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The first thing you should know about me is that I have a British accent. This will help you establish a voice in your head when you're reading, which is important, don't you think?
My name is Holly and I live in San Francisco with my husband and my baby son. For a long time I worked in the travel industry, which meant I was often on the road and owned many bottles of shampoo that were three ounces or less. Now I work somewhere else that has nothing to do with travel, and yet I am still pretty much always on the road. Like, literally on the road. This is because I have a fairly long commute, much of it spent in traffic, marveling at how many people will pick their noses in their cars because they think no-one can see them doing it. Luckily, I love my job enough that this is totally worth it.
I was born in England to English parents, but I grew up all over the place: Paris, Holland, Britain, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Hong Kong---at seven years, it's the longest I've ever lived anywhere---and the slightly less glamorous Connecticut. By the time I was ten, I had been to ten schools, and when I was eleven, I left my family in Hong Kong to attend an all-girls boarding school in a leafy English village, where I stayed until I was eighteen. I learned things like Latin, lacrosse, french-braiding, independence, and how to deal with crippling homesickness. The jury is still out on which of those things has since helped me most in life.
Sean and I got married on September 5, 2009, after being together approximately seven hundred million years. In fact, I've known him since I was sixteen, which means he has seen me through some very ill-advised hairstyles and wardrobe choices, and has still stuck around. We met on a beach in 1996 when I had braces and he was playing hackysack. You can read about it here and here and here and here. In November 2012, we discovered we were expecting our first baby. If all goes according to plan, this baby will show up at the end of July 2013. Oh my god, I have so many things to buy before then.
We moved to San Francisco in January 2007 and bought a fixer-upper of a house in June 2010. We don't live in a particularly cool part of the city, but we're pretty excited that we have our own washer and dryer. We're slowly working on making the house a little more lovely, but we also take a lot of breaks to watch terrible TV. Before we lived in San Francisco, we lived in Charleston, South Carolina, but then one day in 2006, we quit our jobs, packed our lives away, and went traveling in Asia for six months, traipsing through Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma. Sometimes we have to stop ourselves from being those awful people who start every sentence with "When we were traveling..."
My favorite piece of punctuation is the parentheses, with the semi-colon taking a close second. Things I like include champagne, Evan Dando, going to the library, gold shoes, the word "brouhaha," Trader Joe's, beauty products with clever names, reliving scenes from My So Called Life in my head, black licorice, the page in Us Weekly where they say "Stars: They're Just Like Us" and then show them looking zitty and doing laundry, San Pellegrino, Target, Mark Ruffalo, when people say things like "um, clean up in aisle three from all the names you just dropped," German accents, free samples, people who can drive stick, hydrangeas, when the phone rings in the middle of the night and it's just a wrong number and NOT someone on the other side of the world dying, men in pink shirts, and Nigella Lawson.
Things I don't like include people who use their cell phones at the gym, seafood, bad grammar, beets, the word "ointment," people who won't admit that they shop in TJ Maxx EVEN WHEN YOU'VE SEEN THEM THERE, incorrect pronunciation of the word "croissant," hearing other people pee, elaborate facial hair, thinking you've got one square of your Caramello left when really you've already eaten the whole thing, Ashlee Simpson, broth-based soups, driving, and people who claim to "heart" things, especially when they write about it in Comic Sans font.
Possibly because of how I grew up---always moving, always leaving---I am unfailingly nostalgic. I love to revel in nostalgia, roll around in it like a pig in....well, you know what pigs roll around in. A little while ago, I started a series of timeline posts, which I have yet to finish but have on a continuous to-do list. This should get you up to speed:
Zero Through Six
Seven Through Ten
Twelve and Thirteen
Fourteen and Fifteen
Seventeen and Eighteen
I started this blog as a hobby in 2005 and it remains, as ever, a fun little creative outlet for my writing. I do not want to make it my "brand."


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Thurso Camera Club History - Thurso Camera Club
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Bob Murdoch
Colin Gregory
Gareth Watkins
Jason Ridgley
Jean Mackay
Malcolm Gray
Neil Holden
(Compiled from people's memories as very little documentation exists from the early years.)
The Ormlie Lodge Photographic Club was formed in 1958 and membership was exclusive to Lodge residents and other Dounreay workers. Jimmy MacLean was a young postman in Thurso at the time and had friends who were in that photographic club. He was exasperated at not being able to join and so he and his friends decided to form Thurso Camera Club. From Jimmy's memory this was around 1960. Unfortunately, there are no surviving meeting minutes to give the exact start-up date.
Both camera clubs co-existed in the 1960s, with some of the Ormlie Lodge Photography Club members also being members of Thurso Camera Club. Eventually, the Dounreay club folded and most joined the Thurso Camera Club.
The initial meetings were held at the Thurso Social Cycling Club's premises in Gerry Square, Thurso, now the premises of the Caithness Cycling Club. More suitable premises were kindly provided by William and Jimmy Wilson of the Station Hotel. The hotel's cellar was taken over by the club and members had to give it good clear out and a fresh lick of paint. A dark room was created, work benches added and a portrait studio made.
Retired Wick High School Art teacher, Fergus Mather is also an original member and joined the club as a junior, along with his school friend Ian Campbell. He was in the Scouts at the time and working towards gaining his photography badge.
Fergus's camera was a Halina 35mm manual. Photography became his main interest and he attended Edinburgh's Art College to study art and came back to the club during the holiday breaks to learn even more from the experienced members. He bought a better camera with his summer earnings – a Yashica-mat twin lens reflex.
Fergus says that he owes a lot to the Club for encouraging and developing his artist talent, particularly Tom Wishart, whom he greatly admired. Fergus kept some of his photographs that were taken in the basement of the Station Hotel in the early 60s and took photos of the prints by using his latest Canon 5D digital camera. A selection can be seen on this page.
The initial members were around 20 in number and from the memories of Jimmy and Fergus, included;
· Peter Paterson (the first Chairman)
· Tom Wishart
· Stan Livingston
· Peter Watt
· Dan MacKay
· Billy MacKay
· Mrs Jimmy Reid
· Two Swanson sisters
· The Stationmaster
The club met once per month throughout the whole year. Jimmy recalls that Thurso's professional photographers, Maurice Harrington and Mario Luciani, both gave very helpful advice and guidance to club members. Fergus remembers Mr Harrington kindly developing his photographs for him, so that he could enter the club competitions.
The club has never owned its' own premises and has rented rooms in the following venues over the years;
· Thurso Social Cycling Club premises, Gerry Square
· Station Hotel, Thurso
· Labour Party Rooms, Swanson Street
· Ormlie Lodge Hostel
· Miller Academy Primary School
· Thurso High School
The first Chairman was Peter Paterson and other Chairmen over the years include;
Dr Roberts, Thurso College Principal, Jock Liddle, Dave Sprague, Neil Buchan, Colin Gregory & Bob Murdoch. The present chairman is James Gunn, Halkirk, who is a regular contributor to the Groat and Courier of sports action photos.
Two stalwarts of special mention are Jock Liddle and Dave Sprague. Jock Liddle was Chairman for over 25 years from the 1970s to the 1990s. Dave Sprague was Secretary for over 25 years over the same period and his tireless enthusiasm kept the club from folding when membership dropped to only a handful. Bob Johnson is a current stalwart of the club, having joined in 1986.
In the recent past the club gave images for the Caithness calendar that was promoted and sold by the North of Scotland Newspapers. In 2019 the club gave images of Thurso to the Scrabster Harbour Trust for their cruise liner tourist leaflet.
The club has always been involved with the local community. In the 1980s the club converted a room in the Ormlie Lodge Hostel into a fully kitted dark room, for use by members and residents. In the 1990s it produced a slideshow of Caithness images that was used by the local tourist board to promote Caithness. The club also took it on a grand tour to meetings of numerous local clubs and organisations.
The club currently helps the hair and beauty students at the UHI North Highland College to compile their exam assessments by taking professional standard photos of their work for their individual portfolios.
This has been on-going for many years and takes place every Spring.
In 2019 and 2020 the club produced images of Caithness and North Sutherland for the Caithness Collection calendar (Pentland, Castletown and Norseman hotels) and so help to promote the North of Scotland as a tourist destination.
The club's constitution has the following objective;
"The furtherance of multi-media photographic art and technique among amateur workers and others; by exchanging friendly ideas and mutual assistance among members as well as organising, holding and participating in lectures, presentations, demonstrations, exhibitions, competitions, field trips, training events and such like."
In 2020 there are 20 very enthusiastic members and the club holds its' indoor meetings on the first and third Mondays from September through to April, in the Pentland Hotel, Thurso. From May to August there are field trips throughout Caithness and Sutherland.
Over the years, guest speakers have given presentations, talks and demonstrations to club members. They range from enthusiastic amateurs to full time professional photographers. Despite being the British mainland's furthest north camera club, it attracts guest speakers from all over Caithness, Scotland and the UK.
The club is particularly proud of having attracted two world renowned photographers from England in the last 10 years. Damian McGillicuddy and John Denton both brought along a professional model for a practical photoshoot demonstration.
Damian McGillicuddy is an ambassador for Olympus cameras and is based in Widnes. He is a working commercial and portrait photographer for over 30 years and shoots all genres from fashion to sports men and women footballers, pop stars, celebrities, politicians, musicians to motorsport. He has worked in commercial and editorial photography sectors worldwide for such companies as Olympus, L'Oreal, Aston Martin and Vogue magazine.
John Denton, an ambassador for Elinchrom lighting and Permajet paper is based in Birmingham. He is a wedding and fashion photographer and trainer, with commissions all over the world.
The club has held numerous exhibitions over the years to showcase members work to the public. The venue in 2016 and 2020 was the art gallery in Thurso library. Around 40 professionally mounted prints and 100 projected digital images were on display for 4 weeks. Over 500 attended each time and the feedback was very positive.
The highlight in the club's history was winning the Highland Challenge competition in 2015. This is a prestigious annual competition between all the clubs in the Highlands and Islands from Shetland down to Nairn. Every club submits ten photos to be judged by an independent professional photographer and the results are announced at a big social event with members from all clubs in attendance, usually around 120 in number. The club has hosted the Highland Challenge event in 2001, 2006, 2013 and 2019.
The club has a Facebook page where the latest news and images are regularly posted.
Compiled by
Thurso Camera Club Chairman
e-mail: jbgunn4@btinternet.com
Chairman James Gunn (centre front) with fellow club members at the 2019 Highland Challenge competition in the Pulteney Centre, Wick. The event was hosted by Thurso Camera Club in March 2019, with nearly 100 photographers from 9 Camera Clubs in attendance.
Front to back (left to right):
Jean MacKay, James Gunn, Alex Henderson, Ruthie Nicholls, Billy Husband, Bob Murdoch, Andrew Simpson, Gareth Watkins, Julie Catterall, Tony Beck.
© Thurso Camera Club

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Home By Marquel New York -Not Brooklyn ?- It's a Hell of a Town
Made in New York City
New York -Not Brooklyn ?- It's a Hell of a Town
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes s Suburban Section correspondent, was enjoying Coney Island from the heights of the Wonder Wheel, when he read Life After Brooklyn. Brooklynites are moving out, fed up with rising rents, bidding wars and neighborhoods that no longer resemble the low-rise bohemian enclaves they found when they arrived.
Marquel had seen them moving. Some filled with self hate for becoming bridge and tunnelers. Others filled with viruses from Lyme Disease after moving to Connecticut. Others filled with absolutely nothing except a touch of vapidity after moving to Staten Island.
Marquel went out to Brooklyn after checking the schedule to make sure he could be back to safety before sundown. He found a whole group of New Brooklynites in a coffee shop with their super giant multiple strollers parked all around. They were discussing new ports of call.
"I want someplace that's open all night," said one young mother, "I'm sick and tired of roaming supermarkets to find a party."
"There's got to be some part of New York that never sleeps," said another, "instead of shutting down at ten pm like Indianapolis."
"I'd like to be able to have a meeting like this in a good old fashioned bar instead of a coffee shop," said another.
"I'll drink to that," said another sneaking a pour of a small flask.
Two artsy types said, "this Brooklyn museum is really super, especially were it in Boston, but I'm really missing a museum devoted just to the moderns."
The other answered, "I'm afraid there's nothing like that in Brooklyn."
A third asked, "have you looked in queens, or maybe Staten Island?"
"You've got to be kidding. It's like Levittown there," another answered.
"No", said a bearded father, "this is like Levittown. I want to see live theatre. Not once a month or two at BAM, but in a location like a theatre district where you can choose!"
Another responded that there was a theatre district in one of the other boroughs.
"Big deal. What's the point of a theatre district without restaurants," he challenged.
"I know it has restaurants!" He answered. The coffee bar was murmuring.
"So where the hell is it?"-the other asked.
"It's it's it's it's…" He stammered, "Broadway!"
The entire coffeehouse rose as one, "But that's in Manhattan!" A large groan.
One of the first to speak said, "yeah, Manhattan, that's where the all night bars are, the all night parties, the museums, the theatres, the restaurants, music venues. We all know that. We came here cause it's cheaper. Now it's not!"
"So what should we do?" They all cried.
"Admit we were wrong?"
"That's not very Brooklyn," said one.
After a long silence, another said, "yeah, well neither are we."
Marquel went home just before sundown. He knew there were still parts of the very upper east and west side which were easily competitive with Brooklyn. But maybe not Levittown.
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Gabriel 08/25/2014 At 11:56 am
A bit biased, but hey, that's fine…I like Manhattan too. I wish I could like there.
Marjorie 08/25/2014 At 11:57 am
I'm very disappointed, Marquel. Many Brooklanites read u, or shall I say used to.
Eddy Lizzard 08/25/2014 At 11:59 am
Oh,. stop the fuss. YOu all know that you moved to Brooklyn when you were on a shoe string and you hated it then and you hated it now. Brownstones…Okay, stay in your brownstone and keep your mouth or shall I say envious mouth shut
Laura 08/25/2014 At 12:00 pm
Thank god we have a Mayor from Brooklyn.
Laura's sister 08/25/2014 At 12:00 pm
Thank GOd he moved to Manhattan
Harlem Priest 08/25/2014 At 12:04 pm
so much bickering. are you commuting and have nothing tt do in your train but bite each other? Don't you get it? Marquel is right. YOu cannot stand the fact that once you lived in Manhattan and then you had to you had to move to Brooklyn. Accept it and that's it. There is nothing wrong to say
I wish I could live in Manhattan, but I cannot. However, I go there any time I can. Period and keep on living, sistuh


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N3twork Is a #Hashtag-centric 'Internet of Interests' for iPhone and iPad
This slick app aims to let people share their passions.
By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenDec. 12, 2013
N3twork
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Neil Young, the co-founder and CEO of a startup called N3twork, isn't unreservedly in love with the web. He says that it isn't organized in a way that maps to the human brain, is too hard to search and isn't designed for modern devices. He also isn't afraid of big challenges: His company aims to fix everything that's wrong with the web with a new app for the iPhone and iPad that's neatly organized by topic and populated with content shared by real people. He calls the concept the "Internet of Interests."
N3twork (you've already surmised that the "3" is pronounced like an "E") is launching today in a sort of semi-closed beta. Anyone can download it from the App Store and peruse a generic feed of content that members are posting. But in order to fully participate, you'll need to apply for an invite, which the company says it'll fulfill as swiftly as possible. Young — formerly of mobile game developer Ngmoco, and not the Neil Young who's currently working on a music player — recently previewed the app for me and provided me with an early-access version.
I haven't seen anything else that's based on exactly the same idea as N3twork, but aspects of it remind me of a number of other services. It feels a little like a more group-oriented Pinterest, or a Twitter in which hashtags are mandatory. Because it's topic-driven, you might use it for stuff you'd otherwise do in Facebook's Groups or as a Flipboard magazine. It also made me think of two defunct services: Clipboard and Chime.in.
The app is built around subject-specific channels with hashtags for names: #CARS, #INTERIORDESIGN, #FUNNY, #GREATOUTDOORS, #LEICA and anything else a member decides to create. Every channel is collaborative, since anyone can contribute to it. Each post can consist of up to three items: photos, videos and/or links to web pages, all of which you can grab using a built-in web browser. And there are Facebook-like options for commenting on items, liking them and reposting them.
I tried the iPad version of the app, which is slick, highly visual and addictively browsable in the way the best content-oriented apps are. There's even a neat mode that lets you beam a slideshow-like view of a feed to a TV equipped with an Apple TV box.
Certain aspects of N3twork, in its current form, don't feel fully baked. As far as I can tell, there's no way to see the full names of other members or even brief Twitter-style profiles, or to pull up a list of the channels they follow. (That gives it a slightly impersonal feel.) I also don't understand why you can only assign a post to a single channel as you're creating it. After it's up, you can repost it to others.
Young may think that web search is imperfect, but the current form of N3twork barely has a search feature at all — it finds only channels by their name and any assigned keywords, not individual items. That means that the odds are pretty high that things you'd like will go undiscovered; the app, for now, is really about serendipitous exploration rather than research.
N3twork's biggest challenge is the same once faced by any new app or service that aims to serve, essentially, as a container for content created and curated by its members: It needs to find a quorum of wildly enthusiastic users who'll fill it up with great stuff. When I checked it out, there was just a trickle of content. For instance, nobody had contributed to #TECHNEWS in more than two weeks. #SANFRANCISCO had a grand total of two items; #NEWYORK, #BOSTON and #CHICAGO didn't exist. #JFK had plenty of material, but nobody had bothered to create #OBAMA.
Until an app is fully open to the public, it's hard to predict whether such a quorum will form itself. (Chime.in, which I was excited about, never went anywhere and died in less than two years.) Still, it's not too early to say that N3twork has potential. It wouldn't have to be a better Internet than the Internet to attract a crowd and make a name for itself.
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Eppur si muove —
even if politicians won't
Earth isn't flat. Twinkies don't have infinite shelf life. Fortune cookies aren't Chinese. Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25. And face masks don't make COVID-19 worse, nor do they infringe on liberty.
It might be forgivable if you still believe one or two of those myths. But if you're a Marion County commissioner and believe the last one, it's time for you do what's best for the county and resign.
The county will be better off with real leaders instead of dogmatic ostriches who want to score political points by watching people die.
The three commissioners who blocked a desperately needed mask mandate Monday have something more urgent to do.
They need to devote all of their time to drying off whatever shriveled-up organ is left after their brains were washed by some invisible cult that views the John Birch Society and Ku Klux Klan as too liberal.
Not since Galileo's trial for suggesting that the earth wasn't the center of the universe has science been so thoroughly ignored as it was at Monday's county commission meeting.
Every shred of evidence presented to commissioners called for preventing the spread of a unprecedented pandemic by ordering residents to wear masks when near others in public.
Commissioners had the unanimous, enthusiastic, and unwavering advice of the administrator of the county's health department and of the county's coroner and public health consultant.
They had a heart-felt and fact-filled letter from 27 health care providers from throughout the county, all with first-hand knowledge of the actual truth.
They even had a petition from 89 residents who, among other things, said they were afraid to buy from local stores because of a lack of enforced mask mandates and who noted how unfair it was to expect business people to enforce what so-called leaders lacked the courage to order.
And they heard from a superintendent of schools offering solid evidence of how masks had prevented spread of disease within schools but how lack of masks in the larger community had nevertheless sent dozens of students into quarantine or isolation.
None of these messages was even mentioned by commissioners. Instead, the three smirking imbeciles who pointedly defied city ordinance by being the only people in the room not wearing masks repeatedly referred to a lone letter from rancher Rex Savage, complaining that he didn't want to wear a mask while alone on his ranch — not that any of the proposals ever would have required that.
Commissioners had barely left the topic and moved into yet another secret session about another matter before an angry voter called the newspaper to ask how to remove them from office.
The good news is that one of the three, Dianne Novak, already has been ousted for previous misdeeds. Her replacement, David Mueller, attended — in mask — and probably would have flipped the vote. Unfortunately, he won't take office until January — if we're still around then.
One of the two other comically ultraconservative commissioners, Jonah Gehring, who proudly talks about carrying a concealed weapon, is immune from recall until April because his name recently appeared unchallenged (which we now realize was a mistake) on the Nov. 3 ballot.
The only one who can be ousted by a recall election right now is Kent Becker, who silently colluded with Novak last December to gerrymander the county in such a way that both of them could keep their seats while Marion would be split between two districts, one of which isn't even contiguous, as required by law.
Instead of listening to voters, county employees, and experts, the cowardly trio decided to put our lives in the hands of whatever crackpot ministers, militant fringe leaders, and conspiracy-theory commentators they salute like Nazis shouting "Sieg Heil!"
So now COVID-19 isn't the Chinese disease or President Trump's pandemic. It's the Becker-Gehring-Novak virus.
At least we'll know exactly who to blame when great-grandpa, right after Thanksgiving, is denied access to an overfull emergency room and must go home to die alone.
We'll know exactly who to thank when mom and dad can't watch junior play sports or perform in a play or concert because the community hasn't had the sense schools did to always require masks in public.
We'll know exactly where to point our fingers when we eventually are forced into another total shutdown and half the businesses in the county fail. The fact that one of them bragged Monday that she would refuse to do business with any firm that required her to wear a mask speaks volumes.
Our terrible trio of refusenik commissioners didn't have the courage to order an ounce of prevention and instead went all-in on hoping for a pound of cure.
Holding only junk cards, they played Texas Hold 'em with our future merely so they could remain true to ultraconservative views from the lunatic fringe.
For this, commissioners Becker, Gehring, and Novak deserve to be remembered in whatever death shrouds modern Madame Defarges may be knitting.
Not everyone will get our reference to "A Tale of Two Cities," of course. But let's hope that our next three commissioners will be inquisitive enough to at least Google the reference and not assume — as the trio did Monday — that because it somehow sounded educated, it must be wrong.
Rejecting science and taking pride in ignorance will quite literally be the death of all of us.
— ERIC MEYER
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Top 3 Number 1 Overall NFL Draft Busts Of All-Time
By Kaiyo Funaki
(Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire)
Every year, the NFL draft brings hope and optimism for downtrodden franchises.
Owning the first overall pick is a rare opportunity to draft a player that can redefine the future of a team.
Of the 85 players that went first in their draft, 43 made a Pro Bowl appearance.
Twelve of those players have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, as well.
With the first pick in the 1998 NFL Draft the @Colts select…Peyton Manning.
18 days until the @NFLDraft! (via @nflthrowback)
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— NFL (@NFL) April 11, 2021
Some of the game's greatest players went first in their draft, including Peyton Manning, John Elway, and Bruce Smith.
Other guys like Michael Vick, Keyshawn Johnson, and Carson Palmer did not have as illustrious resumes but still found success in the league.
Unfortunately, not everyone was able to deliver on their potential.
Here are the top three busts of all time that went first in their respective draft year.
Steve Emtman, 1992
The 1992 draft is often regarded as one of the worst draft classes ever.
None of the players selected won an MVP or ever made it to the Hall of Fame.
Nonetheless, the Indianapolis Colts had an opportunity to select a solid contributor but ultimately came away with little.
They chose Steve Emtman, a highly decorated defensive end during his time with the Washington Huskies.
Happy Birthday to 2006 @cfbhall inductee Steve Emtman!@outlandtrophy winner placed fourth in @HeismanTrophy voting and was Co-MVP of @rosebowlgame as @UW_Football claimed share of 1991 national championship pic.twitter.com/NglFEn5coG
— Football Foundation (@NFFNetwork) April 16, 2021
He was a two-time Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year and won nearly every individual award for a defensive lineman in 1991.
In that final season as a Husky, Emtman was a unanimous All-American and won a national championship.
Along with fellow first-rounder Quentin Coryatt, Emtman was supposed to lead the Colts' defense for the next decade.
Instead, injuries kept him off the field for the majority of his career.
His three years in Indianapolis all concluded with a season-ending injury that landed him on the injured reserve list.
He had issues with his knees the first two seasons, then suffered a spinal disc herniation in 1994 after just four games.
By 1997, he was out of the league.
In seven seasons, he played 50 games and recorded just eight sacks.
Ki-Jana Carter, 1995
Ki-Jana Carter was another No. 1 draft pick hampered by injuries.
The running back was fresh off a stellar junior year at Penn State, in which he rushed for 1,539 yards and 23 touchdowns.
Ki-Jana Carter was incredible at Penn State
In his final season (1994) he accumulated 1662 yards from scrimmage and 23 touchdowns on just 212 touches (7.8 yards per touch)
Carter weighted in at the 1995 combine at 5 foot 8 and 227 pounds. Absolute bully and incredible speed. pic.twitter.com/WlGtFKIqbJ
— Russell Clay (@RussellJClay) March 26, 2020
He helped cap off an undefeated season with Co-MVP Honors in a Rose Bowl victory and finished second in the Heisman voting.
The Cincinnati Bengals were so enamored with Carter's skills that they traded their first and second-round picks with the Carolina Panthers to take the former Nittany Lion.
Injuries, however, derailed his career almost immediately.
Carter tore his ACL on just his third touch of his first preseason game and missed his entire rookie season.
He did appear in 31 games over the next two years but rarely got consistent playing time.
Then, he suffered injuries in back-to-back campaigns that limited him to just four games.
Carter managed to stay afloat in the league until 2004 but was stripped of the dynamic ability he once possessed.
In seven seasons with three different teams, he rushed for just 1,144 yards and 20 touchdowns.
This pick especially stung since two Hall of Fame running backs, Curtis Martin and Terrell Davis, went much later in the draft.
Carter also serves as a cautionary tale, as he holds the distinction of the last running back to go first overall.
The last RB selected No. 1?
Ki-Jana Carter, Penn State (1995).
Before that, Bo Jackson (1986). https://t.co/5sV4Y7FPpc
— Josh Norris (@JoshNorris) November 2, 2017
JaMarcus Russell, 2007
The story of Jamarcus Russell is one of unfortunate circumstances.
He was the top quarterback prospect in a draft class absolutely loaded with future stars.
At the 2007 LSU Pro Day, QB JaMarcus Russell showed off his arm, leading one notable analyst to say that Russell's Pro Day was the best ever for any QB
The Raiders were convinced and selected him 1st overall in the 2007 #NFLDraft ahead of #2 Calvin Johnson & #3 Joe Thomas
— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) March 12, 2020
Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas, Adrian Peterson, Patrick Willis, Marshawn Lynch, and Darrelle Revis all went within the first 15 picks.
However, there was no other direction for the Oakland Raiders, who owned the worst quarterback room in the league.
Lane Kiffin actually wanted to take Megatron with the first overall pick, but the late Al Davis was too smitten with Russell to be convinced otherwise.
The Raiders were in desperate need of a franchise signal-caller after their carousel of quarterbacks combined for just 2,850 passing yards, seven touchdowns, and 24 interceptions the year prior.
Russell's combination of physical traits and steady development at LSU made him all the more enticing.
He did not have the gaudiest statistics in college, but his 6'5″ frame with a cannon arm made scouts drool.
His career got off to a rocky start when he missed the entirety of training camp and the first week of the regular season due to a contract dispute.
Russell also struggled with his work ethic and failed to put in the time and effort to elevate his game.
As a result, Russell never earned the trust of the coaching staff and left the team wishing for a mulligan.
In 31 games across three seasons with the Raiders, Russell recorded 4,803 yards,18 touchdowns, and 23 interceptions.
While he had the tools to establish himself as an elite player, he will ultimately go down as one of the biggest busts ever.
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The Disappearance of Jolissa Fuentes
Updated October 13, 2022 ; Posted September 12, 2022
Name: Jolissa Nicole Fuentes
Last seen: August 7, 2022
Location: Selma, California
Status: Found deceased on October 11, 2022
22-year-old Jolissa Fuentes was last seen in Selma, California on August 7, 2022. She disappeared after leaving a friend's party in the early morning hours and making some purchases at a convenience store.
Jolissa Nicole Fuentes was born on February 8, 2000, in Selma, California, to parents Norma Nunez and Joey Fuentes. She grew up with four siblings, three younger brothers and an older sister, in Selma, California.
At the time of her disappearance, Fuentes was living at her grandmother's house in Selma, California and worked in a packaging warehouse.
Fuentes enjoyed the outdoors and often visited the lakes in the area to watch the scenery. She is described as family oriented and hardworking.
On August 6, 2022, Jolissa Fuentes attended a close friend's family gathering at 8:00 pm. Jolissa left the party between 3:00 – 3:30 am on August 7, then returned to her grandmother's home.
Shortly after returning home Jolissa made a phone call to her brother, who was in Fresno at the time, saying she was going to buy a wrap and smoke by herself. She grabbed some money and belongings before heading out again.
At 3:59 am, Fuentes' sister, who was in Los Angeles at the time and asleep, received a missed call from Jolissa.
At 4:06 am, Jolissa was captured on security camera purchasing a few items from an Arco AM/PM convenience store on Highland and Nebraska Avenue.
Jolissa was last seen getting in her vehicle, a Grey 2011 Hyundai Accent with tinted rear windows and California license plate #8MPU766, before driving westbound onto Nebraska Avenue.
Fuentes's sister had two missed video calls from Jolissa at 5:24 am, made back to back via Facebook messenger. Later that morning her grandmother tried to contact her by phone at 9:00 am, but Jolissa never answered.
Jolissa Fuentes never showed up to work the next day and hasn't been heard from since. At 7:00 pm on August 7, 2022, her family filed a missing person's report with the Selma Police Department when they couldn't contact her.
Jolissa Fuentes disappeared along with her car and cell phone, which last pinged to a cell tower in an area north of Selma, near Pine Flat and Avocado Lake, about thirty minutes away from the gas station where she was last seen.
Authorities conducted an extensive search of the area with the help of helicopters, drones, ground and dive teams, but found no signs of Jolissa.
According to her family, Jolissa may have driven to a rural area east of Selma, that has orchards and vineyards, where she typically spent time to clear her head after her best friend tragically died after being shot during an altercation at a party in 2019.
The volunteer dive team Adventures With Purpose joined the search for Jolissa in late August, searching areas in Avocado Lake, Pine Flat Lake and Winton Park.
Most of the physical searches have been in Fresno county, but authorities say they've received tips from as far away as New Mexico.
There has been no activity on Jolissa's phone, bank account, or social media since she disappeared.
Jolissa Fuentes Found Deceased
On October 11, 2022, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office announced Jolissa Fuentes had been found deceased. Her body was recovered from a ravine near Pine Flat Lake.
The discovery was made after officials found evidence that Jolissa's car went off the roadway on Trimmer Springs Road near Pine Flat Lake.
The cause of the accident remains unknown, but authorities say they believe Jolissa was most likely tired after being up for most of the night. The investigation into the accident is ongoing.
Hispanic/Latino female born on February 8, 2000. Jolissa has brown hair, brown eyes, stands 5'3 tall and weighs 180 – 230 pounds.
Jolissa was last seen wearing a white Nike Tank top, gray shorts and black Nike slides. She was wearing a necklace with a cross and had a black Michael Kors backpack purse with her.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Jolissa Nicole Fuentes please contact the Selma Police Department at (559) 896-2525..
Jolissa Nicole Fuentes #MP94645 – National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Jolissa Nicole Fuentes – State of California – Department of Justice – Office of the Attorney General
Find Jolissa Fuentes – Facebook
Jolissa Fuentes – Facebook
Bring Jolissa Home Safe – Go Fund Me
A 22-year-old went missing in California 3 weeks ago. Police are now treating it as a criminal matter – CNN 08/22
Adventures with Purpose searching for Jolissa Fuentes – Your Central Valley 08/22
Search for missing California woman Jolissa Fuentes is now a criminal investigation, police say – NBC News 08/22
Family pleads for help finding missing Selma woman, offers $2,000 reward – FOX26 News 08/22
Missing Jolissa Fuentes' family pleads for help: 'We think someone took her against her will' – Fox News 08/22
Loved ones searching for 22-year-old Jolissa Fuentes who disappeared in Selma, California on August 7 – NBC News 09/22
Authorities Update on Missing Selma Woman Jolissa Fuentes – Your Central Valley 10/22
via Find Jolissa Fuentes
Filed Under: Solved Tagged With: 2022, California, Found Deceased


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Grønlændertruppen MIK (eller blot MIK) var en sang- og dansegruppe fra Grønland, der blev skabt i 1961 af daværende programsekretær i DR, Knud Wissum. Gruppens medlemmer blev rekrutteret blandt unge studerende i København og talte adskillige senere nøglepersoner inden for grønlandsk politik og samfundsliv: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Otto Steenholdt, Jens Peter Rosing og Sofie Heinrich.

Gruppen havde en beskeden start med 8 medlemmer samt en violinist. I løbet af 4 år blev gruppen udvidet til 24 samt Henry Hansens spillemandskvartet.

MIK fik status af Grønlands Radios kor i København og blev landskendt gennem radio, tv og grammofonplader. Gruppen betragtedes som gode ambassadører for rigsfællesskabet og rejste med støtte fra tre ministerier til mange europæiske lande samt Grønland og USA.

I 1964 optrådte MIK på Danmarks Dag under Verdensudstillingen i New York, samt ved afsløringen af H. C. Andersen-statuen i Central Park i samarbejde med Preben Uglebjerg, Helle Virkner og Jens Otto Krag.

Musikgrupper fra Grønland
Musikgrupper fra 1961

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Israeli Navy Officers said Hezbollah has already deployed the Russian cruise missile, Yakhont, with a range of 300 kilometers and capable of striking Israel's entire Mediterranean coast, World Tribune reported.
Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister, Samir Moqbel, on Wednesday assumed his new post as the Minister of National Defense, in a handover ceremony held at the Ministry, in presence of Army Chief, General Jean Qahwaji.
Italy will keep the same number of its peacekeepers in South Lebanon, Italian Defense Minister Mario Mauro said Thursday, as he voiced his country's readiness to provide military assistance if needed.


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Adam Graham Giles (born 10 April 1973) is an Australian former politician and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013-2016) as well as the former leader of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Giles was the first head of government in Australia to have Indigenous Australian ancestry
If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.
Adam Giles
#Territory
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
#Cook #Pastry #Worked


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Q: PHP try-catch not recognized on command-line? (Trying to install Composer) I am trying to install Composer (http://getcomposer.org/download/) on a GoDaddy-hosted Linux server but it's not working.  No matter which method I try, I eventually run up against some version of the following error:
Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '{' on line 290.
Line 290 refers to line 290 in this file: https://getcomposer.org/installer which is the start of a try-catch block.  And, indeed, even a simple script like:
echo '<?php echo "Hello World "; try {echo "Goodbye";} catch (Exception $e) {} ?>' | php

produces the same type of syntax error (forgive the awkward piping.  GoDaddy doesn't seem to like the -r option).
Similarly, if I put that code in a file "argh.php" and run php -f argh.php I get a syntax error, but it will work just fine if I visit the page in my browser.
Does anybody know why php keeps choking on the try-catch block OR any other way I can install Composer? (P.S., I am using PHP 5.3)

A: echo '<?php echo "Hello World "; try {echo "Goodbye";} catch (Exception $e) {} ?>' | /web/cgi-bin/php5

works just fine.  So I am just dumb.  I will try installing Composer using /web/cgi-bin/php5 now and see what happens.

A: Since the hidden answer in the comments seems to get overlooked:
The php command on the command line is an old PHP version (4.x) which does not support the same syntax. The host may offer various PHP versions installed in parallel, with newer versions being available as php5, php53, php5.3, /web/cgi-bin/php5 or some such alternative executable. Consult your host's documentation.

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/**
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class InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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    /**
     * Set nombreFecha1
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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     * Get nombreFecha1
     *
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    /**
     * Set requiereFecha2
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        $this->requiereFecha2 = $requiereFecha2;

        return $this;
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     * Get requiereFecha2
     *
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    /**
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        $this->nombreFecha2 = $nombreFecha2;

        return $this;
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     * Get nombreFecha2
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    /**
     * Set requiereFormaPago
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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     * Set requiereDireccion
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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        return $this;
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     * Get manejaLote
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     * @return boolean
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    {
        return $this->manejaLote;
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    /**
     * Set manejaBodega
     *
     * @param boolean $manejaBodega
     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
     */
    public function setManejaBodega($manejaBodega)
    {
        $this->manejaBodega = $manejaBodega;

        return $this;
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     * Get manejaBodega
     *
     * @return boolean
     */
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    {
        return $this->manejaBodega;
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    /**
     * Set editarLote
     *
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
     */
    public function setEditarLote($editarLote)
    {
        $this->editarLote = $editarLote;

        return $this;
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     * Get editarLote
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    {
        return $this->editarLote;
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    /**
     * Set editarCantidad
     *
     * @param boolean $editarCantidad
     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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    {
        $this->editarCantidad = $editarCantidad;

        return $this;
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    /**
     * Get editarCantidad
     *
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    {
        return $this->editarCantidad;
    }

    /**
     * Set editarDescuento
     *
     * @param boolean $editarDescuento
     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
     */
    public function setEditarDescuento($editarDescuento)
    {
        $this->editarDescuento = $editarDescuento;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get editarDescuento
     *
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function getEditarDescuento()
    {
        return $this->editarDescuento;
    }

    /**
     * Set editarPrecio
     *
     * @param boolean $editarPrecio
     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
     */
    public function setEditarPrecio($editarPrecio)
    {
        $this->editarPrecio = $editarPrecio;

        return $this;
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    /**
     * Get editarPrecio
     *
     * @return boolean
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    public function getEditarPrecio()
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    /**
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     * @return InvDocumentoConfiguracion
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    /**
     * Set agregarItem
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        $this->agregarItem = $agregarItem;

        return $this;
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     *
     * @return boolean
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    {
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Play The Summoning online. The Summoning is a new strategy game where you take control of evil necromancer and use its dark magic to put an end to the entire human race!
Zombies, dark minions, succubus, beholders and even the grant reaper himself are on your disposal! Combine your army with the casting dark spells such as: fire flames, fire and ice arrows, rain of meteors and others harmful spells and make sure to destroy all human force! After each completed level you will be able to review the book of destiny from which you can learn a new dark spell or resurrection of a new unit!
Use the mouse to produce units or cast spells. 1-9 number keys are the command shortcuts.


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2011 NAIAS to Feature 30-Plus Worldwide Debuts
December 28, 2010 • by Staff
DETROIT - The 23rd annual 2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) will feature 30-40 worldwide debuts from automotive manufacturers around the globe, including Audi, BMW, Chrysler, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
A ride-and-drive, sponsored by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) Town Square and DTE Energy, will present a test track featuring electric-drive and hybrid vehicles from leading domestic and import manufacturers. Such technologies to be featured include solar cars, charging stations, batteries, transit connect, rolling chassis, and alternative energies.
NAIAS dates:
Press Preview: Jan. 10-11, 2011
Industry Preview: Jan. 12-13, 2011
Charity Preview: Jan. 14, 2011
Public Show: Jan. 15-23, 2011
Toyota to Reveal Prius Family of Vehicles at NAIAS
Read more about Vehicle Debut Detroit Auto Show


In a well-lit room beneath the Belgian block of Nolita's Crosby Street, straps of leather hang from walls amid arcane tools for crimping, clipping, punching, and cutting metal. Tables glint with works in progress. Tumblers whir and polishing wheels scree. In the middle of all, the perennial symbol of the smith sits like a king. A young woman with startling blue eyes coos over it with adoration. "My sweet anvil," says Jill Platner, a jeweler whose prize tool reminds that, even in the heart of New York, sometimes you just can't reinvent the wheel.
A Massachusetts native, Jill came to Manhattan more than a decade ago to study at Parsons, where early on she was seduced by the Vulcan muse. Metalwork excited her, and though she worked on furniture and other objects—lamps, clocks, silverware—she found she was drawn to jewelry, and that others were drawn to hers. "It seemed like a way I could touch a lot of people," she says. And soon it was. Jill received her first order from Barneys New York while she was still in school, and almost immediately had to hire help to meet a burgeoning demand.
Years later, Jill's singular style and artisanal touch have earned her a dedicated clientele, celebrity fans, and stylist raves. While most jewelry goes for flash and bling, Jill's work has a reticent yet unmistakable strength. A sculptural precedence is given to form and texture, such that it seems natural when she cites Alexander Calder as an early influence alongside Native American and African cultures. Much of her inspiration comes from nature, and the delicate hammered surfaces she turns out can evoke wood, bone, and sea glass in one stroke. Animal, mineral, and vegetable titles populate her collections, but she's hardly above playfulness: Hopscotch and Pez bracelets appear next to Whale Freckle and Sprout.
Form is nothing without function, however, and Jill says the greatest question she asks of her pieces is "How does it feel when it's on your body?" This is why the bulk of her production takes place from May to August each year, when turtlenecks and wool coats hibernate. "I need skin and body because I'm always trying stuff on when I'm making it," she says.
At the workshop beneath her store, Jill works with three dedicated young ladies to bring her originals into production. They use techniques that can date back millennia, and the basics remain unchanged: heat, work, repeat. Lost wax casting is done off site, but all forging, soldering, and finishing is done on Crosby.
Most of Jill's work is done in silver, which she prefers for its sensuousness and workability—not to mention its value and hypoallergenic properties. "Babies can chew on it," she points out. For three years, though, she has been doing pieces in gold as well. While the fundamental processes of forging and casting remain the same, gold's cost and softness entail painstaking attention to detail. "It's very precious and you have to be super meticulous when you're working with it." All shavings are kept for recasting, and the different shades have to be worked with one at a time to prevent mixing.
Jill's gold work is unique on the market because she works exclusively in 19-karat gold, which is custom-made just for her. "I wanted to make something different that isn't commercially available. All the even numbers are standard," she says. On a deeper level, however, Jill indulges in a little magical thinking. "I like odd numbers" she confesses, "they just completely make sense to me," adding that many of her pieces contain odd numbers of components. Numerological quirks aside, 19-karat, which is a 79% gold and 21% platinum alloy, offers a balance of hardness, luster, and affordability that she would not be able to get from, say, 17- or 23-karat.
Today Jill's work can still be found at her retail location and at Barneys New York, as well as at select boutiques within the States, in Europe, and in Japan. Never a slave to the whims of the fashion markets, she plans on forging ahead to wherever her own sketches take her. "We're grassroots," she says, though at Refinery29, we like to think of her as a rare vein of precious talent.
For the past five years, designer Jill Platner has watched her once desolate Crosby Street transform from a barren stretch of dumpsters to a bustling thoroughfare of boutiques. The local color may have changed, but Jill's handmade silver and gold treasures have remained the same: organically inspired, sculptural, and timeless.


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Democratic superdonor Tom Steyer's use of tax shelters draws Romney comparisons
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By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist who is spending $100 million to help elect Democrats this fall, is rallying support for energy taxes that could impact everyday Americans. But when he ran his own hedge fund, Mr. Steyer sought to help wealthy clients legally avoid paying taxes, confidential investor memos show.
Mr. Steyer's strategy included establishing funds in tax havens like the Cayman Islands and Mauritius, and are reminiscent of the tactics used by former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during his career at Bain Capital — which was repeatedly savaged by Democrats during the 2012 election.
For instance, Mr. Steyer boasted to investors such as major universities that his hedge fund, Farallon Capital Management LLC, had a "desire not to earn income which would be taxable to our tax-exempt investors," one internal memo reviewed by The Washington Times showed.
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Mr. Steyer also helped his firm's wealthy clientele avoid the highest of U.S. taxes and penalties by establishing arcane tax shelters such as blocker corporations — tactics most Americans have never heard of or used.
The tax avoidance memos could complicate Democrats' efforts to run populist, middle-class targeted campaigns this fall to retain control of the Senate by reminding voters that one of their biggest political benefactors is a classic "one percenter" who made his reported $1.6 billion fortune by helping others avoid paying taxes.
Conservatives already are sharpening their attack lines.
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"To me, the most astonishing aspect of this is the Democrats' reliance on this guy. While Harry Reid is on the floor of the Senate lambasting out-of-state billionaires for funding political activities, he has no problem using their money when it comes to his purposes. There's a totally absurd disconnect," said Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, a free market public policy group, who also has written on Mr. Steyer's business dealings. "They're criticizing the use of dark money, but Steyer's money is about as dark as it comes."
Now a political activist who left his hedge fund in 2012, Mr. Steyer is pushing for a variety of new taxes on the energy sector. In California, Mr. Steyer supports an oil extraction tax, and he is funding politicians who support taxing carbon, including Sen. Mark Udall, Colorado Democrat.
Mr. Steyer also has been a vocal advocate for cap-and-trade measures and has helped fund a defense of California's climate change law. Industry advocates say such measures necessarily raise energy costs, which are passed on to consumers.
While at Farallon, however, Mr. Steyer used loopholes in U.S. tax regulations to produce maximum returns for his elite clientele. That included using tax havens in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Mauritius, "where there are no regulations at all, no call for transparency, and have little to no income tax rates," said Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington.
Religious conversion
Mr. Steyer, through his political action committee, declined to comment.
A spokesman from Farallon Capital also declined a request for comment from The Times. Farallon was notified of the content of the investor documents obtained by the Washington Times and didn't object to it as inauthentic or fraudulent.
The billionaire has said little publicly about his hedge fund days, even after newspapers such as The New York Times questioned why he once was heavily invested in fossil fuels, an industry that conflicts with his environmental positions.
One of his few rebuttals to the criticisms, however, came in the form of a blog post late last month in which Mr. Steyer claimed to have undergone a political conversion of self-described biblical proportions when he stepped down from Farallon in 2012 to launch his environmental movement.
"My version of a Paul on the Road to Damascus conversion on the issue was the result of continuing to learn more about the devastating impacts of climate change and as the scientific evidence became clearer, I realized I could no longer remain at my company — not when it meant supporting investments in the fossil fuel industry," Mr. Steyer wrote June 25.
In an op-ed published this week in Politico, Mr. Steyer acknowledged Farallon's investment in fossil fuels but said he has divested all his personal fossil-fuel holdings since leaving the hedge fund.
"I left the firm and committed myself to addressing global climate change because — based on the scientific evidence — I could not reconcile my personal values with managing a fund that by mandate is invested in all sectors of the global economy, including fossil fuels," Mr. Steyer wrote in the July 14 article.
He added: "To prevent any possible conflict of interest, I no longer own any stake in Farallon or have any influence over its actions."
Mr. Steyer didn't address any tax issues in the op-ed. He also has declined to say whether his former firm is managing any of his personal money.
Romney and offshore politics
The mystery, intrigue and potential conflicts for Mr. Steyer's image as a populist environmental crusader could become grist for Republicans hoping to blunt the impact of his spending during the campaign season.
When Mr. Romney was running for president two years ago, Mr. Reid, the Senate majority leader, created a firestorm in the national media by blasting Mr. Romney on the chamber floor for not having paid U.S. taxes in a decade.
Mr. Reid never disclosed where he obtained that information and told reporters that they were the ones who should check out the claim. One of President Obama's attack ads at the time, however, provided a world map pointing to the tax havens in Bermuda, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, where Mr. Romney owned assets.
Mr. Obama's online ad questioned: "Has Mitt Romney avoided U.S. taxes by investing millions in tax havens? We'll never know, because he won't release his records."
Mr. Steyer, through his representatives, also declined to release his tax records to The Times.
Farallon's empire while Mr. Steyer was at the helm consisted of almost 200 corporations, partnerships and LLCs set up in different locations, including the Cayman Islands, Singapore, and Mauritius. All are known tax havens. In the Cayman Islands, for instance, confidentiality law states that a person can be imprisoned up to four years just for inquiring about a fund's underlying assets.
In 2000, Mr. Steyer's hedge fund established Farallon Capital Offshore Investors Inc. in the British Virgin Islands. One of the aims of the fund was to attract investment from deep-pocketed institutions, such as university endowments and pension plans. Although these are generally tax-exempt, they are liable for taxes on "unrelated business taxable income" if they put money into funds that use debt financing to make investments, which is commonly referred to in the industry as leverage.
Farallon Capital Offshore Investors was used to help investors potentially reap the gains of debt-financed gambles while avoiding the taxes. In the industry, it's known as a "blocker corporation." The fund, in essence, became a conduit for institutional investors, as well as foreign investors, looking to avoid U.S. taxes.
Memos tout lack of taxes
In a memo to investors, Mr. Steyer explained how the newly established offshore fund would allow its tax-exempt limited partners to make leveraged investments while avoiding taxes.
"Since inception, [Farallon's flagship fund for tax-exempt organizations] generally has not utilized overall portfolio leverage in its investment program. This practice has followed from our desire not to earn income, which would be taxable to our tax-exempt investors as Unrelated Business Taxable Income ("UBTI")," he wrote.
"We would now like to give [tax-exempt institutional investors] the benefits of leverage, without generating UBTI. This can be accomplished indirectly through an investment by [Farallon's flagship fund for tax-exempt organizations] of cash and/or a portion of its assets into FCOI, a British Virgin Islands corporation."
The October 2000 memo was obtained and made public by Yale University students who were protesting the fact that Farallon was managing part of their school's endowment.
The group's website, called Unfarallon where the memo was posted, subsequently has been removed from the Internet.
"Many universities hold billions of dollars in hedge funds and private equity investments that have little regulation, transparency, or accountability," wrote Amanda Ciafone, one of the group's organizers. "In one of the largest of these funds run by Farallon Capital Management, researchers uncovered the economic, social, political, and environmental destructiveness of their university's capital."
Mr. Steyer used offshore accounts to attract wealthy investors by insulating them from foreign taxes and to enable Farallon-owned companies to sidestep certain taxes.
In 2005, Farallon opened a fund for primarily foreign investors called FOIC II Holdings — this one based in the Cayman Islands, and called for a minimum $5 million investment from clients. By basing the fund in the Cayman Islands, foreign investors could avoid the vast majority of U.S. taxes and complexities of the tax code.
Nearly a quarter of the pages in the 87-page investment document have some mention of tax strategy, regulations or risks for potential investors and for the fund itself.
The fund advertised in its prospectus to the ultra-elite who were able to afford buy-in: "Based on the Partnership's organizational structure [it] generally should not be subject to U.S. federal income tax gains from trading in securities and commodities. In addition, interest from U.S. sources earned on bank deposits and 'portfolio interest' as defined under the U.S. IRS code of 1986, as amended, are not subject to withholding for U.S. federal income tax."
It went on to mention, just as a reminder to potential clients: "There are no income, corporation, capital gains or other taxes in effect in the Cayman Islands."
Structuring a hedge fund to include many foreign feeder funds — in tax-friendly and regulation-light countries — is a fairly common way to help investors avoid U.S. levies, said David Miller, a tax lawyer and partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York.
"Foreign feeder funds are often used to reduce tax liability for specific classes of investors, such as U.S. taxable investors, U.S. tax-exempt investors, and foreign investors," Mr. Miller wrote in a white paper evaluating the structure of hedge funds. "Increasingly, U.S. taxable investors may find their effective tax rate minimized by investing through a foreign feeder fund."
Congress has left loopholes in U.S. tax code that allow this tax avoidance, which forces ordinary Americans to make up the difference, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, a nonprofit think tank in Washington.
Every dollar in taxes that corporations avoid by using tax havens must be balanced by higher taxes on individuals, cuts to public investments and public services, or increased federal debt, the group says.
"If small business owners were to pick up the full tab for offshore tax avoidance by multinationals, they would each have had to pay an estimated $3,206 in additional taxes last year," according to a report by the group, titled "Offshore Shell Games 2014," released in June.
Most offshore corporate subsidiaries are "often shell companies with few, if any employees, and which engage in little to no real business activity," the group wrote.
Obama, taxation and Steyer
In a speech shortly after being elected president, Mr. Obama said most Americans paid taxes as "an obligation of citizenship," but some businesses and rich people were "shirking" their duties, "aided and abetted by a broken tax system, written by well-connected lobbyists on behalf of well-heeled interests and individuals."
The president and Democrats in Congress called for a revision of tax law. The administration, at the time, said it could raise $86.5 billion by ending a practice in which companies create foreign subsidiaries to shift income in ways that avoid taxes. Separate steps to crack down on wealthy individuals would raise nearly $9 billion.
The U.S. has "a tax code full of corporate loopholes that makes it perfectly legal for companies to avoid paying their fair share. It's a tax code that makes it all too easy for a number — a small number of individuals and companies to abuse overseas tax havens to avoid paying any taxes at all," Mr. Obama said at the time.
Such tax reform has not advanced, and the president — who is able to single-handedly take a swipe at the so-called carried interest loophole by asking the IRS for a new ruling on the matter — has chosen, for the time being, to remain silent. He has, however, invited Mr. Steyer, as recently as June 25, to visit the White House to talk about environmental initiatives.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have taken notice.
A top Senate Republican aide criticized Mr. Steyer's access to the White House and blasted Mr. Reid's chastising of conservative donors, especially the Koch brothers, on their political influence while leaving Mr. Steyer out of the equation.
"Sen. Reid will attack [Mr. Steyer's] billionaire's access to politicians, right?" Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, posted on Twitter. Mr. Reid "is totally cool with this," Mr. Stewart added smugly.


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We've known the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell has been coming for some time, and it was already revealed in Frankfurt last year. But we're learning more about the tech this SUV will pack. Mainly, Mercedes-Benz is forging ahead with hydrogen fuel cells in a way we haven't seen before. While you can fill up the hydrogen tanks at a station, the German automaker has supplied another way to replenish the batteries.
There's a plug in the rear, just like with a hybrid or electric vehicle. That way if you can't reach one of the very few hydrogen stations out there, you can always simply recharge the battery using the grid. It's a pretty simple and genius way to make fuel cell vehicles more practical.
For now, the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell will only be available to select customers in Germany. It's common to limit the use of experimental technologies, allowing automakers to study how everything holds up in the hands of actual consumers and not highly trained engineers.
Currently, there are about 50 hydrogen fueling stations in Germany. Daimler is seeking to double that number by the end of next year, then shoot for 400 stations. Considering this is happening in a nation where diesel power has been highly favored, this development is huge.


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ReferralNet Services enhancement for new Agent, fixed new Event 'Manual'for SMD.
Referralnet Application UI upgrade,Updated Org default notification with Manifest weekly and removed for users.
ReferralNet Services bug fixes(Nightly job,Natural Search,Duplicate Interactions).
ReferralNet Services enhancement for new Agent, Added new Event 'Manual'.
Referralnet Application UI upgrade, to show more meaningful messages for sender and receiver on Messaging UI.
To improve performance of Referralnet Hub.
To improve UI of Referralnet Hub Application.
Enhancements and fixes to SMD message delivery process.
Deployment of new ReferralNet agent.
Enhancements and fixes to directory lookup for Argus users to enable ReferralNet-Argus interop.
Enhancements to support new ReferralNetAgent to Referralnet services websocket mode of communication and also notification process.
Automatic refresh of ReferralNet Hub dashboard filter dropdown list to reflect latest year values.
Enhancements to Admin API to support 'clinical system' information at user creation.
Enhancements to Admin API to return discipline codes along with discipline names.
Added the ability to specify a different email id for while resending activation email.
Fixed an issue where email template used for resending activation token was different than the original email.
Message history now displays 100 messages in message history.
Admin API enhancements to simplify programmatic user creation.
Admin API enhancements to allow disabling a user programmatically.
ReferralNet API enhancements to allow issuing new certificates.
Ability to search for Argus users on NHSD network using Name, Email id, EID etc.
Ability to issue new certificates from the web pages. Such certificates are compatible for SMD interop with Argus.
API enhancements to allow resolving a user id to messaging id for hidden users too.
Fix for an issue where ReferralNet Agent was failing to send letters to ReferralNet users with underscore in username.
Added the ability to exchange messages with Argus via SMD without the need of NASH certificates and HPI-O. Vendor issued certificates and vendor issued IDs are now supported in SMD with Argus.
Fixed the issue in saving user profile and creating new users with emails that have multiple Medicare certificate identified with it.
Mandatory fields (given name, surname) validations enabled on user creation.
Updated the validation message when creating a new organisation for the address fields.
Latitude and longitude are now being saved on profile updates and user creation.
Added User Location page for Admins, Support and Domain Admins.
Certificate issuer is displayed for uploaded certificates with no CN field.
Outage Notification can send to a maximum of 5000 emails.
Removed the warning "Unsaved Changes" after the user profile has been saved.
Whitespaces are trimmed off from usernames when creating new users or updating a user profile.
Different user profile tabs no longer display as blank after saving.
Fixed issue with non-responsive pages when a non-admin/support user logs in.
Adding new domains won't throw the error "Invalid domain 'xxxxxx'"
added "Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon"
rename "Specialist Physician (General Medicine)" to "Specialist General Practitioner"
Changed the save process in the profile page. All changes in tabs will only get saved once the user clicks the main SAVE button on the profile page.
Update of dependent software and runtimes.
Improve delivery retry mechanism for SMD messages.
Improve processing of expired SMD messages.
Improve the handling of expired users and subscriptions.
Correctly credit users when notifications are unscheduled.
Updated charts to be interactive, using Google Charts SVG.
Display the most recent SMS / email notifications for a user.
Added 'Remember Me' functionality to login.
Restored ability to edit non-activated accounts.
Optimized the saving of subscriptions.
Optimized notification list display (removed harcoding).
Optimized profile page loading (no certificate pre-loaded).
Provided a notification when a user's credit runs low.
Provided a notification option for planned system outages.
Provided a manual download of Agent modules.
Fixed bug on search display after changing the organisation of an account.
Fixed bug for duplicate organisation names on search result.
Provided the other user's name when entering duplicate alternate id (HPIO, etc).
Improved user editing for admin and support users.
Improved input validation (username, organisation name).
Allow for additional metadata for each user.
Improve handling of external ELS responses.
Allowed users to subscribe to manifest reports.
Provided further details of recent messages.
Allowed configuration of fax receiving details.
Improved handling of NASH certificates.
Restored the ability to resend activation tokens.
Added Other User Information tab.
Fixed bug for growing list of certificates.
System message functionality for admins to display short message on page header.
Displayed disabled accounts when doing search for support / admin (by default).
Non-activated accounts are editable by support / admin.
Only support and admin are not allowed to delete service categories.
Ignored case sensitivity of usernames on login.
Displayed invocation id for SMD messages.
Entity model extension and enhancements.
Deprecation of groups, replaced with domain concept.
Significant upgrade of underlying architectural components.
Initial phase of SMD readiness.
Added support for a correspondence email address.
User registration page has been modified to support this additional address.
Added ability for group administrators to change notification settings on their users' behalf.
Added support for three new additional event notifications.
Added a users' comment field.
Resolved issues where multiple certificates using the same email address are bound to the same person in Medicare.
Certificates are tracked by serial number.
Improved the provider search results when interrogating the Medicare certificate repository.
Now displays all emails and certificates instead of just the first one.
Added support for message forwarding.
Added support for hiding accounts from recipient lists.
Added support for blocking messages with user definable comments.
Added support for warning messages with user definable comments.
Medical Director places documents without specific classifications into the Results tab.
ReferralNet now classifies referrals so that they appear in the Letters tab within Medical Director by setting the OBR/4/2 HL7 field.
If more than one certificate on Medicare matches the user's email address, you will be prompted to select the appropriate certificate from a list.
Added telephone number to the contact us web page and also to the new registration support email.
The "Provider Number" column displayed within the Medicare provider search facility has been dropped.
Added a "Download" page with links to installers for various clients (Agent, Word Plug-in, etc).


There have been many online posts made about making a summer bucket list. I was inspired to make my own a couple of years ago. Apparently I was feeling quite unadventurous, because there were only three things on it, and one of them I never completed.
So this summer, I went all out. I didn't even write it until July. Because it was so late in the summer, I included things on it that I had already done, but would definitely have been on there if I'd made the list in May.
My list isn't fancy, it's not a printable done in watercolor, and as of this point, there are very few summer days left. But I wanted to share what I did to inspire any of you that want to create a seasonal bucket list (I totally intend to make one for fall!).
I wanted mine to be available on my phone and have a box that I could actually check. The Notes app on my iPhone works nicely for this, because I could type it out using my keyboard on my computer (I hate typing on my phone) but it would sync so I could check it when out and about.
I think Evernote would also work nicely for this purpose, since it has desktop and phone/tablet apps.
It may have been a little ambitious after my last three-item attempt, but I've done lots of fun things, and SUMMER ISN'T OVER! We are adamant in our family that September is a mostly-summer month.
This list is mainly meant for me and for activities for my family to do with me. I didn't make a list for my kids, but they're happy to help me check things off.
Kelle Hampton is fabulous at doing bucket lists, and if you'd like a printable, get on her mailing list. I imagine she will have one for fall coming up soon! Also, browse Pinterest for ideas. There are a lot on there.
Do you make a summer bucket list? Have you done any of the things on mine this year? If you have a post about it, please feel free to share!


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Emergency Hearings for Florida Child Custody Lawyer
Child custody hearings can be a gruelingly slow process. But sometimes, there may be justification to file for an emergency hearing if there's reason to believe the child may be in danger.
Emergency relief is fairly rare and the reason for the relief must be a really good one because it deprives the opposing party of their rights. As such, you must be able to show that the child is in imminent danger from an immediate threat of irreparable harm or injury and that the child's right not to be threatened in that way outweighs the parent's rights.
Emergency relief shouldn't be used for minor disputes over existing custody arrangements. It's intended for circumstances in which the child is in jeopardy or danger. What constitutes a legitimate reason for an emergency hearing varies from state to state, but is usually very strict. In Florida, these reasons include (but are not limited to) things like recent evidence of child abuse or neglect or threats of the same, abandonment of the children and substance abuse.
How to Get an Emergency Hearing
In order to get emergency relief, someone has to petition the court for a hearing. Most often, the other parent does this, but other family members may be allowed to file in some circumstances. To know for sure, you'd have to discuss it with an attorney. If you're the child's father, but haven't established paternity, you'll also want to contact an attorney immediately. In general, we recommend using an attorney for these petitions regardless because the point is the welfare of your children, so a lawyer gives you the best chance.
What you should not do unless the child is in immediate life-threatening danger is simply take the child or you may find yourself in hot water too. If you do feel you need to take the child, it's recommended that you contact the police for assistance rather than putting yourself or your children in more danger. Even if they determine the threat isn't as immediate as you believe it to be, you'll at least have a police report.
What Happens at a Hearing
An emergency hearing for temporary relief of an immediate problem. The court will not hear all custody-related matters. Instead, your lawyer will present your evidence that the other parent is putting the child in danger. Evidence may include police reports or reports from child protective services, medical records (for the child or the accused parent), testimony from witnesses and anything else your lawyer believes prove your case. The court may also request a more thorough investigation by having psychologists or other experts interview or examine the child and make recommendations. Every case is unique.
Rulings and Temporary Orders
When all the evidence has been presented, the court may issue a temporary order pending a full trial if it's in the best interest of the child. That order's contents will depend on the situation. It may include transferring custody to another parent or family member, ordering parenting classes or anger management and whatever else the judge thinks is relevant. Note that this ruling is temporary. That doesn't mean you'll lose custody, only that the court may later determine the threat no longer exists. The offending spouse may even be given visitation during the temporary order depending on the nature of the allegations.
What to Expect at the Full Trial
Once the full trial occurs, the temporary order will be terminated, changed or modified in accordance with the court's decision. For example, if you obtained temporary sole custody due to your ex-spouse's drug habit and your ex can provide compelling evidence that they've received treatment and are now clean, the judge may allow joint custody or visitation rights. Remember that in the state of Florida (and any other state for that matter), what's in the best interest of the child is what's at issue when the decision is made. Unless doing so would pose a serious danger, it's typically considered to be in the best interest of the child to have a relationship with both parents.
How to Know If an Emergency Hearing is the Right Move
Simply put, contact a family law attorney. As we mentioned, emergency relief is rare and it's best to have an expert on your side if you truly believe your child is in danger. If that's the case, contact the Kissimmee, Florida child custody lawyers at Draper Law Offices at 866-767-4711 for a free, no-obligation consultation.
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Embraer Announces a Contract with Overland Airways for Up to Six E175s
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Embraer announced, at the Dubai Air Show, a firm order for three new E175, plus three purchase rights for the same model of aircraft, with Overland Airways, from Nigeria. The 88-seat aircraft, with premium class cabin configuration, will be delivered from 2023. The deal is worth at USD 299.4 million, at list price with all purchase rights being exercised.
These aircraft will increase the domestic flights and allow to expand more regional routes. The president and CEO of Overland Airways, Capt. Edward Boyo, said: "We are confident that this is the right moment to invest, as regional aviation is on an optimistic post-pandemic recovery. Our customers will really enjoy all comfort in the E175, and we appreciate our partnership with Embraer."
Cesar Pereira, Vice-president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Embraer Commercial Aviation said: "We are proud of this partnership with Overland and to support their regional expansion. We are seeing growing long-term demand for rightsized aircraft to deliver profitable domestic connections in Nigeria."
During the pandemic, the E175 has been a vital tool for many regional airlines, as they are perfectly suited to rebuilding network, enhancing frequencies and efficiently adding capacity to meet demand that has been gradually recovering.
Overland Airways operates from Nigeria across West Africa providing scheduled and charter flight services. The Airline commenced flights in 2002 with the aim of increasing the prosperity of the Nigerian hinterland by providing seamless and reliable air transportation of business and leisure travelers and interconnecting hub cities and remote economies. The Airline is IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) certified, and Member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA)' the association of leading global airlines that control over 83% of scheduled global traffic.
A global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil, Embraer has businesses in Commercial and Executive aviation, Defense & Security and Agricultural Aviation. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets aircraft and systems, providing Services & Support to customers after-sales.
Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. On average, about every 10 seconds an aircraft manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world, transporting over 145 million passengers a year.
Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats and the main exporter of high value-added goods in Brazil. The company maintains industrial units, offices, service and parts distribution centers, among other activities, across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.
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