The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, VA featured Doobert.com in early September. The Daily Progress created a series to highlight rescue animals. With this article, they put a spotlight on a deaf dog from a Doobert transport, now named Doobert. The article also has pieces from an interview with Doobert.com founder, Chris Roy.
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In a largish bowl, toss together the fennel, cucumber, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Arrange the fennel mixture on a platter along with the peaches, herbs and pistachios.
Put little dabs of pesto around the platter and then top with the pomegranate seeds.


Keeping your mouth healthy and looking after your chompers goes beyond being confident with your smile. Your breath, gum and tongue health are part of a complete system that needs to be cared for. In this guide we will be breaking down the basics of oral health and hygiene, helping you keep your whole mouth healthy.
Brushing our teeth regularly and properly lies at the heart of good oral health. In addition to replacing your toothbrush regularly (we recommend at least every six months, as the bristles wear down and look frayed) and using a soft toothbrush to avoid gum damage, it is also crucial to use proper technique.
Load a pea-sized amount of your preferred toothpaste. We recommend toothpaste that contains fluoride.
Tilt your brush with bristles half on the gum half on the teeth, and brush your teeth downwards, away from the gumline. Make sure you cover the front of all your teeth. Or even better use an electric toothbrush!
Gently brush the inside and surface of your teeth, with brisk back-and-forth sweeps.
Brush your tongue – beginning at the back and working your way towards the tip. Your tongue carries a lot of bacteria and is often the source of unpleasant-smelling breath.
Rinse your mouth gently with water.
An often-forgotten step, flossing is still a vital part of oral hygiene. Food gets stuck between our teeth, leading to plaque build-up. If left unchecked, this can contribute towards gum disease.
Wind floss around your fingers.
Gently guide the floss up between your teeth. Once at the gum line, curve into a C shape, and slide up and down the gap, and gently back and forth.
As the floss gets dirty, continue to wind around one finger, while unwinding fresh floss from the other, or rinse under water.
Repeat on each tooth, including your back molars.
Studies consistently show that water is the best drink for our teeth – particularly when it is fluoridated. Unlike juice or soft drinks, water cleans our teeth, washing away leftover food that bacteria love. Conversely, the sugar content in juices and soft drinks help feed bacteria. When we add fluoride to our water, we add crucial minerals that help our bodies fight dental decay.
Your dentist is your key to long-term oral health. Timely visits ensure you have a professional eye on your mouth, helping you keep track as your teeth and gums age over time. What's more, preventative dentistry focuses on addressing problems before they start – that may include a minor dental filling before cavities spiral as well as behavioural changes to keep your mouth healthy.
A close relationship to your dentist is the key to a life of good oral health. Additionally, regular visiting is often cheaper in the long-term. Complex dental procedures like root canals and implants are expensive and can be avoided when you care for your teeth properly.
Positive oral hygiene contributes to long-term health for our teeth, gums, and tongue. The effect of poor oral health, meanwhile, contributes to overall poor health, including an increased risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. Thankfully, oral health is basic and straightforward, and once part of a routine, it's easy. Your body will thank you for it, and you will feel confident in your smile.
If you are looking for the leading dentist Wellington can offer, look to Naenae Dental Clinic. Contact us today to book an appointment or call 04 567 4752. Get back on top of your oral health with Naenae Dental Clinic.


Far from the sleepy, seaside town it once was, Narooma is gearing up for a busy summer holiday season and beyond, with businesses saying the town's economy is booming. The Narooma Chamber of Commerce is preparing for the busy times ahead and is on the hunt for a new president to take the helm for the coming year. Outgoing president Niels Bendixsen said it was an exciting time for Narooma's economy, with plenty of investment in the town a sign of confidence in the region. "In Narooma, the Chamber of Commerce is involved in the bigger picture – it's really about a long-term investment in Narooma and promoting the region," Mr Bendixsen said. "There's a lot of buoyancy – there's a not a lot of empty shops around, which is quite common in rural areas and there's a feeling of strong activity and that is really promising. "Heading into the busy summer period, in general, the feeling over the past 12 months is that we're in a good position." Narooma newcomer and the chamber's outgoing vice president, Adrian Fisse, encouraged small business owners in particular to step into the leadership role. Mr Fisse said the association helped him transition to the town after moving from Melbourne five years ago. "Instantly I felt I was exposed to business professionals in all sorts of industries. It's been invaluable," Mr Fisse said. "Being in the chamber has given us a level of exposure as a business that I wouldn't have had otherwise. "If there wasn't a chamber, we wouldn't see the types of initiatives like the Business Awards and the Oyster Festival, that introduce all sorts of camaraderie and connections." Cath Peachey, of the Narooma Oyster Festival, said there was plenty of positive activity about the town. Ms Peachey said the festival, which was a key initiative of the chamber, was a significant annual contributor to the economy, attracting more than $700,000 to the town over one weekend. "It was a great success … particularly from a destination marketing and positioning perspective," Ms Peachey said. "The plan was to create awareness of the region in terms of the premium quality produce that's available and to work with industry influencers to create demand." She said the event attracted some of the biggest names in the Australia food industry and garnered international media attention. The decision of the National Australia Bank to reverse its planned closure of its Narooma branch was celebrated as an economic win for the town this year. After a fierce protest from the community, NAB announced the branch would remain open for an additional two years. An NAB community working group hopes to work with the bank's regional executive to determine opportunities for the branch beyond 2020. The redevelopment of the Narooma Plaza is a sign of business confidence and investment in the town, and is set to create further job and business opportunities. Centre spokesperson Dan Greenlees said construction was now underway. "We're moving full-steam ahead – we're hoping to have Woolies trading in the new store before Christmas 2019, with Aldi and the remaining specialties expected to open by mid-2020," Mr Greenlees said. "It's a sign of things progressing and future growth to come." The Narooma Chamber of Commerce is on the hunt for a new president to lead the association over the coming year. The chamber will host an AGM on Tuesday, December 11, at Club Narooma, from 7pm. Outgoing president Niels Bendixsen said the new president would be the chamber's spokesperson in the region and would help driving business activity in the town. "We're looking for someone to be our representative in the region as a chamber leader," he said.
Far from the sleepy, seaside town it once was, Narooma is gearing up for a busy summer holiday season and beyond, with businesses saying the town's economy is booming.
The Narooma Chamber of Commerce is preparing for the busy times ahead and is on the hunt for a new president to take the helm for the coming year.
Outgoing president Niels Bendixsen said it was an exciting time for Narooma's economy, with plenty of investment in the town a sign of confidence in the region.
"In Narooma, the Chamber of Commerce is involved in the bigger picture – it's really about a long-term investment in Narooma and promoting the region," Mr Bendixsen said.
"There's a lot of buoyancy – there's a not a lot of empty shops around, which is quite common in rural areas and there's a feeling of strong activity and that is really promising.
Narooma newcomer and the chamber's outgoing vice president, Adrian Fisse, encouraged small business owners in particular to step into the leadership role.
Mr Fisse said the association helped him transition to the town after moving from Melbourne five years ago.
"Instantly I felt I was exposed to business professionals in all sorts of industries. It's been invaluable," Mr Fisse said.
"Being in the chamber has given us a level of exposure as a business that I wouldn't have had otherwise.
Cath Peachey, of the Narooma Oyster Festival, said there was plenty of positive activity about the town.
Ms Peachey said the festival, which was a key initiative of the chamber, was a significant annual contributor to the economy, attracting more than $700,000 to the town over one weekend.
"It was a great success … particularly from a destination marketing and positioning perspective," Ms Peachey said.
She said the event attracted some of the biggest names in the Australia food industry and garnered international media attention.
The decision of the National Australia Bank to reverse its planned closure of its Narooma branch was celebrated as an economic win for the town this year.
After a fierce protest from the community, NAB announced the branch would remain open for an additional two years.
An NAB community working group hopes to work with the bank's regional executive to determine opportunities for the branch beyond 2020.
The redevelopment of the Narooma Plaza is a sign of business confidence and investment in the town, and is set to create further job and business opportunities.
Centre spokesperson Dan Greenlees said construction was now underway.
"We're moving full-steam ahead – we're hoping to have Woolies trading in the new store before Christmas 2019, with Aldi and the remaining specialties expected to open by mid-2020," Mr Greenlees said.
The Narooma Chamber of Commerce is on the hunt for a new president to lead the association over the coming year.
The chamber will host an AGM on Tuesday, December 11, at Club Narooma, from 7pm.
Outgoing president Niels Bendixsen said the new president would be the chamber's spokesperson in the region and would help driving business activity in the town.
"We're looking for someone to be our representative in the region as a chamber leader," he said.
Discuss "'Confident' town open for business: Narooma Chamber looks to 2019"


Meek mill just cant lose. Even with his back turned.
On Tuesday Meek made a $50,000 wager with Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils co-owner Michael Rubin to make 1 out of 25 backward shots from half court.
Check out the video below to see Meek show off his future Harlem Globetrotters skills.


New Delhi : Weeks before India will cast its vote in the Lok Sabha Polls 2019, the veteran Bollywood actor Jaya Prada is gearing up to join hands with Bharatiya Janata Party. It has also been learned that the actress will be pitted against Azam Khan on the Rampur seat.
She had also made serious allegations against the senior SP leader, including a claim that Azam Khan "attempted an acid attack" on her. They were in the same party in 2009.
Jaya Prada had started her political career with the TDP but had left the party following a dispute with the Andhra CM. Later, she joined hands with the Samajwadi Party and won the election to become an MP from Rampur. In 2010, she was expelled from the SP, after which she floated Rashtriya Lok Manch along with Amar Singh.
Now, she is all set to start her new journey with the Bharatiya Janata Party.


Check it out before it becomes a high-end retail space.
Sonia Dutton's pop-up gallery at 100 Gansevoort Street, with work by Samuel T. Adams.
Sonia Dutton's pop-up gallery at 100 Gansevoort Street, with work by Daniel Noonan.
Sonia Dutton's pop-up gallery at 100 Gansevoort Street, with work by Samuel T. Adams and Daniel Noonan.
New York dealer Sonia Dutton has snagged an 8,200-square-foot former meatpacking facility across the street from the new Whitney Museum of American Art for a pop-up show, with an opening party Thursday night. On view are fine paintings by two Brooklyn-based artists, Samuel T. Adams and Daniel Noonan. It's at 100 Gansevoort Street, in the former Meatpacking District of Manhattan, and the show is up through the end of the month.
The unrenovated space itself is striking, with a view across the West Side Highway to the Hudson River, as well as a wall that is shiny with what Dutton says is calcified animal fat from when butchered carcasses hung from the ceiling. The contrast with the elegant galleries across the way is highly satisfying (see Brian Boucher's 10 Reasons To Be Excited About The New Whitney Museum and Ben Davis On Why The New Whitney Museum Is So Visually Pleasing But Worrying For Art).
Adams is showing shaped paintings, some of them made up of several panels, that he creates with a labor-intensive process involving wooden structures he builds to channel watered-down paint onto the canvases, often resulting in various perforations. He then un-stretches the support and re-stretches it with the weathered surface showing. The composite works take shapes that sometimes recall upright ladles.
Adams' show is titled "Agape Agape," after the final novel by postmodern literary cult favorite William Gaddis, who lived a block away from the pop-up gallery. (Jonathan Franzen titled his breakout novel The Corrections in tribute to Gaddis' The Recognitions.) The novel takes the form of "a monologue delivered from a cantankerous dying artist on the brink of madness," according to the press release.
Australian-born Noonan's show, "That of my there," consists of pale-hued paintings that might at first seem abstract. Study them for a minute, though, and figures emerge, in hazy environments, as if Noonan was Brooklyn's own Pierre Bonnard. They sometimes bear funny titles, though, like Neneh Cherry & friends at home, and the artist is partly inspired by offbeat subjects like surfer George Greenough.
Check out this amazing space before it becomes a high-end retail venue, where the lessor will likely pay a couple hundred dollars per square foot. By contrast, everything in this show is priced under $10,000.
When artnet News visited, the visitors were streaming in and out of the Whitney, but it was quiet at Dutton's gallery, maybe partly because, as she explained, a bunch of white trailers were parked out front for a video shoot by comedian Aziz Ansari.
Dutton, a Detroit native who spent some time in New Zealand and went to graduate school in Australia, used to run Champion Gallery, in Austin, Texas, and has been in New York since 2001. She's organized numerous pop-ups as well as taking part in art fairs including Untitled, in Miami, and NADA New York. She also had an impressive presentation at March 2015's SPRING/BREAK Art Show (see Spring/Break Art Fair Is Bigger, Flashier, and Scrappier Than Ever).


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Duggan State of City: He'll focus on residents reaping benefits of growth
Christine Ferretti Sarah Rahal
Detroit — In Mayor Mike Duggan's State of the City address Tuesday, he touted the return of big business and revitalized spaces in the city, and vowed to focus on initiatives that will enable residents to reap the benefits.
The second-term mayor delivered an invitation-only speech before a crowd inside the $160 million Flex-N-Gate manufacturing center in the city's Interstate 94 industrial park.
The venue was deliberate: The auto parts facility opened in October 2018, bringing hundreds of jobs. About half have gone to Detroiters.
Duggan's theme of equity in reaping the city's bounty focused early on the issues that could make Detroit a more fruitful place for residents to live and work: a new auto reform law that will address alleged gouging by car insurers, marijuana licensing with a mandate to make sure at least 50% of the approvals go to Detroiters, widening city contracts to smaller players and granting tax abatements to start-ups that don't have the means to compete with major corporations that do business in the city.
The mayor added that 25,000 more Detroiters are working today than six years ago but said there are thousands more jobs that need to be filled.
"I do believe we can build a city so that we can have a job available for every Detroiter who wants one," Duggan said. "That's what I think is the Detroit of the future."
Michigan lawmakers last spring approved a sweeping plan that reformed the state's no-fault auto insurance system. It was aimed at driving down sky-high rates, a project the mayor has long lobbied for, calling the system "morally indefensible." He's urged changes to the law that has produced some of the highest insurance rates in the nation.
Michigan's average yearly rate for car insurance is $2,611, double the costs elsewhere in the Midwest. In Detroit, the average is $4,100 a year to insure a car, he said Tuesday.
"Why is it that Detroiters pay twice as much for the same car insurance?" Duggan asked.
The mayor said a series of forums will be held in the spring to help residents understand how to reduce their car insurance rates under the no-fault auto reform, which takes effect in July.
State Rep. Cynthia A. Johnson, D-Detroit, said the mayor should not have brought up insurance changes because there are "behind-the-scenes plans already in the works to help the community understand the insurance issue."
"He was selling a product, his idea," she said. "My prayer is that it works. You have no idea how much I want to be wrong," Johnson said. "I've had colleagues ... ask how people who are on Medicare can to opt-out totally."
He also spoke of tax breaks for Moroun company projects, Ford Motor Co. and other large corporations. But, he said, small start-ups must be given the same opportunities.
As an example, Duggan highlighted Marcus Jones, saying Jones wants to bring a 22-employee, full dine-in restaurant to a boarded up part of McNichols. After 10 years of vacancy, there was nothing left inside the building. Duggan said he is recommending that the City Council provide a tax abatement for Jones' project.
"If it's right for the big deals, it's right for the small deals," he said, receiving a hearty round of applause from the crowd.
Parity also should extend to city deals, he said.
"Equity means making sure Detroiters get every chance at city contracts."
The mayor also waded into options under consideration by the city for homeowners with historically high property assessments.
The Detroit News published an investigation in January that found that City Hall overtaxed homeowners by at least $600 million between 2010 and 2016 after officials failed to accurately bring down property values in the years following the recession.
Duggan has acknowledged past over-assessments but said he cleaned up the practice and lowered values after he took office in 2014. The mayor said he can't correct past mistakes because the current law doesn't allow for modifications.
State law requires that assessments reflect a home's market value. Taxpayers can appeal, but housing advocates say the process is difficult to navigate for most owners, and many are not aware they have the option.
In a recent memo to the City Council, Duggan's chief financial officer, Dave Massaron, argued the appeals window to challenge assessments is over and that any effort to repay people would be "so enormous" it would require higher property taxes, costing the city school district and libraries, along with the city.
And Massaron has said that The News' analysis was inflated, in part because conditions vary by neighborhood, and some areas might have seen actual losses in value over the time period analyzed. Properties in those areas could appear to have been overtaxed more than they were in the analysis, he argued. The city has not done its own study and doesn't plan to.
Council President Pro Tem Mary Sheffield, researchers and community activists released a report in January that proposes ways Detroit could compensate thousands of homeowners who lost their properties in "illegal" tax foreclosures due to over assessment, from cash payments to free city-owned homes.
After the speech, Sheffield said she's glad Duggan touched on the over-assessment issue, but "I was hoping it would have got a little deeper into the solutions."
Duggan also pushed the need to rid the city of some 17,000 remaining blighted homes.
His administration continues to explore methods to fund demolition work after a request by Duggan to add a $250 million bond proposal on the March ballot was rejected by the council last fall.
The city's federally funded demolition work landed the city at the center of federal, state and local investigations and reviews in recent years after soaring costs and bidding practices.
"We've got to build a city that's blight free," he said. "The speed of our demolition has brought problems. I haven't done enough to deal with it. We need to fix it. I think we can work together and do it. I don't have a monopoly on good ideas."
The council turned down the bond proposal by a 6-3 vote in November after weeks of debate and a critical report by Detroit's auditor general of city-administered demolition work that cited unreliable data, a lack of transparency and other failures.
Council President Brenda Jones said Tuesday that she appreciates Duggan's ambition. But she said there is more work to be done before a measure is ready for ballot.
"I still have some concerns with how things are done and think we all want the demolition to be done and for the blight to clear up," she said.
Duggan said he's going to "fight for every single neighborhood for as long as I'm here."
"It's going to take extraordinary leadership," he said. "I'm going to extend my hand to my partners."
Duggan also noted that the city is growing for the first time since the 1940's and said the administration is working on ways to manage that and ensure Detroiters benefit.
According to U.S. Census estimates last spring, Detroit's population has continued to drop, but the losses were smaller than in prior years. The city's population was 672,662 as of summer 2018, a loss of 1,526 people. The previous year's loss was 2,695.
Touching on the upcoming Census, Duggan told the crowd that Detroit will not be treated fairly if its citizens aren't counted.
In 2010, Detroit had the worst Census return of any city in America, costing Detroit at least $300 million in the last decade.
The mayor also discussed marijuana licensing laws, highlighting a new plan to make sure there is room for Detroiters.
City Councilman James Tate collaborated with Duggan on an ordinance proposal to ensure that at least half of the licensed recreational marijuana businesses will go to residents who are approved for licenses.
Duggan also made note of projects he said were transforming the city, including Ford's renovation of the long-vacant Michigan Central Depot in Corktown, the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plant that promises to add 5,000 jobs as well as the all-electric vehicle plant planned for Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, which had been targeted for closure last fall.
cferretti@detroitnews.com
srahal@detroitnews.com

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Zara Tindall banned from driving after being caught speeding at 91mph in Cotswolds
Princess Anne's daughter Zara Tindall was speeding in her LandRover in Dartley Bottom, Daglingworth, near Cirencester, in the Cotswolds. She did not attend court as she is currently in Australia
Matthew Dresch
Zara Tindall has been banned from driving for speeding (Image: Getty Images for Land Rover)
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Princess Anne's daughter Zara Tindall was banned from driving for six months today after she was caught speeding at 91mph in her Land Rover in the Cotswolds not far from her home.
The 38-year-old equestrian star received the ban under the 'totting up' procedure because she already had 9 penalty points on her licence from previous motoring offences committed within the previous three years.
Magistrates in Cheltenham imposed four points today for her latest offence and then imposed the mandatory six months ban totting up for exceeding 12 points.
Zara, wife of former Gloucester and England rugby back Mike Tindall, did not attend court because she is currently in Australia.
The royal already had nine points on her licence (Image: Getty Images)
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Through her lawyer she pleaded guilty to driving in excess of 70mph on the A417 at Dartley Bottom, Daglingworth, nr Cirencester at November 6th last year.
Gloucestershire Police frequently operate a speed trap on a layby at Dartley Bottom - a long, straight stretch of the Gloucester-Cirencester road, where they catch hundreds of drivers a year.
Barry Warburton, representing Mrs Tindall, told the court he had been instructed to speak on her behalf as she is abroad. He emphasised to the magistrates that in law Mrs Tindall should therefore not be deemed by the court to be absent from the proceedings.
She has been banned for nine months (Image: Getty Images)
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He said: "I've advised Mrs Tindall not to drive from today in Australia as any driving ban in the UK would affect her insurance in Australia."
Prosecutor Farley Turner said: "Because Mrs Tindall already has nine points on her licence she was unable to accept a fixed penalty for this offence."
Roger Utley, chairman of the bench, announced that as well as the six months ban the court was fining Mrs Tindall £666 plus costs and a victim surcharge of £151 - making a total to pay of £817.
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Make odious debt too risky to issue
By Other News Sources on May 8, 2003 • ( Leave a comment )
Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran
Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraq amassed an estimated $100bn in debt, or over three times its gross domestic product. In all likelihood postwar Iraq will refuse to repay the debt in full. The country can make a strong case that Mr Hussein borrowed without the consent of the Iraqi people and then spent much of the money to finance violence and repression. Hence, Iraq might argue, the debt is illegitimate. An individual is not responsible for repaying debt that someone fraudulently incurs in his or her name. Why should a citizenry be?
The US may welcome an Iraqi decision to repudiate its debt, just as after the 1898 Spanish-American War it encouraged Cuba to repudiate the debt that Spanish rulers had run up in Cuba's name. Indeed, John Snow, the treasury secretary, and Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, have suggested as much. Regardless of Washington's stance on the moral or legal right to repudiate illegitimate debt – or "odious debt", as early 20th-century legal scholars who advocated its nullification termed it – the US knows that an Iraq burdened with debt would be more dependent on American aid. Moreover, there is no love lost between the US and two of Iraq's biggest creditors, Russia and France.
An Iraqi move to renounce its debt w ould have important consequences for international lending generally. Creditors would think twice before lending to repressive or rapacious governments if they did not expect to be repaid. In turn, such regimes might behave better to avoid losing their borrowing privileges.
However, Iraq's repudiation of its debt would also have an unwelcome side effect. Creditors might be more reluctant to lend to a legitimate government out of fear that opinion might later turn against it. Creditors that feared loan nullification would lend at very high interest rates or not at all, so legitimate governments might not be able to borrow to finance worthwhile infrastructure or education projects.
Clearly, the world needs a system to determine which loans should be considered legitimate. The way to prevent lending to illegitimate regimes without jeopardising legitimate borrowing is to make clear in advance which loans will be considered odious rather than nullifying them after the fact. Retroactively, there is a temptation to apply the odious label liberally and nullify legitimate loans as a way of transferring money from the rich to the poor.
A declaration that a particular government is odious and that future lending to it will be considered illegitimate would constitute a new and better form of sanction – a "loan embargo" that cuts off the flow of funds to targeted countries. Profiteers have strong incentives to evade trade embargoes, but creditors would not want to flout a loan embargo because they would risk not being repaid. Creditors would stop issuing loans to odious regimes, not because such loans are illegal or immoral but because they would be more likely to be unprofitable.
For example, suppose the UN Security Council declared that any future borrowing by another dictatorship – be it Syria, Zimbabwe or Burma – would be the regime's responsibility, and not that of the citizens or any future government of the country. When the regime went to the debt market to borrow, this sanction would discourage creditors from lending to it. Even if the US imposed the sanction on its own, creditors in other countries would abide by it. The US would need only to vow that it would give political and financial backing to any successor government that repudiated new loans issued to the current regime.
If the international community added a loan embargo to its tool kit of economic sanctions, creditors would know the rules of the game in advance and would not risk nullification of their loans. Accordingly, legitimate governments would be able to borrow at lower interest rates. Most importantly, governments deemed illegitimate would find it much harder to borrow in world markets and use the funds to finance repression; and it would become impossible for them to saddle their ill-treated people with debt.
A decision by the postwar Iraqi government to renounce Mr Hussein's debt would be greeted with dismay in some quarters; but that might also spur the creation of a system that prevents lending to such repressive rulers the first place.
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Origami Solitaire v.2.0 is a solitaire card game with a Japanese twist. The objective of the game is to arrange cards into the 4 foundations at the upper end of the screen, in ascending order and according to their symbols, beginning with the value already set. To do so, you must place the cards in the lower piles before, in descending order and alternating the colors of the cards. You will have a stock of cards on the left. The first card in that stock will occupy the first place in a foundation if you free it by moving cards to other places. You can take cards from a face down deck, in groups of three and place them in the foundations or the lower piles. You can flip that deck as many times as you want. The name, Origami Solitaire, has nothing to do with the game. It´s just a solitaire card game with Japanese backgrounds and music. The program allows you to save your games in order to load and resume them later. It also allows you to undo moves, or shuffle the cards again in order to change the order in which they appear.


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using EventSpike.Messaging.Messages;
using MassTransit;
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{
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        Consumes<EventStreamUpdated>.Context
    {
        private readonly IObserveCommits _commitObserver;

        public EventSubscriptionMassTransitConsumer(IObserveCommits commitObserver)
        {
            _commitObserver = commitObserver;
        }

        public void Consume(IConsumeContext<EventStreamUpdated> message)
        {
            _commitObserver.PollNow();
        }
    }
}

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Chris Draft, a former NFL linebacker, is running towards a new goal in life, to raise awareness for lung cancer. It's a personal mission for Chris, because his wife, Keasha, a non-smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer. Instead of dwelling on this, Chris and Keasha decided they would develop a national campaign to change the face of this disease. But, in the process of trying to help others, they were faced with their own challenges as Keasha's health began to deteriorate.
Chris and Keasha met in 2006. They were like many young couples, trying to make things work while both dealing with demanding careers; Keasha a professional dancer for the NBA Charlotte Hornets Honeybees and Chris a linebacker in the NFL. At the time, Chris was playing for the Carolina Panthers. The two shared an immediate connection and Keasha waited patiently as Chris bounced around in the NFL. In August 2010, Chris retired from the NFL and the two were finally able to be together in the same city. Ready to start a life together in Atlanta, they began making plans, when suddenly Keasha started experiencing shortness of breath.
Keasha lived a healthy lifestyle and couldn't understand why she was having difficulties breathing. With no other symptoms, she decided she would go see her doctor and get herself checked out. Keasha had a CT scan and her doctor noticed a mass in her lung. After a biopsy and several more tests, it was revealed that she had Stage IV lung cancer, which had spread to her lymph nodes, adrenals and brain. Her doctor gave her roughly eight months to live. A strong and spirited woman, Keasha, reassured Chris that she was not going anywhere without a fight. Chris, standing strong beside the love of his life, proposed to Keasha, wanting to battle this disease together.
Five weeks after their wedding, on December 27, 2011, Keasha lost her fight to lung cancer at the age of 38. Forever touched by her optimism and tenacious spirit, Chris continues in their pursuit to raise lung cancer awareness with the foundation's current push, a national campaign to Change the Face of Lung Cancer.
The campaign began Super Bowl week in February 2012 and has already made a substantial impact. In addition to a grassroots campaign urging former and present NFL players to utilize their public notoriety in spreading Keasha's story and cancer awareness, Chris Draft has personally visited over 40 cancer centers nationwide to learn more about revolutionary treatments and detection technologies.
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When I stepped inside Goorin Bros. Hat Shop in Chicago, there were hats on every table and every shelf — fedoras and flatcaps, baseball and bowlers. There, I met Tanya Jaramilla, and not unlike the establishment itself, she wears many hats: shopkeeper, wife, sister, student.
"I'll be the first person in the whole family to graduate from college."
Tanya is 32 years old and approximately one year away from earning a Bachelor's degree in Management and Communications from DePaul University.
Tanya's grandparents came to the Windy City in the 1950's from Puerto Rico on the promise of steady factory work.
"For my family, it was a BIG deal to finish high school.
"For me, I always wanted bigger and better and more."
Tanya was certain she would go to college.
"I just didn't know when or how or what that would look like. It's really, really, really important that I get my degree and graduate — do the whole shebang!"
If you're doing the math, you already guessed there was a detour after high school that Tanya will tell you was worth every minute and helped her become the person she is today.
"I have no regrets, because if I hadn't lived the life I already lived, I wouldn't be living the life I have now. I run this fantastic little hat shop. The people that work for me are great, and the people that come and shop here are great. I'm doing school the way I wanted to do it, which is with all my focus and energy and attention."
Straight out of high school, Tanya worked part-time at a Gap store and was soon promoted to a full-time manager position. What had been a balancing act between work and college tipped. "I did that for a really long time. And school just kind of fell to the back burner."
Simultaneously, Tanya was in a long-term relationship. About seven years later, and in a cloud of mistrust, Tanya's relationship ended in a break-up that became a total life shake-up. She changed her job, her home, her city.
"I left and went to Vegas to live for a few months with my grandma, and that was one of the best experiences I ever had. I was able to connect with her on a level that I'd never done before. We talked about her life, and I learned stories about her struggle.
"It really affirmed for me the decision that I had made to move on and change and do something that was right for me. So when it was time for me to come back to Chicago, I came back with a cleansed soul. I felt like a new me. I felt like the me that I was trying to get to for the last six or seven years, and it just never happened because I kept letting my comfort get in the way of it."
Tanya says she wanted to do something important. Something that makes a difference. Something she could be passionate about. She found it in a non-profit organization called the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance.
"It was a little surreal at the beginning because I was so used to having to struggle. And having to overcome something.
"I started digging in. I started really working with the organization in the community."
And she realized something.
"This is what I was supposed to do, you know? It was meant to be. I was meant to get to know these young people who have all of these aspirations but no real support or access to resources. I was able to provide that for them in ways that they never had before."
Tanya remembers an inquisitive little girl named Susie. "She made me feel like I … showed her that you don't have to succumb to the neighborhood that you're from. You don't have to fall into the traps that the community around you sets for you.
"That's something I try to instill in my little sisters. They are young moms, and it's a conversation that I've had with them over and over. You don't have to settle.
"I was settling for a really long time." She thinks back to that old relationship. "Once I finally broke free of that, it was really important for me to make sure they understood that their lot in life doesn't necessarily have to be that. They can work harder, they can be better, they can do more, if they want to.
"I grew as a person from my relationship experiences, but also as a woman."
Tanya says in her relationship, she had become someone other than who she wanted to be. "In order to fulfill someone else's happiness, I was turning a blind eye. I was in denial. The biggest challenge for me: being honest with myself.
"Another thing I taught my sisters was that people will only do to you what you allow them to.
"If I continue to let someone treat me terribly, they're going to keep treating me terribly. Because I'm not putting a stop to it. And I'm not ending it. It gives them the message that that's ok. And it's not ok.
When Tanya was 27, that year was filled with introspection. "I did a lot of digging into myself and thinking and feeling.
"It wasn't easy. I don't think those moments in life ever are. But I think it paved the way for me to be the person I am today. I feel like I am much stronger. I'm more confident. I have a better view of what my future's going to be like."
A future that includes her new husband Sonny Jaramilla. They were married just last month.
"When I found him, I realized that all of the things that I had worked through and I had lived through … that was preparation for me to get my mind right and my head right and my heart right and my soul right, so that when he came along, I was ready."
It was Sonny who reminded Tanya of her dream of graduating from college. "He gave me the kick in the butt.
"He is the one who encouraged me to leave the non-profit so that I could focus on school without having to try and juggle the two."
Tanya is not abandoning her mission of making an impact on the community. She's investing in it through education. And going forward, she plans to find ways to give young people who are from low income neighborhoods opportunities to engage in the arts.
"I'm very urban. I've lived in Chicago pretty much my whole life. And I know the challenges that urban life can bring. But I also feel like there's some opportunity and some beauty in that.
"Everyone cannot live in Lakeview, but that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy the neighborhood and the community that you're in. It should still be safe, and it should still be beautiful, and it should still be full of life and creativity!"
And that is where Tanya says her future will find her.
But first, she will keep working toward the day when she dons the style-impaired mortarboard and turns the tassel from right to left.
After that, Tanya will be wearing a proud new custom hat, in a style all her own.
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On this date in 1857, "the great southern land pirate" James Copeland went to the gallows in the now-abandoned Mississippi town of Augusta.
Copeland's criminal career is the subject of a wonderfully old-timey reader by the Perry County sheriff who noosed him. (As it says right there on the title plate. Sheriff J.R.S. Pitts does not shrink from injecting his own story into the narrative, and to get to the action the reader must first wade through tedious digressions into the hangman's biography, his civic-minded rationales for a prurient interest in outlaws — "such a life and history cannot fail, even at this late date … of materially interesting and benefiting the public at large" — and some whinging about the libel suits that dogged his attempts to materially benefit the public at large.)
After an "introduction", a "preface", and an "explanatory", our volume comes at last to an illustrated 100-page autobiographical narrative which Pitts says that Copeland dictated to him while cooling his heels in jail.
Hardened and violent in life, Copeland under the eaves of death seems to made that familiar return to God and repentfully confessed his path into depravity beginning with youthful delinquencies the condign punishment of which was consistently deflected by his mother, "who always upheld me in my rascality."
Having fallen into a legal scrape for pig-thieving, Copeland left behind charming rascality for Godfather territory when he made contact with an outlaw named Gale Wages and concocted a plan to vacate the charges by destroying the documentation … by torching the courthouse in which they rested.
"Such a sight I never had before beheld," Copeland remembered of the blaze. "The flames seemed to ascend as high, if not higher than the tops of the tallest pine trees; they made everything perfectly light for over two hundred yards around." After that bonfire, Copeland gave himself over to the guidance of a man who turned out to be halfway between Jabba the Hutt and a Masonic lodge chief.
Wages, Copeland found, had "a great many persons concerned with him, in different parts of the country, some of them men of wealth and in good standing in the community in which they lived."
They had an organized Band that would stand up to each other at all hazard; they had a Wigwam in the city of Mobile, where they held occasional meetings … they had many confederates there whom the public little suspected …
I was there introduced by Wages, (who was their president,) as a candidate for membership, I should have been rejected, had Wages not interceded for me. I was finally passed and admitted to membership. Wages then administered to me the oath, which every member had to take. I was then instructed and given the signs and pass-words of the Clan.
Maybe the gang was right to doubt him, for Copeland broke this oath by divulging to his hangman-biographer numerous names of members as well as the Encyclopedia Brown-esque cipher this gang used to send coded messages.
Over the course of the next decade and more, Copeland's narration has the gang and he romping through Dixie in misadventures that range from the charmingly picaresque — finagling a guest role at a Methodist pulpit by posing as wandering preachers upon which they netted several hundred dollars from the inevitable passed hat — to the much less charming:
A legend of $30,000 in gold that the squad claimed to have buried in Catahoula Swamp still circulates in Mississippi — spur to thus-far frustrated treasure hunters down to the present day.
We can't know to what degree the voice that we read is Copeland's own or that of Pitts interposing but the narrator we have affects at times a stagey horror at his sins.
With the gang determined to be rid of an Irish boatman on the Mississippi, Copeland draws the short straw to bludgen him to death in his sleep: "Oh, God! when I look back, it makes me shudder. Even now it chills the blood in my veins." Copeland bashed his brains in with a hatchet and as day broke they slipped the weighted corpse into the river.
Copeland had moved up the ranks enough to share the marquee in the "Wages-Copeland gang" by the time things got real dark. In early 1844, a summit of the gang's leadership determined spies were afoot and four of the suspected "butted their heads against a slung-shot hung to a man's arm, and they went floating from Mobile wharf down the channel of the river." Others they left "in a situation where he told no more tales" and "fed … the contents of two double-barrel shot-guns, about forty-eight buck-shot, and put him in a swamp near Eslaya's old mill" and "put a rope around his neck, and we very soon squeezed the breath out of him."
The end of the line could really have been any one of these incidents or the numerous others this post elides — enough blood feuds and hand-to-hand murders and the odds are sure to turn against you in the long run.
In 1849, now a wanted man, Copeland started drinking at a grocery near Mobile
and became intoxicated, and in that situation I imagined every man I saw was trying to arrest me. I fell in with a man by the name of Smith, an Irishman, and a difficulty occurred between us; I concluded that he intended to arrest me. I drew my double-barrel shot gun upon him and intended to kill him. He was too quick for me; he threw up my gun, drew his dirk and stabbed me just above the collar bone.
Having made himself both conspicuous and immobile, Copeland was tracked down by a posse and now he was really in the soup: "one indictment against me in Alabama for larceny, and another against me in Mississippi for murder." Copeland pleaded guilty in Alabama and served a jail sentence there, hoping that the passage of years would buy him some opening to escape the hanging sentence that would surely await in neighboring Mississippi. But the Magnolia State was on its game and had a timely extradition request ready to receive James Copeland the moment his term in the Alabama pen expired.
The day arose clear and beautiful on which the sentence of the law and of outraged humanity was to be executed on the man who had so often violated their most sacred behests. The sky was blue and serene; the atmosphere genial; all nature was calm and peaceful; man alone was agitated by the various strong emotions which the execution of the fatal sentence of retributive justice on a fellow-man could not but create.
The place of execution was distant from the city of Augusta one-quarter of a mile. The gallows was erected on a beautiful elevation that was surrounded by the verdure of shrubby oak and the tall, long-leaf pine. The ground was everywhere occupied by thousands of spectators, gathered from Perry and the surrounding counties, to witness the solemn scene. It was indeed one that they will long remember.
About the hour of noon, the prisoner, after being neatly clad, was led from the jail by the officers of the law, placed in the ranks of the guard formed for the occasion, and the procession moved slowly toward the fatal spot.
Soon the doomed man appeared on the gallows. The death warrant was then read to him, and he was informed that he had but a short time to live.
He proceeded to address the awe-struck and silent multitude. He especially urged the young men present to take warning from his career and fate, and to avoid bad company. His misfortune he attributed principally to having been mislead while young.
When he had concluded, a number of questions were asked by the immediate spectators, in relation to crimes which had transpired within their knowledge; but he would give no direct answer — shrewdly eluding the inquiries.
The Sheriff then asked him, in hearing of many lookers on, if the details of his confession, previously made to that officer, were true. He replied that they were.
His hands were then tied and the cap pulled over his face, and he was told that he had but a few moments to live. He exclaimed, "Lord, have mercy on me!" and he was praying when the drop fell, and a brief struggle ended his blood-stained career.
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1863: William Griffith, for the Marais des Cygnes massacre - 2015
1651: Terence Albert O'Brien, Bishop of Emly - 2014
1480: Cicco Simonetta - 2013
1885: George Miller, Inkster axster - 2012
1632: Henri II de Montmorency - 2011
2008: Greg Wright, still fighting for exoneration - 2010
1796: Lesurques, wrongly, and Couriol, rightly, for robbing the Lyons Mail - 2009
2007: Not Earl Wesley Berry ... for the time being - 2008
1804: Little Harpe and Peter Alston, Mississippi pirates
1864: Five Virginia City road agents
1881: George Parrott, future footwear
1892: Two Georgian bandits, witnessed by Stalin
1875: Six in Fort Smith under Hanging Judge Isaac Parker
1866: Anton Probst, "I only wanted the money"
1891: Ed Leeper and James Powell
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Mississippi,Murder,Outlaws,Public Executions,Theft,USA
Tags: 1850s, 1857, augusta, gale wages, james copeland, october 30


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What is malaria and what causes malaria?
Malaria is a dangerous mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting animals, including humans. It is caused by parasites belonging to the Plasmodium genus. Malaria is transmitted from one host to another via infected female Anopheles mosquitos. There are over 200 millions of malaria cases reported every year, and over 500,000 deaths per year. While there are over 100 malaria parasites, the main four types of parasites that can infect humans with malaria via mosquitoes are: Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae. Once the parasite enters the human body, it will find its way to the liver where it will multiply. After about 15 days, it will enter the blood stream and infect red blood cells.
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Malaria is carried from one human to another through infected female Anopheles mosquitos. Anopheles mosquitos lay their eggs on clean and unpolluted water so they can float. They typically take 3 days to hatch. Anopheles mosquitos, unlike other types of mosquitoes, are a good host choice for plasmodium because their gut flora is favorable to the development of the parasite once ingested. Anopheles mosquitoes are most active at night and like to rest indoors. This is why insecticide treated bed nets are a good preventive product against Anopheles mosquitos.
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If a female Anopheles mosquito bites a person contaminated with malaria, that mosquito will ingest the parasites. When that mosquito bites another person, the parasites will then be transmitted to the other person. Malaria parasites affect red blood cells, so transmission is possible via blood transfusion, pregnancy or other instance where blood is exchanged. It is not sexually transmissible.
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People infected with malaria will often feel very sick and will have high fevers, chills and other flu-like symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, muscle pain and headaches. Symptoms develop from 7 to 30 days after the initial bite. It is important to note that the parasites can remain dormant in the liver for up to several years and therefore, attacking red blood cells on and off for years and creating relapse. If not treated properly, malaria can develop into hypoglycemia, anemia, coma, disabilities, and death. Depending on the strain of the parasite, the disease cycle will differ and so are the symptoms.
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Malaria is easily diagnostic with a parasitological lab test that examines your blood under a microscope in order to identify the parasites. A rapid diagnostic test (antigen testing) is an other option: the blood is taken from your finger and applied on a test strip that changes color depending on whether or not you have contracted malaria.
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As for most life-threatening diseases, the earlier it can be detected, the better off you will be. If you suspect that you may have been infected with malaria, seek medical attention right away. A full recovery is expected if treated early and properly. There are several type of prescription medication available. The goal of the treatment is to get rid of the plasmodium parasite from the bloodstream. If infected with P. falciparum, complications are more likely, and risks of death is much higher. In severe cases, intravenous medication and critical care will be recommended.
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Viana de Cega es un municipio y localidad española de la provincia de Valladolid, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León. El término tiene una población de . repartida en dos núcleos de población: la localidad de Viana de Cega como tal (99,98%) y el Pago de Viñagrande (0,02%).

Geografía
La forma de vida mayoritaria es en zonas residenciales de viviendas unifamiliares aisladas, pareadas y adosadas, contando con muy pocos edificios en altura, lo que le confiere un fuerte carácter de población ajardinada. La localidad de Viana se encuentra situada a 15 km de la capital, en el denominado Alfoz vallisoletano. Se comunica con la capital a través de la carretera autonómica CL-600, que enlaza las autovías A-62 (Simancas) y A-11 (Tudela de Duero), bien a través de la A-601, o bien a través de la autovía N-601. Cuenta con estación de ferrocarril (línea Madrid-Irún), que dista 12 km de la estación Campo Grande de Valladolid, aunque no cuenta con muchas frecuencias. También se conecta a través de autobús con la capital, pasando por Boecillo y Laguna de Duero, población en la que se encuentra su centro de salud de referencia.

En cuanto a su situación geográfica, Viana de Cega es una de las puertas de la comarca de Tierra de Pinares (aunque no se asocia directamente a ella dada su cercanía a Valladolid), por lo que lógicamente su vegetación más abundante es el pino. Está además bañada por el río Cega al este y norte del término municipal, rodeando casi todo el casco urbano y por el río Adaja al oeste, ambos afluentes del Duero y que marcan los límites de su término. Limita con los términos municipales de las poblaciones de Boecillo, Valdestillas, Valladolid, Villanueva de Duero y La Pedraja de Portillo.

Historia

La historia de Viana de Cega no es muy larga ni conocida. Tan solo posee algunas esculturas góticas en el interior de su iglesia como antigüedades reseñables y la mayor parte de la población es originaria de otros lugares.

La vieja iglesia, que se encontraba junto al río (lo que resulta poco frecuente en los pueblos de la zona), fue derribada y sustituida en la década de los sesenta por otra situada en un lugar mucho más céntrico del casco urbano. Perdiendo así su gran retablo dorado, que actualmente se exhibe en el Alcázar de Segovia.

Las referencias históricas que se conocen de Viana de Cega son escasas y escuetas.

A mediados del , el lugar contaba con una población censada de 136 habitantes. La localidad aparece descrita en el decimosexto volumen del Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar de Pascual Madoz de la siguiente manera:

Se puede conocer algún dato a través de los archivos de RENFE donde consta la estación en dicho pueblo e imágenes del puente por donde pasa el ferrocarril. También en documentos militares figura el día que prendió el polvorín de guerra y cuando casi todos los vecinos habían huido al monte, milagrosamente el viento cambio de dirección y salvó al pueblo de las llamas. Ese día se celebra la Virgen de la Milagrosa, con una procesión en su honor.

Demografía

Economía
Su economía está basada fundamentalmente en el sector servicios y muy minoritariamnete en la agricultura. Al situarse tan cerca de Valladolid la mayoría de su población trabaja allí por lo que es considerado un pueblo dormitorio.

Cultura

Fiestas
En Viana de Cega se celebran dos fiestas, de marcado carácter religioso: En invierno se celebra la Virgen de las Candelas el día 2 de febrero, aunque también aprovechan para honrar a San Blas el día 3 de febrero y a Santa Águeda el día 5. También destacan las actividades del Verano Cultural y Deportivo, que se prolongan desde julio hasta mediados de agosto. Durante estas fechas se realizan torneos deportivos y actividades culturales como cine, charlas, actuaciones folclóricas, exposiciones, etc. Después comienza la semana de Fiestas en honor a San Roque y la Virgen de la Asunción, los días 15 y 16 de agosto.

En estas fiestas se celebran todo tipo de actividades culturales y taurinas -desencajonamiento de toros-, además de actuaciones musicales, pasacalles con cabezudos y diversas actividades para los más pequeños.
También se celebran las Navidades y los Carnavales.

Museos
 Museo Taurino Emilio Casares Herrero

Véase también

 Gastronomía de la provincia de Valladolid
 Economía de la provincia de Valladolid
 Anexo:Municipios de la provincia de Valladolid

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... был/было/была одним из важнейших открытий двадцатого века/столетия.
For 'of', you use the genitive case in Russian.
The most common and foolproof way to say "the most" is "самый/-ая/-ое" + adjective.
It can sound either formal or informal depending on the context. I'd recommend to stick to it unless you are absolutely sure that an alternative is more appropriate.
Оля - самая красивая девочка в нашей школе.
Olya is the most beautiful girl in our school.
The most sensible decision is..
Это важнейшее открытие 20-го века.
This is the most important discovery of the 20th century.
Это наиважнейшее открытие 20-го века.
To say "the least" you can use the word "наименее".
Это мой наименее любимый предмет.
This is my least favourite subject.
But often such phrases sound a lot more natural if you use "самый" + antonym of your adjective. The phrase above will be "Это мой самый нелюбимый предмет".
In the same vein "Таня - самая некрасивая девочка в нашей школе" is much better than "Таня - наименее красивая девочка в нашей школе", and so on.
If "the most (the least)" refers to the verb (action) you should use "больше всего (меньше всего)".
Больше всего я боюсь собак - I fear dogs the most.
Из всех фруктов я меньше всего люблю яблоки - Of all the fruits I like apples the least.


2 The Point News » Behind The Lines » Free Articles » IS OBAMA CRIMINALLY INSANE?
This is the cover of the New York Post today (12/03). At least there's one media outlet willing to state the obvious.
Yesterday afternoon they — Syed Farook (28) and Tashfeen Malik (27) – left their six-month old baby with grandma, gathered their weaponry, donned their terrorist clothing, drove to where Syed worked and slaughtered as many people as they could in cold blood – people who had earlier thrown a baby shower for them. They were wearing Go Pro cameras to film their jihad.
The most obvious fact on earth right now, on a par with it's cold and dark at the North Pole in December and Mount Everest is a really high mountain, is that there is no mystery, no puzzle – the San Bernardino murderers are Moslem terrorists.
Being literally terrified to state the obvious is The Cost of Envy Appeasement (11/20). It's a form of insanity, the biggest promoter of which is the current inhabitant of the White House.
CNN of course neglects to mention that California already has some of toughest gun control laws in the US – just like the US murder capital of Chicago.
Is he out of his mind? Yes, obviously so. The question now: Is he criminally out of his mind? The follow up question: If he is, how can he be removed from office on that basis?
Last January, two Moslem terrorists from Al Qaeda in Yemen slaughtered 11 and injured 11 more at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. Last month, a series of coordinated attacks of Moslem terrorists from ISIS slaughtered 130 and injured 352 innocent people in Paris.
John Lott at the Crime Prevention Research Center provides the data proving just how absurd Zero's claim is: Obama Is Wrong: Mass Shootings Do Happen Elsewhere and More Often. The CPRC website has further data comparing death rates from mass public shootings and bombs in the US and Europe.
But the key to Zero's perfidy is not in comparing loner wacko killers, like the nutball attacking Planned Parenthood in Colorado last week (Robert Dear) to the Norwegian lunatic (Anders Behring Breivik) who murdered 77 in Oslo in 2011. It is being in complete total 100% estrangement from reality (the definition of psychosis) in denying mass murder committed by Moslems in the name of Islam have anything to do with their being Moslem.
This is because Zero has ordered FBI Director James Comey never to do so. I submit that this is an act of criminal insanity by the President of the United States. That and his denial of the very existence of Islamic terrorism in the first place.
His oath of office, his Constitutional obligation, and his most fundamental moral duty as President is to protect the security of Americans to the best of his ability and within his legal authority. He has overtly, consistently, resolutely and perversely refused to do so.
Here is a list of 75 Moslem terrorist attacks in America going back to 1972. It now has to be updated to include San Bernardino, which will rank as the worst Moslem terrorist attack with the most deaths with the single exception of 9/11. Note that 22 (23 including San Bernardino have happened during Zero's less than 7 years in office.
23 acts of Moslem terrorism in America during his presidency, of which Zero has refused to designate any as one of Jihadi Islam.
As Dan Greenfield explains in TTP Wednesday (11/25), Obama Wants to Defeat America, not ISIS. Any doubt of that was removed yesterday when, in his Presidential Thanksgiving Message to America he compared the Moslem invasion of the US he is promoting to the Mayflower Pilgrims.
Meanwhile, earlier in the week (11/22), the WashTimes reported Illegal Immigrants Surge Across Border at Record Rate.Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is quoted: "The greatest existential threat to this nation right now is this administration's open-border policy."What Hunter is saying is undeniably true, i.e., that President Barack Hussein Obama is overtly on purpose creating the greatest existential national security threat to America.It follows then that it is Hunter's patriotic duty to call for Zero's impeachment on the floor of Congress on the basis of treason and/or mental incompetence via the 25th Amendment.Obvious evidence for the latter came Tuesday (11/24), when Zero claimed that the Paris meeting on Climate Change next week would help defeat ISIS. Yep, no doubt about it, he's nuts, fascist nuts.
It is now far too dangerous for our personal and national security to be governed by a president who is clearly and criminally losing his marbles.
Cruz is the one who, on the floor of the Senate, should request Zero's removal from office via invoking section 4 of the 25th Amendment. No impeachment is necessary. The 25th offers a different pathway for ridding the White House of this demented man.
I'm asking you to join me in this request. I'm asking you to call one of his offices in Texas (especially if you're a Texan), or his office in the Russell Building on Capitol Hill Here are the numbers of Senator Cruz's offices.
Of course, you can express this however you like. Just be nice, calm, and respectful when you call. We can do this. And if we get Cruz to heed our call, it will electrify the electorate, placing the thought of Zero's derangement in the minds of millions.
Make a phone call, change America for the vastly better. It's an action we all can do.


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De Antwerpse Waterwerken (AWW), tegenwoordig water-link o.v. was een intercommunaal bedrijf dat sinds 1880 de productie en distributie van drinkwater verzorgde voor Antwerpen en randgemeentes. Daarnaast leverde AWW ook drinkwater aan de havenbedrijven (zoals Bayer) en stond het in voor de leveringen aan de schepen in de haven van Antwerpen.
AWW beschikte over productiecentra gelegen in Oelegem (deelgemeente van Ranst), Notmeir en Walem (bij Mechelen). Het hoofdkantoor van water-link is gelegen aan de Mechelsesteenweg te Antwerpen.

Voorgeschiedenis (tot 1860)
Voor er sprake was van een waterbedrijf in Antwerpen was de Antwerpse burger aangewezen op pompen voor de waterbedeling. Sinds de middeleeuwen waren er openbare wijkputten die omstreeks 1700 werden toegedekt en van een handpomp voorzien. De Quinten Matsijsput aan de Kathedraal is daar nog een overblijfsel van. Behalve de putten was Antwerpen voorzien van watertoevoer, onder meer door de Herentalse Vaart, een aquaduct van 7 km dat water van het Groot Schijn te Wommelgem aanvoerde.

Tot in 1931 zou het water leveren aan de industrieën ten noorden van de stad. Het Schijn was de enige waterloop in de buurt van Antwerpen die voldoende water van behoorlijke kwaliteit kon leveren. Met de 19e eeuw kwam echter ook de industriële expansie en ook het belang van de haven van Antwerpen nam hierdoor toe. Door de industrialisatie kwam er een migratie op gang van het omringende platteland naar Antwerpen. De behoefte aan drinkwater steeg dan ook.

In 1832 was er een eerste besmetting met cholera met 570 doden tot gevolg. Nadien volgden steeds zwaardere epidemies. In 1849 werden alleen al in het Sint-Elisabethgasthuis 1971 gevallen opgetekend waarvan er meer dan 1000 overleden. In 1866 overleden er zelfs 2961 patiënten. Deze voorvallen en het besef dat hygiëne en kwalitatief drinkwater dit soort besmettingen kan beperken of voorkomen, deed de roep naar een drinkwaterbedrijf luider worden.

Aanloop tot de waterleiding (1861-1867)
Vanaf 1861 waren er reeds voorstellen ingediend om een waterleidingnet op te stellen. Hieronder zaten een waterwinning op de Aa bij het oude kasteel van Grobbendonk. Andere voorstellen waren een watervang aan de Kleine Nete, op 2,5 km van Lier.

In totaal belandden er elf voorstellen bij het stadsbestuur tussen 1861 en 1867. Om de voorstellen te beoordelen, werd er een commissie opgericht. En men stuurde ingenieurs uit om buitenlandse waterbedrijven te bezoeken. Het verslag van de bijzondere commissie was klaar in 1869. Vervolgens stuurde het stadsbestuur een brief naar verschillende waterbedrijven met de vraag om een voorstel tot concessie in te dienen.

Twee voorstellen werden binnen de voorziene termijn ingediend : één voorstel kwam van Joseph Quick senior en Joseph Quick junior, vader en zoon, en de heer Dick. Het tweede voorstel kwam van de heer Vanderghote, een brouwer van de Oude Vaartplaats in Antwerpen. Geen van beide voorstellen kon echter rekenen op de goedkeuring van de stadsingenieur Van Bever. Daarop beslisten Quick-Dick en Vanderghote hun projecten te combineren en samen één voorstel in te dienen. Deze combinatie had veel voordelen: Vanderghote had zijn kennis over de hydrografische situatie in Antwerpen en de Quicks hadden ervaring op het vlak van waterleidingbouw en –exploitatie.

De eerste concessies (1870-1880)
In augustus 1872 hadden de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen de Meetingpartij een nederlaag toegebracht. Het stadsbestuur werd overgenomen door een liberale ploeg onder leiding van Leopold de Wael. Deze nieuwe burgemeester gaf een zeer hoge prioriteit aan de drinkwatervoorziening.
In 1873 dienden Quick-Dick opnieuw een voorstel in. Door een andere concessieaanvraag van de heer Bottereau, in naam van "een Engelse firma", deden Quick-Dick toegevingen aan het stadsbestuur. Op 25 juni 1873 werd de tekst van de concessie goedgekeurd door het stadsbestuur. Deze tekst was gebaseerd op het ontwerp van Quick-Dick van april 1872, en dit ontwerp was op zijn beurt gebaseerd op de Engelse Waterworks Clauses Act van 1847.

Daarna moest er nog gewacht worden op een akkoord van het provinciebestuur. Uiteindelijk kon de overeenkomst definitief ondertekend worden op 25 november 1874. De eerste werken voor het uitbouwen van een waterleidingennetwerk konden nu starten en hiervoor werd een maatschappij naar Engels recht opgericht. De werkzaamheden vorderden echter geheel niet volgens plan. Het stadscollege liet de Engelse firma in gebreke stellen.

De Engelse firma Easton & Anderson werd aangezocht om de concessie over te nemen. Op 14 februari 1879 was er een overeenkomst tussen Quick-Dick en Easton & Anderson om de concessie over te nemen. De uiteindelijke concessieakte zou ondertekend worden op 9 augustus 1879. Zodra alles juridisch in orde was, werd er een proefinstallatie gebouwd in de buurt van de Netebrug bij Walem, volgens de plannen van Quick-Dick. In de periode 1880-1881 werden er verschillende aanvoerleidingen gelegd en installaties gebouwd. De werken schoten zeer goed op en na de uitbouw van het waterleidingennet, was het nu tijd voor het uitvoeren van de exploitatie ervan.

De pionierstijd (1890-1900)
De waterlevering komt eerder traag op gang: in 1900 is nog maar 10% van de bevolking aangesloten. De relatief hoge prijs (40 centiem/m3), betwistingen met het Stadsbestuur en de matige kwaliteit remmen de ontwikkeling.

Eerste helft 20e eeuw (1901-1955)
Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog wordt het distributienet beschadigd. Het nutsbedrijf wordt onder Duits toezicht geplaatst.
Op 1 januari 1931 neemt de Stad het nutsbedrijf over onder de naam ''Antwerpse Waterwerken'': het wordt een intercommunale 69,1% van het kapitaal in handen van de Stad Antwerpen, 22,6% van het Engelse Waterworks, en de overige 8,3% van 12 deelnemende gemeenten (Berchem, Boechout, Borgerhout, Deurne, Edegem, Ekeren, Hoboken, Hove, Merksem, Mortsel, Kontich en Wilrijk). Door de nieuwe structuur kan eindelijk werk gemaakt worden van de broodnodige aanpassingen aan productie-
installaties, pompstations en aanvoerleidingen. Op lange termijn kunnen ze nu ook
denken aan een oplossing voor de waterbron.

In 1930-1939 wordt het Albertkanaal aangelegd, dat op termijn drinkwater zal leveren voor Antwerpen. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog worden geen noemenswaardige storingen gemeld.

Overschakeling naar Maaswater (1951 tot 1960)
Na voltooiing van het Netekanaal en de aanleg van een voorfilter aan de Notmeir te Duffel/Rumst, stroomt eind 1955 het eerste Maaswater naar Antwerpen.

Uitbreiding en kwaliteitszorg (1960-2000)
Vanaf de jaren 1960 wordt constant gewerkt aan de uitbreiding van het net, met onder meer aanleg van spaarbekkens (Broechem en Eekhoven) en een watertoren te Berendrecht (afgebroken).

Van drinkwaterleverancier tot integraal waterbedrijf (2000-heden)
Na invoering van het Decreet integraal waterbeleid, op basis van de Europese Kaderrichtlijn Water, evolueert de AWW van een drinkwaterleverancier naar een integraal waterbedrijf, dus ook de sanering van het afvalwater. Zo ontstaat RI-ANT, later Rio-link, het samenwerkingsverband tussen AWW en Aquafin. De industriële watervoorziening wordt afgezonderd, eerst via BIWS, later Induss nv.

Met TMVW wordt eerst nog een samenwerkingsverband onder de naam water-link aangegaan. Maar in 2014 gaat het TMVW-deel over in FARYS, en wordt water-link de nieuwe naam voor de AWW.

Externe links
 Brochure Geschiedenis
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Collectie van Antwerpse Waterwerken bewaard in de Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience.

Belgisch waterleidingbedrijf
Voormalig bedrijf in Vlaanderen
Geschiedenis van Antwerpen


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Huffer Discusses Apogee's Outlook; Company's Search for a New CEO
While Fiscal 2011 was not without challenges for commercial construction, Russ Huffer, chief executive officer (CEO) of Apogee Enterprises, is looking toward the future and is optimistic that the industry is starting to see signs of improvement. Huffer discussed the company's Fiscal 2011 full year and fourth quarter results during a webcast, as well as the company's outlook and its search for a new CEO.
Huffer says Fiscal 2011 brought both challenges and positives for Apogee.
"The commercial construction market remained weak … impacting revenue," he says. "Low architectural glass prices and low architectural segment capacity utilization lead to losses for Apogee."
On a positive note, though, he adds that "Apogee ended the fiscal year with the highest quarterly revenue level for the year as our architectural segment revenue decline slowed and our architectural segment backlog grew for the first time since it peaked at the end of Fiscal 2008, signaling that our markets may be stabilizing."
He also recognized the good execution of the company's installation business in the fourth quarter, "as it completed projects it'd been awarded with higher margins."
Huffer is also optimistic about the future.
"We believe we are finally seeing hints of an upturn for our architectural business, even though a stronger economy and more jobs are needed to bring renewed life to our commercial construction," he says. "For fiscal 2012 we are expecting modest growth and revenues and believe we have the potential to be profitable for the year."
He adds, "[we are] expecting the actions we have taken in our architectural businesses, ranging from price increases and productivity improvements to product selection changes, will result in improving results as Fiscal 2012 progresses."
Huffer also says architectural bid activity remains good and continues to be driven by institutional work.
"We are starting to see early signs of improvement in some markets, including the private sector, however the majority of work currently being bid is scheduled for 2013," he says. "We believe we have the financial strength to work our way through the weak market conditions and remain focused on our growth strategy for the recovery."
He adds, "We believe we are positioned to get through the downturn and positioned for the future and that's where the company's energies are and that's where mine are."
Huffer also took the opportunity to discuss his retirement, which he announced earlier this year, as well as the search for a new CEO, currently underway.
"Rest assured, I will continue to be focused on positioning Apogee for future success in the next year," he says. "Regarding the CEO search, it is still early in the process. A committee of the board of directors is dedicating considerable effort to identify strong candidates to guide Apogee through the next commercial construction cycle. The board has developed a job description and is selecting a search firm. The search process could take several months and I am committed to lead Apogee as long as needed."


Eight teams will contest the final of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Zone of the Guinness Street Football Tournament tomorrow evening at the National Tennis Center Villa from 6 pm.
The teams will compete in two Zones. Zone "A" comprise of Corner Bar Double Trouble, Rudy's/The Parliament IRC Ballers, defending champions Crew FC and ECGC Ball Boys.
Zone "B" comprise of Mareyna White Squall, Penalty Sport Bar Dream Team, Bequia United and Digicel Emily's Strikers.
The winner from this Zone will take part in the Regional Finals scheduled to be held in Jamaica later this month.


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Emily Beckman • May 30, 2018
Knocking it Out of the Park
Lisa Burik, owner of Frankie's on the Park, inspires tweens with age-appropriate fashion and the value of giving back.
Lisa Burik first got the idea to open her own boutique after struggling to find trendy yet modest clothes for Frankie, her 13-year-old daughter. It's a common industry startup tale, but Burik isn't your run-of-the-mill retail entrepreneur. She dreams big, and she's a woman with a plan. Having sold her healthcare management consulting firm, Burik was looking to do something completely different. She did her homework, she created a sound business plan and she was all in from the get-go. In 2008, she filled the void she saw with the opening of a 3,000-square-foot, two-story tween boutique in the heart of Chicago's bustling Lincoln Park neighborhood. In 2013, she followed that up with a second, 1,100-square-foot location in Santa Monica, CA.
"While many boutique owners start their shop simply as a hobby, I've always approached it from the perspective of a businesswoman," Burik says. "My goal has always been to reach as many people as I can."
The boutiques serve as an oasis for girls age 8 to 18, brimming with stylish apparel and accessories congruent with what Burik describes as a fun-loving tween's lifestyle. From bright décor to eye-catching displays, Frankie's on the Park is meant to be not only a fun place to shop but hang out with friends. Interactive experiences (in the Chicago location) include a second-floor graffiti bar for customizing T-shirts, hoodies and shorts, and the sales consultants are described as "part stylists/part camp counselors." It helps raise the stores' experiential factor to regular destination level. Shoppers are satisfied, entertained and—when needed—reassured. Anyone who's the parent of a teenage daughter will know that the latter might serve as Frankie's on the Parks' greatest attribute.
"My job is to bring a special experience for every girl during this particular—and often challenging—time in her life," says Burik, a mother of two girls. "If there are a handful of tween-specialized stores like ours in the country, I'd be surprised." Burik adds that most retailers prefer not to bother with such a tricky, fickle age category. "While it can be hard to understand who the tween really is and what she wants, we enjoy the challenge," she says.
But Burik has never been one to shrink from a challenge. The year Frankie's opened in Chicago, the Financial Crisis hit head-on. However, the tween-shopping haven exceeded $500,000 in revenue in its first year. Both stores have experienced steady growth, first in the face of recession and, of late, amid the retail apocalypse. Burik has also dabbled with a pop-up location in the Chicago area, as well as introduced a private box subscription service. "Introducing newness is critical to continued development and growth of your business," she says. "A little risk can lead to great reward and, at the worst, a lesson learned."
Burik is a risk-taker, however her inventory leans heavily on athleisure—a perennial staple for tween girls. Tracksuits are particularly popular of late. "Customers want soft and cozy," she says. "For kids and parents, it's all about the hand feel." Popular brands at Frankie's include me.n.u, DL 1961, Aviator Nation, Spiritual Gangster and Chaser. For dressing up, Burik cites Zoe Ltd, David Charles, Jovani and By Debra as frontrunners in the special occasion section. Burik reports Santa Monica and Chicago tweens have similar fashion tastes in terms of brands and styles, but the palette definitely reflects the stark contrasts in local climates. "I would say our inventory is 70 to 80 percent the same," Burik says. "But my Chicago tweens don't like colors as much—everything has to be black, navy or gray. And it's very beachy and brighter colors with the California girls."
People Pleaser
Frankie's vibrant selection of tween apparel and accessories.
Having the right mix is step one to pleasing Frankie's customers. Step two and three? Burik and her staff try hard to remember names and their style preferences. "We know what they like and don't like—and we don't have to look at a notebook to remind us," she says. Burik's team also makes note of the customers' preferred method of communication, whether it's phone, text or email. "You want the customer to want to engage—not feel bothered or overwhelmed," she says, adding that a strong social media profile is critical in communicating with customers.
With an impressive 16,000-plus followers on Instagram—the preferred platform of tweens—Burik keeps a professional yet authentic vibe of real girls modeling Frankie's latest styles. "We invested a lot in our online infrastructure to be able to have a cool presence that girls like," she says. It's also user-friendly and seamless. For example, someone in Ohio who sees a girl sporting a cool outfit on Frankie's Instagram feed can simply click on what she's wearing, and it will take her directly to the store's website for purchase. "There's few stores that aren't major players such as Nordstrom that can do that," Burik says.
What's more, customers shopping Frankie's can be assured its merchandise is the real deal. It's quite unlike the internet, which Burik says, is awash in shady outlets selling cheap knockoffs of well-known labels. "Anyone can go into business these days," she says. "Just make a product out of your garage, throw a photo up on Instagram and there you have it. While there's nothing technically wrong with that, it erodes the market because everyone starts to expect things cheaper."
In response, Burik draws a line in the sand on quality, authenticity and integrity. It's about staying true to Frankie's reputation and mission of being a trusted resource for tweens and their parents. "We operate on a pretty high echelon," she says. While Frankie's still offers something for everyone with price points ranging from $3 to $300, offering the lowest price is not the driving factor of its business model. "Everybody can shop at Frankie's, but for the mom that feels we are too expensive and wants to buy leggings at Target, by all means," Burik says. "We have a standard of quality we need to keep, which means we are not going to go chasing prices to the bottom." The same high standards apply to its vendors. If customer returns regarding quality issues reach a tipping point, Burik drops the brand from Frankie's mix. "I need my customers to trust that I only stock the best for them," she says. "We adore our customers, and that drives everything."
Comer Children's Hospital patient strikes a pose
at charity fashion show.
Frankie's love affair with its customers extends well beyond a financial transaction. Burik and her team are committed to helping its tweens overcome personal challenges as well as on a broader scale with its extensive community outreach efforts. Take Frankie's annual sponsorship of the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital Fashion Show each spring. Marking its eighth year of sponsorship, the recent event saw four hundred attendees rise to a standing ovation in the ballroom of Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel as a young girl in rainbow leggings and a unicorn graphic tee gingerly came down the runway assisted by a walker. She stopped to pose in the middle of the catwalk, beaming as she absorbed a moment she likely never thought possible. "That girl was told by doctors she'd be wheelchair-bound the rest of her life yet that night we were able to find a way for her to walk down the runway and feel like everybody else," says Burik. "It was the moment of all moments."
The event, which raises more than $125,000 each year, is just one of the many charitable partnerships Frankie's engages in annually. The list of partnerships includes school auctions, fund drives, service projects and holiday festivals. "Frankie's isn't just a store—it's a lifestyle," Burik says. "We're always open to supporting great causes, particularly those that are sponsored by our customers and directly involve kids and teens in a meaningful way."
Think of it as community service with a fashionable Frankie's twist. For instance, every December the store partners with La Rabida Children's Hospital for its annual Holiday Dress Party. Burik and her staff bring a selection of age-appropriate party dresses backed by a team of volunteer "fashion stylists" from local high schools to help patients pick out a dress and get their nails done for the holidays. "The girls love helping us put a smile on each patient's face," she says. "It's just another one of the many heartwarming experiences we get to enjoy from bringing the community together."
In an effort to extend its community outreach further, Frankie's on the Park has recently introduced "Frankie's Gives Back." Applicable both online and in store, customers can select a charity they'd like to support with part of the proceeds from their purchase at Frankie's. "Not a month goes by that doesn't involve us giving back in some way through our business," Burik says. "It's all part of our experience, built on serving and inspiring the next generation."
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