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Q: How can I change the data receiving format in a FosUserBundle form? I'm trying to create an API app using the FosUserBundle functions.
I can not change the data transmission format, in fact, if I send the request with the parameters built in this way, works:
{"fos_user_registration_form":
    {
        "username":"test",
        "plainPassword":
                           {
                               "first":"123456",
                               "second":"123456"
                           },
        "email":"test@test.com",
        "name":"test"
     }
}

But if I change the string fos_user registration form, for example with the string user, to make it cleaner being a public API, no longer works.
Is possible to change this format?
Thank you all for the answers.

A: I think you should create another action (rest controller/action) which handles the required information, which would be:
{
        "username":"test",
        "plainPassword": "123456",
        "email":"test@test.com",
        "name":"test"
}

And in there you can process the validation manually using the form or not and the save it using the manager.
I don't have the detailed process on how to do it but you can basically use the services which fos_user registers on the DI container, like:
fos_user.registration.form.factory                                     FOS\UserBundle\Form\Factory\FormFactory
fos_user.registration.form.type                                        FOS\UserBundle\Form\Type\RegistrationFormType
 fos_user.user_manager                                                  FOS\UserBundle\Doctrine\UserManager
This will basically allow you to do all the validation necessary but customize the request body from the final API user, plus to that you have more control and will be safe on updates.

A: I finally found the solution to my problem!
Trivially there is an option in the configuration of FosUserBundle called name under form option.
I post below my configuration for a better comprehension ( in this case I want to change the form registration name):
fos_user:
db_driver: orm
firewall_name: login
user_class: SB\UserBundle\Entity\User
registration:
    form:
        name: user

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UCI's Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion has received a $4.17 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue research on current and potential uses of mobile technology in providing banking and financial services to people in developing countries. The four-year grant brings the IMTFI's total Gates Foundation funding to more than $6.13 million since the institute's founding in 2008.
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Are children suffering needlessly after surgery? UCI anesthesiologists who specialize in pediatric care believe so. An operation can be one of the most traumatic events children face, and according to a study by Dr. Zeev Kain and colleagues, many of them experience unnecessary postsurgical pain lasting weeks or months. Such chronic pain is well understood and treated in adults but has been generally overlooked in pediatric patients, said Kain, professor and chair of anesthesiology & perioperative care.
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The Cariboo Regional District according to the Chair will be putting a motion on the floor for NCLGA for the same latitude municipalities have when it comes to having to have a by-election in the year of a general local election.
"Government acts that cover a municipality, if a councillor or mayor resigns or passes away after January 1 of an election year they do not have to hold a by-election, and I think the premise is that mayor and council are elected to represent the whole municipality; they're not elected to represent a particular area," says Margo Wagner.
"Whereas regional district we're elected to represent a particular area and we do not have that same freedom."
Wagner says that running an election is expensive at around $10,000 and that all electoral taxpayers pay for a by-election in one electoral area.
She estimates that even if the current Alternate Director for Area E- Melynda Neufeld is acclaimed that there will still be associated costs of around $2,000.
"It's frankly ridiculous that we have to go through with this considering that I firmly believe my colleague is going to get acclaimed and then we have to do it again in 4 months," said Area D Director Steve Forseth at the CRD's Board meeting.
"Hoping we can get the Act corrected so that the rule if someone dies, resigns, or is disqualified from office in the year of a local general election that we can just waiver the requirement at some point."
CAO John MacLean said that he and Director Al Richmond were on the committee of UBCM.
"In talking the Ministry Staff they do recognize that the June date is wrong, but they went back to Director's Campsall comment that it then means that you don't have an elected official in place," he says.
"I went back to my original argument that that's fine. We've been in situations in other regional districts where they had no elected official for the whole term."
MacLean says that the one caution he had is the province might say why do regional districts even have alternate directors.
Section 54 of the Local Government Act states that local government may decide that a by-election is not to be held if the vacancy occurs after June 1 in the year of a general local election that will fill the office.
The Cariboo Regional District announced a by-election for the Electoral Area E Director this month.
The nomination period for candidates closes at 4 p.m. on March 2.
The by-election is scheduled for April 7, 2018.
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Stanbic IBTC reports N68bn in gross revenue in 2015 half year result
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Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, a member of Standard Bank Group, has announced its six months unaudited results for the period ended 30 June 2015, with gross earnings at N68.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent over the N61.7 billion recorded in the comparable period of last year.
According to the result, which was presented at the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos yesterday, profit before tax during the period stood at N9.5 billion, while profit after tax was N9.6 billion. Total assets went up nine percent to N1.03 trillion from N944.5 billion in December 2014.
The Group maintained adequate capital to support its business in 1H 2015 which is well above the regulatory requirement. The group's total capital adequacy ratio closed the period at 15.3 percent (Bank 13.9 percent), while the tier 1 capital adequacy ratio stood at 12.6 percent (Bank 10.6 percent). These ratios are well above the 10 percent minimum statutory requirement.
Chief Executive Officer, Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Mrs. Sola David-Borha, stated that the group is seeking to raise N20.4 billion in rights issue to support its planned growth opportunities as well as business risks and contingencies.
"Stanbic IBTC's performance recorded in the first half of 2015 was characterized by steady growth in its balance sheet whilst our strong focus on cost containment helped to mitigate the impact of rising cost of funds and credit impairments on our operating performance," she stated, adding that "our focus for the rest of 2015 is to reduce cost of funds and continue to resolve impaired risk assets to ensure increased profitability by year end. We remain optimistic that we can achieve these goals."
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As part of my Year Abroad programme at uni (Modern Foreign Language studies), I spent half a year living in France! Wanting to gain an insight into the travel industry, I managed to secure a placement with the French travel company Siblu. I spent 2 months working on the reception desk of one of their campsites in La Palmyre, a small isolated town in South Western France…before moving to the amazing city of Bordeaux for the next 4 months to work in the marketing department of their Head Office.
So I've now been in France for a week – can't believe it's only been that long, it feels like I've been here for ages! Had a few days travelling around the area with the family (to La Rochelle, Royan, La Palmyre and all the other little towns nearby) and then arrived at the campsite Thursday thinking I was starting work on Friday. But when I introduced myself at reception they said I wasn't starting till the Monday which was a bit annoying but I'm now really glad I had a few days to get myself settled!
When I first got to my caravan and looked around inside I nearly cried because it is SO small…and the French girl I'm sharing with got there before me so she got the double room. My room's about a metre wide and my bed is about half the size of a single bed! But once I'd unpacked it really didn't look so bad! Amandine, the French girl I'm sharing with seems really nice and chatty – she's a kids entertainer so she's really confident and it'll be such good practice for my French talking to her!
That night, the reception lot invited me to go out with them for pizza and drinks which was good timing and I thought it'd be a good way to meet everyone before I start work! Although I didn't say more than about 3 words that night, everyone was really nice and friendly and there are a few English people who work on reception so hopefully I'll be fine!
The campsite is absolutely massive. I decided to go for an explore the other morning on my own and nearly got lost…10 minutes later I was standing in the middle of a sea of caravans with no idea how to get back to mine haha…So I've decided I'm taking a map with me next time! On the Saturday night I decided to go to the bar on my own for a few drinks, and on the Sunday I ventured to the beach for the day! After going down the wrong path and ending up on a main road, I eventually found it and it was completely empty! It was so great to have the beach to myself, until slightly later when a group of French people came and decided it'd be funny to come and put his towel down right next to mine when the whole beach was empty! I managed to get a bit of French practise in and then he left after a few minutes!
On Monday, I was well and truly ready to start work! I mainly just did little jobs like making the welcome packs which I quite enjoyed it and everyone was really nice! Then one of the girls, Virginie, invited me to her house for the evening, which ended up being really lovely. We sat outside, chatting and drinking wine until the early hours. I could understand everything they said but didn't really say much as by the time I've worked out what to say it's too late…hopefully that'll get better with time!
Work that day was hard – I had to do the welcome visits on my own, which means visiting the caravans of the people who arrived the day before and ask them how it's going and if they need anything etc. I felt really useless on reception as well and found it hard to understand when people start talking really fast at me in French, and even worse on the phone! But it's only my second day so I'm sure it'll get better!
The rest of the week went by in pretty much the same way – preparing lots of welcome packs, greeting people and showing them to their caravans on my bike, and answering the phone.
On my days off, which tend to be towards the end of the week, it really does depend on the weather. A lot of my time at the moment I'm spending reading in my caravan, going on short walks to the beach and the odd drink in the campsite bar.
Could be worse walks to town!
On Friday I decided I had to actually get out the campsite and do something! So I ventured into the small town of La Palmyre. After a hot walk in the full sun, I eventually found the sea and a pretty little marina, where I sat on a bench reading and people watching, before wandering into the town. It really is the smallest town ever – I kept going round in circles so many times that the people sitting in the cafes must've noticed! Eventually I found a really cute little café typical of France to sit at and have a coffee. I must've stayed there quite a while – it was so nice to get out of the campsite and have a fresh change of scenery for the afternoon.
The other day I also got the chance to visit the gorgeous nearby beachside town of St Palais sur Mer where we wandered around the few little shops, picked up an ice cream and sat on the beach. It was a bit of a cloudy day though so no sunbathing!
So it was the staff BBQ last night which was good…and got me out my caravan for the night! At work, the days varied a lot! The following day at work was probably the best so far – I was working with a nice group of people and for some reason it was really quiet (so quiet that it was the first day yet that I didn't have to go out on my bike at all) so we just chilled and drank coffee! That night, a few of us were going to the manager Claire's, who was lovely, for drinks. We ended up finishing work slightly early, then spent the evening outside on her terrace drinking cocktails and eating the pizzas and nibbles she'd prepared! Really great evening and after going to bed at 3am, I was glad that it was my day off the following day.
A few days later, however, was the busiest in a long time! It was a Saturday, so we had about 50 arrivals. As soon as I returned to reception on my bike, I'd have to go straight back out again… Then Claire asked me if I could do some cleaning in the caravans as there weren't enough cleaners that day, which I was quite keen to do just for a change. They were all nice enough but didn't talk to me at all or teach me how to do anything, but it was good to just listen to the French and after a while I got used to it and it was pretty straightforward!
I definitely do feel like I'm getting the hang of everything on reception and I now actually know how to do things myself instead of asking other people absolutely everything. Also I am understanding people a lot more and them me!
The next week or two passed by in much the same way! When it was a hot, sunny day I'd make the most of it and spend it at the pool – literally not even leaving my sunbed! When the weather wasn't great I used the time to get my washing done in the laundrette, clean the caravan, do the food shopping, and a lot of reading. Sometimes when I fancied a change of scenery, I'd head down to the secluded beach at the end of the campsite, found a cute place to sit on my towel and read.
On another of my days off, we decided to take a roadtrip to the gorgeous harbour town La Rochelle just over an hour away (which I'd been to briefly with my family when we arrived). We spent most of the day just walking around the town with its cute café culture and old stone buildings, its pretty turquoise harbour and gorgeous sea views.
After a lunchtime pizza in one of the restaurants lining the main street, we found a little beach to sit and watch the views. The next morning after our night in our little hotel just right off the main road, we picked up some pastries and fresh orange juice and found a spot by the harbour in the sun. Was a really great day and escape from the usual environment of the campsite and I didn't want to leave!
Back at the campsite, straight after work that night there was a staff barbecue, with a "champagne reception" on the patio which was really cute…No-one had eaten anything yet though so everyone was pretty drunk! We then headed to the barbecue for some much needed food…until I found out it was seafood paella. And I hate seafood. But I tried it and I was actually pleasantly surprised! So I ate mussels and prawns for the very first time and actually enjoyed it. There was wine, punch, everything…it was a great night!
It's now nearly September, which is low season, so there are less and less people staying here. Work has become quite boring as there's literally nothing to do. Today we had about two customers the whole day. I literally spent the afternoon putting pages into the brochures for the mobile homes. Also, a lot of the reception staff are starting to leave. In a few days there's just going to be 5 of us left. And The only thing I'm worried about is that when the campsite closes in mid-September, the supermarket and the laundry and everything will close too…which is fine for everyone else as they have a home to go to…but I live here!! Also the evenings are starting to get a bit darker and lonely – the atmosphere of a dead town!
Got an email the other day saying that my Eramus cheque has been sent! This is great news – even though I feel like I haven't spent much at all, I don't think I've got much left. Firstly because the food in the supermarket here is so ridiculously expensive as it's the only one on site, and obviously because I don't have a car I have to buy it all here! Secondly, the laundry is €10 each wash (and I only realised the other day that staff can actually get tokens which are cheaper but too late now)! Lastly, it's because I hardly get paid anything here and I've actually been out for quite a few meals and lots of drinks. So basically, I'm excited for the cheque to come through – thanks Erasmus!
As there's hardly anyone left on site (not even staff), we now close the reception for lunch from 12-2 and all have the same lunch break. Usually Lauren & Claire come back to mine and we eat and chat. I've been spending a lot more time with Lauren and at her house. The other day, her auntie and uncle from England were visiting so they made a massive roast dinner with lamb and veg which was absolutely amazing, after my mainly cold meals the last couple of months! Had to sleep on the sofa as they had a full house but they made it really nice and it was great! These days, we mostly spend the evenings going out into Royan for a drink or an ice cream, or I stay at her house for the night, or she just comes back to my caravan after work for dinner. It's nice to have some more company – and to speak a bit of English too!
Mes dernière deux semaines à La Palmyre!
I'm really enjoying myself at the moment and going to have really great memories of these last couple of weeks in La Palmyre. My highlights include the evening Lauren, her boyfriend and I spent eating sushi in town, the night we got drunk off wine on the terrace of one of Lauren's friends flats, and meal Lauren & Claire and I (& Nikki the manager who joined us a bit later) went out for to celebrate the end of the season and the closing of reception!
Another afternoon, we had lunch at Lauren's boyfriend's place, before going to Royan for a bit of a shopping spree (which turned out to be more of a coffee crawl)! We honestly stopped for coffee between every shop! The café culture is typically French and I love it – sitting in cafés for hours on end smoking and drinking espresso. So much so that I feel I've definitely become a passive smoker.
So the campsite closed on Saturday! We were open at reception till 12 with was just Lauren and I working then we had the joys of closing for the year! The next few days at 'work' were the easiest I'd had yet – we wore our own clothes and just spent the days taking everything down off the walls, and a lot of general tidying and sorting out. I quite enjoyed it as I'm an organisation freak.
On Wednesday Claire was off so I had to work with the Sales team all day which I wasn't looking forward to but which was actually a really nice change. We spent most of the day driving around the site in a buggy and check the measurements of certain caravans, And then the next day was my last day at work! It was so chilled – we did a bit of work in the morning and then in the afternoon me and Claire had to go and check some pitches on our bikes and we turned it into a bit of a bike ride round the campsite as it was such a nice sunny afternoon! We went past the little outdoor gym and had a go on all the machines and then went to look round all the model mobile homes deciding which ones we'd choose if we were going to buy one! When we got back I really wanted the phone to ring for a change – so that I could answer it for the very last time – but it didn't! That night I went out for a meal with Lauren, Claire and her family, Nikki and some of her friends. The weirdest thing was that that night we went to the same restaurant that we went to on my first ever night here…so I started and ended my La Palmyre experience in the same place! It was a really nice night and a great way to end the season here.
And one afternoon earlier this week, I had some good news. I wasn't sure what was happening about getting to Bordeaux, but all I knew was I was really keen and wanted to go that weekend but had been let down by someone who was supposed to be taking me but who wasn't driving that way anymore. However, luckily Gianni from the Sales team lives in Bordeaux and is going home at some point this weekend so he kindly said he could take me – I've never been happier! So it's time to leave the campsite and head to the big city! Even though I'm going to miss Lauren and everyone, I'm so ready to leave here and I can't wait.


IT SOUNDS GREAT IN THEORY, BUT CAN YOU REALLY PRACTICE IT?
The concept of "zero tolerance" seems to provide absolute clarity: If we find evidence that you have harassed someone—sexually or otherwise—you're out of here.
However, is an ill-timed dirty joke as egregious as verbal sexual harassment? Is an unwanted invitation to dinner the same as an obvious come-on? "Zero tolerance" equates them and that means an employee could potentially be terminated for calling someone "dear" just as easily as if they were to ask for sexual favors.
Where an employer sets the bar is entirely up to them. But in a tight labor market you might not want to fire everyone for every possible offense.
Before we talk about what employers can do to control—or at least ameliorate–harassment, let's figure out what it means.
Harassment—particularly sexual harassment—can also cause victims to feel intimidated or afraid to speak up. It can also cause leadership to cover up or fail to report incidents, which creates liability for the organization.
What you need to do first is identify what your organization will or will not tolerate. Then, stay consistent and be vigilant about monitoring behaviors.
How Do You Make the Work Culture Less Conducive to Harassment of Any Kind?
Foster respect. Do whatever you can to get employees to treat each other with respect. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recommends civility training as a best practice to prevent harassment. EEOC has other best practices on their web site, which could potentially work for your organization.
Determine your "scale of harassment." What is bad enough to get someone fired? What offenses are "fixable"?
Train your people. Make it engaging, with concrete examples and time for questions. But make it mandatory. Also make sure employees have ways to ask further questions or express concerns after the training is over. And make sure managers are trained as well.
Look for power abuses. Managers, leaders or even employees who harass are abusing a position of power. When that occurs, harassment is likely to follow.
Keep after the offenders. If you didn't take the opportunity to make the offender understand that what they did will not be tolerated—and why—then you could be liable for the next inappropriate comment or action.
Make sure employees are informed. Let them know what the law covering harassment is in your state, what resources are available to them and be clear about the organization's policy and process.
Keep the employee handbook up-to-date. Audit it every year to ensure that what it states accurately reflects the organization's policy.
Ensure confidentiality. Have an anonymous hotline or another way to make sure that every complaint is confidential and that no one will retaliate.
Three Things You Can Ask Employees To Do To Help Avoid Harassment.
Remind them to consider how they would feel if the shoe was on the other foot. In other words, simply follow the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Seriously.
Keep their eyes and ears open. If you've ensured confidentiality and have a process for handling harassment situations, let employees know that they should report any episodes of harassment, even if it was told to them in confidence.
Don't fall victim to generalizations and stereotypes. Just because you don't like someone doesn't automatically make them a harasser. On the other hand, just because they're your friend doesn't mean they're not capable of bad behavior.
What Happens if You Have to Investigate a Harassment Claim?
What's the best way to proceed? Experts say that it's important to treat everyone equally. Many companies have tended to treat executives less harshly than lower echelon employees. But even if the accused is one of the star performers, applying policies consistently is critical.
One way to remain unbiased is to avoid selecting an investigator who knows either party. If the person leading the investigation is someone who knows either the claimant or the accused, the company can be accused of bias. And an investigator who doesn't know either party is more likely to approach everything with a more open mind. Depending on the particular organization, its size, and the level of executives involved, companies may decide to create a special committee of the Board of Directors or a team comprised of HR, legal and compliance officers. The best of all possible worlds is to assign the task to outside HR consultants or legal counsel.
Marsh & McLennan Agency works closely with the most experienced employment law attorneys to help our customers determine how to construct harassment policies, what should be included, how to investigate and how to communicate to employees. Talk with your Marsh & McLennan Agency representative to get more information.
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Opposite of Cool
Comics, Movies, Mayhem...it's the Opposite of Cool
Loki, Ep. 1: Glorious Purpose
Loki, Ep. 2: The Variant
Loki, Ep. 3: Lamentis
Loki, Ep. 4: The Nexus Event
Loki, Ep 5: Journey into Mystery
Loki, Ep. 6: For All Time. Always.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ep. 1: New World Order
Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ep. 2: The Star-Spangled Man
Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ep. 3: Power Broker
Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ep. 4: The Whole World is Watching
Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ep. 5: Truth
Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ep. 6: One World, One People
WandaVision, Ep. 1: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
WandaVision, Ep.2: Don't Touch That Dial
WandaVision, Ep.3: Now in Color
WandaVision, Ep.4: We Interrupt This Program
WandaVision, Ep. 5: On a Very Special Episode…
WandaVision, Ep.6: All-New Halloween Spooktacular!
WandaVision, Ep.7: Breaking the Fourth Wall
WandaVision, Ep. 8: Previously On
WandaVision, Ep. 9: The Series Finale
WandaVision: Final Thoughts
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs
Rolling Stone #500 – #476
500. Kanye West, 'Stronger'
499. The Supremes, 'Baby Love'
498. Townes Van Zandt, 'Pancho and Lefty'
497. Lizzo, 'Truth Hurts'
496. Harry Nilsson, 'Without You'
495. Carly Simon, 'You're So Vain'
494. Cyndi Lauper, 'Time After Time'
493. The Pixies, 'Where Is My Mind'
492. Miles Davis, 'So What'
491. Guns 'n Roses, 'Welcome to the Jungle'
490. Lil Nas X, 'Old Town Road'
489. The Breeders, 'Cannonball'
488. The Weeknd, 'House of Balloons'
487. Solange, 'Cranes in the Sky'
486. Lil Wayne, 'A Milli'
485. Azealia Banks, '212'
484. Weezer, 'Buddy Holly'
483. Four Tops, 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)'
482. Lady Gaga, 'Bad Romance'
481. Robert Johnson, 'Cross Road Blues'
480. Biz Markie, 'Just a Friend'
479. Santana, 'Oye Como Va'
478. Juvenile, 'Back That Azz Up'
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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs: Santana, 'Oye Como Va' (#479)
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Santana, 'Oye Como Va' (1970)
For virtually the entirety of his long career, Carlos Santana has defied expectation or easy categorization. He's generally lumped in among the guitar gods of the classic rock pantheon, occupying an eliptical orbit somewhere between Ritchie Blackmore, say, and Michael Schenker. He doesn't sound like Blackmore or Schenker, you understand — Carlos Santana doesn't sound like anyone but Carlos Santana — but in terms of his influence, he's somewhere in that territory.
You can kind of see how Santana wound up referenced where he is in the classic rock taxonomy. He played at Woodstock, he employed a distinctive fuzzy guitar tone, and he lived in San Francisco during a time when that city served as the home base for a number of other artists who made a cultural impact: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead.
But even a cursory listen to Abraxas — the 1970 album that featured 'Oye Como Va' and 'Black Magic Woman', Santana's signature songs — derails the guitar god narrative. Not because Carlos Santana is or was unworthy of inclusion among rock's guitar greats, but more because his inclinations towards blues and Latin jazz took him so far afield from what any of his peers were doing. Or to put it another way, Abraxas is a lot closer in sound and intent to something like Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which came out the same year and on the same label, than to anything Janis or Paul Kantner or Jerry Garcia were doing. If not for Woodstock and the Bill Graham[1]Bill Graham, 1931 – 1991, was an influential concert promoter, roughly analogous to a movie producer. / San Francisco connection, it's entirely possible we'd more accurately think of Carlos Santana as a Latinized fusion jazz musician instead of a guitarist on the classic rock periphery.
The first Latin jazz great Tito Puente knew that someone had covered his 1962 song 'Oye Como Va' was when his wife Margaret heard the song while she was out shopping. She recognized the song as her husband's, but with Greg Rollie's funky-assed organ and Santana's distorted guitar where the horns and the flute should have been. Definitely not anything that Tito had ever recorded, though Santana's version is unmistakably the same song.
Tito apparently wasn't too thrilled at first to hear of some upstart West Coast rock outfit covering his song, but time and royalty checks — Tito was given sole writing credit on the album — changed his view, wiuth Puente himself acknowledging that Carlos Santana had "put our music around the world."
Michael Strum: "For a man I usually think of as a paragon of guitar, it's the organ and the bass line that really stand out to me on 'Oye Como Va'. Tito Puente's charm is preserved, adapted, and enhanced in Santana's rendition. A classic, a groundbreaker for Latin music, and a welcome entry here as our first non-English song, the Kanye haters notwithstanding."
Rolling Stone: Growing up in San Francisco, Carlos Santana was shaped by the city's psychedelic explosion. "You cannot take LSD and not find your voice," he once claimed, "because there is nowhere to hide." And while his early heroes were bluesmen, he changed history with this foundational Latin-rock reworking of a 1962 salsa number by Cuban percussionist Tito Puente. Santana kept the original's cha-cha pulse but replaced its horns with Greg Rolie's organ and Carlos' lysergic guitar flares. Said Puente years later, "He put our music, Latin rock, around the world, man."
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Many of the most successful enterprises in history owe their staying power to a visionary leader – one who guided them through the best and worst of times – always with a steadfast resolve and unwavering vision for their destiny.
The history of Ernst Conservation Seeds is one such story – intertwined uniquely with that off its founder and president, Calvin Ernst. Born and raised a stone's throw from where his sprawling agribusiness calls home, Calvin proved himself to be a savvy entrepreneur by the young age of 14, when he received his Pennsylvania nursery license, now known as a plant merchant certification. In his senior year of high school, Calvin grew the record corn crop in Crawford County with guidance from his 4-H leader and the local Penn State University Cooperative Extension office.
As a junior at Penn State, Calvin, his brother Luther and some friends were performing research on crownvetch – an herbaceous legume that spreads through both rhizomes and seed – for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Some staff members from the University told the young men they couldn't find anyone interested in growing crownvetch. Calvin recalls, "I didn't initially think that seeds would be my thing. It was really the challenge of doing something PennDOT couldn't get anyone else to do that put me on this path." And Calvin has always loved a challenge.
Ted and Elsie Ernst
Calvin was working for Penn State's College of Agriculture and Luther was a school administrator. The brothers scraped together $1,000 to purchase foundation crownvetch seed and convinced their father Ted to plant it on five acres of the family farm. The gamble, they assured him, would pay off. Recalling his mother's reaction to the initial seed purchase, Calvin says, "She thought every seed must have been worth a penny – she even swept the stray seeds off the barn floor." It was also in 1963 that Calvin made his most auspicious proposal – and realized his greatest personal gain – when he requested, and was granted, the hand of Marcia Atwell in marriage. The two have been life and business partners ever since, literally traveling around the globe and making an indelible mark on the seed trade industry in the ensuing 50-plus years together. Reflecting on the importance of having her by his side all these years, Calvin says, "Marcia has always supported me personally and professionally. And I could count on her, as I could my parents, to question me on why I thought something was the right idea. She would never say, 'Don't ever do that again,' but instead she would ask why things didn't work out and how we could learn from it." He continues, "I think more than anything, it was Marcia's support back home and keeping the family together and strong that always made it productive for me to go out and try things, then come back and regroup now and again."
Elsie and Ted Ernst with sons Calvin, Darrell and Luther (left to right)
The Ernst brothers planted an additional 60 acres of crownvetch on leased land in the spring, and harvested the earlier five-acre stand that fall. With Ted's assistance, the 1964 crop was sold to Stanford Seed in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. The Ernst family enterprise – newly dubbed Ernst Crownvetch Farms – had its first customers and was officially in the seed business. The sale to Stanford Seed and other early customers allowed the fledgling agribusiness to hire its first full-time employee, who would help them expand production on owned and leased land. Calvin had witnessed firsthand the potential of crownvetch for erosion control while living and working in the greenhouses at Penn State. His gut told him this legume held enormous potential for commercial viability. His timing couldn't have been better. It was during this period of time in the mid-to-late 1960s that the massive United States Interstate Highway System was being built. Superhighways like 1-79, 1-80, 1-90 and 1-95 were being carved across the American landscape. Suddenly, there was high demand for effective cover crops to revegetate rights-of-way and highway medians. Much of Ernst Crownvetch Farms' key growth occurred during the ensuing years, thanks largely to the relationships being cultivated with highway departments and government agencies involved with the interstate system.
Calvin and brother Luther purchased foundation crownvetch seed and convinced father Ted to plant it on five acres of the family farm.
The crownvetch crop made it possible to purchase the 180-acre property which Ernst Conservation Seeds still calls home today. It also allowed for the Company's first personnel expansion to what was then a handful of people who helped the Ernsts grow both crownvetch seed and crowns.
That fall, Ernst Crownvetch Farms joined forces with Multi-Systems, Inc., a public corporation based in Detroit, to purchase a 640- acre farm in north central Nebraska, where they plowed under the native prairie and planted the entire farm in irrigated crownvetch. The purchase doubled the acreage Ernst had in production at the time. Over the next three years, Calvin, Marcia and young sons Andy and Michael would spend a couple months each spring and fall living on the Nebraska farm while fields were planted and harvested.
Peg "Granny" Simmons was hired in 1970. She was a beloved Ernst employee for 48 years. She retired in 2019.
Peg "Granny" Simmons
The price of crownvetch collapsed. The Ernsts' partnership with Multi-Systems was mutually severed, with Ernst Crownvetch Farms owing $12,000. With no available assets, Calvin and Marcia took yet another risk by securing local Farmers Home Administration financing on approximately 500 acres back home in Crawford County. The couple expanded their business by growing crownvetch crowns and potted plants. They soon paid their debt from the dissolved partnership and moved on, in control of their own destiny once again.
The couple was blessed with the birth of daughter Robin. The remainder of the 1970s saw Calvin and Marcia raising the three kids while continuing to sell crownvetch and grain crops. According to Calvin, the children all shared a love for the natural world and the ever-changing business in which their parents were engaged. "I don't think they ever looked at our farming as drudgery," he says. "It seems they always figured, 'Something's going to happen here that's going to be more exciting than the last thing.' And that kept them engaged. Every time we made progress, we shared it with them as well. I think that was important. And it's something they do with their own kids today."
Calvin, Michael and Andy on the family's Nebraska farm.
In the winter of 1974, into 1975, Calvin asked his cousin Bob Stein, an Army veteran who received the Purple Heart in the Asian-Pacific Theater, to help him build an elevator and a 5,000 bushel grain storage complex. A neighbor told Calvin that he would never grow enough corn to fill it … within five years, Calvin was producing over 100,000 bushels of grain. Bob continued to help Calvin and the Company expand until his death in 2007.
The business continued to expand until the 22% interest rates of the early 1980s hit. When the value of crownvetch wasn't worth the cost of harvesting it, the couple began growing large volumes of no-till corn planted right into the existing crownvetch fields. The practice created high corn yields due to the legume's excellent nitrogen-fixing properties. Once again, crownvetch had saved the day, even when it was playing a supporting role as a cover crop.
Our first office was the blue barn, and the second office was the green house in this photo (circa 1982).
Ernst Crownvetch Farms hired its first full-time information technology employee to manage the Company's inventory and sales & marketing activities. This progressive move was becoming characteristic of the Ernsts and their approach to agriculture as a true business, and its employees as professionals. "I think I've generally been successful at finding or developing a skill set within an employee – a skill set that was useful for the business and that person's professional growth," he comments. "I've tried to mold some of our employees into what the business needs them to be with a lot of success. And some of them I'm still working on," he laughs. Later in the decade, Ernst began growing native deertongue obtained from the USDA's Big Flats Plant Materials Center (PMC) in Corning, New York. Deertongue was the first in native used for strip mine reclamation where low soil pH was a challenge. Calvin credits the propagation and marketing of deertongue seed as the turning point in the Company's eventual transition from the non-native crownvetch that had driven sales for the first 20-plus years to the native plant species that would assume that role moving forward.
The Company planted its first foundation switchgrass seed ('Shelter' variety). Calvin was interested in switchgrass because it added wildlife value to strip mine and reclamation seed mixes. It wouldn't take long, however, for him to find an even higher calling for this high-yielding, warm season grass that grows so well on marginal lands.
Ernst planted its first foundation switchgrass ('Shelter' variety).
Panicum Clandestinum (Deertongue) was Calvin's first native seed crop.
Panicum Clandestinum
Ernst was purchasing much of its crownvetch seed from growers in southeastern Minnesota in order to mitigate the effects of low market prices. The Company built a small processing facility and erected a handful of grain bins there. Calvin recalls that these activities in Minnesota first piqued his interest and drove a shift in his business strategy toward the diversity of natives and their potential to revolutionize the seed trade. Southeast Minnesota and Iowa were home to many of the first commercial growers of native ecotypes. This fraternity of like-minded producers was very helpful, sharing their combined insights with the ever-curious and innovative entrepreneur. In short order, Calvin began shifting acreage from grain and crownvetch production to that of native forbs and grasses. In step with Ernst's shift toward native ecotypes was a shift in the attitudes of government agencies toward the use of non-native species, such as crownvetch. Non-natives, specifically those classified as aggressive species, were beginning to be blacklisted in favor of a move toward native species. Once again, Calvin had begun innovating and adapting his product offering ahead of the curve. Calvin has always believed in the need to continually educate himself and others on best practices, to study the future of agronomy and foresee opportunities to diversify and meet future demands. His peers recognize this as well, often inviting him to speak or to participate in the greater conversation within the industry. In the summer of 1990, Calvin and Marcia traveled to Eastern Europe as part of the "People to People" exchange program in order to study a diverse agricultural practice. In 1991, Calvin traveled with the USDA to China to promote inter-cropping perennial legumes with annual grain crops in order to reduce crop inputs and erosion. Further expansion of the farm's operations occurred at this time with help from Ted and the hiring of additional employees. Calvin recalls fondly one of those employees in particular. "Pressley Hilliard came to me in an old wreck of a car one day and said, 'Calvin, you need to buy my farm and grow corn.' I said, "Pressley, I'm going to show you how to make money without growing corn or raising dairy cows." We spent time traveling together in the Midwest buying and selling seed and he became enamored with the large production fields. You see, twenty-five years ago there was a big transition from dairy farms to crop farms. And it seemed that on every farm where they had torn down the old dairy barns and went straight to crop farming, there was a Cadillac in the yard, so to speak. And on one of those trips, Pressley finally looked at me and said, 'when I get back, I'm gonna tear down those old barns.' He was a great person and really became a member of our family. We lost Pressley in 2011, and folks are still telling stories about him today."
Ernst Crownvetch Farms secured the rights to grow and market 'Niagara' Big Bluestem, which was successfully planted in 1994. At about this time, the Company changed its name to Ernst Conservation Seeds in order to better represent its evolving products and philosophy. By that time, Ernst was wild harvesting and growing native wetland seeds for the wetland mitigation market. Further opportunity arose when Ernst began collaborating with federal agencies, highway departments and land developers for the purpose of establishing wetlands and meadows using native seeds, and teaching these groups how to install bioengineering materials for soil stabilization. Andy, Michael and Robin all pitched in with Ernst employees to expand native seed production and sales. Andy became involved in both state and national professional seed organizations that promote better quality standards. Michael busied himself building additional processing, storage and office capacity. Robin directed seed sales and promoted efficient native seed installation.
Calvin and Andy pose in front of an Ernst Crownvetch Farms truck in 1993.
Mark Fiely joined Ernst Conservation Seeds as its full-time horticulturist, helping Calvin diversify the Company's offering of native ecotypes. To this day, Mark spends a considerable portion of his time traveling the eastern United States in search of new species and researching their viability as production crops. He also works closely with customers, from large government agencies to landscape architects and hobby gardeners, all with the goal of educating them on the use of native species and assisting in their successful establishment.
Calvin and Michael pose in front of an Ernst Conservation Seeds truck in 1995.
A fire destroyed a major portion of the Company's seed conditioning facility in Meadville and several of that year's crops were lost. Employees and neighbors brought their own tools to help the family rebuild. "Our community was showing up to help us before the end of the first day," recalls Calvin. With used equipment and loyal employees, seed was conditioned outside through the winter.
In 2001, fire destroyed a major portion of the Company's seed conditioning facility and several of that year's crops were lost.
A new seed processing facility was completed, including equipment repair bays and a secure bay for the handling of field spray applications. Though the incident was tragic, it is widely seen as a unifying moment in the history of the Company, strengthening bonds between the family, its employees and the community, while also necessitating facility expansion and improvements that would pay dividends in short order. "It was something we'd never want to repeat under the same circumstances," Calvin reflects. "But it allowed us to rebuild and improve the facilities we had. The changes we were able to make to our capacity and processing efficiency just advanced us tremendously. And the way our neighbors, business partners and employees came together and helped out so quickly is very special. It was quite a pulling together." In response to a challenge to develop a native seed source for the extreme southeastern United States, Calvin initially utilized his vacuum harvesting technology to wild harvest wiregrass in central Florida. These successful wild harvests and collections of native forbs and grasses throughout Florida gave him yet another opportunity to expand.
The Ernst family purchased a farm in Live Oak, Florida, named it Ernst Southern Native Seeds, LLC, and began field production, with frequent assistance from the NRCS Plant Materials Center [PMC) in Brooksville, Florida and the Florida Wildflower Seed & Plant Growers Association. Due to decreased demand, coupled with production difficulties involving wiregrass and some of the forbs, this venture did not prove to be as fruitful as hoped. However, with the aid of the Brooksville PMC, Calvin is successfully producing seed of two PMC releases of 'Stuart' and 'Miami' switchgrass. Additionally, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA, ARS) in Griffin, Georgia, he is multiplying seed for more than 40 southeast ecotypes of lowland and upland switchgrass, along with his own native wildflowers.
Calvin had been considering the potential for developing grass biomass for energy production. Calvin put his plans to the test by leasing 5,000 acres of marginal farmland in Crawford County and planting switchgrass for seed and biomass production. With marginal land being what it is, Calvin learned plenty about the effects of low pH and wet soils. Research soon began on the densification of switchgrass for use in direct combustion applications. In a characteristically gutsy move, Calvin decided that his company would need to be the innovator once again – leading the charge instead of sitting on the sidelines of progress. Ernst would build its own state-of-the-art facility to process warm season grasses. Michael and a select group of dedicated employees designed and constructed a pellet plant that uses only grass.
In 2005, Ernst leased 5,000 acres of marginal farmland in Crawford County and planted switchgrass for seed and biomass production.
The plant was completed and is currently producing densified grass pellets for multiple uses as a separate entity called Ernst Biomass, LLC. The facility has opened many market opportunities for grass biomass, including numerous agricultural applications and uses in the burgeoning Utica and Marcellus shale oil and gas plays of the northeastern United States.
Ernst Biomass Facility
2014 - 50th Anniversary
Today, with over 10,000 acres in production, Ernst grows hundreds of diverse crops for conservation, ecological restoration, beautification, energy feedstock and wildlife habitat. Future growth opportunities can be seen in increased public and governmental interest in sustainable landscapes, low-impact development, responsible reclamation and restoration, pollinator habitat, improved biodiversity and evolving practices in conservation agriculture. While Calvin and Marcia show no sign of slowing down, their children all play critical roles in the future growth and diversification of Ernst Conservation Seeds and its affiliates. Andy and Michael Ernst share responsibilities for day-to-day operations at Ernst Conservation Seeds and Ernst Biomass, while Robin operates Meadville Land Service, Inc., a full-service mobile restoration company specializing in the construction, restoration and mitigation of streams and wetlands, as well as native planting, seeding and the installation of bioengineering material. Darrell Ernst, Calvin's younger brother, has been with the Company as an electrical and hydraulic mechanic for over five years. The extended Ernst "family" has grown to approximately 80 full-time employees, including field production crews, sales & marketing staff, researchers, seed conditioning specialists, finance, purchasing, inventory management and human resources professionals. After a passing glance back on the first 50-plus years of his company's history, Calvin immediately focuses on the promise of its future. "The environmental climate and professionals in the field are recognizing how important natives are in the whole restoration of our North American ecology, and that natives are the best choice for use in just about every scenario. "Through our experience, we know how to harvest these seeds and grow them in a production environment. We know how to help our customers repeat our success in their own unique applications, and we take the time to do that with each customer. "There's progress to be made in the efficiency of producing native seeds and in discovering or creating new markets for them. We continue to find new plants in diverse ecologies that may contain a thousand species in a square mile. "And we're only growing a few hundred of them so far."
Our headquarters has grown significantly over the years, but remains in the same spot it began over 50 years ago.


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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Super-tough, nearly bomb-proof trucks are all the rage in Iraq these days. But in Africa, these "Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected" vehicles, or MRAPs, have been standard for thirty years. The armored rides with the v-shaped hulls first hit the road in the 1970s during a brutal war in what is now Zimbabwe. Today, they're the truck of choice for another bloody conflict: the 17-year-old series of civil wars and invasions and insurgencies in Somalia.
I went riding with the Ugandans today. Fifteen hundred of them deployed to Mogadishu eight months ago under an African Union banner, and with U.S. funding, in a bid to seize and hold the key infrastructure that some future international force would need to begin stabilizing the embattled city – a "bridgehead," according to Captain Paddy Ankunda.
This ain't your typical peacekeeping mission: within moments of stepping foot on Somali soil at the seaport, the Ugandans got mortared – and the attacks have continued. Roadside bombs, suicide bombers, mortars, rockets, snipers and insurgent infantry assaults – the range and intensity of threats makes Mogadishu "like Baghdad," Paddy says. So when the Ugandans roll out, they roll out under armor, in RG-31 Nyala minesweepers and what appears to be an open-top, single-crew variant of the Casspir – the smaller predecessor of the American 25-ton Buffalo monster truck.
U.S. MRAPs are fairly lightly armed: usually just one .50-caliber machine gun, often in a remote-controlled turret. Ugandan MRAPs are like wheeled battlecruisers. The RGs sport two machine guns; the Casspirs have three, plus a rifleman with his AK-47, crouched in the armored bed beside the turret gunners.
"We have the arsenal," Paddy told me last week when I ran into him at the airport. He was explaining why I shouldn't believe press reports saying one of his camps had been briefly overrun by insurgents. In fact, the bad guys got gunned down outside the walls.
The Ethiopians are the most feared army in Mogadishu, but the Ugandans are probably the best-protected – and rightly so. Theirs is essentially a defensive mission, holding onto that key real estate, hoping and praying for the day when the U.N. wakes up and sends its own peacekeepers. That'll let the widely hated Ethiopians leave. And that might begin the slow process of returning peace to Mogadishu.


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Jota Sport AMR: back on the podium in Britcar 24 Hours
Aston Martin Racing official partner team, Jota Sport AMR, backed up their GT4 victory at the recent Spa 24 Hours with second place in Class 3 and fifth overall at the Britcar 24 Hours at the weekend.
The Kent-based squad's Aston Martin GT4, shared by factory Aston Martin Racing driver Sam Hancock, team co-owner Simon Dolan and Aston Martin Chief Engineer Chris Porritt, survived the most challenging of weather conditions and an incident-strewn race to clinch the podium finish and continue the outfit's impressive start to its Aston Martin Racing partnership.
Having qualified fourth in class, Hancock took the start and drove a mammoth three-hour opening stint which kept the team right among the class leaders.
Dolan then took over and was also impressive as the weather conditions changed, posting strong lap times driving on slick tyres on an increasingly wet track. As the rain got heavier, however, he had a small spin into the gravel and lost some time after being towed out by a recovery vehicle.
Porritt was next up and drove faultlessly throughout in a car he has not only raced many times in endurance racing, but one in which he played a key role in bringing to life.
The three drivers then rotated throughout the twice-around-the-clock race and, thanks to a reliable car and some superb pit-stops by the team, managed to run as high as fourth overall. When the flag fell, the Jota Sport AMR crew eventually came home in fifth, with the three drivers tasting the podium champagne following a fine run to second in class.
Sam Hignett, Team Principal Jota Sport AMR: "The drivers this weekend were fantastic. Sam was his usual, brilliant self, and both Simon and Chris drove excellently. The team was also great and put out a very reliable car. Sadly we just didn't have the legs of the winning Porsche in the end, but it was still a great result for everyone involved."
Sam Hancock: "I'd like to extend a huge thanks to the team and a particularly big thank you to Sam Hignett, who showed up with not only an amazingly well prepared team but also an immaculately presented one. Everyone did a great job. The pitstops were superb and the guys were absolutely first rate, as seems to be their trademark thesedays."
Simon Dolan: "To finish on the podium again is a fantastic achievement for us, especially after a race as tough as this one. The night running was difficult, as the combination of the rain and the fog made visibility extremely tricky. To have come out of that unscathed and second in class is a great feeling."
Chris Porritt: "The weather was a challenge, especially the fog during the night which Simon experienced. It was important to keep the car on the track, and in the end we earned a very satisfying result. All in all it was a pleasure to be part of this team. I really enjoyed driving the car and I really enjoyed working with the guys."
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There are a lot of automotive brand names that stir the blood, but just a handful of boats. Haines Hunter is one of them. They have the pedigree and the mystique, they all have hulls happy to work on the ocean, few fishermen ever found fault with them, and, to show the builder's confidence in his product, they carry a seven-year hull warranty.
They are all recognizable at a glance, too; certainly the review 600R stood out at the ramp – partly probably because the hull featured a lot of black gelcoat, which seems to be a minor trend. Like many Haines Hunters its profile suggests a runabout, but the truth is the 600R is a cuddy. The boat's emphasis is on the cockpit, but the cuddy still gets useful length and headroom; perhaps not a regular sleeper, but the occasional doss, and shelter anytime are within its capabilities. It also houses the chemical toilet in a dedicated compartment.
All very handy, but dedicated Haines Hunter users are interested in what lies aft of the bulkhead: fairyland for the angler. It starts with an exceptionally high coaming that contacts the body close to its centre of gravity, and has recessed cleats to minimize snagging. Below are pockets on two levels for all the small junk we take to sea, the lower level also containing racks for rods and gaffs. Half a dozen more rods find a home in the Targa's rocket launchers, and more in the coaming's sockets.
The Targa, whose main job is to carry the Bimini, readily folds to give maximum overhead space for rod work. In position for the voyage out, this structure with the addition of clears makes a near weather-tight driving position. The review boat also had storm covers aft, which are useful on long road hauls or in storage to keep dust out of the boat.
The removable bait station is a grand structure with lidded compartment, cutting board, more rod sockets and combined sinker cups-drink holders. The transom houses the complementary live bait tank. The catch tank, a big one, is also long and relatively narrow, the kind for serious fish.
For those who treasure easy cleaning beyond comfort underfoot, the cockpit carpet unclips for removal on purely fishing days. It takes about 30 seconds to replace it and make the family happy.
The rear lounge is standard Haines Hunter, folding into the transom and disappearing to order. Alongside it to port is the clever transom door. This is a horizontally hinged piece of transom that drops down to form a step.
The driving position with a pair of pedestal seats, and curved windscreen ahead, is first class. Eye and hand fall naturally to displays and controls, and vision is ideal: stand –holding on to the full width bar at windscreen top – and you are way above the windscreen; sit, in considerable comfort, and your eye line is mid glass. The dash is neatly laid out and features the advanced electrical system of all of the larger Haines Hunters. This eliminates fuses, provides waterproof keypads and electronic circuit protection, and a host of other goodies.
The 600R is rated up to 230hp, which is considerable for a hull weight of 1150kg, the 150 Honda on our boat being closer to the norm for a 20-footer. It was also better than adequate, delivering a top speed well up in the 30s. This means a cruising speed of pretty well whatever you want with reserve power for heavily laden days. Hydraulic steering is standard, and having once tried it no one would want to go back to cables.
With the clears in place access forward via the narrow side decks is difficult – there is a lack of secure hand holds, which is true of most soft tops. Fortunately the clear, flush fore hatch is in the right place for a standing person to handle ropes or anchor. The cable locker lid is flush too, typical of the developed state of the boat's mouldings: nothing on board seems an afterthought.
Which sums up the 600R: it has been thoroughly thought out.


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Strus, Vincent lead Heat past weakened Magic, 115-105
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)Max Strus scored 23 of his career-best 32 points in the first half, Gabe Vincent added a career-best 27 and the Miami Heat beat the short-handed Orlando Magic 115-105 on Friday night.
The Heat made 19 3-pointers to give them 91 over their past five games. That's the most in team history, easily topping the 82 made over a five-game stretch from Feb.. 24, 2020, to March 4, 2020, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"That's what we do; we've got shooters and we've got a lot guys who put in time in the gym and work on it," said Strus, one of seven undrafted players out of the Heat's 10 active players on Friday. "We're going to keep playing that way if shots are falling. We're making then, so why not keep shooting them?"
Strus, a third-year NBA player, hit eight of his first 10 shots and six of his first seven from 3-point range. After Orlando climbed within 93-85 early in the fourth quarter, Strus had a four-point play and another 3 in a run that pushed the Heat back ahead by 17.
Strus' eight 3-pointers were also a career high.
"(Strus) is like a few of our guys – Duncan (Robinson), Tyler (Herro) and even Gabe, to an extent – they're ignitable," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. "They hit two (3-pointers) and immediately they're thinking three, four, five. They all can get in a roll and that's what we saw with Max."
Vincent followed up his career-best, 26-point effort from two nights earlier with another stellar shooting night for Miami, which won for the fourth time in the past five games. The Heat also beat the Magic for a fourth consecutive time in the past two seasons.
Kyle Lowry added 11 points and a season-best 15 assists. P.J. Tucker had 15 points.
Still without stars Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo and key reserve Tyler Herro, the Heat were similarly short-handed and had just 10 available players.
The Magic scrambled on Friday and signed four players from their G League franchise in nearby Lakeland – Aleem Ford, Admiral Schofield, B.J. Johnson and Hassani Gravett – with hardship exemptions in order to meet the NBA's minimum eight-player rule.
Terrence Ross, Moritz Wagner, Mo Bamba, R.J. Hampton and Ignas Brazdeikis were placed in the health and safety protocols, necessitating the G League call-ups. Orlando has been without Markelle Fultz, Jonathan Isaac, Michael Carter-Williams and E'Twaun Moore all season because of injuries, while Cole Anthony was scratched because of an ankle sprain and Jalen Suggs has a fractured thumb.
Orlando lost its seventh straight game and for the 13th time in the past 14 games. The Magic are 2-10 at the Amway Center.
Rookie Franz Wagner led the Magic with 27 points, while Gary Harris chipped in 20. Chuma Okeke added 18 points and 10 rebounds.
"I absolutely love our team's effort," Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said. "I love the way they played, I love the way they competed and the way they battled until the end."
With his Heat down 18-8 in the early going, Spoelstra angrily called time and Miami responded with a 15-0 burst. Ultimately, Miami outscored Orlando 23-4 over the final 5:48 of the first quarter to break open the game.
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The emergency call-ups meant that the Magic's four newcomers would be playing a back-to-back after the Lakeland Magic lost 112-101 to Austin on Thursday. In that game, Schofield scored 32 points in 38 minutes.
Schofield and Johnson are the only two G League call-ups with any prior NBA experience. Scofield, a University of Tennessee product, appeared in 33 NBA games previously with the Washington Wizards, while Johnson had previously seen time in 17 NBA games with Atlanta, Sacramento and Orlando.
Heat: Herro, the NBA's leading bench scorer at 19.9 points per game, missed his second straight game with a quad contusion. "He's making progress, but we want to be responsible to make sure he doesn't have a setback," Spoelstra said.
Magic: Orlando lost Wendell Carter Jr. early in the second quarter when he banged knees with Strus. He left the floor in a wheelchair and did not return. . Anthony rolled his ankle on Sunday, but he struggled through 34 minutes in Wednesday's loss to the Hawks. The decision was made to rest Anthony on Friday 90 minutes prior to tipoff.
Heat: Play at Detroit on Sunday night.
Magic: Play at Brooklyn on Saturday night.


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Видът е разпространен в Мексико и САЩ.

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Pleuronichthys

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Largest Fair Trade Store Collection in Chicagoland
We opened our Fair Trade store (a/k/a the Fair Trade+ Gallery) in 2014. Since then, you've embraced the movement and allowed us to grow our collection into the most diverse in the area.
Member of the Chicago Fair Trade federation
Fair Trade provides a sustainable market for handcrafted products made by artisans around the world. It gives artisans and farmers who would otherwise be under- or unemployed the opportunity to earn necessary income. In this way, it provides families with food, housing, and clothing. The artisans and farmers are paid a fair price to cover costs of materials and provide compensation for their labor and skill.
Fair Trade also has a mission to respect the environment. Most of the products you'll find in our galleries are made with recycled, re-purposed, or sustainable materials. Production processes are designed to reduce energy consumption, avoid pesticides, and minimize waste.
Every item in our Fair Trade store has a wonderful story behind it. Just ask one of our knowledgeable associates or keep scrolling. Explore these beautiful handmade treasures without traveling half-way around the world to find them.
The 10 Principles of Fair Trade
1: Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers
Poverty reduction through trade. Enables marginalized small producers to move from income insecurity to economic self-sufficiency and ownership.
2: Transparency and Accountability
Transparency in management and commercial relations. Accountability to all stakeholders. Communication channels are open at all levels of the supply chain.
3: Fair Trading Practices
Trade with concern for the social, economic, and environmental well-being of small producers. All parties must respect contractual commitments.
4: Payment of a Fair Price
Mutually agreed upon fair pay to producers. Costs must be market sustainable.
5: Ensuring no Child Labor or Forced Labor
Adheres to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Also follows national and local laws regarding the employment of children. No forced labor used in production.
6: Commitment to Non Discrimination, Gender Equity and Women's Economic Empowerment, and Freedom of Association
No discrimination in hiring, remuneration, access to training, promotion, termination, or retirement.
7: Ensuring Good Working Conditions
Safe and healthy working environment, working hours, and working conditions.
8: Capacity Building
Development of skills and capabilities of employees. This includes management skills, production capabilities, and access to markets.
9: Promoting Fair Trade
Raising awareness of Fair Trade and its goals through honest advertising and marketing techniques.
10: Respect for the Environment
Maximize use of raw materials from sustainably managed sources. Reduce energy consumption. Use organic or low-pesticide production methods. Minimize the impact of waste.
Read detailed definitions of these ten principals at the World Fair Trade Organization.
Philanthropic Goods
Our Fair Trade store carries more than just Fair Trade goods. The "plus" in our Fair Trade+ Galleries is for charitable brands that strive to make the world a better place. For example, the 11th Project collection from Chavez for Charity benefits Fox Valley Food for Health. This is a local organization committed to providing nutrient rich meals to locals in need who are dealing with a serious illness. Every bracelet from Chavez for Charity gives back to a specific charitable organization.
Casual style and comfort is only part of the TOMS shoes story. The company's "One for One" slogan means that for every pair of shoes sold, the company donates a pair of shoes to a child in need. TOMS works with over 100 giving partners in more than 70 countries. The company provides goods, services, and employment to areas in need.
The 4Ocean bracelet for change is made from post-consumer recycled materials. AND for every bracelet sold, a pound of trash is removed from the ocean and its coastlines. The 4Ocean movement was started by two surfer dudes who went looking for tasty waves in Indonesia. Instead, they found the beaches and waters clogged with trash. Though locals did their part to clean the beaches, each day brought new waves of garbage. So Alex and Andrew got the idea of paying the local fishermen to use their boats and nets to catch ocean trash instead of fish. Thus, the idea for 4Ocean was born. These trendy glass beaded bracelets are hand assembled on the island of Bali, Indonesia.
Meet Some of Our Fair Trade Store Vendors:
Avatar Imports
Based in Santa Cruz, California, Avatar Imports partners with Jhaindra Ghimire, a factory owner in Kathmandu, Nepal, to produce its fun, boho-chic designs. Processes are socially, environmentally, and economically responsible. The company gives Nepali workers a chance to rise out of poverty and enjoy an improved standard of living.
Through partnership with the Friends of Needy Children organization, Avatar and its partner fair trade factory Sujha Traders provides fair wages and housing to women escaping lives of servitude as kamlari, bonded house slaves who are often mistreated and denied education.
Belart
Belart founder, Tulianna Garcés, uses art and culture to improve the lives of displaced and impoverished communities. She believes in deep collaborative relationships with local artisans. They, in turn, create Belart's unique eco-chic jewelry. Based in Vermont, Tuliana began the Belart business by working with local artisans in Vietnam and Colombia. These artisans were displaced by violence. She now works with 12 partner communities in southeast Asia and South America. Her goal is to provide sustainable employment and viable markets for their beautiful jewelry.
Belart's stunning Eco-resin collection is made in the central mountainous Andean Region in Colombia. The brand believes here is no better chemist than Mother Nature. Eco-resins are made from upcycled or recycled materials. The process uses less energy to create than comparable materials and produces fewer harmful byproducts.
Wall art by Haitian metal artists in Croix-des-Bouquets. Haitian metal art dates back to the 1950s when a patron of Haitian arts was intrigued by iron crosses marking above-ground tombs in Haiti. He discovered the blacksmith who'd fashioned the crosses. Since then, the art of metal crafting has been handed down though family and mentors. Many supplies arrive in Haiti in steel oil drums, providing a ready supply of materials to be re-purposed into these stunning pieces of art.
Blossom Inspirations
Beautiful and incredibly soft stuffed animals made with recycled Alpaca fur. Crafted by artisans from the Peruvian highlands. Your purchase helps families earn economic independence, social well-being, and self-esteem. Also find gourd crafts and other natural products by Blossom Inspirations in our Fair Trade store.
Dean's Beans
Delicious organic coffee beans that are shade grown by small farmer cooperatives in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Roasted in small batches in Orange, MA for the perfect cup of Joe. Whole beans. Take them from our Fair Trade store to our Candy Room to have them fresh ground.
Fair Anita
A Minneapolis-based social enterprise that's all about women investing in women. Many beautiful Fair Anita fashions are handmade by women in Mexico City.
The Faire Collection
Jewelry is designed in New York City and handmade by Fair Trade partners in Ecuador and Vietnam. Amanda Judge, founder, and her team travel to remote corners of the world to find undiscovered artisans living in marginalized conditions. They help the artisans develop their skills to create pieces that celebrate their cultural heritage. Artisans are paid dignified wages and are thus provided a path out of poverty.
Gracia y Milagros
Beautiful jewelry in sterling silver, pearls, and stones. The vision of Gracia y Milagros (Grace and Miracles) is to empower girls and young women in Guatemala to become self reliant. The company provides both business and skills training through Casa Hogar, a home for abused, orphaned, and indigent girls in Jalapa, Guatemala.
Lucia's Imports
Shares the beauty of Guatemala's art and culture. Makes a difference in the lives of the Mayan artisans and their families.
They've been walking the Fair Trade walk since before anyone started calling it Fair Trade. The company is dedicated to the people working at every step of the process and believes in establishing long term relationships, sharing risks, and continually working to improve quality of product as well as quality of life.
Mata Traders
Mata garments and accessories are made by women's cooperatives in India and Nepal. Mata purchases directly benefit the women and their families. The co-ops provide training, fair wages, and supportive benefits like healthcare and child care, literacy classes and financial education. Mata believes that empowering women is the key to ending global poverty.
The tradition of Indian block printing combines with contemporary, easy-fit design for versatile style.
Milagros by Melania Clara
Milagros purses and handbags are handmade in Chiapas, Mexico. Each piece is lovingly made with pride in every detail. The close-knit community of artisans is hard working and embraces life with happiness.
Pampeana Glass Art and Living Tree
This company provides opportunities for individuals with low educational and economical resources. This includes people around the world and in the US. Pampeana uses recycled and renewable materials. Their lovely fused glass nightlights, tagua belts, wooden animal pens, and wavy glass art are good for the environment too.
Passion Lillie
Ethical fashions that help reverse the cycle of poverty, offering fair wages, safe and healthy working conditions, and long-term employment to artisans in India.
Sandpiper Imports
The result of the lifelong friendship of two loyal Chicagoans. The two women love traveling, social responsibility, and beautiful jewelry. They were enchanted by Bali and were inspired to turn their passions into a business. Sandpiper Imports brings unique .925 sterling silver jewelry handcrafted by artisans in Bali to our Fair Trade Gallery.
A collection of fine, handmade products from Krygystan and Central Asia. These areas have traditionally had limited market access.
Swahili African Modern
Swahili African Modern operates from a small warehouse in the Pacific Northwest, but its network spans the globe. Founded over 20 years ago by Leslie Mittelberg, the company develops long-term relationships and handcrafted products directly with artisans in Africa. Working in Africa presents challenges, but Swahili African Modern thrives on creative problem solving as well as inspired design. These gorgeous baskets are environmentally responsible, made with sustainable and recycled materials.
Tula Hats
Tula hats are handwoven of sustainable palm fiber in a village along a mountainous region of Mexico. The craftspeople adhere to centuries of traditions. These hats offer maximum sun protection with a UPF50+ rating.
Shona stone sculptures are the company's flagship product. But Venture Imports has expanded to bring other exciting items from developing nations to North American markets. Look for recycled glass jewelry from Kenya.
The Winding Road
Committed to socially responsible sourcing and working with companies that follow Fair Trade best practices. Proceeds from their felted products go toward educational sponsorships of Nepalese children.
World Finds
World Finds' mission is to make a difference in the world. Their ethical fashion provides work, not charity. Jewelry, scarves, ornaments, etc. by artisans from India, Indonesia, and Nepal.
Zambeezi
Lip Balm sourced from organic beeswax in the vast Miombo forest of Zambia. This not only makes for a superior product, it provides a source of income to Bantu subsistence farmers that is kinder to the land and to the people than the alternatives of timber & strip mining.
The purpose of Chicago Fair Trade is to increase support for fair trade in the Chicago metro area. Through our Fair Trade store, that's exactly what we aim to do.