Real estate lawyer Neil Sullivan, Managing Partner of Sullivan McMullan has appeared in the media a multitude of times throughout his professional career over the last two decades. Most notably, he made brief appearances in both interviews and articles.
On Inspirery as well as Ideamensch, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, and business owners discuss their professional career. In addition, the guests speak about their early life and education. For Neil in particular, he appeared on both interview platforms to discuss how he rebranded his law firm, built a robust clientele, and takes pride in providing top-notch quality service to his clients. Furthermore, Neil briefly touches on what a typical day is like for him as well as how he stays productive. Last but not least, he provides readers with some book recommendations and his favorite quote.
Aside from the interviews that Neil appeared in, he also lends his expertise, knowledge, and insight to various article publications. More specifically, his articles on real estate law in Canada were recently published on Patch and Prague Post.
Click on the links below to learn more about Neil. If you find the articles or interviews interesting, be sure to leave a comment.
Finding a good real estate lawyer is one of the most important aspects of buying and selling a property. A real estate lawyer represents your personal interests in the deal and will keep your priorities in mind.
Always try and find a way to do something better. If an issue arises, find a way to avoid it in the future. Neil Sullivan, Managing Partner for Sullivan & McMullan Real Estate Law is reinventing the way real estate works. While he has been established in multiple businesses over the years, he thrives in the real estate environment.
When you think of a traditional law firm, the words "service oriented" are not the typical words that come to mind. Changing the world in real estate law is Neil Sullivan, Managing Partner of Sullivan McMullan.


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Пам'ятки культури
Пам'яткою XIX ст. є садиба Шенекар з головним фасадом, господарськими будівлями та меншими будівлями. Всі будівлі з цегляними дахами.

Ще одною пам'яткою є три могильники римської доби діаметром 8–10 м та висотою 1 м з висотою від 0.6 до 1 м.

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Think for a moment. What do the names of Sanders, Lincoln, and Daniels all have in common? Each one of these men has been associated with the idea of success in one form or another. Colonel Sanders founded and developed one of the most successful restaurant chains in the United States. Mr. Lincoln is considered by many to be one of the most important Presidents of this country. Mr. Daniels has developed a thriving consulting business that has him billing out at $10,000 per hour. All three, in their time were the dynamos that everyone had to contend with.
What you may not realize is that one of the reasons why each one of these men was so successful is because they persisted when everything and nearly everyone around them was indicating failure. They refused to give in in the face of adversity and glaring opposition. Did you know, for example, that President Lincoln had at least two failed attempts at becoming an elected official? He also had a number of unsuccessful attempts at business. Still he persisted, eventually winning more votes than any other of his competitors entering into the Congress. From there he eventually became president during one of the most influential presidencies in our history.
Colonel Sanders began his fried chicken empire by providing home cooked meals to weary travelers on his own dining room table at the gasoline station that employed him. Eventually his persistence in serving Sunday dinner-style meals seven days a week eventually earned him enough fans to open his own restaurant across the street. In less than a decade, his persistence helped to open nearly 600 franchises across the United States and Canada. Today, the company he founded boosts over 32,500 restaurants worldwide. Don't forget about Mr. Daniels. Mr. Daniels became one of the most sought after consultants in the world today. He got there by overcoming adversities right and left, including bankruptcy and illiteracy, to name a few.
Persistence can be defined as refusing to give up when faced with adversity or opposition. It could be as simple as trying over and over again until you make the three point jump shot, or complex as developing a new business. The greatness of the situation, the greatness that you have, is not measured by what is accomplished. It is measured by how many times you pick yourself up and try to succeed.
Where do you need to pick yourself up and try again?


My experience with performing arts (music, theater, dance, etc.) in basically every city I've ever spent time in is that the smaller, more inexpensive, less well-known companies are almost always more rewarding, and certainly more rewarding in a bang for the buck sense. It always takes time to find such things - less free and paid media promoting them - but worth doing!


Linda became a partner in 2002 in recognition of her expertise in the sphere of corporate and commercial and corporate finance matters. She has substantial experience in dealing with mergers and acquisition, joint ventures, foreign investments, corporate restructurings issues as well assisting with conversions from private companies to public companies, including regulatory compliance for initial public offerings. Linda is constantly in demand by her clients which include large multinational organisations as well as domestic companies.
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Advising Scan-Inter Co., Ltd. in the joint venture agreement with Susco PLC and establishing a joint venture company called SNGV Co., Ltd. to operate the NGV station in Thailand.
Advising Prudential Life Assurance Group on the acquisition of 100% shares in Thanachart Life Assurance PLC, a wholly-owned life insurance subsidiary of Thanachart Bank PLC and advising on the bancassurance agreement between the parties.
Advising Global A&T Electronics Ltd. on its refinancing of secured syndicated credit facility of US$775 million and assisting its Thai subsidiaries UTAC Thai Holdings Ltd. and UTAC Thai Limited with applications for the foreign business licenses required them to provide upstream guaranties and security interests in land and other assets in Thailand.
Advising KT ZMICO Securities Co., Ltd. on the legal research and regulatory study for KTB Leasing Co., Ltd. in connection with the possibility and feasibility of investment and setting up the leasing business in Indochina Countries (i.e. Lao PDR, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar).
Advising EDSCHA HOLDING GMBH in collaboration with AAPICO HITECH PLC in establishing a joint venture company called EDSCHA APPICO Automotive Co., Ltd. in the development, manufacturing, assembly and sale of hinge systems and driver control in Thailand.


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Huddersfield, city (1991 pop. 147,825), Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England, on the Colne River. Its textile industry, including cotton, woolen, and rayon goods, is important. Other products are machinery, iron goods, chemicals, and dyed fabrics. Historically, the proximity of coal and transportation facilities by river, canal, and rail contributed greatly to Huddersfield's development. The history of the city dates back to Roman times.
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EN FILIAL ANAEL. CONFERENCIAS: 28 DE OCTUBRE, A PARTIR DE LAS 9 AM. UBICADA EN RESIDENCIAL BUENOS AIRES, CALLE ALVARADO 21,A ESCASOS METROS DEL MINISTERIO DE HACIENDA,LAS TRES TORRES. LAS ACTIVIDADES SON COMPLETAMENTE GRATUITAS. 27 DE OCTUBRE, DIA UNIVERSAL DE LA GNOSIS QUE EL CRISTO NAZCA EN SU CORAZÓN. LA FILIAL ANAEL TIENE CONFERENCIAS A LAS 10 AM TODOS LOS DOMINGOS. LES ESPERAMOS ------------------------ RECUERDE TAMBIÉN: LA SEMANA CULTURAL CONTINUA EN LA SEDE NACIONAL PASAJE 2 DE ABRIL 153 COLONIA EL REFUGIO: HOY 25 Y MAÑANA 26. A PARTIR DE LAS 6 PM. LOS ESPERAMOS.


Summary: Since a boy, Jirô Horikoshi (voiced by Hideaki Anno) dreams of flying. Upon discovering his unfortunate nearsightedness he doesn't let it thwart his fascination with aircrafts; instead Jirô decides if he can't fly planes, he'll design them. Yet, life hasn't laid an easy path for him, but with each struggle greater than the one before, they each guide him closer to his goal. When he begins his journey travelling to Tokyo to begin his studies in aeronatuical engineering the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes. Panic and devastation spreads around him, yet a chance meeting with a young girl called Naoko (voiced by Miori Takimoto) will later have a big impact on his life too, despite leaving her and her maid he had helped to safety without leaving his name. He walks away and continues his life towards becoming one of Japan's greatest airplane designers in history.
My Review: This wasn't the type of Studio Ghibli I was expecting. Although I have watched some creations from the Japanese animation powerhouse that have certainly had a teaching element; The Wind Rises told a different tale of true historical stories Japan experienced and learnt from in it's history. That's not the usual imagined faraway places, with magnificent characters and beings, but it wasn't disappointing either. It scratches at the surface of a number of unhappy times for the country, like the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1927 as mentioned above, the effects of the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidermic and Japan's involvement in the war. All still with the Studio Ghibli's glowing wonder of stunning visuals. It may be a bittersweet struggle The Wind Rises shows of Jirô's journey in becoming an accomplished airplane designer, against formidable hurdles, but it's his quiet ambition that's the real uplifting factor, if you watch it closely enough.
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Attack with a pecking frenzy and make your foe vulnerable.
Moa Pets: Updated on-land basic attacks to move farther toward the target when executing on land.
This attack now executes twice as fast as it previously did, allowing the creature to engage in combat faster.
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North Star Immigration Law update: with a side of salt and vinegar chips
Apparently time flies when you're practicing immigration law! We were in Guadeloupe then I blinked and now it's Halloween.
Nova Scotia continues to chart new territory with new immigration streams such as:
Occupations in Demand: truck drivers and nurse's aides– these are NOC C jobs which normally require 6-months experience with the NS employer before being eligible for the Skilled Worker Stream, which usually meant a LMIA. Now you can apply on the strength of the job offer, no need for the 6 months of work.
NS Physician Stream 2.0: You can get PR in about 6 months in the new stream (versus 2 years in the other one) but to qualify for the new program, physicians need 3 extra things: Educational Credential Assessment, Language Test and a Return of Service Agreement with the provincial health authority (basically saying you'll stay and practice in NS for a number of years after you become a PR)*
What the AIPP? in all this brouhaha about the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program, no one is saying anything about why it is so unbelievably slow right now? 4-5 months to get endorsed is commonplace. And the published list of designated employers is probably a real curse to many of them who would rather not be fielding email inquiries every morning to the effect of:
But everyone around here loves AIPP and thinks it's the greatest thing since the Halifax Wanderers came to town. So far be it for me to whine about it. Ya, it's awesome, love the 19 simple steps.
Now that the election dust has settled, it's back to business as usual with the federal immigration programs. A couple of interesting new developments:
The new public policy to get around 117(9)(d) for certain individuals is in place until September 2021. This is an excellent idea to counter the brutality of that section of the Regs, where undisclosed (sometimes unknown) family members are subject to a sponsorship bar. We are just starting to prepare applications using this pilot, so are not sure how it will impact ordinary processing times.
The new caregiver pilot looks interesting too. This is a recruitment-exempt temporary-to-permanent residence program for in-home caregivers (of children or adults). The less-than-ambitious goal of issuing the work permit within 12 months is a bit concerning, since work permits can be processed within days under other streams.
Over here at North Star, I have these observations:
Covered Bridge Salt and Vinegar chips are the official snack of North Star Immigration Law (no, we are not getting paid to say that);
Immigration uncertainty can be stressful and difficult even for the most resilient people. To those clients who are struggling with these additional stressors in their lives, know that we are rooting for you;
A lot of people find love in Hubbards, NS.
*Hello, Charter, is that you knocking on the Return of Service Agreement door, with a sign saying "um, what about section 6 mobility rights"?
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The University of Warwick will confer an Honorary Doctor of Science degree to KUIAS Director-General Shigefumi Mori at its 2017 summer graduation ceremonies.
The degree will honor Mori's remarkable work and discovery in the study of 3-dimensional complex algebraic varieties, which became a cornerstone of research in higher dimensional geometry and theoretical physics.
This summer the University will confer honorary degrees to 11 people, and Mori's commencement ceremony will be held on July 18.


In his NFL debut, Buffalo Bills WR/RS Marquise Goodwin had a return touchdown in their 44-20 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
With 7:42 left on the clock in the second quarter, the Colts kicked off to Goodwin. The score was 13-7 Colts at that point.
Seven yards in the end zone, Goodwin veered right while following an upback. Goodwin edged a Colt special-teamer, and the upback tilted another special-teamer outside.
Goodwin was subsequently in a box of four special-teamers and flanked left, eliminated three Colts and twisting around another.
Goodwin then dashed diagonally to the end-zone.
The 5'9″, 192-pounder was a 2013 third round draft pick. He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics for track and field.


An SHSP is a statewide data-driven traffic safety plan that coordinates the efforts of a wide range of organizations to reduce traffic accident fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. In coordination with federal, state, local and private sector safety stakeholders, the SHSP establishes goals, objectives, and emphasis (or challenge) areas.
• Consultation with a variety of stakeholders. At present, there are over 400 identified stakeholders assisting with the SHSP Update process, including: federal agencies, state agencies, local agencies and organizations including police departments, regional transportation agencies, tribal governments, and private stakeholders. View the list of stakeholders (.xls).
• Analysis and effective use of crash data. Connecticut has or uses multiple crash data systems including the Connecticut Crash Data Repository (CT CDR), the National Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS), and the Crash Medical Outcomes Data (CMOD) Project, modeled on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES).
• Plans to address the 4Es of traffic safety: Engineering, Enforcement, Education, and Emergency Services. Some safety issues like vehicles running off of the roadway involve engineering challenges. Treating accident injuries involves emergency services issues like improving training for first responders, and ensuring that responders have the right equipment. Some safety issues, like texting while driving, involve multiple areas like education, reminding drivers that texting is not worth it, and enforcement, citing drivers for texting while driving.
• Consideration for the safety of all public roads, and all users, including pedestrians and bicyclists. New federal regulations have also expanded the SHSP to include tribal roads.
• A program of projects or strategies to reduce or eliminate safety hazards. The SHSP is not just a set of goals, developed and forgotten. It is a continuous process, with focused teams studying safety problems, searching for answers, and developing programs to improve traffic safety.
• Implementation and evaluation. The SHSP Update will include review of the last SHSP and the emphasis or challenge areas developed by that SHSP. How much have we done to improve traffic safety? What strategies worked? Which need to be improved?
The SHSP is a collaborative process and will be most effective with input from a wide range of people and agencies. The SHSP team is very interested in your input. Please provide your comments or ideas about how to improve transportation safety in Connecticut by clicking here.


Outside the academic world, plagiarism, breach of copyright, is addressed in the court system.
Within the academic community, plagiarism is also considered a serious offense that may warrant punishment ranging from F's on assignments, to F's for an entire course, to suspension or expulsion from an institution.
If students deliberately misrepresent written work as their own when in fact that work is, totally or in part, the copyrighted work of someone else, these individuals are rightly termed plagiarists.
Students in an English 203 class are required to write a personal analysis of a character in the play Antigone, without reading any outside material. One student purchases a copy of Cliff's Notes on Antigone, a copyrighted work, and paraphrases that book's description of the main character. The student makes no mention of the fact that the ideas were taken from a copyrighted outside source and thus tries to lead the professor to believe the ideas are the student's. This student is guilty of plagiarism.
Students in an English 101 class are required to write an essay on a personal hero. One student finds an essay on this subject in an old English textbook, which is of course copyrighted, and, changing words and some details of this copyrighted essay, submits this essay as her own. This student is guilty of plagiarism.
Students in an Art 101 class are required to visit a special exhibit on the works of Jacob Lawrence at the High Museum and to write a personal response to these paintings. On the way out of the museum, the student picks up a free brochure describing the Lawrence exhibit. The student then paraphrases the introduction to the brochure and never mentions that these ideas did not originate with him. He is guilty of plagiarism.
A student in Acct 201 gains access to the Solutions Manual for her textbook and copies the solution or parts of the solution as homework. Not only is this action blatant cheating, it is copyright infringement since the author of the manual holds the copyright to the material that the student submitted, language and all, to her professor as her homework.
If students fail to handle copyrighted material properly within their written assignments -- that is, according to the style required by the professor or, if the professor does not specify otherwise, according to a standard style recognized in the academy (e. g., American Psychological Association (APA), University of Chicago, or Modern Language Association (MLA) style) -- the students are guilty of plagiarism. Information from online services such as Compuserve or America Online and other computer networks and databases, including the Internet, must be documented, even though a particular style manual may not provide a specific format. Consult your instructor or professor if you have questions about documenting online information.
James D. Lester's 7th edition of Writing Reasearch Papers: A Complete Guide, which is available in the College Bookstore, explains in detail the MLA Style, as well as APA and styles used in the sciences and business. DeKalb students may also seek help with documentation techniques from Instructional Support Services (ISS) in the Learning Resource Centers. 1. The first step to proper documentation is providing proper bibliographic citations for sources listed alphabetically on the paper's Works Cited page or pages. Students are obligated to give publication information sufficent for their readers to locate that source readily in a library.
MLA Style requires, in order, the minimum information of author(s), book title and subtitle, city of publication, publisher, and copyright date.
Brain Development. New York: U of Snellville P, 1994.
brain development. New York: U of Snellville P.
73 (Summer 1994):142 - 47.
Magazine 7 July 1993: 45 -57.
Smith, H. (1993, July 7). The costs of fad diets.
Teenagers Magazine, pp. 45 - 57.
The above are illustrations of citing very basic copyrighted sources. Other sources require more complicated citations. For instance, how should students cite an article printed in a book containing several articles by different writers? Don't guess. Ask your professor, look up the citation in a style manual, or ask for help from Instructional Support Services.
2. The second step to avoiding charges of plagiarism is to handle both paraphrases and direct quotations within the written assignment in the correct manner.
(1) introduced with the name of the idea's owner or another appropriate attribution; (2) enclosed by quotations marks if original phrasing is used; and (3) closed with a specific page reference, within parentheses, indicating the exact location of the borrowed idea in the source listed on the Works Cited page of the paper.
wastes of time that involve genuine health risks.
APA Style handles paraphrased and quoted in a different manner. According to APA, borrowed ideas are introduced with the last name of the idea's owner, followed by the article's date of publication within parentheses. If the borrowed idea is a direct quotation, the specific page number of the idea follow the date within the parentheses. Notice that APA requires the abreviation for page (p.) and pages (pp.).
"Weight lost in March will be back by April Fools."
Smith of the National Nutritional Institute (1993, pp.
College professors expect their students to deal with copyrighted material conscientiously and accurately. Excuses of sloppiness or ignorance are not acceptable. The burden rests with the students to cite borrowed material accurately. Students should know that incidents of plagiarism in a paper rarely indicate the reason for that incident -- ignorance, carelessness, or dishonesty. Therefore, students are well advised to learn the rules for handling someone else's copyrighted material prior to submitting an assignment. Professors have the right to bring charges of plagiarism, even if the student cites ignorance as the excuse.


Fig trees may no longer bloom, or vineyards produce grapes; olive trees may be fruitless, and harvest time a failure; sheep pens may be empty, and cattle stalls vacant -- but I will still celebrate because the LORD God saves me. The LORD gives me strength. He makes my feet as sure as those of a deer, and he helps me stand on the mountains.
God is a God who blesses His people! When you take your next breath of air, it is God who deserves the praise and thanks for it! When you awake in the morning and once again discover that you stayed alive through the night, God deserves the praise!
Praising God when "things" are good on this earth is not so difficult to do. But praising God and celebrating Him when the trees don't bloom, the harvest fails and the sheep and cattle are taken away is hard!
We often praise God "for" the material blessings we have received from Him. But can you praise God without the "reason" of blessings? Who God is, is the best reason to Praise Him!
Remember, all the blessings of this earth will one day pass away, as will the Earth itself. But the blessing of knowing Jesus Christ will last forever and ever!


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News 24th February 2022
Overbury makes an outstanding contribution to Morgan Sindall Group plc full year results
Overbury continued to strengthen its reputation, reacting positively to the market opportunity of the changing role of the office whilst successfully securing a healthy pipeline that spans several years.
Overbury's performance in 2021 has been strong. The focus on delivering high quality projects with a superior customer experience has cemented its position as a leading fit out provider for occupiers and landlords in the commercial office, education, life sciences and public sector markets.
John Morgan, Chief Executive, Morgan Sindall Group states, "2021 has been an excellent year for the Group, with a record set of results. Group revenue rose 6% from 2020, delivering an adjusted operating profit of £131.3m (FY 2020: £68.5m) on revenue of £3.2bn (FY 2020: £3.0bn). The Group reported a secured order book of £8.6bn, up 4% on the year end. With a strong balance sheet and net cash of £358m (FY 2020: £333m), the Group is confident of achieving another good year of progress in 2022."
Chris Booth, Managing Director, Overbury comments, "At Overbury, our focus on delivering high quality fit out projects, alongside exceptional customer service has put us front and centre with the UK's leading businesses looking to adapt their offices for a new era. 2021 demanded a lot from our teams and they more than rose to challenge. We're enormously grateful and thankful for their unwavering hard work."
Significant projects won or started on site in 2021 include:
The office fit out of 366,000 sq ft at Five Bank Street in Canary Wharf
BP's new 200,000 sq ft space in the North Colonnade building in Canary Wharf
The fit out of 30,000 sq ft in The Leadenhall Building for landlord Quadrature Capital
The delivery of the BBC's 56,000 sq ft Bristol office
Notable project completions include:
The 186,457 sq ft fit out for BT at 3 Snowhill in Birmingham, with the subsequent appointment to deliver BT's 200,000 sq ft office in Bristol
The 90,000 sq ft CAT A fit out in Coventry for landlord IM Properties
The fit out of 93,000 sq ft offices, sales and support facilities for Mathworks in Cambridge
The public sector portfolio continues to expand with:
The 12,000 sq ft refurbishment of the North West Regional Control Centre for National Highways (formerly Highways England)
The continued framework for The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) including multiple projects secured totalling £38.4m, with an additional £40.7m secured for 2022 and beyond
BT at 3 Snowhill in Birmingham
Morgan Sindall Full Year Results


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Eastern approaches | Political turmoil in Slovenia
Slovenia's fragile recovery
By B.C. | LJUBLJANA
A week that began amid political instability in Slovenia will end on a higher note for the government. Alenka Bratusek, the country's prime minister and the leader of a centre-left coalition, lost a race to stay on as leader of her own party on April 26th. In the aftermath she said she planned to resign, but recent signs point to the government staying on until early elections in the fall—significant for stability in the coming months as the country tries to dig itself out of the deep fiscal crisis that only peaked late last year.
After Slovenia narrowly avoided an IMF bailout at the end of 2013, Ms Bratusek embarked on a campaign to recapitalise the country's troubled banking sector by injecting €3,2 billion ($4,4 billion) and getting rid of bad debt. Slovenia was among the last of eurozone members to begin cleaning up its banks. The state is now in the process of selling off a significant number of assets to cover the bill for bailing out the banks. This is a sea change in a country where some estimate that state-owned assets account for up to 60% of GDP.
The political uncertainty is not fully resolved and Ms Bratusek may yet step down in favour of somebody else in her party. Still, the drama has done little to derail the country's plans to privatise assets. Slovenia's borrowing costs spiked as the week began, but quickly recovered—perhaps over the realisation that government already has borrowed enough to cover spending through March 2015. "There was an overreaction," said Matej Rigelnik, a private banker with Nova Ljubjanska Banka. "The picture is clearer now."
Economically and fiscally, things are looking up compared to just a few months ago. The ratings agency Fitch revised its outlook from "Negative" to "Stable" on May 2nd. In doing so it noted that "the economy is recovering faster than expected". Mr Rigelnik thinks the economy may grow by 1% this year, something once thought impossible.
In the longer term, the near collapse of banks last year may provide the impetus for decoupling public politics and private business. One need only look at the week's other headlines to see the trouble the far too intimate links between the two have caused in this country of 2m people. Zoran Jankovic, founder of Ms Bratusek's Positive Slovenia party and the mayor of the capital Ljubljana, beat her in the party leadership race. He is currently under investigation for corruption (Mr Jankovic denies all wrongdoing) and Ms Bratusek's three coalition partners say they would not stay in a government led by Mr Jankovic. The main opposition party is the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and on April 28th a court upheld a 22 month prison sentence for Janez Jansa, the party's leader and a former prime minister. He was convicted last year of bribery over a 2006 arms deal.
Left with few options and with the realisation that Ms Bratusek would probably need to resign by May 5th for elections to take place this summer, Ms Bratusek and her allies are now pledging to carry on with their privatisation plan until fall. The biggest jewel in the state's asset crown is Telekom Slovenia, valued at about €1 billion. If they manage to sell that, the government will be well on its way.
Things are looking up for the economy, says Mr Rigelnik, unless eventual elections deliver power to the ultra left. The resilience of the past week, however, indicates that Slovenia may just be past the worst of its recent tumult, at least for now.
More from Eastern approaches
Transylvanian surprise
A big bump in voter turnout puts a competent ethnic German, Klaus Iohannis, in the presidency
Shale fail
Poland hoped shale gas would free it from Russia, but finds there is no getting around geology
A minister comes out
Edgars Rinkevics enters the culture war with eastern European conservatives, and with Russia


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LifestyleRetirement
Seniors should be wary of scams
In a new study appearing in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Taylor and her colleagues found that older adults appear to have difficulty recognizing cues that a person may be untrustworthy. Credit: iStock
By PETER KING pwking@aol.com January 17, 2013 2:17 PM
Incidents like this one happen every winter.
Southold Town Police last month arrested a man and accused him of conning several Suffolk residents in a chimney-repair scam. Police said he collected thousands of dollars from homeowners but skipped out before doing any repairs, which may not have been needed, anyway. In every case, the victim was elderly.
If you are in your mid-50s or older, you may want to pause before saying you're too savvy for this to happen to you. Whether it's a garden-variety chimney scam or a million-dollar financial swindle, older adults are prime targets. There may be a physiological reason why they fall for a scam they would have easily spotted when they were younger. "The region of the brain responsible for warning about dangers is very active in younger adults when they look at untrustworthy faces," says Shelley Taylor, a professor of psychology at UCLA. "But it's almost silent in older adults. It's just not reacting."
In a new study appearing in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Taylor and her colleagues found that older adults appear to have difficulty recognizing cues that a person may be untrustworthy. "They're not picking up on certain kinds of eye contact, on backward leans, on smirks," she says. "They misinterpret smirks as sincere smiles."
Even the enormous fraud committed by Bernard Madoff was constructed on a form of trust. Madoff's victims, mostly middle-age and older, trusted that the outsize returns on their investments were legitimate. While most victims never met Madoff, those who did know him typically described him as warm, charming and, yes, trustworthy.
The takeaway from Taylor's research is that older people should be aware that their early warning system may not be functioning as well as it once did. In addition to outright frauds, they may be prone to falling for legal but unsuitable investments offered at some "free-lunch" investment seminars. "The presenters will zero in on a couple of people sitting close to the front who they think are ripe for this," Taylor says. "They may not be scams in the usual sense, but they may be either very high-fee investments or they may be inappropriate investments."
As for the bogus chimney, roof and driveway repairers who knock on your door or call you on the phone, just say no. This year, especially, you may have to keep your guard up to scams. "I'm sure in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, there will be a lot more," Taylor says.
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I work in a national management team which __ the 25 company branches in the country.
This management team is the one which every branch reports to. The team decides the overall mission, year plan and such. As for the blank, I'm thinking about the words such as administer, oversee, govern, manage etc. But I'm not quite sure which one (or some other words) would fit in best.
First decide the audience you are writing to. This will help you determine the "formality" of the vocabulary. The following words are options that can fill the black. If you already use "manage", go back and see if it can be replaced with any of these, then you will have "manage" to use in the most indicated sentence. And, when all else fails, use the Thesaurus.
My first choice would be manage to fill the gap, but as you said, you want to avoid repetition, which leads me to use govern here.
I work in a national management team which governs the 25 company branches in the country.
The team decides the overall mission, year plan and such.
So, I think "govern" is the best fit here.
Some words worth considering are: supervise, control, monitor, co-ordinate.
Originally: to perform or execute (a task, office, etc.).
Later also (now more usually): to carry out or oversee the tasks necessary for the running of (an organization) or the effecting of (a state of affairs); to manage, run (an operation, affairs, etc.); to manage the affairs of (an institution, community, etc.).
Single word for the holder or location of an item?
How to distinguish old-fashioned textbook from online textbook?


This tool is used to overlay a black or white line grid at any angle over the current image. To define the line grid, click and hold the left mouse button, drag the mouse and release. This is the same method used to draw all lines in Eclipse.
This function is used when you need to subdivide an object into strips to be measured separately. This is especially important when the object extends past the edge of the screen. Each strip can then be measured for diameter and an average for the object can be calculated. Whenever a single pixel wide line separates two objects, the 4-way boundary rule must be used to measure them (located on the Data Options page of the Northern Eclipse Options Dialog).
The "Spoke Count" setting determines the number of lines in the line grid. The "Spoke Length" setting determines the length of each spoke. The spine is defined as the line defined by the mouse. You can include the spine by clicking on "Include Spine in Grid". The "Bright on Dark" setting allows you to choose between a white and black grid.


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Q: Understanding Keyboard Mapping I was reading the man pages on find when I came across the part that says one can re-program the keyboard bindings. This got my interest.
When I looked into the subject, and went to see my own Linux key bindings (using dumpkeys), I wanted to give it a try and test it.
I took the (logical) line that reads:
keycode  83 = KP_Period
altgr   control keycode  83 = Boot

According to the lines: If I hit RIGHT ALT + CTRL + . (keypad dot/period), the driver sends boot signal and the system should go into boot process.
And this did NOT happen.
What am I missing here?


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from unittest import TestCase

class CookieDictTest(TestCase):
    """test for CookieDict
    """
    def getTarget(self):
        from funkload_friendly.cookie import CookieDict as target
        return target

    def getOne(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.getTarget()(*args, **kwargs)

    def test_render_to_string(self):
        """CookieDict.render_to_string
        """
        cookie = self.getOne([('spam', 'egg'), ('ham', 'bacon')])
        self.assertEqual(cookie.render_to_string(), 'spam=egg;ham=bacon;')

    def test_from_cookie_string(self):
        """CookieDict.from_cookie_string
        """
        cookie = self.getOne()
        cookie.from_cookie_string('spam=egg;ham=bacon;')
        self.assertEqual(cookie, {'spam': 'egg', 'ham': 'bacon'})

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package com.sanath.movies.activities;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Spinner;

import com.sanath.movies.R;
import com.sanath.movies.common.OnMovieSelectListener;
import com.sanath.movies.common.Util;
import com.sanath.movies.fragments.BaseFragment;
import com.sanath.movies.fragments.MovieDetailsFragment;
import com.sanath.movies.fragments.MovieListFragment;
import com.sanath.movies.models.Movie;

import butterknife.BindView;
import butterknife.ButterKnife;
import butterknife.Unbinder;

public class MoviesActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements OnMovieSelectListener {

    private static final String TAG_DETAILS_FRAGMENT = "TAG_DETAILS_FRAGMENT";
    private static final String TAG_MOVIE_LIST_FRAGMENT = "TAG_MOVIE_LIST_FRAGMENT";
    private static final String KEY_SPINNER_SELECTED_POSITION = "KEY_SPINNER_SELECTED_POSITION";

    @BindView(R.id.spinner_movies)
    Spinner mNavigationSpinner;

    private boolean mTwoPane;
    private int mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition = 0;
    private Unbinder mUnBinder;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_movies);
        mUnBinder = ButterKnife.bind(this);
        mNavigationSpinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner_movies);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

        if (savedInstanceState != null) {
            mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition = savedInstanceState.getInt(KEY_SPINNER_SELECTED_POSITION);
        } else {
            //load default mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition
            mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition = getDefaultSortOrderPosition();
            loadMovieListFragment(mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition);
        }
        setupNavigationSpinner();

        setNavigationSpinnerSelection(mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition);

        mTwoPane = findViewById(R.id.movie_detail_container) != null;
    }

    private void setNavigationSpinnerSelection(final int selectedPosition) {
        mNavigationSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(null);
        mNavigationSpinner.setSelection(selectedPosition);
        mNavigationSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {
                if (mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition != position) {
                    loadMovieListFragment(position);
                    showMovieDetail(null);
                }
                mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition = position;
            }

            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView) {

            }
        });
    }

    private void setupNavigationSpinner() {
        ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
                R.array.spinner_list_item_array, R.layout.spinner_title_item);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.spinner_drop_item);
        mNavigationSpinner.setAdapter(adapter);
    }

    private void loadMovieListFragment(int selectedIndex) {
        BaseFragment mMovieListFragment = MovieListFragment.newInstance(selectedIndex);
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                .replace(R.id.movie_list_container, mMovieListFragment, TAG_MOVIE_LIST_FRAGMENT)
                .commit();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        if (Util.isPreferencesChanged(this)) {
            mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition = getDefaultSortOrderPosition();
            setNavigationSpinnerSelection(mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition);
            loadMovieListFragment(mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition);
            Util.setPreferencesChange(this, false);
        }
    }

    private int getDefaultSortOrderPosition() {
        String defaultSortOrder = Util.getDefaultSortOrder(this);
        if (defaultSortOrder.equals("popular")) {
            return 0;
        } else if (defaultSortOrder.equals("top_rated")) {
            return 1;
        } else {
            return 2;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onSelectMovie(Movie movie) {
        if (mTwoPane) {
            showMovieDetail(movie);
        } else {
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, MovieDetailActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(MovieDetailsFragment.ARG_MOVIE, movie);
            startActivity(intent);
        }
    }

    private void showMovieDetail(Movie movie) {
        if (movie == null) {
            Fragment fragment = getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(TAG_DETAILS_FRAGMENT);
            if (fragment != null) {
                getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().remove(fragment).commit();
            }
            return;
        }
        Bundle arguments = new Bundle();
        arguments.putParcelable(MovieDetailsFragment.ARG_MOVIE, movie);
        MovieDetailsFragment fragment = new MovieDetailsFragment();
        fragment.setArguments(arguments);
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                .replace(R.id.movie_detail_container, fragment, TAG_DETAILS_FRAGMENT)
                .commit();

    }

    @Override
    public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
        outState.putInt(KEY_SPINNER_SELECTED_POSITION, mNavigationSpinnerSelectedPosition);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_menu, menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        if (item.getItemId() == R.id.ic_action_setting) {
            startSettingActivity();
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    private void startSettingActivity() {
        startActivity(new Intent(this, SettingActivity.class));
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        mUnBinder.unbind();
    }
}


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June 15, 2018 3:18PM ET
Trump's Unhinged Fox News Interview on the White House Lawn Was Frightening
Donald Trump's admiration of Kim Jong-un shows the president embracing dictator tendencies
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Donald Trump has exhibited authoritarian impulses since the early days of his campaign. But the president's recent meeting with Kim Jong-un seems to have inspired him to throw around language and ideas that would turn America into a dictatorship. Trump gushed about the North Korean leader following their meeting in Singapore, calling him a "smart," "funny guy" with a "great personality," among other fawning praise. His admiration of the dictator continued on Friday during a wild, impromptu interview with Fox & Friends on the White House lawn, when the president expressed in no uncertain terms how envious he is of Kim's regime. "He speaks and his people sit up at attention," Trump said. "I want my people to do the same."
TRUMP on Kim Jong Un (note the final two sentences): "He's the head of a country, and I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same." (via FOX) pic.twitter.com/ed9AMRl9ny
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 15, 2018
It might be the most frightening statement of Trump's presidency. The people of North Korea are of course forced to "sit up in attention" when Kim speaks – in 2016, Kim executed the nation's deputy premier for education with a firing squad for showing "disrespectful posture" in a meeting. But Kim's human rights violations do not seem to be of any concern to Trump, who has repeatedly defended the dictator's inhumane treatment of his people. When confronted about the regime's atrocities, Trump has made excuses ranging from "it's rough in a lot of places" to explaining that Kim is carrying on his father's legacy. "He's a tough guy," the president said to Fox's Bret Baier on Air Force One following the summit.
When Trump says that Kim's people "love" him, he is effectively endorsing the way Kim's regime treats its citizens, who are often starved and incarcerated without trial. The president has legitimized North Korea through more than just his words. Many were shocked at the commingling of the American and North Korean flags in Singapore, and North Korea's nation's state-run TV network has since released footage of the summit that shows Trump saluting what appeared to be a high-ranking North Korean military official, a shocking visual of the president's deference to the dictatorship.
North Korean TV has aired its first footage of the #TrumpKimSummit. Look out for the handshake/salute confusion 55 seconds in. pic.twitter.com/JS5yEUprgz
— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) June 14, 2018
When CNN asked retired Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, who is also a former spokesman for both the Defense and State departments, about the salute, he called it "striking," "inappropriate from a protocol perspective" and something "you most certainly don't do it with the leaders of foreign militaries of an adversary nation."
The most prominent theme of Trump's time in office has been his sustained excoriation of the American media, so it should come as no surprise that Trump was enamored by North Korea's state-run media. According to the Washington Post, the president marveled at how positive one of the nation's female broadcasters spoke of Kim, and remarked that she should get a job on TV in the United States. After returning from Singapore, Trump tweeted that the media is America's "biggest enemy."
The Post noted how Trump praised how "tough" the North Korean guards looked. It's an adjective he also used to describe Kim's treatment of his people, and one that Trump used repeatedly throughout the campaign and during his presidency to describe the attitude America must take toward a variety of issues.
Trump drooling over the prospect of a dictatorship was only a small part of what was a wild morning on the White House lawn. After the president noticed Fox & Friends was broadcasting only a few feet away from where he was presumably ensconced in Friday morning's Executive Time, he tweeted that he would stop by for an "unannounced" interview. He did, clearly taking everyone off guard before sidling up next to Steve Doocy for a live interview that lasted over 30 minutes.
While speaking with Doocy, Trump cycled through most of his usual talking points, from his displeasure with the media, to the success of the economy, to the need for a border wall and how the Democrats are the ones responsible for children being separated from their parents at the border (which is not even remotely true). Also discussed was the Inspector General report that found that the FBI acted with no bias as it investigated the Trump campaign's connection to Russia prior to the 2016 election. Despite the report's conclusion that there was no foul play, Trump and his allies have used its contents to argue the opposite.
TRUMP dismisses IG's finding that there was no bias in Clinton investigation in this way: "The IG report was a horror show. I thought that one sentence of conclusion was ridiculous." pic.twitter.com/Mlo7vCyikB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 15, 2018
"I beat Clinton dynasty. I beat Bush dynasty, and now, I guess, hopefully I'm in the process of beating very dishonest intelligence," Trump said.
Following his lengthy interview with Doocy, Trump made his way to the White House driveway, where he went back and forth with reporters for almost as long as he spoke with Fox & Friends, ranting about several of the same issues, with a focus on the Mueller investigation. "Here's the good news: I did nothing wrong," Trump said. The president also claimed that Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who has been indicted on a number of crimes relating to Russia, "had nothing to do with our campaign."
"Here's the good news: I did nothing wrong."
WATCH: President @realDonaldTrump's full remarks to press outside @WhiteHouse – Part 1. pic.twitter.com/4O9LbMKTqV
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 15, 2018
Trump defended the corruption-addled EPA chief Scott Pruitt, said he could meet with Vladimir Putin this summer and reiterated his belief that the North Korean nuclear threat is no longer a concern. "I did a great job this week," Trump said. "You know what I gave up? I met. I met, we had great chemistry. He gave us a lot." The president added that he and the dictator "really did hit it off."
Though it's concerning that Trump legitimized North Korea on a global stage by meeting with Kim and then came away from that meeting with nothing of substance, it's just as troubling that this in-person taste of the trappings of a dictatorship has clearly renewed Trump's vigor in taking on his perceived enemies in America. To the president, these enemies are any person or institution that attempts to question his actions or check his power. In other words, his enemies are the tenets of democracy.
In This Article: Donald Trump,	Fox News,	North Korea


Shipping container homes are now becoming an increasingly popular alternative for home builders wanting something different. They are cheap, easy to assemble and have huge green lifestyle benefits. For many excited architects and builders shipping containers are providing a new exciting form of architecture, where shipping containers can be used as building blocks and major structural elements for houses, offices and even city structures.
Seafaring container houses are constructed using sea containers. They are very cost effective and strong enough to become the framework for a house. Constructing a overseas sea container home is quite easy. Builder places one or more shipping containers onto a standard foundation, cut doors & windows into the sea container walls.
Then they insulate the modified container correctly to resist heat and cold, decorate it and hey presto! – your sea containers have evolved into your very own ultra modern home. The modular structure of sea containers means that they can be easily attached to one another. This allows architectural designers to create both stunning and unique home designs.
So far, the Nomadic Museum has hosted exhibitions in New York, Santa Monica, Venice, Tokyo, and Mexico City. There seems to be no restriction on where it might end up next, thanks to the versatility of shipping container architecture. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
In the future, we will likely see more and more cargo container building projects as the practice gains popularity. But for now, cargo containers are still cheap and readily available. Some companies even sell kits to create your own custom container home. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
Also, consider your space needs before you start construction. If you have a big family, or just want a lot of bedrooms, you may need multiple shipping containers to have the house of your dreams. This requires a lot more work and customization than homes that only use one cargo container. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
It is easy to build a shipping container home "from scratch": virtually anybody can design his own home, but there are quite a few pre-designed plans, or one can choose even prefabricated container homes. These homes can be built up and installed fast they are mould free and termite-proof. Some varieties are made to work off-grid so they are really good summer cabins. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
The point is, is someone is going to take a piece of machinery to break into your home then they are probably going to get in no matter what. However, the odds are in the container home owner that no one will be breaking into your steel can. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
There are companies sprouting up that are taking containers and converting them into homes. Which means that this approach to greener building methods is accessible to all. Expensive? They are far more affordable than conventionally built homes. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
While the use of shipping containers for shelter is not new, the thought of making architectural statements and unique creations is. Architects strive to create a feeling of openness, light and beauty using the prefab shipping containers as the foundation. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
Crime and theft is always going to happen no matter where you are in this world, whether its a dirty city or a sunny tropical paradise like Costa Rica. The main thing is to take care of this and you should have no problem. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
Humanitarian issues – Most architects have noted that the prefab shipping container habitat is ideal for setting up in emergency situations and for humanitarian needs. These very structurally sound and durable homes can be moved easily on the back of trucks and can be loaded and unloaded numerous times with no damage or need for repairs. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
Though container housing a new concept, the popularity and public interest in them is growing rapidly in many countries. The obvious economic benefits, with the green eco-friendly practices of recycling and sustainability, create a lot of opportunity for modern architects and builders to develop and improve the container home concept. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
Believe it or not there is a group of architects that have developed some very stylish residences out of the humble shipping container. Not only residences, there have also been hundreds of metal shipping containers used for museums, restaurants and weekend houses. You would not even realize that these beautiful and creative structures were once hauling supplies across the country. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
They can be moved virtually anywhere there is a road and it is easy to hook up plumbing and electrical connections to the outside of the shipping container. building a container home costs, sea container construction.
Welcome to The Container Homes Guide. We are a team of enthusiastic developers and entrepreneurs who decided to convert their common experience into this website. We hope you'll like it as much as we do and have a great browsing experience here. Our prime goal is to create a website in which you can easily find whatever information you need.


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Publisher Art Hall
Dark Political Times, But Pendulum Swinging??
By Art Hall, publisher
Joe Biden will take the oath of office on January 20th facing a profoundly polarized country. The House of Representatives will remain in Democratic Party control and the Senate will most likely remain majority Republican. Neither house of Congress will have the kind of majorities that one could term a mandate for anything but continued obstruction and a failure to govern.
In 2008 Democrats had control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress. They passed a signature Democratic bill, the Affordable Care Act. In 2016, the Republicans had control of both houses and the Presidency. The first major legislative result was the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. Both parties displayed the priorities their constituencies might expect of them.
When power was not unified, both Obama and Trump ruled by Executive Order and through the use of Cabinet Department powers to regulate or deregulate.
We are now deeply enmeshed in a self-feeding cycle of distrust and demonization that prevents the compromises our check and balance system of government was designed to encourage. Checks on power were not placed in our Constitution as obstacles to governance. They are there to facilitate the best outcome for the general good of the country.
Total control of the branches of government cannot be the only environment in which the people can expect their elected officials to do their jobs.
America faces enormous challenges.
We are confronted by a pandemic that threatens to get much worse before a vaccine can be reasonably distributed. We have a public so distrustful of government and science that the ability to vaccinate a large enough segment of the population may be undermined.
Our economy is severely damaged with certain sectors, especially tourism and hospitality, likely to require a long period of time and an infusion of resources to recover any semblance of what they once were.
We have witnessed an outpouring of anger and protest over racial justice that will not abide being ignored.
Rising sea levels, more frequent major storms, drought, uncontrollable fires are all signs of a crisis that requires action.
Jobs, education, cyber security, and national security issues all need ongoing attention.
The country cannot continue to bear governance defined in terms of brief windows of party control when a flurry of activity occurs taking items only from one party's agenda.
By most recent counts Joe Biden gained over 78 million votes and Donald Trump 73 million. Joe Biden will take the oath of office, but over 150 million voters cannot be divided into winners and losers.
So how do we address governance?
It must start by reaffirming our belief that our representatives are in office to govern not to obstruct. Compromise is an art of governance does not constitute surrendering to enemies. There have been instances when some members of both parties were willing to work together to craft legislation. Often those opportunities were lost when the leadership felt political gamesmanship more important than resolving problems facing the American people.
The election reduced the majority margin of Democrats in the House. It also will likely result in a paper-thin majority for Republicans in the Senate where 60 votes are often necessary. We cannot afford a government that ignores the wishes and needs of the people for the sake of leadership intent on preserving political power.
How do we start to revive a sense of compromise and service to all of the people?
It must start by finding the areas where agreement is most likely possible. These areas of potential compromise exist if the solutions we seek do not have to come solely from the playbook of only one of the two major parties.
We need to take the actions required to justly distribute vaccines for COVID-19 with the funding to make it happen.
We need assistance to help revive a badly damaged economy where small businesses are failing for lack of support during a once in a century pandemic.
Green energy measures can win support from both sides while a Green New Deal will be DOA in Mitch McConnell's Senate.
Jobs programs, tackling infrastructure issues, shoring up national security, especially in areas of cyber security, these and many other areas can be used to restore faith in governance.
They can help us start well and avoid more distortion of government into warring camps where nothing is done as the parties wait for another election cycle and hope for a brief period of total power.
There are those in Washington who prefer to use power to obstruct and deny "victories" to their opponents. Together we need to denounce that form of governance. The problems we face will not wait while we continue to indulge our stubborn intolerance for anything that may benefit what we have come to see as "the other side."
Actually, I do see cause for optimism, at least in the House, where the Problem Solvers Caucus, 25 members from each party, meet weekly to come to "Yes" on many of the issues before them. In George Washington's Farewell Address, he warned about the "danger of (political) parties," and we certainly see that played out today. We will be better represented when those whom we send to Washington can speak their minds, than under the current polarized structure which is lead from the top down. Who knows; maybe a divided government will be just what we need to cause us to see that we need to talk to one another.
Does the Problem Solvers Caucus Offer Cause for Optimism?
HALL 11-24-20
Art Hall Column


I arrived at the Makerspace on Thursday without an idea of what I would cast in metal, and in less than two hours I was removing my piece from the steaming petrobond! Check out the fruit of two hours of labor cast in metal!
That's right! The Milwaukee Makerspace had its first (and second) aluminum pour on Thursday! Thanks to the hard work of several members, the Makerspace now has a fully functional aluminum casting foundry. The custom built propane and diesel powered furnace melted an entire #16 crucible of aluminum in less than 20 minutes. Check out Brant's video to see our fearless foundry foreman leading the two pours!
To get the foundry running quickly, we've started out by using a lost-styrofoam casting method. That is, styrofoam is carved into the desired shape and then a sprue and vents are attached with hot glue(!). This assembly is placed in a wooden form, and is surrounded by tightly packed petrobond, an oil bonded, reusable sand. Then, the molten aluminum is poured directly onto the styrofoam sprue. The styrofoam is instantly vaporized by the 1250 degree Fahrenheit aluminum, which fills the void in the petrobond formerly occupied by the styrofoam. The air and perhaps even some of the styrofoam residue escapes from the mold through the vents. We'll be phasing in bonded sand and lost wax casting soon, so stay tuned for those details.
Eventually we'll be having aluminum casting classes; however, we're definitely going to be having aluminum pours on alternate Thursday evenings for the next few months. Join our mailing list / google group to get more details. Metal pours are spectacular to watch, so feel free to stop by to see the action around 7 or 8 pm, or join the Makerspace and participate!
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http://volodesigns-sterlingproject.blogspot.com/ has a Stirling Cycle engine that is ment to be an "open source" design.
http://volodesigns-sterlingproject.blogspot.com/2012/07/quick-update-casting-complete.html shows the Al casting.


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Ah, November in Port Aransas. Most Port Aransans are preparing for big Thanksgiving Day dinners, building Christmas gift lists, planning holiday celebrations and possibly turning on the heat instead of the air conditioning for the first time since last winter.
But for us writerly types, the month of November has an entire different significance. It's NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write 50,000 words (about 175 pages) between Nov. 1 and 11:59:59 p.m. on Nov. 30. The novel can be any genre, in any language. There is no prize for winning, except for bragging rights. In fact, you have to buy your own "Winner" T-shirt. There's absolutely no guarantee that the novel will ever be published. A NaNoWriMo novel isn't even long enough to interest most publishers. Although there have been successful novels that are roughly 50,000 words long, most commercial novels run from 65,000 to 100,000 words or more. So why do it? For many people who have always wanted to write a novel, NaNoWriMo is the kick in the pants they need to get going. The community that grows around the effort gives encouragement and the deadline provides motivation to keep going. For many, it's such a satisfying experience that they participate every year.
NaNoWriMo is organized by the Office of Letters and Light to encourage creativity. The OLL, a 501©(3) non –profit organization, also organizes Script Frenzy in April, the Young Writers Program for K-12 students and now Camp NaNoWriMo, another writing marathon that takes place in the summer.
The first NaNoWriMo was held in July, 1999. Twenty-one writers in the San Francisco Bay area participated. The following year, the challenge was moved to November to "more fully take advantage of the miserable weather" in that area, according to founding organizer Chris Baty. Last year, there were over 200,000 participants from around the world. More than 30,000 of them crossed the 50K finish line by the midnight deadline.
And yes, I was one of them. I wrote 50,062 words in 30 days. I got there by writing 1667 words, every day. Including Saturdays, Sundays and Thanksgiving Day. While running a business, authoring a blog at http://devorahfox.com AND writing the "Dee-Scoveries" column for the Island Moon.
I won't say they were great words. I even skipped entire chapters, leaving myself virtual sticky notes that read "something happens here" and went on to write what I did know was going to happen. I met the deadline, even though I had yet to write the ending. That was perfectly OK. After all, NaNoWriMo's slogan is "No Plot? No Problem!" The point of NaNoWriMo isn't to arrive at the finish line with a fully fashioned, perfectly crafted novel. Most NaNoWriMo writers end up what they consider to be a very robust outline. (Many go on to polish it during NaNoEdMo — National Novel Editing Month — which isn't an official project of the Office of Letters and Light but rather something that's informally organized by writers' groups around the country.)
OLL hosts the NaNoWriMo Web site that handles registrations for the event which is free to participants. The Web site offers a variety of forums to provide encouragement and to help brainstorm plot twists and features "NaNoToons" to elicit some much-needed chuckles. It also has the word count validator that gives an impartial validation as to whether the 50,000 word requirement has been met. The Web site is funded by donations, advertising and the sale of NaNoWriMo merchandise.
Local support groups tend to form around NaNoWriMo led by "Municipal Liaisons." The year, the area's group is led by veteran volunteer Gloria Vasquez (on the right) and her new co-ML Claire Percer (on the left). Gloria and Claire organized a kick-off party to get participants going, hold weekly "meet ups" to keep everyone going and put on a "Thank God It's Over" party to celebrate successes and share novels.
After NaNoWriMo 2010, the local group of NaNoWriMo writers continued to meet, formed the CCTXWritersGroup and even launched a Web site of its own.
For more information about NaNoWriMo, visit the Web site at www.nanowrimo.org. To find out about the CCTXWritersGroup Writers Group, visit http://cctxwritersgroup.proboards.com/. Or come to the CoffeeWaves at 5738 South Alameda Street, Corpus Christi, at noon every Saturday during NaNoWriMo in November and at noon the first Saturday of the month during the rest of the year. I'll see you there.
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Michael V. Green says:
I just finished your book, "The Lost King", and enjoyed it very much. I think you did a splendid job as I literally couldn't put it down. It's nice to be retired and able to read a book straight through without work getting in the way. Makes me wonder how you managed to create it in your busy working world.
The back page was dated 19 March 2012 and I received it from Amazon less than a week later. Hot off the press?
You certainly put the "word" in "sword" and told a very engaging story. I trust your first novel will not be your last. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much, Mike. How I managed to find time to write "The Lost King" is a story in itself. I wrote 50K words of it during National Novel Writing Month 2010 which you can read more about on this page. November's a little slow in the wonderful world of work, so I stole a few hours a day to participate in NaNoWriMo that year. Last year I took some time in November and December to add more words and do some editing.
The reason for the March date on the book's back page is that I used Print on Demand technology and the book was manufactured in response to your order. So yes indeed, you got it hot off the press.
Thanks for your encouragement. I'm already making notes about my next fiction project.
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Interested in trying the NaNoWriMo experience yourself? You don't have to wait for November. NaNoWriMo veteran Amy P. Reed hosts two boards to check out, for plotting and for writing. Give 'em a whirl.
Philosophy by Christy blog by writer Christina Vourcos
Animals and Magic Jennifer Priester's fun blog
Ice Cream Castles in the Air A look at writing from both sides of the manuscript


Muses of Ancient Greece were Goddesses who inspired the Arts and Sciences. Mortal muses have also influenced artists. Marie Spartali Stillman (1844 –1927) was known as one of "The Three Graces" of London. Along with Maria Kassavetti and Aglaia Ionides she was celebrated in artistic and intellectual circles for her classic Greek beauty. The trio modeled for The Pre-Raphaelite artists including Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones who painted them dancing as the Graces in The Mill accompanied by Apollo. Stillman chaperoned her sister Christine Spartali when she sat for James McNiell Whistler's The Princess from the Land of Porcelain. Around this time she began her own art studies with Ford Madox Brown. Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron captured her as Zoe, the Greek heroine. Stillman went on to become the best known of the Pre-Rapahelite women artists. producing over a hundred works.


My 81-year-old father was recently admitted into UMSC (Universiti Malaya Specialist Centre) for a major surgery.He was under the care of two doctors. His primary doctor was Dr Sandip Kumar and his secondary doctor was Dr Wong Chew Ming.On the day of the operation, Dr Sandip visited my father who was in bed, obviously quite anxious about the whole surgical procedure.
Dr Sandip outlined the surgical procedure, the risks and what could be expected during and after the surgery.What impressed me most was that Dr Sandip did not stand over my father and speak down to him while he was in bed. He sat on the bed next to my father and many times re-assured him dad by holding his hand and telling him not to worry.Dr Wong was the nephrologist, who attended to my father before and after the surgical procedure. He drew blood every morning and every evening and would not only visit my father to inform him of the results but also provide me with a copy of the results for my father's personal medical file.
He would also patiently answer all my father's queries. My father was discharged on May 30 and was disappointed that he did see Dr Wong to thank him.While he was seated outside the hospital, Dr Wong came looking for him. Apparently he had gone to the ward but was told that my father had been discharged. He shook my father's hand and told him it was a pleasure to have been able to treat him and wished him well.
I reside in Australia and have to admit that the service and professionalism of these two doctors are over and above what I have experienced in Australia.They are a tribute to their profession and an invaluable asset to UMMC and UMSC.My father is a walking miracle and I have to say that he would not have had this outcome, if not for Dr Sandip and Dr Wong.There is only so much medical intervention can do and I believe that the attitude, bedside manners and optimism of these two doctors played the biggest part in my father's remarkable recovery. Thank You – just does not seem sufficient.


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The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 is no longer available please see the OM-LGR-5320 as a possible alternative or contact our data aquisition department.
The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 is a portable data acquisition system that can be used for remote, portable and unattended operation. It is also operational with a PC attached. The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 combines on-board intelligence and a large capacity PC-Card removable memory with the industry's easiest and most powerful data logging software. Its 16-bit, 100-kHz A/D and triggering capabilities make it ideal for collecting high and low speed phenomena.
A comprehensive array of signal conditioning expansion cards and modules are offered that allow the OMB-LOGBOOK-300 to take measurements from virtually any transducer, from thermocouples to accelerometers.
The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 data acquisition system includes LogView graphical display and acquisition software, which allows for fast setup and easy use, with no programming required. LogView software uses a spreadsheet metaphor rather than programming to configure the channels and the acquisition parameters.
Once an acquisition configuration has been developed, it can be downloaded to a PC-Card for transport to a remote OMB-LOGBOOK-300, or it can be directly downloaded to an attached OMB-LOGBOOK-300 via the serial or parallel port. The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 can be used in stand-alone mode where no PC is present, or it can be linked to a PC via a serial or parallel port for interactive data collection.
A PC running LogView can interact with an attached OMB-LOGBOOK-300 at any time, both during the setup and/or while the acquisition is taking place. To observe acquired data, channel values can be displayed in any or all of LogView's many realtime indicators.
Along with simple triggering and continuous data logging, the OMB-LOGBOOK-300 can be configured to intelligently collect only the data you want. For sophisticated triggering, a calculated channel can be specified as the trigger or the stop event. A calculated channel can describe virtually any combination of channel conditions. For example, you can develop a calculated channel called TRIG and specify it as the trigger channel. If the channel's equation is TRIG = (Temp1 - Temp2) > 50.0, the data collection process will be triggered when the difference between the two temperature channels is above 50.0 degrees.
The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 offers a scan sequencer that allows you to select each channel and associated input amplifier gain at random. The sequencer circuitry circumvents a major limitation encountered with many plug-in data acquisition boards–a drastic reduction in the scan rate for external expansion channels. All inputs, including analog, digital, counter, and calculated channels, are sampled at 100 KHz allowing time correlation of mixed signals. The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 permits each scan group to be repeated immediately or at programmable intervals for up to 10 hours. Within each scan group, consecutive channels are measured at a fixed 10 µs/channel rate. If data collection is only desired under specific conditions, an appropriate trigger can be specified. When using a trigger to start the acquisition, a pre-trigger count can be supplied so that information just before the trigger can be collected and saved. The stop event definition specifies when the data collection activity should end. A wide variety of trigger sources and stop event choices provides a high degree of exception capture flexibility. For example, the OMB-LOGBOOK-300 can be configured to capture all data from all input channels for as long as the temperature difference between channels 1 & 2 is greater than 50 degrees.
The system can be expanded using a comprehensive line of signal conditioning and expansion options. The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 is expandable to up to 256 analog inputs and 208 digital I/O lines. Economical signal conditioning hardware includes thermocouple, RTD, high gain, high voltage, current, strain gage, accelerometer, frequency, filter, and simultaneous sample and hold.
All of the channels in an OMB-LOGBOOK-300 system, including the base I/O and expansion channels, are sampled synchronously, providing time correlation of all collected data. The OMB-LOGBOOK-300 provides both internal and external pacer clock control so that scans can be collected using the OMB-LOGBOOK-300's internal programmable oscillator or an externally supplied custom frequency clock.
Unlike many multiplexed input data loggers, the OMB-LOGBOOK- 300's base analog input channels have a unique buffer-amplifier-perchannel design to eliminate noise and channel-to-channel crosstalk while maximizing accuracy - even with high-impedance transducers.
For ease of use, all of the OMB-LOGBOOK-300's settings are software controlled, eliminating the need for switches and jumpers. Each channel is digitally calibrated, eliminating drift-prone potentiometers.
Unlike many plug-in board data acquisition systems, the OMB-LogBook-300's programmable channel/gain sequencer scans expansion channels at the same rate as its on-board channels. For this reason, the OMB-LOGBOOK-300 is well suited for test applications that require both high channelcount and high speed.
LogView uses a series of spreadsheets to allow simple setup and display of all channel parameters. No auxiliary dialog boxes, configurable block diagrams, or programming methodologies are employed. Simply select the appropriate cell, choose the desired setting from the dropdown list, and the parameter is set. To apply the same setting to multiple channels, select a block of cells within a column and use the spreadsheet's fill-down feature.
After the channels and the acquisition parameters have been configured, download the configuration to a PC-Card in one of your PC's sockets, or send the configuration directly to the OMB-LOGBOOK-300 via the serial or parallel port. When a PC-Card is used to transport the acquisition configuration to a remote OMB-LOGBOOK-300, inserting the card into one of its sockets signals the OMB-LOGBOOK-300 to read and execute the new acquisition configuration.
Once the channel configuration parameters have been downloaded to the OMB-LOGBOOK-300, LogView can display the channel values of a connected OMB-LOGBOOK-300 in real time, both before and during an acquisition. LogView conveniently displays channel values in the channel configuration spreadsheet or in real-time bargraphs, analog meters, and digital indicators.
All inputs including analog, digital, frequency and calculated channels are collected synchronously so that data from widely dissimilar inputs can be correlated in time.
Within the analog spreadsheet, an offset adjustment or 2-point calibration can be performed for each channel. This function compensates for inaccuracies in signal conditioning circuitry and sensors.
See the "Related Links" Section at the bottom of this page for a list of compatible expansion cards.
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What is Geocache? It is (in a nutshell) an electronic scavenger hunt. You have to have a smart phone or a handheld GPS. People all over the country have started hiding geocache's for people to find. Some of them are big and some are small. By the way, it is not money, many people think that it is money, but it is not. It can be a little old school film case, or as big as an army box. Inside you will find something for you to sign saying that you found it, and some you will need to leave something random in the box.
How to Geocache? The easiest way is to download the app from the apple store or the Android market. When you download the app, you open it to find the 3 closest geocache's that are too your location. You can navigate to it, and it will immediately begin to show you how to get there. You can look at the compass view or the roadmap view. It will lead you there, and tell you exactly when you are close. Each geocache gives a description, and most give you a hint in finding it. When you find it, you sign the paper in the geocache, and go and find another one.
Why Geocache? I like it because it is cheap! It is free to do. You can have a geocache party, and just charge prize cost and food cost. It also is fun for the students. They enjoy looking for something random, and going out with another to try to find it. It is a challenge to them.
Have groups of 6– If you can have groups of 6, I have found that this is the best. If you have much less than this, it gets to be no fun, and too many is not fun either. 6 is a great number for a group.
Start each group in a different area. Each group needs to be at least 15-20 minutes apart to make it work or each team will be going after the same geocache, and running into each other. Have a plan to start them in different areas of town.
Have a time limit– Set a time for each group to return back, and deduct points for every minute that they are late. This gives them an incentive to make sure that they are on time.
I downloaded the Geocache Intro app by Groundspeak. It works really well, but because this became a big thing, I decided to buy the exact app, but the $9.99 paid version, because it shows you much more. Hope this helps.