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Tradesmen International is seeking highly motivated craft professionals to join our team. If you're a Journey-Level Trim Carpenter and want to work alongside other proven craftsmen who emphasize safety, productivity and superior craftsmanship, this is your chance to advance your career! We are recognized internationally as a leading source for reliable, skilled craftsmen with thousands of employees serving the world's top contractors. With more than 5,000 active clients, we have plenty of great job opportunities for Journeymen Trim Carpenter who are among the best in their field. We offer consistent work, top pay, benefits and safety training to our employees.
If interested, please apply with your resume and good phone number. We will reach out to you immediately if you have the skillset for this position. You can also call Michelle at 440-600-0500.
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Tradesmen International, America's elite skilled labor force, is seeking experienced Trim Carpenters to join our team. We are recognized internationally as a leading source for reliable, skilled craftsmen with thousands of employees across North America. With more than 5,000 active clients we have a plenty of great opportunities for skilled construction carpenters that want to be the best in their field. We offer consistent work, top pay, benefits, and employment opportunities in most major markets throughout North America.
In addition to consistent work, top pay, and employment opportunities, we provide a benefits package that is among the best in the industry. Our comprehensive benefits encourage our employees and their families to build a lifelong relationship with us.
Tradesmen International is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability
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Posted Date 1 week ago (7/31/2020 10:06 AM)
Req ID 2020-277822
Category Carpenter - Trim Carpenter
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Superpowers Secretly Backing Takfiri Groups
Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought (WFPIST) Ayatollah Mohsen Araki underlined that major powers are behind extremist and terrorist groups in the Middle East region.
Behind the scenes, superpowers are backing Takfiri (extremist) groups like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Ayatollah Araki said in an address to the 5th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in the Kazakh capital of Astana on Wednesday.
"We witnessed this after the end of war in Afghanistan and even in Iraq," the cleric added.
He further touched upon the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and emphasized that the powers are seeking to sow discord among Shiites and Sunnis by portraying the conflicts as a sectarian war.
Iraq has been facing the growing threat of terrorism, mainly posed by the ISIL terrorist group.
The ISIL militants made swift advances in much of northern and western Iraq over the last summer, after capturing large swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the volunteer forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for fight against the militants, have blunted the edge of the ISIL offensive.


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Hey, I have been trying to fix some of Kalian's Nameless hairs for use in my DRUMM mod.
When I say *fix* I mostly mean slightly adjusting meshes, adding ears, and replacing wonky textures.
I think I had a breakthrough last night because this side pony tail model I been working on looks quite beautiful in game.
The textures are high rez (not mine) and other than a few more tweaks to the mesh I think it will be ready to use!
BUT then I stepped inside, and out of natural light.
For the record I was testing this on my husbands comp which has MGSO set up with dynamic lighting, but the not so dark lighting version, and MGE but not MGE XE...not powerful enough XD
So anyways I notice almost immediately the lighting affects the color to extremes. My silver hair starts turning brownish, purplish, even pinkish in some lights. Candle and firelight. It keeps its natural color in just the right angle but as I walk through buildings it looks like the shade variance of an emo bag of skittles.
My question is this? Is there some setting I can adjust with the textures that might help with this issue? Or is there some crazy thing up with the mesh possibly? Any ideas or advice is appreciated, I would really love these to work but I don't want to put them in the mod if they cant stay one shade. If it helps at all these textures were brought over from an OB mod, (not the ones with n in that name.)
Thank you for any help you have to throw at me, and thank you for putting up with my questions


text: Every year the S'More Quilting Retreat takes place in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. We had a wonderful time there this year--good food, perfect weather, and fun people! The class this year was the Georgetown Poppies project, one of my fused flower patterns. I met so many nice people and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.


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A Day to Honor Lineman
Thanking the linemen who work in dangerous environments to keep us safe
By Mark Klein
Today the nation pauses to give thanks to the thousands of men and women who risk their lives working as electrical linemen. April 18th is National Lineman Appreciation Day, established by U.S. Congress to honor those who regularly put their lives on the line to keep our lights and power on. Linemen repair downed power lines in the middle of hurricanes; bring lights back on during snow storms; and work atop poles over busy highways. We're glad to have a day dedicated to thank those who work in harm's way to keep us safe.
Utility line work is recognized within the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the U.S. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with more than 19 workers in every 100,000 killed on the job every year. Linemen work hundreds of feet above the ground installing and repairing electrical lines and are often the first peopled called in natural disasters, severe weather and times of crisis. They regularly clear a scene before first responders can assist with rescues, fires, traffic controls or other dangerous liberations. In fact, following Superstorm Sandy which struck our country just three years ago, President Obama made a strong call to designate utility workers as first responders, asking that electricity be a first-responder issue to avoid unnecessary "red tape" during an emergency. We see this as respect for the dangerous work linemen do, and the work they must continue to do to keep other servicemen safe.
Klein is committed to making linemen's jobs easier, safer and more efficient. We know linemen are on high alert during crisis scenarios, but we also know it can be easy to overlook small details that put themselves and others in danger. Klein is committed to doing everything possible to develop the safest tools making it easier for linemen to do their job in all conditions. Mathias Klein, founder of Klein Tools, was inducted to the International Lineman's Hall of Fame for his dedication to the lineman's trade and we work daily to honor his commitment to the craft and to safety.
As part of our ongoing promise towards safer practices, Klein developed the "Head of the Class Award" which recognizes outstanding electrical instructors and the ways they give back to their communities. Our last award was received by a lineman instructor of over 20 years, Roy Smith, who heads a utility technology program teaching the next aspiring generation of lineman. Klein also supports training and education with tool donations to lineman schools and facilities all across the country. This helps ensure apprentices begin their training with quality, safe tools that are tested and trusted on jobsites.
We are thankful for the work these men and women do in order to keep us all safe and comfortable. Klein, its counterparts and greater community will continue assisting this dedicated group of tradesmen to ensure they have long and successful careers.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Dealing a defeat to Gov. Jeb Bush, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube.
The seven-member court unanimously said Bush and lawmakers improperly tried to pull an end run around the court system in the case of Terri Schiavo, who has been at the center of a long and bitter right-to-die dispute that pits her husband against his in-laws.
As early as 2000, lower courts had ruled that Michael Schiavo could have his wife's feeding tube removed. But last October, the Legislature passed "Terri's Law" to override the courts, and Bush quickly invoked it to order the tube reinserted, six days after it had been withdrawn.
It was not immediately clear when Michael Schiavo might seek to withdraw food and water from his wife. His attorney had no immediate comment.
Thursday's ruling gives the governor 10 days to ask for a rehearing, and an attorney for Bush said he may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Either action could stop, at least temporarily, any attempt to remove the tube.
Bush disagreed with the outcome.
"I'm disappointed for the moral reasons of the taking of innocent life without having — I don't think — a full hearing on the facts of what her intent was," the governor said. He noted that it can take the courts 20 or 25 years to review death sentences.
The woman's brother, Robert Schindler Jr., said the family found the court's ruling "disappointing and troubling." But he added: "We're motivated by our love for Terri, and we're going to try to stay strong and find some way to save my sister."
Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage 14 years ago when her heart temporarily stopped beating because of an eating disorder. Now 40, she lives in a Clearwater nursing home, breathing on her own but relying on the feeding tube for water and nutrients. Courts have concluded she is in a "persistent vegetative state," with almost no chance of recovery.
She left no written instructions about what she want in such circumstances, but in Florida a person's wishes must be honored even if they are expressed orally.
Husband vs. in-laws
Michael Schiavo has argued that his wife had made it clear that she would not have wanted to be kept alive artificially. But his in-laws, Bob and Mary Schindler, dispute that, and contend she could someday regain some of her faculties with therapy.
Courts have generally sided with Michael Schiavo, who had the tube pulled twice — last year, and in 2001 for two days — before the Schindlers had it reinserted.
It was the Schindlers who got the Legislature and the governor to push through a law narrowly drawn to empower the governor to order Schiavo's tube to be reinserted.
Michael Schiavo's attorneys argued that the law not only encroached on the court's authority but violated Terri Schiavo's privacy rights and freedom to determine her own fate. The high court did not address the privacy issue.
Separation of powers at issue
Instead, it found that the law violated the fundamental doctrine of separation of powers.
"It is without question an invasion of the authority of the judicial branch for the Legislature to pass a law that allows the executive branch to interfere with the final judicial determination in a case," Chief Justice Barbara Pariente wrote.
The court also faulted the law for delegating legislative power to the governor. "This absolute unfettered discretion ... makes the governor's decision virtually unreviewable," Pariente wrote.
House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, the Republican who pushed for the law last fall, called the decision "tragic but not unexpected."
An attorney for the Schindlers, Pat Anderson, said the couple will continue to press to have Michael Schiavo removed as his wife's guardian.
The case is being watched closely around the country.
'Stinging rebuke' to Bush
A California attorney who represented 55 bioethicists supporting Michael Schiavo called the ruling "a stinging rebuke" to Bush. "The court is saying Terri's Law isn't about Terri — it's about Gov. Bush," Jon Eisenberg of Oakland said. "And that's not how things work in America."
On the other side of the issue, the head of a disabled rights group called Not Dead Yet said the decision elevated the rights of the courts above the well-being of Terri Schiavo and thousands of other people with disabilities.
"If this can happen, it means really that people with cognitive disabilities are in terrible danger in our health care system," Diane Coleman said from Forest Park, Ill.
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Sometimes I feel the need to come home from a class, one that was super successful I might add, and write down my thoughts. I get a real "high" of sorts from teaching because it's something I am so passionate about and love to do. And like I said before, the fact my son is … Continue reading
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Teaching a new generation
Friday night I taught a group of kids, 6th -8th graders, how to make pasta from scratch. It's one of my joys in life as I have mentioned in my musings here in the past. Like many other classes in the past my eldest son Jake, now eighteen, assisted me. I can't express the joy … Continue reading
Classes, classes and more classes!
It's that time of year again when we here in northeast Ohio are looking for indoor activities due to the crazy weather we've been experiencing. Many of the locals are signing up for my cooking classes for which I am thrilled about. I've held another no-cook appetizer class at a local library, from which these … Continue reading
New recipes….appetizer and dessert
First things first, the job didn't work out. I took down the post about it so I wouldn't be found in a search for that particular business in my area because it's not fair to them to make it known about their changes. Now, moving right along, because that is exactly what I am doing … Continue reading
My television debut!
Today the previously filmed cooking class aired on a local news/talk show in Cleveland on Fox 8. I think the whole video is great and done well. I can't believe how comfortable I was being filmed. I can't remember how to embed the video so please click on the link and scroll down to the … Continue reading
Entering a new chapter….
As I wrote in my post the other day, last night I had a cooking class filmed for a segment that will be shown on a local daytime talk show. It's going to be all about date night ideas for couples. I am so thankful to the owner of Cool Beans who gave me the … Continue reading
My future is bright!
At least to me it's bright. Just a few short years ago I never dreamed I'd be where I am today. When I started this blog and my cooking journey, the only goals I had were to learn about the ways my ancestors cooked, more about my heritage and possibly improve my picture-taking skills when it … Continue reading
Spinach and Ricotta Lasagna Roll-ups
This is a vegetarian dish I was testing for my Meatless Meals class at Cool Beans Cafe. It turned out very good although I didn't get my own picture of my finished dish due to the fact that I took it to a potluck dinner/meeting last night. Photo credit: LaCucinaCatering Ingredients 16 cooked and cooled … Continue reading
The Teacher Goes to Class
Photo Credit: MeganBruce.com When I began this journey to learn traditional and authentic Italian cooking, I truly did not know where it would lead me. For the benefit of my new friends and readers, I will give you a quick timeline. I've always enjoyed cooking and creating new dishes for my family. I also came … Continue reading
Why do I teach cooking classes?
I've been asking myself this question since I've had a rash of classes over the past week. My simple answer is this- I love to cook and I love to teach others how to cook. I get so much joy from watching people learn they can make delicious foods in their own kitchen and it … Continue reading


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The Women of the Harvard Club of Boston and the Harvard Business School Women's Association present "Show Me the Money": A Look at Sources of Capital Available for Entrepreneurial Women
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Main Clubhouse: 374 Commonwealth Avenue
6 pm Cocktail Reception and Networking; 7 pm Panel Discussion; 8 pm Q&A
Moderator: Amy Millman, President, Springboard Enterprises
Panel Members:
- Sheryl Schultz, Managing Director, Golden Seeds Angel Network
- Chuck Grigsby, President, Mass Growth Capital Corp.
- Maria Cirino, Co-Founder & Managing Director, .406 Ventures
According to the Kaufman Foundation, women receive between 4% and 9% of the venture capital funding available, even though women own about 29% of US businesses, according to US Census figures. Our panel will explore the reasons why so few female entrepreneurs access external financing, and how women starting or growing their own businesses can finance their ventures. Entrepreneurs will learn about early-stage financing options, the availability of capital to support expansion, and current trends in capital markets. Providers of capital will also have the opportunity to meet creative business people who will become leaders in Massachusetts' economy of the future. This panel discussion, the first in a series of HBSWA programs focused on Women and Entrepreneurship, will address the needs of:
- Women who are considering starting their own business
- Women who are starting their own business
- Women who are exploring ways to expand their business
- Providers of capital
- Professionals who advise business owners across various stages
- Women who are interested in learning more about the early stage financing and entrepreneurship landscapes
Price per person: $35 (inclusive) includes light hors d-oeuvres and panel discussion. A member/cash bar will also be available. A special parking rate of $25 per car will be available for members and guests of this event. Charges will apply for cancellations received after Monday, February 6, 2012.
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Environmental, social and corporate governance
At Our Core: Environmental, Social and Governance at Core & Main
As a leading distributor of water, sewer, storm drain and fire protection products in the United States, Core & Main is committed to helping communities thrive. Operating more than 275 branches nationwide, the company combines local expertise with a national supply chain to provide contractors and municipalities innovative solutions to support new construction and modernize aging infrastructure. Our 3,500 plus associates are committed to the safe distribution of water and fire protection to help communities thrive. We know that every drop of water counts.
Measurement & Mindset
Each year, we report data about our environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities to a third-party auditor to measure our ESG performance. We expect and encourage our associates to use data and critical thinking to voice concerns and focus on continuous improvement.
In addition, we are training future industry leaders through our learning culture, which we call the Talent Factory Unlimited. Among our development efforts are: legacy building—where industry veterans teach custom, in-house curricula to the next generation, fostering the infrastructure experts of tomorrow; management training programs for college graduates inside and outside our industry; and a unique metering management program to support smart city management in midsize, urban communities. Our goal is to lead our industry in our commitment and expertise to create modern, sustainable infrastructure.
We also play an active role in trade associations that are committed to sustainable infrastructure that preserves water and prevents fires.
Earth-friendly practices are important to the success of the communities where we live, work and play. Our corporate office in St. Louis is LEED certified—the building is a healthy, cost- and energy-effective facility with reduced stress on the environment.
We partner with like-minded vendors to ensure the materials we distribute support sustainable, long-term infrastructure for the safe transport of water, wastewater, oil and gas. Vendors must acknowledge and adhere to our Ethics Guide for Suppliers, Contractors and Consultants.
Safety & Training
Safety is first and foremost in our daily operations. One of our core principles is to be action-oriented and accountable, which means our associates are empowered to use their voices not only to identify and correct any safety issues, but also to focus on continuous improvement. Our Being ProActive safety program reflects a cultural mindset that each one of us is responsible for keeping our workplace incident free and leading the industry in professional, secure delivery protocols with our customers.
Community & Giving
We believe strong relationships make for strong communities. Our associates support their communities through local giving opportunities to food banks, disaster relief efforts and children's charities, among others. In addition, Core & Main is a national corporate sponsor of Folds of Honor.
Employee Health & Wellness
We invest in the development and well-being of our people. To encourage healthy lifestyles, the company offers wellness credits to associates who are proactive about their health and well-being. In our corporate office, there is an on-site fitness center, plus group exercise classes with a professional instructor. All associates receive a monthly benefits bulletin with health and money saving tips.
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To ensure our associates understand and integrate our core principles and how we want to do business, we provide annual training in compliance and ethics, which includes a deeper dive into those core principles, in particular how honesty and integrity guide us. Our plainspoken code of conduct further supports our collective understanding of how to navigate complex situations and do the right thing. We encourage associates to voice concerns using our toll-free anonymous alert line and website for reporting ethics concerns without fear of retaliation.
Whether you're a partner, customer, associate or neighbor of Core & Main, you are a part of our vision to foster a world where communities thrive because our people and products provide safe, sustainable infrastructure for generations to come.


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Blackjack has always been one of the favourite table games among players all around the world. Since the first mobile applications and instant mobile casinos that offer this extremely popular game were introduced, the number of players who decide to play real money blackjack using their iPads is growing drastically.
This iOS device gives the users the opportunity to access the blackjack tables from their homes, from restaurants or parks and place real money bets as long as they have an internet connection. Additionally, the responsive touch screen makes the game-play very easy and the gaming experience more authentic.
As a result, this game, which has an extremely low house edge, is offered in more than one variant in numerous mobile casinos to players who are ready to play for real money on their iPads. If played with the optimal strategy according to the particular blackjack variant, this game not only will be a source of entertainment, but also a place for winning good cash prizes.
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There are many advantages of playing real money blackjack on your iPad. For example, it is far more practical than being stuck in front of the computer or laptop. Of course, laptops can be moved around; however, they are much heavier than iPads and after short period of time the game will stop being so pleasant. Additionally, playing blackjack using iPad is much more authentic since the player uses his fingers to choose bet amounts, to place bets and then hit, stand or double cards. The sound effects are the same as playing on the PC, whereas the graphics quality usually depends on the particular model of iPad; however, in most cases the graphics is excellent as well as the overall blackjack experience.
Unfortunately, nothing is perfect; therefore, playing iPad blackjack has certain negative aspects. For example, there are some unsafe blackjack applications and users have to be very careful before deciding to make a deposit and give their credit card details. Another problem can be the screen size which is notably smaller than some desktop or laptops monitors; hence players used to large displays can be irritated by playing on iPad. The same can be said for the playing without a mouse, which might be a problem to those used to having it.
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Playing real money blackjack via iPad is very simple and easy. In the iTunes App Store iPad owners can search for downloadable applications which support the iOS operating system installed on the particular device they have and download the applications to their iPad. Once they have the app, players can open it via the applications menu and start playing right away. Another option for playing real money blackjack using iPad is accessing some of the numerous mobile casinos such as William Hill or Spin Palace that offer instant play mode. These mobile casinos support playing directly from the Safari browser without any difficulties or complex steps. You simply visit the casino, sign-in/sign-up, make a deposit and start placing real money bets.
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Blackjack, no matter if it is played at a land based casino, online casino or via iPads, has many variants; hence besides the general rules, there are numerous modifications that not only affect the game-play, but also change the house edge.
The basic blackjack rules are those found at Classic Blackjack tables. Classic Blackjack is usually played with a single deck of 52 cards and the main objective is to score 21 points; or at least number of points that is closer to 21 than that of the dealer's hand. The player competes against the dealer and during the game he can see only one of the dealer's cards. After two face-up cards are given to the player and one face-up + one face-down card are put in front of the dealer, the player has to decide whether to hit (ask for another card), stand (not change anything), split a pair of cards or double the bet amount. Once the player finishes his hand, if his cards are not over 21 and he automatically loses the game, the dealer plays his hand. At the end, the one who scores a Blackjack or a better hand wins the game. The player can choose to leave the table or start another game session.
However, there are certain modifications that can affect the whole game such as the number of decks or restrictions when it comes to splitting and resplitting cards. For example, there are blackjack variants for iPad that are played with two, four, six or even eight decks of cards. Additionally, some variants allow the player to resplit on any card, whereas others don't allow resplitting at all. The same can be said for hitting or standing on soft 17 or peeking for a blackjack when it comes to rules that affect the dealer's actions.


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Peru: Declaration of solidarity to the striking miners
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Dear Colleagues,
We have heard of the courageous strike of the miners, steelworkers and metalworkers of Peru.
We support your struggle for the preservation of the right to strike and the expansion of workers' democratic rights and the important economic demands of the workers.
We commit ourselves to make this strike known in the continents and spread your struggle on our homepage worldwide, as well as to organize the solidarity.
You can be assured of the support and solidarity of miners and the population in the mining regions around the world. Today, international mining companies are active worldwide, intensifying the exploitation and oppression together with their governments.
It is time to coordinate and harmonize the demands and combat steps of the miners around the world.
In the meantime the Chilean copper miners decided to strike on two collieries of the "Antofagasta Minerals", one of the world's largest copper producers, during the same period as your strike began.
So what would be closer than to support each other and strengthen their backs?
For this reason, more than ever, the motto adopted by the first International Mining Conference in Arequipa / Peru is relevant and up to date:
The united miners of this world are invincible!
Los mineros unidos, jamas seran vencidos!
Good luck and a hearty happiness!
Andreas Tadysiak
Main Coordinator of ICG


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How to edit and update my QuickBooks Online Accountant (QBOA) account information
As I am a new user of QuickBooks. I don't know how to update QBOA information. Please solve my problem
Do not worry. I am here to know you the very simple and effective methods to update QuickBooks Online Accountant (QBOA) account profile.
This method includes to do following things:
- Type your First Name and Last Name.
- Write your Email Address
- Enter your User ID and Password.
- Type your Mobile Phone Number
- Write Security Question and Security Answer.
- Give your Detailed instructions
Note: If you change your account information, it will change it for all products and services (such as the ProAdvisor website, TurboTax, etc.) that are tied to that login.
Do the following steps to update your account information:
- Log in into QBOA .
- Choose Personal from the Account screen
- Click on the Edit.
- When you are done with your changes, click on the Save
Hope this answer will be worthy and helpful.
First you register the QBOA Account:-
Click the registration button,and fill up the your information.
1:- write the your first name
2:- write the second name
3:- fillup the valid email id Address
4:- User Name/ User id
5:- password
6:- Mobile phone number
7:- Security Question
8:- Security Answer
Otherwise you update the your Account information then
1:- you log into QBOA.
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3:- After that you click the Edit Button.
4:- And click the save button, you are done with your all change.
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K36 - Samurai - NEW BOAT
The K36-SAMURAI is an all carbon light-weight high performance boat suitable for both inshore around-the-buoys and offshore long distance races. ACT, SDK structures and Pauger carbon have teamed up. 5 boats has been sold.
Samurai is the image of this boat. A Samurai traditionally has been a person who serves a well respected leader and has "Busido" spirit meaning they have the drive to fight with every effort and dedication to the best of their ability and skill.
The K36-SAMURAI is a light-weight high performance boat which has been seriously and dedicatedly optimized using an objective scientific approach utilizing rigorous performance studies. To achieve the "Busido" spirit in the K36-SAMURAI ACT, SDK Structures and Pauger Carbon Ltd have teamed up to produce all carbon boat of the highest quality.
Boat concept
The K36-SAMURAI is a light-weight high performance boat suitable for both inshore around-the-buoys and offshore long distance races the design is targeted to a race oriented owner who wants to enjoy fast and fun sailing more easily and effortlessly and at a more reasonable cost than with a 40 footer race boat. The performance has been intensively studied to be competitive under the ORC and IRC rating systems.
Although it is true that light-weight high performance boats have relatively higher ratings compared with heavier cruiser-racers especially in the medium winds around 12kts, the unfavourable difference will be a few percentage of the rating and can be overcome by the significant performance improvements available in a modern light-weight design. It is also true that the high performance boats can provide much better performance in light winds and in planing conditions and therefore get tactical benefits by sailing ahead of other boats in the fleet.
The K36-SAMURAI design benefits from ACT's extensive CFD experience of over 20 years in the America's Cup, with other classes of racing yachts, and also in the competitive commercial ship market, which similarly requires significant performance improvements. CFD is one of the technologies often utilized for scientific design but to achieve useful results it requires careful technique and years of experience. This technique and experience have been applied to the hull shape and appendage configuration of this new design. The hull shape has been intensively refined to have lower drag in combination with stability and power and has been evaluated by CFD at various boat speeds in downwind, including planing conditions, and in multiple upwind heel and leeway conditions. A total of more than 300 cases design simulations were run to finalize the shape. The keel position was optimized to achieve the best trim over a wide range of wind conditions by considering the changing of LCG position with varying crew placement. The rudder position was studied to give good yaw balance and enough lift force to enable easy handling.
The specifications were determined by careful study of the VPP results, consideration of the applicable IRC and ORC rating systems, and comparisons with multiple recent HPR designs. The maximum beam was chosen to keep the stability well balanced with the sail plan and displacement.
The deck arrangement was designed to be as simple and spacious as possible with crew ergonomics considered over a range of crew positions to allow optimal fore-and-aft trim. All control lines except vang line are led above deck without any holes into the interior to avoid water intake keeping the interior dry for both comfort and to avoid unnecessary weight.
To achieve the best structural arrangement for a light and stiff hull SDK Structures LLC has drawn upon their extensive experiences in light-weight high performance race boats engineering. Structural ideas have been borrowed from the competitive TP52 and Maxi 72 classes and scaled down to suit a 36 ft yacht. The structure is designed to satisfy the ISO Category A and ISAF OSR Category 1 to ensure years of competitive racing in potentially rough conditions.
The Pauger Carbon Ltd is the builder for both of the boat and rig. Pauger has years of experience in building both carbon composite racing yachts and high performance carbon rigs. Drawing on this experience they are infusing the hull and deck in female molds using high strength carbon fiber and Airex structural foam core. The interior structure is also of carbon and foam and the majority of the carbon is unidirectional material for optimal strength, stiffness, and fiber content. The keel fin is fabricated of high tensile steel with composite fairings to provide a low VCG.
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A few pictures of some finished items.
A Calorimetry for me. Knit on size 7 needles in Knit Picks Wool of the Andes colorway Sapphire Heather. The button is one of the new Knit Picks Options buttons.
A Calorimetry for Kathryn. Knit on size 6 needles in Knit Picks Telemark in Tidepool Heather. Again I used a Knit Picks Options button. I hope to get a picture of her in it after Christmas.
A Calorimetry for my friend Melissa. She asked me to make one for both her and her daughter. This was knit on six 7 needles in Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Pampass Heather. I think I got the wood button at Wal-Mart.
The Calorimetry that I knit for Melissa's daughter. This was knit on size 7 needles in Knit Picks Dune Twist.
I've got a few more gift to take pictures of tonight/this morning. Then a lot of stuff I can share after Christmas.
Is it just me or does anyone else need an extra week before Christmas? I have so much stuff to get done tomorrow (Tuesday). All of my hubby's employees will be showing up at my house Christmas Eve morning for breakfast. I'm excited about it, but at the same time I am driving my self nuts with all the cleaning.
Why didn't I do a little bit along like a normal person would? Instead I put everything off until the last minute and I will just about kill myself tomorrow trying to get it done. lol
Tis the season!


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Kate Adams has never found it difficult to keep a professional relationship with her clients . . . but then she's never had a client like Michael Maddox. From the moment she arrives in Charlotte, Kate is tongue-tied by the devastatingly gorgeous former Marine and intelligence genius turned multi-millionaire entrepreneur. Michael seems at first glance to be the perfect catch, except for one problem. He doesn't do relationships. And Kate doesn't do one-night stands.
But as the tension mounts between them, Kate discovers she has larger problems—an untraceable stalker . . . and a dangerous past. When Michael offers his protection, Kate is grateful, and yet afraid. For as they grow closer, she realizes that Michael has his own secret past. And while he might save her life, he will surely break her heart.
Silenced Memories
Publication Date: September 15, 2015
Genre: Adult Romantic Suspense
He kept his eyes on her as his friends to her right bowed out of the game. When it was back to him, he studied her, checking for tells. She swallowed and adjusted back in her seat. That was new. Was she bluffing?
Or was he just feeling sexual tension from her? The magnetic pull between them was making it hard to breathe. He reached for his chest, as if ready to loosen a tie that was strangling him, only he was wearing a T-shirt. "Is it hot in here?" he found himself asking as he stood up from the table.
"Come on, you afraid of a challenge? A duel of the sexes?" Jerry joked.
Michael tried to focus, but he found himself consumed by his past, by the memories he had tried to silence. Why was this happening now?
The rocky terrain as his boots slipped on the climb.
Torn flesh.
He turned away from the table, not wanting Kate to see him like this. His throat constricted, and he wondered if he was choking. He opened the patio door and walked outside. He braced against the railing and closed his eyes, trying to shut out the steady stream of images that exhausted his mind.
"You all right?" Jerry asked. He slipped through the door and leaned against the railing next to him. "Kate wanted to check on you herself, but I figured you'd prefer not."
Good call. He inhaled a sharp breath and opened his eyes. "I'm fine. Really." He tucked the painful memories back inside and rubbed his hands over his face. "Be right in."
Brittney Sahin began writing at an early age, with the dream to be a published author before the age of 18. Although academic pursuits (and, later, a teaching career) interrupted her aspirations, she never stopped writing--never stopped imagining.
It wasn't until her students encouraged her to follow her dreams that Brittney said goodbye to Upstate New York in order to start a new adventure in the place she was raised: Charlotte, North Carolina. Here, she decided to take her students' advice and begin to write again.
In 2015, she published her first novel, Silenced Memories. When she is not working on upcoming novels, she spends time with her family. She is a proud mother of a spunky toddler and a lover of suspense novels, coffee, and the outdoors.


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Fort Getty Pier Inspection – Jamestown RI
93 Narragansett Avenue
Jamestown, RI
Completion Date: Feb 2014
Total Project Value: $17,000
Relevant Project Features:
• Performed an inspection of an existing pier
• Prepared a Pier Inspection Report
• Provided recommendations for repairs/improvements
• Provided a detailed cost estimate for repairs/improvements
RT Group, Inc. (RTG) was retained by the Town of Jamestown to inspect an existing WWI era timber pier located in Fort Getty Park.
As part of the project, RTG performed a visual topside inspection of the pier from kayaks and coordinated with a local diver who performed the underwater inspection of the pier.
Following the inspection, RTG gathered the data obtained and prepared an inspection report which summarized deficiencies and provided repair/ improvement recommendations. In addition to the above, RTG also prepared a detailed cost estimate to implement the recommended repairs/improvements.
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A team arrangement by four people in our November Workshop in Helsinki. It does bear a certain resemblance to a kanji character, doesn't it? Or as some interpreted, sports equipment. Our group was well pleased with the outcome, as am I. There are no added elements except for the holes that our male enforcement drilled on the logs.
Teachers: Seiun, Shunran


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Our cabins are set away from the main campground. Each cabin sleeps 3 & contains 1 double bed and… Read More
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[New meeting dates & message regarding the current COVID-19 pandemic]
We are closely monitoring the situation.
The 5th International Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) Meeting will be held on May 24 to 25 in 2021, in Boston, MA, USA.
There is no registration fee. This meeting is open to the public.
Keynote Speakers
Stephen Chanock (Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH)
Todd Golub (Director, Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
Christine Ambrosone, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Peter Campbell, PhD, American Cancer Society
Montserrat Garcia-Closas, MD, DrPH, National Cancer Institute
Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Timothy Rebbeck, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Submit an abstract (Deadline: April 1, 2021) You may submit abstracts that have been submitted/ presented elsewhere or will be submitted elsewhere. We do NOT put any copyright on your abstract or officially publish your abstract. Our abstract system and poster session are "retreat style". We will print your abstract in our printed program books only, not on the meeting website.


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Getenesh Berhe
Getenesh Berhe is an Eritrean-Canadian actor and performance artist. Upon completion of training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, she began working as a theatre artist in various new works and Off-Off-Broadway productions. As a solo performer, her original piece, Cookies and Cream, was included in La MaMa's 2014 Solo Fest. Berhe has also volunteered in Brooklyn and the Bronx, helping introduce classical texts to youth in under-served communities. Her recent television credits include Kim's Convenience, Private Eyes and Man Seeking Woman.CLOSE UP
The CFC Actors Conservatory CLOSE-UPS are 3- to 5-minute cinematic works based on original characters created by the actors. These productions are intended for the big screen, and are designed to promote the actors and their talents in an entertaining and meaningful way.


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by Kitty Felde
No, it's not me.
I'm of the messy desk set, the folks who find that filing something away means I'll never think of it again, or even more likely, won't be able to find it again. I like everything I need to deal with spread out in front of me, where I can touch it and move it around, and feel the satisfaction of tossing it in the trash.
Last night, I heard a talk by writer Mindy Klasky. She writes a little of everything – romance, baseball, middle grade novels, and "how to get organized" strategies for writers. She's a former attorney who was used to billing by the hour and a former librarian, one of the most organized professions in the world.
Mindy is a great believer in spread sheets. Now, I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my play submissions and responses. But Mindy takes it half a dozen steps further. She uses spread sheets, not just for tracking her submissions and publication schedules, but also for keeping her metadata information organized – everything from an up-to-date bio to reviews to key words for Google searches. She uses them to create a business plan. And most interesting to me, she uses them to create a strategic plan for writing.
That strategic plan starts with setting her writing goals for the year. In other words, how many books, essays, short stories, etc. does she plan to write this year? And then she uses her spreadsheets to set out a 12 month schedule with specific page goals that must be met each week.
How productive is she? She averages 400,000 words a year – 5,000 words a day! Last year, she wrote nine 40,000 page novels in nine months. Yet, she only writes three days a week – Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Tuesdays and Thursdays are left for the business of writing, running errands, and having lunch with friends. She takes the weekends off – unless she didn't meet her page goals for the week.
I'm not Mindy Klasky. I don't think I'll ever fall in love with spread sheets. And I certainly don't have the stamina to write 5,000 words a day. But I like the idea of setting goals.
Playwright Jose Rivera advises those of us who toil in the theatre to write one new full-length play a year. Every year.
I think I can do that. No, wait. I know I can do that.
So here is my plan: tomorrow I get on an airplane and will have five-plus hours of flight time when I can think. I'm going to think hard about my schedule, about committing to regular writing time, about setting page goals and play goals and sticking to them. I may not open a spread sheet to map out my writing plans for 2016, but I will write them down.
How about you? Do you map out your writing life? What works best? What organizational tools do you use?


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Every company has a culture- not just policies and procedures, but beliefs, practices and a style or company-wide personality. So, it only goes to reason that empowering your own employees as troops in the many battles ahead to recruit the best new team members will give an immense edge to your company. First, make sure that all members of your team know the company culture and live it. Training should not just encompass helping an employee to fulfill a job description, it should help them to understand their own role in the company's mission statement and how to help the company with the big picture. Regularly communicating the personnel needs of the company with employees will have more of an impact than any paid marketing plan to attract employees.
If all employees understand and love their company's culture, they will always be serving as agents of improvement when they are out in the public, networking. Having your company filled with team members who feel important in their roles is vital to the process…but, having them always looking for quality coworkers to help the cause is even better.


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Facebook Games HACK Day
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM - Friday, December 9, 2011 at 12:00 AM (PST)
Event Details
Join the Facebook Platform team on December 8th, at the Facebook campus in Palo Alto to learn more about and get hands-on experience with delivering your game on mobile devices and integrating your game with the Open Graph.
During this all-day program, Facebook will host technical deep-dives, a Q&A and an opportunity for you and your team to hack on site with Facebook developer team assistance. At the end of the day, awards will be given to the best mobile or open graph enabled social game hacked on the Facebook platform.
You may start working on your project early. Your game does not need to be created from scratch at the event. Capacity is limited and we might not be able to accommodate everyone.
Proposed Agenda
11:00 Registration & lunch
12:30 Welcome
12:45 Best Practices for Social Games on Facebook
1:30 Working with built-in game actions: Scores and Achievements
2:15 Break
2:30 Implementing the Open Graph
3:15 Open Graph for game specific scenarios
4:00 Break
4:15 Games and mobile
6:00 Hack, dinner
11:00 Prototype Forum
12:00 Event close
This is technical event. We recommend that your organization sends a developer.
Unfortunately, there are no refunds provided.
When & Where
Facebook HQ
1050 Page Mill
Building 4
Palo Alto,
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM - Friday, December 9, 2011 at 12:00 AM (PST)
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Why 47 dangerous criminals on the run in Britain can't be named: Because of their human rights, of course!
Forty-seven dangerous fugitives cannot be named by officials – because of their 'human rights'. They include criminals convicted of child sex offences, murder and rape. All have breached the terms of their licence and should have been returned to prison.
They are assessed by officials as being at 'high or very high risk' of committing further criminal offences. But the Ministry of Justice has refused to name them. Critics said the human rights of offenders were being put before those of ordinary members of the public.
Details of the scandal first emerged 18 months ago when officials revealed more than 1,000 criminals were at large despite having been recalled to custody. Among the total were some who have been on the loose for up to 25 years after police failed to track them down.
The most recent Ministry of Justice figures show 960 have not been found, including two rated as level four – the highest risk to the public – and 45 rated level three. The group of 47 includes two murderers, two paedophiles, a rapist and ten robbers.
Police should find 75 per cent of recalled prisoners classified as 'emergency' cases within 74 hours and three-quarters of standard recalls should be completed within six days.
Details of all offenders who had not been returned were compiled following the murder in London of two French students, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, in 2009 despite the killer being recalled to jail. Dano Sonnex, who had been serving eight years for a stabbing and a number of knifepoint robberies, had been mistakenly freed under low supervision when documents revealing his true danger to the public had not been shared by officials.
Opportunities to return the 23-year-old to prison were then squandered or missed. When an arrest warrant was finally issued, it took police a further 16 days to get round to knocking on his door. By that time, Mr Ferez and Mr Bonomo were dead, knifed to death by Sonnex earlier that day.
Tory MP Philip Davies said human rights should not be used as an excuse to hide the 'hugely embarrassing' revelations. 'It's absolute madness. Once again it appears to put the human rights of dangerous criminals ahead of the rights of law-abiding people to know who is at large. 'It must be in the public interest to put the names of these offenders in the public domain.'
Ministers have now ordered a review of the policy of releasing criminals' details. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: 'This Government is committed to transparency and there should be a presumption that such information is published unless the police object for specific operational reasons. Recapturing high-risk offenders will always be a priority.
'Over the past 10 years, in more than 99 per cent of cases where an offender has been recalled, the individual has successfully been returned to custody.'
BBC sneers at popular novels
The BBC has been attacked for its "sneering coverage" of genre fiction during its World Book Night programmes. BBC Two's programmes The Books We Really Read: A Culture Show Special and New Novelists: 12 Of The Best, which were shown on March 5, triggered the protest.
The 85 signatories to a letter to Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, include the Gold Dagger-nominated crime author SJ Bolton and children's writer Debi Gliori. Many fantasy, science fiction and horror authors – including Iain Banks and Michael Moorcock - also signed the letter.
Fantasy author Stephen Hunt, who organised the petition, said: "The sneering tone that was levelled towards commercial fiction during The Books We Really Read was deeply counterproductive to the night's aims of actually encouraging people to read novels. The weight that was given to the single sub-genre of literary fiction in the remaining programmes was unbalanced and unrepresentative of all but a small fraction of the country's reading tastes.
"And closest to my own heart, the failure to feature a single work from the three genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction was a disgrace. The official World Book Night list included Philip Pullman's fantasy novel, Northern Lights. It is a shame the BBC could not.
"There have been weeks when one in three books sold in the UK were Harry Potter novels, or more recently, Twilight novels. The sweeping under the carpet of the very genres of the imagination which engage and fire readers' minds shows a lot more about the BBC production team's taste in fiction than it does about what the general public is actually reading. If the BBC really wishes to support reading in this country, then they should produce a literary version of The Film Programme, or commission a modern updating of the Bookworm show that had Griff Rhys Jones as its lead presenter in the '90s. A series with a mainstream slot. Then perhaps the BBC can do what it said on the tin the first time around: cover the books we really read."
The intolerant Left will never be happy
Celebrating a holiday in Britain is like trying to celebrate it in an unhappy family. The best-laid plans for reviving much-loved traditions quickly blow up in an almighty row. There's no embarrassing uncle in his cups or stroppy in-laws; just schools that drop Nativity plays, shopping centres that phase out carols, and offices that shun Christmas trees. When Christians meekly complain that their Christmas is being ruined, the powers-that-be shout them down: "It's in the name of diversity, stupid!"
Now there's a new rumpus, and just in time for Easter. The Wakefield and District Housing Association in West Yorkshire has ordered one of its electricians to remove a palm cross from the dashboard of his company van. Colin Atkinson, a grandfather and former soldier, faces the sack for refusing to follow orders.
Clearly, in the eyes of this publicly funded body, Mr Atkinson's palm cross is on a par with a swastika, or a racist slogan. The symbol of Christ's ultimate sacrifice strikes Mr Atkinson's bosses as offensive: any show of Christian allegiance could drive a divisive wedge into this multicultural society.
I wish these self-appointed defenders of multi-culturalism would consult a representative group of Jews and Muslims. They would discover that minority faiths have no issue with palm crosses or Christmas carols. Read the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sachs, on this subject; listen to Fareena Alam, editor of the Muslim magazine Q News, and Dr Taj Hargey, an Oxford-based imam. They all agree: a Britain that respects, and protects, its predominant faith is a Britain that respects, and protects, all faiths.
At stake is not just a happy holiday. Once banning Christian symbols becomes accepted practice, the rejection of Christian beliefs is next. Already, social services have stopped a Christian couple from fostering children lest they infect their charges with an anti-gay attitude.
Soon, the authorities will forbid conscientious objection: Christian doctors, for instance, will be forced to carry out elective abortions, which they regard as a sin.
Where will it end? I fear intolerant atheists will not be satisfied until they've driven faith underground: Christians, Jews and Muslims will be forced to resort to Masonic handshakes and hush-hush gatherings. Meet you in the catacombs.
How Do We Deal With "Sticks and Stones?"
In our present day culture, we have been taught (usually at mother's knee) that "sticks and stones may break your bones but names can never harm you." Annoying as it is to have people call you names, it does not warrant punching them in the face. But this is not so elsewhere, not did it used to be so in our own civilization's past. What we are talking about here is "the honor culture."
Until the middle of the 19th century, gentlemen fought duels of honor. That by seriously wounding or killing an opponent who had either said something unpleasant about you or dishonored you (by seducing your wife), you were obliged to engage in a duel. That went out of style here-although one notorious duel was fought in our own history-that of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton died and Burr became an outlaw.
The Sicilian mafia, a holdover from a medieval past, has always been an honor society that punished disloyalty, above all sins, with death. A disloyal wife, along with disloyal colleagues, were so dispatched.
In today's world, the only "honor cultures" left are in the Muslim world. A man's honor, they tell us, rests in the women he "possesses," wives, daughters, concubines, and even mothers. Should any of these women step out of line in their sexual behavior (even though falsely accused of this-or even as the victim of a male in the household), the men's honor is lost until the woman is murdered. In Muslim-majority countries, for the most part, the murderer of a woman for such purpose is lightly punished by the courts, if at all.
We only care about this when such an honor culture moves among us, such as the case of the outraged Muslim radio executive who decapitated his wife because she "dishonored him" by wanting a divorce, or the Texas taxi driver who murdered his college girl daughters whose "American ways" besmirched his "honor." Europe has also been so awash in "honor killings" that they are finally starting to address.
So, how does the Muslim world feel about "sticks and stones?" We have seen the Afghan response to the stupid actions of an American pastor in Florida who held the Koran on trial, found it wanting, and "executed" it by burning it. A very stupid act, we would all agree, but one defended by our freedom of speech-even when obnoxious. He also said Islam is not a religion of peace, which outraged "peaceful" Muslims in Afghanistan. They proved him right. The Afghans considered this insult to their honor sufficient to go on a rampage of murder, slaughtering any UN officials they could find. To them, a book burning warrants human deaths.
One might also wonder how the honor of Pakistani fanatics was redeemed by blowing up a shrine of another Muslim sect, Sufis, and killing and wounding 50 people. Does worshipping Islam in a slightly different way demand a death sentence? Evidently so.
Israel, a modern state, regards sticks and stones in a different way. After enormous provocation by Hamas in Gaza hurling hundreds of rockets at them (sticks and stones), they went in the winter of 2008-9 to clean out the rocket factories and their perpetrators. Then the UN sent in a respected investigator, South African Judge Richard Goldstone, who urged both sides to investigate, but severely condemned Israel for deliberately targeting civilians. This report was devastating to Israel's reputation. Name calling can harm you.
After a new investigation, Goldstone acknowledged his report was mistaken. The Israelis had no government policy to target civilians. Hamas, however, not only plants their weapons among crowded civilian homes, but is happy to abuse civilians-theirs and Israel's. Goldstone has now condemned them for refusing to conduct the investigation he requested.
When it comes to "sticks and stones" and name calling that hurts, we must consider the source. Honor cultures do not think as we do, but we dishonor our own culture when we fear "offending" them.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
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What is love?
I was studying the scriptures a few days ago, when I came across 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter, and it hit me very hard. Do I really love the people around me? Can I truly say that I love everyone? No, I can not say that. I fail at loving everyone all the time.
The first thing I have to do is ask myself, what is my motive? Do I do what I do for a reward? Or do I do what I do because I truly care and love?
As I prayed and searched the scriptures, the Lord brought to light that, without him, I cannot love. Love is something God does and, without God, there is no love.
1 John 4:10: "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."
Ephesians 5:25: ". . . Christ . . . loved the church and gave Himself up for her."
Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."
1 John 4:8: Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Did you notice how love edifies? It builds up the body of Christ. Forgiveness means that we wipe the record clean and never hold things against people. So just what is love? Do you know any word that has been more abused?
Many a seducer last night whispered these words, "I love you,"ť into the ears of a woman to whom he was physically attracted. Love. We all want to be loved. How tragic it is that so much of our love misses the mark of God's definition.
Webster dictionary gives these definitions of love:
(1): strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties
(2): attraction based on sexual desire
(3): affection based on admiration, benevolence or common interests
b: an assurance of affection
2: warm attachment, enthusiasm or devotion
3a: the object of attachment, devotion or admiration
b(1) : a beloved person
(2) British —used as an informal term of address
4a: unselfish loyal and benevolent, concern for the good of another:
(1): the fatherly concern of God for humankind
(2): brotherly concern for others
b: a person's adoration of God
5: a god (such as Cupid or Eros) or personification of love
6: an amorous episode: LOVE AFFAIR
7: the sexual embrace: COPULATION
8: a score of zero (as in tennis)
9 capitalized, Christian Science: GOD
What is Gods definition of love?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up:
5 It doth no uncomely thing: it seeketh not her own thing: it is not provoked to anger: it thinketh no evil:
6 It rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth:
7 It suffereth all things: it believeth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.
8 Love doth never fall away, though that prophesyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.
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Plants make for such wonderful inspiration when you're walking down the street. Lately I've been noticing an old favorite, the Ginkgo. The German poet Goethe also took note of this tree and its bifurcated foliage while walking in Heidelberg. In inspired him to write a poem:
This leaf from a tree in the East,
Has been given to my garden.
It reveals a certain secret,
Which pleases me and thoughtful people.
Is it a living being,
Which has separated in itself?
Or are these two, who chose
To be recognized as one?
Answering this kind of question,
Haven't I found the proper meaning,
Don't you feel in my songs,
That I'm one and double?
(Ginkgo Bilboa, by Goethe)
Sophomore year of college at GWU, noticed a tree outside my window. I had never paid much attention to it before, but as fall got underway and again in spring, it bore the most brilliant golden leaves. Really, they were mesmerizing to watch out the window (either that or my studies were just that dull…). I discovered that the tree was a Ginkgo and that there are many of them scattered throughout our city.
Ginkgos can be grown in any number of ways, but when they're trained vertically as they often are in our narrow streets, they take on a gracious draping character. Combine this with their luminous foliage and one finds an elegant ornament right in the middle of the side walk. Frederick Law Olmsted once described Central Park, NY as an outdoor cathedral… If we apply similar language to Washington's streets, the Ginkgo makes for wonderful gold leafing in the DC's canopy in the spring and fall.


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It's inevitable. At some point you're going to have to have a HOTAS to fly. Some folks say they can fly with the keyboard. I say rubbish!
When I quit flying in 2011, I liquidated my x52Pro and Headset figuring I'd never need them again. Then, last week, after some ridiculous pestering by Deacon, I decided to begin some "casual" flying again. So, first up was to find another stick. Bang...done. A used x52Pro arrived yesterday. I checked it out and found it was in really shape, good spring, good, firm action.
So, I plugged it all up and then popped the USB plug into an available port. Now understand, the last time I did this was in MS WinXP Pro. Now it was MS Win10 Pro. What happened? Nothing.....absolutely nothing. What should have happened was Win should have noticed a new device had been plugged in and begin a device driver install. I checked Harware and Devices...nothing. I check all the control file settings....nothing. I dove into all the USB HID settings....nothing. So, I jumped over to Saiteks site, downloaded the drivers and software. I then executed the driver install.....hang.....nothing. I searched the forum and found instructions for manually installing the drivers....didn't work.
Two hours later, stumped and confused, I reboot my rig to restart the process, and wonder of wonders, Win10 found the HOTAS and installed the drivers automatically. Who knew....
It was pretty late for an old fart like me, so I called it for the night. Tonight, I'll configure the stick, so stay tuned to this thread to follow along.


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Hillary Clinton yelled at a Los Angeles rally on Thursday that we really need to stop yelling at each other in this country.
"I also think we'd be a lot better off if we actually talk to each other instead of yelling at each other," she shouted.
She continued on to make a swipe at the Republican Party.
"Let the other side do the yelling," she yelled, in a non-inside voice. "We're going to be talking and rolling up our sleeves and getting to work because it's not enough– it's not enough to diagnose a problem. We need to solve the problem."
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Rocket League has been out for over a year, but the match is constantly changing as a result of the updates and DLC added by developer Psyonix. Lately the match entered a new phase, shifting many of the core foundations that held the game up for the previous calendar year. This includes a new crate system, along with a multitude of new rare items for players to get. But, these items can't just be purchased like other new items. Instead, they need to be earned. Even though a good deal of it is luck, we have put together this guide on the best way best to get crates and infrequent items in Rocket League.
We only wish to reiterate, until the remarks explode, a lot of this is fortune. You see, each time you finish a game of Rocket League there's a random chance of receiving an item or crate, and inside that, there is another random likelihood that it is going to be a rare item. But, there have been some discoveries which will give you a much better chance at getting the things that you want.
According to players who have done more scientific research of the crate and rare item drops, there is a hidden timer running that determines when you'll find a drop. The timer is only running while actually playing a match, so sitting on the menu doesn't help, at least not a lot (more about this later). Overtime also doesn't count, so try to finish those matches early, and do not linger in OT thinking it is going to make you a crate fall sooner. According to many assessments the average in-game time spent between getting crate and item drops is about two hours, with the chance of this being a rare item or crate being down to the rarity of that specific item.
In addition to this is the series bonus, this is the point where the menu comes from. You see, for some reason, if you exit the game and reenter, it lowers your odds of obtaining a drop. Instead there just seems to be a modifier tacked on that says "if the player has been in-game for a very long time, raise the odds of a drop". Consequently, if you aren't going anywhere for a little while, and you will need a rest from Rocket League, attempt to leave the game running. This will help maintain your timer steady, and keep the series alive.
That's about it as far as how to get crates and rare items in Rocket League. The system might get changed, and we may learn more about how it functions as players dip in more. Check back later if there are any upgrades.
ll upgrades are deployed concurrently on all platforms. When the Switch variant is launched, this may also be the case. Each platform owner has their own requirements for the submission period, so patches must be submitted for different platforms at different points.
Psyonix isn't yet at the point of certification with Nintendo. Psyonix has gone through several pre-certification measures, which entails setting things up for Nintendo to understand what will be in the game to prepare for certification. Psyonix has only announced a vacation launch window since they can not commit to a particular date, and will not do so until they are certain of what that date will probably be. Fortunately, the documentation is easily answered, and Nintendo has answered all of your questions.
Psyonix recommends playing Rocket League using all the Switch Pro Controller. The team had some challenges with the Joy-Con, but they believe they have solved it and feedback at E3 was positive.
Psyonix had long talks after his meeting with Nintendo about the pros and cons, because they had to think about controllers, things like latency and other aspects. But as they heard more about the machine and manipulated the hardware, they felt better about launch Rocket League in Switch.
One of the most interesting matters Dunham shared was that Psyonix didn't commit to launch the Rocket League in Switch till April or something. That is somewhat surprising, because Nintendo introduced the game in its E3 demonstration just a few months afterwards. It was a very quick change from the confirmation of Psyonix to launch the game, to have it contained in the transmission.
The team has to perform "lots of custom work", which is required when a brand new platform is thrown into the mixture. It is a "challenge", but Dunham is "sure" that they'll address all the concerns the players might have. Dunham said it's not been as easy as switching from PlayStation / PC to Xbox, since those platforms discuss some similar principles, but Switch appears to be a bit different.
Finally, when asked about voice chat, Dunham said that it is a little complicated to respond given that Psyonix is not certain at what stage they will be at the launch.
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UPDATE, 1:25 p.m.: I'm now in Watertown, at the corner of Mount Auburn Street and Kimball Road, where the police have drawn a perimeter. There's a huge line of reporters here—from Fox News, CNBC, and stations I never knew existed—doing stand-ups.
There's not much going on behind them to talk about. The street is deserted except for some cop cars and caution tape. Elsewhere in the town, I'm seeing big groups of cops with rifles and wearing body armor going from house to house, presumably checking to see whether the suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is anywhere in the vicinity. The cops are surrounding and going inside houses on Arlington Street. Nothing appears to be imminently dangerous. These look like routine sweeps.
A minute or two ago, a sort of SWAT team was standing around in a public park, holding their rifles menacingly. They've since packed up. That team was from Plymouth. There are also cops here from Dennis, North Reading, Belmont, and naturally Watertown. It seems as if every police officer in the state of Massachusetts is here to assist in the search.
Original post, 12:46 p.m.: BOSTON—As I left my place in Back Bay this morning, it hit me that this was the nicest day of the year. All I smelled were cherry blossoms. It's windy—it's gusting enough to knock over a bike—and there are a lot of clouds, but the sky behind them is perfectly blue.
On the ground, in the neighborhood of Allston and in Boston's Kenmore Square, the streets are almost completely empty. The only people out and about are a handful of joggers and old people who seem not to have gotten the news that we're in the midst of a huge crisis. There's almost no traffic—most of the vehicles on the road are taxis. There are rakes down on the windows of every store. The only two businesses I've seen open are a solitary CVS and a Burger King in Allston that's serving pedestrians at the drive-through window.
That Burger King is down the street from the Wai Kru mixed-martial-arts gym, the spot where Tamerlan Tsarnaev—the bombing suspect who's now dead—trained as a boxer. The gym is a small store in a strip mall, next to a Laundromat and an instant oil change place. On the ground level, there are trophies, some heavy bags, a bunch of boxing gloves and MMA champion belts in a glass case, and a big sign celebrating a 2008 title in the New England Grappling Championship. Like every other business here, this one is empty. There's a printed-out sign on this door that reads: "We will be closed today 4/19/13."


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Ronnie Wu, chief investment officer of the $400 million hedge fund of funds house Penjing Asset Management Ltd., will start a pool of money dedicated to providing early investments to new hedge funds next month.
It aims to make five to six investments with the flagship Penjing Asia Fund by year-end, he said in an interview yesterday. The new pool will begin with about $25 million from Wu's family and friends and then raise capital from investors after the initial money has been deployed.
Wu is seeking to profit from the spurt of start-ups emerging from a financial crisis that's caused $1.5 trillion in losses and writedowns at financial firms globally and seen more than 300,000 jobs lost, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"When I first managed Asian funds of funds back in 2002, we saw a lot of talent but very little capital after the 2000 technology bubble," said Wu. "The current environment is worse than 2002. You have a lot of experienced talent whose alternative to starting on their own is to sit at home."
About 150 new funds were set up globally in the first quarter, the highest since the second quarter of 2008, according to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research Inc. Managers are finding it harder to raise money as investors pulled more than $103 billion from the global industry in the three months to March, reducing total assets managed to $1.33 trillion.
Some managers have left investment banks cutting down on proprietary trading, while others are striking out on their own after the worst hedge fund industry performance on record made some firms unable to charge performance fees, prompting job cuts.
Nick Taylor, ex-head of Citadel Investment Group LLC's principal investments business in Asia and Europe, Shafiq Karmali, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trader, and Edwin Wong, previously a Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. managing director, are among those starting new hedge funds in Asia.
"This is turning out to be the year of start-ups as we see an increasing supply of successful and quality managers who are leaving the prop desks of big banks and global hedge funds to start their own shop," said Christophe Lee, chairman of the Hong Kong and China national group of London-based Alternative Investment Management Association.
Penjing most recently seeded a fund three months ago and will invest in another next month, he added.
The new pool will have fewer seeding restrictions than Penjing's existing funds of funds, which cap any single holdings at 5 percent of their investments to diversify risks.
"If we like a certain manager and think we can benefit from their growth by seeding them, the flagship fund is not an ideal vehicle because of its diversified nature and stringent liquidity requirements," said Wu. "If we create a dedicated seeding vehicle, then the participation is much higher, together with a high risk profile."
Wu is looking for candidates that meet at least one of the following criteria: strong performance, unique investment strategy, or the potential to rapidly expand assets, he said.
While his seeding activity will focus on startups, it may also include new offerings from managers that have been in operation for a while.
Penjing's seeding investments so far range from $5 million to $15 million each. Future investments could amount to as much as $25 million after the new pool is set up, Wu said.
Capital Inflows
The company has attracted new capital from investors since May, Wu said. The inflows, the first Penjing has seen since Lehman's collapse in September, came mostly from private banks representing wealthy individuals, he added.
Yet Penjing is still experiencing some investor withdrawals, leaving its assets under management largely flat, said Wu.
Penjing Asia Fund, set up in April 2005, returned 9.8 percent this year through May, according to a newsletter to investors. The Eurekahedge Asia-Pacific Multistrategy Fund of Funds Index, tracking 54 members, gained 3.8 percent in the same period.
Patrick Kemmis
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VBK Partners LLP
Filed under: hedge fund, Alternative Investment Management Association, Christophe Lee, Citadel Investment Group LLC, Edwin Wong, Eurekahedge Asia-Pacific Multistrategy Fund of Funds Index, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Lehman Brothers, Nick Taylor, Penjing Asia Fund, Penjing Asset Management Ltd, Ronnie Wu, Shafiq Karmali


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Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Matthew Morgan is a retired American professor in his 80s, a widower. He lives in Paris and speaks no French. Since his wife's death, he's marking time. His curiosity is piqued when he meets Pauline Laubie, half his age, a dance instructor. She's also a solitary person but wants the connection of family. She believes she's found that in Matthew, and she attends to him during a hospitalization. When his two adult children arrive from the U.S. to check on their father, they are certain Pauline is a gold digger, and she's confounded by the distance between father and children. The daughter heads home, the son remains. Is there any way that Pauline fits in?
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Actor: Michael Caine, Michelle Goddet, Jane Alexander, Serge Hollogne, Fred Fuchs, Yohan Guignard, Dieter Rupp, Gillian Anderson, Christelle Cornil, Alix Poisson, Clémence Poésy, Louis-Julien Petit, Thierry Angelvi, Justin Kirk, Deshaun Strong
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck


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