CLEVELAND, Ohio – For much of two decades, the top floor of downtown Cleveland's third-tallest skyscraper has been underused, a reminder of the loss of once-titanic corporate tenants LTV Corp. and, before that, BP America.
Now new owners could gut the space, revamping a 1980s executive-dining and meeting floor at the 200 Public Square tower as modern offices with high-rise views of the city. Changes to the building's 41st floor are among the most dramatic investments that New York-based DRA Advisors and the firm's local partner, developer Scott Wolstein, are contemplating in the wake of their early October acquisition of the property that many Clevelanders still call the BP Tower.
During a recent tour, Wolstein said he and DRA also expect to open up the second-floor lobby area by installing turnstiles near the elevators – eliminating the need for patrons of the third-floor cafeteria to go through security before hopping on escalators.
They'll also be able to reopen a second-to-third-floor staircase that has been unused, roped off at the bottom and bizarrely corked at the top by a sculpture, for years.
Third-floor conference rooms and, possibly, part of an adjacent, wide corridor could become offices, adding 10,000 to 15,000 square feet of leasable space to the building.
The owners are working with K2M Design, based in Cleveland, to reimagine the lower-level spaces including dated cafeteria seating that overlooks the building's expansive atrium.
Vocon, another Cleveland-based firm, is tackling the challenge of the 41st floor, where interior demolition is imminent and renovations could involve creating outdoor access to now-unreachable balconies tucked behind parapet walls.
Wolstein wouldn't put a firm price tag on the likely improvements, though he offered some rough math that comes to $7.3 million to $12.3 million.
And he still won't say what the DRA-led venture paid for building and its attached, 757-space garage. Property records don't reveal the price, though they do show that the partners took out a $130 million mortgage upon closing a deal with seller Harbor Group International.
Harbor Group, based in Virginia, had owned 200 Public Square since 2005. In addition to renovating offices, the company reconfigured the building's atrium in 2016.
A procession of owners has struggled to figure out what to do with large expanses of un-leasable space in a tower that was designed for a single tenant – Standard Oil of Ohio, or Sohio.
The 41st floor, a 17,000-square-foot space that's broken up into dining areas, meeting rooms, a kitchen and onetime executive offices, is a prime example. The top occupiable level of the 45-story building – the space above is filled with mechanical systems – has languished.
BP, which bought Standard Oil, held meetings and events there. After the company left Cleveland in the late 1990s, moving its North American headquarters to Chicago, steel giant LTV briefly leased the space but, bankrupt, bailed out in 2001.
For a few years, the federal government used the executive-dining floor as makeshift offices, lining the space with cubicles for the General Services Administration, Jelepis recalls. But that deal was a stopgap solution for a then-growing tenant, not a long-term strategy.
Colliers is marketing the space for just under $30 per square foot, pricing near the upper end of asking rates for offices in Cleveland. Overall, the tower is 88 percent leased.
At nearby Key Tower, downtown's tallest building, the 57th floor penthouse recently hit the market at $35 per square foot after the departure of a law firm for the Pinecrest project in Orange. The Millennia Companies, a local owner that bought the Key Center complex in early 2017, recently finished livening up the building's lobby and the surrounding plaza.
The top-floor vacancies will test tenants' appetites in an office market where the loftiest spaces haven't always been snapped up immediately – or commanded a premium price.


Many of these political purists thumb their noses at what passes for mainstream knowledge in science, history, psychology, economics, and more. I'm reminded of Don McLeroy, a dentist and chair of the Texas State Board of Education, who helped revamp public school standards along conservative, anti-intellectual lines. "I disagree with these experts," he proclaimed at a 2009 meeting of the board. "Somebody has got to stand up to experts that are just . . . " He dropped off, exasperated that so many Americans were being duped by nonsense masquerading as science.
Apparently millions of Americans still agree that "these experts" need standing up to. According to the latest Gallup Poll 42 percent of Americans believe that "God created humans in present form." A similar percentage, 40 percent, say that global warming is not caused by human activities. When it comes to Americans' long list of concerns, shrinking ice caps matter little when compared to joblessness and the economy. Enter Brat, the rising far-right Christian economic authority.
Brat sees capitalism and conservative Christianity as closely connected in ways that would surprise economic historians as well as the current pope. Along with a doctorate, Brat holds a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. According to Brat, Calvinism linked to capitalism was responsible for much of the progress of the 19th-century West. Ignoring slavery, slums, and industrial servitude, it seems odd to rhapsodize about the moral economy of a system that was contested even by contemporary Christians. But Brat appears unconcerned about the complexities. In an unpublished book written for students, he takes on his field, which he thinks is far too utilitarian, engaging in moral arguments wrapped in what he considers scientific analysis. In Brat's telling, Enlightenment theorist Adam Smith was heavily indebted to Christian moral philosophy. New York magazine's Kevin Roose writes of Brat's newfound popularity with the Christian right that "when a professor comes along who has both impressive secular credentials and a strident religious worldview, they're immediately moved to the front lines of the culture war." The wisdom of such experts rings true for the faithful.
Why is faith-based anti-intellectualism as stubborn as crabgrass, cropping up across the country year after year? That's a question that Karl Giberson and I asked in our 2011 book The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. In trying to answer that question we looked at the insular culture of evangelicalism (with its bookstores, universities, experts, and parachurch groups), media empires of televangelists and educators, and the straitjacket of biblical literalism. If we were working on this project today we might place more stress on the increasingly polarized U.S. political context. If the majority of Democrats believe that global warming is caused by human activity, then surely it is not. If secularists on the other side of the political divide champion the teaching of evolution in high school biology classes, then their efforts should be resisted. Put differently, David Brat's economics lessons are on the (Christian) right side of history.


"June 13th – Part One"
"June 13th – Part One" hits the ground running, picking up where "Game Over" left off and quickly establishing the parameters of the episode: Noah and Hiro only have three hours to investigate and prevent the bombing of the Odessa peace summit, without stepping on, as Hiro puts it, "too many butterflies." There are familiar faces galore, from bit player Stevens to Heroes alum Angela Petrelli, and the entire affair pushes forward at an engaging clip. It's energetic from its opening shot, swooping in on the summit from the point of view of the flying man Noah and Joanne killed in the series premiere. Some of the sloppiness that plagued earlier episodes is present—the insert shot of the cover page of Mohinder's research is about as blatant as an insert shot can be—but it's surrounded by scenes with a clear purpose, and it's remarkable how big of a difference this makes.
Every character we spend time with has distinct motivation and a goal to achieve: Noah needs to find Claire, Hiro needs to protect the timeline, Erica needs to keep her dastardly scheme on track. Even Luke is looking for something, hope of an evo-based cure for his son. And because we're halfway through the miniseries, the characters are allowed to actually discuss what's on their mind, rather than resorting to unnecessary obfuscation and avoidance. Luke and Joanne's quiet exchange at the hotel is more affecting than the rest of their scenes combined because for the first time, they actually feel like people, rather than plot devices. The same care is given to Hiro. He spends the episode teleporting around being overpowered and awesome, which is much more fun than it should be thanks to Masi Oka's charismatic performance, but really, he's there to not save the day. The Odessa summit bombing has to happen, too much of the season depends on it. Yet when Hiro inevitably comes to this decision, the writing manages to make the choice feel driven by character, rather than the plot. We trust Hiro's judgement that this truly is the best timeline because of his fervent and consistent concern for ripple effects and the weight Oka gives his delivery as Hiro tells Noah no one can be saved.
Which brings us to the first major hiccup of the otherwise very strong episode: Claire's death. Hayden Panettiere, who played Claire on Heroes, does not appear here and her absence is glaring; one of the drawbacks to making a character indestructible is that if the actor decides they don't want to continue in the role, you can't just kill them off. The writers try to hand-wave Claire's death away with a line about a stroke and Noah's immediate reaction, that she should come back to life, stands in for the audience's, but the show don't follow through with even a faint attempt to explain the sudden and seemingly instantaneous failure of her regenerative powers. Jack Coleman gives a fair performance as Noah sits besides Claire's body, but he's hamstrung by acting to an extra under a cloth: Telling the audience Claire's dead without showing her actual dead body can only have so much weight when Heroes made a habit of retconning deaths that felt far more final than this. The whole scene is awkwardly staged and the perfectly-positioned sheet over the body—long enough to cover her face, but folded forward enough to show her hair—is distractingly convenient. Fortunately, the episode moves on almost immediately, allowing the characters to regroup and plow forward, once again proactive in their attempts to save the world.
That regained momentum is disappointingly short-lived, however, as the second major hiccup occurs almost immediately, the reveal that Tommy is indeed the grown baby Nathan, and is prepared for what's coming. Awkward attempts to work around Panettiere's absence are one thing, but this scene has the potential to derail the next few episodes. Most of "June 13th – Part One" handles its time travel very well. Noah and Hiro are careful and avoid running into the other Noah and for the most part, everything lines up. But then Angela goes back in time with Hiro and the babies and viewers are treated to a dramatic reveal of what most will have already realized. The writers not trusting the audience to connect the giant, illuminated dots is annoying, but much more irritating is their negating the entirety of the Tommy storyline. Tommy was introduced in the series premiere looking for help controlling his abilities. Now, a year earlier, we see him in control and informed, having been fully trained (presumably by adoptive father Hiro). So he wouldn't have needed to seek out help in Chicago a year later, so Luke wouldn't have met him, so Luke and Joanne wouldn't have gone looking for him, etc. etc. It boggles the mind why after so carefully maintaining the timeline of the first half of the season, the writers rewrite history in the last few minutes of the episode. Of course, "June 13th – Part Two" could retcon this once again, almost anything is possible when you have a telepath in the supporting cast, but for now, it's a frustrating indication that on Heroes Reborn, as on Heroes, multi-episode storylines and character development will be happily traded away for a cool reveal.
Hopefully, this is a blip. Hopefully the writers have something up their sleeves to right the ship and maintain all the gains of this episode: the forward momentum and character beats, the earned reveals and excitement, the focus on fewer, more interesting characters, and perhaps most importantly, the tonal switch from the dour angst of much of the first half of the season to a guarded optimism. "June 13th – Part One" is a solid, entertaining installment of Heroes Reborn and is easily the high point of the season thus far. It could spark a fresh start for the series, but if the show isn't careful, its new spark will burn out.
Thankfully the voice-overs have not returned, but there is some truly laughable on-screen text this episode. Why does Mohinder need a nametag when Angela immediately addresses him by his name? Why does Angela? Her being a Petrelli is irrelevant for those who haven't seen Heroes. Plus these coming up during the opening credits, written in the same font, is doubly head-smacking. And yet, "Odessa, Suburb" is my current favorite so-bad-it's-ridiculous chyron.
Speaking of Mohinder and Angela, that is some heavy, inelegant exposition they're saddled with in the car. At least Mohinder gets to wear cool shoes?
Very glad to see Phoebe get some time here, which Aislinn Paul once again makes the most of, and to see Tommy's mom, Anne, and Hachiro Otomo pop up. Hopefully we'll get more of all of them in part two.
The set design for Phoebe's room is neat, another visually effective space in a season with more than a few memorable ones.
Jack Coleman is a good actor. Noah really, really isn't. Noah and Caspar are lucky that guard, like Carlos last week, is an idiot.
Hiro teleporting never gets old for me. It should, but it really doesn't.
Yes, Claire shouldn't be dead and whatever excuse the show comes up with for why she is (should they bother doing so) will be a stretch, but let's have fun with it anyways. I think I could buy Erica using Phoebe to block Claire's power, knowing she was going into surgery, and killing her that way. Hit up the comments with an answer you could buy, or an absurd one you'd like to see the actors try to sell.


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Ashe County Veterans History Project: Curtis Gentry
Curtis Gentry's Photos
Curtis Gentry's Story
Joseph Curtis Gentry Jr. comes from a long line of military servicemen. In fact when asked about adapting to a military lifestyle, Curtis says he was ready for it! His father and uncles had him well prepared about what to expect and he was proud to carry on a family tradition. Curtis entered the Army National Guard at the age of 23 and served from 1979 - 1982 as part of the 1450th Transportation Co. While in the service, Curtis took advance course training as a wheeled vehicle mechanic.
Curtis reflects on his time in service, saying that his military experiences made him a better person and he hopes everyone remembers that "you have to fight for our county's freedom."
Army Wheeled Vehicle Mechanics are responsible, as the title suggests, for handling maintenance and repair of all tactical and some armored vehicles, both heavy and light.
If the Army's trucks and other vehicles aren't working properly, at best it means lost time, at worst, it could mean soldiers are in jeopardy. So while it's definitely a grease monkey job, the wheeled vehicle mechanic is just as important to Army operations as any other soldier.
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namespace Stampie\Tests;

/**
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class AttachmentTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
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     */
    public function testMissingFileFails()
    {
        $file = 'filenotfound.txt';

        $attachment = $this->getMockBuilder('\\Stampie\\Attachment')
            ->onlyMethods(['isValidFile'])
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();
        $attachment
            ->expects($this->once())
            ->method('isValidFile')
            ->with($file)
            ->will($this->returnValue(false));

        $this->expectException(\InvalidArgumentException::class);

        $attachment->__construct($file);
    }

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     */
    public function testUnknownFileTypeFails()
    {
        $file = 'unknownfiletype.txt';

        $attachment = $this->getMockBuilder('\\Stampie\\Attachment')
            ->setMethods(['isValidFile', 'determineFileType'])
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();
        $attachment
            ->expects($this->once())
            ->method('isValidFile')
            ->with($file)
            ->will($this->returnValue(true));

        $attachment
            ->expects($this->once())
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            ->with($file)
            ->will($this->returnValue(null));

        $this->expectException(\RuntimeException::class);

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    {
        $file = 'unknownfiletype.txt';
        $type = 'text/plain';

        $attachment = $this->getMockBuilder('\\Stampie\\Attachment')
            ->onlyMethods(['isValidFile', 'determineFileType'])
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();
        $attachment
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            ->method('isValidFile')
            ->with($file)
            ->will($this->returnValue(true));

        $attachment
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            ->method('determineFileType')
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        $attachment->__construct($file);

        $this->assertEquals($type, $attachment->getType(), 'The type should be determined');
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        $this->assertEquals($type, $attachment->getType(), 'The type should be stored correctly');
        $this->assertEquals($id, $attachment->getId(), 'The ID should be stored correctly');
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}

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On August 29, 2005, hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, leaving a swath of death and destruction in its wake. And now, a year later, many people are still feeling Katrina's aftermath.
On the anniversary of hurricane Katrina, Science Buzz features a variety of links and resources.
Outside sources with special features on hurricane Katrina and the ongoing recovery efforts.
Tell us your stories! Have you lived through a natural disaster—a hurricane, tornado, flood, or earthquake? Tell us about it, and how it affected your life. Hurricane Katrina survivors, we especially want to hear from you!
About the scaredest I've been in a storm was when I lived in my flat-roofed basement house near Delano. A wicked storm was coming from the west. When it got really dark and windy I did not worry much. When the electricity went out I still figured no sweat, I'm in a basement. When I heard a sound like a very loud freight train right above me I figured maybe crawling under the kitchen table wouldn't hurt. When it was over I went outside to discover my huge basswood tree blew down about 30 ft. from the house. The staight line winds were near 100 mph and had a swath miles wide.
Ha! I laughed when I read your story about the Mother's Day storm, Art, because I remember that one, too.
My husband and I got our then 10-month-old to sleep, and then sacked out on the couch for a nap ourselves. An ENORMOUS tree came down in our yard, just feet from the house. And not only did we not get up to look ("I'm sure it's just Phoebe throwing her bottle out of her crib, sweetheart..."), but I actually looked out the window an hour or so later and didn't notice!
Amazing photos of the animals and plants! Keep up the great pictures!
I feel horrible for those who have gone through natural disasters. I hope you all make it through them.Best wishes!
Why are there so many nautural diasters?
I have family that lives down in Florida and when i heard about the storm it scared me to death i thought what if something happens to them and i never see them again well now one of my relitives is living up here with me so i'm ok now!!!
that must have been one of the bigest storms i have ever seen!!!
When you were getting everybody out of there, did you send out any airplanes?
Good luck getting everything back together!
GOOK LUCK GETTING EVERYTHING BAck together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT WAS VERY BAD WHAT HAPPEND.
i fell sooooooo bad for all the people that were hurt by this storm i always here about this kind of stuff on t.v.,but i am glad that none of this has every happened to me.
when i saw huricane on the bayou i was so sad.when it happened when i had no idea that so many people were dying at that very second! i never thought it was very important but... now i understand.
I went through Hurricane Charlie. I was on vacation at florida visiting Disney World. I am from Ca though.
`I think it was devistating . scence I was there so were my friends.
THATS SCARY.....SAD STORY.BUT EST WISHES TO ALL!!!
Hi i was actually there when katrenia was going on and belive me boy was it scary and yea the information help my unerstand more on hurricans so thatks and bye....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what's up! that was a sad time. :( but let's not think about it, let's think about how many people got saved! yea! and animals! bye!
My aunt and uncle were kayaking down the Mississippi River from St. Paul, and were in Baton Rouge when Hurricaine Katrina hit. A barge that was going upriver backed up and told them to get off the river and head north, away from New Orleans. Katrina did a lot of damage.
my brother was in missisippi serving in the navy when he had to evacuate and come back.
hi, was anyone here in the hurricane?
The world will always have hurricanes; it's a part of nature. It can be sad, but some hurricanes where made worse by humans. Sad, huh?
Most people that hear about hurricane katrina only say that it was sad. They never do anything about it. Those people have lost their homes their family and their jobs. The only thing we lost is that bunny rabbit we had since we were two that lives under our bed.We teens should be doing something to try to make the teens living thier freel cared about.We are the ones who know what is like to feel alone. We should try to make others feel liked and loved.
this was a very tragic day in the usa however, the people who created the damn dam realized that neworleans was sitting in an empty pool and there should have been a water pumping system for this type of emergency.
THAT WAS A VERY VERY BAD DISASTER.
I CANT BELIVE WHAT I SAW , I'M HORRIFIED!
I was just down in new orleans on a missions trip with my chruch and you can still see the damage from katrina. some houses are still left from after the hurricane and need to be gutted. we went to the ninth ward and there are barely any houses. it was so sad to see that where people once lived there is nothing. new orleans still needs help to fix the problems left by the hurricane but i want to thank the people that have helped. GOD BLESS!


This year's Thanksgiving tablescape is full of all things fall. From cozy knit textures, autumn dried eucalyptus, straw braided pumpkins, to my favourite apple spice mules, all together on our favourite handmade harvest dining table. I love to play with layering while designing my tablescapes and mixing different textures to create a unique organic look. The colour scheme this year consists of warm earthy tones paired with a touch of black and white classic plaid. I wanted to bring the feeling of an outdoor autumn forest picnic inside our little dining room nook. To complete the design, I added custom menu cards (designed by yours truly), displaying our delicious Thanksgiving meal and a little meaningful message to show our gratitude and appreciation towards our beloved guests.
One of my all-time favourite foods is the combination of anything apple and anything cinnamon. That being said you can imagine how excited I was to find this delicious Apple Spice Moscow Mule recipe, just in time for Thanksgiving. How delicious!
What a beautifully styled table!! I feel like I need you to come decorate my home for the holidays!


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Binczarowa ist eine Ortschaft mit einem Schulzenamt der Landgemeinde Grybów im Powiat Nowosądecki der Woiwodschaft Kleinpolen in Polen.

Geographie
Der Ort liegt in den Niederen Beskiden im sogenannten Lemkenland, entlang des Bachs Binczarka, eines linken Zuflusses der Biała. Die Nachbarorte sind Florynka im Südosten, Kamianna und Kotów im Südwesten, Bogusza im Westen, sowie Ptaszkowa und Kąclowa im Norden.

Geschichte

Der Ort wurde im Jahr 1365 als ein schon bestehendes, aber jüngeres Dorf Bibyczareban erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Die Form Bibyczareban ist ziemlich verschieden von den späteren Erwähnungen und war nach einigen Forschern walachischer Herkunft (nur später polonisiert/ruthenisiert). Andere glauben, sie sei als Binczareban zu entziffern, während das nach Piotr Trochanowski ein Fehler der Schreiber bzw. Kopisten war, weil die Buchstaben "b" und "l" in der Handschrift sehr ähnlich sind, wie auch das "b" und "w" in den russischen und lateinischen Alphabeten, also wäre es eher Bilyczarewan oder Biłcarewa zu lesen. 1402 tauchte der Name des Schulzes von Belczarowa – Kuncza auf, der auch ein Schöffe am Gericht des deutschen Rechts in Nowy Sącz war. 1531 wurde das damals schon walachische Dorf (siehe Walachisches Recht und Lemken) mit einer orthodoxen Kirche: Byelczarowa (1504) bzw. Byelyszarowa von Stanisław Pięniążek an Iwan Truchanowicz, einen politischen Flüchtling aus Iwans IV. Russland, verkauft. Der besitzanzeigende Name Bielczarowa war vom Personennamen *Bielczar (ähnlich zu Belcar, einer Form des Namens Baltazar aus der deutschen Form Balzer) abgeleitet. In der lemkischen Sprache wurde er Bowcarjowa, Bołcarjowa oder Borcalowa ausgesprochen.

Das Dorf gehörte zum Königreich Polen (ab 1569 in der Adelsrepublik Polen-Litauen), Woiwodschaft Krakau, Kreis Sącz.

Nach der Ersten Teilung Polens kam Binczarowa zum neuen Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien des habsburgischen Kaiserreichs (ab 1804). Ab dem Jahr 1820 gehörte es zu Hosch, einem Bankier aus Deutschland. Nach der Aufhebung der Patrimonialherrschaften bildete es eine Gemeinde im Bezirk und Gerichtsbezirk Grybów. Die 1886 gebaute Schule unterrichtete im Ukrainischen, obwohl der erste Lehrer ein römisch-katholischer Pole war.

Nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs und dem Zusammenbruch der k.u.k. Monarchie kam Binczarowa 1918 zu Polen. Am 5. Dezember 1918 wurde im benachbarten Florynka eine Lemkisch-Russinische Republik ausgerufen, die bis 1919 bzw. 1920 überdauerte. Aus Binczarowa stammten ihre zwei Spitzenpolitiker: der Premier Jarosław Kaczmarczyk und der Innenminister Dmytro Chylak.

Nach der Besetzung Polens durch die Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg gehörte es zum Distrikt Krakau im Generalgouvernement. Rund 50 aus der 130 lemkischen Familien siedelten im Jahr 1945 in die Ukraine in der Sowjetunion um. Der Rest wurde zwangsweise in der Aktion Weichsel im Jahr 1947 ausgesiedelt. Das Dorf wurde danach von Polen aus den benachbarten Dörfern wie Kąclowa, Ptaszkowa und Dąbrowa Tarnowska neubesiedelt.

Von 1975 bis 1998 gehörte Binczarowa zur Woiwodschaft Nowy Sącz.

Einzelnachweise

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Ort der Woiwodschaft Kleinpolen
Gmina Grybów

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Michael Jordan: The Original Brand Ambassador! 25th February, 2013
On February 17th 2013 Michael Jordan, one of sport's great personalities, turned 50. Not only is 'Mike' a sports legend but also the face of arguably the most successful brand endorsement deal of all time. Due to the recent headlines involving sports stars such as Oscar Pistorius and Lance Armstrong the value of brand ambassadors is being questioned more than ever (see Mark Mylam's blog). Michael Jordan's sponsorship deal with Nike however, proves what kind of positive impact such an agreement can have for both the brand and the celebrity. Let's recap this incomparable success story:
"The 1984 Olympics was Michael Jordan's coming out party" describes his agent David Falk. Up until this point Michael Jordan had not even played a single game in the NBA and yet at the time top three major basketball shoe brands Adidas, Converse and Nike were after him. Before his NBA career even started Jordan already knew who he wanted to partner with – Adidas. The German sports brand and Converse were the leading shoe suppliers for the NBA stars in the mid and late 80's. Michael Jordan himself had never worn any Nike basketball shoes before and was convinced by the quality of Adidas' products but the first brand that Michael Jordan met with was Converse. During this pitch Jordan mentioned his worries about the endorsement deals that Converse already had in place with superstars like Magic Johnson or Larry Bird and asked: "With all these stars, where do I fit into the conversation?" John O'Neil, the president of Converse, took that question and replied: "We'll treat you like all our other superstars." This is obviously not the answer that the upcoming star wanted to hear and the $100,000 per year that Converse offered him could not change his mind either.
The next invitation that Michael Jordan received was from Nike, however he was not interested in what they had to tell him and declined this invitation at first. In the end it was Jordan's mother who convinced him to at least listen to what Nike had to offer so he took the plane and the rest, as they say, is history. Nike decided to spend all of its marketing budget on Jordan and offered him a five-year deal worth $500,000 annually plus royalties; five times as much as any other NBA superstar was receiving at the time. It wasn't only the sound of the money that made Nike suddenly attractive to Jordan: Nike offered Jordan his own signature shoe line. This is the kind of special treatment that Converse didn't offer Michael and as a result they were out of the running.
However Adidas was still in the race – Jordan's "favourite shoe". If Adidas could have matched what Nike put on the table then Michael would have teamed up with the German brand. However Adidas missed out on this opportunity and this mistake became known as one of the worst business decisions in the last 50 years. "They didn't feel it was worth it," said Jordan. "Which in hindsight is perfect for me, because it made my decision much easier. And I ended up with Nike, and it became a great relationship."
The Jordan brand was born (with the jumpman logo appearin g in 1987). Since 1984 Nike's subsidiary coproduced 27 basketball shoes with Michael Jordan. Last year, the U.S. Jordan Brand sneaker business alone had $1.25 billion in wholesale revenue. Although Michael Jordan himself isn't playing anymore there are still active NBA players (Carmelo Anthony, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul etc.) acting as Air Jordan ambassadors and supporting the brand's huge success within the basketball industry. Whereas in the mid and late 80's Converse and adidas were dominating the U.S. basketball shoe market, 30 years later it is the Jordan brand that is controlling 58% of it, followed by its parent company Nike (34%), adidas (5.5%), Reebok (1.6%) and Under Armour (0.6%).
Michael Jordan himself is still earning more than $80 million per year through corporate sponsorship deals and the majority of this income is related to his partnership with Nike. The current details of this deal are a well kept secret but royalties now generate more than $60 million annually for MJ, according to a Forbes article.
You can buy yourself a lot of nice Birthday presents with that amount of money – Congratulations Michael! But also, congratulations Nike!
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I noticed this building was always pointed out or discussed on maps, then I did a search on the internet, but I more or less ignored because, who cares just another tall building.
"What is the big deal about this building?"
"It is the worlds tallest."
Therefore I am going to go see this building, now that someone made it clear.
I think this is the official page, not very good at anything, unless you want to rent an office.
This one is sort of fun.


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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
During Prohibition my grandfather's brother Denis Warren, a veteran of some of the bloodiest American battles of World War One, was left for dead on the side of Route 9N south of Port Henry on Lake Champlain. He was in the second of two cars of friends returning from Montreal with a small supply of beer. Going through Port Henry local customs agents gave chase and the car he was in hit a rock cut and he was badly injured in the accident. Figuring his was dead, or nearly so, and worried he would go to prison, one of Denis's best friends rolled him under the guardrail, climbed into the other car, and sped off.
Joe Kennedy, never really enthusiastic about World War One, spent the war as an assistant general-manager of Bethlehem Steel and used the opportunity to buddy up to Franklin D. Roosevelt who was then Assistant Secretary of the Navy. During Prohibition Kennedy went to England and with the help of FDR's eldest son James Roosevelt secured the exclusive American rights for Gordon's Dry Gin and Dewar's Scotch. Contrary to rumors, Kennedy wasn't a bootlegger, he imported his British booze legally under a permit to distribute medical alcohol. Kennedy was of course, the father of John F. Kennedy.
The story of these two Irish-Americans serves as a kind of microcosm of the story of Prohibition, when all of America seemed upside down. &#8220In almost every respect imaginable, Prohibition was a failure,&#8221 Daniel Okrent writes in Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. &#8220It deprived the government of revenue, stripped the gears of the political system, and imposed profound limitations on individual rights. It fostered a culture of bribery, blackmail, and official corruption. It also maimed and murdered, its excesses apparent in deaths by poison, by the brutality of ill-trained, improperly supervised enforcement officers, and by unfortunate proximity to mob gun battles.&#8221
The medical exemption to Prohibition, along with the sacramental wine exemption, and the fruit exemption for homemade wine and cider, meant that Prohibition was fairly doomed from the start according to Okrent. In fact it's a wonder that Prohibition even got started. In the late nineteenth century drinking was at an all time high, a central part of American life. But immigration was also at an all time high, along with the Protestant Christian reformers, xenophobia, and racism. An unlikely alliance emerged to battle &#8220Demon Rum&#8221 that included racists (including the Klan), progressives, suffragists, and populists.
Okrent lays out the story of this coalition in a readable way, avoiding much of the political minutiae, while still illuminating the personalities &#8211 people like Mother Thompson, Frances Willard, axe-wielding Carry Nation, bible-thumping Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan (who helped bring the Democratic party on board), Wayne Wheeler (the long-forgotten man considered the father of Prohibition), and Mabel Willebrandt (the Assistant US Attorney General despised by the nation's drinkers).
The usual suspects are all here: the rise of organized crime from scattered minor street gangs, the rum runners contributions to boat design, the rise of Sam Bronfman's Seagrams empire. The most interesting parts of the book however, detail how leading suffragists sought the vote after being denied leadership positions in the temperance movement and then used that vote to secure first the income tax (considered crucial to weaning the government off the alcohol excise tax teet) and finally Prohibition. Okrent also clearly presents the brewers' failure to band together with the distillers, and their lack of action against the Prohibitionist until it was too late. Mostly German-Americans, World War One sealed their fates.
Also illuminating is Okrent's telling of how the Eighteenth Amendment, which along with the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery is the only constitutional amendment to deal with personal property and the only one to have been repealed, came to be reversed. Last Call chalks it up to a few primary factors. The ease of access to booze which was no longer regulated, and so could be found everywhere, not just at bars (the old joke went &#8220Remember before Prohibition? When you couldn't get a drink on Sunday?&#8221). The presidential campaign of solidly wet New York Governor Al Smith (defeated by mostly dry anti-Catholics) that changed the political mood of the country's immigrants [video]. The Great Depression, and the need for the billions in excise tax (which helped fund the New Deal) that gave Repeal a push. But the biggest factor was perhaps the right-wing wealthy anti-tax (and future anti-Roosevelt) Pierre S. DuPont who believed so profoundly that Repeal would mean an elimination of the income tax that he bankrolled the fight himself. Fundamentally though, it was the Democratic title-wave that swept FDR into office [music] that changed the make-up of the Congress that allowed the crucial Repeal vote.
Okrent avoids the obvious comparisons to today's Drug War, but even the causal reader, can't miss them. The seemingly limitless supply, the institutionalized hypocrisy of legal tobacco and alcohol while pot smokers go to overcrowded prisons. The overzealous and expensive enforcement on the one hand (particularly in the inner cities), alongside marijuana buyers clubs and lax enforcement that amounts to a defacto local option.
It took about 10 years to understand that Prohibition only increased lawlessness, corruption, greed, and violence. Last Call leaves the astute reader wondering how long it will take us to come to the same conclusion about the War on Drugs.
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Very interesting post. Few people realize how violent the bootlegger wars were in the Mohawk Valley during Prohibition. This article from the Utica Observer Dispatch gives a good overview of the mayhem:
http://www.uticaod.com/mobfiles/x845562226/The-Mob-Files-Day-2-Man-shot-twice-in-head-ruled-a-suicide
One of the many unsolved murders was that of the Malkoons, reportedly a Syrian outfit trying to break into an Italian-dominated business. When I was a kid, my father told me that the shooter was one of our neighbors.
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Pandora lands on Windows Phone 8 with unlimited, ad-free listening throughout 2013
By Jared Newman
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For Windows Phone 8 users, the wait for an official Pandora app is finally over. The streaming music service released a free Windows Phone 8 app today—and it includes several goodies you won't find in the Pandora apps available for other platforms.
Windows Phone-exclusive features for Pandora include the ability to pin favorite stations to the Start screen and to see what song is playing in a Live Tile. The app can also filter out explicit content when launched through Kid's Corner, a separate Start screen that locks down certain parts of the phone.
To top it all off, Pandora for Windows Phone 8 will have no ads and no listening limits through the end of the year. (On iOS and Android, streaming is capped at 40 free hours per month, and users must pay $1 to keep listening after that.)
Now for the bad news: Pandora's app only works with Windows Phone 8 handsets, and because older Windows Phones won't be getting the upgrade, they'll be left out indefinitely. In their respective blog posts, Pandora and Microsoft say nothing about a potential version for Windows Phone 7.8 or earlier.
Pandora is one of 14 apps that Microsoft had specifically promised when it showed off Windows Phone 8 last October. Four of those apps—Temple Run, Jetpack Joyride, LivingSocial and Fairway Solitaire—have yet to launch, despite Microsoft's claim that they'd be out by the holidays.
Microsoft is trying to give its Windows and Windows Phone app stores a boost by paying developers a measly $100 per app in a temporary promotion, but the company has said that payoffs aren't its only strategy. To fare better against iOS and Android, Microsoft needs to woo major app developers and fill in the gaps in quality, not just quantity. It took a couple years, but the launch of Pandora covers one of Windows Phone's most noticeable holes. Spotify also released a Windows Phone 8 app back in February.
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15 Big-Name NFL Players Who Were Massively Overpaid in 2016
by Jimmie Kayloron May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017
Roger Goodell qualifies as overpaid as well | Andrew Burton/Getty Images
This may sound like an outlandish statement, but as a whole, players in the National Football League are grossly underpaid. They put their bodies on the line every week with little to no guarantees in their contracts. And while they all take home six–, seven-, and even eight-figure annual salaries, most guys won't make enough money during their NFL careers to retire comfortably. To make matters worse, many players suffer significant injuries that greatly reduce their quality of life and ability to work during their post-playing days.
On the flip side, there are also players in the NFL who are severely overpaid. These are often guys who have shown enough to warrant a massive second contract, but for one reason or another, their production just doesn't end up meeting expectations. With that said, we compiled the following list of 15 NFL players who were all massively overpaid in 2016.
1. Darrelle Revis, CB, New York Jets
Darrelle Revis had the worst year of his NFL career in 2016 | Jim McIsaac/Getty Images
2016 cash earnings: $17 million
In 2016, Darrelle Revis took home more cash than every other defensive back in the National Football League. While he will undoubtedly go down as one of the best cornerbacks to ever play the game, there is just no denying that, at 31 years old, Revis is no longer the dominant player he once was. This year, Pro Football Focus graded Revis as the 68th best cornerback in the NFL. To be honest, that may be a generous grade.
2. Sam Bradford, QB, Minnesota Vikings
Sam Bradford is one of the most overpaid players in NFL history | Grant Halverson/Getty Images
Sam Bradford has made elite quarterback money from day one of his NFL career. While he has flashed glimpses of Pro Bowl-caliber play, there is really no arguing that the 2008 Heisman Trophy winner has had a disappointing professional career up to this point. In 2016, Bradford was viewed as a potential savior for the Vikings, but in the end he just wasn't good enough to lead them to the postseason.
3. Brock Osweiler, QB, Houston Texans
The Houston Texans got burned by Brock Osweiler | Adam Glanzman/Getty Images
Despite quarterbacking the Texans to a playoff win over the Oakland Raiders on wild-card weekend, Brock Osweiler is still well on his way to going down as one of the poorest free-agent signings in NFL history. The 6-foot-7, 240-pounder was easily one of the worst quarterbacks in the league in 2016, as evident by his putrid stat line, yet he still took home $21 million.
The Texans cut ties with Osweiler after only one season, sending him to the Cleveland Browns in a shocking offseason trade.
4. Joe Flacco, QB, Baltimore Ravens
For some reason Joe Flacco is still raking in the dough | Jared Wickerham/Getty Images
Joe Flacco has been one of the most overpaid players in the NFL ever since he landed his first huge contract following the Ravens triumph over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. Now, to be fair, he did earn a big payday with his performance throughout the 2012 postseason. But at the same time, we also believe that there is a direct correlation between the fact that the Ravens have made only one playoff appearance since committing to pay $20+ million per year to Flacco during the 2013 offseason.
In 2016, Flacco took home $29 million in cash. And when you consider that he led the Ravens to an 8-8 record while throwing for only 20 touchdown passes compared to a whopping 15 interceptions, it becomes abundantly clear that the 31-year-old quarterback is severely overpaid.
5. Muhammad Wilkerson, DE, New York Jets
Muhammad Wilkerson's production plummeted after signing a massive contract extension last offseason | Ron Antonelli/Getty Images
Muhammad Wilkerson is the classic case of a player landing a massive contract and losing his drive for greatness. In 2015, the 27-year-old defensive end racked up 12 sacks and earned All-Pro honors. This year, Wilkerson totaled just 4.5 sacks and regularly took plays off. For the Jets to turn things around in 2017, that cannot afford for Wilkerson to make a repeat appearance on this list.
6. Demaryius Thomas, WR, Denver Broncos
Demaryius Thomas battled inconsistency issues in 2016 | Elsa/Getty Images
Bottom line: Demaryius Thomas is one of the most physically gifted wide receivers the National Football League has ever seen. With that being said, his propensity for dropping passes — especially during critical situations — is flat-out inexcusable. And when it comes down to it, the Broncos are paying Thomas to be a game-changer, and he just didn't deliver in 2016.
7. Jay Cutler, QB, Chicago Bears
Jay Cutler continues to underachieve | Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
Jay Cutler could ultimately be remembered as the single biggest waste of talent in NFL history when he eventually hangs up his cleats and walks away from the game of football. Fortunately for the Bears, they will be able to free themselves from the 33-year-old signal caller's excessive contract this coming offseason.
8. Colin Kaepernick, QB, San Francisco 49ers
Colin Kaepernick robbed the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 | Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images
2016 cash earnings: $14.3 million
This one is pretty simple. Not only was Colin Kaepernick a massive distraction off the field, when he did have to opportunity to get on the field, his play was atrocious in 2016.
9. Eric Fisher, OT, Kansas City Chiefs
2016 cash earnings: $13,425,000
The Chiefs signed Eric Fisher to a contract that would suggest the former Central Michigan star is an elite NFL offensive tackle last offseason. While Fisher was a solid performer the Chiefs in 2016, he was nowhere near elite. What makes Kansas City's decision to pay him so much money even more questionable is the fact that it may prevent them from re-signing defensive tackle Dontari Poe and safety Eric Berry.
10. Marvin Jones, WR, Detroit Lions
Marvin Jones is better suited for a role as a complimentary player | Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
The Lions signed Marvin Jones last offseason to help fill the hole that was created by Calvin Johnson's retirement. And while his first year in Detroit got off to a fantastic start (18 catches for 408 yards and two touchdowns in his first three games), Jones was a far from impactful player for the Lions down the stretch. When it was all said and done, Jones, who was the sixth-highest paid wide receiver in the league, caught 55 passes for 930 yards and four touchdowns in 2016.
11. Dwayne Allen, TE, Indianapolis Colts
Dwayne Allen didn't live up to expectations in 2016 | Harry How/Getty Images
Thanks to a contract extension he signed last offseason, Dwayne Allen made more cash in 2016 than every other tight end in the National Football League. And to be brutally honest, the 6-foot-3, 265-pounder was nothing more than an average player this year. Allen continued to prove that he is an above average blocker, but he only caught 35 passes for 406 yards and six touchdowns.
12. Charles Clay, TE, Buffalo Bills
Charles Clay hasn't lived up to his contract in Buffalo | Brett Carlsen/Getty Images
Charles Clay has been among the highest paid tight ends in the league ever since he signed with the Bills two years ago. And for the second-straight season, the 27-year-old tight end failed to live up to the expectations that come with his current contract.In 2016, Clay caught 57 passes for 552 yards and four touchdowns. It's safe to say the Bills overspent on the former Tulsa standout.
13. Joe Haden, CB, Cleveland Browns
Joe Haden has vowed to be better in 2017 | Jason Miller/Getty Images
Joe Haden recently called himself out and admitted that he didn't live up to expectations in 2016. The two-time Pro Bowler graded out as the 94th best cornerback in the league this year according to Pro Football Focus, and at times looked like he didn't belong in the NFL. Given his competitive drive, we fully expect Haden to rebound with a strong season in 2017.
14. Michael Crabtree, WR, Oakland Raiders
Michael Crabtree dropped too many passes in 2016 | Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
First things first, Michael Crabtree has resurrected his NFL career since joining the Raiders in 2015. With Derek Carr throwing him the ball, the 29-year-old wide receiver is starting to look like the professional player most people thought he would be when he was scorching opposing defensive backs at Texas Tech.
The Raiders signed Crabtree to a contract extension last offseason, which resulted in the 6-foot-1, 215-pounder being the eighth highest paid wide receiver in the league in 2016. And he repaid Oakland by leading the league in dropped passes.
15. Lawrence Timmons, LB, Pittsburgh Steelers
Lawrence Timmons has lost a step | Alex Trautwig/Getty Images
2016 cash earnings: $8.75 million
After playing for a decade in the National Football League, Lawrence Timmons simply isn't the player he was early on in his career. While he was one of the NFL's premier linebackers for a long time, Timmons graded out as just the 67th best player at the position in the league this year — and he still took home more money than guys like Bobby Wagner, Luke Kuechly, Dont'a Hightower, and Sean Lee.
Statistics courtesy of Pro-Football-Reference and ESPN. Contract and salary cap data courtesy of Spotrac.
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Sacramento County was incorporated in 1850 as one of the original 27 counties of the State of California. The County's largest city, the City of Sacramento, is the seat of government for the State of California and also serves as the county seat. Sacramento became the State Capital in 1854. The County is the major component of the Sacramento Metropolitan Statistical Area ("SMSA") which includes Sacramento, El Dorado, and Placer Counties.
Sacramento County encompasses approximately 994 square miles in the middle of the 400-mile long Central Valley, which is California's prime agricultural region. The County is bordered by Contra Costa and San Joaquin Counties on the south, Amador and El Dorado Counties on the east, Placer and Sutter Counties on the north, and Yolo and Solano Counties on the west. Sacramento County extends from the low delta lands between the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers north to about ten miles beyond the State Capitol and east to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The southernmost portion of Sacramento County has direct access to the San Francisco Bay.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Special Enforcement Detail (SED) is the Department's elite SWAT unit. The SED is a component of the Sheriff's Department Narcotics/Gang Division. Their stated mission is to provide highly trained and coordinated special weapons and tactics teams for unusual high-risk and unique events, and to provide support to the other units within the Narcotics/Gang Division.
Auxiliary team members are deputies who have left the full time team to go to other assignments. They have prior tactical experience, and are required to train with the full time team twice a month to maintain their abilities and knowledge.
Team members are on call to respond to incidents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On a moments notice, the team could be called on to respond a tactical situation that involves an armed barricaded subject, a hostage situation, or any other high-risk situation that requires their specialized training and abilities.
One example of this occurred on April 4, 1991, when the SED became involved in what would become the largest hostage rescue operation in US history, not to mention the team's best known operation to date. That afternoon four armed Asian males entered "The Good Guys" electronics store, and took approximately 50 customers and staff hostage. The SED, which was in the process of preparing to serve a high-risk drug warrant, along with the Department's Critical Incident Negations Team (CINT), and other local and state law enforcement agencies responded to the incident.
The SED immediately to up positions around the store, and the CINT began a dialog with the hostage takers. After several hours of negations with the hostage takers, their demands and behavior became more and more erratic. They demanded everything from a helicopter to fly them to Thailand to 1,000 year old Ginseng roots. The only constant demanded they issued was for bullet proof vests. The hostage takers then shot one of the male hostages in the leg, and threatened to begin executing the remainder of their hostages if their demands were not met immediately. The SED was given the OK, to assault the store and free the hostages. During the ensuing assault, three of the hostage takers were killed and the fourth was wounded. Three of the hostages were killed, and three others were wounded by the hostage takers, before the SED could free them. Although several hostages were killed or wounded, the fact that so many escaped without injury is a tribute to the skill and professionalism of the SED.
SED members are trained in a variety of skills including tactical shooting, tactical entry, the use of distraction devices, chemical agents, helicopter insertions, rappelling, fast roping, and other skills. The SED also regularly conducts training with other Sheriff's Department units such as the CINT, the Explosive Ordnance Unit (EOU), and the Air Operations Unit. They have also trained with the San Francisco PD, the LAPD, and the California Highway Patrol.
The team's arsenal is well equipped with a wide variety of weapons systems. SED deputies are known to use Sig-Arms P-220 9mm pistols as either their primary entry weapon, or as a backup weapon. They are also equipped with the universally popular HK MP-5 series of 9mm sub-machineguns (in both the regular and sound suppressed SD model). Colt AR-15/M-16 5.56mm rifles are also issued. Unit Snipers are equipped with the Remington 700 .308 Police rifle. 37mm gas guns, chemical, and distraction devices are also used.


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Q: Spell Checking in C# Using Word Interop I am writing a spell check application in C# using word.dll (the Word Interop API).
I want to check which spellings are incorrect and accordingly get suggestions for the incorrect words.
I got a sample code from the net and I cannot understand the parameters for the following command:
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Application.GetSpellingSuggestions
   (string, ref object, ref object, ref object, ref object, ref object,
       ref object, ref object, ref object, ref object, ref object, ref object,
       ref object, ref object)

I would just like to know what do all the ref objects imply? I want to know their meaning.

A: I worked with this the other day and thought I would like to share my findings and add a bit to the already given answers.
You ask:

I want to check which spellings are incorrect and accordingly get
  suggestions for the incorrect words.
(...)
I would just like to know what do all the "ref object"s imply? I want
  to know their meaning.

The short answer to this is - look in the documentation.
To show you how the GetSpellingSuggestions method can be used in a more complete context, I have included a sample program in the following. Please note that you can change the desired proofing language using the language variable. The code goes as follows:
using System;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

namespace WordStack
{
    public class Program
    {
        private static void Main()
        {
            // Create a new Word application instance (and keep it invisible)
            var wordApplication = new Application() { Visible = false };

            // A document must be loaded
            var myDocument = wordApplication.Documents.Open(@"C:\...\myDoc.docx");

            // Set the language
            var language = wordApplication.Languages[WdLanguageID.wdEnglishUS];

            // Set the filename of the custom dictionary
            // -- Based on:
            // http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292108
            // http://www.delphigroups.info/2/c2/261707.html
            const string custDict = "custom.dic";

            // Get the spelling suggestions
            var suggestions = wordApplication.GetSpellingSuggestions("overfloww", custDict, MainDictionary: language.Name);

            // Print each suggestion to the console
            foreach (SpellingSuggestion spellingSuggestion in suggestions)
                Console.WriteLine("Suggested replacement: {0}", spellingSuggestion.Name);

            Console.ReadLine();
            wordApplication.Quit();
        }
    }
}

... which give me the following three suggestions: overflow, overflows, and overflown.
The given sample has been implemented using .NET 4.5 and version 15 of the Word Interop API (Office 2013).
Please notice that the given sample also solves your comment to one of the already given answers, saying:

(...) It is working. But the Microsoft Word application is popping up for
  every word. Is there any way to get spelling suggestion without
  letting the Microsoft application window pop up??

Personally, I have not experienced that behavior (neither with the GetSpellingSuggestions nor the CheckSpelling methods available on the Application instance).
However, if you invoke CheckSpelling on a Document instance, it will, as covered in the documentation, display the Spelling dialog if one or more misspelled words are found (given that you, during construction of the Word Application instance, assigned the Visible property to true - otherwise, it will await input in the background causing the application to "freeze").

A: Update:
So it seems you need to get the first spelling suggestion from word. I checked this article and I deduce you would need to do something like this:
Word.SpellingSuggestions listOfSuggestions =
                                  app.GetSpellingSuggestions(searchStr);
listOfSuggestions.Items[0].Name;//should contain the first suggestion

So from the msdn docs:
Syntax 1
expression.GetSpellingSuggestions(CustomDictionary, IgnoreUppercase,
    MainDictionary, SuggestionMode, CustomDictionary2  CustomDictionary10)

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Result:Returns a SpellingSuggestions collection that represents the words suggested as spelling replacements for a given word.
Note: If you use anything earlier than .NET4 then you'll have to use Missing.Value for the parameters you want empty/null. As of .NET4 we've got optional parameters and when you add a reference to the Office Library, the interop wrapper will have overloads based on the optional parameters.

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Groundbreaking communications technology gives remote tribes a voice
'We'll be able to communicate with people who live far away.' Mariazinha Yanomami, recording the first-ever message for Tribal Voice.
Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights, has launched a unique project to bring the latest communications technology to some of the world's most remote tribal communities.
The "Tribal Voice" project is the first of its kind and allows tribal communities without internet access to send video messages about their lives and their struggle to survive to a global audience in real time.
So far, the project has been adopted by the Guarani and the Yanomami Indians in Brazil.
Mariazinha, from the Yanomami community of Rokoari, said in the first-ever Tribal Voice video, "Today the communications equipment arrived and I am very happy … If we see illegal goldminers on our land, or if outsiders try to kill us, I will be able to let everybody know … We'll be able to communicate with people who live far away."
The Yanomami are the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America. Their lands and lives are being threatened by illegal goldminers who pollute their streams and bring diseases to which the tribe has developed little immunity.
One Guarani leader told Survival, "We've been saying for years that we need to be able to communicate with people in Brazil and around the world. This project is just what we've been waiting for."
The Guarani are one of the first tribes to be involved in the Tribal Voice project, and have sent several strong messages to the world.
The Guarani in south-western Brazil have lost most of their lands to cattle ranches and sugar cane plantations. Their leaders are targeted and assassinated and their communities attacked by gunmen hired by ranchers. Only recently, a Guarani community was set ablaze by attackers after the tribe reoccupied parts of their ancestral land.
The Tribal Voice project aims to give tribal peoples a voice in the face of governments and multinationals who are trying to silence them, and will allow tribes to share their views on their environments, ways of life and visions for their futures.
The Yanomami were trained in the use of the latest communications technology to send their messages to the world.
Survival's Director Stephen Corry said today, "Tribal peoples are just like us. They, too, are concerned about their quality of life and their children's futures. Their understanding of the world is as astute as anyone's and they have perceptive things to say about almost every aspect of life today. That's why we're giving tribes communications technology so they can speak to the world in real time."
Visit TribalVoice for more videos and information about the project.


Our premium maca powder is grown in Lima, Peru under strict quality control farms and different to the others on the market as it is a blend of yellow 60%, red 30% and black 10% maca to give you the full benefits of the full potency.
Rotating a few days on and a few days off is often recommended. Taking too much can lead to adverse effects and throw your hormones out of whack. If you experience this, you should take less or wean yourself off completely.
Maca is good in smoothies, salads, drinks, cooked foods, and juices. Don't add it to anything that's very hot because it will lose all its benefits. The taste can be a bit odd at first but it gets more tolerable and it depends on what you mix it with. Its flavor has been described as "malted" or like toasted oats. Smoothies, puddings, raw sweets, and juices seem to be the best ways to use maca powder.
P.S. Please note many Companies are importing there Maca from China which is an inferior low grade quality as the soil and climate conditions differ from the real genuine peruvian conditions where it should be grown.
*But be aware if you have a cancer related to hormones like testicular and ovarian, among others. If you have liver issues or high blood pressure you should ask your doctor before taking maca.
Mix 1-2 teaspoons (5g) with a glass of water or juice. Use once or two daily.


Delta Controls won the 2014 Building Automation System of the Year at the ControlTrends Awards held at AHR in Chicago on January 26th, 2015! We are proud of this award because it was given by the online community of controls professionals, 100s of installers and engineers who really know the products from in-field experience.
The ControlTrends Awards gala honored the "heroes and superstars of the HVAC and Building Automation industry". Thanks to everyone at ControlTrends for their hard work and a great evening. We'd also like to extend our congratulations to all the other winners and nominees – it is great to work in an industry with so many talented people keeping us on our A game!
The Delta DLS also won Lighting Integration Solution of the Year, recognizing that we have integration covered – after all, we were the first manufacture to have a fully integrated, native BACnet, building solution encompassing HVAC, Lighting, and Access products. Most of all we are delighted to extend a very special congratulations to Greg Holloway, who won Best Technical Support Person of the Year - Large Manufacturer. Greg is a technical virtuoso and has worked tirelessly for Delta Controls since 1994, winning huge respect from our worldwide technical community.
Congratulations to all of the Delta Controls family of employees and partners, who are dedicated to making the best systems in everything they do. Winning Building Automation System of the Year is a credit to you and your never ending desire to Do It Right.


Harrison Park is a neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas with a population of 2,216. Harrison Park is in Sedgwick County and is one of the best places to live in Kansas. Living in Harrison Park offers residents a suburban feel and most residents own their homes. In Harrison Park there are a lot of restaurants, coffee shops, and parks. Many families and young professionals live in Harrison Park and residents tend to lean liberal.
The employment here in Wichita is actually quit rough. Wichita used to thrive with job opportunities but ever since Boeing moved out of Kansas, as well as many other Aircraft carriers, it has be tough for people to get employed. When it comes to education, teachers are either quitting or moving somewhere else because it's too hard to make it here as an educator.
There's a reason why Kansas has a wide reputation of having horrible weather. In Kansas, generally you never know what you're going to get. Somedays it'll be 76 and with a nice breeze and the next day it'll snow. The summer are very humid and the winters are VERY bitter.
I think this is a great place to live. This area has a good community and solid base. However, I do see gang violence going up within this community.


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Legislators in Connecticut Approve MDMA, Psilocybin Therapy Funding Legislation
March 25, 2022 11:35:28
Last week, the joint Public Health Committee in Connecticut passed a measure that would allow the state to offer eligible patients access to psychedelic-assisted treatment. The bill, HB 5396, was approved on a noncontroversial basis and will be advancing to the floor for consideration.
The legislation requires that the state's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services launch a pilot program for psychedelic-assisted therapy to provide eligible patients with funding to receive psilocybin- or MDMA-assisted therapy. The psychedelic-assisted therapy to be offered would be funded and provided specifically for healthcare workers, retired first responders, military veterans and other individuals from historically underserved communities who suffered from severe or life-threatening behavioral or mental disorders and had no access to effective behavioral or mental health medication.
The program would come to an end when the substances under the FDA's expanded access program for new investigational drugs were approved for medical use by the DEA or any of its successor agency.
While it wouldn't legalize psychedelic substances, the legislation would also establish a regulatory infrastructure to allow the state to play a major role in offering access to these alternative treatment options as federal agencies continue funding and facilitating clinical trials. In addition to this, the measure would establish a Psychedelic Treatment Advisory Board in the state within the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, whose members would be appointed by the governor and legislative leaders.
This board would be charged with making recommendations on the development and design of the infrastructure and regulations that were needed to safely allow medicinal access to psychedelic-assisted therapy once various psychedelic compounds, including psilocybin and MDMA, were legalized. Rep. Liz Linehan, one of the panel members, suggested that legislators consider including other therapies like ketamine.
A separate measure, which would require the state to conduct studies into the therapeutic potential of magic mushrooms, was signed last year by the state's governor. A group created for this purpose has been looking into this since the measure's approval.
In other news, the Social Equity Council in the state also approved a list of areas that were disproportionately affected by the war on drugs. This list will be the basis of determining eligibility for social equity business licenses in Connecticut. Under the state's new marijuana program, one-half of all licenses must be issued to equity applicants, who may also qualify for workforce training, technical assistance and lower licensing fees.
Many companies, including Mydecine Innovations Group Inc. (NEO: MYCO) (OTC: MYCOF) (FSE: ONFA), are already developing therapeutic formulations from psychedelics such as psilocybin, so the path to legalizing psychedelics could be accelerated by progress on the pharmaceutical front.
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Q: Create a user and add all roles using the rolify gem I have a system that is set up using devise and rolify to manage users, however, I need to create a method where I can do something like the following:
[14] pry(main)> User.create_owner(username:"test", name:"Testing", password:"Password-1", password_confirmation:"Password-1", email: 'testing@hey.com')

that creates a user and gives the user all of the roles that I have in the system.
So far I have the following
def self.create_owner(options)
  user = self.new(options)

  @roles.each do |role, user|
    user.add_role?(role[:name])
  end

  user.has_role? :default
  user.save
end

but this is what I get
NoMethodError: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
from /home/ben/code/BusinessCloudEssential/app/models/user.rb:291:in `create_owner'

All of the roles have been created using a seeds file and are in the database following Rolify docs.
EDIT
OK so I now have the following
def self.create_owner(options)
  user = self.new(options)

  Role.all.each do
    user.roles = Role.all
  end

  user.has_role? :default
  user.save
end

and the following output
[1] pry(main)> User.create_owner(username:"test", name:"testing", password:"Password-1", password_confirmation:"Password-1", email: 'testing@hey.com')
  Role Load (2.6ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.5ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.5ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.6ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.8ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.6ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.9ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  Role Load (0.3ms)  SELECT `roles`.* FROM `roles`
  TRANSACTION (0.5ms)  BEGIN
  User Exists? (0.7ms)  SELECT 1 AS one FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`email` = BINARY 'ben.bagley1@hey.com' LIMIT 1
  User Exists? (0.8ms)  SELECT 1 AS one FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`username` = 'ben1' LIMIT 1
  User Exists? (0.5ms)  SELECT 1 AS one FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`email` = 'ben.bagley1@hey.com' LIMIT 1
   (0.4ms)  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `users`
  Setting Load (1.2ms)  SELECT `settings`.* FROM `settings` WHERE `settings`.`name` = 'number_of_users' LIMIT 1
  Setting Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `settings`.* FROM `settings` WHERE `settings`.`name` = 'number_of_users' LIMIT 1
  TRANSACTION (0.5ms)  ROLLBACK
TypeError: compared with non class/module
from /home/ben/.rbenv/versions/3.0.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activerecord-6.1.3.2/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:108:in `>='

TypeError: compared with non class/module
from /home/ben/.rbenv/versions/3.0.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/activerecord-6.1.3.2/lib/active_record/relation


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Q: stringstream peek() error C3867 I have method of a class, that accepts a key variable and looks up the key in an underdone map.  The Value is a string example: "12132, jack_arog, 1990:12:8:3:25:3"; method will use peek() in stringstream to recognize ',' and ' ' to ignore them and put the rest in a vector. Afterwards method will assign members of vector to attributes of an object.
Error is recieve during compilation:
if (ss.peek() == ',' || ss.peek == ' ')
    ss.ignore();

Error   C3867   'std::basic_istream<char,std::char_traits<char>>::peek': non-standard syntax; use '&' to create a pointer to member

I looked up this error and most say you forgot () when calling a function, however i do not believe this is my problem.
Method:
void Account::find_account(std::string name, std::string ID)
{
    std::string key = name + "," + ID;
    Account new_account;

    std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string>::const_iterator got = map.find(key);

    if (got == map.end())
        std::cout << "not found";
    else
    {
        std::string my_string = got->second;

        std::vector<std::string> holder;
        std::stringstream ss(my_string);
        std::string i;

        while (!my_string.empty() && ss >> i)
        {
            holder.push_back(i);

            if (ss.peek() == ',' || ss.peek == ' ')
                ss.ignore();
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < holder.size(); i++)
        {
            if (i = 0)
                new_account.ID = holder.at(i);
            if (i = 1)
                new_account.account_holder = holder.at(i);
            if (i = 2)
            {
                std::string::size_type sz;
                new_account.amount_available = std::stof(holder.at(i), &sz);
            }
            if (i = 3)
            {
                new_account.date_created = holder.at(i);
            }

        }

    }

}

A: "I looked up this error and most say you forgot () when calling a function, however i do not believe this is my problem."
How can you say that when your compiler tells you that the error is exactly on this line?  Moreover it is telling you that the error is specifically tied to your (ab)use of peek, I quote:
"...peek': non-standard syntax; use '&' to create a pointer to member

I translate:  The compiler thinks you are not trying to call peek, since you did not type the required () to do so.  So, if you are by any chance trying to get the function address, you should prepend & to the function name for the syntax to be correct.
Computers are dumb, I'll give you that, but they are rarely wrong.


Batman and Superman fall out over egos in this amusing open world tie-in.
Batman: Arkham Origins charts the first meeting of Batman and the Joker, but its formula is too rigidly similar to the other two games in the series to carry the franchise further.
A prequel to the justifiably lauded Arkham Asylum and Arkham City games, though not created by the same London-based outfit Rocksteady, this story is set in an early timeframe of Batman's career, where he's angrier, less refined and Gotham City still questions if he's even real.
It's Christmas Eve, and Black Mask puts a bounty out on Batman, to which a variety of A, B and C-list villains heed the call to bring him down. It's an odd patchwork of a narrative that is loosely structured so players can explore side stories involving the Riddler, Mad Hatter and others at their own leisure, or simply pursue the main Joker plot to its conclusion and mop the rest up later.
The main factor working against Arkham Origins is that it's almost a replica of City, an issue that is mainly noticeable in this Gotham setting being basically identical to the version in the last game, with a fair bit extra stuck on and decorative Christmas lights as a concession to the festive theme of the tale. If you've played a lot of Arkham City, it's not very exciting to come back to the same place, only with less to do than you had before. In both Asylum and City, uncovering those two environments over time was intrinsic to the success of each game, a factor that seems to have been underestimated in recycling the same grimy buildings in Origins. Without the incentive to explore, a certain energy is lost here.
Yet by sticking so closely to what Rocksteady created for Batman, they've also made it fairly difficult to go off-course. Combat, gliding and stealth and all absolutely the same in Origins, and while this isn't very exciting creatively, the combination of those elements is still appealing, especially the gorgeously animated, raw hand-to-hand brutality of the close quarters fighting. Some new ideas are tossed in, too – an upgraded detective mode, where players solve murders by digitally rewinding the course of a crime, is a brilliant addition that actually brings the investigative side of the Caped Crusader's legacy to life in an improbably entertaining form. Plus, you can chat to Alfred in a streamlined, T-Rex-less Batcave in a welcome cosmetic touch between set pieces.
Story-wise, a lot of the same beats are emulated from the other games. The developers make several attempts to find heavy characterisation moments like the incredible hallucinatory Scarecrow sequences in Asylum, yet unfortunately don't quite get there in quality or inventiveness.
It's in this instance that we would like to see what this developer has to say about Batman that hasn't been said before: the value of any new interpretation of the character by creators in every medium. There's an obvious love for the source material from the developers, here, with subtly presented references to key comic book storyline, but ultimately nothing original is said about Batman or his rogue's gallery, though the way the hero's emerging dynamic with the Joker is explored is entirely compelling thanks to the quality of the new voice actors that take the place of Conroy and Hamill.
Arkham Origins only disappoints because, for a good stretch of time, some of the best game design around just happened to be synonymous with Batman and the rich universe that surrounds the character. What this thoroughly enjoyable stopgap title risks is bringing forward the saturation point for strong videogames featuring the Dark Knight – most players probably won't even notice that the original developers haven't made Arkham Origins, but what they're likely to pick up on is the overly familiar experience of walking these same Gotham City streets, and that playing as Batman hasn't fundamentally evolved since his last outing.
Yet with Rocksteady likely to announce its own sequel in the near future, one that for years now has been heavily rumoured to feature the Justice League and will see Kevin Conroy reprise the title role, it's not like the series will run dry of ideas any time soon. Arkham Origins is simply an enjoyable, well-made tribute to Arkham City and Asylum that fans of both should ultimately be satisfied with.


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Shelby to get funds for Amtrak improvements
The Amtrak stop in Shelby will get $953,954 from the Federal Railroad Administration for safety improvements, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., announced Wednesday.
This project will upgrade two pedestrian and motor vehicle crossings in Shelby, by extending the existing Amtrak platform and installing fencing, signage, two quadrant gates and a wayside horn advance warning systems.
The project is located along Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway's east-west mainline with 45 to 50 BNSF freight trains and two Amtrak trains — the Empire Builder — operating through Shelby.
"Improving the safety and reliability of Montana's rail network is critical to connecting people in our communities," Daines, who wrote a June 9 letter of support for the project to the FRA, said via email.
"There have been six documented fatalities on Shelby's railroad tracks in the past 20 years," Daines wrote in the letter. "If improvements are not made, the city of Shelby believes this number could grow if train traffic increases."
Shelby Mayor Larry Bonderud said the project will help ensure efforts Amtrak continues to serve the state and his community.


In this 90-second video clip, Jon stresses that although such groups as Scientology and the Moonies are in decline, other coercive groups like the white supremacy movement and multi-level marketing scams are on the rise. "People don't know how to evaluate information," Jon cautions. "Our society has become absolutely riddled with coercive behaviour, because it's become acceptable." Jon warns us that predatory and abusive influence may be found in families, in companies, and in social groups, and so it is vital to teach our children to recognize and protect themselves from predatory influence, wherever they might encounter it.
What do you think about this video? Do you agree? Have you read Jon's new book? Do you have a story about predatory influence that you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you!


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