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Those involved in real estate fraud and forgery can be clever and persistent, which can spell trouble for your home purchase. In a western state, an innocent buyer purchased an attractive home site through a realty company, accepting a notarized deed from the seller. Then another couple, the true owners of the property — who lived in another locale — suddenly appeared and initiated legal action to prove their interest in the real estate was valid. Under the Owner's Title Insurance Policy which insured the innocent buyer, bought for a one-time fee at closing, the title company provided a money settlement (to protect against financial loss). As it turned out, the forger spent time in advance at the local court house, searching the public records to locate property with out-of-town owners who had been in possession for an extended period of time. The individual involved then forged and recorded a deed to a fictitious person and assumed the identity of that person before listing the property for sale to an innocent purchaser, handling most contacts through an answering service. The identity of the notary appearing on deeds was fictitious as well. Fraud and forgery are examples of hidden title hazards that can remain undetected until after a closing despite the most careful precautions. Although emphasizing risk elimination, an Owner's Policy protects you financially through negotiation by the insurer with third-parties, payment for defending against an attack on the title as insured, and payment of valid claims.
Conflicting Wills
Conflicts over a will from a deceased former owner may suggest a study topic for law school. But the subject can easily turn to reality and all too quickly home ownership is at stake. After purchasing a residence, the new owner was startled when a brother of the seller claimed an ownership interest and sought a substantial amount of money as his share. It seemed that their late mother had given the house to the son making the challenge, who placed the deed in his drawer without recording it at the court house. Some 20 years later, after the death of the mother, the deed was discovered and then filed. Permission was granted in probate court to remove the property from the late mother's estate, and the brother to whom the residence initially was given sold the house. But the other brother appealed the probate court decision, claiming their mother really did not intend to give the house to his sibling. Ultimately, the appeal was upheld and the new owner faced a significant financial loss. Since the new owner had acquired an Owner's Policy of Title Insurance upon purchasing the real estate, the title company paid the claim, along with an additional amount in legal fees incurred during the defense.
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How To Live As The Enemy Prince
Chapter 24.1 - I Mean No Harm
Cha Seo Hyeon - 자서현
Episode 5: I Mean No Harm – Chapter 24.1
Kailisys was a large city. Considering how big the palace was, it wasn't surprising for the capital city to be proportionally bigger. Therefore, trying to find Kyrie in this city was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, Calian knew what Kyrie was up to around this time, but it was difficult to pinpoint the location.
On top of that, Calian needed something that couldn't be bought in just any old store.
That's why he had come up with this insane plan of buying what he needed as well as some information about Kailis from the Secretian spies.
The spies were much more than simply sellers of information. They were real swordsmen who were thoroughly trained to spy on the affairs of a foreign land. That's how dangerous this place was.
Moreover, Calian's appearance was very easily recognisable, even just by people who were pa.s.sing by. If these spies ever took a glimpse of his crimson eyes, the situation would blow up out of his control.
That's why this whole thing was insane.
"I'll take you to where the birdfeed is," said White Eagle—the owner of the shop and the guardian of the spies' foothold. Since he had confirmed that Calian was not an enemy, he didn't show any further malice or murderous intent.
I guess I still have my days to live. Even while thinking so, Calian did not lower his guard. He followed White Eagle to the back of the shop while trying to stay out of the range of the man's possible attack.
The spies didn't know each other's ident.i.ties. The number and ident.i.ties of the spies were never disclosed as a safety measure for when one got caught spying. That way, the other spies wouldn't be involved in a chain of arrests. For the same reason, the spies never showed each other their faces.
On top of that, the Secretian spies during this time were selected without discrimination of age and gender. Therefore, it wasn't strange for there to be a spy who was as young as Calian.
Calian placed all his trust on such circ.u.mstances and had succeeded in making White Eagle believe that he was a young, newly dispatched spy from Secretia.
"Just give me a second," said White Eagle.
Calian was surrounded by stacks of miscellaneous junk: empty birdcages, feeders, perches of various shapes, and cleaning supplies, just to name a few. Even in thick clouds of dust, White Eagle avoided everything with ease. Then, he pulled a wooden stick that was leaned diagonally against the wall, blending into its surroundings.
—creeeak!
When Calian heard something that sounded like a metal chain being wound, the whole room started rotating slowly. After a string of soft rumbles and sharp creaks, the room connected to the storehouse of a different property. White Eagle opened the storehouse door that led to a small backyard. They crossed the yard and entered the house.
Calian followed White Eagle past the living room and headed upstairs. After pa.s.sing another secret pa.s.sage, they finally reached a large study. A big table was placed in the middle of the room, and the walls were lined with bookshelves and racks.
"Take a seat," said White Eagle as he offered Calian a cup of water.
Since Calian was already being severely harmed by the things that he drank, he placed the cup on the table without taking a sip.
White Eagle grumbled, "That's right. I used to offer tea, but n.o.body would drinking. It was such a waste to throw out all those expensive tea leaves, so I'm just offering water now. But since n.o.body drinks the water, either, I could just stop offering at all."
Calian didn't seem to be the only one refusing drinks. White Eagle must have been annoyed about his efforts always going to waste.
Calian found it strange that White Eagle told him the price before even asking what information and item he wanted. Since the shop was run solely at the freedom of White Eagle, its policies were not reported to Secretia.
"It's fixed price," added White Eagle, noticing Calian's confusion.
Calian wondered if he would be able to get a gold bar for three florens if he asked. Of course, he didn't actually ask the man about it. He wasn't about to be treated like an idiot. Instead, Calian took out 8 gold coins from his pouch and handed them to White Eagle. It was more costly than he had expected, but it couldn't be helped.
White Eagle took the coins and dragged his chair forward. "So, go ahead and tell me."
Calian explained his needs. White Eagle silently stood up and scurried around the room. Soon, he sat back down across Calian with a map and a small object wrapped in paper in his hands.
"First, there's your item." White Eagle pushed the small object towards Calian. Then, he handed him the map. "And here's your information."
It was a detailed map of Kailisys. There was a single dot marking a location.
"So it only exists in Kailisys?" asked Calian.
White Eagle nodded and jabbed his fists in the air. "Fighters tend to gather where there are lots of people. This is the only place that's big enough to have all the features that you described to me."
In other words, there was a very low chance that Kyrie was in someplace other than Kailisys. Calian was even more certain now that the boy that he had seen on the way to the showground was indeed Kyrie.


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Beware anyone who tells you they know what your 'correct' decompression profile should be, because they almost certainly don't, warns MARK POWELL. Here he fills us in on the latest thinking about deep stops and gradient factors
IF YOU ARE AWARE of the term "deep stops", you might also be aware that they were becoming increasingly popular but over the past couple of years have been the subject of increasing controversy.
I'm going to explain what we mean by a deep stop, the ideas behind the concept and the controversies, and will also try to explain how deep stops are linked to gradient factors and, most importantly, what all of this means for us as divers.
The traditional view of deco theory goes back over 100 years to JS Haldane's work for the Royal Navy at the start of the 1900s, and subsequently refined by the US Navy and Professor Buhlmann in Switzerland in the 1960s and '70s. This view says that as we go deeper we absorb or on-gas nitrogen and eventually reach saturation, the point at which the tissues can take on no more nitrogen.
At the end of the dive, as we ascend, we become supersaturated – in other words, the tissues now have more nitrogen than the gas we're breathing at ambient pressure. This is known as supersaturation.
Supersaturation, as indicated by the prefix "super", is a good thing, because it allows off-gassing. The shallower we go, the more supersaturation we experience the better, because the higher the level of supersaturation the more off-gassing we get, and we will be off-gassing as efficiently and as quickly as possible.
Figure 1: Supersaturation and m-values.
This makes the decompression as efficient as possible (figure 1).
However, like most things in life we can have too much of a good thing. There is such a thing as too much supersaturation, and in fact there is a maximum value or m-value that represents the point at which there is too much.
Beyond this point, we enter what is known as critical supersaturation and as the word "critical" might suggest, this is no longer a good thing. This is the point at which bubbles form and decompression illness (DCI) occurs.
This is why the traditional approach to decompression has been to ascend as shallow as possible to allow as much off-gassing as possible but without breaching the critical supersaturation limits and causing DCI.
This was all very well until we started to realise that things were not quite as simple as this. The traditional view has the m-value as a firm boundary. Stay within that line and all is well; cross it and bubbles start to form and we get DCI.
Unfortunately, the body is not as black and white as this and it is impossible to say exactly where the m-value line actually lies. In addition, who is to say that your m-value line is in exactly the same place as my mine?
Even though the m-value is drawn as a distinct line, it is better thought of as a fuzzy line area in a very wide grey area (figure 2).
Figure 2: M-values are a solid black line through a fuzzy grey area.
A technology developed in the 1970s, it became clear that it was possible for bubbles to form even if we were well inside the m-value line. These bubbles, known as "silent bubbles" or "asymptomatic bubbles", would form well within the traditional m-value limits.
This is a big problem for the traditional model, because it assumes that bubbles cause DCI, and if bubbles form then we will get DCI.
The reality is that we do get some, and often lots of, bubbles forming and yet do not get any traditional sign or symptoms of DCI. As a result, decompression researchers started to look at the implications of these bubbles, and how to manage them.
Bubble models were developed to try to control the formation and growth of these bubbles. This was achieved by stopping deeper than the traditional decompression stops, and this was the source of the deep stop concept.
We might not be able to stop bubbles forming, but by stopping deeper we can try to stop the bubbles from growing to a size at which they cause too many problems.
Pyle stops, deep stops and bubble models started to be introduced in the 1980s and 1990s and to be adopted by technical divers.
Pyle stops were among the first approaches to dealing with deep stops. The concept introduces a deep stop halfway between the maximum depth and the first traditional decompression stop.
So for a 40m dive with the first stop at 9m, we would introduce a Pyle stop halfway between 40m and 9m, which is approximately 24m.
Figure 3: Pyle stops.
Another stop would then be introduced halfway between the first deep stop and the first traditional stop, so halfway between 24m and 9m, at around 15m.
This is repeated until there is less than 3m between the last Pyle stop and the first traditional decompression stop.
So, in this case, we would put in another deep stop at 15m plus another at 12m before carrying on to the first traditional stop at 9m (figure 3).
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PYLE STOPS are a very simple way of incorporating deep stops but represent a simplistic approach because they don't take any account of the time spent at depth. Bubble models such as VPM or RGBM are a more sophisticated way of achieving the same goal.
In addition, gradient factors can be used to achieve that same objective. They can be made to sound very complicated but are just two numbers, a high gradient factor (GF) and a low gradient factor.
Both are expressed as percentages and they represent a percentage of the way towards the m-value. 30/80 are popular gradient factors. In this case the low GF is 30% of the way to the m-value while the high GF is 80% of the way to the m-value.
This means that the first deep stop will be introduced at 30% of the way to the m-value rather than at the m-value itself or, to put it another way, at 100% of the m-value.
Similarly, a high GF of 80 means that the final stop will not be cleared until the diver is at 80% of the m-value, rather than at 100% of the m-value.
This means that the low GF controls the depth of the first stop, while the high GF controls the length of the last stop.
Figure 4: Gradient factors.
It's a nice theory, and tec divers during the 1990s and into the 2000s were very keen to promote the idea that deep stops are good (figure 4).
But, even though it's a nice idea, and many technical divers were bordering on evangelical about it, is there any proof that the theory works?
In reality most of the research into deep stops has been inconclusive at best.
A study in 2005 failed to find any significant benefit, and another in 2010 found that bubble models resulted in a worryingly high level of bubbles, even though they're supposed to control the level of bubbles.
However, it was a US Navy study in 2011 that caused us to start to rethink bubble models. This study seemed to indicate that they caused more problems than a traditional model, and caused a huge amount of discussion.
It wasn't a great study, and didn't really do the sort of deep stops that divers actually do. There were also a number of other questions about the structure of the study that called into question the results.
However, it did get people talking about the idea.
THIS SINGLE STUDY might have been discounted had it been the only one to indicate this result, but combined with other studies with similar results it started to form a body of evidence that deep stops might not be the panacea that we previously thought.
An unpublished study carried out for one of the Scandinavian navies seemed to confirm the results. Unfortunately, as with many things public opinion tends to be all or nothing, and this result has been taken as meaning that deep stops are bad.
The question we must ask is this: why did the deep stops seem to fail in this case? The obvious answer is that the deep stops are too deep.
This study does not prove that deep stops are bad although it does, along with the other evidence, seem to indicate that you can have deep stops that are too deep.
So what is "too deep", what is a "good" deep stop and what is a "bad" one?
Part of the problem is that the term "deep stop" is very vague, to the point of being meaningless.
In the example above, with a maximum depth of 40m and a first traditional stop of 9m, in theory anything deeper than 9m would be considered a deep stop.
A stop at 39m, just 1m up from the bottom would be a deep stop, while a stop at 12m, just 3m deeper than the 9m stop, would also be considered a deep stop.
Figure 5: Effects of different gradient factors.
Clearly there's a big difference between a deep stop at 12m and one at 39m. The question is: how deep is too deep?
To be a bit more objective, the table shows the result of a dive-planning program for a rebreather dive to 60m.
It shows the stops resulting from using gradient factors of 30/80 and a range of others.
I have chosen a 60m dive because the deeper the dive, the more pronounced the effects become on the dive.
I have also planned it as a closed-circuit rebreather dive to remove any potential effect on the ascent profile caused by gas-switches (figure 5).
THE FIRST THING to say is that small changes in the gradient factors don't make a big difference, but when we look at the whole range we can start to see the patterns.
First off, let's keep the high GF constant at 80 while we change the low GF from 10 up to 50. Remember that the low GF affects the depth of the first stop, and we can see this in the table.
In this example every 10% change in the low GF results in a 3m change in the depth of the first stop, exactly as expected. However, if we now look at the low GF in the range 30-50, we can see that the length of the last stop is constant at 34min.
As the low GF is decreased even more, and stops are introduced at 36m and 39m, we can see that the time of the last stop increases to 35min and then 36min.
The reason for this is that the additional stops at 36m and 39m are resulting in more on-gassing in the medium and slower compartments, which then required more decompression in the shallows. From this, we can see that a low GF below 30 is making the situation worse, not better.
When we keep the low GF constant at 30 and change the high GF from 100 down to 70 we can see that the length of the last stop increases from 24min to 41min.
It's clear from this example that reducing the high GF forces the model to wait for more inert gas to be off-gassed before the diver is allowed to ascend, so lower values of the high GF setting are more conservative than higher numbers.
From this example, we can see that deep stops are complicated and it isn't always easy to get simple answers.
OVERALL WE CAN DRAW a number of conclusions from recent studies and discussions. The first is that "deep stops" is a misleading term that doesn't always help the discussion.
Perhaps it's time to move away from using this term in favour of being more specific as to exactly what sort of stops we're talking about.
The next conclusion is that it is definitely possible to stop too deep, as shown by some of the examples above. Some of the advice given over the past few years has clearly been introducing stops that are too deep.
However, a knee-jerk reaction to say that "deep stops are bad" would be to swing too far the other way, and we should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The inescapable conclusion is that we don't know all the answers and should be wary of anyone who tells us that they know exactly what the "correct" decompression profile is.
Our knowledge of decompression theory is developing, if sometimes at a very slow pace, and it's important to keep up with the latest thoughts on decompression theory to ensure that we're not using out-of-date ideas.
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Q: AS3: Synchronize Timer event to actual time? I plan to use a timer event to fire every second (for a clock application).
I may be wrong, but I assume that there will probably be a (very slight) sync issue with the actual system time.    For example the timer event might fire when the actual system time milliseconds are at 500 instead of 0 (meaning the seconds will be partially 'out of phase' if you will).
Is there a way to either synchronize the timer event to the real time or get some kind of system time event to fire when an second ticks in AS3?
Also if I set a Timer to fire every 1000 milliseconds, is that guaranteed or can there be some offset based on the application load?
These are probably negligible issues but I'm just curious.
Thanks.

A: You can get the current time using Date. If you really wanted to, you could try to control your timer jitter by trying to align it with what Date returns. I'm not certain this would even be an issue (certainly if your application is not kept running for long periods of time, and even then I am not certain the error would build too quickly).
Note that the OS is usually only accurate to within a few milliseconds and you may need to do something else if you need that kind of accuracy.

A: I just thought of a simple way to at least increase the accuracy of the timer.  By simply reducing the Timer interval, the maximum margin of error gets reduced.
So setting the Timer to fire every 100ms instead of 1000ms would cause the maximum error to be 99ms instead of 999ms.  So depending on the accuracy/performance required, these values can be tweaked.
If instead the timer frequency must remain 1 second, we can create a temporary initializing timer that fires at very quick intervals (~1ms).  Then at each tick we keep track of the current time and the previous time.  If the time's seconds changed (the real clock changed) then we can fire the main Timer (with 1000ms) at that instant.  This would ensure that the 1 second timer starts when the real time seconds change (with an error in single digit milliseconds instead of 3 digit milliseconds)
Of course, again, there's going to be some lag from when the time change was detected and when the timer gets started.  But at least the accuracy can be increased while retaining a Timer of 1s.
I will try this out some time this week and report back.

A: Unfortunately I don't think Timer is guaranteed to stay at the same rate. It's very likely it will drift over a period of time (eg if you set it for 1000ms, it may fire every 990ms, which is a very small difference, but over time it will add up). I think you should do as you said, fire every 100ms or so, and then check the Date object to determine if one second has passed yet.

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In a way the internet competitive environment seems to me like the one in the film Highlander.
The big players leverage in their competitive advantages threatening to make the others irrelevant. This forces everyone to pile cash and patents, and to compete in every market in the internet ecosystem.
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft compete as if the rule "There can be only one" where true also for them.
If you haven't yet I strongly recommend you to read Complementary Genius, it is six years old already, but it illustrates the reasoning behing these companies' behavior.


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Q: How to rtrim the slash character (/)? rtrim('txt/','/')

What if we cannot use this version of the rtrim function.. How else to remove the trailing '/' from the end of a string (if present)?

A: CREATE TABLE TEST
(
  str VARCHAR (63)
);

Populate it:
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('testing/'), ('testing');

And run the following SQL:
SELECT
  CASE
    WHEN LEFT(REVERSE(str), 1) != '/' THEN str
    ELSE LEFT(str, (LEN(str) - 1))
  END AS str
FROM test;

Result:
str
testing
testing

Fiddle available here.

A: There are some ways of achieving the desired result.
Another option is using STUFF
SELECT
  CASE
    WHEN right(str,1) <> '/' THEN str
    ELSE STUFF(str,DATALENGTH(str), 1, '')
  END AS str
FROM test;

https://dbfiddle.uk/gxVe5V6x
If you want to update the table and remove the last / from the string
update  test
set str = STUFF(str,DATALENGTH(str), 1, '')
where right(str,1)='/'  ;

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I love a good Take Away Show. Here's Victoria, BC's Aidan Knight performing "Funeral Singers" for a La Blogotheque Take Away Show. The song comes from his new record Each Other (out now via Outside Music) which was produced by Marcus Paquin (Stars, The National) and demonstrates Knight's evolving musical depth and ability with a subtle melody.
Aidan is currently on tour, check the dates below.
"All Clear" by Victoria's Aidan Knight from the upcoming album, Each Other, officially set for release on January 22 via Outside Music.


This is what real estate agents who want to create an online presence see over and over again, every day. There are tons of real estate agent websites out there that have built-in Internet data exchanges (IDXs) intended to capture leads. Many of us use these websites, my team and myself included. They have been evolving over the past few years, and many of these templated websites look great.
However, the big issue is not that the real estate agent websites are missing an essential feature; it's that these websites do not focus on the most important aspect of your business: you. These sites build in an "about us" page that is about as customizable as your Twitter profile. You can fill in some information, post a link and upload a photo, but that's about it. Rarely can you add video, a gallery of your recently sold properties, client testimonials and so on.
These features should be as central to capturing leads as the IDX tool that is built in. Many templated websites focus on the IDX, not you. Unfortunately, in the ever-changing landscape that is real estate, the agent website with a built-in IDX isn't capturing as much consumer information as it used to.
Two years ago, you could conceivably capture 5 percent of your visitor information (or just north of that) using an excellent script, diligence and practice. But Chris Smith and Jimmy Mackin from Curaytor explained in the 2014 season finale of their fantastic WaterCooler Podcast that 1 to 2 percent lead capture is what teams should strive for. In just two years' time, the market has become so flooded with IDX agent websites that lead capture has dropped by more than 50 percent. That isn't exactly music to our ears.
Luckily for us, Web design sites have evolved along with IDX sites. I use Squarespace. They have beautiful templates that won't look like templates once you're done editing them. They have built-in search engine optimization (SEO), which many of the IDX sites do not. They let you customize the site to fit your business, your style, your comfort. When clients, leads or random Internet clickers find your site, a big "SEARCH HERE FOR YOUR DREAM HOME" icon won't be the first thing they see. Your site's home page will have your team logo or slogan or photo.
These sites look like a $2,500 site for $20 per month. We have not paid for a single cent of advertising for our site, which we launched in late August, but every time we put on a new listing it goes in the "our homes" section of the site, which has a beautiful gallery. As a bonus, below our new listing, readers can find every listing we have sold in the past few months in another gallery.
Are all these perfect SEO terms? No, but they are getting people to the site and poking around. Someone searched for zillow.com in Minneapolis and ended up on our site. That's pretty cool!
We have nearly doubled our site views month over month. We don't offer an IDX inside the site. We do have a link that will take you to our IDX site if you would like, but there isn't one built into the site. We have grown our traffic with blogging, updating our listings, updating the front page and text, and adding new features to the site like our lenders' "Home Buying 101 Class" as its own page.
Everything we do links back to the site. If our agents host an open house, they make a dedicated page for it on the website and post that link to Facebook or Twitter. We have a "contact us" page, and we've had leads reach out to ask questions. This site is currently differentiating us in our market from other agents who are using their IDX site as their agent-branded site.
These new Web design sites are easy to use; they offer many user-friendly videos to help answer your questions and a large forum of other users who will help, too. As IDXs continue to get diluted, it's time to remember our clients didn't want to sign on with us because they loved our search tool. They may have found us that way, but they decided to buy or sell their home with us because of how we ran our business and treated our clients. Your IDX site isn't showing your potential clients that; all it's showing them is a search tool. It's time to show them the agent behind the site and explain why you are the best agent for them.


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China yesterday morning executed one of its worst serial killers in recent history, who reportedly murdered 67 people in the course of a three-year rampage, local media said. Yang Xinhai, 35, was put to death a fortnight after he received his sentence at the Luohe City Intermediate People's Court in central China's Henan province, the sina.com Web site reported. Yang, characterized as an introverted drifter, had not appealed his death sentence, according to the report. Executions in China are usually carried out with a bullet to the back of the head. Yang was said to have bicycled from one murder scene to the next beginning in 2000, and was not caught until November last year.
Indonesia's government has asked former US Republican senator Bob Dole to act as a Washington-based consultant for it, a foreign ministry official said yesterday. "Bob Dole has expressed his readiness as a counsel for Indonesia on a case-by-case basis," foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa said. "The Indonesian government would like to count on him as a friend to help our representatives in Washington." Dole currently works as a special counsel to a major Washington law firm.
Two mourners were crushed to death by a falling coffin in Vietnam when a hearse overturned, a local police officer said yesterday. A small converted truck was carrying the coffin of Nguyen Thi Cao and around 20 mourners on a 60km trip from Ho Chi Minh City to the birthplace of the deceased in Tien Giang Province, said police officer Le Anh Vu. As the hearse was rounding a corner in Long An province, it went into a ditch, and the bulky wooden coffin crushed the dead man's son, Nguyen Van My, 45, and Luong Thi Anh Nguyet, Vu said. My and Nguyet were taken to Long An provincial hospital but died soon after admission, Vu said.
More than 5,000 couples locked lips on Valentine's Day in Manila yesterday, in the hope of beating the world record for the number of simultaneous kisses. Dubbed "Lovapaloza," the mass 10-second smooch followed a Friday night countdown into the most romantic day of the year. "We were looking for an event really to mark Valentine's Day meaningfully," said Manila's Mayor Lito Atienza, who led the event by kissing his wife. Atienza said 5,100 couples took part to beat the old record of 4,445 kissing couples in Chile last month.


As we settle into winter, it becomes easy to maintain a diet that screams "comfort." Who wants to make a kale salad and roasted veggies when you can just order a pizza with one touch of your phone?
This beet, goat cheese and walnut salad is at once healthy and comforting, and it's pretty simple to make (about 20 minutes of prep work). Make it tonight and you'll feel much less guilty about ordering that pizza tomorrow.
Puree all dressing ingredients in a small blender or food processor. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Preheat oven to 400F. Rinse beets and remove tops if still attached. Wrap each in foil, leaving room for air to circulate.
Place on a baking sheet and cook for about 50 minutes or until beets are tender when pierced with a sharp knife. Let cool, then slip off skins. Discard ends and slice beets 1/4-inch thick.
Place arugula in a large shallow bowl and toss with half the dressing.
Layer beets over arugula and drizzle with remaining dressing. Top with walnuts and cheese and season with pepper.


La Menarderie in Archiac has barbecue facilities and a garden. Both private parking and free WiFi are accessible at the guest house. At La Menarderie, all rooms are equipped with a wardrobe. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom with a shower, free toiletries and a hair dryer. All rooms at the accommodation come with a seating area. A continental breakfast is served each morning at the property. Saintes is 42 km from La Menarderie, while Angoulême is 47 km from the property. The nearest airport is Mérignac Airport, 111 km from the property.


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FreeBSD is a robust, versatile, and least expensive UNIX-based working process, and the popular server platform for plenty of firms. contains assurance of set up, networking, add-on software program, defense, community companies, method functionality, kernel tweaking, dossier platforms, SCSI & RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, tracking, crash debugging, BSD within the workplace, and emulating different OSs.
Putting swap toward the outer edge of the disk measurably improves performance. So, how much swap space do you need? This is a matter of long debates between sysadmins. " General wisdom says that you should have at least twice as much swap as you have physical memory. This isn't a bad rule, so long as you understand that it's very general. More won't hurt. Less might, if your system runs out of RAM. FreeBSD's virtual memory system assumes that you have at least twice your physical memory in swap space, and makes certain choices and optimizations based on that assumption.
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Biographie
Marcel Kerff naît le  à Fouron-Saint-Martin en Belgique. Il a pour frères ainés Charles et Leopold, également cyclistes.

Fils d'une famille de dix garçons, il participe au Tour de France 1903 avec un vélo offert par ses amis pesant une vingtaine de kilos. Il s'y est classé . Il a également été  de Paris-Roubaix en 1897 et  en 1899. Il a remporté les 48 heures d'Anvers en 1900. Peu après l'invasion de la Belgique au début de la Première Guerre mondiale en 1914, il se rend à moto à proximité d'un camp allemand à Mouland afin de voir ce qui s'y passe. Arrêté par les soldats allemands, il est pendu pour espionnage le . Un monument a été érigé près du lieu de son exécution, en mémoire des cyclistes belges morts durant le conflit.

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  de Bordeaux-Paris
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  de Paris-Roubaix
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  de Paris-Roubaix
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 48 heures d'Anvers
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  de Bruxelles-Roubaix
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  de Marseille-Paris
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  du Tour de France

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Condamné à mort exécuté par pendaison
Condamné à mort exécuté en Belgique au XXe siècle
Victime civile tuée pendant la Première Guerre mondiale

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What VN needs to do to attract quality FDI after Covid-19
Update: July, 14/2020 - 08:00
A factory belonging to a foreign company in Hải Dương. There are several things Việt Nam could do to become more attractive to foreign investors.— VNA/VNS Photo Trần Việt
HCM CITY — Speeding up infrastructure development and improving ease of doing business and vocational training are among things Việt Nam can do to make itself more attractive to foreign investors post-Covid-19, according to investment fund VinaCapital.
Don Lam, the fund's co-founder and CEO, said, "Consultants expect 20 per cent of China's manufacturing sector to move out the country in the coming years.
"Not all of that will come to Việt Nam, but the country stands to attract a good portion of that for several reasons."
They included factory wages in the country being less than half of those in China though the quality of the workforces is comparable, Việt Nam doing an outstanding job in controlling the Covid-19 outbreak and ranking high in various FDI decision making schemes that companies use to evaluate the potential of a country for building factories.
Companies looked for some key factors when considering direct investment in a country.
They wanted good supply of labour with skills and experience, logistics convenience in places they set up new factories so that they could easily ship in raw materials and ship out finished products, minimal bureaucratic obstacles to setting up and operating factories, and political and economic stability.
Việt Nam scored well in most of these aspects, and quickly improves in areas it did not.
But there were several things it could do to become more attractive to investors.
Its logistics costs continued to be high, and it needed to quickly build and improve physical infrastructure to rise in the World Bank Logistics Performance Index from its current 45th position.
The Government also needed to improve the country's position in the World Bank's ease of doing business rankings by streamlining the bureaucratic processes related to setting up and operating a business.
"In the most recent World Bank survey, Việt Nam ranks 70th out of 190 countries, ahead of countries like Indonesia, and the Philippines but behind Malaysia and Thailand."
The Government's recently announced 'fast track' initiative to speed up the licensing of FDI projects was a good example of the steps it could take to reduce red tape and bureaucratic hurdles companies faced.
The Government should consider promoting quality FDI by setting up an Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) to actively market Việt Nam's advantages as an FDI destination around the world.
The Government tended to approach FDI reactively and only worked with foreign companies that approached it though the Ministry of Planning and Investment and other relevant Government departments had become more aggressive in following potential leads.
Next, Việt Nam's vocational training needs to be significantly improved to ensure that the workforce could perform tasks that require higher skill levels, and the country needed to invest in R&D and improve technical universities.
Finally, the Government could encourage the formation of industrial clusters around desirable industries such as electronics.
This strategy would have the dual advantage of maximising Việt Nam's benefit from FDI investments and giving firms more confidence to locate their higher value-added activities in the country.
Should not offer overly generous tax breaks
According to VinaCapital, Free Trade Agreements help attract FDI to a country, especially when they entail measures that improve a country's ease of doing business. However, it is important to note that Việt Nam is already a party to more FTAs than any country in the world, it said.
Lam said, "Often countries use a range of tax incentives to attract foreign investment, and of course who does not like tax incentives? But offering overly generous tax breaks is not critical for Việt Nam to be successful in attracting FDI."
According to the IMF, tax incentives are "not critical" to attracting FDI and "…cannot substitute for political stability, good macroeconomic fundamentals, the availability of infrastructure, and a sound legal framework."
Lam said his fund expected the next wave of FDI to be driven by companies relocating their factories out of China and have a bigger impact on Việt Nam's economy than previous inflows because multinational companies now had an incentive to help local firms "move up the value chain" to build supply chains in Việt Nam capable of supporting those companies. — VNS
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What is it that stops someone from being truly certain and confident? And why don't people do the simple things in life that would give them a truly incredible and wonderful life?
The difference between achievement and failure is usually very marginal. A few actions (literally) daily make the difference between $30,000 per year and $50,000 per year. A few more actions (literally) daily make the difference between $50,000 per year and $100,000 per year.
Is high Self-Esteem a predictor of wealth? Do we just need to believe we are worthy, lovable, capable or deserving in order to perform these seemingly "easy" tasks to ensure greater financial success? Does feeling good about yourself focus the drive to putting the dollars in the bank?
If not, what are the specific obstacles to success and how are they overcome?
What is it specifically that strips people of their personal mastery and complete confidence and how can you counteract these forces?
Self esteem is not self confidence. Self esteem is not self love. Self esteem is a recognition that you have value.
For my money, the notion that you have value is pretty damn important in life.
Unfortunately, the U.S. has done a great job at teaching kids that they have value without teaching them to be valuable…or how to be valuable.
That's a shame because one big national "affirmation" has helped mucked up a generation of people who have in large part grown codependent on their parents, stretch for rationalization that effort and overcoming are not traits to be admired but shunned.
In a nutshell, the rest of the world can learn a great deal from the backlash of Boomers. These two generations grew up in challenging times. Jobs were often incredibly scarce and in the U.S. people worked very hard, often for very little. Blacks fought for the right to walk in the front door of a building and not have to use the rear entrance. Today American's fight to not leave their homes and let their parents reap the rewards of 20 years of parenting.
It began with the national affirmation in the educational system. Corporal punishment was eliminated. That's probably a good thing. But self discipline went out the window as distracting behavior that could have been dealt with created a crummy learning environment for those kids who wanted to expend effort and work for desired outcomes.
But this is no longer something "new." We've watched it for about 30 years. It's not the democrats fault. It's not the republican's fault. It is not important who helped screw things up the most but understanding WHY self esteem doesn't necessarily lead to better lives any more. What was once a predictor of success is now lagging.
Let's take the problem apart and FIX IT.
Self Confidence erodes as the person feels helpless.
They might be told they have a high self worth but they recognize they are not truly valuable in a measurable way to society, yet.
Let's start at learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is at the root of the erosion of self confidence and much of clinical depression. Learned helplessness is exactly what the words say. It is the result when someone learns (believes) they are helpless.
In the 1600's, before self esteem was invented, very small groups of people migrated from The Netherlands and England to…New England and started colonizing a largely uninhabited region of what would become a small sliver of the United States. They were almost starting from zero. Next to no food. Next to no clothing. Next to no tools. They had very, very little. And that…having next to nothing…is often the right preparation for personal mastery and tremendous achievement.
They realized that they needed to survive everything the new land had to throw at them. Including the elements which were much different from England. (Much more extreme in heat and cold…winters that would kill many the first few years in their relocations to America.) But there was no opportunity to learn to be helpless. Passivity and inaction led to certain death.
There were no codependent people, only interdependent humans. And there is a big difference. Codependence requires that one person is basically useless and the other person supplies their every need. Sound familiar?
They don't work. They don't clean the house because they have a stomach ache. They cry their eyes out and become bed ridden because someone hurt their feelings. They use their mental illness as a tool to get them out of work and instead capture sympathy from those around them.
Meanwhile interdependent people have the simple attitude that they work and help each other by rational default. If you don't, you all will be dead or codependent on the government, perhaps the most embarrassing situation of all. A person so needy they expend their effort collecting alms from a nation. That's some serious codependence.
Healthy people need each other. They must work on their own and with another one or two or ten to create and produce value in life. Independence and interdependence go hand in hand.
Meanwhile back to the people who came to America to get rich (boy did they have a big surprise) or experience religious freedoms.
Every action taken was an action toward creating a town, a harbor, a mill, an iron works company. Every action showed the people that they were indeed far from helpless. They were empowered. They developed an evolving set of skills in the spirit of survival and growing an entire new culture and way of life. An attitude of self sufficiency permeated the culture for over three centuries. Self sufficiency happens on the road to personal mastery. Businesses from The Netherlands and England often invested money in the start up of American enterprise and investments were often paid off handsomely over time.
Soon there was no need to rely upon the government or a company or much of anyone else for that matter. What they couldn't produce, early Americans would trade for.
Fast forward to 2019 when Americans are fearful of doing anything that would ensure survival (short or long term) we have as a society largely forgotten the roots and abilities of economic force and power. You hear people complain when they have "unfair competition." Colonists were faced with seemingly impossible competition and yet intentionally chose that option going into the deal!
People got comfortable. Technology and Industry advanced far faster than evolution.
By the 1920's life was incredibly "easy." People became comfortable. Tranquil, for a while, and that, along with world events brought on the Great Depression. Worse? The solution was a new deal…to have Uncle Sam take care of them. Codependence was created by one signature.
The plug had been pulled in the bathtub of strength. In just 50 years, three centuries of self confidence became an issue that never existed to any significant degree just 50 years before.
They have learned to become helpless. Throughout the English speaking nations, people have learned to become dependent on a government for their "retirement" (a very new concept on this planet) and dependent on a company for their "job" singular, instead of learning evolving skills to keep them ahead of the pack. No longer do most know how to evolve and grow. The majority have learned how to stagnate.
This of course is not true in China where people are working and getting paid while being incredibly productive building a self sustaining society. Their results are more than impressive. But in most other countries, the forced unhealthy relationships between government and citizens is a disaster.
Former Soviet states I get to visit are just now slowly emerging from the hangover of being told what job they will have, where they will live and what their monthly stipend will be. Clashes of generations are now 30 years old and within another 20 years the big backlashes against communism will likely be complete with simple aging communist parties still working in the background but failing.
People found what products and services were in need or want, and, quickly adapted to those needs leaving what they did before.
Recently Economists have spoken the obvious… that people now must become responsible for their own "retirement"… People's self confidence has utterly eroded…vanished. The idea of someone not demanding benefits from a company or a government is unthinkable. The idea of cessation of creating value because of an age marker has become the norm. How will it change? How will it affect most people when the change comes? It will be a disaster for the majority. Of course it would. And as each generation passes, more and more people will fail to use the skills of survival and achievement that stir within us all but are shut off by dependency.
A lot of Americans have in large part become helpless. They want or demand to be taken care of. To be given something. Or to be given a lot. They feel entitled to live like their ancestors did without putting in the spirit of entrepreneurship and accomplishment that shines from personal mastery.
It is indeed a recipe for long term disaster…and the political leaders feed upon people's fears and dependencies with promise of future dependency without cost…to them…only to their children.
In just 60 years Americans have learned to become helpless…and let there be no mistake, it is not instantly easy to fight dependency and stand out from the throngs to achieve personal mastery. It is those who achieve personal mastery, who have the confidence to live, thrive, and survive that the dependent-creating leaders want to tax and take from. Quite the opposite of what creates a successful thriving society as America was for 300 years. And it shows how fast things can change on a national level. Shifting from sufficiency, mastery, creativity and stability to illusory dependency. It is a frightening scenario when political leaders castigate in public the achievement of those who generate the ability for all others to have a job…a retirement.
Self confidence comes from self reliance and self discipline, from seeing results of your effort. And those people that exhibit these characteristics produce the art, the sciences, the diplomacy that make great individuals and highly functioning groups.
Many Politicians seek power through deception. Their personal mastery is illusory because it requires deceit. If you ever ask my political views, beware of the tidal wave that will come. The last twenty years I've seen nothing but repulsive behaviors that destroy the fabric of the interdependent individual.
Achievement through your skills and abilities…the creation of new ideas, no products, new services, new ways of life, new ways to heal….that is where the future is.
The only people who will make a difference are those who have the confidence to stand up on their own two feet and push away from those who would dangle the false carrot.
The next problem we suffer as no time period in history is overcoming the desire for tranquility.
The desire for tranquility, which is the opposite of the flight/fight response, is an evolutionary need for calm. Unfortunately there is very little calm in a life that has a family that lives on $60,000 per year. The fear of living paycheck to paycheck is very real. At the individual level there is no business or venture to grow which can become self sustaining. Only dependency.
If the hamster wheel is shipped to China, the Chinese, the most technologically advanced society on the planet, rebuild the wheel completely and send it back to America. The individual is lost like a rat in a maze. This person's ancestors would have laughed mightily then welled up in tears at such a bizarre image.
The early Americans were people of great personal mastery. Incredible pride. Strong will. And perhaps not surprisingly … amid the challenges, the deaths of so many in unknown circumstances. Self-confidence was high, and they didn't care about self esteem.
Today, the person takes their seven hour break each night from work and the person feels "calm." Like the drug addict gets his fix. But it is a deceptive calm because there a powerful storm to be fought outside. There is no respite, and nothing can go wrong in life or the entire delusion breaks down completely.
Therefore the person who searches for tranquility finds it for a short while… but obviously it is illusory.
It takes thought and ambition to overcome the inertia that sets in. Just like the person feels temporarily better after eating a jar full of cookies, or smoking a cigarette, they feel better doing nothing when they have an opportunity to create or live a life that is rich. The "feeling" is one that they must defend because they haven't felt it all day (at work) and they will tell you "I deserve…" and they truly believe the illusion. It's like living in a magician's show. Filled with illusions and escapism but only illusion.
The only way for the person to see their way past the overwhelming desire for tranquility is to see how much more tranquility they will get in the long run stacked up against the short paycheck to paycheck breaks.
A question I ask people is, "If you had no income for three months would it make any difference in your life?" The answer needs to be, "no" but less than 1/60 can respond appropriately. The fact is that you are very likely to have times in your life where you have three months or more of zero income. By creating a rich life with rewards you build wealth when you sleep. That is achieving tranquility…at a profit.
It's funny. Many of the early colonists were petitioned to dig for gold. When they found none, they did something strange to Americans today. They changed their career and lifestyle immediately. They didn't ask for retraining money from a company to continue to do something that had no value. They simply moved on quickly to the next project. Their success and achievement lay within one person. Themselves. This ability is missing from the mindset of people today and it is a tall barrier to personal mastery.
The next problem that stops individuals from mastery of the self is inability to confront.
Where there is no even minded confrontation, there is no confidence.
Confrontation is uncomfortable and yet it is necessary to cause change. Without change you have erosion. The reason people from India can "take" American jobs for pennies on the dollar is because the job value of those American jobs is down to worthless. It requires personal mastery and confidence in the self to move along and recognize when your true value is going down. (In real terms, our value goes down daily unless we move it up faster than inflation.) By constantly self educating and causing new and exciting things to happen in life, you eliminate the need from taking a job from an old Indian woman by creating a life for your self.
Confrontation doesn't have to be horrifying. People tend to look at the word as if confrontation were a synonym for war or destruction. I assure you that is what people think. But the fact is that confrontation can be accomplished in most cases with gentleness and kindness and still tell the employee or the boss that you refuse to stagnate. If you don't learn something new, you become worthless. Without confrontation, the marriage withers, the relationships die, all that is bad that can happen…happens.
When people continuously evolve and intentionally request change, new information, ask for what they want, the opposite happens. Instead of erosion you construct new realities. You become in charge of your life and literally sculpt the landscape of your future.
The next preclusion of personal mastery is stopping something bad and not replacing it with something good.
For 15 years I've had at least a finger in the field of utilizing the power of the mind and hypnosis in one way or another. The people who succeed in getting the most from their minds are not the people who stop smoking or reduce the volume of what they eat. They are the people who stop smoking, reduce how much they eat AND START studying, building, doing something in place of the destructive behaviors.
Legend Point: Where you create a void or vacuum, you can expect to see it randomly filled.
That will typically cause destruction. (Virtually guaranteed.) The person loses weight and then becomes addicted to drugs or something else because no behavior was put in the void. Never leave a void.
Unfortunately filling a void requires effort. Not much, but it is asking for effort. Energy. The individual doesn't want to put forth effort, which is one reason the person became overweight in the first place. When you fill the void with constructive behaviors you can literally begin to shape your life physically and emotionally…and intellectually … and in the quality of your life as a sum.
Self Confidence BEGINS with the eradication of old beliefs of dependency and ridding the "feelings" of helplessness. Then taking the void and vacuum that is generated and filling it with construction…building…creation…design…and a desire to constantly change, to always make everything around them better and to better themselves.
That is the genesis of self confidence.
Discipline: "training, activity or regimen that develops or improves a skill".
Personal Mastery: It's the single trait they all look for. It's the characteristic women say they most want in a man. It's the difference between being the best and being everyone else. It's the trait corporate head hunter's look for first and most.
Personal Mastery is what differentiates the individual who is truly focused and in charge of their life vs. the person who is pulled and pushed by life's tides.
Everyone gravitates to the person with self-mastery because they exude certainty and success. They have a plan, a next step and they seamlessly execute their plan. They have the flexibility to change anything in life at any moment. They are the envy of everyone else. They are the go-to person. The person with self-mastery is the person who encompasses the phrase, "personal initiative." Most importantly, they get results because they make things happen day in and day out.
You feel secure and safe around the person with self-mastery…and now that person can consistently be you or the person you are coaching.
The ability to recognize your strengths and weaknesses is a key characteristic of someone who possesses Personal Mastery. I have identified two broad categories, and 12 key components to Personal Mastery. These will be revealed in this program.


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Smithfield Foods and Feed More Unveil New Tractor-Trailer to Expand Distribution in Rural Counties in Central Virginia
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Smithfield Foods and Feed More unveiled a new refrigerated tractor-trailer to support Feed More's efforts to improve food distribution to the eight-county southwest region of Virginia. The new tractor-trailer, which was funded through a $180,000 gift from Smithfield, will deliver between 20,000 to 30,000 pounds of food each day from Feed More's Richmond facility to their new Southwest hub in Farmville, Virginia.
Richmond, Va., October 10, 2018 /3BL Media/ - Smithfield Foods, Inc. and Feed More, a hunger-relief organization serving 34 cities and counties in Central Virginia, unveiled a new refrigerated tractor-trailer to support the organization's efforts to improve product distribution to the eight localities in the southern region of their service area, where almost 25,000 individuals are food insecure. The tractor-trailer was funded through a $180,000 gift from the Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods.
"This gift from Smithfield will significantly impact our ability to better address the needs of the rural counties in our service area, including those served by Farmville Area Community Emergency Services, one of our wonderful partner agencies," said Douglas Pick, president and chief executive officer of Feed More. "Food insecurity rates remain too high, especially in rural counties in our southern region, and this tractor-trailer will enable us to improve our distribution of perishable and non-perishable food products to this important area."
The new tractor-trailer will deliver between 20,000 to 30,000 pounds of food each day from Feed More's Richmond campus to food pantries and other members of their Agency Network and remote distribution centers. This will be focused on rural localities across Feed More's service area, including Brunswick, Charlotte, Emporia, Greenville, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Sussex counties.
"At Smithfield, we believe in supporting the communities we call home, and value our opportunity as a food company to address the challenges of food insecurity," said Kenneth M. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods. "We're honored to grow our partnership with Feed More through this gift to improve their distribution in this critical area of need."
Since 2011, Smithfield has donated more than 300,000 pounds of protein through its partnership with Feed More. The Smithfield Foundation grant supports Feed More's Gather. Give. Grow campaign to support large-scale investments in facility improvements, refrigeration, and vehicles.
For more information about Smithfield's charitable efforts, visit www.smithfieldfoods.com/key-outreach-efforts/smithfield-foundation.
About Smithfield Foods
Smithfield Foods is a $15 billion global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. In the United States, the company is also the leader in numerous packaged meats categories with popular brands including Smithfield®, Eckrich®, Nathan's Famous®, Farmland®, Armour®, Farmer John®, Kretschmar®, John Morrell®, Cook's®, Gwaltney®, Carando®, Margherita®, Curly's®, Healthy Ones®, Morliny®, Krakus® and Berlinki®. Smithfield Foods is committed to providing good food in a responsible way and maintains robust animal care, community involvement, employee safety, environmental and food safety and quality programs. For more information, visit www.smithfieldfoods.com, and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Feed More
Feed More collects, prepares and distributes more than 20 million meals annually to neighbors in need throughout Central Virginia. With a service area that stretches across 34 cities and counties, Feed More's comprehensive programs and network of nearly 300 agencies helps ensure our communities have access to healthy meals year round. Feed More is a proud member of Feeding America and Meals on Wheels America. For additional information, please visit FeedMore.org, find us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram and Twitter.
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Announcing the 2016 North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Inductees
SOUTHERN PINES—On Sunday, October 16, at 2:00 pm, the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame will induct three new members.
Clyde Edgerton, Margaret Maron, and Carl Sandburg will join the fifty-seven inductees currently enshrined, in a ceremony at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.
The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame celebrates and promotes the state's rich literary heritage by commemorating its leading authors and encouraging the continued flourishing of great literature. Inductions are held every other year. A list of inductees, as well as samples of their work and video clips of past inductions, can be found online at www.nclhof.org.
Clyde Edgerton, raised in the Bethesda community near Durham, is the author of ten novels, a book of advice, a memoir, short stories, and essays. Three of his novels—Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and Killer Diller—have been made into feature films, and seven of his books have been adapted for the stage.
He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. He lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife, Kristina, and their children.
Margaret Maron is the author of thirty novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity), her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature and have been translated into 16 languages. She has served as president of Sisters in Crime, the American Crime Writers League, and Mystery Writers of America.
A native Tar Heel—and a cousin of 2014 NCLHOF inductee Shelby Stephenson—she lives on her family's farm a few miles southeast of Raleigh, the setting for Bootlegger's Daughter, which is numbered among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. In 2004, she received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for best North Carolina novel of the year. In 2008, she was honored with the North Carolina Award for Literature, the state's highest civilian honor. In 2013, she was named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America for lifetime achievement, and won the R. Hunt Parker Award for Significant Contributions to the Literature of North Carolina.
Carl Sandburg was born in a three-room cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. The son of Swedish immigrants, young Sandburg spent time as a milkman, bricklayer, wheat thresher, shoeshiner, hobo, and soldier before making his name as a journalist, biographer, and poet. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for his multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, and his second in 1951 for his Complete Poems.
In 1945, Sandburg and his family—along with their herd of prize-winning goats and their collection of thousands of books—moved to a farm outside Flat Rock, now the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. Sandburg died there in 1967.
The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame was founded in 1996, under the leadership of poet laureate Sam Ragan, and is a program of the North Carolina Writers' Network. Since 2008, the Network and the Weymouth Center collaborate with the North Carolina Center for the Book, the North Carolina Humanities Council, and the North Carolina Collection of the Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill to produce the induction ceremony and to promote the NCLHOF and North Carolina's literary heritage.
For more information, visit the NC Literary Hall of Fame at www.nclhof.org or the North Carolina Writers' Network at www.ncwriters.org.
Photo of Clyde Edgerton by Brent Clark
Photo of Margaret Maron by Robert J. Witchger


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We recently joined Breast Cancer Fund and MomsRising.org to demand that Campbell's Soup Company stop using the cancer-linked BPA in their canned food products; please join us in supporting this campaign!
BPA, or bisphenol A, is an estrogenic chemical linked to breast cancer found in the lining of canned food. Canned foods cost less than fresh and organic foods. While some of us can afford to eat organic or buy BPA-free canned foods, thousands of us are exposed to BPA on a daily basis, especially those living on limited incomes who neither have the money nor access to fresh, affordable produce. The onus to ensure our canned food is safe does not lie with consumers; it rests with manufacturers.
Corporations who are making us sick need to be held accountable. BPA must be removed from food cans.
Campbell's claims that they "work hard to provide products that you and your family can feel good about eating." Well Campbell's, you need to work harder!
Removing BPA from the lining of canned goods decreases the ongoing exposure to this cancer linked toxin. Join us. Sign this petition to Campbell's now. Together we can make a change that's good for all us.
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*Campbell's has been aware of this issue since 2009.
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Good morning, and here's what's "out there" about the Seahawks for Thanksgiving Day, November 22.
The crew at NFL Films previews the Seahawks' Week 12 matchup with the Dolphins in this short video.
Yesterday, the Seahawks added wide receiver Charly Martin from their practice squad to their 53-man roster, and brought in rookie Corbin Louks out of Nevada to take Martin's place on the practice roster.
Here at Seahawks.com Clare Farnsworth recaps "Wednesday in Hawkville", with a focus on running back Marshawn Lynch.
We have several video press conferences available from yesterday. You can watch coach Carroll here, Wilson here, defensive coordinator Gus Bradley here, and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell here.
Finally, team photographer Rod Mar has a look at yesterday's practice in photos.


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My dog is too fat for TV work.
Let me explain. Bentley – my dog – is a mutt. Not a designer breed kind of mutt, but an actual we-have-no-idea-what-kind-of-dog-he-is mutt. Oh, and he has an agent.
No really. My nineteen pound rescue dog (Petfinders) from Arkansas has an agent who works with him, trains him, and brings him to auditions. In an only-in-NY story, we had had Bentley only a few days, when a woman stopped my husband (and dog) on the street and said she had a proposition for him. She was a pet-agent, she said. And our puppy had potential.
So now, more than two years later – and after an agent-free year when she wasn't interested anymore – Bentley is back in business. Once or even twice a week, the trainer takes Bentley, trains him in a few hours to do things I haven't been able to teach him in two years – and takes him on go-sees.
Well, maybe. But your dog hates people. He snarls at everyone. He's mean. Cute or not, no one wants to work with a crazy. Just ask Sean Young. Also – he's a dog. It's not a personal affront. Get over it.
ANYWAY – Bentley – because he is so cute and has such a lovely personality – (take that, woman in the park!) – booked the job. But then, the day of, they went with another dog. Why?
My nineteen pound dog needs to lose — get this – a pound. ONE POUND! People like to see thin dogs, evidently. A good looking dog has a tuck between his ribcage and his belly. I was given express instructions on how much to feed him, how much exercise he should get.
At first, I thought it was hysterical. A dog on a diet! Then, I got depressed. Even my dog is not immune from body image issues. Granted, they're my issues, and the casting director's, but still. My daughter, a twelve year old who wears girls size 10 jeans and barely tips the scale at all, has already begun obsessing over her weight. (my fault, I'm sure). I have wasted a lifetime worrying about every lump, bump, and calorie, and yet have still to lose those dreaded 10 pounds. (Hence my tagline: On Momming and Aging and My 20 Year Quest to lose the Same Ten Pounds) And now my dog will also be saddled with self image issues? Will he be too embarrassed to go to the dog run with the other dogs? Will he decline to sit in my lap for fear I'll notice that he's gained a few? Will he insist I don't put him in the red sweater I knitted him because it makes him look fat?
Will there be no end to the madness?
They say people look like their dogs because they pick dogs they think are cute — and most people think they, themselves, are cute.
So I picked a dog who isn't fat, exactly – but who needs to lose a few to fit into society's idea of the perfect weight. You do the math.
Hey, he already has an agent.
Incredible. You painted so many feelings with your words! Brava!
Hilarious! I'll never shop at Target again.
Poor Bentley! He deserves some treats for that rejection. He's cute, reminds me a little bit of Benji.
OMG! You have got to be kidding me! I'd sure like to know who set the dog weight standard for tv. LOL!
Yeah…I have the same problem. Maybe Bentley and I can have coffee and commiserate.


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