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Spring Branch Management District's mission is to positively impact public safety, business development, environmental and urban design, and mobility and transportation to facilitate profitability, promote the redevelopment and growth of the area, and to help create an environment attractive to business.
Ongoing programs spearheaded by the Spring Branch Management District include working with the apartment complexes and multifamily residential units to promote public safety awareness, providing S.E.A.L. Security patrols to enhance security, removing graffiti from public and private property, maintaining various landscapes throughout the district, removing bandit signs, and cleaning up heavy trash dump sites.
Rich with diverse culture and history, Spring Branch is uniquely situated to provide resources and quality of life for businesses and residents alike.
Spring Branch began as a religious community settled by German farmers, many of whom owned dairies. The earliest settler was Karl Kolbe, who arrived from Germany in 1830 and settled on the banks of Spring Branch where it joined Buffalo Bayou, nine miles from Houston. In 1848 farmers cleared the surrounding forestland for farms and built St. Peter's United Church with lumber set aside from one of three local sawmills on a site donated by the Bauer family, who owned the mill. The Spring Branch School Society, sponsored by the church in 1856, would eventually become the Spring Branch Independent School District.
In the mid-1950s, when efforts to form a corporation known as Spring Branch failed, a group of affluent communities known as the Villages, including Hedwig Village, Bunker Hill, Piney Point, Hunter's Creek, Spring Valley, and Hillshire Village, were formed from the town and its surrounding area.
While Spring Branch has undergone many changes through the years, many of the streets in the Spring Branch and Memorial area bear the names of the first settlers to Spring Branch: Kolbe, Hillendahl, Bauer, Schroeder, Hedwig, Sauer, Witte, Campbell, Look, Tappenback, Beinhorn, Rummel, Clay, Ojeman, Oberpriller, Telchow, Tendler, Mueller, Neuen, Kuhlman, Bingle, Reidel, Reichart, Beutel, Pech, Burkhardt, Emnora, Fredrich, Hufmeister, Weiman and Koehn.
Today, Spring Branch is home to a diverse and growing population bound together by their love of the neighborhood and all it has to offer.


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For the Week Ending September 28, 2018
U.S., JAPAN TO BEGIN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT TALKS
Advancing one of NPPC's top trade policy priorities, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the United States would begin trade talks with Japan, the U.S. pork industry's No. 1 value market, importing in 2017 more than $1.6 billion of U.S. pork. This positive development comes at a time when U.S. pork is at risk of losing market share because of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP minus the United States) trade agreement and an agreement Japan has negotiated with the European Union. These deals are set to become effective early next year.
U.S., MEXICO TO MOVE FORWARD WITH TRADE AGREEMENT
The Trump administration this week reiterated its intention to provide to Congress by Sept. 30 the text of the trade agreement with Mexico. The administration has indicated that it will go ahead with a deal whether Canada is included or not. NPPC strongly supports the trade deal with Mexico and is optimistic that Canada will sign onto the agreement. NPPC also continues to advocate for a quick resolution to the aluminum and steel issues with Mexico so that country will drop its punitive 20 percent tariff on U.S. pork.
U.S., KOREA SIGN REVISED TRADE DEAL
The United States and South Korea this week signed a revised free trade agreement between the countries. Since the Trump administration initiated a renegotiation of the agreement last year, NPPC strongly advocated for maintaining the favorable terms enjoyed by U.S. agriculture, including zero-tariff access for pork. These terms are maintained in the new agreement. Last year, the United States shipped $475 million of pork to South Korea – a 30 percent increase over 2016 – making it the No. 5 U.S. pork export market.
LISTENING SESSIONS ON CHANGES TO TRUCKING RULES SET
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will hold two public listening sessions on possible changes to the Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules that govern some truck drivers. The regulations limit certain commercial truckers to 11 hours of driving time and 14 consecutive hours of on-duty time in any 24-hour period. Once drivers reach that limit, they must pull over and wait 10 hours before driving again. FMCSA previously requested comments on changes related to the HOS rules' limit on short-haul trips, the exception for adverse driving conditions, the 30-minute rest break provision and the sleeper berth rule to allow drivers to split their required 10-hour rest period. Comments are due to the agency by Oct. 10. The listening sessions will be held today in Joplin, Mo., and Oct. 2 in Orlando, Fla. The sessions will be webcast. NPPC has been working with FMCSA to make the HOS rules compatible with hauling livestock. It also is seeking a limited exemption for drivers transporting livestock from the agency's Electronic Logging Device mandate, which requires truckers to replace paper driving logs with electronic devices that record driving time, engine hours, vehicle movement and speed, miles driven and location information, electronically reporting the data to federal and state inspectors to help enforce the HOS rules. (For more information on the listening sessions and on submitting written comments, click here.)
AUTO IMPORT TARIFFS TO CAUSE ADDITIONAL RETALIATION WARNS NPPC
U.S. tariffs on auto imports likely would prompt retaliation from some of American agriculture's biggest trading partners, leading to catastrophic financial harm to farmers, warned NPPC in comments submitted Wednesday to the Senate Committee on Finance. In its ongoing efforts to realign U.S. trade policy, the Trump administration is considering duties on autos and auto parts under the 1962 Trade Expansion Act's Section 232 for national security reasons. NPPC reiterated its concerns with regard to existing U.S. tariffs imposed on metal imports based on national security concerns and said this week it cannot afford the retaliation that will come should tariffs on automobile imports be implemented. U.S. tariffs on auto imports could affect Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and at least four members of the European Union – Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom. All are customers for U.S. pork. Canada, Japan, Mexico and South Korea are four of the U.S. pork industry's top five export markets.
PORK INDUSTRY COMMITS TO FIGHTING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
NPPC is joining with more than 100 public- and private-sector U.S. organizations in a global initiative to create international standards and codes of practices to prevent unsafe residues of veterinary drugs in food, to develop integrated surveillance that can help mitigate risks associated with antibiotic use and to minimize the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance in humans and animals. Known as the "AMR Challenge" and being led by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the initiative is bringing together pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, food animal producers and purchasers, medical professionals, government health officials and leaders from around the world to collaborate on efforts to address antibiotic resistance, which in the United States annually affects about 2 million people, with 23,000 of them dying. The international effort will focus on improving antibiotic uses, including ensuring people have access to them when needed; developing new vaccines, drugs and diagnostic tests; improving infection prevention and control; and enhancing antibiotic use data sharing and data collection. NPPC will provide pork industry knowledge and scientific evidence to inform the development of the standards on antibiotic residues and utilize communications channels to increase industry knowledge and adoption of standards that ultimately are accepted by the World Organization for Animal Health and the U.N.'s Codex Alimentarius Commission, the international food-safety standards-setting organization.

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Transgender HHS nominee Rachel Levine wants babies to get sex changes without parental consent
Joe Biden is attempting to install transgender mental case Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) even though Levine believes that minor children should be allowed to get a "sex change" without parental consent.
During Levine's nomination hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) asked "her" all sorts of questions, many of which "she" refused to answer with clarity. When it comes to approving of young children cutting off their private parts apart from their parents, for instance, Levine believes that it is a "complex and nuanced" field of "medicine," suggesting that "she" sees nothing wrong it.
Genital mutilation, Paul pointed out, is generally recognized as a human rights violation all around the world. Meanwhile, the new United States is "normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones to prevent their biological development."
"According to the WHO (World Health Organization), genital mutilation has been recognized internationally as a violation of human rights," Paul explained.
"Genital mutilation is considered particularly egregious because as the WHO knows, it is almost always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children," he added.
When asked about "her" support for allowing minors to be given hormone blockers and surgery to destroy their genitalia, Levine responded that "robust research and standards of care" legitimize the field.
"If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the assistant secretary of health, I would look forward to working with you and your office in coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine," Levine told a visibly upset Paul.
Democrats are hellbent on destroying all children's genitalia
Paul immediately shot back that he was talking about minors, and that Levine had dodged the question. He again asked "her" point blank if "she" supports the government intervening to override parental consent when it comes to the administration of child puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and / or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia.
"You have said that you're willing to accelerate the protocols for street kids," Paul added. "I'm alarmed that poor kids with no parents who are homeless and distraught – you would just go through this and allow that to happen to a minor."
Paul was trying to get Levine to say that absolutely never, under any circumstances, should a minor be allowed to decide for himself or herself to alter genitalia without parental consent – but Levine refused to do so.
"Senator, transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field," Levine repeated verbatim.
Paul responded again, explaining that such changes in a child are permanent. Should he or she regret the decision later on in life, there is no going back. Paul then pointed out that none of the drugs being used in "transgender medicine" have been approved for such purposes, and are being used off-label.
"I find it ironic that the left that went nuts over hydroxychloroquine being used for Covid, are not alarmed that these hormones are being used off-label," Paul stated.
"There's no long-term studies. We don't know what happens to them. We do know that there are dozens and dozens of people who've been through this who regret this happening – a permanent change happened to them."
Levine had not much else to say, which hopefully swayed enough members of Congress to deny "her" the position.
"Rand Paul, being a medical doctor, was the perfect person to take this line of questioning," wrote a commenter at Zero Hedge. "Kudos to him for taking this issue head-on."
More related news about the deranged Biden regime's transgender onslaught can be found at Gender.news.
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Tagged Under: Biden, Child abuse, evil, gender, gender confused, HHS, insanity, Joe Biden, left cult, lgbtq, lunatics, minors, nominee, outrage, parental consent, Pedophilia, Rachel Levine, Rand Paul, Sick, transgender, Twisted
COVID COMMUNISM: CNN lead propagandist, "doctor" Leana Wen, says unvaccinated people should NOT be allowed to travel in US from state to state (op-ed)
Climate hoax specialist Michael Mann says the only way to stop deadly tornadoes is by passing Biden's multitrillion dollar '"BBB" legislation
Covid-crazed Leader of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern announces that 25-person sex orgies can now resume "safely"
Iowa high school teacher facing years in jail for terrorism after leaving fake threatening notes
Boyfriend stabs girlfriend before running her over; cleared of murder after court hears what they ate earlier
Parents demand removal of Hispanic school board member after she doxxed White parents who sued over mask mandate
MONSTER: Fauci runs "secret island of monkeys" to conduct cruel animal experiments to enrich Big Pharma
British Conservative MP who backed BLM and 'every refugee matters' campaign stabbed to death by 'Somali Muslim'
Lunacy: AOC calls for reduced bail for criminal defendants as man alleged to have mowed down parade participants in Waukesha was out on reduced bail
Waukesha massacre suspect threatened elderly whites, posted directions for mowing people down
Colorado attempting to normalize pedophilia by replacing "sex offender" terminology with more palatable "adults who commit sexual offenses"
You can't make this up: Waukesha suspect arrested for plowing into Christmas parade was previously in jail for running over a woman
Travis Scott summons DEMONS to his Astroworld Concert and 10 people died, hundreds got injured; now he's being sued for $2 billion in damages
Waukesha: Alleged attacker is a convicted pedophile, repeat felon and self-described Black terrorist who preached violence against White people
Euthanasia- and infanticide-promoting philosopher wins $1 Million dollar Berggruen prize
SUV driving mass-murderer at Waukesha parade was a Trump-hating, deranged extreme Leftist, so there is ZERO honest media coverage of the tragedy
Alleged suspect in Waukesha SUV incident has posted violent anti-white threats and BLM slogans and rhetoric
SUV driven by black man plows into Waukesha parade, mowing down young girls and "dancing grannies" at full speed… multiple fatalities, dozens hospitalized
AZ cops will criminally investigate school official who allegedly compiled a secret dossier on parents
'I got over 1,000 soldiers ready to go, locked and loaded': Black militant threatens anti-CRT parents at Texas school board meeting
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Cameron Powell – The Memoir Version
What ultimately matters in coaching is emotional and intellectual skill and the nature of the coach's intent, and not all skills will be reflected, or predicted, in a coach's background. However, because we know a coach's background is nevertheless of interest to our clients, who want to know of their coach's successes and failures, independence and conformity, intellectual influences, and even of their more direct experience with life events such as career transitions, this is the slightly longer version.
Note: there is one brief instance of PG-rated, non-corporate language, but it's not mine. It's my late grandmother's. When I was nine, she predicted this would happen.
Portrait of the Coach as a Young Man
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Let's just say I was a reader of books in a family of survivalists. The Powells of Western Colorado are like the Hatfields, but probably are better shots, and those who aren't like the Hatfields are like the McCoys. You remember how they got along, don't you?
I was born in Rangely, Colorado, oil and coal and cowboy country, to a German mother, Inge, who loved opera and travel (now retired and in her 12th year of staring down ovarian cancer), and a father who was in Vietnam with the Green Beret at the time (Special Forces, Airborne/Pathfinder, LRRP). I was still gazing at my toes when my mother and I moved to Germany, where I learned to speak the German that I later forgot and only badly relearned. After a few years there, my mother married an American GI who looked like Elvis to me and we left for the American South. A sister joined us when I was five. But the southern days ended as things do and we returned to Rangely, to the high desert, to tumbling Russian thistle and to rain-starved earth that, as Gramma Powell admitted of her two-day-old biscuits, was harder than the back of God's head.
My grandfather, who in roundabout fashion had given me my last name, had died in the meantime, of emphysema. "The doctor told that man," Gramma Powell would say to us, "'Mister, you don't stop smoking them goddamn cigarettes they'll kill you.' But that son of a bitch never could listen." Like my grandfather, who'd played cowboys and Indians on horseback in the ruins of Mesa Verde, she was one of the first settlers of Western Colorado. She was a quarter Cherokee and a quarter gristle. She bore ten children and presided over dozens of in-laws and grandchildren. They worked on ranches and in the oilfield that pumped the town's lifeblood, and they hunted every animal in
Oil well – right next to the high school football field
every season. To them I was a distinctly alien life form. I had a vaguely formulated plan of sorts, and it involved being the first on either side of my family to go to a university.
I mostly grew up (ambiguity intended) in Rangely, raised by my mother. In Western Colorado there are six dialects in the language of men – hunting and fishing, four-wheeling and fighting, drinking and sports – and of those I spoke only sports. Late-blooming, small, lacking the killer instinct that comes from a sense of righteous entitlement, I nevertheless excelled at tailback, wrestling, hurdles.
There was a particular urgency to clearing hurdles. Early on, it seems to me now, there began the divergence between who I really was and who I thought I should be. Needed to be.
I had a strong dislike of the sorts of boxes that people always want, presumably in order to save time, to put us in. As a pup I seemed to run right down the middle of every skills, aptitudes, or personality test ever invented (including the much-abused Myers-Briggs). During high school I worked and played three varsity sports; I had some all-conference honors, a school record in the hurdles, that sort of thing. I also read everything not nailed down and graduated first in my class, a fact that, given my small class size, is exciting to no more than 36 other people. I was Student Council President; the trivia team I captained was the best in the state and 9th in the nation. (These modest accomplishments are not meant as boasting. I've got a point looming around the corner.)
I needed money for college. My goal was to obtain a National Merit Scholarship, and to become the first graduate of Rangely High School to receive the Boettcher Scholarship, a four-year grant with broad criteria modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship. I reached both goals. Looking back, I see there was already a sort of auto-pilot in effect here, achievement for the sake of achievement, perhaps because I imagined, or hoped, that in that direction life lay.
If you can just rigorously plan out all the inputs to happiness, happiness will come, right?
In high school I had been a decent athlete. I wasn't afraid of public speaking. I could write well enough. I'd aced our modest math and physics programs. On each of the verbal and math sections of the college entrance exams I got exactly the same score. This was my problem, in a nutshell: I wasn't obviously better at any one thing – which way to go?
I went to college at the University of Colorado at Boulder for three reasons, if I recall correctly: (1) it had an aerospace engineering program and I was going to be an astronaut, (2) my scholarship required that I attend an in-state school and I believed at the time I wouldn't be able to pay for college at, say, an Ivy League institution, and (3) perhaps I was just a little fearful of the big unknowns represented by the elite schools.
I started out in aerospace engineering because as a boy I'd been fascinated by astronomy (and maybe I was confused about how rocket science could bring me back to that joy, but at least I was listening to my heart). I think I also equated engineering with more financial security than the liberal arts disciplines whose purposes were then, regrettably, so unclear to me. With a relatively impoverished math background and no familiarity with studying, I failed my first calculus exam with the grand sort of failure of the overachiever. I'd been advised not to take the weed-out calculus class because of my prior math, and I still have the drop slip I almost used, but instead, I began a regimen of sleeping from 2-6:45a.m. and studying the rest of the time. In the end, rocket science wasn't, as they claim, rocket science. In spite of the rough start and my overachieving attempt to run track at a Big Eight university, my grades ended up being excellent.
There were more clues, in the search, in what I chose to do and be outside of class: the resident advisor role, the obligatory congressional internship, a coach of a high school girls track team, and a dedicated role as a campus lecturer against date and acquaintance rape.
In Western Colorado my mother struggled for decent work while trying to raise two children. In the summers I worked eighty-five hours a week, oil field or construction work by day, pizza-maker or dishwasher by night, and she gave me her '76 Cutlass Supreme for helping out — the good ol' Gutless Supreme whose transmission I dropped once or twice. (Apparently it's advisable to come to a full stop before shifting). I hit upon the idea of public service when her employer caught a whiff of a wisp of a rumor that she might have breast cancer (she didn't). He fired her to avoid paying insurance. It wasn't fair, she pointed out. Probably I was vulnerable to something unspoken: People should listen to each other.
So, already bored with engineering, a naïve vision of public service gripped me. A lot of congressmen had gone to law school, hadn't they? There was no one to ask. Driven by a lifelong anxiety about money, for pre-law I switched to the College of Business, which, unknown to me, signaled that I would have to actually educate myself, later.
I had two new goals, and I poured everything I had into achieving them. I hoped against hope to get into a top-ranked law school, and I also set my sights on a Rhodes Scholarship. (A voice even then wondered if I wanted it in part because it was the highest honor a collegiate could attain, at least in my mind, but I held the voice under water until it stopped kicking and went away.)
The Rhodes, as I found, wasn't so realistic. The Rhodes Scholarship, oddly enough, was for scholars. Study in business administration, I sensed, would put me at a disadvantage. So, back in the time when the only coach I had was me, I developed a strategy. I prevailed on professors for independent study, took Honors classes in arts and sciences, and though of course no business school requires a thesis, I wrote one anyway: "The Business Mind: What They Don't Teach You at Business School". I had run track and played rugby, done student government, collected awards, had a 3.97g.p.a., and in my senior year, I made the state finals for the Rhodes.
In the state finals, I was the only candidate of 13 called back for a second interview to determine the two spots reserved for Coloradans in the national finals. But in one of the big early disappointments that I can only hope built character as consolation, both of those selected in my place went on to win one of the scholarships awarded to only 32 of the 100 national finalists. So close! After three years of work and hope, I was crushed. I would later be told by the Rhodes committee that I might have gone to Oxford, too, but for having had the dubious judgment to major in business administration, and having declined their advice to apply again. Here, in my lack of it, is also a small illustration of my belief in the power of coaching.
I didn't apply again because by the following year I had somehow found my way into Harvard Law School, thus prompting my misbegotten familiarity with the old riposte –
Q: Why did you go there?
A: Because they let me in.
— and making me a better life and career coach for it.
But in college I began to re-discover that there was more to me than what I could see. I began a life-long practice of growth — inward, outward, deeper. Outside of any classes, I read widely in philosophy and theology, religion and meditation. I studied pranayama yoga and meditation. I was introduced to Zen Buddhism. My studies never ended, but my practice lay fallow during most of the law school years and for many years afterward. But my spiritual practice is flowering now and I couldn't be happier about it.
The fourth time I saw my father I was twenty-two and it was a late-spring day of graduation. I had for many weeks bent to the task of composing an eight-sentence invitation that held no false words.
I graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration (Finance and Human Resources emphases), summa cum laude and valedictorian. (The College of Business had missed my file and, at the public ceremony, presented the award to someone else. They quietly made a correction afterward.)
In law school, people who barely knew me called me "Gov'ner" and confirmed, it seemed, that my destiny was manifest. I was inspired by the talent around me: I was on the same campus as Barack Obama, former Solicitor General Paul Clement, former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, and many others. I studied governance and public policy, political theory and democratic process, and I was a rapt pupil. My peers elected me president of our class. In the summers I worked with Ken Salazar, who would become Secretary of the Interior under Obama but was then chief legal officer at the Colorado Governor's Office, on public policy matters. I also worked for the Alaska Attorney General's Office, on the Exxon-Valdez spill, as well as for international corporate law firms in Washington, D.C. and Brussels, Belgium.
Oddly enough, it was in the largely ceremonial (read: extraneous) role of class president that I had another hint of what I really enjoyed. It wasn't while organizing bottles of honestly undrinkable wine with HLS 1992 labels on them, or getting clever t-shirts printed up (though they were clever) or planning the commencement that did it. What gave me some fulfillment was, rather, serving the role of intermediary and sometime diplomat among my classmates, and between class factions and the administration, during a particularly troubled and politically charged period in the school's history. Something about working with and for people . . .
Following law school, the six-year-old political aspirations quietly died – from the taint of money, from the malodorous intellectual dishonesty of demagoguery and partisanship. Politics, an outward-directed process of compromise, began to seem increasingly less a reflection of my personality than was my growing engagement with the uncompromising businesses of understanding my self and others, and the internal, lonely pursuit of writing.
But my convictions about democracy, meritocracy, leadership, generosity, and due process remained. All my life, I see now, I have railed against institutions that lacked these values. In the years since, I have wrestled with whether it was possible to do work in furtherance of these values without being in politics.
I wouldn't, however, use the word mistake for business school, law school, political aspirations, legal practice. I've learned not to regret what I've not known how to decide differently. The diversity of my experience has made of me something I like. But I began tacking in a different direction some years ago, setting course for greater proximity to the written word, to marry the writing life that I realized had been one of my earliest and most faithful loves to the life of art and culture, the human mind and spirit, and the furtherance of democratic processes large and small that are my adult passions
In response to some childhood trauma that now lies beyond the reach of memory, my mother encouraged me to write. (Ah, the Memoirs of a Nine-Year Boyhood). Diminutive, bespectacled junior-high teachers were fit subjects of later narratives ("At the tender age eight Mr. Dwire killed a dog with a fork. When he was twelve he killed his first man and that night his mother wept as she packed his bag.") In my first teenage year I began writing a novel, the events of which took place on the planet Jupiter, in the only sensible way I knew: exactly like Edgar Rice Burroughs. I have kept a carefully observed journal aimed at self-understanding since I was nineteen. And all along I have read as if starved for words: I have always been an autodidact.
I enjoyed writing assignments in high school and college, but the idea of being a writer (coaching did not exist then) was as foreign to me as the idea of being an artist was alien to the people among whom I grew up. I shouldn't doubt there was an unspoken assumption that connected all creativity to sexual deviance. In any event, I had too much ground to make up, financial security to achieve, more visible achievements to conquer. The idea of permission to pursue what I enjoyed never entered my mind.
But just before my law school graduation, a close cousin and once my best friend, who until recently had been so reminiscent, in face and body, of Michelangelo's David, died of lupus. He was 23. As writers will, I turned to writing about our time together to bring order out of chaos. I've been writing ever since. Short stories, novels, essays: my affair with writing, with both fiction and what Richard Rhodes calls "verity," had begun the long trek out of the dessert. Thus also began my work in creativity coaching.
The inner voice I'd heard a number of times was still too quiet, certainly not boisterous enough to overcome the hum of the kind of Stairmaster I was on. And, lacking a coach myself, I probably wouldn't have known how to act on it had I let myself hear it, so onward I went.
Following graduation from law school, I served as a judicial clerk to a chief federal judge, and then, still aiming for public service, I was accepted into the apparently prestigious and very secure (you are seeing a pattern, yes?) U.S. Attorney General's Honor Program for young lawyers, in which I performed as a negotiator and trial lawyer for several years, earning a number of commendations and a record Clean Water Act penalty.
But opposing counsel! The proctologists of the law. I left Justice and, in the next chapter, developed expertise in intellectual property law (which seemed vaguely connectable to publishing) while at the nation's tenth-largest law firm, Foley & Lardner, started up a literary agency (look! a true love roused from its slumber), and taught copyright and trademark law at the nation's top IP law school, The George Washington Law Center. I wasn't satisfied. I could have checked off quite a few of the items in 15 Early Warning Signs of Career Trouble.
Then came the first big move. I left the law and went into business. A headhunter brought me aboard the Corporate Leadership Council as an associate director and speaker. CLC was the leadership and employee practices division of a best practices consultancy called the Corporate Executive Board (NYSE: EXBD), then a 550-employee, $500 million company serving over 1300 Global 2000 corporate members. While there I absorbed best practices in leadership and other aspects of business from the company's membership of hundreds of Global 2000 companies. In the United States, Canada, South America, New Zealand, and Australia, I coached executives in over 120 corporations on best practices dealing with:
Leadership succession planning
Onboarding of new leaders
e-commerce models
Strategic and workforce implications of e-commerce
Strategic planning alignment
Leveraging IT
Fomenting creativity
Clients I was honored to serve directly included: Sun Microsystems, Anadigics, Autodesk, National Computer Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Amgen, The Vanguard Group, Lockheed Martin, KLA-Tencor, ADP Inc., Rockwell, Chase Manhattan, SmithKline Beecham, Genzyme, Lexmark, Anixter, Litton, Mobil, Bell South, Wang Labs, and more.
Already an avid traveler, I got to travel extensively and meet regular folk and business people all over the world. By 2000, through business and personal travel I'd been to over 30 countries (some more times than was strictly necessary) and 49 states. What was next, said my inner coach, but some concrete experience as a business executive?
Are you still with us?
So I packed up a fine life in Washington, D.C., where I had a lot of good friends, and took myself back west, to Austin, Texas, and then Portland, Oregon, where I knew no one but became an entrepreneur because I'd always wanted to do something in French. In Portland and, later, Seattle, I helped start or co-started several venture-backed companies, Internet and otherwise.
And in a dramatic process that I'm now happy explain to any career coaching clients, I finally decided what I really wanted to do was help people become successful and fulfilled. I could give of myself, read, think, write, and learn from others. I'd done that informally over the years, catch as catch can, and it was immensely fulfilling to me. Surely you couldn't make a living having so much fun and learning from so many fine people?
Well. Apparently you can.
Now, in the outdoor wonderland of Telluride, Colorado, I play-as-work, read, write fiction, run on trails, hike, mountain-bike, ski, meditate, do yoga, and travel elsewhere. Sometimes I even "work," but I couldn't tell you how much. As I want it to be, work is too closely integrated into the rest of my life, and vice versa, and too fulfilling, for me to be able to tell how many hours I worked, say, yesterday.
Now that I live in my strengths, passions, and values, I live more often in a state of flow.


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The case compares two U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) programs from the 1970s and 1980s: (1) "stealth" combat aircraft, capable of evading detection or engagement by anti-aircraft systems, and (2) precision attack of hardened ground vehicles from "standoff" distances, i.e., far behind the battle lines. Conceived at roughly the same time, motivated by the same strategic challenge, and initially driven by the same DoD organization, stealth combat aircraft progressed from idea to deployment in less than eight years—an astounding pace for a complex military system—while a demonstrated system for standoff precision strike against mobile ground targets was not fully implemented. The case highlights the critical role of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the DoD, regarded as one of the most innovative entities in the U.S. federal government.
The learning objective of this case is to highlight factors that facilitate rapid, successful implementation of radically innovative or disruptive concepts. Students will be introduced to the organizational realities facing such projects, including: issues of strategic clarity, inter-departmental competition and cooperation, executive leadership, and timing. While some of these elements have a different slant in government than they do in a large corporate setting, comparing the differences in implementation of these programs reveals issues relevant to any large organization seeking to bring innovative concepts to fruition.


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Rep. Gutiérrez Denounces Immigration and Customs Enforcement Home Raids
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Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)--January 5, 2016. On Tuesday, Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) issued a statement about the news of hundreds of children and adults detained in special deportation raids by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) conducted in recent days. The raids have reportedly been conducted in multiple states, including Illinois, targeting Central American families who entered the country after May 2014. The Congressman has requested a meeting with Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and the Congressman and other Members of Congress will be seeking answers from the . . .


(in English) We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) which performs coarse and fine segmentation for end-to-end synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) system. In recent years, many CNNs for SAR ATR using deep learning have been proposed, but most of them classify target classes from fixed size target chips extracted from SAR imagery. On the other hand, we proposed the CNN which outputs the score of the multiple target classes and a background class for each pixel from the SAR imagery of arbitrary size and multiple targets as fine segmentation. However, it was necessary for humans to judge the CNN segmentation result. In this report, we propose a CNN called SAR ATR with verification support (SAVERS), which performs region-wise (i.e. coarse) segmentation and pixel-wise segmentation. SAVERS discriminates between target and non-target, and classifies multiple target classes and non-target class by coarse segmentation. This report describes the evaluation results of SAVERS using the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) dataset.
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 118, no. 28, SANE2018-5, pp. 23-28, May 2018.


Ewan McLevy has joined Kilwinning Rangers on loan until January.
The defender, who is part of Andy Millen's Reserves Squad, has signed for the Buffs on a deal for the first six months of the season.
Ewan came off the bench during our opening Reserve League fixture as we defeated Hamilton 4-1 at Rugby Park.


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September 6 Express Entry draw invites candidates with 435 or more CRS points
Applicants in the Express Entry pool for immigration to Canada with at least 435 Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points were issued an Invitation Apply (ITA) for Canadian permanent residence in the most recent draw from the pool, which occurred on September 6.
An aggregate of 2,772 applicants were invited this time around, bringing the cumulative number of ITAs issued so far this year to 66,549, significantly more than were issued in the entire of a year ago. The greater part of all ITAs issued since Express Entry was first propelled in January 2015 has been issued in 2017.
Invited applicants have 90 days to present a total application for permanent residence, including supporting documentation. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) plans to finish the preparing of utilizations inside a half year.
The CRS cut-off limit of 435 for the September 6 attract is comprehensively lined with late draws, which have had a tendency to have thresholds around the mid-430s. Prior this end of the summer, and following enhancements made to the CRS toward the beginning of June, the thresholds were somewhat higher at 449, 440, and 441, individually, in the initial three draws instantly following those progressions.
In spite of the fact that the limit has not changed considerably finished the three latest draws, it might be noticed that the quantity of ITAs issued has diminished marginally. On the off chance that or when IRCC starts to welcome more contender to apply for permanent residence, the limit may then decrease once more. The most minimal threshold of any draw so far was 413, on May 31, 2017. This was the last draw to happen before the progressions to the CRS were actualized toward the beginning of June.


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A Publicist's 12-Week Guide to Running Your Own Album Publicity Campaign
ask a publicist, PR, Music Business 101
Janelle Rogers
Sometimes it takes a whole team to run one album campaign... unless you know what you're doing! (Image via Shutterstock)
One of the major issues for any DIY band is getting your music heard, am I right? Maybe you feel like all your tweets are going to a black hole with not a like or retweet to be found. Or maybe the Facebook algorithms are keeping fans from even seeing what you post. And then there are all those great blogs that you think should cover you, but you don't know how to gain their attention or even when and what to send.
Overwhelmed yet?
I'm not going to paint a pretty picture and say all you have to do is follow the simple steps below and you'll have instant success. You won't. Promoting your music to people who don't know (or care) who you are is really hard work. You have to be patient. You can't give up easily when you start to discouraged. And most of all, you have to be ready to work.
Below is a simplified map of a 12-week publicity timeline for an album or EP release based on how we carry out our campaigns at my firm, Green Light Go Publicity.
Week 1: Get your ducks in a row
Okay, I know you're ready to just make this thing happen. You have your finished album all mastered and ready to go. You want to just send it out to the world right now and watch everyone pay attention, because it's just that amazing. I hear you. But guess what? It doesn't work that way.
If you want to do it right, you need to start off by planning everything out first. If you haven't already, create an EPK where members of the media can get the information they need about you. Hint: your Sonicbids profile is an EPK!
Also, set your release date three months in the future so you have time to build up to the release. The press probably doesn't know who you are and needs the time and impressions you're about to create to get there.
You should also set up distribution for your album using a service like CD Baby so it'll be available on Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify upon release.
Week 2: Build your press strategy
Now, you need to build a press list to target media who could be interested in your music. I know, I know. You want Pitchfork on your list for sure. So head on over to the site and see who would be interested in your music based on similar artists they've covered at your level. Yes, I said at your level.
If that writer is only covering established bands, most likely he or she is only going to cover those big artists. Don't waste your time on people who won't care about your music. That's only going to leave you bitter and frustrated. Find the people who will care, and start there.
Once you've built your list, you also need to write up a press release to send to those people on your list. You'll send out the press release next week.
[4 Simple Steps to Creating a Killer Press List]
Week 3: Release your first single and contact media
You should send out the press release to your media contacts on your list this week, and then wait a day or two to start pitching them on covering the first single you'd like to release (make sure it's downloadable because that increases your chances of coverage).
Do not send photo or MP3 attachments when sending your pitches and press releases. These should be links to the files where they can listen and view – ideally, these are all available on your EPK.
[Ask a Music Journalist: 7 Must-Haves for Your Band's Press Release]
Week 4: Look for coverage
Start searching for coverage on your band via Google and Twitter. If you find coverage, be sure to post on your social networks and tag the outlet thanking them for coverage. This goes a long way with media and shows you're willing to promote them as well, which means they will be more likely to cover you.
Week 5: Follow up
This week, you should follow up with all the media you originally pitched to see if they have any interest in covering you. If someone replied to your original email a few weeks ago and showed interest, check to see if they covered you. If they haven't, then simply check in to see if they're still interested. Some outlets will tell you they don't want you to follow up, and you should respect that by not following up.
[The 4 Rules for Following Up on Press Requests That Music Publicists Live By (And You Should, Too)]
Week 6-9: Follow up and research
For the next few weeks, you're simply continuing to follow up with those who showed interest. You should wait about two weeks before following up again, as a general rule. The only exception is when it's something time sensitive like tour coverage or an interview.
For the ones who haven't responded, keep researching the outlet to see what they're covering and how you could fit into it. If you find a specific article that connects to your band, pitch the writer or editor on that specific article.
Week 10: Send a reminder about the album or EP release
Members of the media are busy, and most likely have forgotten about your release by this point. This week, you should send another press release reminding them of the upcoming release date. If you've received new press quotes about the album, include those as well. You should also begin sending reminder emails about the release.
Week 11: Continue reminding media
Continue to remind the media outlets you weren't able to get to last week that your release is next week. Make sure you're updating your social media pages about the release date as well.
Week 12: Release week!
This week is all about branding on social media with release information. If you have outlets that promised coverage, check the site for coverage and follow up if you haven't seen anything yet.
Phew! I warned you it was hard work.
There are also a lot of additional minute details to help make a publicity campaign a success. If you're up for the challenge, Green Light Go has just introduced a new low-cost program called Ignition for bands who can't yet afford to hire a publicist, but really are ready to get their music heard and put the work in to make it happen. The program gives a step-by-step list of how to promote your release with easy, actionable steps to make it happen. Find out more here.
Janelle Rogers began her 20-year music industry career working for SXSW Music and Media Conference. She then went on to work for BMG Distribution for 10 years in the alternative music department where she championed bands like Kings of Leon, Ray LaMontagne, The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, and The White Stripes. In 2002 she launched Green Light Go Music PR as a haven of honesty, integrity, and passion for underrepresented artists and labels. She has since been named Mentor of the Year by the University of Michigan, Dearborn, appeared as a panelist at NXNE, and been an official SXSW mentor.


Todolwen: A Sweet Gift ..
today I would like to share a gift I received from my daughter Ashleigh from one of our outings last week.
It is a small standing mirror. When we saw it in the store first, I was telling her how I think that it would look amazing silver gilded and aged and since she knows how much I love to make things 'mine' she bought it for me as a sweet gift with the thought of me working with on it one day.
I am going to think about what I could do with it for a while but right now I am going to enjoy it as it is!
I love these little birds looking into the mirror at themselves ~ so sweet!
I can't wait for me to be able to start this project .. hopefully that will be soon!
Of course I couldn't resist heading to Michaels already with my 50% off coupon to purchase what I needed.
I bought the smallest packet of silver gilding just in case I don't become a fan of it.
Now all I need is the right idea and time to start.
It would be so nice if you were to come back soon and visit me again here at Todolwen.
I have new treasures to share with you from this last weekend when church sale season started.
Karen, what a lovely frame!
Love those birds....where are you going to hang it?
Thanks for sharing. Love your blog.
That is a very pretty frame. Can't wait to see what you do with it and I'm looking forward to seeing your other treasures!
If that isn't the sweetest thing I've ever seen....you've got my envy! If 'twere me I wouldn't be able to concentrate on much else thinking about what I was going to do with it.
Lucky you having such a great daughter.
I am not surprised you fell in love with this mirror, it is so sweet! Those cute little birds, who could resist them?
I love this mirror..not surprised you fell in love with it..nests and birds and all, it's right up your alley. Sweet sweet piece.
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Borel Middle School Talk – Let's Talk About It. Listening to your child.
From my experience of teaching and coaching hundreds of parents plus raising my own daughter, learning how to listen and build connection is the foundation to harmonious home. This blog post is the workshop style handout I used to guide the parents who attended the school workshop through the process of understanding the Think-Feel-Do Cycle. in order to shift from not listening to an upset child to listening to an upset child, begin with analyzing your inflexible thoughts that lead to disconnection and then replace them with flexible thoughts.
For a complete understanding, please refer to my book Ally Parenting: A Non-Adversarial Approach to Transform Conflict Into Cooperation.
Our thoughts and feelings create our actions.
Words can become communication blocks.
Your flexible thoughts lead to connection, empathy, and the ability to listen and influence.
PART 1: Our Thoughts and Feelings Lead To Our Actions.
Activity 1: Write down a time when your child was upset and you didn't want to listen. Your main focus was for them to stop being upset.
What are some inflexible beliefs and thoughts you had that made it difficult to listen to your upset child? Here are some examples. Add your own at the end.
Buck it up. Get over it.
Emotions should be ignored. Listening makes them upset longer.
Listening makes kids think you agree and approve of what they are saying.
Listening will lead to more arguing.
They shouldn't be upset. They are being silly.
Why are they acting this way? It's no big deal.
It will weaken them if I listen to their upsets.
Activity 2: What feelings do you have about your children or yourself when it's hard to listen? Here are some examples. Circle the ones that apply and add your own.
Angry, ashamed, disappointed, guilty, hopeless, irritated, miserable, overwhelmed, pained, rejected, remorseful, resentful, manipulated, trapped, uncomfortable, unloved, worried.
Activity 3: What did you say or do during this "difficult to listen" time?
You felt frustrated and helpless, so you told him to go into his room until he calms down.
Tried to make her feel better by saying it isn't that bad, or it will get better, or we can fix it.
You felt hurt or manipulated so you got angry. What did you say and do?
Told your child to stop being so upset. What did you say exactly?
A communication block is any remark or attitude on the part of the adult that injures the child's self-esteem to the extent that the child stays upset, and communication and connection is broken off due to an underlying negative message that your child "hears".
#1 Giving advice – You don't have the good sense to come up with your own solutions.
#2 Psychologizing – I know more about you than you do. I'm superior.
Adult: "I think you're getting too upset about your fight.".
#3 Commanding – You don't have the right to decide how to handle your problems.
#4 Interrogating – You must have messed up somewhere.
#5 Placating – You don't have a right to your feelings. You (nor I) can handle them.
Which blocks do you tend to use?
PART 3: Your Flexible Thoughts Lead To Connection, Empathy, and The Ability To Listen and Influence.
Activity 5: Which flexible thoughts below could replace your inflexible thoughts?
I can handle listening to my upset child.
After he gets his upset feelings out, then we can possibly find a solution.
I need to get control of myself.
He/she is just trying to cope.
Only after my child releases feelings will she be able to solve the problem.
If I try to solve the problem too soon, my child will reject whatever I say.
With your partner, role play the child's complaint and the four possible adult responses. Decide which responses open the lines of communication by acknowledging what the child may be feeling or thinking. Use tentative comments. The answers are under this activity.
I don't know what to do for my project.
Stop complaining and just figure it out.
Just start writing down some ideas then it will come to you.
Deciding on a project can be really hard.
It isn't as bad as it seems. You can do it.
I don't want to invite Ryan to my house any more.
Have you tried talking to Ryan?
I think you should call Ryan up and work this out.
Don't be so hard on Ryan. Give him another chance.
It seems like Ryan has really upset you.
I'm too tired to do my homework.
Well, you have to get it done.
Just leave it for the morning, then.
If you had done it earlier, you wouldn't be in this position.
I don't like school anymore and I don't want to go.
I'm sure you'll feel better and enjoy it once you get to school. Let's go.
I thought you liked school. What happened?
We all have to do things we don't like.
Home activity: Talk to your child about communication blocks. Explain how you might say things while they are upset that causes them to get angry with you or stop talking to you. Which of the blocks don't they like? Which one or two do they want you to work on not doing. There is a complete list of communication blocks in my book, Ally Parenting.
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Seriously, what better way to capture your pregnancy than at the beach? I know that I tend to say this about every type of family session, but maternity pics are one of my very favorites! There is just something so raw about all that beautiful unknown and anticipation. They have never seen their child's face, heard his voice, or felt his little touch, and yet they already love him with all the passion in the world. These parents are waiting on baby #2 and watching them with big sis leaves no doubt how loved this baby is going to be.


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Uncovered rural areas to get health facilities: MoPH
AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Wednesday said that it will establish new health facilities in uncovered rural areas across the country.
"Based on findings of 2015 health survey, despite some improvements in the health services, still the ministry faced some critical challenges," Public Health Minister, Ferozuddin Feroz said.
He said that inaccessibility of almost three million of people to health services in two hours of walking distance in the rural areas, is one of the main problem.
He added that after analysis of robust information, evidence and peoples' requests for health services, the ministry has identified areas where there is no access to health facilities. "The ministry would take steps to address the issue as soon as possible.
"The ministry decided to establish 379 new health facilities, and 714 new health posts throughout the country in the current year," he added.
"Through these facilities three million people in more than 5000 villages would be provided health facilities across the country."
"In addition to that, 310 health sub-centers would be upgraded in terms of equipment and personnel for provision of immunization services," he asserted.
Despite that, the ministry would also establish 15 mobile health teams for provision of health services in the Kuchi (nomadic) residential areas, he added.
Likewise, the ministry would also take bold steps to ensure jobs for more than 2,428 health staffers throughout the country, he noted.
"Improving access to health services is the main priority of the ministry," he said, adding that they would spare no efforts unturned to fulfill its commitments with cooperation of international partners.
"One these commitments translated into action, would ensure people's accessibility to the health services in the hard-to-reach, insecure, and Kuchi (nomadic) areas," he underlined.
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New Jersey moves to ban marriage for anyone under 18
Nicholas Pugliese
New Jersey could become the second state to completely ban marriage for anyone under 18 after Delaware outlawed the practice last month.
The Assembly approved the ban 59-0 with 12 abstentions on Thursday, sending it to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy for final approval or a veto. The Senate passed the measure 30-5 in April.
The bill is designed to combat sex trafficking and protect young women from being forced into unwanted marriages by their families. Currently in New Jersey, 16- and 17-year-olds can get married with parental consent, while additional approval by a judge is required for anyone 15 or younger.
"Gov. Murphy is deeply troubled by abuses associated with minors being allowed — or sometimes forced — to marry," Murphy spokesman Dan Bryan said in a statement. "The governor looks forward to closely reviewing legislation addressing this issue."
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The Legislature also approved the measure last year, but it was conditionally vetoed by Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who wrote that "an exclusion without exceptions would violate the cultures and traditions of some communities in New Jersey based on religious traditions."
Similar misgivings delayed passage of the bill again this year, with some lawmakers endorsing a plan to let 16- and 17-year-olds get married with the approval of a judge. Assemblyman Gary Schaer, D-Passaic, was among those opposed, saying the bill as written is "too black-and-white" and "leaves no room for maneuvering."
But lawmakers from both parties voted for the outright ban, urged on by activist Fraidy Reiss, the founder of a Union County nonprofit called Unchained At Last that helps girls and women escape unwanted unions. Reiss has been pushing for the ban since 2015.
"Most of the children who marry in New Jersey are 16 or 17, so it's illogical and entirely unhelpful to eliminate a human rights abuse but carve out an exception for the people most likely to be affected," she said in an interview. "Why even bother? It's kind of like banning discrimination on hiring based on age unless a job candidate is over age 50."
The United States government has recognized under-18 marriage in other parts of the world as a human rights abuse, and ending the practice globally is part of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, to be achieved by 2030.
Supporters of the bill also cite research linking early teen marriage with future poverty and other negative life outcomes. They point out that people under 18 may lack the legal standing to file for divorce, locking them in potentially abusive relationships.
Between 1995 and 2015, more than 3,600 people under 18 — including at least 166 people under 16 — were married in New Jersey, according to data provided by the state's Center for Health Statistics and Informatics. The vast majority were girls.
The frequency of such unions has decreased over time: 50 people under 18 got married in 2015, compared with 355 in 1995.
Organizations including New Jersey Right to Life and the New Jersey State Bar Association are opposed to the outright marriage ban on anyone under 18, calling instead for a ban on anyone 15 or younger while allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to get married with judicial review.
Exceptions should be made for pregnant women under 18 who would like to marry the father, the bar association has argued, or for members of the military for whom marriage will help secure benefits for their spouse in the event of their death.
Reiss has pushed back against those arguments, disparaging them as "backward thinking" about what's in the best interest of pregnant teenage girls and unfair to girls marrying members of the military.
"Why should they get any less protection than a girl being forced to marry to a civilian?" she said.
Most states set the legal age for marriage at 18 but specify conditions under which people can get married younger.
According to The New York Times, at least 20 states have no minimum age set by statute, although seven states have raised their minimum marriage age to 16 or 17 in the past two years.
Murphy has 45 days to take action on the bill.
Email: pugliese@northjersey.com


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Learn and have an adventure at the same time with this lovely book for young'uns. Have bags of fun reading it with a child you know as they giggle along with the Tiny Tatty Teddy.
This book can be personalised with a name of up to 12 characters (this appears on every page) and a message on the inside first page over 4 lines of text with up to 20 characters per line.
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With its new Lépine Hebdomas pocket watch, Swiss watch brand Aerowatch salutes the rich heritage of Swiss watchmaking artistry. It pays tribute to traditions by breathing new life into the illustrious era of the Hebdomas movement.
The Hebdomas caliber was developed and crafted in 1888 by master watchmaker Irénée Aubry from Saignelégier. At that time, the movement was revolutionary because it had a power reserve of 8 days, comparable to that of small pendulum clocks and some other types of timekeeping instruments. The exposure of the balance spring and parts of the escapement through an aperture in the dial was another technical accomplishment.
This invention was lauded with multiple awards, among them medals won at the following competitions: Geneva 1896, Paris 1900, Chicago 1902, Brussels 1910, Bern 1914 and Milan 1916. It is with passion and pride that Aerowatch has now restored the Hebdomas movement while preserving its original looks. In the 1950s, the cases of the prominent Aerowatch Lépine Hebdomas were made of 925 silver. The caseback and the caseband were lavishly guilloched in the Baroque style.
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Lottery Winner's Ordeal Demonstrates Importance of Separation Agreements
There are a lot of horror stories when it comes to divorces. Some are exaggerated, some are just lies, and some are certainly true. But it's very likely that few of the stories come close to what recently happened to a Michigan man in his divorce (at least, not when it comes to property division issues).
Man Has to Split Lottery Winnings
The husband and wife had been separated and living apart for two years. While the divorce case was pending, the man won the lottery. His winnings were about $80 million (although after taxes he took home "only" over $38 million).
But the divorce was not finalized, meaning that the lottery ticket itself was presumed to have been purchased with marital funds, and of course, the winnings were also marital property that could be divided by a court. The wife asked the Court to pay her half of the winnings.
The husband's attorney argued that although the timing of the purchase of the ticket and the win may have made the winnings marital property, the luck to win the lottery was all the Husbands. Presumably that meant that the shared luck of both parties did not come into play.
In a more reasoned argument, the Husband also stated that dividing assets when parties have been separated for so long was highly unusual. Michigan is like Florida in that there is no legal separation, or proceeding to legally separate. There is just marriage and divorce.
Parties can enter into separation agreements, which, like a marital settlement agreement, spell out the rights and obligations of the parties. These agreements are best when there are reasons why a couple must remain married, such as for religious reasons, or in order to keep receiving certain kinds of public benefits.
A separation agreement could help if you won the lottery during your separation. While that is not likely, it is not unusual during a long separation to acquire other assets and property, to have assets increase in value, and for the spouses to generally move on with their life independently.
Because there is no legal separation in Florida, courts don't enforce or ratify separation agreements. The separation agreement is effectively just a statement of the parties' intentions put in writing.
But separation agreements can still be considered by a court if you eventually divorce. For example, a separation agreement that declares that property acquired after a certain date (such as, say, a winning lottery ticket) will be each spouse's individual property, and not marital, can be considered by a court when and if the parties do divorce.
A separation agreement can also set up alimony or child support payments, and establish a visitation and timesharing schedule with minor children. Remember that child support amounts are determined by statute and other than slight deviation, parties can't agree to waive child support.
Our Tampa divorce attorneys at The Pawlowski//Mastrilli Law Group can help you understand what will happen to your property in your divorce. Call us with any questions you may have about divorce or separation.
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Raking in the Broadway Cash with Wicked
By Jeff HoytMoneyTips.com
When most people hear about numbers at the box office, they think of Hollywood and the movie industry. However, Broadway theater productions can rack up impressive numbers, with some shows crossing the billion-dollar plateau in worldwide box office receipts.
Collectively, Broadway brought in a record $1.37 billion in revenue in the 2015-2016 season — not in the same league as the $10.3 billion that Hollywood movies brought in, but considering the far fewer venues for Broadway productions, the per-theater numbers are impressive.
Thanks to incredibly long runs that can last for a decade or more, successful Broadway shows can rack up box office grosses that would make the movie industry jealous. Include touring productions that hit other major metropolitan areas, and it is possible to surpass $1 billion over the life of a show.
Wicked has become one of the top grossing productions of all time, with no obvious end in sight. A "prequel" to The Wizard of Oz, Wicked portrays the friendship of Elphaba, the green-skinned girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the Good Witch. It opened in 2003 to mixed reviews, but received an emphatic two thumbs up from audiences. On Broadway alone, Wicked has grossed $1.04 billion, hitting the billion-dollar mark faster than any other show in history, breaking The Lion King's record in March this year.
The producers of Wicked created a new template for the corresponding touring production. When the tour reached Chicago and quickly sold out, the producers decided to stay there and create a completely different tour to complete the path where the first one left off. The original tour closed in March 2015, racking up $790 million.
Meanwhile, the second national tour destroyed box office records wherever it plays. In Atlanta,Wicked hit a $3.27 million gross for a single week. This topped any weekly gross for a Broadway production, whether it is Broadway-based or a touring production. Unsurprisingly, Wicked held the previous title as well.
Combining all of the global revenue sources, Forbes estimated in March that Wicked has raked in almost $4 billion. To put that in perspective, Wicked is likely to become the highest-grossing entity that Universal owns, which includes blockbusters such as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial andJurassic Park — and it is definitively the most profitable. By providing a portion of the original $14 million stake in 2003, they covered costs in 2005 and have since then been raking in the profits. How many investments of any kind can give you an annual return of 85% to 110%?
Broadway shows usually struggle to just recoup their production costs, much less become income-producing juggernauts. The average Broadway production absorbs around $10 million in production costs, and logistics for anything that reach a touring stage can add millions in extra expenses that must be recouped. When a show hits it big like Wicked, it is analogous to being an original investor in a successful start-up company.
The latest winner is Hamilton, the smash-hit musical about the life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, which has broken records at the box office and awards shows. Hamilton is reportedly earning $600,000 in profit every week and the show's weekly takings have surpassed those ofThe Lion King on several occasions. That's not counting all the money made on the resale ticket market; as dates for 2017 are already sold out.
Wicked is not alone in achieving a billion-dollar box office gross on Broadway, as The Phantom of the Opera has grossed $1.06 billion and is still running. The Lion King currently holds the record for all-time Broadway grosses. Since opening in 1997, it has earned $1.29 billion and still brings in between $1 million and $2 million per week. It may take a while for Wicked to catch The Lion King on Broadway, but given their similar weekly grosses, it may never do so. However, theWicked template of opening new markets, as with Chicago, while maintaining alternate touring productions and a Broadway presence may well make it the show with the greatest global gross of all time. Elphaba may just have the last laugh… or Hamilton may wind up number one with a bullet.
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One.com comes in first place in April, up from seventh place in March. One.com responded to all but one of Netcraft's requests, with an average TCP connection time of 40 milliseconds. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Denmark, with staff also based in Dubai and India.
Swishmail and Hyve follow in second and third places respectively. These hosting company sites also responded successfully to all but one request, but had marginally slower average connection times than One.com's site. Swishmail is based in the United States and provides business email and web hosting services, whilst Hyve is based in the United Kingdom and provides a variety of cloud and dedicated server hosting services. Hyve reached the finals of the 2017 European IT and Software Excellence Awards under both the Managed Service Solution of the Year and Service Provider of the Year categories.
Xilo has consistently featured in the top 10 so far in 2017. Xilo provides a variety of services, ranging from shared hosting up to managed and self-managed dedicated servers, as well as domain name services and SSL certificates.
Of the top 10 hosting providers for April, all but one of their websites are running on Linux, with the exception being Swishmail's, which runs on FreeBSD.
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Your Library Has a Free Music Service That You Probably Didn't Know About
BY Madeline Raynor
Did you know that you can download free music from your local library? Music that you can keep. That's right: not borrow, keep.
It's all possible thanks to a service called Freegal (a portmanteau of free and legal), which gives patrons of participating libraries access to 15 million songs from 40,000 labels, notably including the Sony Music Entertainment catalog. All you need is a library card.
Here's how it works: You can download a few songs a week, and, in many areas, enjoy several hours of streaming, too (the precise number of songs and hours of streaming varies by library). Once you download MP3 files, they're yours. You're free to put them on iTunes, your iPhone, your tablet, and more. You don't have to return them and they don't expire. The counter resets on Mondays at 12:01 a.m. Central Time, so if you hit your limit, you won't have long to wait before you get more downloads. And Freegal has some great stuff: A quick scan of the front page reveals music from Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Cardi B, Simon & Garfunkel, Childish Gambino, The Avett Brothers, Lykke Li, and Sara Bareilles.
Freegal has been around since 2010 and is offered at libraries worldwide. In the U.S., that includes the New York Public Library, Queens Library, Los Angeles Public Library, West Chicago Public Library, Houston Public Library, and more. In the past few years, libraries have debuted some other amazing free digital services, from classic films streaming on Kanopy to audiobooks and e-books available to borrow on SimplyE and OverDrive. But the thing that's so exciting about Freegal is that you can keep the MP3 files, unlike services that limit you to borrowing.
Freegal's site is easy to navigate: You can browse playlists and make your own, check out the most popular tunes, and save songs to your wishlist for when you get more credits. In the old days, music fans would check out CDs from the library and upload them onto their computers before returning them. But Freegal eliminates the need to go to your local branch, check out an album, and bring it back when you're done.
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To find out if your local library has Freegal, go to freegalmusic.com and click login, then search for your area. It's important to note: Your library's contract might not have both streaming and downloading privileges. You can use Freegal on the web or as an app available on the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon. Of course, the service doesn't have everything. And sometimes, when it does have an artist, it will only have a few of their most popular albums. But if you frequently buy music on iTunes or elsewhere, checking Freegal first may save you a bit of money.
If you don't yet have a library card, Freegal is just one more reason why you should get one ASAP.
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Nadine Coyle is expecting her first child. The Girls Aloud star, 28, announced the exciting news on her Instagram page, posting a photograph of herself with the caption, "I am having a baby!" It is thought that the father might be her former fiancé Jason Bell. Earlier this year she reportedly rekindled her romance with the American footballer, 35, who she dated for over three years. CLICK ON PHOTOS FOR GALLERY The couple announced the end of their one-year engagement in June 2011, with Nadine confirming the news via her Twitter account. "A few weeks ago Jason and I broke up," she told fans.


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The True Heart of Yaidron
Guidelines for Humankind Suffering from the Coronavirus
What are the real cause and evil schemes behind the worldwide coronavirus crisis whose death tolls are now past 2.8 million? How does this crisis and humankind on Earth appear now from a higher standpoint?
Out of compassion, this book reveals truths about the all-out global war now being waged by the evil power in East Asia that's destroying the power of the people.
This book reveals deeply about the well-calculated schemes of this power and their closely-related issues include: the coronavirus as a biological weapon targeted especially at America, India, and Brazil, Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election, the movement to reduce carbon emissions, the downturned economies of your country and the world, international military tensions, and UK's heightened isolation.
In this book, leading religious leader and world teacher, Master Ryuho Okawa, gives us truths and guidelines from Yaidron, a space-being akin to the god of justice and who holds the power akin to Earth's high-dimensional spirits. Find out why Yaidron says earnestly, A movement is occurring from Japan to save people. Please make this a power and spread it to Asia, America, and Europe... and We must get together the powers of the West, India, and other Asian countries by the belief of 'With Savior' ... on earth to produce Asian peace now. He points us to the power of new creation and the power of enlightenment to create the new golden future of Earth.
As millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of people are becoming dead bodies, I myself, have this test of the Mission as Savior to guide humankind.
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HS Press (April 8, 2021)
Imagine, if you will, that it is not only God who is watching over us, but also immortal messianic space-beings. What would such beings think of humanity today, and how would they interact with us? How might we benefit from hearing from perspectives such as theirs, which exist at such… Read More