Work with clinical study teams, the Oncology medical writing teams, regulatory affairs personnel, and the publishing group in the preparation of scientifically valid regulatory documents.
Responsibilities include helping in the preparation of regulatory documents in accordance with the ICH guidelines, international regulations, Company standards and processes, and the Company Writing Style Guide as applicable.
Documents include but are not limited to: Protocols and protocol amendments, clinical safety reports, narratives, and Investigator brochures.
Responsible for managing the document review process, routing documents for approval using an electronic document management system (eDMS), performing Quality Control (QC) checks, and compilation of CSR supporting documents and submission documents. The medical writer should be familiar with ICH guidelines, ISI writer templates, document management systems, and the current AMA Style Manual. The writer will be expected to format and manage long documents with multiple review cycles and tight deadlines, and to work with the submission manager to compile and prepare documents for submission.
Bachelor's degree in life sciences, RN, or Master's degree in life sciences.
Excellent QC, formatting and editing skills, meticulous attention to detail, prior experience of using programs like Visio, Power Point, proficiency using an eDMS and standard style guide.
Experience: 5+ years' similar work experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior experience in oncology is a plus.
The most important requirement is the ability to write documents in collaboration with the various members of study team.


Some pieces of wood furniture have sentimental value, others have real dollar value and some we just love for no particular reason. Furniture is subjected to a lot of use and abuse. Accidents happen which can cause dents in the surface of the timber such as your kids decide to start a hockey game in your living room or the neighborhood play they are putting on calls for beating your furniture with a mace. Even crashing into a table with the vacuum or dopping something on the timber can cause a dent in the timber. No matter how small the dint is, it detracts from the beauty. The good news is dents in wood furniture can be fixed and some will become hardly noticeable depending on how deep the dint is and if there is damage such as split wood surrounding the dint.
This method works very well for small dents and dents that the timber is not splintered, split or otherwise damaged.
Bring water to a boil in a pot on the stove.
Squeeze the bulb of an eye dropper to pick up some hot water from the pot.
Squeeze the bulb of the eye dropper to fill the dint with the boiling water, drop by drop.
Allow the hot water to sit in the dint and swell the timber until the dint flush with the rest of the surface.
Wipe the water up and allow the surface to dry for an hour or two.
If the dent has risen, but is not flush with the surface, repeat the process.
This technique is for dents that have not splintered or broken the timber.
Wet a towel and wring it out slightly so it is wet, but not dripping.
Lay the wet towel over the dent.
heat a clothing iron on a medium setting.
Place the iron over the dent and only the dent. Use the tip of the iron rather than the entire bottom plate. Use care not to touch the hot iron to the wood surface. Place dry towels around the wet towel to protect the rest of the surface.
Allow the steam created from the iron to swell and raise the dent.
Pick out loose splinters by hand or with tweezers.
Use a 220-grit sandpaper to sand the splintered edges smooth.
Place light tack masking tape around the damaged area as close to the edges as possible.
Use a flexible, plastic putty knife to apply wood putty until it sits just above the surface the of the furniture.
Allow the wood putty to dry completely.
Sand the wood putty surface with 220-grit sandpaper to smooth and even out the wood putty making it level with the surface of the surounding wood.
Use a scratch cover pen and apply light coats of scratch cover to slowly build up the color to match the rest of the furniture finish.
Allow the scratch cover to dry.
Apply a coat of paste was to protect the surface.
If the furniture is very expensive, the damage is extensive or it has a lot of sentimental value, you may want to have a furniture restoration specialist repair it.


Arno Rafael Minkkinen (born Helsinki, 1945) is a Finnish photographer who works in the United States.Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, the Centre Pompidou and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris France, the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne Switzerland, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, the Finnish Museum of Photography, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography among many others.Seven solo monographs on his work have been published: Frostbite (1978), Waterline (1994, winner of the 25th Rencontres d'Arles Book Prize), Body Land (1999), SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 35 Years of Photographs (2005), Homework: The Finnish Photographs (2008), Swimming in the Air (2009), and Balanced Equation (2010). The retrospective survey SAGA premiered at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, in 2005. The 120-print retrospective toured to Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Italy, China, and Canada.Minkkinen was conferred the First Class Order of the Lion of Finland Medal of knighthood by the Finnish government in 1992, and awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography in 2006.


IRISH ST TATTOO | Downpatrick, Northern Ireland.
Motorcycle helmet reflective tape part 2.
After I added reflective tape to my helmet I was asked by the brother in law to do his also.
I bought myself a new Arai tourx3 helmet but wanted to make it extra safe for nighttime visibility. I had some 'high conspicuity' sticky-back tape, so set about cutting and applying different patterns following the shape of the helmet. in France it is law that you have to have reflective stickers on your helmet. I don't know why ALL helmets don't automatically come with some sort of reflective Hi-vis markings to keep us safe at night? The tape I bought quite cheaply off the internet, I got white and red for the back. I like the checker pattern it gives it a bit of a racey feel. Although great at night it also has a kinda silvery metallic look in the daylight, it was not intentional but is also looks a bit star wars themed(x-wing/tie fighter pilots) which is ok with me. I have seen similar ideas on a few motorbike touring forums and thought I'd share and maybe inspire someone else to do similar.


Do not post nasty, cryptic posts on Facebook/Twitter/Other Social Media about the other parent: If you need to vent about the other parent or about your separation, do not do this on social media sites. Nobody but your closest friends or family should have to read that the children's "father is a deadbeat dad who doesn't pay child support!" or the children's "mother is crazy person who is poisoning the kids by feeding them hot dogs!". Keep your thoughts about your ex off social media.
You never know if your Facebook posts will end up in front of a Judge hearing your case one day. It will be a blow to your character and may damage your case if your Facebook posts tear apart the other parent and makes you look like a difficult person with a vicious personality.
The war of the emails/text messages: You may think your furious email/text message exchange, complete with violent name-calling, finger pointing about irrelevant issues, and threats towards the other parent are private now, but just wait until a Judge gets a hold of them in Court documents. Of course, serious situations may call for a sternly written email. Just remember to stick to the facts and avoid filling the email with words you wouldn't want to hear coming from your own children.
Tip: Write your text messages and emails as though a Judge will be reading them one day. If that is not enough to stop you from writing scathing messages solely designed to berate, insult or threaten the other parent, write your messages as though they will be published in tomorrow's newspapers. After all, most family law court documents are public record, ready to be viewed by anyone who may be interested.
"You were supposed to return the children at 7 PM and it is 7:10 PM!": If the other parent is generally on time to drop off the children, and the children are dropped off late only once in a while, let it go. Chronic lateness is, of course, a problem and needs to be addressed because no parent should have to sit around and wait for the children and put their lives on hold so you can run your errands instead of being on time.
Tip: Don't be late dropping off or picking up the children. Your children will learn from you that timeliness is not important. And sending a text message to the other parent to inform them that you are running late because of traffic/flat tire/child deciding to go to the bathroom at the last minute will certainly diffuse a situation before it even starts.
"No, it's my weekend with the children. You can't have the children for your family reunion/wedding/etc. on my time.": This one will likely come back to haunt you when you try to ask the same from the other parent. Children benefit from being involved with both sides of the family – think about how hurt they will feel if they are excluded from a family event. Maintain a flexible approach to your children participating in these events and you will likely see a positive shift in the way the other parent communicates with you in the future.
It should always go without saying neither parent should speak ill of the other parent to, or in front of the children. You may not be with your ex-spouse/partner anymore, but you are bound to them for the rest of your lives through your children. If you both want to be sitting and smiling in the front row at your child's graduation/wedding/other major event, keeping civil heads today will ensure smooth sailing in the future.
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Meet the Person Behind Those Big Red Bows for Cars
The Big Red Bows For Cars are a Holiday Staple
An Accident Drove Kingaard-Hughes to the Bow Business
Car Dealerships Buy Lots of Bows
King Size Bows To the Moon?
Turning a Transaction Into a Celebration
In every advertisement for a holiday car sales event, there are a few critical elements. The smiling family. A snowy winter morning. There is, of course, a brand new car. And sitting atop that car is an item that has become as important to the mystique of giving – or getting – a brand new vehicle for the holidays as the car itself: a big red bow.
However, it's not as if one can just walk into a store and buy a 30-inch bow. Few holiday gifts require an ornamental ribbon of that size. We wanted to find out where the hundreds of car dealerships across the country get these bows from, and who makes them.
The bows have been a part of the imagery of automakers' holiday sales ads for decades, and those bright red ribbons are now a big part of the holiday sales business. According to Erick Kirks, Marketing Director for Johnson Lexus in Raleigh, NC, "The red bows are very important to our guest delivery experience," he says. "We love them so much … we always order extras."
One of the main places dealerships like Johnson get those bows from is King Size Bows in Costa Mesa, CA, owned and operated by Amber Kingaard-Hughes. She says that as important as the bows are to car dealerships, they can be even more important to the people who buy cars from those dealerships.
"We get calls from dealerships that the bow was part of the negotiation process," she says. "We also get calls from clients that didn't get to keep the bow from the dealership on the car, and they want one."
Kingaard-Hughes hasn't always been in the giant ribbon business. She was working as an emergency dispatcher before a car accident changed her life.
"By accident, literally," she says as she explains how she got into the business. "I was a 911 dispatcher and was in a bad car accident on my way to work. I had major facial injuries requiring surgery and could not speak for a year. I had to resign from dispatching."
While the car accident and resulting surgeries prevented Kingaard-Hughes from working the emergency lines, it didn't stop her from moving forward. As she recovered, she decided to start a new line of work.
"My mom and I went into business together," she continues. "She was the voice of the business, and I was designing. In the meantime, after countless specialists' care and speech therapy, I got my voice back."
Since then, King Size Bows has become one of the first places dealerships turn to when they need their holiday sales event bows. Despite the company's growth and success, Kingaard-Hughes says the company has kept its family nature and tight focus.
"We are a woman- and family-owned business," she said. "Our products are made in the USA, by us, in our design studio. Our materials are locally sourced. We love what we do, and we think it shows."
King Size Bows makes bows and ribbons for many occasions and purposes. However, Kingaard-Hughes says that car dealerships buying big red bows for their holiday sales events make up a substantial part of her business.
"I would estimate 40-50% is to car dealerships, TV commercials, and car giveaways during the holidays for both ready-to-ship bows and custom bows," she reports. "Dealerships are not only putting bows on cars for photo ops, but are putting bows on their buildings, in their showrooms – and some keep bows on hand to give to the clients."
According to Kingaard-Hughes, holiday car bows also take up a significant portion of her business calendar.
"While we are a year-round business, by far the busiest time of year for us is end of May through December," she says. "Our custom orders for Christmas start coming in at the end of May, beginning of June. By the beginning of fall, our production schedule for custom orders is booked for the season."
While dealerships selling cars as holiday gifts make up a substantial portion of Kingaard-Hughes' business, it's not all of it. King Size Bows makes decorative ribbons and bows for many other purposes, even while the company is busy making holiday car bows.
"Amid the holiday shuffle, we are also creating health-awareness loops for childhood cancer [which the month of September is dedicated to] and breast cancer awareness [which takes place in October], to name a few," says Kingaard-Hughes.
And while those red bows from the car commercials are iconic in part due to their massive size, the company makes some that are much, much larger
"We have made several 20-foot breast cancer awareness loops for hospitals, buildings, and amusement parks," she details. "We make bows and health-awareness loops in a variety of sizes, colors, and styles to help [people] celebrate, honor, or remember."
Kingaard-Hughes says that her company has had some requests for bows that were out of this world – quite literally.
"We had someone inquire about putting a bow on one of the spaceships a couple years ago," she says.
But while the company's products have adorned everything from buildings to roller coasters, it's still the holiday auto sales events that are at the heart of the business. A tradition that started just over 20 years ago to help drive December car sales has become part of the American holiday season, albeit a commercial one.
This tradition has, in turn, created an annual need for big red bows for cars. Kingaard-Hughes believes that the bows have endured over the years because they add a little holiday magic to the gift of a new vehicle.
"I believe the bow transforms it from a transaction to a celebration," says Kingaard-Hughes as to why the bows are so popular. "Everyone has seen the car commercials with the bows on top and many think it is just for TV, and won't happen for them. The bow makes the dream real."
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Mike Kennamer Awarded SizzlPix Pick of the Month for "Saturated"
Congrats to Mike Kennamer for his landscape shot from the Great Smoky Mountains as part of the Saturated Photo Assignment.
For his efforts, Mike will receive a free SizzlPix of his image. If you've ever seen one of these high definition images printed on aluminum, you know that Mike is in for a treat.
The current Photo Assignment for Nov. 2010 is "High ISO." If you want to enter an image and be eligible for a free SizzlPix, then send in your photo (captured at ISO 800 or above) by the end of the month. Details for the Photo Assignment are available on the Member Information page.
Thanks to our wonderful sponsor, SizzlPix, and to Mike Kennamer for sharing his good work.


Come celebrate the Fourth of July in Florence June 30th-July 1st, as well as Wednesday, July 4th!
If you're looking for a Fourth of July parade, Main Street Florence is the place to be. The city's annual Wet/Dry Parade starts mid-morning and is followed by live music and vendors at Pioneer Park. There is also the ever-popular Rubber Duck Race.
There will also be craft vendors, food, a beer garden, and plenty of fireworks!
The Third Annual Florence Cup will be another popular event this year, so get your team ready and sign up before June 1st! Events include a 5k run, volleyball, horseshoes, flippy sippy cup obstacle course, tug-of-war, hot dog eating contest, and sumo wrestling! The event is all ages but is highly competitive. Download the registration packet here.


If you're looking for a fresh, fun, lighthearted horror bit that's right for all ages, then Tristan Risk's "Parlour Tricks" is just for you.
Tristan Risk recently added 'director' to her ever-growing resume, and I have to say, I absolutely agree that it belongs there. It's no secret that Risk is a jack-of-all trades, and is known for her other work as an actress (American Mary, Aliens Ate My Homework, Innsmouth), burlesque dancer (Caravan of Creeps), model, snake mommy, writer, producer and now director. I had the immense honor of viewing her directorial debut, Parlour Tricks.
Parlour Tricks, produced in a joint effort with House of Hiss and Bad Cookie Pictures, is everything you'd expect from Tristan Risk — whimsy, horror, laughs and creativity.
But it is also family friendly, which isn't something I would usually associate with Risk. The short film, which runs just over seven minutes and is shot entirely in black and white, is all about a seance gone wrong.
Shot in just one location, a small but talented cast of characters (made up of the well-known Vancouver performers Gidget Gravedigger, Emma Eldritch, Tyler Nichols and Sean Coventon) convene at a seance to summon the spirit of a lost, wealthy relative who passed in a tragic (and questionable) accident. The unlikable relatives of the deceased have gathered to learn the whereabouts of the will and determine who among them should inherit the estate.
Parlour Tricks has no shortage of laughs and gasps, all culminating in a shocking ending that you won't see coming.
Parlour Tricks is backed with a fun, playful score by Kris Wood and excellent cinematography by Jordan Barnes-Crouse. Additional support was provided by Selena Raskin, Ben Gammound and Burns the Dragon.
After seeing her impressive directorial debut, I cannot wait to see what else the talented Miss Risk has in store for us with her future endeavors. Be sure to catch the incredibly fun Parlour Tricks as it tours the festival circuit.


evening the last 2 times they've played in the spring.
Jazzfest, but often around Halloween time as well.
Houser's passing, in New Orleans back on Halloween.
hour's worth of music has been more than encouraging.
one in performance quality with only one exception.
on a life of its own, with a nice jam at the end.
he should in the lead guitar spot.
version was slow, deliberate and beautiful.
faster that he's ready for.
good indicator that there is some worryin' ahead.
Luther and George trading leads and riffs throughout.
annunciating the words just like he does on "Ball,"
that would be the only over-arching criticism I had.
and grab the initiative as he full embraces his role.
2nd set closer in my book.
first performance of this symbolically powerful gem.
been particularly unpopular in fan circles.


On August 24th, 2016, Trix, a 66 million-year-old female Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil excavated in Montana, USA, in 2013, boarded a KLM flight from Chicago to Amsterdam and then took up residence at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a museum in nearby Leiden.
Bolloré Logistics was part of this amazing journey which started in June 2016 when Mr. Laurent Chantegros of our USA Aerospace division was contacted by KLM Cargo for this unique and high-profile project.
Naturalis, the Dutch Biodiversity Center that excavated the T-Rex skeleton, had Trix prepared and crated by a specialized company at The Black Hills Institute in Hill City, South Dakota. Once securely packed, Trix then journeyed to the Air France KLM Cargo warehouse to be built up for loading on KLM's 747 Combi to Amsterdam.
While on its way to Chicago airport, the Dutch Consulate registered Trix as a Dutch citizen and formally handed her over to the Captain of KL612 flight, who was excited to have such a celebrity on board.
As a longtime partner, KLM Cargo put its trust in Bolloré Logistics USA to manage and supervise the loading in Hill City; trucking from South Dakota to Chicago airport, handling of all documentation/permits and customs clearance at destination (handled by Bolloré Logistics Amsterdam's teams).
Trix has more than 80% of her bone volume, placing her in the top 3 rankings of the most complete T-Rex skeletons in the world.
About 50 journalists and TV crews from around the world followed the crates from Montana to Chicago airport where our US teams (Mr. Laurent Chantegros and Ms. Emilie Foray) were on-site to supervise the move.
After a massive reception at Schiphol and the transportation to the museum in Leiden, (covered live by Dutch television), Trix is now assembled and currently on exhibit to the public at Naturalis. Being the only T-Rex permanently displayed in Europe, the museum is facing sold-out crowds since she arrived, and the enthusiasm and excitement doesn't show any signs of slowing down. Trix is scheduled to go on a world tour in 2017 where she is expected to further educate and enrich the knowledge and imaginations of the public globally.


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Xanadu Weyr - Archives
This large, windowless room is set floor to ceiling with shelves that contain ledgers and tomes, maps and diagrams from the first founding of Xanadu to the present. Arranged by topic, one can find records of domestic Weyr management form both Headwomen and Sterwards, wing statistics, Weyrling management, Diplomatic efforts, weather reports, events and vital statistics all dating back over one hundred and fifty turns.
Though kept scrupulously clean and in glass-fronted cabinets, it's impossible for the older tomes not to gather some dust and mold, so the scent upon entering is of antiquity, musty, earthy and rich. Electricity provides ample lighting with which to see. A large wooden table sits in the center of the room with several seats arranged around it. Situated on the polished top is a stack of paper, a container of writing instruments, a large magnifying glass and basket of emergency glows.
It's another lunchtime that Marel is not seen with her class or with her lifemate, but somewhere distant from all of them: in today's case, the archives are what have drawn her away and kept her attention, several books laid out before her at the spot at the table that she's chosen and managed to keep for herself and from company. Elbows propped on the edge of the table, Marel blinks placidly down at the nearest text, her gaze following the written lines, a notebook sat beside her, its pages blank and free, as of yet, of any notes.
Most lunchtimes, Soriana's there with the rest, talking and eating food. Today was no exception, at least at first, but she left early. After the eating, but before the conversation was over - though there may yet have been a few people finishing their meals. She was done with hers, at least, when she made her excuses and left. The back hall leading here is familiar enough to her, but this time, she keeps going past her mother's office and into the archives. Those are less familiar, and after she lets herself in she pauses, looking back along the rows of shelves consideringly. Huh. There sure are an awful lot of them, aren't there?
Marel looks up at the sound of footsteps, but if she catches enough of a glimpse of Soriana to identify the new presence in the room as her, she still remains just as she is, attention swinging back down to her chosen book. A minute passes, maybe more, then she carefully flips the heavy volume shut and leans forward to draw the next in her temporary collection towards her. The title printed on the binding identifies the text as one regarding weyrlings, or the theories behind the training of weyrlings, which is, of all of them, the one she finally begins to take notes from.
Soriana sighs. So many records… but she supposes she'll never get there if she doesn't get started, so she steps forward into the room. She's headed for the shelves, though she pauses when she notices Marel there at the table. A moment's hesitation. Is she supposed to be quiet in here? Well, whether she is or not, Marel seems to be busy working, so Soriana doesn't say anything. She does, however, wave before continuing on the shelves and beginning her own search.
It's not a wave, but a nod that Marel gives in answer, her focus lingering on Soriana for long enough to follow her fellow weyrling to the shelves, her attention dropping away politely so as not to seem intent on figuring out just which book she's after. Another few lines of neatly-printed script later; a frown and the turning of a page and she calls, "Do you know which book you're after?" Terribly factual, not particularly warm, but it's something.
Now then… where would it be? Soriana looks to the shelves, frowning at the assortment of tomes and bound papers. She's still doing it when Marel speaks, and her lips twist in a rueful sorta-smile as she turns her head back. "Not really? I want… administrative records, I guess, from the Annex. That's probably where the duty rosters would be." Probably. Then again, maybe they were considered dull enough to not be worth saving, or maybe they're buried in some other document somewhere.
"They're likely in the same section as the records from the Infirmary," Marel replies, glancing back down at her present work at hand. "Same materials; same subjects, more or less, in many of them, I suppose." Though… "Lists of staffing are probably in a different volume to general administration. I imagine files were - are- kept about staff, though whether even past ones are kept public and with the rosters, I don't know." She shrugs one shoulder, surrendering and excusing her thoughts all at once.
With the infirmary, now that's a thought. Soriana nods to it, then tilts her head as Marel continues. "I'm not looking to pry about anyone." Soriana half-frowns - maybe it's thoughtful? - and turns her head away as she crosses the archives, checking the volumes on the shelf for the right section. "I just want to see what sort of work schedules people had." A pause, as she bends down, and she adds without looking up from the shelves, "…goldriders, especially." Preparing for a future argument? Maybe.
"Of course you aren't." So even is Marel's voice that simply anything could be read into that reply, should one wish to. "You'll probably want wing roster and statistics too, in that case. You might not get a full picture of how time was divided for them if you don't check both. Neither one likely gives all the information on its own." The next turn of a page has her writing again, notes made in the margins of her work, all littered with little question marks.
Anything at all, really. Soriana's face goes still, neither smile nor frown, and she's quiet for a moment. Maybe two, but then, she's listening to Marel's explanation, so that might account for it. "Thanks," she says. She draws out one of the tomes, standing up and turning back to face Marel. Soriana regards the other for a moment, then sighs. "I'm no good at this." She crosses the room, setting her book down on the opposite end of the table from Marel. "Are you still mad at me?"
"I'm not mad at you." And that, it would seem, is the truth, if Marel's ever-serene expression can be trusted to be any true reflection of her feelings. "I just don't have much of an opinion about you or what you think of me anymore. You're in my class and I'm sure that one day I'll be calling you 'ma'am', but other than that…" She shrugs again, not even particularly invested in that motion, turning it into little more than a twitch. "I don't dislike you," the brownrider adds a half-moment later.
Soriana pulls out a chair for herself, though she doesn't immediately sit down. She just stands there, watching Marel at first, and then… just looking down to the table. Not even a particularly interesting bit of the table, either. Just… the table. "I'm sorry," she says after a moment's silence. To the table, but then she looks up again. "I am. Because I like you, but… if you want me to keep leaving you alone, I will." She shrugs, and drops her gaze again - as well as herself, into that chair.
Not particularly prone to grudges, Marel can at least offer, "Me too," in a voice only just above a murmur, "for whatever I did or didn't do. I don't pretend to understand, but…" A twitch of her lips this time, not quite a grimace. "Whatever it was or wasn't, you should know how I feel about Ka'el." She's silent for long enough then for it to seem like she's about to unearth some great truths from the depths of her heart, yet when she finally does speak, it's to state only: "It's like he's one of my brothers. I care about him a lot, and if you find that weird and that means we can't talk to each other, then…"
"You didn't do anything," Soriana insists with perhaps more heat than she meant, her eyes darting up again… and then sinking back down, as she bites the inside of her lip. Other than that, she's quiet as Marel puts the words together, looking up again as she speaks with… well, a dumbfounded expression. "Shards, of course you do!" she says, whether it's interrupting or not. She doesn't care. Sometimes words just have to come out. "You're friends, I know that. Faranth, I'm glad he has a friend like you, maybe he'll listen to you sometimes." A roll of her eyes for the absent Ka'el, and then she shakes her head. "Jnelle's crap about him making out with you was just crap, and I should never have listened to her in the first place. I'm sorry for that, too." Soriana finally stops talking, and slumps back in the chair. "Sorry." For the outburst.
The only reaction Marel permits herself to have is a slight widening of her eyes as Soriana speaks, though she can't quite stop staring at her all the same, the grip on her pen going slack. "He—" She begins to say, only then there's Jnelle and making out and what? "…I guess it's nice to know that she has her own little fantasies," sounds a bit too grown-up and out of place, likely stolen from family or friend, and perhaps makes her mask of calm seem all the more affected, a little grown-up charade. Her gaze drops to study her half-finished page. "…I'm better at talking to boys than to girls. Been with Mur'dah my whole life, so… I suppose that figures. And now there's Isyriath and… Maybe I don't trust girls very well, because there're so many girls like Jnelle."
One corner of Soriana's mouth quirks up at that line about fantasies. It's not funny, except… it is and she can't help it. Soon enough the not funny part reasserts itself and the not-even-half-smile fades. She looks away, back to the shelves, though she's not really seeing them. More just… not looking at Marel; trying to give her space. To not pry… though she listens, nodding slightly at the mention of boys. Mur'dah's name makes her lips tug to the side slightly, but then she nods again. "Boys are easier. You just… talk. Or do stuff. You don't have to guess." Her lips quirk. "If a boy wants to insult you, he'll insult you."
Marel regards her notes for a moment, then stands, beginning to stack her chosen books into a neat pile balanced in her arms. "Boys tell it like it is, most of the time, whether they mean to or not," she remarks, heading across the room to methodically re-shelve the books she carries. She's silent as she does so, not for lack of words, but out of wanting to get the texts back in exactly the right locations, her steps leading her to lean back against the end of one shelving unit once she's done. "Maybe we should just agree to speak to each other like boys do," she proposes wryly.
Soriana nods agreement to Marel, then lowers her gaze to her book as the other girl reshelves. Not that she gets as far as actually opening it or reading actual words, mind you, but she's definitely looking at (through) it. In the end, she lifts her gaze to the shelves again - no, to Marel, leaning against the end of them. A half-smile, and then the other half comes along to join it, though somehow it's still lopsided. "Might work better. Though… I'm okay with skipping the fart jokes if you are."
"Yeah… I think we can forego that much of it," Marel agrees with a half-smile of her own. "And I'm sorry, but I won't be going into raptures over any pretty girls either." Though, given the colour of her lifemate, who knows what the future holds? Maybe it's that thought that reanimates her, drawn towards the doors leading back into the caverns beyond by some invisible force or need to escape that prospect. "Isyriath wants to see me." Or she wants to see him. One of the two. "I'll… see you later." Which is better than avoiding or not seeing, at the very least. And so she slips towards and through the doors.
"That's okay," Soriana agrees about the lack of pretty girl discussion. "I don't think it's actually required." After all, some boys aren't into pretty girls either! Or are sufficiently brotherly that it'd be weird. Soriana nods to the mention of Isyriath, the smile lingering… then growing slightly. "Yeah. See you around." Of course, being weyrlings together, how can they not? Even with getting their own weyrs soon, there's still classes. And yet… it's definitely better than avoiding. Soriana turns her gaze back to the book, once Marel departs, and this time she actually gets as far as opening it and starting to read.
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Good Samaritan Helps Transplant Doctor Who Broke Down With Kidney In The Car
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - It's not an everyday occurrence for an organ transplant surgeon to break down with an organ in his car on his way to the surgery. What happened next was even more unusual and was like a second gift of life.
A good Samaritan carrying a police radio heard the doctor's call for help and knew it was up to him to get the doctor and organ to the hospital.
Normally, you would never take a ride from a stranger even if your car broke down. But in this case, someone's life was on the line, and the stranger was more than a Good Samaritan, he was like someone's angel.
Meet Brad Dostlik, a self-taught mechanic, police radio enthusiast and "good guy."
He was near the Cranberry Mall Wednesday night when he heard an unusual call. An organ transplant doctor driving a Tesla had broken down, with a kidney in his car.
"I like, friendly waved at him and I said, you got a kidney in the car, you need a ride?" Dostlik said.
The Good Samaritan said he approached the doctor quickly due to the urgency and knowing many Tesla's don't have spares.
"When he had a flat tire on a Tesla, I knew it was game over," Dostlik said.
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Some things are just meant to be, the timing, people and purpose.
Inside that car was Dr. Martin Wijkstrom, a UPMC Transplant surgeon. Wijkstrom was on a tight schedule as the life-saving surgery was in a few hours.
"He was very trustworthy and we connected and I had no real doubt," Dr. Wijkstrom said.
With a hospital special response team a distance away, the two men devised a plan.
"Are you willing to drive to Erie? I said yeah, I have a full tank of gas, let's go," Dostlik said.
There was 110 miles between the doctor with a kidney and a patient waiting at UPMC Hamot Medical Center.
Anxiously waiting there, 63-year-old Tom Loree from Warren, Pa., who was in kidney failure.
"We do like to do the transplants in a short period of time because it improves the outcome for the patient, so it's a little time sensitive," Dr. Martin Wijkstrom said.
While best-laid plans may not have worked, the mission of two men worked even better. At 1:45 a.m., Brad received a text that Tom was out of surgery and it was a success.
"People are still out there doing great deeds, wonderful deeds acts of love and kindness," said Colleen Sullivan, Director of Communications for (CORE) Center for Organ Recovery.
"I just want to do my good deed, I really wish other people would do the same thing," Dostlik said.
The two had time for a quick selfie in front of the hospital as the road of life brought two men together to save another.
Dostlik said it was a life-changing moment.
"I'll never forget him, I'll never forget that car ride," he said.


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Feigning concern for the efficacy of Ukraine's foreign policy is a good approach to reach an audience that otherwise would not bother to read obvious disinformation. There are serious flaws in Andreas Umland's recent article for New Eastern Europe.
March 14, 2017 - Askold S. Lozynskyj - Articles and Commentary
Misrepresentations
"…the ultra-nationalist, ethnically cleansed and monistic one-part state that the Bandera faction envisaged, at least until the early 1940's, would have itself amounted to an illiberal and totalitarian dictatorship."
The OUN was a national liberation movement. At its first congress in 1929 it did not adopt any resolution regarding the form of government of a future state. When the OUN began to address the issue of a form of government in 1940, it issued a manifesto which included specific provisions guaranteeing the rights of individuals to work and pursue happiness, protecting women and children, specifically "for the dignity and freedom of the individual, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience. In May 1941, the OUN issued short term political directives in which it stated:
"The formation of a long term state government should be based upon an organised manifestation of the will of the entire Ukrainian nation in the form initiated by the OUN of a general election of the head of the Ukrainian state after the liberation of a greater portion of Ukrainian territory and at the beginning of the formation of the state's existence"
Some documents outlining the OUN's plan for a cleansing of Ukraine from Jews, among other nationalities, were adopted in spring of 1941, before Germany's attack on the Soviet Union.
No such documents exist. I challenge Umland to produce these documents aside from Soviet archives. In fact, authentic OUN documents testify to the contrary, calling upon the Ukrainian population to recognise that Jews and other minorities in Ukraine are not the enemy, and not lose sight of the fact that the enemy is Moscow.
Reference to selective authority with questionable credentials
With all due respect, Umland's roster of academic OUN critics is not a "Who's who" of international scholars. In fact, some of them like Grzegorz Rossolinski- Liebe is an academic neophyte who in his work intentionally misrepresents, i.e. one of the founding organisations of the OUN was the League of Ukrainian Nationalists, which Rossolinski-Liebe called the "League of Ukrainian Fascists". Many of the others were simply retained and paid for by various benefactors ranging from those whose mission was to disparage the OUN for political purposes and were responsible for the assassinations in the West of OUN's leaders or simply those who fabricated demons in order to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. There is a much more impressive panel of academicians who disagree with the negative assessments of the OUN such as Serhijchuk and Patryliak of the Kyiv University, Kvit of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Shapoval of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hunczak of Rutgers University, Kosyk of the Sorbonne and many others, including Viatrovych.
Use of malapropisms, generalisations and half-truths
Calling Stepan Bandera Polonophobic is like calling George Washington Anglophobic. Bandera spent his entire early life fighting the Polish invaders of Western Ukraine. As the leader of the OUN in Ukraine in the 1930s, he authorised the assassinations of particularly harsh Polish implementers of a genocidal pacification policy against Ukrainians on Ukrainian lands. Two, not one of his brothers, were killed by the Nazis in the notorious Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Those Nazis were Polish capos.
On the subject of Ukraine's relations with Poland, Germany and Israel, good relations are mutually important. However, that does not mean that Ukraine should rewrite its history books in order to suit some fringe element of Polish, German or Jewish society. Umland's generalisations are misplaced. Most Poles recognise that in historical Polish-Ukrainian relations Poland was mostly the aggressor. They also recognise that a free and democratic Ukraine is necessary for the continued survival of Poland. In Germany pseudo-intellectuals like Rossolinski-Liebe (who does have a Polish tinge) are fringe. Most Germans are entirely outside politics or pro-Ukrainian. There is an element of German society and government intent on paving the way for sharing the cost of reparations to Jewish Holocaust survivors with other countries by insisting that the Germans could not have perpetrated the Holocaust by themselves. Thus the search for demons continues. This is aided by the Holocaust people whose mission, perhaps noble, is to keep the memory alive. But even that aspect of Jewish society is declining, just as among Ukrainians the numbers of those who blame Jews for the Holodomor is dwindling. Mostly, Jews are favorably inclined towards Ukraine. Ukraine observed Babyn Yar at the highest level. For the first time in a long while, Israel has recently voted with Ukraine on a United Nations' General Assembly's resolution condemning the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The Jewish population in Ukraine is growing and its influence in the Ukrainian government is significant, even disproportionate.
My suggestion is that irrespective of his motives which I can neither assess nor prove, Umland should move on. If he wishes to help Ukraine grow as a state, address Ukraine's corruption and battle the Russians. Those are the real problems the country faces.
Askold S. Lozynskyj is an Attorney at Law born in New York City in 1952. Served as President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America 1990-2000, President of the Ukrainian World Congress 1998-2008 and its main representative to the United Nations in New York 2003-2013. Currently President of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation.
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This issue is dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of the European Union's Eastern Partnership as well as the 30 years since the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe.
Issue 2 2019: Postmodern Geopolitics
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Issue 1 2019: Public intellecturals
This issue takes a special look at the role and responsibility of the public intellectual in Central and Eastern Europe today.
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In the eastern parts of the European continent, 1918 is remembered not only as the end of the First World War, but also saw the emergence of newly-independent states and the rise of geopolitical struggles which are felt until this day.
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The structure of the genomic Bacillus subtilis dUTPase: novel features in the Phe-lid
Javier García-Nafría , Lynn Burchell , Mine Takezawa , Neil J. Rzechorzek , Mark J. Fogg , Keith S. Wilson
Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography 66 (9), 953-961
DOI: 10.1107/S0907444910026272
Abstract: dUTPases are a ubiquitous family of enzymes that are essential for all organisms and catalyse the breakdown of 2-deoxyuridine triphosphate (dUTP). In Bacillus subtilis there are two homotrimeric dUTPases: a genomic and a prophage form. Here, the structures of the genomic dUTPase and of its complex with the substrate analogue dUpNHpp and calcium are described, both at 1.85 Å resolution. The overall fold resembles that of previously solved trimeric dUTPases. The C-terminus, which contains one of the conserved sequence motifs, is disordered in both structures. The crystal of the complex contains six independent protomers which accommodate six dUpNHpp molecules, with three triphosphates in the trans conformation and the other three in the active gauche conformation. The structure of the complex confirms the role of several key residues that are involved in ligand binding and the position of the catalytic water. Asp82, which has previously been proposed to act as a general base, points away from the active site. In the complex Ser64 reorients in order to hydrogen bond the phosphate chain of the substrate. A novel feature has been identified: the position in the sequence of the `Phe-lid', which packs against the uracil moiety, is adjacent to motif III, whereas in all other dUTPase structures the lid is in a conserved position in motif V of the flexible C-terminal arm. This requires a reconsideration of some aspects of the accepted mechanism.


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Former Commercial Hotel
1709 Highway 7 Road, Brougham, Pickering Airport Lands, Ontario, Canada
Formally Recognized: 2006/08/03
Other Name(s)
FHBRO Heritage Character Statement
Construction Date(s)
Listed on the Canadian Register: 2009/07/13
Description of Historic Place
The Former Commercial Hotel in Brougham, Ontario consists of a two-storey brick building with a gable roof and features pointed arched windows prominently positioned in two dormers with finials and decorative wood fascia. Facing Highway 7, it was initially built as a home and then converted into a hotel. Although it is now being used as offices, the sign "Commercial Hotel" painted on its front façade gives a clear indication of its past. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
Heritage Value
The Former Commercial Hotel is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations, and its architectural and environmental values.
Historical Value
The Former Commercial Hotel is a good example of 19th-century post-pioneer rural settlement in Canada, at a time when urbanization and a more diverse economy began to transform the rural communities. The building represents a second-generation of progress, and the idea of permanence, consolidation, stabilization and maturation in rural townships. The Former Commercial Hotel is also associated with local Brougham families. The Former Commercial Hotel is the last surviving example of three hotels in Brougham, and is a very good example of Brougham's prosperous time in a major period of local development in the 1850s and 1860s.
Architectural Value
The Former Commercial Hotel is a two-storey red brick building with a gable roof, and is a good example of rural domestic architecture. The exterior brickwork, pointed arched windows, decorative wood fascia and finials are characteristic elements of the Gothic Revival style, and give the façades a charming and reassuring appearance. The building offers a good example of an effective interior layout with proven flexibility to accommodate different functions over time. The plan was generated within a rectangular footprint, with an entrance point from each side and rooms arranged around a central staircase. The building's solid timber and brick construction demonstrates good craftsmanship and materials that are evocative of artisanal traditions. It has endured many alterations but appears to be in good condition, with surviving interior details, such as the front door, the stairwell and the balustrade.
Environmental Value
The Former Commercial Hotel, as part of the remaining red brick buildings that stand out among the row of clapboard houses, reinforces Brougham's present character. Its associated landscape has evolved over time, with the removal of the open porch and the addition of a shed in the rear. However, the site has generally retained its character and relationship to the building. The Former Commercial Hotel acts as a familiar symbolic landmark for the people of Brougham, and it has gained further awareness since the land expropriation by the federal government in 1972 to make way for a new airport.
Sources: Andrew M. Waldron, Five Buildings: 05-036 – 05-040, Brock Road and Highway 7, Brougham, City of Pickering, Ontario, Federal Heritage Building Report 05-036; Former Commercial Hotel, Heritage Character Statement, 05-036.
Character-Defining Elements
The character-defining elements of the Former Commercial Hotel should be respected.
Its role as a manifestation of the historical theme of 19th-century post-pioneer rural settlement in Canada and of the idea of permanence and consolidation in a period of progress and prosperity as reflected in:
- the physical references to its former functions, including the painted sign "Commercial Hotel" marking its front façade;
- its importance as the last surviving example of three hotels from this period in Brougham.
Its good aesthetic and functional design, and good quality materials and craftsmanship as manifested in:
- its scale and massing, composed of a two-storey, rectangular brick clad structure with a gable roof, dormers and chimneys;
- the composition of the front façade with its two large paned windows on either side of the entranceway;
- the red brick cladding, second-storey pointed arched windows, decorative wood fascia and finials, characteristics of the Gothic Revival style;
- the simple and effective arrangement of its plan consisting of rooms around a central stairway;
- the surviving interior details such as its front door, stairwell and balustrade.
The manner in which the building reinforces the rural character of Brougham as evidenced in:
- its noticeable presence in the hamlet accentuated by its two-storey red brick construction,
- its physical proximity to Highway 7 and its relationship with the adjacent properties, which has remained unchanged in its character;
- its symbolic landmark value as contributing to the history of the hamlet.
Recognition Authority
Recognition Statute
Treasury Board Heritage Buildings Policy
Recognition Type
Recognized Federal Heritage Building
Recognition Date
Significant Date(s)
Theme - Category and Type
Function - Category and Type
Commerce / Commercial Services
Hotel, Motel or Inn
Architect / Designer
Location of Supporting Documentation
National Historic Sites Directorate, Documentation Centre, 5th Floor, Room 89, 25 Eddy Street, Gatineau, Quebec.
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CEO Summit: Peer-to-Peer Networking: Franchise Execs Open Up At Day-Long Seminar
By: Eddy Goldberg | 3,755 Reads | 32 Shares
Featured in: Franchise Update Magazine: Issue 4, 2009
Take two dozen franchise CEOs and presidents, add one expert facilitator, stir for a full day, and what do you get? The second annual CEO Summit, held in Chicago this past September as part of Franchise Update's Leadership & Development Conference.
Behind closed doors and the promise of confidentiality, these franchise leaders rolled up their sleeves and spoke candidly with their peers about their common problems and concerns. We can, however, share some general observations, as well as highlights from the first-ever CEO Confidence Survey.
The all-day session was led by Linda Burzynski, CEO of consulting firm VL Corp. and president of The Franchise CEO Network, a collaboration between VL Corp. and Franchise Update Media Group (and a former franchise CEO and president herself).
Topics included the role of leadership, CEO burnout/health, managing both dissident and high-performing franchisees, metrics and benchmarking, mentoring programs, optimizing territories, key performance indicators, financing, overseas expansion, social networking/media, lead generation, financial disclosure, and more.
CEO Confidence Survey
In the first-ever CEO Confidence Survey, 54 franchise CEOs and presidents answered questions about current business conditions and their outlook for 2010.
Eight in 10 said they were "more optimistic" about the coming year--a marked contrast to how franchise executives felt entering 2009. About 15 percent said they felt the same, and only 6 percent were less optimistic.
However, for 2009, their responses reflected the overall economic situation. Only one in three (35 percent) anticipated reaching their franchise sales goals this year. An even smaller group (28 percent) thought they would reach their system-wide revenue goals in 2009.
The lack of available capital was a huge issue. No surprise there. Responding to the question, "Do you expect the financing of the growth plans of your business to be affected by difficulties in the global banking and financial system?" three out of four (76 percent) said yes, 17 percent said they didn't know, and only 7 percent said no.
Nevertheless, the 54 CEOs remained fairly optimistic about their level of confidence in franchisee prospects for growth in 2010. One in three (33 percent) said "high"; 39 percent said "average"; 20 percent said "low"; and 7 percent didn't know.
For 2010, more than half (54 percent) said their franchise sales goals would be more aggressive than in 2009, while 44 percent said they'd be the same. Only one respondent said their sales goal would be less aggressive next year.
Not representative of franchising as a whole, more than 6 in 10 (63 percent) of respondents were in the service sector; 20 percent were in food, and 17 percent in retail non-food.
System-wide annual revenues among respondents were widely distributed, with 26 percent between $1 million and $8 million, 20 percent above $100 million, and all but one of the rest in between.
At the close of the day, friends were made, bonds were formed, and many expressed interest in staying in touch throughout the year. In the last group exercise, reviewing the day's highlights and "takeaways," one CEO said the best thing for him was discovering he was wrong: "I hate coming to these types of things, but I found today I have been missing a lot," he said. Especially valuable for him was "listening to other people about the experiences they're having."
The complete results of the first CEO Confidence Survey, with responses to additional questions and further details on participants by industry sector, investment requirements, gross annual revenues, and number of units, is available for purchase at www.franchise-update.com
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Q: Find $\vec{k}=(k_1,\cdots,k_n)$ with $\|\vec{k}\|_{\infty}\leq K, ~u_{1}^{k_{1}}\cdots u_{n}^{k_{n}}=1$ in $O((2K+1)^{n/2})$ arithmetic operations. Given an integer parameter $K$, one can test whether for a vector $\vec{u}=\left(u_{1}, \ldots, u_{n}\right) \in$ $\mathbf{N}^{n}$ there is non-zero vector $\vec{k}=\left(k_{1}, \ldots, k_{n}\right) \in \mathbf{Z}^{n}$ with
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\|\vec{k}\|_{\infty} \leq K \text { and } u_{1}^{k_{1}} \cdots u_{n}^{k_{n}}=1,
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where $\|\vec{k}\|_{\infty}=\max _{1 \leq i \leq n}\left|k_{i}\right|$ in about $O\left((2 K+1)^{n}\right)$ arithmetic operations with integers having about $O\left(n K \log \left(\|\vec{u}\|_{\infty+1}\right)\right)$ bits via testing all possible combinations of the exponents (ordered lexicographically) and direct computation.
Assuming that the memory is essentially unlimited, suggest a better algorithm which uses about $O\left((2 K+1)^{n / 2}\right)$ arithmetic operations with integers of the same size as above.$$$$
I believe that to reduce the order we should use the divide-and-conquer strategy, and it seems hat we should also use the fact that a list $L$ of $M$ real numbers can be sorted via $O(M \log M)$ comparisons, and a sorted list $L$ of $M$ real numbers can be searched for $x \in L$ via $O(\log M)$ comparisons, since this reduces the order $2$ to approximately order $1$. It'll be easy to change the order into $O\left((2 K+1)^{n - 1}\log K\right)$, but I don't know how to proceed next. Are there any suggentions on using this idea to proceed? Thanks!

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The impact of the Supreme Court judgement on divestment of state-run refinery majors BPCL and HPCL was seen even on Wednesday and its effect was seen on other public sector undertakings (PSUs) share prices, which declined heavily and its impact was seen on other counters as well.
This resulted in the benchmark indices shaving off early gains of the day. Volatility marked most part of the session on Wednesday as was reflected in the choppy movements of 108 points intra-day of BSE-30 share Sensitive Index (Sensex). However the Sensex eventually ended with a loss of 39.40 points, or 0.92 per cent to end at 4,235.35 while BSE PSU index sharply crashed by 4.52 per cent or down by whooping 129.17 points at 2728.17.
The NSE S&P CNX Nifty Index shed 16.35 points to 1,341.60, coming off the days high of 1,377.45. The FE constituted FEfty also lost 38.55 points as it closed at 1556.86 on Wednesday.
HPCL (down 4.81 per cent to Rs 328.30) slumped from the days high of Rs 346 touched in the opening trades. The SC ruling hurt HPCL immensely on Tuesday itself, as the stock slipped from an early high of Rs 401 to Rs 344.90 at close Tuesday. Volumes in HPCL today reached over 55.31 lakh shares. Other PSUs like Indian Oil (down 5.38 per cent to Rs 360.60), Nalco (down 4.62 per cent to Rs 105.20), Engineers India (down 4.27 per cent to Rs 262) and Gail India (down 4.51 per cent to Rs 128.05) ended lower after remaining weak for most part of the session.
Hitesh Seth, technical analyst from Prabhudas Lilladher said Despite the weakness, the undertone of the market remains optimistic on a cautious note amid rising hope that economic growth will turn out stronger than expected this fiscal.
Meanwhile, FIIs turned net buyers on Tuesday (Sept 16), pouring in Rs 196 crore into the market. It is also to be recalled that they were net buyers to the tune of Rs 77.80 crore on Monday even as the BSE Sensex shed 112 points.
According to dealers, old economy stocks declined in the last half-an-hour of the session on increased selling pressure. Tech stocks, which led early gains, pared a good part of their early gains in the last hour of trading.
Cement pivotals also featured among the major losers on Wednesday. ACC (down 4.91 per cent to Rs 189.90) Grasim (down 2.90 per cent to Rs 597.70), L&T (down 2.60 per cent to Rs 298.25) and Gujarat Ambuja Cements (down 0.44 per cent to Rs 214.50) also declined after early gains.


We all like our children to grow up to become successful in whatever they choose as their career. However, this takes responsibility on us parents to provide what is needed in their growing up years. These are the formative years. Children need maximum mental nourishment in addition to the physical nourishment. Their mental nourishment comprises of mostly value systems in addition to the physical nourishment. As our children come into their teens, we need to provide what is required of us. We assume the role of a solution provider. How good a solution provider we are depends on how good a listener we can be. We sometimes offer solutions which we have rather than what is asked of us. Are we a part of the problem! What can we do to offer solutions that is required of us so that we can be a part of the solution?
As parents, our role is to mentor our children. This means, in the initial years, our children must know what is good for them and what is not. This drill is what we call mentoring. In other words, we can also call these as value systems that parents introduce to their children in their growing up years. Above all, children are pushed to follow these value systems. This is the right thing to do. This is also called disciplining the mind.
As children surpass their initial growing up years and come into their teens, they don't need a mentor anymore. They need a guide.
We all have an inner guide. If we listen to this inner guide, it will tell us what we can do and what we mustn't do. But, there is a problem. The problem is in accessing this inner guide. The interference is caused by the mind. Desires in mind prevent us from accessing the inner guide. The mind behaves as if it is the inner guide. Then, it becomes difficult to differentiate between the mind and the inner guide. That's when parents act as guides to their teenage children. This practice of listening to the inner guide was not taught by our parents. Therefore, we don't know how to teach our children. As parents, we must learn to connect with the inner guide and listen to its guidance. In other words, It's our internal GPS which is always there to guide us with whatever we need.
Children are open to discuss with parents. But, parents begin with a judgment. They are assuming that they know. Children mostly are upset with this. When I speak with my 15 year old daughter, In my 28 year of working with people, I have seen countless parents who tried whatever psychological tools they had, to influence their children. This is not right. Children who have passed the growing up years and entered their teens need your guidance. They don't need your mentoring anymore. You mustn't force them to do what you think is best for them.
There is quite a bit of homework parents need to do so that they can be effective as guides. The homework begins with releasing all of your perceptions, resumptions, judgments, desires for your children. This can be effectively accomplished with a process called Cutting the Ties That Bind. This is a 15 day process both parents need to undertake so that they can free themselves from forcing their children. In other words, parents need to guide without expecting the outcome. There must be absolute non-interference in their guidance. This becomes easy only when you take responsibility and do your homework.
When in ego consciousness, we become a part of the problem. Guidance must be given only when it is sought. That's when relationships blossom. A happy family is one where everyone has the freedom to explore life responsibly, without fear and prejudice.


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Early SK, brgy poll listing urged
An official of the Commission on Elections in Baguio urged the public to avoid the rush and register early for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Dec. 5.
Baguio elections officer John Paul Martin said the registration will be from July 4 to July 23 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday.
"It will be short, so be ready. Those who are 15 to 17 years old on the day of the polls can also register but they can only vote in the SK elections," Martin said.
He said voters should bring any valid proof of identification and fill out a registration form.
The registration will also accommodate applications for transfer, correction of voting records, and reactivation of records.
He said voters whose record was deactivated due to failure to vote for two consecutive regular elections may reactivate their records. – PNA
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Graham Furniture Mart has spent 69 years nestled in downtown Graham, NC serving four generations of customers. Beyond the modest storefront, vast rows of plush armchairs and sofas recline in the interior. A sign announcing the La-Z-Boy Comfort Center greets customers only seconds before one of six employees say hello.
Graham Furniture Mart was opened in 1947 by George Crotts after his discharge from the Navy following WWII. He had formerly worked with his father-in-law who hand built upholstered rockers and chairs in Hickory, NC. Originally from Siler City, NC, George moved to Graham and found that it only had one furniture store at the time.
"There is the self-satisfaction of helping people," Paul Crotts said. Paul is George's son and now manages the store.
Graham Furniture Mart has been a La-Z-Boy dealer for the past 35 years and negotiated to put in a large La-Z-Boy Comfort Studio. The gallery features popular micro suede, leather, and fleece furniture fibers and provides a new look for a wing of their showrooms.


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¨ What do English teachers understand by the word 'creativity'?
¨ How does their understanding of creativity differ from the meanings that others ascribe to this word?
¨ What forms does creativity take in their classrooms?
Prompted by Raymond Williams's statement that creativity involves stepping from the 'known into the 'unknown', the contributors to this volume inquire into how their students explore the 'unknown' in a policy environment where everything is mapped out in advance by predetermined learning 'outcomes'. They see their classrooms as spaces for students to engage in imagination, play and learning that exceed the conventional expectations of standardised learning continua. However, rather than supposing that it is possible to transcend those settings, as in old-fashioned notions of creativity or giftedness, the authors carefully trace the ways in which moments of creativity still occur within the heavily regulated environments imposed on them by governments. Creativity, they argue, should be understood as a product of the institutional setting of the school, as something that is facilitated by the social relationships of the classroom, rather than falling back on to assumed binaries of school as a place of regulation and control and creativity as something that can only happen outside the school gates.
History has a privileged place in these essays, which draw on work from a number of key theorists in the history of English curriculum and related areas of the social science, including the work of Raymond Williams.
Although Shellshock is a play about war, about both sides of a battle which took place in Turkey 100 years ago, it is not a play that focuses on the battlefield itself with all the sounds and fury of war. Instead, it is a story told in an unexpected way, with characters you might not usually find in a war story….
When a mysterious visitor arrives from Turkey in 2015, young Tom Lindsay, his widowed father, Jack, and grandmother, June, all become embroiled in a drama which had its extraordinary origins at Gallipoli a hundred years before. Justin Fleming's exciting new play is for all people of all ages. It is a gripping story which, by gradual and intriguing revelations, takes us on a thrilling journey to the powerful heart of humanity.
In the Kingdom of Contradiction - it is raining, yet the sky is blue with sun.
Contrary to a Chinese edict against western influence in music, a courageous woman secretly teaches her young son to play the piano in the home. In setting him on the path to fame as a leading pianist, neither she nor her son expected they would become embroiled in a dangerous confrontation between Shanghai and Canberra. From the birth of China's Cultural Revolution to the eve of the Tiananmen Square protests, Justin Fleming's dazzling new play weighs the price of defiance in the face of brutality. His Mother's Voice is a love story: the love between two young people from different worlds; the love that drives a mother to great sacrifice; and the love of a young man for his country.
What is the backstory to "The Tempest"?
Who is plotting against who in "Julius Caesar"?
Why is Ariel vying against Puck?
How did Feste break a leg?
And - Where IS Sean Connery?
More Catch The Bard offers five funny and informative short plays based on the characters and themes of William Shakespeare's plays, providing an introduction to Shakespeare for English and Drama students from year 7-10.
Each play is supplemented with questions and in depth extension exercises catering for a variety of learners and styles.
The story of The Tempest is like an iceberg; most of it is backstory. When a ship carrying passengers on their way home from a wedding is wrecked not on an iceberg but on an island, Prospero tells Miranda in flashback scenes what actually happened in Milan twelve years ago. 9 characters.
Shakespeare's magical characters meet at the Rough Magic Conference for Fairyland's Annual Awards. Some supernaturals have personal gripes, whilst the fairies are solely there to check out Puck. After Prospero resigns his post as Chairman and drowns his magic book, Oberon and Titania, still quarrelling, vie for the position. Happily Puck ends the play with his usual epilogue. 15 characters.
When Shakespeare's funny men get together at the 400th Annual Comedy Festival there's bound to be silly-ness and big egos. Whilst Launce, Bottom, the Dromio twins and others strut their stuff , those waiting backstage have a lot to say about everyone else's performance 15 characters.
Two minor characters of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Popilius Lena and Artemidorus are actually agents of The SUPER TASKFORCE of the ROMAN EMPIRE's SECRET SERVICE or STRESS. They hire an actor Antonius Maximillius to play a Soothsayer and therefore warn Caesar of the imminent plot. 3 characters.
Drama teacher Victor, after watching a 'Japanese version' of the Scottish Play, has rewritten it as a Musical. His colleagues are less than enthusiastic, especially when they hear that the ex-barrel girl from The Price is Right will be appearing as Lady Macbeth. The usual school play disasters occur. Fiction and reality blend as the production descends into a tartan chaos signifying nothing. 26 characters.
One of the hardest decisions for a school Drama group to make is simply this: Which play?
The choice must be entertaining. The text must be clear and relevant. The set must be practical. The play must have parts for a specific number of actors, male and female. The show must not go on endlessly all night. And so on.
And, occasionally, it would be nice to get away from the school musical and tackle a classic.
The Unauthorised Classics Series solves some of these problems.
Doctor Mal Gray Louis is a restructuring of Moliere's Le Medecin Malgre Lui in the style of the Italian Commedia dell'Arte.
There were no scripts in the Commedia. It was improvised theatre. It consisted of a number of stock characters, and each actor would play the one character throughout his or her career. All Commedia performers would carry comic monologues, double act routines, punch lines and bits of comic business in their heads and improvise their use when on stage. Running gags and topical allusions were a staple diet of the Commedia. The stories acted out were all variations on a theme: a rich miser wants to marry his beautiful daughter to a wealthy nobleman. The nobleman is ugly and conceited, and the girl is in love with someone else. Servants are employed to carry messages between all the parties involved. They lose the messages, fall in love with the young lovers themselves and generally cause chaos!
The Commedia was a comic, boisterous and irreverent form of theatre. So is Doctor Mal Gray Louis.
This is a new translation by Justin Fleming of Molière's The School for Wives, first staged in Paris in 1662.
Arnolde, a wealthy business man, reveals that he confined a young girl, Agnes, in a convent as a child so that some day she may be his innocent, ignorant and therefore dutiful wife. Now that Agnes is of marrying age, Arnolde hides her in a house and plans their wedding.
Horace, the handsome son of Arnolde's friend, catches a glimpse of Agnes, and falls in love with her. By boldly gaining access to the house, he learns from Agnes how her master keeps her a prisoner from the world.
Incensed at Horace's secret advances, Arnolde forbids Agnes from seeing Horace and sends for a lawyer to prepare the marriage contract.
But in an hilarious sequence of events, Fate reveals that it has a very different plan in mind.
Exploring Asian Voices explores literary and media texts suitable for Asian Studies within the secondary English Curriculum. Texts about Asian places, people, events and traditions give historical information as well as how their culture has been represented over time. Asian poets, writers and film makers often examine issues of migration, exile or the refugee experience and the traumatic emotional impact it can have on those who experience it first-hand. Similarly, Asian memoirs, autobiographies and diaries frequently deal with the hardships of coping with war, poverty and social injustice. The voices that are heard can be confronting but are often also inspirational in their desire to promote social and cultural reform and freedom.
Cultural adjustment and assimilation problems are other recurring themes in many Asian texts. This is not surprising with estimates that as many as twenty million Asian migrants have left their homelands to settle elsewhere. Studying such texts deepens historical and cultural familiarity and builds empathy through identification with often youthful protagonists. They can also increase student appreciation for virtues such as resilience, courage and determination in overcoming physical, cultural and language barriers. The rich literary history and diversity of Asian texts offer students many opportunities to broaden their learning and communication skills.


Zur narratologischen Analyse von Theodor Fontanes Roman "Effi Briest"
Narratological Analysis of Theodor Fontane's Novel "Effi Briest"Naratologická analýza románu Theodora Fontana "Effi Briest"
Die lexikalischen Austriazismen im Roman Thomas Bernhards "Holzfällen"
The lexical austriacisms in Thomas Bernhard's novel "Holzfällen"Lexikální austriacismy v románu Thomase Bernharda "Kácení dříví"
Book and its adaptation-Thomas Brussig "At the shorter and of sonnenallee" and the film "Sonnenallee" directed by Hausmann. ComparisonKniha a její zfilmování - Thomas Brussig: "Na kratším konci Sonnenallee" a film "Sonnenallee" režiséra Hausmanna. Srovnání.


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Off the Map ist eine US-amerikanische Fernsehserie, die am 12. Januar 2011 erstmals auf dem amerikanischen Sender ABC gezeigt wurde. Die erste Staffel besteht aus 13 Episoden, die bis zum 6. April 2011 vollständig ausgestrahlt wurden.

Am 13. Mai 2011 wurde die Serie von ABC eingestellt.

Handlung
Die Serie handelt von einer Gruppe junger Ärzte, die im südamerikanischen Dschungel versucht, mit geringen finanziellen Mitteln eine Klinik auf Vordermann zu bringen. Viele Mitglieder der Gruppe sind vor ihren persönlichen Lastern dorthin geflüchtet, was natürlich zu Spannungen im Team führt.

Besetzung
 Martin Henderson als Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Keeton
 Jason Winston George als Dr. Otis Cole
 Valerie Cruz als Zita Alareina "Zee" Toledo Alvarez
 Caroline Dhavernas als Dr. Lily Brenner
 Zach Gilford als Dr. Tommy Fuller
 Mamie Gummer als Dr. Mina Minard
 Rachelle Lefèvre als Dr. Ryan Clark
 Jonathan Castellanos als Charlie

Episodenliste
Die Erstausstrahlung der ersten Staffel wurde vom 12. Januar bis zum 6. April 2011 auf dem US-amerikanischen Sender ABC gesendet. Eine deutschsprachige Erstausstrahlung war bisher noch nicht zu sehen.

Auszeichnungen
Im Jahr 2011 wurde die Serie bei den Imagen Foundation Awards für die Kategorie "Best Primetime Television Program/Movie-of-the-Week" nominiert. Darüber hinaus wurde Jonathan Castellanos für seine Rolle als bester Nebendarsteller nominiert.

Weblinks

 Off the Map auf TV.com
 Off the Map auf Serienjunkies.de

Einzelnachweise

Fernsehserie (Vereinigte Staaten)
Fernsehserie der 2010er Jahre
Arzt-/Krankenhausfernsehserie
Fernsehserie (American Broadcasting Company)

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263 locomotives were built, originally numbered D5500-5699, D5800-62.
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OMGosh! This CottageCutz Penguin w/Ski's is so cute - I just love him!
Some of my all time favorite color combonations are just perfect for winter cards and layouts and this penquin fits right in. I shaded around his scarf, feet, bill and ski's with ink and added some pen detailing around them too. I tore some white cardstock for a strip of snow and added some mounting tape to the back of the finished die to pop him up just a bit.
This cute little guy will be popping up on lots of my wintertime projects!
I am loving all of the penguins for Winter layouts but I LOVE how you used the Penguin with Ski's for this adorable Winter card!! Your color choices are fantastically "cool"! Wonderful detailing, too!
So Coooool and love the polka dots!!!


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New Study Shows High Heels are Biggest Culprit of Female Foot Pain
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May 19, 2014, 07:00 ET
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) today announced the results of its Today's Podiatrist survey, which measures the public's attitudes toward foot health. The study, which surveyed 1,000 US adults ages 18 and older, revealed that nearly half of all women (49 percent) wear high heels, even though the majority of heel wearers (71 percent) complain these shoes hurt their feet.
The American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) today announced the results of its Today's Podiatrist survey, which measures the public's attitudes toward foot health. The study, which surveyed 1,000 US adults ages 18 and older, revealed that nearly half of all women (49 percent) wear high heels, even though the majority of heel wearers (71 percent) complain these shoes hurt their feet. (PRNewsFoto/American Podiatric Medical Assoc) (PRNewsFoto/American Podiatric Medical Assoc)
These findings seem to fit the old adage that "beauty is pain." Even chronic discomfort doesn't appear to deter women from purchasing the strappy stilettos they love: The average woman who owns high heels has nine pairs! Asked what they do when shoes hurt their feet, 38 percent of women said they'd "wear them anyway if I like them."
However, in spite of their extensive shoe collections, only two percent of women say they wear high heels every day, and just five percent say they wear high heels five days per week. Almost half say they wear heels rarely or never (46 percent)—which may give them a leg-up when it comes to preventing permanent damage to their feet.
"With high heels, moderation is key. It's best not to wear them every day," said Matthew G. Garoufalis, DPM, past president of APMA. "Daily heel-wearing can cause the Achilles tendon, the strong tendon at the back of your ankle, to shrink. This increases your risk of an injury while doing activities in flat shoes, including exercise."
Heel height also plays an important role in preventing foot pain. Almost half of women say they can withstand wearing heels that are 3" or higher, though podiatrists recommend staying more grounded.
"Heel wearers should avoid heels higher than two inches," said Dr. Garoufalis. "Wearing heels three inches or higher shifts body weight forward, and puts great pressure on the ball of the foot and the toes."
While high heels were far and away the biggest culprits of foot pain, affecting 71 percent of wearers, women said other types of footwear including barefoot running shoes (27 percent), boots (26 percent), flats (23 percent), and flip flops (23 percent) also caused discomfort.
"Foot pain is never normal, and it's critical that anyone experiencing chronic pain—from footwear or otherwise—seeks care from an expert," said Dr. Garoufalis. "We hope these findings encourage Americans to fight foot pain with the help of today's podiatrist."
For detailed survey findings and an infographic on high heel pain, visit the APMA website.
The American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) is the nation's leading professional organization for today's podiatrists. Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPMs) are qualified by their education, training, and experience to diagnose and treat conditions affecting the foot, ankle, and structures of the leg. APMA has 53 state component locations across the United States and its territories, with a membership of more than 12,000 podiatrists. All practicing APMA members are licensed by the state in which they practice podiatric medicine. For more information, visit www.apma.org.
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Podiatrists Encourage Asian Women to Seek Regular Care for Diabetes


It was yesterday, not much about it at the moment! I can only say that she sang Sun Will Never Set.
Oh, by the way, Jolin won the "Best Dance Artist" award at the Chinese Music Awards which were held yesterday!


Is Your PC Dirty Inside?
We see all kinds of computers here. Inside, most of them are dirty. Some are pretty wild inside. Most of the time it's not the client's fault.
There's a fun subreddit where people post pics of dusty computers. I've never posted there, but I've thought about it. Computers have cooling fans and sit on the floor many times, so it's natural they collect dust inside. Dust can causes the fans to fail and overheat, so it's a good idea to have them cleaned. Pet dander and smoke debris get in there as well.
Don't just take a vacuum to clean it, please. While we love seeing you, we don't want to see you because of this. Static is what causes computers to get "fried." If you don't make sure to ground yourself, you'll transfer a charge to the computer.
We have special equipment to clean inside the computer without zapping it with electricity. Checking the insides of a computer is part of our standard tune up process, but feel free to ask for it during any service call. We carry the tools with us.


Life of the great St. John Vianney (1786-1859). He barely succeeded in becoming a priest, but from the humblest parish imaginable, he became the "Patron Saint of Parish Priests" everywhere. Over 500,000 visit Ars each year! Incredible!


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Finally the truth about DNC 'Hacking', The Russians, Guccifer 2.0, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Roger Stone & the Trump campaign 8/29/18
In the second part of this report, we saw that correcting the flagrant misrepresentations and filling in the strategic gaps in Robert Mueller's July 13 indictment yields a tale that revolves around four important dates in the annals of 2016 presidential election skullduggery: one in March and three over a four-day period in June of that year.
Mother Jones Rebuttal 8/18/18
Normally, I wouldn't respond to a hatchet job by Mother Jones, a fake news site who's editor is up to his keister in pushing the fake dossier searing Donald Trump financed by Team Hillary and the DNC thru disguised legal payment to a heavy duty Democrat Law Firm and culled from Russian Intelligence sources to the FBI.
Debunks Russian Collusion Myth On Sirius-XM 7/31/18
Roger Stone returns to the Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Radio Show and talks about the Russia collusion hoax, the Mueller probe, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Wikileaks and more...
Broward Lawyers Win Dismissal for Former Trump Adviser Roger Stone Over DNC Emails 7/10/18
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle grant attorneys Robert C. Buschel's and Grant J. Smith's motion to dismiss a Russia collusion case against Roger Stone for lack of jurisdiction.
U.S. District Court Judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday that alleged collusion with Russia and WikiLeaks 7/6/18
Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone said the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that he and the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to release hacked emails during the 2016 election is a "crushing defeat" for John Brennan and James Clapper.
House Demands Documents About FBI Informants Used To Surveil And Set-Up The Trump Team 7/1/18
On the heels of a stunning new revelation that another FBI informant had tried to infiltrate the Trump campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunez has made a formal demand to the Justice Department to disclose how many FBI informants, or spies, were used to set-up or track the Trump campaign team, and associates.
Why Roger Stone's book 'Stone's Rules' Is the 21st century's 'Art of War' 6/28/18
Let's begin with three "Adams' Rules" providing context for the 140 "Stone's Rules: How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style" -- by political strategist Roger Stone, his sixth and latest book.
My Recently Remembered Contact with a Russian FBI Informant 6/18/18
My critics have flipped because I only recently recalled a contact who was both a Russian and an FBI informant only in the country on a visa requested by the Miami office of the FBI saying his presence in the country served a "public benefit". The man who called himself Henry Greenberg is actually Gennady Vasilievich Vostretsov. A convicted violent felon who spent 10 years in prison and has been an FBI informant for 17 years.
Behold. 'Stone's Rules' Revealed In New Book! 5/7/18
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 might as well be your birthday. For at long last, America's most notorious political operative is set to release his famed operating manual to you, the people.Stone's Rules: How To Win At Politics, Business, And Style. Rejoice and be glad in it...
'Russian Collusion Delusion': Roger Stone Blasts Mueller's 'Fairy Tale' Probe as Attempt to Hurt Trump 5/4/18
Veteran political consultant and onetime Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone ripped Robert Mueller and his probe into the president's alleged collusion with Russia.
Insider Exclusive: Roger Stone Blasts 'Bogus' CNBC Story, Another Distraction in Ongoing Witch Hunt 5/4/18
Yesterday, CNBC was on the attack with another one of their trademark bogus "sources tell us" stories. Their target this time was Trump confident and political strategist, Roger Stone.
Roger Stone intense focus of Mueller Probe says it is 'BullSchiff' 5/4/18
Friday, a well known political pundit was on Tucker Carlson, and referred to Congressman Adam Bennet Schiff (D-Mass) as "Bullschiff", for his ongoing congressional investigations into the Presidental campaign of Donald J. Trump and legal harrasment.
Attacks On Roger Stone Are Attacks On Us All 4/5/18
Roger Stone speaks his mind. Roger Stone is no-holds-barred. To some, he is the ruthless tactician and patriot who helped his longtime friend Donald Trump become President. To others, he is the Satan reincarnate who broke the political system and launched President Cheetoh into the Oval Office.
No Collusion, No 'Game Changer' - Just Lies 3/26/18
The Daily Beast is 100% Fake News.
'I didn't ask Sam Nunberg to protect me, I don't think I require any protection' 3/8/18
President Donald Trump's longtime friend, and political adviser Roger Stone, said he has not been contacted by special counsel Robert Mueller's team.
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