Got up at 7 o'clock. Had breakfast. Went on QMS parade at 9.30. Had records parade at 2 o'clock then had dental parade. Had supper and went to YMCA cinema. Wrote a couple of letters, one to home and one to Dublin.
Quite cold today but bright.


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Encruzilhada is een gemeente in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Bahia. De gemeente telt 20.720 inwoners (schatting 2009).

Aangrenzende gemeenten
De gemeente grenst aan Cândido Sales, Macarani, Ribeirão do Largo, Vitória da Conquista, Águas Vermelhas (MG), Divisa Alegre (MG), Divisópolis (MG), Mata Verde (MG) en Pedra Azul (MG).

Gemeente in Bahia

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5 Jewels For Strengthening New Year's Intentions
By Annie Davidson | January 03, 2023
No matter how genuine your new year's intentions are, the average person tends to let them fade by the end of January. Something that lasts much longer, however, is jewelry—and if you pick the right pieces, they not only act as a daily reminder, but can also help strengthen your goals. Below, we've rounded up some of the best pieces to keep your new year's intentions going strong all year long: from a tarot card necklace depicting the sun as a source of abundance and confidence to an 18k gold band that quite literally spells it out. 2023 is your year—and these jewels are here to remind you!
Il Sole Tarot Card necklace (also shown at top) in 18k yellow gold with 2.16 cts. t.w. sapphires, 0.06 ct. t.w. tsavorite, 0.9 ct. t.w. diamonds, and 10.35 cts. t.w. turquoise, $19,500; Sorellina
With a depiction of the sun as its focal point, Sorellina's Il Sole Tarot Card necklace represents abundance, optimism, and confidence. Just as the sun radiates warmth as it brings about new life, this piece is a reminder of all of life's opportunities that can be seized with just a bit of confidence.
Compass ring in 14k yellow gold with mother-of-pearl inlay, 0.09 ct. t.w. white round brilliant diamonds, and 0.12 ct. blue sapphire cabochon, $3,490; Retrouvaí
Inspired by a grandfather's pocket watch, Retrouvaí's Compass ring is meant to depict a woman's intuition as her own inner compass. It acts as a reminder to look within when needing guidance.
Owl necklace in 18k yellow gold with chalcedony and oval citrine, $3,900; Haute Victoire
While in some cultures an owl can be a bad omen, most view it as a symbol of wisdom and intuition. This one, carved in blue chalcedony, is a particularly great reminder for those who are looking to be a bit more bookish in the new year.
If Not Now Then When coin-edge band in 18k yellow gold, $1,650; Foundrae
Foundrae's coin-edge band applies to any and all new year's intentions—especially when they're needing some more motivation. Pulled from a quote by the Rabbi Hillel the Elder: "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? If not now, when?" This 18k gold band isn't just a fashion item but a call to action. There's no time like the present!
Irene Neuwirth Love earrings in 18k rose gold with pink opals and 0.23 ct. t.w. diamonds, $5,390; Net-a-Porter
If your focus this year is on love—whether for yourself or someone else—these darling Irene Neuwirth earrings are for you. Plus, they're handcrafted in pink opal, which is the stone of self-healing, rejuvenation, and the heart chakra.
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Twenty-five years have passed since Scotland slow walked their way on to the pitch at Murrayfield, took one look at England and said: "Thanks for coming, but you've had a wasted journey". Or words to that effect.
A Grand Slam? The dodo bird has been sighted in Scotland more often in the time since.
Twenty years have gone by since Gregor Townsend slipped a pass out of the side pocket in Paris into the grateful hands of an onrushing Gavin Hastings - the day when the gallus ruled the Gaul. Scotland won and, lo, the Toonie Flip was born.
Sixteen years have passed since Townsend and Martin Leslie and Alan Tait scored five tries between them in the the craziest opening half an hour the Stade de France has possibly ever seen. Scotland won that one, too. Such memories of a magnificent side. Fearless, tough and top of the table at season's end.
The Scottish side was a force back then.
When we think of the national team we live in a perpetual state of nostalgia. The distant past is the only place where we can get relief from the mind-numbing failure of the last 15 championships - 75 Tests and 19 victories - a success rate of 25%.
But here's the thing. If you sit down with the young players in this Scotland squad, like Finn Russell, Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Jonny Gray - and hit them with this grim stat they look at you as if you've got two heads. They almost back away, like you're talking gibberish.
They're too young to know about the failures and even if they do know, they don't care. The failures mean nothing to them.
And so you listen to their winning chat and you climb aboard the Feelgood Express and hope that you end up somewhere you haven't been before, somewhere - anywhere - other than the nowheresville that Scotland has claimed as its rugby home from home in the spring for far too long.
You look at Glasgow's wonderful progression under Townsend and you think, 'Why not?' You look at Vern Cotter's track record in the game and the improved performances in the autumn and you say, 'There's a chance'. Then you give yourself a slap that serves as a reminder that these Six Nations games are always brutally hard to win, especially for a team with a death-wish.
You'd need a weighty notebook to list the reasons why Scotland have been a non-entity in the Six Nations - among other things, last season the line-out was a self-defeating catastrophe - but one of the key reasons has been the sophistication of the defensive systems Scotland has come up against and their own inability to break them down, even when they've had the lion's share of the ball.
Scotland's attack has been predictable and easy to defend against. With a stand-off who's not afraid to try things and a scrum-half, Greig Laidlaw, who on his best form is as good a nine as there is in the competition, there is hope at half-back.
In the midfield there is real optimism in Dunbar, Bennett (and Matt Scott). Tommy Seymour is a fine predator on the wing. This team is capable of some heavyweight attacks.
The autumn internationals are played in peace-time as opposed to the sporting warfare that is the Six Nations. We can read too much into what happens in the autumn, but there were encouraging signs against Argentina and New Zealand that Scotland are now developing a menace in attack and a knack of making good decisions under pressure.
On November's evidence, the line-out has also been transformed.
So, Scotland look like they're getting better. But what are they up against? On Saturday, it's France in Paris. It might seem like a ridiculous claim on behalf of a team that has lost its last eight matches with the French, but this is an eminently winnable game so long as Scotland don't buy into the myth of Les Bleus which, to be fair, they haven't done for quite a while.
Even in the depths of misery - most notably against England and Wales - Scotland have found a way of being competitive against the French.
The last three games have seen them lose by seven points or less. By comparison, they've lost their last two to England by 20 points each time and they've lost to Wales by 48 points - the red card match for Stuart Hogg - 10 points, 14 points and 18 points.
If France are close to being as good as they can be on Saturday, then they'll win.
The fact is, though, that under the coach, Philippe Saint-Andre, they have been all over the place. He's chopped and changed his selection and has a record of 13 wins from 32 Tests.
People rightly talk about their impressive autumn win over Australia as evidence of their brilliance, but a week later they lost to Argentina with 10 of the team that beat the Wallabies. France have made a fine art out inconsistency.
In the last three championships they've finished fourth, sixth and fourth - a plague on Saint-Andre's record. It's fair to say that there are former French hard men, and serial winners, who wouldn't have minded catching Saint-Andre at the bottom of a ruck these past years.
Of course, there are nuances to all of this. Toulon are the pre-eminent club side in the northern hemisphere, but they won their first European title in 2013 with only four Frenchmen in their starting team and won their second title in 2014 with only three Frenchmen in their 15.
It's not just Toulon that has parachuted in the imports. Of the top-10 try-scorers in the championship last season only one of them was French. Currently, of the top-16 try-scorers only three are French. There are truckloads of class players in France but their progress is being stifled by big-name foreign recruits.
Your heart doesn't exactly bleed for Saint-Andre, but it's an issue, no question.
Saint-Andre's team could become electrifying at any moment, of course. They've picked a team that looks the part. Certainly, there will be an emotional dimension to the day given that the coach has already spoken about the recent terrorism attacks in Paris and how good it will be to come together as a nation once more, united under the Tricolor.
That's what lends the Six Nations such an intoxicating air. In week two, Scotland play Wales at Murrayfield. Scotland have lost seven in a row against Wales. In week three it's the trip to Twickenham. Scotland haven't won there in more than 30 years. In week four it's Italy and week five, Ireland, who could be going for a championship, at Murrayfield on the final day.
The word they all use is momentum. If you get it in week one, you're laughing. If you don't, you're struggling. No coach will admit to seeing past that first weekend and Cotter is among them.
France at the Stade? One day, when those words are mentioned, the first images that come into the mind's eye will not be Townsend's pass, but something altogether more modern.
This is the great opportunity. Scepticism tells us that the thing on the horizon is a false dawn rather than a rising sun, but this is the remarkable thing about the Six Nations and the inspirational thing about the Scottish rugby public. Things have been grimmer than grim for so long, but despite everything, the hope remains.
The Flower of Scotland is a hardy perennial.


When we look at horizontal peer-to-peer knowledge transfer in an organisation, the knowledge which is transferred tends to be knowledge of practice, knowledge of product, or knowledge of customer. With vertical knowledge transfer - transfer of knowledge between workers and management - a crucial component of the knowledge which needs to be transferred is warnings.
In his book, Burns talks about the psychology of information and knowledge processing, and reinforces how we form mental models which can be difficult to shift. A strong mental model can reject facts that don't fit, and companies and organisations can create structures that actually make this worse. The Bush Administration, he argues, was particularly bad at this, surrounding the president with like minded people, and producing a hierarchical knowledge supply chain which filtered out news that didn't fit the preferred model. The knowledge supply chain was fed at the base with warnings that might have averted 9/11, and might have avoided the Iraq war, but these warnings became weaker as they moved up the hierarchy, or were filtered out completely. The knowledge that was supplied to the top, was the knowledge that The Top wanted to hear.
"Warnings are a special class of dissonant information and they are difficult to heed for three reasons. First warnings .... often come from people deep within the organisation who have few credentials and are often hard to understand. Secondly, they contain a prediction about the future based on facts, values and concepts which might be different from those of the listener. It is important for the person giving the warning to remove as many of these obstacles as possible. And third, there's a pathology of giving and receiving warnings that needs to be overcome".
He describes this pathology as the warner, anxious to get the message across and worried that the "warnee" will not listen, having a tendency to overstate the danger. The warnee gets used to these overstatements, and discounts the significance of the message, which prompts the warner to even greater exaggeration (the "cry Wolf" effect). He says that the only way around this is to lay out the facts for the warnee, and let them connect the dots themselves. The end result is that warners find warning to be exhausting, confrontational and career-threatening. Many of the people Burns identifies as having tried to deliver warnings, either lost their jobs or retired soon afterwards.
to reward warners rather than punish them, much as people are now encouraged and rewarded in safety-conscious cultures for identifying near misses or unsafe conditions. In a safety context, people are encouraged to warn, and a lack of warnings is seen as a sign that something has gone wrong with the system. We need a similar approach to warnings in all areas - not just safety warnings, but warnings of changes in the market, warnings of inefficient processes, warnings of complacency and of obsolete thinking.
Making the vertical knowledge supply chain work efficiently and effectively may just be the biggest challenge that will face Knowledge Management going forward.
Indeed, very often the warnings were ignored or less received that caused all the disasters.
Sorry for digressed too much. Back to KM, what can we learn from that? Isn't it the same? the ones who give warnings normally get ignored, or demoted or fired; hopefully nowadays they don't get killed. Therefore in KM, who can be the remonstrant? can be the T-shape manager? or I-shape manager? or else?
yep, I love the position of remonstrant. Does it mean I am still young, passionate, ambitious with justice? Maybe deep down I feel this way;) Welcome Nick, this is Martin by the way.


Housing Families is a non-profit located in Malden, MA. We work with families experiencing homelessness, or are at risk of experiencing homelessness through providing various services and programs in order to combat homelessness and the cycle of poverty. Among our services, we offer a Youth and Family program in which we provide tutoring, counseling, and other opportunities for the children of our families.
When: Monday-Friday 4-5pm or 5-6pm (7pm on Wednesdays).
If students are interested in volunteer opportunities they can e-mail me at jsaropoulos@housingfamilies.org. We will then set up a volunteer training course for them, they will fill out CORI/SORI forms, and we will move forward with scheduling them for tutoring. If any staff is interested in learning more about our organization or would like us to speak directly to their students we can schedule a time to come to campus to do so.
For more information about Housing Families, please visit our website at housingfamilies.org. If you have any specific questions about our volunteer opportunities please e-mail me or call me at 781-333-2289 ext 203.


Looking for a Job? Ask yourself: What would it feel like to work in a job that you enjoy? Find out what you need to do on your "Job Search Pathway" at the Dixon Library!
The Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and Solano Employment Connection invite job seekers to participate in a new program designed to provide support, caring staff assistance and information on how to improve your chances of securing a job. Also, a Placement Coach will be available to discuss employment resources offered by the Workforce Investment Board. Come to the library on Tuesday and find out what you need to do to MAP your Job Search Pathway. This is Free and open to the public. For more information contact the library or the Workforce Investment Board at 707-863-3500.


Picture rating on a Sunday night !?
Picture rating on a Sunday night ! Boredom !
Which decade had the best fashion? What does being pretty mean for you? Is this outfit okay for a date to a pub in the country side? Do you have less respect for people who get plastic surgery? What is the maximum level of muscle size and definition you would be fine with on women?
I don't mind rating on any day if I have the time.
yeah not bad and you know it, 8.
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McCownGordon Construction recently teamed up with LM2 Construction as part of the city of Kansas City's mentor protégé program.
In this edition, Boyce profiles former Central Missouri student-athlete and his path to a job at McCownGordon. Boyce also talks about the unique relationship and sponsorship that McCownGordon and the association have.
The Manhattan City Commission accepted recommendations Tuesday for the recreation centers at Anthony and Eisenhower middle schools.


Dean has been paying tribute with his Purple Brainz shows during Halloween season for several years now and if you've ever experienced it, you know he looks, moves and sounds like Prince.
Watch Dean absolutely pouring his heart out, singing The Beautiful Ones from Purple Rain.
The "Sometimes It Snows in April" A Celebration of Prince at Port City Music Hall last Thursday, was an emotional and exhilarating night for Maine Prince fans. An opportunity to be together and dance to the music of one of the greatest recording artists of all time. 100% of tickets sales are being donated to the CITY OF HOPE charity.
Here's more as Portland shows our love of Prince.


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Thaimyrmococcus daviesi  — вид мирмекофильных насекомых-кокцид рода Thaimyrmococcus из семейства мучнистые червецы (Pseudococcidae).

Распространение
Юго-Восточная Азия: Таиланд.

Описание

Микроскопического размера мучнистые червецы (длина 1-2 мм). Усики 6-члениковые, равные длине всего тела. От близких видов отличаются редкими щетинками на задних голенях.
Питаются соками таких растений, как
 Dipterocarpaceae: Dipterocarpus;
 Rosaceae: Rubus.
Среди муравьёв симбионтов представители рода Dolichoderus: подрод Dolichoderus laotius.
Вид был впервые описан в 2002 году энтомологом Д. Уилльямсом (Williams, D.J.).

См. также

 Bolbococcus oresbius
 Paramyrmococcus vietnamensis

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Литература

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Мучнистые червецы
Животные, описанные в 2002 году
Насекомые Азии
Эндемики Таиланда
Мирмекофилы
Монотипические роды полужесткокрылых


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In Traverse City, follow US-31 N to Acme. In Acme, turn right at the light onto M-72. Follow M-72 until you reach a sign indicating a turn to Rapid City (there will be an overhead streetlight at this junction and a roadside park on your right). Turn left onto this curving road and follow it to its junction with Country Road 597. Turn left and follow this road through Rapid City and through Alden (where you make a quick right and left). County Road 597 has become County Road 618. Stay on County Road 618 until you come to Comfort Road. Turn left onto Comfort Road and follow it to its junction with M-88. Turn left onto M-88 and follow it approximately 3 miles and you will reach our main entrance.
From the Upper Peninsula Take I-75 South to exit 282 (Gaylord). Turn right onto M-32. Take M-32 to US 131, turn left (south) towards Mancelona. Take US 131 to M-88. Head west on M-88 towards Bellaire about 6 miles to the Shanty Creek Main Entrance.
From Detroit Follow Interstate 75 North from Detroit to Grayling; M-72 West toward Kalkaska. In Kalkaska turn North on US 131 to Mancelona. From Mancelona, take M-88 West to the Shanty Creek Main Entrance.
From Lansing Proceed North on US 27 to Grayling, M-72 West to Kalkaska, Turn North on US 131 towards Mancelona. In Mancelona, take M-88 West to the Shanty Creek Main Entrance.
From Grand Rapids Take US 131 North from Grand Rapids to Mancelona. In Mancelona, turn west on M-88 to the Shanty Creek Main Entrance.
US 131 towards Mancelona. In Mancelona, take M-88 West to the Shanty Creek Main Entrance.
Follow M-72 until you reach a sign indicating a turn to Rapid City. Turn left and follow it to its junction with Country Road 597. Turn left and follow this road through Rapid City and through Alden County Road 597 has become County Road 618. Stay on County Road 618 until you come to Comfort Road. Turn left onto Comfort Road and follow it to its junction with M-88. Turn left onto M-88 and follow it approximately 3 miles and you will reach our main entrance.
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This study evaluated visual instructional materials roles in agricultural extension services in the North-West Zone of Nigeria, comprising seven states Kaduna, Kano Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara. The total number of respondents randomly selected was 56 agricultural extension agents and 14 respondent farmers through the use of both purposive and random sampling techniques in the study area. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings revealed that 70% respondents were male, 30% were female. In gender variation male users of visual instructional materials in agricultural extension services were dominant. The study also found that 62% of the users were between the ages 18-39 years, and those of ages 40-59 years constituted 34% while those within 60 years and above were 4%. The result showed 87% of the users were married with 12% being single, 1% where divorced. Youths were higher in number which may be attributed to high rate of unemployment in Nigeria. The evaluation found that the level of awareness of participants farmers and extension agents across the Zone and the overall roles impact in agricultural activities were significantly greater in technology adoption through the usage of visual instructional materials. The findings further showed the educational status of the users. The data shows that 12% had primary education, 24% secondary education, while majority had tertiary education of 64%. Language preferred by users was English which ranked 62.3%. Also, the data reveals that Hausa has 27.4% and Arabic (Ajami) 10.3%. The results also showed illustration and pictorial representation had 78.8% level of effectiveness in designing visual instructional materials for agricultural extension usage, and 86.5% accepted colour usage while 13.5% did care much about colours in visual materials. The findings further revealed usage of visual materials in agricultural extension activities very effective ranking 50%, and effective 38.5% while usage in a specially organized extension programmes level of effectiveness at 61.5% and farmers" adoption of new ideas was over 80% across the seven states. The evaluation further disclosed that the seven states in the Zone used visual instructional materials extensively where Kebbi state ranked 82%, Kaduna 78%, Katsina 69%, Jigawa 62%, Kano 60%, Zamfara 58% and Sokoto 42%, while each state visuals used indicated posters ranked 96%, sign posts 84%, banners 78%, illustrations 74%, flyers 65% Charts 62% and photographs 45%. The results of Chi-square ( calculated) tests procedures of research hypotheses on visual instructional usage and adoption were statistically significant at 5% level. This led to the rejection of the mull hypotheses and the affirmation that the roles of visual instructional materials usage in agricultural extension services had significant effects on the livelihood of rural farmers in adopting new ideas in agricultural practices thereby improving their quality of life. The test of visual usage overall was significant at 90% and overall adoption at 87.5%. However, the study also identified some constraints limiting the optimal usage of visual instructional materials ranging from:- (a) lack of adequate trained extension agents, (b) lack of adequate trained graphic artists, (c) ignorance of the participants involved, (d) organizational impediments, (e) lack of required instructional visuals, (f) lack of adequate capital, (g) differing perspectives, (h) language barriers and (i) illiteracy level. However, despite the numerous constraints the evaluation indicated significant levels of visual instructional materials usage and adoption among farmers and agricultural extension agents across the North-West zone of Nigeria. Finally, the following recommendation were made:- Based on the overall findings, it is therefore recommended that the usage of graphic visuals in agricultural extension activities should be encourage to use visual instructional materials for effective communication in all agricultural programmes. The youths should be encouraged to get involved in agricultural extension programmes to sustain the agricultural sectors and similar sectors to reduce the level of social and security problems associated to youth"s unemployment in the country and the world at large.
Agricultural Extension is an informal educational process which aims to teach farmers how to improve their level of living by their own effort, through making wise use of natural resources at their disposal for better systems of farming and homemaking, for the benefit of the individual, the family, the community and the nation at large. (IAR Extension Roll-Up(2013), www.abu.edu/institute.iar,( 2014).


Kohima: Myanmar-based rebel group National Socialist Council of Nagaland – Khaplang (NSCN-K) has been recruiting school children here at gunpoint, an Assam Rifles official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
"NSCN-K has been continuing with its drive to recruit school children at gunpoint, because the peace-loving citizens of Nagaland have refused to support any form of violence and are not willing to replenish the depleting strength of NSCN-K cadres," Assam Rifles spokesman Shailesh said.
Fifteen young people from Nagaland's Phek district were forcefully taken away by the cadres of Brig Kurichu, commander of NSCN-K's Mobile-V Group, which operates between Phek district and Tsera (Myanmar) as part of their latest recruitment drive, the official said.
"The youngest student recruited is only fourteen years of age. These youths were taken to Tsera camp, from where they are sent to Ngiakching camp (Myanmar) for basic military training," Shailesh alleged.
Shailesh said the recruitment drive of NSCN-K is in direct contravention to the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989.
He said Article 38 of this Convention requires state parties to prevent anyone under the age of 15 from taking direct part in hostilities and to refrain from recruiting anyone under the age of 15 years.
Moreover, he said such actions of NSCN-K are affecting the prospects of Naga kids as their Right to Education that is enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
The rebel group led by Myanmar-based S.S. Khaplang had unilaterally abrogated the ceasefire with the central government in March, 14 years after signing the agreement.
The rebel group has carried out several attacks against security forces in Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, following the abrogation of the ceasefire.


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Q: How to concat double quotations in variable in javascript I want to concat string variable with double quotation marks. But it seems that when it rendered , the double quotation marks is ignored.searchString is the string variable.
See my code below.
 "filters={\"name\":" + searchString + "}"

Expected result is :
"filters={ "name" : "whatever word that holds the search string variable" }"

Suggestions pretty much appreciated.

A: First of all, it is already a string.
But in case if you want to append additional quotes then do the following:
'"'+stringVariable+'"'

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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Roche Products Limited v. Dmitri Orlov
Case No. D2010-1869
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Roche Products Limited of Selwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by Lathrop & Gage L.C. of United States of America.
The Respondent is Dmitri Orlov of Volgograd, Russian Federation.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <accutanerx.com> (the "Disputed Domain Name") is registered with eNom.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on November 3, 2010. On November 4, 2010, the Center transmitted by email to eNom a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On November 4, 2010, eNom transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details.
The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy" or "UDRP"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on November 10, 2010. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was November 30, 2010. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on December 1, 2010.
The Center appointed Kar Liang Soh as the sole panelist in this matter on December 6, 2010. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4. Factual Background
The Complainant together with its affiliated companies is a leader in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics with global operations in over 100 countries. The Complainant uses the trade mark ROACCUTANE in relation to a drug, namely isotretinoin, indicated for treatment of severe nodular and/or inflammatory acne conglobata or recalcitrant acne.
The trade mark ROACCUTANE has been registered in various jurisdictions including:
Trade mark no
The Complainant has also been using the trade mark ACCUTANE in relation to isotretinoin medication since 1972 and has promoted the trade mark extensively. The Complainant's parent company owns the domain name <accutane.com> which redirects to their website at "www.roche.com". Information about ROACCUTANE and ACCUTANE is available on that website.
The Disputed Domain Name was registered on August 30, 2010. Little is known about the Respondent beyond what is available in the Complaint. At the time the Complaint was filed, the website associated with the Disputed Domain Name made reference to the trade mark ACCUTANE in relation to isotretinoin products and purports to offer them for sale. The Complainant, through its lawyers, sent a letter to the Respondent on October 6, 2010 by FedEx and email alleging trade mark infringement by the Respondent and requesting transfer of the Disputed Domain Name. It does not appear from the evidence that the Respondent replied to the letter.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant contends that:
1) The Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's trade marks ACCUTANE and ROACCUTANE. The Disputed Domain Name incorporates the whole of ACCUTANE and adds the letters "rx". The letters "rx" do not prevent the confusing similarity with the trade mark ACCUTANE from arising;
2) The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name and is not commonly known by the Disputed Domain Name. The Complainant has not authorized or granted a licence to the Respondent to use the trade mark ACCUTANE. The Respondent adopted the use of the Disputed Domain Name to create and benefit from consumer confusion regarding the Respondent's activities and the business of the Complainant. The Respondent has not used the Disputed Domain Name for a bona fide offering of goods or services. The Respondent is not making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use for the Disputed Domain Name without intent for commercial gain;
3) The Respondent registered and is using the Disputed Domain Name in bad faith. The trade mark ACCUTANE has extremely strong reputation. The manner of sales of isotretinoin products on the Respondent's website is in violation of FDA regulations. The Respondent has intentionally attempted to attract for financial gain Internet users to the Respondent's website by creating a likelihood of confusion with the trade mark ACCUTANE as to source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of the Respondent's website or the goods sold on or through the Respondent's website.
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant's contentions.
6. Discussion and Findings
In order to be successful in this proceeding, the Complainant must show the following:
1) The Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trade mark in which the Complainant has rights;
2) The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Name; and
3) The Disputed Domain Name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Complainant clearly has trade mark rights in the trade mark ROACCUTANE by virtue of the trade mark registrations. Although no evidence has been provided by the Complainant as to the registration of the trade mark ACCUTANE, the Panel has taken note that ACCUTANE is a registered as a trade mark in the United States in the name of Hoffman La-Roche Inc (registration number 0966924). Unfortunately, although it is likely that Hoffman La-Roche Inc is related to the Complainant, there is insufficient evidence in the Complaint to indicate that the Complainant derived any rights from this United States registration. In any event paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is not limited to registered trade marks. Past panels have consistently upheld the position that the Policy does not discriminate against unregistered trade marks (e.g, The British Broadcasting Corporation v. Jaime Renteria, WIPO Case No. D2000-0050; XIHA Oy v. Qiu Shengjie, Chen Qing Mei, WIPO Case No. D2010-1204). Based on the evidence provided, the Panel is of the view that ACCUTANE is clearly used by the Complainant as a trade mark in relation to the its goods, namely isotretinoin products, and that it has become a distinctive identifier associated with the Complainant and the Complainant's goods prior to the registration date of the Disputed Domain Name. Therefore, for purposes of the Policy, the Panel finds that the Complainant has rights in both the ACCUTANCE AND ROACCUTANE trade marks.
The trade mark ACCUTANE is incorporated in its entirety in the Disputed Domain Name. The only difference between the Disputed Domain Name and the trade mark ACCUTANE is the suffix "rx". It is unclear what this suffix "rx" represents. Regardless, it does not add any significant feature to the Disputed Domain Name. In addition, the website which used to be associated with the Disputed Domain Name appears from the evidence to use the mark ACCUTANE without the "rx" suffix. The suffix is obviously a cosmetic and technical addition to the word "accutane" contained in the Disputed Domain Name and does not successfully distinguish the Disputed Domain Name from the trade mark ACCUTANE.
Therefore, the Panel holds that the Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the trade mark ACCUTANE. For similar reasons, the Panel is also of the opinion that the Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the trade mark ROACCUTANE as it entirely reproduces the dominant part of such trade mark.
The first limb of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is established.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Complainant has denied any relationship with the Respondent and there is nothing to suggest that the Respondent is commonly known by the Disputed Domain Name.
The Respondent has declined to provide any explanation or to demonstrate any circumstances which may suggest any rights or legitimate interests. Since the Respondent did not file a Response, the Panel is only left with the information that has been submitted in the Complaint.
In the circumstances, in accordance with established principles, the Panel holds that the Complainant has shown a prima facie case that the Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name. Since the Respondent has failed to rebut the prima facie case, the second limb of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is also established.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
Based on the evidence submitted by the Complainant, the Panel accepts that even though the trade mark ACCUTANE is now used on a limited scale, the past use has been sufficiently extensive to constitute it as prima facie well-known.
The Respondent's use of ACCUTANE in relation to isotretinoin products on the website resolved from the Disputed Domain Name strongly suggests that the Respondent is well aware of the trade mark ACCUTANE at the time of the registration of the Disputed Domain Name . Even though the products on the Respondent's website are generic isotretinoin products and not original products under the ACCUTANE trade mark, it is inconceivable that the Respondent chose the trade mark ACCUTANE by mere coincidence. The selection of the Disputed Domain Name by the Respondent together with the use of the Complainant's trade mark ACCUTANE on the Respondent's website clearly exhibits a deliberate intent to associate with the Complainant's trade mark. The offering of products on the website indicates that the website was intended to promote commercial gain.
The use of the Disputed Domain Name on the website in the manner indicated above shows opportunistic bad faith registration and use. Such use takes unfair advantage of the reputation in the Complainant's trade marks (e.g., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc v. Samuel Teodorek, WIPO Case No. D2007-1814; Birkenstock Orthopädie GmbH & Co. KG v. Chen Yanbing, WIPO Case No. D2010-0746; Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG v. Hamit Karaca, WIPO Case No. D2010-0258; Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Gray West International, WIPO Case No. D2000-1219).
In addition, the Panel is of the view that the Disputed Domain Name falls within the scenario identified under paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy as bad faith registration and use.
Therefore, the Panel accepts the Complainant's arguments that the Disputed Domain Name is registered and used in bad faith under paragraph 4(a) of the Policy.
7. Decision
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the Disputed Domain Name <accutanerx.com> be transferred to the Complainant.
Kar Liang Soh
Sole Panelist
Dated: January 7, 2011


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Using HoloLens and Acer headsets in a shared environment is fascinating.
For years, Microsoft has been talking about its dream of mixed reality -- the idea that AR and VR headsets can work together in harmony across virtual and physical environments. But until now, it really has just been talk. At its Build developer conference this week, I finally saw a mixed reality demo that made Microsoft's ambitious vision seem achievable. It was more than just shared VR -- something we've seen plenty of already -- it was a group experience that brought together HoloLens and Acer's virtual-reality headsets in intriguing ways.
To be clear, I was running through Microsoft's Mixed Reality Academy at Build, a simplified version of a developer class meant for journalists and analysts. It goes over the basics of building a virtual experience in Unity, while also giving you time to actually explore those environments. I went through an earlier version of the class two years ago that was entirely focused on HoloLens, but this week's version showed how HoloLens (and future AR headsets) can coexist with Acer's Windows 10 VR gear.
The centerpiece of this year's demo was a puzzle-filled island, which featured a beach, a small forest and a large volcano. Like all-seeing gods, the HoloLens users could see the VR headset wearers' tiny avatars running through the island. Everyone wearing an Acer headset, meanwhile, had an on-the-ground view, with the HoloLens viewers appearing as menacing clouds in the horizon. The demo is basically an example of how these different types of devices could be used to observe a single environment.
After stepping through the Unity setup once again, which mostly involved enabling a bunch of scripts and templates that Microsoft set up for us, I was able to slip on a HoloLens headset and view the floating island. I used the Air Tap gesture to select it, which involves holding my fist up and raising my index finger, and then gazed at different locations around the room to move the island around. While it was cool, it was also standard HoloLens fare.
Things got a bit more interesting once I put on the Acer VR headset, which let me see the island much more clearly than HoloLens. That's partially because of the higher resolution screen on the Acer headset, but VR also has the advantage of letting you focus more clearly on virtual objects than HoloLens' AR. Microsoft didn't have its new Mixed Reality Controllers on-hand for the demo, so I was stuck using an Xbox One gamepad to move around the environment.
Moving into the shared mixed reality experience made the differences between the two headsets even more palpable. Wearing a HoloLens headset felt oddly powerful, for example. We learned how to throw lightning bolts into the island by bringing two fingers together, a gesture that mainly seemed to exist to freak out the VR headset wearers on the ground. When I donned the Acer device, I found myself on the beach and was immediately struck by the shift in scale. Instead of peering down from high above, I was now walking amongst the trees.
I made my way to a passcode-protected door with a not-so-subtle hint: "I love pie." After entering 3.14, the door opened and I was presented with another task, which involved stacking colored blocks in the right order. While I was solving puzzles, other VR-headset-wearers on the island were going through trials of their own. Eventually, a doorway opened into the volcano at the center of the island, where a large rocket was housed. Technically, I was supposed to work together with my teammates to launch the rocket. But, somehow, I ended up teleporting underneath it, which made it impossible for us to complete the puzzles.
I've been through several shared-VR experiences, most recently at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, but Microsoft's demo felt completely different. The mixture of HoloLens augmented reality and traditional VR allows for multiple perspectives that wouldn't be possible with virtual-reality headsets alone. The shift in scale, in particular, could be particularly helpful. I could see remote teams using a combination of the two technologies to collaborate on projects together.
Each headset also has its strengths and weaknesses. HoloLens gives you a wireless digital lens over the real world, but it's expensive and, due to its limited field of view, it's not ideal for letting you explore immersive environments. The Acer VR headset, meanwhile, is far cheaper at $299 and lets you completely surround yourself in VR worlds, but it also needs to be tethered to a PC. Throughout the demo, I was mostly struck by the Acer VR headset's comfort and clarity. I've already had some hands-on time with it, but I'm still surprised at just how light it is.
The big takeaway, at this point, is that there's plenty of potential for AR and VR headsets to work together. And compared to others dabbling in these fields, Microsoft is in a unique place. It's the only company with a single platform that can support both AR and VR, and it also has plenty of hardware experience that others don't. The company is already planning to bring MR into living rooms next year via the Project Scorpio console. The big question for Microsoft: Can it make developers believe in its mixed reality vision, too?


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Origins of agriculture
How agriculture and domestication began
Earliest beginnings
Southwest Asia
Early agricultural societies
The Nile valley
Agriculture in ancient Asia
The classical-imperial era
The Indian subcontinent
Early historic period
The Mughal century (c. 1600 ce)
Improvements in agriculture in the West: 200 bce to 1600 ce
The Roman epoch: 200 bce to 600 ce
Harvesting and processing
The medieval period: 600 to 1600 ce
Agricultural advances
Open-field system
Plows and plowing
New lands and crops
Agricultural recession
Scientific agriculture: the 20th century
Developments in power: the internal-combustion engine
The tractor
Unit machinery
Grain combine
Mechanized equipment for corn
Mechanized equipment for cotton
Tomato-harvesting equipment
Automobiles, trucks, and airplanes
New crops and techniques
The soybean
The sugar beet
New techniques
Terracing
The direction of change
New strains: genetics
Early work in genetics
Maize, or corn
The Green Revolution
Artificial breeding
Electricity in agriculture
Electrical cooperatives
Modern applications
Pest and disease control in crops
Beginnings of pest control
Pesticides as a panacea: 1942–62
Integrated control
Economics, politics, and agriculture
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Agricultural technology developed more rapidly in the 20th century than in all previous history. Though the most important developments during the first half of the century took place in the industrial countries, especially the United States, the picture changed somewhat after the 1950s. With the coming of independence, former colonies in Africa and Asia initiated large-scale efforts to improve their agriculture. In many cases they used considerable ingenuity in adapting Western methods to their own climates, soils, and crops (see also agricultural technology).
The internal-combustion engine brought major changes to agriculture in most of the world. In advanced regions it soon became the chief power source for the farm.
The first applications to agriculture of the four-stroke-cycle gasoline engine were as stationary engines, at first in Germany, later elsewhere. By the 1890s stationary engines were mounted on wheels to make them portable, and soon a drive was added to make them self-propelled. The first successful gasoline tractor was built in the United States in 1892. Within a few years several companies were manufacturing tractors in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The number of tractors in the more developed countries increased dramatically during the 20th century, especially in the United States: in 1907 some 600 tractors were in use, but the figure had grown to almost 3,400,000 by 1950.
Major changes in tractor design throughout the 20th century produced a much more efficient and useful machine. Principal among these were the power takeoff, introduced in 1918, in which power from the tractor's engine could be transmitted directly to an implement through the use of a special shaft; the all-purpose, or tricycle-type, tractor (1924), which enabled farmers to cultivate planted crops mechanically; rubber tires (1932), which facilitated faster operating speeds; and the switch to four-wheel drives and diesel power in the 1950s and 1960s, which greatly increased the tractor's pulling power. The last innovations have led to the development of enormous tractors—usually having double tires on each wheel and enclosed, air-conditioned cabs—that can pull several gangs of plows.
After World War II, there was an increase in the use of self-propelled machines in which the motive power and the equipment for performing a particular task formed one unit. Though the grain combine is the most important of these single-unit machines, self-propelled units are also in use for spraying, picking cotton, baling hay, picking corn, and harvesting tomatoes, lettuce, sugar beets, and many other crops. These machines are faster, easier to operate, and above all, have lower labour requirements than those that are powered by a separate tractor.
The first successful grain combine, a machine that cuts ripe grain and separates the kernels from the straw, was built in the United States in 1836. Lack of an adequate power unit and the tendency of combined grain to spoil because of excessive moisture limited its development, however. Large combines, powered by as many as 40 horses, were used in California in the latter part of the 19th century. Steam engines replaced horses on some units as a power source, but, about 1912, the gasoline engine began to replace both horses and steam for pulling the combine and operating its mechanism. A one-man combine, powered by a two-plow-sized tractor (i.e., one large enough to pull two plows), was developed in 1935. This was followed by a self-propelled machine in 1938.
Corn (maize), the most important single crop in the United States and extremely important in many other countries, is grown commercially with the aid of equipment operated by tractors or by internal-combustion engines mounted on the machines. Maize pickers came into use in the U.S. Corn Belt after World War I and were even more widely adopted after World War II. These pickers vary in complexity from the snapper-type harvester, which removes the ears from the stalks but does not husk them, to the picker-sheller, which not only removes the husk but shells the grain from the ear. The latter is often used in conjunction with dryers. Modern machines can harvest as many as 12 rows of corn at a time.
Mechanization has also reduced substantially the labour needed to grow cotton. Equipment includes tractor, two-row stalk-cutter, disk (to shred the stalks), bedder (to shape the soil into ridges or seedbeds), planter, cultivator, sprayer, and harvester. Cotton fibre is harvested by a stripper-type harvester, developed in the 1920s, or by a picker. The stripper strips the entire plant of both open and unopened bolls and collects many leaves and stems. Though a successful cotton picker that removed the seed cotton from the open bolls and left the burrs on the plant was invented in 1927, it did not come into use until after World War II. Strippers are used mostly in dry regions, while pickers are employed in humid, warm areas. The pickers are either single-row machines mounted on tractors or two-row self-propelled machines.
The self-propelled mechanical tomato harvester, developed in the early 1960s by engineers working in cooperation with plant breeders, handles virtually all packing tomatoes grown in California. Harvesters using electronic sorters can further reduce labour requirements.
National Geographic - Agriculture
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Ward Cunningham just recently set up his own channel on YouTube and has edited a conversation we had last Fall. His philosophy for conducting interviews is simple and effective: make guests feel comfortable and ask them questions that make them look good. He did a great job making me feel comfortable.
We start by talking about how, in writing the book, we tried to not "just" be experts, but to also get at our experience and the more intimate level at which communities live. At the very end I remember to tell him that his interaction with the community that formed on his wiki was one of the first instances where I glimpsed what the role of a technology steward might be about. It has taken a lot of work to write about "less technical" people might take on the role, but I'm convinced that you don't have to be a Ward Cunningham to serve your community with respect to its technology needs.


Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush University Medical Center both recently received the Healthgrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award, which recognizes hospitals that provide an overall outstanding patient experience.
Healthgrades evaluates patient experience performance by applying a scoring methodology to 10 patient experience measures, using data collected from a 32-question survey of the hospital's own patients. Hospitals in the Top 15 percent with the highest overall patient experience scores are recognized as Outstanding Patient Experience Award recipients.
The survey questions focused on patients' perspectives of their care in the hospital. The topics of the questions ranged from cleanliness and noise levels in patient rooms to factors such as pain management and responsiveness to patients' needs. The measures also included whether a patient would recommend the hospital to friends or family.
In order to be recognized by Healthgrades, hospitals must meet eligibility requirements for consideration, which in addition to number of survey responses, includes clinical performance thresholds. Nationally, 2,941 hospitals met those requirements with 443 hospitals outperforming their peers, based on their patients' responses in order to achieve this distinction.
For more information about Healthgrades, to download a full copy of the report, or to get information about hospital and physician quality, visit www.Healthgrades.com/quality.
The Outstanding Patient Experience Award comes on the heels of Rush Oak Park Hospital, Rush University Medical and Rush-Copley Medical Center receiving 'A' grades for safety, the highest possible, from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit patient safety watchdog organization.


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TMS for SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt
What defines the small and mid-sized business (SMB) market for transportation management systems (TMS)?
I began my presentation at last month's Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference with that question, in a session titled "TMS for SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt," where I co-presented with Andra Gibson (Project Manager, Logistics Service Solutions at Carhartt) and Gregg Lanyard (Director, Product Management at Manhattan Associates).
Is SMB defined by a company's annual revenues? Its freight spend? Its annual shipment volume?
The answer, as I've argued before, is that we can't view the SMB market as a "one-size-fits-all" category, especially when it comes to TMS requirements. For starters, small businesses are often very different than midsized businesses, so we need to stop lumping them together. At the end of the day, the best approach is making the effort to truly understand and address the unique needs and characteristics of every company — both today and where they're aiming to be in the future.
Carhartt is a great example. This family-owned company — a leading brand in durable workwear and outdoor apparel — was founded in 1889 but its business continues to change rapidly. As Ms. Gibson highlighted in her presentation, Carharrt is experiencing rapid growth. Its manufacturing capacity is at the highest level in the company's history, and just two years ago Carhartt began opening its own retails stores across the country (with stores in 17 states as of the end of September 2016).
Rapid growth, coupled with new market segments and channels (including ecommerce), prompted Carhartt to embark on a multi-million dollar upgrade of its distribution center, which included investments in warehouse management and transportation management solutions.
From a transportation standpoint, Carhartt came to the same realization that many other fast-growing companies ultimately come to: if they wanted to drive efficiency, control headcount, gain greater visibility, and reduce overall freight costs, they could no longer rely on Excel spreadsheets to manage their transportation operations, especially with the diverse set of modes and channels they were now dealing with.
Carhartt evaluated several TMS solutions across a broad set of functional requirements, including:
Procurement & Contract Management
Rate Management
Carrier Communication
Shipment Management
Visibility & Event Management
Freight Bill Audit & Pay
The company ultimately selected Manhattan Associates' cloud-based TMS (Carhartt was already using Manhattan's WMS solution and was planning to upgrade it at the same time). Why Manhattan? Obviously, the solution met Carhartt's functional requirements, but there was another important factor that Gibson highlighted, a factor that many other companies sometimes fail to consider: "It was important for us that the vendor and solution we selected was capable of growing with us as our processes developed and matured," said Gibson.
In other words, Carhartt incorporated its long-term strategy and objectives into the selection process — that is, the company didn't only factor in the TMS capabilities it needed today, but also the capabilities it anticipates needing in the future as its business and transportation operations continues to grow and evolve.
Cloud-based deployment was another contributing factor in Carhartt's selection. "Our company's philosophy regarding on-premise installations has evolved based on the need for quick deployment of on-demand, integrated solutions," said Gibson. "Being current [with the latest TMS version via regular updates] is important with the evolving needs of our supply chain network."
Carhartt went live with the TMS in February 2016 and the company is already experiencing benefits, including improved carrier and mode selection, enhanced service levels, improved visibility into customer delivery, and decreased overall transportation spending. In a press release issued by Manhattan Associates prior to the conference, Sharon Perry, vice president of logistics at Carhartt stated the following:
"Our adoption of Manhattan's cloud-based TMS and the ease of implementation has given us greater visibility into the supply chain, directly impacting our ability to be agile and adapt to the different levels of sophistication that our customers and carriers demand. We can now offer customers flexibility to experiment with different delivery methods, which is especially important during peak season."
Gregg Lanyard from Manhattan Associates also presented during the session. He will be my guest on Talking Logistics in an upcoming episode, so I don't want to steal his thunder today. I'll simply share the slide below from his presentation:
I believe this slide sums up the transportation challenge that Carhartt and many other companies — whether they're small, medium, or large — are experiencing today when it comes to omni-channel/multi-channel commerce, and why companies can no longer get away with managing their transportation operations with spreadsheets or outdated systems.
Carhartt, cloud, Manhattan Associates, omni-channel, SaaS, TMS, transportation management systems
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Home > Autographs > Business Leaders' Autographs > Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles - 1871 signed by Isaias W. Hellman and Nelson Story
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles - 1871 signed by Isaias W. Hellman and Nelson Story
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Beautifully printed certificate of Deposite from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles issued in 1871. This historic document was printed by Britton and Rey. This item is hand signed by the Company's Cashier ( Isaias W. Hellman ) and is over 136 years old. There is some minor ledger stain on left side and overall is in fine condition. Denominations may vary. The certificate was issued to and signed on the verso by Nelson Story.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank was the first incorporated bank in Los Angeles, founded in 1871 by John D. Downey and Isaias W. Hellman, a successful merchant, real estate speculator and banker, and brother of Hermann W. Hellman. The Farmers and Merchants Bank was the oldest bank in Southern California from 1871 until 1956 when it was merged into the Security First National Bank of Los Angeles. The story of the Farmers and Merchants Bank coincides with the development of Los Angeles, particularly in the formative period from 1870 to 1900.
Isaias William Hellman,b. Oct.3, 1842, Reckendorf, Bavaria; d. April 9, 1920 ; came to the US in 1859; m. Esther Newgass, of New York on April 14, 1870. He arrived in L.A. in 1859 and began work as dry goods clerk; manager and president, Hellman, Temple and Co., bankers, 1868-71; He began in banking at Los Angeles in 1868 and founded the Farmers and Merchants Bank in 1871 and was its president from 1876-1920,: In 1890, he moved to San Francisco and he incorporated the Union Trust Company, the first trust company in California. Isaias William Hellman was president. He was also president, Bankers's Investment Co. Director: U.S. National Bank (Portland, Ore.), So. Pacific Co., many other corporations. He was also appointed to Regents of the University of California to fill unexpired term of Regent D. O. Mills, 1881-86; reappointed, 1886-1902; reappointed, 1902-18.
His home was located at 2020 Jackson St. office 2 Montgomery St., San Francisco, California. The bank operated from his home on Jackson Street after the main branch was destroyed in the 18-Apr-1906 Fire and Earthquake. His son and grandson were later presidents of Wells Fargo Bank.
Isaias William Hellman was also a co founder of the University of Southern California (USC). In 1879, three civic leaders, Ozro W. Childs, a Protestant horticulturalist; John G. Downey, an Irish-Catholic pharmacist who had served as governor of California from 1860 to 1862; and Isaias W. Hellman, a German-Jewish banker and philanthropist, deeded 308 lots to the Board of Trustees, located in an area designated "West Los Angeles," near the intersection of Figueroa Street and Exposition Boulevard. Sales of the lots were to create an endowment to provide seeds of financial support for the institution. A portion of the land, located within the original land grant establishing El Pueblo de la Reina (Reyna) de Los Angeles, was to be reserved for the actual campus. The university opened in 1880 with 53 students and 10 teachers.
Nelson Story b. 1838 in Ohio d. 1924
Nelson Story and Ellen Trent met and married in Kansas before coming to Bannack and Alder Gulch in 1863. Nineteen-year-old Ellen baked pies and bread to sell to the miners while Nelson operated a store and mined a claim from which he took $40,000 in gold.
It was in Alder Gulch that Story�s famous participation in frontier justice took place. Road agent (robber) George Ives had been charged with murder by an informal judge and jury. A crowd of several thousand spectators gathered as darkness fell. Ives stood on a packing box with a noose around his neck. A rescue party of his friends stood up with their guns, but �quick as thought� Story pulled the box (or kicked it, depending on whose version you hear) out from under Ives and he was hanged.
The Storys decided to settle in Bozeman and Ellen stayed there in 1866 while Nelson went down to Texas to drive his famous herd of 3,000 longhorns and a wagon train up to Montana. Not only did he fight his way through thousands of hostile Indians, but he also had to outwit the U.S. Army who wanted to turn back the expedition for its own safety. Story had to sneak 3,000 longhorns past the troops in the dark. These cattle that were driven into the Gallatin Valley formed the nucleus for Montana�s cattle industry.
Ellen gave birth to seven children. Three sons and one daughter survived. Nelson�s successes in cattle, a flour mill and other business ventures enabled them to build a 17 room mansion in the 1880s. This exquisite building was torn down in 1938. Marble columns from the mansion were salvaged to decorate the family plot.
The Ellen Theatre on Main Street was named for Mrs. Story. Nelson Story was instrumental in bringing Montana State College to Bozeman. Both lived long and productive lives and were major figures in building the Bozeman community.
The Story family is an old and prominent one and dates back to 1640 in Massachusetts. Walter Perry Story was born at Bozeman, Montana, on December 18, 1882, the son of Nelson and Ellen (Trent) Story, his father being a native of Ohio, born in 1838. They were pioneer settlers of Montana, migrating from there from their eastern home in the 1860s, where his father, Nelson Story there engaged in mining, banking, milling and the cattle business. His father was credited with one of the largest individual fortunes in that state. Nelson grew up on a farm, but had a partial college education, and in early manhood identified himself with the western frontier. He was a participant in the early freight business between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, and as a miner, rancher and business man of varied interests, his career belongs as much to the history of California, as Montana, and a number of territories. For many years he was president of the Gallatin Valley National Bank at Bozeman, Montana, and was one of the most helpful factors in building up that city. The family came to Los Angeles in 1894 to establish a winter home, and Nelson, seeing the future possibilities of the city, invested heavily in real estate, thus forming the nucleus of the family's large interests in Southern California. His father died on February 9, 1924.
Walter was the youngest of their family of three sons and one daughter; the others being Mrs. Hogan, the wife of Dr. Garrett L. Hogan of Los Angeles; Nelson, Jr., who became lieutenant governor of Montana; and Thomas, who was a rancher and banker.
Walter was to receive his early education in the public schools of Bozeman, later attending both public and private schools in Los Angeles. At the age of sixteen he entered Shattuck Military Academy at Faribault, Minnesota. He was there until 1902, and graduated from the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York in 1903. Walter returned to Bozeman where he became identified with the Commercial National Bank, an outgrowth of the Gallatin Valley National Bank of which his father was now president. Beginning as a bookkeeper and teller he continued his services for two years and then returned to Los Angeles in 1905 where he managed and pioneered the first motor transit lines in the West. In 1907 he engaged in the real estate business with Arthur E. Tandy under the name of Tandy & Story. He dissolved that firm about the time he began the erection of the Story Building.
To the initiative and resources commanded by Walter, Los Angeles is indebted for one of its first sky scraper office structures in the business district, the Walter P. Story Building, at Sixth and Broadway. This office structure stands on a lot which his father Nelson Story had bought in 1895, for a purchase price of fifty thousand dollars. The transaction was concluded with a cablegram from Colonel James Lankershim, who was then in Paris. When Walter was fourteen years old his father presented him with the lot. Walter began the erection of the million dollar building in April 1908, borrowing half the amount from his father and negotiated the rest by loans from local bankers. The building was completed on April 1, 1910, and at that time was regarded as the most beautiful office buildings in the city. Standing twelve stories high, and with a frontage of 120 feet on Broadway and 150 feet on Sixth Street, it was one of the most modern for its day. The building proved to be a profitable investment, and the obligations against it were quickly cleared away. One of the unique features of this structure was the adaptation of its roof penthouse as a luxurious place of residence, a surrounding wall and growing shrubbery making it a beautiful home for Mr. and Mrs. Story during part of the year.
Owning other valuable realty in Los Angeles, he soon became one of the best known of the younger financiers of Southern California, who by his ability and judgment was brought in close association with the general up-building and development of the Southland. Another of his multi-million dollar undertakings was the building of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building, on South Spring Street, a thirteen-story structure, in the finest part of the city, which was completed in 1921. Mr. Story also owned a beautiful country estate and ranch house, sixteen acres situated four miles from Hollywood, where he lived part of the year.
His military career, like his business career is equally as impressive and spans nearly three decades. His patriotism and love of country spired him to enlist as a private in the Infantry. During this period General Story fathered what was then Battery A of the California Field Artillery (later Battery A, 143rd Field Artillery), recruited the battery, raised funds to build an armory and stables in Los Angeles.
After being discharged from World War I service, in December 1920, Walter was commissioned a Captain, Infantry, California National Guard and began devoting his energies toward reorganizing the National Guard in Southern California. In 1921 he was promoted to the rank of Major and organized a separate infantry company, which would later evolve into the Third Separate Battalion. From this nucleus he began to form the 160th Infantry.
In 1922, under appointment by President Harding, Colonel Story organized and then took command of the 160th Infantry, California National Guard. He then inaugurated training schools, fully accredited and directed by Army instructors, and candidate classes through which enlisted men showing ability and initiative could become junior officers. During this period he founded the 160th Infantry Guardsman, a publication which made possible the statewide organ, The California Guardsman.
Upon formation of the 40th Division, he took the Fort Leavenworth examinations before a Regular Army Board at the Presidio of San Francisco, passed with a high average and was subsequently promoted to Brig. General of the line in July 1926. He was now assigned command of the 80th Brigade, a command which he would hold for 11 years until commissioned a Major General.
In 1928, General Story, was instrumental in persuading the Legislature in acquiring and establishing Camp Merriam as a training site for the California National Guard. Camp Merriam was then comprised of an area of 5,800 acres, which lies east and north of State Highway 1 �present day Camp San Luis Obispo.
Only a few days after his arrival at home station from the Army War College in 1933, disaster struck the Long Beach area. General Story was immediately placed in complete charge of the situation. Under his direction, the California National Guard responded quickly to the area, rendering aid and protection to property during this period of state emergency. The efficiency with which this was accomplished clearly indicated his leadership and ability to organize and command. Various types of special mobile equipment was developed by the General through his experiences during this period have since proved their utility and necessity.
The same year he graduated from the U.S. Army War College and would be promoted to the rank of Major General in July 1937. After completion of the General Officers Course, Ft. Benning, Georgia, in 1940 he assumed command of the 9th Army Corps, Ft. Lewis, and entered Federal Service in March 1941, where he assumed command of the 40th Infantry Division, now composed of the National Guard elements from California, Arizona and Utah, as well as the many infantry divisions which were to follow, then in training at Camp Merriam, San Luis Obispo, California. It was during this period that the name of Camp Merriam was changed to Camp San Luis Obispo.
The spirit of General Story was reflected down through the ranks of the 40th Division. Having served through the ranks from private to Major General, his understanding of the men under him clearly influenced the high morale of the 40th Division. He was relieved from command due to protracted illness in September 1941, and retired from active list in July 1942. Among his citations and decorations include Victory Medal (World War I), Service Medal (25 Years), Medal of Merit, American Defense Service Ribbon, and the Order Crown of Italy.
In addition to his distinguished military career, Mr. Story also served as Commissioner of Agriculture for the Sixth District, appointed by Governor Hiram Johnson and was successively reappointed by Governors William D. Stephens and F. W. Richardson. He also served as Commissioner of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Board. He took great pride in the fact that he was made an honorary member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, the only individual to whom such a membership was ever extended. He served as Director, Standard Finance Company; Chairman of the Board, Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company; Managing Director, Ribbonwood Tungsten Ore Company; Director, Manganese Ore Company of Nevada; and President, Story Building Corporation. He was a member of both the Los Angeles Realty Board and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, serving on the military and naval affairs commission of the latter. He served as the Commander of the American Legion, was a honorary member of the Spanish-American War Veterans.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Story were very popular socially and Mr. Story was a member of a number of exclusive social clubs, including the California Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Midwick and Overland Country Clubs (Pasadena), Bel Air Bay Club (San Francisco), Bohemian Club (San Francisco), Rancho Visitasdores (Santa Barbara), and the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California.
As a member of the Association of Army Officers of the United States, Major General Walter Perry Story's attributed his success to his family's long line of military service. His great-great grandfather, John Story, served as a Sergeant in Captain Jonahan Cogswell's Company, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and also in Captain David Low's 3rd Company, Colonel Cogswell (3rd Essex County) Regiment who served throughout the American Revolution. Joining the Sons of the Revolution in 1922 as a life member, while still only a colonel, he later served that society as its Marshall, where he enjoyed the fellowship of such other notable National Guard members as Brigadier General Seth Edwin Preston Howard (Adjutant General 1931-35) and Major General Hervey Harcourt.
Until his death, he maintained his office in the Walter P. Story Building and resided at 3405 Laurel Canyon Blvd., North Hollywood. Major General Walter Perry Story's civic record is as outstanding as his military record. As a true citizen soldier, much of his life was spent in the service to his fellow man. Much of what the California National Guard has become today is based upon his foresight.
Today, housed within the California State Military Museum is the Walter P. Story Memorial Library and Research Center. This library possesses one of the finest collections of military history writings in the western United States. With over 10,000 volumes and growing rapidly, the library is one of the state's hidden educational and historical treasures. It stands as a living memorial to the man � citizen, soldier and gentlemen.
In 1894 Nelson Story bought the property at 610 S. Broadway from J.B. Lankershim for $48,000. Los Angeles was in a depression at the time and Lankershim thought he was offloading useless property onto a sucker from Montana. In 1932 the LA Times would write:
Even J. B. Lankershim, one of the shrewdest real estate speculators Los Angeles has ever known, grew a bit weak-kneed in 1894. He disposed of the southwest corner of Sixth and Broadway, 120 by 165 feet, to Nelson Story, who hadn't yet discovered how badly off Los Angeles really was, for $48,000. Thus another tenderfoot and his money were parted. Story had come here from Bozeman, Mont., and was easy picking -- according to the opinion of the time. But that same lot is now valued at about $2,500,000.
Two years later Story would give this lot to his fourteen year old son Walter.
Walter P. Story
Walter P. Story was born in 1882 while the family was still in Montana. His father gave him the 610 S. Broadway lot in the late 1890's, but then apparently took it back 1904. Walter took the matter to the courts in 1906 to get back his sole interest to the property.
Walter went on to have a long military career and he died General Walter P. Story in 1957.
The Walter P. Story Building It seems Walter didn't manage to get back sole title to the property. A 1909 list of building contracts lists:
Nelson and Walter P. Story, marble work for ten-story, attic and basement building in course of construction on the southeast corner of Broadway and Sixth street, $77,650.
It was Walter's building, though, and opened in 1910 as the Walter P. Story Building. Its ground floor contained the largest plate glass windows west on Chicago. There were twelve of them and each cost $1000.
Mullen & Bluett The ground floor and basement were occupied by the Mullen & Bluett clothing store. The clothing store, which occupied 28,000 sq. ft. of space, was a proud Los Angeles retailer. The Times writes that "every piece of furniture, all of the window decorations, cases and other fixtures" were made in Los Angeles.
If you look at the side of the building today you can still see the outline of the Mullen & Bluett name on the side of the building (halfway down the shot).
Above Mullen & Bluett were offices, including one for Gen. Story.
And the "New Story?" When Gen. Story died the building was sold at auction. It was purchased for $1,500,000 by Fisher-Cooper Realty Associates of New York City. At the time of the sale the building was still referred to as the "Walter P. Story Building." A story the following year about a rennovation is the first to call the structure the "New Story Building." In the time since the building's ownership had been transfered to the "610 Broadway Co." and obviously renamed. Looking closely behind the "New Story" type, you can still see the outline of the old name.


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Nyirripi is a community in the Southern Tanami Ward of the Central Desert Region in the Northern Territory of Australia. The town is approximately 440 kilometres from Alice Springs, with the drive taking 5 to 6 hours. As of 2021, the town's population was 251 people.

History
Nyirripi was first established in the late 1970s, when several families including Tiger Japaljari Morris, Charlie Jampinjinpas, Molly Napurula Martins, Phylis Napurula, Leo Japurula and others decided to leave the pressures of the growing population of Yuendumu. Two men were sent into town to secure a pastor for the outstation and Pastor John Henwood returned with them to take up ministry. The community was officially recognised as an outstation after the former Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs was pressed in a public forum by community members to define the population numbers that would constitute an outstation. This enabled the securing of much needed funds for infrastructure.

Later the community was recognised as a major community and campaigned for resources, which led to the construction of a school. In 1985, the community became incorporated under the Aboriginal Council Association Act.

Description
Nyirripi is located close to the southern and south western extent of traditionally owned Warlpiri land on the Yunkanjini Aboriginal Land Trust between Newhaven and Mount Doreen Pastoral Properties. Although still predominantly a Warlpiri-speaking community, there are a number of Luritja/Kukatja speakers.

Governance
The Nyirripi Community Government Council is the local governing body and has 13 members who are elected annually. The Local Government Shire is the Central Desert Shire, Southern Tanami Ward.

Infrastructure and Community Life
The community has:

 Community Hall
 Pensioner Units
 BRACS (radio)
 Community Owned Store – Pre-packed and fresh food is available as well as clothing, pharmaceuticals, hardware, white goods, blankets, furnishing and sporting goods.
 Council office
 United Pentecostal Church
 Workshop
 Health Centre
 School
 Meals-on-wheels
 Airstrip
 Morgue
 Power station
 2 ablution blocks
 Flat for visitors
 Public phones
 Sports oval

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Towns in the Northern Territory
Central Desert Region
Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory