The November 15th event will be the second of this season's "Art on the Plaza" events, held monthly on the third Thursdays to benefit non-profit charities NOBE Art Gallery is located at 3334 NE 34th Street. The district, encompassing Northeast 32nd, 33rd and 34th Streets along Highway A1A, is quickly emerging a popular venue for events, becoming known featuring galleries, boutiques and restaurants.
Second Chance Society Mission Statement: To give a second chance to homeless and other struggling men and women by providing moral encouragement and removing material barriers to self-sufficiency. Vision Statement: When no one else cares, We care. When no other hope exists, We exist. When the future seems dark, We hold up the light.
The event will feature a meet and greet with gallery artists and the smooth sounds of live music. A $20 donation is requested at the door, and will include two complimentary beverage and appetizers. A silent auction and 50/50 raffle will also be held.
NOBE Art Gallery is a purveyor of fine art and offers, art appraisal, restorations, installation, custom framing, commissioned artworks and photography services. For more information call 954-667-0660.
Art on the plaza with the permanent collection of Pascal's paintings and other talented artists.
"We are really looking forward to finishing this season's Art & Charity Series with a benefit for such an invaluable community resource as the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital," said NOBE Gallery owner Brooke Trace. This event will be especially entertaining with the support of community figures like Bill Carroll and friends with the Free Car Show and Cruise In. Talani, Russ Gagliani Jr., of Polynesian Proud will provide the entertainment for this annual event. "This year's rolling art will showcase a collection of classics, specialty and custom-built cars. They are just another form of art that we can all appreciate," Trace said. This will be our 5th year Anniversary for this fantastic Event!
The Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation provides philanthropic support to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital and ensures the ongoing availability of safe, quality, cost-effective, patient- and family-centered care, regardless of one's ability to pay, with the goal of improving the health of the community it serves. As South Florida's newest freestanding children's hospital, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital combines advanced technology with the expertise of the largest diversity of board-certified pediatric specialists in the region. This patient- and family-centered facility has earned the distinction of being the leading children's hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties through a wide scope of pediatric critical services, including the Wasie Neonatal Level II and Level III Intensive Care Unit and the only pediatric Level I trauma center in south Broward County. The county's only pediatric heart transplant program and first inpatient rehabilitation program are joined by the largest group of pediatric orthopedic surgeons in South Florida and emergency departments in three locations.
Kick off season Thursday Oct 19th Art on the plaza with the permanent collection of Pascal's paintings and other talented artists.
North Beach Art Gallery's final Art & Charity Event this season on May 18 from 6-10 p.m. benefitting Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. The event will feature live music and entertainment from Polynesian Proud, Bill Carroll's and friends Collector Car Cruise In, Live Pinstriping on models and of course a selection of fine art, at the Galt Ocean Plaza, 3334 NE 34th Street.
Permanent collection of Pascals original oil paintings on canvas limited edition prints giclees on canvas and paper and artprints and from other talented artists.
"We enjoy coming together to support the invaluable community resource that Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital has become," said NOBE Gallery owner Brooke Trace. "This event will be especially entertaining with the support of community figures like Bill Carroll and friends Collector Car Cruise In and Talani, Russ Gagliani Jr., of Polynesian Proud Entertainment donating their time and support for this annual event. Russ G events has graciously donated the Charity Choice Top Car Award Trophy, Special Guest Artists, Jessie Malero, Bones and JC will be Pin striping on live models.
The Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation provides philanthropic support to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital and ensures the ongoing availability of safe, quality, cost-effective, patient- and family-centered care, regardless of one's ability to pay, with the goal of improving the health of the community it serves. As South Florida's newest freestanding children's hospital, Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital combines advanced technology with the expertise of the largest diversity of board-certified pediatric specialists in the region. This patient- and family-centered facility has earned the distinction of being the leading children's hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties through a wide scope of pediatric critical services, including the Wasie Neonatal Level II and Level III Intensive Care Unit and the only pediatric Level I trauma center in south Broward County.
The NOBE Gallery features modern masters fine art prints. We promote local and international artists. The works of emerging talented artists, some of whom will be in attendance, include Pascal, Blake Ballard, Robert S. Simon, Marc Lipp, Brooke Trace, Ashton Howard, Billy Hoblik and John Salko.
The gallery, at the Galt Ocean Plaza, 3334 NE 34th Street, has expanded its services to include museum quality restoration, insured art brokerage, art appraisal, and full service custom framing. For more information contact Brooke Trace at 954-667-0660.
Pascal's donated artwork Singing in the rain available at the auction.
Pascal at Nobe Art Gallery.
NOBE Gallery Benefit for 2nd Chance, Gallery Opening & Artist Meet and Greet!
Please join us to enjoy the latest works of art, meet our new artists and guest artists. Don't miss our December Gallery Opening! Do some holiday shopping while enjoying an evening of culture, entertainment. We will have Hors d'oeuvres, friendly atmosphere and guest artists. We believe in supporting our community and the organizations that do just that. This month is the 2nd Chance Society. We have personally heard success stores from people that have turned their lives around to success through this program! Please mark you calendars and share. Thank you for your continued support!
Permanent collection of Pascal's original oil paintings on canvas, limited edition prints giclees on canvas and paper and artprints and from other talented artists.
NOBE Gallery October Partners in Breast Health Benefit, Gallery Opening & Artist Meet and Greet!
"North Beach 4th Annual Car Show"!
NOBE Poker Run $10, Silent Auction, Rotary Grand Prize Raffle $10 tickets, 50/50 Raffle, Live Painting, Artistic Vendors & Music A family event free for all to enjoy! Remember: This one's for the kids!
Permanent artist Pascal will exhibited selected artwork celebrating Valentine.
Peter Langone will exhibit will show his works that have not been available in ten years and a sampling of his newest works!
Second Chance Society Benefit: There is a $10 donation requested at the door. 50/50 Raffle and Silent Auction.
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The European Union considers innovation, research and technology transfer to be the most important sphere of creating competitive advantage. Innovation is crucial in the enhancement of competitiveness and export capabilities of corporations. In the last decade, the most technology-intensive and innovation-oriented sectors were developing the most.
Innovation - that means adaptation to the changing economic environment and to the challenges of the future – is considered to be the European Union's motor for development. Thus, Hungary also aims at the establishment and successful operation of an innovation system, the more efficient utilization of European resources and the improvement of resource absorption capacities and innovation expenditures.
The South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency helps this objective. It creates a suitable environment for innovation and facilitates the innovative actions of economic actors, through which the concept of sustainable development, quality of life and competitiveness is linked to innovation and the acquisition and propagation of knowledge.
South Transdanubian Regional Development co.


All you politicians and would-be politicos out there it's time to play that game we call musical chairs: The L.A. City Clerk warns that it's time to move to the voting district you plan to temporarily represent while you think of a better political gig.
If you don't move now, you won't just be ineligible.
You'll be in criminal trouble with District Attorney Steve Cooley for perjury and other crimes for living in the wrong district, like city Councilman Richard Alarcon (allegedly).
When the dust settles we predict more than few folks will have swapped locations in pursuit of a Los Angeles City Council or Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education seat.
The day you must (act like you) live in the voting district you desire: Oct. 9.
Even-numbered council district seats are up (PDF) in 2011, starting with the March 8 primary. The general election is May 17. Filing deadline is Nov. 13.


Working out of a bright studio and showroom at creative HQ, The Mill, Naomi has quietly but confidently carved out a niche in the Australian market with her eye for understated, graphic femininity.
Led by Naomi Murrell and Dave Stace, the friendly studio team are renowned for delivering good conversation alongside keepsakes for fun lovers.
Having graced the pages of many a fine mag, the likes of Frankie, Yen and Marie Claire all agree Naomi Murrell is top shelf. With a loyal flock of collectors, an impressive treasury of 50+ national stockists and a flagship store opening on Ebenezer Place in Adelaide, late November 2014, the label is winning hearts all over the place!
Driven by the impulse to capture beauty and share it with others, Naomi Murrell's tiny finery is big on hope, happiness and simple pleasures.


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Q: How to get all form field data in Django UpdateView when working with many-to-many model field? For some reason my UpdateView is not displaying the selected associated. The form is pre-populated with only the first form field data results, username, and none of the other field data. I suspect this is due to the ManytoMany field being queried. I've searched for and tried possible solutions but nothing has worked. Any ideas?
Models.py

class Company(models.Model):
    """All company specific details. For each main manager, a company is created. The main manager can then add company members, creating for them their user accounts."""
    members = models.ManyToManyField(
        settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='teams', through='CompanyMembership'
    )
    ...

class CompanyMembership(models.Model):
    """Acts as a gateway between User model and Company model"""
            STAFF = "STAFF", "Staff"
            MANAGERS = "MANAGERS", "Managers"
    my_company = models.ForeignKey(Company, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    my_identity = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    my_role = models.CharField(max_length=100, choices=MemberTypes.choices, default=None)

class User(models.Model):
    """Users can be main managers or staff. Each main manager has their own Company. Many staff can belong to a single Company associated with a main manager."""
    username = models.CharField(_("Login Name"), blank=True, null=True, max_length=155, unique=True)
    ...

Views.py

class TeamMembersView(LoginRequiredMixin, CompanyMembershipCheckMixin, UserPassesTestMixin, ListView):
    """Lists all the company team members for the specific company"""
    model = Company
    template_name = 'users/dashboard/team.html'

    def test_func(self):
        user_obj = User.objects.get(id=self.request.user.id)
        return user_obj.groups.filter(name='Company_Main_Manager').exists()

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(TeamMembers, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        user_obj = User.objects.get(id=self.request.user.id)
        companymembership_obj = CompanyMembership.objects.get(my_identity=user_obj)
        company_obj = Company.objects.get(id=companymembership_obj.my_company.id)
        slug = company_obj.slug
        context['members'] = ecosystem_obj.members.all()
        context['slug'] = slug
        return context

class TeamMemberUpdateView(LoginRequiredMixin, UserPassesTestMixin, UpdateView):
    """Allows the main manager to change or update the specific staff member's user data"""
    model = User
    template_name = 'users/dashboard/user_create.html'
    form_class = TeamMemberCreateForm

    def test_func(self):
        user_obj = User.objects.get(id=self.request.user.id)
        return user_obj.groups.filter(name='Company_Main_Manager').exists()

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        data = super(TeamMemberUpdateView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        if self.request.POST:
            data['member'] = TeamMemberCreateForm(self.request.POST, self.request.FILES)
        else:
            data['member'] = TeamMemberCreateForm()
        return data

    def form_valid(self, form):
        context = self.get_context_data()
        member = context['member']
        with transaction.atomic():
            form.instance.created_by = self.request.user
            self.object = form.save()
            if member.is_valid():
                member.instance = self.object
                member.save()
        return super(TeamMemberUpdateView, self).form_valid(form)

Forms.py
class TeamMemberCreateForm(ModelForm):
    """Allows the main manager to create (and update) a user account for additional staff members."""
    first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200, help_text="Enter member's first name", required=True)
    last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200, help_text="Enter member's last name")
    email = forms.EmailField(max_length=200, help_text="Member's primary email address")
    phone = forms.CharField(max_length=100, help_text="Primary phone number")
    position_title = forms.CharField(max_length=200, help_text="Member's job position or title for the company")

    class Meta(UserCreationForm.Meta):
        model = User
        exclude = ['company_name']

    @transaction.atomic
    def save(self):
        member_user = super().save(commit=False)
        member_user.firstname = self.cleaned_data.get('first_name')
        member_user.lastname = self.cleaned_data.get('last_name')
        member_user.email = self.cleaned_data.get('email')
        member_user.phone = self.cleaned_data.get('phone')
        member_user.is_company_main_manager = False
        member_user.is_active = True
        member_user.user_type = User.UserTypes.STAFF
        member_user.save()
        CompanyMembership.objects.create(my_company=ecosystem_create, my_identity=user, my_role=CompanyMembership.MemberTypes.STAFF)
        return member_user

As an example, if I am the main manager I can create a user account for my staff member through the above form. For the staff member account I enter username="username_example", first_name="pete", last_name="smith", phone="333-333-3333",... and so on. CreateView works as expected. The user account is created, saved, etc. UpdateView, though, display would show in this example:
    username: username_example
    first name:
    last name:
    phone:
    ...
   # The first field of the form is pre-populated but none of the others... why?

A: You have to super init your form and rewrite the field with the
def init(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(TeamMemberCreateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

self.fields[your_field] = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(
                           queryset=Company.objects.all(),
                           widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(attrs=
                     {'dir': 'ltr', 'type': "checkbox",'switch':"bool"}))

A: By using fields = ['username', 'firstname', 'lastname', 'email', 'phone'] instead of form_class = TeamMemberCreateForm in UpdateView, the problem was solved.

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FILE- A leopard has killed a Buddhist monk who was meditating in a protected forest reserve in India, according to local officials.
A leopard has killed a Buddhist monk who was meditating in a protected forest reserve in India, according to local officials.
Rahul Walke Bodhi had gone to meditate in the reserve on the morning of December 11 when he was killed, said Santosh Chaudhuri, an official from the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve where the attack took place.
Bodhi was one of a number of monks visiting the area for a yearly prayer conference, AFP reported.
The reserve is just over 500 miles from Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra state in western India. Chaudhuri told CNN that the area also is home to tigers and bears.
According to AFP, there have been four other fatal attacks in the reserve in recent weeks.
A search for the leopard is underway and the animal will be moved out of the area when it is captured.
India is home to between 12,000 and 14,000 leopards, according to a 2016 study commissioned by the Wildlife Institute of India.
The big cats are threatened by loss of habitat, increasing conflict with humans and poaching for the illegal trade in body parts, according to WWF India.
The government estimates that 431 leopards were killed in 2017, according to AFP.
In 2016, three people were mauled when a leopard entered the grounds of a school in the city of Bangalore, leading officials on an all-day mission to subdue the animal.
Surveillance video showed the big cat chasing terrified men around the private school's swimming pool, leaping on them and mauling them as they tried to escape.
A week later, the leopard escaped from its enclosure at Bangalore's Bannerghatta zoo, where it had been receiving treatment.
Local experts said at the time that the animal could have wandered off into the national park that surrounds the zoo, which does not contain any human settlements.


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The University Match (hockey) is generally held to refer to the annual field hockey fixture between Cambridge University and Oxford University. The Men's fixture was first contested in 1890 and the Women's in 1898.

In 2002, both fixtures were played on the same date for the first time.

The contest has taken place at Southgate Hockey Club since 2003, prior to which the game took place at a variety of venues across the UK.

The annual contest between the University's second and third teams takes place in February, alternating venue between Oxford's Iffley Road Pitch and Cambridge's recently re-laid Wilberforce Road Pitch.

The 2022 Men's fixture was won 3-1 by Oxford.

Oxford's Women retained their title with a 2-0 win.

The 2023 fixture is to take place at Southgate Hockey Club on Sunday 12 March 2023.

The match is currently sponsored by JMAN Group, a leading management consultancy.

Results

Oxford currently hold both the women's and men's title having won the fixtures 2-0 and 3-1 respectively in 2022.

Cambridge last won both fixtures in 2020.

In the last decade, shuffles have decided matches that are level at the end of normal playing time.

Similar to a football penalty shoot out, shuffles gives 5 players from each team a period of eight seconds to beat the keeper when starting from the 23 yard line.

Cambridge have won on shuffles three times (Men in 2015 & 2021, Women in 2020).

Oxford Men won on shuffles in 2017

Women

Cambridge – 50 wins

Oxford – 48 wins

Drawn – 24

Men

Cambridge – 56 wins

Oxford – 48 wins

Drawn – 17

Goals

Cambridge: 237

Oxford: 229

References

Hockey
Sport at the University of Oxford
Sport at the University of Cambridge
Recurring events established in 1890

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Durham public works plows the UNH campus piling the snow higher and higher as the winter storms continue.
In a year filled with constant snowstorms and curtailed operations for the University of New Hampshire, the weather in Durham was commonplace for what much of the state experienced this winter.
Mary Stampone, an associate professor of geography at UNH, said that this year's winter storms were particularly heavy in southern New Hampshire.
According to Stampone, nearly 100 inches of snow have been reported at weather stations along the Massachusetts border and along the Seacoast.
"Winter snowfalls totals for 2014-15 were nearly double the normal total winter snowfall across southern New Hampshire," Stampone said.
On average, Concord receives about 61.4 inches per season through November to April. While the winter of 2007-08 still holds the record for the highest seasonal snowfall in Concord, the area accumulated from 80 to 90 inches of snow this winter.
This February, according to Stampone, will be one of the coldest Februarys on record for much of New Hampshire.
Stampone predicts that the temperatures in March will remain below normal across the Northeast.
In Durham, the specific conditions of the winter storm determine how the town will adapt its removal responses.
The usual preparations before a storm are putting salt, sand, or a mix in place on pathways. Roadways and sidewalks are plowed during the storm to keep them clear throughout its duration.
Following the storm's conclusion, snow and ice removal begins in the downtown, typically during the evening.
The overall Durham budget for snow and ice removal in 2015 is about $218,000. According to Selig, that amount has already been used up this season.


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Snow geese flocking to Middle Creek in record numbers
Madeline Crocenzi
They came early and didn't disappoint.
Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster and Lebanon counties saw its highest number of snow geese this year, topping over 200,000 at the peak in February.
It's the second year the geese have come in February instead of the expected March. Middle Creek manager Lauren Fenstermacher said it's because mild winters where snow-free fields and an unfrozen lake attract the birds.
More:Photos: Numbers are up for Middle Creek Snow Geese
Snow geese is an arctic species, Fenstermacher said. They migrate south from Canadian provinces. On their way back to Canada for the warmer months, they stop in Middle Creek. They're known for their impressive flight patterns.
Watch a video of the geese (story continues below):
"People travel thousands of miles to see the snow geese here," Fenstermacher said.
This year, she said a visitor's center attendant got a call from someone coming in from Hong Kong. LNP reported that the spot frequently attracts visitors from Asia.
Fenstermacher said she sees a lot of visitors from D.C., New York, New Jersey and Maryland. That's the case with photographer Liza Margulies who lives about 40 minutes north of Manhattan.
More:Photos: Annual goose banding event at Middle Creek Wildlife Management
She makes a habit out of traveling for great nature photos. She's been to New Mexico to photograph birds, Maine to take pictures of puffins and Chincoteague to check out horses.
"I didn't think it was going to be very good and then it turned out to be beautiful," Margulies said about the snow geese.
Although the snow geese population already peaked at Middle Creek there's still time to check out the 20,000 remaining birds. The area is hosting a Snow Geese Festival on Saturday, March 10 that will feature information about snow geese and conservation history in the state.
There's also a new audio tour around the area so visitors can learn more about the snow geese from the comfort of their own car. The best time to get out and take photos of the snow geese is at dawn or dusk.
If you go...
What: Snow Geese Festival
Where: Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area — 100 Museum Road, Stevens, Pa.
When: 8 a.m. Saturday, March 10
More info, click here.

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August 1941. "Dicky Gaynor, son of FSA dairy farmer near Fairfield, Vermont." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Submitted by rhhardin on Sat, 02/02/2019 - 9:23am.
In Ohio the farmers' rural delivery joke is one really extra-high mailbox labelled "airmail."
Submitted by uncle scrooge on Sat, 02/02/2019 - 7:28am.
This is a scene that could have graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.


Taos Whole30 was my focus group, although I didn't know it at the time!
This event was a clear reminder of why I'm doing this in the first place! To give context, I was still feeling disappointed that the retreat we'd planned didn't get the needed bookings and we had to postpone. Ryan and I decided to go to Taos anyway on the weekend retreat was planned, for a much needed break after a crazy few months. Because interest had been expressed locally/with family (in Whole30, but not the retreat) I still wanted to do some sort of Whole30 event to connect with the community.
I was able to quickly arrange (with the help of my parents!) to use a private room at Farmhouse Cafe, one of our favorite Taos restaurants. Because many menu items are already Whole30 friendly, working with them to create a menu specifically for the event was easy. Details were worked out and things just fell into place…many people offered to help and support to make it happen. It wasn't just me, by any means!
It made my heart happy to see several familiar faces show up!
Many of the original Taos Whole30 group attended and brought their friends/family. Making it even sweeter was having new and old friends join us. It meant so much to me! Two of my childhood friends I don't see often but have kept in touch with on instagram / coached from a distance (one in Denver one in Taos) were also able to attend! And, my friend Angelisa of Heritage Inspirations (who I was partnering with on the retreat) was so sweet to come and support. Each person was connected by someone else in the group!
This event was exactly what was meant to be! Once I realized this I let go of the disappointment I felt over the retreat and fully embraced the moment. I'm still hopeful that someday, somehow we can pull off a Whole30 Retreat and if we don't, that's okay too! (In the meantime, Angelisa's Glamping Tour is on my list this summer)!
We kept the vibe casual, starting with intros and a Collagen Coffee demo with nutpods and Vital Proteins. Then I gave an overview of the books/rules/resources/intention of the program, had a fun, interactive q+a session, and talked about/gave away some of my favorite Whole30 Approved products. My dad even gave a rancher's explanation of why meat quality is so important and can impact your health. And, the food…y'all it was amazing (see the pics of our menu/entrees below)!
About Farmhouse Cafe and Bakery: committed to healthy, local, organic cuisine that sustains our bodies, our community and Mother Earth.
Farmhouse serves up fresh meals that are as beautiful to look at as they are to eat…a fantastic option for Whole30 and beyond. Several items on the menu are Whole30 friendly already, or just need a couple of modifications to make them complaint.
Farmhouse is more that just a restaurant!
What I learned though this is you can't force it. Despite thought out and best laid plans, timing can be off or just not meant to be. Even if its a good idea, sometimes God just has other (better!) plans and I just have to let go and trust.
I struggle with control and trying to make things happen on my time. I'm learning more and more to loosen my grip, stop and listen, and trust that things are going to work out for good. If I'm being honest, I feel this is the recurring lesson/theme in my life over the last two years…a hard lesson but one that's worth paying attention to.
Leanne E: In November 2018 I was nearing the end of my 4th Whole30. I had the privilege of being able to attend and introduce a couple of friends to the Whole30 brunch and workshop hosted by Whole30 coach, Andrea Overturf. What an informative and fun experience we had! She answered all and any questions we had. I'd never really understood the Food Freedom that can follow Whole30, and I was able to ask and get a better understanding of what it was all about. All together I've lost 29 lbs, and even better the anxiety and stress I was experiencing on a daily basis has significantly decreased!!! That's a huge win for me!
We've been friends since elementary school!
Thanks to everyone who joined us, Farmhouse Taos for the hospitality/allowing us to use the beautiful space, and to the Whole30 Approved brands who so generously sent product to share. (Read more about the original Taos Whole30 group experience!) This workshop was so much fun I'm planning to host another in July during our stay. And, be on the lookout for similar events coming this spring and fall to Dallas with the Whole30 Dallas Duo!
If you've made it this far, thanks so much for reading and stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day!


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Our goal is to educate and coordinate care between the member and physician to prevent avoidable hospitalizations. This is a non-clinical, hands-off position. We instruct on disease processes, medications, and knowledge deficits to help clients identify complications in their health. We find medication assistance, set up home health/hospice, DME, transportation assistance, food banks, etc. with the goal of keeping the member out of the hospital. Some members are acute and are seen for only a month, and others are chronic and are seen weekly indefinitely.
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If you want to trade in financial markets, one of the first decisions that you will need to make is to choose between self-trading and having a managed account. There are several types of managed account, and they vary in terms of fees and the level of management.
This is in contrast to a regular broker account in which case the broker acts on behalf of the clients wishes, and executes trade orders accordingly.
As with other online trading platforms which assist novice, intermediate and advanced investors, managed on-line accounts are a relatively easy way for investors to gain access to the currency markets with less risk than attempting to develop an independent forex investment strategy.
All financial markets are highly complex and are constantly changing – global currency markets are no exception. Even professional traders need to spend many hours digesting news, learning strategies and monitoring the market to keep ahead of the game (more).
Monitoring signals and trends is especially critical of the foreign exchange market which is often extremely volatile and is actively open and trading 24 hours a day, five days a week.
With an initial minimum required investment, a managed account can be a good addition to a well-balanced portfolio. While managed accounts tend to require higher minimum investments and higher running costs than self-managed accounts, the additional fees are typically re-couped in terms of higher risk adjusted returns. A winning forex trading strategy can add an element of diversity to your portfolio and hedge against other assets.
For investors with smaller portfolios an alternative to a fully managed account is to utilize copy trading or use a PAMM account.
Both PAMM and copy trading allow assigning a small pot of capital to follow the strategy of one or more traders. Copy trading can offer similar benefits to a professionally managed account but at a much lower cost. Screening potential copy traders and checking their long term track record is critical though as most online services will not do this for you.
A managed account also brings you the expertise of not just one trader, but a network of traders, researchers and forecasters that have skills in different aspects of foreign exchange.
That's why the best reason to start with this option is that you can take advantage of their skills and follow their proven trading strategies. This can be worthwhile even if you eventually would like to trade the markets yourself.
A diversified investing method can bring you a higher rate of return over that of an individual focusing on one or two currencies whilst reducing overall risk.
When choosing a firm to manage your account, you should view data on their past successes and pay careful attention to periods of negative performance when losses exceeded 20%. The firm should demonstrate a proven track record of gains vs. losses over a long period – ideally at least 2 years.
A good manager will always provide reports, tools and tips to help you to understand the market, track your success and gain the skills and confidence needed to perhaps enable you to develop your own forex trading strategy.
Yes It is important to check historical records. It sounds counter intuitive to trust a trader that has had a lengthy period of drawdown. People will think that this means the trader is no good. However, it is the fact that they overcome the drawdown and continue to make profits in the long term that is important. Even the top traders experience losses.


More detail on this person: Gary Henry Guerrero, originally of St. Louis, passed away December 16, 2011. He was 63. Gary served as an Army Special Operations helicopter pilot in Vietnam where he earned the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He retired from the Army at the rank of Chief Warrant Officer Four after 21 years of service. Following his Army career, Gary worked as a helicopter pilot around the world. He retired in 2008 from Chevron where he held the position of Chief Pilot in Angola, Africa. Gary enjoyed cooking, telling jokes, and spending time with family. Gary is survived by his wife of 43 years, Deborah; three sisters - Patricia Andrews, Betty Tisius, and Sharon Buckner; two daughters - Britt Guerrero and Sarah Guerrero Mraz; son-in-law, Steve Mraz; and three grandchildren - Jack Henry, Evie Maxine, and Leo Thomas.


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Disney Turns To Profit As Reopened Parks Bolster Revenue
August 30, 2021 August 25, 2021 mqtraderscom
The Walt Disney Co. swung to a profit in its most recent quarter as reopened parks provided a revenue bounce.
Revenue in the parks and products division surged to $4.3 billion from $1.1 billion a year ago, as theme parks closed last year were open for part or all of this years quarter. Disney World in Florida has been open since last summer; Californias Disneyland only came back at the end of April.
The effect of the pandemic lingers at the parks, many of which are operating at reduced capacities, the company says. Disney is among the countrys largest employers to require worker vaccinations. It also announced in July that visitors to its U.S. theme parks must again wear masks indoors.
Disney on Thursday reported that its net income was $918 million in the three months through July 3, compared with a loss of $4.72 billion in its fiscal third quarter a year ago. Earnings per share came to 50 cents, or 80 cents excluding one-time items, while revenue climbed 45% to $17.02 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet predicted earnings of 55 cents per share on revenue of $16.76 billion. Disney shares jumped more than 5% to $188.72 in after-hours trading.
The company ended the quarter with 116 million Disney+ subscribers, about double the number from a year ago, and nearly 174 million streaming subscribers including Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu.
Disney+ expects 230 to 260 million subscribers by 2024.
Disney's kid-friendly back catalog and original hit series like Marvels WandaVision and the Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian" have helped drive sign-ups as people stuck at home during the pandemic needed something to do.
The streaming industry leader, Netflix, has had some growing pains this year after 2020s record-setting subscriber gains and as competition increases.
Marvels Black Widow came out in July and brought in the biggest domestic box-office haul this year, but Disney's pandemic strategy of releasing it simultaneously on Disney+, for $30 a pop, led to Hollywood drama. Its star, Scarlett Johansson, sued Disney, saying it deprived her of potential earnings from the theater screenings. Her pay is based in part on the film's box office.
Our direct-to-consumer business is the companys top priority, said CEO Bob Chapek on an investor call.
Revenue at the media and entertainment distribution division, which includes the streaming services, the TV networks and the company's huge movie business, rose 18% to $12.68 billion.
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I am practicing write and release.
of winter's curling chimney smoke.
the slick string slips through my fingers.
Lint puffs, and down feathers.
till their season is done.
from the crack in the closet door universal.
verse after verse to you – as our seasons change.
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Elmore Leonard passed away on August 20 at the age of 87. He was a legendary crime novelist and screenwriter of great reknown who I was greatly influenced by. He never stopped writing. So I recommend his great book, "Ten Rules of Writing", a treatise on concise and spare writing.
Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen critically acclaimed books during his highly successful career of 60 years, including the bestsellers The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight. Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown was based on Rum Punch, which was released in 1997.
In 2001, The New York Times published Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing" now famous among writers and critics featuring his axiom, "I try to leave out the parts that people tend to skip." In 2007, the rules were made into a little book called Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, illustrated by Joe Ciardiello.
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I don't want to hear anymore about what a gamer and competitor he is.
Just got called for a flagrant foul for punching a Marquette player in the junk while fighting thru a screen. Total bush league stuff that has no place in the game.
Best of all, the call played a big role in their OT loss to Marquette. Glad that doosh is not a Gopher.
He is easily the player I hate most since Greg Paulus at Duke.
That is one of the worst cheap shot, bush league moves I've seen at this level. What a classless jerk!
I don't understand why it wasn't a flagrant 2. Obviously done on purpose.
The guy clearly is also a coward.
I agree with this, that was a horrible play by a dirty player, what a dirtbag!
I was glad to see the refs make the call.
That was an old school move, probably taught to him by his dad.
When I was a pup, coaches taught you to set screens by covering your junk because of the nut taps defenders did trying to get through the screen.
I'm sure Bill Walton would have been proud of Davison.
It was great to see Marquette win.
He is one of the most overrated players in the B10 by far. He plays solid defence, but he also pulls bush league crap like this. Offensively, he is not really any better than IW.
I didn't watch any of the game, but I will admit, I had a huge grin when I saw his line...0 points and 4 fouls.
I laughed out loud when I read the title of this thread.
So much for the "If he was on our side, we'd all love him" narrative, I guess. Badger fans aren't having any sympathy as well.


Imam Asif Hirani has completed his 3 years of Bachelors of Business Administration in Fashion Designing before he switched his field to Islamic Studies. He has completed 1 year of Quran understanding course from Quran Academy (originated by Dr.Israr Ahmed), then he completed his Masters in Islamic Studies and he is a PhD Candidate at Al-Madina International University in Malaysia in Tafsir and Uloom-ul-Quran. He is a Resident Scholar at Islamic Center of Connecticut and He conducts various Tafseer Classes, Arabic Classes and Youth and Marriage Workshop & Seminars throughout the state and abroad.


It was a splendid demonstration.
But the indignation had deeper roots: the electoral conquest by the xenophobic National Front of a fourth town in southern France (this time by an absolute majority, and not the result of a triangular fight); reports from the three other cities of the Front gradually extending its control over cultural life; the gut feeling that if nothing is done to fight back, the cancer will spread. And so, when a group of young filmmakers published a pledge to disobey the new law, it opened the floodgates: Thousands and thousands wanted to sign. For the first time in years, the intellectuals had,awakened the community.
Legally, they achieved little. The government dropped the informer clause and got the rest of the bill easily through the House. According to opinion polls, most people here favor stricter controls on immigration; this may explain the strangely moderate posture of left-wing leaders and particularly of the socialist Lionel Jospin during the whole confrontation. Admittedly, industrial workers were not legion in that Saturday demo, and to carry out one's policy it is necessary to win a majority. But how? By putting one's head in the sand, avoiding awkward subjects and allowing Le Pen to dictate the political agenda? Or by tackling the central problem of unemployment, offering solutions instead of scapegoats and attacking racism head on, wherever it is to be found, including within the working class?
In the winter of 1995, through a series of strikes and mass demonstrations, the French people rejected the downsizing model and its dismantling of the welfare state. This refusal to accept the blackmail that there is no alternative marks a date. It is now up to the French left to reconcile that movement of social protest with the new one of moral indignation, linking the two through concrete economic proposals and the vision of a radically different society. When and if it does so, Paris will really be the pioneer, showing the way to the Western world.


A woman walks up to the checkout line at a store with these items: 2% milk, bread, Pepsi, macaroni, and cookies. She sees a drunk man. The man says "You must be single."
The woman is startled. How could he have known? He didn't see her hands and the man couldn't have figured it out from her items. "How did you know?" she asked.
He replied, "Cause your ugly!"


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For the Love of Rutland | White Syndrome
Clip: Season 10 Episode 2 | 2m 1s | Video has closed captioning.
What is 'White Syndrome'? In other words, white privilege. Stacie and her foster moms, Penny and Cassy, sit and talk about why they are able to enjoy freedoms that others do not simply because of the color of their skin.
Season 10 Episode 2
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Happy Dogs
That's what they've been since my Dad has been back. Here you can see each doing her favorite thing, though one thing you can't get from a picture is the noise that she makes while she's in this position. These coquettish moans:
Misha's idea of a good time that doesn't involve the car pretty much consists of this:
Sweetie's completely over her depression (combination of smoke alarm at the underground cave and my cell phone). Also she has learned that when a bunch of dogs are running around together and wrestling it isn't necessarily a fight.
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A Close Thing
My scattered extended family is all a little rattled today. If you look at a map of Jamaica you will see that Kingston Harbor is bounded to the east by a long narrow peninsula. It's called the Palisadoes Peninsula "Palisadoes" for short, which is what we also called the airport before it was named for Norman Manley, and the city of Port Royal was at the very end of it (half of Port Royal sank into the sea in the earthquake of 1692). The airport is out near the end of it. At the point where the peninsula attaches to the mainland is a roundabout. Because of the crash, police had stopped all traffic to Palisadoes. My cousin got to the barricade on her way out to pick up her son, who was arriving on that flight. The plane landed but for some reason couldn't stop and would have shot right off the end of the runway into the sea except it got stopped by a sort of embankment. The water is warm, of course, and it's also quite shallow--I doubt that right there it's even as much as five feet deep. So probably if they had skidded right into it they would have been all right too. But still, this was quite as bad as it needed to be.
Niko Hurley, who was travelling from San Francisco and connected in Miami, told the Observer that the lights in the plane went out, the overhead bin opened and luggage fell onto his head.
"We smelt fuel and realised that some people were injured and we began to help them out of the plane because we weren't sure if there was a bomb or something," he said.
His mother, Bambi Fowles, who was on her way to pick up her son, cried as she told the Observer that she heard about the accident when she got to the Harbour View roundabout and saw that it was blocked by police.
"I begged and begged the policeman to let me through," she said, her voice cracking. "I'm just so relieved because I feared the worst."
My Dad gave me my first driving lesson on a stretch of tarmac that runs parallel to the runway out there. I was eleven and we were waiting for someone's flight that was delayed. The site is also near where we used to go in my father's first boat, a little old wooden powerboat that he had bought used when I was about seven; we'd pile everybody into it (including my cousin Bambi) and go creeping through the mangrove that grows all along there--there's actually a gap in it along the airport waterfront)--the water was shallow and clear and clean, not like now, and my Dad and my uncles would swim among the roots and pick oysters off them for us to eat. That was how I first ate fresh oysters, small and gritty and tasty. Beyond the airport on the way to Port Royal was a forgotten graveyard that my parents, my brother, and I used to visit when I was very small. We'd drive out there on a Sunday morning usually. Almost everyone buried in it had died of yellow fever in the 18th and 19th century. They were soldiers and people who for one reason or another were associated with the garrison. I suppose someone must have figured out that the reason so many were dying was because they were posted to a garrison on the edge of, literally, a fever swamp. But that might have been one of those things where the interested parties thought it was worth the risk. During slavery days the planters liked having lots of soldiers around in case of insurrections. Reading the gravestones was extra entertainment; what we really went there for was to pick and eat sea grapes, which grew abundantly there. My mind roams along that Palisadoes shore, place of so many memories for me, because right now I miss the places and I think of my cousin Bambi and all of her extended family on her mother's side; we were all just sort of the family when I was growing up; we all played together, spent nights sometimes six of us crowded into a bed (sleeping crossways) chatting and laughing and just being kids way into the night; later, in my last few years I remember how being picked up after school was this major undertaking as the driver would sort of do this tour of Kingston picking up the various children from the various schools, and then the car, practically bursting from the sheer numbers of us, would then go to my father's office where we'd sort of wait to be redistributed to our various houses. And I remember how just decent they all are, of their simple dogged loyalty and unfailing kindness and gentleness to one another. I can call up the images of them as children, all of them, their faces as they were then, and I can remember outings and adventures and sometimes just long boring visits to the country, where some of them lived, and I cannot remember among the whole gang of ten or twelve of them a single unkind act or word. Bambi and I more than made up for the deficit in bitchiness though, and we spread it around liberally. And what was the result? Nothing but a lot of time wasted between me and her, quarelling and misunderstanding each other, only to learn at last that neither of us is quite what the other thought we were. Now we can talk; we share that Jamaican childhood and all the family memories from that time, not all of them as pleasant as all our messing about in boats. We don't so much explain as compare notes. I have really only two or three people I can do this with about that period of my life. So this all came close to home, and I wish I wasn't quite so far from them just now.
How did that happen? Well, some of us just have to leave home without knowing if we'll ever really get back or how. To quote the Stanley Brothers, it's "the price I have paid, to live and to learn."
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I took a long walk with Sweetie late in the day yesterday, part of the way along Long Branch and the snow on the rocks with the water flowing black between them was just somehow very moving. I think it's an image that Kurosawa likes, too; it seems to turn up a lot in his films. I wonder what it is about water, stones, snow? We walked all the way to New Hampshire Ave below where it crosses University and then took the long long way back. The few people that were out seemed to share the same spirit of adventure and novelty I was feeling. Everybody seemed extra nice.
More of same today, took another long walk in the middle of the day, except that now Sweetie is heartily fed up with snow. There's a field near here where I let her run off leash and when she ran into it her feet couldn't touch the ground--the snow was over my knees--so she was very annoyed. The thing Sweetie hates most of all on earth ls Losing Control of the Situation. She would take these standing leaps straight up into the air to get out of it, leap-plunge. It looked funny as hell but she was not amused. After that she just wanted to get home, anybody's house would do--she kept dashing up onto people's porches which is what she does when she's out and it's raining very hard. Every snowbank was a negotiation. We've lived here for four years and this is the biggest snowfall we've seen. She didn't seem to have an opinion about snow one way or the other in all these years, but now she has apparently made up her mind that she doesn't like it. I don't expect that to change, unfortunately.
Misha went out with my Dad yesterday only to take a dump. This was the first of two outings with this purpose, and it was a failure because she refused to uh, "perform" in the snow and dragged him all over the neighborhood looking for somewhere where there was no snow, just maybe some grass and leaves which is what she likes. She is one of those dogs (usually female) who always have to make a big to-do whenever they poop. Pace up and down and find the right spot, get into position and then sort of shimmy back and forth back and forth until their mysterious and complex criteria for the Ideal Poop Experience are all met. And that's when conditions are favorable, which they weren't yesterday. There was snow all over everything. She gave up altogether after what for her is a long long walk. Dragged my Dad home, he was wet, cold, and annoyed as all hell. And then he had to go out with her again maybe an hour later when she couldn't hold it in any more and didn't care where she went. That was Misha and the Great Outdoors.
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The text below the "image" on the box says "with Drink Recipe Suggestions" and "Enhance Any Drink with Mr. Penis Ice."
Seriously now. Admit it. I live near the Mother Lode, the Source, of Occidental Mystery. You would have to prove to me, with pictures, that you live near a dollar store that can beat this one. A couple nights ago after work I took my dog for a walk and we walked by it, just to stand and look at the windows. The word that comes to mind to describe the overall effect is "frantic."
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A Man Named Poonanny.
Juke joint full of smoke,
Men lined up around the walls
Every time she bend over
You can see it all.
Let's go baby,
You got a hole in your drawers.
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From this morning's Guardian story announcing the winner of the Literary Review's bad sex in fiction award:
The American winner of the Prix Goncourt, Jonathan Littell, has added another feather to his cap. His novel, The Kindly Ones, was tonight announced as the winner of the Literary Review's 2009 bax[sic] sex in fiction award.
The Kindly Ones, which tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of one of the executioners, beat off stiff competition from a stellar shortlist that included entries from Philip Roth, John Banville, Paul Theroux and the literary rock star Nick Cave.[emphasis added--ed.]
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Dear Sophie: How do we craft a strong H-1B petition? If I'm not selected, what are my options?
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Here's another edition of "Dear Sophie," the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
"Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams," says Sophie Alcorn, a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. "Whether you're in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column."
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Dear Sophie:
If I'm selected in this year's lottery, how do we craft a strong H-1B petition? If I'm not selected, what are my other options?
— Hoping in Hayward
Dear Hoping:
Thank you for asking the questions that are on the minds of many H-1B first-timers. Don't worry! Several options exist if you're not selected.
It's really important, especially for early-stage companies, to work with experienced attorneys to guide them through this process. Now that USCIS has changed it's system, if you're already selected, then having a great attorney is really important to mitigate any remaining risk in the rest of the process. There are lots of wonderful, experienced immigration lawyers out there to choose from.
This year's new H-1B online lottery registration process ended on March 20. By March 31, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will notify companies whose H-1B candidates have been selected.
If USCIS selects you, your sponsoring employer will have 90 days to submit a complete H-1B petition. Employers can file an H-1B petition up to six months before a candidate's intended start date.
It's great that you're already here in the U.S. H-1B candidates living outside of the U.S. seeking consular processing may face delays coming here for their employment start date depending on when coronavirus-related consulate closures and travel restrictions are lifted. These situations need to be addressed individually.
If meeting a deadline during any step of the process becomes difficult or impossible due to COVID-19, it's possible to request special handling from the government. The federal government grants extensions under special circumstances, such as floods and hurricanes. The COVID-19 pandemic is a special circumstance.
Because COVID-19 is prompting policy and procedural changes with little or no warning, I recommend consulting an immigration attorney for assistance.
If you haven't already, assemble the necessary documents as soon as possible. Obtaining documents may take longer now that most universities and companies are closed due to the pandemic.
Your sponsoring employer will need to assemble documents that demonstrate the appropriate policies and cash flow to hire you. Startups need to be extra careful to meet all the requirements. You should have easily accessible:
Passports used to enter U.S.
Past immigration documents (I-20, DS-2019, I-797, etc.)
A Labor Condition Application (LCA) approved by the U.S. Department of Labor is required with all H-1B petitions. For the LCA, your startup must promise to pay at least the prevailing wage to you and ensure that your employment conditions won't negatively affect other workers.
If this is a startup and it's the company's first H-1B, it must get its Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) verified by the Labor Department's Office of Foreign Labor Certification before starting. That process typically takes a week or so. Timing is key to filing an LCA. Keep in mind that the Labor Department typically makes a decision on whether to certify an LCA within seven business days.
Employers do not need to submit evidence to the Labor Department for an LCA, but they must post a copy of the H-1B notification, which can be done electronically, as well as keep all supporting documents in a file and make it available for public viewing.
The employer will also need to fill out Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker), and assemble compelling evidence and supporting documents. Check and double check the form and your documents to avoid mistakes and omissions, which can prompt USCIS to deny a petition. Make sure the info contained in the LCA matches Form I-129. Remember to include all required signatures.
USCIS recently announced that scanned or photocopied signatures will be allowed on all documents and petitions during the COVID-19 emergency. Make sure you pay the proper fees and send your package to the correct address with a way to track that package.
USCIS recently announced the temporary suspension of premium processing for H-1B petitions. The agency expects to resume premium processing for individuals changing status from an F-1 student visa by May 27, and all others by June 29. For an extra fee, premium processing enables employers to receive a decision on a petition within 15 days. Without premium processing, the USCIS California Service Center is currently taking two to four months.
If you don't get selected in the H-1B lottery, relax! Your startup can sponsor you for an H-1B again next year because there's no limit on the number of years you can be entered in the lottery, whether you're inside or outside the U.S. and whether you're currently employed by them or not. In the meantime, several other visa options exist for individuals like you who qualify for an H-1B:
O-1A Visa: If have "extraordinary ability" in the sciences, education or business, you could be eligible for an O-1A. However, the bar for qualifying for an O-1A is higher than for an H-1B.
J-1 Visa: Most employers cannot directly sponsor an individual for a J-1 visa, which is a work-and-study visitor exchange program. The U.S. State Department designates public and private sponsor organizations to supervise the exchange programs and application process that can be used to support a J-1 at a specific company.
L-1 Visas: If your employer has an office outside of the U.S. — or you can set up one for them — and you can work in that overseas office for 12 months or more, your employer can then transfer you back to the U.S. under an L-1A visa for executives and managers or an L-1B visa for employees with specialized knowledge. No annual quotas exist for L-1 visas, and these visas are "dual intent" and can lead to a green card.
F-1 Visa: You could become a full-time student at an accredited college or university under an F-1 visa. Some graduate programs require Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or allow Optional Practical Training (OPT). Both training programs enable students to gain work experience in their field of study.
The following options are available to you if you're a citizen of Chile, Singapore, Australia, Canada or Mexico:
H-1B1 Visa: If you're a citizen of Chile or Singapore, you're eligible for an H-1B1. Each year, 1,400 H-1B1 visas are reserved for Chileans and 5,400 are reserved for Singaporeans. Rarely are those visas exhausted.
E-3 Visa: If you're an Australian national, you're eligible for an E-3 for "specialty occupation" professionals who have specialized theoretical or practical knowledge. An LCA is required. A maximum of 10,500 E-3 visas is available annually, but they rarely are exhausted.
TN Visa: If you're from Canada or Mexico, you could work temporarily under a TN (Treaty National) visa for certain occupations. TN visas have no annual quota and allow for unlimited extensions as long as the employer and conditions of employment remain the same.
Fingers crossed that you get selected in the lottery!
Have a question? Ask it here; we reserve the right to edit your submission for clarity and or space. The information provided in "Dear Sophie" is general information and not legal advice. For more information on the limitations of "Dear Sophie," please view our full disclaimer here. You can contact Sophie directly at Alcorn Immigration Law.
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Argument over rose leads to domestic violence charge | The Law Offices of L. Morgan Martin P.A.
On behalf of The Law Offices of L. Morgan Martin, P.A. posted in Criminal Defense on Tuesday, October 15, 2013.
No two criminal cases are the same, and the circumstances that give rise to a criminal charge have to be carefully scrutinized to achieve the best possible outcome for the defendant. Domestic violence charges can be especially problematic, given that the parties involved often have conflicting accounts of how the dispute happened.
For example, a Myrtle Beach woman was recently charged with domestic violence after an altercation with her boyfriend. He told police that she lost her temper and threatened him with a kitchen knife, but she said the boyfriend assaulted her and accused her of cheating on him. The incident reportedly took place after the boyfriend found a rose on the woman's car.
The boyfriend admitted that he pushed the woman down, but he said he did that after she pulled a knife on him. According to police, the two began arguing after the man found the flower, and he claims that she screamed, broke a chair and said the rose was from another man she is involved with.
A news report doesn't indicate whether or not either party was injured in the incident, but this may be an issue to consider in the woman's defense.
Often in domestic violence cases, the facts of the incident in question are not clear at the time of the arrest. It is necessary, then, for a criminal defense attorney to take a closer look at the circumstances that led to the charge. After all, not everyone who is accused of domestic violence is guilty.


The McLaren family's Nerstane stud, Woolbrook, will represent NSW in the 2015 National Merino Pairs Competition at this year's Australian Sheep & Wool Show at Bendigo in July.
John, Hamish and Jock McLaren's pair won the NSW title at the Sydney Royal Show in late March ahead of 21 other pairs. The August-shorn pair comprised a full embryo transfer fine/medium wool brother and sister sired by one of Nerstane's most outstanding sires, Nerstane 121.
Photo: NSW SMBA president, James Derrick, sashes the NSW finalists for the National Merino Pairs Competition, held by Hamish and Jock McLaren, Nerstane, Woolbrook near Walcha.


Eighteenth-century antiquarian Pierre Eugène Du Simitière (ca. 1736-1784) collected all manner of material, including sketches, pamphlets, broadsides, political cartoons, and other "combustibles," such as embossed tax stamp paper, with an eye to the future. The aspiring historian foresaw the importance in saving the much-derided piece of ephemera from the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 as a tangible artifact of the rising tensions between the colonies and Great Britain. Imposed by Parliament on November 1, 1765, to help offset the cost of protecting and sustaining its empire in America, the Stamp Act required that virtually any form of legal or commercial paper employed in the colonies include the embossed revenue stamp. A firestorm of opposition erupted with colonists protesting the Act in the form of cartoons, pamphlets, embargoes, threats to tax collectors, and the burning of stamped paper. Protest continued unremittingly until the repeal of the Act on March 18, 1766.
The tax stamp pictured here, saved from several boxes burned in protest in New York, forms part of a large collection of material assembled by Du Simitière and purchased by the Library Company at the auction of his estate in 1785. Once a part of his short-lived American Museum, the collection contains numerous pieces of ephemera documenting the American Revolution, including a 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence, a 1777 Pennsylvania militia draft notice, and proclamations issued during the British occupation of Philadelphia in 1777-1778.
In addition to the Du Simitière materials, the Library Company holds a number of other notable collections of ephemera gathered by antiquarians. Charles A. Poulson gathered newspaper clippings, cartoons, and advertisements representing the daily political, business, and social life of antebellum Philadelphians in a series of scrapbooks that inform the casual reader as well as the professional scholar. John A. McAllister, from a family of Philadelphia opticians, voraciously collected anything and everything printed during the Civil War, including illustrated envelopes, song sheets, and paper soldiers. Emily Phillips, a Philadelphia socialite from a prominent late-19th-century Jewish family of philanthropists, gave the Library Company thousands of Victorian-era trade cards that provide a window not only on commercialism in the city, but the visual culture of the times.
The Du Simitière collection was only the first of the Library Company's extraordinary acquisitions of ephemera, which shed so much light on the everyday life of our 18th- and 19th-century forebears.
To learn more about our collection, please view our online exhibitions and our digital collections.


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Published on 16 November 2015 in News and events
Freisa: authentic and forgotten
Freisa is a native and traditional variety from Piedmont that has had the unfortunate history of being misunderstood. For one thing, it is almost totally absent from restaurant wine menus and wine bars, making it almost impossible to find and taste. Plus, its own producers have often undervalued it and limited themselves to using it in blends—it is excellent for giving some oomph to weaker wines with its pleasing raspberry aroma. Finally, the all-too-common bottles of unrefined Freisa have condemned it to playing second (or even third) fiddle to many others; it has often been vinified as vivace, or fizzy, for popular and nearly exclusively local consumption.
A marginal fate
Today in Piedmont, Freisa is planted in just about 700 hectares (less than 2% of all vineyard-cultivated land), most of which is on the hills of Chieri or Asti. A small amount remains in the Cuneo area of the Langhe and around Tortona, Pinerolo, in the Canavese, and the hills of Novara (Colli Novaresi).
Freisa is genetically very close to Nebbiolo, but it's more rustic and resistant. For this reason, many producers have planted it in the marginal areas of their land that are unable to support other grape varieties; and they make the plants over-produce while not giving this late-maturing variety sufficient time to ripen. In these conditions, Freisa starts to give mediocre wines that are not displayed alongside the noble reds of Piedmont. Today, even with a foreign market open to Piedmont wines, Freisa is rarely found abroad.
Chance, intuition, and passion: the story behind Mondaccione
For us, however, Freisa represents a very important wine, created from courage, intuition, and authentic passion for this wine made from such a unique grape variety.
As happens with many things in life, the chance to produce Freisa just fell into our laps. It was in the mid-1980s when we found two bottles in our cellar, from 1933 and 1952. When we tasted them – a mysterious, almost euphoric moment – they demonstrated this variety's incredible potential: able not only to resist time, but to exalt characteristic aromas and flavors over the years.
We might have met Freisa by chance, but we were utterly convinced in our decision to produce it. With a bit of daring and just as much intuition, we decided to experiment with producing a traditional yet innovative wine. We had a distinctly dry wine in mind. It would detach itself entirely from the popular bubbly, sweet, and young Freisa, a production style that contributed to the variety's decline
We wanted a wine that tied it to its noble ancestor, which was included in the great Ampelographic Exposition of 1881 as one of the "best wines of Italy." In fact, Ernest Hemingway wrote about his tasting of Freisa in A Farewell to Arms.
Even the vineyard went against the trends. We selected the hills of Valdivilla located in Santo Stefano Belbo. The zone produced excellent Freisa in the past, but in recent years the vineyards were uprooted in favor of planting the more profitable moscato. In fact, the name Mondaccione comes from "Mundaciun," a curse uttered by vineyard workers who toiled in these steep, difficult vineyards from which this wine is produced.
Valdivilla vineyards
A noble, characteristic, and territorial wine
The first vintage in 1987 repaid us all our hard work. We tasted it in the presence of Gino Veronelli, Cesare Pillon, Aldo Conterno, Nichi Stefi, Mario Mariani, and a television crew from RAI. In that moment, Freisa vinified in purity was recognized as a fine wine of excellence, a decisive expression of the territory with a noble and unmistakable character. It was no longer considered the son of some "minor god." The shedding of its old identity perhaps led to the wine becoming even more well-loved and recognized in the world.
Its success led us to plant more vineyards. But in 2004, we abandoned this path because we wanted our "little jewel" to be obtained solely from historical vineyards; its label carries the denomination "Vigne Vecchie," "Old Vines."
From that point, Mondaccione remained our most unique product. It is meant to be tasted slowly and with attention; not an easy wine, but demanding and complex with a restive, unexpected character. It was produced with toil, dedication, and endless effort. But it is surprising and exhilarating, seducing us as only important wines and great passions know how to do.
The Mondaccione collection, a tribute to Freisa
Today, sadly, those "Old Vines" that gave us such wonderful wines have reached the end of their productive cycle, and we had to uproot them. It was a painful but necessary task, but our goodbye to Mondaccione is not a farewell so much as it is a celebration of its character. It will patiently wait for time and trends to pass again until we return to plant Freisa grapes and make its wine.
In honor of Freisa, we decided to create a limited edition Mondaccione collection, a case that includes the last three vintages: 2007, 2008, and 2009. They are precious and rare bottles, because they are expressions of a Freisa wine that has no equal and will not be available for at least some time on the market. A glass of Mondaccione holds a bit of the Coppo tradition, our research, our innovative spirit, and our work. But above all, it holds the will to believe that even unsung wines can give overwhelming passions, like those that pushed us to return to Freisa and fall in love with this incredible wine.


Beautiful Blonde-Next-Door Betty inspires a limited-edition colour collection with a soft, innocent sexiness. Lipsticks in peaches and pinks beam bright under layers of Lipglass in girly shades. Nail Lacquer in Comic Cute and Pep Pep Pep to win Archie's affection. All packaged in exclusive designs.
MAC Summer Sweetheart Lipglass is described as a "light peach" and is part of the Betty's lineup from the MAC Archie's Girls Makeup Collection. The packaging differs slightly from the regular MAC Lipglass in that it has a white cap and features Betty on the tube. This is a beautiful creamy peach with absolutely no shimmer or sparkle to it.
MAC Summer Sweetheart swatches just like it looks on the tube - a pale creamy peach - if you pile on the lipgloss, but applied normally/slightly sheered out, it just gives a hint of color and just adds a peachy milkiness to the lip. I find it quite easy to apply and feels quite comfortable on my lips. I won't recommend applying this too heavily to try to get the color to be more opaque - it will tend to settle into lines.
I never use such milky, pale colors on their own on my lips, but just to show how the color would look, I am adding in photo - this is how MAC Summer Sweetheart looks on me if I apply it on its own on my lips - obviously not recommended!
To use MAC Summer Sweetheart - or any of the paler lipglosses - I either top it over a lipstick or a lipliner. In the photo below, I have used a peach-brownish lipliner (swatched heavily on my hand but applied lightly on my lips to just even out the lip color) over my lips and then topped it with the MAC Summer Sweetheart lipglass. Much better, don't you think?
Wearing MAC Summer Sweetheart Lipglass topped over a neutral lipliner.
so the final look doen't look too heavy and more in tune with what the lipgloss feels like.


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package apps::kingdee::eas::mode::ormrpc;

use base qw(centreon::plugins::templates::counter);

use strict;
use warnings;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

sub set_counters {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    $self->{maps_counters_type} = [
        { name => 'global', type => 0, cb_prefix_output => 'prefix_global_output', skipped_code => { -10 => 1 } },
    ];

    $self->{maps_counters}->{global} = [
        { label => 'threads-active', nlabel => 'ormrpc.threads.active.count', set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'active_thread_count' } ],
                output_template => 'threads active: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'active_thread_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'stubs', nlabel => 'ormrpc.stubs.count', display_ok => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'stub_count' } ],
                output_template => 'stubs: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'stub_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'proxies', nlabel => 'ormrpc.proxies.count', display_ok => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'proxy_count' } ],
                output_template => 'proxies: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'proxy_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'sessions-client', nlabel => 'ormrpc.sessions.client.count', set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'client_session_count' } ],
                output_template => 'sessions client: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'client_session_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'sessions-server', nlabel => 'ormrpc.sessions.server.count', set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'server_session_count' } ],
                output_template => 'sessions server: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'server_session_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'clients-invoke-perminute', nlabel => 'ormrpc.clients.invoked.countperminute', display_ok => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'client_invoke_count_per_minute' } ],
                output_template => 'clients invoke: %s/m',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'client_invoke_count_per_minute', template => '%s', min => 0, unit => '/m' },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'processed-service-perminute', nlabel => 'ormrpc.processed.service.countperminute', display_ok => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'processed_service_count_per_minute' } ],
                output_template => 'processed service: %s/m',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'processed_service_count_per_minute', template => '%s', min => 0, unit => '/m' },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'clients-invoked', nlabel => 'ormrpc.clients.invoked.count', display_ok => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'client_invoke_count', diff => 1 } ],
                output_template => 'clients invoked: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'client_invoke_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
        { label => 'processed-service', nlabel => 'ormrpc.processed.service.count', display_ok => 0, set => {
                key_values => [ { name => 'processed_service_count', diff => 1 } ],
                output_template => 'processed service: %s',
                perfdatas => [
                    { value => 'processed_service_count', template => '%s', min => 0 },
                ],
            }
        },
    ];
}

sub prefix_global_output {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    return 'orm rpc ';
}

sub new {
    my ( $class, %options ) = @_;
    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(package => __PACKAGE__, %options, statefile => 1, force_new_perfdata => 1);
    bless $self, $class;

    $options{options}->add_options( arguments => {
        'urlpath:s'  => { name => 'url_path', default => "/easportal/tools/nagios/checkrpc.jsp" },
    });

    return $self;
}

sub manage_selection {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    my $webcontent = $options{custom}->request(path => $self->{option_results}->{url_path});
    if ($webcontent !~ /ActiveThreadCount=\d+/i) {
        $self->{output}->add_option_msg(short_msg => 'Cannot find ormrpc status');
        $self->{output}->option_exit();
    }

    $self->{global} = {};
    $self->{global}->{active_thread_count} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ActiveThreadCount=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{stub_count} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /StubCount=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{proxy_count} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ProxyCount=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{client_session_count} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ClientSessionCount=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{server_session_count} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ServerSessionCount=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{client_invoke_count_per_minute} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ClientInvokeCountPerMinute=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{processed_service_count_per_minute} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ProcessedServiceCountPerMinute=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{client_invoke_count} = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ClientInvokeCount=(\d+)/mi);
    $self->{global}->{processed_service_count}  = $1 if ($webcontent =~ /ProcessedServiceCount=(\d+)/mi);

    $self->{cache_name} = 'kingdee_' . $self->{mode} . '_' . $options{custom}->get_hostname() . '_' . $options{custom}->get_port() . '_' .
        (defined($self->{option_results}->{filter_counters}) ? md5_hex($self->{option_results}->{filter_counters}) : md5_hex('all'));
}

1;

__END__

=head1 MODE

Check EAS instance orm rpc status.

=over 8

=item B<--urlpath>

Set path to get status page. (Default: '/easportal/tools/nagios/checkrpc.jsp')

=item B<--warning-*> B<--critical-*>

Thresholds.
Can be: 'threads-active', 'stubs', 'proxies', 'sessions-client',
'sessions-server', 'clients-invoke-perminute', 'processed-service-perminute',
'clients-invoked', 'processed-service'.

=back

=cut

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


(15% alcohol; aged in 60% new and 40% second-fill French oak): Bright red-ruby. Pungent peppery, herbal lift to the aromas of cassis, graphite and bitter chocolate oak. Plush, broad and fine-grained, with sweet dark berry fruit flavors complicated by dark chocolate and tobacco leaf flavors. Old-style wine in its herbacity and earthy character but with terrific subtle sweetness, creaminess and density to its seamless dark berry flavors. Fine-grained, dusty, broad tannins are fully supported by material. Very long and savory on the end. Built to age.
The 5 tons Cab Franc grapes were carefully sorted and crushed whole berry into a 5 ton fermenter. After 3 days cold soak and allowing spontaneous fermentation to take place, pumpovers occurred 3 times per day for 14 days. 10 days post ferment maceration was followed by a soft press and further 18 months maturation in New 300 litre Allier Hogshead barrels. Bottled with minimal filtration and no fining to maintain the wines fine structure.


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The Colour of Money
Nicola Mostyn on a simply stressful game show
What do we need more of in our lives? Love? Nah. Security? Security's for wimps. What we want is more stress. Bucket loads of it. Come on, hands up who wants to feel that chubby vein pulsing away in their forehead like a disgusting stress-worm?
You? Lovely. Then tune into The Colour of Money, Chris Tarrant's new Saturday night game show – a game show so simple, it lacks an actual game and whose contestants require only two qualities: insatiable greed and extremely large kahones.
The Colour of Money is played like this: 20 cash machines contain amounts ranging from £1000 to £20,000. When a contestant begins they swipe a 'cash card' and find out how much money they need to bag. Then they select ten machines and watch the money tick up from 0, by £1000 increments, not knowing whether the machine contains £1000 or £20,000. The trick is to hold their nerve and wait until the last possible moment before they scream "STOP!" (roughly ten seconds before they have a stroke). If the machine doesn't run out of cash before they shout, they get the money. But only if they win the exact amount needed from the ten cash machines do they take anything home.
It's pretty damn tense and none of that tension has anything to do with Tarrant, who sadly doesn't get much chance to flex those Millionaire pauses that stretched so far you could take a holiday in them. Also unlike Millionaire, this time Tarrant has a glamorous assistant in the form of Millie Clode, whose job is to look good in a tight black dress and give advice about how the contestants might want to play. So that's either 'Shout stop now' or…erm, 'Shout stop later'. She doesn't need to be Carol Vorderman.
First up is Alison Thompson from Birmingham who wants the money for her impending wedding to the man of her dreams. Ahh, bless. She swipes her card and finds that she could go home with £74,000. All she needs to do is get it from the cashpoints.
To add a bit of interest, the cashpoint colours all have pretty names like Fern and Champagne, which encourage the contestants to think up convoluted reasons for their choices: "Fuchsia is my mum's favourite flower so I'll go with that," says Alison and, "My cousin's favourite film is Wizard of Oz so I'll go with emerald." And, rather tenuously, "My mum's got lovely blue eyes, it's got to be a lucky omen."
Actually, I was wrong about the contestants requiring only two qualities. They need a third: what I like to call the Noel Edmonds effect. That is, a slack jawed belief in a higher power that for some reason wants to help them become moderately wealthy.
So as she is watching the money tick up and praying not to break the bank, Alison starts chanting to herself madly. "Got to go big, got to go big. Giving out positive vibes…"
When she chooses the 'Rose' cash machine she chants, "The rose, the rose, the rose, the rose," sounding like that woman with all the plastic bags who you avoid on the bus.
Bonkers, brave, or both, Alison starts off really well, taking big risks and holding on for the big money. But then it all goes wrong as she gets to the last two cashpoints. "I don't want a low one, I don't want a low one," she chants manically. It stops at £2000. "I didn't want a low one, Chris."
Chris says he knows, she didn't want a low one.
There isn't enough left in the cashpoints. And she loses the money. This is all the more heartbreaking because you feel like you know Alison intimately by now, what with her nights out dressed in 'khaki' army outfits, her mum's love of 'olives', her fiancés renditions of 'Gold' on the karaoke and how they wanted 'platinum' rings for the wedding. Now it'll be 'salmon' paste baps down the 'Red' Lion and 'silver' plated rings from Elizabeth Duke. Pity she didn't choose 'purple', which contained £19,000. If only she'd remembered her nan's varicose veins.
So far, so stressful and a little bit depressing. But not to worry, here comes Welsh Phil.
He's a no nonsense, Liverpool supporting Speedway driver. He's got nerve and holds on longer than his sanity would like. Or his wife. "Stop soon," she shrieks every time the money passes the £1000 mark. I wonder if there's a colour called placenta?
Phil, despite being a regular bloke, is soon speaking like a new age lunatic. "Come on lemon, please, lemon, please," says Phil and "I'm feeling tangerine," revealing the sort of magical thinking we all indulge in, although usually in the privacy of our own heads. By now, he's so tense, he can't even look at the machine as it ticks. Actually, this is a good idea. Leave Chris there, cringing for you, and go off and have a sandwich. Far better for the blood pressure.
But he seems to be on a roll. "I enjoyed school life and our ties were maroon, so I'll go for that." Phil, if your luck of the cash machine is any way related to the strength of your anecdotes, you're in trouble. But no! He wins the full amount! Fireworks go off. Music reaches a crescendo. Phil bursts into tears, his forehead vein bulges and a nation unclenches its buttocks.
The programme ends with footage of the contestants giving feedback, a la The Weakest Link. And yep, there's Alison, still in tears. "I'm absolutely gutted," she says. Green with envy, you might say. In a black mood. A suicide blonde.
The Colour of Money, ITV1, 6.45pm
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A couple of Ferrari items I put up for auction on e-bay at lightpress this week include this Shell advertisement published in MotorSport in October 1967 showcasing the success of Shell sponsored cars in the 1967 world sports car championship which was won by Ferrari after Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt driving a Ford won the 1967 Le Mans 24 hour series glamour event and Chaparral won the BOAC 500 mile race at Brands Hatch with Phil Hill and Mike Spence sharing the driving.
Despite the model being out of production for 3 years by the time it was published, this July 1971 Castrol GTX advertisement features a Ferrari 275 GTB/4.
Finally from August 1971 the front cover of MotorSport featuring Clay Regazzoni driving a Ferrari 312PB during the 1971 Zeltweg 1000 kms sports car race in Austria.
Thanks for joining me on this Ferrari Ads & Cover edition of "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" I hope you will join me again tomorrow. Don't forget to come back now !
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 275 GTB/4, 312 PB, Chaparral, Colmar, e-bay, Ferrari, Ford Mk IV, GALPOT, lightpress, Motorsport, P4, Ralph, Regazzoni, Shell, Zeltweg on November 15, 2013 by Ralph.
Despite the model being out of production for 3 years by the time it was published, this July 1971 Castrol GTX advertisement features a Ferrari 365 GTB/4.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 275 GTB/4, 312 PB, Chaparral, Colmar, e-bay, Ferrari, Ford Mk IV, GALPOT, lightpress, Motorsport, P4, Ralph, Regazzoni, Shell, Zeltweg on November 1, 2013 by Ralph.
Thanks once more to Geoffrey Horton today's Americana Thursday blog features some of the highlights from the Trans Am cars on display at the recent Carmel by the Sea Concours d'Elegance. I can't say for certain if all of these cars are the originals that raced in the series or faithful tribute cars built since, if you know for certain one way on the other about the details of any of these cars please do not hesitate to chime in below.
The Trans Am Series ran uninterrupted from 1966 to 2006 and was revived in 2009. The golden era of the series is generally considered to have been from 1968 to 1972 when the 302 cui / 5 litre muscle cars from AMC, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford and Plymouth a duked it out for overall wins. Above is a #15 Penske Chevrolet Camaro which appears to be the car that came 3rd overall and 1st in class at the 1968 Sebring 12 hours driven by Mark Donohue and Canadian Craig Fisher.
The drivers Trans Am championship was not instated until 1972, it was won by George Folmer driving an AMC Javelin, above is a Boss 302 Mustang of the type George used in 1970 when he was driving for the Bud Moore team.
Parnelli Jones also drove in Bud Moore's Trans Am team in 1970, he drove a #15 similar to the one above, linked here is an excellent clip of Parnelli which show's just why the Trans Am series was so popular.
Texan Jim Hall built three Chaparral Camaro's in 1970 for the Trans Am Series, they were raced by Hall himself along with Vic Elford, Ed Leslie and Joe Leonard, this car may well be the one that Vic Elford drove to a win at Watkins Glen in 1970.
Finally I featured the Classic Wax Dodge Challenger driven by Sam Posey in the 1970 Trans Am series some time ago. Being my all time favourite car from the series I hope you'll forgive my indulgence by showing it again.
My thanks to Geoffrey Horton for sharing his photo's from the Carmel by the Sea Concours d'Elegance.
Thanks for joining me on this 'Trans Am Golden Era' edition of "Gettin' a li'l psycho on tyres" I hope you will join me again when I'll be featuring some of the Ferrari's that were present at Carmel by The Sea on August 14th. Don't forget to come back now !
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