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2/18/2001 – Daytona 500 Results
2001 NASCAR Daytona 500 Results
1. (19) Michael Waltrip, Chevrolet, 200, $1,331,185.
2. (6) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 200, $975,907.
3. (12) Rusty Wallace, Ford, 200, $676,224.
4. (30) Ricky Rudd, Ford, 200, $517,831.
5. (1) Bill Elliott, Dodge, 200, $392,582.
6. (27) Mike Wallace, Ford, 200, $275,269.
7. (3) Sterling Marlin, Dodge, 200, $262,354.
8. (35) Bobby Hamilton, Chevrolet, 200, $189,259.
9. (38) Jeremy Mayfield, Ford, 200, $207,168.
10. (2) Stacy Compton, Dodge, 200, $168,770.
11. (32) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 200, $174,754.
12. (7) Dale Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 199, accident, $194,111.
13. (14) Ken Schrader, Pontiac, 199, accident, $154,874.
14. (39) Robert Pressley, Ford, 199, $142,809.
15. (43) Brett Bodine, Ford, 199, $133,509.
16. (28) Kyle Petty, Dodge, 199, $125,909.
17. (42) Ron Hornaday Jr., Pontiac, 199, $129,534.
18. (40) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 199, $127,909.
19. (8) Jeff Burton, Ford, 199, $155,884.
20. (21) Casey Atwood, Dodge, 198, $128,034.
21. (16) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 196, $136,584.
22. (31) Dale Jarrett, Ford, 186, accident, $167,711.
23. (18) Ricky Craven, Ford, 185, $122,484.
24. (34) Terry Labonte, Chevrolet, 184, accident, $157,589.
25. (23) Kenny Wallace, Pontiac, 184, accident, $124,509.
26. (4) Mike Skinner, Chevrolet, 183, $187,358.
27. (11) Jimmy Spencer, Ford, 183, $135,134.
28. (33) Johnny Benson, Pontiac, 181, engine failure, $129,009.
29. (29) Buckshot Jones, Dodge, 181, accident, $126,234.
30. (13) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 178, accident, $166,411.
31. (25) Steve Park, Chevrolet, 177, $144,027.
32. (5) Jerry Nadeau, Chevrolet, 176, accident, $141,384.
33. (22) Mark Martin, Ford, 175, accident, $160,685.
34. (15) Jason Leffler, Dodge, 174, accident, $124,884.
35. (10) Ward Burton, Dodge, 173, accident, $165,019.
36. (24) Tony Stewart, Pontiac, 173, accident, $135,009.
37. (41) Robby Gordon, Chevrolet, 173, accident, $113,959.
38. (9) Andy Houston, Ford, 173, accident, $120,384.
39. (36) John Andretti, Dodge, 173, accident, $148,136.
40. (37) Bobby Labonte, Pontiac, 173, accident, $164,611.
41. (26) Kurt Busch, Ford, 169, $120,284.
42. (20) Dave Blaney, Dodge, 135, engine failure, $111,859.
43. (17) Jeff Purvis, Ford, 47, accident, $111,384.
Time of race: 3 hours, 5 minutes, 26 secs. Margin of victory: .124 seconds. Average speed: 161.783 mph. Lead changes: 49 among 14 drivers. Caution laps: 3 for 14. Lap leaders: Bill Elliott 1, Sterling Marlin 2-3, Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4, Marlin 5-20, Ward Burton 21, Marlin 22-26, Dale Earnhardt 27-37, Mike Skinner 38-41, Marlin 42, Skinner 43-49, Brett Bodine 50, Burton 51-55, Earnhardt Jr. 56, Burton 57-73, Marlin 74, Ken Schrader 75-76, Mark Martin 77, Schrader 78-82, Earnhardt 83-84, Burton 85-93, Marlin 94-96, Skinner 97-100, Burton 101, Michael Waltrip 102-103, Skinner 104-107, Jeff Gordon 108-111, Earnhardt 112-114, Marlin 115, Gordon 116-119, Skinner 120-122, Burton 123-124, Earnhardt Jr. 125, Marlin 126-127, Burton 128, Skinner 129-130, Gordon 131-133, Burton 134-141, Marlin 142-143, Burton 144-152, Bobby Labonte 153-155, Dale Jarrett 156, Marlin 157-161, Earnhardt Jr. 162-166, Waltrip 167-168, Steve Park 169-170, Waltrip 171-176, Earnhardt Jr. 177-181, Marlin 182-183, Waltrip 184-200.
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Maria Teresa Garcia
February 24, 1926 - September 09, 2020
Laguna Niguel California
Maria Teresa Garcia, 94, was born February 24, 1926 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba and passed away September 9, 2020 at home in Laguna Niguel, CA. Maria Teresa was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Dagoberto, and is survived by daughter Marta (Carlos R.) Cabral; sisters Raquel Yera and Aracelis DelPino; grandchildren Alexandra (Brian) McClendon, Becky (Kenyada) Allen and Carlos ("CJ") Cabral; great-grandchildren Anna McClendon and Daniel Allen; nephews and nieces. A graveside service will be held at El Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest, CA on Wednesday September 16 at 11 am.
In lieu of flowers Family has asked for donations to be made to:
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Date & Time: September 16, 2020 (11:00 AM)
Venue: El Toro Memorial Park
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Born in New Jersey on June 17, 1957, Tom Varner has distinguished himself as both the foremost jazz French horn player of his generation and also as a highly creative arranger breaking new ground in small-group jazz.
Influenced on his instrument by the great Julius Watkins (with whom he studied privately), Varner got a degree from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Ran Blake, George Russell, and Jaki Byard, which helps explain his music's eclectic character, which thrives on stylistic crossbreeding. His compositions can partake of the serialism of Berg and Webern as well as Thelonious Monk's angular bop structures, Ornette Coleman's pantonal melodicism, and funky 12-bar blues. Varner formed a group with saxophonist Ed Jackson while in Boston, and they have frequently worked together since Varner moved to New York City in 1979.
Varner has performed at the Parallel Worlds (Vienna Koncerthaus), Vancouver, Moers, and Groningen Jazz Festivals and is a regular at the Knitting Factory and other downtown clubs in New York City with such guests as Lee Konitz, Bobby Previte, Ellery Eskelin, Mark Feldman, Mark Dresser, Lindsey Horner, Drew Gress, Dave Tronzo, Steve Wilson, Tony Malaby, and Tom Rainey. As a sideman he has performed and recorded with, among others, Steve Lacy, Dave Liebman, George Gruntz, John Zorn, Bobby Watson, LaMonte Young, and Miles Davis with Quincy Jones at Montreux '91, appearing on over 50 albums.
He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won polls in Down Beat (1983, 1998, 1999) and Jazz Times (1990, 1993). Steve Holtje
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Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:51AM
National Association of Realtors® president Vince Malta issued the following statement after the House of Representatives today passed a spending package funding the federal government for fiscal year 2020. The bill provides authority for the National Flood Insurance Program through September 30, extends several tax provisions important to real estate markets and reauthorizes the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program for seven years.
"Confidence and stability are two of the most critical factors impacting America's housing market and economy. Fortunately, this funding agreement delivers that certainty to NAR's 1.4 million members and the clients they work hard to serve every day," said Malta, broker at Malta & Co., Inc., in San Francisco, CA. "The National Association of Realtors® fought to eliminate short-term questions surrounding the status of the National Flood Insurance Program, federal terrorism insurance and various tax provisions, all of which will allow our members to plan better, minimize stress for prospective home buyers and sellers and keep our nation's economy moving forward. While NAR applauds today's votes, we urge Congress to use the time afforded by this agreement to work toward sustainable, bipartisan solutions to programs like the NFIP, which protect millions of Americans every year."
Terrorism Risk Insurance Program
NAR scored a major victory, primarily for its commercial members, with the seven year reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program.
Terrorism risk insurance is often required to secure necessary financing for the thousands of commercial practitioners nationwide. Absent TRIP, the country would likely see a repeat of what happened in 2001, when many insurers raised terrorism risk insurance to unsustainable prices or stopped offering coverage entirely.
NAR repeatedly called on Congress to reauthorize TRIP before its scheduled expiration in 2020, publicly supporting Chairwoman Maxine Waters' Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019.
A nine-month extension of the NFIP's authority will ensure policies can be issued and renewed through the end of the fiscal year. Since the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act expired in 2017, the program has operated on a string of short-term extensions and endured multiple lapses. That unpredictability has put home sales in jeopardy and left insurance policies in limbo, with NAR research showing that NFIP lapses threaten 1,300 transactions each day.
NAR has spent the year supporting the NFIP Reauthorization Act, which includes significant reforms and a 5-year program reauthorization, stating that it strikes a delicate balance between NFIP sustainability and affordability. NAR continues to work toward a long-term solution that will ensure the program is solvent and sustainable moving forward.
Tax Extenders
Included in the package are temporary extensions of three tax provisions directly impacting the real estate industry: 1) the exclusion of forgiven mortgage debt from gross income, meaning that owners of primary residences who sold them short and had part of their mortgage debt written off will not have to pay tax on the amount forgiven; 2) the deductibility of premiums for mortgage insurance; and 3) the deduction of the cost of improvements to commercial buildings that make them energy efficient. These provisions had all expired at the end of 2017, but the bill extends them, retroactive to the beginning of 2018, and through the end of 2020.
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Pastor Adolf Fuchs
Luise Rümker Fuchs
Carl Adolf Friedrich Fuchs, most commonly identified as Pastor Adolf Fuchs, was born on September 19, 1805, in Güstrow, Mecklenburg. He was the youngest son of Superintendent Adolf Friedrich Fuchs and the Superintendent's third wife, Margaretha Dorothea Schröder, who died when he was only five years old. As a youth he enjoyed outdoor activities and he learned to play the violin. He entered university at the age of eighteen and studied theology and philosophy at the Universities of Halle, Berlin, Rostock, and Jena.
According to the memoirs written by his daughter Ottilie Fuchs Goeth, on the occasion of young Pastor Adolf's first public sermon in Güstrow in 1828, his father caught a severe cold in the unheated church and as a result, died from pneumonia. At the time, Carl Adolf had just become engaged to Luise Rümker, and the couple married on July 10, 1829. For the next six years they lived in the town of Waren, where he was a teacher. Here their first four children, Adolf, Luise (Lulu), Ulrike (Ulla), and Conrad were born. Adolf died in infancy.
In 1835 Carl Adolf Fuchs became the pastor of the church in the village of Kölzow, where he served as minister until 1845. Here four more children were born: Ottilie, Wilhelm, Adolphine (Ino), and Hermann.
During his years in Kölzow, Carl Adolf became more and more disenchanted with the existing conditions in the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church. He became interested in emigration to North America, and in 1836 he published a poem called "The New Fatherland." During this time he also wrote a novel dealing with a young theological student-minister who eventually became very critical of the conditions of the Evangelical Church in Germany in the 1830s and decided to emigrate to North America. The novel Robert was published in Rostock in 1842. In February 2005, Kenneth W. Fuchs, great-great-grandson of Adolf Fuchs, published and English translation of the novel. It is available at the Authorhouse website.
Three years later Pastor Adolf Fuchs delivered his farewell sermon to the congregation in Kölzow, and on November 11, 1845, he and his family boarded the ship Gerhard Hermann in Bremen. They landed at Galveston on January 10, 1846, where Carl Adolf introduced himself as "Mr. Fox," using the American pronunciation of his name.
The family soon settled on a farm near the small community of Cat Spring in Austin County, about 63 miles west of Houston. Here another son, Benjamin (Benno), was born in 1848. While Carl Adolf's older sons ran the farm, he supported his family by teaching music at the Institute for Young Ladies at Independence, the forerunner of Baylor University. In 1849 he petitioned the state legislature for financial aid for the German school at Cat Spring, and this act was later recognized as the first petition for public education in the State of Texas. While the family was living in Cat Spring, they established a lasting friendship with the family of Johannes Romberg, who had emigrated from Boizenburg, Mecklenburg in 1847. Eventually, two of the Fuchs sons married Romberg daughters.
Before leaving Kölzow, Pastor Adolf had received papers for a land grant in Texas, and in 1853 he finally acquired title to the land. That year he moved the family to Burnet County, and they settled on the property overlooking the Colorado River, several miles west of present day Marble Falls.
Luise Johanna Rümker was born on October 14, 1809, in Rostock, Mecklenburg. Her parents were Gottlieb Theodor Rümker, a prosperous merchant in Rostock, and Helene Wien. In the words of her daughter Ottilie, she was "the most kind and noble of women. . . It was her life's goal to make others happy, always being self-sacrificing for the sake of others, particularly children. She had a compassionate heart for everyone, even the simplest of men. She seemed to bring out the best in people, as was evidenced in the way they responded to her. She always attempted to see the idealistic side in people. There was no room in her heart for the ugly or mean aspects of the world."
On July 10, 1879, the happy couple celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on the ranch property overlooking the Colorado, surrounded by their many children and grandchildren.
Adolf Fuchs was well-respected for his kindness and wisdom, his love of music and his many poems and songs. He died at his daughter Ottilie Goeth's home near Cypress Mill in Blanco County on December 9, 1885. His beloved Luise died only three months later, on March 1, 1886. A small obelisk monument marks their gravesite in the Fuchs Cemetery, located just a few yards from the site of their original home on the Colorado.
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My employer offers free financing up to $2500 for a personal purchase of computer equipment (not sure about software) as long I can put up the money for the initial purchase (that is, we buy it, then they buy it back and finance at 0% over 2-3 years or whatever.) Keeping this in mind, I would very much like to expand my self-learning by building a home "lab." Haven't had one for years, and experimenting at work is not conducive to risk taking (yes, I have a lab at work, but it's only on approval basis :) I would also like to have the ability to "game" on a high-end machine.
It has been sort of one-or-the-other question between Lab and Gaming, until I just watched this video which demonstrated running Type-1 Hypervisors on top of VMWare Workstation.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1dbINfMl3A - great video if you can deal with the "Hyper-Clicking" :) Upon further research, VMWare Workstation definitely supports this for Hyper-V, ESXi and XenServer. Perfect "Lab" environment that doesn't pollute the base OS IMO!
So, my question is now this: If I gave you $2500 to build a machine that could dual-purpose for Lab and Gaming, what machine would you buy and/or build? I haven't "built" a new "white-box" in probably a decade, and have no idea what the compatibility issues might be. I have no idea if it's worth just buying a "big-brand" heavy-duty workstation instead. I'm assuming SSD for boot partitions, but not terribly worried about disk performance for storage. I'd probably want Win10 as the base OS, but would like the room to dual-boot to Linux (don't care what flavor,) so I don't really care if the OS is included in price.
Complete configurations requested (Manufacturer/Model #, or Case, PWR Supply, MB, RAM, Graphics card(s), SSD/HD's, etc)???
Ncomputing Vspace Server 8.4 or 8.3 files please?
Additionally, I want as much Physical Core support as I can get, and as much RAM capacity as I can get for the money. As best I read the specs of items I've seen, these seem to be mostly Motherboard restrictions, so I expect the MB to be possibly the most expensive component even if it's not fully filled out (expansion room is always nice :) AMD is acceptable I think based on what I've read...I've never had a bad experience with AMD, but again, I haven't "white-boxed" in years.
Lighthouse Display International Ltd is an IT service provider.
If you have that much cash to splash out, core count, fast and low latency memory and plenty of storage will be a priority.
Something along these lines will be nice!
I have a similar setup at home and it works very well.
How do you cluster them for HA?
I think, ftbug is not clustering for HA, as such. It's a single point of failure, obviously. Rather, I suspect ftbug is testing the configuration and functionality of Microsoft based Clustering (and/or load-balancing,) which is exactly what I want to do.


Ropes & Gray has represented Liberty Global Inc. in connection with the financing for its approximate €3.16 billion (US$4.48 billion) acquisition of Germany's third-largest cable TV operator Kabel BW Erste Beteiligungs GmbH ("KBW"), from Swedish private equity group EQT Partners AB. The transaction brings together Germany's second- and third-largest cable companies. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the second half of 2011.
The Ropes & Gray team was led by London high yield partner Jane Rogers with support from partner Mike Goetz; and London associates Michael Kazakevich, Robert Haak, Dave Burley and Eric Issadore.
"It's testament to the team we have built in London that we are able to assist Liberty Global in yet another jumbo telecom-financing acquisition," said Ms. Rogers. "With a completely London-based team, we are able to provide a fully integrated finance offering, which is what large, sophisticated clients such as Liberty Global want and need." Ropes & Gray advised on the high yield offering and the related super senior loan and security arrangements. Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan led the financing, represented by Allen & Overy, Latham & Watkins and Shearman & Sterling.
The KBW deal continues the successful partnership between Ropes & Gray and cable giant Liberty Global Inc. and follows the €3.5 billion acquisition of German cable company Unitymedia in late 2009.
Berkshire Partner's US$1.1 billion acquisition of Skillsoft plc.


I'm giving up self-righteousness for Lent.
What's something I hold onto more tightly than anything? What's something I could lay down as a sacrifice during this Lenten season?
I know, I know. It sounds all existential doesn't it? But the last few years have reminded me of something incredibly important.
Now you wouldn't really know it to look at me. I'm not a heroin addict. I don't run around on my wife. I've got a good job, live in a respectable neighborhood, do my best to love my kids and give my life to those around me. The addiction I migrate back to isn't going to land me in any rehab I know of. It's socially acceptable. In fact, it's socially admired.
It's my belief in me.
I want to fix myself. I want to earn my way. I want to be admired and respected. I want you to think I'm more than I am. I want my good deeds to outweigh my bad. I want to control my own destiny. I want to be my own Savior.
And even though I fail every single time, I crawl right back and try again.
I need the Gospel. I need Jesus. The only One who can really fix what's wrong with me. The only one who can redeem the power and potential that's inside of me.
I can't. But He did.
And so this Lenten season I'm laying down my self-salvation projects. And if it's all the same to you, with God's help, I'm not going to pick them back up again.
If you begin recognizing Lent today, don't allow the ritual to lose its meaning. Let it point you to Jesus. He's the only place righteousness can be found.
Hallelujah! Once again "the nail" has been hit on the head. This is really a Christian universal challenge! If I had a penny for every time I've experienced this, our Penny March Fund @our local church for Haiti would be so overflowing…..why is it that something so seemingly little is our BIGGEST hurdle in our Christian walk. Thanks for a gentle reminder that only falling into Jesus leads to a successful Christian relationship with Him.


Tunnel coach and competitor David Reader showcases his routine from the 2015 Indoor Skydiving World Championships. Some of the smoothest flying around - in 2016 Dave won the 2nd edition of Charlewars held at Airspace in Belgium.
"This is my freestyle routine I was proud to put forward to the 1st indoor skydiving world championships. It flies a little nicer in an ISG, but thats always the case."


It's the perfect time to take a look at what's working, what's starting to work and what needs to be scrapped. It's time to count our blessings and make a list of all the things we are thankful for in our classroom. So, here is a little checklist we use to decide how are things working so far.
What new friendships are being formed? Who could still use a friend or buddy?
What relationships are being strained? Are there some students who need a break from each other?
How is the seating plan working?
How is the physical flow of the classroom working? What needs to change?
How are the routines working? What is working well? What needs tweaking?
Which students need intervention? In reading? In writing? In math?
Which students need support with organization?
What are the interests of the class? How can we use this to our advantage?
And then we count the blessings. We look for all the things that are going well and communicate this to our students. We talk about how we're coming together as a community and share what we are thankful for. Our students are included in this conversation.
Now, being that we're teachers, we turn this into an activity we can use for reading, writing and math. Students write poems and stories about everything they for which they are thankful. We originally decided to create a tree of thankfulness until one of our students suggested making turkeys instead. Each feather listed something they were thankful for.
And that's how we ended up creating our Canadian Thanksgiving book. Our students wanted to know how Canadian Thanksgiving started, so we did some research. We are so thankful for the curiosity and creativity of our students. They inspire us everyday.
Have you held a beta period in your classroom? Which things are you the most thankful for in your classroom right now? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.


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Ever since I was young, I always had a fascination with self improvement and personal development.
I read all sorts of books from the guru's of the day and most stressed the concept of positive thinking and how a single thought or idea could changed a person's life completely.
This concept while still a basic pillar of self-improvement has seemed to of fallen off somewhat to the wayside.
Like any study or discipline sometimes the basics can get lost in the search for more esoteric ideals and techniques.
The goal of positive thinking is picturing or visualizing in your mind a desired result.
Visualization is crucial to positive thinking in the sense that we need to think as if we are already achieving what we have as an end goal.
How does this apply to our health or fitness pursuits?
I always had some functional strength goals, one being to perform weighted dips with a weight that exceeded my body weight by 10-15 pounds for a solid single rep.
In my mind I pictured the dip station, the plates, the gym.
I pictured how I would approach the station.
I pictured and "felt" what a heavy load like that would feel like hanging from my lifting belt, the gravity pulling me downward.
Over and over in my mind I saw myself muscling out that rep, the grind, the push, everything I got.
I strapped on 160 pounds, took a breath and proceeded.
I'm convinced that utilizing mental visualization helped me achieve that milestone.
How can you apply visualization to your own training to accomplish your goals?


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This talk explains how to formulate the now classical problem of optimal liquidation (or optimal trading) inside a Mean Field Game (MFG). This is a noticeable change since usually mathematical frameworks focus on one large trader in front of a " background noise " (or " mean field "). In standard frameworks, the interactions between the large trader and the price are a temporary and a permanent market impact terms, the latter influencing the public price. Here the trader faces the uncertainty of fair price changes too but not only. He has to deal with price changes generated by other similar market participants, impacting the prices permanently too, and acting strategically. Our MFG formulation of this problem belongs to the class of " extended MFG ", we hence provide generic results to address these " MFG of controls ", before solving the one generated by the cost function of optimal trading. We provide a closed form formula of its solution, and address the case of " heterogenous preferences " (when each participant has a different risk aversion). Last but not least we give conditions under which participants do not need to instantaneously know the state of the whole system, but can " learn " it day after day, observing others' behaviors.


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Evil Knows No Bounds
In previous posts, I have covered how Naomi Jones's investigation was bungled; how the ECSO refused to do a missing person report when Gavin Clarke's mom attempted to get help in her son's disappearance; how so many children have been discarded because the ECSO failed to do their jobs. This story is more than that. When children go missing, there MUST be trust in law enforcement by the community. However, the distrust in this case is well earned by the ECSO.
The case I am speaking of is Jada McNeal aka Jadekiss McNeal. She went missing in December of 2015. This case has been mishandled by the ECSO since day one. The original missing persons report was "lost" apparently by the agency without anyone as much as attempting to look into the disappearance. She was labeled a chronic runaway.
Three months later, when Jada's grandmother contacted the ECSO, she was told no report was done in December, so she proceeded to file one right then. However, since Jada had been gone so long, the ECSO considered the case "cold" and used that as an excuse to do virtually nothing. Sometime soon after a lead came to the ECSO that the young girl was in a sex trafficking ring that ran from Louisiana to Las Vegas.
Until May of this year, nothing has transpired in this case, or so it appeared when the family did a press conference to refresh interest in the case. In typical Morgan fashion, Sir David held his own press conference lashing out at the family for doing such a thing. The investigator assigned to the case was promptly demoted for not making Sir David aware of the family's press conference prior to it happening.
Skip ahead 2 months, I got a call from a colleague in the media who received a lead on Jada's case. My colleague's source claimed that a lead came to the ECSO about an inmate in Miami/Dade County jail that had told investigators there that he had information on Jada being trafficked throughout the state of Florida and the last time he had seen her she was alive. The authorities in Miami contacted the ECSO and spoke to Mike Gilmore head of investigations. Gilmore told him the ECSO was not interested in sending anyone down to speak to this guy who had apparently been arrested in connection with sexual crimes. The authorities in Miami were shocked that the ECSO wasn't interested in at least hearing what this man had to say. But that wasn't the end of it. Mike Gilmore called Miami back later and made a request for the original statement this inmate made regarding Jada. Gilmore's request for the "original" documentation concerned the authorities in Miami and they refused to send any original documentation to the ECSO. Chatter on LEOAffairs.com reflects this corroborating the story I was told
I was stunned by this news. If I had a child missing and I found out even one lead–no matter how far fetched–wasn't followed up on, I would have someone's head on a pike. I proceeded pass along this information to a member of the ECSO admin who has attempted to convince myself and colleagues of his interest in correcting the problematic issues within the ECSO. I was apprehensive about this because anyone associated with this agency who either sees the issues of cutthroat behavior towards the employees not to mention the detrimental effect on the community this agency has built up or is there but unaware of these issues, wouldn't typically get any benefit of the doubt from me. The list of casualties of this agency to the people within it and the community will take years to rehabilitate. I simply don't know that it can be rehabilitated with the administration in place particularly Eric Haines and David Morgan.
Without any real options, I took a leap of faith and told this one person in a position of authority about the lead I got. He said he would look into it and keep me posted. In the meantime, my colleague I received the original tip from contacted me to tell me that her source clarified that the ECSO received this tip 2 years ago and failed to follow up. This tip sat–unfollowed–in a file for 2 years. I lost my mind. Statistically, the chances of finding this little girl alive are exponentially less every day; in the last two years, the lack of give a shit by the ECSO very likely cost this little girl's life or depleted the chances of finding her to NIL.
The person at the ECSO I confided this tip in with the hopes of helping this little girl corroborated that this tip was indeed two years old and unfollowed up on. He refused to assign blame but promised to properly handle this lead ASAP. Since then, 3 trips to areas around the Southeast have been made running down this lead. A few names have been given and they are being run down–2 years too late–but possibly to some end.
My heart has been broken by this story. I was put into contact with members of the family via Cindy Martin, an advocate in the black community who contacted me about doing stories about crimes against people of color that have been inadequately handled and less sufficiently covered by any media. For example, James Beasley who contacted Pensacola PD about someone who was tried to kill him, only to be shot dead two hours after they refused to assist him. Or Devin Kennedy of Pensacola who was killed in Seminole, Alabama with neither the Pensacola PD, ESCO or the Baldwin County Sheriff's office investigating the crime.
How is it possible in this day and age that these things can happen? The fact they almost exclusively happen to minorities adds a level of perception of rampant racism or indifference to those socio-economically below the threshold of most politicians level of sight.
Getting back to Jada, if anyone has any information on this little girl at anytime since December 2015, please contact Milton Search & Rescue's Steve Williams. He seems to be the only one seriously investigating for this family.
Categories: cindy martin, corruption, devin kennedy, ECSO, Eric Haines, jada mcneal, Jadekiss McNeal, james beasley, leoaffairs.com, Mike Gilmore, Pensacola, pensacola police dept•Tags: cindy martin, devin kennedy, ECSO, jada mcneal, Jadekiss McNeal, james beasley, leoaffairs.com, Mike Gilmore, milton search & rescue, PPd, steve williams•
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Melissa Pino says:
"How in this day and age can this happen?"
Jimmie, I ask that question every day.
The best answer I can come up with for it is powerful men abnegating their responsibility to the citizens, to uphold the law, and to uphold the constitution.
That's really all I can see here.
I feel like all of these agencies are standing around in a circle jerk holding a box in their hands. It's like the opposite of a Mexican stand-off. Everybody is saying "oh really, you're gonna open your box? Cause if you do I'm gonna open mine."
When will one of these powerful men decide to open the box he is holding?
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Poonam Alaigh has been successful in both the public and private sectors of healthcare. Prior to joining Remedy Partners, Poonam was the Acting Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs where she directed a healthcare system with an annual budget of approximately $61 billion, overseeing the delivery of care to more than 9 million enrolled veterans. Poonam was the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Senior Services of New Jersey, where she oversaw the department that was responsible for the healthcare policy, public health, senior care and quality of all the healthcare institutions in the state. She also served as the co-founder of one of the largest ACOs in the country, the Atlantic Accountable Care Organization, and CEO and President of Alaigh Care Associates, LLC, a national healthcare consulting company. She has held executive leadership positions at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and GlaxoSmithKline. Poonam is a board certified internist with a specialty in vascular diseases having received her MD and her Masters in Health Care Policy and Management at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY. She is a certified Black Belt in Six Sigma business management strategy. She is a recognized national healthcare leader and has authored a number of articles and publications.
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David Carmouche
Senior Vice President of Ochsner Health System and President of Ochsner Health Network in Louisiana
David Carmouche is a recognized visionary leader in the arenas of healthcare delivery, population health, and payer systems with a keen focus on both patient care and outcome metrics. Dr. Carmouche has demonstrated talent for strategic partnerships with C-suite leaders and Boards. Dr. Carmouche has demonstrated success in achieving operational results through cross-functional teams in complex environments and as a trusted leader of diverse groups with competing business interests through collaborative initiatives. Dr. Carmouche serves as Senior Vice-President and President of Ochsner Health Network. In that role, he is responsible for executive oversight and management for the rapidly growing, statewide network. Dr. Carmouche is also the Executive Director of Ochsner Accountable Care Network, a regional accountable care organization (ACO), comprised of an extensive network of providers, hospitals and health centers coordinating the healthcare of approximately 35,000 of Louisiana's Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. Dr. Carmouche joined Ochsner with 19 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience in medicine and operations. Prior to joining Ochsner in August 2015, he served as the Executive Vice- President of External Operations and Chief Medical Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana in Baton Rouge where he designed and deployed a physician-friendly, comprehensive primary care population health program and several commercial ACO contracts
Laura Landy
CEO of the Ripple Foundation
Founder and Chair of ReThink Health
Laura Landy is President and CEO of the Rippel Foundation and the Founder and Chair of ReThink Health, the Foundation's flagship initiative. ReThink Health focuses on strategically investing resources to seed innovation, catalyze action, and create model processes that will lead to improvements in population health across the United States. Laura has nearly four decades of experience addressing changing dynamics in health, higher education, finance, social services and culture. Her professional career includes executive roles with Pfizer, the State of New Jersey, AT&T and various urban health systems. Laura has served in leadership roles in many academic institutions including the Institute for Nonprofit Entrepreneurship at NYU's Stern School of Business, and adjunct faculty positions at Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon, the New School and Fairleigh Dickinson. She currently serves on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Board of Trustees. Laura received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She received her MBA from New York University, and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Glenn Frommer
President, Mauser, Inc.
Glenn Frommer is a business leader who has consistently transformed complex businesses to deliver increased enterprise value throughout a broad functional and international career in diverse specialty, industrial-products markets. Glenn is skilled in leading teams to improve margins and cash flow by focusing on accretive and complementary M&A, a strong drive for results, value selling, structured product innovation, and business restructuring. As the CEO & President of Mauser Group's North American business and a Management Board member for Mauser Global, Glenn is responsible to grow enterprise value through acquisitions, margin improvement programs, operational excellence, and effective cash management. Glenn spent his career in the US and Europe with several large multi-national companies including Unilever, ICI, Celanese, and Ernst & Young, where he applied a combination of his technology background and financial experience in business management and financial leadership roles. He has spent his career focused on strategy and leadership development as the core elements of leading market-driven and technology-based businesses.
Ira Klein
Senior Director of Health Care Quality Strategy in the Strategic Customer Group, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Ira Klein is the Senior Director of Health Care Quality Strategy in the Strategic Customer Group of Janssen Pharmaceuticals. As a 15-year health care industry veteran, his role is to advance Janssen's ability to deliver industry-leading value-based solutions to the marketplace through engaging with and supporting providers in their efforts to improve quality reporting and performance. This will be grounded in Triple Aim solutions to Janssen's advanced customers, and facilitated by a personal record of having worked on a variety of national quality and policy committees in D.C., and with many medical specialty societies and patient advocacy groups. Previously, Ira was employed by Aetna, where he held a variety of roles during his near 10-year tenure. Most recently, he was National Medical Director for Clinical Thought Leadership in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, building value-based programs in oncology. He led quality and policy interactions with individual providers, vendors, ACO's, pharmaceutical companies and other health systems, developing nationwide programs. In addition to oncology, he worked across multiple therapeutic areas including endocrinology and immunology. As Chief of Staff to the CMO at Aetna, he led policy and economic evaluation of the oncology medical cost category, which led to the establishment of the Oncology Solutions Group at Aetna, focusing on developing value-based programs.
Lorie K. Shoemaker
Division SVP and Chief Nursing Officer at CHI St. Luke's Health Texas Division
Lorie Shoemaker joined CHI St. Luke's Health as the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for the Texas Division in September, 2015. Dr. Shoemaker's responsibilities include oversight for the quality of nursing care and nursing practice across the acute and post-acute care continuum. Prior to joining CHI St. Luke's Health, Dr. Shoemaker served in a variety of leadership roles over a 29 year career at Palomar Health in San Diego, California, including the System Chief Nurse Executive from 2004 -2014. In this role, Dr. Shoemaker provided oversight for nursing care across the system that included three acute care hospitals, two skilled nursing facilities, as well as ambulatory and home health agencies. Under Dr. Shoemaker's leadership, the entire health system received Magnet® recognition in 2009, making Palomar Health the first public health system in California to achieve this honor. Most recently, Dr. Shoemaker served as the President of Palomar Medical Center, the new, state-of-the art facility that she helped design and operationalize in 2012.
Russell Showers
Chief Human Resources Officer, Tower Health
Russ Showers is an experienced healthcare human resources leader known for his ability to collaborate with others, bring innovative strategies to the organizations he serves, and elevate performance and drive organizational transformation. He is a trusted coach and advisor to executive leadership. Currently, Russ serves as CHRO for Tower Health and is responsible for all facets of human resources operations, total rewards, talent acquisition, leadership development, talent management, organization change, performance management, and labor & employee relations for more than 11,000 team members. Tower Health is a regional integrated healthcare provider/payer system that offers healthcare and wellness services to a population of 2.5 million people in their six hospitals and other entities. Prior to joining Tower's flagship hospital Reading Health in 2013, Russ served as VPHR for Valley Health System where he was responsible for strategic and operational leadership of all areas of human resources and organization development. Russ has also held HR leadership roles with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Geisinger Health System.
Ruth Wageman
Director at Team Diagnostics, LLC
Director at ReThink Health
Ruth Wageman is one of the foremost scholars and practitioners studying and working with leadership teams. Understanding the conditions that influence superb team performance has been the core of Ruth's research, teaching and consulting for the last thirty years. Ruth's work places particular emphasis on modern challenges to organizations and society. She studies and develops the capacities that are needed to solve complex problems and to lead systems change. She builds collaborative leadership capacity within and across organizations, especially with multi-stakeholder leadership groups working to transform regional health. Ruth has been a professor at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Harvard, where she has led many original research programs about the design and leadership of teams. Based on her scholarly work, Ruth designed the Team Diagnostic Survey with Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman, a powerful, well-validated assessment that characterizes team effectiveness and how well the Six Conditions that drive effectiveness are established for that team; she leads accreditation workshops and supervises coaches in the use of the instrument in their practice.
Sandra Murray
System Vice President of Learning and Organization Development for CommonSpirit Health
Sandra "Sandi" Murray is currently the System Vice President of Learning and Organization Development for CommonSpirit Health, the recent merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health supporting 150,000 employees and over 150 hospitals as one of the largest faith based health care systems in the nation.
In her current role, she is responsible for overseeing strategic talent management programs and activities, including assessment, performance, training and development, leader coaching and engagement activities supporting the CommonSpirit organization.
Sandi has more than 15 years of experience as a valued partner in driving initiatives and programs to support a thriving workforce that enables the business to reach its goals. Over the years, she has led many successful system wide programs including the implementation of the first CommonSpirit Health new employee orientation program and launch of virtual leadership development programs, performance management implementations (SuccessFactors/Workday); the design and implementation of online recognition programs and supported multiple learning management systems. As an Executive Coach she fosters the development of leaders across the organization to support their growth as a leader and individual.
Previously, Sandi worked at Futurestep Korn/Ferry International, a global executive leadership and recruitment consulting firm, where she served as a Client Solutions Leader and consulted organizations in the creation of highly effective teams, employee and leader development programs, and process effectiveness with a focus on recruiting, developing, and retaining employees.
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At Quest Advisors, we aim to provide access to the information that will help clients make the right decisions. Decisions that help keep you in compliance with investor and regulatory requirements and that can guide you in your quest for excellence in the mortgage banking industry. In that spirit, we have compiled some of the most useful links to both federal and association-based organizations in an attempt to help you find the answers you need to succeed.


As we age, the single greatest risk to our retirement independence is falling. Did you know one out of every 3 adults over the age of 65 falls each year? And if you've fallen once, you are two to three times more likely to fall again. 95% of hip fractures and many traumatic brain injuries are caused by falls, and these injuries make getting around or living independently difficult.
Many of us envision a retirement where we can enjoy a glass of wine on our patio or pluck a fresh tomato from our garden. What we don't envision is a fall that threatens our ability to be physically independent in retirement. Here's why fall prevention is so important and ways to minimize your risk of falling.
Are You at a Higher Risk for Falls?
Environmental risk factors include hazards in and around the home such as uneven or broken steps, steps without railings on both sides and poor lighting. Even your canine friend can be a fall hazard that you might trip over or be pulled down by.
Biological risk factors include balance issues, muscle weakness, chronic health conditions, nutrient deficiency, vision changes or loss, and loss of sensation in the feet.
Behavioral risk factors include inactivity, medication causing confusion or dizziness, and alcohol use.
Experts recommend a multi-pronged approach to fall prevention. Usually two or more risk factors cause a fall. For example, someone misses a step while going up dimly lit stairs and falls as a result of not having the strength to hold on to the railings. Along with eliminating hazards around the home, we should also focus on addressing and/or correcting physical and behavioral issues.
Rearrange furniture to ensure easy movement through living space.
For more extensive remodels, you might want to work with a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist or an architect who is familiar with home modifications that make your home safer and more comfortable for your retirement years. Incorporating universal designs that people of all ages can enjoy increases both the livability and resale value of your home. Some ideas include no-step entries, single-floor living, reachable controls and switches, and wider doors and hallways.
Develop an exercise routine that focuses on improving balance and maintaining leg strength. Tai chi classes and weight-bearing exercises are quite effective.
Take calcium and vitamin D supplements to reduce the risk of hip or other bone fractures.
Discuss with your doctor alternative medications if your current prescriptions cause dizziness or drowsiness.
Visit the eye doctor once a year and keep your eyeglass prescriptions updated. Bi- or trifocal lenses increase the risk of falls when walking up or down stairs.
Use walking aids when needed.
While home modifications can be completed over a short period of time to eliminate many of the risks, maintaining a regular exercise routine and partnering with healthcare professionals to ensure your wellbeing are lifelong endeavors. We at Blankinship & Foster can help you develop a comprehensive retirement plan including ways to safely age in place. Contact us today to learn more about what we can do for you.


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#include <bomp_internal.h>

/*
 * These functions implement the PARALLEL construct
 *
 * #pragma omp parallel
 * {
 *  body;
 * }
 *
 * is translated into
 * void subfunction (void *data)
 * {
 *  use data;
 *  body;
 *  }
 *  setup data;
 *  GOMP_parallel_start (subfunction, &data, num_threads);
 *  subfunction (&data);
 *  GOMP_parallel_end ();
 */

void GOMP_parallel_start(void (*fn)(void *),
                         void *data,
                         unsigned nthreads)
{
    assert(g_bomp_state != NULL);

    /*
     * TODO:
     * 1) work out how many threads can be usedfor executing the parallel task
     * 2) create a new team for solving the task
     * 3) start the team work
     */

    /* Identify the number of threads that can be spawned and start the processing */
    if (!omp_in_parallel()) {
        g_bomp_state->bomp_threads = omp_get_max_threads();
        if (nthreads == 0 || (g_bomp_state->behaviour_dynamic
                                && g_bomp_state->num_threads < nthreads)) {

            nthreads = g_bomp_state->bomp_threads;
        }
        g_bomp_state->backend.start_processing(fn, data, nthreads);
    }
    g_bomp_state->nested++;
}

void GOMP_parallel_end(void)
{
    /*
     * TODO:
     * 1)
     */
    assert(g_bomp_state != NULL);
    if (g_bomp_state->nested == 1) {
        g_bomp_state->backend.end_processing();
    }
    g_bomp_state->nested--;
}

void GOMP_parallel(void (*fn)(void *),
                   void *data,
                   unsigned num_threads,
                   unsigned int flags)
{
    /*
     * TODO:
     * 1)  work out how many threads
     * 2)  allocate and start a new team
     * 3) call the function
     * 4) call parallel end
     */
    assert(!"NYI");

    fn(data);
    GOMP_parallel_end();
}

#if OMP_VERSION >= OMP_VERSION_40
bool GOMP_cancel(int which,
                 bool do_cancel)
{
    assert(!"NYI");
    return 0;
}

bool GOMP_cancellation_point(int which)
{
    assert(!"NYI");
    return 0;
}
#endif


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Sources: Liverpool attacker reaches verbal agreement to join new club on five-year deal
Date: 2nd May 2019 at 8:00pm
Liverpool attacker Bobby Adekanye has reached a verbal agreement to join Lazio, Football Insider understands.
The Dutch youth international, 20, has been offered a five-year contract by the Serie A club worth £17,000-a-week before tax, around triple his Anfield salary.
A Lazio source has told Football Insider that Adekanye has accepted the terms on offer and is ready to put pen to paper on a deal that is set to be finalised before the summer window opens.
The versatile forward, who was in the youth set-ups of Barcelona, Ajax and PSV before joining Liverpool in his mid-teens, is set to join Lazio on a free transfer.
Football Insider revealed in the middle of last month that Adekanye was in advanced talks to move to Lazio after rejecting Liverpool's offer of a new three-year contract.
The Merseysiders have responded by freezing the Nigeria-born youngster, who has been capped by Holland at Under-20 levels, out of their various youth teams.
Adekanye, who is predominantly a right-sided forward, was a regular for the Under-23s before the contract stalemate that has soured the end of his four-year spell at Liverpool.
In other Liverpool news, the club are set to sell Klopp's first signing for a £20million-plus fee after his quit plan is revealed.
Exclusive: McNamara casts doubt on Rangers budget as Ibrox transfer plans confirmed
Exclusive: Aston Villa to submit new & improved player bid after learning he wants move


It's a fact of life -- you live in New Jersey, you get taxed on practically everything. And that certainly includes the state's high property taxes.
But have you ever wondered what or where the one house is that pays the highest amount of property taxes in the entire state?
Thanks to an analysis from NJ.com, we can answer that question.
Allow me to introduce you to 262 East Main Street in Moorestown, Burlington County.
First things first -- this isn't exactly a typical two bedroom house that you drive by everyday.
Rising in a vast clearing in the heart of South Valley Woods is a home on 44.2 acres of land -- a house so large it surpasses Moorestown's Town Hall, public library and the police headquarters combined.
It's a big house. It has 131 windows and 94 doors. And just assume it includes everything you could possibly imagine and much more.
It's assessed at just shy of $18,000,000 -- which puts its property tax bill at a staggering $444,547/year, or roughly $37,000/month.


This field break, all plans were canceled. What should have been a trip to Jogjakarta, turned out to be a mourn to those in the surrounding area of Merapi mountain. Although it was such an itch to see this erupting phenomenon and the damage it caused to the surrounding, it could have been a stupid gestured to go if something worst would have happen or it was just wrong to visit the people in unpleasant conditions. So, I chose to relax, enjoy my hometowns, do simple day trips and brake the egg of choosing to travel in a large group in Indonesia.
There is nothing wrong with traveling with a group in Indonesia. You meet new people, travel to new places with a limited budget. So how is it compared to traveling in small groups?
People traveling in a large tour group aren't really people that like the excitement of traveling itself. They're not the people that are curious, daring to do the unfamiliar, and they tend to take things the easier way. It's usually those that would like to just flow through and enjoy they're trip rather having a more extensive experience if you travel on your own itinerary. You can also find the one or two travelers slipping in for the sake of a cheaper deal and have limited time to do the trip on their own.
I learned that traveling in big groups can extend the people you know and add a few new faces on your Facebook account. Not to mention if you find someone with a similar interested either than traveling, and then you could get lost in the conversation. You could also have a bigger chance to find chaos and funny little mishaps and comments. That always intrigues me. And it's always great to have children on the trip that can say the darnest things besides crying out loud.
You can't win an ambience with a big crowd unless it's a party, rave, or a seminar hehehehe… When traveling, I prefer savoring the moment to understand what I'm actually looking at and really listening to my own thoughts. Not to mention to enjoy imagining how things were or are when it comes to historic relics. With too many people, sometimes there's too much noise and too much distraction, especially if you eventually get to know the group you travel with, you end up talking to them all the time.
The guy in the back of the leader is so annoying!
People can be everywhere when taking a picture of a certain place. Just when you want to capture just the object, you can't because people just can't stop wondering around to their own amusement, which is entirely their right. You rarely get that sole waterfall or monument without someone posing in front of it unless they understand you're taking a picture or you're asking them to bare with you for a minute. And it's annoying to others if you keep on asking them to step aside.
Last is about the time restrain you have based on the schedule that the event organizers have made. You can't enjoy a place and venture a bit more because you are obligated to respect the schedule you have agreed upon. This limits answering curiosity that sometimes can bother you to you dreams.
In the end, traveling in big groups is not my cup of coffee. If there is a choice not to do so, I rather choose to travel with a small bunch of people. I like sharing things on the road, whether it's with a stranger or with an old friend.
Why not compare it solo traveling? Well, I'm not the solo traveler unless it's necessary. And solo traveling for me is a whole different league since you learn so much, see too many, and find a new self, but that is for another time. So, when it comes to groups, it choice of small and little, and that is definitely entirely up to you.


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Aluman and Club Basquet Coruña SAD renew their relationship
Club Básquet Coruña SAD and Grupo Aluman have renewed their sponsorship agreement for one more season.
DPTO. COMUNICACIÓN BÁSQUET CORUÑA
The event held this morning at the Alumán headquarters in Arteixo, was attended by Roberto Cibeira (president) and Yago Álvarez (manager) from Básquet Coruña, and Manuel Á. Pose Palleiro (CEO), Rosa Carril (Corporate Director) and José B. González-Dans (Financial Director) on behalf of the industrial group.
Aluman is a leading façade company in Spain. In 2023 it will celebrate its 50th anniversary and has a consolidated position in the international market with a presence in the main architectural projects in Europe and America. Likewise, it maintains the line that was the origin of Aluman, with an area dedicated exclusively to facade and window projects for individuals and communities.
From Club Básquet Coruña SAD, and in the words of Roberto Cibeira, president of the entity: "I want to thank Aluman for this association that we started three years ago. It is magnificent that a company of this caliber, with such a consolidated international projection and working on benchmark projects such as the remodeling of the Santiago Bernabéu or the Colón towers in Madrid, helps our club. We are proud that a Coruña company of this dimension supports us and identifies with our same values that we transfer and instill in the almost 700 children that we have again after the pandemic. In addition, this season we have a player trained in our base categories who is in the dynamics of the first team and although it is very difficult and he is still very young, we are proud that he is there and hopefully in the coming years we can have more. For all this we want to thank Aluman for his support and hopefully we will continue with this association for many more years".
On behalf of Aluman, its CEO Manuel Á. Pose Palleiro commented: "It is a pleasure to help you and I am sure that we will continue for many years. It is the third season that we signed the sponsorship with Basquet Coruña. At Aluman, we always try to support local sports initiatives, especially when the base is very well cared for, and in this case we are very comfortable with Leyma Basquet Coruña for supporting the entire base and promoting sport in the quarry and in Coruña ".
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Six judoka from TSV Abensberg attack at the German individual championships – Abensberg
All it took was a honk of the horn and the "snow" would come down from above


-- An interactive map detailing all of the areas around the world I have climbed at using google maps technology.
-- Photos from years of trips climbing in some of the most beautiful places in the world.
-- Photos from a day of floating and flying through White Sands Nation Park in New Mexico.
-- Pictures from two weeks of travel in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia with close friends from high school.


What's the weather like in Mauritius in September?
Mauritius sits off the southeast coast of Africa some 900km east of Madagascar. It's close to the Tropic of Capricorn, which means it has a tropical climate that gives you high temperatures and lots of sunny weather in September.
Mauritius has two distinct seasons, a warm and humid summer from November to April, and a cooler and drier winter from June to September. Mauritius is quite mountainous, which means there's different weather across the island. It's a bit warmer and drier in the north and west than in the south and east. You'll also get warmer weather on the coast compared to inland all year round.
In September there's an average high of 26ºC, while humidity's low. The sea temperature's a fantastic 23ºC, which is perfect for swimming, while there's 50mm of rain over four days. Things stay nice and pleasant in the evenings after the sun goes down just after 6pm, after you've had seven hours of sunshine from the 12 hours of daylight there usually are in September.


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Blu-Ray, DVD & VOD 6 Years Ago July 14, 2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Release Date
The movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is already released on Blu-Ray, DVD, VOD and Cinema in the USA and UK.
July 14, 2015Confirmed
March 6, 2015Expected
June 29, 2015Confirmed
February 27, 2015Expected
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it's making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). Sonny has his eye on a promising property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig). Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and are wondering where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead, while Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) are negotiating the tricky waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two eligible and very wealthy suitors. Perhaps the only one who may know the answers is newly installed co-manager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), the keeper of everyone's secrets. As the demands of a traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf them all, an unexpected way forward presents itself.
The Second Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel
Dev Patel
https://youtube.com/embed/3REYWGRmLnQ


The 2016 founded modum.io is the latest in a row of innovative crypto startups to join the Bitcoin Association as a corporate member. The company combines IoT sensor devices with blockchain technology to provide data integrity for transactions involving physical goods and streamlines supply chain management in many sectors.
Their sensors record environmental conditions while the physical products are in shipment. When a change of ownership occurs, the collected data is checked against the specific smart contract in the Ethereum blockchain. This contract validates whether the transaction meets all of the standards promised by the sender to the client and the regulator and then triggers appropriate actions such as notifications to the sender, confirm payments or release the goods. A great article about this promising startup appeared a few weeks ago in the Handelszeitung.
The Bitcoin Association is happy to support the fast growth of the Swiss crypto currency and blockchain ecosystem and invites every startup to join our ranks to collaborate with our shared community.