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USS Constitution Returns to Water in Boston Harbor
By Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Charlotte C. Oliver Defense Media Activity - Navy
CHARLESTOWN, Mass., July 24, 2017 — After a two-year restoration at historic Dry Dock 1 at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park, America's oldest commissioned warship, the USS Constitution, was refloated July 23.
Since entering dry dock, May 18, 2015, ship restorers from the Naval History and Heritage Command Detachment Boston and teams of sailors have worked tirelessly side by side to bring Old Ironsides back to her glory.
Navy Capt. Robert S. Gerosa, Jr., the ship's commander, said he was proud of the hard work and dedication of his sailors during the restoration.
"The significance of the water coming in the dry dock is the start of the evolution," said Gerosa. "It's the start of getting [the] Constitution back in the water. This is it, this is what we've been striving for the last 26 months. We are again in the water where ships need to be."
The restoration saw the replacement of 100 hull planks and the required caulking, the rebuilding of the ship's cutwater on the bow, and the ongoing preservation and repair of the ship's rigging, upper masts and yards.
Richard Moore, director of Naval History and Heritage Command Detachment Boston, said he was extremely pleased with the undocking of the USS Constitution.
"All of the Detachment Boston employees take great pride in the work [they] accomplished," Moore said. "The ship restorers, riggers and blacksmith are a group of skilled craftspeople who have put their talents to great use during [the] Constitution's dry dock restoration. Tonight's successful undocking is the culmination of the Detachment Boston's hard work on Old Ironsides over the past 26 months."
Restoring the ship in keeping with the tenets of her original design was an important objective, said Naval History and Heritage Command Director Sam Cox.
When the USS Constitution was built, it was among the best-designed ships in the world; the ship could outrun anything it couldn't outgun and outgun anything it couldn't outrun, he said.
"Expanding that advantage has been the objective of Navy shipbuilders since [the] Constitution's keel was laid," Cox continued. On July 22, the Navy commissioned the USS Gerald R. Ford, a technological marvel of today, he said. The Ford and its crew will make history in new and innovative ways, Cox said, and can trace their lineage back to USS Constitution and the sailors who first took the ship to sea in 1797.
Copper Sheathing
One of the most highly anticipated tasks was the replacement of the USS Constitution's copper sheathing below the waterline. Since the ship launched in 1797, copper sheathing has covered the lower hull as protection against ship worms.
This was one part of the restoration that saw the USS Constitution's sailors get hands-on with preservation work on "America's Ship of State." Sailors helped the Naval History and Heritage Command Detachment Boston ship restorers replace 2200 sheets of copper and the felt that is installed behind it.
"It's an incredible feeling to be a part of the team to work on Constitution," said Seaman Hunter Sensign. "Every day I came to work and it really sinks in that I'm working on a ship that's 219 years old."
As the tide in Boston Harbor turned and began to rise, shipyard workers opened the valves in the caisson, the "floating gate" that has held back the harbor water and Dry Dock 1 flooded. It was the first time the sea had touched the Constitution's hull in 26 months.
It was a long day for the Naval History and Heritage Command Detachment Boston, the sailors, and the staff from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as the dry dock flooded and a team of Portsmouth Shipyard divers checked the hull. The USS Constitution finally lifted from its keel blocks at about 9:45 p.m.
At 11:15 p.m., after checks were completed, the USS Constitution crossed the sill of the dry dock and into Boston Harbor.
The USS Constitution began service in the Navy, Oct. 21, 1797. It was one of the six original frigates that constituted the Navy's first fleet, and construction was authorized by an act of Congress in 1794. It and its sister frigates were designed by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys. As the Navy's capital ships, they were larger and more heavily armed than frigates that had come before them, and the fleet became formidable opponents on the high seas.
The ship's keel was laid in Edmund Hartt's Shipyard in Boston. The USS Constitution was built from the resilient Southern live oak from Georgia and its three masts were made from the strong white pine of Maine. Humphreys designed the hull to be 22 inches thick at the waterline.
Undefeated in battle, the ship fought on the high seas, during the Quasi War with France to the Barbary Wars, and, most notably, the War of 1812 against Great Britain. The USS Constitution's defining and most historic battle was with the British frigate HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812, during which one of the American sailors noticed that some of the enemy's cannon shot appeared to bounce harmlessly off the ship's hull. "Huzza! Her sides are made of iron!" the sailor purportedly shouted -- thus the ship earned the nickname Old Ironsides.
The USS Constitution remains in service to the nation today, sharing the history and heritage of America's Navy. The ship is expected to continue post-docking restoration work before reopening to the public in early September.

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Something I've been wondering about for a while: Does the mainstream success of superhero movies, as well as genre entertainment in general, mean that fanboy opprobrium is pretty much a spent force?
There was a time back in the '90s and early '00s when fan reaction was, if ultimately irrelevant to the success or failure of a particular movie, still considered by the mainstream media to be a valuable index of a movie's cultural impact. Batman & Robin was ridiculed roundly in the fan press months before its premiere; the negative advance publicity stirred up by sites like Harry Knowles' then-fledgling Ain't It Cool News was considered to be a major factor in the movie's disappointing box office. The Phantom Menace was the biggest hit of 1999, and had a very high Cinemascore rating from moviegoers, but today it's remembered as a movie that everybody hated, due in large part to fans who despised Jar Jar and Jake Lloyd's acting. The Matrix received rapturous praise from fans who enjoyed the kung-fu cyberpunk action and meticulously developed future setting; the goodwill quickly ran out with the two sequels, which are considered by most people to be total failures, even though they collectively earned a billion dollars worldwide. Lost and Battlestar Galactica were much-loved, insanely popular series, followed by legions of viewers who pored over every detail, but thanks to abysmal finales they are effectively dead in the minds not just of those obsessive fans, but everybody else as well.
Flash-forward to the present and there's still plenty of contention among hardcore fanboys about movies based on comics, et al., but the controversies tend to be non-starters, like the casting of Idris Elba as Heimdall, or Tauriel in the Hobbit movies. (Remember, Peter Jackson actually filmed scenes of Arwen fighting at Helm's Deep for Two Towers, but cut them for fear of fan backlash.) J.J. Abrams made a couple of Star Trek movies that Trekkers vociferously despised; they made a ton of money, though, and now he has the keys to the Star Wars franchise. The latest non-starter is probably the casting in the new Fantastic Four movie, though this seems to be generating very little controversy. Make no mistake, there probably are fans who hate the idea of Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, or, more discomfortingly, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm. But the media doesn't seem to be courting them as aggressively as they would have in the early days of the Internet Flame Wars. Hell, even M. Night Shyamalan can keep making shitty adaptations of beloved anime classics — dude is fireproof, European Pacing and all.
My theory, then, is this: Fanboys aren't going anywhere, but they are no longer seen as the keepers of the lore. Everybody and their mom has seen Iron Man 3 and The Avengers, so even regular people know who Tony Stark, Loki, and Steve Rogers are. Plenty of people know that if you compare a business meeting to "the Red Wedding," it probably was an uncomfortable affair. You can probably even get away with Watchmen jokes now, this stuff is so ubiquitous. Where fanboys' opinions were once seen as authoritative, in a weird, esoteric fashion, now they're just mere consumers like the rest of us. And as much as they might rage about changes made to their favorite characters, like the portrayal of Superman in Man of Steel, or the casting of Affleck as Batman in the sequel/JLA spinoff/whatever, it's not going to have much of an impact on the public perception of such things, because now the public has its very fine opinions about the same things as well.


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Civil society organizations' collaboration with the Global Partnership for Education is essential to keep education a high priority on the development agenda.
Civil society organizations (CSOs) help shape education policies and monitor programs, and hold governments accountable for their duty to fulfill the right to education. CSOs can be small or large, national or international, and include also parents' associations, children's and youth organizations, and teacher unions.
GPE works with organized CSO networks such as the Global Campaign for Education and Education International, which help facilitate collaboration among organizations and strengthen national and global linkages.
CSOs actively participate in GPE's governance, with 3 of the 19 seats on the Board of Directors reserved for their constituency.


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RF Toolbox™ provides functions, objects, and apps for designing, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing networks of radio frequency (RF) components. You can use RF Toolbox for wireless communications, radar, and signal integrity projects.
With RF Toolbox you can build networks of RF components such as filters, transmission lines, amplifiers, and mixers. Components can be specified using measurement data, network parameters, or physical properties. You can calculate S-parameters, convert among S, Y, Z, ABCD, h, g, and T network parameters, and visualize RF data using rectangular and polar plots and Smith® Charts.
The RF Budget Analyzer app lets you analyze transmitters and receivers in terms of noise figure, gain, and IP3. You can generate RF Blockset test benches and validate analytical results against circuit envelope simulations.
Using the rational function fitting method, you can build models of backplanes and interconnects, and export them as Simulink® blocks or as Verilog-A modules for SerDes design.
RF Toolbox provides functions to manipulate and automate RF measurement data analysis, including de-embedding, enforcing passivity, and computing group delay.


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As Music Month rolls around (again), I've been pondering (again) the state of the racket the nation's bands and musicians have been whipping up.
And from what I can hear, it's pretty damn good and bubbling along better than ever.
While many of our lot are touring overseas and doing well abroad (Kimbra just won the International Songwriting Competition for Cameo Lover), there are always local shows to go to (even when it's not Music Month) and, best of all, the music being produced means there is something for everyone.
Recently, I was on the panel of NZ On Air's Making Tracks funding round - where more than 100 applicants put their best song forward to vie for $250,000 worth of grants. The most striking thing about the long list of songs - some brilliantly inspired, some just great catchy tunes, and others pure dogs - was the diversity.
Sadly, there was no dark, ambient, death-doom music (though Beastwars had a new song in there) but there was everything from the fruity whimsy of New York-based Kiwi Lips and the impossibly catchy sugar-coated pop of Brooke's Til the End (not to be mistaken for Brooke Fraser), to the slightly twisted but mainstream focused rock of Villainy (Shihad's Tom Larkin is recording and producing them) and, my own personal triumph, convincing the rest of the panel to get behind guitarist and songwriter Doug Jerebine's Ain't So Hard to Do, a cracking and raw rock 'n' roll tune recorded more than 40 years ago.
Because, if you ask me, you can't beat raw rock 'n' roll music that's timeless.
ITEM 2: And speaking of that, how 'bout them boys from the Black Keys then, eh? Haven't they done well? I remember seeing them in 2005 at the Kings Arms, back when Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney were hammering out songs off early albums like Thickfreakness.
Actually, to be completely honest, the night is a bit of a haze because songs like Set You Free, with its devilishly reckless shuffle and groove, inspired my mates and me to have quite a big one.
However, while the finer points of the night may have been lost, the impression they left made the Black Keys one of my favourite bands since.
They last played here in 2008 at the Powerstation in front of a giant rubber tyre, a nod to the band's third album, Rubber Factory and their hometown of Akron, Ohio.
And when they play Vector Arena in November, more than seven years and four albums on from their Kings Arms show, they will be big enough to play in front of the Goodyear Blimp. Good on you, brothers.
And not to pat ourselves on the back or anything, but TimeOut picked it when reviewing latest album El Camino last year, declaring it the album that would make them superstars.
ITEM 3: I have to admit it, I have more in common with TimeOut cover star David Guetta than I ever possibly imagined.
Because, like Mr Guetta, when I am dancing to banging house music on Saturday nights, I, too, tend to dance with my hands pumping in the air like I just don't care.
Though no one does it quite like this crazy frog.
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Last July, I was invited to the incredible Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma County for a multi-day excursion in tasting and learning about the region's wines and the combined food experiences that can be had throughout the area. The wines the region is known for are primarily Zinfandel are Sauvignon Blanc but also some distinct, under-the-radar Rhône style wines.
The experience really changed how I viewed Zinfandel; I now consider it one of my dinner wine candidates — reframing its peppery-ness as an asset. It was so great to hear about the county's aim to be an entirely sustainable and how the wine-growing region is already 70% there. In the video, I visit 3 vineyards in a day — however, I basically visited 7 overall. It's hard work, really. Tasting wine.


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Every Thursday, the writers of the Modern Blog will share a few items of interest that they've come across online. These links will generally relate to art, museums, artists, or perhaps they brought up ideas and concepts which we found worth exploring. Enjoy!
- The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute is combining crowd-sourcing with curation through their new uCurate program. (via The New York Times)
- iKono TV has created a video for this Saturday's Slow Art Day, so that people can experience it virtually. How Slow Art Day works: go to your local museum or art gallery, look at five pieces of art slowly (spending 5-10 minutes on each work) and then meet up with fellow participants to discuss your experiences. (via SlowArtDay.com)
- A fascinating series of self-portraiture by Jen Davis, "Seeing Yourself As Others Do". (Also via The New York Times)
- Some NYU researchers have gotten together and done a study on how art affects our brains. It turns out that the parts of our brains that respond to aesthetic stimuli are those that focus on "personally relevant matters" like personality traits, or contemplating our future. (via Futurity.org)
- An interesting article pondering the future of architectural criticism at The New Yorker once Paul Goldberger leaves for Vanity Fair. (via the New York Observer)
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Christmas Gift from the Heart
I wanted to get you the most expensive gifts for Christmas
Things that I knew you could use all year long especially
now while your in Korea so far away from me.
I sat here thinking for days what I could get you .
I sat here thinking real hard for days only thinking of You.
And Baby the only things I could think of to get you and that are priceless,
You already have .
I gave them to you long before you ever left for Korea.
The gifts I gave you and still give you for the rest of our lives
My Love
My Heart
My Devotion
My Respect
My Time
For these are just a few of the most priceless gifts that anyone could give a
loved one.
I gave them to you a long time ago but I will continue to give them to you
everyday for the rest of our lives.
Dedicated to My Husband
My Battle Buddy For Life
SSgt Michael Lyons (I Love you more Baby!!! )
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In Bush's worldview, Pervez Musharraf is 'a moderate leader leading an important country like Pakistan'; he is 'a strong, forceful leader', whose courage and leadership qualities are the stuff of admiration and encourage Washington to build up 'common strategies' with Islamabad for protecting the American people; he leads a government of 'great organisation and compassion'; and he is a 'person with whom I've now had close working relationships for five-and-a-half years', a person when he looks in Bush's eye and says something, Bush is inclined to unreservedly 'believe'.
Bush said repeatedly he and Musharraf were 'on the hunt together' -- two statesmen riding white horses into dark, dangerous, tangled mountains tracking down elusive Al Qaeda warriors.
Curiously, neither Bush nor Musharraf revealed what lay ahead for Afghanistan, though that was the centerpiece of their talks in Washington.
The 'hunt' in the Hindu Kush and in the lawless borderlands of Pakistan's tribal agency was against Al Qaeda -- not the Taliban. Nor did the press availability give any clue as to where the Taliban fitted into this strange, inscrutable Afghan paradigm.
Bush spoke at some length on the Kashmir problem, though. He said he was 'impressed' by Musharraf's 'will to get something done in Kashmir'. He complimented that Musharraf kept his assurance of 'reaching out' to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Kashmir.
Therefore, Bush said, he would pose a few insistent questions to Musharraf regarding Kashmir: 'What can we do to help; what would you like the United States to do to facilitate an agreement? Would you like us to get out of the way? Would you like us not to show up? Would you like us to be actively involved? How can we help you, if you so desire, achieve peace?'
This week will undoubtedly stand out as a momentous punctuation mark in Afghanistan's tumultuous history. Bush, having met Musharraf on Friday, is slated to meet Hamid Karzai on Tuesday. And Bush will indulge in a rare gesture of hosting a joint dinner on Wednesday with Musharraf and Karzai, where he hoped to have 'good', 'interesting' and 'important' discussions.
The heightened diplomatic activity essentially devolves upon the approaching Afghan endgame. The high praise showered upon Musharraf by Bush calls attention to the extreme vulnerability of Washington's Afghanistan policy in the weeks ahead.
Equally, a daunting task lies ahead for Bush in persuading Karzai to go along with what he settles with Musharraf. Not surprisingly, Karzai is already showing signs of nervousness.
For Musharraf, there are three core elements to the endgame in Afghanistan. First, any future government in Kabul must be a friendly government. Translated into plain terms, this requires that Islamabad cannot accept enhanced Indian influence in Kabul.
Second, the Taliban must be accommodated, if peace is to be durable.
Third, Washington must remain steadfast that the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir does not fall by any definition within the ambit of the US-led 'war on terror'.
Even as the Afghan crisis deepens and the prospects of a historic defeat of the Western powers by the Afghan resistance -- comparable in historical magnitude to the defeat of imperial armies of Great Britain and the Soviet Union -- loom into view, Musharraf is conscious of the trump cards he is holding.
His string of apparently contradictory statements during the fortnight leading to his meeting with Bush last Friday must remain a masterly effort to optimally set the tempo of his discussions in Washington to Pakistan's advantage.
On September 6, Musharraf flew into Kabul and took by its horns the Afghan allegation regarding the Taliban's cross-border terrorism. In public remarks at the Afghan foreign ministry in Karzai's presence, he acknowledged 'yes', the Taliban does cross over from Pakistan to carry out terrorist activities on Afghan soil. But what can he do about it? His recipe: 'we (Musharraf and Karzai) have to be together. We do not have other options -- just one option, to stick together'.
On September 12, Musharraf addressed members of the European parliament in Brussels where he played on the growing sense of alarm in the Western opinion about the Afghan crisis to drive home the point that to equate the Taliban with terrorism amounted to grotesque simplification of a complex political challenge.
He reminded his Western audience that the Taliban had its 'roots in the people' --implicitly warning that the crisis warranted a political dialogue with the Taliban.
Musharraf thereupon took the argument across the Atlantic to remind his American audience virtually on the eve of his meeting with Bush that back in October 2001 Washington coerced him to cooperate with the overthrow of the Taliban regime.
Musharraf's stark 'stone age' imagery served the purpose of jogging Bush's memory about those dramatic action-packed days five years ago -- and the assurances that the Bush administration held out to him.
After all, Musharraf's two principal interlocutors at that time are no longer serving the Bush administration -- Colin Powell and Richard Armitage. And Pakistan has a long memory about the inconstancy of American friendship.
Specifically, Musharraf would have Bush acquaint himself with the substance of Colin Powell's mission to Islamabad on October 16, 2001 -- admittedly, one of the defining moments in the subcontinent's recent diplomatic history. Powell's talks with Musharraf almost entirely focused on two political issues, first, the future of the post-Taliban power structure in Kabul, and, second, how Washington could alleviate Pakistan's threat perceptions from India so that Musharraf focused on the impending 'war on terror' in Afghanistan.
The assurances held out by Powell included the following elements:
a. The US would accommodate Pakistan's concerns in Afghanistan, which implied disfavoring ascendancy of the pro-India Northern Alliance in the post-Taliban phase; giving due representation to the Pashtun majority in any multi-ethnic government in Kabul; and, providing room for 'moderate' Taliban in any future power structure;
b. The US role in the resolution of the Kashmir problem, which would involve a recognition that resolution of the problem was central to good ties between Pakistan and India; persuading India to address the problem with sincerity and with a sense of purpose; and, an unambivalent recognition by Washington that the deep-seated dispute was not an issue of 'terrorism'.
On Afghanistan, as Powell publicly admitted later, the term 'Taliban' did not just mean the government in Afghanistan.
'It also defines,' Powell said, 'a group of individuals, a group of people. If you got rid of the regime, there would still be people who might find the teachings, feelings, and beliefs of that movement still very important. And to the extent that they are willing to participate in the development of a new Afghan assembly with everybody being represented, we would have to listen to them.'
Thus, contrary to mainstream Indian discourses oozing satisfaction that a besieged Musharraf was destined to face very painful arm-twisting by Bush this week over the need to do more in the 'war on terror', the emergent equations are complex.
Musharraf has a strong case that the Americans only partially fulfilled their October 2001 assurances to him. To be sure, the Northern Alliance outsmarted Washington and grabbed the levers of power in Kabul in 2001. It took the US almost four years to incrementally muzzle the Northern Alliance and exorcise its influence in the post-Taliban power structure.
Second, whereas the focus inevitably fell on creating a Pashtun power base for Karzai, scant attention was given to giving political legitimacy to Pashtun majority aspirations.
Third, there has been no serious, sustained attempt to accommodate the erstwhile Taliban.
Fourth, the Indian presence in Afghanistan remained worrisome for Islamabad.
Musharraf would have the satisfaction though that Washington has ignored Indian attempts to establish linkage between terrorism in India and the Al Qaeda problem. Indeed, Musharraf would appreciate Washington's role in finally gaining New Delhi's acceptance of the creation of a joint monitoring mechanism on terrorism.
M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat.
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e want a ground to which people may easily go after their day's work is done, and where they may stroll for an hour, seeing, hearing and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets, where they shall, in effect, find the city put far away from them.... We want, especially, the greatest possible contrast with the restraining and confining conditions which compel us to walk circumspectly, watchfully, jealously, which compel us to look closely upon others without sympathy.¹
When landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted delivered his lecture Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1870, Boston was an overcrowded, noisy, and dirty city. Concerned with the health and happiness of Bostonians restricted to these unhealthy surroundings, the city hired Olmsted to design a park system. The series of parks he designed over the next several years is known as the Emerald Necklace. Each unique "jewel" in the Emerald Necklacefrom lovely waterways to botanical gardens to peaceful meadows to tree museumsplays a vital role in linking the citizens of Boston together through nature.¹Frederick Law Olmsted, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, 1870.
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Rhetoric: Allwyn Tellisby Jeremy Sexton '07 • September 2, 2005 Share:
Allwyn Tellis is a visiting instructor of Rhetoric who wants to become involved with Wabash students outside the classroom.
Tellis, who is originally from India, now finds himself teaching in the crossroads of America – the Hoosier state.
"My first impression of Wabash was that it was small but yet very professional," said Tellis. "I've been to and taught at community colleges that were actually bigger than Wabash, but I have yet to find the degree of professional conduct among both the students and the faculty that I have seen here at Wabash.
"What impressed me the most was that even though this is a small college it has a lot of resources."
Tellis earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Bombay at home in India. Tellis earned his bachelors in Indian History and Sociology and continued his studies at the University of Bombay where he earned an academic law degree.
"I didn't get involved with Rhetoric until after undergraduate school," Tellis said. "I wasn't aware that Rhetoric was an academic discipline that would be perused at the higher academic level because in India writing and speaking is dealt with at the high school level."
Tellis is eager to get involved with students. "I have taught debate but only in the context of the classroom and not as an event," said Tellis.
Tellis has just finished writing his dissertation giving a historical-rhetorical reading of Gandhi's "Constructive Programme" and expects to be awarded his Ph. D. in May of next year from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Sexton is a Wabash College junior and English major.
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Vertex Dispenser is a fast-paced abstract strategy game with
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Abstract: A number of influential studies have documented a considerable value premium for US stocks over long periods of time. Value stocks, defined as companies that trade at low price-earnings or price-book values, are reported to have given a higher mean return than growth stocks trading at high multiples. Outside the US, there is also robust evidence of a value premium for the UK, but otherwise the evidence is more uncertain due to data shortages. Studies of continental European and Asian markets are, for example, based on data that typically only covers 20 years of market history. The purpose of this paper is to report evidence for the Danish market using a consistent data set that extends over the period 1950-2008. On the basis of these data the paper investigates whether the value premium is a stylized fact or just a phenomenon that pops up every few decades only to disappear again. The results show that the Danish value premium exists and is significant over the long run. However, this paper also shows that the premium is not a simple constant but is volatile even across decades. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8241
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Some convicted adults and juveniles are monitored after incarceration or as an alternative to spending time behind bars.
McHenry and Kane counties use electronic monitoring programs to keep a watchful eye on people considered a threat to offend again, youth on house arrest or those barred from someone by an order of protection.
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McHenry County has the ability to monitor 30 people but has never had all units deployed at once, said Roger Bacon, chief managing probation officer. The Intensive Probation Supervision program started in 1990 and requires at least 90 days of radio frequency monitoring for high-risk felony offenders in lieu of jail time.
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The Associated Press queried a sample of corrections, parole and probation agencies across the U.S. for alarms logged in a one-month period and for figures regarding the number of people monitored and the number of officers watching them.
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McHenry County has seen only three major violations in the past year through the adult programs. Random alerts due to power outages or lost satellite signal, among other things, are common occurrences, but usually are responded to within a half-hour through a phone call or home visit.
"It's only as good as the officer that is monitoring it," Bacon said. "We never just put that monitoring device on and use that as the sole method of supervising someone."
In larger Kane County, staff members have been added over the years to the Electronic Home Monitoring Unit, and the overtime budget has been increased by about $27,000 annually to keep up with those being tracked.
The staff includes five electronic monitoring officers, three juvenile homebound officers, one field hybrid officer and one on-call supervisor.
Adult electronic monitoring officers travel between 400 and 600 miles weekly servicing equipment, conducting home visits and verifying that offenders have left their homes for court-approved purposes.
Thirty-one adult offenders are currently monitored by radio frequency or GPS tracking, said Matthew Peterson, unit supervisor. Twenty-seven minors are tracked through radio frequency ankle bracelets.
An additional 21 offenders are tracked through active or passive GPS monitoring, which like McHenry County, alerts authorities if someone under an order of protection enters a "restricted zone," or area that the court has order to be a protected area for the victim.
An offender fee covers at least the equipment costs.
"While the fees the offenders pay do not cover the program in full, there is a significant cost savings to the county by not having to house offenders who are not high risk," Peterson said. "Program populations fluctuate based upon individual care circumstances, offender cooperation, arrest levels and court proceedings."
Winnebago and Boone counties do not have electronic monitoring programs.
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
Idea Of The Roman Jurisprudence. - The Laws Of The Kings - The Twelve Of The Decemvirs. - The Laws Of The People. - The Decrees Of The Senate. - The Edicts Of The Magistrates And Emperors - Authority Of The Civilians. - Code, Pandects, Novels, And Institutes Of Justinian: - I. Rights Of Persons. - II. Rights Of Things. - III. Private Injuries And Actions. - IV. Crimes And Punishments.
Note: In the notes to this important chapter, which is received as the text-book on Civil Law in some of the foreign universities, I have consulted, I. the newly-discovered Institutes of Gaius, (Gaii Institutiones, ed. Goeschen, Berlin, 1824,) with some other fragments of the Roman law, (Codicis Theodosiani Fragmenta inedita, ab Amadeo Peyron. Turin, 1824.) II. The History of the Roman Law, by Professor Hugo, in the French translation of M. Jourdan. Paris, 1825.
III. Savigny, Geschichte des Romischen Rechts im Mittelalter, 6 bande, Heidelberg, 1815.
IV. Walther, Romische Rechts-Geschichte, Bonn. 1834. But I am particularly indebted to an edition of the French translation of this chapter, with additional notes, by one of the most learned civilians of Europe, Professor Warnkonig, published at Liege, 1821. I have inserted almost the whole of these notes, which are distinguished by the letter W. - M. The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes: 1 the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe, 2 and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations. Wise or fortunate is the prince who connects his own reputation with the honor or interest of a perpetual order of men. The defence of their founder is the first cause, which in every age has exercised the zeal and industry of the civilians. They piously commemorate his virtues; dissemble or deny his failings; and fiercely chastise the guilt or folly of the rebels, who presume to sully the majesty of the purple. The idolatry of love has provoked, as it usually happens, the rancor of opposition; the character of Justinian has been exposed to the blind vehemence of flattery and invective; and the injustice of a sect (the Anti-Tribonians,) has refused all praise and merit to the prince, his ministers, and his laws. 3 Attached to no party, interested only for the truth and candor of history, and directed by the most temperate and skilful guides, 4 I enter with just diffidence on the subject of civil law, which has exhausted so many learned lives, and clothed the walls of such spacious libraries. In a single, if possible in a short, chapter, I shall trace the Roman jurisprudence from Romulus to Justinian, 5 appreciate the labors of that emperor, and pause to contemplate the principles of a science so important to the peace and happiness of society. The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history; and although I have devoted myself to write the annals of a declining monarchy, I shall embrace the occasion to breathe the pure and invigorating air of the republic.
The primitive government of Rome 6 was composed, with some political skill, of an elective king, a council of nobles, and a general assembly of the people. War and religion were administered by the supreme magistrate; and he alone proposed the laws, which were debated in the senate, and finally ratified or rejected by a majority of votes in the thirty curiae or parishes of the city. Romulus, Numa, and Servius Tullius, are celebrated as the most ancient legislators; and each of them claims his peculiar part in the threefold division of jurisprudence. 7 The laws of marriage, the education of children, and the authority of parents, which may seem to draw their origin from nature itself, are ascribed to the untutored wisdom of Romulus. The law of nations and of religious worship, which Numa introduced, was derived from his nocturnal converse with the nymph Egeria. The civil law is attributed to the experience of Servius: he balanced the rights and fortunes of the seven classes of citizens; and guarded, by fifty new regulations, the observance of contracts and the punishment of crimes. The state, which he had inclined towards a democracy, was changed by the last Tarquin into a lawless despotism; and when the kingly office was abolished, the patricians engrossed the benefits of freedom. The royal laws became odious or obsolete; the mysterious deposit was silently preserved by the priests and nobles; and at the end of sixty years, the citizens of Rome still complained that they were ruled by the arbitrary sentence of the magistrates. Yet the positive institutions of the kings had blended themselves with the public and private manners of the city, some fragments of that venerable jurisprudence 8 were compiled by the diligence of antiquarians, 9 and above twenty texts still speak the rudeness of the Pelasgic idiom of the Latins. 10
I shall not repeat the well-known story of the Decemvirs, 11 who sullied by their actions the honor of inscribing on brass, or wood, or ivory, the Twelve Tables of the Roman laws. 12 They were dictated by the rigid and jealous spirit of an aristocracy, which had yielded with reluctance to the just demands of the people. But the substance of the Twelve Tables was adapted to the state of the city; and the Romans had emerged from Barbarism, since they were capable of studying and embracing the institutions of their more enlightened neighbors. *_0045 A wise Ephesian was driven by envy from his native country: before he could reach the shores of Latium, he had observed the various forms of human nature and civil society: he imparted his knowledge to the legislators of Rome, and a statue was erected in the forum to the perpetual memory of Hermodorus. 13 The names and divisions of the copper money, the sole coin of the infant state, were of Dorian origin: 14 the harvests of Campania and Sicily relieved the wants of a people whose agriculture was often interrupted by war and faction; and since the trade was established, 15 the deputies who sailed from the Tyber might return from the same harbors with a more precious cargo of political wisdom. The colonies of Great Greece had transported and improved the arts of their mother country. Cumae and Rhegium, Crotona and Tarentum, Agrigentum and Syracuse, were in the rank of the most flourishing cities. The disciples of Pythagoras applied philosophy to the use of government; the unwritten laws of Charondas accepted the aid of poetry and music, 16 and Zaleucus framed the republic of the Locrians, which stood without alteration above two hundred years. 17 From a similar motive of national pride, both Livy and Dionysius are willing to believe, that the deputies of Rome visited Athens under the wise and splendid administration of Pericles; and the laws of Solon were transfused into the twelve tables. If such an embassy had indeed been received from the Barbarians of Hesperia, the Roman name would have been familiar to the Greeks before the reign of Alexander; 18 and the faintest evidence would have been explored and celebrated by the curiosity of succeeding times. But the Athenian monuments are silent; nor will it seem credible that the patricians should undertake a long and perilous navigation to copy the purest model of democracy. In the comparison of the tables of Solon with those of the Decemvirs, some casual resemblance may be found; some rules which nature and reason have revealed to every society; some proofs of a common descent from Egypt or Phoenicia. 19 But in all the great lines of public and private jurisprudence, the legislators of Rome and Athens appear to be strangers or adverse at each other.
1 The civilians of the darker ages have established an absurd and incomprehensible mode of quotation, which is supported by authority and custom. In their references to the Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes, they mention the number, not of the book, but only of the law; and content themselves with reciting the first words of the title to which it belongs; and of these titles there are more than a thousand. Ludewig (Vit. Justiniani, p. 268) wishes to shake off this pendantic yoke; and I have dared to adopt the simple and rational method of numbering the book, the title, and the law. Note: The example of Gibbor has been followed by M Hugo and other civilians. - M
2 Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Scotland, have received them as common law or reason; in France, Italy, &c., they possess a direct or indirect influence; and they were respected in England, from Stephen to Edward I. our national Justinian, (Duck. de Usu et Auctoritate Juris Civilis, l. ii. c. 1, 8 - 15. Heineccius, Hist. Juris Germanici, c. 3, 4, No. 55 - 124, and the legal historians of each country.)
Note: Although the restoration of the Roman law, introduced by the revival of this study in Italy, is one of the most important branches of history, it had been treated but imperfectly when Gibbon wrote his work. That of Arthur Duck is but an insignificant performance. But the researches of the learned have thrown much light upon the matter. The Sarti, the Tiraboschi, the Fantuzzi, the Savioli, had made some very interesting inquiries; but it was reserved for M. de Savigny, in a work entitled "The History of the Roman Law during the Middle Ages," to cast the strongest right on this part of history. He demonstrates incontestably the preservation of the Roman law from Justinian to the time of the Glossators, who by their indefatigable zeal, propagated the study of the Roman jurisprudence in all the countries of Europe. It is much to be desired that the author should continue this interesting work, and that the learned should engage in the inquiry in what manner the Roman law introduced itself into their respective countries, and the authority which it progressively acquired. For Belgium, there exists, on this subject, (proposed by the Academy of Brussels in 1781,) a Collection of Memoirs, printed at Brussels in 4to., 1783, among which should be distinguished those of M. de Berg. M. Berriat Saint Prix has given us hopes of the speedy appearance of a work in which he will discuss this question, especially in relation to France. M. Spangenberg, in his Introduction to the Study of the Corpus Juris Civilis Hanover, 1817, 1 vol. 8vo. p. 86, 116, gives us a general sketch of the history of the Roman law in different parts of Europe. We cannot avoid mentioning an elementary work by M. Hugo, in which he treats of the History of the Roman Law from Justinian to the present Time, 2d edit. Berlin 1818 W.
3 Francis Hottoman, a learned and acute lawyer of the xvith century, wished to mortify Cujacius, and to please the Chancellor de l'Hopital. His Anti-Tribonianus (which I have never been able to procure) was published in French in 1609; and his sect was propagated in Germany, (Heineccius, Op. tom. iii. sylloge iii. p. 171 - 183.)
Note: Though there have always been many detractors of the Roman law, no sect of Anti-Tribonians has ever existed under that name, as Gibbon seems to suppose. - W.
4 At the head of these guides I shall respectfully place the learned and perspicuous Heineccius, a German professor, who died at Halle in the year 1741, (see his Eloge in the Nouvelle Bibliotheque Germanique, tom. ii. p. 51 - 64.) His ample works have been collected in eight volumes in 4to. Geneva, 1743 - 1748. The treatises which I have separately used are, 1. Historia Juris Romani et Germanici, Lugd. Batav. 1740, in 8 vo. 2. Syntagma Antiquitatum Romanam Jurisprudentiam illustrantium, 2 vols. in 8 vo. Traject. ad Rhenum.
3. Elementa Juris Civilis secundum Ordinem Institutionum, Lugd. Bat. 1751, in 8 vo.
4. Elementa J. C. secundum Ordinem Pandectarum Traject. 1772, in 8vo. 2 vols.
Note: Our author, who was not a lawyer, was necessarily obliged to content himself with following the opinions of those writers who were then of the greatest authority; but as Heineccius, notwithstanding his high reputation for the study of the Roman law, knew nothing of the subject on which he treated, but what he had learned from the compilations of various authors, it happened that, in following the sometimes rash opinions of these guides, Gibbon has fallen into many errors, which we shall endeavor in succession to correct.
The work of Bach on the History of the Roman Jurisprudence, with which Gibbon was not acquainted, is far superior to that of Heineccius and since that time we have new obligations to the modern historic civilians, whose indefatigable researches have greatly enlarged the sphere of our knowledge in this important branch of history. We want a pen like that of Gibbon to give to the more accurate notions which we have acquired since his time, the brilliancy, the vigor, and the animation which Gibbon has bestowed on the opinions of Heineccius and his contemporaries. - W
5 Our original text is a fragment de Origine Juris (Pandect. l. i. tit. ii.) of Pomponius, a Roman lawyer, who lived under the Antonines, (Heinecc. tom. iii. syl. iii. p. 66 - 126.) It has been abridged, and probably corrupted, by Tribonian, and since restored by Bynkershoek (Opp. tom. i. p. 279 - 304.)
6 The constitutional history of the kings of Rome may be studied in the first book of Livy, and more copiously in Dionysius Halicarnassensis, (l. li. p. 80 - 96, 119 - 130, l. iv. p. 198 - 220,) who sometimes betrays the character of a rhetorician and a Greek.
Note: M. Warnkonig refers to the work of Beaufort, on the Uncertainty of the Five First Ages of the Roman History, with which Gibbon was probably acquainted, to Niebuhr, and to the less known volume of Wachsmuth, "Aeltere Geschichte des Rom. Staats." To these I would add A. W. Schlegel's Review of Niebuhr, and my friend Dr. Arnold's recently published volume, of which the chapter on the Law of the XII. Tables appears to me one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable, chapter. - M.
7 This threefold division of the law was applied to the three Roman kings by Justus Lipsius, (Opp. tom. iv. p. 279;) is adopted by Gravina, (Origines Juris Civilis, p. 28, edit. Lips. 1737:) and is reluctantly admitted by Mascou, his German editor.
Note: Whoever is acquainted with the real notions of the Romans on the jus naturale, gentium et civile, cannot but disapprove of this explanation which has no relation to them, and might be taken for a pleasantry. It is certainly unnecessary to increase the confusion which already prevails among modern writers on the true sense of these ideas. Hugo. - W
8 The most ancient Code or Digest was styled Jus Papirianum, from the first compiler, Papirius, who flourished somewhat before or after the Regifugium, (Pandect. l. i. tit. ii.) The best judicial critics, even Bynkershoek (tom. i. p. 284, 285) and Heineccius, (Hist. J. C. R. l. i. c. 16, 17, and Opp. tom. iii. sylloge iv. p. 1 - 8,) give credit to this tale of Pomponius, without sufficiently adverting to the value and rarity of such a monument of the third century, of the illiterate city. I much suspect that the Caius Papirius, the Pontifex Maximus, who revived the laws of Numa (Dionys. Hal. l. iii. p. 171) left only an oral tradition; and that the Jus Papirianum of Granius Flaccus (Pandect. l. L. tit. xvi. leg. 144) was not a commentary, but an original work, compiled in the time of Caesar, (Censorin. de Die Natali, l. iii. p. 13, Duker de Latinitate J. C. p. 154.) Note: Niebuhr considers the Jus Papirianum, adduced by Verrius Fiaccus, to be of undoubted authenticity. Rom. Geschichte, l. 257. - M. Compare this with the work of M. Hugo. - W.
9 A pompous, though feeble attempt to restore the original, is made in the Histoire de la Jurisprudence Romaine of Terasson, p. 22 - 72, Paris, 1750, in folio; a work of more promise than performance.
10 In the year 1444, seven or eight tables of brass were dug up between Cortona and Gubio. A part of these (for the rest is Etruscan) represents the primitive state of the Pelasgic letters and language, which are ascribed by Herodotus to that district of Italy, (l. i. c. 56, 57, 58;) though this difficult passage may be explained of a Crestona in Thrace, (Notes de Larcher, tom. i. p. 256 - 261.) The savage dialect of the Eugubine tables has exercised, and may still elude, the divination of criticism; but the root is undoubtedly Latin, of the same age and character as the Saliare Carmen, which, in the time of Horace, none could understand. The Roman idiom, by an infusion of Doric and Aeolic Greek, was gradually ripened into the style of the xii. tables, of the Duillian column, of Ennius, of Terence, and of Cicero, (Gruter. Inscript. tom. i. p. cxlii. Scipion Maffei, Istoria Diplomatica, p. 241 - 258. Bibliotheque Italique, tom. iii. p. 30 - 41, 174 - 205. tom. xiv. p. 1 - 52.)
Note: The Eugubine Tables have exercised the ingenuity of the Italian and German critics; it seems admitted (O. Muller, die Etrusker, ii. 313) that they are Tuscan. See the works of Lanzi, Passeri, Dempster, and O. Muller. - M
11 Compare Livy (l. iii. c. 31 - 59) with Dionysius Halicarnassensis, (l. x. p. 644 - xi. p. 691.) How concise and animated is the Roman - how prolix and lifeless the Greek! Yet he has admirably judged the masters, and defined the rules, of historical composition.
12 From the historians, Heineccius (Hist. J. R. l. i. No. 26) maintains that the twelve tables were of brass - aereas; in the text of Pomponius we read eboreas; for which Scaliger has substituted roboreas, (Bynkershoek, p. 286.) Wood, brass, and ivory, might be successively employed. Note: Compare Niebuhr, vol. ii. p. 349, &c. - M.
*_0045 Compare Niebuhr, 355, note 720. - M. It is a most important question whether the twelve tables in fact include laws imported from Greece. The negative opinion maintained by our author, is now almost universally adopted, particularly by Mm. Niebuhr, Hugo, and others. See my Institutiones Juris Romani privati Leodii, 1819, p. 311, 312. - W. Dr. Arnold, p. 255, seems to incline to the opposite opinion. Compare some just and sensible observations in the Appendix to Mr. Travers Twiss's Epitome of Niebuhr, p. 347, Oxford, 1836. - M.
13 His exile is mentioned by Cicero, (Tusculan. Quaestion. v. 36; his statue by Pliny, (Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 11.) The letter, dream, and prophecy of Heraclitus, are alike spurious, (Epistolae Graec. Divers. p. 337. Note: Compare Niebuhr, ii. 209. - M. See the Mem de l'Academ. des Inscript. xxii. p. 48. It would be difficult to disprove, that a certain Hermodorus had some share in framing the Laws of the Twelve Tables. Pomponius even says that this Hermodorus was the author of the last two tables. Pliny calls him the Interpreter of the Decemvirs, which may lead us to suppose that he labored with them in drawing up that law. But it is astonishing that in his Dissertation, (De Hermodoro vero XII. Tabularum Auctore, Annales Academiae Groninganae anni 1817, 1818,) M. Gratama has ventured to advance two propositions entirely devoid of proof: "Decem priores tabulas ab ipsis Romanis non esse profectas, tota confirma Decemviratus Historia," et "Hermodorum legum decemviralium ceri nominis auctorem esse, qui eas composuerit suis ordinibus, disposuerit, suaque fecerit auctoritate, ut a decemviris reciperentur." This truly was an age in which the Roman Patricians would allow their laws to be dictated by a foreign Exile! Mr. Gratama does not attempt to prove the authenticity of the supposititious letter of Heraclitus. He contents himself with expressing his astonishment that M. Bonamy (as well as Gibbon) will be receive it as genuine. - W.
14 This intricate subject of the Sicilian and Roman money, is ably discussed by Dr. Bentley, (Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris, p. 427 - 479,) whose powers in this controversy were called forth by honor and resentment.
15 The Romans, or their allies, sailed as far as the fair promontory of Africa, (Polyb. l. iii. p. 177, edit. Casaubon, in folio.) Their voyages to Cumae, &c., are noticed by Livy and Dionysius.
16 This circumstance would alone prove the antiquity of Charondas, the legislator of Rhegium and Catana, who, by a strange error of Diodorus Siculus (tom. i. l. xii. p. 485 - 492) is celebrated long afterwards as the author of the policy of Thurium.
17 Zaleucus, whose existence has been rashly attacked, had the merit and glory of converting a band of outlaws (the Locrians) into the most virtuous and orderly of the Greek republics. (See two Memoirs of the Baron de St. Croix, sur la Legislation de la Grande Grece Mem. de l'Academie, tom. xlii. p. 276 - 333.) But the laws of Zaleucus and Charondas, which imposed on Diodorus and Stobaeus, are the spurious composition of a Pythagorean sophist, whose fraud has been detected by the critical sagacity of Bentley, p. 335 - 377.
18 I seize the opportunity of tracing the progress of this national intercourse 1. Herodotus and Thucydides (A. U. C. 300 - 350) appear ignorant of the name and existence of Rome, (Joseph. contra Appion tom. ii. l. i. c. 12, p. 444, edit. Havercamp.) 2. Theopompus (A. U. C. 400, Plin. iii. 9) mentions the invasion of the Gauls, which is noticed in looser terms by Heraclides Ponticus, (Plutarch in Camillo, p. 292, edit. H. Stephan.) 3. The real or fabulous embassy of the Romans to Alexander (A. U. C. 430) is attested by Clitarchus, (Plin. iii. 9,) by Aristus and Asclepiades, (Arrian. l. vii. p. 294, 295,) and by Memnon of Heraclea, (apud Photium, cod. ccxxiv. p. 725,) though tacitly denied by Livy. 4. Theophrastus (A. U. C. 440) primus externorum aliqua de Romanis diligentius scripsit, (Plin. iii. 9.) 5. Lycophron (A. U. C. 480 - 500) scattered the first seed of a Trojan colony and the fable of the Aeneid, (Cassandra, 1226 - 1280.)
A bold prediction before the end of the first Punic war!
Note: Compare Niebuhr throughout. Niebuhr has written a dissertation (Kleine Schriften, i. p. 438,) arguing from this prediction, and on the other conclusive grounds, that the Lycophron, the author of the Cassandra, is not the Alexandrian poet. He had been anticipated in this sagacious criticism, as he afterwards discovered, by a writer of no less distinction than Charles James Fox. - Letters to Wakefield. And likewise by the author of the extraordinary translation of this poem, that most promising scholar, Lord Royston. See the Remains of Lord Royston, by the Rev. Henry Pepys, London, 1838.
19 The tenth table, de modo sepulturae, was borrowed from Solon, (Cicero de Legibus, ii. 23 - 26:) the furtem per lancem et licium conceptum, is derived by Heineccius from the manners of Athens, (Antiquitat. Rom. tom. ii. p. 167 - 175.) The right of killing a nocturnal thief was declared by Moses, Solon, and the Decemvirs, (Exodus xxii. 3. Demosthenes contra Timocratem, tom. i. p. 736, edit. Reiske. Macrob. Saturnalia, l. i. c. 4. Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanatum, tit, vii. No. i. p. 218, edit. Cannegieter.)
Note: Are not the same points of similarity discovered in the legislation of all actions in the infancy of their civilization? - W.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- With right-hander P.J. Walters having a solid spring in relief, the Twins wanted to get a look at him in a starting role.
And they got that chance on Sunday against the Blue Jays with Samuel Deduno getting scratched from his outing because of left groin tightness.
Walters, who entered with a perfect 0.00 ERA in 11 innings, didn't fare as well against Toronto, as he surrendered three runs on four hits and two walks over three-plus innings. He also served up a two-run blast to Luis Jimenez on a windy day that featured seven homers between the two clubs.
Walters, who is competing for a spot in the rotation with Liam Hendriks and Cole De Vries, threw 57 pitches and said he thinks he can be stretched out in time for the regular season with another start on Friday.
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We have established our company in 1994 and from 2006 we have decided to move our fast moving entrepreneurship activities from our social media accounts apart from our trading program e-commerce site since 19.04.2018.
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What was the name of our company, Karabulut Ticaret, established in 1994 and still in operation in Turkey.
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We went to Hongkong and founded Lylying International in partnership with a Chinese telecommunications company in 2009. We started the production of products such as ultrasonic animal repellent, led bulb, sound amplifying earphone in shenzhen city of China. Our first office was established in Gangxia district, 2 metro stops away from Shenzhen Huaqiangbei district, which is the heart of technology products. But after 3 years in 2011 we founded an international technology Hongkong company together with a partner in Hong Kong, Shenzhen Import Export International Technology Limited company.
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Our other company is the TGroup World company which we founded in the European Union Silicon Valley Estonia. Our brand is TGroup World and Trade Group is our brand all over the world without China and Hongkong,It is very important to create a brand image of our companies.
TGroup Estonia We will tell you at the startup events how we will make a series of hundreds of things we plan to do in the future, such as how the Silicon Valley was selected, which phases have passed, what kind of report to the Estonian State has these rights.
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