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American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium is planned to start on 07 Jan and end on 09 Jan 2016.
The Symposium locale will be The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California USA.
American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU 2016) is going to be where Medical and Oncology pros assemble to examine perceptions and theories to advance insight for Health, Oncology, Cancer and Genitourinary Cancers matters.
ASCO GU 2016 is an annual Symposium.
3000 guests are anticipated to visit ASCO GU 2016 this year.
The association of the ASCO GU 2016 is American Society of Clinical Oncology.


Madhusudan Pal, a long-time associate of Frontier died on April 1, 2019. Some of his friends and well-wishers in association with Frontier have convened a memorial meeting on April 26, 2019, at Radical Humanist Hall [College Street Coffee House, 2nd floor] at 5 pm. All are cordially invited to attend the meeting.
The struggle for a just society is long, requiring action on many fronts: an interview with Fred Magdoff on a farming community in Venezuela.
In this interview, conducted in March 2019 by Farooque Chowdhury, Magdoff discusses the problems produced by capitalist agriculture in rural Venezuela.
India has witnessed a drastic rise in attacks on human rights activists, journalists, lawyers, farmers, adivasis, RTI activists, students, academicians, workers, protestors etc. opposing anti-people policies of the government and protesting human rights violations. The constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and expression, association and assembly are under severe threat. Several people across the country have been criminalized in false and fabricated cases. RTI activists, journalists, rationalists, protestors have faced brutal assaults, even deaths. The objective of these attacks is to crush dissenting voices and any kind of opposition against the state and its policies. Immediate steps are required to be taken to arrest the ongoing attack on democracy, to stop the attacks on dissenting voices and to protect and reclaim the democratic rights and constitutional freedoms of the people.
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The idea is understood, it's remembered, and it changes something — it changes people's minds, it changes their behaviour, and it changes their values.
We have to tell people things they don't know. Because if we spend all our time talking about common sense or speaking in abstractions, we can't expect people to remember the conversation, and certainly not to change anything.
How do you make employee engagement unexpected or surprising. Do you have a statistic or story that can jolt employees out of lethargy or complacency.
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Can you offer something more than hype, hyperbole, or trite expressions. Unexpectedness adds a richer dimension to simplicity. For example, my last post's statement about Employee Engagement for All is simple yet is it really unexpected? It is surprising? I wrote it and I don't think so. It may be sincere but is it surprising?
This is your chance to be unexpected!
If you are surprising you will also win a prizing of quarters.
I will send 7 minted Canadian Olympic Quarters to the person who writes the most surprising or unexpected suggestion in the comment section of this post on how to make the statement: Employee Engagement for All unexpected or surprising.
Help me please! Don't let employee engagement drip away in drabness.
Now I know if you are in the United States the total value of 7 minted Canadian quarters is less than a buck fifty but who else do you know in Lubbock, Tempe, or Kansas City who has a bunch of minted Canadian quarters jingling in their pocket.
Remember: The unexpected element helps us get people's attention and keep it. Surprise functions to get attention while interest functions to hold attention.
"Employee Engagement for All" means that you must communicate with all employees: not as a group but to all individuals. Engagement happens one person at a time.
Your are the man, at least so far.
Seriously, I appreciate your comment that all means invididuals not just a collective.
I catch a dash of the Three Musketeers, "One for all, and all for one." Workplace loyalty through the thick of employee engagement and the thin of employee disengagement.
Zen like and insightful. Well done.
By the way did you know there are over 43 quintillion different ways to twist old Rubik's cube.
How do you rule the cube with that many twists?


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Hochhaus Hagenholzstrasse (amtliche Bezeichnung, ehemals Sunrise Tower) ist ein Hochhaus im Quartier Seebach im Norden der Stadt Zürich.

Das Gebäude, eines der höchsten der Stadt Zürich, umfasst zwei insgesamt 88 und 72,5 Meter hohe Türme auf einem gemeinsamen 25 Meter hohen Sockelbau.

Die Fassadenfläche beträgt 18'000 m². Das Gebäudeinnere (215'000 m³ nach Baunorm SIA 116) ist modern im skandinavischen Stil eingerichtet. Die Möbel der Kantinen und Lounges stammen vom dänischen Designer Arne Jacobsen. Der Architekt Max Dudler wählte die gleichen Materialien und Proportionen der Fenster wie bei der Diözesanbibliothek Münster, an welcher er ebenfalls beteiligt war.

Erbauung
Mit dem Bau des Sunrise Towers ging in Zürich eine hochhausfreie Ära zu Ende: Zwanzig Jahre hatte der Stadtrat zuvor keine Hochhäuser mehr bewilligt. Am 25. August 2005 übergab Regierungsrat Hans Hollenstein die Schlüssel an den damaligen Sunrise-CEO Hans Peter Baumgartner.

Die Bauarbeiten wurden im Jahr 2000 begonnen und 2005 fertiggestellt. Entstanden ist es aus einem im Architekturwettbewerb siegreichen Entwurf der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wäschle Wüst und des Ateliers Max Dudler. Bekannt ist das Gebäude auch als diAx Tower, propagiert von dem ehemaligen Mobilfunkanbieter diAx als Hauptmieter. Tele Denmark fusionierte Sunrise Communications und diAx zu TDC Switzerland und übernahm das Bauprojekt, welches danach CI-konform als Sunrise Tower bezeichnet wurde. Bauherrin und Eigentümerin des Gebäudes ist allerdings die Beamtenversicherungskasse des Kantons Zürich (BVK). Diese liess das Gebäude vom Totalunternehmer Zschokke für etwa 200 Millionen Franken erstellen.

Der Gebäudekomplex entspricht der ersten Bauetappe der Gesamtüberbauung Quadro, welche nach ihrer Fertigstellung vier Gebäude umfassen wird. Die vier Bürohäuser werden um den öffentlich genutzten Quadroplatz gruppiert und bilden dann eines der markantesten Areale im Gebiet Leutschenbach. Nebst dem Sunrise Tower ist nach Bauabschluss auch der etwas niedrigere MainTower (16 Obergeschosse) Bestandteil der Gesamtüberbauung.

Nutzungsgeschichte
TDC zog seit Mai 2005 die verschiedenen Standorte rund um Zürich in den Türmen zusammen. Die Etagen wurden von oben nach unten belegt und bis September 2005 war der Umzug abgeschlossen. Zurzeit arbeiten etwa 2000 Leute in der Überbauung, mit einem Potential für 2200 Arbeitsplätze. Seit 2009 werden grosse Teile des Towers durch Mitarbeiter der Credit Suisse IT genutzt.

Am 11. November 2009 zog sich der Schweizer Ueli Gegenschatz bei einem Base-Jump vom Sunrise Tower im Rahmen einer Werbeaktion schwere Verletzungen zu, welchen er zwei Tage später erlag.

Anfangs Februar 2010 zog die gesamte TDC Switzerland aus dem Gebäude aus, das nun grösstenteils von der Credit Suisse gemietet wird und entsprechend neu beschriftet wurde. Am 10. März wurde bekannt, dass Credit Suisse den Mietvertrag für per 31. Juli 2024 kündigte.

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Hochhaus in Zürich
Bürogebäude in Zürich
Erbaut in den 2000er Jahren
Hochhaus in Europa

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Lauren gained her Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Sociology) at The University of Auckland. She then went on to study Business and Human Resources in Whangarei, where she has since spent the last 6 years developing her skills in the field of Human Resources and Career Development.
Lauren has a passion for helping people to flourish and find direction in the workforce and enjoys learning about and cultivating relationships with people from all walks of life.
Lauren joined AIM in 2017 as a Career Consultant predominantly within the Return to Work Programme. Lauren also owns an HR Consultancy which she works on the side.
Lauren loves spending time in the outdoors, and particularly enjoys running to keep fit and healthy. She also enjoys spending time with her husband and two young boys, who keep her on her toes.


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Jesse LeBourdais Reveals "Rough Time Demos" EP
Phinky posted 4th January 2022
Jesse LeBourdais has today released his brand new EP, Rough Time Demos, that was recorded at his home in Vancouver, BC using old gear, and the very best ProTools technology a 2009 laptop could handle, during the third wave of the pandemic. The Rough Time Demos EP, that contains five brand new original songs and a Taylor Swift cover, is now available exclusively via his website and Bandcamp.
"I had a whole plan of release, complete with a live video and a return to the stage for a show but it all got cancelled due to Omicronegeddon, so now I'm just releasing it wild, and unannounced."
The Rough Time Demos are available through Jesse LeBourdais and Bandcamp
Jesse LeBourdais

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Because I was too arrogant and self-right, though I clearly knew that host home was not fit to use, I took a chance and held a meeting there for the second-line members. As a result, I was arrested by the great red dragon. In prison, what I saw all day was the prisoners' eating, drinking, and pillow-fighting, and what I heard was their filthy language; because I refused to confess anything about my belief in God, those in the same cell, instructed by the great red dragon, beat and abused and insulted me as a coward. In such circumstances, I felt so distressed that several times I wanted to cry out: I stay with these people every day, having no common language with them, having no confidant, and having to suffer their insults. I really can't bear this any longer! So I always expected that I could leave this living hell soon.


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Hot Pursuit(2015)
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Though Rose succeeds in getting the dirty cops Dixon and Hauser arrested and her name cleared, Daniella escapes her, but not before she finds out that Daniella plans to kill Cortez at his daughter's quinceañera because he murdered her brother. She reports this to her superior, Captain Emmett, but he dismisses this concern because he doubts Daniella has the intelligence to pull it off, and even if she is going to do it, they can't stop her because the investigation is under the DEA's jurisdiction, plus security will be too tight at the party.
Daniella goes to the event and meets with Cortez in private, though neither are aware that each of them plans to kill the other. Rose goes in undercover to try and stop her, and she soon runs surprisingly into Emmett. However, he pulls his gun on her and reveals he is in cahoots with Cortez, but Rose soon gets the better of him, knocks him out, and takes his gun. She then searches for Daniella and finds her just as she and Cortez have gotten into an armed standoff. She comes to Daniella's defense, and despite taking a bullet from Cortez in her arm, she soon shoots him in his leg, disarms him, and cuffs him. Daniella then makes ready to kill Cortez, but Rose is able to talk her out of it. However, Cortez then attempts to shoot Daniella with another gun he had hidden in his suit, but Rose notices this and shoots and kills him before he can.
Daniella gets three months in jail for obstruction of justice, and Rose comes to pick her up at the end of her sentence and finds out from a guard that, thanks to taking down Cortez, her name is no longer synonymous with screw-ups. As she and Daniella drive off, Randy – a ex-con who helped them out while they were on the run and developed a mutual attraction to Rose – pops up in the back seat, and Rose explains that they are dating now.
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In an attempt to get to Dallas, Rose (Reese Witherspoon) and Daniella (Sofia Vergara) steal a truck, but that night, they find out that it belongs to Randy (Robert Kazinsky), an ex-con, who was in the bed of the truck after having passed out from drinking. They stop the truck to talk to him, and they notice that he is on parole since he is wearing an ankle monitor. He recognizes them as the "fugitives" he saw on the news, but Rose explains that that is all false and they just need to get to Dallas so they can sort it all out. But, since they can't get there too early because Cortez (Joaquín Cosio) may have some hired guns ready to take out Daniella before she reaches the courtroom, Rose asks Randy if he knows of a place where they can lay low for a couple of hours. Randy offers to drive them to an Indian casino and hotel, since he knows people there that could get them rooms plus the police have no jurisdiction there, and they can hide in the truck's bed until they get there. When Rose asks why they should trust him, he replies that he knows what it feels like when no one wants to hear your side of the story, plus (in an act of flirtation) he likes her smile. Rose removes his ankle monitor and tosses it in a nearby river so they can't be tracked, and after avoiding getting caught at a police checkpoint that the dirty cops (and Felipe's [Vincent Laresca] killers) Dixon (Michael Mosley) and Hauser (Matthew Del Negro) are at, they get to the hotel.
Before going into Randy's room to ask him to get food for them, Rose handcuffs Daniella to the bed since she is a flight risk, but Daniella hugs her and thanks her for protecting her. She walks into Randy's room and ends up talking to him, and she finds out that the reason why he was imprisoned and now on parole is because he viciously assaulted his sisters' abusive boyfriends. He also comments on how intense she is, but he says that he likes that. She soon gives in to his charms and kisses him, but despite acknowledging that it felt good, she quickly puts these feelings aside and sends him away to get the food. Rose returns to her room and finds Daniella pointing her own gun at her, having snuck it off of her during their hug, and she demands that Rose fork over the key to the cuffs. She also states that she never had any intention of going to the trial; all she wanted to do was get away from Felipe and start anew alone. She also shows that she got a hold of Rose's notepad and read about how Rose doubts that she is smart enough to aid the prosecution. After forcing Rose to unlock the cuffs, Rose grabs Daniella's suitcase full of bejeweled shoes she has been lugging around (which she claims are gifts from her deceased brother, who was killed in Colombia when he tried to go to the cops for help after getting in trouble with the wrong people) and whacks the gun out of her hand, and they have a scuffle over it that ends with Rose reclaiming it. She then questions Daniella about the weight of the suitcase since she noticed how heavy it was, so Daniella explains that there are 18 pairs of shoes in there. Rose says that the suitcase feels like it weighs more than that, and after inspecting one of the shoes, Daniella admits that this was how Felipe smuggled money into the country: By giving her shoes made of white gold and diamonds, and they all total around $4 million. Suddenly, Dixon and Hauser come knocking at their door, forcing them to flee through Randy's room with the suitcase. As they make for the main exit, they are cut off by Hauser, but thankfully Randy comes across them and attacks Hauser. While resuming her escape with Daniella, Rose promises Randy that she will contact him later.
Rose and Daniella wind up boarding a seniors tour bus bound for Dallas, and after Rose handcuffs herself to Daniella, she questions her on whether or not Felipe was the one who killed her brother, but Daniella refuses to answer. Soon after, Dixon and Hauser pull up alongside the bus in their car and try to shoot at them, and the ladies accidentally throw the driver out of the bus in the commotion, forcing them to take control of it. They then have a wild time dealing with Dixon and Hauser in a high-speed chase until the Hispanic assassins from the earlier attack on Daniella's home shoot out one of the rear tires on the dirty cops' car, sending their car rolling over into the median strip. Rose and Daniella bring the bus to a stop in a highway construction zone, but soon after, Daniella punches Rose unconscious. When she awakens, she sees Daniella has gotten free of the cuffs, then overhears her talking with the assassins outside. Through confronting Daniella and her own deductions, Rose discovers that the assassins actually work for her and not Cortez, and they were supposed to "kidnap" her back at her house so she could get away from Felipe (though Felipe's death was not planned). Rose also discovers that the next step of Daniella's plan is to confront and kill Cortez at his daughter's quinceañera because he was the one who murdered her brother, and after that, she will start her new life with the money from the shoes. Rose tries to convince her to not go through with killing Cortez and says that they can put him in jail, but she replies that jail is not good enough for him. She tells Rose that she will spare her life because she saved hers, but before departing, she handcuffs Rose to the bus door's railing and says that she isn't going to stop her.
Rose gets Dixon and Hauser arrested and her name cleared, but Cortez is released from jail since Felipe is dead and Daniella has vanished. Rose has a chat with her superior, Captain Emmett (John Carroll Lynch), and though he praises Rose for the arrests and keeping Daniella alive and also promotes her back to being a beat cop, he is dismissive of her belief that Daniella is going to kill Cortez at the quinceañera because he doubts she possesses the intelligence to pull it off. Also, even if she is going to do it, they can't stop her because the investigation is under the jurisdiction of the DEA, plus security will be too tight at the hotel that the party is being held at. He tells her to go home and get some sleep, but as Rose is making her way out of the station, it becomes clear that she isn't going to do that.
That night, Daniella arrives at the quinceañera and gets a gun placed in her purse by one of the assassins posing as a security guard, and she approaches Cortez and tells him that she never wanted to testify against him and tried to convince Felipe to not do it, either, but he wouldn't listen. Cortez tells her to go into the next room so they can continue this conversation in private and he can properly thank her for her loyalty, but after she goes, he orders one of his goons to turn up the volume on the music so the guests don't hear anything, having already made plans to kill her. As she makes her way there, Rose – in the disguise of a teenage boy – gets her attention and pulls her into the women's bathroom. She tries to persuade her to wear a wire and get Cortez to confess to killing her brother, but while Daniella is trying to put it on, a woman walks in and believes that Rose is a perverted youngster, so she has security kick her out of the party. Moments later, Daniella trashes the wire and heads off to see Cortez. Rose sneaks back in as a waitress, and she discovers that Emmett is in attendance and comes up to him. However, Emmett soon pulls his gun on her, revealing that he is in collusion with Cortez. When he tries to force her to come outside with him so he can kill her without being seen, she gets free of him and runs into the kitchen. Emmett catches up to her, but she ends up throwing an alcoholic drink on him and then zaps him with her taser so he catches fire. She then uses a fire extinguisher to put out the flames and then hits him in the head with it to knock him out, then takes his gun and runs off to find Daniella.
She interrupts her and Cortez just as they have gotten into a standoff with their handguns, and Cortez shoots at her, forcing Rose and Daniella to hide. Cortez makes Daniella show herself by mocking her brother's bravery, but as he fires a shot at her, Rose jumps in front of her to shield her and shoots Cortez in the leg, but Daniella still gets grazed on her left arm. Rose then ties Cortez's arms behind his back and kicks his gun away, but Daniella retrieves her gun and aims it at Cortez. Rose manages to convince her to not pull the trigger, but neither are aware that Cortez has taken out another gun hidden in his suit jacket. He attempts to shoot Daniella when she takes her eyes off of him, but Rose sees this and shoots and kills him. Daniella is initially incensed with Rose for stealing her revenge, but she calms down when she discovers that Rose did take the earlier bullet first; it just went through her left arm and hit Daniella.
Daniella gets slapped with a three-month jail term for obstruction of justice (and it's safe to assume that Emmett received a much longer prison sentence), and when Rose comes to pick her up at the end of it, she finds out from a guard that, thanks to taking down Cortez, her name is no longer synonymous with blunders. Once she gets Daniella outside, she presents her with a pair of her bejeweled shoes and reveals that she has eased up on her rigidity by saving these and a couple of other pairs from being put in the evidence locker. As they drive off, Randy emerges from the back seat, and Rose says that they are in a relationship but are keeping it on the down-low for a bit, plus she technically got him off the hook on his charges.
Actor: Matthew Del Negro, Michael Mosley, Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara
Director: Anne Fletcher


It needs a shave or maybe a laser.
If the bush is unruly, maybe a taser?
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The old hairy hump is upon us again.
I'm taking her to the mat – I'm slated to win.
After today, my weekend officially begins.
without a care for tomorrow's fare and spend it all.
If there ever was a time.
Today is that day that you save your dimes.
Start putting away coins; do put away plenty.
A recession is trying to court the U.S. in 2020.
Remember the last time that happened? Good times went to louse.
Also, I distinctly remember it being started by a Repub in the White House.
Are we really headed in that direction again?
Well, about that paycheck – please don't spend.
Save today — or tomorrow you will throat-a-lump.
This is your wisdom cue on this hairy hump.
Take a moment to prepare so that you can make it.
seeding a little foresight and wisdom into your core.
Have a fantastic Wednesday – please know that I love you and that I care.
As for our vantage view atop of this hump, stand in the parting of the hair.


Someone once described these media agency networks to me as being like casinos. There's the front of house dancing girls, the glamourous waitresses, the charming croupiers. And then in the backroom, away from the light and the thick carpets there's the money men.
We'll see how real that claim turns out to be as the likes of Accenture turn their attention to helping clients tackle the intricacies of online advertising, by (in many cases) building in-house tech stacks for major advertisers.
Remember the agency sneers when a few advertisers started on that journey? It will never work; it's too complicated; they'll soon find it's more productive to use us real experts in the agencies, and so on.
A few years ago an agency CEO told me that in his opinion agencies faced a binary choice. Either invest in planning (I use the term loosely to encompass non-buying activities) and become true consultancies, or close the agencies' London offices, fire all but the traders, invest in the same sort of technology used in stock market trades and move to an industrial estate.
A couple of weeks ago that door too seemed to start to close as The Drum reported on a plan to trade online media on a NASDAQ-style exchange.
Accenture, Deloittes and the others have said they have no interest in media buying. They do though have an interest in planning and technology. They have the reputation, the trust of senior clients, and the budgets to attract top agency talent (a la Google and Facebook).
The network media agencies on the other hand currently have the wrong sort of reputation and a serious trust deficit.
Under attack from both sides the major media agencies face a huge problem.
Their owners, the holding companies risk killing the goose that laid the golden egg. When, or rather if the obituaries ever get to be written the unrelenting focus on short-term trading revenues over the building of long term, profitable business relationships will be seen to have been at the heart of the problem.
The golden eggs may yet keep coming, but what we have right now is a sick goose.


My family consists of my parents, LeRoy and Mae, my three brothers, Michael, Randy and Loran, along with a large extended family. Although my parents never farmed, I grew up on my Dad's farmstead. This setting provided all the opportunities to live a full life. If it's done on a farm, I have probably done it. I will never forget the first time I witnessed the birth of a calf!
I started studying piano at age five and my grandmother had me at the organ console at age ten. We had a huge Wurlitzer organ that I would hide behind. Grandma and I played many piano and organ duets together over the years.
I moved to Florida in 1971 to attend college at the University of Florida where I studied Interior Design and Music. I always knew God was calling me into Music Ministry at some level. In the early 80's, I moved to Boston and later worked in Bakersfield, California designing several high schools.
I returned to Celebration in 1996. As the first CommPres staff member, I feel so blessed to be a part of the most outstanding team I have ever worked with, not to mention this wonderful church family.


We'd love your help. Let us know what's wrong with this preview of Shadowhunter by Leena Maria.
Dana's best friend Kitty has died in a car accident, and the only ray of light in the misery is when her grandmother appears in her spiffy red sports car to cheer her up. At the same time a nightmarish shadow appears to hunt Dana and she has to flee from her ordinary life with grandma, who turns out to be something quite different than what Dana had thought – a Huntress of Dana's best friend Kitty has died in a car accident, and the only ray of light in the misery is when her grandmother appears in her spiffy red sports car to cheer her up. At the same time a nightmarish shadow appears to hunt Dana and she has to flee from her ordinary life with grandma, who turns out to be something quite different than what Dana had thought – a Huntress of Shadows.
The truth about her ancestry is not an easy thing for Dana to accept – she was deliberately created to perform a task, to find something that should stay hidden, or it might threaten the world of humans as Dana knows it. Her existence is tied to the myth of the Nephilim, the descendants of angels, and her creator was someone who commands the forces of chaos and darkness, the source of all horror myths of humankind. Dana learns there is a world of shadows, the afterlife, dreams and time travel, surrounding the physical world, hidden behind a thin veil – and that there are ways to enter it from the physical world.
Dana has no option – she is being hunted by creatures of darkness, and the hunt can only end in either Dana and everyone she loves being captured and turned into creatures of darkness – or Dana finding what she was created to find.
Her hunters have skills no ordinary human can escape – but Dana is not an ordinary human. Nor is Daniel, the leader of a hidden Center fighting the darkness. Together with a chosen team they could travel the Unseen Worlds that surround the physical world, into the past, following a clue written down in ancient Egypt, and then walk the Trail of Angels, and find the hidden mystery before the dark creatures do.
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Is there a sequel to this book?
A bit immature but interesting story. Please read to the end.
I was intrigued by this book and purchased it as something to read through the Summer. About 75 % into the book I had mixed feelings. Without giving away spoilers, I found the author is using certain terms (like Nephilim, Shadows, etc) somewhat interchangeably and it's hard to figure out who's who, who came from whom, who made whom and who's good and who is evil. There is also very little differentiation between characters in the style A bit immature but interesting story. Please read to the end.
I was intrigued by this book and purchased it as something to read through the Summer. About 75 % into the book I had mixed feelings. Without giving away spoilers, I found the author is using certain terms (like Nephilim, Shadows, etc) somewhat interchangeably and it's hard to figure out who's who, who came from whom, who made whom and who's good and who is evil. There is also very little differentiation between characters in the style of talking, behaviour and how they are written down. They all sound the same and the character development is, well, in the development stage.
The author does a lot of "telling" instead of "showing" and there are some long passages of explanations which could have been handled better as opposed to sounding like wiki page excerpts. The romantic stuff is written stiffly and I found it unconvincing. I was not able to connect with it, as much as I love a good love story intertwined with my fantasy.
And, for goodness sake, why would an author name their characters so similarly? Dana, Diana and Daniel, who interact throughout most of the book? And then we have Lilith and Layla. It's probably a personal peeve of mine, but I like my characters to have distinct names that do not sound the same so the reader doesn't have a hard time remembering who's who. It's confusing.
There are also a lot of typos in this book. In general, the writing seems a little immature and I think this author has a lot to learn yet, however, there is a lot of potential, too!
If you love adventure then you will love this book!
At first there is a lot of information to take in and at times I found myself slightly confused. Then all of a sudden something just clicked and understanding flooded in opening up this fantastic new world!
The story is completely original, I have never read anything like it. Not only is it a fantastic story, it is also brilliantly educational. A lot of history, specifically Egyptian (which I found fascinating) is to be found. It is clear that a If you love adventure then you will love this book!
The story is completely original, I have never read anything like it. Not only is it a fantastic story, it is also brilliantly educational. A lot of history, specifically Egyptian (which I found fascinating) is to be found. It is clear that a lot of research, time and effort has been put into this fabulous read!
The story has a few different narratives that kept me guessing as to the connection to each other, and offers many twists and turns that I just didn't see coming. So many layers have been placed in this book and every moment spent unraveling them has been an absolute pleasure.
Leena has created some fantastic characters and really made me connect with them in ways that many accomplished authors have failed to do.
Nephilim Quest is the debut novel by Leena Maria and it is one you don't want to miss!
I enjoyed reading the book. It was exciting. I felt like I was right by the character s it was easy to read I loved the story. I would like to read the next book.
very captivating and thrilling book.
I enjoyed reading and want to continue reading the next book from this series. The writing of Leena brings a nice feeling.
Leena Maria writes novels that have one thing in common: ancient Egypt. Though her studies have been academic, the books celebrate the power of imagination. History is definitely not dry in Leena's novels!
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The U.S. Navy MZ-3A Airship is enroute to the Gulf Coast and expected to arrive after July 6 at Jack Edwards National Airport in Gulf Shores, Ala. The airship was requested by the U.S. Coast Guard to support Deepwater Horizon Response operations of the Unified Area Command. The airship will be used to detect oil, direct skimming vessels, and look for wildlife that may be threatened by oil. The airship began the flight to the Gulf Coast last month in Yuma, Ariz. The airship is commercial A-1-70 series blimp, manufactured by the American Blimp Corporation.. U.S. Navy file photo.
Contractors use improvised mops made of bamboo poles and absorbent pads to clean up oil in the marsh grass in Terrebonne Bay, La., on Saturday, July 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill made landfall two days ago, and personnel from Branch Terrebonne Parish are responding with both tested methods and impromptu ingenuity to recover it. U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Derek W. Richburg.
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Worthington Industries has been manufacturing hydrogen high-pressure cylinders for decades out of the US and Austrian facilities. Can you tell us about Worthington's history in hydrogen and the journey the company has been on to where it is today?
Gabi Zeilerbauer (GZ): Yes, that's correct. Long before the automotive industry began to view hydrogen as the clean fuel of the future, we were in the hydrogen business. Primarily we partnered with industrial gas customers, designing and manufacturing gas containment solutions for the use of hydrogen in industrial processes. Depending on the operation's scale we have provided this segment with high-pressure steel cylinders for stand-alone use, for bundles, and for multi-element gas containers (MEGCs). The segment remains interesting and important for us.
While we were serving our industrial gas customers with hydrogen containment solutions, we were building our portfolio for the alternative fuels market. Hydrogen did not yet have the traction as scalable technology in the mobility market that it has today. About 15 years ago, we began investing in technologies that enabled automotive OEMs and retrofitting and conversion operations to outfit vehicles with systems that significantly reduced vehicles' CO2 emissions. In Austria, we began engineering and making CNG cylinders for vehicle integration, stationary buffer storage and MEGCs since the 1980s. Since the early 2000s, we have been supplying Volkswagen's light-duty CNG vehicle platform as a Tier-1 supplier. In Poland, we began engineering and making products for LPG- and CNG-fuelled vehicles, and we have supplied high-capacity CNG transport storage solutions.
The experience and expertise we acquired in LPG and CNG – today sometimes referred to as transition technologies – allowed a smooth knowledge transfer to hydrogen mobility markets. Here we supply onboard fuelling systems for cars, buses and trucks as well as transport and storage solutions for hydrogen refueling stations. In the US and Europe, Worthington was among the first movers in this space and has pioneered many solutions that have helped attain the critical mass needed to prove hydrogen has staying power as a clean fuel for today and tomorrow.


Montreal, Canada, 2018-05-15 – Since 2016, NFOE Inc.'s management team was composed of eight people: the three senior principals, Alan E. Orton, Michael Sullivan and Rafie Sossanpour, as well as five directors, Pierre Asselin, Genevieve Marsan, Mark Brooker, Christine Hudon and Victor Marques. As of January 2018 the five directors all become senior principals of NFOE.
From left to right : Michael Sullivan, Geneviève Marsan, Alan E. Orton, Christine Hudon, Victor Marques, Mark Brooker, Pierre Asselin et Rafie Sossanpour.
We are also proud to present the five new principals within our architectural firm: Maxime Pion, Dominic Daoust, Geneviève Goudreau, Deirdre Ellis et Enrik Blais. This enthusiastic and experienced leadership succession is an important asset for the evolution of NFOE Inc.
From left to right : Maxime Pion, Dominic Daoust, Geneviève Goudreau, Deirdre Ellis et Enrik Blais.
Deirdre Ellis : LEED accredited architect, Deirdre Ellis graduated from Carleton University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Architecture and obtained a Masters in Applied Sciences (Planning) from the University of Montréal in 2001. She joined NFOE in 2010. Deirdre has experience in a variety of project types and is particularly focused on Sustainable Design. She is often involved in the management of complex projects, like the Clinical Laboratories and Pathology Department at the new Glen Campus of the McGill University Health Centre, as well as the Canadian High Arctic Research Station project in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
Dominic Daoust : Architect acting as senior project manager, Dominic Daoust graduated from University of Laval in 2000 with a Bachelor in Architecture, having previously obtained a diploma in Architectural Technology from the Cegep de Saint-Laurent in 1997. He joined NFOE immediately after graduation. Dominic possess considerable experience with Life Science and General Science facilities. As project manager, Dominic contributes his creativity, knowledge and experience in laboratory design to some of the firm's important projects for the Jewish General Hospital, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, as well as several government agencies.
Enrik Blais : Senior project manager for NFOE, Enrik Blais obtained an Architectural Technology diploma from the CEGEP Lévis-Lauzon in 2004 and joined the firm in 2005. His determination and willingness to acquire new skills led him to obtain a Bachelor of Construction Engineering from the ÉTS in 2011, as well as a PMP certification (Project Management Professional) in 2018. He has acted as project manager on several pharmaceutical production plant and research facility projects for important clients such as GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Héma-Québec and Medicago.
Geneviève Goudreau : Architect, interior designer and senior project manager, Genevieve Goudreau joined NFOE in 2003. She worked for some time in the firm's design department and then concentrated on project management. She graduated from University of Montreal in 2003 with a Bachelor in Architecture, having previously obtained a DEC in Interior Design from the Cegep du Vieux Montréal in 1999, and she merged her training in architecture and interior design into project management and design. Always sensitive towards the quality of operations, today Geneviève acts as project manager for important clients such as the Montreal School Board (CSDM), McGill University and Public Services and Procurement Canada.
Maxime Pion : Architectural Designer with experience in a variety of project types, Maxime obtained his Bachelor of Architectural Design from the University of Montreal in 2001 and a Master's degree in Architecture from the same institution in 2003, after obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design at UQAM in 1999. He joined the firm's design team when he started working for NFOE in 2005. Combining originality and functionality, he has since worked as architectural designer on several major projects. Maxime's know-how impact both the essence of the spaces and the design quality of the firm's projects, having been rewarded with several design awards in recent years.
Founded in 1912, NFOE et associés architectes maintains to this day a long tradition of its commitment and contribution to the development of Montréal. Over the years, the firm has developed a specialization in the design of complex and sophisticated facilities that require a thorough understanding of programmatic requirements, flexible design approaches, and the seamless integration of architectural and technical considerations. NFOE is recognized as one of the leading architectural firms in Quebec and Canada in the design of facilities for the life sciences and high-tech industries. Our goal is to achieve an architectural response that transcribes into built form our client's core and cultural values and objectives, be respectful of its context and environment, responsible to the time and true to the materials and assemblies.


In some parts of the Bay Area, August tends to mark the waning of housing activity ahead of the school year. But in San Francisco, the END of August marks the beginning of what has traditionally been a "September Surge", the month with the greatest number of new listings. Good weather, completed vacations and a desire to be settled before the holidays usually results in robust market activity.


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text: ANNUAL PRESS CONFERENCE 2004 Background Note N°3 Luxembourg, February 2004 EIB'S ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN 2003 A record year: in 2003, individual loans of the European Investment Bank (EIB) for investment projects driven by environmental considerations totalled EUR 12.3 billion. With EUR 10.7 billion of individual loans within the European Union and EUR 811 million in the Accession Countries going to environmental projects, the Bank's operational target of devoting between 30% and 35% of all individual loans in these regions for environmental projects was more than met1. In the Mediterranean Partner Countries and the Balkans, EUR 677 million of total individual loans were advanced for environmental schemes and another EUR 25 million in Russia. In the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) Countries, EUR 54.5 million went to environmental projects, at the same time contributing to the Bank's overarching goal of promoting sustainable development in these countries. Renewable energy: the Bank met its target of doubling financing of renewable energy projects as a proportion oft its total energy sector financing (from 7% to 15%). A large proportion came from operations in the wind power sector. The EIB is seeking to consolidate this positive result and will further develop its operations in other renewable energy areas as well. Climate change: at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Kyoto Protocol in Milan in December 2003, EIB President Philippe Maystadt presented the Bank's new actions to support the EU's climate change policy. Key are an EUR 500 million "Dedicated Financing Facility" in support of European businesses participating in the EU Emissions Trading System (2005) and a "Technical Assistance Facility" to provide conditional grant finance in the framework of the "Joint Implementation" and "Clean Development Mechanism" of the Kyoto Protocol. EIB participation in a carbon equity fund to invest in carbon credits is also being explored. The EIB, who has been working


Google announced that it knows about flu outbreaks before the CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) — really.
It's an amazingly simple, yet elegant solution. Using their vast database of user searches, Google has determined that they can predict and report on a flu outbreak up to two weeks before the (CDC), merely by watching for an increase in flu related searches.
Check it out — especially the demo in the "How does this work" section — it's really quite interesting.
By the way, at this point in the flu season, we're doing better than most years.


Over 60% of contracts are non-compliant with corporate standards.
This was one of the statistics that emerged during a webinar IACCM ran this week with Seal Software. It is based on analysis of more than 1o million contracts handled by Seal in the last 3 years. As Ulf Zetterberg, CEO of Seal Software, observed, the shocking part about this statistic is not so much that the variation rate is so large as that companies are simply unaware. In some cases, their 'standard term' is used far less frequently than the alternates. They spend so much time battling over individual exceptions that they lose sight of the bigger picture.
The webinar was full of data coming from both IACCM and Seal, demonstrating the power that contract analytics can deliver to the business. For example, we looked at management perceptions of the contracting process and of the functions – contract management, legal, procurement – responsible for contract production and negotiation. This identified areas for improvement, such as weaknesses in innovation or the leadership of change. Less than 50% see these functions as a source of innovative ideas and nearly 80% feel they are always or sometimes too risk averse. It found that Procurement, in particular, is frequently perceived as far too oriented towards compliance and lacking commercial judgment. It also revealed how bid-to-signature cycle times are on average lengthening, with increased review and approval the major cause.
The gap in performance between best and worst performing companies is increasing. Measures such as frequency of claims, percentage of underperforming contracts and extent of value leakage were among the indicators used to illustrate the benefits of high performing contract management. Indeed, as I reported earlier this week, an increasing number of executives are recognizing the strategic importance of contract management and in particular how past investments in Procurement have in many cases eroded the value achieved from contracts and trading relationships.
At its heart, this webinar was about data and analytics. It was illustrating how the fragmentation of the contracting process creates blindness to key insights. The consolidated performance data from this process provides a powerful source of management information – but most organizations do not even realize what they are missing. An obsession with compliance results in a measurement that is frequently meaningless and often damaging to business results.
Another blog on this topic can be accessed here. And for those who wish to view the webinar, the recording is available here.


I've been in the process of making custom drumkits by replacing the samples in S-sampler24/drumsampler24.
Some of the samples are extremely short and rather than going through the process of adding silence to each one, I was wondering if there was a way to disable the looping function.
On youtube are a series of PD tutorials by a Dr Hernandez aka cheetomoskeeto in one of the videos he explains how to play back samples using tabread4~ and how to disable looping of a sample.
what I would do is, add a threshold in the voice, and then set the freq of the phasor~ to zero after first play.
obviously, whilst actually doing, there might need to be some other minor tweaks (e.g. decay handling), but that should be the basics of whats required.
remind me during the Orac 2.0 beta and I'll chuck it in.


They are priced $12.95 each plus $3 postage for one, $4 for both. Their email address is musicbox@musicalwonderhouse.com.
I have not heard these recordings myself, but Stan's reactions are included below.
This one-hour cassette contains 27 G&S selections, mostly only a couple of minutes long, and often the verse is repeated. It is enjoyable but higher pitched than we are used to and very "bell" sounding — these music boxes do not simulate an orchestra! It is clearly an historical tape, but the liner does not give any historical info. Because of the various machines which play the tunes, it appears these all date from the 1880's to 1900's, but it does not say so explicitly (it is implied), and I am not sure.
The contents are summarized as follows: Trial by Jury - 1 selection; Pinafore - 8; Pirates - 3; Patience - 1; Mikado - 11; Yeomen - 1; Gondoliers - 2. It is often hard to determine the piece being played; this would be a great game at a G&S society meeting — who can guess the name of the piece! The liner does list all the names.
Side 2: medley of arias from Mikado and Gondoliers (i.e., 2 rolls).
I find this tape most enjoyable as background music — it sounds like someone sitting at a piano and just playing G&S melodies. If you actually listen to it, the tempo is uneven — at times too fast and at other times too slow, but generally right on. Unfortunately, the cassette gives no feel that the music is from piano rolls — it could just as well be someone playing! I recommend this cassette only if you already know G&S.


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NAIROBI, Feb 18 (Reuters) – A key IMF-supported programme funding military wages and other essential services in Somalia could expire in May if there are any further delays to elections, the chief International Monetary Fund representative in the country said.
Riven by civil war since 1991, the impoverished Horn of Africa nation has paid its bills since 2017 thanks to the IMF as it slowly rebuilds its institutions despite a ferocious Islamist insurgency.
The current three-year budget programme, worth nearly $400 million, is also a required part of a deal to slash Somalia's debt from more than $5 billion to around a 10th of that.
But the programme will terminate automatically if a new government is not in place to conclude a review of it by May 17, Laura Jaramillo, the IMF mission chief for Somalia, told Reuters.
"It will impact the government's functioning and could have broader implications," she said, referring to the risk that much-delayed elections are not completed in time to renew the deal.
Somalia's Finance Minister Abdirahman Beileh, however, dismissed those concerns.
"We are confident that elections will be concluded in time so as to not affect the reform programme," he said. "There have been no major challenges in meeting the IMF conditions thus far, and we do not anticipate any."
Elections had been scheduled for a year ago but were delayed when President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed tried to extend his four-year term by two years, a move thwarted by parliament.
DELAY HITS FINANCES
Voting for lawmakers – who will then choose the president – began on Nov. 1. It was supposed to end on Dec. 24, but now may finish on Feb. 25.
The delay, exacerbated by a months-long dispute between the president and prime minister, has already hit finances.
Somalia expected $170 million in budget support last year but only got $38 million, the IMF said. The government covered the shortfall with new allocations that the IMF gave all members under pressure from COVID-19. But those could run out soon.
"That is when we will start to see the pressures mounting," Jaramillo said.
Expiry of the IMF programme would also halt Somalia's journey to debt forgiveness. Under the 2020 deal, approved by the World Bank and the IMF, Somalia's debt was reduced to $3.7 billion, or 63% of GDP, from $5.2 billion or 89% of GDP.
If completed next year, debt should drop to $557 million or 6% of gross domestic product.
"It is a dramatic debt forgiveness and Somalia is close to reaching that goal," said Jaramillo.
Somalia's economy is expected to have grown by 2% last year, the IMF said, thanks to household consumption driven by increased remittances and new export markets for goods. It should expand by 3.2% this year if political challenges are resolved, the fund said.
Apart from budgetary support, the IMF programme also allows other development partners to offer financing to Somalia.
The debt relief programme has enabled the government to run a cash transfer scheme to vulnerable households battling drought, COVID-19 and insecurity.
Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Alex Richardson
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#define AUDIO_STREAM_OGG_VORBIS_H

#include "scene/resources/audio_stream.h"
#include "vorbis/vorbisfile.h"
#include "os/file_access.h"
#include "io/resource_loader.h"
#include "os/thread_safe.h"

class AudioStreamPlaybackOGGVorbis : public AudioStreamPlayback {

	OBJ_TYPE(AudioStreamPlaybackOGGVorbis,AudioStreamPlayback);

	enum {
		MIN_MIX=1024
	};

	FileAccess *f;

	ov_callbacks _ov_callbacks;
	float length;
	static size_t _ov_read_func(void *p_dst,size_t p_data, size_t p_count, void *_f);
	static int _ov_seek_func(void *_f,ogg_int64_t offs, int whence);
	static int _ov_close_func(void *_f);
	static long _ov_tell_func(void *_f);

	String file;
	int64_t frames_mixed;

	bool stream_loaded;
	volatile bool playing;
	OggVorbis_File vf;
	int stream_channels;
	int stream_srate;
	int current_section;

	bool paused;
	bool loops;
	int repeats;

	Error _load_stream();
	void _clear_stream();
	void _close_file();

	bool stream_valid;
	float loop_restart_time;

public:

	Error set_file(const String& p_file);

	virtual void play(float p_from=0);
	virtual void stop();
	virtual bool is_playing() const;

	virtual void set_loop_restart_time(float p_time) { loop_restart_time=0; }

	virtual void set_paused(bool p_paused);
	virtual bool is_paused(bool p_paused) const;

	virtual void set_loop(bool p_enable);
	virtual bool has_loop() const;

	virtual float get_length() const;

	virtual String get_stream_name() const;

	virtual int get_loop_count() const;

	virtual float get_pos() const;
	virtual void seek_pos(float p_time);

	virtual int get_channels() const { return stream_channels; }
	virtual int get_mix_rate() const { return stream_srate; }

	virtual int get_minimum_buffer_size() const { return 0; }
	virtual int mix(int16_t* p_bufer,int p_frames);

	AudioStreamPlaybackOGGVorbis();
	~AudioStreamPlaybackOGGVorbis();
};

class AudioStreamOGGVorbis : public AudioStream {

	OBJ_TYPE(AudioStreamOGGVorbis,AudioStream);

	String file;
public:

	Ref<AudioStreamPlayback> instance_playback() {
		Ref<AudioStreamPlaybackOGGVorbis> pb = memnew( AudioStreamPlaybackOGGVorbis );
		pb->set_file(file);
		return pb;
	}

	void set_file(const String& p_file) { file=p_file; }

};

class ResourceFormatLoaderAudioStreamOGGVorbis : public ResourceFormatLoader {
public:
	virtual RES load(const String &p_path,const String& p_original_path="",Error *r_error=NULL);
	virtual void get_recognized_extensions(List<String> *p_extensions) const;
	virtual bool handles_type(const String& p_type) const;
	virtual String get_resource_type(const String &p_path) const;
};

#endif // AUDIO_STREAM_OGG_H

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Eleanor Atwood Arnason (Nueva York, 28 de diciembre de 1942) es una escritora estadounidense de ciencia ficción e historias cortas.

Biografía
Nació en Manhattan y creció entre Nueva York, Chicago, Londres, París, Washington, Honolulu, Saint Paul y Minneapolis. Es hija de H. Harvard Arnason, quien fue director del Walker Art Center en 1951, y Elizabeth Yard Arnason, una trabajadora social que pasó su infancia en China. Desde 1949 a 1961, Arnason y sus padres vivieron en "Idea House #2," un espacio futurista construido por el Walker Art Center. Estudió Historia del arte y se graduó en la Universidad de Minnesota.

Premios
 Arnason ganó el primer Premio James Tiptree, Jr. y el Premio Miopoético en 1992 por Una mujer del pueblo de Hierro, el Premio Gaylactic Spectrum por Moteado y el Premio HOMer por Cosecha estelar, que también fue nominada a los Premios Hugo.
 En el 2003 fue nominada al Premio Nébula por su novela El escultor de huesos.

Novelas
 La espada Smith (The Sword Smith, 1978)
 A la estación Resurección (To the Resurrection Station, 1986)
 Hija del Rey Oso (Daughter of the Bear King, 1987)
 Una mujer del pueblo de Hierro (A Woman of the Iron People, 1991)
 Círculo de espadas (Ring of Swords, 1993)

Escritoras de Estados Unidos
Escritores de literatura fantástica de Estados Unidos
Escritores de ciencia ficción de Estados Unidos
Cuentistas de Estados Unidos
Escritores en inglés del siglo XX
Escritores en inglés del siglo XXI
Personas de Nueva York (estado)
Escritores de fan fiction


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Herb Pabianic – jeden z symboli miasta Pabianice w postaci herbu ustanowiony przez radę miejską 16 listopada 2018.

Wygląd i symbolika
Herb przedstawia w polu błękitnym trzy korony złote, dwie nad jedną.

Trzy korony mogą nawiązywać do trzech królestw – Czech, Węgier i Polski lub do kapituły krakowskiej.

Miejscowa legenda łączy owe trzy korony z osobami trzech polskich królów, którzy mieli w różnych czasach odwiedzić to miasto. (W Pabianicach bywali m.in. Władysław Jagiełło i Jan Sobieski).

Historia

Herb Pabianic jest jednym z najstarszych symboli miejskich województwa łódzkiego. Władze miejskie używały pieczęci z godłem Trzy Koronyanim zanim królowie polscy zawitali nad Dobrzynkę. Herb ten narzucił miastu ich właściciel, którym była instytucja kościelna – kapituła krakowska. Fakt ten miał miejsce przed 1552 r. (pierwsza znana pieczęć z tym herbem), być może w XIV stuleciu, równocześnie z nadaniem Pabianicom praw miejskich. W 1535 r. na pieczęci miejskiej Pabianic widniała jedna korona, wyraźnie nawiązująca do herbu kapituły krakowskiej.

Kiedy i w jakich okolicznościach insygnia królewskie stały się godłem krakowskich kanoników – nie ma w literaturze pełnej jasności. Być może herb ten pochodzi z Niemiec, z archidiecezji kolońskiej, której świętymi patronami byli Trzej Królowie znani z ewangelicznego opisu Bożego Narodzenia. Mógł on dotrzeć do grodu Kraka jeszcze w połowie XI w., wraz z arcybiskupem i opatem benedyktynów tynieckich Aaronem.

Pojawiła się także hipoteza, iż owe trzy korony wystąpiły po raz pierwszy na pieczęci jednego z krakowskich biskupów – Jana Muskaty w końcu XIII w. (1296 r.). Był to biskup-polityk, głośny wróg Łokietka i stronnik królów czeskich z rodu Przemyślidów – Wacława II i III, nazywany przez swoich przeciwników politycznych "krwawym wilkiem".

To biskup Muskata uzyskał zgodę na założenie w dobrach kapituły miasta – późniejszych Pabianic. Z pieczęci biskupa godło przejęła kapituła, a następnie założone przez nią prywatne miasto.

Trzy korony mogą też nawiązywać trzech królestw – Czech, Węgier i Polski, które na krótko zjednoczyli w swym ręku królowie czescy.

Przypisy

Pabianice
Pabianice


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Estate Planning 101 By Attorney Marlene S. Cooper 5/13/21
When the beneficiary of a will or trust, or a person entitled to an inheritance through the laws of intestate succession does not want to receive the inheritance, he or she can either disclaim the inheritance or assign the inheritance to another person or entity. When a disclaimer is made, the person disclaimer the inheritance is treated as though he or she had passed away before the person from whose estate he or she is inheriting.
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson had seven adult children and a clan of grandchildren when they passed away. Their trust stated that their house was to be sold and that all the proceeds, plus all of their other assets, be divided among their seven children, the oldest of whom were twins, Kyle and Kevin.
Kyle, like Kevin, was 62 years old. He had been very successful in his career and most of his investments were very profitable. Life had treated Kyle well - his children were independent and he and his wife had a net worth of over $2.5 million. He also had a pension and social security to look forward to. As he began to think about his portion of the inheritance from his parents, he realized that it would not make a marginal difference in his life; he would probably just spend it on some high-end luxury item like a fancy sports car.
As he thought about it more and more, Kyle came to terms with the fact that his siblings could use his portion much more than he could. None of his siblings were doing as financially well as he was. In fact, most of the other six siblings seemed to always be struggling, barely able to save or invest. So, after talking it over with his wife, Kyle decided that he would assign his portion of the inheritance to the other beneficiaries. A similar vehicle to pass his interest to others would be to disclaim the interest. The difference between an assignment and a disclaimer is this: an assignment directs the inheritance to a specific person (or entity) whereas a disclaimer automatically shifts the inheritance to the person's heirs.
Kevin, the other twin, had traveled a much different, much bumpier road. He had changed careers several times, gotten divorced twice, and fallen into serious financial issues. Some of those issues, like unpaid alimony and IRS debts, had even become legal judgments. Kevin could really use his portion of the inheritance; however, he was concerned that once it was put in an account under his name, the funds would be garnished or confiscated to satisfy one of the judgments against him. As he pondered the possibilities and slim likelihood of ever actually seeing his inheritance money, he figured he would rather see his siblings get the money than take a chance on the IRS (or his ex-wife) getting the money. So Kevin, like Kyle, also signed a formal assignment, allowing his siblings (except Kyle) to equally share his portion of the inheritance.
Kyle and Kevin provide two common examples of why beneficiaries of a trust or heirs in a probate proceeding choose to assign their inheritance to others, but there are a few other cases in which I've seen this done: when a beneficiary or heir strongly dislikes the person the inheritance is coming from and when a beneficiary or heir wants nothing to do with the other family members involved in the settlement process. In all of these cases, one person assigning his or her interest means that there is more for the other beneficiaries or heirs to share. If, however, an heir or beneficiary cannot be contacted or simply refuses to assign his or her interest to another, the inheritance is legally still theirs and, in most cases, that money will be held for a period of time and, if still unclaimed, will eventually go to the State of California as unclaimed property!
The moral of the story here is if you don't want your inheritance, assign it to someone else, unless of course you would rather the State of California eventually add it to her coffers!
All rights reserved. © 2021 by Marlene S. Cooper. (You may obtain further information at the website www.marlenecooperlaw.com, by e-mail at MarleneCooperLaw@gmail.com, by phone at (626) 791-7530 or toll free at (866) 702-7600. The information in this article is of a general nature and not intended as legal advice. Seek the advice of an attorney before acting or relying upon any information in this article).


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Eddie Vedder on 'The Howard Stern Show': 6 Things We Learned
The singer told Stern about dealing with Chris Cornell's death, coaching Bradley Cooper for "A Star Is Born," singing live with Bruce Springsteen and other topics.
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Originally planned for this March but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first appearance of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder on SiriusXM's "The Howard Stern Show" Monday touched on everything from the death of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell to the origin story of classic Pearl Jam songs to advising Bradley Cooper about "A Star Is Born" in the three-hour-plus interview.
After 90 minutes of good-natured and light-hearted conversation, the interview turned somber when Stern asked Vedder about the May 2017 death by suicide of Cornell, one of Vedder's closest musician friends. In his first in-depth comments on the subject, Vedder revealed that he was still grieving the 2016 death of his own brother Chris in an accident when he got the news of Cornell's passing.
"I've had to be somewhat in denial. I still haven't quite dealt with it," he said, adding that he had only seen Cornell "four or five times" in the decade prior to his death, usually at concerts. Vedder admitted feeling "angry" that Cornell took his own life. "I loved the guy. I would allow him to make those choices, you know? But I think suicide is a violent act that hurts so many people," he said. "That feels unfair. And when you have kids, I think you kind of don't have that option anymore."
Vedder fondly remembered his early days in Seattle when he and Cornell would "go on crazy hiking adventures, or we'd go mountain biking, or we'd chase the dog in the rain drinking s—ty beer." Many years later, Vedder helped teach Cornell's eldest daughter Lily how to surf. "She's a bad-ass," he said. "She has been kind of like a big sister to my kids."
Other highlights of the interview included:
– Vedder recalled writing the song "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" while sleeping between two Shure Vocal Master speaker cabinets in a wood sauna on the grounds of the Bay Area studio The Site, where Pearl Jam recorded its 1993 sophomore album, "Vs." When he got up in the morning and was having coffee on the porch, guitarist Stone Gossard overheard Vedder strumming the riffs and convinced him to finish the track. Vedder added that he wrote the lyrics to "Nothingman" from 1994's "Vitalogy" on a yellow legal pad within 30 minutes of visiting bassist Jeff Ament in the studio and hearing his instrumental demo.
– Before Bradley Cooper took over the role of Jackson Maine in the 2018 remake of "A Star Is Born," Sean Penn was attached to star, with Clint Eastwood set to direct. Vedder even had a phone call with Eastwood and sent him some music for potential use in the film. Asked by Stern if Penn could sing, Vedder laughed and said, "I think depending on the tone of the voice, we might have been able to buy it."
Once Cooper was aboard, he asked Vedder for advice on how to make the on-stage elements of the movie as realistic as possible. "Make sure your guitar covers your balls at all times," Vedder told him. "I think sometimes when the guitar gets a bit high it looks like a bib. And then punk-rock is, like, super-low, but that wouldn't be his character. That way, if the crowd throws anything, let's say an orange or a tennis ball, you'll be covered." When it came time to see a screening of the finished product, Vedder said he spent the drive to the theater "thinking of all the ways I can let [Cooper] down nicely. … I tell you, when I saw it, I was just f—ing blown away. It just took me there. I'm getting chills right now."
– Bruce Springsteen wasn't shy about correcting Vedder's vocal phrasing when the pair first performed "Darkness on the Edge of Town" live together more than a decade ago. And in February 2014, the Boss surprised Vedder backstage moments before the start of a concert in Brisbane, Australia, by inviting him to join the E Street Band on stage. Vedder adopted a perfect Springsteen impression as he recalled him saying, "Hey, Ed! I've got an idea! Here's the deal. All right. First song: AC/DC, 'Highway to Hell.' You take a verse, I take a verse, and then you're done. You can drink beer, you can do whatever you want. None of this encore s—. You don't have to wait around. First song, hit it with me, and you're good to go!" He added, "The best part of when you get to do that isn't actually playing it in front of people. The best part is when you're sitting in the back, either with Pete Townshend, or Bruce, or Neil [Young], right across the small table or sitting on the same couch, playing the song and hearing them sing."
– Vedder said he will debut "one or two new songs" during a Nov. 18 Amazon-hosted livestream event dubbed Venture Into Cures, all proceeds from which will go towards research to treat and cure the potentially lethal skin disorder Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Vedder and his wife Jill are longtime supporters of the initiative. Other celebrities set to participate include David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Kimmel, Willie Nelson, Judd Apatow and Laura Dern.
– With just hours to go before the U.S. presidential election, Vedder said that "one positive byproduct" of Donald Trump's divisive term in office is "that people aren't able to sit this one out. And people are getting engaged. And hopefully after the election they will continue to be, because there's just so much work to do and so much to be repaired."
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Good transport system bodes well for 2010
Johannesburg - Government has identified the transport sector as one of the most important sectors for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, both from a legacy and event delivery perspective.
Transport Minister, Sibusiso Ndebele, on Thursday evening said without sufficient transport, South Africa would not be able to host a successful world cup event.
He said his department has taken an active lead in the transport plans for the World Cup to ensure all infrastructure needs are met.
"We are leading the coordination process, ensuring that operational planning is conducted in a uniform and consistent manner in all the host cities. It is necessary that interaction with the relevant sectors takes place," said Ndebele.
He hinted that an operational plan for the event will soon be signed off by all the parties in order to avoid confusion and possible conflict on sites and on match days. "We are pleased that the department now has a permanent representative in the security sector structures to ensure synergy in our planning processes."
Ndebele once again praised the introduction of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, describing it as an immediate legacy of the World Cup.
The benefits of the BRT, he said, outweigh its total cost as the system addresses major social issues such as congestion while at the same time drives economic growth. "It is world class and affordable, this is appropriate for the World Cup," the minister said.
Ndebele said on first day of BRT operation earlier this month, close to 20 000 commuters in Soweto and Johannesburg had boarded the Rea Vaya buses.
BRT will run for 18 hours a day from 5am to 11pm and the plan is to eventually extend this to 24 hours a day.
There will be bus stations every 500 metres, with security officers and CCTV cameras linked to a BRT control room.
Once the system is complete, no commuter will walk for more than 500metres to a BRT stop. Minibus taxis will therefore be an integral part of BRT and our public transport system. Minibus taxis are an integral part of the 2010 FIFA World Cup transport plan.
The minister called on all South Africans to rally behind the tournament, saying the entire population stands to benefit from a strong legacy of an improved national road network and the public transport.
Ndebele was invited as a guest speaker at a Barometer South Africa event on Thursday night. Barometer SA is an association that brings together different stakeholders every year to debate issues of national interest.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (December 7, 2018)—The 2019 schedules for the Schaeffer's Oil Spring Nationals Series, the Schaeffer's Oil Southern Nationals Series and the Schaeffer's Oil Fall Nationals Series were revealed on Friday Morning during the 31st Annual Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show in Indianapolis, Ind. Total purses, points funds and nightly bonuses are nearly $900,000 for the three Ray Cook-promoted tours while remaining the original premier set of regional racing series in the United States.
The Schaeffer's Oil Southern Nationals Series presented by Sunoco Race Fuels and Tennessee R.V. two-week tour will be entering its 15th season. Cherokee (SC) Speedway returns to the schedule for the first time since 2010 paying $10,000-to-win on Sunday July 14th. Five events out of the eleven pay $10,000-to-win. 411 Motor Speedway will be the second to final event on the schedule paying $10,000-to-win. The 2019 Champion will receive $5,053 for his efforts. Casey Roberts of Toccoa, Ga. is the defending series champion.
The Schaeffer's Oil Spring Nationals Series presented by Sunoco Race Fuels and Tennessee R.V. will be entering the seventh season of competition in 2019. The series features eight new tracks including Oglethorpe Speedway Park in Pooler, Ga., Cochran Motor (GA) Speedway, Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., Blue Ridge (GA) Motorsports Park, Toccoa (GA) Raceway, Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tenn., Clay Valley Speedway in Coeburn, Va. and 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. The Series will have at least one $10,000-to-win event on each of the six weekend events. The tour champion will receive $5,053. The 411 Motor Speedway event on May 27 will be co-sanctioned with the Schaeffer's Oil Iron-Man Late Model Series. Eric Wells of Hazard, Ky. is the defending series champion.
On the Schaeffer's Oil Fall Nationals Series presented by Sunoco Race Fuels and Tennessee R.V., which is beginning its first full season of competition, features scheduled dates from August until November with a couple of TBA dates. The Tazewell Speedway event on September 1 will be co-sanctioned with the Schaeffer's Oil Iron-Man Late Model Series. The series schedule is highlighted by four-$10,000-to-win events. David Payne of Murphy, N.C. is the defending Bonus Series points champion. The Bonus Series now becomes the Fall Nationals.