utility carts and maybe you can get what you're looking for.
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While using a heavy duty cart may seem simple to people who work in an industrial setting and use one on an everyday basis, there are still safety measures that should be taken in order to ensure that no one gets injured while loading and moving the cart.
For business owners, taking the time to ensure that workers are paying attention to safety precautions can result in fewer injuries on the job and less workers compensation claims.
It can also help to increase the efficiency rate of workers who load a cart several times a day, but may not be loading the cart in the most optimal way. Reviewing safety measures with workers on a regular basis can be beneficial, as those who use a cart often may fall into bad habits if they are not reminded of the proper ways to operate one and can end up injured.
First, before any loading activity begins, take the time to be sure that the loading area around the cart is safe and free of any potential hazards that may cause injury. Any oversize or overweight materials that are going to be placed on the heavy duty cart surface should be stored nearby to minimize the chance of any injury while lifting and carrying the items to be loaded on the cart.
The loading area should be free of any obstacles that may cause workers to trip or lose footing while they are loading the cart, such as boxes or crates on the floor. Check to make sure that all brakes are engaged to avoid any possibility of the heavy duty utility cart wheels moving during the loading process.
Once the loading area is ready and safe, put on any necessary safety equipment such as goggles, protective gloves or work boots, and begin loading the cart with all of the items you want to move. Workers should use proper lifting techniques when loading any heavy items to avoid any potential injury to the back, knees or legs.
This means using knees to bend and pick up any items placed on at ground level, or having multiple workers lift heavy or bulky objects together to avoid over exertion. Load heavier items on the bottom level of the cart to keep the heavy duty utility cart stable and easy to maneuver once it is loaded. Lighter items can be stacked on the top shelf of the cart, but avoid stacking them on top of the handle portion.
The handle should be easy to reach and any items nearby should be stable to avoid them falling on the handle and potentially causing a finger or hand injury. Every heavy duty cart should come with a clearly stated weight limit, which should be adhered to in order to avoid damage to the cart.
The cart is manufactured to handle this weight capacity and overloading it can cause the surface to buckle or the wheels to malfunction.


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Program Director, Alumni Career Services
Julee Bertsch is the Director of Alumni Career Services. She joined Bucknell in 2010 after twenty-five years working in a corporate environment for MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Kidder, Peabody & Company, PaineWebber and others. She has been a recruiter, manager and recruiting consultant for Fortune 500 companies. In addition to hiring people, her work has been focused on helping people choose careers and work through the challenges that accompany these life decisions.
In her last academic position, Julee was Director of Career Education at the Center for Career Services at Columbia University and she was the Assistant Director for the Office of Career Development in the Stern Graduate School of Business at NYU. She has an Ed.D in Adult and Higher Education from Columbia and a B.S. and M.A. from Bowling Green State University.
As Director of Alumni Career Services, Julee will work with Bucknell alumni to provide assistance with career decision/re-evaluation, job searches, networking and professional development.


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A new book produced by the A.C. Van Raalte Institute at Hope College provides insights into the foreign-mission experience through the writings and correspondence of long-time medical missionary Tena A. Huizenga.
The book, "Aunt Tena, Called to Serve: Journals and Letters of Tena A. Huizenga, Missionary Nurse to Nigeria," focuses on Huizenga's service in remote Lupwe, Nigeria, through the Christian Reformed Church from 1937 to 1954. The volume has been published by the William B. Eerdmans Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, United Kingdom, as part of the Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America.
"This intensely human volume guides us through 17 memorable years of Nigerian mission history," said Eugene Rubingh, former executive secretary of Christian Reformed World Missions. "Drawn from Tena Huizenga's own letters, the events are sketched through the lens of joy and tears, of small victories and unimaginable obstacles. Both candor and love transform mundane facts into a warm and lively account of a life poured out for God."
The book's managing editor is Dr. Jacob E. Nyenhuis, who is director of the A.C. Van Raalte Institute and provost emeritus and professor emeritus of classics at Hope. Serving as co-editors were Dr. Robert P. Swierenga, who is the A.C. Van Raalte Research Professor at the Van Raalte Institute and professor of history emeritus at KentStateUniversity, and Lauren M. Berka, a 2008 Hope graduate who was a student research assistant at the institute and is now a graduate fellow in history at ArizonaStateUniversity.
"Aunt Tena, Called to Serve" tells its story primarily through Huizenga's correspondence with family and friends, but also through journals and articles that she wrote. The 976-page book also includes chapters by historian Harry Boonstra that provide biographical and historical context concerning Huizenga and her service as well as the Christian Reformed Church's support of missions in Nigeria.
Born in 1907, Tena Huizenga grew up in Dutch-American West Chicago. She continued to work as a nurse after leaving the mission field for health reasons in 1954. She died in 1978 at age 70.
The book's title reflects the Nigerians' practice of calling all female missionaries "Aunt," but the designation also applies more literally. The book was commissioned by Huizenga's nephew, Peter H. Huizenga of Oak Brook, Ill. Peter H. Huizenga's father, Petro (Peter), was Tena Huizenga's younger brother, and was a regular correspondent during her mission years. In fact, nearly 300 pages feature Petro Huizenga's letters to his sister.
Nyenhuis noted that Petro Huizenga's letters not only demonstrate the strength and importance of familial bonds across time and distance, but also provide insights into the character of life back in the Huizengas' Chicagoland neighborhood.
"The extensive letters from Tena's brother Pete offer marvelous insights into the Dutch Reformed subculture of Chicago's West Side," he said. "Because his scavenger company later evolved into Waste Management Inc., those letters are especially valuable. Pete's winsome descriptions and witty dialogue with his sister add a Chicago flavor to this book."
Tena's nephew Peter H. Huizenga is a member of the college's Board of Trustees and chairman of Huizenga Capital Management. He and his mother Elizabeth had provided a major endowment gift to establish the Van Raalte Institute, which opened in 1994, and he has remained active in supporting the institute's work in the years since.
Copies of "Aunt Tena, Called to Serve"are available for $49 at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore. The bookstore is on the ground level of the DeWitt Center, which is located at 141 E. 12th St. on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street, and is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. as well as until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.