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Pickup Update - We were just notified that the City of Alabaster Police Department will be running drills on the premises. No one will be allowed access Thursday and Friday while they run these drills - Pickup and Payment will now be Monday, July 22nd and Tuesday July 23rd from 10am-3pm.
Auction ends - Weds. July 17th at 7pm Central
Location - Former Thompson School - 10019 Montevallo Rd. Alabaster, AL 35007
Inspection - Weds. July 17th from 10am-3pm
Pickup and Payment will be Monday, July 22nd and Tuesday July 23rd from 10am-3pm.
Payment can be made by Cash, Check or Money Wire. We accept Mastercard, Visa and Discover up to $2,500. We do not accept American Express.
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Questions - call Sales manager - Monica Malone - AAL# 3066 - 205-664-4300 or Andrew Pearce - AL# 5588 - 205-329-5951
Please read the terms carefully as they are a legal binding contract between you and Alabama Auctioneering, INC, DBA Pearce & Associates. You cannot register or participate in this auction without agreeing electronically to these terms and conditions.
We encourage you to inspect the items in person before placing a bid. One a bid has been placed, it cannot be removed or retracted by the bidder or the auctioneer.
If purchases are not settled within 3 business days of the close of the auction, it is in default. Upon default the bidder will be black listed on Pearce & Associates Auctioneers auctions as well as MarkNet auctions and will be charged for the merchandise. Defaulted items will be forfeited back to the owner or Pearce & Associates.
No refunds will be given.
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Pearce & Associates Auctioneers reserves the right to cancel any auction at any time for any reason. In the event of a system failure or internet interruption, the auctioneer reserves the right to freeze bidding and restart the auction on a timeline set by the auctioneer.
There will be a 10% buyer's premium added to final bid price.
Sales tax is collected by Pearce & Associates unless you provide Pearce with a copy of your tax resale certificate.
Vehicle Titles: Pearce & Associates is a licensed Alabama Automobile Dealer and Designated Agent. Any vehicle purchased will require that Pearce & Associates prepare the title work for the purchaser. Pearce & Associates collects a total of $65 for title work, dealer prep and documentation fee. ($15 title, $50 dealer prep/doc) which the purchaser pays. NOTE: Pearce & Associates does not own vehicles consigned to our auctions. The seller understands that any claims from descriptions, condition, miles, etc are between the owner (seller) and the purchaser. The auctioneer does not guarantee year, make, model, miles, hours, running condition, physical condition of any item in our auctions. You, the purchaser are responsible for inspecting the assets in person and making your own determination as to the condition of the item you are bidding on. The description is NOT guaranteed by the auctioneer nor the seller. AS IS, WHERE IS. We encourage you, the bidder to conduct your own car fax.
Vintage/Classic Automobiles: The state of Alabama does not title vehicles older than 35 years, therefor you, the buyer will receive an Alabama Bill of Sale Only on these vehicles. If a title has been made available by the Estate, Owner or Bankruptcy Trustee, Pearce will provide that title to the purchaser.
Non Alabama residents do not pay title or documentation fees but do require an Alabama drive out form to be executed by the purchaser. Licensed Alabama Automobile Dealers are also exempt from those fees but Pearce & Associates shall require a copy of the buyers dealer license.
Pearce & Associates shall handle title work on all Alabama residents and will provide a copy to the purchaser within 14 business days of payment. Dealer titles and out of state buyers shall be mailed (certified) the actual title within 14 business days from final payment.
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This auction has what is called an auto extend feature, meaning the auction will not close until all bidding parties are satisfied. If any bids are placed within the last 5 minutes of the auction, the bid on lot(s) will extend for 5 minutes. The bidding will extend
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Jewelry Auctions:
Pearce & Associates, nor its staff are jewelry appraisers or certified gemologists, and therefore can not guarantee or authenticate information provided to us when we sell those classification of assets. All Information and appraisals have been provided by the sellers. We can not confirm that the information on the appraisals is accurate or up to date. Jewelry is sold as is. All jewelry is available for inspection and testing at our auction facility before bidding. We strongly encourage buyers to research the types of appraisals and to inspect all items before bidding on them.


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In coming months, Congress will begin an epic struggle to get the federal budget deficit under control. One tax break almost certain to come into play is the mortgage interest deduction.
Both President Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, have suggested ways to scale back the deduction's value for wealthy taxpayers. And many economists are cheering them on, saying that now — when interest rates are low — would be a great time to reduce or even phase out the deduction.
"If we are going to have a serious effort at reform, this will have to be considered," said Mark Luscombe, principle federal tax analyst with CCH Group, a tax services and software firm.
But no matter how much candidates and economists may want to push for changes to the mortgage interest deduction, many members of Congress will remain wary.
Think about it: Not every congressman has a steel mill in his district, or a wheat farm or shipyard. But every district has a Realtor and someone who builds homes and a banker who wants to lend money. "This deduction has been with us for a very long time, and the [real estate] industry lobbies heavily for it," Luscombe said.
For a century, Congress has been allowing taxpayers to lower their annual federal tax bills by deducting the cost of the interest payments made on mortgages.
'They All Take The Deduction'
The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates about 34 million taxpayers take the deduction. Most people save roughly $600 annually by doing so. For many, that's the only big tax break they can get, and they love it. A Gallup poll last year found that 6 in 10 Americans oppose eliminating the deduction to help solve the budget deficit problem.
"Most everyone who buys a home gets a mortgage," Luscombe said. And among those who pay taxes and qualify, "they all take the deduction," he added.
People in the housing industry love it too. Realtors, mortgage brokers, homebuilders and other say that the deduction encourages people to buy, rather than rent. They say Congress must continue to provide the tax break to help the battered housing sector.
"The housing market is far too fragile to sustain any tax increases," Ron Phipps, 2011 president of the National Association of Realtors, told Congress in a letter last year. Even considering a phase-out of the tax break "would send the wrong signal," he said.
A Pricey Perk
But the deduction, which can be taken on up to two homes, is a pricey perk for homeowners at a time when the federal budget deficit is enormous. The deduction shrinks government coffers by about $83 billion a year, according to Congress' taxation committee.
Supporters say that's a small price for government to pay to encourage Americans to own property. A home is the single largest investment most people will ever make, and broad-based ownership helps build a large middle class of property owners, according to the Realtors' association.
A strong housing market offers "long-term social and financial benefits to individual homeowners," the Realtors said in a research paper. Areas where people own homes have better educational outcomes, more civic participation, lower crime and other benefits, the trade group says.
But critics say the Treasury can't afford the deduction, and in any case, it's bad public policy because it encourages people to take on too much debt, discriminates against renters and favors people with upper incomes.
Driving Up Housing Costs?
Conservative Joseph Farah, author of The Tea Party Manifesto, recently wrote in a column: "It makes perfect economic sense to get rid of the mortgage-interest deduction. It seems like a benefit to homeowners carrying mortgages, but it actually is one of many factors driving up the cost of housing, the scarcity of mortgage loans and interest rates."
Romney is suggesting setting a dollar limit on deductions for each tax filer who itemizes. One number he tossed out in the first presidential debate was $25,000 a year. "Anybody can have deductions up to that amount," he said.
In other words, individual taxpayers could decide which deductions they want to take, but only up to the cap. So, some filers might choose to take the mortgage deduction, while others — say, seniors who rent — might want to take deductions for charitable giving, municipal bond interest payments, etc. They could have all the deductions that work best for them, up to the limit. Wealthier people, especially those with two homes, would hit the cap quickly, so Romney's proposal would trim the value of the deduction for them.
A Campaign Issue
Obama is taking a somewhat different approach, saying he would protect the tax break for people in the middle income brackets, but eliminate it for those taxpayers making more than $250,000. "I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up your deduction for owning a home or raising kids just so we pay for another millionaire's tax cut," Obama said on the stump last month while discussing ways to balance the budget.
Luscombe, the tax analyst, said he believes Congress probably will try to reduce the value of the deduction in some way — perhaps setting a cap or limiting it to just one home.
Proponents of change have one advantage now: Interest rates are so low that homes are, for the most part, at affordable levels. When the Federal Reserve's policymakers end their two-day meeting Wednesday afternoon, they are expected to announce they'll continue pushing down on mortgage interest rates.
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The Sacrament of Confirmation
For on him the Father, God, has set his seal. (John 6:27)
At confirmation we receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and confirm our baptismal promises. Greater awareness of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conferred through the anointing of chrism oil and the laying on of hands by the Bishop.
Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace; it is the sacrament which gives the Holy Spirit in order to root us more deeply in the divine filiation, incorporate us more firmly into Christ, strengthen our bond with the Church, associate us more closely with her mission, and help us bear witness to the Christian faith in words accompanied by deeds.
Through the Sacrament of Confirmation we renew our baptismal promises and commit to living a life of maturity in the Christian faith. As we read in the Lumen Gentium (the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church) from the Second Vatican Council:
Bound more intimately to the Church by the sacrament of confirmation, [the baptized] are endowed by the Holy Spirit with special strength; hence they are more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith both by word and by deed as true witnesses of Christ.
Scriptural Foundation for Confirmation
In the Acts of the Apostles we read of the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. While baptism is the sacrament of new life, confirmation gives birth to that life. Baptism initiates us into the Church and names us as children of God, whereas confirmation calls us forth as God's children and unites us more fully to the active messianic mission of Christ in the world.
After receiving the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Apostles went out and confirmed others, showing confirmation to be an individual and separate sacrament: Peter and John at Samaria (Acts 8:5-6, 14-17) and Paul at Ephesus (Acts 19:5-6). Also the Holy Spirit came down on Jews and Gentiles alike in Caesarea, prior to their baptisms. Recognizing this as a confirmation by the Holy Spirit, Peter commanded that they be baptized (cf. Acts 10:47).


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Fact checkers got a shout out Monday night from President Obama when he declared that Republican challenger Mitt Romney had repeated "the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign."
"Every fact checker and every reporter who's looked at it, governor, has said this is not true," the president pointed out — correctly — during Monday's debate after Romney charged that Obama went on an "apology tour" during his first year in office.
Indeed, PolitiFact called the "apology tour" such a baseless claim that it earned that fact-checking website's worst ruling: "pants on fire."
But while Romney may have gotten the harshest review of the night for repeating that allegation, the fact checkers from news outlets and independent organizations had some negative things to say about the president as well.
During a discussion about the bailout of the U.S. auto industry, Romney drew Obama into overstating his case in much the same way that Obama had done to his rival over Libya in the last debate.
Obama insisted over Romney's objections that Romney's recipe for a managed bankruptcy of Detroit automakers didn't include any role for the federal government.
But, as several truth sleuths tweeted in the midst of the debate, Romney's now-famous New York Times column on the subject did include in its final sentences the statement that "the federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing ..."
Like Romney on Libya, Obama may have had a point in that some economists have said the plan Romney outlined for Detroit wouldn't have worked in the midst of the financial crises that froze private credit markets. But did Romney propose federal loan guarantees? Yes.
Some of the other claims and counterclaims that got checked:
-- Romney repeated a line he has used before that the U.S. Navy has the smallest fleet it's had since 1916. The Washington Post checked this before and called it a "nonsense fact" because the Navy of today is nothing like the Navy of a century ago.
-- Obama said that "we've cut our oil imports to the lowest level in two decades." But the Times pointed out that although that is technically true, the trend predates Obama's term in office.
-- Romney had the facts and the context on his side in an exchange over troop withdrawals from Iraq. Obama tried to argue that Romney has waffled on his position about having troops remain there. More important, The Washington Post fact checker said Obama has glossed over the fact that he tried to arrange a deal with the Iraqi government to keep more troops in the country.
-- Obama claimed that exports to China have doubled since he came into office, but National Journal found that to be an optimistic assessment. Exports have grown — from $69.5 billion in 2009 to $103.9 billion in 2011 — but not as much as Obama said.
-- As PolitiFact previously noted, Romney was correct that Obama has not visited Israel during his time as president. However, PolitiFact also pointed out that Obama visited Israel twice before his election — trips the president described in his reply to Romney Monday night.
And, the Post's Fact-Checker noted that seven of the 11 presidents who served since Israel's creation never visited the country during their time in office: Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
-- In the "gaffe" category, meanwhile:
Romney said at one point in the debate that Syria is Iran's "route to the sea." That country, of course, has an extensive coastline along both the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
Moderator Bob Schieffer made a slip many have made in recent years when he said that "Pakistan has arrested the doctor who helped us catch Obama's — bin Laden."
-- And in the "only in a Twitter world would this happen" category:
President Obama's zinger in response to Romney's claim about a smaller Navy immediately lit up the micro-blogging website and had amateur fact checkers out in force. The president quipped that "we also have fewer horses and bayonets." Some conservatives, claiming Obama had said the military no longer uses any bayonets, started tweeting that Marines still use them in training. But as the transcript shows, the president didn't say bayonets had been eliminated.
As for horses, we expect we'll hear from their fact checkers in coming days.
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Step into the enchanting realm of Horusteez, where an exquisite collection of fashionable attire awaits you, adorned with the captivating charm of 10th Anniversary Camellia Bowl 2023 Arkansas State Red Wolves At Cramton Bowl Stadium Unisex T-Shirt. Immerse yourself in a diverse selection of men's and women's apparel, featuring an array of t-shirts, long sleeves, hoodies, sweatshirts, and plus-size garments. Unveil a world of versatile categories, showcasing holiday-themed designs, cutting-edge fashion trends, and inspirations drawn from beloved fandoms. Whether you're drawn to the allure of luxury brand motifs, sports-themed apparel, iconic movie references, cherished cartoons, or beloved characters, our collection boasts the perfect t-shirt for every passion and occasion. Embrace your unique individuality and express your exceptional style through our comfortable and fashionable attire. Arkansas State Red Wolves, Arkansas State Red Wolves Shirt, Camellia Bowl, NCAA
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Do you need to sell assets owned in Tyler or the nearby areas? In our latest post, we will discuss how to benefit from a property wholesaler when liquidating your portfolio in Tyler.
Many investors come to a moment in their lives where they need to liquidate their investments. Trying to sell each property individually can be frustrating and extremely time-consuming. Finding an investor to purchase your portfolio as a whole can be difficult, and might require you to sell for less than what its worth. By working with a wholesaler, you can sell each property individually to a wide network of potential buyers, all with little to no work from you.
Wholesaler Benefits:
Network of Buyers
A property wholesaler in Tyler will likely have a vast network of buyers they regularly work with. They will be able to get your property in front of the right people at the right time. Many buyers and investors will be able to learn about your home, often times many people whom you wouldn't have found on your own. In many cases, there will be competitive bids from multiple investors. A great wholesaler will be able to generate buzz, collecting the highest price possible for your Tyler house.
Timely Results
The turn around time is usually pretty quick. Wholesalers are usually working with cash buyers which means no hassles from lenders about the financing. You won't have to deal with appraisals or worrying that the sale will fall through because the lender pulled the financing. Everyone involved is looking for a fast and easy transaction which makes things simple for you. And with a timely transaction, you are immediately saving money by no longer being financially responsible for the house.
Save Money
When you work with a wholesaler, they are making their fee when the house sells. You don't have to worry about paying any commissions or marketing fees to an agent. You simply sell your house for a set price and walk away with a check. You don't have to bother making repairs or upgrades to the house either, most often, properties are sold as-is. Listing a Tyler house comes with many expenses. By working with a wholesaler, you can avoid the costs altogether and sell your property easily.
No Work
If you are liquidating your properties or portfolio assets, you will likely have many things you are dealing with all at once. By working with a wholesaler, all of the work is taken care of for you. The wholesaler will find a buyer on your behalf and facilitate the closing process. You simply collect your check and walk away!
In addition to wholesaling, JLS Home Buyers offers a wide range of services to investors who need to sell properties in the Tyler area. When it is time to sell, we can help you run the numbers so you can make the selling decision that is right for you.


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While it may be best to stay in place, putting off a move during a pandemic, it isn't always possible. We'll share 5 tips for moving during coronavirus in Metro Detroit to help keep you and your family safe.
Professionals or On Your Own
Just as difficult as the decision may have been to move at this time, the choice of who will actually move you can be just as tough. By moving yourself, you won't have to be concerned about your belongings carrying illness into your new home. For many moving on their own is not feasible, in any event, should you decide to work with a mover, here are some tips for using a moving company during coronavirus in Metro Detroit . Meeting you halfway in the moving business, there are companies which offer to bring a storage container to you to pack yourself, while they handle the actual transport. If you've decided to use the services of a traditional professional mover, you'll want to ask about the policies they have in place, such as the use of masks, gloves and other protective gear. Share with the movers when you reach out to them if anyone in your household has been ill in order that they can be properly prepared.
It may be worth the expense of using new boxes, to ensure that they haven't been exposed to any virus. In order to keep healthy during your move, take a look at these tips for safety while moving during coronavirus in Metro Detroit . Clean items carefully as you pack, ensuring you'll get off to a great start once you've unpacked. Be prepared for being on the road, have masks, hand sanitizer, and spray sanitizers are a good start, bring along any other protective gear that you may need on hand, given the current mandates in place when your move occurs.
Keeping others aware of your plans is another tip for moving during coronavirus in Metro Detroit . Should you be relocating into a close community, or moving from one, such as a condo with indoor hallways to the front entry, you'll want to ask about the policies of the condominium. Specifically, if they'll notify your neighbors of the date of your move so that they can make any preparations necessary to keep safe distances. If you've been renting, ask about the steps to drop off keys, how they plan to perform inspections, and if you must be present their safety precautions. Should you need to make repairs, remember that some services are not considered essential and may only offer emergency repairs during the pandemic.
Another tip for moving during coronavirus in Metro Detroit is to consider having the movers drop off everything inside a garage or front room, and you're taking it from there. This minimizes having your new home exposed to other people as much as possible. lightening the load. Consider Let's face it, the more cubic square feet of belongings you have, the more you going to be moving from the central location into the proper rooms. Downsizing the amount of the load will also cost less, as you pay for the size of the moving truck, to the fuel to pull it. If you're moving to another state, consider donating your foodstuffs to a local pantry and restock with fresh supplies in your new home. Because of the costs of moving, especially long distances, carefully consider if you have an overabundance of possessions that you could donate or sell.
Once You've Arrived
Due to the changes in how business is done, you'll want to consider these tips for moving during coronavirus in Metro Detroit . Make certain you're aware of the current mandates regarding masks and any other pertinent information you may need to be aware of regarding COVID19. Reach out to the schools that your children will be attending as early in the process as possible, in this way you can be prepared for any of the gear you'll need for your children to attend school. You'll also want to handle any business online that is possible, and make an appointment to register in person if required. if you're moving out of state, consider setting up your new services well in advance, you'll want to know their policies should any technician need to enter your new space. Additionally, appointments to change over your driver's license and other documents should be made well in advance, as most states no longer allow you to simply walk into their offices.
While we can't cover all of the precautions you can take to protect yourself and your family here, we understand your concerns. We're more than happy to answer any questions or concerns you may have and share even more tips for moving during coronavirus in Metro Detroit . To learn more about how we can help you, send us a message or call Pinnell Enterprises, LLC at (734) 245-9654 today!


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One foot equals 304.8 mm, to convert 682 feet to mm we have to multiply the amount of feet by 304.8 to obtain the width, height or length in mm. 682 feet is equal to 682 feet x 304.8 = 207873.6 mm. The result is the following:
682 feet = 207873.6 mm
A foot (symbol: ft) is a unit of length. It is equal to 0.3048 m, and used in the imperial system of units and United States customary units. The unit of foot derived from the human foot. It is subdivided into 12 inches.
The millimeter (symbol: mm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to 1/1000 meter (or 1E-3 meter), which is also an engineering standard unit. 1 inch = 25.4 mm.
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An anonymous buyer on Saturday paid about $1.6 million for a violin believed to have been played by one of the musicians who famously stayed aboard as the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic in April 1912.
The Associated Press writes that "the sea-corroded instrument, now unplayable, is thought to have belonged to bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who was among the disaster's more than 1,500 victims."
It was sold at auction by the English firm Henry Aldridge & Son. According to the BBC's Duncan Kennedy, "the buyer was believed to be British." The violin sold for about three times more than the price Aldridge said it was expecting.
As Weekend Edition Sunday said back in March when the auction house announced it had authenticated the instrument:
"As the Titanic sank, the story goes that Wallace Hartley and his orchestra stayed on deck and continued playing 'Nearer My God to Thee.' The band and their instruments, according to lore, went down with the 1500 other people who died that day."
It's thought that before going into the water, Hartley placed the violin in a leather case. His body and the case were recovered by one of the ships that later arrived on the scene. The violin was given to Hartley's fiancé, Maria Robinson. It passed through some other hands before being rediscovered in 2006.
Among the clues that led to its authentication: An engraving that says, "For Wallace on the occasion of our engagement from Maria."
The Washington Post adds that this is the most ever paid for such a relic linked to the Titanic: "Previously, the priciest Titanic artifact sold, Aldridge said, was a 32-foot long schematic plan of the ship used in Britain's official inquiry into the tragedy, which he said fetched $356,000."
Note: Some other news organizations are saying the price paid for for the violin was $1.45 million. In a video of the auctioneer you can clearly hear him saying the price was 900,000 British pounds, which today converts to about $1.45 million. But NPR's Philip Reeves tells us that when the auctioneer's fee is added, the price being paid by the buyer comes in closer to $1.6 million.
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In the first section, we will explore why Luther thought the Bible was the most important volume for everyone to have and read. Included here will be a careful consideration of Luther's anti-Judaism, which contributed to western antisemitism and some of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century.
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Needlepoint Store (located in Charlin Heights Mobile Home Park, Florida) has been around for over thirty years. We have extensive hand painted canvases, great fibers, and wonderful finishing. We provide a unique opportunity for you to customize a canvas. Custom designing is our specialty (shoes, purses, belts, wall hangings, picture frames, etc).
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Brenda is the author of four popular needlepoint books: Favorite Stitches, Favorite Stitches II, Stitches for the Millennium, and just published, A Banner Year. All of these books are available at World of Needlepoint. Remember to bring your books for the class use as well as for Brenda's autograph.
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This caused me some confusion a while back when I was still learning what closures were and how to use them, but what is referred to as a closure in PHP isn't the same thing as what they call closures in other languages (E.G. JavaScript).
In JavaScript, a closure can be thought of as a scope, when you define a function, it silently inherits the scope it's defined in, which is called its closure, and it retains that no matter where it's used. It's possible for multiple functions to share the same closure, and they can have access to multiple closures as long as they are within their accessible scope.
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall.
The sentence means the 68-year-old former Penn State assistant coach will be in prison at least until he's nearly 100 years old.
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SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) -- Officials said Thursday that the burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner.
Jodi Miller, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County sheriff-coroner, said the identification was made through Dorner's dental records.
Miller did not give a cause of death.
The search for Dorner began last week after authorities said he had launched a deadly revenge campaign against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing, warning that he would bring "warfare" to LAPD officers and their families.
The manhunt brought police to Big Bear Lake, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where they found Dorner's burned-out pickup truck abandoned. His footprints disappeared on frozen soil and hundreds of officers who searched the area and checked out each building failed to find him.
Five days later, but just a stone's throw from a command post authorities had set up in the massive manhunt, Karen and Jim Reynolds said they came face to face with Dorner inside their cabin-style condo.
The couple said Dorner bound them and put pillowcases on their heads. At one point, he explained that he had been there for days.
"He said 'I don't have a problem with you, so I'm not going to hurt you,'" Jim Reynolds said. "I didn't believe him; I thought he was going to kill us."
Police have not commented on the Reynolds' account, but it renews questions about the thoroughness of a search for a man who authorities declared was armed and extremely dangerous as they hunted him across the Southwest and Mexico.
"They said they went door-to-door but then he's right there under their noses. Makes you wonder if the police even knew what they were doing," resident Shannon Schroepfer said. "He was probably sitting there laughing at them the whole time."
The notion of him holed up just across the street from the command post was shocking to many, but not totally surprising to some experts familiar with the complications of such a manhunt.
"Chilling. That's the only word I could use for that," said Ed Tatosian, a retired SWAT commander for the Sacramento Police Department. "It's not an unfathomable oversight. We're human. It happens. It's chilling (that) it does happen."
Law enforcement officers, who had gathered outside daily for briefings, were stunned by the revelation. One official later looking on Google Earth exclaimed that he'd parked right across the street from the Reynolds' cabin each day.
The Reynolds said Dorner was upstairs in the rental unit Tuesday when they arrived to ready it for vacationers. Dorner, who at the time was being sought for three killings, confronted the Reynolds with a drawn gun, "jumped out and hollered 'stay calm,'" Jim Reynolds said during a Wednesday night news conference.
His wife screamed and ran downstairs but Dorner caught her, Reynolds said. The couple said they were taken to a bedroom where he ordered them to lie on a bed and then on the floor. Dorner bound their arms and legs with plastic ties, gagged them with towels and covered their heads with pillowcases.
"I really thought it could be the end," Karen Reynolds said.
The couple believes Dorner had been staying in the cabin at least since Feb. 8, the day after his burned truck was found nearby. Dorner told them he had been watching them by day from inside the cabin as they did work outside. The couple, who live nearby, only entered the unit Tuesday. "He said we are very hard workers," Karen Reynolds said.
After he fled in their purple Nissan Rogue, she managed to call 911 from a cellphone on the coffee table. Police said Dorner later killed a fourth person, a sheriff's deputy, during a standoff, and died inside the burning cabin where he took cover during a blazing shootout.
While authorities have not corroborated the couple's account, it matched early reports from law enforcement officials that a couple had been tied up and their car stolen by a man resembling Dorner. Property records showed the Reynolds as the condo's owners.
The San Bernardino County sheriff has refused to answer questions about how one of the largest manhunts in years could have missed him.
During the search, heavily armed deputies went door to door to search roughly 600 cabins for forced entry. Many of the cabins were boarded-up summer homes.
Authorities said officers looked for signs that someone had forcibly entered the buildings, or that heat was on inside in a cabin that otherwise looked uninhabited.
Helicopters had landed SWAT officers in a lot near the Reynolds' condo, and through the weekend they stood in plain view from the cabin, gearing up in helmets, bulletproof vests, with assault weapons at the ready.
According to the Reynolds, the cabin had cable TV, and a second-story view that would have allowed him to see choppers flying in and out.
Timothy Clemente, a retired FBI SWAT team leader who was part of the search for Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph, said searchers had to work methodically. When there's a hot pursuit, they can run after a suspect into a building. But in a manhunt, the search has to slow down. "You can't just kick in every door," he said. Police have to have a reason to enter a building.
Officers would have been approaching each cabin, rock and tree with the prospect that Dorner was behind and waiting with a weapon that could penetrate bulletproof vests. In his manifesto posted online, Dorner, a former Navy reservist, said he had no fear of losing his life and would wage "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" and warned officers "you will now live the life of the prey."
Even peering through windows can be difficult because officers have to remove a hand from their weapons to shade their eyes. Experts said it is likely officers may have used binoculars to help examine homes from a distance, especially when dealing with a man who had already killed three people, including a police officer.
In many cases, officers didn't even knock on the doors, according to searchers and residents.
"If Chris Dorner's on the other side of the door, what would the response be?" Clemente said. "A .50 caliber round or .223 round straight through that door."


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October is World Blindness Awareness Month, an initiative started to help the public to understand the realities of visual impairment and how it affects the world population.
Unfortunately, there are hundreds of millions of individuals around the world who are unnecessarily blind or visually impaired due to causes that are preventable and treatable. Much of this is due to lack of access to proper healthcare and education. Today's research shows that the leading causes of blindness and moderate and severe vision impairment (MSVI) are uncorrected refractive error, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma and other retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa.
While steps are being taken to increase education and access to eye care in populations that are known to be lacking, vision impairment is expected to increase threefold by 2050 due to aging and an increase in myopia and diabetic retinopathy.
Here are some facts about blindness and MSVI:
- 36 million people worldwide are blind
- 217 million are categorized as MSVI
- 253 million are visually impaired
- 1.1 million people have near vision impairment that could be fixed with eyeglasses
- 55% of visually impaired people are women
- 89% of visually impaired people live in low or middle-income countries
- 75% of vision impairment is avoidable
- 81% of people who are blind or have MSVI are aged 50 years or over
- Almost half of all students in Africa's schools for the blind would be able to see if they had a pair of glasses.
What can we do?
To help combat global blindness and vision impairment, we first have to be educated. Learn about proper eye health and eye care and educate your children, family and friends. Implement that knowledge into your life with preventative eye care and regular eye doctor visits. Fighting blindness starts at home.
Next, consider donating your old eyewear. Eyewear donations can be extremely valuable to underdeveloped countries. Most eye doctors accept donations of old eyewear and give them to organizations like the Lions Club or VOSH that do humanitarian missions to other countries and provide eyecare and eyewear. Old glasses that we take for granted here or that are gathering dust in a drawer somewhere can be life changing for someone in a poor or underdeveloped country.
In addition, there are a number of organizations that assist the world population in preventing blindness and providing education and eye care to underprivileged societies. You can help fight blindness and MSVI by supporting these causes and the many others out there doing humanitarian work in this field. Here are a few examples:
- Optometry Giving Sight: www.givingsight.org
- Eye Care 4 Kids: eyecare4kids.org
- Sightsavers: www.sightsavers.org
- See International: www.seeintl.org
Through support, research, education and outreach, we hope to stop the rapid pace of increasing unnecessary blindness around the world. So spread the word. When we all come together, we can accomplish our goals!


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The series consists of historical records acquired by Fleming as well as research subject files he created in his study of British Colombian history. Subjects include the Alaska American/Canadian border dispute, British Columbia settler colonial history, the forestry and timber industry, trade and commerce in the Pacific Northwest, and particularly the Nootka crisis and the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina. Record types include correspondence, indentures, pamphlets, articles, notes, presentation materials, and photographs from Fleming's research related travel.


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Operation Portsmouth: The First Wave – #2: "The Boob"
Writer of words and comics, streamer of games, presenter of radio shows and eternal 'just a guy'. LMC's boss-man has worked on projects for SEGA, Square Enix, Konami, Capcom and more. Once co-created and hosted an international fan-convention because he can do that sort of thing. Used to be known as AAUK/ArchangelUK.


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by Martha Irvine
FILE – In this Feb. 27, 2013 photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. Frustration over passwords is as common across the age brackets. Bill Lidinsky, director of security and forensics at the School of Applied Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, recommends using a simple mental algorithm, including those that use a space, if a site allows that. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) ( Damian Dovarganes )
Cybercrime, hacking and other security coverage.
CHICAGO — Good thing she doesn't need a password to get into heaven. That's what Donna Spinner often mutters when she tries to remember the growing list of letter-number-and-symbol codes she's had to create to access her various online accounts.
"At my age, it just gets too confusing," says the 72-year-old grandmother who lives outside Decatur, Illinois.
But this is far from just a senior moment. Frustration over passwords is as common across the age brackets as the little reminder notes on which people often write them.
"We are in the midst of an era I call the 'tyranny of the password,'" says Thomas Way, a computer science professor at Villanova University.
"We're due for a revolution."
One could argue that the revolution is already well underway, with passwords destined to go the way of the floppy disc and dial-up Internet. Already, there are multiple services that generate and store your passwords so you don't have to remember them. Beyond that, biometric technology is emerging, using thumbprints and face recognition to help us get into our accounts and our devices. Some new iPhones use the technology, for instance, as do a few retailers, whose employees log into work computers with a touch of the hand.
Still, many people cling to the password, the devil we know — even though the passwords we end up creating, the ones we CAN remember, often aren't very secure at all. Look at any list of the most common passwords making the rounds on the Internet and you'll find anything from "abc123," "letmein" and "iloveyou" to — you guessed it — use of the word "password" as a password.
Bill Lidinsky, director of security and forensics at the School of Applied Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has seen it all — and often demonstrates in his college classes just how easy it is to use readily available software to figure out many passwords.
"I crack my students' passwords all the time," Lidinsky says, "sometimes in seconds."
Even so, a good password doesn't necessarily have to be maddeningly complicated, says Keith Palmgren, a cybersecurity expert in Texas.
"Whoever coined the phrase 'complex password' did us a disservice," says Palmgren, an instructor at the SANS Institute, a research and education organization that focuses on high-tech security.
He's teaching a course on passwords to other tech professionals later this summer and plans to tell them that the focus should be on unpredictability and length — the more characters, the better.
But it doesn't have to be something you can't remember. If a site allows long passwords and special characters, Palmgren suggests using an entire sentence as a password, including spaces and punctuation, if possible: "This sentence is an example."
He also suggests plugging in various types of passwords on a website developed by Laguna Hills-based Gibson Research Corp. to see how long it could take to crack each type of password: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
According to the site, it could take centuries to uncover some passwords, but seconds for others.
Lidinsky recommends using a "simple mental algorithm," including those that use a space, if a site allows that. As an example, he says one might try "Ama95 zon" for an Amazon account, and "Yah95 oo" for a Yahoo! account, and so on. (But choose your own combination.)
There are other ways around the password headache.
Some people have taken to using password generators, which create and store passwords for various sites you use. Generally, all the user has to remember is a master password to unlock a generator program and then it plugs in the passwords to whichever account is being used. There are numerous password managers like this, including LastPass and Dashlane and 1Password.
Some wonder whether it's wise to trust services like this.
"But sooner or later, you have to trust somebody," says Palmgren, who uses a password manager himself.
Other solutions are surfacing, too.
Researchers at the University of York in England are developing a new authentication system called Facelock that asks you to identify familiar faces to get into an account or device.
The Canadian government, meanwhile, has partnered with a company called SecureKey Technologies, which allows citizens of that country to log onto government sites, such as the country's tax bureau, using a username and password from partner financial institutions, including TD Bank. Because SecureKey serves as the go-between, the system's developers say the bank username and password are not ultimately shared with the government site. Nor does the bank receive any information about which government site the user is accessing.
SecureKey is now working with the U.S. Postal Service to provide American citizens with similar access to federal health benefits, student loan information and retirement benefit information.
Ultimately, experts say, reducing the stress of online security — and decreasing reliance on passwords — will rest on what's known as "multi-factor identification."
Those factors are often based on three things:
1. "What you know" — a password, security question or some sort of information that only you would know (but that doesn't have to be difficult to remember, just exclusive to you);
2. "What you have" — a phone, tablet or laptop — or even a card or token — that an online site or tech-based retail outlet would recognize as yours;
3. "What you are" — biometric information, such as face recognition or a thumb print.
Banks could use this authentication process, for example, using cameras that already exist at ATMs, says Paul Donfried, chief technology officer for LaserLock Technologies Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based company that develops fraud prevention technology for retailers, governments and electronics manufacturers.
"We now have the ability to shift complexity away from the human being," Donfried says. And that, he adds, should make the pain of the password disappear.
Back in Decatur, Spinner has to think about all that for a moment. It sounds rather daunting, she says.
For one, the issue of privacy is still being debated when it comes to biometrics.
But then Spinner considers the piece of paper that contains all her passwords — the one she typed that's gotten so difficult to read because she's crossed them out and created so many new ones.
"Anything to make it easier for those of us who are technology-challenged," she says," I would be in favor of."


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Watch These People Trying to Eat Really Hot Peppers — Daily Distraction
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These people seem to really like to sweat, just not with all that running-around nonsense.
Guinness just announced that the world's hottest pepper comes from South Carolina. And while the peppers these people eat aren't quite that hot, you really do get an idea of how they all feel just by the looks on their faces. Their sweaty, red, panting faces.
The Daily Distraction is your Internet break from reality. Whether you're eating lunch at your desk or avoiding high school exes on Facebook, you might just laugh, say "aaahhh" or not believe what you just watched.


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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is thenext installment of the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise developed by the renowned Ubisoft Montreal studio.
Inspired by the reality of counter terrorist operatives across the world, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege invites players to master the art of destruction. Intense closequarters confrontations, high lethality, tactics, team play, and explosive action are at the center of the experience.
The multiplayer gameplay of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege sets a new bar for intense firefights and expert strategy in the rich legacy of past Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six games.
THE SIEGE GAMEPLAY - For the first time in Rainbow Six, players will engage in sieges, a brand-new style of assault. Enemies now have the means to transform their environments into strongholds: they can trap, fortify, and create defensive systems to prevent breach by Rainbow teams.
To face this challenge, players have a level of freedom unrivaled by any previous Rainbow Six game. Combining tactical maps, observation drones, and a new rappel system, Rainbow teams have more options than ever before to plan, attack, and diffuse these situations.
COUNTER TERRORIST UNITS - Counter terrorist operatives are trained to handle extreme situations, such as hostage rescue, with surgical precision. As "short range" specialists, their training is concentrated on indoor environments. Operating in tight formations, they are experts of close quarter combat, demolition, and coordinated assaults. Rainbow Six Siege will include operators coming from five of the most worldwide renowned CTU: the British SAS, the American SWAT, the French GIGN, the German GSG9 and the Russian SPETSNAZ.
These Operators are specialists with their own expertise within Siege operations. Each has their own unique personality & specialty. Some are focused on assault where as others are defense-oriented. They can be combined within the same team to create new team strategies.
PROCEDURAL DESTRUCTION - Destruction is at the heart of the siege gameplay. Players now have the unprecedented ability to destroy environments. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire, and ceiling and floors can be breached, creating new access points. Everything in the environment reacts realistically, dynamically, and uniquely based on the size and caliber of bullets you are using or the amount of explosives you have set. In Rainbow Six Siege, destruction is meaningful and mastering it is often the key to victory.


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A Review of John Beversluis' book C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion: Revised and Updated
C.S. Lewis has had an enormous impact on the evangelical mind. His books still top the charts in bookstores. But what about the substance of his arguments? Philosopher Dr. John Beversluis wrote the first full-length critical study of C. S. Lewis's apologetic writings, published by William B. Eerdmans, titled C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (1985). For twenty-two years it was the only full-length critical study of C.S. Lewis's writings.
Beversluis was a former Christian who studied at Calvin College under Harry Jellema who inspired Christian thinkers like Alvin Plantinga (who was already in graduate school), and Nicholas Wolterstoff (who was a senior when he entered). Later he was a student at Indiana University with my former professor James D. Strauss. He became a professor at Butler University.
In this first book, Beversluis took as his point of departure Lewis's challenge where he said: "I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it" (Mere Christianity p. 123). Beversluis thoroughly examined that hypothesis and found the evidence Lewis presents should not lead people to accept Christianity.
According to Beversluis, his first book "elicited a mixed response-indeed, a response of extremes. Some thought I had largely succeeded. I was complimented for writing a 'landmark' book that 'takes up Lewis's challenge to present the evidence for Christianity and ... operates with full rigor'" (p. 9-10). But the critics were "ferocious." He said, "I had expected criticism. What I had not expected was the kind of criticism…I was christened the "bad boy" of Lewis studies and labeled the "consummate Lewis basher" (p. 10).
In his "Revised and Updated" book published by Prometheus Books, which was prompted by Keith Parsons and Charles Echelbarger, Beversluis claims "this is not just a revised and updated second edition, but a very different book that supercedes the first edition on every point" (p.11). According to him: "Part of my purpose in this book to show, by means of example after example, the extent to which the apparent cogency of his arguments depends on his rhetoric rather than on his logic…Once his arguments are stripped of their powerful rhetorical content, their apparent cogency largely vanishes and their apparent persuasiveness largely evaporates. The reason is clear: it is not the logic, but the rhetoric that is doing most of the work. We will have occasion to see this again and again. In short, my purpose in this book is not just to show that Lewis's arguments are flawed. I also want to account for their apparent plausibility and explain why they have managed to convince so many readers" (pp. 20,22).
Additionally, Beversluis tells us, "My aim in this revised and updated edition is twofold. First, I will revisit and reexamine Lewis's arguments in light of my more recent thoughts about them. Second, I will to reply to my critics and examine their attempts to reformulate and defend his arguments, thereby responding not only to Lewis but to the whole Lewis movement—that cadre of expositors, popular apologists, and philosophers who continue to be inspired by him and his books. I will argue that their objections can be met and that even when Lewis's arguments are formulated more rigorously than he formulated them, they still fail" (p. 11).
C.S. Lewis' writings contain three arguments for God's existence, the "Argument from Desire," the "Moral Argument," and the "Argument From Reason." Lewis furthermore argued that the Liar, Lunatic, Lord dilemma/trilemma shows Jesus is God. Lewis also deals with the major skeptical objection known as the Problem of Evil. Beversluis examines all of these arguments and finds them defective, some are even fundamentally flawed. Lastly Beversluis examines Lewis' crisis of faith when he lost the love of his life, his wife. (He denies he ever said Lewis lost his faith).
I can only briefly articulate what Beversluis says about these arguments here, but his analysis of them is brilliant and devastating to Lewis' whole case. The Argument From Desire echoes Augustine's sentiment in his Confessions when addressing God that "You have made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you." Lewis develops this into an argument for God's existence which can be formulated in several ways, but the bottom line is that since humans have a desire for joy beyond the natural world, which is what he means by "joy," there must be an object to satisfy that desire in God. Beversluis subjects this argument to criticism on several fronts. How universal is the desire for this "joy"? Is "joy" even a desire? Is Lewis' description of "joy" a natural desire at all, since desires are biological and instinctive? Do all our desires have fulfillment? What about people who have been satisfied by things other than God, with their careers, spouses and children? In what I consider the most devastating question, he asks if there is any propositional content to the object of Lewis' argument? Surely if there is an object that corresponds to the desire for "joy" then one who finds this object should be able to describe it from such an experience. Based upon Lewis' argument she can't. In fact, Beversluis argues if she cannot do that how does she even know it's an object that corresponds to her desire for "joy" in the first place?
Lewis' Moral Argument is basically that all people have a notion of right and wrong, and the only explanation for this inner sense of morality must come from a Power behind the moral law known as God. Beversluis claims this argument is based on a few questionable assumptions related to the Euthyphro dilemma, and it depends on the theory of ethical subjectivism from which Lewis only critiques straw man versions rather than the robust versions of Hume and Hobbes. And if that isn't enough to diminish his case, deductively arguing that there is a Power behind this moral law is committing "the fallacy of affirming the consequent." (p. 99). 1) If there is a Power behind the moral law then it must make itself known internally within us. 2) We do find this moral law internally within us. .: Therefore, there is a Power behind the moral law. As such this argument is invalid. Of course, there is much more here in Beversluis' argument.
The Argument From Reason, as best seen in Lewis' book, Miracles, "is the philosophical backbone of the whole book," from which "his case for miracles depends." (p. 145). Lewis champions the idea that if naturalism is true such a theory "impugns the validity of reason and rational inference," and as such, naturalists contradict themselves if they use reason to argue their case. If you as a naturalist have ever been troubled by such an argument you need to read Beversluis' response to it, which is the largest chapter in his book, and something I can't adequately summarize in a few short sentences. Suffice it to say, he approvingly quotes Keith Parsons who said: "surely Lewis cannot mean that if naturalism is true, then there is no such thing as valid reasoning. If he really thought this, he would have to endorse the hypothetical 'If naturalism is true, then modus ponens is invalid.' But since the consequent is necessarily false, then the hypothetical is false if we suppose naturalism is true (which is what the antecedent asserts), and Lewis has no argument." (p. 174).
Lewis' Liar, Lunatic, Lord Dilemma/Trilemma is one of the most widely used arguments among popular apologists, in variations, where since Jesus claimed he was God, the only other options are that he was either a liar or a lunatic, or both, which Lewis argues isn't reasonable. Therefore Jesus is God, who he claimed he was. Even William Lane Craig defends it in his book Reasonable Faith. But it is widely heralded as Lewis' weakest argument as he defended it, and fundamentally flawed. Beversluis subjects Lewis' defense of it and his defenders to a barrage of rigorous intellectual attacks. There is the problem of knowing what Jesus claimed, which by itself "is sufficient to rebut the Trilemma." (p. 115). Also it is a false dilemma. Even if Jesus claimed he was God he could simply be mistaken, not a lunatic, for lunatics can be very reasonable in everyday life and still have delusions of grandeur. And it's quite possible for someone to be a good moral teacher and yet be wrong about whether he was God. Furthermore, the New Testament itself indicates many people around him including his own family thought he was crazy. In the end, Beversluis claims, "we can now dispense of the Lunatic or Fiend Dilemma once and for all….If the dilemma fails, as I have argued, the trilemma goes with it. In the future, let us hear no more about these arguments." (p. 135). I agree.
In Lewis' book, The Problem of Pain, he deals head on with the Problem of Evil coming at the heels of WWII. Suffice it to say, as Victor Reppert summarized the argument of his first book, Beversluis: "If the word 'good' must mean approximately the same thing when we apply it to God as what it means when we apply it to human beings, then the fact of suffering provides a clear empirical refutation of the existence of a being who is both omnipotent and perfectly good. If on the other hand, we are prepared to give up the idea that 'good' in reference to God means anything like what it means when we refer to humans as good, then the problem of evil can be sidestepped, but any hope of a rational defense of the Christian God goes by the boards."
This is must reading if you think C.S. Lewis was a great apologist, and it's part of the Debunking Christianity Challenge. Beversluis' arguments are brilliant and devastating to the apologetics of Lewis and company.