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TE Connectivity announces 2018 Americas Distributor of the Year Award winner
Master Electronics earns honor for second year in a row
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland – June 6, 2019 –TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, presented its 2018 Americas Distributor of the Year Award to Master Electronics for the second year in a row during an April 30 awards ceremony in San Diego, California. TE recognizes top-performing distributors at the global and regional levels that excel in strategic categories that support TE's business initiatives and growth priorities. Master Electronics demonstrated growth in sales and customer count and continued investments in product training for its sales representatives.
"Throughout 2018, Master leveraged the value of face-to-face application-based product discussions in order to drive meaningful customer conversations and drive TE revenue and customer growth," said Sean Miller, vice president, Global Channel Sales. "Their customer-first philosophy, long-term view of the market and resource and inventory investments were a driving force behind the region's strong revenue growth."
As a valued global distribution partner of TE, Master has also maintained their dedication to contributing both time and resources for acceleration of sales growth.
"This award acknowledges the Master team's continued excellence in serving our mutual customers and their strategic investments in the field during 2018," said Maria Cannon, vice president, Americas Sales and Global Sales Enablement. "We are proud of their accomplishments this past year and look forward to continuing our valued partnership."
TE Connectivity Ltd. is a $14 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With 80,000 employees, including more than 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and Twitter.
TE Connectivity, TE, TE connectivity logo, and EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS are trademarks owned or licensed by the TE Connectivity Ltd. family of companies. Other logos, product(s) and/or company names might be trademarks of their respective owners.
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"it won't turn on so I took the battery out thinking it might could again" = I tried a couple of things but my computer still won't turn on.
"can y'all take a look at this" = can you guys (northern way) take a look at my computer.
Now that you know what it takes to save money today – get in gear and stop on by! While there, speak with a Southern US Accent for PC and Mac repair savings! We'll be repairing broken Dells, Macs, Toshibas, Acers, Alienwares, HPs, and much more for eight hours today. That's more than enough time to drop in, talk southern as heck, get repaired, and save American dollars on your service! Thanks for taking the time to read this whole thing. We look forward to hearing your accents soon!
Today is Tuesday November 15th 2016 and ALB Tech will be open at BOTH locations from from 11am to 7pm. Yes – 7pm, it's a Tuesday!


Richard's Note: This is my 250th post, although not all of them were written by me, and some of them are just infograms; nevertheless, this is an important milestone. It shows that with dogged determination, in the face of heavy odds and criticism, one can persevere and be insightful at the same time. My only wish is that more people would read this blog, and that it would be taken more seriously. One does not need a title to be taken seriously. Just ask Donald Trump.
As reported today in Health Affairs, Kentucky, which was one of two Southern states to expand Medicaid in 2013, saw a sharp decline in the percentage of uninsured from 35 percent at the end of 2013 to 11 percent in late 2014.
This decline was part of a study that was completed before the new Kentucky governor, Matt Bevins, a Tea Party lackey, announced that he would discontinue the expansion.
The study used data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Residents of Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia, three neighboring states not expanding Medicaid eligibility, served as study controls.
Some of the other study findings revealed declines in the number of people with unmet medical needs and lacking a regular source of health care.
But now that the new governor has discontinued the expansion, it is quite probable that rates of uninsurance will once again climb, as those who gained insurance under the ACA, will more than likely have it taken away from them.
What this means for the health care system in Kentucky, and in the other states that expanded Medicaid, should their states elect more Matt Bevins, is that people who one did not have insurance, will find themselves back in the same position before the ACA.
As I wrote back in May of last year, in my article, "Failure to Expand Medicaid Could Lead to Cost-Shift to Work Comp", states such as Florida (my state), Texas (naturally), Virginia (legislature said no, governor wants it), Wisconsin (Scott (I hate unions) Walker, and others, are likely to see such cost-shifting.
Adding Kentucky to that mix will only make matters worse. Why the health care industry in general, and the workers' comp industry in particular, does not explore ALL possible options to providing health care to low-income and injured workers, is beyond me.
But to leave out one particular option because some judge won't order it (do doctors order executions?), or because some people think that medical care outside the three mile limit of the US is sub-standard, or because they like the status quo and are fooling themselves into believing that some new program or scheme will fix the problem?
And to tell your industry that those "ideas" are new trends without even trying that one particular option, cannot be called "outfront ideas". It is just more of the same.
Readers of this blog know what that option is…it is part of the reason this blog exists, and why it will continue to exist. We must open our health care options to every conceivable possibility, no matter how far fetched or "out there" it is. It is a law of economics if you can find a product or service at lower cost, and at equal or better quality somewhere else, you will buy it. That seems to work for everything else, but health care.
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Aloha Auto Group's store in a shopping mall on Oahu sells about 200, mostly new, vehicles a year.
Aloha Auto Group's Kia store in a shopping mall was supposed to be just an information center, but steady traffic led the dealership group to start selling cars there.
For Hawaii Kia dealer Bill van den Hurk, there is a price to living in paradise.
Real estate is limited and expensive. Consequently, van den Hurk believed he was missing out on hundreds of new- and used-vehicle sales a year from the northern part of Oahu where he lacked a store. And the cost to build a dealership, even if he could find the land there, would dwarf revenues.
So he found a way to reach those untapped customers and improve profits: Rent space in a local shopping mall.
"People are eating in the mall's food court," said van den Hurk, CEO of Aloha Auto Group and the only Kia dealer in Hawaii. "If they don't know what our product is, what a great place to put a showroom.
"We needed that exposure on that side of the island. Whether we could sell Kias out of it or not did not make a difference."
Aloha Auto Group sells about 3,500 new and used vehicles a year from its seven Kia dealerships, across the islands of Oahu, Maui, the Big Island and Kauai. His mall location sells about 200, mostly new, vehicles a year. It is profitable despite having no service department.
The 4,000-square-foot store opened in January 2012 in the Windward Mall in Kaneohe, on Oahu. The showroom, with six vehicles, is between a toy store and a Sears store, across from the food court. For the first six months, the mall did not let van den Hurk sell cars there. Hence its name: Aloha Kia Learning Center.
Kaneohe is about a 25-minute drive north of Honolulu where the Aloha Auto Group has its corporate offices and the Aloha Kia Airport dealership. The mall is also a 20-minute drive west from Aloha Kia Leeward in Waipahu.
Van den Hurk faced many hurdles getting his learning center, now popularly dubbed Aloha Kia Windward, off the ground. Kia was initially cool to the never-before-tried idea, he said. The mall's management was uneasy about having a car dealership, and even some of van den Hurk's own leaders were skeptical.
Russell Wong, the group's CFO in 2011, said the financials for the proposed store didn't work for him. "The mall rent, the staffing -- I didn't see how it could translate into additional sales," said Wong, now the group's COO.
But van den Hurk, undeterred, spent $340,000 to bring the store up to Kia's design standards.
"It's a little like an Apple store," he said. "Everything is white. We have sit-down areas for customers and we have a play area and a lot of videos running."
A Kia spokesman said van den Hurk is the only U.S. Kia dealer with a store in a retail shopping mall. But seeing his investment and enthusiasm, Kia supports it.
"We viewed the Aloha Auto Group's Windward Mall proposal as an opportunity to continue raising consumer awareness and perception for our brand and products in a high-traffic environment," spokesman Scott McKee wrote in an email to Automotive News.
Van den Hurk assured the mall managers that his store would improve mall traffic because he would list the mall's location in his vehicle ads, he said.
To ease Wong's concerns, van den Hurk signed a one-year lease with an option so that "if it failed, we could get out," he said.
"I can understand people's thinking: a car dealership inside a mall?" van den Hurk said. "But everything's got to be tried once."
During the first six months, the store was an information center, generating sales leads for van den Hurk's other two Oahu stores. But as mall shoppers increasingly frequented the store, some wanted more than information.
One day, a female shopper said to van den Hurk, "'Wow, this is such a wonderful concept and no one is pressuring me,'" he recalled. "She indicated that she was ready to buy a car that day, but the manager told her she can't."
The customer eventually bought a Kia from another of van den Hurk's stores. But her feedback prompted him to get a state license and permission from the mall to sell vehicles there.
Alex Kirley, the mall's senior marketing manager, said mall management needed to get familiar with the company and its products before committing to a long-term lease.
But "since its inception, the concept has proven successful and is a great experience for our shoppers, bringing added convenience," Kirley wrote in an email.
In its first year of sales, Aloha Kia Windward lost money, van den Hurk said. But he reduced his overhead costs by trimming to one manager and four salespeople, down from two managers and six salespeople initially. He also renegotiated the monthly rent, and now pays $10,000 to $14,000 a month for rent, utilities and related expenses.
The store gave Kia exposure in a new area, van den Hurk said.
"I couldn't find the property to build a dealership there," he said. And even if he could, doing so would cost $4 million to $5 million, he said. Mortgage, utilities and expenses would come to about $50,000 a month, he estimated. "We don't have the volume to hit that yet," van den Hurk said.
Aloha Kia Windward stocks about 20 new vehicles, a few used and a few demonstration vehicles at a nearby parking lot where van den Hurk leases spaces.
He plans to increase used-vehicle sales, which are about five a month, by using technology. "We have an Internet screen set up and the salespeople sit with a customer and go through Aloha Kia's website," van den Hurk said. "We can sell them a car from another location. We pay for the shipping and bring the car to them."
Aloha Kia Windward handles entire vehicle transactions from test drives to trade-ins and finance and insurance. Van den Hurk said most customers are agreeable to driving to the Aloha Kia Leeward or Aloha Kia Airport store for service.
The overall success of the mall store also has restored faith in those who questioned van den Hurk's idea.
"The vision that our owner had, which was correct, is that you're making impressions," Wong said. "That store, on a stand-alone basis, sells enough to make it profitable on its own and cover its own expenses. And it adds to other sales because of the exposure we get out of it."


The name, That Boy Good, is an old Southern slang term for good food and good music – as well as a line in the movie Coming To America.
Chef Mark met Miss Kim in Vail Colorado. They both were part of an opening team for the Arrabelle, a new luxurious destination hotel for Rock Resorts. Chef Mark wooed Miss Kim with his undeniable charm and they married in Maui in 2011. Chef Mark had always said he wanted his own restaurant. Knowing how hard it is to run a restaurant, Kim said, "You're Crazy, but I'm up for the challenge". The two put their heads together about it and created what is now That Boy Good!
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A MANIFESTO FOR AUSTRALIA
Part A: Globalism - the theory and the reality
Corporate capitalism: the product of government intervention
Part B: A history of economic rationalism in Australia
Part C: How Globalism undermines the family
Part D: The cultural revolution and the new economy
Part E: A policy agenda for Australia's future prosperity
Some remarks on the new economic disorder
by News Weekly
Almost 20 years of uncontrolled deregulation has brought unparalleled prosperity to those who have managed this process or been able to adjust to the shock of the new.
But it has also caused widespread job destruction in productive primary and secondary industries; replaced full-time work for many with part-time or casual employment or contract labor; forced thousand of farmers off the land; created a huge pool of young and middle-aged unemployed and under-employed; and downsized essential public services in banking, health, education and communications.
The purpose of this Special Edition of News Weekly is to establish the necessary conditions for any political movement to achieve change in Australia.
First it sets down clear philosophical principles and a New Social Manifesto for Australia;
Second it analyses 20 years of Globalism and economic rationalism;
Third it outlines a practical economic policy agenda;
The Editorial suggests practical ways that organisations can work together to channel the changing political tide in Australia.
A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT
A ship can transport people and goods great distances but cannot steer itself to a destination. Similarly, capitalism has produced unprecedented wealth, but unregulated and without direction it cannot guarantee a strong economic foundation for all families, or create healthy thriving communities, or ensure a stable democracy. An economic system needs a values system to regulate it and guide it.
Today there is a growing struggle between those who hold the levers of economic and political power and benefit enormously from Globalism, and those who are victims of the newly deregulated system.
In reality, this is a struggle between two opposing value systems.
On one hand, Globalism is founded on the idea, "I have a right to do as I please without regard to the common good of society." This system is a product of the secular humanist philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s cultural revolution.
On the other, there are those who believe that capitalism needs to be guided and regulated by a values system that financially strengthens families, builds healthy communities and underpins a vibrant, strong democracy.
There are five philosophical primacies of such an economic system.
The integrity of the human person from the beginning of life until death;
The family as the central unit of society;
Decentralism, meaning a preference in the economic and political system for the family farm, the small business, the cooperative, and decentralised government and administration over big business, government, unions and bureaucracy.
Patriotism: the love of one's country as expressed by a willingness to defend it from military aggression and from the rogue international financial markets.
Judeo-Christian values which underpin our institutions and provide the social cement that holds society together.
Based on these values, a new Social Manifesto is urgently needed to counter the socially destructive forces within Globalism and to assert the responsibilities of the government and the economic system to its citizens, families and country. This includes:
• A return to a property-owning democracy, in which Australians can reasonably expect to own their own homes, farms, and small businesses.
• Vigorous support for Australian businesses and farmers to help them prosper and win markets overseas.
• As the major banks have turned into investment houses, families, small-medium businesses and family farmers need significant new bank to service their needs.
• Re-establishment of a social wage that provides a good income for single income families. This means access to full-time work supplemented by a taxation, savings and family assistance package that allows families to flourish independent of the welfare state. Extra effort is needed to bring the young and the long-term unemployed into the workforce.
• All Australians need guaranteed reasonable access to education, health and hospital care, and communications services.
• For economic and security reasons, Australia needs to increase its population through pro-families policies and immigration, and to substantially increase its defence forces.
• Recognising the size of Australia and its enormous natural resources, a national infrastructure program is urgently needed to address the resources, water, transportation and other vital infrastructure needs of the nation.
To implement this Social Manifesto, benchmarks targets and an implementation timetable are needed, and a unified, national movement is required to lift these ideas onto the national agenda.
Contents of this Special Issue
A Manifesto for Australia (News Weekly)
A Call to Arms (Peter Westmore)
Part A: Globalism - the theory and the reality (News Weekly)
Corporate capitalism: the product of government intervention (News Weekly)
Part B: A history of economic rationalism in Australia (News Weekly)
Part C: How Globalism undermines the family (News Weekly)
Part D: The cultural revolution and the new economy (News Weekly)
Part E: A policy agenda for Australia's future prosperity (News Weekly)
Some remarks on the new economic disorder (Max Teichmann)

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Last major update issued on May 13, 2010 at 05:00 UTC.
The geomagnetic field was quiet on May 12. Solar wind speed ranged between 364 and 507 km/s under the influence of a weak coronal hole stream.
Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 71.2. The planetary A index was 5 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 5.1). Three hour interval K indices: 21122111 (planetary), 21132211 (Boulder).
May 10-12: No obvious Earth directed CMEs were observed in LASCO or STEREO images.
Processed SOHO/EIT 195 image at 23:48 UTC on May 12. The darkest areas on the solar disk are likely coronal holes.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled on May 13-17 with a chance of active intervals due to coronal hole high speed streams.


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London, the world's greatest city laid bare on BFI Flipside!
May 23, 2009 12 mins to read mistertrippy post
On Thursday night I went to the launch of the British Film Institutes's first 3 Flipside releases of neglected and off-beat British cinema. These DVD and Blu-ray reissues are an extension of the monthly Flipside screenings at BFI Southbank. The launch consisted of both a public screening of Richard Lester's The Bed Sitting Room (1969), and a private party afterwards. Aside from The Bed Sitting Room, the other two disks being promoted were the fabulous London In The Raw (1964) and Primitive London (1965), both directed by Arnold L. Miller. The Miller titles are mondo movies about London and its nightlife in the 1960s.
I'm not a fan of director and producer Richard Lester but I'll sit through anything with Rita Tushingham in it at least once – with The Leather Boys (1964, directed by Sidney J. Furie) being my favourite film featuring this actress, since among other things her character Dot gets to deliver the immortal line: 'Do you like me hair?' By way of contrast, The Bed Sitting Room is merely a curious sixties period piece greatly lifted by the presence of Tushingham, but nonetheless a movie that is ultimately a vehicle for Spike Milligan. It is based upon his Cuban missile crisis inspired play of the same name, and is imbued with a pre-Beatles and pre-permissive society mind-set.
The Bed Sitting Room takes place in the ruins of post-nuclear apocalypse London, and I guess the humour is supposed to be zany and surreal, but I found it very old-fashioned. The best joke comes during the credits where the cast are listed by height from shortest to tallest; a device that fortuitously provides Tushingham with top billing. Among the other famous names featured in this film are Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman, Harry Secombe, Jimmy Edwards and Arthur Lowe. During a panel talk after the screening, Lester said that while he had no issues with the cast when making the film, their respective agents proved rather argumentative about billings and thus listing the actors by height was his means of resolving this problem.
Lester dominated the panel talk although he'd been joined for it by Rita Tushingham, with BFI curators Will Fowler and Vic Pratt moderating. Lester mixed some entertaining anecdotes with an unbelievably superficial take on events in Paris in May 1968. He seemed to view the entire year – and in particular the occupations movement in France – as a bit of a downer, largely because these political events disrupted his travel plans. Unfortunately Rita didn't get to say much, but she's an old pro and having known Lester for around forty-five years appeared both used to and unflustered by his habit of hogging the conversation.
Tushingham is in incredibly good shape for a 67 year-old, and while she now appears a little older than in her 1960s prime, her distinctive looks are still very much with her. At the BFI she adroitly deployed her exaggerated feminine moves of the sixties, with several big arm swings to keep her legion of fans happy. Afterwards in the corridor as I was making my way towards the private party, I was nearly knocked over by a group of men who were mobbing Rita for autographs. I haven't seen a celebrity creating that amount of havoc at the BFI since Jane Fonda was in the building signing copies of her autobiography My Life So Far back in 2006.
At the party I exchanged brief greetings with BFI luminaries Eddie Berg and Vic Pratt, spent a little longer speaking to Will Fowler about the Flipside releases, and managed a proper conversation with my fellow-freelancer Kim Newman; this latter exchange covered everything from Lester's films to our shared family connections to Elgin Crescent in west London. The BFI had provided crisps and peanuts for revelers, but I wanted to eat something more substantial and so left after a couple of drinks. While I had a curry on my mind, of more interest to everyone else will be the viewing menu on offer to those that grab hold of the current and upcoming BFI Flipside releases. Of the future releases I'm particularly looking forward to Privilege (1967, directed by Peter Watkins), coz it must be coming on for 30 years since I last saw this very curious flick about the corporate control and political manipulation of a rock star. As already mentioned, out next week are two of the most important films of the mondo movie genre: London In The Raw and Primitive London. There are variant versions of each film on the disks plus a host of extras, including two great documentary shorts about London strip clubs – Strip (1966) is served up alongside London In The Raw, while Carousella (1966) acts as a side-dish to Primitive London.
And now it's time to declare my personal interest in all this. I contributed an essay to the London In The Raw booklet, while Iain Sinclair provides a companion-piece to my text for Primitive London. I got quite carried with this engagement, since it was an opportunity to write about London clubs in the 1960s… and very quickly my composition became too long to accompany a film release. Therefore, I chopped out a lot of material before I emailed the text to the BFI and reformatted some of that into an earlier blog (the opening and closing paragraphs were written to make this material work as an online post, the rest is unrevised material I'd cut from my BFI essay). I find the subject of London clubs of the 1960s endlessly fascinating, which is why I ran way over the word count the BFI provided and had to take rather a lot out. Originally, I'd wanted to conclude with a paragraph or three of contextualising remarks, but in the end this also had to go. One of those 'lost' paragraphs read as follows:
"The fascination with strip and hostess clubs evident in the work of both sets of film-makers represented on this disk reflects the fact that such establishments proliferated in London during the sixties as a direct consequence of the 1959 Street Offences Act, which attempted to sweep prostitution off the city's pavements in line with the desires of the Wolfenden Committee. It should go without saying that the sex industry didn't disappear, although large parts of it did relocate to both dank basements and apparently swanky clubs. When strip clubs spread to the vast bulk of cities in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, a similar cinematic obsession with such establishments was evident in many North American movies. That said, to my eyes and ears, London in the sixties is infinitely preferable to the American mid-west of the nineteen-nineties; the girls were more varied in those largely pre-plastic surgery days and the music was better. The British pop-cultural obsession with strippers was still very much in evidence a few years after the films gathered here were made; one example being the song The Girls Are Naked issued by top London mod act The Creation as the b-side to their May 1968 Polydor single Midway Down."
And while you're at it don't forget to check – www.stewarthomesociety.org – you know it makes (no) sense!
Comment by Michael K on 2009-05-23 09:35:32 +0000
As for London…it's simultaneously as dull as it always was (notwithstanding an entire industry of brit scribblers overhyping it as they do every other inch of England) and as interesting as it ever will be. I'll take Amsterdam
Comment by The Real Tessie on 2009-05-23 11:16:51 +0000
Oh come on Michael, you know you like it really! London that is and Rita Tushingham – she's from Liverpool which is hardly England, it's virtually Celtic!
Comment by Jeff Dexter on 2009-05-23 11:42:50 +0000
I like The Downliners Sect cover of "Little Egypt" better than "The Girls Are Naked" – and what about "Pictures Of Lilly" by The 'Oo?
Comment by John Lennon on 2009-05-23 13:48:39 +0000
Dick Lester wasn't bad when he started off. Check out his 1962 movie "It's Trad, Dad!" His first film with me and the other members of the Fab Four – "A Hard Day's Night" – is good too. Things started to go a little down hill with "Help". Then Dickie got Joe Orton to do a treatment for a Beatles film script and that really sucked. Poor Joe was murdered by his boyfriend, so that was the end of that, and Lester made "The Bed Sitting Room" instead.
Comment by Jilly Johnson on 2009-05-23 15:10:15 +0000
Take off your clothes and live!
Comment by Ray Johnson on 2009-05-23 16:47:06 +0000
Rita Tushingham needs her own New York Correspondance School Fan Club.
Comment by Marv Johnson on 2009-05-23 17:49:01 +0000
Well if I was gonna pick a rose for my rose then that rose would be Rita Tushingham, coz everybody knows she's got what it takes for me….
Comment by raymond anderson on 2009-05-23 18:11:18 +0000
The "Tush" was also In a rare 'Ammer called Straight On Till Morning", the George Melly scripted "Smashing Time", which is frankly dire after all the waiting and nothing like the Cilla Black/Alan Warner weirdness of "Work Is A 4 Letter Word". The one I really like is "The Trap" where she is stuck in a cabin with furtrader Oliver Reed.
Oddly enough I liked disliking her in "Puffball"
Primitive London has incidental music by Basil Kirchin, resurrecting some his dancehall chops for the stripping scenes. Clips are on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qaLPbzjFSA
"No chance of being discovered down here..found out,maybe.."
How many films are there of women coming to London for stripping jobs rather than the reverse in the case of The Wicker Man? Isn't the subplot of "Small World of Sammy Lee" to do with a girl promised a job in Soho? Oh and that is getting a release soon in a London box set!!
"Bitter Harvest" isn't quite a stripping job but IS Patrick Hamilton inspired.
I am going to watch "Smashing Time" again. I think I may be in error here!
Comment by Vincent Dawn on 2009-05-23 20:58:37 +0000
Smashing Time, Smashing Time, we're gonna have a
Smashing Time
Going down to London, going down to London
We're going to have a Smashing Time
We're gonna find a flat and after that
We guarantee we'll get around
We hope to make a splash in time
We're sure we know the score furthermore
We'll get a break in London Town
We look cool although we're excited like the in crowd do
Must look cool although we're delighted that we're really truly
We know we'll have a Smashing Time
We know we're nothing yet but we bet
Smashing Time, Smashing Time
Comment by Ricardo Terrori on 2009-05-23 21:06:32 +0000
Who knows exactly how many other cities called "London" -or its equivalent in the local language- are there in the rest of the world?
Comment by Julie London on 2009-05-23 23:16:38 +0000
Maybe it's because I'm an American, that I love London town…..
http://www.derelictlondon.com
Comment by Bomber Harris on 2009-05-23 23:47:05 +0000
We lost the peace.
"London, England, a city in the United Kingdom"
Hey! Lay bare on this, you Londoners!
London, Ontario, a city in Canada
London, Belize, a village
London, Equatorial Guinea, a village
London, Finland, a section of Jakobstad
London, Kiribati, a small city on Kiritimati
London, Nigeria, a village
London, Limpopo, a village in South Africa
London, Mpumalanga (Noordprovincie) in South Africa
London, Mpumalanga (Graskop) in South Africa
London, Conecuh County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
London, Montgomery County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
London, Arizona, an unincorporated community
London, Arkansas, a city
London, California, a census-designated place
London, Indiana, an unincorporated community
London, Kentucky, a city
London, Michigan, an unincorporated community
London, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
London, Missouri, an unincorporated community
London, Ohio, a city
London, Richland County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
London, Oregon, an unincorporated community
London, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
London, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
London, Texas, an unincorporated community
London, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
London, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
So, you know Michael K., all I want is to go to "London"!
Comment by Michael Roth on 2009-05-24 15:45:39 +0000
I recall seeing the Bed Sitting Room many years ago, and not liking it very much. Although I drank a lot at the time so my memory is …
Great blogs about London and it's underground/boho past. Keep 'em coming.
When I go out about town here in Vancouver, I use a map of London to get around, so I can feel that I'm there …
http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/
http://gridskipper.com/59174/classic-cafes-in-london
londonist.com/2005/07/interview_adria.php
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Cafes-Adrian-Maddox/dp/190103383X
http://www.runawaynow.com/2008/03/classic-london-cafes-we-love-by-louise-cuckow/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilike/collections/72157602888075311/
http://www.fuk.co.uk/classic_cafes_help_preserve_them
http://www.modculture.co.uk/news/news.php?id=78
http://www.ancestryaid.co.uk/boards/links-hints-tips/17365-classic-cafes-history-londons-cafes.html
I don't like either London or cofee at all!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/194851685/
http://www.geocities.com/deadpoets_uk/lskdjalskdj.jpg
Comment by Christopher Nosnibor on 2009-05-25 10:55:14 +0000
Always a wise move to avoid the crisps and peanuts at social events: people have nasty tendencies to not wash their hands after going to the toilet and then heading straight to the snacks. You may as well drink 20 or more different urine samples and be done with it…. hey, it takes all sorts…
Christopher: that's so right!
I try to get my stomach full in advance and concentrate on the booze.
In my satarving artist times, though, I had to eat those contaminated snacks, and being poor artists the way they are, I almost could smell the fecal matter in them.
So I started to do this: pick a little canapè from the dish, lick it a bit, depositing my saliva, and then returning it to the dish, so the next artist could bring a sample of my caries back home.
Published At 2009-05-23 09:36 BST


Overweight and obesity are both medical terms used to describe body weight when weight is more than what is commonly considered healthy for a given height. Obesity is linked to a greater chance of developing a variety of health problems. A child or teen that is obese is more likely to become an obese adult.
Scientists know that a person's body weight is influenced by genetics, metabolism, food choices, activity levels and environment. No matter the cause of extra weight, food choices and activity levels play an important role in managing weight. They are often the focus in obesity treatment programs.
Body mass index (BMI) uses your child's weight and height to see if your child is a healthy weight for his/her age. It is given to you as a number. By using this number, you can see how your child compares with children who are the same age. This is called BMI-for-age percentile.
If the BMI is in the yellow area, your child may be underweight.
If the BMI is in the green area, your child is at a healthy weight.
If the BMI is in the light red area, your child may be overweight or obese.
If the BMI is the dark red area, your child may be obese.
Children whose BMI falls in the overweight, obese or severely obese ranges should get treatment.
Working with your healthcare provider is the safest way to find out what method of obesity treatment will be best. In some families, it may be helpful to include a dietitian, psychologist, and an exercise specialist in treatment plans.
Since food choices and activity levels play an important role in managing weight they are usually the focus of obesity treatment programs. If you want to get started making changes to diet and activity, try this easy-to-follow method recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is called the 5, 2, 1, 0 approach.
Eat at least five fruit or vegetables servings every day. Limit 100 percent fruit juices to 4 ounces per day.
Limit screen time (TV, video games, computer) to less than two hours per day.
Get at least one hour of activity every day. Go for a walk, play outside, dance or jump rope.
Get zero calories from drinks except for skim, fat-free or 1 percent milk.
In June 2011, the United States Department of Agriculture introduced My Plate. My Plate promotes using single servings of meats and grains at meals and covering the other half of the plate with fruits and vegetables. Choosing whole grains whenever possible is also encouraged.
For additional nutrition ideas and tips visit the webpage of www.ChooseMyPlate.gov.


Former KHovnanian Model Home on premium .33 acre lot. Over 5000 sq.ft. of comfort & luxury---loaded with upgrades you'd expect in a model, including dramatic curb appeal. Split, side entry 3-car garage.
Alluring pool & spa with waterfalls & a heater...a perfect setting for entertaining by the pool, under the covered patio or on the balcony all year long!
Cozy up to the outdoor fireplace day or night while you're cooking at the built-in grill. Lots of room for your patio & lounge furniture.
It's all in the details.....from the moment you enter this home.....handscraped hardwood inlay in the Travertine floors to the wood staircase, the fine millwork moldings & high baseboards, tiered chandeliers, archways & niches.
Formal living room boasts a beautiful double-stacked mantle encompassing a gas log fireplace. Note the intricate crown molding & custom window treatments.
Handsome executive study showcases paneled walls, a coffered ceiling & a built-in desk/bookshelves.
This photo shows the large expanse of the family room with breakfast nook to the left + a floor to ceiling gas log fireplace. Upstairs: gameroom, media room, card room, balcony, bed/bath 4.
Home is wired for surround sound & security cameras.
Formal dining room off the foyer is large enough to accommodate your furniture pieces.
Handy butler pantry between the formal dining room & kitchen = great storage for your serving pieces & glassware.
Also off the formal dining room -- wine cabinet & chiller for your favorite beverages.
A gourmet kitchen the family chef is sure to love! A sumptuous medley of perfection includes copper accents inlaid in the backsplash, high-level granite + the brick wall at the breafast bar ---all unique appointments.
More custom features: copper farm sink, commercial grade gas cooktop, vent hood & a built-in refrigerator.
Ample kitchen storage + a walk-in pantry.
On the way to the spacious utility room is a handy home workcenter.
Welcome to the master's serene & luxurious spa-like retreat. Oppulent yet tranquil with dual shower heads, tower cabinets, beautiful tile accents & a lovely chandelier above the jetted tub.
Classic Travertine floors & plantation shutters add the finishing touches to the spa bath.
Extra large master suite with sitting area that faces the pool. Unlimited furniture placement options!
Big master closet connects to the master bath & utility room. How convenient is that!
Bedroom 2 down has a tray ceiling & bay window....+ views of the pool.
Full bath 2 is adjacent to bedroom 2. Mounted TV remains.
Bedroom 3 also on the first floor has an ensuite full bath.
Another stunning full bath...each bedroom has its own dedicated bath with granite counter tops & upgraded tile.
Note the detailed millwork around the front door.
A game of pool anyone? Whether you play pool or want a gameroom for kids to play..this room is large enough for both. Media room left, bedroom 4 through the right door.
Card room off the gameroom is another special feature. See the lighted, circular ceiling & door that leads to the back balcony?
Everyone loves the ability to hang out on a balcony. Not only skyline views, but solitude & shade cover.
A theatre experience can be yours in the upper media room. Screen & built-in speakers remain.
Bedroom 4 upstairs has an adjacent full bath. All secondary bdrms have plush carpet & walk-in closets.
Full bath up is accessible for bdrm 4, the gameroom or media room.
An outdoor living area that invites informal entertaining 365 days a year. Ready for a sumptuous barbecue?
Spring is here, summer around the corner. Who wouldn't love to spend time in this three cascading waterfall pool?
Lushly landscaped backyard with 2 side yards for kids & pets to play.
Community park & walking path within the Shaddock Park community---just down the street from this home.
Master craftsmanship, a residence of obvious character, immaculate. Make Your Move Today and Welcome Home!
Former KHov Model Home on .33 acre lot. Waterfall Pool-Spa, inviting Outdoor Living with FP & Grill + 2 play yards. Unique floorplan: Huge Master suite has spa bath + 2 more Bdrms down making an awesome In-law-guest suite, handsome executive Study with coffered ceiling, desk & paneled walls, Media Room, Gameroom + Card room with Balcony, 2 Dining rooms. Many upgrades: Handscraped hardwoods, sweeping wood staircase, plantation shutters, charming barn door, stone fireplace, ornate moldings & trim, extensive built-ins. Gourmet Kitchen has SS appl-- commercial gas range, built-in refrigerator, double ovens, bev. frig, copper sink, spice & wine racks, mantle-style vent hood. Great location for commuting + Allen ISD!


LOL! I took advantage of one of those free romance e-book things last year...their idea of romance is definitely more graphic than mine!
My, those certainly are some raunchy covers you've posted.
I've always stated that I read a wide range of books, so I try not to draw an artifical line of which i will review and which I don't. Fair's fair.
As for the cover, well, let's just say, I wouldn't leave these ones out on the coffee table for daughter to find.
Thanks to Miri and Petty Witter for their comments.


Police have arrested a man in connection with a bank robbery in Surprise on Tuesday, officials said.
David Loera of Surprise is suspected of walking into the US Bank located inside the Safeway store at 13828 W. Waddell Road and presenting a note demanding money, according to the Surprise Police Department.
At the time of the robbery, the suspect was described as a man with a mustache and beard, sunglasses and a black hooded Oakland Raiders sweatshirt, police said in a news release.
A vehicle description also was released of a tan, Dodge Nitro passenger car.
Police released a surveillance-camera image of the suspect on Tuesday showing a man with facial hair. The suspect did not display any weapons and no one was injured during the robbery, officials said.
Loera was booked into jail Thursday on one count of robbery, officials said.


If you are thinking about starting your own business and have discussed it with anyone, chances are you have been told that you can get loans from the government. This is true, but maybe not in the way you think.
First, the government does not directly make loans to small business owners. There is no way to apply directly to the federal government for a small business loan. The Small Business Administration (SBA) guarantees business loans, through banks and sometimes non-bank lenders, to borrowers that meet certain criteria. The key is finding the lenders that offer the government business loans for which you are eligible.
Many government business loans are designated for women, minority, or veteran business owners. In addition, businesses located in certain rural locations are eligible for business loans guaranteed by the federal government. These loans are offered by lenders that participate in the SBA's small business lending program.
Some businesses located in areas that have been hit by natural disasters are eligible for disaster loans guaranteed by the government. When an area is hit by a hurricane, tornado, flood, etc., businesses can suffer both physical and financial damage. There are loan programs that can help firms rebuild after physical damage, and those that can help them get back on their feet after losing business due to a natural disaster—even when no physical damage was suffered.
Not every lender participates, but many do. Local banking institutions, big banks, and credit unions are the most likely sources of funds guaranteed by the SBA. Biz2Credit can help you find the best deal. In the process, we can help save time that you can better spend working on other aspects of your business. Visit Biz2Credit.com to find out more.


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Are council houses necessary ?
RECENTLY, IN MANCHESTER, A GROUP OF COUNCIL HOUSE TENANTS demonstrated against the proposal by the local authority to increase rents and to meet the rising cost of repairs, etc. The Manchester tenants rebellion follows that of Glasgow tenants, where, according to a recent edition of The Economist, rents had remained static for years, in spite of rising costs and an increasing deficit between costs and rents actually paid. The last stage in the Manchester battle shows the local Labour Party in a very bad light. While admitting by their actions that these increases were necessary, they have passed a motion ensuring that any tenants who cannot pay the increase will have it paid out of the rates—not everybody's rates—only the rates of these people who are not fortunate enough to be council house tenants.
As an anarchist myself, and also as a student of economics and sociology, I feel it is time that someone should try and clear the air on this issue of local authority housing to enable us to see just what we are dealing with, and what we are not dealing with, for whenever I see articles or letters on "Housing" in this country I always get the impression that the writers are either very naive or very dishonest.
First, however, we must try and sketch in something of the historical background. Also we must constantly keep reminding ourselves that we are not living in an anarchist, nor a socialist, society, but a "free" capitalist society, and any discussion on a social and economic situation must be strongly related towards society as a whole, with a view to assessing correctly the historical truth of one's findings, rather than the ideological truth based upon one's political ideals, and such aspects of history as will support these, otherwise all one will get will be a largely unworkable set of political slogans, rather than, what we as anarchists really want, a well-thought-out blueprint for future actions, or trends of actions, to meet situations as they arise. I agree in advance with critics that it is very nice to have big-hearted moral ideas of what should, and we hope, will happen, but I would prefer to know just what I am dealing with, as my time is rather valuable and I don't like wasting it.
Once upon a time, as they say, everyone was supposed to own their own house, or have some kind of housing adequate to the relevance of his needs. This may not have been always entirely true, but it is, in left-wing circles, usually held to be true (ideologically?). With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, and the decline of cottage industry because of centralisation in factories, etc., new problems arose. It was necessary for workers to live relatively near their work and many left their country villages and settled in the new industrial towns, many of which were without adequate governmental or social controls to prevent abuses of urbanisation. Consequently the building of houses and streets was largely unplanned. Houses were usually very badly built, often with no facilities for drainage and washing. This led to disease and very low standards of physical well-being in the industrial population.
As time went on the view of the Establishment was ameliorated somewhat from the stern utilitarian view that people were poor and ill-housed because of their own fault. It was realised that it was necessary for a local or central government authority to take a lead, and frankly, had they not, as in Russia, etc., a revolutionary situation would have been created. It was therefore decided, to a certain extent, that our towns and cities must be replanned, and as a first step, all the old disease-ridden jerry-built slums must be pulled down, and their occupants be rehoused in cheap local-authority-owned houses, until such time as they were financially able to obtain adequate private accommodation. It was also realised that certain people in the lower income groups, by virtue of their low wages, lack of ability and education, or physical handicaps, would never in our present economic set-up, obtain adequate housing, not only for themselves but their families, unless some outside body catered for them. Hence council houses—houses of poor design and inferior aspect, yet capable of providing "adequately" for the needs of the poor, but with no frills, and definitely inferior to most private houses.
This was the picture until quite recent times, but at the conclusion of the Second World War, a third aspect came to the fore: need. There were a large number of people who, due to factors beyond their control, needed houses, and in many cases were prepared to buy them, but had no chance of obtaining them because of the post-war shortage—augmented, it is true by the effects of the bombing. It was necessary therefore, for the state, through its agent, the local authority, to step in and finance an adequate building programme. As building materials were in short supply and it was thought that economies would be made by centralisation of the building programme, private building was restricted, often by a quota system. All this got rather mixed up with political ideology. Many deterministic socialists felt that any ownership of private property was morally wrong, and as such the view was put forward that it was, in this country at least, a human right, to live in a council house, in fact some seemed to put forward the view that to live any other way was wrong and anti-socialist, etc. Yet the curious fact remained that, while the new ideas were accepted, the old idea that council house tenants were really the deserving poor, and as such, local authority housing should be subsidised, also remained. In fact both had been incorporated in the same ideology, yet are they consistent? Every man in this country is not a poor man, in fact many council house dwellers I have met claim to be taking in over £50 a week, if both wife and elder children are working. Not all, I admit, but many. The idea that tenants should remain only so long as they need to get more adequate private accommodation seems to have been forgotten, many tenants now come from families who have lived in council houses for three generations. Rather than look for better accommodation they seem to demand that council houses should be as good as, or better than, many private houses—outside as well as internal lavatories, fixed refrigerators, and other electrical fittings being the rule rather than the exception in many council houses. Also they feel that they should have all the social services provided on their doorstep, though in many cases these are not provided for the residents on private housing estates. When a number of local authorities recently suggested to their fixed tenants, that they would be willing to sell them their property, without deposit, at amounts in many cases, not greater than the rents already charged, they were surprised at the very poor response.
The thing that seems to me is, if we are going to have local authority housing for all, as an alternative to private housing, then the tenants cannot expect to be subsidised by the rest of the community. If on the other hand, we are going to have local authority housing for the physically or socially handicapped, then these can be subsidised—but by the whole community—not excluding the affluent council house tenants; but if we are to have both then it must be acknowledged, and all the tenants that are able, must pay the economic rent—in fact, if, as some socialists wish, everybody must soon be housed in council houses, since all private houses will be nationalised, if the subsidy was not paid by all, where exactly would it come from?
I now have an alternative scheme to suggest, and that is that housing estates or precincts should be organised upon a communal basis, both privately-owned and communally owned, houses, and these could well, as they are at present, be separated. Each should be, as far as possible, a face-to-face community, responsible for its own affairs, and for providing, or at least paying for, its own social or community services. It should be entirely self-supporting and not dependant, as at present, upon a periodical hand-out or redistribution of social capital, once it had flogged its own to death. Where the property is all communally owned, the community as a whole should be responsible for all rents (i.e. bills for repairs, interest on and return of capital borrowed from a central credit-giving fund), rates (i.e. bills for community and social services, e.g. school and welfare services) and social insurance, this to be not only insurance against accident, old age, unemployment, etc., but against harm to community property and capital due to this (i.e. the rest of the community not to suffer a financial loss due to inability of an individual to meet rents, rates, etc.).
You might well criticise this by saying that some communities would have better facilities, social, education, etc. than others. This is true, but one feels that if a person wants something badly enough he should be willing to pay if he can. At present we have the situation in reverse. Many people are getting a far larger share of the national cake, in the name of egalitarianism, yet being unwilling to pay for it—a "means test" in council house rents is apparently wrong, though not so in income tax, death duties, and for some people super-tax. It seems to me that this is inconsistent especially as there are still large numbers of people who are in real need of more adequate housing which could be more quickly made available by "squeezing out" by a means test the more affluent tenants who can easily afford to buy or rent private housing, which is not really so expensive as one might imagine, and with an increase in demand might well become cheaper. I have always understood that one of the great means of preventing social injustice was to treat each case on its merits—why is subsidised local authority housing exempted from this?


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe AttachmentsController, type: :controller do
  context 'DELETE #destroy' do
    let(:question) { create(:question) }
    let!(:file) { create(:attachment, attachable: question) }

    context 'Non authenticate user' do
      it 'doestn delete questions attachment' do
        expect { delete :destroy, params: { id: file.id } }
          .to_not change(Attachment, :count)
      end
    end

    context 'Authenticate user' do
      sign_in_user

      it 'can not delete attachments' do
        expect { delete :destroy, params: { id: file.id }, format: :js }
          .to_not change(question.attachments, :count)
      end
    end

    context 'Author of question' do
      sign_in_user
      let(:user_question) { create(:question, user: @user) }
      let!(:user_file) { create(:attachment, attachable: user_question) }

      it 'can delete attachments' do
        expect { delete :destroy, params: { id: user_file.id }, format: :js }
          .to change(user_question.attachments, :count).by(-1)
      end

      it 'render destroy view' do
        delete :destroy, params: { id: user_file.id }, format: :js
        expect(response).to render_template :destroy
      end
    end
  end
end

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EUROPARC Awards
Hotel Caminetto at the Star Awards Ceremony.
Home » EUROPARC Awards
A lot of hard work and dedication is needed to make a difference in nature conservation and sustainable development. It often takes the courage of conviction to sometimes challenge received wisdom, to have a vision and drive to achieve it, but most of all to have passion. Sometimes that takes a lifetime to achieve or can be dedication and inspiration at the start of a career.
Members across the EUROPARC Federation for sure exhibit these qualities, even in the public service administrations, to do the best for these special places and people that they are committed to manage and protect.
However, much of that hard work goes unrecognised and unsung, both in young professionals starting and in experienced contributors. Praise and recognition for achievement is something everyone appreciates and can be the motivator to go on to even bigger and better things.
EUROPARC has therefore, with the generous support of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. (DE), established awards for both the entry level and already established professionals.
Alfred Toepfer Natural Heritage Scholarship
Recognition and support for young professionals coming into the work of nature conservation is delivered through the Alfred Toepfer Natural Heritage Scholarship. This encourages study trips examining an issue of interest to Protected Areas, across Europe. Conducted by those 35 and under, it is an opportunity to gain an insight into an issue, explore, examine and share the finding across the EUROPARC network. There are of course wonderful experiences: personal and professional development opportunities. The awards are celebrated at the annual EUROPARC conference
For more details on applying for an Alfred Toepfer Scholarship, or to pass information onto young professionals in your organisation, please see here.
At the other end of the spectrum, those who have made a contribution to nature conservation in Europe through an experienced body of work, is recognised in the Alfred Toepfer Medal. Nominated by EUROPARC members this gives an opportunity to the work done to be praised and valued by peers. The award is given publically at the annual EUROARC conference.
If you know of someone who has dedicated themselves to nature conservation and Protected Area work, then please consider nominating them for the award. The EUROPARC council comprises the jury who select the winner from members' nominations. More details and nomination form can be found here.


Module 4 – Assignment 4Case 4. 3 One Nation under Wal-Mart2. Is there a Wal-Mart in your area? If so, has it had impact on your community or the behavior of local consumers? If there's no store in your area, would you be in favor of Wal-Mart opening one? Explain why or why not?4. Can a retailer ever become too large and too powerful?Case 5. 1 Yahoo in China2. In your view, was Yahoo right or wrong to assist Chinese authorities? What would you have done if you were in charge of Yahoo?4. Assess the actions of Yahoo and of Microsoft, Google and Cisco from the point of view of both the narrow and the broader views of corporate responsibility. What view of corporate responsibility do you think these companies hold? Do you think they see themselves as acting in a morally legitimate and socially responsible way?Case 5. 4 Free Speech or False Advertising1. In this case, was Nike engaged in commercial speech, or were its statements political or social speech? What determines whether speech is commercial or not?beings? Should they have the same political rights? Is it morally permissible to limit the speech of corporations in ways that would be wrong if applied to the speech of individual citizens? If it is permissible, is it a good public policy?5. Does Nike have a social responsibility to address the matters of public concern such as the working conditions in its overseas operations? If it chooses to do so, does it have an obligation to make its statements as truthful and accurate as it can? Under what circumstances should corporations be held liable for the truth of their public statements?Issue 12 Is "Employment-at-Will" God Social Policy? Summarize the authors' points of view in a 2-3 page essay. Then present your own synthesis of the argument using the authors' points of view to support your argument.
Using the Waters Bottling Company in Module 1, continue to build the Marketing Plan Sections for the product you have selected/ invented/ created. Complete the following in MS Word: Be concise and complete in your analysis of each plan element. Your employer wants to know you have left nothing out in your analysis.
This assignment represents Section 4 of the Marketing Plan. Use the guide to identify the sections of the Marketing Plan and the marketing elements contained therein. This assignment will focus on Section 4– Place & Promotion (Module 4).
You will create a complete Marketing Plan by the end of the course. You will write the Fourth section of the Marketing Plan for this assignment. Use the Marketing Plan guide to identify the sections of the Marketing Plan and the marketing elements contained therein. This assignment will focus on Section 4 – The Place & Promotion (Module 4).
Relate all responses using the WBC scenario and the product you have selected to market in Module 1.
Create a 4- to 6-page Word document for this Marketing Plan Section. Apply a standard business writing style using the Market Planning Guide sections as your (headers/ sub heads/ bullets) to your work. Be sure to cite your work in the APA format.


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Dumont  – miasto w Stanach Zjednoczonych, w stanie Iowa, w hrabstwie Butler. W 2000 roku liczyło 676 mieszkańców.

Miasta w stanie Iowa


Stoddart is one of the few chemists of the past quarter of a century to have created a new field of chemistry - namely, one in which the mechanical bond is a pre-eminent feature of molecular compounds. He has pioneered the development of the use of molecular recognition and self-assembly processes in template-directed protocols for the syntheses of two-state mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs). These MIMs, in the form of bistable catenanes and rotaxanes, have been employed as artificial molecular switches (AMSs) in the fabrication of molecular electronic devices (MEDs) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) including mechanized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MMSNPs) for use as drug delivery systems. Stoddart and his research group are grappling presently with several fundamental challenges: none are more challenging than one of the contemporary goals of nanoscience - namely, the development and fabrication of mechanical devices powered by AMMs. Before the goal can be realized, however, Stoddart and his collaborators have to learn how to control the coupling and uncoupling to the environment if the individual molecules into organized, hierarchical assemblies that can perform significant work on their immediate environment at nano-, micro-, and macroscopic levels. Assembling and controlling synergistically AMMs housed in highly interactive and robust architectural domains, such as metal?organic frameworks (MOFs) heralds a game-changer for chemical synthesis and a defining moment for nanofabrication.


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Over 1,000 Runners And Walkers Expected At 21st Annual Ellen's Run
The event brings out over 1,000 attendees from all walks of life. (Photo: www.facebook.com)
On Sunday, August 21st, runners and walkers of all ages will come out to participate in the 21st Annual Ellen's Run, presented by The Ellen Hermanson Foundation.
"Every year, Ellen's Run gets bigger and better," noted Julie Ratner, Ed.D., Co-Founder of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation. "And this year is no different."
The 5K will begin at 9 a.m. at Parrish Memorial Hall at Southampton Hospital, which is also where it will commence.
The event brings out over 1,000 attendees from all walks of life and is the largest of its kind on the East End. "I am always thrilled by the generosity of the volunteers who help make Ellen's Run possible, the Village of Southampton, Southampton Hospital and all the local businesses that contribute so much," Ratner expressed. "Most of all, I am awed by all the breast cancer survivors who participate showing us that they are not only surviving, but thriving, and all the people who come to support the mission of The Ellen Hermanson Foundation, 'to provide access to state-of-the-art quality breast care and to enable people affected by cancer.'"
Ratner co-founded The Ellen Hermanson Foundation along with sister Emily Levin in 1997 to honor the memory of their sister, Ellen Hermanson, and to continue the vital work that she dedicated so much of her time and energy to. "And guiding me is the memory of my sister Ellen Hermanson," said Ratner. "Twenty-one years after her passing, she continues to inspire me with the courage, grace and generosity with which she led her live after a brutal diagnosis."
Ellen's Run supports The Ellen Hermanson Foundation, the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at Southampton Hospital, and Ellen's Well.
"Southampton Hospital encourages runners and walkers alike to participate in this year's Ellen's Run," added Robert Chaloner, Southampton Hospital President and CEO. "It is always an amazing event and it supports patients at the Hospital's Ellen Hermanson Breast Center."
Registration is $30, but $25 for children 12-years-old or younger or for those 65-years-old or older.
Parrish Memorial Hall at Southampton Hospital is located at 235 Herrick Road in Southampton. For more information, or to register, visit www.ellensrun.org.
58th Annual Southampton Hospital Summer Party Raises Over $1.3 Million
Southampton Hospital Hosting 58th Annual Summer Party In Support Of Emergency Department
Ellen Hermanson Foundation's Starry Night Honors Jennifer Finkelstein And Ellen Hermanson Breast Center's Medical Staff
Southampton Hospital Expands Services Offered In Hampton Bays


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Even though I do feel like this one is pretty spot on as well, it was super easy and I kind of didn't want to do it but it was one of those days where I wanted to do something but I was restricted on time and knew I could get it done. I'm still pretty happy with it nonetheless.
This one I am not happy with. It has so many problems and it took so long that it got dark outside and then the pictures wouldn't come out right and made it look even worse. The best part was the black glitter and the duochrome effect on the skull side and it was lost as soon as it got dark because I don't have good lighting. I gave up on the teeth after the 10,000th attempt and it just seemed like nothing was going right with this one. I almost gave it up entirely, but put it up anyway because I spent hours trying to get it. I'm really disappointed in it.
So there are my Halloween looks. I only got up three because I've been so stupidly busy. I'm really hoping to improve before next year because we all know Halloween is my favorite.
I love that these looks are clearly for halloween but you also keep it glam.
Thank you! I tried, haha!
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halloween is the best holiday for makeup.
Yes it is. Halloween is the best.
I remember seeing these on Instagram and loving them! The fortune teller is my favorite, the contacts make it!
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LOVE these looks! My favorite is the contacts in the fortune teller look - so creepy good!
I know, right? I'm in love with the contacts!
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Thank you! They really do make the look. It's kind of unreal.
The fortune teller look is my favorite. Beautiful & spooky at the same time!
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Alex Labbé: always a question of money
Tamara Gwen | February 14, 2019 | Sport | No Comments
It is at the end of the week that will shake the NASCAR season with the famous Daytona 500. But it is in front of his tv, and not from inside a car, Alex Labbé will monitor the action.
No, Abbot has still not found sufficient funding, and the team allowing him to start the season at the same time as everyone else in the series Xfinity. After becoming the first Quebecer in history to compete in all of the steps of one of the three major businesses of NASCAR in 2018, the driver of the Bois-Francs saw a situation extremely frustrating.
"We discussed, there are talks with a lot of people, but there is nothing concrete for the moment," explains Labbé from Florida, where he had to participate in three events at the edge of a super late model in the last few days. It's been 100 times that I say it, but this is it anyway : no money, no race. This is the reality of our sport. "
Labbé finished 17th overall in the driver standings in the series Xfinity the last season. But he ended the campaign of punishment and misery, being unable to only change tyres at the same rate as all the world because of a very limited budget with DGM Racing, the team of Mario Gosselin.
DGM has leased both of its cars to other drivers for the first races of the season in series Xfinity.
"There are still opportunities with Mario, but it really takes as. I discuss with other people also. "
BRP was supported Labbé then he ran in series canadian NASCAR as well as last season when he participated in the championship series Xfinity. But the company, whose head office is located in Valcourt has not yet given its support to Labbé in view of the new season.
One also hears little about Alain Lord Mounir, who was the boss of Labbé in series canadian NASCAR and the led in series Xfinity, but it seems that it remains in the entourage of the pilot, which gave him a championship in 2017.
"These are tough times, these are times of very frustrating," sighed Labbé. But I do nevertheless lose not hope to run a few times in the series Xfinity this season. "
At a time when we speak, it is in series canadian NASCAR that the chances of Labbé to find a steering wheel to a full-time seem to be the best.
"There are serious discussions, it is true," he said. The advantage of the series canadian, besides the fact that it requires less money, it is the more flexible schedule since there is no racing at all on the weekends. It allows you to do something else also. "
As of the events in super late model in the United States, where the level is high in several series, will highlight Labbé.
Alex Labbé is clearly a driver, very talented. He demonstrated it, such as Andrew Ranger (and others) had done before him. But it faces the same problem as Ranger earlier : the money.
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Movies, cinema, and theater are three of the most popular forms of entertainment.
Millions of people enjoy watching movies, going to the theater, and listening to live theater performances. Theaters are usually large and have a lot of seating.
They are usually located in large cities or in centers of population.
Theaters are often decorated in a way that makes them look like palaces. Movies are usually filmed in studios.
The people who make movies are called filmmakers.
They use cameras to film actors and scenes. Theaters are usually owned by big companies. They charge people a lot of money to go to the theater.
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Hong Kong manga finds virtual home on blockchain as authorities silence publishers
NFTs offer haven as authors self-censor amid intensifying crackdown on free expression.
As Hong Kong's publishing industry feels the growing weight of the political, legal and social changes China's communist party has imposed on the city, a Taiwan-based auction house is selling non-fungible tokens of manga artwork created in the former British colony as a way of preserving its distinct culture and history.
Lootex, a decentralized, Taipei-headquartered NFT marketplace, recently held a sale of NFTs of the first volume of "Buddha's Palm," a famous Hong Kong manga series first published in the 1980s.
The NFT platform quickly sold out of a total of 20 copies, each sold for 0.05 BinanceCoin (about US$15.60 at press time), according to Lootex Co-founder and CEO Justine Lu.
"Buddha's Palm," also known as "The Force of Buddha's Palm," is a fantasy martial arts manga series created by Tony Wong, a well-known master manga artist in Hong Kong. It depicts the adventures of a young apprentice of Buddha's Palm, the most powerful force in the story. The manga was widely praised as one of the top four Hong Kong manga series when it was published. Censorship, fear and flight The NFT sale comes as Hong Kong's publishing industry is under siege amid a slew of repressive legal and political measures forced on the formerly freewheeling city by Beijing. Even before the imposition of the communist party-drafted National Security Law last year, Hong Kong book publishers had been effectively forced to self-censor. Some authors looked to nearby Taiwan as a haven in which they could operate freely.
Lu said Lootex had created the manga NFT in view of the restrictions being imposed on publishing in Hong Kong.
"[The Hong Kong government] could take aim at some comic books such as 'Teddy Boy' or 'Buddha's Palm'," Lu told Forkast.News in an interview. "These could be some things that don't really fall in favor of the government, so I feel we are doing something meaningful to help preserve their culture."
Lu said Hong Kong had yet to impose clear restrictions on publishing comic books, but that the market was in the doldrums, with only a handful of local manga series still being published.
"Publishers have also expressed concerns over how rampant unauthorized digital versions of manga could be, which has long been a headache for them," Lu said. "NFTs allow publishers to officially sell digital versions of manga, which is a promising approach for them."
One buyer of the manga NFT wrote in a Lootex group chat shown to Forkast.News by Lu that he was glad that he had been able to get hold of the NFT because he regretted not being able to buy the full-color "Buddha's Palm" books four decades ago.
A 24-year-old from Hong Kong who had watched a TV show adapted from the manga told Forkast.News that the specific NFT might be more appealing for older fans as it was "a few generations ahead of us." Cultural preservation Terence Leong, a co-founder of Taiwan-based NFT platform OURSONG and chief content officer of music streaming service KKBOX, told Forkast.News that NFTs could preserve culture.
"[An NFT] is essentially a container that encapsulates anything," he said.
Leong said that as long as a cultural artifact or a moment in history could be turned into a form of media content that could be captured in such a way, it "stays forever on blockchain."
Some Hong Kong activists also share the idea of preserving content on blockchains. When Hong Kong's Apple Daily, the city's biggest-circulation pro-democracy newspaper, was forced by the government to shut down last month, a 21-year-old local developer started a "dAppleDaily" project to "decentralize Apple Daily" by scraping content from the paper's website and putting it on Arweave, a decentralized data storage platform.
"It's unjust for the regime to ban Apple Daily," the developer, who gave their surname as Ho, told Forkast.News at the time. "The truth is important. Human history is important and needs to be written by the people."
In addition to "Buddha's Palm," Lootex also sells NFTs related to other famous Hong Kong manga series, including "Teddy Boy" and "Chinese Hero."
Danny Park also contributed to this report.
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Puerto Rico Mayor's Offices, City Officials Raided By FBI
Jim Satney October 16, 2018
FBI agents raided San Juan's municipal building Tuesday afternoon as part of an investigation into city officials and Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. Cruz, along with the officials, is accused of squandering city money.
Journalist Luis Guardiola posted the video on his Twitter account, noting that "dozens" of agents participated in the raid.
Decenas de agentes del FBI ocupan el 15to piso de la Torre Municipal. Asi llegaron esta mañana los federales. pic.twitter.com/z3h1CObwLp
— Luis Guardiola (@GuardiolaTwitt) October 16, 2018
An FBI spokesman told a local news service that the raid was part of an investigation into whether or not city officials took "bribes" from BR Solutions for a favorable 2-year contract worth almost $5 million.
FBI agents gather outside of elevators before raid.
Leonel Pereira O'Neill, the owner of BR Solutions, is a donor for many political campaigns, including the embattled mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz.
"The raid helps us to confirm whether the allegations of irregularities are substantiated or not," FBI spokesman Carlos Osario told elnuevodia.com.
"We are filling out a search warrant, looking for documents and evidence that can support the allegation," he continued.
Pictured: Embattled mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz
President Trump notoriously accused Cruz and other officials of misplacing blame on his administration for a "slow response" to Hurricane Maria's devastation. Trump's rhetoric has some believing the raid to be inspired by the President.
Cruz confirmed the raid on Twitter and said that she's complying with the investigation.
"At the moment, members of the FBI are intervening in the Municipal Tower of San Juan. My instructions as always are of total collaboration," Cruz wrote in Spanish on Twitter.
"At this time, I do not have more information. We all have the duty to collaborate to clarify this situation. If someone has done something wrong, must be subjected to a due process and face the consequences of their actions, " she added.
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What You Missed at Solve Challenge Finals 2019
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On September 22, 61 entrepreneurs traveled from 22 countries around the world to attend Solve Challenge Finals and pitch their solutions to Solve's 2019 Global Challenges: Circular Economy, Community-Driven Innovation, Early Childhood Development, and Healthy Cities.
These innovators pitched everything from a compact, waste-evaporating toilet to an online marketplace for businesses to buy and sell unused textiles. After a busy day packed with pitches and hours of deliberation, our judges selected eight from each Challenge to form the 2019 Solver Class, including:
Circular Economy Solver teams;
Community-Driven Innovation Solver teams;
Early Childhood Development Solver teams;
Healthy Cities Solver teams.
Solve also announced $1.5 million in prize funding for these Solver teams. If you missed the day's events, here are a few highlights. And if you'd like to see more, watch the livestream here.
Bridging the SDG Innovation Gap
In the opening plenary session, XPRIZE CEO Anousheh Ansari and Conservation International CEO M. Sanjayan spoke about sourcing, supporting, and scaling innovation to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ansari explained that some solutions can be more relevant in certain geographies and contexts. Sanjayan agreed, saying, "While we have ever more information and access to amazing individuals and a diversity of ideas, there is still a strong bias toward a single solution."
He described a meeting he once facilitated with a group of young people from the US and top leaders dealing with elephant ivory poaching in Africa. "We were meeting with people who had spent their entire lives protecting elephants," he said. "This young group was telling those folks how they should do things. It was astonishing to watch. Not that their ideas were bad, but at least have the humility to say, there's context here." Without that context, he added, these solutions are unlikely to work.
Both Ansari and Sanjayan agreed that to achieve the SDGs by 2030, we'll need context-focused tech breakthroughs, and both behavioral and policy changes.
Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship
To kick off the closing plenary, artist Zaria Forman wowed the audience with stunning photographs of her pastel drawings. By capturing glaciers and other natural wonders in the wake of climate change, she seeks to "convey the beauty of these places instead of the devastation." Forman prefers to focus on positive change. And with all the negative news around climate change, she "celebrates what is still here."
Zaria Forman draws with pastel. Photo: Zaria Forman
This optimistic presentation provided an excellent introduction to a conversation around corporate social and environmental responsibility. Vijay Vaitheeswaran of The Economist and Jesper Brodin, President and CEO of Ingka Group (IKEA), discussed IKEA's mission to "create a better daily life for the people."
IKEA is at the forefront of innovation for sustainability, and much of the conversation focused on the company's commitment to climate action. Brodin explained that IKEA products now require sustainable design principles, ensuring they can be broken down into raw materials.
Bringing the conversation back to technology, Emi Mahmoud, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and award-winning slam poet, performed a powerful poem about access to technology. She emphasized that access to technology is no longer a privilege—it is a right.
Emi Mahmoud performs on stage at Solve Challenge Finals. Photo: Joe Jenkins / MIT Solve
"Technology can restore the dignity of people. It changes our approach to aid and changemaking so that it's more about upward mobility, giving people something that they can run with—not just depend on."
The final discussion of the closing plenary featured Fred Swaniker, Founder of the African Leadership Group, and Monique Idlett, Founder and Managing Partner of Reign Ventures, and centered on building a more inclusive innovation ecosystem.
Swaniker, whose programs develop emerging leaders in Africa, reflected on his time studying at Stanford University. He wondered, "Was there anything special about the air or water in Silicon Valley? Why is it that all this innovation comes out of there?"
"The only difference is that they give a 16-year-old kid with an idea a chance," Swaniker said. "The same brilliant kids with game-changing ideas are in Africa. The only difference is that no one is giving them a chance." This, he said, is the goal of the African Leadership Academy.
At Reign Ventures, Idlett takes this chance on promising startups. She aims to build a portfolio that "reflects the world," ensuring that it has gender, racial, and industry diversity. When it comes to scaling these startups, Idlett said the art of collaboration is undervalued.
"We don't have to do this alone," she explained. "As a founder, CEO, or investor, it's really important that you find a community that can support you and that you can build together with."
Swaniker said the African Leadership Academy offers this support to its emerging leaders. Its learning model is very hands-on and emphasizes "learning by doing." The Academy then connects talent to opportunity—the networks, partnerships, and investment they need. "That's the ecosystem," he said. "Select the top talent, develop it, and then connect it."
Want to learn more? Watch the full plenary sessions and hear all 61 pitches—view the Solve Challenge Finals livestream.
Photo: Matt Mateiescu / MIT Solve
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