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Alert 2005-6
Subject: Unauthorized Banking
Date: March 25, 2005
Description: Current List of OCC Alerts on Unauthorized Banking
Unauthorized Banking List
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel and All Examining Personnel
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issues alerts, among other reasons, to provide information about entities engaged in unauthorized banking activities, both offshore and domestic. Attached to this alert is an alphabetical listing of all such entities named in OCC alerts from the year 1996 to date. This listing is intended to aid in the search for names of such entities and to indicate the nature of the problem that prompted the issuance. Please refer to the original alert for more complete information.
Individual OCC alerts, from the year 1994 to date, are available on the OCC's Internet Web site at [https://www.occ.gov], listed under "Issuances."
Any information that you may have concerning this matter should be brought to the attention of:
Brian C. McCormally
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Currently on 16 universities and employing over 75 interns each year, PowerSave Campus empowers college students to be tomorrow's energy efficiency leaders. PowerSave Campus is a student-driven energy efficiency education program that promotes careers in the field, generates actual energy savings, increases awareness of the importance of energy efficiency, and encourages academic infusion of sustainability concepts.
Projects range from energy audits and assessments, residential and laboratory energy competitions, intern-led and faculty sponsored academic courses, green career fairs, and energy efficiency technology retrofits. Students work closely with faculty, staff, administrators and other students to engage them in their projects, spearheading educational campaigns that involve the entire campus community.
More than four-fifths of the college student interns who participate in the Alliance's PowerSave Campus program go on to get jobs that support sustainability. In fact, 83% of PowerSave Campus graduates currently hold a "green job," defined as work that contributes substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality. Furthermore, 98% of PowerSave Campus alumni continue to support sustainability after graduating from the program.
PowerSave Campus Structure and Resources
- PowerSave Campus interns work closely with administrators, faculty, and staff to create a strategic plan that addresses each of the program's goals and is uniquely tailored to the needs, challenges, and strengths of their school.
- PowerSave Campus is a student-driven program; each PowerSave Campus school has funding for a team to share an approximately full time equivalent position.
- The Alliance to Save Energy recruits, selects, and oversees between three and six interns per campus; with supervision from Alliance staff, and input from campus staff, these interns are primarily responsible for the day-to-day implementation of PowerSave Campus at their school.
- The Alliance supports PowerSave Campus interns through continuous remote consultation, regular on-campus visits, and biannual program-wide convergences.
- Interns at PowerSave Campus schools have an implementation budget that they use to secure space for events, incentivize student conservation, and purchase new metering equipment.
PowerSave Campus Rationale
- Educational campaigns can result in significant energy savings by changing behaviors and purchasing decisions.
- Students are effective advocates on college campuses, able to reach their peers and high-level decision makers.
- Students can offer valuable assistance in greening campus operating procedures and with integrated demand side management; student research can defer information gathering costs inherent in switching from conventional to more sustainable practices and management strategies.
- PowerSave Campus enriches students' educational experience while allowing them to take more responsibility for campus operations.

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Mike Tanner of the Dinerwood blog celebrated his third anniversary as a diner reviewer by eating breakfast at LeRoy's the Original in Monrovia and he invited me along. (We previously ate lunch together at Roady's in San Dimas.)
Read what he had to say here. He sums up the experience well. If I were grading, I'd give LeRoy's a B…for butterflies (they're part of the decor, as are lions).


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Tax, title, license and dealer fees (unless itemized above) are extra. Not available with special finance or lease offers. While every reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, we are not responsible for any errors or omissions contained on these pages. Please verify any information in question with Spitzer Auto Group. All pricing and details are believed to be accurate, but we do not warrant or guarantee such accuracy. The prices shown above, may vary from region to region, as will incentives, and are subject to change. Vehicle information is based off standard equipment and may vary from vehicle to vehicle. Call or email for complete vehicle specific information. Tax, title, license (unless itemized above) are extra. Not available with special finance, lease and some other offers.
The Chevrolet Equinox is the Crossover that Lets You Have it All
The Chevy Equinox is a popular vehicle in and around North Jackson, Lordstown, Youngstown, Warren, and everywhere in between. Just what makes it so noteworthy?
- Multiple configurations are available, making it easy to find the trim level perfect for your needs and budget. Choose from L, LS, LT, and Premier, each with a great selection of features. Premier has taken the place of the LTZ trim level from previous model years.
- The Equinox offers a number of different engine and drivetrain options. Choose from a 1.5-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, as well as a 1.6-liter turbo-diesel engine. Gas mileage is great no matter which engine you choose, getting up to 32 mpg on the highway for the gasoline engines, while the diesel engine gets up to 40 mpg on the freeway. Finally, choose from FWD or AWD.
- With up to 3,500 lbs. of towing capacity, you can feel confident driving with your jet skis, small camper, or boat in tow. With up to 63.5 cu. ft. of cargo space with the rear seats folded down, you have plenty of room in the vehicle as well.
- Love technology? The Equinox has you covered! Standard features include a 7-inch diagonal color touchscreen, 6-speaker audio system with USB port and auxiliary input jack, and Bluetooth connectivity. Available features include a Bose premium 7-speaker audio system, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto.
- Safety is important when you are on the move with your family. That is why the Chevrolet Equinox comes with standard safety features like a tire pressure monitoring system, teen driver system, rear vision camera, and rear seat reminder. Optional safety features include low speed forward automatic braking, forward collision alert, lane keep assist, side blind zone alert, lane change alert, rear cross traffic alert, and rear park assist.
Visit Spitzer Chevrolet Lordstown to test drive a used Chevrolet Equinox today!
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Welcome to Spitzer Chevrolet Lordstown, your local Lordstown Chevy dealer. We've got a wide variety of new and used cars at our location in North Jackson, OH. Our inventory is updated daily - so our online inventory is a fairly accurate approximation of what we have on the lot. We've been serving the local community for over 30 years. We have hundreds of new vehicles of all types to choose from, and you're sure to find something you love. If you don't see the vehicle you are looking for on our lot or on our website, let us know. We're more than happy to pull from our network of cars to find you the perfect vehicle. Visit our hours and directions page to find us. Call us at 330-538-8627 or contact us with any questions you have.


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Police investigate hit-and-run death of footballer
UPDATE: THE Toowoomba rugby league fraternity is in shock after the death of one its most gutsy players.
Simon Sweeney was killed after he was struck by a vehicle while he was walking along the Warrego Highway early Sunday morning.
The 27-year-old father was a devoted Southern Suburbs Tigers' player.
EARLIER: A 27-YEAR-OLD man has been found dead on the Warrego Hwy after what appears to be a hit-and-run.
The man was found on the highway at 3.50am yesterday.
A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said the initial investigations of the incident suggested he was hit by a vehicle.
However, police were unsure as to what the man was doing on the highway in the early hours of the morning.
Witnesses said the man had been seen on the middle of the road.
The QPS spokeswoman said a truck had been seized at the Toowoomba PCYC markets yesterday morning after it was alleged to be linked to the incident.
The Warrego Hwy was closed in both directions with diversions in place for several hours after the man's body had been found.
The highway reopened just after 8am yesterday.
Investigations are continuing.
Anyone who may have any information about the incident can contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au.


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PaulNL needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
We are a company focused on acquiring high quality leads for our customers.
We use both our own Media Channels and Affiliates to generate those leads.
Logo must appeal a B2B audience.
New company focused on Lead Generation is in need for a great looking logo.
No corporate identity is available yet, this will all be based on the winning logo design.
- Feel free to express yourself, choose colors etc.
- Vector based!
- Company name is "LeadMedia" you must state it this way.
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California voters will decide two competing tax measures next month - Propositions 30 and 38 - both promising to provide funds for our cash-strapped education system.
California voters will decide two competing tax measures next month - Propositions 30 and 38 - both promising to provide funds for our cash-strapped education system.
Of the two, Proposition 30, is clearly the better choice because of its shorter duration, greater flexibility and more limited effect on lower- and middle-class Californians.
Proposition 30, of course, is Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to shore up the state's wobbly state budget, a huge percentage of which funnels into the state's schools. When the budget goes south, school budgets head to the deep freeze. Teachers are laid off. Class sizes balloon. College and university tuitions soar. That's exactly what's happened in recent years.
Proposition 30 aims to staunch this financial bleed by increasing state income taxes on the wealthiest Californians - couples making less than $500,000 per year will pay no additional state income tax. It also would increase state sales taxes on all Californians. The pain of increasing the state's revenues by about $6 billion is spread, but it is also temporary. Income taxes would rise for seven years and the sales tax for four years.
Absent the revenue Proposition 30 will generate, the school year could be cut as many as three additional weeks, to give but one example of the kind of Draconian choices we face.
Opponents - including those supporting the competing tax measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, Proposition 38 - rightly argue that there is no guarantee all the money Proposition 30 generates will go to the schools or to stabilize college tuition.
That's true. Although the money does go into a lockbox the Legislature can't touch, it's also true that the proposition lacks a prohibition to keep lawmakers from using the new revenue to supplant rather than supplement existing school funding. That shortfall deserves special attention during the annual audits that are part of the Proposition 30 requirements.
But Proposition 30 also contains a provision vitally important to the state: a state Constitution guarantee of local public safety funding for costs stemming from prison realignment. Realignment diverts so-called nonviolent and low-risk criminals from the state prison system to county jails and local supervision.
What's the alternative to assure greater school funding? Supporters say it's Proposition 38, a $10 billion annual tax bite that will increase state income taxes on a sliding scale for 12 years.
If you make as little as $17,346 a year, your state income taxes will go up.
The Proposition 38 money also goes in a lockbox for schools, but again there is nothing to keep lawmakers from simply shifting money now spent on schools to other programs once the new revenue stream starts flowing.
Proposition 38 hits too many for too much for too long. Proposition 30 strikes a balance and provides much-needed revenue relief for California education.


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Joseph F. Williams, a retired Timonium dentist who was known for his generosity in not charging patients, died Monday of respiratory failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 83.
Joseph Francis Williams was born and raised in Waterbury, Conn., where he graduated in 1947 from Crosby High School.
He was a 1951 graduate of St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., and earned a degree in 1955 from the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.
After earning his dental degree, Dr. Williams enlisted in the Navy and served at the Norfolk Naval Base and aboard the aircraft carrier USS Independence during the Cuban missile crisis. He attained the rank of lieutenant commander by the time of his 1962 discharge.
Dr. Williams practiced dentistry in Marblehead, Mass., until moving to Baltimore in 1970 when he joined Dental Associates in Timonium.
A devoted Roman Catholic, Dr. Williams offered free dental care to students at several schools.
"He treated nuns and priests in the Catholic church and did not charge them," said Alexander Martick, a friend, of Baltimore.
Dr. Williams retired in 2010.
"His patients loved him and did not want him to retire," said his wife of 42 years, Judy M. Burch.
Throughout his life, Dr. Williams remained faithful to St. Mary's College, a Jesuit institution. His philanthropy included its School of Science and athletic department.
He endowed a scholarship that helped a needy student attend the college, and he also donated a stained-glass window in the college chapel. He had been a member for 16 years of St. Mary's President's Club.
The former resident of Northwest Baltimore had since 2006 lived in a replica of the Samuel Owings House on St. Thomas Lane in Owings Mills. He was a music and art lover.
He had been a communicant of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church, 6428 York Road, Rodgers Forge.
In addition to his wife, Dr. Williams is survived by a son, Brien P. Williams of New York City; a daughter, Dierdre P. Bond of Silver Spring; a stepson, Hans R. Wilhelmson of Jarrettsville; a stepdaughter, Kirsten W. Greenwell of Phoenix, Baltimore County; and 10 grandchildren. Another daughter, Sharon A. Murphy died in 1997.
An earlier marriage ended in divorce.
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Haiss needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Our team is made up of over 45 years of combined B2B sales, sales management, and channel sales experience within the technology and wireless industries. Not only do we have experience in consistent sales overachievement, we have the same level of experience in recruiting, deploying, and managing successful sales teams and strategic sales initiatives. We provide guaranteed results to our Business clients in the following areas:
- Multiple or single outsourced sales/business development representatives
- Full in-house or remote sales team
- Virtual Sales Management
- Sales Strategy Creation / Assessment
- Sales Recruiting
Reduce your operational costs, and get the resources you need to grow your business today. We have the ability to deploy multiple experienced sales and business development representatives in almost any vertical. It does not matter if you are an early stage company looking to get your products to market or are an established company looking to compliment your current sales team with a strategic sales initiative, we can provide you the experienced resources that you need.
We are looking for a Logo that has a very Dynamic Feel. We want to emphasize your company growing and multyplying in sales.
If you can use Sales with the little 2 that fine but Sales Squared will work too.
Target: Mostly for IT technology companies - with revenue's of 1-5 million
They could be new or existing. Desiered Audience will be a CEO or President, Director, Senior Management. Executive level.
I don't know what I want - I'm not creative at all - that's why I'm going through this exercise. I want something that looks Dynamic - Most logos you see are borring. I realize I want to appeal to executive level individuals, but can't it look interesting too?
If you look at the pic I attached - the 4 logos on the right side of the page are ones that I like.....my definition of Dynamic.
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I also know that competition and a deadline can be a great motivator.
Thanks to Michael Hait for compiling this list of writing competitions.
American Society of Genealogists
ASG Scholar Award
2012 Deadline: Interested applicants for the award should apply before September 30, 2011.
"The ASG Scholar Award provides financial assistance for a developing scholar to attend one of three training programs in American genealogy: the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), the National Institute on Genealogical Research (NIGR), or the new Certificate Program in Genealogical Research at Boston University. The recipient may register for the program of his or her choice." Submit "a manuscript or published work of at least 5,000 words, demonstrating an ability to conduct quality genealogical research, analyze results, and report findings in an appropriately documented fashion."
BCG Education Fund
Donald Mosher Memorial Award for Colonial Virginia Research
2011 Deadline: The annual deadline is 31 December.
"This competitive Award was established in 2001 by Merrill Hill Mosher, CG, of Oregon, to honor her late husband in gratitude for his support of her genealogical endeavors. The $500 grant funds scholarly research on colonial Virginia topics in the following categories: family genealogy, study of immigrant origins, or projects focused on obscure or difficult unpublished Virginia resources."
Connecticut Society of Genealogists
2011 CSG Literary Awards
2011 Deadline: Entries must be received in CSG's Office by February 15, 2011.
"Entry Categories are:
a.) Genealogy, related to New England (begins with someone in the past and moves forward in time through all of his/her descendants).
b.) Family History, related to New England (begins with someone living today or recently and moves backward in time usually in a direct line).
c.) Genealogical Resource related to New England (might include cemetery abstracts, compilations, court records, etc.)"
Connecticut Society of Genealogists
"Tell Your Family Story" Essay Contest
2011 Deadline: Entries must be received in CSG's Office by February 15, 2011.
"Essays may include transcriptions of excerpts from an ancestor's journal/diary; transcriptions of cemetery markers; oral histories; family histories/traditions and socio-economic background surrounding/affecting an ancestor. Essay writers are encouraged to use their imagination when deciding on a topic. Please bear in mind that essays must have some relevance to New England (see #2 above)."
International Society of Family History Writers and Editors
Excellence in Writing Competition
2010 Deadline: The contest will begin 1 October 2010. Entries must be received by the coordinator no later than 31 December 2010.
National Genealogical Society
The Family History Writing Contest
Deadline for Submissions: 31 December Annually
To encourage members to write a family history that covers at least three generations and not more than four. Full rules on website.
Ohio Genealogical Society
The 4th Annual Ohio Genealogical Society Writing Competition
2011 Deadline: Entries will be accepted from 1 December 2010 through 1 February 2011.
"Showcase your genealogical writing talent in one of the Ohio Genealogical Society's outstanding journals. OGS is sponsoring its fourth annual genealogical writing contest which is open to authors of genealogical and historical material. In doing so, OGS will reward genealogical authorship and will feature the winners in its journals. Two OGS journals will reach our 5,400-member base while the two subscription journals reach genealogical and historical groups with special interests in early Ohio history and in Ohio's Civil War soldiers. The contest is for articles dealing with Ohio history and genealogy, Ohio records groups, Ohioans who left to settle elsewhere and Ohio families. OGS welcomes articles ranging in size from 750 words up to 5,000 words, depending on the subject."
Oklahoma Genealogical Society
Family Story Writing Contest
2011 Deadline: postmarked by 30 April 2011
"There is no entry fee and membership in OGS is not required for this year. There should be some connection to Oklahoma, either through the author's residence or the story itself. There will be two divisions: Adult and Student."
Pinellas Genealogy Society
Family History Writing Competition
2011 Deadline: All entries must be received no later than 31 October 2011.
"Entries should be based on the author's research of a family history or a genealogical account of family lines and lives, discussing the steps followed and the conclusions that resulted from the research. Entries must be original, unpublished papers or published papers. If previously published, please submit permission to reprint from the original publisher along with the entry."
Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, Inc.
Family History 2011 Writing Contest
2011 Deadline: Submit entries between March 15, 2011 and April 15, 2011.
"Piece must be written to the theme: "Person, Place or Thing". Weave a story around an object your ancestor made or used that was passed down through the family, or write about your favorite family member or story. Your story must be factual, with suppositions clearly indicated. Documentation in the form of endnotes or footnotes is required. Length is to be between 750 and 5000 words."
Southern California Genealogical Society
GENEii Family History Writing Contest
2010 Deadline: Entries must be received between November 1 and December 31, 2010.
"The contest is for factual articles: either family history or local history, character sketches, or memoirs. The entries should capture a sense of a family's experience(s), or the character of a locality, or reveal an individual's character and personality. The best articles will help illuminate the human drama—and will also illuminate the era, and/or the historical or social context of the subject." FAQs for 2010 Contest on the website.
Texas State Genealogical Society
TSGS Writing Awards
2010 Deadline: 1 September 2010
Contest open to TSGS members. Several categories. Full rules on website.


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Summer is winding down, and Harvest is in the air! Most of our great winemaker friends are full swing into the 2016 grape harvest (or they will be soon!) It's always exciting to anticipate the wine that will be crafted from this vintage. We just have to sit back & wait for the grapes and the winemakers to do their thing.
You may want to spend the weekend of October 1st & 2nd enjoying Amador County's "Big Crush Harvest Festival". Log onto amadorwine.com for a full listing of participating wineries. Then be sure to have a lovely dinner at the Gold Vine Grill later that evening.
Coming next month, Saluti Cellars will be utilizing their venue for a fundraiser for the Pioneer Firefighters. We will bring you more information as the time gets closer to the event. But, you will want to put the date of October 29th on your calendar for this one!
We will not be hosting a "12 @ 6" Wine Paired dinner in September, but we will be at it again in October, so stay tuned.
One of the fun & exciting things coming up is a Caribbean Cruise being hosted by our good friend, Shari Fitzpatrick. She, along with MV (Miller Vineyards) and Nello Olivo Winery are putting together a Wine & Chocolate Cruise! This cruise will leave Miami for a 7-Day Cruise on March 18th 2017. We are trying to get in on the fun, and book some cabins with Gold Vine Grill. There are also more details on our "Events" Link.
Wednesday Nights: Burger Night
Thursday Nights: Fish & Chips (except this Thursday, when we'll have Fish Tacos!)
Friday & Saturday Nights: Steak & Lobster
Sundays all Day & Night: Corkage Free!
Call us for take out food day or night.
Check out our Facebook Page for the Cheesecake flavor of the week!
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This year the 24th of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences will be organized by the Middle East Technical University. The Symposium will be held on September 14-16, 2009 in METU Northern Cyprus Campus.
We kindly invite you to submit papers for the twentyfourth of the ISCIS series of conferences that bring together scientists and engineers from around the world. This year's conference will be held in Northern Cyprus, a beautiful Mediterranean island.
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Fruit & Veg may not help allergy
Eating more fruits and vegetables may not protect children from developing allergies, according to a large Swedish study that questions earlier hints of benefit. Fruits and vegetables are rich in antioxidants, which are thought to reduce airway inflammation. So recent studies reporting less asthma, wheezing and hay fever among children who consumed more produce appeared to make sense.
But not all research has found that link, and the studies that did may have had a surprising flaw, said Helen Rosenlund of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, who led the new study. She said some proteins in fruits like apples and pears resemble the pollen parts that trigger hay fever, meaning that kids might react to both. In other words, existing allergies may have caused them to eat around the produce, rather than the other way around. "This could confuse research findings," explained Rosenlund, "falsely suggesting that diets with fewer fruits and vegetables result in more allergic disease."
To find out if this was the case, Rosenlund and her colleagues looked at data on nearly 2,500 eight-year-olds who had participated since birth in a larger Swedish study. Based on blood tests and questionnaires filled out by parents, the researchers found that seven percent of the children had asthma. The rates of hay fever and skin rashes were more than twice as high. The average child ate between one and two servings of fruit, and between two and three servings of vegetables each day.
At first glance, some produce did seem helpful: Kids with the biggest appetite for fruit had less than two-thirds the odds of developing hay fever than those who ate the least amount. Apples, pears and carrots appeared to be particularly helpful, the researchers report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, but there was no such link for vegetables overall. However, it turned out that half the children with hay fever were sensitive to birch tree pollen, one of the pollens known to resemble the proteins in apples and carrots. And sure enough, after the team repeated their analysis excluding the 122 kids with food-related allergy symptoms, the hay fever link disappeared as well. "Fruits do not seem to offer protection against allergic if diet modifications are considered," say Rosenlund.
The researchers say more studies are needed, particularly in other parts of the world that may have a different variety of allergy triggers, or allergens. And they advise those studies should not forget to look at how allergies might influence what participants eat. "Studying diet it is not so easy when it comes to the relation with allergic disease," Rosenlund said, "because it is such a complex disease pattern."
SOURCE: bit.ly/g3DpI7 The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online January 10, 2011.More


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Founded in 1993, Platinum Home Mortgage is a national mortgage banker offering a comprehensive selection of mortgage financing options to first-time homebuyers, move-up buyers and individuals wishing to refinance.
Work With a Direct Lender
A lot of lenders call themselves a "direct lender," and the definition oft-times depends on whom you ask. Working with a lender that does everything listed below, like Platinum Home Mortgage, means accessing more kinds of financing to meet the varying needs of a wider public. It means lower costs, faster turnarounds and less hassle for you.
- A lender that sells directly to another lender and has a direct endorsement ability to underwrite and approve their own loans.
- A lender that has its own warehouse line in order to fund its own loans.
- A lender that sells loans to Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac.
- A lender that puts loans in Ginnie Mae securities.
- A lender that can do it all.
Our Dedication to Our Clients and Communities
We put our customers' best interest first and strive to make the home financing process a great experience. We provide our customers with the highest levels of service in our industry: fast application-to-closing times, common-sense underwriting and an unequivocal desire to provide our communities with ethical, sound home financing.
Innovation and Education
Innovation. It's how we separate ourselves from other lenders. It's how we are able to offer more mortgage programs than anyone else. It's what gives us more ways to work in the customer's best interest.
Our mortgage consultants are educated and experienced. We provide them with ongoing training, ensuring staying current in an ever-changing industry.
Browse this website to learn about our company, our products and our services. If you are unsure about what kind of financing best suits your needs, don't hesitate to contact your local office, or call 1-800-9LENDER and your call will be connected to a local branch, where one of our mortgage consultants will be happy to assist you.


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Using machine learning to transform online education and improve student outcomes
By using Google Cloud Platform's machine learning tools to understand and address student questions 24/7, Strayer University significantly improved support to its more than 48,000 students.
Strayer University's student population is made up of mostly "non-traditional" students who face obstacles that the traditional student found on a campus quad does not. Most are working full time, they have children, and they often have previous attempts at higher education. Additionally, more than 80% of Strayer's students take at least one of their classes online. The university recognizes that they cannot address online student issues in the same ways a traditional university might. It requires a unique approach.
"Deploying 'Irving' using Google Cloud Platform and Dialogflow has not only helped students get answers quicker, it's also freed up University staff to focus on helping students with greater needs along their journey to complete their degree."
Joe Schaefer, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Strayer University
Introducing Irving: the friendly service agent
The institution already used a live chat platform with extended hours to accommodate working students. But it wanted to develop a virtual assistant that could learn by conversing with students and support them in real-time. Strayer leadership compiled a cross-departmental team made up of a behavioral psychologist, a software engineer, a full stack developer and a conversational designer. They sought out technology that would be up to the task and selected Google's Dialogflow.
Daniel McCarthy, Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence & Automation, describes the language model of both Google Cloud and Dialogflow as "so robust that it's mind-boggling how efficient and accurate it can be." Google's ease of use and flexibility, the ability to get up and running quickly, and the ability to transcend the chat bot model were important factors in deciding to partner with Google for this program. In less than a week the Strayer team created a prototype that could not only greet a student by name, but even know personal details like the student's birthday. Named after the university's founder, Dr. Irving Strayer, Irving could learn when a conversation was going off-topic and redirect the student to a live agent for further assistance. The change was remarkable.
Impact on students
Since spring 2017, there have been more than 163,697 interactions with Irving, serving over 20,000 unique students, with a 72% success rate in Irving's ability to understand student messages. Even students who don't take online courses benefit as Irving is housed within iCampus, a tool all students have access to. Due to this success, Irving is now handling 74% of Strayer's live chat volume–so student support staff can focus on those with more complicated needs. Reactions from students have been positive: when asked for feedback after interacting with Irving one student commented, "Very helpful, I can't wait until I have another question!"
In the coming months, Strayer will leverage Dialogflow to build out sentiment analysis and further optimize the student experience. McCarthy emphasizes that Strayer is continually mining questions to add to its content and improve service. And, he adds, the university has higher ambitions for their technology: next the team plans to use the Dialogflow and Google Cloud technologies to identify students needing additional assistance and to offer tutoring and supplemental resources to help them better their life through education. McCarthy is optimistic: "Dialogflow's robust functionality fit right into the mission we were trying to accomplish. We are all very excited about this."
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Strayer University, an educational innovator for 125 years, develops and leverages new technologies to reskill working adults. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Strayer is a pioneer in online education, becoming one of the first accredited institutions to offer an online degree program in 1996.
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When Teleport City reviewed the French science fiction animated feature Gandahar, we delved into the history of French sci-fi in animated and comic form, including the birth of Metal Hurlant, the comic magazine that, when it was licensed for publication in America, became Heavy Metal. Tackling Luc "The Destroyer of French Cinema" Besson's whimsical fantasy-adventure The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec allows us to continue our meandering history lesson on French comics and comics magazines. Adele Blanc-sec is an adaptation of a comic strip of the same name, which appeared in Pilote — coincidentally, the magazine that served as an incubator for the writers and artists (including Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, and Enki Bilal) who would leave it in the 1970s to launch Metal Hurlant. Pilote was founded by two writers, Rene Goscinny and Jean-Michel Charlier, and two artist, Albert Uderzo and Jean Hebrard. The four of them worked previously on comics supplements to newspapers as well as providing strips for magazines. Goscinny and Uderzo's Asterix le Gaulois, a humorous strip about a village of Dark Ages Gauls was Pilote's biggest hit in the early days and served as the foundation on which the magazine was built. The magazine boasted a number of other popular series, too, such as Blueberry, Barbe-Rouge, and Valerian et Laureline.
Throughout the 1960s, the magazine continued to grow, and a number of France's most prominent comic artists and series got their start in Pilote. However, by the time the 1970s rolled around, a lot of those same artists and writers felt that Pilote, despite some attempts to update itself and remain relevant, was simply too restrictive and "kid friendly" (by decadent French standards) for what they wanted to do. In 1974, contributors Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Jean Giraud left Pilote to launch the publication group Les Humanoides Associes, responsible for the sci-fi and fantasy comic magazine Metal Hurlant. A number of other stalwarts of the Pilote stable — including Georges "Gebe" Blondeau, Jean "Cabu" Cabut, Jean-Marc Reiser, Gotlib, and Claire Bretecher (one of the few female comic artists working in France at the time) — all left to join other magazines or start their own. Pilote was subsequently floundering — sort of like England's Hammer film studio around the same time — and desperately in need of stability and some new talent. They managed to weather the storm but never fully recovered. One of the additions to the stable that helped them cope with the mass exodus of talent was Jacques Tardi.
Tardi studied fine arts at the Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs in Paris. Shortly after graduating, he began working for Pilote, illustrating stories by Moebius and Serge de Beketch. In 1972, the young artist got the chance to launch his own original series in the magazine, a political thriller series called Rumeur sur le Rouergue. Tardi quickly found himself to be a very in-demand artist, working throughout the 1970s for Pilote and Metal Hurlant as well as adapting a number of novels into graphic format. In 1972, he created Adieu Brindavoine for Pilote, a series that established a universe in which two more of Tardi's comics would also take place: La Fleur au fusil and Le Demon des glaces (aka The Arctic Marauder), both published in 1974. Set during or in the years immediately before the outbreak of World War One, these adventure comics served as the template Tardi would follow when, in 1976, he was asked to create a new series. Tardi felt that, although male protagonists were the norm, French comics could do with a female heroine who was somewhat more refined than that saucy spacegirl Barbarella. So he created Edith Rabatjoie and placed her in his slightly askew version of the world in the days before World War One, positioning her as the female equivalent of Lucien Brindavoine, the hero from his earlier trio of adventures. Of course, every confident, capable heroine needs a proper foil, and so Edith Rabatjoie was fitted with a suitable arch-enemy: Adele Blanc-sec.
Tardi quickly discovered one problem with his new creation: he much preferred drawing Adele Blanc-sec. So Adele morphed from villain to heroine and main character, a globe-trotting journalist and woman of adventure with little regard for niceties such as the law or social expectations for women. In the character of Adele Blanc-sec, one can find aspects of several other great comic characters. There's the daring anti-hero streak of the masterly gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, for example (a remnant, most likely, of Adele's origin as a villain). There's the intrepid can-do attitude and curiosity of Belgian comics sensation Tintin, with whom Adele shares a profession (now there's a team-up waiting to happen) and propensity for showing up in the world's more exotic locales. Tardi himself has said that Adele's signature red hair and green dress was a direct reference to Becassine, a female comic character from the early 1900s who was sort of an illustrated embodiment of all the condescending traits upscale city dwellers attributed to their more provincial cousins. Becassine was also one of the first French comic strips, and one of the longest running. The most obvious relationship between Becassine and Adele Blanc-sec, besides the dress, would be the latter's position as someone who has achieved a certain status for her adventures while still remaining squarely outside the realm of what would be considered proper behavior for a young woman of standing. The big difference is that Becassine was largely presented as a bumpkin character deserving of the ridicule of her social betters. There's also more than a bit of classic pulp and comic hero in Adele Blanc-sec, like Bruce Wayne, The Shadow, Green Arrow, or even James Bond — shadowy heroes who occupy high society positions without actually fitting into them, partaking in extracurricular activities that leave their high-stepping associates aghast (or would, if they weren't secret).
For me Adele Blanc-sec parallels with no comic character as well as she does Tintin, though she has another kindred spirit in works of literature. In 1975, author Elizabeth Peters wrote Crocodile on the Sandbank, the first of what would become the long running "Amelia Peabody Mysteries" series. The story focuses on Amelia Peabody, a late Victorian (maybe Edwardian)-era Englishwoman with a penchant for undertaking archaeological expeditions that always seem to end up involving mummies, curses, assassins, and other exciting affairs. Like Adele, Peabody is a woman of supreme confidence and ability in a time and place when such attributes as adventurous spirit and intellectualism were considered less than desirable traits in a woman. The similarities between the two fictional women are augmented by the fact that Adele wasted little time in getting to an adventure that also wrapped her up with mummies, though whereas Peabody's mummies always ended up being a cover for perfectly human conspiracies, the mummies in the Adele Blanc-sec stories were a little more Universal Studios horror in their nature. In fact, that mummy story, originally entitled Momies en folie (Mummies on Parade), serves as the primary source material for Luc Besson's cinematic adaptation, though the script also draws substantially from the first of the Adele Blanc-sec adventures, Adele and the Beast/The Demon of the Eiffel Tower.
It is traditional for the first film in any adaptation of a long-running comic series to be the origin story of the main character, even if the origin is so ingrained in pop culture that basically everyone knows it. Superman, for example. We all know who Superman is. We don't need to see his origin story. Or Spider-Man, for that matter, who despite having an origin story that basically everyone knows regardless of their interest in comics, still gets his origin story told in two huge-budget movies in less than a decade. Besson, however, decides that Adele Blanc-sec doesn't need an origin story any more than Tintin does. She's an adventuring reporter who gets into trouble that often has a supernatural element to it. End of origin. And so the film jumps into the plot basically mid-stream, which means viewers who are unfamiliar with the character might have to thrash a little bit at the beginning to keep up — at least until you understand that familiarity with the character's backstory is unimportant. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-sec operates well within the realm of classic pulp adventure, which means you don't have to know the character since you most likely already know the type of story she inhabits, and you can use that as a bridge.
And so, picking events up seemingly in the middle of things, we are introduced via a rapid-fire entry to a few different characters and plots. First, there is the elderly Professor Esperandieu (a heavily made-up Jacky Nercessian, who looks like no one so much as he does that fake old man who can't stop himself from dancing wildly every time he's confronted with the prospect of waiting in long lines at Six Flags), whose experiments with psychic powers lead to him hatching a living pterodactyl out of a one hundred million year old egg. Even though the old academic has some psychic sway over the dinosaur, it turns out it's hard to make a pterodactyl behave in a way that is compatible with modern (for 1911) society, which means before too long, the beast is plucking up victims and making headlines. World-weary inspector Albert Caponi (Gilles Lellouche, also under a ton of prosthetic make-up) is assigned to the case, which soon brings him in contact with a couple of paleontologists from the local museum that housed the egg. One of the scientists, the handsome but awkward young Andrej Zborowski (Nicolas Giraud, who is not kitted out in prosthetics but does sport a jaunty mustache) also happens to have a crush on celebrity writer and adventurer Adele Blanc-sec.
Which finally introduces us to our title character (played by the astonishingly lovely Louise Bourgoin), currently in the middle of an expedition in Egypt to recover a mummy. As is frequently the case with expeditions in these types of stories, her retainers seem to have been selected from the shiftiest and most deceitful the region has to offer. Why do they always hire the guy with crazy eyes, bad teeth, and a tendency to grin wolfishly while he picks at said teeth with a rusty knife? Her quest is complicated by the arrival of the dastardly Dieuleveult (Mathieu Amalric, Quantum of Solace),whose sole purpose in life seems to be to foil anything Adele attempts. Recovery of this particular mummy seems to be much more than the culmination of an academic expedition for Adele. After some ancient tomb action scenes, she manages to escape the clutches of Dieuleveult and return to Paris with the mummy, where we soon learn that the mummy plays an integral part in Adele's plan to cure her comatose sister — the tragic victim of a terrible hatpin accident during a heated tennis match.
Unfortunately for Adele, her plan also hinges on the psychic ability of Professor Esperandieu, recently outed as the cause of Paris' pterosaur issue and currently incarcerated and scheduled for execution. Her idea was to have him revive the centuries old mummy, the mummy being the pharaoh's personal physician and possessed of specialized medical knowledge far in advance of anything the world of 1911 has to offer. Additional problems crop up when it turns out that the mummy is, in fact, the wrong mummy and not a physician at all but instead is/was the pharaoh's personal nuclear physicist. It all culminates in a delirious finale involving cops, big game hunters, flying dinosaurs, and of course tea-sipping gentleman mummies with advanced cravat-knotting skills. While Besson does not fall victim to the temptation to make this first film an origin story, he does fall victim to another common pitfall of the comic book adaptation: the temptation of cramming too many plot and characters from a long history of source material into a relatively short running time. The result is that, while Adele Blanc-sec's stew of mummies, dinosaurs, and adventure remains consistently entertaining, it can also lose track of its own plot threads and characters. Still, any movie that includes dapper mummies and a woman saddling up a pterosaur can be forgiven the occasional lack of focus.
Although he's been a fixture on the international movie scene consistently since he first made a name for himself with La Femme Nikita back in 1990 (not his first film, I know, but his first film to make an international splash, unless you count the number of people who rented Subway because the VHS box featured a photo of Christopher Lambert wielding a fluorescent light tube like his Highlander sword), Besson hasn't worked as a director nearly as frequently as he has producer or facilitator. His film factory has been cranking out consistently low-brow, highly entertaining action and sci-fi films for the better part of a decade plus now, giving us everything from Crimson Rivers to The Transporter series to High Tension, Banlieue 13, Taken… the list goes on. In 1990, lauded film critic and historian Pauline Kael decried Besson's La Femme Nikita as "the death of French cinema." His entire career from that point on seems to have been dedicated to making her more and more outraged at the loud, glossy crap for which he was responsible. Pauline Kael and I agree on some key points in our philosophy, but our opinions certainly differ when it comes to Besson. His films, even more as producer than director, seem geared to appeal specifically to me with their blend of Hong Kong influenced over-the-top action, tawdry sexiness, willingness to play to the audience, and unwillingness to handle anything with the least bit of gravitas. Besson makes and produces films that are pure pulp entertainment, adhering pretty consistently to pat formula but executing that formula with panache and boundless energy.
Adele Blanc-sec veers away from the guns 'n' guts output that has defined most of the output from Besson's Europa Studio since they hit it huge with The Professional and, perhaps even more so, The Transporter. The latter film's goofball attitude and excitement became a sort of house style for Europa. Adele Blanc-sec, by contrast, is drenched in substantially less testosterone and features substantially less blood, though it is by no means less action-packed and exciting. It simply takes a different tone, part of which has to do with the period setting and part of which has to do with the fact that the movie features a female hero — and one in a big green turn-of-the-century dress at that. Besson is no stranger to female heroes and anti-heroes. La Femme Nikita, The Professional, The Messenger, The Fifth Element — all of those feature female characters who are central to the story and take part in the action rather than playing the role of damsel in distress. But in most of those, the film is also anchored by a male character who gets as much if not more of the narrative's times, which means they still get to flex some muscle and act macho. With Adele Blanc-sec, however, we find ourselves in a time where dress was more formal and manners more important, and that means we get a very different heroine and a very different atmosphere.
It's a breezy affair, one England's The Guardian described as having perhaps too much whimsy (how English of them). For sure this is a playful movie, even when it's pretending to be at its most tragic. The sad state of Adele's sister is made as absurd as it is tragic by the nature of her injury. Although the film handles itself from start to finish with a knowing smirk and sense of humor, at no point does it become self-referential or "ironic" in its embrace of the source material. It's a style of story that demands such a smirk, and Besson takes the film seriously without it being a serious film. It's obvious he has great affection for Adele Blanc-sec, and the tone he strikes is perfect. once again, I'll invoke the shadow of Tintin. Just as the comic version of Adele Blanc-sec was similar in subject and spirit to Hegre's Tintin, so too is Besson's cinematic adaptation of Adele Blanc-sec very similar in tone and breathless fun as Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Tintin. They would make a perfect double bill, though being French, Besson's film is more likely to feature prominent smoking and occasional nudity (not that The Adventures of Tintin shied away from booze jokes and other slightly more adult gags).
What is particularly interesting, at least to me, to compare between Adele Blanc-sec and Spielberg's Tintin is the exaggerated look of much of the cast. Both films are populated by cartoonish characters, the difference being that Spielberg achieved his look through the use of CGI while Besson relied entirely on old-fashioned make-up despite the fact that his movie is full of CGI effects otherwise. In some cases, this is successful but not convincing — Esperandieu being the stand-out in that regard. Decades and decades of doing old person make-up haven't resulted in it being done any better, though at least in the context of the movie, it's pretty unimportant that Esperandieu look "realistic." That make-up job stands out mostly because it so closely resembles all the other old man make-up jobs that have ever been done. More successful I think is the job done on the ruggedly good looking Gilles Lellouche to transform him into the doughy, perpetually confused and tired looking Inspecteur Albert Caponi. Lellouche is unrecognizable under his make-up, but the make-up job itself is fantastic. He looks like a cartoon character made flesh. Mathieu Amalric as the villain Dieuleveult is similarly extreme while still being convincing. The fact that some characters look like cartoon versions of people while others (including Louise Bourgoin and Nicolas Giraud) look perfectly normal somehow manages to work, creating a version of the world that is recognizable but not quite the same as our own.
The film's full-on CGI effects are less successful than its more analog tricks — which is pretty much par for the course anywhere in the world and no matter the budget. The realization of Paris circa 1911 is pulled off convincingly, probably because Besson does it but doesn't overdo it with the CGI the way was done in other tech-heavy period pieces like the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films (which I quite like, and which would also make excellent companions to Adele Blanc-Sec). Besson also doesn't achieve his look by draining the entire film of color, a restraint that almost had me on my knees in tears of joy so happy was I to finally see a modern movie that wasn't all sickly blue, washed out brown, or dirty green-yellow. Adele Blanc-sec is allowed to have vibrant green vegetation, richly colorful dresses and flowers, and brilliant blue skies. Even if those colors were the result of digital color correction — which they almost certainly were — the willingness to finally let things be the color things are in real life is a welcome return to the entire point of color film.
Where the CGI falters is in the places CGI usually falters. The digital effects that bring to life the dinosaur are passable when the dinosaur is by itself, but the instant a human character attempts to interact with that same space and thus themselves become CGI, the tried and true short-comings of the digital effect become all too noticeable. Specifically, the scene in which Adele finally comes face to face with the pterosaur surfaced painful memories the dodgiest CGI in the Lord of the Rings trilogy — the scene where Legolas rides around on the back of a cave troll, and the scene where Legolas rides around (hmmm) on on the trunk of an oliphant (but not Timothy Olyphant, as good as that would have been). You'll notice that both of these scenes feature a human(oid) riding a CGI beast. And Adele Blanc-sec's weakest effect is…surprise…a scene where a human character attempts to ride a CGI creature. It seems like no matter how much time and money you have, CGI just can't make that feel or look realistic. Adele Blanc-sec also elects to animate its mummies through the use of CGI, and they basically come out looking like the CGI mummies from the Steven Sommers Mummy movies, which is to say passable without being realistic — with the caveat that it's probably not wise to spend too much time arguing about whether or not an actual reanimated mummy moves in a realistic fashion. The mummy here, at least, is given a character, and that means that the CGI takes a back seat to the likability of the mummy's personality and enthusiasm for the rules of proper gentleman's style regardless of the ea in which it finds itself. Anyway, shoddy Legolas mountings didn't ruin The Lord of the Rings, and equally shoddy moments of CGI are hardly enough to ruin a movie as otherwise fun as Adele Blanc-sec.
If Adele Blanc-sec has any actual faults it's that it tries, as I mentioned, to cram too many characters and events into the run time. Dieuleveult makes a grand entrance at the beginning of the film then disappears entirely, meaning that the movie forgets to include the man who was presumably the main villain. As such, this is a rare sort of adventure film with no main bad guy. Adele has something to accomplish, but her primary opponents are not villains and henchmen; they are instead circumstances. And while that's an interesting twist, I think the movie would have benefitted from featuring Dieuleveult as an actual foil. Besson is keen on making this a series of films, so it's likely Dieuleveult will play a greater role in any subsequent films should they get made, but that doesn't make much of a difference in this one film. In addition to the lack of a bad guy, Adele Blanc-sec never manages to get its two main characters — Adele and Caponi — into the same scene even after the pterosaur and mummy plots finally mingle. The movie keeps such a frantic (but not actually panicked, if that makes any sense) pace that it never quite fully develops or ties everything together.
Luckily, the sheer force of Louise Bourgoin's charm pulls everything together no matter how frayed and tangled it may otherwise be. For an actress with very few credits and very little experience, she turns in a remarkable performance. Her Adele is confident and forceful but not overbearing or self-centered. She is capable but not infallible, and every now and then, she needs help. Bourgoin is utterly delightful in the role, extremely likable, and with an impish smirk to die for. If you frequent the sorts of entertainment — especially books — that I frequent, then this character is nothing out of the ordinary for you. I already mentioned the Amelia Peabody mysteries, and more recently, Adele Blanc-sec would find a kindred spirit in Alexia Tarabotti, the heroine in Gail Carriger's supernatural adventure/steampunk comedy of manners/romance series The Parasol Protectorate. The only real difference between Alexia and Amelia and Adele (all A names, I notice) is that the first two are British, and the third is French — which means there is a carefree libertine air and slight disregard for propriety in Adele that would scandalize her fellow turn-of-the-century female adventurers.
She's assisted along the way by a capable supporting cast. Even the people buried beneath rubber jowls and bulbous noses don't let the make-up do all the work for them. Gilles Lellouche's Caponi is pretty funny, walking that thin line between bumbling and actually good at his job but faced with a ridiculous case. If an entire performance can embody "weary sigh," then this is it. Jean-Paul Rouve (La Vie en Rose) has a great turn as Justin de Saint-Hubert, a borderline psychotic big game hunter called in to catch the troublesome pterosaur. I'd pay good money to see a cross-era team up between him and Yun Je-mun's equally insane Hunter Baek from the South Korean monster movie Chaw. As Adele's presumptive romantic interest Andrej Zborowski (though at no point does she become romantically interested in him), Nicolas Giraud does what he can, but it's a limited role that offers him little more to do than look awestruck at Adele. It's probably no accident that this movie features a male "love interest" that is as half-baked and inconsequential as the female love interest is in so many male-dominated adventure movies.
A thoroughly entertaining film through and through, even if at times it can't quite juggle the many pins it throws into the air. Once again, we see that female-fronted adventure films are every bit as fun and exciting as those featuring male characters, but once again, I doubt anyone will take the message to heart. Even as movies like The Hunger Games burn things up at the box office and the exploding genre of female-oriented "urban fantasy" and "supernatural romance" dominates the best seller lists in literature, it's unlikely film makers will do much to break out of the notion that for a movie, especially an action movie, to be successful it has to revolve around a well-built white guy. We're currently in the midst of a sort of "geek uprising" these days in which girls and women who like things like video games, comics, and action films (no, they are not a tiny portion of the audience; yes, they are so marginalized by creators that they seem to be a tiny portion of the audience) are cracking their knuckles and throwing themselves into the battle to get something more relatable out of the genres they love than the typical image of women as sexpots, girlfriends, or assassins with 45DD spherical breasts, bikini armor, and eight-inch "combat ready" stiletto heels.
Predictably, this has resulted in push-back from the population of people (read: white guys) already serviced by what they get in these forms of entertainment. But it's also resulting in progress: games, comics, and movies with a greater diversity and a more inclusive attitude toward women, girls, gay men (hetero white males seem to have had no problem at all accepting lesbians into the medium, so long as the ladies shut up and just made out with each other), and anyone who isn't white. I'm not meaning to delve into a political debate here — I don't think the Internet is an effective medium for debate most of the time, and Teeport City is certainly not the proper venue for it, even if on occasion we let slip in a tenet of our Anarcho-Libertine Dandyist creed. So my point it, a movie like Adele Blanc-sec proves yet again that a film can be exciting and rough and tumble without having a male lead, that a movie can be witty without being arty, and that a story can be sexy without being sexist. Anyway, digression aside, Besson really delivers the goods. Not a perfect film, but what is? Adele Blanc-sec is highly enjoyable adventure cinema, and if you're a fan of any of the other titles mentioned in the review, specifically Tintin (either in print or film), the Sherlock Holmes movies, the Amelia Peabody Mysteries, or The Parasol Protectorate books, then you are going to find yourself comfortably at home with Adele Blanc-sec's loony blend of action, archaeology, supernatural beasties, whimsy, and gentleman mummies with proper manners. I hope Besson gets another movie in the series made, even if he's only producing. There's too much left untapped and this one was too fun to just let it be.
Release Year: 2010 | Country: France | Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve, Jacky Nercessian, Philippe Nahon, Nicolas Giraud, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Gerard Chaillou, Serge Bagdassarian, Claire Perot | Screenplay: Luc Besson | Director: Luc Besson | Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast | Music: Eric Serra


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Bella's Letter
This poem is set out as a letter that Bella has written to Edward (which he will never recieve) about the time he left her...
1. A letter to Edward
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You left me here
torn and broken.
With one sentence
that was spoken.
"it will be as if I'd never existed..."
You said you loved me
yet you still disappeared.
I missed you so much
that I even feared.
How could you do that
to both of us?
I know you missed me
Alice made a fuss.
It's over now
Iv'e moved forward.
With a new bestfriend
whose intentions are awkward.
He makes me feel
so much stronger.
Happy and warm
coz I know he'll stay longer.
I crave for you always
but never think of you twice.
It's just way too painful
so my mind works like a vice.
I hope that one day
you'll come and visit me.
I hope by then I'll be happy
or as happy as can be...
Love, Bella Swan


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Category : Project Management.
Topic : Project management documents list. Author : Nathaniel Wilcox.
Posted : Thu, Feb 28th 2019 01:32 AM.
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There are a few project management methodologies, but for our purposes we will look at the basis of good project management. Our goal is to apply the principles of solid project management, rather than try and memorize a particular methodology. In my experience, it is often thought that projects need to be somewhat complex in nature in order to use project management. The beauty of project management though is that even if there is little complexity to deal with, these principles will still be of great value to the individual applying them. At its core, project management is as much about efficiency as it is about bringing to fruition something that does not currently exist. Lets get started by defining a few things.


text: "Xu, Jerry" wrote: > > Hi, I am maintaining a cluster while lots user uses perl to submit tons of jobs > which seems to me like abusing the system. The qsub in SGE, and probably others, allows a repeat count to be set with a single qsub. So if they are using perl to qsub 1000 jobs which correspond to i=1,1000 have them use just one qsub with the repeat count method instead. Additionally, if they are setting up thousands of jobs, each of of which runs for very short times (< one second) through the queue system it will be much better to have them submit scripts that run N of those processes in a chunk within a single qsub job. That is, if you have 100 nodes and there are 1000 jobs to run, they might run 20 in each of 50 jobs (or some other similar mix.) There is some overhead and typically >=1 second wait times built into most queue systems, and they work better when the jobs are "long" compared to these times. I ran into both of these issues with my parallelblast implementation. SGE just couldn't start the jobs on the nodes fast enough, so it ended up using an outer SGE wrapper to start the "mother" job which then used PVM to start the individual jobs on each node. That's sort of an odd application though as it had to run in a certain way on all nodes at more or less the same time. Other than that, you may want to have a users meeting where the various types of jobs run on the system are described by the people who run them, so that some rational load sharing policy can be worked out. Not so much "who gets the most time" - which is pure politics and good luck with that. Rather: "how not to run jobs in such a way that they hog the system for no good reason, keeping others from getting work done." Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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To poke in here.. What is a good size TV to go with? Bigger the better right? lolJohn
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I love my Polk 5500 soundbar w/subwooefer. It has Bluetooth so I can play my iPhone or iPod or iPad through it. That thing rocks and makes TV watching feel like you are in the movie theater. Amazing sound throughout the whole tonal range.
The Polk soundbar has several inputs. Input one is an optical cable from my Samsung TV to the soundbar. The TV remote controls the soundbar volume.
Sorry I ment, I have the surround sound that came with the coach. There are 3 speakers up front 1 in the back by the table and two subs in the wall. I take it you did not have this setup first?JT
Bill,I completely removed the steel cage and it was then easy to fabricate a method to mount TV. Had to make a couple of oak 1 x 2 strips to complete and a panel on the bottom.
...Question: There was a noise suppressor on the old TV (externally mounted) and I am wondering if that is something I have to rehook in order to use the speaker selection button (Radio/TV) in the same group with the BOMB and the inverter controls- front right overhead cabinet.
Question: I have bought a wall mount kit for the TV but in looking at it out of the box it appears that the TV bars (2) simply hook over the wall mount bar and have a spring loaded hook that comes up to hold the unit onto the wall mounted brace. BUT this thing appears to be pretty loose when attached together and can even slide in either direction on the wall mounted brace. Will this take the beating on the road or should I consider installing something like a strip of foam on the back to restrict movement while traveling?
I see that the cage is completely removable John but think that it also adds some strength to the mount. Your method is probably what I will need to go to. Do you have any photos of the completed installation. Also did you remove the bottom fiberglass molding for the old TV - the one with the light (and mine also has a speaker in it)? That would really be a radical departure for the mounting. And I would need to fabricate a new bottom that goes from cabinet to cabinet.Bill
The removal of the cage doesn't lessen the strength of anything and it removes a lot of weight. I will try to find pictures. My mount was very inexpensive and locks in place. To remove it I have to pull on a release. I also mounted a 120 vac receptacle in the space behind the TV and tied it into the receptacle in the overhead cabinet.
I appreciate all the help I am getting on this project. The forum is a very valuable tool for any project. This will be a winter project.Bill
Sounds like you are way over complicating this project. I didn't have the surround system option on my coach so I didn't feel the need to keep it. My CRT to flat screen conversion was an afternoon project. Good luck and I hope to see some pictures of the finished job.
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They say simplicity is the mother of all design. For snowboarders, making things simpler is as easy as taking the bindings out of the equation. That's what a group of Kootenay pioneers did years back—a degression of sorts—that's actually led to progression. Snowboarding's simpler subculture (deemed noboarding, pow surfing, backyard boarding, whatever you want to call it) has a birthplace in Canada's Kootenay mountain range. And the annual celebration of such, a memorial for the life and death of one of its pioneers Greg Todds, went off this past weekend.
Curious of the allure and eager to join of this gathering for many years, I finally made the trip deep into the Koots for the ninth annual gathering. In reality, this event and the act of noboarding are simple; it's just garnering all the other elements, the truck, sled, location, food, snow, info and shelter that tend to complicate things. Once this is somewhat in order and you actually find the spot, a snowy hamlet nearly cut off from civilization, worry seems to go out the window. It's replaced with camaraderie, community and raising money for Greg Todds' family. See, there's a lot of mystery about the whole gig for good reason, the few locals simply don't want to blow up the spot. No interlopers. No kooks. Except for this one day, a rare time when the trolls under the bridge let you pass onto the promise land of deep pow and pillows.
This year the course was waist deep, borderline too deep to even move. Deep enough to swallow boards until the spring melt. Deep enough to leave riders literally swimming to their board. Local rippers "Young Dave" (Dave Seaton) and Ave Perry battled it out for first, trying to snap the course record of 0.47 seconds, which considering the run with no bindings and all, is nuts. Dave came out on top and so did his wife Eleanor who snagged first for the ladies. Must run in the family.
Staying atop a board with no bindings down a treed, pillowed, 30-40 degree pitch is rowdy. Equally rowdy on another level was the party crowd at the bottom who seemed unwavering in the cold. Psychedelic water, 10 a.m. caesars, fire pit jumping, human feces and general bullshit occupied the day, arguably fueled by MC Stew and accelerated into the evening auction and party. Craig Kelly photos, Grassroots and Snowshark boards, heli trips and a load of other goods were had at a steal, with all the loot going to the Todds family. After the weary slog back to Revelstoke, I sat down for some shitty Chinese food with Andrew Hardingham amidst a hammering snowstorm and left with this fortune cookie tale: "one must know that there is a path at the end of the road."


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Issue was due to messed up SRAM define in linker script. IDK what datasheet I was reading.. But I had the location and size completely wrong. That caused any access of SRAM to cause a hardfault of course. First happening when popping anything to the stack. Which also explains why I couldn't look at the stack to figure out the last called instruciton to point to where the issue was... copied stm32f0xx_*.h files over from STM32F0xx_StdPeriph_Driver/inc dir
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The "Sundays at 2" recital series coordinated by the department of music at Hope College will feature pianist Spencer Myer on Sunday, March 6, at 2 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The program will open with the "Sonata No. 5," by Baldassare Galuppi; "Waldszenen, Op. 82," by Robert Schumann; and "Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 Pastoral," by Ludwig van Beethoven.
After a brief intermission, the program will continue with pieces from Franz Liszt's "Années de Pèlerinage." From Liszt's "Deuxième année: Italie," Myer will perform "Sonetto 47 del Perarca," "Soneeto 104 del Petrarca" and "Sonetto 123 del Petrarca." From Liszt's "Troisième année," Myer will perform "Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este."
From Enrique Granados's "Goyescas," the program will conclude with "El amor y la muerte: Balada," and "Los Requiebro."
"Spencer is one of the top artists performing today and we are extremely fortunate to have him here," said Dr. Adam Clark, assistant professor of music at Hope. "This is his second performance (and master class) at Hope College after performing in spring of 2009."
Myer received the Gold Medal in the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. Following a summer that included an encore collaboration with the Miami String Quartet at Ohio's Kent/Blossom Music and debuts at the Texas State International Piano Festival and New York's Skaneateles Festival and The Stony Brook International Piano Festival, Myer included in his current season a five-week return tour of South Africa, a debut with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and solo recitals throughout the United States.
His orchestral, recital and chamber music performances have been heard throughout North America, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Dayton and Louisiana philharmonic orchestras, collaborating with, among others, conductors Nicholas Cleobury, Neal Gittleman and Jacques Lacombe.
In January 2007, Myer performed Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" at the Inaugural Festivities of Ohio's Governor Ted Strickland and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher. In 2004, he captured First Prize in the 10th UNISA International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as special prizes for the best performances of Bach, the commissioned work, the semifinal round recital and both concerto prizes in the final round. He is also a laureate in the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland, 2005 Busoni (where he was also awarded the Audience Prize), 2004 Montréal and 2003 New Orleans International Piano Competitions.
Winner of the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association, Myer also received both of the competition's special prizes in Chamber Music and Lieder Accompanying. Myer is also the winner of the 2000 Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. He was a member of Astral Artists performance roster from 2003 to 2009, a result of his having won that organization's 2003 national auditions.
An enthusiastic supporter of the education of young musicians, Myer has been a frequent guest artist at workshops for students and teachers, including Indiana's Goshen College Piano Workshop and the Texas Conservatory for Young Artists in Dallas, and has served on the faculties of the Baldwin-Wallace College and Oberlin College conservatories of music. He devoted a month of his 2010 summer as a staff pianist at the Steans Institute Vocal Program of the renowned Ravinia Festival.
Myer is also an advocate of contemporary music and inter-arts collaboration, and has worked with the Chicago- and New York-based ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Indianapolis' Dance Kaleidoscope, Ohio Dance Theatre and New York City's New Triad for Collaborative Arts, and The Juilliard School's "Composers and Choreographers" series.
Myer can be heard on the Dimension Records label, performing music of the late Cleveland composer Frederick Koch, and on a composer-conducted Naxos CD in performances of three concerti from Huang Ruo's "Chamber Concerto Cycle." His debut CD for harmonia mundi usa, featuring music of Busoni, Copland, Debussy and Kohs, was released in the fall of 2007.
Myer is a Steinway Artist. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Julian Martin.
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1. Instead of the usual, "ugh, it's Monday," let's take a different approach, shall we?
2. Ian had flowers delivered to my office for my birthday, and ever since we've been picking up flowers each week. It's amazing how even just $4 flowers can brighten my day.
3. The lovely Leetal took this photo of Alexa and I when we first started the blog. We're taking new photos in a few weeks and I can't wait!
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5. Speaking of perfection, I'm loving neon statement necklaces like this one. BaubleBar has some great finds for under $50.
How was your weekend? We laid low Friday and met up with a few other couples for margaritas at our favorite place (located next door to our old apartment) on Saturday night. It was fun being back in our old stomping grounds for the night, with some of our favorite people. On Sunday, Alexa came over for wine and cheese and blog talk. I wish I could do it all over again. Le sigh.


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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A human rights group has accused Sri Lanka's government of failing to make real progress in punishing those responsible for the execution-style slaying of 17 workers for a French aid agency seven years ago, despite repeated international calls for action.
"Sri Lanka's history of inaction on even prominent cases with strong evidence demonstrates the need for concerted international action," New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
The Sri Lankan employees of Action Against Hunger were found dead in August 2006 in a region that was then rocked by heavy fighting between government soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. At the time, European monitors said they were convinced government troops were responsible, but the government blamed the rebels.
The government, under intense international pressure, appointed a presidential commission in 2007 to probe wartime abuses including the killings of the aid workers. In 2009, the commission exonerated the military of any involvement in the massacre. The commission's report was presented to President Mahinda Rajapaksa but has never been made public.
"The Rajapaksa government is good at throwing bones to the international community, but not at taking serious measures to find and punish those responsible for serious abuses," James Ross, the group's legal and policy director, said in the statement Wednesday.
Sri Lanka's civil war ended in May 2009 after the government defeated the Tamil Tigers, who were fighting to create a separate state for ethnic minority Tamils in the island's northern and eastern regions. Between 80,000 and 100,000 people were killed in the conflict.
A U.N. investigation indicated that the ethnic Sinhalese-dominated government might have killed as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians in the war's final months.
The government initially denied that any significant civilian deaths occurred, but later agreed to investigate instances of alleged abuses identified by its own war inquiry. It has argued that its own investigation should suffice, but international pressure has been growing for an independent probe into possible war crimes.
In March, the U.N. Human Rights Council approved a U.S.-backed resolution calling on Sri Lanka to more thoroughly investigate alleged war crimes committed by both sides during the conflict.
"Governments seeking justice for the victims of atrocities during Sri Lanka's long armed conflict should publicly demand an international inquiry," Ross said.
There was no immediate comment from the Sri Lankan government. Officials have repeatedly rejected calls for an international probe as a violation of Sri Lankan sovereignty.


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Comparing CSEs - Who's on Top?
The prom king – and queen – for that matter of Comparison Shopping Engines is Google. With the announcement and impending launch of Google Shopping, search's royal court is prepping for an all Comparison Shopping Engine (CSE) shakedown and changing the CSE landscape forever. The Web's most competitive CSEs will need to follow suit with many of Google Shopping's inherent upgrades – like providing a better shopping experience for users with more merchant updated info, and, in turn, providing merchants with higher conversion rates.
Here are the CSEs we think are doing a pretty good job, for consumers and merchants, already.
Google Product Search
Google's huge advantage to both retailers and consumers is that it's the most popular search engine in the world and has a solid reputation to work off of. This CSE is feature rich for both parties. Consumers have the ability to see seller ratings, product condition, tax and shipping, total price and base price. This info obviously influences buyer's decisions, as, according to CPC Strategy's 13th edition of their CSR ranking report, Google has the highest conversion rate of any other CSR. Using Google Maps, shopping results also include nearby stores where the product is available. In the future, Google merchants can be more competitive by placing high bids for top position, add rich product info like images, merchant's name, and more.
Amazon has one foot in retail, and the rest of its virtual body in CSE. Its comparison features are what savvy buyers expect, which is conveyed in Amazon's astronomical sales and traffic. Amazon focuses on selection, price and convenience, and buyers are, well, buying it. One-click checkout gives consumers one of the most convenient checkouts available. For merchants, their cost-per-click rate is pretty average for the industry, but it's the traffic that really gives Amazon its power.
Nextag offers a straightforward approach to comparison shopping. A shopper can see the basic, compare prices list with seller's name, seller's ratings, product availability and price. Thirty-plus million people use the service each month and according to a report by CPC Strategy, they come only second to Google in revenue. Features like the ability to track price alerts, save shopping lets, etc., improve the user experience and convert prospects into buyers.
Shopping.com, an eBay company, is a site to bookmark for consumers. It not only returns results for countless of retailers, but also includes eBay listings, which gives shoppers a large variety of options. For merchants, their cost-per-click rate is 10 cents lower, on average, than Nextag's (according to CPC Strategy Report), but its traffic and revenue is higher than all the other guys, besides the three listed above.
Merchants looking for a low cost per click should check out PriceGrabber. At 26 cents on average (according to CPC Strategy Report), it's the lowest on the market. Consumers also receive highly competitive prices within their search results. Reviews are very easy to leave, which may not always be a good thing for merchants. The purchasing power of PriceGrabber's consumers is extremely impressive, though. According to the company, the average sale order of PriceGrabber shoppers is $450-plus, with 67% of the 26 million unique shoppers, being college educated with an average yearly income of $71,000-plus, according to the company's website.
The ability to sort search results by a number of different options (e.g. prices ascending/descending, store ratings, etc.) and obtain comprehensive product details is convenient, but the number of results don't rival some of the bigger guys listed above, at least for this gal's searches. However, Shopzilla reaches more than 40 million shoppers each month and connects them with more than 100 million products, according to the company's website.
For merchants, Pronto's cost per click is nearly as high as Nextag's (at 41 cents on average, according to CPC strategy), but it boasts 70-plus million products for shoppers and the ability to shop by category and filter search results. There's a few discerning aspects like the lack of updates on its Company Information page (In the News and Press Releases, specifically) and a broken List Your Products link, but the shopping verticals like ProntoStyle.com, ProntomHome.com, etc., provide great tools for consumers and a more targeted buyer for merchants.


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CSKA Moscow, Andrei Kirilenko's new professional team in Russia, had its Media Day recently. Naturally, this involved the players breaking into three groups and dancing to Muzak and outdated pop songs on a stage in a giant banquet hall somewhere in Moscow.
Joining Kirilenko in this round were Nenad Krstić (most recently a Boston Celtic), Viktor Khryapa (most recently a Chicago Bull), Aleksey Shved (most recently a 22-year-old from Belgorod), and Jamont Gordon (formerly of Mississippi State). We're rather impressed, more than the others, by Kirilenko's hip mobility. He really brings a life to the Macarena—one we haven't seen since middle school dances, when everyone did this earnestly and (mostly) soberly.
Meanwhile, everyone involved in professional basketball in the states is waiting on news out of Midtown, where a federal mediator is doing his best to make grown men agree on how much money each will make next year. They've been meeting for over nine hours. May they emerge doing the Macarena.
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Here's a solution I have come up with for Esra as I am a bit of a hairband addict and need to see everything at a glance.
Little madam now has her own hanging space as I just couldn't bring myself to fold her pretty dresses inside drawers, most of my clothes now are in vacuum bags and I have swapped the bulky wooden hangers so I could fit more clothes inside my other wardrobe, mehh I will survive! :)
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How do you organise/store your headbands?
Go on, get sorting! I used this technique with bigger clear pockets on the other side of the wardrobe to store hats, and teeny baby shoes. I even used the technique in my craft cupboard to store my yarn. Crazy? Me? Never!


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