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(This is the second post from Douglas Sharp about Bogotá's BRT system; to read the first post visit here)
Regardless of Bogotá's success with its BRT system, San Francisco's transit needs demand a slightly different approach. For instance, just take a look at San Francisco and Bogotá's populations:
- San Francisco: 800,000+ citizens.
- Bogotá: 7,500,000+ citizens.
Bogotá's population size and density put it in a different league than San Francisco. While a full-featured BRT system worked well for Bogotá, it may not make sense for many of the current Muni corridors in San Francisco. (That said, we will likely see SF's first BRT project launch along the Geary Corridor in 2019.)
Still, we would be smart to "borrow" three concepts from Bogotá's TransMilenio in order to improve San Francisco's conventional Muni bus system in a meaningful way:
First, the San Francisco Muni could create painted dedicated lanes for the buses. This creates a permanence for the bus spaces that are currently protected only in bus stops by red curbs and white traffic lines, reducing the too-common private automobile invasion of Muni space. Transit times would be reduced as Muni buses, as in Bogotá, would not be subject to the same traffic congestion that private vehicles (and current Muni buses) face. While full curbs are necessary to separate lanes in Bogotá, San Francisco could use the less-costly painted solution.
Second, the San Francisco Muni could transition to low-floor buses. These buses cost more, but they would reduce station dwell times in that passengers do not have to climb a set of stairs to board the bus, and descend a set of stairs to leave the bus. As seen in Bogotá, reducing dwell times is critical to reducing total transit times. These buses also increase ease of accessibility for elderly and handicapped riders. San Francisco will be using low floor buses on the Geary Street Corridor, but a widespread implementation would benefits for all riders.
Third, electronic fare collection could be shifted from the Muni buses to the bus stops. Off-bus fare collection remains critical in Bogotá to further reducing dwell times, and moving the Clipper card readers from the buses to the stations would create a similar effect. Fare evasion would not be significantly impacted in that the Muni system already uses a proof of payment system (versus the TransMilenio's closed station system, which can create long queues).
Together, these three changes could reduce the transit times for the conventional Muni bus system. This would benefit riders socially, economically, and environmentally in ways that parallel to what the TransMilenio has done for Bogotá.
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International Monetary Threat Management
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Not who are homeless are weak, or even want to be homeless. Some do decide on that way of life even though. Some veterans from my era Viet Nam and forward, suffer from PTSD or some other mental disorder. Not all vets though, some just can't or never want to deal with all the bullshit that goes on in every day life. God knows there have been instances when I have wanted to say screw it, just let me be alone. But as I am so physically messed up I cannot. I have a wonderful wife and two fantastic youngsters, my wife and I will celebrate 35 yrs of marriage in Oct. Following a life time in public service, military, police office, asst. chief, corrections officer, which throughout a riot some 25+ years ago completed off what the military started. I am now one hundred% permanently and completely messed..er…disabled. Consider at occasions I never wish I could say so long to every little thing I have and reside in the woods some place. I want my meds that's why.
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Here's an update on the up-coming show!
The packages coming in
recording everyone's names...
Starting to wind on everyone's yarn into a giant skein
It's coming together!
But there are a few hitches...
the skein keeps "growing" as the tension changes.
So poor Lexi has had to re-wind this huge skein
Here are the YouTube videos of the winding process.
So much beautiful handspun!


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Black Girls in Film: Representations of African-American Girlhood in Film , 1963 to 2013. Queen Nzingha Lecture 9
Saturday 14 September 6.30pm to 9.00pm. This event will start at 6.30pm, latecomers will miss out and may not get a seat
Admission free if booked via eventbritehttp://blackgirlsinfilm-eac2.eventbrite.co.uk/ . Donations accepted on the day
Queen Nzingha was an African Queen who fought against the European invasion of southern Africa (Congo/Angola). The Queen Nzingha lecture series will feature African female academics / holders of expert knowledge, speaking on topics of their choice on a monthly basis. The Nzinga lecture series will provide a regular platform for women of African descent to highlight important issues in an academic setting. As a result of these lectures a Black Women Women in Academia Support group has been set up
See previous Queen Nzingha lectures here
Black Girls in Film : Representations of African-American Girlhood in Film, 1963 to 2013
On the 14th September from 2 to 5pm the BFI will screen Spike Lee's Four Little Girls in honour of the 50th anniversary of this terrorist incident. www.bfi.org.uk
From 6.30pm Dr Legal-Miller will give an illustrated talk on the representation of the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 and in subsequent years, and how it constructed a contested vision of African American girlhood.
Her talk will also include a brief overview of African American girls in cinema, alongside close readings of the highly critically acclaimed films Precious and Beasts of the Southern Wild, in which the young female protagonists were both Oscar nominated. These readings will be placed in the wider context of race, gender, class, celebrity culture and major historical and contemporary events such as the killings of Emmett Till in 1955 and Trayvon Martin.
Dr Althea Legal-Miller previously gave an Nzingha lecture on Sex, Violence and Civil Rights which can be seen here www.youtube.com/blackhistorywalks
Ph.D., American Studies, King's College London, 2011
M.A., Contemporary Cinema Cultures, King's College London, Distinction, 2006
Conference Room
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road SE1
Tube: Lambeth North
Interactive lectures with references and resources on Sunday the 6th and 13th October from 2 to 4.30pm
Black History Walks has been running events at the War museum for over ten years. With the total refurbishment of the museum and the upcoming 100th anniversary of World War 1 we present a comprehensive overview of the African/Caribbean presence, contribution and importance in two 'world wars' . Despite being on the British school curriculum most people have no idea that black people played any part in either war.
Sunday 6th October 2 to 4.30pm
What were Black People doing in World War 1 ?
An explanation of the crucial role Africa, Asia and the Caribbean played in WW1. Interviews with Jamaican WW1 veterans, West India Regiment in Palestine, Black and Asian fighter pilots, the Herero genocide, German colonies in Africa and how that affected geography and WW2
"I wanted to tell you that the lecture given by BHW at the Imperial War Musuem on 26th July was brilliant! When I came home, my parents were really excited about how much I had learnt...my Dad has always enouraged me to get a full picture of British history and until the lecture yesterday I hadn't fully realised how much of a void there is in the British History that is readily available at schools and Universities.
I am a student at Lancaster University and I study the First World War but I knew nothing about the involvement of Black British Soldiers! " Faye Grimes
Sunday 13th October 2 to 4.30pm
How Black People Won World War 2
Above. Previous war museum audience at Hitlers Black Holocaust talk in 2009
A detailed and extensive look at the African, Caribbean and Asian war effort with video clips and interviews with black Spitfire & bomber pilots, Nigerian and Somali troops fighting in Burma, black and asian women secret agents, u-boats in the Caribbean and the importance of Africa and India's raw materials
Thank you so much for coming into our school on Friday. Your talk was really inspiring and so valuable to our students. It was great to see them so engaged'. Rebecca Howard, Canons High School, Queensbury
Sundays in September/October at 3pm to 5.45pm.
First come, first served
Cottons Caribbean Restaurant, 70 Exmouth Market, Islington EC1 Tube: Angel
Pay on the door. £8.00. This is an intimate venue so its first come, first served. Latecomers may end up standing or not getting in at all !
Black History Walks is working with Cottons Caribbean Restaurant to showcase African/Caribbean history and promote excellent African/Caribbean food. Enjoy great movies, have stimulating debates and sample the delicious weekend buffet. So far we have exposed the black history of, and analysed Avatar, Matrix, Blade, Chronicle, Django Unchained, They Live and Planet of the Apes. We continue the Andrew Muhammad Movie Breakdown series with Sunday sessions which will cover Man of Steel, Riddick, After Earth, X Men and Walt Disney See relevant dates below
Sunday 22nd September. Man of Steel. Part One
Sunday 29th September. Man of Steel. Part Two
Sunday 6th October, Chronicles of Riddick
More dates to be announced..
About the movie breakdowns...
The movie industry has perfected the art of using signs and symbols to convey many hidden truths to a very unsuspecting and susceptible audience. This type of communication was first invented in Kemet (Egypt) and was used throughout their society. Many Hollywood blockbuster films and cartoons such as The Matrix and Lion King contain secrets that will amaze the viewers. More info on Andrew Muhammad here
Movie Breakdowns led by Andrew Muhammad: The investigator Since 1994 Andrew has been conducting Hidden Truth Tours nationwide and internationally to Kemet (Egypt), Tunisia, Ireland and Spain. Andrew Muhammad has also designed what is widely known as the 'Hidden Truth Movie Breakdown'. This delivery is based on the Chinese proverb that a picture paints a thousand words.. More info on Andrew Muhammad here
The National Black Supplementary Schools week (16-23 August) is a grassroots organisation set up by Nia Imara. It aims to provide holistic solutions to the issues facing black families in educational institutions. This week-long seminar is a 'must attend' event covering a diverse range of topics in well-equipped central London locations with expert speakers and interactive sessions. Sessions include Autism in BME communities, African genius past or present, Black Scientist and Inventors, authors KN Chimbiri and Robin Walker, Setting up Income streams, How to be an Effective school governor and Secrets of the Afro Comb book launch click for full schedule
This event sponsored by Black History Walks
A Charity Event Featuring the
UK Premiere Film Screening of "Dark Girls"
wth a Special Appearance from
Filmmaker D. Channsin Berry
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 6:30pm – 11pm
Canapes and Refreshments from 6:30pm and after the Screening
The Museum of London, London Wall, London
Abundant Sun is excited to announce that it is hosting a charity event entitled 'Energising Women and Strengthening Societies', which features the UK Premiere Screening of the documentary film Dark Girls, by Filmmakers Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry.
Dark Girls is an honest and emotionally hard-hitting film which explores the impact of deep-seated biases and attitudes towards dark-skinned women, outside of and within the African-American culture.
Our guests will have the opportunity to view this remarkable film and dialogue with one of its filmmakers, D. Channsin Berry, who is making a special appearance from Los Angeles to share his powerful work and insights in a post-film panel discussion with our audience.
Early Bird tickets available now http://darkgirlsuk-blackhistorywalks.eventbrite.com . By getting involved, you will not only be enriching yourself, you will also be providing help to a very important charity. The profits from ticket sales will be donated to Make Every Woman Count.
www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk is sponsoring this event. Those who have been to our Black Women Hair Skin and Beauty events will find this film very useful. Watch video of previous event here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmUVXGfJ4Yc
Businesses or individual donors actively involved in gender equality and women's empowerment can get involved in the event. Please click here to find out more about corporate and individual sponsorship packages.


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Two down, fifty eight to go
Okay, so I'm already breaking rule number 1, what with it being 11:30pm and all. I thought it was worth doing, though, to take a brief moment while I still have one available…
I've just finished typing up some notes from tonight's interview, following the fieldwork advice that everyone has tried to imprint on my brain: write your notes before you go to bed, or else you'll forget all sorts of interesting details. The transcript will come later*, but right now the notes are important.
It's a busy week. I left work at almost 8pm tonight, after possibly spending a bit too long talking about social media after the interview. I really enjoyed chatting though, and good conversation always trumps minor practicalities like getting home and making dinner 🙂
Tomorrow, I'm off early in the morning to the misty hills of Croydon. I'll be doing my second interview in a fraction over 12 hours (the third in total for this project), and then heading back into the city to write up those all-important notes. After that, I need to head home and pack, and then head to the airport for a flight to Brisbane. If all goes to plan, I'll be in the YHA by midnight…
On Wednesday I'm attending the CRC August Participants' Meeting at QUT, and giving a presentation in the afternoon. Then, back to the airport again (with Jonathan), and back to Melbourne. Thursday morning holds the local CRC meeting, where I'll be wrangling laptops and RMIT wireless internet, in an attempt to bring absent members to the meeting via Skype. I think that by the time I finish a library workshop on Thursday afternoon, I'll be just about done for the week.
* Transcripts are something that I love having, and appreciate the benefits of making myself, but dread doing… especially when there will be around 90+ hours of audio from this project. I foresee a lot of typing in my future.


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I'll be using these as one of the groups of "treasure guarders" in next years Historicon game and they'll see a lot of duty on the table for Frostgrave
I find painting fantasy themed figures a bit liberating from historicals.
You can also do silly things like make one of the Gnoll's a Champion from Dalmatian stock. The spots were a last minute thought but I kind of like them.
This "Dire Dalmatian" will prove to be a tough nut to crack in the game (that's a spoiler). Cruella DeVille be damned!
Lets see there are 28 figures so that adds 140 points to the tally.
This will likely be my last submission until after Christmas. There might be one of two on boxing day.
Merry Christmas to all of you and your families - I hope you all have a wonderful day however you choose to celebrate it.
Great work Miles, but you need to give us some better close-ups so we can see these chaps.
As you wish, Mr C, more close ups but they show had bad a painter I am - remember I prefer to use Stalin's definition of quality in terms of painting...
The Gnoll Chieftain and his loyal hound
A Gnoll barbarian and Shaman - I think I'll use the Shaman in a medic role for the game - a sip from the blood cup and your fixed up,
General purpose plastics
A plastic on the left and a metal on the right - Dohhh! I forgot to paint the eye patch!
Good man Miles! These Gnolls/Dalmatians ('Gnollmations'?) are awesome. I remember encountering them in our AD&D games when I was a teen and being really creeped-out by how they were portrayed in the artwork - these guys look very similar. That grey one, which is stooped over with the staff, is particularly excellent.
Hmm, 28 figures... Now, you just need 73 more Gnollmations to make it 101, then they can curb-stomp Ms. DeVille in style. ;)


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Texax Woman's University BUS305 Exam 3 FA14 – Business Finance
Multiple Choice Questions Part I
Circle the best answer. You will not receive any points if you circle more than one answer. You will not get any partial credit
1. Stock Y has a beta of 1.50 and an expected return of 17 percent. Stock Z has a beta of .80 and an expected return of 10.5 percent. If the risk-free rate is 5.5 percent and the market risk premium is 7.5 percent. Which one of the following statements is true?
A) Stock Y is overvalued.
B) Stock Z is overvalued.
C) Stock Y is fairly valued.
D) Stock Z is fairly valued.
2. A stock has a beta of 1.3, the expected return on the market is 14 percent, and risk-free rate is 5 percent. What must the required return on this stock be?
3. Advance, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue with 7.37% YTM. The tax rate is 35%. What is the after-tax cost of debt?
4. Stock A's expected return is 11% with standard deviation 23%. Stock B's expected return is 9% with standard deviation 26%. Both stock A and stock B are fairly priced and traded on the US market only. Which one of the following statement is correct?
A) Stock A has more unsystematic risk.
B) Stock A has lower beta.
C) Stock B has more unsystematic risk.
D) Stock B has less total risk.
5. Which one of statement is true about WACC?
A) WACC is the discount rate financial managers should use to evaluate all possible investment projects in the firm.
B) WACC can not be used to evaluate a new investment project.
C) WACC can only be used to evaluate a new investment project if the project's risk level is similar to the average risk level of the firm's current assets and operations.
D) The calculation of WACC doesn't consider corporate income tax.
6. Diversification is a process that
A) reduces idiosyncratic risk by holding a huge number of stocks.
B) reduces stock returns by holding a huge number of stocks.
C) reduces idiosyncratic risk by holding stocks that do not move together.
D) reduces stock returns by investing more on risk-free assets.
7. Which of the following concerns is likely to be most important to portfolio investors seeking diversification?
A) Total volatility of individual securities
B) Standard deviation of individual securities
C) Correlation of returns between securities
D) Achieving the risk-free rate of return
Problem Solving: Be neat and show ALL your work to receive full credit. Partial credit will be given.
1. Risk, Return, and Portfolio Analysis (25 points)
Rate of Return if State Occurs
State of Economy Probability of State of Economy Stock A Stock B
Recession 0.30 0.03 –0.25
Normal 0.50 0.09 0.15
Boom 0.20 0.14 0.35
Formulas with values:
a) Calculate the expected return for the two stocks.
b) A portfolio is invested 40% in Stock A and 60% in Stock B


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Tuesday night at the Peterson Events Center in Oakland, Panic! At The Disco (AKA:Brendon Urie) played a greatest hits setlist and picks from their fifth studio album, "Death of a Bachelor". For a full review check out Courtney Linder's review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Full pictorial of Misterwives and Panic! At The Disco by PMM's Danielle Mediate:
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Daughter Name-Engraved Birthstone And Diamond Necklace
Solid sterling silver infinity pendant with Swarovski crystal birthstones, engraved name, genuine diamond. Engraved reverse. Gift box and poem card.
Pendant measures 7/8" H; matching sterling silver chain measures 18" L
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Seiko is an elite brand of watchmaker offering high-quality watches at a great price. From their highly regarded selection of divers watches to their elite high tech Seiko Astron with it's GPS technology, Seiko will have a style for you
Established in 1881 in central Tokyo, the Seiko watch brand has always strived to achieve a consistent dedication to developing their ranges of watches for men and women. In this range of Seiko watches at Hillier Jewellers you will find technology focused watches that incorporates solar power and precision water-resistant chronograph elements. Not only are these Seiko watches extremely practical, they are also undeniably attractive and will appeal to those seeking a good looking designer watch for their collection, or as a luxury gift for a loved one. The Seiko men's watches have various functions to suit your needs, from chronographs, date windows, luminous dials and luminous hands for optimum visibility. Our men's watches in this range of Seiko watches are also available in an array of different finishes, from sleek stainless steel to traditional rubber straps associated with their divers watch heritage.
Presented in an official Seiko watch box, your brand new watch will also be covered by a 2-year manufacturers guarantee for peace of mind.
Similar to the Seiko watches displayed in this collection, the Hillier Jewellers watches range provides high quality, hard working timepieces to suit all tastes. Discover the complete selection of men's watches and ladies watches from top brands that perfectly encompass style with functional accessories.
Seiko has a number of ranges and styles to suit any man or women's watch needs, as an entry-level watch the Seiko 5 is a great choice, with its world-renowned automatic movement and range of bezel, designs and watch strap type to choose from it has a good range of choice and with prices starting under £200 the Seiko 5's are a great place to buy a quality timepiece and enter the world of watches.
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Mic Checked at NC State by Occupy on 11/30/11 (VIDEO)
Mic Check!
Mic Check!
John Stumpf
We won't take your home
but we will take a minute of your time.
Your leadership has led to
the death of the American Dream.
Wells Fargo is guilty
of widespread predatory lending
And holds over 5.7 billion in student debt.
Wells Fargo targets people of color
And the poor for high interest student loans,
urging loan officers to misreport income and forge documents.
Wells Fargo foreclosed
On hundreds of thousands of homes last year,
Many of them illegally.
Wells Fargo has been fined
85 Million dollars for its crimes,
You have issued no admission
Of guilt or apology.
Wells Fargo took 25 billion
In taxpayer dollars,
The larges bailout in bank history,
Yet reaped 4.1 billion last year
While paying no federal income tax.
You yourself made 19 million last year
Making you the highest paid bank CEO in America.
you invested nearly 100 million dollars
In racist for-profit prisons
While lobbying for harsher anti-immigrant legislation.
You are what is wrong with the culture of Wall Street.
A culture that values corporations
More than rights of "people" with hearts and minds.
A culture that buys politicians
And corrupts our democracy.
A culture that exploits the dreams
Of working class and middle class Americans.
For the benefit of the 1 percent.
John Stumpf
Have you no shame?
By members of Occupy Raleigh and Occupy NCSU.
SOURCE: YouTube
Comments9 Responses to "Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Mic Checked at NC State by Occupy on 11/30/11 (VIDEO)"
The media seems to think OWS is dying out. Not true. OWS is SPREADING out. Into little nooks and crannies around our nation. Thanks for sharing this great video!
I love this spirit! Please keep it going and coming; these banksters are criminals who have destroyed our country and raped and pillaged our economy; tell the banks Their Kingdom Must Come Down!!
Loved watching this
love the wave…….great strategy……….the low paid mall cops couldnt keep control of it
The 99% movemant is working see this letter from the Bankers Ass.es ( I mean asses) that threaten politicians that they will dig up dirt on them and the politicians will suffer political losses if they show any public support to the 99%. [PDF]
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the speaking in "waves" that the protesters did was very effective.
as each person was hustled out (a guard literally shoved a girl), a new one stood and joined the shouting.
stealth waves is the way to go.
this was fantastic.
This was friggin great. If you noticed some in the audience laughed but others were not laughing. They were thinking to themselves, if I laugh it will be viewed by millions of people and I will look like them, the 1%. I can imagine the ones that laughed and clapped are going to take some heat from the 99%. Wake up people, you in the audience are the 99% too and your average living standards and your American dreams are coming to an end as a direct result of what the banks have done. There is no easy off-ramp for you that laughed. And the security guards what is up with you? You are the 99% too. How many jobs are you working these days to support your family? That was mighty cleaver of you to get the audience to clap to drown out the voices of the 99% but you too are well on your way to living in property.
also notice that there are only about 2 or 3 black people in the audience. one was the security guard.
This man is an absolute twit with no intention of answering questions honestly.He's a major part of the problem especially with the assertation that the buck and resposibility stops with him.What a crock!!Still suffers from the complex syndrome that defies medical science TBTF.


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The initial release had a stupid string conversion bug that I introduced when trying to make the console output a bit prettier.
It's fixed now, the release link should now point to the new version.
Loop Awareness in Crypto Identification
However, you might be interested in downloading the new version I just pushed to the repo. It contains a new check box in Crypto Identification that allows to choose only those basic blocks that are contained in loops.
This new option again reduces dramatically false positives and supports a faster finding of potential crypto routines.
The following screenshot shows the option in action:
|Loop awareness in the Crypto Identification widget.
Previously I would have considered the settings shown in the sliders as rather "wide" and thus giving lots of misleading / uninteresting blocks. In fact, without the additional limiting to looped blocks it would have shown 194 instead of the 28 blocks it shows now.
Tarjan's Algorithm
The calculation of the blocks in loops is also amazingly fast. Luckily it didn't introduce a noticeable overhead. That would have surely been the case if I had tried to implement this naively. ;)
Thankfully there is Tarjan's algorithm known from graph theory for detecting strongly connected components.
A function graph can be treated as a directed graph (N, V) with N being the nodes and V (N x N) being the vertices. N is represented by all basic blocks of the function. The set of vertices can be collected by looping over all blocks (e.g. accessible via idaapi.FlowChart()) and obtaining their successors generated by idaapi.BasicBlock.succs().
Tarjan's algorithm is executed once on every node of the graph, treating it as a potential "root" node. The paths leaving the root node are explored via depth-first search (DFS), meaning successive nodes are immediately explored as well as long as they have not been explored earlier.
While traversing the graph, two steps are performed per encountered node. First, the node is assigned both a "DFS index" that represents the depth in which the node has been found and a "low link", which is the smallest "DFS index" reachable among this node's successors. Second, the node is stored on a stack.
When no more nodes can be explored, the stack is walked backwards. Whenever a node is encountered that has an equal "DFS index" and "low link", this node is the root of a strongly connected component and all elements on the stack above it are members of its component.
The algorithm has linear complexity in nodes and vertices: O(|N| + |V|) and thus is very efficient.
There is a nice visualization explaining the algorithm in Wikipedia (German).
The algorithm does not allow to differ single, unlooped blocks from single, trivially looped blocks (blocks with a loop by pointing to themselves). Therefore,
I will try to provide some theoretical background on the implementation details of IDAscope once in a while and hope it's not too boring. :)


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At Vincentian Academy, we believe the opportunity for participation in a wide variety of athletics is a vital part of a student's educational experience. Participation in these sports is a privilege that carries with it responsibilities to God, our school, to our chosen sport, to our teammates, to our community and to ourselves as athletes.
Vincentian Academy athletics are considered a supplement to our school's spiritual and academic programs, which strive to provide experiences that will help to develop student's spiritually, physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally.


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In 1952, Revlon launched its famous Fire & Ice makeup collection. The collection's advertising campaign was called It Girl and featured Dorian Leigh as the its face. Today, in 2010, the brand is re-launching the luxurious products from the Fire & Ice collection with a new face – Jessica Biel.
The stylists decided not to think too deep about the advertising campaign and picked up the same image from 1952, which was created for Dorian Leigh. Jessica Biel perfectly copies the image of the famous It Girl. The new products in Fire & Ice include lipstick and nail polishes with a special luxurious femininity.
The new colors are luxurious and daring. They include trendy orange, rich pink, and classic red.
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Using Enneagrams for Character arcs
Enneagrams are a great tool for creating character arcs
Author P.J. Friel clued me into a great tool for developing character arcs: Enneagrams
The Enneagram is a personality test similar to the Myres-Brigg's. While I personally have issues with summarizing the complexity of an entire being in a few letters/numbers, these personality evaluations are a boon to writers in their quest to create realistically flawed characters.
Why Enneagrams?
What is special about the Enneagram test is the breakdown of each of the nine personality types into various manifestations of healthy, normal, and unhealthy. The Enneagram reinforces the concept that people do not change their basic personality type, but they can move through the different manifestations of healthy, normal and unhealthy. This is the basis of every dynamic character arc. Whether it's overcoming a flaw, learning to embrace it and turn it into an advantage, or the average person's descent into darkness, the Enneagram maps this transformation for you.
How to use Enneagrams
While there is a test, there is no need to pay the fee. There is plenty of information on the website (https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) for you to browse. Or you could download P.J. Friel's Enneagram Character Bible (Please do not post this file elsewhere but feel free to share the link to this article.)
- Start by reading through the 9 personality types and decide which one represents your character
- Use the three levels to identify where your character begins their journey: healthy, normal, or unhealthy
- Choose where you want your character to end the journey
- Use the descriptions as a map to plot the events that will take the character to their destination
Lets do the "Peacemaker" personality type 9: "The Easygoing, Self-Effacing Type:Receptive, Reassuring Agreeable, and Complacent"
At the beginning of the story, the character is at unhealthy level 7:
Can be highly repressed, undeveloped, and ineffectual. Feel incapable of facing problems: become obstinate, dissociating self from all conflicts. Neglectful and dangerous to others.
There are multiple was this personality can manifest, but lets have an example of a teen girl with nagging, overachieving parents and now she displays these symptoms by being withdrawn from family and peers (ineffectual), obsessed with fairytales (dissociating self from conflicts), and forgets about baby brother (neglectful and dangerous to others.)
Toward the middle of the novel she can become more level 5:
Active, but disengaged, unreflective, and inattentive. Do not want to be affected, so become unresponsive and complacent, walking away from problems, and "sweeping them under the rug." Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly comforting fantasies, as they begin to "tune out" reality, becoming oblivious. Emotionally indolent, unwillingness to exert self or to focus on problems: indifference.
Perhaps our teen has gone through the looking glass and been forced into an adventure. Now away from the negative forces that shaped her, she must start to take responsibility for the situation she caused, but when truly tested, she resorts to complaining that everything is unfair and resorting back to imagination and fantasy
At the end of her journey she moved to level 3:
Optimistic, reassuring, supportive: have a healing and calming influence—harmonizing groups, bringing people together: a good mediator, synthesizer, and communicator.
After learning to form true relationships based on trust, our heroine is ready to take on her adversary and use her innate abilities as a communicator to convince the Goblin King to give her back her baby brother.
Now that you have your main character plotted, lets add tension with some side characters.The Enneagram chart also displays prospective conflicts with other personality types. This can be a great way to balance your villain and your hero, or create tension in a love/hate relationship.
Choose secondary characters that will drive your main character insane.
For example, your enthusiastic visionary (type 7) main character will clash with her active controller father (type 8), and constantly disappoint her strict perfectionist (type 1) mother.
Enneagram can help you map out these relationships.
- Scroll down to the "compatibility with other types" section
- If you are still in the planning stages, read through these and find the personality types that will create the tension you are looking for
- If you already have your characters developed, find your secondary characters' numbers and read those pages. Pay special attention to the "potential trouble spots and issues" section. This will help you add more conflict as the personality types cause friction.
- Plan you characters' interactions to match up with these potential trouble spots, or check the scenes you have already written to see if the conflicts are in sync with their personality types. This will keep your characters consistent.
Using Enneagrams to map out your character arcs will help you create realistically flawed characters, keep their transformations logical, and make their interactions with other characters feel real.
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Pregnant Sharks and Rays Abort Offspring When Fished – Guest post by Kye Adams
Have you ever seen a viral video of a shark or ray giving birth (e.g. River Monsters)? Unfortunately, it turns out these videos have a pretty dark explanation: There's a fairly high chance the female is actually aborting her pups due to the stress of being caught. Continue reading


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Analysts forecast that consumers will increasingly demand digital content, social networking and IP services delivered through embedded networks in the devices they buy.
ABI Research expects that the leading device categories for embedded networking in consumer electronics will shift from the early market leaders - game consoles - to TVs and DVD players.
"While many TV manufacturers have been evaluating the integration of networking features into devices for some time, only recently have manufacturers such as LG, Sony and HP begun to ship products en masse with embedded networking," said Mike Wolf, research director at ABI.
"Japan has had networked TVs for some time, but other regions are beginning to receive such merchandise as TV manufacturers begin to see the value of future-proofing their products with IP connections."
Portable devices such as media players and game consoles will have mostly wireless networking connections such as Wi-Fi, according to the report.
But fixed devices such as TVs, set-top boxes and other device categories are expected to have a mix of Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections.
Alternative Lan technologies will also see some penetration, as HomePlug and MoCA based technologies make their way into set-top boxes.
Overall, Wi-Fi media connections will lead, however, with total Wi-Fi enabled consumer electronics reaching 329 million shipments by 2012.
"Networking connections have gone from being 'nice-to-have' to 'necessary' for some categories of devices such as portable media players and gaming consoles," added Wolf.
"We expect that, as more devices get tied to content services, other categories will follow the same route, and we are already beginning to see this today."
Networking now 'vital' in consumer electronics
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About this book
The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900. Currently, it constitutes 13% of the population. The United States Bureau of the Census predicts that the elderly will represent 20% of the U.S. population by 2030. The older population itself is getting older, with greatest percentage increases in the subgroup of elderly over 85 years of age. This segment of the elderly is now 28 times greater in number than in 1900. The aging process is associated with unique medical problems-including declining functional capacities and pbysiological reserves-that have spawned specialization in geriatric medicine. While healthy, free-living elderly appear not much more at nutritional risk than the rest of the population, the elderly who suffer from illness or other stress have a much higher incidence of nutritional prob lems than the population as a whole. Elderly are also more heterogeneous than the general population, resulting in a greater variation in nutritional requirements which requires a better understanding of how nutrition and health interact. This brings nutritional assess ment and care to the forefront of geriatric medical practice.
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Bibliographic information
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- Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1998
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Light Worksheet-6
Following are the laws of reflection:
(i) When a ray of light falls on a reflected surface it is reflected in such a way that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection, i.e. ∠i = ∠r
(ii) The incident ray, the normal and the reflected ray all lie in the same plane.
(i) Plane mirror form virtual images.
(ii) Plane mirror form erect images.
(iii) Image is laterally inverted.
(iv) Image formed is of the same size as the object.
(v) The distance of image from the mirror is equal to the distance of object from the mirror.
Remove the mirror. Draw a line making an angle of 90° to the line representing the mirror at the point where the incident ray strikes the mirror. This line is known as the normal.
The angle between the normal and incident ray is called the angle of incidence (∠i).
The angle between the normal and the reflected ray is known as the angle of reflection (∠r). Measure the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection.
Repeat the activity several times by changing the angle of incidence.
Every time the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
This proves that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
The outer coat of the eye is white. It is tough so that it can protect the interior part of the eyes from any mishap or accident.
Its transparent front part is called cornea.
Behind the cornea, a dark muscular structure called iris.
In the iris, there is a small opening called pupil.
The size of the pupil is controlled by the iris.
The iris controls the amount of light entering the eye.
Behind the pupil of the eye is a lens which is thicker in the centre.
The lens focuses light on the retina.
The retina contains several nerve cells.
Sensations felt by the nerve cells are then transmitted to the brain through the optic nerve. There are two kinds of cells cones and rods.
In this method text is written on a thick paper using special symbols representing the letters of alphabet. Groups of dots are used to write letters.
There is Braille code for common languages, Mathematics and Scientific notation. Braille system has 63 dots patterns.
Each pattern represents a letter, a combination of letters, a common word or a grammatical sign.
Dots are arranged in cells of two vertical rows of three dots each.
Codes of music and mathematics are different. Any language can be read through the codes of Braille.


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blogs, blogs, blogs
There are now 8 blogs & sites from Trumpeter members listed on our Contacts and Links page. We've just added a link to Doug's Dots of Paint blog which combines great Horse and Musket photos with musings on creative approaches to running games. All these sites offer great gaming inspiration, ideas and cool eye candy too.
salute pics added
Heading into our new site's second week, we've added some new pictures to the Convention Gallery page showing images from past years. Our large Trumpeter Salute Con is held every Spring and features 3 days of gaming.
By request, 2 games have been added to the Rules We Play section. Remember you can provide website feedback and suggestions at our Yahoo group or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
Web Team
Web Director: Eric Hotz
The purpose of the Trumpeter Society website is to provide accurate and timely information for both society and non-society members. If you feel something is missing from this website, please contact the Web Director.
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Brew tips for Savannah – Rooibos Chai
3 grams per 300mls for 3mins at 100°C
Hot or cold
Delicious black or with milk
Rooibos Chai
Savannah has all the goodness of Chai Masala minus the caffeine.
Using Rooibos instead of a black tea base, with full notes of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves and rose all blended together to create a zesty, stimulating taste sensation.
A perfect caffeine-free flavour bomb.
Organic loose leaf tisane.


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By: Independent Media
TRANSFORMATION of the media in South Africa is much more than just a change in ownership. It is about making real and meaningful change at all levels of the organisation in order to bring about lasting impact and a truly democratic press where everyone is included in the narrative.
When Sekunjalo acquired the Irish-owned Independent Media in 2013, the company embarked on an intensive transformation campaign with the sole purpose of leading a new media revolution in our country. This transformation was never based on race, as in who had jobs and who didn't and excluding any one or particular storyline but, on the inclusion of all aspects of our diverse society in order to offer different perspectives to readers.
Whereas the media group largely reflected a Western and neo-liberal narrative under its previous ownership, it has since strived to develop one, more in line with the thinking not only of our own peoples but, also that of a global South. It is a strategy, which places Africans and Africa at the centre of its paradigm.
Independent Media thus experienced an overhaul like no other in the history of media in South Africa.
The company's organogram was restructured, the executive, management teams and news rooms were overhauled, staff were upskilled to embrace the digital future and we welcomed on board new, progressive columnists and journalists from a variety of backgrounds. We also knew that transformation of the media meant breaking the patriarchal male dominance and the perpetuation of gender stereotypes. And, as part of our inclusive strategy, we needed to empower more voices from our communities to tell their own stories, from whichever political perspective they come.
The new Independent Media is almost six years old this year. We believe that we are playing a leading role in helping to build and strengthen a democratic South Africa through our media for social change initiatives.
Our national media platforms have sought to play a constructive role in highlighting South Africa's most pressing and burning issues and allowing for healthy debate across all sectors of society. Our internationally acclaimed campaigns like the #RacismStopsWithMe and t#DignityProject are examples of how we were able to mobilize our readership community and client base, to rally together in support of these campaigns. We are very respectful and somewhat proud, of this critical role we play in society.
We have made a phenomenal shift within the media sphere towards a democratic and transparent mode of journalism.
The road has not been an easy one – change is not always welcome, even if it is necessary – but our efforts to change the organisation from top to bottom to accelerate the pace and direction of change in the media at large, are reaping rewards – for everyone. It is just the beginning though.
We congratulate Lebashe on the bold step that it has taken to enter the dynamic media industry. It has in its hands the ability to play a seminal role in continuing to bring about social change not only in South Africa but the rest of the continent.
Executive Chairperson Dr Iqbal Survé


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Ingesting FHIR Data with the Healthcare API
Cloud Healthcare API provides a managed solution for storing and accessing healthcare data in Google Cloud, providing a critical bridge between existing care systems and applications hosted on Google Cloud. Using the API, you can unlock significant new capabilities for data analysis, machine learning and application development, and use these capabilities to build the next generation of healthcare solutions.
In this lab you will discover and use the basic functionality of Cloud Healthcare API using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) data model, how to export data to BigQuery, and how to access data in BigQuery via SQL.
What you learn
In this lab, you will:
- Gain a general understanding of Cloud Healthcare API and its role in managing healthcare data.
- Learn how to create Cloud Healthcare API datasets and stores.
- Import and export FHIR data using the Cloud Healthcare API.
- Export data from Cloud healthcare API to BigQuery
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Easiest Ways To Start Weight Loss Fast
Weight is one of the major concerns of our lives. Always include small changes in your routine. Follow them regularly for weight loss.
Weight is one of the major concerns of our lives. The key to losing any fat anywhere in the body is excess physical activity. You always wanted to reduce those few unwanted weight, but it goes difficult method to achieve that weight loss. We all find it to be a big problem to lose weight and adopt the ideas which can help us save some time.
Always include small changes in your routine. This will help your body to adjust to the changes more easily. Lots of people make drastic changes in their diet for weight loss. These easy ways to lose weight can certainly help to get started on your routine inside a cheerful way. Follow them regularly for a new and healthy you. Here are few easy ways to lose weight.
Spice it Up
Using bitter spices is a superb way of making the negative fats leaves the body. So this is a good reason to get a veggie-full meal with mustard greens, olives, kale or arugula. Overall these are not only edible as greens, but also well combinable with meat and other veggies.
Yoga is Great
Yoga is one of the greatest exercises to get rid of extra calories. The different forms of yoga would be the excellent way to make your dreams come true. If you are suffering from obesity then make yoga and brisk walk part of your daily life. Yoga can be achieved anywhere, at your home or in the nearby garden.
Enjoy Peaceful Sleep
Sleeping peacefully inside a dark room is the guarantee to help keep you energetic and ready for next day's challenging work. Ensure that your pillow is soft so you don't come across any issue during the night time.
Don't Go For Junks
We cannot work effectively if we don't eat. This could cause various health complications. That which you have to do is to stop dieting and adopt a proper eating habit. Eat less and give preference to fresh vegetables, fruits and yogurt, to not junks.
Eat Slowly And Chewing
The most easy and efficient formula of reducing weight is to eat slowly and chewing the meals very nicely. Those who are inside a habit of eating food slowly remains slimmer compared to those who gulp their food and eat very fast.
Protein Intake
Protein should be your best friend when trying to lose weight fast. You need to get protein from real foods and from nutritional supplements. Good protein sources include lean cut meats, chicken breast, egg white, sprouts and fish.
Eat Green Veggies
Green pepper, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, French beans and spinach are wonderful foods for weight loss. These foods not just help lose weight, but also clean the body that often gets polluted because of acidic foods.


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|"SARAH ELSIE MAYER" by http://JTK.CA
The image above is an article about Sarah Elsie Mayer, from a small newspaper called SENIORS TODAY, based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. The article above is not written by me, but everything below is.
Miss Sarah Elsie Mayer was an elderly retired nurse who lived with us in Coxheath (Sydney), Nova Scotia, Canada, for five years (circa 1976-1981), when I was a kid. Dad was pastoring a church in Sydney.
When Miss Mayer was still a nurse, she had a dream one night about a very specific and rare complication in childbirth. She woke up, looked for and found medical literature on the problem. Later on, while she was helping a woman give birth, this exact complication took place, and she knew exactly what to do, saving both the baby and mother.
Miss Mayer delivered around one thousand babies and never lost one. She worked in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Newfoundland.
For more than the last decade and a half of their lives, my parents lived in a condo tower in Guelph (pronounced "Gwelf"), Ontario, Canada. In their building, Dad once talked to a couple who used to live in Newfoundland. He mentioned Miss Mayer, and they responded, "Oh, yeah! She's famous!"
We were in the car when Dad parked in a Fire Zone at the Hospital. I remember scolding him; "Dad you can't park here! There could be a fire, so it's reserved for emergency vehicles!" Then came Miss Mayer's classic scold to me, "He's the pastor. He can park anywhere he likes."
A few years later, when we had moved on to upstate New York, for Dad's next pastorate, I remember us getting a letter from Miss Mayer. I loved her complimentary close, "My love to everyone, especially Jonathan — Sarah Elsie Mayer."
I write even more about her, including something she wrote about me
in this TUMBLR blog post:
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Many of us remember November novel writing month. I heard about it and said, What the hell? Do it but start early. [There are a long list of cheaters, cads and horse thieves in the family.]
I began with a novel about my life. I've always failed when writing anything factual and completely honest about myself. This was another chance. It didn't work. My standards were too high; I couldn't meet them. Perhaps it's a family limitation.
Maybe I should get religion. If movies are correct Jews talk about all sorts of things, airing feelings and telling one another what's wrong with life and the with the lives others are living. A lot of what is discussed is true. It frequently happens in the movies that issues, problems and dilemmas are happily resolved for one or another of the actors.
I could become Catholic and confess, but that takes guts to tell a complete stranger wrong deeds and tales of woe. The worst that happens is a requirement to repeat Hail Marys. I've seen Hail Marys work on the football field, but a team that relies on them too much isn't very good. Once again the movies are instructive. I've forgotten the title but Stephen Rea is a priest hearing confessions at a church in Ireland. Suddenly the penitent bolts from the booth, and Rea whisks out yelling, "That is disgusting…" Confession is entirely too intimidating.
I don't believe religion would work for me, due to family limitations.
I did continue to write in November, but not about myself but about my activities: writing. There's lots of fraud and dishonesty written about writing; I advanced in a very disorderly way. Excelling was a family strength.
The writing was a mess. The longest coherent segment was 500 words. Some were a line: "I've never solved a Soduko puzzle." That is a qualification for proclaiming myself a writer. Part of my approach was reading and researching while writing, and my impressions couldn't be put anywhere. I wrote about the same subjects the other writers wrote about writing. I had 41,000 words and stopped with days to go in November.
I began cobbling things together in January. I took a break. February, I had productive days. Almost half of it was revised, but what remained needed work and thinking. I glowered at the manuscript for three weeks until Spring 2014, when getting it done was the only job I would do: 35 pages, 12 pages, 20 pages and this morning 2 pages.
From the 41,000 November words, I have 54,000 words, most of which make sense. Part of all the text can be better organized.The amount of work no longer involves the whole manuscript, only chapters. I can't say what the genre is. There are signs of my life in it, and my impressions of writing. I call it a How-to Memoir. Time and the subconscious will write now. I'll take another shot at the manuscript in June, when revising won't take two months.


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IAVA | February 17, 2015
IAVA Daily News Brief – February 17, 2015
Today's Top Stories
Years after his death, Houston vet recognized with law to help prevent suicide
Susan Selke and her husband stood in the East Room next to President Barack Obama on Thursday and watched him sign the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for America's Veterans Act into law. | The Houston Chronicle >>
'Indefensible': Report reveals extent of 'burn pit' pollution inhaled by US troops in Afghanistan
A scathing new watchdog report details the extent of the "indefensible" practice. The report says the U.S. military even spent millions on incinerators as a trash-burning alternative, yet several of them did not work or were never turned on, wasting $20 million and leaving troops to breathe pollution from the burn pits instead. | Fox News >>
It was meant to reduce wait times, but veterans say new choice cards are causing more problems
Veterans and some VA doctors say that the new "choice card" program, meant to reduce long patient wait times, is confusing and causing more stress. The choice card issued by the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs was meant to end long wait times for veterans after last summer's scandal revealed that those who fought for their country were dying while waiting for care. | Washington Post >>
US Special Forces soldiers and their Afghan allies have undertaken an increasing number of night raids targeting Taliban and al Qaeda militants, despite Washington formally declaring an end to combat operations late last year, according to a published report. | New York Post >>
The Taliban in this northern province allows girls to attend school. It doesn't execute soldiers or police. Its fighters are not Pashtun, the main ethnic group that bred and fueled the insurgency. Some members are even former mujahideen, or freedom fighters, who once despised the Taliban and fought against its uprising. | Washington Post >>
Afghan officials have been paying tribute to a prominent female politician who died on Sunday following a bomb attack. Angeza Shinwari, a provincial councillor in eastern Nangarhar province, was an outspoken campaigner for women's rights. | BBC News >>
An Iraqi tribal leader said Saturday that ISIS militants are gaining ground in Anbar province, predicting a "collapse within hours" of Iraqi army forces there if tribal forces withdraw. | CNN >>
Iraqi soldiers and militants of the Islamic State group clashed again over the weekend in a western Iraqi town that has changed hands several times in skirmishes near a military base where American troops are training Iraqi soldiers. | New York Times >>
About 100 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were at this frontline position in Eski Mosul late last week, perhaps the most contested piece of real estate in northern Iraq. It sits at a junction that leads from Mosul to Tal Afar and beyond to the Syrian border — a critical supply line for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Supported by coalition air strikes, the Kurds swept down to seize the area late last month. | CNN >>
Military Affairs
New York's Labor Department lists 126 occupations that require a state license, including acupuncturist, barber, dental assistant, interior designer, massage therapist and security guard. Obtaining these licenses can be costly and time consuming for anyone. But when a military family is ordered to move to the Empire State for a two- or three-year tour of duty, spouses who need these licenses to practice their profession can find themselves losing years of income as they wait for Albany to process the paperwork. | Wall Street Journal >>
At home in Fort Campbell, Army veterinarians mostly treat military working dogs and family pets. But once deployed, they could be called upon to treat just about anything. It could be camels or livestock or even lions and tigers, as some Army veterinarians discovered during the war in Iraq when they were brought in to help rebuild the devastated Baghdad Zoo. | Associated Press >>
The decision to discharge transgender soldiers from the Army would be made by a top, senior civilian official, according to a draft document obtained by USA TODAY, a move that would make it more difficult to remove such troops from the service. | USA Today >>
New Greatest Generation
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Brown is the founder and director of Growing Veterans, a Whatcom County nonprofit program that helps military veterans ease back into civilian life while growing healthy vegetables for the community. | The Bellingham Herald >>
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Virginia Beach-based STIHL Inc., one of several manufacturing facilities in the STIHL Group, is the headquarters for U.S. operations. STIHL Inc. employs over 2,000 people nationwide, with more than 1,800 in Virginia Beach, Va., in a variety of positions from manufacturing, product assembly, manufacturing engineering, sales and marketing, and finance. The Virginia Beach facility is located on approximately 90 acres with over one million square feet under roof, where the company produces a full line of high-quality, handheld outdoor power equipment including blowers, trimmers, brushcutters, and multi-task tools, as well as the number one selling brand of chain saw worldwide. STIHL Inc. manufactures over 180 model variations of handheld outdoor power equipment for sale in the U.S. and around the world.
STIHL products are sold through a network of over 8,000 servicing power equipment retailers from coast to coast— not mass merchants. For more information or for the name a local STIHL retailer, call toll free 1-800-GO STIHL (1-800-467-8445) or visit the dealer locator on the STIHL Web site at www.stihlusa.com