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"All Aboard! CFTC Jumps on the Anti-Corruption Enforcement Train"
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March 11, 2019 – Anti-corruption enforcement was once almost entirely the domain of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Over the past several years, anti-corruption enforcement has spread across the globe, with new legislation and regulators appearing around every corner. Last week another new face – and not one many would have expected – hopped aboard the enforcement train.
On March 6, 2019, the Division of Enforcement of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Enforcement Advisory on Self-Reporting and Cooperation for Commodities Exchange Act Violations Involving Foreign Corrupt Practices (the Advisory). CFTC's Enforcement Director, James McDonald, concurrently announced the Advisory in his remarks at the American Bar Association's 33rd National Institute on While Collar Crimes. The announcement sent out clear signals that the CFTC will investigate foreign bribery schemes as violations, not of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), but of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA). "Companies and individuals engaging in foreign corrupt practices should recognize that this sort of misconduct might constitute fraud, manipulation, false reporting, or a number of other types of violations under the CEA, and thus be subject to enforcement actions brought by the CFTC," McDonald said during the announcement.
In his remarks, McDonald explained that the Advisory is a gap-filling measure to detect misconduct that otherwise might escape scrutiny. To illustrate foreign corrupt practices that might constitute fraud, manipulation, false reporting and other violations under the CEA, and therefore be subject to the CFTC's jurisdiction, Director McDonald gave the following examples:
1) Bribery in connection with CFTC-regulated activities, including trading, advising, or dealing in swaps or derivatives,
2) Manipulation of benchmarks through the use of bribery or other corrupt practices,
3) Reporting of prices influenced by corrupt practices for benchmark price calculation, and
4) Other corrupt practices that result in distorted commodity prices that may alter prices in the U.S. derivatives market.
Director McDonald mentioned that the Division currently has open investigations involving similar conduct. During the panel discussion that followed his remarks, he named the DOJ's enforcement actions against Société Générale SA and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC as fact patterns that involve the commodities markets.
The Advisory specifically addresses self-reporting and cooperation of "violations of the CEA involving foreign corrupt practices." If companies or individuals timely and voluntarily disclose such violations to the Division, and then fully cooperate and appropriately remediate in accordance to the CFTC's prior January 2017 and September 2017 Advisories, the Division will apply a presumption of recommending a resolution with no civil monetary penalty. Aggravating factors, such as involvement of senior management, pervasiveness of the violation within the company, and the company or individual being a recidivist, may defeat the presumption. The Division may still request disgorgement, restitution or forfeiture when recommending a resolution without a civil penalty.
It should be noted that the Advisory applies only to companies and individuals not registered (or required to be registered) with the CFTC. CFTC registrants have existing, independent obligations to report any material noncompliance issues under the CEA, including any foreign corrupt practices that violate the CEA. Director McDonald explained during his remarks that although registrants are not eligible for the presumptive recommendation of no penalty provided in the Advisory, the general recommendation of penalty reduction laid out in existing Advisories will still apply to those that self-report, cooperate, and remediate.
While expressing the CFTC's commitment to enforcing provisions in the CEA that encompass foreign corrupt practices, Director McDonald also recognized the importance of coordination with the Commission's enforcement partners at the SEC and the DOJ. Moving forward, the CFTC will bring to bear its expertise in the derivative markets, avoid duplicative steps in parallel investigations and piling onto existing investigations, and credit disgorgement and restitution payments in related enforcement actions.
In a CFTC press release issued after McDonald's announcement, Brain Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ's Criminal Division, commended the Advisory for echoing the DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy, and said that DOJ looked forward to "working in parallel with the CFTC in cases involving foreign corrupt practices, as well as others."
As the CFTC's announcement shows, anti-corruption enforcement is ever changing. Companies should regularly review their compliance policies and safeguards to make sure they remain sufficiently robust to ensure compliance, and that they evolve as necessary. With the CFTC's move into anti-corruption enforcement in particular, individuals and firms that participate in the derivatives markets should review their compliance policies and continue to monitor guidance from the CFTC on this topic.
Please contact the attorneys in Hughes Hubbard's Anti-Corruption and Securities Enforcement practices if you have questions about the CFTC's recent advisories or the adequacy of your current anti-corruption policies and safeguards.
Kevin T. Abikoff
Benjamin Britz
Roel C. Campos
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19 March 2011
Price Discovery
In the current climate of public argument—policy and political and PR—this passes for authoritative and conclusive. In a free market situation, the cheapest, most efficient producer wins.
The standard response is that traditional forms of energy have been entrenched for so long that they are therefore cheaper and more efficient. Alternative fuel sources are only just beginning to achieve the sorts of economies of scale that these older industries have been able to capitalize on. This is weak.
The second response is that the traditional industries receive vastly greater amounts of funding from public sources—tax payer subsidies, utility company vertical integration, lax and favorable regulation, etc. Both arguments nip at the heels of the real issue, especially the second because it gets closer to the real knock-out punch.
The second point raises the issue of price discovery. In a so-called free market economy, market forces are in a constant tussle to set price points at an equitable, agreeable amount for both producers and consumers. Government subsidies and regulations act as impediments to this process.
Now, traditional energy industries are at the forefront in opposing government regulation—whether it be in the environmental or antitrust or consumer protection areas. They are the first to shout when government seeks to intervene on behalf of consumers or the environment. However, they fight like hell to defend their subsidies—whether it's in the form of tax breaks or regulatory indifference. And, what's more, they don't include those subsidies in their cost calculation.
A further cost they refuse to include—and this is the kicker—is the environmental and climatic costs of their business-as-usual practices. For example, the environmental costs of mountain-top removal are not factored into the price of a kilowatt of coal. The costs—spread over the entire industry—of Three Mile Island or Chernobyl or Fukushima-type situations are not entered on the cost side of their ledgers; the public assumes these and all future risks (though by all actuarial right they are estimably calculable). Neither are the costs of global insecurity due to the by-product of this form of energy: the threat of nuclear war. The costs of increased global warming due to, e.g., ozone depletion caused by pollution from all these forms of energy production can hardly be calculated, though early efforts in the form of carbon taxes are currently being floated. Neither can the costs of global instability caused by the political inequities of propping up oil-friendly, authoritarian regimes in such places as Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, etc. All non-humanitarian foreign aid to these countries should show up on the ledgers of the oil companies. The impact on the health of people who work in these industries and who are effected by them due, e.g., to their proximity to their production facilities also needs to be monetized and charged to their accounts. Why, similarly, are the costs of cleaning up, e.g., Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Mexico not factored into the costs of a barrel of oil? Because the free market mechanism of price discovery is not efficient. Knowledge is not yet perfect. And these industries are in a battle to the death to prevent it from ever becoming so.
Unless and until there is true price discovery, because the ideology of the free market is regnant in American and thus global politics, these traditional energy industries will continue to win the argument and thus the day, and there will never be a level playing field for renewable and sustainable energy industries.
Here's a good general primer on the issue. Here's a piece on the hidden costs of nuclear energy. And here's one on the costs of fossil fuels.
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Interesting, I need to digest this!
Q: Within the last decade I have noticed the lingo of pop-econ shifting from "price" to "price point." Is there a difference in the two?
Good luck on the run tomorrow!
- 19/3/11 15:47
- Frances Madeson said...
On the way to San Francisco I was talking to a Californian who had spent his engineering career delivering high-voltage electricity systems internationally--big projects on all continents, some hard to reach places where his work resulted in power lines reaching communities for the very first time. One of those fascinating air travel encounters that can somewhat balance out the hassle of taking your shoes off for George Bush and having your brand new and not at all cheap tube of Tom's fennel toothpaste thrown in the trashcan because it's over the ounce allotment for liquids. Keep us focused on the picayune, right out of the 1984 playbook. In the course of a long and interesting conversation about some of his more Fitzcarraldoian projects, and how solar panels are actually fabricated and why they're so expensive to make, among other things, he explained that there is a correlation between electricity and population rates. I can't exactly remember the euphemistic way he shyly expressed that when people have lights on at night they do other things than reproduce, but that was essentially it. Seems like a potential factor in price discovery, but also just interesting for its own sake; that there are still virginal places in the world where there is no electricity and never has been.
I have some memorable letters from a friend who served in the Peace Corps in a mountain village in Lesotho a few years back I will try and dig out when I get back. It was such a place. After dark she peed in a tupperware in her tent, because venturing out in the pitch black night was not an option. With all the inconveniences and out and out deprivations and hardships, she misses her life there fiercely.
I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say about price points. I think it leaked over from basis-point, which is just a fancy way to describe a decimal in financial services industry nomenclature. With the added feature it induces people to self-identify at what level they would like to be sold. More of the trappings of free choice we're supposed to possess as empowered consumers.
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Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:HOV) Q4 2019 Earnings Conference Call - Final Transcript
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Good morning, and thank you for joining us today for Hovnanian Enterprises Fiscal 2019 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
I would like to turn the call over to Jeff O'Keefe, Vice President, Investor Relations. Jeff, please go ahead.
Jeffrey T. O'Keefe
Thank you, Liz, and thank you all for participating in this morning's call to review the results for our fourth quarter, which ended October 31, 2019. All statements in this conference call that are not historical facts should be considered as forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the company's goals and expectations with respect to its financial results for future financial periods.
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Joining me today are Ara Hovnanian, Chairman, President and CEO; Larry Sorsby, Executive Vice President and CFO; Brad O'Connor, Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller; and David Bachstetter, Vice President, Finance, and Treasurer.
I'll now turn the call over to Ara. Ara, go ahead.
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Thanks, Jeff. I am going to review the results of our fourth quarter, and as usual, Larry Sorsby will follow me with more detail. Overall, we are pleased with the results and our quarter was in line with our guidance.
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This the Second Sunday of advent. Now I confess I am always confused about which Sunday is which in Lent except the third Sunday is always joy. I went with the UCC format for this year which Started Last week with Hope, this week is Peace, next Sunday is Joy and the last Sunday of Lent is Love.
As I reflect on Peace, I can't help but state the obvious, that we are about to celebrate and honor the peace that comes in the form of a small child.
I remember when I was young, Christmas held so much magic for me and truly it still does just in a different way. The story goes that my father never really had a Christmas as a young man. His step father was rather strict and thought it frivolous to spend money on such things. So, when he married my Mother his first experience of a family Christmas was with my Grandparents.
Making Christmas good for us kids became very important to him. The Christmas tree would be delivered by Santa and we would wake up to the tree all decorated with a train running around it, and Gifts underneath. Christmas morning we were allowed one toy from our stocking before getting dressed for morning mass. We would come home to a big breakfast and it wasn't until the dishes were done that, we were allowed to open our gifts.
Well life goes on, kids get older and traditions change. Eventually Santa decided he could not afford the time to bring us our tree anymore and, so we got to buy the tree and decorate it ourselves which was always fun. First, we had to get the tree straight, which consisted of Mother directing dad, he was so patient, it wasn't until the third or fourth full circle of moving front to back left to right that he would decide they were done and it was straight enough.
Then dad had to fight with the lights. It seemed like a constant battle that he would never win. Mother cherished her memories and almost every ornament had a story and the story had to be shared and the ornament admired. It took some time to get the tree together. After the angel was placed neatly on the top of the tree, we would carefully unwrap the tissue around nativity set and its creche. It had shepherds and sheep there was a cow and a donkey. Of course, there was Mary and Joseph and an angel hung upon the pinnacle.
The three kings were often set off in the distance because they do not arrive until epiphany. During the 40 days of lent we would place a piece of straw in the manger and Jesus would be laid in the straw on Christmas eve. Oh, and the creche had a music box on the side. Once wound it played silent night. Often in the evening I would get under the tree looking up from below and play that music box. It was such a peace filled sound to hear silent night plucked out on the metal spines of the little music box. Sometimes I would fall asleep under the tree as silent night played.
The silent night story is one of my favorites at Christmas. Not far from where I grew up is a silent night chapel an exact copy of the chapel that stands in the town of Oberndorf. "In 1818, a roving band of actors was performing in towns throughout the Austrian Alps. On December 23 they arrived at Oberndorf, a village near Salzburg where they were to re-enact the story of Christ's birth in the small Church of St. Nicholas. Unfortunately, the St. Nicholas' church organ wasn't working and would not be repaired before Christmas. (Note: some versions of the story point to mice as the problem; others say rust was the culprit) Because the church organ was out of commission, the actors presented their Christmas drama in a private home. That Christmas presentation of the events in the first chapters of Matthew and Luke put assistant pastor Josef Mohr in a meditative mood.
Instead of walking straight to his house that night, Mohr took a longer way home. The longer path took him up over a hill overlooking the village. From that hilltop, Mohr looked down on the peaceful snow-covered village. Reveling in majestic silence of the wintry night, Mohr gazed down at the glowing Christmas-card like scene. His thoughts about the Christmas play he had just seen made him remember a poem he had written a couple of years before. That poem was about the night when angels announced the birth of the long-awaited Messiah to shepherds on a hillside. Mohr decided those words might make a good carol for his congregation the following evening at their Christmas eve service.
The one problem was that he didn't have any music to which that poem could be sung. So, the next day Mohr went to see the church organist, Franz Xavier Gruber. Gruber only had a few hours to come up with a melody which could be sung with a guitar. However, by that evening, Gruber had managed to compose a musical setting for the poem. It no longer mattered to Mohr and Gruber that their church organ was inoperable. They now had a Christmas carol that could be sung without that organ. On Christmas Eve, the little Oberndorf congregation heard Gruber and Mohr sing their new composition to the accompaniment of Gruber's guitar.
Weeks later, well-known organ builder Karl Mauracher arrived in Oberndorf to fix the organ in St. Nicholas church. When Mauracher finished, he stepped back to let Gruber test the instrument. When Gruber sat down, his fingers began playing the simple melody he had written for Mohr's Christmas poem. Deeply impressed, Mauracher took copies of the music and words of "Silent Night" back to his own Alpine village, Kapfing. There, two well-known families of singers — the Rainers and the Strassers — heard it. Captivated by "Silent Night," both groups put the new song into their Christmas season repertoire.
Silent night! holy night! All is calm, all is bright, 'Round yon virgin mother and Child! Holy Infant, so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. The Strasser sisters spread the carol across northern Europe. In 1834, they performed "Silent Night" for King Frederick William IV of Prussia, and he then ordered his cathedral choir to sing it every Christmas eve. Twenty years after "Silent Night" was written, the Rainers brought the song to the United States, singing it (in German) at the Alexander Hamilton Monument located outside New York City's Trinity Church. In 1863, nearly fifty years after being first sung in German, "Silent Night" was translated into English (by either Jane Campbell or John Young). Eight years later, that English version made its way into print in Charles Hutchins' Sunday School Hymnal. Today the words of "Silent Night" are sung in more than 300 different languages around the world." By the time the song had become famous throughout Europe, its writer Joseph Mohr had died and its composer was unknown.
Although Franz Gruber wrote to music authorities in Berlin stating that he was the composer, the melody had been assumed to be the work of Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven at various times and these thoughts persisted even into the twentieth century. The controversy was put to rest in 1994 when a long-lost arrangement of "Stille Nacht" in the hand of Joseph Mohr was authenticated. In the upper right-hand corner of the arrangement, Mohr wrote, "Melodie von Fr. Xav. Gruber."… Father Joseph Mohr's final resting place is a tiny Alpine ski resort, Wagrain.
He was born into poverty in Salzburg in 1792 and died penniless in Wagrain in 1848, where he had been assigned as pastor of the church. He had donated all his earnings to be used for eldercare and the education of the children in the area. His memorial from the townspeople is the Joseph Mohr School located a dozen yards from his grave. The overseer of St. Johann's, in a report to the bishop, described Mohr as "a reliable friend of mankind, toward the poor, a gentle, helping father."
I share this story because this song blesses so many, as we contemplate peace, I pray that each may experience a silent night. We watch and wait with so many. We walk besides people, literally and figuratively, who are watching for and hoping for a night when there is no war, when there are no fights or hate crimes on our streets, when the world can be still and rest in a peace filled silence.
There was a night like that once, a Christmas miracle if you will, a miracle of a silent night. This Christmas Miracle has been shared over and over again. The truce of 1914. It is said that on Christmas eve during world war I the troops in the trenches were so close to one another that they could hear each other talking. They could smell the aroma from each other's food. You see; "Pope Benedict XV, who took office that September, had originally called for a Christmas truce, an idea that was officially rejected. Yet it seems the sheer misery of daily life in the cold, wet, dull trenches was enough to motivate troops to initiate the truce on their own — which means that it's hard to pin down exactly what happened.
There is a range of differing oral accounts, diary entries and letters home from those who took part, which makes it virtually impossible to speak of a "typical" Christmas truce as it took place across the Western front. To this day historians continue to disagree over the specifics: no one knows where it began or how it spread, or if, by some curious festive magic, it broke out simultaneously across the trenches.
Nevertheless, some two-thirds of troops — about 100,000 people — are believed to have participated in the legendary truce. Most accounts suggest the truce began with carol singing from the trenches on Christmas Eve, "a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere", as Pvt. Albert Moren of the Second Queens Regiment recalled, in a document later rounded up by the New York Times. Graham Williams of the Fifth London Rifle Brigade described it in even greater detail: "First the Germans would sing one of their carols and then we would sing one of ours, until when we started up 'O Come, All Ye Faithful' the Germans immediately joined in singing the same hymn to the Latin words Adeste Fideles. And I thought, well, this is really a most extraordinary thing – two nations both singing the same carol in the middle of a war."
The stories go on saying some kicked a make shift soccer ball around…others shared gifts of cigarettes and a drink. For some the truce lasted only a few hours for some the fighting did not resume till after new years. It doesn't matter how long the Christmas truce lasted, what it says about human nature is amazing. Left to their own devices with no interference from politically motivated ranking officers Peace found a way.
Peace found a way in spite of all that was happening around them. Peace found a way in the midst of a battle to enter into the hearts of two armies. Though it was the hymn of oh come all ye faithful. It could have just as easily been silent night. The point is on that night in the midst of hatred and war people experienced peace, the peace of Christmas.
So, I pray that we may put this year behind us, as a people, as a community and as a nation and we can start to watch for peace. You see during the Lenten season when we watch for hope we become the hope, when we watch for love we become that love and when we watch for joy, we become joy. So, if we choose to watch for peace, we will see Peace, we will be peace, and we will be a way for peace to be manifest in our world.
Christmas eve and Christmas day are when we celebrate God breaking into the world as a gentle, helpless baby. As Isaiah 9:6 says "for unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of peace" May the prince of peace reign in our hearts and guide us to find a better way that we may begin to bring peace to the world. That we may begin to bring peace to our community.
What does it mean to work for peace and to seek peace? It means doing the small things like collecting toys for Christmas or feeding our neighbors. It means finding ways to help us better serve each other through partnering with other organizations. Perhaps we may want to look at a mission trip or partner with another congregation or two to make a mission trip. Maybe it means working with the recreation department to celebrate our senior citizens and the work many do for our community.
Perhaps it means finding better ways to eat responsibly and continuing to get nutrition to those in need. We may find new ways of bringing peace through opportunities offered by the United Church of Christ by attending the annual gathering, by participating in the called to serve day.
I pray we can watch for peace as a congregation as we continue to work, to play, and to dream of new possibilities. I pray we can watch for peace as we seek out better ways to work for a just world for all and how that will continue to manifest for us as a congregation as well as on the state and national levels. But more immediately I pray we can watch for peace each day one during this Lenten season. I pray we see the gift of peace in those around us. As we share Christmas in our own way, I pray that the peace we are watching for arrives and stays in each one's hearts and carries us through the year to come. Amen.


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Calle 23 is one of the few distilleries overseen by a woman, Sophie Decobecq, a former biochemist who started in the South African spirits industry. The agave is grown in the Los Altos (highlands) of Jalisco, where there is more even sunlight for ripening. This reposado is double-distilled in pot stills and aged 8 months in ex-bourbon casks.
Tequila ReposadoDistilled from 100% blue Weber agave, it is aged from 2 months up to a year in barrels no larger than 20,000 L. Any type of wood is acceptable, although ex-bourbon barrels are most common. Reposado translates to "rested".
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This magnificent Rhenish stoneware jug was recovered from Westwood Manor (18CH621), the residence of planter and innkeeper John Bayne, who lived in the Zekiah Swamp in Charles County in the late seventeenth century. Although the Zekiah was a sparsely settled frontier region on Maryland's western shore at this time, a number of community institutions—public roads, houses of worship, mills, general stores, and a courthouse—had developed in the Zekiah by the end of 17th century (Strickland and King 2011; Alexander et al. 2010: 21-22), creating a landscape of interconnected people, plantations and community services.
Recent reanalysis of artifacts recovered at Bayne's residence during a 1996 excavation suggested that the Manor's occupants and their clientele were striving to reconstitute an English material world in the colony. Along with a variety of expensive and presentation quality ceramic and glass vessels, the assemblage included an elaborately decorated ivory walking stick handle, a silver spoon and other luxury items.
But Bayne's furnishings spoke of more than his wealth and leisure pursuits, hinting at his political and religious alliances as well. Bayne was a Burgess in the Maryland Assembly and a member of the Church of England (Alexander et al. 2010). A number of the Rhenish stoneware vessels found at the site were molded with the initials of William III, the British monarch who ruled between 1689 and 1702. Particularly striking was the Hohrware jug, which bore a likeness of the king. This jug no doubt served as a display piece in one of the public rooms of the home and was a complement to the framed likenesses of William and Mary that were listed in Bayne's estate inventory.
Bayne, a Protestant, seems to have taken pains to affirm his loyalty to the Protestant monarch and the Church of England. His declaration took place at a time when the King had just supported the overthrow of the Catholic Calvert family's government in Maryland, establishing the Church of England as the official tax-supported religion in the colony (King, Arnold-Lourie, and Shaffer 2008; Alexander et al. 2010). Non-Catholic leaders from Charles County had been instrumental in this 1689 overthrow (Brugger 1988:39), although whether Bayne was involved is unknown. The Council of Maryland met at Westwood Manor in late June of 1694, and these William III objects would have been powerful statements to his fellow burgesses of Bayne's alliances, particularly as they hoisted tankards of ale bearing the King's initials (Alexander et al. 2010:85).
Excavations in southern Maryland are continuing to reveal compelling narratives of power struggles between Protestant and Catholic political factions, unrest among Native peoples who were being crowded out of their lands and the challenges of living in a frontier environment.
Alexander, Allison, Skylar A. Bauer, Patricia H. Byers, Seth Farber, Alex J. Flick, Juliana Franck, Ben Garbart, Grace Gutowski, Julianna Jackson, Mark R. Koppel, Amy Publicover, Maria Tolbert, Verioska Torres, Alexandra Unger, Jerry S. Warner, Justin Warrenfeltz, Julia A. King, editor and Scott M. Strickland, researcher.
2010 The Westwood Manor Archaeological Collection: Preliminary Interpretations. Report prepared by the Archaeology Practicum Class, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland.
Brugger, Robert J.
1988 Maryland: A Middle Temperament 1634-1980. John Hopkins Press, Baltimore.
King, Julia, Christine Arnold-Lourie, and Susan Shaffer
2008 Pathways to History; Charles County Maryland, 1658-2008. Smallwood Foundation, Inc., Mt. Victoria, Md.
Strickland, Scott M. and Julia A. King
2011 An Archaeological Survey of the Charleston Property: Josias Fendall's Dwelling Plantation. Report prepared for Mark and Barbara Hoy, James and Betty Jackson and The Smallwood Foundation by St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City.


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A list of experienced and talented Clarinet Teachers near you.
The clarinet is part of the woodwind family and is found in classical music, orchestras, concert wind bands, big band jazz groups and dixieland jazz bands.
Clarinet lessons for a beginner might focus on some fundamentals; proper breathing, tonal quality, timing as well as various articulation techniques used in playing the clarinet. A student would then take these skills and further develop them by playing classical, jazz and other contemporary clarinet repertoire. A Clarinet Teacher would also teach you how to read clarinet music and help you decide what style of playing will best suit you.
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Hey friends! Today's project is a great pair of basic earrings, finished off with brass bead caps. Brass accents can give your jewelry pieces a boutique look, and this project is easy enough for any beginner!
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Here's what you'll need:
- 12mm round glass beads
- Vintaj Brass Head Pins
- Vintaj Brass Bead Caps
- Vintaj Brass Earring Wires
- Round Nose Pliers
- Chain Nose Pliers
- Wire Cutters
Begin by adding a bead cap, cup side up to a brass head pin. Stack a round 12mm bead on top, and then finish with a second bead cap, cup side down.
Grip the head pin with your round pliers just above the bead. Wrap the end of the wire head pin around one side of your round pliers, forming a loop. Then, wrap the wire around the pin under the loop you formed. It must only be coiled once around the pin to be secure, but your jewelry will look best if you continue to wrap until the entire space between the loop and the top of the bead is filled.
To finish, twist the ring at the bottom of the earring wire open with your chain nose pliers, and slide the loop of the bead charm you just made onto the earring wire. Twist the loop closed again.
Repeat the steps to make your second earring and finish the pair!
Thanks for joining me to learn how to make today's ultra-easy DIY beaded earrings! It doesn't take much to take handmade to the next level, just the right accents!
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Playdough Is A Lonely Superstar
Playdough, one of the Kings of the Background Vocals (I'll explain about the Kings of the Background Voice later), member of Phonetic Composition, Ill Harmonics and the super crew DeepSpace5. In 2002 Playdough released his debut solo album Lonely Superstar. In DeepSpace5 Playdough knocks out his verses, so naturally his album would be amazing right? Right! Well…
I've listened to Lonely Superstar twice and here's what I felt after I listened to the album both times…………………………nothing. Ok I didn't feel nothing, I felt the beats were hit or miss, along with the lyrics. The good points were some of the beats were solid and the Playdough's lyricism shows to a certain extent. One big negative was that Playdough only seemed to rhyme his best, when he has guest on with him. While it seems like I'm down on this (which I am…) there is also a good level of creativity with this album.
The first notable track on this album is "5 Cent Needleheads". Basically your starving artists track, which are usually my favorite tracks on every album. The beat has the bass in the front, with the piano in the back. My favorite part of the track is at the end where shouts out to many of the starving emcees. LMNO, Sev Statik, Listener, Jurny Big, Sup the Chemist, Freddie Bruno, Beat Rabbi, Mars Ill, Illtripp, Sivion, LA Symphony, Sintax, MG! The Visionary, John Reuben and DJ Manwell? And at the end Playdough makes a cut with an artist (who's name escapes me) that says "So I become content with being lonely cuz fools are phony". It's those little cuts at the end of some of the songs that leave the listener thinking, it's actually a very good strategy to getting people to think about how their living their lives.
My favorite song on the album is "Freedom Fighters" which features Tunnel Rat and LPG member Jurny Big. I love guest appearances, but what I'm not a big fan of is when the guests' verses overshadow the album artist. Lonely Superstar is a prime example of this, LMNO, Jurny Big, Joey the Jerk and some of the other guests on the album tend to overshadow Playdough. I'm not saying Playdough's verses are bad, it's just what I'm hearing from the guests sound better. At the end of "Freedom Fighters" Sivion gets a quick 16-bar verse with a beat produced by Playdough.
A track that screams introspection is the track "Simple 1" which I believe is a track that covers the simple truths of life that a lot of us overlook, because we look life in a too complex of life.
I apologize for this being a short review, but I'm kinda bad at writing reviews for albums I'm not really feeling. This album would've been perfect if Playdough came with the aggressive rhyme-style he uses is in DeepSpace5. If I had it my way I would've had Dust, Rabbi, Manwell?, Playdough and Fred B. to make the beats (ala DeepSpace5's Bakesale) and have Playdough with the DS5 rhyme-style. A plus for the album is Playdough tries a lot of things and hard-core Playdough fans will be pleased with this album. Anyone expecting a DeepSpace5 sound to it will be somewhat disappointed in Lonely Superstar.
Guests: LMNO, Jurny, J-Beits, Joey the Jerk, ManChild
Allows for some introspection
A very Creative album (the outros for certain tracks and Sivion's 16 bar verse)
The production is only average
Playdough doesn't bring the DeepSpace5 rhyme-style in this album
Guests tend to overshadow Playdough
Rating: 3/5 (Average/Fans of the Artist will enjoy it)
If You Can't Buy The Album Buy These Songs
5 Cent Needleheads
Shadow Dance feat. LMNO
Lonely Superstar
Freedom Fighters feat. Jurny Big
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Handrails and Balustrades are used in many buildings, including homes, and they are used to support staircases, balconies, Decking, and Patios.
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Handrails and Balustrades not only look good, they can be really helpful as well, elderly people use these to help them walk and to help them keep their balance. Also if you have raised decking it will be really helpful if you get handrails or balustrades for a bit of protection in case you fall or trip.
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Over the last 10 years, the decking industry has developed a variety of attractive handrail systems. Because your deck's rails will be one of the most visible features of your new deck, it is important to choose a rail that complements your decking material and the style and colour scheme of your house.
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If you are looking for a classic look for your decking, the wooden handrail would be a perfect choice. The beauty of wood is that it's hard to match. Use 4×4 rail posts, 2×4 top and bottom rails, 2×6 top cap, and 2×2 balusters. There are many different types of wood to choose from including pressure treated wood, cedar wood, redwood or timber. You can also add a decorative post cap to give it that perfect finish.
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We just finished up recording our podcast for Tom King and Mitch Gerards's Mr. Miracle series. It's no secret to say that it's really good. It took Eisner awards for writing and art; it won nearly universal acclaim from other creators. Even Rob Stewart, my personal nemesis when it comes to discussing award-winning books, agrees that the series is very good. That's how good it is.
However, there's a catch: as undeniable as the quality is, there is plenty of room for interpretation as to what it's all about. I won't lie to you and pretend that I know for sure all of the answers. I wouldn't trust anyone who claims to know the answers that isn't Tom King or Mitch Gerards themselves. Even then, they can only tell you their intention, as once great art leaves the womb it (and its interpretation) belongs to the world at large. Still, as an English major, I love trying to figure this stuff out. So much so that Andy encouraged me to write this article about a read pile book (something that is traditionally frowned upon by the muckity mucks behind quality control in the Ghosts of the Stratosphere headquarters). Plus, Andy kept telling me that nobody wants to listen to a 3 hour podcast where I try to break down issue by issue what the ingredients are in this masterful mystery meatloaf.
With that in mind, I'm going to throw out some of my ideas and questions to try and work through this here, and I'll try to stay as brief as possible. Let me know if you agree or disagree or if I'm totally in the dark about something or if I'm reading too much into something else. All of those possibilities are plausible. But this is what I do for fun when I get a really dense text I can dig into in a segment I'm going to call …Theories and Queries.
Be forewarned, there are spoilers aplenty. If you haven't read it yet, go ahead and give it that first read-through before stuff gets so spoiled. Here it is via Amazon. Your local comic shop probably has it, too. Then come back for this so-far one sided discussion. Also, it might be handy to have your copy of the book nearby as we go through these. Go ahead and snag it; I'll wait right here.
- First up, the Big Overarching Issues:
Theory: Scott Free is infected with the Anti-Life Equation from the beginning and occasionally cedes control to Darkseid.
From what I've googled, the Anti-Life Equation grants Darkseid the total control of the minds of sentient beings, convincing them that life, hope, and freedom are pointless. This is what I believe the glitchy moments of the story are–the moments when Darkseid takes control.
These glitches happen pretty consistently throughout the series, oftentimes in moments that might surprise you. Go back and look for the glitches yourself. They happen during intimate moments with Barda in the bedroom; they even happen occasionally once Scott is a parent and dealing with his children. I guess Darkseid really does want to spend time with grandkids maybe. But the glitches happen a lot in intense moments, too, like when he's watching Orien kill Granny or when he's answering questions on trial. "Darkseid is"… and he's taking over! Or at least Scott is losing control or hope or whatever the anti-life takes away.
Query: Scott Free is the master of escape, but what is he escaping exactly?
Life? Heaven? Hell? The continuity confines of modern comic books? Darkseid? Lots of folks are interpreting the story as Scott having died at the very beginning after finding he cannot escape death. I'm not sure that's my interpretation, but it's not unreasonable. I'm leaning more into escaping depression and hopelessness. But that other stuff works, too.
- The Symbolic Gestures:
Theory: The tape that shows up occasionally is Scott piecing together his memories of certain characters or situations.
While the glitches stood out readily from the get go, the tape took me a read through or two to even notice. Oberon, Granny Goodness, the boy who drew god *who I presume is Jacob* and the scene where Darkseid makes Scott the biblical Abraham and asks for his son–all of these characters and situations have visible tape marks over top of character's eyes. I feel like it's King and Gerards's way of symbolizing how our memories can slip away of those we've lost or are important to us. Oftentimes when we think of them, we're just piecing things together to keep their visage alive. Sometimes our memories or feelings end up being held together with tape or whatever we have to hold it together at that point.
Query: The colors, man, the colors. What do they mean?
Why do Barda's eyes shift from brown to blue to brown again? Scott points out the change in the first issue, and Barda tells him her eyes have always been brown. Then, they change throughout the series. When she beats up Lightray–brown. When she's in full costume in front of Orion–blue.
Also, what does it mean when Forager comes to visit and is presented in vivid colors whereas Scott is still muted and bluish gray–except, of course for his bright white bandages? It's obvious the colors are significant, but I can't figure out what they mean just yet.
- The Meta-Commentary:
Theory: Tom "King"–if that is your real name, sir–and Mitch Gerards are measuring themselves against Jack Kirby and trying to both honor and comment on his legacy.
"Kid…comics will break your heart." The Kirby presence permeates this series. Each issue has notes and references that correspond with the original Kirby run on Mr. Miracle. In Kirby's issue 3, Dr. Bedlam is a disembodied being using a chemical weapon called the Paranoid Pill to induce delusions in humans. In King and Gerard's issue 3, the "Paranoid Pill" takes a literal form of Scott's anti-anxiety meds following his suicide attempt. Scott literally measures his own hands against Kirby's concrete handprints outside of the Chinese Theater at one point–their reach is not as big, btw.
Jack Kirby's real last name is given to Oberon on his tombstone, and his real first name is given to Scott and Barda's son. Even the repeated thread about seeing god, and the boy who says I drew him reminds me of the Stan Lee plot pitch for the story that would become The Coming of Galactus–he told Jack the FF "meets god" and left the rest up to Kirby. Kirby knows the face of god; he drew him with a big purple headdress.
Even the Funky Flashman dealings seem like commentary between the relationship between Stan and Jack. Sometimes they're really terrible and Barda has to bludgeon Funky to save her family. Other times Funky's letting Jacob come up with all the imaginations and Funky just adds the words. That page was a really touching scene in contrast to the harshness of the Barda one. Rightfully so; that relationship was complicated.
It's enough to wonder: Is "King" really Tom's last name, or just a long-play homage to one of the greats? Are we all just enjoying the fourth world (more on that in a bit) left behind thanks to one of the greats? Regardless, there's plenty of meta-commentary about a certain other "King" of comics by this new kid King.
- The Personal Factor:
Query: How awesome are the female characters in Scott's life?!?
This is a bit of a cheat here as it's less a question and more of a proclamation, but every female character in this story seems incredibly strong and resourceful. Aaaaaaaand terrible when necessary.
Scott keeps asking Barda if she had the same experiences with Granny, which Barda didn't. Granny Goodness, while consistently being terrible and torturous, would also go out of her way to comfort Scott. That Christmas story she would tell about the boy being crushed under the weight of the people he was trying to save–that's got to mess up a super-hero something fierce. Granny Goodness retains her evil nature, but sprinkles in those doses of compassion and humanity when it comes to Scott Free.
Barda, on the other hand, is such a strong support and protector of Scott, it's hard not to love that character and their relationship. At one point during negotiations with Kalibak, Scott reminds him that Scott was "granny raised" in a moment where he's letting Kalibak know he's not fooling around. Barda was, too, even if she didn't see as many compassionate moments as Scott. Whether Barda is beating up Lightray or helping Scott face down Darkseid, Barda never has to say it… we know she's one of the strongest characters around. She's survived the X-Pits all the same as Scott, but she has an internal strength as a protector and a rock of support that gets Scott through each day. Even when Scott is ready to falter, Barda isn't. While Scott's all glitchy and working out his personal issues, Barda is nurturing and compassionate and ready to pick him up off the floor and stay with him when he needs it, and she's just as ready to knock Scott down and demand he stand when that's what he needs as well. Barda might not realize it as at one point she gets down on herself for staying, but what she might not see is she's the strength that keeps that relationship going.
Also surrounding Barda, did I mention the furies letting Scott borrow the sword capable of cutting a New God for Barda's delivery? When he gives it back, they say this is the sword we'll use to kill you, and I'm sure they meant it. The women in this book don't fool around.
Theory: Tom King is working through PTSD from his years of military service in the CIA through this series and by embracing the mundane realities of family life.
I do think Scott escapes death–through the fourth world. There's that page that describes what the four worlds are, the first is what our parents are escaping, the second is what they escape to, the third is the now, and the fourth world is the future that our children encapsulate.
Is that fourth world the thing that gives Scott back the hope that the anti-life equation took away? I think that's my interpretation–just like how family and the hope for his children could help bring someone with PTSD work through their issues.
Going back to the glitches–the one issue with the fewest glitches is issue 6, where Scott and Barda are making their way through the war and having the conversations about remodeling the apartment. By losing himself in the day-to-days of family life, Scott doesn't have time to be an agent of Darkseid. If the anti-life equation is the cause of Scott's issues, then the PTSD of war may be the cause of many challenges for Tom King. It's only through taking things day by day with the help and support and reliance on their families that keeps both going.
On twitter recently, folks were questioning King's military service. His wife Coleen asked to be quoted "tell those *censored* to call me and ask what it was like worrying every day that you'd get shot. You served your country. *censored* those *censored*-ers." (My censoring, btw). If that's not a bit of Barda coming out to say, "Shut up, Lightray," I don't know what is. Couple the support of the real life version of Barda with the responsibilities and pride of being a parent, and you've got a recipe (hopefully along with some sound therapy) to help battle depression.
Ask any parent and I'm sure they'll tell you how thinking of their children keeps them going on those hard days. Just like when Scott sees the flag of Darkseid in the war and collapses, only to pick himself up when he hears his child's voice–I feel like I've been there. Some days we focus on the trivialities to make it to the next day and make the world better for our kids.
Of course, I've also been there when your child is screaming or in pain and for just a second you have that wave of dread sweep over you. That moment of personal weakness creeps into your mind. Then you get your $#%+ together and find the strength to tend to your child.
I'm just postulating that those mundane banalities are what keeps Scott going and moving forward and not falling prey to his darker impulses or feelings; he's got a bigger job: to prep things for the fourth world. Nothing matters more to a parent than making things better for their kids.
I know Mitch Gerards had his first child while working on this book, so these parental feelings had to be close in his mind.
Although I've never been involved in a war or military service, I can surmise it's probably a shock to the system to go back from the front lines to waiting in line at Walmart to buy your groceries and 100-page-giant issues of Batman. In this book, however, it's the balance of the mundane and the fantastical that makes it so great. There's the horrors of war juxtaposed with Darkseid eating a carrot for nine panels or Scott picking up party supplies and not having the rewards card. I might have glitched at the rewards card thing, myself.
- The Philosophical Angle:
Query and theory for this last one: If Darkseid is, what is Darkseid?
Is Darkseid the character depicted on that beautiful Nick Derrington cover? Is Darkseid the "dark side" of all of us? Is "Darkseid is," the mantra that means that bad stuff will happen, things will cause us to lose faith or doubt ourselves?
Philosopher Rene Descartes's "I think, therefore I am" statement is examined in the text as a justification of existence and God. If "Darkseid is" is the justification for the ways of anti-life: hopelessness, despair, loss of self-worth, etc, then the only counter to "Darkseid Is" is Barda's, "And so are we." Only we can summon the philosophical strength to rise above the bad in life and counter it with the things that give us hope: things like faith, like family, like kids and the future and veggie trays. Suck it, anti-life or PTSD or whatever you want to call it, we've all got too much other important stuff to do to let you stand in our way. Also, never underestimate the power of a good veggie tray.
So what do you think? Do you see things the way I see things? Do you see sharper definitions with the colors (I was diagnosed as being "color deficient" in elementary school, so it makes sense)?
Am I reading too much into (or misreading) some of the personal connections I'm assuming the authors have with the work?
I'm genuinely curious what you think. Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @chachachad1. I hope you enjoyed diving into Mr. Miracle as much as I did, if not more.
Until next time, I'll be the guy still trying to figure this stuff out. And enjoying a veggie tray whenever I can.
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What You Need to Know about Business Ethics
One of the most important things in any business is to ensure that you are running a business that has integrity and also honesty. Because of this therefore, managers need to now know how they are able to build these kinds of employees and that's why, this information is given in the article. One thing you realize is that, your workforce is going to be harmonious if you are able to focus on these very important things and that's why they are very central to operations. When such things are focused in on the business, it is possible to gain quite a lot. Whether you are a top manager the company or even, in the manager or even a supervisor, one of the things that you have to do is to lead by example. It would be important for you to observe this kind of leadership because in the end, it really influences other people to follow you. The workforce at any company becomes very motivated when the tasks that they're doing can also be done by the people that are managing them. Your actions should be able to depict today workers at your company that you're an ethical business person.
You should always be able to give instructions about ethics because in the end, it allows your business to be highly successful. It becomes easy for other individuals to follow what you're doing when you are able to focus on these at every level of operation in your company. Another thing that you will realize is that most of the businesses today usually struggle a lot especially the small businesses to stay afloat and because of this, there is a very big temptation to do things which are wrong that you can get profits. Once the people that are below you have been able to see that you are doing wrong things so that you can go for money and profits, you'll also have opened the door for them to do the same. The integrity of the business is something that you should be able to prioritize at any time and you should not prioritize money over the integrity because it's going to be costly. If you want such things to stick with your company, then you should be able to lead by example because this also applies here, you should not only say these things through words.
Hiring the right people within your company is going to help you a big deal to ensure that you have integrity but in addition, you should also be able to build a brand that has ethics internalized in them.


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The Ecclesia Which Is His Body - By John H. Essex
The phrase which forms the title of this article, occurs at the end of the first chapter of Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Its position in this very sublime chapter of the Scriptures emphasizes its importance. It is a phrase only used by Paul, for though Jesus spoke of an ecclesia, He never referred to it as His body. In fact Jesus is recorded as making only two references to the ecclesia throughout His ministry, and both are in Matthew's account. Mark, Luke and John have no record of the term, so it could not have been a very prominent feature of our Lord's teachings. With Paul, however, it was quite different. He makes use of the word "ecclesia" in eleven of his thirteen letters, and in one of his letters, he uses it over twenty times.
The word "ecclesia" means "that which is called out," or a "called out company." In the Scriptures, it invariable signifies a body of people called out by God from their compatriots for a special service for Him. That is why we prefer to use the word "ecclesia" rather than its English equivalent, "church," which is very often used to designate a building of stone or brick rather than the people congregated inside, and which is also tagged to different religions, so that we have the "Roman Church," the "Anglican Church," the "Methodist Church," and many others.
By using the Greek form "ecclesia" (which has an English derivative "ecclesiastical," so that the term should not be strange to us) we may be able to eliminate all side issues connected with the word "church," and at the same time keep before our minds the fact that there must be a "calling out" in connection with its membership. No one can become a member of the ecclesia of his own volition. The call to such membership is not of ourselves, but entirely of God. Look at Romans 8, verses 28 & 29.
"Now we are aware that God is working all together for the good of those who are loving God, who are called according to the purpose that, whom He foreknew, He designates beforehand also to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the Firstborn among many brethren. Now whom He designates beforehand, these He calls also, and whom He calls, these He justifies also; now whom He justifies, these He glorifies also."
Who is doing all these things ? God! It is God, Who is working all together for good to those who are loving Him; it is God Who foreknows, Who predesignates, Who calls, Who justifies and Who glorifies. What part have we in all this ? We are the happy objects of His actions, the receivers of His favours, and the only thing in the whole passage that we are asked to do is to "love Him," Who, in fact, does all for us. Love Him, and let Him do the rest; love Him with full acquiescence so that He may work out in all its power His purpose in each of us. And what is the purpose of this call ? We have it in this same passage. "That Christ should be the Firstborn among many brethren," all of whom have been conformed to His image.
Earlier in this same chapter of Romans, Paul tells us that we have "the spirit of sonship," by which we are crying "Abba, Father." And this implies that we should also have the spirit of brotherhood, for as we are all sons of God, then we are brethren of each other. Brothers may not always agree, may not always see eye to eye, may not always show the love in each other that they should, but as long as the Father elects to call each His son, they cannot help but be brothers. It is God Who makes them brothers. We should remember this! We have many brothers whom we have never seen because they died before we were born. Are they not our brothers ? And shall we not rejoice to see them in that day when we are all caught up to meet our Lord in the air ? We have many brothers whom we shall never meet in the flesh because they live too far away. We shall see them too, in that day. And we have many brothers whom we do not meet, not because we are divided from them by time or space, but the differences of opinion. Yet if they hold fast to the fundamental truth of 1 Cor.3:11, the foundation which Paul laid, Jesus Christ, they are our brethren. No other foundation may be laid beside that which is laid, and all who build on that, whether of gold, silver or precious stones, or wood hay and stubble, are saved, even though, in the latter case it may be "as through fire." I am convinced that it would be a great mistake to regard membership of the ecclesia as being confined to those who build only one way, just as I am equally convinced that when the foregathering in the air does take place, we shall have many surprises, and the number may be far greater than at one time we may have imagined. Seeing that our salvation is made to depend entirely upon grace, and not upon any merit of ours, I would think that that grace will be displayed with a magnitude that at one time we would not have thought possible.
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Last Wednesday, my Granddaddy left this Earth. His health has not been good for the past couple years and it quickly took a turn for the worst. My parents left as soon as they could but within an hour the word was out that he had passed. It wasn't easy news to hear even though he is in a better place and is no longer in pain.
It worked out that I was able to hitch a ride with my brother Ryan for the 12 hour drive to Odessa, TX. It just seemed like another visit to Texas until the viewing the next day. It was nice to see how peaceful he looked and to feel the spirit comfort me and my family. Even during such a sad time, the family still has an awesome time laughing and laughing. I've never laughed and cried so much in such a short time frame. What a blessing Granddaddy was to so many people. I wish my kids could've known how funny he was and what an amazing person he was.


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Stoke's first away victory of the season at Hull also brought them back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since March and consecutive clean sheets since December 2015. Mark Hughes guided the Potters to three consecutive 9th place finishes in the league so it was only a matter of time until they turned their form around and with some easier fixtures to come expect them to rise up the table.
Swansea stopped a four game losing streak with a 0-0 draw at home to Watford. They remain winless since the opening day when they won at Burnley courtesy of a late goal but have since lost three on the road. They scored twice at the Emirates but in general the Swans have struggled for goals as only Sunderland and Middlesbrough have scored fewer so far. Borja Baston, the club-record signing, has yet to demonstrate he is capable of troubling defenders, let alone score.
Stoke have won seven of their last 10 at the Britannia against bottom-six sides and they seem to be improving with each fixture. They've never lost to Swansea on home soil in the Premier League, winning three of five meetings and with key players Arnautovic and Shaqiri in good form we expect them to make that four from six.
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Speaking further, he said that their Rally would not include alcohol in it.
Chief Minister made these remarks at a discussion held between him and the District Organizers in Matara regarding the May Day Rally of the SLFP.