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Jodie Foster was spotted out and about in Hollywood with her rumoured girlfriend Alexandra Hedison. Are they together or not?
Does Jodie Foster have a new paramour? The 50-year-old was spotted having a quiet lunch with possible girlfriend Alexandra Hedison. Although the brunch date seemed an informal affair with the pair wearing loose trousers, t-shirts and sandals, yet despite the possible couple's casual attire, they appeared "close and intimate" according to Us Weekly.
Jodie Foster may have a new girlfriend.
This would certainly corroborate what the sources have to say on the matter. E!'s sources claim Foster and Hedison are "total in love." There have been rumours that the couple are living together. This would certainly make sense when one considers Hedison's decision to sell her two bedroomed Laurel Canyon home on 13 Septemer. The two were photographed by paparazzi on Sunday (6 Oct.) in Hollywood.
After years of speculation on the subject of her sexuality, Foster came out publically in January 2013. Whilst accepting an award at the Golden Globes, Foster implied her sexuality would not be a shock to anyone who knew or had worked with her. You would hope not as Foster had a long term female partner with whom she had two children. The couple split up in 2008 after 20 years together.
Alexandra Hedison previously dated Ellen DeGeneres.
Since the confirmation of Foster's sexuality there's been a constant stream of rumours about who Foster may be seeing. Alexandra Hedison is the latest associate of Foster's to fall under scrutiny. Hedison is a contemporary photographer who dated Ellen DeGeneres for four years from 2000. According to E! News, Foster and Hedison have been living together for a couple of weeks. However, Foster is unlikely to comment on the matter as she prefers to keep her romantic life very private.
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15 Best Things to Do in Sweetwater (FL)
Sweetwater is a small city located in the wider Miami-Dade County, making it the perfect base to explore the best that south-east Florida has to offer.
The city is found just 20 minutes drive from downtown Miami, while it's also positioned right on the edge of the vast wetlands that form the Everglades. You can find alligators aplenty in the surrounding area, while there are plenty of things to do in Sweetwater, Florida itself.
Visit the local parks, see the city's Nicaraguan influences at the catholic church, and enjoy local life in a quiet city that's just a short journey from Florida's best sights and attractions.
Here are the best things to do in Sweetwater, Florida:
1. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
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Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church, Doral
Sweetwater has a huge Latin American connection. In fact, the majority of the population speak Spanish as their first language, and the city was known in the past as Little Managua in recognition of its Nicaraguan heritage.
That heritage also expresses itself in the religion. Just a few minutes out of Sweetwater, in Doral you can visit the local Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, a catholic church designed in distinctly Latin style.
You don't need to be religious to admire the architecture or the impressive Catholic designs and sculptures that are found inside; it's a wonderful cultural experience when you are visiting Sweetwater.
2. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Source: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU / Facebook
Patricia And Phillip Frost Art Museum
One of the best things to do in Sweetwater is to visit the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. Located on the grounds of the Florida International University, the Frost Art Museum – as it's usually referred to in its shortened sense – is one of the state's most well-known art institutions.
The art museum hosts an incredible array of works from around the world, but the focus is primarily on 20th-century American art, with a healthy dose of Latin American art thrown into the creative mix too.
The Frost Art Museum is frequently cited as being Florida's best museum; you'll see why when you spend hours strolling through the galleries and exhibits, admiring the eclectic collections of artwork.
3. Dolphin Mall
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Dolphin Mall
Every city in America has a shopping mall, and Sweetwater is no exception. This one though, is enormous, and for locals, it forms the centerpiece of the small city. In fact, little Sweetwater is home to one of the largest Outlet Shopping and Entertainment Centers in Florida; the Dolphin Mall is reason enough to visit the city on its own.
There are quite literally hundreds of shops and outlets to browse through, and you can quite easily find yourself lost for hours in retail heaven. You can find brands from across the world here, including all the major international fashion and designer labels you could ever need.
Dolphin Mall is a city in itself; as well as the shops, you can dine out at a different restaurant every day of your stay in Sweetwater, or sample a new bar every evening.
4. Doral Central Park
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Doral Central Park
In neighboring Doral, you can find the wonderful Doral Central Park. This is a lovely public space that's built around a small lakeside.
The park is green and open and is perfect for running, jogging, or simply walking around. There are benches, play areas, and most importantly, the grassy area around the lake is used to host public events through the year, attracting crowds from the local communities.
5. Tropical Park
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Another great park to visit in the Sweetwater area is Tropical Park, which is just a ten-minute drive away. This large park is a great place for exercising or doing nothing at all. In an area that's heavily built up in the suburbs of Miami, it makes for a great outdoor escape within the urban environment.
For the active traveler, there are several miles of walkways and running tracks that lead through the grassy park, and there's even an outdoor gym. In fact, it's a sports-orientated park, as there are football fields and running tracks too.
If you don't fancy exercising, there's plenty of space to sit around and just relax in the Floridian sunshine.
6. Tamiami Park
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Tamiami Park, Tennis Center
Next to Florida International University, you can find the Tamiami Park, one of the largest parks in the Miami-Dade area. This is where you'll find the Miami Fair Expo Center, which holds events throughout the year, and also several local stadiums, sports facilities, and recreation areas.
The Olympic-sized swimming pool is a popular place, especially when the sun is out – which in Florida, is almost every day of the year. All around Tamiami Park, you can find walking and biking trails, as well as plenty of picnic tables and benches to relax at.
7. Coral Gables
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Venetian Pool, Coral Gables
A 15-minute drive from Sweetwater, you can visit Coral Gables, a small city which is packed full of great things to do. Coral Gables is full of classic 1920s Floridian architecture, including the famous Douglas Entrance, which was built in 1924 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There's also the iconic Miami Biltmore Hotel.
The best place to visit, though, is the Venetian Pool. This large, outdoor public swimming pool was also built in 1924 and is the only swimming pool on the National Register of Historic Places in the country.
8. East Coast Buffer Water Preserve
Sweetwater is one of the last urban areas before you reach the Everglades; right next to the city, you can get a taste of this wonderful wetland wilderness by visiting the East Coast Buffer Water Preserve.
This is a restored area of wetlands, with a hiking and biking trail that encircles a man-made lake. There's plenty of wildlife returning to the area too, and you'll likely encounter a few alligators in the water as you explore.
9. Everglades Safari Park
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Everglades Safari Park
At the Everglades Safari Park, which is found just a 20-minute drive into the Everglades proper from Sweetwater, you can experience the best of the wetlands with the help of local guides.
The safari park offers classic airboat tours through the creeks and waterways, and you'll likely be spotting alligators all day as you travel around.
10. Miccosukee Indian Village
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Miccosukee Indian Village
Not far from the Everglades Safari Park, you can find the Miccosukee Indian Village, which is the traditional land of the Miccosukee people.
In the village, you can learn more about the traditions and history of the Miccosukee Indians at the local museum, while the guides also offer airboat tours through the Everglades.
11. Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center
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Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center
On the edge of the Southern Everglades, and an easy 40-mile ride from Sweetwater, you can call into the excellent Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center to learn more about the incredible diversity of Florida's most famous natural area.
This is the Southern Glades, in a remote and wild location, and at the Visitors Center, you can walk through storyboards and exhibits that tell the natural and human history of what is one of the largest wetland ecosystems in the world.
12. Biscayne National Park
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Another beautiful national park that's within easy reach of Sweetwater is Biscayne National Park. Protecting the iconic waters and islands of Biscayne Bay, despite being so close to such a huge urban area, this national park will quickly sweep you away with its solitude and beauty.
You can snorkel or dive the coral reefs, kayak through dense mangroves, or take boat tours along the coast. There's a real diversity to be found in this unique ecosystem that encompasses everything from wetlands to beaches; it's one of the best day trips you can make from Sweetwater.
13. Florida Keys
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The Florida Keys are a chain of islands that stretch far out from the mainland, deep into the Gulf of Mexico.
This collection of islands are all linked by one spectacular road; one of the best things to do in Sweetwater is to take a road trip all the way to Key West, the most westerly island in the chain. It's a spectacular drive, with breathtaking vistas wherever you look.
14. Fort Lauderdale
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Fort Lauderdale is a classic vacation destination on the south-east coast of Florida. If you're based in Sweetwater, you can easily day trip to the city and return to the quieter climes of Sweetwater in the evening.
There are several charming museums and galleries to visit, but of course, the bustling, yet beautiful beaches of Fort Lauderdale take pride of place in the city.
15. Miami
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Of course, no trip to Sweetwater would be complete without journeying into Miami, one of the most iconic cities in the United States.
You can visit beautiful Miami Beach to stroll along endless boardwalks in the sunshine or drink cocktails overlooking the ocean.
In downtown Miami, you can explore the city's extensive array of cultural sights, from the Art Deco District to the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. There's much, much more to do in Miami than this though, and you can easily make several day trips from Sweetwater to the big city.
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Our Lady Of Guadalupe Church, Doral: Our Lady of Guadalupe Doral / Facebook
Patricia And Phillip Frost Art Museum: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU / Facebook
Dolphin Mall: Phillip Pessar / Flickr
Doral Central Park: Tamanoeconomico / Wikimedia
Tropical Park: AleKreations / Facebook
Tamiami Park, Tennis Center: Tamiami Tennis Center / Facebook
Venetian Pool, Coral Gables: Marco Borghini / shutterstock
Everglades Safari Park: Frank Fell Media / shutterstock
Miccosukee Indian Village: Sergey Akhrameev / shutterstock
Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center: Francisco Blanco / shutterstock
Biscayne National Park: Rudy Umans / shutterstock
Florida Keys: Bertl123 / shutterstock
Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Sean Pavone / shutterstock
Miami Beach: pisaphotography / shutterstock
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After a presentation on regional transit ridership trends at NYU's Rudin Center this morning, William Wheeler, the MTA's planning director, said the city's next mayor needs to firmly support the reallocation of street space for dedicated bus lanes, and should not back down in the face of opposition to changes that take away real estate from cars.
He cited Select Bus Service and transit signal priority, which keeps buses from sitting at red lights, as steps in the right direction, but added that there's still more to do. "There's always a constant struggle to keep vehicles out of devoted lanes," he said.
The MTA has a wide-ranging plan for future phases of Select Bus Service, and mayoral candidates have spoken highly of Bus Rapid Transit, but reallocating street space for dedicated busways is easier said than done. Even a bus lane for 125th Street set aside with paint and enforcement cameras, not physical separation, drew enough political opposition to get NYC DOT and the MTA to shelve their SBS plan this summer.
After the event, I asked Wheeler how the MTA deals with that type of pushback, and whether he was keeping tabs on Chicago or other cities that are proposing big street design changes to speed up buses.
Most of the presentation, which Wheeler also gave to the MTA board's finance committee in July [PDF], covered a well-worn topic: the MTA's shifting ridership patterns, led by millennials and aging baby boomers who are working nontraditional hours, reducing car usage, traveling more between boroughs and suburbs, and increasingly making reverse-peak, off-peak, and weekend trips on transit.
Expressing frustration about the interminable planning and construction timelines for big projects, Wheeler focused on buses and smaller fixes to squeeze more capacity out of the existing system, instead of addressing the causes of high costs and long project delays. He emphasized the need to upgrade subway signals to Communication-Based Train Control and spoke highly of through-running trains with New Jersey Transit, despite logistical hurdles, to increase capacity at Penn Station.
At a time when New York City is expanding its ferry subsidies, Wheeler questioned whether ferries improve travel times and "provide serious capacity at a reasonable cost." He said they "work best in niche markets" such as cross-Hudson routes from Haverstraw and Newburgh to Metro-North service.
I've set it before. Convert the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to the Metropolitan Railroad Authority.
Turn buses, and paratransit, over to New York City and the suburban counties, along with the payroll tax revenues, which the suburbs hate, collected within each jurisdiction. And use all the other state aid for transit for the subway and rail capital plan, not to subsidize the buses.
Grandstanding suburban politicians would face a choice — keep the payroll tax revenues and have a bus system, or give them and not have a bus system.
The city would have to come up with, net of the payroll tax revenues from within NYC and its existing contribution to MTA Bus, $800 million to subsidize buses and paratransit — unless it found efficiencies to reduce this. This subsidy costs would be freed from the MTA to invest in rail.
And city politicians who control street configurations would also be responsible for the quality of the bus system. Now they can demand better bus service while not making it possible. Let those who control the right of way be responsible for the service.
Aside from the technical problem of having bus stops in medians in the middle of the street, what´s wrong with putting the BRT lane there? One of the big problems with bus lanes is that they get stuck in the traffic of turning cars.
Nothing. That's what they should do, but it does tend to require more traffic calming than NYC planners are willing to demand.
I'm not sure encouraging more regional transport atomization is a good idea. If everyone thinks of it all as one system, it doesn't much matter that the subway side is subsidizing the surface side or whatever (and it doesn't, because they contribute to each other).
If we need a top-down solution, it should just be mandating best practice and efficiency across the transit system. If you board a bus in Riverdale and want to go to Flushing, it really shouldn't matter an iota if you emerge by 7 Train or LIRR. There is probably no way to avoid some subsidization, but you can have a situation where more than 70% of the costs are borne by the riders. Surely the omnipotent accountants can figure out a way!
There's a symbiotic relationship between road pricing and better bus service. Congestion pricing can speed up buses and reverse the decade-plus decline in bus ridership in New York.
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Hi, everyone! I hope all is well in your world.
I am beyond excited today. My book, Son of the Serpent has received another wonderful review written by bestselling, award-winning author, Suzanne Burke. What a great way to start the weekend!
You can read that review on her blog Welcome to the World of Suzanne Burke.
Suzanne, thank you so much for taking the time to read my book and for writing such a heartfelt and really generous review.
Begin and Fresh are this week's prompt words chosen by Colleen Chesebro ~ The Fairy Whisperer.
Hello, everyone! Thank you for stopping by.
Today's poem is inspired by my latest novel, Son of the Serpent. We can't choose who our parents are, and while some of us are blessed with fathers who are caring, supportive, loyal and willing to accept us for who we are, and mothers who are patient, nurturing, gentle, and willing to give us unconditional love, there are others who are not so lucky.
*Today I am sharing an Etheree poem. The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be reversed and doubled.
What was it in me that you hated so?
Son of the Serpent is the 2nd volume and 3rd book in the Fantasy Angels Series. This is a High Fantasy/Paranormal novel sprinkled with Romance and Horror aimed at an 18+ audience. Although there are scenes in the book loosely based on stories from the bible and Jewish scriptures this is not a religious book. This book is a combination of legends, folklore, and mythology intertwined into an original plot, with distinctive characters and extraordinary fantasy world-building.
Fly and Sing are this week's prompt words chosen by Colleen Chesebro ~ The Fairy Whisperer.
Today I'm sharing a Haiku and Tanka followed by a short excerpt from my new book, Son of the Serpent.
The poems are written in the ocean's point of view at the time of the Great Flood. I hope you enjoy it.
Son of the Serpent is a High Fantasy|Paranormal novel sprinkled with Horror and Romance. It is aimed at an 18+ audience. The book is written in 1st person POV. There are chapters written in Dracul's voice interspersed by chronicles written in Lilith's (the villain) voice. Today I'm going to share an excerpt from one of the Chronicles of Lilith.
As I prepared to leave Shuruppak, rumors about a man named Noah, who claimed to be God's prophet, came to my attention. According to my human servants, this man said God speaks to him and has told him there shall be a catastrophic event. Every living thing on this planet shall perish, except those beings selected by God Himself.
The servants laughed and took pleasure in ridiculing this man. They called him insane. I, however, have learned throughout the years that there is always some truth to the ramblings of the insane. I would like to see this man, Noah, and listen to his preaching, thus my departure would have to wait.
In the middle of the night I awoke to booming thunder, the likes of which I had not heard since the days I wandered in the wilderness with Gadreel when we first arrived on this planet. I leaped out of my bed and ran to a nearby window. The sky was ominous, with large bitumen-black clouds gathering to form gigantic ones. My superior vision allowed me to see things in the darkness that no other being could. A flash of lightning lit the world white for a moment. Rain began to fall, first tapping on the window and then becoming a rapid succession of beats.
I threw on a garment and ran outside to get a better look. There were still people outdoors, servants slow to finish their tasks for the day and others who came out to see what was happening. They ran for cover as storm clouds spat their loads of water. Sharp droplets of icy-cold water needled my shoulders and back. I shivered under the prickly feeling. The rain came in torrents now. Puddles formed, and the puddles became streams. They grew into rivers. I ran to a nearby tree to take shelter under it.
I hid from the people running and screaming in fear and shifted to my serpent form. The torrent became more intense, and the night grew darker with the bruise of thick, angry clouds. A wall of rain moved over the tree I stood under, and the drops drummed against the canopy. So much water fell from the skies that the sound blurred into one long, whirring tumult.
Many of the people of Shuruppak left their flooded homes and wandered the streets like lost souls. They had never seen a storm of this magnitude. Some had only been familiar with the morning dew. I had seen enough. I spread my wings and took to the sky. Flying had never been more difficult. The rain pelted my wings, while bolts of lightning threaten to spear me as they sliced the air to my left and right.
The earth shook and sent shockwaves rippling through the ground like water, destroying houses in an instant. Fires exploded everywhere, and the smell of smoke twisting through the air between raindrops was acrid on the hot breeze. Regular clatters rang out as structures crumbled apart and fell to the ground. I needed to escape, find shelter, but where could I hide from such devastation? The skies were becoming more and more dangerous. I flew toward the coast, but my wings grew too heavy and sodden to keep me airborne. I fell to the beach.
I looked toward the coastline, wincing and moaning, feeling the pain of my fall. I had been to this beach before, but it looked strangely unfamiliar now, abnormally vast. I thought maybe the darkness of the night was playing tricks on my vision, but then I realized why the beach looked so strange. The surf had drawn back hundreds of miles; the abandoned sand twinkled in the moonlight despite the rain.
I gasped at a black line on the horizon and watched as a colossal wave swept toward me at hundreds of miles per hour—rushing, roaring, angry froth foaming from between its lips. I stared, eyes fixed, as the wave surged in. I knew it was impossible to escape it. Heat had never left my body as fast as it did in this brief moment of realization. The torrent came after me, granting me a few seconds to enjoy breathing the ocean air before it wrapped me in frigid foamy fingers and dragged me to the ocean floor.
I struggled as sand and briny water filled my lungs, causing them to expand and burn. As the wave moved, it pulled me along with it, like it wanted me to witness the devastation it would cause. My death would not be simple or fast, for the powers granted to me by the fruit from the Tree of Life would sustain me. Powers I once cherished now seemed a curse.
As the wave pushed me along, I crashed into debris in the water. Every stab, rip, and fracture my body suffered brought me immense pain. Men, women, and children drowned, their dead bodies floating around me, yet I remained alive.
The giant wave hit Shuruppak. It was nothing like the waves which lap the shore every minute of every day. This was a gigantic wall of water, cold and powerful. It came over land with the power of a volcanic blast. It moved over the city with more ease than a wave over the sand, reducing houses and structures to rubble and killing every living thing.
My broken body filled with water, sand, and debris until the weight of it fixed me to the ocean floor. People, livestock, uprooted trees, and all manner of structures floated past me. The rain continued to pour.
The sky was now hinting at sunrise. Nothing escaped my eyes and ears, but I was immobile. Every inch of my body throbbed with pain, and the cold of the water chilled my bones. As I lay motionless, I watched a large wooden vessel approach. It was the greatest ship I had ever seen. It glided over the water's surface, throwing its shadow to the sea floor as it sailed past me, turning day to night. I overheard people singing and the roar, moo, bleat, and bray of animals coming from the vessel. Not everyone had perished. Some shall go on, while I remain imprisoned in this watery grave. The weight of the water pressed down on me, crushing me, as the rain increased its depth.
The feeling of drowning never left me. The feeling of panic, unable to take breath, to inflate my lungs. The slow filling of my larynx––gagging, coughing, briny water forcing its way through my nostrils and into my lungs like acid. I would drown and die, and after a moment of peace, the process began again.
A familiar recollection filled the void in my head, spinning memories of Beelzebub lying at the bottom of the Euphrates River bound in chains, disfigured by suffering and hate. Is that also to be my fate? Shall I become a grotesque monster wallowing in fear, self-loathing, and pain?A sharp, loud wail pierced my psyche, and I realized it was I who did the screaming.
Try and Life are this week's prompt words chosen by Colleen Chesebro ~ The Fairy Whisperer.
Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog.
My plan was to release my new book, Son of the Serpent late summer. Well, things don't always work out the way we plan them. The formatting is taking a while and I am now looking at a publication date at the beginning of November.
However, Son of the Serpent is available for pre-order for only 99¢ (It's the least I can do). If you were planning to purchase the eBook please take advantage of this pre-order price.
Meanwhile, I did finish the back cover copy which I will share with you today. Please feel free to give me your opinions on it in the comment section.
Fall and Try are this week's prompt words chosen by Colleen Chesebro ~ The Fairy Whisperer.
Colleen hosts a challenge that anyone could participate in called, Colleen's Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge every Tuesday, and you have until Sunday to create a post featuring your Haiku, Tanka, Haibun or Cinquain poem. She is an author and poet, and also does book reviews and so much more on her blog. Be sure to check it out.
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I'm happy to say that I'm done with my first round of edits for Son of the Serpent (WIP). I feel good about the book and I'm getting ready to send it out to my beta readers. I can't wait to hear/read their input. Then I'll revise the book once more, before sending it off to my editor. So things are moving along.
Today, there are men working on the "curve appeal" of my house. Well, these guys are breaking up the existing tiles and cement, to prepare the foundation for new pavers and landscaping. I'm excited that we're finally getting some work done to the outside of the house, but you can imagine the ear-splitting cacophony of power tools, men shouting and my dog, Scribbles barking. I know this is work that has to be done, so I'll just have to grin and bear it.
I'm also preparing for my trip to Japan in August. I would like everything, including the publication of my book, to be done before I go but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoy the poetry. Have a wonderful day!
Fragile and Heartbeat are this week's prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
Obsession and You are this week's prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
I wanted to share the cover art for my WIP, Son of the Serpent, the 2nd installment of my Fantasy Angels Series.
*This is not the book cover. It is the artwork that will be on the cover.


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La Banque du Nevada, basée à San Francisco, était à la fin du  l'une des premières banques de l'Ouest américain. Fondée en 1875, grâce aux plantureux dividendes des mines d'argent du Comstock Lode, elle changera de vocation en 1890, après avoir été ruinée par sa tentative de corner sur le blé américain de 1887-1888, puis fusionnera avec la Wells Fargo en 1805.

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La Banque du Nevada a été fondée en 1878, par quatre hommes d'affaires ayant fait fortune dans l'exploitation minière sur le Comstock Lode : William S. O'Brien, James Graham Fair, John William Mackay, James C. Flood. Ces trois derniers figureront parmi les premiers présidents de la banque, qui est l'ancêtre de la Wells Fargo, fusionnée avec la Banque du Nevada en 1905. Les 5 millions de dollars de capital ont été apportés par James C. Flood et William S. O'Brien, qui ne participaient pas à la direction de la Consolidated Virginia mining company.

Au printemps 1875, quelques mois avant qu'ils ne fondent la banque, ils triplent le dividende mensuel de la Consolidated Virginia mining company, la plus brillante des compagnies minières du Comstock Lode: le dividende passe de 3 à 10 dollars, soit un million de dollars par mois, un montant qui sera versé 34 mois, jusqu'au début 1878.

Le , un incendie fait 10 millions de dégâts sur le Comstock. Deux des trois mines les plus touchées, California et Consolidated Virginia mining company leur appartiennent. La troisième, l'Ophir Mine, faisait l'objet d'une intense spéculation à la baisse, à la suite d'informations selon lesquelles sa part du Big Bonanzza, riche filon découvert en , serait moins importante qu'espérée.

L'incendie du  amène la principale banque du secteur, la Bank of California, qui détient des participations dans une quinzaine de mines du Comstock, à fermer ses portes. Son fondateur se suicide le lendemain. Le , elle rouvre ses portes après six semaines, mais le  c'est la Banque du Nevada qui ouvre les siennes. Elle a très vite réussi à capter une bonne partie de l'activité de la Bank of California, qui était, avant sa faillite de 1875, la première banque de l'Ouest des États-Unis et la deuxième du pays.

Les actionnaires de  la nouvelle banque seront cependant victime de dissensions et perdront 12 millions de dollars lors de la tentative ratée de corner sur le blé américain de 1887-1888. Ils ont pris le contrôle de 56 cargos de blé à des prix trop élevés. C'est George L. Brander, le gérant de la banque, qui a pris la décision de participer au corner lancé par John Rosenfeld, de la "Nevada Warehouse and Dock Company" à Port-Costa et  William Dresbach, président du San Francisco Produce Exchange, pendant que James C. Flood était malade.

D'autres spéculateurs se manifestent en 1888, lors du Corner d'Hutchinson sur le blé en 1888 à Chicago, quand un groupe de spéculateurs mené par Benjamin P. Hutchinson a acheté progressivement, à partir du printemps, tous les stocks de blé, comptant sur de fortes exportations à destination de l'Europe, où des prévisions très pessimistes font peu à peu état d'un déficit de près de 140 millions de boisseaux

Affaiblie et plus aussi prestigieuse, Banque du Nevada va ensuite fusionner avec Wells Fargo d'Isaias W. Hellman, un banquier de Los Angeles jugé plus prudent, dans une étape qui est considérée comme la fin de l'époque des pionniers dans le monde bancaire du grand Ouest. De 1890 à 1898, la Banque du Nevada est dirigée par Isaias W. Hellman, qui la rebaptise Nevada National Bank en 1898 et finalise la fusion avec Wells Fargo en 1905.

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IEWC Announces Lanny Million as Sr. Vice President, Strategic Global Sourcing and Business Development
IEWC is pleased to announce the appointment of Lanny Million as the Senior Vice President, Strategic Global Sourcing and Business Development. In his new role, Mr. Million will be responsible for leadership activity in the strategic development of supplier relationships within three distinct regions; the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Lanny will be charged with the creation of a Global Strategic Sourcing Team that will ensure IEWC's ability to partner with its key global supply partners and source the right products and solutions for its customers.
Matt Herbers, Director of Business Development, is the first member of what will be a three-person team reporting to Mr. Million. The remaining two positions will be secured from Europe and Asia, and will be announced at a later date.
Mr. Million's transition to Senior Vice President, Strategic Global Sourcing and Business Development, is effective immediately. He will be working out of IEWC's corporate office in New Berlin, WI and will report directly to Jim Wojan, IEWC's Chief Operating Officer.
As a point of reference Craig Kaczynski, Global Sourcing Director, and Mike Heard, Global Materials Management and Logistics Director, will continue to play an important day-to-day role in procurement and they will round out the leadership of those respective activities, both reporting to Claire Simard-Graham, IEWC's Chief Supply Chain Officer.
As a distributor of wire, cable, wire management products and other total connectivity solutions, IEWC seeks to be strategic in linking the capabilities of its global supply base to the needs of its global customer base. IEWC is confident that Mr. Million will set a strong path that is both strategic and actionable.
For additional information please contact Jim Wojan, IEWC Chief Operating Officer, at 440.463.3277 or via e-mail at jimw@iewc.com.


My name is Ali Gell - founder of Your Girl Friday. I am trustworthy, efficient, faithful and hardworking. Experience has been gained from running a household for over 20 years whilst working full-time. I have Awards from my previous employment in the Finance Industry for Excellence in Customer Services and this is where I feel my strengths lie- in serving others. I have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy helping to make peoples lives easier. I am constantly in demand from friends and family (who tell me that I am a particularly competent person) and I find helping them very rewarding. When the opportunity arose to make a career change I decided that I would do something I really enjoy and the idea of establishing a business in which I could capitalise on my strengths "Your Girl Friday" was born.
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In this paper, the average probability of the symbol error rate (SER) and throughput are studied in the presence of joint spectrum sensing and data transmission in a cognitive relay network, which is in the environment of an optimal power allocation strategy. In this investigation, the main component in calculating the secondary throughput is the inclusion of the spatial false alarms, in addition to the conventional false alarms. It has been shown that there exists an optimal secondary power amplification factor at which the probability of SER has a minimum value, whereas the throughput has a maximum value. We performed a Monte-Carlo simulation to validate the analytical results.
To enhance the utilization of the traffic channels of a network (instead of allocating radio channel to an individual user), a channel or a group of channels are allocated to a user group. The idea behind this is the statistical distribution of traffic arrival rates and the service time for an individual user or a group of users. In this paper, we derive the blocking probability and throughput of a subscriber station of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) by considering both the connection level and packet-level traffic under a complete partition scheme. The main contribution of the paper is to incorporate the traffic shaping scheme onto the incoming turbulent traffic. Hence, we have also analyzed the impact of the drain rate of the buffer on the blocking probability and throughput.


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Jamie Lynn Ferguson
Lincoln Square is much larger than its actual "square," located just east of Western and Foster avenues. It is a community area that encompasses many smaller neighborhoods. (Photos from Lincoln Square-Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce)
Chicago neighborhoods are a personal thing. Some choose their favorites based on past experiences. Others are loved for their tourist appeal. It could be the neighborhood you grew up in or the first one you moved to. It might be the one packed with nostalgic, locally owned shops. It could simply be the one that feels the most … magical. For all those reasons and more, it could be Lincoln Square.
Lincoln Square, settled by Germans and named in honor of Honest Abe, is of modest size and architectural style tucked in a North-Side nook. German immigrants chose the spot in 1857 and put the land to use for pickling and greenhouse floristry, and made it the home of the historic Rosehill Cemetery. Its business district today is made up of family-owned shops like Merz Apothecary, a 140-year-old-and-style drugstore, and Lutz Café & Bakery, which offers a sweeter variety cure-all in its strudels and cakes.s
Its culinary pit stops are mostly German restaurants with a few Michelin-starred gems like the byob-touted Goosefoot and folklore-themed Elizabeth Restaurant. The volume of breweries in the neighborhood earned one sector the moniker "Malt Row," which stretches along Ravenswood Avenue from Irving Park Road to Foster Avenue (with an additional spot just west at Damen and Balmoral). Its alley-like feel houses Half Acre, Dovetail, Begyl, and Spiteful brewing companies; Band of Bohemia, a funky-chic restaurant and brewery; and Koval Distillery, advertising whiskey and specialty liqueurs.
The neighborhood was once slated to be the "new Greektown" in the nineteen sixties and seventies when Greek-owned and -frequented nightclubs, groceries, and shops dominated the area. By 1980, twenty-four thousand out of Chicago's total fifty-six thousand Greeks lived in Lincoln Square. Many attribute the rush north to the Eisenhower Expressway and University of Illinois at Chicago construction that took over the original Greek Town at Halsted and Adams. Today the Greek presence isn't as noticeable, and many believe the exodus is attributed to Greeks moving to warmer climates or suburban paradises.
Today Lincoln Square's population of forty thousand is sixty-five percent white, sixteen percent Hispanic, twelve percent Asian, and five percent black. In contrast, nearby neighborhoods of Edgewater, West Rogers Park, Ravenswood, North Park, and Albany Park are among the city's most diverse.
Lincoln Square's got a lot going on. But at its core, it's still Chicago's German home. The DANK-Haus German American Cultural Center, founded in 1959, is the driving force behind bringing the neighborhood back to its roots, and celebrates its ninetieth anniversary this year. The center's prerogative is to preserve and promote German and German-American culture. DANK, which stands for Deutsch Amerikanischer National Kongress—and is interchangeable with danke, the German word for "thank-you"—offers language and cooking classes, concerts, and has a museum, art gallery and school inside its seventy-seven-thousand-square-foot building. When you call the DANK Haus, you're greeted in the fashion you'd expect: with a boisterous "Guten tag!"
Throughout the year it hosts events to bring people in and remind them of the neighborhood's beginnings, including an Oktoberfest with no entry charge, and new this year, an indoor Christkindl Mart featuring local vendors. Steven Sartin, its director of marketing and events, said it's been a safe haven and educational center for all who live in the neighborhood or are just stopping by to visit. It's located on the main thoroughfare of Western Avenue near Lawrence Avenue.
"It was once a hotel for those who were getting settled and still needed jobs," Sartin said, an identity you can see in the exterior of the building, which is noticeably divisible by lobby on the first floor, small windows packed close together for rooms on the second and third floors, and larger decorative windows on the fourth floor, which now houses their event space. "We're the German hub. We're a piece of the foundation that's here for the German experience."
Lincoln Square was settled in the mid-nineteenth century by German immigrants and much of their influence powers the neighborhood today.
Its surroundings tell of its success in preservation. All nearby are the German Pancake House, the Chicago Brauhaus, and the Dirndl and Lederhosen clothing shop (think Oktoberfest costumes but the real deal).
"The DANK Haus is doing its part to help preserve German history for generations that are coming up and their parents. Maintaining or trying to preserve our heritage allows us to better understand other people and that helps us to better understand ourselves," Sartin said.
At the same time, Sartin said it's not all German all the time. "The neighborhood is changing even if we still find our heritage in being German. We're not just a center for Germans, we're a center for all of Chicago to experience and embrace German heritage. We have an openness and inviting atmosphere," he said.
A few blocks down Western Avenue, Ashod Baboorian owns and operates Mr. Ash's Magic Shop. Among his billing as a "world-famous magician," he's a country-western singer, an Iraqi-Armenian emigrant, and U.S. Army draftee. He prefers to go by his stage name, Mr. Ash, and now nearing eighty years old, has a short whip of grey hair and thin-framed silver glasses. He'll share in his thick accent what his favorite tricks are, but as to be expected, not how they're done. The shop sells gag gifts and magician tricks, and can connect you to the best local party clown or magician. It's a shop that's stood the test of time, in an era when others couldn't.
"In all of Chicago there are only two magic shops and I'm one of them," Ash said. "Before there were fifteen or sixteen of us, but they all closed." The other survivor is also located in Lincoln Square on Lawrence Avenue. It's Magic Inc.
Ash's one-story, street-level storefront would be easy to miss on the busy street, but the vertical wood planks nailed up across is first-floor entrance have always been painted bright, unique colors to make it stand out among its residential neighbors. The store name is lettered out in individual, white, wooden cut-outs above a mystical-looking window that flashes a neon-lit ace of spades card with a sun and moon on either side. The inside of the shop is not so simple. Packed with shelves full of wigs, gags, and tricks, more novelties hang down from the ceiling in plastic bags, and signed playing cards are pinned to the ceiling itself.
"At one time, Chicago was the hub of magic because there were a lot of bars with magicians," Ash said, recalling the beloved New York Lounge of Lincoln Square that had a forty-year run from 1945 to 1985. According to Ash, bartenders would make you your drink, and then ask if you'd like to see a trick.
There's a certain showmanship to his blunt and straightforward manner of speaking. Ash's magic happens matter-of-fact. In the same way, there's no sentimentality tied to Lincoln Square for Ash.
"It's nothing special," he said. His loyalty to the neighborhood is practical. It's close to public transportation, it's easy to get downtown via Lake Shore Drive, and there are some nice parks. Not to mention, he came here to marry the girl he was dating, Bonnie, now his wife of fifty years who helps run the shop.
Another local shop that has endured changing times is Timeless Toys, a twenty-four-year establishment in Lincoln Square opened by a local couple who wanted to create an oasis for children in the hustle and bustle of the city.
"Their idea was to have a store of some classic and some throwback toys, but toys that won't go out of style," said Scott Friedland, who took over ownership of the shop two years ago. He thinks Lincoln Square is special, specifically for its small, locally owned stores. "You don't see a lot of big box stores here. And it's got that neighborhoody-type feel," he said. "People know who you are and know you by name. It's a hometown feeling you don't get in a lot of the city."
Scott, who lives in nearby Andersonville, said he's seen a shift in demographics in the neighborhood as well. "The diversity in the neighborhood has grown immensely," he said. "People from all different backgrounds and all economic statuses live here, which is wonderful to see."
He added it's a great place for young families to move in, for a "first-house, first-kid" kind of place. "There has been a big push in the neighborhood for new apartments, and larger buildings with more units, so if that happens, we can predict a population increase in the next few years," he said.
And he hopes for it. "I love everything about this neighborhood," he said.
And there is a lot to love. As you step under the light green arch with gold lettering that stretches across Lincoln Avenue, reading "Lincoln Square," it feels like a time capsule you can walk right into. Even with the magic shops gone, the allure of an enchanting Chicago lingers in its history, and the residents who love and aim to preserve both.
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Jamie Lynn Ferguson has lived on the west side of Chicago for nearly a decade. She serves as an advocate for anti-poverty nonprofits throughout the city, writes full-time for Catholic Charities Chicago, and is a freelance community reporter for DNAinfo-Chicago.
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After the shootings at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, a number of districts adopted policies that would allow teachers and other employees to carry handguns on school campus. However, according to Steven Yaccino of The New York Times, in some places these plans seems to have run aground because insurers have outright refused to cover or have threatened to raise premiums on districts that allow armed adults on school grounds.
After a measure that allowed teachers and administrators to carry guns in school went into effect in Kansas, EMC Insurance Companies – which underwrites the liability insurance for 90% of districts in the state – sent out a letter to its agents telling them to deny coverage to any school that takes advantage of the new law. According to the letter, the company feels that covering such schools would be too much of a financial risk.
In northeast Indiana, Douglas A. Harp, the sheriff of Noble County, offered to deputize teachers to carry handguns in their classrooms less than a week after 26 children and educators were killed in a school shooting in Newtown, Conn. A community member donated $27,000 in firearms to the effort. School officials from three districts seemed ready to sign off. But the plan fell apart after an insurer refused to provide workers' compensation to schools with gun-carrying staff members.
The Oregon School Boards Association, which manages liability coverage for all but a handful of the state's school districts, recently announced a new pricing structure that would make districts pay an extra $2,500 annual premium for every staff member carrying a weapon on the job.
Administrators at the Jackson County school district in Oregon calculated that it would cost them more than $50,000 a year to train and arm more than employee at each of the 10 schools under the district's control. Scott Whitman, one of the Jackson County administrators, said after financial analysis that he wasn't sure how the district would be able to afford to go forward with the plan because the district didn't have room in the budget to cover such an expense.
Jenny Emery, head of the Association of Governmental Risk Pools, said none of her members plan to withhold coverage like EMC. But many are strongly recommending other security alternatives, she said, noting that cooperatives provide some form of risk financing to about 80 percent of public entities across the country.
However, at least in some parts of the country, finding insurers willing to assume the risk should be easy. In Texas, where tort reform has made high insurance payouts extremely unlikely, administrators were able to arm teachers in 30 schools around the state without either losing their insurance coverage or getting stuck with higher premiums.


"The Theatre Performance program at Humber allowed me to hone my practical actor skills and develop a solid foundation in performance, but I am most grateful for its focus on the creation of new work. Humber exposed me to a broad range of creators and creation techniques and I graduated with a strong desire to tell stories that interest me, using methods that push the boundaries of traditional theatre. Humber showed me that theatre is not just about interpreting scripts and playing characters; it's an art form and each artist has something valid and unique to express. Since graduating I have been on a rigorous quest for opportunities to create new work. Whether I am the sole creator/performer, an ensemble member of a collective, an apprentice, or an outside eye, Humber empowered me to focus my attention on developing my voice as an artist."
Alisha Stranges is a theatre creator, dancer, and performer. She has toured Europe and Canada as a member of CORPUS Dance Projects performing in A Flock of Flyers, Les Moutons, and Le Grand Peep Show. She is a founding member of the ad hoc collective The Them, who premiered their first new work People4Change at Cleveland Public Theatre's Big Box Series 2010, and at a showcase at the 2010 NaCL Festival of New Theatre in New York. Recently, Alisha worked with lemonTree Theatre Creations to develop a new play, Still Life, which was showcased at The 519, giving voice to the experience of queer youth in Toronto. As an apprentice member of Shakespeare Link Canada (SLC), Alisha has travelled to Wales to participate and perform in The Mid-Wales Shakespeare Festival and to Mozambique to collaborate with traditional African dance company Montes Namuli. Other credits include Pride Cab 2010 (Assistant Director-Buddies in Bad Times), Gaggle (Choreographer-Hysteria 09), Helga! a solo creation for Buddies in Bad Times' Young Creators' Unit (Rhubarb!-08), and Robbers Daughters(Independent Auntie—Cooking Fire Festival). Alisha is scheduled to assistant direct Buddies in Bad Times' Pride Cab 2011.


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Pan-American Highway, the longest road in the world
The Pan-American Highway is one of the biggest adventures in the world. It's a network of roads covering almost 30,000 kilometres (19,000 mi) from North America to South America. It's said to be the longest road on Earth.
The Mother of all road trips starts in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and stretches to the tip of Argentina in Ushuaia (Tierra de Fuego) to the lower reaches of South America. The highway runs through 14 countries. The connection from North America and South America can be done by vehicle less in Darien Gap, where is necessary to take a ferry. The gap is 60 miles (96 km) long and 50km wide, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, on the border between Panama and Colombia, which consists of undeveloped swampland and impenetrable rainforest inhabited by indigenous tribes, Colombian guerrillas and an array of exotic wildlife. There are many branches that allow you to cover the full Arctic to almost Antarctic distance, adding up to a whopping 30,000miles (48,000km) in total. The road is not often traveled in its entirety. The trip offers the most diverse scenery on the planet—and plenty of pit stops. Driving the Pan American Highway is probably the most popular overland route in the world. The ultimate road trip tops out at 3.451m (11,322ft) above the sea level at Cerro de la Muerte, what is considered the highest point of the road.
A road stretching from North America to South America through 14 countries
The northern part of the road goes through Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The southern part crosses Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. While it doesn't officially have a route through the U.S. and Canada, some people start in Alaska and drive/bike to Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost tip of South America. No road in the U.S. or Canada has been officially designated as the Pan-American Highway.
A real adventure with a lot of risks
The travel is a real adventure, and there are a lot of risks. High temperatures, landslides, steep drop-offs, livestock in the road and impassable sections during the wet season. Due to the extreme winters, it's advisable to avoid winter at the extreme North and South ends of the journey. That naturally means the journey is often completed in approximately one and a half years. Try to avoid areas where cartels operate. Follow the advice for the area you are at. There are many dangers, like wild animals, forests, swamps, and there might even be dangerous criminals hiding in the forests or the swamps. The highway passes through many diverse climates and ecological types, from dense jungles, to arid deserts, some of which are passable only during the dry season, and in many regions driving is occasionally hazardous. The landscape really tests drivers skills, as the road runs through mountains, jungles, deserts and glaciers.


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Statement on Financial Stability Oversight Council's Review of Asset Management Products and Activities
Chairman Mary Jo White
I support the publication of the Council's Update Statement on its review of asset management products and activities for potential financial stability risks. The summary of analysis set forth in the update gives a current snapshot of FSOC's work in this area, which the Council is making public today. I commend that transparency and the tireless work of the staff that has led to today's update.
As I have commented before, I believe FSOC's work on this topic is complementary to the regulatory reforms the SEC is currently undertaking in our oversight of the asset management industry as I announced and described in December 2014.[1]
Since 1940, under the authority of the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act, the SEC has been the primary regulator of the vast majority of the asset management industry. And we are currently engaged in a very consequential set of initiatives to modernize and enhance our asset management regulatory regime, including in the areas of enhanced reporting of data, liquidity risk management and use of leverage, on which the Commission issued four rule proposals in 2015.[2] Those proposals are outstanding, and I expect proposals on transition planning and stress testing to follow.
Although there is overlap in the topics covered in FSOC's update and the SEC's proposed reforms, it should be understood that the SEC's analysis of foundational asset management issues, including liquidity management and use of leverage, is set forth in the Commission's proposals and accompanying white papers of the SEC's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis.[3] In developing the SEC's final regulations, we will consider and rely on our analysis of the input we receive from the public through the notice and comment process. Today's FSOC update thus should not be read as an indication of the direction that the SEC's final asset management rules may take.
The Council views set forth in the update describe certain relevant principles and next steps for consideration. The topics it takes on are complex, nuanced and dynamic. This exercise has also highlighted for me other important issues not directly or solely within the SEC's jurisdiction, some of which were raised by commenters on the Council's request for public comment – including the interaction of asset managers with other financial institutions, the use of economic substitutes across the industry, and the behavior of market participants both before and after the financial crisis. Careful examination of these and other issues by both FSOC and the relevant regulators is important for analyzing both risks to financial stability and the materiality and likelihood of such risks.
I again commend the staff's hard work, and look forward to continued dialogue with my colleagues on the Council.
[1] See Chair Mary Jo White, "Enhancing Risk Monitoring and Regulatory Safeguards for the Asset Management Industry," Dec. 11, 2014, available at https://www.sec.gov/News/Speech/Detail/Speech/1370543677722.
[2] See Investment Company Reporting Modernization, Investment Company Act Release No. 31610 (May 20, 2015), available at https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2015/33-9776.pdf; Amendments to Form ADV and Investment Advisers Act Rules, Investment Advisers Act Release No. 4091 (May 20, 2015), available at https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2015/ia-4091.pdf; Open-End Fund Liquidity Risk
Management Programs; Swing Pricing; Re-Opening of Comment Period for Investment
Company Reporting Modernization Release, Investment Company Act Release No. 31835 (Sept.
22, 2015), available at https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2015/33-9922.pdf; Use of Derivatives by Registered Investment Companies and Business Development Companies, Investment Company Act Release No. 31933 (Dec. 11, 2015) , available at https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2015/ic-31933.pdf.
[3] See Paul Hanouna, et al., Liquidity and Flows of U.S. Mutual Funds (Sept. 2015), available at https://www.sec.gov/dera/staff-papers/white-papers/liquidity-white-paper-09-2015.pdf; Daniel Deli, et al., Use of Derivatives by Registered Investment Companies (Dec. 2015), available at https://www.sec.gov/dera/staff-papers/white-papers/derivatives12-2015.pdf.
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Instagram recently updated their Windows 10 Mobile app, but some users complained that the update caused more problems than it solved.
Many users complained that they are unable to install the software, with their device complaining: "To use this app you need a device with more functionality. For more detailed information, see Additional Information -> Hardware Requirements "
The problem was faced by owners of devices ranging from the Lumia 550 to the Lumia 950, which means unless the software is being redesigned for the Surface Phone, it is likely that another store bug is the issue.


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Caratteristiche tecniche
Giocava come centravanti.

Carriera

Club
La prima squadra di Irurieta in massima serie argentina fu l'Argentino di Quilmes: con tale formazione si guadagnò la convocazione in Nazionale. Nel 1926 passò al River Plate, esordendo con la nuova maglia il 4 aprile 1926, giorno del primo turno della Primera División 1926, contro l'Atlanta; segnò una doppietta alla seconda giornata (25 aprile) contro l'Argentino del Sud. A fine campionato si rivelò essere il miglior realizzatore del club, con 14 reti in 22 partite giocate. Si trasferì all'Estudiantes di La Plata in vista della Primera División 1927; debuttò in tale competizione il 10 aprile contro l'Independiente, segnando un gol al 55º minuto. Dopo 3 incontri e 2 reti tornò al River Plate, giocando contro lo Sportivo Barracas il 22 maggio; fu poi reintegrato nella rosa dell'Estudiantes, con cui concluse il torneo. Fece parte della prima linea dell'Estudiantes anche nella stagione 1928, segnalandosi come uno dei migliori marcatori del campionato (le 26 reti in 33 incontri lo resero il più prolifico della sua squadra, davanti ad Alejandro Scopelli con 25). Per il Concurso Estímulo 1929 giocò nel River Plate, segnando 3 gol in 9 presenze. Nel 1931 passò all'All Boys, squadra di seconda divisione; con i bianco-neri giocò 20 partite, segnando almeno 12 gol e contribuendo alla promozione in massima serie. Nella stagione seguente, giocata nella prima divisione dilettantistica, fu capocannoniere assoluto con 23 gol.

Nazionale
Irurieta debuttò in Nazionale il 22 luglio 1923 a Montevideo contro l', nella partita valida per il Gran Premio de Honor Uruguayo. Il 16 novembre 1924 giocò, sempre contro l'Uruguay, la Copa Confraternidad Rioplatense. Nel 1925 fu convocato per il Campeonato Sudamericano di Buenos Aires; vi disputò due incontri, entrambi con il , segnando il gol del 3-1 al 63º minuto della partita del 20 dicembre. Tornò in Nazionale nel maggio 1932, in occasione di due amichevoli con l'Uruguay.

Statistiche

Cronologia presenze e reti in Nazionale

Palmarès

Nazionale

Individuale
Capocannoniere della Primera División (AAF): 1
1932 (23 gol)

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale argentina
Calciatori campioni del Sud America


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Q: checking if a date falls in given date range using mysql query I have these two columns in my database table 'mycodes'
code_valid_from_date
code_expiry_date

I need to check if a given date falls in valid period of the dates given in mycodes tables.
For example,
mycodes
id, code_valid_from_date, code_expiry_date, name
1, 2013-08-01, 2013-08-28, 'Code 1'
2, 2013-08-29, 2013-09-20, 'Code 2'
3, 2013-07-01, 2013-07-28, 'Code 3'

I tried this query,
SELECT
DATEDIFF(NOW(), code_valid_from_date) valid_from_days,
DATEDIFF(code_expiry_date, NOW()) expiry_days_left
FROM mycodes

then in my php code I check both of these DATEDIFF are positive numbers then its a valid code. What if I have to compute this validity in the mysql query itself rather than checking using PHP? How do I do that?
PS: I could also use a BETWEEN in WHERE clause but that will return rows which fall in that given range but I need to list all the records with status of expired or not expired.

A: Mysql knows to compare dates, so you can use something like:
SELECT (NOW() >= code_valid_from_date AND NOW() <= code_expiry_date) AS valid FROM mycodes

A: SELECT (NOW() BETWEEN code_valid_from_date AND code_expiry_date) AS valid FROM mycodes

A: This is my code to find if a date range falls within another date range.
  I'm sure you could modify my choosing the same date as your arrival and departure date.
Example that works for me and my queries:
SET @PerBeg = '2010-01-01';
  SET @PerEnd = '2010-01-31';

  SELECT
      Reservation.ArrivalDate AS ArrivalDate,
      Reservation.DepartureDate AS DepartureDate,
  . . .

  WHERE

  fBoolActyInPeriod(ArrivalDate,DepartureDate,@PerBeg,@PerEnd)

using these functions
  FUNCTION fBoolActyInPeriod contains this code
  RETURN IF (fBoolFirstDateEarlier(ActyEnd, PerBeg) OR fBoolFirstDateEarlier(PerEnd, ActyBeg),0, 1)

  FUNCTION fBoolFirstDateEarlier contains this code
  RETURN IF (DATEDIFF(first, second) < 0, 1, 0)

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CCRKBA issued a blistering press release this afternoon calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate Project Gunwalker and to fire those responsible. It goes on to say that if he isn't willing to investigate it, he should resign himself.
CCRKBA TO HOLDER ON ATF SCANDAL: INVESTIGATE AND FIRE, OR RESIGN
BELLEVUE, WA- Following new revelations regarding the growing scandal over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Project Gunrunner- the most recent on Wednesday's CBS Evening News - the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the allegations and remove ATF officials responsible, or hand in his resignation.
"Instead of cracking down on American gun owners, it is time to crack down on the ATF," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who earlier this week urged gun owners to pressure Congress to cut ATF's budget.
The Gunrunner scandal was originally uncovered by National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea and independent blogger Mike Vanderboegh. The case now has the attention of U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. CCRKBA believes the committee should launch a full-scale investigation of ATF and that Grassley should not stand alone in his pursuit of the truth.
"Two weeks ago," Gottlieb noted, "Sen. Grassley called on Holder to 'come clean' about this scandal, and the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. He was greeted with silence. Agent Terry was likely killed with a gun that ATF allowed one of the Gunrunner suspects to purchase more than a year ago. We have seen documents that show the gun was recovered at the Terry crime scene.
"Almost immediately after he took office," he continued, "Holder joined other members of the Obama administration in calls for new gun laws to crack down on American gun dealers and gun owners. He wanted to renew the ban on so-called 'assault weapons'." Now, thanks to independent Internet reporters and CBS News, it appears hundreds, if not thousands of U.S.-origin guns that made their way to Mexican criminals were allowed to cross the border by an inept ATF operation that was even criticized by ATF agents.
"Senator Grassley's inquiry has been met with stonewalling," he said, "but with these new revelations, the time for silence has passed. ATF officials in Phoenix who allowed this travesty to continue, over objections from field agents who knew better, should be fired. Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson should go immediately, and a new director, from outside of the agency, should be appointed to clean up this mess. If Eric Holder is not willing to hold ATF officials accountable, he should resign."
Labels: CCRKBA, Project Gunwalker


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Tennenbaum Lecture
Location: Tennenbaum Auditorium of the Instructional Center
Summary Sentence: Tennenbaum Lecture
Full Summary: Tennenbaum Lecture
In May 1977, Michael Tennenbaum created an endowment to fund the Tennenbaum lecture series. By bringing to the Georgia Tech campus each year a prominent political economist, the lectures are intended to provide the Georgia Tech community a better appreciation of the relationship between political decisions and the economic consequences of these decisions for the U.S. economy. Michael Tennenbaum was a 1958 graduate of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
The 2001 Tennenbaum Lecture has been rescheduled and will be held Tuesday, May 14, at 11:00 A.M. in the Tennenbaum Auditorium. Lawrence B. Lindsey, assistant to the President for Economic Policy and director of the National Economic Council at the White House, will speak on "The Roles of Fiscal and Monetary Policy." The lecture was originally scheduled for September 20, 2001, but was postponed due to the events of September 11. Lindsey says he will provide a better perspective on how the recent events and military actions are affecting economic policy. For more information about the Tennenbaum Lecture, call Ruth Gregory at 404.385.2627.


Colorado is in the heart of the Rocky Mountain range. It is nicknamed "The Centennial State" because it entered the union in 1876, just 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It has over 50 mountain peaks over 14,000 feet in elevation. The average elevation of Colorado is 6,800 feet above sea level making it the highest state in the United States. Denver is known as "The Mile High City", and it has 4 major rivers flowing through it, the Colorado River, Rio Grande, South Platte and Arkansas, can you find them on the map?
Read our National Geographic Atlas and located Denver, CO using the map coordinates.
Food: Rocky Mountain Rainbow Trout is a popular dish in Colorado.
We made designed a postcard from Colorado, and wrote a fictitious letter to a friend. And yes, we have a couple dogs, a cat, and some fish. I think the little yellow guy in the lower right corner would be "Squirt" our hamster.
Sorry for the gray boxes on the back side of the post card, but Strawberry Shortcake's fictitious letter used her real name and address LOL! She has also added a new word to the dictionary…snifted – as in she snifted the flower.
We read through all of the fun facts on Colorado from our Which Way USA Highlights Subscription. If you can, this is a really fun United States subscription. The magazines have fun games, and the fold out you see below has pictures with lots of fun facts along with a full sized map of the state on the other side.
After learning about the animals symbols for Colorado, we classified and added the animals to our USA animal wall!
Tinker Bell added Colorado to our United States Bulletin. After that we reviewed all of the states we've learned so far on our travels.
We took turns locating Denver, Colorado in our National Geographic Atlas.
Pikes Peak: Pikes Peak is one of the most famous landmarks in the state of Colorado. It is only 10 miles west of Colorado Springs and is 14,115 feet tall. It is part of the front range of the Rocky Mountains. It was discovered in the early 1800's by Zebulon Pike. Several adventurers came to Colorado in the hopes of discovering gold in the area and thus came the banner "Pikes Peak or Bust!" The words to America the Beautiful were written by Katharine Lee Bates after visiting the top of Pikes Peak in 1893. Today you can still visit the top by riding the Pikes Peak Railway to the summit.
Mesa Verde National Park, located in Montezuma County, CO, was established in 1906 to protect some of the best preserved cliff dwellings in the world. Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, shows us a glimpse into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived there from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde. It has 150 rooms, plus an additional 75 open areas. The number of Ancestral Puebloans living in Cliff Palace at any one time was about 100-120.
And finally we are still working on the history portion of the curriculum by reading through "If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon" by Ellen Levine.
Finally we concluded our week by adding the Colorado state flag to our Travel Log.
And that wraps up our Colorado study! If you'd like to come along with us on our Road Trip USA journey, click the image below to learn more!
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I'm from Colorado, so I loved reading this one!