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Сергей Дмитриевич Одинцов (р. , ) — российский физик-теоретик, доктор физико-математических наук, профессор.

Биография
С. Д. Одинцов родился 2 марта 1959 году в г. Щучинске Казахской ССР. В 1976 году поступил на физико-технический факультет Томского государственного университета, в 1978 году перевелся на физический факультет ТГУ. В 1981 году окончил университет по специальности «физика», получил диплом с отличием. В 1981 году принят на должность стажера-исследователя теоретического отдела Института сильноточной электроники Сибирского отделения академии наук СССР.

В 1982—1985 годах учился в аспирантуре по специальности «теоретическая и математическая физика» при кафедре теоретической физики ТГУ (научные руководители В. Г. Багров и И. Л. Бухбиндер). В 1985 году защитил кандидатскую диссертацию на тему «Метод ренормализационной группы в квантовой теории поля в искривленном пространстве-времени».

С 1985 году работает ассистентом, старшим преподавателем, доцентом, профессором кафедры математического анализа Томского государственного педагогического университета. В 1991 году защитил докторскую диссертацию. В качестве приглашенного профессора преподавал в университетах Испании, Италии, Норвегии, Японии, Колумбии, Мексики, США и др. странах.

В 2011 году был включён в рейтинг Forbes 10 самых известных учёных русского происхождения.

Профессиональная и научная деятельность
С. Д. Одинцов — автор более 500 научных работ по теории гравитации, математической физике и космологии. С. Д. Одинцов является одним из самых цитируемых ученых-физиков в мировом научном сообществе (более 45 тыс. ссылок на его работы). Его индекс Хирша равен 93.
В 1985 участвовал как слушатель в работе школы "Квантовые частицы в интенсивных полях" (Кишинев, 1985)

Член Королевского Норвежского общества наук и литературы (2003)

Лауреат  Итальянского гравитационного общества (2014)

Примечания

Литература
Одинцов Сергей Дмитриевич // Профессора Томского государственного педагогического университета: Биографический словарь / Автор — составитель Т. В. Галкина. Томск: Издательство Томского государственного педагогического университета, 2005.

Ссылки
 Информация о С. Д. Одинцове на сайте Томского государственного педагогического университета
 Рейтинг 50-ти россиян, «завоевавших мир» // (журнал Forbes, 2011)

Персоналии по алфавиту
Физики России
Физики СССР
Физики-теоретики СССР
Физики-теоретики России
Доктора физико-математических наук
Выпускники Томского государственного университета
Преподаватели Томского государственного педагогического университета


In addition, the City of Enumclaw has its own Natural Gas Utility and provides Solid Waste (garbage, recycling and yard waste) Collection services.
Public Works Administration and Engineering is located in the Stevenson-Yerxa Building at 1309 Myrtle Avenue in Enumclaw. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For questions about these topics, please call 360-825-3593, fax 360-825-7232, or contact one of the divisions listed below.
For all utility service issues, please call the City Shops at 360-825-5541. For utility billing questions and information, please call the Finance Department at 360-825-3591.


Various cover art I designed for IRL Records 2008 - 2010.
Album cover for an artist called Dirty Ray, upon listening to the music I was immediately reminded of Tom Waits whose image and general art direction influenced the design style of this cover.
Cover art for the Wonder Stuff single the "Animals and Me". Top images are the original mock I created and my preferred version. Bottom images are the finished cover.
Cover art for the "Post Album Demos" album by the band Vent 414.


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The Art Collection of Maya Angelou
On September 15, 2015, Swann Galleries' African-American Fine Art department will offer The Art Collection of Maya Angelou, with works from Dr. Angelou's private collection–much of which has never been publicly exhibited.
Collection highlights include a painted story quilt by Faith Ringgold, entitled Maya's Quilt of Life. A quintessential example of Ringgold's work, Oprah Winfrey commissioned the quilt for Dr. Angelou's birthday in 1989. A monumental painting by John Biggers, Kumasi Market, oil and acrylic on masonite board, 1962, reflects both Biggers' and Dr. Angelou's interest in African culture.
A Look Inside the Catalogue
Foreword by Nigel Freeman
Introduction by Guy Johnson
Biography of Dr. Maya Angelou, Courtesy of Her Estate
Left: Lot 36. John Biggers, Our Grandmothers, one of a set of five lithographs, 1994.
Sold for $4,000 on September 15, 2015.
John Biggers, Kumasi Market, oil and acrylic on masonite board, 1962.
Sold for an artist record of $389,000.
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Maya Angelou, silver print, 1993.
Sold for an artist record of $17,500.
Though perhaps best known as a poet, writer and educator, Dr. Angelou spent her life fully immersed in artistic ventures of all varieties. From her early time as a dancer, to her appearances on Broadway and collaborations with artists from a multitude of genres, Dr. Angelou's passion for being creative and fostering creativity in others shines in this collection.
Faith Ringgold, Maya's Quilt of Life, acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border, 1989.
Many of the works in the collection were inspired by and gifted to Dr. Angelou, such as the vivid story quilt by Faith Ringgold (pictured above), which was commissioned by Oprah Winfrey for the author's birthday.
Just as Dr. Angelou continues to serve as a source of inspiration for countless artists, writers and performers, she also found inspiration in the works of others. Dr. Angelou's son, Guy Johnson, wrote, "she surrounded herself with books and objects d'art because she liked to be inspired by the creativity and genius of others. She felt that the ideas and concepts expressed in well written books as well as the emotions and feelings evoked by intriguing and beautiful pieces of art expanded the deep, interior recesses of the soul."
Melvin Edwards, OWWA Maya, welded steel, 2011. Sold for an artist record of $40,000.
Romare Bearden, The Obeah's Choice, watercolor, 1984. Sold for $87,500.
Much of the work from the collection has never publicly been displayed, making this a unique opportunity to see a more private side of such an influential cultural force. Additionally, the collection provides insight into how Dr. Angelou's interests aligned with the art and artists in her collection, from her interest in African culture, highlighted in John Bigger's Kumasi Market, to her tireless support of female artists like Elizabeth Catlett and Phoebe Beasley.
Jonathan Green, Wading in the Surf, acrylic on masonite board, 1989. Sold for $13,750.
Elizabeth Catlett, Two Generations, lithograph, 1979. Sold for $8,450.
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Aethan D. Hart Photographer
About Aethan D. Hart
When I was 13 I wanted to go hunting. My father, WWII v
When I was 13 I wanted to go hunting. My father, a WWII vet, said I would be safer in the woods with a camera rather than a firearm. So began my photographic journey with a Canon Demi, 35mm ½ frame camera I received for Christmas that year.
My mother was a visual artist and with my father, founded an audio visual business in Duluth, MN. From an early age I was surrounded by art, audio visual recordings and equipment. I was encouraged to take many pictures and teetered on a variety of platforms of stills (35mm-4x5) and motion (16mm film, video tape) through high school and college. I have a BA in Art/Art History. Since 1973, I was fortunate to have a career as television photojournalist. I retired from that platform in 2016.
My images are what elicits an emotion within me at the time. The camera is a tool to get those feelings out of me to be seen by others.
I find the process of recording fascinating. Over the years my recording has been on film, video, audio tape and digital media. At one time, I stamped the back of my still photos, "Documented by Aethan Hart." Sometimes, the recording can be more exciting than the finished product.
Instead of shooting, I now acquire content. My father was right, it is safer and more rewarding.
et, said I would be safer in the woods with a camera rather than a firearm. So began my photographic journey with a Canon Demi, 35mm ½ frame camera I received for Christmas that year.
My mother was a visual artist and with my father, founded an audio visual business in Duluth, MN. From an early age I was surrounded by art, audio visual recordings and equipment. I was encouraged to take many pictures and teetered on a variety of platforms of stills (35mm-4x5) and motion (16mm film, video tape) through high school and college. I have a BA in Art/Art History. Since 1973, I've was fortunate to have had a career as television photojournalist. I retired from that platform in 2016.
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Home > News > Investing > ETFs, Lifecycle Funds May Be a Winning Combination
Investing February 10, 2007
ETFs, Lifecycle Funds May Be a Winning Combination
Two hot retirement plan trends appear to be converging in a way that could dramatically alter the investment management complexion of 401(k) plans: exchange-traded funds and lifecycle funds.
Neither offering is new to the marketplace. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, as they are called, have been available since the early 1990s (see About ETFs). Yet, in recent weeks, a plethora of new offerings have either come to market, or come to light: State Street (an exchange-traded fund family that tracks developed and emerging-market stocks outside the U.S.), Vanguard (four bond ETFs), XTF (two offerings—one a sector rotation, the other a country rotation portfolio), Deutsche Bank and PowerShares Capital Management LLC (seven commodity-sector ETFs), and First Trust Advisors (an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Index)—and that's just a partial list of January's introductions. Meanwhile, SSgA has rebranded its ETFs, ending the streetTRACKS label and consolidating under the SPDR brand.
At the same time, lifecycle funds—those target-date-based asset allocation offerings—are clearly the hottest investment ticket in the market, and that was before the Department of Labor affixed its sanction of the date-based design as an effective default investment alternative (see "Instruction Manual," PLANSPONSOR, November 2006).
Still, if target-date funds have found a warm reception in the 401(k) market—in short order leaving their older lifestyle fund cousins, offerings based on an assessment of individual risk tolerance—ETFs have proven to be a slower sell, until now.
Slow To Start
Early on, ETFs appeared to offer greater trading flexibility than most mutual funds (they trade during the day, not just at the market close), were cheaper (an advantage that admittedly could be offset by higher transactional trading costs), and they were not tainted by the scandals that plagued the mutual fund industry. Moreover, they offered some innovative investment packaging—the ability to invest in a NASDAQ index, for example, or even gold. However, none of that seemed to make much impression on plan sponsors or retirement plan participants accustomed to the trading patterns and characteristics of mutual funds, despite the pioneering work of a handful of firms in the space.
Stephan Roche, Vice President and General Manager, Small Business Group, at ShareBuilder, which offers an ETF-option 401(k) program, recalls a conversation with a potential client in the state of Washington that sums up the challenge. The plan sponsor said it would be sticking with a more traditional path in its 401(k) since participants had indicated that they wanted access to traditional mutual funds. "It's going to be very difficult for the industry to adopt ETF-based plans," Roche says.
However, a shift could be under way already, says Michael Woods, Chief Executive Officer, XTF, which already has about $25 million in the Target Date ETF family the firm launched in October. "I think it's right on the cusp. I think it's a paradigm shift. [By the end of 2007,] I'd be surprised if we don't have 30% to 50% of 401(k) plans with ETF fund options." XTF's October launch mirrored a series of recent ETF launch initiatives at Seligman, Two Rivers Capital Management, ShareBuilder, and 401kDesign.
"Early adopter" plan sponsors are just now beginning to appreciate the value of having ETF offerings in their 401(k) programs—particularly when those ETFs are built on a lifecycle/risk-based orientation, concedes ShareBuilder's Roche.
The Push from PPA
Also fueling the enthusiasm, according to some, is the Pension Protection Act (PPA). Charles Kadlec, a Managing Director of J. & W. Seligman & Co. and President of Seligman Advisors, believes that, without the PPA, it would have taken five years to have any significant ETF take-up. However, with that in place—more specifically, the target-date orientation of the Department of Labor's current default investment alternative proposal—Kadlec predicts a 12- to 24-month timeline.
Since the PPA's passage last summer, Kadlec said his company has had 70 plans choose an ETF as a default choice. Last October, Seligman added two lifecycle ETFs to the three it kicked off a year earlier. Kadlec said the target-date ETFs now have about $115 million in assets—about 40% of which is from retirement plans (the rest from IRAs).
Roche says that the notion that ETFs give you a certain amount of ready-made asset allocation is part of an overall strategic shift in retirement plan focus. "What we want to do," Roche says, "is take the participant out of the decisionmaking process." The growth of lifecycle funds and managed accounts is part of this trend. Taken together, Roche labels this the "golden era of 401(k) plans.'
Kadlec sees the impact of the PPA on ETF 401(k) plans as one of officially endorsing the notion that retirement savers have more to be concerned about than just market risk; they also have to make sure they have enough on which they can live in retirement. Says Kadlec: "That is a dramatic and extraordinary shift in the way people think about managing risk in 401(k)s. It's got people asking "Well, how do you do that?'—and that has people focusing on lifecycle funds.'
"Currently, vendors are using actively managed mutual funds, which can carry expense ratios near 100 bps, to create an acceptable asset allocation depending on retirement date. Using ETFs to create that same allocation can provide a much more cost-efficient lifecycle fund,' notes Patrick J. Morrell, Lead Investment Analyst at Capistrano Beach, California-based National Retirement Partners. Acknowledging the potential cost savings of the structure, Troy Hammond, President of AmeriFlex Financial Services, cautions, "The proof will be in the pudding. After these portfolios have a significant track record, we can analyze them as we would any other type of investment—on a true cost/benefit basis.'
Ironically, in view of the dollars involved, ETF-based 401(k) programs have taken root first among smaller employers. Consider that ShareBuilder's focus is the micro market, plans with fewer than 50 employees—not for want of trying to extend the appeal up market. Darwin Abrahamson' Founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based Invest n Retire, claims that a growing concern about revenue-sharing lawsuits (see "Share Alike,' PLANSPONSOR, January 2007) and a looming expansion of fee disclosures to regulators are prodding a new level of interest in the ETF model. However, Abrahamson, whose firm now offers access to a half-dozen ETF family offerings, eschews the lifecycle fund packaging in favor of a more individually customized approach.
It is not clear that plan sponsors will abandon their mutual fund menus soon, but it seems likely that, simply by creating an alternative, ETFs have the potential to alter the debate, if not the dynamics. Roche contends that the macro-level legacy of ETF 401(k) plans may not be an industrywide acceptance of the approach, so much as how their existence and viability may pressure mutual fund companies on fees.
In fact, concerns linger about the relative performance of index-centric ETFs compared with more active approaches. Moreover, Henry Schwarzberg, Chief Investment Officer, InterServ LLC, cautions that some fund companies have created lifestyle/lifecycle funds with ETFs with expense ratios that "range from more than 2.5% to as much as 3.8%.
"That's worse than an overpriced index fund,' he cautions. "It might even be deemed by some as unconscionable.
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Katni officially Murwara is a city on the banks of the Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Katni District. It is in the Mahakoshal region of central India. The city is  from the divisional headquarters of the region, Jabalpur.

Demographics

As of the 2011 Census of India, Murwara (Katni) municipality had a population of 221,875.  Effective literacy was 87.43%; male literacy was 92.77% and female literacy was 81.64%.

See also
 Bahuriband
 Bandhavgarh National Park
 List of educational institutions in Katni

References

External links
 Katni government website

Tehsil in Katni
Cities and towns in Katni district
Cities in Madhya Pradesh

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Influence of Bio-Fertilizers on Growth and Yield Attributing Attributes in Tomato
Barinderpal Singh1*, Kulbir Singh1, Dilpreet Talwar1, S.K. Jindal1 and V.S. Sardana2
1Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana-141004, Punjab, India
2Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural
The investigation was conducted to study the effect of integrated nutrient management studies in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). The cultivar Punjab Ratta and Punjab Varkha Bahar-4 comprised the plant material in autumn and rainy season, respectively. The experiment comprised fourteen treatments of biofertilizers and organic manures with or without chemical fertilizers. The experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design with three replications. The cultures of biofertilizers i.e. Azotobacter, Azospirillum and Phosphorus Solublizing Bacteria (PSB) were applied to the seedlings while Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM) was applied directly in the treatment plots @ 500 g/ha. The treatment with Azotobacter was found beneficial for improving plant height, number of branches per plant and leaf area when it was applied along with recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF). Azotobacter along with VAM and RDF improves the number of branches per plant, leaf area, fruit diameter and number of fruits per plant. Likewise Azospirillum along with RDF and Azotobacter along with VAM and RDF helped to increase the fruit yield in rainy and autumn season to the tune of 549 and 543.1 q ha-1 which was 25 % and 19.3 % higher than the RDF respectively. The application of Azotobacter and Azospirillum along with 75 % recommended dose of nitrogen during autumn season and Azotobacter, Azospirillum, PSB and VAM treatments along with 75 % N and 75 % P of the recommended dose of nitrogen and phosphorus during rainy season recorded yield at par with RDF. It is concluded that Azotobacter along with VAM and 75 % dose of N and P saves the nitrogenous and phosphorus fertilizers without any significant reduction in yield. The application of Azotobacter along with VAM and recommended dose of N, P and K during autumn season and the application of Azospirillum along with recommended dose of fertilizers during rainy season proves beneficial for production of tomato under Punjab conditions.
Keywords: Biofertilizers, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, Integrated nutrient management
Barinderpal Singh, Kulbir Singh, Dilpreet Talwar, S.K. Jindal and Sardana, V.S. 2018. Influence of Bio-Fertilizers on Growth and Yield Attributing Attributes in Tomato.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 7(4): 3686-3694. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.704.414


Websites offering cracked versions of popular software programs have recently been serving up adware bundles that secretly deliver a variant of STOP ransomware.
According to a pair of reports from Bleeping Computer founder Lawrence Abrams, the scheme came to light in December 2018 with the appearance of the malicious encryptor "Djvu" – so named because it appends one of several .djvu string variations to affected files as an extension. Determined to be a member of the STOP family, Djvu later morphed into other minor variants that appended different extensions, including. tco and .rumba.
Bleeping Computer pinpointed the attack vector after user discussions in its forums and other sites revealed a common denominator: victims were infected after visiting one of several websites where they downloaded cracked versions of software products, including Microsoft Windows-based programs, Cubase, Adobe Photoshop, antivirus software and more.
The malware wasn't hidden in the cracked software itself, but rather in the adware bundle accompanying the software as a means of generating revenue. This is likely the consequence of a bundler "turning a blind eye" toward the ransomware, Abrams wrote.
Djvu consists of four separate components that collectively serve to fool and frustrate the victim. Aided by these components, the ransomware disables Windows Defender functionality (including real-time monitoring) to facilitate the infection, and displays a fake Windows update screen to distract users during the encryption process. It also adds numerous security sites and download sites to the Windows HOSTS file to prevent victims from connecting to them for help, Bleeping Computer reports.
In the sample cited in the report, Djvu generated a note demanding a ransom payment of $980 in return for the decryption key, offering a 50 percent discount if the victim pays within the first 72 hours. But there may be a better option, as a STOP decryptor is available.


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Q: Issue with floating buttons right of my to do list I'm trying to create a to-do list app with jquery or bootstrap. Just css grid and vanilla js.
I'm currently having an issue floating my 'delete' buttons of list items to the right. The first one floats all the way right white the others kind of stagger.

Below is my code:

var addItemButton = document.getElementById('addItem')
var onEnter = document.getElementById('newNote')

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I really am unsure how to solve this issue currently, I've never faced this problem before.

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A: I think the problem has something to do with the button margin.
The margin (10px) is bigger than the row so it will push the bottom buttons to the left.
Just change the margin: 10px; to margin: 7px 10px 7px 10px;

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A: Use flexbox on parent element and justify-content: flex-end.

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This past Monday evening the ICP Library Committee hosted the publisher of Little Brown Mushroom, Alec Soth, for an intimate seminar. Library Committee Co-chairs Stephanie Shuman and Evan Mirapaul assembled the line up, Phil Block led the discussion and Jeff Gutterman snapped the pictures.
Alec Soth was poised and eloquent throughout as he spoke about his artistic practice and the books that have had a meaningful influence upon his life and work. Alec talked about his multiple and varied experiences in the world of photography: As a photojournalist on assignment with Magnum, as a teacher and as an artist, as a maker of fine art books and as an independent publisher. Alec Soth & LBM have produced some of the most unique and innovative contemporary artists' books of our age and continue to push boundaries and question the very nature and form of the book. For this evening, each of his projects was brought to life through examples of his work and also some of the influential printed matter that sparked the original ideas. Alec emphasized the importance of his collaborations with other artists, designers and even members of his own family. But what was really important to Alec it seems was the importance of the 'experience' of a project – enjoying it, learning from it and living it.
It was great to see a copy of the magnificent Broken Manual and also the amazing American Postcards project (the Magnum Road Trip). Alec had just come down from Rochester, NY where he has been again working with the collective of Magnum blokes and blokesses on the "House of Photos" expedition. This is a project to document and to create an archive of Rochester at this moment in time. I cannot wait to see the results of this extraordinary photo experiment.
Alec is a truly charming and inquisitive photobook entrepreneur.
Vantage points : campus as place / photographs by Beth Dow, Chris Faust, and Alec Soth ; [essays by Laurel Bradley and Frank Martin]. Exhibition held at the Carleton College Art Gallery, February 15 – March 10, 2002.
Northfield, Minn. : Carleton College Art Gallery, 2002.
Sleeping by the Mississippi / Alec Soth ; essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker.
The factory / edited by Ian Jack. (Chapter – The making of parts by Alec Soth).
Niagara / Alec Soth ; essays by Philip Brookman and Richard Ford.
Fashion magazine : Paris-Minnesota / by Alec Soth.
Paris, France : Magnum Photos, 2007.
Dog days Bogotá / Alec Soth.
Göttingen : Steidl / Edition7L, 2007.
Sheep / Alec Soth ; [design and layout by Paul Schiek ; editing and sequence by Alec Soth].
Oakland, CA : TBW Books, 2008.
One Mississippi / Alec Soth.
Portland, Or. : Nazraeli Press, 2010. Volume no.63 of the series: Nazraeli Press one picture book. Edition of 500.
One day – ten photographers / edited by Harvey Benge.
From here to there : Alec Soth's America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis / edited by Siri Engberg ; with texts by Geoff Dyer … [et al.].
Minneapolis, Minn. : Walker Art Center, 2010.
Brighton picture hunt / by Carmen and Alec Soth.
"From a Photoworks commission published to coincide with the first exhibition of Brighton Picture Hunt at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, 2nd October – 14th November 2010, as part of BPB 2010: New Documents, curated by Martin Parr." — Colophon.
Broken manual / Lester B. Morrison & Alec Soth.
[Saint Paul, Minn.] : Little Brown Mushroom ; Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2010.
Ash Wednesday, New Orleans / Alec Soth.
Kanagawa, Japan : Super Labo, 2010.
The Auckland project / John Gossage and Alec Soth.
Santa Fe : Radius Books, 2011.
Rodarte : Catherine Opie, Alec Soth / [by Kate Mulleavy … Ed. by Brian Philipps]. Zurich : JRP Ringier, 2011.
Mostly women / Alec Soth.
Portland, Oregon : Nazraeli, 2011. Edition of 150. Nazraeli Press Six by Six series , Set 2 volume 5.
La belle dame sans merci / Alec Soth, cura di Marco Delogu ; [testo: Francesco Zanot].
Postcards from America : San Antonio TX, Del Rio TX, Highway 90, El Paso TX, Bisbee AZ, Las Vegas NV, Fresno CA, Oakland CA / Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikael Subotzky, Mikhael Subotzky & Ginger Strand.
New York, N.Y. : Magnum Photos, 2012.
The last days of W. / Alec Soth.
Saint Paul, Minn. : Little Brown Mushroom, 2008.
Lost Boy Mountain / Lester B. Morrison].
Saint Paul, Minn. : Little Brown Mushroom, 2010.
The Brighton Bunny Boy / by Carmen, Alec and Gus.
3 Zines : Lester becomes me, lonely bearded men, Library for broken men / Lester B. Morrison.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks / by Trent Parke. Saint Paul, Minn. : Little Brown Mushroom, 2010.
Man with buoy and other tales / by Seth Lower.
Saint Paul, Minn. : Little Brown Mushroom, 2011.
Bunny Boy goes to Rome / by the Soth family ; [Gus Soth, Bunny Boy ; Carmen Soth, pictures + story ; Alec Soth, director + photography ; Rachel Soth, photos + bunny wrangling].
[Saint Paul, Minn.] : Little Brown Mushroom, 2011.
Conductors of the Moving World / Brad Zellar.
Lonely boy mag : No.A-1, Alec Soth's "Midwestern Exotica" / Alec Soth.
Lonely boy mag no.2 : Boys & their cars. / Alec Soth.
The little brown mushroom coloring book / Jason Polan.
A Head with Wings / Anouk Kruithof.
House of Coates / Brad Zellar, photos by Lester B. Morrison.
Saint Paul, Minn. : Little Brown Mushroom, 2012.
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Stine Bidstrup is represented by Heller Gallery (NYC) at this year's SOFA Chicago that takes place this week on Nov 1-4, 2018. Opening night Thursday Nov 1.
Stine will be showing new sculptures from the Architectural Glass Fantasies series.


Our wonderful pinto horse wants to make everything right, is very diligent and loves to ride with you into our wonderful area, nothing scares her!
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The accordion is a musical instrument invented in Europe in the beginning of the 19th century. It produces music (or rather noise) by expanding and collapsing it while pressing buttons. This metaphor is applied to software: you may know the Accordion user interface control from Microsoft Outlook's navigation bar. In the last couple of years the control appeared in an ASP.NET AJAX implementation and a SilverLight implementation. Recently, the latter was ported to WPF and published as part of the February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit. This article describes how to use this great WPF control.
TransitioningContentControl: starts the animation when content changes.
Here's the full source code of the sample project: U2UConsult.WPFToolkit.Accordion.Sample.zip (1,98 mb).


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If you are using Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8, PopUpManager has this built in.
If you are using Flex 1.5 or Flex 2, same thing.
If you are rolling your own because of it being a design project, you could use the old "mouse shield" trick.
A Singleton class, like PopUpManager, can handle the creation and destruction of these 2 MC's.
Thats a nice solution, however it doesnt cover keyboard acessability which i quite often need.
This is a roll your own kind of job, but it's more an academic question, as like i said, i have it all working already.
Just curious if someone has come across this before, not nessecarily for modal behaviour.
b4 i also have same thinking……..how make it better….i try to share some idea here.
i think in the oop,the approach "enable() and modalEnable()" is the best solution.
but the side-effect: "There's nothing to stop another developer accidentally using modalEnable() instead of enable()", i think all OOP programming also face this problem. i dun know more about AOP , but it like to come to solve somthing like that problem.
You can use Observer patternt to solve this.
That's kind of the solution i used, I just think it's a bit clunky.


Yesterday at approximately 1:00 PM, the Sheriff's Office received a report of a robbery that had just occurred at the El Dorado Savings Bank, located at 4060 Coach Lane, in Cameron Park. The bank robbery suspect has been identified as Mark Spier, a 19 year-old white male that is between 5'07" and 5'10" tall with short brown hair and brown eyes. He was clean-shaven at the time but has facial acne. He was last seen wearing red basketball shorts with a white design near the knee, blue shoes and a white t-shirt. The depicted light grey long sleeve sweatshirt in the below photo has been recovered.
Spier is known to frequent the Cameron Park area. An active arrest warrant has been issued for his arrest. Any information regarding Spier's whereabouts can be relayed to El Dorado County Central Dispatch at (530) 621-6600.


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Celebrity News September 18, 2019
Is Nick Viall Dating Rachel Bilson? What He Says!
Rumors have been swirling about "The Bachelor" alum Nick Viall and actress Rachel Bilson, both 38.
Will we choose to forgo our individual rooms...
A post shared by Nick Viall (@nickviall) on Jul 23, 2019 at 5:35pm PDT
In July, Bilson met Viall on his "Viall Files" podcast, where he revealed that he had slid into her DMs to ask her to appear on it.
When Nick posted a pic with Rachel, he referenced "The Bachelor," joking, "Will we choose to forgo our individual rooms…" She quipped, "He slid into her…dms #sheaccepted."
During her appearance, Bilson opened up about dating, telling Viall, "I was talking to this guy a few months back [and] anytime I would bring my daughter up, they would never pursue the question or ask more about her. It was a red flag because anyone that you're going to get involved with, if you have a kid, they have to be all about the kid."
After their first meeting, Nick and Rachel would comment on each other's Instagram photos, sparking dating rumors.
In August, Rachel posted a pic with her "Hart of Dixie" co-stars Scott Porter and Wilson Bethel. Nick replied to her post, "Cute dress."
@skittishkid blew me away last night, he was incredible in #thelastfiveyears. Also had a #hartofdixie reunion #longlivethehart #reboot ♥
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Later that month, Rachel complimented Nick's "sweet cuffs" in a pic.
On Tuesday, Nick addressed the romance rumors in NYC, telling People magazine, "I'm not really defining any relationships these days. But I do think she has a great Instagram and it is very easy to comment on her content."
He told Us Weekly, "I always had a crush on Rachel. I told her that on my podcast. She was really cool. She's a lot of fun, has a great sense of humor and she knows how to give me a hard time, and I really appreciate that. Yeah, she's become a fun and cool friend."
When asked directly if they are dating, he answered, "I mean she's a dream, I'll say that."
Last year, Nick was linked to January Jones after she confessed her love for "The Bachelor," even revealing that she was attracted to him. During a chat with James Corden, January revealed that she had mixed feelings about Nick, joking, "You don't know if you like him or if he's a scumbag, but that's why I'm attracted to him, maybe."
After the rumors swirled, Nick told reporters at a Hollywood party, "I'm single now, so I'm not dating January Jones. We're friends."
#CelebrityNews#NickViall#RachelBilson


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Caporegime, Capodecina beziehungsweise die Kurzform Capo bezeichnen in Mafia-Gruppen – insbesondere der sizilianischen Cosa Nostra und der US-amerikanischen La Cosa Nostra – ein hochrangiges Mitglied innerhalb der Hierarchie der Organisation.

Etymologie
Caporegime ist ein italienisches Wort für den Anführer einer Gruppe, abgeleitet von  ("Kopf, Haupt") und regimen ("Lenkung, Leitung, Regierung"). Capodecina bezeichnet den Anführer einer Zehnergruppe und ist von decina – italienisch für "zehn" – abgeleitet.

Die Begriffe stammen aus der Hierarchie in der sizilianischen Mafia und wurden der Armee des Römischen Reiches entlehnt. Allerdings hat sich auch die Cosa Nostra amerikanisiert, das heißt, der Terminus "Boss" und andere Begriffe sind nun ebenfalls üblich. Bei der US-amerikanischen Mafia ist es üblich, den Rang auch mit "Captain" (oder extern mit "Lieutenant") zu bezeichnen.

So wurde beispielsweise die Gambino-Familie in New York City Mitte bis Ende der 1980er Jahre vom FBI auf circa 3.000 Mitglieder geschätzt. Diese waren entsprechend der damaligen Hierarchie wie folgt organisiert: An der Spitze der Boss, dem ein Underboss als Vertreter und rechte Hand sowie ein Consigliere als Berater zugeordnet waren. Unter dem Underboss befanden sich etwa 20 Hauptleute (oder Caporegime, Capo, Capodecina), die jeweils eine Gruppe befehligten. Diese Gruppen bestanden aus zehn bis fünfzehn initiierten Mitgliedern. Jedem der Mitglieder waren seinerseits zehn bis fünfzehn Gefolgsleute zuzurechnen, die zwar für die Familie arbeiteten, dieser aber nicht vollwertig angehörten.

Kleinere Familien wie die von St. Louis waren vielleicht ähnlich aufgebaut, hatten aber nur fünf Caporegime.

Funktion
Ein Capo ist immer Vollmitglied einer Mafia-Familie und übt die Führung über die einfachen Mitglieder ("soldati") aus. Im Vergleich zu einer militärischen Organisation könnte seine Funktion mit der eines Hauptmannes identifiziert werden. Allerdings sind seine Aufgaben völlig anders angelegt und motiviert.

Insbesondere ist der Capo nicht nur eine Figur innerhalb einer Befehlskette, sondern er dient auch der Abschirmung der über ihm angesiedelten Führungsschicht der Familie im Sinne der Omertà. Damit können Außenstehende oder rangniedere Mitglieder die Befehlskette grundsätzlich nicht umgehen; sie werden grundsätzlich nie einen direkten Befehl aus der Führungsschicht erhalten.

In der US-amerikanischen Mafia agierten die einzelnen "streetcrews" (engl. für 'Straßenmannschaften') sehr eigenständig. Sie berichten nur ihrem Capo und führen einen Teil ihrer (illegalen) Einnahmen an diesen ab. Dieser wiederum leitet Gelder weiter an höhergestellte Mitglieder. Außerdem stellt er die Kontaktstelle für Nichtmitglieder dar, da die US-amerikanischen Familien auch mit Assoziierten zusammenarbeiten, von denen vielen eine Vollmitgliedschaft auf Grund ihrer ethnischen Abstammung verwehrt bleiben wird.

Mitglieder und Capos agieren grundsätzlich nur in ihrer eigenen Fraktion; die Zahl oder Existenz anderer Gruppen wird – auch innerhalb der Familien – nicht kommuniziert, da auch das der Omertà unterliegt. Ein zu genaues Nachfragen würde bereits Misstrauen erregen, und der Nachfrager sähe sich dem Verdacht ausgesetzt, ein potentieller Pentito zu sein. So wurde 1969 der Tod des Mafioso Michele Cavataio auch deshalb beschlossen, weil er die Mafia-Clans von Palermo und deren wichtigste Vertreter auf einem Lageplan verzeichnet hatte.

Die Position des Capo kann ein Sprungbrett für den Aufstieg innerhalb der Familien sein; die Position ist jedoch auch latent und kann bei Unfähigkeit oder auf Grund von Machtkonstellationen innerhalb der Familie wieder verloren gehen.

Dieser Austausch erfolgt nicht immer friedlich und ein Caporegime steht auch unter großem Druck potentieller Nachfolger. Der Capo Dominic Napolitano äußerte sich dazu gegenüber dem verdeckten FBI-Agenten Joseph Pistone alias Donnie Brasco:

Letztendlich werden in gewisser Weise auch die Bosse selber als Capos gesehen: ein besonders einflussreiches Oberhaupt einer Familie, von dem angenommen werden kann, dass es eine dominierende Stellung gegenüber den anderen Anführern innehat oder anstrebt, wird als Capo di tutti i capi (siz-it. für Capo aller Capos) bezeichnet.

Adaptionen und Fiktionen
1990 wurde Paul "Paulie" Vario – Capo der Lucchese-Familie in New York City – international durch den Film GoodFellas – Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafia bekannt, in dem er durch die Figur des Paul "Paulie" Cicero vertreten ist. Vario wurde als einer der brutalsten Gangster New York Citys eingeschätzt. Der Film zeigt keine einzige physische Gewaltausübung von "Paulie", veranschaulicht aber die abschottende Arbeitsweise eines Capos und das Verhältnis zu seinen Assoziierten Henry Hill und Jimmy Burke, die – im Gegensatz zu ihm – grundsätzlich nicht Vollmitglieder seiner "Familie" werden können.

In dem Mafia-Klassiker Der Pate sind die Figuren Peter Clemenza und Salvatore Tessio Capos in der Familie Corleone.

In der Serie Die Sopranos steigt der Protagonist Tony Soprano vom Capo zum Underboss und schließlich zum Boss auf. Seine späteren Capos sind Paulie Gualtieri, Christopher Moltisanti, Lawrence Barese, Vito Spatafore, Carlo Gervasi, Raymond Curto und Bobby Baccalieri.

Literatur
 Jerry Capeci: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002, ISBN 0-02-864225-2.
 Roberto Saviano: Gomorrha (Reise in das Reich der Gomorrha). dtv, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-34529-3.
 Joseph Iannuzi: Das Ende des Paten (Leben und Sterben einer Mafia-Familie). Heyne-Bücherverlag, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08859-X.

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About the Southern Region
The region was created in late 2021 when the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation reorganized its structure into regions. The Southern Prairie Region covers six states: Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and southwestern Illinois.
At the time of restructuring, some smaller chapters decided to dissolve while other chapters remained in existence within their region and sometimes hold events primarily for members in their chapter areas.
The new Southern Prairie Region includes two already existing chapters: the Greater St. Louis Chapter and the Missouri-Kansas Riverbend Chapter in northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas.
The Trail Heritage Foundation's membership structure was revised, too. Now, every paid member is automatically a member of the national organization and chooses which home region she or he wants to be assigned to. For a small extra fee, a member can become assigned to other regions in addition to the person's home region. Click here to learn about membership.
With the Southern Prairie Region as the region of your choice, you will receive quarterly newsletters about activities in the region, as well as invitations to in-person events and Zoom talks, and other information specific to the region as well as the entire Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage organization. You will learn about the most important expedition in our nation's history and the many educational and tourist opportunities along the 4,900-mile Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
Most importantly, you will meet great people whose dedication and commitments to telling the story of the 1803-06 expedition are boundless!
Enjoy learning about Lewis and Clark and experiencing the trail. For more information or to offer suggestions, please send an email to SouthernPrairie@LewisandClark.org.
Lewis and Clark happenings nationwide through March 2023
Find out about the many Lewis and Clark events around the nation through March. Click on this link: https://o.b5z.net/i/u/10221558/f/Calendar_Dec._15__2022-March._2023.pdf. This calendar is provided by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. The map above shows just a few of the events listed in the calendar.
Treat yourself to a lovely 2023 calendar
A good Christmas gift for yourself and others: The 2023 calendar with beautiful photos related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The calendar is offered by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Photo below: A calendar photo of dugout canoes at Pompeys Pillar in Montana, taken by John Montague. Click this link for info about the calendar and its photos: https://wp.me/paIy0X-15N
Our recent newsletter
Enjoy this newsletter, published in September, and learn what's happening in the Southern Prairie Region. Click here.
Photo: In this newsletter an Albert Gallatin re-enactor talks about the cost of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Photo by Steve Lee.
Stroll through history at William Clark's gravesite
Here is a fun article about Jerry Garrett, who for decades has volunteered to give tours of William Clark's gravesite in St. Louis. Learn about Jerry, as well as Clark's life after the expedition. The article is posted on LewisandClarkNew.com, the blog for the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Jerry is a long-time member of the organization. Click on this link to read the article: https://wp.me/paIy0X-OW
Furs, Land and Sewing Needles
Watch Chris Hodges, author of "Colter's West Wind," give an informative and entertaining talk on the topic of "Furs, Land and Sewing Needles on the Frontier" and how the Lewis and Clark Expedition was at the forefront of opening the frontier for future development. His talk was sponsored by the Missouri-Kansas Riverbend Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Click here to watch the video…
Video: Watercraft of Lewis and Clark
Watch this video to learn about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the watercraft of western exploration and exploitation from the 1790s to 1840s. The talk was given by Lewis and Clark expert John Fisher. John's talk aired on Zoom on March 21, 2021, and was hosted by the Missouri-Kansas Riverbend Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trial Heritage Foundation. To learn more about the nonprofit organization: lewisandclark.org. Introductions in the video were given by Dan Sturdevant and Yvonne Kean of the Riverbend Chapter. To find out about future monthly Zoom talks, please send an email to garykimsey55@gmail.com. Click this link to watch the video: https://youtu.be/AqR0b6nrYZM
Video: The Christmases of Lewis and Clark
Learn how the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition celebrated Christmas in 1803, 1804 and 1805 as they explored America. The presenters are Barb Kubik and Jerry Garrett, prominent members of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation (LCTHF). Recorded on Dec. 6, 2020, this video is one of a series of Lewis and Clark Zoom talks hosted by the Missouri-Kansas Riverbend Chapter of the Land Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Click here to view the video: https://youtu.be/77VMAQyEJEk
Muddy Water and Whiskey
Read this article to find out about Lewis and Clark's time in the Kansas City area. Interviewed: Dan Sturdevant, chairperson of the Missouri-Kansas Riverbend Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Click here to read...
Riverbend members honored
The National Park service recently honored five members of the Missouri-Kansas Riverbend Chapter for their volunteer work on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. Read the story...
The First Inclusive Election
In late 1805, the Lewis and Clark explorers conducted what is believed to be the first inclusive election by Americans in the West. Voters included an African-American slave named York and a young Shoshone woman, Sacagawea. In this easy-to-read 550-word essay, Lewis and Clark experts Philippa Newfield and Dr. Jay Buckley describe how this election foretold the universal suffrage it would take our country more than a century to achieve. Click on this link: The First Inclusive Election...
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Letterman Unplugged!
Consider buying my book The BIG Black Lie, an Amazon Best Seller. The book is a MUST for your conservative education, and guaranteed for at least ten (10) belly laughs!
How lucky for Letterman that he is not taken too seriously. Imagine revealing publicly that you are a slimeball, as people laugh along like a laughtrack? Thankfully his wife didn't have to endure "the good wife" photo op, as Letterman joked of disgracing her and his family. That may be her only solace in all of this.
Letterman quipped on his show that the revelation of all whom he slept with would be embarrassing— "especially for the women!" Perhaps no truer words have been spoken!
Far be it from me to moralize about people. People make mistakes. But I must tell you that I was happy to hear that Letterman is in the "hot seat." And it's just beginning. Nevertheless, I know that Hollyweird will come to his aid. "He has to work long nights with staffers," or "Things just work differently in Hollywood…the pressures." We will get to witness the lunacy of the Left first-hand!
We may never know exactly whom Letterman slept with. But in the wake of the Polanski story, and frankly just knowing how Liberals are, it wouldn't surprise me if Letterman slept with anybody and everybody. Just don't hang around the set after dark!
Why should we have thought that Letterman is not just another self-indulgent, Hollywood hypocrite? Is it because he's funny? Lord knows that without fame and fortune many of Letterman's conquests would never have "indulged" with him. Letterman benefitted from The Billy Joel Effect! Because in the real world, guys with no talent who look like Billy Joel don't get chicks who look like Christie Brinkley!
Ironically, by not naming names, Letterman makes a suspect of every man, woman, [and child] on his staff. And you thought Lewinski carries a lifelong scar! The potential stigma of sleeping with Letterman is a very heavy cross to bear!
Letterman said that he is doing this "to protect all the people involved." Really?! I think he's doing it to protect himself. Something tells me that without the extortion attempt, we might never have heard about Letterman's shenanigans. Honestly, I could have done without this scandal. The visual alone make me almost lose my lunch.
Letterman would like this to just go away…to laugh it off. However it just won't happen. Aside from the obvious sexual harassment implications, I predict that Letterman will be the product of many lawsuits— even from those he did not have "sexual relations" with. I know if I worked at CBS I'd sue him for mental anguish.
Before you get all uppity about that statement, consider that if I worked at CBS I would be a Liberal, or at best a "closet Conservative," thus tainted…and litigious. I'd see this as the perfect opportunity to cash out at the expense of Letterman, CBS, and of course the taxpayer. Think about all the mental anguish I would have suffered knowing about the affairs, and wondering when, when would Letter approach me for my well-muscled booty? Or wondering if he will fire me, because I know, and he will want to cut off the heads of people who could potentially hurt him?
Or perhaps I would feel discriminated against that Letterman had not made advances at me! I might be outraged that he chose Mario, the Puerto Rican copywriter instead of me! Mario is only third generation American, and he ain't "all that!" My family has been here since the 1800's, and fries do go with my shake!
And what about Angie! I know he "did" her on another set, and she's a first class witch. Why are all those around me getting all the nice gifts, trips, and so on, and I'm being treated like a skunk at the picnic?
Next, I could just lie and say that Letterman had approached me, many times, but I refused his sexual advances. It was TORTURE, and I couldn't be effective at my job. So what he never fired me. I was a good tease.
Anyway, the inevitable outcome would be that I could have my complete employee file revised. All those missed days…GONE! Coming in late…GONE! Bad attitude…never happened! And of course I would negotiate for a much better job…one for which I was completely unqualified.
Or I could lie and say that Letterman and I had an illicit affair for many years, which was how I stuck around. I could write a book, and Oprah would put it on her book club, and make me rich. When it was revealed that Letterman was not a booty-bandit and my affair with him never happened, Oprah could have me back on the show. She would make me admit my wrongs, and I would "fess up." I would cry a lot, and promise never to do it again. But I'd be rich!
Finally, I would go on disability, so the taxpayers could take care of me for the rest of my life.
Here's the wrap:
I can't say that I feel sorry for Letterman. I think of the damage people like him do, all for the sake of a laugh, like what he said about Sarah Palin. I hope he is made to squirm for some time. Nevertheless, I predict that Letterman's professional life won't change much, and in fact he will likely become even more iconic in the eyes of the Left.
I do hope that the woman he dated for years, had a child with, and eventually married gets hers. It seems that the only way to hurt Hollyweird is in the pocketbook. I suggest she keep away from the cameras and let Letterman do the "perp walk" all by himself.
That's my rant!
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Death benefits restored to families of servicemen killed in Afghanistan
by: rsylestine
DOVER AFB, DE – The casualties of war turned into casualties of politics for several heartbreaking hours.
For a time, the partial government closure became a shameful shutdown when the families of four servicemen killed in Afghanistan learned they would not get the $100,000 reimbursement for travel and funeral expenses.
For a change, Democrats and Republicans found common ground.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, (D) Texas: "I want immediately for the $100,000 death benefit and the flight to Dover to be immediately given to these families."
Rep. Renee Ellmers, (R) North Carolina: "Mr. Speaker despite the government shutdown our service members are still expected to go to war knowing full well that they may pay the ultimate sacrifice for this great nation and we should be expected to keep our promises to their family members."
President Obama told the Pentagon and the White House Office of Management and Budget to come up with a solution. In other words: Git 'er done.
The House members didn't wait to be told what to do, voting unanimously to restore those death benefits. The Senate is expected to do the same.
But don't expect the leaders of the House and Senate to use this brief bromance to end the partial government shutdown.
"Our message in the House has been pretty clear. We want to reopen our government and provide fairness to all Americans under the president's healthcare law," said Speaker of the House John Boeher.
To which, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid responded: "We have simple, simple requests — open the government, let us pay our bills."
If that's not enough to make you sick, how about some nice, juicy chicken?
About 300 people in 18 states, mostly out west are sick with salmonella from Foster Farms chicken.
Place some of the blame on the Centers for Disease Control, which furloughed people who track these things.
The good news is they're going back to work. The bad news is that this is just another 'fowl up', with Washington giving all of us the bird.
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HOUSTON (CW39) -- In honor of the first shelter dog in the White House, the Houston Humane Society will reduce their adoption fee to $40 for the rest of the month for all dogs 40 pounds and larger.
Every adoption includes spaying and neutering, microchip, vaccinations, heartworm test, a full wellness exam and a gift bag with pet accessories!


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By Jason, July 22, 2018 in Let's Talk Cruise!
A little more than a year ago, Norwegian Cruise Line was celebrating its first China-based ship, Norwegian Joy, at a ceremony in Shanghai. Everything at the christening — ship included — had been customized for the market: the hull art, featuring a phoenix; the choreographed dance; the guest list; and the godfather, pop star Wang Leehom, who gave a performance.
"After years spent carefully designing this amazing vessel, my team and I are both proud and thrilled to finally christen the world's first cruise ship custom-designed for the wonderful people of China," said Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, at the June 2017 event.
On Wednesday, Norwegian was singing another tune. The operator announced a series of deployment changes that will see the 3,883-passenger Norwegian Joy leave China in April for the more lucrative waters of Alaska. Eventually, the ship will be replaced in China by a much smaller vessel that will sail there seasonally, but Norwegian will have no vessels in the country for about a year.
Norwegian Bliss, which launched this year, is sailing in Alaska already and setting records for the company. Norwegian Joy will join Bliss and another ship, Norwegian Jewel, next spring. The changes will also see a ship sail from Amsterdam for the first time, send another to Australia and New Zealand, and a third to Singapore and Hong Kong.
"That's really the center of it, the opportunity to put a sister ship in Alaska alongside Bliss, which has just been a knock-it-out-of-the-park success, expand capacity in Europe, and build our presence across the Australasian region through the domino effect of all of that," Stuart said.
Stuart said there were some features on the ship, which was built with China's cruisers in mind, that wouldn't translate for North American passengers, including larger retail and casinos, smaller gyms and spas, and tea rooms instead of bars. But he said the larger goal was to tailor Norwegian Joy to be as close as possible to Norwegian Bliss, which got a nationwide rollout this spring with stops in multiple cities.
Cruise industry expert Stewart Chiron, CEO of CruiseGuy.com, called the Mexico deployment a "terrific move for NCL," especially considering Carnival Cruise Line recently announced it was sending a new ship to the region.
"Signals strong demand in the rebounding Mexican Riviera market," he said in an email.
Norwegian's aspirations in China have evolved over the past year and a half as the market itself has fluctuated. In February 2017, Del Rio announced the company would send a second new ship to the country in 2019, saying it would be "the highest and best use" for the vessel.
He was sounding less certain a few months later, after tensions between China and South Korea forced cruise lines to stop calling on South Korean itineraries.
By February of this year, Del Rio said the company would no longer deploy a second new ship to the market, and suggested it could be a couple of years before more capacity would head to China.
While he spoke highly of Norwegian Joy's occupancy and ratings in March, Del Rio still described the market as "a work in progress" and a "long-term investment" that required patience.
In May, he did not give any indication that the company planned to withdraw from China for a while: Del Rio said he felt "better about China today than I certainly did six months ago" and said prices appeared to be rising as industry capacity dropped. Wednesday, he described the shifts as a correction.
"The realignment and optimization of ship assets also allows us to rightisize our capacity in China while maintaining our commitment to this promising cruise market," Del Rio said in an announcement.
After years of rapid expansion, several cruise lines have lowered their China capacity this year amid forced itinerary changes and pricing struggles, sending ships to destinations with more favorable conditions.
While Norwegian has seven ships on order, due between 2019 and 2027, no new capacity has been announced for China. According to the plans released Wednesday, the 2,000-passenger Norwegian Spirit will move to China in summer of 2020 after an extensive refurbishment.
Due to the changes, Norwegian said it expects to earn about 30 cents in incremental adjusted earnings per share in 2020. The company said it anticipated only a very slight benefit in 2019 due to an anticipated one-time write-off of about $25 million related to the Norwegian Joy upgrades, revenue that will be lost during the five weeks it will take to make the changes and reposition the ship, and cost of marketing the new itineraries.
For this year, the company said it expects to raise its forecast for adjusted earnings per share when it reports second-quarter results in early August.
Shares closed at $50.14, up more than 5 percent from the previous day's close.
Wow! Lots going on with Norwegian...nice that they will be having renovations and new ports. And more ships to choose from in traveling to Alaska and the Mexican Riviera. Looks like China will have a wait until 2020!
I believe the real story here is NCL loves to quote low prices and then add very high service fees. They have the highest daily gratuity fee of all the major lines. They do things like free drink packages and then hit the guest with $20 plus a day in services fees on the package. These things they can do with US Guest and the guest seem to act like sheep and just accept it but in China it will not fly.
In China people want to have a total price, if you tell them a cruise is a amount equal to $1500 dollars they ill pay that and no more. Which put NCL in a very bad position, if they showed all the fees the cruise was much higher than other lines if they did not show the fees the guest would not pay them.
Del Rio thought he could play the same games he does in the Western markets and found out China is a completely different ball game. So he has pulled his ships and is taking them back to the US Market were his bait and switch games will work.
It will not change or hurt the market as other ships being added here by the other lines, Asia will still be the fastest growing market but NCL will not be part of it for the near future.
Interesting...thanks for your view, Todd!
I think this was posted somewhere else here because I remember the comment I made, which I'll state again. I'm not fond of the trend of these humongous mega ships cruising Alaska waters. Maybe it's just my personal opinion that Alaska is so much more about the destination, and a much better fit to the smaller vessels. Coral Princess and NCL's Pearl , Jewel, and the mid-size HAL ships, for instance, are a good size. I'd even say that the Princess Grand Class are okay, but that's as big a ship as I like to see in Alaska. I can understand the cruise lines' marketing to Alaska due to its popularity, but ginormous ships like Ovation of the Seas, Bliss and Joy just don't belong.
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Category Archives: "Corruption and Good Governance" in the County.
Oct. '14
"Corruption and Good Governance" in the County.
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Mr. Rushern Baker –The current County Executive for Prince George's County is known not to be a man of his word according to Prince George's County NAACP Chapter and is deeply involved in the scandal comprising Dr. kevin Maxwell .
It never hurts when a company's founder wins the Nobel prize for the product it makes or a leader who has shown extra-ordinary qualities in times of difficulties. However, news reports that, CEO Maxwell of Prince George's County received an award for environmental conservation when no one has ever seen him advocate for such in Prince George's County is a questionable exercise. Could it be this is a decoy for after we published an expose for hiring Mr. Christian Rhodes recently? We will let you be the judge.
Prince George's County needs sustained reporting on malfeasance in public life. The continuous reporting has resulted in the ouster of corrupt officials and raised public awareness on the need for reform. If there has to be an award to the county's CEO Maxwell, it needs to be an award for his promotion of hostile work environment. >> Read more Dr. Kevin Maxwell takes a bizarre turn!
Elements of a Hostile Work Environment Claim
Determining harassment or discrimination is fact-specific and the elements that must be established depend on the type alleged. In general, to establish that a person has been harassed or discriminated against under Maryland Law Against Discrimination, that person must show the following five elements to establish a hostile work environment claim:
(1) They are a qualified individual under protected class for example they could have disability;
(2) They were subjected to unwelcome harassment;
(3) The harassment was based on the person's class or status;
(4) The harassment was sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter a term, condition, or privilege of employment; and
(5) Some factual basis exists to impute liability for the harassment to the employer.
"Reasonable Person Standard"
In addition, to recover on a hostile environment claim, a plaintiff must demonstrate not only that he subjectively perceived his workplace environment as hostile, but also that a reasonable person would so perceive it — that it was objectively hostile. Factors to consider
frequency of the discriminatory conduct;
its severity;
whether it is physically threatening or humiliating, or a mere offensive utterance; and
whether it unreasonably interferes with an employee's work performance.
In Prince George's county, Dr. Maxwell has failed to address the issues of hostile work environment and his actions speaks volumes in recent months. Claims against Prince George's County and other employers within are rising, with a majority alleging employees or former employees were subjected to a "hostile work environment" or "hostility in the workplace." To any keen observer, this is failed leadership out to squander public cash through the back door.
In an influential essay titled "Leading From Within," educational writer and consultant Parker Palmer introduces a powerful metaphor to dramatize the distinction between ethical and unethical leadership. According to Palmer, the difference between moral and immoral leaders is as sharp as the contrast between light and darkness, between heaven and hell.
A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to create the conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being, conditions that can be either as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A leader must take special responsibility for what's going on inside his or her own self, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.
Leaders have the power to illuminate the lives of followers or to cover them in darkness. They cast light when they master ethical challenges of leadership. They cast shadows when they (1) abuse power, (2) hoard privileges, (3) mismanage information, (4) act inconsistently, (5) misplace or betray loyalties, and (6) fail to assume responsibilities.
According to professor Kellerman, bad leaders can be ineffective, unethical, or ineffective and unethical. She identifies seven types of bad leaders:
Incompetent: These leaders don't have the motivation or ability to sustain effective action. They may lack emotional or academic intelligence, for example, or be careless, distracted, or sloppy. Some can't function under stress, and their communication and decisions suffer as a result. Former International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch (1961–2000) is one example of an incompetent leader. Toward the end of his tenure he turned a blind eye to commercialism, drug scandals, and corruption in the Olympic movement.
Rigid: Rigid leaders may be competent, but they are unyielding, unable to accept new ideas, new information, or changing conditions. Thabo Mbeki is one such leader. After becoming president of South Africa in 1999, he insisted that HIV did not cause AIDS and withheld antiretroviral drugs from HIV-positive women. These medications would have dramatically cut the transmission of the disease to their babies.
Intemperate: Intemperate leaders lack self-control and are enabled by followers who don't want to intervene or can't. Marion Barry, Jr.'s political career demonstrates intemperate leadership in action. Barry served as mayor of Washington, DC, from 1979 to 1991. He ignored widespread corruption in his administration, perhaps in part because he was busy cheating on his wife and doing drugs. Barry was convicted of possessing crack cocaine and served 6 months in jail. After being released from prison, he was elected to the city council in 1992 and was reelected as mayor in 1994. During his administrations, the district's schools and public services deteriorated while the murder rate soared.
Callous: The callous leader is uncaring or unkind, ignoring or downplaying the needs, wants, and wishes of followers. Former hotel magnate Leona Helmsley personifies the callous leader. She earned the title "The Queen of Mean" by screaming at employees and firing them for minor infractions such as having dirty fingernails. Helmsley later served time for tax evasion. (She once quipped, "Only the little people pay taxes.")
Corrupt: These leaders and at least some of their followers lie, cheat, and steal. They put self-interest ahead of public interest. Former United Way of America chief William Aramony is an example of this type of leader. Aramony used United Way funds to buy and furnish an apartment for his girlfriend and to pay for vacations. His top financial officers helped him hide his illegal actions. Aramony and his colleagues were convicted on fraud-related charges.
Insular: The insular leader draws a clear boundary between the welfare of his or her immediate group or organization and outsiders. Former President Bill Clinton behaved in an insular manner when he didn't intervene in the Rwandan genocide that took the lives of 800,000–1 million people in 1994. He later traveled to Africa to apologize for failing to act even though he had reliable information describing how thousands of Tutsis were being hacked to death by their Hutu neighbors.
Evil: Evil leaders commit atrocities, using their power to inflict severe physical or psychological harm. Foday Sankoh is one example of an evil leader. He started a civil war in Sierra Leone in 1991. His army, which included many boy soldiers, carried out a campaign of rape and murder. The rebels were also known for chopping off the legs, hands, and arms of innocent civilians.
We know where light is coming from by looking at the shadows.
—Humanities scholar Paul Woodruff
Dr. Kevin Maxwell seemed like a good fit in the very beginning but has proved himself to be something else. He is clearly being used by Mr. Rushern Baker regime and others for selfish motives including for high salaries at the expense of poor children and for improper influence within PGCPS District. Every time he gets criticized for making mistakes, the county leadership or some other external forces promotes him for some kind of an award to confuse the public everything is ok.
The Behaviors and Personal Characteristics of Toxic Leaders
Destructive Behaviors Toxic Qualities
Leaving followers worse off Lack of integrity
Violating human rights Insatiable ambition
Feeding followers' illusions; creating dependence Enormous egos
Playing to the basest fears and needs of followers Arrogance
Stifling criticism; enforcing compliance Amorality (unable to discern right from wrong)
Misleading followers Avarice (greed)
Subverting ethical organizational structures and processes Reckless disregard for the costs of their actions
Engaging in unethical, illegal, and criminal acts Cowardice (won't make tough choices)
Building totalitarian regimes Failure to understand problems
Failing to nurture followers, including successors Incompetent in key leadership situations
Setting constituents against one another
Encouraging followers to hate or destroy others
Identifying scapegoats
Making themselves indispensable
Ignoring or promoting incompetence, cronyism, and corruption
SOURCE: Adapted from Lipman-Blumen, J. (2005). The allure of toxic leaders: Why we follow destructive bosses and corrupt politicians—and how we can survive them. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 19–23.
Read more >>> Rebranding of Prince George's through Vote 2014.
>>>Maxwell hires former Baker aide and creates yet another Blunder.
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Ms. Orr needs an economics lesson
Entrepreneurs, it has been said so many times over the past 30 years, create wealth. Right this minute, the foolish government is sitting around, waiting with bated breath, for glamorous entrepreneurs to get on with doing just that. But there are no signs that a great boom in business ingenuity is on its way.
So why are entrepreneurs being so shy? Don\'t they want to create wealth? They probably do. But the fact is this: the entire entrepreneurs-create-wealth thing is a fallacy, and the government is wrong to place its faith in it. Entrepreneurs don\'t create wealth. Banks create wealth, only banks.
Not at all. Stick, wrong end of.
Entrepreneurs are those who move productive assets from lower to higher valued uses. This is the very definition of wealth creation.
Banks are useful in this process, as is money, the collation and allocation of it that banks perform.
But we had entrepreneurs and wealth creation before we had banks and we\'ll have it again even if we abolish banks altogether. Not as much as we have now with banks, sure, but that\'s because banks facilitate the process: but they are not the process itself.
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Serf June 3, 2011 at 10:05 am
…..So a builder who turns a pile of useless bricks and bags of cement into an extension doesn't create wealth…..
…. A cafe owner who transforms low value bread into high value sandwiches is not generating value…..
…..An inventor who turns industrial waste into salable Scandium is not doing anything to further society's economic development…..
Even for the Guardian, this ranks as ignorant
Emil June 3, 2011 at 10:50 am
I suspect that the main issue is that they don't know what wealth is
Mr Ecks June 3, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Try getting rid of the state thieving and their moronic habit of using the money to create and enforce regulations that make it ever harder for people to start and stay in business.
The silly cow.
RJP June 3, 2011 at 12:39 pm
He's obviously getting confused between credit creation and wealth creation, banks doing the former and occasionally the latter.
That should read she rather than he.
blokeinfrance June 3, 2011 at 3:00 pm
"Only banks create wealth"
In The Guardian? Am I dreaming?
Next week's Guardian Headlines:
Gordon Brown: "I was wrong."
Abu Hamza: "I just hope my boy can find a nice Jewish girl to settle down with."
George Monbiot: "Nuclear Power is good."
Richard June 3, 2011 at 3:43 pm
"So why are entrepreneurs being so shy?"
Because if you grow your business, you get shafted by tax and regulation.
You can have a nice little business, £70k turnover, not much expenses, in partnership with the wife – no VAT, no PAYE, basic rate tax. Easy.
But try to grow it a bit, and you've got to take on staff, so you're hit with PAYE & employer's NI. And then you're over the VAT threshold so you've got that as well. And not just the payments but the whole admin, with HMRC inspections & fines if you get it wrong.
Then you have to give the staff maternity leave, sick leave, paid holidays – and you can't sack them when they turn out to be useless or idle.
And after all that, if you do manage to make some extra profit, you're hit with higher rate tax.
No wonder so few small businesses turn into large ones.
"What is our tax spent on? It is spent on just one thing. It is spent on ensuring that our potential for taking part in money-circuits is maximised, by educating us, keeping us healthy, maintaining the civic structures around us …"
If only that were true!
David Gillies June 3, 2011 at 4:38 pm
If Orr's cretinous statement were to have any validity, it would indicate that the most important department at Apple Computer was accounting and not, say, engineering or product development.
Current June 3, 2011 at 8:20 pm
What' Orr is describing is very like the MMT theory, or NeoChartalism.
It's like Keynesianism, only more amusing to read.
Turns out she's not Ms Orr, she's Mrs Will Self the 2nd.
Has she been having a smoke with hubby before she wrote her article?
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Ok, so I apologize that this e-mail is getting posted a little later than the day of as I am currently at my friends' ranch out in the mountains. It is really nice to get out of the city, eventhough I really enjoy the city it is really nice to get out and hear yourself think a little bit. Today it was nice to wake up and sit in the sun with a view of the mountains and the foothills and grade papers. Plus a little extra sleep was helpful!
On Friday I spent the day once again at AHS, as with every other day this week, and overall had a great week. First period I spent meeting with a librarian who is coming in to assist my sixth period seniors. It was really nice to get to know another professional in my school. He had some great insight into my classes and also taught me a lot about the school and the resources avaliable.
Second period I did a little preparation with Krisitin in advance of taking over her 10th grade class. It was a lot of fun talking through the lessons I am going to teach and getting everything prepared for class that day. Third period we actually went to class and started the students off on publishing their memoirs on their wikispaces. I had a little time where I worked with three students to help them set up their wikispaces, which it was really fun working with a small group instead of a large group all the time. These students are publishing their memoirs on their wikispaces, for the entire world, and not just turning it into the teacher. They are also "wikifying" it - adding in pictures, music, and hyperlinks to their memoirs to make them more exciting and more relevant to their lives. It is really interesting to me to see what these students are doing with their memoirs. I really wish that I was back in English 10, to get to put my writing out there for the entire world to see on my wikispace - who would have thought about that five years ago?
Third period I went to British Literature and truly felt like a student. These are my seniors and they finished "The Last Lecture" and then talked about their own last lecture / final project that they need to give near the end of the school year. The majority of this period I was working in the back on a computer planning lessons and getting everything ready for the end of the day. All the students had laptops and I felt like one of them working away in the back and trying to pay attention at the same time.
Fifth period I spent inspiring my juniors on to success with metaphors and writing their essays of place. They were an interesting crowd, and I must say that I am still getting used to the whole fact of only having them three times a week. Why can't I teach one of those classes instead of the ones that meet five times a week? Just kidding, I would not trade my freshman for anything. They are incredible and lots of fun, it's just teaching juniors what a metaphor is and only seeing them three times a week is a completly different schedule than I am used to.
Then sixth hour came and I went and visitied my good friends, the ninth graders. They were a little wild on Friday, but that was probably due to the fact that it was the end of the week. I made sure that they looked at their grades before we started class, as I had all their grades up to date by the time class started. Grading is something that I enjoy, not for the fact of putting grades into the computer or even assessing student work, but because I get to give feed back to students and help them to get better. Plus the whole no D policy makes everything a little better. When I really give students a bad grade I know that they can make anything up if they want to, it's just that I truly hope that they do. In class I gave them work time to work on their concept map webs and to help each other out to get better ideas of what they can write their papers on. While they were doing this I circulated the classroom and actually met with every student about their own webs. While I was doing this the students got a little carried away and not a lot of them actually completed their in-class assignment. Which as a teacher is a little disappointing, but then again it was their choice and not mine. At the end of class we watched a video titled: "I Remember When" that speaks to what students remember when they went to school - life before cell phones, hotspots, and a whole variety of other technology. It was pretty interesting. Then I thought it would be really cool to gather around the globe to finish the week off focusing on what the students want to do - change the world. Then the bell rang and my first week was over.
After class I really considered my fifty-nine minutes with them. Was it effective? Did they really learn the material? Are they actually prepared to start this essay? I honestly did not think so, and I voiced this concern with Anne. She explained to me that the most these students have ever written was one paragraph. They have no concept of progression of proof. No concept of evidence in a paragraph. No concept of concept mapping, other than what I taught them. No concept of a thesis. No concept of how to write a long paper. I was thinking and expecting them to be here, when they were actually down here. That was honestly my take away for the day - there you go Anne. I hate to say it, but I was expecting some unrealistic things from my students. So I travel up to the ranch, take a little time off to grill, hang out with some friends, and refocus on the task at hand - to change the world. Tomorrow I will evaluate and look at how can I break down the steps and really get these students from their really large topics down to something small that they can actually research and write about. I need to take them from a topic the size of the world and bring it down to something the size of Denver - hey, that's a great analogy, I just might use that on Monday! Then from there I need to model, model, and model some more. They need to see what a true example looks like. I need to stop talking through examples and start physcially writing them down for the students. Randon, don't be afraid of the blackboard - just because it's not a whiteboard or electronic doesn't mean that it will hurt you! So that's the goal Anne and I set for next week (which is a great idea by my mentor there to actually set a goal for the week and then strive to reach that goal each and every day). I will give the students physcial models of what I expect from them. Meaning tomorrow I will plan to actually sit down and plan out webs for all my students. What is an A, B, and C example web. What does one look like that actually has a position they can support? What is an adequate action plan? Where should they really go with their topic? Those are all things I need to look at, but most of all I think that I just need to model the heck out of these webs. Model each one and for every student in the entire class until they get how to create a web, what it looks like, and where everything goes. That's the only way that I think I know how to do it. Then we will go from there and they will all re-do their webs and this time I am actually going to grade them. Then from there they are going to start doing quality research and start to truly formulate what is going on and where their projects are going. And I am going to demand that the entire class stays up with this assignment. Like I told them, changing the world is not easy - no one ever said that it was going to be - so why should teaching students to change the world be any easier?
After school I went to "The Bubble," or otherwise known as the dome where the women's soccer team practices. It was really nice to actually see the women play and the goalies in action. Let's just say that I can't wait to get my feet wet and start training these goalies. They all need a little fundamental work somewhere; come on goalies are the most critical people of themselves on the planet. All stuff that I look forward to helping them out with.
After talking to Anne about my day on Friday I honestly was completly exhausted. Then it was off to soccer practice. As I reflect on the entire week, though, I recognize one thing Anne told me: "Think about where you were on Monday and where you are today." I have changed. Not only as a teacher, in the classroom, with my students, but I have gotten lost downtown, had fun running around the city of Denver - literally - and even more so than that I have adapted to a schedule and a life that involves making a difference every fifty-nine minutes. Even though I wake up way early and go to bed way, and some would say much too late to be teaching in the morning, it's about those fifty-nine minutes with the students. It's about the fifty-nine minutes to make a difference. It's about those fifty-nine minutes to change the world. I believe, in some small way, my actions this last week during my fifty-nine minutes have done just that, or at least I hope they have for someone, - changed the world.
But it doesn't stop there. On Monday I get another set of fifty-nine minutes. The challenge starts all over again, but at the same time that's the beauty of education - your education is never really complete.


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Le Tour de Catalogne 1995 est la 75 édition du Tour de Catalogne, une course cycliste par étapes en Espagne. L'épreuve se déroule sur 8 étapes du 15 au  sur un total de 1.146,1 km. Le vainqueur final est le Français Laurent Jalabert de l'équipe ONCE, devant Melchor Mauri et Jesús Montoya.

Cette année, l'UCI a décidé de déplacer la course en juin. Cela signifie que des cyclistes comme Indurain et Rominger sont absents de la course, en vue de se préparer au mieux pour le Tour de France.

Étapes

Prologue
15-06-1995: Manlleu - Fàbrica Le Piara (Manlleu), 3,1 km. (clm):

étape
16-06-1995: Manlleu – Abbaye de Montserrat, 191,0 km.:
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2 étape17-06-1995: Manresa – Torredembarra, 172,4 km.:3 étape18-06-1995: Torredembarra - Barcelone, 169,5 km.:4 étape19-06-1995: Bellver de Cerdanya – Boí Taüll, 226,8 km.:5 étape20-06-1995: Boí Taüll – Lleida, 163,3 km.:6 étape21-06-1995: Caves Segura Viudas (Torrelavit), 21,6 km. (clm):7 étape22-06-1995: Barcelone – Olot, 198,4 km.:'''

Classement général

Classement de la montagne

Classement des metas volantes

Meilleure équipe

Bibliographie

Références

Liens externes
Site officiel
Classements sur cyclingfever.com
Classements sur cyclebase.nl

1995
Cyclisme sur route en 1995
1995 en Espagne


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