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GHBA Names Industry's 2015 'Of the Year' Awards
Terry Swenson February 1, 2016 Awards, Member News
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The GHBA recently announced the 2015 "Of the Year Awards" for the coveted Bud Inscho Associate, Young Professional, Developer, Custom Builder, Remodeler, and Builder of the Year at the GHBA's 75th Anniversary celebration and tribute to the United States Military. The evening, titled 75 Years of Building the American Dream, was also the installation ceremony for the incoming GHBA president, board of directors and a tribute to retiring CEO, Toy Wood.
Chris Hawkins, president of Bayou City Risk was the master of ceremonies. The annual 'Of the Year' award winners are selected by industry peers. Winners are:
Bud Inscho Associate of the Year Award: Jennifer Wall, Bison Building Materials
This award was presented to Jennifer Wall, an associate who supports a variety of councils and committees, serves on the HomeAid Board of Directors, has served on the executive committee and chaired the 2015 HALO committee.
Outstanding Young Professional of the Year Award: Megan Padua, Allpoints Builder Surveying
This is the second year for this award. Megan Padua, a member of the YP Committee has been a familiar face at numerous events, as a guest and a volunteer. She steps up to offer her time and talents for various councils and committees and is a friend to all.
Developer of the Year Award: Ed Taravella, TARACORP
Ed Taravella has been deeply involved with the Developers Council, Government Affairs, and HOME-PAC for many years. He has served on GHBA task force groups, and the City of Houston and Harris County boards and commissions, representing the GHBA, and is always on call for the industry.
Custom Builder of the Year: Brandon Lynch, Keechi Creek Builders
Brandon Lynch became involved with the GHBA immediately after joining the association. He joined the Remodelers Council, Custom Builders Council and the Education Committee. He has served on the GHBA board and has led numerous charitable activities, donating his time and his company for construction work.
Remodeler of the Year: Tom Pellegrin, Third Coast Builders
Tom Pellegrin founded his business in 1999 and joined the GHBA in 2000. Over the years he has chaired the Remodelers Council, the Government Affairs Committee, the Annual Garage Sale, the Annual Charity Project, has served on the GHBA Board of Directors, and is a Council Past President.
Builder of the Year: Perry Homes
Perry Homes has been a mainstay of the GHBA. The leadership and team have been active in everything from Codes and Standards, to Government Affairs, to HOME-PAC. They are active at the state and philanthropic level. Perry Homes donated construction management for a $350,000 plus home for the GHBA charity, the Benefit Homes Project.
Toner Kersting, Snyder Energy Services
Toner Kersting is a huge supporter of GHBA membership growth, the Associate Council and a variety of other committees and councils. Toner's generous nature and commitment is felt most deeply by HomeAid Houston as the Corks For a Cause chair and resident mascot who is not afraid to dress as a chicken, a panda or a pig at the annual GHBA BBQ Cookoff. Toner is also the 2016 Membership Chair.
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Greg Madrey, TamlynWrap®
Greg serves the GHBA in numerous ways including sponsorships, volunteering for a broad range of events and is a board member for HomeAid Houston. He is also the incoming GHBA Associate VP.
Beth Holman, Tri-Tech Surveying/BEC-Lin Engineering
Beth Holman is an established young professional who supports and leads the Associate Council and YP Committee, is instrumental in the annual Associate Council Chili and Salsa Cook-Off and volunteers wherever needed.
Terry Swenson
A writer and a photographer, Terry Swenson is GHBA's Director of Public Relations. She is also the founder of the PictureThis Project, which puts cameras in the hands of Houston's homeless and allows them to share their story, through their lens.
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Readers ask: When Did The Rams Leave La?
Why did Rams leave LA?
Los Angeles Rams In 1946, the defending NFL champions, the Cleveland Rams moved to Los Angeles. The other league owners were not pleased with the move, but the league relented due in large part to concern that Los Angeles could potentially become the nucleus of a rival league.
When did Rams move from St Louis to LA?
In 1946, the Rams moved to Los Angeles to begin their 49-year stint in Southern California. During their early days in Los Angeles, the Rams won four Western Division titles in seven years, including another NFL Championship in 1951.
When did raiders leave LA?
Oakland Raiders ( 1995 ), from Los Angeles The NFL was without a team in Los Angeles for 20 seasons after the Raiders moved back to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
Where are the LA Rams moving to in 2020?
The Rams ' new home at the LA Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park will be named SoFi Stadium.
Why does LA have two NBA teams?
The NBA (essentially) decides where teams can operate, and two LA teams makes financial sense for them. LA is a HUGE market; large enough to be able to support two teams. The Clippers originally started life as IIRC the Buffalo Braves. They moved to San Diego and became the Clippers.
What NFL team is moving to St Louis?
The Rams moved back to Los Angeles after owner Stan Kroenke paid a $550 million fee to move the team out of St. Louis, where it was baed since the 1995 season. We'll get to the first move from Los Angeles to St. Louis in a bit, but the move to Los Angeles was based on the promise of a new state-of-the-art stadium.
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Who is the least popular NFL team?
The Least Popular NFL Teams in 2020, According To Social Media
How did these NFL teams make the list?
Which NFL team was at the top?
Cincinnati Bengals – 2.3 million.
Tennessee Titans – 2.2 million.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers – 2 million.
Jacksonville Jaguars – 1.8 million.
What NFL team is moving to London?
As the designated home team for the International Series, the Jacksonville Jaguars are often mentioned as the most likely existing NFL team to relocate to London, leaving their current home of TIAA Bank Field in Florida.
Who is the Oakland Raiders biggest rival?
4. Chiefs vs. Raiders. It didn't take long for the Raiders and Chiefs to become bitter rivals after both teams broke into the AFL in 1960.
What was the Rams record this year?
The 2020 season was the Los Angeles Rams ' 83rd season in the National Football League, their 84th overall, their 54th in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and their fourth under head coach Sean McVay.
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Home field SoFi Stadium
Division place 2nd NFC West
Are the LA Rams and Chargers sharing a stadium?
With Kroenke developing and bankrolling the project, the Rams will be the stadium's primary tenant, although the Chargers will share the venue. The Rams will christen the stadium Sunday night when they take on the Dallas Cowboys in a nationally televised matchup.
Who is paying for the Rams Stadium?
The stadium is the vision of Rams owner Stan Kroenke, who wanted an arena that celebrated Southern California and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle its residents enjoy. At $5.5 billion, it's the most expensive stadium in the world, and entirely privately financed.


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Tarrant County Reports 164 New COVID-19 Cases Monday
Total number of COVID-19 cases in Tarrant County reaches 7,498 with 197 deaths; county no longer reporting a backlog of cases
By Frank Heinz	• Published June 15, 2020 • Updated on June 16, 2020 at 1:50 pm
Nefty Gonzalez, NBC 5
After reporting an average of 169 new cases per day last week, Tarrant County is reporting 164 new COVID-19 cases Monday with zero new deaths.
The latest cases bring the total number of infections in the county to just under 7,498 with 197 total deaths. The county is also reporting another 12 recoveries, bringing that total to 3,170. There are now just under 4,000 estimated active cases in the county.
Last week Tarrant County Public Health said the high number of cases being reported were due in part to a backlog. The country reported an average of 169 cases per day last week, though reports varied widely with cases climbing as high as 296 one day and dropping to 64 on another.
Monday's 164 new cases are just slightly below the average for last week.
Of the county's cases, 67% of those who have died were over the age of 65. Those aged 25 to 44 make up the largest percentage of people with COVID-19 at 38%.
As of Monday, the county reports: 1,758 available hospital beds, 167 fewer than on Friday; 398 available ventilators, 27 fewer than on Friday; and that of the 3,979 active cases, 204 of those people are hospitalized.
On Friday, county health director Vinny Taneja said Tarrant County is well under the hospital bed capacity limit that Gov. Greg Abbott has recommended across the state.
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Lupe Fiasco ends his troubled relationship with Atlantic Records with a thrillingly ambitious sendoff.
If there is a title of "The Houdini of Hip-Hop", Lupe Fiasco would be the candidate most likely to claim it. Few other contemporary artists seem to relish trapping themselves artistically, only to find a way to break free in thrilling fashion.
For example, Wasalu Muhammad Jaco laid out some of the most biting criticisms of commercialism in hip-hop with Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor and Lupe Fiasco's the Cool, only to succumb to a withering critical (and fan) backlash from his own flirtation with commercial mainstream with 2011's Lasers. However, during that time, he also made headlines by making some of the most radical political statements in his career. The second trapping came when one of the most vocal critics of hip-hop cliches indulged in one of his own by releasing a sequel to a previous artistic triumph (Food & Liquor II).
Two years later after that sequel, Lupe Fiasco found himself in a similar situation that plagued Lasers: Atlantic Records was sitting on his record. This time, Fiasco had a little more muscle in terms of support. In 2010, fans organized a petition to get Atlantic to release Lasers. Last year, it was the hacker group Anonymous who threatened to attack Atlantic's website unless the company released his next album. The company announced a release date the next day.
With relatively little promotion behind it, Tetsuo & Youth arrives a month after it could have been eligible to be on music critics "best of 2014" list. On the surface, it certainly looks to have all the trappings of an album dropped in the dead of winter: Not only did the studio delay its release, but Tetsuo & Youth was also Lupe Fiasco's final album with Atlantic.
But instead of a bitter, tossed-off contractual fulfillment, Tetsuo & Youth is a thrillingly dense "statement" album, complete with musical interludes, lengthy tracks (four tracks go over the six-minute mark), and compelling character sketches. To find the best comparison to what Lupe Fiasco attempts on Tetsuo & Youth, one would better served going to the jazz section of a record store instead of the rock or hip-hop section. From its abstract cover art, reminiscent of albums by Weather Report to its references to the seasons, Tetsuo & Youth finds Lupe Fiasco returning to the ambitious abandon that defined his first two albums.
After a quiet, string-heavy instrumental (one of four on the album, each representing a different season), the nearly nine-minute "Mural" kicks off Tetsuo & Youth with an unrelenting piano riff. The dizzying track does nothing less than weave in the smells of hot dog and deer piss, an X-Men call out (Gambit) and a "Bohemian Rhapsody" reference. As an introductory track, "Mural" seems to lead Tetsuo & Youth down into a almost a King Crimson-like level of progressive complexity. However, "Blur My Hands" (featuring longtime collaborator Guy Sebastian) and "Dots & Lines" steers Tetsuo & Youth into more soulful R&B territory. The former track features a piano melody that recalls the Roots more soul-oriented outings, while the latter features the gorgeous chorus "You look just like I'ma be / Sacred geometry."
Tetsuo & Youth's best moments are when Lupe Fiasco is at his most ambitious. In the track "Prisoner 1 & 2", Fiasco splits the song into two distinct narratives. The subject of the first narrative details a nightmarish existence in a cell where "your life is just a number and release date". The subject at the second narrative is told through the eyes of a corrections officer. "You a prisoner too, you living here too / You just like us 'til your shift get through." In lesser hands the "you're just as much as a prisoner as we are" storyline would have been as cliched as a rehashed plot line from The Wire, but Lupe Fiasco's wordplay expertly controls all the moving pieces in the track.
The only time Fiasco's ambition veers Tetsuo & Youth off track is "Chopper". Plagued by too many guests and way too much repetition (I lost count how many times "background check for a chopper" was uttered), its near ten-minute length lacked the focus of his other epic tracks. Thankfully, the far more urgent and concise "Deliver" regains the album's momentum.
With a running time at almost 80 minutes, it's easy for a listener to sometimes lost focus on Tetsuo & Youth. At the end of the album, it's more than clear that third, fourth, and fifth listens are demanded to appreciate its scope. In ten months, Tetsuo & Youth may find itself getting lost in the "great albums of 2015" discussion, hip-hop or otherwise. On the other hand, it just make take that long for all of its rewards to finally reveal themselves.


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Everton given two-year academy transfer ban for tapping up
• Everton hit with £500,000 fine after investigation
• Club breached rules by giving false transfer information
Everton have been handed an academy transfer ban. Photograph: Paul Greenwood/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock
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Everton have been banned from signing academy players for two years and fined £500,000 after being found guilty of tapping up a former Cardiff City schoolboy and multiple breaches of transfer regulations.
The Premier League recently launched an investigation into allegations that Martin Waldron, Everton's head of academy recruitment, breached rules on the transfer of minors with the approach in 2016. Everton admitted the charge immediately and set up an internal investigation in September – suspending the long-serving Waldron at the same time – that found misconduct in relation to six other academy players.
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Everton were found to have provided false information to the Premier League when questioned on how some of the academy players had moved to the club. The ban means Everton cannot sign players between the ages of 10 to 18 until 2020. Unlike Liverpool and Manchester City, who have also been hit with two-year academy transfer bans, the severity of Everton's case means the second year will not be suspended.
A Premier League statement read: "The Premier League received evidence alleging that Everton academy staff offered inducements to a player and his family to encourage the player to register with the club. When presented with this information, Everton immediately admitted the allegations and set up its own internal inquiry which established that similar misconduct had occurred in relation to six other academy players.
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"In certain cases, it was found that the club provided false information to the league when questions had previously been raised about the circumstances in which academy players registered with the club. The club will pay a fine of £500,000 and will be banned for two years from registering any academy player who has been registered with another Premier League or EFL club in the preceding 18 months. The club will also pay additional compensation payments to the former clubs of two academy players."
Waldron remains suspended by Everton and a decision on his future is expected soon. His son, Joel, was appointed as Everton's academy director this summer. Waldron Sr was alleged to have offered the Cardiff schoolboy's family a paid-for rented house plus a monthly allowance to join Everton. The deal fell through, causing serious problems for the schoolboy and his family before he signed instead for Manchester United.
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Everton said in a statement: "Everton has worked alongside the Premier League over recent weeks to conduct a full and thorough investigation into allegations relating to our academy's operational methods in some areas of player recruitment.
"In short, we are extremely disappointed with some of the practices we have found which are not in line with our values and not acceptable to Everton Football club. Accordingly, we have accepted the penalties imposed on us by the Premier League and have given them our strongest apologies. We have already commenced a full review of our academy operations and are committed to ensuring that issues like this do not happen again at Everton."


Being visible in the world is always difficult in the Central and Eastern European region. Made in Hungary is the first book in the Popular Music Studies series of Routledge from the region. A description of our first datasets, the motivation of the research and the CEEMID concept is laid out as a closing, quantitative chapter in the book.
Emília Barna, Tamás Tófalvy from the Department of Sociology and Communication of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics put a lot of enthusiastic work into editing this book. I hope that in the future we will find a research and educational cooperation with their great team in Budapest.


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Why Affordable Housing Is So Much More Than a Price Tag
Insights from the Affordable Housing session at the September 2014 PMI-AG Convening
Jessica Huey Master of Public Policy Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
This article is part of a series sharing highlights from the 12th convening of the Project on Municipal Innovation – Advisory Group at Harvard Kennedy School in September 2014. This installment focuses on the session titled "Strategies for Maintaining and Developing Affordable Housing Options." It originally appeared on Data Smart City Solutions on October 29, 2014.
Scan the headlines and you'll inevitably come across a dozen articles identifying the challenges major cities are facing with respect to housing. From San Francisco to Washington D.C., cities across the U.S. are grappling with balancing the rising demands for affordable housing options with the scarcity of resources and infrastructure.
To address this and other issues, over 30 municipal leaders from across the country convened at Harvard Kennedy School last month where they had the opportunity to connect and share lessons learned.
To kick off the session, city leaders from Austin, Washington D.C., and San Francisco presented case studies on city affordable housing initiatives. As each city described its unique housing challenges, it became clear that the issue of affordable housing in U.S. cities is not limited to just affordability – but has far reaching effects on the health, education and well-being of a community.
Austin, for example, faced with a record demand for housing in the past couple of years, has focused its efforts not only on housing affordability but household affordability. With this holistic approach to affordable housing, the city stressed the importance of not just providing a home but ensuring children and parents alike have adequate access to the resources they need.
The issue of affordable housing in U.S. cities is not limited to just affordability – but has far reaching effects on the health, education, and well-being of a community.
Facing similar issues with a sharp increase in growth after the recession, Washington D.C. shared highlights from their Affordable Housing Initiative, including their "10 x 20" goal of producing or preserving 10,000 housing units by 2020. The struggle in Washington D.C., as with many cities in the U.S., is to ensure the economic and cultural diversity of the area is not lost in this latest boom of economic growth. Citing partnerships with public, private and community stakeholders as the key to moving the needle on affordable housing, the city shared its strategy for how it is using multiple public sector tools to leverage private sector investment and activity.
As a third example, San Francisco has focused its efforts on tackling the issue of limited physical space. One approach the city has taken is rigorously assessing existing public sites. By partnering with city departments, San Francisco officials identified unused or underutilized public sites that can be used for housing development, thus helping to provide an alternative to new development.
Building off of the city case presentations, representatives from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit focused on affordable housing, shared national insights into the housing affordability issue. Wrapping up the session, representatives encouraged attendees to think of housing policies not in terms of cost or transactions, but as a dynamic platform with the potential to provide individuals with access to the resources and services they need to thrive in their communities.
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If you want to know the animal, which lives in the human habitation, check Facts about Dust Mites. The flakes of shed human skin are the primary diet of human dust mites. The stable environment in the human habitation, which contains the organic detritus, will make the dust mites flourish. This cosmopolitan pyroglyphid is the prominent cause of allergy or asthma. The wheezing is mainly caused by the dust mites. Let us find out other interesting facts about dust mites below:
Facts about Dust Mites 1: the digestive enzymes
The proteases are considered as the effective digestive enzymes on the gut of dust mites. They are considered as the cause of allergy.
Facts about Dust Mites 2: the allergic reaction
The allergic reaction is also caused by the exoskeleton of dust mites. Three different species of house dust mites include American house dust mite or Dermatophagoides farina, Euroglyphus maynei and European house dust mite or Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus.
Facts about Dust Mites 3: are dust mites parasitic?
If you think that house dust mites are parasitic, you are wrong. They are not parasitic because they do not burrow under the skin. Find facts about Duroc Pig here.
Facts about Dust Mites 4: the habitat
The dust mites can be found not only in North America and Europe, but also in other parts of the world.
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Facts about Dust Mites 5: the visibility
It is not easy to view the dust mites without an unaided eye due to the translucent bodies and small body size. If you are interested to view the dust mites, you need to have 10 times magnification.
Facts about Dust Mites 6: the size of dust mites
The length of dust mites is around 0.008 to 0.012 inches or 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters. Check facts about drone bees here.
Facts about Dust Mites 7: the life span of dust mite
The life span of dust mites does not last longer. The male house dust mite can live for 10 to 19 days. However, the longer life span is spotted on the mated female house dust mite, which may live up to 70 days. In the last five weeks of the female dust mite life, it may place around 60 to 100 eggs.
Facts about Dust Mites 8: the fecal particles
The fecal particles produced may reach 2,000 pieces within 10 weeks of life span.
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Facts about Dust Mites 9: how to remove dust mites?
The dust mites are often associated with the asthma and allergic rhinitis. There is no effective way to remove the dust mites from the house.
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Those who have been affected by the dust mites may have immunotherapy.
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Chelodamus uniformis est une espèce de pseudoscorpions de la famille des Chernetidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique du Costa Rica.

Description
L'holotype mesure .

Publication originale
 Banks, 1914 : Notes on some Costa Rican Arachnida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ,  (texte intégral).

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Notes et références

Chernetidae
Espèce de pseudoscorpions (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique du Costa Rica

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Today is Norman Rockwell's birthday.
Rockwell was a prolific painter and illustrator who is best know for his work on the Saturday Evening Post.
He was born Feb. 3, 1894 and died Nov. 8, 1978.
Today he was honored as on of Google's Doodles, which are "the graphical logos that sit above the search box on the otherwise minimalist page," according to The Telegraph.
Rockwell is my favorite artist, and I collect his work whenever I can, which basically means I buy his stuff whenever I see it at an auction or other inexpensive venue.
In honor of his work, I wanted to share a few of my favorite paintings.
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Global definition of recyclable developed
The term "recyclable" has received a global definition in relation to plastic packaging and products from two international recycling organisations.
In order for a plastic to be considered recyclable according to the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and Plastics Recycling Europe (PRE), it must meet four conditions.
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The product must be made of a plastic that is collected for recycling, has market value and/or is supported by a legislatively mandated program. It also must be sorted and aggregated into defined streams for recycling processed.
It must also be able to be processed and reclaimed or recycled with a commercial recycling process and it must become a raw material that is used in the production of a new product.
Under this definition, innovative materials must demonstrate that they can be collected and sorted in sufficient quantities, must be compatible with the existing industrial recycling processes or will have to be available in sufficient quantities to justify new recycling processes.
In a joint statement from PRE President Ton Emans and CEO of APR Steve Alexander said the onslaught of recent announcements around commitments to package sustainability and recyclability often did not have a defined definition.
"Recently, we have seen many announcements regarding legislative measures on plastics products and pledges of the industry actors committing to making their products recyclable," Mr Emans said.
"As recyclers, we are a fundamental part of the solution to the issue of sustainability of plastics, and we need for the appropriate audiences to understand what is necessary to label a product or package 'recyclable'," he said.
Mr Alexander said the use of the term 'recyclable' is consistently used with packages and products without a defined reference point.
"At the end of the day, recyclability goes beyond just being technically recyclable there must be consumer access to a recycling program, a recycler must be able to process the material, and there must be an end market."
Both groups have said they understand the complexity of a global system and welcome comments from the plastics recycling industry and relevant stakeholders.
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French Montana video: At least 10 injured in shooting while filming a music video
Wynne Daves
At least 10 people were injured in a shooting outside a restaurant in Miami Gardens, Fla., where rapper French Montana was filming a music video, according to statements from the restaurant and Miami Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR).
"Our hearts are heavy and go out to the victims of this senseless act," The Licking Restaurant Group, a group of restaurants owned by DJ Khaled with multiple locations, said in a statement to CNN.
"We were unaware of the video that was being filmed and discovered at the last minute (ute) French Montana was filming a scene in the back parking lot. We have no idea what really happened," the statement continued. "The Licking Restaurant has nothing to do with the incident and has given the necessary footage to the police." required."
CNN has reached out to Miami Parks Police for details on the shooting investigation.
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Upon arrival, the firefighting units found a number of patients suffering from traumatic injuries. In addition to finding infected patients at the initial site, firefighters also encountered other injured patients outside a nearby fire station," emergency officials said.
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Ибрахим Фофана (; ) — гвинейский футболист, защитник. Участник летних Олимпийских игр 1968 года, Кубка африканских наций 1974 и 1976 годов.

Биография

Выступал за клуб «Хафия».

В 1968 году главный тренер национальной сборной Гвинеи Наби Камара вызвал Ибрахима на летние Олимпийские игры в Мехико. В своей группе Гвинея заняла последнее четвёртое место, уступив Колумбии, Мексики и Франции. Ибрахим Фофана на турнире сыграл в трёх матчах.

В 1974 году участвовал на Кубке африканских наций, который проходил в Египте. Сборная Гвинеи заняла предпоследнее третье место в своей группе, обогнав Маврикий и уступив Заиру и Конго. Камара сыграл в одной игре данного турнира.

На Кубке африканских наций 1976 года в Эфиопии сборная Гвинеи стала обладателем серебряных наград турнира. Уступив в финальном раунде команде Марокко.

Достижения
 Серебряный призёр Кубка африканских наций (1): 1976

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Футболисты Гвинеи
Игроки сборной Гвинеи по футболу
Футболисты на летних Олимпийских играх 1968 года
Игроки ФК «Хафия»


Most people are actually somewhere between being a good leader and a bad leader, with the majority uncertain of the connection between their leadership and performance.
A deeper knowledge of what great leadership is will then enable you to break-through and affect change in the performance of your team, like never before.
Leadership in a group applies to managing people, not to managing things. Leadership denotes the sending of value standard messages that most people then use to manage their team members.
Consists of training, tools, material, parts, discipline, direction, procedures, rules, technical advice, documentation, information, planning, etc.
Consists of feelings like confidence, morale, trust, respect, relatedness (or purpose), autonomy, ownership, engagement and empowerment.
Followers follow the leadership of the boss. This is a Natural Law. The only choice available to a boss is to set the standard team members will follow—be that good, bad, mediocre or somewhere on the spectrum. We want to be in the very good to great range!
In order to have a well working team all members must treat each other with great respect and care. Everyone knows this. It follows then that good leadership requires treating each one with great respect and care — the better the respect and caring, the better the outcome.
What then characterizes good (or great!) leadership?
1.Listening to all members — addressing their complaints, suggestions and concerns.
3.Allowing everyone to put in their two cents.
4.Trusting them to do the work.
5.Not giving orders or setting visions, goals and objectives, but instead soliciting this from them so that everyone is fully involved in the team's success.
Providing direction when needed to ensure that everyone is on the same page (the one they devised). A good leader communicates the vision that was set by all. If it is a vision of little interest, then another one must be found.
Every person wants to be heard and respected. Everyone has something to contribute.
Listening and responding respectfully makes it worthwhile for team members to apply 100% of their brainpower on their work thus unleashing their full potential of creativity, innovation and productivity and making them highly motivated, committed and productive.
All of this gives them very high morale, enables them to take great pride in group activities.
What does that mean for bad leadership?
Bad leadership is characterized by attempting to control through orders, policies, rules, goals, targets, reports, visions, bureaucracy, and changes all designed to almost force members deliver what may be considered to be satisfactory .
In this mode, leaders at the top decided on their own what to do, when to do it, and how to do it and listen only perfunctorily, if they listen at all, to what other members in the team have to say.
1.Dishing out orders, policies, rules, goals, targets, reports, visions and changes.
2.Failing to listen or only perfunctorily listening to complaints and suggestions.
3.Exhibiting the "Do as I say, not as I do" mentality.
These actions or in-actions are bad because they lead members to believe that their leader disrespects them and does not care a whit for them. Bad leadership shuts off the natural creativity within a group and slowly but surely de-motivates and demoralizes them.
With the "I know better than you" and the "be quiet and listen to me" mentality often projected, the majority will act like robots waiting for instructions, even if that is not what was intended.
This may result into the group breaking up.
Most bad leadership is the result of a top-down, command and control style of management, where the member is rarely if ever listened to.
This style is prevalent in the workplace and ignores every employee's basic need to be heard and to be respected.
This is not the best style to handle people in a group because each individual joined with the purpose to benefit and not to be micro-managed.
The bottom-line is that all leaders lead in either a good direction or a bad direction with a full spectrum existing from exceptionally bad to exceptionally good.
And although this direction may not be understood or consciously chosen, quite fortunately, we are all human and we thus all have the power of choice.
We can consciously choose to adjust our actions to always lead in the good direction to raise our performance and success in managing people.


"Concertino", a work for ten dancers, was created at the Quartz in Brest in November 1990 after a ten-week residence at the Manoir de Keroual (Finistère, Brittany).
In the work's accompanying notes, Catherine Diverrès considers it as the evocation of "a gathering of a family in a home, or of individuals connected together by a common story". And, she adds: "On the day and night of a wedding, or a funeral, perhaps the dream of each of these people where everyone is in the other's dream. We don't know who's alive and who's dead. The events of a lifetime pass by, with the procession of feelings and nostalgic minimal images of childhood. At times, the sensuality of the scents and colours that emanates from nearby nature, at times, the violence, the absurdity of nightmares".  The successive surrounding scenes are criss-crossed by representations of partner dances and traditional dances, as well as rituals that seem to bind this community together.
The choreographer imagined the stage design for the creation. A shimmering film stretched out at the back of the stage reflects the scenic space depending on the intensity of Pierre-Yves Lohier's lighting, which structures the scenic space and embraces a dramaturgic role in its own right. From time to time, the shimmering surface also hosts the projection of the painting "Le Repas des moissonneurs" by the naturalist painter Jules-Jacques Veyrassat (1852, Chartres Museum of Fine Arts), then a short cinematic sequence by the experimental filmmaker Teo Hernandez, as such, extending their collaboration following on from "Le Printemps" (1989) and "Fragment" (1989).
 Catherine Diverrès quoted by Jean-Marc Adolphe, Théâtre de la Ville programme, 4-6 June 1991.
 Onyx of Saint Herblain programme, 17 March 1992.
 Théâtre de la Ville handbill, 4-6 June 1996.
 Dominique Frétard, "La chorégraphe de l'intranquillité", Le Monde, 30 May 1991.
 I. Filiberti, Catherine Diverrès mémoires passantes, Paris : Centre national de la danse ; L'Oeil d'or, 2010, p. 89.
There is no rupture in this work, but a withdrawn disturbance, awakening to other modes of perception. Building on reality that is more everyday than in the previous creations – social and family ties, events that may mark a lifetime –, the dancers' particular performance pursues a more abstract dimension. Strange wigged lackey, Bernardo Montet gives the impression that he is pacing, Rita Quaglia's incantations rise up like tapered arms. Impassioned duos, blind desire and carnal derision divulge a feeling where each moves away from the other, as if it has been erased. As such, time seems to beat the drum just like the bodies. Air and transparency. Breathing. Other spaces, other dances appear between the inhalation and the exhalation. By reiterating itself, the movement becomes a sketch, recreating an overall vision and expressing a feeling of life removed from reality. The dancers are placed, displaced, in front and diagonal lines, and also sitting in front of a table like in the Last Supper. They come regularly and shatter their gangue against the edges of the table. The movement becomes striking, feverish to be set free, pounding the wood. As a counterpoint, miniature fluted notes erupt, lively swaying. Parade, seduction, broken necks, stretched out camber, the scenes follow one another. Around the white corollas, formed by the women's dresses, innervated romanticism moves. The lyricism dashes across the image of a country-style wedding. Elsewhere, a depiction of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and even a sudden altercation. Even though the poetry of the bodies is tinted with tragedy and remote derision, it leads each performer to fill the space of their traverse. Modulated, oscillating, the surreptitious effervescence that moves them distils a rebel dance, which transgresses certainties and keeps its secret sealed in the prism of refined disenchantment.
Catherine Diverrès has said, "Conscience, our relationship with others, this is what creates time", ever since her first choreographic creation. She is a sort of strange meteor, appearing in the landscape of contemporary dance in the mid-80's. She stood out almost immediately in her rejection of the tenets of post-modern American dance and the classically-based vocabularies trending at that time. She trained at the Mudra School in Brussels under the direction of Maurice Béjart, and studied the techniques of José Limón, Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais before joining the company of Dominique Bagouet in Montpellier, then deciding to set out on her own choreographic journey.
Her first work was an iconic duo, Instance, with Bernardo Montet, based upon a study trip she took to Japan in 1983, during which she worked with one of the great masters of butoh, Kazuo Ohno. This marked the beginning of the Studio DM. Ten years later she was appointed director of the National Choreographic Center in Rennes, which she directed until 2008.
Over the years, Catherine Diverrès has created over thirty pieces, created her own dance language, an extreme and powerful dance, resonating with the great changes in life, entering into dialogues with the poets: Rilke, Pasolini and Holderlin, reflecting alongside the philosophers Wladimir Jankelevich and Jean-Luc Nancy, focusing also on the transmission of movement and repertoire in Echos, Stances and Solides and destabilising her own dancing with the help of the plastician Anish Kapoor in L'ombre du ciel.
Beginning in 2000, she began adapting her own style of dance by conceiving other structures for her creations: she improvised with the music in Blowin, developed projects based on experiences abroad, in Sicily for Cantieri, and with Spanish artists in La maison du sourd. Exploring the quality of stage presence, gravity, hallucinated images, suspensions, falls and flight — the choreographer began using her own dance as a means of revealing, revelation, unmasking, for example in Encor, in which movements and historical periods are presented. Diverrès works with the body to explore the important social and aesthetic changes of today, or to examine memory, the way she did in her recent solo in homage to Kazuo Ohno, O Sensei.
And now the cycle is repeating, opening on a new period of creation with the founding of Diverrès' new company, Association d'Octobre, and the implantation of the company in the city of Vannes in Brittany. Continuing on her chosen path of creation and transmission, the choreographer and her dancers have taken on a legendary figure, Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons, in Penthésilée(s). In returning to group and collective work, this new work is indeed another step forward in the choreographer's continuing artistic journey.
Both similar to yet different from Jean Rouch, Teo Hernandez (1939-1992) used a Super 8 camera, which was much more economical and lighter than the 16 mm substandard one adopted in France by "cinéma vérité" followers, when filming the town, nature, mythology, the body and dance. He edited his films directly whilst shooting, the way Jonas Mekas did, without the hassle of touch-ups or pentimento. His shots, in terms of their length, never eclipse the sequences and consist of snapshots, flashes, blinks and flickering reminiscent of structural film. Between two blurs produced by sudden zooming, the image is incredibly sharp. A distinction can be drawn between the extra-cinematic movement and what is shown, even if sporadically, by the impressionistic framing, which is astonishingly vivacious. The dancer's momentum has little to do with the apparent agitation, which is under control, the relentless spurts, the approximate focusing around the chosen or given subject. The cinema vérité, as illustrated by Teo Hernandez, plays with the dialectics of "fraternization-alienation", based on "aesthetics of the improvised, of awkwardness, of spontaneity", as stated Edgar Morin. In an article from 1983, Teo Hernandez touched on the type of momentum that inspired him: "The cinema is a profound and violent impulse, a reaction of complete perception, an effort to survive and to regenerate".
In 1985, he met Bernardo Montet whose work inspired him to make the soundtrack VITRIOL (1985) and the films Pas de ciel, coproduced by the TNDI (National Theatre of Dance and Image) of Châteauvallon, and Vloof l'aigrette ! Pain de singe (1987). Among the twenty or so productions that he can be credited for, several films stand out, such as Salomé (1976), Michel Nedjar (1978), Cristaux (1978), Nuestra Señora de Paris (1982), etc.


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To get permission to leave China's coronavirus epicenter and return to his job in Hong Kong, a Chinese banker needed two things: a letter from his company and a green health code from Alipay.
The man, who gave his name only as Clarence because of privacy concerns, secured the necessary permission last week and boarded a high-speed train to the border city of Shenzhen. "It was like the drama Prison Break. There are so many levels to go through and so many barriers to overcome," he said of the challenges of leaving Hubei province.
Alipay by Ant Financial, the finance affiliate controlled by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Jack Ma, and Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat are credited with helping curb Covid-19 since it erupted in Wuhan in January. Because they're the primary payments channels for everything from ride-hailing to e-commerce, they already tracked the consumer activity of hundreds of millions of users.
During the outbreak, both companies released QR code systems that can be read by smartphones and determine which individuals pose health risks and need to be quarantined or could be allowed to use public spaces and transportation. Now this technology is proving instrumental in policing the country as it tries to get back on its feet.
Alipay, the payment method of choice on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms from Taobao to Tmall, was among the first to introduce the technology. Ant's QR-based health code system assigns each user one of three colors — green, yellow or red — based on their location, basic health information and travel history. Green allows freedom of movement, while yellow and red indicate that one needs to self-quarantine or enter a supervised quarantine facility, respectively.
The colored QR code, which is already deployed in over 200 cities, is obtained by entering information that includes name, national identity number, current location, recent travel history and ticking a box asking if the person has been in contact with an outpatient or anyone hospitalized in the last 14 days. Once everything is complete, a code is automatically generated. Each code is refreshed at midnight.
Cafes, restaurants and shopping malls throughout China also request to see the green QR code before granting permission to enter. Since these health codes were first rolled out by Alipay on Feb. 11 in Hangzhou, adoption by merchants and businesses has been swift across the country with plans for wider deployment, according to Ant Financial.
Rival Tencent worked with a unit of China's top economic planning body to design a similar program accessible through WeChat mini programs.
A lack of transparency on how colors are generated has led to confusion and frustration with some people taking to social media to complain. Others note technical glitches that have turned into effective travel bans. "These big data platforms have made me really mad," wrote Weibo user Miuyekanshijie on March 23. "My health code error remains unresolved … it's seriously affecting my ability to travel."
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