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Why Phillies GM Klentak decided time was right to extend Mackanin
By Ryan Lawrence
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Pete Mackanin can figure the math, and that's why not that long ago he didn't believe he'd ever get an opportunity to fulfill his professional goal of being a full-time major league manager.
His first interim job came about a month after his 54th birthday, with the Pittsburgh Pirates. But it lasted all of 26 games and the interim tag was never lifted.
The second interim job came two years later. He lasted a little longer (80 games) and actually led the Cincinnati Reds to a winning record. But, again, the interim tag was never lifted.
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So when Mackanin first joined Charlie Manuel's coaching staff in 2009, stayed on for four seasons before being fired, and then rejoined the Phillies on Ryne Sandberg's coaching staff at the start of the 2014 season, he figured Father Time was no longer on his side for a big league managing gig.
But, as the saying goes, three times a charm. Shortly after his 64th birthday, Mackanin became a full-time big league manager when the Phillies lifted the interim status.
Since then, a new front office regime has liked Mackanin enough to hold two separate press conference within the span of 15 months to extend his tenure as Phillies manager, the most recent coming on Thursday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park.
"Next year will be my 50th year in professional baseball," the soon-to-be 66-year-old Mackanin said. "And with this contract, I will have spent more time with this organization than any other organization I've been associated with, so it means a lot to me. … When I took over here as an interim, it kind of stuck. The fact that I was given an opportunity to stick around, the continue with managing the team, it means a whole lot to me. My wife and I are extremely grateful to the Phillies organization."
Mackanin's new deal gives him a new contract for 2017, guarantees him another season in 2018, and includes a club option for 2019.
"Whether it's the interaction of the players, his interactions with the media, with the fans, whether we're on a winning streak or a losing streak, I think he's clearly solidified that he's the leader of this club," general manager Matt Klentak said.
Mackanin's previous contract was set to expire at season's end. His new one allows him the possibility to be in the same role when the Phillies complete their rebuild and field a contending team.
"I can certainly envision it," Mackanin said. "I've got that National League championship ring from 2009 my first year as a coach here. And I'd like to get another one. … Certainly, that would be (nice). I'd be a little bit older [laughs] but that'd be great."
Klentak, who joined Mackanin on the dais in the media room at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday, was asked a similar question.
Does this contract mean you feel comfortable and are confident that Pete can be the manager not just through the rebuild but into the next phase, into contention?
"Yeah, absolutely," Klentak said. "Pete is the manager. And there is no timeframe on that, this is not a temporary thing. Pete's the manager. And I have every hope and every confidence that he will be as we turn this around and the wins start coming that he is going to be right here."
Here is more from Klentak, on the timing of the deal, the current status of the team, the growth of the players under Mackanin's tenure, and more:
When did the timeline of this contract take shape, why now?
Klentak: "The first time I was asked about Pete's status was at the Winter Meetings back in December … I said something along the lines that we had time for that and we'd do it when the time was right. Last year we did it in spring training, this year it happens to be May. I think if you look around baseball, sometimes teams extend managers years in advance, some take it down to the wire. So, there is no one way to do it. But what I've seen from the first six weeks of this season is a team that plays hard on every pitch. And I recognize, fully recognize that our record is six games under .500. But take yesterday's game as an example. We got down big late in the game and those players fought in the 8th inning to load the bases, fought again to put up runs in the ninth. And we've been doing that every night. I think the effort level of this team – we can see progress in what's happening right now. Pete can see it, we all can see it's happening before our very eyes. Obviously, it's not reflected in our win-loss record yet, but we can see the progress happening. And that's why we're making this decision, the team is playing very well for this man to my left."
Does this contract put Mackanin in a better position to deal with the tougher decision as a manager, wield power in a clubhouse? Were you evaluating that?
Klentak: "It all boils down to leadership. Whether it's a young player that Pete is trying to help through the early paces or a veteran player, or having a tough conversation about playing time, whatever the case might be, all of that boils down to leadership and communication. And those are things in the last year and a half that, yeah, we've evaluated, but they are also things Pete and I have talked about. We have a pretty open relationship about what's going on downstairs (in the clubhouse) or what we're working on upstairs (in the front office) when we're making player moves. It's definitely something we've evaluated but I also think it's a strength of Pete's."
Win/loss record aside, are you and the coaching staff getting the most out of these players, where they stand in their development? Do you have to look at the staff?
Klentak: "If you look at it on a team-wide basis, I've been encouraged over the first six weeks of the season. Even in our tough road trip through Dodger Stadium and Wrigley Field, we had leads in all of those games and our players fought to the very end. This team is playing hard to reach their potential. And that's our role, whether the front office, the manager, the scouting department's role, we're all trying to put the best players on the field that we can and help them achieve whatever their ceilings are, different players have different ability levels and ceilings, but we want to get the maximum out of them that we can, and that's something that Pete and his staff do. I think Pete's staff is working very well right now. Working well together, working well with the players, working well with Pete. I think in a lot of areas it's being reflected on the field."
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This is going to be a downer of a post.
I realise that so many people have issues with their fathers so I know I do not have a rare experience. I just wanted to talk a little bit about my issues with the person I call 'Dad', and if anyone relates to this, it may be of interest to you.
I have not spoken to my dad since 23rd December 2014. That was when I tried to get back in contact with him, to give him a second chance. Before that, I had not spoken to him since June 2014.
1. We had nothing to talk about. The only similarity between me and my dad is that we are both incompetent in social situations. We are both quiet and keep things to ourselves. Therefore, when we were both alone in a room, we had little at all to talk about. Luckily, my younger sister had plenty to say, so whenever I spent time with my dad, my sister was always there to fill in awkward silences. And whenever it was just me and dad alone, he would usually ask questions about my sister, rather than ask things about me. Since she is clearly more interesting and had more drama going on in her life that she is willing to share.
2. Did not really provide for us. I know that money should not be a deciding factor as to whether I should or should not stop contact with a family member. But as I will go on to say, it was more than just the issue of money. I rarely got money from my dad. Unless it was Christmas or my birthday, the only time he would spend money on me was when he picked us up once a week and took us to the cheapest pub to eat dinner.
But you're probably thinking 'That sounds like enough. Maybe he doesn't have enough money for anything else.' Oh yeah, but he's constantly going abroad with his wife and buying expensive gadgets for my step-brother and providing for his 'grandchildren' (my step-sister's children. Also, another point to make is he considers her children his first grandchildren, so when his actual daughter has a baby, it will be nothing new!).
Also, he tried anything he could to get out of paying my sister any money. (Side note: my sister has severe Autism, and although she is of an adult age, she is not mature enough to live by herself or work a full time job or anything normal 'adults' do.) So my dad went to his lawyer the literal second my sister turned 18 and claimed that my sister did not actually have a proper disability and she was an adult now, so he was not paying any maintenance money to my mum any more.
This made me so angry. This made my mum so angry. I mean, it was bad enough that he wanted to stop paying money because she is an adult, but the fact that he denied she had any disability was just below the belt.
Eventually, my mum got through to him and now, even though we never see him, she still receives money from him every month to help look after my sister (He also denied he had told his lawyer she did not have a disability!).
Oh, but a lot of the time, he didn't even sit with us. No no. Sometimes, he would get a text from his wife that she needed milk or something, and he would go off and leave me and my sister while we ate. My sister spent a lot of time with her boyfriend or in her room, so I felt like the times we 'saw our dad' were just times for us to spend together. Plenty of times did dad get a text that his wife wanted something or wanted to call him. Most times, he would drop us back at home early because he had to go collect her from work or somewhere. Maybe his wife is just really controlling, doesn't like him spending time with his biological daughters, prefers him spending time with her and her offspring (I heard my mum say that his wife did actually say that, but I don't know if it was blown out of context because I felt like my mum would say anything for me to dislike my dad and his new family).
Then once we were done at the pub, he would take us to his parent's (my grandparent's) house as they live in my town (my dad doesn't live in my town so he wanted to stay close-by. Either that or his wife didn't really want us there). Then once there, we would usually talk to my grandparents but we would not talk to each other. It was just another way to fill in the silences. I always felt like my grandparents did not want us there, I felt like we were intruding (I also hear negative things about my granddad from my mum that he did not really care for us. And I haven't heard from my grandparents since January 2014 so maybe that is true. I'm starting to believe my mum more and more).
To summarise, my dad would do anything to get out of spending time with me and my sister, and if he had the choice (which I did give him), he would choose not to see us at all.
4. He did not care about my mental illness. I was going through a hard time in 2013. I had what I thought was depression. I broke down in front of my mother and she made me go to the doctor and the doctor diagnosed me with depression (I later came to realise that I don't think I actually had depression, I think I was experiencing anxiety attacks).
I started to have counselling and my counsellor mentioned my dad a lot (I also later realised that maybe her approach was too old-fashioned, and relating everything to my daddy issues was unnecessary). I decided to tell my dad that I had depression. Due to us both being socially awkward, I texted him about it. I was extremely nervous about doing this, but I worked up the courage and sent the text. To which he replied 'Ok c u next friday'.
I cried floods. I honestly believed he did not care about my mental health. I did indeed see him on the next Friday, and no word was mentioned about what I texted him. In fact, I never mentioned it again and he never asked about it again. I learnt that opening up to him was pointless.
You must have a fantastic view of my father right now! There were other points to make which contributed to my decision to not see him any more but the list would go on and on.
So from June last year I stopped any contact with him (aside from a happy birthday message from him in August). Then Christmas was approaching and I was feeling forgiving. I had not gone a year without spending some time on Christmas day with my dad. I had a routine established since my parent's break up and I liked it that way. So I made the decision to contact my dad again.
We met up at Starbucks, I had a whole speech prepared, I was shitting myself, he turned up and of course, he did not order anything. I pretty much said why I stopped contact beforehand and gave him the choice to see me again. To which he had to think about for several seconds before saying 'Let's start fresh'. He said he loved me. Which is the first time I can ever recall him saying that to me. He also pretty much blamed me moving away for university as a reason for him not talking to me much (?????).
I said I would need time to think things over since I wasn't particularly thrilled with our meeting. I contacted him on 23rd December saying that I did not want to see him in person, but I wanted him to make contact with me on the phone as well as explaining that he did not act mature enough at our meeting. I sent a pretty lengthy text, to that he replied 'Wat bout ur xmas presents?' as that was his major concern in that moment. So I said that he can come to my house and give them to me.
Oh then this spiralled into a whole other issue on it's own! He refused to come into my house. He wanted me to meet him outside the supermarket. I told him to come to my house again. He said he would meet me at the top of my street. I expressed this to my mum and her reaction was basically just '?????'. For some reason my dad has an issue with coming inside our house.
In the end, I got him to come to my doorstep (-_-) but he was there for a literal minute to give me what was blatantly money in two envelopes (one for me and my sister. So festive and thoughtful!). After that, he said a Merry Christmas and then goodbye. He knew that was the last time he would see me in possibly ages, and he was in a rush to get out of my presence.
I texted him about an hour later as I was furious. I said how he still did not even seem to care after pouring my heart out to him and saying I did not want to see him. I sent a couple of long texts. I can't remember exactly what I said and I removed all messages between us because I was torturing myself with them.
I have not heard from him since I saw him on my doorstep two days before Christmas.
I have been so much more happier since I stopped seeing my dad. My sister has also not had as many blow outs (she still has blow outs due to her disability but that's another issue for another time). Now I am getting older, I am learning to remove negative people from my life and it is scary but much better in the long run.
I am not keeping my father out of my life forever. But, I am sick of making all the effort and getting nothing in return. If he wants to see me again, he can make the effort to contact me. I am always going to leave contact open between us for if he finally decides he needs his daughters. The only times I would consider contacting him again is if I am getting married or expecting a child. Which I do not expect to happen for several years, so maybe that is enough time for him to mature? Who knows!
Anyway, I do not feel sad on Father's day at all. In all honesty, I hardly thought about my dad until I decided to write this post. I do not even feel angry at him any more, I am just done with him until he is ready to care.
I do not feel like I require a father figure in my life. I have my mother, who is enough of a parent for me. And I have my boyfriend, who has helped me through this nonsense so much.
Therefore, if you have experienced something similar to me, if your father does not care if you are a part of his life, just think about the people who are in your life. Do not dwell on someone who does not deserve you and do not chase them if they are not worth chasing. Surround yourself with people who unequivocally think you are worth something.
I finished unpacking all my stuff I brought back from uni.
I had a massive clear out of things I don't use and reorganised everything. I still maybe need to buy some storage containers, but overall my room now looks ready to live in.
Myself and my family moved into our new house a couple of summers ago. It's a brand new house, pretty much on the canal footpath, with amazing views of the sunsets on summer evenings. However, because we moved in between my first and second year of uni, I had not really moved in properly. Some of my stuff was in my new house, a lot was at uni.
I feel like I've been moving around a lot. Which I do not mind at all. I've lived in a different place each year of uni, but never really felt like anywhere was my proper home. Until today, when I finally unpacked the last of my bags and I feel like I have properly moved in now. I can settle down, for a while at least!


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February 18, 2013 by Italians in Chicago
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"If I should define my life in this moment as an artistic period I would say: Art Informel. Art works of this period are chaotic and that's how I see my life in this moment," said Stefania Virno, an Italian intern at the Italian Institute of Culture of Chicago.
After graduating in Visual Art in Bologna, Italy, Virno, 29, moved to London to pursue her dream to work for an art gallery. While there, she was selected for an internship with the Italian Institute of Culture in Chicago and moved to the Windy city in September, 2012.
She is following the dream of finding a job in her field where she could use the skills she learned at school. She would like to settle down somewhere in the world and have a more ordinary life: Buy a house and be independent from her family.
"I love traveling and working abroad, but I would like to stop somewhere and start building a more stable career," she said.
After graduating, many European young professionals decide to relocate and earn working experience in foreign countries. The hope is to find their dream job and add international experience to their portfolio.
Virno has developed a significant experience in art in Europe and the U.S. Comparing the way Americans and North Europeans promote art to Italians, she said Italy should focus more into advertising art initiatives.
"England is more similar to North America than Italy. Art there is promoted more actively and there is more interest into new artists and ideas. These countries give attention to visitors and create more people-focused museums and exhibits," Virno said. "Italy in this moment does not have enough public founds to finance and promote adequately the huge artistic patrimony it has."
Virno said the city of Chicago is a very active and intense artistic city. There are art stimulations everywhere and all over the city. Her favorite museum in town is the Art Institute.
"I visited the Art Museum several times and loved it! It has great collections and it is well organized and structured," she said.
Virno loves the art works of the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Also, she feels her passion for art variates depending of the different stages of her life. She compared the way she likes to play with clothes and fashion, with the flexibility she uses to appreciate and work with art.
Even if Chicago is a great city for art, Virno said she does not see herself living in the city forever because it is too dangerous. She was concerned about safety when she arrived to Chicago.
"If I would live in Chicago, I would be too anxious."
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5 Things We Learned from Our CEO & Co-Founder Kelsey Stuart
Franchise Business Interview got the chance to interview Kelsey Stuart, Bloomin' Blinds' co-founder and CEO. Explore some of his favorite stories, some challenges he faced, as well as what he looks for in possible franchise owners. We broke down the top 5 things we learned from this through interview:
1. His Favorite Franchise Success Story
Celebrations and success have always been a cornerstone for Bloomin' Blinds. Although we celebrate every success our franchise owners have, Stuart had the chance to delve into one of his favorite success stories. "One of our favorite success stories involves one of our owners that is a combat veteran. This owner is a very smart guy. He came in as a franchise owner, [kind of] cruised through training, and thought he was smart enough to not need much for coaching. He struggled for sales and growth. After almost entirely exhausting his reserves, this owner finally came to us for help and we were more than happy to help him. Two years later, he just bought a second territory."
2. His Most Difficult Moment Encountered
Of course, with any franchise, some difficult moments have to be faced. When asked about difficult moments he has encountered, Stuart shared a challenging moment in his career. "The most gut-wrenching moment was when we had to close down a franchise location because our franchisee was taking deposits and not providing the product. The owner was creating a bad reputation for the brand and customers were being avoided and lied to. We had to protect the brand and the customers and terminate his franchise agreement, that was a hard day!"
He goes on to share, "It was difficult at first as we had to learn this whole new industry. We had to learn the impact of wrong decisions from one person and how one franchise partner can affect the entire brand."
3. The Average Day of a Bloomin' Blinds Franchise Owners
When you're exploring franchise opportunities, it's important to understand what goes into the daily operations of an owner. Of course, no day is boring at Bloomin' Blinds with our hands-on owner approach.
"We primarily want our franchise owners to start off as an owner-operator. There's a need for the owner to be heavily involved in the business, window coverings are more technical than anyone ever imagines before they come on board. If an owner has never done the work themselves, then how can they lead their team? This is a really nice job at first. We love owners who are willing to come in and get their hands dirty, learn how to scale, and then add employees to the business. With time and volume, owners then add staff and management of the staff to their day-to-day team." Stuart has seen owners grow and become industry-leaders, with little to no experience with window coverings beforehand.
4. Bloomin' Blind's Goals for The Future
As 2020 has been a difficult year for many, Bloomin' Blinds has been able to prove it's recession resilience and dedication to our communities. When asked about what goals he has for the franchise model in the future, Stuart shared, "We want to be a household name. Right now, there is one household name in the industry — I am grateful for what these pioneers have proven to be possible, but now we see a path to take what they have done, yet do it better. It's a lot of fun to see our owners succeed and meet their goals. 'We have a saying: I can't buy my boat, until 7 of you guys buy yours.' If we keep the focus on the franchise and the owners, then we can create a healthy system that will thrive!"
5. The Ideal Franchise Candidate for Bloomin' Blinds
While we look towards the next year, we are excited to continue the expansion and growth we've had this past year. When asked about the ideal franchise candidate, Stuart shared some important things the leadership team looks for. In short, "Someone who is willing to come in as an owner-operator and who has the ambition to scale."
He goes on to explain that there are a few pieces to this, as it's not as simple as it may seem. Through achievement and education, we can identify someone who has the ambition needed to grow their own location in their community.
"The window covering business requires someone who has a high aptitude for multi-tasking. Owners must live in a suburban market. We don't need someone who is a contractor. Repairs and installs are always the first concern but honestly, the repairs and installation techniques are the easiest part to learn as it's very visual. Learning the products and the mental exercise of multi-tasking is the biggest challenge to overcome."
You can read the whole interview on Franchise Business Interviews' website, here.
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If you're ambitious, ready to get your hands dirty, and join our franchise family, give us a call! You can also explore our blog to learn more about what it takes to invest in Bloomin' Blinds or the full story behind our franchise.
When you're ready to get started, give our team a call at (855) 908-4047 or contact us online.
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Airgas' introduction of new refrigerant reclamation technology has been "extremely successful" in both preventing the release of harmful gases into the ozone and "placed the company ahead of its competitors".
That's according to Jay Kestenbaum, Senior Vice President of Sales and Purchasing at Airgas. The company introduced its new Airgas Refrigatron™ system, for large-scale reclamation of used refrigerant gases, at the end of July – and it has been a success. Refrigatron technology assures that Airgas properly identifies the contents of returned refrigerant gas cylinders, enabling the company to pay HVAC contractors the highest price for used gases, while delivering efficiencies that make the reclamation process less labor intensive, safer and more cost-effective.
Gasworld asked Jay Kestenbaum about the amounts of HFC's that could be saved from entering our atmosphere?
"HFC's are now also being targeted due to their Global Warming impact. Reclamation in addition to proper service practices are essential in preventing release of these items into the atmosphere and assuring ample supplies for servicing systems already installed. We do not maintain the statistics that would allow us to guess on the specific savings by each of these actions," added Jay Kestenbaum.
Currently HCFC refrigerants (Hydrogen, Chlorine, Fluorine and Carbon) are being banned from usage. The ban came into force from 2010 and HCFCs should be phased out by 2015.
But HFCs could soon suffer the same fate.
A new study from environmental scientists shows that the new "smart" gases, created by scientists to help save the Earth's ozone layer, are actually boosting global warming by 20%. The gases, although present in just tiny amounts, can be thousands of times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2 – with many also having lifetimes of thousands of years.
When scientists discovered CFCs were responsible for gaping holes in the ozone layer in the 1980s, HFCs were created. But now scientists believe the emissions of HFCs are contributing to global warming, due to the gas' ability to retain heat from the Earth's surface and stopping it from radiating away into space.
Airgas has installed its first Refrigatron system in its Airgas Refrigerants, Smyrna, Georgia, plant, where it has already analysed and recovered more than a million pounds of used refrigerants through a testing and modification phase over the past 10 months. Airgas Refrigerants, is a full-service refrigerant gases supply and reclamation company with approximately 115 employees nationwide.
Airgas Refrigatron is a multiphase system that first allows for the fast analysis and recovery of used refrigerant gases to then be reclaimed to 99.8% purity and resold. The system streamlines the process of moving, analysing, evacuating and storing refrigerants from cylinders containing used refrigerants. Refrigatron automates Airgas Refrigerants' standard operating procedures. Using two zero-gravity lifts to move cylinders and two in-line gas chromatograph mass spectrometers, the system renders an ARI-700 specification result and records it for labeling and for future use. Airgas estimates that it achieves much greater accuracy and saves 45 minutes for each cylinder tested using its new mass spectrometer method.
With Airgas Refrigatron refrigerant gases are automatically and properly evacuated to nine 10,000-pound storage tanks for storage prior to purification. Airgas estimates that an average shift allows two technicians to test and empty approximately 130 cylinders and evacuate approximately 6,500 to 7,000 pounds of refrigerant.
Airgas Refrigatron is the result of more than two years of planning, engineering and construction. The system was designed and built by the Airgas Research and Development group located in Cheshire, Connecticut, and shipped to Smyrna for installation and testing in early 2011. Airgas is pursuing multiple patents on the innovative processes and technologies that comprise Refrigatron. The system is engineered for durability, with easy access to high-wear parts and fast-swappable components to prevent down time. The system currently boasts greater than 99% uptime since its installation.
Airgas is committed to honoring environmental regulations and contributing to the safe repurposing of reclaimed gases. The phasing out of R-22, by far the most widely-used refrigerant in the United States, spurred Airgas Refrigerants to more actively pursue the market and to reengineer and automate the refrigerant gas testing and recovery processes to make them more economically efficient.
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Africa is showing Alaska how to do missions
Several weeks ago, I wrote about a large local church youth group going to South Africa for a short-term mission trip. Although I purposely did not name them, they were subsequently identified by a member in a recently published letter to the editor as from St. John United Methodist Church. They and other local churches have participated in a number of such missions the last few years, sending groups to Africa despite widespread information such trips usually do more for the participant than those on the other end. In fact, most of such trips, according to the Africans, do more damage than help.
A popular definition of insanity, often attributed to Albert Einstein is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." George Santayana famously wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." There has to be a better way to conduct missions and this column describes it.
Recently, I had an opportunity to interview a knowledgeable spokesman from Africa representing a network of churches and nongovernmental organizations that understand the limitations of well-intentioned individuals. That person, Dayo Obaweya, is regional coordinator of West Africa Community Health Evangelism covering an area equivalent to the Lower 48, comprised of 17 countries in which more than 300 million people have a per capita income of $1 to $2 dollars a day.
I was intrigued by a talk he gave at Faith Christian Community's Sunday service last month in which he said WACHE's goal was "to bring people out of poverty into the love of Christ." Contrast that with the goal of so many short-term mission trips we know of. My interview with Dayo was the next day.
WACHE is an affiliate of Community Health Evangelism a Christ-centered educational program used by hundreds of churches and organizations across the globe. Obaweya was visiting U.S. members. Faith Christian Community is a CHE member and has trained over 100 individuals in CHE methods.
CHE's core strength is in training. The organization describes itself as "a plan for individual and community development through physical and spiritual teaching." Trained CHE members don't do development but "teach CHE to local trainers, who teach CHE to their own people in some of the poorest places in the world. These people do development for themselves."
The CHE website describes how this all happens: "Local people do it for themselves by: Choosing their own people to be in charge; Choosing their own priorities of what to change; Choosing their own people to be trained to teach house to house; Finding their own resources; and accomplishing their own goals when and where they choose. Local people own and manage their CHE plans. We just train their teachers. CHE is big on ownership!" That's empowerment at its best.
Obaweya described one such venture in West Africa where a village was asking for a multipurpose community center and school. Indigenous CHE trainers went to this village and did a simplified planning process. They asked if the village had sand, stones, gravel, land and water? They were told yes. Would they supply labor to build it? Yes! Wood for the roof? Yes, we'll cut locally.
Asked if they had concrete, they said they had 10 of the 100 bags needed. The village was encouraged to pool bits of money to buy more concrete, acquiring 10 more bags. CHE asked government officials in to see the progress. Astounded by their initiative, and finding them the 80 bags the project required, they immediately authorized delivery of the needed shortfall. Local financial pooling raised funds for the tin to cover the roof.
The project turned out to be an unqualified success, using the CHE strategy to achieve community transformation, a major goal of CHE leadership. Obaweya said the building is now used as a meeting hall, church and clinic when government medical workers come to give children medical examinations, etc. Obaweya, who visited it recently, said other surrounding villages had asked this village for help planning needed projects.
Health work is an essential part of what CHE does. CHE trainers go into people's homes and villages teaching proper sanitation and hygiene principles. They address family size issues by training through Women's Circle of Life and Men's Matters groups. Larger families in impoverished parts of West Africa sometimes struggle to survive. Individual couples receive training and instruction in family planning.
Another CHE program trains children in practical matters of hygiene, nutrition, gardening and Christianity. Children bring these life-saving principles home, sharing them with their parents.
CHE affiliates also support initiatives that include microfinance and group savings programs.
WACHE tackles water projects but shuns Western technology for drilling and water extraction, instead choosing low-tech approaches that can be made and maintained locally, when repairs are needed. Too many water projects fail when well-meaning groups from developed countries go in and overengineer projects with little local buy-in, and without the knowledge and ability to maintain them.
CHE's process is holistic, empowering individuals to help themselves, tending to their mind, body, and spiritual needs. It's transformative. It resurrects people's lives which have often been destroyed by Western do-gooders with handout methods destroying personal initiative and depersonalizing individuals and families.
When I asked Obaweya his view of short-term mission trips, he responded by saying, "We don't want to call it short-term missions. We'd rather call them evangelists. I see them as evangelists across the border. The word short-term mission can become a hindrance," noting that people coming with this label are not thinking of something that is going to last. Rather WACHE involves them in initiating a process such as child or community health screening, an entry exercise. The ongoing process can then be initiated by the local community.
WACHE's model weans people away from a culture of dependence by teaching people to organize, plan, build, grow food and learn about God's love.
Chris Thompson is a religion scholar who has been visiting Anchorage and other local area churches for over 15 years. Go to his website, churchvisits.com, or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/churchvisits or email at churchvisits@gmail.com.
This entry was posted in ADN Articles and tagged Africa, CHE, Dayo Obaweya, Faith Christian Community, short-term missions, St John UMC on June 11, 2016 by Chris Thompson.
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Q: Why is Max function returning rows with a value of 0 Could anyone tell me why the following query seems to return rows with the percentage value of 0 where they exist.
SELECT cl.countrycode, c.name, c.continent, cl.language
FROM country c
JOIN countrylanguage cl ON cl.countrycode = c.code
WHERE Percentage = ANY (SELECT MAX(Percentage) FROM countrylanguage GROUP BY countrycode)

I could add ' && percentage > 0' to the query to filter these out but the MAX function should only be filtering the max percentage for each countrycode?

A: This is your query:
SELECT cl.countrycode, c.name, c.continent, cl.language
FROM country c JOIN
     countrylanguage cl
     ON cl.countrycode = c.code
WHERE Percentage = ANY (SELECT MAX(Percentage)
                        FROM countrylanguage
                        GROUP BY countrycode
                       );

The subquery returns all percentages that are the maximum value for any country.  Some countries could have a row where 0 is the maximum value.   You can run the query independently to see this.
The outer query then finds any percentage that matches the maximum for any country.  That really doesn't make sense.
What you want is the maximum per country.  For that, use a correlated subquery:
SELECT cl.countrycode, c.name, c.continent, cl.language
FROM country c JOIN
     countrylanguage cl
     ON cl.countrycode = c.code
WHERE cl.Percentage = (SELECT MAX(cl2.Percentage)
                       FROM countrylanguage cl2
                       WHERE cl2.countrycode = cl.countrycode
                      );

The difference is that the subquery now has a WHERE clause rather than a GROUP BY clause, mandating that the countries be the same.

A: try modifying like this;
SELECT cl.countrycode, c.name, c.continent, cl.language
FROM country c
JOIN countrylanguage cl ON cl.countrycode = c.code
WHERE Percentage = (SELECT MAX(Percentage) FROM countrylanguage cl2 where cl2.countrycode=cl.countrycode)

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Tributes came from all over the world for former President of Guyana Janet Jagan, who died March 30 at the age of 88. She was the wife and partner of Guyana's famed leader, Cheddi Jagan.
It is not every day that a Janet Jagan is born, her party comrades and friends said at a memorial service here recently. This U.S.-born woman left an indelible mark on the history of Guyana, they said, including becoming the first woman and Jewish president of this South America/Caribbean nation, made up of mainly Hindus, Muslims and Christians of East Indian, African, Amerindian and mixed descent.
Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants from India to work the sugar plantations. This ethnocultural divide has been used by both British and U.S. ruling interests to destabilize the country, including coups and military rule.
Guyana won independence from the UK in 1966. Since then it has been ruled mostly by socialist-oriented governments.
Janet Rosenberg Jagan was born in Chicago in a middle class, conservative Jewish family and became a part of the left-wing, pro-socialist movements when she was a young woman. She met a student at Northwestern University named Cheddi Jagan, an East Indian from then British Guyana, and a communist, studying dentistry. Cheddi Jagan became the elected leader of Guyana – before independence and after independence.
They were married (against the wishes of their families) and Janet Rosenberg (no relation to Ethel or Julius), a trained nurse from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, moved with her doctor husband to Guyana in 1943.
Janet Jagan immediately became involved in the Guyanan labor movement, and in 1946, helped to found the Women's Political and Economic Organization and the Political Affairs Committee and began editing the PAC bulletin.
In 1950, she co-founded the People's Progressive Party along with her husband. This party was instrumental in attaining Guyana's independence from British rule.
While her husband gained prominence in the PPP, Janet Jagan continued as a leader in the struggle for workers' rights. In 1970, she was elected president of the Union of Guyanese Journalists, and from 1973 to 1997, edited the Mirror, a national newspaper.
Janet Jagan was instrumental in many strikes by workers for a better way of life including a bauxite workers' strike in Linden and the sugar workers' strike that started at Enmore, both of which were in the 1940s.
She along with the Public Affairs Committee, was instrumental in raising funds to keep the strikes going and she stood up for the workers' rights.
She, challenged the racial barriers in place during the bauxite strike. She publicized the workers' plight and gained support for them and at the end of the bauxite strike the racial barrier was broken and a collective labor agreement was signed. She and her husband helped the workers to testify before a committee that was set up to investigate the conditions under which they worked.
Mrs. Jagan was again instrumental during the demonstration of the sugar workers which ended with five workers being shot and killed by colonial police at Enmore. That strike was in 1948 from April 22 to June 16 and again Mrs. Jagan raised money to sustain the strike, which won better wages and improved lives for the workers. Women no longer had to leave their jobs when they became pregnant.
Mrs. Jagan helped to lay the roots in winning the vote for the Guyanese, advocating before a commission that was sent from England to investigate the plight of citizens.
She later became the first female to be elected to the Georgetown City Council and first woman to be elected as deputy speaker. Even after the government was suspended by the British in 1953, who accused the triumphant PPP of introducing communism to Guyana, she continued to fight.
She spent six months in prison and was at one time banned from Trinidad and attacked on many fronts, but she still continued the struggle, a close family friend said.
The People's Progressive Party had boycotted the government for many years to protest the rigging of elections. In 1992, after the first free presidential election, Dr. Cheddi Jagan became president of Guyana.
Mrs. Jagan fought to prevent rigged elections in 1967, 1973, 1979 and 1986 and she wrote an expose with documentation in a booklet entitled "As Crooked as Barbed Wire" and in her articles in the Mirror and Thunder.
In 1997, President Cheddi Jagan died, and Janet Jagan ran successfully for the post. On Dec. 19, 1997, Janet Jagan was sworn in as the first woman president of the Republic of Guyana. Unfortunately, she was only able to serve for 20 months. On Aug. 8, 1999, Janet Jagan resigned from her ground-breaking post for health reasons. Her successor, Bharrat Jajagdeo, was reelected in 2001 and again in 2006.
She was not only Guyana's first female president but also its first female prime minister and for many years she held the post of general secretary of the PPP.
The stories about Janet Jagan are indeed many and great, but daughter Nadira Brancier remembered her mother as a "loving, warm and kind mother" and the seawall was where she walked with her husband for relaxation. Nadira's brother, Dr. Cheddi (Joey) Jagan, urged a clean up of the seawall in his mother's memory, describing it as being in a deplorable state.
Despite landing in jail for their left politics, the Jagans were committed to the cause of socialism, democracy and freedom all of their lives.


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Life: Original, Unborrowed, Underived – From the Bible.
Saturday or Sunday – What Gives?
Thank you for standing up and let God speak through you.
This is the truth we need.
I am truly blessed with these lessons which are the foundation and the pillars of our faith.
Please can you help me with this question… Is the name Jesus the real name of the Son of God.
A lot of people are going back to sacred names, but as far as I can tell, Christ, Jesus, the Son, Lord, Shepherd, Prince, Bishop of our Souls, and many other names have been given to Jesus–the Son of God. In fact, I have found over 250 names in the KJV that could apply to Jesus Christ, so my answer is yes. Jesus is one of the names given to the Son of God.
God is using this ministry to reveal truths that have been disregarded since our forefathers have been laid to sleep. Blessings to you all and may God continue to use you for that which brings the shaking into reality.
Praise God! May we all be found faithful.
Thank you Daniel for the Study notes. Very helpful.
how can we get you in South Africa?
Greetings in the name of Jesus our savior.
My name is Elliot, I'm writing from South Africa (Johannesburg).
How can I get hold of Pastor in South Africa that does not believe in catholic trinity?
And also can you please advise I haven't been paying tithe ever since I found out about the apostasy that is in our church.
Was that a good move I took?
You can also use this email address to contact me back.
I trust the message find you well.
My name is Limerique and I have recently discover this truth and I feel truly blessed that God have opened my eyes to see the truth about who He is and Jesus His son.
In my time studying this topic, I have realize that God is busy opening the eyes of the members of the church. I have had many discussions with my pastor who have admitted that he cannot provide me with answers regarding the trinity.
We are all part of God's family and it is truly nice to be able to discuss the truth and study it together and to know that we are not alone and there are people around us that shares our believes.
I also just want to take the opportunity to say thank you to Daniel Mesa, thank you for all the outreach and the work you do to promote the message and truth about God. I have learnt so much from studying your notes and watching your sermons, I am just truly grateful for all of the information.
I wish you all a good day and may God bless you in all your works.
Thanks very much for the respond , really helps.
I have just had a meeting with the Elders and the Pastor in the local church regarding the Trinity.
And the meeting which was suppose to be a study ended being counselling and was told to keep my conviction to myself about the trinity because if I discuss it to members of the church I might leaven the members and divide the church .
The Pastor refused to give me a study based on the bible and the spirit of prophecy , he said the only way to resolve this is if he bring other sources from a theological perspective.
So sorry! I have been through many of those very awkward meetings. I pray you will have the spirit of Christ while you are interacting, as this will be one of the greatest witnesses for truth! Praying.
I need your prayers for my wife .
She is too busy to study this with me and sometimes I fill I am loosing her.
We will pray for your wife. Please know that we hope all who follow on to know the truth could bring their families along, but many times God can only get to the hearts of some, not all. Our best desires and prayers heading your way!


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A Soyuz A (Soyuz 7K), foi um dos projetos apresentados por Sergei Korolev como parte do Complexo Lunar (Soyuz A-B-V) em 1962.

Esse componente do complexo, era uma espaçonave para dois tripulantes, que seria integrada em órbita terrestre, com a Soyuz B (9K),
e em seguida ser conduzida por aquela em uma trajetória de injeção translunar.

Todos os componentes desse "Complexo" seriam conduzidos a órbita terrestre por foguetes descendentes do confiável R-7,
para então efetuarem os acoplamentos, e transferências de tripulação, combustível e demais itens de suprimento.

A Soyuz A, seria equipada com câmeras e sensores para estudar a superfície lunar durante a sua trajetória mais próxima. A ideia da missão, era circunavegar a Lua entre 1.000 e 20.000 km de distância, e não pousar nela. O tempo total de voo seria de 7 a 8 dias.

Referências

Naves espaciais tripuladas
Programa Soyuz
Programa lunar soviético

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package mapa;

import gui.Mapa2;
import jugador.Jugador;

public class CiudadOrco extends Mapa2 { // esquina abajo izq

	private static final int LARGO = 100;
	private static final int ALTO = 100;
	private Punto puntoInicial = new Punto(0, 0);

	// Metodos adicionales
	public void aparecerEnCiudadOrco(Jugador jugador) {
		jugador.getPosicion().setX(50);
		jugador.getPosicion().setY(50);
	}

}

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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Wiener Neustadt (Austria) lodged on 13 March 2019 — YS v NK
Landesgericht Wiener Neustadt
Applicant: YS
Defendant: NK
Does the scope of Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security, 1 and/or of Directive 2006/54/EC of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation, 2 include legislation of a Member State if the effect of that legislation is that the former employer is to withhold sums of money from a considerably higher proportion of men entitled to an occupational pension than from women entitled to an occupational pension when those occupational pensions are paid out and those sums may be freely used by the former employer, and are such provisions discriminatory within the meaning of those directives?
Does the scope of Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation 3 include legislation of a Member State that discriminates on the ground of age because the financial burden is borne exclusively by older people who are entitled under private law to the benefits of an occupational pension that was agreed as a direct defined benefit pension, whereas young and relatively young people who have entered into occupational pension contracts are not financially burdened?
Are the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights ('the Charter'), in particular the prohibitions of discrimination laid down in Articles 20 and 21 of the Charter, to be applied to occupational pensions even if the Member State's legislation does not cover forms of discrimination as prohibited pursuant to Directive 79/7/EEC, Directive 2000/78/EC and Directive 2006/54/EC?
Is Article 20 et seq. of the Charter to be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State that implements Union law within the meaning of Article 51 of the Charter and that discriminates, on grounds of sex, age, property or on other grounds, such as, for example, on the basis of the former employer's current ownership, against persons entitled under private law to an occupational pension as compared with other persons entitled to an occupational pension, and does the Charter prohibit such forms of discrimination?
Are national rules that place only a small group of people who are contractually entitled to an occupational pension in the form of a direct defined benefit pension under an obligation to make financial payments to their former employer also discriminatory on the basis of property within the meaning of Article 21 of the Charter if they cover only people with relatively large occupational pensions?
Is Article 17 of the Charter to be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State that provides for expropriatory intervention, directly by law and without compensation, in an agreement relating to an occupational pension in the form of a direct defined benefit pension entered into between two private parties to the detriment of a former employee of a company that has made provision for the payment of the occupational pension and is not experiencing financial difficulties?
Does a statutory obligation on the part of the former employer of a person entitled to an occupational pension not to pay out parts of the agreed remuneration (of the agreed occupational pension) represent, as an infringement of freedom of contract, an interference with the employer's right to property?
Is Article 47 of the Charter to be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State that expropriates directly by law and makes no provision for any challenge to the expropriation other than by way of a claim against the beneficiary of the expropriation (the former employer and the debtor under the pension contract) for damages and reimbursement of the expropriated sum of money?
1 OJ 1979 L 6, p. 24.
2 OJ 2006 L 204, p. 23.


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Q: How get metrics from azure with python I have a vm on azure, and I would like to get the cpus percentages for periods of time
but when I use the code below, returns a error.
I don't know if this is the better way to get this metrics or if exists others, and how to fix this error.
import datetime
from azure.mgmt.monitor import MonitorManagementClient
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.mgmt.network import NetworkManagementClient

resource_id = ("...")

subscription_id = "xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
credential = DefaultAzureCredential()

client = MonitorManagementClient(credential, subscription_id)

for metric in client.metric_definitions.list(resource_id):
    # azure.monitor.models.MetricDefinition
    print("Percentage CPU: id=Percentage CPU, unit=Unit.percent")

Error:
azure.core.exceptions.ClientAuthenticationError: (InvalidAuthenticationTokenTenant) The access token is from the wrong issuer 'xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' It must match the tenant 'yyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy'

where x is diferent from y


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William praises 'fantastic' conservationists during awards ceremony
UK NewsPublished: Dec 3, 2020 Last Updated: Dec 3, 2020
The Tusk Conservation Awards recognise the work of individuals protecting Africa's iconic animals and habitats.
The Duke of Cambridge takes part in the Tusk Conservation Awards. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
The Duke of Cambridge was joined by a host of famous faces to celebrate the achievements of "fantastic" conservationists in Africa during a virtual awards ceremony.
William paid tribute to the winners in the Tusk Conservation Awards supported by Dragons' Den judge Deborah Meaden, adventurer Bear Grylls and natural history presenter Liz Bonnin.
The honours recognise the work of those trying to safeguard some of Africa's most notable animals and habitats. They were presented by Tusk, a conservation organisation working in Africa, which the duke supports as patron.
William has praised the nominees and winners of this year's Tusk Conservation Awards (Toby Melville/PA)
William said he hoped the "wonderful talent" recognised by the honours would inspire the next generation, during the pre-recorded ceremony.
And in a video call speech he said: "What a fantastic bunch of people doing tremendous work across the continent of Africa."
He added: "The work of Tusk is hugely important, particularly now with everything that has gone on this year.
John Kamanga (centre) with colleagues, winner of the Tusk Conservation Award (Sarah Marshall)
"The pandemic has decimated the tourism industry in Africa as a whole and I think now more than ever, the work that Tusk does is so needed."
Amos Gwema, from Zimbabwe – the principal intelligence officer of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, was named winner of the Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award.
The dedicated ranger has convicted a large number of poachers during the past five years but his greatest achievement has been reducing elephant poaching in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.
Amos Gwema, Ranger Award Winner (Sarah Marshall)
He said: "I feel grateful that I have been able to come this far, that we have people out there in the world who are watching, that the little things we do come to be appreciated and that the efforts we are making are saving our wildlife and wild spaces."
The winner of the conservation award, a prize awarded to an individual who is judged to be an emerging leader in conservation, was John Kamanga, one of Kenya's foremost grassroots conservation leaders.
While Hipolito Lima who has dedicated his life to turtle conservation in his homeland – the two-island nation of Sao Tome and Principe in the Gulf of Guinea – received a lifetime achievement award.
Teenager leaps out of court dock after being jailed for 180mph motorbike ride
UK News | Jan 14, 2021


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Welch v. Swasey; 214 U.S. 91 (1909) Zoning. The Court established the right of municipalities to regulate building height.
Eubank v. City of Richmond; U.S. Supreme Court (1912) Zoning. The Court first approved the use of setback regulations, although it overturned the setbacks in this case.
Hadacheck v. Sebastian; U.S. Supreme Court (1915) Zoning. The Court first approved the regulation of the location of land uses.
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.; U.S. Supreme Court (1926) Zoning. The Court found that as long as the community believed that there was a threat of a nuisance, the zoning ordinance should be upheld. The court first upheld modern zoning as a proper use of police power. Alfred Bettman attorney on case.
Nectow v. City of Cambridge; U.S. Supreme Court (1928) Zoning. The Court used a rational basis test to strike down a zoning ordinance because it had no valid public purpose (e.g., to promote the health, safety, morals, or welfare of the public).
Golden v. Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo; New York State Court of Appeals (1972) The court upheld growth mgmt system that awarded points based on the availability of public utilities, drainage facilities, parks, road access, and firehouses. Approved upon reaching point level. Developers could reach point total by providing facilities
Construction Industry of Sonoma County v. City of Petaluma; U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (1975) Growth Mgmt Cases. The Court upheld quotas on the annual number of building permits issued.
Associated Home Builders of Greater East Bay v. City of Livermore; California Supreme Court (1976) Growth Mgmt Cases. The Court upheld temporary moratoriums on building permits.
Massachusetts v. EPA, Inc.; U.S. Supreme Court (2006) The Court held that the EPA must provide a reasonable justification for why they would not regulate greenhouse gases.
Rapanos v. United States; U.S. Supreme Court (2006) The Court found that the Army Corp of Engineers must determine whether there is a significant nexus between a wetland and a navigable waterway.
SD Warren v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection; U.S. Supreme Court (2006) The Court found that hydroelectric dams are subject to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project Inc.; US Supreme Court (2015) The Court held that Disparate impact is the appropriate standard to be applied to the Fair Housing Act. The result is that policies that even inadvertently relegate minorities to poor areas violates the Fair Housing Act.
Young v. American Mini Theaters, Inc.; U.S. Supreme Court (1976) First Amendment. The Court upheld a zoning scheme that decentralized sexually oriented businesses in Detroit.
Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego; U.S. Supreme Court (1981) First Amendment. The Court found that commercial and non-commercial speech cannot be treated differently. The court overruled an ordinance that banned all off-premises signs because it effectively banned non-commercial signs.
Members of City Council v. Taxpayers for Vincent; U.S. Supreme Court (1984) First Amendment. regulation of signs was valid for aesthetic reasons as long as ordinance doesn't regulate content of sign. If sign content is regulated, it must be a compelling governmental interest. Aesthetics advance a legitimate state interest.
City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.; U.S. Supreme Court (1986) First Amendment. Court upheld zoning ordinance that limited SOBs to a single zoning district. Placing restrictions on time, place, and manner is acceptable. The city doesnt have to guarantee available land, reasonable prices; just cant prohibit it
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 First Amendment. Passed after City of Boerne v. Flores ruling: no gvmt may implement land use reg in a manner that imposes substantial burden on the religious assembly, unless imposition of burden is compelling gvmt interest and is the least restrictive
Reed et al. v Town of Gilbert Arizona (2014) City cannot impose more stringent restriction on signs directing the public to a meeting than on signs conveying other messages. The Court found the sign ordinance was not content neutral.
United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Company; U.S. Supreme Court (1896) Fifth Amendment. The acquisition of the national battlefield at Gettysburg served a valid public purpose. This was the first significant legal case dealing with historic preservation.
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon; U.S. Supreme Court (1922) Fifth Amendment. If a regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking. This was the first takings ruling and defined a taking.
Berman v. Parker; U.S. Supreme Court (1954) Fifth Amendment. Aesthetics is a valid public purpose. The court found that urban renewal was a valid public purpose.
Fred French Investing Co. v. City of New York; New York Court of Appeals (1976) Fifth Amendment. In this case, the city had put in place a regulation that required a public park on private property w/o income to property.The Court invalidated the regulation, but it was not ruled as a taking that should receive compensation.
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. The City of New York; U.S. Supreme Court (1978) Fifth Amendment. Taking is based on the extent of the diminution of value, interference with investment backed expectations, and the character of the action. The court found New York City Landmark Preservation Law did not constitute a taking.
Agins v. City of Tiburon; U.S. Supreme Court (1980) Fifth Amendment. Uupheld a city's right to zone property at low-density and determined this zoning was not a taking. Owner did not file the correct permits to come to court. City may have approved their request.
Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corporation; U.S. Supreme Court (1982) Fifth Amendment. Where there is a physical occupation, there is a taking. The cable company installed cables on a building to serve the tenants of the building; owner claimed accessing their property was a taking.
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles; U.S. Supreme Court (1987) Fifth Amendment. If a property is unusable for a period of time, then not only can the ordinance be set aside, but the property owner can subject the government to pay for damages. County could either purchase or revoke ordinance.
Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. DeBenedictis; U.S. Supreme Court (1987) Fifth Amendment. The enactment of regulations to keep 50% of coal beneath four protected structures to be kept in place to provide surface support, did not constitute a taking.
FCC v. Florida Power Corporation; U.S. Supreme Court (1987) Fifth Amendment. A taking had not occurred. The public utilities challenged a federal statute that authorized the Federal Communications Commission to regulate rents charged by utilities to cable TV operators for the use of utility poles
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission; U.S. Supreme Court (1987) Fifth Amendment. Regulations must serve a substantial public purpose and that exactions are valid as long as the exaction and the project are reasonably related. Exactions were not related. It was a taking.
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council; U.S. Supreme Court (1992) Fifth Amendment. There is a taking if there is a total reduction in value (no viable value left) after the regulation is in place, except where derived from the state's law of property and nuisance.
Dolan v. Tigard; U.S. Supreme Court (1994) Fifth Amendment. There must be a rational nexus between the exaction requirement and the development. The rough proportionality test was created from this case. Was a taking.
Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency; U.S. Supreme Court (1997) Fifth Amendment. Should an owner attempt to sell their development rights before claiming a regulatory taking of property without just compensation? Suitum's property was ripe for adjudication.
City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey Ltd.; U.S. Supreme Court (1999) Fifth Amendment. Upheld a jury award of $1.45 million in favor of the development based on the city's repeated denials of a development permit for a 190 acres that was in alignment with Zoning and Comp Plan.
Palazzolo v. Rhode Island; U.S. Supreme Court (2001) Fifth Amendment. Land owner was denied a permit to fill 18 acres of coastal wetlands to construct a beach club. Supreme Court found acquisition of title after the effective date of regulations does not bar regulatory taking claims.
Tahoe Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. et al. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency et al.; U.S. Supreme Court (2002) Fifth Amendment. The Court found that the moratoria did not constitute a taking requiring compensation. The imposed two moratoria on development was temporary while the agency formulated a comprehensive plan.
Lingle v. Chevron USA, Inc.; U.S. Supreme Court (2005) Fifth Amendment. The Court overturned a portion of the Agins v. City of Tiburon precedent, declaring that regulation of property effects a taking if it does not substantially advance legitimate state interests.
City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams; U.S. Supreme Court (2005) Fifth Amendment. The Court ruled that a licensed radio operator that was denied conditional use permit for an antenna cannot seek damages because it would distort the congressional intent of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Kelo v. City of New London; US Supreme Court (2005) Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that an economic development is a valid use of eminent domain. The court found that it is not in a position to determine the amount or character of land needed for a particular public project.
Stop the Beach Renourishment Inc v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (2009) Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that submerged lands that would be filled by the state did not represent a taking to the waterfront property owners.
Koontz v. St. John's River Water Management (2012) Fifth Amendment. Request to develop additional land beyond what was allowed under the original permit. Authority agreed to issue permit on the condition that Koontz deed the rest of property into a conservation and do mitigation work. A taking.
Munn v. Illinois; U.S. Supreme Court (1876) Fourteenth Amendment. State law regulating pricing did not constitute a taking and violation of due process. The Court found that the regulation of private property does not violate due process when the regulation becomes necessary for the public good.
Village of Belle Terre v. Boaraas; US Supreme Court (1974) Fourteenth Amendment. The community has the power to control lifestyle and values.Upheld a regulation that prohibited more than two unrelated individuals from living together as a single family.
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation; US Supreme Court (1977) Fourteenth Amendment. The Court found that Mount Laurel had exclusionary zoning that prohibited multi-family, mobile home, or low- and moderate-housing. There was insufficient evidence to prove that the Village acted in a racially discriminatory manner.
Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Township of Mount Laurel; New Jersey Supreme Court (1975) Fourteenth Amendment. The Court found that Mount Laurel had exclusionary zoning that prohibited multi-family, mobile home, or low- to moderate-income housing. The court required the Town to open its doors to those of all income levels.
City of Boerne v. Flores; U.S. Supreme Court (1997) Fourteenth Amendment. Case challenged the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The City of Boerne, TX prohibited a church in a historic district from enlarging. Ruled the act is unconstitutional congressional powers that exceed the powers of the 14th amend.
First Amendment Freedom of Speech (adult uses and signs), Freedom of Religion (religious facilities), and Freedom of Association (group homes).
Fifth Amendment Just compensation for takings and eminent domain
Fourteenth Amendment Due process (takings, eminent domain and exactions), substantive due process (aesthetics), procedural due process (ordinanes), and equal protection (exclusionary zoning)
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It Could Soon Cost You More to Travel on New York State Thruway
Polly Published: November 30, 2022
Credit - Canva
It could soon cost you more to travel on the New York State Thruway. Toll prices may be going up, again.
After increasing rates in 2021, The Thruway Authority will propose another toll hike at their meeting on Monday, December 5. The additional revenue is necessary to "meet future capital needs and pay outstanding debt."
Thruway Tolls Increase in 2021
Cashless Tolling
The Thruway recently underwent a major transformation with all the booths being replaced with cashless tolling.
"Considering the recent landmark investments made into the system and the significant role the Thruway plays in the economy, it is imperative actions be taken now to enhance operational efficiency and ensure the continued reliability of the system."
Photo Credit - Thruway Authority.gov
Proposed Thruway Toll Increase
If you have an E-ZPass, rates would go up 5% starting on January 1, 2024, and another 5% on January 1, 2027.
The rates for non-E-ZPass drivers in New York may go up even more. It'll increase by 15% in 2024 and another 15% in 2027.
The highest hike is for drivers paying tolls by mail. Those may go up by 30%.
Rates for traveling on the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge would be $7.75 by 2027 under the proposed budget. But it'd go up gradually, at 50 cents every year.
With the cost of everything going up, this is only going to make matters worse. It's not just the everyday driver traveling on the Thruway that will be affected. Truckers will be paying more to transport goods and services too. That extra cost will eventually be filtered down, rising prices even more on almost everything we buy.
A Peek Inside The New Thruway Rest Stops In New York State [PHOTOS]
Keep scrolling to see pictures of the newly revamped New York State Thruway service areas.
Vintage 1951 Video Shows NY Thruway Being Built In Albany
It was a pretty big deal when the Thruway was being built in the 1950's and this vintage video not only shows the highway being built in the Albany area, but also some vinatge shots of Albany, Schenectady, and Troy.
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City group to recommend 5.5% increase to district budget
By Elizabeth Regan, For The Bulletin
NORWICH - A committee of City Council and Board of Education members working together to heal what one member described as "a fundamental lack of trust" in school budget figures has recommended a 5.5% increase in the education budget over the current year - without relying on the city's rainy day fund.
The recommendation will be made to the City Council as its members prepare for a vote on the total $131.9 million 2020-21 budget proposal currently slated for June 1.
The $85.5 million education budget proposal, while coming in with the same bottom-line figure approved by the school board earlier this year, represents about $2.92 million in cuts to the original spending plan. That's because the district had hoped to take that amount from the city's reserves, an idea that was roundly panned by the council members on the joint committee.
Superintendent of Schools Kristen Stringfellow put together a list of likely reductions that would have to be made to save almost $3 million, including the elimination of 39 non-teaching positions, getting rid of the elementary magnet school themes and closing the Family Resource Center preschool that serves 62 students.
The struggling district has run a deficit for the past several years.
Alderman Mark Bettencourt, a member of the "ad hoc" budget committee composed of council and school board members, said the committee exists because of longstanding wariness between the two bodies.
"Part of the reason I think we're sitting here like this is a fundamental lack of trust in the numbers the Board of Education has provided us over the years," Bettencourt said. "We get the gloom and doom projection, and then you'd get maybe something of what you wanted or very little of it, and then the gloom and doom didn't happen. Sixty people didn't lose their jobs. We didn't close another school. And that's not always been the case, certainly, but it's happened often enough that I think people sitting up there don't have a lot of faith in what the numbers are."
According to school board members, the real doomsday scenario would be the $83 million budget recommended by City Manager John Salomone, which represents a 2.4% increase over the current budget. Stringfellow said surviving on that budget would require the above mentioned reductions plus the closure of an elementary school, among other cuts - and the district would still need to find $2.01 million more in savings.
Bettencourt described a 2.4% increase as beyond "draconian," while Board of Education Chairman Heather Romanski called it "devastating."
"When I look at that spreadsheet and I look at the things we're going to lose from Norwich Public Schools, it feels devastating to me," Romanski said. "I know that's a big word with a lot of weight, and it's not being dramatic. The things on there, I don't know how we move on."
Both the council and school board took aim at the private, independent Norwich Free Academy for a $1.59 million tuition increase that local officials said amounts to 7% over the current year.
Bettencourt called the increase substantial.
"NFA coming in at what looks like a 7% overall increase, it's fricking really screwing up the works. It's certainly going to make things more difficult," he said.
The 2020-21 NFA budget, approved by the school's Board of Trustees in February, includes a 3% general tuition increase, plus changes to its special education tuition structure that raises tuition for one program by 65% and another by 28%.
Tuition for the Program for Academic and Career Education (PACE) is going from $19,115 in the current year to $31,412 in the coming year. NFA officials said the special education program serves about 40 students in a small-group setting supported by a school psychologist, social workers and job coaches.
According to Stringfellow, 37 of the PACE students live in Norwich.
The 2020-21 NFA budget also added the equivalent of one full-time teacher to address state-mandated graduation requirements that go into effect in 2020-21, according to NFA officials.
Board of Education member Yvette Jacaruso told members of the ad hoc committee that she once joined other school board members on a trip to NFA to ask for a tuition decrease.
"It did not work. They did not reduce anything. They were very gracious and whatnot, but they said 'this is what it costs to educate your students.' That was the bottom line," Jacaruso said.
She emphasized the lack of control over the money spent on the city's high school students hurts the public schools.
"NFA, they get whatever they want. The cut is always from pre-k through 8, every year. And our kids suffer," she said.
Romanski told committee members she sent an email to NFA Head of School David Klein and Board of Trustees Chairman DeVol Joyner regarding tuition. She said she had not heard back with a response.
A copy of the email could not be obtained from the school district or NFA by press time.
The final vote to recommend the 5.5% increase with no reliance on the rainy day fund occurred after some confusion about the membership of the nine-member committee, which turned out to have an extra Democrat on it. The vote came in 8-1 after one Democrat dropped out.
The lone nay vote belonged to Republican Alderman Stacey Gold, who was not satisfied that the district could not provide an estimate for the amount of grant funding it expects to receive in the coming year.
The district received $14.29 million for its public schools for the current year, Stringfellow said.
Gould also pointed to the uncertainty in the city's fiscal position amid the coronavirus crisis.
"We're in the middle of a pandemic which no one could have predicted. We have hundreds of people who are out of work. We have hundreds of people who may not go back to the jobs that they had previously. We have hundreds of people who can't pay their taxes, so our revenue is going to be reduced. We don't know what's going to happen from the state of Connecticut. Their revenue is reduced, and that's going to be passed along to the city and towns all over Connecticut," she said.
Bettencourt at the end of the meeting thanked Romanski and the school board for its willingness to work with the council "to do the work necessary" to come up with a budget that takes both the city's students and its taxpayers into account.
"I think, for me anyway, the biggest part of why I'm sitting here now is that I really want an honest budget [so] that we're not doing a smoke and mirror thing where we're tapping the unrestricted fund balance at the end of the year for no good reason," he said.


Korea Development Bank, the main creditor of the dissolved Hanjin Shipping Co. and state-owned entity, has put 10 Hanjin vessels up for sale in order to source back elements of its extended loans, reports Yonhap. According to the sources, potential buyers are required to submit their bids for the ships — two container ships and eight bulk carriers — by Feb. 21. Previously a South Korean court agreed to formally end Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd's court receivership process after a two week appeal period, ending the business.
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today announced that it has injected US$66m (approximately S$89m) into the capital of its US Headquarters, Vision Technologies Systems, Inc. (VT Systems), for the repayment of bank loans. This brings ST Engineering's total investment in VT Systems to US$343.96m (approximately S$464m). Following the capital injection above, VT Systems has capitalised its outstanding loan balance of US$35.28m (approximately S$47m) and US$33.08m (approximately S$44m) in its subsidiaries, Vision Technologies Kinetics, Inc.
Indonesia Port Corporations (IPC) or PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) II, Indonesia's state-owned port operator is to build 22 ports in the country in the next five years for an anticipated cost of around $3.5 billion. "We are targeting to build 22 ports from Belawan to Sorong within five years," Pelindo II chief executive Richard Joost Lino said. The Indonesian port projects are to be financed by cash and loans and once completed each will have a capacity of 2.5 million TEUs.
Norwegian shipping company GC Rieber Shipping ASA has entered into an agreement with Dolphin Geophysical to increase Dolphins competitiveness in a challenging market. Rieber has agreed to take early redelivery of the survey vessel Polar Duke from Dolphin as part of an overall restructuring agreement. The deal will reduce $16million of hire payments for GC Rieber. Together with Dolphin's improved terms of bank loans and reduced charter rates on Dolphin's vessels from fellow Norwegian shipping firm Sanco, the deal will significantly improve Dolphin's costbase.
The Executive Committee of Euronav NV today announced that it has signed a new USD 750 million senior secured amortizing revolving credit facility led by DNB Bank ASA and Nordea Bank Norge ASA acting as Coordinators, Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners and ABN AMRO Bank NV, ING Bank NV and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) (SEB) acting as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank acting as Lead Arranger whilst KBC Bank NV, Scotiabank Europe plc and Société Générale acting as Co-Arrangers.
Financially troubled Chinese shipbuilder Sainty Marine has announced Bank of China and China Exim Bank have frozen its bank accounts. Shenzhen-listed Sainty Marine has also announced that it has reached an agreement with Dutch ship investment firm, Universal Marine, for the cancellation of four 2,350teu containerships. Universal Marine ordered the vessels at Sainty Marine in March 2014, however, it has been unable to secure the financing to start the newbuilding project, which has led to the cancellation of the vessels. No compensation is involved in the agreement.
"As we close the 2012 books, we have every reason to be satisfied with the Trust's positive results," says Rickmers chairman. Extracts from chairman, Bertram R.C. The business performed well operationally, with all sixteen [container] vessels generating strong revenues. Rickmers Maritime, being specifically structured around long-term fixed-rate time charter contracts, is largely insulated from the renewed pressure on time charter rates. The challenges to our industry are by no means over.
Sølvtrans has signed a contract with Zamakona Yards for the construction of another well-boat (live-fish carrier). Delivery is scheduled to early 2014. The vessel is a sister ship of Rojna Polaris, currently under construction at Zamakona Yards, and in addition, Solvtrans has entered an option for two additional vessels with delivery in second half of 2014 and first half of 2015. The investment, amounting to some NOK 250 million (€ 22 million) per vessel, will be funded through a combination of internal means and bank loans.
Sølvtrans has signed a new contract with the Spanish shipyard Zamakona Yards for the construction of a new 3,200 cu. m. well-boat. Delivery is scheduled to early 2014. The vessel is a sister ship of Rojna Polaris, currently under construction at Zamakona Yards. Further, the company has entered an option for two additional vessels with delivery in second half of 2014 and first half of 2015. The investment, amounting to some NOK 250 million (€ 22 million) per vessel, will be funded through a combination of internal means and bank loans.
Singapore-based Otto Marine sells Work Maintenance Vessel 'Oranda 1' for US$38.0-million, simultaneously bareboat-chartered back for GofM work. The sales transaction sets to improve the Group's cash flow and balance sheet. Oranda 1, of LOA 75 m is an ABS-classed 4,200bhp Work Maintenance Vessel that has completed 4 projects in South East Asia since May 2010. Contemporaneous with the sales transaction, the Group's subsidiary, Karp Marine Limited, has bareboat chartered back the vessel for a period of 5 years.


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Sights of Nuremberg
Nuremberg Castle
History of Nuremberg Castle
The Nuremberg Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1050, when Emperor Heinrich III stayed here. Archaeological finds indicate that the castle is at least 100 years older. The German emperors did not have a permanent residence, but they often came to Nuremberg and steadily expanded their castle until the 15th century. In the 16th century the bastions were added, which the Italian fortress builder Antonio Fazuni designed in the north and west of the city fortifications. Today the Imperial Castle is the symbol of Nuremberg.
The castle area consists of three parts. The Kaiserburg (Emperors Castle), the Burggrafenburg (Castle of the Earl) and buildings erected by the Nuremberg citizenship. These areas used to be separated from each other but have grown together over time. The approximately 200 m long castle area stands on a sandstone cliff and dominates the silhouette of Nuremberg. Under the protection of the castle, Nuremberg developed into one of the most important cities in Europe of the Middle Ages.
Struggle for power
The emperor used the castle as palace and appointed an administrator (Earl) to represent his interests in the region. The Earl built his own castle nearby. When Nuremberg was granted imperial freedom in 1219, the Earl was no longer the ruler of the city. But he ruled Franconia, the surrounding land from the castle. The citizens wanted to get rid of the Earl and built watchtowers in front of the entrances to his castle. With these gates they could control the Earl. They built the "Luginsland" watchtower not only to look into the distance land, but also to keep an eye on the Earl. The dispute escalated until the citizens occupied the Castle of the Earl in 1389. They had to give the castle back to the Hohenzollern family, but the Earls no longer felt safe in here. The Earl finally sold the castle to the city of Nuremberg in 1427.
The symbol of Nuremberg Castle is the Sinwellturm. The round tower was built as a keep and can be climbed. From above you can enjoy the most beautiful view over Nuremberg and the surrounding area. The Tiefe Brunnen (deep well) is located in the well house. The 50 m deep shaft of the well supplied the castle with water. As a result, longer sieges could be sat out. The Fünfeckturm (pentagonal tower) was the keep of the Burggrafenburg. It was built in the 12th century and is the oldest building in the city of Nuremberg. The Imperial Castle Museum is located in the former bower. If you want to see Nuremberg Castle from the inside, you should take part in a guided tour, as many areas are otherwise inaccessible.
For opening times, admission prices and guided tours and more information see the link.
Burgstraße
www.kaiserburg-nuernberg.de
Frauenkirche
Until the Persecution of Jews in 1349, when more than 500 Jews were burned, this was the location of the synagogue and the Jewish Quarter. In the same year, Emperor Karl IV started to construct the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady). In 1358 the Frauenkirche was consecrated and served as imperial church.
Hauptmarkt
Schöner Brunnen
The "Beautiful Fountain" was built in 1396. Like a Gothic spire, the fountain reaches up in the sky 19 meters. The original Schöner Brunnen is shown in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The fountain on Hauptmarkt is only a copy built in 1903. Who is turning the brass ring of the grid, while thinking about something beautiful, her/his wishes should be fulfilled. (no warranty)
St. Lorenz Kirche
The construction of the Gothic "St. Lawrence Church" began in the middle of the 13th century. Laurentius is the patron of all professions connected to fire, as he was grilled as a martyr on a grating. The church was heavily damaged during WW2 and rebuilt from 1949 onwards.
Königsstraße
Weißgerbergasse
The "Weißgerbergasse" is a curved street with lots of half-timbered houses. The "Weißgerbergasse" is regarded as the most beautiful street in Nuremberg. Here you will also find many restaurants and bars. "Weißgerbergasse" can be translated as street of the whittawers.
Spittlertorturm
The "Spittlertorturm" was built with the construction of the city wall around 1400. Four towers were erected at the four corner points of the wall. The four towers were expanded in 1564 and got their massive shape.
Frauentor und Königstor
The "Königstor" Kings Gate of the city wall, is the main entrance to the old town of Nuremberg. Next to the "Königstor" stands the "Frauentorturm" Womans-gate-tower, which was built together with the "Spittler Turm". There is a handicraft market at the citywall, near the "Königstor".
Heilig-Geist-Spital
The "Hospital of the Holy Spirit" was founded in 1339 by Konrad Gross, the richest man of the city. The hospital took care of the sick, poor and of old citizens. The "Heilig-Geist-Spital" was destroyed in 1945 but rebuilt in 1953.
www.heilig-geist-spital.de
St. Sebald
The Protestant Church of Sebaldus houses the tomb of Sebaldus, the city saint. He was a hermit in Franconia and was revered as a saint. Another feature of the church, built in 1273, are the two choirs in the east and the west of the church.
Sebalder Platz
Kettensteg
Hidden on the edge of the old town, there is a technical sensations of Germany. The "Kettensteg" is the oldest free-standing suspension bridge in Germany, built by Conrad Georg Kupper in 1824. The 68 m long pedestrian trail, spans over the river Pegnitz. On the north bank, there is the cozy beer garden "Kettensteg".
Henkersteg
When the city wall became superfluous by the construction of the New City Wall around 1400, the executioner moved into the former watchtower. The bridge over the Pegnitz that leads to the hangmans tower was called "Henkersteg" (Henker = Hangman). The covered wooden bridge was reconstructed in 1954.
NSDAP Kongresshalle
Albert Speer and Ruff projected the "Congress hall" for 50,000 visitors on the "Reichsparteitagsgelaende". The huge hall for NSDAP events was started in 1935, but never completed.
Große Straße
Zeppelinfeld
Albert Speer designed the Zeppelin field for NSDAP mass parades. Anti-aircraft headlights directed into the sky turned the area into a huge "light dome". In the grandstand, the leader took off the parade. After the defeat of the "Third Reich", the eagle with the swastika was blown up by the Americans as symbol of their victory. The "Zeppelin field" was also a place of great importance for the winners. Today the grandstand is decaying, a race track leads through the "Zeppelinfeld" and is fenced off. Nuremberg still has no concept how to deal with the historical legacy of the National Socialists remains.
Zeppelinstraße
Map of sights in Nuremberg
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Nuremberg Germany
Welcome to Nuremberg
Nuremberg was one of the leading cities in Europe in the Middle Ages. Albrecht Dürer and Martin Behaim's globe carried the city's name all over the world. The imperial city of Nuremberg was almost a capital through the Reichstag. However, at that time the emperors were still traveling through the country with their court and had no permanent residence.
The center of Nuremberg is still shaped by the medieval buildings, although the war has left wounds in the historic city.
The city has still not found a sovereign way of dealing with the remains of the Nazi past. Adolf Hitler elevated Nuremberg to the city of Nazi party rallies and started megalomaniac projects on the Nazi party rally grounds.
Nuremberg specialties
"Nürnberger Rostbratwürste" and "Nürnberger Lebkuchen" are known throughout Germany. You can get both in Nuremberg all year round. The grilled sausages can be found on almost every corner. One of the most famous places to enjoy the bratwurst is in the Bratwurthausle next to the Church of St. Sebaldus.
Lebkuchen (Gingerbread) is also everywhere on sale and every producer has the best recipe and the best ingredients. The best-known brands include "Lebkuchen Schmidt" on the Hauptmarkt and "Fraunholz" on Bergstrasse.