text:
Lost Lake: Alaskan with cystic fibrosis will run for a cure this weekend
By Mike Campbell
Updated: September 28, 2016 Published: August 24, 2012
When nearly 700 runners press together Saturday morning at the Primrose Campground north of Seward to start one of Alaska's most popular cross-country races, some will run to win, others to set personal records, most to soak in some gorgeous backcountry scenery while racking up a tough workout on a course that race organizer Patrick Simpson describes as "grueling."
Anchorage's Sabrina Smith Walker, 26, will set off on the hilly 15.8-mile Lost Lake Run, to knock down yet another barrier in a lifetime full of bashing them.
Lost Lake Run is a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and for only the second time in the race's 21-year history the field will include runners afflicted with the disease.
'Hardest part is breathing'
Cystic fibrosis is a chronic disease that afflicts some 30,000 Americans. Most who live with it have their lungs clogged with a thick, sticky mucus that brings on wheezing, persistent coughs and frequent lung infections. Just a few decades ago, most children with cystic fibrosis often didn't live out their teenage years. Today, the average lifespan is 37, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, with some living into their 40s and beyond. The Lost Lake Run has raised more than $1.3 million in cash for the foundation, helping scientists fighting the disease caused by a defective gene.
"The hardest part for me is the breathing," Walker said. "I have to focus on that. I have to concentrate on deep breathing and getting air into my lungs."
That can be difficult during normal daily activities for many CF patients, but Walker has found that running actually helps clear her passages. She particularly enjoys getting out on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in her hometown several times a week -- but the Lost Lake Trail, which tops out at an elevation of 2,100 feet, will be the most challenging run she's attempted.
"I cough a lot and spit up stuff a lot," she said. "But the more I run, the easier it is for me to get my breathing patterns down. Getting all that gunk out helps me breathe better. The more I run, the more I take care of my lungs, the more the problems of CF seem preventable. On longer runs, it's easier for me to get a rhythm going."
Tough regimen
Taking care of her lungs takes time. Many of Walker's days include three nebulizer treatments, a sinus rinse, six enzymes and two calcium supplements among an assortment of pills and a vest to aid breathing that she wears for 20 minutes twice a day.
All that allows Walker, a substitute teacher, more freedom to do what she loves, and running is high on the list. After all, there are times she thinks she's living on borrowed time. First diagnosed in kindergarten, it wasn't long before a doctor told her family not to expect Walker to live past age 9. "Back then, not as much was know about CF," she recalled. "It was really hard for my parents."
Walker attended West High School in Anchorage, where she ran on both the cross-country and track teams. But not until Walker was a junior was anyone on the team aware she was sick.
"Honestly, when she started, we had no idea," said Joe Alward, her coach at West for four years. "None of my coaches or assistant coaches knew that she had a medical issue." That changed when one of Walker's teammates told Alward the runner was in the hospital during her junior year.
"I was surprised. I talked with Scott, her father, when I got (to the hospital) and he told me this is something that happens once and twice a year where she has to go in and get an overhaul on her body because she's just wiped out. It takes lots of medicine and treatment.
"She looked terrible," Alward said. "I thought she was dying. But her dad assured me that even though she gets really sick, her body is able to recover. I think maybe that's why she's such a gutsy competitor. She just likes to compete."
Walker will need to draw on that instinct Saturday as the trail winds uphill for much of the first nine miles, before leveling off and then cascading downhill to finish at the Bear Creek Fire Station. Somewhere along the way, she may think of Jerry Cahill, a runner battling cystic fibrosis who is now in his 50s and who recently endured a lung transplant.
"He ran in a 10-K race three months post transplant," Walker said. "That determination and strength is inspirational and motivating to me. And I want to do all that I can so I can prolong getting a lung transplant."
When she reaches the finish line, husband Adam Walker will be waiting with a warm embrace – the kind of reward that keeps any runner going.
Contact Mike Campbell at mcampbell(at)alaskadispatch.com


The Utility Operations bargaining table is still in recess pending movement by the Company at the Common Interest Table. The CIT is where all wages and benefits are negotiated simultaneously for the BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC Agreement, the BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC for Utility Operations Agreement and the AT&T Billing Southeast, LLC Agreement. There are several Utility Operations proposals still open at the CIT in addition to proposals from the other two contracts represented there.
While we have been in recess, we have worked on issues that affect our Utility Operations members that are not necessarily bargaining items. We have seen some progress and are continuing to address safety concerns on a daily basis.
Bargaining in 2015 has been frustrating for many as the Company has been unwilling to offer fair wage and benefit proposals to this point. Although we have come to some tentative agreements, there are still proposals on the table which will improve the work lives of our members. The Bargaining Team remains ready to resume negotiations once the Company makes realistic offers at the CIT regarding pay and benefits. Please continue to participate in mobilization efforts as these are intended to inspire AT&T to get serious about bargaining in 2015.


BKP has a long history of producing event music Dubai including, The New years eve fireworks for Burj Khalifa, The UAE national day events and the record breaking fireworks for the Palm and the World for New Years eve 2013 which was the the biggest firework display in the world and countless others across the region.
We understand the pressures and last minute changes requested by clients for event music Dubai and we are on hand, 24 hours a day 7 days a week with 6 studios to cater to this. We are based here in the region which means we understand the local musical differences between the various cultures across the Gulf.


Australia has lots of gas. Then why all the hand-wringing about an east coast gas supply shortage?
Countries that make an effort to reduce gas dependence may get a long term advantage even if it is expensive in the short term. The US may have set a trap for itself as fracking has lowered natgas prices to less than they were a decade ago. Some US states (eg Vermont, California) have replaced nuclear plants with renewables fronted gas generation which has more emissions and will be more costly if the gas price reverts.
Everything gas does has an alternative approach. Ammonia for fertiliser can be made from electricity, air and water. In theory peaking power plants can be replaced by batteries though the price needs to come way down. Gas for low heat can be replaced by induction cooking and heat pumps while high heat can come from burning biomass. All this is simpler with a large amount of nuclear baseload.
Therefore Australia's high gas prices may be a blessing in disguise if we can learn to need it less. When high gas prices come back to the US they will be in a predicament.
Geoff - I am under the impression that much of the exported gas was sold forward long ago. I seemed to recall deals being signed when Howard was PM with some fanfare. You would expect some forward selling with projects of that size. As for gas deposits there is plenty in Aus, but the gas is owned by the governments who charge royalties not the farmers. In the US the farmers get the royalties so they welcome exploration. Here the farmers don't get much hence the opposition..
Yeah, passing strange how our gas after costly compression and transport cost the Japanese just $7.00 per K, with compression and transport costs deducted. While we here pay $20.00 per K for our gas. It's our gas mined from our ground under licence and a mining lease we grant! We're selling our gas, because we've S.F.A., else to sell to earn essential export dollars.
This is what happens when you've traded your economic sovereignty for the modern day equivalent of forty pieces of silver? We might address this with a very different mindset and some economic competence at the helm no longer willing to just give away every advantage for some largely illusionary foreign defense umbrella?
The same one that stood shoulder to shoulder with our south Vietnamese allies and were forced to concede the field to a rag tag hopelessly outgunned Asian army who outmaneuvered them at virtually every turn.
Gas? We've all we need and forever and for nix, but only if we embrace green technology and build and use Aussie invented, smell free closed cycle, dual tank system bio-digestors to create endless biogas (methane).
Every Aussie family produces enough biologic waste to support this; and better use of a wasted energy resource than endless flushing into already hopelessly polluted oceans!
On top of that is the energy whose name shall not pass our lips our legislators! Thorium as nuclear energy. Thorium is fertile not fissile and therefore cannot be compressed to produce a nuclear explosion nor does is produce any weapons grade plutonium in its reaction, but will burn it up if added as problematic waste needing to be fully and finally depleted to prevent its use in nuclear fission bombs!
Now there may well soon be a international market for thorium and when that time comes our pollies will likely form a conga line in their haste to trade away our heritage. We have thousands of tons of it already concentrated as waste from sand mining!
We therefore need a new broom that sweeps out the whole rotten self serving lot.
We need to unlock our own still unsold remaining energy resources, even a the risk of huge sovereign risks to the same folks charging us double for our gas/energy etc!
I have no idea why we treat these price gouging foreign speculators as (sacred cows) vastly more important than endlessly and unfairly exploited Aussie consumers?
Moreover, if we are going to need a new broom it has to be one the sweeps out the covertly compliant garbage from both houses?
Otherwise all you'll get is running interference and energy policy gridlock, like now!?
There are so many things we need to do for Australia and Australians, starting with eliminating huge government waste as massive and completely unnecessary double handed cost adding admin.
What we can no longer allow, are profit demanding middlemen who add nothing of value, just their profit demands, be they in the private sector or public sphere?
A citizen's initiated referendum could be what it takes to end this snouts to the trough routine that passes for a competitive free market and or, good inclusive representative democracy?
And the likely reason we will never ever have a comprehensive bill of irrevocable rights!?
With the add nothing but profit demands middleman outlawed the cost of living could easily be halved!
Nobody is owed a living least of all practitioners tasked with unraveling entirely counter productive man-made complexity. Better we just eliminate that complexity, adding around 7% to the average bottom line in the process.
The gig has to be up! Or should we pathetic, apathetic, captive market milch cows, just roll over and beg for a tummy rub from those who are bleeding us white, as they wax fat on price gouged profits, and it seems, with covert permission?
Don't just do something, stand there! Or better yet just keep wasting or refusing to use precious votes dummy!?
Yes Tas. we can if we are actually led by folks who put our interests ahead of other considerations. Even tiny tassie supported some sand mining (rutile, Burnie) where thorium became a waste product to be disposed of. And due to the specific gravity, easily done via gravity separation. It's down there still?
Anyhow, the tried and proven walk away safe thorium technology produces useful heat, enough to create endless catalytically created hydrogen from sea water. And if we chose combine it with liquefied Co2 also extracted from seawater to make diesel alternatives and or ammonia based fertilizer. and not theoretical, but already proven technology. We open so many doors by just doing it with already tried and proven technology.
And for virtually nothing, if we use affordable, income earning mass produced modules as processing electricity generating plants to process other folks nuclear waste and extract valuable miracle cure isotopes. And very safely, while the reactor is up and running, with the inclusion of robotic arms.
Simply put, we have plenty of our own money in our two trillion dollar super fund, which can be used to leverage two trillion more for energy, fuel and affordable water projects, all of which enable huge wealth creation for us, but only if we're smarter than we've been thus far in our race to sell everything not nailed down to debt laden foreign speculators?
Why we gave away the one step process for steel production by employing a Yank, Chip Goodyear as CEO of BHP, and stood idly by as he gifted it to our American rivals.
Similarly, K Rudd gave away the also locally invented method of uranium enrichment using far more efficient and vastly less costly pulsed laser light as the method.
Perhaps we need some retrospective enabling legislation, righting wrongs, to claw back these last two as Australian invented innovation.
Just by taking a leaf from visionary Lee Kwan Yu's financial, investing in your own people and their better ideas, book. And intelligence, finally at the tiller.
Geoff, the short answer is, incompitent governments playing in a game where they were way out of their debth. The insulation debacle take two.
You see the gas companies came to the table offering to extract the gas and pay the governments royalties. To do this they had to meet certain abligations, which they did and they then went off and invested billions in prospecting and building infrastructure.
Now, and this is the killer, the future governments have come along and requested that these gas companies all of a sudden, after investing their billions and playing by the rules as set out, are being asked'forced to retain some of the gas for the domestic market. Shifting the goal posts.
Of cause here in QLD, one of the states with huge reserves, the then premier Anna Bligh, has moved on to the corporate world having turned us into a 'basket case' and despite the mine field she has left behind, gets to wipe her hands of the whole debacle, as do all retired pollies.
Big business requires certainty, and my tip is this back flip on gas will cause imense damage to our future mega projects moving forward, simply because the negotiators (governments) were to use a famous movie line, writing cheques their egos coundn't cash.


All of Boroko Motors Parts departments are linked by a state of the art on-line computer system, providing real time data, accurate identification of parts using electronic parts catalogue etc. Parts availability planning is assisted with forecasting, procurement, distribution and supply chain management system, supporting our motto of quick and efficient service to our valuable customers.
With highly competent staff, we strive to deliver a premium experience by exceeding customer expectations. We are committed to ensure competitive pricing as part of our objective of achieving Excellence in Customer Service.
We cater to different market segments with sales of genuine parts and accessories through retail outlets, workshops counters, to trade, government and fleet.
To discuss what you need, contact us directly or complete the online form. Give us as much detail as you can about what you need.


Francisco Lopez is in charge of the criminal docket, and the removal defense docket.
Daniela Galvan is our receptionist and office manager.
Yajaira Villa is our Senior Paralegal. She assists the attorneys with all relevant procedures and coordinates client contact.
Monica Loyo oversees the Mexican law practice and handles our lobbying efforts in Mexico.
Giorgio Pellegrini has successfully advocated for our clients charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses.


text:
Linni Meister (1985. december 4. –) német származású norvég modell és énekes. Német édesapja és Srí Lanka-i édesanya gyermekeként született Norvégiában. Főleg glamour modellkedéssel foglalkozik, Oslóban él.

Jegyzetek

További információk

1985-ben született személyek
Német származású norvégok
Modellek
Norvég énekesek
Élő személyek

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Technology – Is It Destroying our Work Life Balance?
"It ends up becoming a vicious cycle. Companies see that employees are 'always on' and quick to respond, so they start to expect quicker response times and more hours out of employees.
Blended Learning: what is it and how does it work?
Imagine a truly functional workplace where learning is fully integrated into the fibre of the company. What does it look like? How effective can it be?
Book: Can You Be Trusted?
Book Review: Can you be trusted? Professor Roger Steare and 'ethicability' gets to the bottom of how to decide what's right and finding the courage to do it.
The report by Development Economics warns that more than 122,000 workers in the retail and food sectors lack skills in areas such as communication, teamwork and time management, leading to poor performance.
Listen to James Heckman and the hard evidence about soft skills.


text:
Q: Vlookup partial number in Excel I'm trying to use a vlookup on telephone numbers by looking for the last 8 characters as some are begin 4401 and others just 1.
This is what I have so far:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP("*"&(TRUNC(RIGHT(A3*1,8),0)*1),J:N,5,FALSE),"Unknown")

Column J contains the phone number and column N contains the source of the call (which is what I'm trying to extract).
The problem I have is that the iferror 'Unknown' is being returned. If I change the numbers to words then it works, it seems that it's numbers that are the problem. Any ideas?

A: Are you willing and able to modify the lookup spreadsheet structure slightly to add a Column K using the formula below in cell K1 and dragging that down??
=TEXT(J1,0)

Then your VLOOKUP will now see text instead of numbers. Therefore the wildcard will work. Just make sure to move your range accordingly (J:N to K:O).
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP("*"&(TRUNC(RIGHT(A3*1,8),0)*1),K:O,5,FALSE),"Unknown")

Edit: If you do not wish to modify your structure (probably best not to but case by case), this array formula will do the job. Make sure you hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter after entering the formula. If you don't, everything will return "Unknown". Ctrl+Shift+Enter is how Excel knows it is an array function.
=IFERROR(INDEX($N:$N,MATCH("y",IF(RIGHT(A3,8)=RIGHT($J:$J,8),"y",),0)),"Unknown")

With this latter method, you may want to set some sort of bound on your $J:$J range in order to speed up the function so it isn't checking every row in that column. Pick something bigger than your data will ever be (e.g., $J$1:$J$50000).

A: This works for me:
{=INDEX($N$1:$N$4,MATCH(A3&"",RIGHT($J$1:$J$4,8),0),1)}

You need to enter it as an array formula - so control + enter after keying in the formula.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
BALENCIAGA S/S 2015 RTW – RUNWAY
SO GUCCI 06/10/2014 AARB Magazine	Leave a comment
PARIS – Up until this point at Balenciaga, Alexander Wang has been fairly reverent, not just of Cristóbal Balenciaga and his couture codes, but also of Nicolas Ghesquière, Wang's immediate predecessor.
The first model stormed out to the soundtrack's thumping beats in a sweeping duster coat that peeled back to reveal a snug, partially sheer tee and cutaway shorts. At a glance, it was tempting to see signs of Wang's early work in New York—the way he blended sport and the street. But that's only part of the story. Wang was in Paris this summer during the Tour de France, and it was the world of cycling—the competitors' second-skin kits, the shoes that clamp into pedals—that influenced the built-for-speed feeling of this collection. Silhouettes were lean and athletic: the pants leggings-tight, shirts clingy, and dresses cut like a glove.
Embroideries elevated it. Balenciaga, Wang pointed out at a preview, wasn't only about pure, austere lines. "There was a long chapter of decorative embellishments," he said. This is more complicated territory for Wang; couture-type handwork has proven tricky for him to master in his two years at the Paris house. His approach here was to stick with tonal embroideries and think along geometric lines, and it paid off. A black jersey with jet beading and burned ribbon stitched in a lattice pattern looked like a keepsake, but it had the cool factor of a T-shirt. A net dress strung with black seed and bugle beads gave off sporty vibes despite its lofty provenance (it was inspired by the diamond tile floor of Cristóbal's atelier). Not everything connected like those two pieces, but this was nonetheless the right track for Wang at Balenciaga. Source: style.com
Images: vogue.com
BALENCIAGAPARISPARIS FASHION WEEKSO GUCCI
Previous PostHOUSE FOR THE TREES, JUNGLE IN THE CITY!Next PostARABIAN NIGHTS, ABU DHABI'S PAST AND FUTURE

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Rooms shaped like small adobe and clay houses, surrounded by cobblestone streets with typical street lights, a church with a central plaza and large green areas with a hilly structure, are all part of the traditional scenario where you may now enjoy the #AllInclusive experience in Peru.
It is the 'El Pueblo Resort Convention Center', a picturesque rural property located in the province of Santa Clara, only 30 minutes from Lima's financial area, amidst the capital's metropolitan area in the Ate district, conceived architecturally to introduce you to a vacation inspired by the centennial tradition of the Andean peoples of the Inca nation.
You will enjoy 228 colorful rooms, with an adobe theme, clay roof tiles and wooden balconies, family pools with a slide, specialized restaurants, bars, sports courts, a discotheque, a small theater with evening shoes and more of our unparalleled #AllInclusive plan.
Also, if you are searching for the ideal location for your convention or event, this pueblo resort has 8 conference rooms with a capacity of more than 700 people, far from the roar and chaos of the city.
A total of 16 hectares of millenary landscape of the Peruvian mountain ranges that you may visit by horse and where you will also find a replica of the "Plaza de Armas", as well as a provincial Mayor's Hall that serves as a museum so you can learn all about the history of this fascinating nation.
¡A piece of the Andes near Lima that you cannot miss!


Drop by those sites of seasonal companies to learn what tasks are available and at the function which you can apply on line. Currently you can select from just two exceptional options on line. Inch thing common with just about every acquire is there is some type of cashier concerned, regardless of whether in person. You're entitled for additional pay if you're expected to perform overtime. Monthly prices generally end up costing you more than the usual yearly fee despite the brand new rates. Membership expenses are nonrefundable but it's potential to upgrade at any given moment. You may possibly be from work, however you must make them understand that you are prepared to accept a position which is hard and permits you to grow and relish your work. Before you take action, ask the recruiter when there are any alterations to the schedule to anticipate within the forseeable future. After you initially get started, you're going to be more enticed to take tasks willynilly whenever they truly are offered for your requirements, no matter where they have been situated, nevertheless, you are getting to function more efficiently inside the contest that you opt for a place and stay with it, which way you are able to knock off multiple visits daily that you perform. With some analysis, a person may select which sites provide the very best job publishing resources. So after you dedicate to a first career, start searching for different opportunities within the precise way you will be traveling. Or, even the job may request that you work at various changes on particular times of the week. Most significantly, a Govt project provides career security and permanence aside from many different advantages. This type of office is just a great resource for info and suggestions about how student jobs. In the event you determine of your shop staff a particular merchandiser has never been available in awhile, then try and learn just what corporation they benefit. Ordinarily, if an employee is absent or late consistently, they'll be terminated by direction. For example, he might aid their favourite director with paperwork in order to help that boss avoid being in trouble. In addition, if he discovers that the work to be enjoyable, they might be far more inspired to work hard so they have the ability in order to complete. Employers will desire to see just how they are in a position to equilibrium and activities along with school achievement. Most do not will need to work, also there is minor a company can do on this! Plenty of individuals will change the business that we work for, our position, and also our livelihood, together with changing tasks. You not only want to begin a online business wherever your existence will become seen by multi-millions of customers, however, you must also be that firm that can make money! If however you are interviewing to get a customer confronting or telephone role then stating that you're a fantastic trainee who will develop rapport easily having a wide selection of persons would be a very easy means to accentuate your strength. Fiscal and credit companies appear to worker credit ratings more usually compared to many other companies. Once you have opted to request employment share application, you have to exhibit your employer together with how it will get the task done. Vocation ideas are advantageous to any livelihood. This type of plan gives you the advantage to own a project while in faculty and as soon as you graduate.


P135 Keep Your Cool Oven Mitts!
Keep your hands cool while holding hot dishes from the oven. Versions include 'Double-handed Oven Mitt' and the 'Round Oven Mitt'. Great for gift-giving or for those who love to personalize their kitchens. Uses 'Insulbrite' thermal fleece.
The double-handed oven mitt works great for lifting casseroles out of the oven. The round oven mitt is quick and handy. This pattern is great for customizing your oven mitts to your kitchen decor. Or select fabrics for the oven mitts that are personalized for a special person.


With a powerful electric motor, natural responsive body control and smooth braking, the Kiwano KO1 Plus Plus series is an incredible riding experience, like no other electric rideable.
Delivering a long range battery pack, water-resistant electronics, advanced connectivity, high-torque custom motor and advanced material construction.
lower body stability and control.
YOU'VE ADDED KIWANO KO1+ TO YOUR CART!!


Tip: Click on the Concerto for Dark Knight 10 manga image to go to the next page. You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between pages.
Concerto for Dark Knight 10 released! You are now reading Concerto for Dark Knight 10 online. If you are bored from Concerto for Dark Knight manga, you can try surprise me link at top of page or select another manga like Concerto for Dark Knight 10 from our huge manga list.
Concerto for Dark Knight 10 released in manga panda fastest, recommend your friends to read Concerto for Dark Knight 10 now!
Best regards; mangareader: #1 resource for Concerto for Dark Knight Scans Online.


Music Placement on BET's "The Game"
Very exciting news today! My song, "Reason Why Your Heart Breaks" was used on the hit BET show, "The Game" earlier this year. Yeah, I know, I find out extremely late. This makes my 8th TV placement over the last few years, and I am just getting started.


'Let's build a single supercomputer that is smarter than all of humanity put together.' While that sounds ominously similar to what a mad scientist in a fictional universe would say before unleashing a deadly robotic that destroys all humanity, that is exactly the ideal behind the advancement of artificial intelligence as we have come to call it. Technologists around the world have long fantasized about an artificial intelligence so powerful, that it is smarter than all of humanity combined.They have had romantic dreams about how an advancement of that caliber could forward the scientific advancement of the human race by several millennia, provided it doesn't kill them first. While such a negative utopia is still far from being realized, the development of artificial intelligence has officially commenced, the only question that remains is whether it will be humanity's greatest achievement or its biggest mistake.
Artificial intelligence is a vast and expansive genre. Progress in this genre will obviously lead to massive changes in almost every faction of life, depending on how technology as we know it impacts it today. Most of the AI manufactured today canexpertize in no more than one area of intelligence and nothing more. One such example is the AI chess bot that can beat any known human in its own game, but that's basically all it can do. The artificial intelligence in these devices is limited to a single area of functioning. While this means that a multipurpose domestic robot with near-human intelligence is yet to be scientifically possible, the drawback also allows inventors to focus on the development of intelligence in a specific genre of impact and make significant changes to it. And as long as we are talking about AI and its impact on specific areas of human life, why not discuss when and how artificial intelligence can impact and transform the internet as we know it.
For a while, the concept of AI for the Internet seemed to be pretty much in the hands of giant powerhouses like Google and Facebook, each doing its best to monopolize the genre for profit. But lately, smaller organizations with none of the funds have come up with revolutionary ideas on how to improve the web using artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence has already been creatively implemented in several ways across the internet to highlight content based on user-preference, show targeted advertisements, predict and manipulate behavioral traits amongst users and even create and design high quality content in a breeze.
One of the most popular ways artificial intelligence has found use on the internet is via its ability to intelligently target visitors based on their behavioral patterns and use the data thus collected to supply them with content recommendations. Cybernetic giants like Google and Facebook have been known to adapt this technology quite welcomingly. Rankbrain, the revolutionary new algorithm from Google, makes use of artificial intelligence to process unique search engine queries and supply users with customized results. AdWords, Google's advertisement counterpart, makes heavy use of artificial intelligence to target visitors on the web and supply them with tethered advertisements customized according to their behavioral patterns. As for Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has made quite a sensation these days after announcing that Facebook will be using AI to sort items in its news feed. Apart from these, several content developers such as Netflix and Amazon Cloud have adapted similar artificial intelligence technologies to target users and provide them with a selective assortment of relevant content based on their browsing history.
Given the enormous success of artificial intelligence in the aforementioned field, it is only natural that a lot of businesses from the eCommerce industry have decided to invest their time and money into using AI to transform and improve product sales. By minutely observing the online behavior of potential buyers, AI can allow any eCommerce to display targeted product recommendations and thus improve their chance of sales from new and returning buyers. This way, artificial intelligence can automate the process of eCommerce, making it cheaper and more convenient, while in no way compromising the amount or quality of conversions generated.
Of course, analytics isn't the only field of the internet that AI has found use in. Lately, some promising startup organizations have come up with rather innovative ways of making use of artificial intelligence to make the internet a better place through the creation of quality content. A rather prominent one would be Grid, the website building software that was the very first to make use of artificial intelligence to automate the process of web designing and deliver a stunning website in a matter of minutes. Another technology that is worth mentioning would be Wordsmith, the AI-based 'natural language generation platform' that can turn raw data into insightful news clips that make online journalism a breeze. There is also a host of AI-based applications that can simplify the process of maintaining a social presence by automating your posts on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, though nothing significant comes to mind as most of it is still in beta.
But that's just the internet of humans. What about the Internet of Things? The internet of things is an automated network that allows for the free exchange of information and data amongst physical objects under the control of an external system. This allows the various devices integrated into a network to remain on the same page and function hand-in-hand in a coordinated system. However, given that the amount of data generated via the IoT is enormous, the devices within the network must rely on some form of artificial intelligence in order to be able to process said data and use it productively. This is done via a segment of artificial intelligence known as machine learning, which forms the basis of the internet of things and other related concepts. The internet of things is primarily dependent on artificial intelligence to say the least, as it allows the network to read and understand the enormous amounts of data without needing the presence of a human operator.
In 2016, the internet is the quite clearly the fastest growing industry in the world. Apart from being a storehouse of information and data, it offers us a thousand ways to educate, entertain and employ ourselves every single day of our lives. If we want to use AI to transform the way the world works, there is no better place to start with than the internet itself. If artificial intelligence can truly transform the way we create, send and receive information online, it has the potential to change the entire world.


Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop Art movement, this brooch is a real statement piece with vivid yellow and contrasting red, high-gloss acrylic detailing.
Brooch measures 6.5cm x 4cm.
Laser cut from the finest acrylic and hand-assembled in Norfolk, UK.


text:
Home IconHomeAthleticsHall of Fame
The Gustavus Adolphus College Hall of Fame was established in 1978 at which time 19 "Charter Members" were inducted either as coaches or as athletes. As of the fall of 2019, 327 individuals (305 athletes, 15 coaches and 10 benefactors) have been elected to the Hall of Fame.
The beautiful Hall of Fame room on the second floor of the Lund Center was originally partially endowed by the families of both Dwight Holcombe's (the only father/son combination holding membership in the Hall). The hardwood plaque upon which the individual plates are permanently displayed was donated by the family of former football coach and Hall of Fame member Jocko Nelson, who passed away in 1978.
Tina Peterson Bross
A highly skilled and aggressive defender, Tina Peterson Bross played an integral role in the Gustavus women's soccer program's rise to national prominence in the mid-1990s. Bross helped the Golden Gusties compile a record of 53–13–4 overall and a mark of 34–3–2 in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play during her career, including three league titles and three NCAA National Tournament appearances. A serious knee injury kept her from playing her sophomore season, however Bross came back from the injury with a vengeance, starting every game in her junior and senior seasons and anchoring a defensive unit that recorded 18 shutouts in 36 games, the most in NCAA Division III women's soccer during that period. At the start of Bross's senior season, the Gustie defense did not allow a goal through the first 10 games setting an NCAA Division III record of 900 consecutive minutes without allowing a goal. In addition, the Gusties allowed only nine goals all season and registered 14 shutouts in 20 games, which was the second highest single season shutout total ever recorded in Division III women's soccer.
Recognized as one of the top small college defenders in the country, Bross was named first team all-conference and first team all-region in both 1994 and 1995. In addition, she was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-America team in 1995. She is one of only six players in the history of the Gustavus women's soccer program to earn NSCAA All-America honors.
An elementary education major at Gustavus, Bross has taught in the Anoka-Hennepin School District since 1998. She earned her master's in education from Saint Mary's University in 2001 and currently works as a literacy specialist at Madison Elementary School in Blaine, Minn. Bross has remained active in soccer, coaching at Blaine High school as a ninth-grade, junior varsity, and assistant varsity coach. She lives in Ham Lake, Minn. with her husband, Don, and their children, Taylor and Jacob.


Salem, Oregon, is home to a dynamic product design and development center for Supra and Onity, two leading brands in the Carrier portfolio of intelligent building solutions. Using advanced technologies in software, hardware, and communications platforms, the center develops industry-specific integrated solutions.
Our corporate culture is rooted in the core values of our business: quality, performance, responsibility, innovation, customer care, and employee opportunity. These values define who we are and guide every decision we make, enriching our interns with a vibrant corporate experience.
Supra is a leading global provider of mobile credentialing and key management systems, offering innovative solutions for real estate, property management, automotive, and industrial sectors. Supra has been in business for over 60 years.
Onity supports the hospitality, commercial, education and military segments with a full spectrum of products that include mobile access systems, electronic locks, electronic safes and energy-management solutions. Onity provides locking systems to customers in more than 125 countries around the globe.
Carrier is a leading global provider of innovative heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies. At Carrier, innovation has always been one of our core values. Our research & design centers provide our customers with the highest-performing, most efficient products and services.


Geode Communicator enables you to send voice mail to friends without using cell phone service. iPad users don't need a phone with this app. Works with 3G or Wi-Fi. Better than standard voice mail.
Geode Communicator enables you to send voice mail to friends without using cell phone service. iPad users don't need a phone with this app. Works with 3G or Wi-Fi. Better than standard voice mail. It can include text and even coordinates in a standard Google Maps Street View. Cool way to communicate. Its super fast and easy. It's as easy as one click. Check out our video.
A Geode can consist of any one, or all of the four components. A simple built in map let's you see what your GPS is currently registering, so when you click the *Geode Me* button, your correct coordinates are captured.
The four main controls on the interface consist of a one touch *Record* button (press it once to start voice recording, a second time to stop); a *Play* button to review your G-VoiceText message; a quick message Pop Over to select quick text (this can be customized to contain your own messages); and a *Geode Me!* button to package up all the components into a standard email. The email itself can be preconfigured to make the experience even more effortless.
All of the media components are in a standard format easily viewable/listenable by other systems including all standard smart phones and email systems.
If you have problem downloading Geode Communicator (iPad Edition), stop using your download manager and download directly from browser. Check also your firewall, proxy settings, because some download mirrors may require that you do not block the HTTP referers.
Big Board Admin Forum 1.6.2 Big Board Admin is the exclusive private online community for Forum & Community Owners.
IP Commander for iOS 2.1.6 IP Commander for iOS allows you to make, receive, forward, transfer, conference and manage phone calls from your iPad while docked on your Communicator once it is configured and registered to a compatible voice over Internet service (VoIP).
Join softphone - VoIP SIP client 2.1 Join is the newest generic SIP Softphone for iPhone created by Voipswitch Inc. Inspired by the idea of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), Join can work with any SIP compliant IP PBX or VoIP provider.
CardSwapp Lite Card Swapp CardSwap QR UPC Scanner Swap 2.9.1 Card Swapp is a QR scanner, UPC code, UPC barcode, QR reader, QR generator, QR business card, QR code website bookmarker, QR address book, and QR code contacts manager. Card Swapp also scans MECARD, vCard, vCard 2.1, vCard 3.0, and vCard 4.
Ulink.it QR-Code scanner www.ulink.it 1.0 This app can be used like a normal QR code scanner but it's something more ... it's the official Ulink.it (YOU link it!) project app! Ulink.
Radaris Reverse Phone Lookup 1.1.2 If you've received a phone call from a number you don't recognize, simply turn to Radaris to conduct a reverse phone lookup.
3CXPhone for 3CX Phone System 12 12.0.5 3CXPhone for 3CX Phone System is an iOS SIP client for 3CX Phone System V12 that allows you to make and receive office calls on your iOS Smartphone from anywhere. Save on telecommunication costs by making internal office calls free of charge.


text:
Die Miller Heights sind ein Höhenzug an der Graham-Küste des Grahamlands im Norden der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Er erstreckt sich östlich des Sharp Peak.

Teilnehmer der British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) unter der Leitung des australischen Polarforschers John Rymill nahmen eine grobe Kartierung vor. Das UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee benannte ihn 1959 nach Ronald Miller (* 1928) vom Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, der 1956 auf der Station auf der Detaille-Insel tätig war und 1957 diejenige am Prospect Point geleitet hatte.

Weblinks
  (englisch)
 Miller Heights auf geographic.org (englisch)

Welingrad-Halbinsel


Crap, it's the time I said I would go to bed tonight and I haven't written anything about the awesome that was this weekend. Yes, awesome is a noun.
This weekend brought me from two crushes to barely a half crush.
I spent two fun nights out with friends, the first of which was rather informative, the second was more fun than I could possibly describe and will have to be planned again.
I'm super behind on homework already though, and any chance of me getting up early enough to work on any tomorrow requires me going to bed now.
Starting tomorrow I'm going to be productive!
More What You'd Call "Guidelines"
I've been a little frustrated lately. By lots of things.
One of them being that I'm remembering how I was in a better place when I was going to church regularly and I would like to start going again when I can. I don't think that church itself is exactly what I'm looking for right now, but it certainly has elements of what I would like to bring back into my life.
I think part of what I was originally looking for when I started going to church in March was some sort of guidelines or rules to live by and give me some order. I learned a lot while I was going, and incorporated some things into my life that I've really liked. There were also some big things that I realized were not for me, which contributed in a big way to my recent lack of attendance. In realizing that I might like to go back, I also realized that I don't have to solely go by the rules prescribed by a church.
They may have a lot to offer, and they may work for a lot of people but at the same time they may simply not be right for me. Instead, I can make up my own rules!
What an awesome idea! If I want direction and structure, but I don't feel that I get that adequately from an outside source, why not create my own? A Katherine Code, if you will, which is really more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. I know that I've done something like this before, and I haven't kept up with it, but I don't think that my drive and motivation were the same then, and I didn't really follow through with putting it into some physical form. This time I'm going to make sure that happens.
I may share more about what kinds of rules and guidelines I'll be creating, but for now I'm just going to let it all marinate and get on with a busy day!
No Babies, No Cancer Day!
I had a Lady appointment today! It was with a male doctor, which I've never done before. I didn't have any hesitation, I mean he's a doctor, and it's more important to be healthy than to be completely comfortable for the few minutes of the appointment. I had almost hoped for something outrageous, or at least outrageously awkward or embarrassing, to share from the experience.
It was actually probably the least awkward pap I've ever had. Dr. Ruggles (seriously, that's the funniest thing about it all) explained everything, and ordered my birth control from the pharmacy right at the beginning so I had less time to wait for it after the appointment. The only thing that he didn't explain was why he brought the nurse in for the actual examination. I actually happen to know that they bring in a female nurse just to make sure nothing funny goes down with a male doctor and a female patient. For someone who isn't aware of things like that, it might seem a little weird to bring in another person for such an exam. Just a quick mention would be kind of nice.
Tomorrow will be a bit of a crazy day, and it will be starting at 4:45, so it seems that almost 11 PM is time for bed!
I had a very productive day!
Woke up smiling and being distracted from studying. Eventually got to study, and then took a final for a class that I hope to pull a B in.
After the final I had a few hours before work, so I decided to go for a jog, and combine that with the errand I needed to get done! I ended up walking because my workout pants are too big for me now and fall when I run it seems. I ended up going for about 3 1/2 miles in around 45 minutes.
I couldn't get the errand done, but I did find out more information about it, I guess.
I made it to work on time even though I fell asleep less than an hour before I should have been there!
Tomorrow I intend to be just as much if not more productive!
I might just be crazy!
Click for a larger image of course, and see just how crazy I am!
Those are the classes that I am currently enrolled in for the fall semester. There are LOTS more that I would love to take, but I do have to have time for homework for these classes, and you know, actual WORK. With some luck though, I'll be able to figure out a pretty regular work schedule on campus so that I don't have to worry about a changing schedule. I just remembered that I should have more freedom from money next semester, so I won't even need too many hours working, which is pretty awesome!
It's been hot in Sacramento lately. Not exactly hot enough that it justifies leaving a fan on all day when only the cats are home, yet my roommate does it. The bathroom stays pretty cool, and they hang out in there anyway, why leave the fan on in your room if there is no one to benefit from it? If I didn't already move so much I'd be really tempted to find my own place and just make sure I work more next semester.
I've really enjoyed dancing the past several weeks, and can't wait to learn more. If anyone reading this knows more than me (and I know there are at least two of you) please share with me what you know! Watching some videos of friends completely intimidates me, but also excites me and motivates me to see how far I can go!
I had a pretty productive day today.
After completing an "exercise in time management" provided by my English teacher (it's funny, time management isn't in the course description or the syllabus) I went to the grocery store and got some gas. I don't actually remember the last time that I got gas, but I'l try to pay attention to the next time that I do. I love living so close to everything that I do!
While I was at the grocery store I bought the items pictured below.
To avoid eating most of the box in just a few sittings, I bought the snack bags and divided it up!
I have some pictures of a car that I see a lot that amuse me, but I think I've made this entry long enough, and I might forget all the things I think of tomorrow to write about, so I will save it until then!


text:
How do I prove fault?
Legal Definitions
Return to "What is Personal Injury Law?"
QuizLaw Blogroll
Anonymous Lawyer
Freedom to Differ
Legal Antics
The Legal Reader
News America Now
OhMyGov!
PDF for Lawyers
In Personal Injury Law
Fault can be proven through several types of evidence. First of all, a police report is probably the most crucial evidence - it gives the officer's account of the incident and, often, his/her opinion on whom was at fault. Also, if someone committed a traffic violation, that will be included in the police report and traffic violations usually provide strong evidence of fault.
There are other instances, as well, in which fault is relatively easy to prove or disprove. For instance, in a rear-end accident it is almost always the fault of the person who did the rear-ending because of laws which require drivers to stay a safe distance away from cars in front. Nevertheless, even in rear-end collisions, you can be partially at fault if your own carelessness led to the collision (stopping suddenly for no reason, for instance). Likewise, a car making a left turn is nearly always at fault if it collides with a driver going straight, unless the car going straight was speeding or ran a light.
Copyright © 2005-2020 QuizLaw GP | Disclaimer - Legal Information Does Not Constitute Legal Advice | Privacy Policy


text:
Tag: the rockfords
Mike McCready: "I'm working on a song I wrote about Chris Cornell"
Mike McCready talked about The Rockfords, Pearl Jam next album and a song he wrote about Chris Cornell. In a recent interview with SeattleTimes, Mike…
Luca Villa 07/04/2022, 17:50 21/05/2022 chris cornell / the rockfords
Read more"Mike McCready: "I'm working on a song I wrote about Chris Cornell""
The Rockfords debut album is now available on digital for the very first time
Exactly 8074 days after its release on CD, The Rockfords debut album is now available on all digital platforms. After a wait of 22 years,…
Luca Villa 11/03/2022, 09:47 11/03/2022 the rockfords
Read more"The Rockfords debut album is now available on digital for the very first time"
Mike McCready: "I hope we can release some music, because we have a lot of music that…"
Mike McCready spoke with Jacob Uitti about The Rockfords, the next plans for Pearl Jam, and his forthcoming solo works. "I'm working with a director…
Luca Villa 21/01/2022, 09:38 21/05/2022 mike mccready / the rockfords
Read more"Mike McCready: "I hope we can release some music, because we have a lot of music that…""
The Rockfords have digitally released Silver Lining along with the first ever videoclip of the band
From today Silver Lining by The Rockfords (Mike McCready's side project in the early '00) is available on all streaming platforms along with the first…
Staff 14/01/2022, 18:24 11/03/2022 mike mccready / the rockfords
Read more"The Rockfords have digitally released Silver Lining along with the first ever videoclip of the band"
The Rockfords debut album will be released on all digital platforms next month
The debut album of The Rockfords – Mike McCready side project from early '00 – will be released for the very first time on all…
Read more"The Rockfords debut album will be released on all digital platforms next month"


MULLINER FULL SPEC, BEST COLOUR COMB, FULL HIST.
We are a family run enthusiast performance vehicle solutions establishment.
With many years of automotive experience, we pride ourselves with top knowledge on the most desirable motor vehicles.
From performance to economy, well tuned engines to vibrant colours and beautifully curvy rear ends. We stock a full spectrum of motor vehicles sure to satisfy your desire.
We at Orion Solutions admire what it is to create a work of art in the automotive industry, helping advertise the technological advancements to the world and therefore to the people. Let us share this motoring enthusiasm with you.
Happy Motoring! Get Into Gear!
The time is now 3:52 pm and we are open until 3:30 pm today.


Manchester food-entrepreneur Monica Sawhney who founded the critically acclaimed "Spice Club" supper-club is hosting an exclusive Indian Street Food Pop-Up event at Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester on 13th June 2013, 11am-2pm.
At The Spice Club's Indian Street Food Pop Up, Monica and her mother will be serving her gourmet take on delicious, mouth watering, popular Indian street food snacks which are traditionally sold on the road sides in India. These freshly prepared, home-cooked, exciting street food creations will be exceptionally crafted using the incredible gamut of tastes presented in Indian cuisine, (Monica has explored this subject on her blog 'Spice Diary.com' where she has interviewed some of the top Indian chefs in the world including Michelin Starred Atul Kochhar).
To set the scene, The Spice Club will be serving their Street Food menu from a beautiful, Maharaja style tent hosted by "Raj Tent Club", stockists of exotic range of Indian handmade canopies, pavilions and luxury wedding tents which are available for hire.
…through pop-up restaurants, we will be able to deliver consistently innovative spaces, varying menus and unique experiences which are right for the time, place and the palette of our guests. We're really excited!
Monica's love for food has shone through her ever popular, fully booked supper clubs and was recently nominated as "Food Pioneer" in the prestigious Manchester 2012 Food & Drink Awards.


text:
No, India's 2,000 Rupee notes do not contain nano chips
AFP India Published on Wednesday 13 February 2019 at 03:00
Posts that have been shared thousands of times on Facebook claim that India's 2,000 Rupee note contains a nano chip. The claim is false; the photograph of a nano chip used in the misleading post is a stock image that has circulated online since at least 2014, and India's central bank has said the country's currency does not contain nano chips.
The misleading posts, for example this one, and this one which has been shared more than 1,300 times since it was published January 28, 2019, claim to show a nano chip fitted inside India's 2,000 Rupee notes.
Screenshot of the misleading post
The posts' caption says: "Nano Chip in the Rs. 2000 note is real. Tear your note like this to find the chip Lying inside. Show it to all the bloody libtards & pidis, so they can feel sorry for how stupid they are. You can also put the same chip in Rs 500 note as well, by tearing it & embedding the chip inside. PS : Share it for maximum awareness."
A reverse image search found that the image of a chip used in the misleading posts is a stock image which has been used repeatedly by media companies including the BBC in a 2014 story about contraception, and by Al Jazeera and De Spiegel.
Below is a screenshot of the BBC 2014 report:
Screenshot of 2014 BBC article
The photograph of the torn currency note has also been used repeatedly in Indian media, for example here in a 2016 news article, and here in a YouTube video that attempts to prove there is no microchip in the note.
Reserve Bank of India introduced two new notes for 2,000 and 500 Rupees denominations in November 2016.
The Reserve Bank's press release did not mention that the new notes contained nano chips.
The features of the new notes are listed on their official website here and there is no mention of the nano chips.
Screenshot of RBI information on security features of 2000 Rupees note
The bank has also said there are no nanochips in the notes, according to this 2016 news18 report.
AFP India
No, this is not a recent photo of a $28,000 Nigerian bridge
UFO photos? It's a hoax from 2015


The seamen were serving on instead of in ships.
The workers were shoring up the dock after it fell into the water.
Supplemental Details:Sponsor an extended definition for shore for as little as $10 per month. Click here to contact us.


Check out what some of our past clients have to say about our products and services.
"I thought I would drop you a note to congratulate Legacy on the quality of work your crew did during our inspection earlier this week. Jason & Devon were both friendly, through, and extremely professional! The fact that they were here before the scheduled time was a vast improvement over our previous inspection company.
Even though I stuck with them throughout, they never complained about me hanging around. The actual test of the suites was completed in seconds, without fuss or ado, and most residents were surprised and said "Oh… that was so easy". And the one suite who had their malfunctioning smoke alarm fixed within minutes of it being diagnosed a broken were very pleased. In fact – they were still waiting for the 'other guys' to fix it from last year. They said they would be back with a replacement and never returned!
I look forward to having your company come back to do any repairs or maintenance in the future."
"The service and quality of service and knowledge displayed by all staff members we have dealt with, is exemplary. As a client, we have a great deal of confidence in Legacy Fire and Safety."
~ Susan Pallett, Manager, Brookmere Gardens Inc.
"I would highly recommend Legacy Fire Safety, they are very professional and reliable. They have never let me down, either with any information I have required or services needed to maintain a very old hall. Jason & Devon always have been there when we have needed them."


text:
Home » Obituaries » Sister Eileen Mary Cunningham
Sister Eileen Mary Cunningham
May 1, 2005 | No Comments
"Love is always patient and kind … ." (1 Corinthians 13:4)
"Indeed, this is how Sister Eileen Mary wished to live her life — as a woman of kindness and graciousness, as one who loved and cared for others with a tenderness and a healing presence, as a Sister of Providence, as a woman of Providence," said Sister Jenny Howard in her commentary for Sister Eileen Mary Cunningham, who died May 1.
Born July 5, 1916, in Chelsea, Mass., to Joseph and Mary (Golden) Cunningham, Mary Isabel Cunningham was one of five children. She attended St. Rose grade and high schools in Chelsea. Upon her graduation she attended Chelsea Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, graduating as a registered nurse in 1938. One year later, she entered the Congregation.
"When she arrived, she was told she would not be nursing until after her novitiate. However, the very next day, she began working as a nurse in our Infirmary," said Sister Jenny.
Sister Eileen Mary professed first and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1941, and Jan. 23, 1947, respectively.
After ministering in the Infirmary, Sister Eileen Mary worked for short stints at Lady Isle, Portsmouth, N.H., and Immaculata Seminary, Washington, D.C. She also ministered and studied at St. Vincent Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Later she returned to the Infirmary where she served in several capacities including nurse, head nurse and supervisor.
"Being a nurse in the Infirmary was never limited to one shift! In those days, it was an around the clock, seven days a week, year-in and year-out ministry. As many of you may remember, the nurses would pull out a cot at night and sleep directly under the call buzzer in order to be available at any time," said Sister Jenny.
For four years in the early 1970s, Sister Eileen Mary ministered as the school nurse at Immaculata, Washington, D.C., and the Congregation supervisor of health.
"The years 1975 to 1980 found her in a new ministry, serving in provincial administration in the St. Raphael Province, Fall River, Mass. As many of you may recall, these years following the Second Vatican Council were exciting and yet challenging times within religious congregations and within the broader Church. Sisters have spoken of Sister Eileen Mary's sensitivity, concern and attentiveness to others as some of the significant gifts she brought to provincial leadership during that time," continued Sister Jenny.
Before retiring in 1993, Sister Eileen Mary ministered as the director of health care, nurse or administrator at St. Joseph Convent, Quincy, Mass., and as the director of nursing at Providence Retirement Home, New Albany, Ind.
"Sister Eileen Mary's most recent ministry was prayer — prayer specifically for the Health Care staff members at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. To you who provided care for her, she not only prayed for you, but she also loved to tease you and connect with you as only another nurse could do," said Sister Jenny.
"We know by our faith, and we know by the gift of having Sister Eileen Mary's life touch each of our lives that love does not come to an end and that there are three things that last — faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love," said Sister Jenny.
The Mass of Christian Burial for Sister Eileen Mary was celebrated May 6 with the Rev. Daniel Hopcus presiding. She was preceded in death by all her siblings.
← Sister Catherine Aloyse Butler
Sister Claudia Lewis →
Eileen Mary Cunningham


text:
Showing posts with label C8. Show all posts
New "Foreign Minister" in the Vatican? --- Continuing Reassignments by the Pope
Vatican Foreign Minister Dominque Mamberti
(Vatican) Pope Francis is preparing for the renovation of the Vatican "foreign ministry". The former "foreign minister" of the Holy See, the French Curial Archbishop Dominique Mamberti will probably be dismissed. While the overall reform of the Roman Curia is still written in the stars, Pope Francis is making more heads of Benedict XVI's Curia roll. A few days ago the Curial Cardinal Prefect Cañizares, then the secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, was hit. Another of his Prefects, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, had to vacate his seat a year ago.
In mid-September, the C8-Kardinalsrat , formed by Pope Francis as an advisory body for the reform of the Curia and the management of the world Church will meet. In the beginning of July it's been the fifth meeting of a C9-Council, since Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin then was also added to the C8-Council. A formal act of the membership of the Cardinal Secretary of State in this body, has not yet taken place, as the Vatican expert Sandro Magister mentions.
It will be at the sixth meeting of this committee. The seventh meeting follows from 9-11 December and the eighth meeting on 9-11 February 2015. The work of the Cardinal Council still seems to be in the preliminary phase. "There are no designs for a new apostolic constitution," said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi at the end of the fifth meeting, "It takes time."
"Little Ratzinger" Promoted to Valencia
Benedict XVI. and the "Little Ratzinger" Cardinal Antonio Cañizares
The "ruling bishop of Rome" (Sandro Magister) already related soon after his election that he did not intend to wait for the reform of the Curia to make personnel decisions. It had been expected for months when on August 28th, the removal of the Spanish Cardinal Cañizares Llovera of the Roman Curia took place. Cardinal Cañizares was Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship under Benedict XVI. and became a supporter of the "reform of the liturgical reform". He had a close relationship to the Church understanding of the German Pope, which he shared with Cardinal Mauro Piacenza. Too close for Pope Francis. He "promoted" the "little Ratzinger", as the Cardinal is known for his bodily stature, who is content but not necessarily aptly, called back to his home and named him Archbishop of Valencia, after all, "one of the most vibrant Dioceses of the Iberian Peninsula," says Sandro Magister.
What responsibilities will remain the Congregation for Divine Worship?
Officially, Francis Pope had the transfer not imposed, but only responded to the wishes of the Cardinal to want to accept "the smell of the sheep". Cardinal Cañizares that, if they did, "dear Madrid would have preferred Valencia, is a different story," said Master.
A successor to Prefect Cañizares of the important Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has not yet been appointed. For Sandro Magister it appears as "unlikely" that Pope Francis will seek a "break" with Benedict XVI. in his choice of successor. Rather it would is much more to be what responsibilities the Pope leaves the Congregation, transferring them to the Episcopal Conferences, such as responsibility for the review and revision of the liturgical books.
The Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy is Also Promoted Back to Spain
Celso Morga Iruzubieta: Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy is Coadjutor Archbishop in Spain
According to Spanish media reports, the return of another high prelate to Spain is imminent, who currently holds a leading position in the Roman Curia. It is Curial Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta. The priest of Opus Dei has been since 2010 the Secretary of the Congregation for Clergy . Now he is to be Coadjutor Archbishop in the Archdiocese of Merida Badajoz in Extremadura.
This completes the repluisti Pope Francis, the "repudiation" of one of the most important offices of the Roman Curia. The Congregation for the Clergy is concerned among other things with disputes between priests and bishops, with the dispensing of the priestly duties (except the delicta graviora ), with the sale of church property over a certain value. By the will of Benedict XVI. it was give charge of the seminaries. Above all, it is also about the image of priesthood and thus the self-image of the priest. The successful prevention of the appointment of the saintly Curé of Ars Patron of Priests, which Benedict XVI. wanted to make, is still vividly remembered.
The removal of the Number Two of the Congregation follows that of the number one, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, which Pope Francis had already carried out in September 2013. Both were by Pope Benedict XVI. been appointed. Cardinal Piacenza still comes from the Genoese school of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri. On him the diplomat Beniamino Stella followed. For the seminars appointed Francis one additional Assistant Secretary, the Sino-Mexican Curia Archbishop Jorge Carlos Patron Wong. In addition, over the past year such a strong exchange of employees in this Pontifical Council was held that Roman observers speak of an unprecedented precedent.
"Foreign Minister" Mamberti Before Dismissal
The new curial organization chart of Pope Francis stands at the edge of another reshuffle. Curial Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, head of the Section for Relations with States in the Secretariat of State and thus "foreign minister" of the Holy See is to be replaced. The reasons for the action are not known. It can at best be speculated about as a change of course in the relations with the states and international bodies.
"It will be interesting to see whether the Pope in this case will follow the unwritten law that the Vatican's 'foreign minister' is awarded at the end of his service with the dignity of Cardinal," said Sandro Magister. The predecessors Mambertis were given this honor, from Giovanni Lajolo, Jean-Louis Tauran, Angelo Sodano, Achille Silvestrini, Agostino Casaroli to Antonio Samore, etc.
Vengeful Bergoglio
Jean-Louis Bruguès, archivist and Librarian of the Holy Catholic Church, but not Cardinal
Or is Pope Francis denying Mamberti the cardinal's purple, as he is - in spite of unwritten law - the Archivist and Librarian of Holy Roman Church, rejected Curial Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès? The French Dominican Bruguès had, as Secretary of the Congregation for Education (2007-2012), skirmishes with the rector of the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, and was discharged Victor Manuel Fernández. Fernández is considered a "foster son" of Jorge Mario Bergoglios, and he was - just as soon as Bergolio was elected pope - quite unusually, immediately promoted him to Archbishop, while he avenged himself on Father Bruguès for his criticism of Fernández.
Pope Francis justifies his appointments in the Diplomatic Corps of the Vatican on renewal. For this reason, it seems very likely that the successor of Mambertis will come from the ranks of diplomats. It is likely he will also be valued by Cardinal Secretary of State Parolin nuncio.
With the exception of the two French Archbishops Mamberti and Cardinal Tauran and Poland's Wlodzimierz Czacki at the end of the 19th century, all were the "foreign minister" of the Vatican in Italy. Just as both the Cardinal Secretary of State and his substitute, the Sarde (Sardinian) Curial Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, come from Italy, it seems unlikely that the third high position in the State Secretariat is to be staffed by an Italian. "Unlikely, but not impossible," said Sandro Magister.
Text: Settimo Cielo / Giuseppe Nardi
image: Settimo Cielo / Wikicommons
Link to Katholisches....
AMDC
Labels: C8, Cardial Mauro Piacenza, Cardinal Canizares, Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State, Valencia
Papal Praise For Kasper and Progressive Anathema Against Doctrine of the Faith
Haw-Haw, I Love This Guy!
What is brewing in the preparation of the Synod of Bishops on behind the scenes together? Is the convening of the Synod of Bishops only a pretext to cap the sacrament of marriage? Are the remarried divorcees only the first step to a "new morality"? Was this topic remarried divorcees a secret ballot surrender in the case Jorge Mario Bergoglios? The answer to these questions is not available. It is possible, however, to summarize the events of the past month and a half.
(Rome) A few days ago, Pope Francis joined the office of the Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops for the first time with the Episcopal dignity. In an accompanying letter to the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, the Pope who wants to strengthen "collegiality" in the Church as "signs of the times". An intention, which is clearly expressed to the bishop by the imposition of cardinal status on the secretary and the appointment of the Under Secretary. This is also a step towards the preparation of the first Synod of Bishops of this pontificate, which will take place in early October and will be looked to in the Church with mixed feelings. It's about the fear that a synodal coup could, if not in this first part of the Synod of Bishops, then in the second part, which is scheduled for autumn 2015, bypass parts of Catholic teaching on marriage and undermine the sacrament of marriage. The formula was supplied by the German theologian and Cardinal Walter Kasper. It is understandable given: Changing the formal doctrine untouched by a new practice. Specifically on the Kaspers program is the approval of remarried divorcees to the sacraments. Since the individual lives in a permanent state of public sin that remarried divorcees are excluded from receiving communion. If it goes according to the Episcopal Conferences of Germany and Switzerland to the reception of communion will be possible under one or the other new formulae.
Posted by Tancred at 12:30 AM 11 comments:
Labels: C8, Cardinal Brandmüller, Cardinal Sean Brady, Divorce and Remarried, Pope Francis, Progressive, Roberto de Mattei
The Old Demon of Gallicanism is Not Dead (Not Just in France)
(Rome) A recurring problem in the Catholic Church is the question of the autonomy of the local churches from Rome. A problem that has recently returned in astonishing ways.
The latest controversial case is the case Fabienne Brugere.The speech of the philosopher for 19 March before the French Bishops' Conference has been canceled.
Gallican Bishops of France's Mind Games?
The cancellation sparked fierce debate in France. Stephanie Le Bars, wrote in her blog for Le Monde , the case "proves that strong disagreements prevail within the Catholic Church which are broken up by the discussion of "marriage for all". As a "marriage for all" is only the law legalizing "gay marriage" in France, from which the counter-movement "Manif pour tous" takes its name.
The decision of the Bishops' Conference to allow the philosopher Fabienne Brugere to speak at a training session was criticized in Catholic circles. Brugere who already had guest professorships in Hamburg and Munich, is considered a representative of bridge-building, is seeking to mediate the Bishops' Conference with the government. The Bishops' Conference meekly opposed the introduction of "gay marriage". However, an active minority supported the resistance and forced the majority of the bishops to take a stand.
Search for a Accomodations of the Bishops with the Government
No sooner had "gay marriage" but been approved by Parliament, when most bishops withdrew from the resistance and has looked back since then to form of arrangements with the government majority, although this rarely prosecuted as another a radically anti-Catholic course. The invitation to Brugere should assist in "Arrangements".
But on the other hand rose up in protest of the Church. The projection is therefore attributed to "certain Catholic circles", where the labels who are good and who is evil taken up quickly by the secular media. Father Louis-Marie Guitton expressed, however, on the website of the traditionally friendly Diocese of Frejus-Toulon, that the French Bishops' Conference is being flirtatious with a new Gallicanism: "As Pope Francis is in favor of a real subsidiarity in the Church, it is to be feared that the old demons of Gallicanism is not all dead. The 'offices', 'presentations' and commissions of the Bishops' Conference are not the French Church.'"
2000 dispute between Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Kasper on the understanding of the church
Can the Episcopal Conferences be autonomous or must the bishops always be in complete agreement with each other and be more so with the Pope as "successors of the Apostles"? The question is not new. In early 2000 there was a famous debate between the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Cardinal Walter Kasper. The future Pope Benedict XVI. defended the understanding of the Church as the universal Church. The world Church he described as "a reality that is always comes ontologically and chronologically before any particular church". An understanding of the church, which was critized by the then secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kasper. Kasper turned the understanding of the Church on its head. Not a world Church with a clear center, which is divided into a number of local churches, but many local churches, which only form a single whole. Where does the primacy come in, that of Rome or the local churches?
If Diocese or the Sum of Dioceses Form a Local State Church?
The specific question goes even further: How important are national churches in the form of episcopal conferences?Where already are "national churches" defined by the current state borders meaning a subordination of spiritual things under the mundane concerns of states. In other words, with this breakdown, the decision is in favor of practical things and not the doctrine of faith. Who is the local church? Is it, according to the understanding of the Church of Benedict XVI. the single diocese with their bishop, who exercises the responsibility and sole decision-making authority in his field? Or are the dioceses of only a minor appendage of the Episcopal Conferences that have taken over the rights of the dioceses as an autonomous institution?
Between Canon Law and Reality
Considered canon law, things are as Benedict XVI. defined. The diocesan bishop and not the chairman of a bishops' conference is a sacramental reality in the church. But in reality, the Bishops' Conferences are often taken the place of rights and obligations of the individual bishops with their apparatus. The majority decisions in the Bishops' Conference are formed according to a consensus. This means, first above all that possible minorities should not be considered. Because the Bishop of Chur Vitus Huonder does not want to submit otherwise to the dictates of the majority of the Bishops' Conference, he published his reply to the questionnaire of Rome to moral teaching of the Church about remarried divorcees and homosexuals independently, as he is required by Church law . That earned him a lot of criticism because he thwarted the intention to report a unit review for the whole of Switzerland to Rome. An opinion that has little in common with that of Bishop Huonders. Huonder was with his "go it alone" spoiler vote undermined a uniform position that hardly tolerates dissent and intends to carry through the "unity vote" of the Episcopal Conference to pressure Rome.
Another aspect of the episcopal conferences is the opportunity it provides bishops to hide behind it. However, does the Bishops' Conference relieve a bishop of his responsibility?
Cardinal Baldisseri: Strengthening the Bishops' Conferences
The divergence of the Church away from Peter, the center of unity, towards a spin-off of the local churches, poses a serious threat to the unity of faith and doctrine. Pope Francis seems with Monsignor Lorenzo Baldisseri the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, and who was also made cardinal at the end February, to forego the risk to shake the fragile unity of the Church. The price for such a development is clear, but where are the benefits?
The decision of Pope Francis, to allow Cardinal Walter Kasper at the Consistory to speak and explain his controversial theories about remarried divorcees, at least is read from the perspective of a German as "Gallican".
"Process of Decentralization" Towards National Churches
Cardinal Baldisseri said in an interview by Jean Mercier: "The process of decentralization takes place in a medium in which the episcopal conferences and other regional and continental episcopal conferences are given significance." The discussion about "subsidiarity" and "decentralization", therefore, does not mean that between Rome and the dioceses meet as local churches, but between Rome and the bishops' conferences as "national churches".
In the Apostolic Letter Evangellii Gaudium Pope Francis says the Second Vatican Council had compared the Episcopal Conferences with the ancient patriarchates. How could this contribute in multiple and fruitful ways, so that the Bishops' Conferences, could be realize the collegial sense concretely.
The line of approach has been struck in this direction by the C8-Kardinalsrat of Pope Francis. It's a risky path.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: Messa in Latino
Posted by Tancred at 7:16 AM 3 comments:
Labels: C8, Episcopal Conferences, French Bishops' Conference, Gallicanism
Cardinal Maradiaga: "One May Also Criticize This Pope, But With Love"
(Rome) since Monday morning the C8 Cardinal Council will be meeting for the third time. Cardinal Maradiaga, the coordinator of the Council has also said in advance that one may criticize "this Pope, but with love."
Pope Francis appointed eight Cardinals in April 2013 to consult with them in regarding the reform of the Curia and the leadership of the Church. Their meeting will last until Wednesday evening. On Thursday a four-day meeting of the entire College of Cardinals begins. The first two days as a regular, then as an extraordinary consistory with the inclusion to the College of newly appointed cardinals by the Pope.
Ahead of the meeting C8 Cardinal Maradiaga has confirmed what was already suspected: "We will listen to the commission for Vatican Bank IO and economic affairs" (see separate report Vatican intensive: C8 Council and Consistory for "Hot" Topic of the Family ).
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa in Honduras is the coordinator of the C8 Council. According to the media, he has recently been referred to as "Vice-Pope" because he has been particularly self-assured as the coordinator since the election of Pope Francis and his appointment.
"The work of our Commission have begun in October. It is a serious job to be accomplished, which is why one must have patience. It is a work that will bring its fruits, but a hasty society must have patience. The things of the Lord will take time," said the cardinal in an interview for Tgcom24 . "Even the Pope has said that we should live according to the words of the New Testament. Therefore, we have to work with discretion. This means that it is necessary to listen, to pray, to converse and then decide. We are in this process," said Maradiaga.
The Honduran cardinal was asked whether one should criticize "this pope" because of some issue. "I remember a lot of Pope Paul VI. He took the view that one can criticize the Church, but like a child criticizes his mother. In the same way, I thnk you can criticize this pope, but with love," said Cardinal Maradiaga.
image: AsiaNews
Edit: We couldn't find this article translated at Asianews.it yet, so here it is, but with a note. Not to be contentious, but we noticed that Paul VI may not have minded criticism of the Church so much, however intemperate and unrealistic it was, but he hated being criticized, even gently:
Then the Holy Father said to me, further:
"It is true, is it not, that you condemn me?"
I had the strong impression that it all came back rather to his person, that he was personally hurt:
"You condemn me, so what ought I to do? Must I hand in my resignation and let you take my place?"
"Oh!" I put my head in my hands.
"Holy Father, do not say such things. No, no, no, no!" I then said:
"Holy Father, let me continue. You have the solution of the problem in your hands. You need say only one word to the bishops: receive fraternally, with understanding and charity all those groups of traditionalists, all those who wish to keep the prayer of former days, the sacraments as before, the catechism as before. Receive them, give them places of worship, settle with them so that they can pray and remain in relation with you, in intimate relation with their bishops. You need say only one word to the bishops and everything will return to order and at that moment we shall have no more problems. Things will return to order. As for the seminary, I myself shall have no difficulty in going to the bishops and asking them to implant my priests in their dioceses: things will be done normally. I myself am very willing to renew relations with a commission you could name from the Congregation of Religious to come to the seminary. But clearly we shall keep and wish to continue the practice of Tradition. We should be allowed to maintain that practice. But I want to return to normal and official relations with the Holy See and with the Congregations. Beyond that I want nothing."
AMGD
Labels: C8, Cardinal Maradiaga, Paul VI, Pope Francis
Cardinal C8 to Advise Pope Over Curia Reform
Edit: Cardinal Christoph von Schönborn reforming the Church, one balloon at a time.
Topics are twelve Vatican Councils - Subsequent Cardinal surveys to make Consistory "less European"
Vatican City (kath.net / KAP) The Vatican has begun a three-day meeting of the Cardinal Council for the reform of the Curia on Monday. The eight cardinals of the so-called C8 Council, among them the Archbishop of Munich Reinhard Marx [And +++Sean], are consulting together with Pope Francis about a realignment of ecclesiastical government headquarters. The focus this time are the twelve Pontifical Councils.
As the meeting of the College of Cardinals closes its general meeting on Thursday, Pope Francis' most important advisors will address the course of the reform efforts. In the plenary session, attended by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn , the Pope wants to present his previous initiatives and reform ideas.
On Saturday Francis will confer office 19 church leaders from his first consistory to the College of Cardinals, including 16 bishops under 80 years, who may therefore be able to also participate in a papal election. Among the electorate is the prefect of the CDF, Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
The effect of the future appointments mean that the Church Senate is to become "less European" and it is geared more to Latin America. Nearly one-third (6 of 19) of the New comes from the Americas south of the Rio Grande.
In the two previous conferences the C8 focused on the work of the Synod of Bishops and the nine congregations. The C8 Council had already been used by Pope Francis a month after his election, to advise him on Church authorities and to make recommendations for a reform of the Curia to him.
Copyright 2014 Catholic Press Agency, Vienna, Austria
Posted by Tancred at 12:37 PM 11 comments:
Labels: Balloons, C8, Cardinal Marx, Cardinal Müller, Cardinal Schönborn, Latin America
Is the Vatican Going to Erect a New Congregation for Laity? Idea of Cardinal Maradiaga. Also of Pope Francis?
(Rome) The Coordinator of Pope Francis's C8 Cardinal Council wishes to establish a congregation of the Roman Curia for the laity: "There is the Congregation for Bishops, one for the priests and for the religious. But there is not one for the laity who are the most numerous."
The statement comes from Archbishop Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras Tegucugalpa. He was made Coordinator of the 8 member council by Pope Francis, which advises the Pope on the reform of the Curia and the leadership of the Church. Cardinal Maradiaga previously called for the reform of the Roman Curia in a statement and is considered among the eight cardinals who desires the most far-reaching changes. Now he again took position and indeed in Logrono in Spain, where he was staying for a visit.
The Central American cardinal declared that "the departments in the Vatican will be adjusted". There has been "only a Pontifical Council for the Laity, but a Congregation for Bishops, another for the priests, another for the religious, but there is none for the laity, who are the most numerous." According to Cardinal Maradiaga a path of reform of the Curia should lead to appreciation of the laity, that their own congregation should be built. In this Congregation various Pontifical Councils could be incorporated, the Council for the Family to the Council for Health Pastoral Care.
Pope Francis considers "clericalism" to be a disease of the Church. A position that his predecessors represented and attempting to oppose the jostle of married men, homosexuals and women entering the sanctuary and in which he attempted to highlight the mission of Christians and their place. Absolutely with some successes, except in the progressive camp, where there is an urge to clericalism throughout the whole Church. Through the clericalization of everything, the declericalization of the Church will be accomplished. Women priests have issued a rejection of Pope Francis.
Following Cardinal Maradiaga's direction, provided they give the opinion of the Pope again and not just the personal opinion of the Cardinal, then the establishment of a lay congregation could be a possible way.
Pope Francis has confirmed the chairman and the secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity in office until the regular end of their term. President is Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, Secretary Bishop Josef Clemens, have both been in office since 2003. However, this term already ends with the year.
Image: Sacri Palazzi
Link to katholisches...
Labels: Anti-Clericalism, C8, Cardinal Council, Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga, Congregation for Laity, Laicism


When you upload a document to a K2 for SharePoint - integrated document library in SharePoint via the New Document link, you do not see a K2 SmartForm.
To illustrate the difference between how a SharePoint list and SharePoint document library function, consider how new items are added to each list/library.
When adding a new item to a SharePoint list, the (+) new item button at the top of the list maps to the New Item button on the ribbon.
When adding a new document to a SharePoint library, the (+) new document button at the top of the library maps to the Upload Document ribbon button, not New Document.
This is by design. K2 for SharePoint uses the same UI functionality as SharePoint. This is because the SharePoint API does not provide the same functionality for the New Document option in a document library as it does for the New Item option in a list. The auto-generated New Document SmartForm is not used when uploading a document to a SharePoint library as the SharePoint New Document form is always used for Upload Document and cannot be customized by any app.
Note that clicking the New Document option in the SharePoint ribbon opens Microsoft Word.
The New Document SmartForm is available, as it is created when integrating the document library with K2 for SharePoint, and you can use it outside of SharePoint to upload documents to SharePoint.
If you add a custom column to the document library, the Edit Document SmartForm is mapped to the New Document link.


text:
You are here: Home / Business / President of Clinton company named Business Person of the Year by SBA
President of Clinton company named Business Person of the Year by SBA
March 26, 2014 By Matt Kelley
Mary Connell
The president and CEO of an H-VAC company in eastern Iowa is being named the U.S. Small Business Administration's Iowa Small Business Person of the Year. Mary Connell runs Air Control Incorporated, based in Clinton.
The company specializes in heating, venting and air conditioning work for residential, commercial and industrial sectors. Connell gives the credit back to her staff and colleagues. "I have had the experience of having wonderful employees and mentors, including the SBA," Connell says. "I have gone to them many times and they've most recently helped me with getting ISO certification, which we anticipate to get in June."
Her father started the company in 1956 and Connell began working there in the late 1970s after graduating from high school. She became CEO at age 28, following her father's retirement. Connell's son, Sean, joined the team in 2011, making it a third generation company. "When my father started the business, he started with a partner and one other employee," Connell says. "Today, we have just under 45 employees and about $8 million in sales. We've gone anywhere from up to 60 employees and $10 million in sales."
The past few years have been challenging, during the economic downturn and a dropoff in construction, but she says they continue to move forward. When asked what set her apart for the honor as the state's Small Business Person of the Year, Connell said she felt she didn't deserve the title. "I don't know, I mean, everybody in small business knows how hard you work just to keep your doors open," Connell says. "I've got a no-quit attitude, I'm hard working. I guess I just don't give up very easy — on anything."
She touts the fact she's expanded the business into government contracting, where successful bids have been won to supply fabricated products to several U.S. Air Force bases. As the 2014 Iowa Small Business Person of the Year, Mary will represent Iowa in May at National Small Business Week ceremonies in Washington, D.C., where she will compete for the national award.
Filed Under: Business, Human Interest, News


ABUJA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari extended his early election lead on Tuesday based on official results from a third of the country's districts as the death toll from sporadic election violence rose to 47.
Provisional results announced in state capitals but not yet confirmed by the commission seen by Reuters showed Buhari on course to cementing a commanding lead over his main rival, businessman and former vice president Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku's party has rejected the tallies thus far as "incorrect and unacceptable". Buhari's party said the opposition was trying to discredit the returns from Saturday's vote.
The outcome is expected later this week. At stake is control of Africa's top oil producer and biggest economy with a decade-old Islamist insurgency entrenched in the northeast and overlapping into neighbouring countries.
The winner is likely to be the man voters trust most to revamp an economy struggling to emerge from a 2016 recession. Analysts had predicted the vote to be Nigeria's tightest since the end of military rule two decades ago.
A calm reaction to the election result could open a new chapter in the turbulent political history of Nigeria, where nearly six decades of independence have been marred by military coups, endemic corruption and secessionist movements.
But, Situation Room, a monitoring mission comprising over 70 civic groups, said on Tuesday the death toll from election-related violence since Saturday had risen to 47, and more than 260 in all since the start of the campaign in October.
Buhari, 76, is a former military ruler seeking a second term on a platform to reduce corruption. Atiku, 72, has pledged to expand the role of the private sector.
Initial results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission so far put Buhari in the lead, with victories in nine of Nigeria's 36 states, the INEC said.
It said Atiku had prevailed in four states and the capital, Abuja, which is not a state but treated as a separate electoral district.
Buhari was leading Atiku by 56 percent to 41 percent, according to a Reuters tally based on available INEC figures.
In provisional results announced in state capitals but not yet confirmed by the electoral commission, Buhari had won seven states to Atiku's three.
Seventy-three million people were eligible to vote in Africa's biggest democratic election but the INEC has yet to release details of voter turnout.


There appear to be many people around who simply believe that kids doll houses aren't a lot more than silly toys that children have fun with. The thing is though, since they may be toys, these are toys that are included with many different benefits.
Another thing the kids doll houses can do is to make certain that your children can be extremely beginning to take their imagination to work with. You might think that a cheap toy could do this, but you are something special. They enable kids to re-enact items that they have been sent in the home. You could possibly hear one doll scold a child for not putting his toys away. If you will tune in to the play that is taking place with the dollhouse, you could be surprised to recognize plenty of what is being said. Oh course, there's then the child's possibility to take matters into their own hands and play house where did they imagine they would handle their own life.
Contrary to popular belief, kids doll houses also give children the chance to learn some socialization skills, both if they are using other children so when they're playing independently. Even if they're messing around with their dollhouses automatically, they learn to express themselves and talk with others by happening certain social instances in their doll house.
Also, the playing within the doll house will help a great deal of children express their thoughts, feelings, worries and happiness. That is easily done because it is not the infant's feelings which can be released, no less than in the eyes in the child, but it's the dolls talking. As you have seen, there are many of great uses of the doll houses. You simply have to give your child to experience from it and employ it towards the best of power they have.
In case you believe your son or daughter doesn't have the top imagination on the planet, allowing your ex to work with kids doll houses is smart. You will find, boys can start to play together too. Maybe your boy should enjoy his sister and that he could pretend to are the dad or son in the home. Also, there are now turning out to be additional doll houses which might be more gender neutral compared to they were in the past.
Since you have somewhat better associated with an ideas about just how great getting them to for your children can be, you are going to need it a couple of. Make sure that you consider your time and energy and that you are getting the right one for the money. Get a quality doll house made of sturdy materials so your child can enjoy from it for several years ahead.
For details about lol surprise internet page: web link.