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10 Most Beautiful Self Portraits By Famous Artists
By Sanchari Ghatak
In this era of selfies and Instagrammed shots, people have almost forgotten that every self-portrait isn't a picture clicked with the front camera or on selfie sticks. Self-portraits are a true form of art. Even before the advent of mobile phones and thus the trend of clicking selfies, world-class painters like Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, etc. were taking selfies of themselves through the art of self-portraiture. The artists from the past are believed to have painted their self-portraits because while capturing and portraying all the beauty and reality that see all around them, realised that they themselves are a part of it too. Therefore, here in this blog, we have listed below the 10 most beautiful self-portraits by famous artists.
Self Portraits By Famous Artists
1. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
The world famous Dutch painter Van Gogh, creator of the famous painting 'The Starry Night' created his 'Self-portrait' around the year 1889. This was one among the 40 other masterpieces of his that he produced over a period of 10 years. Due to his lack of money Van Gogh couldn't pay for models to pose for his painting, hence painted himself. There are two such self-portraits that he created, one with his beard and one without. Even till date, there is confusion among the art critiques as to whether the self-portrait with or without the beard is his final self-portrait. On the completion of his self-portrait with the beard, also known as 'Self-portrait', Van Gogh took the painting with him to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, and showed it to Dr Paul Gatchet who though the that the painting was "absolutely fanatical." He painted it a year after he cut off his own ear. Van Gogh's 'Self-portrait without beard' is arguably one of the most expensive self-portraits by famous artists ever sold.
2. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
Yet another Dutch painter, Rembrandt van Rijn left behind a rich legacy of painting as well as photography that till date influences painter all over the world. Rembrandt painted his self-portrait in the year 1660 when he was 54 years old. The self-portrait depicts his wrinkled brows with a worried expression that clearly portrays the troubled condition of his mind at that point of his life since the year 1660 was a year of anxiety for him. This self-portrait is one among his over one hundred self-portraits including over forty paintings, thirty-one etchings and about seven drawings that he produced in his painting career. Definitely one of the most famous self-portraits by famous artists, Rembrandt's self-portraits found its place among the Benjamin Altman Collection, which is exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1913.
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3. Leonardo da Vinci – "Portrait of a man in red chalk", 1512
The self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci from 1512 is accepted globally, however, it is not certain. The painting is a self-portrait of da Vinci at the age of 60 and measures around 33.3 cm × 21.6 cm and put it on the display in Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy. The portrait has been reproduced and listed as the iconic representation of Leonardo as a polymath or "Renaissance Man". It is drawn with red chalk on paper and it represents the head of an elderly man in a three-quarter view, the subject can be distinguished by his long hair and long waving beard which flow over the shoulders and chest. In the portrait, the length of the hair and beard is uncommon in Renaissance portraits. The face can be seen clearly with an aquiline nose and is marked by deep lines on the brow and pouches below the eyes. By analysing, one can imagine the man has lost his upper front teeth and it caused deepening of the grooves from the nostrils. Her self-portraits by excellence are listed among the world's best self-portraits by famous artists.
4. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) – "Self-portrait", 1506
One of the beautiful self-portraits by famous artists Raphael was drawn at the age of 23. It measures around 45 cm x 33 cm and located at the world-famous Uffizi Gallery. The self-portrait was believed to be dated back between 1504 and 1506. It was noted in the inventory of the private collection of Duke Leopoldo de' Medicine and later completed in 1675. The Italian Renaissance painter used oil on board to draw one of the best self-portraits by famous artists. It represents the clearest and recognizable depiction of Raphael himself. Since the painting found in the bank vault, so it was under scrutiny for quite some time.
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5. Edgar Degas – "Degas au porte-fusain", 1855
Edgar Degas made this self-portrait only when he is twenty-one years old, after that he has taken the road to Italy. One of the most remarkable of his fifteen self-portraits. Degas seated as seemingly without fear and anxiety. The pose in the painting was formal and academic and related to the work of Ingres, The painting was sold to the French State in 1927 at the posthumous sale of the collection of his brother Rene Degas. It was done on the behalf of Louvre. One of the self-portraits which are no doubt incredibly famous and are ranked among the most incredible self-portraits by famous artists. Currently, it is located in the musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
6. Jan van Eyck – "Portrait of a man", 1433
Additionally known as "Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban", it was created by the famous artist Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck and believed to be a self-portrait. The oil painting was created in 1433 and inscription at the top of the panel Als Ich Can also be known as for I/Eyck can" was considered as an autograph from for van Eyck, however, it is seen little large and prominent. Jan van Eyck work has found its place among the most beautiful self-portraits by famous artists and currently, it is placed in the National Gallery, London, since 1851, having been in England since Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel acquired it. It is believed that it has been acquired in Antwerp from 1642-44.
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7. Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
The leading figure of the famous visual arts movement called Pop Art that integrated popular imagery into other visual media, Andy Warhol was an artist, photographer, painter, musician as well as a visionary. Warhol 'Warholized' himself in his self-portrait in his remarkable signature style just like he did with the portraits of Marilyn Monroe or Campbell's soup. Warhol is also the man behind the phrase, "everyone will have his fifteen minutes of fame." Definitely, among one of the best self-portraits by famous artists, Warhol's self-portrait is a remarkable example of him iconizing the 20th-century modern culture and its derivatives.
8. Max Beckmann – "Self-portrait with horn", 1938-1940
The Neue Galerie opened the self-portrait painting bu the greatest and one of the most resonant paintings by the German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann (1881-1950) on On July 24, 2008. It was painted in 1938, just after Beckmann fled Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Amsterdam. The artist shows himself isolated and withdrawn. It is also depicted that island of his soul and the glance suggest that he is sunk in his own dark thoughts, however, he highlights the head, hands, and musical horn that focuses on the attention of his intellect and spirit. One of the self-portraits by famous artists truly shows abiding faith in the dignity of the individual.
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9. Pablo Picasso – "Self-portrait", 1901
The beautiful self-portrait of Picasso was painted before his Blue Period and it measures around 81 x 60 cm. Currently, the oil canvas painting located at the Picasso Museum (Musée Picasso) in Paris. Itw as drawn during his second stay in Paris in the winter of 1901 and later, he returned to Barcelona in January 1902. The painter was only 20 years old when he drew this amazing self-portrait, however, he appears considerably older in this portrait. The face is drawn and gaunt from the hardships of the Parisian winter. The tones are cool especially the deep purple of the coat and even the light that have an "anaemic" brushwork except in the face in order to keep it as the stark, ascetic image.
Pablo Picasso – "Self-portrait" (source: wikiart.org)
10. El Greco – "Portrait of a man", 1595–1600
The portrait has been popular for its natural insight and believed to date back between 1595 and 1600. The oil on canvas painting by El Greco usually identified as a self-portrait and shows an influence of Titian and Tintoretto that has been picked by El Greco in Venice. Currently, it is placed n the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, however, there is no documented portrait of the artist but it seems he has cast himself in the supporting roles within some of his pictures and these bear some resemblance to the present sitter.
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Companies that are unprofitable, and/or those that consume cash, can be considered to fall into this category also – they generally end up dependent on the success or failure of renewing/raising additional external financing (debt or equity). And more sophisticated investors will often avoid companies with (chronically) low margins & high fixed costs – effectively, these are leveraged companies too & present much of the same risk.
Valuation: As I've stressed before, there should be little/no difference in your stock valuation process for any company, whether it's large or small…just let the numbers do the talking! But size is obviously relevant when it comes to stock selection – a simple tactic is to require higher upside potential. [In my mind, a large cap with 30-50% upside potential may well equate to a small cap with 75-100% upside potential]. Increased reward compensates for a small cap's perceived lack of clarity/transparency & increased volatility and illiquidity, vs. a large cap. Even if you don't perceive (or agree with) these disadvantages, most investors do & they price accordingly – so small caps often trade at a substantial & semi-permanent large-cap discount. But optimistic investors often disregard this, ending up frustrated & disappointed when their small cap investments subsequently fail to close this valuation gap. [Though obviously it's not an issue for companies with a decent annual return on equity/capital – no multiple expansion is actually required to produce an attractive return over time].
Volatility: Small caps usually have lower turnover & a more limited universe of actual/potential investors – the general absence of institutional investors pretty much guarantees this. Accordingly, price action & return tends to be far more event-driven in nature – i.e. volatile/significant share price moves in response to good/bad news, results, or rumours, followed by long periods of neglect – whereas large caps tend to enjoy far more steady & measured appreciation over time.
Also, small caps are often focused domestically, and may have greater difficulty obtaining adequate financing, so they can be far more sensitive to interest rates, risk appetite & credit conditions, and the overall health of the domestic economy. For an investor who may already be suffering from home bias, this can really exacerbate their portfolio risk exposure.
If (& when) the market's puking up ridiculous bargains at some point in the future, that's precisely when small caps are guaranteed to be far & away the most illiquid. But having the ability to raise significant amounts of cash from liquid large caps, at the click of a button – to scoop up bargains all around you – could prove to be a once-in-a-decade/lifetime opportunity.
OK, in the long-term, all these small cap risks obviously become far less impactful & important. But meanwhile, that long-term is often very difficult to see, esp. when the short-term outlook starts looking grim… How comfortable will you feel if/when large caps outperform small caps for months, or even years, at a time? Can you live with a company whose stock only moves appreciably twice a year, when it publishes results? How much patience do you have when the market and a management team neglect a share price for years on end? And what are the chances you may finally crack in some crazy market meltdown, and purge your small caps at any spread & any price?
Look, we all know there's obvious pros and cons for both large & small caps… But down in the trenches, it's hard to predict how you're going to experience & react to those pros and cons day-by-day, and who's got a clue whether large or small caps will lead in the next few years – a well-rounded portfolio in terms of market cap/liquidity is an obvious & excellent solution. And while a barbell strategy is tempting, one can argue a mid cap portfolio allocation is just as important & sensible – in fact, knowing how many investors focus almost exclusively on large or small caps, mid caps may well offer the best risk/reward proposition much of the time.
Again, sit down – this doesn't have to be a daily/weekly exercise – and tag each of your current holdings in terms of market cap, and/or liquidity (again, size & liquidity are pretty much correlated). [Yes, there's highly liquid small caps out there…unfortunately many of them are liquid simply because they're speculative rubbish that sucked in the punters]. No need to be exact – everybody debates respective cut-off points for small/mid/large caps, so choose your own (sensibly). If you don't know the market cap & liquidity of some of your stocks, at least in ball-park terms…you may need to get a little better acquainted with your portfolio! And no need for fancy spreadsheets, or formulas – well, a pie chart would be a nice visual – any excuse really to consider (and/or reconsider) each individual portfolio holding is always a great idea, and shouldn't take so long. Of course, your current (& target) market cap/liquidity allocation then comes in very handy when evaluating the most appropriate buy (& sell) candidates for your portfolio.
Economic: What stocks do you own which have businesses (and/or business models) which are less correlated, or even uncorrelated, with the economic cycle? Food & healthcare stocks are the classic defensive sectors cited by the brokers, but there's more out there – for example, utility stocks, and sin stocks like alcohol & tobacco. Some of my personal favourites are agriculture & undertaking…preferably not together. Of course, there are also plenty of stocks & sectors at the other extreme, i.e. they're highly correlated with the economy – but frankly, most portfolios would benefit from less, not more, correlation.
Market: In reality, just about all stocks (even those with uncorrelated businesses) tend to exhibit a level of correlation with the market – if you invest in equities, that's inescapable. But you can still meaningfully distinguish between stocks that display a high or low degree of correlation – usually expressed in terms of a stock being a high/low beta stock. The reason(s) for a stock being low beta are often obvious – for example, it's a defensive food stock, but a company's business model, the quality of its management, its earnings history, its financial strength, the size of its free float, etc. can all make a relevant contribution.
Conversely, a high beta doesn't necessarily mean a stock's low quality (though obviously speculative stocks/companies are usually high beta). It may simply reflect an economically sensitive stock, or a company that's directly/indirectly leveraged to the market itself – like brokers, banks, asset managers, private equity firms, etc. And sometimes a stock is high or low beta for no discernible reason – nothing wrong with classifying it as such, as long as you keep in mind betas can & do change (sometimes abruptly, like all correlations).
Of course, hedge funds/alternative assets are another useful option… [But over the decades, the average hedge fund's become increasingly market-correlated – global macro funds & CTAs/quant funds, for example, may be a better alternative]. Genuine event-driven stocks are also attractive – specifically, those where value-enhancing/realising events are expected to occur within a well-defined time period.
Negative: For some, negatively correlated stocks are the holy grail. These may exhibit some level of negative correlation with the economy – companies dealing with distressed consumers & businesses can particularly thrive in a bad economy, or outright recession. Distressed debt can be a particularly attractive asset class in that kind of environment. Then you also have stocks/sectors which may be negatively correlated with others in your portfolio – oil-related stocks vs. transport-related stocks (particularly airlines) serving as an excellent example in recent months. Finally, there's the really exotic stuff – like the VIX, for example – yes, it's negatively correlated with the market, but unfortunately its more retail-oriented incarnations to date are more likely to have negatively affected your wallet!
Overall, correlation's a particularly interesting stock selection filter. Because it's not always obvious how one should classify a stock, or which stocks & sectors might offer better alternatives. Which presents an obvious opportunity to dig that much deeper into a business, or a sector, and to distinguish between market myths & facts.
There's also the challenge that classic defensive stocks are often over-priced. [Esp. today, as many are prized for their emphasis on steady/rising dividends]. Beyond a certain price, lower correlation risk mightn't be worth paying for, or a less obvious alternative should be sought out/considered. [NB: Agriculture has its own specific issues/cycles, but I generally don't find it over-priced in relation to its lack of economic/market correlation].
You may also need to re-examine your attitude to risk/reward as an investor – most people love the idea of an oil stock hedging an airline stock, then get frustrated when one stock always seems to be a loser, while an event-driven investment's fairly predictable risk/reward may suddenly appear rather meagre when the overall market's charging ahead!?


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A man who was covered in tattoos ran from deputies after they discovered the car he was driving had been reported stolen.
A Marion County Sheriff's deputy was patrolling the 3300 block of South Pine Avenue when he noticed a tan Hyundai, which had been reported stolen out of Putnam County, parked in the parking lot of Queens Garden Resort.
When the driver, Robert Hardister, 26, saw the deputy, he exited the stolen vehicle and fled on foot.
A K-9 unit was called and a perimeter was established in the area.
A short time later, Hardister was located by the K-9.
He was arrested and charged with Grand Theft Auto, Burglary, and Resisting Arrest.
While at the Marion County Jail, Hardister received two additional charges; Possession or Marijuana and Smuggling Contraband into a Detention Facility.
Hardister is a career criminal with a lengthy arrest record.
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Workers want more equity and purpose in the work they do. Employers need to provide workers more incentives and flexibility to attract -- and keep -- top talent.
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The pandemic has resulted in some of the highest rates of workers leaving their jobs on record, and a 'buyers market' for job seekers.
Working from home showed employers and employees their schedules could be flexible, and that they could operate well without as much supervision.
Businesses in the future will need to provide workers with more autonomy, purpose, equity, and flexibility — along with better pay and benefits — if those businesses wish to attract and retain top talent.
The pandemic ushered in major changes in the way employees performed their typical duties. Now, after months of disruption and uncertainty, many workers are considering leaving their positions in a trend that's been termed the 'great resignation'.
But what's caused this shift, and what will the future of work look like? Before delving into the whys and hows, let's get to grips with what the 'great resignation' will look like.
What is the 'great resignation'?
The term 'great resignation' was recently coined by Anthony Klotz, a Texas A&M University associate management professor, during an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek.
He explained that people who decided to put off quitting their jobs during the pandemic due to uncertainty are gearing up to leave.
"When there's uncertainty, people tend to stay put," he said, "so there are pent-up resignations that didn't happen over the past year."
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Data from various sources give weight to Klotz's prediction.
For example, in June, The Wall Street Journal reported that more US workers are resigning than at any time during the last two decades. Another study found that 41% of the global workforce would consider leaving their current employer within the next year.
According to data from the workforce analytics firm, Visier, the healthcare and high-tech industries are experiencing the most resignations, with resignations in tech increasing by 4.5% between March 2020 and March 2020.
Of course, employee turnover isn't always a bad thing — but failing to retain top talent can be detrimental to an organization's bottom line.
How did Covid impact job satisfaction?
When it comes to the issue of job satisfaction during the pandemic, everyone's experience was different. Covid allowed many workers — particularly those with office-based roles — to achieve a better work-life balance.
Working from home helped many of us achieve a better work-life balance, while some struggled to disconnect from work.
In other sectors, essential workers realized the importance of their jobs.
In some cases, this led to increased job satisfaction, but in others, it had the opposite effect, because many felt that they were viewed as expendable.
There's been a lot of media attention around the benefits of working from home. However, it's important to recognize that some people didn't like working remotely, and desperately longed for a return to the normal social interactions of pre-pandemic operations.
What we can say is that the pandemic provided workers with an opportunity to reflect.
Some realized their jobs weren't important, didn't line up with their values, or were simply too demanding and overshadowed other elements of their life.
It's this period of reflection that led to where we are now.
Although many of us want to resign for something better, only a fraction of people have the guts or are proactive enough to do so. That's why some experts are sceptical about the notion of an impending 'great resignation'.
Millennial Career Strategist Adunola Adeshola says people seeking better opportunities should take a proactive and strategic approach instead of acting on impulse:
"Before you even update your resume, take some time to think about what you want to do next in your career. After all, the whole point of quitting your job should be to end up somewhere better.
"So, first, determine what you're looking for in your next position so that you can look out for it when you do start applying for jobs and putting yourself out there."
Employee satisfaction and company success are closely aligned. Satisfied workers with a clear sense of purpose are more likely to say positive things about their employer.
Employers, in turn, save time and money by experiencing lower turnover.
Finding qualified employees isn't quick or easy.
A study by the Society for Human Resource Management states the average cost to hire an employee is $4,129, and it takes organizations around 42 days to fill a position.
Happy employees are also more productive (and profitable) because they're motivated to fulfill their responsibilities for the sake of their team and the wider company.
With these things in mind, it's no surprise that employee retention remains at the top of the business agenda.
What's influencing the 'great resignation'?
Shahar Erez, CEO of the freelance talent platform Stoke, told Fast Company that while many freelancers were able to weather the storm of the pandemic by leveraging their extensive networks, employees who were 'let go' tended to struggle more.
He said freelancers "had the skills, structure, and internal DNA to fit themselves into the changing landscape" and employees "realized being stuck to a single employer is not the best advice. They don't want to rely on performance reviews and pay raises.
"They want to take control of their own future."
Many workers also realized they could get their work done more efficiently outside of a structured work environment. Workers began engaging with their work more directly, leading some to realize the redundancy of certain elements of their typical day.
Not having to commute also helped reduce stress levels.
Having an additional hour to prepare for the day and to enjoy time outside of the office is something many want to hold on to. Now that many employers are calling for a return to office, some are hesitant.
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It makes sense: employees weren't spending money on commuting and didn't pay for lunches out.
Of course, it's important to understand that not all resignations take place because the individual wants to find a more fulfilling opportunity.
The workforce is seeing higher levels of resignations among women, who have been disproportionately impacted by caregiving during the pandemic.
Instead of quitting to move to a new role, some women had to leave employment altogether.
Approximately 2.2 million women have left the US workforce since the start of the pandemic.
In May, AllWork explored some strategies employers can use to bring women back into the workforce, including offering on-site childcare and extending parental leave policies.
What will workers look for in jobs moving forward?
In the future of work, employees will have to create jobs that are truly meaningful, regardless of sector or the skills required to execute them.
Employees are tired of feeling like drones. They want to feel like their work is contributing, that they are important, and that they make a difference.
Flexibility will be key, and hybrid or remote work will be pivotal in attracting talented workers. Many employees are voicing their desire to work remotely, even if just on a hybrid basis.
Employers that don't exercise flexibility will need a compelling case as to why, or risk falling victim to the 'great resignation'.
The pandemic made us realize that the office isn't the only place where quality work happens. However, workspaces are great resources when it comes to training, collaboration and learning. That's why many firms — large and small — are adopting a hybrid office approach, where employees divide their time between working from home and in the office.
Much like university campuses, office environments are conducive collaboration and learning.
Speaking with Fast Company, Cassie Whitlock, head of human resources for the talent management software platform BambooHR, says it's important for companies to clearly state the purposes and goals they're driving toward, and share these with existing and potential employees in meetings and across marketing channels.
Doing this consistently will enable employees to understand how they fit into the bigger picture, and help provide them with a sense of purpose.
As a society, we've realized we want our work to feel meaningful and to fit into our lives rather than consume them. The workplace of the future will have to accommodate these desires in order to attract talented individuals.
"You need to be great at telling stories in your organization," Whitlock says. "How are you making a difference? And are you sharing those successes with team members to help them feel good about the goals and outcomes you're driving?"
"Pick things that are true to you. You do your best when you're running your race and not someone else's."
Today's employees are also looking for opportunities to reskill and upskill.
Mercer's Global Talent Trends report says employers that don't prioritize reskilling won't be able to access the talent they need to fill new jobs. "Companies that unlock reskilling at speed and scale will transform at a pace that leaves their competitors behind."
The report also found that "globally, reskilling is seen as the top talent activity most capable of delivering results in HR's eyes" and that 78% of employees are ready to reskill.
What is the best career to start at 35?
After a decade or more in the workforce, it's not uncommon for people in their 30s to reevaluate their career choices. It's never too late to change careers. The first step is to decide what you think will make you happy and start working towards it. If you're business-minded, there are lots of opportunities out there. Likewise, there's no shortage of roles in other sectors, such as healthcare.
What career is the happiest?
According to a survey by PayScale, dental hygienists rank in the top 50 for job satisfaction among more than 500 professions. 'Dental hygienist' also ranked second on Glassdoor's 2019 job satisfaction survey.
What is the least stressful job?
According to CareerCast's study, 'diagnostic medical sonographer' is the least stressful job, followed by 'compliance officer' then 'hairstylist'. That said, people's stressors differ, and just because these jobs correspond with the lowest levels of stress doesn't mean that they can't be stressful. While the role itself might not be stressful, a manager's behavior might induce stress.
What is the number 1 job in healthcare?
It's a matter of opinion. The highest paid healthcare jobs are 'physician' and 'surgeon'. Dietitians and nutritionists, occupational health and safety specialists and technicians, chiropractors, and registered nurses also rank as top healthcare jobs for different reasons.
What are some careers with low satisfaction ratings?
According to Business Insider and CareerBliss, 'analyst' has the lowest satisfaction rating, followed by 'dispatcher' then 'program coordinator'.
How can employers retain their workforce?
In order to retain their workforce, employers must support workers from the start. An effective onboarding program is a must, and employers should make employee engagement a key priority. They should also offer tangible benefits, treat everyone equally and provide plenty of training opportunities and routes to progression.
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Heartbeats of Hope—a crisis pregnancy center—formed out of a partnership of seven churches in Pucallpa, Peru. We exist to evangelize and counsel women who are facing crisis pregnancies. We aim to prevent abortion and offer a new life of hope found only in a relationship with Jesus Christ. The center provides women with accurate information about their choices, promotes purity among youth, and counsels women who are post-abortive.
Heartbeats of Hope is the 7th crisis pregnancy center in the entire country of Peru (population 30,000,000) and the first in the jungle region. With proper volunteer training, strategic promotion, instructional resources for clients and some basic necessities for young mothers, we can help to literally save lives and impact young families as we care for them in the love, grace and mercy of Jesus Christ.
Although illegal, abortions are frequent procedures. More than 1,000 abortions are performed each day in Peru, often at the risk of the mothers' lives. Promiscuity and teen pregnancy are common, and STD's are on the rise in Pucallpa. There are many single-mother homes and most of these women live in poverty from an incomplete education. Many women find themselves in unhealthy, abusive relationships but are too scared to seek help.


There goes the 16-0 season. Ricky Williams ran all over us and we managed just 118 yards of total offense. The Bills' only points came on Nate Clements' 54-yard interception return. Lets not make this a habit. It was ugly.
How bad was it? It forced me to visit the Prime Time Emmys to watch Everybody Loves Raymond win yet another award. And what's up with that? Not everybody loves Raymond. I don't even like him. That show is such an average comedy yet it seems to clean up come award time. If you want funny, watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. A friend of mine has made every episode available to download.
Again, Drew Bledsoe looked impressive throwing for 314 yards and two touchdowns. Although not on his game, Travis Henry was money in the red zone running for three scores. All in all it was another very convincing win for a sweet and tidy 2-0 start to the campaign. Next week we squish the fish.
Now that's what I call redemption. Lets hope this is an omen for the Bills 2003 season. 16-0 sounds more than reasonable to me.
I thought Drew Bledsoe had a solid game and the new-look Bills defense was dominant. Lawyer Milloy caused an interception, had a sack and recorded five tackles, Takeo Spikes had two interceptions and six tackles, and Sam Adams had a 37 yard interception return.
Why is it that Canada has such difficulty convincing its few NBA players to play for their nation? Last night we lost a berth in the 2004 Olympic Games when we fell to Puerto Rico by a score of 66-79.
Where was Jamaal Magloire, Rick Fox or even Carl English? As it was, only one Canadian NBA player gave up his summer to help us qualify for the next summer Olympic games. When an American player is invited to join the USA basketball team, they're honoured to represent their country. When a Canadian hockey player is invited to play for the red and white when the best is taking on the best, they too drop all for the cause. Why is Canadian basketball the exception?
We won't be in Athens, but don't place the blame on Steve Nash. This man is a Canadian basketball god and single handedly carried our team into the final four. This product of Victoria, BC is far and away the greatest basketball player our nation has ever produced. We're not worthy.
Pete Sampras is set to announce his retirement from professional tennis on Monday. With 64 singles titles, including a record 14 majors, Pistol Pete was clearly the dominant player of his generation. He finished at number one in the rankings a record six years from 1993-98.
Why don't we think of Pete Sampras the way we think of Michael Jordon, Wayne Gretzky and Joe Montana? The reason Pete Sampras never received the praise he deserves is because of his incredibly low-key personality. To be blunt, the man was as boring as watching paint dry. This man made Al Gore resemble John 'Bluto' Blutarsky from Animal House by comparison. With just a little of McEnroe's spice or Agassi's competitiveness, Pete would be going down in history as one of the greatest atheletes of all time in any sport. Instead, he's just that nice guy who won a lot of tennis matches.
When the Jets and Redskins kick off on September 4th, the 2003 NFL season will officially be underway. That means it's time to enter an NFL Football Pool. If you know me and are interested in joining our pool, contact me.
This pool is nice and simple. You make your picks on-line against the spread each week, and there are weekly winners and overall winners. It's only $40 and a lot of fun. Let me know if you're interested or want more details.
Tomorrow morning, the 85th PGA Championship tees off in Rochester, New York. If you were to believe the media, this is a must-win for slumping Tiger Woods. Lets look at the facts, shall we? Tiger has won 4 of 12 tour starts, has finished in the top 20 in every start, and was No.1 on the money list until Davis Love III won the International Sunday to join him as the only four-time winner. That's not a slump.
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As children we were always taught to raise the bar for everything, be it academics or sports. Sadly over time we as a generation have raised the bar for being "Happy".
Speaking to my parents or as a mater of fact anyone into the third trimester of life, I get a very strong feeling of how "easy" life was for them back in the day. A little more analysis on the same thought reveals how wrong this assumption is. On a factual basis life was much tougher back then, families were stricter, there was no concept of personal space, children could not voice their opinion and the list goes on and on. Still people back then knew how to enjoy the small pleasures of life, find time for family and more importantly be happy. It is all about perception- the way you perceive how your life is, and that is where we as a generation are faltering.
In today's world with so many luxuries, a plethora of life choices on the offing, somehow we have ceased to be happy. We just want more or we want something which the other person has. I am no scientist but I am sure that with each passing year the amount of jealousy (if it could be measured) in this world is increasing exponentially.
Depression is very dangerous condition and its great that people are getting more aware about it. Its high time depression is recognized as a genuine problem and taken care of in the best way possible. With that said for our generation depression is more of a first world problem. Its funny how kids can be heard saying that I am depressed because I didn't score well in my exam. People fail to realize that our mind is very similar to a self learning algorithm. It feeds on data and derives result based on the data its fed. Telling yourself that you are depressed is bound to make you end up being depressed, because that is what the mind starts believing. Its sad but true that a small joke about being depressed starts the journey where we unknowingly end up being depressed.
Its high time we start valuing our lives. We are too special to be lost in gloom. Take that step today, break the shackles of depression.
Find joy in gifting your parents something rather than being sad about what your parents couldn't give you.
Find joy in getting your first salary rather than being jealous of what your friend earns.
Find joy in loving someone rather than being heart broken on not being loved.
Find joy, find yourself, find life.
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There are two graves recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission from the First World War in the churchyard of All Saints Church.
Richard Thomas Perks was a Gunner in the 164th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery. He was from Sheffield and left a wife and child when he died on 26 November 1915, while his division was training. The camp to the south of the A30 is labelled 'RFA' so it seems likely that Gunner Perks was based here.
This headstone reads 'Private George J Barrett' but the corresponding details in the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission refer to George J Barnett. George Barnett died on 3 February 1916 whilst serving in the 3/7th Battalion of the London Regiment. The 7th (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment was the 'Shiny Seventh' whose badge is carved into Sutton Down; the 3/7th would have been a training or reserve battalion from which soldiers would have transferred to the 1/7th and 2/7th, which were the two active battalions serving on the Western Front.
Many thanks to Cathy Sedgwick for her research on these two men.
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Aminullah Chaudhry (urdu; امین اللہ چوہدری); 24 February 1944 - June 1, 2013) was a senior Pakistani bureaucrat and remained Principal Secretary to Prime Minister (PSPM) of Pakistan Malik Meraj Khalid and Director General (DG), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Pakistan.

Early life and education
He took his earlier education in two missionary schools; namely St.Anthonys and St.Placid in Lahore and Chittagong, respectively. He then moved on to Government College (GC), Lahore for higher education and got his name marked on the Academic Roll of Honor. Prior to Government College, he did his 'A' levels from Aitchison College in Lahore. He held an honors degree in physics from Punjab University and an LL.M in corporate law from the London School of Economics (LSE), UK.

Career as civil servant
Aminullah joined Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) in 1967 and held wide spectrum of secretarial and field appointments.

He remained Commissioner Faisalabad and Commissioner Lahore division (Punjab Govt.). On secretarial positions, he served as Secretary Finance (Punjab Govt.) Secretary local government and rural development (Punjab Govt.), Secretary Education (Punjab Govt), Director General (DG) Lahore Development Authority (LDA). He also remained Secretary to Prime Minister during 1996-97 in caretaker government. His last appointment was Director General (DG), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) with Additional charge of the Aviation Division in the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Govt. of Pakistan. He was an avid golfer and won the Amateur Golf Championship of Punjab in 1976.

Aminullah was batchmate of senior bureaucrats; Shahid Hamid, Saeed Mehdi and Afzal Kahut.

Plane Hi-jacking controversy
Aminullah was the in charge of civil aviation Pakistan whilst serving as Director General (DG), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Karachi on 12 Oct 1999, and allegedly upon his instructions the return flight of then Chief of Army Staff, General Pervaiz Musharraf' from Colombo to Karachi, was not allowed to land in Karachi. After the coup d'état of General Pervaiz Musharraf, Aminullah was immediately sacked from his position and was arrested and put in solitary confinement. Aminullah, along with the Prime Minister Sharif and other senior officials had to face plane hi-jacking case by military government in a Pakistani trial court. Later, he gave testimony, that he had received Sharif's orders to waylay the Musharrafs plane and got acquitted from the case by becoming a state witness and approver.

Literary work
He authored two books post retirement from government service.

 Political Administrators: The Story of the Civil Service of Pakistan
 Hijacking from the Ground: The Bizarre Story of PK 805

Death
Aminullah Chaudry died on June 1, 2013, in Lahore, Pakistan.

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1944 births
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3-year-old shot at Michigan indoor entertainment center
Updated Oct 21, 2020; Posted Oct 21, 2020
By Justine Lofton | jlofton@mlive.com
DELTA TOWNSHIP, MI – A 3-year-old girl was shot while visiting an indoor amusement center near Lansing on Tuesday.
The victim was rushed to a local hospital for surgery, Eaton County Sheriff Tom Reich said in a news release. As of Wednesday morning, the child is out of surgery and in good/stable condition.
The incident occurred around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Zap Zone, an amusement center near the Lansing Mall that features laser tag and arcade games, police said.
Shots were fired outside the building while the child who was struck was inside, police said. She was transported to Sparrow Hospital by paramedics with the Delta Township Fire Department.
The police investigation is ongoing. Sheriff's deputies are collecting evidence at the scene, following up on leads and conducting witness interviews, police said.
Eaton County Sheriff's Office was assisted at the scene by Michigan State Police, Lansing Police Department and Lansing Township Police Department.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact Detective Ted Johnson at 517-323-8492.
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Northern Michigan man, 18, accused of sex crime against girl, 15
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me. I will stand here for humanity, and though I would make it kind, I would make it true. Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you, and all men, and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much, that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
But about a year ago, Bedford's homemaking skills went into overdrive. She began stockpiling canned food, and converted a spare bedroom into a giant storage facility. The trunk of each of her family's cars got its own 72-hour emergency kit—giant Tupperware containers full of iodine, beef jerky, emergency blankets, and even a blood-clotting agent designed for the battle-wounded. Bedford started thinking about an escape plan in case her family needed to leave in a hurry, and she and her husband set aside packed suitcases and cash. Then, for the first time in her life, Bedford went to a gun range and shot a .22 handgun. Now she regularly takes her two young children, 7 and 10, to target practice. "Over the last two years, I started feeling more and more unsettled about everything I was seeing, and I started thinking, 'What if we were in the same boat?'" says Bedford, 49.
This kind of focus on the problem at hand is used by some of the best sports coaches in the world. Bill Walsh's book The Score Will Take Care of Itself dedicates its title to the idea. Phil Jackson describes in Eleven Rings how he'd make his team focus all their energies on the current practice or current game and not on any championships. He even had his team, some of the best athletes in history, meditate in order to do this more effectively. The best way to a better future is focusing on the current step, which is only available in the present moment.
Action is a part of self-reliance, but so is introspection, else how will you know what action to take? We've got to remain fixed on our own path, and can't know what that path is unless we're tuned into our true wants and desires, and are able to admit that those aims are valid — even if they're not connected to the kind of status markers of which society typically approves.
"Everybody thinks about prepping as this big doomsday thing, like when the zombie apocalypse happens," Luther says. "But really it's a lot more likely that someone's going to lose their job or that you're going to have a major expense you weren't expecting, like your car breaks down or a medical expense. So if you think of prepping as something to get you through those situations, it's really almost like an insurance policy."
Of course self-reliance is not about feeding the worst parts of ourselves. The lazy, stagnant urges that would lead to the decay of our bodies and souls. Self-reliance is about overcoming and exertion of the will. This isn't about a trainer telling you to do a pushup and you refusing because it's "not your nature." It's about resisting boring bestsellers to follow your own interests. Or bravely defending an unpopular opinion you believe to be true, but for which others judge you.
During the 2009 National Conference on Community Preparedness, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a new report Personal Preparedness in America: Findings from the 2009 Citizen Corps National Survey that offers comprehensive data on the public's thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors related to preparedness and community safety for multiple types of hazards. Findings from these surveys provide valuable insights for increasing personal preparedness, civic engagement, and community resilience. These findings are particularly relevant as we prepare for a possible pandemic flu outbreak, hurricane season, and other hazards.
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An unbelievable recording from the MCI Center in Washington, DC on November 24, 2002. An absolutely phenominal sounding recording. Incredibly clear and detailed with minimal crowd noise around the taper. The high end is amazingly accurate. For those of you that only listen to soundboards, this is an audience recording just for you. While not totally perfect, this is the best audience recording I've heard in quite a few years. A big round of applause goes out to George Wang for his superlative taping efforts. Just some minor adjustments to the sonics and fixed a few record level changes. Sound qualtiy is EX+. Source: DPA4022 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Sony D100 DAT.
This is a very nice sounding show. Very crisp and clear. I would have thought this was a soundboard except that you hear the audience a bit more than if it was (which I really like).


Two class actions were filed this week in Superior Court. They claim that NewAlliance CEO Peyton Patterson conspired with his board to "recklessly violate their fiduciary duties." The defendant directors "stand on both sides of the transaction, are engaging in self-dealing, are obtaining for themselves personal benefits, including personal financial benefits, not shared equally by plaintiff or the class," the complaint states.
NewAlliance, founded in 1838, employs about 1,200 people in Connecticut and western Massachusetts. First Niagara, based in Buffalo, offered $14.09 per share, or 1.10 First Niagara shares for each NewAlliance share, or a combination – a $1.5 billion deal.
Patterson owns 2.4 million NewAlliance shares, according to the company's Jan. 31 SEC filing.
The class is represented by Jonathan Whitcomb with Diserio, Martin, O'Connor & Castiglioni of Stamford.


The Department of Forensic Medicine was Established in 1980 in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna as a division under Department of Pathology and separated as a Department later.
The First Academic Staff Dr.Navaratnam . Saravanapavananthan was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 1980, and Promoted as Professor of Forensic Medicine. He was the only academic staff member until he passed away in June 1992.
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Some of the earliest roots of this program can be traced to 1953 when research began on the feasibility of a rocket engine capable of producing 1 million pounds of thrust.
The Apollo program itself was announced in July 1960. Many contractors ultimately participated in Apollo. The most notable are: North American, Apollo Command and Service Modules; Grumman, Apollo Lunar Module; Boeing, Saturn 1st stage; North American Rockwell, Saturn 2nd stage; McDonnell-Douglas, Saturn 3rd stage; and the Rocketdyne Division of North American, Saturn engines. The Marshall Space Flight Center was heavily involved in Apollo.
Apollo 1, the first manned Apollo flight, was scheduled for late 1966, but problems delayed the schedule until February 1967. In January 1967, a fire in the capsule during a rehearsal killed the Apollo 1 crew and led to extensive redesign and delay of over a year and a half. The first manned flight, Apollo 7, took place in October 1968.
The total cost of the Apollo program was USD 25.4 billion (1969, in 2001 USD 111 billion). 381.7 kg (841.5 lb) of material was brought back from the lunar surface.
The Saturn V (with the Apollo) stood 363 feet tall. The Saturn 1C first stage was 33 feet in diameter, 138 feet tall, and weighed 5 million pounds fully fueled. Each of the five F-1 first stage engines could produce 1.5 million pounds of thrust, for a total of 7.5 million pounds of first stage thrust. The first stage could propel the vehicle to an altitude of 38 miles with a velocity of 6000 mph in about 2.5 minutes.
The Saturn II second stage was over 81 feet tall, powered by five J-2 engines. It burned for a little over 6.5 minutes, providing a velocity of 15,350 mph at an altitude of 114 miles.
The Saturn IVB third stage had a single J-2 restartable engine. The first burn lasted 2.75 minutes. The second burn lasted just over 5 minutes and put the vehicle on the path to the moon.
Nine Apollo missions have been around the moon. Six of these missions landed. Three men (Lovell, Young, and Cernan) each made two trips.
Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. There were originally 3 more planned, but were cancelled due to budget cuts and the fear of another tragedy after the Apollo 13 incident.
Apollo 18 (command module later flew as ASTP) was scheduled for April of 1972. It was cancelled on 2 September 1970. The tentative crew was to have been Gordon, Brand, and Schmitt. The proposed landing location was Copernicus.
Apollo 19 was scheduled for July of 1972 and was also cancelled on 2 September 1970. The tentative crew would have been Haise, Pogue, and Carr. The proposed destination was Hadley.
Apollo 20 had been slated for December of 1972 but was cancelled on 4 January 1970. Crew was possibly to have been Conrad, Weitz, and Lousma. The proposed destination was Tycho.
Crews were never actually named for these missions, so the above mentioned names are purely speculative. The Apollo 13 failure would likely have caused the lunar destinations to be changed.
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As the opioid epidemic intensifies in Ohio and throughout the United States, its effects on women have translated to harmful effects on babies.
Accompanying an increase in opioid addiction, for example, is an increase in women with Hepatitis C, which can be transmitted from expectant mother to baby. Hospitals are reporting more low birth weights, and there's a rise in the number of infants born physically dependent on opiates.
In many cases, the medical community's response has focused primarily on reducing costs associated with caring for these babies born to women with drug addictions. But The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is also exploring ways to improve outcomes for expectant moms and their babies by first aiming to reduce harm.
MaryAnn Hess, LPN, an obstetrics/gynecology nurse, and Mona Prasad, DO, a maternal fetal medicine specialist and clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, first began looking for solutions for these mothers and their babies in 2010.
Through Ohio State's Substance Abuse Treatment, Education and Prevention Program (STEPP) Clinic, Prasad began prescribing medication-assisted treatment for pregnant women with opiate use disorder.
To help deliver this treatment, the STEPP Clinic partnered with the Stable Cradle program at Maryhaven, central Ohio's oldest and most comprehensive treatment center for individuals and families dealing with addiction. Together, the STEPP Clinic and Maryhaven have provided comprehensive, co-located obstetric and addiction care.
Victoria, one woman who has benefited from the STEPP Clinic, says what she found most valuable was the variety of sources for support.
"I couldn't ask for a better support group, medically."
Group meetings with other patients also gave her encouragement throughout her treatment.
The STEPP Clinic treats drug addictions in pregnant women, but it also provides prenatal care, treats infectious diseases and, in partnership with Maryhaven, facilitates group therapy sessions.
STEPP Clinic patient Alexis credits the sessions for some of her success.
Pregnant patients with opiate use disorder typically are referred to the STEPP Clinic from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's main hospital. But Ohio State's many other clinics throughout central Ohio also provide referrals to this substance abuse program.
"STEPP has treated more than 700 women since 2010," Prasad says. "From identifying individuals who need this care and support, to stabilizing them with medication and providing routine prenatal care throughout their pregnancies, we have seen many women successfully complete pregnancy, parent their children and begin the long path to recovery."
Kristen Carpenter, PhD, director of Women's Behavioral Health within Ohio State's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, is working with the STEPP Clinic team to track the outcomes of the women and infants who receive care there.
While the STEPP Clinic focuses on the mother's health throughout her pregnancy, the effects on infant health at birth truly show the health benefits of the clinic's treatment efforts.
"The link provided through STEPP is remarkable; so often these patients fall through the cracks," Carpenter says. "We're very interested in understanding the total experience of STEPP patients, so we're evaluating a number of outcomes — physical, of course, but psychological as well."
The team's hope is that this data and research will empower others in the community to provide similar services to give women and their children a healthier future in the face of the opioid epidemic.


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Super Bowl Ring: History and Value
by Chris Vasile - 1/18/2019
Diamonds are not simply just a girl's best friend.
In the sporting world, they are a sign of universal success. No matter the sport or the championship won, the end result is always the same -- that massive and sparkly ring.
In my honest opinion, the NHL has the best championship trophy (the Stanley Cup). However, as is hockey culture, the rings aren't flashy enough to warrant serious fandom. The NFL, on the other hand, now this is a league where the Super Bowl rings are worth talking about. This is a league where players are (somewhat) fashion conscious and where the more bling you are rocking the "higher profile" you pose. So, it should come as no surprise to you that when an NFL team ends their grueling journey by hoisting the Lombardi Trophy on Super Bowl Sunday, the reward - asides from the Super Bowl cash bonus - will be flashy and bigger than those who claimed them the year before.
The legend of the Super Bowl ring dates all the way back to legendary coach, Vince Lombardi. While the NFL was not the first professional league to award championship rings to the winning franchise, Lombardi took it upon himself to ensure that his team would receive the inaugural set of Super Bowl rings after successfully winning Super Bowl I against the Kansas City Chiefs. Lombardi was beyond thrilled about the thought of customizing his own personal Super Ring, so much so, that in addition to the NFL logo on the left side of the ring, he had Jostens - the custom Jewelers company - put a crown from his family's coat of arms on the right side along with the phrase Harmony, Courage, Valor, and a full-cut, 1.0-point diamond in the center.
Just like with every profession in the world, there is competition amongst jewelers for the right to be the company to design the ring for that year's Super Bowl Champion.
Jostens is by far the most popular jeweler selection as they have helped the last three Super Bowl winners create the ring that best portrays their success. Two seasons ago, when New England managed the largest Super Bowl comeback in Super Bowl history, they trusted Jostens to deliver them a piece that would best replicate their journey. Jostens used 283 diamonds throughout the entire ring, which is significant because if you remember correctly, the Patriots were down 28-3 to the Falcons midway through the third quarter.
So, who pays for these rings? Great question. The NFL dishes out $5,000 per ring up to 150 rings. Any additional costs or rings are then incurred by the team itself, which still leads to a pretty hefty price tag. It's been reported that when the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2015, the cost per ring rang upwards of $36,500 each, which makes them the most expensive rings Jostens has ever produced.
Super Bowl Ring Hijinx
When a franchise wins a title in any sport, it's not all that uncommon for the fan base to legitimately believe they had a helping hand in achieving the ultimate goal. Because of that, replica Super Bowl rings are available throughout team shops and online at places such as eBay or Amazon.
However, once in a while you may stumble upon the real deal. It's been said that a former player by the name of Dave Meggett is thought to have placed his ring for sale on eBay. Conversely, two Super Bowl rings from the 1970 Pittsburgh Steelers sold on eBay for $69,000 a piece in 2008. Aside from needing the cold hard cash that these rings would fetch on the market, Je'Rod Cherry raffled his Super Bowl XXXVI ring off in November 2008 with the proceeds going to help children in Africa and Asia.
From what I understand, the most expensive and most valuable Super Bowl ring to date is that of Lawrence Taylor. in 2012, LT's son sold his father's Super Bowl ring from 1990 for more than $250,000. This brings up numerous questions, like how much would Brady's fifth ring or possibly even sixth ring fetch on the open market?
There was even an incident involving Patriots owner Robert Kraft and the Russian president Vladimir Putin. It is reported that Putin had mistakenly taken the Super Bowl ring as Kraft was showing it to him. Putin thought Kraft's gesture was that of gifting it to him, which if you see the pictures and the look on Kraft's face was not the case. That Super Bowl ring can now be found amongst other rings on display at the Kremlin.
Super Bowl Ring Tidbits
Did you know that only two people in NFL history can stake claim to seven Super Bowl rings? The first should come as no real surprise. Bill Belichick has five Super Bowl rings as head coach of the Patriots and an additional two as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants. The other person is Neal Dahlen, who earned five with the San Francisco 49ers (staff and player personnel) and two as the General Manager of the Denver Broncos.
Tom Brady and Charles Haley are the only two players in NFL history to have won five Super Bowls as players. Brady is obviously vying for his sixth this season, which would leave him in a class of his own. Haley won two of his five rings as a linebacker for the 49ers and then the remaining three as a defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys.
And lastly, if you consistently sit at home and marvel at these athletic freaks of nature, you've probably wondered obscure things such as how much they eat or what size shoe they wear or as related to this topic, their ring size, we've got that answer for you. The average Super Bowl ring size is around 13 or 14. The largest ring on file to date belongs to none other than William "Refrigerator" Perry with a size 23.
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Exclusive, explosive breaking reports from the
patriot Joint U.S.-French Intelligence Task Force,
operating on American soil for over 200 years
Sunday June 5, 2016
A Call for Resistance From Our Founding Fathers
UNITED States of America - It can now be reported that the Second American Revolution will continue and escalate.
We, the American People, find these truths to be self evident so let us proceed with the immediate decapitation of the Bush-Clinton-Obama-CIA-NSA Crime Family Syndicate.
P.S. We can now divulge that the FBI and Director James Comey have made fifteen (15) criminal referrals to the Obama Justice Department calling for the immediate indictment of Hillary and Bill Clinton, as well as Hillary's aide attorney Cheryl Mills and Hillary's lesbian lover Huma Abedin.
We can also report that FBI Director Comey has singled out the Washington Post and its scumbag editor 'Book and Snake' Bob Woodward for engaging in criminal blackmail and threats against agents of the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors.
Woodward is using CIA and Israeli Mossad assets to engage in a spy operation against the FBI for the purpose of obstruction of justice in the matter of Hillary Clinton's emails.
Note: The Russian Federation now has electronic evidence and intercepts fingering bitch Woodward for making death threats against FBI Director Comey.
Stay tuned for future intelligence briefings in which we will detail the latest Clinton scandal involving Laureate University in New York state in which CIA-Bush Crime Family stooge, pedophile Bill Clinton, receiving $16 MILLION aka a bribe for being honorary chancellor of this shell college.
In closing, the Obama Justice Department has new 'smoking gun' evidence proving that year 2000 illegal occupant junior George W. BushFRAUD blatantly stole the state of Missouri in the year 2000 presidential election aka a coup d'état against the American People with an electronic glitch that disabled the Voters News Service and wiped out 90,000 African-American votes from St. Louis, Missouri that had originally been tabulated as votes for then Vice President, now duly elected year 2000 natural born President Albert Gore Jr. of Carthage, Tennessee.
At this hour, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin continues to download.
Founding Fathers: We Warned You
[excerpt]
http://www.rapidtrends.com/quotes-by-thomas-jefferson-on-monetary-policy/
Founders understood the importance of honest money and tried to protect our money from the bankers.
A review of this nation's economic history reveals that bankers, in concert with traitors in Congress, gained control of the money system, set up private "national" banks, began implementing its mechanisms of usury and were then taken down.
Andrew Jackson, our 7th president (1829-1837) brought the nation to within about $32,000 of solvency after decommissioning "The Second Bank of the United States (1818-1836)" and restoring Congressional control of our money.
It took the bankers 70 years to buy their way back into Congress to control the creation and issuance of Americans' money. The Federal Reserve was commissioned in 1913 through a series of corrupt manipulations by key members of Congress in cahoots with the Robber Barons.
Since that time, the purchasing power of the dollar has been in steady decline, the hard assets of the nation have been in transition to the bankers and the governments are increasingly indebted to the unelected, international cabal of private bankers Congress commissioned to manage the U.S. money system.
The purpose of this page is not to explain in detail the process whereby we have arrived at the edge of financial collapse but to prove the following point: That members of Congress, past and present, either know that one of its important functions is to protect Americans' money from the international bankers or they are not qualified to represent our interests in government. That means, at this fundamental level, every sitting member of Congress is either a traitor or an ignoramus. We know of only one exception.
For a further education on the Federal Reserve System and how our economy truly works, here are a series of short videos that can help you: Audio and Video
Thomas Jefferson on coin and paper currency:
"Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war." ~Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1813
"Paper is poverty,… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself."~Letter to Edward Carrington, 1788
"Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted." ~Letter to James Monroe, 1791
"It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil… I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin." ~Letter to John W. Eppes, 1813
Specie [gold and silver coin] as a National Resource. "In such a nation [as ours], there is one and one only resource for loans, sufficient to carry them through the expense of a war; and that will always be sufficient, and in the power of an honest government, punctual in the preservation of its faith. The fund I mean, is the mass of circulating coin. Everyone knows, that although not literally, it is nearly true, that every paper dollar emitted banishes a silver one from the circulation. A nation, therefore, making its purchases and payments with bills fitted for circulation, thrusts an equal sum of coin out of circulation. This is equivalent to borrowing that sum, and yet the vendor receiving payment in a medium as effectual as coin for his purchases or payments, has no claim to interest. And so the nation may continue to issue its bills as far as its wants require, and the limits of the circulation will admit… But this, the only resource which the government could command with certainty, the States have unfortunately fooled away, nay corruptly alienated to swindlers and shavers, under the cover of private banks." ~Letter to John W. Eppes, 1813
Dangers of Paper Money. "That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied." ~Letter to Josephus B. Stuart, 1817
"The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted." ~Letter to John W. Eppes, 1813
"Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers." ~Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814
"Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us." ~Letter to John W. Eppes, 1813
"It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not." ~Letter to Richard Henry Lee, 1779
"Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation." ~Letter to Gouverneur Morris, 1791
"All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass… It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality… It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed." ~Letter to George Washington, 1792
"I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." ~Letter to John Taylor, 1816
"[The] Bank of the United States… is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution… An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries." ~Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1803
Meeting the Banking Problem. "The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better." ~Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1802
"The system of banking have…[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens."~Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816
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DULY ELECTED President Albert Gore Jr.
awaits inauguration,
the Supreme Law of the United States,
our U.S. Constitution, demands it!
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, enhanced excerpt But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to prove new Guards for their future security. (1776)
~ Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father, great American Patriot, author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd U.S. President
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.htm
As we live free or die, Lafayette remains at Brandywine and
Albert Gore Jr. remains the year 2000
U.S. CONSTITUTION DULY ELECTED,
non-inaugurated, natural born
REAL President of the United States.
Al Gore on Restoring the Rule of Law
http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/al-gore-on-restoring-the-rule-of-law
http://www.tomheneghanbriefings.com/A-Call-for-Resistance-From-Our-Founding-Fathers__06-05-2016.html
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U.S. CONSTITUTION DULY ELECTED non-inaugurated, natural born
Albert Gore Jr., the REAL President of the United States
The Bush-Cheney-Clinton junta used the criminal NAZI Paperclip NSA to steal five (5) states: Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri and New Hampshire from then Vice President now year 2000 U.S. Constitution DULY ELECTED natural born Albert Gore Jr.
THE SUPREME LAW OF THE UNITED STATES
By Benjamin Levine and Isabelle F. Story, National Park Service 1961
www.libertystatepark.org/statueofliberty/intro.shtml
"Al Qaeda is nothing more than an extension of the operatus linked to U.S. intelligence that was allowed, by script, to remove itself as a rogue break away entity of the U.S. government'
allowed to de-compartmentalize from oversight, and was run instead by Gary Best rogue 'Black Ops' specialists for scripted activity outside of the U.S. government, with its funding being orchestrated through the Pakistani secret police,
an entity of the U.S. government itself." (2006)
~ Tom Heneghan, great American Patriot and International Intelligence Expert
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (1755)
~ Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, great American Patriot


A Sri Lankan navy officer was arrested for possession of cannabis according to Kankesanthurai (KKS) police.
The officer, a 23-year-old from Galle attached to the KKS navy camp in was arrested with over 27 grammes of cannabis.
KKS police said he would be produced before a court shortly.


Mississippi State hosted the national Enterprise Rose Fellows on Tuesday, March 4.
Fifty current and past fellows met in the Baptist Town neighborhood of Greenwood, current fellow Emily Roush Elliott's project location.
(Elliott is co-hosted for her three-year stint in Greenwood by the Greenwood-Leflore-Carroll Economic Development Foundation and the Carl Small Town Center of the School of Architecture at Mississippi State).
Afterwards, the current fellows headed to Starkville to work with Elliot's class – co-taught with Leah Faulk Kemp, assistant director for the Carl Small Town Center – and present their projects before a larger group of MSU architecture students.
A "Fat Tuesday Feast" was held after the presentations for the fellows, faculty and students.


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Os dálmatas (em latim: Dalmatae ou Delmatae; em grego medieval: Δαλμᾶται) foram um povo que habitou a região que viria a ser conhecida como Dalmácia após a conquista romana, a costa do mar Adriático da atual Croácia, entre os rios Krka e Neretva. Os dálmatas costumam ser classificados como uma tribo dos ilírios embora por boa parte de sua história tenham sido independentes do reino ilírio que ocupava a sua fronteira meridional.

Os Delmatae aparecem no registro histórico pela primeira vez em 181 a.C., quando após a morte de seu governante Pleurato III do reino da Ilíria, eles se recusaram a aceitar o governo de seu filho, Gentius, e se separaram. Eles se expandiram e passaram a incluir tribos costeiras da Ilíria como os Tariotes, os Hylli e os Nesti e aumentaram seu território ao norte contra os Liburni. O conflito com o expansionismo romano e seus aliados locais no leste do Adriático começou em 156-55 a.C. As Guerras Romano-Dalmacianas duraram até 33 a.C., quando Otaviano (o posterior imperador Augusto) instalou a hegemonia romana na Dalmácia. A instabilidade local e pequenas rebeliões continuaram na província da Dalmácia culminou na Grande Revolta da Ilíria na Dalmácia e estreitamente ligada à Panônia em 6 d.C. A revolta, que durou três anos, envolveu mais de meio milhão de combatentes, auxiliares e civis de ambos os lados. Na sequência, algumas comunidades delmataianas foram realocadas na região norte de Sandzak e outras foram reassentadas em partes da Caríntia para fornecer mão de obra para as minas romanas. A derrota da revolta deu início à integração da Dalmácia, que por sua vez levou à romanização da região no início da Idade Média.

História

Os Delmatae aparece no registro histórico em 181 a.C. A morte de Pleuratus III do reino da Ilíria e a sucessão por seu filho Gentius levaram os Delmatae a não reconhecer seu governo e se separar completamente. Os Daorsi, que viviam ao sul dos Delmatae, fizeram o mesmo. Ao longo dos séculos, os Delmatae e Ardiaei estavam entre os grupos ilírios que expandiram seu território para o norte às custas dos Liburni. Os Delmatae podem ter sido originalmente empurrados para a costa por causa das migrações celtas na Panônia. Estrabão escreve que o território dos Delmatae foi dividido em um interior (atual Tropolje) e uma região costeira dos Alpes Dináricos. Delminium, o assentamento de sua capital, estava localizado perto da atual Tomislavgrad.

A primeira guerra da Dalmácia em 156 a.C. - 155 a.C. terminou com a destruição da capital Delminium pelo cônsul Cipião Nasica. A segunda guerra da Dalmácia foi travada em 119-118 a.C., aparentemente terminando com a vitória romana, pois o cônsul L. Cecílio Metelo celebrou o triunfo em 117 a.C. e assumiu seu sobrenome Delmaticus. A terceira guerra dálmata 78-76 a.C. terminou com a captura de Salona (porto Solin próximo à cidade moderna de Split ) pelo procônsul C. Cosconius.

Durante a Guerra Civil Romana de 49-44 a.C., os Delmatae apoiaram Pompeu contra as colônias romanas costeiras que apoiaram César e lutaram continuamente contra os generais cesarianos Gabinius e Vatinius. Após a derrota de Pompeu, eles continuaram a lutar contra as legiões romanas na Dalmácia. O quarto e último conflito ocorreu de 34-33 a.C. durante a expedição de Otaviano a Ilírico por causa de suas revoltas iterativas, e terminou com a captura da nova capital da Dalmácia - Soetovio (agora Klis). As últimas revoltas de Delmatae sob seu líder federal Bato, contra os romanos foram em 12 a.C. e a Grande Revolta da Ilíria em 6-9 d.C.; ambos também falharam e acabaram com uma pacificação terminal dos belicosos Delmatae.

Cultura
Os vestígios arqueológicos sugerem que sua cultura material era mais primitiva do que as das antigas tribos vizinhas, especialmente em comparação com os liburnos mais antigos. Apenas sua produção de armas era bastante avançada. Sua elite tinha apenas casas construídas de pedra, mas numerosos pastores Delmatae ainda se estabeleceram em cavernas naturais, e um detalhe característico em suas roupas usuais era o gorro de pele.

Sua sociedade nômade tinha uma forte estrutura patriarcal, consistindo principalmente de pastores, guerreiros e seus chefes. Suas principais tarefas eram a criação extensiva de gado e a pilhagem iterativa de outras tribos vizinhas e de cidades costeiras do Adriático.

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Ligações externas

Povos da Antiguidade
Povos indo-europeus
História da Croácia
Grande Revolta da Ilíria