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The Sandokan Series
The Tigers of Mompracem
The Mystery of the Black Jungle
The Pirates of Malaysia
The Two Tigers
The King of the Sea
Quest for a Throne
The Black Corsair Series
The Black Corsair
The Queen of the Caribbean
Tutto Salgari
Clásicos salgarianos
Mathias Sandorf
Masterworks of Adventure
Masterworks of Adventure: Lost Worlds
The Ultimate Anthology: 32 Classic Tales
Long before Indiana Jones... The 'Lost World' or 'Lost Race' genre was one of the most popular genres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This Masterworks of Adventure anthology is a collection of 32 tales considered to be among the best and most influential works. We started with 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel, by Crawford, Donahue and Grant (1953), which lists the best works published before 1950, then cross-referenced them with Science-fiction, the Early Years by Everett Franklin Bleiler and Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Lost Race Check Guide, the ultimate checklist for collectors. You'll find stories told in a variety of styles: travelogues, boy's adventure, romantic adventure, philosophical adventure and pulp fiction. Some have been made available for Kindle for the very first time and are exclusive to ROH Press.
She: The most famous of the 'lost world' novels. It was incredibly popular and is still one of the best-selling books of all time, having sold over a hundred million copies. ~ Graeme Shimmin
The Lost World: "The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in The Lost World have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day." ~ Michael Crichton
Eureka: "One of the finer books of its kind, unfortunately very rare." ~ Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Knight of the Silver Star: "Excellent tale." ~ Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Phantom City, A Volcanic Romance: "Intelligently written." ~ Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction, the Early Years
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Harilek
IN GIVING THIS STORY TO the world I must frankly confess that I do not know whether it is a remarkable record of actual adventure, or a fantastic romance from the pen of someone gifted with a particularly vivid imagination.
Harry Lake and I last parted in 1920 near Sorarogha in Waziristan, on the Indian frontier—I bound for home on leave, he in charge of the picketing troops, whose business it was to ensure the reasonably safe passage of wearied soldiery like me through the knife-edged hills, where the Mahsud snipers made night noisy and day sometimes dangerous.
I have known him on and off for many years. Stationed together before the war, our paths led apart in 1914—he to France with his regiment, I to East Africa with mine—to meet again in a London hospital in late 1915. With him once more in India in 1917, I then lost sight of him for over two years, till January, 1920, brought us together in a rather noisy brawl in Mahsud Waziristan, where the tribesmen were taking exception to our military promenade up their pet valley.
I know his people slightly, more particularly his sister, Ethel Wheeler, to whom he refers in his story, but she does not often favour me with letters. It was somewhat of a surprise, therefore, when in October last year, while a student at the Staff College, Quetta, an English mail brought me a bulky parcel and a letter from her, enclosing one from Lake, in which was the following passage:
I don't know if you are still doing anything in the author line, but if you are you might amuse yourself editing this record which I have made up from my diary. You are always keen on out-of-the-way places, and in sending this off, on the very shadowy chance of it ever reaching home, it occurred to me that you might like to see it, so I am telling Ethel to pass it on to you. If you care to get it published, you are welcome, the more so since I think the world could do with such a record of simple adventure as an antidote to the kind of stuff appearing when I left civilization.
I opened the parcel that night and dipped into the stained pages. There was a good deal of work on hand, but I'm afraid it got left over, for it was past four in the morning before I turned the last pages with a rather dazed brain, but a firm determination to edit the story. The kind assistance of Miss Douie—sister of a fellow-student—enabled me to get it typed in the little spare time snatched—mostly very late at night—from a strenuous course of instruction; while the local knowledge of Central Asia of Major Blacker—another fellow-student—was of the greatest help in following Lake's rather hieroglyphic record of his journey to Sakaeland.
Whether red-gold-haired Aryenis and her grave-eyed father, stalwart Henga and his Sake bowmen, Philos and his pretty wife and blue-eyed baby, crippled Paulos, the fiendish Shamans and the murderous brown Sakae are real living people, I cannot pretend to say, any more than I can tell whether pine-fringed Aornos, the snow-peaks of Saghar Mor, or the gloomy Shaman citadel, with its red-hot trapdoor, exist outside Lake's brain. All I can say is that he has never told me anything but the truth all the years I have known him. Payindah I remember well, while Wrexham I met several times in 1917, and both are very accurately described.
If the story is true, then I cannot say how the letters and the manuscript reached us, save that, from the vernacular inscriptions on the original wrapping which Ethel Wheeler sent me, it has clearly been passed from hand to hand by Indian merchants on the Chinese trade route. Perhaps Lake and his friends found the missing camels, and built up a sufficient store of water at stages across the desert to enable one or two determined men to make a flying journey out and back to hand over their letters to some Indian trader. But he has given no details as to how he proposed to get their letters home.
If Lake's record is genuine, then I envy him intensely, and hope that it will be many, many years before any explorer, even of the type of genial Sir Aurel Stein, penetrates to Sakaeland, for it and its people seem to me far too pleasing for one to wish them spoilt by the contact of twentieth-century civilization.
If, on the other hand, it is merely an invention of Lake's to while away monotonous evenings during his explorations in unknown Central Asia, where he certainly is, then I hope that his readers will find it as interesting and realistic as I and others here have done.
"GANPAT"
Staff College
Quetta, Baluchistan
1st January, 1923
Chapter 1: I Meet Wrexham and Forsyth
MOST OF THE BIG THINGS in life hinge on very small beginnings. I wonder if the people who pose as pure materialists ever reflect on that fact when they hold forth on their complete and absolute certainty that there is no guiding hand in men's affairs or in the conception, creation, and control of that most wonderfully intricate piece of machinery, the universe.
Missing a train, accepting an invitation, having a dance cut, all may prove the turning point in a life if you take the trouble to trace things back to their beginnings.
Take my own case, as I sit writing here with a glimpse of the twin snow-peaks of Saghar Mor through my open window, rose-red in the last light of the setting sun, above a level haze of lilac. Here am I with all I ever sought of life, all and far more. And yet, but for a chance visit to the Karachi Gymkhana Club some two years ago, I should probably today be smoking a pipe in my old Sussex manor farmhouse, after a day in the stubble, leading a quiet uneventful life, content—in a way—but having savoured only a fraction of what life really holds.
A gymkhana club bar does not sound the ideal starting-point for a life's romance, for a complete change in all that life may mean, and yet it so happened to me, as doubtless it has happened before and may happen again to others.
I've been thinking for some time of writing down the events of the last two years, partly because they sometimes seem so unreal that the only way to bring home their concreteness—if I may coin a word—is to put them down in cold, hard black-and-white, partly because I think they may serve to show others that romance is not yet dead, and that adventure is still to be found for those who will but pluck up heart and seek.
What is that passage of Kipling's about Truth being an undressed lady at the bottom of a well, and that if you meet her—well, as a gentleman there are only two things to do, one to look away, the other to give her a print dress? So I, being, I hope, a gentleman, choose the latter.
To begin at the very beginning, I must revert to the bar at the gymkhana club which I have mentioned, and, before beginning my tale, I suppose I had better introduce myself as I was when the story started, late in 1920.
My name is Lake, and Harry Lake is what most people call me. My father—God rest his soul—was the owner of a small place in Sussex, which he used to farm and shoot in the intervals of travelling, and which he expected me to take over when he died.
But farming—even with a certain backing of cash—did not appeal to me, and I drifted into the army. Then, much to the annoyance of my father, who wanted me to soldier at home since I would go into the service, I transferred to an Indian regiment. Travel always appealed to me, especially in the less well-known parts of the globe, and India seemed a convenient kicking-off place. One got long leave, which the army at home does not legislate for; and blessed with a little money, I was able to indulge my hobby to the full.
Central Asia became my playground, and, whenever I could get leave, I sped up to Kashmir and thence up one or other of the valleys into the great sleepy spaces that lie behind, the desiccated bone-dry spaces of Ladakh, or among the snow-clad mountains that fringe the north of Lalla Rookh's country.
Then came the war, and, after frantic panics that I was going to be out of it all, tearful wires to pals at Simla, despairing appeals to every general I had ever met, I found myself in France, and entered upon a series of panics for fear I shouldn't get away again.
After longer or shorter periods of mud, boredom, and fright, with a spell of hospital inserted, my regiment went on to that benighted back front, East Africa, a spot for which I conceived the most intense loathing, and was glad to find myself back once more in India in late 1917. A spell of dépôt work, and off again to Palestine and later to Cyprus, where, though life was uneventful, I amused myself brushing up the Greek I had learnt travelling during the holidays with my father. I am pretty good at languages, and had kept up my Greek, so that by the time I left Cyprus I spoke it as fluently as ever again.
In 1919 my father's death led me home to settle up the estate, and then out again, with the firm intention of leaving the army within the year.
A bout of frontier scrapping in the 1920 Waziristan show was my last effort, and then I really made up my mind to go straightaway. I was blessed with ample independent means—ample enough for me anyway; most of my regimental pals were dead, and so in 1920 I sent in my papers.
I had shot most things to be found about Northern India, but had never secured a tiger, and so made up my mind for a visit to the Central Provinces before going home. I wandered down to Karachi en route south to spend a few days there, and that's where this story really begins.
The first night there I did what one always does in the East—I went down to the club bar to pass the time of day with any old acquaintances that might be there. I had known Karachi fair to middling well in the old pre-war days, and I thought I was pretty sure to find friends, but, as a matter of fact, the club was rather deserted.
So I lit a cheroot and sat down, feeling rather lonesome, as one does in a place where one has spent many cheery evenings with a crowd of good fellows, most of whom have gone west. I was thinking about going across to the Sind Club when a man entered the bar. I looked twice to make quite sure, and then walked over to him.
"Long time since we shared a flask in the Jordan Valley, John," said I, tapping him on the shoulder.
He spun round.
"Hulloa, Harry! D—d glad to see you, old bird! What on earth are you doing here? I saw your push only last week, and they said you'd chucked it and gone home. Family acres and all that sort of thing."
"First part's true; for the rest, you see me here, large as life, very much at a loose end, and contemplating trying for a tiger in the C.P. before I go home. They tell me England hasn't quite recovered from the war yet, and when it isn't coal-striking it's doing something equally unpleasant, so I thought I'd give it a miss for a few months."
"Funny thing running into you here; I was just writing to your home address. I've been up on a globe trot Kashgar way. I'm demobbed now, too. Good thing to be one's own master once more."
Being on his own was a thing that would appeal to John Wrexham, independent by nature. An engineer by trade, swept up in the vortex of the war as an Indian Army reserve officer, I first met him in a particularly offensive trench Givenchy way. I met him frequently after that, always cheery, always busy, beloved of every battalion commander, to whose needs he ministered in the capacity of subaltern of a sapper-and-miner field company.
A brave soul, too, John, of the most heroic, despite his inclination to stoutness. He amassed some very pretty ribbons before the war was out, and a reputation among those who knew him worth more than all the ribbons in the world.
Later I picked him up again in Palestine, commanding a field company this time, in the most professional manner. I remember well our first encounter in Palestine, where I ran into him superintending a working party under close fire. It was such a typical picture of John. Sucking a pipe, methodical, cheerful, and utterly devoid of fear, his helmet on one side of his rather bullet head, his shrewd grey eyes taking in everything, quick and caustic comments for those who weren't putting their backs into it, a woman's touch and a woman's kindly word for anyone who had "taken it," red knees over blue puttees, ruddy face with the chin puckered over a long white gash picked up in an argument with a Hun near Festubert—very much a man all over is John Wrexham.
"What were you writing about, John? It's not like you."
John's inability to put pen to paper except under direct necessity was as well known as his practical efficiency at every point of his trade, or as his personal courage. In Palestine he was the despair of his C.R.E., a ponderous soul, and a lover of paper.
"Wanted to find out what you were doing. I've got a stunt on, and I want company. I've got one fellow coming along, but I want another, and I thought you might be at a loose end. Come under the fan and I'll show you something."
When we had installed ourselves under the electric fan in two armchairs, he pulled out his pipe, filled it methodically, lit it, and then proceeded. One never hurries John when he has something to say. It's always worth waiting for.
"Did you ever trek into Kashgar, Harry?" he asked at last.
"No, I never got as far as that. Why?"
"I was up that way last year, and found one or two things rather interesting."
"What were you doing? I didn't know you were keen on Central Asia."
"I am to a certain extent. I had a great-great-uncle who was a bit of a rolling stone. He wandered a bit in those parts, and he left a diary, written rather like I write, but you could follow it in parts. I'll show it you later on. There's some quaint stuff in it. But it interested me, and last year when I was demobbed after the Armistice, I toddled up there to have a look-see. I was not keen on going back to my old job in Bengal, and, as I'd saved a bit of cash, I thought I'd take a holiday, which I hadn't really done since I left school. So I trekked off to Kashgar and then east."
He fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a worn pocketbook, and extracted something which he passed across.
"Ever see anything like this?" he queried.
I examined the object closely. A silver coin, new-looking, but rough at the edges. On one side was a mass of Greek lettering. On the obverse was a man's head, rather clear-cut.
I turned it over again. The names on the coin were unfamiliar, and the head was unlike any coin I knew.
"What country is it, John? It's Greek, though the lettering is quaint, but whose is the head? It's not from Greece. Is it one of the funny little new States that the Peace Conference of the war to end war has started to ensure war going on?"
Wrexham looked at me despondently.
"You handle a pen quickly, Harry, but you're slow sometimes at deductions. Yes, it's Greek; but it's a long time since any one wrote Greek quite like that, and I think that the country it came from never heard of the Great War of 1914-18."
"Antique, is it?" I looked at it again. "It looks fairly new-make. Is it a copy? Central Asia's full of old Greek relics, I know. Have they started an antique mint in Kashgar in the hope of a tourist boom after the war? Where did you come by it?"
"Well, it's a long story, but, if you're doing nothing tonight, come over to my hotel and dine and I'll tell you. By itself the coin isn't much, but I've got two other exhibits which fit in. What is it 'Sapper' says? 'Once is nothing, twice is coincidence, three times is a moral certainty.' I think I've got a moral cert."
And not another word would he say on the matter then, shifting the conversation to France and Palestine, old scraps, old friends, all the miscellany of memories that make up the wandering soldier's life.
I slipped home and changed, and then to his hotel, where I found him awaiting me in the lounge with a tall, clean-shaven, fair-haired, blue-eyed man who seemed to carry a smack of the sea about him, though somehow I did not set him down as a sailor.
"You've not met Forsyth, have you, Harry?" said Wrexham. "This is Lake, Alec; you've heard me speak of him often enough."
As we shook hands while Wrexham busied himself attracting a servant for short drinks, I took stock of Forsyth. Taller than me by at least three inches—and I stand five feet ten in my socks and broad with it, he looked the epitome of fitness. His skin was clear and smooth as a girl's, yet tanned to a ruddy brick colour that spoke of days of open air, clean fresh winds, and hot sunshine.
I couldn't quite place him, but somehow he conveyed an idea of big open spaces, and all the breadth of clean mental outlook that sometimes goes therewith.
Wrexham handed us out sherries, and marshalled us into a cool corner.
"Three wanderers well met, I think. Here's to us." He turned to me.
"Forsyth knows, perhaps, more Greek than you, Harry. He describes himself as a doctor, and tags weird letters after his name. But his real amusement in life is studying ethnology and anthropology and things like that."
"I've always been keen on ethnology, especially that of Eastern Europe, as a hobby; and after finishing my medical studies, I spent some months pottering about Greece on my own. It's a fascinating mixture of people down in the Balkan Peninsula to anyone keen on studying different races. Also, I was one of those freaks with a leaning to Greek, even at school, before I came over to England."
"One of our Empire liaison links from Canada," continued Wrexham, "ex-R.N.A.S., sometimes amateur of ethnology, specially Greek; anything more, Alec?"
"You forget the ex-R.A.F., which landed me in this country to renew the threads of your acquaintanceship from Palestine days."
"True, O king, a somewhat murky past. But now, like me, you've cut adrift once more."
"And here I am to listen to a cock-and-bull story of yours tied up with old or new coins and a ragged diary, with which baits you propose to lug me many hundred miles into the back of beyond, instead of going back and looking for a decent job to earn an honest living. You have a persuasive manner, John. I suppose Lake is another babe in your hands?"
"He will be, I hope, before we've done with him. However, what about food? Then we can go up to my quarters and get down to the real stuff. Finished your drinks?"
He marshalled us into the dining-room, and once again the conversation slid west and north in the old grooves of war, till we finally adjourned to his room, and stretched ourselves on long chairs in the veranda. When his servant had deposited sodas, glasses, and whiskey and departed, Wrexham went to a metal despatch-case, and produced from it a small wooden box carefully tied up, which he placed mysteriously on the table.
Then, filling his ancient pipe, he spread himself in a long chair and commenced.
"First of all, I'm going to tell you about my trip beyond Yarkand last year. When you've swallowed that, I'll show you a thing or two.
"After my company left Palestine in January, '19, and came back to India, I got myself demobbed and pondered what I should do. Home lacked attraction, I'd been away so long. There was I with a certain amount of dibs, no calls, my own master, up in Pindi at the end of the Kashmir road with the hot weather coming on, and all the earth in front of me.
"I've always wanted to travel up that way, and this seemed the absolute chance. If I went home or back to my old job in Bengal, I might not get another opportunity for years; my old firm in Bengal were good, but sticky in the matter of leave. So I packed my kit, dumped what I didn't want, motored to Srinagar, and took the road for Yarkand.
"I stuck to the main road practically all the way, steady, easy marches. And as I went I read everything I could find on the country. Most of my kit was books, I think, but by the time I hit Yarkand I had a working knowledge of Kashgaria at other people's expense.
"I moved fairly light, but I lugged the books along and also a few survey instruments. You remember that in Palestine I used to play about with survey toys.
"I stopped a bit at Yarkand to study local conditions, and work up the smattering of Turki that I'd been assimilating on the road up with the aid of a prehistoric textbook.
"From there I pushed on to Aksu, and hence towards Hami, always keeping to the main road. There's nothing to talk about during that part of the show. But when I got Hami-way, I put aside the printed books and restudied my great-great-uncle's diary." He stopped and pulled meditatively at his pipe.
"What was the great-great-uncle doing up there, John?" I asked.
"He was a bit of a rolling stone, rather like me, I fancy. He started with a commission in the East India Company's army, got tired of it, went north, and joined the Sikh army. Then he dropped that and took to wandering. Went up into Kashmir. Thence he conceived the idea of following the old trade route into China. His library apparently consisted of Marco Polo.
"Three years later he turned up again in Ferozepur, where my great-grandfather, his brother, was commanding a regiment, and announced his intention of fitting out and going off again to Central Asia. But before he could start again he went out with cholera. However, before he died he gave my great-grandfather a diary and a bundle of old papers, and said that, if ever any other member of the family got the wanderlust, the papers were to be given to him.
"My great-grandfather, who was married, had no particular desire to travel, and, I fancy, after reading through the stuff, he locked it up and dismissed the whole lot as a traveller's yarn, due to overmuch Marco Polo combined with fever.
"My grandfather and my father were stay-at-homes, and I'm the first of the family to come back here. I brought with me the old papers and the diary that was with them more as idle curiosities—happened to notice them when I was on leave before coming back from France to Mespot in 1916.
"Having nothing much to do, I read them through on board ship, and after that I read them fairly often, until I know bits, I think, by heart.
"A lot of them are mere scrappy notes about his journeys, rough drawings of places and types, and it's only after he struck east from Urumchi that the real interest comes into the diary. Pass me over that box, will you?"
Forsyth reached the box across to Wrexham, who undid it, and took out a small shabby leather-covered notebook.
"I'm going to read you something," he said, "that will tell you why I went north. As I said before, once is nothing, twice is a coincidence, three times is a moral cert. This is the 'once'; part of the 'twice' you've both seen in the shape of that coin; the 'three times' I've got here, and will show you presently."
He put the box on the table by him, opened the notebook—stained yellowish paper and crabbed writing in faded brown ink—and began to read aloud.
He read for a quarter of an hour, and at the end of that time both Forsyth and I had let our pipes go out, and were hanging on his words.
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Las aventuras de 6 heroínas salgarianas: Leonor de Éboli, la renombrada capitán Tormenta; Zamora la gitana; Fathma, La favorita del Mahdi; Than-Kiu, la «Flor de las Perlas» Sai-Sing, la «Perla del Río Rojo» y Yalla, jefe de los sioux.
Aventuras en África
Una antología de cuatro clásicos de aventuras y dos cuentos: La Favorita del Mahdi, Los dramas de la esclavitud, La Costa de Marfil, La jirafa blanca, El rey de Tikuno, La Estrella del Sur. Versiones íntegras y anotadas.
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Una antología de cuatro clásicos de aventuras: La Cimitarra de Buda, El Tesoro de los Incas, La Montaña de Luz, El Tesoro de la Montaña Azul. Versiones íntegras y anotadas.
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Dalle giungle dell'India ai mari della Malesia. Tutte le avventure di Sandokan, Yanez, Tremal-Naik e Kammamuri, gli eroi del ciclo indo-malese. Edizioni integrali e annotate.
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Cinco clásicos de aventuras: El tesoro del presidente del Paraguay, El continente misterioso, Los corsarios de las Bermudas, Dos abordajes y Las extraordinarias aventuras de «Cabeza de Piedra». Versiones íntegras y anotadas.
ROH Press, established in 2007, is an independent publishing house specializing in the adventure novels of Emilio Salgari. We offer titles in English, Italian and Spanish.
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In 2007, Sandokan was listed as one of the 20th century's greatest characters in Lucy Daniel's Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Shook the Literary World.
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The dynamics of today's employee turnover is quite different to the one of a few years ago and it is time we start questioning this change. More and more employees opt to quit their jobs in a couple of years for the reasons that are not necessarily related to salary or maybe indirectly related to salary. In business schools students take classes like change management, Human Resources, and business management and in all of these courses, students are taught that the working conditions go beyond salary expectations. Working conditions refer to the team environment, respect of the others, appreciation, being able to express your ideas and have an opportunity to hang out with your colleagues after work at least once a month to get to to know each other better.
Sadly, many companies choose to ignore the soft skills or the intangible circumstances and turn the blind eye. As a result, this gives a rise to uncalled bullying at work, games of hierarchy, stress, as employees no longer want to go to work and eventually burnout. The rate of a burnout has been increasing in the last five years, and we are just standing by and watching this happen. So what can we do to try and change this and would would make our employees more comfortable and loyal to work without burning out?
Healthy Team Environment: this is a risky one, because many companies think that having a flat hierarchy or having everyone be on the same level creates a healthy working environment. Well it does not, if anything it creates more internal competition between the people who somewhat hold higher positions and for the regular employees it creates absolute uncertainty: who is the authority? The healthy team environment is better in place when the team has weekly meetings as a team and 1:1 meetings at the end of the week (manager : employee), when there are clear objectives set and when the employees can feel that their contribution counts for the growth of the company. Healthy Team Environment is not created by superficial afterwork events, which are in place because management thinks that this will bring people together. The afterwork events should not be imposed or mandatory, and should be organised by the employees. Give them a chance to be part of the community and do not force them if that's not their thing.
Personal working space: although open office has become more popular office layout, it is important to keep the employee's personal space safe and guarded. Each employee can then organise their own desk space and feel more at ease. If you are in an open space environment, remember that just because you are sitting a few desks away, it does not give you any rights to shout to your colleague what needs to be done, come by their desk, check if they are available and then ask them for help or suggest what needs to be done.
RESPECT: I cannot stress this one enough. It does not matter what job title you have or how you perceive your colleagues with their job titles - one needs to remain respectful to all and any colleagues. This is not even something that should be written out here, these are the manners that one either has or not and that have been planted and nourished by their families.
Projects / Responsibilities: just as anything in life the employee role should evolve and grow, otherwise the employee is risking to leave the company as soon as the role becomes simple and all challenges have been acquired. It is up to the employer to define the role evolution and slightly update the job description of the person. If the employee sees no reason or no room for change and evolution, the employee will see no reason to stay with the company.
The problem is that if you are planning on keeping an employee on board using a promise, make sure you deliver. There is a limited time that an employee will be ready to wait for you.
The other thing is that you cannot be friends with your employees, and yes there should be mutual trust and friendly environment, but there should be a few rules and regulations in place, just to give employees at least some structure.
If you have any ideas or comments, or would like to share your experiences do not hesitate to get in touch.


I have the first time participated at this year's ND Awards 2016 and reached an amazing result!
The ND Awards are, in my view, a really high-ranking competition of fine art artists. A distinction is made between professional and non-professional photographers.
I've submitted two pictures for the category "Architecture: Buldings" and one picture for the category "Fine Art: Landscape".
Who does not know the ND Award, there are two valuations: 1st – 3rd place and Honorable Mentions. There were 6422 submissions this year and about 1800 pictures were selected from the jury. In the "Architecture: Buldings" category, for example, there are only 87 selected images.
I am really proud that all of my three submitted pictures have been honored with "Honorable Mention".
Haste definitiv verdient, ich hab's dieses Jahr leider mal wieder verpasst mitzumachen.
Man sieht hiermit, dass auch außergewöhnliche Fotos zu recht prämiert werden.
Mir gefällt das zweite am besten.
Leider kann ich bis jetzt noch keinen solchen tollen Erfolg vorweisen.
Jede Anerkennung für die investierten Mühen tut doch gut!


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Q: Changing a variable in pygame after a button is click I am trying to make a hangman game in python using pygame, the issue I'm having is, when I click on the button the variable doesn't change, I want to make it so that once you click the letter it will show it on screen if the guess is correct.
# EzText example
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame, sys, eztext
import time
import random
global oldwelcomemessage
global newwelcomemessage
global entertest
global mouse
global click
global positiona
pygame.init()
#pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.pre_init()
pygame.mixer.pre_init(22050, -16, 2, 4096)

Black      = (  0,   0,   0)
Grey       = (100, 100, 100)
DarkGrey   = (70,   70,  70)
White      = (255, 255, 255)
Blue       = (  0,   0, 255)
NavyBlue   = ( 60,  60, 100)
Cyan       = (  0, 255, 255)
Purple     = (255,   0, 255)
Red        = (255,   0,   0)
DarkRed    = (180,   0,   0)
Orange     = (255, 128,   0)
Yellow     = (255, 255,   0)
Green      = (  0, 255,   0)
DarkGreen  = (  0, 180,   0)
LightBlue  = ( 90, 164, 213)
Magenta    = (153,   0,  76)

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1300,600),0,32)
screen.fill(Orange)

apicked = 0
positiona = None
def text_objects(text, font):
    textSurface = font.render(text, True, Black)
    return textSurface, textSurface.get_rect()
smallText = pygame.font.Font("freesansbold.ttf",20)

def button(msg,x,y,w,h,ic,ac,action=None):
    if x+w > mouse[0] > x and y+h > mouse[1] > y:
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, ac,(x, y, w, h))
        if click [0] == 1 and action!= None:
            if action == "A":
                if 'a' in chars:
                    print('That character is in the word')
                    #print (position)
                    for position, item in enumerate(chars):
                        if item == 'a':
                            locationa = position
                            locationa = locationa +1
                            global positiona
                            #print (locationa)
                            apicked = 1
                            locationa = str(locationa)
                            print(locationa)

                else:
                    print('That character isnt in the word')
            if action == "B":
                guess = 'b'
            if action == "C":
                guess = 'c'
            if action == "D":
                guess = 'd'
            if action == "E":
                guess = 'e'
            if action == "F":
                guess = 'f'
            if action == "G":
                guess = 'g'
            if action == "H":
                guess = 'h'
            if action == "I":
                guess = 'i'
            if action == "J":
                guess = 'j'
            if action == "K":
                guess = 'k'
            if action == "L":
                guess = 'l'
            if action == "M":
                guess = 'm'
            if action == "N":
                guess = 'n'
            if action == "O":
                guess = 'o'
            if action == "P":
                guess = 'p'
            if action == "Q":
                guess = 'q'
            if action == "R":
                guess = 'r'
            if action == "S":
                guess = 's'
            if action == "T":
                guess = 't'
            if action == "U":
                guess = 'u'
            if action == "V":
                guess = 'v'
            if action == "W":
                guess = 'w'
            if action == "X":
                guess = 'x'
            if action == "Y":
                guess = 'y'
            if action == "Z":
                guess = 'z'

    else:
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, ic,(x, y, w, h))

    smallText = pygame.font.Font("freesansbold.ttf",20)
    textSurf, textRect = text_objects(msg, smallText)
    textRect.center = ((x+(w/2)), (y + (h/2)))
    screen.blit(textSurf, textRect)

f = open('Everywordfixed.txt','r')
farray = f.readlines()
word =  (random.choice(farray))
print(word)
length = len(word)
length = length - 1
lengthforunder = len(word)
lengthforunder = lengthforunder - 1
print (length)
number = 1
underscorex = 490

t = open("Currentword.txt","w")
t.write(word)
t.close()
t = open("Currentword.txt","r")
chars = []
number = 0
letterx = 490
##for i in (word):
##
##    number = str(number)
##    charon = ('Char'+ number)
##    print(charon)
##    number = int(number)
##    charon = i
##    number = number +1
##    label = smallText.render((charon), 1, (255,255,0))
##    screen.blit(label, (letterx, 250))
##    letterx = letterx + 50
##    print(charon)
for i in (word):
    chars.append(i)
print(chars)

while True:

    #pygame.draw.rect(screen, White,(10, 10, 980, 580))
    pygame.mixer.pre_init(22050, -16, 2, 4096)
    mouse = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
    click = pygame.mouse.get_pressed()
    events = pygame.event.get()
    for event in events:

        if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE:
                pygame.quit()
    pygame.display.update()
    time.sleep(0.02)

    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    clock.tick(30)
    events = pygame.event.get()
    A = button("A",10, 9, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"A")
    B = button("B",10, 68, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"B")
    C = button("C",10, 127, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"C")
    D = button("D",10, 186, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"D")
    E = button("E",10, 245, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"E")
    F = button("F",10, 304, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"F")
    G = button("G",10, 363, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"G")
    H = button("H",10, 422, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"H")
    I = button("I",10, 481, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"I")
    J = button("J",10, 540, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"J")
    K = button("K",170, 9, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"K")
    L = button("L",170, 68, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"L")
    M = button("M",170, 127, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"M")
    N = button("N",170, 186, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"N")
    O = button("O",170, 245, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"O")
    P = button("P",170, 304, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"P")
    Q = button("Q",170, 363, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"Q")
    R = button("R",170, 422, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"R")
    S = button("S",170, 481, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"S")
    T = button("T",170, 540, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"T")
    U = button("U",330, 9, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"U")
    V = button("V",330, 68, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"V")
    W = button("W",330, 127, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"W")
    X = button("X",330, 186, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"X")
    Y = button("Y",330, 245, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"Y")
    Z = button("Z",330, 304, 150, 50, White, DarkGreen,"Z")

    print(positiona)

    if positiona == 1:
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, Black,(underscorex, 300, 90, 10))
    if positiona == 2:
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, Black,(underscorex, 330, 90, 10))
    if positiona == 3:
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, Black,(underscorex, 360, 90, 10))
    if positiona == 4:
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, Black,(underscorex, 400, 90, 10))

    #print(apicked)
    #if apicked == 1:
        #pygame.draw.rect(screen, Black,(underscorex, 300, 90, 10))
    for i in range(lengthforunder):
        pygame.draw.rect(screen, Black,(underscorex, 300, 30, 10))
        underscorex = underscorex +50
        lengthforunder = lengthforunder-1

    pygame.display.flip()

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

How do I get to show the letter on screen correctly?

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ADM Expands Danube River Export Network
Project to transport grain from Eastern Europe to world markets
DECATUR, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), through its affiliate Alfred C. Toepfer International G.m.b.H. (ACTI), today announced a strategic expansion of its grain origination, storage, transportation and export operations along the Danube River in Romania. The project includes 12 grain elevators along the Danube, one inland-storage elevator in Western Romania and a joint-venture export elevator in the Black Sea port of Constanta.
"We see great opportunities to increase our origination and transportation capabilities along the Danube River in Romania, which has become a net exporter of grain and oilseeds over the past several years," said Gary L. Towne, chairman of the management board of ACTI. "The Danube River export project creates an end-to-end network, giving us the ability to originate crops directly from farmers, transport and store them, and ultimately export them to markets around the world."
The network, which is similar to ADM's origination-through-export networks along the Paraguay River and Mississippi River, includes three river elevators at Giurgiu, and one river elevator each at Braila, Constanta, Corabia, Oltenita, Orsova and Zimnicea. ACTI is also constructing new elevators at Calarasi, Giurgiu and Moldova Noua and has acquired a barge fleet to connect the network of river elevators to the joint-venture export elevator recently finished in Constanta. In addition, ACTI has plans to construct elevators at Borduşani, Corabia and Galati.
"This project is strategically important as we expand our origination network in Eastern Europe," said Towne. "The storage facilities and export elevator are well positioned to give us additional capacity to move crops along the Danube River and to the Black Sea, while the addition of Toepfer-owned barges provides us with greater control of our supply chain and helps us achieve favorable transportation margins in what can be a volatile market," said Towne.
About ACTI
Since its founding in 1919, Alfred C. Toepfer has been active in trading grain, oilseeds and feedstuffs. Today, Toepfer International is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with 36 branch offices around the world. More than 2,000 employees trade more than 42 million tons of commodities annually. ADM originally invested in ACTI in 1983, and today owns 80 percent of the company, with the remaining 20 percent owned by French farming cooperative Union InVivo.
Every day, the 30,000 people of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) turn crops into renewable products that meet the demands of a growing world. At more than 265 processing plants, we convert corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa into products for food, animal feed, chemical and energy uses. We operate the world's premier crop origination and transportation network, connecting crops and markets in more than 75 countries. Our global headquarters is in Decatur, Illinois, and our net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, were $81 billion. For more information about our company and our products, visit www.adm.com.
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tv Eyewitness News at 5 CBS May 31, 2016 5:00pm-6:01pm EDT
for fishing and swimming, it is just over the tree line here, it is on pigeon creek and we are told tonight that this, of course is a a very rural area, police trying to figure out who may have been coming or going in an exact period of time, big question who is this woman and what happened to her. chester county detectives are on the hunt for clueness this case where they say a woman's body was dumped in the east coventry township pond, her leg tied down, hooked to a cinder block. >> this young woman's body was thrown in the pond like somebody was throwing away trash. >> reporter: investigators narrowed down window of time when they believe victim was placed here. children had been swimming in the the pond sunday afternoon. body was discovered, floating on the upon's surface around 11:00 a.m. monday. d.a. tells cbs-3 that is roughly a 20 hour period of time, that she could have been left here. >> no gunshot wounds, no blunt force trauma, no sign of strangulation, in other word, there is no obvious sign of what the cause of death was
here. >> reporter: prosecutors say that there was no water in the victim's lungs meaning she was already dead when she was placed in the pond. but jewelry and tattoos shown here, detective believe, could unravel the mystery, of who she is. >> hopefully somebody will recognize who this woman is, and will contact the chester county detectives, let them know, who this woman is. >> reporter: back live investigators say she is an african-american women between ages of 25 and 35, weighing 130-pound. she stood about 5 feet, 6 inches tall. now at this time, the district attorney tells cbs-3 that there are to his knowledge were no missing persons, cases reported out of nearby coatsville, or, in pottstown or any of the area in this vicinity. they are asking for the public's help to try to figure out just who this woman is. reporting live, from east coventry township joe holden
for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> joe, thank you. two suspects are behind bars in connection to the home invasion robbery in prospect park delaware county. the these are the suspect, 18 year-old nicholas lewis and 23 year-old taker grant. both are from the pocono area investigators say the men and third suspect broke in the home on lafayette avenue last night and held home owner at gunpoint. they ran away once someone else inside called 911. that third suspect remains at large. well, now that everyone is back at work sun comes back out. meteorologist kate bilo is on our skies deck to tell you how you long sunshine will stick around this week, kate. >> beautiful afternoon here in philadelphia a barely a cloud in the sky just a few puffy fair weather cumulus clouds moving through. lets look at your weather headlines as we all have headed back to work and school today on a beautiful tuesday, and we will almost swap this day with yesterday but unfortunately that is now things works. we will begin today, much more comfortable as well, with seasonal temperatures,
temperatures will be dropping over next couple days. storm scan three shows everything quiet only shower we have had is over sussex county delaware quickly diving toward maryland. eighty-seven in philadelphia. eighty-six in wilmington. eighty-five in reading, take a look at down the shore as well and you can see really great beach day, make going up for yesterday's weather, 78 degrees in stone harbor. 72 degrees in ocean city. big difference between the weekend and today, these dew points. dew point are still high at the shore. it is definitely hume mid south jersey and delaware but look at the dew point in philadelphia, right now 49 degrees. where does that fall in our comfort index? right in the awesome range. 50-degree dew point or thereabouts, feels fantastic. great evening. comfortable night, and coming up i'll tell you how long this stretch of weather last before the threat for showers and storms returns to the forecast, for now, back to you. thanks, kate. prosecutors now say criminal charges are possible in the weekend shooting of the gorilla at cincinnati zoo.
>> on saturday zoo officials fatally shot the endangered gorilla a named harambe who got in the animal's exhibit. police say that the boy's parents could be charged with child neglect. the detective are investigating the events leading up to the shooting. animal right activist say a the zoo should be find. >> what happened this last weekend made it very clear that the physical barriers a at cincinnati zoo are not adequate to keep people out of the enclosures. >> a federal investigation is also planned into saturday's incident, an inspection, a few months ago found no problems with the zoos gorilla exhibit. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is live at philadelphia zoo where cincinnati zoo has sparked a conversation about exhibit safety here, greg. >> reporter: it is sparking a conversation at this zoo and zoos throughout the country. question is how do you allow human visitors to see as much of the animal population as
possible while keeping both of those populations safe. days after a young boy fell in the animal enclosure at the cincinnati zoo, and officials there forced to shoot and killed an endangered gorilla a... zoo people here in philadelphia are insuring visitor safety is their number one priority. >> first would i say don't worry, we're a very safe environment. this barrier here for example, it has got mesh on it so a kid who gets a way from their parents for a few minutes cannot get through. >> reporter: philadelphia zoo chief operating officer any baker praises his counterparts response to that difficult situation. >> this was a tragic situation and i think, cincinnati handled it very well and professionally. >> reporter: he said incident there will lead to digsal training for his team here. >> anytime something happens we all go back and look at our campus, look at our protocols, look at our training, and make sure we're doing everything that we can to create a safe environment that also supports a great guest experience.
>> reporter: with more than 1.2 million visitors a year and hundreds of wild, strong, year round tenants, philadelphia zoo officials are ready for any situation. >> we have a gun trained team in an emergency situation like that, where human life is at immediate and serious risk, that at the end of the day we're prepared to respond in the same way. >> reporter: chief operating officer, also says part of the responsibility for safety falls in the shoulders of course, of the parent visiting with their children, of course, always keep an eye on your kid, while visiting this zoo or any zoos around the country. live, i'm greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". reward is growing to find however killed two dogs in chester by burning them in the plastic container. dogs were found saturday night between or behind, west sixth street. animal group justice rescue is offering $3,000 for information about the the crime, and investigators are still trying to figure out whether the dogs were a live,
before they were burn. a hearing is set for july to deciding whether one of the three teenage girls charged in the death of the delaware classmate will go on trial as an adult. prosecutors want the 16 year-old girl's case moved from family court to superior court. authorities say that amy joyner-francis after died a after a beating in a rest room. the attack aggravated a preexisting heart condition. in campaign 2016, donald trump is sparring once again with the media. today gave a full account of the money he says he raised for veterans at an event ahead of the iowa caucus. cbs news correspondent kenneth craig has more on the war of word folds of honor foundation, $200,000. >> reporter: after months of questioning, donald trump finally released a full list of veterans charities he originally claim he raised six million-dollar for.
>> well, let's see that adds up to $5,600,000, total and we will have some more coming in. >> reporter: presumptive republican nominee then slammed media who had been pressing him for details about the the donations that he gave to a veterans group earlier this year. >> everyone is here, who got it, who got it who got it and you make me look very bad. >> reporter: trump even permanently attacked one reporter. >> he is a sleeze in my book. you know the facts and you know the facts well. >> reporter: trump's events almost always have protesters and that is true even at trump tower. this time one veteran group gathered to say they don't want trump as command inner chief. >> he would threaten muslims, latinos and women all of whom i served with this afghanistan who donned the uniform and served their country. >> reporter: trump's democratic opponents are still battling it out for that parties nomination. bernie sanders campaigned with nurses in california where he has been gaining momentum head
of next week primary. clinton has responded by canceling a campaign event in new jersey, and will instead travel to california, thursday. the latest survey in the state shows the two in a virtual tie. kenneth craig for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". hillary clinton picked up some big support in california today, governor jerry brown gave her his endorsement and he says she's the only person who can stop dop old trump from being president. a flyers great passed away team announce that had rick macleish passed away i have series of illnesses. he spent part of the 12 season with the flyers including both stanley cup winning teams in the 74 and 1975. he is first flyer to score 50 goals in a season. rick macleish was 66 years old. the ncaa champion villanova university mens basketball team met with an important fan today. >> the team traveled to the white house, for a meeting with president obama. visit comes nearly two months after nova won its first title
since 1985, beating north carolina on a buzzer beater against north carolina these wildcats were more about one moment or one shot, they had unbelievable defense, they had some great clutch shooting, and a senior class that won more class then any group in wild cat history, and they had a stable of talented players who were just as happy in the deck for loose ball as they were cutting down the nets. >> on behalf of our entire villanova family i want to thank you and your staff for inviting us to the white house. this has a great day for villanova university. >> to show their appreciation the team presented our forty-fourth president with the special jersey, obviously the number 44 there. leslie van arsdal will have more on the wildcats meeting with the president, live from the white house tonight on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 o'clock. they wore those jerseys to the pearl harbor game. >> great get. >> one of the toughest spots for professional bike riders.
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well, areas already overwhelmed by rising flood waters in texas are facing more flooding. the deluge of rain pummeling the southeastern part of the state has sent rivers surge to go levels not seen in decades. authority are evacuating hundreds along the river near houston. seven people have died in the flooding, several others are missing. and in southern germany raging flood water swept away cars and damaged property. this is cell phone video, and
this divers were searched for two people who went missing in the flood. authorities say four people have been killed including a fire fighter and a 13 year-old girl. shark attacks on both companieses over the holiday weekend are raising new concerns for summertime beach goers. experts predict that a record number of attacks this year, and there is new technology used to track those animals could help people feel safer when they swim. this might look like an ordinary jet ski trip but it is an example of high tech on the high seas. shark researcher dover lowe and his teams are diving in the ocean off the southern california coasts, tagging had sharks with transmit others near popular beaches. they are tracking shark movements to find out why the population of young great white sharks, is growing, so close, to crowded shores. >> they come in because there is lots of abundant food like stingrays and water is warm. >> reporter: female swimmer was hospitalized sunday after receiving multiple bite wound
to her upper body from a suspect great white shark. the last year there were 98 unprovoked shark attacks worldwide, the highest on record, resulting in six fatality. lowe says he is not the surprised to see a shark attack so early in the season. >> there has been a shark attack that will continue to go up. there are more and more people using the ocean then ever before. other thing and in some places like the united states, we are seeing recovery of our shark population. you put those two things together you will see more shark attacks. >> reporter: shark trackers are also using drones to give them eyes in the sky. scientists are using under water cameras to count the number and types of sharks, swimming by. this is a wave glider a versatile research tool that uses solar and wave for youer to propel itself. stanford researchers are using that and floating bow you he is. >> it is giving us inside into
how these big sharks make decisions. >> reporter: experts say that the more they learn, about how sharks, make decisions the more information they will have to help beach goers decide, whether to enjoy the ocean or maybe just, enjoy the view. president obama is urging americans to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season. >> the president today warned of what he sees as a growing complacently when it comes to dangerous weather. >> what we have been seeing is some public complacency, coming in. a large portion of people not having preparedness kits, not having evacuation plans. we have been stagnant a little bit with respect to the number of people, percentage of people who respond to evacuation orders. >> the president made those remarks today at fema headquarters in washington. hurricane season starts tomorrow. every time they like to predict, the amount of storms, have they done that yet. >> yes, this year they think
it will be average. the there has been a few slow years. even at average that would be more active then past three years have been. you know what, it doesn't matter how many storms if there are there are it only takes one. they prepare and his comments are definitely spot on. we will talk about a great day to day. i know jessica talk about how this is her perfect, perfect day. >> yes, perfect day. >> yes. >> perfect day. >> but it is not humid today. >> yes.ect day. >> that is the big key. dew points have dropped quite a bit this afternoon. we have started the day with dew points in the 60's a, now dew points in the 40's and 50's. the that is what putting us in that comfort range n south jersey and delaware thinking it doesn't feel all that great where i am because dew points are still high there but gradually lowering over the next several days. we're speaking of the shore, we will take you down to the ocean city boardwalk where it looks hazy outside right now. still a bit steamy but a lot more people outside on that boardwalk today then what we saw yesterday. yesterday was a total wash out at this time. right now things are looking good. people are walking around enjoying sunshine if only we
could swap this weather for yesterday's weather it would have been a perfect memorial day weekend. live neighborhood network also down the shore, this is beach patrol headquarters in margate where you can see folks still outside on the beach with the umbrellas firmly planted in the sand enjoying a great first unofficial week of summer. of course, it is memorial day. week following memorial day, lot of people get their shore houses starting this week and it is a good one. next few days looking good as well. storm scan three is quiet across the area we will head back to margate. storm scan three is looking good for right now. one shower over sussex county delaware, slowing up, could turn into a thunderstorm toward salisbury maryland but as we zoom out, there is nothing going on. showers and storms out to sea and next weather maker thinks front but that will not get here until friday, and until then, we will sit pretty. 87 degrees in philadelphia. eighty-six in allentown. eighty-six in trenton. cooler down the shore. it has been a soggy may. we will finish out moth on a dry note but 6.65 inches of rain, over half of a foot of
rain this month making it the tenth, most wetest may, on record. let's hepp for the tenth driest june on record, to counter a act that. we have a few sunny days ahead in the future. eighty's tomorrow. sunny and nice with sunshine through thursday. seventy's on thursday. little bit cooler. a couple of cloud moving in the afternoon as this front approaches this that comes friday bringing a chance for a few scattered clouds and thunderstorms. you'll love the shore. 72 degrees. still maybe want that wet suit planning on going in the water at 60 degrees. uv index at nine. put on that high spf. lets look at your overnight forecast. mainly clear, mild, 65. another beautiful day tomorrow. cooler then today. eighty-two. that is thanks to the northeasterly wind. humidity low. looking good for your wednesday. you're witness weather three day forecast mostly sunny on wednesday at 82. thursday looking great. partly sunny. 77 degrees. upper 70's where we should this be time of the year. friday is a little hiccup in the the forecast. that brings us a shower or
thunderstorm in the afternoon mainly, but coming up i'll tell you about the weekend and we have got nice weather, one of the days looks better then the others. i'll tell you which one to get outside coming up next half an hour. >> we have beach season. >> beach season is here. vittoria woodill is down the shore at 5:00 and 6:00 she will take us live to atlantic city. as i showed you it will be a great beach day in atlantic city. that is right here on cbs-3 tomorrow. >> thanks, kate, appreciate it. we have got word from hollywood a star wars spin off is in a little bit of trouble. >> still ahead why disney executives are reportedly in a panic over rogue1 and why they may have to reshoot some of it, don. birthday boy looks to make good for the phillies and knowing when to say when, news of the surprising retirement from the football field. those stories coming up next from the football field. those stories coming up next in at longhorn steakhouse, we know there's nothing better
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welcome back. on saturday, righty aaron nola turns 23 but today he is trying to slow down nationals. phillies/nationals 7:05 at the bank. fightins lost four straight and that ties a season high. last night bull pen struggled giving up three runs. washington's daniel murphy doing damage in the eighth. he drove in the go ahead run. phillies lose four-two your final score. surprising news in the nfl former eagles safety walter thurmond is reportedly retiring at 28. he and malcolm jenkins formed one of the better safety tandems in the league last year. he played every game for the bird and compiled 71 tackles and three picks. he is a free agent but apparently, as he has told some sources he wants to pursue some other opportunities. great story, guys out of cleveland. first base man mike naply took a fan and read this sign that said chemo starts tomorrow, mike can i have a home run and
a hug. naply following through, jacking one in the stand in the sixth inning a begins the texas rangers. great moment for the cleveland indians and, of course, for the young kid with the sign. staying on the diamond how about this nine two-year old burt walled ron is a world war two veteran and threw out first pitch for seattle mariners. he began his military service in 1943, and he served at pearl harbor, and he retired, in 1946. throwing out the first pitch. >> they is, lefty. >> yes. >> look at that. >> he has some smoke on that too. >> look at that. >> look at this. >> he has the wind up. >> well done, sir. >> we solute you, yes, sir, nicely done. >> thanks, buddy, appreciate it. as we continue tonight a pop superstar calls out a fan for making a racket during a concert. >> hear it for yourself in the next half an hour. plus...
a would mains beaten nearly to death, a and 13 year-old daughter sexually assaulted, i'm rahel solomon how teen victim escaped and the woman that helped her. shocking act of road rage a motor wrist hit a motorcycle on purpose with two people on board. that story and more coming up next. new at 6:00 an argument is brewing in south jersey, cherry hill man puts his painting for sale on the internet and gets an interesting response from the u.s. government. we will be
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beating her mother to death. both victims, and in their own home, and, "eyewitness news" continues at 5:30. good evening. i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. rahel solomon is live at the crime scene on pratt street in frankford with more disturbing details, rahel. >> reporter: jessica and ukee philadelphia police tell me this suspect has ties all across the city, so right now you they are searching for him. until the 13 year-old victim is staying with family her mother apparently at einstein medical center, clinging to life in extremely critical condition. >> anger. anger. because you know what i mean i got a mom, i got daughters. nobody want to hear nothing like that. >> reporter: graphic details of a story that sent a neighborhood into shock. anger for some, fear for others. >> i felt like crying. i think of my daughter. i know i see them every day, both of them. and, i see them. it is heart breaking. >> reporter: philadelphia police say early tuesday
morning malik bailey, brutally attacked his 38 year-old wife before dragging his 13 year-old step daughter from her bedroom to the basement to sexually assault her. investigators say when bailey left the tina loan she ran to a neighbor's home. >> she was crying and she was scared. he was scared. who wouldn't be. >> reporter: bailey was able to escape before police arrived. tuesday crime scene investigators could be scenery moving what appears to be evidence from the home on the 1900 block of pratt. police say there is no known history of domestic abuse at the home and suspect has only minor previous criminal arrests. >> i don't know what it is that makes somebody do what they do or snap. i have no idea. how do you go from point a to point c so fast. >> reporter: i also spoke to a woman who says that she's the cousin of the suspect. she was with him about an hour before this a alleged crime. she says he appeared to be fine. tonight, both she and police are unable to say what provoked this crime. in the meantime police say until this suspect turns
himself in, they will be looking for him. reporting from frankford, rahel solomon for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> rahel, thank you. caught on camera a frightening road rage incident in florida. watch as this driver runs over a man and woman on a motorcycle. this happened near tampa. before the incident police say word were exchanged between the driver of the car and the people on the bike. the bikers were not seriously injured, the driver of the carries facing charges. a fellow boater comes to the rescue of a family left stranded off the coast of florida. they were miles away, when their boat began to take on water. another heard their distress calls and raced over to help. >> you could tell they were headed, they have two young children, couple older folks on the boat. they weren't eager to get in the water. there was a chance to lend a hand. i know somebody else would help me in distress. >> reporter: all ten people were able to swim to safety before their boat sank. wildwood is offering an incentive to take part in their beach clean up day next
month, crowd left a 15-mile stretch of the beach a mess, with trash over the holiday weekend. that is all cleaned up now but city officials are determined to keep it from happening again. volunteers who registered to take part in the beach clean up on june 11th will get free passes to see an advanced screening of finding dori. members of the fbi call it the miracle on market. you may recall pope francis kissed a a local girl, during the papal visit having no idea that she had a brain tumor. here's pope francis and the event in market street in september. will the family joined fbi and u.s. marshals for a presentation presidential. they swore him in as deputy u.s. marshall for the day. >> he has been, constantly, just strong. he always had a smile on his face. he is a always there to help his sister and teach her how to walk, you know, help her with eating. he is very lucky to have him. >> tonight at
11:00 "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt will have more from the ceremony including another surprise from pope francis, one that the family says they never expect. pope francis a points a bucks county priest as a new auxiliary bishop of the philadelphia a archdiocese. news conference today reference edward deliman accepted the new role. >> last evening bishop senior called me or two evenings ago and one of the things he asked me was difficult have a zucchetto yet. i said what do you think i had a hope chest? >> a zucchetto is cap worn by catholic clergy. fifty-seven year-old reverend speaks spanish and will continue to serve as pastor of saint charles borromeo in bensalem until his ordination august 18th. adele has a message for fans going to her concerts in philadelphia later this summer: just enjoy the show. >> please stop filming me with the video camera. it is annoying.
unaudible. >> adele got a round of applause after she told a fan, for setting up a tripod to record the concert. she told the fan to live in the moment and enjoy the show. someone else reported the confrontation with their cell phone, as you can see there, that is ironic. adele laid it down. alarms are reportedly going off at disney, entertainment sources say disney executives are in a panic about the the new star wars movie, rogue1, set for release in december but after executives saw the first cut they are not happy. in an attempt to fix it expensive reshoots have been planned. >> they will get it ride. >> they will get it right. >> new labels will make it easier to pick the most safe cleaning products, coming up we will show you what you need to be looking for. also see how this cuddly dog helped calm nervous patients while they are visiting the dentist.
and, a child has a melt down and this one might melt your heart. it has already gone viral. we will tell you what he is so upset about, kate. it turns out to be a beautiful day today but bit on the warm side for the last day of may. we will start june tomorrow on another sunny note, coming up, i'll tell you how long this stretch of sunshine lasts and
star bucks is rolling out the a new cold concoction for summer to help customers beat the heat and to boost sales. they are calling it, a nitro brew, a cold coffee with nitrogen and served through a tap like beer. star bucks began serving the brew in seattle in march, and quickly became the second best selling item on the menu. now nitro brew is coming to 500 star bucks stores all across seattle, new york,
chicago, boston, los angeles, san francisco and, portland. well, beer isn't just for boys, i think a lot have people know. that high heel brewing is a craft beer company that is targeting women. their beers like the sling back perry ale and too hot to handle. it shows women consume 32 percent of craft beer. it is often embarrassing and we really cannot control it that redness that appears on our face when we blush. >> that brings us to tonight's good question, submitted by barbara. she wondered why do we blush. do you know what makes us blush or why? >> when you are embarrassed about something, what happens. >> i turn red. >> panic mode. >> you are not supposed to hold your breath when you are lifting weights because that will dilate your face and it will explode. >> nicole answers a very good question tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00. by the way, if you have a good question log on to cbs philly.com/good question and
tweet us using #cbs-3 good question. we are back with kate's forecast, in just a
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got his head stuck in the washing machine. the fire department says that it happened while he was trying to fix the machine's drum. crews removed the drum, broke ate part and then freed the man in under an hour. he suffered minor head injuries. do you ever worry about chemicals you are exposed to using cleaning products n3 on your side consumer report jim donovan shows us how to find safees products for you you and your family. >> a trip down the household cleaning aisle reveals an array of fragrance and chemicals, so how do you know which ones are safe. >> harsh chemicals, packaging sometimes, influence is made. >> u.s. environmental protection agency is changing that package going. the epa unveiled a new label for cleaning products called safer choice, to help consumers determine which products are using the most safe ingredients. the epa says there are currently more than 2,000 products that qualify for the new safer choice label. companies voluntarily submit
products for consideration, and epa examines the ingredients so consumers do not have to. >> it is about being able to go to the supermarket and buy products thaw can see of the safer choice for you. >> reporter: figuring out exactly what is in the product isn't as easy as checking the bottle. environmental working group reviewed 400 products, and nearly half received a poor rating for transparency of ingredients. epa has little power to remove hazardous chemicals already in the marketplace so by alerting customers to products that don't contain them the agency can influence what goes in the products by changing demand. >> i think it will make it easier to find because products are healthy for me and my family. >> reporter: safer choice label is already on some products, more products are expected to hit store shelves in the coming months. the reporting for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. a young boy gets emotional talking about the earth. >> through tears and his heart
health heartache caught the heart of millions around the world.. unaudible. >> henry has a little melt down in the car. his rant has new been viewed more than 16 million times on facebook and one might say he is an aspiring environmentalist. kid at my school, a video, and eating trash and i almost cried and that is why i'm fired up. >> through go. >> um-hmm. >> big job he is taking on. he has already written a book called enjoy the planet, but don't wreck it. >> he is fired up about it. >> wow. >> look at that passion. >> isn't it though. >> yes. >> he felt it. >> yes, i love it. he is fired up about it. love to hear that. >> i'm's fired up about seeing the sun.
>> beautiful. >> beautiful day. >> low humidity, lots of sunshine, upper 80's this day comes along not very often. in the upper 80's at lot of times it is steamy but today, perfection. the question is how long will the perfection, stick around? we know in the month of may it was hard to string together two dry days, but, now we're heading in to june. will june bring us nice her weather then may d lets take a look we will start off outside right now and we are looking live at broad street and spring garden street, in center city philadelphia nothing but sunshine out the there just a few patchy clouds heading to the phillies game. you will be loving the weather, this evening, low humidity, nice and warm, cooling off nicely won sun starts to go down, not much better, not many better nights then baseball for tonight. it is gold he even ticket heading to the phillies game. lets go to the eyewitness weather watchers this evening. we are looking at temperatures in the 80's here. 196 degrees reading. that feels high. ninety-six and full sun on the concrete there in cherry hill.
eighty-seven in further to the north, with john, in bucks county, yardley. 82 degrees, full sun. great day, started humid but much nicer as day went on. keep it coming. we will try to do just. that lets head off to the north and west up toward reading area where, he joins us from birdboro, is what hot and cold, and, was a perfect day, not too had, only 86 degrees. lie i can to called this a goldie locks, not too hot, not too cold just right and not too humid either. you have to add that in there. eyewitness weather watchers send nothing some photos. i wanted to share, where is it, it is not popping up. share it on my twitter, and he sent us a grand daughter who caught her first fitch and adorable. so congratulations to her. lets look at is what going on, our live neighborhood network at palmyra cove nature park in new jersey. where it is 90 degrees the at the moment. that is reading there we have blue skies, sunshine, really nice looking afternoon. in the city of philadelphia it is beautiful in the poconos as
well with the the foggy start up in broadheadsvillain now sunny and fantastic n kutztown our early morning shot. lets take a look at how the day has shaped up, 85 degrees in kutztown with blue skies. and so still looking at is what going on, a all that moisture with bonnie. remnant low is circulating off the coast but the moisture has been pushed out to sea and we're dealing with nothing much in relation to that at the moment but as we take a look at tomorrow, watch for these showers off to the south. tomorrow is generally a dry day. but, a couple of the models are trying to sneak a shower here in mainly south of the area in the afternoon. something to watch for in the afternoon hours. most of the day is looking g this front is the next one that could impact our friday, with the chance of a shower or a thunderstorm. temperatures right now 87 degrees in philadelphia cooler down the shore. we're in the upper 70's. eighty-six in lancaster. eighty-five in reading. we're back to spring. temperatures feeling a little bit more like they should here for late may, or early june. our average high is 78. today we will flip those
numbers around and got to 87 so far. eighty's tomorrow but then back to the 70's. closer to average for the first week of june, on thursday and friday. here's a look at many to we will start the day with sunshine. maybe a pop up sprinkle in the afternoon, that is bit. thursday just a few more clouds as this front approaches, thursday is partly, to mostly sunny. the cloud come in thursday night and then friday, we could see some shower and thunderstorm active as that front progress's long the eastern seaboard. overnight mainly clear, mild, 65 degrees. tomorrow is a mostly sunny day, again, best chance of a shower cannot be ruled out. most of us do stay dry tomorrow, so we will call it mostly sunny. thursday looks great. partly to mostly sunny. just a few clouds moving in the afternoon. then friday is our next chance for showers and a thunderstorm along a cold front, sat the day looks good at 80 degrees, a dry day saturday but sunday afternoon watch for a shower or storm and then showers could linger into monday, as well. ukee and jessica, back over to you. we have seen therapy dogs help out in hospitals, airports.
>> but here's a spot i'm supplies nod one thought of ever before. >> that is right. >> the dentist office. doctors softe is a poodle who serves as a therapy dog for a beverly hills dentist. well, dentist works object her patients, teeth, and, she hangs out with the patient. doctor softy has a calming influence on uneasy, patients. >> ahh. >> well, you have to watch for water hazard while golfing, but this is new. >> wow. >> that is real. >> wow. >> massive alligator caught on camera walking across a florida golf course. this video has been shared a few times. the understandably no one got close enough for an exact measurement but it is very large. big guy took his time playing through, and golfers just backed off. isn't that wild. >> that thing is very big. >> do we know where in florida. >> um-hmm. >> i played a few courses and
never seen that. >> we don't need to you run into that. >> make sure i don't go down there. >> exactly. >> for sure. it is one of the hardest courses in the world of the competitive cycling. >> that is no joke. wow. >> our pat gallen goes up the manayunk wall, philadelphia international bikeling classic a lives this weekend and the wall is one tough challenge. did pat conquer that wall,
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one of the most popular sporting events in philadelphia rolls into town this weekend. >> philadelphia international
cycling classic includes one of the hardest stretches in cycling, and our pat gallen, tackled philadelphia's famous manayunk wall. >> reporter: manayunk wall perhaps the most daunting task in american cycling, and on sunday riders from across the world will hit levering street during philadelphia international cycling classic. i wanted to see what all of the hype was about and for that i even wrist ted former world champion cyclist and racing coach joe went zel who worked for fuji bike in northeast philadelphia we will fine the wall, practice your shifting a and practice standing up on the the bike, so when the wall gets really steep you can add extra power to it. >> reporter: now, time for the real deal. >> i know all of the real good tricks, of how to fudge your way up that climb. >> that is what i need. >> you want to carry our momentum, from the flat section for about a get some speed up, we will hit the wall so we will use those shifting, tips to gradually shift in easier gears as we approach
the steep section of the wall. >> shifting to easier gear and get ready, we will need to stand up. >> good job. >> anyone who wants to come out and get a good work out outside the gym, come ride the wall. >> that is tough. >> that is great. >> i'm having a hard time keeping up with you, good job. >> don't sit down, keep those legs moving. >> wow. >> wow. >> that is awesome. >> from manayunk, pat gallen for "eyewitness news". cool. >> that makes me tired watching you the. >> those pros do it over and over again, please, please. that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. now at 6:00 a wild cat welcome at the white house, president other bam a honoring champs as we are live from washington with the player's reaction to a special day. also, breaking news tonight, disturbing discovery in a southwest philadelphia home, a shocking find, and the investigation into the discovery. also this... the federal
government is taking a south jersey man to court over a depression era paint ago this he recovered. i'm alexandria hoff and i'll explain what the new deal has to do with this. and temperatures got to the upper 80's to take but with the humidity dropping it has been feeling fantastic outside, it is start of the sunny stretch, i'll tell you how long that will last, "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. i think maybe the best title game of all time. >> those last few seconds could be a documentary. >> now at 6:00 honoring the champions, the president welcomed the wildcats to the white house, to celebrate villanovaes ncaa basketball title. it seems like just yesterday, chris jenkins nailed buzzer beater for championship win. good evening i'm ukee washington. hi everyone i'm jessica dean with sports director don bell. this is a special day.
we watched as the president talk about the team and everything was fun. >> this is a team that just keeps giving us these moments, gqj, the chef, and the president showed all types of love for them. our leslie van arsdal is with the team in washington and she joins us live from the white house, leslie. >> you know, this has been a wild ride, for this team, since winning the national championship, two months ago. and then to actually celebrate the win, with the president of the united states, it doesn't get any bigger or better than that. welcome to the white house. i guess it is the blue and white house today because we're giving it up to the 2016 ncaa champion villanova wildcats. >> villanova's visit to the white house two months after wildcats won their first national title in 1985 on a buzzer beater by chris jenkins. what better way to wrap up a victory tore then a send o
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Zulkiffli Hassim (born March 26, 1986) is a Singaporean professional footballer who currently plays for Yishun Sentek Mariners. He plays as a forward.

Career

Gombak United
Zulkiffli played for Woodlands Wellington and Gombak United reserve teams in the Prime League in his early days. In late 2009, Zulkiffli was called up to play for the Bulls' first team in the S.League and became a regular in 2010 and 2011.

Balestier Khalsa
However, as Gombak United had plans to sit out of the S.League from 2013 onwards due to lack of financial resources, Zulkiffli joined Balestier Khalsa in 2012 and has remained with the Tigers since then.

Zulkiffli suffered one of his grey periods in the footballing career as he was handed a five-match ban and a suspended fine for making offensive remarks against Woodlands Wellington defender Fabien Lewis. Zulkiffli had clashed with Lewis when their respective teams met at Toa Payoh Stadium for a S.League fixture on 18 March 2012, which ended 2-0 in favour of the Tigers. It was concluded that Hassim made "remarks of an offensive and racist nature" to Lewis, a Trinidadian of African descent.

Yishun Sentek Mariners FC
He signed for Yishun Sentek Mariners FC after being released by the Tigers.

Honours
Balestier Khalsa
 Singapore Cup: 2014
 League Cup: 2013

Yishun Sentek Mariners
 National Football League Division 1: 2017

References

1986 births
Living people
Singaporean footballers
Association football forwards
Woodlands Wellington FC players
Gombak United FC players
Balestier Khalsa FC players
Singapore Premier League players

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The H-1B process is mainly reserved for Faculty, since very few Staff positions qualify for H-1B sponsorship. Review the policy below carefully, as well as the rest of the Administrators section of the ISSS website and discuss any questions you may have with Drew in ISSS. Policy Statement Regarding Sponsorship for U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident Status and H-1B Specialty Occupation (PDF).
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2013 commercial project | Stage 5 Architects
The project brief was given to develop the site currently being utilised for storage in a very run down Victorian cottage which had seen too much ad-hock alteration over the years to be of any significance. The client, a large water-proofing company, owns the adjacent building as well, which houses much of their administrative operations, and the two properties needed to function as a single complex.
The client wanted to maximise on the zoning possibilities of the site, zoned as Mixed Use under the new CTZS Unicity scheme. This allowed for a number of extra floors and reduced building lines.
Given the surrounding Urban fabric however, we proposed to set the bulk of the building's mass in line with the existing buildings on the street on ground floor, with part of the building supported on columns protruding forward on the stories above and a light steel balcony to the street edge.
The massing was also sensitively broken down to the South-East boundary where the property neighbours an existing single storey house and the access stair for the residential units was pushed away from the street. This lends a sense of privacy to the residents and visually separates the residential functions from the commercial, and allows for two tandem parkings. Office functions were placed on a mezzanine level to allow for maximum volume for the warehouse space and maximum light and ventilation to all habitable rooms.
The utilisation of cheap, readily available materials was a major concern in keeping costs down so that the building would offer strong returns on the company's investment, especially in standard steel elements for the balconies. It was also important however, that the facade be treated appropriately as Observatory is a sensitive heritage area. Plaster details approximating stone coining, as well as brickwork, and fenestration choice played a major role in dictating the facade treatment off this fairly square composition.
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A Rhinoceros script driven parametric design for the main bridging element between the Booysens Brew Works brewery and distribution buildings.
54 Dr Langalibalele Dube Street
A commercial high rise building for Durban.


1. Position the inside unit on a horizontal surface and hang or stand the condenser (outside unit) outside or in the postion where heat from the room can be dumped. Ensure that there is at least 100mm of space behind both indoor and outdoor units to allow a clear flow of air into the ack of the units. Make sure that the umbilical connection between the 2 units is not kinked or crushed. Some condensate will be discharged to the condenser unit so make allowance for possible dripping.
2. Plug appliance into a standard 13amp socket. If using an extension lead then it should be no longer than 10mt and it should be uncoiled and of heavy duty specification. Also make sure that the supply is not overlaoded to cause the fuse/circuit breaker to trip. The RCS6000 draws 1760 watts or 7 amps.
3. Press the 1/O button to start the unit.
4. Press the Mode button to scroll through the 4 modes of operation 'Auto' 'Hi' 'Med'' & 'Lo.' This determines the fan speed and operation. For maximum cooling select the 'Hi' setting.
5. Press the 'AUTO SWING' button if required to spread the cooled are over a wider area.
Keep the air filter at the back of the indoor unit clean to retain peak performance. Slide the filter up to remove completely. Brush/vacuum or wash any depsoits from the filter and retun it.
Set temperature lower and/or wait a few minutes until the 'COMP ON' light shows, indicating that the compressor is running.
The 'DRAIN WATER' light is on and cooling has stopped.
Drain excess water from the indoor unit, into a container, from the black rubber tube at the back by lowering the tube and removing the bung.
There is a water leak from the unit.
Drain water from tank as above and turn on again.
The air conditioner doesn't seem as effective as it was originally.
Clean filter. Check that the air flow to the condenser and the back of the indoor unit is clear.


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