This website, GrimReaperTactical.com is comprised of two different, Marine veteran-owned companies. Before we get to the specifics of each one, let me state this is not the same Grim Reaper that sold 300 BLK barrels. We are totally different people who liked the domain name.
We are God and Country Munitions and Range Day Media.
We've both worked for the gun industry for a long time and have grown tired of the lack of quality ammunition at a decent price point. So, we decided to team up together in this venture to bring you brand new bulk ammo with free shipping.
As of right now, there is no once-fired brass on our website, and we don't give you any cheap, plastic "ammo cans" that usually break after a month of use on the range. We only give you what you need: Ammo to train for whatever lies ahead. Our ammo is new, primed from the factory, never fired brass, with great components like bullets from Hornady.
Range Day Media, LLC, does business out of North Carolina and is a digital marketing company who represents numerous different outdoor and other gun industry partners. Range Day manages social media accounts, handles SEO, and many of the day to day PR aspects of marketing to include getting product into the hands of qualified persons for review. The owner is a Marine Veteran, has worked for the gun industry for many years, and owns more guns than he can remember. His name is Joshua Gillem.
God and Country Ammunition, LLC, does business out of Pennsylvania and is also a Marine veteran-owned company. The owner has worked for the gun industry for many years, and has been manufacturing ammo for nearly as long. His name is Andy Thony.
Each component of God and Country Ammo is produced right here in the USA, by Americans. When you buy from us, you support an American Small Business. If you want to get technical, you're actually supporting two American businesses.
Each component is American sourced and high quality. While we can't tell you our gun powder, we can tell you that it burns clean. Also, we use brand new Lake City Brass that has been primed from the factory and Hornady FMJ Boat Tail bullets in our Bulk 223 ammo.
We are working on some great things and other calibers to include rifle and pistol, will be coming your way soon so stay tuned.


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Does Captain Marvel rate backpay? We called the Air Force to find out
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Marvel's latest addition to its cinematic universe stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, an Air Force test pilot in the 1980s who survives a crash landing with an alien named Mar-Vel, and becomes infused with power, transforming into the titular Captain Marvel.
Though the super hero flick, and not-so-subtle Air Force advertisement (not officially endorsed), premiered on March 8, we here at Task & Purpose spent too many hours during work speculating about one key point: After Danvers vanished from earth in the 1980s, only to return six years later with amnesia, super human strength, and the ability to absorb and redirect energy... does she rate back pay?
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On behalf of Richard Ramler of Ramler Law Office, P.C. posted in Motorcycle Accidents on Friday, July 26, 2013.
Not long ago, a young man was riding his motorcycle through the streets of Billings. The Montana man's evening cruise ended tragically at the intersection of Sixth Street West and Grand Avenue. An SUV collided with the motorcycle, which caused the biker to sustain multiple injuries that would ultimately claim his life.
Local police blocked off multiple roads to conduct an investigation. Reports don't explain exactly what caused the motorcycle accident, but a man who lives near the intersection said he heard the crash and hurried to the scene. He immediately noticed the severity of the biker's injuries.
The same onlooker indicated that the intersection where the crash occurred is known to be dangerous, and he was aware of several accidents that happened at the same location.
If this particular intersection is indeed historically dangerous, it may be worthwhile to determine whether or not signage or design flaws contribute to the crashes. For example, unclear or deceptive road markings could be contributing to accidents. This finding could open up options to pursue legal claims against the public authority responsible for maintaining the road, which can be complicated.
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Source: Billings Gazette, "Man dies in motorcycle crash at Grand and Sixth Street West," Eddie Gregg, July 20, 2013
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The Rooster Crows – July 13, 2018
On July 13, 2018 May 9, 2019 By rutlandramblingsIn Rooster Crows
By Bill Anderson
Well, here we are: the Summer Solstice, the mid-point of the Solar Year, was 3 weeks ago; June 30, the end of the first half of the calendar year, was 2 weeks ago; and, the 4th of July, Independence Day, the mid-point of Summer vacation, was just a week and a half ago. Only 5 weeks to go until the kids head back to school. Ain't that a pip!? Sun, rain, wind and heat continue their work, though, no matter what the calendar, or the School Board, says. The thunderstorm that brought rain to this area on the evening of July 2 and morning of Tuesday, July 3, deposited .5 of an inch on Rutland, according to Roger Pearson's rain gauge, while the gauge of his next-door neighbor, Norbert Kulzer, recorded .6 of an inch. Everything is back to normal. Another rain on the evening of Sunday, July 8, a Thunderstorm that rolled through at about 8:00 p.m. left .2 of an inch in Roger Pearson's rain gauge and also .2 of an inch next door, at Norbert Kulzer's. Jesse Brakke reported .4 of an inch at his farmstead between Rutland & Cayuga, Jim Lunneborg .65 of an inch at his farm in Shuman Township and Rick Bosse .8 of an inch on Sunday evening, and another .18 at about Midnight to bring the total at Brampton to just under an inch. But that's not all! The next thunder and lightning show started at about 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 10, and dropped about .75 of an inch of rain on Rutland, with more to the west and southwest, as Rick Bosse reported another inch at Brampton and Judee Silseth reported 1.4 inch at the Silseth farm southwest of Silver Lake. Paul Anderson reports that his electronic rain gauge has recorded nearly 10 inches of rain at Rutland since the 1st of June. By contrast, only about 1.5 inch of precipitation was received during the months of April and May. Some wheat fields in the area are beginning to exhibit that greenish, golden hue that indicates the first round of harvest activity may be commencing around the end of July. The wheat crop looks very good right now, but, as we know, "…it's never as good as it looks from the road," and that's the truth!
The late Larry Anderson of this community used to advise friends that two seasons on a set of camper/travel trailer tires was about all that could be expected, and new tires should be installed after the second season, whether the unit was moved or not. Rick Bosse and Mark Wyum report that they were among those who chose to ignore their old friend's advice last week, and, as a result, were among those who enjoyed the simple pleasure of changing camper tires on a hot highway in the hot sun as vacation time flew by with the traffic. Rick reported that his camper sustained 3 blowouts on his way home from a brief vacation trip to Wisconsin, and Mark Wyum reported from the road that his travel trailer had also experienced tire trouble while he and Kathy were on a trip up to Cavalier and Icelandic State Park. Mark only got as far as Wyndmere before the first tire blew out. The Wyums were traveling in tandem with Chuck & Mary Beth Anderson who were pulling a travel trailer equipped with new tires, as Chuck's older brother had advised. The Andersons didn't experience any tire trouble during the trip. The moral of the story: The time when good advice is best remembered is when the recipient is suffering the consequences of ignoring it. So, the next time you find yourself thinking, "these tires look good enough to make a third season," think of Rick and Mark changing those tires on the highway, and then think again, or, remember this story while you're changing tires out on the highway.
Bill Gulleson was at work on the grounds of the Nordland Lutheran Church Parsonage at 204 Gay Street on Friday, June 29, removing the old foundation for the 1 car garage that had been moved several years ago; removing the wood fence on the east side of the property that had deteriorated badly over the past few years; and, cleaning out some decorative rock that had become a weed patch next to the house. According to Hal Nelson, a member of the Church Council, Bill had been asked if a volunteer could borrow a piece of his equipment for use in the project, and Bill just volunteered both the equipment and himself as the operator to get the job done. Mr. Gulleson and the Nordland Church Council are to be commended for their initiative, and for the improvement to the appearance of the property.
Lou Sanderson Field was the scene of the action on the evening of Monday, July 2, as the Rutland Roosters loosed thunder and lightning on the Milnor Men's Slowpitch Softball team. The Roosters won game 1 of the double-header by the 10-run rule, posting a score of 20 to 5 in 5 innings. Game #2 took 2 innings longer, but the Roosters came out on top by a score of 17 to 8. "After me, the deluge," said King Louis XV of France, and the same could have been said by the members of the Rutland and Milnor teams as the Monday evening thunderstorm rolled in as play was completed. The Roosters had also played in The Quade Tournament in Bismarck during the last full weekend in June, winning 3 games and losing 1 in one of the biggest tournaments in the State. Congratulations to the Rutland Roosters. They're flying high and crowing loudly during the 2018 season. Thanks to Hal Nelson for covering the sports beat for The Rooster Crows.
Cayuga native Randy Kiefer has been sending periodic reports of his epic bicycle ride from southern California to Alaska, and the most recent message was received on Thursday, July 5. Randy had completed a three-month bike tour of Southeast Asia, including the countries of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, at the end of February, and embarked on his most recent adventure in late April. Here's his most recent report: "
Hi From Tok, Alaska. (For you 60's folks, Tok is pronounced like "toking up".) The last note was from Watson Lake at the end of May, so over a month has passed. Below is a rough outline since then. For those of you following along at home, I am including the names of the roadways. (Names are more commonly used than numbers in this part of the world.) My apologies to repeat recipients. 1. Took the Campbell Highway from Watson Lake, using French Lake Road to connect to the Klondike. 2. The Campbell was billed as remote with wildlife. Yes remote, but short on the wild part. If I remember correctly I saw 2 lynx and a moose. The moose sighting was sorta cool in that it trotted across somewhat close in front of me. Big with an odd walk/trot. The lynx sightings were new to me. No time for a photo, but long legs on a short body – a powerful look. The road did have some nice campgrounds, and good looks of mountain ranges. So, of course, in the big picture, worth the effort. 3. French Lake Road cut-off was 25 miles of a sample of hell. (I am doing some of my future time there in advance.) No traffic (1 car in 3.5 hrs), the road surface was more of a rocky out-crop than anything else. Of course I have myself to blame as much as the road surface, as 700×25's are not the ideal gravel road selection. More on that later. 4. From French Lake, we were on the Klondike. The paved surface was a nice change from gravel, and it was smooth sailing to Dawson City. 5. Dawson was the place for provisions and planning for the Dempster rd to Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk). The Dawson to Tuk (on the Beaufort Sea) distance is 450 miles. Of that there is ~ 60 miles of paved road, or 400 miles of gravel- oouch! And this was a return trip, so I doubled my fun. (For home followers, the half way point is Eagle Plains, just south of the Arctic Circle.) 6. In truth I had only planned on riding to Dawson, but Vancouver Norm had ridden up 15 yrs ago, and for his 70th birthday wanted to relive his 55th birthday. It was my dumb idea to join him. It worked, but my 1970 Raleigh, which at the time it was mostly hand built, was never made for such a beating. Pot-holes, clay, rocks, loose gravel grades (up and down), you get the idea. 7. So what was I in for, here is the 2nd day adventure. We awoke to light rain, climbed a moderate pass to have more rain that turned to snow on the down side. Our front and rear changers froze, so we were in 1-speed land. The combo of mud, rain, and snow was too much for our systems. The freewheel cogs were blocked as well. Personally, I was snuggly and feeling good in my head-to-toe Gore-Tex gear. Norm was not doing as well, and at one point we stopped, and I helped him into some of his warmer clothes. 8. So as the snow was limiting our vision we looked ahead and we thought we were seeing a moose in the middle of the road. He was like a statue (probably thinking, are those bike riders approaching in this heavy snow?). At some point all parties agreed with what they were seeing and Mr. Moose was off into the woods. The cool part was that he had 2 companions with him. All with nice sized racks. 9. As we rode on we had a similar experience with a mama grizzly bear and 2 cubs, but thankfully she dashed to the woods when she saw us. 10. That evening we dryed out in a campground picnic shelter where 2 other riders had stayed the day rather than ride in the rain, snow, and mud. So then there were 4. 11. Blaine and Dave have been touring together over 35 yrs. Low-keyed Canadian lads who had many stories to tell. 12. One more road condition story. We got caught in rain and mud. The mud packed into our wheels and drive-train that rendered them useless. Our back wheels were sliding. Fortunately we were near a highway maintenance yard, and we used a pressure washer to free-up our bikes – poor bearings… 13. Inuvik is that last city on the Dempster. With a population of 3,000 with grocery stores, bars, and good camping, we arrived with smiling faces and relief for our bodies and bikes. Although we had another 75 miles to Tuk, we knew we were in reach of our goal. 14. In that the road north to Tuk was probably even worse than what we had covered, and Dave and Blaine were one-way riders (a scheduled flight fr Inuvik), we hired a truck for Tuk. It was raining, and we drove by motor cyclists who were stuck in the mud, so the pickup north was a good choice. 15. We stayed a night in Tuk, then rode back. 16. For the return ride read #12, above. 17. Finally back in Dawson for ice cream, fish and chips, cheese cake, and oh yes, a beer. 18. For anyone going north, do not miss Dawson. A town on the Yukon River with many fun places to visit. 19. A Dawson highlight. Canada Day is 1 July. Lucky for me Prime Minister Trudeau made a quick stop. I was within 3 feet of him, but missed out on pressing the flesh. But great photos. 20. Crossed to Alaska the 4th, and a fun picnic with locals at the campground in Tok. 21. As the Dempster killed my drive-train, next up the Fairbanks REI for repairs. Then points unknown. All the best as true summer rolls into the Lower 48. r/randy."
Thanks to Randy for the report, and for allowing us all to vicariously share in his adventure without experiencing the cold, the pain or the risk. His many friends in Rutland wish him God Speed as he heads for Fairbanks, Anchorage and who knows where from there.
Descendants of Ransom Township pioneers Ole & Anna Johnson and Jacob (Hero) & Bertina Jacobson are planning to gather in Rutland on Saturday, July 14, Bastille Day. The Johnson and Jacobson families homesteaded in the area east of the present site of Rutland back in the early 1880's, prior to the construction of the Great Northern Railway through this area. At that time, the south central portion of Ransom Township was known as "the Nordland Settlement," because of the high percentage of early settlers who had immigrated to the area from the Norwegian province of Nordland. Those settlers also gave the name of their native province to the Nordland Cemetery, established in 1883, and to Nordland Lutheran Church, established in 1885. Some contemporaries of the Johnson and Jacobson families in Ransom Township back in the early 1880's were: Peder & Marin Gulleson; Berndt Giske; John Anderson; and, August Erickson. The descendants of the Jacobsons and Johnsons are noted for their fine singing voices, and it is expected that some music may be heard during the reunion. Some who will be present have, in years gone by, even faced the music when arriving home just in time for morning chores. The Rutland community extends a warm welcome to the Jacobson & Johnson Family descendants on the occasion of the reunion, and congratulations on a long history of dedication and accomplishment.
The Rutland Community Club met at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, July 9, in the Rutland Town Hall with President Bonnie Anderson presiding. Secretary Andrea Erickson delivered the minutes of the June meeting, and Treasurer Hal Nelson reported that as of July 1, there was a balance of $12,755.00 available for community projects. Katie McLaen reported on the Town Hall flooring project, which is now completed. A quote of $649.00 for new double doors from the Hall auditorium to the kitchen entrance had been obtained from Nelson Home Center, and it was decided to purchase the doors and have local contractor Jerry Sapa install them. The old doors have been in service for 30 years and are worn out. Katie also reported that 31 potential students of all age brackets had signed up for "Art In The Park" on the evening of Monday, July 9. As the class size was limited to 26, 5 were on the waiting list, in case someone had to cancel out, and will be on the list for the next session, which will most likely be next Summer. The possibility of the Community Club sponsoring a tractor ride fund-raiser in June of 2019 was also discussed, and it was decided to coordinate efforts with the Wild Rice Antique Tractor & Plowing Association. Members decided that the Community Club will sponsor two fund-raising raffles to assist two youthful musicians, Tyler Banish & Thomas Mehrer, from Rutland participate in the "International Ambassadors of Music" tour of Europe that will take place in 2019. Deb Banish and Tyler Banish reported that the group is also planning to sponsor the Junk-Fest and Farmers Market during the Rutland Rib Fest on Saturday, August 4, among other fund-raising activities. It was also noted that the Rutland-Cayuga Volunteer Firemen will be hosting a fundraiser barbecue and water carnival in Veterans Memorial Park on the evening of Friday, July 13, to which all Fire District patrons are invited. The next meeting of the Rutland Community Club is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 13, in the Rutland Town Hall.
Rutland native Larry Colby, now a resident of Sierra Vista AZ, stopped in for coffee and conversation at The Lariat on the morning of Wednesday, July 11, and reports that he will be attending the Colby Family Reunion on July 13 & 14 at Silver Lake. The Colbys have been staying in their motor home at Silver Lake County Park for the past week, and intend to depart here for an extended tour of the northwestern U. S. on Tuesday, July 17. Larry has many good memories of growing up on the Colby farm in Rutland Township, just north of Silver Lake, and of attending school at Rutland Consolidated, at Rutland and at Forman. He recalls that his parents, Ted & Winnie Colby, operated Rutland Recreation with its pool tables, card tables, bowling lanes and malted milk machine back in 1952 & '53. At that time, the Colby family lived at 422 First Street, in the home now owned by Rutland Mayor Ron Narum. The Narums were Rutland Township neighbors of the Colbys, too. Larry states that he met old friends Norbert & Bev Kulzer at a ball game this past week, and again while watching the Havana School Reunion Parade in Havana on Saturday, July 7. Larry plans to be back in Rutland for the Rutland School Reunion that is scheduled for the weekend of July 5, 6 & 7, 2019.
The Rutland Community Club's first "Art In The Park" event was held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 9, on the outdoor basketball court in Veterans Memorial Park. Jolene Haller from Gallery On The Go of Wahpeton instructed her students in the use of acrylic paint on canvas. The aspiring artists in Ms. Haller's class spanned the decades from pre-school to senior citizen. Community Club Director Katie McLaen, organizer of the event, provided the following roster of students and comment on the class: "Morgan Peterson; Catie Claus; McKenzie Speich; Brody Mahrer; Julia Mahrer; Kaia Mahrer; Whitney Mahrer; Lucy Mahrer; Gabi Christianson; Amanda Anderson; Hailey Anderson; Lori McLaen; Sophie Erickson; Maddy Erickson; Rachel Olson; Brooklyn Pherson; Paisley Pherson; Sarah Pavek; Lilith Pavek; Kyler Pherson; Joanne Harris; Bev Kulzer; Janet Kiefer; Diana Anderson; Kylee Roney; and, Rylee Roney; Were the participants. They each painted a beautiful sunset picture with advice on technique from their teacher from Gallery on the Go in Wahpeton! It was a gorgeous evening of outdoor fun for everyone!" Class size was limited to 26, and all 26 students were on hand to participate in the class, Ms. McLaen reports. There were also 5 more who were on the waiting list. Congratulations to the Rutland Community Club and Katie McLaen on another successful and rewarding community event.
Word was received here on the morning of Wednesday, July 11, that Rutland native Scott Donaldson had passed away that morning at the age of 65. Scott's death came as a surprise. Although he has been battling serious health problems for the past several years, the most recent report on July 9, had been upbeat and encouraging. A more complete obituary will be included next week.
Meanwhile, on the international scene, the President is in Europe, insulting America's friends, abusing America's allies and praising his pal, Vladimir I, the current Czar of Russia, a tyrannical guttersnipe whose aim is the dismantling of the NATO alliance, the domination of Europe and the destruction of the United States of America as a force for the promotion and protection of basic human rights around the world. So, what's our President up to? Is there method in his madness? We would hope so, but when the method appears to be aimed at destroying American institutions, American ideals and American values, it's probably time for Americans to sit up and take notice. "Where there's smoke, there's fire," the old saying goes, and this President generates a lot of smoke. As of Friday, July 13, there are 79 weeks down and 129 weeks to go until January 20, 2021. The alarm bells are clanging in the night, and America sleeps while the arsonist is in charge of the fire station.
Well, that's the news from Rutland for this week. For additional information about what's going on in the little city that can, check out the community's internet web site at www.rutlandnd.com, and take a look at Rutland's Facebook page while you're at it, too. Don't forget to patronize your local Post Office, and remember to keep the pressure on the U. S. Postal Service and the North Dakota Congressional delegation to SAVE OUR POST OFFICE! Later.
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Specsavers in Ipswich is advising its residents on how best to protect their eyes from the harsh weather conditions that winter brings.
Dry, gritty and bloodshot eyes in the winter months are often a result of the cold winds and increased use of central heating. Specsavers store director, Mark Taggart, offers his top tips on preventing eye soreness this winter.
1. Keeping the setting low on your central heating.
2. Avoid car heaters, particularly at face level.
3. Avoid sitting too close to direct heat such as gas or electric heaters.
While many enjoy a hot drink at this time of year, cutting back on the coffee and drinking more water can help ease the soreness of dry eyes.
The oil content in tears that helps lubricate the eye can be affected during the winter months. Although people suffering from dry eyes often produce plenty of watery tears, the oil content is not enough to efficiently lubricate the eye. Eye drops can therefore be used as a supplement to provide extra lubrication to prevent that dry, gritty sensation.


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- ability to contribute by scanning bar code and submitting it. Note that no confirmation will be asked before submission. Please only add in real values.
- ability to scan bar code and search. However, this depends on the contribution from the community. Garbage in garbage out, so hopefully the community will help ensure good data.
Guess the given word and try to do it faster than your opponent. Tabu is an Android version of the classic and popular party night game, now without worrying about cards, board or the time. How does this app work? Create teams, set an order and try to win by guessing the given word without using the forbidden words, using gestures, imitating sounds….
The CAMIP application helps controling IP camera that works with the version 2.1 of IPCAM CGI SDK I.E. Foscam cameras and maybe some clones. Commands available are : status, alarm, movement and snapshot. Parameters can be saved for as many IP cameras as wished.


09 Feb 2014 Is the US now a proxy of Iran?
Iran's foreign minister held talks with officials in Syria on Monday as Syrian forces and their allies prepare for an assault on the last opposition stronghold in the country.What the devious conniving Ayatollah terrorists are up to next in Syria?
Three million civilians and 30,000 Islamist fighters of the ISIS and al-Qaeda varieties represent the Assad opposition; as well as Muslim Brotherhood fighters backed fully by Turkey and Qatar.
Upon his arrival in Damascus, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad received Mohammad Javad Zarif. Chemical Assad is expected to meet him later.
Iran has lent crucial military and economic support to Chemical Assad throughout the seven-year civil war. The looming battle in Idlib will be the center of the discussion. Assad, backed by Putin and Khamenei are preparing to commit another genocide in the province of Idlib.
With help from the devious conniving Ayatollah terrorists, Chemical Assad has vowed to defeat the opposition in its last refuge in the northwestern province if the rebels do not surrender to government rule. The last surrender saw many Syrians disappear in the Chemical Assad dungeons of death. The Syrian Government even admitted to killing people by torture in its own prisons.
U.N. officials believe an offensive on Idlib would trigger a wave of displacement that could uproot an estimated 800,000 people. It may also discourage refugees from returning home. Furthermore, an attack on Idlib might also cause another Syrian exodus towards Europe that is helping Putin's EU supported nationalists parties rise in the polls.
The leaders of Iran, Turkey, and Russia will meet in Iran this week to discuss Syria. All three countries play a major role in supporting terrorism in the Middle East.


New developments in a Tuscaloosa apartment fire as officials say 19 people are without a home and 13 of them are children.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting in Mulga.
FOX10 News Investigative Reporter Kati Weis made a guest appearance on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Friday night to discuss a recent interview with State Auditor Jim Zeigler.


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Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1980-86
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Double LP version. Do not adjust your sets. Take a step back from the tracking. This is the sound of Germany's musical youth let loose on cheap synths and pawnshop guitars. A record of a disparate scene of squat pop-stars, art school upstarts and committed non-musicians who redefined German music in the first half of the 1980s. By the dawn of the new decade, punk had burnt out in a frenzy of feedback, reshaping the musical landscape before burrowing back into the underground for a period of reinvention. But the scorched earth it left behind proved to be fertile soil, nurturing a new movement grass-rooting through Germany's major cities. For the first time the country had its own youth culture, spilling out of the squats of Hamburg and West Berlin, occupying the art scene in Düsseldorf and Köln and congregating around independent record shops stocked with angsty import 7"s. Empowered by punk's DIY spirit, these kids valued conviction over competence, opting to ignore the industry and make music for themselves, sung in their own language. Even the cats we now call krautrock, revolutionary though they were, mostly sang in English, adopting the lingua franca of rock n' roll as a shorthand for authenticity for a native crowd who wouldn't have it any other way. This new scene rejected the expected, celebrating freedom of expression above all else. Armed with unconventional instruments, newly affordable electronics and rudimentary recording gear, they worked from the ground up, building basic rhythms and simple melodies into mutant grooves and following their imagination wherever it took them. The result was a genre fluid wave of fusion pop pulled from funk, punk, jazz and reggae; united in attitude rather than aesthetic. Lyrically, the groups explored the serious and silly, embracing the irreverence of dadaism to deliberately displease the earnest alternatives of the older generation. Features Der Plan, Die Partei, P!OFF?, Palais Schaumburg, Dunkelziffer, Populäre Mechanik, Andreas Dorau (Die Doraus & Die Marinas), Pyrolator, Träneninvasion, Deutsche Wertarbeit, Asmus Tietchens, Die Fische, Conrad Schnitzler, Carambolage, Xao Seffcheque, Foyer des Arts, Die Zimmermänner, Östro 430, Die Radierer, and Holger Hiller.
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Politics New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez under investigation by House Ethics Committee
03:10 08 december 2022 Source: foxnews.com
Saudi Arabia is now backpedaling, seeking to mend ties with Biden after Democrats fared better-than-expected in the midterms
Saudi Arabia was accused of interfering in the US midterms to damage the Democrats, sparking a diplomatic spatBiden announced Wednesday that he would cancel $10,000 in student debt for borrowers making under $125,000 per year, and $20,000 in debt for students who received Pell Grants.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. is under a House ethics investigation, according to a statement issued by the House Committee on Ethics on Wednesday.
The panel will announce its course of action after its organizational meeting in the next Congress, sometime in 2023, the statement said.
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a news conference to discuss legislation that would strengthen Social Security benefits, on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, the House Committee on Ethics said it is investigating the congresswoman for an unspecified matter. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Details about what the investigation is about investigation is about haven't been released. The Office of Congressional Ethics, a nonpartisan group, forwarded its inquiry into Ocasio-Cortez to the House ethics panel in June.
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Over 30 former lawmakers demand ethics investigation of members of Congress with ties to Jan. 6 .
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Lui e lei (Pat and Mike) – film del 1952 di George Cukor
Lui e lei – show televisivo del 1956 con Delia Scala e Nino Taranto
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Machine learning is the fastest growing field in computer science, and health informatics is amongst the greatest challenges, e.g. large-scale aggregate analyses of anonymized data can yield valuable insights addressing public health challenges and provide new starting points for scientific discovery. Privacy issues are becoming a major concern for machine learning tasks, which often operate on personal and sensitive data. Consequently, privacy, data protection, safety, information security and fair use of data is of utmost importance for health data science.
This special session in the context of the ARES 2016 conference will bring together scientists with diverse background, interested in both the underlying theoretical principles as well as the application of such methods for practical use in the biomedical, life sciences and health care domain. The cross-domain integration and appraisal of different fields will provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions; it will offer a platform for novel crazy ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put these ideas into business.


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Former Tien Lang officials get final sentences
The Hai Phong City People's Court on August 1 reviewed and announced the final sentences given to defendants involved in "destroying property, irresponsibility and causing serious consequences" in relation to a case of coercive land reclamation in Vinh Quang commune, Tien Lang District.
The court rejected the appeals of Pham Xuan Hoa, Le Thanh Liem and Pham Dang Hoan, maintaining the original verdict.
It gave Pham Xuan Hoa, former chief of the Natural Resources and Environment Department of Tien Lang district, a 24-month suspended sentence and a 48-month probation term.
Le Thanh Liem, former chairman of Tien Lang District's Vinh Quang Commune, received a 24-month suspended sentence and a 48-month probation service.
Pham Dang Hoan, former secretary of Vinh Quang Commune's Party committee, and Le Van Hien, former chairman of Tien Lang District People's Committee, each received a 15-month suspended prison sentence and a 30-month probation period.
The defendants are banned from holding any position in Government agencies or social organisations for one year after their main sentences. They are also to jointly compensate all losses and damages for the victims.
Considering mitigating circumstances, the court accepted former vice chairman of Tien Lang District People's Committee Nguyen Van Khanh's appeal and gave him a 30-month suspended jail term and a 42-month probation period. He is also forbidden to take up any position in Government agencies or social organisations for one year after completing his main sentence.
The court also rejected the appeals of victims to prosecute other people connected to the case and increase their compensation, reasoning the absence of sufficient legal grounds.
The victims are Doan Van Vuon (50), his wife Nguyen Thi Thuong (53), and Pham Thi Bau (31) from Thuy Neo village, Bac Hung commune, Tien Lang district.
According to the verdict, No. 12/CT – P1, presented by the Hai Phong City People's Procuracy on January 7, Tien Lang district People's Committee on November 24, 2011, issued Decision No. 3307/QD-UBND to force Vuon to return 19.3 hectares of aquatic farmland as the lease had expired.
That same day, the district People's Committee issued plan No.104/KH-UBND on holding coercive activities to take back the land.
Hien assigned Nguyen Van Khanh, Pham Xuan Hoa and Le Thanh Liem among others to execute the plan.
However, Khanh edited and signed notice No. 225 dated December 28, 2011, on deploying working groups to pull down the houses in the eviction area.
On January 5, 2012, Khanh ordered Hoa, Liem, Hoan and others to dismantle Vuon and Quy's houses. This lasted for two days and resulted in a property loss of over 295 million VND (14,000 USD).-VNA
HCM City steps up food inspection to ensure safe Tet
Ho Chi Minh City's Food Safety Management Board has inspected Thu Duc agriculture wholesale market for food safety.
The Ho Chi Minh-based Hoa Sen University is set to launch an American Studies course this year, the first of its kind at a Vietnamese university.
The People's Committee of Hoang Sa district in Da Nang has received documents, maps, artifacts and research works on Vietnam's sovereignty over Hoang Sa archipelago present by organisations.
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Vietnamese communities all over the world held separate gatherings on January 18 to celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year), which falls on January 25.
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It is expected to cost 3.5 million euro and is expected to be completed by mid-2019.
She said: "At present, we woukd have to hold a Dublin bound train outside of Limerick Junction until the Cork bound train has gone through or vice versa, so this will provide for greater efficiency of operations.
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For a few enjoyable seconds I couldn't help imagining this gathering of pint-sized 19th century biographers, so short that, as my dad would have said, 'their legs didn't even reach the floor'.
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require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)

require 'rails/all'

# Require the gems listed in Gemfile, including any gems
# you've limited to :test, :development, or :production.
Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env)

module BookVoyager
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
    # Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
    # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.

    # Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
    # Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
    # config.time_zone = 'Central Time (US & Canada)'

    # The default locale is :en and all translations from config/locales/*.rb,yml are auto loaded.
    # config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('my', 'locales', '*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
    # config.i18n.default_locale = :de

    # turn off warnings triggered by friendly_id
    I18n.enforce_available_locales = false

    # Test framework
    config.generators.test_framework :rspec

    # For grape
    config.paths.add File.join('app', 'api'), glob: File.join('**', '*.rb')
    config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{Rails.root}/app"]

    # For grape-rable
    config.middleware.use(Rack::Config) do |env|
      env['api.tilt.root'] = Rails.root.join "app", "views", "api"
    end
  end
end

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Carlos Salas
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Carlos Salas was also a member of the gold medal winning teams at the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games.
1976 Summer Olympics Volleyball (Volleyball) CUB Carlos Salas
Volleyball, Men (Olympic) Cuba 3 Bronze
Volleyball, Men (Olympic) Cuba 7
Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the World Volleyball Championships (0–0–1 1978 ITA bronze)
Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games (1–0–0 1978 Medellín VOL gold)
Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Summer Pan American Games (2–0–0 1975 Ciudad de México VOL gold; 1979 San Juan VOL gold)
Two Olympians survived the sinking of the Titanic, one of them, Dick Williams, winning an Olympic gold medal 12 years later.


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We also like to have fun and love being outside, whether it's camping, cycling, or having a water balloon fight.
Ryan started his day-job career in 2001 at Traxis, Inc in the Geographical Information Systems department. Traxis is now defunct, but there were some really neat problems to work on when displaying data on maps in a custom-built GIS application.
Ryan moved on to Point2 Technologies, Inc (now a division of Yardi Systems) in 2002. During his time there he did everything from development to people management to product management. That experience has given him a unique perspective on software development - he gets developers, and he gets business people. It's really valuable to be able to bridge that gap.
Wendy started her career as a developer at SED Systems in 2001. She built their public-facing website back then and then moved into user interfaces for satellite monitor and control systems (yes, the satellites that are in space).
Six years after starting at SED, the clock started ticking and the first of 3 children was born. Even though she enjoyed her job, she knew she was going to love being a mother even more. Now Wendy's work consists of being at home with the (no so) wee ones and everything that comes with it. She still likes cutting code though, and what better way to do that than to build some websites and make people's lives just a bit easier.


(18 March 2010 – USA) A new Democratic Senate bill has been proposed in the US, designed to tame the financial markets and give the government new powers over firms that threaten the economy.
(17 March 2010 – USA) Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc has set the stage for a comeback, filing a reorganisation plan with the US bankruptcy court.
(15 March 2010 – USA) The Bank of America is embarrassed over an incident where a Pittsburgh woman came home to find she had been the victim of an accidental foreclosure.
(10 March 2010 – USA) As a result of the Heartland Payment Systems' data breach that occurred in 2008, over 5000 customers at a US bank have had their cards blocked from being used in stores.
(8 March 2010 – USA) AIG's Federal Savings Bank and Wilmington Finance Incorporated has settled charges brought against them over discriminating against black people when providing home loans and has agreed to pay at least US$7.1 million (A$) in restitution and education efforts.
(8 March 2010 – USA) The Congressional Oversight Panel, an independent watchdog overseeing the US financial bailout, has questioned Citigroup's chief, Vikram Pandit, and the assistant treasurer secretary, Herbert Allison, over the US$45 billion (A$ 49.9 billion) bailout the bank received during the financial crisis.
(1 March 2010 – USA) A study by the Department of Consumer Affairs' (DCA), Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) indicated that 13 percent of New York households are lacking a bank or credit union account.
(24 February 2010 – USA) Credit Suisse reportedly offered Goldman Sachs money manager, David Greene, a US$10 million (A$11.12 million) pay increase to join the Swiss investment bank, according to Wall Street Journal reports.


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Canucks place Jake Virtanen on leave following sexual misconduct allegations
Canadian Press
Neither Virtanen nor his representatives could immediately be reached for comment on the allegations.
VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have placed right-winger Jake Virtanen on leave following allegations of sexual misconduct.
The team released a statement Saturday saying it "does not accept sexual misconduct of any kind and the claims as reported are being treated very seriously."
The Canucks say they have "engaged external expertise" to assist in an independent investigation and Virtanen has been placed on leave as the team awaits more information.
An NHL spokesperson said Saturday that the league is aware of the serious allegations and will not comment until the results of the independent investigation are complete.
Coach Travis Green declined to comment on the situation ahead of the Canucks game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.
"We met with the team this morning, did our pre-scout, had a morning skate. And we'll be ready to go tonight," he said.
Green declined to say when he was made aware of the allegations, or whether Virtanen was still with the team in Toronto.
Virtanen, 24, was drafted sixth overall by Vancouver in 2014. He has five goals in 28 games with the Canucks this season.
The native of Langley, B.C., signed a two-year, $5.1-million extension with Vancouver in October.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2021.


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L'Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS) est la fabrique de monnaie nationale italienne, ainsi que l'imprimeur des timbres-poste de Poste italiane (transformé en S.A détenue à 100 % par l'État).

Histoire

Cet organisme public italien est issu de la fusion en 1978 de l', la Zecca (la Monnaie) en italien renvoyant à l'atelier monétaire en charge de la frappe des pièces et médailles officielles depuis 1911, et de l' chargé de l'émission des timbres, et publications officielles de l'État depuis 1928. Il dépendait alors du  jusqu'à son intégration au ministère du Trésor public italien en 2001.

L'unification des ateliers
Le territoire actuel de l'Italie était avant le Risorgimento de 1861 composé de dizaines d'États souverains. La frappe de la monnaie et l'impression des timbres n'étaient donc pas centralisées pour la Péninsule. Pour la monnaie, on avait par exemple dès le  en république de Venise, la Zecca de Venise, ou avec les États pontificaux, les « presses du Vatican » situées au cœur de Rome, idem pour le duché de Florence, le royaume de Naples, etc. Cette situation monétaire est similaire à celle de l'Allemagne avant l'unification de 1871.

À l'annexion des États pontificaux par Victor-Emmanuel II conclue par la prise de Rome en 1870, la monnaie pontificale devient monnaie royale et à partir de 1892 l'ensemble de la monnaie italienne y est produite. Le , le roi Victor-Emmanuel III inaugure les bâtiments de l' situés via Principe Umberto à Rome. Au moment de la fusion cet institut dépend du ministerio del Tesoro et met à sa tête Luigi Giorgi. Depuis 1907, la Scuola dell'arte della medaglia (école de l'art de la médaille) formait de nouveaux médailleurs formés par des artistes reconnus tels Attilio Silvio Motti et Giuseppe Romagnoli, qui furent graveurs en chef de cette institution.

Le  l' est créé, responsable de l'impression des publications officielles de l'État dont le journal officiel ainsi que des timbres-poste des Poste Italiane. Elle est la fusion de trois organismes du  : la Libreria dello Stato, l'Officina carte-valori et le Stabilimento poligrafico et son siège est établi sur la place Giuseppe Verdi (à Rome également), siège historique de l'Officina carte-valori.

En 1999 l'Institut déménage via Gino Capponi (toujours à Rome), déménagement qui coïncide avec le passage de la lire à l'euro.

L'IPZS frappe les monnaies de circulation courante et de collection italiennes, mais aussi pour l'État du Vatican, pour la république de Saint-Marin et pour l'ordre souverain de Malte.

Activités
Cet institut est composé de plusieurs départements dont celui relatif à la frappe de la monnaie (anciennement la lire italienne) pour l'Italie, le Vatican et Saint-Marin.

Il édite et imprime la Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana.

Notes et références

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Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des ateliers de fabrication de monnaies

Liens externes
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Économie en Italie
Institution monétaire
Imprimeur de timbres-poste
Dessinateur de billets de banque
Rome Q. III Pinciano


PESTI is an abbreviation of the English name for the "Framework for Broad Public Engagement in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy" Project. The PESTI Project focuses on activities for developing, building, and implementing methodology and frameworks that will reflect the needs of the general public with regard to science, technology and innovation in the science, technology and innovation (STI) policy forming process. By implementing these activities, the PESTI Project has the objectives of realizing policy forming that is more democratic and factually based. PESTI was adopted in 2012 as a part of the "JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (Research and Development on Science and Technology for Society): scientific research and development programs for realizing science, technology and innovation (STI) measures", which are being promoted by the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). It is also positioned as part of the SciREX (Science for Redesigning of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy) program that is being advanced by MEXT.
PESTI consists of five groups (the Public Needs Identifying Group, the Public Engagement (PE) Group, the Coordination/Cooperation with Practitioners Group, the Coordination/Cooperation with Professionals Group, and the Process Evaluation Group. (See the figure below.) The Coordination/Cooperation with Practitioners Group builds cooperative relationships with the policy administrators and the funding administrators to search for the needs that practitioners have with regard to the projects, and collects the information required for allowing practitioners to make use of the opinions and results realized by the project. The Public Needs Identifying Group develops methods for re-identifying the "general public", which had previously been only vaguely captured, as a group composed of small groups (=segments) which maintain different characteristics with regard to their degree of "interest in science" and "involvement in policies". The Public Engagement (PE) Group aims to develop and implement locations and mechanisms that allow the various segments to be more actively related to the policy participation activities, while the Process Evaluation Group carries out critical and constructive investigations and assessments for the practical implementation of these types of developments and implementations. The main work of the Coordination/Cooperation with Professionals Group is the carrying out of cooperation and collaboration with researchers consisting of scientists and engineers and university-industry relation coordinators to collect comments from these professionals relating to the suitability, practicality, and reliability of the various STI policy menus created based on the diverse needs of the general public.
The "Japan Vision 2020 Project (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Version)" is a vision of the future of society that was formulated in January 2014 based on a core of young and middle-ranking personnel in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). In September 2013, when Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hakubun Shimomura was appointed as the Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, he announced that rather than 2020 simply being the year in which the Tokyo Olympics will be held, it would be positioned as a target year for aiming to realize new growth. He added that activities which would revitalize not just Tokyo, but also Japanese society, would be developed as the "Japan Vision", and would be implemented throughout society. The Japan Vision 2020 Project was formulated based on the Minister's announcement. Concerning the formulation of the vision, in addition to requesting ideas from personnel inside the Ministry, dialog has been implemented with young athletes, artists, and researchers.
This survey particularly places attention on the parts of this vision that relate to science and technology, and investigates the vision's implementation possibilities and the anticipated scientific and technological elements.
For more details of the "Japan Vision 2020 Project (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Version)", refer to the figure described below, or see the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology website (Japanese only). The English version of the figure can be downloaded here.
The Japan Vision Cards are a collection of opinions from the general public regarding the image of society in Japan in 2030, the desired ideals of Japanese society, and the ideals of science and technology for realizing this (= Japan Vision), considering the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 as a transit point.
With regard to the creation of these Japan Vision Cards, first a participation-type workshop was held relating to the Japan Vision. The event venue was the CAFE Lab. in the Grand Front Osaka Knowledge Capital building. The workshop was carried out by separating the 20-30 participants into tables seating 5-6 persons and allocating one facilitator from PESTI to each table. Additionally, a moderator was also appointed to arrange matters overall in a scheme that allowed the effective intermingling of the discussions at each table into the overall discussions. At the workshop, discussions were held among the participants at each table, and ideas were written out on adhesive labels. These were mapped out on a large sheet of paper on the table, the collective opinions of each table were summarized, and these were then shared throughout the whole venue. In parallel with this workshop, a questionnaire survey was carried out using the opportunity of science communication-related events held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) to gather the opinions of the general public regarding the Japan Vision. In addition, opinions were also collected from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) staff members and related persons regarding the Japan Vision in related workshops that were held in MEXT.
Because the opinions of the general public regarding the Japan Vision that were collected in this way were in a variety of formats, comprising words and phrases written on adhesive labels, on the pieces of paper that were used at the workshop, and on worksheets, these were arranged in a unified format at the sentence level as the "Japan Vision Cards". By carrying out this work, a total of 119 Japan Vision Cards were created (consisting of 73 needs and opinion cards from the general public, and 46 needs and opinion cards from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)). The created Japan Vision Cards were summarized in each category, and were arranged to obtain a three-level category structure.
The "Science and Technology Foresight" is a survey implemented by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) which has been implemented every five years since 1971 in order to depict the science and technology and the future that will be created as a result of adopting this science and technology. The special features of this survey are the facts that this survey creates a long-term future prospect, that many specialists participate in the survey, and that the viewpoints not only of scientists and engineers on the seeds side, but also the viewpoints of the demand side and viewpoints of professionals in the humanities and social sciences are also incorporated, and extensive discussions are being carried out.
For the survey, several methods, including delphi questionnaires, scenario creations, and workshops, are being combined to depict the form of society that should be aimed for, and the science and technology that will contribute to this realization is being abstracted.
For details of the survey, refer to the NISTEP website.
With regard to the opinions from the general public indicated on the Japan Vision Cards, the scientific and technological elements that are considered possible to be used for their realization were abstracted from recent editions of the "Science and Technology Foresight", and correlation was carried out. The Japan Vision Cards were classified into 10 "scenes" according to the contents, and the scientific and technological elements supporting each individual "scene" were attached. This work was carried out by an investigative team consisting of professionals from PESTI as well as from institutions including the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).
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The Bush administration's plan to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization is worse than a waste of time: It is an outright evasion of the Iranian assault on America.
There is a good reason why the New York City Police Department does not make official pronouncements to the effect that Mafia hitmen are murderers: Everyone knows that Mafia hitmen are murderers. There would be no point in making such a declaration—unless, of course, the NYPD wanted to hype the significance of the hitmen so as to avoid having to deal with the real problem: the Mafia.
Of course the Iranian Guard is a terrorist organization; the very state that founded and employs it is a terrorist state—and every thinking person on the planet knows this. So why is the Bush administration engaging in such folly? The stated rationale is that by officially designating the Iranian Guard a terrorist organization, we will dissuade foreign firms and financial institutions from doing business with the organization. The problem with this rationale is (among other things) that it blatantly ignores the identity of our enemy.
Just as our enemy in World War II was not the German Navy but the Nazi regime, so our enemy here is not the Iranian Guard but the Iranian regime—a regime that has murdered or aided in the murder of thousands of Americans—a regime whose political and spiritual leaders chant every day about their desire to murder more Americans—a regime that is working around the clock to build or buy nuclear weapons. Yes, the Guard is a major part of the regime's military, but, as such, it is a part of the regime—not a separate and distinct enemy. To treat the Guard as though it were an enemy apart from the Iranian regime is to pretend that the regime itself is not our enemy—and thus to evade the necessity of eliminating it.
Why does the Bush administration ignore such an elementary solution? Why does it refuse to employ our advanced weaponry and eliminate the Iranian regime? Because the only possible motive for such a campaign is American self-interest, and, according to the Judeo-Christian ethic—the moral code that guides the Bush administration—self-interest is immoral.
We cannot support a foreign policy of self-defense apart from a morality of self-interest; the former is wholly an expression of the latter. In order for the U.S. government to engage in a campaign of American self-defense, American citizens—those who elect and influence our country's leadership—must demand it. And in order to demand such a campaign, Americans must come to understand and embrace the principle that acting in a self-interested manner—which means: using reason to identify, pursue, and defend the values on which their life, liberty, and happiness depend—is the essence of being moral. The observation-based, logical proof of this principle, for those willing to let the evidence decide the matter, can be found in Ayn Rand's book The Virtue of Selfishness.
The Iranian regime is tirelessly plotting to murder you, me, our children, our families, and our friends. Every literate American knows this (even the ones who deny it). But under the spell of America's current moral premises, we will not defend ourselves; we will not destroy the Iranian regime; and we will pay dearly, again and again. It is time to abandon the self-sacrificial guidance of the Judeo-Christian ethic and its corresponding foreign policy of paralysis. It is time to embrace the morality of self-interest and its corresponding foreign policy of self-defense. Our lives and the lives of our loved ones depend on it.


In September 1911 the land for the Applecross wireless station site was purchased by the federal Government, and construction of the wireless station commenced.
Once commissioned, the facility provided important all-weather radio communications with the outside world. The wireless station was the Western Australian component of a network of five main radio communication stations across Australia that participated in international, national, state-wide and regional radio communications and broadcasting. It is important to note that of the original wireless stations across Australia, only the Applecross wireless station still remains in its original form.
The station was used continuously between 1912 and 1967 as the main coastal radio communication centre for the State. In 1926 it became a feeder station for international radiograms and from 1943 it was used as an alternative station for international short-wave radio messages. It also played a significant part in the First World War and the Second World War, providing vital military communications.
People who played a role in transfering ownership of the Applecross Wireless Station from the federal government to the state included the premier of Western Australia Sir David Brand (1912 – 1979) who was WA Premier from 2 April 1959 till 3 March 1971, and the prime minister Harold Holt (1908 – 1967) who was Prime Minister from 26 January 1966 till 17 December 1967.
After it was decommissioned in 1967, the site was first transferred from federal to state government ownership, before the land was vested in the City of Melville in August 1969, for the purposes of developing it as an urban bushland reserve. It was named Wireless Hill Park in February 1971.
Since this time, various concepts have been put forward for the development of Wireless Hill Park, but the consensus of local residents and the Council has been to retain it as a natural bushland reserve and to promote the site's rich cultural heritage.
The Harold Holt federal government sold the Applecross Wireless Station land to the state government for $300,000 who then sold it to Melville for three annual moieties of $50,000 (total of $150,000 no interest).
The late Jack Sullivan was a very keen early proponent for establishing a museum at Wireless Hill and had the ear of at least one Councillor of the day. Jack was the first curator of the museum and got the ball rolling with a report he wrote with substantial input from Tom Berg of the West Australian V.H.F. Group.
The mayor at the time was Jack Howson OBE JP (from 1973 to 1989) the City's longest serving Mayor, and as a councillor for eight years before that (1965 to 1973). On his death at age 92, he was one of only four people to be bestowed the honour of freeman of the city, in recognition of his contribution.
Mr Howson was well known for getting things done at a critical stage in the development of the City. He had considerable experience with shows, such as the annual Perth Royal Show, organised by the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia.
Mr Howson was a member of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and 1962 Perth Commonwealth and Empire Games organising committees, and was team general manager for the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
He also held the position of president of Swimming Australia from 1970 to 1973 and was nominated as a life member in 1975.
Mr Howson was instrumental in leading the council to approve planning for the original Garden City shopping centre, and attracting the significant investment from Alcoa to build their corporate offices in Booragoon.
It was under such leadership that the Wireless Hill Telecommunication Museum came about, meanwhile, others at the workforce made it happen, such as the highly regarded Eric Smith, who did a lot of the physical construction work for the museum.
The West Australian V.H.F. Group (Inc.) assisted the Melville City Council in securing the site vacated by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission for use as a public park. One of the ideas advanced by the Group was the establishment of a Telecommunications Museum.
Advice was given in 1977 to the Council on the themes that might form the basis of the museum displays.
The V.H.F. Group was instrumental, through its members, in acquiring considerable amounts of equipment to be used in the displays. These were professionally set up by the Council.
The West Australian Repeater Group Inc.
Vintage Wireless & Gramophone Club Of W.A. Inc.
The Morsecodians Fraternity of WA Inc.
The Wireless Hill Telecommunication Museum possessed a unique and wonderful array of heritage equipment which tracked technological advances from the earliest days to more recent times. As a picture is the equivalent to a thousand words, then so was the collection to a person wishing to learn more about how things were done. A excellent way to visually express how far we have come over the last 100 years.
The telephone had an incredible impact on communication in Australia, though constrained by the wires which connected the callers, compared to wireless technology, it made voice contact so much easier for both business and families, without the need for complicated equipment or special knowledge. The myriad of wires caused much visual pollution until the PMG relocated them underground.
Before the automatic telephone exchange, all switching was conducted manually by an operator. Small towns typically had the switchboard installed in the operator's home so that she could answer calls on a 24 hour basis. Each jack either served an individual subscriber or represented a trunk line, which was a circuit that connected to another telephone switchboard. Each jack was also associated with a lamp for identification purposes. When a call is received, a jack lamp lit up on the back panel and the operator responded by placing the appropriate cord into the jack and operating a key to speak to the caller. On establishing the desired destination, a connection would then be made allowing both parties to speak to each other. Public manual exchanges disappeared during the last half of the 20th century, leaving a few private branch exchanges (PBX) working in offices and hotels as manual branch exchanges.
Later, with the advent of multi-frequency operator dialling, the operator would plug into a tandem trunk line and dial the area code and operator code for the information operator in the distant city. If the customer knew the number, and the point was direct dial-able, the operator could dial the call. If the distant city did not have dial-able numbers, the operator would dial the code for the inward operator, and ask her to ring the number. Multi-frequency signaling (MF) is an outdated technique where the operators used signals to indicate various stages in the connection process.
"When first introduced in the form of a wooden hand-telephone, the instrument could not be used with any beneficial result. It was more a pretty scientific toy, which exercised the imagination almost as much as the ear. It is now, however, and has been for some time, a reliable and practical instrument especially when from the hands of Manufacturers of Reputation …its success is unparalleled".
By 1901, when the six Australian States decided to federate, there were 32,767 telephones in use. This grew to 100,000 telephones in use by 1911.
In 1907, the first inter-capital telephone trunk line was opened between Sydney and Mel bourne. It was followed by a line between Melbourne and Adelaide in 1914. Sydney and Brisbane were linked in 1923, and Perth and Adelaide in 1930.
In 1930, the first overseas calls from Australia became possible with the introduction of a radio telephone service to England, and through there to Europe and America. A similar service opened to New Zealand in the same year.
In 1953, the number of telephones in use in Australia passed the one million mark.
It was fortunate that the Wireless Hill Telecommunications Museum enabled the younger generations the opportunity to view facilities that have long since disappeared.


Mesa is awaiting word at any hour that the Chicago Cubs will call Arizona their winter home for 25 more years.
The team has told Mesa that it would respond to Mesa's offer very quickly after Monday's action. That's been widely interpreted as a sign the team will stay in Mesa and not take an offer from developers for a complex near Naples, Fla.
Mayor Scott Smith rebutted critics by saying the entire point of the new complex is boosting the economy by surrounding the site with businesses that generate jobs and tax revenue that's now going to other cities.
"I look at this as economic preservation," Smith said.
Should the team say "yes" to Mesa, it would agree to exclusive negotiations with the city while the two spend about one year working on a formal agreement to build a complex that the Cubs have sought for nearly a year.
The complex would rival new ones in the West Valley, allowing the city and the Cubs to make more money from surrounding shops, hotels and restaurants.
The complex is key to the Ricketts family, which bought the team three months ago with promises of winning a World Series by providing world-class facilities for the players and fans.
Mesa is banking on other benefits.
The city hopes it can get another team to Mesa, at the Hohokam and Fitch Park facilities the Cubs have used for decades. Those places don't fully meet the needs of the Cubs, the biggest draw in the Cactus League, but city officials say teams with smaller fan bases would likely find them attractive.
Part of Mesa's deal with the Cubs requires that the team will help attract another team here.
The team has narrowed its new home to one of two sites along the Loop 202 freeway in east Mesa. The 100-acre-plus complex would cost about $84 million and include a stadium of 13,000-15,000 seats, practice fields and commercial development.
The deal came together with the help of state elected officials, who feared losing the Cactus League's most popular team.
The Cubs' presence generates $52 million a year, money many surrounding cities share through hotel stays and tourism activities.
Mesa is confident two key future actions will fall into place. The Arizona Legislature must approve a bill for tourism taxes to fund part of the complex, and Mesa voters must approve two ballot measures. A vote is likely in November.
Tourism taxes and money from the Cubs would fund part of the facilities. City money would fund part of the project that would be used by the team during spring training but open to the public the rest of the year.


Unlike to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, the answer should not be 42. And, while there are as many answers as there are strategies, you should expect break-downs on costs, revenues and profits by channel, location, product categories and so on. Did the words channel, attribution, segmentation or allocation come up for instance?
If you don't receive a sufficiently detailed answer, your company is likely subject to one or several digital marketing blind spots. Your competitors, particularly if they are multi-brand platforms, retailers or marketplaces, have built their success on mass-acquisition and conversion strategies and are certain to exploit those very blind spots.
This article explores the differences in acquisition strategies between platforms and brands as well as the opportunities for brands.
First, I return to two elements already mentioned, customer acquisition costs (CAC) and life-time value (LTV). They sum up most of what there is to know about online customer acquisition marketing, especially for e-commerce.
A mix of both depending on seasonality etc.
Like I said; it's simple. In theory. Because in the past 15 years, the definition and calculation of those indicators have progressed a lot, as analytics, information systems and marketing networks have evolved.
Today, CACs are assessed with multi-device, omnichannel journeys, with attributions based on the multiple marketing channels a user can go through before eventually converting. Well-defined LTVs would include not only revenues but all relevant and allocated costs, segmented by customer types (by location, gender, age or even the time of the first purchase). The more a company is focused on e-commerce performance, the better things like information systems, finance and marketing are integrated. This in turn allows more precise calculations and therefore more efficient acquisition strategies.
Enough with the theory, let's have a look at differences between platforms and brand strategies.
CAC and LTV both rely on other metrics. A great ad campaign might generate traffic but if the goal is getting new customers, the end goal is the 'thank you' page that follows a sale, or even further down the line after returns or cancellations have been accounted for, certainly no earlier. Similarly, having a customer spend hundreds of euros for a bestseller on sale is not going to build strong LTV on its own.
How much was spent on bringing a user to your site from a particular channel?
How many users stayed on your site? On average, 45% of users will 'bounce', that is, leave your site almost immediately after entering. Of the 55% of users that stay, fewer than 5% will end up actually purchasing something.
Have you factored in cancellations, returns, lost orders and other undesired outcomes?
In the end, for 10.000 users coming to your site via a channel that cost 1.000€, fewer than 300 customers will buy something.
We can use this information to extract the factors that are important for conversion. And in many cases, multi-brand platforms tend to have an advantage.
A well-designed site can convert several times better than a badly designed one, but good visuals and style are not all it takes. The most competitive e-commerce companies, particularly platforms, usually run experiments to optimise every single aspect of their sites to grab any conversion point possible.
Brands should fully leverage their identities and visual power to support conversion. But that is not enough either. Brands also need to continuously optimise their interfaces, which means building capacities and resources to run experiments and learn from them. In reality, brands remain very far from this ideal scenario. Out of the 110 brands I've tracked on love the brands in the past 12 months, about a third went through big site changes that often involved complete system transitions and risky redesigns rather than progressive, measurable optimisation.
The wider the selection, the easier it becomes to weather seasonality, appeal to wider audiences, offer discounts or loss-leaders. Platforms featuring products in the thousands or millions with sophisticated pricing algorithms and recommendation engines are usually much better equipped than brands. That is unless a very specific product is targeted by customers.
Here, brands can leverage their central role with exclusive products, product customisation or even temporary cheaper prices. Uniqueness is key.
Free shipping, 100 days free returns and similar perks are elements that, along with product prices, rank high on the list of users' considerations. Platforms can leverage economies of scale to offer better conditions and they have already set the bar at a very high level.
However, brands have something unique to offer: a physical, localised presence. Brands can leverage their brick and mortar stores to provide new options like free in-store deliveries and returns. Zara is enabling 'ship from store' options for its e-commerce business which will lead to super-fast deliveries, potentially beating most platforms.
To return to our initial formula, let's take a closer look at LTV. This could be the topic of a whole article focusing on retention and loyalty, but we'll keep things simple for the time being. LTV is the sum of all revenues generated during the 'lifetime' of a customer (until they stop buying) minus all costs related to those revenues. Increasing the LTV has been a priority for many companies, especially through loyalty programmes. Platforms, spearheaded by Amazon with its Prime offer, are racing each other to building the most effective schemes aimed at keeping users captive in their ecosystem while maximising how much they spend.
Brands have been building loyalty programmes for a long time. There are great examples of online and omnichannel focus coming from sports brands, such as the NikePlus programme. But most brands will find that their site's retention power is much lower than a platform's. And a user who buys a brand via a platform can be very difficult (and costly) to bring back to the brand's own online store.
In short, this means that brands not only need well-designed retention schemes but also need to invest in retaining customers throughout their lifetime to prevent their successful targeting by platforms.
Now that we've identified some factors to consider, let's look at how brands and platforms tend to differ in their online customer acquisition strategies.
In the 'old' world, a marketing budget was spent on media: TV, magazines, billboard, radio, and so on. That allowed for promotion of both, the retail and the wholesale side of a brand but the tracking of results was difficult, especially at a granular level. We now live in a 'new' world, where spending on digital marketing has overtaken TV as the primary spending channel in 2014 (WARC). This has a big impact on brands as well as platforms, but in opposite directions.
Platforms are built on expertise in digital performance channels, defined as channels where a company pays for a specific, trackable metric (clicks, impressions, views, purchases) and are increasingly experimenting with traditional media to build their own branding. From Zalando's TV commercials to Amazon's presence at Fashion Weeks or net-a-porter's own magazine, platforms are trying to transcend the digital realm to become household names.
Looking at the e-commerce of a few well-known fashion brands in Germany, some clearly seem to focus on very few select advertising networks. Checking which ad trackers the browser extension Ghostery detects, reveals that Tommy Hilfiger apparently uses a single ad tracker, or that Birkenstock uses a mere three. Others, like Diesel with 39 ad trackers seem to already have embraced the opportunity. For platforms, the number of trackers tends to be consistently high (33 on AboutYou, 27 on MyTheresea, 21 on Otto.de).
Advertising on more networks is not necessarily better but it tends to demonstrate a higher commitment to finding performance (cheaper, more converting users) wherever it happens to be.
The portfolio of ad networks aside, some strategies may be more complicated to implement for brands than for platforms. While advertising on Google AdWords or Facebook with targeting related to brand names is easier for brands, targeting ads in more general ways (category keywords, broad Facebook segments etc.) is likely to generate fewer conversions for brands due to the factors discussed above.
Similarly, brands seem to underspend in channels like affiliate marketing. Platforms usually pay commission of 8-15% for converting traffic (Zalando and Sarenza at 8%, Amazon and Otto over 10%). For the 30+ brands I've researched, commissions were between 4% and 8%. This sets brands at a clear disadvantage because affiliate partners who chase such commissions will not sacrifice business for companies that reward them less and have lower conversion rates for the traffic they provide (my own site love the brands is the exception here).
Finally, influencer marketing has drawn in a lot of brands, primarily on social networks like Snapchat or Instagram and on blogs. Brands have tapped into the public's appeal for product endorsements to make their products more visible. Influencer marketing comes with a few risks, such as the difficulty to track results, unreliable follower and engagement numbers, and a dependency on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. But it has allowed brands to leverage some of the skills they had already honed through more traditional public relations activities along with their strong product identities. Influencer marketing is thus a strategy that platforms cannot easily replicate.
Make better use of brand identity for site conversion and influencer marketing, coupled with data-driven optimization.
Attract shoppers with exclusive or customisable products and price optimization.
Make better use of omnichannel for cross channel promotion and improve user experience.
Increase lifetime value and reduce churn with well-built retention programmes.
Commit to performance marketing by matching platform conditions wherever possible, building experimented teams and diversifying networks for maximum optimization.
Make organisations more data-driven and use daily insights for continuous improvement.
Brands cannot continue to let platforms dominate e-commerce and should work hard and fast on putting their money where their mouths are!
Thomas specialises in e-commerce. After a tenure at Amazon Fashion he launched his own company, love the brands, to help brands build stronger independent e-commerce businesses while keeping the connection with their customers alive and strong. Get in touch with him via e-mail to further discuss online customer acquisition strategy or read more of his work here.


There are 'service conditions' or 'service rules' for various employees like Government employees, bank employees, LIC employees etc. The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1947 is designed to provide service rules to workmen.
The object of the Act is to require employers in industrial establishments to formally define conditions of employment under them.
What are 'Standing Orders' - 'Standing Orders' means rules of conduct for workmen employed in industrial establishments. 'Standing orders' means rules relating to matters set out in the schedule to the Act. [section 2(g)]. The schedule to the Act requires that following should be specified in Standing Orders - (a) classification of workmen i.e. temporary, badli, casual, permanent, skilled etc. (b) manner of intimating to workmen working hours, shift working, transfers etc. (c) Holidays (d) Attendance and late coming rules (e) Leave rules (f) Leave eligibility and leave conditions (g) Closing and reopening of sections of industrial establishment (h) termination of employment, suspension, dismissal etc. for misconduct and acts or omissions which constitute misconduct (i) Retirement age (j) Means of redressal of workmen against unfair treatment or wrongful exactions by employer (k) Any other matter that may be prescribed.
Coverage of Act - The Act is applicable to all 'industrial establishments' employing 100 or more workmen. [section 1(3)].
'Industrial establishment' means (i) an industrial establishment as defined in section 2(i) of Payment of Wages Act (ii) Factory as defined in section 2(m) of Factories Act (iii) Railway (iv) Establishment of contractor who employs workmen for fulfilling contract with owner of an industrial establishment. [section 2(e)].
The term 'industrial establishment' includes factory, transport service, construction work, mines, plantation, workshop, building activity, transmission of power etc.
WORKMAN - 'Workman' has meaning assigned to it under section 2(s) of Industrial Disputes Act. [section 2(i)]. Thus, 'workman' includes skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical work. However, 'workman' does not include employees engaged in managerial or administrative capacity or supervisory capacity. 'Workman' does not include workers subject to Army Act, Navy Act or Air Force Act or to police or prison services.
Approval of Standing Orders - Every employer covered under the Act has to prepare 'Standing Orders', covering the matters required in the 'Standing Orders'. Five copies of these should be sent to Certifying Officer for approval. [section 3(1)]. 'Certifying Officer' means Labour Commissioner and any officer appointed by Government to be 'Certifying Officer'. [section 2(c)].
The Certifying Officer will inform the Union and workmen and hear their objections. After that, he will certify the 'Standing Orders' for the industrial establishment. [section 5]. Till standing orders are certified, 'Model Standing Order' prepared by Government will automatically apply. [section12A].
Standing order should be displayed in English and local language on special notice boards at or near entrance of the establishment. [section 9]. Modifications of Standing Order shall be done by following similar procedure. [section 10].
Once the 'Standing Orders' are certified, they supersede any term and condition of employment, contained in the appointment letter. If there is inconsistency between 'Standing Order' and 'Appointment Letter', the provisions of 'Standing Order' prevail - Eicher Goodearth Ltd. v. R K Soni - (1993) XXIV LLR 524 = 1993 LLR 524 (Raj HC) * Printers House v. State of Haryana 1982 II LLN 327.
Standing orders are binding on employer and employee. These are statutorily imposed conditions of service. However, they are not statutory provisions themselves (meaning that the 'Standing Orders' even when approved, do not become 'law' in the sense in which Rules and Notifications issued under delegated legislation become after they are published as prescribed.) - Rajasthan SRTC v. Krishna Kant - AIR 1995 SC 1715 = (1995) 5 SCC 75 = 71 FLR 211 = 87 FJR 204 = 1995 AIR SCW 2683 = 1995 LLR 481 (SC).
Model Standing Orders - The Act has prescribed Model Standing Orders. These are automatically applicable till employer prepares his own 'Standing Orders' and these are approved by 'Certifying Officer'. [section 12A].
Disciplinary Action - The most important use of 'Standing Orders' is in case of disciplinary action. A workman can be punished only if the act committed by him is a 'misconduct' as defined under the 'Standing Orders'. The 'Model Standing Orders' contain such acts like insubordination, disobedience, fraud, dishonesty, damage to employer's property, taking bribe, habitual absence or habitual late attendance, riotous behaviour, habitual neglect of work, strike in contravention of rules etc. as misconducts. The 'Certified Standing Orders' may cover other acts as 'misconduct', if approved by 'Certifying Officer'.
Subsistence Allowance - Where a workman is suspended by employer pending investigation or enquiry into complaints or charges of misconduct against him, the workman shall be paid subsistence allowance equal to 50% of wages for first 90 days of suspension and 75% of wages for remaining period till completion of disciplinary proceedings. [section 10A(1)]. - - 'Wages' has same meaning as under section 2(rr) of Industrial Disputes Act. [section 2(i)].


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