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Description: This course is designed to integrate theory, principles, and procedures of the psychological consultation process to address academic, behavioral, and social/emotional problems exhibited by children and adolescents in school, community, and home settings. Students build skills in consultation as a psychological intervention at the individual, group, and system levels to address student behavioral and instructional needs. Development of collaborative approaches to improve implementation of services is emphasized. Letter grade only.


So I found all the Triple B bling in the closet over the weekend and thought to myself this morning, What the hell, I should wear that classic, silk rodeo tie my dad gifted me in 1965 and my Bishop Mule Days Grand Marshal belt buckle to work today. So I did.
"I am sucking in my gut!"
I think you grew a little BBB..ties a tad too short....keep-up the giddy-up...!!!


In my ink and paper constructions, I tear, shape, and combine drawn and prepared papers. Working with ink and brushes of many sizes, I begin with large gestural movements that echo the rhythmic flow of musical phrasing. Prior to my studio session, I listen to many musical selections, 18th century Baroque, contemporary classical, or jazz, and select the music I will listen to as I work according to the kind of mood or energy I wish to convey and by visualizing the music's effect on my linear gestures. I then lay large papers in rows together on the floor and work quickly from one paper to the next, changing brush sizes as needed and allowing ink to dry before adding other tones. Later I use portions of these gestural paintings as layered components, combined with durable papers, and build three-dimensional forms so as to create the illusion that these forms burst out of themselves within a sturdy physicality. The forms are non-rectangular and have folded, torn, or curled edges that crawl outwards to extend across the wall.
My marks are gestural abstractions, however, the shapes, shadows, forms, and lines I use can suggest an undulation and take on an aspect that may suggest energy, landmass, waves, ice or snow, rock, or other physical elements. I choose to work on paper because of its long history as a means of recording human thoughts and ideas. Paper is a natural material, recyclable, and environmentally safe. Also, tearing and shaping the paper is another mark of the human hand.
My pictorial language derives from many areas. Characteristics I observe in natural forms, such as rocks and fossils inspire me always. Years of study in calligraphy guide my strokes and brush work. My lifelong study of music, its performance, and reading of musical notation—including facsimiles of autograph manuscripts from the 13th century to those of contemporary times—influence my marks and details in my compositions.
My constructions have a long personal history. As a child, I was fascinated by found elements and piecing them together in new constructions. I created sculptures by combining Brazil nutshells to create figures within a scene I crafted from cardboard and straw. I created 3-D houses and cityscapes from cardboard my father brought home from work for me; and from flat corrugated shipping boxes, I created 3-D landscapes and roadways with hills and bridges for my little brother to use in his imaginative play. I also was fascinated by the peeling of paint on our old house's exterior and the flaking and chips of interior paint, and as I picked and peeled shapes in the brittle paint, I revealed layers of previous paint colors from an earlier time, like archaeological finds. In my constructions today I build on concepts of hidden layers and continue the process of discovery in assembling my pre-made pieces into something entirely new so as to reconstruct a new reality of my own invention.
Current Influences include Mark Bradford, Cy Twombly, Gao Xingjian, Julie Mehretu, and Qin Feng. From Robert Nickle, one of my most memorable teachers at UIC, I maintain an enduring, indefatigable interest in the many kinds and extremely varied uses of collage and a deep appreciation for the natural marks contained within weathered scraps of previous use papers, which are in their way, fossils from our present times.


On Saturday, November 14, 1987 between 0400 and 0500 hours, retired Seattle police officer Robert Whalen was driving on SR-525 towards the Clinton ferry terminal when he was passed by an erratically driven and speeding blue Ford Pinto. The Pinto was driven by 26 year-old Darrin Rand Hutchinson. When the Pinto approached the terminal, Whalen watched as it nearly struck the ferry toll booth.
Island County Deputy Bill Heffernan and Deputy John Saxerud arrived at the dock and arrested Hutchinson for driving under the influence. Deputy Saxerud patted Hutchinson down and placed him in the back seat of the patrol car, but he missed a thin, .32-caliber Bersa semiautomatic pistol concealed along Hutchinson's waist.
The deputies transported Hutchinson to the Island County Jail in Coupeville. During the half hour drive to Coupeville, Hutchinson even mused over the deputy's failure to detect the weapon.
Once at the jail, the deputies moved Hutchinson to the BAC room for the test. They secured their service weapons in a lock box prior to entering. Shortly after 0615 hours, a dispatcher who had video and audio monitoring of the BAC room witnessed Hutchinson pull the gun and shoot Deputy Saxerud in the head at close range, killing him instantly. Hutchinson then shot Deputy Heffernan twice, killing him. He began rooting through Deputy Saxerud's pockets and located car keys. Hutchinson stole a patrol car, crashed through a garage door to escape and raced to his brother's house. He later ditched the car down a steep ravine. He was arrested later in the day at his parents' house.
Hutchinson was convicted of murdering the deputies and sentenced to two life terms. The Washington State Court of Appeals reversed his conviction in 1997 saying the superior court judge gave incorrect instructions to the jury. However, that decision was appealed to the Washington State Supreme Court who upheld the convictions saying the judge's instructions were correct.
Deputy Heffernan had previously served with the United States Navy. He is survived by his two children.


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The fish that is black
November 21, 2014 July 11, 2019 literacystrumpet
I wrote recently about visiting Nanjing Holocaust Museum in 2009 (see Notes from Nanjing). Today I found the following snippet in one of my many 'Thoughts and Notes' documents, jotted down in a dentist's waiting room and later typed up:
In January 2012 a hundred raiders on horseback charged out of Chad into Cameroon's Boune Ndjidah National Park, slaughtering hundreds of elephants—entire families—in one of the worst concentrated killings since a global ivory trade ban was adopted in 1989. Carrying AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, they dispatched the elephants with a military precision reminiscent of a 2006 butchering outside Chad's Zakouma National Park. And then some stopped to pray to Allah. Seen from the ground, each of the bloated elephant carcasses is a monument to human greed. Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years. From the air too the scattered bodies present a senseless crime scene—you can see which animals fled, which mothers tried to protect their young, how one terrified herd of 50 went down together, the latest of the tens of thousands of elephants killed across Africa each year. Seen from higher still, from the vantage of history, this killing field is not new at all. It is timeless, and it is now.[1]
Notice how the final position of the elephants' corpses appears to make a statement about what was important to each animal; we can find the same idea in Silent Spring, in the chapter 'And No Birds Sing' where Rachel Carson describes the spring of 1960 in the UK and a 'deluge of reports of dead birds'. The relevant part here is a quotation from a gamekeeper, who comments, 'It is bad to see pairs of partridges that have died together'.[2] What I want to consider in this post is fundamental attribution error, and the idea that animals have an understanding of family.
I don't mean to insult elephants (or partridges) by suggesting that their understanding of family is the same as my human understanding, for two reasons. Firstly, it seems to me that, just as these elephants seem to have divided into two groups (those that fled, and those that didn't), people might divide along similar lines. Not every person (or elephant) behaves heroically in such a situation, and may or may not be surrounded by family members at the time. Furthermore, not everyone places family members (people one has, after all, not chosen to be associated with) above all others. It seems to me that, for every elderly skeleton in Nanjing shielding another that he or she believed to be his or her kin, there is probably another skeleton belonging to someone who died trying to protect someone of no blood relation at all (maybe someone they didn't even know). Returning to the dividing line mentioned earlier, for each of these skeletons, then, I think there is likely to be a further skeleton on the edge of the mass grave crawling over the others in an attempt to save him or herself, who may have been in a crowd of strangers, or who saw his/her relative/friend being shot or maimed, but did not feel moved to risk his/her own life further by intervening. In other words, I think the human concept of family, and how we juxtapose that against the concepts of friends and strangers, is more fluid and layered than it is in the animal world. Consider, for example, how many people dislike (or limit) contact with their closest relations, feel a sense of foreboding when their closest relations visit, or have formed marriages that linger on, despite not satisfying either party. Feelings of dread can coexist with being deeply attached to the people concerned, because such feelings aren't an expression of not loving those people, but of a whole host of other intertwined issues (expectations reasonable and unreasonable, met and unmet; issues around roles, leadership and decision-making; religion, politics, lifestyle choices and so on). I find it unlikely that elephants or partridges have such fine-grained, complex feelings towards their parents, partners, children and siblings, given that a. they are elephants/partridges; and b. elephants typically live in large, matriarchal groups constructed along family lines, while partridges mate for life, with any consequent baby partridges moving on to form their own lives only a few months after hatching. It seems probable that such interactions and feelings are more straightforward for both elephants and partridges.
Secondly, it seems to me that anthropomorphizing animals demeans both animals and humans. Clearly many species besides humans have a profound concept of which individuals besides themselves are worth protecting at their own risk, but these concepts and the behaviours that flow from them vary enormously. A mother lapwing will fake a broken wing to draw a hawk away from her babies, but in my own garden I have found the pathetic, wrinkly evidence of blackbird parents ceasing to feed a baby that has fallen out of their own nest, even though it is only a few feet away and has survived the fall. Animal societies, physiologies and means of expression are so different from our own that I think it is unhelpful and confusing to talk about animals as if they are people, and as if they experience the same emotions that we do. Richard Perry puts it well, describing the response of a Gigas squid (now usually referred to as a Humboldt squid) when hooked with a fishing gaff, which is a long pole with a hook or nail in the end, used when the fish is too heavy or strong to lift with a conventional pole. He writes:
it discharged a cloud of ink as its normal reflex reaction to fear (or whatever may be a cephalopod's equivalent of that emotion)[3]
I watched Blackfish for the first time last week (or, rather, I watched it, went to bed, woke up the next day and immediately watched it again). Blackfish is, of course, a term for an orca or killer whale, but this is a comparatively modern usage. Richard Perry and Hoare use the same word to refer to pilot whales, while Bauch uses the charming name 'pothead whales'. There is much discussion of the family bonds within groups of orcas: each pod has something analogous to its own language, and adult orcas live with their mothers for their entire lives (their lifespans are comparable to human lifespans, so this is not trivial). The concept of family is, therefore, deeply important to these animals; if anything, the film suggests that it is far more important than it is to humans, who can learn to speak another language if they so desire; can leave and join other family groups (indeed, are often expected to do so); and can often dictate the intensity and duration of family relationships. These are murky waters, therefore; as Aristotle says in his thoughts 'On Respiration', 'Among water-animals, the cetaceans may give rise to some perplexity.'
Philip Hoare tries to make sense of the mystery that is the whale in various ways, comparing them to clouds in all their fluidity and shape-shiftiness. He also tries to make them familiar by comparing whales to domestic dogs, but for me this is problematic. He writes that whales 'are voluntary breathers, and must keep half their brains awake while they sleep, during which – if dogs are anything to go by – they certainly dream.'[4] Our Hound (see Dog Days and Nothing but a Hound Dog) dreams frequently, often that he is swimming; one can tell from the way he paddles his tiny paws, but I struggle to conceive of similar physical indications that whales might make. If they are never fully asleep (or awake), in what sense are they dreaming? Moreover, why on earth would dogs be 'anything to go by'? It seems to me that attributing human emotions to a domesticated animal such as a pet dog makes some (limited) sense. Dogs have lived in close proximity to humans for thousands of years, and have been bred by humans to please humans: to be docile, aesthetically pleasing and able to remember their name, various rules and possibly even a set of commands. Dogs and people, in other words, have a long-standing relationship with (and understanding of) each other that cannot be applied to orcas, and yet we are forced to make these unsatisfying analogies in order to find a frame of reference.[5] Orcas are wild animals that live in the open ocean in vast territories, and could easily go their whole lives without seeing a boat, nevermind a human being. I think Henry Beston has it right when he says 'the animals shall not be measured by man […] they are not brethren, they are not underlings.'[6] As Alan Bauch says in Dolphin, 'dolphins are totally aquatic animals whose environment necessarily prevents the kind of companionship – and even mutual knowledge – that humans share, say, with dogs'.[7] Notice again the swiftness with which we reach for dogs as a point of reference. The point here is that dogs have spent thousands of years evolving and/or being bred to be obedient and useful companions, while orcas have spent thousands of years evolving into things that are good at killing and eating stuff. See, for example, Scott's Last Expedition:
I … witnessed a most extraordinary scene. Some six or seven killer whales, old and young, were skirting the fast floe edge ahead of the ship … Close to the water's edge lay the wire stern rope of the shop and our two Esquimaux dogs were tethered to this … the next moment the whole floe under [Ponting] and the dogs heaved up and split into fragments … Whale after whale rose under the ice … [the whales'] huge and hideous heads shot vertically into the air through the cracks which they had made … there cannot be a doubt that they looked up to see what had happened to Ponting and the dogs.[8]
Similarly, in his account of a whaling expedition in the 1950s Of Whales and Men, R.B. Robertson finds himself repelled by orcas, referring to them as 'the most voracious thing in the Southern Ocean'. His tone when describing orcas is larded with disgust in a way that his description of the butchering ('flensing' and 'lemming' are the technical terms) of a blue whale is not:
Five killer whales … with … evil black-and-white snouts broken by malignant fang-filled cavities rising occasionally above the water, advanced upon the meal [the guts of the dead whale]. Only hyenas on land and vultures in the air can convey the same sense of remorseless ill-will against all creation that killer whales convey as they slowly approach their loathsome victuals.[9]
The only way in which I think making a comparison with dogs may work is that even dogs can become vicious, unpredictable creatures that will attack a person that has never wronged them if that dog has been abused and traumatised thoroughly enough. This can even be true in a scenario where an abused dog has been rescued and re-homed with a family that love it and attempt to correct or compensate for that trauma (although, again, see my posts on our own Rescue Hound for a happier ending). Although the sections of Blackfish that show various killer whales lunging at or attempting to drown people who were interacting with them peacefully a moment ago are shocking, in some ways the most troubling footage (to me) showed some of the same people interacting with the orcas with great affection and talking about the bond that they feel they have with the animals. I found the question of whether that bond was real profoundly disturbing.
The trainers speak to the orcas as if they are enormous dogs, and I think this is because they don't know what else to do. The film makes a powerful case for the whales being psychologically traumatised, bored, grief-stricken, confused and repeatedly under- and over-stimulated, but we aren't orcas, don't live in the sea, and (to misappropriate Nagel) can have only a very limited understanding of what it is like to be a wild orca, or what makes an orca an orca (or what makes a killer whale into a whale that kills).[10] In their recent book The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins, biologists Whitehead and Rendell put it like this:
For whales and dolphins, living in an utterly different habitat, at the end of a very long, effectively independent evolutionary trajectory, taking what humans do as an ideal seems profoundly wrong.[11]
Naturally, and as with other ideas outside our immediate experience (see Punch drunk), we turn to things that we do understand: other people, and other animals. As Hoare says,
while it is a mistake to anthropomorphize animals merely because they are big or small or cute or clever, it is only human to do so, because we are human, and they are not. It is sometimes the only way we can come to an understanding of them.[12]
The sequences showing mother orcas grieving when their offspring are permanently removed from them are heart-breaking, but I feel that how moving it is depends on the frame of reference. Rather than comparing the mother orcas to human mothers, the people making the decisions to separate them from their babies continue to view the orcas as enormous dogs. Domestic dogs don't much like having their puppies taken away from them, but if it is done at the right point they seem to bounce back from it fairly quickly, and the expectation seems to be that the mother orca should do the same. However, using a human mother as the gold standard of emotional connection wouldn't be any better (e.g. removing the young orca when it reached sexual maturity, say, and then expecting the mother orca to think this gave her more time for herself). Indeed, since the orca mother and baby are being separated by humans, the idea of judging the intensity of their grief in human terms at the same time as humans are inducing that grief feels pretty queasy. Orca society is matriarchal, and (unusually in the natural world) female orcas live on well past their reproductive years, suggesting that they have other, further purposes in orca society. In the wild, orcas live alongside their mothers for their entire lives. We don't.
Something else I have been turning over in my mind since watching the film is whether the three people killed by the largest killer whale in the film (a male called Tilikum) were also in some way the victims of our tendency to misunderstand animals by projecting human emotions onto them. Several of the former trainers interviewed in Blackfish speak of how mortified they are at the nonsense they used to say about the whales performing 'because they want to'. Seeing the killer whales doing various complex tricks is impressive only if you consider it remarkable that the killer whale is doing as it is asked rather than killing and eating stuff. Plainly these creatures are easily strong enough, agile enough and clever enough to leap out of the water and touch a ball with their nose or whatever, and the fact that they do so should not surprise us: they are able, receive a fish-based reward for performing such as task, and have absolutely nothing else to do. They are also strong enough, agile enough and clever enough to kill and eat the trainers if they so choose, and the fact that they do this should not surprise us either.
The film makes it clear that there have been many, many near misses: in other words, the truly remarkable thing is that there haven't been more fatalities. While most of the people featured in the film who worked with the killer whales are shocked and upset that Tilikum has behaved 'badly' (i.e. killed and partially eaten stuff, including people), there is very little surprise expressed at the people who behave badly: those who capture and kill orcas in the wild; whoever it was that thought buying an orca who is only for sale in the first place because he killed someone was a good idea; those who didn't bother to tell any of the people working with Tilikum that he had killed a person, during a live show, in front of an audience; those who wrote the cheerful gibberings that the staff at Seaworld uttered in good faith; and those who attempted to blame the three victims for their deaths. It is interesting to see Tilikum picked out as a 'bad' whale (contrasted with all the other 'good' whales) on the one hand, and on the other the faceless mass of venal, callous, stupid, reckless or greedy people. It is as if we believe that whales are fundamentally good and people are fundamentally not.[13]
That brings me on to another very human habit, which is the desire to categorise, just as I did at the start of this post by dividing the elephants into two groups. It seems to me that the managers of Seaworld who continued to allow the whale trainers to work with Tilikum and other whales known to be dangerous took the view that these were fundamentally 'good' whales who had behaved badly on some isolated occasions. As Blackfish goes on, it seems that those same managers change their minds, and take the view (after Tilikum has killed and partially eaten his third person) that he is a 'bad' whale. However, it simply doesn't make sense to infer the fundamental nature of a species (or an individual whale) based on the behaviour of the few animals that can be observed splashing crowds of tourists from a blue concrete tank. The question 'is Tilikum a bad whale?' doesn't make sense, because we have no way of defining the central terms.[14] We cannot explain what we mean by 'a bad whale'. If we mean 'a bad whale is a whale that has killed people' (including two people that worked with him and probably felt deeply attached to him), then yes, Tilikum is a bad whale, but the list of other 'bad' whales that had given killing and eating a person a jolly good go was extensive and harrowing: he is by no means the only 'bad' whale; there are degrees of 'badness'; and 'goodness' has not been established as the norm. Moreover, all of these 'bad' whales are likely to have been 'good' whales in their natural context, where their skill at killing and eating stuff would be useful and necessary. We might even say that these 'bad' whales are more fundamentally 'whale-like' than the 'good' whales that don't make as much effort to kill and eat stuff. Furthermore, if we mean 'a bad whale is a whale that could or would kill a person if he got the chance' then we are left adrift in a sea of things that can't be determined. We can't determine why an orca kills a person or whether he thinks or feels anything in particular before or after doing so. We can't determine whether he does this because he is peckish; whether he simply sees the opportunity; or whether it is part of his whale-like nature, although it is worth saying (as is said in Blackfish) that there has never been any record of a person being killed by an orca in the wild.[15] Tilikum has killed three people, but I don't know if we can even use that to make statements about the fundamental nature of Tilikum ('Tilikum is a bad whale') any more than we can use it to make statements about the fundamental make-up of orcas as a whole ('all orcas are bad whales'). Blackfish makes a compelling case that captivity traumatises whales both physically and psychologically, such that they may be far more likely to unexpectedly turn on their trainers and attempt to kill and eat them than previously thought, and therefore we might feel more comfortable with the statement 'all orcas in captivity are psychologically traumatised, and therefore are likely to become bad whales', but again we can't be sure whether this is part of their fundamental nature brought out by captivity, or whether this is purely caused by circumstance. Fundamental attribution error suggests that the circumstances a person finds himself in contribute more to his actions that the fundamentals of his character, but we cannot apply that with any certainty to Tilikum, because he's not a person. It seems that the best we can do is to say 'orcas are very good at killing and eating stuff. Therefore traumatising an orca is a bad idea, and being in a confined watery space with a traumatised orca is a very bad idea'. Surely these are both conclusions that could have been arrived at without anyone having to die?
Tilikum now lives in a tank on his own, much like many people who have killed multiple times. As I've said, words that humans use to describe human concepts aren't very meaningful when applied to whales and whale concepts, but if a whale can be said to be lonely, then given all that I've said about the duration and depth of the family bonds orcas have with each other, he probably feels something that we might recognise as loneliness. I suggest, however, that the difficulty of thinking about this particular whale is that using our own emotions as a frame of reference is inadequate, and using no frame of reference at all gives us no purchase. While the read-across between the massacred elephants in Cameroon and the rape of Nanjing is tempting and obvious, in both instances I struggle to state with any confidence that I understand how any of the people or animals involved felt, or how I might behave in a similar situation. I wrote about my visit to Nanjing that 'No attempt has been made to understand any of these awful deaths and I don't feel equal to the task'. Here, I feel that a thoughtful and nuanced attempt to make sense of the deaths of the three people killed by Tilikum has been made. Nevertheless, understanding continues to elude me.
[1] Brian Christy, National Geographic, October 2012.
[2] Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964) p. 102.
[3] Richard Perry, The Unknown Ocean (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972), p. 165.
[4] Aristotle also suggests that dolphins snore, but leaves aside the tantalising question of how he knows this. He was unaware the dolphins making this sound were only half-asleep (dolphins are unable to breath automatically and thus would drown if they were to fall asleep or otherwise become unconscious), or no doubt he would have had some thoughts to share on whether they were dreaming, too. See Armand Marie Leroi's fascinating book The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science (London: Bloomsbury, 2014).
[5] See Philip Hoare, Leviathan or The Whale (London: Fourth Estate, 2008) p. 77. Aware that he is also misappropriating Nagel, Hoare compares whales to bats on the same page.
[6] Henry Beston, The Outermost House, as quoted by Hoare, Leviathan, p. 210.
[7] Alan Bauch, Dolphin (London: Reaktion Books), p. 7. This is from an excellent series on animals, which includes Falcon by Helen Macdonald of H is for Hawk fame (see footnote below), and Salmon by Peter Coates (see A 'small, mysterious corpus').
[8] Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in his journal, published as Scott's Last Expedition (London: The Folio Society, 1964), p. 56. Readers will be pleased to learn that both Ponting and the two dogs were unharmed, escaping purely by chance.
[9] R.B. Robertson, Of Whales and Men (London: Macmillan, 1956), p. 115. Robertson then observes a crew member shooting one of the orcas dead, 'drilled neatly behind the eye', which is explained by another sailor as an expression of 'loathing quite out of proportion to the damage they do to him and his bonus' (pp. 116-117), referring to the orcas' habit of eating the tongues of the dead whales. The comparison with hyenas and vultures is instructive, however, as both these creatures, however unpleasant we may find them, provide a very useful service. Would we prefer that the entrails of the fourteen dead blue whales simply float around the Southern Ocean forever?
[10] 'Can your allegiances be changed? Can you be trusted? What makes you a chaffinch?' Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk (Falkirk: Jonathan Cape, 2014), pp. 64-65.
[11] Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), p. 27.
[12] Hoare, p. 29.
[13] I know orcas are dolphins rather than whales (see Bauch, pp. 61-62), but the term 'killer whale' is so loaded with meaning here that I'm using the word 'whale' rather more loosely than I would otherwise. Hoare says that 'whale-killer' is a more accurate term (orcas kill and eat other whale species, mainly grey whales) and notes that the name orca 'has its root in orcus, meaning 'belonging to the kingdom of the dead", from which the word orc is also derived. The word 'narwhal' is also somewhat ghoulish in original, being derived 'from the Old Norse, nar and hvalr, meaning 'corpse whale', because its smudges resemble the livid blemishes on a dead body.' Hoare, p. 269.
[14] I will leave aside the unanswerable question of whether an animal used to swimming hundreds of miles a day in a family group, and evolved to use its size, strength and intelligence to kill and eat stuff can continue to be considered a whale if it lives in a tank a few yards across, away from all its relatives, unable to hunt, and receiving food by hand from a bucket in exchange for swimming about in an amusing way.
[15] Hoare says that 'at least one sailor was killed by a blackfish during [Herman] Melville's years of whaling', but it becomes clear later in the book that he's not using 'blackfish' to refer to an orca here, but rather a pilot whale. Hoare, p. 167.
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The Hungarian March (Ungarische Mark or Ungarnmark) or Neumark ("New March") was a brief frontier march established in the mid-eleventh century by the Emperor Henry III as a defence against the Kingdom of Hungary. It had only two known margraves before it was annexed to the March of Austria.

Liutpold, reigned for a few days until his death on 9 December 1043
Siegfried I, from Sponheim, reigned 1045–1048/1065

The Hungarian march was founded by Henry III following his first campaign against Hungary in 1041. In 1043, the Hungarian king Samuel Aba was forced to sign a peace treaty whereby he gave up the land between the Leitha and Fischa rivers with a line from the Fischa delta to Strachotín in Moravia representing the new border. Henry created a new march in this territory for the eldest son of the Babenberg Margrave Adalbert of Austria. When Liutpold died within days of his confirmation at Ingelheim, Henry replaced him with the Sponheimer Count Siegfried. The centre of the march was Siegfried's castle of villa Stilevrida (Stillfried in present-day Angern an der March). According to Koch (1986, 133), the Hungarian march disappeared with Siegfried's death in 1065. Documents only name him with the title marchio (margrave) between 1045 and 1048, however; thereafter he is only titled comes (count) in the Puster Valley, which he may have received as compensation for losing his march.

The Hungarian march was called the "new march" because it was a "new" eastern march — a sort of extension of Austria. During the reign of Adalbert's younger son Margrave Ernest of Austria, the new march was indeed united to the old march, Austria proper.

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"Leopold (Sohn des Markgrafen Adalbert von Oesterreich)." Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, by the Historischen Kommission of the Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 18, Seite 381ff. (retrieved 27 May 2007, 4:44 UTC)
Medieval Lands Project. Carinthia, chapter VI "Grafen von Sponheim",
Koch, Rudolf (1986). Die Entwicklung der Romanischen Westturmanlage in Österreich.  PhD Dissertation, University of Vienna.

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States and territories established in 1043
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The Top Tech IPOs In 2019 Have Been Started By Immigrants
Stuart Anderson Senior Contributor
I write about globalization, business, technology and immigration.
Stewart Butterfield, immigrant cofounder and CEO of Slack, stands outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) before the opening bell, June 20, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
It turns out 2019 is the year of the tech IPO (initial public offering). Several high-profile U.S. technology companies have already become listed on stock exchanges and more are expected. What has received less attention is that four of the five top tech IPOs came from companies started by immigrants.
As of July 1, 2019, the five biggest tech IPOs this year have been Slack, CrowdStrike, Uber, Pinterest and Zoom, according to Computerworld UK. While the founders of Pinterest are native-born, the other four companies had at least one immigrant founder. This is remarkable, since U.S. immigration law does not make it easy for an immigrant to gain permanent residence (a green card) after starting a company. Immigrant founders usually first gained permanent residence after entering as a refugee, or being sponsored by an employer or family member.
Slack Technologies, with over 1,000 employees, had three immigrant co-founders, Stewart Butterfield (Canada), Serguei Mourachov (Russia) and Cal Henderson (U.K.). Butterfield serves as CEO and Henderson is the CTO (chief technology officer). Slack, which allows employees in a company to communicate via instant-messaging software, closed almost 50% higher on its first day on the New York Stock Exchange after a direct listing, which is a variation on a regular IPO. It has a market capitalization of more than $18 billion.
Shares of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings rose 71% from the initial share price on the first day of trading and the company's outstanding shares have a market value of approximately $12.5 billion. The company employs 1,200 people and provides cloud-based cybersecurity to businesses increasingly concerned about cybersecurity threats. CrowdStrike gained considerable media attention after it investigated and concluded "two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries" were responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee.
CrowdStrike is an example of the American Dream in action. George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston founded the company in 2011. Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike's chief technology officer, immigrated to the United States in the 1990s from the Soviet Union while in his mid-teens. His family settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee and he earned a graduate degree in information security from Georgia Tech. "This country has been incredibly good to me," he told me in an interview. "I'm a citizen and proud to contribute to the economic and national security of the country. I'm very happy my parents made the decision for our family to immigrate to America."
Garrett Camp, an immigrant from Canada, co-founded Uber with Travis Kalanick. "I basically created it because I couldn't get a cab," Camp once said. Camp remains on the company's board of directors but today Uber's CEO is Dara Khosrowshahi, who immigrated with his family from Iran. Manik Gupta, the chief product officer, is an immigrant from India and Thuan Pham, the CTO, came to America as a refugee child from Vietnam.
While some viewed Uber's IPO as a disappointment, since the stock price did not rise from its initial share price, the company's market capitalization is approximately $76 billion, and it is one of the most valuable and recognizable companies in the world only 10 years after its founding. Uber has over 22,000 employees, about half of whom are employed in the United States. It also provides earning opportunities for approximately 3 million active drivers and has plans to expand into new areas, such as shipping and other types of transportation.
Zoom Video Communications was almost not founded in America because of U.S. visa policy. Eric Yuan, the CEO and founder of Zoom Video, which supplies videoconferencing to companies, was born in China and came up with the idea for the company as a better option than taking frequent 10-hour train rides to see his girlfriend (and future wife). "I decided to come to the U.S. in the mid '90's because of the Internet, which I knew was the wave of the future," he said in an interview on Medium. "It was red hot here, but hadn't yet taken off in China. The first time I applied for a U.S. visa, I was rejected. I continued to apply again and again over the course of two years and finally received my visa on the ninth try." Today, the company employs over 1,300 people and after its IPO its market capitalization is over $23 billion.
Although Pinterest did not have an immigrant founder, until March 2019, immigrant Vanja Josifovski, who earned a Ph.D. from Linköping University in Sweden, played a key role in the company as chief technology officer. "Josifovski, who was at Pinterest for four years, most recently as CTO, oversaw the company's overall technical vision and strategy, including the building of its machine learning and search platforms, as well as managing some of the company's core engineering teams," reported VentureBeat. He left Pinterest to become CTO of Airbnb Homes. Airbnb may have an initial public offering in the near future.
"Immigrants have started more than half (50 of 91, or 55%) of America's startup companies valued at $1 billion or more and are key members of management or product development teams in more than 80% of these companies," concluded a 2018 National Foundation for American Policy study. The current crop of successful technology companies, such as Slack and CrowdStrike, shows immigrants play a key role in founding and leading America's most dynamic companies.
Stuart Anderson
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Caffeine. Use caffeine moderately. Too much of the jittery juice increases cortisol, which decreases testosterone. Moreover, consuming caffeine late in the day hurts sleep, which lowers testosterone production. But one recent study indicates that caffeine consumed before working out may boost testosterone levels and help you exercise more efficiently. During my experiment I popped a piece of caffeinated gum five minutes before my workouts. Each piece had 100 mg of caffeine, about the same amount in a cup of coffee. That was usually it for my caffeine intake that day.
"The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism" published that males who switched from a high-fat diet to a low-fat diet also saw a decrease in their testosterone levels. If you want to put some fat back into your diet without fearing cardiac implications, plant-based saturated fat like coconut is just the ticket. Meat-based fat is also acceptable if kept to less than 10% of your dietary fat intake.
A large number of trials have demonstrated a positive effect of testosterone treatment on bone mineral density (Katznelson et al 1996; Behre et al 1997; Leifke et al 1998; Snyder et al 2000; Zacharin et al 2003; Wang, Cunningham et al 2004; Aminorroaya et al 2005; Benito et al 2005) and bone architecture (Benito et al 2005). These effects are often more impressive in longer trials, which have shown that adequate replacement will lead to near normal bone density but that the full effects may take two years or more (Snyder et al 2000; Wang, Cunningham et al 2004; Aminorroaya et al 2005). Three randomized placebo-controlled trials of testosterone treatment in aging males have been conducted (Snyder et al 1999; Kenny et al 2001; Amory et al 2004). One of these studies concerned men with a mean age of 71 years with two serum testosterone levels less than 12.1nmol/l. After 36 months of intramuscular testosterone treatment or placebo, there were significant increases in vertebral and hip bone mineral density. In this study, there was also a significant decrease in the bone resorption marker urinary deoxypyridinoline with testosterone treatment (Amory et al 2004). The second study contained men with low bioavailable testosterone levels and an average age of 76 years. Testosterone treatment in the form of transdermal patches was given for 1 year. During this trial there was a significant preservation of hip bone mineral density with testosterone treatment but testosterone had no effect on bone mineral density at other sites including the vertebrae. There were no significant alterations in bone turnover markers during testosterone treatment (Kenny et al 2001). The remaining study contained men of average age 73 years. Men were eligible for the study if their serum total testosterone levels were less than 16.5 nmol/L, meaning that the study contained men who would usually be considered eugonadal. The beneficial effects of testosterone on bone density were confined to the men who had lower serum testosterone levels at baseline and were seen only in the vertebrae. There were no significant changes in bone turnover markers. Testosterone in the trial was given via scrotal patches for a 36 month duration (Snyder et al 1999). A recent meta-analysis of the effects on bone density of testosterone treatment in men included data from these studies and two other randomized controlled trials. The findings were that testosterone produces a significant increase of 2.7% in the bone mineral density at the lumber spine but no overall change at the hip (Isidori et al 2005). These results from randomized controlled trials in aging men show much smaller benefits of testosterone treatment on bone density than have been seen in other trials. This could be due to the trials including patients who are not hypogonadal and being too short to allow for the maximal effects of testosterone. The meta-analysis also assessed the data concerning changes of bone formation and resorption markers during testosterone treatment. There was a significant decrease in bone resorption markers but no change in markers of bone formation suggesting that reduction of bone resorption may be the primary mode of action of testosterone in improving bone density (Isidori et al 2005).
A 46 XY fetus is destined to become a male because the Y chromosome carries testicular determining gene which initiates transformation of the undifferentiated gonad into testes (Töhönen 2003). The testes subsequently produce both Mullerian Inhibiting Factor (to induce degeneration of the Mullerian system, the internal female ductal apparatus) and testosterone (to stimulate growth and development of the Wolffian system – epididymus, vas deferens, seminal vesicle and, after conversion to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by the enzyme 5-α-reducase, the prostate gland). DHT is also the primary androgen to cause androgenization of the external genitalia.
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The most common "out of balance" testosterone levels are found to be on the low side of normal; this occurs because a male's highest testosterone level usually peaks at about age 20, and then it decreases slowly with age. It has been suggested that a 1% decrease in testosterone level per year is not unusual for middle-aged (30 to 50 years old) and older males. While this decrease may not be noticeable in some men, others may experience significant changes starting in their middle-aged years or more commonly at age 60 and above. This drop in testosterone levels is sometimes termed hypogonadism, "male menopause" or andropause.
Another effect that can limit treatment is polycythemia, which occurs due to various stimulatory effects of testosterone on erythropoiesis (Zitzmann and Nieschlag 2004). Polycythemia is known to produce increased rates of cerebral ischemia and there have been reports of stroke during testosterone induced polycythaemia (Krauss et al 1991). It is necessary to monitor hematocrit during testosterone treatment, and hematocrit greater than 50% should prompt either a reduction of dose if testosterone levels are high or high-normal, or cessation of treatment if levels are low-normal. On the other hand, late onset hypogonadism frequently results in anemia which will then normalize during physiological testosterone replacement.
The effect excess testosterone has on the body depends on both age and sex. It is unlikely that adult men will develop a disorder in which they produce too much testosterone and it is often difficult to spot that an adult male has too much testosterone. More obviously, young children with too much testosterone may enter a false growth spurt and show signs of early puberty and young girls may experience abnormal changes to their genitalia. In both males and females, too much testosterone can lead to precocious puberty and result in infertility.
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However, an important peculiarity of testosterone boosting products is their inability to cause addiction. Also, as opposed to steroids, the natural supplements don't disturb the bodily functions. It means that these products don't destroy the men's hormone balance and don't suppress the natural testosterone synthesis. Instead, the high-quality boosters successfully and safely eliminate the hormone imbalance issues in the men's body.
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Phthalates are found to cause poor testosterone synthesis by disrupting an enzyme required to create the male hormone. Women with high levels of DEHP and DBP (two types of phthalates) in their system during pregnancy were found to have sons that had feminine characteristics Phthalates are found in vinyl flooring, detergents, automotive plastics, soaps and shampoos, deodorants, perfumes, hair sprays, plastic bags and food packaging, among a long list of common products. Aside from phthalates, other chemicals that possess gender-bending traits are:
Opioid substances are in common use both licit and illicit. Opiates are potent analgesics but they are also highly addictive. They are frequently prescribed for both acute and chronic pain and when used chronically, often induce opiate dependence in the user. Pain clinics regularly use narcotic agents in many of their patients. Methadone, in particular, is regularly prescribed to opiate addicts who have entered a program aimed at reducing narcotic dosage and ultimately weaning the patient off it altogether. Most men who are on chronic high doses of an opiate become hypogonadal. This was first recognized in the 1970's when heroin addicts were found to have suppressed levels of testosterone (Brambilla et al 1977). Also suppressed were LH and FSH pointing to a probable inhibition of GnRH release.
The International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance recently studied tennis players, rugby teams, and wrestlers to find a link between testosterone and competitive outcome. They found that the difference between winning and losing was reflected in testosterone levels! The athletes' own natural testosterone prior to the game was directly related to the outcome after the game -- the higher the testosterone, the more frequently the athlete won.6
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Fenugreek is often found in Indian, Turkish, and Persian cuisine. Multiple studies have found it to improve testosterone levels, and in particular, sexual performance. Scientists at Babu Banarasi Das University and King George's Medical University in India have found that fenugreek improved testosterone levels. Testosterone levels increased for 90% of the volunteers, sperm morphology (the size and shape of sperm) improved for 14.6%, and more than 50% of volunteers experienced improvements in mental alertness, mood, and libido.
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With the exception of increasing my fat and cholesterol intake, my diet wasn't that unconventional. I didn't follow a strictly low-carb or Paleo diet because recent research has suggested that a diet high in protein and low in carbs actually causes T levels to decrease. With that said, I was judicious with the carbs. I tried to get most of my carbs from veggies and fruit, but I didn't freak out if my wife made us spaghetti for dinner.
^ David KG, Dingemanse E, Freud JL (May 1935). "Über krystallinisches mannliches Hormon aus Hoden (Testosteron) wirksamer als aus harn oder aus Cholesterin bereitetes Androsteron" [On crystalline male hormone from testicles (testosterone) effective as from urine or from cholesterol]. Hoppe-Seyler's Z Physiol Chem (in German). 233 (5–6): 281–83. doi:10.1515/bchm2.1935.233.5-6.281.
Most Americans today are sleep deprived, which may be a contributing factor to declining testosterone levels in men. See, our body makes nearly all the testosterone it needs for the day while we're sleeping. That increased level of T that we experience at night is one of the reasons we wake up with "Morning Wood." (If you don't have Morning Wood on a consistent basis, you might have low T).


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Frank Braña szül. Francisco Braña Pérez (Pola de Allande, 1934. február 24. – Madrid, 2012. február 13.) asztúriai származású spanyol színész. Munkáiban során használt nevei Frank Blank, Francisco Brana, Frank Brana, Frank Branya, Franck Brana, Francisco Braña és Paco Braña. Népszerűsége elsősorban spagettiwesterneknek, illetve számos akciótöltetű filmeknek köszönhető. Közel 200 filmben dolgozott színészként, vagy segédrendőzéként, esetleg tanácsadóként. Korának egyik ismert akcióhőse volt erős, lehengerlő megjelenésével és határozott tekintetével. Sergio Leone filmjeiben is gyakran szerepelt. Ismert volt, hogy a kamera gyakran figyelte arckifejezéseit a minél nagyobb hatás elérése érdekében.

Élete
Fiatalkorában dolgozott lelkészként, majd egy bányában munkásként, ahol szilikózist kapott. Ez a betegség élete végéig elkísérte és 2004-ben már annyira elhatalmasodott rajta, hogy végleg felhagyott a színészkedéssel is.

Mivel a katonai szolgálatra is alkalmatlan volt, akkor próbálkozott meg a színművészet világában. Először csak statiszta volt, így szerepelt olasz-spanyol mitológiai filmekben. 1964-ban már feltűnt két korai spagettiwesternben is, majd Clint Eastwooddal szerepelt Sergio Leone Dollár-trilógiájának mindhárom részében. Két Bud Spencer-Terence Hill filmben az Isten megbocsát, én nem!, valamint a Bosszú El Pasóban is láthattuk, előbbiben Terence Hillel is megverekszik, a második részben pedig Eli Wallach lövi le. A kizárólag spanyol gyártású vadnyugati filmekhez (a corizzó westernekhez) is keresett színész volt.

A spagettiwesternek hanyatlását követően Braña nem maradt munka nélkül, mert ezúttal akciófilmekben, horrorfilmekben, krimikben és más egyéb filmekben folytathatta pályáját. Még Louis de Funès francia komikus színésszel (aki spanyol származású volt) is együtt játszhatott a Felszarvazták őfelségét című komédiában. 2005-ben eljátszotta Ernest Hemingway Az öreg halász és a tenger címú művének főszerepét Navarrában, amelyért 2008-ban díjat is nyert. 2011-ben életműdíjat kapott az Almería Western Fesztiválon. Az Asztúriai Filmfesztiválon posztumusz életműdíjjal jutalmazták 2013-ban.

A Puerta de Hierro de Majadahonda Orvosi Egyetem kórházában hunyt el, Madridban, kevesebb mint két héttel 78. születésnapja előtt.

Ismert magyar hangjai
 Balázsi Gyula
 Csurka László
 Kenderesi Tibor
 Lőte Attila
 Perlaki István
 Szabó Ottó
 Wolmuth István

Filmjei
 Királyok királya (1961)
 A Csendes óceán meghódítása (1963)
 Rififí en la ciudad (1963)
 El hombre de la diligencia (1964)
 Egy maréknyi dollárért (1964)
 La carga de la policía montada (1964)
 Pár dollárral többért (1965)
 Gyorsabb a golyónál (1966)
 Számadás (1966)
 A Jó, a Rossz és a Csúf (1966)
 Isten megbocsát, én nem (1967)
 Szemtől szemben (1967)
 A kasztíliai Sólyom (1967)
 Dos hombres van a morir (1968)
 A cowboy száz halottja (1968)
 Bosszú El Pasóban (1968)
 Volt egyszer egy Vadnyugat (1968)
 Halott cowboy nem cowboy (1969)
 A hatalom ára (1969)
 Zorro, a musztángok ura (1969)
 Churchill kommandósai (1970)
 Vamos a matar Sartana (1971)
 Necrophagus (1971)
 Felszarvazták őfelségét (1971)
 Cárok végnapjai (1971)
 A vadnyugat legmerészebb húzása (1972)
 Egy csavargó halála (Muerte de un quinqui) 1975
 Hitler különleges vonata (1977)
 La llamada del sexo (1977)
 Kegyetlen múlt (1984
 Fekete nyíl (1985)
 Nagyra törő álmok (1987)
 Nem mind arany, ami fénylik (1989)
 Kék vér (1990)
 A hasadék (1990)
 Superagentes en Mallorca (1990)
 Manoa, la ciudad de oro (1999)

Külső hivatkozások
 Frank Braña (imdb.com)
 Frank Braña (Shobary's Spaghetti Westerns)

 Frank Brana (port.hu)

Spanyol színészek
1934-ben született személyek
2012-ben elhunyt személyek


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Saint-Émiland () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
It is named after Émilien of Nantes.

See also
Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

References

Communes of Saône-et-Loire


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It does look like one, but I think it looks more like an Austin Healey 3000.
I should probably bump up the DC-3 on the project list.
Ive been in one and seen them several times- Ive got to say yours was very nice!
Is Interactive Vehicle Support compatible with flying vehicles?
It is an Austin Healey 3000. It won't let me quote the original post so i copied it a small part of it.
On an Un-related note, is the Tiny Car update included in all of these releases I've seen, or not yet?
It's not included yet as I need to touch up the front a little more.
I wasn't even aware that there was a Tinycar update! Do you have pictures of it?


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package aot.util;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.cbor.CBORFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * @author Dmitry Kotlyarov
 * @since 1.0
 */
public final class CborUtil {
    public static final String APPLICATION_CBOR = "application/cbor";

    private static final CBORFactory factory = new CBORFactory();
    private static final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(factory);

    private CborUtil() {
    }

    public static byte[] toBytes(Object value) {
        try {
            return mapper.writeValueAsBytes(value);
        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static <T> T fromBytes(byte[] bytes, Class<T> type) {
        try {
            return mapper.readValue(bytes, type);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static <T> T fromBytes(byte[] bytes, int offset, int length, Class<T> type) {
        try {
            return mapper.readValue(bytes, offset, length, type);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static void writeBytes(OutputStream output, Object value) {
        try {
            mapper.writeValue(output, value);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    public static <T> T readBytes(InputStream input, Class<T> type) {
        try {
            return mapper.readValue(input, type);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
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De Alfa Romeo Grand Prix is een racewagen van het Italiaanse automerk Alfa Romeo. De wagen werd ontwikkeld voor een nieuwe raceklasse waarin wagens maximum 1100 kilogram mochten wegen en een cilinderinhoud van 4,5 liter mochten hebben.

In 1914 kwam het eerste ontwerp van Giuseppe Merosi op tafel voor de Alfa Grand Prix. De motor van deze wagen was een 4458 cc viercilindermotor van 88 pk met een topsnelheid van 140 km/u. Door de komst van de Eerste Wereldoorlog moesten de plannen voor in productie te gaan met deze wagen uitgesteld worden. Uiteindelijk kon pas in 1920 in productie getreden worden met een racewagen. Nicola Romeo vroeg hiervoor een update van de in 1914 ontworpen Grand Prix aan Merosi. De vernieuwde Alfa Romeo Grand Prix had 102 pk en een topsnelheid van bijna 150 km/u.

Grand Prix


How to get from Benevento to other destination not listed here?
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VSR Financial Services, Inc. agreed to a $550,000 fine from FINRA to settle allegations that it failed to adequately supervise its brokers relating to the sale of alternative investments.
VSR Chairman Don Beary also agreed to a $10,000 fine and is suspended for 45 days from associating with any FINRA member in any principal capacity relating to the charges.
As the AWC notes, these actions increased VSR's sales of non-conventional investments, which generated between 20-45% of the Firm's revenues from 2006-2010.
VSR and Beary accepted and consented to the Order, without admitting or denying FINRA's findings.


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To turn the night into day – a crazy idea that possessed the mind of a series of genius minds throughout 19th century. The result – the incandescent electric lamp, one of the most significant inventions of mankind. It is no coincidence that this achievement has become the symbol of the birth of an idea. A lot of inventors, among them A.Lding, D.Swan, T.Edison and others leave their marks on the creation, to reach the well-known electric "bulb".
Enchanted by the beauty of the decorative "bulbs" we set our goal to make a selection from the offered in the market products and to provide you a variety of interesting and unconventional solutions.
The decorative incandescent light bulbs with special purpose, known as retro/vintage bulbs are characterized with soft and warm light. All lamps from this type can be dimmable, which is extremely important for creating a specific atmosphere in the place. Main feature of the bulbs is the high energy consumption over the small luminous flux. They are used as additional decorative lighting.
Contemporary LED technology are a step forward in protecting the environment by reducing the power consumption. Much more durable and economic, the decorative LED lamps keep the vision of the classic el.bulb, as well as the atmosphere from the emitted light.


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Charles Schwab: 1 of 5 Companies That Are Rocking Employee Retention
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It should come as no surprise that companies that lead in employee engagement are often some of the most successful and profitable companies. Poor employee engagement means turnover, low morale, poor customer service, and a general blow to your bottom line. But this problem is even bigger than you may imagine.
According to Gallup, just 13% of employees are engaged at their jobs.
But Gallup has spotlighted 40 companies that buck this trend and have employee engagement rates at around 64% — a huge, huge difference that will pay dividends for your organization.
Diving into 5 out of these 40, there are some lessons we can all learn about employee retention strategies.
CarMax Makes Hard Times Easier on Employees
The recent recession made for tough times for most companies and their employees. But instead of saving money for the company by cutting employee benefits, perks, and recognition programs — and frankly, employees themselves with layoffs — CarMax decided to go in the exact opposite direction. During the recession, CarMax and its president and CEO Tom Folliard decided to invest more heavily in employee programs.
CarMax boosted its employee training and development programs, helping existing employees earn raises and jump through the ranks of the company. The company also focused on cultivating its own employee ideas via feedback to better their customer experience. Those ideas were then rewarded in strong employee recognition programs. In essence, CarMax became all about its employees.
In a statement during his speech at the Great Place to Work conference in 2012, Folliard said: "Take care of your associates, they will take care of our customers, and the rest will take care of itself."
Charles Schwab Treats Its Employees as Well as Its Clients
Charles Schwab doesn't just care about the financial future of its clients; it invests that same care and attention into the financial future of its employees. The financial-based benefits plan is off the charts, offering a 401(k) matching system that can be boosted with rewards from its employee recognition program — that's looking into your staff's future. The majority of the company's workforce also participates in the corporate bonus plan.
Perhaps most unique is that the company uses its employees to help its employees: staff members are all offered complimentary personal Charles Schwab financial consultations and support as well as financial workshops and discounts and savings on their own trading and portfolio. To make employee's financial positions even stronger, they offer an employee stock purchase plan and comprehensive medical, dental, and visual plans, as well.
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Hyatt Trains Its Employees for the Long Term
On average, an employee in housekeeping stays with Hyatt for more than 12 years. On the whole, more than 14,000 of Hyatt's approximately 75,000 US employees have worked at the company for more than 10 years. Clearly, the hotel company is doing something to keep its staff around.
The training program at Hyatt is top-notch, and the company has a solid program of hiring from within by identifying potential leadership candidates from its existing workforce. In the last few years, the company rolled out an entirely updated training program called "Change the Conversation," which is based on principles from the Stanford School of Design that emphasize listening. Employees are encouraged to find new, creative ways to solve problems and accomplish everyday tasks. It trusts its own employees so much that its number one source of new hires is via recommendations by its Employee Referral Program.
Moreover, Hyatt has championed diversity in its workforce. For 10 years running, Hyatt has made the Human Rights Campaign's Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality list; the AARP called out Hyatt's commitment to hiring older Americans; and Hyatt has been featured by the NAACP and Hispanic Business magazine for its hiring of African American and Hispanic employees, respectively.
Inchcape's Charitable Social Programs Make Work Meaningful
Inchcape has an embedded employee engagement program called "Incredible Inchcape," which focuses on building what it believes to be a great place to work by committing to its community.
A major part of Inchcape's company values center around its societal and environmental impact. It's transparent about its carbon dioxide release levels, and it has worked to continuously decrease its greenhouse gas emissions — keeping employees, clients, and the global community on top of all of their statistics.
Inchcape also regularly contributes to charities across the globe — in China, Romania, Ethiopia, Latvia, Singapore, Macedonia, and more — with an emphasis on donating to orphanages and local environmental causes. And they don't just contribute money; they contribute time and attention as well. For example, an Inchcape team spent Christmas day at a village in the Jiangxi Province in China where most of the children are orphans. They celebrated the holiday with 150 children with games, music, and crafts.
Moreover, Inchcape has worked to align its employee recognition program with these values, rewarding employees who live the company culture with discounted new cars, services, and financial rewards.
Mars, Inc. Is Pretty Sweet to Its Employees
It's not just that employees get to munch on free M&Ms — though that doesn't hurt — the colossal chocolate and snack food empire knows that it can show its appreciation for employees by living its company values. Maybe that's just how it's done in a 100% family-owned business.
The Mars family is notoriously private, but it seems that characteristic only boosts employee (or Martian) pride in the company. According to research by Fortune, turnover is only around 5% in the United States, and the company can claim families who have had generation after generation working for the company.
Mars knows that to inspire this kind of dedication, it has to earn it. The Five Principles of Mars — quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, freedom — are on every wall of every Mars office and manufacturing site across 73 countries. And as employee Will Turnipseed told Fortune, "they're cult as much as culture," but "they don't tattoo them on us or anything like that."
And Mars takes its values seriously. Take, for example, "quality." Around 2% of all M&Ms produce are discarded for "blemishes" or other failures in quality.
These five companies know what it takes to boost engagement, which will drive your employee retention rate through the roof. Learn your lesson from the ones doing it the best.
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After the reconstruction and overhaul of some sections of the M-4 Don federal highway it will have four lanes along the whole route from Moscow to Voronezh.
To accomplish the task it is necessary to complete the reconstruction of 82.8 kilometers of the highway in Lipetsk region – Yelets and Yarkino bypasses. This year the construction of a 26.3-km long bypass for Voronezh is to begin and the startup is scheduled for 2013.
In Rostov region a 42.8-km reconstructed section will be commissioned by the end of the year and the highway will have four lanes from 282 km to 343 km.
Avtodor State Company management drove along M-4 Don highway last week and said reconstruction and construction work was on schedule. During the trip the management of the state company met the leadership of Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Rostov, and Krasnodar territories. The meetings focused on the construction, maintenance, and operation of the Don highway. Taskforces were set up from representatives of the state company, regional administrations and municipalities in Rostov and Krasnodar regions to tackle the problems emerging in the course of reconstruction. Most work in the regions is scheduled for 2012-2014.
Highway reconstruction will be accompanied by gradually increased speed limit up to 110 km/h. At present such speed is allowed at the first toll section at 414 – 464 km of the Don highway in Lipetsk region. At meetings with regional leaderships it was numerously stressed that increased speed of passenger and cargo delivery and modern road traffic safety norms are the main aim of the reconstruction.


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Florentini ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Nikolaus Franz Florentini (1794–1881), römisch-katholischer Bischof des Bistums Chur
 Theodosius Florentini (1808–1865), Schweizer Kapuzinerpater und Sozialreformer


I would really like to see A Quiet Place. That's all I have in mind. I switched to my new phone, Samsung S9, a couple of days ago, and it felt a little strange not to use an iPhone interface, although I'd only been an iPhone user for barely three years. My sister and I were experimenting and her iMessages to me can no longer be delivered, which is strange because I use a MacBook and my iMessage and FaceTime should still function and be able to send/receive messages from my laptop, no? Curious. If you're an American friend, please know that I have switched to an Android, alright bye.