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We the Corporations
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by Adam Winkler
First sentence: "In December 1882, Roscoe Conkling, a former senator and close confidant of President Chester Arthur, appeared before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to argue that corporations like his client, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, were entitled to equal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment."
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Content: It's long and dense. It's in the history section of the bookstore.
I heard about this book when it came out a few years back and thought that it'd be interesting to pick it up, just to see what Winkler meant by the subtitle: How American corporations won their civil rights. I reminded myself of this a few months back when discussion at a (virtual) book group lent itself to Citizen's United and how people trust corporations more than government.
It took me a month to read this, not only because I was busy, but because it's a lot more scholarly than I was expecting, and because there's a lot of leagalese. That said, it's a fascinating look at the history of the relationship between corporations and the Supreme Court, and how, over 200 years, corporations and corporate lawyers won corporations many of the same rights that individual citizens have, and how Citizens United and the Hobby Lobby birth control case are natural outgrowths of that.
Winkler leaves no stone unturned. He begins at Jamestown, which was essentially a corporate town, and how corporations of some sort have basically been part of US history since the beginning. He even calls the Constitution basically a corporate charter. And from the beginning, corporations have been pushing against government regulations and trying to exert their "right" to do as they please.
It's dense, but it's fascinating. I came away with a couple of thoughts: 1) the Supreme Court was never apolitical. If you think it's apolitical, then you're mistaken. They have always been influenced by outside sources, and since corporations have the money to be influential, then they have done much of the influencing. While the Supreme Court has done good things (enforcing desegregation, gay marriage, Roe v. Wade) they are also very much a problematic branch of government. Ordinary citizens have no say (as seen by the confirmations of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) in who gets to sit on the court, and yet the court wields an undue influence over the laws in our country. (I"m not sure that's a take-away everyone would get from the book; Winkler does a good job of being balanced. I don't know for sure he's against Citizen's United; he just sets out to prove that it's a logical outgrowth of 200+ years of Supreme Court rulings.)
And, in spite of number 1, there are some interesting justices who understood, over time, what might happen. For me, the most interesting one was Louis D. Brandeis, in the early 1900s, who basically predicted Amazon and Walmart in a dissent in 1933. Winkler writes:
Brandeis argued that the law [a Florida law designed to limit the spread of chain stores] should be upheld because the rise of nations chains. "by furthering the concentration of wealth and power" and reducing competitions was "thwarting American ideals; that is making impossible equality of opportunity; that it is converting independent tradesmen into clerks; and that it is sapping the resources, the vigor, and thee hope of the small cities and towns."
He went on to write that the "great captains of industry and finance" were "the chief makers of socialism." All of which I found fascinating. Later in the book, another dissenting justice basically predicted what we have now: drug companies putting out advertisements for individual prescription drugs in the hopes that consumers would ask their doctor for them by name.
Anyway. I'm not sure how much of this will retain, and at one point I was complaining to R that it all felt hopeless: how does one change something that's been embedded in the system since the beginning. I guess the answer is: one step at a time. And knowing that the system is this way — pretty rigged in favor of corporations having "rights" and against regulation — is a step in the right direction.
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Founded in 1902 by John D. Wood, The Wood Mortuary was located on the second floor of Wood's hardware and grocery store on Randall Street in Downtown Greer, South Carolina. Wood turned his attentions to the funeral service establishment in 1925 and made it his full time occupation.
After the death of John D. Wood in 1935, the firm was moved to its present location at 300 West Poinsett Street and was incorporated, with Richard H. Wood, Sr., son of John D. Wood, as President.
A formal chapel was added to the existing facility in 1948 and in 1971 the home of Dr. M.L. Lanford was purchased and connected to the chapel.
Upon graduating from Presbyterian College and serving a two year stint in the U.S. Army, Richard H. Wood, Jr. joined the firm in 1963 on a full time basis and was elected secretary-treasurer, becoming the third generation of the Wood family in funeral service. He took over operation of the company in 1980, when his father passed away.
With well over a century of service to Greer and surrounding communities, Richard H. Wood, Jr., still serving as president of the firm, states: "We feel very fortunate that the community has put the confidence in us to carry out their wishes after death." Wood believes that longevity and a personal touch are the reasons that people put their trust in the business his family built.
John D. Wood, Founder of The Wood Mortuary, Inc.
John D. Wood was born April 3, 1867 and passed away on April 4, 1935.
Richard H. Wood, Sr., Former President of The Wood Mortuary, Inc.
Richard H. Wood, Sr. was born April 30, 1914 and passed away on April 26, 1980
Richard H. Wood, Jr., President
Richard H. Wood, Jr. has been a Licensed Funeral Director for over 40 years. Richard is the third generation of The Wood family in funeral service. Graduating from Presbyterian College, Richard served 2 years of active duty in the U.S. Army. After marrying Sharone Bishop Wood, they became parents of two daughters and have one grandson.
Greg Jones, Manager
Married to Stephanie Bull Jones, Greg and Stephanie have two sons and four grandsons. Greg has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since 1976, and is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. Graduating from Spartanburg Methodist College and Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science in 1982, Greg also served on the South Carolina State Board of Funeral Service from 2002 to 2005.
Myron Paris, Assistant Manager
Myron has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since May 1981, and is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. He is a 1984 graduate of Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science. Myron is married to Terri Henry Paris, and they have a son, two daughters, and two granddaughters. Myron and his wife are members of Greer First Baptist Church.
Tee Rampey, Licensed Funeral Director / Embalmer
Tee has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since 1990. Tee graduated from Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science.
Jeff White, Licensed Funeral Director / Embalmer
Jeff has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since 1980, and is a 1983 graduate of Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science. Jeff is married to Patty White, and they have two sons.
David Masters, Licensed Funeral Director / Embalmer
David has worked in funeral service since 1996, and has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since 2005. He graduated from the University of South Carolina and Piedmont Technical College School of Mortuary Science.
J. Travis Campbell, Licensed Funeral Director / Embalmer
Travis has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since June 2009. He is a graduate of Blue Ridge High School, and holds an A.A.S. Degree in Funeral Service from Piedmont Technical College. Travis serves as one of the firm's Licensed Pre-Need Insurance agents.
Bob Griffith, Licensed Funeral Director / Embalmer
Bob is a 1986 graduate of Appalachian State University and a 2016 graduate of Piedmont Technical College. He is retired from the U.S. Army, married to Bonnie, and has three children. Bob has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since August 2014, and serves as one of the firm's Licensed Pre-Need Insurance agents.
Kelly Orr, Apprentice Funeral Director / Embalmer
Kelly has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since May 2018. He is a Certified Cremation Services Provider (CCSP); a designation earned through the National Funeral Director's Association.
Austin Smith, Apprentice Funeral Director / Embalmer
Austin has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since November 2018. He is a Certified Cremation Services Provider (CCSP); a designation earned through the National Funeral Director's Association.
Levi Taylor, Apprentice Funeral Director / Embalmer
Levi has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since February 2019.
Andrew Hines, Apprentice Funeral Director / Embalmer
Andrew has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since February 2019. He is a Certified Cremation Services Provider (CCSP); a designation earned through the National Funeral Director's Association.
Don Teague, Associate
Don has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since 1988. He graduated from University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Greenville Technical College.
Danny Ballew, Associate
Danny has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since June 2016. He is a 1970 graduate of Parker High School, and is married to the former Robbin Hall. He and his wife are members of Rock Springs Baptist Church in Easley. Danny has worked in funeral service since 1996.
Steve Campbell, Associate
Steve has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since August 2017.
Amy Lockwood, Office Manager
Amy has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since March 2000.
Jeanie Patrick Childress, Assistant Office Manager
Jeanie has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since May 2001, and is a graduate of Greer High School and has two sons.
Arlene C. Pack, Administrative Assistant
Arlene has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since 2006.
Ali Stafford, Administrative Assistant
Ali has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since December 2020.
Pam F. Counihan, Part-Time Administrative Assistant
Pam has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since January 2013.
Rebecca Harris, Funeral Attendant
Rebecca has been employed with The Wood Mortuary, Inc. since May 2018.
Gene Hall, Committal Equipment Associate
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Smith and Smits both ended with two goals, while Smits added an assist. Other scorers included Lexi Smiley — who also had three assists — Peyton Fullner and Lily Bogart.
Lynden plays Sehome on Thursday, Sept. 18, at Northwest Soccer Park. The Mountaineers play La Conner on Friday, Sept. 19, on the road.
Goal: Sierra Smith (Lynden), assist: Lexi Smiley, time: 6; Goal: Jayme Smits (Lynden), assist: Lexi Smiley, time: 9; Goal: Sierra Smith (Lynden), assist: Jayme Smits, time: 17; Goal: Peyton Fullner, assist: Erin Fiebig (Lynden), time: 33; Goal: Lexi Smiley (Lynden), assist: Peyton Fullner, time: 36; Goal: Jayme Smits (Lynden), assist: Lexi Smiley, time: 65; Goal: Lily Bogart (Lynden), time: 75.


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Resources for Being Prepared and Informed During Emergencies
SDCOE»Newsroom»Resources for Being Prepared and Informed During Emergencies
It's always important to remain vigilant and prepared for emergencies.
The Valley fire in East County is a reminder about the importance of having a family emergency plan and an emergency kit ready. As part of that, families should practice their evacuation plan and discuss where they will meet if they are separated when an emergency happens.
You can get information and resources to help with emergency planning on the Listos California website, the American Red Cross website, and through Ready San Diego.
According to the American Red Cross, preparing doesn't have to be difficult and can be as easy as 1, 2, 3:
Get a Kit: Learn the essential supplies to put in your family's survival kit.
Make a Plan: Plan effectively for you and your family in case of an emergency.
Be Informed: Understand which disasters are likely to occur in your area and what you must know to stay safe.
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Tips for helping children process their fear and anxiety during and after wildfires are available on SDCOE.net.
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Q: Why am I getting out of memory error on spark driver when trying to read lots of Avro files? No collect operation happening I am trying to read in a large amount of Avro files in subdirectories from s3 using spark.read.load on databricks. I either get an error due to the max result size exceeding spark.driver.maxResultSize, or if I increase that limit, the driver runs out of memory.
I am not performing any collect operation so I'm not sure why so much memory is being used on the driver. I wondered if it was something to do with an excessive number of partitions, so I tried playing around with different values of spark.sql.files.maxPartitionBytes, to no avail. I also tried increasing memory on the driver and using a bigger cluster.
The only thing that seemed to help slightly was specifying Avro schema beforehand rather than inferring; this meant the spark.read.load finished without error, however memory usage on the driver was still extremely high and the driver still crashed if I attempted any further operations on the resulting DataFrame.

A: I discovered the problem was the spark.sql.sources.parallelPartitionDiscovery.parallelism option. This was set too low for the large number of files I was trying to read, resulting in the driver crashing. Increased the value of this and now my code is working.

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Black Ankle Vineyards are located about 65 miles due east, on the Black Ankle Road in Mount Airy. Over the years that we have visited there we gotten to know the team behind the vineyards, Ed and Sarah, who started the winery at Black Ankle Road back in 2001, with first plantings being done in 2003. It wasn't until 2008 that first official batches of wine from the Black Ankle Vineyards were bottled and that's right about the time that we discovered them.
I have to say that their wines, especially the 2015 Rolling Hills, which is currently available for sale on their website, is some of the best red wines that I have ever tasted. Drinking this wine you can taste the nuances of dark berries, plum and I something else, I can't really put my finder on it. I wholeheartedly recommend that you visit this winery and that you try their red wines, which are to die for. Let me know how it goes by sending me a message.


More than 85 percent of adolescents are getting fewer than the recommended 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 hours of sleep according to the National Sleep Foundation, resulting in a generation of chronically sleep-deprived teens who are more at risk for suicide, driving accidents, depression, bad grades, obesity, drinking and drug use.
The Coalition's Youth Advisory Council has provided wonderful programs through the years. Click below to learn about their events on distracted driving, relationships, drugs and alcohol and so much more.
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The Student Support Card indicates that academic learning increases if a student's social and emotional life is healthy. We all must do our part to ensure that our youth are supported in making the right choices.


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 * counters.
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 * Implements BaseSource through BaseSourceImpl, following the pattern
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public class MetricsReplicationSourceImpl extends BaseSourceImpl implements
    MetricsReplicationSource {

  public MetricsReplicationSourceImpl() {
    this(METRICS_NAME, METRICS_DESCRIPTION, METRICS_CONTEXT, METRICS_JMX_CONTEXT);
  }

  MetricsReplicationSourceImpl(String metricsName,
                               String metricsDescription,
                               String metricsContext,
                               String metricsJmxContext) {
    super(metricsName, metricsDescription, metricsContext, metricsJmxContext);
  }
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Thanks to Modi-Shah for Awakening Indian Muslims - Zafarul Islam Khan
Thanks to Modi-Shah for Awakening Indian Muslims – Zafarul Islam Khan
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Expresses Disappointment over SC's Refusal to Stay CAA
Home CULTURE Leg Up for Urdu Literature, 90,000 Titles Digitised in 6 Years
Leg Up for Urdu Literature, 90,000 Titles Digitised in 6 Years
Vishnu Makhijani
NEW DELHI — It's a virtual library where some 90,000 titles in Urdu – including the Mahabharata and the Quran, as also autobiographies, fiction, travelogues, translations, manuscripts and pop magazines – have been digitised and made available on an internet portal for academicians, scholars and researchers to benefit from. In addition, the Rekhta.org portal offers a collection of 'shers' and 'shayaris' and an essential collection of iconic poets – all this for free!
"Our e-book project took birth in 2013 after the idea of an Urdu virtual library was discussed by me and a few university professors when the absence of an Urdu archive was collectively felt by all. We then embarked on a journey to overcome the barrier of inaccessibility and lack of resources in Urdu learning and reached out to various sources, both public and private across India, majorly covering cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Rampur, Bhopal, Allahabad, Hyderabad, Aligarh, Patna and others," the portal's founder, Noida-based entrepreneur Sanjiv Saraf, told IANS in an interview.
"Without archiving, an ageless language with its long due recognition and respect would have died long ago, depriving our future generations from cherishing the rich heritage of Urdu," Saraf added.
The 90,000 e-books – a staggering 19 million pages – are classified into diverse categories including children's literature, banned books, diaries and translations and can then be accessed by students, scholars, researchers, litterateurs and lovers of the language anytime and from anywhere around the world.
Without archiving, an ageless language with its long due recognition and respect would have died long ago, depriving our future generations from cherishing the rich heritage of Urdu, Portal's founder, Noida-based entrepreneur Sanjiv Saraf said. — File photo
"We are continuing to scout libraries and private collections for more books that can be digitized and made accessible to readers across the world. Rare, out of print books that are totally inaccessible to the masses as they are stored in various libraries all across the country which are prone to damage and destruction due to termite, water and fire damage are being sought," Saraf explained.
Most of the books were secured through camps organised by Rekhta at which several publications and private parties willingly donated century-old Urdu scripts. Lucknow's Naval Kishore Press, founded in 1858 and arguably Asia's oldest printing and publishing concern, was a major contributor, rendering some 2,000 books which included translations of the Mahabharata and the Quran and rare manuscripts starting from the 17th century.
"Many of the texts received were tattered and torn due to negligence and poor handling. Rekhta assembled all such texts which were then reprinted, re-dyed and recreated for audience consumption," Saraf said.
"The same kind of archival has begun for Hindi readers with a different team attending to Hindi texts and scripts available for digitization. The project has been running successfully in its attempt to virtually reincarnate Urdu literature as Western scholars and professors make use of Rekhta's e-library in their studies," Saraf pointed out.
Some of the institutions associated with the project are Idara-E-Adabiyat-E-Urdu (Hyderabad), University of Allahabad, Ghalib Academy, Ghalib Institute, Jamia Hamdard (all three from New Delhi), Government Urdu Library (Patna), Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi-Farsi University (Lucknow), Saulat Public Library (Rampur), Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy (Azamgarh) and Rampur Raza Library (Rampur). — IANS
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Nothing comes immediately yo my mind... Sorry to the next person but let me come up with another one!
(Edit)Sorry about the double post, I'm new here!
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El Templo de San Fernando es un templo católico ubicado en la colonia Guerrero, junto al panteón del mismo nombre. Formó parte del Colegio Apostólico de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando   de la Orden de los Franciscanos, en donde se formaban los misioneros que participaron en la evangelización de la Nueva España.

Construido bajo la advocación de San Fernando Rey, es un ejemplo del  barroco novohispano.

Historia

Hacia 1730 los misioneros del Colegio de Propaganda Fide de Querétaro decidieron fundar un colegio en la Ciudad de México. En enero de 1731 el virrey marqués de Casafuerte autorizó la fundación del colegio y los misioneros compraron con este fin unos terrenos sobre la calzada México-Tacuba que pertenecían al Sr. Agustín Oliva. En 1735 se puso la primera piedra de la iglesia, la cual fue realizada en estilo barroco y terminada hacia 1751 por los arquitectos Manuel Álvarez y José Eduardo de Herrera, con retablos del célebre maestro ensamblador José Joaquín de Sáyago.

Con la aplicación de las Leyes de Reforma en diciembre de 1860 el colegio fue desalojado y dividido en tres lotes, la iglesia y la biblioteca fueron saqueadas y los retablos destruidos. A principios del siglo XX la sillería del coro fue llevada a la basílica de Guadalupe y el colegio destruido en su totalidad.

Desde el sismo de septiembre de 2017, el acceso al templo y al panteón están prohibidos por los riesgos derivados de los daños estructurales sufridos por el complejo arquitectónico.

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Iglesias de México del siglo XVIII
Iglesias barrocas de México
Iglesias de la alcaldía Cuauhtémoc
Centro histórico de Ciudad de México
Monumentos históricos y arqueológicos de Ciudad de México
Arquitectura de 1751
Nueva España en 1751

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Q: WPF RadComboBox needs sped up querying database and filtering improvemnts I have a RadComboBox that displays a list of things from a database. Currently the list takes up to 20 seconds to load. I need this dramatically reduced. Additionally, the combo box has a text box that allows the user to search the list, and this must be included. There is another issue in that the filtering currently goes the the first instance of whatever is type in, it does not remove items from the list that do not contain the entered text. Here is the xaml,an event, the query, and the viewmodel
 <telerik:RadComboBox Name="AddressesComboBox"
                             VerticalAlignment="Center"
                             HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
                             MinWidth="300"
                             Height="75"
                             DropDownWidth="*"
                             AllowMultipleSelection="False"
                             TextInput="ComboBox_OnTextInput"
                             Text="{Binding Name, Mode=TwoWay}"
                             DisplayMemberPath="FullNameAndAddress"
                             ItemsSource="{Binding Locations}"
                             IsTextSearchEnabled="True"
                             IsFilteringEnabled="True"
                             OpenDropDownOnFocus="True"
                             SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedLocation, Mode=TwoWay}"
                             TabIndex="0"
                             IsEditable="True">
            <telerik:RadComboBox.ItemsPanel>
                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                    <VirtualizingStackPanel/>
                </ItemsPanelTemplate>
            </telerik:RadComboBox.ItemsPanel>

        </telerik:RadComboBox>

private void ComboBox_OnTextInput(object sender, TextCompositionEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!AddressesComboBox.IsDropDownOpen)
        {
            AddressesComboBox.IsDropDownOpen = true;
        }

    }

[OperationContract]
    public IList<vw_Locations> GetAddress(Guid ID, string filterString, bool activeOnly)
    {
        using (DispatchEntities context = new DispatchEntities())
        {
            string value = string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterString) ? string.Empty : filterString.ToLower();

            string configValue = GetConfigurationValue(context, ID, Common.ConfigurationData.LOCATIONS_BATCH_SIZE);
            int batchSize;

            if (!int.TryParse(configValue, out batchSize)) batchSize = 50;

            var query = from address in context.vw_addresses
                        where locations.ID == ID
                        && (addresses.CompanyName.ToLower().Contains(value) ||
                            addresses.Name.ToLower().Contains(value) ||
                            addresses.City.ToLower().Contains(value))
                        orderby locations.Name
                        select addresses;

            if (activeOnly)
            {
                query = from addresses in query
                        where addresses.IsActive == true
                        orderby addresses.Name
                        select addresses ;
            }

            var resultSet = query.ToList();
            //var resultSet = query.Take(batchSize).ToList();
            return resultSet;
        }
    }

public class LocationViewModel : ViewModelBase
{

    private ObservableCollection<vw_addresses> _addresses;
    private vw_addresses _selectedLocation;
    private bool _isLoading;

    public ObservableCollection<vw_addresses> addresses
    {
        get { return _addresses; }
        set
        {
            _addresses = value;
            OnPropertyChanged();
        }
    }

    public vw_addresses SelectedLocation
    {
        get { return _selectedLocation; }
        set
        {
            _selectedLocation = value;
            OnPropertyChanged();
        }
    }

    public bool IsLoading
    {
        get { return _isLoading; }
        set
        {
            _isLoading = value;
            OnPropertyChanged();
        }
    }

    private readonly DmsServiceClient _service;

    public LocationViewModel()
    {
        _service = ServiceLocator.Get<DmsServiceClient>();
        _service.GetLocationsCompleted += ServiceOnGetLocationsCompleted;

        GetData();
    }

    private void ServiceOnGetLocationsCompleted(object sender, GetLocationsCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            addresses = new ObservableCollection<vw_addresses>(e.Result);
        }
        catch (Exception exception)
        {
            Serilog.Log.Logger.Debug(
                $"ERROR: LocationViewModel.ServiceOnGetLocationsCompleted(object sender, GetLocationsCompletedEventArgs e): {exception.ToString()}");
        }
        IsLoading = false;
    }

    public void GetData()
    {
        IsLoading = true;
        _service.GetLocationsAsync(Current.ID.Value, "", false);
    }
}

In total what i need is an example or suggestion in how to turn this searchable data driven combo box into something that is faster and filters better. Thanks for the help!


Jeremy Cole restores homes others would tear down while putting home ownership within reach for people who thought they'd always rent.
Jeremy Cole's gift of seeing beautiful homes where others only see a tear-down is helping revitalize Kalamazoo neighborhoods.
"I buy the worst of the worst and make them the best house on the block," he said.
Jeremy's transformational work, which has been featured on the DIY network (and soon HGTV) show "Gritty to Pretty" is the result of both his vision and hard work.
By buying and working on houses no one else wanted, Jeremy learned how to roof; rebuild plumbing, electrical and HVAC systems; and install windows, flooring, cabinets and doors.
After 13 years, he's still doing hands-on renovations to turn dilapidated Kalamazoo homes into dream homes through his business, Neighborhood Builders. Now, however, he has a team of five employees. Together they strip homes down the studs and rebuild them in six to eight weeks.
Keeping the foundation and shell of a home is one of the keys to Jeremy's success.
"Costs go up once the house comes down. We save 30 percent of the cost of a new home by leaving the structure in place," he said.
Jeremy doesn't start projects on speculation and this keeps his homes affordable.
Many first-time buyers purchase homes from Neighborhood Builders because they are so affordable.
Some buyers have financed their Neighborhood Builders homes through Consumers, working with Mortgage Loan Officer Heidi Bish.
Jeremy says there have been buyers who gain 10% to 15% equity from the start.
In addition to rebuilding homes, Jeremy also hosts a Property Krawl. Once a month, he invites aspiring investors to tour ugly houses and teaches them what transformations are possible. These events are open to all; get the schedule from the Property Krawl Facebook page.
If you have a home to sell, or want to buy one, get in touch with Jeremy here. We're so proud of the work Neighborhood Builders does to restore Kalamazoo homes and make them affordable.


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HOME > NEWS > Former Argentinian Minister of Economy, Alfonso Prat-Gay, joins The Brenthurst Foundation
Former Argentinian Minister of Economy, Alfonso Prat-Gay, joins The Brenthurst Foundation
The Brenthurst Foundation is pleased to announce that former Argentinian Minister of Economy, Alfonso Prat-Gay, has joined its Advisory Board.
Alfonso obtained a Masters degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania before a successful career as an investment banker with J P Morgan in New York, Buenos Aires and London.
He was president of the Central Bank of Argentina and then a congressman before[APG1] becoming Minister of the Economy of Argentina in 2015, serving under President Mauricio Macri, where he had to deal with the legacy of the previous government's poor economic management. He was widely lauded for his stabilisation of the economy and the currency.
Brenthurst Foundation Director, Dr Greg Mills, said: "Alfonso's wealth of experience brings a depth of knowledge about developing world economics and insight into how governments can change tack to restore confidence in their economies that will be invaluable to the work of the Brenthurst Foundation across Africa."
About The Brenthurst Foundation
The Brenthurst Foundation is at the frontier of new ideas and innovative actions for strengthening Africa's economic performance. Working at the invitation of African governments since 2004, the team is constantly engaged with a diverse range of experts, policy specialists and senior government officials.
© The Brenthurst Foundation 2020.


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Margarete Steffin
everywhere in titles only
Biographies Margarete Steffin
(Margarete Emilie Charlotte Steffin; Grete Steffin; Margarete Juul [Ehename])
(Margarete Emilie Charlotte Steffin)
*21 March 1908 in Rummelsberg near Berlin
†4 June 1941 in Moscow
German author, actress, Brecht-collaborator
100th birthday 21 March 2008
The multi-talented Grete Steffin, long known simply as one of many collaborators and lovers of the poet and dramatist Bert Brecht, was herself actually a gifted writer, translator and actress; her own accomplishments, however, were mostly obscured by those of her mentor/lover. Steffin's immense contribution to Brecht's writings have only begun to be adequately appreciated since the 1990's. In addition to her authorial collaboration, this self-taught child of the working class made herself indispensable to Brecht in his European exile through her indefatigable services as secretary, critical editor, literary agent, general organizer and interpreter (she knew Russian, English, French, Danish and Swedish and had more than a basic knowledge of Norwegian and Finnish). Given the rise of Stalinism in Russia, Steffin had early on proposed the emigration of the Brechtian "extended family" to the United States and pursued this goal assiduously; she herself, having battled tuberculosis for years, was forced to remain behind in a Moscow hospital, where she died of the disease on June 4, 1941.
Margarete was the older of two daughters of Johanna and August Steffin; her father was a coachman and later a factory and construction worker with a strong proletarian class-consciousness. August Steffin was conscripted into the army during World War I, and mother Johanna had to earn money in an ammunition factory. Together with her younger sister Herta Margarete was put into the town's childcare center, where she absorbed pietistic Protestant values and a severe conscience and sense of obligation. In contrast to August Steffin, and in spite of her heavy work-load, mother Johanna was a passionate reader and attended the theater regularly, especially when political plays were performed.
At school Margarete's unusual intelligence was soon obvious; she won a prize for a story, and her hour-long verse-drama was performed in 3 different schools. When her teachers urged that she be sent to a college preparatory high school, her proudly proletarian father refused: she was not to become an intellectual, "alienated" from her class. Accordingly, Margarete left school at 14 and took a job as an errand girl for the Deutsche Telefonwerke (German Telephone Company). In 1924 she began an accounting apprenticeship at the Globus publishing company, thereby "joining the army of 1.2 million female employees in Germany…" (Hauck 12).
In decided opposition to her father Steffin continued her education through evening courses, lectures and almost obsessive reading. The proletarian cultural movement became her institution of higher learning; she joined the "Fichte" Workers' Athletic Association, which had ties to the KPD (Communist Party of Germany), she learned Russian and became a member of the Fichte speaking chorus. Soon she was giving recitations in Sunday matinees. In 1931 she appeared in the Red Revues and took lessons in speech technique with Helene Weigel in the Marxist Workers' School. In the première performance of Brecht's Die Mutter (The Mother) on 17 January 1932 at the Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm with Weigel in the title role, Steffin made an appearance as a servant girl.
Steffin had her first serious relationship at age 18, with Herbert Dymke, an office worker and member of the Fichte group. The two did not earn enough to marry, and the relationship was also troubled because of his involvement with other women. Steffin had to terminate two pregnancies; in her poetry and prose she later described the first agonizing procedure, performed by a "back-alley" abortionist and apothecary. She broke off with Dymke in the spring of 1931 and a few months later became better acquainted with Brecht through her involvement at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, where she had also begun to help out in the theater workshop as a secretary. Their working relationship soon turned into a passionate love affair.
Brecht was impressed with Steffin's knowledge of literature, theater praxis and Marxist theory, and as a genuine child of the working class she could teach him a great deal that would be important for his plays and other writing. Moreover, she soon became indispensable in practical terms—she was effective and energetic in this realm. Steffin felt herself acknowledged and taken seriously by Brecht and even hoped initially for an exclusive, permanent relationship with him. (He gave her a ring and insisted that she wear it.) The two spent much time together in 1932-33, meeting and working together in many locations, including Berlin, Moscow, Ammersee, Tessin, Paris, the Côte d'Azur (Sanary-sur-Mer). For Steffin this was a time of deepest physical and emotional happiness: "Loving him, I began to love myself too." (Steffin 202). Helene Weigel, at first resigned to the affair, considered divorcing Brecht in the spring of 1933. But the polyamorous Brecht decided after all in favor of Weigel and the children and followed them to Denmark at the end of June 1933—without, however, letting go of Steffin. To make matters worse, the Dane Ruth Berlau-Lund became Brecht's favored mistress in 1935, and Steffin felt totally betrayed: "I love him so much that I'll die of it." (Häntzschel 206)
Steffin's tuberculosis had been diagnosed early, and from 1931 on she had to endure many hospital stays and operations. Brecht and Hanns Eisler arranged a sanatorium visit for her in Crimea in the Soviet Union during May-June 1932; in the spring of '33 she had a sanatorium bed in Tessin (Ticino, Switzerland). At least during these stays Brecht's overburdened collaborator had an opportunity to write poetry, prose and articles of her own.
Grete Steffin's poems and prose, chiefly autobiographically tinged portrayals of working-class life, or her sonnets to "bidi," as she called Brecht, testify to her significant talent. She also wrote two plays for children. A linguistic genius, Steffin translated works by Russian, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish authors (e.g. the Dane Andersen-Nexø). While in exile in Finland she developed a theatrical piece together with Hella Wuolijoki which eventually became the Brechtian drama known as Puntila und sein Knecht Matti. Practically nothing of what she wrote appeared during her lifetime.
With works from the "Brecht factory" it is difficult to isolate Steffin's contribution, since the writing was done as a collective and Brecht and his publishers, especially the later ones, often failed to mention her name. Nevertheless, concerning the Dreigroschenroman (Threepenny Novel) at least, it is clear from letters and other material that she played a decisive role, making significant corrections and stylistic changes. Brecht reports on the critics' positive reviews: "In general you seem to have written a masterpiece, old Muck. Your clear, clean language comes in for special praise." (Häntzschel 217)
Moreover, the years with Steffin were Brecht's most productive, and he lamented after her death: "for the first time in 10 years I'm not doing any decent work…" (Journal, 21 April 1942, cited by Hauck 26). In the nine and a half years of their collaboration the two completed 10 plays, among them Galilei, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, Puntila and Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui. Brecht's "little teacher" also worked on Mutter Courage and the poetry editions made during exile, for example the "Steffin'sche Sammlung" (1942; Steffin Collection), for which she made the initial selection.
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"I would so love to be productive myself, but … whenever I begin something I worry that people will say I didn't write it myself. And so I stop. Or I think it's no good." (Letter to Knut Rasmussen, 5 June 1940, cited by Hauck 36, N92).
El-Akramy, Ursula. 1998. Transit Moskau: Margarete Steffin und Maria Osten. Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt.
Focus: Margarete Steffin. Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 19. 1994. Ed. Marc Silberman, Roswitha Mueller, Antony Tatlow, Carl Weber. International Brecht Society. Madison, Wisconsin: UWisconsin.
Fuegi, John. 1997. Brecht & Co.: Biographie. Autorisierte erweiterte und berichtigte deutsche Fassung von Sebastian Wohlfeil. Europäische Verlagsanstalt. (= Authorized expanded and corrected German version of Fuegi, 1994)
Fuegi, John. 1994. Brecht & Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama. New York: Grove (Pbk. ed. = 2002).
Häntzschel, Hiltrud. 2003. Brechts Frauen. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
Kebir, Sabine. 1989. Ein akzeptabler Mann? Brecht und die Frauen. Köln: Pahl-Rugenstein.
Steffin, Margarete. 1991. Konfutse versteht nichts von Frauen. Nachgelassene Texte. Hg. von Inge Gellert. Mit einem Nachwort von Simone Barck und einem dokumentarischen Anhang. Berlin: Rowohlt. (= Steffin)
————1999. Briefe an berühmte Männer. Walter Benjamin. Bertolt Brecht. Arnold Zweig. Hg., mit einem Vorwort und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Stefan Hauck. Hamburg: Europâische Verlagsanstalt. (= Hauck)
————2001. Von der Liebe. Und dem Krieg. 13 Erzählungen und zwei Gedichte. Hg. Und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Michael Töteberg. Hamburg.
Luhr, Geret. 2000. "Lieber Doktor Benjamin: Stefan Hauck ediert Margarete Steffins Briefe an Walter Benjamin und andere berühmte Männer." Literaturkritik.de. Nr. 12. Dezember 2000. Last checked: March 2nd, 2007.
Mensching, Steffen. 2006. "Margarete Steffin." MDR Figaro. Last update: 07. August 2006. Last checked: March 2nd, 2007.
Schlaffer, Hannelore. 2006. "Stille Mitarbeiterinnen." NZZ Online. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 12. August 2006. Last checked: March 2nd, 2007.
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Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Andrew Pincus
by Marcia Coyle
When a residency challenge reared its head early in Rahm Emanuel's candidacy for Chicago mayor, he already had a skilled Supreme Court advocate on his legal team before any appellate court stepped into the fray.
The advocate, Andrew Pincus, partner at Mayer Brown, said that Emanuel's campaign was an example of how appellate skills can be applied before they are actually needed for an appeal. "I wasn't on the papers because I'm not a member of the Illinois bar, but from the beginning, [residency] was going to be a significant legal issue and you can bring appellate skills to bear from the start," he said.
Developing legal arguments when a complaint is filed is part of the triple play action that Pincus has provided in his practice for more than two decades. He also briefs and argues cases in federal and state appellate courts and works on policy issues — many of those litigation related and some not.
While he may have been a behind-the-scenes figure in the Emanuel campaign, he recently was at front and center of the Supreme Court bar by scoring one of this term's biggest business victories — the 5-4 ruling in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion on April 27.
Proving once again that predicting case outcomes based on oral arguments is a perilous venture, most media accounts of the AT&T arguments portrayed a Court seemingly more sympathetic to the consumers' arguments than to Pincus' client, AT&T. But Justice Antonin Scalia, who was one of Pincus' most skeptical questioners, wrote the majority opinion in favor of AT&T. He said that California contract law, which finds class action waivers in arbitration agreements to be unconscionable, is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.
"You never know and I'm very superstitious," said Pincus about Supreme Court outcomes. "You don't want to be overly optimistic. I thought people overplayed in their coverage Justice Scalia's questions and didn't sort of look as much to the flow of the argument."
The arc of Pincus' appellate career was influenced greatly by the late U.S. District Judge Harold Greene, considered by many as the premier trial judge of his era, and for whom Pincus clerked.
"I was there during the AT&T antitrust case," recalled Pincus. "He was a wonderful guy who had a career in public service and told great stories about his job in the Justice Department. He helped to set up the appellate part of the civil rights division and worked on drafting the civil rights laws when Bobby Kennedy was attorney general. Then he was asked by President Johnson to remake the D.C. court system. He worked with Congress and the Justice Department to create the court appellate structure."
After a brief stint at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Pincus, recalling Judge Greene's stories about the Office of Solicitor General and its work on early challenges to the civil rights laws, decided to seek a job in that office. "I was lucky," he said. "In 1984, I only had been out of law school three years. I was there for four years."
As an assistant to the solicitor general, Pincus had an office next door to another assistant, Charles Rothfeld. The two men became fast friends and later colleagues at Mayer Brown. Today, they also are co-directors of the Yale Law School Supreme Court clinic.
But policy issues also called to Pincus. In 1997, William Daley, a Mayer Brown partner, was tapped by President Clinton to be U.S. secretary of commerce. Daley asked Pincus to join the Department of Commerce as general counsel.
"I went along with Bill on that incredible adventure and ended up doing very little conventional litigation, but working on policy issues like electronic commerce, the electronic signature act, privacy issues, domain names and I was point person on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," he said. "That was tremendous experience."
When Daley left to run Al Gore's presidential campaign, Pincus left the department and helped the campaign in various ways. "I spent two magical months in Tallahassee working on the Bush v. Gore litigation, which was a very strange experience."
After the election, Pincus became global counsel of Andersen Worldwide S.C. "I got there in the spring and Enron happened in September," he recalled. "I stayed and legally unraveled Arthur Andersen for another year and then went back to Mayer Brown."
Pincus finds two challenges in appellate litigation, both of which he likes equally. "One is really thinking through the legal problem and then looking at the range of arguments you can make," he explained. "It's like a jigsaw puzzle but you're cutting the pieces. How do I arrange them in the most convincing way possible and then how do I express arguments in a way that is as compelling as can be? I've done it for a lot of years but I really do like those exercises."
That is also what he likes about teaching, he added. "With students, they're very smart, but they haven't done this before. I like that — starting at the beginning. The reason I can talk about what I like about appellate advocacy is that teaching it makes you think what you really like about it."
Pincus has argued 22 cases in the Supreme Court — three this term. Besides the AT&T case, he argued and lost in Los Angeles County v. Humphries, and is awaiting decision in DePierre v U.S., a sentencing challenge focusing on the meaning of the term "cocaine base."
"What's challenging about Supreme Court advocacy is the Court wants to get the case right but it is also thinking about this area of law and adjacent areas and wants to come up with an approach that makes sense and is consistent with what it has done in other areas," he explained. "As a litigator, that forces you to think about those things — yes, for your client, but also about the whole picture and not just that we're really right in this case."
Mayer Brown's appellate practice was launched in the mid-1980s by veterans of the Office of Solicitor General with the idea of a practice by and with friends, said Pincus.
"Steve Shapiro, Ken Geller, Kay Oberly, Andy Frey — they were all superstars at the time," he said. "The philosophy was to sort of spread things around even as people developed expertise in different areas, for example, Ken on preemption, Steve on antitrust, Andy on punitive damages. Our view is we have a practice and everybody is good. The client can choose or we will find the right person for the client. It is an incredible treat to be able to practice with your friends for so long."
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The Blue Idol was built as a farmhouse around 1580. William Penn and other Friends in the area bought the building in 1691, after it had been used for Quaker worship for a number of years, and converted it into a permanent Quaker meeting house. For much of the time since then Quakers and visitors have used the building for worship and as a living space. The building has been through a number of names, including: Little Slatters (the original farmhouse), Shipley Preparative Meeting and Thakeham Preparative Meeting. We do not know the true origin of the current name, though there are a number of theories!
Today, the Blue Idol is used every Sunday for Meeting for Worship where Friends and visitors gather for unprogrammed Quaker worship. We are concious that we are custodians of what we have inherited and love to share this wonderful space so that others may find peace here too, therefore we are eager to welcome you to visit us for Meeting for Worship, on open days and for planned events.
A large garden populated by many birds and rabbits. There are a number of benches and seats around the garden.
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Organothorium chemistry describes the synthesis and properties of chemical compounds containing a carbon to thorium chemical bond.

Most of the work on organothorium compounds has focused on the cyclopentadienyls and cyclooctatetraenyls. Like many of the early and middle actinides (thorium through americium, and also expected for curium), thorium forms the yellow cyclooctatetraenide complex , thorocene. It is isotypic with the more well-known analogous uranium compound, uranocene. Although these f-series cyclooctatetraenyls are not isotypic with the d-series cyclopentadienyls, including the more famous ferrocene, they have very similar structures, and were named to emphasise this resemblance. It can be prepared by reacting K2C8H8 with thorium tetrachloride in tetrahydrofuran (THF) at the temperature of dry ice, or by reacting thorium tetrafluoride with MgC8H8. It is an unstable compound in air and outright decomposes in water or at 190 °C. Half-sandwich compounds are also known, such as 2(η8-C8H8)ThCl2(THF)2, which has a piano-stool structure and is made by reacting thorocene with thorium tetrachloride in tetrahydrofuran.

The simplest of the cyclopentadienyls are  and : many derivatives are known. The first (which has two forms, one purple and one green) is a rare example of thorium in the formal +3 oxidation state. In the derivative [ThIII{η5-C5H3(SiMe3)2}3], a blue paramagnetic compound, the molecular geometry is trigonal planar around the thorium atom, which has a [Rn]6d1 configuration instead of the expected [Rn]5f1. [ThIII{η5-C5H3(SiMe3)2}3] can be reduced to the anion [ThII{η5-C5H3(SiMe3)2}3]−, in which thorium exhibits a very rare +2 oxidation state. The second is prepared by heating thorium tetrachloride with  under reflux in benzene: the four cyclopentadienyl rings are arranged tetrahedrally around the central thorium atom. The halide derivative  can be made similarly by reducing the amount of  used (other univalent metal cyclopentadienyls can also be used), and the chlorine atom may be further replaced by other halogens or by alkoxy, alkyl, aryl, or BH4 groups. Of these, the alkyl and aryl derivatives have been investigated more deeply due to the insight they give regarding the nature of the Th–C σ bond. Of special interest is the dimer [Th(η5-C5H5)2-μ-(η5,η1-C5H5)]2, where the two thorium atoms are bridged by two cyclopentadienyl rings, similarly to the structure of niobocene.

Tetrabenzylthorium, , is known, but its structure has not yet been determined. Thorium forms the monocapped trigonal prismatic anion [Th(CH3)7]3−, heptamethylthorate, which forms the salt  (tmeda = Me2NCH2CH2NMe2). Although one methyl group is only attached to the thorium atom (Th–C distance 257.1 pm) and the other six connect the lithium and thorium atoms (Th–C distances 265.5–276.5 pm) they behave equivalently in solution. Tetramethylthorium, , is not known, but its adducts are stabilised by phosphine ligands.

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The financial squeeze caused by doubling Medical Services Plan payroll costs next year is the top priority for local government leaders as they prepare for their annual meetings with B.C. cabinet ministers.
Imposition of the NDP government's "employer health tax" for 2019, while municipalities and other employers are still carrying employee MSP premiums at a reduced rate for that year, are pushing up property taxes.
The Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in September will lead off with a resolution from Lower Mainland mayors and councillors, calling for the province to make the transition from MSP premiums to a payroll tax "cost neutral" for municipalities.
The resolution notes that municipalities with payrolls of more than $1.5 million will pay the highest rate of payroll tax, 1.95 per cent, effectively doubling their payroll costs for next year. It calls for "selected tax breaks" given to private sector organizations to be extended to cities and towns.
B.C. Finance Minister Carole James retreated on the payroll tax in July, announcing that school districts, health authorities and universities will still pay the tax, but their budgets from the province will be increased to cover the bump in costs until MSP premiums are phased out entirely in 2020.
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But municipalities don't get the break because they can raise revenues from their property tax break. Local politicians are gathering in Whistler for the UBCM convention Sept. 10-14, as most campaign for re-election to four-year terms in province-wide elections on Oct. 20.
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Jack Elway Reviews Whether College Football Predictions Are Any Good
February 14, 2018 by Gregory
Some people absolutely live for the College Football Predictions, something that is a direct result of the Bowl games. Bowl games were developed by Rose Bowl, who thought it would be fun to match up with other countries' winning football teams. However, as Jack Elway has explained, there are just too many different colleges out there, playing thousands of demonstration games all year. So, if you place any value in College Football Predictions, you do need to take them wit a pinch of salt.
Jack Elway on the Origins of College Football Predictions
In 1970, the final polls got included for all football games. What it means was that these games started to develop into real, distinguished, serious matches. Not just that, it meant the game became better known in other countries as a result. This was also around the time of the BSC National Championship Game, which is why it is seen as the official year of the start of bowl games, cementing their role in the football season.
If you want to know about predictions, you need to listen to experts like Jack Elway. If you are a college student yourself and you support our team, then you probably already know about all the different predictions that are out there in relation to your team. However, Elway warns that you should take advice with a pinch of salt. You may not want to hear any advice that places your team in a less than favorable light, but the advice that puts your team at the top may not be correct either.
That being said, predictions are absolutely vital for those who want to place a bet on the games, so they do carry some weight and they are scientifically calculated. Experts, and particularly those that do not affiliate themselves with just tone team, are good source. At the same time, the experts are as well. College sports team players are usually very honest in terms of their chances of winning or losing, or at least in terms of how difficult they may find it to win. That is a very good source if you want to place a bet, therefore.
It is very important that you only get accurate information and that you are able to distinguish the truth from the lies. You need to think about why experts and team players are saying the things that they are, and why bookmakers are placing certain odds on games. A lot of that is down to supply and demand – the more people bet on a certain outcome, the less the payout is going to be if that outcome does actually happen. But that does not mean that those people have a reason to bet the way they do, other than everybody else is doing it.
Betting on college football needs to be seen as a fun sport, not an exact science. If you can't afford to lose your bet, then you shouldn't bet at all.
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Our family from Hong Kong and Malaysia went on a wonderful eight-day safari in northern Tanzania this month. As none of the lodges in our itinerary were signed up with Pack for a Purpose, I emailed PfaP to inquire how I could participate. Rebecca Rothney, the founder, suggested (as we were spending the first night in Arusha) that I could bring supplies for the children at the Plaster House in Arusha. She put me in touch with Eliya Tumaini of Nature Bound Africa, who supports that project. Eliya kindly agreed to pick up and deliver the supplies from the Arusha hotel we stayed at, as our schedule left no time for a visit with the children. My sister Lyn and I packed clothes, books, games, school supplies, and all of the donated soft toys her 10-year-old son Ren won as class prizes. In Arusha, we left our suitcase of supplies with the hotel reception to await collection and Eliya delivered it to the Plaster House soon after. He also sent us photos of the children with the donations, and it was heartwarming to see the little ones with the soft toys. Thanks, Eliya and Rebecca! Will definitely Pack for a Purpose again!