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Christening ARGO.
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For 30 years
Yachts has built serious offshore cruising
yachts. The Bob Perry Design has become a standard by which all other
cruising yachts are measured. Valiants hold the undisputed record for more
single and short handed (2 person) circumnavigations than any other sailing
boat *.
We chose our Valiant 42' for safety, comfort, strength,
stability and performance. She is built to cross any ocean and we believe
she is the best yacht for us, as we will be attempting a circumnavigation. This journey may take 6 – 10 years.
Valiant builds
semi-custom yachts to order, building 7 - 10 each year, offering the 42' and
50' design. We commissioned ARGO in March 2000 and specified the right
equipment for a circumnavigation. The hull was laid July 9, 2001, and we
took delivery April 12, 2002. At that time, ARGO was the most fully equipped
Valiant 42' ever built.
* One of our
requirements when boat shopping was that Debbie needed to be able to handle
the boat by herself. Steve says it's so he doesn't have to be woken up
during the night to adjust sails, but Debbie says it's because she has to be
self sufficient in case Steve is sick or injured.)
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Valiant Yachts are built in the
unlikely place of Gordonville, Texas, on the Texas side of Lake Texoma.
Living in Houston, a 5 1/2 hour drive put us at the factory so we made a
visit about once a month during the 9-month building process. We have hundreds of
pictures fully documenting the building process, from the laying of the hull
to the re-commissioning in Houston.
Valiant has a 1-piece solid
fiberglass hull design that cannot be modified. They have three "standard"
interior layouts that can be modified as much or as little as the owner
wishes. We made many "small" changes to the interior, and of course had
Valiant fully equip the boat for cruising. Our numerous decisions included
everything from sails to electronics to appliances to systems to
upholstery! More involved than building a house!
The long waiting time to start on our
boat actually was a blessing in disguise, we quickly realized. The extra
time allowed us to attend two Annapolis Sailboat shows, the Pacific Sail
Expo, the Miami Boat Show, visit the Valiant factory several times to view
other Valiants in various stages of production, and to meet/email many other
Valiant owners to get their feedback on their finished boats. It was
helpful to hear the things that they were really glad they had done, and
also the things they wish they would have done differently in retrospect.
Because we had close to 2 years to extensively research everything, we have
so far been very pleased with all our decisions.
2002 Valiant 42CE (center entry,
queen forward), hull #154 (numbering starts with 101)
LOA 42'0", LWL 34'6", Beam 12'9",
Draft 6'0", Mast height above DWL 57'11"
Ballast: Solid lead keel weighing
9,500 lbs.
Total weight upon delivery
approximately 29,000 lbs.
Dual power: 120 AC and 12 volt DC
120 AC by shore power, generator
and inverter
12 volt battery charging by shore
power, generator, engine, wind generator and solar panels
Air conditioning and heater
Refrigeration / freezer / icemaker
by 120 AC and 12 volt
Communications by VHF radio, SSB
radio, HAM radio and email
Navigation by compass, GPS
(differential), radar, electronic charts, forward looking sonar, sailing
instruments, auto pilot and dead reckoning
Galley has propane stove / oven /
broiler (2 – 20 lbs. propane bottles), microwave
Water maker capable of producing
400 gallons/day of fresh water from sea water
Killer stereo and video system
(AM/FM/XM radio/CD, DVD/CD changer, flat screen TV, cockpit speakers)
Safety systems include life raft,
C.A.R.D. (Collision Avoidance Radar Detection), GPIRB (Global Position
Indicating Radio Beacon – uses GPS), radar alarm and other items
All sails are furled: Leisure Furl
main (furls into boom) / Shaefer jib and staysail. Electric winch for
mainsail, and other uses.
Windlass for ground tackle
(anchors) plus stern anchor and deck wash down bib
Anchors are 66 lbs. Bruce and 45
lbs. CQR off bow; Fortress FX23 off stern
Davits for dinghy and foredeck
chocks for carrying dinghy offshore
Storage for scuba tanks
Tankage: Diesel fuel
135 gallons /
Water 100 gallons
(Greek argos, 'swift') In Greek mythology, Jason and the
Argonauts sailed the vessel ARGO in search of the Golden Fleece, and along
the way had many successful adventures. Jason enlisted 50 of the
greatest heroes to serve as crew on the Argonautica, or voyage, including
the Gemini twins Castor and Pollux, Hercules, Orpheus the musician and Hylas.
ARGO, named after its builder Argus, who also served as crew, is the first
ship in history to be given a name. In honor of this, there is an ancient
constellation, ARGO NAVIS, which lies in the southern hemisphere, just below
the equator. In 1763, the French cartographer Abbe' Nicolas Louis de
Lacaille divided this large constellation into 3 smaller manageable
constellations: modern day Carina (keel), Puppis (stern or "poop") and Vela
(sail). Historical facts lead us to believe that there is some truth to the
ARGO and that this was probably the first important maritime expedition.
Last updated
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On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that had clean energy fans dancing in the streets (by which I mean excitedly updating their PowerPoint presentations). It represents a huge win for cheaper, cleaner electricity and for modern grid management.
Unfortunately, it's pretty complicated and obscure. The case, FERC v. Electric Power Supply Association, turned on three things that the vast majority of normal human beings do not understand: 1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, 2) demand response, and 3) wholesale electricity markets.
Specifically, the ruling determined that demand response can participate in wholesale electricity markets, based on rules structured by FERC.
I realize that sounds boring as hell, but it's actually pretty neat. It's going to give demand response — a way of coordinating people to not use energy at certain times — a huge boost, which in turn will help reduce carbon emissions and the price of electricity. It's also a glimpse into the smarter, more responsive electricity grid of the future.
Let's unpack it a bit, to better appreciate the significance.
Wholesale electricity markets are where generators sell power to utilities, which then sell it to you
As I've detailed before, roughly half the US electricity sector is "deregulated."
In regulated markets, power utilities own the whole electricity value chain, from customer service all the way up to power plants.
In deregulated markets, utilities keep their monopoly over local electricity distribution, but electricity generation is spun off into competitive markets.
Those are wholesale electricity markets. Generators sell their power to utilities and retail electricity suppliers at wholesale rates set in a competitive bidding process. Distribution utilities then add their costs for transmitting and distributing that power. The result is the retail price that customers see in their electric bills.
Wholesale markets are managed by nonprofit regional transmission organizations (RTOs), which ensure that the grid remains reliable and that wholesale power prices remain "just and reasonable" through the use of competitive auctions. There are nine in North America, covering about 60 percent of US power supply.
RTOs were created in 1999 by FERC, the federal agency in charge of wholesale, i.e., interstate, electricity markets. (FERC also does some other stuff.) FERC, in turn, was created by the Federal Power Act, which dates back to 1920, though it has been amended many times since.
Okay, that's very basic background on wholesale power markets. Now let's look at the rising role of demand response.
Power demand can increasingly be controlled
For most of the 20th century, power markets were simple: Generate it, send it over a power line, dump it into a building, charge a regulator-approved rate.
What happened to the power once it passed the meter and entered the customer's house or building ("behind the meter") was of no concern. Demand for power was considered an external variable, something determined by economic growth, outside the control of the electricity sector.
But over the years, more and more techniques developed by which power demand can be reliably controlled. In the lingo of power markets, it can be made "dispatchable."
Consider a crude example. Say a savvy entrepreneur contacts 10 industrial facilities. He says, "According to utility forecasts, power demand is going to be unusually high, and grid congestion unusually bad, on Friday at 6 pm. I will pay you a reasonable fee to reduce your demand by 10 percent around that time, by dialing back nonessential processes."
They agree. So this entrepreneur goes to the utility and says, "I can sell you X amount of demand reduction on Friday at 6 pm." This saves the utility from grid congestion and the high costs of "peaker power."
Plus, by reducing demand, it pushes down the price of wholesale power, benefiting consumers. It's a win-win-win.
That, in simplified terms, is "demand response." It's a somewhat loose term that covers any way of deploying timely reductions in demand in response to changing grid conditions.
The companies that organize these reductions are called "demand response aggregators." They are like power generators, only they sell not-power, or "negawatts," as Amory Lovins famously called them.
Recent advances in technology have made demand response much more sophisticated. Now customers (residential or industrial) can sign up to be part of demand response programs and never have to hear about it again. The aggregators can often communicate directly with their appliances and HVAC systems, subtly and imperceptibly ramping power use up and down in response to real-time grid conditions.
That is true of a growing pool of customers as smart(er) appliances and grids catch on.
Anyway, as demand response got easier, smarter, and cheaper, it started to take off.
FERC wants dispatchable negawatts treated like megawatts
Hoping to encourage demand response, FERC (under George W. Bush!) developed Order 719, finalized on October 2008, which instructed RTOs to allow demand response into wholesale markets.
Basically, it said that RTOs, when organizing competitive auctions in wholesale markets, have to treat a megawatt of avoided energy use — a negawatt — the same way they treat a megawatt of energy.
When Obama took office and Jon Wellinghoff took over FERC, one of his priorities was to further boost demand response.
Wellinghoff wasn't sure that Order 719 entirely made the point, so in 2011 FERC finalized Order 745, which instructed RTOs to compensate negawatts at the same rate — the locational marginal price (LMP), in the jargon — as megawatts. In other words, it's not just that demand response could play in the market, but that its value was equal to that of electricity.
It's Order 745 that proved controversial and ended up in the Supreme Court.
By this time, power producers were getting alarmed. Demand response is often cheaper than even the cheapest power generation. They were getting undercut.
So the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), which represents power producers, sued. Their contention: FERC only has jurisdiction over federal power markets, but by setting the compensation rate for demand response customers, it is meddling in retail electricity, the states' domain.
In 2013, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, led by far-right Bush appointee Justice Janice Rogers Brown, sided with the power producers and vacated Order 745. (I wrote a long and detailed post about the case at the time.)
Now the Supreme Court has sided with FERC and demand response
Energy wonks, demand response providers, and environmentalists were horrified by the decision, which would have severely hampered the spread of demand response, thus ensuring higher prices and dirtier energy.
So FERC and the demand-response aggregators immediately appealed the case, with environmental groups like Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council filing briefs in support, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear it.
Rather quickly, as these things go, SCOTUS heard the case and ruled. On Monday, in a 6-2 ruling, the Court sided with FERC and overturned the Circuit Court ruling. (Justice Alito recused himself; Justices Scalia and Thomas dissented.) Order 745 will go forward.
The key to the ruling is that the Federal Power Act (FPA) gives FERC authority over wholesale rates but also any rule or practice "affecting" those rates, as demand response clearly does.
Justice Kagan, writing the majority opinion, lays it out (references omitted):
The practices at issue directly affect wholesale rates. The FPA has delegated to FERC the authority—and, indeed, the duty—to ensure that rules or practices "affecting" wholesale rates are just and reasonable. To prevent the statute from assuming near-infinite breadth ... this Court adopts the D. C. Circuit's common-sense construction limiting FERC's "affecting" jurisdiction to rules or practices that "directly affect the [wholesale] rate." That standard is easily met here.
Since rules governing demand response clearly and directly affect wholesale power prices, they fall within FERC's purview, Kagan concludes.
More broadly, Kagan says, EPSA has argued itself into a corner.
EPSA acknowledged in its filing that states do not have jurisdiction over demand response participation in wholesale markets. Those markets are clearly "interstate," which puts them outside of state jurisdictional reach.
But then EPSA also argues that the feds have no jurisdiction over demand response participation in wholesale markets, because it affects the compensation of retail customers.
If EPSA's arguments are taken at face value, then neither states nor the feds have jurisdiction over demand response participation in wholesale markets. No one does.
Problem is, Kagan notes, under the FPA, "wholesale demand response programs could not go forward if no entity had jurisdiction to regulate them."
In other words, EPSA is effectively arguing that demand response should be kept out of wholesale markets altogether.
But that can't be right, says Kagan. The whole purpose of the FPA is to protect against "excessive prices" and ensure smooth grid operation. It would be bizarre to read FPA as prohibiting something that so obviously serves both those purposes.
So, Kagan concludes, both the spirit and the letter of the law indicate that FERC has legitimate jurisdiction here.
What the ruling means for demand response
So it's full steam ahead for demand response.
In 2014, GTM Research issued a report on the "U.S. Demand Response Market Outlook." Among its findings was that vacating Order 745 would cut the growth rate of the demand response industry by almost half, which translates to $4.4 billion in lost revenue over the next 10 years.
Now that higher growth rate has been vouchsafed.
And it's not just in the US. Navigant Research expects total global demand response capacity to grow from around 31 gigawatts in 2014 to about 197 gigawatts in 2023, and for annual industry revenue to grow from $1.6 billion to $9.7 billion.
For my part, I suspect these forecasts are conservative. The more intriguing possibilities lie in a convergence of technologies and social change. How will smarter devices and electricity grids interact with changing utility models ... with the spread of electric cars ... with the growth of rooftop solar power and distributed energy storage ... with rising corporate interest in clean energy ... with local and state politics ... with EPA rules?
A lot of currents are coming together in the electricity world these days (ahem). It's not just this or that piece of the system changing, it's the system itself. And system changes can be dramatic and nonlinear, which makes them extremely difficult to forecast.
So at this stage, it's probably not possible to isolate the effects or future prospects of demand response. Linear projections are a poor guide to system change.
But we do know that demand response is already reducing the need for dirty peaker plants, thus avoiding pollution and saving customers money.
And we know that thanks to Monday's ruling, one of the last remaining substantial barriers to the industry's growth has been removed.
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The US Air Force, without any warning, struck a missile attack on Syrian government troops
The new crime of US politicians against humanity
US President Donald Trump called the US Air Force missile strike «a response to a chemical attack» allegedly committed on 04/04/2017 by government forces of Assad in the province of Idlib. Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid al-Muallem, categorically rejects this information and states that «the Syrian authorities have never used chemical weapons and are not going to do it.» Russia immediately reacted and suspended cooperation with the United States under the Memorandum «On the Prevention of Incidents in the Airspace of Syria», which operated since October 2015.
07. 04., on the night of Friday, at 4:40 am, the US Air Force released 59 cruise missiles Tomahawk from the Mediterranean. The target is Shairat air base, in the Homs area, from where, according to the US, attacks using chemical weapons could be organized. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, only 23 missiles have reached the target. The place of the fall of the remaining 36 is still unknown, although the Pentagon stated that «58 out of 59 missiles have reached their goal.» As a result of missile strikes, 10 servicemen were killed and there were civilian casualties in the air base, including four children. It destroyed 20 aircrafts of the Syrian Air Force, a radar station, an educational building, a military warehouse, and a canteen. The runway was not damaged.
Governor of Homs said that in the city and the surrounding area, 7 people were killed: 5 military personnelles and 2 civilians from a village located near the air base. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, two Syrian soldiers were missing, four were killed, and six were burned in extinguishing fires. The Syrian armed forces said that ten Syrian military personnel were killed. In addition, on this day there were clashes with terrorists who were wounded. Militants IG and "Jabhat fn-Nusry", immediately after the missile attack, attacked positions of Syrian government troops on the highway Homs-Fourklyus-Palmyra, which once again confirms their ownership and full coherence with the actions of the Pentagon.
Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddat supported the protest and actions of Russia and said: "President of the USA Trump personifies the true face of US policy for several decades, namely: the policy of double standards. «US statesmen always say one thing and then do the opposite, using provocations and far-fetched prepositions to change their course.»
«We will seek peace and fight for peace wherever possible!»
Speech by Donald Trump to Congress on February 28, 2017.
The speech, which one month after it utterance, is completely refuted.
Colin Powell shakes his test tube at
the UN before invading Iraq.
14 years later
The current administration does not consider it necessary to prove or explain anything at all
«We would like to help Iraqi… I mean Libyan…. no-no – Syrian people!»
Presidents change, but US policy remains the same –
arrogantly deceitful and inhumane


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On March 17, shandong luneng's Brazilian striker Wagner - accepted interviews with FIFA lowe, lowe think posco is not invincible, may think luneng won the afc champions; Reiterated because luneng club with us to create the top Asian team ambition, think luneng's strength has large improvement, this season on luneng and Sao Paulo to create youth development plan; It is hard to return to Brazil.
Looking forward to the champions league game against posco, lowe said: "it is Asia's top teams, but their good record does not mean that this team now invincible, if we can keep good shape since this season, even if it is a great hope with them against."
Talk of afc champions shandong luneng, expect to be able to eventually won the lowe: "our team is really very difficult, in addition to posco, Osaka cherry blossoms in the south wing, and also is a strong opponent. However,we have maked perfct preparations , we all worked very hard in training and competition, and now also shows a strong overall strength. After the first two games, we to have a rapid development and ultimately won the intercontinental trophy is full of optimism."
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Hatching has begun. Another season of gypsy moth infestations are ready to plague Southwestern Ontario. There is something you can do about it though. Learn more about gypsy moths and what gypsy moth treatments are available. What are Gypsy Moths and Why are They a Problem? Gypsy moths are a non-native defoliating moth species from… Read more »
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Events, places, people and things which touch Canada.
Camaraderie at Camp Kee-Mo-Kee
8th Annual OCAA South West Day of Service at Camp Kee-Mo-Kee The day dawned wet on October 3rd, 2019 in London, Ontario. Not the first time an OCAA Day of Service looked foreboding at the start of the day, but things promised to improve as the day progressed. Several arborists from around southwestern Ontario arose… Read more »
CLC: Best Tree Services Company in London 6 Years Running
LFP Best of London Contest In 2014, CLC Tree Services won our first London Free Press Best of London contest. We were deeply honoured to win this coveted award, as it is voted on by the people of London, Ontario. Londoners take the time to go through an extensive list of businesses, services, and activities,… Read more »
Ride on: OCAA Day of Service at SARI
Riding Into SARI: An OCAA Day of Service On Friday, September 28th, a truck pulled into the ranch at 12659 Medway Rd in Arva. Diane Blackall saw the vehicle and wondered if it would be enough to make a difference for SARI Therapeutic Riding. The Executive Director needn't have worried, as before she knew it… Read more »
The Environment: How to Reduce Plastic Pollution
Canadian Environment Week In 1971, the Canadian government took a stand to declare that the environment was important enough that we should take steps to protect it. Canadian Environment Week was launched. Since that time, all levels of government, plus businesses, schools, and individuals have been encouraged to take part in this important week. It… Read more »
Educate to Eradicate: Invasive Plant Species in Ontario
Canada is home to over 4000 plant species. While we have many great native plants, there are several other plants which have been introduced. Some of these introduced species have naturalized to Canada and are not overly problematic, but there are others which are far more noxious. Sadly, in Ontario alone, over 400 invasive plant… Read more »
Need a Tree for a Shady Space? Think Blue Beech
It may be mid-February, but aren't we all dreaming of spring? Did you know that spring is the best time to plant trees and that if you order your trees early, you have a better chance of getting what you want. What should you choose though? Start with something native and that grows well in… Read more »
Tree Markings in Ontario
Have you ever noticed a painted mark on a tree in a forest? Or seen a sign posted to a tree in your neighbourhood? Do you know what these tree markings are for? There are a few different reasons, but lets look at a few of them. Tree Markings in Ontario TRAIL BLAZES: The tree… Read more »
Snow and Ice Removal with CLC Tree Services
This time of year can often be quiet for CLC Tree Services. We send out crews to take down Christmas Decor London installations, work on projects around the shop, maintain equipment, and perform any tree service work that comes in. Despite the fact that winter tree services can be done in the winter, and there… Read more »
A Look Back: Reflections on 2017
Christmas Day has come and gone. The last few days of 2017 are slowly winding down. For many that means taking the time to reflect on a year passed. It also has many looking to the future in anticipation of the New Year to come. CLC can't help but dwell on these reflections too. What… Read more »


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Smart Solutions for Sustainable Employee Mobility
When it comes to mobility for employees, many think of company cars and public transport tickets as the only options. But more and more companies are discovering sustainable solutions for their employees and are themselves benefiting from them.
Whether bicycles for hire, car sharing, train and public transport tickets or on-demand shuttle service. The range of mobility solutions is growing. Photo: Mobiko
In ten years' time, the majority of people in large cities will be using public or alternative means of transport, not the car. This is the conclusion reached by the market research institute Kantar in its study "Mobility Futures". Asian cities are already on the way there. According to "Green Commuter", the commuter index compiled in the study, Asian cities are leading the way in climate-friendly commuting. Tokyo, Beijing, and Singapore occupy first to third place, due to the intensive use of public transport and the large proportion of pedestrians and cyclists. With its local transport network, London is considered the most environmentally friendly commuter city in Europe. At the same time, cycling is becoming increasingly popular, which is particularly noticeable in cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen.
Goal: Saving CO2
"More and more young people are asking for more environmentally friendly mobility," explains Dr. Olga Nevska, Managing Director at Telekom Mobility Solutions. That's why the topic of sustainable employee mobility is becoming increasingly important for the company.
Deutsche Telekom offers its employees a wide range of mobile services such as: bicycles for hire and car sharing throughout Germany, train and public transport job tickets, an on-demand shuttle service for journeys between locations and to the train station or airport. Test phases are currently underway with e-scooters. "We are an internal mobility service provider," explains Dr. Nevska, "and aim to cut CO2 emissions by around 40 percent by 2030." That's why the company is focusing on a more sustainable vehicle portfolio, expanding pooling and sharing solutions and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). The green car policy for management vehicles provides an employee bonus for cars with low CO2 emissions.
Enthusiasm for e-mobility
The company fleet is to be gradually converted to electric cars. Since February 2020, company car drivers have been able to choose from around 20 electric vehicle models. In order to get employees excited about electric cars, the company is making test vehicles available free of charge for a limited time. The car-sharing fleet also has enough electric vehicles available. In addition, e-cars can be tested at information events.
Sustainability pays off
There is no question that Deutsche Telekom invests a great deal in the sustainable mobility of its employees. This is paying off: "Employees are very interested in alternative mobility solutions and want to actively contribute to sustainable mobility themselves," the Managing Director knows. It also has a positive effect on employer branding and recruitment of the best young employees. According to Dr. Nevska, positive effects are even noticeable on the financial markets.
Mobility budget worldwide
The positive effect of sustainable mobility solutions on employees is also confirmed by Holger Rausch, founder of Isarbits. The start-up relies on the mobility contingent of the Munich-based company Mobiko. This is a flexibly deployable mobility budget that employers make available to their employees for job and leisure travel. Via app, they're able to use all sustainable mobility offers around the world.
Simple and tax compliant
The app is easy to use: "The employee pays first. Expenses are reimbursed with the pay slip," explains Franziska Salzmann, co-founder of Mobiko. "Employees have all means of transport at their disposal, the either/or principle is no longer applicable." Employees no longer have to choose between company car or train ticket. A further advantage: the data is prepared for each company payroll accounting system. This makes the accounting process digital. On top of that, ancillary wage costs can also be reduced – if employees use tax-free mobility offers.
Whether the majority of people in large cities will actually be using public or alternative means of transport in ten years time, as predicted by the Kantar market research institute, remains to be seen. But fact is: The issue of sustainable employee mobility is becoming an increasing focus for many companies.
Automated, but Safe!
At the Lausitzring in Klettwitz, Germany, DEKRA puts assistance systems and automated vehicle technologies through their paces, most recently also in urban environments on specially established city courses. These tests are of central importance – because acceptance by society depends on the safety and reliability of the systems.


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After 24 years of raising children, my wife and I will become empty nesters soon. When I see a young couple with children, I think, "How the heck did we raise three kids into responsible adults?" That feeling reminds me of what starting a business can be like: It's expensive. Starting a business comes with a hefty…Read More
3 Signs It's Time to Move on From Your Startup (and How to Get That Move Started)
You'd think you'd have your exit strategy planned 10 years in advance of a sale. Unfortunately, most founders don't. Earlier this year, a lot of augmented reality enthusiasts were probably disappointed to hear that the heralded AR glasses startup Meta, one of the most promising startups to come out of Y Combinator's summer 2013 cohort,…Read More


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First of all, I would like to thank everyone that has downloaded, reviewed, or shared "Esperanza." You're support has meant a lot, and I will forever be grateful for it. Today, the book "Theresa" is now available wherever books are sold. The description and links can be found below. It's a nice treat for anyone that loves a feel-good romance with a bit of drama. Both "Esperanza" and "Theresa" are also available on audible. For those of you that haven't read either novel, "Esperanza" is available for free. I hope that you'll give it a try!
When you're evicted by two lovers, why not move to a mysterious island to become a mail order bride?
Esperanza DeLuca is in a jam. Nancy, Esperanza's roommate, decided to move in her husband. The problem is that Nancy would rather be a newlywed without a third wheel hanging around. She gives Esperanza two weeks to move out and she's even nice enough to pack her bags for her. Esperanza signs up for a dating site and is offered a home off the coast of Florida. The only catch, she has to marry her match right away. Will she find happiness in her abode? Or will new challenges send her packing … again?
When you're disowned by your father, why not move to a mysterious island to become a mail order bride?
Tessa McDonald's father is rich, gullible, and has a pension for dating women half his age. That's why she has spent her life protecting him from the gold diggers. Eventually, Tessa fails and her father proposes to Gail. After the couple kicks her out of the house, Tessa decides to become a mail order bride. She's immediately drawn to her groom, Thomas Daily, a complicated man with a big heart. Unfortunately, his brother Trip is willing to do anything to ensure that Thomas' marriage isn't long lasting. Will Tessa be able to uncover the plot before it's too late?


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After one year in the Castro, Mr. Fu Kitchen at 335 Noe Street (between 16th and 17th) has closed. Another restaurant is already lined up to take its place.
Hoodline contacted owner Yu Jian Zhu who confirmed that Mr. Fu Kitchen closed October 1st because "the business was just too slow."
Castro residents will recall that Mr. Fu Kitchen opened last year in the former House of Chen space when its owners retired after 28 years of running the Chinese food restaurant.
Zhu confirmed a new restaurant was on the way but could not provide any details about what was planned.
Public records indicate the Type 41 liquor license was transferred earlier this month to new owners: Xiu Li and Yue Ning Liu.
Documents indicate that the new restaurant will be called Pho 335. Construction work is currently underway at the restaurant.
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Remember how I vented about my frustrations with retail stores jumping the gun on Christmas 2011? Costco had decorations up before Halloween. It was craziness and I wanted no part of it. But now, Thanksgiving has past, and it is completely appropriate to go bananas for Christmas time.
Being out-of-town the last two weeks put a severe damper on our Christmas spirit. We weren't able to get our decorations out of storage until last week, and since we were both gone last weekend, we had no Christmas tree either. That all changed last night.
They say opposites attract, and that couldn't be more true for the Ninja household. Even when it comes to something as simple as picking a Christmas tree, we weren't seeing eye-to-eye. Girl Ninja wanted a real tree. I wanted a fake one.
Needless to say Girl Ninja won that battle and we are now the proud owners of a beautiful six-foot Noble fir named Herbert (Girl Ninja thinks it should be named Nina). While I would prefer to not have to deal with the hassle of buying a real Christmas tree; you know, things like: finding a tree lot, deciding which tree to get, buying a stand, hoping the tree fits in the stand you bought, praying the thing doesn't sit at a 45 degree angle, constantly vacuuming up the needles that fall off, and remembering to water the dang thing, I can't say no to the wifey.
Man, trees are almost as high maintenance as pets, or kids.
For me it was purely a financial decision. Last year we paid $50 for a real tree, this year we paid $46. When I was in Target the other day I saw a handful of fake trees priced around $100-$200 that looked awesome. One more Xmas from now, we'd have a fake tree paid off and no need to buy another one for a very long time. A fake Christmas tree is a solid investment.
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For Girl Ninja, the desire to purchase a real tree was purely emotional. She loves real trees; the fresh Christmas tree scent; that they're never cookie-cutter perfect. But most importantly, she likes that the money we spend on buying a real Christmas tree has benefited charities the last two years. In 2010 the proceeds from our purchase went straight to a local church. This year 100% of the $46 we spent went to a nearby food bank.
So even though I may not have won the "real or fake tree" battle, I'm fine conceding in the name of charity. You know what they say "Happy wife, happy life." One of these days though, I'll actually win one of these little disagreements. Mark my words Girl Ninja, you will be defeated…eventually. Mwahahahaha!
Are you rocking a real, fake, or no Christmas tree this year? Do the holidays bring any silly debates in to your house (like where to celebrate Xmas day, how much to spend on presents, etc)?
p.s. Here's a picture of Herbert all dressed up. What a beaut….


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Based in Norway with its panel manufacturing in Singapore, REC has more than 16 gigawatts of operating solar installations that provide 16+ million people with solar power.
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- As a REC-Certified installer, Arctic Solar Ventures has a 25-year ProTrust warranty for all products and labor on solar energy system installations built with REC modules.
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Tashaun Gipson keeps an "Interception Wall" in his house.
A shrine with each of the 25 balls he's intercepted in his NFL career.
A pro career that almost never began.
Gipson didn't have a set position in high school.
He played quarterback, wide receiver, free safety, and also returned kicks & punts.
Recruited by prominent D1 schools like Baylor, Gipson instead chose the University of Wyoming to play alongside his brother.
In college, Gipson learned yet another position – cornerback.
But the position change wasn't the biggest adjustment.
Heading 920 miles north of his Dallas high school, Gipson left a sprawling city for a town of 30,000 people.
"From the sign that says 'Welcome to Laramie' to the end of the town, I could have probably rode my bike and got through the whole town in 10 minutes."
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But the reality was he played for a small school in the Mountain West Conference.
While Gipson was dominating in Laramie, scouts were busy taking stock of powerhouse programs like Clemson & Alabama.
So, Tashaun Gipson wasn't invited to the 2012 NFL Combine.
Instead, he signed with Cleveland as an undrafted free agent where he transitioned back to free safety.
He cracked the 53-man roster as a special teamer. But by Week 3, the rookie played his way into a starting job.
In his first three years in the NFL, Gipson totaled 12 picks and was named to the Pro Bowl.
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Charles A. Scheiderer
Charles A. Scheiderer is senior vice president of logistics for Best Buy Co. Inc. He joined the Minneapolis-based company in 1994 as general manager of distribution and was promoted to vice president of logistics in July 1997. In his current position, Scheiderer's duties include overseeing the company's six major distribution facilities, two entertainment distribution facilities, and 16 district appliance warehouses. He earned his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering at Purdue University and his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Q. I see where Best Buy now operates approximately 400 stores in 41 states but has a growth target of 550 stores by the end of 2004. What kind of stress does this place on your supply chain, and how do you plan to adjust your strategy to maintain supply-chain efficiency and avoid a deterioration in customer service?
A. We feel most of the stress from growth on the inbound side, going up the supply chain. The challenge for us as we move forward is to continue to enhance the supply chain by working on projects that give us better visibility of the freight that's moving in the pipeline, and by working with our vendors on on-time and right quantity initiatives.
It's also important for us to be looking at multiple channels for moving merchandise inbound. We've done a lot with tailored logistics initiatives, and we'll continue to expand on those. For example, we have our transportation department work with marketing on any specific needs they have. If there's freight that needs to come in a little faster or is of higher value than normal, we may have to customize a solution. For the rest of the supply chain, it's just a matter of us continuing to focus on long-term planning horizon - three years - and determining what we are going to need in terms of capacity, both for transportation and warehousing.
Q. Were your supply-chain operations at Best Buy disrupted by the incidents on Sept. 11?
A. Like any national business, our transportation/logistics operations were temporarily affected by the halt to the airline and travel industry. It was a matter of waiting and being patient for the gridlock to work itself out. But there were other issues involved in moving freight, and our response was to change the channel distribution for shipments that were being slowed down. We always maintain a variety of channels that we use for distribution, and we keep in place the ability to divert product to different methods as needed. We've fine-tuned and updated our approach here to make sure that we have the necessary capacity in our system, and we're working on future contingency plans with some of our motor carriers, particularly on the east coast. There's really not much more you can do than maintain different channels of distribution, recognizing that there may be some delays in having the flexibility to shift affected freight to different channels quickly.
Q. On a more global basis, what do you see as the primary challenges facing supply-chain managers as we move into the new year?
A. Visibility continues to be a critical challenge for supply-chain managers as we enter 2002. Right now at Best Buy we're doing a lot of work on visibility with our vendors on the retail side, much as a lot of other industries already have done in the sourcing of product. At this point in our supply-chain management, we have a better understanding of what the risks are of not having something, and as a result, we no longer can be in the position where we can be surprised by a vendor that just hasn't made a particular product or is in short supply and cannot ship our order. We need to work our inventories down to where we don't have that kind of reserve stock, so we need to be working on the kind of partnerships with our vendors that will enable us to see what is happening ahead of us instead of waiting blindly and then reacting when we get the call.
Q. Do you see the same visibility concerns among other supply-chain managers?
A. I sure do. The manufacturing sector probably has addressed the issue a lot earlier than we have in retail.
Q. Will this require a change in skill sets?
A. It will require us to have a higher degree of trained transportation people than we have in the past. We'll need more systems-oriented people who are savvy with the transportation management systems and know how to ask TMS how to do things. It's an evolving skill set.
Q. You mentioned the need to have more systems-oriented people who are savvy with the transportation management systems and know how to ask TMS how to do things. How has your application of i2's TMS technology enabled Best Buy to make smarter transportation decisions?
A. The best example is in the way we route freight. For example, imagine two vendors, shipping 10 pallets each from warehouses just across the street from each other, and shipping on the same exact day and time. In the old system, we would have sent these as separate LTL shipments as the load planners had no visibility to what the others were doing. Now we have the tools to systemically compare LTL, multi-stop truckload, or load consolidation through a central point. This allows
"real-time" decision making.
Q. What tangible benefits has application of this technology produced in terms of freight costs and customer satisfaction for Best Buy?
A. The goal of the system was not to reduce freight expense, as much as it was to reduce total supply chain expense. To that end, we have continued to reduce time in transit, and enhance shipment visibility.
Q. Has it changed the way you hire for logistics positions at Best Buy?
A. A lot of it is with the systems we acquire. We are working through the technology, and as we acquire the technology, we will get some help on adapting that technology to our people.
Q. How are you coping with the economic downturn at Best Buy?
A. On Dec. 6, we announced 3rd quarter sales of $4.76bn, which is an increase of 27 percent. At the beginning of the holiday season, Best Buy stated that we were cautiously optimistic. Our third quarter sales results reinforce this. Digital products continue to drive sales. Products, including DVD hardware and software, digital cameras, digital TVs and wireless communication services, were 17 percent of sales in the third quarter, up from 11 percent last year. We're committed to our growth strategy of 60 new stores next year and are focusing on our mission of making technology and entertainment products affordable and easy to use.
Q. Do you see any signs of recovery?
A. I'm an optimist. The stock market is up to where it was prior to Sept. 11, and I think there's a lot of consumer confidence out there.
Q. Is this a time for supply-chain managers to be aggressive with their strategies or is it a time to retrench?
A. I personally feel it is a time to be aggressive. We obviously will be in a slower growth period than we have enjoyed in the past several years, and there is the possibility that we could have a recession and no growth. Under those circumstances, supply-chain managers may tend to withdraw initiatives and retrench. However, virtually all the initiatives that people have under way in the supply chain right now essentially are geared to doing more with less - you have less inventory, and you have to be more flexible - and those kinds of initiatives are appropriate for good economic times and bad.
Q. What are the more promising technologies you see coming our way in 2002?
A. The visibility software tools are becoming more readily available. Many companies were working with the software and trying to give visibility to the whole supply chain, from the end customer all the way up to the point of manufacture and supply. Companies such as i2 Technologies have been developing some packages, but they weren't quite there in 2001. However, many of these software companies have products now that are actually working. And I think visibility software is what's going to be happening in the next couple of years across all of our retail businesses.
Q. Because of the economy, there is great pressure on information technology budgets right now. Will these new visibility software capabilities be within the reach of most companies?
A. Yes, they should. They are being marketed, and products are being designed, to fit a variety of levels of business. There's a very good menu to choose from in the marketplace right now. It's good marketing, and good placement for these people who are coming up with the products.
Q. Do you think 2002 will be the year when collaboration finally becomes a verb?
A. I think we'll be closer, but I'm not sure it will be a verb.
Q. How about at Best Buy.... are you collaborating with your trading partners?
A. We're working on it. I see progress on some of the things that our company has done with Microsoft. In terms of supply-chain collaboration, we do have a large number of initiatives under way, but I cannot talk about them because we don't have agreements in place. But we're trying.
Q. What do you see happening in the logistics outsourcing arena during the next 12 months?
A. Logistics outsourcing is a topic people always want to talk about. At Best Buy, we use logistics outsourcing when appropriate. I don't think of it as an initiative; if we can find somebody who can do it faster, better and possibly cheaper, we'll outsource. I do think that there's going to be a bigger need for outsourcing as we design tailored logistics strategies. There will be a wider variety of channels that retailers are going to have to work in, and they'll have to customize those channels for their particular products. And I think that the outsourcing companies are going to have to be very smart in terms of the offerings that they present. They will have to customize the services to fit the particular customer, and they will have to get to know a business very well before they can design and present a service offering that is an advantage.
Q. Does Best Buy currently use logistics exchanges?
A. We've researched them quite a bit, but we've chosen not to use any largely because we haven't seen anything that they have offered that we don't already have.
Q. What role do you see logistics exchanges playing in the current market?
A. I see the private exchanges having a bigger benefit. For a lot of the retailers that are concerned about on-time performance and quick-response capabilities, the logistics exchanges seem to act more as freight brokers. So if I had a lot of stuff to move and I didn't care when it was delivered, I'd be very comfortable using an exchange. But we are reluctant to use an exchange because of the timeliness factor.
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Administrative Procedure 432: Declaration of Confidentiality: Non-Certified Staff
As a school functions as a microcosm of the society which it serves, personnel in a school typically are privy to a variety of information about students, their families and other employees. As representatives of the school, this information is often shared with personnel based upon trust and respect and with the expectation that it will be shared on a "need-to-know" basis only. If an employee does not respect the confidentiality of information with respect to students and other employees, the potential for the school to achieve its mandate is seriously eroded.
Out of respect for the preservation and enhancement of each individual's self-esteem and self-worth, it is expected that all non-certificated staff shall maintain confidentiality with respect to privileged information pertaining to students, other school employees or their families.
- All non-certificated staff shall be expected to complete a Declaration of Confidentiality Form (available at all schools) as a condition of employment.
- The Declaration of Confidentiality shall be completed by the employee and witnessed in the presence of a school official.
- The original document, once signed and witnessed, shall be forwarded to the Superintendent for placement in the employee's file.
- A copy of the original document shall be provided to the employee, while a second copy shall be retained at the school by the principal.
- The disclosure of privileged information by an employee may be considered sufficient cause for immediate dismissal.
- The responsibility for the termination of any non-certificated staff member rests with the Superintendent, and such a decision would be made only after consideration of all of the circumstances of the case.
- Any non-certificated staff member so terminated may appeal the decision to the Board.
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Five suspected informants of kidnappers were killed by a mob in Danjibga village of Tsafe LGA of Zamfara State. The community has suffered series of deadly attacks and kidnappings by suspected armed bandits and cattle-rustlers in recent times.
Three weeks ago, a woman was delivered of a baby less than five hours in the kidnappers' den. She was kidnapped from her matrimonial home while in labour.
Last Thursday, the chairman of the local government, Aliyu Abubakar, said about 40 people were killed and more than 1,700 persons displaced in the local government in the past two weeks.
The vice chairman of the local government, Alhaji Aliyu Yunusa Danjibga, who is also from the community told Daily Trust Saturday that the suspected informants were identified and killed by the residents.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali yesterday noted that it is imperative to state that Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Nigeria have remained committed and resolute in tackling current security challenges across the country, ensure safety of lives and properties as well as protect the nation from both external and internal aggression.
A statement from the spokesman of the Minister, Colonel Tukur Gusau said Dan-Ali prays to Almighty Allah to grant the lives lost an eternal rest and also grant their families the fortitude to bear this unfortunate lost.
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At DFW Best Roofing our mission is to provide clients with nothing short of the very best. This requires the delivery of reliable services, dependable results and reasonable prices - all of which are core aspects of our business's operation. Our contractors work together to implement solutions that fit the customized needs of each of our customers, ensuring that you can be satisfied with the work we do for your roof, the siding of their home, or the exterior of your building.
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The DFW Best Roofing team is comprised of roofing specialists and consultants who are real world roofers and dedicated to working with customers toward the improvement of their home or business. Together, we will create a professional environment that fosters development, suggestions, and overall satisfaction between the customer and our business. Our every effort is made with you in mind, so we urge our customers to speak up and express any wants, needs, or concerns that they may be having. By doing so, we can ensure that our services are aligned with the specific intentions that you have for your project.
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Our affordable plans have an 80% qualification rate. At DFW Best Roofing, we know that everyone's financial needs are different. That's why we offer a variety of reasonably-priced payment plans to suit your unique budget. We offer plans to fit virtually any credit score or other terms. Most applications are immediately approved. DFW Best Roofing wants to make sure that you receive the home improvement that you need, for a price that you can afford.
When you call DFW Best Roofing, you talk directly with a roofer not a sales person. So, many of our competitors are about all about sales, sales, sales. We have you talk to roofers, who give it to you straight & have actual experience when it comes to construction of a roof . They will try to save you money, by being creative in the solutions they present to you.
Our name is says it all, "DFW Best Roofing". We are the best, because we are the best. We are the most certified roofing company in the DFW area. We carry the best insurance. We have the best crew. We have the best roofing materials. We have one of the best warranties in the DFW area. We act as a general contractor and well as a subcontractor depending on the situation of how has hired our services.
We have one of the best roofing insurance policies. Our policies not only protects the company, "DFW Best Roofing" but also protects are subcontractors and employees. Most companies that have an insurance policy do not cover the subcontractors. 90% of the roofing work is done by subcontractors in the roofing industry. It is so important to ask your roofer for the their insurance policy and call the insurance company and confirm that they have insurance. We at DFW Best Roofing have a two million dollar policy while majority of the roofing companies have a one million dollar policy. This is because we at DFW Best Roofing doing both residential and commercial roofing.We do all types of roofing, residential and commercial.
WE do asphalt shingle roofing, asphalt roll roofing , solar shingle , green roof, we do Tile roofing, we do slate roofing, we do metal roofing, corrugated galvanized iron panels, and stone-coated steal We even to Decra and Gerard roofing, and we even do flat roofs. We all types of single ply roofing. We are experts of TPO membrane roofing . We also do EPDM , and PVC , including liquid roofing, asbestos, sheet metal, and copper . We also do all types of roof repairs. We also do roof inspections. We also help buyers, sellers, real estate agents to pass the inspection at an affordable price. We do everything roofing and building envelope.
We have the lowest prices in the industry. We will beat any written bid by 5%. It is important to ask for an itemized estimate so you can compare what contractor A and contractor B are giving. Ask a lot of questions. Ask about the brands that will be used. Ask about the warranty. If the price is too good to be true it most likely is. Insurance companies what you to get 3 different bids. That is always a good idea.
When hail or hailstone strikes storm chasers come in and try to sell you their services. It is important to make sure the roofing company you hire is a local. Storm chasers come into town, sign up with a local roofing company, so when that happens make sure the roofing company that the storm chaser is representing can handle the warranties and that they have been in business in the local area to have established a good track record.
One of the things we are most proud at DFW Best Roofing is our certifications. We have over 30 certifications. This is because we are an educationally based company, and we use the same methodology with our customers. We educate our customers and give them two or more options so the customers can choose.
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What does it take to be an honest business? A person is more likely to cheat or cut corners when they don't have enough experience. When you do not have enough experience the biggest problem one runs into the in the service industry is making quote or bid that was incorrectly calculated. Then they do not want to lose bid and they try to make the job happen within the price the was accepted. This is done by changing the type of material that originally going to be used, by buying so cheap seconds. It is important that the company gives you a bid, and delivers exactly what they have stated on the bid. For this reason be careful of verbal bids that are not followed by a detailed estimate so you can compare product and labor work with other bids. The other thing that happens quite often is, the person or crew does not really what they got themselves into till its too late and the work has already started. Then after taking half, down, and starting they work, they emotionally blackmail you, its going to cost x amount even more. You feel you have no choice to give in. They make you feel like it was your fault.
DFW Best Roofing is a serious "roof" craftsmanship company. A lot of people know about roofing. However, there are a few things to consider. First, not one size fits all. Yes, there is a standard way to do roofing. However, an expert can point out, where the standard roofing procedures do not apply. Therefore, knowing the best practices in the roofing industry is an absolute must. It is not just about doing a standard job, because about 10% of the properties have at least one or two elements that are not standard. For example, a situation where the chimney is attached to a wall. Another example is a situation where it is clear that the water will be ponding (Water will gather for a prolonged period). However, to point out such situations have a few issues. First, these issues means a higher price in the estimate. So, even though DFW Best Roofing can also lower its price and effect the quality and win the bid, but we will not. We will give the lowest bid possible. However, we will not compromise the quality of the work. The second issue, these critical areas that can be so easily be overlooked unless one really is a master craftsman when it comes to roofs.


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Crawl the web on a large scale with StormCrawler and Elasticsearch
StormCrawler is a popular and mature open-source web crawler. It is written in Java and is both lightweight and scalable, thanks to the distribution layer based on Apache Storm. One of the attractions of the crawler is that it is extensible and modular, as well as versatile. In this presentation, we will have a closer look at the Elasticsearch module of StormCrawler and see how it is being used in production by various organizations, sometimes on a very large scale.
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Pretty much everyone was hoping for a change of McLaren livery this year, but yesterday the team trolled the world and launched the car to start their new Honda era in Mercedes colours.
Reddit user G0DJESUS decided it was time to take action and put the car in the classic McLaren Honda livery from the late eighties/early nineties. So it's not very realistic with the Malboro branding, but it certainly does look more Honda-like in white and red.
Some new renders have also appeared of the McLaren MP4-30 in white rather than the dark silver and it actually looks pretty damn good.
And if you're still feeling depressed it was orange, Karl_Agathon has shown what it could have looked like in the traditional McLaren colours.


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Red Roses, White Lisianthus And Pink Mini Roses – Shy Passion – Discrete Love, Shy Passion, A Complete Relationship!
A delightful bouquet of pink mini roses and white lisianthus, spiced up with passionate accents from the freshly bloomed red roses. The pink mini roses' inflorescences hide shyly through the decorative green leaves that beautify this bouquet destined for a new love. The white lisianthus brings about a fresh note, slightly calming down the passion of the red roses.
This is a perfect bouquet for the beginning of a relationship, when you have so much to say and you do not know how to say it, how to get to the heart of the woman that could mean everything in your life. Compliment her with this spectacular bouquet where passion meets modesty, pure love and respect! Let her see what she means to you by sending her these beautiful flowers!
Why roses and lisianthus?
As we all know, roses are the best flowers when it comes to expressing passion and love. White lisianthus is a symbol of respect and appreciation, which makes it a perfect choice for this bouquet.
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TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office told WND Tuesday that Israel "unequivocally and totally" denies a news report claiming the Jewish state spied on the U.S.-led talks to forge a deal over Iran's nuclear program.
"This is a story by uncited, anonymous sources and doesn't have an ounce of truth to it," Netanyahu's spokesman, Mark Regev, said.
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Earlier Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported unnamed senior White House officials had learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks between Iran and the P5 + 1 Western powers.
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"It is one thing for the U.S. and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal U.S. secrets and play them back to U.S. legislators to undermine U.S. diplomacy," said a senior U.S. official described by the Journal as briefed on the matter.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday he was "shocked" by the Journal's report.
Boehner said he is not aware of evidence Israel shared illicit information with lawmakers.
"I was shocked by the fact that there were reports in this press article that information was being passed on from the Israelis to members of congress," Boehner said. "I'm not aware of that at all."


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Weiter Lohberg 18
Hans Jürs and his family lived at Weiter Lohberg 18.
Hans Julius Johannes Jürs was born on 25 October 1894 in Ratzeburg. He was a locksmith by trade and it is speculated that he completed his required time of military service during World War I.
On 29 May 1917 Hans Jürs moved from St.Georgsberg in Ratzeburg to Hansestraße 11a, Lübeck, which was the widow Julie Nevermann's boarding house. From there he moved to Paul Rauch's boarding house at Mühlenstraße 34, which had its entrance at Kapitelstraße 1.
Presumably it was during that time that Hans Jürs married Frieda Emilie Fischer (born 15 February 1898), who was from the Karlshof part of Lübeck. Their first son, Rudolf Hans August, was born on 15 July 1919. The family moved on 8 September 1919 to Beckergrube 82. Their second son, Walter Hermann, was born on 9 May 1922.
Six weeks later the family moved to a flat at Weiter Lohberg 18, where Heinrich Tiedt, a retired postmaster, and Emil Koball, a manservant, also lived.
Hans Jürs was an active member of the Jehovah's Witnesses faith. In 1935 he was sentenced to three months in prison for his activities with Internationale Bibelforscher-Vereinigung (IBV), as the German Witnesses first called themselves. (engl.: International Bible Students Association)
The Gestapo arrested him again in 1937. Hans Jürs was sentenced by the Schleswig-Holstein Special Court Kiel in Lübeck to a two year prison sentence.
The main reason for his prison term was his activities in the IBV. He and two co-defendants formed a three member Jehovah's Witnesses cell, which was organized by the district leader, Heinrich van Loo.
A further charge against him was his participation in the distribution of the leaflets "Resolution" in 1936 and "The Open Letter" in 1937. His situation was further compromised by the judge's opinion of his refusal to serve in the military: "Jürs has consistently used all the energy he can command for the furtherance of the work of the IBV. He is a completely fanatical Jehovah's Witness who is especially dangerous because he promotes refusing to do military service."
(Quoted from the judge's decision 11 Son Kms 35/38 Sdg.84/37)
After Hans Jürs had served his time he was placed in so called "Protective Custody."
On 18 November 1939 he was transferred as Prisoner 003887 to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, north of Berlin, and was placed in Cell Block 10. On 14 April 1940 Hans Jürs was registered as departed/died.
- Adressbücher und Meldekartei der Hansestadt Lübeck (Address and Registration Records of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck)
- Bildarchiv der Hansestadt Lübeck
- Garbe, Detlef: Zwischen Widerstand und Martyrium. Die Zeugen Jehovas im "Dritten Reich". Studien zur Zeitgeschichte Bd. 42.4. Auflage. München Oldenbourg Verlag 1999.
- Imberger, Elke: Widerstand "von unten". Widerstand und Dissens aus den Reihen der Arbeiterbewegung und der Zeugen Jehovas in Lübeck und Schleswig-Holstein 1933-1945. Neumünster Karl Wachholtz Verlag 1991.
- Mitgutsch, Andreas / Schiffer, Jochen: Zeugen Jehovas in Lübeck und Umgebung 1933-1945. Lübeck 2000.
- 1945. Lübeck 2000.
Susanne Schledt-Önal, Lübeck 2010
Translation: Glenn Sellick and Martin Harnisch 2011.


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It's time for another My Sexy Saturday snippet. I'm sure everybody knows how this works, but just in case here's the low down. A sexy theme is chosen and authors pull 7 words, 7 sentences or 7 paragraphs from a story they've written for the you, the lovely readers, to enjoy.
The theme this week is Sexy Me Down and is a play off the poker term "Double Down." I've taken a bit from my paranormal romance novel Fox Hunt. In this scene Dilly has just woken up from a dream and finds herself in the arms of Mike.
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Moving her gaze up to his face, Dilly noticed how inviting his slightly parted lips looked. Moistening her own, Dilly was about to lean forward to see if his lips still tasted like honey, when he said, "Dilly, are you okay?"
Just as his words had woken her, they now felt like a bucket of ice water. Uncurling her fingers and leaning as far away from him as she could manage on the small couch they shared, Dilly felt heat spreading across her cheeks. "Fine," she said, trying to ignore the slight stammer in her voice. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, she tried to calm herself. "I'm fine. What are you doing here?"
She heard him chuckle. "Well, I was sleeping." Dilly's eyes snapped open at his slightly cocky tone. Seeing the catlike grin on his face, Dilly quickly went from embarrassed to enraged. She threw a few kicks at his legs and shoved at his side. Just as a curse escaped past her lips, Mike grabbed hold of her wrists with a wicked laugh. "Hey, we just slept. What's gotten into you?"
Feeling his gentle hands lock around her wrists, Dilly froze. She stared at his happy, curious face before saying, "Nothing. I just had a bad dream. Now get off."
Suddenly Mike crushed her against his hard chest. Her nose was only inches from his and she felt his breath tickling her lips. All the laughter had left his voice, replaced with a heart-melting husky tone when he said, "A dream, huh?"
Caught speechless, Dilly gave a careful nod. A small twitch at the corner of his mouth foreshadowed the knowing smile she had been hoping to avoid. "Was it about me, Delilah?" His whispered words drifted like silk and for a second she wondered why her name sounded so tantalizing coming from his mouth.
She felt as if her words were trapped somewhere deep in her throat. The man under her was breathtaking and everything a woman could want in her mate, but he was not meant for her. He was a man who could protect her, could make her feel like the queen of the ball. He was the man her sister deserved. Struggling with herself, Dilly tried to find her voice. She had to find a way to place some distance between them. "Mike, I want…"
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My Sexy Saturday: Sexy Me Down
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ASA's Young Executives division recently hosted its annual Spring Forum event in Kansas City, Mo. Nearly 100 young executives attended.
The Spring Forum featured a key networking opportunity for young executives, plus an informative two-day seminar on negotiating hosted by Mitch Harper of Mitch Harper & Associates.
Sioux Chief Chief Operations Officer Joe N. Ismert delivered the keynote address at the event's welcome reception and dinner. Sioux Chief sponsored the Spring Forum. Attendees took a tour of Sioux Chief's facilities in nearby Peculiar, Mo. Kansas University Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger also was a featured speaker.
Videos of Harper and ASA Young Executives Chairman Jeff Worly (Worly Plumbing Supply) are available at
http://www.supplyht.com/video. For more on Harper and the topic of negotiating, read Editor Mike Miazga's column.


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SELL IT will show you the journey you will go on to sell a business and how to be prepared so that you get the most from your life's work.
The added benefits are that by being ready for a transaction before the transfer of ownership, you'll have a business that is easier, more enjoyable and less stressful for everyone, including yourself.
There are now more businesses than ever before. More people are taking control of their own futures and starting out on their own. The dream of building something bigger than a job drives many business owners to take more risks to create a business that has long lasting value. The sacrifices that founders make are justified by the potential rewards when the business is eventually sold. But there is a horrifying statistic that many business owners turn a blind eye to:
80% of businesses that are attempting to sell do not get sold.
As the majority of business owners only ever sell one business, they are often ill prepared. As is their business. Preparation for the sale process starts with understanding the process and the position of the buyer. Knowing what the buyer is looking for and how it affects the value of the business means the seller can get on the front foot and be ready for the final negotiation and ultimately the contract for the sale.
Your business will also be worth more!
Starting and building a business is hard. It's risky. It takes a special kind of spirit to take the leap from a salaried corporate job into the challenging world of entrepreneurship. The first few years are usually about working as many hours as you can, chasing the essential customers and getting positive cash flows.
The founders' expertise is in the product, service or invention. Running the essential business support services is often a secondary consideration with daily "fire-fighting" becomes the norm as the business grows. Strategic planning also takes a back seat.
With there being so many businesses and owners busy building their businesses, there will be more businesses for sale in the future. And if 80% of all businesses do not have a possible buyer, then a lot of business owners are currently investing a lot of time, effort and their own money in an asset that has potentially no long-term value at all.
If you knew your business was going to close its doors when you retire with little or no capital value, would you be making the same decisions today?
How much is your business worth today?
How do you know? And what can you do to change it?
The sad fact is that more business owners will leave their business before they are ready in a response to either an unexpected offer or an unplanned event such as death, disability, disease or divorce. In these circumstances the value of your business will be affected unless it is fully prepared. Business owners are forced to respond to these events on the back foot. And if you are reacting, you aren't leading. You will get less from your business than it is otherwise worth.
Even if you are selling your business proactively, most business owner only go through the process once and often have no idea what to expect. The process of selling a business is often shrouded in mystery. And it should not be.
In this book you'll be guided through the process of Sell It
Including the pre-sale preparation that will ensure that you get the best value for your life time of work. From start to finish you'll be shown the essential critical path that business owners follow when successfully selling their businesses. Every step will be explained and exposed so that you go into the sale process with more knowledge and understanding. Result? A more enjoyable experience for you, your business and all the stakeholders.
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Nancy Solomon's new office arrangement, courtesy of Saint Louis University Medical Center.
You'd think if you worked surrounded by medical experts, you'd spend your days in perfect alignment. But Nancy Solomon, director of communications at Saint Louis University Medical Center, had kept her bad habit of tucking her phone in the crook of her neck during interviews, and she wasn't even using the ergonomic-height slide-out keyboard tray whose previous user must've eaten a lot of crackers at lunchtime.
Two physical therapy students evaluated Solomon's work space, watched how she moved, asked about her routine. Then they tipped her seat forward—"My heels now hit terra firma," she reported—and angled the armrests so she could rest her elbows on them and avoid the tension of a constant shoulder shrug.
She's dusted off the keyboard tray. The students told her to stop using the little feet on her keyboard (she thought that helped, but it's actually better flat), and they brought both monitors into her line of vision, so she's not twisting to read one of them. Her wrists now rest on a padded ledge, reducing stress on tendons, ligaments, and nerves, and her mouse is closer so she's not reaching for it.
Solomon says the stiffness in her shoulders eased in the first few days of her new set-up. She's even got a headset now, for long interviews. She still can't bring herself to use the speaker: "I have this weird perception that I'll come across as more important than I am if I do," she says. "It's my craziness."
All these positive changes made us wonder—why are we all so fragile now, suffering carpal tunnel and other horrors from seemingly light "desk work," when our ancestors pounded heavy manual typewriters and lugged them around? Is it just that we're more aware of our pain?
"There is definitely more awareness now, but there is also a more sedentary lifestyle," says one of the p.t. students' mentors, associate professor Chris Sebelski. "Technology brings ease. There's not as much running around—you don't even have to get up to go to a printer; you can have one right under your desk. We're in the same position for much longer, and the positions we attain are very similar."
Take keying: "People tend to rest their hands on the edge of the keyboard or desk and just glide their fingers back and forth, pivoting off their wrists. Your finger muscles are very, very small, and they weren't designed to do that."
Sebelski also sees people too close to their screens or too far away from them. "The screen should touch your fingertips when you stretch your arms out." If you wear glasses, and the screen's too close, you have to tilt your head back in a weird position; if your screen's too far away, you're hunched forward like a turtle, squinting to make out the type. "And oh, by the way, you have a 30-minute deadline, so you're going to make your neck muscles hold your head in that position for the whole 30 minutes."
We're often holding our bodies in a state of tension, she adds, because there are such high demands for productivity and speed. Technology makes it easy to be productive, so the demands on us increase, and suddenly our jobs are hard again.
Tomorrow: The Impossible Quest for the Ergonomic Chair


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Back in December 2019, I met Paul Smith, former Warwickshire allrounder, to discuss his revealing autobiography Wasted?. It tells the colourful and uplifting tale of how he found redemption by using his own incredible experiences to inspire inner city kids in both the UK and the US to reject modern temptations such as drugs, violence and guns.
With Compton Cricket Club in Los Angeles, which seeks to use the spirit and disciplines of cricket to turn youngsters away from gang life, he found that 50 per cent fewer of those with whom he spent time carried guns as a result. The book affirms that it is possible for a bad apple to turn good again with mental strength, positivity and a hell of a lot of honesty. So much so, he went on to advise the Princes Trust using those experiences in the UK too.
You can listen to the interview with Paul here.
One may not normally associate Sheffield with LA's notorious gangland areas, but nonetheless my local sources tell me that there are certainly parts of the Steel City that can be more than a little dicey.
In one area, Nether Edge and Sharrow, a community leader is using cricket to help tackle anti-social behaviour in a neighbourhood blighted by crime. It may not be Compton, Inglewood, or South Central, but nonetheless Shahid Ali has introduced about 60 children from the South Asian community in those areas to the sport to "engage young people into purposeful activity" and prevent the next generation following the wrong path in life.
Since setting up Allama Iqbal Cricket Club 18 months ago, the 43-year-old mental health worker from Nether Edge has established three junior sides for boys and girls aged eight to 13 and plans to widen the net to involve older groups. "We have had a lot of anti-social behaviour in the area, a lot of gun crime, there's knife crime and a lot of issues around drugs," he said.
"It's all well and good running campaigns and holding services to account but what's really needed is to engage young people at street level. We have got a phenomenal number of kids playing cricket now. With all the negativity there is in the area it's just a positive story."
Nether Edge was the neighbourhood in Sheffield worst-affected by gun crime last year, with six separate shootings recorded by police, including three in one 24-hour period.
One of the aims of Allama Iqbal Cricket Club has been to reclaim Abbeydale Road's Mount Pleasant Park, where they train, which Shahid said has been frequented by drug dealers and users.
"Not one person can deal with all the issues in the area," Mr Ali told The Sheffield Star. "It's about all of us coming together, doing our bit for the community, and hopefully seeing the results in the years to come.
"As club chairman the reward has been seeing the kids playing cricket, achieving, and winning games.
"We want to create good citizens so, over the summer, we will be doing things like litter-picking, especially around the park to try and make that space our own."
Shahid runs the club along with 10 volunteers, including local parents.
To his and the club's enormous credit, Shahid Ali ranks one of his proudest achievements as introducing Asian girls to cricket. "A lot of parents are concerned about safety, about respect – they allow their girls to come because of the trust in myself and my coaches.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for the girls. It's about letting them enjoy the game and giving them the opportunity to exercise."
Guerilla Cricket salutes Shahid Ali and all those like him, who recognise the power of cricket as a positive social force. Thank you to all community leaders, whose tireless endeavours promote the game and engage the next generation.


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An exceptional misunderstanding.
IMHO The exceptions is for exceptional errors. Not for every error that can occur in a programs lifetime. The error codes don't require the programmers to check every error. Exceptions are for errors that occur when it is not safe to continue. Not for general error handling.
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IMHO You should never, ever have exception error handling and non-exception error handling intermixing.
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That's not entirely true. The Symbian OS has both exceptions and return codes. Exceptions are used almost entirely for very exceptional conditions (out-of-bound array access, memory allocation failure, etc). Conversely, error codes are used for all file access methods and the like.
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