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Mohawk's ColorMax in SmartStrand uses an innovative dyeing process to create blended colorations, intense color clarity, enhanced color saturation and performance. "This proprietary dyeing process creates intense color depth in every fiber," said Jamie Welborn, vice president of residential carpet products.
The Anderson Tuftex team was excited to showcase the Unleashed collection featuring Stainmaster PetProtect fibers with built-in stain protection and pet hair resistance. The high-style carpets aim to raising the level of design for pet-friendly floors, and the team paired the collection with two new hardwood additions, Kensington and Buckingham.
Tile. Concrete looks continue to be popular and manufacturers are finding unique ways to reimagine the look. Crossville's new Reformation porcelain tile collection offers patterned planks that create depth and movement on the floor.
"We named it Reformation because we wanted people to change the paradigm and reform the way they think concrete is supposed to look," said Lindsey Waldrep, Crossville vice president of marketing.
Gray is still here, though with some movement toward grays with warmer undertones. However, according to Michelle Castagna of Muse Design Studio, with the increase of fracturing and personalization across all industries, color trends are becoming more varied among different demographics, including age group, location, culture, and industry. The key to color now is designing spaces around the purpose of a space, as defined by the customer.
Luxury Vinyl Tile. Putting a unique twist on wood looks is Mohawk's Pergo brand. The company rolled out 60 new introductions, including some inspired by Sugi Shou Ban, an ancient Japanese wood burning technique.
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Dennis DOZIER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA, Defendant-Appellee.
Before MERRITT, SUTTON, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges. ARGUED: E. Douglas Richards, E. Douglas Richards, PSC, Lexington, Kentucky, for Appellant. Jeffrey C. Mando, Adams, Stepner, Woltermann & Dusing, PLLC, Covington, Kentucky, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: E. Douglas Richards, E. Douglas Richards, PSC, Lexington, Kentucky, for Appellant. Jeffrey C. Mando, Adams, Stepner, Woltermann & Dusing, PLLC, Covington, Kentucky, for Appellee.
Dennis Dozier challenges the district court's dismissal of his employee-benefits suit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies, claiming that pursuing the administrative review process for one benefit after the insurance company had already rejected his application for a similar (though easier to obtain) benefit would have been futile. Because it indeed would have been futile for Dozier to ask the insurance company to find that he could not perform "any occupation" for which he was qualified (the eligibility requirement for obtaining a waiver of life insurance premiums) after the company had already concluded that he could perform his "own occupation" (making him ineligible for long-term-disability benefits), we reverse.
In March 2001, Dennis Dozier injured his lower back and managed to work only intermittently after the injury. A year later, on March 19, 2002, his doctor recommended that he retire because he was "permanently incapacitated" and could not work. JA 153.
Through his employer, Dozier participated in long-term-disability and life insurance policies underwritten by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. The long-term-disability benefit applied to anyone "unable to perform the Material and Substantial Duties of his Own Occupation." JA 102 (emphasis added). The life insurance policy provided a waiver-of-premium benefit for disabled employees, which the policy defined as those "unable to perform the material and substantial duties of any occupation for which he is or becomes reasonably qualified for by education, training or experience." JA 81 (emphasis added).
Dozier applied for benefits under each policy through a single application form provided by Sun Life. On May 15, 2002, Sun Life issued a letter to Dozier denying his claim for long-term-disability benefits. The letter, signed by Beth Bixler from the LTD Claims group, identified his occupation as involving "sedentary" work and concluded that "you are not precluded from performing that type of work." JA 44. One week later, Sun Life issued a letter denying Dozier's claim for waiver-of-premium benefits. Signed by Kathy Barrick of the Life Claims group, the letter stated that "[t]he long term disability claim file indicated ․ that the findings in your medical records did not preclude you from performing sedentary work" and thus "[s]ince you are not Totally Disabled ․ we must deny this request for benefits." JA 41. The letter also noted that "this decision is solely related to your Waiver of Premium claim and does not directly [a]ffect your long term disability claim." Id. Each letter explained the process for filing an appeal from the insurance company's decision.
On July 2, 2002, Dozier sought administrative review of Sun Life's long-term-disability decision. According to the terms of the policy, Dozier had 180 days to decide whether to appeal either the long-term-disability or the waiver-of-premium decisions, and Sun Life had 90 days to issue a decision with respect to each potential appeal. On October 17, 2002, Sun Life notified Dozier that it would adhere to its initial decision in denying his long-term-disability claim and that "[a]ll administrative remedies ha[d] been exhausted and no additional information [would] be reviewed." JA 147. When Sun Life issued this letter, Dozier still had 32 days to seek administrative review of the harder-to-obtain benefit-the waiver of premiums.
Dozier filed a lawsuit in state court against Sun Life seeking long-term-disability and waiver-of-premium benefits. After Sun Life removed the case to federal court on diversity grounds, the district court ruled that Sun Life had mistakenly denied Dozier long-term-disability benefits and dismissed without prejudice his waiver-of-premium claim for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
In response, Dozier asked Sun Life to review the denial of his waiver-of-premium claim. Sun Life declined, noting that Dozier was outside the 180-day window for appealing the decision.
Dozier filed a second action in state court regarding his waiver-of-premium claim, and Sun Life again removed the action to federal court. The district court dismissed Dozier's claim with prejudice because he had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies and because the time for seeking administrative review had expired.
Acknowledging that he did not exhaust the administrative remedies available on his waiver-of-premium claim, Dozier argues that any administrative appeal would have been futile given the reality that Sun Life had denied his long-term-disability appeal and indeed had done so before the time for appealing the other claim had expired. While "application of the administrative exhaustion requirement in an ERISA case is committed to the sound discretion of the district court," Fallick v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 162 F.3d 410, 418 (6th Cir.1998), that discretion must be exercised "to excuse nonexhaustion where resorting to the plan's administrative procedure would simply be futile," id. at 419; see id. at 420 ("[W]hen resort to the administrative review process would be an exercise in futility, the exhaustion of remedies doctrine shall not apply.").
Generally speaking, we have applied the administrative-futility doctrine in two scenarios: (1) when the "Plaintiffs' suit [is] directed to the legality of [the plan], not to a mere interpretation of it," Costantino v. TRW, Inc., 13 F.3d 969, 975 (6th Cir.1994) (emphases omitted); see also Fallick, 162 F.3d at 420, and (2) when the defendant "lacks the authority to institute the [decision] sought by Plaintiffs," Hill v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mich., 409 F.3d 710, 719 (6th Cir.2005). To meet the "quite restricted" standard for establishing administrative futility, we have required a litigant to "make a clear and positive indication" that further administrative review would have come to naught. Fallick, 162 F.3d at 419.
The "clear and positive indication" that Dozier had no reason to seek administrative review of his waiver-of-premium claim, it seems to us, came when Sun Life denied his long-term-disability claim on October 17, 2002. At that point, Dozier still had 32 days to seek administrative review of the waiver-of-premium claim but no rational reason for doing so. In denying the long-term-disability claim, Sun Life had made a final determination that Dozier was able to perform "the Material and Substantial Duties of his Own Occupation." JA 145 (emphasis added). That determination necessarily precluded him from arguing with a straight face to the same insurance company that he was "unable to perform the material and substantial duties of any occupation," JA 41 (emphasis added), the eligibility standard for obtaining the waiver-of-premium benefit. The denial of the easier-to-obtain claim precluded eligibility for the more-difficult-to-prove claim.
Under these circumstances, Dozier had every reason to believe that administrative review of the waiver-of-premium claim would have been pointless. Dozier could fairly assume that the same company would apply these two tests consistently, meaning that the denial of the one claim would foreclose eligibility for relief on the other. See Paese v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., 449 F.3d 435, 449 (2d Cir.2006) (noting that "Hartford's decision that Paese was not totally disabled from his 'own occupation' necessarily implies a decision that he was not totally disabled from 'any occupation' "); Cilano v. Alstom Transp., Inc., No. 04-CV-6322 CJS, 2005 WL 139172, at *2-3 (W.D.N.Y. Jan.18, 2005) ("Where as here a plaintiff has exhausted one claim but not another, he may demonstrate futility by showing that the two claims are so identical that the denial of one demonstrates with certainty that the other will also be denied.") (internal quotation marks omitted); cf. Lindemann v. Mobil Oil Corp., 79 F.3d 647, 650 (7th Cir.1996) (holding exhaustion required despite futility argument because "[t]he two claims are not so identical that Mobil's denial of the claim for separation benefits demonstrates with certainty that it would deny the ERISA claim as well").
Further supporting Dozier's decision to consider the company's action on the former application before appealing the latter one, Sun Life gave Dozier 180 days to seek administrative review of the decisions. Given the interconnectedness of the two applications and the policy's requirement that appeals must be decided within 90 days, Dozier was fully entitled to seek review of the easier-to-obtain benefit and wait to decide whether to seek review of the harder-to-obtain benefit until after a response from the company. And when Sun Life denied the long-term-disability benefit, the eligibility criteria for the two benefits made the appeal of the waiver-of-premium decision look utterly pointless to anyone save a litigation-hungry employee. "The law does not require parties to engage in meaningless acts or to needlessly squander resources as a prerequisite to commencing litigation." Fallick, 162 F.3d at 420 (internal quotation marks omitted).
(1) To help reduce the number of frivolous law-suits under ERISA.
(2) To promote the consistent treatment of claims for benefits.
(3) To provide a nonadversarial method of claims settlement.
(4) To minimize the costs of claims settlement for all concerned.
(5) To enhance the ability of trustees of benefit plans to expertly and efficiently manage their funds by preventing premature judicial intervention in their decision-making processes.
(6) To enhance the ability of trustees of benefit plans to correct their errors.
(7) To enhance the ability of trustees of benefit plans to interpret plan provisions.
(8) To help assemble a factual record which will assist a court in reviewing fiduciaries' actions.
Costantino, 13 F.3d at 975.
Sun Life has not explained how an administrative appeal of the waiver-of-premium benefit would advance any of these purposes. Nor can we think of any reason why it would do so. By not requiring exhaustion, in marked contrast, we would advance several of these goals: cost savings for the company and applicant; elimination of frivolous claims; timeliness in bringing the dispute to a close; and of course "the consistent treatment of claims for benefits." Id. The last point may be the most important: Courts and applicants may fairly assume that a company will treat benefits claims consistently and coherently; they should not be required to insist on exhaustion on the assumption that the company may have a bad day. Otherwise, the futility exception would never apply-as the specter of a mistake or inconsistent application of the plan's terms would always hold out the possibility of relief.
Sun Life persists that Dozier should have exhausted both claims because the company had independent units reviewing each claim, making it possible for the company to grant the harder-to-prove claim after denying the easier-to-prove claim. In support of this argument, Sun Life points to the testimony of Lesley Hanslope, the life insurance group manager, who said that even though her group considered the decision of the other group, the life insurance group theoretically could have granted the waiver-of-premium claim even after the LTD group had denied the long-term-disability claim. She acknowledged, however, that such a decision would be "very rare," and neither she nor any other company employee could point to a single instance where that inconsistency had occurred. JA 198-99. The context of her testimony, moreover, shows that she was speaking of the two groups' initial decisions, not their authority to issue inconsistent decisions in the context of an administrative appeal. As to that, the record is silent. No authority to our knowledge exists for the proposition that the futility exception does not apply whenever it can be said-indeed it always can be said-that the company might make a mistake or exercise its discretion inconsistently in addressing two related applications.
In the end, we are left with two policies whose consistent interpretation would have required Sun Life to deny Dozier's application for the waiver-of-premium benefit, two policies that so far as the record shows have never been construed inconsistently and an individual applicant whose only sin was in assuming that the company would treat his administrative appeals in a consistent and coherent manner. The futility rule permitted him to act on that assumption, and accordingly the district court must process his claim.
For these reasons, we reverse and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.


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import com.azure.core.credential.AccessToken;

public class AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12 {

    private final String accountName;
    private final String endpointSuffix;
    private final AzureStorageCredentialsType credentialsType;
    private final String accountKey;
    private final String sasToken;
    private final String tenantId;
    private final String clientId;
    private final String clientSecret;
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    private AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12(
            String accountName, String endpointSuffix, AzureStorageCredentialsType credentialsType, String accountKey,
            String sasToken, String tenantId, String clientId, String clientSecret, AccessToken accessToken) {
        this.accountName = accountName;
        this.endpointSuffix = endpointSuffix;
        this.credentialsType = credentialsType;
        this.accountKey = accountKey;
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    public String getAccountName() {
        return accountName;
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    public String getEndpointSuffix() {
        return endpointSuffix;
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    public AzureStorageCredentialsType getCredentialsType() {
        return credentialsType;
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    public String getAccountKey() {
        return accountKey;
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    public String getSasToken() {
        return sasToken;
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    public String getTenantId() {
        return tenantId;
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    public String getClientId() {
        return clientId;
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    public String getClientSecret() {
        return clientSecret;
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    public AccessToken getAccessToken() {
        return accessToken;
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    public static AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12 createWithAccountKey(
            String accountName,
            String endpointSuffix,
            String accountKey) {
        return new AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12(accountName, endpointSuffix, AzureStorageCredentialsType.ACCOUNT_KEY, accountKey, null, null, null, null, null);
    }

    public static AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12 createWithSasToken(
            String accountName,
            String endpointSuffix,
            String sasToken) {
        return new AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12(accountName, endpointSuffix, AzureStorageCredentialsType.SAS_TOKEN, null, sasToken, null, null, null, null);
    }

    public static AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12 createWithManagedIdentity(
            String accountName,
            String endpointSuffix) {
        return new AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12(accountName, endpointSuffix, AzureStorageCredentialsType.MANAGED_IDENTITY, null, null, null, null, null, null);
    }

    public static AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12 createWithServicePrincipal(
            String accountName,
            String endpointSuffix,
            String tenantId,
            String clientId,
            String clientSecret) {
        return new AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12(accountName, endpointSuffix, AzureStorageCredentialsType.SERVICE_PRINCIPAL, null, null, tenantId, clientId, clientSecret, null);
    }

    public static AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12 createWithAccessToken(
            String accountName,
            String endpointSuffix,
            AccessToken accessToken) {
        return new AzureStorageCredentialsDetails_v12(accountName, endpointSuffix, AzureStorageCredentialsType.ACCESS_TOKEN, null, null, null, null, null, accessToken);
    }
}

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A look at the history of fishing in Australia, from pre-1788 and going back thousands of years, to now, with draft plans to change the boundaries of marine parks.
Fisheries management have responded to declining stocks by introducing wide-ranging legislation across the recreational and commercial sectors. But they're in an unenviable position, essentially forced to make laws in response to fishing practices sometimes over a century old (such as the excessive by-catch of trawlers), while simultaneously "balancing" the contemporary demands of conservationists, recreational and commercial fishers.
Anna Clark is among Honest History's distinguished supporters. She recently reviewed The Honest History Book. She has just published a book, The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia (NLA Publishing), reviewed here by Lisa Hill.


Our client wanted a couple of tables to appear on their pricing page to deliver a clear comparison between their offering and that of their typical competitors.
We tried various plugins (such as Tablepress and WP Pricing Tables), but had a few problems with them – they weren't completely responsive (meaning that they didn't display well on mobile devices) and the row / column formatting went a bit weird on several browsers, especially when a column had more lines of text than other columns in the same row.
As there was no other need for tables on the site we decided to implement a combination of CSS and simple HTML to deliver the desired effect. Whilst plugins are often a good idea, as they offer a solution that can be managed by website owners and which are regularly updated by the plugin authors, they can sometimes 'bloat' a website with unnecessary code that impacts performance, they can conflict with other plugins, and they can pose a security risk if they are not updated or if they come from an unreliable source.
We have a full blog post here that explains how you might create responsive tables in your WordPress site.
So, if you have a client who is willing and able to do a little more manual effort to maintain his pages, a hand-crafted HTML and CSS solution might be the most appropriate way to go. Why not get in touch?


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If you are finding it difficult to decide on the type of wooden wardrobe to purchase for your home, you may wish to consider the many benefits offered by solid pine wardrobes. One of the reasons many people add solid pine wardrobes to a home is because of the reasonable price of pine wood. Wood furniture such as oak or mahogany can be very costly, making them impractical options for those decorating on a budget. Pine wood is just as beautiful and charming as other wood types; however, due to the fact that pine is a highly sustainable resource, it is an inexpensive option.
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Deacon Eldridge E. Armstrong was born November 27, 1927, in Kerens, Texas, to the parentage of Mr. John D. and Mrs. Willie Douglas Armstrong. He was raised and attended school in the Kerens School District .
He acknowledged his faith at an early age and was baptized at the Samaria Baptist Church in Kerens, Texas.
Eldridge married a home town girl, Armethia Jimmerson on September 4, 1948, and He was blessed with 4 children; 2 boys and 2 girls.
Upon moving his family to Dallas, Texas, he found employment with Cecil Carr Construction Company where he retired after 40 plus years of service. He and his wife Armethia enjoyed raising their children and grand children. He later worked for a number of years as a school crossing guard for DISD.
Eldridge joined Munger Avenue Baptist Church where he served until he decided to return back to his roots. He moved to Powell, Texas and joined New Hope Baptist where he met and married Mrs. Viola Bradford on November 6, 1999, who preceded him in death. While at New Hope he served with the Deacon Ministry, Usher Board and assistant Sunday School Teacher until his health fail.
Eldridge was preceded in death by his 2 Wives: Armethia Jimmerson and Viola Bradford; Parents, John D. and Willie Armstrong; 1 brother, Emerson Armstrong and 3 sisters, Mattie Lee Sodie, Henrietta, and Pauline Armstrong.
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When I woke up this morning it was 5 degrees outside. Fahrenheit.
Cold enough to keep me inside, bundled up in a great sweater, counting the hours until it's time to light the fire. Cold enough to make me oh so glad I don't have to venture out into the great wide world today. Cold enough even to keep naughty kitten inside.
And so, a new year, one that seems to want to freeze everything in sight, even time. And I am cocooned in this house, though I will venture out to pull some snow off the roof in the place that always leaks, to shovel outside the back door so the dog can get outside, to set some suet out for the birds, because my goodness, it's not a good day to be a bird.
There is work to do before I can snuggle up next to the fire, but these are the days of winter that I love. The early days before cabin fever sets in, the days when it feels like a treat to be snowed in. Of course, the novelty of this wears off fairly quickly, and by next month, I will begin complaining, yearning for green, and the days when you can walk outside unencumbered by coats and hats and gloves.
But for now, I'm enjoying the silence. The white blanket that keeps getting heavier. The frost coating every window in the house.
Winter is a cold, cold friend who almost always overstays her welcome, but she's a beauty all the same.
She holds the fury of the night and the patience of forever.
She might even melt your heart, a little.
But watch out for your fingers.
Kelly you put into words my feelings about winter right now…with -32 windchills and a foot of fresh snow, the landscape is breathtaking…but as you so eloquently say the white will soon blur our eyes and we will have cabin fever longing for other colors especially green!
i can only imagine. but i can hear the lovely silence.
Beautifully said, all so true. Bitter cold here at -5! Something beautiful about it … probably since I don't have to go out into it. Stay warm, my friend.
just beautiful. so perfectly put.
From the land of summer, where it's hard to sleep because of the heavy heat, I must tell you that your weather sounds beautiful.
I feel EXACTLY the same way. All of it. Except I am incapable of putting it so eloquently as do you. I had pizza tonight too but I had to go pick it up. Damn was it cold!


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Vancouver Fashion Week F/W 17 - Buy Local
A few season a go I decided I needed to offer a very different kind of coverage for local designers showcasing in Vancouver Fashion Week. That's when I conceived of a BUY LOCAL column. Every garment shown that is available for you locally is here in one place.
Because of the amount of coverage, all I can offer is an excerpt from their press release or VFW designer profile, but in the end, let's face it the pictures are what showcase their collections the best.
If you want a vibrant and healthy local fashion scene, there is only one way to achieve it. With YOUR support. Share about your favourites designers or look on your Social Media pages and try and add at least one garment from a local designer to your closet each and every season. Make it a cherished piece that can stay a vibrant part of your wardrobe for years to come.
There are many amazing Vancouver artists hitting the runway this season. This column will be added to each day their are new offerings.
Sunday at VFW -
Evan Clayton
THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES, the A/W 2017 offering from EVAN CLAYTON, is a whimsical journey through 17th century Italy. Filtered through the eyes of famed sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the collection is a sensuous satire of modern purity, much in the same way Bernini explored irony in his work. Winner of the prestigious inaugural Nancy Mak award, Clayton's fashion shows always create a theatrical, engaging performance, and this collection is no exception. Major points of reference include "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa", as well as the notorious 1973 film "The Devil in Miss Jones", from which the collection gets its namesake. THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES promises to be an exposition of contradiction.
Images by Dale Rollings
17th century daywear and evening costumes provide the guiding light for which the EVAN CLAYTON consumer can follow into the coming A/W season. On one hand she'll reach for her trusted mid-wash denim frock coat, with the other, a sumptuous velvet evening dress. The clinical silhouette usually synonymous with EVAN CLAYTON has been softened, edges have been blurred, and frivolity takes the place of stark minimalism. A colour palette of periwinkle, gold, ivory, and powdered grey bring visions of lofty artist studios and lithely carved marble.
Alex S Yu
ALEX S. YU creates colourful and minimal garments that explore the fine line between reality and fantasy. His aesthetics rollick the happy emotions of childhood, nostalgia and wanderlust; and ponder the very definition of femininity in a modern, quirky way through garments. He trained at Blanche Macdonald Centre in Vancouver and then furthered his education at the prestigious London College of Fashion in the United Kingdom.
The ALEX S. YU woman loves to have fun, and isn't afraid of trying new things. She loves colour, prints, quirky shapes, textures, and most importantly, values comfort. The ALEX S. YU woman is eccentric, lively, nonchalant and views life through a pair of rose tinted glasses. ALEX S. YU creates a line of contemporary luxury streets wear that is ready-to-wear with a twist of avant garde experimental attitude. He plays with proportions, colour blocking and unusual silhouettes while mixing and using different colours and fabric weights in one garment. He often designs his own original prints or collaborates with various artists from the graphic design or visual arts field to create original prints for his collection.
Saturday at VFW -
Sara Armstrong
Saskatchewan native and Blanche Macdonald grad Sara Armstrong is an internationally-acclaimed, interdisciplinary artist who practices in both fashion and industrial design, and has been featured in Vogue UK, Glamour UK, and Elle Italia, Mexico, China, and Canada. Armstrong creates ready to wear pieces for Men and Women, with an androgynous blur, at once loyal to the functionality of heritage craftsmanship and subversive in their welcoming of innovative details. [The designer's]Autumn/Winter 2017-18 instalment impels introspection of her childhood nightmares to a palpable confrontation, an intimacy with her unease.
Pushing beyond the static of the dream, rich, conflicted colours clash and then tuck deftly into tailored turns, an orchestrated, sophisticated chaos of pattern, textures and time. Armstrong romanticizes the deafening pulsation of her dreams through the stoic, rhythmic portraits of 17th Century Flemish Baroque painter, Sir Anthony Van Dyck. From him, she also borrows an emphasis on visual tactility, blending the vibrating imagery of pattern with luxuriant billows of textures. Excavating deeper into this space, the collection gathers fragments of history into a re-interpretation of tailoring, and explores qualities of cloth, colour and drape. Generous swathes of wool cinch nimbly at the waist, and give rise to luminescent shades of cotton, linens and silks. Hand construction methods—such as smocking—are revivified through the use of new materials. This instalment will see a collaborative display of audio and visual, orchestrated by artist and film-maker, Kerry Chambers and multimedia artist, Mohamed Ibrahim Ali.
Kim Legler
Kim Legler is a self-taught Artist, and trained Fashion Designer. She has been painting for over 10 years, and designing for 7 years. Kim specializes in fine art, and tailored womenswear. She also works as a Fashion Stylist where she has developed ever-lasting relationships with her clients. Kim's design aesthetic is minimalistic, yet feminine. Her silhouettes are mostly tailored, and clean-lined. Hailing from Canada's Great North, she is often inspired by the serenity of nature & the vibrancy of city-life.
Kim Legler is a lifestyle brand, a place where women can buy beautiful handmade clothes, art & accessories. We not only design for chic & sophisticated women but also for the creative ladies out there. It is our mission to bring you unique, non-manufactured pieces that can't be found anywhere else. Each piece at Kim Legler tells a story & is carefully designed for you with love.
Friday at VFW -
Aiki District
Aiki District officially launched in December 2016 and its contemporary designs have already been featured in numerous publications. The duo, Anahita Faghih and Maneli Nourbakhsh are Co-Founders and designers for Aiki District. It is a contemporary women's wear line, Made in Vancouver, inspired by the beauty and strength of individuals who go beyond limitations and challenge their own norms. The brand is made for travelers, nomads and the uninhibited.
They hold a basic vision: to present well crafted, comfortable, quality pieces that inspire and cover every part of an explorer's diary. With the use of fine quality fabrics, maintaining high ethical standards, and focusing on sustainability, we create contemporary pieces with powerful silhouettes that last beyond a season.
One Delirious Dream
Jennifer Bond and Cecilia Bright have been sewing together since they were children. They have similar aesthetics but different ideas about self expression. One Delirious Dream was created to combine their love for fine garments and proper fit. Clothing is made to order, and accompanied with a fitting at their studio. Their main aesthetic is drawn heavily from the occult and macabre, monochromatic palettes, nature, and historical garments. It is dark, hazy, a little decadent and very dramatic.
Cecilia primarily designs and with Jennifer's input they truly create unique pieces that are cohesive and easy to put together for a lifestyle effect. Women are not made out of a mold, and should not be on a pedestal. We want to help you leave the ideals of society, and express yourself the way you want to be seen and heard. Take up space, over dress, be sumptuous. "We like to create bold statement looks without using too much colour, that are both haunting and beautiful. Something curious, and highly intimidating."
Thursday at VFW -
Mary Ebra
Mary Ebra became engrossed with fashion at a very young age when she observed how people in her native Iran went through a revolution in fashion. She began her fashion career in fashion at age 15 and debuted her first line in Tehran, Iran, before graduating from high school. When Mary immigrated to Canada, she enrolled in the fashion program at the Blanche Macdonald Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her contemporary, vivid, and youthful pieces have become vital wardrobe additions for working women who are seeking modern, striking leatherwear pieces that are bold, perfect for work, and far from dowdy.
Wednesday at VFW -
Lo Life x Lauren Kemp
Lauren a.k.a Lo is a local Vancouver designer. Her collection is all about texture, easy layering with a rock and roll infused edge – but with a slight variation, everything is up cycled from thrifted or vintage garments that are locally sourced in Vancouver. Her current line focuses on hand embroidered vintage and thrifted goods – but this collection will showcase her expansion into up cycled garments.
Images by Harry Leonard Imagery
Tima.G
Tima.G Atelier's philosophy threads function, elegance and storytelling together. Not only capturing but also preserving the fleeting nature of emotion in timeless garments. Stemming from the designer's own experience in finding the best path, the brand encompasses the many facets through which life can be interpreted. With over 70 years of cumulative experience, the Tima.G brand's ready-to-wear and custom-made garments are handcrafted locally, in shop, with the utmost attention and value on detail and quality. Encompassing pristine characteristics, these garments emulate the grace desirable to be donned at any occasion.
Images by Ed Ng Photography
Ginger and Flora -
Coming from an extensive musical background in piano and attending opera and Broadway productions inspired a love for costume design and film studies. Ashley entered her post-secondary studies having received KPU's Leaders of Tomorrow President's Entrance Scholarship and her A.R.C.T. in piano performance. Ashley's curiosity and determination for personal excellence led her to be selected as a finalist for Telio's 2015 national competition. During a semester abroad in Berlin, Germany at HTW Ashley developed cultural sensitivity and a global mind-set to direct her. Ashley is currently working in the lingerie design industry while continuing to research and developed her lingerie collection Ginger & Flora Intimates.
Ginger & Flora designs lingerie exclusively for sizes 28DD-34GG that is delicate, luxurious, and beautifully crafted. Our name speaks to the two personalities in every woman; Ginger is playful and foxy where Flora conveys femininity and romanticism. With the focus on exceptional fit and comfort when constructing garments, the combination of function and fashion is essential to our brand. Each stitch and seam has a purpose to create silhouettes that compliment and enhance the body. Nostalgic hand embroidered details contrast digitally printed textiles on silhouettes reminiscent of decades past for our F/W'17 collection Heirloom.\
Kirsten Ley
KIRSTEN LEY is an artist who enjoys empowering women through confidence-inducing clothing. Constructing eponymous, avant garde and visceral pieces, she juxtaposes structurally bound leather with the whimsy of fervent, flowing silks, while exploring structural details inspired by both vintage and modern anatomy diagrams. Kristen was also overall Achievement Award winner for Blanche Macdonald in 2016.
Tuesday at VFW -
"Encima is a contemporary menswear brand based out of Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 2015 by designer Faiz Lalani, the goal has been to design and create unique garments utilizing colours and materials that best represent our individuality. We don't all look the same, so why should we dress the same. This mentality is what strongly influences the design aesthetic that can be found on each and every Encima piece."
Mahari Collection
Taran Mullhi established Mahari Collection in Spring 2015. Having previously worked in the buzzing London and New York fashion industries, Taran now designs from her Vancouver based studio for her global clientele base. Inspired by her British & Indian heritage she aims to combine these two cultural aesthetics through her designs to create a mix & match wardrobe which is versatile and timeless. "The collection is built on a soft colour palette with subtle pops of vibrant hues which are accented by decadent embroidery detailing. Designs include ethereal gowns and voluminous skirts paired with bold capes. I loved pairing flowing silhouettes which delicate embroideries - a signature aesthetic to the Mahari Collection brand!"
Shelley Klassen - Blushing Boutique Designs
Blushing Boutique Designer Shelley Klassen is thrilled to present her "Going to the Chapel" Collection at Vancouver Fashion Week (VFW). Blushing Boutique is the flagship store of Canadian designer Shelley Klassen. This spring marks the boutique's 10 year anniversary. Having covertly provided custom bridal to her clients over the years, Shelley has decided to showcase a stunning 'Blushing' Wedding Collection featuring frocks for the bride, wedding party as well as for the guests attending.
"This collection comes straight from the heart. Vintage inspired lace, cascading beadwork, ruffled chiffons and florals, rich silks in colors of gold, cobalt, blush, magenta, phthalo green and pearly off white. Classic cuts sprinkled with feminine touches of romance designed to represent the beauty and joy of the sacred union of love." – Shelley Klassen
AIki District Alex Yu Blushing Boutique buy local ENCIMA Evan Clayton fashion FW 17 Ginger and Flora Kim Legler Kirsten Ley Lo Life Mahari mary ebra One Delirious Sara Armstrong Tima.G VFW


Research and development in haptics is performed by small groups of researchers with a variety of backgrounds at many different places in the Netherlands and Belgium. The purpose of the network meeting is to bring these people together, to allow for informal, but yet technical discussions about each other's work. By doing so, we strengthen haptics research in our geographical area and allow interdisciplinary research ideas to be developed.
This year's meeting will take place at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences of the VU University in Amsterdam on the 27th of March from 10.00 till 18.00h.
People from haptics labs outside Netherlands or Belgium are of course also welcome to join this meeting!!


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Revl Raises VC Funds, Vimeo Introduces Magisto Video Editor
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As CES continues to expand its footprint and influence as the global stage for technology innovation, exhibitors are spreading themselves out across the multiple venues of CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Visitors to the show, which opens today and fills almost 3 million square feet of space with more than 4,400 exhibiting companies, will find some surprises when they look for returning CES veterans such as Intel and Qualcomm in familiar places and instead find them spread out across show locations, while discovering an unusually large presence from other companies such as IBM and John Deere. Continue reading CES 2020 Exhibit Spaces Reflect Changing Tech Landscape
Netflix Still Avoids Ads, But Heats Up Its Brand Partnerships
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Amazon Ramps Up Efforts to Bring Alexa to More Vehicles
Amazon first indicated its ambition to put Alexa into cars several years ago, and in 2018 introduced Echo Auto, designed to be integrated into vehicle entertainment systems. Since then, Audi and BMW began selling some models that incorporate the company's digital assistant. But Amazon faces stiff competition from Apple and Google, which have already made inroads, and some vehicle manufacturers are loath to adopt third-party technology. Although Amazon won't generate much revenue initially in the auto market, the company believes that opportunities will grow much larger in the future. Continue reading Amazon Ramps Up Efforts to Bring Alexa to More Vehicles
Ford, VW Collaborate on Autonomous and Electric Vehicles
By Rob Scott
Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG are extending their seven-month-old alliance to include collaborating on self-driving and electric car technology. In a joint statement today, the companies announced that Volkswagen would invest $2.6 billion in Ford's autonomous-vehicle partner Argo AI by providing $1 billion in funding and contributing its Audi $1.6 billion Autonomous Intelligent Driving unit, based in Munich. In 2017, Ford invested $1 billion in Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup Argo. Once the Ford-VW deal is finalized, Argo's value is expected to reach $7 billion. Continue reading Ford, VW Collaborate on Autonomous and Electric Vehicles
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Varjo Debuts High-Res VR Headset for Enterprise Use Cases
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Israeli Firm Debuts One-Camera Vehicle Surveillance System
At CES 2019, Tel Aviv-based Guardian Optical Technologies debuted Optical Cabin Control (OCC) for the car's interior. The single camera, a bit bigger than one featured in a mobile phone, is installed in the car's ceiling and uses machine learning to keep an eye on the driver — and the kids in the backseat. More specifically, the camera watches to see if the driver takes his hands off the wheel, his eyes off the road or closes his eyes. To train the system, the company hired a diverse group of people, wearing different clothes and holding various accessories and pets. Continue reading Israeli Firm Debuts One-Camera Vehicle Surveillance System
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CES 2019 in January will highlight discussions about what we can expect with 5G next year and beyond. Fifth-generation mobile communications brings faster speeds, lower latency and the ability to connect more devices, meaning it will not simply speed up mobile phones but power nascent digital technologies from VR and IoT to autonomous vehicles and smart cities. CES 2019 offers a Wednesday 5G summit, and the first 5G products will be sprinkled across the show floor. The ETCentric team will be in Las Vegas reporting on a number of companies in this space. Continue reading CES: Understanding the 5G Ecosystem in 2019 and Beyond
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Amazon is now working on delivering packages inside peoples' homes and car trunks. The e-commerce giant is on the verge of inking a partnership with Phrame, a manufacturer of a product that fits around a license plate, with a secure box that holds the keys to the car. Users can unlock the box with their smartphone, and remotely grant access to a delivery person. Sources say that Amazon is also working on a smart doorbell device that would give its delivery drivers one-time access to a person's home. Continue reading Amazon May Soon Deliver Packages Inside Homes and Cars
Samsung Creates $300M Fund to Innovate Automotive Tech
Samsung Electronics has formed a $300 million Automotive Innovation Fund focused on technology for new cars. The South Korean electronics company previously showed interest in the automotive industry, spending $8 billion to buy auto parts supplier Harman International. According to Samsung, its first investment from the new fund — €75 million ($89 million) — was to partner with Austria-based TTTech, a company that protects the real-time computer systems used in smart vehicles. Audi is another major investor in TTTech. Continue reading Samsung Creates $300M Fund to Innovate Automotive Tech
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This year's Super Bowl made a major splash on a number of fronts. It marked the NFL's first overtime game in Super Bowl history, a fifth ring for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, a historic fourth quarter comeback, the first time a squadron of drones were featured during the halftime show, some impressive overall ratings, and a collection of ads that focused on social issues such as gender equality, ethnic diversity and immigration. The game delivered Fox an average viewership of 111.3 million, making it one of the top-five most-watched Super Bowls. Nielsen notes the broadcast generated a 45.3 household rating, while 70 percent of U.S. households turned in. Continue reading Historic Super Bowl Marks Firsts and Generates Social Activity
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There are 31 provinces with high levels of positivity
Santo Domingo, DR
More than a year after detecting the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, the 31 provinces and the National District have a high positivity index, according to bulletin 461 issued yesterday by the Ministry of Public Health.
Peravia heads the provinces that continue with a higher risk of contagion with 27.29 % positivity, ten new cases, and 61 accumulated deaths, none in the last 24 hours.
The bulletin also indicates that 17,547 tests have been processed in that province, and out of 2,945 cases registered, and 2,380 have been recovered.
The other provinces with a high Covid-19 index ranking are Azua 23.09%, Distrito Nacional 21.96%, Santo Domingo 21.47%, La Romana 21.29%, San Juan 21.13%, Barahona 20. 93%, La Altagracia 20.74%, San Cristóbal 20.14%, Duarte 17.75%, La Vega 18.75%, San Pedro de Macorís 17.54%, San José de Ocoa 17.87%, Santiago 17.78%, Bahoruco 17.22% and Dajabón 16.98%.
In Duarte, La Altagracia, La Vega, and Santiago, which have a positivity above 15%, the Executive Power through Decree 398-21 ordered to continue with a curfew schedule from Monday to Friday from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am and on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 pm to 5:00 am.
According to the bulletin, in the province of Santo Domingo, 250 new cases of covid-19 were registered, in the National District 173 being the two localities with more cases recorded in the last hours.
The other provinces with a high incidence of Covid-19 are: Hato Mayor 15.51%, Monte Plata 15.37%, Pedernales 15.31%, Samaná 15.16%, Monte Cristi 14.44%, Espaillat 14.28%, El Seibo 13.00%, Sánchez Ramírez 12.86%, Santiago Rodríguez 12.02%, Valverde 12.44%, María Trinidad Sánchez 11.62%, Independencia 8.59%, Elías Piña 7.09%, Puerto Plata 5.95% and Monseñor Nouel 6.49%.
Only Hermanas Mirabal province has a positivity rate below 5%, with 3.29% of effectiveness, with seven new cases of the pandemic. In addition to this, the province has 48 accumulated deaths.
Last four weeks
In this bulletin, the Ministry of Public Health indicated that the positivity in the last four weeks in the country is 17.91 %, with 886 new cases of covid-19 reported in the previous 24 hours. As of yesterday, there were 54,259 active cases in the country.


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Stephen Pierce International - Internet Marketing Consultant - Stephen Pierce International, Inc.
"I decided I was going to stop blaming everybody else and take responsibility for my life," said Stephen Pierce of Stephen Pierce International. He made that commitment more than 10 years ago, and today he heads one of the Internet's top marketing firms. Dedicated to helping everybody, from CEOs building their businesses to everyday Joes realizing their latent potential, Stephen Pierce International is responsible for thousands upon thousands of success stories.
Life did not start out easy for founder Stephen Pierce. Growing up in Washington, DC, Mr. Pierce did not finish high school and associated with gangs, and his family ultimately disowned him. Pierce was determined to succeed, however, and tried a vinyl repair operation. It failed. He next tried a vending route. It was another failure. After multiple failed business ventures, the eventual founder and multimillionaire owner of Stephen Pierce International filed for bankruptcy. Reduced to sleeping in a friend's office, Mr. Pierce used the only tools at his disposal, a powerful sense of determination and an Internet-enabled computer. The year was 1998.
By the time the calendar rolled into 2000, Stephen Pierce International was born. Stemming from success in futures and commodities trading, self-taught Stephen Pierce earned half a million dollars from selling his methods and investment advice online. In the decade since, Stephen Pierce has delivered speeches in dozens of countries, and Stephen Pierce International has been featured on multiple TV and radio networks, helped thousands realize their potential, and raised more than $1 million for charity.
Now, far removed from sleeping on the floor of a friend's office, the owner of Stephen Pierce International lives in a 12,000-square-foot mansion on 4.3 acres of land in Texas.


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The PCB's for the kits and projects on this blog are made by cheap manufacturers. These manufacturers don't especially cater to hobbyists but would like to have filler orders to keep production running when there are no large orders available. The PCB manufacturers sell this production time cheaply, the downside for the customer is the long or uncertain delivery time.
When shopping for PCBs you can sometimes tweak two parameters : the delivery time and the number of boards. A longer delivery time will lower the cost, a larger number of boards will raise the total cost but in general lower the cost per board, sometimes by a lot.
The manufacturers will typically want you to deliver gerber files. Making and checking gerbers is a blogpost by itself, the BatchPCB FAQ has an entry about them and Sparkfun has a tutorial. Before I have PCB's made I check them at circuitpeople.com and if the board is really new I usually render it with Eagle3D.
Here is a list of PCB manufacturers I have used and some that I have not yet used but offer interesting services.
MakePCB is by far the cheapest PCB manufacturer I have found. The site is not as detailed as the competitors site and the communication is not very helpful at all. The price is unbeatable. I have used their service in the past expect to use them in the future.
BatchPCB is Sparkfun's PCB Pooling service. The designs are panelised by BatchPCB and the panels are made and cut by by Gold Phoenix and sent to the US in bulk. BatchPCB then sends out the PCB's to the end customers. Specs and tolerances can be found here, prices are here. BatchPCB is a great service and offers other services like selling your boards to other users. I have stopped using BatchPCB because BatchPCB is expensive and located in the US. Sending boards from China to the US and sending them from the US to Europe adds to the cost and delivery times.
Eurocircuits have their own manufacturing and pooling service. The quality of the boards is high and the price is too. Where MakePCB keeps communication to just below the bare minimum, Eurocircuits has a hand-full of sites in different languages, and a coice of 4 or 5 different PCB services. The result is pretty confusing. The price calculator is shared between all sites but needs magic parameters in the URL to determine the price. I suspect they have different prices for different kinds of customers. Eurocircuits have been partnering with Elektor and offer Elektor PCB's no longer offered by Elektor themselves.
Say we'd like to have 25 Arduino shields made. The shields are double sided, with double sided solder mask and a single silkscreen. The PCB's are not rectangular but have the traditional Arduino Shield bump and holes. The board is 69 x 53 mm. Shipping is to the Netherlands.
There are a couple PCB services that I have not used yet but that seem to offer interesting services.
Gold Phoenix PCB is the manufacturer that supplies the PCB to BatchPCB. BatchPCB collects orders to fill up panels. Once a panel is full, BatchPCB has the panel made, cut up to the individual boards and sent to BatchPCB. This "buy a panel" service is also available to end users. The panel sizes for 2 layers are 1000 cm2 or 650 cm2. The shield in this example has an area of about 37 cm2. One panel would yield 27 Arduino shields. Gold Phoenix is a bit more expensive than the cheapest option I have used but is interesting because they support tighter tolerances and, for a fee, inner cuts, different color soldermasks and different color silkscreens. You could do stuff like white PCB's with black lettering.
PCB-Pool is one of the older PCB manufacturers that offer their services online. PCB-Pool is interesting because the offer solder paste stencils, sometimes for free. They also have a Front panel service.
In this example PCB-Pool will make 30 PCB's for the same total price as 25. Apparently they are filling panels.
In this example GoldPhoenix will make 27 PCB's.
PCB-Pool 0.15 mm (6 mil) 0.15 mm (6 mil) 0.3 mm (12 mil) 43.73 198.30 Euro ? ? ? ? ?


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CBS Radio Workshop was a revival of the Columbia Workshop of the late thirties. All 86 episodes survive today. The series aired from 27 Jan 1956 until 22 Sep 1957, of course on CBS. The original idea for the show came from Irving Reis back in the thirties. What he wanted was an experimental workshop, a sustaining program where actors, writers and technicians could produce scripts the sponsors might be afraid to try. The time was right in the late fifties to try this concept again, however, under different circumstances. By this time television was taking the big money so why not try this concept again since most of the big sponsors were already transitioning over. William Froug, a CBS vice president was the force behind this revival. He grew up with the old Columbia Workshop and pitched the idea to Howard Barnes. Howard agreed with the idea and William Froug chose Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" as the first program. Aldous Huxley narrated and William Conrad announced this radio adaptation of "Brave New World". The series brought together the cutting edges of writing, music, and sound. Overall it was a big hit with radio personnel and listeners. So much so that the east coast wanted in too. Thus the series alternated between the west and east coast production centers. Why not spare a little time and give a listen to some outstanding radio drama. Take the challenge and compare the CBS Radio Workshop with the original, Columbia Workshop. You decide for yourself which series is better. This is the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. From the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR.
They were doing 'experimental' before we were born. Let's not forget that about so-called 'old time' radio. I'm starting to wish I was born a lot earlier. thanks wonderful otrrg (old time radio researchers group)!!
Most of these are really well done! Some episodes have lost so much fidelity as to be rendered unlistenable, but they are far and few between. These are worth a listen!
you don't know what to expect from each story. very well done! great that these recordings can be listened to again after all these years.


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Biden's job gets easier after Senate wins in Georgia – but don't expect a progressive revolution
Two Democrats were announced the winners of the run-off elections for Georgia's two Senate seats
January 7, 2021	by Jared Mondschein, Senior Advisor, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
History took place in the United States today.
Two Democrats were announced the winners of the run-off elections for Georgia's two Senate seats, allowing the Democrats to take back control of the chamber from the Republicans.
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were the first Democrats to win a Georgia Senate race in a quarter of a century. It also marked the first time since Herbert Hoover's loss in 1932 that a president lost a re-election campaign and both chambers of Congress in a single term.
Also today, a number of Republicans in Congress launched their last-ditch effort to contest the outcome of a presidential election — just the third such formal objection in US history.
And thousands more people died from COVID-19, as the US continues to notch some of its highest single day death tolls since the pandemic began.
But today will be most remembered for something else entirely: the first attack on the US Capitol since the War of 1812 against the British.
Many warned that President Donald Trump's violent and divisive rhetoric was inevitably going to lead to violence, though few would have predicted the Capitol itself would be overrun.
Today's violence will remain a shocking moment for generations of Americans. Trump's own former defence secretary, James Mattis, invoked the language of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to say that the political leaders who enabled the violence will "will live in infamy".
No massive mandate for the Democrats
As Democrats prepare to take control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress, their attention must be focused on how to address the divisiveness and extreme partisanship that has become rooted in the US, allowing such a dramatic assault on democracy to take place.
Hoover's landslide election loss to Roosevelt in 1932 similarly gave the Democrats control of the White House and Congress. The Democrats used this opportunity to launch the New Deal — a series of government programs and initiatives intended to lift the US out of the Great Depression. It was unprecedented in its size and ambition.
Many of these programs — ranging from Social Security (a government safety net for elderly Americans) to government regulatory agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — were later expanded upon and continue through to today.
Unlike Roosevelt and his fellow Democrats in 1932, however, Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues did not win landslide elections in 2020.
In fact, while Biden's 306 Electoral College votes matched the total won by Trump in 2016, his pathway to victory was smaller.
Trump's 2016 victory came from a combined 77,000 votes in the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden's 2020 win came as a result of a combined 45,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin.
In other words, if merely 45,000 votes in those three states went for Trump, there would have been a tie in the Electoral College, likely resulting in a Trump win.
Similarly, the Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia did not win in landslides, either. And with the Senate now evenly divided by the parties, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will spend a lot of time breaking 50-50 ties of her former colleagues in the chamber.
And beyond the White House and Senate, the Democrats actually lost, on balance, a total of 10 seats to the Republicans in the House of Representatives, thereby slimming their majority to only four seats.
How Biden will navigate the new Congress
But there are still clear advantages for the Democrats taking control of the Senate.
With Republicans no longer controlling when, or even if, votes occur in the Senate, everything from Supreme Court justices and Cabinet appointments to major pieces of legislation will no longer be contingent on Republican Mitch McConnell, the outgoing Senate majority leader.
In such a narrowly divided chamber, though, the onus will be on the Biden administration not to lose a single Democrat.
In many ways, the most powerful position in the Senate switches from McConnell to Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the two most conservative Democratic senators. They will likely prove to be the limits as to just how progressive a Biden agenda will be.
The Biden administration will need to get approval from a "large tent" of Democrats, including Manchin and Sinema, as well as progressives like Elizabeth Warren and the independent Bernie Sanders.
Ultimately, this slim hold on power will remain a hallmark of at least the first two years of the Biden administration.
That doesn't, however, mean it will necessarily be divisive. In coming to the White House with more Washington experience than probably any other president in US history, Biden will need to prove that decades of experience as a "Washington insider" actually helps.
What will change for Biden — and what we can expect
Even before the Georgia races were called in the Democrats' favour, Merrick Garland was tipped to be Biden's choice for attorney general. Following four years of Trump's blatant attempts to politicise the Department of Justice, no attorney general selection has been as consequential in decades.
This is particularly pertinent because Biden has vowed to restore the Justice Department's independence, which would prove crucial if it faces public pressure to investigate the actions of the prior administration.
Garland is not only President Barack Obama's former Supreme Court nominee, whom McConnell famously refused to allow a vote on. He's also a circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, one of the most consequential courts in the country.
It was the fact Biden can now replace Garland's seat on this powerful bench with another Democrat — thanks to Democratic control of the Senate – that gave him the opportunity to make the selection.
Derisively labelled by some a political "weather vane", Biden is not known to be a particularly ideological politician. Unlike most other presidents, he was not elected with a well-known ideological or political slogans focused on the future (for example, "Build the wall", "Yes, we can" or "It's the economy, stupid").
Instead, Biden's most well-known 2020 slogan, "Restoring the soul of America", seemed to herald a return to prior years.
While many Americans may be pining for more normalcy, Biden has already seemed to acknowledge that doing so would not address the root causes of the sort of mayhem that occurred on Capitol Hill.
The most pressing priorities, as defined by the Biden administration, are COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change.
Taking control of the Senate, as well as the unprecedented unrest in Washington, will both widen the scope and redouble the urgency of the Biden team's plans for addressing these issues.
But we shouldn't expect a progressive revolution: the president-elect's moderate tendencies are unwavering and unlikely to leave him simply because of Democrats eked out wins in Georgia. With that said, when the political spectrum has become stretched beyond conventional recognition, such moderation can often appear to be radical.
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Per Holknekt
RAGS TO STICHES
Per Holknekt, co-founder of Odd Molly Intnl.
Photo: Robert Eldrim
On March 25th of 2002, Per Holknekt calls in friend Karin Jimfelt-Ghatan to help illustrate a freelance design idea for a large advertising firm. Per verbalizes his idea for a good 45 minutes, Karin sketches and at the end of the meeting flips her papers to show. The interpretation is unbelievable and brand meets design in immediate goosebumpy love. 15 minutes later the two have framed the feeling, named it Odd Molly, hugged, shook hands and even phoned the authorities to register the brand name. It was an unexpected outcome of a meeting with another purpose and the two caught this magic, volley style. Odd Molly was born. A courageous fashion designer brand set to highlight the female qualities in a deeper perspective.
7 years later Odd Molly is an international success story with almost 2000 retailers' world wide. Supermodel Helena Christensen fronts the international brand campaigns and the corporation is a public share at the Stockholm stock exchange. Odd Molly is designer of the year and wins numerous awards on top of this.
What the story does not tell is that only 2 years prior to the birth of this business, Per Holknekt was homeless with the rehab institution as his only shelter.
Per is from farmland northern Sweden, a top kid student raised in the best of circumstances, a young wildminded go-my-own-way entrepreneur always eager to bring his ideas into reality.
Per joined the mandatory army in 1979 but got kicked out early as "a terrible soldier, but a hell of a good comrad". Compliments as fine as they get, Per says. Instead he moved to California to skateboard professionally.
He got involved with product development with his sponsors in 1981 and this was also the birth of his involvement in fashion. The party lifestyle turned ugly and Per moved back home in 1985 after a couple of close-call overdoses, gang related danger living and anything that was not how he intended to live his life.
In 1988 Per started importing the skateboarding lifestyle that he had been part of shaping and he got more involved in the clothing side of skating. His business was booming and the strongly financed abuse started to once more take a greater share of Pers powers. In 1997 Per founded "Elle Rookie of the year" brand Svea, a brand he chose to give up late 1999 when his life fell apart over night. Going from having everything to absolutely nothing, ending up in the streets, spending his solitary winter nights in a forest in the southern outskirts of Stockholm City. Far away from the glamour, the big money, friends and family.
Come April 4th of 2010 Per celebrates his comeback 10th year sober. Life has come back quality style and conscience driven Per now co-runs his business in grand style with a development unheard of.
On his spare time Per is today a pilot, he is currently the no19 rank pinball player of the world and travels the planet for the prime sports fishing spots.
See you @ Facebook!
Karin Jimfelt-Ghatan
About Odd Molly


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Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst fue un condado en el nordeste de Baden-Württemberg, Alemania. Su nombre deriva del castillo de Hohenloch cerca de Uffenheim en Franconia Central, que cayó en posesión de los descendientes de Conrado de Weikersheim para 1178. Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst surgió como una partición de los territorios en manos de los descendientes de Kraft de Hohenlohe, quien fue hecho Conde imperial en 1450. Los territorios de Hohenlohe fueron divididos entre los hermanos Conde Luis Casimiro (1517-1568) (de la línea sénior de Neunstein, progenitores de las ramas de Hohenlohe-Langenburg y Hohenlohe-Oehringen) y el Conde Everardo (1535-1570), fundador de varias ramas de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg. La línea de Schillingsfürst desciende del Conde Luis Gustavo (1634-1697), cuyo descendiente Felipe obtuvo el ascenso de su feudo a principado dentro del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, disfrutando de inmediación imperial, en 1744. El condado de Waldenburg fue añadido al principado en 1757. Fue mediatizado al Reino de Wurtemberg en 1806.

Tres ramas todavía existen; aquellas de Waldenburg, Ratibor y Corvey, y Schillingsfürst. Los miembros de la casa llevan el estilo de "Príncipe/Princesa de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst" o "Príncipe/Princesa von Ratibor und Corvey, Príncipe/Princesa de Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst" o "Príncipe/Princesa de Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey" o "Príncipe/Princesa von Ratibor und Corvey" o "Príncipe/Princesa de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, von Ratibor und Corvey" dependiendo de cuál de las cuatro sublíneas de la rama de Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst pertenecen.

Condes de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1688-1744)
Luis Gustavo (Conde de Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst) (1688-1697)
Felipe Ernesto (1697-1744)

Príncipes de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1744-presente)

 Felipe Ernesto, 1.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1744-1750 (1663-1759)
 Carlos Alberto I, 2.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1750-1793 (1719-1793)
 Carlos Alberto II, 3.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1793-1796 (1742-1796)
 Carlos Alberto III, 4.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1796-1843 (1776-1843)
 Federico Carlos I, 5.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1843-1884 (1814-1884)
 Nicolás, 6.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1884-1886 (1841-1886)
 Federico Carlos II, 7.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1886-1924 (1846-1924)
 Federico Carlos III, 8.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1924-1982 (1908-1982)
 Federico Carlos IV, 9.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst 1982-presente (n. 1933)
 Príncipe Huberto de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (n. 1935), hermano de Federico Carlos IV y heredero presunto
 Príncipe Félix de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (n. 1963)
 Príncipe Conrado de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (n. 1995)
 Príncipe Alberto de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (n. 2002)
 Príncipe Francisco de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst  (n. 1965)
 Príncipe Maximiliano de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst  (n. 1967)
 Francisco José, 5.º Príncipe de Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1787-1841), fundador de las líneas de Ratibor y Corvey

Referencias

Véase también
 Casa de Hohenlohe

Enlaces externos
 European Heraldry page

Condados del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico

Principados del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico
Antiguos estados y territorios de Baden-Wurtemberg
Estados y territorios fundados en 1688
Estados y territorios desaparecidos en 1806


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Retired Woman wins $500,000 from a scratcher
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Janette Pitsenbarger, a retired woman from Churchville, scooped $500,000 after buying a scratcher ticket at the Food Lion on West Beverley Street in Staunton. According to the Virginia Lottery, she bought her ticket during her weekly grocery trip. "I just play for the fun of it," said in a press release. Her husband thought it was a joke when she showed him the winning ticket.
The lady who played a $3 million Jackpot claimed the $0.5 million prize winning ticket on 29 August. She becomes the fourth player to claim the second-place prize. Pitsenbarger has no immediate plans for her winnings.
The officials of Virginia Lottery also said two of the $3 million top prize tickets had been claimed. Two other winning tickets remain unclaimed. However, 1 in 1.53 million is the odds of winning the top prize in this game. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 2.72.


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