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Kenneth MacLean is a highly experienced advocate and adviser practising across a broad range of commercial litigation and arbitration disputes. Practice includes shareholder disputes, civil fraud claims, banking and finance litigation, jurisdiction challenges, competition claims and high profile professional negligence disputes. He is admitted as a member of the bars of Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands and he has also practised as a member of the Bar of the State of New York. He is a member of the ICC and the Premier League Disciplinary Panel. Kenneth is recommended in Chambers UK and The Legal 500. He is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of German.
"Takes an evidence-based approach and has the ability to assimilate all the facts very quickly; he's a powerful advocate." "Ken is strategically excellent and delightful to work with." Commercial Dispute Resolution, Chambers UK 2019
'A superb cross-examiner, tears into the witness without hesitation.' Commercial Litigation, Legal 500 2018-2019
"Really lasered in on witnesses' different areas of weakness, and had thought carefully about how to expose them." "Has firm and well-reasoned views, and gives clear guidance." Chambers UK 2018 - Commercial Dispute Resolution
'He gives sensible, no-nonsene, commerical advice.' 'He's a fierce advocate and a good cross-examiner.' Chambers UK 2017 - Commercial Dispute Resolution
'Excellent. He has a lot of gravitas and is nice to work with. Judges listen to him and take him seriously'. 'A legal luminary excelling not only in law, but also in his approach, attitude and temperament'. Chambers UK 2016
RECENT CASES INCLUDE
Bilta (UK) Ltd & Ors v (1) RBS plc and (2) Mercuria Energy Europe Trading Ltd [2017] EWHC 3535 (Ch); [2018] Lloyd's Rep. F.C. 202
For Defendants in a 6-week trial of dishonest assistance claims re carbon emissions allowance (EUA) trading that was part of a €100 million missing trader VAT fraud.
(1) Cephalon Inc (2) Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc - v - (1) C P Pharmaceuticals Limited (2) Wockhardt UK Holdings Limited (3) Wockhardt Limited (a company incorporated in India) [2017] For Defendants in a 5 week Commercial Court trial of claims of economic duress, intimidation and conspiracy relating to the manufacture of an anti-cancer drug.
Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors [2016] EWHC 2816 (Comm)
For on the Defendants on successful applications for reverse summary judgment and the discharge of a $380 million worldwide freezing order. The claim was brought by a major Russian oil company against four high-profile Ukranian individuals and involved allegations of fraud and breaches of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
Re Charterhouse Capital Limited, Arbuthnott -v-Bonnyman & Ors [2014] EWHC 1410 (Ch)
Kenneth MacLean Q.C successfully defended the respondent members of the leading private equity specialists Charterhouse Capital against the Petition brought under section 994 Companies Act 2006 by a former partner who alleged that amendments to the company's articles to introduce a drag right over his shares was unfairly prejudicial conduct and sought an order that his shares be purchased for tens of millions more than the existing offer price. Following a 27 day trial, the Judge rejected the petitioner's complaints that the amendments to the company's articles were invalid either under the common law principle of Allen v Gold Reefs of West or on the basis of the statutory jurisdiction. The court also followed the approach of the Privy Council in Citco v Pusser's Limited and rejected the approach of the High Court of Australia in Gambotto v WCP Limited in considering the validity of amendments to articles which introduced drag rights.
Alfa Telecom Turkey v Cukurova Finance International
Kenneth MacLean Q.C. acted for Cukurova throughout its marathon and ultimately successful seven-year multi-billion dollar battle for control of Turkcell, the largest mobile phone company in Turkey in which Cukurova was opposed by the Alfa Group of Russia. The action has resulted in six decisions of the Privy Council ([2009] UKPC 19, [2012] UKPC 20, [2013] UKPC 2, [2013] UKPC 20, [2013] UKPC 25, [2014] UKPC 15). The case concerned Alfa's attempts to rely on the novel remedy of appropriation over financial collateral introduced into English law by the Financial Collateral Arrangements (No2) Regulations 2003 and Directive 2002/47/EC on financial collateral arrangements so as to secure a controlling interest in Turkcell on Cukurova's default under a loan agreement in 2007.
In January 2013 [2013] UKPC2 the Privy Council allowed Cukurova's appeal from the decision of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (July 2011) and held that Cukurova was entitled to recover its shares from Alfa on compliance with terms to be set by the Board for relief from forfeiture. This was an important and ground-breaking decision on the extent of the equitable jurisdiction to relieve against the forfeiture of property in the context of secured lending and the novel remedy of appropriation over financial collateral. In a follow-up decision [2013] UK PC 20 the Privy Council has set the financial terms on which Cukurova was entitled to relief from the appropriation of its shares by Alfa. Shortly afterwards, the Privy Council issued a further order varying the terms of relief in Cukurova's favour in response to attempts by Alfa to thwart redemption by Cukurova.
This decision represents the most in-depth examination of the principles concerning the equitable jurisdiction to relieve against forfeiture of mortgaged property and the effect of tender of payment by a debtor on a creditor's entitlement to interest for at least 50 years. The result of the Board's judgment on the terms of relief was that Cukurova was permitted to reacquire its shares at a price more than US$1 billion more favourable to it than the result contended for by Alfa.
McKillen -v- Misland & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 781
This case concerns a dispute between Mr Paddy McKillen and companies associated with Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay over the ownership and control of Claridge's, the Connaught and Berkeley hotels. Kenneth MacLean Q.C. successfully defended the Barclay interest companies against proceedings brought by Mr McKillen under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 alleging that his rights as a 36% shareholder of the hotels' holding company, Coroin, had been unfairly prejudiced and seeking buy-out relief against the Barclay interests and the other shareholder, Mr Derek Quinlan. Following an expedited trial lasting 30 days David Richards J dismissed Mr McKillen's claims under the section 994 Petition and a related action for damages for conspiracy and procuring breach of contract [2012] EWHC 2343.
The Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the trial Judge's dismissal of Mr McKillen's section 994 Petition in its judgment dated 3 July 2013. The Court held that Mr McKillen had failed to establish any of the cumulative requirements of a section 994 petition and that the Barclay interests had not acted in violation of Mr McKillen's pre-emption rights nor in breach of an express obligation of good faith. As in the court below, Kenneth MacLean Q.C. led the respondents' successful opposition to Mr McKillen's claims [2013] EWCA 781.


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Because of that pending major life change, our homeschool plans are very simple this year. No big hairy projects or intense outside classes on our docket. Only Ellie will be attending our beloved co-op, while I stay home with the younger three. As I've been researching and planning over the summer, I realized that one thing will remain the same: lots and lots of reading. I've created an extensive list of read-alouds for both our history curriculum (this year we're studying the middle ages) and our science curriculum. The majority of these books are picture books that can be finished in one sitting.
Our homeschool days are divided into two parts: Morning Time and Independent work.
Memory Work: We rotate in new memory work during each 6 week term. I pick a hymn, a poem for each child (and myself) to memorize, a passage of scripture, and we are currently working on helping Ethan memorize the Articles of Faith. We go through each of those things every morning, which generally takes 10 minutes or so. We also review one item from the previous terms each day (so we'll sing one hymn or recite one scripture or poem in addition to our current work).
History: Every day I read aloud from one of the books on our history reading list for the year. This year is all about Medieval History. (full list coming soon. I'll link here when it's ready).
Map Work: We're working our way through this amazing series. This year we'll do Asia, Europe, and Africa. We'll just cycle through the books as many times as we can during the year. We've already worked through the first Asia volume once this year and will move onto volume two next week. The big kids take turns using the book and drawing their maps while I read our history book for the day.
Loop Topics: We rotate through these topics on a loop schedule, meaning that we rotate through each subject in order but don't have assigned days of the week for the topics. That way if we have a really busy/hectic/grumpy day, there is no guilt about skipping one of these subjects, but if our day is more relaxed we can get to multiple lessons at once.
Science: Exploring Nature with Children (I'll link to our science read-aloud list here when it's ready), Fine Art: SQUILT Music Appreciation, Drawing with Children, and Gift-Making. We'll work our way through each curriculum until it's complete. We're currently using SQUILT, and will finish it in its entirety before we move on to Drawing. During our late November-December term we'll focus on crafts and making gifts for neighbors, family and each other.
While we don't really pay much attention to grade levels, I'll include them here so you have a general idea of what age/ability level our kids fall into.
Ethan and I do a "project" together every day. This boy requires uninterrupted time with parents on a regular basis so we try to make that happen with each parent daily. He and I usually to a simple art/craft project or a science experiment and he usually plays frisbee or practices soccer with Jason.
" 'Lijah School" consists of lots and lots of books and some creative time every day. Building with Legos, painting, "helping" in the kitchen, preschool-type games and crafts, etc. Basically anything we can do to keep him from destroying the house.
This list looks more intense than it actually is. We generally spend about 2 hours per day on school. One hour for morning time and one hour for independent time. For the first few weeks after Baby arrives, we'll probably scale back even more. But this simple, living-books based curriculum is flexible and easy to complete each day. I am hopeful that our school time will go smoothly despite the major changes heading our way.


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The streetwear explosion: how the UAE is finding its own style
With a new breed of sneakerheads coming into their own, the country is catching up with streetwear heavyweights
Local opened its sneaker shop in November. Luis Martins
Sophie Prideaux
As one of the world's most culturally diverse countries, the UAE has a style quotient that can't exactly be defined in black and white. But despite its complex nature, the overriding theme has, traditionally, been rooted in luxury items from big-name brands.
While Londoners are effortlessly edgy and Scandinavians notoriously understated, the UAE, with its endless malls and palpable wealth, is a high-fashion haven. What you wouldn't necessarily associate with this part of the world, however, is streetwear – but that is beginning to change. Slowly, but surely, this style movement has used its hand-painted high-tops and limited-edition cross trainers to creep its way onto the style scene.
The arrival of The Social Foot in The Dubai Mall illustrates the ferocious appetite for streetwear right now. This small, unassuming store is swallowed by the noise of the monster shopping centre in which it sits, and despite no prior announcements, there is a sizeable mob to greet it on its official opening day. This is a crowd that stands out from the crowd, with painfully cool trainers and laid-back attire.
The Social Foot opened in The Dubai Mall in December. Courtesy The Social Foot
For these trainer lovers, or sneakerheads, as they're known, it's about more than just the footwear. The Social Foot is surrounded by shoes on all sides; there's Puma next door, Adidas opposite, and Nike down the way, but these shoppers don't want just any old pair, they want something exclusive, something unique and something that, until now, has been hard to come by in Dubai: you had to know where to look. The Social Foot will change that, though, introducing new brands from around the world, and partnering with bigger brands to bring exclusive and limited-edition shoes and collaborations to the UAE.
"To be honest, I think this concept should have come some time ago, we are a bit late," says Anuvrat Gaurav, head of retail at Al Futtaim, the company responsible for bringing the brand to the UAE. It's a fair admission. The streetwear scene in the UAE has, historically, been wildly undercatered for. And yet, with more than 28,000 people attending Sole DXB – Dubai's trainer, streetwear and music festival – in December, it seems the market is ripe for its brands' taking.
Anuvrat Gaurav, head of retail at Al Futtaim. Courtesy The Social Foot
Sole DXB and the UAE's streetwear explosion is something of a chicken-and-egg situation. Of course, there had to be a scene here for the concept to be born, but would it have grown to the point it's at without such a high-profile platform to anchor it? Probably not.
"When we started in 2011, we were knocking on doors convincing businesses there was a market here for [unique trainers]," says Joshua Cox, co-founder of Sole DXB.
"There were all the elements of street culture in their individual pockets – graffiti artists, BMXers, sneakerheads – but there was nothing to bring them together, and that's how Sole DXB started." Bring them together it did – and now it's the brands that are approaching Sole DXB to be part of the event. Last year saw Puma, Reebok and Dior Homme among the big names the event partnered with, as well hosting exhibits from about 50 local and international streetwear brands. The event has been instrumental in giving residents access to streetwear, opening their eyes to footwear that goes beyond the confinement of malls. And the result is breeding a new wave of style rules.
The Social Foot offers rare collaboration and limited edition sneakers. Courtesy The Social Foot
"A few years ago, the style here was more pretentious. There was not a lot of underground culture. But that is changing, thanks to a few home-grown brands, and more and more stores opening up," Cox says. "But whereas street style in London or New York is influenced by its historic underground culture that helps to differentiate it, Dubai is a young city and it's just starting to find its own fashion footing. Many are still experimenting with their own styles and identities, and it's these individuals who will define what streetwear means in the UAE."
And, as Cox points out, this is an exciting new version of streetwear, given that the styles had, traditionally, always been typically western. "The challenge for people here had always been: 'How do I take these styles and merge them with my heritage?' Coming from, say, an Indian or Arab background can add a whole other layer and really give people a chance to experiment."
This experimental style was given another huge boost in November when Abu Dhabi neighbourhood barber and coffee shop Local expanded its offering to include rare trainers and limited-edition streetwear.
"There's been a general shift towards streetwear globally, and a lot of that is down to social media. London has an identity, people have their own style, Paris is the same, so is Japan – people dress a certain way in those cities; you can tell the style. And we are now are finding that in Dubai. People are dressing the way they want to dress, but a few years ago there just wasn't much of that," says Jack Brett, one of the owners of Local. "People are pushing boundaries with fashion, and I think it's great. They are now brave to wear what they want to wear here and put their own sense of creativity in the way they dress."
Jack, Jasim and Zayed of Local. Courtesy Luis Martins
Local's backroom, as Brett calls it, is found behind a sliding silver door, and contains small-number, vintage and new-drop trainers from around the world. As a self-confessed collector with almost 250 pairs himself, he explains the appeal. "It's an addiction, a bad one, because it takes your money like that [snaps], but it's also a passion. People want something different, something their friends don't have, and it feels like you're part of this bigger community. And because you can make so much money off one pair of shoes, a lot of people have come into it to try and flip shoes– it's very addictive," he says.
While the rise of sneaker culture and streetwear may mark a new chapter in our region's fashion history, its roots, just like the trends that came before it, are founded on exclusivity. Both The Social Foot and Local stock styles and brands exclusively – trainers or clothing that you won't find anywhere else, or on anyone else in the UAE.
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"People want what their friends won't have. They want to stand out on social media, they want to stand out in their circle. They want to be exclusive," agrees Gaurav. "That's what The Social Foot stands for – uniqueness."
Of course, trends come and go, and trainers are very much in at the moment, but Cox believes that now that the UAE has a thriving streetwear scene, it's here to stay. "Sneakers have come back in a big way in the past few years, helped a lot by hip-hop and social media, but they are part of the wider streetwear scene and that is more than just fashion, it's culture, and that's not going anywhere," he says. "Streetwear and the culture that surrounds it is what is happening out on the streets at a ground level. What that looks like will change and adapt, but its roots will remain the same."
[ An older person's guide to dressing up for Sole DXB without looking like someone's dad ]
[ Law Roach on the law of style ]
A closer look at the business of being a fashion model
[ An exhibition of world-famous shoes is currently on display at The Dubai Mall ]
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It's hard to maintain your focus when you're ahead 6-1. You let down, and they kick it up a notch. One partner told me to just keep thinking it's 0-0. Hard to do when you really know what the score is! Well at least you got in some good tennis and a good workout.


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How to Improve our Ability to Listen (Active Listening)?
Almost everyone knows the importance of listening and probably many of us think we do well, but is this belief real?
Almost everyone knows the importance of listening and probably many of us think we do well, but is this belief real? Can you train and improve the act of active listening? Here we give you some keys to improve in this regard, discovering all that this improvement can bring.
What is active listening? This term was created by Carl Rogers, an American psychologist, by developing some of the most important aspects of his interpersonal theory in 1942. Since then, this term has broadened its meaning and extends into most areas in which.
Active listening is an act that we perform voluntarily, therefore requires our attention and our intention. It is an apprenticeship and, as such, it is improved, trained and acquired, like any other. Listening is active because it requires our participation, it is a fact that implies effort and concentration. Thus, we do not speak of a mere passive activity.
The scientists Roger and Farson (1979) describe listening as the quality of causing changes in the lives of others, as well as generating trust, closeness, security and empathy with the other, which is part of this fundamental tool, despite the fact that This data, science reports that people only remember between 10 and 25% of everything they hear.
Listening means focusing on the other, on the one who has decided to share his experience, his life or his problems with you. Listening requires effort, it is not easy, so we must decide when we want or can actively listen to the other.
When we put this tool into action, we need to silence the voices inside us. We need to eliminate the remorse, the guilt, the haste, the nerves, in order to dedicate ourselves 100% to the act of listening.
Active listening requires understanding, but not for that reason. The listening itself encourages the other to keep talking. Someone who is feeling heard receives an invitation to continue doing so, a stimulus to open up and share with others what is inside. Listening also requires patience, and therefore, it falls within the work we can do to improve.
What enemies are there for active listening?
Beliefs: our beliefs condition the way we perceive. Listening to someone who does not share our ideas can generate tension and / or rejection. Therefore, if we perform active listening, we just have to focus our attention on the other and not on us.
Expectations: what we expect from the other or from the situation leads us one way or another in listening. How many times have you disconnected from the conversation because you already knew how that would end? Did you know what I was going to say? Expectations do not allow active listening because they distract us from what is really important, understand the other.
Aptitudes: each one is born with different aptitudes (potentialities). Some have more facility for listening, others for communication, others for both and others are not particularly good at all. Listening requires learning and training, therefore, it is "like a sport" that we can all practice and improve.
Attitude: what is my attitude towards a conversation that does not interest me? In front of someone with whom I do not want to be, but I must be? Listening is an exercise of will that requires patience and attitude.
Pay attention with your body and your look.
Do not judge or interpret what they tell, just listen.
He perceives both the words and the gestures and movements of the speaker. Your verbal language also communicates and needs to be heard.
Paraphrase from time to time, that is, summarize what it says to make sure you understand what it is telling you.
Feedback from time to time; that is, make affirmative gestures with the head, or for example, agree from time to time to convey that you are still listening.
The rule of the three Rs -receives, reflects and recapitulates- helps us to improve in this sense.
Remember that we are all born with the ear – with the ability – but not knowing how to listen. Listening is done and worked; In addition, it requires will. The benefit of feeling heard is what should motivate you to improve your will and yourto continue working on it.


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Drug War Femicide Gender Human Rights Impunity Mexico Militarization Writing
How Mexico's Drug War Fuels Violence Against Women
The negative effects of the drug war in Mexico have been in the media spotlight since corruption and abuses by security forces and government officials were revealed in the high-profile case of 43 students forcibly disappeared last September. But, within the mass media coverage of Mexico, little attention has been given to the specific culture of impunity for gender-based violence committed by security forces.
In Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, historically unequal power relations between men and women have been further exacerbated by a hyper-masculine security approach that relies on the armed forces and militarized policing to combat organized crime and drug trafficking.
As the Mexican military has been increasingly tasked with public security functions, concerns over human rights violations have predictably increased. Increased militarization, paired with a broken and corrupted justice system in Mexico, has exacerbated an already harmful culture of unchecked and unpunished abuses against women.
Last month, Juan Méndez, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Torture, released a scathing report on the widespread problem of torture in Mexico. The report, based on a fact-finding mission last spring, indicates that torture and ill treatment of detainees are generalized in Mexico across all levels of the security apparatus and are carried out with impunity. Méndez says the increased use of torture by security forces – including local, state and federal police, as well as the military – is directly linked to government pressure to quell organized crime with the start of the drug war in 2007.
In the torture report, Méndez expressed specific concern about "the use of sexual violence as a form of torture, mainly against women detainees." Sexual torture, one of the many forms of abuse wielded by security forces on a daily basis, includes forced nudity, verbal humiliation and groping, not to mention repeated rape.
There are currently at least 128 open complaints of sexual torture, but widespread impunity for Mexican security force abuses means that few of these cases have been investigated and numerous victims have been dissuaded from filing complaints. An exemplary case of this impunity is the May 2006 assault on the municipality of Atenco in México state. The attack on civilian protestors was ordered by then-governor Enrique Peña Nieto, now the president of Mexico.
Nearly 3,500 state police reportedly engaged in excessive use of force, beating and detaining hundreds of people. The police reportedly sexually tortured 47 women while transporting them to a detention facility. Although eleven of those women sought justice at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), after almost nine years no public officials at any level have been punished for the acts of sexual torture committed against the women of Atenco.
The IACHR has held hearings on sexual torture for the last four years, but the Mexican government has yet to define "sexual torture" by security forces as a distinguishable offense in the law, opting instead for the term "sexual violence." Human rights defenders involved in the "Breaking the Silence: All together against Sexual Torture" campaign say that classifying these abuses as less serious violations is an attempt to glaze over the systematic practice of sexual torture by state agents.
When victims of sexual torture file complaints or seek medical treatment, they are often re-victimized and face stigma in their communities. During the 2015 IACHR hearings, human rights defenders illustrated these issues by recounting the story of a group of women who had been illegally detained and sexually victimized by security forces. When these women later took to the streets in their community to protest impunity in their cases, they were told by police officers to stop complaining, go home and make tortillas.This story illustrates the way that women are targeted by state-level violence, then get relegated back into the home.
Violence against women in Mexico is deeply entrenched in the drug war, yet it is often perceived as a private sphere issue manifesting itself as domestic violence or sexual abuse committed by an intimate partner or family member. However, numbers show that as military deployments increased in Mexico and Guatemala, so did the number of femicides. As the Meso American Working Group explained:
The result (of the drug war) is the escalation of violence by powerful, armed men on both sides. In a machista society, where discrimination and misogyny continue to permeate all levels of society—both public and private—women are more vulnerable to all kinds of violence, from targeted retaliations to sex trafficking and domestic violence. Their bodies become part of the territory in dispute and the spoils of war. Examples include a Mexican drug kingpin supported by local police who kidnapped high school girls on a regular basis to rape and release.
In everything from enforced disappearances to femicides and domestic abuse against women, police officers throughout Mexico often ignore such crimes because they're bought off by organized crime. Gender crimes are also fed by a culture of machismo, impunity, misogyny, a dysfunctional justice system and social norms that allow violence to be ignored or accepted as a normal part of life. As the United Nations torture report on Mexico indicates, few cases of sexual abuse by the police "have been investigated or punished, or else they have been classified as less serious conducts."
The United States has long been involved in the security operations of countries throughout Latin America, particularly Mexico, Colombia and the northern triangle states of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. As security forces have come under scrutiny for reported human rights violations and alleged collusion with drug cartels and organized crime groups, the massive security assistance provided by the United States has also come into question.
Since the creation of the Mérida Initiative in 2008, the U.S. Congress has appropriated more than $2.5 billion to fund training, weapons and intelligence for Mexico's police and military forces, in spite of these massive problems. To date, the United States does not appear to have taken these security forces to task in a serious way for these allegations of human rights violations, including the grossly under-reported, but rampant use of sexual violence.
In other countries across the Western Hemisphere, the drug war has served as a platform for gender-based violence. Most recently this has been seen in Colombia, to which the U.S. has provided over $8 billion in assistance under Plan Colombia. A new report commissioned by the Colombian government revealed that 54 underage Colombian girls had been sexually assaulted by U.S. military troops and contractors stationed in Colombian military bases between 2003 and 2007. Immunity agreements between the U.S. and Colombia have prevented both U.S. and Colombian prosecutors from making any arrests.
As organized criminal organizations have permeated Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, and as these states have responded with heavy-handed tactics, violence against women has also intensified. Guatemala currently has the third highest rate of femicide in the world, with 6,797 women murdered between 2000 and 2014. El Salvador is close behind, with 5,300 femicides recorded from 2000 to 2014.
Rampant impunity makes it so that in Honduras, 95 percent of the 900 cases of femicide reported in 2013 and 2014 alone have never been investigated or taken to court. The impunity rate for femicides is even higher in Guatemala, estimated at 99 percent. Women in all three countries often do not report cases of domestic, sexual or gang violence for fear or reprisals, distrust of police or skepticism that an investigation or prosecution would take place within this established environment of violence and impunity.
After years of deep U.S. involvement in these countries' security operations, it is necessary to acknowledge and address the ways that this rampant impunity, a heavy-handed, militarized security strategy, and deep-seated corruption has created a culture of unchecked violence and exploitation of women with little to no access to justice.
This blog is also published on the Center for International Policy's Security Assistance Monitor Blog.
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Below are examples of what a Soccer Spotlight highlight video looks like for a defender. Defender videos can either be for outside backs/wing backs, or for center backs.
There is a short 10 second intro slide that includes the player's name, positions, number, and current team. The clips are ordered with goals, assists and chances created first. This is to catch the coach's attention, and if the coach does not have time to watch the entire video, at the very least they were able to see the player's best attributes.


Also, I want to change something slightly. It may sound really horrible, but I'm thinking of changing the 'good deed' to something else, as any little things I do never sound particularly great and keep making me feel like I'm a horrible person as I don't do magnificent things such as save someone's life or donate thousands to charity each week! I must say, I am quite partial to a good fact now and again so I'm thinking of maybe changing it to a fact a week? Let me know what you think!
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Green and glitter. Using Barry M - NPG2 (limited edition so I'm unsure if it's still around) and Models Own - Ibiza Mix.
I'm loving Amy Valentines blog this week. She has such a cool, individual style and you should all go check her out becasue she's awesome. Go go go - http://amyvalentinex.blogspot.co.uk/.
Having dimples myself, so I thought this was interesting ;) Found from WhatTheFFacts.
This week's number seven - a quote. One of my all time favourite quotes, by Jimi Hendrix.
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JOHN HOBSON has positions Director (FARMER), Director (COMPANY DIRECTOR) in companies KILLYLEA PROPERTIES LTD, ADDA (N.I.) LTD. At current position Director (FARMER) of company KILLYLEA PROPERTIES LTD is 16 years, Director (COMPANY DIRECTOR) of company ADDA (N.I.) LTD is 7 years.
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Obersoultzbach () ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Bas-Rhin in der Region Grand Est (bis 2015 Elsass).

Geschichte

Mittelalter
1213 wird der Ort unter dem Namen "Solzbach" erstmals erwähnt. Das entsprechende Schreiben deutet darauf hin, dass der Ort damals zur Abtei Sturzelbronn gehörte.

Das Dorf Obersulzbach war ein Lehen des Bischofs von Metz an die Herren von Lichtenberg. Es gehörte im 13. Jahrhundert zunächst zum Amt Buchsweiler der Herrschaft Lichtenberg. Als dieses aufgrund verschiedener Erwerbungen zu umfangreich wurde, wurde daraus 1330 das Amt Ingweiler ausgegliedert. Auch das Dorf Obersulzbach kam zum Amt Ingweiler. Anlass dafür kann gewesen sein, dass es um 1330 zu einer ersten Landesteilung zwischen Johann II. von Lichtenberg, aus der älteren Linie des Hauses, und Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg kam. Dabei fiel Obersulzbach in den Teil des Besitzes, der künftig von der älteren Linie verwaltet wurde.

Nach dem Tod des letzten Lichtenbergers 1480, Graf Jakob, wurde die Herrschaft geteilt und das Amt Ingweiler fiel zunächst an Zweibrücken-Bitsch.

Neuzeit
Allerdings kam es 1570 zu einem weiteren Erbfall, der das Amt Ingweiler nun zur Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg brachte. Die Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg führten ab der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts die Reformation in ihrer Grafschaft ein, die nun lutherisch wurde.

1611 wurde in Obersulzbach ein "Tiergarten" angelegt, eine Anlage, in der die Grafen von Hanau-Lichtenberg Jagdwild hielten. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg kam es zu Zerstörungen in Obersulzbach. Durch die Reunionspolitik Frankreichs fielen um 1680 die im Elsass gelegenen Teile der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg unter die Oberhoheit Frankreichs, so auch das Amt Ingweiler und Obersulzbach.

1736 starb mit Graf Johann Reinhard III. der letzte männliche Vertreter des Hauses Hanau. Aufgrund der Ehe seiner einzigen Tochter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), mit dem Erbprinzen Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) von Hessen-Darmstadt fiel die Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg nach dort. Als Folge der Französischen Revolution fiel dann der linksrheinische Teil der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg – und damit auch Obersulzbach – an Frankreich.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die heute evangelische Kirche des Ortes stammt aus dem 14. Jahrhundert.

Literatur
 Jean-Claude Brumm: Quelques dates importantes dans l'histoire …. In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Hrsg.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 – 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3 / 1980), S. 10f.

 Friedrich Knöpp: Territorialbestand der Grafschaft Hanau-Lichtenberg hessen-darmstädtischen Anteils. [maschinenschriftlich] Darmstadt 1962. [Vorhanden in Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, Signatur: N 282/6].
 Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt. In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Hrsg.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 – 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3 / 1980), S. 7–9.

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Free Architects has been on the market since 2006. We are concerned with design and projection of residential and commercial buildings, including their interiors. We are a medium-sized studio in our field, which allows us to bring flexibility as well as sufficient accomplishment to your projects. We love architecture, and besides doing our own designs, we try to bring popularity to the field via social networks and with the help of applications. Perhaps you have already come across our work somewhere else, but here you can obtain a maximum of information about who we are and what we do. Welcome!
Do our QUIZ and you will find out which interio style or architecture is the one for you.
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Do you want to see more behind the scenes and find out what we are working on at present, where we are or what we're interested in? Follow us on BLOG and INSTAGRAM. Know you architects.
At the moment, bungalows and modern loft homes are popular. We are happy too, to work on the reconstruction of older or period buildings. Builders can commission projects for family homes, residential interiors and exteriors from us. In case of interest, we also provide logistics (communication with the relevant authorities). Additionally, we can process project type alterations, for example wooden buildings which require a high standard Interior. We now, newly, offer the following, additional services: flat stylists' services and interior styling and decorating. We always take the future interior into account at the draft stage of designing our buildings.
In the field of commercial building of retail and office space we offer experience with designing showrooms, for example, Decoland Průhonice, QuickStep Everel Praha, health club Holmes Place, restaurants such as Mlýnec by Charles Bridge in Prague, and Václav for Škoda cars. We also design business premises, such as Delmas in Olympia Brno, Corial in the Šantovka gallery in Olomouc and the interiors of farmshops like Biio or Fresh bedýnky.
Our services are regularly used by companies like, for example YIT, Neocity, RSJPE and Avrio. We offer them building designs, reverse development for optimalization of products, redesign of schemes of non-marketable building portfolios, furniture arrangement options for floor plans, sales support, building marketing, work on projections and related architectural developer's services. In addition, home staging, preparation and decoration of model flats.
From 2010 to 2013 we had the opportunity to collaborate on the second run of the TV show How to Build your Dream. In 12 episodes, Petr and Karolína presented various living styles ranging from Provence and contemporary Italian to marginal styles such as the Rock n Roll or Country Cottage interior.
Each new year brings another opportunity to design furniture to order. You can browse the most interesting pieces in the original product design section. Visit too our external STYLEPOINT, which is a permanent exhibition of designer and styled bathrooms, which we are continuously working on and thus we innovate living culture in an area often neglected simply because it is the smallest room in the house.
What is Reverse Development? How do we approach designing a family home ? In what ways is this approach more beneficial than the norm? How do we design interiors?
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Q: How do I get Apple Hardware Test working on a refurbished Mac? I recently picked up a refurbished "Unibody" Late 2009 MacBook, which arrived with a fresh Sierra (10.12) install. After going through the first time setup, I immediately upgraded RAM and HD.  After that, I thought I'd fire up Apple Hardware Test for its memory test, since Apple describes Hardware Test as "built into your Mac" for this model (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25696?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_IN).  However, holding down d during a reboot just left me with a normal Mac OS X session.
How do I get Apple Hardware Test working on this machine?

A: For this model, Apple Hardware Test actually comes pre-installed on the hard drive.
If you've reformatted or replaced the original hard drive, it's possible to install Apple Hardware Test back to it from a downloadable disk image, but you need to boot the system using the Recovery partition on another disk to do it:

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*Download the appropriate Apple Hardware Test disk image for your machine (partial list at https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest)

*Reboot into recovery mode, by holding the option key down at boot, and then choosing the recovery partition from the menu

*Open Disk Utility, mount the Apple Hardware Test disk image, and then quit disk utility (with the disk image still mounted)

*Open Terminal from the Utilities menu

*Copy the System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics folder from the disk image to the new drive:
 cp -R /Volumes/AHTBTwo/System/Library/CoreServices/.diagnostics \
 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/CoreServices/

*This copy of Apple Hardware Test is now installed; you should now be able to launch it by restarting while holding down d.
Background:
The drive supplied with the machine had a recovery partition on it, but I don't know if that had the appropriate version of Apple Hardware Test for this machine. In any case, I also neglected to copy the recovery partition across to the new drive when I copied the Macintosh HD volume.  I had done that using a Mac OS X Install Disk's copy of Disk Utility with the new drive on a USB adapter before I installed it in the MacBook.
To get a recovery partition back, following the nice guide at https://www.lifewire.com/create-os-x-recovery-hd-on-any-drive-2260909 I manually took a disk image of the recovery partition on the old drive using a Terminal command:
sudo hdiutil create ~/Desktop/Recovery\ HD.dmg -srcdevice /dev/disk2s3

and then ran Disk Utility and made a partition for it on the new disk, and restored that partition from the Recovery HD.dmg disk image.
That gives the new recovery partition on the new disk the right contents to be a recovery partition, but it still has the default partition type code that Disk Utility sets, which is for a regular Mac OS X partition.
To change the partition type value for the recovery partition, which is normally prevented by the integrity protection in Sierra, I rebooted from the recovery partition on the old disk, and then ran the commands in a Terminal there:
diskutil unmount /dev/diskXXX
sudo asr adjust --target /dev/diskXXX -settype Apple_Boot

(Use whatever Device shows up in Disk Utility for the new recovery partition in place of diskXXX)
At that point I had a usable recovery partition on the new disk, and I could follow the steps up above to add Apple Hardware Test.


1100 +/- ac year around recreational tract with timber income in Caldwell Parish, LA This timberland tract in northern Caldwell Parish will provide you, your family, friends, and clients year around use. It has diverse topography, hunting, private lake, river access, a turn-key camp, and on-going timber income. The deer and turkey hunting will be above average. The owners 5 years of herd management and improving the habitat, along with thousands of acres of adjoining timberland, will give you lots of opportunities. Food plots, feeders, and stands are in place. In addition to deer & turkey, you will see hogs, small game, and have opportunities for wood duck shoots in the sloughs. The approx. 4-acre stocked and managed lake is the signature part of this tract. Not only will you catch bass and bream, you could build a custom camp on the high ridge overlooking the lake, a food plot, and the wooded draws. There is underground electricity and a water well already in place to help you get this project started. A small pump house / storage building and a dock are also in place. Speaking of the dockthe party barge you see tied there goes with the property. Dont want to build a new camp Theres a turn-key camp and metal barn on the southwest side of the tract. The camp is a comfortably furnished 3 bedroom & 2 bath mobile home with reinforced framing. The metal barn is 50x30 on a concrete slab with an additional 50x30 covered area in the front and a smaller covered area in the back for your equipment. All of this is behind a locked gate, with all-weather rock road, and has water and electricity. The camp is just 25 minutes from restaurants and shopping at I-20 in West Monroe. The timber is primarily managed pine plantation of various age classes with some hardwood in the draws and transition areas. Pine ages range from 2-3 year old replanted to 12-14 year old pulpwood to logs. The natural hardwood is also in all sizes with several spots containing large white oaks. Dont forget about the fishing shack and access to the Ouachita river from a sand boat launch at the northeast corner of the tract, the miles of interior roads and trails, the metal gates on all the roads for security, and all the feeders and deer stands that remain on the property. Its a turn-key set up. Location Situated just east of Hwy 846 on Tin Top Road Minerals Seller owns no minerals on most of the tract. What he may own is reserved. Asking Price $3,025,000 Note Buyers agents see commission information in the footer of the RecLand site. Call Coy Purkey, Land Agent, at or see the RecLand site for all our listings and aerial mapping. Aerial Maps can be seen on all our listings at the RecLand site.
When calling broker, please say, "I found your listing 1100 Ac, Year Around Recreational on FARMFLIP."


The Voyage to Betterment workshops condense the 30 days of Body, Mind & Spirit based Coaching the Voyage to Betterment Group received plus so much more in a one full day workshop. With minimal editing, the full day workshops are now available on this 2 DVD set, and covers the Critical Points of 4 major categories: Food, Exercise, Mind & Spirit. The Critical Point is where the least amount of effort has the greatest impact. Each Critical Point that is adopted into one's life is a valuable life long tool to add to their personal wellness toolbox. Discover why numerous people have made the claim that this was the best thing they have ever done in their life.


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SUBJECTS — Music/Classical; U.S. 1945 – 1991;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Education; Male Role Model Parenting; Father/Son; Mother/Son; Marriage; Disabilities;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Responsibility; Citizenship; Caring; Respect.
AGE: 10+; MPAA Rating — PG for mild language;
Drama; 1995; 143 minutes; Color. Available from Amazon.com.
This is the heartwarming tale of the career and family life, the triumphs and tragedies of a music teacher.
Selected Awards: 1996 Academy Awards Nominations: Best Actor (Dreyfus); 1996 Golden Globe Awards Nominations: Best Actor (Dreyfus); Best Screenplay.
Featured Actors: Richard Dreyfus, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, Alicia Witt, Terrence Dashon Howard, Damon Whitaker, Jean Louisa Kelly, Alexandra Boyd, Nicholas John Renner, Joseph Anderson, Anthony Natale (II).
Director: Stephen Herek.
"Mr. Holland's Opus" shows a musician who discovers his true vocation as a school teacher. Mr. Holland fails in some ways, but in the long run he faces the opportunities, challenges, and tragedies of his life with love and commitment. The film shows his false starts as a teacher, husband, and father and how he perseveres and finally meets the challenges that life places in his path. This film is a "tear jerker" in the best sense: love, success, rejection, and understanding tug at our heartstrings.
MINOR. Mild profanity is used two or three times in the film. The film implies that once a school board decides to cut a music program, there is nothing that students, teachers, or parents can do except give a rousing send-off to their now dismissed music teacher. This is not quite true. See Small Wonders and Music of the Heart.
Ask and help your child to answer the Quick Discussion Question.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, lack of funds caused public schools across the United States to reduce spending on arts and music education. Many parents, students, and educators felt that this was shortsighted. Arts education has many positive effects: teaching discipline and teamwork and giving children an opportunity to excel. However, these are not the most important reasons for arts education.
The arts are fundamental to children's' education and they are fundamental because art is fundamental to human nature, to human beings. So I don't see the arts as an instrument primarily to teach something else. The primary reason why we need strong arts programs in the schools is that human beings are artists. One way we grapple with ideas is through the arts. [Deborah Meier, founder of the innovative Central Park East School, a public school in New York City, and principal there for many years. Ms. Meier is shown making this statement in Small Wonders.]
George Gershwin (1889-1937) was one of the great songwriters of the 20th century. He composed primarily for the Broadway musical theater but Gershwin also wrote significant classical pieces. As a songwriter, Gershwin was unparalleled in the lyricism and beauty of his music, as shown by the songs performed in the film. In the classical realm, Gershwin's works combined jazz with classical forms and include such favorites as "Rhapsody in Blue" (a symphony), "Porgy and Bess" (an opera), "Concerto in F," and "An American in Paris" (also a symphony).
Ira Gershwin, George's older brother, wrote the words to most of George's songs. In a reversal of the usual relationship between songwriters and their lyricists, Ira wrote the words after George had written the music.
Sign language arose from gestures of a community of deaf people in Paris, France, in the eighteenth century. They were observed by Abbe Charles Michel de L'Epee who established the first free school for the deaf in 1755. From the signing that he observed, and using his own creativity, L'Epee fashioned a system of hand signs by which concepts could be communicated. L'Epee's system was brought to the United States in 1816 by Thomas Gallaudet who founded the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Conn. American Sign Language (ASL) developed from an amalgamation of the French system and various systems then already in use in the United States. ASL is now used by more than 500,000 deaf people in the United States and Canada.
ASL has its own grammatical structure that is different from English. Users of ASL can also sign in English word order, a modification of ASL that continues to grow in popularity. It is used especially when hearing people are part of the conversation. It's easier for hearing people to learn sign language using English syntax rather than the grammatical structure of ASL.
In the film, Mr. Holland's son uses not only sign language but he also speaks a little. This is called "total communication" in which all available means of communication are used, including sign language, gesturing, finger spelling, speech reading, speech, hearing aids, reading, writing, and pictures.
QUICK DISCUSSION QUESTION:
What was Mr. Holland's Opus? How is that term used in the title to this film?
The word "opus" in this film had two meanings. It was the composition that Mr. Holland had been working on for years and it was, in addition, his whole life as a teacher and the children that he taught and inspired. Mr. Holland said, "It's almost funny. I got dragged into this gig kicking and screaming and now it's the only thing I want to do."
2. When Mr. Holland asks his student, Gertrude, to "Play the sunset," what did he mean? How did this change the way that she played afterward?
Performing a piece of music is more than just playing the notes on the page. In every musical composition, there is an emotional aspect that true artistry captures. It is in the small variations in rhythm, volume, pitch, and phrasing — the interpretation of the notes — that gives music the soul.
3. Public schools in the United States are subject to periodic and, in some areas, chronic financial crises. This grew worse for most school districts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. If you were on the school board and there was simply not enough money to run the schools, which programs would you cut and in what order would you cut them? Explain your reasons.
4. What does it say about our priorities that one of the richest nations in the world cannot afford arts and music education in the schools?
5. Mr. Holland started teaching in the early 1960s and was laid off in the early 1990s. During the 30 years that he taught school, the United States went through many changes. Some of these changes are portrayed in film clips interspersed throughout the film. Can you name some of these events and briefly describe what they did to the fabric of American society? Did they appear to have any effect on Mr. Holland? What were the filmmakers trying to tell us by interspersing the footage showing upheavals in American life among the other events in the film?
6. What is the reason for music education? Is it because music education trains children so that they can succeed in other areas or is it because as human beings, we all need to be able to express ourselves artistically?
See Helpful Background Section of the Learning Guide to "Small Wonders"
1. Many educators and parents believe that music should be part of the regular curriculum for all students in public schools and that individual music lessons should also be available from elementary school through high school to those students who want them. Do you agree or disagree?
2. What did the principal mean when she told Mr. Holland that a good teacher not only gives students facts but provides them with a compass?
3. Do you think that most students can be introduced to classical music through popular music?
4. Is there anything that could have been done to keep Mr. Holland's job and the orchestra program? Suggested Response: See Small Wonders and Music of the Heart.
PARENTING – FATHER/SON, MOTHER/SON
5. (1) When Cole was a teenager Mr. Holland realized that he had been too distant from his son. Describe how Mr. Holland corrected for this in the film. (2) The film doesn't show us everything that happened in Mr. Holland's life and obviously, the concert and the song were only part of what he did in his effort to establish, however late, a good relationship with his son. What else could Mr. Holland have done to rectify his relationship with Cole?
Some examples: spend time with Cole doing activities that they both enjoyed, or at least that Cole enjoyed; take an interest in Cole's activities.
6. How could Mr. Holland be a good teacher but not a terribly good parent?
People act very differently in different situations. A criminal who would mug an old lady or break into a house, when put into the military and allowed to bond with his unit, can become a courageous soldier.
7. Cole grew up relatively unscathed by his father's problems in dealing with Cole's deafness. Why do you think that happened?
There is no one correct answer to this question. TWM suggests the following: There are two important factors that contributed to Cole's ability to escape emotional injury from his father's inability to deal with Cole's deafness. First, it was an innate, inborn strength and resilience in Cole himself. Second, Cole's mother was able to make up for the father's deficiencies. This often happens in families.
MALE ROLE MODEL
8. Would you consider Mr. Holland to be a male role model? Describe his strengths and weaknesses as a human being.
There is no one correct response to this question. However, a strong response will note that no matter what, Mr. Holland kept trying to be better than he had been in the past and that he fulfilled many of his responsibilities. On the negative side, he didn't see, until the end, that he really was doing a great job as a music teacher; he should have been more nurturing to his son.
9. Cole's deafness put a strain on his parents' marriage? How could they have handled it differently?
They could have united in their efforts to help and nurture their son. Instead, Mr. Holland isolated himself and didn't work on the situation as a partner in the relationship with his wife and a loving father to his son.
10. The film shows Mr. Holland's wife doing nothing when she discovered that her husband had a crush on Rowena. Was this the best way for her to handle it? Explain your answer.
In this case, it was. Crushes happen throughout life and mature adults realize that there is more to relationships than physical desire and temporary infatuations.
12. Does the fact that Mr. Holland had a crush on Rowena for a while mean that he didn't love his wife and that they had a bad marriage? Explain your reasoning.
Crushes happen and they don't necessarily last. A short-lived crush doesn't mean that the marriage is bad if the person experiencing the emotion has the maturity to realize what is going on and doesn't act on it.
13. For Rowena, going away and following her muse was clearly the best thing to do. She suggested, in her effort to get Mr. Holland to leave with her, that he could write his music in New York City. Why wasn't going away and writing music the best thing for Mr. Holland?
Mr. Holland was a teacher and that was his calling in life. In addition, he had a family. He could not keep up his loving relationship with his family by running off with Rowena.
14. Compare how Mrs. Holland responded to her son's deafness with the manner in which his father responded.
15. Mr. Holland obviously felt separated from his son because of the child's deafness. What did he and his son miss as a result?
16. Why did the filmmakers include the scene in which Mr. Holland was describing Beethoven's deafness to one of his classes? What were they trying to tell us?
17. Remember the situation in which Mr. Holland and his wife had received advice from a doctor that they should not try to use gestures to communicate with Cole? Did that strategy work? Have you ever been in a situation in which a doctor or another professional gave you advice that did not work? What did you do?
(Do your share to make your school and community better; Cooperate; Stay informed; vote; Be a good neighbor; Obey laws and rules; Respect authority; Protect the environment)
1. The film shows Mr. Holland at times failing to live up to this ethical principle in his dealings with his family. Can you describe these incidents, what he did wrong, and whether he ultimately rectified the situation?
(Additional questions are set out in the "Marriage" and "Parenting – Father/Son – Mother/Son" sections above.)
(Do what you are supposed to do; Persevere: keep on trying!; Always do your best; Use self-control; Be self-disciplined; Think before you act — consider the consequences; Be accountable for your choices)
2. Did Mr. Holland stay in teaching after the first few difficult months because he liked it or because he had a family to support? What was his reaction to his initial difficulties in teaching and what reward did it eventually bring him?
3. Do you think Mr. Holland should have gone to New York with Rowena so that he could write music? Justify your answer and describe which of the attributes of responsibility could have caused the character to make the choice that he made.
4. Did Mr. Holland act appropriately when he told Rowena that she had a great talent and that she should develop it?
5. Should Mr. Holland have told Rowena's parents that she was leaving home without their permission instead of helping her by giving her the address of his friends?
6. Mr. Holland's description of his difficulties in learning to appreciate John Coltrane's music is a metaphor for at least one other series of events in the film. Can you describe what it is?
7. Did Mr. Holland approach his teaching with a view to the ethical principle of "caring?" Please give examples from the film.
8. Did Mr. Holland, at least initially, fail to obey the ethical principle of caring in his family life? Justify your answer.
(Additional questions on this topic are set out in the "Social-Emotional Learning/Parenting – Father/Son – Mother/Son" section above.)
9. What made Mr. Holland a particularly good teacher? How do his actions demonstrate the ethical principle of citizenship?
ingenue, wistful, opus, symphony, expendable, annotated, muse.
In addition to websites which may be linked in the Guide and selected film reviews listed on the Movie Review Query Engine, the following resources were consulted in the preparation of this Learning Guide:
Articles in Encyclopedia Britannica Online on "Gershwin, George" and "sign language".


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Lonny Miller, MD, was born in the same hospital where he now delivers babies. After graduating from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in 2009, and completing his residency in family medicine in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Miller returned to his hometown of Creston, Iowa, to practice with Greater Regional Medical Center.
His practice provides the "full spectrum of family medicine," including outpatient and inpatient care, obstetrics services, and emergency department coverage.
"I have comforted a family at the bedside as their matriarch passed away, and only months later been there to deliver their newborn child," Miller says. "I cannot imagine a more rewarding career in medicine than that of a family physician."
Along with Miller's busy practice, he serves the community as:
Medical Director of Greater Regional Medical Center's Lenox Medical Clinic
Medical director of a nursing home in Clearfield, Iowa
Deputy Medical Examiner in Union County
Miller is also on the board of directors of the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians, and in 2017 was appointed by Gov. Kim Reynolds to the nine-member medical advisory board of the Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Program. The advisory board has representatives from law enforcement, oncology, gastroenterology, family medicine, neurology, pain management, psychiatry, pediatrics, and pharmacy.
"Medical cannabis, and in particular the state cannabidiol program, is an exciting area of medicine in which to be involved," Miller says. "Wading through the scant evidence and listening to the strong opinions on both sides of the matter is a challenge, but I am honored to play an active role in the early days of the expanded cannabidiol program."
Even with all of Miller's responsibilities, he makes time to give back to the UI as a preceptor mentoring medical students on their four-week family medicine rotations, where they gain real-world experience.
"I remember being in their shoes, so I do my best to allow medical students to hone their clinical skills and develop their confidence in the exam room with the same positive encouragement I was given as a student," Miller says.
Geordie Lawry, MD, was one of the best bedside teachers who trained him. During his Rheumatology elective, Miller experienced a significant loss in his personal life, so Lawry offered Miller consoling guidance through that rough patch. Lawry's professionalism and compassion left a lasting impression on Miller.
Harold Adams, MD, professor of neurology, also helped Miller in medical school. Miller says that Adams was a "Jedi Master" of the physical exam, so he pushed his students to learn and perfect the skills they needed to perform. It was hard work, but ultimately, the experience made Miller a better physician, he believes.
"The level of dedication our faculty had in shaping us into model physicians was exemplary," Miller says. "Now as a busy clinician, I can truly appreciate the extra time and passion it took on their parts to deliver an outstanding medical education."


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Q: Arranging columns in pivot_table, Pandas I have a question regarding rearrangement of the columns in a pivot_table. I want to group  columns by month, but with the arrangement as follows:
JAN      FEB
X,Y,X/Y  X,Y,X/Y ....

The current output is:
JAN FEB      JAN  FEB    JAN ...

X   X   ...  Y     Y ...  X/Y ...

I've noticied the same behavior implemented in Excel when building a pivot table with multiple columns.
See an example below. The output has the first format.
Thanks
from pandas import DataFrame,pivot_table
import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime

names=["a","b","c","a","b"]
dates=["20/01/2013","21/01/2013","22/02/2013", "01/03/2013","01/03/2013"]
dico={"x":[1,3,5,7,9], "y":[2,4,6,8,10], "date":dates, "name":names}

df=DataFrame(dico)
df["month"]=[datetime.strptime(x,'%d/%m/%Y').month for x in dates ]

print df
mpivot=pivot_table(df, values=["x","y"],cols=["month"], rows="name",aggfunc=np.sum)
print mpivot

A: You could do this once this pivot table has been created:
In [11]: p = pivot_table(df, values=["x","y"], cols=["month"],
                             rows="name", aggfunc=np.sum)

In [12]: p
Out[12]:
        x           y
month   1   2   3   1   2   3
name
a       1 NaN   7   2 NaN   8
b       3 NaN   9   4 NaN  10
c     NaN   5 NaN NaN   6 NaN

First by switching the column levels, then sorting by columns:
In [13]: p.reorder_levels([1, 0], axis=1).sort_index(axis=1)
Out[13]:
month   1       2       3
        x   y   x   y   x   y
name
a       1   2 NaN NaN   7   8
b       3   4 NaN NaN   9  10
c     NaN NaN   5   6 NaN NaN


They won't recognize the new me.
But they know the old me well—the me she harmed, and the me he loved.
She thinks she has him. But I'm going to take him back.
He thinks she's the one. But I'm going to show him he's wrong.
I thought it was over. But now I have a chance.
Lauren Campbell lives in Atlanta, GA, with her family, and is author of The Evolution of Ivy: Poison.
An avid reader since early childhood, Lauren discovered her love for writing several years into owning a successful newborn photography business. After reaching out to author Colleen Hoover in 2013 for advice, Lauren painstakingly pieced together a heap of garbage loosely based on her personal life that she decided to trash. After one year of being on hiatus, Lauren subsequently came up with the idea for Poison after being inspired by a photo on the internet. She wrote Poison in three weeks. It is not a heap of garbage, has no personal ties, and is filled with characters Lauren cares more for than some of the real people in her life. But don't tell anyone that.
Lauren's social life is pretty boring, but she loves reading, coffee & hot tea, and living in her pajamas. She's a glutton for punishment, and regrettably signs up for things like Room Mom in her children's classes, leaving her up all night doing things like baking dozens of cookies between swear words. Her favorite food is avocado. If she could, she'd find a way to put it on everything.
Lauren is done writing in third person now.
Bringing the mug to my lips, the last drop of lukewarm coffee slides down my throat as the waitress zips by. I sigh, my hand halting in midair before coming to rest on the table again. I can't do much of anything without coffee. Can hardly remember my old name without the heavenly liquid, much less my new one. If I'm going to craft any sort of decent plan to get Brooks back, I'll need a refill.
There she is. A crown of blonde shifting nervously from foot to foot at the front door. Two douchebags engage her, because she's pretty—okay, beautiful … whatever. Raised brows and sly smiles adorn their faces. She rolls her eyes. Raises a hand to flaunt the rock that should be on my finger instead. Stubborn, they keep trying. She steps to the counter, shakes her head at the staff, then shrugs in exasperation. A whoosh of hair as she spins around, heading for the door.


Katherine Borkowski Byrne is known for her intuitive brushwork and the use of accidents to express pure experience. With opera music playing, she paints with old socks, sticks, and fingers as well as brushes. The paint flies all over the studio often landing on her head and face. The energy is a physical energy as she dances and moves around the canvas on the wall or paper on the floor and she is totally absorbed into the act of painting. She captures that feeling of oneness between the human touch of the marks made and the natural forces at work in the landscape using the wonderful shapes found in the twigs, roots, vines, clouds, rocks, water, flowers, bugs and other creatures. Her influences include the American abstract expressionists, the German Expressionists and the philosophy and ideas found in Zen.
Borkowski-Byrne's work hangs in many private and public collections. She is a graduate of the Boston Museum School and Tufts University.


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Dickey lifts UNC-Greensboro over The Citadel 79-69
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — James Dickey had 19 points and 12 rebounds to lead UNC Greensboro to a 79-69 win over The Citadel on Wednesday night.
Isaiah Miller had 14 points for UNC Greensboro (14-5, 4-2 Southern Conference). Angelo Allegri added 13 points. Malik Massey had 10 points.
Fletcher Abee had 20 points and six rebounds for the Bulldogs (6-10, 0-5), whose losing streak stretched to five games. Brady Spence added 17 points. Kaiden Rice had 13 points and six rebounds. Kaelon Harris had nine points and 10 rebounds.
UNC Greensboro matches up against Chattanooga at home on Saturday. The Citadel plays VMI on the road on Saturday.
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McDonald County Back To Basics Community Meeting by B2B Submission | February 7, 2019 at 4:00 a.m.
The McDonald County Back to Basics Community Group meeting will begin with a potluck at 6:30 p.n. and the meeting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, at the New Mac Community Room located on old Highway 71 North of the High School, in Anderson, Mo. These monthly meetings are held the second Thursday of each month.
Paul Rouse will have a new trivia segment for us and it is a surprise! Gotta come to find out!
Valentine's Day "Things You Love" Potluck!
February is the month for LOVE, so bring your favorite, most loved dish to this month's potluck. Love it all?, then bring anything you like including main dishes, sides and/or desserts Please bring your own table service (plates, utensils) to conserve resources. Beverages will be furnished.
Entertainment - Trilogy Valentine's Special!
Speaker -- Don't eat that TOADSTOOL!! Or is it a morel? Scherry Bennett will be here to tell us how to know the difference between edible and poison mushrooms. If we're really nice, maybe she will tell us where to find those prized morels!
Bring your -- Best Choice stickers and used batteries to recycle.
PLEASE -- bring a canned or packaged food donation to be given to Crosslines (must be non-expired and non-dented!) If everyone brought just one can, we would have 40 or 50 cans to help feed some hungry folks. We will be continuing the drawing for monthly door prize. You will get one entry for the prize for each can or item of food that you bring.
Remember for winter -- If McDonald County Schools are closed due to weather on our meeting day, we will have no B2B meeting.
The McDonald County Back to Basics Community Group (B2B) was formed in 2008 as a grassroots effort to combine education, information, community services and a social outlet so that residents can support each other in good times and bad. This activity is fun, free and open to all, including those from surrounding communities.


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Sedation dentistry provides a safe and comfortable experience for patients to get the care they need and want. Through the use of oral medications and proper monitoring, sedation techniques allow patients to be relaxed and anxiety-free during dental procedures.
Studies show that 30% of the population avoids the dentist due to fear. Medication taken orally at the office an hour before a procedure enables the fearful patient to be comfortable and unafraid during the appointment, often allowing for more dental work to be performed at one sitting, saving the patient visits to the office and time away from work. Dr. Ambis has certification through New York State to perform oral conscious sedation and is a member of the Dental Organization for Conscous Sedation (DOCS).


Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday inaugurated the board of the N25 billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF), expressing optimism that the initiative, which was one of his campaign promises, will positively and productively engage teeming youths in the state.
The former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, will serve as chairman of the board, while members include Engr. Dele Martins, Mrs. Bilikis Adebiyi-Abiola, Mr. Otto Orondam, Mrs. Olufunmi Olatunde Daudu, Mr. Tunde Bank-Anthony, Mr. Michael Popoola Ajayi, Mr. Tunde Durosinmi-Etti and Dr. Mustapha Akinkunmi.
Mr. Akintunde Oyebode will serve as the Executive Secretary of the Fund.
The Governor, who inaugurated the board at the Banquet Hall, Lagos House, Alausa, said the establishment of the Fund marked a turning point in the responsiveness of his administration to the yearnings of youths and unemployed persons in the state.
He described the ETF as an instrument designed to galvanise the creative and innovative energies of all Lagosians, noting that the Fund would only be available to Lagosians and residents of the state.
He said members of the ETF board were carefully selected based on their track record of professional integrity and selflessness, and therefore charged them to make transparency and accountability their watchword.
"I urge all Lagosians especially our young entrepreneurs and artisans to embrace this opportunity. The process of accessing the fund must be transparent, and beneficiaries will be chosen only on the strength and quality of their applications. The management of this Fund will be guided by global best practices and strict adherence to the rules and procedures spelt out in the law.
"Fellow Lagosians, this initiative has been designed to succeed. Our government will commit N6.25billion every year within the four years of this administration to a total of N25billion.


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Why Did We Establish Medical Division And It Is Named AbleMed?
Since business starting in Apr. 2005, I have insistently led team to focus on high-quality and produce high-precision parts in KANOU which others are unwilling to challenge. In Japanese market with strict quality requirements, we provided OEM processing in the initial stage, meanwhile continuously learning to accumulate precision processing technology. With insistent efforts in 16 years, our team has won affirmation and recognition from Japanese customers and successfully become business partner of 65 Japanese customers. According to an in-depth market analysis we made in 2015, KANOU has been in the supply chain of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi and other clients in automobile industry, it means KANOU group has grown into a veritable enterprise in automobile industry.
In recent years, more and more new customers in medical field appear in our sight, and new projects launched in the medical industry continue to enter our production line. However, due to the long certification cycle in medical industry, the sales performance related to these medical customers is not obviously reflected in the business statements in time in early times. In 2020, with the new projects of medical customers entering mass production stage, the proportion of medical customers steadily increases in the business statements, rapidly becoming the second largest customer group after automotive industry.
Since the end of 2019, COVID-19 changed our life worldwide. The increasing number of customers in medical device industry prompted us to conduct in-depth analysis on the development prospect of medical industry. The management board is very optimistic about the future of medical industry, and we have capability to serve the medical device industry. For 16 years, we have been engaged in the processing of high-quality precision parts in multi variety and small batch. Our skilled processing technical team and experienced quality management enable us for further achievements in the field of medical device, and contribute to people's healthcare worldwide.
Therefore, the board of director officially approved the proposal of establishing a professional team for business development in medical industry, and I personally served as CEO in Medical Division. We committed to integrate group internal resources to build an excellent team, to level up to the requirements of medical industry.
KANOU means "possible" in Japanese, implying our business philosophy of constantly turning "impossible" into "possible". Considering KANOU is not easy to pronounce in English, we use "able" to express the same meaning, plus "medical", in order to enable all international customers call out our brand name accurately. Finally, we name Medical Division: AbleMed.
From Apr. 2021 on, AbleMed began its independent operation officially, stepping after Precision Machinery Division and Optoelectronics Division, it is treated as the third "child" in KANOU group. I will lead it grow into the core supplier of the top-class medical device corporates and make no less efforts than anyone for that. Hereby, I hope to have your closely attention and support, thank you.


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import org.qfox.jestful.commons.pool.Validator;

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    @Override
    public boolean validate(AioConnection connection) {
        return connection.available();
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    @Override
    public long timeout(AioConnection connection) {
        long timeout = connection.getIdleTimeout();
        return timeout < 0 ? timeout : timeout * 1000L;
    }
}


Our mountain of a man/beast is available today. We'd love to see what you all can come up with by way of cool renders with Ruckus.
We're excited to add this new character to our base line-up of core figures. We feel there is a lot of potential with this behemoth of a man.
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Here's a quick one using Ruckus and Taka!
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Here is with Dante- Duna head morph and texture. Can't wait for the Ruckus Battle Gear!
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Nice one...I have an iray render cooking at the moment with the orc dialed in.
Niiiice renders Laurie. I have to play with him for sure.
Quick render of Ruckus wearing Stephen's Garden Shorts and Sweete Brythe's Reyn Jacket.
I love Taka with Ruckus, but I really REALLY love the Dante Duna Ruckus combination!
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Here's my first real render with him...mix of Ruckus with the orc.
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This is a WIP as I am trying to fool with a cartoonish render. Obviously the Sky is not right but I do kind of like Rukus and the Terradome 2 mountains.
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I like the toon style!! Is it Poser or DS?
Ruckus with Orc looks cool, Pen.
Cartoonish Ruckus looks great, Dragonsegg.
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That's awesome. Would love to see your outfit on his sidekick the upcoming Pugsley as well.
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I'd love to see someone create an image out of character. You know... a juxtaposition type image. Such as... this big beast looking at a Songbird ReMix bird or butterfly up close, or perhaps him caressing Baby Luna, or Whisper.
Paul created a pose for just this type of thing.
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Rafael Paula Barbosa, auch bekannt unter seinem Kampfnamen Zain Lopes, (* 1924 in Safim, Portugiesisch-Guinea; † 2. Januar 2007 in Dakar, Senegal) war ein guinea-bissauischer Widerstandskämpfer und Politiker der PAIGC. Nach seinem Ausschluss aus der Partei und einer Gefängnisstrafe gründete Barbosa eine eigene Partei, mit der er jedoch keinen Erfolg erzielen konnte.

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Rafael Barbosa wurde 1924 in Safim, einem Vorort der späteren Hauptstadt Bissau, als Sohn einer guineischen Mutter und eines kapverdischen Vaters geboren, er gehörte der Ethnie der Pepel an. Barbosa war als Bauleiter für öffentlichen Bauten tätig, bevor er zusammen mit anderen 1956 die Widerstands- und Unabhängigkeitsbewegung PAIGC gründete. Barbosa leitete unter dem Kampfnamen Zain Lopes das Zentralkomitee der Partei.

Am 13. März 1962 verhafteten Agenten der portugiesischen Geheimpolizei PIDE Barbosa. Er verbüßte eine Gefängnisstrafe von sieben Jahren – angeblich im Konzentrationslager von Tarrafal –, bis er am 3. August 1969 freigelassen wurde. Laut Berichten versuchte Barbosa nach seiner Freilassung die PAIGC dazuzubewegen auf den weiteren Kampf zu verzichten, und mit dem portugiesischen Kolonialregime Frieden zu schließen. Die PAIGC-Führung ging hingegen davon aus, dass Barbosa in seiner Haft Strategien der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung verraten habe, und schloss ihn 1970 wegen angeblicher Kollaboration mit der Kolonialmacht aus der Partei aus.

Nach der Unabhängigkeit und der Machtübernahme der PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau und Kap Verde 1973 bzw. 1975, vermutete die Parteiführung, dass Barbosa in den Mordanschlag auf den Parteiführer Amílcar Cabral 1973 in Conakry involviert gewesen war. In einem Gerichtsverfahren wurde er am 8. Oktober 1976 des Hochverrats für schuldig befunden und zum Tod verurteilt. Am 4. März 1977 wurde diese Strafe in 15 Jahre Strafarbeit umgewandelt.

Im Zuge des Staatsstreichs gegen die vor allem von kapverdischen Parteimitgliedern dominierte PAIGC-Führung durch João Bernardo Vieira, konnte Barbosa die Haft verlassen. Er konnte für kurze Zeit im nationalen Radio sprechen, wobei die Übertragung jedoch unterbrochen und Barbosa wieder verhaftet wurde.

Barbosa kam erst im Zuge des Demokratisierungsprozesses Guinea-Bissaus 1990 frei. Er gründete daraufhin als einer der ersten im Mai 1990 eine eigene Oppositionspartei mit dem Namen Frente Democrática Social (Sozialdemokratische Front), konnte jedoch bei keiner Parlamentswahl ein Mandat erringen. Dennoch gehörte er bis zuletzt zu den bekanntesten Politikern des Landes.

Nach langer, schwerer Krankheit starb er 2007 in einem Krankenhaus in der senegalesischen Hauptstadt Dakar. Er erhielt auf Anweisung von Staatspräsident Vieira ein Staatsbegräbnis.

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Biden, Dem's infrastructure bill to mandate anti-drunk driving tech in cars
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Apparently, drunk driving is infrastructure, too.
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill President Biden will sign into law on Monday includes a provision that will require automakers to install an anti-drunk driving system into all new cars.
The mandate falls under the section of the bill that provides $17 billion to road safety programs. Under the timeline laid out by the bill, the mandate could go into effect as soon as 2025.
"To ensure the prevention of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles," the bill says in summing up the findings of Congressional research.
"Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule prescribing a Federal motor vehicle safety standard … that requires passenger motor vehicles manufactured after the effective date of that standard to be equipped with advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology," according to the provision buried in the massive bill.
Biden will sign the in-fighting plagued infrastructure bill on November 15, 2021 around 3 pm.
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It's not clear exactly what the anti-drunk driving system would look like, but the bill says it needs to be able to "passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired."
It also needs to be able to "detect whether the blood alcohol concentration of a driver of a motor vehicle is equal to or greater than" the legal limit, or 0.08 percent, the bill says.
And the system must "prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected," according to the bill.
Part of the bill mandates that all new cars must be built with an anti-drunk driving system.
Biden's anti-drunk driving mandate falls under the section of the bill that provides $17 billion to road safety programs.
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In defense of the mandate, the bill says it could prevent more than 9,400 "alcohol-impaired driving fatalities" every year.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving hailed the provision as "the beginning of the end of drunk driving."
"We need technology to stop the nightmare on our roads," MADD National President Alex Otte said.
"Existing technologies and those in development will stop the hazardous driving behavior of people who refuse to make the right choice themselves."
Representatives for the Big Three Detroit automakers, Ford, Stellantis and General Motors, did not immediately return The Post's request for comment.
Several anti-drunk driving agencies including MADD have praised the section of the bill calling it "an end to drunk driving."
The requirement is sure to put a costly burden on car manufacturers — not to mention the legal questions it will raise about whether manufacturers will now be responsible for drunk driving crashes in which a driver overrode the mandated technology.
Dan Hearsch, managing director in the automotive and industrial practice at AlixPartners, told Fortune that the questions raised by the mandate are just some of the first issues that will face manufacturers as they roll out electric cars with increasingly autonomous driving systems.
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The Pawlak Funeral Home was opened in October of 1998 at 1640 Smith Rd. in Temperance, Michigan. Built on a 2.3 acre site near the Bedford Hills Golf Club, the business is owned and operated by Michael & Deborah Pawlak. The Home's structure, built by Fornwald Fine Homes, is 8,000 square feet in size, and includes a memorial walkway and gazebo. The Michael W. Pawlak Funeral Home is one of two funeral homes located in Bedford Township, MI. The business serves all faiths and offers funerals, pre-need planning, memorial services, cremations, caskets, markers, and monuments.
Michael W. Pawlak, a licensed mortician, was raised in Bedford Township and is a 1979 graduate of Bedford High School. He received his certificate in mortuary science from Wayne State University in 1986.
Mr. Pawlak worked for Czopek Funeral Home in Wyandotte while attending college. Upon completion, he worked for 15 years at a local funeral home in Temperance, Michigan. He has also been associated with the Earle Little Funeral Home in Monroe, MI.
Deborah (Nichols) Pawlak, a Blissfield native and 1983 Blissfield High graduate, worked as a sales representative for Medical Value Plan (MVP), a former Toledo area HMO, and recently worked as an interior decorator. Deborah also decorated the funeral home.
The Pawlak's opened the funeral home in response to the continued population growth in the greater Bedford Township area.


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