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The MotoTec Self Balancing Electric Scooter aka Hoverboard is a stand up personal transporter without handle bars, all you have to do is simply step onto the board with both feet and lean in the direction you would like to travel. Powered by a 24v Battery and two 350 watt hub motors, it will get you anywhere you want to go. It comes standard with front LED strip lights, wheel lights, bluetooth and charger. Beware of cheap imitations, MotoTec brings you a high quality board without the high price.
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Poetic License is back—GSAS! was there for the first installment way back in 2012, and though sadly I've missed the last two, Poetic Theater Productions' Alex Mallory and Jeffrey Karafin are now presenting their fourth year of new poetic theater.
One of the two full-length plays anchoring this year's festival is Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, directed by Mallory and written by Maurice Decaul, who has the unique perspective to write about the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, because he was actually there, serving in the Marine Corps. The play follows four distinct perspectives over a couple weeks in 2003, weaving a tale that shows not just the hell of war, but also the humanity of each person involved.
The festival only has a couple more days from the posting of this episode, so head on over to the Poetic Theater Productions' website to check out what you can still see; it'll be worth it.
And, be sure to listen in to this episode as Alex, Maurice, and cast members Ali Andre Ali, Katie Zaffrann, Victory Chappotin, Nabil Viñas, Ankur Rathee, Fahim Hamid, and Perri Yaniv discuss drawing upon personal experience, drawing a diverse audience, learning about and seeing the Iraqi perspective, and bringing humanity to all sides of a conflict.
"For me, the reason I act in anything is to try to bring humanity to a story, and I feel like war is the kind of thing that happens when you forget about the humanity of people. So it's an honor to be able to get onstage and help tell a story that's written by a Marine, and tell these stories that we won't hear, we won't see the humanity of unless we get it on a stage…"
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Gridlock in the Supply Chain
While the world has begun to recover from the economic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, the delayed reaction has been felt in the supply chain. Industrial shutdowns around the world slowed production to a relative crawl, leaving many businesses struggling to meet consumer
demands, both during lock-downs and since.1
Challenges continue, even as manufacturing picks up, with worker shortages and a fight to locate the materials needed for production complicating the struggle. President Biden worked an agreement with the port of Los Angeles in recent weeks to operate 24 hours a day, which has helped reduce the number of container ships offshore to 58 from a peak of 73.2
What does this mean for American consumers? For one, some items that are normally manufactured overseas may be harder to find in stock for the next few months. While that means some household necessities, that extends to items like consumer electronics, toys, and other items that make up a large portion of our holiday purchases.
Yes, we all complain about how the holidays seem to come earlier every year, but in this case, it's a good thing to bear in mind. If you can, it's a good idea to prepare for the holidays early. In addition, if you have any concerns about the supply chain crisis concerning your financial strategy, I'd welcome a chance to answer your questions.
1. CNBC.com, October 18, 2021
2. CNN.com, October 17, 2021
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Gosnell Jury Hears About Baby Surviving Abortion Struggling in Toilet
The jury in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell re-heared testimony today of a baby who was delivered alive after an abortion into a toilet and was seen struggling trying to live.
Gosnell is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for killing babies following delivery in an abortion process that involved "snipping" their necks and spinal cords. He also faces a third-degree murder charge related to the death of a woman, Karnamaya Mongar, 41, of Virginia, from a botched legal abortion. Gosnell, who has been in jail since his January 2011 arrest.
The abortionist faces 258 counts total and other charges against him include one count of infanticide and one of racketeering, 24 counts of performing third-trimester abortions and 227 counts of failing to follow the 24-hour waiting period law before an abortion so women can consider its risks and alternatives.
The jury wanted to re-hear testimony from Adrienne Moton, a medical assistant who told the court in March that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions. And she said Dr. Kermit Gosnell and another employee did the same sipping technique.
Moton, the first employee to testify, sobbed as she recalled taking a cellphone photograph of one baby left in her work area. She thought he could have survived, given his size and pinkish color. She had measured him at nearly 30 weeks.
"The aunt felt it was just best for her (the mother's) future," Moton testified.
Gosnell later joked that the baby was so big he could have walked to the bus stop, she said.
Jurors saw Moton's photograph on a large screen in the courtroom, which took on a bizarre look Tuesday as she testified near a hospital bed with stirrups and other aging obstetric equipment. Denied the chance to bring jurors to the shuttered inner-city clinic, prosecutors are instead recreating a patient room in court.
Moton, 35, sobbed as she described her work at the clinic. Because of problems at home, she had moved in with Gosnell and his third wife during high school, and she went to work for him from 2005 to 2008. She earned about $10 an hour, off the books, to administer drugs, perform sonograms, help with abortions and dispose of fetal remains. Workers got $20 bonuses for second-term abortions on Saturdays, when a half-dozen were sometimes performed.
She once had to kill a baby delivered in a toilet, cutting its neck with scissors, she said. Asked if she knew that was wrong, she said, "At first I didn't."
If sentenced for the convictions, Gosnell could face the death penalty following the convictions by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
Under Pennsylvania law, all 12 of the jurors must reach a unanimous verdict on any of the murder counts Gosnell faces for him to be convicted on any of them. Each of the elements of a charged crime must be proven to each juror beyond reasonable doubt for that juror to vote to convict on that count and one reluctant juror could lead to a mistrial on any of the first-degree murder charges.
Since prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty in the case, the jury will only be deciding whether Gosnell is guilty related to the charges. If convicted, a second jury will be impaneled to determine sentencing under the penalty phase of the trial. During this phase, the judge has already instructed jurors to only consider guilt or innocence.
Given the number of charges Gosnell faces, and the fact that Gosnell has a co-defendant the jury is considering for conviction as well, the jury make take a longer period of time to arrive at a verdict on each of the 250-plus charges.
Most of the focus in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell is on the murder charges he faces for killing babies in abortion-infanticides and for killing a woman in a botched abortion.
But Gosnell faces more than 200 charges related to violating Pennsylvania state law that requires him to provide women with informed consent 24 hours prior to the abortion. Gosnell is charged with breaking that law by not giving women information about abortion risks and alternatives 24 hours prior to the abortion.
Eight other defendants who are former staffers of Gosnell's Philadelphia abortion clinic have pleaded guilty to a variety of charges and are awaiting sentencing.
Previously, the judge in the case reinstated one of the murder charges and dropped another. Gosnell's defense attorney asked the judge to drop three of the charges for killing the babies and the judge agreed with the contention there was not enough evidence to convict Gosnell on those charges. Another charge of infanticide was also dropped.
One of the dropped charges involved a 28-week-old baby Gosnell killed and whose remains were kept in an abortion clinic freezer.
Common pleas court Judge Jeffrey Minehart also dropped five counts of corpse abuse at the request of his defense attorney and did not explain his ruling dropping any of the charges.
The defense had argued that there were no live births at Gosnell's Women's Medical Center abortion clinic and contends the babies died during abortions and their necks were snipped afterwards. But former Gosnell staffers testified they saw signs of life even after the abortion had been completed — saying the babies "jumped" and "screamed" and tried to escape.
Gosnell, whose squalid "house of horrors" abortion clinic has surprised even investigative officials, has had almost flippant attitude toward his macabre abortion practices shocked the nation.
"The Gosnell case is a watershed moment for the issue of abortion," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. "The discovery of his horrific practices helped shed light on an abortion industry that has run amok without oversight or accountability for decades, and has prompted significant changes in abortion laws and attitudes toward enforcement in several states."
Previously, Gosnell's wife Pearl pleaded guilty to assisting her husband at his Philadelphia abortion center where he killed a woman in a botched abortion and has killed hundreds of babies in abortion-infanticides. Pearl Gosnell was considering a plea deal similar to the one several of Gosnell's former abortion center employees have made where they have pleaded guilty to receive a lesser sentence in exchange for testifying against Gosnell.
Pearl also worked at the abortion center Gosnell ran that had him kill and injure women in failed abortions and kill perhaps hundreds of babies in grisly infanticides by birthing them and "snipping" their spinal cords. She worked at the Women's Medical Society abortion business her husband ran as a full-time medical assistant from 1982 until she married Kermit Gosnell in 1990, when she switched to only working on Sundays.
At that time, the abortion business was officially closed but would do its latest-term abortions possible. The grand jury report indicates Pearl Gosnell testified that she alone helped Kermit do abortions on Sundays when she would "help do the instruments" in the operating room despite no medical training.
The murder charges also came in connection with the botched abortion death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, who died at Gosnell's abortion clinic after a failed abortion. Mongar died November 20, 2009, after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by the doctor.
Mongar's family filed a lawsuit against Gosnell's abortion business seeking damages. Gosnell and several staffers at his abortion center, including Pearl, were arrested in January after a grand jury indicted them on multiple charges after officials raided his abortion business following a woman's death and discovered a "shop of horrors" filled with bags of bodies and body parts of deceased unborn children and babies killed in infanticides.
Meanwhile, women have spoken out about their treatment and one woman says she was drugged and tied up and forced to have an abortion. Authorities searching the facility found bags and bottles holding aborted babies scattered around the building, jars containing babies' severed feet lining a shelf, as well as filthy, unsanitary furniture and equipment.
The grand jury investigation also shows state officials did nothing when reports came in about problems at Gosnell's abortion center, which has upset incoming pro-life Governor Tom Corbett.
Gosnell's abortion center was inspected only after a federal drug raid in 2010. It was the first time the facility had been inspected in 17 years because state officials ignored complaints and failed to visit Gosnell's Women's Medical Society for years.
The abortion industry has been forced to suspend two abortion businesses that employed embattled abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, who has been the subject of national controversy over his abortion business in Philadelphia.


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And sticking with the Senate for another moment - today the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee provided an update on their investigation into Russian interference in last year's election. NPR's Ryan Lucas was on Capitol Hill and has more on what investigators say they've learned.
RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Since it opened its investigation in January, the committee has been trying to uncover and understand Russia's influence operation. One of the key questions - did the Trump campaign coordinate with Russia? On that, the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Richard Burr, would only offer this.
RICHARD BURR: The committee continues to look into all evidence to see if there was any hint of collusion. Now, I'm not going to even discuss initial findings because we haven't any.
LUCAS: Burr did say, however, that the committee agrees with the report that U.S. intelligence agencies released in January accusing Russia of interfering in the election. He also offered a big-picture view of Moscow's capabilities and the threat they pose to future American elections.
BURR: What I will confirm is that the Russian Intelligence Service is determined, clever. And I recommend that every campaign and every election official take this very seriously as we move into this November's election and as we move into preparation for the 2018 election.
LUCAS: Standing next to Burr in a packed Senate press conference, the committee's top Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, zeroed in on social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. The companies have faced intense public scrutiny in recent weeks over Russia's use of their platforms to influence Americans, particularly on divisive topics like race and immigration.
MARK WARNER: I was concerned at first that some of these social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough. I believe they are recognizing that threat now.
LUCAS: Facebook handed over copies of 3,000 Russia-linked ads to the committee this week. And Warner said the social media giants are generally cooperating with the inquiry. Investigators want to determine who paid for those ads and other ads and whether they targeted certain states or regions. They also want to find out whether Russian bots artificially amplified political conversations on Twitter. The committee has invited Twitter, Facebook and Google to an open hearing early next month. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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If you design a piece for print. It gets reproduced several times over the course of a few years. Then the client doesn't return for any work for a few more years. And suddenly you are contacted asking for native files (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop). As the client puts it, "We just want to be able to make minor changes, we aren't designers."
Now, there is absolutely value in the native files. They are my "secret recipe" as a designer and anyone asking for that recipe should provide compensation for the ease of reusing, repurposing, and altering the recipe.
How do you explain to this client that there is value in the native files?
How do you counter the "But we already paid for the design." argument?
Note: I know I own the files. I know my contract states I own the files. Heck even without a contract, US Copyright law states I own the files.
What I'm seeking is an elegant, less argumentative, method of explaining the file ownership to the uneducated client. Reciting legal statutes and contract clauses doesn't often make for friendly client relations. My goal is to find a method of explaining so it is fully understood by the client without the appearance of a contract clause which forces them to do something against their will. I want the client to respect and not resent these types of contract clauses.


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New Cover Reveal!
I have an awesome new cover to show you guys, and I will, but first:
Thanks to everyone for participating in Zombiepalooza. The winners from all the giveaways have picked and notified, so watch your email 😉
Hollowmen is back from the editor, but I'm still editing it. I'm hoping to publish it early next week.When I publish it, I'll post some more info about the book. Until then, Hollowland is free for the Kindle, if you haven't checked it out yet. The first un-edited chapter of Hollowmen is still up, if you want to check that out: here.
Now to the cover. As you may know, I have a new four-book series entitled Watersong with St. Martin's. The first book Wake will be out in 2012. The photographer for the cover is James Porto, my favorite photographer ever, and it really was a fantastic honor to work with him. His work is amazing. As is this cover. Don't believe me? Take a look:
I love it! I got to pick out the model, and the clothes she's wearing, which was fun. I think there will be also something extra with the cover when it comes out, but this cover is divine enough as it is.
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Stunning, stunning, stunning!
It's great that you had that control. Most authors, they tell me, don't have ant control over covers. Is it just being contract savvy?
BTW, great cover. She is challenging the viewer to read and find out why she is there! Fangs, Wands and Fairy Dust
You've got a great designer working on your covers!
Yeah, the photograph is great! And Lisa Pompilio did a great job designing and art directing the shoot
I'm not exactly sure the name of the model. My editor sent me the profiles of a bunch of models to choose from, and I picked hers. I think her first name might be Heidi. But it was awhile ago, and I don't remember. :S
That is a beautiful cover. Kudos to everyone involved.
Will Hallowmen be available for the nook on the release date?
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Giro, based in Scotts Valley, California, is a world leader in cycling helmets as well as high-performance protective gear and accessories for action sports. Their mission is to create cycling helmets of with innovative design and advanced technology that allow the cyclist to improve their performance thanks to their perfect fit, reduced weight and optimal ventilation, in addition to having a careful design.
Giro helmets are developed using the patented Wind Tunnel ventilation system, which combines active ventilation with internal exhaust channels that cool the cyclist by allowing air to flow smoothly over and around the head.
The Giro helmets incorporate the Roc Loc 5 fit system. This fit system offers a high level of comfort, stability and adaptability, as well as a reduced weight. Used in top-end Giro helmets, the Roc Loc 5 system is characterised by having a minimalist design, being very ergonomic, having a very intuitive fit and achieving a weight reduction of 40% compared to its predecessor.
All you have to do is remove the Giro helmet equipped with the Roc Loc 5 system from the box, put it on your head and turn the wheel to adjust the tension, and you can start pedaling. It is the system that provides the best fit, safety and greater lightness on the market for both road and mountain.
This system is used in Giro Ionos, Giro Atmos, Giro Saros, Giro Athlon and in the Xar, Xen and Hex helmets, among other styles.
The heart of the Roc Loc 5 is a micro-adjustable wheel that can be easily adjusted with two fingers. Some audible clicks indicate that the helmet is being tightened or loosening. Another feature of the Roc Loc 5 system is the vertical adjustment in 3 positions that allows a precise adjustment of up to 15mm. up and down. Best of all, these adjustments can be made easily without the need to remove the helmet. And another improvement added to the effectiveness of the Roc Loc 5 is that the rear straps pass through the arms of the fit system which helps it adapt better to the cyclist's head and ensures that the straps are always in the correct position .
Giro Helmets are used by the most important cycling figures such as Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador or Cadel Evans and by the main UCI ProTour teams.
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This week marks a bit of a milestone for TDF as we welcome our first ever international guest blogger, Italian stylist / journalist Alessandra Caprini! Alessandra contacted us a little while ago about contributing to the Guest Blog - and with Milan design week on the horizon, it seemed the perfect opportunity! Alessandra travelled to Milan 2 weeks ago to attend the annual event, and will be sharing her favourite finds all this week on the Guest Blog! Yayyy thanks so much Alessandra!
We asked Alessandra to give us a little background about herself - and I must admit I couldn't bring myself to edit her sweet response! -
Something about me: my name is Alessandra, I'm 31 years old and I live in Perugia, a little nice city in the heart of Italy. I'm a freelance stylist and journalist, a cool hunter, a polaroid and lomography lover... I'm design addicted, curious traveller, vegetarian and ecologist, but I don't like strawberries!!! I'm in love with Luca and now we renew our beautiful home. I love vintage style... I also create jewels and hair accessories with old buttons, with my friend Elisa! My last passion is paper craft and collages... I have always some new ideas to do! My blog is Design Your Life, but now I write a new blog for all spring period, a new project called Let You Spring.
I am loving her sweet writing style and at times slightly imperfect English! You can almost hear her voice as you read... :)
HUGE THANKS to Alessandra for all her amazing work this week! Do pop over to the Guest Blog each day to see what she has discovered in Milano! And don't forget to pay her a little visit at Design Your Life too!


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To speak about mass media, study the appropriate vocabulary. Part 2
Genre - a type of art or writing with a particular style;
Scriptwriter - someone who writes the words for films or radio or television programmes;
Arouse - to make someone have a particular feeling or reaction;
Resist - to stop yourself from doing something that you want to do;
Touch - if something kind that someone says or does touches you, it makes you feel pleased or a little sad;
Quiz show - a programme on television in which people play games to try to win prizes;
Audience - the type of people who watch a particular TV show, read a particular book, etc;
Individual - considered separately from other things in a group;
Firm - not soft, but not completely hard;
Interfere - to try to control or become involved in a situation, in a way that is annoying.
It's a subject which has aroused a lot of interest.
This magazine is aimed at a teenage audience.
We don't have any firm plans for the weekend yet.
I know he's worried about us, but I wish he wouldn't interfere.


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Pakistan's contribution to global carbon emissions is less than 1% but it is still ranked among countries most vulnerable to climate change. The energy-hungry nation needs help to finance climate-friendly development of clean energy sources and climate-resilient infrastructure. Pakistan has provided its NDCs 2021 (national determined contribution 2021) to the United Nations ahead of the 26th conference of parties (COP26) starting today in Glasgow, Scotland. Some of Pakistan's NDC targets are voluntary while others are contingent upon the receipt of financial assistance from the rich nations most responsible for the climate crisis. Some of Pakistan's solution are nature-based such as its Billion Tree Afforestation Project (BTAP) while others require significant increase in low-carbon energy from wind, solar, hydro and nuclear.
Malik Amin Aslam, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's special assistant on climate change, said recently in an interview with CNN that his country is seeking to change its energy mix to favor green. He said Pakistan's 60% renewable energy target would to be based on solar, wind and hydro power projects, and 40% would come from hydrocarbon and nuclear which is also low-carbon. "Nuclear power has to be part of the country's energy mix for future as a zero energy emission source for clean and green future," he concluded. Here are the key points Aslam made to Becky Anderson of CNN: |
1. Pakistan wants to be a part of the solution even though it accounts for less than 1% of global carbon emissions.
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Declining Investment Hurting Pakistan's Economic Growth
Rooftop Solar Net Metering Growth in Pakistan
Can Pakistan Avoid Recurring IMF Bailouts?
Pakistan is the 3rd Fastest Growing Trillion Dollar Economy
CPEC Financing: Is China Ripping Off Pakistan?
Pakistan Ramps Up Nuclear Power Generation
Is Pakistan Ready For Clean Energy Revolution?
China Global Power Database on Power Plants in Pakistan
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The starting position for most new extract brewers is to use a partial boil set up. Defined as using a pot smaller than the intended batch size, all the ingredients are boiled in a smaller volume. Then the wort is diluted to the final desired batch size. (Often the dilution step is used as part of a cooling step)
What are the Ups and Downs of both Partial vs. Full boils?


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"All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the steamer's boats."
Frona Welse arose with alacrity and came to the first officer's side.
"We're so busy," he explained, "and gold-rushers are such perishable freight, at least--"
"I understand," she interrupted, "and I, too, am behaving as though I were perishable. And I am sorry for the trouble I am giving you, but--but--" She turned quickly and pointed to the shore. "Do you see that big log-house? Between the clump of pines and the river? I was born there."
"Guess I'd be in a hurry myself," he muttered, sympathetically, as he piloted her along the crowded deck.
Everybody was in everybody else's way; nor was there one who failed to proclaim it at the top of his lungs. A thousand gold-seekers were clamoring for the immediate landing of their outfits. Each hatchway gaped wide open, and from the lower depths the shrieking donkey-engines were hurrying the misassorted outfits skyward. On either side of the steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved bales and boxes about in frantic search. Men waved shipping receipts and shouted over the steamer-rails to them. Sometimes two and three identified the same article, and war arose. The "two-circle" and the "circle-and-dot" brands caused endless jangling, while every whipsaw discovered a dozen claimants.
"The purser insists that he is going mad," the first officer said, as he helped Frona Welse down the gangway to the landing stage, "and the freight clerks have turned the cargo over to the passengers and quit work. But we're not so unlucky as the Star of Bethlehem," he reassured her, pointing to a steamship at anchor a quarter of a mile away. "Half of her passengers have pack-horses for Skaguay and White Pass, and the other half are bound over the Chilcoot. So they've mutinied and everything's at a standstill."
"Hey, you!" he cried, beckoning to a Whitehall which hovered discreetly on the outer rim of the floating confusion.
A tiny launch, pulling heroically at a huge tow-barge, attempted to pass between; but the boatman shot nervily across her bow, and just as he was clear, unfortunately, caught a crab. This slewed the boat around and brought it to a stop.
"Watch out!" the first officer shouted.
A pair of seventy-foot canoes, loaded with outfits, gold-rushers, and Indians, and under full sail, drove down from the counter direction. One of them veered sharply towards the landing stage, but the other pinched the Whitehall against the barge. The boatman had unshipped his oars in time, but his small craft groaned under the pressure and threatened to collapse. Whereat he came to his feet, and in short, nervous phrases consigned all canoe-men and launch-captains to eternal perdition. A man on the barge leaned over from above and baptized him with crisp and crackling oaths, while the whites and Indians in the canoe laughed derisively.
"Aw, g'wan!" one of them shouted. "Why don't yeh learn to row?"
The boatman's fist landed on the point of his critic's jaw and dropped him stunned upon the heaped merchandise. Not content with this summary act he proceeded to follow his fist into the other craft. The miner nearest him tugged vigorously at a revolver which had jammed in its shiny leather holster, while his brother argonauts, laughing, waited the outcome. But the canoe was under way again, and the Indian helmsman drove the point of his paddle into the boatman's chest and hurled him backward into the bottom of the Whitehall.
When the flood of oaths and blasphemy was at full tide, and violent assault and quick death seemed most imminent, the first officer had stolen a glance at the girl by his side. He had expected to find a shocked and frightened maiden countenance, and was not at all prepared for the flushed and deeply interested face which met his eyes.
"I am sorry," he began.
But she broke in, as though annoyed by the interruption, "No, no; not at all. I am enjoying it every bit. Though I am glad that man's revolver stuck. If it had not--"
"We might have been delayed in getting ashore." The first officer laughed, and therein displayed his tact.
"That man is a robber," he went on, indicating the boatman, who had now shoved his oars into the water and was pulling alongside. "He agreed to charge only twenty dollars for putting you ashore. Said he'd have made it twenty-five had it been a man. He's a pirate, mark me, and he will surely hang some day. Twenty dollars for a half-hour's work! Think of it!"
"Easy, sport! Easy!" cautioned the fellow in question, at the same time making an awkward landing and dropping one of his oars over-side. "You've no call to be flingin' names about," he added, defiantly, wringing out his shirt-sleeve, wet from rescue of the oar.
"You've got good ears, my man," began the first officer.
"And a quick fist," the other snapped in.
"And a ready tongue."
"Need it in my business. No gettin' 'long without it among you sea-sharks. Pirate, am I? And you with a thousand passengers packed like sardines! Charge 'em double first-class passage, feed 'em steerage grub, and bunk 'em worse 'n pigs! Pirate, eh! Me?"
A red-faced man thrust his head over the rail above and began to bellow lustily.
"I want my stock landed! Come up here, Mr. Thurston! Now! Right away! Fifty cayuses of | mine eating their heads off in this dirty kennel of yours, and it'll be a sick time you'll have if you don't hustle them ashore as fast as God'll let you! I'm losing a thousand dollars a day, and I won't stand it! Do you hear? I won't stand it! You've robbed me right and left from the time you cleared dock in Seattle, and by the hinges of hell I won't stand it any more! I'll break this company as sure as my name's Thad Ferguson! D'ye hear my spiel? I'm Thad Ferguson, and you can't come and see me any too quick for your health! D'ye hear?"
"Pirate; eh?" the boatman soliloquized. "Who? Me?"
Mr. Thurston waved his hand appeasingly at the red-faced man, and turned to the girl. "I'd like to go ashore with you, and as far as the store, but you see how busy we are. Good-by, and a lucky trip to you. I'll tell off a couple of men at once and break out your baggage. Have it up at the store to-morrow morning, sharp."
She took his hand lightly and stepped aboard. Her weight gave the leaky boat a sudden lurch, and the water hurtled across the bottom boards to her shoe-tops: but she took it coolly enough, settling herself in the stern-sheets and tucking her feet under her.
"Hold on!" the officer cried. "This will never do, Miss Welse. Come on back, and I'll get one of our boats over as soon as I can."
"I'll see you in--in heaven first," retorted the boatman, shoving off. "Let go!" he threatened.
Mr. Thurston gripped tight hold of the gunwale, and as reward for his chivalry had his knuckles rapped sharply by the oar-blade. Then he forgot himself, and Miss Welse also, and swore, and swore fervently.
"I dare say our farewell might have been more dignified," she called back to him, her laughter rippling across the water.
"Jove!" he muttered, doffing his cap gallantly. "There is a _woman_!" And a sudden hunger seized him, and a yearning to see himself mirrored always in the gray eyes of Frona Welse. He was not analytical; he did not know why; but he knew that with her he could travel to the end of the earth. He felt a distaste for his profession, and a temptation to throw it all over and strike out for the Klondike whither she was going; then he glanced up the beetling side of the ship, saw the red face of Thad Ferguson, and forgot the dream he had for an instant dreamed.
Splash! A handful of water from his strenuous oar struck her full in the face. "Hope you don't mind it, miss," he apologized. "I'm doin' the best I know how, which ain't much."
"So it seems," she answered, good-naturedly.
"Not that I love the sea," bitterly; "but I've got to turn a few honest dollars somehow, and this seemed the likeliest way. I oughter 'a ben in Klondike by now, if I'd had any luck at all. Tell you how it was. I lost my outfit on Windy Arm, half-way in, after packin' it clean across the Pass--"
Zip! Splash! She shook the water from her eyes, squirming the while as some of it ran down her warm back.
"You'll do," he encouraged her. "You're the right stuff for this country. Goin' all the way in?"
She nodded cheerfully.
"Then you'll do. But as I was sayin', after I lost my outfit I hit back for the coast, bein' broke, to hustle up another one. That's why I'm chargin' high-pressure rates. And I hope you don't feel sore at what I made you pay. I'm no worse than the rest, miss, sure. I had to dig up a hundred for this old tub, which ain't worth ten down in the States. Same kind of prices everywhere. Over on the Skaguay Trail horseshoe nails is just as good as a quarter any day. A man goes up to the bar and calls for a whiskey. Whiskey's half a dollar. Well, he drinks his whiskey, plunks down two horseshoe nails, and it's O.K. No kick comin' on horseshoe nails. They use 'em to make change."
"You must be a brave man to venture into the country again after such an experience. Won't you tell me your name? We may meet on the Inside."
"Who? Me? Oh, I'm Del Bishop, pocket-miner; and if ever we run across each other, remember I'd give you the last shirt--I mean, remember my last bit of grub is yours."
"Thank you," she answered with a sweet smile; for she was a woman who loved the things which rose straight from the heart.
He stopped rowing long enough to fish about in the water around his feet for an old cornbeef can.
"You'd better do some bailin'," he ordered, tossing her the can. "She's leakin' worse since that squeeze."
Frona smiled mentally, tucked up her skirts, and bent to the work. At every dip, like great billows heaving along the sky-line, the glacier-fretted mountains rose and fell. Sometimes she rested her back and watched the teeming beach towards which they were heading, and again, the land-locked arm of the sea in which a score or so of great steamships lay at anchor. From each of these, to the shore and back again, flowed a steady stream of scows, launches, canoes, and all sorts of smaller craft. Man, the mighty toiler, reacting upon a hostile environment, she thought, going back in memory to the masters whose wisdom she had shared in lecture-room and midnight study. She was a ripened child of the age, and fairly understood the physical world and the workings thereof. And she had a love for the world, and a deep respect.
For some time Del Bishop had only punctuated the silence with splashes from his oars; but a thought struck him.
"You haven't told me your name," he suggested, with complacent delicacy.
"My name is Welse," she answered. "Frona Welse."
A great awe manifested itself in his face, and grew to a greater and greater awe. "You--are--Frona--Welse?" he enunciated slowly. "Jacob Welse ain't your old man, is he?"
"Yes; I am Jacob Welse's daughter, at your service."
He puckered his lips in a long low whistle of understanding and stopped rowing. "Just you climb back into the stern and take your feet out of that water," he commanded. "And gimme holt that can."
"Am I not bailing satisfactorily?" she demanded, indignantly.
"Yep. You're doin' all right; but, but, you are--are--"
"Just what I was before you knew who I was. Now you go on rowing,--that's your share of the work; and I'll take care of mine."
"Oh, you'll do!" he murmured ecstatically, bending afresh to the oars. "And Jacob Welse is your old man? I oughter 'a known it, sure!"
When they reached the sand-spit, crowded with heterogeneous piles of merchandise and buzzing with men, she stopped long enough to shake hands with her ferryman. And though such a proceeding on the part of his feminine patrons was certainly unusual, Del Bishop squared it easily with the fact that she was Jacob Welse's daughter.
"Remember, my last bit of grub is yours," he reassured her, still holding her hand.
"And your last shirt, too; don't forget."
"Well, you're a--a--a crackerjack!" he exploded with a final squeeze. "Sure!"
Her short skirt did not block the free movement of her limbs, and she discovered with pleasurable surprise that the quick tripping step of the city pavement had departed from her, and that she was swinging off in the long easy stride which is born of the trail and which comes only after much travail and endeavor. More than one gold-rusher, shooting keen glances at her ankles and gray-gaitered calves, affirmed Del Bishop's judgment. And more than one glanced up at her face, and glanced again; for her gaze was frank, with the frankness of comradeship; and in her eyes there was always a smiling light, just trembling on the verge of dawn; and did the onlooker smile, her eyes smiled also. And the smiling light was protean-mooded,--merry, sympathetic, joyous, quizzical,--the complement of whatsoever kindled it. And sometimes the light spread over all her face, till the smile prefigured by it was realized. But it was always in frank and open comradeship.
And there was much to cause her to smile as she hurried through the crowd, across the sand-spit, and over the flat towards the log-building she had pointed out to Mr. Thurston. Time had rolled back, and locomotion and transportation were once again in the most primitive stages. Men who had never carried more than parcels in all their lives had now become bearers of burdens. They no longer walked upright under the sun, but stooped the body forward and bowed the head to the earth. Every back had become a pack-saddle, and the strap-galls were beginning to form. They staggered beneath the unwonted effort, and legs became drunken with weariness and titubated in divers directions till the sunlight darkened and bearer and burden fell by the way. Other men, exulting secretly, piled their goods on two-wheeled go-carts and pulled out blithely enough, only to stall at the first spot where the great round boulders invaded the trail. Whereat they generalized anew upon the principles of Alaskan travel, discarded the go-cart, or trundled it back to the beach and sold it at fabulous price to the last man landed. Tenderfeet, with ten pounds of Colt's revolvers, cartridges, and hunting-knives belted about them, wandered valiantly up the trail, and crept back softly, shedding revolvers, cartridges, and knives in despairing showers. And so, in gasping and bitter sweat, these sons of Adam suffered for Adam's sin.
Frona felt vaguely disturbed by this great throbbing rush of gold-mad men, and the old scene with its clustering associations seemed blotted out by these toiling aliens. Even the old landmarks appeared strangely unfamiliar. It was the same, yet not the same. Here, on the grassy flat, where she had played as a child and shrunk back at the sound of her voice echoing from glacier to glacier, ten thousand men tramped ceaselessly up and down, grinding the tender herbage into the soil and mocking the stony silence. And just up the trail were ten thousand men who had passed by, and over the Chilcoot were ten thousand more. And behind, all down the island-studded Alaskan coast, even to the Horn, were yet ten thousand more, harnessers of wind and steam, hasteners from the ends of the earth. The Dyea River as of old roared turbulently down to the sea; but its ancient banks were gored by the feet of many men, and these men labored in surging rows at the dripping tow-lines, and the deep-laden boats followed them as they fought their upward way. And the will of man strove with the will of the water, and the men laughed at the old Dyea River and gored its banks deeper for the men who were to follow.
The doorway of the store, through which she had once run out and in, and where she had looked with awe at the unusual sight of a stray trapper or fur-trader, was now packed with a clamorous throng of men. Where of old one letter waiting a claimant was a thing of wonder, she now saw, by peering through the window, the mail heaped up from floor to ceiling. And it was for this mail the men were clamoring so insistently. Before the store, by the scales, was another crowd. An Indian threw his pack upon the scales, the white owner jotted down the weight in a note-book, and another pack was thrown on. Each pack was in the straps, ready for the packer's back and the precarious journey over the Chilcoot. Frona edged in closer. She was interested in freights. She remembered in her day when the solitary prospector or trader had his outfit packed over for six cents,--one hundred and twenty dollars a ton.
The tenderfoot who was weighing up consulted his guide-book. "Eight cents," he said to the Indian. Whereupon the Indians laughed scornfully and chorused, "Forty cents!" A pained expression came into his face, and he looked about him anxiously. The sympathetic light in Frona's eyes caught him, and he regarded her with intent blankness. In reality he was busy reducing a three-ton outfit to terms of cash at forty dollars per hundred-weight. "Twenty-four hundred dollars for thirty miles!" he cried. "What can I do?"
Frona shrugged her shoulders. "You'd better pay them the forty cents," she advised, "else they will take off their straps."
The man thanked her, but instead of taking heed went on with his haggling. One of the Indians stepped up and proceeded to unfasten his pack-straps. The tenderfoot wavered, but just as he was about to give in, the packers jumped the price on him to forty-five cents. He smiled after a sickly fashion, and nodded his head in token of surrender. But another Indian joined the group and began whispering excitedly. A cheer went up, and before the man could realize it they had jerked off their straps and departed, spreading the news as they went that freight to Lake Linderman was fifty cents.
Of a sudden, the crowd before the store was perceptibly agitated. Its members whispered excitedly one to another, and all their eyes were focussed upon three men approaching from up the trail. The trio were ordinary-looking creatures, ill-clad and even ragged. In a more stable community their apprehension by the village constable and arrest for vagrancy would have been immediate. "French Louis," the tenderfeet whispered and passed the word along. "Owns three Eldorado claims in a block," the man next to Frona confided to her. "Worth ten millions at the very least." French Louis, striding a little in advance of his companions, did not look it. He had parted company with his hat somewhere along the route, and a frayed silk kerchief was wrapped carelessly about his head. And for all his ten millions, he carried his own travelling pack on his broad shoulders. "And that one, the one with the beard, that's Swiftwater Bill, another of the Eldorado kings."
"How do you know?" Frona asked, doubtingly.
"Know!" the man exclaimed. "Know! Why his picture has been in all the papers for the last six weeks. See!" He unfolded a newspaper. "And a pretty good likeness, too. I've looked at it so much I'd know his mug among a thousand."
"Then who is the third one?" she queried, tacitly accepting him as a fount of authority.
Her informant lifted himself on his toes to see better. "I don't know," he confessed sorrowfully, then tapped the shoulder of the man next to him. "Who is the lean, smooth-faced one? The one with the blue shirt and the patch on his knee?"
Just then Frona uttered a glad little cry and darted forward. "Matt!" she cried. "Matt McCarthy!"
The man with the patch shook her hand heartily, though he did not know her and distrust was plain in his eyes.
"Oh, you don't remember me!" she chattered. "And don't you dare say you do! If there weren't so many looking, I'd hug you, you old bear!
"And so Big Bear went home to the Little Bears," she recited, solemnly. "And the Little Bears were very hungry. And Big Bear said, 'Guess what I have got, my children.' And one Little Bear guessed berries, and one Little Bear guessed salmon, and t'other Little Bear guessed porcupine. Then Big Bear laughed 'Whoof! Whoof!' and said, '_A Nice Big Fat Man_!'"
As he listened, recollection avowed itself in his face, and, when she had finished, his eyes wrinkled up and he laughed a peculiar, laughable silent laugh.
"Sure, an' it's well I know ye," he explained; "but for the life iv me I can't put me finger on ye."
She pointed into the store and watched him anxiously.
"Now I have ye!" He drew back and looked her up and down, and his expression changed to disappointment. "It cuddent be. I mistook ye. Ye cud niver a-lived in that shanty," thrusting a thumb in the direction of the store.
Frona nodded her head vigorously.
"Thin it's yer ownself afther all? The little motherless darlin', with the goold hair I combed the knots out iv many's the time? The little witch that run barefoot an' barelegged over all the place?"
"Yes, yes," she corroborated, gleefully.
"The little divil that stole the dog-team an' wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin' her fairy stories?"
"O Matt, dear old Matt! Remember the time I went swimming with the Siwash girls from the Indian camp?"
"An' I dragged ye out by the hair o' yer head?"
"And lost one of your new rubber boots?"
"Ah, an' sure an' I do. And a most shockin' an' immodest affair it was! An' the boots was worth tin dollars over yer father's counter."
"And then you went away, over the Pass, to the Inside, and we never heard a word of you. Everybody thought you dead."
"Well I recollect the day. An' ye cried in me arms an' wuddent kiss yer old Matt good-by. But ye did in the ind," he exclaimed, triumphantly, "whin ye saw I was goin' to lave ye for sure. What a wee thing ye were!"
"I was only eight."
"An' 'tis twelve year agone. Twelve year I've spint on the Inside, with niver a trip out. Ye must be twinty now?"
"And almost as big as you," Frona affirmed.
"A likely woman ye've grown into, tall, an' shapely, an' all that." He looked her over critically. "But ye cud 'a' stood a bit more flesh, I'm thinkin'."
"No, no," she denied. "Not at twenty, Matt, not at twenty. Feel my arm, you'll see." She doubled that member till the biceps knotted.
"'Tis muscle," he admitted, passing his hand admiringly over the swelling bunch; "just as though ye'd been workin' hard for yer livin'."
"Oh, I can swing clubs, and box, and fence," she cried, successively striking the typical postures; "and swim, and make high dives, chin a bar twenty times, and--and walk on my hands. There!"
"Is that what ye've been doin'? I thought ye wint away for book-larnin'," he commented, dryly.
"But they have new ways of teaching, now, Matt, and they don't turn you out with your head crammed--"
"An' yer legs that spindly they can't carry it all! Well, an' I forgive ye yer muscle."
"But how about yourself, Matt?" Frona asked. "How has the world been to you these twelve years?"
"Behold!" He spread his legs apart, threw his head back, and his chest out. "Ye now behold Mister Matthew McCarthy, a king iv the noble Eldorado Dynasty by the strength iv his own right arm. Me possessions is limitless. I have more dust in wan minute than iver I saw in all me life before. Me intintion for makin' this trip to the States is to look up me ancestors. I have a firm belafe that they wance existed. Ye may find nuggets in the Klondike, but niver good whiskey. 'Tis likewise me intintion to have wan drink iv the rate stuff before I die. Afther that 'tis me sworn resolve to return to the superveeshion iv me Klondike properties. Indade, and I'm an Eldorado king; an' if ye'll be wantin' the lind iv a tidy bit, it's meself that'll loan it ye."
"The same old, old Matt, who never grows old," Frona laughed.
"An' it's yerself is the thrue Welse, for all yer prize-fighter's muscles an' yer philosopher's brains. But let's wander inside on the heels of Louis an' Swiftwater. Andy's still tindin' store, I'm told, an' we'll see if I still linger in the pages iv his mimory."
"And I, also." Frona seized him by the hand. It was a bad habit she had of seizing the hands of those she loved. "It's ten years since I went away."
The Irishman forged his way through the crowd like a pile-driver, and Frona followed easily in the lee of his bulk. The tenderfeet watched them reverently, for to them they were as Northland divinities. The buzz of conversation rose again.
"Who's the girl?" somebody asked. And just as Frona passed inside the door she caught the opening of the answer: "Jacob Welse's daughter. Never heard of Jacob Welse? Where have you been keeping yourself?"
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October comps up 2.4% at Target
A 2.4% same-store sales increase during October was toward the low end of Target's expectations, but it wasn't enough to prevent the company from achieving its guidance for the third quarter.
Target reported that its net retail sales for the four weeks ended Oct. 27 were nearly $5 billion, a 3% increase from $4.8 billion reported during October 2011. The 2.4% comp increase was on top of a prior year gain of 3.3%.
"While Target's October comparable-store sales were near the low end of our expected range, our third quarter comparable-store sales increase of 2.9% was in line with our guidance," said Gregg Steinhafel, chairman, president and CEO. "As we enter the fourth quarter we feel very good about our holiday season merchandising and marketing plans and our ability to deliver outstanding value for our guests while generating strong financial performance for our shareholders."
Steinhafel made no mention of Hurricane Sandy's impact on the company's October results in a press release. However, the company did elaborate on several one time beneficial effects that will impact third quarter results when they are release later this month.
In its second quarter 2012 earnings press release Target indicated that in third quarter 2012 it expected adjusted earnings per share of 83 cents to 93 cents and earnings on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principle) basis to range from 69 cents to 79 cents. The 14 cent difference between the ranges reflected the expected earnings impact of expenses related to the company's Canadian market launch. Beyond the impact of its Canadian market launch, Target now expects its third quarter GAAP calculation to benefit by four cents due to a favorable resolution of an income tax matter and by 15 cents due to the recently announced sale of the credit card receivables portfolio to TD Bank Group.


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Granite Construction Inc. has reported a net income of $38.7 million, or $0.99 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2010 compared with net income of $30.6 million, or $0.79 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2009. A tax benefit contributed $8.0 million to net income in the third quarter of 2010."During the quarter, the Construction segment continued to feel the impact of lower demand for our services in the West, funding delays due to budget uncertainties and highly competitive market conditions. We did, however, see a slight pickup in demand for our construction materials as work that had been delayed due to weather in the first half of the year carried over into the third quarter," said James H. Roberts, president and chief executive officer, in a written statement. "The Large Project Construction segment is executing well on its new portfolio of work, which includes the $126 million Folsom Dam project awarded in the third quarter as well as the $306 million SR 520 Eastside project in Washington, which will be booked into backlog in the fourth quarter.
"I am also pleased to say that we are making steady progress in our effort to reduce costs and strengthen the business to achieve long-term profitable growth," Roberts continued. "As a part of the Enterprise Improvement Plan that we announced last month, we completed a comprehensive review of our business and associated cost structure. As a result of this rigorous evaluation, we have identified certain fixed assets and real estate investments that are now slated for closure or divestiture. In addition, we made the very difficult decision to reduce our salaried workforce by approximately 13 percent. While these actions will have a near-term impact on our business, they are an important part of our plan to increase our profitability and competitiveness and deliver significant improvement in our long-term financial performance."
Third-Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Total Company
- Revenue totaled $670.9 million compared with $720.3 million in 2009.
- Gross profit margin was 11 percent compared with 15 percent in 2009, driven primarily by lower margins in the Construction segment as well as the impact of Large Projects that have yet to reach the profit recognition threshold.
- Operating income for the quarter was $32.2 million compared with $46.3 million in the prior year.
- SG&A expenses for the third quarter were $47.2 million compared with $61.0 million for the same period last year, driven by ongoing efforts to reduce the company's overall cost structure.
- Net income attributable to non-controlling interests was $4.6 million compared with $5.9 million in 2009.
- Total contract backlog at September 30, 2010, was $1.6 billion, essentially flat compared with the backlog at September 30, 2009.
- New awards during the quarter include a $125.9 million auxiliary spillway control structure in California, a $77.7 million rail project in California and $47.7 million for our share of a freeway reconstruction project in Utah.
- The effective tax rate for the third quarter was a negative 22.8 percent due to the adjustment of the year-to-date tax rate to 135.4 percent. The unusually high year-to-date rate is due primarily to the ratio of non-controlling interest of $11.9 million to pre-tax loss of $8.3 million. Non-controlling interest is generally not subject to income taxes on a stand-alone basis and is deducted from income before provision for income taxes in arriving at our effective tax rate.
- Construction revenue for the quarter totaled $410.0 million compared with $466.6 million for the same period in 2009, reflecting reductions in available work out to bid as well as a highly competitive bidding environment.
- Gross profit margin for the third quarter was 11 percent compared with 16 percent for the same period in 2009, driven by a competitive bidding environment and lower margins in backlog as compared with a year ago.
Large Project Construction
- Large Project Construction revenue for the quarter totaled $170.0 million compared with $181.2 million for the same period last year.
- Gross profit margin for the quarter decreased to 11 percent compared with 14 percent for the same period last year, reflecting an increase in revenue on projects that have yet to reach the profit recognition threshold.
Construction Materials
- Construction Materials revenue for the quarter totaled $88.1 million compared with $71.5 million for the same period last year, as wet weather in the first part of the year led to increased demand for construction materials in the third quarter of 2010.
- Gross profit on the sale of construction materials was $12.1 million in 2010 compared with $8.4 million in 2009. The increase in gross profit is due primarily to higher sales volume for construction materials as a result of weather in the first half of 2010 that shifted demand into the third quarter.
Recent Company Actions
Granite announced on October 25, 2010, the decision to cut its workforce by approximately 220 employees as a result of efforts to reduce its cost structure, enhance operating efficiencies and strengthen the business to achieve long-term profitable growth. Estimated savings resulting from the reductions and other operational improvements are expected to benefit 2011 pre-tax income by approximately $36 million to $40 million.
Additionally, as part of the Enterprise Improvement Plan, the company is planning an orderly divesture of certain fixed assets as well as its real estate investment business. This decision is consistent with the Company's business strategy to focus on its core competencies and enhance operating efficiencies.
The combination of these actions is estimated to result in a pre-tax charge of approximately $99 million to $145 million, nearly all of which will be recognized in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Of the total, approximately $89 million to $133 million is related primarily to impairments on real estate and fixed assets. The balance is associated with severance-related costs.
Full-Year 2010 Guidance
Market conditions remain very challenging, as funding uncertainties coupled with the competitive climate continue to have an impact on revenue and gross margins for the Construction and Construction Materials segments. As a result, Granite now expects revenue for the Construction segment to be between $925 million and $1.125 billion, with a corresponding gross profit margin between 9 and 10 percent. Revenue for the Construction Materials segment is expected to be between $200 million and $250 million, with a corresponding gross profit margin between 6 and 7 percent.
Revenue for the Large Project Construction segment is now expected to be between $600 million and $650 million. Correspondingly, the company is raising the gross profit margin range for the segment to between 12 and 13 percent. Net income attributable to non-controlling interests is expected to be approximately $20 million for the year, excluding the impact of restructuring charges.


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Did anybody notice anything different about this week?
Abducted by aliens whilst undergoing rehab
Whaddya mean nobody noticed that I've been gone? Poor Crabby has been stuck carrying the whole blog for over a week and nobody noticed?
Be that way.
I was going to write up a big dramatic story about being abducted by
aliens, or going into rehab, or going on strike, but the heck with it.
Crabby goes camping, Merry starts carping
No, I don't mean fishing for carp. I'm whining because work has been
taking up valuable time that I could have spent dating, dining, dancing,
or dallying on blogs. There's been no time for such frivolities. But I
still have been making time to go to bed each night.
Sleeping with Bob Costas
For the last week or so, I've been putting myself to sleep by watching
the Olympics. I go to bed with Bob Costas, and wake up with Matt Lauer.
(Not the image you wanted? Sorry.)
Research, that's what it is. I've been tirelessly researching how cranky Olympic athletes can get.
Those gymnasts are so perky and positive that it's scary.
They all hug and congratulate the
Did you see the end of the women's marathon? The winner, okay, I'll give you that. She won, so it's understandable that she should wrap herself up in her country's flag and run another lap just to show off. Fine. Not sure why the 2nd and 3rd runners also felt they had to do a victory lap wrapped in their country's flag. But did you notice how isolated they all seemed? They waved to the crowds and smiled at the cameras, but completely ignored each other. At one point a couple of runners who were cooling off almost walked into each other, but even then they didn't make eye contact.
I'm not counting the relay teams -- they're one unit, essentially.
But while competitors in other sports interact with their rivals, individual runners don't. After a race, they face straight ahead, or up at the sky, down at the track, anywhere but at a competitor. They are alone. They are communing with their inner coaches. Or they are a bunch of surly anti-social bastards.
I knew there was some reason I like hanging out with you guys.
Runners are a surly bunch
What is it about running that makes it such an anti-social activity? At least anti-social at the Olympic level. People running a 5k seem cheerful enough. Maybe that's because they've been getting lots of perks and goodies. (Note: we need to check with our European researchers to determine the ratio of cheerfulness/goodies in European runners. Xenia was lamenting the lack of goodies in the races she's run in Britain. The phrase "cheap bastards" was used.)
Are runners at the Olympic level different from other other athletes? Or is it the whole track-and-field atmosphere that's somehow less jovial and jolly than the gym or the pool? Or even that Bob-awful endless beach volleyball. (It's always on! Every night! You can't escape it! It makes me want to use exclamation points! Excessively!!!!)
Anyone have any good examples of interactive cheerful runners? Please feel free to leave a comment saying "Merry, you fool! What about that runner who was cheerful and perky and went around hugging all the runners who just beat him?" I might have missed him whilst I was sleeping with Bob.
Okay, I did see one runner hug his compatriot who just won a race. Just one. But I consider this to be an anomaly designed to weaken what was otherwise a damn fine hypothesis. I haven't seen any cheerfulness or huggy behavior undertaken by one runner to another who was from another country. So there.


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Suikoden Guide
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December 23, 2008 Buy it here | PlayStation 3 |
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Konami | Konami |
From the days of the PS one, this downloadable game allows you to play the classic original on your PSP handheld system or PS3 home console.
In the first in this series of RPGs by Konami, you are the son of the General Teo, one of the emperor's most powerful generals. Immediately, your father leaves to fight a battle up north leaving a few of his trusted friends to watch over of you. Soon after, you come to realize that you and your father have been serving on the wrong side. The Emperor and his generals' minds have been brainwashed. The result is unhappy subjects and an enslaved country. Knowing this, you join the Liberation Army and when their heroic leader is assassinated by the baddies, you are chosen as leader. Your job now is to recruit thousands of men to join the Liberation Army and restore peace to the country. Along the way you will have to fight in three different styles of battle: normal, one-on-one, and war. See if you can bring justice to the world in Suikoden. = Wiki Sections =


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How to Launch Application on System Start in Mac OS X
Mac users may find it helpful to automatically launch an application upon system start of Mac OS X. Basically this means as soon as the Mac is done booting, the approved auto-launch apps will open themselves once the user has logged into the Mac and the Mac OS desktop has displayed. You can add as many apps as you want to the automatic launch list, but it's best to use this feature prudently so you don't needlessly slow down the boot time of the computer.
We will show you how to launch applications on system start of MacOS X, and also how to remove Mac apps from the automatic launch list.
You can choose any application to launch automatically on system startup of Mac OS X with this trick. Generally speaking, this is most appropriate for helper applications and small apps that are frequently used.
How to Automatically Open an Application on Startup of Mac OS X
- Open System Preferences from the Apple Menu
- Choose "Users & Groups" (or on prior versions of Mac OS X, click on the "Accounts" icon)
- Now visit the "Login Items" tab
- Click the "+" icon in the lower corner – OR – drag and drop the Application to launch on startup into this Login Items screen
- Now you'll see the Applications folder contents in front of you, simply scroll through and select the application you want to load on start, and click "Add" to choose that app to open on startup of the Mac
Once you've set up your automatic apps to open on startup and login, you're done and can close out of System Preferences. It's that simple, those apps which are in the Login Items list will open themselves immediately upon system start.
Another method is to launch an application, and right-click or control-click on it's icon in the Dock, selecting "Open at Login". This will add it to the Login Items list automatically.
This can be a very convenient feature, though it can also slow down Mac startup, so be cautious of adding too many applications to this list.
You can also use this Login Items list to automatically connect to network drives on login and startup of Mac OS X using a two-step process, or an Automator mounting script.
Removing an Application from Automatic Start List of Mac OS X
Decided you don't want an app to open itself on startup of Mac OS X? That's ok, this is easy to undo:
- Back in the System Preferences for "Users & Groups", go to Login Items again
- Select the app you want to stop launching at login, click on it, and then hit the Delete key, or hit the Minus [-] button to remove it form the automatic login list
- Close out of System Preferences of Mac OS X
Do note that if you uninstall a Mac application it will be removed from the startup list as well, though sometimes a helper item can lag behind.
Changes are immediate again, but ultimately take effect on next boot, login, or startup. You can remove any application from launching at login by clicking on the "-" icon. For troubleshooting purposes, or to just quickly speed up a Macs startup time, you can also temporarily disable the Mac OS X login items by holding the Shift key at the right time.
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Tesco's 2020 'naughty' Christmas advert is out - watch it here
The annual flurry of Christmas TV adverts has started, and Tesco is the latest major retailer to premiere its festive promo for 2020. You can watch the advert above.
The supermarket's Christmas campaign for this year has been inspired by the difficulties that have arisen during the pandemic, which has seen people forced to spend time apart, face job and money difficulties, and adapt to ever-changing restrictions.
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Tesco is encouraging the nation to forget about all of the 'naughty' things they have done this year and instead focus on treating themselves this Christmas.
The humorous ad urges shoppers to tuck into the finest festive food and drink over the festive season, because we're all in need of a pick me up.
The advert opens in a Tesco store, before travelling across the UK, following multiple people as they prepare for the big day.
Along the way, characters share their confessions which they worry may land them on Santa's naughty list this year - from giving a bad DIY haircut to fibbing to the kids for a bit of peace and quiet, and even buying too much toilet roll.
As they deliberate over whether they should be allowed a festive treat, the supermarket encourages viewers not to think twice, as they deserve a treat this Christmas after such a difficult year.
The advert comes in a 60 second version, as well as two 30 second versions, and is set to the soundtrack of famous Britney Spears track Oops!...I Did it Again, with comedian Asim Chaudhry providing the voice over.
Alessandra Bellini, chief customer officer at Tesco, said, "This year, customers were looking for something fun and uplifting, that would help spread a little joy.
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When I last interviewed Hanna Hopko, it was February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, and Hopko was in hiding outside Kyiv with her husband and a guinea pig. OK, let me back up. Hopko is a former member of Ukraine's parliament. She was one of the original leaders of the pro-democracy Euromaidan protests in 2014. Hanna Hopko is also a mom whose 11-year-old daughter had been begging for a pet guinea pig for months in the runup to the invasion. When war came, Hopko evacuated her daughter to safety, and she went into hiding with the guinea pig in tow. Well, this week Hanna Hopko is in Washington, and I could not wait to catch up.
HANNA HOPKO: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just from the long meeting with State Department.
KELLY: I'm glad to see you.
HOPKO: Oh, I'm so happy.
KELLY: We arranged to meet up downtown as she was racing from one meeting to the next. I started by asking, is your family OK, your daughter?
HOPKO: I haven't seen my daughter from March 2. She had to live with my parents, my sister and her two daughters. Yeah. So actually, I'm planning, after my foreign visits, finally, to meet my daughter probably in July. And...
KELLY: That's a long time. That's four months.
HOPKO: Yeah, it's four months. But we couldn't expect that there would be full-scale escalation when we had to leave.
KELLY: OK. Just before we move on, your daughter, she's safely out of Ukraine?
HOPKO: Yes.
KELLY: OK. And the guinea pig?
HOPKO: And the guinea pig - today I received a message from my friend who's taking care of the guinea pig that Nefanya (ph) is missing you. When will you be back? And just, when will you be - constantly - in Ukraine that you could take back the guinea pig?
But, you know, the life has now, after February 24, changed a lot. It seems like the previous life doesn't exist anymore. Like, this normality, when you sit in the kitchen with the daughter, husband, with the guinea pig - probably the saddest moment that you don't know when, actually, you could be reunited.
KELLY: I was going to ask though because you and I have swapped messages all through the war, but the only other time I've actually met you in person was in Kyiv, in a pizzeria before the war. And I wondered if that feels like a totally different life to you. It sounds like the answer's yes.
HOPKO: Like, for all my nation, for millions of Ukrainians, every day we are receiving not just one, not just three, not just five, tragic news that we are losing our friends.
KELLY: Five a day?
HOPKO: Yes.
KELLY: Of people you know?
HOPKO: Yes, yes. And it's really very sad because, like, in March, in Facebook, you could see, like, one news. (Crying) Then, now, in our WhatsApp chats, when people are sending, like, stories like Roman Ratushnyy, 24 years old, was killed, the patriot activist. This is the future of Ukraine. So this is why I cannot understand why the West is so reluctant to help us to win faster. I cannot believe anymore in these bureaucratic excuses that the weapons are delivered, so - was delayed because of some problems.
It's God's purpose that Ukraine is winning and will win the war. So we have to start thinking, what next? And it's not just about regime change. It's about the change of the imperialistic nature of Russian statehood.
KELLY: You said you can't understand why the West is so reluctant to help Ukraine. And I do want to push back a little bit. The U.S. and its allies have helped a lot. Just this week, I think since you've traveled to Washington, the U.S. has just announced an additional billion dollars; more ammo, more artillery, more weapons to defend the coast. The U.S. and its allies are not doing nothing here.
HOPKO: So of course, we are very thankful for assistance, military, humanitarian aid we already received. But if we discussed about a sanctions effect, it takes a long time. The Russian economy starts - not collapsing, but creates a problem for a totalitarian regime. And even with the sixth package of the EU oil or energy embargo, still, there are many loopholes. And weapons - of course, what we are receiving is good, but it's not enough. And when I mention my friends who already died, this is also because of lack of weapons.
KELLY: So what is your reaction when you hear, for example, General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Biden's top military advisor - he has pushed back on complaints from Ukraine that the weapons aren't getting there quickly enough. He says the U.S. and its allies have sent more anti-tank weapons than there are tanks in the world.
HOPKO: So I think it's not just U.S. responsibility. I think it's also Germany and France responsibility. Ukrainian victory is in the interest of global democracy. People in Moldova, they consider Ukraine victory as a chance for them. People in Belarus who are suffering from the Lukashenko regime, they also pray for Ukrainian victory. And people in Taiwan, they really believe that with Ukrainian victory, this will be a powerful signal that China could not attack them. Isn't this all in the U.S. interest?
And if you allow Russia to use nukes to blackmail you, isn't it mean that the countries with the nukes, like North Korea, China and others, will start using the same strategy to blackmail a civilized democratic nation, that they will use nukes if you do not close eyes when China will attack Taiwan? It's about your credibility. Because we in Ukraine, we used to look in the West as a model. We are dying for values which are - some countries in the West are not even ready to provide us with weapons we need. This hypocrisy, this hyperdiplomacy, finally has to stop.
KELLY: As we were saying goodbye, Hopko pulled up a picture on her phone. It was sent to her by friends fighting in eastern Ukraine.
HOPKO: They evacuated this cute dog with one, two, three, four, five...
KELLY: Five puppies.
HOPKO: Yes. And one of them, he asked me to take one of them. So we will take this cute...
KELLY: So you're getting a puppy?
HOPKO: Yes, this puppy. I dream to, finally, meet my daughter, my husband, our guinea pig Nefanya and one small future member of our family.
KELLY: One husky puppy (laughter).
HOPKO: One husky puppy, yes.
KELLY: Hanna Hopko of Ukraine, former MP, pro-democracy activist and mom to a daughter, a guinea pig and, soon, a puppy. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Amerihood GS14AHBFTFHW - Amerihood GMC Sierra 1500 BFT Style Heat Extractor Functional Ram Air Hood; 2014-2018.
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Functional ram air hood for GMC Sierra 1500 Light Duty is perfect replacement for the ordinary factory hood. Direct dual scoop cold intake air to work with performance air intake system by major manufacturers such as Airaid and K&N. Also features vented heat extractor vents to draw hot air from the engine bay. AmeriHood utilized factory hinges and striker for easier installation, smooth gel coat finish on top and underside for easy prep and shorten work time for that perfect finish.
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