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Over half the roof of the Hyner house is now metal tiled. Great sheets of the stuff have been pulled up on the roof for the past three days. Inside a variety of work continues. Ceiling panels are going up in most rooms as well as windows. Those in each bathroom are frosted for greater privacy. The steel security grilles for the larger windows are being created quite rapidly, just waiting for their decorative leaf design to be added and then it's painting time. On the roof cappings are also starting to appear over the joins and a large gutter runs the whole width of the back of the lanai/viewing deck. Finishing touches are being made to the master bedroom ceiling prior to raising the floor with more concrete and applying the floor tiles. We have selected spotlights.
In addition more materials have been delivered for the perimeter wall and we have engaged an electrician to install lighting on the wall pillars and security floodlights. Materials cost has been calculated and we will negotiate shortly on the labour rate. We are also in discussions with our perimeter wall contractor regarding a pool, having already received a bid from Northcon, our main house contractor. Our wall contractor was responsible for the construction of a large public swimming pool, paddling pool and jakuzzi at Waterworld in the barangay of Ramon so we will be interested in obtaining a comparison quote from them. Depending on what offers we get, the remaining backfill and the entrance driveway are projects we may handle independently.
There are due to be rotated power cuts this week because of the impact of the long drought on HEP. So this will disrupt progress on finishing where power tools are required and this includes the roof.
The average cost of a house in the UK is now £222,000 (P15.5M). In the south-east of England, even a two bed terrace house (joined at either side in a row of similar properties) will set you back over £160,000. Take an architect-designed house on three quarters of a hectare of land, similar to what we are building here, in the UK and you on another planet pricewise. Way beyond our means. But here you can have that dreamhome for less than the price of a UK terrace house.
The exchange rate of the pound vs peso is tragic at the moment but the compensation is that 1000 pennies (or £10) is the equivalent of a week's wages for an average worker here. Hence you get a lot more for your money here when you want to build a house or run a farm or do many things. People are desperate for work so it's a win win situation. You are providing much needed employment and they create an asset for you that you wouldn't be able to afford in the UK.
House & Wall Construction 20 March 2010
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'We became very skeptical of Archos's claim after we noted that a fully charged battery became 30 percent depleted after watching video for about an hour.'
'It was necessary to press the buttons slowly and forthrightly, and I found myself needing to repeat touches far too often.'
'The latest firmware (1.3.05) was very stable and worked in conjunction with the ARM Cortex processor to produce a lag-free experience when moving about the system.'
'somewhat mundane interface'
'It features a built-in 7-in-1 flash media card reader that makes it compatible with CompactFlash, MicroDrive, Secure Digital, MMC, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and XD Card formats.'
'video player/recorder'
'most extensive array of multimedia/multifunction capabilities'
'scrolling through fullscreen images - especially those big Raw files - caused a real lag that soon became frustrating.'
'Audio, on the whole wasn't very loud but still loud enough to minimize external sound (with headphones), at full volume.'
'rechargeable Li-Ion battery'
'glossy, bright red case.'
'the audio and video quality isn't great, the interface is pretty low-budget, and it has a few quirks.'
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Do I really need to talk about myself in the third person? Okay here goes. Kimberly Dillon is a strategist who believes in authentic brands. She has spoken at a number of key conferences including TedWoman, SXSW and was named of the top leaders to watch in tech by the Huffington Post. She has worked at several Blue Chip companies like Proctor&Gamble, the NFL, and Accenture. Kimberly was the founder of House of Mikko, one of the early pioneers of the Beauty Influencer movement in 2009. She later went on to help raise millions of dollars for startups around the world and has developed growth strategies for digital brands such as YouTube stars Smosh, Scooter Braun's Bkstg, and the SIRI spinout Desti.
Kimberly has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and a MBA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Los Angeles, where she performs standup comedy in her free time and is working on her 42nd passport stamp.


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It appears the party leaders are entering into classic shidduch mode. First dispatch a shadkhen, then the telephone call, followed by a secret meeting where everyone one arrives through the backdoor so that the neighbours don't notice. The meeting is just over an hour and since they seem to like each other they'll be meeting again tomorrow morning. Of course everyone wagging their tongues 'is it going ahead?' to which the answer is 'they must first sort out the finance', or the economy and the Euro in this case.
One can imagine the setting. David sitting down with Nick, which school did you go to? Eton, wow! my cousin went there. And what do you do now? Looking for a job, oh I see.
Boruch Ha'Shem the first bashau went well and they'll be meeting again. The boy's putting pressure that they've got something else lined up and they need an answer. She's agreed to wear a band so long that he doesn't put on vase zokn. Actually here it is, he can keep his blue tie so long that he doesn't wear a red one. It seems the lchaim will take place tonight though the boy's zeide is not sure since he knew the girl's grandfather and he's not sure it's suitable for him. The kaleh's aunt thinks a band is meshugaas but the boy's uncles say it's not enough and in their family they always wore a shpitzl.
The banana liqueur has already filled three quarters of the disposable bronfn glezlekh and her side (they definitely started it first) tried talking about first past the post or PR (whether one is enough or Pru u'Rvu like the bunny rabbits). The boy's father said he wants to think about it and they haven't called back. The shadchen is not taking calls, Sholem Meylekh has gone over and now she's saying she's not so sure either.
Stay by the phone; an announcement is due any time.
Monday, 10 May 2010
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Incite, a UK research agency, has relocated its offices from Covent Garden to a larger premises in High Holborn, Central London.
The firm had previously stayed in their base for approximately 10 years when it was founded in 2000 by directors Elaine Kent-Smith and Sid Simmons.
Incite recently hired three new executives, Alex Webb, Justyna Gestwa and Mark Yeomans, to join their 28-strong team, also turning over £7.4m this year, almost £2m above £5.65m in 2008/09.
Managing director Roger Banks believes that this new move represents the expansion of the company and its growing success. He said, "Incite has had an exceptionally good year and since 2007 our turnover has more than doubled. During this time we've also built a formidable team of research specialists and have expanded our portfolio of work with market leading brands."
Incite's client base includes BT, Samsung, Royal Mail, Cadbury and Capital One.
High Holborn has also seen further office activity with the recent opening of a new business centre adjacent to Chancery Lane station. A 10 year lease term has been agreed for a total of 20,000 sq ft, as well as a full refurbishment and re-fit to bring it up to the high standards associated with Orega properties.
Speaking about the location, joint managing director of Orega, Zach Douglas remarked upon how High Holborn was ideally suited for attracting demand from financial, research and legal occupiers, "to whom the flexibility of our offer is likely to appeal."


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Join Todd Dewett for an in-depth discussion in this video Learning how to delegate, part of Managing Teams.
Bad news, you can't do everything yourself, sometimes you feel like you …should but you can't. That's why you need to learn the art of delegation. …Delegation is the process of proactively defining value added tasks or projects to …be assigned to one of your employees to be able to increase the scope of their …responsibilities or the breadth of their skill set. …Learning how to delegate is important for two main reasons. …First, it's your job to develop your team members and delegation is a classic …development tool. Second, when used correctly, delegation …allows you a little bit of room to better focus on the more important work you are …responsible for completing. Unfortunately professionals often avoid …delegating to others. For example, we often feel so rushed at …work that we don't believe we can take the time needed to delegate effectively.…
To delegate means we have to find the right resource. …Spend the time explaining the work to be done. …And then spend time following up. In addition we often feel only we can do …
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I am thinking about an 1.2-alpha release, which does not need to pass any tck, but can still be downloaded by folks that want to test their apps on the bleeding edge (with out having to build). While there is nothing major from a J2EE perspective in the alpha, a lot has changed, or will change very shortly. Here is a list with comments of new and upcoming stuff: ActiveMQ 4.1, is about to get committed. Derby is about to get upgraded. Log4j is about to get upgraded. Use of concurrent util is about to get changed to backport-concurrent- util. Lets not forget that we changed the build system, which mostly impacts development, but also has an impact on the configuration files, and plugins... new CAR m2 plugin. I think it would be really good to get an alpha out so that people can easily test and provide feedback. New m2 plugin to start/stop Geronimo, soon to have new deploy goals. A bunch of bug fixes. * * * I think that by releasing a 1.2-alpha, that we also start down the path of changing the perception of how quickly we release. The alpha can also serve to help us get some experience using the m2 release plugin so that when it comes time for a non-alpha/beta release that we have confidence in the procedure... and this will give us time to make sure that we have the right configurations and setup to make a release with relative ease. Also, more of a side effect, by making a new release, it helps control the JIRA roadmap, right now 1.2 is filled with a bunch of build system related fluff and other bits... I think that we have enough changes (or soon to change in the next days or so) to warrant an alpha. I don't see any reason why not to... we don't need to spend days/weeks to ensure the TCK passes, because we don't need to run it. It should be sufficient to vote on an alpha and then cut the release, which should be easy with the maven release plugin, and even easier with my gpg-sign'ing mojo to sign and upload all artifacts. I believe that having this alpha out will benefit our community, showing that we are going to start releasing more often, give people a chance to provide feedback more often an earlier. I certainly do not expect any production customers to use this, but I do expect that app developers will, so they can ready their apps for deployment on the platform. We will clearly label this as an alpha release, and clear state that it has not been TCK certified. I don't see any downside to cutting a release off of trunk soonish, in the next week or so. --jason On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Kevan Miller wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > >> According to our STATUS file, our last feature release (1.1) was >> on 2006-06-26 which is about 2.5 months ago. I'm not sure exactly >> what we have in trunk right now, but I'd guess we most likely have >> enough to do a release right now. I'm going to spend a few hours >> today browsing the JIRAs and SVN logs and compile a list of the >> features we have in trunk right now. Anyways, I'll let you know >> what I find and we can figure out what we want to do. > > I'd be interested to hear more concretely what's in Geronimo trunk, > OpenEJB 2.2, etc that's not in 1.1.1... > > --kevan
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Chef Marcus Samuelsson, owner of Red Rooster restaurant in Harlem, will receive the 2013 Spirit of Africa Award. The celebrated chef, entrepreneur and author will be honored at the fourth annual Self-Help Africa Change-Maker's Gala Ball on October 25.
The gala is a fundraiser for African entrepreneurship. Launched in 2009, the organization's mission is "to empower rural Africa to achieve economic independence."
Martha Hourican, director of development at Self Help Africa, released the following statement: "We're thrilled that Marcus is accepting this award – in some many ways Chef Samuelsson personifies the talent and energy that is emerging from across Africa today, which holds out such hope for the continent's future."
Samuelsson rose to culinary fame when at just 24-years old he became the executive chef at NYC's Aquavit restaurant. Shortly after, he was named 'Best Chef: New York City' by the James Beard foundation.
He opened his Harlem eatery, Red Rooster, in 2010.
Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, Samuelsson is the author of "New American Table", "The Soul of a New Cuisine" and "Yes, Chef".


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More than 600 Florida physicians, including 32 in metro Orlando, can now recommend medical marijuana to patients, but many have questions, and some are holding off until state rules for the emerging industry are clarified.
Orlando glaucoma specialist Javier Perez completed the eight-hour course required for state licensing about a month ago. As soon as he passed, he said he immediately asked a friend: "Now what?"
In November, voters approved a constitutional amendment that allows doctors to recommend full-strength marijuana for a variety of ailments including glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, ALS, Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease and PTSD.
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Plans for the community's annual Red, White and Boom celebration include live bands, activities for the kids, boutique vendors, adult beverage stations, and of course a fireworks show that's sure to entertain.
Red, White and Boom will take place on Wednesday, July 3 at the Ahwatukee Country Club, at Warner Road and 48th Street. The festival will be from 4 to 10 p.m., with fireworks beginning at 9 p.m.
This year the event is professionally produced by HDE Agency, while still hosted by the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce. HDE Agency promises the event this year will be bigger and better than ever before with more activities for the kids, more live entertainment, and more vendors.
Headlining the event will be Lane Change, performing from 7 to 8:45 p.m. Lane Change is a local band that plays contemporary rock music. The group recently won first place at the Chandler Teen Talent competition.
The entertainment schedule also includes Radio Disney Rockin' Road Show, bratwrust-eating competitions for kids and for local firefighters, a color guard march by American Legion Post 64, the National Anthem performed by Jenny Kowalski, and the fireworks, which are expected to last 25 to 30 minutes.
With close to 3,000 total aerial effects, Kendon Victor of Fireworks Productions of Arizona, said Ahwatukee's fireworks show will be impressive.
Kids can enjoy bounce houses, water play zones and water slides for $1 each. There will also be adult beverage stations and vendors for all ages.
Admission to the festival is free, but guests can purchase Boom! Room tickets for $25 for adults and $15 for kids. The Boom! Room will be a covered and misted area with complimentary food, a dedicated bar and private restrooms. Funds raised from the Boom! Room will support the Red, White and Boom fireworks fund. Tickets are available for purchase online, at the chamber office through July 2, or the day of the event while supplies last. For more information, visit www.red-white-boom.com.
Organizers remind guests to bring cash as most vendors accept cash only. ATMs will be available. Designated event parking is at the Ahwatukee Country Club, 12432 S. 48th St., for $10 per car. There is only one main entrance and two exits.
Stay safe and bring sunblock, hats, sunglasses and unopened bottles of water. No pets are allowed at the event. Lawn chairs, blankets, towels, E-Z Ups, and umbrellas are allowed. Outside food or drinks and weapons of any kind will not be allowed.
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A swimming pool is like owning a private beach – minus the sand. Whenever the weather turns a few degrees hotter, it is tempting to head for the backyard and jump into the cool, refreshing waters of a pool.
Having one is quite enticing. Water lovers adore the idea of heading home after a stressful day at work to a luxurious, relaxing pool. There's no competition. No ten million other people frolicking in the water like in public pools; it is personal and it is private.
This might sound tempting but before homeowners take a big step and start calling potential contractors, there are a few basic and crucial points to keep in mind.
Planning is Everything
Creating a good, solid plan and listing down the important items to a dream pool is helpful. More than a thousand styles are available out there and it's good to pare it down to essentials. Cut down anything too frivolous unless it is necessary. Collect pictures to help contractors visualise the pool. It'll help convey ideas as well as obtain proper estimates.
Consider the Space
A family pool will be a big investment. It also means it will take up a huge amount of space unless the idea is to simply have a mini pool. Before even deciding to get one, consider the amount of space available for the project. Remember that the bigger the space for the pool, the lesser the space for other activities like gardening, backyard baseball or even areas for the dogs.
Budget or Other Financial Considerations
Be prepared for the expenses a swimming pool will demand. Settle on a primary budget after considering options and consulting with possible contractors. Afterwards, stick to it. It's so easy to start adding a slide, fountain or personal Jacuzzi area once work has been started. Also keep in mind that once the pool is built, there are other things to consider like a pool heat pump or gas pool heater. Various other extra items like chemicals for maintenance; accessories like pool blankets and even toys can all add up to a pretty decent sum if owners are not careful.
Safety Concerns
Another thing to consider is the safety of the pool. Private pools need to be enclosed to ensure it won't be a safety hazard. Apart from that, pool covers are also sometimes needed if there are kids living in the property. Parents who want to take it a step further can consider building an above-ground swimming pool with a removable ladder. Other concerns include keeping the pool chemically balanced. Constant upkeep is needed. Bacteria and various fungi can easily thrive on pool water unless it is regularly cleaned and checked.
Think About the Memories and Fun Times
Although it can be a big investment, the cool factor of a swimming pool is clearly part of its charm. Think about the barbecues or fun get-togethers. It's perfect for gathering friends and family members especially during warm summer days. Lasting memories are often built this way and new friends or old ones can easily connect.
Having a pool is more than just getting the appropriate style, size or look. It is an investment that needs a good amount of consideration. If you desire something smaller, perhaps you should consider a simple Jacuzzi!
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In a nasty, partisan article in the New York Times, the growing divide over the presidential election among the Jews of Cuyahoga County is depicted. Cuyahoga county is in the Northeast part of Ohio that includes Cleveland.
The Jews there are quarreling with great passion over whether to support Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. They are also quarreling over whether to support native son Josh Mandel, the observant Jewish former Marine who served two terms in Iraq, or his uber-liberal opponent, Sherrod Brown.
Jewish conservatives have come forth with an ad in the Cleveland Jewish news asking, "Are you willing to bet the life of the Jewish people on this president?" The Times, of course, colored the ad this way (note the quotes) :
It questioned Barack Obama's willingness to defend an Israel "threatened by nuclear annihilation."
Gee, those budding nukes in Iran must be intended for space aliens.
John Bolton, the esteemed former ambassador to the U.N., has gotten involved, the Times reports:
Automated calls pour into Jewish households from John Bolton, the hawkish former U.N. ambassador, in which he warns that a vote for Romney is needed to save Israel from an Iranian bomb and Islamist extremists.
Mandel is portrayed this way:
Mandel, a 35-year-old ex-Marine who has raised more than $20 million through conservative backers, has appalled Ohio's socially progressive Jews — who are still the clear majority — with an anti-abortion stance that has included calling the Indiana Senate nominee Richard Mourdock a "class act" after Mourdock said pregnancy resulting from rape was "something that God intended to happen" and life was always "a gift from God."
Forget the fact that the Times is quoting Mourdock out of context, picking and choosing from his statement; Mandel has "appalled" other Jews. Of course, most "socially progressive" Jews are precisely the same ones who choose the prevailing social norms over the traditional values of the Bible. Appalling them would be to be expected form a person of faith.
The writer of the article derisively referred to the conservative case against Obama this way:
The case I heard in Ohio against Obama on Israel was the usual Republican hodgepodge of insinuations: The president went to Cairo but not Jerusalem, he snubbed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he reached out to Muslims but showed no love for Jews. They ignore all the defense and intelligence cooperation that led the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, to say Obama had done "more than anything that I can remember in the past" for Israeli security.
The writer conveniently ignores that all of those "insinuations" are true, that Barak is a known leftist who once offered 98% of the eternal capital of the Jews, Jerusalem, to the Palestinian Arabs; that Obama's administration has four times divulged the agreements Israel had with other countries to fly over them in an attack on Iran, thus scuttling the agreements; that Obama suggested Israel retreat to the pre-1967 suicidal borders.
The writer also decides his major source for commentary is James Ratner, an executive of the Forest City real estate group, who is related by marriage to Mandel and whose sister Deborah is a major Democratic fund-raiser. Deborah told Mandel at a family gathering: "I don't want this to be awkward, but you represent everything I've spent my life working against." James Ratner melodramatically put the growing divide this way: some Democrat relatives "have supported Mandel's campaign out of family loyalty … that leads deeper into the darkness."
Even with his scathing attack on the Jews who reject Obama, the writer does acknowledge the possibility of a drop in Obama's support; in 2008, roughly 80% of Cleveland's Jews voted for Obama; now, Robert Goldberg, former chairman of the United Jewish Communities (now The Jewish Federations of North America), who supports Romney, believes Jewish support for Obama has dropped to 60% this year.
It doesn't matter to the New York Times; their hatred for those of faith runs this deep:
James Ratner sent me an e-mail saying, "This may well be a case where the noise is obscuring the music." Beneath all the shouting, he suggested, Jewish sentiment remains solidly Democratic. "In a meeting this week of 60 members of a woman's group at Park Synagogue there was absolute unanimity behind Obama. No one was voting for Romney."
Those Jewish women know exactly what Romney and Mandel represent: an obscurantist and invasive threat to their rights in the name of a God whose wishes these men presume to know.
This gratuitous slam at Romney and Mandel for not supporting abortion-on-demand and relying on their faith rather than the odious secular values of the Left, as represented by the Obama Administration and their allies, is beyond sanctimonious. For those of us who hold steadfast to our Judeo-Christian values, it is an attack on faith itself. And that is exactly what the fight in Cleveland is all about.


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Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman accused of misuse of state funds
By Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
In Print: Thursday, December 9, 2010
TALLAHASSEE — The state Commission on Ethics has found that Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank
Peterman Jr. may have "corruptly" misused his position or state resources to pay for frequent taxpayer-
funded trips between the state capital and his home in St. Petersburg.
The watchdog agency found probable cause that Peterman violated the code of ethics, which could
subject him to a fine. With a new governor set to take office next month, Peterman has resigned as chief of
the Department of Juvenile Justice and is likely to be replaced.
Peterman, 48, is a former Democratic state representative from St. Petersburg and a minister who
preaches at the Rock of Jesus Missionary Baptist Church in his hometown. Gov. Charlie Crist appointed
him to run the department in February of 2008.
The investigation was triggered by a citizen's complaint based on a Times/Herald news story in November
2009 that showed Peterman had spent $44,000 on travel in his first 18 months as a state official. Many
trips were airplane flights between Tallahassee and Tampa, and Peterman's family continued to live in St.
Petersburg while he worked for the state.
The probable cause action against Peterman was somewhat unexpected because the agency's staff
recommended a finding of no probable cause, saying there was a lack of evidence that he acted with
corrupt intent as the law requires.
"(Peterman's) actions could be categorized as mismanagement or waste in government," advocate or
prosecutor Diane Guillemette wrote in her recommendation, "but as the agency head it was part of his
position to determine if the travel was necessary. … Consequently, the 'corruption' element of the charge
cannot be sustained."
In addition, Peterman has reimbursed the state $25,630 for travel that an internal investigation by the
Governor's Office considered excessive or not a justifiable government expense.
With five of the commission's nine members in attendance in a closed-door session last Friday, the panel
voted 4-1 to fully pursue an inquiry of Peterman, said Kerrie Stillman, a spokeswoman for the Ethics
A more thorough review could take months to complete. If the violation is upheld by the commission, the
panel recommends a penalty to the governor, who makes the final decision.
Peterman declined to comment and referred questions to his attorney, Mark Herron, who said of the
decision: "It doesn't seem to be an appropriate use of the state's resources, when the case has already
been adjudicated and the penalties have been paid."
Last January, Crist's chief inspector general, Melinda Miguel, issued a critical report that recommended
Peterman repay the state as a "corrective action … for travel not fully and completely justified as official
state business."
Crist declined to criticize Peterman over the Ethics Commission's finding.
"I want to reserve judgment because probable cause in and of itself doesn't reach to the level of a
determination. While it's not a great step, to say the least, it's not a conclusion," Crist said. "We're
innocent till proven guilty."
Peterman has remained on the job, earning $120,000 a year, but he switched to commuting by car
between the two cities after the story appeared.
Peterman's travel bills included $2,848 in parking charges, $7,430 for hotel rooms and $1,600 in fees to
change flight times. The report criticizes his frequent use of short-term airport parking and notes he
charged the state $785 for five hotel nights and a rental car for two conferences in Tampa.


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Taylor Swift's New Kitten Is Named Olivia Benson
"Meet Olivia Benson."
Taylor Swift got a brand-new kitten, and continuing in her grand tradition of Strong Female Protagonist Cats, she named it after Mariska Hargitay's Law & Order: SVU character. (Her other cat is Dr. Meredith Grey, of Grey's Anatomy, and has been well documented as adorable.) Since Swift will likely keep acquiring these adorable felines, can we suggest Buffy Summers, Daenerys Targaryen, Peggy Olson, and Murphy Brown as future names? It'll be good to really commit.


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I set fire to the rain.
An aspiring life coach has been working to help me improve in several areas. She found some of my old notes (I think they came from listening to the Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan) about the four habits shared by most entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs usually have four characteristics:
1. They perform best in times of chaos.
2. They wait until the very last minute to finish projects.
3. They need to have an adrenal rush, like a big opportunity or their backs against the wall, before their creativity kicks into place.
4. They are motivated by goals that seem unreachable.
In his book, Built to Last, Jim Collins calls that last trait, "Big Hairy Audacious Goals."
The people who started Amazon wanted to have "Every book, ever printed, in any language, available in less than 60 seconds." The people who run Google want to "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible."
Amazon and Google aren't quite there yet, but they are working on it.
Anyone who has ever worked with, or hired me, knows that those four traits define my personality.
I am often the one calm person in times of chaos.
One of the reasons I like participating in meditations or settlement conferences is that I can step back from emotion and keep focused on the overall goal.
I'm the first call when someone dies, gets injured or has a financial crisis. I'm at the top of my game then.
But this inner calm doesn't happen for me in my daily life. Then, I'm capable of bouncing off the walls on the most trivial of matters.
Give me a 10 foot putt to win the hole and I normally make it. Take the pressure off and I knock the ball into the weeds.
A lot of my friends are trial lawyers. The good ones seem to have that "calm in chaos" mindset.
My body has some kind of inner clock that tells me when to start a project so that I can finish two minutes ahead of deadline.
I never miss a deadline and the work is first rate, but if you're expecting it two weeks early from me, it will never happen. I've operated like that my entire life.
Along the way, I've been involved financial management, structured settlements, running political campaigns and journalism. Those professions cherish deadline performers. Which is good, since the rest of the world wants to kill us.
Some people hate the media because they think journalists have too much power and bias. Others hate us because we never pick up our socks off the floor.
Entrepreneurs are motivated by passion, enthusiasm and the rush of new ideas.
Otherwise, we don't do much of anything. We tend not to be motivated by daily routines or repetitive work.
Dreaming the Impossible Dream is a concept that many starting businesses don't get.
If their goal is to get rich quick or plod from day to day, they aren't entrepreneurs -- they just have a job they can't get fired from.
I have all kinds of impossible goals.
I wish for world peace, but I'm not in a position to do much about it.
I long to live the rest of my life never hearing another word about any member of the Kardashian family. But I have not been to make that happen, either.
I've had a longtime goal of assuring that my clients hang onto all their money.
Since most of people I deal with have suddenly and unexpectedly gotten money after an injury settlement or lottery jackpot, it's not as easy as you would think.
An estimated 90 percent of people blow through a lump sum in five years or less. I'm going against long odds.
Like the people at Amazon and Google, I'm still working on it.
Another goal is to see that no American is ripped off again by Wall Street or by predatory financial products like payday loans.
Some people think that is truly impossible. But, like the song says, I dream of a day when we "set fire to the rain," and change the financial system to come up with a model that is fair to everyone.
Like my fellow entrepreneurs, I like to dream big dreams and make things happen.
From looking at the entrepreneurial personality traits, like it or not, it is a role I was born to play.
Don McNay, CLU, ChFC, MSFS, CSSC is the bestselling author of the book Wealth Without Wall Street: McNay, who lives in Richmond Kentucky, an award-winning financial columnist and Huffington Post Contributor. You can learn more about him at www.donmcnay.com
He is the Chairman of the Board for the McNay Settlement Group (www.mcnay.com) which provides structured settlement consulting for injury victims, lottery winners, and the families of special needs children.
McNay founded Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, which assists attorneys in as conservators and setting up guardianship's. It is nationally recognized as an administrator of Qualified Settlement (468b) funds.


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Bank Name : HDFC Bank Ltd.
Branch: Ahura Centre, Andheri (E), Mumbai – 93
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"File server creation requires two unique networks to be configured beforehand."
The reason is you two managed networks for AFS. I've seen this come up a lot lately so I thought I would explain the why. While it may change over time this is the current design.
The above diagram shows one file server VM running on a node, but you can put multiple file server VMs on a node for multitenancy.
The file server VM has two network interfaces. The first interface is a static address used for the local file server VM service that talks to the Minerva CVM service running on the Controller VM. The Minerva CVM service uses this information to manage deployment and failover; it also allows control over one-click upgrades and maintenance. Having local awareness from the CVM enables the file server VM to determine if a storage fault has occurred and, if so, if action should be taken to rectify it. The local address also lets the file server VM claim vDisks for failover and failback. The file server VM service sends a heartbeat to its local Minerva CVM service each second, indicating its state and that it's alive.
The second network interface on the file server VM, also referred to as the public interface, allows clients to service SMB requests. Based on the resource called, the file server VM determines whether to service the request locally or to use DFS to refer the request to the appropriate file server VM that owns the resource. This second network can be dynamically reassigned to other file server VM's for high availability.
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text: Latest News New migration data shows that every fourth prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine Published 10 months ago on November 6, 2017 By Alex Christoforou 9,322 Views Share Tweet Article first appeared on RPT. Welcome to the Europe. Three plus years after the Maidan, and Ukraine is now tasting the fruits of what it means to be part of a free and neo-liberal Europe. The international organization for migration has published official data which shows that every fourth prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine. Via Sott.net… Here is only one small example. At a school in the city of Nikolaev representatives of a public organization distributed brochures to girls [on the sly after the announced lecture about AIDS – ed] – a guide on how to live in the new "European reality". Specifically, the Ukrainian labor market is being formed and is growing. Even if there is no other work and none is expected, girls should know that Europe will take care of them. The younger generation of Ukrainian schoolgirls will find out how to apply themselves. "If you are involved in the sex business, then this brochure is for you," it is said in the introduction. "You have chosen a very dangerous profession, but if you always follow these simple rules, then you will get a chance to live a long life". That's right: if, going to become a prostitute since school, you don't follow the "European rules", then you may not last even a couple of years. Life is harsh, it is necessary to prepare for it from the school desk. The rules are stated intelligibly, clearly: "You shouldn't serve several clients alone, you should avoid drunk clients, and also always to take payment in advance. And when you go to the client's apartment, try to learn in what district of the city it is located, give preference to hotels". And advice: when you will read this brochure, don't throw it out, but give it to your female friend. Ukraine should know: this is what Maidan stood for! The country was ruined, thousands of citizens were shot down, Russia was labelled as the "aggressor", the time now comes for Ukraine to make regular its supply of prostitutes for Europe, or "workers of the sex business" – as the carriers of European values teach. Related Topics:UkraineMaidanEuropean Union Up Next Drudge tweets that Donna Brazile was "HAUNTED" by the murder of Seth Rich Don't Miss New migration data shows that every fourth prostitute in Europe is a citizen of Ukraine Advertisement You may like Corrupt Robert Mueller's despicable Paul Manafort trial nears end (Video) America's Militarized Economy Turkish Lira collapse has Europe worried and Erdogan fighting Trump (Video) Comments Latest All Sanctions Against Russia Are Based on Lies All of the US sanctions levied against Russia are based on lies and fabrications. Published 4 hours ago on August 18, 2018 By Eric Zuesse Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org: All of the sanctions (economic, diplomatic, and otherwise) against Russia are based on clearly demonstrable intentional falsehoods; and the sanctions which were announced on August 8th are just the latest example of this consistent tragic fact — a fact which will be proven here, with links to the evidence, so that anyone who reads here can easily see that all of these sanctions are founded on lies against Russia. The latest of these sanctions were announced on Wednesday August 8th. Reuters headlined "US imposes sanctions on Russia for nerve agent attack in UK" and reported that, "Washington said on Wednesday it would impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain." This was supposedly because "Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's GRU military intelligence service, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found slumped unconscious on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March after a liquid form of the Novichok type of nerve agent was applied to his home's front door. European countries and the United States expelled 100 Russian diplomats after the attack, in the strongest action by President Donald Trump against Russia since he came to office." However, despite intense political pressure that the UK Government and 'news'media had placed upon the UK's Porton Down intelligence laboratory to assert that the poison had been made in Russia (labs in several countries including the UK have also manufactured it), the Porton Down lab refused to say this. Though the US Government is acting as ifPorton Down's statement "determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent," the actual fact is that Porton Down still refuses to say any such thing, at all — this allegation is merely a fabrication by the US Government, including its allies, UK's Government and other Governments and their respective propaganda-media. It's a bald lie. On March 18th, the great British investigative journalist and former British diplomat Craig Murray had headlined about UK's Foreign Secretary, "Boris Johnson Issues Completely New Story on Russian Novichoks" and he pointed to the key paragraph in the Porton Down lab's statement on this matter — a brief one-sentence paragraph: Look at this paragraph: "Russia is the official successor state to the USSR. As such, Russia legally took responsibility for ensuring the CWC [Chemical Weapons Convention] applies to all former Soviet Chemical Weapons stocks and facilities." It does not need me to point out, that if Porton Down had identified the nerve agent as made in Russia, the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office — UK's foreign ministry]would not have added that paragraph. Plainly they cannot say it was made in Russia. Murray's elliptical report, which unfortunately was unclearly written — it was rushed, in order to be able to published on the same day, March 18th, when the UK's official response to the Porton Down lab's analysis was published — was subsequently fully explained on March 23rd at the excellent news-site Off-Guardian, which specializes in investigating and interpreting the news-media (in this case, Craig Murray's article, and the evidence regarding it); they headlined "Skripal case: 'closely related agent" claim closely examined'," and concluded their lengthy and detailed analysis: In short, the ruling cited above, even if read in the most improbably forgiving way possible, shows the UK government does not have the information to warrant any of the claims it has so far made about Russian state involvement in the alleged poisoning of the Skripals. It shows the UK government is currently guilty of lying to Parliament, to the British people, and to the world. Nothing has been published further about the Skripal/Novichoks matter since then, except speculation that's based on the evidence which was discussed in detail in that March 23rdarticle at Off-Guardian. On the basis of this — merely an open case which has never been examined in more detail than that March 23rd analysis did — the Skripal/Novichok case has been treated by the UK Government, and by the US Government, and by governments which are allied with them, and by their news-media, as if it were instead a closed case, in which what was made public constitutes proof that the Skripals had been poisoned by the Russian Government. On that blatantly fraudulent basis, over a hundred diplomats ended up being expelled. The Porton Down lab still refuses to say anything that the UK Government can quote as an authority confirming that the Skripals had been poisoned by the Russian Government. All that's left of the matter, then, is a cold case of official lies asserting that proof has been presented, when in fact only official lies have been presented to the public. The UK Government prohibits the Skripals from speaking to the press, and refuses to allow them to communicate even with their family-members. It seems that they're effectively prisoners of the UK Government — the same Government that claims to be protecting them against Russia. This is the basis upon which the US State Department, on August 8th, issued the following statement to 'justify' its new sanctions: Imposition of Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act Sanctions on Russia Press Statement Heather Nauert Department Spokesperson Washington, DC August 8, 2018 Following the use of a "Novichok" nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal, the United States, on August 6, 2018, determined under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) that the Government of the Russian Federation has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals. Following a 15-day Congressional notification period, these sanctions will take effect upon publication of a notice in the Federal Register, expected on or around August 22, 2018. US law is supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty" — the opposite of legal systems in which the contrary assumption applies: "guilty until proven innocent." However, regarding such matters as invading and destroying Iraq in 2003 upon the basis of no authentic evidence; and invading and destroying Libya in 2011 on the basis of no authentic proof of anyone's guilt; and on the basis of invading and for years trying to destroy Syria on the basis of America's supporting Al Qaeda in Syria against Syria's secular government; and on the basis of lying repeatedly against Russia in order to load sanction after sanction upon Russia and to 'justify' pouring its missiles and thousands of troops onto and near Russia's border as if preparing to invade 'the world's most aggressive country' — the US federal Government routinely violates that fundamental supposition of its own legal system ("innocent until proven guilty"), whenever its rulers wish. And yet, it calls itself a 'democracy'. Donald Trump constantly says that he seeks improved relations with Russia, but when his own State Department lies like that in order to add yet further to the severe penalties that it had previously placed against Russia for its presumed guilt in the Skripal/Novichok matter, then Trump himself is publicly exposing himself as being a liar about his actual intentions regarding Russia. He, via his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's State Department, not only is punishing Russia severely for this unproven allegation, but now adds yet further penalties against Russia for it. Trump is being demanded by the US Congress to do this, but it is his choice whether to go along with that demand or else expose that it's based on lies. He likes to accuse his opponents of lying, but, quite obviously, the members of Congress who are demanding these hiked rounds of sanctions against Russia are demanding him to do what he actually wants to do — which is now clearly demonstrated to be the exact opposite of exposing those lies. If Trump is moving toward World War III on the basis of lies, then the only way he can stop doing it is by exposing those lies. He's not even trying to do that. Nothing is being said in the State Department's cryptic announcement on August 8th that sets forth any reasonable demand which the US Government is making to the Russian Government, such that, if the reasonable demand becomes fulfilled by Russia's Government, then the United States Government and its allies will cease and desist their successive, and successively escalating, rounds of punishment against Russia. Russia is being offered no path to peace, but only the reasonable expectation of escalating lie-based American 'justifications' to perpetrate yet more American-and-allied aggressions against Russia. There have been three prior US excuses for applying prior rounds of sanctions against Russia, and all of them have likewise been based upon lies, and varnished with many layers of overstatements. First, in 2012, there was the Magnitsky Act, which was based upon frauds (subsequently exposed here and here and here) which assert that Sergei Magnitsky was murdered by the Russian Government. The evidence (as linked-to there) is conclusive that he was not; but the US Government and its allies refuse even to consider it. Then, in 2014, Crimea broke away from Ukraine and joined the Russian Federation, and the US and its allies allege that this was because Russia under Putin 'seized' Crimea from Ukraine, when in fact America under Obama had, just weeks prior to that Crimean breakaway, seized Ukraine and turned it against Russia and against Crimea and the other parts of Ukraine which had voted overwhelmingly for the democratically elected Ukrainian President whom the Obama regime had just overthrown in a bloody coup that had been in the planning ever since at least 2011 inside the Obama Administration. Several rounds of US-and-allied economic sanctions were imposed against Russia for that — for the constant string of lies against Russia, and of constant cover-ups of "the most blatant coup in history," which had preceded and caused the breakaway. These lies originated with Obama; and Trump accuses Obama of lying, but not on this, where Obama really did lie, psychopathically. Instead, Trump makes those lies bipartisan. On what counts the most against Obama, Trump seconds the Obama-lies, instead of exposing them. And yet Trump routinely has accused Obama as having lied, even on matters where it's actually Trump who has been lying about Obama. Then, there have been the anti-Russia sanctions that are based upon Russiagate and 'Trump is Putin's stooge and stole the election.' That case against Russia has not been proven, and Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange says that what he had published were leaks from the DNC and Podesta's computer, not hacks at all; and yet the sanctions were imposed almost as soon as the Democratic Party's accusations started. Those sanctions, too, are utterly baseless except as being alleged responses to unproven (and likely false) allegations. Furthermore, even in the worst-case scenario: the US Government itself routinely overthrows foreign governments, and continues tapping the phones and electronic communications of foreign governments, and manipulating elections abroad. Even in the worst-case scenario, Russia hasn't done anything that historians haven't already proven that the US Government itself routinely does. That's the case even if Russia is guilty as charged, on all of the U.S-and-allied accusations. So: Who wants World War III? Apparently, both the Democratic and the Republican Parties do. Obama called Russia the world's most aggressive nation. Trump joins with him in that bipartisan lie. Outside of America itself, most of the world consider the United States to be actually the "greatest threat to peace in the world today." Therefore, why isn't the NATO alliance against America? The NATO alliance is America and most of its vassal-nations: they're all allied against Russia. Their war against Russia never stopped. That 'Cold War' continued, even after the USSR and its communism and its Warsaw Pact mirror-image to NATO, all ended in 1991; and now the intensifying 'cold war' threatens to become very hot. All based on lies. But that seems to be the only type of 'justifications' the US-and-allied tyrants have got. Either the lies will stop, or else we all will. Trump, as usual, is on the wrong side of the lies. And he seems to be too much of a coward to oppose them, in these cases, which are the most dangerous lies of all. This is how we could all end. Doing something heroic that would stop it, seems to be way beyond him — he doesn't even try. That's the type of cowardice which should be feared, and despised, the most of all. Trump has taken up Obama's worst, and he runs with it. Trump had promised the opposite, during his Presidential campaign. But this is the reality of Trump — a profoundly filthy liar — at least insofar as he has, thus far, shown himself to be. What he will be in the future is all that remains in question. But this is what he has been, up till now. Continue Reading Latest Germany Returning Migrants to Greece Germany's policy contradicts claims that the migrants are "war refugees," because if that were the case, they'd seek asylum at the nearest, non-wartorn country. Published 4 hours ago on August 18, 2018 By The Duran Via Infowars Europe: Germany will soon send back migrants to Greece if they had already applied for asylum there. The two countries made the deal at the behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition government is on shaky ground due to increased opposition to her immigration policies. "EU law states that refugees should apply for asylum in the first EU country they reach, but Germany has typically allowed newcomers with open applications elsewhere to reside in the country as it examines their claim," reported the Wall Street Journal. "In practice, very few ever leave Germany, even if they fail to obtain asylum there." Germany's policy contradicts claims that the migrants are "war refugees," because if that were the case, they'd seek asylum at the nearest, non-wartorn country. In fact, many of the migrants travel across multiple European countries, including Greece, to seek asylum in Germany, which under Merkel has offered comprehensive welfare to migrants. Merkel's recent immigration backtrack was also likely influenced by the backlash against open borders in neighboring countries, particularly Austria. Austria has ramped up deportations under recently-appointed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. "I'm convinced that the solution to the migrant problem lies with decent border protection and stronger help in countries of origin," he said earlier this year. Poland, Hungary and other Eastern European countries have similarly sealed off their borders to the chagrin of the EU, which had previous demanded "migrant quotas" for each member nation. Continue Reading Latest Why Trump revoked former CIA Director's security clearance John Brennan loses his security clearance under suspicion that he was monetizing intelligence – this claim put forth by Senator Rand Paul. Published 5 hours ago on August 18, 2018 By Seraphim Hanisch On Wednesday August 15, 2018, President Trump revoked former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance. The announcement was a significant story on Fox News as shown here: Support The Duran – Browse our Shop >> President Trump […] revoked the security clearance for former CIA Director John Brennan, the White House announced Wednesday, in the first decision to come from a review of access for several top Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying Brennan "has a history that calls his credibility into question." The statement also claimed Brennan had been "leveraging" the clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the Trump administration in the media. "The President has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that's what he's doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action," Sanders said Wednesday. A further report and video on this matter noted that John Brennan was the first of a fairly significant number of former Obama-era intelligence officials whose security clearances are under review for possible revocation. These agents are shown below: Naturally, the group targeted for review is crying foul and pushing the narrative that "Trump is afraid of us and what we know…", though this does not bear up under the scrutiny of a nearly two-year investigation that has revealed absolutely no sign of a collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agencies. The curious nature of American government and politics is worth noting here. In addition this newspiece raises a question: Why are former intelligence agents allowed to keep their security clearances upon termination of their employment? This is very strange. When corporate employees in a secured firm are fired or resign or retire, their security clearances are revoked immediately. This is how a company protects its information from falling into competitor's hands or even to hostile powers beyond the corporate world. It is standard operating procedure. But when the US Intelligence services are concerned, this is apparently not happening. 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One hundred and ten in the Dollar Index certainly does not sound like a bubble to me. I will just have to judge the circumstances at the time. You will be able to read the newspapers and everybody will be talking about how the Dollar is going to go up forever, you will see on TV that the Dollar is the new promised land.
People will be pouring into dollars...I try to judge those things by the mood. Bubbles throughout history everywhere in the world, no matter the asset, always look and sound the same. I hope I am smart enough to recognize it.


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Shaw Communications Inc. is launching a massive corporate rebranding, in the largest advertising investment in the company's 40-year history.
The new campaign, which kicks off Monday and centres around a group of cutesie robot characters, represents the biggest move by new chief marketing officer Jim Little since he moved to the company from his post at Royal Bank of Canada in March. It also comes at a time of intense competition for Shaw: competitor Telus Corp. launched its Optik TV and Internet product in mid-2010. Since then, it has been poaching Shaw's customers in British Columbia and Alberta through a service-bundle strategy that includes discounts for taking multiple products, including wireless – a service that is missing from Shaw's lineup.
Last year, Shaw decided to abandon a $1-billion plan to enter the competitive wireless business after spending $189.5-million on wireless licences in 2008. Instead, it has opted to pursue a less costly WiFi strategy which it continues to roll out.
During its most recent quarter, Shaw lost 16,474 basic cable subscribers. It also added fewer Internet customers during the fourth-quarter of 2012 than it did in the same year-ago period. The brand takes on more importance in a competitive environment, Mr. Little said in an interview Thursday. Analysts expect the competitive dynamic between Shaw and Telus to continue in the key western Canadian market over the near term. "We want to be fighting hard, fighting for share," he said. "We're excited that this will give us momentum and have the market give us a second look."
The new campaign emphasizes the speed of Shaw's cable network, which Mr. Little views as a main selling point for the service. Shaw will begin airing heavy rotation TV ads in Western markets, as well as buying ads in print, radio, online, billboards, transit, and doing street events and other promotions. Six or seven television spots will launch in the next few months, the heaviest period, but Shaw will keep marketing heavily following the launch as well. Over time, Mr. Little said, the company is hoping that the characters become familiar enough that the advertising messages will be more instantly recognizable and it will not have to spend as much to keep its brand top of mind.
The advertising work was done by Vancouver-based agency Rethink. On Thursday, Shaw announced Rethink is now the company's "agency of record," responsible for most of the brand's advertising. Rethink was given a month to pitch the business, and won the account in July. "We wanted to do something that took the warmth of Telus and notched it up a little, to give the brand a voice," said Chris Staples, a founding partner at Rethink.
It has also redesigned its corporate logo for the first time in 14 years. Shaw did not intend to redesign the logo at first but once the new "bot world" was created, the old logo did not fit, Mr. Little said. The new lettering is softer and more round, and intended to appear more accessible.


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When Ben Willis steps onto a train in Ramsey with a cup of coffee and a copy of the Wall Street Journal, the time is 6:14 a.m.
Being that he is not a morning person, the hour is particularly cruel for Willis. He will likely need another cup of joe, perhaps even a third, before his mind can be considered officially open for business.
His commute ends at the New York Stock Exchange, where Willis arrives at 7:40. It is far earlier than most of his colleagues show up at the venerable institution, which means the place is quiet and still.
Scraps of white and salmon-colored paper that accumulate during each trading day have been swept away, leaving clean the narrow planks of wood that cover the main trading floor. Overhead, computer screens that flash ever-changing stock prices for 6 1/2 hours a day are static with yesterday's last sale.
Willis says good morning to Larry and Kenny and maybe some of the other 10 or 20 souls who inhabit the exchange floor at an hour when little if anything is happening. At the booth of Prime Executions, Willis turns on the computers, sends instant messages to his clients to let them know he's in and brings up trading data screens to catch up on what's happening in markets around the world.
He has another cup of coffee. And then, Ben Willis, independent floor broker on the New York Stock Exchange, is ready for another day.
But as 2007 begins, how many more days on the New York Stock Exchange will there be for Ben Willis?
It is an open question. The New York Stock Exchange has been changing, and in its effort to remain competitive with other exchanges and be responsive to customer demands, has moved firmly toward more electronic trading.
It's faster. It's cheaper. It's anonymous.
It's also, some believe, the sword that could slay every last broker and specialist on the floor.
Willis and his colleagues have been working with the management of NYSE Group, which runs the exchange, to try and ensure the new way of trading accommodates both computers and humans.
Still, as the rollout of what is called the hybrid market approaches full integration, the 46-year-old married father of four is left to wonder: "Is there a place for me somewhere in that model?"
Answering the call
When he started on Wall Street more than two decades ago, Willis was not focused on whether the New York Stock Exchange would one day go through such an identity crisis. After all, it had been a powerful engine for the nation's economic growth during the past 200 years, and it seemed clear that wouldn't change.
Back then, he was just a kid from Rutherford, attending college at Fairleigh Dickinson University and trying to figure out a path in life. Willis already had been a paperboy, a bartender, a bouncer, bodyguard and, perhaps most promisingly, a singer.
Having inherited a solid voice from his father, Willis was likely one of the few 6-foot, 2-inch, 240-pound shot putter-offensive tackle-choir soloists ever to pass through Rutherford High School. But when you've got six older sisters and three younger brothers, it's all about forging your own identity.
At FDU, he began voice lessons and even applied to Juilliard.
Simultaneously, Willis sought a way into the world of finance. His entree came from a sister who was an options trader at the time. She introduced him to some of her contacts.
To land his first job, Willis called the head of equity trading at Paine Webber every Friday for nearly two years. He even offered to work for free the first six months.
In the summer of 1982, the head trader called back and asked, "Are you ready?"
He was, mostly. Except for the small matter of a new suit. It cost more than his first paycheck, but Willis didn't care. "I had this image of Wall Street," he said, "and I had to have a navy blue Brooks Brothers suit."
Willis left college without a degree, relinquished his pursuit of Juilliard and took a job on the American Stock Exchange. During the next few years, he learned the ropes, working on the Amex and then trading options and futures for billionaire financier Israel Englander.
By 1985, Willis moved on to become an independent floor broker on the New York Stock Exchange.
The job of a floor broker essentially involves buying and selling stocks for large institutional clients - ones trading tens of thousands or even millions of shares. Floor brokers deal with others on the exchange floor called specialists, who help stabilize markets in specific stocks and who bring buyers and sellers together.
''What any broker on the floor does, whether it's a floor broker or a specialist, is we minimize the displacement of the pricing of a stock in any split second in time," he said. "We come to a very quick conclusion based on the supply-demand ratio at the point of sale at that split second in time and make a decision on how much to trade. That's what the floor is about."
He loved his job, loved the camaraderie of those who worked on the floor of the historic exchange, where generations before him traded in a similar auction process within the same marble walls and beneath the same gilt ceiling 72 feet above them.
He savored the good days, like the one when he traded about 15 million shares of Lucent Technologies. On that day, he was "the ax," floor-speak for the broker who has the biggest order of the day.
And he endured the bad days, like 9/11. That morning, he and his colleagues watched on television as a second plane sliced into the nearby World Trade Center and then, moments later, felt the impact rumble under their feet.
''If you told him he could have any job in the world, he would probably be the most reluctant to switch," Tim Willis said in comparing his brother's passion for his work to their other siblings' careers. "He just actually loves being down on the New York Stock Exchange floor every day."
During it all, Willis continued to sing. A tenor, he has performed the national anthem at a number of Nets basketball games, including the playoffs. He sang in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, and at the stock exchange for St. Patrick's Day, 9/11 remembrances and other occasions.
A couple of years ago, Willis recorded a CD, the proceeds of which go to a scholarship fund that honors his parents. The first track, "My Treasure," is the song he serenaded his soon-to-be wife with as she walked down the aisle.
Denis Mullins, Willis' first voice teacher, produced the CD, "A Promise Kept."
''Everyone can sing a little, just like everyone can play softball a little," said Mullins, now supervisor of arts in the Rutherford School District. But Willis has "just got a set of pipes that are wonderful. It's a special thing."
Quick on his feet
One recent morning, before the opening bell had even rung, Willis already was busy. He was dressed in a dark gray trader's jacket with the number 366 and an American flag sewn onto the arm. A cell phone and pager were clipped to his chest pocket; a headset rested on his left ear.
He accepted good-natured ribbing from others on the floor as a photographer snapped his picture. "You're an animal," one said. "Big smile, Ben," another added.
The exchange floor is a collection of kiosk-like structures where specialists for more than 2,500 stocks await orders from brokers. To get information about what buyers and sellers are doing in a particular stock, Willis must go to a specific location on the floor where specialists for that stock are posted.
He zipped from station to station to deal with customers' requests or orders, deftly avoiding other brokers on similar missions and clumps of workers gathered around stations. Weaving his way through the floor, the 260-pound Willis seemed more running back than former offensive tackle.
He certainly is more nimble today than a couple of years ago, when he weighed 320 pounds. "When I started buying the size 50 pants, I said, 'This is not good.' I decided it was time to do something," he said.
The opening bell rang at 9:30 a.m., but Willis didn't bother looking up at the gaggle of smiling, dark-suited executives brought in to perform the ceremonial ding ding ding. He paused for a moment and then was off again, scribbling on his hand-held computer.
"Coach!" he shouted as he strode toward the spot where the handbag and accessories company trades. The din of hundreds of conversations meant there was almost always a certain level of background noise, but Willis' voice cut through the traffic like a runaway Mack truck.
The rush and heavy trading of the morning usually tapers off after the first hour, he said, but picks back up again at about 3 p.m. Lunch is usually a sandwich, standing at his booth, a spot hidden behind a wall and at the base of a stairway. In more than two decades on the exchange, Willis has left the floor for lunch three times.
On a high note
For all its activity, however, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange is not nearly as crowded or frenetic as it was just a few years ago. The number of floor brokers and specialists has declined by hundreds, and firms continue to lay off employees. With more big investors taking advantage of computers and algorithms to handle electronic trading, there's less of a need for humans to get involved. When the London Stock Exchange launched electronic trading in 1986, floor-based trading essentially stopped. It was called the Big Bang.
"Is it possible (here)? Absolutely," Willis said. "Is it probable? If I were making odds, I would say the probability exceeds 50 percent."
Willis hopes it won't come to that, and the NYSE Group said it thinks the floor may shrink but not disappear. But he's been trying to plan for the worst.
A self-described foodie who loves to cook (and eat), he's been looking at restaurant properties and exploring other options. The stress of the situation has been difficult for someone with two kids in college and two more working their way there, his brother said.
"I think it's hard to face that kind of uncertainty during a period of your life where you look for stability," said Tim Willis, head of corporate real estate for the investment bank UBS. "It's hard when you've done a single role for your whole career to wonder how your skills will transfer into other forms."
But Tim Willis is pretty sure his big brother will figure out something. And Ben Willis?
On the last trading day before Christmas, he gathered with others on the exchange floor, as is tradition, to belt out "Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie." Earlier, Willis had said singing "brings me peace in my heart and my soul."
Their performance was broadcast live on CNBC and, not surprisingly, the reporter stuck a microphone in Willis' face. Despite his uncertain future, Ben Willis began singing and seemed happy to be exactly where he was.


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Edwin Hernandez Patents- Dec 2016
Dr. Edwin Hernandez patents are in the fields of:
- Wireless Communications: Emulation, Roaming, and Mobility Protocols
- Wireless Power
- Bluetooth
- Magnetic Bottom Connectors for Mobile Phones
- Java Applications
- Multimedia Streaming
A list of Edwin Hernandez Patents is found here:
- E. Hernandez, A. Ayyagari, et al. "Method and system for managing power consumption of a network interface module in a wireless computing device," Microsoft Corporation, US Patent. 7,564,810
- E. Hernandez, A. Helal, RAMON, "Rapid Mobility Network Emulator Method and System," Mobility Workx, LLC, US Pat. 7,231,330
- S. Poursabahian, E. Hernandez, et al, "Bluetooth PAN Driver," Microsoft Corporation, US Pat. 7,269,388
- V. Bhanu, E. Hernandez, et al, "Smart Scan for Bluetooth PAN Services," Microsoft Corporation, US Pat. 8,024,487.
- E. Hernandez, K. Ardizzione. "Thumb-based User Interface for Camera Phones," Motorola Corporation, submitted 2005 – Application
- E. Hernandez, "Secure USB Drive," Motorola Inc, submitted 2005 – Patent Application
- E. Hernandez, J. Tracy "Magnetic Bottom Connector", Motorola Inc, US Pat: 7,331,793
- E. Hernandez, et al "Java-based PTT Initiation and URI." Motorola Inc US Pat. 8,707,337
- E. Hernandez "Mediaplug System and Method Media Delivery" – 2015 – (See bottom of Utility Patent Application )


text: John Evans is best known for his collages of business cards, flyers, ticket stubs, cigarette packs, and the like, which, between 1964 and 2000, he assembled once per day on painted sheets of notebook paper. Often described as "mini-time capsules," his work documents momentous events, from the end of the Vietnam War, to economic booms and busts, to the devastation caused by the AIDS crisis—all from the perspective of an East Village artist. The collages are also a visual diary of sorts, each stamped with the day's date and comprising personal ephemera such as snippets of invitations to gallery openings, reviews of his exhibitions, and poetic musings. Evans figured prominently in the New York Neo-Dada community that included Buster Cleveland, Albert Fine, Ray Johnson, and May Wilson.


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On Friday I went to the biannual Ostracod Group meeting of The Micropalaeontology Society, at Queen Mary University of London. I presented my findings on the TW:eed Project's ostracods and discussed their occurrence with fish and bivalves in the Ballagan Formation. Ostracods are small arthropod crustaceans, about 1mm in length, that live in a wide range of water bodies and occur throughout the fossil record of the last 500 million years. All ostracods are interesting, but the ostracods from the TW:eed Project are particularly interesting as it is around this time in geological history when ostracods adapted from living in the oceans to being able to live in brackish and freshwater too. Different species are found in different salinities, which can help us to understand the environment the tetrapods were living in. Click this link to find out more amazing ostracod facts!
It was great to meet with other experts in ostracod research and hear about new discoveries. We heard eight talks on topics from ostracod reproduction and shell geochemistry, to ostracods from saltmarshes, lakes, marine settings and those that live under ice. Keynote speaker was Dr Tom Cronin from the US Geological Survey who took us through his vast body of research into modern Arctic climate change and explained how certain ostracods can be used as a proxy for sea-ice cover.
The Ostracod Group of The Micropalaeontology Society
Thank you to Anna March from QMUL for organising the day! We are all looking forward to the next ostracod conference, which will be the 8thEuropean Ostracod Meeting in Estonia in July 2015.
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