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Weaver gave up four home runs in 3 2/3 innings of work Sunday, opening the door for the Seattle Mariners' 9-4 victory over the Angels at Angel Stadium.
The veteran pitcher has allowed 12 home runs in eight games this season, putting him well ahead of last year's pace in which he gave up 35 home runs in 34 games for the Dodgers.
"Home runs have always been part of the game," Weaver said. "It's the two- and three-run home runs that are killing me right now."
The Mariners had a little bit of everything against Weaver on Sunday, starting with Raul Ibanez's two-run home run in the first inning. Jose Lopez was next, hitting a two-run shot in the third inning that gave the Mariners a 4-0 lead.
"Today was just a matter of execution," Weaver said. "Not only that, but they were dialed in. There were no bad swings. They were way too comfortable, and every mistake I made, they made me pay."
The Angels' offense gave Weaver a chance to redeem himself when it scored four runs in the third inning to tie the score. Vladimir Guerrero got one run home when he hit a shot off of the pitcher's mound that caromed into center field, allowing Chone Figgins to score from second.
Orlando Cabrera scored on a grounder by Garret Anderson, and Adam Kennedy hit a two-run home run. Anderson left the game in the seventh inning with tightness in his left hamstring. His status is day to day. But Weaver gave the lead back to the Mariners.
Carl Everett was the first batter to face Weaver in the top of the fourth inning, and he turned the first pitch he saw into his sixth home run of the season.
Yuniesky Betancourt, who had gone without a home run in his first 36 games of the season, added a two-run homer later in the inning to give to give the Mariners a 7-4 lead.
"He had a lot of trouble hitting spots and never really got into any kind of effective groove," Manager Mike Scioscia said of Weaver. "There were a couple of hitters that looked like it was coming together for him, and he made some good pitches, but all in all he was missing spots and he paid a price."
The Angels remained within comeback range until the seventh inning when two unearned runs gave the Mariners their five-run cushion.
Ichiro Suzuki walked to begin the inning, and Lopez followed with a base hit to right field. Guerrero's throw to third was too late to get Suzuki, but Figgins fired a throw to second base in an attempt to get Lopez. Neither Cabrera nor Kennedy was at second base when Figgins' throw arrived, and Lopez ended up kicking the ball into center field. Suzuki and Lopez scored unearned runs on the play.
Emiliano Fruto made his major-league debut in the sixth inning and earned his first career save. He gave up one hit and one walk in 3 2/3 innings.
The Angels were threatening, with runners at first and third, when Fruto entered the game, but he got Figgins to hit into an inning-ending double play.


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The Issue:
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Alden Management Consulting Group worked with senior management and a selected group of employees from human resources and several other departments. Using cycle-time reduction methodologies to review the current hiring process we created and implemented a new hiring process for the Company. This new process was developed and implemented within a period of 40 hours (one week). The new process dramatically changed how the Company fills open positions. It created greater efficiency and they filled the majority of the organization's open positions within a two-week period.
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Somewhere in the crowd could be the club you need to know – and Le Caveau de la Huchette is it. If you didn't get the reference, this is literally the jazz club that appears in the Oscar-winning film La La Land for a brief moment and it's just as rocking as it appears in the film. As the birthplace of Parisian jazz, many greats have performed here and it still attracts a loyal crowd of enthusiasts. If you're something of a history buff, this moody space is packed with it as revolutionaries like Robespierre and Marat once flocked to its tables back in the 1780s – way before jazz was even a thing. Nowadays though, it's a top Paris jazz club. Just don't bank on Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone being there.
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How Chief Financial Officers Use Healthcare Business Intelligence
por Scott Wanless
Originally published marzo 20, 2007
Early in my career, I had a job interview where the manager asked one question – what makes for a good business decision? At that moment, the phone rang and the manager took the call, so I had a minute or two to think about my answer. I decided to dispense with a sophisticated answer and just tell him what my parents always taught me. That is, a good business decision allows us to win today, a better one allows us to win tomorrow, and the best decision is one that allows us to change the game so we win every day. For the next hour, we just talked about examples of good and bad decisions we had made and good and bad decisions we had seen others make.
I got the offer. Wonderful boss. Thankless job.
The factors that make for good, better and best business decisions have a lot to do with the factors that make for good, better and best performance measures. Business performance follows business decisions. Performance measures essentially fall into three levels of effectiveness. At the bottom are measures that simply monitor what happened. Above those are measures that steer us to make the right decisions today. And at the top are measures that give us the opportunity to transform the organization. In effect, the best measures are those that allow us to change the game.
Healthcare provider organizations measure a wide variety of activities and results from a wide variety of perspectives. Measures exist to monitor, steer and/or transform clinical quality, clinical results, operational activities, costs and results, access and outreach efforts and results, marketing efforts and results, recruiting, staffing and development efforts and results, and research efforts and results, just to name a few. And, of course, there is always the job of the chief financial officer (CFO) to make sure that the organization can perform all of these activities, achieve all of these results and still make a buck.
For the past twenty years, I have worked with executives, managers, professional and operational people, analytical people and support people across a number of industries and a number of business functions. Of all of the people I have met, the CFO of a healthcare provider organization may have the most challenging job and may very well be the one who can benefit most from business intelligence applications and capabilities. The key reason for this assessment is the sheer complexity of the job to not only analyze and report organizational results, but also to steer performance for today and transform the organization for the future. For a number of reasons that I will describe shortly, if you can make it as a CFO of a healthcare provider organization, you can probably make it anywhere.
The demands on the CFO are immense. Business intelligence can help.
Key Challenges for Healthcare Provider CFOs
The combination of these complex environmental components makes measuring success highly challenging. It is this backdrop of complexity that makes business intelligence that much more critical to the CFO.
Good Performance Measures: Monitoring the Healthcare Provider Organization
In addition, the traditional financial measures used by CFOs across most industries have been around since the late 1600s, when the Spanish Mint first developed the concept of debits and credits to better track gold shipments. Examples include days cash on hand, days in accounts receivable, debt service coverage ratio, collection rates, quick ratios, long-term ratios, gross margin, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), etc.
For the most part, these measures are used to keep the ship on an even keel. There have been additions to both categories of monitoring measures (i.e., healthcare finance and general finance) over the years. And, at times, one or more measures may get extra attention in response to temporary situations (e.g., cash may get attention this year, but margins may get attention next year, and case mix may get attention the following year). But overall, they have proven pretty durable and have remained fairly stable.
One reason for their durability is that most of the traditional monitoring measures are required by government regulatory bodies. Tax reporting requirements are the biggest culprit.
These measures do suffer from two key problems, however. First of all, they are all backward looking, or as W. Edwards Deming said regarding inspection as a quality management method – it is the equivalent of driving a car using the rearview mirror as your guide. A collision is imminent.
The second shortfall of traditional monitoring measures stems from the first. In other words, while they may imply action and state the impact in financial terms, they do not tell the entire organization what to do to correct the situation, let alone improve it. This translation of financial results into the actions each person should take is often left up to the individual (in situations of really bad leadership), or translated by each department or function of the company individually (in better, but not optimal, situations).
These measures are, however, essential to the organization's success; and this is one area where business intelligence can help the CFO. Chief financial officers have long been interested in visibility to the formal financial measures drilled down a number of different ways in order to root out problems such as pockets of excess costs, overlooked sources of revenue or capital that is tied up in nonproductive resources.
In some cases, having this capability can even have a critical, survival impact. For instance, if cash flow is in danger, it can be very insightful to be able to see cash flow sources and uses not only by formal business units and facilities, but also by service line, by payer, by facility type and even by patient and patient grouping. This data can be used to tap into sources of cash that are slow moving as well as identify cash users who are moving too fast, causing a cash shortage.
The key is to take the data already being used by the organization for formal reporting purposes and provide the ability to drill down, up and sideways in ways that have not been used before.
Better Performance Measures: Steering the Healthcare Provider Organization
Each one of these and potentially hundreds of other nonfinancial measures can be translated into the dollar impact (positive or negative) on the organization. Nonfinancial measures drive financial success. This translation task typically falls to the CFO and his/her team, and it is one area where CFOs can benefit greatly from business intelligence.
Business intelligence capabilities offer the financial team the ability to forecast revenue based on patient volume trends and patterns. It provides information to better plan labor costs based on staffing level and mix requirements (regulatory and nonregulatory). It is used to combine data to uncover problem areas such as service lines that are consuming too much capital, but that provide little in the way of profitability.
Using business intelligence effectively in support of financial analysis and financial management to help decision makers steer the organization requires two key practices. The first is two-way translation. As stated earlier, most decision makers do not deal in measures stated in dollars, but in other non-financial measures. One key unit of measure for the chief medical officer, for instance, is people counts. Counts of people in patient panels. Counts of patients admitted, seen, treated. Counts of diabetes patients in A1c control by clinic, by physician, by gender, etc. Counts of physicians by specialty with certain educational qualifications. This is how the CMO manages his/her world. In counts, not dollars. Using this example, it is therefore essential to be able to translate from people counts into dollars (CMO to CFO), as well as from dollars to counts (CFO to CMO).
The second business intelligence practice is comprehensive drill-down capabilities. One of the key sources of performance failure in healthcare provider organizations (or any organization for that matter) is the misalignment of performance targets and performance results measurements from the top to the bottom of the organization. If a dashboard or a scorecard is created at the executive level and no corresponding drilldown is supported at the director level, manager level and operational staff level, then how can those successive levels of people be expected to perform appropriately? What does a hospital wing administrator do, for instance, with information at the corporate level on cost overruns? What action does he/she take? What units of measure will give this person insight into decisions that will help the corporate situation? Occupancy rates? Staffing ratios? Staff mix versus patient mix?
The ability to steer decisions by people up, down and across the organization that contribute to the success of the entire organization is what business intelligence can support. But it takes two-way translation of measures and the ability to link these measures throughout the organization to be successful.
Best Performance Measures: Transforming the Healthcare Provider Organization
The CFO is in a prime position to introduce these new measures of success and to link them to existing financial measures to ensure that the organization becomes lighter, brighter, faster and stronger.
Most healthcare provider organizations have four pillars in their strategic plans – patients, practices, capabilities and growth. And there are a number of new measures that are gaining traction in organizations worldwide to not only guide actions today, but also to link them to the rest of the organization and to the results of the organization as a whole.
Strategic Contribution
It is essential to the success of the organization (long-term, short-term, financial, nonfinancial) to investigate and develop these new measures, to link them across the organization and to tie them together from top to bottom.
Next Steps
That is the promise of business intelligence – to provide information at the level of the organization that is relevant to and actionable by each person receiving it, while ensuring that it is linked all the way up the chain to the strategic intent of the organization. In short, to measure every decision in terms of how well it contributes to the provider's strategy.
This is what transforms organizations. This is what can transform your organization.
Thanks for reading!
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Neymar wants UEFA to kick Barcelona out of Champions League
Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, has urged UEFA to kick Barcelona out of the Champions League over withheld bonus.
Neymar left Barca to join the Ligue 1 champions last summer for a world-record £200m fee.
According to Spanish outlet, AS, the Brazilian believes his father should have received a loyalty payment, after he put off his transfer until after July 31 – the move was eventually completed on August 3.
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Imagine that you are a content editor working on quite a large Umbraco website. Just before pushing it live the client sends you a message: "Our PR agency has asked us to change all the content that says 'amazing' to 'sensational' because it converts better."
What is your first action? How do you approach it? Using stock Umbraco you would have to go through all the pages, manually read them, replace sentences and at the end, you wouldn't be 100 per cent sure that you changed all of them. Tough life you say. Well, not necessarily!
Here at The Cogworks we faced a similar issue and decided to do something about it. What happened? I'll take you through the whole story from when the need transferred to the idea right through to the ready to use package.
Let's begin: Far, Far away...
Internally at Cogworks, we use Slack to communicate as a company. Right now we have 161 channels in there and one of those is the #packages channel where anyone can post an idea for new functionality.
And then came June 22nd, 2016
If you're reading our blog you probably know most of the people from discussion. Huan is a Content Project Manager. Callum, Ismail and Anthony are knights of the Development Team.
So we have the idea, what's the next step?
We use Trello for task management. It's not the regular version, we have a lot of code behind our processes to automate things and make it as simple as possible. We will write about that in a separate post, so stay tuned!
Our idea was to put it into our "Bucket" list on the Planning Board and wait for free development resources.
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And then BOOM!
Then the moment happened and we began to start work on it! The first phase was to decide how it would work and where we should put it. We like to keep things simple and follow this rule...
"less is more"
So, the functionality must be super simple. We needed the ability to select a source, form fields for the find & replace phrase and a button to invoke the search action. For the source selector, we could use a content node picker and place the whole functionality as a dashboard tab in the Content section. But wait, we want it to be simple and adding a content picker on the dashboard tab is not so obvious...
Hmm... we can use the current Content tree to select a source and add a new menu item!
Ok, so it has it's location. Let's add form fields and the Search button.
In the meantime: "Reinforcements have arrived"
We started working on showing results and marking changes.
We got it! Some tests were needed so we shared it internally.
New feature request for Replace All functionality.
Looks good but... it wasn't so flawless along the way
We had some issues with PetaPoco SQL queries - parameters injection was not working properly for the Fetch method.
We fixed it using a LIKE statement instead of CHARINDEX.
We also had to refactor some core logic in JavaScript code to improve updating separately each replaces for the same content node.
After fixing all the issues the task was moved to Code Review
and to Internal QA
Find and Replace is fully functional right now. Its simplicity is its power, we hope it can be part of Umbraco's core functionality one day. For now... STAY TUNED!
We will share the production version with you soon.
PS: Replacing 'amazing' to 'sensational' is fake. It was client-related and I had to change it, but you get the idea :)


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Guests Can Earn Gift Certificates While Dreaming of Sugar Plums
IRVING, Texas, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Preparing for the holidays evokes thoughts of shopping excursions, gift giving, travel and Mom's special meals. To make the season even brighter, Omni Hotels is offering holiday revelers a $50 gift certificate when they book two consecutive nights or two rooms. The Holiday Dreams promotion, which is available at most hotels through Jan. 31, 2006, also includes two breakfast coupons and turndown service with enough milk and cookies to ensure the sweetest of holiday slumber.
Guests can apply the Omni Hotels gift certificates to their current or future stays, or they can give the gift certificate to a family member or friend as a unique holiday treat. Gift certificates are valid at any Omni Hotels property and can be redeemed on hotel services, in the restaurants and on retail items.
"The holidays are about giving, and at Omni Hotels, we enjoy giving our guests a little added luxury to make their stays even more festive this time of year," said Caryn Kboudi, Omni Hotels' vice president of marketing. "We always look so forward to this special season and pampering our guests with a memorable holiday experience at an Omni Hotel."
In addition to the Holiday Dreams package, a number of individual Omni Hotels properties are offering other specials and promotions to make the holidays even brighter.
American Girl Package:
Offered at the Omni Chicago Hotel on Michigan Avenue, the package is ideal for families with children who are fans of American Girl dolls. The package includes a doll-sized bed and turndown service plus an American Girl music CD for the child to take home. Children and parents alike will enjoy one free in-room movie rental and cookies and milk delivered to the room. The package is priced from $239 and available through Dec. 31, 2005.
Kick 'Em off the Couch Package:
Omni Hotels in California are offering a stress-free alternative for out- of-town relatives visiting for the holiday. Not only does the package include breakfast for two each morning and complimentary gift-wrapping, guests also receive a choice of homemade green bean casserole or pumpkin pie to bring to the family holiday dinner. The package is available Nov. 24, 2005 through Jan. 8, 2006. Rates vary by hotel. The Omni San Diego rate begins at $139 per room, per night; the Omni Los Angeles rate begins at $159 per room, per night; and the Omni San Francisco rate begins at $199 per room, per night.
Wrap Up, Wind Down Shopping Package:
Offered at the Omni Interlocken Resort near Denver and Boulder, this package is the ideal stress-free family getaway and offers plenty of holiday cheer for kids and parents alike. Guests receive complimentary champagne and hot chocolate at check-in from 2-6 p.m., along with several other complimentary benefits:
* Round-trip shuttle service to nearby Flatiron Shopping Complex
* Gift wrapping at the hotel's concierge desk
* One 15-minute foot massage at the hotel's spa after a day of shopping
* A children's two-hour resort tour, which includes baking cookies and a
visit to Butterfly Pavilion, and a children's movie on Saturday
The package is priced from $119 per night and is available weekends through Dec. 15, 2005 and everyday between Dec. 16, 2005 and Jan. 1, 2006.
Rates for all packages listed vary by hotel and room type and do not include taxes. Rates are based on double occupancy and are subject to availability and blackout dates. Advance reservations are required. The packages do not apply to group conventions and cannot be combined with other discounts. Details, terms and conditions are available at http://www.omnihotels.com/ or guests may contact Omni Hotels at 1-800-THE-OMNI.
Omni Hotels was recently ranked "Highest in Guest Satisfaction Among Upscale Hotel Chains" in the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study(SM). The brand offers surprisingly sensible luxury accommodations at 40 hotels and resorts located throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Each property in the Omni Hotels portfolio provides guests with exceptional personalized service and exquisite decor, creating a distinctive experience at each location. Omni Hotels offers unsurpassed facilities with a wide range of guest services and amenities including high-speed Internet connectivity, wine tastings, gourmet dining and unique fitness options from in-room workouts to state-of-the-art fitness facilities.


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I have been meeting a lot of new people during my six months in Paris and recently, whenever I mention that I am a writer who has moved to Paris to 'be inspired', the person I am speaking to asks if I have seen Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris. As I generally dislike Owen Wilson, don't really enjoy Woody Allen's work, and found the advertising posters for the movie to be particularly off-putting, I had avoided seeing it. However, everyone insisted that I go and see it and so Tom and I finally spent a rainy afternoon sitting in a tiny cinema, reminiscent of the Luna cinemas in Perth.
Ok, I will admit it straight away – I cried at the end of the movie. Not because the movie was so amazing or the script so wonderful, but because Owen Wilson's character was me. Someone searching for something that they can't necessarily get but hoping that Paris will provide them with the answers. No, I haven't gone back in time and met amazing writers from the past or fallen in love with someone from the 1920s but I do walk the streets of Paris wearing rose coloured glasses and seeing this city as the be all and end all. The main reason for my tears was that the movie painted Paris as I see it – amazing sites, beautiful people, constant excitement – and it frightens me that I am going to lose it all soon. Owen Wilson's character arrogantly decides to "move to Paris" – although I do wonder how French immigration feel about that – and all I want to do at the moment is make that declaration myself. Luckily for Owen, visas don't exist in the movies.
Anyhoo, the movie itself was fun and easy to watch and I didn't completely hate Owen Wilson but I think that's just because we suddenly had something in common. The script wasn't bad, the plot was acceptable and Woody Allen managed to make a fairly exaggerated story line seem somewhat acceptable. It is a fairy tale for adults but who doesn't like to escape with the fairies every now and then? Plus it was fun to play spotto with the scenes in the movie – I get a bit of an ego kick when I watch a movie set in a city like Paris and tell you exactly where they are. Owen Wilson spends a lot of time down near the bridge Pont Neuf (built by Henry III in the 1500s) and keeps walking past where I explained the history of Paris to my tour groups.
Oh, and I think the reason why I managed to like Owen Wilson was because I detested his girlfriend and her family so much. Those characters were a bit excessive with their dislike of Paris and their over-the-top wealth. I found them to be more unbelievable than the characters from the past.


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Towel Required!
Towel Required! 1.0 for Mac can be downloaded from our website for free. Our built-in antivirus checked this Mac download and rated it as virus free. Towel Required! for Mac lies within Games, more precisely Adventure. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is Stuck East.
From the developer:
Towel Required! is a free-to-play endless shooter where it's your job to towel all the naked old men so they can leave the gym shower. Collect power-ups, avoid angry old men, and rack up a high score before you're overwhelmed by 70-year-old man boobs.
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Introduction: How to See Your Name on the Toolbar???
You can see your name on the toolbar(exactly beside the "time") by following these steps:
1)Open control panel -> region and language
2)Click on formats.
3)Click on additional setting.
4)Click on time.
5)Change the AM or the PM symbols to the name you want.
6)Then press apply or OK.
7)The trick is done.
Its a funny trick that can be easily done and you can surprise your friends with.
The steps i gave is for windows 7 ,but it can be done on windows XP and vista but their will be a slight variation in the steps.
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Yeah, great tip!
Go on and change the system wide setting that controls the textual representation of time. So a file was created "5/22/2011 7:41 blackey" and your word processor might add the current time as "2:23 mohamadelmoussa"
Your trick will not work in countries where the AM/PM scheme is not used (24h clocks)
Why do you want that anyway? Do you occasionally forget who you are?
Only reason I can think of would be a multi-user machine with similar desktops for the users. In that case, look for the tool BGInfo of the Sysinternals suite of tools, it allows you to put system information on the desktop.
Seriously verence, chill out. Dude was having fun, not even a "virus" practical joke, just a fun thing to do.
mohamadelmoussa, good instructable, short to the point and fun.
First of all ,why you are so angry in your comment ,Second i mentioned that this trick is only for fun so the purpose is*FUN*(not to remember my name).So let your comment be more positive and polite.
I love it!
Not sure there would ever be a practical use for this, But nice to know that it can actually be done.
Good job!


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Kevin Mullen Shield
Young Irelands reach Kevin Mullen Shield last four after comeback win over Sean McDermott's
Dundalk Young Irelands 2-8 Sean McDermott's 2-6
Johnny Lynch of Young Irelands. (Pic: Arthur Kinahan)
Kevin Mullen Shield
Dundalk Young Irelands 2-8 Sean McDermott's 2-6
Dundalk Young Irelands will play Naomh Malachi in the Kevin Mullen Shield semi-final following their narrow triumph against Sean McDermott's in Dundalk on Tuesday night.
Two goals towards the end of the first half saw the McDermott's go to the break in front - 2-3 to 1-5 - with the Irelanders' major coming from Peter McStravick for his second three-pointer in two outings.
Centre-forward Dean Maguire got his name on the scoresheet on a couple of occasions in the opening half and the Irelanders' man continued this trend after the interval to tie the match immediately.
The Seans went back in front momentarily before Shadam Azeez lobbed home the winners' second goal of the contest and from that point onwards, they were the favourite for victory.
The Churchstown side poured forward in the closing minutes in search of parity, however, having spurned three dead-ball opportunities, they closed the affair two points in arrears.
Dundalk Young Irelands: Ify Kwelele; Alan Minto, Peter McCourt, Stephen Bellew; Aaron Murray, Peter Nixon, Shadam Azeez (1-0); Derek Rogers, Seán McLoughlin; Dermot Mone (0-1), Dean Maguire (0-4), Peter McStravick (1-1); Jordan O'Donoghue (0-1), Mark Savage, Cian O'Donoghue (0-1)
Subs: Alan Hanks, Óisín McCabe, Luke Hazard, Aaron Fee


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If you came up to me and asked, "Joyner Lucas vs. Tory Lanez – at the end of rap battle, who would be six feet in the mud? – I would probably tell you without a hint of hesitation, that Tory is a dead nigga standing". As much as, I am a fan of Tory, he's more of a pop star than a rapper. However the events of epic rap feud have left me shook.
For someone of you, who don't know what the hell I'm going on about, take a seat, as I briefly get you up to speed. For some time, there has been back 2 back trash talking fest' between the two, on these social media streets and after Tory referred to Joyner as the "Joyner kid" and said that he could go "bar for bar with any rapper", to which Joyner responded by telling Tory to "pick any beat" for them to both rap over – and after those words were uttered, the ground started trembling, the skies cracked open and from the mighty heavens, the bars rained and good heavens they rained hard.
Let's review the first two rounds of the Joyner Lucas vs. Tory Lanez Rap Battle:
ROUND 1: Tory Lanez – Lucky You (Freestyle) vs. Joyner Lucas – Litty (freestyle)
Tory Lanez – Lucky You (Freestyle)
The beat and title of this track was taken from Eminem and Joyner's 2018 track "Lucky You". The Canadian singer mimicked Joyner's flow and specifically, his high tempo rapping style, just to let the fans know that the he could do anything his opponent could do but better, he further expressed that point on the track's outro,
"Let these niggas know that all that rapping fast shit/We can do it too, nigga/Niggas be thinking they got that special sauce/Not today, nigga.." The track boasted other bars like, "Look, lil nigga, uh/I got the remedy, I got the shooters with hidden identities/Fuck who you send at me"
But nothing that would have me wondering, if Joyner could bury him.
Joyner Lucas – Litty (freestyle)
Less than 24hrs later Joyner dropped Litty Freestyle which was taken from Meek Mill and Tory's 2016 track of the same name. Joyner showed that he would not let no singer rapper step to him and live to talk about it. He went HAM on Tory with lines such as,
"Only few real niggas left, they ain't many (Yuh)/They compare me to Em, they compare you to Iggy (Oh)/They compare me to Meth, they compare you to Glizzy (Oh, oh)/I'm Leonardo Da Vinci, I paint a picture with color/I already got cake and I don't need a butler (Yeah)/We already got Drake and we don't need another/I don't really got space but I'ma eat your supper (Woo)".
In this verse he clearly draws parallel between himself and HipHop legends Method Men and Eminem, while comparing Tory to Shy Glizzy and Iggy Azalea. He further goes on to make mention of criticism Tory obtained early in his career to for copying Drake's singer/rapper style.
After listening to the first two tracks – Joyner Lucas was the clear winner of round 1.
ROUND 2: Tory Lanez – Litty Again (Freestyle) vs. Joyner Lucas – ZEZE (freestyle)
Tory Lanez – Litty Again (Freestyle)
I will be honest, like everybody, I know I didn't see Tory being able to comeback with anything that would shift things in his favour but my, oh my, was I dead wrong. The "Say it" hit maker attacked Joyner on everything from his father's failed career –
"See ya daddy was a musician that never made it/'Cause when you was born nigga it was you or him/Shattered knowing he would never make it as an artist/And the odds of his life prolly be 2 to 1/But I give it to him 'cause he didn't run/I guess he figured, "man when you look at it in a nutshell/All I got is a failed music career and/My revenge is giving that shit to my son";
to Joyner's lack of commercial success even with co-signs from Em "I got five plaques this year, you did a whole song with Eminem and still don't even have one nigga". Tory went further by mimicking Joyner's multiple perspective storytelling rapping style, with bars like,
"I'm Joyner Lucas, why did I start it with this guy?/Tory Lanez coming back what am I gonna do this time?/They ain't like none of my diss lines/Everybody knows I can spit it in quick time/Even if the lines is as shitty as 6ix9ine's/But this time they ain't really letting me get by/Fuck I'm finna do with this shit now?…"
I could on and on but the point is Joyner got bodied by a singing nigga on this track.
Joyner Lucas – ZEZE (freestyle)
Joyner decided to sample Kodak Black's hit track "Zeze", as his rebuttal to Litty Again and this time, he took the opportunity to highlight Tory's history of biting and stealing flows,
"Okay, let's talk about your plagiarism that you hate to mention (Yeah)/Or talk about the hate you giving to the greats you dissing/(Let's talk about it)/And that writer who wrote yo' shit still ain't get paid on that "Don't Die" record/You should probably go pay the nigga (Yeah, man)/And how the fuck you talk about Kendrick when he a legend (Huh)/Then go bite the nigga style on your record right at the ending/On 4AM Flex 2 minutes and 50 seconds/Sound exactly like the Art of Peer Pressure, go take a listen…"
Now as dope as this verse may be, it's not new news that Tory bites flows – the dude has been accused of stealing a numbers of artists' flows including Don Q, Eric Bellinger, GlockSavvy, Travis Scott & Drake to name a few.
Zeze (Freestyle) was a solid response to Litty (Freestyle) but the winner of round 2 goes to Tory Lanez.
In Conclusion
Word of advice to anyone following this rap battle, turn your notifications on, cause this war of bars is far from over.


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Press on Texas Massacre: Attacker Had 'Military-Style' Weapon, Man Who Shot Him Had a 'Rifle'
The gun-control crowd quickly ratcheted down its political opportunism in the wake of Sunday's Sutherland Springs, Texas church massacre once it became known that a "good guy with a gun" put a stop to Devin Kelley's killing spree, saving dozens of lives. At RedState on Wednesday, Carl Arbogast noted that what remained was a double standard in press descriptions of the respective weapons used by Kelley and Stephen Willeford, the man who stopped him.
The objective in the media reporting Arbogast noted was to describe Kelley's weapon in frightening, gun control-friendly terms, while describing Willeford's weapon generically (bolds are mine):
… Nearly every story about Kelley talked about the type of gun he used and naturally, the stories were punctuated by describing the gun as "military style" and an "assault weapon." But Willeford just used a gun. Or a rifle.
Here are the examples of the double standard Arbogast cited (links are in original):
Observe How The Media Describes Stephen Willeford's Firearm Vs. Devin Kelley
If there's anything the media hates, it's a story about a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun. Worse for them is knowing the guy is an NRA instructor. But it goes further than that. Looking through the stories about Willeford, a pattern emerges in their reporting.
Here are some examples. CNN:
When Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire inside First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday, Stephen Willeford, who lives near the church, grabbed his own gun and ran out of the house barefoot to confront the gunman.
Willeford said he had very little time to think Sunday when his daughter told him about the shooting. He loaded his magazine and ran across the street to the church, not even taking the time to put on shoes. When Willeford saw the gunman, he exchanged gunfire.
Willeford said he grabbed his rifle from a safe and ran barefoot to the church when his daughter told him about the shooting. Once there, he confronted 26-year-old gunman Devin Patrick Kelley and the two traded gunfire.
Willeford says his daughter alerted him to what sounded like shots being fired at the nearby First Baptist Church. That is when, he said, he got his rifle out of his safe.
Willeford said he was at home in Sutherland Springs when his daughter heard gunfire at the church. He grabbed his rifle, loaded it and ran barefoot to the church.
Meanwhile, Arbogast noted, by linking to a Google search, the high frequency with which Kelley's firearm was described as a "military-style" or "assault" weapon. A Google Web search on Arbogast's search term returned 187 items when I repeated it Saturday afternoon. The detailed results comprise a veritable Who's Who of the establishment press.
Well, what kind of rifle did Willeford actually use? (bold and italics are in original)?
Willeford used an AR-15. That's right. One of those "military-style assault weapons" they're always crowing about.
Imagine that.
There must be a tacit journalists' stylebook rule saying that a good guy with a gun can never be described as using an "assault weapon" — even when he or she uses a firearm the gun-grabbers routinely describe as an "assault weapon" or a "military-style rifle" when coming up with ideas for getting them out of circulation or confiscating them.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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STAUNTON – Jason Wayne Alphin, 30, of 158 Shady Hollow Lane, passed away Friday, April 3, 2015, at his residence.
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The Void Inn band were formed in California, but based in Serbia, lead by Jelena Vojanovich, has recently hosted a kickass show in S8 Underground Club at Stadionok, Budapest, Hungary.
The place itself is a live music venue with two stages and two dressing rooms for the performers. One night at the foam halls, concerts take place on both stages. One stage is in the bigger hall, coupled with the bar counter.
The other stage is in a small room.
At the bar, drinks are available at affordable prices, so you can be consumed at a fair price.
At this evening, where I was attending, was accompanied by several bands.
In addition to the Void Inn, the Hungarian Karmanora band started to warm up the atmosphere. They play souldiving rock and now have their 504 titled EP recently released.
They were followed the Hungarian Lucy band. The guys play hard rock, which I can best compare to Green Day.
As the show slipped, the highlight of the night, the Void Inn band, was delayed a bit. They play dark hard rock and alternative metal. We had a familiar atmosphere, so we felt very great.
At the addition song, a member of Lucy was called together to perform a song that put the foam on the cake.
That evening even it turned out that Jelena is a very nice, direct girl. After the interview, which you can read below, she were invited me to talk and then played table football.
On the spot there are regular concerts almost every evening so you should pay attention to their Facebook page and their website, where all events are posted.
But now it's the time for the interview with Jelena, which I was made with her before the shows.
01. I would like to ask you, tell me a little bit about the band. When and where did you formed? What do we need to know about you and your music?
"We formed in 2010 in Los Angeles, California and now we are recording our second album and we are playing the second time here in Budapest, our style is like hard rock and alternative metal like Metallica and Danzig a little bit."
02. Why did you decide to move from L.A to Belgrade?
"That's a really good question. When we've been there maybe like 3 years and I have my sister now there so I can able to possibility to go back there, I really like miss it.
Belgrade is a beautiful place for music also it's amazing you know, lot of bands, lot of just in a one day you have you can see like hundred shows now it is amazing. But then we can back like person, because there are our families you know and that but yeah I mean go back and tell me once. Right now I think it's really good 'cause like here we want focus in Europe you know so formerely beacuse of that."
03. What should we know about the first album?
"We'd like to recorded 6 songs so that was also like that so I Can Hope the first album, and then the second album is gonna be also like 6 songs. We like to do it. We can promote it a little bit better. It's easier to promote 6 songs like 10 songs. That album was released last year."
04. Who are your musical idols?
"That's a little bit hard question, because I listen to a lot of styles. Let's be like the bands and the idols ok, maybe like Alice in Chains, Sound Garden, Type O Negative, Black Label Society. My favorite vocalist is Geoff Tate from Queensryche. He is amazing."
05. How much will the new album change?
"You know what, it's a little bit harder, you know, stronger. We also changed a member, changed the drummer. This drummer is a little bit more you know, has more power has more briaties, so I think from retrospective is gonna be harder and also musically. I think we and also the sound is gonna be. We going to a really good producer, so the sound is gonna be more how can I say professional on a higher level, so I think you can expected. It's gonna be release I think in April."
06. Are you at the first time in Hungary? Have you seen anything from Győr or Budapest?
"It's our second time. First time we were here in July with a European Tour with the greek band Scandal. So in Győr, we were yesterday we couldn't see much, but today was really really amazing. I was so blown away for Budapest it's beautiful. Like 5 hours just walking walking and see everything it's amazing. It's beautiful the architecture, you know and the culture, all the museums. You should be proud to live here."
07. What are the experiences of yesterday's gig?
"Oh we had a really good time! There were the guys from Lucy, oh my god, there had so much fun, you know, we were played, we have fun like actually, we did a little bit, what's the name, when you combine the instruments, you know, so the guitars of Lucy played our one song and having fun. Really, really nice. I love to gigging to meet a lot of different people, that maybe the one of the five reasons I like to play, you know. You meet some people like you never meet in your life for example you."
08. Are there any favorites from the famous bands or singers?
"My favorites are I feel all of time is David Bowie, I know it's a little bit different music he play but I like to you know like Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Sepultura."
09. Which bands or singers would you like to tour with?
"I really know that. We talked about it and that would be Black Label Society's songs are amazing or maybe Danzig."
10. How do you spend your free time?
"That is a nice question, Ok, I like to workout, I workout 4-5 times a week, I really like that, you know, for the energy and everything, I like to cook, I like to read, I have a lot of animals, you know in the summer I like to do some gardening in the garden, foods, vegetables, I like to ride a bicycle."
11. What are your favorite foods?
"I like to eat, everything, my favorite ok it's called musaka, I don't know you know it?
That one, It's called sarma it's from our country that one, I like gulash and I like cook."
Thank you for the interview and good luck for the future.
"Thank you for the good questions!"
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My gift from Jelena! The first EP of Void Inn!
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Heading down to CA for a few days to visit Jewel's family. While the kayak isn't coming with me, I will be able to get out and do some fishing. I've gotten some crazy awesome reports from a local river and some good local knowledge on the area too. I'm more then excited.
Here's what I'm looking to get myself into
mmm, yeah, i can handle that.
These big 5-10 rainbows, yes, rainbows, not steelhead, have been hitting on some tiny bugs. Fly sizes are ranging from 18-24. So I've tied up a bunch of nymphs (and a couple 22 BWO dries) to entice one or two of these to hit my rod too. Some of the stories I hear make it all sound easy–20+ fish days like this. Other people are telling me that it's all dried out. In this case, I'm going with the optimists.
Here's what I've been busy tying up this week. Everything on the left side I know will work, as well as the olive woolly buggers on the right. These all came as recommended patterns from guys that have been catching fish as shown above. The rest of the stuff on that side, though, are pretty much experimental stuff and otherwise excess. I know these fish aren't likely going to hit a giant salmonfly that would normally be reserved for the hatch on the Deschutes, but it's coming too. Same goes with the scuds, and all the glass bead bodied flies I made last year. Hey, never know….
I'll be fishing alone, that's probably the lame part.
Yes, Scout, I'm sorry, you're not coming with me just yet.
I'm also pretty excited to try out a new fly line to hit the market. I'll have more details later. It seems, so far, to be decent, but I'm going to reserve the rest of the information until I actually get to fish with it.


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Lovenia cordiformis, aboral view
Lovenia cordiformis
, aboral view. Bay of Panama, Panama, eastern Pacific.
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The world of work
Teens with developmental disabilities job-train at ELCH
EAST LIVERPOOL — East Liverpool City Hospital has been recognized for enabling teens with developmental disabilities to experience the world of work in its housekeeping and dietary departments.
Gregg Harding operates the Job Training Program at East Liverpool High School, placing students with developmental disabilities with local employers. He said City Hospital is one of five employers currently in the program, and has been for 10 years.
Currently there are three teens from the program who train three half-days a week in the hospital's dietary and housekeeping departments. The school provides transportation to job sites, Harding said.
Working alongside hospital employees, students learn the essentials of getting hired and keeping a job, such as prompt response to instructions from a supervisor and how to respond to conflicts and problems in the workplace.
"ELCH is considered one of our top-tier sites," Harding said. "Students display the real-world, functional skills expected from all employees. ELCH staff takes pride in being mentors to our kids. The skills learned at the hospital help our students transition smoothly into post-secondary employment."
Employees at City Hospital who supervise students on the job include Jerry Blaschak, Cindy Smith, Summer Bailey, Lisa Paynter and Ryan Copeland.
Shirley Bowald, employment development manager for Reach 4 More program, said that teens with developmental disabilities gain valuable experience and self-confidence in this program, giving them a better chance of obtaining gainful employment after high school.
"ELCH also has served as a summer work site for adults with disabilities during several summers, and in the past has hired individuals with disabilities as well," Bowald added.
Reach 4 More is a program of the Columbiana County Board of Developmental Disabilities which works to place clients with disabilities in gainful employment within their local communities.
For more information about Reach 4 More, people may contact Shirley Bowald or Paul Anthony at 330.870.4272.


text: Eastland-Fairfield Career & Technical Schools Adult Workforce Development has postponed their Information Night on Thursday, April 30, 2020, at the Eastland Career Center campus located at 4465 S. Hamilton Rd., Groveport, OH, 43125. The event will be rescheduled at a later date to be determined."We welcome adults looking to explore a new career as well as high school seniors who might be looking for what's next after high school," said Angela Ward, Eastland-Fairfield Adult Workforce Development Director. "This event gives our community the chance to explore our programs, learn more about financial aid, and complete an application with assistance."Full-time programs are available in Basic Police Officer Training (21 and over only), Dental Assisting, HVAC, Medical Assisting, Network and Cybersecurity Specialist, and Welding. Aspire programming is also available in GED preparation and testing, which includes basic skill classes in employability, college success, Work Keys preparation, and computer skills. Classes are also offered in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and citizenship."Our classes are flexible and allow students to work while they're learning in most cases," offered Ward. "We pride ourselves on our high job placement rate and great collaboration with area employers and business partners."Financial aid is available to those who qualify. A representative will be available at the event to answer questions. Guests who apply for one or more programs at the event will have the $75 registration fee waived.


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Ecco beacon bars add-on for: "Kelsa lightbar packs by obelihnio" v1.1
Author: Tacsi68 | Date: 16-09-2018, 21:14 | Views: 392 | Comments: 0
Category - ETS 2 other mods
Version Game - 1.32.x
Credits: - obelihnio, SCS Software
Description about « Ecco beacon bars add-on for: "Kelsa lightbar packs by obelihnio" v1.1: »
Ecco beacon bars add-on for: "Kelsa lightbar pack for DAF XF 105 & 106" v1.1 for Ets2
New version 1.1:
- tweaked glass materials;
- added proper suitable for my Actros Kelsa pack.
This add-on includes Ecco beacon light bars for my Kelsa pack:
Support will only be provided for this exact combination, unless stated otherwise.
Parts included:
- Ecco 13 Series LED - 4 sizes: 770mm, 1000mm, 1250mm, 1500mm;
- clear and amber glass option;
- middle panel light box available
More parts will come in the future, not sure exactly when.
Templates with instructions are included inside the archive, the second number indicates the bar width.
Mod should work on earlier game versions, but was tested on them.
Respect the original download links.


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Both in our country and throughout Latin America, women belonging to indigenous peoples live in permanent situations of discrimination, sometimes rooted in poverty, sometimes in ethnic identity, and almost always in the status of women.
However, despite these conditions of inequality, in recent years has begun to make more visible public participation of women in the areas of political participation and organizational processes, often referring to claims for compliance with rights.
From this perspective we think that it is fundamental to promote the empowerment of indigenous women, aiming at their active participation both in the proposals and the design of public policies, as well as in training instances and spaces for reflection on their problems.
Likewise, we consider it essential to value these concepts in the development of all the projects we carry out in each of the Foundation's work areas.


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Happy Winter Solstice 2017!
Today is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Tomorrow, the sun begins its return to the northern hemisphere. Welcome back Sol Invictus!
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The app allows you to measure the distance to the target by its height.
If the target is far away, you can zoom in the picture and measure the distance more accurately.
For quick select target, available the collection is for hunting purposes. Changing height of target.
Interface for left-handed or right-handed.
Cursor control is possible with one or two fingers.
To calibrate, for example, set the object height 20 -50 cm at a distance of 2 to 5 meters.
Go to the menu "calibration", enter the distance and height, as well as units. measurement. Next, click on the "Calibrate" and confirm.
Step 1. Point the camera at the subject and the cursor-frame mark the height of the object on the screen. Click Next.
Step 2: Repeat the operation, then click Next.
Calibration is complete.
Calibration accuracy depends on the accuracy of the height and distance of the calibration object.
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Selected by WBDM for its international events
Specialised in the art of weaving, the No More Twist textile design studio is the brainchild of three designers who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. The studio makes it own small series of objects. The production is done entirely in Belgium. Creations are distinctive in that they work with woven fabric, developed by the designers. Each fabric explores the possibilities arising from a study of colours, materials, and crossing of threads.
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Relationship crisis in the summertime – Here´s what to avoid!
5 Steps to Create an Unforgettable Summer without Relationship Crisis
Oh, how we dream of the summer!
If you are a little like me, I bet you also imagine children smiling and playing with each other at the beach, a fab husband who looks handsome and asks you, while his fingers caressing your neck while you purr affectionately: "Honey, would you like a cold drink?"
Maybe you dream of small candles on the patio and the kids sleeping sweetly (and long into the morning).
While you have deep, emotional and romantic talks until the sun goes down.
And naturally he offers to take the children in the morning, cook breakfast and take them out to play so you have the house all to yourself all morning.
Sound nice?
Maaaaajjjj…Please wake up…Wake up Maj!
Just dreaming again.
The reality is that August is the second biggest month for divorce, because so many relationship experience big crisis during the summer vacation.
Why is that?
It does not have to be that way!
Here are my top 5 tips to help you and your partner have a great vacation together without arguing, emotional stress, relationship crisis and in worst case divorce – but with lots of love, sweet kisses and hugs.
1. Talk about your expectations and be responsive to what your partner wants
What would you REALLY like to do?
Do you want your vacation with or even without your partner?
It is quite okay to want a little time alone.
You can, of course, reciprocate by offering your partner three days of fishing, woodworking, or whatever he would love doing.
We all need to get some time alone and replenish our energy doing something we just love to do.
Even when we're in a relationship.
And what do you want the two of you to do together?
What does your partner like?
Can you somehow meet each other halfway?
2. Bring it up if it feels like frustrations are sneaking up on you!
Be honest and also listen to what your partner tells you.
You must not discuss whether what they tell you is true or not.
You merely have to try to understand the frustrations.
Even if you don't understand them, you can still try to accommodate and help your love to be less frustrated.
Ask: "What can I do for you?"
The more you do this, the better the chances that you will be asked the same.
3. Cultivate love
Put a post-it note on the bathroom mirror or inside your closet door.
Set a reminder on your phone every day to ask yourself "What can I do today to help my partner feel loved?"
A holiday where you feel that your partner is making you feel loved and happy makes for a peaceful summer vacation.
And yes, feeling loved and happy gives ALL members of the family a sweet feeling of peace.
This is something you can work on intentionally – Every day.
4. Get into the mood BEFORE vacation starts
It takes up to 7-14 days for most people to get into "holiday mode."
This means that many people are restless and stressed for the first days.
They're irritable and can't figure out what to do with their time.
Use the week leading up to the holidays to relax as much as possible, go to bed earlier, or see a good movie instead of sitting with the computer at night.
Try find some inner peace and allow the body to get into "vacation mode."
I promise, things will get MUCH easier when the first vacation day starts if you are already in a peaceful state of mind and your body is relaxed.
5. Boost sensuality
Are we talking about sex?
No, no, no!
I'm talking about intimacy.
I doesn't have to be about sex.
You can hug and kiss more, go to bed earlier and cuddle with a good book or movie.
Maybe one night you can give each other massages and end with five minutes of romantic kissing.
n some cases it leads to sex, maybe it doesn't – but it's nice, the time is spend well and it brings you closer together.
Take good care of yourself out there in the summer heat (or rain like in Denmark).
Maj Wismann – Clinical Sexologist and Relationship Therapist with own clinic since 2006 – Read more about Maj here <—
Read more about relationship & sex life:
► Happy couples – Here's a surprising fact you did not know! ←
► Guide: How to get rid of jealousy ←
► Boring sex life – What can I do to spice it up? ←
*** How are you maneging the summer holiday relationship crisis? Have you experienced your partner having problems with the shift from job to holiday? Maybe you even feel right now that it is affecting your relationship and vacation? Please share your experiences (and lessons) in the comments below. Remember, your comment might help someone else! And as always, thank you for sharing.
Please do remember that relationship issues are very vulnerable topics, so please keep your words positive and loving. Thank you. Please remember to keep a nice tone. ALL negative comments will be deleted immediately. I wish to create a positive and supporting space where we can support each other, and I therefore have a zero-tolerance policy towards rudeness, condescension, negative inputs and disrespect.


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MSF international activity report 2013
In 2013, MSF provided humanitarian assistance in 67 countries.
Some 72 per cent of activities were carried out in settings of instability. More than 60 per cent of programmes were in Africa, while 28 per cent were in Asia and the Middle East, and 6 per cent in the Americas.
MSF spent 953 million euros: 80 per cent was spent on humanitarian activities while 20 per cent was spent on management and fundraising. Almost 90 per cent of our income came from more than 5 million private donors.
The International Activity Report 2013 gives details on our activities in each country, provides global financial and operational information, and reflects on the major challenges we faced over the year.


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On the 9th of October, "Injustice Brett KKKavanaugh" reported to the US Supreme Court for his first day of putting his agenda into action. Just to enter the building he had to get past protesters. A three-SUV motorcade that dove into the building past penned protesters was probably him. Afterwards protesters in "Handmaid's Tale" costumes marched to the front of the building
It's worth remembering that if the Democrats get control of the House of Representatives even the GOP is predicting an attempt to impeach Brett Kavanaugh. If anyone comes forward with a charge of rape or attempted rape for which the statute of limitation has not expired, a straightforward criminal prosecution could force impeachment upon conviction. It would also be hard to get to the Supreme Court from a prison cell, barring work release.
Video-protesting Kavanaugh's motorcade,then the Handmaid's March to the front of SCOTUS 1 min 12 sec
Waiting for Kavanaugh to show up
The last of 3 SUV's in what may have been Kavanaugh's motorcade which had to dive into the garage past protesters
March of the Handmaids after the motorcade had passed
Outside the Supreme Court as KKKavanaugh prepares to put his racist and misogynist agenda into action
Supreme Court of Gilead(replaces the US in the Handmaid's Tale with fundamentalist regime), Day 1


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We are preparing to celebrate the Feast Day of our beloved
Last year we re-created this well know Papal Cream Cake or
This year...will be even more celebratory!
"Oh, St. John Paul, from the window of heaven, grant us your blessing!"
"May you bless families, bless each family!"
Oh St. John Paul, from heaven's window, where we see you next to Mary, send God's blessing down upon us all. Amen."
~ Excerpt from John Paul II Shrine & Institute Prayer


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Book Description
Gage Daniels has made a pretty good life for himself. A nice house. A career he loves. As a professional football player, he's used to getting almost everything he'd ever want with just the snap of his fingers. This includes women. A well-timed smile is usually all it takes to attract the opposite sex, especially in Nashville.
When a stalker threatens Gage, the team owner calls an old friend, Rebecca's ex-partner Travis Hansen, to help protect his star quarterback and find the person responsible. Hansen offers Rebecca the job, and she jumps at the chance. It's work, and it will get her out of her apartment. How bad can it be?
Posing as Gage's girlfriend, however, isn't as easy as it seems. The man is relentless. Rebecca must work to protect Gage while staving off his advances. She's there to do a job, nothing more. The last thing she wants is to be another notch on a hotshot athlete's belt.
As the stalker continues to up the ante, Rebecca finds it harder and harder to keep her distance from Nashville's star quarterback. He isn't what she expected in one of the city's most notorious playboys. Now all she has to do is keep him safe until they can find his stalker, and hope she doesn't lose her heart in the process.
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Just finished reading Red Zone, what can I say. It is one of the few books that make you sad to think it is ending but then you can't help yourself from trying to read it faster to see how it ends. Gage has got to be as close to perfect as any man can be. He is confident, sexy, compassionate, patient and a pro football player. He captures your heart from the beginning with his determination that he doesn't need to be protected by a FBI agent, then you see him with his family and you just melt, yes I used the word melt a lot in describing this book to friends. Then to see him go after what he wants but in a loving, confident respectful way, well melt comes to mind again. He knows he wants Rebecca, but he also knows that it is going to be a huge wall to climb over to get to her heart. He is the kind of man who watches the woman's expressions and can read her soul through eyes, he hears her and he feels her, all he has to do is make Rebecca comfortable enough to admit she loves him to.
Rebecca, the FBI agent who is taking a break from her job as an agent due to a job that "went bad", she was bored out of her mind at home. When her former partner calls and offers her a chance to protect a pro football player from a stalker that has been sending him messages she jumps at the chance to be working again. Little did she know that Gage, the player, found her more than interesting from the moment he saw her. She comes from a childhood that leads her to be shut off from the world, which fits great with her job. She is expected to have the mask to protect her emotions along with the professional clothing that doesn't enhance that she is attractive. Being in the mother role to her little sister also enhances her protective nature, forcing her to be even more cautious of people. Her main role in her FBI job was to find missing children, a job she could complete, feel good about and move on with no emotional ties. Her sister on the other hand, is a free spirit, risk taker who is willing to give her heart to men and love fully, only to end up being a pile of broken pieces when the man is done with her. Rebecca hated seeing her sister hurt, and while jealous of her sisters ability to take risk in the love department, she is also more determined to never follow that path and allow her heart to be crumbled by a man.
Not going to give away any more of the book, but let's just say that this game of emotional tug of war between Rebecca and Gage drew me in quickly and never let go. It was one of those books that once you are done, it is difficult to find a new book to read because you just can't seem to let go of Gage and how perfect he is. Highly recommend this book if you love romance, thrill and emotional tug of war.


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Joint Venture on Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and Acquisitions in Sydney are complex and require a lot of time and resources for the success of a business. Company's M&A teams often manage multiple workflows during the implementation phase, and in some cases review several potential offerings at any given time.
The pace of corporate mergers and acquisitions in Sydney now requires policymakers to do the right thing with confidence and speed to avoid losing opportunities that need clarity and complete understanding of the agreement.
Companies associated with CBV recognise the challenges faced by both parties in the transaction and recognize the need for both parties to pay the maximum amount of the transaction. Our consulting professionals across our global network are forward-looking specialists with extensive experience in handling, a wide range of skills and a vast industry experience. We create comprehensive solutions that help you navigate with confidence in the complexities of buying and selling, identifying key risks and benefits throughout the trading cycle.
For sellers, we help them understand the risks and possible returns of the abstraction process. We evaluate your position and support your negative position to increase the sale price and execute the transaction with the minimum of interruption in the other business processes.
For buyers, we recognise the need to generate value at every stage of the transaction. We help you identify target markets, possible targets and support an efficient transaction process for more complex transactions. We help you align your offerings with your strategic business goals, maintain compliance, and increase the value of your integration and potential valuation opportunities.
Our global business consulting teams work seamlessly with you and other parties involved in the transaction to focus on key issues during critical planning, procurement, and settlement phases.
Who is it for?
- Risk Managers.
- Financial Managers.
- Treasurers
- General Counsels.
- Other Professionals Responsible for Due Diligence in Mergers, Acquisitions or Expropriations.
What can you get?
The essence of CBV's corporate mergers and acquisitions process in Australia focuses on:
- Due diligence before
- Transaction risk products and solutions.
- Optimization and solutions after the acquisition.
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Extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions:
CBV's Equity and M&A professionals strengthen their staff and help them identify, process and present options on risks and insurance issues that can affect treatment negotiations and success.
Private Equity and M&A practice at CBV helps buyers quickly identify the risks and insurance issues related to their business. Our experts participated in more than 500 mergers and acquisitions in Melbourne and in all over Australia in the last few years, in a wide range of industries and in most of the world.
Our experts understand the value of identifying potential problems and areas of initial synergy in the discovery process. We are working hard to find areas of potential savings between newly integrated organisations.
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We provide you with a report containing summaries of key issues supported by detailed analysis which are required to be shared with key stakeholders, including the C-Suite, the Board, funding sources, and rating agencies.
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Due diligence and risk assurance reduce uncertainty and reduce the risk of surprises. We help buyers get a clearer picture of the value of liabilities and assets.
Business Development and Growth
CBV has extensive experience in assisting companies with mergers and acquisitions. Our team has worked on thousands of mergers and acquisitions projects over the years, in most major industries and regions around the world. This experience, coupled with our extensive global office network, enables CBV to provide technical advice to organisations involved in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, delinquencies or restructurings of other companies.
We offer broad and specific engagements depending on the company's needs. We assist in such areas as:
- Identifying the potential cost savings or increase in the pro forma expense of insurance.
- Evaluate policies to identify any gaps in coverage and the magnitude to which the policy retentions and deductibles will affect the earnings quality.
- Assessment of the adequacy related to the provisions for self-funded on the balance sheet.
- Investigation of the liabilities which are being assumed, including underinsured or uninsured liabilities, assumed in prior acquisitions.
- Looking after cross-border transactions, where language skills, local knowledge, and on-the-ground resources improve the speed and accuracy of the process.


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11 Incredibly Sexy and Salacious Movies of 2015
We know you're all about popping open a bottle of fizzy Champagne, throwing on your best pair of fuzzy socks, and plopping down on the couch to watch a steamy movie any night of the week (seriously, what better way to relax?). In honor of that much-beloved tradition, we've rounded up the sexiest flicks of 2015. Cheers!
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2008/58 Audi A4 Avant 2.0TDI SE (Face-lift) - 5 Dr Estate - Detachable Tow bar
A lovely example of the spacious and economic Audi A4 (facelifted) estate. Supplied with a full service history consisting of 9 services and a MOT to October 2019 with no advisories. Looks fantastic and drives superbly. Nice specification which includes; ABS, dual zone climate control/air conditioning, factory fitted detachable tow bard fitted by Audi at £1,500 alloy wheels, 6 speed gearbox, remote central locking, electric windows, electric wing mirrors, grey interior, CD stereo etc.
Our price includes an independent service if due, NEW or long MOT and an extendable warranty.
* Extended comprehensive warranties available
* Generous part exchange allowance.
* 5-day free drive away insurance.
* Debit and credit card payments accepted.
* All vehicles are checked against the HPI register.
* Appointments outside of normal opening hours can be arranged.
Not every car is kept on forecourt display so please telephone before visiting to ensure availability.
Shorts of Heathfield Car Sales, Horam, Heathfield, East Sussex.
Just google the name 'Shorts of Heathfield' for website and full information.
Tel: 01435 408300
|3 Month Warranty
|Air Conditioning
|CD Player
|Central Locking
|Climate Control
|Electric Mirrors
|Electric Windows
|Front, Side, Rear Airbags
|Full Service History
|HPI Clear
|Metallic Paint
|Power Assisted Steering
|Six Speed Gearbox
|Spare Key
|Tow Bar with Electrics