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577 F. 2d 668 - Pettis United States v. Morrison-Knudsen Co Inc
577 F2d 668 Pettis United States v. Morrison-Knudsen Co Inc
49 A.L.R.Fed. 836, 25 Cont.Cas.Fed. (CCH) 82,700
Charles PETTIS ex rel. UNITED STATES, Plaintiff-Appellant,
MORRISON-KNUDSEN CO., INC. and Brown & Root, Inc., et al.,
Defendants- Appellees.
Ninth Circuit.
Bruce J. Terris (argued), Washington, D. C., John W. Stayton, Jr. (argued), Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.
Thomas Richard Spradlin (argued), Clifford, Warnke, Glass, McIlwain & Finney, Washington, D. C., John W. Slayton, Jr., (argued), Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho.
Before SNEED and TANG, Circuit Judges, and INGRAM,* District Judge.
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
This case comes to us on Pettis' appeal from the district court's dismissal of his False Claims Act suit against Morrison-Knudsen and Brown & Root on the grounds that 31 U.S.C. § 232(C) deprived the court of jurisdiction because the information on which the suit was based was already in the possession of the United States at the time the suit was brought.1 Pettis contends that this provision is inapplicable to an informer who supplied the government with the information on which the denial of jurisdiction must rest; that, even if applicable, insufficient evidence was in possession of the United States prior to suit to invoke the bar; and that, under the circumstances of this case, the district court should not have dismissed Pettis' suit in the absence of a hearing to determine whether the bar was properly invoked.
We hold against Pettis on each of his contentions. That is, we conclude that jurisdiction is lacking even when an informer prior to bringing suit supplies the government with the information which under 31 U.S.C. § 232(C) invokes the bar. Furthermore, we hold that the district court did not err in determining that sufficient evidence was in possession of the United States prior to the suit by Pettis to deprive it of jurisdiction and that the hearing Pettis seeks was unnecessary under the circumstances of this case.
Pettis was employed as the resident engineer on a road construction project in Peru from 1966-1968. His employer, Brown & Root Overseas (hereinafter Overseas), a subsidiary of Brown & Root, Inc., was the general engineer on the project. Constructora Emkay (hereinafter Emkay), a subsidiary of Morrison-Knudsen Co., was the general contractor for the project and the United States Agency for International Development was involved in its financing.
The project ran into problems from the start. Unexpected landslides made construction difficult and required reengineering of many sections of the road. Pettis' observations of these developments led him to complain about what he considered to be irregularities. He believed that certain officials of both Overseas and Emkay were attempting to cover up some of these problems, as well as fraudulently to charge redesign and repeat construction work to the contract. He saw other practices that he also considered fraudulent. He approached both Peruvian and United States officials in 1967 to inform them of these irregularities. In December 1968 Pettis was discharged from his employment, allegedly as a result of the charges he had made. The Peruvian government, which was conducting an investigation of the project, required Pettis to remain in Peru and assist in the investigation. As a result of this investigation, the contract with Overseas and Emkay was terminated and the Peruvian government took over work on the project. A negotiated settlement of the claims made by Peru against Emkay and Overseas was finally entered into on February 19, 1974.
The Agency for International Development conducted two audits of the project, at least partially as a result of the charges made by Mr. Pettis. One audit was completed in 1969 and the other in 1970. A study of the project was also done in 1969 by an independent consulting geologist. Pettis was still dissatisfied and notified the office of United States Senator William Proxmire, at whose request the General Accounting Office conducted an investigation. A report on the project was issued by the GAO on December 2, 1971.
On December 17, 1971, Pettis filed a False Claims Act suit against Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root, and Overseas in the District Court for the District of Columbia. On April 24, 1972, this action was dismissed for failure to join Emkay, an indispensable party defendant. Just prior to this dismissal Pettis had filed similar False Claims Act suits in the District of Idaho against Morrison-Knudsen and Emkay and in the Southern District of Texas against Brown & Root and Overseas. The Idaho and Texas suits were held in abeyance pending the outcome of Pettis' appeal from the dismissal in the District of Columbia court. In January 1974 the order of dismissal was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, solely on the ground of forum non conveniens. On August 28, 1974, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered that the Texas case be transferred to the District of Idaho for consolidated pretrial proceedings.
All the defendants then moved for dismissal on the basis of the bar of 31 U.S.C. § 232(C) and supported their motion with affidavits. Pettis' only response was a memorandum arguing that a hearing should be held on the issue. On April 10, 1975, the district court, without holding a hearing, granted the motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. This appeal followed. We affirm.
We shall examine each of Pettis' contentions in the order set forth in the introduction of this opinion.
SCOPE OF THE JURISDICTIONAL BAR OF 31 U.S.C. § 232(C).
The applicable portion of 31 U.S.C. § 232(C) provides that "(t)he court shall have no jurisdiction to proceed with any such suit brought under clause (B) of this section or pending suit brought under this section whenever it shall be made to appear that such suit was based upon evidence or information in the possession of the United States, or any agency, officer or employee thereof, at the time such suit was brought." Appellant asks us to read into this provision an exception applicable to situations in which the person bringing suit is the source of the information possessed by the government prior to suit.
We begin by noting that the language of 31 U.S.C. § 232(C) affords no crevice of ambiguity within which to nestle the exception Pettis seeks. It presents a face, smooth, sharp, and unyielding. Nonetheless, we must heed the Supreme Court's recent admonition in Train v. Colorado Public Interest Research Group, 426 U.S. 1, 9-10, 96 S.Ct. 1938, 48 L.Ed.2d 434 (1976), to examine relevant legislative history in the search for the intent of Congress even when the statute is clear and unambiguous on its face. It is always possible that Congress did not quite mean what it said and did not quite say what it meant.
The portion of the statute at issue here was added to the False Claims Act by the extensive amendments of 1943. 57 Stat. 608. Early in 1943 the Supreme Court held, under the then existing version of the False Claims Act, which had its origin in the Act of March 2, 1863, 12 Stat. 696, c. 67, that a qui tam or informer action could be maintained by a private person on behalf of the United States even when based solely on information acquired from an indictment. United States ex rel. Marcus v. Hess, 317 U.S. 537, 545-48, 63 S.Ct. 379, 87 L.Ed. 443 (1943). The immediate concern of Congress was to do away with these so-called "parisitical suits." United States v. Pittman, 151 F.2d 851, 854 (5th Cir. 1945), cert. denied, 328 U.S. 843, 66 S.Ct. 1022, 90 L.Ed. 1617 (1946); United States v. Rippetoe, 178 F.2d 735, 736 (4th Cir. 1949).
The House and Senate, however, adopted different approaches for accomplishing this end. The House bill completely abolished qui tam actions. 89 Cong.Rec. 10844 (Dec. 17, 1943). The Senate's approach was less drastic. Qui tam actions survived when based upon information, evidence and sources "not then in the possession of the United States, unless obtained from such person (bringing the suit) by the United States in the course of any investigation by a grand jury, Congressional Committee, or other public body, or before a United States Commissioner or other proceeding instituted or conducted by it." 89 Cong.Rec. 10845 (Dec. 17, 1943).
Had this language survived, the exception Pettis seeks perhaps could fairly be found to have been intended by Congress. The difficulty is that it did not. The Conference Committee substituted the language which now appears in the statute for that in the Senate version. The Conference Report stated:
Jurisdiction is denied to the court to proceed with any suit brought under clause (B) or pending suit brought under section 3491 of the Revised Statutes (private suits) whenever it shall be made to appear that such suit was based upon evidence or information in the possession of the United States, or any agency, officer or employee thereof, at the time such suit was brought.
89 Cong.Rec. 10845 (Dec. 17, 1943).
There exists in the legislative history no explicit explanation for the Conference Committee's action. That it compromised the differences between the Senate and House versions is clear; but why it struck the particular compromise it did remains obscure. Opponents of the compromise in the House recognized that the honest informer would be barred from bringing suit if he had turned his information over to the government prior to filing suit. Remarks of Congressman Miller of Missouri, 89 Cong.Rec. 10847 (Dec. 17, 1943). On the other hand, it was recognized that the honest informer, under another portion of 31 U.S.C. § 232(C),2 could bring suit prior to divulging his information to the United States and maintain that suit if the United States did not choose in the appropriate manner to assume the burden. It is quite likely that it was this route open to the honest informer to which reference was made in the colloquy which superficially appears to provide support for the existence of the exception Pettis seeks. That colloquy, which took place immediately prior to the adoption by the House of the Conference Report, is as follows:
MR. KEFAUVER. Boiling the thing down as much as we can, is this not about the situation? In the first place, the average, good American citizen should not have to have a pecuniary reward in order to give information about somebody defrauding the Government?
MR. HANCOCK. The gentleman is entirely correct. It is the duty of every good citizen to protect his government.
MR. KEFAUVER. In the second place, if he has information and he gives it to the Government, and the Government does not proceed in due course, provision is made here where that suit can be brought and where he can get some compensation?
MR. HANCOCK. That is correct.
MR. KEFAUVER. So this bill, then, protects the Government and it protects the corporation or contractor from being defrauded and harassed by shysters or people who might bring suit without any information or with little information; and yet if the Government does not act, there is still a protection or a means whereby they can proceed.
MR. HANCOCK. The gentleman has correctly stated the question better than I have been able to do.
Most doubt concerning the intent of Congress would be eliminated had Mr. Kefauver's second comment been as follows:
MR. KEFAUVER. In the second place, if he has information and (after bringing suit) he gives it to the Government, and the Government does not proceed in due course, provision is made here where that suit can be (maintained) and where he can get compensation.
The possibility that Mr. Kefauver, who was obviously friendly to the conference report, generalized somewhat inaccurately permits the issue to be framed as whether Mr. Kefauver's second comment, read literally, should be taken to indicate the true Congressional intent or whether that intent resides in the language of the statute which, when also read literally, is in conflict therewith. We have no doubt but that under such circumstances the intent of Congress resides in the words of the statute. That is, discharge of our obligation to follow the intent of Congress requires that we assume that Congress said what it meant and meant what it said.
Further support for this approach exists in the bill's savings clause. That clause provides that "no abatement shall be had as to a suit pending on December 23, 1943, if before such suit was filed such person had in his possession and voluntarily disclosed to the Attorney General substantial evidence and information which was not theretofore in the possession of the Department of Justice." 31 U.S.C. § 232(C). Had Congress intended to create the exception Pettis argues for, this savings provision would have been unnecessary. Suits saved by the clause would have been authorized by the statute and thus not in need of rescue. Statutes should not be construed so as to make mere surplusage of any of the provisions included therein. See Zeigler Coal Co. v. Kleppe, 175 U.S.App.D.C. 371, 379, 536 F.2d 398, 406 (1976); Klein v. Republic Steel Corp., 435 F.2d 762, 766 (3rd Cir. 1970); Rincon Band of Mission Indians v. San Diego County, 324 F.Supp. 371, 376 (S.D.Cal.1971), aff'd, 495 F.2d 1 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1008, 95 S.Ct. 328, 42 L.Ed.2d 283 (1974).
Our interpretation of the statute is supported by the Third Circuit, which is the only other circuit to have decided the precise question before us. United States v. Aster, 275 F.2d 281 (3rd Cir. 1960). Appellant argues that we should not follow Aster, but rather should be guided by the liberal construction policy he asserts is required by the Supreme Court. It is true that in determining what actions are covered by the term "claim" in the False Claims Act, the Court indicated a narrow construction is inappropriate. United States v. Neifert-White, 390 U.S. 228, 88 S.Ct. 959, 19 L.Ed.2d 1061 (1968) (application for a loan treated as a claim). We are not convinced, however, that the Supreme Court would have us abandon the literal interpretation of the jurisdictional bar which, as indicated, is strongly suggested by the available legislative history. It is one thing to extend the reach of the statute to provide additional protection to the United States; it is quite another to permit the bringing of a private suit after the United States, being apprised of the facts, fails to act. Public benefit is clearly served by the first; only by assuming a corrupt and enfeebled federal government would it be unmistakably served by the second. Congress in enacting the 1943 amendments did not proceed on such an assumption nor do we think we should.3
Of course, a different situation exists when the corruption out of which the false claim arose also serves to prevent government action, as where, for example, a corrupt public official who is a party to the fraud prevents governmental action by concealment or otherwise. Under such conditions it is highly artificial to insist that the government "possesses" the information for the purposes of invoking the jurisdictional bar. We need not, however, pass on that question here. Therefore, United States v. Rippetoe, 178 F.2d 735 (4th Cir. 1949), which refused to find the informer barred under approximately such circumstances, whatever its merits, is distinguishable from the case before us.
Pettis, finally, asserts the bar should not exist where the United States prior to receiving his information failed to warn him that his revelations would result in a loss of his 31 U.S.C. § 232(B) rights. No such duty is imposed explicitly by the False Claims Act and the legislative history suggests nothing to the contrary. Full disclosure by the government would have been an ethically proper act were we to treat the informer and the government as individuals equally subject to a common morality. Governments, even so-called paternalistic ones, must be sovereigns first and only thereafter, if at all, followers of the golden rule. Under our Constitution obedience to the law enacted for the common good is the indispensible mark of sovereignty. Departures from the law, even if only to respond in an ethical way to an individual, sacrifice to some degree the common good as perceived by the lawmakers. For one other than a legislature to attempt to balance the gain to the individual against the loss to the group is to court the charge of usurpation. We eschew the risk.
APPLICATION OF THE JURISDICTIONAL BAR.
Appellant Pettis next contends that, even if an informer exception does not exist, in this case his suit is not "based upon evidence or information in the possession of the United States." The district court found that "all the essential allegations of wrongdoing contained in the present complaints of the plaintiffs were made known to the Comptroller-General and investigated by his office at least several months before the plaintiffs commenced any court action." In addition, it found that "(t)he evidence and information which plaintiffs rely on was well known to the Comptroller-General of the United States prior to the commencement of this suit." These findings are amply supported by the record and, to the extent a legal standard is reflected therein, are not inconsistent with our understanding of the statute.
The propriety of the legal standard depends on the extent to which the information on which the suit is based must be identical to the information in the possession of the United States in order for the jurisdictional bar to be invoked. To require that the evidence and information possessed by the United States be a mirror image of that in the hands of the qui tam plaintiff would virtually eliminate the bar. On the other hand, to permit the bar to be invoked when the United States possesses only rumors while the qui tam plaintiff has evidence and information would be to permit the bar to repeal effectively much of the False Claims Act. Between these extremes lies the answer.
More precisely, the answer rests in that area where it is possible to say that the evidence and information in possession of the United States at the time the False Claims Act suit was brought was sufficient to enable it adequately to investigate the case and to make a decision whether to prosecute. Obviously to refer to an "area" rather than a "point" lacks definiteness; but prudence requires this sacrifice. Each case requires careful analysis not likely to be aided by asserting that the evidence and information sufficient to invoke the bar must be "substantial," "essential," or "significant." Despite the imprecision under which we must labor, we hold that it is clear that in this case the bar was properly invoked.
THE ABSENCE OF A HEARING.
Appellant's final argument is that the district court improperly refused to hold a hearing before deciding that the jurisdictional bar was applicable. We also reject this argument. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, supported by affidavits. The plaintiff's only response was a memorandum asking that a hearing be held; no affidavits were submitted on behalf of the plaintiff and the memorandum contained only conclusory allegations as to what documents and testimony could be produced at the hearing.
It should be noted initially that plaintiff has the burden of establishing jurisdiction if it is properly controverted by the opposing party. McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 298 U.S. 178, 56 S.Ct. 780, 80 L.Ed. 1135 (1936); see Uniform Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 400 F.2d 267 (9th Cir. 1968). We do not think that the conclusory allegations made here by plaintiff's counsel satisfy this burden. Cf. Weller v. Cromwell Oil Co.,504 F.2d 927 (6th Cir. 1974). Since the defendants' uncontested affidavits established that the government had sufficient information regarding the alleged fraud prior to initiation of this suit, the court properly exercised its discretion not to hold an evidentiary hearing. See Cole v. Cardoza, 441 F.2d 1337 (6th Cir. 1971). While it might have been preferable for the district judge to have told appellant explicitly that he was not going to hold a hearing, and then given him another chance to produce documents or affidavits, he did not abuse his discretion in reaching his decision on the basis of the affidavits presented by the defendant in view of the appellant's complete failure to supply anything other than conclusory allegations. Cf. Rule 43(e), Fed.R.Civ.Proc.
Hon. William A. Ingram, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation
Pettis' suit depends on 31 U.S.C. § 232(B) for its authorization which provides as follows:
(B) Except as hereinafter provided, such suit may be brought and carried on by any person, as well for himself as for the United States, the same shall be at the sole cost and charge of such person, and shall be in the name of the United States, but shall not be withdrawn or discontinued without the consent, in writing, of the judge of the court and the United States attorney, first filed in the case, setting forth their reasons for such consent.
31 U.S.C. § 232(C) then provides:
(C) . . . The court shall have no jurisdiction to proceed with any such suit brought under clause (B) of this section or pending suit brought under this section whenever it shall be made to appear that such suit was based upon evidence or information in the possession of the United States, or any agency, officer or employee thereof, at the time such suit was brought.
31 U.S.C. § 232(C) provides:
(C) Whenever any such suit shall be brought by any person under clause (B) of this section notice of the pendency of such suit shall be given to the United States by serving upon the United States attorney for the district in which such suit shall have been brought a copy of the bill of complaint and by sending, by registered mail, or by certified mail, to the Attorney General of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia, a copy of such bill together with a disclosure in writing of substantially all evidence and information in his possession material to the effective prosecution of such suit. The United States shall have sixty days, after service as above provided, within which to enter appearance in such suit. If the United States shall fail, or decline in writing to the court, during said period of sixty days to enter any such suit, such person may carry on such suit.
We, of course, disapprove United States ex rel. Davis v. Long's Drugs, Inc., 411 F.Supp. 1144 (S.D.Cal.1976) to the extent that it suggests that Aster was wrongfully decided and that all provisions of the False Claims Act should be liberally construed to foster claims being brought


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The 14th National Assembly completed its third parliamentary year on May 31, 2016. It held 32 sessions spanning over 289 sittings from June 1, 2013, to May 30, 2016. The attendance record of lawmakers was first made public on the National Assembly website at the outset of this parliamentary year in June 2015. The Free and Fair Election Network acquired the last two years' attendance record from the National Assembly by filing an information request. The current report is based on the official attendance record and does not include the attendance of the Joint Sittings of both Houses of the Parliament.
The attendance of lawmakers was recorded the highest during the first session of the 14th National Assembly. It witnessed the highest presence of lawmakers again during the third and 19th sessions which were single-sitting sessions. The third sitting of the first session was highest attended sitting when the election of the Prime Minister took place in the presence of 318 lawmakers. The fourth sitting of 18th session was the least attended sitting with only 87 members being present.
The annual average attendance of lawmakers witnessed a downward trend during the second parliamentary year. Each lawmaker, on average, attended 64 sittings during the first, 51 sittings during the second and 59 during the third year. Similarly, on average, each sitting of the first year was attended by 222 lawmakers second by 194 and third by 208 lawmakers.
Less than half of the members present in 38 out of 289 sitting. As many as 101 lawmakers (29%) attended less than half (145) of the sittings. Among the less regular members include prominent names like Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his nephew Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, parliamentary leaders of PTI Imran Khan, MQM Farooq Sattar, JUI-F Fazl-ur-Rehman and PML Pervaiz Elahi.
National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq attended 245 sittings during three years while Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi was present in 237 sittings. Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif attended 39 sittings during three years – nine each in first and third parliamentary year and 21 in second parliamentary year. Leader of the Opposition Syed Khursheed Shah attended 221 sittings.
As many as 26 Cabinet Members – 17 Federal Ministers and 9 Ministers of State – are Members of the National Assembly. Each Minister, on average, attended 172 sittings during three parliamentary years. Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmad was marked present during 285 sittings and was the most regular minister in the National Assembly. He is the second most regular lawmaker during three years. Nine other cabinet members attended more than 200 sittings. Two Federal Ministers Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi and Ahsan Iqbal attended 80 and 99 sittings, respectively. More than half of the ministers remained absent from as many as 54 sittings while there were only four sittings when all 26 ministers were present.
There are 70 female lawmakers in the National Assembly – 60 on reserved seats, nine elected and one minority. Nearly 77% women lawmakers attended half or more sittings. Each woman lawmaker, on average, attended more sittings than their male counterparts. A woman lawmaker, on average, attended 70 sittings during the first parliamentary year, 54 in the second year and 67 in the third year. On average, a male lawmaker attended 62, 51 and 57 sittings during these years. Aliya Kamran from JUI-F remained the most regular lawmaker.
There are ten lawmakers elected on seats reserved for religious minorities. Half of them attended more than 200 sittings during three parliamentary years. Each minority lawmaker, on average, attended 197 sittings which is much higher than overall average of other lawmakers i.e. 168.


It was an early morning, the kind where the sky is still black and generator-powered lamps bathe the tees of a driving range with light to let PGA Tour players get loose for another pro-am. There were more people around than usual for that hour, by and large because a certain someone was there warming up: Tiger Woods, whose return to the tour has become an intriguing subplot to the 2018 season as he has moved from novelty to regular participant and sometimes contender.
Among those there was a prominent figure in the game who calls not only lives near Woods but has known the 14-time major winner for decades. After watching Woods go through his routine, it wasn't the power of his new swing or the trajectory of his shots that stood out. It was something far more ordinary: That when Woods walked past him, he said hello.
For most anyone, the gesture would be considered routine. Except that little about Woods' entire life has been that. For years, Woods had said nothing to this particular person, even though they ran in the same circles, had crossed paths hundreds of times and there was no particular reason for the silence, no beef, real or imagined. The acknowledgement was a small act, but not in relative terms. Coming from Woods, it carried weight.
This person is not alone in this sentiment. Several tour pros we spoke to have noticed something different about Woods over the last few months as the former World No. 1 has re-acclimated himself to tour life. A proverbial chip appears to have been lifted off Tiger's broad shoulders.
There's an old saying that Hollywood playwright and sage Wilson Mizner reportedly gave to a young up-and-coming actor and has been repeated often since: Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down. At 42, and after four back surgeries and myriad injuries and comebacks, Woods might not be on his way up—although his latest revival has been impressive—but evidence suggests he seems to have figured out another cliché: Better late than never.
Along those lines, Woods seems to have forged a different relationship with the game's current group of stars than those of his own generation.
After Justin Thomas won the Honda Classic in February, he celebrated at Woods' restaurant in Jupiter. The owner wasn't there, but he did join Thomas at the Woods Jupiter after the 24-year-old won his first major last August at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Thomas has since been a regular at the joint and has spent time at Woods' home and on the golf course with him.
It's certainly a different picture than the one from last May, when Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI near his home in Jupiter after being found asleep at the wheel of his black Mercedes, the engine still running and with fresh damage to the wheels and the vehicle, shortly after 2 a.m. The ugliness was captured on a police dash cam as Woods failed multiple field sobriety tests and didn't know where he was. The charges were later reduced, but a toxicology report showed five different drugs in his system at the time, including Vicodin and Xanax. It was clear that Woods, who just two years ago was said to be mostly a "ghost" around town and at his usual haunts, was in an abyss, one that even those who had spent time around him wondered if he'd be able to pull himself out of.
Tiger has been seen spending more time signing autographs at PGA Tour stops in 2018.
In the aftermath of the arrest, Woods, who was sentenced to one-year probation after pleading guilty to reckless driving charges, checked himself into an "intensive" rehab program to better manage his pain and sleep medication, and he seems to have come out the other side.
In the fall, as doctors allowed him to get back out on the course to practice, Woods was again a regular at his home club, The Medalist. At one point prior to his first competitive round last December at the Hero World Challenge, his tournament in the Bahamas, he played nine days in a row. Then came regular starts at Torrey Pines, another at Riviera, followed by another at the Honda Classic, where he played for consecutive weeks for the first time in nearly a year and fared well, finishing 12th. A couple of weeks later at the Valspar Championship, Woods found himself in contention throughout the weekend before taking one stroke too many to finish in a tie for second behind Paul Casey.
All along the way of this latest, likely final comeback, there have been more signs, whether authentic or derived from other motivations, of a friendlier, gentler and perhaps slightly more open Tiger, be it with the media—where his answers have been more thoughtful and engaging—or competitors and even fans.
After finishing late Saturday to get within two strokes of the lead at the Valspar, a throng of Tigermaniacs waited through a series of post-round interviews with the press. Woods obliged by spending a sizeable chunk of time signing autographs, something he would have been far less likely to do from the same position in his heyday.
Early in the week at Arnold Palmer Invitational, his last start before the Masters, Woods was asked about heightened expectations given his good play and if he needs to play well to actually enjoy it.
A few days later at Bay Hill, Woods was making a Sunday charge that felt an awful lot like his performances of old. That is, until he inexplicably hooked his driver left and out of bounds on the par-5 16th hole, unceremoniously taking himself out of contention. Afterward, rather than a brooding Tiger that would have greeted the media defensively, Woods gave what felt like a genuine answer about being uncommitted to the shot and unsure of what to do on the tee box in the moment. The admission of his mistake was a surprise—and another indication that Woods seems to be in a new place.
That Woods found himself back in contention at the Valspar not surprisingly put a smile on Tiger's face.
It's not just the positive things, like a smile and a wave, that Woods is doing more of. It's what he's doing less that's also being noticed, the swift walk to and from the clubhouse to the range, and the icy glares that accompany them seemingly disappearing.
The dime-store psychology among many in and around the game aligns similarly. After all, Woods, for as long as anyone can remember, has been a golfer and not just any golfer but the best golfer. It wasn't what he was but who he was, who he has always been. A few months shy of his third birthday he made his television debut, appearing on the Mike Douglas Show, along with Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart and of course his late father Earl. A couple of years later came another one on "That's Incredible," where Woods said he was going to beat Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson by the time he was age 20. Both men were well past their prime by then, but Woods' assault on the record book actually ended up exceeding expectations.
Then everything outside the ropes—and soon inside of them—crumbled, some of Woods' own doing, some not. His father passed away in 2006. There was the extramarital scandal in 2009. Divorce. The mounting injuries and surgeries. The pain. The medication. The DUI stop.
"Who knows how disappointing it was and how bad it was," Ernie Els, who has known Woods for two decades and lives not far from him in South Florida, said. Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee has his theories.
In that aspect, Woods, who will make his 21st trip down Magnolia Lane for this year's Masters, is back. To what and for how long, no one—including Woods—knows. And what will happen if he does return to his winning ways, even if he's not as dominant as he once was? Will the Mister Rogers routine last?
The question in that moment is this: Will Tiger say hello before he tries to step on their throats?


b. c.1576, 1 1st. s. of Sir Robert Wroth I* of Durants and Susan, da. and h. of John Stonard of Loughton. educ. G. Inn 1594. m. 27 Sept. 1602, Mary, da. of Sir Robert Sidney† of Penshurst, Kent, 1s.2 kntd. 8 (or 23) June 1603.3 suc. fa. 1606. d. 14 Mar. 1614.
Wroth and his wife shared literary interests and friends. Ben Jonson probably spent time at Loughton, which he described in his poem 'The Forest', dedicated to Wroth. A further poem, 'The Alchemist', was dedicated to Lady Mary.53 Wroth was presumably also well acquainted with the poet Richard Niccols, who included an epigram on Wroth in his 'Vertue's Encomium', written shortly after Wroth's death, in which he refers to Wroth as having been a bountiful host.54 Wroth's friends included the 3rd earl of Pembroke, who attended the christening of his son, and his father-in-law, Lord L'Isle (Sir Robert Sidney).
1. Calculated from fa.'s i.p.m.: W.C. Waller, 'An Extinct County Fam.: Wroth of Loughton Hall', Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. viii. n.s. 156.
2. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 330; Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 17; Sidney Letters ed. A. Collins, i. 120. Family visitations give the name of Wroth's maternal granddfa. as Francis Stonard, but this is evidently incorrect: Waller, 148.
4. E407/1/35, 36; LC2/4/4, f. 60.
5. AO3/1276, pt. 2, unfol.
7. C181/1, f. 89v; C181/2, f. 193.
9. Ibid. ff. 30v, 167v.
10. C181/2, ff. 50, 94.
12. Lansd. 168, f. 151v.
15. Ibid. ff. 19, 157v.
17. Eg. 2644, f. 171; SP14/31/1.
18. Ibid. ff. 54v, 178v.
20. Cal. Assize Recs. Essex Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 14, 121.
22. Add. 11402, f. 142.
26. DL5/24, pp. 879-80; DL41/3/17.
27. D. Pam, Story of Enfield Chase, 53.
28. C181/2, ff. 126v, 149v.
29. CSP Dom. 1611-18, pp. 83, 121, 158.
30. List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 46.
31. PROB 11/107, f. 70v.
32. Calculated from DL43/7/7, rots. 1, 4r-v, 7.
33. DL44/905. Waller, 163, says it was worth just over £517 p.a.
34. PROB 11/107, f. 71; E407/123, unnumb. item, 20 Apr. 1606, Wroth to Sir Vincent Skynner. The pension was made out in Thomas' name.
37. WARD 9/91, ff. 235-6; WARD 9/611, unfol.
39. CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 121; Pam, 47; E403/2731, f. 181.
40. Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 519.
42. Waller, 158, 164; PROB 11/123, f. 482v.
43. VCH Essex, iv. 120.
46. CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 187; Waller, 163.
48. C2/Jas.I/W17/6. For the birth of his son, see Chamberlain Letters, i. 512.
52. Ibid. 392b, 393a, 394a; Procs. 1610 ed. E.R. Foster, ii. 6.
53. Waller, 158; VCH Essex, iv. 119.
54. Harl. Misc. x. 10.
55. Chamberlain Letters, i. 519.
56. PROB 11/123, ff. 481-4.
57. Chamberlain Letters, ii. 16.
58. Procs. 1614 (Commons), 289, 347.


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Home Physics News
Breakthrough in Quantum Cryptography Demonstrates "Perfectly Secure" Bit Commitment
TOPICS:MathematicsPopularQuantum CryptographyQuantum PhysicsUniversity of Cambridge
By University of Cambridge November 4, 2013
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated perfectly secure bit commitment, sending encrypted data between pairs of sites in Geneva and Singapore.
A breakthrough in quantum cryptography demonstrates that information can be encrypted and then decrypted with complete security using the combined power of quantum theory and relativity – allowing the sender to dictate the unveiling of coded information without any possibility of intrusion or manipulation.
Scientists sent encrypted data between pairs of sites in Geneva and Singapore, kept "perfectly secure" for fifteen milliseconds – putting into practice what cryptographers call a 'bit commitment' protocol, based on theoretical work by study co-author Dr Adrian Kent from Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Researchers describe it as the first step towards impregnable information networks controlled by "the combined power of Einstein's relativity and quantum theory" which might one day, for example, revolutionize financial trading and other markets across the world.
'Bit commitment' is a mathematical version of a securely sealed envelope. Data are delivered from party A to party B in a locked state that cannot be changed once sent and can only be revealed when party A provides the key – with security guaranteed, even if either of the parties tries to cheat.
The technique could one day be used for everything from global financial trading to secure voting and even long-distance gambling, although researchers point out that this is the "very first step into new territory".
This is a significant breakthrough in the world of 'quantum cryptography' – one that was once believed to be impossible. The results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
"This is the first time perfectly secure bit commitment – relying on the laws of physics and nothing else – has been demonstrated," said Adrian Kent.
"It is immensely satisfying to see these theoretical ideas at last made practical thanks to the ingenuity of all the theorists and experimenters in this collaboration."
Any signal between Geneva and Singapore takes at least fifteen milliseconds – with a millisecond equal to a thousandth of a second. This blink-of-an-eye is long enough with current technology to allow data to be handed over encrypted at both sites, and later decrypted – with security "unconditionally guaranteed" by the laws of physics, say the team.
The researchers have exploited two different areas of physics: Einstein's special relativity – which interprets uniform motion between two objects moving at relative speeds – combined with the power of quantum theory, the new physics of the subatomic world that Einstein famously dismissed as "spooky".
Completely secure 'bit commitment' using quantum theory alone is known to be impossible, say researchers, and the "extra control" provided by relativity is crucial.
Professor Gilles Brassard FRS of the Universit'e de Montr'eal, one of the co-inventors of quantum cryptography who was not involved in this study, spoke of the "vision" he had fifteen years ago – when trying to combine quantum 'bit commitment' with relativity to "save" the theory – in which Einstein and early quantum physicist Niels Bohr "rise from their graves and shake hands at last":
"Alas, my idea at the time was flawed. I am so thrilled to see this dream finally come true, not only in theory but also as a beautiful experiment!" he said.
Bit commitment is a building block – what researchers call a "primitive" – that can be put together in lots of ways to achieve increasingly complex tasks, they say. "I see this as the first step towards a global network of information controlled by the combined power of relativity and quantum theory," Kent said.
One possible future use of relativistic quantum cryptography could be global stock markets and other trading networks. It might be a way of leveling the technological 'arms race' in which traders acquire and exploit information as fast as possible, the team suggest, although they stress at such an early stage these suggestions are speculative.
The new study builds on previous experiments that, while successful, had to assume limitations in the technology of one or both parties – and consequently not entirely "safe or satisfactory" says Kent, "since you never really know what technology is out there".
Publication: T. Lunghi, et al., "Experimental Bit Commitment Based on Quantum Communication and Special Relativity," 2013, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 111, Issue 18; DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.180504
PDF Copy of the Study: Experimental bit commitment based on quantum communication and special relativity
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Show us your hits! Analyzing KDWB's top pop jams
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Keith Harris in Music
As you can see, Demi Lovato is "Cool for the Summer"
You were in your car one afternoon last month. No one on 89.3 the Current would stop talking. Both of the new rap oldies stations were three days into a week-long "Gin and Juice" marathon. But you happened to catch 101.3 KDWB in a rare moment between commercials. You had questions. Questions like "Is this fun?" Questions like "Am I old?" and "Do I actually like a Justin Bieber song?" and "Really though? Is? This? Fun?"
Questions that only an expert analysis of our local pop station's most recent chart countdown can clear up. (tl;dr answers: Less fun than it should be. Older than you think. You'd better Beliebe it. Really though.)
12. Fifth Harmony (feat. Kid Ink) — "Worth It"
TRL nostalgics may remember a time when there was no shortage of girl groups like Fifth Harmony, flaunting boundless sass and cheerful anonymity, before fame was divvied between a half-dozen female celebrity super powers. Fifteen years from now, their children may remember "Worth It," alongside Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," as part of a strange moment when Ori Kaplan and his electro-gypsy outfit Balkan Beat Box became an unlikely source of galvanic horn samples.
11. Taylor Swift "Bad Blood"
"We live in a world where boys can play princesses and girls can play soldiers." General Swift testified before a VMA subcommittee on weaponized feminism last week. But the flattest single of T's career plods less playfully than pre-dawn calisthenics, its accompanying clip — where she offs her newly accumulated celebrifriends to remind 'em who's boss – no less grim. And the video for its follow-up, "Wildest Dreams," does not feature Zayn Malik as Jasmine or Ed Sheeran as Ariel.
10. R City feat. Adam Levine "Locked Away"
This is a song about everything except going to jail. Far from fretting over whether Behati Prinsloo will show up for conjugal, Levine's anxiety-dreaming about whether some future misstep — a tone-deaf bit of cultural appropriation? a lackluster awards show appearance? a contractually required CeeLo collaboration? — will sabotage his popularity. This song is also about high school sweethearts heading off to separate colleges and pretending they won't break up before homecoming. And as for production crew R City, they probably think this song is about them, don't they, don't they, don't they?
9. Rachel Platten "Fight Song"
If you like your pop to feel like the continuation of work by other means, the punch-drunk striving of Platten's I-shall-overcome anthem might just be what you need to power through your day job, polish off your math homework, or secure low-interest financing on a 2015 Ford Edge.
8. Fall Out Boy "Uma Thurman"
If two hit songs can mention the AARP-eligible Michelle Pfeiffer in the same year, why shouldn't the Last Rock Band Standing celebrate the mid-career filmography of a merely 45-year-old actress while encouraging teens to Batusi to the Munsters' theme? Then again, why should they?
7. Ed Sheeran "Photograph"
Sheeran ditches the G-rated John Mayer routine that's made him such a menace, instead writhing in exquisite agony like a one-man boy band. Begging his sweetie to keep his photo "Inside the pocket / Of your ripped jeans," he invites his fans to indulge in the nostalgic intimacy of a physical medium that's about as much a part of their life as Herman Munster. But we all know "You can upload / Me to the Dropbox / On your iPhone" just wouldn't work the same.
6. Jack Ü (feat. Justin BIeber) "Where Are Ü Now"
Boys only want fame when it's torture. Bieber coos "I need you the most" like he's both Peter Pan pleading with us and Tinkerbell needing our applause to live. It's not that he needs you more than any other girl in the world; it's that he needs you the most of any pop star. And I hope Diplo realizes he needs Skrillex no less.
5. OMI "Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)"
This airy ode to a fantasy love-serf is the Song of the Summer that people who think there is such a thing as "The Song of the Summer" deserve. If "She grants my wishes/ Like a genie in a bottle" rubs you the wrong way, let me share my ideas for where this accidental Jamaican chart topper can stick his "magic wand." As remixed by German producer Felix Jaehn, "Cheerleader" is apparently the best-selling exemplar of "tropical house," a genre invented by the patriarchy's most devious scientists to soundtrack future sorority recruitment videos.
4. Demi Lovato "Cool for the Summer"
Teenpop has long taught us that under every bikini top beats the pitiless electronic heart of a nihilist dominatrix. But from that lazy, humid piano trill to Demi's mockingly seductive intonation of the title, has a romp about sneaking out for fun times in the sun with your girlfriends ever sounded so much like a ransom note? It's "insinuations" are "bi-curious," one Wikipedian asserts, using a word I swear I haven't seen since back when dating ads were published on newsprint.
3. Selena Gomez "Good for You"
The subservient murmur, the stripping away of all desires except to be desired, the meticulous wardrobe catalog — Selena play-acts a vacant shell of selfless glamor so creepily it must be deliberately subversive, right? Like, geisha-pop eviscerated from the inside out the way "Every Breath You Take" unmasked the similarity between love lyrics and stalkers' threats, right? Right? The alternative is just too damn depressing.
2. Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat. M0 "Lean On"
Someday DJ Snake will be recognized as the Hendrix of hookily modulated cyborg puking. Why not today?
1. The Weeknd "I Can't Feel My Face"
Narco-erotic doom enthusiasts may disagree, but I say pop ambition (or maybe just wanting to be liked) has been good for Abel Tesfaye's art — couple years back, he'd have straight-up called this something like "Your Pussy Is Better Than Cocaine" or wailed about jacking off to the Physicians' Desk Reference. Lyrics aside, rhythm and timbre have always been this sensualist's drug of choice, and with Max Martin juicing his bass, the aural wallop can alter your state with no pharmaceutical assist. He's a star now, and it's a dope show.
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Wade at the Double in PDC Premier League Darts
The PDC Premier League is set to continue this week after Kim Huybrechts and Peter Wright were eliminated in last week's judgement night in Manchester. The remaining eight players will all play each other once again over the next six weeks, with two stars appearing twice per night.
We've already got our early bet running on Michael van Gerwen to lift the Premier League trophy, and he's looking good at the top of the table at the moment, although our each-way flutter, Raymond van Barneveld, has it all to do after surviving last week by the skin of his teeth.
Judgement Night
It was a gripping night of action at the Manchester Arena last week, and Peter Wright and Kim Huybrechts were the two to be eliminated as van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis survived. Lewis beat Wright 7-4 to secure his place in the next phase of the Premier League, while a 6-6 draw with Gary Anderson in the final match was enough for van Barneveld to squeeze through on leg difference ahead of Wright. Kim Huybrechts drew 6-6 with Stephen Bunting, but was eliminated after finishing rock bottom with just four points.
In the other matches Dave Chisnall scored us a 4/1 5.00 +400 4.00 4.00 -0.25 winner by defeating Phil Taylor, and Michael van Gerwen cemented his three-point advantage at the top of the table with a 7-4 win over James Wade.
Wade and Chisnall are the two players who will play twice in the first round of fixtures, which will take place on Thursday 9th April at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield. The games on Night Ten are:
Adrian Lewis v James Wade
Gary Anderson v Dave Chisnall
Phil Taylor v Raymond van Barneveld
Stephen Bunting v Michael van Gerwen
Dave Chisnall v James Wade
James Wade has two tough matches on the night, but he's been very consistent this season and can be backed at decent odds for both games. His first opponent is Adrian Lewis, and there's no reason why he can't get the better of the Jackpot, who only survived elimination with his victory over Peter Wright last week.
Adrian Lewis – 17/11 2.55 +155 1.55 1.55 -0.65 with 888Sport and Unibet
James Wade – 7/5 2.40 +140 1.40 1.40 -0.71 with Bet365, Boylesports and Paddy Power
Draw – 7/2 4.50 +350 3.50 3.50 -0.29 with Bet365, Skybet and Paddy Power
Wade sits fourth in the table at the moment after three wins, three draws and three defeats, but those losses were against the big three players in van Gerwen, Taylor and Anderson. He's been held to three draws, by Stephen Bunting and tonight's two opponents, Lewis and Chisnall. He's been playing good darts throughout the tournament so far though, and hasn't failed to win at least four legs in any of his matches. There was no shame in defeat to van Gerwen last week (7-4), and he will be determined to keep his hands on that fourth position. Phil Taylor is the man behind him in the table, and Wade will know how important it is to get some points on the board from his two games tonight.
Lewis has lost four of his nine matches, and although he beat Wright to survive last week, he hasn't been playing his best darts this season. Lewis admitted after the match that he felt like he'd played his 'bonus card' and will look forward to the next six weeks. However, the value in this opener is with the more consistent performer in James Wade.
Dave Chisnall – 15/8 2.88 +188 1.88 1.88 -0.53 with Betvictor
James Wade – 13/10 2.30 +130 1.30 1.30 -0.77 with 888Sport and Unibet
Draw – 15/4 4.75 +375 3.75 3.75 -0.27 with Bet365
In the final match of the night Wade takes on Premier League surprise package, Dave Chisnall, who remains second in the Premier League after his excellent comeback win against Phil Taylor last week. He's in a great position to reach the play-offs, but he faces a tough first match against Gary Anderson before taking on Wade in the final showdown.
Chisnall has been on fire this season and his victories include a 7-2 win over Anderson. The current World Champion will have revenge on his mind tonight, and it wouldn't be the biggest shock to see him consign Chisnall to a first defeat of the night in the earlier game. Wade can make it a disappointing double for Chisnall by beating him as well.
Chisnall is capable of throwing in the odd poor performance, and it's worth noting that he lost 7-3 to Stephen Bunting the week immediately after his win over Anderson, and he might struggle to reach the heights of last week's win over Taylor again this week. Wade and Chisnall fought out a 6-6 draw earlier in the season, so there's little to choose between them on current form, but we're backing Wade's consistency to come out on top again.
Phil Taylor – 8/15 1.53 -188 0.53 -1.88 0.53 with Bet365, 888Sport and Unibet
Raymond van Barneveld – 7/2 4.50 +350 3.50 3.50 -0.29 with Skybet, Boylesports and 888Sport
Draw – 9/2 5.50 +450 4.50 4.50 -0.22 with Skybet, Unibet and 888Sport
One other game that catches the eye is the match-up between Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld, and we think Taylor will be primed for revenge for the 7-4 defeat van Barneveld inflicted on him a few weeks ago. Taylor has had an average season by his standards, but he still sits 5th in the table and is only out of the top four on leg difference. He knows that this is the business end of the Premier League season, and he won't drop too many more points from here on in.
van Barneveld is the only player on six points and he has a -13 leg difference. He admitted that it will be tough for him to reach the play-offs from this position, but that he was treating every game like a final. Taylor can make his task even harder with victory in Sheffield.
Tips Summary
PDC Premier League, Thursday 9th April 2015
James Wade to beat Adrian Lewis – 7/5 2.40 +140 1.40 1.40 -0.71 with Bet365, Boylesports and Paddy Power
James Wade to beat Dave Chisnall – 13/10 2.30 +130 1.30 1.30 -0.77 with 888Sport and Unibet
Phil Taylor to beat Raymond van Barneveld – 8/15 1.53 -188 0.53 -1.88 0.53 with Bet365, 888Sport and Unibet


Over the past decade Dynamo has become one of the most decorated competitive fencing clubs in the country. Our athletes have been winning medals from local to international level competitions consistently since the early 2000's.
Dynamo won an impressive 21 of the 24 Provincial Championship events with a final medal total: 21 GOLD, 16 SILVER, 22 BRONZE = 59 MEDALS!
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While some are concerned on making sure a concrete deal is made before the end of COP21, others are more concerned with whether nations can be trusted to fulfill their commitments after COP21 is over. Lou Leonard discusses how trust between nations poses as a challenge to reaching a deal during the climate talks in a piece by the Wall Street Journal.
Today, WWF's CEO & President, Carter Roberts, spoke at Earth To Paris along with Guggenheim's Scott Minerd on the importance of protecting the Arctic and ensuring sustainable development in the area.


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Mutiara Villa Condominium is a distinctive landmark in Jalan Bagan Jermal area. It is just a short drive to the famous Batu Ferringhi beach and city centre, whilst Gurney Drive is just a stone's throw away. It is aesthetically designed with a total of units, housing 4 units on each level. Every standard apartment has a luxuriously spacious built-up area ranging from approx. 1,180 to 1,420sq.ft.
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import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { push } from 'react-router-redux';
// import Helmet from 'react-helmet';
import { browserHistory } from 'react-router';
import _ from 'lodash';
import * as ls from 'utils/localstorage';

// import messages from './messages';
import { createStructuredSelector } from 'reselect';

import {
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} from '../ListPage/selectors';

import {
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} from './selectors';

import {
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} from './actions';

import RepoListItem from 'containers/RepoListItem';
import OccupationListItem from 'components/OccupationListItem';
import Button from 'components/Button';
import H2 from 'components/H2';
import List from 'components/List';
import ListItem from 'components/ListItem';
import LoadingIndicator from 'components/LoadingIndicator';

import styles from './styles.css';
import gpsIcon from './group@3x.png';

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  onListItemClick(item) {
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    //   );
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      mainContent = (
        <List
          items={this.props.locations}
          component={OccupationListItem}
          click={this.onListItemClick.bind(this)}
        />
      );
    }

    return (

Jag vill jobba i

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              <form onSubmit={(e) => { e.preventDefault() }} autoComplete="off">

                  <input
                    type="text"
                    className={styles.input + " form-control"}
                    id="location"
                    placeholder="Kommun, Län eller Land"
                    value={this.props.query}
                    autoComplete="off"
                    autoCapitalize="off"
                    autoCorrect="off"
                    onChange={this.props.onChangeQuery}
                    ref="locationInput"
                  />

              </form>

            {/*<form className={styles.usernameForm} onSubmit={this.props.onSubmitForm}>

                <FormattedMessage {...messages.trymeMessage} />

                  <FormattedMessage {...messages.trymeAtPrefix} />

                <input
                  id="username"
                  className={styles.input}
                  type="text"
                  placeholder="mxstbr"
                  value={this.props.username}
                  onChange={this.props.onChangeUsername}
                />

            </form>*/}
            {mainContent}

          {/*<Button handleRoute={this.openFeaturesPage}>
            <FormattedMessage {...messages.featuresButton} />
          </Button>*/}

    );
  }
}

AddLocation.propTypes = {
  changeRoute: React.PropTypes.func,
  loading: React.PropTypes.bool,
  error: React.PropTypes.oneOfType([
    React.PropTypes.object,
    React.PropTypes.bool,
  ]),
  locations: React.PropTypes.oneOfType([
    React.PropTypes.array,
    React.PropTypes.bool,
  ]),
  onSubmitForm: React.PropTypes.func,
  onChangeQuery: React.PropTypes.func,
  onAddLocation: React.PropTypes.func,
  query: React.PropTypes.string,
};

export function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
  return {
    onChangeQuery: (evt) => dispatch(changeQuery(evt.target.value)),
    onAddLocation: (location) => dispatch(addLocation(location)),
    changeRoute: (url) => dispatch(push(url)),
    // onSubmitForm: (evt) => {
    //   if (evt !== undefined && evt.preventDefault) evt.preventDefault();
    //   dispatch(loadJobs());
    // },

    // dispatch,
  };
}

const mapStateToProps = createStructuredSelector({
  query: selectQuery(),
  locations: selectLocations(),
  pickedLocations: selectPickedLocations(),
});

// Wrap the component to inject dispatch and state into it
export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(AddLocation);

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Mixed ability group, enjoy some warm up exercises in technique needed for today's subject, watch a short demo and enjoy creating your choice of painting with some texture eg bark of trees, rocks, beach sand etc. I have subject references, or bring your own. Relaxed atmosphere, friendly company and tea/coffee/biscuits included.


After we agreed on our destination we then decided to meet in the morning to take advantage of utilizing the day efficiently.
Tania and I met around 8pm (8:45 girlfriend standard time) and took her parent's car towards Huntingdon, PA. We went over the George Washington Bridge and then made our way to the I-78 highway. We planned ahead and decided to stop somewhere midway for lunch.
There was a good brunch spot (Top That) in Palmyra, PA. The waitresses were very polite and the food was server very quickly. We both ordered burgers with fries. I had their western burger which was stuffed with spicy jalapeno, bacon, cheese and a big fat burger. The burger was just mouth-watering. I was tempted to purchase a second one but managed to restrain my temptations.
We left Top That around 1pm. This gave us 3 hours to get to Juniata College which was 2 hours a way. The road there was very pretty (especially once we passed Harrisburg). The sun was shinning through the patches of clouds in the sky. We saw several trains, rivers and even occasional tractors occupy the roads. We arrived in Huntingdon after about 2 hours. We found parking and quickly purchased tickets to both semi-final matches.
Once we entered the gym I felt a great rush of excitement. We were about to watch Carthage take on Springfield (2 time national champs). After watching Carthage beat Kean in the quarterfinals I felt they were ready to take the #1 seed. Unfortunately my analysis was incorrect. Springfield beat Carthage in 3 sets. Carthage was leading on several occasions but didn't have what it took to seal the deal against Springfield. The commentator was announcing that Carthage was probably the best suited to take down Springfield since they had beaten them previously in the season. Once Springfield won the match I was certain they would win the entire tournament. This was until I saw Juniata play.
We were all kicked out of the gym so that they can prepare for the second match. Tania decided that we should go back to the car so that she can take a power nap. So to the car we went. She napped for about 30 minutes or so and we then went back in to watch the 2nd game which started at 630pm.
Juniata (#3) was playing New Paltz (#2). I was surprised to see that Juniata had a huge fan section. During warm-ups New Paltz looked solid. They probably intimidated Juniata a bit since they won the first set, but they must have lost confidence in the next two with all the cheering coming from Juniata's bleachers. Both teams in the 4th set were neck and neck. I honestly did not know who was going to win (this made the game exciting). With the momentum of winning the previous 2 sets, the crowd cheering "we want Springfield", and a little bit of luck Juniata was able to seal the win.
We quickly made our way back to the car in hopes of escaping a jammed parking lot. The drive back seemed longer than the drive there. Luckily we were not as tired as we were last year. We stopped to buy gas and grab a bite at a diner (the burger was nothing close to what we had from earlier in the day). We were back home at 230am.


Breakfast reminds me of growing up living with my grandparents. Grandma always had breakfast for grandpa and I every morning. Sometimes cereal, eggs, pancakes (Sundays) etc. The point was we didn't leave the house without eating and it was all three of us together. I always had orange juice and a vitamin with my breakfast. I rarely got sick. Maybe a cold once a year but a mild one. Grandma was organized and in charge.
When the other two kids were growing up, breakfast stuff was available and sometimes they ate it on their own. Other times they would eat at school. Me, I was terrible when I was working, never gave myself enough time to grab something, so it was stuff at work. It usually was something not so healthy. Now, that I am at home, I eat way better.
Having a healthy breakfast in the morning is something I wish I had done better for all four kids and hubby. We still are fairly healthy, good genes, I guess. 🙂 It might not be all my fault, society as a whole is in such a hurry in the mornings that I think a lot of people grab quick stuff. It is the thing to do.
We do eat supper together and even when I worked. Sometimes it was late at night when everyone was home but we made a point majority of the time to eat together. Now and then one or more would be gone for something but I think we did pretty good.
We eat together at night now. The adult daughter living with us, most of the time eats with us, so that makes me happy. We don't allow cellphones at the table either. 🙂 Probably once a week is make your own meal and that is at different times. I like a break from cooking plus it helps them to learn how to figure out a meal for themselves. Sometimes leftovers and other times quick meals.
Do you eat together? How many meals?
supper when grandma wasn't working otherwise it was grandpa and I.
Times change and not always for the better.
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Рьоджи Нойори () е японски химик, лауреат на Нобелова награда за химия от 2001 г. заедно с Уилям Ноулс и Карл Бари Шарплес. Двамата с Ноулс изследват хирално катализираните хидрогенации.

Ранен живот и образование
Рьоджи Нойори е роден на 3 септември 1938 г. в Кобе, Японската империя. Още от първите си години в училище се интересува от физика. Интересът му се разпалва още повече от известния японски физик Хидеки Юкава (нобелов лауреат от 1949 г.), който е близък приятел на баща му. По-късно започва да се запалва по химията, след като присъства на представяне на найлона на промишлено изложение. Той вижда силната страна на химията като способността ѝ да създава продукт с висока стойност от почти нищо. Впоследствие е приет за студент в департамента по промишлена химия в Киотския университет, от който завършва с бакалавърска степен през 1961 г. След това получава и магистърска степен по промишлена химия от същия университет. В периода 1963 – 1967 г. е научен сътрудник в университета. Пак там завършва и докторантурата си през 1967 г., а на следващата година става доцент. След постдокторантска работа с Елайъс Кори в Харвардския университет, Нойори започва работа в Нагойския университет, където става професор през 1972 г. От 2003 до 2015 г. е президент на изследователския институт Riken.

Научна дейност
Нойори се занимава усилено в областта на катализата и зелената химия. Той споделя, че способността да се измислят правилни и практични химични синтези е необходимо за оцеляването на човешкия вид. Той поощрява учените да са политически активни. В днешно време Нойори е председател на Съвета за възстановяване на образованието, установен от японския министър-председател Шиндзо Абе.

Нойори е най-известен с асиметричната хидрогенация чрез катализаторни комплекси от родий и рутений. Асиметричната хидрогенация има широко приложение при производството на лекарства. Той работи и по асиметричните процеси. Около 3000 тона ментол годишно се произвеждат по метода на Нойори за изомеризация на алилните амини:

През последните години Нойори работи с Филип Джесоп по разработването на промишлен процес за производството на N,N-диметилформамид от водород, диметиламин и свръхкритичен въглероден диоксид в присъствието на RuCl2(PMe3)4 за катализатор.

От 2001 г. Нойори е носител на Нобелова награда за химия, а от 2009 г. – на златен медал "Ломоносов". Чуждестранен член е на Британското кралско научно дружество от 2005 г.

Източници

Японски химици
Носители на Нобелова награда за химия
Японски нобелови лауреати
Чуждестранни членове на Британското кралско научно дружество
Родени в Кобе

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Become a Waltham Forest Digital Champion and help your community get the most out of life online.
The Waltham Forest Digital Champion Network is an exciting initiative to create and support a team of volunteers who can help their local community to be online. If you are passionate about the internet then you can be a local Digital Champion. You don't need to be an IT whizz, just have some basic digital skills, a bit of spare time and a willingness to help others.
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Home NINA SIMONE The Colpix Singles LP Vinyl NEW 2018
NINA SIMONE The Colpix Singles LP Vinyl NEW 2018
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Chilly Winds Don't Blow
Children Go Where I Send You
Since My Love Has Gone
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Gin House Blues
Come On Back Jack
In The Evening By The Moonlight
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
Little Liza Jane
A child virtuoso whose piano recitals were local events, Nina Simone started her musical career as a classically trained pianist, strongly rooted in the works of Bach, and became a singer almost by accident. The rest is history.
Her recordings, over the next five decades, earned her cult status, critical acclaim and reached the top of the charts on many occasions. Between 1959 and 1964, she was signed to Colpix, who relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material. Her voice at her finest, she worked her way through jazz and blues standards like 'The Work Song' and 'I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)', folk tunes like 'Little Liza Jane' and 'Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair', her very own 'Blackbird' and 'I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl'.
This compilation gathers all the singles released by Colpix with their original edits, in mono*.
*7 of these edits available for the first time since first released


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UKRAINE - Bayurivka - Verkhovynskyi National Park
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WWF Ukraine, supported by WWF Netherlands, is carrying on with the Splash Dam Removal Project at the streams and rivers in the Verkhovynskyi National Park located nearby Holoshyna village in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region, next to the Ukrainian-Romanian state border.
The industrial-scale forest harvesting started in the Ukrainian Carpathians Region at the end of the 19th century, under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The kermaniches (the lumbermen involved in the log driving) drifted down the Carpathian spruces bundled in rafts. Deep in the mountains, the rivers are shallow, so logged splash dams were constructed across them to control water flow and increase water level to float the timber rafts downstream.
Back then, a dam upstream trapped water in its reservoir so the kermaniches could open the gates and let violent torrents of high waters rush down and carry timber rafts from high mountains to valleys. The last spruce logs raft was floated down the Carpathians rivers in August 1979. No splash dam has been exploited ever since. They have gradually decayed over time, though they still serve as artificial obstacles for migratory fish.
Last year, we removed 3 splash dams - Lostunets, Hostovets, Dobryn - within the territory of the National Park. Now, we need to go on with the removal of another dam, Bayurivka.
It was constructed across the Perkalaba river in the 19th century and was used up to the mid-20th century.
On the google map this splash dam can be found by these coordinates: 47°44'38.5"N 24°55'34.3"E
Our goal is to remove the barrier to allow the brook trout, endangered Danube salmon, to migrate upstream to their spawning areas. Please contribute to our crowdfunding campaign to collect the necessary 20,000.00 EURO for our project to come true. With your help, the Carpathian rivers will flow freely again! Even 20 EURO is a tangible contribution!
Thank you! Together Possible!
Weir removal will support a free flow of aquatic organisms and sediments, which directly increases the natural riverine processes, river biodiversity and creates favourable conditions especially for natural fish population.
Technical preparation: 2000EUR
Dam removal: 7000EUR
Communication campaign: 5000EUR
Ichthyological monitoring to assess the benefits of removal: annually, for 3 years - 6000 EUR
Removal process in detail: The logs that the splash dam was built of, will be sawn and removed by hand. As the dam is located on the Ukraininan - Romanian border, we will be obtaining special permissions for the State Border Service. The workers involved in the dam removal process will not be able to set up a camp at the location due to its proximity to the border - they will travel back and forth to free the river of the obsolete dam.
The removal will support a free flow of aquatic organisms and sediments, which directly increases the natural riverine processes, river biodiversity and creates favourable conditions especially for the natural fish population.
Our goal € 20.000 | Reached 7%
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For over 50 years the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working to protect the wonderful animal and plant species on earth. Together with individuals, companies, governments and locals, we want to create a world in which people and nature live in harmony. We are doing this in more than 100 countries with passionate people in the field.


We went to Mass last Sunday. Many people were shocked that we went because John was not even two days old. But I was feeling fine, and John just slept in his car seat the whole time. So we saw no need to skip Mass.
I am SO glad we went to Mass. It was a very fruitful experience for me to partake in the celebration of Mass with my born son. My thoughts drifted to my love for John and how I would never want anything bad to happen to him. I feel very protective of John, and I am overwhelmed with the instinct to do anything to keep him safe from harm. This made me think of when I broke my back in 2006. I am sure those same protective feelings I have for John went rampant in my mom when she got the phone call that her "baby" daughter had broken her back while inner-tubing on Mount Baker. I want so much to keep John safe, but I know the time will come when he will be on his own, making his own decisions.
Then my thoughts drifted to our Blessed Mother Mary who not only let her Son suffer and die on the cross, but she watched it happen and kept her "cool." How obedient is Our Lady! I see her as my greatest example of good mothering and I hope to let John always do God's will, even if it is dangerous. I never want my protective nature to get in the way of God's plans.
The most powerful part of the Mass was the Eucharistic prayer (as it should be!). As I mentioned in previous posts, my focal point for the birth was Christ saying "this is my body, given for you." I have been relating that to my own sacrifice of my body for John. But when I heard that phrase last Sunday, I thought about John living out this kind of love, and me letting him. I desire holiness for my Son more than anything.
The clear message I received from God was, "He is not yours." Parents these days tend to view their children as being "theirs." I too have this inclination, but I am trying to view him more as a soul God has entrusted to me. He is my son, but more importantly, he is a child of God. I hope to parent John in a way that his Parent above would approve.
You'll get that feeling of him not being yours much more when he's baptised. But it will be a relief when he is.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Tomas Hertl got San Jose off to the fast start that had been missing the past three games, Martin Jones came up with the big saves and the Sharks staved off elimination by beating the Vegas Golden Knights 5-2 in Game 5 of their first-round series Thursday night.
Hertl scored his first of two goals just 76 seconds into the game to give the Sharks their first lead since Game 1. Logan Couture, Barclay Goodrow and Joe Pavelski also scored to cut the Golden Knights' lead in the series to 3-2 heading into Game 6 in Vegas on Sunday night.
Jones made 30 saves after getting pulled in two of the past three games, including a brilliant pad save midway through the third period to rob Reilly Smith's attempt at the tying goal on a 2-on-1 after Vegas had cut it to 3-2 on Jonathan Marchessault's power-play goal.


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Ice-O-Matic Shares Personnel Changes to Sales Team
FER Staff
Denver-based Ice-O-Matic has announced organizational changes to its sales team.
Scott Meyer has stepped into the role of director of sales after serving as regional manager for Colorado. He will continue to manage national accounts development, global business with Starbucks and also will be responsible for running business in Asia and certain other international markets.
Dolly Fiedelman has moved from the finance department to the new position of regional manager for the lower Midwest markets. She will cover Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Memphis, Tenn., markets. She also will work with Meyer to continue the development of national accounts and chain business.
Brittany Stanley, CFSP, has taken on the role of regional manager for Colorado. Stanley will work on developing business in the state. She will continue to support the manufacturer's buying group partners and also will continue managing its Logistics Partner program.
Ice-O-Matic is part of the Ali Group, which recently announced organizational changes at ACP Inc., Scotsman Ice Systems, Ali Group North America-Refrigeration Division, Champion Industries and Champion Moyer Diebel Canada businesses, as well as a new president at Carpigiani North America.
The former NAFEM president will remain on in a limited advisory role beginning Feb. 1.
Polar King Welcomes Customer Service Agent
Rachel Giese's responsibilities include customer service, parts identification and technical support.
Publisher's Note: Silver Streak
This year FER turns 25, and we will be celebrating all year long.


A holy place of religious pilgrimage, the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity and the site of Mother Teresa's tomb. Situated in a particularly busy locality, the tomb radiates pure peace and calm. It is a wonderful place to engage in mindful meditation. Attached to the building is a small museum where you can see Mother Teresa's simple belongings and a few handwritten letters.


Heavy Crude Hauling L.P.'s origins date back to 1974 when Fred North purchased Temor Oilfield from Ray McIlwrick and 1978 when John Hougham purchased the assets of Ketchum's Oilfield Services and started Lloydminster Heavy Crude Services Ltd. By 2002 Temor Oilfield (1974) Ltd. expanded the business to include 180 bulk trailers and 150 sub-contractors and operated facilities in Lloydminster, AB, Maidstone and Macklin, SK. Lloydminster Heavy Crude Services Ltd. expanded to 50 bulk trailers, 25 sub-contractors and 53 trucks consisting of tractors, pressure, vacuum and flushby units operating in Lloydminster and Elk Point, Alberta.
In October 2002, Mullen Group acquired the shares of Lloydminster Heavy Crude Services Ltd. and subsequently purchased the assets of Temor Oilfield Services (1974) Ltd. in November 2002 through their subsidiary Mullen Crude Oil Services Inc. to further diversifying their business in the production services segment. The two companies were combined and operated under the name Heavy Crude Hauling Partnership, with the merger completed by January 1, 2005. On July 1, 2005, the business was renamed to Heavy Crude Hauling L.P.
HEAVY CRUDE HAULING L.P. is a Mullen Group Ltd. limited partnership.


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Supporting Communities through Beautiful Affordable Housing
The shortage of affordable housing has been a long-time issue in the U.S., and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the deficit in housing availability across the country. In fact, researchers at Freddie Mac, a federally-backed home mortgage company, estimated that the current shortage of homes is approaching 3.8 million, compared with 2.5 million in 2018. Given higher demand for housing and a limited supply, the shortage is only expected to climb in the coming years.
Through our Social Purpose program, we've been fortunate enough to partner with clients that are at the forefront of this issue and provide affordable housing for marginalized communities across the country. This venture allows us to allocate time and resources to build strong relationships with organizations that are making meaningful change while aligning with our firm's values.
Here are a few examples of projects around the U.S. that, through exemplary design, have contributed supportive housing to their communities in meaningful ways.
Strong Foundations
Sarah's Circle
According to a City of Chicago report, 38.1% of homeless individuals in Chicago identified as female in 2020. Even though women are the minority in this group, they are also more susceptible to threats of violence and harassment when living on the streets. Additionally, over two million women in Illinois have experienced domestic violence in their lifetimes. Now, with COVID-19, the rates of domestic violence and evictions have become even more correlated, creating a stronger urgency for thoughtfully organized safe homes for women.
Chicago-based nonprofit Sarah's Circle is at the forefront of providing permanent housing solutions and supportive services for women dealing with homelessness. And for nearly a decade, we've partnered with the organization, designing two safe and secure homes, with a third under construction.
"The role of the building is very important. We have to keep everyone safe; the women in interim housing cannot have access to those in permanent housing; you must be open 24/7 and be able to provide three meals a day," says Sarah's Circle executive director Kathy Ragnar.
The newest building, which opened in January 2021, replaced a long-shuttered, dilapidated two-story red-brick facility.
The newest building, which opened in January 2021, replaced a long-shuttered, dilapidated two-story red-brick facility. The new six-story building includes 38 private apartments and interim housing for another 50 women with space for administrative offices, kitchen and dining, and community programming.
For permanent housing resident and Sarah's Circle board member June Merritt, the new facility has transformed her life. "When I walked into my apartment, I broke down in tears," says Merritt, who has experienced homelessness several times. "It is such a healing experience. What you are doing is basically saving lives."
The upcoming third shelter is several blocks away and will provide homes for 28 women in permanent housing when it opens in 2022.
"They are beautiful, gorgeous buildings. You come into a first-class building with artwork that is designed to be uplifting and reflective of the diversity of our community. It sends a message: You are special; you are welcome here," says Ragnar. "For our staff, too, this is a great building. They have really difficult jobs and having really nice spaces shows how much we value them."
Chicago-based nonprofit Sarah's Circle is at the forefront of providing permanent housing solutions and supportive services.
For nearly a decade, we have followed the organization's vision of creating safe and secure homes for women.
"We have a vision to help create an affirming and inclusive community—a place where people feel good about living and that Dallas feels proud of." – Cece Cox
Place and Belonging
Oaklawn Place
Under Texas state law, the LGBTQIA+ community is currently unprotected from housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. LGBTQIA+ seniors in particular face hurdles that require a greater need for safety and sense of belonging.
"Barriers exist that make it difficult for minority communities to access housing, services and health care," says Cece Cox, CEO of the nonprofit Resource Center, a trusted leader that serves the LGBTQIA+ community.
To aid these communities and meet the growing demand for affordable housing and services for Dallas' aging LGBTQIA+ population, developer Matthews Southwest and non-profit Volunteers of America created a plan to partner with Resource Center. Guided by the shared mission to improve health and wellness, strengthen families and communities, and provide transformative education and advocacy, our Dallas team designed Oaklawn Place, an 84-unit affordable housing complex to be completed in 2023.
The new development will emphasize health and wellbeing while creating a sense of place for its residents and staff through materials and colors that represent North Texas. For example, the black brick and metal used on the exterior will pay homage to the Blackland Prairie of North Texas, as well as the modernization of the industrial boat salvage yard that previously occupied the area. The project will also incorporate an outdoor deck that appears to float above the sloping site and creek, emphasizing an attention to wellness and nature.
"The team at Perkins&Will really jumped in to learn about the population we're serving and their unique needs," says Cox. "They have expressed a real passion for understanding why Resource Center is committed to this project and why we care so deeply about this population."
When completed, Oaklawn Place will serve as a haven for LGBTQIA+ seniors while providing affordable housing and adding to the stabilization of the neighborhood. With innovative programming designed to reduce isolation and depression among older LGBTQIA+ adults, Resource Center will help older LGBTQIA+ adults feel safe and welcome within this space.
"We have a vision to help create an affirming and inclusive community—a place where people feel good about living and that Dallas feels proud of," says Cox.
From Pavement to Purpose
11010 Santa Monica Boulevard (11010 SMB)
A city-owned parking lot in Los Angeles will soon be a five-story building with 50 studio units designated for unhoused seniors and senior military veterans.
"While these 50 units won't solve the problem we have now, it will solve problems for 50 people who need our help," says Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Koretz. "And every bit we can do to find housing and provide long-term supportive services for homeless is vital."
11010 SMB, developed by the Weingart Center and Valued Housing, is an innovative architectural response for permanent supportive housing within the City of Angels. Its modular construction and prefabricated design allow for efficient construction and flexibility.
Residents will benefit from a wide range of social services tailored to their needs, including medical and psychiatric treatment services, counseling and advocacy, job training, and intensive case management. This prototype offers dignity, compassion, and comfort for those most in need.
11010 SMB is an efficient modular construction that is thoughtful and responsive to its surroundings.
11010 Santa Monica Boulevard
Residents will receive a wide range of social services tailored to their needs in a safe and comfortable environment.
At the heart of these projects is our philosophy of designing spaces that holistically promote well-being at every scale. Humane affordable housing in particular has the potential to transform and strengthen communities down to their roots. Clients and partners that align with our values have been the backbone of these projects, turning these visions into reality. By fostering these relationships, we're able to meaningfully impact our local communities through design.
In light of Giving Tuesday, a global generosity movement that celebrates and encourages giving back to the organizations that are making meaningful change, please consider supporting Resource Center and Sarah's Circle.