I made it to the couch today! Yesterday I encircled and scrutinized the curvaceous crimson sectional several times, a bit unsteady, all the while trying to reconcile my personal vision of my recuperation–me all cozy on the couch in front of the fire reading and sipping ginger ale on ice, while the family bustles around me baking and cooking in the kitchen, busying themselves with holiday projects–with the realization that the couch was too low for me to sit on, not a comfortable chair was anywhere in sight and navigating the narrow passageways on my crutches between the couch and the Christmas tree, the coffee table and the couch, over computer chords and the like, even without medication, would be dangerous! I was facing the possibility of spending my recuperation holiday in my bedroom alone where the temperature seemed to grow colder as the fire in the living room grew warmer.
This morning I knew as soon as I moved from the bed to my crutches that my body had healed just a little bit more through the night. I felt lighter and moved more fluidly, as fluid as one can on meds and in skin-tight support stockings. I know that my nursing care–my husband John–has a lot to do with my comfort and progress. He has been my nurse, keeping track of my medication and administering it too, including daily shots in my stomach, my physical therapist, making sure I go through all of my exercises and moving my leg for me when I can't, a parent, stroking my hair and cooing kinds words when I need them and a husband, the kind of person who looks at me with love as he kindly makes sure I am safe and have everything I need for my first shower in five days. Bliss. So now I am on the sofa, tucked in a corner of this giant, plush red nest that our family of four plus Weenie, our cat, fits on quite comfortably. The room is warmed by the fireplace and I'm getting ready to doze some more, wondering what tomorrows healing will bring.
Emerging from this drug induced haze, malaise, apathetic daze, it's hard to want to do anything. Today I had a severe reaction to what I can only guess was caused by pain medication, Oxycodone to be exact. I'm not a medicine consumer. I had two natural childbirths and one of them in my own home and although I'll take a sleep aid once or twice a year, ibuprofen is my drug of choice. So I was surprised to find myself covered in welts, looking like an avatar with the corners of my eyes and the bridge of my nose appearing as one facial feature, and itching uncontrollably, after scaling down my oxycodone intake to only two small pills at bedtime. Now it is after two in the morning and sleep eludes me. I am twelve days into my recovery after having a faulty artificial hip removed from my body in a revision surgery and replaced with a hopefully better model, and I'm angry.
Ironically the hip and site of the operation itself is not bothering me as much as a strange patch located just above my left knee on my quadriceps muscle. It is a site for searing pain that appears as fire, daggers and heat when I move my leg a certain way. Nerve pain. It causes blood-curdling, uncontrollable screams when it happens. I let one out at the medical center today after the nurse and my husband tried to get me off a ridiculously high examining table I had no business being on. I somehow managed to get on it without screaming. After several attempts at inserting an IV unsuccessfully, which required another nurse to give it a try, then lying for what seemed like an eternity on this sketchy, antiquated piece of medical hardware that was obviously not functioning, the contents of the IV dripping agonizingly slow, me completely uncomfortable, when it was time to be released, I couldn't get off the table. All efforts to assist me were unsuccessful. I let out a good one. The nurse had no idea what to do and ended up leaving the room to let my husband and me deal with it. Soon we were walking, me hobbling along on crutches, out the door with the entire staff just looking at us as we exited their torture chamber. I guess blood curdling screams are not uncommon there. It did not really seem to faze anyone and to be honest, once the pain subsided, I kind of liked the feeling of this unbridled, wild and scary sound coming out of me.
This entire journey from my first hip replacement surgery until today has been almost ten years. I was only 42 when I received my first hip replacement. The trauma and the drama around the recall, physical damage and physical and financial aftermath consumed the entirety of my forties. What should have been some of my best and vibrant years. Today I am 51. The damages I sustained from the second surgery have left me with a partially paralyzed left leg. I have to pick it up with my hands to put my shoes and socks on. I live with chronic nerve pain and hip joint pain that I manage with ibuprofen. With that said, I can walk and I can bike. I also recently became a certified yoga instructor, and although many of the postures are unavailable to me, I have a strong practice that I share with other people who have physical limitations and who are searching for a way to move their bodies as best they can.
Disclaimer: This narrative is not intended to represent any specific person or specific product. Names and details have been changed.


Spring is in the air, and streets of Barcelona are waking up after winter. March in the capital of Catalonia is full of events offering something to everyone.
On Friday 3rd March in Vila de Gracia neighborhood is Sant Medir festival, also called "the sweetest festival" because every year around 60 tons of sweets is given away to the kids. In the Sant Medir parade will be some 120 horses and 26 different parade groups taking part.
The parade will start from the crossing of Carrer de San Salvador and Gran de Gràcia at 8pm in the evening. More information here.
Until 12th of March in Teatro Tívoli is possible to see a musical based on the famous story of Dirty Dancing. In the summer of 1963 a teenage girl finds herself on a boring family holiday in the mountains outside of New York. During a party at the hotel she meets a dance teacher, and that changes everything. Dirty Dancing is delicately done musical with live music and talented dancers.
You can buy tickets from here.
The Museu Egipci in Barcelona is presenting a new travelling exhibition about the Sacred Animals in Ancient Egypt. During the reign of the Pharaohs animals had a central role in the cultural and religious field, and this exhibition presents their use as pets or hunting preys, economic resources, and cultural expressions like designs of divine images. The most interesting part of the exhibition is presentation about tomography's made of six animal mummies preserved in the museum.
El Rastro de la Virgen is organized the first Saturday of every month. From here you can find vintage clothes, books, music, crafts and so on.
Location of the event is Carrer de la Verge 10 in El Raval neighborhood, and it's going on from 12pm to 8pm.
Sunday 5th March at L'Ovella Negra in Poblenou neighborhood is held Two Market Barcelona second hand market. Everything is sold with one euro!
The market is open from 10am until 5pm.
First Sunday of every month in Filmoteca de Catalunya in El Raval neighborhood is Fleadonia market. There's sold design and vintage clothes, art, handmade goods, as well as plenty of different bargains.
Fleadonia opens at 11am in the morning and it's going on until 8pm in the evening.
Slow Food organization is organizing together with Earth Market the Mercat de la Terra food market in Poble-Sec neighborhood, next to Paral·lel metro. The slogan of Slow Food is "good, clean and fair" and from this food market you will find ethical trading, tasty and good quality food, tapas tasting, cooking workshops and even a kid's area for the small ones of the family.
Mercat de la Terra is organized every Saturday from 10am until 4pm.
On Wednesday 8th of March FC Barcelona plays against Paris Saint-Germain on Camp Nou stadium. FC Barcelona have to play a good game after losing 0-4 to PSG in Paris in the first leg.
From here you can buy tickets.
The FC Barcelona is having a busy March. On Wednesday 1st the team plays against Sporting, on Saturday 4th against Celta, and Wednesday 19th against Valencia. All three matches are played on Camp Nou stadium.
You can buy tickets to the matches here.
Thursday 23rd of March is Festes de Sant Josep Oriol in Barrio Gótico neighborhood. The festival is celebrated in honor of Saint Joseph Oriol who was born and lived in the old city of Barcelona in the 17th century. At Plaza del Pi and Placa Sant Josep Oriol where the festivity is organized you can see many Catalan traditions, as gegants, parades and dances.
In the end of March during the weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th is Barcelona Beer Festival. At the festival you can choose from around 450 different craft artisan beers from Spain and abroad. This year the Beer Festival is organized a little bit outside Barcelona, in La Farga de Hospitalet area. It's easy to reach with the metro, train and buses.
From here you can read more information.
Planning to travel to Barcelona in March, and all but an apartment is already reserved? Habitat Apartments offers a wide variety of fully equipped apartments all around the city of Barcelona. Have a look for example on this beautiful apartment, where sleeps comfortable five persons. The apartment is located in the exclusive Eixample neighborhood.
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Image Comics' new Skybound imprint has a hot commodity under its wing in Witch Doctor artist Lukas Ketner. You know the way you can look at a piece of Tony Millionaire artwork and feel like you could be seeing something that was drawn more than a hundred years ago? Ketner can muster up that same deceptive appearance, and when he applies it to a young William Shatner clutching a lollipop or the Lorax, well, things get intense.Ketner's gorgeous illustrations, comics and cartoons can often be found in Portland's Willamette Week, as well as on LukasKetner.blogspot.com. His rich line work and whimsical approach to his subjects has a slightly Victorian feel to it and rolls with a smoothness akin to the style of Craig Thompson.


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Geopolitics: Vladimir Putin blew through Latin America last week, handing out goodies to anti-U.S. regimes. But he insists he doesn't want to reopen an old spy base in Cuba, which we find disingenuous.
The scope of the Russian president's visit took the U.S. by surprise. Instead of just attending the World Cup final and a summit of BRICS countries, Putin made an unexpected visit to Nicaragua, with talk of a military land base there. He then flew to Argentina, reportedly with promises for two nuclear plants, and on to Venezuela to offer a credit lifeline.
Last but not least, Putin stopped in Cuba to sign deals on everything from electricity output to exploration for oil with Rosneft (the company whose unsavory oligarch, Igor Sechin, was the target of Wednesday's sanctions over Ukraine). There was also a dramatic announcement that Russia would forgive 90% of Cuba's $35 billion debt.
But on Thursday, Putin denied that Russia planned to rebuild a spy outpost in Lourdes, a Havana suburb that was a major Soviet listening post on the U.S. in the Cold War.
For the region's most anti-U.S. regimes, Putin's trip was a visit from the candyman. But all those handouts don't come from the goodness of his heart.
Fact is, Russia knows very well what the stakes are in the greater Caribbean, or the U.S.' "near abroad" as the Russians call it.
And geography is key, argues historian and geographer Robert D. Kaplan. The greater Caribbean, he argues, is the source and key to America's global rise, beginning with the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that cut out Europe's colonizers as players in the area.
"Rather than seek to keep European navies out of the Caribbean altogether, President Monroe sought only to keep them from reestablishing footholds on land in the regime," Kaplan says in "Asia's Cauldron," describing China's similar policy in the South China Sea. "The Monroe Doctrine was far more subtle than commonly supposed."
Kaplan believes that once the U.S. focused on the greater Caribbean, it was in a position to build the Panama Canal by 1914. With new territories won from Spain after the 1898 Spanish-American War, the U.S. became a two-ocean global power.
Russia knows this, which explains its keen interest in shoring up Caribbean ties with impoverished local despots. It has been playing this game since the 1980s, as U.S. defense documents show.
The idea is to strike America at its historic source of strength, as well as its critical economic power point. No wonder Russia wanted a spy base, as reported by Kommersant, a newspaper Putin frequently fights.
The Gulf of Mexico's economic importance cannot be overestimated. Every port on its seaboard has been expanding ahead of the Panama Canal widening, a $5.2 billion project that will double trade and traffic. Already 14,000 ships pass through its locks annually, and 60% involve trade with the U.S.
What an advantage for Russia to have an outpost in the Caribbean. Putin also knows a lot about timing, and with U.S. defense cuts that included a 26% cut in the Southern Command's fiscal 2013 operating budget, it's clear he sees the U.S. as disengaged — creating the perfect opportunity to act now.
"We should remember that our friends and allies are not the only ones watching our actions closely," testified Southern Command commander Gen. John Kelly last March. America's enemies "will have the opportunity to exploit the partnership vacuum left by reduced military engagement."
Based on his recent visit, Putin heard that loud and clear.
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President Muhammadu Buhari receives the newly elected Senate President Senator Lawan Ahmed and Deputy Senate President Senator Ovie Omo-Agege at the Residence State House in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. JUNE 11 2019
PROFILE: Omo-Agege, alleged mace snatcher who emerged deputy Senate president
byQueenEsther Iroanusi
Although he never officially declared his ambition for the position of deputy senate president, Ovie Omo-Agege was endorsed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the position.
According to the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC, the decision to endorse the Delta Central senator was sequel to wide consultations with President Muhammadu Buhari as well as the party 'stakeholders', including APC governors.
He contested for the position alongside former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He emerged victorious after polling 68 votes to win his contender who garnered 37 votes in the secret ballot election held at the Senate chamber.
Mr Omo-Agege is now the deputy Senate president of the ninth assembly.
The 55-year-old politician, lawyer and businessman, was declared the winner of the Delta Central Senatorial District in the February National Assembly elections.
The Returning Officer in the District, from the University of Benin, Godfrey Ariavie, declared him the winner of the election after he polled 111,100 votes to defeat his closest rival, Evelyn Oboro of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 99,422 votes.
Early life, education
Mr Omo-Agege was born on August 3, 1963, to Justice James Omo-Agege. He is a native of Orogun, Ughelli North Local Government Area and studied at St. George's Grammar School, Obinomba near Obiaruku in Delta State.
Mr Omo-Agege studied Law at the University of Benin and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1986 after he completed the professional training program at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.
He did his national youth service as an attorney at the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence at the Nigerian Police Force in Ilorin, Kwara state between 1987 and 1988.
He also obtained a master's of law degree from Tulane University Law School, New Orleans in 2002. He has practiced law both in Nigeria and the United States of America.
After his NYSC, the lawmaker began his legal career with PAT OKUPA & CO, Law firm in Lagos. After that, he co-founded Agege & Co in 1989, a private practice with an emphasis on corporate banking and commercial litigation matters.
In 1990, he moved to the United States of America (USA) where he became a foreign associate in the law office of Charles O. Agege in Los Angeles, California and 1992, he was admitted into the State Bar of California, United States District Court (Central District of California) and the United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC.
Mr Omo-Agege founded Agege & Associates in 1992 and by 1996, the firm merged into a partnership known as the AGEGE & ESIN and extended its scope of activities to include international wire transfers, insurance, professional malpractice, suits against foreign entities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA) and Domestic International Commercial arbitration, admiralty and marine litigation practices, and extensive criminal defense litigation.
He also enrolled as a student in the postgraduate law degree program at Tulane University Law School, New Orleans and obtained the LLM (Masters of Law) degree with distinction in 2002.
He began his political career in 2002 when he contested the PDP's primaries of the Ughelli Federal Constituency for the House of Representatives, which he lost.
He was appointed executive assistant to the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, in 2003. He also acted as the chief liaison officer at the PDP national headquarters and Presidency relations.
In 2005, Governor Ibori elevated him to Commissioner for Special Duties and was made to oversee the privatisation programme of the state government thereby supervising the privatisation of African Timber and Plywood in Sapele.
He contested for the office of the governor of the state but lost to Emmanuel Uduaghan. He was appointed Secretary to the State Government of the state in 2007.
Mr Omo-Agege ran for Senate in 2015 under the platform of the Labour Party and won. He defected from the Labour Party to the APC in March 2017.
Under his new party, he contested for a second term in the Senate in the March National Assembly elections and was reelected to represent Delta Central Senatorial District.
Courting controversies
It was, however, not a rosy first term for the senator. Being a vocal senator and an ardent supporter of President Buhari, Mr Omo-Agege landed in trouble several times during his first tenure.
In February, he accused his colleagues of working against Mr Buhari by adopting the amendment to section 25 of the electoral act outlining a change in the sequence of elections.
"For some of you who are familiar with what transpired in the House of Reps, only 36 members were on the floor when this so-called amendment to section 25 of the Electoral Act was introduced.
"The position we took is that 36 people cannot determine the destiny of 360 people in the House (of Reps), which is now being carried over to 109 in the Senate. The least we are owed is for this so-called amendment to be deliberated upon and our rule is clear.
"We have 59 senators who are opposed to the inclusion of section 25 of the Electoral Act. If that division were allowed today, 59 senators would have voted to delete that purported amendment to section 25. You don't make a law targeted at one person. The perception out there is that this section 25 was included to target Mr President," he said then.
A week after, Kogi senator, Dino Melaye, drew the attention of the Senate to the comments made by Mr Omo-Agege and the matter was referred to the committee on ethics and privileges to investigate.
Although he later apologised, Mr Omo-Agege was suspended for accusing his colleagues of working against President Buhari's re-election plans in 2019.
The chairman of the committee, Sam Anyanwu, had recommended 181 days of suspension. He said the punishment was imperative because the senator took the issue to court after it was referred to the committee.
The days of suspension were however reduced to 90 after pleas by Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The Federal High Court in Abuja later nullified the lawmaker's suspension.
Mace theft
In April 2018, a group of thugs allegedly led by Mr Omo-Agege forced their way into the Senate chamber during plenary and carted away the mace.
The lawmaker was later arrested by the police after he returned to the Senate chamber following the theft. He, however, denied leading the hoodlums into the upper chamber and having any involvement in the incident.
For this reason, a joint ad hoc committee was set up to investigate the Senate invasion and mace theft. The committee had summoned the lawmaker, alongside another senator, Ali Ndume, for allegedly aiding the hoodlums.
Although he appeared before the investigative panel, Mr Omo-Agege refused to answer questions.
He told the panel that he had filed a court order restraining the public hearing and that speaking about his role will only amount to subjudice.
The ad hoc committee recommended that the lawmaker be suspended for 180 legislative days. It also called for the immediate prosecution of Mr Omo-Agege and six other suspects on charges of treasonable felony, assault occasioning harm, conspiracy to steal and theft of the mace.
Besides being vocal on the floor of the Senate, the Delta senator was also a strong critic of Mr Saraki and a few other members of the opposition party.
From the moment he was queried for accusing his colleagues of working against the president, it became a battle between the lawmaker and Mr Saraki.
Mr Omo-Agege dismissed the resolution of the ad hoc committee. He also attacked Mr Saraki for his alleged role in the illegal suspension. He also went short of calling Mr Saraki a tyrant over how he ran the chamber.
In another verbal attack, he asked Mr Saraki to resign, or be forced out.
In one of his many responses, Mr Saraki described Mr Omo-Agege as a threat to democracy.
Mr Omo-Agege did not limit his feud to the former Senate president alone. He attacked lawmakers of the opposition party. One of such is Rafiu Ibrahim, whom he had called Saraki's puppet.
Mr Omo-Agege has now been elected as Deputy Senate President of the ninth assembly and analysts say this may signal a 'payback time' if indeed the controversial senator is one who does not forget wrongs done against him.
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After teaching ESL for twelve years, I felt like a new challenge.
My school was struggling to hire ESL Business teachers, so I volunteered. I'm not trained in business or economics, but I found that a few hours' research equipped me sufficiently to guide ESL students through the most important topics. Ultimately, it's just another subject area, like the weather, or sports, or family life, and if you're looking for a fresh challenge, I encourage you to give it a try.
Such a crisis is almost certain to happen again; when it does, your students will much better understand why.
Demand for housing in the US peaked in 2006. To ensure continued homeowner borrowing, and to expand their loan portfolios, banks took the risk of offering mortgages to families who could barely afford them. These are called 'sub-prime' mortgages because the borrowers were not very secure financially. The banks often required no down-payment and offered very attractive initial repayment conditions (0% interest, repayment 'holidays' etc).
Once the mortgages were agreed with the new homeowners, the banks packaged together thousands of the mortgages and re-sold them to other banks.
Those packages were given very high grades by the ratings agencies. They were seen as safe, dependable investments, and so banks and financial institutions invested billions in acquiring them.
This success encouraged banks to sell yet more 'sub-prime' mortgages to poorer families. But when repackaging them and selling them to other banks, they also passed on the risk.
Continuous repackaging of these much sought-after investments resulted in the less dependable mortgages being mixed with others; soon, it was very unclear how safe an investment truly was, but the ratings agencies continued to assess the products at AAA, their highest rating.
Once the initial, favorable repayment conditions expired, many poor families were unable to pay their high monthly mortgage premiums. They defaulted on their mortgages, often leading to foreclosure and eviction.
The lending bank was therefore left with only a repossessed home of questionable value, and not the long-term security of a monthly mortgage payment receipts.
This destroyed the value of the repackaged mortgage investments the banks had made, leaving them with billions of dollars in useless, toxic assets.
With so much red on their ledger, the banks quickly ran out of cash and were unable to pay their own debts; this is the very definition of bankruptcy. Several major banks collapsed.
The US and other governments stepped in and bailed out the failing banks to avoid a worsening of the financial catastrophe.
Although many of your younger students' parents will have a mortgage, they may never have discussed this as a family. Ask them to find examples of mortgage rates for homes in your area, or their home country. Do some math together to see how much more they would pay for a local house, over the thirty-year period of a mortgage, than if they were able to buy it in cash, outright. Ask them to consider the monthly mortgage payments as a portion of local average income in different parts of the world. Look at rates of eviction and foreclosure, and perhaps read about families who have gone through this difficult period, and how they dealt with it.
This is the reorganizing of a financial product (a loan or investment) so that it can be sold to someone else. Mortgages are a good example; they were bundled together and sold as a single financial instrument known as a Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS). Once homeowners began defaulting on their mortgage payments, it was the falling value of these products which was a major cause of the crisis.
Have your students search for securities they could buy, if they had money to invest. Ask them to list different types of securities and to note down today's prices. They might read reviews of the different brokerage firms which could help them buy securities, and note the differences between a full-service broker and a discount broker.
This might also be a good time to consider what kind of investor your students would like to be. Would they choose the route of the trader, making quick and incisive buy-and-sell decisions based on small fluctuations in the market price, or would they play the waiting game as a buy-and-hold investor, waiting for months and years to make their moves? What are the impacts of each behavior on the market?
Several for-profit companies provide assessments of the health and viability of financial products. This is an important service for investors, who use this data to decide their business strategies. However, the agencies' opinions are often influenced by the large fees they gain from rating these investments, and in the 2008 crisis, they were found to have knowingly given their highest rating to unreliable, poor-quality investments.
Ask your students to find examples of ratings agencies (Moodys, Standard and Poor, etc) and learn a little about the work they do. What is required for an investment to receive an AAA rating? What are the implications if it receives a lower rating? At the time of writing (February 2016), the US presidential race is in full swing, and Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders has proposed making the ratings agencies non-profit; what might this mean?
An investment which initially looks favorable, but then collapses in value, is said to have become 'toxic'. It cannot reasonably be sold because it has a value dramatically less than its initial purchase price. An example – and an important side note – is the issue of positive and negative equity.
Imagine that you buy an apartment for $200,000. You're able to put together $20,000 as a down-payment, so you borrow $180,000 from the bank. You work hard every day and are able to meet the mortgage payments each month. Your neighborhood is green and pleasant, with excellent schools, and so local house prices rise, year on year. After ten years, you've managed to pay down $140,000 of your mortgage, and your apartment is worth $100,000 more than you paid for it.
This is all great news! To find out how great it is, take the value of your apartment ($300,000) and subtract the value of your remaining debt ($40,000 of the mortgage, plus interest of $54,000 (3% APR over ten years), so $94,000 in total) and you have a wonderful and reassuring $206,000 in positive equity. It's another way of saying that your house is worth much more than the value of the debt relating to it. Feel free to buy a new Mercedes, hire a tutor for the kids, and take a vacation.
Now, imagine that you bought the same apartment, with the same down-payment, but things don't go so well. You lose your job and have to restructure your mortgage payments. You're barely able to keep up with the 3% interest, so the value of your debt remains almost the same. Your neighborhood suffers a crime wave, and then a nuclear power station is built next door. The value of your apartment drops, while the value of your debt does not. This is called negative equity. If you sold your house tomorrow, the sale price wouldn't even be enough to pay off your mortgage, and anyway it would be next-to-impossible to sell your apartment because of its terrible location. Your apartment has become a toxic asset.
I've found that it's sufficient to have my students prepare to teach the issue of positive and negative equity to the uninitiated; being able to concisely explain a complex topic to someone is my main criteria when deciding whether I fully understand it.
In the 19th century, British Prime Minister William Pitt practiced "laissez faire economics". His government created a framework within which business could thrive, but Pitt would never tinker in the day-to-day running of the economy. This proved popular and successful, but today, governments are more closely linked than ever before to business communities and to the economic issues of the day.
One of the best examples of this is the bailouts which followed the 2008 crisis. Through acts of Congress, billions of dollars of public money (much of it borrowed, incidentally, from the Federal Reserve, thereby increasing the US national debt) were funneled into failing financial institutions so that they could keep the lights on, pay their employees and, most importantly, meet their own debt obligations; without this last element, they would have been forced to declare bankruptcy, with potentially catastrophic knock-on effects.
Have your students research these massive investments of public money. How much was invested? Where did it go? What was the public reaction? What could have happened if the bailout had not been approved by congress? Would your students have consented to a bank bailout, in the same situation, or would they have simply let the struggling banks fail?
Discussions on this point can reveal much about your students' attitudes to economics, and particularly the notion of 'economic Darwinism'. Should private companies receive expensive public support when their problems are of their own making? By bailing out large, previously successful banks, is government undermining one of the chief tenets of capitalism? What returns on this investment should the public demand? I've had some truly fascinating discussions with my upper-intermediate and advanced business students on these topics.
I spent a whole week on this one topic with my afternoon ESL business class, so we dedicated over ten hours of class time to understanding the 2008 crisis. We all agreed that this was time well spent. The topics raised have general application in understanding economics, and the moral issues are well worth extended discussion, particularly the behavior of the ratings agencies, the willful mis-selling of mortgages, the paucity of government regulation, and the use of public money to bail out failing banks.
Produce a fact sheet, boiling down the causes of the crisis as concisely as possible.
Write a fake Investopedia.com entry on securities. Go into detail if needed, and discuss mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) and the surreal financial netherworld of the Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO).
Have your students write the personal journal of a bank CEO during the peak days of the crisis. The CEO understands perfectly well that the writing is on the wall, but is trying to delay the inevitable. What's going through their mind during these heady few days? I particularly enjoyed this one, as it brings in a creative element found all too seldom in ESL business lessons.
Write the script (either in sketch or more fully) for a BBC Hardtalk interview in which a business journalist grills a bank representative, a congressman, or a CEO from one of the ratings agencies about their behavior during the crisis.
Have your students draft new regulation to ensure that the 2008 crisis cannot be repeated. They'll want to refer to the US Banking Act of 1933 (referred to as the Glass-Steagall act), the overturning of which in 1999 led directly to the practice of banks irresponsibly gambling with their customers' money.
There's a lot to cover, and you'll probably need reinforcements. Happily, there are numerous high-quality documentaries available, often online and for free. Inside Job (2010) is excellent, and features the familiar tones of Matt Damon as its narrator; there's a good summary of some other films here.
Investopedia and Wikipedia present the relevant information on each concept at just about the right level for a layman. If you have friends in the financial industry, they may be able to offer additional insight.
With surprisingly little research, plenty of notes, and some careful planning, you'll be able to pull together this information into an engaging mini-course.
It might sound like there's a lot of preparatory work, but I'm living proof that you don't need to be a business professional to teach useful and enjoyable ESL business classes. I really enjoyed the process of learning about these phenomena, and teaching this topic has informed my own view of economics and politics in ways I wouldn't be without.


Pokémon Contests are Competitions that Coordinators train and enter win the contests and get ribbons. There are two main characters that are Coordinators: Dawn travels with Ash in Sinnoh and May who travels with Ash in Hoenn . The Judges are Contesta, Sukizo, and Nurse Joy.
Contests can be held under a Single Performance or Double Performance rule.
The first round involves the Coordinator appealing with his or her Pokémon to demonstrate its moves. During the appeal, the judges, usually Contesta, Sukizo, and a Nurse Joy, score the Coordinator. People with the highest scores proceed to the next round. The amount of people varies for every Contest.
In the second round, The Coordinators battle with others to beat each other and get rated by the judges to see how graceful the Pokémon did. Example: A Snorlax would most likely not win because it is not very graceful. The battle ends when the five minutes pass and the Coordinator that has the least of the circle loses. And before the time ends, if the circle is out before the five minutes is up the one with the circle out first loses.
In the Grand Festival, the Coordinators have to have five ribbons, which means they have to win five contests. Dawn makes it to the Grand festival but loses to Zoey in the final match. In the Grand Festival Fantina is the new Judge with the other three.
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On Saturday afternoon, some of the local authors got together for a public author reading at Social Ground Coffeehouse, a cozy café located in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
I have a number of events planned over the next several months, including a writers' conference, writers' retreat, and future readings from Beyond the Precipice (about the story).
The chapter near the end of the novel entitled "No Way Out" (pg. 307-308 of the paperback) is briefly set in Sherwood Park. For my author reading, though, I read from "Starfighter," which is an excerpt of Bret's songwriting process.
Bret raised his arms to the wind, let it rush at him and around him, feeling its living power.
Author Mandy Eve-Barnett & yours truly.
Here are two of us during the reading. Author Mandy Eve-Barnett recently released her YA adventure, Clickety-Click. You can read more about Mandy in my interview and in her Words in the Park (2016) blog post, the event at which Clickety-Click made its debut.
Our books are published by Linda J. Pedley of Dream Write Publishing. Authors maintain long-term relationships with Linda. DWP was incorporated in 2010 and has published at least 80 books, with more currently in production. Linda's list of authors continues to grow exponentially. I had to secure my spots for Ironclad and Druyan nearly two months ago to get the books out by October 2017.
Linda Pedley is one of the six founding members of the Writers Foundation of Strathcona County (WFSC), incorporated in 2005. Recently, she was nominated and chosen as a Canada 150 Community Leader for the 150th anniversary of Confederation (2017).
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How COOL it must be to hold your own book in your hands. Boy, am I looking forward to that. Gotta keep working though!
It's very cool, actually. Waited a long time for that. The hardest work I ever loved.
You'll get there, JJ, especially since you write so well.


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Count Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others.
At the end of 1936, Basie and his band, now billed as "Count Basie and His Barons of Rhythm," moved from Kansas City to Chicago, where they honed their repertoire at a long engagement at the Grand Terrace Ballroom. Right from the start, Basie's band was noted for its rhythm section. Another Basie innovation was the use of two tenor saxophone players; at the time, most bands had just one. When Young complained of Herschel Evans' vibrato, Basie placed them on either side of the alto players, and soon had the tenor players engaged in "duels". Many other bands later adapted the split tenor arrangement.
In that city in October 1936, the band had a recording session which the producer John Hammond later described as "the only perfect, completely perfect recording session I've ever had anything to do with". Hammond had heard Basie's band by radio and went to Kansas City to check them out. He invited them to record, in performances which were Lester Young's earliest recordings. Those four sides were released on Vocalion Records under the band name of Jones-Smith Incorporated; the sides were "Shoe Shine Boy", "Evening", "Boogie Woogie", and "Lady Be Good". After Vocalion became a subsidiary of Columbia Records in 1938, "Boogie Woogie" was released in 1941 as part of a four-record compilation album entitled Boogie Woogie. When he made the Vocalion recordings, Basie had already signed with Decca Records, but did not have his first recording session with them until January 1937.
By then, Basie's sound was characterized by a "jumping" beat and the contrapuntal accents of his own piano. His personnel around 1937 included: Lester Young and Herschel Evans (tenor sax), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), Walter Page (bass), Earle Warren (alto sax), Buck Clayton and Harry Edison (trumpet), Benny Morton and Dickie Wells (trombone). Lester Young, known as "Prez" by the band, came up with nicknames for all the other band members. He called Basie "Holy Man", "Holy Main", and just plain "Holy".
Basie favored blues, and he would showcase some of the most notable blues singers of the era after he went to New York: Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, Helen Humes, and Joe Williams. He also hired arrangers who knew how to maximize the band's abilities, such as Eddie Durham and Jimmy Mundy.
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EYDE COMPANY PLANS A NEW HORIZON FOR OLIVER TOWERS
Most people may see a high-rise eyesore when looking at downtown Lansing's vacant Oliver Towers, but the Eyde family saw something more: potential and rebirth.
"I think what we saw was something that could have been, or should have been, and will be an asset to the city that had been sitting [around] majorly unused," said Mark Clouse, chief financial officer and general counsel for the Eyde Company, of the eight-story building at 310 N. Seymour Ave. "And we thought that there needed to be a reuse of that building." The family-run Eyde Company (Eyde) plans to invest $8 million to rehabilitate the former senior-citizen housing complex — damaged and left largely abandoned since 2000 due to a fire — into a hip, modern host of micro-style apartments with first-floor retail space, adding a contemporary, European-style option for downtown residents.
"This project will transform a blighted, burned out building in the heart of our downtown into a new residential development," outgoing Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero said in a prepared statement. "With its proximity to the campus of Lansing Community College and the state Capitol, Oliver Towers will be an asset that brings people downtown to live, work and play."
It's not the first time the Eyde family has looked to restore a downtown landmark. The former Knapp's department store building was renovated into the Knapp's Centre, which now houses the Eyde Company's headquarters and fellow tenants. The Eyde family also has plans for the former Lansing State Journal building. "[Knapp's] was obviously a building where many people thought the wrecking ball should have been the next step … we thought that wasn't the right step to take. Where it takes more time and energy and, certainly, the cooperation of many people and many divisions of the government — sometimes it's much better off to reuse and restore rather than tear down," Clouse said.
So when it came to Oliver Towers, "We saw that building as an opportunity," Clouse said. "It certainly isn't old enough to be historic, but it is old enough to have some history in the city, and we also think there is a shortage of Class A, residential spaces downtown. We also think there is a need for smaller units for young professionals who can afford to live there, want to live there and [want to] be active in downtown Lansing."
Many of the project's 103 studio and one-bedroom units will fit within existing unit footprints 400-500 square feet, notably smaller than the 1,200-1,500 square feet that similar classes of apartments have been sized to in recent years. But they will be fitted out in first-class style, with full kitchens and in-apartment laundry units. Exact rent ranges are pending.
Clouse said, "We believe that the city of Lansing — as well as other, larger downtown areas — are moving toward smaller units. Nick [Eyde, a company principal], who worked directly on this project in the beginning, reached out to people that he met while he was in Europe. So, we had an architectural firm from Italy look at this and help us design small units that obviously they've used and have lived in for much longer than we have. And it helped us design the units in such a way to be efficient, comfortable and still very elegant and, for lack of a better word, cool."
Karl Dorshimer, director of business development for the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP), said such micro-style units may be new to Lansing but are "popular in downtown areas [elsewhere] because you spend a lot of your time in the downtown doing other things, being outside and going to public spaces and parks and restaurants, visiting friends and others … They're comfortable, but they're cozy."
While millennials are a key demographic, the apartments are expected to have broader appeal.
"It's a wide range of people," Dorshimer said. "When you look at the demographics, there's a lot of households in the area that really have one or two people in them, and so the potential market is very broad. It's not just for young folks. I think a lot of folks would be interested in it, especially empty-nesters, single folks, people new to the area coming in for a particular reason and students."
The hope is such a housing complex could help evolve the nature of downtown into more of an around-the-clock community. In turn, that could help boost current merchants and bring in new ones.
"It will help existing businesses and it will help a lot," Dorshimer said. "These folks, they won't spend that much time in their apartments … they'll be spending a lot of time — a lot more than the traditional apartment or suburban house — they're going to be out and about. They want to be downtown. They like the amenities that are downtown. The market will respond."
"So, ultimately, you get enough people living downtown, you'll have a lot more business offerings," Dorshimer said. "Everybody's been [asking], 'Why can't we get a grocery store downtown?' We just don't have the demand, and there's a lot of competition, but the more people that live downtown, the more demand there will be." Clouse said projects can't work without teamwork.
"A project like this doesn't happen solely because of the developer," Clouse said, noting the assistance of Lansing, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and civic agencies that are helping Eyde fund brownfield-related costs like asbestos removal and the cleanup of mold and water damage, via various financial incentives.
Eyde hopes to have Oliver Towers ready for renters by the end of 2018 or early 2019. "To do it the right way sometimes takes a little longer than what we really want, but we have to recognize we want a good product when we're done," Clouse said.
In the meantime, as plans for Oliver Towers comes together, the Eyde family will look for more diamonds in the rough around the city's center.
Oliver Towers Restoration to Move Forward After Michigan Strategic Fund Approval
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Omar Sofradzija
Omar Sofradzija is an adjunct journalism instructor at Michigan State University. Prior to that, he was a columnist and reporter at the Las Vegas (Nev.) Review-Journal, where he covered the development and launch of that city's Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) bus rapid transit system and the Las Vegas Monorail.


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US Media reports Iran mistakenly shot down Ukrainian plane
US media are reporting that Iran mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed near Tehran with 176 people on board.
CBS says US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile.
Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.
The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.
CBS News quoted US intelligence sources as saying a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.
Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official, as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had "suspicions" about what happened to the plane.
[Source: BBC]


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Newton Heath
Aerial footage shows extent of Newton Heath blaze
Crews tackled the blaze at an industrial estate on Briscoe Lane
Chris SlaterReporter
Aerial footage shows the extent of the huge fire which engulfed an industrial estate in Newton Heath.
Crews tackled the blaze, close to City's Etihad Stadium, which broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
It involved an industrial unit on Briscoe Lane, just a hundred yards from Phillips Park fire station.
The L shaped building is part of a complex of units being used to store books and kitchen appliances.
And fire chiefs say it has been so badly damaged it will have to be demolished and crews will remain there for several days.
The fire at the industrial unit on Briscoe Lane in Newton Heath
A huge red glow and big plumes of smoke could be seen across parts of East Manchester at the height of the blaze.
The fire service says the "fast acting crews who were first on the scene did an incredible job to prevent this incident spreading into other buildings."
They battled through the night to bring it under control and parts of Alan Turing Way had to be closed during the early morning rush hour such was the extent of the operation, with 12 fire engines involved.
Judge says 'don't give money to people begging' after Spice dealer caught with £800 in loose change
Fire engines remain at the scene and are damping down and tackling any remaining hot-spots of fire.
The drone footage, taken by local resident Paul Davenport, 28, shows the extent of the damage caused, but also how well crews did to contain it.
In a statement on Tuesday evening GMFRS said: "We are working with Electricity North West and a demolition crew to safely bring down the building.
Dozens of police raid travellers' site in crackdown on 'crime network'
"Crews are expected to remain on the scene for the next few days.
"There is now minimal smoke in the area, but if you do live nearby and are affected then please keep windows and doors closed."
East Manchester


A few weeks ago, Federal District Judge Richard Leon ruled against the Food and Drug Administration's new cigarette warning labels. In a statement, he dismissed the new FDA system as "crafted to evoke a strong emotional response calculated to provoke the viewer to quit or never start smoking." Judge Leon felt that the proposed illustrations (depicting damaged internal organs, rotting teeth and a smoker's dead body) infringed upon the free speech of the tobacco companies because they were an attempt by a government organization to prevent a consumer from purchasing a legal product.
Certainly one could argue that forcing a company to place a full-color photo of a human cadaver on their packaging could negatively impact sales. Even funeral homes don't do that and their profits are generated on a per-corpse basis. So I can agree that while a government agency does have the right to assist people in making informed decisions, it is disingenuous to legalize a product and then force the manufacturer to convince people not to buy it by. If anything, those types of heavy-handed tactics should only be used to make a real difference in people's lives (like when I dropped $15 on the "Spaghetti Incident" CD that Guns N Roses put out).
However, the real issue is that the labels are a pointless waste of time. People smoke because they haven't come to a place in their lives to quit. I cannot name a single adult smoker who wakes up in the morning and asks themselves, "How can I insure I never live long enough to meet my grandchildren by spending $5 every time I stop at a Citgo?" What does the FDA envision happening if this system is implemented? Do they expect some roofer that has been sucking down Camels since he was fourteen to see discolored teeth on his cartoon and suddenly decide that a multivitamin is a better investment?
According to a 2009 CDC study, 80% of adult smokers began before they were legally old enough to purchase cigarettes. For those keeping score at home, that means that packaging designed to deter new smokers at the point of sale would, at best, have a 20% success rate. The same CDC study revealed that among high school students the largest percentage of youth smokers were Caucasian males with low "socioeconomic status, grades, and self-esteem" who were prone to "carrying weapons." This means that taking away cigarettes from a poor white kid could be a dangerous proposition because they are all armed and have nothing to lose.
Jose Ole' Bean & Cheese Frozen Burritos – Box would feature a weeping silhouette on a toilet holding a rosary.
Keychain-Size Axe Body Spray – Bottle features an illustration of a man purchasing a Nickelback CD.
Nickelback CD – Packaging would feature a morose, goateed man dinning alone at a Carl's Jr.
Bowflex – On the box is a photo of the Bowflex beside your Ab Roller at a yard sale.
A "TapouT" Window Decal – The packaging would be the same, but the clerk would punch you in the face upon checkout.
As George Carlin said, government is ramming it's ... well it is Carlin, use your imagination. This is just one more way the government is taking away our ability to think on our own by stepping in and making decisions for us which are in "out best interest". Sorry Big "G", I have a brain and I intend on using it. What is government going to take away from us next?


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DC & The Struggle
Jim Reilly
The following is an excerpt from The Bass Player:
"This is more or less how we hear:
Air is set in motion by a vibrating object. This could be anything, a string, vocal chord, glass shattering on the ground, anything that moves disrupts the air, sets it in motion and causes sound. The ear, with its unique cup like folds, intercepts this moving air and channels it through a short canal to a thin membrane stretched across the ear canal. This membrane, the eardrum, vibrates in rhythm with the air's vibrations. The eardrum transfers this motion to a group of small bones, which move in sympathy with fluctuations in pressure originally caused by the moving air. These small bones transform the physical, tangible air movements onto a coiled tube within the ear, which contains thousands of hair-like nerve endings. From there, the motion caused by the vibrating objects transform into electrical impulses, which the brain then decodes and identifies as sound.
What we perceive as a single sound is an incredibly complex combination of things. Think of a rock thrown into a pond. Ripples, waves radiate out from the point where the rock broke the water's surface. The ripples are what sound waves would look like if our eyes could see such things. You could think of the rock as the thing producing the sound.
We differentiate between the different types of sound waves by comparing their relative length. The length refers to the time it takes for the wave to go from its highest point through its lowest point and back again. Like a wave in the ocean, reaching its crest, falling, then rising again.
Any sound, except for the purest tones—a birdcall or the highest notes of a flute—consists of several sound waves of differing lengths occurring simultaneously. The ear hears the longest wave as the lowest note and compares the other waves to it. Thus, the quality of the sound as a whole is determined by a comparison of all the shorter, higher pitched waves, to the lowest portion of the sound. The nature of the entire sonic moment at hand is decided by the lowest, the deepest portion of the sound. Music theorists call this the fundamental. Musicians call this the root.
The tangible quality of the musical instant can therefore be defined as the relationship between the higher portions of the sound waves as they compare to the lowest, the longest wave. In other words, the very nature of the sound itself owes it quality—good, bad, or indifferent—to lowest note or part of that note.
The lowest note drives the bus.
The bass player plays the lowest notes."
Jim Reilly is DC's bass player.


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Like most people, I saw the story of the couple who had the wrong embryo implanted by their fertility clinic. Obviously, that was one heck of mistake and indicates that the clinic needs to reassess how it labels and tracks embryos. This does provide a rather extreme example of the sorts of easy to fix errors that can cause so much trouble.
What struck me the most about this story was the fact that the couple decided that the embryo would be brought to term and then given to his/her biological parents. When asked about this, the couple made it clear that their decision was based on their values.
Since I teach ethics, I find this very interesting indeed. Naturally, I also find it interesting as a person. It is, to say the least, morally commendable for the woman to go through this experience knowing that she will be giving up the child. As far as I know, she is not receiving any compensation from the other couple for this. Of course, the fertility clinic certainly owes her for the mistake they made.
This does raise the obvious question: what is the right thing to do in that situation?


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Il Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio 2007 è stata la 71ª edizione del massimo campionato di hockey su ghiaccio per nazionali organizzato dalla IIHF.

I tornei

Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio maschile
Il 71º Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio maschile di gruppo A si è tenuto dal 27 aprile al 13 maggio Mosca e a Mytišči, in Russia.

I tornei delle divisioni inferiori si sono tenuti nelle date e nei luoghi seguenti:
 Prima divisione:
 Gruppo A: 15-21 aprile a Qiqihar, Cina
 Gruppo B: 15-21 aprile a Lubiana, Slovenia
 Seconda divisione:
 Gruppo A: 11-17 aprile a Zagabria, Croazia
 Gruppo B: 2-8 aprile a Seul, Corea del Sud
 Terza divisione: 15-21 aprile a Dundalk, Irlanda

Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio femminile
Il 10º Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio femminile di gruppo A si è disputato dal 3 al 10 aprile a Winnipeg e a Selkirk, in Canada.

Le divisioni inferiori si sono svolte nelle date e nei luoghi seguenti:
 Prima divisione: 2-8 aprile a Nikkō, Giappone
 Seconda divisione: 17-23 marzo a Pyongyang, Corea del Nord
 Terza divisione: 3-10 aprile a Sheffield, Gran Bretagna
 Quarta divisione: 26 marzo - 1º aprile a Miercurea Ciuc, Romania

Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio U-20 maschile
Il 31º Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio U20 maschile di gruppo A si è svolto dal 26 dicembre al 5 gennaio a Leksand e a Mora, in Svezia.

Le divisioni inferiori si sono disputate nelle date e nei luoghi seguenti:
 Prima divisione:
 Gruppo A 11-17 dicembre 2006 a Odense, Danimarca
 Gruppo B 11-17 dicembre 2006 a Torre Pellice, Italia
 Seconda divisione:
 Gruppo A 11-17 dicembre 2006 a Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
 Gruppo B 10-16 dicembre 2006 a Elektrėnai, Lituania
 Terza Divisione: 8-14 gennaio ad Ankara, Turchia

Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio U-18 maschile
Il 9º Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio U18 maschile di gruppo A si è svolto dall'11 al 22 aprile a Tampere e a Rauma, in Finlandia.

Le divisioni inferiori si sono disputate nelle date e nei luoghi seguenti:
 Prima divisione:
 Gruppo A: 6-12 aprile a Maribor, Slovenia
 Gruppo B: 4-10 aprile a Sanok, Polonia
 Seconda divisione:
 Gruppo A: 15-21 aprile a Miskolc, Ungheria
 Gruppo B: 12-18 marzo a Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
 Terza divisione: 5-11 marzo a Pechino, Cina
 Qualificazioni alla Terza Divisione: 28 gennaio a İzmit, Turchia

Note

Voci correlate
 Campionato mondiale di hockey su ghiaccio
 IIHF

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Send Flowers for Mark
Mark James McNulty
It is with deep sadness that the family of Mark McNulty announces his passing after a courageous battle with prostate cancer on December 29, 2019 at the age of 67 in Reno, Nevada, where he lived. He is survived by his wife and long time companion Kathleen, his devoted daughters Natalie (Scott) Bowling and Kelly McNulty, his mother Emily McNulty, his sister Mary Kay McNulty, his brother Brian (Luanne) McNulty, his niece Brigette and his nephew Sam. Mark was preceded in death by his father Truman Q. McNulty, his very dear sister Erin A. McNulty and his white German Shepherd dog Tao.
Mark was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attended St. Ann's grade school, graduated Class of 1970 from Marquette University High School, where he met and treasured a circle of friends for life. One of the highlights of Mark's time at MUHS was his unexpected selection for the lead role in the Senior Follies as Fr. D. D. Driscoll as well as his "membership" in "The Good Guys". Mark went on to attend Marquette University for a year when his passion for music took over. He moved with his band the "Ratz" from Milwaukee to San Francisco where he started his "White Dog Productions" studio and pursued a music career. The band regrouped and renamed themselves "Blind Date". They played gigs around SF bay area as well as up and down the California coast before moving to Los Angeles. In 1979, the band cut an album with John Denver's company, Windsong Productions, which RCA Records distributed both nationally and internationally. Mark met his first wife Deborah (deceased) and had two lovely daughters. To dedicate his attention to his growing family, Mark transitioned to a very successful life in sales, from home mortgages to recreational vehicles where he met special, life long friends.
Visitation will be held for Mark on Saturday, January 11, 2020 from 9:30am until 10:45am followed by Mass at 11:00am, all at St. Sebastian Church, 5400 W. Washington Blvd., Milwaukee, WI 53208. The family is honored to have Fr. Gary Seibert, S.J., from St. Louis preside over the service.
Mark, the drumming beat of your heart will always be with us!
To send flowers to Mark's family, please visit our floral section.
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After the application deadline, applicants will receive a link via email, to sign up for their preferred interview date and time. Interviews may include up to 3 people in a group, and will be located at the Seattle Police Department Headquarters building in downtown Seattle at 610 5th Avenue. This is a competitive program with limited spots each recruitment cycle. Not all applicants will be asked to come in for an interview, and not all interviewees will be invited to the academy. Everyone who interviews will receive notice about their acceptance status within two weeks.
All prospective volunteers invited to join the Academy training will be asked to submit a Seattle Police Department Personal History Information packet. Full acceptance in the program is contingent on passing a civilian employee level background check, including fingerprinting and records checks.
There are two training academies for new volunteers each year. Each session is run as a cohort, where volunteers are trained on an extensive range of topics presented by VST staff, SPD detectives, officers, community leaders, and DV Advocates. The 50-hours of classroom learning provide the foundational knowledge necessary to support families in crisis, and achieve a clear understanding of VST procedures and protocol.
All volunteers must complete the classroom training academy in order to move forward into field training. As part of the training process, you will participate on a ride-along with a patrol officer, and a shadow shift with a VST team.


- Food trucks will be at the event available for purchase, NEW this year the Hetty Arts Pastry Truck will be joining us!
Race entry is $40 for early registration and $45 for late registration (September 1st). Please Note that packet pick-up is on Friday October 6th at Fleet Feet Sports: 5661 Coventry Lane, Fort Wayne, IN 46804. There is no packet pickup on the day of the race. Identification or a confirmation email will be required at packet pick up.


These styli are used to assemble a 1/2-star stylus. A clamping stylus or a clamping screw is used for this purpose. The shaft is made of ThermoFit carbon fibre and the sphere is made of ruby silicon nitride.


The graph reveals that from August to September the average condominium sale price for Metro Vancouver floats up 2.1 percent. Year to year the overall benchmark price for apartments is up 21.7 percent. The volume of condo sales last month compared to September 2016 rises 19.1 percent.
The benchmark price for west side apartments September to September is 15.8 percent higher. Vancouver west condo sales increase by 22.5 percent year to year. Last month versus September 2016 west side apartment inventory is up 1.6 percent.
Month to month Vancouver west apartment sales falter slightly with a 0.7 percent downturn. September versus August west side condo inventory is 28.7 percent higher.


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Cyclostrema archeri is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Liotiidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1888 door Tryon.

Liotiidae


Padmapriya Raghavan ,is working as a Technical Consultant(Asia) for Trusted Logic, France taking care of complete Asian accounts in the field on Smart... cards and OS platforms.
In this session, we are going to analyse different network architecture, technology and their behaviour with respect to their protocol suites. The protocol testing is the key element which tests the packet structure of the packets sent in a network using some tools. Usually we will have a device/product under test which in connection with routers and switches to check various parameters with respect to the protocol configuration.
This topic is not going to provide how protocol testing is carried out in different networks but here we will be able to understand how protocol testing is different in various networks like GSM, UMTS and LTE. In short, we will have a better understanding of protocol stacks in GSM, UMTS and LTE networks with respect to the protocol mapping.
Protocol testing is an unique technique implemented to study the network through their packet data. Here, we will be able to cover in detail about the architecture of GSM, UMTS and LTE with their respective protocol stack mapped with OSI Model as their base derivative.
This topic will also slightly touch the different standards adopted in the telecommunication industry.
1. What is Protocol Testing?
2. What are the key differences between GSM, UMTS and LTE in the aspect of Protocol stacks?
3.How the protocol mapping differs in every technology?
4.How different networks are enhanced to communicate with other technology network?
5.How a product testing is correlated with protocol testing?


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Prince Harry is 'constantly worried' he'll lose Meghan like he lost his mother Princess Diana
(Image credit: Photo by Simon Dawson-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
By Emma Shacklock
Prince Harry's new life seems "too much for him" as he's "constantly" worried about losing Meghan Markle like he lost Princess Diana, a royal biographer has claimed.
Prince Harry has spoken out about his mother Princess Diana in his new Apple TV+ docuseries with Oprah Winfrey, The Me You Can't See, and discussed his fear about "history repeating itself".
Now royal biographer Angela Levin has suggested Prince Harry's life sounds "too much for him" and that he is "constantly" afraid of losing Meghan like he did Diana.
This royal news (opens in new tab) comes as Prince William opens up on his bittersweet connection to Scotland in a romantic tribute to wife Kate Middleton (opens in new tab).
Prince Harry may have stepped back (opens in new tab) as a senior member of the Royal Family with Meghan Markle, but according to a royal biographer his new life "sounds too much for him". Harry and Meghan have now settled in their new LA home (opens in new tab) with their son Archie.
The couple have now put distance between them and the intense scrutiny they faced during their time in the royal spotlight. Though despite this, it seems Harry still has grave concerns about the impact this huge attention could have upon Meghan.
Speaking in his new Apple TV+ docuseries, The Me You Can't See (opens in new tab), which he co-created with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke of Sussex revealed his fears about "history repeating itself".
He went on to compare Meghan's situation to that of his late mother Princess Diana, who tragically died in a car crash in 1997, alongside film producer Dodi Al Fayed.
Opening up about the traumatic loss of Diana when he was just 12, Harry stated: "My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn't white. And now look what's happened."
Harry has previously discussed how the media attention Meghan in particular received contributed significantly to their decision to step back. Whilst in The Me You Can't See, he went on to speak of his fear that he could lose his wife as he lost his mother.
"You want to talk about history repeating itself. They're not going to stop until she dies," he claimed. "It's incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life."
Now royal biographer Angela Levin has suggested that Harry's new LA life is "too much for him". Taking to Twitter in the days following the docuseries airing, she remarked upon how "dreadful" it is that Harry is "constantly" worried about losing Meghan.
'How dreadful if Harry constantly thinks that he will lose Meghan like he did Diana', she declared.
'His life sounds too much for him', Angela continued, before putting forward her opinion that he should 'back away' from his new ventures in light of this.
However this is not the first time that Prince Harry has compared Princess Diana and his and Meghan's situation. In the Sussexes' shocking Oprah interview (opens in new tab) earlier this year, he spoke of his relief that he was there to support Meghan through all they'd been through.
"I'm just really relieved and happy to be sitting here talking to you with my wife by my side because I can't imagine what it must have been like for her, going through this process by herself all those years ago," Harry said.
"It's been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other."
Emma Shacklock
Senior Lifestyle Writer
Emma is a Senior Lifestyle Writer with six years of experience working in digital publishing, ranging from book publishing to magazines. She currently looks after all things Lifestyle for Woman&Home, Goodto.com, and My Imperfect Life.


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"""Fichier contenant le masque <cle_navire>."""

from primaires.interpreteur.masque.masque import Masque
from primaires.interpreteur.masque.fonctions import *
from primaires.interpreteur.masque.exceptions.erreur_validation \
        import ErreurValidation

class CleNavire(Masque):

    """Masque <cle_navire>.

    On attend une clé de navire en paramètre.

    """

    nom = "cle_navire"
    nom_complet = "clé de navire"

    def init(self):
        """Initialisation des attributs"""
        self.identifiant = ""
        self.navire = None

    def repartir(self, personnage, masques, commande):
        """Répartition du masque."""
        ident = liste_vers_chaine(commande)

        if not ident:
            raise ErreurValidation( \
                "Précisez un identifiant de navire.")

        ident = ident.split(" ")[0].lower()
        self.a_interpreter = ident
        commande[:] = commande[len(ident):]
        masques.append(self)
        return True

    def valider(self, personnage, dic_masques):
        """Validation du masque"""
        Masque.valider(self, personnage, dic_masques)
        ident = self.a_interpreter

        try:
            navire = type(self).importeur.navigation.navires[ident]
        except KeyError:
            raise ErreurValidation(
                "|err|L'identifiant '{}' n'est pas valide.|ff|".format(ident))

        self.navire = navire
        self.ident = navire.cle

        return True

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Nicholas Rotunda Allen, 39, was charged Wednesday (April 10) with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the grand-jury scam, federal prosecutors said in a news release.
Allen was convicted of a felony in early 2016 and placed in Jimmy Autry State Prison in Pelham, Georgia. Shortly afterward, Allen and others — both inside and outside of prison — began planning the scam, according to the bill of information charging Allen. The bill of information was filed in the federal court district that covers southeastern Louisiana.


Inspired by the humanistic approach of Bharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedker, Bar. Rajabhau Khobragade, Ex-Dy. Chairman of Rajya sabha established Dr. Babasaheb Ambedker Education society in 1966. With due permission from the government of Maharashtra, the society started Dr. Babasaheb Ambedker college at Bramhapuri in 1972.


Dilli decided to open a branch office in Belgium, and to run an EMEA demo center.
We will have an opening seminar on Feb 26 in Mons-Belgium.
There will be a technical seminar for participants, and will have public demonstration as well.
and how it will bring profitability to your business.
Here is the location information.
At DRUPA, we will also display several other machines including NM-210W full option which is an upgraded model.


Pisa is worldly famous for its Leaning Tower, but if you decide to discover more of the city, you will be astonished by its artistic treasures.
Piazza dei Miracoli is a real jewel of Romanesque architecture: the magnificence of the square will overwhelm you as you pass through Porta Nuova, one of the ancient gates of the Medieval city walls.
The Duomo (1064), known in the past as the "snow-white marble temple", is not only an architectural masterpiece, it is also evidence of the religious devotion of the people of Pisa, as well as a symbol of its wealth and power in the Middle Ages. Inscriptions are still visible on the outside celebrating naval victories.
The interior features a magnificent gilded wooden ceiling, a long women's gallery, a huge glittering mosaic over the main altar, a pulpit by Giovanni Pisano and the so-called Galileo lamp. The grave of the Emperor Henry VII lies close to that of the town's patron saint.
The Monumental graveyard is also a "must-see" place, featuring many Roman graves, frescoes by the Medieval painter Buffalmacco, as well as those by the renowned Renaissance artist Benozzo Gozzoli.
The Baptistry, erected in the 12th century, a few years before the Bell Tower, boasts amazing columns with floral decoration, portraits of the Virgin Mary and the Apostles, as well as stories from the life of St. John the Baptist. We suggest a visit inside both of the Cathedral and the Graveyard.
About 15 minutes away from the Cathedral is Piazza dei Cavalieri, acknowledged as one of the most important examples of late Renaissance city planning and architecture. From there, a short walk will lead us into the University district.
If you're coming by car we suggest meeting in front of the cafè at the Pietrasantina car park (free of charge!). This car park is located just 15 minutes away from Piazza dei Miracoli.
Across San Giuliano Terme and S. Maria del Giudice, on a beautiful plain surrounded by mountains and hills scattered with ancient castles, villas and picturesque villages, Lucca will unveil its quiet yet unique beauty.
Lucca was successively an important Roman colony, the Lombards' headquarters in Tuscany, one of the main stations on the pilgrims' route to Rome (the Via Francigena), a center for the silk trade and a flourishing Renaissance town. It remained a city-state for centuries, and was later ruled by Princess Elisa Buonaparte. It is also the burial place of Ilaria del Carretto and the birthplace of Boccherini and Puccini. Nowadays it offers the visitor an astonishing variety of artworks, delicious food specialties, and traditional handicrafts.
A visit to Palazzo Mansi, former residence of a rich family of merchants, is therefore a must: baroque architecture combines perfectly with richly decorated, shining wall tapestries, allegorical frescoes and the so-called Prince's Alcova, where princes and kings were housed. This provided the location for "Il Marchese del Grillo", a famous Italian movie starring Alberto Sordi, which was also filmed in the Palazzo Controni Pfanner, whose garden we'll see from the city walls.
Before reaching the Church of San Paolino, a stop at the chocolate shop Caniparoli is a particularly inviting temptation which we would suggest you not to resist! Walking along the route of the Roman East-West road, we'll get to the house where Puccini was born, which we'll see from the outside.
We'll then proceed to the Church of San Michele, located in the area of the former Roman Forum, and to Piazza Anfiteatro, where, in the 1st Century AD, a huge amphitheatre was erected for the entertainment of the populace.
Next we'll go to the Guinigi Tower, once the property - like many buildings in the area - of the Guinigi family, who ruled Lucca from 1400 to 1430. There it will be possible to visit a workshop where items in silk are still produced using traditional craftsmen's techniques, with the recycling of old fibers. Walking across the area where the Knights of Altopascio - who protected pilgrims against thieves in the surrounding of Lucca - had their seat, we'll see from outside the Music School where Puccini studied.
After a stop in Piazza Bernardini and Piazza San Giusto, the Lucca tour will continue and we'll reach the Cathedral, where we'll see the Volto Santo, the famous Crucifix which was even reproduced on Lucca's coins in the past. In the Sacresty we'll see one of the most famous sculptures of the Renaissance, that is the funerary monument of Ilaria del Carretto. The tour will end in Piazza Napoleone.
Pisa: € 2 Duomo, € 6 Monumental Graveyard + Duomo, € 15 Leaning Tower (€ 17 if you book on line).


Our activities and athletics programs provide students with extra opportunities to learn about hard work and dedication. As students take part in these extracurricular activities, they will practice balancing their schedules and managing their time. Whether in a club or on a team, students benefit from becoming mentally and physically fit, working together, and having fun. We encourage everyone to participate in the activities and athletics available at his or her school.


Enerzona 90% Soy is a protein supplement in powder.
Enerzona 90% Soy is an Identity Preserved product that implies that strict control is operated from the cultivation and harvesting of soy to the protein production up to the transportation and stocking, to ensure that no GMOs are used.
Enerzona 90% Soy contains no flavourings nor sweeteners; since it is not flavoured, it ensures maximum versatility; in fact the neutral taste allows it to be added to common foods such as coffee, soups, sauces etc. balancing their content in carbohydrates and fats with a share of proteins; this application is facilitated by the exceptional solubility of the product.
Enerzona 90% Soy, finally, is the most suitable choice for those who, not tolerating lactose and milk proteins, or simply wanting to avoid the intake of animal protein, still want to supplement their diet with a protein content of viable biological availability.
EnerZona 90% Soy is not flavoured, it thus presents a neutral taste that allows it to be added to foods of common use.
Ingredients: Soy protein isolate, Anti-caking agent: silicon dioxide.
Allergens: produced in a facility that also uses cereals, eggs, sesame, nuts.
You should take one scoop of the product equivalent to a protein block.
In case of prolonged use (more than 6/8 weeks) seek medical advice. The product is not recommended in cases of kidney or liver disease, during pregnancy and in children under the age of 14 years. Do not exceed the recommended dose. Supplements should not be considered a substitute to a varied diet. Keep out of reach of children under 3 years of age. It is important to follow a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.