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Inside counsel would be wise to consider the significant recent increase in enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977, as amended when conducting due diligence in connection with an acquisition of a foreign target or a target with international operations, because the target's conduct may be your company's FCPA liability upon consummation of the acquisition, even if, in the case of a foreign target with no prior nexus to the United States, the target's conduct is not in violation of the FCPA prior to the acquisition.
The FCPA prohibits U.S. citizens and U.S. companies, and their officers, directors and employees, from offering, promising, making or authorizing corrupt payments or gifts of anything of value to foreign officials for the purpose of influencing a foreign official's decision, inducing a foreign official to violate his or her duty or gaining an unfair business advantage. Foreign citizens and foreign companies undertaking any part of such activities in U.S. territory or in interstate commerce are also subject to the law. The FCPA also mandates certain financial controls and financial reporting requirements on U.S. public companies. The law is interpreted broadly. A gift or payment can be cash, an expensive holiday gift, a donation to the official's favorite charity or, possibly, a job for a foreign official's child. A foreign official can be any employee or officer of any foreign government or any department, instrumentality or agency of a foreign government, including an officer or employee of a state-owned or state-controlled company, or a candidate for foreign political office.
Due diligence considerations
Early-stage FCPA due diligence should begin with background checks on the target and the target's countries of operation and interviews with key personnel and agents. Based on this, inside counsel can determine the level of due diligence required. Here are some things to consider:
- How corrupt are the countries where the target operates?
- How extensive and important are contacts with foreign officials and what are the reputations of the foreign officials affecting the target's business? For example, does the target sell products or services to a state-owned enterprise? Does it partner with a national resource company? Does it seek financing from a sovereign wealth fund? Does its success depend on authorizations, waivers, permits or licenses from a government department? Did it do so in the not-so-distant past?
- Consider the target's reputation and track record regarding corruption. Is it generally in compliance with the laws regulating its business?
- Does the target have an anti-corruption compliance program and how seriously is it taken by senior management? Is training a key component? Does it vet its employees? What is the reporting process?
- Are credible and reliable financial and accounting controls in place to detect FCPA issues? Consider accounting due diligence to check high-risk or suspicious payments.
Target's independent contractors
Many high profile FCPA enforcement actions have involved payments to foreign officials made through joint venture partners or independent contractors, such as contractors, consultants or agents. Not having actual knowledge that amounts paid to independent contractors were used, in whole or in part, to make corrupt payments to foreign officials will not shield your company from an FCPA violation if the company has consciously avoided knowing that some portion of those payments found their way to foreign officials. Your target's independent contractors may be your sales agents and consultants when the acquisition is consummated, so here are the types of things to consider:
- Does the target use independent agents, sales agents, distributors, resellers or consultants in its business and what contact do they have with foreign officials?
- Does the target check its independent contractors as carefully as your company checks its independent contractors in similar situations? For example, has the target investigated the reputation and track record of the independent contractor? Has the target determined whether the owners, officers, stockholders, members or partners of the independent contractor are foreign officials or related to foreign officials? Has the target enquired about the independent contractor's compliance program and is it as robust as your program for the same set of circumstances?
- With respect to the contracts with independent contractors that deal with foreign officials, is the scope of work in line with the needs of the business and are the payments commensurate with the services provided? Does the target have audit rights to check on suspicious activity and termination rights to cancel the contract when the risk profile exceeds reasonable levels? Do the contracts have anti-bribery representations, warranties, covenants and indemnification provisions?
The extent of due diligence in connection with an acquisition may depend on a number of factors, such as the time available until closing, the purchase price and the extent to which law and custom allow pre-acquisition due diligence. However, having due diligence focused on FCPA compliance as part of your company's due diligence process early in the acquisition process adds value. It affects whether or not the deal goes forward, and if so, the structure of the deal, the purchase price and the payment terms and timing and conditions for payment. Furthermore, it affects the representations, warranties and covenants, and termination and indemnification provisions, of the acquisition agreement. Early warning of real problems, or signs of risks due to lack of transparency, that arise from pre-acquisition due diligence can be addressed in ways not available to an acquirer after closing. For instance, an acquirer can avail itself of the U.S. Department of Justice's Opinion Procedure to understand how to address potential risks, and existing violations, depending on the circumstances, may receive a more receptive audience, as in the case of the Department of Justice's settlement with Armor Holdings, Inc.


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In today's world, there is little doubt that, with very limited exception, the business of law is now a buyer's market. The number of layoffs at large firms, and the demise of several prominent firms seem to confirm this. Certainly the anecdotes of revenue declines in 2009 do as well. But not only are we… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Take the Plunge II–It's about timePosted in Commentary
Well, to be precise, it's not about time. That's why it's time to take the plunge. There are some lawyers out there—you know who you are—sitting in your large comfortable offices wondering what will happen to your firms as this economic cataclysm continues. You know your firms are pursuing the wrong business model. You know… Continue Reading
"You Are Too Efficient. You're Fired."Posted in Commentary
Fred Bartlit tells a story in a Legal On Ramp post that bears publicizing: Last night a young lawyer from a top school told me about one of his best friend's experience in a large Chicago firm (Now – this IS hearsay because it is second hand, but I know the source well and believe… Continue Reading
Trusted Advisor's Insights On Transparency And SellingPosted in Client Communications, Client Service, Commentary
Mark Slatin has a most interesting post on Trusted Advisor. In Transparency and Selling, he writes: Yet, we're trained to go in come back with information that will close the sale. Hunt it, kill it and bring it back to eat. • What if, instead of dancing around an answer we don't know, we just… Continue Reading
Wheat and Chaff: Juries and LitigationPosted in Commentary
Let me tell you a short story. A senior in-house lawyer is meeting with the CEO to talk about a problem the in-house lawyer had been asked to solve. The in-house lawyer describes how his efforts at negotiation had failed, so he had taken steps to find a random person off the street so that… Continue Reading
Take The Plunge!Posted in Hourly Rates and Alternatives
72 1024×768 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE For quite a while now, Pat Lamb, my partner in Valorem Law Group, has encouraged me to write a "guest blog" entry (we affectionately call it a "glog") on his blog. Never one to shy away from either a platform or a new adventure, I… Continue Reading
She's coming soon!!!!Posted in General
My partner, Nicole Auerbach, has finally agreed to be a regular guest blogger on In Search of Perfect Client Service. If you like some of the material I post, I guarantee you will love Nicole's offerings. She is much smarter than I am, funnier and definitely a better writer. She is one of a… Continue Reading
Informative Survey: How Clients BuyPosted in Commentary
RainToday.com has published a new report, How Clients Buy: 2009 Benchmark Report on Professional Services Marketing & Selling from the Client Perspective. The report, which runs 57 pages and provides data from more than 200 buyers of accounting, financial, legal consulting and other services, costs $345. Among the many highlights and insights: 52% of the buyers… Continue Reading
Value, Like Beauty, Is In The Eye Of The BeholderPosted in Client Service, Commentary
Ed Poll of LawBizBlog and LawBiz Management has been advising lawyers for 25 years. Ed is one of the people I look to regularly for ideas and inspiration. His recent post, Corporate Counsel Want Value, frames an important question. The post discusses comments by Susan Hackett of the Association of Corporate Counsel about ACC's Value Challenge. … Continue Reading
How Do Big Law Firms Teach This?Posted in Commentary
What About Clients? periodically reviews its 12 Rules of Client Service. Rule 10 is one of the most nuanced. From today's WAC?: Rule 10: Be Accurate, Thorough and Timely–But Not Perfect. Ah, devil perfectionism: it's the curse of eldest children, professionals, many knowledge workers, most lawyers, all spouses, your Mom, and the geek classes, or… Continue Reading
The United States of AmericaPosted in People, Places and Blawgs
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Survey Of GCs–More Alternative Fees Coming?Posted in Commentary, Hourly Rates and Alternatives
Nearly 75% of all law departments are facing budget cuts in 2009. Over 30% are facing cuts of between 11% and 20%, while 35% are facing cuts between 6% and 10%. These are among the bleak results from an Altman Weil flash survey of General Counsel. So, how do the respondents plan to deal with… Continue Reading
Hours Based Bonus + Bad Economy = Warning To Clients (Watch Your Wallet)Posted in Commentary
In a Friday post, Above The Law reveals that Arent Fox utilizes an hours-based bonus system. If an associate does not exceed 1950 billable hours, no bonus. And then in hundred hour increments, associates can receive ever increasing "productivity bonuses." Arent Fox is not alone in using this system. Consider, for a moment, the incentives… Continue Reading
Jim Hassett Takes A Detour–But It's Worth ItPosted in Commentary, People, Places and Blawgs
Earlier, I wrote about Part I of Jim Hassett's 5-part series on alternative fees. Jim has already written the entire series (if you want it in full format, it's available here). But showing great agility, Jim has adapted Part II on his blog posts to incorporate some dialogue created by Part I. Jim shares some… Continue Reading
LL Bean and Trusted AdvisorsPosted in Client Service, Commentary
Charles Green has a wonderful post on his Trusted Advisors blog about LL Bean: Urban Myth Or Rural Superstition. Pulled from The Consumerist, it tells a story of the Maine Outfitter's legendary customer service. Guy's wife orders 3 monogrammed shirts for him for Christmas. Oops. Wrong size. She calls to place the order again with the… Continue Reading
What About Clients? Shines ThroughPosted in Client Service, Commentary
From time to time, Dan Hull and his colleagues at WAC? repeat some of Hull McGuire's Rules of Service. I love this post summarizing Rule No. 9: Lawyers aren't special. We're in a service business. Get used to it. Rule 9: Be There for Clients 24/7. Snippet: Returning telephone calls promptly and keeping your… Continue Reading
Lessons From My Wife's Broken WristPosted in Client Communications, Client Service, Commentary
Last Saturday, my wife slipped and broke her wrist. Yesterday, her wrist was surgically repaired. She's doing fine. I learned a couple of things while at the hospital that are germane to this blog. Here they are, in no particular order: 1) Your waiting room says a lot about you. A few weeks ago, I… Continue Reading
Dear Cool Law Firm.Posted in General
Like a proud parent, I feel an irresistable urge to share some "Valorem highlights" from our first year. I'll save you the case highlights–can you imagine a fun post on lawsuits? We just got a letter from a management consultant in New York. His salutation was "Dear Cool Law Firm." For us, that ranks up… Continue Reading
A Brief Look Back. A Sober Look Forward.Posted in Commentary
As Valorem was celebrating its first anniversary on January 1st, I spent a bit of time thinking back on the things that shaped our birth. One of those things was a prescient post by Gerry Riskin way back in August 2007. Gerry is, in my view, the world's foremost consultant/advisor to law firms. He also… Continue Reading
Fred Bartlit Spices Up Legal On Ramp Discussions On Hourly Rates and Big FirmsPosted in Commentary, Hourly Rates and Alternatives, Leadership and Management
Before founding Bartlit Beck in 1992, Fred Bartlit was "the man" at Kirkland & Ellis. As big and impressive as K&E is now, it was that and more when Fred was there. His departure to set up Bartlit Beck was big news. Few have seen big firms, big clients and small firms and big clients as… Continue Reading
Jim Hassett Begins Series on Alternative Fees: What's Wrong With Billing By The Hour?Posted in Hourly Rates and Alternatives
Jim Hassett has posted the first of five posts on Alternative Fees in his terrific Legal Business Development blog. The first post in the series is What's wrong with billing by the hour? It's a good summary. I'll provide links to the next four posts as they appear.
Cravath To Declare War On Billable Hour?Posted in Client Service, Commentary, Hourly Rates and Alternatives, Leadership and Management
When legendary CBS Evening News Anchor Walter Cronkite announced his opposition to the Vietnam War in February 1968, President Lyndon Johnson is reported to have said, "That's it. If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." It was a turning point in the war. Evan Chesler is a senior partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore … Continue Reading
2009 Marketing Partner Forum just weeks away!Posted in General
The 16th Annual Marketing Partner Forum is being held on January 28-30, 2009 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa in Dana Point, CA. The theme of this year's conference is "Lighting the Way: Strategies For Influencing Change. In the current environment where change is as necessary as breathing, its hard to imagine… Continue Reading


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Does Meibomian Gland Loss Cause Dry Eye Symptoms?
By Patrick J. Caroline, FAAO, & Mark P. André, FAAO
It is logical to assume that there is a relationship between meibomian gland loss and symptoms of dry eye. We recently used an infrared photography technique and a dry eye questionnaire to test this hypothesis in non-contact lens subjects and in contact lens-wearing subjects.
We examined upper and lower lid meibomian glands (Figure 1) of 200 eyes of 100 subjects (68 female and 32 male) who had a mean age of 24.6 ± 4.3 years for females and 26.1 ± 4.5 years for males. There were 73 contact lens wearers in our study group who had a mean age of 25.2 ± 4.4 years and who had been wearing contact lenses for 9.8 ± 5.8 years. We assessed the meibomian glands using a photo slit lamp equipped with an infrared video camera (Allied Vision Technology) and an infrared transmitting filter (IR-83, Hoya). The meibomian glands were then graded using a technique described by Nichols et al (2005) (Figure 2). Dry eye status was assessed using the validated Texas Eye Institute Dry Eye Questionnaire (Narayanan et al, 2005).
Figure 1. Normal upper and lower lid meibomian glands.
Figure 2. Meibomian gland grading system.
100 Normal Eyes Using Pearson correlation analysis, we were unable to establish any correlation between the dry eye questionnaire score and increased meibomian gland dropout.
73 Soft Contact Lens Wearers We were unable to establish any correlation between contact lens wear and increased meibomian gland dropout, although there was a trend for the contact lenswearing group to have more partial glands.
Gender/Birth Control Pill Use Using mixed model ANOVA analysis, we found a significant gender difference for meibomian gland grades, with females showing more meibomian gland dropout. There were 29 female subjects currently taking birth control pills (BCPs) and 39 female participants who were not. The women on BCPs had more meibomian gland dropout compared to the women not on BCPs (Figure 3). There was no significant difference in meibomian gland grades between the male subjects and the non-BCP-use female subjects. CLS
Figure 3A. A 24-year-old female with no history of birth control pill use. 3B. A 24-year-old female with a six-year history of birth control pill use.
The authors wish to thank Satomi Torii and Dr. Matt Lampa for their work with this study.
For references, please visit www.clspectrum.com/references.asp and click on document #200.
|Patrick Caroline is an associate professor of optometry at Pacific University. He is also a consultant to Paragon Vision Sciences. Mark André is an associate professor of optometry at Pacific University. He is also a consultant for CooperVision.


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President Vladimir Putin yesterday agreed to head Russia's ruling party in a significant shift of the political landscape three weeks before he hands power to successor Dmitry Medvedev.
Putin, who leaves the Kremlin after two terms on May 7, also confirmed he would become prime minister under Medvedev.
"With gratitude I accept the proposal of the party members and their leadership…. I am ready to take on the additional responsibility and head United Russia," he told a party congress in Moscow after being urged to take the post.
The 55-year-old ex-KGB officer's announcement, carried live on state-run television, signalled a reordering of Russia's political mix on the eve of Medvedev's presidential debut.
During his eight years in the Kremlin, Putin has steadily centralised power, with United Russia his tool for ensuring loyalty of an increasingly emasculated parliament.
Becoming head of the party, which won a constitutional majority with 63 percent of the vote in controversial December elections, will now hugely strengthen Putin's status as prime minister.
But the development added to questions raised in Moscow and foreign capitals over who will really be in charge from next month — the untested Medvedev or powerful ex-president, turned prime minister and parliament leader Putin.
"Analysts and those in the media are still trying to figure out whose portrait will end up hanging in government offices across the country," commentator Konstantin Sonin wrote in yesterday's Moscow Times daily.
Andrei Ryabov, an analyst at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, said that Putin's position had been bolstered for now, but that Medvedev might not always tolerate the competition.
"As a result of fights between interest groups, pressures and conflicts, the system could again become based on one person. Who will that be? The chances are equal. You'd have to be an astrologer to say," Ryabov commented.
Recruiting Putin was the logical next step for United Russia, a party that has always been seen as a Kremlin creation tasked with turning the once combative parliament of the 1990s into a rubber stamp.
Late Monday the party voted changes to its charter that would allow Putin to become chairman without actually holding membership. Delegates also decided to split the leadership, with Putin taking the chairmanship and Gryzlov the more technical ruling council.
Gryzlov, whose pleading that Putin take his job is only the latest expression of loyalty, explained Monday just how close the outgoing president and dominant party were to each other.
"The eight presidential annual addresses delivered by Vladimir Putin are what define the 'Putin course' — the course toward becoming a great power, a great Russia. And this is the programme of our party," he said.
The head of the central elections commission, Vladimir Churov, told Interfax news agency that Putin's embracing of United Russia was "another step on the development of democracy, a wholly natural step for many states where party leaders become heads of government."
But Mark Urnov, an analyst at the Expertise think tank, said that the manoeuvre was "the victory of part of the political elite that did not want, or feared to see the departure of Putin."
"All of Putin's entourage will remain in the key posts…. There will be no separation of the state from the economy, no real fight against corruption," he said. "Stagnation lies ahead."
Natalia Leschenko at the London-based Global Insight group said United Russia now bore comparison with the Soviet Communist Party in that it pretended to defend "democratic interests" but in fact was "a vehicle of party leadership and elite instead."


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"Have better business management in your organization through effective ERP modules. Streamline your business procedures and monitor all the happening and activities in and around your enterprises."
There are different ERP modules available in the market that can benefit you business making it automated, streamlined and well-organized. We specialize in developing custom ERP modules or solution after understanding the nature of your business. Our modules are scalable and can be customized to your business needs. Currently eTrade Services is offering following ERP modules for small, medium and large businesses.
Sales & Marketing Module
Sales play the vital and indispensable role for the existence of any organization. Every business wants to increase its sales effectively. If you have specialized software for this function then you can certainly watch the activities of sales of your enterprise effectively. Sales & marketing module in ERP system will help you manage leads, prospects and customers' quotes effectively.
It streamlines and automates the entire sales & management cycle of a company, including sales leads, quotations, sales order, invoice creation, payment acceptance, action plans, marketing, etc. It ensure for better relationship management, data management, marketing campaign management, support system, quotation management, communication management, and opportunity management. In short, it will effectively help you track all sales and marketing activities.
This module can be easily integrated with inventory, production planning and finance modules.
Purchase Management Module
Purchase management or purchasing module is one of the most important ERP modules for manufacturing businesses. This module makes purchasing, billing processes, invoice generation, vendor management, identifying potential suppliers, supplier evaluation, supplier quote evaluation, receiving inventory fast and easy. It streamlines purchase and process cycles. Using this module you can generate new vendor invoices swiftly by copying an existing invoice. You can also create a new invoice from a purchase order. You can improve purchase order workflows, and edit existing purchase order.
Our purchase module can be integrated with inventory control and production planning modules.
Inventory Management Module
Inventory management or inventory control management or ERP for inventory and stores provides a dynamic, compelling and flexible set of features to help you manage and report your inventory information. It helps in better stock management in a store or warehouse, especially for business selling online. You can easily track the quantity of products sold online through this truly effective inventory and stock management module. It also helps in tracking inventory levels, orders, sales, and deliveries. You can also generate inventory status report.
This module can be easily integrated with sales, purchase, finance, maintenance, production planning, and production modules of ERP system.
Finance / Accounts Management Module
Financial accounting is one of the most common functional areas of ERP system. Finance and accounts management module streamlines the financial and accounting operation of a company. It helps in better accounting workflows and cash management. By using financial management and accounting software you can quickly create valuable financial reports such as general ledgers, balance sheets, account statements, quarterly financial reports, half-yearly financial reports, yearly financial reports, trial balance, profit & loss statement, gross profit analysis, branch-wise profit analysis, profitability report, cost management, cash management, asset management, tax management, and many other transactional reports.
This module can be easily integrated with sales, purchase, inventory control & stock management, and maintenance modules of ERP system.
HR & Payroll Management Module
Employees are the main assets of an organization. ERP module specifically designed for HR (human resource) and Payroll or HR & Payroll Management Module streamlines the management of human resources and human capitals as well. Training, Recruitment, Payroll and Attendance are four main components of HR module in ERP System. A well-designed and developed HR module maintains a complete database of employees including their contact information, salary details, attendance, performance evaluation and promotions. HR & Payroll Management module of eTrade Services facilitates all the HRD, Personal, and Payroll related activities of an organization. It also helps to generate the income tax plan for all employees taking into account the investment and other details.
This module can be easily integrated with other ERP modules like sales, finance, and inventory.
Production Planning & Control Module
Production planning and control module helps in efficient, effective and economical operation in a manufacturing unit of an organization. It streamlines planning of production and manufacturing process in a company or enterprise. It also helps in better management of productions which is called production control management. This module can be divided into two separate modules namely:
- Production planning, and
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Production planning module helps an organization in planning production with the best possible utilization of all available resources. It is a plan for future production. It streamlines the processes of scheduling, dispatch, inspection, quality control, inventory control, supply procurement (management), and equipment management.
This module can be easily integrated with sales, inventory, purchase and production modules of ERP system.
Production control module is little different from production planning module of ERP system. It helps in better procurement of actual production against the planned production. It helps in cost savings and ensures that production team can achieve required production target within defined time-frame. It streamlines the processes of optimum utilization of resources and quality management. It ensure for all produced items go through quality control before being passed to main stores. Inventory is also maintained properly.
This module can be easily integrated with sales, inventory, and production planning modules of ERP system.
It is imperative to integrate the production planning and control system in an organization for better management for future products planning and actual produced products.
Maintenance Management Module
Companies are increasingly using technologies and modern equipments in order to increase their production and sales. The maintenance of production lines, machinery, equipment and devices especially in a manufacturing plant is vital. So it is imperative to integrate a maintenance management system in an organization in order to manage or maintain technologies, equipments, machinery and devices. This is where maintenance management module of ERP system helps you significantly letting you know about emergent and regular maintenance of equipments. It also provides report for future maintenance and its timing as well.
Maintenance management module of ERP system by eTrade Services ensures consistently high levels of equipments reliability, regulatory fulfillment, and cost control. It also helps to extend the life of significant capital assets. It records the periodic as well as unscheduled maintenance details of machinery. It generates maintenance bill and updates in fiancé. It provides reports, which help in analyzing the data pertaining to maintenance activities of the machinery. It can also keep tracking of warranty activities, claims, equipment utilization and breakdown maintenance
This module can be easily integrated with inventory and finance module of ERP system.
Administration Module
Administration or Admin Module in ERP is very important in an organization as it automates and streamlines overall all the administration workflows and activities in an organization. It monitors all system administration tasks. It is totally about administration rights as it defines and assigns role to user's ensuring who has to do what in the ERP system. It also helps in tracking and controlling the work done by individual users. It also imprints user name and password in all transactions posted by a certain user.
We at eTrade Services provide custom administration module in ERP system which can be customize as per your and your business needs.
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text: Does anyone know how to clear the history in youtube or marketplace? Disclaimer-It's not from searching for inappropriate things rather it is knowing it can be done. I have not been able to locate a way to do this, anyone figure it out? The browser and the main menu history is easy to reset, but youtube and marketplace seem impossible. Seems like with all the Droid can do this would be easy!


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Help Dan to Never Scan Again
Meet Dan Auble.
Dan's a great guy — smart, hard-working, family man.
But Dan, who manages the Center for Responsive Politics' personal financial disclosures project, has a problem.
That's because this time each year, when U.S. senators are required by law to release details of their personal finances, they do so on paper — and only paper. This, even though senators' colleagues in the House of Representatives, after discovering the magical "Internet," have for years released their information electronically and online so the public that elected them could gain greater access to information to which they're entitled by law.
Uh huh.
So, Dan — aided this year by Center for Responsive Politics' intern Patrick Margolis — schleps over to the U.S. Senate. He forks over a check for $390. And in return, the Senate gives him a giant box filled with thousands of pages of documents containing the personal financial information of our U.S. senators.
Think this stuff is easily searchable? Ha! It's not even easily portable.
"I'd like to welcome the U.S. Senate to 1997. They have a real opportunity here to get in on the ground floor of this 'computing machine' trend," Auble grumbled today as he began to spool up his trusty document scanner, over which he would spend the next many hours of his life, feeding personal financial disclosure documents into it, page by page, in order to turn them into .pdf files you may now view on OpenSecrets.org.
Adding further insult? The documents Dan scans are printed copies of electronic .pdf files kept — but not released to the public — by the Senate.
"Printing forms out just to have us carry them across town and scan them back into their original format? That is so ludicrous that it's almost hard not to take it personally," Auble said while bandaging his seventh paper cut of the afternoon. "What did I ever do to the U.S. Senate to deserve this?"
How can you help Dan, you ask?
First, he enjoys 25-year-old Scotch. But more to the point: Call or e-mail your members of the U.S. Senate and demand they support legislation requiring them to release their personal financial disclosures electronically. Government transparency, tell them, is not a luxury, but a right.
Contact information for members of the Senate is available by clicking here.
And know, too, that Dan appreciates your help as he dreams of a day when he'll retire his scanner forever.
Dan Auble (right) and a small army of Center for Responsive Politics staffers scan in ream after ream of U.S. Senate personal financial disclosure forms so you may view them electronically on OpenSecrets.org.


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Waupun in Dodge County, Wisconsin — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Auto Race
Green Bay to Madison
Erected 1956 by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Marker Number 45.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Wisconsin Historical Society marker series.
Location. 43° 37.658′ N, 88° 43.499′ W. Marker is in Waupun, Wisconsin, in Dodge County. Marker is at the intersection of South Watertown Street (Business State Highway 26) and Lincoln Street, on the right when traveling north on South Watertown Street. Touch for map
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 13 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Carnegie Library (approx. 0.4 miles away); The End of the Trail (approx. ¾ mile away); Clarence Addison Shaler (approx. ¾ mile away); Horicon Marsh (approx. 4 miles away); The Raube Road Site (approx. 7.1 miles away); First House Site in Dodge County, Wisconsin (approx. 9.6 miles away); Bernard R. "Bunny" Berigan (approx. 10.3 miles away); Wisconsin's First Iron Smelter (approx. 12.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Waupun.
Also see . . . The Great Green Bay to Madison Automobile Race of 1878. "After Rev. J. W. Carhart invented a horseless carriage in 1873, the state legislature offered a prize of $10,000 to anyone who could run such a machine on regular roads from Green Bay to Madison. Two groups of inventors took up this challenge and the race was run in 1878 between two automobiles named the "Oshkosh" and the "Green Bay" after their places of invention. This newspaper story looks back on the race and the inventors, and includes long excerpts from letters of the particpants." (Submitted on October 8, 2009.)
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Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on October 8, 2009, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. This page has been viewed 1,105 times since then and 55 times this year. Last updated on May 15, 2012, by Paul Fehrenbach of Germantown, Wisconsin. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 15, 2012, by Paul Fehrenbach of Germantown, Wisconsin. 3, 4. submitted on October 8, 2009, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.


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When reading this Gospel I initially felt the tendency to dwell on the historical aspect. It is possible to see how God sending messages to Israel in order that they might repent and come back to Him. However, they often did not listen to the prophets God sent, and even killed some of them. And while this historical aspect can help us somewhat in our reflection on the passage of scripture, it does not directly connect with my own daily life, making it a remote story instead of a changing reality.
But therefore I looked a bit deeper at the parable. Taking the king in todays Gospel as God, it is clear that God has prepared a banquet for us, for me, and He is calling me to come and join Him. God has everything we could desire prepared and ready, ready for to be enjoyed. However, as in the parable, while God is inviting us to come, we are very slow to react, if we react at all.
This is a mystery to me... Why do so many people not react, why do they not accept God's invitation? It is a question which has been with me all the time since I have discovered the truth about God's existence. While I was growing up I never heard anything of the benevolence of God's gifts. Whatever little information about Christianity I heard was generally historical and far removed from reality. What I certainly didn't hear is that God wants me to give my hearts desire now.
How is it that we as a society have lost the truth of the reality of God, and His closeness to us. It seems to be the predominant view of most people nowadays, Christian or not, that God is at a distance, far away, and that there is no real direct communion or relationship with God. However, as the parable shows, God wants to be in communion with us now, and only our acceptance or rejection of His gifts stand between us being separated or together with Him.
What also seems significant to me in reading the parable is that the king is sending messengers, his servants, to proclaim the message. God is making himself known to us in all kinds of ways, and while God might not work that many supernatural miracles in front of us in our societies, He still does work miracles, and He certainly sends us messengers. There are many people around who try to point the way towards God, but for some reason they seem to be ignored or silenced. It just struck me t maybe things have not changed that much after all between the time Jesus walked on the earth and now. So maybe my the gab that I felt in the distance between myself and the parable and my own experience has closed...
So I think the parable offers us some very interesting concepts to ponder upon.
God has His arms wide open, ready to receive us! It is very easy just to ignore and pass by... but truly, when we do engage with God, it will bring us true happiness!


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With just two events left this evening - the scratch race and the 1km time-trial - Clancy is now in joint second place with Denmark's Lasse Norman Hansen behind the reigning world champion Glenn O'Shea from Australia.
O'Shea leads the field on 17, with Clancy and Hansen on 19 while Italy's Elia Viviani is also very much in contention for the Olympic title just one point back.
Clancy, a member of Great Britain's victorious team pursuit squad on Friday night, went out more slowly than normal but built a great head of steam and only fractionally missed out on winning the discipline outright, coming home in 4min 20.853sec, just behind Hansen.
The Yorkshireman will expect to finish the Omnium tonight with a win in the kilo - he has never lost a kilo in the omnium - so his medal chances very much depend on the the scratch race at five o'clock this afternoon.
The scratch race is an unpredictable 15km bunch race - first across the line wins - in which Clancy will be operating well out of his comfort zone but if he can place higher than expected, a big medal could be on the cards.


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Well we had a fantastic opening to our Exhibition Keeping Lydiard in Stitches yesterday. There was a real buzz about the place. Maggie Harris and I showed the Mayor around and he was most impressed. We also gave an interview to the BBC radio Wiltshire reporter who turned up. I think that we have proved the Embroidery is not just 'the little flower on the handky corner anymore' but covers a wide range of skills and materials. This littel bug is now on my green man hanging.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Lydiard exhibition
These three photos are of some of my pieces in the Lydiard exhibition. The gree man felt is based on the image of the green man on the ceiling bosses in the dining room and the lovely trees in the grounds. it is hand made and dyed felt then hand embroidered. The ivy leaves re silk.
I put together the bug collection inspired by the Victorians love of collecting nature.
The exhibition is looking great and the bug trail for the kids goes all around the house so there is plenty to look at.
Hope that plenty of people will come and see it especially if they have never visited the house as it is well worth a visit.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010
Hot Mikado Dress rehearsal
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Hot Mikado and Houston
Can not believe that it is March already and only one week to go to Hot Mikado. Had a wonderful time in Sutton Coldfield teaching bowls again. Must download my photos so I can show you the results. Exciting news too this week as I have had an official invitation to Huston Quilt festival from Quilting Arts Magazine. I shall be in their open studios meeting people and talking about my work. At least now we all seem to be over our coughs and colds so fingers crossed it stays that way. Have just got to sew two hems for costumes now and then should be ready for the show.( and might even get some work done for Lydiard!!!!)
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Raphael Bar-Risto's Apple Crostada
For the dough:
8 T. salted butter
4 T. unsalted butter
3 C. all-purpose flour
1/2 C. granulated sugar
1 extra large egg, plus 2 extra large egg yolks
Zest of 1 lemon
For the filling:
3 Granny Smith or other tart apples (see note)
1 egg
Granulated sugar, as needed
6 oz. mascarpone cheese, seasoned with fresh grated nutmeg to taste
To make the dough:
Let the butter and eggs warm to room temperature. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, then knead briefly. Roll the dough out to 1/2-inch thickness and cut into six (6-inch each) squares.
To make the filling:
Peel, core and halve the apples. Place them in a heavy, wide-bottomed saucepan with just enough water to cover. Bring the water to a boil and poach gently for 5 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside.
Make an egg wash by beating the egg with a bit of water. Brush the surface of the pastry squares with the egg wash, then sprinkle with a pinch or two of sugar.
Place a generous spoonful of mascarpone into the hollow part of the apple half. Then place the apple half face down in the center of the pastry square. Sprinkle with another pinch of sugar if desired, then fold up the edges of the pastry to form an envelope-like enclosure. Seal by brushing on a bit more of the egg wash. Repeat until you have made six crostadas.
Place the crostadas on a cookie sheet and bake at 375°F. until the pastry appears crisp and golden brown, about 10 minutes. Serve hot. Makes 6 servings.
Note: Other firm fruits, such as pears or quinces, can be substituted for the apples.
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The decision by a House task force to have the GAO probe the election in Florida-13 where 18,000 votes 'went missing' is good as far as it goes. Which is not far enough.
Florida State officials rejected a request by attorneys for defeated candidate Christine Jennings to be able to examine the machines and the software that controlled them. Their justification: this was proprietary information belonging to the manufacturer.
The notion that this nation is going to put the profit-making of a private corporation ahead of the right of any citizen to inspect voting machines, no less the defeated candidate, is mind-boggling. But it was the phrase "proprietary information" that caught my attention. I can't tell you how many labor negotiations and lawsuits I have been part of where the other side claimed "proprietary information." This is so common there is a standard procedure for dealing with it:
It's a "non-disclosure agreement." Our side would put forward a few individuals who have to sign a legally binding agreement not to reveal the information before examining the material. It is also used routinely in U.S. trade negotiations with other countries, most recently in the "Open Skies" agreement and the U.S.-Korea trade agreement.
The absolute right to inspect any voting machine should be part of any new election law. Any manufacturer who want to sell voting machines for U.S. federal, state or local elections should be required, as a condition of receiving a contract, to open up their machines and software to representatives of all candidates.
Don't want to allow access to your "proprietary information?" You don't have to. Just take your machines and shove them.


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Weddings at Ordsall Hall
The historic Ordsall Hall is licensed to host civil wedding ceremonies and partnerships on Fridays and Saturdays.
The celebrated charm and traditional style of this impressive venue provides the perfect 'exclusive' location for an intimate celebration. Say your vows in the glorious surroundings of the 500 year old timber framed Great Hall under the stunning Victorian chandelier.
The gorgeous Tudor exterior, magnificent interior and beautiful gardens provide stunning backdrops for endless photography to capture your special day.
For a day to remember you need an unforgettable venue and without a doubt Ordsall Hall delivers in all aspects for the wedding of your dreams.


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Four-way logjam at MasterCard Memorial Cupby Rob Mixer / Columbus Blue Jackets
With four of the best teams in major junior hockey convening in Saskatoon, things were bound to get interesting at the MasterCard Memorial Cup.
For the second consecutive year (and the second time in tournament history) all four teams sport a 1-1 record through the first two games of head-to-head competition, ensuring that a tiebreaker will take place on Thursday night at the Credit Union Centre. Monday night contributed the latest entertaining twist of this Memorial Cup, as the Portland Winterhawks exploded for three straight goals to put away a furious comeback by the London Knights.
London, down 3-0 and with things looking bleak after a sweet goal by Portland's Ty Rattie, put its work boots on as you would expect Dale Hunter's team to do and made things really exciting in a hurry. Scott Harrington scored the 3-1 goal and it was followed by Bo Horvat making it a one-goal game late in the second period, setting up for a third period that won't soon be forgotten by those who follow junior hockey and the Memorial Cup.
Alex Broadhurst's tying goal in the early stages of the third period looked as if it would be a breaking point for the Winterhawks, but Portland's poise came to the fore.
The Winterhawks answered with three goals of their own - two of which, 23 seconds apart, came moments after the Knights tied the game. Derrick Pouliot and Chase De Leo did the permanent damage and made sure the Winterhawks would escape the first two games of the round robin with a split, but it didn't come easy with the game hanging in the balance.
Other notes:
- Blue Jackets prospect Josh Anderson did not record a point in the Knights' 6-3 loss to Portland. He picked up a pair of penalty minutes, but was his usual, agitating self and played a physical game.
- London's next round robin game is tonight against the QMJHL champion Halifax Mooseheads, arguably the best team in all of junior hockey. Top NHL draft prospects Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin get the headlines for the Mooseheads, but don't look past goaltender Zach Fucale, who makes a habit of keeping Halifax in close games.
- Halifax probably won't be in a great mood after splitting its first two games, including a 5-2 loss to Saskatoon on Sunday night.
- It's been an impressive Memorial Cup for MacKinnon thus far: the player widely regarded as the best offensive player in this year's draft class has scored four goals and five points in the Mooseheads' first two games of the tournament.


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Hi, this is Eddie with Powertrain Products Incorporated. I just wanted to cover our new no-fault warranty today. This is a warranty plan that we've put together per the request of our customers to provide added coverage in the event that there's a warranty that isn't covered by us.
Examples of things that wouldn't be covered are: overheating, running the engine out of oil, say the fuel injector fails, destroys the entire engine.
Our no-fault protection plan is there to blanket over top of the standard warranty.
It provides number one, free replacement, no questions asked, in the event of a failure. If something happens that we believe may have been the fault of the installation facility or you, we'll provide a free engine, no questions asked, under this warranty plan.
Also, there's some added coverage over and above our standard warranty, too. The added coverage would be things like labor rate up to $95 per hour, rental car, towing, diagnostic time, and fluid coverage in the event of this failure, too.
Please see our warranty online for details. We look forward to talking to you soon at Powertrain Products.


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This charming and highly original story reveals what happens at a vacation cottage once the summer visitors have left for the winter. With fewer than two dozen words, the story is told primarily in extravagantly detailed pictures, rendered in pen and ink and watercolor. Children and adults will revel in the activities of a family of bears that takes up residence in the empty camp-the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in reverse.Unique fractured fairytale in the sence that this book is almost a wordless picture book.Subjects Bears -- Juvenile fiction Seasons (Winter) -- Juvenile fiction.The Winter Visitors by Karel Hayes read itunes how read fb2 macbook
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The British attack at Amiens was the most decisive day of World War I. Spearheaded by tanks and armored cars, and supported by the RAF, the battle was led by the Australian and Canadian Corps, with British and French troops on the flanks. Elaborate measures were taken to ensure surprise. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, as well as eyewitness accounts, Charles Messenger describes how the attack was conceived, the preparations, and the actual assault, as well as what happened on the subsequent days and how Amiens paved the way for the final victorious Allied advance.The Day We Won the War: Turning Point at Amiens 8th August 1918 by Charles Messenger itunes link original selling read
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Narda is on a hunt.Her target, Doran Van Evander has holed up on a mining planet. But her hunt wont be simple or easy. Planet Lisala-7 is in the grip of a festival, one theyve made compulsory. Five days of licensed debauchery and now with her body on fire from the touch of strangers, she must find her target before her time runs out. Failing is not an option. But in this game, who is the hunter and who is the prey?Hunting Evander by Kim Knox (Goodreads Author) book find format shop kickass
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Parménides asumió a fondo los procesos de la subcultura del rock que llevaron a muchos de su generación a escribir la literatura ho conocida como de la Onda, que para él era la realidad total y a la que se incorporó de tal modo que en ella murió (de pulmonía, en un hotelucho, y solo.) El rey criollo (1971) toma su nombre del de la película de Elvis Presley, cuyo estreno en el cine Las Américas causó un motín y la prohibición en México de los films del precusor del rock. Cada cuento de este volumen lleva como epígrafe la letra de una canción d los Rolling Stones y constituye un documento de la vida en los años 50 y 60. [Excerpt taken from books back cover book review.]El Rey Criollo by Parménides García Saldaña book online wiki how to read
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Have you ever dreamt of heading out West to chase elk? Or maybe you've been hunting elk without as much luck as you'd like to have. With twenty-plus years of elk hunting experience, learning the hard way how to ensure success each season, my goal is to help the new hunter shorten that learning curve. Do you understand preference points, know what a location bugle is, and have a Plan A, B and C in place for any elk hunting encounter? While it's impossible to cover every detail that makes for a successful hunt, this book gives you to tools to understand the basics and the resources to further your elk education.Public Land Elk Hunting by Matthew Dworak purchase cheap free writer library
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.The Amateur Guide to Photography by Thomas H Blair read eng italian price online
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A girl wakes up in an unknown world all alone. In this world she sees another girl who is her exact twin. Their names: 328 and 329. There is only running water; no food anywhere. In their search for food, they find a raft to take them beyond this unknown place, but it becomes evident that only one person will be able to board this raft. The annoying buzzing sounds and voices of a winged insect, the craving for food, and the desire to leave will push them to the brink. One of them will snap...White Rain by Yoshitoshi ABe direct link price prewiew online text
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Moto and Me tells the firsthand story of wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas's care for an orphaned baby serval—a small, spotted wildcat—in Kenya. When a grass fire separates the serval from his family, a ranger asks Suzi, who is living in a bush camp and is skilled with animals, to be the serval's foster mom.The book chronicles Suzi's tender care of Moto, including how she feeds, bathes, and plays with him, and helps him develop hunting skills. Her goal is to help him learn how to survive on his own in the wild. After 6 months, he is ready to leave—a difficult good-bye, but exactly what Suzi had worked for.Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcats Foster Mom by Suzi Eszterhas (Photographs) ipad author touch eReader read
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A clear and magical account of how David and Ellen helped their daughters find new ways to take charge of their education... A treat you should not miss.?John Taylor Gatto, 1991 New York Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us DownProgressive-minded parents considering homeschooling their children but turned off by fundamentalist or unschooling approaches will be inspired by this engaging account of home-directed community-based education.Acting on their conviction that to educate a child well is to enable her to find her destiny, David Albert and his partner Ellen listened carefully, with respect and with love, to how their children expressed their own learning needs. Leaving traditional homeschooling methods behind, they followed their daughters unique knowledge quests - from astronomy and botany, to opera and mythology - and then went about finding the resources and opportunities to meet those needs within their community. And the Skylark Sings with Me is reassuring to any parent who feels they must have an education background before homeschooling their children. While Albert pays special attention to science and nature - the subjects parents feel the most inadequately prepared to teach - he humbly admits that despite a fancy education, his knowledge areas rarely overlapped his daughters evolving interests. The real challenge is not to teach, but to find new ways to access the community - its people, its resources - as a flexible learning institution.Gracefully written, And the Skylark Sings with Me passionately illustrates that real learning is much richer and more mysterious than any school can encompass.I recently received the copy of And the Skylark Sings With Me, and am savoring it. I love reading about your daughters musical progressions. Reading them aloud is very encouraging to my musically-oriented 6 y.o. Thank you!As I read your educational philosophy, I feel affirmed and stretched at the same time. Affirmed, because you articulate so well what had been for me a nebulous sort of gut-feeling. Stretched, because you prompt me to expand that further. This is the same kind of response Ive heard from a few other people who are reading yourAnd the Skylark Sings with Me by David H. Albert book offline look eng audio
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Updated To Follow The Recommendations Put Forth By The ACM/SIGCSE 2001 Task Force, Analysis Of Algorithms Raises Awareness Of The Effects That Algorithms Have On The Efficiency Of A Program And Develops The Necessary Skills To Analyze General Algorithms Used In Programs. The Text Presents The Material With The Expectation That It Can Be Used With Active And Cooperative Learning Methodology, Based On The Premise That Students Learn More Effectively And Retain More Information Longer When They Are Active Participants In The Learning Process. To Accomplish This, The Chapters Are Clear And Complete To Encourage Students To Prepare By Reading Before Class, And The Text Is Filled With Exciting Examples And Exercises That Look At The Efficiency Of Various Algorithms To Solve A Problem. The Author Is Well Known For Workshops That He Presents On The Active Learning Model. He Has Written An Instructors Manual That Helps Instructors Understand How To Present The Material In An Active Way.Analysis of Algorithms by Jeffrey J. McConnell download text story epub sale
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Kathryn was about to enter the church when she found out her future husband was no more than a fortune hunter. Without letting herself get discouraged, Kathryn got herself out of her elegant wedding gown and left . . . fleeing right into the arms of Jonah Clarke. Jonah was too gallant to allow the bride-to-be to run away without an escort. Kathryn immediately discovered allowing herself to be protected by such a handsome man created all the emotion of a honeymoon . . . but they were not married . . . yet.Backwards Honeymoon by Leigh Michaels (Goodreads Author) access review bookshop itunes free
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This is much more than an account of cars and races. Nixon - a highly accomplished motoring writer - approached his subject more like a social historian, travelling the world to interview all the survivors, widows et al, so the colour and texture of the time is just brilliant. Its one of those rare car books that is so good you dont have to be that interested in the subject to appreciate it - however his depth of knowlege and research is evident. When the day comes I have to thin out my motoring library this will be one of the very last to be let go.Racing Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz Versus Auto Union 1934-1939 by Chris Nixon free eReader touch how download reader
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet and the Bard of Avon (or simply The Bard). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George's Day.At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlains Men, later known as the Kings Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeares private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeares.Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeares genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called bardolatry. In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.According to historians, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout the span of his life. Shakespeares writing average was 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589. There have been plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare that were not authentically written by the great master of language and literature.Everymans Poetry by William Shakespeare free writer original german reader
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Two years after the Empire abandoned them on Avalon, Colonel Edward Stalker and his Marines have established the Commonwealth, a union of worlds intended to take the place of the vanished Empire. But now contact has been made with a remnant of the Empire, a successor state controlled by a ruthless dictator bent on crushing the Commonwealth and expanding her rule over the entire galaxy. While the Commonwealth frantically prepares for war, a small team of Marines is dispatched to the enemy homeworld with orders to bring down the dictator – by any means necessary ...Semper Fi by Christopher Nuttall (Goodreads Author) format eReader thepiratebay text online
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Yes! Epic! Epic! This volume was smexy! Dude, I was nearly shitting pickles there for a moment because the last volume ended on a very sad note. It was so sad I tasted emo in my mouth. [[Enter Flashback!]]*In the Corner of Woe cutting herself with a Spork whilst blubbering her eyes out*[[End Flashback!]] Yeah... it was not pretty. But this one! Dude, this one was so much better. Mind you, there were still a lot of parts that makes you want to run into traffic but it was necessary to get the good parts across. The beginning was the worst of it all. That was just... unbearable. I couldnt handle how Kyo was acting, how Tohru was hurting, how Akito was being a bloody douche. It was all a bunch of... BLAH! NOT GOOD! Towards the middle and then the end, oh man! That was wonderful! I am so glad it ended the way it did because... I couldnt handle another emo session... my Spork doesnt like working overtime. X3My, my, Sensei. Your ablitity to balance things out makes me love you. Its no wonder I want to collect this series so bad. She was fully aware of the fact that last volume was an angst fest so she had to make this one at least a little bit light, ne? I appreciated that a lot. In this volume, there was the return of the side panels so we got more information on some of the characters. For example, the info about Manabes landlord! That was pretty cool. Also, I want to comment on her story-telling abilities. This woman really knows life and she has some amazing lessons that she incorporates into her writing that I feel every single volume could help you grow into a better person, if only you are willing to take it in. This mangaka is pure awesomeness. Im noticing that she is wrapping everything up in a nice way. Its fitting so perfectly. Theres still a lot left to be done. A lot left. However, the way that she is making everything turn out, so far, is just amazing. I love you, Takaya-sensei. You make this fangirl giggle with joy~WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOHRU AND KYO ARE SO SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET TOGETHER!!!! <33333333 *Ahem* Sorry... I had a moment. But... uh... they were so cute! Dude, I was so worried that things were heading towards the stupid. Kyo was acting up and I was getting ready to smack him but things are okay. I mean, of course they are! Its Tohru and Kyo! Things are just working out so well for them. Theres still a couple of things they need to work out but its getting there. Slowly but surely. Which is good. Kyo was really being a dumbass for a while there. So much so that Yuki actually stepped in and kicked his ass, which I am very happy about. Not only that, Uo and Hana was giving him hell, too. Its all for the best. They just wanted to open his eyes and I felt that it worked great. Speaking of Yuki... HE AND MACHI ARE LOVE! They had a nice moment, too! In fact, they are the ones that close the volume! I love it. They are growing so much and youre seeing that they are finding their happiness with each other. Their relationship is one that was really built from scratch up. It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. X3 Oh, something really bad happens to Tohru and you get to see the reactions of all the Zodiac members. Its nice getting to see how they all care about her......speaking of Zodiac members... you know whats coming next... Akito. Thats right... God. *Rolls eyes* Ugh... I dont know what to say about him. I feel like I should lighten up and not give him so much hell but... I just cant forget all the crap that hes pulled. Sure, things are very much explained as to why he is the way he is and sure... we get to see him open up... but its just too damn hard for me to forgive him. He did a lot of horrible things so... how can I forgive him? Its just not possible. I can say this though, even though my hatred for him has not died down and I still want him dead, I can appreciate the fact that he went to look for help when Tohru needed it. I can also see that hes slowly changing. Hes not trying to be a dick anymore and thats all thanks to our lovely girl, Tohru... but... eh... I just wish I could bring myself to forgive him and like him. I know he went through shit. We all do. I still cant feel any love towards him. I want him dead. Thats the only way I feel I can maybe come to understand him. Dead and buried. >_< Shigure cares for him in his own twisted way but I still have trouble seeing how he could. I guess what Im trying to say is, I know how he mustve felt, he went through a lot, and hes grown up with this certain type of mentality (no thanks to his parents) and I can see that hes trying to change... but... considering what he did to the other characters: to Yuki, Haru, Rin, Kyo... I cant bring myself to like him... not one bit. Hopefully you guys have a better experience with this than I had.Holy crap. Am I really done with this volume? Am I really only two more away from the end? Why, yes I am. This is so exciting. I see now that things are getting to a better end. Thank god. I felt that I was going to have to eat the stupid and I dont like eating stupid. Oh dear... I wonder what Kyo is going to do now. He needs to make every single thing right now and theres still the fact that hes not free. I know Tohru is not going to give up on him... and now that hes being pushed in the right direction... I dont think Kyo will give up either. This is going to be a fun ride. We are most likely going to see the climax next and then the stunning conclusion in the last volume. This is going to be good! Please, guys! We made it this far! Might as well continue to the very end! Ill see you in the 22nd volume of Fruits Basket! See you soon~Fruits Basket, Volume 21 by Natsuki Takaya portable francais eReader book italian