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2008 Saturn Outlook
The Saturn Outlook is a smooth-riding crossover SUV with a powerful 3.6-liter V6 engine and a smooth six-speed transmission. It seats up to eight. It comes standard with front-wheel drive, but all-wheel drive is available for more stability in foul weather.
Called a crossover because it straddles the line between car and truck, the Outlook offers the passenger and cargo capacity of a big SUV, but ride quality and fuel economy more like that of a car. While a Chevy Tahoe is built on a pickup truck platform, the Outlook is built with a unit-body chassis like that of a car. As a result, it offers a smoother ride and nimbler handling. And because its structure is much lighter than that of a truck (by about 800 pounds), it gets much better fuel economy.
Outlook is only one inch shorter than the Tahoe, but offers much more legroom in the third row, thanks to its front-wheel-drive layout, as well as its long wheelbase with short overhangs and wide track.
Outlook gets an EPA-rated 16/24 miles per gallon City/Highway with front-wheel drive and 16/22 mpg with all-wheel drive. That's significantly better than what many truck-based SUVs get.
We found the Outlook offers good acceleration performance, its transmission is smooth and its ride is solid and comfortable. The Outlook benefits from GM's latest 3.6-liter V6 engine with variable valve timing; it's rated at 270 horsepower in the XE and 275 horsepower in the XR, thanks to its dual exhaust. Its six-speed automatic transmission provides good flexibility for good fuel efficiency and responsive performance.
The interior shows attention to detail, and the standard cloth seats are of a high quality and look stylish even in gray or black.
All the latest safety bits come as standard equipment, including large curtain airbags that protect the outboard passengers in all three rows of seating.
For 2008, there are few changes. XM Satellite Radio is standard equipment and a 115-volt power outlet is available to provide house current for accessories. Also, a back-up camera is available that displays an image of what's behind the vehicle whenever the driver shifts into reverse, an excellent safety feature for its ability to help the driver spot small children.
Model Lineup
Saturn Outlook XE ($29,360); Outlook XR ($31,770)
Walk AroundSaturn calls the Outlook a mid-size SUV, but it's bigger than most mid-size SUVs and just slightly shorter than a Chevy Tahoe full-size SUV.
The Outlook looks sleek and modern, certainly by SUV standards, though it doesn't have the boldness of the Ford Edge.
The grille with a wide chrome bar and Saturn logo proudly announces itself, and stands out against a black background. The black air dam at the bottom slices a rigid horizontal line across the chin, and its contrast against the body color makes the fascia look like the edge of a cliff. Large trapezoidal openings for the foglamps look like wicked eyes a cartoonist might draw, and above them the similar-shaped headlamps fill the corners of the car; foglamps are unavailable on the XE, leaving big black holes there. A character groove down the center of the hood finishes it all off. In short, the Outlook presents a good-looking face.
From the side, the nose is conspicuously short and rounded. The styling invites the eye rearward, as the roof sweeps straight back and appears as a thin sliver at its trailing edge. The dark rear glass takes over, wrapping around about 40 percent of the vehicle, finally stopped by a wide sloping C-pillar. The fender flares are fat, and the six-spoke alloy wheels are clean and unpretentious, with six beefy lugs in the hub.
At the rear, the Outlook loses some of its style. The black dam matches the front, making the SUV look like it has super high ground clearance. The taillights are ordinary, and the chrome over the license plate doesn't add anything. We find the look of the XE with its body-colored trim cleaner than the XR with its chromed door handles and roof rails.
InteriorThe Saturn Outlook features eight-passenger seating, and third-row seating is relatively generous. Measured against the Tahoe, a full-size SUV of similar length, the Outlook offers 33.2 inches of third-row legroom versus the Tahoe's skimpy 25.4 inches. The 2008 Honda Pilot has 30.2 inches. We put a 6-foot, 3-inch fellow in the Outlook's third row, and he said it was fine.
Second-row legroom is less generous: Outlook offers 36.9 inches while Tahoe has 39.0, and the 2008 Honda Pilot has 37.4.
The second-row seat slides rearward, however, providing more legroom when the third row is unoccupied or when kids in back are small enough that you can get away with squishing them a little.
So this legroom thing is a bit complicated. When we add the legroom of the second and third rows together, the Outlook wins with 70.1 inches, compared with Tahoe's 64.3 and Pilot's 67.6.
Getting into the Outlook is very easy, especially considering it doesn't have sliding doors. Access to the third row is much easier than in most vehicles, thanks to a design called Smart Slide. Using a massive lever on the either side of the 60/40 split seat, each side of the second row slides way forward on rails, and then the seatback tilts until it touches the back of the front seat. It's an easy one-handed operation, opening a wide path to the third row. Smart Slide is also a feature of the optional captain's chairs.
Cargo capacity with both rows folded is 116.9 cubic feet. With the third row in place it's 68.9 cubic feet, and behind the third row it's 19.7 cubic feet. Those are healthy numbers. The third row easily folds flat, from either the second row or through the liftgate.
The rest of the Outlook interior is aces. Our XR test model had the standard cloth interior, in black, and it was comfortable and classy. We really liked the XE cloth, though the leather-wrapped steering wheel in the XR is sweet. The wood trim in the XR is way prettier than that in GM's past, and the analog instruments are tidy. All the other things are present, and right. There are cup holders galore, a deep console compartment, DC and 115-volt AC outlets.
The center stack is attractive with nice climate controls. Separate HVAC controls are provided for the second row on the back of the console between the seats.
Driving ImpressionsThe Saturn Outlook offers a nice ride and it feels stable on the road. To gain interior space, the Outlook uses a long wheelbase with short overhangs as well as a wide track. Pushing the four wheels out to the corners like that also results in a better ride and more stability on the road. The overall weight of 4,700 pounds contributes to that smooth ride, though that weight pales in comparison to that of a 5500-pound Tahoe.
The 3.6-liter engine handles the weight, with 275 horsepower and 251 pound-feet of torque. That torque peaks at a conveniently low 3200 rpm, so the acceleration happens early. While never felt the need for more power. The acceleration was always there, and at 80 miles per hour it felt very smooth and extremely quiet.
Fuel economy compares easily beats that of traditional SUVs and compares well to smaller crossover SUVs. The Outlook's EPA-rated 16/24 mpg City/Highway (16/22 mpg with all-wheel drive) is comparable to that of the Ford Edge with its similar and comparable V6, but the Edge is smaller and only seats five.
Steering and handling is above averagefor a vehicle this size, a benefit of its car-like structure.
The six-speed automatic works well and usually left it in Drive. However, a button on the side of the shift knob can be pressed with your thumb for manual shifting when driving in changing terrain or in traffic. We enjoyed using the manual feature and liked the tight gear changes.
The all-wheel-drive system sends 60 percent of the power to the front wheels and 40 percent to the rear on dry pavement, and adjusts that ratio when the sensors detect slipping. That 60-40 split is more balanced than most; some systems are heavily balanced to the front, some as much as 95-5. The Outlook's system is better balanced than those.
It's not uncommon to detect a difference in the ride, between a front-wheel- drive and all-wheel-drive version of the same vehicle, and it's usually the front-wheel- drive that's smoother. In this case, we think the front suspension of the AWD model felt tighter and less jouncy, firmer and more comfortable at the same time. That contributed to the good handling.
The Saturn Outlook is an attractive and practical vehicles that seats eight people more comfortably than most. Its legroom and Smart Slide feature makes entry to the third row a snap. It gets much better fuel economy than a comparable truck-based SUV yet its V6 engine and six-speed automatic transmission deliver responsive acceleration performance.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses filed this report from Southern California.


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From rising meat and seafood production to changes in the climate, Vital Signs 2010 documents 24 trends that are shaping our future and includes concise analyses and clear graphs.
This seventeenth edition of the Worldwatch Institute series shows that climate change continues to cast a long shadow over the world's leading economic, social, and environmental trends.
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- Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels were up 2 percent, despite high oil prices and the economic recession.
- The most devastating types of natural disasters continued to rise steadily, especially for weather-related events.
- Meat consumption in the developing world has increased 17 percent over the last 10 years, although people in the industrial world still eat more than twice as much meat per person.
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An extranet site in SharePoint Online is a site that you create to let external partners have access to specific content, and to collaborate with them. Extranet sites are a way for partners to securely do business with your organization. The content for your partner is kept in one place and they have only the content and access they need. They don't need to email the documents back and forth or use tools that are not sanctioned by your IT department.
Traditionally, deploying a SharePoint on-premises extranet site involves complex configuration to establish security measures and governance, including granting access inside the corporate firewall, and expensive initial and on-going cost.
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Industry verticals where business-to-business (B2B) collaboration is key to their business success include automotive, manufacturing, retail and energy. The following example shows how Contoso Ltd uses a separate extranet site for collaboration with each of their partners and vendors.
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I'll be back tomorrow to share what we're eating next week, but in the meantime, in case you want a refresher on how I get inspired to plan meals, here are some useful links:
My Past Menu Plans
My Favorite Clean Eating Food Blogs
How To Meal Plan (Part One)
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Further research into James Thomas Mutlow HODGES
It is some two years since I posted regarding seeking the parents of James Thomas Mutlow Hodges and now can relate additional information found during research.
It would appear that James married Elizabeth Ann Phillips on 3 Feb 1811 at St George Hanover Square, Westminster, London, following marriage allegations of 31 Jan that year at the Vicar General's Office, Lambeth Palace, South London, details of which I now have. Elizabeth originated from St Botolph Aldgate, London. The marriage, by Licence (a copy of which I have), does not reveal James' parents, although his christening record shows them as "Thomas Hodges and Margaret".
I have narrowed down the window in which James moved to London, which was between 1791 (his birth/baptism) and 1794, the baptism of his brother George. New data reveals that James was inducted into St Paul's School, St Paul's Cathedral Churchyard, on 22 Jan 1803, wherein his father, Thomas Hodges was described as "of the Custom House". The Custom House was, in 1803, located in Lower Thomas Street, City of London, near to the River Thames - the site on which a Custom House had stood from as early as 1275 until 1814 when the then current (Ripley) Custom House was destroyed by fire. Having thus placed James, and his parents, in the City of London in 1803, there became a 2-pronged avenue of research as to his parents' place of origin and place of marriage.
That James was baptised in Kington, Herefordshire suggests an area of both origin and marriage of Thomas and Margaret, and although the "Mutlow" in James' christian name suggests an earlier family name incorporated, no marriage of any Thomas Hodges to a Margaret Mutlow has been found in an appropriate time-frame. Nevertheless, the Mutlow name may have been come from an earlier family marriage on either the Thomas side or that of Margaret (though the latter remains favourite). Researching the Mutlow (or Mutloe) surname reveals a predominance of that name in the English counties bordering Wales. I have also to bear in mind that James' baptism in Kington may possibly have occurred whilst his parents were merely visiting or travelling through that area. This brings me back to thoughts of a possible London area origin for James' parents.
A project still ongoing, I will welcome any new comment or observation that could shed any light on this brickwall of my 4th greatgrandparents.
Seeking parents of James Thomas Mutlow HODGES
James Thomas Mutlow HODGES was born 1791 and christened 7 Oct 1791 in Kington, Herefordshire, England. His parents were recorded as Thomas HODGES and Margaret.
I am trying to find records of his parents, in particular their marriage and James' mother's maiden name.
James married an Elizabeth bet 1809 and 1811 either in Herefordshire or in London. James and Elizabeth had moved to London by 1811 where they had their 1st child Elizabeth HODGES born 16 Sep 1811 at Stepney, London. The other children were Thomas (1814), Samuel (1815), John (1816), Mary Ann (1818), Henry (1824), Richard George (1828), and Emma (1833).
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Yes, the MIT Chapel is generally open for visitors. Please enter quietly, as there are often religious services and events in the Chapel, many of which you are welcome to attend. If the Chapel is empty, you are welcome to explore, take photos, meditate or pray as you wish. The Chapel is a quiet spot in the midst of a busy campus and visitors are always welcome to take a few minutes for quiet reflection.


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WHAT IS IT? A top-of-the-line motocross helmet from Fly Racing.
WHAT IS IT? A top-of-the-line motocross helmet from Fly Racing.
WHAT'S IT COST? $439.95--(877) 359-2946 or www.flyracing.com.
WHAT'S IT DO? New helmets enter the market in machine gun-like fashion. There is a new helmet introduced to the public every month. It started with the "Shoei clone" era more than a decade ago and has continued unabated ever since. Over time, the original Shoei clone marketeers got braver and drifted away from Xerox copies of the Shoei VFX. Once they stepped out of the shadow of Shoei with their own designs, the market exploded.
Fly Racing was never guilty of copying the Shoei VFX for two reasons: (1) Fly wasn't a player in the helmet biz during the height of the clone wars, and (2)Fly's designer Jerry Lathrop has too much pride to copy. Lathrop spent two years working on the aesthetics package of the new Fly Formula helmet. It not only boasts a number of features never before seen on a helmet, but it also breaks the $400 barrier (a first for Fly). Fly's intentions are clear—the Formula is designed to attract the high-end attention of Shoei and Arai buyers.
WHAT STANDS OUT? Here's a list of things that stand out with the Fly Formula helmet.
(1) Fit. There are several key areas of a helmet that can create pressure points: the forehead, crown and neck. Overall, the Formula is very comfortable, but some MXA test riders felt a minor pressure point on their foreheads. As for sizing, the helmet is spot on. As a caveat, if you fall in between sizes, then we recommend that you order the next size down.
(2) Craftsmanship. The Formula uses titanium (a material borrowed from the Troy Lee Designs SE2), carbon fiber inlets (never before used on a helmet) and stainless steel hardware. The shell is comprised of a carbon fiber/Kevlar mix that has been water jet cut for greater accuracy. The micro fiber liner is made from Drylex. It is among the softest interiors that we have come across (a shot across the bow of the Good Ship Arai). Fly also focused on air flow, evidenced by their baronial carbon fiber intakes. The Formula has 13 separate air holes incorporated into the liner. All of these features make the Formula helmet as cool as a stiff autumn breeze.
(3) Weight. As a rule a thumb, helmets that weigh at or under three pounds are considered light. The Fly Formula tips the scales at three pounds, three ounces. This is on the heavy side for a helmet with such a hefty price tag. Why isn't it a three-pound helmet? We observed the same weight gain on the comparable Troy Lee SE2 helmet and feel that the titanium, stainless and carbon fiber pieces are responsible for the extra three ounces.
(4) Safety. Fly uses two different foam densities in the lining of their helmet. The crown features a soft density foam (similar to the Arai VX-Pro3), while the rest of the shell is surrounded by a more dense EPS foam. Both types of foam are thick and forgiving (a definite plus for reducing serious head injuries).
(5) Options. The Formula helmet comes in two designs and five color ways. It passes Snell 2005 and DOT safety standards and is available in sizes from extra-small to extra-extra-large. Fly offers different size cheek pads to customize the fit.
(6) Place of manufacture. The Fly Formula helmet is made in China.
WHAT'S THE SQUAWK? We have two quibbles: for the price we'd like it to be lighter, and some test riders complained about a pressure point on their foreheads.


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IMF Survey: Vol. 37, No. 2.
- IMF Sees World Growth Slowing, With U.S. Marked Down
- Subprime Fallout: IMF Intensifies Work on Subprime Fallout
- Private Capital Flows: Investors Eyeing Sub-Saharan Africa
- IMF Develops New Risk Measurement Framework for Public Debt
- Market Turbulence: IMF Assesses Central Banks' Reaction to Subprime Crisis
- Subprime Notes: Credit Market Turmoil Makes Securities Valuation Key
- Financial Stability Modeling: IMF Developing New Tools to Identify Financial Trouble Spots
- Development: Debt Relief Yields Results in Niger
- Fiscal Management: Transparency Aiding Latin American Growth
Private Capital Flows: Investors Eyeing Sub-Saharan Africa
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"At the end of the Second World War, those of us who had participated in that conflict were under the impression that if we were triumphant over fascism and the Nazis, that the men and women who returned from that conflict would be celebrated and honored by our nation. Many of us went off to that war and didn't have the right to vote. Many of us went off to that war and didn't have the right to participate in the American Dream. We didn't really think about this thing as a dream until Dr. King articulated it.
As a kid, there was not much I could aspire to, because the achievement of black people in spaces of power and rule and governance was not that evident, and therefore we were diminished in the way we thought we could access power and be part of the American fabric. So we who came back from this war having expectations and finding that there were none to be harvested were put upon to make a decision. We could accept the status quo as it was beginning to reveal itself with these oppressive laws still in place. Or, as had begun to appear on the horizon, stimulated by something Mahatma Gandhi of India had done, we could start this quest for social change by confronting the state a little differently. Let's do it nonviolently, let's use passive thinking applied to aggressive ideas, and perhaps we could overthrow the oppression by making it morally unacceptable."
"Separate, but equal" drinking fountains in North Carolina, photographed by Elliott Erwitt in 1950.
"When I first met Dr. King, I was 16, and he came to speak at our high school gathering. They have kids from all over the country come as representatives of their part of the country. So there were a couple hundred of us, and we would meet in groups and discuss politics, and we were discussing nonviolence because it was a Quaker-based group. And then Dr. King came and spoke, and I was just stunned, because this man was doing what we had talked about. They had just started the more publicly seen and known boycotts in Montgomery, and I just wept through the whole thing, because it made something real to me. It was real, but I hadn't seen an example of it in my daily life, and there it was."
On the first day of December 1955, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress (and secretary of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter of the NAACP) named Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined $10. The bus boycott that grew from Parks' simple, resounding no lasted 381 days, from Dec. 5, 1955, to Dec. 26, 1956; thrust 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. to the forefront of the civil rights movement; and put an end to segregation on Montgomery's public buses.
In the summer of 1955, two white men abducted a 14-year-old African-American boy named Emmett Till from his great-uncle's house in Money, Miss. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam beat Till almost to death, gouged out one of his eyes, shot him in the head and then dumped his body—weighted by a cotton-gin fan tied with barbed wire—in the Tallahatchie River. Their motive: Till, visiting from his native Chicago, had reportedly spoken "disrespectfully" to Bryant's wife a few days before. When an all-white, all-male jury acquitted Bryant and Milam of kidnapping and murder in September, the verdict shocked the nation and the world. And when, mere months later, the men admitted to Look magazine that they had, in fact, murdered Till, the outcry was so intense that it helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
Organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin—the two men who six years later would successfully helm the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—the May 17, 1957, Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was the largest civil rights demonstration the U.S. had ever witnessed. In front of 25,000 people, activists and performers including Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Mahalia Jackson spoke and sang from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for three hours. In his speech that day—afterward known as the "Give Us the Ballot" speech—King urged President Eisenhower and Congress to protect the most basic rights of democracy for all citizens. "The civil rights issue is not an ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo," King said. "It is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation. The hour is late."
In the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional. But it wasn't until three years later that nine black teenagers made history at Little Rock Central High School. On Sept. 4, 1957—the first day of school—15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, the first of the nine to arrive, was waved off school grounds by armed Arkansas National Guardsmen sent by Governor Orval Faubus under the pretense of preventing bloodshed. Interrupting his vacation, President Dwight Eisenhower met with Faubus, and shortly afterward the Arkansas National Guard was removed from the school grounds. Eisenhower ordered paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division to escort the students in—the first steps on the long road toward integration.
Few civil-disobedience tactics of the late 1950s and early '60s were as simple and effective as the sit-ins that took place in towns from Texas and Oklahoma to North Carolina and Tennessee. The pictures in this gallery, documenting protests in Petersburg, Va., in May 1960, provide a view of the sit-in phenomenon, as well as some of the unusual training methods devised to help protesters prepare for the challenge of keeping their seats. LIFE told its readers in 1960 that "the key to the sit-in is non-violence, but it takes a tough inner fiber neither to flinch nor retaliate when, occasionally, hooligans pick on the sitters-in ... The high school and college students of Petersburg studied at a unique but punishing extracurricular school before they attempted sitting-in [where they were] subjected to a full repertory of humiliation and minor abuse. These include smoke-blowing, hair-pulling, chair-jostling, coffee-spilling, hitting with wadded newspaper, along with such epithets as 'dirty nigger' and 'black bitch.' Anyone who gets mad flunks."
The protesters known as freedom riders traveled by bus throughout the South during the early 1960s, facing threats of arrest, mob beatings and even firebombings. Riding primarily to challenge the noncompliance in many Southern states with Supreme Court decisions that ruled segregated public buses unconstitutional, these mostly young men and women — black and white — became the face of the civil rights movement at its most bracing moment.
In May 1961, LIFE photographer Paul Schutzer, who had covered the landmark Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington four years earlier, traveled with a group of freedom riders as they made their way from Alabama to Mississippi. Schutzer's photographs show the emotional extremes of the movement's participants — exhilarated and exhausted, thrilled and terrified — during those heady, uncertain days.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, TIME presents a special commemorative issue—featuring Jon Meacham on King as a Founding Father of the 21st century; Richard Norton Smith on how King's words changed the nature of presidential persuasion; Michele Norris on the state of the dream today; plus Maya Angelou, Malala Yousafzai, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Shonda Rhimes, Marco Rubio, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and more on what "I have a dream" means to them. Join TIME.com to read the full issue
"The sit-in is an interesting technique. What it simply says is, I'm going to sit at this place where you don't want me to sit, and if you really don't want me to sit and you call the police and take me away, I'll get somebody else to take my place. And when that person is taken away, I'll get somebody to take their place. And I'll sit there as if I belong there because I believe I belong there, and I'm going to keep coming back and coming back and coming back until finally you give in and say, O.K., you can sit there. The sit-in most people know about is the Greensboro sit-in that began on Feb. 1, 1960, and spread all across the South. It meant that in Jackson, Miss., and Atlanta, Georgia, and towns in South Carolina, North Carolina—all across the South—young people were going down to lunch counters, sitting at the counters, often getting arrested and often coming back again and again and again. And the pressure began to mount, and these lunch counters initially began to give in: 'O.K., you can sit here. We'll make changes. We'll change our racial policies.' "
In June 1963, a Klan member named Byron De La Beckwith shot civil rights activist Medgar Evers in the back as the 37-year-old Evers stood in the driveway of his Jackson, Miss., home. Three days after the murder, on June 15, John Loengard made this photograph—one of the most moving pictures of the civil rights era—showing a deeply grieving Myrlie Evers comforting her weeping son Darrell Kenyatta at Medgar's funeral. The photograph appeared on the cover of an issue of LIFE in which Myrlie paid tribute to her husband: "We all knew the danger was increasing," she wrote. "Threats came daily ... against us and the children. But we had lived with this hatred for years, and we did not let it corrode us." Myrlie fought for justice for her husband for more than 30 years, and when, in 1994, eight black and four white jurors found the 74-year-old De La Beckwith guilty of first-degree murder, her words upon hearing the verdict were, "Yes, Medgar!"
When Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized a series of nonviolent actions in Birmingham in 1963, the brutal response—especially the attack-dog and fire-hose tactics of Eugene "Bull" Connor, Birmingham's commissioner of public safety—galvanized the civil rights movement. LIFE's May 17, 1963, issue, featuring Charles Moore's photos of those chaotic, frightening days, showed the world the violence of anti-integration forces in the South.


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• Carlisle: United States player grades | SN Poll: How will U.S. fare in Brazil?
• Bennett: U.S. finds way to beat El Tri | Canales: Same old Mexico
• Marshall: Player grades for Mexico "It's become its own monster. People want to come to Columbus and see U.S.-Mexico. It's almost like the mecca really for us," goalkeeper Tim Howard said. "You almost feel like it's our destiny to win here." Noisy American fans stood and sang in Columbus Crew Stadium starting 1½ hours before kickoff, and about 1,000 stayed for an hour after the final whistle. The U.S. needed a win or a tie from Honduras against Panama to clinch with two games to spare, and the American supporters watched on the videoboard as the Catrachos held on for a 2-2 draw.
Big night for U.S #worldcup #USMNT congrats!!— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) September 11, 2013
Eddie Johnson, starting because of Jozy Altidore's suspension for yellow-card accumulation, nearly scored off Donovan's cross in the third minute of the second half, but the pass was just ahead of him. A minute later, the U.S. took just its second corner kick of the match. Jermaine Jones and Johnson both broke in from behind the penalty spot, and Mexico was slow to react as Johnson scored his 12th goal in 21 qualifying appearances. He was mobbed by teammates near the U.S. bench as fans set off a smoke bomb. "We've got some good height in the box, and this time I wanted to make sure I kept it down enough," Johnson said. "I was very fortunate it went in." Donovan, his right eye squinting because of conjunctivitis, increased his U.S.-record goals total to 57, set off a nonstop singalong for the closing minutes of the match. "You see it when we came in the stadium. It was rockin' already," Donovan said. "That's a real atmosphere. That's what we face when we go away, and it's nice that other teams have to face it when they come here." And Mexico now has a tough challenge, hosting Panama on Oct. 11 before closing four days later at Costa Rica. "They looked relatively timid and shy throughout. I've never seen a Mexico team look that way," Donovan said. Dealing with an injury to midfielder Michael Bradley and yellow-card suspensions that also included defender Matt Besler and midfielder Geoff Cameron, Klinsmann had to make several changes from Friday's 3-1 loss at Costa Rica -- which ended the Americans' team-record 12-game winning streak. Fabian Johnson shifted from midfield to the back line, and Clarence Goodson was among four new starters, joined by midfielders Kyle Beckerman and Alejandro Bedoya, and Eddie Johnson. Fabian Johnson strained his left hamstring and was replaced by Michael Parkhurst for the start of the second half. Mexico dominated the first 20 minutes of the opening half and the last five, forcing Howard to make several sprawling saves. "Once we weathered that storm, Mexico didn't have much in the second half," Gonzalez said. Now the Americans can take it easy in the final two qualifiers, against Jamaica on Oct. 11 at Kansas City, Kan., and at Panama four days later. Exhibitions are likely at Scotland and Austria in November. Klinsmann won the World Cup as a player with Germany in 1990 and coached his native country to the 2006 semifinals. He's lived in California for 15 years and understands the accomplishment. As he spoke during his postgame news conference, he had a Starbucks cup in front of him, presumably filled with champagne. "It's not Aquafina," he said, laughing. Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Way to go USA men's soccer team.2014 World Cup here we come!!— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) September 11, 2013
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Ah, "the power behind the throne". Wouldn't that be nice? ;-) Alas!
The (Bavarian) Illuminati certainly were interesting figures, and most definitely were Enlightenment rationalists--radical rationalists, some have said--whose purpose was the abolishment of all monarchical governments and state religions in Europe in the 18th Century. As they formed a secret and secretive society whose methods involved setting up a complex, cellularized network of spies and counter-spies to work against the Powers that Were, they certainly have been the inspiration of many a great conspiracy theory. But as Thomas Jefferson wrote of their founder, "As Weishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot and priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, and the principles of pure morality. This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment.... If Weishaupt had written here, where no secrecy is necessary in our endeavors to render men wise and virtuous, he would not have thought of any secret machinery for that purpose."
Weishaupt was a bit of a back-to-nature anarchist, and no friend of the Church, but as he himself wrote: "I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States." Weishaupt was interested in using education to bring about "illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice".
The Brights certainly draw on Enlightenment imagery, and our endeavor most definitely has an educational focus: "Enbrightenment! This rhetorical expression hearkens to a once promising time on earth when it looked as if science and reason would offer a key to the future. During the period many call the Age of Enlightenment, it was possible to envision a world wherein humankind itself might acquire understanding of nature, gain insight into humanity, make meaning of life, and work for a better and brighter future for all." http://the-brights.net/vision/symbolism.html
Thankfully, many of us, especially here in the West, have little need anymore for secret handshakes and back-alley meetings. Instead, we encourage brights to speak openly about their worldviews, to abolish inaccurate and unfair stereotypes and work toward a world where the items on offer in the marketplace of ideas are fairly priced:
I agree completely. I joined the Brights, but I also hate the name. It is cocky, and implies that we are smarter than everyone else. While I find religion foolish, I also find it condescending when they start a conversation with me from their high and mighty pulpit. Is not starting a conversation from the position of "Bright" a similar high place? I like the goal, but not the name.
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"This is all just a setup," says Pauley Perrette, walking into the NCIS writers' room north of Los Angeles. Michael Weatherly fatalistically adds: "This is where we all..." Brian Dietzen finishes the thought: "...meet our end."
Not bloody likely. Sure, the series did off a couple major characters in the first five seasons (RIP, Lauren Holly's Jenny), and some significant recurring characters have met their makers in the five years since (Mike Franks, we hardly knew ye!). But the chances of any of these eight diehards going down anytime before the show ends its run are about the same as the odds of Gibbs cracking a sustained smile.
Speaking of which: When we gathered all eight regular cast members of TV's No. 1 drama for a historic summit, their fearless leader, Mark Harmon, was largely the quiet man out. When his colleagues finally called him on his reticence, he swore he was having too good a time listening to everyone else's banter. As you read this unprecedented full-cast gabfest, you'll know exactly what he means.
TV Guide Magazine: How often are all eight of you in the same room?
David McCallum: Table reads, every 10 days.
TV Guide Magazine: Have there been any scenes in which you've all been together at once?
McCallum: When Ziva became a U.S. citizen.
Pauley Perrette: Everybody wasn't there. Michael wasn't. But for Jenny's funeral, we were.
McCallum: And that was the last episode of...
Michael Weatherly: Season 5.
McCallum: How do you know that?
Weatherly: Because when she died at the end of Season 5, that's when we got the Rocket Man. [Points to Rocky Carroll.]
TV Guide Magazine: There have been no major cast changes lately — unless we count Brian Dietzen finally getting bumped up to the main credits after 10 years. [The group applauds.]
Dietzen: I've gotten congratulated so often in the last few weeks, and it's a great recognition. But I've never been made to feel like anything but a full cast member for the last decade.
Perrette: It's a lot easier on the rest of us, too, because people are hollering at me, "Why isn't he in the opening credits?" "I don't have anything to do with that — I don't know!"
Dietzen: When I first did the show, I was supposed to do one day. So I thought, "I'll wear glasses, hunch over and stammer a bit. I don't have anything like that on my reel, so that'd be cool!"
Mark Harmon: I remember early on, maybe on the second day, David saying to you, "You come with me downtown to autopsy," and you going, "All right, I'm there!" I remember right then thinking, "Okay, this is gonna work."
Dietzen: I spent a lot of that time staring at my shoes and concentrating on not throwing up.
TV Guide Magazine: Do you prefer the stand-alone episodes or the ones that get into a lot of mythology and long-term storytelling?
Perrette, Weatherly and Dietzen: [Almost in unison] Stand-alone.
Sean Murray: Yeah, me too.
Cote De Pablo: Long-term storytelling! You get invested and you want to see the next one, and they get into a lot of character stuff and complex conflict.
Perrette: I sit around and watch the marathons on USA all the time, of course. So if [the multipart episodes] are not in the order of how they first aired, then I'm afraid it's gonna confuse people.
Weatherly: That's a very network-executive thing to say. Maybe I'm just incredibly conventional and conservative, but I get very lost in the two-parters. I'm like, where are we? What the hell is going on? Why do I feel like crying? [Laughs]
Perrette: No matter if it's a one-parter or multiparter, the arc of the show is these characters.
McCallum: The scary part of that is, I find that Ducky and David have combined... [Everyone laughs] No, I'm serious about this. Has it happened to you guys, that your characters influence your own life?
De Pablo: Absolutely. I was saying goodbye to one of my best friends today, and she said, "Give me a hug," and I gave her a hug like this. [Mimes a half-hearted back pat.] She was like, "No, I need a real hug!" And I gave her a huge hug. I've been playing this character that's not [touchy-feely], and I find myself catching little things that are not me.
Weatherly: The distance between how I feel when I'm in that squad room and when I go home is so different now that I am keenly aware how consistent I used to be. Where work ended and life began was a very fuzzy line for me. And now I think it's demarcated quite clearly. I've already spoken too much. [Laughs]
Perrette: It's imperative to my survival and my life that the two never fade into each other at any time. Because especially in the past 10 years, I've dealt with so many horrific personal struggles that my escape is playing Abby. I put the ponytails in, and it's like, "Abby doesn't have that problem." So literally, for Pauley's own survival, I have to keep Abby completely separate. Because if I don't, I have no place to hide. All of my freedom lives in Abby.
Weatherly: It is fun, still, right? People ask, "Are you tired of it? It's a decade. Do you want to do something else?"
McCallum: I have fun every minute of the day.
Weatherly: [To Carroll] Do you ever bring Leon home?
Perrette: Yeah, your character is so different from your real personality.
Rocky Carroll: No, it doesn't really work at home. You know that shopping cart with the wheels that lock when you take it past the yellow line in the parking lot? That's kind of what it's like.
TV Guide Magazine: I was going to ask who's least like his or her character, and it sounds like the consensus answer is Rocky.
McCallum: And also Jimmy Palmer and Brian. Brian's not a blithering idiot.
Dietzen: I'm not?
Perrette: [To Weatherly] I get asked about you all the time—
Weatherly: I'm much thinner in person.
Perrette: When people early on knew we were really good friends off-set, especially women would holler at me, "How can you be friends with him? He's such a misogynist. I don't know how you can hang out with that guy." I'm like, "Do you mean Michael Weatherly? Because he's actually not DiNozzo in real life."
Weatherly: Although I have to say, it's kind of fun to play a total dinosaur in terms of sexual politics, somebody who doesn't give a flying f---. The shallow end of the philosophical pool is obviously where Tony paddles around.
De Pablo: However, I have to say this, because my character has feelings for you—
Weatherly: I'm sorry.
De Pablo: No, there's something deeper about that character. We always talk about the superficial element and the things that make us laugh. But he wouldn't be doing what he does if he wasn't really good at it. It's a complex character, and that's why people love it.
Weatherly: I've been really happy about Season 10. I don't know how everyone else feels about it.
De Pablo: Ducky's alive.
Weatherly: That's a bonus. And I had a great time watching McGee after he got the initial gut blast with the window shard. I don't know if this is by design or something you and [executive producer Gary] Glasberg cooked up, but I'll ask anyway. It feels like there's a little bit of a new wind in the sail. Do you feel that at all?
Murray: Yeah, I think McGee's toughened up a little bit.
De Pablo: Mark, do you want to say something? [Much laughter over Harmon's silence]
Harmon: No, I love listening to everybody! You've got all these excited people at this table. These guys have all done more than 100 shows, and they're every bit as motivated as they were in the beginning, and in some cases more so.
De Pablo: It doesn't come without work, though.
Weatherly: Talking?
De Pablo: Making it good.
Harmon: I just think you can't forget how hard everybody worked to get here. Most of the time, shows don't work. If you don't appreciate this ride... But it wasn't always a ride. I'm so clear about how we've earned this. I'm not confused at all. And I'm not confused about what it's gonna take to stay here. I don't think anybody at this table is. I mean, shows all end at some point. But right now, there's no end in sight for this one.
For more with the cast of NCIS, pick up this week's issue of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday, Nov. 8!


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The Francis Howell School District strives to develop skills including the "Four Cs" (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking) in students. Two perfect examples of this were recent events held at St. Charles Community College by Spectra, the gifted program in FHSD. "Spectrapalooza" and "FHSD Creates" are annual events that teach these marketable skills and also introduce these bright students to each other and the teachers who will be helping them create a brighter future.
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Lucas Matz was a middle school mentor at the event. Matz saw a lot of those four Cs. "The fifth graders used their imaginations and creativity to build and draw things, and explore themselves, and explore the interests of their peers," he said. Having attended this when he was in fifth grade, Matz is on the other side now. "It's a lot harder," he said with a laugh. "Fifth graders can be hard to keep under control. But it's really fun and I enjoyed it."
Stith summed up the two events in one sentence. "It helps me problem solve, helps me be creative, and that's what Spectra's all about."
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Pacific islanders are taking matters into their own hands, as shown in recent stories featured by The Guardian and the New York Times . Father Luc Dini - a retired Anglican priest, community leader and head of the local tourism council in the northernmost province of Torba in Vanuatu - has announced that together with other leaders, he aims to preserve the local food production and consumption patterns, grow organic food, and permanently ban the import of junk food by 2020. According to this plan, Torba would become the first province in Vanuatu with the capacity to produce nutritious wholesome food, which traditionally is organic "by default" and increases access to healthier options and agri-business opportunities. Torban tourism bungalows are already solely supplied with locally grown organic products.
Like Father Luc Dini, many other Pacific Islanders want to take advantage of the full potential of the knowledge and commitment of their communities to promote and increase local food production in a sustainable manner to 'grow healthy'.
The most important challenge is: How can successful programs that enhance the production and consumption of more diversified, healthy and nutritious local foods be promoted and scaled up in the Pacific Islands to benefit more farmers, grow agri-businesses and sustain communities?
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Grant entitled "Leveraging the development of local food crops and fisheries value chains for improved nutrition and sustainable food systems in the Pacific Islands of Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu", which is co-funded by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and implemented in partnership with the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organization (PIPSO) aims at answering this question. The main goal is to strengthen the capacity of the Pacific Island governments, farmer and private sector organizations, and sub-regional institutions to develop strategies and programs, as well as mobilize financing, that can increase poor rural people's access to nutritious and healthy food. The joint program, was launched during the 2nd Pacific Agribusiness Forum in Samoa in August 2016 and is adopting a three pronged approach (AAA) to: Analyze (build the evidence base), Act (build capacity for change) and Advocate (lobby for policy change and development impact) for value chain and agribusiness development.
In addition, the Governments of Samoa and Vanuatu - together with CTA, PIPSO and IFAD, and with the support from the Pacific Islands Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON) and the Southern Pacific Community (SPC) – also conducted national policy setting workshops in 2016 to improve the linkages between sustainable agriculture, trade, tourism and health. As a stepping stone, the Government of Vanuatu organised its first Agritourism Festival in Port Vila, in November, and heralded it as an innovative approach to promoting healthy local foods while boosting the local economies. However, Honorable Matai Seremaiah - the Vanuatu Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB) - noted that the linkage between agriculture and tourism has not yet been sufficiently explored in Vanuatu and that such festivals will help in getting locally grown food from farm to fork. The complementary Chefs4Development initiative aims to promote stronger linkages between value chain actors in the culinary and agriculture sectors, with a view to enhancing the inclusion of locally sourced food and agrifood products in menus served in food establishments across the Caribbean, South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
In April 2017, the launch of the cookbook "Kana Vinaka" by Chef Colin Chung and Greg Cornwall took place in Suva, Fiji. The book showcases the use of Pacific local ingredients to prepare healthy meals. It complements the Project's ambitions of promoting Pacific local crops and fisheries value chains.
IFAD, CTA and PIPSO are continuing to join forces to support Pacific Islanders to realize their ambitions to live a healthy life and increase their incomes by building local capacity to take advantage of sustainable food production and processing, effective policies and regulations and adequate financing mechanisms.


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We are very fortunate that many of our guests are repeat customers, or have read about the hotel's "theme" online, and will often ask, "Whose room am I in?" For those of you who have been with us before, you know that each room is dedicated to an actor or actress, many of whom have passed on into celluloid heaven, and whose brief window of fame has closed. When we say "Jeffrey Hunter," the response is generally one of silence. But for many, when we explain that Hunter was in the original "Star Trek" pilot as Captain Christopher Pike, there is often a response of great excitement. Hunter's character was the forerunner of Captain Kirk, in the person of William Shatner, who was hired to replace Hunter when he declined to continue the series. Just think, if Hunter had continued, we might not still be having to listen to Shatner more than 40 years later…
But back to today's birthday boy, Jeffrey Hunter, whose solid acting talent and sigh-provoking good looks should have landed him a more permanent spot in film history. His face graced many a fan magazine article throughout the early 1950s, and his marriage to (and subsequent divorce from) popular ingenue Barbara Rush made him even more newsworthy. Sadly, his years as a contract player for 20th Century Fox (where he was often overshadowed by fellow contractee, Robert Wagner, who is oddly back in the tabloids this month) did little to cement his reputation. Aside from his singular "Star Trek" gig, his most remembered roles are as John Wayne's stalwart second in the classic John Ford Western, "The Searchers," and in the difficult role of Christ in "King of Kings," where his youthful looks led some to dub the film, "I Was a Teenage Jesus."
Most of Hunter's film, both during his Fox contract years and after, were fairly routine (including "Brainstorm," with another Chelsea Pines favorite, Anne Francis). Even his hoped-for breakout film, in a great performance as a real-life WWll hero in "No Man is an Island," failed to ignite with audiences. After several failed TV series and an attempt to restart his career overseas in pseudo-Westerns and sword-and-sandal spectacles, as so many Hollywood actors were forced to do in the 1960s, Hunter suffered a stroke, a freak fall and a second stroke, and died at age 42.
With his combination of honest sincerity and all-American handsomeness, Jeffrey Hunter deserved a better fate. But we will continue to celebrate his star at Chelsea Pines Inn.


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I'll admit, when they said to me 'Hey up TR, we want you to review a play about Armstrong, Ullrich and Pantani at the Tour de France, it's in a disused warehouse in the West End and they're going to re-enact the Tour, but without any bikes…but with audience participation" "Uh-oh" was my first reaction.
Shows what I know, it was brilliant, an exhilarating, informative fact-packed Tour de Force. Anyone who's interested in the Tour won't fail to get something out of it…
You will believe that three men on chairs are Armstrong, Ullrich and Pantani battling it out for Tour glory. The amount and depth of information on offer at times might tip things over into the realms of cycle-geekery, but who cares: I'm a cycling geek. If you are one of those cycling racing fans who has already immersed themselves in the details of Tour history much of this might not be new, but even then the engaging manner of the play's presentation really brings it all to life.
The play is based around the stories of Marco Pantini, Jan Ulrich and Lance Armstrong and their quest to be the successor to the great Miguel Indurain, who won the Tour 5 times in a row. It accurately portrays the extreme efforts, sacrifices, speculation and risks that these athletes made to achieve their goal.
The stage is open layout where the actors are amongst the audience who become part of the set making the performance feel very engaging. You will be herded around the theatre space as if you were watching the main event. The actors improvise with parts of the set for their bicycles etc.
In 2 hours it manages to cram in 10 years of cycling history and anyone who has an interest in the Tour de France will love the attention to detail. It is a captivating piece of drama documenting a truly extraordinary period of road racing.
Brilliant! An exhilarating, informative fact-packed Tour de Force
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Anyone who's interested in a gripping story well told, especially if it's about the Tour de France
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Put together without use of a proscenium arch this is one of those new-fangled freer form theatrical productions - probably in contravention of UCI regulations
Directors Roland Smith, Jessica Brewster and Frances Loy and designer Sophie Mosberger have done a great job
As I say - you will believe that three men on chairs are jostling for the lead in the Tour de France
I'll remember it for a long time
Rides lighter than the material might suggest
All those Tour de France facts might make it less comfortable for some
£12 for a night out in the West End is pretty good going
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
I came out knowing a lot more about the Tour in the mid-90s
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The amount I learnt and the imaginative staging
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? This is more of a one time experience
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, if you're interested in the Tour de France go and see it
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there's a good podcast review also from 'thebikeshow' of this play here...
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"John Malone, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison know value and they know bargains," said Jim Cramer on Tuesday's broadcast.
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To how to create this slideshow, go to Part One and it is all explained there.
In this posting I am sharing some of the Luminous Mystery images I have collected and also what our family altar looks like and how the slideshow works in with our family altar.
Click on any of the images to see in full size.
Our family altar sits upon our entertainment unit ~ our unit contains a fairly big TV screen. We do not have normal channels connected to it, only EWTN. Behind the right hand door of the entertainment unit we use to have a stereo and speakers, but upon going over to iphone, we now listen to our music via the phone and a dock. So in that, now spare space, we keep an old computer so that we can convert the TV into a computer screen and it is from there that we show our slidshow images, using the computer.
Here is a full view, when doors are closed.
Here are some photos of the slideshow in operation. You can see how the IrfanView slideshow takes each image and allows it to fill the screen. The background is black and so I have put a few images that are not rectangular or square in shape, into paintshop pro, in order to colour the surrounding areas of the picture, black.
The image above would have been one example of that except the original image had the background as black around the spires area (thank goodness! that would have been a difficult one to work on eitherwise.)
As I mentioned in my previous posting, I have five images to a mystery and I set the slideshow up with a 20second gap between changing images, this allows for two Hail Mary's per image.
Usually we have the keyboard and mouse out of the sidedoor to operate the slideshow and dh or my eldest ds will operate it from a chair that they set in front of them.
Though we do have room to set up the keyboard and mouse in front of the TV screen, it's whatever works best for us at the present time.
"16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."


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Franchise UK has asked MD of Clark James Recruitment, Paul Hulance, a bit about the Clark James business and how they have grown to become as successful as they are today.
About Clark James
Established in 2006 by two senior Directors of FTSE 100 Global Recruitment Consultancy, Clark James is a recognised and specialist provider of Recruitment Consultancy Services to a number of marketplaces within the UK and Europe.At Clark James, our approach is based on an in-depth knowledge of the markets in which we operate and a confidential and conceptual process based on an understanding of candidate and client requirements.
With offices and industry professionals across the UK, Clark James has developed forward thinking ideas, built strategy, grown in depth knowledge, and shared experience across the markets we serve and the territories we cover to ensure candidates and clients receive a professional service at all times.
Where are you located?Lincoln
Where did the idea for Clark James come from?Clark James simply is the maiden name and middle name of the directors Deborah and Paul Hulance who started the business in 2006 after successful directorships at a FTSE 100 recruitment business.
What does your typical day look like and how do you make it productive?My day is very structured with a clear to do list ready and waiting on my desk when I arrive for work. Initially I like to make contact with key franchise partners in the group to discuss the days objectives, focus and any candidate and client issues. Additionally I always have a meeting with the head of accounts to discuss monies in and out and invoicing control. I also like to still be involved in the recruitment process with existing clients.
How do you bring ideas to life?I like to write things down and keep this visual at all times as a reminder. Not all of these things are good ideas and get crossed off after further thought but the good ones I pursue quickly, I don't like to procrastinate.
What's one trend that excites you?I try and be different and although there are trends in the recruitment sector of how to be successful, I like to think that our trend of being traditional and using the key tools of the trade are Clark James key trends. Email and social media are great tools but there is nothing as powerful as the art of telephone and face to face communication. The more people you meet and speak to the more business you will do.
What is one habit of yours that makes you more productive as an entrepreneur?Structure to my day and setting a realistic objective and always be thinking about how to do better and improve.
What advice would you give your younger self?To follow your ambition as soon as you get the itch to do so, don't delay, I started 4 years after first deciding I wanted to run my own business, I wish I had started before.
As an entrepreneur, what is the one thing you do over and over and recommend everyone else do?Do the things that your good at, let others do the things your not good at!
What is one strategy that has helped you grow your business? Please explain how.Recruiting the right people, not just people! This is really important.
What is one failure you had as an entrepreneur, and how did you overcome it?Placing too many eggs in one basket with one client for them to pull the plug on the project. This was overcome by very hard work and being incredibly proactive using the tools we had been left with.
What is one business idea that you're willing to give away to our readers? (this should be an actual idea for a business, not business advice)How to be successful in recruitment.
What is the best £100 you recently spent? What and why? (personal or professional)Personal – a new pair of running trainers, I run every day and its my thinking time!Business – a bonus to an administrative member of staff for a particular project I asked them to undertake, we achieved some excellent results from this so I decided she warranted this.
What is one piece of software or a web service that helps you be productive? How do you use it?Our recruitment database – it enables us to keep track of everything we do from anywhere in the world.
What is the one book that you recommend our community should read and why?Joe Wicks – Keep a healthy body and a healthy mind will follow enabling to you to focus on the things that are important to you.
What is your favorite quote?It doesn't matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going."- Brian Tracy
Goals for 2018?To continue steady growth at Clark James staying true to our values and not trying to be a business we are not.
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HARRISON, Ark. - Dolgencorp, LLC, also known as Dollar General Corporation, a retailer of basic consumer goods headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tenn. has agreed to pay $27,500 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC charged that Dollar General allowed a store manager to sexually harass female employees and then failed to take the proper remedial action against the manager.
According to the EEOC's suit, the store manager in Dollar General's Bull Shoals, Ark. store began sexually harassing female employees shortly after his transfer to that store. The EEOC alleged the harassment included comments and requests for sexual favors. Although at least one employee called the corporate hotline and also complained to an assistant manager about the harassment, Dollar General failed to take action to stop the manager's conduct.
Sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Dolgencorp, LLC and Dollar General Corp. d/b/a Dollar General Store Bull Shoals Case No. 3:12-cv-03128) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, Harrison Division after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its conciliation process.
Besides the monetary relief, the 18-month consent decree agreed upon by the parties and approved by the court, requires Dollar General provide sexual harassment and retaliation training for store managers and assistant managers. Dollar General must report complaints of sexual harassment received within that district to the EEOC and require Bull Shoals' assistant managers to report any complaints of sexual harassment to members of upper management.
"The EEOC continues to take sexual harassment in the workplace very seriously," said Faye Williams, regional attorney for the EEOC's Memphis District Office, which has jurisdiction over Tennessee, Arkansas and northern Mississippi. "We cannot stress more strongly an employer's legal obligation to ensure the workplace is free of sexual harassment. Part of this obligation includes promptly and effectively investigating all complaints of harassment and then taking proper action, when necessary, to correct such unlawful behavior."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Troy has been transferred to the local Internat. He is listed as having a mild mental delay. (His eyes look odd here because of the red eye reduction used on the photograph.) Troy does not speak, but understands speech addressed to him.
From a family who met him in 2012: The profile says he is non-verbal and that is true, he did not talk at all while I was there. However he was extremely gentle, kind, and had a very sweet demeanor. I took bubbles one day and all the kids mobbed me wanting to play, Troy just stood there patiently smiling at me and waiting his turn. I don't think I ever saw him without a smile on his face. He would sit next to me at the table and would stare very sweetly at me and when I would make eye contact he would put his arms out to give me a hug. I do not know about his cognitive ability because I just did not get to spend enough time with him but he did understand the instructions he was given by his teacher and care taker at the boarding school with no problems, obeying them and following all their instructions (with a smile on his face). Physically he had no problems. I do not know if his lack of speech is due to trauma or an actual inability to form words. I will absolutely never forget how gentle and loving he was, he lives to be hugged and he loved what little one-on-one attention I was able to give him. He was so patient and kind to the other kids. A family would be blessed to have this precious boy as their son!
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Why TTEAM® for Your Horse?
TTEAM® - the Tellington TTouch method for horses - Improves Behavior, Performance, and Well-being and Enhances the Relationship Between Horse and Rider.
TTEAM offers a training approach that encourages optimal performance and health and presents solutions to common behavioral and physical problems. TTEAM horses demonstrate marked improvement in athletic skills and increased willingness and ability to perform. Not only does the horse benefit, but also a deeper rapport grows between horse and rider because of increased understanding and more effective communication.
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With the TTEAM approach, a series of Ground Exercises enable a horse to override old patterns and to learn without fear or force. Using a variety of obstacles including labyrinth, ground poles and plastic, TTEAM exercises result in self-control, focus, self-confidence, cooperation, balance and coordination. Moreover, eleven unique ways of leading a horse provide opportunities for both horse and rider to increase ability and coordination
The Tellington TTouch helps to relieve tension, fear of contact, soreness or discomfort and transforms nervous, spooky or resistant horses and improve attitude and behavior. With TTouch your horse will enjoy learning and cooperate willingly. TTouch has been used extensively to speed healing and recovery from injury and illness in horses and in all animals, including humans.
The TTouch techniques for first-aid offer animal owners an invaluable tool. Hundreds of case histories about emergencies with colic, illness or injury demonstrate the value of TTEAM work with the ears to keep a horse out of shock or to bring a horse out of shock while waiting for the veterinarian.
The Joy of Riding combines Linda's 30+ years of teaching classical riding and her experience as a Feldenkrais practitioner for humans. TTEAM has developed several unique tools like the Balance Rein, the Neckring and the TTEAM Training rollerbit to encourage the well-being of the horse. Experiencing the joy of riding with awareness increases the comfort, performance and confidence of horse and rider.
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