I have the privilege of working with a great team of missionaries all around the world. It is encouraging to keep in contact with them.
When I moved to China, we planned to work with a family who is also part of our larger missionary team. We had known each other for a while and we are from the same home town.
But many didn't expect us to work together well. Why? Because we both can be hard-headed and strongly opinionated. This can be a recipe for disaster! Thankfully it wasn't!
After working together closely for two years, I think we both believe that we were blessed by our partnership.
As I take three post to consider teamwork, let's begin with the "why".
You can get more done.
You can learn from those in different life stages.
You can be encouraged from someone who has been there.
You can teach the new and learn from the experienced.
You can brainstorm with those who are like-minded.
You can dream without being judged.
You can be understood by other missionaries.
A team done right can become like a family who is rallied around a common goal or purpose.
A team is about giving and taking. You will be benefited by it and should desire to benefit others.
Choosing a team can be difficult. It is hard to find men you are willing to go into battle with.
A lot of people like the idea of teamwork but they have the wrong view of it. Therefore, the team idea doesn't last long and they simply become acquaintances.
So how exactly do you choose a team?
(1) Find those who have common ground as you. You don't have to do everything exactly the same but having the same doctrine and philosophy of ministry is going to be important.
(2) There needs to be a defined leader. Teams can get messy and there needs to be that person that can stop the noise and get everyone back on track. This leader won't abuse his influence and people aren't afraid to submit to him.
(3) Look for those who are looking to invest and learn. Being a team player takes some sort of commitment. Avoid those who are just looking for a handout.
(4) Know that you have to choose them and they have to choose you. It is a two-way road.
Now let me put these intro perspective of us going to the field.
When we chose to work with the family we did while in language school, we went through the above process (as I was advised by others at the time).
We were of the same doctrine and philosophy of ministry. We had already worked in a team setting before.
I was willing to submit to him while working in his ministry. In return he treated me as an equal and never took advantage of that.
I was wanting someone who knew the language and could help me get started in China. In return, I wanted to be a blessing where I could.
During our survey trip, we both showed a willingness to work together.
After two years of working closely together, my family moved, advancing the gospel to a new city. We still consider ourself a team even though we don't work in the same city. We hope that we can continue to do more together for the gospel!
(1) Develop Respect for Each Other.
Do you really respect your teammate? If you can't respect them, it is going to be hard to really work with them. Do you see them as a man of God? Or a lesser annoying untrained missionary.
(2) Treat them as Equals.
Do you treat your teammates as equals. It doesn't matter your age, position in ministry, or how much experience you have if you are looking down on others. People want to work with those who listen to their ideas, who don't crush their dreams, who treat them as equals.
Teammates should go past "acquaintances" to being genuine friends. Of course this is hard if you don't genuinely like that person. You don't have to force friendship. But you can lead, by trying to be their friend. Pray together. Eat together. Play together.
(4) Talk, Discuss and Stay in Contact.
Healthy conversation, chewing the fat, encouraging each other, and brainstorming is all part of the fun. But don't get in the rut of arguing over the dumb issues. Avoid gossip and backstabbing. If you mess up, apologize.
(5) Share the glory but don't steal it!
The up and downside of working together as a team is a victory is a victory for everyone. What do I mean? I mean when you work to get a victory don't dismiss the team's role in helping you get the victory. At the same time don't steal the victory or work of others just because you are a team.
In conclusion, know that teamwork can be a great blessing. Yes, just like any relationship there will be those who take advantage of it. But once you experience working with a group of men of like passions from a distance and closely, you will be thankful for the opportunity and desire more people to be apart of this great team.
This post was originally posted as a 3 part series on www.chinaramblings.com and was reposted here by the original author.


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"Democratic Clown Car" Was Meant As Derision, Not Aspiration
Thanks to Obama we are beyond the question of whether America is ready for a black President.
But there are doors yet to be kicked down and Senator Spartacus is here with his boots on!
Vegan Cory Booker Says Meat Eaters' Days Are Numbered
Geez, Booker with more raw tofu for his base. Team AOC already put a ten year "sell-by" on America's flatulent cows so I think these New Age progressives are serious. Serious, thoughtful, relatable, and totally in touch with Middle America. (Ooops, did I leave out "electable"?)
Who's Pogo?
I also agree with Captain Hate.
Voters need to be reached out to and informed of the truth.
Clarice does that every week with her excellent articles.
RSE with her writings on what is really happening in education
SBW in publishing the truth and correcting the NYT.
Warren Supporter Explains Why He Walked Out of Her Announcement Speech
A former supporter of senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said he walked out of the speech announcing her candidacy because the Massachusetts Democrat was placing too much emphasis on raising taxes, and not talking enough about issues of equality and opportunity for minorities.
Johnhaynes Honeycutt says he previously was a Warren supporter, "But I found at the event there wasn't any way for me to identify with the things she was saying. That was why I walked out."
Bailing out of the speech by Honeycutt and his girlfriend caught the eye of many because speeches announcing a presidential candidacy are usually carefully managed to create positive images and avoid potential embarrassments.
"She's a small-town girl, and her family were blue-collar, and now she's in this position [as a presidential candidate]," he told the Washington Examiner. "Rather than taxing and fighting the rich and using that as her only focus, she should be focusing on opening up opportunities for the people that are in the same position she was once in," he added.
Honeycutt is African-American and also a small business owner in Massachusetts.
So he could veto and say, send me another bill without all the border crap and poison pills. If it takes a day or two, no big deal
jimmyk @ 1:45
I'm certain that was one of the options Trump's advisors presented to him. My guess is Trump knew that he had already won the political battle with Pelosi and Schumer. A veto and another government shutdown has less upside than the coarse of action he decided on especially when you know the Democrats are not going to give him the $5.7 billion he asked for.
Now thanks to going the national emergency route and diverting funds from elsewhere in the budget Trump still gets to force Chuck and Nancy to actively oppose his efforts to secure the borders via lawsuits, Congressional resolutions, etc all the way up to the 2020 election.
Posted by: Tom R | February 15, 2019 at 02:01 PM
How would anyone wearing a wire with the intent to entrap Trump make it past Secret Service security stations without setting off an alarm?
Omarosa made it into the Situation Room with a "wire."
One would think that would be impossible.
I would say that the whole "wear a wire" was or wasn't "a joke" argument needs to be argued carefully. Because if this was said by Rosenstein as a sarcastic put-down, then that isn't a "joke" it's an "insult".
In the movie script I'm writing in my head, when the rest of the coup plotters responded to Rosentein's insult as if it were a serious suggestion of action, he thought, "OMG these f****** are totally nuts and this is treason!" And he headed straight over to the White House and offered to help Trump defeat them.
Notice that in my movie-script version nobody thought it was a "joke" and no one is lying when they say " he wasn't joking"
I can't believe Rosenstein is such an asshole that he is trying to hang on. At the very least he should have offered his resignation. Even if he's not guilty and was playing both sides against the middle he would have told Trump. He needs to resign today and be prosecuted tomorrow.
Chuck and Nancy don't have to oppose anything. Their outside groups like SPLC will do all the leg work if those two don't want to stain their hands anymore.
How much stain do the Forest Gump voters need anyways to be convinced of something that has been obvious for years?
I thought he already said he was leaving after Barr got confirmed.
Cathyf:
Yes and you are absolutely correct!
Just watching McCabe in snippets last night, he had a vigilante look on his face.
He was on a rescue mission.
He thought he was doing the right thing.
It was creepy.
In re: wearing a wire and getting by SS, you have this history.
Wasn't there a couple who invited themselves, and crashed a big event at the WH under Obama? No invitation only a Tux for him, and evening gown for her.
How about that guy who walked in the front door and got all the way to one of the first floor rooms?
I think there have been other trespassers who got by SS.
Jane:
Yes he should be prosecuted.
That is where I know I differ from many on this blog.
He has conflicts of interest out the wazoo.
He has played both ends against the middle.
Just go away before a House falls on you.(Wizard of Oz) reference.
Cap'n, I would never in a million years argue that the GOP is doing the best they can given the voters they have. I hate them as much as you do.
How come every time I suggest the voters are doing dumb things and that just might be because they have been taught wrong things, have wrong values, and have been brainwashed to think as they do...and that there are A LOT of them, you elect to attack me as if that as affirmation by me that GOP is A-OK and blameless.
You allow your hatred for the GOP to lead you to think any comment about the voters is a lazy excuse to support them. That is as big a straw man as you could get, given this is me, talkin.
What YOU tend to be blind to is that voters all over this country are downright happy with people and policies like Obama, Clinton, and now the new Progs are selling to them.
It is as easy to trigger this reaction from you as it is to trigger MM whenever anything critical of tactics by Trump is said.
Oh. And PS. Ronald Reagan won elections several generations (almost 40 years) ago when kids still had WWII parents helping them grow up, and older teachers in their schools still were able to teach things, and more of them and their parents went to church, and when 62 million households did not speak other than English at home.
Sure, Trump found some of them in enough places to win in the EC. He did not find as many votes as Hillary Clinton found by being the worst, and running the worst campaign in modern times.
I doubt that a single person who voted for Trump will not vote for him next time. I do question if that base has expanded, and you wonder who dies...I would suggest more Trump voters die than Hillary voters do, and I suspect that more voters come of age who like AOC than you think.
Now I will take my lazy ass back to my easy chair for a nap.
These are the guys Jussie Smollett Fought Off
(Click to open.)
I can't believe Rosenstein is such an asshole that he is trying to hang on.
Perhaps Rosenstein knows the truth of what is actually going on?
At the very least he should have offered his resignation.
How do you know he hasn't and it was rejected by Trump? Trump had the opportunity to fire him when they rode together on AF1 right after the "wear a wire" story broke. Perhaps the fact Trump didn't fire him indicates maybe there is more to the story we don't know about?
He needs to resign today and be prosecuted tomorrow.
What crimes do you think he has committed?
until someone points out where a reasonably charismatic candidate running a coherent conservative campaign gets rolled, I'm just viewing that as more rationalizing by the Rove types
Also, there are benefits to running a losing but principled campaign. You put solid ideas out there that otherwise get treated as radioactive. Force people to argue against them. Better to have such a candidate get 40% than a RINO get 48%. Sometimes even better than having a RINO get 52%.
Reagan won in a landslide while Goldwater lost in one 16 years apart.
A perfect example. Goldwater had no chance in '64, but he put ideas out there that took hold 16 years later.
Posted by: jimmyk | February 15, 2019 at 02:21 PM
...you elect to attack me
What I'd do to be attacked, you lucky so and so; I can outright pose questions and be roundly ignored. Thanks to technological advance, though, we need a troll around here, so might as well be me. Or maybe I'm already killfiled and no one is seeing th....
Hrtshpdtroll's first public service tip - pics can very easily be shrunk to 400 x whatever with all sorts of free software. Here's one:
https://www.irfanview.com/
And OL, I don't think times have changed as much as you think they have. Reagan would have won in 2016 too (but for the small issue of his being dead for 12 years). Maybe he wouldn't have carried 49 states, but I think he would have won in a landslide. Easy to say, but it's just restating the point that a strong conservative candidate can win, especially after 8 years of prog disasters.
Thank you, jimmyk. It's about promoting coherent ideas instead of blatant pandering. Frankly with what's going on in Venezuela now is a perfect time to advance free market economics as an alternative to state managed disasters.
hrt, many people read and appreciate posts without responding to them. And maybe don't have time (or good answers) for questions. I know most of my posts don't elicit responses but they are much appreciated. :) Kind of like the Silent Majority.
CH, of course I understand OL is a bit older than us and maybe doesn't have time to wait around for ideas to take root. :)
Tru dat, Jimmy. But in Goldwater's day we had time for planted seeds to grow and mature, just as they did when RR came around.
Goldwater was running when our National Debt was $300+ Billion, being well less than half our GDP. The debt we have now is 75 times bigger than that and about double as a share of our productivity. In 1964 the Baby Boom was in college and preparing to enter the work force, creating a demographic boom of young workers who could support old people but that ratio has no been flipped on its head. And the average IQ of the population was perhaps 5% higher then than it is now.
We don't have generations to plant all those seeds and watch them sprout as Goldwater did. Yes I was a Goldwater child, even then, as was my family.
SCOTUS taking on census citizenship question. If that's not a slam dunk I don't know what is.
"CH, of course I understand OL is a bit older than us and maybe doesn't have time to wait around for ideas to take root. :)"
Now that was funny, you two.
I do not block you Hrt.
Old Lurker,
Please leave me out of your disagreement with Captain Hate. I told you I would leave you alone and I meant it.
Trump had the opportunity to fire him when they rode together on AF1 right after the "wear a wire" story broke.
pic.twitter.com/BliAo5YDqb
Video at link. Guaranteed to enrage the dems. LOL!
Interesting thought about RR being able to win today.
Rolling back in time and running him now...would he have been the household name of conservative ideas that GE gave him for so long? Not a chance he could be running as a recent Gov of CA. Today he would not be running against the WWII-Depression era peers who had that common bond with him.
Heck, I don't know that through that time machine, JFK could get the Dem nomination today or win the general.
Fun to consider, though.
Jimmy "SCOTUS taking on census citizenship question. If that's not a slam dunk I don't know what is."
Are you drinking funny water today, Jimmy?
But I know what you mean...
What I'd do to be attacked...
You sonofabitch.
(I don't think links to pics can be manipulated by that software, and Typepad isn't smart enough to honor the html "h" and "w" attributes if the img tag.)
A snip from MissM's 1:10 (El Paso rally)
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-mexico-in-play-in-2020.html
This tweet was posted a couple threads ago-
Parscale tweeted, "The El Paso rally had thousands of people from New Mexico. 70% Hispanic. 50% Democrat. 25% Independent. 25% Republican. 25% Didn't vote in 2016. The left's narrative isn't working, Latinos support @realDonaldTrump in epic numbers."
Here's a couple bits that were new to me-
President Trump drew 30,968 people signing up online.
Parscale said every ticket was scanned and that 7,950 people were inside the El Paso Coliseum venue ... That gives him pertinent information such as name and address. For example, 23.2% said they have not voted in the last four elections. Only 20.4% voted in all four of the last elections.
If you are Democrat who drove from New Mexico to El Paso to attend a rally for President Trump nearly two years ahead of the election, chances are you will vote for him.
But maybe I'm wrong. Can irfan modify linked images?
MM "Old Lurker, Please leave me out of your disagreement with Captain Hate. I told you I would leave you alone and I meant it."
Sorry, that's not how open blogs work. You own and advertise and promote and proselytize a particular point of view here and take positions that are open to comment or questions or yes, attacks, as anyone else. Of course I do exactly the same thing too. You cannot "thought shame" people here from not referencing what you have said when it is relevant to another point being made.
But thank you for reminding everybody that you are done with me.
tk, I appreciate that. :-)
I don't think anyone actually would, I'm way too inoffensive or insignificant or something.
:-) hrts!
I can send some leftover arrows from my front yard over your way any time you feel ignored!
Can irfan modify linked images?
Ext, here's what I do, as with the Rosenstein photo above, which was something like 1200 x 700. Find the photo, save to my hard drive, open from wherever it got saved to to Irfan, resize it, save it to the original address (overwriting the big one), go to tinypic (dot com) and upload the photo, giving me a new properly sized http address to drop into JOM. Whole process maybe 30 seconds...definitely less than a minute.
Wait, should we call you hrt, box, or what?
You got a lot of attention when you were on the Jeb! bandwagon.
save it to the original address (overwriting the big one)
saving it to the original address on my hard drive, I mean - it wouldn't matter if you saved it to a new address on your hard drive, I guess. I just do it that way.
hrtshpdbox,
Thank you for that program. I downloaded it and will try it.
Sometimes I am successful in downsizing pictures, sometimes it doesn't matter. But for a lot of them, I would like to be able to downsize them.
Fine. Is the rule that you get to poke me with a stick whenever you want?
Please clarify.
Byron York
Verified account @ByronYork
Has someone done a detailed analysis of why the 31 currently active states of emergency are legitimate, and the newest one concerning the US-Mexico border is not?
jimmyk, I know, just kinda kidding around
Ext, thanks, that felt good :-)
Thanks OL
Jim, your call.. people usually call me by my last name (box).
CH, yeah, that's true...maybe attention isn't all that it's cut out to be!
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/430251-california-to-sue-trump-over-border-wall-emergency-declaration
Someone is inducing the dems to fight this border security thing tooth and nail. Drug cartels? Pedophile rings? China? Russia? Iran?
They know that not defending the border is a killer, which is why they keep saying it is a "fake crisis."
I want to know who is paying who.
I pointed out a local example, now one might argue that Maria Salazar who is one of the bravest and consequently frequently unemployed news commentators was just moderate enough for her district so was curbelo who fronted the fake wndircement bull, but Democrats know what team they are on.
Miss M, that program looks complicated, and it might even BE complicated, but I use it only for cropping photos and resizing photos (and ignore everything else they offer because I have no idea. And just for the record, I'm absolutely fine with looking at everyone's "click to open" pics - it was just hrtshpdtroll who was being grouchy.
IF we ever find out it certainly won't be due to the media!
Acosta referred to the Angel Moms as having children "allegedly" killed by illegal immigrants. What a lowly piece of shit. I don't know why the president calls on that guy.
Posted by: Maccus T at February 15, 2019 02:25 PM (VpIIl)
He's the perfect foil for Trump. You want to make the media look like imbeciles? Okay, here is Imbecile-in-Chief Jim Acosta.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Twitter - The Electronic Valu-Rite at The Outrage Outlet and Reduce Your IQ and Soul at February 15, 2019 02:27 PM (hLRSq
You can resize pics in the Paint program that comes with you operating system. Just click on the HOME tab at the top and you'll see resize. Then choose the pixel option and keep the width to 400.
When relevant to the point, sure, MM, I can state what I think. I was telling Cap'n he gets "triggered" when I say "Pogo" and reacts in a certain way about the GOP. To make my point in a way that the most number of JOMers would understand, I made the analogy that I also "trigger" you just about every time I rant about Trump or some action or inaction and often that results in your taking me to task for not being the believer you are.
Note that I am not poking "you", I am poking the facade of blind loyalty, defensiveness, and protectionist tone you take when somebody, usually me, tries to be more arms length as I decide if I like or don't like what Trump is doing since that sort of position you take with him is not much different than the other side holds for their idols.
Rocco, I had forgotten that you could do that with Paint. Probably because I found that cropping with Paint was a real PITA, at least for me.
... not poking "you", I am poking the facade of blind loyalty ...
Maybe, but you don't need to call her out specifically to do that.
Posted by: boris | February 15, 2019 at 03:12 PM
hrt, I bought a program called Corel Paint Shop Pro. Although it's not as good as Adobe it's ok for what I like to do...photoshops!
But I agree, you're limited with Paint.
All of a sudden I feel like I am at someone's Thanksgiving family dinner.
Lets give it a break folks. Getting way oversensitized here.
And since I am watching Glouster take on Execter in PL Rugby, I am in a body slamming mood:-)
I know there are many ways to resize pics, but to link them using a img tag, they must be available at a domain address. Seems like the tinyimg.com domain is where box is recommending parking the resized pics. Does storing pics there require an account?
Btw, I have a keystroke macro that takes any address and turns it into an

So for me it's just a matter of two or three seconds to post a pic without resizing.
So why is it okay to appropriate Native American names, and designs here in America, home to Native Americans but not in Great Britian, huh?
https://www.exeterchiefs.co.uk/
GILLIBRAND SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR TEARING DOWN THE BORDER WALL
Gillibrand, a 2020 hopeful, not only criticized President Donald Trump's border wall, she said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire she does not know if the current fencing is "helpful or unhelpful." She said she would look into tearing down any existing border walls or barriers. The New York Democrat also said Trump is trying to build the wall "to create a picture of division and hate and derision."
Like lambs being led by a Judas goat.
Ext, I was using photobucket but they starting charging or something, I forget but couldn't use them anymore so I signed up for imgur and use them now.
I don't think Brad Parscale is appreciated as much as he should be.
They really do have a huge database of supporters. Every time they have a rally you have to register with email and phone number to get tickets.
Every time there is an issue, I get a text on my phone asking me my opinion. (Also asking for donations, but that's ok. I have only donated small amounts twice since Novemeber 2016.) If I remember correctly, when they had the rally here they also asked for zip codes.
So the rallies both gin up enthusiasm and TV coverage, but they help them build a database with information like Parscale quoted from his data on New Mexico. I don't think the dems are able to do that, yet.
Ext, why doesn't Gillebrand start with the wall around Obama's house? Then she can be bipartisan and take on the wall around Paul Ryan's house. I'll hold her beer.
"So the rallies both gin up enthusiasm and TV coverage, but they help them build a database with information like Parscale quoted from his data on New Mexico. I don't think the dems are able to do that, yet."
Or maybe their crowds are not large enough to justify the effort LOL
Seems to me like it is Friday afternoon and y'all need to head to The Ledge for a drink.
Take the edge off:)
I'll have a double Jameson, straight, thank you very much.
Excuse the length, but:
 @hale_razor
CURRENTLY ACTIVE NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
(BY DECLARING POTUS)
Trump: UNPRECEDENTED
Buckeye, my beer is "open"
Will she be the first 2020 hopeful to lead a team to attack the current border fence?
They seem bent on competing with each other in a face-planting contest.
HAHA! Probably not.
I have been doing laundry all day, so I think that has something to do with my aggravation. I poured myself a glass of wine and decided to chill out for a bit. LOL!
This is long, but an important component in why the Uniparty exists.
"AbstractThe Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University ofPennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around theworld. Often referred to as the "think tanks' think tank," TTCSP examines the evolving role and character ofpublic policy research organizations. Over the last 27 years, the TTCSP has developed and led a series ofglobal initiatives that have helped bridge the gap between knowledge and policy in critical policy areas such asinternational peace and security, globalization and governance, international economics, environmentalissues, information and society, poverty alleviation, and healthcare and global health. These internationalcollaborative efforts are designed to establish regional and international networks of policy institutes andcommunities that improve policy making while strengthening democratic institutions and civil societiesaround the world.The TTCSP works with leading scholars and practitioners from think tanks and universities in a variety ofcollaborative efforts and programs, and produces the annual Global Go To think Tank Index that ranks theworld's leading think tanks in a variety of categories. This is achieved with the help of a panel of over 1,796peer institutions and experts from the print and electronic media, academia, public and private donorinstitutions, and governments around the world. We have strong relationships with leading think tanks aroundthe world, and our annual think Tank Index is used by academics, journalists, donors and the public to locateand connect with the leading centers of public policy research around the world. Our goal is to increase theprofile and performance of think tanks and raise the public awareness of the important role think tanks play ingovernments and civil societies around the globe.Since its inception in 1989, the TTCSP has focused on collecting data and conducting research on think tanktrends and the role think tanks play as civil society actors in the policymaking process. In 2006, the TTCSPdeveloped and launched a pilot project named the global index of think tanks, designed to identify andrecognize centers of excellence in all the major areas of public policy research and in every region of the world.To date, TTCSP has provided technical assistance and capacity building programs in 85 countries. We are nowworking to create regional and global networks of think tanks in an effort to facilitate collaboration and theproduction of a modest yet achievable set of global public goods. Our goal is to create lasting institutional andstate-level partnerships by engaging and mobilizing think tanks that have demonstrated their ability toproduce high quality policy research and shape popular and elite opinion and actions for public good."
https://repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/16/?utm_source=repository.upenn.edu%2Fthink_tanks%2F16&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages is the source of the quote.
There is NO SUCH THING as a 'conservative' think tank. They all have a prog agenda with only methods and sales pitches differing.
Posted by: rse | February 15, 2019 at 03:38 PM
Me too, MM, cocktails early today. Jack had a good idea.
Sorry I took off on you like that.
For Ignatz:
IS A .50-CALIBER HANDGUN ACTUALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING?
rse,
That sort of supports Tucker Carlson's article this morning about Max Boot and Bill Kristol and how they got to be experts in stuff they really have no real world experience with.
Maybe we should get a think tank started of normal people. Maybe get someone like Mike Rowe to head it.
One of the advantages Trump has is that he has been talking to contractors, tradesmen, doormen, janitors, etc. for over 30 years. He understands the real world.
I had to laugh at the presser today when he talked about North Korea being perfectly positioned between Russia, China, and SOuht Korea. I texted ChiTown who was also watching and told him that was the real estate guy in him: location, location, location!
Jim, we all have things in our JOM past that embarrass us.
hEArtshApEdbox
hrtshpdbox
Sorry. Just noodling ...
Regarding the Emoulment's clause and Trump's businesses, did it ever envision a non farmer, plantation owner, or shopkeeper ever being POTUS like Trump a successful international businessman? But why is he singled out when every POTUS behind him has taken advantage of their position, and with their wives written books with huge advancements.
It may be post facto but the same they know if it wasn't for their former position, no one outside of the Alinksy quarter would give them a dime to publish.
Nirvana song, Jim.
Posted by: Porchlight | February 15, 2019 at 03:53 PM
Stolen from the web:
Caller: Hi, I'd like to order 25 large pizzas. I have a coupon for $10 off.
AOC: I don't believe in coupons. You must pay the full menu price.
Caller: In that case, I'm taking my business elsewhere.
AOC: Hey boss I just saved us $10! Where's my raise?
Thanks, Porch.
AOC b/f has a govt email acct but people asking if he is now paid staff are locked out by twitter
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/321887/
During my time serving in the administration I have seen @realDonaldTrump consistently stand for the people and keep his promises even in the midst of great backlash. pic.twitter.com/rnR55DbVA3
— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) February 15, 2019
Link goes to a longer statement. I would say that when you get the endorsement of Ben Carson you are doing a pretty good job.
Also stolen, from The_Donald, in reference to the Nigerian brothers arrested in the Smollett case.
I haven't stopped chuckling all day.
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YOURS IN HEALTH AND GOD,
DUNBALD BAMFHT, JR III
Well, Trump is Carson's boss, so...
More hot blue on blue action.
NYC Mayor De Blasio Rips Ocasio-Cortez's Opposition to Amazon
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio slammed self-described socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., NY) Friday over her opposition to Amazon opening a headquarters in the city.
"As a progressive my entire life — and I ain't changing — I'll take on any progressive anywhere that thinks it's a good idea to lose jobs and revenue because I think that's out of touch with what working people want," de Blasio said, according to the New York Post.
"I came up watching the mistakes of progressives of the past, unfortunately what happened in this city when it almost went to bankruptcy in the 1970s," de Blasio continued. "I saw all the times progressives did not show people effective governance and all the times progressives made the kinds of mistakes that alienated working people."
"Working people are very smart and very discerning. They want jobs, they want revenue, they want the kinds of things that government can do for them," de Blasio added. "They understand they have to be paid for."
Guess what city skline this is. If you can then you have been there lately.
You won't believe what foreign investment can do.
Porch,
I think Ben Carson, the man I have read many times, is honest as hell in his appraisal of Trump. It is the way the man thinks, talks and behaves. I would not question him for one second.
Bloom coming off the bartender already?
Amazon, Others Rip Into Ocasio-Cortez After Company Flees NYC Deal, Taking 25k Jobs With It
"What's shocking to me is once again she shows how little she understands not just economics but even unemployment," Scarborough said. "She's the one who said the reason unemployment is so low is because a lot of people have two jobs. She needs to learn basic things about what it is to be a representative."
"When you look at what happens in New York City and New York state, we're losing people like crazy," the "Morning Joe" host and former GOP congressman added. "We are going to lose our influence in Washington during the next redistricting because we'll lose one to two congressional seats. Now we're telling business don't come here."
"Just because she has a progressive agenda, which some people like, does not man she has the city's best interest," Scarborough concluded. "She showed me she only cares about herself and not about her colleagues … and not about the people she represents because those people would be getting jobs themselves."
Panelist Donny Deutsch explained that this behavior puts us "in a dangerous place" and if Democrats "don't start to speak up against people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is young and dynamic but does not know what she's talking about, they're going to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump."
McCabe spokeswoman contradicts CBS, denies DOJ considered bringing Cabinet together to remove Trump
A spokeswoman for former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe denied that he ever suggested that the Department of Justice had considered the likelihood of President Donald Trump's own Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. CBS News had first reported Thursday that McCabe had made that claim.
It's raining face-plants.
It's not that I don't agree with him, JiB. It's no secret I love Trump. It's just that typically speaking, a guy saying nice things about his boss is not really an independent endorsement, as MM suggested.
Well, Joe, just because you have a degree in Economics from Boston U, does not mean you are smart. I think her rationale, and approach is to forget your education, and just react as Lenin would have. Simple explanation.
I didn't suggest it was an independent endorsement. Everyone knows Trump is his boss.
However, if Trump wasn't doing as Carson said, Carson would resign.
Carson didn't have to say anything at all, did he?
oversensitized
dammit, jib, doncha call me oversensitized!!
https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1096494533657968641
Those Nigerian guys are being held. One was on probation for a battery charge in 2011.
On Friday, McCabe spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz released a statement that said:
"Certain statements made by Mr. McCabe, in interviews associated with the release of his book, have been taken out of context and misrepresented. To clarify, at no time did Mr. McCabe participate in any extended discussions about the use of the 25th Amendment, nor is he aware of any such discussions. He was present and participated in a discussion that included a comment by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein regarding the 25th Amendment. This anecdote was not included in 'The Threat,' Mr. McCabe merely confirmed a discussion that was initially reported elsewhere."
sbw,
Not you, for God's sake, but all the bittering going on that has now stopped since it is Gin and Tonic time on the ledge, and Processco on the Verandah:)
I guess. Carson's got a good gig, for which I'm sure he's grateful, and Trump is grateful for his support. It's nice, just saying I don't give it too much weight.
This AOC stuff is really delicious. Should go well with cocktails tonight.
>extended discussions
Good catch Ext. Modified limited hangout.
CNN reports that White House press secretary Sarah Sanders interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's office.
I'll bet that interview with Sarah was special. She is sharp as a tack and I don't think even in a legal probe she will be uncomforatable but the lawyers interviewing her may be.
Understand your reservation but having read his books and articles, I believe Carson is a stand up guy and very loyal. Remember, he is the guy that put Obama on the national spotlight for what he is and was at the Prayer Breakfast.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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from google.cloud import aiplatform
from google.protobuf import json_format
from google.protobuf.struct_pb2 import Value

def create_data_labeling_job_specialist_pool_sample(
    project: str,
    display_name: str,
    dataset: str,
    specialist_pool: str,
    instruction_uri: str,
    inputs_schema_uri: str,
    annotation_spec: str,
    location: str = "us-central1",
    api_endpoint: str = "us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com",
):
    # The AI Platform services require regional API endpoints.
    client_options = {"api_endpoint": api_endpoint}
    # Initialize client that will be used to create and send requests.
    # This client only needs to be created once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    client = aiplatform.gapic.JobServiceClient(client_options=client_options)
    inputs_dict = {"annotation_specs": [annotation_spec]}
    inputs = json_format.ParseDict(inputs_dict, Value())

    data_labeling_job = {
        "display_name": display_name,
        # Full resource name: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/datasets/{dataset_id}
        "datasets": [dataset],
        "labeler_count": 1,
        "instruction_uri": instruction_uri,
        "inputs_schema_uri": inputs_schema_uri,
        "inputs": inputs,
        "annotation_labels": {
            "aiplatform.googleapis.com/annotation_set_name": "data_labeling_job_specialist_pool"
        },
        # Full resource name: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/specialistPools/{specialist_pool_id}
        "specialist_pools": [specialist_pool],
    }
    parent = f"projects/{project}/locations/{location}"
    response = client.create_data_labeling_job(
        parent=parent, data_labeling_job=data_labeling_job
    )
    print("response:", response)

# [END aiplatform_create_data_labeling_job_specialist_pool_sample]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Marathon Oil (MRO) Stock Climbs, Oil Pares Losses on Baker Hughes Data
Marathon Oil (MRO) shares are advancing on Thursday as oil futures shook off earlier losses following the Baker Hughes (BHI) report.
U-Jin Lee
Mar 24, 2016 2:48 PM EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) - Get Report shares are advancing 0.79% to $10.27 on Thursday as oil futures shook off earlier losses following the recent Baker Hughes (BHI) report.
Even though oil prices were still retreating, oil recovered from earlier today as the number of rigs operating in the U.S. dropped by 15 in the previous week, Baker Hughes noted.
Also giving futures some support was Russia confirming it would attend a meeting among members of the OPEC and non-OPEC members set for April 17.
Despite this bullish sentiment, there's still uncertainty about global oil supplies, the Wall Street Journal said.
Crude oil (WTI) is declining 0.78% to $39.48 per barrel and Brent crude is unchanged at $40.47 per barrel.
Based in Houston, Marathon Oil operates as an energy company.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings currently has a "Sell" rating on the stock with a letter grade of D.
The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow, generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself and feeble growth in its earnings per share.
Recently, TheStreet Ratings objectively rated this stock according to its "risk-adjusted" total return prospect over a 12-month investment horizon. Not based on the news in any given day, the rating may differ from Jim Cramer's view or that of this articles's author.
You can view the full analysis from the report here: MRO


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Interview: Griff Jenkins of Fox News Interviews Donald Trump in Calexico, CA - April 5, 2019
Honduras Guatemala El Salvador
lot of people
[The interview was recorded on April 5, 2019 in Calexico, California and broadcast in two parts on Saturday, April 6, 2019 on Fox and Friends.]
Griff Jenkins
President aside from the wall, and I just came from McAllen Texas Rio Grande Valley.
McAllen Texas Rio Grande Valley
They're getting hit so hard from coast to coast all the Border Patrol chiefs tell me in addition to the wall they need Congress to roll their sleeves up and change this laws.
Border Patrol chiefs
Oh Griff, we can change these laws in 15 minutes I could change them. Catch and release. You know that is. Democrats you catch the person you take their name and you release them. And we're not doing that anymore. And it's just a horrible thing. Chain migration where you come in and you have hundreds. You have a lot of people come in with you your mother your father your uncle your aunt your grandmother your grandfather your brothers and sisters and I mean we had a case where somebody that as you know radical Islam he ran somebody ran many people down on the West Side Highway in New York.
Chain migration
You know what well. And killed eight people wounded horribly injured 12 people. I mean missing arms and legs and he has many people under chain migration many of his relatives have come in with him. It's crazy. And then of course you have the lottery visa lottery where they pick them and they pick people.
missing arms
lottery visa lottery
And these countries aren't giving us their finest OK. They're not giving us their finest. I'm not going to say they give us their worst but you know why wouldn't they. So we have to get rid of these things and we can have it so easy what has happened though and you've seen it is Mexico. Now for the first time is apprehending people and bringing them back with this.
Otherwise we're going to close up the border.
Are any Democrats willing to work with you to change the law?
We're going to find out. I think they're getting hurt badly politically. And then once they get hurt badly politically they'll start working with us in the meantime. Mexico is doing a job that we could be doing. But Mexico is now apprehending people at their southern border and they're bringing them back to Honduras Guatemala or wherever they come from El Salvador.
Honduras Guatemala
They're also stopping the Mexicans from coming in. And we've had a great four days and it only started when I said we're going to close the border and I will close the border or I'll put the tariffs on the cars that they make and they send into our country essentially tax free and I'll put tariffs on there and then I'll close the border after that if that doesn't.
So let's address that. How would you put a tariff when your own agreement precludes that.
own agreement
We haven't we haven't finished our agreement yet. So I'll put that in there I'm going to put it in there because if they look people are pouring through Mexico they come from other countries. I've already stopped the money we pay them over 500 million dollars. Honduras Guatemala El Salvador and others. We stopped the money.
Ill put
havent
Some people would say oh you should give them more money the Democrats say give more money. They're forming caravans to get people out.
I've been in there.
And you know what they're not putting the best people in those caravans. OK but they're forming caravans they're putting people in they're sending them up. You know it better than anybody. You know what's going on.
caravans theyre
So Mr. President is it time to call for a summit between yourself the president Mexico the presidents of Honduras Guatemala El Salvador.
president Mexico
No I don't need a summit. I think we've done very well without a summit. They understand we stopped we're saving 550 million dollars. And I respectfully told and I thank him very much because for the last four days it's been great. You see that whole stream is drying up. They could stop him at their southern border their southern border.
whole stream
And you look at what's happening now. They pulled in fifteen hundred one thousand five hundred yesterday they brought them back. They pulled in over a thousand the day before over a thousand the day before that today I haven't gotten the number but I understand it's a lot.
Well, where I was in RGV 14 straight days of a thousand plus 4500 yesterday. This is what I want to address to you. They're releasing now particularly the family units to the public in the fabric of the U.S. tens of thousands are being released and will continue. Are we witnessing the second generation of DACA forming.
fabric of the U.S
second generation of DACA
No, we're witnessing people that are going to be brought out of the country the country is full. We have our system is full. We can't do it anymore. We go by this horrible Flores situation you know that decision is a horror show we have to release after 20 days and we built big detention areas but they fill up immediately.
horrible Flores situation
There's never been so many people coming up and that's because they're gaming the system and the system is changed for the worse because of what happened with Democrats and what they've done in terms of Congress. So if we change the laws it would be very easy. But in the meantime Mexico if they stop the people from coming in. We won't to have a lot of people coming at the border.
meantime Mexico
News today your nominee for ICE Director Ronald Vitiello 30 years in the job. Why did you withdraw his nomination?
ICE Director Ronald Vitiello
Because we may go a different way. We may have to go very tough way and we're going to see and we'll see Ron's a good guy. I know him well done a good job but we may just go a different way a little bit tougher.
different way
tough way
Tough question for you since you've done so much on immigration and made it a central issue. We may end up by your administration's own projections upwards of a million undocumented immigrants added to the existing population. What does that say about your administration handling?
Tough question
own projections
Well I think what's happened is I've proven to be right. If we were able to build the wall now I've gotten the the wall. And you take a look at this I hope you're covering it because we have miles and miles of it being built right now hundreds of miles are under construction. And more importantly they're under contract.
I think 157 miles right now is under contract. They're getting ready to start the Rio Grande we're doing a lot of work there. That's where a lot of people come in and I've shown the people that I was right. I mean this is what's been happening for a long time it's been happening for a long time. They didn't even put down the numbers.
They didn't used to put down the real numbers. I mean you look at what's happened you know in the old days they didn't mark down. They didn't say how many people were coming in. What we're doing is the gang members don't get in. And if they do get in ICE is getting them out the bad ones. We have a lot of bad ones you know that want to get in. And when you look at the caravans they're composed of people that I'm sorry but they're not supposed to be coming into our country and we're stopping it. But what we will be doing is now our system is full.
gang members
old days
And I told our people today our system is full we can't take anymore. The asylum is being scammed. The whole asylum system and you have gang members tough people saying they're afraid to be in their country they're not afraid. And then they'll come up with flags holding flags from their country. [End of first part.]
whole asylum system
Vice President Biden seems to be escalating words with you first on Twitter now. He said that you're a tragedy in two acts. Your reaction.
Vice President Biden
Well we have the greatest economy in the history of our country. We have the best job numbers we've ever had. More people are working today in the United States than ever before. They're paying less tax then just about ever before we had the biggest tax cut in the history of our country. The regulations are cut lower than they've ever been.
best job numbers
I mean we have more we've done more regulation cutting than any administration whether it's four years or eight years. This country is doing well, we're rocking. The military has taken care of the vets are in the best shape they've ever been and we have choice now for the vets which they've been trying to get as you know for 45 years unsuccessfully.
care of the vets
best shape
And you know to him I just a part of the reason I'm here is because of him and President Obama. If they did a good job I probably wouldn't be president. What else you have to say.
part of the reason Im
All right Mr. President thank you very much.
right Mr. President
Thank you. You do a great job there.
I appreciate being on the border. I have to ask you I know you get asked every day. One final question that is are we any closer to seeing the Muller report so much made of it. There's no critics of your attorney general.
final question
critics of your attorney general
You know there's no no collusion. OK. The famous word collusion. There's no obstruction because they put a decision and the attorney general made the decision he said no obstruction. So there's no collusion there's no obstruction. There's no nothing. It's all a big hoax and the Democrats want to keep playing it because they've done a lousy job.
big hoax
famous word collusion
They haven't governed well again that's why I'm here. The way they governed is the reason that I'm president and we are doing a great job. So it's really up to the attorney general whatever he wants to do. But everybody waited for the Mueller report. Then it turns out that there's no obstruction no collusion no anything.
Im president
And now the rest is up to the attorney general. Schiff and Nadler they keep playing their game. They can't get off it and they were very disappointed but it was a very easy decision. And these were not people that like Donald Trump I called them the 13 angry Democrats these were people that were angry. They should've never been allowed to write about me. These were 13 angry people with hatred toward me. And then they added more 17 or 18 and they all were angry at Donald Trump and they still came up with no collusion.
angry Democrats
Very few people could that happen to where they go through almost two years of nonsense haters total haters and they come up with no collusion. Thank you very much.
years of nonsense haters
total haters
Thank you Griff.


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Kimberly Smoak
Whiskey Kisses by Todd Pourciaux Now Available
What a fun & catchy Tune! Sure to make you smile!
A Quarter by Artist Todd Pourciaux Now Available
A Quarter tells a tug on your heart strings story. We hope you enjoy the song & it's message.
"Different Days, Bring Different Things" by The Country Sweetheart Krystal Lee Now Available
Just released "Different Days, Bring Different Things" by The Country Sweetheart Krystal Lee. A Positive message for all ages!
Incredible Independent Artists Singing My Tunes
Beyond Blessed! Check out these artists who recorded my tunes!
Honky Tonkin With My Radio ~ Now Available
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"Cowgirl Lullabye" Now Available
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New Songs By Indie Artists Written by Lil Ole Me Coming Soon!
So Blessed to be working with this group of very talented Indie Artists as a Songwriter. I am honored that they have chosen mine & my co-writers Rachel Wentler & Robert Treadway's songs!
Aug 1 2019
Mentor Session of a Lifetime
Kimberly will be Mentored by one of the best in the Songwriting Business - Brent Baxter
2019 Music Career At A Glance
Kimberly is having an amazing 2019 in the Independent Music Industry. Not only is she up for multiple awards, her music is being played worldwide on multiple platforms & many Independent Artists are cutting her original music.
Multiple Nominations @ The Josie Music Awards 2019 considered the "Grammy's" of the Independent Music Industry
For Your Consideration for Nomination for the 2019 Josie Music Awards
Please Suggest Kimberly Smoak for The 2019 Josie Music Awards in The Category of Songwriter of the Year
"Kneel At The Cross" World Songwriting Finalist
This Fish Ain't Bitin ~ Now Available
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CD Release - "STAND"
Multi-Faith, Multi-Artist & Songwriter Release, February 22, 2019.
Global Release - "I Give Praise"
Artist Deby Kelley Release February 21, 2019
Gospel Christian Song of the Year 2017 and 2018
Josie Music Awards recipient two years in a row.
Country Entertainer of the Year
June 2018 Recipient of the Country Entertainer of the Year - Best Country Female artist
Honky Tonk With My Radio
Has spent 6 weeks at #1 on 94.7 FM WAAK Black Dog Morning Show with Phil Kranz in Georgia
Is currently #1 on LOZ RADIO on spreaker.com
Kimberly is scheduled for many Internet Radio Interviews in May.
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Missouri Songwriter / Entertainer Honored
Although 2018 was an amazing year for Kimberly Smoak ~ 2019 is off to a powerhouse start & it's only July. The Veteran of the First Gulf War, who didn't start pursuing her musical dreams until 2010, accepted two awards in 2017 & 2018; First, she took home Gospel Country Song of the Year with Co-writers Kim Ehm & Doc McCready with Artist Deby Kelley. Then in 2018 was named "Female Country Entertainer of the Year" at the Independent Music Awards in Topeka, KS, in June of 2018, where she took center stage to perform her songs. Topeka's IMA's were originally formed to showcase and support local Hip-Hop artists, but expanded to other genres just this year.
Less than three months later (September 2018) she took home the "Gospel Christian Song of the Year" prize at The Josie Music Awards held at Dollywood in Tennessee - for her self penned song "Kneel At The Cross" recorded by Deby Kelley featuring Kimberly on back up vocals. This marked her Second win in a row in this category, at what is being called the "Grammy's of Independent Music". It was also her third year in a row in which she was nominated for "Songwriter of the Year".
In 2019 she is up for Multiple Awards @ Multi Events that span from Atlanta to Tennessee!
After recording four CD's (both in Nashville and Missouri) Smoak's hard work and perseverance has finally paid off. In addition to all the awards and nominations over the last few years, her songs are now being recorded by other independent artists and have received world-wide exposure and heavy airplay on numerous internet radio stations
Smoak is an ASCAP writer, as well as a member of Echota Records USA, and has a Lifetime membership in the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, In 2018 she also formed "Monarch Springs Publishing" a new home for her numerous compositions.
When she's not writing songs or performing, Smoak stays busy doing radio interviews, planning her next recording sessions, and looking forward to even more musical success in 2019.
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Justia Dockets & Filings Eleventh Circuit Georgia Middle District CASTLEBERRY v. OFFICE DEPOT INC et al Filing 27
CASTLEBERRY v. OFFICE DEPOT INC et al
Filing 27
ORDER granting #15 Motion to Dismiss. Defendant Qianglong is dismissed as a party to this action. Ordered by US DISTRICT JUDGE HUGH LAWSON on 9/13/2017. (aks)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA VALDOSTA DIVISION RONALD CASTLEBERRY, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 7:16-CV-202 v. WINN-DIXIE STORES, INC., OFFICE DEPOT, INC., and QIANGLONG FURNITURE CO., LTD., Defendants. ORDER Before the Court is Defendant Qianglong Furniture Co., Ltd.'s ("Qianglong") Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 15). Qianglong moves to dismiss Plaintiff's claims for failure to serve the Chinese corporation before the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS the motion. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Ronald Castleberry filed this personal injury and products liability action against Defendants Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. ("Winn-Dixie"), Office Depot, Inc. ("Office Depot") and Qianglong as Civil Action File No. 2006-CCV-1777 in the Superior Court of Lowndes County on October 5, 2016. (Doc. 1-2). In his Complaint, Plaintiff alleges that on October 7, 2014, while in the pharmacy area of the Winn-Dixie store located in Valdosta, Georgia, he sat in a chair that slid out from underneath him, causing him to fall to the floor. (Id. at ¶¶ 10-11). As a result of the fall, Plaintiff claims he suffered injuries to his neck and back. (Id. at ¶ 11). In addition to the grocery store, Plaintiff sued Office Depot, which sold the chair to Winn-Dixie, and Qianglong, which manufactured the purportedly defective chair. (Id. at ¶ 12). Plaintiff served Office Depot with a copy of the Complaint and Summons on October 10, 2016. (Doc. 1, p. 1). Winn-Dixie acknowledged service on October 12, 2016. (Id.). In accordance with 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441 and 1446, WinnDixie and Office Depot removed the case to this Court on November 4, 2016. (Id.). Several months later, on February 6, 2017, the Court entered an Order (Doc. 8) directing Plaintiff to show cause why his case should not be dismissed against Qianglong for failure to effect service. Plaintiff responded on February 27, 2017 (Doc. 9), explaining that Plaintiff's counsel upon filing the lawsuit was operating under the mistaken belief that China is not a member of the Hague Convention for the purposes of serving foreign lawsuits and that he was attempting to identify other methods of serving Qianglong within the jurisdiction of the United States. Having discovered that China is a member of the Hague Convention, Plaintiff then requested an additional 180 days to navigate the complexities of serving Qianglong in China. The Court agreed to permit Plaintiff an additional sixty (60) days in which to serve Qianglong. (Doc. 10). The Court left open the possibility of extending 2 this timeline, provided Plaintiff could demonstrate to the Court that he had undertaken reasonable methods to serve Qianglong. The Court further cautioned Plaintiff that in the absence of evidence of his due diligence, the Court would dismiss Qianglong from this lawsuit. More than ten months have passed since Plaintiff's lawsuit was removed to this Court. And, still, there is no evidence that Plaintiff has properly served Qianglong. Qianglong now moves the Court to dismiss this action, asserting that in the absence of evidence of due diligence to ensure service of the complaint, Plaintiff's claims against Qianglong are barred by the statute of limitations. Plaintiff contends that he has attempted service on Qianglong in a number of fashions but to no avail. He requests that the Court grant him an additional 300 days in which to perfect service on Qianglong in China. II. MOTION TO DISMISS STANDARD When reviewing a motion to dismiss, the court shall accept "all well- pleaded facts . . . as true, and the reasonable inferences therefrom are construed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff." Bryant v. Avado Brands, Inc., 187 F.3d 1271,1273 n. 1 (11th Cir. 1999). The court must dismiss the complaint if, "on the basis of a dispositive issue of law, no construction of the factual allegations will support the cause of action." Marshall Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Marshall Cnty. Gas Dist., 992 F.2d 1171, 1174 (11th Cir. 1993) (citing Executive 100, Inc. v. Martin County, 992 F.2d 1536, 1539 (11th Cir. 1991) and Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 3 682 (1946)). Accordingly, to avoid dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), "a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim for relief that is plausible on its face.'" Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). III. DISCUSSION Plaintiff's products liability claims against Qianglong arise from an accident that occurred on October 7, 2014. Plaintiff alleges that because Qianglong negligently manufactured the chair that caused his injury, Qianglong is strictly liable for his permanent injuries. Georgia law requires that "[a]ctions for injuries to the person shall be brought within two years after the right of action accrues." O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33; see also Smith, Miller & Patch v. Lorentzson, 254 Ga. 111 (1985) (applying O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33 to products liability cases based on personal injuries); Daniel v. Am. Optical Corp., 251 Ga. 166, 167 (1983) (holding that O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33 applies to products liability cases brought under theories of strict liability and negligence). The parties here do not dispute that Plaintiff timely filed his Complaint on October 5, 2016. However, it is now September, and Plaintiff still has not perfected service on Qianglong. Qianglong argues that Plaintiff's claims against the Chinese corporation should be dismissed because Plaintiff has failed to exercise diligence in serving this defendant as required by Georgia law. Plaintiff contends that the federal 4 rules of civil procedure governing service on foreign corporations, not Georgia law, apply. Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(f) and (h). Under Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(f), service on a foreign corporation may be made "by any internationally agreed means of service that is reasonably calculated to give notice, such as those authorized by the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents." Plaintiff counters that because there is no clear deadline associated for service under the Hague Convention,1 the Court should consider what efforts Plaintiff has made in serving Qianglong and grant Plaintiff additional time in which to locate and to serve Qianglong by the terms of the Hague Convention. The Eleventh Circuit has consistently held that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the controlling state substantive law when determining the timeliness of service. Aucoin v. Connell, 209 F.App'x 891, 892 (11th Cir. 2006). In Aucoin, the Eleventh Circuit explained that: In a suit where federal jurisdiction is founded on diversity of citizenship, the statute of limitations is governed by state law under the doctrine of Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938). The applicable statute of limitations must come from state law. And the law governing when the suit was commenced for purposes of the statute of limitations is also governed by state law. 1 There is no binding authority specifying a time period for service under the Hague Convention, and neither the Eleventh Circuit nor the Supreme Court has spoken directly on the issue. See Regenicin, Inc. v. Lonza Walkersville, Inc., 997 F. Supp. 2d 1304, 1317 (N.D.Ga. 2014). However, it is generally understood that even under the Hague Convention a due diligence standard applies. Id. at 1318. 5 Id. Thus, it is clear that in this case, where jurisdiction is based purely on diversity of citizenship, that the Court must apply Georgia law to determine the timeliness of service. Under Georgia law, "the mere filing of a complaint does not commence suit unless timely service is perfected as required by law." Tate v. Coastal Utilities, Inc., 247 Ga. App. 738, 739 (2001). Where service is made "after the expiration of the applicable statute of limitation, the timely filing of the complaint tolls the statute, but only if the plaintiff shows that he acted in a reasonable and diligent manner in attempting to effectuate proper service as quickly as possible." Sykes v. Springer, 220 Ga. App. 388, 389 (1996). "The plaintiff also has the burden of showing lack of fault." Id. The test is "whether the plaintiff exercised due diligence, not whether the defendant has suffered harm." Duffy v. Lyles, 281 Ga. App. 377, 379 (2006) (internal citations and punctuation omitted). Georgia courts have defined "diligence" to mean "as quickly as possible." Zeigler v. Hambrick, 257 Ga. App. 356, 358 (2002). Plaintiff has not met his burden of showing by specific facts that he acted diligently in serving Qianglong. When Plaintiff responded to the Court's show cause order in February 2017, Plaintiff readily acknowledged that Qianglong had not been served. (Doc. 9, p. 1). Plaintiff also informed the Court at that time that Plaintiff had been unable to discern a means of serving Qianglong within the 6 United States and that service likely would have to be made according to the requirements of the Hague Convention. (Id. at 2-3). Since that time, it is apparent that Plaintiff has taken no legitimate steps toward perfecting service under the Hague Convention or via any other acceptable method. Indeed, while Plaintiff claims to have hired a private investigator and to have attempted service on Qianglong's American representatives, Plaintiff has provided no specific evidence of the exact measures he has undertaken to serve Qianglong. The only efforts evident to the Court are Plaintiff's service attempts on representatives of XL Catlin, which the Court understands to be Qianglong's liability insurer. And Plaintiff has offered no explanation why service on this entity is an effective substitute for service on Qianglong. Plaintiff's continued complaint that service under the Hague Convention is complicated, expensive, and time consuming is not sufficient to warrant granting Plaintiff additional time to serve Qianglong. Plaintiff has known since at least February 2017 that he would be required to serve Qianglong under terms of the international treaty, yet he has not demonstrated that he has taken any steps toward that end. The Court previously warned Plaintiff that if he failed to show the Court what attempts had been made to meet the service requirements under the Hague Convention, the Court would be disinclined to extend the time for service any further. 7 Therefore, finding that Plaintiff has not acted "as quickly as possible" to serve Qianglong, and finding no basis to extend the time for service, the Court grants Qianglong's motion to dismiss and denies Plaintiff's request for a 300 day extension of time to perfect service. Zeigler, 257 Ga. App. at 358. III. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS Defendant's motion. Qianglong is dismissed as a party to this action. SO ORDERED this 13th day of September, 2017. s/ Hugh Lawson________________ HUGH LAWSON, SENIOR JUDGE aks 8


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Q: PHP. Display content of SQL table based on selection chosen in dropdown box Sorry if this has been asked and answered but I have looked and can't see it anywhere. Yes I am a nooby.
I have a DB with 3 tables: flour, filler and others.
What I would like to do is have a dropdown List. So, if user chooses flour from the Drop Down box it will display flour table. If the user chooses filler then filler table be displayed.
Hope this is clear. I hope you can help. Thanks in advance.
<Form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" >
Supplies of
<select name=filler action="flour.php">
<option value="1" selected>flour</option>
<option value="2">filler</option>
<option value="3">others</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1251");
@mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
@mysql_select_db('krendel');
@mysql_query('SET NAMES cp1251');
$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `flour` ") or die(mysql_error());
$res2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `filler` ") or die(mysql_error());
$res3 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `addit` ") or die(mysql_error());

A: Add the action to the form, not select element. So you'd have
<form method="get" action="flour.php">

and

In your form processing script (flour.php), you could so something like this:
switch($_GET['filler'])
{
    case '1':
       $table = 'flour';
       break;
    case '2':
       $table = 'filler';
       break;
    case '3':
    default:
       $table = 'addit';

}

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$table}");

If all tables have the same structure, consider combining the tables, and adding a type column (varchar containing either flour, filler, or addit for simplicity).
you could then write the query like this (still using the $table variable name to work with the code above.
$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE type='{$table}'");

Using mysql_query, and concatenating variables into the SQL is not good practice now - have a look at PDO and parameterised queries as you learn more.
Some quick and dirty display code:
<?php
$results = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { ?>
    $results[] = $row;
}
?>

    <?php foreach($results as $result) { ?>
        <?php echo $result['column_name'] ?>
    <?php } ?>

This should get you started - as I said above, it's quick and dirty. You'll be able to improve upon this as you get more knowledge (properly separating out the HTML from PHP, for example - it's really worthwhile reading up on MVC amongst other patterns).
Just don't use this code on a production system!
Hope this helps.

A: The page that is going to display the table needs to check the $_GET['filler'] and see what the value is.  Since you are using $_GET and a drop box, you should have a white list something like: $filler_white_list = array('flower', 'filler', 'other');
Check to see if the value of $_GET['filler'] is in the $filler_white_list array.  If the $_GET['filler'] value is valid, then make your query:
$res = mysqli_query('SELECT * FROM '.$_GET['filler'].';') or die(mysqli_error());

Then loop through the result set to print out to the page:
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($res)){
    //get the columns by using $row['column_name']
    //decide how you want to format
}

Things to note: I used mysqli instead of mysql, because the mysql is deprecated (no longer supported), The SELECT statement uses an *, but it is better to list out the names of the column since it is faster. It is not a good idea to use the the values of the drop box as the name of you tables in the database.  The less information you reveal about your database, the better.  Of course, if this is not for a production DB, then it doesn't matter.  But, I think it is always best to think about security even when you're just practicing. Also, I put the $_GET['filler'] in the middle of the SELECT statement because the table's names are the same as the drop box.

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Concorde Engineering - Overview
"The Concorde was special, the quality of the work, the minds, the skills, the talent, the commitment that went into it, that's what really mattered"
Tony Benn British MP
The MP who fought his own Labour government to prevent Concorde being cancelled
Concorde egineering, maintenance and servicing was a complicated procedure and when technical problems occurred, they also tended to affect the whole fleet at the same time, requiring particular attention and increased effort. The same engineers, therefore, looked after the aircraft from the moment it arrived on the ramp to its actual departure
Where Concorde was concerned, cost was always uppermost in the mind. Not only were its maintenance man-hour costs about four times that of a Boeing 747, each spare part had a similarly inflated price tag due to the fact that only a few aircraft were flying and purchase costs were artificially loaded by the governments to enable it to recover some of the large expenditure incurred in building the aircraft. Even so British Airways achieved the seemingly impossible, by managing and operating Concorde at a profit. Another significant aspect with regard to engineering was the complexities inherent in an aircraft which was in 2003 more than 27 years old. With all the superlatives heaped on Concorde, it seems rather strange to label it as old technology, but such it was in spite of all it's state-of-the-art features which included fly-by-wire.
Maintenance was a complicated procedure and when technical problems a cured, they also tended to effect the whole fleet at the same time, requiring particular attention and increased effort. The same engineers, therefore, looked after the aircraft from the moment it arrived on the ramp to its actual departure, and thus this generated a tremendous relationship with the technical crews and other, non-engineering, staff.
Concorde engineers had been responsible for well over 300 modifications since the aircraft entered service. The great majority of these had been carried out to improve reliability – especially despatch reliability, which averaged with British Airways 95% – appearance and passenger amenities. The operational service of Concorde speaks volumes for the skill and dedication of the engineering team.
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Instead of your normal Dunesteef this week, we bring you a special episode of "That Gets My Goat," Big and Rish's secondary podcast. After an explanation and a question for the audience, Rish complains about the trailer for an upcoming Liam Neeson movie, then complains about movies in general.
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I enjoy this, but think you should have a separate feed.
I am told that if you get a Posterous account, you can just drop an audio file in each post and it will create a feed for it, and it is completely free. I don't know if there are download/bandwidth limitations, but I believe there are not. It's worth investigating, in any case!
I know one guy who was dropped from his "unlimited" service (I think it was BlueHost…avoid them) for having too much traffic. But he has tens of thousands of listeners. The company that came to his aid and was able to handle his traffic was ZeHosting. They might be worth looking into.
I like your goat getting! I've listened to 80% of all your podcasts including the banter at the end!! Yes I'm of fan if that! Oh Rish…. That's what she said!
Speaking of trailers that give the end of movies away, I have a video cassette of Curse of the Demon that bears a two paragraph blurb. The first paragraph gives the ending away, the second contradicts everything said in the first paragraph. That sort of ineptitude takes real talent.
I enjoyed the goat-getting, but I also agree that it should be in a separate feed.
On the topic of movie studios only seeming to care about opening weekend, and the question of "Which would you prefer? A big opening weekend success that dies after that or a movie like Inception which builds week on week?", I believe I can shed a little light on that.
They are actually better off having 1 million people see it opening weekend and nobody ever seeing it after that than they are with 10,000 people seeing it opening weekend but 2 million people seeing it over the entire run.
The studios (I guess really the distributors) have brought this upon themselves. Greedy for as much as possible from strong opening weekends, their deal with the movie theatres gives them *most* of opening weekend/week but then an ever decreasing amount of ticket sales.
So, a movie that goes BANG-fizzle benefits the producers/distributors of the movie a lot. A movie that goes hmm-oh-HEY-this-is-AWESOME and builds benefits the movie theatres more and the producers/distributors less. So if they can ruin a movie but make it enticing enough to get lots of people out in the first week, they're happy. The writer/director/actors/… may not be happy with having their movie ruined for people, but the bean-counters are happy.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-distribution2.htm has some information on how this works, though from what I've heard the profit share may often be much more extremely towards the distributor in week 1 and much more extremely towards the theatre in later weeks.
That's really interesting stuff, Jacob.
It really sheds some light on the whole BANG-fizzle crap that we have to deal with these days.
You know, I was aware of the whole studio/theater profit-sharing deal, and the way they do it still makes no sense to me. Our local theater made enough on AVATAR to buy two $100k digital projectors. And that's even spliting profits 40/60 a month into the run. But studios are still content with the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2s dropping over sixty percent on their second week.
But we lowly peons never understand the thinking of upper managment. Typical, I guess.
I'm a relatively new subscriber – and am catching up by listening to a selection of your past podcasts. I also subscribe to a few other short story podcasts. Each of these have their own spin, and yours is certainly unique.
You currently provide a helpful option by having the story first, and then the listener can choose (if they're "in the mood") to continue to listen to your banter, or not ("sorry honey, not tonight, I have a headache").
I think you should retain one feed – by splitting you are segmenting your market and taking the risk of losing existing and potential audience. However if you decide to have a 100% banter episode, like this one, I suggest the following simple solution. Title the episodes that have a story at the beginning as "STORY-xxxxx" and those that are purely banter, "BANTER-xxxx". Thus the subscriber can easily decide to listen or not – depending on their mood (see above).
Am enjoying your show! Thanks a lot for sharing (for free!) your hard work and talents with me and your other listeners. Much appreciated.
Spoiler Alert: Coming soon, My Comment! Watch as I introduce myself as a newish listener, talk a bit about finding the Dunesteef, and confess that this was my first Goatcast. I'll make some reference to the gotten goat in question, mention that I plan on stealing the word "schloaded" and claiming I came up with it myself, make some complimentary remarks about the podcast, and humbly suggest that goat episodes go out as a separate cast for simplicity's sake.
reveal that I am in fact Keyser Söze , that you can't handle the truth, I am your father (yes, both of you – just be glad I didn't reference Chinatown or Deliverance), that the man behind the curtain (also me) is the wizard, and that we were on the earth the whole time. Oh yeah, and I'm married.
Betcha can't wait to see my comment, huh?
Nah, not interested. I've pretty seen it already. Maybe I'll catch it on DVD, but I'll probably never bother with it at all now.
I vote against including TGMG in the main feed. I *have* listened to all of them because A) I sometimes enjoy the banter and B) I am sometimes terminally bored and in search of ways to avoid writing, but I do not look forward to TGMG the way I do to a normal episode. A conversation springing from a story I just read is interesting. A random gripefest is not. Occasionally funny moments do not make a gripefest more interesting in and of itself; I, too, sometimes have funny moments in my conversations with friends, but it is not something that can or should be widely disseminated. TGMG is amusing as a sometimes thing, but not a regular subscription thing.
As it stands, with TGMG as a separate thing, I might check it periodically to listen and see what's on your minds, but if it were in the main feed, I would just skip over it and probably never come back. (Partially, I admit, out of spite at making me pay attention to what comes in on my feed aggregator instead of just listening to whatever is new sight unseen.) On the other hand, I primarily listen to story podcasts and have only one non-story podcast in my feed. (And that one is the Brain Science Podcast, because it's topical, focused, and highly informative on a topic I enjoy.) I have none of the apparently more standard form "some people talk about assorted things in a vaguely thematic manner" podcasts on my list. If I followed more of those, I might be less "meh" about TGMG achieving full-time status.
Basically, you guys do a really great job creating stories, but while I'm interested enough in your thoughts on those stories to listen to your post-story conversations, I have no interest in a podcast featuring *any* two people just randomly talking about nothing in particular. Like, seriously, you could have Sirs Ian McKellan and Terry Pratchett on a "talking about whatever" podcast and I would not bother to tune in. Maybe that's the introvert thing kicking up, that normal conversation doesn't interest me much. I dunno. Another data point, I guess.
TGMG in main feed = Please don't.
Pretty much diametrically opposed to Nathaniel's post. I am one of those listeners who sometimes skips over the story until later, but always listens to the banter.
I've listened to alot of podcasts. Some are content-driven. Some are personality-driven or charisma-driven. Some are both.
It's not true that at all for me that all voices are created equal or all funny is created equal. Some people are more enjoyable to listen to.
If this had just been a story podcast, I may or may not have continued to listen and become a fan.
But there's a real creativity to the conversations you two have. It's really funny and I enjoy it.
This feed, another feed, I guess I don't have a huge preference. As long as i can listen somewhere.
This is fun a podcast like your normal show but a little different in a good way like chocolate milk with cornflakes. This was the fifth goat cast and I must say I like that it turned up as an iTunes download which is my way of saying I would like it as an iTunes feed but I don't mind if it is part of the main feed or it's own podcast. As a trailler watcher I must say I agree with the point that trailers give a way to much it's a personal check point for me that I never go to a film if I feel I no to much after I watch a trailer which allows me to spend a lot less money!
I like TGMG, but I never download it. It usually just sits in my firefox, in a tab, waiting for me to remember I have a 30-minute chunk of audio to listen to that I have to be in front of my computer for.
I noticed someone above suggested Posterous. I prefer Tumblr myself. And not just for the ~hem hem~ dirty pictures.
* I heard the phrase "search the interweb" on Babylon 5 this morning, and I laughed.
This was the first TGMG episode I listened to, prompted by the fact iTunes automatically downloaded it. I liked it and will likely continue listening. I may or may not have listened to it had it not come through the regular feed – I admit, I've become somewhat reliant on ITunes to do all the downloading work for me (yes, I have sold my soul to Apple. It's very sad).
I do feel having a separate feed for it is important – just by scrolling down the comments here its very clear the listenership has varying desires. I don't think merely renaming the files as David suggested above would be effective – I for one rarely if ever look at file names, for one thing. Secondly, for the people who just aren't interested in all-banter segments, it would require extra fiddling with their mp3 player/feed to make sure they don't download those episodes. And no one likes extra tasks, even if those tasks only take a few seconds.
Been listening to you guys forever, but this is the first time I've listened to TGMG. My suggestion, feedwise, would be to do all of the above. Create another feed for TGMG and a feed that contains everything. That way everyone is happy. It can't be that hard to do, but if it's beyond your technical ability I understand.
On to the content. So I have a question for Rish. If trailers that have spoilers get your goat, what do you think of trailers that are intentionally misleading? I don't know how many movies I have skipped, watched later and really enjoyed. The only reason I skipped it to start with was that the trailer made it out to be a love story instead of a twisted psycho thriller.
RSS feeds just point at files, so making extra feeds isn't hard, and doesn't cost anything. You just have to add each new file to the appropriate subfeed and the uberfeed and that's it. Some authors do this when they release different books in audio, especially if they have concurrent banter podcasts. Each book gets its own feed, but fans can get everything in one place if they want it. Sometimes a podcast conglomerate will have all their podcasts in one feed as an option as well. It probably isn't necessary for TGMG and Dunesteef, unless Rish and Big decide to keep adding shows (They have so much free time, I'm not sure what's holding them back from doing so…haha!) I don't think an uberfeed would do much more than dilute itunes reviews over more pages.
Bob, in answer to your question, I too have found I've avoided movies I would've loved because the trailer made it seem like something other than it was. I suppose the trailer makers failed in those cases.
But far more often, I've seen a trailer that misleaded me into WANTING to see a movie, only to leave disappointed that it wasn't what the trailer made it appear to be. In that case, though I hate them for it, I suppose the trailer guys did their job.
Bob – You mean like this one?
Wow, that is funny stuff man. I love the use of Peter Gabriel's "Salisbury Hill" on that. It's just such a movie trailer standard.
That was hilarious! I kept wondering if they were going to figure out a way to make the ax through the door scene seem heartwarming!
As for the big question: I vote 2nd feed. I rarely listen on my computer, but take my ipod along everywhere. So if I were in a TGMG kinda mood, it'd would be great to have it right there with me. I probably wouldn't listen as much if I could only hear it on the site.


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Lambda Chi Alpha records
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photographs, a scrapbook, a film and DVD copy of the Junior 500 pushcart race. The photographs are of the members of the fraternity and are mostly composites of head shots. There is also one photograph of a water carnival float. The scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper clippings and memorabilia of events of the fraternity. The film contains footage of the 1968 Junior 500 pushcart race. It is in color but has no sound. Also included in the collection are a...
Phi Kappa Phi records
Scope and Content Included in the collection are correspondence, and membership information, such as membership, initiate, and officer lists. The bulk of this material is from the 1960s and 1970s. Records from national (1968-1980), and regional (1969-1979) conventions, symposia sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi (1970s), and national and regional publications are included in the collection. Programs, ceremony guides, and seating information for the annual Phi Kappa Phi Banquet and Initiation (1927-1995), as well...
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require 'yaml'
require 'erb'

module Persey
  class MissingEnvVariable < RuntimeError; end

  module Adapters
    class Yaml < Persey::Adapters::Base
      class << self
        def load(file, env)
          begin
            raw_hash = YAML.load(ERB.new(File.read(file)).result)
            symbolize_keys(raw_hash)
          rescue KeyError => e
            _, line, method = /\(erb\):(\d+):in `(.*)'/.match(e.backtrace[0]).to_a
            if method == 'fetch'
              raise MissingEnvVariable.new("Check line ##{line} in #{file}")
            else
              raise e
            end
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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American Car
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British Car
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GTA car manufacturers
Spain is Europe's next biggest automobile maker, whilst in the ranking for world's biggest auto makers it offers achieved the eighth spot.
Unlike the united kingdom or France, who had been one of the pioneers in-car creating, Spain didn't have a prominent automobile industry until sixties. Within the last half of twentieth century vehicle manufacturing was developing quickly. Gradually, production group ended up being formed, SEAT being the nation's automotive leading. Presently it continues to be the main traveler automobile brand in Spain.
83percent associated with automobiles produced in Spain tend to be exported. Automobiles made by Spanish automobile companies are offered much more than 100 countries. You will find more than 15 automobile flowers inside the country, while around 10 international companies develop or assemble automobiles in your area. Production of free part features a yearly turnover of 30, 000 million euros, 60% belonging to exports. In 2013 auto production volumes achieved 2.2 million vehicles.
Among Spanish automobile companies, SEAT is the only one that will develop autos in-house and who's was able to conquer mass marketplace. In 2015 it monitored a 7.45per cent market share.
A brief history with this organization started in 1953, whenever SEAT 1400 was released. This four-door sedan created top rate of 120 km/h. Through the after decade, virtually 100, 000 automobiles had been made. As SEAT happens to be created with Fiat support, its models established into the 1960s were accredited by Fiat, and lots of of those resembled Fiat vehicles. In 2003 CHAIR made its 14 millionth car.
Since SEAT ended up being bought by Volkswagen Group, it started a rapid resurgence. These days this business is recognized for the well-engineered automobiles, offering the best value for the money. Many of them tend to be Volkswagen clones with appealing Latin outside.
GTA Engine
Launched: 1994
Parent company: GTA Engine Competición
Site: www.spaniagta.com
GTA Motor is well-known for its GTA Spano supercar designed and assembled in Valencia. The style had been revealed in 2008, initial car had been made 2 yrs later.
Hurtan Desarrollos S.L.
Automobile manufacturer located in Santa Fe manufactures three designs: Hurtan Albaycín T2 (two-seater), Hurtan Albaycín T2+2 (four-seater), and Hurtan Grand Albaycín. It focuses primarily on classic cars.
IFR Automotive
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Tauro Sport Automobile
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Avanced Design Tramontana
Internet site: www.tramontanacorp.com
Automobiles produced by Avanced Design Tramontana were impressed by Formula 1. The business positioned in Costa Brava, Girona launched its Tramontana sports car at Geneva engine Show 2005. It's far from being a mass manufacturing automobile, as only 20 production devices were made.
International automobile producers
Along with Spanish vehicle companies, additionally, there are several intercontinental auto makers manufacturing or assembling cars and trucks in the country. Many of them tend to be: Volkswagen Group, General Motors Europe, Nissan engine Company Ltd, Daimler, Ford engine business, Renault, Opel, PSA. Not only do they offer the requirements of Spanish marketplace, but also export their products. No wonder automobile industry's share toward total exports exceeds 15percent.
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