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First they shot her husband.
Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her hands next, Mary didn't think it could get any worse.
Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country's President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka tribe, and his Vice President, Riek Machar, a Nuer. Their war, fought largely along ethnic lines, has turned the northern part of the country into a wasteland. At least 50,000 people have been killed, according to the U.N., nearly 4 million face famine, and another 2.2 million have fled their homes, recounting tales of civilian slaughter, gratuitous torture and even forced cannibalism. Mary and her family were among the tens of thousands of civilians seeking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping base in the northern city of Bentiu when they ran into Kiir's forces on the road in June 2014.
The 27-year-old recounts what occurred next distantly, as if she were explaining something that happened to someone else. The soldiers told Mary that they considered the Nuers in the camps to be rebels, and that they killed her sons because they couldn't risk letting them grow up to be fighters. "We don't kill the women and the girls," the soldiers told Mary. "They said they would only rape us. As if rape were different than death," says Mary, speaking in a safe house in neighboring Uganda run by Make Way Partners, an American Christian organization that provides housing, medical care and schooling for South Sudanese orphans and victims of human trafficking. After the soldiers killed her husband and sons, five of them held her down and forced her to watch as three others raped her 10-year-old daughter. Her name was Nyalaat. When the men were done, Mary says, "I couldn't even see my little girl anymore. I could only see blood." Then the men took turns with Mary. Nyalaat died a few hours later. "I wanted to die too."
Lynsey Addario—Getty Images Reportage for TIMEKanyere Neema, 7, with her grandmother, Ndahondi Domina, 53, in the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 5, 2015. Two years prior, Kanyere's village of Ishasha was attacked by armed men, and her parents were killed in front of her. She was raped so many times by different men that she was left paralyzed, and stopped speaking.
Instead, Mary made it to a U.N. camp for civilians displaced by war. The conflict raged on, and soldiers—she's not even sure from which army—were able to slip in to the camp through gaps in the fence and rape whichever women they could catch. "It happened to all of us: little girls, grandmothers. They didn't care." The rules were simple, says Mary, who asked that her full name not be used. "If you calm down when they are raping you, they won't beat you. But if you resist, they will beat you, even so much to use the gun in you."
Photographer Lynsey Addadario and reporter Aryn Baker discuss the difficulties of reporting on rape.
Rape in war is as old as war itself. But the intimate nature of sexual assault means that the horrors often go undocumented, sanitized out of history books and glossed over in news accounts that focus on casualties and refugee numbers. Yet that mass rape is so common in wartime only makes it more corrosive. It spreads disease. Its stigma destroys families and breaks down society. It leaves unwanted children who serve as constant reminders of the worst day of their mother's life. "Rape is a weapon even more powerful than a bomb or a bullet," says Jeanna Mukuninwa, a 28-year-old woman from Shabunda, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "At least with a bullet, you die. But if you have been raped, you appear to the community like someone who is cursed. After rape, no one will talk to you; no man will see you. It's a living death."
Mukuninwa knows. In 2004, at the end of Congo's own factional war, soldiers attacked her village. They tortured and killed the men. Then they stripped the women, including Mukuninwa, and staked their arms and legs to the ground, and left them to be used by any passing soldiers. Mukuninwa doesn't know how many men raped her during captivity, but she remembers that they used sticks and rifle barrels as well. She was 16 years old. When the women passed out from the pain, soldiers revived them with buckets of water.
The U.N. reports that 200,000 Congolese women and children have been raped during Congo's long-simmering conflict. Estimates for South Sudan are in the thousands. Both numbers are likely too low, says Pablo Castillo-Diaz, a specialist on sexual violence in conflict for U.N. Women, the U.N. agency tasked with issues of women's equality, protection and empowerment. "Rape is one of the most underreported war crimes that there are. Women, if they survive the attack, rarely tell anyone else. We only hear of the most brutal incidences or the public ones that the whole community sees."
But that's begun to change. Rape may be a common war tactic, but it was only prosecuted as a crime against humanity in 1998, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, following the discovery of the rape camps used by Serb soldiers during the Bosnian war. At the same time, Rwandan officials were also charged with rape as a war crime during that country's 1994 genocidal conflict. Widespread media coverage of both trials drew international condemnation. Talking about rape in war became less taboo.
Most recently, harrowing revelations about ISIS's sale of Yezidi women as sexual slaves in Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram's abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls for forced marriages in Nigeria, have pushed survivors and activists to demand a real global response to a war crime with consequences so enduring it all but precludes peace. "The raping of women, the holding of women as chattel and slaves is utterly horrific, but it isn't new. It's just an escalation and amplification of what has been going on for many years," says Eve Ensler, the American playwright and activist. "Anytime people are talking about this, it's a good thing. But what hasn't happened is that we haven't ended the violence. That is the next step."
The next step is being taken in Congo of all places, a country whose grim history—it has been dubbed both "the rape capital of the world" and "the world's worst place to be a woman" by high-ranking U.N. officials—has made it an accidental lab for some of the most progressive work on rape recovery. Bukavu, in South Kivu, and Goma, in North Kivu, the areas of eastern Congo most devastated by the war, are home to ambitious international and local programs dedicated to turning rape victims into rape survivors. Their experiences could help women around the world. "It would be a good thing," says Mukuninwa, "that our suffering here in Congo might be able to help other women somewhere else turn their pain into power, as we are starting to do here." First, she says, silence must end. As long as rape remains hidden and shameful, recovery is impossible.
As a gynecologist and the medical coordinator for Panzi Hospital's center for survivors of sexual violence in Bukavu, Dr. Neema Rukunghu knows better than anyone else the physical damage wrought by rape. She has stitched up the tears, and she has retrieved inserted objects. She has repaired flesh seared by the heat of a bullet fired inside a vagina that by some miracle, or curse, didn't kill but crippled for life. Her work is vital. Women with fistulas—tears between the vagina, the anus, the bladder and the bowel—from rape cannot retain their urine or feces. No matter how often they clean, they smell. They are shunned by their communities and are even unwelcome in church. For many women, fistula surgery is the only route to a new chance at life.
But Rukunghu says that the invisible wounds from rape are far more devastating—and far harder to repair. "Just imagine a husband who is forced to watch his wife be raped, or his daughter. There are things that stay in your head for life." The work she does at Panzi, she says, seems insignificant compared with the scale of that psychic trauma. "In these surgeries, we repair damage, but I never get real closure. Are we truly healing her? Are her problems over? I can't ever say with certainty that I have fixed anyone."
On average Panzi treats 1,300 to 1,900 women a year, even though Congo's war officially ended a decade ago. When Rukunghu first started, seven years ago, she saw young and middle-aged women. Now she is even treating toddlers. In late 2015 she attended to a 3-month-old baby girl who had been abducted from her parents' house and returned a day later, ravaged and near dead. It's unlikely that she will ever be able to potty-train, or walk, or have a child of her own.
Mukuninwa spent a total of seven years at Panzi Hospital. At first it was for the treatments, then because she had nowhere else to go. Physically she was strong, but she couldn't stand to be touched and spent most of her days alone. In 2007, Ensler visited Bukavu at the invitation of Panzi's founding doctor and gynecologist, Denis Mukwege. There she met local women's-rights activist Christine Schuler-Deschryver, who worked with Mukwege and wanted to help rape survivors regain their lives after surgery. Together, they canvassed patients for ideas. Mukuninwa was one of the most outspoken. "I couldn't say I wanted therapy, because I didn't know what it was," she says. Instead, Mukuninwa asked for schooling. She wanted a safe place to live among supportive peers, where women could learn their rights and where their voices mattered.
In 2011, Schuler-Deschryver and Ensler opened City of Joy, a six-month residential program for rape survivors that combines group therapy with literacy classes, leadership training, self-defense courses and lessons in human-rights law. Ninety women attend each semester. The focus is on empowerment, says Ensler. "City of Joy is not a refuge. It is a center for transformation. We are literally saying that the violence which was done to you, through a process of love, healing therapy and education, can be turned into a motor that makes you a leader."
The therapy, says Mukuninwa, lets women understand that the rape was not their fault. The life skills and leadership training gain them confidence, and the nurturing atmosphere enables them to build support networks that last long after the program finishes. Graduates are expected to establish women's support groups when they go home and become leaders in their community. "People think that, after being raped, you are just a victim," says Mukuninwa. "What City of Joy taught me is that life goes on after rape. Rape is not the end. It is not a fixed identity."
Lynsey Addario—Getty Images Reportage for TIMEMaiombi Thomas,16, sits alongside her brother, Innocent Kongomani, 22, in the Mugunga 1 camp for internally displaced people, outside Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 5, 2015. Maiombi became pregnant after she was raped by a ranger when she went to get firewood outside the camp.
After spending a year at the displaced-persons camp in South Sudan, Mary decided last April to leave for the capital of Juba. By this time she was pregnant and could only guess at which of the six different men that had raped her at the camp might be the father. It was too late to take the herbs that some of the other women in the camp used to rid themselves of unwanted pregnancies, and a medical abortion would have been impossible to obtain. Instead, Mary planned to poison the baby as soon as it was born and throw it in the garbage, a curse from God that she would return to God. "I had nothing. No family, no income. I was thinking, 'How will I be able to take care of a child that reminds me, every time I look at its face, of what happened to me in the camp?'"
In the end, Mary kept the baby, now a burbling 8-month-old, after a friend convinced her that she would find support. Still, Mary struggles with the trauma of her daughter's conception. She cannot bring herself to say, out loud, that she loves the child, but her tender caresses and softly sung lullabies make it clear that she does.
Unwanted pregnancies like Mary's are one of the most painful problems resulting from conflict-related rape. Not only are the women stigmatized, but so too are their children. In eastern Congo alone, as many as 50,000 children were born of rape over the past two decades. In many countries in Africa and the Middle East, they are not eligible for national IDs without a father's name on the birth certificate, which prevents them from going to school or receiving government assistance. Growing up, they are ostracized as the sons and daughters of loathed enemies and often face discrimination. Yet there are few ways for the victims of rape to abort their pregnancies even if they want to. The U.S.'s Helms Amendment, enacted in 1973, prevents American assistance funds from going to programs that also provide abortions. Since most international humanitarian medical organizations rely in some part on U.S. funding, they are reluctant to take the risk, even if they believe there is a need.
In July a consortium of 56 international human-rights, legal, medical and religious groups from 22 countries petitioned President Barack Obama to issue an Executive Order affirming the rights of female war-rape victims to comprehensive medical care, including abortion, under the Geneva Conventions. So far, Obama has not officially responded. "We think in terms of making an actual difference in women's lives, the ability to obtain an abortion in the case of conflict-related sexual violence would have the biggest impact," says Diaz of U.N. Women. Still, the notion of aborting a pregnancy is so taboo in the Christian communities of Congo and South Sudan that it's not clear how many women would avail themselves of the services even if they did exist.
Not all women see their children conceived in rape as burdens. Ayak was 17 when she lost her family to a rebel attack on her village near Bentiu, in South Sudan. She was raped while fleeing, alone, for the camp, and like Mary, she was raped repeatedly while she was there. One of her rapists gave her HIV, and now she is pregnant. Make Way Partners, the American Christian organization that helped Mary, also brought Ayak to Uganda for treatment.
Speaking in a halting English she picked up as a child in a Kenyan refugee camp, Ayak says that her unborn child is the only family she is likely to ever have. In South Sudan, having HIV would make her a social pariah. "I want a family, I want a husband. But the doctors say there is no cure for my disease. No one will ever marry me." She cradles her pregnant belly with both hands and smiles sadly as she envisions a lonely future. "This baby will be my friend. He will keep me company."
Husbands usually have a harder time accepting children born of rape. When Fabien Mwira found that his wife Judith Niraneza had conceived a child through rape after a 2007 attack on his village of Mugunga, near Goma, he abandoned her. A year later, after pressure from his family, he returned, but he hated the child. When Niraneza asked for money to feed the little girl or buy her clothes, he would beat his wife, telling her to go ask the child's father.
Men, says Mwira, often feel emasculated and guilty when their wives are raped, and don't know how to reassert their role in the family—except through violence. "We men don't have fistulas that need to be repaired, but we have a trauma that needs healing," he says. "And it is just as important for bringing peace to our communities that we be healed as it is for the women to be healed."
Mwira was part of a 2012 pilot program for male partners of rape survivors developed by a psychologist in tandem with Promundo, a U.S.-based NGO that focuses on domestic violence. The program, called Living Peace, targets men who have been flagged as particularly violent or who have abandoned their wives. Over a 15-week series of guided group therapy sessions, the men are taught that rape is not their wives' fault and that it is no reflection of their inability to provide for and protect their families. They also learn how to be better husbands and fathers. "I was so ashamed," says Mwira. "I thought I was the only one whose wife had been raped. But when I understood that others had the same problems as me, I started to understand that it wasn't her fault. And by then I started to come closer to her bit by bit."
After an initial pilot program that started with 300 men in 2012, Promundo is set to bring the therapy program to 9,000 more men and their wives by 2019. "Yes, it's important to focus on the victims of sexual violence, and even on the children born of sexual violence," says Benoit Ruratotoye, Living Peace's Goma-based founding psychologist. "But to complete the circle, to really help this society change, we need to involve the author of this violence: men."
Josephine Mwamini, 42, was raped in 2010 in her village, Walikali, by FDLR soldiers. Her neighbors found her and sent her to the HEAL Africa Hospital in Goma, where she stayed for two years, getting multiple fistula surgeries. She went back home in 2012, but in June 2015 armed men attacked her village again. The soldiers raped her multiple times, and once again she was taken to Heal Africa, where she learned that she had been infected with HIV.
Rape in war largely begins, and ends, with men. In Congo, as around the world, Ruratotoye blames a masculine culture rooted in violence that has historically devalued women. Though groups like ISIS and Boko Haram justify wartime rape through twisted interpretations of religious doctrine, at the base is an entrenched belief in the superiority of men. To stop rape, says Ruratotoye, that kind of thinking needs to change. "We have to develop a positive masculinity. One that isn't based on violence, that promotes the rights of all." It starts, he says, with boys. "If they are not taught human rights, respect for women, equality, these children will grow into young men who think they are better than women, and they will grow into men who rape women, who will use violence to get their way. They will become violent men."
Education alone isn't enough to stop rape in war, says Rukunghu, the fistula surgeon at Panzi Hospital. That requires society as a whole to condemn it and the government to act. So far, the Congolese government has convicted 135 soldiers on rape charges since the end of the war, and says that the decline in registered cases of rape in former conflict zones, from 15,000 in 2013 to 10,882 in 2014, is due in part to increased prosecution. But the numbers are still unacceptably high, says Rukunghu, largely because it took more than a decade to react. If other countries are to learn anything from Congo's experience, she says, it is to address the issue immediately, before wartime rape infects all of society. "When I see these [child] rapes in the community, it makes me think that they are doing it because those who did it before, during the war, were never punished," says Rukunghu. "Instead it was banalized, and so it was like we accepted that rape is something that can happen." A man may believe that sex with a virgin girl, even one as young as 3 months old, may bring him wealth or cure disease, she says, "but that is not why he does it. He does it because he knows that there is no prison waiting for him, no death penalty. He knows he can get away with it.
No countries need these efforts more than Syria and Iraq, where ISIS has openly codified a system of sexual slavery so repugnant that the world has reacted with outrage rarely seen in other incidences of wartime rape. In August 2014, ISIS attacked the northern Iraqi region of Sinjar, taking thousands of women and children from the Yezidi religious minority as slaves. ISIS's department of war spoils set prices based on age, and, in a document dated Jan. 29, 2015, but discovered only at the beginning of 2016, its committee for religious rulings detailed the conditions under which a slave could be used for sex. They are horrendous. "I did not want to kill myself—but I wanted them to kill me," says Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a young Yezidi woman who was held as a sex slave by ISIS in Iraq for a few months before managing to escape
If Congo's experiences with rape in conflict can help victims around the world with recovery, then the global reaction to ISIS's use of sexual slavery should serve as a template for more effective prosecution. "We have a history of impunity for sexual war crimes that goes back to the beginnings of war," says Ensler. "When you don't have accountability, you can basically say you have licensed that kind of sexual brutality forever."
To put an end to rape in war, rather than merely healing it, requires that ISIS's actions be treated as a war crime, point blank, and not just a "second-class crime that happens to second-class citizens," according to Zainab Bangura, the U.N.'s special representative on sexual violence in conflict. Rape in war, she notes, is not inevitable. Rather it is a reflection of the subordinate status of women in society. Wartime rape will stop when the status of women changes, and the shame lands on the perpetrators, not the victims.
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Copy Design
Copy for the form can consist of rules, text, graphics, screens and halftones. When designing the copy for the form, you must keep in mind that there are image limitations on the press equipment and the laser printers that print the forms (see Image Limitations below).
Screened Copy:
Image Limitations
Web Press Equipment
The plate and blanket cylinders on a web press have a slot or gap in them where the plate and a blanket are attached. Nothing can print in the gap area. The nonprintable area is know as the cylinder gap or the "plate lockup". The gap area is usually 3/8" in depth and extends the width of the sheet.
All colors have this 3/8" gap because each is printed on a separate cylinder.
Three Ways to Allow for the 3/8" Gap
The width of the laser form is usually not a problem. The width limitations are determined by the maximum roll width that the press can run. If you have questions on width requirements, consult your manufacturer.
Listed below are some ways that a manufacturer can work around the image limitations:
When discussing the image limitation options with your manufacturer, you will have to let them know how many colors you will have on the front and back of your form for them to determine which options would be available for your requirements.
Sheet Fed Equipment
On the sheet fed press the image limitations are less restrictive. The form can be printed oversize and trimmed to the finished size. Indicate where the copy bleeds so the supplier can allow for the proper gripper and trim needed. Although printing the form on sheet fed equipment may solve image limitation problems, it may not be cost effective if you are running a large quantity of forms.
Laser Printer
To find image limitations for the laser printer being used, see the technical specifications in the printer manual for printable area.
Backprinting is any copy printed on the back side of the form.
Marginal Words
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Schenectady, NY–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2011 – 1:03 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello! Hello, Schenectady! (Applause.) It is good to be in New York. (Applause.) Now let me just begin, if I'm not mistaken, Governor Cuomo* — who is going to be an outstanding governor — (applause) — he tried to give me a Jets hat. (Laughter.) I had to refuse it. I had Secret Service confiscate it. (Laughter.) But I will say both the Jets and the Bears I think are slight underdogs, so we're going to be rooting for the underdogs on Sunday. (Applause.)
In addition to Governor Cuomo, I just want to acknowledge Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy is here. (Applause.) Two great friends of mine and great champions for New York in the United States Senate — Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are here. (Applause.) Members of the congressional delegation from up this way — Paul Tonko, Chris Gibson, and Richard Hanna are all here. (Applause.)
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is here. (Applause.) The outstanding mayor of Schenectady who flew up with me because we had an event down at the White House for mayors and he was on Marine One and Air Force One and he looked like he was having a pretty good time — (laughter) — Brian Stratton is here. (Applause.) And from Albany, Mayor Jerry Jennings is here. (Applause.) Thank you.
Now, Jeff, thank you for the outstanding introduction, and thank you, GE. It is great to be here. I just had a chance to see some of the high-tech steam turbines and all kinds of fancy stuff that's being made here, being manufactured here at this plant. And it is unbelievably impressive and it's part of a proud tradition, because GE has been producing turbines and generators here in Schenectady for more than a century.
A lot has changed since those early days. We've seen technologies transform the ways we work and the ways we communicate with one another. We've seen our economy transformed by rising competition from around the globe. And over the years, in the wake of these shifts, upstate New York and places like it have seen more than their fair share of hard times.
But what has never changed –- we see it right here at this plant, we see it right here at GE –- is that America is still home to the most creative and most innovative businesses in the world. We've got the most productive workers in the world. America is home to inventors and dreamers and builders and creators. (Applause.) All of you represent people who each and every day are pioneering the technologies and discoveries that not only improve our lives, but they drive our economy.
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There are students training to take new jobs by their side. In this community, GE is building one of the world's most sophisticated manufacturing facilities to produce state-of-the-art batteries. (Applause.) Last year, you opened the headquarters of your renewable energy operations, and you created 650 jobs on this campus. (Applause.)
So our challenge, especially as we continue to fight our way back from the worst recession in our lifetimes, is to harness this spirit, to harness this potential, the potential that all of you represent.
Our challenge is to do everything we can to make it easier for folks to bring products to market and to start and expand new businesses, and to grow and hire new workers. I want plants like this all across America. You guys are a model of what's possible.
And that's why, as part of the tax cut compromise that I signed at the end of the year, we provided incentives for businesses to make new capital investments -– and in fact GE is investing $13 million in advanced manufacturing at this plant, taking advantage of some of these tax breaks.
We also extended a program that GE says its customers have used to invest $6 billion in clean energy production across this country –- driving demand for the company's wind turbines. And I saw one of those big turbines on the way in. So we know we can compete. Not just in the industries of the past, but also in the industries of the future.
But in an ever-shrinking world, our success in these efforts will be determined not only by what we build in Schenectady, but also what we can sell in Shanghai. For America to compete around the world, we need to export more goods around the world. That's where the customers are. It's that simple. (Applause.)
And as I was walking through the plant, you guys had put up some handy signs so I knew what I was looking at. (Laughter.) And I noticed on all of them they said, this is going to Kuwait; this is going to India; this is going to Saudi Arabia.
That's where the customers are, and we want to sell them products made here in America. That's why I met with Chinese leaders this week, and Jeff joined me at the state dinner.
During those meetings, we struck a deal to open Chinese markets to our products. They're selling here, and that's fine. But we want to sell there. We want to open up their markets so that we got two-way trade, not just one-way trade. (Applause.)
So the deals we struck are going to mean more than $45 billion in new business for American companies -– $45 billion — that translates into 235,000 new jobs for American workers. (Applause.)
And that's also why I fought hard to negotiate a new trade deal with South Korea that will support more than 70,000 American jobs. That's why I traveled to India a few months ago — and Jeff was there with us — where our businesses were able to reach agreement to export $10 billion in goods and services to India. And that's going to lead to another 50,000 jobs here in the United States. (Applause.)
Part of the reason I wanted to come to this plant is because this plant is what that trip was all about. As part of the deal we struck in India, GE is going sell advanced turbines — the ones you guys make — to generate power at a plant in Samalkot, India — Samalkot, India. Most of you hadn't heard of Samalkot — (laughter) — but now you need to know about it, because you're going to be selling to Samalkot, India. And that new business halfway around the world is going to help support more than 1,200 manufacturing jobs and more than 400 engineering jobs right here in this community — because of that sale. (Applause.)
So it's a perfect example of why promoting exports is so important. That's why I've set a goal of doubling American exports within five years. And we're on track to do it. We're already up 18 percent and we're just going to keep on going, because we're going to sell more and more stuff all around the world. (Applause.)
When a company sells products overseas, it leads to hiring on our shores. The deal in Samalkot means jobs in Schenectady. That's how we accelerate growth. That's how we create opportunities for our people. This is how we go from an economy that was powered by what we borrow and what we consume — that's what happened over the last 10 years. What was driving our economy was we were spending a lot on credit cards. Everybody was borrowing a lot. The Chinese were selling a lot to us. Folks were selling a lot to us from all over the world. We've got to reverse that. We want an economy that's fueled by what we invent and what we build. We're going back to Thomas Edison's principles. We're going to build stuff and invent stuff. (Applause.)
Now, nobody understands this better than Jeff Immelt. He understands what it takes for America to compete in the global economy. As he mentioned, I've appreciated his wisdom during these past two years. We had a difficult, difficult crisis on our hands. It was a few days after I took office that I assembled a group of business leaders, including Jeff, to form a new advisory board, because at that time the economy was in a freefall and we were facing the prospects of another Great Depression, with ripple effects all around the world. It wasn't just the United States. The entire world economy was contracting. At such a dangerous moment, it was essential that we heard voices and ideas from business leaders and from experts who weren't part of the usual Washington crowd.
And I tasked Jeff and the other advisors with one mission — help to steer our nation from deep recession into recovery; help take the economy from one that's shrinking to one that's growing. And over the past two years, I've been very grateful for their advice.
And I especially want to commend the man who chaired the panel, one of the nation's preeminent economists, the former head of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, because he offered unvarnished advice and he wasn't afraid to counter the conventional wisdom. He did a great service to this country.
In fact, it was six months ago today that I signed into law a set of financial reforms to protect consumers and prevent future financial crises and put an end to taxpayer-funded bailouts -– and that's an achievement in which Paul Volcker was instrumental. So we're very proud of him for that work. (Applause.)
Now, two years later, though, we're in a different place. In part because of the economic plan that my recovery board helped shape, the economy is now growing again. Over the last year, businesses have added more than a million jobs. The pace of hiring and growth is picking up, and that's encouraging news. But at the same time, while businesses are adding jobs, millions of people are still out there looking for work. And even here in Schenectady, as well as GE is doing, I know everybody here knows a neighbor or friend or relative who's still out of work.
So it's not — it's a great thing that the economy is growing, but it's not growing fast enough yet to make up for the damage that was done by the recession.
The past two years were about pulling our economy back from the brink. The next two years, our job now, is putting our economy into overdrive. Our job is to do everything we can to ensure that businesses can take root and folks can find good jobs and America is leading the global competition that will determine our success in the 21st century.
And so now, to help fulfill this new mission, I'm assembling a new group of business leaders and outside advisors. And I am so proud and pleased that Jeff has agreed to chair this panel — my Council on Jobs and Competitiveness — because we think GE has something to teach businesses all across America. (Applause.)
Now, I hope you don't mind, I'm going to brag about your boss for a second here. Jeff is somebody who brings a wealth of experience to the table. He is one of the nation's most respected and admired business leaders, and that's a reputation he earned over 10 years at the helm of this company. In the coming days, we'll be announcing the business leaders, the labor leaders, the economists and others who will join with Jeff to help guide us into that overdrive mode.
I know this council will be an important asset as we seek to do everything we can to spur hiring and ensure our nation can compete with anybody on the planet. That means spurring innovation in growing industries like clean energy manufacturing, the kind of stuff that's being done right here at this plant; ensuring our economy isn't held back by crumbling roads and broken-down infrastructure.
It means educating and training our people. I just had a chance to meet one of the guys here at the plant who had been trained at Hudson Valley, which I had an opportunity to visit a while back. And that's an example of the kind of partnerships that we've got to duplicate all across the country.
Schenectady offers that kind of example. Hudson Valley Community College created a program so students could earn a paycheck and have their tuition covered while training for jobs at this plant. That's helping folks find good work; it's helping GE fill high-skill positions; it's making this whole region more competitive.
So ultimately winning this global competition comes down to living up to the promise of places like this. Here in Schenectady, you're heirs to a great tradition of innovation and enterprise: the pioneering work of Edison that made the entire modern age possible — the tungsten filaments that still light our homes; the x-rays that diagnose disease; now the advanced batteries and renewable energy sources that hold so much promise for the future.
In these pioneering efforts, we see what America is all about. We see what has in our past allowed us to not only weather rough storms but reach brighter days. And it's got to remind us that we've got those same strengths. This is America. We still have that spirit of invention, and that sense of optimism, that belief that if we work hard and we give it our all, that anything is possible in this country.
The future belongs to us. And you at this plant, you are showing us the way forward. So thank you so much, everybody. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
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Sydney, Australia, October 9, 2012 — CargoWise®, a global leader in technology solutions for logistics service providers (LSPs) announced global freight management company Geodis Wilson has successfully rolled out ediEnterprise in its operations in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Belgium, Taiwan, Peru, Spain, Canada, the USA, China, Norway and Hong Kong.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Don't tell 20-year-old Nestor Aguilera he can't effect change in politics.
The Indiana University business major protested outside President Donald Trump's recent appearance in Aguilera's home of Elkhart, Indiana. And while he admits he didn't vote in 2016, he's promising to show up for this fall's midterm elections.
"If young people decide to go out there and vote, we have the power to affect what the government does," Aguilera said. "We could have a big impact."
Aguilera is among a small — but significant — surge of young people who say they feel politically empowered in latest Youth Political Pulse survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV. It's a change from a past survey that comes after a school shooting in Florida that elevated the voices of high school students in American politics, and five months before Americans will decide whether Trump's Republican Party will maintain control of Congress for another two years.
A slim majority, 54 percent, of people ages 15 to 34 — a group that is typically the least likely to vote — continue to believe they have little or no effect on government. But 46 percent of young people now believe they can have at least a moderate effect, a significant increase from two months earlier, when 37 percent said the same.
In that time, a group of students from Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a February shooting killed 17, has succeeded in keeping the debate about gun safety in the news. They joined Tuesday with the New York-based organization HeadCount in an effort to hold voter registration drives at 90 percent of the nation's high schools before this year's senior class graduates. It's one of the many efforts by organizations aligned with Democrats on gun control that seeks to capitalize on the increase in interest among young people in politics.
The recent rise in political engagement is particularly apparent among Americans ages 15 to 22, a group that includes teenagers who will be eligible to vote in a presidential election for the first time in 2020. The poll found that 48 percent now think they can have at least some effect on the government, after just 33 percent felt that way in March.
There's also an uptick in the number of young people who say politicians care what they think: 34 percent of 15-to-34-year-olds report that elected officials care at least a moderate amount about what they think, while just 25 percent said so two months ago.
At the same time, two-thirds say they think the government is not functioning well, and just over half — 52 percent — say they rarely or never read or watch news about the midterm elections.
While many young people continue to feel powerless in the current political environment, the modest increases revealed in the poll could be further evidence of a Democratic wave building against the GOP this fall. Young people are far more likely to side with Democrats than Republicans. The new poll finds that they are also especially likely to have concerns about the Republican president.
Just 30 percent of people ages 15 to 34 approve of Trump's job performance, the poll found. In April's AP-NORC survey of all American adults, 40 percent said they approved of the president's work at the White House.
On gun control, 4 in 10 teens and young adults give the government an F grade on addressing the issue. Still, gun-related issues have fallen on the list of concerns for young adults since the first Youth Political Pulse survey, which was conducted just after February's school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Just 6 percent now list gun laws as their single top concern facing the country, down from 21 percent in March.
At least 4 in 10 young people in the latest poll also give the government failing grades on handling immigration, environmental issues, racism and higher education costs.
One poll respondent, 21-year-old Samantha Bitzer, a political science major at Michigan State University, says she's determined to encourage her friends to engage more in politics.
"I don't think that enough young people care at the moment," said Bitzer, who calls herself a moderate Republican and voted for Trump. "People are super mad, but he's actually doing everything he said he would."
Despite the rise in engagement, it's far from certain that young people will reshape the political landscape this fall. Young voters, with few exceptions, have struggled to maintain interest in politics over the last half century. Just 15 percent of eligible voters ages 18 to 20 cast ballots in the last midterm election, for example.
"Do I feel like I could actually make a difference or influence things? Probably not," said 23-year-old Charly Hyden, who works for a nonprofit in Lexington, Kentucky. "I feel exhausted. I go out on protests and try to do things, but I feel like it doesn't matter."
"Maybe I'd feel differently if I were still in high school," she said.—STEVE PEOPLES and EMILY SWANSON, AP
The Youth Political Pulse poll of 939 young Americans ages 15 to 34 was conducted April 23 to May 9 by the AP-NORC Center and MTV. The poll was conducted using NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all young people is plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.


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PPG: If they came out to get him then it must have been serious. He would be running this game right now if he were still in the house. We would be loving it or hating it, no in between. I would be loving it!
So still no real news of why he left? I noticed they didn't say a whole lot last night when they addressed it on the show.....
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They were inspired by the greatest moment in hockey history and grew up to be known as the "Greatest Generation." In turn, they inspired future generations of American hockey players to rise up and accomplish their own great things.
Now, as many of them look back on their long and storied careers, the benefit of time has helped them realize their impact on the game.
Three of the greatest Americans to ever wear the stars and stripes — Chris Chelios, Gary Suter and Keith Tkachuk — were recently inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, joining Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider and broadcaster Mike Emrick in the shrine to the American game.
Their acceptance speeches at a Chicago ceremony on Dec. 12 were part reflections on the past as well as a look ahead to the promise of the future.
Tkachuk was just starting out in hockey in Melrose, Mass., when a group of American college kids shocked the heavily favored Russians in Lake Placid, N.Y., but even then he knew he was watching history unfold.
"I was 7 years old when I experienced the Miracle on Ice and even then I understood the significance of that feat," said Tkachuk, now 39.
For Gary Suter, the magnitude of the moment hit even closer to his Madison, Wis., home as his older brother, Bob, was a member of the 1980 squad.
"Bobby has always held it over my head that he's the only one with a gold medal," said Suter, who represented the United States eight times in international competition, including two Olympics. "He's constantly been ribbing me about that."
Who can blame him? Named the century's top sporting moment by Sports Illustrated, the Miracle on Ice will always be the apex of USA Hockey's history. It not only changed the way Americans looked at the game, it also changed the perception of the American hockey player among those at the highest level of the game.
"The '80 Team paved the way for our group," said Chelios, who called it a career in 2010 after 27 seasons in the NHL. "No one was drafting college kids, but as soon as the '80 Team won it, all of sudden the first pick overall was [Brian] Lawton [in 1983]. That really jump-started our group of guys to get where they wanted to go. NHL teams all of a sudden were looking at U.S. players."
Still, in the eyes of many in the hockey world, one miracle does not an international dynasty make. It took something bigger, something on a grander scale to fully earn the respect of the hockey world. That opportunity came nearly two decades later, when the U.S. assembled a formidable cast to take on the best in the world at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
While much of the American sporting public was fixated on a rookie shortstop named Derek Jeter, who was making a name for himself with the New York Yankees, eight of the best hockey-playing countries in the world faced off in a late summer tournament that culminated with two North American teams skating in a best-of-three final.
After dropping the first game in overtime on home soil, the Americans packed their bags and headed for Montreal. A decisive 5-2 victory guaranteed a third game, where Tony Amonte broke a 2-2 tie late in the third period to stun the partisan Canadian crowd at the Molson Centre and give the Americans international bragging rights.
"For our group, we needed to win something to get over the hump," Chelios said. "Getting close wasn't good enough. We had to win."
Even now, all these years later, after winning Stanley Cups and setting records that may last for decades, all three players of the Class of 2011 say that winning the World Cup stands out.
"The '96 World Cup is probably the biggest thrill of my hockey career," said Tkachuk, who is one of four Americans to score at least 500 goals in his NHL career.
"It was a great hockey moment not just for me but for USA Hockey. I think that a lot of the reason you see these younger players in the league is because of the '96 Team, just like the 1980 Olympics were for me."
Over the years, the nucleus of that team stayed together through various international competitions, including the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Olympic Winter Games and another World Cup in 2004, earning the reputation as the "Greatest Generation" of American hockey players.
"The majority of us were the same age, in the prime of our careers," Tkachuk said. "We did a lot of great things together. I take pride in the fact in what we did and what we accomplished with that group, building and building, and we helped out some of the younger stars who are in the game today."
Along the way, they raised the level of American hockey, going from teams that hoped to keep games close to teams that entered international competitions expecting to win.
"It was pretty rewarding to be part of an American hockey generation that went from being happy to keep the scores close against those top teams in the world to becoming one of those top teams in the world," said Suter, who retired in 2002.
And now the torch has been passed. A new generation of American hockey stars is writing its own chapter in the book of USA Hockey history.
The seed that was planted in 1996 has taken root in Ann Arbor, Mich., where the National Team Development Program continues to train the stars of tomorrow.
It continued on with the first World Junior Championship in 2004 and culminated with a silver-medal run at the Vancouver Olympic Games that captivated a nation, including those who wore the USA crest in the past.
"It was a great group of players, and they let no one down," said Chelios, who served as an assistant coach at the team's orientation camp in suburban Chicago.
"Overtime in the gold-medal game, what more can you ask for, other than a different outcome? And they're going to be good for a long time. That was a young team, and they have the swagger. They know they can compete with anybody."


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Material: PE Wicker
Table top: 5mm Tempered glass
Seat cushion cover: Water-resistant
Seat cushion quantity: 4
Chair loading capacity: Max 150kg
Table dimension: 130 cm x 70 cm x 106cm
Chair dimension: 40cm x 42cm x 98cm
Footrest height from ground: 25cm
Cushion thickness: 5cm
Cushion colour: Grey
Frame colour: Black
Assembly required: Yes
Number of packages: 2
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1 x Bar Table
4 x Bar Stools
4 x Seat Cushions
1 x Manual
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text: Hong Kong, China, February 8, 2018 /Xinwengao.com/ - New Rutronik employees can expect training sessions in Germany – but not too much German 'seriousness'! Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH (Rutronik) is a well established player in Asia's electronics supply chain. The company now has a total of seven sales offices across the region – three on the Chinese mainland (Shenzhen, Shanghai and Chengdu), and one each in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand. Hong Kong also serves as Rutronik's Asian logistics center. Rutronik now plans to expand its Asian presence, in terms of both infrastructure and staff. The enlarged facilities, which allow rapidly increasing teams to sit in, include new office room in Shanghai, with move-in at the end of January; as well as in Shenzhen, scheduled for no later than October 2018. In Singapore, a new office with legal entity will be opened within the first quarter. Then three additional offices are planned for the second half of 2018, in Tianjin, Malaysia, and India. An additional warehouse is to be built in Shanghai. Between now and 2020 the distributor will also be recruiting new talent in the region at an annual rate of 20-50%. The following positions have now been approved and are eagerly recruited: a Customs Clearance Specialist for China business; a Supply Chain Manager; and a Quality Manager. Optimizing the work environment New employees at Rutronik will find they are treated well. Rutronik takes its social responsibilities very seriously and seeks to develop its employees' skills and knowledge to the fullest. The company gives its staff every opportunity to undertake further training at Rutronik's headquarters in Germany, where they can meet and talk with their German colleagues and exchange vital information about suppliers and markets. They also gain a deeper understanding of Rutronik's corporate culture. These training sessions are not all hard work. Visiting colleagues have the opportunity to visit places of interest and take part in local 'special events.' Rutronik employee Ted Tsai, from Taiwan, commented that, "The training was a very nice experience. The most memorable event was St. Nicholas Day, celebrated on 6 December. We had so much fun at this big party in the evening, tasting traditional German sausages and drinking mulled wine. This was a truly special event." As a responsible employer, Rutronik knows that its human resources are its most valuable resources! Learn more about products and services from Rutronik at www.rutronik.com. About Rutronik (www.rutronik.com) Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH is the third largest distributor in Europe (European Distribution Report 2016) and the number ten worldwide (SourceToday, May 2017). The broadline distributor supplies semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components as well as boards, storage, displays wireless products. The company's primary target markets are the automotive, medical, industrial, home appliance, energy and lighting industries. The ranges RUTRONIK EMBEDDED, RUTRONIK SMART, RUTRONIK POWER and RUTRONIK AUTOMOTIVE provide customers with specific products and services in groups tailored to the respective applications. Expert technical support for product development and design-in, individual logistics and supply chain management solutions as well as comprehensive services complete its scope of performance. The company, founded by Helmut Rudel in 1973 in Ispringen, Germany, now has over 70 subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Rutronik employs more than 1,600 staff worldwide and achieved Group sales of 950 million euros in the fiscal year 2017.


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We respond instinctively to archetypes, and a lot of shysters take advantage of this. Yes, there's a lot of interesting, useful stuff about them (Hero With A Thousand Blah Blah Blah) but the reality is that if you come up with a list of, say, 3 or more things, and define it broadly, then it will resonate with people as a powerful model. Some of this is just numbers: If I list 8 types of Stamp Collectors and define them loosely enough, odds are good I've covered 90%+ of the potential audience, and that last 10% will probably find a way to make it work. A larger part of it is how our brains tend to glom onto data – archetypes (like stereotypes) are the chocolate frosted sugar bombs to our brain's appetite for understanding – they're tasty and they go down easy.
So, with all that cynicism established, I do want to talk about how they're useful – especially the ones you create yourself.
After my post last week, I was speaking to one of the subjects (the Rookie) and he voiced an interesting thought, wishing there was some way to note people's archetypes and then keep track of the characters they've played and see how those things overlap. We agreed that for a lot of players there's a comfort zone that they like to stay within, and there's a lot of value in pushing them out of it, but at the same time you don't want to push them too far out of it.
Now, doing this is tricky, but the first part of requires identifying the player's comfort zone, and this is where the idea of making your own archetypes becomes handy. See, an advantage of making archetypes for your players is that you can afford to not be entirely precise, but at the same time you're going to get more specific than you would with generic character types.
Once you've figured that out, you can do something Fred did, long ago, when setting up Born to Be Kings (The first FATE game, and my favorite campaign of all time). See, Fred knew his players and their tendencies pretty well, so as part of character creation he took each player aside and planted a single "flag" outside of their comfort zone. This flag was the one element he was imposing on the character backgrounds, and it served as an irritant to form a pearl around.
What's interesting was that each of us responded differently to the flag. One player who usually tends towards logistics had a fae element inserted, and jumped into it with both feet. Another player was uncomfortable with it, and that friction drove a lot of play. But one way or another it forced us all to play differently than we would have if we'd been given free reign.
Constraint breed creativity strikes again. Who knew?
Anyway, this is one of those ideas that not hard to implement, but may be tricky to implement well depending upon how well your players respond to structure and how much trust they have in you as a GM (especially if your flag would force them to make what they consider a non-optimal build choice) so you may need to learn how to strike a balancing act. This is easier in something like FATE or Cortex Plus where an Aspect or Distinction is rarely a "wrong choice", but it's still entirely possible with games like Pathfinder or 4e (4e actually offers some really interesting options for this with Themes), even if they are entirely in-fiction.
Anyway, when the time comes for you to start your next game, stop and think about your players, and how you can help them push beyond the archetype you see them in and into something more complicated, interesting and fun.


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WICSTYLE 65 evo / 75 evo
The finger protection variation is based on the technical concept of the WICSTYLE evo aluminium door, with a 65 mm and 75 mm profile and is fully compatible with other solutions for ease of fabrication. The equipment and tools for manufacture remain the same so that inventory does not increase unnecessarily and no extra time is spent on production.
Finger protection is achieved using specialist seals and requires no additional elements for installation. The efficient prevention of squeezing and sheering risk on the hinge side is combined with the technical performance of the WICSTYLE aluminium door systems, offering a maximum of advantages in one solution. As with all the versions in the WICSTYLE range, the door with an installation profile can be incorporated into the WICTEC façade and is also compatible with the WICLINE window system.
Air permeability
Water tightness
Resistance to wind load
Operating forces
Load bearing capacity of safety devices
Mechanical strength
Repeated opening / closing
Impact resistance
Behaviour between different climates
Quality assurance
Environmental management
Class 2
Up to 6A
Class C2
Class 2
Class 3
Up to class 7 (500 000 cycles)
Class 1
Up to class 2(e) 2(d)
Certified according to ISO 9001:2008
Certified according to ISO 14001
Technical performance
Profile technology
- Finger protection on the hinge side is effected only by special gaskets. No other additional parts are needed.
- The requirements of the standard DIN 18650 (safety distance > 25 mm) are met
- High insulation multi-chamber system in symmetric design, quality assured thermal insulator connection
- For single and double leaf hinged doors
- For inward and outward opening
- For glass or panels with infill thickness from 3 mm to 60 mm
- Various threshold profiles with or without thermal break, also barrier free
- Fanlights, lateral glazings fixed or opening in combination with WICLINE evo window series
Thermal insulation
- Uf values: from 1.6 to 1.8 W/(m²K), without foam inserts
- Butt hinge
- Screwed hinge
- Leaf sizes (w x h): 1400 mm x 2520 mm
- Max. leaf weight: until 200 kg
Additional designs
- Double action doors
- Integration frame for stick façades


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Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networking sites with millions of people using the service. It is a great tool to promote an online business as it allows you to send updates through SMS, email, instant messaging and through numerous other Twitter applications that are currently available. The easiest way to get new customers is to find followers for your Twitter account. For this, you can link your blog, website or even your social media profile to your Twitter account. You can link your website or blog with an attractive button, counter or widget to make it more effective.
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In the days after a tragedy like Orlando where it seems that the world (and certainly the world of Stargayzing readers) are grieving, the usual topics of the blog would seem rather tone deaf. I have struggled to find a way back to Stargayzing in this heightened atmosphere of anger, confusion, and pain. After ruminating for several days, I knew the answer must be musical, hence a list of 16 musical messages of hope, empathy, and peace.
Tag: "Save the Country"
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USB: easy, but …
I love USB.
I have worked with PCs since The Beginning, and I remember how it used to be. I would buy new peripheral device, spend lots of time and effort ripping apart my PC to install the card and then start worrying about software, drivers etc. It took for ever. By the time I had finished, any excitement I had about this new cool device had long since evaporated.
USB changed all that. Nowadays, I just plug a standard USB cable into the back of the computer and into the device and switch on. Sometimes it will take a moment or two to figure out drivers and so forth, but in no time I am up and running.
USB has been very successful. USB 2.0 is well established and does a excellent job. With USB 3.0 beginning to appear, I look forward to great things, but it does surprise me how many people do not know how USB works…
It is not so surprising really, as USB highlights an interesting phenomenon in the high-tech world: the simpler something is to use on the outside, the more horribly complex it is on the inside! A user does not need to know about that complexity, but a developer does.
In USB terminology, a computer is a "host" and the USB connected device is a "function". Broadly speaking, the host is in control of the communication. Any device could be a host; it does not need to be a computer. The USB software for a host and a function is different; there is either a host stack or a function stack. Some devices might need to be able to take on both roles – like a digital camera that might be a function to upload pictures to a PC, but be a host to send pictures to a printer. Such a device would need to have both host and function stacks or it could take advantage of a newer USB variant called "On The Go" [OTG], which enables devices to dynamically swap roles as required.
A USB device must fit into a "class". There are many standard classes and it is very advantageous if a device that you are developing can be made to logically belong to one of these. On both the host side and the function, a "class driver" is required, so adherence to standard classes minimizes the developer's work.
In some future posts, I will look in more detail at how USB works.
Most commercial embedded operating systems offer USB support [Mentor Graphics' Nucleus being a good example], which means that even developers may be insulated from the complex details of USB implementation.
I do have a minor frustration. I cannot find USB hubs with more than 7 ports. Also the sockets tend to be too close together, which is a problem with "chunky" things like USB drives. If anyone know where I can get a powered hub with, say, 20 ports and a bit of space around the sockets, please email me.
USB is really a remarkable invention. and I like intel's tv ad "our heroes are different then your heroes: Vijay Bhatt : Co-founder of USB"
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Yamaha YTR-3335S
Yamaha YTR-3335S Bb Trumpet
For the first time Yamaha has designed a student trumpet with a reversed main tuning slide allowing for an exceptional feel and response. The YTR-3335 has the addition of a brace on the main tuning slide for a more stable and solid sound. The newly designed two-piece yellow brass bell has the perfect parameter for the needs of a student. It has a light response and the ideal thickness of two-piece yellow brass bell making it easy for students to get started and develop a brilliant tone.
Reversed tuning slide
Reversed tuning slide enables easy blowing and smooth and comfortable feel in playing.
Yellow brass bell
The newly redesigned, durable yet light two-piece bell is made of yellow brass for optimal playability and to promote good technique and endurance.
New piston, piston caps and buttons
Highly durable monel alloy pistons as well as newly designed piston buttons and bottom caps help lengthen the life of the instrument while also maximizing sound quality.
New tuning slides
The 2nd and main tuning slides are produced using the same method as high-end Yamaha models, which provides stability, a more refined tonal color and added durability.
Main tuning brace lets sound more focus and hold together.


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Georgia Do-It-Yourself Foam Cans & Kits Tutorials
Foam Cans and DIY Kits come in many different shapes and sizes to accomodate both the professional and the Do-It-Yourselfer. If you are a homeowner looking to seal small cracks in your home's walls and doors, DIY Foam Cans & Kits are your solution! A warning to both the trade professionals and the do-it-yourselfer: there can be many hazards involved with the application of polyurethane foam if not done properly. See our SprayFoam.com's safety section for more details and download capable safety documents.
Below are some videos to help you learn how to apply these spray foam cans to your home.
Spray Foam Insulation Kit - Foamseal 600 DIY
A how to guide for the DIY Closed Cell Spray Foam Insulation kits by Kit Foam


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ECLUB maintains a strong commitment to provide our customers with a responsible gambling environment. Although gambling should be enjoyed as a recreational activity, it can nevertheless also cause a problem for a minority of customers. ECLUB aims to prevent compulsive usage and underage access to its online games while simultaneously providing a friendly and entertaining gambling experience for its customers. As a responsible operator, the well being of the ECLUB's customers is of utmost importance.
Remember though that whilst gambling operators can provide tools with which an individual can control their gambling, the operator cannot assume all responsibility for exercising that control. There has to be a large element of personal responsibility.
In line with that, ECLUB has implemented a self-exclusion function for customers who might need assistance in handling their compulsive gambling habits. Our customers may opt to self exclude themselves from having access to the Internet Betting Service or the Betting Platform for a period of either 7 days, 30 days, 90 days or for a permanent self-exclusion you may email our customer service at [email protected] Our customers may also set their own maximum value for their wagering activity for a 7 day period for Sports, Racing and Games separately. In the Casino, our customers are able to set an amount as the Maximum Betting Loss to limit the amount that they can lose in a rolling 7 day period. Our customers can also set a daily, 7 day or 30 day deposit limit to limit the amount that can be deposited for that period. The following are a few things our customers should remember in order to keep control while gambling:
- Gambling should not be seen as a way of making money or paying debts. It should be entertaining.
- Customers should familiarise themselves with the Sports Betting Rules and Games Betting Rules.
- Customers should only gamble the amount that they can afford to lose.
- Customers should not try to chase losses.
- Customers should keep track of the amount of money and time they have spent gambling.
ECLUB is aware that occasional gambling might develop into a problem for customers. ECLUB encourages customers to consider seeking professional assistance from any of these organisations if our customers suspect that they have a gambling problem:
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