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Charity builds houses for injured servicemen
Brian Fountaine will marry on June 8, the two-year anniversary of the day a roadside bomb in Iraq ripped apart the Humvee he was riding in. "I call it my 'alive day,' " he said. (Patricia McDonnell for The Boston Globe)
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Globe Staff / April 6, 2008
Even when Brian Fountaine was lying face down in the Iraqi dirt, his lower legs mangled and bleeding from a roadside bomb explosion two years ago, he knew he was going to survive. The young tank commander also knew he was about to become a double amputee.
But what Fountaine could not have imagined was the overwhelming support he would get when he returned to the United States from the strangers who buy him dinner at restaurants to the pen pal who helped nurse him back to health and now plans to marry him. Last night, a Taunton-based charity gave Fountaine his most visible show of support: a new house in Plymouth designed with wide doors and open floors so he can get around easily even when using a wheelchair.
"It's an indescribable feeling being 26 years old and owning your own house," said Fountaine, who moved into the house with his fiancé, Mary Long, two weeks ago, but officially received the deed from the group Homes for Our Troops at a gala dinner last night. "It's a lot of weight off my shoulders."
Over the past four years, Homes for Our Troops has provided houses for 25 disabled veterans and their families, and it plans to build another 100 in the next three years. Founder John Gonsalves concedes that's not enough for the roughly 2,000 veterans who need handicap-accessible homes, but he's amazed at the rapid growth of an organization that started in his basement office: Billy Joel donated the revenues from his latest song, "Christmas in Fallujah," to Homes; President Bush has publicly praised the effort; and the group just received its biggest donation, an anonymous $10 million gift.
"It's really a testament to how many great people there are in our country," said Gonsalves, a former contractor and now full-time philanthropist. He estimates that his group spent no more than $40,000 to build Fountaine's home because so much of the labor and materials, as well as the land, were donated.
Fountaine and seven other disabled veterans planned to tell guests at last night's dinner at the Marriott Hotel in Quincy how Homes for Our Troops has changed their lives, including one Army sergeant who has to use an electronic voice simulator because of a brain injury.
To Fountaine, the new house almost completes a transformation of his life that began when he returned from Iraq to convalesce at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
By coincidence, Long, with whom he had corresponded over the Internet while in Iraq, already had planned a trip to the capital when she learned that Fountaine was hospitalized there. She intended to visit for a couple of hours, but ended up staying all day, Fountaine said, then temporarily relocated from her home in Kansas City to Washington so that she could be with Fountaine as he learned to walk with prosthetic lower legs.
He walks naturally now and wears shorts or pants with zippers on the inseam so that he can easily adjust his prostheses. He has installed flashlights 3 feet from the floor in every room of his new house so he can find his way out easily if he's ever alone in an emergency, and doesn't have the five to 10 minutes required to attach the prosthetics. He has begun working as a carpenter with his father, and plans to take courses at Cape Cod Community College.
But Fountaine's new life will be complete June 8, his wedding day.
The date is the anniversary of the day the roadside bomb ripped apart the Humvee in which Sergeant Fountaine was riding.
"Some guys look at it as the worst day of their lives. I actually celebrate on that day. I call it my 'alive day,' " said Fountaine.
One other benefit: "I'll never forget my anniversary."
Scott Allen can be reached at allen@globe.com


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She also hired the disgraced A-list director for his most recent big film, and hasn't said a word about it.
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Mousavi supporters clash with police in Tehran. Afghan policeman kills five British troops in Helmand province. The US delegation to Burma meets Aug San Suu Kyi. The US Congress rejects Goldstone Report. All this and more in today's security briefing.
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Iranian police clashed with supporters of Iran's opposition leader, Mirhossein Mousavi, on Wednesday during a rally marking the thirtieth anniversary of the storming of the US embassy. Hundreds of pro-Mousavi protesters chanting 'Death to dictators' were dispersed by Iranian security forces. Witnesses say the police used batons and fired teargas to disperse the crowd. Reports suggest that at least five protestors were arrested.
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Loyal supporters of the Iranian Revolution had stormed the embassy on 4 November 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Anti-Western rallies commonly take place outside the old US embassy to mark the anniversary of the day it was seized. Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Basij militia had warned the opposition to avoid using anti-US rallies to revive protests against June's disputed presidential elections in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a second term.
The ToD verdict: Allegations of fraud during the 12 June presidential elections have repeatedly prompted mass demonstrations and subsequent crackdowns on opposition members. The fresh protests today are reported to have been called for by Mousavi himself, who told his supporters this week that the anniversary is a 'rendezvous so we [the Iranian people] would remember anew that among us it is the people who are the leaders.'
It appears the Iranian opposition is beginning to hijack official rallies to protest against the clerical establishment. Previously, the opposition used the official Quds Day rally in support of the Palestinians on 18 September to stage a similar protest. Rallies endorsed by the state have become a focal point of tension with grassroots opposition supporters staging protests to highlight their grievances and to show that they are still very much active. Opposition websites had been calling for a major turnout though independent verification of the size of today's protests is difficult to ascertain. Defying the authorities, many marchers wore green scarves and wristbands symbolic of the Mousavi campaign.
In response, the authorities closed metro stations and the mobile telephone system appeared to have been shut down to prevent demonstrators from communicating. State-controlled media showed pictures of anti-US demonstrators only. Outside of the embassy, hard-line lawmaker Golam Ali Haddad Adel denounced the US as an enemy of Iran and condemned opposition leaders as dangerous for the country, claiming that they aid Iran's perceived enemies.
The Revolutionary Guards and other elements of the clerical establishment including the Guardian Council have called on the masses to be conscious of protests that are the work of malcontents linked to 'foreign oppressors.' Media agencies loyal to the regime have also warned of 'foreign media hype.' The scale of these warnings suggests that the authorities are worried.
Meanwhile, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri denounced on Wednesday the capture of the US embassy as a mistake. In a statement posted on his website, Montazeri said that the hostage crisis had many 'negative repercussions' including the creation of animosity towards Iran among the American people. This reinterpretation of events comes at a time when Iran is locked in a dispute with the international community over its nuclear programme, which it claims is essential to meeting civilian energy needs. Speaking before the anniversary, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei criticized the US's stance in ongoing negotiations, claiming that Iran does not want 'any negotiation, the result of which is pre-determined by the United States.'
In a statement marking the anniversary, President Obama said the outside world has 'heard for 30 years what the Iranian government is against; the question now is what kind of future it is for.'
Afghan policeman kills five British troops
An Afghan policeman turned and fired without warning at his colleagues and British soldiers during training, killing five British troops at a checkpoint in Nad-e'Ali district of the Helmand province on Tuesday. The death of three Grenadier Guards and two Royal Military Policemen brings the total number of British troop fatalities to 229. The gunman fled and is now being hunted by British soldiers. Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to the 'courage, skill and determination' of British troops as he reiterated his support for the war effort in Afghanistan. The incident has raised concerns about discipline within the Afghan forces and possible infiltration by insurgents.
Meanwhile in Britain, former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has called for the withdrawal of British troops in Helmand in favour of a concentrated effort to tackle terrorists through intelligence gathering. Howells, who had ministerial responsibility for the country and now heads the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, says he would like to see greater cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies and the expansion of UK intelligence operations abroad.
Elsewhere, the US has reportedly issued President Karzai with a six-month ultimatum to reduce corruption or risk losing American support. According to Afghan officials, the Obama administration wants changes in Karzai's Cabinet and personal staff.
U.S. delegation meets Aung San Suu Kyi
American diplomats met with Aug San Suu Kyi, Burma's detained opposition leader, as part of Washington's highest-level visit to the country in fourteen years. The meeting offered the 64-year old Nobel peace laureate her first trip outside of the confines of her home. The topics of discussion are not known.
The two-day trip by American officials has been described as a 'fact-finding' mission by the US State Department and analysts say it is unlikely anything substantive will emerge from the exploratory dialogues. So far, the American delegation has met with senior leaders of the ruling junta and is expected to meet with leaders of the opposition National League for Democracy later on Wednesday.
The Obama administration has sought to reverse the Bush administration's isolation of Burma by promoting reforms through engagement and high-level talks.
US Congress rejects Goldstone Report
The US House of Representatives has rejected the findings of a UN-sponsored report which criticized Israel for the crimes it committed in its military assault on the Gaza Strip earlier this year. The House voted 344 to 36 in favour a resolution urging President Barack Obama to maintain his opposition to the report, which was described as 'irredeemably biased.' According to the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the report 'paints a distorted picture' and 'epitomizes the practice of singling Israel out from all other nations for condemnation.'
Elsewhere, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called again for a complete settlement freeze of Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. Clinton called the settlements illegitimate on Wednesday following talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, her last stop on a tour of the region.
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Fail-Safe (1964)
On January 12, 2018 January 13, 2018 By Tom AustinIn Blog post, Film, Film Review1 Comment
A Situation Nobody Wants…
Nuclear war. Nobody wants one. And a lunatic just might start one. But in the early sixties it was a very possible reality. Released in October 1964, it showed us in gritty black and white just how easily the end could come to this planet. The film was based on the book Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler which was released in serial format at the same time as the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
What makes this film stand out is what it hasn't got. There's no soundtrack at all. There are no laughs. Its all deadly serious. If you've dealt with any kind of computer for the last ten or fifteen years you will have noticed how much sophisticated new computers are compared to their ten year old counterparts. I'm writing this blog post on a four month old laptop. And it's so much better than a computer 20 years old. Yet it can't do what a twenty year computer can do. The mistakes in this new laptop are so subtle compared to its electronic ancestors. Tiny errors slowly pile up, until they cascade down making life very, very, difficult. And that's what happens this film. A computer develops a tiny error and sends a signal to a bomber group to target and destroy Moscow. The Russians, who you never see, test a new radio jamming technique. Machines designed to protect us do the opposite – doom us.
Doctor Strangelove and Fail Safe were put out by the same studio. Because of lawsuits it decided to release Doctor Strangelove first. Doctor Strangelove was a dark comedy which did very well at the box office. Fail Safe, a more down to earth suspense/drama, got rave reviews but did poorly at the box office. Its a sad commentary on our society when a comedy about the end of the world is received better than a film that really tries to depict things as they really exist.
The actors in the film deserve all the accolades. For almost all of the film scenes are confined to the presidential bunker, the war room in the Pentagon, Strategic Air Command in Omaha, and the cockpit of a Vindicator bomber. Please see the film.
Henry Fonda as the President of the United States
Henry Fonda is one of only a handful of actors who actually look like they could play the role of the President. Fonda played the secretary of state twice, and the president twice.
Larry Hagman as Buck the translator
Although many sources name this film as Larry Hagmans film debut they are incorrect. It may have been his break-out role, but he first appeared in the The Enemy Below with Robert Mitchum in 1957.
Dom Deluise as Sgt. Collins in a rare non-comedic role had only a handful of lines in the film.
Edward Binns as Col. Jack Grady worked with Fonda on the film 12 Angry Men. In this film he plays a soldier who follows his orders, and almost kills us all.
Walter Matthau as Prof. Groeteschele
The film is special as it is one of the very few filmed performances of Walter Matthau in a rare dramatic role. His role is that of advisor to the Pentagon. Used mainly because of his height (6 foot 3 inches), he is a sinister character with his own agenda.
Fritz Weaver. He made his film debut as Col. Cascio, who tries to be the perfect soldier, and fail because he forgets how to a person.
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The Day The Earth Stood Still–Part 2
On October 21, 2017 October 21, 2017 By Tom AustinIn Film, Film ReviewLeave a comment
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The film begins with radar crews all over the globe tracking an unidentified flying object – a UFO. American and British crews track the UFO. Excitement grows as the UFO goes deeper and deeper into our atmosphere. As it descends it slows, eventually flying over Washington. It eventually slows enough to where it can land. People in the area where it appears to be landing stampede to get out its way. It eventually lands an area reserved for games of
baseball. After it lands nothing happens prompting television and radio commentators to simply speculate as to why the UFO is here. Commentators of the day such as Drew Pearson, H.V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis are either shown or heard. As Drew Pearson recounts events for the umpteenth time the UFO begins to open, and a human looking person wearing some sort of helmet emerges. The Army (it's actually the National Guard) is by now pointing every weapon in their arsenal at the mysterious visitor from outer space. He
extends his arm in peace to show he doesn't carry any kind of offensive weapon. As he reaches into his spacesuit he slowly pulls out a strange looking device. It suddenly expands, and he's shot by some mildly terrified military type. He collapses. It's now that a robot named Gort appears. Everybody is astounded as Gort is 8 feet tall.
The extra-terrestrial stranger, now lying on the ground, struggles to stay conscious. Gort comes closer to the soldiers, and when he does his visor rises up to to reveal a roving, deadly eye. A beam of light shoots out of his helmet and destroys all offensive weapons. The rifles, machine guns, tanks,
and other methods of destruction are quickly enveloped in Gorts beam, and quickly vanish to be replaced by smoldering heaps of molten metal. The alien sees what he has done and says "Gort! Deglet ovrosco!". Gort ceases firing his deadly ray of death, while the alien struggles to stand. He informs the army platoon leader that the object that was shot and destroyed "It was a gift. For your President. With this he could have studied life on other planets.".
As the alien stands a jeep comes roaring onto the scene where a colonel asks how badly the alien is hit. When he's informed by the platoon leader about the shoulder wound he barks that the alien should be taken to Walter Reed Hospital.
Klaatu gets an education in Earth politics
The next section shows just how child-like the human race still is. The head honcho of the hospital and an unnamed General are discussing the aliens physical and metal state. Nothing of great import is exchanged except this one line. Most of it is pretty boring small talk, or chit-chat.
General to the major – "How is he?". "He's all right, General… Blood pressure's a little high, but it could be aggravation". General "Can't blame him. I always get mad when somebody shoots me".
Apparently he has been requesting to see the president rather insistently. Hoping to avoid an interplanetary incident the White House sends a secretary to the president over to the hospital. They send a Mr. Harley played by Frank Conroy. Frank Conroy does a splendid job of portraying someone who is nothing but a high priced courier in wing tipped shoes. It is in this sequence we get our first good look at the man from outer space.
After entering the room Mr. Harley looks right at the man from outer space, and says "My name is Harley — Secretary to the President. I've been told that you speak our language — that your name is Mr. Klaatu." Before Mr. Harley can continue the person in the hospital bed corrects him. "Just Klaatu". At this point Mr. Harley looks decidedly uneasy. No doubt he's been informed about Gort, and is wondering if the metal behemoth will come lumbering into the room. Gripping his hat he apologises to Klaatu. "The President asked me to convey his deepest apologies for what has happened. We all feel—". Klaatu asks him to sit down. Mr. Harley does his best to engage Klaatu in small talk, and to a certain degree Klaatu reciprocates. At the same time the army is trying to gain entry into the saucer with spectacularly dismal results. Back in the hospital Klaatu is growing visibly impatient with Mr. Harleys endless questions. Finally lays his request in Mr. Harleys lap. "I want to meet with representatives from all the nations of the Earth.". Mr. Harley gets flustered, and gives Klaatu a boatload of excuses, to which Klaatu says "My mission here is not to solve your petty squabbles. It concerns the existence of every last creature who lives on Earth.". His candor piques Mr. Harleys interest and asks him to elaborate. " I intend to explain. To all the nations — simultaneously. How do we proceed, Mr. Harley?". Mr. Harley suggests calling a special meeting of the United Nations, but adds that not all nations are members. Klaatu counters with a meeting for all chiefs of state. Mr. Harley shoots that idea down by stating some nations won't even sit at the same table. Growing more than a little impatient at the child-like attitude of some nations Klaatu states very matter of factly "I don't want to resort to threats, Mr. Harley. I simply tell you bluntly that the future of your planet is at stake… I suggest you transmit that message to the nations of the Earth". Mr. Harley gathers up his hat and briefcase and says he'll let the president know what has been said, but that he's very pessimistic about a positive outcome. Klaatu expresses a certain degree of optimism, and yet must wonder about this planet.
After Mr. Harley leaves the hospital floor some hospital personnel are discussing Klaatu. The major points to an x-ray and says that most of the skeletal system is the same as the human system and most of his internal organs are basically the same too. He asks the captain for an estimate of his age. The captain responds that he thinks Klaatu is about forty-five. The major says Klaatu says he's seventy-eight. The major continues "He says their medicine is that much more advanced. He was very nice about it. But he made me feel like a third-class witch doctor".
A Major White approaches the pair shaking is head. "I just examined the wound and it's all healed." When asked to explain Major White says "Said he put some salve on it — some stuff he had with him". Asked what he going to do with the small tube contain the salve he says "Take it downstairs and have it analyzed. Then I don't know whether I'll just get drunk or give up the practice of medicine". Major White goes through some doors and continues to shake his head.
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The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)–Part 1
On October 16, 2017 October 17, 2017 By Tom AustinIn FilmLeave a comment
One of the films that holds a treasured place in my heart is the original "The Day The Earth Stood Still". It was made in 1951 and used the fears of ordinary people of that time period to achieve its goals. And it scared the socks off of me when I first saw it on the TV in the early sixties. For me, the fact that it was science fiction, centered on an alien from outer space, who had his own robot…well I was heaven ( it really didn't dawn on me that the actor in the robot costume was over seven foot tall. When you're a little kid everybody's tall ).
The story first appeared first appeared in the October 1940 edition of Astounding Stories as the story "Farewell To The Master". Klaatu is in the story as is the robot (a slight change was made for the movie. The robot was originally called Gnut in the story. This was changed to Gort for the movie). But that's where any similarity between the story and the film ends. The producer of the film read over 200 hundred short science fiction stories and books looking a "nugget" of a story that could be used to create a fantastic film. Mankind was fearful and suspicious of the new Atomic Age, the Cold War, and pretty well anything else that could threaten the American way of life. Julian Blaustein, the producer, found the "nugget" he was looking for in the story "Farewell To The Master". With the blessing of Darryl F. Zanuck, Blaustein commissioned Edmund North to write the screenplay. The final screenplay was ready February. 21, 1951.
The word around the 20th Century Fox lot was that this was going to be a very important picture. Claude Rains and Spencer Tracy both expressed great interest in playing the lead role. In the case of Claude Rains it turned he would be doing some work on stage at the same time of the shooting schedule so he was quickly out of the running, but when it came to Spencer Tracy producer Julian Blaustein had to put his foot down, and threaten to leave the project. This was the way he put it: "When Klaatu comes down the ramp, and takes off his helmet, people are not going to see Klaatu. They're going to see Spencer Tracy". In the case of Claude Rains it would be very hard to explain an alien with an English accent. And Spencer Tracy carried similar baggage. Their reputations would precede them making believability in the role of Klaatu near impossible. The solution was rather simple, and in this case, very easy to do. They needed someone completely unknown to the vast majority of the film going public. Darryl Zanuck had just come back from England where he saw an actor that was very, very, good. Always on the lookout for new talent 20th Century Fox signed Michael Rennie to a contract. They now had someone eager to do the film, someone the public was not familiar with, as well as make a name for himself. Michael Rennie was a rather thin fellow. He was described by Julian Blaustein as "being almost skeletal".
Michael Rennie in a publicity shot for the film
Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie
Patricia Neal portrayed a woman widowed by World War II, with a young boy to raise. And it turned out she was the only person who seems to truly understand Klaatu. Her son, Bobby, understood Klaatu almost as well. Her characters name is Helen Benson and Billy Gray portrays her son Bobby Benson. In the film the love interest of Helen Benson is Tom Stephens and he's portrayed by Hugh Marlowe. I found him a rather unpleasant person who sells insurance. He seemed more interested in himself, and improving his lot in life, and not caring about what circumstances his actions may bring to others.
A very important component of the film was the appearance of the army. And they totally hated the script. They did not come off looking well. After all, they were of the opinion that aliens and UFOs did not exist. So they decided to withhold any and all assistance with the film. This almost brought the shooting schedule to a hair raising crash. Somebody, nobody has claimed credit for this, suggested using the National Guard in place of the army. After all they looked the same, and they used the same equipment. And the National Guard relished showing off for the cameras. It certainly didn't hurt recruitment any. So the National Guard were shoehorned into all the spots vacated by the army.
GORT
The robot Gort was portrayed by Lock Martin. His height is in dispute, as his own Wikipedia page lists him as being seven foot seven inches, director Robert Wise says he was seven foot one inch, and the American Film Institute states Lock Martin was 7'7".
When Lock first came to the directors attention he was working as an usher at Graumann's Chinese Theater. He wasn't a very strong man and had to carry dummies of Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie. There were two Gort costumes. One that laced up the front for shots from the rear, and one that laced up from the back for shots of the of the front. A bust of the head of the costume exists in the collection of Bob Burns. Robert Wise was aware of Locks discomfort in the costume, and the two agreed he would only be in the costume in thirty minute segments. He was also in The Incredible Shrinking Man as a giant, but his scenes were deleted. He was nicknamed "the Gentle Giant" as he liked reading stories to children and for a time had a local show devoted to that.
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Сент Винсент и Гренадини (), познати и као Свети Винсент и Гренадини, мала су острвска држава у југоисточном делу Карипског мора, припада Западним Антилима, у централној Америци. Састоји се од острва Сент Винсент и групе Гренадинских острва (Бекија, Кануан, Мајре, Мустик и Јунион).

Главни град је Кингстаун (28.000 становника). Површина је 389 -{км}-² и има 109.991 становника, према подацима пописа из 2011. године, што значи да је густина насељености 283 стан/км². Становништво се састоји од претежно црнаца, и мањим делом белаца и карипских домородаца. Религија је хришћанска 89% (30% протестанти, 17% англиканци, 9% католици и 33% остали хришћани).

По уређењу, Сент Винсент и Гренадини су демократска, уставна и парламентарна монархија и као чланица Комонвелта нација, за свог поглавара признаје британског монарха (краља). Национална монета је источнокарипски долар. Клима је тропска (просечно око 24 °C). Службени језик  је енглески, али се говори и креолски.

Ова земља има велике туристичке потенцијале. Најважнији извозни производи су банане, кокос и шећерна трска. Сент Винсент и Гренадини су чланица УН, Комонвелта, Организације Америчких држава и Светске трговинске организације.

Ова острва открио је највероватније Колумбо, први европски досељеници били су Французи, да би Британци преузели власт око 1720. године и владали овим просторима до 27. октобра 1979. када су Сент Винсент и Гренадини постали независна држава у оквиру Комонвелта.

Етимологија
Кристофер Колумбо, први Европљанин који је стигао на острво, дао му је име по светом Викентију Сарагошком, чији је празник био на дан када га је Колумбо први пут видео (22. јануара 1498). Име Гренадина односи се на шпански град Гранаду, али за разликовање од истоименог острва коришћена је умањеница. Пре доласка Шпанаца, староседеоци Кариба који су насељавали острво Свети Винсент назвали су га Јоломејн, у част Јололуса, духа дуге, за кога су веровали да насељава острво.

Географија

Положај
Сент Винсент и Гренадини се налази у Карибима западно од Барбадоса, јужно од Свете Луције, и северно од Гренаде. Површина државе износи 389 km².

Сент Винсент и Гренадини се састоје од главног острва Сент Винсент (344 km²) и северних Гренадина (45 km²) који се протежу између Сент Винсента и Гранаде. Острво Сент Винсент је вулканског порекла, а највиши врх је вулкан Суфријер висок 1.234 метра.

Флора и фауна
Док је Сeнт Винсент бујно пошумљен - и повремено активан - вулкан достиже висину до 1.234 метра надморске висине, Гренадини су сува, ниска кречњачка острва. Само их је девет насељено. Ова земља је међу реткима којима је дозвољен лов на китове према правилима о издржавању ИВЦ, а Беквији је овлашћена да лови до четири грбава кита годишње.

Сент Винсент има дугу историју успешних акција очувања биодиверзитета. Његов најпознатији успех био је опоравак Сент Винсент папагаја, врсте која је била озбиљно угрожена трговином кућним љубимцима. Захваљујући теренској кампањи и строжем спровођењу, популација папагаја се повећала са око 400 јединки у 1980-има на више од 800 данас.

Много је других врста којима је хитно потребна пажња, укључујући ретко виђену црну змију Сент Винсент, гекона Јунион Исланд и разне корале и морске рибе. Пропадање станишта и прекомерна експлоатација, посебно за међународну трговину кућним љубимцима, и даље представљају претњу многим врстама.

Историја

Претколонијални период

Првобитно име острва Сент Винсент било је Јулумејн, како га је називало домородачко племе Кариби. Кариби су агресивно бранили своје острво од европских досељеника све до 1719. године.

Пре доласка Европљана и Африканаца у 16. веку, разни староседелачки амерички народи пролазили су или насељавали Свети Винцент и Гренадине, укључујући Сибонеје, Аравак и Карибе.

Колонијални период
Сматра се да је Кристофор Колумбо 1498. године видео острво, дајући му име Свети Винсент. Домородачки народ Гарифуна, који је постао познат под називом "Црне карибе", агресивно је спречавао европско насељавање Светог Винсента.

Француска и британска колонизација и Први карипски рат

Разни покушаји Енглеза и Холанђана да освоје острво показали су се неуспешним, а управо су Французи били први који су успели да колонизују острво, населивши се у граду Бараули на заветринској страни Светог Винсента 1719. Французи су са собом довели заробљене афричке ратне заробљенике да обрађују плантаже шећера, кафе, индига, дувана, памука и какаоа.

Британци су заузели острво и протерали Французе из Бараулија током Седмогодишњег рата, тврдња која је потврђена Париским миром (1763). Преузевши контролу над острвом 1763. године, Британци су поставили темеље Форта Шарлоте, а такође су са собом довели и поробљене афричке ратне заробљенике да раде на острвским плантажама. Црне карибе су ушле у отворени сукоб против Британаца, започињући Први карипски рат који је трајао од 1772. до 1773.

Током англо-француског рата (1778–1783) Французи су поново заузели Свети Винсент 1779. Међутим, Британци су повратили контролу према Париском миру (1783).

Британски колонијални период и Други карипски рат
Нелагодан мир између Британије и Црних Кариба довео је до Другог карипског рата, који је трајао од 1795. до 1796. Црне Карибе водио је поглавица Јозеф Шатојер, а подржали су их Французи, посебно радикални Жан-Батист Виктор Иго са острва Мартиник. Њихов устанак на крају је 1797. године окончао британски генерал сер Ралф Аберкомби; склопљен је мировни споразум који је резултирао у томе да је скоро 5.000 Црних Кариба прогнано на Роатан, острво уз обалу Хондураса, у Белизе и Белисо на Гренадинима.

Ропство је забрањено на Сент Винсенту 1834. (као и у другим британским колонијама). Ово је довело до мањка радне снаге. Овај проблем је решен доласком имиграната и најамника. Током 1840-их стигли су португалски имигранти са острва Мадеире, а између 1861. и 1868 стигли су бројни радници из Источне Индије. Услови су и даље били тешки како за бивше робове тако и за имигранте јер је економија острва стагнирала због ниске цене шећера све до почетка 20. века.

20. век
1902. године избио је вулкан Суфријер, убивши 1.500–2.000 људи; оштећено је много пољопривредног земљишта, а економија се погоршала.

Свети Винсент и Гренадини су прошли кроз различите фазе колонијалног статуса под Британцима. Репрезентативна скупштина одобрена је 1776. године, влада Крунске колоније постављена је 1877. године, законодавно веће основано је 1925. године са ограниченом франшизом, а опште право гласа за одрасле дато је 1951. године. Током периода контроле над Светим Винсентом и Гренадинима, Британија је неколико пута покушала да уједини острво са осталим Острвима приветрине као један ентитет, с циљем поједностављења британске контроле у тој подрегији кроз јединствену јединствену администрацију. Шездесетих година, Британци су поново покушали да обједине сва своја регионална острва, укључујући Свети Винсент, у један уједињени јединствени ентитет под британском контролом. Уједињење је требало назвати Западноиндијска федерација и вођено је жељом да се стекне независност од британске владе. Међутим, покушај се срушио 1962.

У априлу 1979. Суфријер је поново еруптирао. Иако нико није погинуо, хиљаде људи је евакуисано, а опет је дошло до велике пољопривредне штете.

Дана 27. октобра 1979. Свети Винсент и Гренадини постали су последње од острва заветрине која су стекла пуну независност, и овај датум је данас Дан независности земље, државни празник. Земља се одлучила да остане у саставу Британског комонвелта, задржавши краљицу Елизабету као монарха, коју локално представља генерални гувернер.

Период независности
Од 1958. до 1962. био је у саставу британске Западноиндијске Федерације. Аутономију је добио 1967. а независност заједно са Гренадинима 1979. с премијером Милтоном Кароом, после кога долазе Џејмс Мичел (1984—2000). Арнхим Јустејс (2000—2001) и Ралф Ганселвиз.

2009. године одржан је референдум о предлогу усвајања новог устава који би земљу учинио републиком, замењујући краљицу Елизабету II на месту шефа државе неизвршним председником, предлог који је подржао премијер Гaнсалвиз. Била је потребна двотрећинска већина и предлог је поражен са 29.019 добијених гласова (55,64%) против 22.493 (43,13%).

Становништво
Број становника према процени у 2018. години износио је 110.211. Етнички састав био је 66% афричког порекла, 19% мешовитог порекла, 6% источноиндијског, 4% Европљана (углавном Португалаца), 2% острвске карибе и 3% осталих. Већина Винсенаца су потомци Африканаца доведених на острво да раде на плантажама. Постоје и друге етничке групе попут Португалаца (са Мадеире) и Источних Индијанаца, доведени да раде на плантажама након укидања ропства од стране Британаца који живе на острву. Такође расте и кинеско становништво.

Језици
Енглески је службени језик. Већина људи говори креолски. Енглески се користи у образовању, влади, религији и другим формалним доменима, док се креолски (или "дијалект", како га локално називају) користи у неформалним ситуацијама, као што су код куће и међу пријатељима.

Религија
Према попису становништва из 2001. године, 81,5% становништва Светог Винсента и Гренадина изјаснило се да је хришћанин, 6,7% има другу религију, а 8,8% нема религију или није изјавило религију (1,5%).

Англиканизам представља највећу верску категорију, са 17,8% становништва. Пентакосталци су друга највећа група (17,6%). Следећа највећа група су методисти (10,9% популације), затим Хришћанска адвентистичка црква (10,2%) и баптисти (10,0%). Међу остале хришћане спадају Јеховини сведоци (0,6%), Римокатолици (7,5%), евангелисти (2,8%), Црква Божја (2,5%), Браћа хришћани (1,3%) и Војска спаса (0,3%).

Између 1991. и 2001. године смањио се број Англикана, Браће, Методиста и Римокатолика, док се повећао број пентекосталаца, евангелика и адвентиста. Број нехришћана је мали. У ове верске групе спадају Растафаријанци (1,5% становништва), Хинду и муслимани (1,5%).

Влада и политика

Сент Винсент и Гренадини су парламентарна демократија и уставна монархија, са Чарлсом III као краљем Сент Винсента и Гренадина. Он не борави на острвима, а као шефа државе у земљи га представља генерални гувернер, тренутно Сузан Дуган (од 1. августа 2019).

Канцеларија генералног гувернера има углавном церемонијалне функције, укључујући отварање острвског Дома скупштине и именовање различитих владиних званичника. Контролу владе имају изабрани премијер и његов кабинет. Тренутни премијер је Ралф Гонсалвес, изабран 2001. године за шефа Јединствене радничке партије.

Законодавна грана власти је једнодомни Дом скупштине Сент Винсента и Гренадина, који броји 15 изабраних чланова који представљају једночлане изборне јединице и шест именованих чланова познатих као Сенатори. Парламентарни мандат траје пет година, иако премијер може да распише изборе у било ком тренутку.

Политичка култура
Две политичке странке са парламентарним представљањем су Нова демократска странка (НДП) и Јединствена радничка партија (УЛП). Парламентарну опозицију чини највећи мањински актер на општим изборима, на челу са лидером опозиције. Тренутни лидер опозиције је Годвин Фрајдеј.

Војска
Сент Винсент нема формалне оружане снаге, иако Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force укључују јединицу за посебне услуге, као и милицију која има пратећу улогу на острву.

2017. године Сент Винсент је потписао УН-ов уговор о забрани нуклеарног оружја.

Спољни послови
Свети Винсент и Гренадини одржавају блиске везе са Канадом, Уједињеним Краљевством и САД-ом и сарађују са регионалним политичким и економским организацијама као што су Организација држава источних Кариба (ОЕЦС) и ЦАРИЦОМ.

Људска права
Акти грубе непристојности, за које се може дефинисати да укључују хомосексуалне активности, незаконити су у Сент Винсенту и Гренадинима. Члан 148 Кривичног законика каже:

Административна подела

Административно, Свети Винсент и Гренадини су подељени на шест парохија. Пет жупа је на Светом Винсенту, док шесту чине Гренадинска острва. Кингстаун се налази у парохији Saint George и главни је град и централно административно средиште државе.

2013. године, Свети Винсент је позвао европске државе да плате репарације за трговину робљем.

Привреда

Пољопривреда, у којој доминира производња банана, најважнији је сектор ове економије са нижим и средњим дохотком. Важан је и сектор услуга, заснован углавном на растућој туристичкој индустрији. Влада је била релативно неуспешна у увођењу нових индустрија, а стопа незапослености и даље остаје висока, 19,8% на попису становништва 1991. до 15% 2001. Континуирана зависност од једног усева представља највећу препреку развоју острва, јер су тропске олује током многих година избрисале знатан део банана.

Постоји мали производни сектор и мали офшор финансијски сектор који опслужује међународна предузећа, а његови закони о тајности изазвали су одређену међународну забринутост. Све су већи захтеви за међународним финансијским услугама, попут берзе и финансијских активности финансијских посредника у земљи. Поред тога, староседеоцима Беквија је дозвољено да лове до четири грбава кита годишње у складу са квотама за живот ИВЦ.

Култура

Спорт
Крикет, рагби и фудбал најпопуларнији су међу мушкарцима, док је нетбол најпопуларнији међу женама. Веома су популарни и кошарка, одбојка и тенис.

Примарна фудбалска лига у земљи је НЛА Премијер лига, која својој националној (асоцијацији) фудбалској репрезентацији пружа већину играча. Значајан фудбалер је Езра Хендриксон, бивши капитен репрезентације који је играо у неколико фудбалских клубова Мејџор Лиг у Сједињеним Државама, а сада је помоћни тренер у ФК Сијетл Саундерс.

Земља редовно учествује на Карипском првенству у кошарци где се такмиче мушка и женска екипа. Свети Винсент и Гренадини такође имају свој национални рагби савез који се налази на 84. месту на свету. Остали значајни спортови који се играју на регионалном нивоу укључују атлетске терене.

Музика
Музика популарна у Сент Винсенту и Гренадинима укључује калипсо, соку, стилпен и реге. Популарна је и музика гудачких бендова, квадрил и традиционално приповедање. Један од најуспешнијих домородаца из Ст. Винсента је Кевин Литл. За амбасадора културе на Острву именован је 19. септембра 2013.

Државна химна Светог Винсента и Гренадина је "Свети Винсент, Земља тако лепа", усвојена независношћу 1979. године.

Галерија

Референце

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Just reopen a blog to prepare the open beta of Office 2012 products. I will try to test Exchange and Sharepoint and to give you good articles on how to deploy and use it.
In the same time I will talk a lot about Windows Server 2012 and windows 8 of course.
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The Lake Stanley Park is located in the Northwest portion of DeFuniak Springs on Shoemaker Drive. The park consists of an open swimming area, boat ramp, swing sets, slide, eight covered picnic tables, two un-covered picnic tables, restroom facilities, a fishing pier, and several open areas. The park connects to over 100 acres of open water.
During the 1st, 3rd, and 5th weekend of every month there is a limit of 10 horse power or less for all boat motors.
During the 2nd and 4th weekend of every month there is no limit for boat motors.


Last month, I wrote about vibration isolator frequency, and why we have to pay attention to it when isolating rotating machinery (especially in highly-sensitive settings). That discussion centered around the notion of tuning between the spring and the machine it supports. This explains why -- in vibration-sensitive labs and fabs -- neoprene mounts are probably a terrible isolator choice for a 900RPM fan. Here, the isolation frequency is too close to the primary fan vibration frequency; they're "tuned" to each other, and the isolator acts like an amplifier instead of an attenuator.
It's worth pointing out that other tunings can happen, too. And they can be equally problematic. Not only can the isolator be tuned to the machine frequency; the system could also end up tuned to the natural frequency of the structure itself.
You can think of these systems from two different directions. That earlier post looked at the machine isolation problem of a vibrating payload isolated from a sensitive structure. Now, however, let's invert the problem and say that the structure is the vibration source while the payload is sensitive; imagine an optical microscope sitting on a lab bench. The Principle of Reciprocity insures that all the same concepts apply to both.
Isolation systems act the same, whether you're trying to isolate the building from the payload (like a pump) or trying to isolate the payload from the building (like a microscope). If you understand one, then you'll understand the other. You can thank Maxwell for figuring this out.
In our microscope isolation system, the same kind of problematic tuning can arise. If the structure's natural frequency matches the isolated system's natural frequency, then we're going to have problems.
Imagine that you're installing a microscope in a lab, and you choose mounts that result (via pad stiffness and microscope mass) in a 12Hz system resonance. That means that if you bump into the microscope, the entire isolated system will "ring," bouncing back and forth 12 times per second. What if the laboratory is on an upper floor of the building, and the structure -- unbeknownst to you -- also exhibits a natural frequency at 12Hz?
Every time someone walks by, that 12Hz floor resonance is going to get excited greatly; since your isolation system is itself tuned to 12Hz, all that vibratory motion very efficiently finds it way into the microscope. In fact, those vibrations will end up getting amplified rather than attenuated, and your images are probably going to get a lot worse. The same thing would happen even if the frequencies aren't so perfectly aligned; the common wisdom is that the frequencies have to be separated by at least 40% to avoid strong interaction.
So, even when you're isolating microscopes rather than machines, frequency still matters. I didn't choose 12Hz randomly; that's a common number for rubber-type mounts, and it's also common for vibration-designed laboratory floors. So, this isn't just a theoretical risk.
Everything has a natural frequency: the structural floor, the lab bench, the vibration-isolated system. Even the microscope itself has internal resonances; these are the reason why the instrument is sensitive to vibrations in the first place. And when it comes to vibration isolation, allowing these resonances line up (in frequency) is usually not what we want.


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Extra-Contractual | Third-Party Coverage | First-Party Coverage | Aviation
J. Pablo Cáceres
Partner | Tampa
pcaceres@butler.legal
Pablo, a Partner, joined the firm in 1997. He primarily litigates complex First and Third-Party Coverage matters in state and federal courts, including appeals. Pablo has successfully handled hundreds of hurricanes and other high-value property claims, totaling well into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and he has defended E&O claims asserted against multi-national insurance brokers. He also has significant litigation experience with first and third-party bad faith claims.
Pablo was raised in North Carolina and received his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is admitted to all Florida federal Courts and is a member of the bar in Florida. Pablo handles insurance matters in Florida (through his home Tampa office).
Before joining Butler, Pablo practiced in Virginia and Texas, handling a broad range of civil litigation matters. He is active in the Defense Research Institute and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He is fluent in Spanish. When he isn't litigating, Pablo often gives presentations on insurance-related issues and spends time making authentic Neapolitan pizza in his backyard, wood-fired oven.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law
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Castle Beach Club Condominium, Inc. v. Citizens Property Ins. Corp. 96 So.3d 964 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012)
Citizens Property Ins. Corp. v. Admiralty House, Inc. 66 So. 3d 342 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011)
Citizens Property Ins. Corp. v. Cuban-Hebrew Congregation of Miami, Inc. 5 So.3d 709 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009)
Citizens Property Ins. v. La Mer Condominium Assoc., Inc. 37 So. 3d 988 (Fla. 5th DCA 2010)
DriRite of Cent. Florida Inc. v. Ironshore Ins., Ltd. 2009 WL 5171771 (M.D.Fla., Dec. 22, 2009)
In Re Sandell 2005 WL 1429746 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Fla., June 9, 2005)
Lane v. Westfield Ins. Co. 862 So. 2d 774 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003)
Langhorne v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. 432 F.Supp.2d 1274 (N.D.Fla. 2006)
Palmer v. Westfield Ins. Co. 2006 WL 2612168 (M.D.Fla., June 30, 2006)
Terra-ADI Intern. Dadeland, LLC v. Zurich American Ins. Co. 2007 WL 2460744 (S.D.Fla., Aug. 24, 2007)
Terra-ADI Intern. Dadeland, LLC v. Zurich American Ins. Co. 2007 WL 675971 (S.D.Fla., March 1, 2007)
Tristar Lodging, Inc. v. Arch Speciality Ins. Co. 434 F.Supp.2d 1286 (M.D.Fla. 2006)
Profiting from a Peril: Business Interruption Valuation During Economic Instability
Introduction The pandemic and political turmoil are causing widespread and long-term economic volatility after many years of positive trends. But covered commercial property losses continue, whether caused by fire, wind, or other causes independent of the underlying bases for the current market turmoil. And Hurricane Ian, in light of its occurrence during volatile economic times, will trigger num...
Hurricane Ian Webinar Series Episode 5 – Profiting From A Peril – Business Interruption Valuation During Economic Instability
Our latest webinar series will inform you on issues that may arise during adjustment of Hurricane Ian claims. In the fifth part of this series, Partners J. Pablo Cáceres and Hudson Jones, along with MDD's Kristine Elkind, will analyze problems associated with the valuation of such business interruption claims in light of sudden economic factors, such as those caused by the pandemic and world eve...
Butler Proudly Sponsors DRI 2022 Annual Meeting
We are proud to be a sponsor for the Defense Research Institute (DRI) 2022 Annual Meeting. This event takes place from October 25-28, 2022 in Philadelphia, PA. Partners Pablo Cáceres, Matthew Lavisky and Kathy Maus will be in attendance. We hope to see you there! Learn more about the event here....
Attorney Spotlights | Pablo Cáceres
Pablo Cáceres is a Partner at the firm who primarily litigates complex First and Third-Party Coverage matters in state and federal courts, including appeals. He has successfully handled hundreds of hurricanes and other high-value property claims, totaling well into the hundreds of millions of dollars and has significant litigation experience with first and third-party bad faith claims. ...
Best Lawyers – 2023 Edition
Join us in congratulating our attorneys who were recognized in the 2023 Best Lawyers publication! Click on their icons to learn more. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Their process is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal ...
The Latest Developments With Business Interruption Claims
Join Partner Pablo Cáceres as he presents at the 2022 Insurance Coverage and Claims Institute on March 23, 2022. This session is designed to provide a summary of the latest developments with business interruption claims and the challenges present when trying to determine the value of these claims under a variety of circumstances. Click here to learn more....
Join Partner Pablo Cáceres as he presents for the 2022 DRI Insurance Coverage and Claims Institute on March 21-23 in Houston, TX! This session is designed to provide a summary of the latest developments with business interruption claims and the challenges present when trying to determine the value of these claims under a variety of circumstances....
Recognizing the Best Lawyers in America 2022
Please join us in congratulating our Partners for being recognized on "The Best Lawyers in America" list for 2022. Recognition in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, their publications have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the m...
Appraisals in Hurricane Alley
Partners Pablo Cáceres and Nicholas Goanos presented "Appraisals in Hurricane Alley" for the LEA Webinar Series on June 21, 2021. The Insurance appraisal law and tactics on the Gulf Coast and S.E. U.S. states can, at times, mystify the experts who have worked on these claims. These large exposure property losses have been subjected to appraisal demands as a matter of standard practice by public ...
Insurance Coverage Issues Arising from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Webinar
Partner Pablo Cáceres and co-presenter Jay Jackter of Safeco Insurance Company will present a webinar titled "Insurance Coverage Issues Arising from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma" for the Defense Research Institute on November 7. This presentation will address the insurance coverage issues that have arisen following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida, respectively. It will discuss t...
First-Party Property: Bad Faith Allegations In Catastrophic Claims
J. Pablo Cáceres presented "First-Party Property: Bad Faith Allegations in Catastrophic Claims" at the DRI Insurance Bad-Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability seminar on June 7, 2019 in Westin Washington, DC. This presentation identified common problems associated with "CAT" claims and discusses how to avoid or mitigate exposure....
Butler Wins Dismissal of a First-Party Bad Faith Claim Involving a Civil Remedy Notice That Listed a Different Household Policy
In Florida, an insured cannot bring a first-party bad faith claim based on a claim for UM coverage unless the insured first files a Civil Remedy Notice (CRN) with the Florida Department of Financial Services. In Mathurin v. State Farm, Butler recently vindicated the importance of this step by winning dismissal of a first-party bad faith action where the CRN did not match up with the Complaint. A...
Florida Insurance Appraisals: Don't Get Me Started!
This article is originally a publication of Southern Loss Association, Newsletter December 2017. Legal opinions may vary when based on subtle factual differences. All rights reserved. Since the start of my insurance coverage career, I have had a legal-philosophical interest in insurance appraisals. It has been a frustrating and fascinating roller coaster ride of appellate and Florida Supreme Cou...
A Primer on Florida's "25 Percent Rule" for Roof Repair/Replacement
The 2014 Florida Existing Building Code (the "Code") contains what is conventionally called the "25 percent rule" (the "Rule"). The Rule applies to roof repair of any commercial or residential building. In a nutshell, the Rule states that if more than 25 percent of a roof or section of a roof is "repaired, replaced, or recovered" then the "entire roofing system" or "roof sec...
Hurricane Hindsight is 20/20
It took years of depositions and other discovery to realize that that most of my 2004-2005 hurricane condominium association claims were much simpler to defend than I thought. The center of gravity of these claims was the proper calculation of Actual Cash Value (ACV). ACV is a concept used to describe an intangible and subjective value of physical damage. Compare that with Replacement Cost (RC...
Hurricane Harvey: Time Requirements
Butler stands ready to assist you with Hurricane Harvey's claims in Texas. Harvey's CAT 4 winds devastated Rockport, TX, and the surrounding area. Flooding has been catastrophic. As the flooding and rains subside, insurers are receiving many thousands of property insurance claims. Throughout the next few months, Butler will send you information that may be useful to your handling of Harvey's c...
Florida Water Loss Claims: What's Owed, And When?
This article is originally a publication of Law360. Legal opinions may vary when based on subtle factual differences. All rights reserved. Water loss lawsuits have spiked dramatically in Florida during the past few years. Insurers simply cannot resolve the unusually large differences in water damage estimates. Scope of estimated matching work usually explains the disparity. And litigation ens...
87th Annual Meeting & Educational Conference
Kathy Maus and Pablo Caceres presented at the 87th Annual Meeting & Educational Conference on January 26, 2017 at the Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina. On the topic of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Faith? Spotting the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing". The program compared elements of Florida's unique 1st party insurance bad faith law with those of other states and perhaps show how the fea...
A "Top Ten" List for Handling Condominium Association Claims
Condominium association property claims can be contentious and confusing. Large condominium buildings often are the subject of multi-million dollar insurance claims, lawsuits, and appraisals. The "cookie-cutter" nature of condominium unit construction dramatically increases damage claims and requires prudent consideration and allocation of resources for proper and expedient claims handling. W...
Ensuing Loss: Chicken Or The Egg 2.0
Pablo Cáceres presented "Ensuing Loss: Chicken or the Egg 2.0" to a national client on Thursday, May 12th. The presentation was a "wipe the slate clean" discussion of ensuing loss coverage. What exactly does the concept mean? When does it apply to afford coverage for all or part of a loss? How important are slight policy language differences? What are the important cases you should know? This pre...
2015 Dri Insurance Coverage And Claims Institute
Pablo Caceres spoke at the DRI Insurance Coverage and Claims Institute on March 25, 2015. Pablo's topic was, "Negotiating Skills for Coverage Attorneys." ...
Pablo Cáceres Featured in Hispanic Executive
The firm is pleased to announce that Pablo Cáceres is featured in the April/May/June 2014 edition of Hispanic Executive. READ THE ARTICLE...
Adta Webinar
Pablo Cáceres presented an ATDA webinar on November 18, titled, "Preparing Insurance Company Executives, Adjusters & In-House Counsel for Deposition." ...
Plrb Claims Conference
Pablo Cáceres spoke at PLRB's 2013 Claims Conference in Boston on March 17, 2013. Pablo's topic was, "Ensuing Loss."...
Ripe For Campbell Review: A Florida Uninsured Motorist Claimant's Statutory Right To Recover Excess Verdict Damages In A Bad Faith Action
This is one of a series of articles under the by line "Butler on Bad Faith" originally published in Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance Bad Faith, Vol. 21, #18, page 29 (January 22, 2008). [Editor's Note: J. Pablo Caceres is a partner with the law firm of Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP, with offices in Charlotte, Miami, Mobile, Tallahassee, and Tampa. He litigates a broad range of first a...
Recovery Of Damages For Emotional Distress In Tort, Contract And Statutory Bad Faith Actions
This is one of a series of articles under the by line "Butler on Bad Faith" originally published in Mealey's Litigation Report: Bad Faith, Vol. 12, #6, p. 22 (July 21, 1998). Copyright Butler 1998. Emotional distress damages may be the most significant aspect of any bad faith action in jurisdictions that allow them. This article outlines the several theories that justify the recovery of such dama...


3 Daughters Brewing, one of the fastest growing regional handcrafted beer breweries, is expanding its production and operations center with a new 10,000 square foot facility in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Through a partnership with a local tank manufacturer, BrewFab, this expansion will add six new 150 BBL fermenters and two 300 BBL brite tanks which will more than quintuple current production capacity. The company also plans an additional warehouse which will be located on the same property as the original brewery.


Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.
Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art.
The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins, David Berona, Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J.


Australia is home to over 200 Indigenous tribes and language groups, who have lived throughout the continent and the surrounding islands, for thousands of years. Many Indigenous Australian Christians have amazing life stories that show how their Christian faith has positively impacted their lives, families and communities and helped them overcome significant obstacles and disadvantage – such as addiction, illness, poverty and lack of access to education.
This website contains 40 short films of 40 Indigenous Christians from many different localities across Australia telling their life stories.
Watching and listening to the stories helps contribute to healing and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and has a positive impact in remote Indigenous communities, because the stories give hope that real, lasting, positive change is possible, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
The finished films are broadcast quality and are being shown on television and YouTube, and distributed via DVD, USB and Micro SD cards.
We received DGR status for this project by partnering with Australian Christian Multimedia, so any donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.
We're inviting you to help these stories spread like wild fire and bring unity and healing to our nation.
We're also looking to partner with other Christians who love Jesus and want to make a difference in Australia – so if you know anyone like that can you please tell them about these stories?
You can support this cause by donating today!
You can make a donation at http://40stories.com.au/donate/.


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Materials science and engineering alum Arun Devaraj ('11 Ph.D.) received a 2020 Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy. The award comes with five years of research support totaling roughly $2.5 million.
At UNT, Devaraj studied experimental and computational material science under the advisement of Raj Banerjee, University Presidential and Regents professor, and Srinivasan Srivilliputhur, associate professor of materials science and engineering.
Now at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Devaraj will use the funds to explore how hydrogen, combined with stress and oxidation, leads to catastrophic failures of high-strength steels widely used in the nuclear and automotive industries.
The grant will be used to study how metal alloys function at the atomic level.
Assistant professor in Emergency Management and Disaster Science was one of 20 fellows selected.
Misty Sailors and Jim Hoffman develop "hybrid spaces" for learning in Mozambique.


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The place where tranquility meets quality food. Experience the secret of relaxation whilst dining on the east coast of North Cyprus.
Bar-B is a small and cosy family-run restaurant with character, which opened in 2010 due to the owners', Hakan and Lutfiyei, passion for food. It is situated in Tatlisu, in a setting of exceptional rural beauty, between the Five Finger mountains and the Mediterranean coastline, just off the Esentepe main road, with charming interior, full of artifacts and intriguing design.
On entering this Aladdin's cave, one is greeted by a fireplace burning brightly and many of your favorite tipples available at the bar. They have an extensive à la carte menu where fish, meat and vegetarian options are among other delicious palatable choices as well as a children's menu.
Examples from the variation of dishes are deep fried calamari rings with tartar sauce, as starters, garlic mushrooms or char-grilled traditional hellim (halloumi) slices served with a pomegranate sauce and seasonal greens. From the vegetarian menu try the delicious vegetables cooked in Mexican spices served with rice. If your a shellfish lover try the sizzling prawns from the main menu, served in a traditional hot terrine with butter, garlic, parsley, and hot chillies. Another irresistible main dish is the Cafe de Paris fillet steak served with butter, coconut milk, onion, garlic, cream, turmeric, mustard, ketchup, parsley, oregano, curry and black pepper.
Sunday lunch offers the speciality of slow cook lamb called Robbers Roast (Kleftico) – a gastronomic delight.
This stone-built corner restaurant with many quaint features is a quiet and peaceful haven for people looking for a setting amidst rural bliss and blossom. This is combined with a very warm welcome by the delightful owners Hakan and Lutfiye.
General information: Tatlisu, along the Esentepe Main Highway, Girne.
Map is provided below for directions.


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Jackfruit – Could it help feed the planet?
Jackfruit February 10, 2010, (Cíntia Regina/Flickr) Photo License: (CC BY-NC 2.0)
In the wake of food insecurity brought about by climate change, scientists are scrambling to find alternative crops that could help to feed the planet, and their focus in recent weeks has turned to the humble jackfruit.
According to an article in The Guardian newspaper, food security experts think the world's largest treeborne fruit, which has the smell of rotting onions and originated in India but can be found throughout Asia, East Africa and even South America, could soon be utilised in new ways to replace diminishing stocks of wheat, corn and other staple crops.
This comes after alarm bells sounded by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment, which led to fears that in the next few decades, food security could become so threatened in certain areas of the world that it could lead to food wars. Enter the jackfruit, a superfood that is high in protein, Vitamin C, potassium, Vitamin B6, calcium and iron and low in sugar and cholesterol.
The Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean are no stranger to the jackfruit, and hundreds of large jackfruit trees can be found all over the main inhabited islands of Mahé, Praslin and La Digue. The fruit forms an important part of local traditional culture and cuisine and it is almost too easy to grow. Shrugging off potential threats such as pests, diseases, drought, flooding and high temperatures, jackfruit trees can produce hundreds of fruits per year, ranging in weight from 5kg to 45kg each.
"It's a miracle. It can provide so many nutrients and calories – everything," said Shyamala Reddy, a biotechnology researcher at the University of Agriculture Sciences in Bangalore, India. "If you just eat 10 or 12 bulbs of this fruit, you don't need food for another half a day."
In India, the fruit has long been neglected as a useful food source and is now regarded as a "poor man's fruit", with food suppliers and consumers alike opting for more commercialized fruits such as apples and oranges.
But Nyree Zerega, a researcher on plant biology at the Chicago Botanic Garden, says the jackfruit's bad reputation is undeserved.
"I think it could play a much more important role in diets than it currently does and be a staple," she said. "In addition to consuming cooked young jackfruit, ripe jackfruit, and jackfruit seeds, there are also many food products with longer shelf life that can be made from jackfruit."
The Indian government has already launched some new initiatives to promote the jackfruit by promoting new uses for the fruit as a canned product and also as an ingredient for processed foods.
In a world where farmers have widely adopted genetically-modified crops of rice, wheat and maize to produce bumper crops, a healthier and less controversial alternative could be the jackfruit tree, especially in developing countries with growing populations living under the increased threat of climate change.
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Metso appoints new President and CEO
World Cement, Monday, 08 May 2017 10:14
Metso's Board of Directors has appointed Nico Delvaux as President and CEO of Metso, effective start of November 2017, at the latest. Nico Delvaux is currently Senior Executive Vice President for Atlas Copco AB and Business Area President for Compressor Technique, with responsibility for the global compressed air business of the Atlas Copco Group.
"This nomination is part of Metso's successor planning and the timing is good for Metso to progress into the next development phase. I am convinced that Nico Delvaux is the right person to further accelerate value creation for Metso's customers and shareholders, thanks to his broad international experience, leadership skills and a proven track record in developing leading businesses," says Mikael Lilius, Chairman of Metso's Board of Directors.
"I know Metso as a company and highly respect its brand and achievements. I really look forward to joining Metso and working together with the Metso people all over the world as well as to moving to Finland," says Nico Delvaux.
"Matti Kähkönen has been the President and CEO of Metso since March 2011, and he has under difficult market conditions led significant changes, which have built a strong foundation for Metso going forward. This is a good moment for the Board to make decisions on the CEO's successor. We want to thank Matti Kähkönen for his very good work for the benefit of Metso and its shareholders during the past nearly 40 years. We have also agreed that he will act as a Senior Advisor to the Board until his retirement," Mikael Lilius continues.
In Matti Kähkönen's view, Metso has developed to a point where it is natural for a successor to continue. "This decision was not made overnight, as we have looked for a good timing for the change together with the Board. I will continue with full focus and energy until the end of my duties as President and CEO," he says.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/europe-cis/08052017/metso-appoints-new-president-and-ceo/


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Portuguese at one end of town, Italians the other, a few devout Yankees left in the midst, meaning everybody's at church, and I can slip this personal essay by. How the book began. But, no, 2300 words – don't even think of it.
When I arrived in the early 1980s, Gloucester seemed to me a thriving fishing port. People around the harbor saw it differently, because the first minimum size limits on cod and haddock and gray sole were just going into effect, this a few years after the Magnusson-Stevens Act had imposed restrictions on what and how much fish could be taken.
But I wasn't a harbor person. I didn't come to Gloucester because of anything to do with fishing. I came because our family's rent in Manhattan had gotten too much. A friend had inherited, and offered to us, an un-insulated old house that had, decades before, been floated across the harbor from town to Eastern Point.
Eastern Point had almost as little to do with fishing as I did. People had long since been coming to summer on the Point. Mark Twain had brought his troubled daughter there for a few months. A congressman built a summerhouse and was visited by FDR on the president's voyage to his own estate on Campobello. A society interior decorator put up an exotic cottage that attracted a stream of bohemian visitors including Boston's great art collector Isabella Stewart Gardener with her leashed tigers. A prominent society portraitist had a cottage, as did a professional society widow. There was also, in mild opposition to the bohemians, an understated clan of conservative industrialists with their tennis court and their sailboats.
Those pioneers were gone by the time I got to the Point, but many of their houses (many the worse for wear) and much of the spirit of the place, remained. It was a bucolic oasis. An oasis of privilege, for sure, but shabby privilege. Even the grandest mansion with its atypical deep lawn and Georgian brick façade was gone to seed, presenting a thin scatter of aluminum and plastic-weave pool chairs beneath the white granite sills of once-important windows.
The house that I lucked into had belonged to my friend's maiden aunts who had been connected to the industrial branch of the Point community but who had also known artists and writers of significance. It was a big, plain, clapboard house with rusting bathrooms and with faded paper that peeled in rolls from the walls of the several bedrooms. The kitchen had split linoleum on the counters, a museum-ready dishwasher, and a pantry full of Delft crockery and jelly-jar glassware. The bell board for the staff answered only to the pedal under the molding carpet in the dining room. With all the windows closed, the house smelled of shore damp gone to permanent mold. But there were interesting books, and nailed up carelessly here and there were small paintings and drawings by recognizably important artists. There were weird but valuable, you'd think, pieces of furniture – an elaborately carved rosewood table on elephant tusk legs. The house was on the narrow waist of the point, and overlooked the harbor on one side and the ocean on the other. The slightest breeze blew through the window frames on the harbor side (except in the case of a North-Easter, which would be a different conversation) and out the ocean side. It was a brilliant summerhouse. You couldn't have dreamed better. I couldn't.
Un-insulated winter was another matter.
The basement held an ancient and enormous oil-burning furnace that, when started, shook the foundations of the house. Radiators on the first floor warmed; radiators on the second floor not so much. And oil was a buck and a quarter. We closed up rooms, put in a wood stove, calked the windows, and wore sweaters night and day.
The surprise had to do with my work habits. I liked to get up and get to my desk early. At three thirty every morning, I ran through the cold to my study, as I called it, and turned on the small electric space heater beside the wooden school chair at my desk, and ran back to bed. At four thirty, I got up and dressed and put on a down parka and went to my desk and began to write. The trick with typing was to keep your hands in your armpits until you had formed a sentence in your head, and then bring your fingers to the keys and blast out the sentence and bring your hands fast to your armpits again. Once I'd figured out this routine and put it into practice on seriously cold days, I felt, regardless of the quality of the work, like a hero.
My desk faced the Atlantic, and in those early mornings as I waited for my hands to warm and re-warm, I looked out over the dark ocean as far as the horizon. So absorbed was I in the heroic pursuit of my work that for weeks of our first winter I didn't register that the ocean was not in fact dark. It was spread with a carpet of lights.
I knew what they were, had seen them before, but had never paid more than notional attention. They were the lights of boats either fishing inshore or making their way out to, or back from, deep-water trawls over the banks a hundred miles from shore. On the boats, in almost every weather, in every extreme of temperature, were fishermen doing what they did day after day, night after night, summer and winter.
I worked hard at the typewriter to try and justify my comfort and safety. Heroism evaporated.
Certainly, at that time, signs of trouble around the fishing business were evident even to the uninitiated like me. There were stories of captains who had gotten over-extended on their boats and sunk them for the insurance. There were stories of captains making their money, and a lot of it, bringing in more drugs than fish. But the lights did cover the night ocean outside Gloucester harbor, and the harbor itself was thick with the traffic of fishing boats of all sizes. A guy on the Point who had been a fish merchant to upscale Boston restaurants started his own small fish processing company and it grew to the point where he could move into an old plant down on the waterfront. This was the plant in which Clarence Birdseye perfected the quick-freezing process that by mid-century had made frozen fish a staple on American tables. The Birdseye plant had fallen into disuse, but the merchant got it up and working.
In a couple years, when my wife's mother began failing in Oklahoma and we left Gloucester to care for her, I didn't have any doubt that fish would always be fish and Gloucester would always be Gloucester. When my mother-in-law died in another few years, possibilities and pressures took us ever-farther from Gloucester, and it was well into the first decade of the new century before we got back.
The old house on Eastern Point was no longer available, but we found a small place off the Point and off the water, with heat. And my focus went to making a living – always an issue and more so just then. After writing a few seasons of web marketing, I dialed into a Boston management consulting firm that subbed out histories of its officers and its cases – fun stories to hear, drudgery to write, good money (at least for somebody who needed it), no whiff of heroism. In was in this studied ambience of business triumphs and failures and rescues, that I came on the term "Undertaker" as it referred to the people who disposed of failed companies or the failed divisions of ongoing corporations. The undertaker appraised the worth of whatever elements were left of the corpse, cleared employee roles, liquidated stock, emptied factories of equipment that could be sold for use or scrap, saw the factories torn down for real estate speculation or repurposed for somebody else's products, and managed the closing of books and the flow of tax benefits before finally certifying the burial of whatever the corpse had been.
It was an arresting term, "Undertaker," and at another time in my life there would have been a happy irony for me in the term, a corporate joke, the undertaker. As it happened in those days, our family was coming out from under serious debt. If we'd been somebody's division, we would have been, a year earlier, ripe for an undertaker. So the term was poignantly more than amusing.
Shortly the term took on other relevance. Walking the dog between management consulting deadlines and what writing I could do for myself, I found myself on the back shore at night, and there the dog and I looked out over a night Atlantic altogether black, not a single light from any boat. Or, no, one two three lights, three boats. It had been years since I'd registered the carpet of boat lights on the ocean, and I understood that in time things could change, but this amazed me. So the dog and I began taking walks into the working curl of the inner harbor, where we discovered the other half of the empty ocean. Buildings along the harbor were shuttered. There were lobster boats and other small day boats, but the fleet of big stern draggers that went out to the banks to bring in the major harvest of fish had been reduced to a few hangers on. Wharves were idle. The old Birdseye plant was empty again, and this time plainly for good. The main street through town had a pulse in summer, but in winter was dead.
Eastern Point, on the other hand, was thriving. There were new and big houses, and the old houses were shined up. There were serious, and seriously immaculate, lawns. There were gates everywhere. Trees were coming down for high-end Boston hoteliers who needed views for their several houses. The latest generation of the rich had arrived. There were no art patrons with tigers, no society portraitists. In place of bohemians were children with BMWs.
As always before, the working class fishing industry spit at Eastern Point, and the Pointers in turn took the eternal comfort of not being townies. But the fishermen used to make a living, often a good living. Now the living was gone, and with it a lot of the fishermen. The fish were gone.
For generations, the inner harbor was zoned strictly for commercial harbor business, for fishing and fishing related concerns. Agitation built over the years to break that zoning, so condos or hotels could go in and capitalize on views of the harbor, but until recently, the agitation had been held at bay fairly easily, despite successive waves of speculators circling the old Birdseye plant.
But now the undertaking of Gloucester has begun.
The harbor zoning has fallen, and a year ago March, plans for a hotel on the Birdseye site were approved.
In January, Congress passed $75 million of disaster aid relief for northeast fishing communities that have suffered from a 2012 disaster declaration imposing brutal restrictions on groundfish catch. Not all of the money will come to Gloucester, and even if it did, it would not be much more than straws to grasp at.
This is the harbor in which fish were so thick they slowed the boats of early explorers. This is the harbor from which Gloucester men in Gloucester-built boats fished inshore waters with too much success not to go farther out, to the unfathomably rich fisheries over the Georges Banks and Grand Banks. This is the harbor to which whole villages of Portuguese and Italians came for the cod that made Gloucester the busiest fishing port in the country. This is the harbor and the town, still a town of less than 30,000, from which 10,000 fishermen sailed never to return. In today's landscape of homogenized cultures, this is still a harbor and a town with much remaining of its own unique culture, with its own vocabulary and its own pronunciations, and with now an ocean that is all but empty.
Here was a way of life, common along shores around the world and yet powerfully American on this open fist of a cape north of Boston. Here was a place and a living that mattered beyond its geography and its small number of souls – so many of whom were given to the waters beyond its harbor. This was a place that in its going away may tell us something about who we are and where we've been and what lies ahead.
And how hard it is to say that: Going away.
When I first came to Eastern Point, I understood that the life of the Point, while not a trifle, was movable, a kind of life that has always found a place and then another place. I was an example, showing up in the middle of my life while trying to break through as a writer, and able to move on. But the carpet of fishermen's lights on the night ocean, in the dead of winter, had taught me to understand Gloucester, the harbor and the town, differently. When I looked at Gloucester after that, I saw a gravity of place and purpose that seemed all but eternal. And now with the innocent faith of an outsider, and despite the evidence before my eyes, I cannot in my heart understand Gloucester otherwise.
Must the undertaking wipe away everything? Can't the fish stocks be stabilized and in time nurtured back? Can't the fishermen who are left be kept on their boats? Can't the working harbor and its spirit be held together as other economies find places there? Can the town's historic muscle bring up the necessary answers – as once the fish were brought up and as, God willing, they will be again?


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I realize that I've been a little neglectful of posting, so this is probably going to be rather long while I try to catch up a bit.
My post tournament review of my performance showed me one enormous weakness in my game. My halfguard is terrible. It hasn't really changed since the first year I was training. As a whitebelt, against other whitebelts, I had a dangerous halfguard using the lockdown and whip-up to hit the oldschool sweep or pop out to dogfight and work from there. It hasn't evolved at ALL since then and the lockdown gets crushed at higher levels and especially in the absolute divisions with huge guys. It works well enough to stall for a minute or so, but I'm unable to work any sweeps from it anymore and reguarding against that kind of pressure from the lockdown is problematic.
Enter Caio Terra. Arguable (Not really, who the hell is going to argue against this?) the king of halfguard. The guy weighs about 140lbs and has tromped through some very high level blackbelts in the absolute divisions using halfguard as his primary weapon. So I picked up his DVD and I've watched the first 20 minutes of it. 10 times. It's incredibly detail heavy and full of material, so it's going to take me most of this year to absorb it I think.
I started working halfguard last night, pulling halfguard, allowing people to pass to halfguard, sweeping myself to the bottom of halfguard for them, etc... and working on establishing a knee shield and stretching my upper body away from my opponent. I had a bad habit of curling into them for no good reason and letting people get grips on my upper body. That must stop so I'm emphasizing keeping distance in half guard and establishing the knee shield right now. Where I go from there is a project for the weeks to come, but I did try a few things that worked decently well including establishing X-guard, reguarding, popping out to try to attack the back, trying to setup reverse scissor sweeps, and executing a technical stand with the cross collar grip to try to set up my loop choke. I'll continue to work on and refine those options over the next few months and hopefully by USG Charlotte in May my halfguard will be a lot stronger.
In other news the gym is getting more and more signups in our new location, which is awesome. And our boy Brian Hutchings, who you may remember as the guy that won his blue belt a couple of months ago at the Fight For Your Belt tournament, is going to be fighting in the main event at the first ever Muay Thai show in Madison Square garden this weekend. We're all wishing him the best of luck and as long as he keeps his chin down and his hands up I think he can bring home a belt. He's seriously a beast.
My buddy Johnny is running a Marathon this sunday, which I think is flatout insane. I wouldn't run 26 yards without a good reason, much less 26 miles. But he's also a monster and loves to challenge himself in any way he can. He's a 2 time Tough Mudder, finishing in about 3 hours both times.
Speaking of Johnny, he's been teaching wrestling takedowns for us on Wednesdays, which is awesome since I need more takedown practice and I'm getting a lot more comfortable going for them out of the clinch and stuff. I'm hoping that by USG Charlotte I'll be comfortable enough to make shooting for takedowns my go-to instead of pulling guard.
My medals and rashguards from USG Greensboro are on the way and I plan on taking a super obnoxious picture wearing one of the rashguards and every medal I've ever won and then having it printed out and posted up in the gym on the wall.
AAAaand finally I'm starting a video project for the gym where I video the technique instruction portion of each class and I'm going to set up a members only area for the Megalodon people and post the videos there so that we can all reference them later.
And that gets us mostly updated.
Video from USG Greensboro is Up!
This is my match from the Masters, Advanced, Absolute division. I fought of a d'arce for a while, escaped an armbar attempt, and snagged the ankle for the win.
My opponent was a very solid Brown Belt who had an extremely competitive (and long) match in the Brown Belt Gi division later that day.


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A Preview of "The Wearable Artificial Pancreas Company".
I live in Fort Lauderdale and did not know of this company to date.
Every day there are people out there who are dreaming up and building medical devices to benefit mankind.
All that is needs is venture capital to go the next step.
NIH Fact Sheets – Salivary Diagnostics.
Doris Taylor: Recellularized Human Hearts May be Weeks Away | SENS Foundation.
Will the Universities of the Future be centers for manufacturing recycled body parts?
Doris Taylor is my new hero.
Why lament about manufacturing going overseas?
We see examples of cutting edge technology unveiled every day in the USA opening opportunity for High Tech manufacturing.
Is it a move from Desk Top to grow your own in your fish tank?
It is mind blowing to think of the future.
ScienceDaily (2010-09-03) — Researchers have unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis.
Model for implantable artificial kidney to replace dialysis unveiled.