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When the New York Times published its damning profile yesterday, much of the attention centered on adidas' lack of diversity among its employees at its North American headquarters in Portland, Oregon. However, the report also included small details pertaining to Kanye West's relationship with the brand, which seemed to slip under the radar.
While the piece paints a less-than-ideal picture of diversity at adidas — it alleges that race is a constant issue on the adidas campus and that fewer than 4.5 percent of the nearly 1,700 adidas employees identify as black — it also gave insight into the size of Kanye's collaboration with the Three Stripes, as well as 'Ye's potential earnings as part of the partnership.
The piece reports that West earns 5 percent royalties on net sales of his shoes and apparel. With YEEZY sales expected to top $1.3 billion this year, Kanye could be walking away with a $65 million pay check at the end of 2019.
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Choosing your Church Social Administrator
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- If an individual does not have any unpaid tickets issued 2013-2017, they can pay a $50 fee to enroll in amnesty and will be forgiven of all violations older than 2013 (except for towing and storage fees)
- Individuals with towing and storage fees prior to 2015 can enroll by paying 30% of fees in full and the remaining 70% will be forgiven. No payment plans will be offered for towing and storage fees prior to 2015
How do I stay enrolled in amnesty?
- If enrolled in a payment plan for tickets issued 2013-2017, individuals must make all monthly payments on time to stay enrolled in amnesty
- If a payment on tickets issued 2013-2017 is missed, individuals will no longer be eligible for amnesty and will be responsible for older tickets unless special circumstances can be shown
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Enrollment in the amnesty program will begin March 1 and run through April 30
- On March 1st, please visit www.phila.gov/parkingamnesty to find out more information and enroll online
- Beginning March 12th, visit 917 Filbert St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 between 8:30 am – 6 pm Monday through Friday and 9 am – 4 pm on Saturday


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The Story I Tell Myself
These are the items I have displayed on my desk at work. According to the Bagua Map, this is the career area of my desk. Each item in this collection symbolizes something personal to me and together, the items tell me a deeply meaningful story. I feel inspired and motivated to take steps towards my dreams as I tell myself, "It all starts with me. The foundation of Jody Pear Designs is to teach others that a house with love is a home. This is a positive difference I want to make around the world; joyfully, and beautifully." What story is displayed on your desk? Does it inspire and motivate you to follow your dreams?
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An ornate bloom print enlivens this V-neck mini styled with a defined waist and ruffled-and-smocked cuffs.
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All sale items are final sale, as well as full-priced items purchased using a discount code of 20% or more. These items cannot be exchanged.
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Any regular delivery service may be used to send an exchange back. We do not cover return shipping. If there is an original shipping cost, that will not be reimbursed in the exchange / store credit issued.
Please mail exchanges to: Honey & Wine Thornes Marketplace - Level 2 Northampton, MA 01060
Please include the original packing slip with your item(s) when you mail them back. We are not liable for lost packages. We encourage you to add insurance and tracking to your package. Be sure to package items properly so they arrive safely in their original condition allowing the exchange to happen smoothly.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
Money - Emile Zola
I don't know a huge amount about Zola having read no further than Wikipedia where I gather he was principally a novelist who made some money from journalism, but from reading 'Money' I absolutely came away with a sense of him as a journalist first and foremost. It felt like reading an extended feature in a Sunday paper (albeit a significantly extended feature) I guess this is naturalism in action. Wikipedia also told me that the Rougon-Macquart novels don't need to be read in any particular order as they all stand alone but 'Money' is a direct sequel to 'The Kill' and in this case I think it does matter that they're read in the right order.
In 'The Kill' we see the rise and fall of Saccard as a property speculator along with the effects of decedent self indulgence on his wife. Saccard is undoubtedly a villain in that piece and there's no shortage of moral judgement from Zola. In 'Money' the cycle is repeated, it opens with Saccard a broken man greeted with something just short of contempt by his peers on the Bourse, follows his rise as a banker, and then inevitable fall again after he artificially inflates the value of shares creating a bubble which has to burst. When it does burst ruin is total and all encompassing for many more than Saccard, and yet somehow he's not quite the villain in this piece. There is occasionally something magnificent in his irresponsibility and passion, certainly in the breadth of his vision, and this time some of his actions are - if not motivated purely by kindness - at least charitable in their effect. Zola also uses the financial setting to examine antisemitic feeling.
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Just as in 'The Kill' there's a strong sense if moral outrage against crazy gambling complete with the images of previously hard working responsible citizens bought low by this vice (doubtless to die in terrible poverty somewhere) which is all in the best Victorian tradition. Mocking aside though the human suffering portrayed feels real and in turn drew real emotion from me as the reader. The more so because reading Zola has so far been a very visual experience for me, he constantly calls paintings to mind - in this case very English works by the likes of William Powell Frith (I'm thinking Derby day or the railway station) or Augustus Egg's Past and Present.
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I would suggest forgetting the translator and attributing the differences in tone to the fact that this novel comes 20 years and 17 books after the others you have read. That's a lot of room for change.ReplyDelete
The change in tone, especially the more nuanced characterisation of Saccard so that he's no longer almost a pantomime villain is undoubtedly Zola. The difference I'm thinking of is less concrete, more along the lines of the differences you get in a dish despite 2 people following the same recipe, or because it's Zola and he makes me think of painted images, the difference you might get between to artists copying the same picture. Anyway Money was great to read not long after The Kill if for no other readon than to see how the more mature Zola revisited badically the same story.ReplyDelete
I read this recently and enjoyed it enormously. Saccard is a fascinating character. Like you I have been prejudiced against books in translation, and still get upset if I don't think it's been well done. But these new OUP Zolas are terrific, in my opinion.ReplyDelete


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This needs to be on the internet, because I didn't find it in a search.
I try to run mocha via npm and pass it `-grep` or `-fgrep` and I get this awful error (can you tell how annoyed I am) about "Cannot find module '-e'" and I think something is wrong with npm install BUT NO
$ npm run mocha — -fgrep "annotation with string content found"
> @email@example.com mocha /Users/jessitron/code/atomisthq/spring-team-handlers/.atomist
> mocha –require intelli-espower-loader 'target/ts-built/mocha/**/*.js' "-fgrep" "annotation with string content found"
Error: Cannot find module '-e'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
What that should say is
"Invalid option -fgrep. Try –fgrep"
So when future me finds this by searching the internet next time: Jess, use two dashes before the `grep` or `fgrep` options to mocha.


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July 17, 2013
Music travelers immerse in Macon, Ga.
By Christine Tibbetts CNHI News Service
— Macon, Ga., opens doors to multiple opportunities; immerse yourself in music you know for some of them.
Rock Candy Tours is one way, and the Big House Museum the other. Stay overnight in Macon and add in more music with a performance at the Grand Opera House.
Here's why Rock Candy Tours is special: Jessica Walden leads the walks and knows the musicians.
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Phil Walden was booking music for fraternity parties and Otis Redding was winning every contest at "Teenage Party" live on the stage of Macon's Douglass Theater.
Business partners they became. Start your tour in front of the Douglass where the sidewalk is a wall of fame. Long abandoned buildings spring to life with Jessica's stories of what went on within.
Duane Allman. Little Richard. Pearly Brown. Chuck Leavell. James Brown. Expect personal memory stories about these legends and more on a walking or, as she says, rolling tour.
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He's also the "candy" part of the tour's name – a third generation candy manufacturing family.
My memory's sketchy on facts, but I know the sounds and listening to "Dock of the Bay" at Grant's Lounge, yearning to be on the dance floor and then visiting Hutchings Funeral Home where 10,000 people signed the guest book when Otis Redding died in 1967 – that's powerful.
The Big House
Follow the billboards on I-75 declaring the Big House in Macon. You might live in one bigger, but this house was enormously wonderful to the Allman brothers and their talented friends in the early 1970s.
Several upstairs rooms are restored to their original look, and the rest are filled with gold records, nostalgic posters, history galore, guitars and drums the band members played, plus the Hammond B-3 organ Greg Allman played.
Notebooks with song lyrics felt even more personal to me, a privilege to see the handwriting and muse about the thought process.
Keep your eye out for Gregg Allman's 1975 lyrics to the Muddy Water's song, "Can't Lose What You Never Had." There's a mushroom cup next to it.
Dickey Betts' handwritten lyrics to "Blue Sky" are here too, noting the bay window in The Big House where he wrote them.
Allman Brothers fans know their brilliance, melding musical genres. Seeing actual handwritten lyrics in the specific room or space where they were written takes pleasure to a new level.
Guess pleasure was also the point of the seven-head shower upstairs next to the music listening and jamming room.
Tie the tours together in your own mind knowing Phil Walden, founder of Capricorn Records and uncle to Jessica Walden of Rock Candy Tours, was also manager of the Allman Brothers Band. Peek at Walden's mid-1970s phone book in the Big House.
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Christine Tibbetts is a travel columnist for The Tifton (Ga.) Gazette and Tifton Scene magazine. Follow her at www.TibbettsTravel.com
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The forthcoming series of Nissan Micras, named Pixo and based on the Suzuki A-Star, will be built exclusively in Chennai, South India from 2010 onwards and will be shipped to other countries across the globe. Auto Blog green reports that the Pixo might have a 3-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine.
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Do I have to sift the powdered sugar to make dairy free buttercream frosting?
Sifting in the case of making dairy free frosting is crucial. I know, I know, it's easier to just dump right into the bowl; however, this is one step that you don't want to skip if you are trying to make the perfect dairy free frosting recipe.
There's two main reasons that you need to sift the powdered sugar in order to get the perfect vegan frosting recipe. First, sifting removes the lumps in powdered sugar that is caused from the sugar absorbing moisture. Second, when you sift powdered sugar, it makes it fluffier.
In shorter terms, if you want a dairy free buttercream frosting that isn't lumpy, then you really need to sift the powdered sugar.
Whether you are prepping for a holiday get together, party, or birthday, being able to plan ahead and get things done is always beneficial. Thankfully, you can absolutely make this dairy free buttercream frosting ahead of time. Simply, make as instructed and then place this dairy free frosting in the fridge in an air tight container. This vegan frosting recipe will last in the fridge for up to 2 weeks if stored properly.
What can I use the dairy free buttercream frosting with?
If you like sweet cinnamon rolls they you'll definitely want to pair this dairy free frosting with our pumpkin cinnamon rolls recipe.
If you're a fan of chocolate cake with a buttercream frosting then definitely pair this dairy free frosting with our triple layer dairy free chocolate cake.
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Dairy Free Buttercream Frosting
- ½ cup vegan butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2-4 tbsps unsweetened dairy free milk (we used almond)
- 1.5 teaspoon vanilla
- In a bowl, cream the butter by beating with a mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Sift in the powdered sugar and beat to combine.
- Add in 2 tbsps dairy free milk and vanilla and mix again just until incorporated. If you need it thinner, add up to 2 more tablespoons of milk.
- Use immediately or store in air tight container for up to 2 weeks.


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I'm running Ubuntu Studio 9.10 64 bit & things seem to be working but I'm unsure about the latency settings.
In Ardour the settings for latency are like 64 128 256 512 1024 etc… in Jack the latency is 5.8 ms.
What am I missing ? Is the latency setting in Ardour supposed to be the same as the "Frames/Period" setting in Jack?
I ask this because because if I set latency in Ardour any lower than 512 I get pos & clicks when I record.
I just upgraded from U-studio 7.10 & didn't have this problem with lower latency settings on the same computer.
I'm running Ubuntu Studio 9.10 64 bit & things seem to be working but I'm unsure about the latency settings.
Latency Question
Ardour just connects to jack, jack is the one with the latency. Jack is the audio backend. You can setup jack with ardour though. Lower frames/persiod numbers in the jack setup window result in lower latencies. A calculation of these numbers is made, so you can read it in ms.
I think you may be confusing the buffer size with the latency in milliseconds. For instance, when you're running jack with a buffer size of 512, your latency is probably around 10-20 milliseconds. When you change the latency in the menu of Ardour, it sets the buffer size, and you'll see the corresponding latency change in the main window of Ardour when the operation is done. The pops and clicks you're hearing are xruns, which you can avoid several ways:
1)use a realtime kernel with realtime permissions for your user (do a quick search of this forum for a howto)
2)use as minimal a system as possible (turn off desktop effects, maybe use a different window manager like fluxbox)
3)check out the pci latency of your soundcard, and set it higher than your other hardware if need be (http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxSoundLatency.html)
hope this helps;-)
Thanks for the advice,
I'm running realtime kernel : 2.6.31-9rt but I can't find any info on realtime permissions.
Another thing I'm not sure about is on the top of Ardour it shows 48K /21.3 ms at startup
yet Jack is set up for 44100/ 5.8 ms. Does the settings for Jack have nothing to do with Ardour?
I don't want to record at 48k but I can't find where to change it.
this is really very simple.
All audio settings (sample rate, latency etc) are properties of JACK. If you start JACK before starting Ardour, then these settings are done using whatever method you use to start JACK (qjackctl, cmdline, etc, etc). If you start JACK from Ardour, using Ardour's "Audio Setup" tab, then you set these properties there, although they still belong to JACK and not Ardour. All displays of these properties within Ardour once it is running reflect the values for the JACK server it is connected to.
There are a few potential complications
- The "latency" shown by Ardour is different from the one shown in qjackctl (its normally half of the qjackctl value)
- it is possible for JACK clients (such as Ardour, but including many other applications) to ask the JACK server to change its latency settings "on the fly". The JACK->Latency menu in Ardour is one way to do this
- Different applications might choose to display latency in msecs or samples.
I feel kinda stupid because nothing seems to work or I just can't find things.
I tried starting Jack first with 44100 settings at 5.8 ms latency & then started a new song in Ardour.
Still it starts out showing 48k /21.3 ms.
On my old Gusty U-studio with exactly the same Jack settings Ardour starts with 44100/2.9 ms & I have no problems with sound pops or
clicks. I don't see any "Audio Setup" tab & I can't find any way to change the 48K setting in Ardour.
I think that may be part of my problem. Isn't there a way in Ardour to change the recording setting to 44100?
If you create a new session, the session will adapt to the current Jack samplerate. An existing session will try to stick with it´s own samplerate. Ultimately the jack samplerate is the actual samplerate.
@garyed: you are probably using an audio interface that does not support 48kHz (other than via driver software). Because people didn't like the fact that JACK would just fail to start when they asked for 44.1kHz with such cards, for the last couple of years, JACK simply starts with the sample rate closest to the one that was asked for. What type of audio interface are you using?
The Audio Setup tab exists ONLY if you start Ardour without JACK running, which it sounds as though you do not do. It offers no more power and no abilities not present in qjackctl, its just a convenience.
How did you ask for 5.8ms latency? This sounds like a calculated value …
Sorry I've been away for while but I really appreciate the help & I'll try to answer a few things.
The good news is that I was only opening up the Jack Control before starting Ardour & not actually starting the Jack server so that's why I was still getting 48k sample rate/ 21.3 ms.(My Bad) if I start jack first it shows its running at 44100 & then open Ardour everything works great showing 44100/2.9ms & no pops or clicks.
So really the only problem I have is when I open Ardour without opening up Jack first.
Evidently when Ardour opens up Jack it defaults to 48K.
My guess is that it has something to do with my second sound card or onboard sound that I think runs at 48K
Here's my setup:
I'm using an M-audio audiophile 2496, but i also have a soundblaster live card installed & my onboard audio is turned off in the bios. Evidently all three sound sources are picked up because cat/proc/asound/cards yields:
0 [M2496 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xb400, irq 18
1 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live! Value [CT4670]
SB Live! Value [CT4670] (rev.4, serial:0x201102) at 0x9800, irq 17
VIA 8237 with ALC850 at 0x1000, irq 22
The M-audio is the only one that shows up in Alsamixer & I know the M-audio is what Ardour is recording & playing back with.
Jack is set to use driver[ alsa]
I run qjackctl & in settings I set Frames/Period - 128 , Sample Rate 44100, Periods/Buffer 2 & that puts my latency at 5.8 ms
Also under Server - Driver:alsa
Ardour automaticaly starts Jack every time at start up so I haven't figured how to start it without Jack though there probably isn't a good reason to do it except for testing purposes.
I'm running Ardour 2.8.2
I haven't got my sound working yet in firefox so I'm guessing there's some kind of Ubuntu-Studio setup that is defaulting to the onboard sound & causing Ardour want to over ride the Jack settings unless I start Jack first.
@garyed: you can't run Ardour without JACK.
If you start Ardour without JACK running, then the new session dialog/session control dialog that appears at startup has a tab labelled "Audio Setup" to allow to control the parameters for JACK. If you don't actually use this dialog, you wll, as you have noted, get the default settings.
If JACK is already running when Ardour starts, this tab is not shown, because we assume that you know what you are doing.
The "Audio Setup" did it.
I just set it to the same settings I'm using in the Jack setup & now it defaults to 44100/2.9ms every time I open a new session.
That's exactly what I wanted.
Well I lied,
It seems like I'm still getting xruns but not as many.
I raised the latency setting up from 128 to 256 & its much better but still a few after more tracks are recorded.
I'm pretty sure if I raise the latency up it would clear things up but I don't really want to go any higher.
Maybe its because I'm running the 64 bit version of U-studio & my older version on the same computer is not .
Ardour works flawlessly in Gusty at the lower latency setting…
My cpu is Athlon 64 3700+
I'm also using ext4 instead of ext3 file system too. I'm tempted to do another installation just to see if 64 bit is making a difference.
@garyed: If you are using a soundcard with an ICE1712 chipset then try it in playback or capture only and see if you still get x-runs. I had one of these and it would not work reliably in full duplex mode with some kernel versions. (also caused similar problems in windows with ASIO drivers so its not a problem that's unique to linux - but in windows you can't try different kernels quite so easily… )
That's interesting because I don't get xruns on my older kernel but I've also never had a problem with Windows ASIO drivers either with the M-audio card.
I tried starting Ardour in record mode only but I got an error starting Jack about incorrect parameters.
I spent a long time trying to figure out what was going on when I had problems with my ICE1712 soundcard, this is probably not the right forum for a detailed technical explanation as to what happens within the hardware, but it is a problem that seems to be affected by both the kernel version, specifically the interrupt latency (not to be confused with the audio latency - I mean the time it takes for the interrupt signal from the soundcard to propagate to the alsa driver) - and the combination of PC hardware. In the end I bought a different card and that solved the problem, although my old card is now functioning perfectly well in another PC with other kernel versions…
I may experiment with a different kernel or go back to 32 bit & see if there are any differences.
Just a hint, you can set the interrupt latency of all your devices independently, no matter what kernel you're using. Check out this page:
I've got several systems running in my house, and I've set the latency for the hardware dependant on what these computers are mainly used for. For example, the computer I have in my living room is set up so that the video card gets higher priority than anything else, because it's mainly used for watching videos (network card is second in line because I also download torrents), whereas my studio PC is set to give the highest priority to the soundcard, as it's only used for recording/mixing.
Hope this helps…
linux DSP you are correct,
There is definitely a problem with either the Ubuntu kernel or Ardour itself relating to the Audiophile2496 sound card.
I now have 3 versions of Ubuntu studio partitioned on the same HD. 1- Gusty, 2-Karmic 64 ext4, 3 - Karmic standard ext3
All set up the same latency etc…
The only one that i don't get Xruns on is Gusty no matter how many tracks I run.
@garyed: I think its quite certain that the problem is not with Ardour (or JACK). Ardour doesn't interface directly with (or care) about your sound card, Ardour just connects to JACK as another client to the JACK audio server. JACK connects to the driver for your soundcard (ALSA, FFADO, or OSS) and finally, the driver (loaded as a kernel module) actually controls the hardware.
This sounds like the problem I was having with my ICE1712 chipset - if that is the case, then its really a problem with the chipset design, that gets triggered by an aspect of the kernel behaviour (windows or linux).
@macinnisrr: I think you may be refering to interrupt priority, which although connected with this issue isn't quite the same. There are many things you can tweak with regard to PCI settings, that affect the so-called latency (by changing how long a device can grab the PCI bus for etc) but it isn't quite the same as the time taken for the kernel to process an interrupt from a hardware device which I think is where the problem lies.
The ICE1712 chipset has a shared interrupt for the capture and playback halves of the card, this is triggered when either half needs 'attention' - the driver then has to go and read a register in the chip to find out who caused the interrupt.
The chipset also has two internal registers that act as pointers to the internal audio buffers for capture and playback. I could see these drifting out of step with one another which was odd because they are both 'clocked' from the same signal. If this happens it means an xrun is guaranteed at some point because it is similar to the two halves of the card running at different sample rates.
It seemed that if it took longer than one sample period e.g. 1/Fs between the interrupt happening and the driver reading the interrupt register, then the pointers would begin to drift.
Unfortunately I don't have the card that was causing me problems anymore, but I might see if any of the ALSA devs can shed any light on this problem.


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"It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student."
- Ip Man
Ip Man was born in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China, on October 1, 1893.
At a young age, Ip Man showed a special interest in martial arts and began practicing Wing Chun with master Chan Wah Shun who, in turn, had as his master Leung Jan. His training was intense but short. Ip Man learned from Chan Wah Shun for only three years before his master passed away.
Short after, Ip Man moved to Hong Kong for study purposes.
Although he hadn't learned the whole system, his level of Wing Chun made him overconfident until the day he was challenged by a local fighter named Leung Bik. Ip Man was defeated by him humiliatingly. By chance, Leung Bik was the eldest son of Leung Jan, the master of his master. Leung Bik could see in Ip Man important good qualities and offered to teach him. Astounded by his good fortune, Ip Man continued his Wing Chun training with Leung Bik for nearly a decade.
In 1949, at the age of 56, a close friend introduced Ip Man as a Wing Chun practitioner to the members of the Hong Kong Restaurant Workers' Association. At first, the members didn't have the respect for his martial arts system since Wing Chun wasn't so well-known back then. However, Ip Man got the appreciation of all after he explained the principles of Wing Chun. He was then invited to teach Wing Chun at the Association, and he readily agreed.
In May 1950, Ip Man founded his own school and began to teach Wing Chun openly in Hong Kong. Thus, Wing Chun began to gain popularity and caught the attention of those who were martial arts enthusiasts. Ip Man's fame spread rapidly and widely and attracted the admiration of a growing number of practitioners.
In 1964, satisfied with the development of the Wing Chun system and seeking to further promote it, Ip Man started to instruct his students to organize a general association of the Wing Chun Clan. After years of planning, on August 24, 1967, the Wing Chun Athletic Association of Hong Kong was formally established.
On December 2, 1972, Ip Man passed away at the age of 79, leaving the Wing Chun system as a legacy. He succeeded in popularizing the art of Wing Chun. His students continued to spread the system all around the world.
Those who didn't know Ip Man would never have imagined that he was, in fact, a Wing Chun master. In his day-to-day, he was reserved and discreet, being the full expression of a traditional Chinese. He was usually seen having tea alone in tea houses, or else hanging out and laughing with his students.
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Paramount is developing a reboot of John Woo's 1997 action hit "Face/Off," which starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in a cat-and-mouse thriller that sees the two actors exchange roles.
Oren Uziel is attached to write the script for the reboot with Neal Moritz producing. The pair previously worked together in the same roles on "22 Jump Street" and Paramount's upcoming "Sonic the Hedgehog" adaptation, which hits theaters in February.
"Face/Off" starred Travolta as Sean Archer, a federal agent bent on revenge after terrorist Castor Troy, played by Cage, killed his son. After another incident puts Troy in a coma, Archer agrees to a bizarre plan that involves using experimental surgery to give him Troy's body, face and voice, and then going to a max security prison to convince Troy's partners to reveal the location of a bomb.
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March 31 – April 11, 2016.
After a wonderful week in San Miguel de Allende, we headed South to San Juan Teotihuacan located about an hours drive before Mexico City, to visit the Mayan Pyramids of the Sun and of the Moon. We then left our rig securely parked at the Teotihuacan Trailer Park and took the bus to Mexico City for a few days of sightseeing.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital of Mexico and one of the most populated city in the world with 20+ million urban inhabitants and sits at 7,380 feet (2,250 m) of elevation. A lot of people skip the City when visiting Mexico but we had heard such good things about it, that we wanted to see it for ourselves. We were not disappointed.
Where Mexico city now sits, the Aztec built the City of Tenochtitlán in 1325. It was almost completely destroyed by the Spanish Conquistadors in 1521 and Mexico City was later built over the Aztec ruins by the Spaniards. After independence from Spain was achieved, the federal district was created in 1824.
Now Mexico is a vibrant and happening city with a perfect mix of old and new. Colonial, modern and Mayan architecture, a thriving Artistic and Cultural scene, all the museums you can imagine, ancient ruins, fabulous restaurants, neighborhoods waiting to be explored …
We took the bus from Teotihuacan and got dropped off at the Metro Station. We got a couple transfers and emerged in the historic center where we spent a lot of our time walking and visiting the main attractions. We felt safe and were impressed by the ease of going from one place to another either by walking, taxi or metro. We only spent four days but could have stayed a lot longer, there is so much to see and do.
Casa Azul – Frida Khalo museum
We stayed at the Teotihuacan Trailer Park for a total of 8 night before and after visiting Mexico City. It was the perfect location to visit the Pyramids, meet other ovrlanders and leave our rig while we visited Mexico City. The owner Mina was so accommodating and helpful. I even got some dental work (two crowns) done by her dentist/daughter and one of her dentist colleague from the City.
We visited the Historical Cultural Center in the town of Otumba and made a quick stop in the town of Axapusco
Angie and Pedro made us taste Escamoles (Ant eggs) considered a delicacy and Jumiles (dried crispy worms) both are harvested from the Maguey (Agave) plant.
At the local market we discovered these tiny salty fresh water shrimps and Chicken Barbacoa cooked in Maguey (Agave) leaves.
Pyramid of the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon
"Teotihuacan was Mexico's biggest ancient city and the capital of what was probably Mexico's largest pre-Hispanic empire.The city's grid plan was plotted in the early part of the 1st century AD, and the Pirámide del Sol was completed – over an earlier cave shrine – by AD 150. The rest of the city was developed between about AD 250 and 600. Social, environmental and economic factors hastened its decline and eventual collapse in the 8th century."
Excerpt From: Lonely Planet. "Lonely Planet Mexico." iBooks.
The light show at the Pyramid of the Sun was a great experience! Experiencia Nocturna


text: There is a fair deal of information about Virtualization (mainly via VMware) on my blog at http://www.smbtechadvice.com The vast majority of my work now adays is server Virtualization and platform integration, so if you or anyone else has any questions, I would be glad to answer them. They may also be good posts to add to my blog since the majority of my readers come by way of virtualization related searches. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote: > Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com): > > > hi > > > > Rick Moen had some good suggestions about using Adobe software under > Linux > > that I thought should be posted to the list, particularly since Rick > > requested the same. Thanks, Rick, for your suggestions! > > No problem. Here was a recent follow-up: > > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:39:55 -0700 > From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> > To: Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> > Cc: Daniel Mizyrycki <mzdaniel at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: help with the Microsoft Windows virtualization > > Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com): > > > Yeah, and just today at the end of the day, I was speaking with the > > science teacher, and he has decided that he is not amused by Adobe, > > and so he is going to cut back the work to only Photoshop!! So we are > > going to be able to use Wine, most likely. Woohoo!! > > Good news. Again, it's pretty important to get the version number, if > you (or people helping you) want to look up the known level of support > in recent WINE code. > > > AFAIK, Crossover is not free as in beer, as you indicate below, and we > > have no budget, so we are not going to be able to use it. > > Sure. A couple of points on that: > > 1. It's said to be sometimes useful to check compatibility using the > 30-day trial copy of CrossOver Linux, _because_ it's a good indicator of > what might well be do-able with WINE given some extra work. Basically, > CrossOver Linux is said to be just WINE with a few relatively modest > improvements, notably in the area of improved installer routines for > both WINE itself and various applications. (There are probably some > other areas of difference, but I'm just not briefed on that.) > > To get the trial copy, you have to supply a deliverable e-mail address > with your request, so probably you end up (in effect) using up one such > address for each time you need a 30-day trial. > > 2. It's also said that you can make WINE a bit more compatible if you > happen to have MS-Windows, by letting WINE use certain of MS-Windows's > DLLs > instead of its own. See: > > http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index#MY-APP-DOESNT-WORK-WHAT-CAN-I-DO > > (I should stress that I've personally never used either WINE or CrossOver > Linux.) > > > _______________________________________________ > sf-lug mailing list > sf-lug at linuxmafia.com > http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug > -- Ernest de Leon http://www.smbtechadvice.com "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - A common 18th Century sentiment voiced by Benjamin Franklin "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, English statesman and political philosopher (1729-1797) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/attachments/20080411/2bb1dd7b/attachment.html>


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When you're looking for cloud-based accounting software to help your business, two names come up a lot: QuickBooks Online and FreshBooks. As market leaders, they often compete for the same customers. Because of that, there is little differentiation in the features and options they offer.
Instead, they differ in ease of workflow and small details that will be a big deal to some businesses. While both made our best accounting software list, delving deeper into FreshBooks vs. QuickBooks Online will likely make it clear which is best for your needs.
If you want to read more in-depth reviews, check out our detailed FreshBooks review and QuickBooks Online review.
1. Invoicing
As the two top cloud-based accounting software programs on the market, FreshBooks and QuickBooks Online have many areas in which to compete.
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|Send recurring invoices
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|Integrate with inventory
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Though FreshBooks lets you customize your invoices, it's limited. You can choose between two templates, add a logo and pick a color and font. In contrast, QuickBooks Online has five customizable templates or you can upload one of your own.
Businesses that charge recurring monthly fees for their services will want to automate those invoices to save time and ensure that one is sent each month month. FreshBooks puts the "make recurring" option at the top of every invoice you enter. It's easy to set an invoice to recur and give customers the ability to keep a credit card on file, so they can pay each month automatically.
QuickBooks Online forces you to go to the banking register and click a past payment, which is a more complicated process that depends on payments that have already been received. In general, you'll have to spend more time navigating QuickBooks Online to perform basic functions.
If you're selling an item from your inventory, QuickBooks Online syncs with items on hand and updates quantities from your invoice. That's an invaluable feature for an inventory-based business. It's only available on the highest pricing plan, though, and isn't as good as OneUp's inventory tracking (read our OneUp review).
FreshBooks doesn't have an inventory function. If you need inventory management that syncs with your accounting software, you'll have to sign up and pay for a separate app.
Businesses that perform project-based work often bill at an hourly rate. You'll find built-in time tracking and hourly billing on invoices in both services, but FreshBooks provides it from their cheapest tier on, while QuickBooks Online doesn't unlock it until you're paying for the Plus plan. FreshBooks also lets you send proposals and convert them to invoices once approved. Read our FreeAgent review to learn about another service with easy hourly billing.
Staying on top of past due receivables matters to your overall cashflow position, so you'll want a program that makes it easy to track revenues. FreshBooks and QuickBooks Online send automatic payment reminders to customers and add late fees to invoices. On their reports and dashboards, they show past due receivables to give you a snapshot of who owes you what.
QuickBooks Online's aged receivables reports present far more data than FreshBooks. It includes a collections report, customer balance summary, open invoices and a report that shows payments against outstanding invoices. Those could be handy if collections is an issue for your business.
FreshBooks has one report, an "accounts aging report," that sorts past due receivables into buckets based on their time past due.
The overall experience of entering invoices and the ease of setting up recurring ones makes FreshBooks the winner in the invoicing category. If inventory and staying on top of past due receivables matters more to you, though, QuickBooks Online is the better choice.
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2. Bills
Paying your bills is simpler than invoicing, so you won't need as many options.
FreshBooks and QuickBooks Online have recurring bill functions for monthly bills, such as rent. That said, QuickBooks Online makes you go through more steps to set one up.
The main dashboard in QuickBooks Online shows your expenses but doesn't break them out by past due. That's in its reports under "what you owe."
It's easy to take pictures of receipts in the services' respective apps, upload them and associate them a bank transaction or expense. While you can mark expenses as billable, QuickBooks Online only gives you that functionality at the Plus level and it has to be enabled through the "settings" menu. FreshBooks gives you a box to check on any expense.
The only compelling reason to select one of these accounting programs over the other when looking at billing is an easier to navigate and clearer interface.
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3. Reports
To build a successful business, you need to do more than enter and reconcile transactions. Analyzing the data you've input helps your business become more efficient and identify growth opportunities.
There's no ambiguity about which company has the best reports. It's QuickBooks Online. In its reports, you can drag and drop columns, add accounts, change groupings and add formulas. FreshBooks's nine reports have no customization options.
QuickBooks Online summarizes customer data in reports that show where you might be wasting time and quantify a customer's value to your business. Comparing "sales by customer" to "estimates by customer" might reveal someone who's taking a lot of your time by asking you to prepare estimates and not booking business.
Inventory reports in QuickBooks Online track sales, taxes and best selling items. Reports on bills outstanding and vendors identify bills you might have missed, your most important vendors and outstanding checks.
The nine simple reports in FreshBooks can't compete with QuickBooks Online's many offerings. It doesn't calculate a balance sheet or cashflow statement, either, only giving you a profit and loss statement.
Given that FreshBooks and QuickBooks Online are close in every other area, the lack of reports in FreshBooks is embarrassing and puzzling. There's no comparison in this area. QuickBooks Online wins.
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4. Pricing
Tiered subscription plans, which rise in price based upon user access and features available, allow you to choose the option that your business needs. While that could provide you an opportunity to save money, it could also mean you're paying more because you need access to just one of the features at a higher price point.
FreshBooks's Lite plan costs $15 per month and allows five users to access the program. You can send unlimited invoices and estimates and accept credit card payments online. For a simple business just starting out, that could be enough.
QuickBooks Online's comparable plan, Simple Start, gives you invoicing and payment processing, estimates, receipt capture via its app and basic reports. It costs $20 per month, but is limited to one employee and you can't pay bills. The inclusion of basic reports makes it a better value than FreshBooks's Lite plan, but only if your business doesn't pay many expenses.
On FreshBooks's middle tier, you'll get all the features of Lite for 50 users, as well as important extras. Once you're paying for Plus, you can send payment reminders and add late fees to invoices. You'll also be able to schedule recurring expense payments and access reports. Each of those functions will help your growing business stay on track.
In contrast, QuickBooks Online's mid-tier pricing plan, Essentials, costs $35 per month for three users. Managing bills and tracking time become available at that level, though FreshBooks gives users those features from the start. It's odd that you can't pay bills on QuickBooks Online's lower pricing plan, as even the simplest business has expenses.
The top FreshBooks pricing plan, Premium, costs $50 per month and unlocks access for 500 users, but adds no other functions. QuickBooks Online's Plus plan grows to five users for $60 per month. Projects, inventory tracking and paying 1099 contractors are provided at that level.
If you've already been using an external payroll processor, such as ADP, payroll processing in your accounting software might not be a selling point. There are advantages to having your payroll sync and update in your general ledger, though, and it could save you money to bring it in-house.
QuickBooks Online charges either $19 or $49 per month for payroll processing, depending on whether you need it to collect and pass on payroll taxes to your state. On top of that, it charges a $2 per employee fee. FreshBooks doesn't have payroll processing, so you'll have to go with a third-party app.
The easier you make it for customers to pay you, the faster you'll get paid. Invoices in FreshBooks and QuickBooks Online have links through which customers can pay online, but they charge fees for the service. Merchant processing fees are a percentage of each transaction plus a per-transaction fee.
QuickBooks Online's credit card processing fees are 2.9 percent of each transaction that's paid through an invoice or 3.4 percent if you key in the credit card manually, plus a 25-cent per-transaction fee. With FreshBooks, you'll pay the same percentage on each transaction, but the per-transaction fee is 30 cents. It doesn't take Discover.
For the range of options offered in its pricing plans, we think that QuickBooks Online has a slight advantage over FreshBooks at the higher levels. That said, if cost is your main priority, check out two free services in our Wave review and Brightbook review.
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5. User-Friendliness
Many businesses turn to cloud-based accounting software, in part, to save time. to save time. Having to spend hours, if not days, learning a new program defeats the purpose.
When you set up a new account on FreshBooks, it goes out of its way to introduce you to its features. It has arrows and hints scattered around that pop up the first time you visit a page. Help articles have embedded videos and screenshots with step-by-step instructions, plus it put its email address and phone number front and center in case you need more assistance.
With so much attention paid to familiarizing new users to its software, it's no wonder that FreshBooks is easy to use, with a clear interface and straightforward navigation.
QuickBooks Online has improved over the years, but it has never been known for its user-friendliness. It occasionally forces users to go through multiple steps and screens to perform regular tasks and it doesn't offer tips and help articles for first-time users.
With a steep learning curve and less intuitive workflow, QuickBooks Online falls short of FreshBooks in user-friendliness.
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6. Advanced Functions
Not all businesses sell physical products to generate revenues. Service-based or design-based businesses, particularly those in creative industries, often do projects for their customers and bill hourly.
FreshBooks lets you invite employees and clients to contribute to projects, but you can restrict their access as needed. It also gives you time tracking, which can be pulled into invoices on every pricing plan. You can assign hourly rates and due dates, and the project overview tells you if you have outstanding hours to bill, your employees are meeting their due dates and more.
QuickBooks Online also tracks a project's expenses, profitability and billed time, but its focus is on the accounting and expenses pieces. It doesn't track due dates or project milestones or allow you to invite others to contribute to the project. In that respect, we think FreshBooks gives you more.
Both services require that you sign up for an app or manually enter journal entries to record fixed assets, monthly depreciation and retirements. If you're looking for software that includes those, we suggest that you read our Xero review.
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7. The Verdict
While there are strong pros and cons to both FreshBooks and QuickBooks Online, it makes sense to choose the latter if your business is on a growth trajectory. Once you've dealt with the steeper learning curve, it has more options.
You could add payroll processing at some point, even if you don't need it now. Reports will serve your business well when you need to apply for loans or make more data-driven decisions. Pricing is comparable, you get more customization options, inventory functions are a necessity for product-based businesses and it will take a long time to outgrow its platform.
Winner: QuickBooks Online
That said, if you don't plan on scaling up your business too much and don't need inventory options, you may prefer FreshBooks's user-friendliness and simpler workflow.
Which do you prefer, QuickBooks Online or FreshBooks? Let us know in the comments below and, as always, thank you for reading.


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What is ITIL?
ITIL stands for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library
[ITIL stands for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library]
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and practices for Information Technology Services Management (ITSM), Information Technology (IT) development and IT operations.
ITIL gives detailed descriptions of a number of important IT practices and provides comprehensive checklists, tasks and procedures that any IT organization can tailor to its needs. ITIL is published in a series of books, each of which covers an IT management topic. The names ITIL and IT Infrastructure Library are registered trademarks of the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce (OGC). –Wikipedia
What does ITIL do?
[ITIL is a set of best practice areas for managing I.T. as a service. These best practice areas follow the lifecycle of a service. These practice areas are: Service Strategy, Service Design Service, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continuous Improvement]
- Model of how service is performed (definition of components for service creation through delivery)
- Model of the processes needed to service realization
- Model of how service is measured and managed
Why should I care about ITIL?
[CxOs especially CIOs should care in the wake of rising I.T. costs, the strategic importance of I.T. as an enabler, and the growing chasm between business needs and I.T. provided capabilities]
Business Environment
- I.T. has evolved from financial automation to strategic component
- Information Technology has moved from financial automation (DP) to management information (MIS) to productivity enablers
(Desktop and Network) to Strategic infrastructure and embedded products during the past thirty years
- Production, Operation and Support productivity for I.T. has not kept in sync. While product creation has improved with various techniques, the legacy wake of support and operation continues to grow.
- End users en-mass are now experiencing brownouts and blackouts, more so as technology becomes more interconnected, and are questioning I.T. Management and I.T.s ability to manage the technology. –
Business Skills are becoming critical to I.T. staff
- As technology becomes easier to use on the surface, end-users and executive management see less value and more impediment from I.T. organizations. (i.e., I.T. is just magic that anyone can do).
- Information Technology has moved from financial automation (DP) to management information (MIS) to productivity enablers
- The delivery of I.T. has evolved from a product to a service orientation
- While I.T. always had a services component (operations and support) it was considered as the last and least important loop in the chain. Still today service portions of most I.T. organizations are thought of as a place for novices, low skilled and performing staff
- Service delivery and management has not kept pace technologically or through process maturity. A Capability Maturity Model (CMM) was only introduced less than a decade ago and its orientation was managing outsourcing rather than the service delivery itself
- I.T. is being asked to justify ROI on a regular basis.
- Service interruptions effect company bottom lines more directly and on a larger scale (it will not be much longer before reason for a company failure is correlated directly to an I.T failure)
- Product/Service liability may materialize shortly after such
- I.T. Executives could be exposed to financial liabilities for business damages as well as Business Executives
- This has left I.T. organizations that recognize the need trying to cobble together or build from scratch their own model of a service delivery and management
- While customers (internal and external) are judging them on their own performance criteria which may or may not match up to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) these organizations have stitched together often on criteria that customers do not see and therefore do not measure against [i.e., network or server availability vs. service availability –what good is either to measure if they are not in sync to allow me to utilize the service e.g., the server was up 20 hours a day and the network was up 21 hours a day, however combined the complete service that required utilization of both was up only 18 hours (only 1 hour of the network outage overlapped the hours of server outage). Server and Network availability where reported a poor 84% and 88% respectively, however the Service Availability the customer experienced was a dismal 75%. That's a quarter of the time a customer cannot use the service. Think of it as one in four times you go to use your car it wouldn't work or worse yet, 6 out of every 24 hours a plane flies it just stops –hope you're not over the Rockies during that window.
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On November 20th, 2000, President Ernesto Zedillo revealed the plaque alluding to the bestowing of the name: Library of Mexico José Vasconcelos. Also present in the act were the president of CONACULTA, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, and its director: Eduardo Lizalde.
In the 21st century, the vocation of the Library of Mexico as a space meant for the establishment of personal libraries of renowned intellectuals of our country, stands as the best opportunity to develop an intervention to the building under the project called: The Citadel: City of the Books. A precinct destined to acknowledge the praiseworthy labor of those who created and delved in its splendid libraries whose importance and quality can call upon new and each time more numerous readers. In this way, on 2011-2012 were established the Personal Libraries of José Luis Martínez, Antonio Castro Leal, Jaime García Terrés, Alí Chumacero and Carlos Monsiváis.
The transformation of the cultural project, and of service, of Library of Mexico José Vasconcelos, was conceived with a vision of modernization that considers the use of new technologies, together with an infrastructure that enables to open better options of preservation for the bibliographic materials in benefit of a larger number of users.
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Clay's Ark (Patternist #3) (Mass Market)
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This is book number 3 in the Patternist series.
- #1: Wild Seed (Patternist #1) (Paperback): $18.99
- #2: Mind of My Mind (Patternist #2) (Paperback): $17.99
- #4: Patternmaster (Patternist #4) (Paperback): $16.99
A gripping tale of survival as an alien pandemic irrevocably changes humanity, from the critically acclaimed author of Parable of the Sower.
In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. Resisting the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, but succumbing would mean relinquishing their humanity and free will. Desperate, they kidnap a doctor and his two daughters as they cross the wasteland -- and, in doing so, endanger the world.
About the Author
OCTAVIA E. BUTLERwas a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.


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FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys signed punter Bryan Anger and tight end Jeremy Sprinkle on Wednesday, adding depth at both positions for offseason workouts.
Anger figures to be competition for Hunter Niswander at training camp. Niswander punted the second half of last season in place of the injured Chris Jones, the longtime Dallas punter who was released last month.
The 32-year-old Anger was with Houston the past two seasons after previous stints with Jacksonville and Tampa Bay. The Jaguars drafted him in the third round in 2012. Anger's career average is 46.2 yards per punt.
Sprinkle spent his first four seasons with Washington, which drafted him in the fifth round in 2017. Sprinkle had 26 of his 34 catches and 241 of his 301 career yards in 2019, when he started 13 games. He had one touchdown catch in each of his first three seasons.
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MAVIOGLU & ALKAN is a boutique law firm serving commercial businesses, financial institutions, as well as private individuals in every area of law. ADMD is preferred by clients having sophisticated corporate and financial transactions, and complex dispute resolution proceedings that require attentive and scrupulous approach.
Mavioglu & Alkan Law Office (ADMD) is a full service legal service provider headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Since 2004 we are serving as an analytical, diligent, meticulous, and dynamic law firm providing consultancy and litigation services in Turkey.
All members and partners of ADMD are proficient in English, and they are capable of providing bilingual legal services. The partners of ADMD have extensive expertise in international consulting and accounting firms previously in their career. This allows ADMD to be more competent in aiding foreign clients to accomplish their objectives effectively, not only with the depth and scope of diligent legal services, but also with the understanding of economic and political environment of Turkey.
Here at ADMD, we try to combine attentiveness of a private legal practice with professionalism of an international consulting firm, to offer our clients the best service they deserve. In addition to legal services, ADMD supports its clients directly or with reliable referrals for any other services that are inquired including virtual office formations, support for accounting and tax submissions.
Despite of its young history and boutique structure, ADMD had contributed to transactions and deals worth over $4.5 billion for its clients within seven years of practice. ADMD also has correspondent offices in the cities of Ankara, Antalya, Bursa and Izmir assisting its headquarters in Istanbul for any judicial and administrative filings requiring local attention. Moreover, our office is in cooperation with an affiliate service provider titled 'ADMD Business Suites Turkey' (ADMD BST) providing services such as virtual company formations, outsourced accounting and serviced office space and address allocation.
Our service quality is honored with awards issued by various institutions. Most recently the following are awarded to our office and its partners for their excellence in legal services:
- Finance Monthly, an international publication providing news, insight, comment and analysis on funds, corporate tax, mergers & acquisitions and private equity has awarded ADMD Law Office as the "Tax Law Firm of the Year" for Turkey at their 2013 Finance Monthly Global Awards.
- Corporate Intl Magazine, one of the leading monthly titles for business leaders based in United Kingdom awarded ADMD Law Office as the "Boutique Law Firm of the Year in Turkey" as part of their Legal Awards for 2010.
- Global Law Experts, one of the premier guides to leading attorneys throughout the world decided that ADMD deserves its "2011 Turkish - Corporate Tax Law Firm of the Year Award" as part of their 2011 Global Law Experts Practice Area Awards.
- World Finance, another leading financial magazine published by World News Media located at London awarded ADMD's managing partner Mr. Orhan Yavuz Mavioglu as the "Best Tax Consultant for Turkey" as part of their 2011 World Finance Awards and chose ADMD as the "Best Tax Firm" for 2012.
- DealMakers Monthly, a magazine reporting on global business news with regards to M&A deals, management buyouts, debt refinancing, venture financing, and privatizations chose ADMS as "Law Firm of the Year - Tax, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisition and Alternative Dispute Resolution - Turkey" as part of its County Award winners of 2012.
- Lawyer Monthly, a legal publication of Parity Media Publication of U.K. in association with Noble Legal chose ADMD as the "Tax Law Firm of the Year, Turkey" in 2011.
- Acquisition International, a monthly magazine by AI Global Media also awarded ADMD as the "Turkish Corporate Tax Law Firm of the Year" for 2011.
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when Pastor Ron Allen decided to begin a Bible study in his home. A couple of families had arranged to attend this Thursday night Bible study, but a snow blizzard got in the way. However, that did not stop the Allen family from continuing the meeting.
This weekly Bible study continued to grow, so the Bible study group decided to start a Sunday morning service in the garage of the Allen family's home on July 2, 1995.
At this time, Pastor Ron officially named the church Living Hope.The name of Living Hope came to Pastor Ron in the early eighties as he was walking up and down Chestnut Street praying. The Lord game him the verse 1 Peter 1:3; which at the time he did not know the purpose of, but later learned it was to become the name of his church.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3
the church had grown to approximately thirty people and was ready to move again. The church moved into the basement of the Veteran's building where the church grew to sixty-five people.
After what seemed to be a short stay in the Veteran's building, Living Hope Church moved to a cornerstone on the corner of Willow Avenue and Short Street in May of 1996. Living Hope was truly blessed by this arrangement.
Approaching six years at this location, the church was becoming cramped. The congregation knew it was time to build their own building. The congregation of 100 people raised $100,000 to go towards the construction of the church building.
The Lord blessed the church with a hidden 9.46 acres right in the middle of town for a great price. Amazingly, the location for the church was cleared and the building was built within six months of the purchase.
On April 14, 2002, Living Hope Church had their first service in their newly-built building. The church has not stopped their vision of growth. With each day that passes, the vision becomes more of a reality. God is faithful!
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Worship Service 10:00 AM
(Children's Classes are offered for Infants through Elementary during this service.)
Small Group Bible Study 6:30 PM
(Children's Classes are offered for Pre-schoolers through Teens during this service.)
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Get Away: Travel Like a Rock Star
At the Hotel Rock Lititz, you can live the dream.
Located on the Rock Lititz live-event production campus in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a new boutique property called Hotel Rock Lititz is open to the public, with a "We Will Rock You" vibe that's sure to resonate with music aficionados. More than 30 show-focused companies are clustered on the 96-acre campus, which is also home to a rehearsal studio for production crews and artists to perfect their technical and creative performances before going on tour.
The hotel, which opened in November, offers 139 rooms and suites, each with a mini or full fridge, comfortable bed and sofa, and black sliding bathroom doors made from repurposed concert equipment cases. The wallpaper on the rooms' accent walls was created from photos of more than 1,000 backstage concert passes for acts such as Billy Joel, Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen. Two penthouse suites come with a full kitchen and luxury master bath (but not the wallpaper).
Additional concert elements are incorporated throughout the hotel—from a chain mesh installation in the lobby that depicts some of the sound waves from the Fleetwood Mac song "The Chain" to a lighting grid used on concert tours that is suspended over a billiards table. Public areas are adorned in vintage and current tour posters.
Relax by the fireplace and play pool or table shuffleboard in the fun lobby lounge adjacent to restaurant and bar Per Diem. Rates at Hotel Rock Lititz start at $189 per night.
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