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Authorities with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources say a 17-year-old who leapt from a 30-foot bridge over Crystal Cove at Hamilton Lake in northern Indiana Friday and landed in a passing boat may be paralyzed for life and the boat operator received three severed fingers. "It's nothing to see 10 to 20 kids jumping off the bridge every weekend," said Hamilton resident Nick Snicksteinke. Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette and NBC9.


GOLDEN BOYS Gets a PW Star!
When the affluent Jensons move into town, it's difficult for the neighborhood children to see past the allure of the fancy toys, bikes, and aboveground pool that sons Colt and Bastian have. Syd Kiley, his brother Declan, and their friends Avery and Garrick befriend the new boys, while Syd's oldest sister, Freya, takes a shine to Mr. Jenson, idolizing this more attractive counterpart to her own drunken father and chaotic family. It's clear that unhappiness simmers beneath the surface in this neighborhood, with everyone believing that "the things they don't want are all they have." But similarities exist between these disparate individuals, and as Hartnett's narrative methodically unfolds, lurking secrets reveal themselves, with many children paying the price for their parents' failings. Writing in an Australian vernacular and alternating among the perspectives of Colt, Freya, and Syd, Hartnett (Butterfly) skillfully weaves metaphors and foreshadowing into her affecting prose, such as Freya's view of the world as a castle to explore, and her darker vision of a haunting yellow-eyed monster. Hartnett's examination of different forms of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse is an unsettling, often brutal must-read.
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Let's start with your yacht charter destination. It is the Eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean and Adriatic where through the long weeks of summer, the sky is as blue as the sea and the water warm, even after the sun goes down, and there is a critical point about life on a luxury yacht. You don't have to return to port at the end of the day like day trippers. You can anchor in a secluded cove, with the only sound the water lapping against the hull.
There are a number of standard itineraries that are based upon our experience of clients enjoying the best of the Greek Islands or the Turquoise Coast which mixes the South West Turkish Mainland with these Islands. Shorter trips may not travel too far but each region has plenty of attractions within a fairly small area. You may have ideas about where you want to go. Equally, you may be looking for advice from us, and we are happy to offer it, pointing out the main features of each of our standard itineraries.
In recent years, Turkey has become extremely popular with tourists in search of the sun. The regular region flights into the international airports of South West Turkey have made its resorts very accessible. Places like Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye, Gocek and Antalya all welcome significant number of visitors throughout the long summer months, and each of these places can be included on a yacht charter itinerary.
The Greek Islands in the Aegean are very popular, especially with tourists from other parts of Europe. The beauty of having a yacht charter vacation is that you have the facility of calling on several of those islands during your holiday. Rhodes, Symi and Kos are regularly put together in an itinerary, along with parts of the Turkish Mainland, typically the Bodrum and Datca Peninsulas or the area around Marmaris.
The largest of the Dodecanese Islands is Rhodes, close to the South West Coast of Turkey. We can combine a visit to Rhodes, nearby Symi and Kos with time in Turkey, perhaps Marmaris, Datca or Bodrum? At a local level, the tourist industries of Greece and Turkey are great friends and you can experience two lovely countries in one luxury charter yacht vacation.
The Cyclades has two particularly popular holiday islands, Santorini and Mykonos yet in some ways its focus is an uninhabited island, Delos which is regarded as sacred. Mythology tells us that the islands were formed when Poseidon, the God of the Sea became angry with the sea nymphs and turned them into stone. Apollo and Artemis were said to have been born on Delos and no one is allowed to give birth or die there.
The Saronic Islands are close to the Greek Mainland and its capital, Athens. As a result of their location, they receive many Greek holidaymakers as well as those from further afield. Our standard charter yacht itineraries include the best of the islands as well as a chance to see Athens. If you approach us as a group and can hire the whole yacht, we can agree a bespoke itinerary with you with the only real constraint being time.
The final set of islands in the Aegean are the Ionian Islands west of the Greek Mainland. They include Corfu which was arguably the first Greek Island to attract mass tourism, Kefalonia, the largest and Lefkas which is joined to the Greek Mainland via a bridge.
The Adriatic Sea is a great place for a luxury yacht charter. Adriatic Coastline is increasingly popular with Montenegro and Croatia firmly on the tourist map. With your own luxury yacht charter, you can anchor anywhere and enjoy the lovely beaches in the region. The main destinations for yacht charter are Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Kotor and Tivat.
Forget about these cruise liners that take a host of passengers from port to port in various parts of the world. A luxury yacht charter is much more personal and intimate than that. You may have a group of you that wants to take a charter holiday together and takes the whole yacht. In that case, you will obviously all know each other and can actually, within reason, get a bespoke itinerary that is practical in terms of balancing time with proposed destinations.


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Acleda joins WEF growth club
Cambodia's largest financial institution, Acleda Bank, has been adopted into the World Economic Forum's group of Global Growth Companies (GGC), an exclusive club made up of some of the world's fastest-growing medium-size firms.
The WEF yesterday announced that 20 companies from the Asia-Pacific region had been added to the list of 360, including six from Japan, three from South Korea, two from Vietnam and two from Myanmar.
Rodolfo Lara Torres, director and deputy head of Global Growth Companies community at WEF, commended Acleda on its consistent financial performance and its corporate citizenship practices.
"For example, it fully subscribes to international conventions which prohibit the provision of credit to any activities which might harm the environment or jeopardise human rights," Lara Torres said. "Acleda Bank is the only Cambodian company to receive the award this year. Nevertheless, the country displays a dynamic business environment for small and medium enterprises, and the Forum is currently considering applications for the 2015 selection process," he added.
The WEF is a Swiss nonprofit organisation boasting some of the world's largest firms, including Microsoft and Facebook. Acleda Bank became an official member of the WEF earlier this year, joining youth engagement and employment NGO Friends International as the only Cambodian members. On the WEF's list of Global Growth Companies, Acleda joins the likes of information technology firm Mozilla and Vietnam's largest financial services provider, BaoViet.
Companies wishing to join the GCC must first be invited by existing members before they undergo a review by the WEF. The selection criteria include having five years of above-average growth, being a major industry influence within the firm's home country and have a track record of positive corporate citizenship.
In January, Acleda Bank reported a profit of $18.3 million at the end of the first quarter of this year, down slightly from $18.8 million during the same period in 2013.
It has, however seen four years straight of profit increases, from $26.6 million in 2010, to $77.8 million last year.
So Phonnary, executive vice president and group chief operations officer of Acleda Bank said the acceptance will assist the bank in fostering new partnerships and aid in off-shore expansion plans.
"We hope the new appointment will attract more investors to the company, and more foreign firms to utilise our banking services," Phonnary said. "Our customer base is not only domestic, it is now many foreigners."
Acleda Bank has subsidiaries in Laos and Myanmar, and, according to Phonnary, is eyeing expansion into China.
"We are doing a feasibility study and plan into establishing branches in Southern China," Phonnary said. "It is our long-term plan to expand to China after we strengthen our Myanmar operations," she added.
Acleda bank started out as a micro-finance NGO in 1993 with the financial assistance of the International Labour Organisation and the UN.
In 2003 they were awarded a commercial banking licesnse and at the end of March Acleda had 251 branches throughout Cambodia.
This year the bank began handling government revenues and expenditures, civil servants payroll and the bank now also accept tax payments as part of the governments public finance reforms.
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Monthly Weather Review (19)
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Predictability and Dynamics of Weather Systems in the Atlantic-European Sector (PANDOWAE) (28)
https://journals.ametsoc.org/browse?access=user&pageSize=10&sort=datedescending&t_0=PANDOWAE&t_1=ARTICLES
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The Effects of Orography on the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones: A Case Study of Typhoon Sinlaku (2008)
Hilke S. Lentink
Christian M. Grams
Michael Riemer
Sarah C. Jones
Extratropical transition (ET) can cause high-impact weather in midlatitude regions and therefore constitutes an ongoing threat at the end of a tropical cyclone's (TC) life cycle. Most of the ET events occur over the ocean, but some TCs recurve and undergo ET along coastal regions; however, the latter category is less investigated. Typhoon Sinlaku (2008), for example, underwent ET along the southern coast of Japan. It was one of the typhoons that occurred during the T-PARC field campaign, providing unprecedented high-resolution observational data. Sinlaku is therefore an excellent case to investigate the impact of a coastal region, and in particular orography, on the evolution of ET. Here, observations from T-PARC are employed to verify high-resolution simulations of Sinlaku. In addition, a sensitivity simulation is performed with the orography of Japan removed. The presence of orography causes blocking of low-level, cool midlatitude air north of Japan. Without this inflow of cool air, ET is delayed. Only once Sinlaku moves away from the orographic barrier does the cool, dry environmental air penetrate equatorward, and ET continues. On a local scale, evaporatively cooled air from below Sinlaku's asymmetric precipitation field could be advected toward the cyclone center when orography was favorable for it. Changes in the vortex structure, as known from mature TCs interacting with orography, were only minor due to the high translation speed during ET. This study corroborates that orography can impact ET by modulating both the synoptic-scale environmental conditions and the mesoscale cyclone structure during ET.
Potential Vorticity Dynamics of Forecast Errors: A Quantitative Case Study
Marlene Baumgart
Volkmar Wirth
Franziska Teubler
Simon T. K. Lang
Synoptic-scale error growth near the tropopause is investigated from a process-based perspective. Following previous work, a potential vorticity (PV) error tendency equation is derived and partitioned into individual contributions to yield insight into the processes governing error growth near the tropopause. Importantly, we focus here on the further amplification of preexisting errors and not on the origin of errors. The individual contributions to error growth are quantified in a case study of a 6-day forecast. In this case, localized mesoscale error maxima have formed by forecast day 2. These maxima organize into a wavelike pattern and reach the Rossby wave scale around forecast day 6. Error growth occurs most prominently within the Atlantic and Pacific Rossby wave patterns. In our PV framework, the error growth is dominated by the contribution of upper-level, near-tropopause PV anomalies (near-tropopause dynamics). Significant contributions from upper-tropospheric divergent flow (prominently associated with latent heat release below) and lower-tropospheric anomalies [tropospheric-deep (i.e., baroclinic) interaction] are associated with a misrepresentation of the surface cyclone development in the forecast. These contributions are, in general, of smaller importance to error growth than near-tropopause dynamics. This result indicates that the mesoscale errors generated near the tropopause do not primarily project on differences in the subsequent baroclinic growth, but instead directly project on the tropopause evolution and amplify because of differences in the nonlinear Rossby wave dynamics.
Diagnosing the Horizontal Propagation of Rossby Wave Packets along the Midlatitude Waveguide
Gabriel Wolf
It has been suggested that upper-tropospheric Rossby wave packets propagating along the midlatitude waveguide may play a role for triggering severe weather. This motivates the search for robust methods to detect and track Rossby wave packets and to diagnose their properties. In the framework of several observed cases, this paper compares different methods that have been proposed for these tasks, with an emphasis on horizontal propagation and on a particular formulation of a wave activity flux previously suggested by Takaya and Nakamura. The utility of this flux is compromised by the semigeostrophic nature of upper-tropospheric Rossby waves, but this problem can partly be overcome by a semigeostrophic coordinate transformation. The wave activity flux allows one to obtain information from a single snapshot about the meridional propagation, in particular propagation from or into polar and subtropical latitudes, as well as about the onset of wave breaking. This helps to clarify the dynamics of individual wave packets in cases where other, more conventional methods provide ambiguous or even misleading information. In some cases, the "true dynamics" of the Rossby wave packet turns out to be more complex than apparent from the more conventional diagnostics, and this may have important implications for the predictability of the wave packet.
Enhanced Tropospheric Wave Forcing of Two Anticyclones in the Prephase of the January 2009 Major Stratospheric Sudden Warming Event
Andrea Schneidereit
Dieter H. W. Peters
Julian F. Quinting
Julia H. Keller
Olivia Martius
Tropospheric forcing of planetary wavenumber 2 is examined in the prephase of the major stratospheric sudden warming event in January 2009 (MSSW 2009). Because of a huge increase in Eliassen–Palm fluxes induced mainly by wavenumber 2, easterly angular momentum is transported into the Arctic stratosphere, deposited, and then decelerates the polar night jet. In agreement with earlier studies, the results reveal that the strongest eddy heat fluxes, associated with wavenumber 2, occur at 100 hPa during the prephase of MSSW 2009 in ERA-Interim. In addition, moderate conditions of the cold phase of ENSO (La Niña) contribute to the eddy heat flux anomaly. It is shown that enhanced tropospheric wave forcing over Alaska and Scandinavia is caused by tropical processes in two ways. First, in a climatological sense, La Niña contributes to an enhanced anticyclonic flow over both regions. Second, the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) has an indirect influence on the Alaskan ridge by enhancing eddy activity over the North Pacific. This is manifested in an increase in cyclone frequency and associated warm conveyor belt outflow, which contribute to the maintenance and amplification of the Alaskan anticyclone. The Scandinavian ridge is maintained by wave trains emanating from the Alaskan ridge propagating eastward, including an enhanced transport of eddy kinetic energy. The MSSW 2009 is an extraordinary case of how a beneficial phasing of La Niña and MJO conditions together with multiscale interactions enhances tropospheric forcing for wavenumber 2–induced zonal mean eddy heat flux in the lower stratosphere.
Amplification of the Downstream Wave Train during Extratropical Transition: Sensitivity Studies
A tropical cyclone (TC) undergoing extratropical transition (ET) may support the amplification of a Rossby wave train in the downstream midlatitudes. Within the context of downstream baroclinic development, the TC acts as an additional source of eddy kinetic energy ( ). Previous studies concluded that the impact depends, in particular, on the phasing between the TC and the midlatitude flow and the continuation of the generation during ET. These studies did not quantify the impact of ET on the within a downstream Rossby wave train.
The present study uses ensemble sensitivity analysis to examine the sensitivity of downstream Rossby wave train amplification to the budget of the transitioning TC and of the upstream midlatitude features for Typhoon Choi-Wan (2009) and Hurricane Hanna (2008) in ECMWF ensemble forecasts. The amplification of the downstream wave train is measured using the amplitude of its associated maxima. The sensitivity of the maximum's intensity at a particular forecast time to the budget terms of the TC and the upstream midlatitudes at earlier forecast times is determined. The results show that increasing the budget terms within Choi-Wan (Hanna) by one standard deviation can result in an up to 36% (23%) more intense downstream maximum. This is favored by the phasing between Choi-Wan and the midlatitude trough, and the reintensification of Hanna, respectively. By contrast, weaker contributions to downstream Rossby wave amplification arise from budget terms associated with flow features in the upstream midlatitudes.
Forecast Variability of the Blocking System over Russia in Summer 2010 and Its Impact on Surface Conditions
Lisa-Ann Quandt
The Euro–Russian atmospheric blocking pattern in the summer of 2010 was related to high-impact weather, including a mega–heat wave in Russia. A set of scenarios for the synoptic evolution during the onset, mature stage, and decay of the block are extracted from the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble multimodel ensemble forecast. These scenarios represent the key features of the forecast variability of the block and of the resulting surface impacts. Two heat indices and a fire index are computed to highlight the forecast variability in societal impacts. The study is a proof of concept, showing how information about surface impacts can be derived from available operational ensemble forecasts in an effective manner, and pointing to possible difficulties in this approach. Comparing the forecast for the heat wave's impact on large spatial domains, and on a near-gridpoint scale, identifies challenges forecasters may face when predicting the development of a heat wave.
Although the block's onset was highly predictable, the increase in temperature and the extension of the heat-affected area differed between the scenarios. During the mature stage of the block, the variability of its western flank had a considerable influence on the precipitation and heat distribution. Since the blocking was maintained after the analyzed decay in two of three scenarios, the predictability of the decay was low in this forecast. The heat wave ended independently from the block's decay, as the surface temperature and the impact indices decreased in all scenarios.
Weather and Forecasting
https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-16-0065.1
The Key Role of Diabatic Outflow in Amplifying the Midlatitude Flow: A Representative Case Study of Weather Systems Surrounding Western North Pacific Extratropical Transition
Heather M. Archambault
Recurving tropical cyclones (TCs) undergoing extratropical transition (ET) may substantially modify the large-scale midlatitude flow pattern. This study highlights the role of diabatic outflow in midlatitude flow amplification within the context of a review of the physical and dynamical processes involved in ET. Composite fields of 12 western North Pacific ET cases are used as initial and boundary conditions for high-resolution numerical simulations of the North Pacific–North American sector with and without the TC present. It is demonstrated that a three-stage sequence of diabatic outflow associated with different weather systems is involved in triggering a highly amplified midlatitude flow pattern: 1) preconditioning by a predecessor rain event (PRE), 2) TC–extratropical flow interaction, and 3) downstream flow amplification by a downstream warm conveyor belt (WCB). An ensemble of perturbed simulations demonstrates the robustness of these stages. Beyond earlier studies investigating PREs, recurving TCs, and WCBs individually, here the fact that each impacts the midlatitude flow through a similar sequence of processes surrounding ET is highlighted. Latent heat release in rapidly ascending air leads to a net transport of low-PV air into the upper troposphere. Negative PV advection by the diabatically driven outflow initiates ridge building, accelerates and anchors a midlatitude jet streak, and overall amplifies the upper-level Rossby wave pattern. However, the three weather systems markedly differ in terms of the character of diabatic heating and associated outflow height, with the TC outflow reaching highest and the downstream WCB outflow producing the strongest negative PV anomaly.
Physically Based Stochastic Perturbations (PSP) in the Boundary Layer to Represent Uncertainty in Convective Initiation
Kirstin Kober
George C. Craig
Stochastic perturbations allow for the representation of small-scale variability due to unresolved physical processes. However, the properties of this variability depend on model resolution and weather regime. A physically based method is presented for introducing stochastic perturbations into kilometer-scale atmospheric models that explicitly account for these dependencies. The amplitude of the perturbations is based on information obtained from the model's subgrid turbulence parameterization, while the spatial and temporal correlations are based on physical length and time scales of the turbulent motions. The stochastic perturbations lead to triggering of additional convective cells and improved precipitation amounts in simulations of two days with weak synoptic forcing of convection but different amounts of precipitation. The perturbations had little impact in a third case study, where precipitation was mainly associated with a cold front. In contrast, an unphysical version of the scheme with constant perturbation amplitude performed poorly since there was no perturbation amplitude that would give improved amounts of precipitation during the day without generating spurious convection at other times.
An Object-Based Forecast Verification Tool for Synoptic-Scale Rossby Waveguides
Paraskevi Giannakaki
An accurate representation of synoptic-scale Rossby waves in numerical weather forecast models is very important as these waves are closely linked to weather formation at the surface. Enhanced potential vorticity (PV) gradients at the tropopause levels act as waveguides for synoptic-scale Rossby waves, so spatial errors in the waveguides imply errors in the amplification and propagation of Rossby waves. This paper focuses on evaluating the forecast representation of these waveguides and presents an object-based forecast verification tool. In both forecast and the verification data, Rossby waveguide objects are defined based on enhanced PV gradient fields on isentropic surfaces. The tool automatically pairs the complex objects, compares their properties, and assesses the number of objects without a matching partner in either the forecast or the reanalysis. In the last step, error measures are calculated for the area and the location of the objects. As proof-of-concept application of the method for the year 2008, five lead times of the Integrated Forecast System (IFS) from the ECMWF are compared with the ECMWF reanalysis dataset. The majority of the waveguide objects are found to be in the correct position, and there are no systematic positional errors; however, the forecast objects and hence the areas of enhanced PV gradients are smaller.
On the Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Rossby Wave Packets: A Climatological Perspective
Many studies have highlighted the importance of recurving tropical cyclones (TCs) in triggering Rossby waves. This study investigates the impact of western North Pacific (WNP), south Indian Ocean, and North Atlantic recurving TCs on the amplitude and frequency of synoptic-scale Rossby wave packets (RWPs) over a 30-yr period. The results indicate a significant increase of RWP frequency downstream of WNP and south Indian Ocean TCs. A statistically significant RWP amplitude anomaly downstream of these TCs suggests that RWPs, which are associated with TCs, are stronger than those that generally occur in midlatitudes. North Atlantic TCs do not seem to be associated with a statistically significant increase in RWP frequency and amplitude downstream.
Processes that contribute to Rossby wave amplification are identified by creating composites for WNP TCs with and without downstream development. Potential vorticity, eddy kinetic energy, and quasigeostrophic forcing diagnostics highlight dynamical mechanisms that contribute to the synergistic interaction between the TC and the midlatitude flow. The existence of an upstream Rossby wave favors a downstream development. Diabatically enhanced upper-level divergent flow that can be attributed to the nonlinear interaction between the TC and the midlatitude flow impedes the eastward propagation of the upstream trough, amplifies the downstream ridge, and intensifies the jet. The amplified midlatitude flow provides upper-level forcing, which helps to maintain the predominantly diabatically driven divergent flow.
Forecast uncertainties that are related to these complex TC–midlatitude flow interactions may spread into downstream regions. A climatological analysis of ensemble reforecast data emphasizes the importance of TC–midlatitude flow interactions and Rossby wave amplification on downstream predictability.
https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00298.1


Several sources that wish to remain anonymous have indicated that the Great Illinois Stone got off to a very rocky start. As you can imagine this left it for ages stuck between a rock and a hard place. But, belying expectation based on its name and origins, the Great Illinois Stone does not appear to ever have been either a rocker or a stoner. But he was very hard-headed, suggesting possible Norwegian origins (though Swedes, Germans, Danes, Finns, and Scots and the Irish have claimed a connection). So far no indication of a dependency on coffee, raising doubts about the Norwegian connection.
It was often mistreated and ignored, but when it sought legal recourse, learned that it did not have a leg to stand on. And this meant that it had neither standing nor voice in political and legal processes.
That's about it so far. Hope it helps.
We thank Thought Patterns reader David P. Norby, Ph.D., CQE (ASQ) for this update regarding the potential history and nature of the Great Illinois Stone. Since he is a Certified Quality Engineer and a Scientist with training in biology and chemistry we are confident that his data has been rigorously researched. We give his information a high believability rating. Thought Patterns would raise the believability rating if David also had experience in geology and was able to dig up some genealogy & immigration records to support these findings.
Dave's background includes over 21 years experience with Abbott Laboratories, so we think he knows a stoner if he sees one. We are not certain of his Rock & Roll credentials. David is an expert in the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes and test methods. If pharmaceuticals are your business and you want to make real good drugs, let me know and I'll connect you with Dave.
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Early on a recent Sunday morning The Great Illinois Stone was spotted along the Fox River in Carpentersville near a visitor parking space on the OTTO Engineering property. It would seem the spirits that control appearances of The Great Illinois Stone may approve of OTTO's contributions to its community.
If you are familiar with the Dundee-Carpentersville area, you have probably noticed the beautifully restored factory buildings on both sides of the Fox River along Main Street in Carpentersville.
You may not know that OTTO has also refurbished many of the houses in what's called the Old Town area of Carpentersville. OTTO was instrumental in forming the Old Town Association to encourage development of properties in the area. OTTO is also supporting efforts to refurbish homes in another "gateway" section of Carpentersville near highway 68.
OTTO Engineering is celebrating 50 years of operation, and has been at its current location for over forty years. Talk to local residents who are in their seventies and eighties and they can tell you stories about when those buildings were operated by The Illinois Iron and Bolt Co.
In June of this year Carpentersville dedicated the entire month to OTTO Engineering and its role in the community.
We wonder if The Great Illinois Stone has visited OTTO because of the mixed reaction from the community.
You may not agree with every political inclination of the Roeser family that owns OTTO. Altruisim may not be what comes to mind when you hear people talk about OTTO's efforts to improve the Old Town area, but you should appreciate the benefits of their contributions to the community.
Of course OTTO benefits by investing in the community … duh! So what!
There is nothing wrong with doing well … while doing good.
Besides … when a company is doing well, it can more easily afford to do good.
Maybe the appearance of The Great Illinois Stone is a statement about the need to work together to accomplish things that are beneficial to a larger group. Look at the political and legislative grid-lock that has pushed so many states and our nation to the brink of destruction.
What's wrong with a compromise that serves the greater good?
"Enlightened Self-Interest" is one of the most effective motivators and unifying forces for taking action that can help you and your community … however you define your community. More people should subscribe to this philosophy.
What do you know about The Great Illinois Stone?
visit our earlier article here.
purpose and origin of The Great Illinois Stone.
So far … 'tis a mystery.
A very special stone has been seen around the state of Illinois.
Please help us learn more about this mysterious artifact.
We are not sure what it is. It could be many things.
It may have its roots in a time before this part of the country was settled. It could be connect to the spirits of the land and the people that settled here long before the Vikings or Columbus.
The Great Illinois Stone has been reported to appear when something unexpected is going to happen.
We hear it has a special connection to politics. We are just not sure what the connection means.
Maybe it is connected to the forces that have helped put so many of our political leaders in prison.
We have heard that it might have come from the Castle Rock area.
Some say it was first found at the site of the "Murder Castle" hotel at Sixty-Third and Wallace in the Englewood section of Chicago. This "hotel" was designed and built by Dr. H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett), written about by Erik Larson in the book Devil in the White City. Holmes is often referred to as America's first serial killer. In the end, he admitted to 27 murders, but estimates range as high as 250 victims.
Some say The Great Illinois Stone was unearthed at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery, possible from the shore of the pond near Daniel Burnham's burial site.
There is even a rumor that The Great Illinois Stone was sent here from another state to disrupt and disturb the tranquility of this part of the Heartland, cause the Chicago Machine to falter, Cook County government to crumble, or the Illinois State Legislature to be gridlocked on issues important to the citizens of this state. Boy, if that's the case … it seems to be working.
If I was Rob Blagojevich, I would be concerned.


VOLGOGRAD, Russia (AP) — Just as Bob Green was about to leave for a World Cup voyage across Russia, it became tense in the England supporter's household, as his girlfriend worried about his safety.
"There were massive concerns, arguments," he recalled. "Hiding my passport on the last day."
Two years ago in France, Green was in Marseille's Old Port when Russian hooligan gangs attacked English fans before the two countries played at the European Championship.
"Some people were violent," Green said. "But I'm not going to get driven away from what I love and have done for so many years by 150 people."
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Britain was almost "almost 100 percent sure" President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin ordered the March attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England using the military-grade nerve agent, Novichok. Russians were outraged by Johnson comparing this World Cup to the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany. Millions of Russians died fighting the Nazis in World War II.
"Of course we are aware of the threats and the broader political situation, but we need to maintain an effective relationship with the Russian police," Roberts told The Associated Press. "That's not being naive about the situation. If we are going to go and try and have a good working relationship with the Russian police, it's better to concentrate on the things we can have common ground."
Even without security concerns, Russia poses such logistical challenges for English fans. It took 24 hours from Green's home in the medieval eastern England market town of Stamford, via Greece, for Green to reach the southern Russian industrial city of Volgograd on Saturday. Accompanied by fellow fan Matt Kokins, they will be in the 45,000-seat Volgograd Arena on Monday when England opens its World Cup campaign against Tunisia. They were meant to be a trio.
"We have a friend who bought tickets all the way through to the final who hasn't come because his family wouldn't let him come," Green said.
"I'm slightly apprehensive," Kokins said. "It's not ideal the political climate coming into the tournament."
"It's not ideal," Roberts said. "We need to make the best of it."
"If people go and get drunk, sing songs about the war or political figures, bear in mind there isn't a great understanding of the English language in Russia, there is a massive potential for that to be taken as a great offense and then provoke a hostile reaction, possibly from the locals, possibly from law enforcement," Roberts said. "Part of the deal is, if you go to another country you accept their laws, their culture, their customs and people need to be alive to that."
"(I'm) worried slightly," Green said before heading in for an afternoon in an Irish pub in Volgograd. "I don't think the things that happened in Marseille are the true reflection of the country."


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Irritable Bowel or Gut Imbalance?
Because irritable bowel syndrome has such a wide range of symptoms, the diagnosis has become something of a 'catch-all'. Before you start any medication regimen it's therefore essential to rule out other conditions that may be causing your digestive problems.
When a patient presents with IBS-type symptoms, how often does the doctor do investigations for disorders such as increased gut fermentation, histamine intolerance, small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), post-food poisoning syndrome or hidden allergies, intolerances and other immune responses? Very rarely!
This is because the many forms and presentations of IBS can make the diagnosis a particularly challenging one, and its functional nature can make a satisfactory treatment regimen difficult. More often than not patients are sent home with antispasmodic medication or tricyclic antidepressants, or told to eat more fibre, or take more probiotics. Success rates of both conventional and complementary medicines are therefore historically quite low.
The gut contains the greatest concentration of immune tissue in the body. These immune cells are intertwined with the greatest concentration of nerves outside the central nervous system. Both immune cells and nerves are continually communicating with the mucosal epithelia (the cells that line the gastro-intestinal tract). These interactions control both the physiological and patho-physiological aspects of gut function.
Communication between the gut nervous system and the central nervous system is common, and is known as the gut-brain axis. Disturbances in either have effects that resound throughout the body. The same neurotransmitters that influence the gastro-intestinal tract also influence endocrine, immune, behavioural and emotional function. Stress (either psychological or physiological) may therefore be an important factor in gastro-intestinal health.
Faulty digestion or absorption of carbohydrates and sugars by the small intestine allows increased amounts of these foods to reach the colon, where greater amounts of gas are produced. This increased gut fermentation is characterised by bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, fatigue and gas – symptoms often associated with IBS.
The most common example of malabsorption leading to increased production of gas is lactose (milk) intolerance. Lactose intolerance is caused by a genetic lack of the enzyme in the lining of the small intestine that digests lactose, the sugar in milk.
Other causes of malabsorption that may lead to excessive production of gas and be mistaken for IBS include: malabsorption of sugars such as sucrose, sorbitol, or fructose, inadequate amounts of pancreatic enzymes (necessary for digesting sugars and carbohydrates in the small intestine) diseases of the lining of the small intestine (e.g. coeliac disease) that reduce enzymes in the lining necessary for breakdown and absorption of sugars and carbohydrates.
Malabsorption is often characterised by an overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria. These bacteria damage the intestinal brush borders, resulting in increased intestinal permeability that may increase the incidence of allergies, intolerances, emotional disturbances and vita- min and mineral deficiencies.
low blood pressure, migraines, tension headaches, anxiety, depression and panic attacks.
Histamine intolerance testing is not currently widely available in South Africa, so excluding foods high in histamines for a few weeks and then reintroducing them can be quite effective in establishing a connection. Additionally, taking an enzyme formula containing diamine oxidase (DAO) can be helpful.
High-histamine foods include all minced meat, sausages, salami, all tinned and smoked fish, all ripe cheeses, yeast, sauerkraut, avocado and tomatoes. Some foods that should be excluded because they liberate histamines include kiwi fruit, papaya, grapefruit and pineapple.
Post-infectious IBS (PI-IBS) is a subgroup of IBS that is diarrhoea-predominant. Having an episode of bacterial gastroenteritis may increase the risk of developing IBS symptoms within the same year. Gastroenteritis is a pathological disturbance of the gastro-intestinal tract often (but not always) caused by bacteria or viruses and more rarely by fungi or parasites. It is associated with inflammation.
The small intestine is the section of the gastro-intestinal tract that connects the stomach with the colon. Its main purpose is to digest food and absorb it into the body.
The entire gastro-intestinal tract, including the small intestine, normally contains bacteria. The number of bacteria is greatest in the colon and much lower in the small intestine. Moreover, the types of bacteria in the small intestine are different to the types of bacteria in the colon.
SIBO is a condition in which abnormally high numbers of bacteria are present in the small intestine, and in type resemble the colon bacteria rather than the bacteria that normally inhabit the small intestine.
This imbalance of bacteria may result in excess gas, abdominal bloating, diarrhoea and abdominal pain, symptoms not dissimilar to those often diagnosed as IBS.
The gastro-intestinal tract is a continuous muscular tube through which digesting food is transported. The muscular activity that sweeps through the small intestine is important not only for the digestion of food, but also because it sweeps bacteria out of the small intestine and keeps down the numbers of bacteria there. Any condition that interferes with muscular activity in the small intestine results in bacterial over- growth. Lack of muscular activity may even allow bacteria to spread backwards from the colon and into the small intestine.
Neurological and muscular diseases that alter the normal activity of the intestinal muscles. For example, both diabetes mellitus and scleroderma may result in abnormal muscular activity in the small intestine, allowing SIBO to develop.
Partial or intermittent obstruction of the small intestine from adhesions (scarring) from previous surgery or Crohn's disease.
Diverticuli (out-pouchings) of the small intestine that allow bacteria to multiply inside them.
Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis may help identify bacterial imbalances in the gut as well as confirm the existence of pathogenic microbes.
Urine Organic Acids measures the by- products of microbial metabolism, and is particularly useful in detecting the presence of pathogenic microbial over- growth. Urine is an important medium for testing microbiology in the gut. Urine contains unique products of microbial metabolism which are used to measure small bowel yeast and bacterial overgrowth.
Intestinal Permeability and Absorption is a test designed to determine the health and efficiency of multiple gastro-intestinal functions. Of specific interest are increased intestinal permeability (or 'leaky gut'), intestinal damage, gut function, lactose intolerance, sucrose intolerance, and the health of the intestinal villa.
Exclusion and Reintroduction Diets can be very effective in pinpointing and ad- dressing food sensitivities and intolerances that may be contributing to the symptoms.
Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). Eliminates all disaccharides and all polysaccharides. Only monosaccharides such as fruits, sugar and most non-starchy vegetables are allowed alongside protein and fats. The diet has six stages.
Low FODMAPs diet. FODMAPs (stands for Fermentable Oligo-saccharides, Di-saccharides, Mono saccharides and Polyols) can be poorly absorbed in the small intestine. Malabsorbed carbohydrates are fermented by gut bacteria to produce gas. This diet excludes high FODMAPs foods such as wheat, legumes, milk, apples, pears, sweet corn, a number of vegetables and some nuts.
Gluten exclusion. More often than not, gluten sensitivity is implicated in gastrointestinal disorders. A gluten exclusion diet means avoiding all gluten-containing foods for a minimum of three months. This is because it can take a minimum of three months (and in some cases up to six months) for the inflammation associated with gluten to subside.
It is very easy to misdiagnose IBS owing to its wide range of symptoms. It is therefore essential to get a clear diagnosis and rule out other possible causes before starting any medication regimen. Paramount to successful treatment is ensuring that all practitioners work together, including laboratory experts, the gastroenterologist, and the nutritional therapist. The route to resolution can be a bumpy one.
Maintz L. and Novak N. Histamine and histamine intolerance. Am J Clin Nutr 2007; (85): 1185-96.
Hannah Kaye - BSC (HONS) NT, BJOURN.. She is a nutritional therapist and currently specialising in Translational Nutrigenomics. She obtained her degree in Nutritional Therapy through the British College of Nutrition and Health and Greenwich University in London. She is passionate in her belief that a functional approach to health, good nutrition, and a more natural way of living can improve the quality of life of everyone. She treats all areas of health with a special interest in immune and neurologic disorders, and practises in Cape Town.


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Q: jQuery IE10 behavior of css('background-position') I have simple code snippet:

$('div').css('background-position', '0px 0px');
alert( $('div').css('background-position') );

And I expect that I will receive '0px 0px', but I have received "0% 0%" in IE10.
Also I noticed that jquery .css returns results with percent always when it's equal 0px, e.g "0px 50px" => "0% 50px" in IE10.
Is it jQuery bug? or it's IE10 bug?
You could try it on jsbin
Thanks!

A: You cannot rely on values being the same as what you give. Browsers can and frequently do normalise the values you give them.
For example, if you give the colour #ffffff, the browser may change it to rgb(255,255,255) internally. Similarly, a length of 0px may be converted to just 0.
NEVER rely on the style property being exactly what you told it. If you need to know, either use a variable to keep track of it, or use something like a class to change styles as needed.

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The hallmark of success minded people is continued personal development. They realise that by capitalising on learning opportunities; they can have long term impact on the achievement of their aspirations. Their focus is to increase stellar performance and produce powerful results in their lives.
This applies to entrepreneurs, people in network marketing, employees new to leadership roles, couples in marriage, individuals seeking meaning in their lives, almost anyone willing to learn.
One of the reasons why people do not achieve their goals is because the development planning piece is missing. They rush into actions and timelines and neglect this critical step: A clear picture of the gap between current performance and performance expectations.
A well thought through development plan will assist to sharpen your knowledge, skills, abilities and attitude for long term growth.
Firstly, revisit the goals that you need to achieve and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses against the goals. Ask yourself and others close to you; "what needs to change? who should I be to meet my goals? how does success look like?" The answers to these questions will provide clarity on what the development need is.
– Experiential learning: You cannot sit on the side lines and wish learning to happen. The best form of development happens by doing. A driver gains experience by sitting behind the wheel. A boxer gets tested in the ring.
– Self-study: Make it a habit to dedicate at least one hour every single day without fail to read a book, listening to a podcast or videos. Draw key learnings from these tools and share your understanding with others to cement the learning.
– Seminars and training courses: There are many free seminars and webinars covering subjects across various disciplines. Search for seminars, workshops and training courses in your learning need. This is an opportunity to learn from experiences of others.
– Relationship based learning: identify peers, high performers and mentors who can provide their insights into your questions and challenges.
– Hire a coach: The coach helps you to delve deeper into the power and innate potential that you possess as an individual. More about this in the next article.
The primary responsibility to meet and exceed performance expectations rest with you as an individual. I believe in the mantra that what is not measured does not get done. Journal every step of the way and set realistic timelines to address your performance gaps. You will need to be totally honest with your progress. Set up an accountability group to keep you encouraged and inspired on your journey.


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Uwe Alzen
Alzen in 2011
(1967-08-18) 18 August 1967 (age 53)
Kirchen, West Germany
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Manthey Racing
Best finish
2nd (1998)
Class wins
Uwe Alzen (born 18 August 1967) is a German racing driver specialised in touring car racing and sports car racing.
He won the 1992 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, the 1994 Porsche Supercup and the 1995 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft privateer B-Class championship.
In 1996 he raced in the full Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft International Touring Car Championship, driving an Opel Calibra V6. When this series was discontinued, he raced for Opel in the German Super Tourenwagen Cup. Alzen celebrated an apparent championship win in 1999 for Opel under controversial circumstances after a last corner incident involving his teammate Roland Asch and his main rival for the championship Christian Abt. Alzen, who was leading the race at the time, barely limped to 2nd place after crashing with Abt's teammate Kris Nissen, whom he was trying to lap seconds earlier at the chicane. Weeks later though, his Championship win was stripped and was given to his rival, Christian Abt, after an amateur video proved that Asch had deliberately crashed into Abt.
Alzen continued with Opel in 2000 in the new Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, but was released after colliding with his teammate Manuel Reuter. He left the AMG-Mercedes team in 2003 under similar circumstances.
Alzen was also a competitor in the 1998 FIA GT Championship season and 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans race in a Porsche 911 GT1, finishing 2nd overall. In 2004 he also competed in FIA GT, with Michael Bartels on a Vitaphone-sponsored Saleen S7.
Uwe Alzen and his elder brother Jürgen Alzen were also driving at the Nürburgring Nordschleife VLN Endurance racing series and 24 Hours Nürburgring in their privately built Porsche 996 GT2 Turbo 4WD from 2003 to 2005. Uwe Alzen set the lap record there with this Turbo at 8:09[permanent dead link], about 10 seconds faster than the factory cars of Opel and Audi from the DTM, as well as the BMW M3 V8 GTR of Schnitzer Motorsport. He also has beaten them for the pole positions, yet his car failed at the start of the 2005 wet race due to electronic problems, prompting another very emotional interview.
Nürburgring-Fans voted him Driver of the Year 2004.
Due to rule changes for 2006, also the Alzen brothers discontinued their use of a turbo engine in favor of a normally aspirated Porsche 997 GT3. But they chose to run a standard H pattern manual gearbox in the 2006 24h race, convinced that the Porsche sequential gearbox would not last. They finished in second place, after the Manthey Porsche which has a sequential gearbox that saves several seconds per lap. Uwe was quite upset with the disadvantages of having a manual gearbox during the post race press conference.
In 2008 Uwe Alzen entered the Speedcar International Series, racing for Phoenix Racing, winning two races and finishing third overall.
In January 2012 Alzen is confirmed for a full season driving a BMW in the American Le Mans Series sharing a car with Jörg Müller.
1 Racing record
1.1 Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
1.2 Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/Masters results
1.3 Complete International Touring Car Championship results
1.4 Partial Porsche Supercup results
Racing record
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Porsche AG Jörg Müller
Bob Wollek Porsche 911 GT1-98 GT1 350 2nd 2nd
Manthey Racing Patrick Huisman
Luca Riccitelli Porsche 911 GT3-R GT 317 13th 1st
BMW Motorsport Jörg Müller
Augusto Farfus BMW M3 GT2 GT2 320 19th 6th
Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/Masters results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo2
Ret ZOL
11 HOC
5 HOC
9 NÜR
Ret NÜR
DNS WUN
9 WUN
23 NÜR
12 NOR
7 DON
7 DIE
7 ALE
2 AVU
Mercedes 190E Class 1
11 ZOL
13 MUG
Ret NOR
Ret DON
12 DON
13 DIE
11 AVU
10 ALE
Mercedes C-Class V6
Ret AVU
Ret DIE
OPC Team Holzer
Opel Astra V8 Coupé
Ret HOC
DNS OSC
Ret OSC
6 SAC
Ret SAC
13 OSC
1 OSC
Team Warsteiner AMG
AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM
11 SAC
1 LAU
2 A1R
3 ZAN
7 2nd 101
HWA Team
8 ZOL
DNS SAC
Complete International Touring Car Championship results
9 HEL
NC HEL
Opel Team Zakspeed
Opel Calibra V6 4x4
13 HEL
10 SIL
7 MUG
Ret INT
DNS SUZ
9 SUZ
Partial Porsche Supercup results
ITA ESP AUT MON GER
12 FRA GBR GER HUN ITA USA USA
NC‡
0‡
Konrad Motorsport
ITA ESP MON GER USA
14 USA
2 GBR
4 GER
Ret ITA
20† BEL
PZ Koblenz
Ret GER
7 ESP
SPS Automotive
2 BHR
Ret MON
10 HUN
18 TUR
3 BEL
3rd 128
6 GBR GER HUN ESP BEL ITA
† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
‡ — Not eligible for points.
Jürgen Alzen Motorsport
Nürburgring Fan Site
Sporting positions
Roland Asch Porsche Carrera Cup Germany champion
Wolfgang Land
Altfrid Heger Porsche Supercup champion
Jean-Pierre Malcher
Dirk Werner Porsche Carrera Cup Germany champion
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Abrazo Health Care, part of Nashville-based Vanguard Health Systems, serves the metropolitan Phoenix community as one of the largest health care organizations in Arizona. Committed to our mission of helping people achieve health for life, Abrazo is a rising leader in the delivery of quality, personalized health care, operating six hospitals, a physician medical group, two health plans, and several service-specific institutes and centers. Abrazo Health Care is committed to providing quality healthcare utilizing the most advanced technology delivered by specialty trained staff.
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Arrowhead Hospital
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Maryvale Hospital
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North Peoria Emergency Center, a campus of Arrowhead Hospital
A full-service medical care emergency facility located in Peoria and operated by Arrowhead Hospital, this 14-bed center is open 24 hours a day and staffed by board-certified emergency physicians and specialty-certified nurses.
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The top hospital in its category in Ranking Arizonas 2011 Best of Arizona, the 136-bed, full-service acute care facility in north Phoenix offers state-of-the-art orthopedics, rehabilitation services, and dedicated womens programs.
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The 164-bed West Valley Hospital serves the growing western region of metro-Phoenix and features advanced surgical technology, obstetrical and cardiovascular care, and womens diagnostic services. The facility is also a Joint Commissiondesignated primary stroke center stroke center, and is certified as a cardiac arrest center.
Abrazo Medical Group
A network of practices comprised of employed primary care and specialty physicians, surgeons and hospitalists, Abrazo Medical Group physicians and staff are committed to providing the highest quality medical care for people of all ages.
Arizona Heart Institute
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Raining Champion: A Q&A with Bandon Dunes' Grant Rogers
The master engaging his adversary. Photo by Wood Sabold.
A cold, hard sideways rain rattles the windows at Bandon Dunes as Grant Rogers, the resort's director of instruction, looks outside. He doesn't appear all that happy about playing in this weather—it isn't nearly bad enough to suit him.
"I like when you have to bring your North Face gear to play," Rogers observes, scanning the windswept links. "There are other extreme sports. Why can't there be extreme golf? There's no bad weather for golf; there's just weather. People should experiment with it because some people who think they won't like it will like it a lot. Anything can happen, and that's the fun of it. "
In his several decades of teaching golf along the Oregon Coast—first at Salishan Spa & Golf Resort just outside Lincoln City, Ore., and now at Bandon a couple hours to the south—Rogers has earned a reputation for three things: 1) his love of playing in forbidding conditions; 2) his wild, adventurous stories; and 3) his singular instructional style. Do not expect a traditional lesson from Rogers—unless you've been educated in an Eastern tradition. The recipient of both the 2006 PGA Pacific Northwest Teacher of the Year Award and the 2005 PGA Oregon Teacher of the Year Award, Rogers is often referred to as a guru. In my own experience, he is the only person who's ever given me a golf lesson that I didn't know I'd gotten until several days later.
I first crossed paths with Rogers nearly 15 years ago when I was writing a book on alternative golf instructors and was referred to him by one of his students, who called him the "Zen master." I contacted Rogers asking to set up a Zen golf lesson so I could profile him in the book. He responded evasively and said I should just come down and see him.
Having just moved to the Northwest from Manhattan, I was blunt with the ponderous Oregon golf pro; I told him I didn't have the time to visit if he couldn't provide the kind of material I needed. It took a couple years for me to understand what Rogers had been trying to tell me in his soft-spoken way: If you call something a Zen lesson—whatever that could possibly mean— and establish certain expectations, you've essentially ruined the very possibility of getting such a lesson.
At Bandon, despite the rain—or perhaps because of it—Rogers and I head out to see what kind of adventures might befall us. Between shots, huddled in our Gore-Tex, he starts telling stories.
Such as the one about playing at St Andrews. At night. With only a putter. And being one over par after 11 holes. And the one about playing through a thunderstorm at England's Royal St Georges, where the lightning was hitting the ground so close he could smell it. He tells me about the time he fell asleep on a surfboard in Hawaii and only awoke when he caught a huge wave by accident. Another story begins, "One time my wife was going to the Amazon jungle with our daughter, who was 2 . . ." Rogers offers up stories about barking dogs and blind golfers, bunkers so deep you couldn't throw a ball out of them, and a pro who disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness after hitting a ball washer on his drive during a major tournament.
As we walk the most sublime links golf course in North America, Rogers also touches on his golf philosophy, if aphoristically. We stand on a green overlooking the ocean, and I notice there is standing water—in my golf bag.
"Somebody in every foursome is going to have the most fun," he muses. "It might as well be you. I tell students, 'Don't wait until you're good to have fun.'" Rogers explains that he really likes skiing because when someone tells you they had a good time skiing, that's the end of the conversation. They never go on to tell you about every turn they made on every run. "It's like putting," Rogers adds. "A putt either goes in or it doesn't. It's no big deal. There's really nothing to think about."
The following day, as I motored back to Portland along I-5 in more pounding rain, I thought further about our round together. I'd played well, but Rogers had seemed to struggle, especially for one of only 200 or so PGA master professionals in the entire United States. In particular, I was surprised that Rogers's drives had never seemed to land very far past mine, even when I caught one thin or pulled it into the fescue.
When I mentioned this later to a friend, he recalled a story Rogers had once told him about giving some guy a playing lesson and hitting the ball wherever his student did, because that way they could walk together, which made it easier to talk.
Here are a few excerpts from my conversation with Grant . . .
Crouching Tiger . . . Photo by Wood Sabold.
Favorite Course?
"Every time I play Pacific Dunes I can't believe how amazing it really is.
It is part Links and part magic. The magic is the walk and everything you discover between your shots. Anytime is the best time to play Pacific Dunes, but when you can play it in the wind and rain it is extraordinary and a match for any other great course in the world."
Strangest shot you've seen on a golf course?
"It's a good thing we're talking today because two days ago I wouldn't have had a story. Yesterday I was playing a match and my partner hit his drive way right into the gorse. He actually found it and hit it right again, off the golf course. The rest of us walked up to the hole. We didn't see my partner but he fired an iron from out of nowhere and launched a line drive that hit me right in the jaw I almost dropped, but I didn't want to give our opponents the satisfaction. The ball bounced off my jaw to about 45 feet and he made the par. I've been hit before, too. Several times people hit shots right at my head and I caught them. I asked a guy I was giving a lesson to if he knew where his ball went and I said I caught it, and then I showed it to him."
Anything unexpected in your golf bag?
"I sometimes carry two putters. I like to putt from long distances, from 150 yards in, and don't want to wreck my Scotty Cameron putter so I carry another putter that's sturdier. Sometimes I tee off with it. People identify certain clubs with certain shots. I like to destroy that mental image. You can use any club from any place on the golf course and still play well."
Anyone you follow on tour?
"Lorena Ochoa. It's amazing that she weighs 118 pounds and is one of the longest drivers on Tour. She's a good model. Not the type of person who can rip a phone book in half but she's got a good two-speed swing and really accelerates through the ball. She's not afraid to take it back really easy and then— BOOM—let it go."
Why are so many golf professionals such robots?
"They think they have to be to play well. I disagree. I had a student tell me the other day that he can't focus for four-and-a-half hours. Why would you? A lot of these guys focus for that long whether they need to or not. I love guys like Trevino who goofed around a lot and then was deadly serious for the 2-3 seconds when he was ready to hit the ball."
Hardest shot?
"It's the one you think is the hardest. It's all about the mental game—you have to think there's a way to hit the shot. It's not the shot that's hard, its how we view it."
Prediction?
"In the future, backswings will vanish like the dinosaurs did. The golf swing will start from the top and travel to the finish position. All it'll take is one tour pro to be successful with this. It's a simpler way to swing.
Teaching philosophy?
"I tell students about a big-wave surfing competition I saw in Hawaii. This Australian guy won and after they gave him the check someone asked him who the best surfer in the world was, and he said 'The one who's having the most fun.' Somebody in every foursome is going to have the most fun. It might as well be you. I tell students not to wait until they're good to have fun. Celebrate every good shot. You don't know when you might hit another.
"Be serious about improving but don't take it too seriously. Enjoy the journey. It's like in martial arts when students are in a big rush to change colors, to earn a darker belt. You should enjoy being a white belt. The inventor of Aikido, who earned ten black belts, asked to be buried in his white belt. If you keep playing golf your color will change."
Best advice you've received?
"The first person who ever hired me as a teaching pro told me one thing: just don't make anyone worse. That's a constant mantra for me—help people get better and don't overwhelm them with things they can't do."
Your ultimate goal?
"To be 150 years old, a shadowy figure walking the links, who people point to and say: 'Don't play that guy for money.'"
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Jeff is the author of five books, including Beyond The Fairway and Driven to Extremes, and hundreds of articles in a variety of national golf, travel, and outdoor publications. Wallach is a managing partner and executive editor of Golf Media Network, the parent company of The A Position.
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This dataset represents the combined outputs of two third year Environmental Management research student projects. Both projects had broadly similar aims, that is, characterising the waterbird fauna of lakes and wetlands in the Ballarat region. The first project, entitled The importance of three freshwater lakes to waterbirds of the Ballarat region was undertaken by Jennifer Urias in 2013. The second project, entitled Do Waterbirds Prefer Urban or Non-Urban Wetlands in Western Victoria? was undertaken by Josh Howard in 2015. Surveys methods differed between the two projects: the Urias project approach was simultaneous surveys of three large lakes, using teams of volunteers, repeated three times over the autumn-spring season - May, September and October 2013; the Howard project approach was four replicate surveys (March, May, July and September 2015) conducted by a single observer at 10 small wetlands in one day. Both projects were designed to capture information on relative population sizes across survey wetlands / lakes by surveying all waterbodies on a single day.


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Title 15. COMMERCE AND TRADE
Chapter 14A. AID TO SMALL BUSINESS
Section 657c. Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XVI, § 1699(a), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2092
15 U.S. Code § 657c. Repealed. Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XVI, § 1699(a), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2092
Section, Pub. L. 85–536, § 2[33], as added Pub. L. 106–50, title II, § 202(a), Aug. 17, 1999, 113 Stat. 236; amended Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(9) [title VIII, § 808], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–706; Pub. L. 108–447, div. B, title VI, § 636, div. K, title I, §§ 143(a), 146, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 2922, 3455; Pub. L. 110–186, title I, § 103(a), Feb. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 625, established the National Veterans Business Development Corporation.
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Public Media Alliance Formerly the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, the Public Media Alliance seeks to further the concept of public service broadcasting, foster freedom of expression and the right to communicate and provide assistance to its members through training, bursaries, consultancies, networking opportunities and material for broadcast.
Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) The Commonwealth Journalists Association is a professional association for working journalists throughout the Commonwealth and works to bring journalists closer together whether they are working in print, broadcasting, or on-line journalism, and to help raise their status and quality. The CJA has branches in some Commonwealth countries, and members in all.
WAN-IFRA The merger between these two groups has created an organisation which aspires to be the indispensable partner of newspapers and the entire news publishing industry worldwide in the defence and promotion of press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses and technology.
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Represents international community-based broadcasters through service to members, networking and project implementation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 115 countries.
UNESCO The Communication & information Division promotes the free flow of ideas and universal access to information, the expression of pluralism and cultural diversity in the media and world information networks and promoting access for all to ICTs.
International Media Freedom Organisations
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) One of the most professional and respected media freedom organisations in the world, CPJ is recognised as the leader in its field.
RSF This high profile media freedom organisation monitors abuses of media freedom and journalists' human rights.
International Federation of Journalists The IFJ is the world's largest organisation of journalists. First established in 1926, it was relaunched in 1946 and again, in its present form, in 1952. Today the Federation represents around 600.000 members in 134 countries.
IFEX Is a network of free expression groups that monitors violations worldwide. Issues alerts, publishes a weekly newsletter and hosts a searchable alerts online.
International Press Institute (IPI) IPI is a global organization – one of the oldest in this field – of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to the protection of press freedom.
Article 19 Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 works worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression.
The Newspaper Works The Newspaper Works advocates across a spectrum of commercial and editorial areas on behalf of the Australian news publishing industry.
Indian Newspaper Society (INS) The association of the Indian newspaper industry, the INS has a huge membership encompassing all arms of the Indian print media. It also acts as the Indian Newspaper Publishers Association
Newspapers Canada is a joint initiative of the Canadian Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.The Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA) are two separate organizations that partnered to create one strong industry voice for newspapers in Canada.
Print and Digital Media South Africa is an umbrella body incorporating print and digital media.
TheNews Media Association is the voice of national, regional and local news media organisations in the UK
Editors' Associations:
South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF)
Institute of Professional Editors (IPED) Australia
The Canadian Association of Newspaper Editors (CANE)
Society of Editors (SoE) UK editors' association. Membership includes editors from newspapers, magazines, broadcast and new media.


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La eparquía de Santa Cruz de París de los armenios (,  y ) es una circunscripción eclesiástica armenia de la Iglesia católica en Francia, inmediatamente sujeta a la Santa Sede. La eparquía tiene al obispo Elie Yéghiayan, I.C.P.B. como su ordinario desde el 23 de junio de 2018.

Territorio
En el Anuario Pontificio se usa el nombre .

La eparquía extiende su jurisdicción sobre los fieles de Iglesia católica armenia residentes en Francia.

La sede eparquial está en la ciudad de París, en donde se encuentra la Catedral de la Santa Cruz (Sainte-Croix).

En 2020 la eparquía se dividía en 6 parroquias:
 Cathedrale arménienne catholique Sainte-Croix-de-Paris en París
 Paroisse arménienne catholique St-Grégoire-l'Illuminateur en Arnouville
 Paroisse arménienne catholique St-Grégoire-l'Illuminateur en Villeurbanne, Lyon
 Paroisse arménienne catholique St-Grégoire-l'Illuminateur en Marsella
 Paroisse arménienne catholique Saint-Nersès-Chenorhali en Saint-Chamond
 Paroisse arménienne catholique en Valence

En Sèvres existe un convento de la orden mequitarista.

Historia
La Santa Sede creó el ordinariato para los fieles de rito oriental en Francia el 27 de julio de 1954 con el decreto Nobilis Galliae Natio de la Congregación para las Iglesias Orientales, que contiene lo esencial de una decisión ex audientia del papa Pío XII el 16 de junio de 1954.

Los católicos armenios de Francia dependieron del ordinariato hasta que el exarcado apostólico de Francia para los fieles de rito oriental armenio fue creado el 22 de julio de 1960 mediante la bula Sacratissima del papa Juan XXIII.

El 30 de junio de 1986 el exarcado apostólico fue elevado a eparquía mediante la constitución apostólica In Petro Apostolorum del papa Juan Pablo II y recibió su nombre actual.

El exarca Gregorio Ghabroyan fue a la vez designado visitador apostólico en Europa Occidental. Su sucesor, Jean Teyrouz recibió ese encargo el 8 de junio de 2013.

Episcopologio
 Garabed Amadouni † (22 de julio de 1960-15 de marzo de 1971 renunció)
 Sede vacante (1971-1977)
 Gregorio Ghabroyan, I.C.P.B. (3 de enero de 1977-2 de febrero de 2013 retirado, el 25 de julio de 2015 fue nombrado patriarca de Cilicia de los armenios)
 Jean Teyrouz, I.C.P.B., (2 de febrero de 2013-23 de junio de 2018 retirado)
 Elie Yéghiayan, I.C.P.B. (desde el 23 de junio de 2018)

Estadísticas
De acuerdo al Anuario Pontificio 2021 la eparquía tenía a fines de 2020 un total de 35 000 fieles bautizados.

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| 2014 || 30 000 || ? || ? || 7 || 1 || 6 || 4285 || || 6 || 2 || 6
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| 2020 || 35 000 || ? || ? || 8 || 2 || 6 || 4375 || || 6 || 3 || 6
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|colspan=12 |<small>Fuente: Catholic-Hierarchy, que a su vez toma los datos del Anuario Pontificio.
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Referencias

Santa Cruz de Paris
Santa Cruz de Paris
Santa Cruz de Paris
Religión en París


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Thanks, ***** ***** press the one-step update for my quicken with my bank, nothing really happens. The processing wheel spins for a moment, but the page to enter my passwords never shows up. I have Quicken 2015 Deluxe.
What more would be helpful?
Is this for MAC or Windows?
Kris, no offence, but I don't have enough experience with you to give you access to my personal quicken data. any other options?
Can you tell me the version your running of the OS and the software?
Kris, can I continue this later. I have to go. mark.
Yes of course, just bookmark this page and come back to it.
Note: Can you please rate me at the top so I am credited with my time, 5/5 gives me most credit and would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Kris, sorry for the delay, I am back. You are looking for the software I'm running. Is that other that the Quicken Deluxe 2015? Mark.
What would you like from there?
The issue is a Windows updated that was released.
It's saying on here the issue is not apparently in the latest version of quicken.
Is there a reason your using 2015?
No, just never saw a reason to upgrade...always seems to be a hassle. Is that the suggestion?
Yes, not the best suggestion but this is what Microsoft do, and Quicken only fix there latest versions so they can get more people to upgrade!
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I am a USAA member and do my banking with USAA Federal Savings.
I am getting error message when I try to update my accounts.
My 2011 deluxe will not download using the one stop update.


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Q: Debian Package Control file Question I am trying to create a Debian package for a Java application.
In my package there is a .jar file which is executable, a script which will run this jar file and a .so file for fmod.
I've read this tutorial.
In the control file there is a 'Depends' field which basically describes the packages that need to be installed in order to install my application. My question is, how do I find which packages are required for my application? I followed the instructions in the tutorial for one of the .so files, and got this:
$ dpkg -S libfmodex64-4.28.09.so
dpkg: *libfmodex64-4.28.09.so* not found.

Also, my application requires Java 1.5 to be installed in order for it to run. How do I specify this in my debian package?

A: I strongly recommend building your package from source within the Debian packaging infrastructure.  Everything will be pretty much automatically taken care of if you use the Ant class in CDBS.
If you do insist on assembling a binary .deb only, equivs is much less hackish than the method described by your document.

A: You'll want to get the canonical name for your library:
apt-cache search libname
Take care to note the nomenclature at the end of the package. You don't want to specify a specific version in the control file, just the earliest version of the library that is suitable for your application.
You would then use canonical_libname >= major.minor , which lets the system decide if you have (or can update to) the version of the library that can support your application. If you carve this in time, i.e. specifying the full version of your current library, you'll break in the future.
For instance, if you specify libfoo-1.2.34 and future versions of Debian ship libfoo-2.3.45, your package won't install, because it thinks you have an incompatible version of libfoo.


dISCUSS THE DRAMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF gEORGE & mARTHA'S SON IN THE PLAY.
Edward Albee emphasizes George and Martha's creation of the son in the play to display their insecurities.
Albee portrays George killing off the son to display the death of their old dysfunctional relationship. After this very long morning George is exhausted and has simply given up playing these games and so when he claims the son "is dead" it displays the end of these games. George is tired of these games overall and no longer wishes to play them, in him killing the son it signifies the end of these games not just for the night but forever. Martha grieves severely over the ending of the games and is "afraid" of how life will be without them. She is afraid of living life without al these lies and false stories leaving "just [them]" behind. The playwright emphasizes George's killing of the fake son to symbolize the death of the games and lies in their relationship.
all* (second to last sentence) and I said games too much but I didn't know what other words to put.
This has a bit too much plot summary.
To avoid this, remember to include the audience in your analysis.
Ablee's presents the "little buggar" so on-lookers can see past Martha and George's "wicked" games. Tension is built when George warns her to "not mention IT" which Martha argues back "[she] can talk about anything [she] wants." The audience later can infer that "it" was their imaginary child created in efforts to continue their scheme. It is clear to viewers their relationship is not all "fun and games" but deeply rotten by their lack to have any children. The playwright presents this fictional son to bring to light the cause for their unusual entertainment as well as their vulnerability.
You've remembered the audience throughout your analysis!
Playwright Edward Albee attributes George and Martha's "son" substantial relevance, in order to portray the conforming nature behind the couple utilizing these "fun and games" as a void from their turbulent relationship. George and Martha's consistent "hacking away at [one another]," attest to the notion that through the creation of their "son" they are able to avoid the dissatisfaction between themselves. Martha referencing to her "green-eyed son" in front of guests, demonstrates that she deceitfully relishes in the conforming sensation of this delusion. However, George has grown restless with this facade and puts everything to rest as he claims that "there was a car accident" which killed their "son." Martha's subsequent outcry - "NOOO..." - proves how intently she relied on this illusion to escape from the troubling realities of their marriage. Albee's incorporation of this illusionary character, serves as a potent source for the couple to channel their disconsolation for one another.
Now, remember, you must include the audience in your analysis. This is a play and you MUST keep in mind it is meant to be viewed, not simply read.
Edward Albee presents George and Martha's son as a projection of the child they were never able to have. Throughout the play, it becomes apparent that they have been at their "fun and games" for a long time now, which has aged along with their imaginary 21 year old son. Albee portrays Jim is a comforting character that is only to be mentioned between George and Martha in an attempt to fill the empty hole in their hearts. When George finds out that Martha told Honey about Jim, he responds by repeatedly asking, "she told you about him?" as if he simply cannot believe that she would betray him so. Once this violation occurs, he becomes an active player in the game and does everything he can to punish Martha. The games live as long as their imaginary son lives, so George puts an end to it all by killing him off.
Remember to include the audience in this analysis. How are the onlookers particularly affected?


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