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Michalis Boukouvalas Net Worth 2018: What is this football/soccer player worth?
Michalis Boukouvalas is a professional football/soccer player who played Right back / Defensive midfielder for PAS Giannina F.C. as number 2. Boukouvalas was born on January 14, 1988, in Agrinio, Greece. This article examines Michalis Boukouvalas's net worth.
Michalis Boukouvalas Career and Earnings/Salary
Over 2004-2007, Boukouvalas played for Panetolikos earning 26 caps and scoring 1 goals. During 2007-2010, Boukouvalas played for Larissa F.C. earning 43 caps and scoring 0 goals. In 2010-2011, Boukouvalas played for Trikala F.C. earning 29 caps and scoring 1 goals. In 2011-2013, Boukouvalas played for AO Kerkyra earning 20 caps and scoring 0 goals. From 2013-2016, Boukouvalas played for Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C. earning 91 caps and scoring 1 goals.
Michalis Boukouvalas also played nationally. During 2007, Boukouvalas played for the Greece national under-19 football team scoring 0 goals, with 8 caps. During 2008-2010, Boukouvalas played for the Greece national under-21 football team with 10 caps and 0 goals.
Michalis Boukouvalas Net Worth 2018
Professional football players can take home plenty of money. But contract sizes depend on plenty of different characteristics. These include the player's area and of course, their skill set. At the high level, players in Great Britain and Europe can bring in $50 million or more. In Latin American countries, good footballers make $1,000,000-$2,000,000 per year. And in locations where soccer/football is not as popular, such as the US and China, players get $200,000 a year. The smallest paying leagues can pay as little as $50 thousand per year.
Michalis Boukouvalas net worth: soccer/football salary distribution
So what is football/soccer player Michalis Boukouvalas's net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Michalis Boukouvalas's net worth as of 2018 is: $1.3 million
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All this is based on India, but you can connect with people all over the world via these sites to choose your soul mate. Matrimonial sites are particularly known in India and among Indians settled in different countries, this is one of the traditional broker types. In India in general, young men and women do not feel significant to date because dating has not been part of Indian rituals, and love is often viewed as the total mutual understanding that comes after marriage.
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The Etape is as close to riding the Tour de France as you are going to get! It's a full mountain stage of the Tour a couple of days before the pros ride it. I rode it in July 2017 and the high (and low) points were the Col de Vars and the mighty Izoard. It's a fantastic experience, incredible scenery and wonderful closed roads. It's timed and it's tough as hell though. This year was 125 miles and over 12,000 ft of climbing. Miles and miles of false flats, some fairly technical descents and some killer climbs. Great support along the route, fun passing through all the towns and seeing fans already camped out for the Tour.
Le Lac de Serre-Ponçon was absolutely stunning, beautiful clear waters shimmering down below and the Casse Déserte towards the top of Le Col D'Izoard was eerie and awe inspiring, honestly it was hard to take it all in and was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Up there with childbirth in terms of pain and reward!
I went out fit and excited but nothing can prepare you for the Alps if all you've ridden is stuff in UK. As I crossed the finish line I swore I would never ride it again and know exactly why people call Izoard "It's So Hard". However, as soon as I had my medal and had descended down to Briançon I felt like a complete hero and vowed I would do it again with more hill training and an extra gear on my bicycle!
The route for 2018 will be announced in mid October and I cannot wait to see where I will be cycling next July!
Stay as close to the start / finish as you can.
Make sure there's plenty of life in your brakes.
Shove an extra layer in your jersey pocket for the starting pen and the descents followed by a large dose of Rule Number 5.


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CisionScoops at Bloomberg News & NBC Atlanta, New Banking Editor at WSJ
CisionScoop: Bloomberg News welcomed Katherine Doherty as a reporter on the corporate finance team. She joined Bloomberg after working as a reporter at Reorg Research where she covered distressed dept and bankruptcy.
CisionScoop: Kimberly Cox said goodbye to NBC's Atlanta affiliate, WXIA-TV where she served as producer since 2016. Prior to working with WXIA she served as a news producer for various stations such as ABC13 in Norfolk, VA, and KUSA-TV in Denver.
The New Yorker has added Susan B. Glasser as a new staff writer covering Washington and politics. She recently departed from POLITICO where she held various positions since 2013 including chief foreign affairs columnist, editor, and magazine editor.
Emily Nemens was named the new editor of the literary magazine The Paris Review. She worked at the Louisiana based literary magazine The Southern Review starting in 2011 as prose editor and was named co-editor in 2013.
The Wall Street Journal named Marie Beaudette as its new banking editor. She has worked with the WSJ and Dow Jones since 2004 and has held various positions such as news editor, deputy deals editor and most recently, assistant managing editor of talent. h/t Talking Biz News
There were two new deputy sports editors at The Associated Press. Howie Rumberg has been named deputy sports editor for news-gathering and will supervise sports editors outside of the US. Oskar Garcia was appointed deputy sports editor of presentation and storytelling and will oversee sports editors within the US, and will manage how content is presented on digital and social platforms.
Daria Solovieva joined the TheStreet as the executive editor of its subscription product, Real Money. She was the founder of ella letter which provides career, financial and travel advice to women in the middle east. She has also worked for Bloomberg News' Dubai bureau as an Islamic finance reporter and for Energy Intelligence as a US corporate reporter.
After over 36 years, The Seattle Times said its farewells to local news columnist Jerry Large as he announced his retirement. He had worked at the Times since 1983 and covered topics such as family life, culture, education, race and class.
Levi Ismail joined Houston's CBS Affiliate KHOU-TV as a multimedia journalist covering local news. He has also served as a reporter for Waterman Broadcasting Corp. in Fort Meyers, FL and for FIMT-TV in Mason City Iowa.
Jason Noble, chief political reporter at the Des Moines Register, has departed the paper to join Let America Vote as its communications director. He started at the Register in 2011 as a reporter covering state and national politics and before that worked at The Kansas City Star as a Missouri capital correspondent.
Andrew O'Hara joined the Apple Inc. focused blog AppleInsider as editor and video producer. He previously worked for two years at iDownloadBlog as a video producer where he also covered Apple products.

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Coldplay to release new EP next year
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You'll be able to get your hands on a new Coldplay EP next year. Image by Yahoo! Blog – Flickr. Creative Commons
The English rock quartet make announcement that 2017 will see their first EP since 2014s' 'A Sky Full Of Stars'
It's nearly a year since they released their hugely successful seventh studio album, A Head Full Of Dreams and English rock quartet Coldplay have announced that they will release a new EP next year.
Taking to Twitter to reveal the news, the band said: "Hello everyone. We're working on some new songs for next year. It's called the Kaleidoscope EP." Kaleidoscope will be the band's first EP since 2014s' A Sky Full Of Stars'.
Band leader Chris Martin had suggested earlier this year that A Head Full Of Dreams might be the band's last "conventional" album. He said: "We're comfortable with being who we are at the moment. I think when we let go of the idea we had to try and win everyone over I think that was really liberating."
Continuing: "I'd be surprised if there was another conventional Coldplay album. I just feel like we're right where we're supposed to be right now. I meant what I said to you a couple of years ago I feel like this is a closing chapter of something. I stand by that I'm afraid."
Coldplay have released 7 studio albums, 4 live albums, 6 compilation albums, 11 extended plays and 42 singles since they began in 1996, selling more than 80 million records worldwide in the process.
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CV Writers looks in to the growing trend of internships.
Unpaid internships are increasingly seen as an important first step on the career ladder. However, the more that is published about real life intern experiences, the more it seems there is a lot of bad and ugly and limited good about them.
The arguments for unpaid internships are that they provide cheap labour for companies that may be struggling and give valuable work experience for people who may otherwise be unemployed. That work experience could turn out to be a valuable asset on a CV for future employers.
The key argument against, other than the obvious and valid exploitation one, is that internships are for the rich. Well, at least for those who can afford to live on no income for 3 months or however long the internship lasts for. Inevitably then, to take on an internship a person must either have considerable savings (yeah right after 3 years at University?) or parents able to subsidize living expenses. To compound the problem most career type jobs demand specific type of work experience leading to a catch 22 situation. For instance, a graduate with a degree in Law could be faced with a difficult choice: to take paid employment as a shop assistant – the only way to afford to live. Or to take an unpaid internship with a legal firm in order to get the necessary work experience – but not be able to pay next months rent. Some choice?
The website www.internsanonymous.co.uk allows interns to blog about their experiences. Even allowing for the fact you are only likely to do this if you feel strongly about the subject, it makes for fairly depressing reading. From a paid internship by a responsible sounding organisation (the good); to a PR firm where a typical day was spent picking up the bosses dry cleaning and buying birthday presents for her friends (the bad); to a government thinktank where the unpaid intern suffered mentally and physically after taking on the pressures of a role that was previously a full time employee (the ugly). You often here employers complain that many students graduate without the necessary work skills. Well, if some of the internships you hear about are supposed to be about gaining such skills, then it is perhaps not surprising that more and more people feel angry with the system and would rather protest outside large Cathedrals. Especially when Directors of the FTSE 100 give themselves 49% pay awards at the same time.
An employer is more likely to make the internship worthwhile for themselves if there is a monetary value placed on it. There is a built in incentive for the role to contribute productively for the organisation, even if it is only for a limited time. The intern is likely to be far more effective in their role if they are paid something and given clearly defined – and useful – tasks. This is basic economics. It makes sense. Interships are a good idea if they are are run responsibly and are properly valued. At the moment they are open to abuse and it's time this was stopped.
Hmm. CV Writers would welcome your comments?


There are currently ten Nevada TACSEI programs located throughout the state of Nevada. Each site is in a different phase of Pyramid Model implementation.
Head Start of Northeastern Nevada is located in Elko, Nevada. This program began with one classroom implementing the Pyramid Model. Head Start of Northeastern Nevada has been implementing program-wide since September 2011.
The College of Southern Nevada, Early Childhood Lab School is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. This program received training in the Pyramid Model May – July 2012 and began implementing the Pyramid Model September 2012. They plan to use the Pyramid Model strategies in all of their classrooms, but will designate their pre-k and "Ones" classrooms as model demonstration sites.
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Head Start is located in Reno and Hungry Valley, Nevada. RSIC serves 52 children aged three to five and has been using the Pyramid Model since 2011.
Lamb of God Preschool is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. This program has four classrooms and serves children ages 2 through 5.
Great Basin College Child and Family Center is located in Elko, Nevada. This program has six classrooms and serves children ages 2 to 5 years.
The Hills Preschool is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. This program serves children ages 6 weeks through 12 years.
His Kids Preschool is located in Reno, Nevada. This program serves children ages 6 weeks through five years.
Programs that are implementing the Pyramid Model to fidelity program-wide.
Washoe County School District Pre-K Programs: WCSD has implemented Pyramid Model strategies and provide all families with Pyramid Model materials in all 99 ECE Classrooms. WCSD offers four Model Demonstration Classrooms.
Sparks Middle School Inclusive Pre-K: implementing program-wide since September 2011.
Anderson Elementary School Pre-K: implementing Pyramid Model since 2016.
Sun Valley Elementary School Pre-K: implementing Pyramid Model since 2016.
Bernice Mathews Elementary School Pre-K: implementing Pyramid Model since 2016.
Wells Family Resource Center is located in Wells, Nevada. This program has two classrooms serving children ages 2 through 5.
Washoe Tribe Head Start of CA & NV is located in Carson City and Gardnerville, Nevada. Washoe Tribe Head Start began with two classrooms. Washoe Tribe Head Start has been implementing program-wide since September 2011.
Aleph Academy is located in Reno, Nevada. This program is implementing the Pyramid Model in all of its three classrooms.
To learn more about each site, visit individual site pages on our website. To learn more about the Phases of Implementation, visit the NV TACSEI Sites homepage.


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Minister's insanely awkward solo performance at wedding goes viral on TikTok
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The couple say they were in "pure shock". Photo credit: TikTok/@_olivia_mancuso_
The horrendously awkward moment a US couple's wedding minister "went rogue" and began singing during their ceremony has been captured on film in one of the greatest wedding TikToks of all time.
Olivia Mancuso posted a snippet of her wedding video on the social media app, explaining in voiceover at the beginning: "So me and my husband's minister went off script during our ceremony and this is what happened".
During the ceremony, the celebrant cranks into a spontaneous solo performance, to the obvious shock of the couple.
Although they somehow managed to keep from laughing throughout the vows, their facial expressions are particularly enjoyable to watch.
The clip has racked up over 1.5 million views on TikTok, with Mancuso and her husband posting a follow-up video to answer some of the questions they received from amused viewers.
"The question we got the most was how did we not laugh," Mancuso revealed. "Honestly it was pure shock - we had no idea it was going to happen."
"The second question was 'did we pay her', yes we did, we paid her $450 efore the ceremony."
"Plus parking," her husband cut in.
"Yeah plus parking, what the f**k!" Mancuso replied.
Mancuso revealed that despite her being very "specific" about the ceremony, the minister went "completely rouge".
"All of our guests came up to us after the ceremony and they were like 'how about that singing' and 'what the f**k was that?'"
"We literally can't be serious about anything so we were mad for a second but honestly it's hilarious... it got us to go viral on TikTok."
What a hoot! Best man, owl in hilarious wedding scuffle
Drunk wedding photographer goes wildly rogue at reception
The couple also revealed the minister retired right after their wedding, so other couples need not worry about a similar event occurring.
Commenters on the viral video couldn't get over the awkward moment.
"This happened to my cousin. It was a Justice of the Peace who sang 'What's Love Got to Do With It',' one person revealed.
"How did you keep a straight face? I would have been crying," wrote another.
"Is this an episode of The Office?" questioned another.


Even in today's harsh retail climate, at least one professional practice area is booming. Demand is growing for assistance in shedding unneeded space or negotiating more favorable lease terms. "We anticipate a 50 percent increase (in business) this year, and maybe a 100 percent increase next year," reported Michael Wiener, president & CEO of Excess Space Retail Services Inc.The largest spike in requests for help from tenants comes from those industries that face the biggest challenges, such as banking, restaurants, and home furnishings. Wiener would not discuss specific examples of work that his firm is handling; however, according to the company's Web site, Excess Space is representing such clients as The Home Depot Inc., Panera Bread Co., GE Capital Solutions Inc. and West Marine Inc.Most retailers have cut back on their expansion plans drastically. Prospective tenants can afford to be choosy. "They're going to be cherry-picking," said Ivan Friedman, president & CEO of RCS Real Estate Advisors, which advises clients on both space disposition and expansion needs. "The landlords are going to be sitting on the space for a while before they re-let."Shuttering underperforming locations is a necessary strategy for many tenants seeking to stem losses, but Wiener reported that a growing number of retailers are seeking middle ground. For some underperforming stores that are on the bubble, lease restructuring is an attractive alternative to store closings. In such an agreement, landlords lower the rent, making it possible for tenants to stay in a location. In exchange, the retailer commits to a continuous operating guarantee that assures the landlord that the store will stay open for a specific term.That strategy can benefit both the retailer and the landlord. The retailer maintains its location rather than closing the store, and the landlord avoids lost revenue and the expense of backfilling the space.


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BICC brief 42 "Diasporas and Peace: A Comparative Assessment of Somali and Ethiopian communities in Europe" is a DIASPEACE working paper.
DIASPEACE (Diasporas for Peace: Patterns, Trends and Potential of Long-distance Diaspora Involvement in Conflict Settings) is a three-year research project looking into how diaspora groups can foster peace and development in their countries of origin.
Synthesis and dissemination of the research findings.This research project aims to generate new knowledge to better understand diasporas` potentials, expectations and experiences as bridge builders between countries of residence and countries of origin.
The project is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Research Programme.
The research team was established by the University of Jyväskylä and consists of the University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Germany, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI), Germany, Centro Studi Politica Internazionale (CeSPI), Italy, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway, African Diaspora Policy Centre (ADPC), Netherlands, Forum for Social Studies (FSS), Ethiopia, Academy for Peace and Development (APD), Somalia.


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Belfast Armistice Bridge (The Footbridge)
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The Armistice Bridge, also known as the Belfast Pedestrian Bridge, is a beautiful location in Belfast, Maine.
The bridge was first built in 1921 to carry Route 1 over the Passagassawaukeag River. The bridge was built as a memorial to World War 1 veterans and it was used for 42 years to carry cars across the river. It is 1,030 feet long and features a steel stringer design. Over the years, the town of Belfast grew and the need for a bigger bridge was apparent.
In 1963, a new Veteran's Memorial Bridge was constructed just a few hundred feet away. This new bridge took over the duties of carrying Route 1 across the river. It is far stronger and can carry more cars than the original bridge.
After the new bridge was completed, the original bridge became used by pedestrians. It became a popular location for locals and tourists. In the 21st century, the bridge went through a remodel to make it more pedestrian-friendly. It was rebuilt in 2006 and later lamp posts, benches, and new railings were added to the bridge. A plaque was also erected which has all the World War 1 veterans from Waldo Country, Maine inscribed on it. It was re-named the Armistice Bridge and officially opened in 2010. Today, the bridge honors the Veterans and is a wonderful reminder of the old Belfast and the new growing Belfast. It's a great spot to enjoy views of Belfast Harbor, go fishing, take a walk, or just sit and read.
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Bridge Specs
Constructed: 1921
Carries: A pedestrian walkway
Crosses: Passagassawakeag River
Design/Style: Steel stringer bridge
Total length: 1,030 feet
Total width: 30 feet
Address: 6 Footbridge Rd
Town: Belfast
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Virginia Man Bags $800,000 With 160 Similar Lottery Tickets!
We have heard a lot of lottery players buying identical lottery tickets to increase their chances of winning. One such player took this strategy to yet another level by winning a whopping amount of $800,000 with identical 160 lottery tickets for the same Pick 4 drawing.
The majority of the Pick 4 players would jump out of joy at the prospect of winning just one Pick 4 jackpot worth $5000. But Kwame Cross of Dumfries experiences this feeling 160 times after bagging 160 lottery jackpots totaling up to $800,000.
In a press release Cross said that he saw an address in a TV show in the background and for some reason, it stayed with him. He had this uncontrollable urge and purchased 160 identical tickets with the same number combination of 7, 3, 1, 4 for the nightly drawing on December 5. He purchased all of them at the Rosslyn Sunoco gas station on Fort Myer Drive in Arlington.
Cross learned about his phenomenal win when he was waiting in a drive-thru line at a fast-food restaurant. He told the Virginia Lottery that as soon as he learned about his lottery win, he just couldn't believe it and thought this couldn't be real and actually felt surreal to him.
The lucky winner had beat the odds of 1 in 10,000 of matching all the four numbers in an exact order to win the top prize of $5,000, that too 160 times!
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Der Verband der Schweizerischen Gasindustrie VSG vertritt national und international die branchen- und energiepolitischen Interessen der Mitglieder aus dem Kreis der Schweizer Gaswirtschaft.

Im 1920 gegründeten Verband sind rund 90 Gasversorgungsunternehmen zusammengeschlossen, die sich mehrheitlich in öffentlicher Hand befinden. Der VSG unterstützt seine Mitglieder in den Bereichen Politik, Marketing, Ausbildung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Der Verband hat seinen Sitz in Zürich und verfügt über eine Niederlassung in Lausanne.

Im Zuge einer Dekarbonisierungsstrategie ist IWB per Ende 2021 aus dem VSG ausgetreten. Der Zürcher Gemeinderat möchte, dass Energie 360° ebenfalls austritt. Die Branche will die Gasversorgung bis 2050 dekarbonisieren.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website des Unternehmens
 Simon Schmid: Das Greenwashing der Schweizer Gasbranche. – Artikel in der Republik vom 7. Oktober 2020

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Wirtschaftsverband (Schweiz)
Gegründet 1920
Genossenschaft (Schweiz)
Unternehmen (Zürich)

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Join Chris Orwig for an in-depth discussion in this video Quick work with the Patch tool, part of Learning Photoshop Portrait Retouching.
- [Narrator] In this chapter, we'll explore how we can reduce or remove shadows and wrinkles. And here, let's begin with a quick and easy example. And then things will get more complex as we go. What I want to show you here is how we can reduce or remove the shadows that we often have underneath the eyes in a portrait. Here I'll zoom in on the image so that we can evaluate and view that area of the photograph. And in this case, we'll begin by duplicating the background layer, and we'll name this New Layer, Shadows.
Next up, we'll use the Patch tool and with the Patch tool, we want to make sure that we aren't using content aware. That wouldn't work very well. We want to have a certain amount of diffusion. A low diffusion is a defined edge, a high diffusion is a very soft edge so somewhere in the middle will work well. Next we'll go ahead and click and drag around the shadow that we want to correct. We also want to go over, around any wrinkles or edges that we may want to improve as well. Once we have that selection, it's just at matter of dragging and dropping below, to a nice, clean area of skin and let go.
Then we'll move over to the other one and what this will do, is it will patch over that area of skin, it will do it in a way that it looks kind of unnatural. But what will happen eventually, as we've learned in other movies and other chapters, is that if we lower the opacity of the layer, it will look really good. So here I'll go to Select and De-Select. You can see the before and after. It looks kind of strange because we've lost, in a sense, some of the shape there and it looks like I have a couple little edges that I need to improve just a little bit there as well.
So I'm going to go over those edges just a little bit more. All right, after having done that, Select and De-Select and then lower the layer opacity. It might be a good idea to go all the way down to zero. And then just nudge this one up. And nudge it up, what we're looking to do is to reduce the shadows. You don't want to remove them necessarily, all the way because a shadow is telling you there's some sort of shape there, right? If it's completely gone, then there's no shape, we've lost that sense of dimension to the face. And so, you want to find just the right value for that.
And so, in this case, perhaps somewhere right around there, looks good. And then click on the Eye icon. There's the before. Then here is the after.


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Can We Make it Official?
May 5, 2006 at 5:45pm By: Mr. Wilson Posted in The Lincolnite Blog
City Council member Patte Newman went on the record earlier this week as opposing eminent domain abuse in the Taste of China situation. She simplified things thusly:
No honest hard-working taxpayer should ever have to live in fear of their government.
I think most Lincolnites agree. So why not make the sentiment official policy? The City Council should prohibit the (ab)use of eminent domain to steal property for private gain. Period.
Can I have an amen?
The People on the Bus
May 5, 2006 at 12:25pm By: Mr. Wilson Posted in The Lincolnite Blog
I really don't care for articles like today's story on Star Tran riders. There's nothing inherently wrong with that sort of story, but more often than not the stories emphasize public transit riders' weirdness and/or poorness. Colleen Kenney's article today is no exception.
The result of this sort of article is twofold. First, it biases people against Star Tran. When they read quotes like these, who can blame them?
"There's some weird people. Over time, you get a feeling who to sit by and who to avoid"
"Here we usually just see poor people and students."
Who wants to ride in a noisy bus with weird people? And although most people won't admit it, I think there is a strong bias against riding with "poor people and students", both due to the various stereotypes that go along with those titles, and due to the fear of association with those stereotypes.
The second result is that it makes bus riders look bad. It extends stereotypes to everybody who rides the bus. When Joe Public reads the article, he sees a story about: a guy without a car; a student; a poor woman with kids; a disabled woman; foreigners; a scandal-monger; and an abused woman. That's hardly the crew Joe Public wants to mingle with. Now when he looks at a bus with this article fresh in his mind, what is he likely to think about the riders on board?
In all fairness to Ms. Kenney, I'm not accusing her of seeking out an inaccurate slice of the bus-riding public. There are weird people on the buses, and there is an impressive diversity among the riders. It's just that these articles always seem to end up making buses and their riders sound less "good" than the author probably means to.
I have been a regular Star Tran rider for over four years now. I've met almost all the characters: talkative guy; intoxicated guy; indescribably stinky guy; talks-to-herself lady; crying baby; horrible mother; obnoxious teenager; and so on. But for the most part they are no more or less a drain on my day than the obnoxious drivers I would have to put up with had I driven. Most of the time my ride to and from work is loud (from the bus, not the riders), but relaxing.
Perhaps I'm over-analyzing this sort of article, but I don't think that's the case. It took some members of my family two years to "accept" that I am a bus rider, in large part due to generalities they had come to know as fact after reading this sort of article, or from talking to one-time riders. It seems to me that it is relatively common for people to miss the point of these articles.
Five things Lincolnites say that outsiders find unusual:
Sack: As in, "Would you like your groceries in a paper sack or plastic sack?"
At: As in, "Where are you guys at?"
Scoop: As in, "I don't want to scoop my sidewalk today."
We sure don't: As in, "Do you have gooseberry pie today?" "No, we sure don't."
Anything and everything about the weather.
Silverhawks' State Snub
The Lincoln Southwest Silverhawks boys soccer team lost to Millard South last night 0-1, ending the season they began at #1 with an 11-5 record. They won't be going to State this year.
The Silverhawks' State snub raises some interesting questions about the way the NSAA makes District assignments. Currently teams are assigned to Districts before the season begins. Come District Tournament time, that can lead to goofy situations like we saw this year, where 9 of the top 10 teams were in three of the six Districts. District A-1, for example, included Lincoln East, Lincoln Southwest, and Millard South, each of which deserved their shot at State.
So there's the downside of the NSAA's current approach: good, deserving teams will get screwed and be denied a State berth. But the plan isn't entirely without merit. The current districting plan roughly groups teams by geography, so travel time and expenses are decreased. (But not minimized—that would make for all-Omaha and all-Lincoln Districts.) The current plan also assures that Central and Western Nebraska are represented at State. Let's be honest, one doesn't have to try very hard to argue that some of those teams don't deserve to make State based on merit alone. But a strong argument can be made that it is in the interests of many of the parties involved to assure that Nebraska west of York is represented at the State Tournament.
I don't have a good answer, but Southwest coach Andrew Ferguson would sure like to find one, if only so that other teams don't face the same fate in the future.
Star Art
I'm glad to see that the Star Art auction raked in $250,000. That's less than Tour de Lincoln's $430,000, but it's still a substantial sum for the YWCA. Star Art didn't resonate with the public the same way Tour de Lincoln did. Speaking only of myself, for example, whereas Tour de Lincoln genuinely attracted my interest, Star Art rarely drew my attention. Maybe I'm more of a bike guy than a star guy. I dunno.
No More Sugary Pop
LPS and school districts nationwide are ditching regular pop in favor of diet versions, sports drinks, fruit juices, and water. I don't know how much the move will do to decrease childhood obesity (the stated goal), but maybe it will at least cut down on a few of the sugar-induced jitters teachers have to put up with. Then again, sports drinks and fruit juices can have just as much sugar as pop, and students are free to bring pop from home.
I had to drive to work today and I caught a portion of the Todd and Tyler Show on Z-92. They touched on this topic, along with the sugary cereal debate. Rather than sounding like a bunch of rebels—which is supposed to be their image—they sounded more like cranky old men. "Back in myyyyy day…." When they pulled out the line "Kids these days…" I had to change stations. Will somebody please slap me if (or probably when) I start doing that?
Bird Flu in Lincoln!
I found incontrovertible proof this morning that bird flu has arrived in Lincoln. It has to be here. What else could possibly explain the giant splatter of poo from an obviously distressed bird in the middle of my driveway? I mean, the thing was huge, roughly equivalent to the daily poo output of an entire commercial chicken farm. I tried to take a photo but it was so big I couldn't fit it all into the frame. That poor bird must have really been hurting.
I knew it was bad when even Daisy refused to go near. I think I may need to declare my driveway a Superfund site.
Is the LJS Too Pro-Tom?
The Journal Star has been giving Tom Osborne, relative to Dave Heineman, quite a bit of column space these past couple weeks. For example, in Sunday's paper the score was: Heineman, one photo, one shared article; Osborne, three photos, one shared article, one dedicated article, and one editorial. The Journal Star also backs Osborne in next week's primary. My question: to what degree is the Journal Star's support for Osborne related to his disproportionate coverage?
I see two possibilities:
The Journal Star is so overcome by Coach Tom Fever that it is using its pages to promote its desired candidate as much as possible.
Tom Osborne is doing more newsworthy things than Dave Heineman in the days leading up to the primary.
The first option makes a lot of sense. After all, if you want a guy to win, you talk him up whenever you get the chance. It stands to reason that the Journal Star would do the same thing. They don't have any real obligation to provide equal time to all the candidates, beyond any state and federal campaign laws. And besides, Governor Heineman got all sorts of free press during the legislative session by virtue of being Governor.
The second option also makes sense, at least from the Journal Star's perspective. They'll cover what needs to be covered. But if it's true, what the heck is wrong with Dave Heineman's campaign? Why isn't he increasing his media presence, especially in light of all the coverage Osborne has received lately (e.g. from the NSEA, Dennis Hastert, and John McCain endorsements)?
I don't know which of these possibilities is correct, if both are partially correct, or if there's another option I completely missed. But to me the gap in coverage has been noticeable.
Van Dorn Development Unpopular with Neighbors
The proposed small commercial development at 9th/10th and Van Dorn Street apparently isn't popular with neighbors. I'm a little surprised by their opposition. The block being renovated is currently occupied by an empty lot and a few extremely run-down rental properties. It is clearly not a showcase block. The block sees far too much traffic on three sides to be viable as a residential block. It once housed light commercial activity (a greenhouse, and maybe another shop, but my memory is fuzzy) on the south portion of the block.
It isn't as though new commercial development will draw more traffic to the neighborhood. Instead, the most likely customers for the proposed businesses—a Starbucks, a dry cleaners, and a sandwich shop—are individuals who are already on their way to or from Downtown, or to or from Highway 77. Resident Zemis Sedricks thinks that property values will decrease. On the contrary, tasteful, vibrant economic activity should increase property values in the immediate vicinity, especially in comparison to the dillapidated conditions currently found on the block.
The neighbors' opposition seems to me to be based on unfounded fears. That's not to say their fears are entirely unreasonable, but given the realistic alternatives for the block, the current plan seems almost ideal. As long as the neighbors and developers maintain an open dialog, there is no reason the development can't add value to the area.
No Eminent Domain for Hua
The City Council acted wisely yesterday and eliminated any fears that eminent domain would be used to acquire Chan Hua's property at 14th and 'Q'. I'm especially interested in this:
In the past week, private parties have expressed interest in relocating Hua and then dealing with the city, possibly by becoming part of the development team. As private operators, they wouldn't have the same constraints.
That's the way these things should work. If the City can't win with Mr. Hua, then having a private party step in to work with him—especially since Mr. Hua has said he is willing to negotiate, so long as the deal is fair for him—is an ideal solution. Everybody will come out ahead. I'm crossing my fingers.
Eminent Domain Abuse is Back?
After a brief, but welcome, hiatus, it appears that Mayor Seng and the City of Lincoln have brought the hot topic of eminent domain abuse back into the spotlight. The first paragraph of Deena Winter's article on the topic is beautiful:
Chan Hua's grandparents lost a hog and farm operation to Communist China. His parents lost a construction company in Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge. And now, Hua fears he's about to lose his Chinese restaurant to the city of Lincoln.
Granted, Winter's comparison of Lincoln to China and Cambodia is a little over the top. But only a little.
To be clear, the City and Hua are still in negotiations, so eminent domain is not the primary option at this point. Still, it is an option because the property has been declared blighted. Then again, Lincoln will declare anything blighted, so don't put too much stock in that declaration. Communities often leverage the blight label as a way to get property owners to back down during negotiations.
Hua's property was valued at $199,200 during the 2005 tax year. He paid $290,000 for the property on December 23, 2003. The nearly $100,000 gap illustrates the vast difference that often exists between the taxed value of property and its market value. (Both of which are distinct from the value of the property to the property owner, which is often much higher.) Also remember that new tax valuations will come out in June, so the tax figure may be revised.
At some level this appears like a simple dispute. The City wants a chunk of land for public use (a parking garage). The property owner doesn't want to sell. No big deal, right? The owner should be bought out, or, in extreme circumstances, eminent domain might fairly be used. But that simplistic perspective doesn't work here. The City played its cards all wrong. The City admitted early in the process that Hua's property is not necessary for completion of the parking garage project. Instead, his property is only necessary for some of the secondary private projects that may be built on top of the parking garage. In other words, eminent domain is not an option for taking Hua's property because the desired use for his property is private rather than public.
Well, that isn't entirely accurate. Eminent domain is an option even in this case because of the Supreme Court's ridiculous ruling in Kelo v. New London. But using eminent domain would come with a price: it would be labeled as eminent domain abuse, and suddenly public outcry would become a significant liability. In a worst case scenario (from the City's perspective), the City could find itself in a battle with the Institute for Justice. The City's lawyers would really have fun with that.
Long story short, this scenario would work out much better for everyone if Lincoln would just offer Mr. Hua an extremely fair price for his property, along with support services for relocating his business. What's "extremely fair"? Mr. Hua paid $290,000 two years ago. I say offer up $350,000. Overkill? Not really. Remember that the City is strong-arming a man out of his property against his will. We owe him not only for the "real" value of his property, but we also owe him enough to try to overcome his unwillingness to sell. To me, $350,000 is within the range to satisfy those constraints.
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You-know-who is not spoken here
Ann McFeatters
With summer waning, we need a break from you-know-who's obsession with making us fret about him 24/7. So what else can we talk about?
How about what is going to happen to all those pairs of blackout glasses we bought for the solar eclipse? Do we save them for 2024 or recycle them or donate them to Goodwill?
Oh, my. The wife of the impossibly wealthy treasury secretary posts online boasts about her designer labels, her Tom Fords, her Hermes, her Valentinos, her speedboat, her inflatable swan, her whatever. As for critics of the bad taste? You are "nasty" and "passive aggressive" and "adorably out of touch," she says.
Why, suggested Louise Linton, wife of Steven Mnuchin, don't you go "chill out and watch the new 'Game of Thrones.' " She apologized through her publicist. Linton is Mnuchin's third wife. She was once in a movie called "Rules Don't Apply." Stay tuned.
While the U.S. political landscape is bleak, things could be worse. Brazil has 35 political parties and, possibly, 63 more by the time it votes in October 2018.
With the tear-it-down mania going on over Confederate memorials, New Orleans was a bit puzzled to wake up one day and find "tear it down" spray-painted across the base of a statue of Joan of Arc, the 15th century Catholic martyr.
Is tourism in Guam really increasing, as the White House vehemently promised in the wake of the nuclear standoff with North Korea? (Remember the North Korea crisis, which was just before the escalation in the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan?)
And speaking of tourism, Guam, be careful. Tiny Iceland made a pitch for tourists to get it out of an economic mess and ended up with a fivefold increase in visitors. Now, the government, infrastructure and Icelanders are all overwhelmed, wondering how to stop the deluge, short of hoping its volcano erupts again.
Infrastructure is not just a worry in Iceland. Why are Navy destroyers running into merchant vessels? Why did it take a CSX freight train 18 days, 13 hours and 57 minutes to make its normal run from Chicago to Colesburg, Tennessee, according to The Wall Street Journal? Why are Philadelphia commuter trains crashing into each other?
Why did Derek Jeter become an owner of the Miami Marlins? You'd think the new father would have enough on his hands.
Would you believe a city burning a huge "man" made of wood and initiating a festival that brings thousands of people in weird costumes to the hot desert and earning $50 million? Think Reno's Burning Man festival in late August and early September.
What good is being first lady if you can't be granted diplomatic immunity? Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe, 52, who is married to the country's 93-year-old president, was said to be "acting in the interest of the Republic of South Africa" and received immunity after she whacked a young woman, a model, with an extension cord after the woman had been entertaining Mugabe's two adult sons in a Johannesburg hotel.
Sometimes even totalitarian countries have good ideas. China has new guidelines on how long a company's name can be. For example, China doesn't like the name of this company: A Group of Youths in Baoji Holding a Cherished Dream That Under the Leadership of Uncle Niu They Will Create the Miracle of Life Network Technology Company. According to the New York Times, a new name has not yet been chosen for the company, which makes condoms.
You would think an angler out salmon fishing would be happy at a large catch. Wrong. The state of Washington is aghast that because of a torn net, about 3 million pounds of farm-raised Atlantic salmon escaped into Washington's Puget Sound. The worry is that the more valuable Pacific salmon will be endangered. The good news? The state says fish as long as you want and catch as many of those Atlantic interlopers as you can carry away. No bag limits.
Can you imagine the field day children will have with the new Google Express voice-shopping deal with Walmart?
The CEO of Kroger, the world's third largest retailer, tells the Wall Street Journal that "I find the produce that looks the ugliest tastes the best." Hurrah for home gardeners.
Hot dog. A whole column without a mention of you-know-who's name.
Ann McFeatters is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service. Readers may send her email at amcfeatters@nationalpress.com.


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DevOps Firm Specializing in AWS Gets Bought by Cloud Services Provider
Details of the acquisition of Stelligent by Hosting weren't immediately available.
By Gladys Rama
DevOps is taking a more central role than ever in the era of public cloud computing. As such, the companies involved in it are ripe for acquisitions. One of those occured earlier this week.
Managed cloud services provider Hosting has acquired Stelligent, a provider of DevOps automation solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS), for an unknown sum.
Under the terms of the acquisition, which the two companies announced Tuesday, Stelligent Co-Founders Rob Daly and Paul Duvall will join Hosting's executive ranks as vice president of public cloud consulting and chief technology officer, respectively. Reston, Va.-based Stelligent will operate as a division of Hosting.
Founded in 2007, Stelligent is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner that has focused exclusively on AWS solutions since 2013. Its bread-and-butter is providing DevOps automation services that provide AWS developers with continuous and "one-click deployment" capabilities.
Hosting, meanwhile, is a 20-year-old MSP and professional services firm based in Denver, Colo., with more than 2,000 customers worldwide. Its managed cloud offerings support AWS and Microsoft Azure, among other vendors, and come in public, private and hybrid cloud configurations.
The two companies are positioning the deal as mutually beneficial, with Stelligent gaining a better value proposition for its customers by piggybacking on Hosting's managed services, and Hosting gaining the benefit of Stelligent's DevOps expertise to boost its offerings, particularly its Hosting Unified Cloud platform.
"The space we operate in is maturing incredibly quickly. For many years, Stelligent customers have been asking us to provide managed services, including monitoring, security and compliance, in their AWS environments. The demand is significant," Stelligent said in its FAQ. "As we explored the possibility of extending our operations, we realized we did not have the resources or capabilities to do it the right way -- the way we want to do it and the way our customers deserve -- on our own. With HOSTING, we will be able to extend our offerings to better serve customers and, most importantly, do it right. Our joint offering will enable customers to plan, migrate, automate, optimize and secure their applications within AWS with a unique and advanced end-to-end solution set."
According to Hosting's FAQ, "With the Stelligent acquisition, we can now provide the superior service and cutting-edge solutions we are known for throughout the application lifecycle in the AWS cloud. In layman's terms: we now can harness the full power of the public cloud -- and automate or fully manage many labor-intensive internal IT tasks -- for our medium-sized and enterprise customers. One team and one mission throughout the AWS application lifecycle will dramatically reduce release cycles, cost of failure and security and compliance risks."
The two companies assured customers that the acquisition should not cause any service interruptions, at least in the immediate future. In addition, "there will be no reduction in staff" at either company, Hosting said in its FAQ.
Gladys Rama is the senior site producer for Redmondmag.com, RCPmag.com and MCPmag.com.


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This isn't how it was supposed to be! Two years of teaching sociology and economics to senior secondary students was to end this year. The students have graduated and most of them are looking forward to the university now. I thought I have had enough of those everyday realizations of my ineffectiveness in classroom and that constant fear of not doing enough to help the kids with their subjects. In the school administration's view though, it was a satisfactory performance. Personally, teaching has been a great experience for me as well. I have certainly lived some of the most satisfying days of my life in these two years at Poorna. But I have remained conflicted about my ability to teach and whether I should continue doing this.
I visited the school last month after it reopened for the new academic year since I hadn't returned the library books and not said a good-bye to the teachers. It was not easy. I had gotten used to the football sessions with middle school kids during lunch time. I was addicted to watching the five year olds figuring out stories from illustrated books. It was exciting to be with the high school kids and help them figure out concepts. All of this as well as sharing the anxiety of board exams with the students I taught! It was great to be a part of this school where I was learning (more than teaching) every single day. So, I knew I was vulnerable to even a slight insistence by the principal to continue teaching.
At the university, the master's program I am pursuing has entered a slightly easier phase. The classroom load is less and the lectures to attend also few. More importantly, on work front I have a year's contract with an agency to work on their India projects. Both these parts of my daily routine seemed clear enough to commit to another year of school when the principal pitched the idea of teaching sociology to students opting for O level. To take decisions so quick is unusual for me. However, I was sure that being at Poorna has been responsible for one of the most concentrated phase of learning of my life. I agreed!
Tomorrow, I begin the third year of my teaching attempt. I am a rookie and likely to remain so for long. I am reminded of all those books I read which inspired me to consider being a part of a school. Over four years back I read Hemraj Bhatt's (a teacher in government primary school) The Diary of a School Teacher . Hemraj's diary was a daily chronicle of sincere efforts of a teacher trying to make learning better in the little school that he was a part of, in a nondescript town in Uttarakhand. His challenges, how he dealt with them, the children who attended that school and their social contexts, the satisfying moments and little successes that came along… all of these made a lasting impression. Hemraj's diary is probably the first book that made me interested in the idea of teaching and in a school at that.
Though I like reading about education and expositions on it, I do not think that they can inspire many to give teaching a shot. Those dense writings by Dewey, Krishnamurti and Friere are helpful for sure. But it needs popular writings – honest, sincere and direct from the classrooms to get people closer to the excitement and satisfaction of teaching. This is why Hemraj Bhatt's diary and John Holt's How Children Fail made such an impression on me. Besides these, writings from people at the university I attended – Rohit Dhankar and Anurag Behar kept me hooked to the reflexive process of teaching and learning. I owe it to all of them.
As I start the new academic year, I feel that I have been lucky enough to get this opportunity to be a part of a school and am slightly unnerved at the thought of the responsibility that comes along with it – to help learners on their path to knowledge. It carries a kind of responsibility that I haven't been very good at shouldering. On the other side of this thought, lies an excitement to explore, experiment and figure out the world around us with an energetic bunch of students and teachers at Poorna all over again!
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Your students are lucky to have such a dedicated teacher! Enjoy your year ahead.
Thanks a lot Sonia! Will try giving it another shot this year.


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Bexleyheath drug addict who spent £200 a day on cocaine used screwdriver to smash van window and steal electrical goods
Tom Pyman
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Brett Dempster, 36, of Pennine Way, was ordered to pay a contribution to compensation of £150
A drug addict who spent £200 a day on cocaine was "off his face" when he used a screwdriver to smash a van window and steal goods in a raid worth almost £700, a court was told.
Brett Dempster, 36, of Pennine Way, Bexleyheath, pleaded guilty to the theft of a computer tablet, two sat navs and cash from a vehicle when he appeared at Bexley Magistrates Court on February 1.
Re-appearing before the same court on Wednesday, Dempster was ordered to pay a contribution to compensation for the victim.
The complainant parked a transit van he uses for work in an underground car park at Hackney House in Belvedere on the evening of January 8, the court was told.
When he returned to the vehicle the following morning, the van had been broken into, with the front passenger window smashed.
Two Tom Tom sat navs worth £250 each, a purse with a small amount of cash and loyalty cards and a tablet worth £190 were stolen, the court was told.
None of the items were recovered, and when interviewed by police at Plumstead Police Station in Greenwich, Dempster said he didn't remember where he was on that evening.
However, when shown a photo of the van he said "yes, I did it, I smashed the window with a screwdriver" but couldn't remember what he had taken.
The items would have been sold to fund his cocaine addiction, but not to anyone in particular, the court was told.
"I have a drug problem and was probably off my face," he added, as the court was told he spends between £150 and £200 a day on cocaine.
Being sentenced, Dempster was ordered to pay a contribution to compensation of £150 plus £85, which magistrates agreed would be deducted from his employment and support allowance benefit.


Help! Hermes Bolide or Toolbox?
I am trying to decide between the 37 cm Bolide and the 26cm toolbox. They would be everyday bags. I've had the bolide before but never a toolbox. The bolide is undeniably a classic, not sure if the toolbox will be just another passing fancy such as the Paris/Bombay or the Atlas (remember that)? I'm concerned about resale value and of course, I still want to be on-trend/don't want to have anything that looks out-dated. Any thoughts?
I vote for Bolide! It feels more comfortable to carry (to me), so I would definitely use it more.
No way!!!! TOOLBOX all the way - I am currently hunting for a 26cm toolbox too. They are stunning and can be worn so many different ways to give different looks!
I gather you don't like the toolbox?
I'm curious-do you have a bolide or have you ever owned one? Do they not appeal to you?
Love every Hermes designs but for toolbos, it is nice to look at but to carry one, its only one style ie tote and difficult or could be uncomfy to carry as slingbag. Of course this is my preference as i lov 2 way bags . In case if you chose a soft leather for toolbox then once it slouch, it affect the 'Tool'box design.
have you tried on the toolbox before? i think the toolbox looks so cute in the 20 and 26 and very nice in the 33 but somehow it doesn't work on me and my proportions...the shoulder strap for the 20 and 26 is too short for me and looks awkward and boxy when shoulder carried, and the 33 is too big for daily use and also look awkward on me!! oh well....one less style to lust after!!
I hope i could own one, and Bolide is so elegant and classy and I m drooling over it. Of course it is so easy to carry too.
The 33 did not work for me at all. It looked ridiculously large-and I'm a 35cm Birkin girl. I want something for everyday, have had the Bolide before, but I'm not sure about the toolbox. I don't want to get it home and regret it . . .
No I don't have a bolide - I really dislike them and would never pick it as a bag for myself - but they obviously look lovely on other people and are a very popular bag regardless of my opinion. That's just my personal preference. I also really don't like the jypsiere (sp?) and evelyne, LOL. They are too casual and sporty-looking for me.
I think the toolbox is just very versatile, whereas the bolide isn't (IMO) - it has one look which you can't really play around with. The toolbox can be worn with the shoulder strap, or carried as a tote, and then you can fold the sides in, to give it the 'toolbox' look, or you can fold them out, which gives you more the 'celine bag' look.
Very interesting... the 33 didn't work for me either, the 26 is perfect. As you know, I am a giant (but slim frame), and you on the other hand are very petite. Interesting how 26 suits both of us!
I have a chevre small bolide and she's very nice but I've been smitten by the toolbox. I saw a 20 and it was simply adorable. I haven't feasted my eyeballs on a 26 IRL so the size is up for grabs. The toolbox opens wide for ease of entry. I may be wrong on this since I didn't try the 20 with the shoulder strap, but I've read the straps on them aren't very long. I'd hand carry it but this may be a sticking point for those who prefer to sling a purse on the shoulder.
I love Love Bolide. It's elegant, classic shape that will last for years and years, practical with optional long strap, etc etc.
For me the toolbox is similar to a Lindy. With the boxy, square shape, it's rather awkward to carry it next to your body, regardless using the short handles or long strap. While a Bolide just fall nicely on your side when you use both the short handles and the long strap.
Both has its' appeal of course and it's individual taste. Though if you ask me, Bolide Bolide Bolide.


February 25, 2015 - Best-selling author Jonathan Cahn says you better get ready for "a great shaking." Cahn, whose new book titled "Mystery of the Shemitah," says, "The Bible says a prudent man prepares. What do you do? I am not a financial expert, but I will speak for myself . . . in general, I would not be putting my stock in the stock market or have things attached to it. . . . You should also have essentials in store so if there is a collapse of not only markets but of infrastructure and services, and these things should break down, that you would be okay for this time period. I am not a survivalist. I am more of a revivalist." How do you get ready for this collapse? Cahn, who is a Christian minister, says, "The first thing is if you are listening to this and you are not right with God, get your life right because America is rapidly accelerating into a moral collapse and a spiritual collapse. That's part of the picture, and the economic part follows that. But the first thing is get your life right with God."
February 23, 2015 - Financial and geo-political expert John Browne was an advisor on Russia to Prime Minister Margret Thatcher. So, does he think the war in Ukraine is a dire threat? Browne says, "Oh yes, I think it is dire particularly because President Obama has had the wrong end of the stick, and he follows a strategic mistake...In this case, we have the West interfering in the soft underbelly of Russia, notably the Ukraine and in Crimea. This threatens the vital interest of Russia like a warm water port with access to the Eastern Mediterranean, which they have sought for 200 years. Putin, who enjoys 80 percent domestic support, has to win even if it means going to war." On the U.S. economy, Browne says, "I think things are slipping because we have leadership of an appalling bad quality. . . . At the moment, we have massive injections of money . . . The total is $50 trillion of money that has been created out of nowhere. It is so-called 'click money' where it is no longer printed, but clicked on a computer. So, there is lots of money swirling around, but value is being eroded."
February 18, 2015 - Financial writer Andrew Hoffman of Miles Franklin says the debt problem in Greece will not have a happy ending. Hoffman contends, "More than half of Greek debt, everyone talks about the 400 billion euros they owe, more than half of this debt is from the bailouts in the last four years. . . .Two years ago, I wrote that Greece was my top pick to catalyze the big one, and here we are in that same position. . . . If there is an agreement, it is only going to be bad for everybody. It's going to bad for Europe and bad for Greece. Of course, if there is no agreement, then there is your end game right there. They are not just going to leave the euro; they are going to default on their debt. That is the only way Greece can be saved." On physical gold and silver, Hoffman points out, "We are seeing record demand around the world. 2013 was a record year. 2014 was a record year, and starting 2015, gold imports in China have been 50% above last year's levels to start this year."
February 15, 2015 - Few people understand the global economy and its (mis)management better than David Stockman -- former director of the OMB under President Reagan, former US Representative, best-selling author of The Great Deformation, and veteran financier. Chris Martenson of Pealk Prosperity speaks with David on a wide range of events in play globally that predict volatility and eventual economic collapse. David is now loudly warning that events have entered the crack-up phase, which he predicts will be defined by the following 4 developments: - Increasingly desperate moves by the world's central banks - Increased market volatility and losses - Deflation in industrial and commodity prices - Decreasing demand due to Peak Debt. As the crack-up phase gains momentum, he predicts an increasing number of "financial breaks" that will add to the unpredictability and instability of the environment for investors. Even 'dancing close to the door' sounds excessively risky at this point.
February 11, 2015 - Money manager Peter Schiff says forget about the Greece debt questions; the problems in the U.S. are far worse. Schiff contends, "I am even more concerned with the problems with the dollar. The dollar is benefiting right now because most people are just concerned about the euro. So, the dollar gets stronger because people sell euros and buy dollars, but they are missing the bigger picture. We have even more advanced problems with our currency than they have in Europe with the euro." Right now, people are confident in the dollar because they believe the Fed can raise interest rates, and we can actually afford to pay the higher rates–which we can't. We can't do it. If the Fed raises rates, we will have a financial crisis.
February 10, 2015 - Editor and publisher of the Gloom Doom and Boom report Mark Faber says, "Greece should never have been allowed into the EU - Issues with Greece now are not so much an economic issue but a political issue. Faber explains that if Greece leaves the EU, the next day China and Russia will be at their door to build facilities and to gain access to the Mediterranean. So the whole of the European problem is not an economomic problem but a geo-political problem driven especially by hard-liners in the United States. The US has naval fleets of ships in parts of the world where they are viewed as dangerous. We have to be careful how we use the word "dangerous" in the world today that is simply not dominated by the United States. China has the second largest economy in the world and four times more people than the US. You have to respect their point of view too."
February 8, 2015 - Money manager Axel Merk says, "I am very concerned about what is happening with Ukraine. The problems we have there and in Europe, and in Japan and in the U.S., are we cannot balance our budgets. We see how it plays out one way in Greece and in Ukraine another way. In Japan, we are trying Abe economics. In the U.S., we have a feel good growth strategy, but ultimately we have the same issue everywhere." Merk predicts, "For me, it's a slam dunk. We are going to get inflation. There are negative real interest rates in the developed world as far as the eye can see. Just about every country has negative real interest rates, and we have financial repression everywhere. I think we cannot afford positive real interest rates over an extended period." Merk, who manages around $400 million in assets, goes on to say, "I am very concerned about bonds and equities, both of them at the same time. Now, clearly when you print enough money, bonds and equities go up, but the problem is everything goes up in tandem. People need to look at alternatives."
February 4, 2015 - Financial writer Bill Holter says there is better than 60% to 70% chance that another financial calamity or a war, or both will hit in 2015, and it could start from anywhere in the world. Holter contends, "It doesn't really matter where it starts. It will probably be global within less than 48 hours. The reality is it will go all the way around the world within two days because party "A" will not pay party "B" who doesn't pay party "C" and on and on we will go. The payment chain will break." So, what will it look like to the man on the street when the next crash happens, Holter predicts, "On the streets here in the U.S., you are probably looking at total chaos...Once the banks go, especially in the cities, you are going to see complete chaos because the average person has about three days of food stocked up. Everything is run on credit, and once credit stops, it's over."
February 1, 2015 - In this well-detailed interview with Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity, Nomi Prins goes into depth on the rationale and process behind the creation of the Federal Reserve, and more important, how its mandate -- and the behavior of the banking system overall -- metastasized into the every-banker-for-himself regime of sanctioned theft we now live with. Nomi says, "It began with the period before the 1970s when different people were rising to leadership in banks, and worsened in the 80s when we started seeing people who had more sociopathic tendencies or less ability to appreciate the idea of the public's economic stability being beneficial to growing their institutions. They no longer viewed it as necessary." Nomi Prins is a Wall Street veteran turned financial industry reformist, and author of the internationally acclaimed book, All The Presidents Bankers.


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Review: Lightning Dust at the PrivatClub
by Will Macmaster
Lightning Dust were back in Berlin last week for only the second time ever and we were there too to catch a powerful performance of their new album, Spectre, and a few classics too.
As we took off our coats as we entered into the red-tinted building that is the PrivatClub, we took a look around the small, yet intimate venue and grabbed a beer from the bar to warm us up from the outside.
There was a sound in the air that was also quickly infusing us with warmth, this time for our souls. This was being generate from the very talented Echo Beatty from Antwerp, who was tonight's support act for the band we had come to see, the Canadian outfit, Lightning Dust.
Beatty filled the role of the "warm-up" act expertly though, serenading the half-full crowd with the warmth in her performance which combined with her facial expressions made her music very bewitching in nature. Getting the crowd in the right mindset for what was to come from the evening.
Her voice reminiscent of Enya in some ways, which urged the crowd to gently sway to her melodic sounds – with some swaying more so than others. This was the case for at least the first couple songs, before raising tempo to a folky more upbeat track called Hunger Hunger. Following this, she announced she had more one song but she had seemingly already won over the crowd with this performance as an audience member shouted "Two more!" to lure into more serenades.
"Urgency and Intensity are some of the most important things for me."
However, time was of the essence and her tracklist was coming to an end, so she was unable to appease the crowd. Instead, she finished it off on a high, with what she described as her "friendly break up song". A track named Boat where her vocals were in full display. This brought the ardent set to a close. However, she had just enough time to catch up with us after the performance, where she breifly talked us through her music.
"I channel my emotions into my performance and for me, it is a bit cathartic in away. It's so hard to talk about it but for me, the lyrics are very important and I try to put multiple layers in there so I can reinterpret them for myself. Urgency and Intensity are some of the most important things for me." She explained. "I don't think it matters what genre it is if an artist has an urgency it really pulls you in ,and this is what I put into my music"
Echo Beatty warmed the crowd up
This brought us ever closer to tonight's main act, Lightning Dust. In the build-up an ominous red light decked out the stage, preparing us for the arrival for of the group.
We were not waiting long though and just several minutes after the interview with Beatty concluded, the band appeared on stage. Decked out all in black, Amber Webber, took her position at the front of the stage, while Joshua Wells, sat down at the keyboard.
A Powerful, Yet Ominous Start
They broke straight into one of the lead tracks from their new album, Devoted To, which offers a slow build-up via the verses to an emphatic chorus. A very powerful start to the performance, which with its creepy tune played out while the red light still illuminated the stage – creating the perfect aesthetic for the track which manifested a sense of foreboding. This was the first display of Webber's beautiful voice and the pairs impressive synergy. The perfect marriage of which is of course, the core of their unique sound.
From this, it was straight into another track that was pre-released ahead of their new album, Led Astray. This contrasting their opening track with a more welcoming, emotionally driven, and melodic vibe to the song. With her wonderful voice peppered by soft accent breaking through the lyrics – reminiscent greatly of Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane.
They continued straight into more tracks from the new album, with Run Away. This brought us back to a similar vibe to Devoted To, with a similar almost-creepy build-up, that breeds into a brawny, synch-heavy track. Almost futuristic in nature and totally funky. During which, Webber looked and sounded every bit of the rockstar persona she has cultivated for herself over the last 15 years of performing.
They then slowed it down with an older track, Never Again. This was another synth-heavy track which is carried along with a poignant performance. This was a much slower, more loving track with which almost brings you to tears with its beauty, or so said my female companion to the gig.
It was then back to the new album, with When it Rains. This too, although having a more lovely, slow build-up, soon grows to a more joyous – offering a quiet optimism about the unspoken relationship the track deals with.
Then onto another more established, well-known track from their earlier days, I Knew, a favourite of mine, which was a joy to see live. This too is a very optimistic tune with a fast tempo and exciting undercurrent from the keyboard, led to the crowd immersing themselves into the music much more as the room began to shuffle around.
They followed with another older, trippy track, Diamonds. If you have ever heard the soundtrack to film Drive, then you would understand the vibe of this song. If you not, then you should have a listen for yourself.
A Dreamy, Dolcet Sound
After this, Wells acknowledged the crowd for the first time from his place at the Keyboard. Stating simply, "thank you for coming, its such an honour there is such a big crowd here". Before delving straight into another new track, Joanna. With its heavy drumbeat and piercing vocals, this was another one of their more stirring efforts. However, this track's lyrics focus on less about a lost love, but one of solemn solitude and loneliness of a different breed. Again, a track that connects with your soul hard with its dreamy, dolcet sound.
There was a nice middle ground from the faster, more energetic sounds with the more melodic lyrics, with Competitive Depressive. This is another track heavy on the synth, with a fast-paced, energetic tune but with the winsome vocals of Webber that it hits you like a brrick. Another brand new track from the group.
By now the crowd were infused with the sounds of the band. Swaying and bopping, while the band showed equal enthusiasm. Keeping it up with by providing the newer tracks from the album, they headed towards the end of the gig with the combo-track of 3 Am/100 Degree.
Thrst half is likely the rockiest track of the night, but of course, with the same stunning voice, which makes it a very enthralling one. While the second section, 100 degrees is a society shaming, hard to define track- distinctive from the rest of the setlist which looked set to end the gig. However, the crowd by now were infused and it was not yet over as far as they were concerned as they carried on cheering to bring on an encore.
A track which I believe is called, "Never Seen". An older track, from just 5 years prior now. This was one more powerful finale to cap it all off. Brought a whole new angelic and robust dimensions to her voice, stunning throughout. However, not to downplay, Wells, who carried the performance with dazzling synth sounds that accompany Well's cherubic voice wonderfully. Afterwards, we caught up with Webber backstage, once she and Wells had finished greeting and interacting with the crowd. She managed to talk us through the performance and the new album.
Despite a few technical difficulties and using a different mic. She enjoyed the set. " It was different but a lot of fun. We have been playing mostly variations of the set we played tonight through the whole tour. So I'm comfortable with it and it's just fun. It's at that point where its before you are bored with the songs, and after the point where you are too nervous to play them well. We're in this good little zone, right now" she explained.
"My whole thing is if I'm not connecting with the audience, it is sort of boring to me, but tonight I thought I was connecting with people. I don't look at the crowd a lot but when I did, I could see a lot of people with their eyes closed and you could tell certain people were really into it and it keeps me engaged".


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Q: How would I play a sound when the collision occurs? I am new to flash and using as3. I am in the process of making a simple catching game where the items fall from the top and you control a basket at the bottom to catch them. My script is fine and is playing without erros throughout which I am happy about, but how would I add a sound clip to this script to play when the item lands in the basket? Thanks in advance!!!
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.text.TextField;

var catcher:Catcher;
var createEnemyID:uint;
var gameSpeed:uint;
var droppedText:TextField;
var caughtText:TextField;
var score:uint=0;

function initGame():void{
    catcher=new Catcher();
    catcher.x=500;
    catcher.y=1400;
    addChild(catcher);
    stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,moveCatcher);
    Mouse.hide();
    gameSpeed=500;
    createEnemyID=setInterval(createEnemy,gameSpeed);
    droppedText=new TextField();
    droppedText.x=50;
    droppedText.y=50;
    addChild(droppedText);
    caughtText=new TextField();
    caughtText.x=250;
    caughtText.y=50;
    addChild(caughtText);
    droppedText.text=caughtText.text='0';
}

function moveCatcher (e:MouseEvent):void{
    catcher.x=this.mouseX;
    e.updateAfterEvent();
}

function createEnemy():void{
    var enemy:Faller=new Faller();
    enemy.y=-1;
    enemy.x=Math.random()*stage.stageWidth;
    enemy.addEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME, dropEnemy);
    addChild(enemy);
}

function dropEnemy(e:Event):void{
    var mc:Faller=Faller(e.target);
    mc.y+=15;
    if(mc.hitTestObject(catcher)) {
        caught(mc);
    }

     else if (mc.y>stage.stageHeight){
         dropped(mc);
     }
}

function caught(mc:Faller):void{
    mc.removeEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME,dropEnemy);
    removeChild(mc);
    caughtText.text=String(Number(caughtText.text)+1);
}

function dropped(mc:Faller):void{
    mc.removeEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME,dropEnemy);
    removeChild(mc);
    droppedText.text=String(Number(droppedText.text)+1);

    if(droppedText.text=='5'){
        gameOver();

    }

}

function gameOver():void{
    score=Number(caughtText.text);
    stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,moveCatcher);
    removeChild(catcher);
    clearInterval(createEnemyID);
    removeChild(caughtText);
    removeChild(droppedText);
    while(numChildren>0){
        getChildAt(0).removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,dropEnemy);
        removeChildAt(0);
    }
    Mouse.show();
    gotoAndStop('gameover');
}

initGame();

A: import the sound into flash.
edit the properties and set the class of the sound to MySoundClass or whatever you like but you have to reference it later.
In your code write the following in the collision method.
var sound:Sound = new MySoundClass();
sound.play();

See this AS3 Sound tutorial

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