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*Now, let's welcome Mr. Sun Chung Mu, president and publisher of Inside the World magazine in Korea. Mr. Sun Chung Mu was winner of the 1993 International Human Rights Award. Only three people have received this award so far. One is President Mandela of South Africa, the second is multi Nobel Prize nominee, Mr. Kim Dae-Jung, and the third is Mr. Sun Chung Mu, who will now give us a speech.
Let us now welcome Mr. Sun Chung Mu.
*I wholeheartedly welcome Chairwoman Barbara, from the International Federation of Human Rights, Supreme Master Ching Hai, and journalists from all over the world, as well as students who are studying Supreme Master Ching Hai's philosophy, and their family members. I am very honored to be invited to this occasion. I think you invited me on this occasion because I am the recipient of the International Human Rights Award and journalist from South Korea, and I was also a journalist who covered the Vietnam War. Today, I think that both Formosa (Taiwan) and Âu Lạc (Vietnam) are very blessed countries. Following the Vietnam War, there were a large number of helpless Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees around the world. When I think of the fact that we have a saintly woman such as Supreme Master Ching Hai, who guides them and leads them to righteous ways of living, and the fact that this lady is working with her world headquarters in Formosa (Taiwan), I feel these two countries are very blessed countries. We thought we would have world peace when the old Soviet Union was demolished and the Cold War ended, but we still have many wars around the world and many people die, and we have tens of thousands of helpless people such as the Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees. I think it reflects the fact that we humans are still not awakened by God's words, the Creator's words, and the Truth that we have inside us. Please, give a very big applause to Madam Supreme Master Ching Hai, who has toured around the world and has spread the Truth and God's good intention, and has awakened the Truth.
During the Vietnam War, I worked as a war correspondent and I witnessed the horrible scenes of war. As a participant of the war, I sincerely apologize to you that the South Korean government and citizens have not taken a lot of responsibility in helping the Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees. However, the more than 200 representatives and leaders who came here from South Korea have a mission now. When you go back to South Korea, please inform our government and our citizens to actively participate in activities that help the unfortunate Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees scattered around in Asian countries. In addition, the more than 5,000 family members who came here, especially Supreme Master Ching Hai's family members, when you go back to your country, when you go back to the country that you live, you have to start a campaign directed to your governments, parliaments, and religious circles and journalist circles to spread the noble cause of Supreme Master Ching Hai, and to give your loving hand to help the numerous Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees who are suffering in Asian countries. The purpose of the campaign is to spread Supreme Master Ching Hai's noble cause to the people who are not awakened to the Truth and to deliver with sincerity what you learned from her to them. Please, write what you think and send letters to governments, politicians, and conglomerates. Ladies and gentlemen, when you go back to your countries, please complain vigorously to England's government, Hong Kong's government,
Formosan (Taiwan) government, Aulacese (Vietnamese) government and the Chinese government - who will take over Hong Kong in the near future - and write letters, pleading letters, to them. I urge all of you to participate in this (human rights) return effort by sharing our values as human beings and our inborn dignity with all of them, so that they can keep their values and truth that God has given to us forever, so that their life may become better and they may fulfill their potential in this lifetime in a comfortable environment. Thank you.
*Being an international human rights activist as well, Mr. Sun has spoken with great respect for and expressed affirmation in Supreme Master Ching Hai. Let us now present the awards. Mrs. Barbara Finch, Director of the International Federation for Human Rights, and Mr. Chen Hung-Kwang, General-Secretary of the World Cultural Communication Association, will now present to Supreme Master Ching Hai the World Humanitarian Leadership Award and the certificate of the Honorable Advisor-in-Chief of the International Federation for Human Rights, in recognition of Master's humanitarian contributions. We respectfully invite Supreme Master Ching Hai to the stage to receive this honor. This is the plaque of the World Humanitarian Leadership Award.
*And I have a certificate for the Master from the International Federation of Human Rights: "We extend an invitation to the Supreme Master Ching Hai who has rendered assistance as well as demonstrated such deep and wide concern for international Human Rights and worldwide refugees. Our federation is in great need of your divine wisdom and experienced guidance. We therefore wish to hereby invite your grace to be our honorable adviser in chief. President Barbara J. Finch and Hung-Kwang Chen."
* This is the certificate of the Honorable Advisor-in-Chief of the International Federation for Human Rights.
* The International Federation for Human Rights and the World Cultural Communication Association from the United States are presenting the World Humanitarian Leadership Award to our great Supreme Master Ching Hai. This carries a profound significance because it is the first time in 12 years for both organizations to present this award to an outstanding humanitarian leader. This award was initiated by the state of Iowa with the concurrence of the states of Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, and Hawaii, as well as the city of Honolulu. The governors of these seven states and the mayor of Honolulu had arranged to fly in for this grand occasion but were eventually unable to make the trip.
Therefore, Mrs. Finch, Iowa Secretary of State, and I, General-Secretary of the World Cultural Communication Association, are here to present the award on their behalf. This time they are honoring two of the most compassionate leaders in the world. One is Supreme Master Ching Hai. Her tremendous contributions in offering aid to Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees, the flood victims of six US states in the Midwest, the fire victims of LA, the homeless in California, the lepers in Hawaii, and the flood victims in France, and many more, have proved her worthy of recognition as an unprecedented world peace leader and world spiritual leader. We will also present the World Distinguished Leadership Award to the President of Formosa (Taiwan), Mr. Lee Teng-hui. Supreme Master Ching Hai has the qualifications for the World Human Rights Leadership Award. Here, as I stand in front of this great humanitarian leader, in this moment of magnificence, we realize how great her actions in rescuing the Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees are. This is such a moving evening! The love of Supreme Master Ching Hai, the world leader and the recipient of the World Human Rights Leadership Award, encompasses the whole world.
*Dr. Richard Schneider of the International Peace Radio Station, also President of the Global Education University, will now present the World Citizen Humanitarian Award to Supreme Master Ching Hai. Supreme Master Ching Hai has spread the message of
universal love and peace throughout the world. For a long time, she has devoted tremendous manpower and material assistance to disaster victims in countries such as Thailand, Âu Lạc (Vietnam), China, the Philippines, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Formosa (Taiwan), etc. During her ten-year stay in Formosa (Taiwan), not only did she have her disciples visit the destitute, she herself also visited prisons, giving spiritual comfort to those incarcerated. Her Formosan (Taiwanese) disciples have also participated in a wide range of social activities and organized a series of activities called "Compassionate Heaven, Loving World" to help homeless people, clean up the environment, and fund the purchase of garbage trucks. When heavy floods struck the American Midwest and wild fires broke out in Los Angeles last year, Supreme Master Ching Hai requested volunteers from her worldwide meditation centers to offer emergency relief to the victims. She also donated US$1 million to lepers, veterans, and cancer and AIDS research programs in the US. Now let us invite Mr. Richard Schneider to present the World Citizen Humanitarian Award to Supreme Master Ching Hai.
*God in His mercy and compassion from time to time sends an enlightened person to the Earth to personify compassion, and tonight we honor such a person. The two million listeners of Radio for Peace International and the University of Global Education is proud and pleased and honored to recognize the enormity of the humanitarian effort, the personification of thoughts and feelings and spirit in action in real work, unselfishly, around the world. And for this tremendous effort and this tremendous demonstration of compassion and caring for all of humanity, regardless of their state or condition, we are proud to present our highest award, the World Citizen Humanitarian Award to Supreme Master Ching Hai.
*Chairman of the Asian Pacific Youth Freedom League in the Philippines, Dr. Rene Santos, and his wife, Mrs. Amy Santos, will now present the Humanitarian Paragon Medal to Supreme Master Ching Hai.
* Good evening. Supreme Master Ching Hai, distinguished guests from abroad, friends: "On behalf of the Filipino people and on behalf of the Asian Pacific Youth for Freedom League and the Rotary Club of Biak-na-Bato Silangan, Rotary International district 3780 Quezon City, Philippines, humbly presents this plaque of recognition to Supreme Master Ching Hai for her humanitarian concern and effort to help the countless refugees of the world - those in Palawan and Bataan centers in the Philippines; also for her immeasurable contributions to the victims of Mt. Pinatubo volcano eruptions. Approved by the board this 23rd day of May 1994, and this to be presented during the International Human Rights Conference in Taipei, Formosa (Taiwan), on May 25th, 1994. Signed, Ameurfina Amy G. Santos, President 1993-1994, Rosario Biologlovski, Secretary, and Yours sincerely, Reynaldo Rene G. Santos, Charter President." And this is our motto for the year 1993-94. "Believe in what you do, do what you believe in."
*Director of the International Federation of Human Rights, Mrs. Barbara Finch, will present a painting to Supreme Master Ching Hai.
Honored guests and Supreme Master Ching Hai, I just want to say, "Iowa loves you." And on behalf of Iowans, we present you with this painting. Thank you.
*On behalf of the government of Iowa state, Mrs. Barbara presents this painting to Supreme Master Ching Hai. We now cordially invite Supreme Master Ching Hai to deliver a speech.
Thank you, Barbara. Thank you, Mr. Chen, and thank you all the honored guests who have come from very faraway places like America, Canada, France, Korea, Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, etc., also even Switzerland.
Thank you, Barbara. Thank you, Mr. Chen Hung-Kwang. Thank you, honorable guests, for coming from faraway places such as France, England, America, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Thank you, Formosan (Taiwanese) dignitaries. Thank you for your generosity and magnanimous love. I think this world is wonderful because of you. Yes. I feel undeserving to receive an award, because %%%personal glory can never replace the world's suffering. %%% If I could die today for those suffering sentient beings, I would do so immediately. All we can do is to live on for them, and together we'll think of ways to help them. We have been meditating and praying this week for world peace and for disaster-stricken people in countries such as Rwanda and Bosnia, and for the Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees as well. We have helped refugees around the world with material and physical assistance. The problem of the refugees in other countries could be solved quickly because they are new refugees. But the Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugee issue has remained unsolved for nearly 20 years. The international community is concerned about it. Even the United Nations has been unable to find a solution for it. That's why I have approached world political leaders with feasible proposals to solve the refugee issue. We are prepared to donate all our money to any country willing to accept the refugees. We are ready to make monthly donations of hundreds of thousands of US dollars to help them until they can support themselves. We are not begging for compassion from the nations around the world; we believe that every nation is compassionate. Every nation must have suffered, or will one day suffer the turmoil of war or other disasters. Most nations have, more or less, gone through the refugee situation. Decades ago, war and other catastrophes sent tens of thousands of Chinese people fleeing to Âu Lạc (Vietnam), which was peaceful at that time. Âu Lạc (Vietnam) opened its door and offered a vast piece of land near its capital of Saigon to the Chinese refugees. The refugees developed that land into a flourishing Chinatown. Some of the Hong Kong people are descendants of these refugees. When the Chinese fled to Âu Lạc (Vietnam), we offered them land and citizenship. They could either become Aulacese (Vietnamese) citizens or retain their national status as overseas Chinese. They had absolute freedom to establish a business, work, go to school, and build a home. They have developed a business hub known as the "Big Market" today, because Chinese people are good businesspeople. When they first arrived, they began doing business and grew prosperous. We Aulacese (Vietnamese) welcomed the Chinese very much, because the Chinese had superb skills, and they opened the best and cleanest hotels, and they had the best service. We welcomed and respected the Chinese people. We called them "third elder brother" or "third elder sister" instead of overseas Chinese. We regarded them as our own brothers. We did not call them "big brother" because that refers to our own native brothers. We call them "third elder brother" to demonstrate our hospitality and magnanimity. I hope that this can serve as an example for all nations. %%%When refugees come to our country, we should treat them as our brothers and sisters, %%% because we ourselves might become victims of disasters someday as well. Up to now, no country can be exempt from the suffering of war or of becoming refugees. That's why we should help one another. It would be strange if we refused to do so.


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Comment: Procurement Reform Bill welcome but tender threshold still too high
David Wright, head of external affairs at SELECT, the Electrical Contractors' Association of Scotland
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It is a relatively rare event for a campaigning organisation to declare that the passing of a piece of government legislation deserves to be regarded as a major milestone on the road to where we want to be.
But that is the case with the Procurement Reform Bill, which MSPs approved last month and which now only awaits Royal Assent before it passes into law.
It aims to improve the way the public sector buys £10 billion of goods, works and services each year.
SELECT, which has been campaigning vigorously for several years on this vitally important issue, can be quietly pleased that many of the measures which it advocated have been incorporated into the Bill.
It can agree with Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that the legislation creates many of the necessary conditions to improve how the business community interacts with the public sector - but it has to caution that there are still significant hurdles to be overcome.
First, the good news, of which there is an unusual abundance.
The Bill is of particular relevance to the legions of Scottish SMEs, which are acknowledged as the backbone of the economy but which often previously have struggled to obtain access to the public sector tendering process.
They will benefit hugely from the scrapping of onerous multiple pre-qualification.
Now there will only be one pre-qualification requirement for companies, removing the need for repetitive pre-qualification submissions to different authorities, an expensive and time-consuming process involving complex paperwork.
Another positive step is the scrapping of public sector tender charges. No longer will councils be allowed to charge for providing the forms companies need to fill in.
Perhaps best of all is that the Bill lists the specific organisations which will be covered by it.
At a stroke, this removes the argument by some authorities that its provisions do not apply to them. It also means that they are covered by the same procurement procedures, meaning that companies do not have to deal differently with 32 different local authorities.
Of course, there are some disappointments.
The first, and most important, is that the threshold for the awarding of tenders is still too high. It remains at £2 million - £50,000 would be much more realistic. There are few companies in our industry which can respond to a £2 million tender.
It would also have been encouraging to see the establishment of an Ombudsman or a regulator for the public procurement system.
If our member companies have an issue with a big company, they are unlikely to take them to court because it is a risky and potentially ruinously expensive business.
The establishment of a regulatory office would be a great step forward since it could take the heat out of situations and allow them to much more easily and amicably resolved..
There has been sympathy for these proposals during the passage of the Bill and the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee under Maureen Watt MSP has listened intelligently and supportively to the arguments.
The committee argues that many outstanding issues can be picked up in subsequent regulations, but the counter-argument is that, if it can happen then, why can't it happen now?
The Bill as it stands is essentially enabling legislation and what needs to follow as soon as possible is regulations that will govern the operation of the Bill.
Until now there has been a huge amount of money spent by the Scottish government and the rest of the Scottish public sector which has gone right over the heads of the Scottish economy and Scottish SMEs.
The Procurement Reform Bill unleashes the potential of the multiplier effect, whereby each £1 spent by government or the public sector can create - at the most pessimistic estimate - £3 of value in the wider economy.
Putting the above reservations aside, it has to be recognised that what has been achieved with this Bill is remarkable and it is a tribute to the politicians, parliamentary committees, organisations and companies who contributed to its realisation.
Without a devolved Parliament, it would never have happened and I believe Wales and Northern Ireland are studying it closely. Altogether, a good day for Scotland.
David Wright is head of external affairs at SELECT, the Electrical Contractors' Association of Scotland
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DirectorSidney Lumet
CastFaye Dunaway
CastNed Beatty
CastPeter Finch
CastRobert Duvall
CastWilliam Holden
Review by James Banks
It has been 38 years since Howard Beale shouted "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" at a television camera. The mood comes and goes, but America is still mad as hell, though it is not quite sure what it is unwilling to take—rising crime, unemployment, government healthcare, government shut downs, presidential tête-à-têtes, ballot recounts, terrorism, war, unemployment (again), lack of health care, government healthcare (again), the surveillance state, inequality and Wall Street have all filled the proverbial "it" role since Network flashed across the silver screen. That is the paradox of Sidney Lumet's Network. Mass movements may hinge on the words of a mad prophet but, as the film makes clear, mad prophets are only given their voice by the intractable powers which they antagonize but cannot overcome—"The primal force of nature" as Mr. Jensen, the network chairman, calls them.
Howard Beale, the movie's insane news anchor, played by Peter Finch in the role for which most people remember him, might be an idealist of sorts, but this does not keep everyone else, from his long-time producer Max Schumacher (William Holden) to the network CEO Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall), from seeing how naïve this position is. Even the film's narrator—the sardonic, unidentified voice of Lee Richardson—is aware that Howard is a troubled mind who has been given that extra little push over the cliff by his wife's death.
But, to Howard, his misery and loneliness, coupled with the fact that the network wants to fire him, gives him a new-found sense of clarity. He is confident enough about this that he is willing to say as much on the air, telling the world that he has grown tired of all the "bullsh*t." Surprising to everyone except Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway), the network's soulless entertainment producer, is that the American public appears to agree.
Of course, a mad prophet becoming so popular would not be surprising to anyone living in a society that had produced Charles Manson and the Symbionese Liberation Army (in Network parodied as the Ecumenical Liberation Army). But, before the network can entirely embrace the concept, it first has to overcome that obnoxious notion—embodied in the Old School Max Schumacher—that a news program should adhere to those quaint precepts known as "standards".
This happens easily enough; all that is needed is one missed heartbeat for Frank Hackett to commandeer the network's leadership and replace Max with Diana. The network climbs toward the Number 1 position. Howard takes over the airwaves shouting that he is mad as hell in a way that would make Bill O'Reilly green, Schumacher packs his office and disappears into obscurity and Hackett and Christensen sell their souls to success, taking out two or three mortgages on them for good measure.
It seems like a good business arrangement: Howard is allowed to say (or more accurately rant) what he wants and the Network chiefs make enough money to make a room of dispassionate, calculating investors chant "We're Number One! We're number One!" But the caper only works as long as the content of Howard's show is consistent with—or does not interfere in—the affairs of the higher powers: i.e. the board members who are prone to the new economy of globalization in ways that are inconsistent with Howard Beale's stalwart populist gospel. The moment that he starts calling for their heads is the moment that they start looking for opportunities to stab him in the back.
Somewhere between the insane idealists and their lukewarm handlers, Max Schumacher emerges as a human with anxieties and pleasures which seem to align with a world apart from the big, enormous twelve-inch screen. He is not a good man, but Network insists that he is (at least) a man who is aware that the universe does have moral order, even though the whirlwind of mass media are making this moral order more difficult to decipher, even as Howard attempts to explain it to his audience in sound bites.
The contrast between Max and Diana, even while they are sharing the same bed in an ill-fated liaison, could not be sharper. Lumet is heavy-handed in drawing the line between them: Max's apartment is shown lined wall to wall with books, while the closest thing that Diana has to literature in her apartment are magazines which, when considered in the context of the media she promotes for a living, seem more like hunting trophies.
But in spite of clearly siding with Max, Network has difficulty pretending that the future belongs to him. Unlike Max, neither Diana nor Hackett are haunted by proliferate signs of their impending mortality. The audience has the satisfaction of knowing that Max is right when he tells Diana that she may rule the television waves now, but soon enough she will be throwing herself out her office window. She and Hackett may be doomed in the short term, but, truth be told, there will be other Hacketts and Dianas to follow them, and, unlike Max, such people are more or less interchangeable. There kingdom is very much of this world. This is perhaps the darkest joke in Network: the fact that the audience can walk away, like members of Howard's cultish audience, believing that justice will be meted out in the world of mass media, while Hackett and Diana have claimed victory—albeit a Pyrrhic one.
Perhaps this message can be taken with an ounce of salt. After all, Network is a satire and does what most satires do. Not only the story but also the acting reinforces the movie's satirical elements. When the movie was first released, Pauline Kael of New Yorker fame wrote that"The cast … takes turns yelling at us soulless masses." This is true, though it is unfair. With the exception of William Holden, none of the primary cast digs particularly deep into his or her character; whether it is Diana shouting ecstatically about the show's ratings or Hackett swearing that he will strangle Howard with an electric cord, every actor overacts the part, but such is the world that television demands, or so Network would have us believe. The world of Network is one which belongs to performers.
Such Juvenalian satire, from the perspective of the digital age, might make Network look as dated as Orwell's 1984 seemed in 1984. After all, we survived the 1970s and "cool" medium of television, didn't we? When compared with the computer, the internet and Facebook—postmodern abysses which not only stare back into us but have electronic eyes with which to do so—the demagogic power of the television seems modest.
However, the effect that television has had on our civic institutions cannot be ignored—until C-SPAN, Senate committee hearings used to be dull affairs that even the committee members did not bother attending. All it took was a television camera for people to start calling their representatives to ask them why they weren't at the hearing and why they weren't hopping mad about one thing or another. This was enough to turn the previously anodyne Halls of Power into a circus occasionally featuring appearances from such elder statesmen as Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart and Nick Jonas.
No doubt, while things did not work out as Diana and Hackett had hoped, this is precisely the sort of Brave New World that they had in mind: A world where everyone is mad as hell and, by cathartically expressing their anger, find themselves willing to take "it" more and more. Perhaps Howard Beale was a mad prophet in word, but, in deed, it is hard to think of anyone from the 1970s whose actions were more prescient.
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Who is the slowest player in the MLB?
1: Ernie Lombardi. The career triples are deceiving, as Lombardi played in an era when the triple was far more common, and Lombardi is widely considered the slowest player to ever play the game.
Who's the slowest MLB player?
And 41-year-old Albert Pujols tops the list at 22.5 feet per second. That time is also the slowest among all MLB players in 2021.
Who is the fastest player in MLB history?
Lou Brock is arguably the fastest MLB player ever. Photo from Crescent City Sports. When it comes to the game of baseball, the speed of a player isn't necessarily a top skill.
What is Albert Pujols 60 time?
He ran the 60-yard dash in 7.1 seconds, hit a baseball off the top of the left-field foul pole and even crouched behind the plate for the first time in his life, producing a pop time of 1.85 seconds that was well above average for his age group, according to Arango.
Who is the lightest MLB player?
The lightest player in Major League history was Eddie Gaedel who only weighed sixty-five pounds and took the field for one game on August 19, 1951.
Who is the dirtiest player in MLB?
Tyrus Raymond Cobb was and has been chronicled as the dirtiest player that ever lived. Not just because he is a family member, but the stories of him sliding into base with sharpened spikes pointed high. His anger also was said not to be only on the ballfield.
How fast was Mickey Mantle?
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His chief target was, incredibly enough, Mickey Mantle. Mantle had come up as a 19 year-old shortstop in 1950 renown for his power and speed. Mantle was timed at 3.1 seconds to first base, the fastest ever recorded.
How tall are short stops?
Shortstop: Bit over 6′ Left-Fielder: Just over 6′ Center-Fielder: 6′ 1.5" Right-Fielder: Same as Pitcher and First-Baseman, 6′ 2.5"
What does Bartolo Colon weigh?
Colon is listed at 285 pounds, although his true weight these days is a guess. He looks as if he should be sitting in the stands and eating a hot dog, or two or three, while he watches the game.
Who has the heaviest bat in MLB?
Edd Roush. Hall of Famer Edd Roush holds the distinction as the player who used the heaviest bat in MLB history. Roush, who debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1913, used a 48-ounce behemoth.
How many ounces Babe Ruth bat?
The most amazing thing about these bats, though, is that the 36-inch, 38-ounce Ruth bat is the model the Babe used late in his career. According to the Babe Ruth Museum, the bat he used as a younger player weighed 42 ounces.
Do heavier bats hit farther?
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A heavier bat will hit a ball farther than a lighter bat, when the speed of the bat swing, the pitch speed and the ball mass are kept constant. Increasing the mass of the bat gives the ball more momentum.
What size bat did Frank Thomas use?
size 34″
A full size 34″ bat, produced by the Cooperstown Bat Company. Built like a bruising football player, Frank Thomas chose a bat and glove over shoulder pads at Auburn University, forging historic success on big league baseball diamonds for almost two decades.
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Keep in mind that Thomas did wear "15" for a very brief period of time during his rookie season in 1990. Bats that date to the early-to-mid 1990s tend to sell for a premium as a result of Thomas winning consecutive AL MVPs (1993/1994) and his lone AL Batting Title (1997) during that time. Frank Edward Thomas, Jr.
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The ECI was launched on February 8th 2017, backed by a pan-European coalition of over 100 civil society organisations and co-ordinated by WeMove.EU.
On June 15th, the organisers announced that they had already reached the goal of one million signatures – which means that the ECI "Stop Glyphosate" is the fastest growing ECI in history!
On July 3rd, 1.320.517 signatures were then handed over to the EU commission.
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New Fargo Elim Care Center to replace community destroyed by fire
We join Cassia and the Fargo Elim community in celebrating the groundbreaking of the new Fargo Elim Care Center which will replace the facility that was destroyed by fire in January 2020. The new community will provide much-needed housing and services to the Fargo-Moorhead area.
Thankfully all 111 residents and staff were safely evacuated and temporarily relocated in nearby facilities as Cassia went through the insurance, master planning and redevelopment process. The damaged care center has been demolished and the new facility will welcome its first residents in 2022.
The groundbreaking event kicks off the rebuilding of the center, which will maintain a valuable connection to the existing transitional care, therapy and assisted living community, while amplifying shared amenities with a vibrant new town center.
The new building includes three skilled nursing households with 20-24 residents each. The households include activity/living rooms that open up to enclosed outdoor walking paths, gardens and courtyards. The new town center features an atrium lobby, administrative space, two dining rooms, multi-purpose area as well as an efficient commercial kitchen and back of house zone.
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Knobbe MartensSep 2, 2020Legal
Federal Circuit Rejects Claim Construction That Contradicts Dependent Claims
BAXALTA INC. V. GENENTECH, INC.
Before Moore, Plager, and Wallach. Appeal from the District of Delaware
Summary: A district court erred by interpreting a specification's description of an "antibody" as a definition, when that description contradicted other portions of the specification and several dependent claims.
At the district court, Baxalta and Genetech disputed the construction of "antibody." The court determined that the specification had expressly defined "antibody" consistent with the narrow construction Genentech proposed. Although the court recognized that this construction was inconsistent with several dependent claims, it ruled that the express definition controlled, rendering the dependent claims invalid. The parties stipulated to non-infringement under the district court's narrow construction, and Baxalta appealed.
The Federal Circuit ruled that the plain language of the independent claim did not require any particular definition of "antibody," and that the dependent claims confirmed that the independent claim used a broad meaning of "antibody." The district court's construction, which excluded the embodiments in the dependent claims, was "inconsistent with the plain language of the claims." The Federal Circuit rejected the district court's conclusion that the specification expressly defined "antibody." Although the passage the district court relied on was plausibly definitional in isolation, a definitional reading of the passage rendered the specification as a whole internally inconsistent. The Federal Circuit therefore determined that the passage was a "generalized introduction," not a definition. Accordingly, the Federal Circuit broadened the construction of "antibody," vacated the judgment of non-infringement, and remanded for further proceedings.
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Written by: Brandon G. Smith & Jeremy Anapol
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For the past few months our preschool environment has been experiencing a HUGE growth spurt, which is AMAZING and we are so blessed by it. However, there have been some Sundays that I have walked away feeling discouraged as a leader. I felt like in some ways we were moving from being a great small group environment to "childcare" at a quick speed, and I NEVER just want to be "childcare" for kids on a Sunday morning. So I had to sit down and really reevaluate what we were doing and what we could do differently.
Our biggest growth is in our 2 year old room, where we went from 8 kids to 18 in about 3 weeks. With that dramatic increase, I decided that I was going to serve in that classroom the following Sunday to experience it myself first hand, and figure out what we could do to make it better.
Well, let me tell you! 18 2yr. olds are HARD even with 7 SGL's! I think you automatically go into SURVIVAL mode! Holy cow. 5 were crying, 2 were hitting each other (because they are 2 and don't know how to share), 1 is trying to eat a crayon, and 3 of them need to go potty (and it's down the hall). As we are taking those 3 potty, another tries to run out the door! Did I mention that this is all in the first 10 minutes!? How long is service?? So, we were trying to gather all of them around with the intent to engage them in the curriculum that I edited and had prepped for THIS class. Ummm, let me just say playing with rubber fish in WATER is NOT something I would recommend with that age group! Maybe using blue streamers in the bucket would have been a better "water" choice. We tried something else. We glued the fish and bread to the basket, or not! Glue in the mouth, markers on our face, kids trying to eat the "fish", not fun either. Thank goodness it was now story time!
~ I was picking curriculum that was just unrealistic for that age group and was not setting my SGL's up for a win.
~The difference between 2 and 2 ½ is HUGE, developmentally they change so much in that year.
~ Simple is better and repetitive is best.
~ There is a HUGE difference in what looks like a great lesson on "paper," to how it actually works in a class.
~ I was able to split our class and we now have a young 2's, and an older 2's.
~ I'm editing the curriculum for the younger 2's with a completely different lens.
Just by making these few changes, our small group leaders are not as overwhelmed and the kids are more engaged because what we are doing is more appropriate.
As a leader, you always need to be evaluating your environment! Just because it worked 6 months ago doesn't mean it's going to work now! As a SGL, you need to be letting your leader know how it's going! Growth can cause change and that can be a good thing!


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Een knieband is een band in de knie. In de knie zit een aantal banden, ligamenten, die als functie hebben  de verschillende botten waaruit de knie is samengesteld bij elkaar te houden. Zo voorkomen het ligamentum collaterale fibulare en het ligamentum collaterale tibiale dat de benen als O- of genua vara of als X-benen, genua valga, gaan staan.

De volledige Latijnse namen van de ligamenten zijn de genoemde namen met ligamentum ervoor, bijvoorbeeld ligamentum cruciatum anterius.

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Board announce bumper profits……… What next?
November 18, 2011 by Ross William Gibson, posted in Uncategorized
In the yearly shareholders report – the Scunthorpe United have announced that over the last financial year: the club made a bumper profit.
Throughout the financial year of 2010-2011: the club made a tub-thumping £1.4m profit stretching from the year 1st July 2010 – 30th June 2011.
This includes the sale of Gary Hooper – although don't be naive enough to think that without such sale, the club would have lost £1m. Not all of the money has been received from Celtic yet sadly, and even less had been by the end of this financial year.
Why it had taken so long to release the figures is also anybody's guess. Accountants eh?!
The current level of transparency from the club is of course appreciated, but if they really want to be whiter than white: this level needs to be increased. It's what the fans deserve.
The profit level of just more than £1.4m is nonetheless extremely welcome, and more than counteracts the previous "loss" of just less than £500k.
That said – it is in the club's interest to make the bank balance sheet look as unhealthy as possible. The lower the profit, or the greater the loss – the less has to be paid to the tax man.
We are not stating that in any way, shape or form have the club used accountancy rules creatively to boost the club's financial status. But frankly – if they aren't, they need better accountants!
This profit is also despite "Wages & Salaries" having topped £5m for the first time in the club's history.
Certain individuals and circles would have you believe that this means that over £5m was spent on just the squad's wages. Again, this is not true.
Notice the term: "Wages and Salaries". The devil is in the detail.
So it won't just be the players taking home this barrel of cash. In fact: it will go to all the catering staff, the cleaners, the turnstile attendants, the ticket office staff, the coaching staff, the chairman, the board, the coach drivers. Literally – anybody who draws a salary from Scunthorpe United Football Club. Not just the players!
Furthermore, this will also be including the fact that the club paid off Manager Ian Baraclough, Assistant Manager Kevin Pressman and First Team Coach Steve Parkin.
So the club will have effectively been paying the wages of 2 coaching staffs for a significant stretch of the season. This is not a cheap process, let alone for us.
So whilst the heralded £400,000 rise sounds like significant playing squad investment on paper – view all the materials with a pinch of salt. Especially since the above is likely to be a big contributor.
Furthermore, the last year's profit means that over the last 5 years: the club have made a profit just above £2,000,000.
The club also tried to put cold water on hot coals by saying that for the current financial year, a significant loss is expected.
This may well be the case, and General Manager David Beeby pinned this down to the fact that £3.7m of revenue has disappeared from the club overnight following the Iron's relegation from the Championship.
This is specifically designed to promote calm, and to minimise the calls and appetite for another round of spending from the football club in January. Although, with the club currently underachieving and sat in 17th place – something patently needs to be done.
But this very figure of evaporating revenue and expected loss as a result, is the club's greatest weakness.
As a result of just being in the Championship – the difference in payments from the League, (through TV rights etc), is a stonking £3.7m higher than when you're in League One.
And this figure doesn't even cover the decreased variable revenue the club will suffer from. Hard to judge before a season starts, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that: fewer home fans, fewer away fans, fewer season tickets, forcibly reduced ticket prices, less cash spent in the club shop, and less on refreshments – will not bode well for the club's finances.
So set the figure even higher. Saying it's cost us more than £4m is a fairly conservative estimate.
Appreciated that converting the Doncaster Road End to seating would have cost the club cash – but it would have been a price well worth paying: both morally and financially, for staying in the Championship.
Let's analyse the sale of Gary Hooper.
His sale almost certainly cost Scunthorpe United relegation. Even before we look at the substantial damage that the departures of Paul Hayes, Grant McCann or Matt Sparrow cost us – let's deal with Hoops. The Iron finished just 5 points, (and a worse goal difference), shy of Championship safety.
Are we really saying that the services of Gary Hooper wouldn't have earned the Iron another 6 points over the course of the season? Of course he would.
So – that's be an extra sizeable dollop of cash in the Iron's bank account for the coming financial year.. And alright, we might not have kept Adkins anyway: but if Hooper stays – then who knows, might Sparrow, McCann & Hayes too? And not at the increased wage offerings they received elsewhere?
And the financial analysis is flawed.
Because with Hooper there – you can chalk off the club having to sign another player with the fee & wages that come attached. Let alone the fact that 2 strikers came in on loan in February – as the club desperately tried to find some goals.
All for just telling Celtic to bugger off for 12 months.
And alright, his contract was up – but had he gone to a side in England: we'd have received a bumper fee off a tribunal anyway. And with another 15-20 goals in the Championship, the Premier League is where he's off. The SPL wouldn't be in his league.
And it's just not the same as cashing out £1m+ on players in the hope of a miracle. But honestly: we were dismantling the perfect system. And needlessly.
All for that message to the shareholders of a bumper profit.
But let's not hear that usual "the club must be a business" argument either. We're not Tesco's for christ's sake.
The club has so much more to give than that – and all the above measures would have ensured the club was financially sounder over the short and medium term anyway.
Nobody is asking to run into the red – but dancing throughout 7 figures of black with no long-term aim is ridiculous. And costly.
Whereas now, we're sat in the bottom 3rd of League One, set to make a considerable loss for the next year – and merely with our memories to console us of what might have been.
And all in the name of that whore prudence.
Penny wise – pound foolish. That's exactly what it is.
So anybody who's lucky enough to be attending the Shareholders' Annual General Meeting, (AGM), on Thursday December 8th, (7:00pm) – might want to bear this in mind.
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A slight miscommunication on what was going on with my card and billing. The return process wasn't made clear as I thought all I had to do was drop off keys. I thought I prepaid but actually they just put my card on hold. Had to go through an unknown online process and haven't been charged for what I owe $97. When I was told to pay I was confused and thought I was being double charged. So I refused the charges. I would like to pay my balance sooner than later. Outside of this confusion everything was terrific and made my move a lot easier.
The staff was very pleasant. However, I would not recommend this location to a friend because our final calculated mileage was 22 miles over what we drove. I am not planning to argue the bill because we do not have photo proof of the mileage before we started our trip. Lesson learned for next time.
I reserved a 17' trailer earlier in the week. Upon arrival, they said it wasn't available so my options were 15' or 20'. It ended up working out with the 15', although 17' would have been ideal. I expect to get what I asked for especially reserving it days in advance.
Not much, very friendly and helpful staff.
Carl's customer service far exceeded my expectations. He made the process quick, and was extremely thorough, and was clear with instruction. I would recommend this location to others!
Aside from new wiper blades, everything, service included, was outstanding. Thanks for coming through in a pinch.
Quick and efficient check out system. Very responsive to late minute changes.
Door to trailer was frozen, tough to open. Tough backing in to get hitched up; ice in front of trailer.
Don't change a thing. Smooth process. Helpful person.
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This was a great experience. The young man who helped us was friendly, quick, and knowledgeable. The trucks were clean and well maintained. Renting took only about 10 minutes! I will go back here anytime I need moving help!
The owner of this location is fantastic! He immediately makes you feel welcome and takes time to make sure you are comfortable with the truck before you leave. I would highly recommend for all rental needs!
It would have been nice to have been informed about the checkin process. I had to get in and out of the vehicle several times to complete the return process. Each time when I got out I locked the vehicle and returned to the key drop area only to find out that I needed to sit the parking brake, get pictures of fuel, mileage, and cleanliness, I liked the app and turning my truck in that way, but it was just very frustrating to go back and forth through the process late at night and very tired.
Friendly and helpful staff. We used the cargo van as our "tent" for the week-end....and boy were we grateful. We blew up a double aero mattress and stayed dry even through some terrific storms. I think you should advertise the advantage of a "tent" cargo van. Price is great, except for the extra high cost per mile. Rental car mileage is free.
I was to bring the truck back at 5/8 tank full. Impossible to hit this right on, and we all know that. I even questioned that when I picked it up and the man giggled and said "ya". So, I knew unless I was over substantially I was getting nailed. Great warm customer service feeling. Just have the trucks full and return full, much better customer experience, no guessing for anyone, clean and simple.
Everyone was Super friendly! I always use uhaul for my moves because of the price and the great customer service.
The owner gave wrong information. I asked if I can return the trailer early and he said yes even if the place is closed. He said to just leave the trailer there and the drop off place will get it the next day and that's it.


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Q: SQL Server group by just close value I have this table:
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nameA   1
nameA   2
nameA   3
nameB   4
nameB   5
nameB   6
nameA   7
nameA   8

and need this result:
name   startvalue endvalue
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nameA       1         3
nameB       4         6
nameA       7         8

A: This is called a gaps-and-islands problem.  You can solve it with a difference of row numbers:
select name, min(value), max(value)
from (select t.*,
             row_number() over (order by value) as seqnum,
             row_number() over (partition by name order by value) as seqnum_n
      from t
     ) t
group by name, (seqnum - seqnum_n);

The difference of row numbers finds adjacent names that are the same.  Why this works is a bit tricky to explain.  But, if you look at the results of the subquery, you'll see how the difference identifies adjacent rows with the same name.

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Cleostratus was een Griekse astronoom van het eiland Tenedos die leefde rond 500 v.Chr. Volgens de overlevering droeg hij bij aan de ontwikkeling van de kalender. De Romein Censorinus stelde dat de octaëteris door sommigen aan Cleostratus werd toegeschreven, maar door anderen aan Eudoxus. Dat was een maankalender met een cyclus van acht jaren. Volgens Plinius de Oudere bouwde hij voort op de inzichten van Anaximander en bepaalde hij voor het eerst de tekens in de dierenriem.

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 Censorinus, De die natali, 18, 5.
 Cleostratus, fragmenten.
 Heath, T. Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus. A History of Greek Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, blz. 291.
 Plinius, Naturalis historia, ii, c, 8, §31.

Oud-Grieks astronoom
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Kilian v. Ford
United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, Eastern Division
SCOTT KILIAN, Plaintiff,
TAMARA FORD, ET AL., Defendants.
ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT AND GRANTING LEAVE TO AMEND
JAMES D. TODD UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
On June 27, 2018, Plaintiff Scott Kilian and two other inmates, all of whom are incarcerated at the Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF) in Whiteville, Tennessee, filed a pro se complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (ECF No. 1.) Each Plaintiff also filed his own motion to proceed in forma pauperis. (ECF Nos. 2, 3 & 4.) The Court issued an order on September 26, 2018, that, inter alia, severed the Plaintiffs' claims and directed the Clerk to open separate cases for the other two Plaintiffs, granted Kilian leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and assessed him the civil filing fee pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(a)-(b). (ECF No. 6.) The Clerk shall record the Defendants as the former WCF Warden, Tamara Ford;[1] Rosheda White, Unit Manager; and First Name Unknown (FNU) Cleaves, Unit Counselor.
Kilian alleges that the WCF no longer has a "protective custody pod" and instead has instituted a new policy, under which inmates seeking protective custody must refuse their cell assignment, receive a disciplinary write up, and transfer to the "refuse cell assignment pod." (ECF No. 1 at PageID 2.) The designated "refuse cell assignment pod, " according to Kilian, is in I-Unit. (Id.) On April 1, 2018, WCF officials allegedly announced that I-Unit would be an open, general population pod. (Id.) Kilian alleges that the Defendants told the inmates that "all of 'you scared motherfuckers will just need to learn how to fight, because CCA is apparently tired of protecting y'alls asses.'"[2] (Id. at PageID 2, 4.) Kilian alleges that he is housed in segregation because he previously was assaulted by gangs. (Id. at PageID 4.) When he grieved the assault, he was told to "check in to P.C., " which is the protective custody unit that no longer exists at the WCF. (Id.) Kilian claims that in I-Unit, the televisions have been stolen, inmates are assaulted daily, violent prisoners sneak in to attack I-Unit inmates, and black mold grows on the walls. (Id.) Kilian alleges he showed Counselor Cleaves the mold and grieved the issue to White and Ford but was told simply to "wash it off or something." (Id. at PageID 5.)
Kilian seeks a permanent injunction "to ensure that the Whiteville Correctional Facility has an active, running, operational, and secure protective custody segregations housing unit." (Id. at PageID 6.) He wants full access to media, disciplinary action taken against the Defendants, removal of all black mold from the cells, and $10, 000 in compensatory damages. (Id.)
The Court is required to screen prisoner complaints and to dismiss any complaint, or any portion thereof, if the complaint__
(1) is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted; or
(2) seeks monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief.
28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b); see also 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B).
In assessing whether the complaint in this case states a claim on which relief may be granted, the standards under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), as stated in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 677-79 (2009), and in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555-57 (2007), are applied. Hill v. Lappin, 630 F.3d 468, 470-71 (6th Cir. 2010). The Court accepts the complaint's "well-pleaded" factual allegations as true and then determines whether the allegations "plausibly suggest an entitlement to relief.'" Williams v. Curtin, 631 F.3d 380, 383 (6th Cir. 2011) (quoting Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 681). Conclusory allegations "are not entitled to the assumption of truth, " and legal conclusions "must be supported by factual allegations." Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679. Although a complaint need only contain "a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief, " Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2), Rule 8 nevertheless requires factual allegations to make a "'showing,' rather than a blanket assertion, of entitlement to relief." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555 n.3.
"Pro se complaints are to be held 'to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers,' and should therefore be liberally construed." Williams, 631 F.3d at 383 (quoting Martin v. Overton, 391 F.3d 710, 712 (6th Cir. 2004)). Pro se litigants, however, are not exempt from the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Wells v. Brown, 891 F.2d 591, 594 (6th Cir. 1989); see also Brown v. Matauszak, 415 Fed.Appx. 608, 612, 613 (6th Cir. Jan. 31, 2011) (affirming dismissal of pro se complaint for failure to comply with "unique pleading requirements" and stating "a court cannot 'create a claim which [a plaintiff] has not spelled out in his pleading'" (quoting Clark v. Nat'l Travelers Life Ins. Co., 518 F.2d 1167, 1169 (6th Cir. 1975))).
Kilian filed his complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which provides:
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress . . . .
To state a claim under § 1983, a plaintiff must allege two elements: (1) a deprivation of rights secured by the "Constitution and laws" of the United States (2) committed by a defendant acting under color of state law. Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Co., 398 U.S. 144, 150 (1970).
         To the extent Kilian sues the Defendants in their official capacities, his claims are against CoreCivic, which manages the WCF. "A private corporation that performs the traditional state function of operating a prison acts under color of state law for purposes of § 1983." Thomas v. Coble, 55 Fed.Appx. 748, 748 (6th Cir. 2003) (citing Street v. Corr. Corp. of Am., 102 F.3d 810, 814 (6th Cir. 1996)). The Sixth Circuit has applied the standards for assessing municipal liability to claims against private corporations that operate prisons or provide medical care or food services to prisoners. Id. at 748-49; Street, 102 F.3d at 817-18; Johnson v. Corr. Corp. of Am., 26 Fed.Appx. 386, 388 (6th Cir. 2001); see also Eads v. State of Tenn., No. 1:18-cv-00042, 2018 WL 4283030, at *9 (M.D. Tenn. Sept. 7, 2018). To prevail on a § 1983 claim against CoreCivic, ...