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Duterte was only joking, not running for president
Bicol Street Journalist 6 years ago 7:49 am
27 Feb , 2015
DAVAO CITY, Feb. 27 — "Hindi (No). I never said it in a very categorical way."
This was the statement of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte when sought if he declared intention to run for president during his "Listening Tour" on Federalism in Dagupan City.
In an interview on Wednesday night at Grand Men Seng Hotel, Duterte said he was just weaving an allegory.
Duterte clarified that he was asked by reporters in Dagupan whether he was going around the country to feel the pulse of the people for his presidential bid in the guise of advocating Federalism.
"Bakit magpaka-drama pa ako kung gusto kong tumakbo (Why would I make a drama if I want to run?)?" he quipped.
The mayor further clarified that when he was asked who should run for president, and when the name of Senator Miriam Santiago was mentioned, Duterte said he will support Santiago for president.
Duterte said he also told reporters if they will not see anyone towards the direction of Manila, they can look back towards Mindanao and "if you think I am the only one who can save this nation, look for me, if I am not there, look for me if you can."
"Ibig sabihin ayaw ko (That means I do not like)," he said.
Duterte said it was supposed to be a joke, emphasizing that the reporters there do not really know him.
But Duterte on Wednesday reiterated he is not interested because the role of the president is daunting.
He said that during his travel to Luzon for the Listening Tour, he got more scared seeing more squatter's colonies.
The mayor, however, vowed to continue advocating Federalism as a fallback position when the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) fails in Congress or the Supreme Court. (with PNA/ Lilian C. Mellejor)
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Catherine Greer shared her personal experiences as a foster mom in our last two posts (here and here). Today she shares interesting insights into unique needs that kidmin staff and volunteers need to be aware of.
1. Teachers should keep in mind that foster children lack social skills, including being "bossy", poor language choices, and not following rules.
2. Usually a child is delayed a few years behind their physical age, both mentally and emotionally, depending on when the neglect in their life began.
3. These kids need extra attention and love. They probably have not heard much about God.
4. Structure in the classroom is best and having the same teachers each week is extremely important.
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People, please don't fall for this. It'll cause problems between you and your spouse if you're not both involved because of the conflict. It's a dream that is promised that will never come true. My wife spent money we didn't have investing in this crap and put us in a hole of debt with nothing to show for it. Did Amway come help her financially? No way. Avoid these companies, trust me, they're only out to get your money or get you to make them money.
I like the healthy products and various selections offered on their website. Amway has been around for long time and also offers way to start your own business and spread the word on their wonderful products. I really enjoy their skincare line and XS energy drinks and snacks. The energy drinks taste great and give you the extra boost of energy to get my day going. The products are way over priced and are not priced for individuals who are lower income people. I think if they find ways to cut prices it will allow a wider range of people to shop with them.
Renata tells us about the best local attractions, recommending particular farm-to-table restaurants and yoga studios as my husband and I make slow, opposing circles around the room. We meet in front of the master bathroom. The shower is wide enough for three people with three showerheads, a knee-high tawny-colored tile wall, and the rest of the walls completed with glass. The whirlpool bathtub could easily accommodate three.
Amway breaks down its commission by PV and BV. The PV is your total point value for monthly sales, while your BV is percentage cash value based on the PV. There are possible bonuses at certain PV levels. The actual cash value of your downline is predictably complicated and, like credit card points, cleverly encourage more spending on Amway's products.
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They encourage new participants to start eating healthy and work-out — big surprise, taking care of yourself feels good — however, those who have been in a funk for a long time might attribute their new health and self-esteem boost to Amway rather than positive diet and lifestyle changes. Then they have recruits set goals, make vision boards, and sell them on the dream that they'll "be retired in 2 to 5 years". Amway is a pyramid scheme, but it's masked under the real positive live changes subscribers make.
After the speech I told the guy that this isn't for me, I'm sure it works for you, but it wouldn't for me, and he tried to slow me down from walking out and managed to get one of his buddies to talk to me as to why I should reconsider. I asked him some questions, but he really didn't have a script and he got shot down and walked away. I said, "it was great meeting you, thanks for the opportunity, I hope I didn't waste your time and have a good life."
These functions, all of which were sponsored by World Wide Dreambuilders, were rhetoric-fests where Amway's self-help message was pushed to its logical addiction-recovery extreme—although with the roles curiously reversed. "J-O-B people," meaning those who were not Amway-style entrepreneurs, were portrayed as the helpless addicts, hooked on the "immediate gratification" of a weekly paycheck. It was they who were in denial, telling themselves that they didn't have a problem, that they were happy working all day for practically nothing. In contrast, the "delayed life" was a healthy process of withdrawal, of gradually replacing the "negatives" in your life (including non-Amway products) with "positives." Most importantly, you learned to "dream" again, reconnecting with the inner child who, before the 9-to-5 beat it down, had fantasized about big houses and fast cars.[13]
A 1998 analysis of campaign contributions conducted by Businessweek found that Amway, along with the founding families and some top distributors, had donated at least $7 million to GOP causes in the preceding decade.[76] Political candidates who received campaign funding from Amway in 1998 included Representatives Bill Redmond (R–N.M.), Heather Wilson (R–N.M.), and Jon Christensen (R–Neb).[74]
After graduating from high school in 1975, Betsy enrolled at Calvin College, her mother's alma mater. Calvin's mission, as stated in the 1975–1976 course catalog, was "to prepare students to live productive lives of faith to the glory of God in contemporary society—not merely lives that have a place for religion … but lives which in every part, in every manifestation, in their very essence, are Christian."
The move unified the various Amway companies worldwide. "We're now reintroducing our brands in North America, moving away from Quixtar and going back to the Amway name", said Steve Lieberman, managing director of Amway Global. "We decided there were a number of roads we had to go down in order to recreate awareness for a brand that, quite frankly, a lot of people felt had gone away."[5]
Well Amway... I want you to know that even though your system may be very manipulative, you won't be able to mess with me and my friends. You can try all you want to tell my best friend to forget his friends, but you won't have the control to tell his friends and tell them to stay away from your loyal IBO. I hope you burn in hell for being responsible for ruining other powerful friendships due to your greediness. It's never going to work on me or my best friend. I'm an electrical engineer who'll do my best to provide him 20 times better advise than you'll ever give him. So go ahead and try to tell him different, I don't mind handling a challenge.
Yet the Amway rules have never been codified into regulation — they're really more like suggestions — nor have they ever been proved to mitigate the harm pyramid schemes do in taking advantage of recruits or lying to them about the potential to get rich. (A vast majority of those who sign up for pyramid schemes lose money, sometimes lots of money.)
Let us not underestimate the power of ideas. Cross provides examples of distributors who let nothing stand in their way. Just listen to the story of the Upchurch family, who persisted in Amway, making any sacrifices necessary, even after Hurricane Fran destroyed their home. Or the Janzes, who were desperately poor new parents with another child on the way when they learned that Amway was bigger than making money; it was a way to overhaul your lifestyle and live your dreams. Or Dexter Yager, who didn't let a stroke stop him from achieving success with Amway and continued to operate his business at the same level even as he was learning to walk and speak again.
Group distribution. Amway will deliver bulk orders to where their Platinum level representatives are (or greater) completely free. This encourages all representatives to maintain relationships with their clients. At one factor clients were able to receive free shipping by getting on their own if they exceeded a certain dollar quantity, but this is no more the case as a result of policy changes.
If those people who have opinions would put some effort in getting the facts, than all thes negative comments would not be here. Jobs can be scams, but most are not. Husbands can be jerks, but most are not. MLM can be a scam, but most are not. Hev you seen the businessplan and all you remember is " selling" or you did not grasp the pricing as highly concentrated products, or your grandmother tried to sell you a product.... Than you should have the common sense to understand that that is NOT the succesfactor behind this huge company. Some post their opinion, and many millions are very happy. :)
In his memoir Simply Rich, Amway cofounder Rich DeVos tells the story of Amway's origins. The country was in the last gasps of the Great Depression. Rich was fourteen. He was walking two miles through the snow to his high school each day, in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan: wool collar popped high, galoshes squishing, wind in his face. Occasionally he would take the streetcar or city bus – but allowing time for the city bus meant having to rise long before the sun came up. 'I needed more efficient transportation, and already being an enterprising type, I had an idea,' he writes.
There is no one-size-fits-all way to make a living, and never has been. The result is a need and corresponding demand among today's workforce for diverse options. Direct selling organizations like Amway offer a low-cost, low-risk option for individuals to supplement their income. Amway Independent Business Owners use and sell high-quality nutrition, beauty and home products to consumers.
The company's biggest market for their nutrition, beauty, and home products is China; and they have strong sales throughout Asia; the U.S. accounts for a mere 10 percent of their business. The company has located a majority of its manufacturing facilities in three cities in the U.S. And Amway has invested $335 million in manufacturing upgrades over the past four years, a majority of which was spent here in the U.S.
I could not agree more that Amway will take over your life and it will also help you lose boyfriends too. My daughter is going to be. Senior in high school along with her ex-boyfriend. His parents have started this and now they brainwashed him into it. His mom talked to my daughter about supporting him and he did too. She stood firm in her answer of "no". Unfortunately it cost her their relationship of 18 months because she would not support him. Well buddy, good luck finding bother girlfriend as her because you are never getting her back! So sad that he valued Amway over their relationship. I absolutely can't wait to watch his parents fail along with him, I hope A,way sucks them beyond dry.
A money circulation scheme is essentially a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment scheme where the money being brought in by newer investors is used to pay off older investors. The scheme offers high returns to lure investors in and it keeps running till the money being brought in by the newer investors is greater than the money needed to pay off the older investors whose investment is up for redemption. The moment this breaks, the scheme collapses.
However, I did what my upline and sponsor told me to do… Make a list of friends, family, etc. Talk to them about the products, business opportunity, and invite them to a presentation/meeting or get them on a 3 way call. I got sick and tired of feeling like I was hassling my friends and family, was frustrated and didn't want to chase them around anymore and begging people (even strangers) to buy products from me or join my business/team.
On November 3, 2010, Amway announced that it had agreed to pay $56 million – $34 million in cash and $22 million in products – to settle a class action that had been filed in Federal District Court in California in 2007.[10] The class action, which had been brought against Quixtar and several of its top-level distributors, alleged fraud, racketeering, and that the defendants operated as an illegal pyramid scheme.
America is too skeptical! The Federal Trade Commissions ruled in 1979 that Amway is NOT a Pyramid Scheme but reather a multi-level marketing company. I'm not an Amway rep nor do I buy their products so I don't have any skin in the game here. I just did my research. Folks that believe this crap don't realize that 90 plus % of all the negative comments on the net actually come from true Pyramid companies to make legitimate multi-level marketing companies look bad. Pyramids are illegal. Multi-level marketing companies are very legit. Other than Amway, Avon, Tupperware, Home Interiors, Pampered Chef and Kirby Vacuum just to name a few. By the Way, Warren Buffet owns Pampered Chef and has stated on more than one occasion that he would own more for them if he could talk the owners into selling. Home based business's will make you more money than any other occupation you can be involved with. All legitimate multi-level marketing companies have to be members of the DSA (Direct Selling Association – http://www.DSA.org). If a company is found to be a Pyramid Scheme they cannot be a member of the DAS. Also, all multi-level marketing companies have to have 100% approval all State Attorney's Generals in all 50 states (again do your research). Stop and think about where you work. There's most likely a manager, then assistant managers, and on down the line. Put it on paper and see what it looks like. Kind of shaped like a pyramid isn't it. You probably worked your butt off to convince somebody to hire you at a job you hate. Ans then, you work your butt off everyday to make those above you "rich". All you do everyday is tread hours for dollars. Don't place your belief on what others tell because they've most likely are just repeating what somebody told them and have no experience. Look at a third party website such as http://www.successfromhome.com and go to the store and buy one of there magazines.
Es importante desempeñarse en lo que uno ama pues esto te ayuda a hacer el máximo esfuerzo por cumplir con todas y cada una de las tareas a ti encomendadas,debo decir que aunque el salario no corresponde en algunos casos a el trabajo que he deseempeñada si he dado mi 100%,por satisfacer a quien me emplea y sobre todo a quienes siervo,estaría feliz de formar parte de un equipo unido de trabajo,con misiones claras.
It's actually not. It was even investigated in 1979, an investigation initiated by Amway to disprove those claiming they were fraudulent. I'm guessing you may have joined and didn't put in the work and didn't see a good return and are now upset. Well, it's just like going to college, if you don't do the work and do well in college and fail out and have to quit, you will claim college is stupid and doesn't work just because you weren't successful. Shame.
So you say you are successful at it. What level are you at, how many down lines do you have, how many friends have you lost, how many hours per week to you put into it after you have worked your full time job. What $ amount do you spend per month on products for your up line which inevitably reduces any bonus you made that month. If everyone that says they are successful would please answer these questions I do believe the truth will come out. My sons up line make it to platinum in 7 long years of tireless long hours. His group consists of rather low class individuals, quite uneducated. He has been at Platinum 6 years. He also instincts no tv, no sports, no social media. He wanted everyone on the bus to make each 100 phone calls. I thought I was going to come unglued on him trying to dictate his orders. You tell me...Is it worth loosing your entire friendships you have had for many years, lost relationships with family, constant stress and demands from up line to boost his bonus, juggling a coaching job, putting all pressures on wife to micro manage everything and do to her stress after coaching all day she has list and enormous amount of weight to a size 00. My son only 28 had developed wrinkles, very noticeable in 2 years. At the cost of all that for $500 a month extra income but yet they spend over that in product each month. It's totally insane. Look to each there own. I tried it but the convention in Kentucky was what complet turned me off. Dead head from Dallas, one stop for gas. No sleep, run to Friday night meeting. Up till 3 then back up at 6:00. And it just wasn't me not getting any sleep. This is how they hook you because you can not think rational being sleep deprived. Packed weekend with meeting from Diamond leaders that had nothing intelligent to speak about. Then the Sunday morning sermon comes. So ok, I go along for a bit but the ploy to have people go down firth, he is not an ordained minister, started trying to sleek in tongue. I totally walked out went back to the hotel lobby and was angry. It felt like they were playing with my intelligence. Now where do you think those donations those poor suckers fave, why lined in his pockets of course. The tickets, bus, hotel cost over $400 plus snack, drinks etc. I wasn't stupid enough to buy into the KTD materials but if course son and daughter n law did. They go to 3 conferences a year. For what. Listen to a woman Brahe about her mansion, 7 bathrooms. $4000 pots on her front porch. Yeh the say they made it to the big time but in reality most don't. No way in gods green earth would I waste Moët that frigiously. Not to mention 7 Arabian horses. Who doesn't want to be rich. I just not a conformist to be dictated to what my religious beliefs should be. They twist every in the bible and demand the group(new family) to followvstrictsborders from Plat leader. All he does is warp people's minds, tear them down and mold them into mini Joel. That's brainwashing and it is against the law. Before its all said and done I'm bringing him down for the the turmoil he has put my son in and pain he had caused me. It's not suppose to be be like that but what I saw was nothing short of what a. I hope someone reapeobs
Amway allows me to buy health, beauty, and home care products in a fashion that no other site does. It provides multi level marketing which builds a relationship between buyer and seller. However, the thing I would change about this company is to make their service more user friendly. As of right now it is extremely difficult for me to navigate their site to search for items I want. My overall experience for using this company has been rather well thus far. In terms of product selection, there are a large catalog of products that I can choose from. The purchasing process is as streamlined as any other site and the customer service has been impeccable too.
I was surprised at the breadth and depth of their product selections. I had always thought of Amway as just having cleaning products. However, that only scratches the surface. Their cleaning products, such as SA-8, are second to none. Very superior products. We also purchased jewelry. They have a very large collection of original, beautiful designs. I also found Amway's customer service to be extremely customer oriented. But Amway still has a stigma associated with them dating back to the 60s and 70s. That stigma was one of distributors being forced to purchase garages full of products in order to be able to qualify as a direct distributor. However the products themselves have always been thought to be superior. If I could change anything about Amway it would be to improve the perception of the distributing organization, not the manufacturer.
There have been instances in the past where even auto-rickshaw drivers had sold their belongings (including their auto-rickshaw) and paid upto Rs 35,000 to become members of such scheme (GoldQuest). But as with any pyramid scheme, they had to bear the brunt of the binary tree's exponential function and they became bankrupt. As expected, the organizers went absconding.
From time to time the absurdities and contradictions of The Business would surface in Josh's conversation. In one of his many unguarded moments, he voiced a preference for Amway Scrub Rite because it ran out more quickly than the "superconcentrated" Amway cleaners, enabling him to buy it more often. Catching himself, he quickly added, "Of course, it still lasts a long time." This puzzled me. Why was Josh so eager to shovel money at Amway? The rational thing would be to minimize his own purchases while strong-arming his downlines into buying as much as possible. But, of course, if everyone did that, the whole business would evaporate. This is Amway's central dilemma.
The Sales & Marketing Plan is based on what Scott called "the revolutionary business strategy of duplication." To illustrate the idea he pointed to an imperfect example: McDonald's, which succeeded so phenomenally, Scott explained, thanks to duplication—not because it served particularly good food (people who "hadn't spent a lot of time around millionaires" always amused Scott with their idea that successful businesses required quality products). Ray Kroc had figured out a better way to flip a burger, but instead of hiring employees to do it, he taught it to franchisees, people fired up with the zeal of business ownership. While they willingly slaved to make what they owned more valuable, Kroc made his money by "taking a penny for teaching others how to make a dollar." His was truly a magical income, expanding whether he worked for it or not, growing whether he lived or died. Long after Kroc had "taken a dirt bath," Scott joked, duplication still supported his widow to the tune of $200 million a year!
After years operating behind the scenes, Betsy DeVos is set to become the public face of education policy in America—an advocate of private Christian education helming the largest public-education agency in the country. Most education policymaking happens at the state and local level; the Education Department administers financial aid and collects and analyzes educational data, but doesn't set state standards or school curricula. Even so, the position is a considerable bully pulpit, one with the ability to define the national discussion on education.
If your family member or friend asks you to visit an Amway Opportunity Presentation, you should be ready for numerous claims that this company is great for making business and enjoying its products. For you to make an informed decision, you will need to remember an important thing - ask as many questions as you can. For example, ask how much money you will have to invest in products each month. You may need money for seminars, training material, and conferences. Ask for proof to support their claims. Ask how much time you will need to reach a good income level. Ask what specific chance is to making real money. Ask how many people are earning real money. If you feel that they give honest answers, you may start your business too. According to statistics only a few percent of people succeed. Of course, the harder you work, the more you will succeed and the more money you will earn.
Outside the Capitol, state police donned riot gear while officers on horseback pushed protesters away from the building. Loudspeakers blared Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," and as the wind picked up, four 20-foot-tall inflatable rat balloons skittered from side to side. Each rat represented one of the key players protesters blamed for right-to-work's hasty adoption: the governor, the House speaker, the Senate majority leader, and—the only unelected member of the rat pack—Dick DeVos.
To understand the DeVos family, it helps to understand West Michigan. A sweeping landscape of flat, rolling farmland freckled with small towns, it sits on the opposite side of the state—in more than one way—from the big, diverse, reliably Democratic Detroit metropolitan area. Broadly speaking, it's a region where people are deeply religious, politically conservative, entrepreneurial and unfailingly polite—think Utah, if it were settled not by Mormons but by Dutch Calvinists. "There's an old expression here," chuckles Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids. "'If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much.'"
Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos, a pair of direct sales veterans, launched Amway in 1959. Today the company manufactures, markets and distributes consumer products. A unit of parent company Alticor, Amway is the brand consumers are familiar with. Other subsidiaries include Access Business Group and Alticor Corporate Enterprises. Richard DeVos and his family own the Orlando Magic basketball team and a minority stake in the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Amway's founders also created a cult-like environment within the company and among its distributors. Combining evangelical undertones and self-help motivation, they have managed to sell their idea as much as their actual products. Distributors are strongly encouraged to attend seminars and events that can cost thousands of dollars. Both DeVos and Van Andel are best-selling authors and have inspired copycats across the country.
Rich and Jay go into business together selling Nutrilite vitamins, an early multilevel marketing scheme for which Jay's second cousin and his parents are already distributors. When Nutrilite goes kaput in 1948 after an FDA crackdown on their 'excessive claims' regarding the products' nutritional values (about which Rich only says, 'Until then, there had been no official government position on what type of claims could be made about dietary supplements'), he and Jay strike out on their own – the American way. They can do it! We know they can!
On May 27, 2013, Crime Branch officials of Kerala Police arrested William S. Pinckney, Managing Director & CEO of Amway India Enterprises along with two other directors of the company from Kozhikode. The three were arrested on charges of running a pyramid scheme.[13][124] They were granted bail the next day and the business was unaffected. On June 8, 2013, Kozhikode Court lifted the freeze on Amway offices in Kerala.[125] On May 26, 2014, Pinckney was arrested by Andhra Pradesh police on the basis of a consumer complaint that alleged unethical circulation of money by Amway. He was subsequently arrested in other criminal cases registered against him in the state on allegations of financial irregularities by the company.[126] Pinckney was jailed for two months until being released on bail.[126][127][128]


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Q: Neuralnet package in R gives wrong output I'm trying to generate prediction of the column "dubina" using this algorithm made in R's "neuralnet" package. But I keep getting non-reliable neural-net output. I have tried changing the number of hidden layers, normalizing and denormalizing data. Is there a mistake in the algorithm, maybe because of the activation function being logistic, not sigmoid?
My dataset:
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/Nc2Sbuny/file.html
Here is the algorithm:
#Data input
podatci<-read.csv("rs5.csv", sep=";", header=T)

#Division into train and test data
smp_size <- floor(0.75 * nrow(podatci))
smp_size
train_ind <- sample(seq_len(nrow(podatci)), size = smp_size)
train <- podatci[train_ind, ]
test <- podatci[-train_ind, ]
train

#Normalization
train_normal<-(train-min(train))/(max(train)-min(train))
test_normal<-(test-min(test))/(max(test)-min(test))

#Training of the network
install.packages('neuralnet')
library("neuralnet")

n <- names(train_normal)
f <- as.formula(paste("dubina ~", paste(n[!n %in% "dubina"], collapse =  " + ")))
net_tr <- neuralnet(f,data=train_normal,hidden=c(3,2),linear.output=T)

plot(net_tr)

#TESTing of the network

pr.nn<-compute(net_tr, test_normal[,1:2])
ls(pr.nn)
print(pr.nn$net.result)

#Printing
cleanoutput <- cbind(test_normal, as.data.frame(pr.nn$net.result))
colnames(cleanoutput) <- c("x","y","dubina","Neural Net Output")
print(cleanoutput)

#Denormalization of output data
denorm<-(min(test) + cleanoutput* (max(test)-min(test)))
denorm

Test sample (part of it, there are 743 data which are split 75/25)
          x       y dubina
6   6451993 5057986      0
7   6451993 5055986      0
15  6447993 5063986      0
17  6447993 5059986      0
25  6445993 5059986      0
27  6445993 5055986      0
28  6443993 5073986   1980
29  6443993 5071986   1910
30  6443993 5069986   1700

Neural-net output:
          x       y dubina Neural Net Output
6   6451993 5057986      0     3180.43153834
7   6451993 5055986      0     3342.40866485
15  6447993 5063986      0     2564.23694019
17  6447993 5059986      0     2888.11216362
25  6445993 5059986      0     2822.94367093
27  6445993 5055986      0     3146.83988044
28  6443993 5073986   1980     1624.49331419
29  6443993 5071986   1910     1786.36349347
30  6443993 5069986   1700     1948.24298143

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Assessoria do escritório no investimento da State Power Investment Company é destaque na Latin Lawyer
19 . outubro . 2017 |
A Latin Lawyer falou hoje (19) sobre a compra da Usina Hidrelétrica São Simão pelos chineses da State Power Investment Corp. A operação teve assessoria do escritório. Leia a notícia completa:
Chinese company wins biggest plant in Brazilian hydro auction
Luis Bulcao Pinheiro
Machado Meyer Advogados has helped Chinese State Power Investment Company (SPIC) make the winning bid for the 1.7 gigawatt São Simão hydroelectric dam as assets owned by Cemig are auctioned for US$3.8 billion.
Lobo de Rizzo Advogados represented Santander, which acted as SPIC's financial advisor in the bidding process.
Other investors did not present an official offer for São Simão, which was auctioned on 27 September. The Chinese company offered 7.18 billion reais (US$2.2 billion) for the concession. This was significantly above the minimum bid threshold of 6.7 billion reais (US$2.1 billion).
São Simão is located on the Parnaíba river, between the states of Minas Gerais and Goiás, in central Brazil.
Three other hydroelectric plants formerly owned by Cemig were auctioned off alongside São Simão. The 424-megawatt Jaguara dam and the 408-megawatt Miranda dam, both of which are located in the country's interior. Franco-Belgian company Engie made winning bids, offering 2.1 billion reais (US$660 million) for Jaguara and 1.2 billion reais (US$377 million) for Miranda.
Enel won a fourth tender for the Volta Grande dam, which has a 380-megawatt capacity and is located between the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. The Italian energy company offered 1.4 billion reais (US$446 million) to win the bid.
The counsel for Engie and Enel could not be identified prior to publication.
The auction gives the successful bidders a 30-year concession over the hydroelectric plants. In total, the government raised 12.1 billion reais (US$3.8 billion).
President Michel Temer announced a privatisation programme in August, which included the recently auctioned Cemig assets. It involves 57 concessions, including ports, airports, road tolls and state-owned companies.
Lobo de Rizzo partner Fabrizio Sasdelli celebrates the result of the bidding process. "This kind of financing is about risk taking," says Sasdelli. "This [auction] was particularly complex and involved banks, foreign teams and constant overview from the [country's] highest courts," he adds.
The dam sales come shortly after the Brazilian government confirmed the worst recession in the country's history had ended. Sasdelli believes the auction's success reflects the economy's return to form. "Deals are taking place and plans are taking off," he says. "Despite the enduring political turmoil, we expect business to continue down this path."
Counsel to State Power Investment Company
Machado Meyer Advogados
Partners Ana Karina Esteves de Souza, José Virgilio Lopes Enei, Alberto Faro, Paulo de Tarso Machado and Vitor Fernandes Araujo
Counsel to Santander and Itaú BBA
Lobo de Rizzo Advogados
Partners Fabrizio Sasdelli, Luis Fernando Guerrero, Marcelo Bez Debatin da Silveira, Mariana Miranda Lima, Milton Pinatti Ferreira de Souza and Sergio Varella Bruna, and associates André Ramos Bedim, Andrey Biagini, Carla Cristina Martins Cardozo, Daniela de Pontes Andrade, Henrique Lago da Silveira, Luciana de Andrade Moura Lima, Marcelo Droghetti, Marina Maciel de Barros, Patricia Paoliello Lamaneres Binnie and Renata Soares Piazzon
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The very first thing you should do before start playing slots - is to get knows slots rules. Slots machines have various rules. But the main principle is the same. You should know how they work. Ifyou've decided to play slots online - there must be an online slot machine rules section.Besides rules you also should know about slots jackpot. Knowing jackpot gives player an ability to analyze his game and use special strategy: know when to stop or go on, know when to increase bets etc.
When you've chosen a machine to play you have to decide, which coin denominations to use. When using your slots strategy - you'll need to increase or decrease your bets you simply press the "up" or "down" buttons.
When you've defined which coin denominations you prefer - you push the button "bet one". You need to repeat this operation 3 times.
Then just pull the handle and wait till slot machine generates on its payline special symbols. They are all absolutely random. The main goal of the game is to collect 3 or more equal symbols or numbers (depends on the slots type) in order to win money prescribed to every winning combination.
If you haven't received 3 numbers in one row - pull once again till you have enough money to make bets.
There is a special payout table where you can learn all necessary information about winning combination.


Update 2: The third iteration of the Public Test is now live! See what's been adjusted in the Notes section.
By taking part in the Public Test, you can try out new features in World of Tanks before they're finalized, and help us gather data and feedback in the days leading up to the final update release!
All World of Tanks players are eligible to take part in the Public Test as long as they registered before November 20. You don't need to be an experienced tester to join in, you just need to be willing to try out as many of the new features as you can, test out new vehicles and send us your feedback!
And more! For the full list of changes, please see the Notes section below.
Any new or changed content for the Public Test should be considered not final and subject to change upon final update release. We strongly encourage you to send us your feedback and opinions via the Forum.
These update notes are preliminary and do not contain full details of some vehicle characteristic changes. The detailed list of these changes will be provided in the final patch notes upon release.
Personal missions are a new type of mission. Upon completion, players will receive various rewards including unique high-tier vehicles. The main difference from regular missions is that they are not time-limited, and players will be able to pick missions to complete at will.


Freebird at Henderson Harbor, NY heading home for the season, September 15, 2018.
A classic styling rowboat from circa 1940's. Said to be a Peterborough (Canadian) but there is nothing on the boat to indicate a make or brand. The planking is cedar. In fair to moderate condition. Needs a full restoration. Time will tell if it ever gets done.
Lyman boats are classic wood (some fiberglass) boats made for the rough waters of the Great Lakes. They still find a home in Henderson Harbor, NY. Cornell's Marina still maintains these beautiful old boats and has several that call the marina home. Pictured is David Cornell returning a Lyman to it's home slip after performing maintenance. Summer 2018.


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Ruth Ronnen (; born 1962) is an Israeli jurist who has served as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Israel since June 2022. She has been described as "liberal".

Early life and education
Ronnen was born in 1962. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from 1980 to 1982. In 1986, she completed her law studies magna cum laude at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was admitted to the Israeli Bar two years later. Ronnen also became a member of the New York Bar in 1990.

In 2002, Ronnen earned her master's degree in law from Tel Aviv University. In 2021, she received a master's degree in philosophy with highest honors from Tel Aviv University.

Career
Ronnen worked as an associate attorney in New York from 1990 to 1991.

In 1995, Ronnen was appointed as a judge in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court. From 1998, she also served as an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University.

In 2005, Ronnen was appointed as a judge for the Tel Aviv District Court.

In 2009, Ronnen was one of the candidates to succeed attorney general Menachem Mazuz.

Ronnen served as a judge for the economic department at the Tel Aviv District Court from 2010 until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2022.

Supreme Court
In February 2022, the Judicial Appointments Committee appointed Ronnen as a justice on the Supreme Court. She was backed by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut. Her appointment opposed by then Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked. Ronnen had previously clerked for former Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar. She was sworn into office on 9 June 2022.

References

1962 births
Living people
Judges of the Supreme Court of Israel
Israeli women judges
Tel Aviv University alumni
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law alumni

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On Thursday, October 9 the friends and family of SFC Lance Vogeler will be hosting the Lance Vogeler Memorial Golf Tournament in his honor at The Club @ Savannah Harbor. SFC Vogeler was KIA on October 1, 2010.
Army Ranger Lead The Way Fund is honored to have been chosen by SFC Vogeler's loved ones as the recipient of the donations from this year's fundraiser in an effort to give back, and help support, his Brothers in Arms.
If you are interested in taking part in this special day, and helping support the men and families of the 75th Ranger Regiment, please reach out to Ryan Rowley prior to October 5.


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NorthSea Therapeutics is a Pan-European biotech company with the aim to develop novel and innovative therapeutic strategies for NASH and other metabolic, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.
The lead program, icosabutate, is the first-in-class Structurally Engineered Fatty Acid (SEFA) in late stage clinical development for NASH.
Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) is the leading cause of liver disease affecting an estimated 15-30 million patients in the US, western Europe and Japan. Today the treatment options available to NASH patients are limited. In addition to targeting NASH, NorthSea is evaluating the potential of various SEFAs in other metabolic, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.


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Microsoft Behind Law Limiting Google's Collection Of Schoolkids' Data
The Redmond firm admits it's backing legislation to restrict companies using data gathered from web-surfing students at public schools. Its real target? Google.
By Addy Dugdale 1 minute Read
Microsoft has admitted that it is behind privacy legislation in Massachusetts to outlaw the commercial use of schoolkids' data gathered from their use of public school computers. The Redmond-based firm has also come clean about the fact that its real target is Google, whose Apps for Education software is snapping at the heels of Microsoft's Office suite.
MA Bill 331, which was introduced in January and is currently being referred to the legislature's joint education committee, wants to prohibit firms with an educational cloud computing service from using the children's data for either advertising or other commercial purposes.
The news of the bill's origins worry campaigners for children's rights, however. Josh Golin, associate director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood said, "We'll still look at the legislation on its merits, but the origins of the bill are troubling."
Microsoft spokesman Mike Houlihan told the Wall Street Journal, "We believe that student data should not be used for commercial purposes; cloud-service providers should be transparent in how they use student data; and that service providers should obtain clear consent for the way they use data. We expect that students, parents and educators will judge any proposed legislation on its merits."
The rivalry between the two firms has grown intense. Yesterday's massive $730 million fine by the E.U. for Microsoft's monopolistic business practices as regards its IE browser and, previously, Windows (to add to its tax woes in Denmark), was seen by some as a veiled warning to Google to pull its business practice socks up in the old continent. In fact, the Financial Times revealed this morning that yesterday's fine came about via a tip-off from Google, news which will only ramp up the dagger looks between the pair.
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Harrell & Beverly has been providing professional, honest and dependable service since it was started in Bluefield, Virginia in the early 1950s. The company was founded by Samuel Harrell and James Beverly, son-in-law of Mr. Harrell. The company name is the last names of the two founders.
Anna Beverly, wife of James Beverly and daughter of Mr. Harrell, served as business administrator from 1952 until her passing in 1981. The company was relocated, to the present day location, in Sanford, FL in 1959. Through the years, James Beverly, alongside his two sons, Alvin and Don Beverly, operated the family business. In 2005, James Beverly retired and Alvin and Don Beverly became the third generation of family owners. Alvin and Don each have over 30 years of experience in the transmission and automotive repair industry, beginning their careers in the family business in the mid 1970s.
We are truly a family business. Alvin's sons, Nelson and Lloyd Beverly, work in the family business. Nelson serves as the Corporate Treasurer and Business administrator. Lloyd is a Service & Diagnostic Technician and also serves as the Corporate Secretary. Nelson and Lloyd represent fourth generation family working in the company. Don's wife, Hope, serves as the company's Administrative Assistant. Our mission at Harrell & Beverly is to give you the best customer service you have ever received. We do this by treating you the same way we would want to be treated and we take care of your vehicle as if it were our own. When we promise to give you professional, honest and dependable service we really mean it.
Harrell & Beverly has put together an accomplished team to fulfill its mission. Our employees are the best in the automotive repair industry and have years of experience and knowledge that benefit our customers everyday.
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Mumbai: Yash Raj Films (YRF) has bagged the overseas distribution rights — excluding Middle East and North Africa — for Salman Khan Film's next production "Tubelight".
This is Salman Khan Films' first collaboration with YRF for the overseas territory.
Avtar Panesar, Vice President, International Operations, YRF, said in a statement: "Salman Khan is arguably the biggest box office draw today and growing with each film.
After delivering blockbusters "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" and "Ek Tha Tiger", the dream team of Salman and Kabir got together for "Tubelight", which will release this Eid.
"Tubelight" will also feature Sohail Khan and Chinese star Zhu Zhu.