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Man accused of indecent behavior in Pineville case
Rapides Parish Sheriff's detectives searching for a Mississippi man in an investigation found him already in jail on unrelated charges, according to a release.
Man accused of indecent behavior in Pineville case Rapides Parish Sheriff's detectives searching for a Mississippi man in an investigation found him already in jail on unrelated charges, according to a release. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2016/04/13/man-accused-indecent-behavior-pineville-case/82990690/
Melissa Gregory, mgregory@thetowntalk.com, (318) 792-1807 Published 1:46 p.m. CT April 13, 2016
Chad Timothy Moak(Photo: Courtesy/Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office)
On Monday, deputies had responded to a call from the La. Highway 116 area in Pineville from a mother who claimed that her juvenile daughter had been "touched inappropriately" by a friend who'd been staying at their home, reads the sheriff office's release. The suspect was identified as 35-year-old Chad Timothy Moak of Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Deputies tried to find Moak, who had left before their arrival, but couldn't. The case was handed over to Tioga substation detectives who, in conjunction with the Rapides Children's Advocacy Center, "developed information that supported the allegations," reads the release.
A warrant was obtained for Moak, and he was found in jail. He was re-arrested and was charged with one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile. Moak remains in jail on a $15,000 bond, reads the release.
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This is a great post from Janet Jones, a home stager in Hawaii! She makes it so simple to understand how important furniture placement is when selling your home. Sometimes buyers just don't like your space and don't really know why. It may be something as simple as the way you have your furniture arranged! If you are thinking of buying a Murfreesboro TN home, and would like to discuss staging your home for space, please call me at 615-566-3789! The Murfreesboro TN real estate market is in recovery! Now is a great time to buy your first home or get your current home price positioned, staged and SOLD! You can always visit us online at SherriWellborn.com!
I think the operative sentence for decorating small spaces would be "less is more". The second bedroom of this 950 square foot, 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo that I have been blogging about definitely did not follow this rule. This post is not about how to arrange furniture. It is simply a look at how the present furniture arrangement works against this small space. Consider these when your home is up for sale.
Allow Adequate Space Between Furniture. If all the furniture pieces are sandwiched against each other and/or the walls, the space will appear small and cramped. Look at this photo and you will see that each piece along the window wall abuts the side wall and each other. This wall reminds me of a size 12 woman squeezed into a pair of size 8 jeans. (Is that possible?) This is a simple indication that there is either too much furniture in the area or the furniture is too large. The easiest solution is to remove or move something. Because this room is so small, removal is the best option.
Positioning Casegoods. This next one could well get you flunked out of design school--placing the front of one casegood facing the side of another one. You can see in the photo below how awkward this arrangement actually is. Casegoods should wrap a corner or abut, but never cross over each other. All this does is make the room feel smaller and communicate the lack of space.
Make the View Accessible. If at all possible, avoid placing large pieces of furniture in front of windows--especially if the window has a view. In this room there is an expansive view of the mountains (hard to see through the bamboo blinds--which probably couldn't be raised because the furniture is in the way!). Since this is a great selling feature of this unit, prospective buyers should be able to walk right up to that window and say, "Wow, great view". Blocking access to this feature will not help to get this condo sold quickly. In almost all cases keeping the furniture away from the windows helps the room appear larger because you see out the window past the walls of the room.
Clear The Floorspace. Ask yourself if every piece of furniture in the room is essential to selling your home. You may have a cocktail table--or in this case two rattan baskets acting as one--but are they essential? No, they actually take up valuable walking space. Staging is not about showcasing the furnishings, it's about highlighting the space.
The "After". In my "after" rendering only the essential furniture remains. The walkway to the window has been cleared so sellers can enjoy the view. The two large casegoods have been removed and replaced with one appropriate to the scale of the room. One rattan basket has been repositioned as a side table (the existing wall-mounted fixture makes this possible.) With this furniture arrangement buyers can also more easily imagine this room as a bedroom--mentally replacing the love seat with a bed, and the two side tables with night stands. The space feels much larger, open and inviting.
Buyers don't like spaces for subtle reasons they can't explain. It often comes down to elements like these--furniture arrangement, focal points, barriers. To give yourself the best chance to sell you home quickly and for the most money, consult with a professional home stager in your area. Our expertise is in "seeing" these details and resolving them. We create spaces buyers love and want to live in.
For further discussion on these issues, please see the other two posts in this series: Staging Small Spaces. Part 1--Focal Points and Staging Small Spaces. Part 2--Invisible Barriers.
Sherri - I saw this on Janet's blog - great information! I just realized we both got certified through HSR - no wonder she's so smart - lol! When dealing with small spaces, less is ALWAYS more and the right furniture placement in critical to show the space's potential!


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Q: Ionic 2 - NavController canGoBack() allways undefined (Android) This is my Function:
checkStack(){
    let canGoBack = this.navCtrl.canGoBack()
    console.log('canGoBack: ',canGoBack);

    if(canGoBack === true){
        console.log('Not RootPage.');
    } else {

        let alert = this.alertCtrl.create({
            title: 'Exit',
            message: 'sure?',
            buttons: [
                {
                    text: 'Yes',
                    role: 'cancel',
                    handler: () => {
                        console.log('Cancel clicked');
                    }
                },
                {
                    text: 'No',
                    handler: () => {
                        this.platform.exitApp();
                    }
                }
            ]
        });

        alert.present();
    }
}

i am call in IonViewDidLoad():
this.platform.registerBackButtonAction(this.checkStack);

But if i click the BackButton it fails with Message:
"Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'canGoBack' of undefined"
Whats wrong?

A: Here is my Solution:
constructor(public platform: Platform, public app: App){
   initializeApp()
}

this.platform.registerBackButtonAction(() => {

            let activeNav = this.app.getActiveNav();

            if(activeNav.canGoBack()){

                // not Root

            } else {

                // is Root

        }

I am defined this in:
initializeApp(){
   this.platform.ready().then(() => {...})
}

and call in Constructor. Works very well ;-)

A: The error you receive indicates that your navCtrl variable is undefined. Make sure you instantiate it in the constructor of your page. Like this:
constructor(
    public navCtrl:NavController
) {
    // constructor logic goes here
}

Note that including public is necessary for the variable to be assigned and available (not be undefined) outside of the constructor method.

A: I had the same issue, and all I needed to solve it was to remove the parenthesis.
Instead of:
this.navCtrl.canGoBack()

Use:
this.navCtrl.canGoBack

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Architecture in Artstor
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Image credit: Louis Comfort Tiffany. Architectural Elements from Laurelton Hall, Oyster Bay, New York. ca 1905. Image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artstor's Architecture content is sourced from museums, archives, and scholars such as:
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Artstor contains over 20,000 images from the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, one of the most comprehensive collections relating to architecture and the fine arts in the world. Avery collects a full range of primary and secondary sources for the advanced studies, containing more than 600,000 volumes, including 40,000 rare books, 2,300 serial titles, more than two million architectural drawings and records, and is the steward for the Columbia University art collection.
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You know when something keeps knocking at your door? A thought, a feeling, reminders or requests?
I always feel that we should respond to persistent nudges, which is why I am hoping to run a ten week course entitled "The Yoga and Mindfulness Path away from Depression and Emotional Distress – Moving Towards the Light". This course will be an integration of my western Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) learnings and experience, with Eastern Wisdom gained through my yoga therapy training, yoga teaching, and almost thirty five years of personal yoga practice.
Together, we will find new ways to navigate difficult feelings and emotions. We will practice techniques and practices which will help students to move away from unwanted negative emotions and feelings, towards a more neutral perspective on challenging situations and experiences. We shall explore ways of filling our "happiness pot" and moving out of the shadows and in to the light.
Students will be given a daily practice to take home with them and this practice will be changed and adapted each week to take account of new learnings and techniques/practices. Together, we will create a safe environment where we can build mutual trust and understanding, and students will be encouraged to positively support each other off their mats as well as on them.
The course will take place on a weekday during the day, venue to be decided. The cost of the full course will be £100, 50% of which will be due on registration and the other 50% before the course begins. Fees include 10 x 75 minute classes, 10 x daily home practice sheets (which will be updated and revised weekly) inclusion in the group support network and the opportunity to tackle emotional issues that are holding you back and preventing you from moving forward towards the sunshine!
There will be a maximum of ten places, and spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
The course can only happen if there is enough interest, so if you are interested in taking part, please email me at: freetothinkmail@aol.com. I would also be grateful if you would share this with others who you feel might benefit.
Well, as my fellow yoga therapy students and I press on towards the end of our (rather gruelling) 2+ year Yoga Therapy Diploma Course, I am beginning to reflect on why I first decided to become a Yoga Therapist, and how that has changed and developed over the past 18 months.
My initial aim was, of course, to "help" people. An important part of yoga philosophy is that of being of service to others (Karma Yoga) and a Yoga Therapist holds a unique position which enables him or her to combine modern Western knowledge and science with traditional Eastern yogic techniques to cultivate methods of healing. When I first applied for a place on the course, I passionately wanted to be able to ease suffering and encourage empowerment and ownership of did-ease and other disruptions to wellbeing. Of course, I still feel the same way, however, I now understand that these disruptions exist on many different levels within the person, and that, in order for true healing to take place, every level has to be addressed and healed.
A secondary aim was to continue to spread the benefits of yoga as widely as I could. Yoga is purely experiential. Any student knows that we can talk about (and understand) the many physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual benefits of yoga, however the value is in actually spending regular time on our mat experiencing yoga. When we are in that most peaceful of places: at home in our body, experiencing the breath, that is when we truly feel the power of yoga.
Now imagine harnessing all that energy and focusing it precisely where it is needed to improve a particular aspect (or aspects) of wellbeing, then, you have Yoga Therapy.
If you would like to know more about Yoga Therapy, go to my Yoga Therapy page at: Yoga Therapy, or contact me at: Contact Sarah.
Traditionally, one of the biggest differences between the eastern and the western approach to healing, was that here in the west, illness and disease were treated in isolation, whereas in the east, a holistic approach was taken. My 35 years-old Pocket Oxford Dictionary doesn't even contain the word holistic! However, the concept is more popular now, so what does it actually mean?
The definition of holistic (according to the current Cambridge Dictionary) is "dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part". When we talk of a holistic approach then, we mean that we are looking at, not just the physical whole of the individual but, the emotional, psychological, social and spiritual aspects as well.
When a client or patient is treated using this approach, all parts of the individual are considered and taken into account. When, for example, we are anxious, there is a distinct inter-play between the body and the mind: the body may be sweating, the heart will be beating faster than usual, the throat may close up and breathing becomes more shallow and speeds up. At the same time, our thoughts become more confused and begin to spiral out of control, leading to an emotional reaction, as feelings of panic, disorientation, lack of control, etc all combine with the physical symptoms causing feelings of being 'out of sync' and general distress. So anxiety is neither just a physical condition, nor is it just psychological either.
It is now generally recognised that no part of the mind or body is separate from the Whole and so every aspect of an individual must be taken into account and treated accordingly. When western medical practice is partnered with an eastern approach, it is felt that the individual is given the best possible treatment and the outcome is considered to be a great deal more favourable.
Grief comes to us all. We all experience loss, whether it be the death of a loved one; the loss a family pet; a serious accident or the onset of ill-health; losing a friendship or a job that we love or suffering the breakdown of an intimate relation ship.
(1) Your life experiences so far since, ultimately our perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards every experience in life is the result of the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs that we already hold due to the experiences we have already had!
(2) The value that you held for that which has been lost.
(3) The degree in which you have developed personal characteristics such as resilience, optimism, persistence and determination.
(4) Your spiritual beliefs. If, for example, your belief system tells you that challenge makes you stronger, or that we learn through sadness, you will be better equipped to deal with grief in a more positive way.
(5) The amount of support you are offered and ask for.
Regardless of how we deal with grief, we find ourselves dealing with a pattern of human emotions and these are known as the Cycle of Grief. Whilst the cycle is the same for most of us, we will all travel round it differently, due to the reasons given above.
When we experience an important loss, our first reaction is usually one of shock and complete disbelief. Shock affects people in different ways: everything can seem unreal; people can feel numb, withdrawn, detached; some people feel completely disorientated and don't know what to do with themselves. For some it is a nightmare they cannot escape. Many people quickly experience complex and confused feelings – anger, guilt, despair, emptiness, helplessness and hopelessness.
When the shock begins to wear off, many people go through a stage of denial during which they cannot accept the reality of the loss. This often involves what counsellors call searching behaviour, an attempt at some level to try to deny that the loss has occurred. In the case of bereavement, people often find themselves thinking they have seen or heard the dead person and many people talk aloud to the person they have lost.
It is common to experience anger, sometimes guilt and often both. Many people find themselves asking: "Why has this happened"? "Why me"? This is particularly so if the loss was sudden, unexpected or involved a tragic accident, Counsellors say that it is common to wish to find blame, either in ourselves, in others, or even with the person who has died, and this can lead to powerful feelings of anger and guilt.
In the first few weeks the whole situ ation may seem unbearable and in the months that follow, many people feel there is little purpose in life and nothing of interest in the outside world. People sometimes begin to question their own sanity and think that you are going mad. This is a common experience.
Eventually people pass through the period of depression and begin to accept the loss. This usually happens with the passage of time and, as the pain eases, we are able to think about our loss and recall the past without feelings of devastation. This can take up to a year or longer. Eventually, however people start thinking of beginning their life again, maybe renewing old interests and taking up new pursuits. Many people take up a hobby as a therapy. It is important to remember that the past is always a part of us and is not affected by enjoying the present, or planning for the future.
There is no automatic or quick answer to grief and it helps to express the feelings that well up inside us. Many people are afraid to talk to us when we experience a loss because they feel they will upset us. Most people do not realise that we want and need to talk about our loss. It is important to find good listeners. In the case of bereavement, there are organisations that can offer help and support during this vulnerable time. Please see below for links to useful organisations who provide professional help and counselling for the bereaved.
(1) Give yourself time and be kind to yourself.
(2) Allow yourself to express your grief.
(3) Understand that acceptance will come over time.


NEW OPPORTUNITY: A new opportunity for all manufacturing companies in the region with a Level 3 and higher B-BBEE certification.
The Eastern Cape Automotive Industry Forum (ECAIF) is inviting all manufacturing companies in the region with a Level 3 and higher B-BBEE certification to register on its database.
"Working with all the leading component suppliers in the Eastern Cape we have identified a number of opportunities for black-owned manufacturing companies in support of government's drive to increase the participation of blacks in the manufacturing sector," says Andre Nel, convener of the ECAIF Supply Chain Working Group.
"An additional benefit is that having a stronger and broader base of automotive suppliers in the Eastern Cape will help us retain and grow the local motor manufacturing sector on which the province's economy is so dependent," he says.
ECAIF is geared to promote the coordinated development of manufacturing in the province's automotive components sector.
Members include all the main automotive components suppliers in the Eastern Cape.
The opportunities that have been identified in a survey of ECAIF members are in packaging, manufacturing of small plastic and metal parts, toolmaking and the supply of specialist chemicals and oils. Suppliers can be based in Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage or East London.
"But, we are more than happy to meet with manufacturers of other products. Our more than 50 members are always looking for ways of increasing local content and reducing the costs of logistics.
"Companies do not have to be in the automotive sector already. ECAIF will help them to meet the requirements of Tier 1 and Tier 2 component suppliers," he says.
Companies wanting to register can go to the ECAIF website at www.ecaif.co.za and fill in the form.
For more information call Ed Richardson on 041 582 3750.
Please note that there is no cost.


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You may have recently seen the addition of two new mandatory fields for "Problem Type" and "Problem Scope" in your ticket submission screens. When you submit your ticket from within the support system, these selection fields will allow you to represent the impact the issue is having on your environment. This will allow the support team to better determine the relative importance of cases being submitted with HIGH or NORMAL priority. A more detailed description of the business impact may still be vetted with you and the support agent in the course of the ticket progress, but we expect these new fields will help ensure customers receive the appropriate level of responsiveness based on the situation.
If a ticket is a request for enhancement (RFE), we will close out the ticket in Zendesk once details have been fully collected and accepted by the Product Management team into the product backlog. You will still be informed when such suggestions are available in the product.
We will close a product defect ticket where a manageable workaround has been provided, which the customer has confirmed to be working. Again, we will still notify you when the defect has been addressed within the product.
These changes will make our support approach consistent with how most software support organizations manage documented situations where the path forward is understood. So those of you with historical tickets in the system that fall under these categories can expect to see those tickets being marked solved in the coming weeks as our team reviews your older tickets. Again, rest assured that even though the support ticket may be closed, the RFE or defect remains in the engineering backlog for future consideration. When the changes are implemented in the product, we will be sending out an update mailing to alert customers to the fact that something they had identified or asked for has been delivered. So that great level of feedback you have grown accustomed to receiving from our team won't be lost by this change.
You may also have noticed changes we recently applied to our Support Help Center. We've updated this site pull together videos, knowledge base, Q&A forum and product documentation into one location to help you find answers quickly. We have been producing videos on various topics over the past couple of years, and you will see more videos available through this page in the future. While your old links to: https://electriccloud.zendesk.com/ will still work, you can also reach the Help Center via the re-branded URL of: https://helpcenter.electric-cloud.com/ If you haven't seen these changes yet, please check them out. If you aren't sure where to find information you used to be able to find, please just submit a support ticket to ask for assistance, and we'll be glad to provide you with pointers to help you out.
In conjunction with the recent rebranding of the ElectricCommander product to ElectricFlow, you'll be seeing that KB articles and videos will also be getting refreshed to reflect this rebranding. There are many articles/videos to review, so this is a task which we will undertake gradually over the coming months.
As always, the Electric Cloud Support team appreciates your feedback and continued patronage.
Please feel free to submit a ticket to let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or require clarification on any of these changes.


The work may require the employee to drive a motor vehicle. An appropriate, valid driver's license may be required for the position. Class B Commercial Drivers License (CDL) is required.
The employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.
May be required to train and/or guide lower grade employees.
(cont) this position during wartime, the incumbent of the "Key" position must be screened from military recall status.
QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standard Handbook X-118C for the WG-5700 Transportation/ Mobile Equipment Operation Family. Although a specific length of time and experience is not required for most blue-collar positions, you must meet any screen-out element listed, and show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying. Qualification requirements emphasis is on the quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time.
The screen out element for this position is the ability to do the work of an Engineering Equipment Operator (Road Constr Wrkr) without more than normal supervision.
Knowledge of engineering equipment, such as graders, tractors with bulldozer or angle dozer blades, front-end loaders, backhoes, and trench diggers.
Knowledge of methods and techniques of subsurface preparation and constructing and repairing asphalt and cement surfaces.
Knowledge of the different sets of controls or operation of the equipment and attachments and skill in manipulating the controls to adjust spreaders, sprayers, post hole diggers, backhoes, moveable dozer blades, and front-end loading devices.
Knowledge of safety regulations, practices, and procedures.
Skill in applying and leveling gravel, crushed stone, sand, or other aggregates to the proper thickness for the subsurface and in applying sealer.
Skill in shaping curbs and drainage ditches and in curing asphalt with sealer.
Ability to use and maintain power tools, hand tools, and related equipment.
Ability to read and interpret instructions, blueprints, drawings, and sketches.
Physical Effort: Heavy physical effort is used by the operator in constantly reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet, and legs to handle different sets of controls to operate the equipment and attachments. Considerable strain is caused by the constant vibration of the equipment and the jerking and jolting from operating over rough surfaces. Frequently required to work in awkward or strained positions. The employee frequently lifts, carries, and handles items weighing up to 40 pounds. When performing cement work, employee is frequently required to perform heavy lifting up to 100 pounds. Asphalt work requires considerable physical effort while using pickax or air hammer to remove damaged pavement. Work requires frequent stooping, stretching, bending, kneeling, and working in tiring, uncomfortable positions for long periods. In addition, work involves frequent movement and maneuvering of large, heavy equipment using hoists, holders, and pulleys, attaching and disconnecting tow bars, as required.
Working Conditions: The employee works outside in all kinds of weather frequently exposed to dust and dirt. Works near moving parts of equipment and machinery. Employee is regularly exposed to the possibility of cuts, scrapes, bruises, falls, falling material, or injury from equipment. May be required to wear protective clothing, such as hard hats, steel-toed shoes, gloves, masks, and aprons.


What may perhaps have started out as an interesting pastime while carving pumpkins for Thanksgiving may develop into a passionate hobby or vocation for people interested in carving. Besides providing hours of patient industry it can also be a lucrative and rewarding task. There is a lineup of hand tools for carving designs that help do the job skillfully.
Carving tools come in different styles depending on shapes, uses and sizes. It is good to know about the different kinds of tools used for particular jobs. Before you decide on what tools to acquire you need to pay attention to surfaces on which you would be carving. Woodcarving remains the most popular that includes fine detailing work like letter-carving, relief carving or figurine carving.
Several types of tools would be needed to cover the different fields of carving like wood and stone and so on. Carving tools are by necessity designed for specific applications. For instance parting tools in V shapes are narrow and smaller in size. The cutting edge is either 40 or 60 inches and almost always they are used for edging or corners that need finishing off.
Veining tools are usually in U shapes. They are small in size and used for making grooves and rough lines. Flutes are larger in comparison and largely used for making surfaces smooth for perfect finish. Chisels range from narrow sizes to the widest size. They are used for flat-cutting of edges and making appropriate finishes for the sharp edges.
Skew tools are like chisels to be used for straight cutting of edges occurring at 45 degrees. Depending on type of cutting they give the left skew or the right skew. Long bent gouges are best for making concave curves and to make hollows. Spoon gouges in concave shape with straight shanks are used for gouging. Back bent gouges having convex-shaped curves bending backwards are for working from the undersides.
The size of curved carving tools determines the radius of the curves. And so tools with low size numbers are mostly used for finishing. Conversely hand tools having larger curvatures have big size numbers suited to making deep cuts. It is best to have a good carving tool set that is a great investment for hobbyists or DIY's involved in home improvement jobs.
Since carving tools cover the majority of projects that may be undertaken, normal carving work would require apart from individual tools and sets certain carving accessories like carver's clamps and mallets too. Chip carving knives and whittling knives are really the primary tools needed to make a start on this fascinating hobby and are both simple and inexpensive.
Miniature carving tools can be handled by kids wanting to learn the craft. They are not children's tools but are simply smaller in size making them handy for kids to work on the surfaces under hand pressure. Well known manufacturers like Robert Sorby, Hamlet Craft Tools, Henry Taylor and Flexcut offer quality carving hand tools and whittling knives.


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Oceaneering Promotes Philip G. Beierl to Vice President, Advanced Technologies
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HOUSTON, Jan. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Oceaneering International, Inc. ("Oceaneering") (NYSE:OII) announced the promotion of Philip G. Beierl to Vice President, Advanced Technologies ("ADTECH"). Mr. Beierl has global responsibility for Oceaneering's ADTECH business segment, succeeding John R. Kreider, who has assumed the role of Senior Vice President, Growth Strategies, after more than 16 years leading our ADTECH business segment. These changes were effective January 1, 2018.
Rod Larson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Oceaneering, stated, "I am pleased to announce Phil's promotion. Phil is a proven leader with an impressive track record of successfully applying new technologies in multiple industries. I am confident that with Phil's leadership, supported by a strong management team, we will continue to provide our non-oilfield customers with exemplary service and technologies while we grow this promising segment of our business. In his new role, Phil will report to me."
Mr. Beierl's career includes more than 12 years with Oceaneering. He most recently served as Vice President, ADTECH Operations, and was previously Vice President and General Manager of Oceaneering Technologies since 2014. Prior to joining Oceaneering, Mr. Beierl retired from the United States Navy as Captain after a distinguished 25-year career.
In his new role as Senior Vice President, Growth Strategies, Mr. Kreider will be focused on developing Oceaneering as a leading integrator of mobile robotic systems for the mission critical needs of Oceaneering's customers across multiple industries. Mr. Kreider will continue to report to Mr. Larson.
Oceaneering is a global provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry, with a focus on deepwater applications. Through the use of its applied technology expertise, Oceaneering also serves the defense, entertainment, and aerospace industries.
For more information on Oceaneering, please visit www.oceaneering.com.
Suzanne Spera
Oceaneering International, Inc.
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Golden Gate Heights is tucked neatly in between four neighboring districts and is one of the city's most prized treasures boasting what could be the best views in all of San Francisco.
Outside of the panoramic views from homeowners' floor-to-ceiling windows, both Grand View Park and Golden Gate Heights Park are popular destinations to take in the city. And true to its name "Heights," strolling through this region is not for the faint of heart, though the climbs are all rewarded with a park or another breathtaking vista. While the rare ocean views from Golden Gate Heights are plentiful, they are just as easily taken away by the fog that is innate to this area of the city.
Homes in this area are almost all single-family dwellings, but range in style from 1920s architecture through Mid-Century Modern. While homeowners in this neighborhood are also automobile owners, the city's public transportation lines run through and along this residential sector making it easy to bop around town, which comes in handy as there are no commercial hubs within the neighborhood's borders.
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Among car manufacturers with a presence in the United States, Mazda is small and easily outsold by more than half the market players. In recent years the company has sought to separate itself from the Ford Motor Company while some of its closest rivals including Subaru, Isuzu and Daihatsu, are now partially owned by the Japanese mothership, Toyota.
Isuzu and Daihatsu no longer sell cars in the US and Suzuki is the next player that is wrapping up its American dealer network. Mitsubishi continues to struggle and may make its exit next, leaving just Subaru and Mazda standing in addition to Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
That Mazda remains viable is a credit to its management team especially as it has seen Fords stake whittle from 33.4 percent in 2008 to just 3.5 percent today. The two companies previously collaborated on several models including cars and SUVs. That collaboration has ended with both companies now building separate platforms for previously related products.
Mazda's December US sales rose by 21.6 percent and finished up by 10.6 percent for 2012. Although the year-over-year gain is below the 13.4 percent market increase for the year, it is a good sign that Mazda is still being taken seriously by consumers. Mazdas gains were below Toyota, Honda and Subaru, but came in at a faster clip than Nissan, Ford and GM. In comparison, Mitsubishi's sales tumbled by 26.9 percent.
Mazda has long counted on the Mazda3 to provide about half of its sales. This compact car is quite easily one of the best in its segment, prized for its sporty looks, good handling and very good gas mileage. The Mazdaspeed3 is its halo, performance model, a five-door hatchback that features an all-aluminum 2.3-liter in-line four cylinder engine and a track-tuned suspension. For 2012, the Mazda3 made up 44 percent of its US sales.
Relying on one model especially a compact vehicle is not a plan for success. New technologies, including its SKYACTIV family of lightweight and efficient engines and transmissions, are beginning to roll out across the Mazda lineup, beginning with the CX-5 and soon extending to the 2014 Mazda6 midsize sedan. That sedan will be priced from $20,880 and is EPA-rated at 38 mpg on the highway, tying the segment-leading Nissan Altima. This vehicle is rated 26 mpg around town.
How long Mazda will maintain its mostly independent path is not known. However, with a bevy of exciting and fuel efficient models on tap including European models equipped with diesel engines, its short-term future should be good. Down the road as the industry continues to consolidate Mazda may find hooking up with a suitor or forming an alliance will be to its liking. In the meantime, concern that this Japanese brand might beat Mitsubishi to the exit door seem unfounded, an unlikely prospect at that.


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Los felicito por la app. Es muy buena. Solo le falta el enlace con el Apple Watch. Poder usar la app con el reloj. Medir la frecuencia cardiaca. Pausar. Etc.
I have been using MountainBike app since 2012. By far is the Best and only app I use when I'm riding.Way to go..
I've been using this app since 2014! I preferred it over Strava for Mountain Biking. However, it's getting a bit dated - it's not updated very often. For example, it does format properly on the iPhone X.
To start off I've been using this app for over a year now and really enjoy it, definitely worth the investment. I use this both for mountain biking and road cycling and can only think of two issues that bother me. 1st no night mode, there really should be an option in the app to switch over for those of us that ride at night. 2nd is if the app loses com with the speed sensor it stops logging distance even if the gps is enabled, would like to see it switch over automatically instead of having to disable the sensors. Don't let these issues detract too much from what otherwise is great app.
Please add Apple Watch heart rate monitor support and earn 5 stars.
I left an earlier review that mention the program was shutting down a mile or so into my ride. It looks like they fixed that. Works fine.
Great app except lack of Apple Watch support.
I want this app to work with Apple Watch so badly. It would be a definite 5 stars of it did. I still use it but if I see something better that has Apple Watch functionality got MTB. I will be most temped to switch.
App stopped working stuck on TERMS & CONDITIONS Was a very good app but now can't be used that's after having paid for it a few years ago now just blocked from using it no matter how many time I press accept!!!


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Home Media Rights Monitor President of Humanist Association of Nigeria Arrested for Alleged Blasphemy
President of Humanist Association of Nigeria Arrested for Alleged Blasphemy
Mr. Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria
Mr. Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was on April 29, 2020, arrested by policemen at his residence in Kaduna State over a Facebook post regarded as critical of Islam's holy Prophet Muhammad.
The Kaduna State police spokesman, Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the arrest saying Mubarak was in police custody but refused to disclose where he was being held.
On, April 27, Mubarak, in a Facebook post compared Lagos pastor and president of Synagogue Church of all Nations, Prophet TB Joshua to Prophet Mohammed, saying: "There's no difference between prophet TB Joshua (S.A.W) of Lagos and Muhammadu (A.S.) of Saudi Arabia, it is better for our Nigeria to be terrorism."
In another post, he said, "Whoever believes religion has been duped – If you cant take blasphemy against Islam, criticism of its doctrines, this page is not for you. I have not even started ooo."
Later, a group of lawyers petitioned the Kano State Police command to prosecute Mubarak for insulting Prophet Muhammad.
In addition, one Halima Sa'adiya Umar raised an online petition on change.org asking Facebook to close down Mubarak's account. The petition was later deleted the same day.
The group of lawyers prosecuting Mubarak through a legal firm S.S. Usman& CO accused him of taking advantage of the freedom of expression guaranteed to him by the constitution [Section 39] to incite violence through statements against Islam.
In their letter to the police, they claimed: "Among such stuff is calling the Prophet of Islam Muhammad denigrating names like pedophile. terrorist. among other statements that will …ultimately provoke them to take law Into their hands which may ultimately result Into public disturbance and breach of peace."
Consequently, the lawyers said he is liable to serve a jail term for allegedly erring against section 210 of the Penal Code of Kano State which says "Whoever by any means publicly insults or seeks to incite contempt of any religion in such a manner as to be likely to lead to a breach of the peace, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years."
Mubarak Bala is an atheist who openly expresses his interest in anti-religious beliefs and as part of his Facebook bio, he says: "Religion insults human reason and conscience, duped me that I have another lifetime."
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Q: Smooth Manifolds Exercise There's a naive exercise that I'm having trouble to finish.

Suppose $M$ is a smooth manifold and $f:$ $M$ $\rightarrow$ $\mathbb{R}^{k}$ is a smooth function. Show that: $$f\circ\varphi^{-1}:\varphi(U)\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{k}$$ is smooth for every smooth chart $(U,\varphi)$ for $M$.

Well, by definition of smooth function, for every point $p$ in M there is a smooth chart $(U,\varphi)$ such that the function above is smooth.
My idea is to take, for every $p$ $\in$ $M$, such a chart. Sounds like a good start, but I couldn't find an argument to finish the problem, even because there are charts $(U',\psi)$ such that $p$ $\in$ $U$ $\subset$ $U'$ that I haven't considered in the beginning.
If $U'$ $\subset$ $U$, we just have to restrict the domain, but in the first case I couldn't go on. What am I missing?

A: Let ($U,\phi)$ be a smooth chart and let $x\in \phi(U)\subseteq \mathbb R^m$.
We have to show that $f\circ\phi^{-1}$ is smooth at $x$.
Let $p=\phi^{-1}(x)$. Since $f\colon M\to \mathbb R^k$ is smooth, there exists a smooth map $(V,\psi)$, $p\in V$, such that $f\circ\psi^{-1}$ is smooth.
Smooth charts are compatible, that is the map $\psi\circ\phi^{-1}\colon\phi(U\cap V)\to\psi(U\cap V)$ is smooth.
Then on $\phi(U\cap V)$ we have $f\circ\phi^{-1}=(f\circ\psi^{-1})\circ(\psi\circ\phi^{-1})$ is ths composition of smooth maps, and since $p\in U\cap V$, we see that $f\circ\phi^{-1}$ is smooth at $x=\phi(p)$.


In the United States, approximately 46.5 million surgical procedures and even more invasive medical procedures—including approximately 5 million gastrointestinal endoscopies—are performed each year. 2Each procedure involves contact by a medical device or surgical instrument with a patient's sterile tissue or mucous membranes. A major risk of all such procedures is the introduction of pathogens that can lead to infection. Failure to properly disinfect or sterilize equipment carries not only risk associated with breach of host barriers but also risk for person-to-person transmission (e.g., hepatitis B virus) and transmission of environmental pathogens (e.g., Pseudomonas aeruginosa).
Disinfection and sterilization are essential for ensuring that medical and surgical instruments do not transmit infectious pathogens to patients. Because sterilization of all patient-care items is not necessary, health-care policies must identify, primarily on the basis of the items' intended use, whether cleaning, disinfection, or sterilization is indicated.
Multiple studies in many countries have documented lack of compliance with established guidelines for disinfection and sterilization. 3-6 Failure to comply with scientifically-based guidelines has led to numerous outbreaks. 6-12 This guideline presents a pragmatic approach to the judicious selection and proper use of disinfection and sterilization processes; the approach is based on well-designed studies assessing the efficacy (through laboratory investigations) and effectiveness (through clinical studies) of disinfection and sterilization procedures.
This guideline resulted from a review of all MEDLINE articles in English listed under the MeSH headings of disinfection or sterilization (focusing on health-care equipment and supplies) from January 1980 through August 2006. References listed in these articles also were reviewed. Selected articles published before 1980 were reviewed and, if still relevant, included in the guideline. The three major peer-reviewed journals in infection control—American Journal of Infection Control, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, and Journal of Hospital Infection—were searched for relevant articles published from January 1990 through August 2006. Abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Association for professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. during 1997–2006 also were reviewed; however, abstracts were not used to support the recommendations.
Sterilization describes a process that destroys or eliminates all forms of microbial life and is carried out in health-care facilities by physical or chemical methods. Steam under pressure, dry heat, EtO gas, hydrogen peroxide gas plasma, and liquid chemicals are the principal sterilizing agents used in health-care facilities. Sterilization is intended to convey an absolute meaning; unfortunately, however, some health professionals and the technical and commercial literature refer to "disinfection" as "sterilization" and items as "partially sterile." When chemicals are used to destroy all forms of microbiologic life, they can be called chemical sterilants. These same germicides used for shorter exposure periods also can be part of the disinfection process (i.e., high-level disinfection).
Disinfection describes a process that eliminates many or all pathogenic microorganisms, except bacterial spores, on inanimate objects (Tables 1 and 2). In health-care settings, objects usually are disinfected by liquid chemicals or wet pasteurization. Each of the various factors that affect the efficacy of disinfection can nullify or limit the efficacy of the process.
Factors that affect the efficacy of both disinfection and sterilization include prior cleaning of the object; organic and inorganic load present; type and level of microbial contamination; concentration of and exposure time to the germicide; physical nature of the object (e.g., crevices, hinges, and lumens); presence of biofilms; temperature and pH of the disinfection process; and in some cases, relative humidity of the sterilization process (e.g., ethylene oxide).
Unlike sterilization, disinfection is not sporicidal. A few disinfectants will kill spores with prolonged exposure times (3–12 hours); these are called chemical sterilants. At similar concentrations but with shorter exposure periods (e.g., 20 minutes for 2% glutaraldehyde), these same disinfectants will kill all microorganisms except large numbers of bacterial spores; they are called high-level disinfectants. Low-level disinfectants can kill most vegetative bacteria, some fungi, and some viruses in a practical period of time (≤10 minutes). Intermediate-level disinfectants might be cidal for mycobacteria, vegetative bacteria, most viruses, and most fungi but do not necessarily kill bacterial spores. Germicides differ markedly, primarily in their antimicrobial spectrum and rapidity of action.
Cleaning is the removal of visible soil (e.g., organic and inorganic material) from objects and surfaces and normally is accomplished manually or mechanically using water with detergents or enzymatic products. Thorough cleaning is essential before high-level disinfection and sterilization because inorganic and organic materials that remain on the surfaces of instruments interfere with the effectiveness of these processes. Decontamination removes pathogenic microorganisms from objects so they are safe to handle, use, or discard.


I bought a 4x8 layout from guy off of craigslist last year! The track is HO Atlas Code 100! It's powered by Atlas Rail Joiner wires. I just bought a Bachman DCC EZ Command! I was wondering does Bachman or any track manufacture make a HO Terminal re railer that accepts Bachman plugs, that is not EZ track, but standard HO code 100 track?
As I recall, my old E-Z Command came with two cables, one for E-Z Track and another with bare wires at the end that you can splice into the Atlas ones.
Easiest way is to take the scissors to the connector. LifeLike made one that is almost the same size as Bachmann's, but the tongs were spaced a bit too far apart to accept it.


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The construction of the São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam has been denied. The Brazilian Government will have to propose a completely different project. This, according to the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), which decided not to give an environmental license for the construction of the mega-dam in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
The project didn't comply with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirements due to its serious impact on the whole area. As a result, IBAMA's President Suely Araujo announced the cancellation of licensing for the dam.
The aim of the project was to build a dam in the Tapajós river basin, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River. The dam would have been built in the Sawré Maybu indigenous lands, where the Munduruku Indians live, flooding 729 square kilometres of lands, probably one of the most sensitive areas of the Amazon. If it had gone ahead the hydroelectric dam would have generated 8,000 megawatt of power, at a cost of 32 billion dollars, becoming one of the country's most extensive dams.
"We, Munduruku people, are very happy with the news. This is very important for us. Now, we will continue to fight against other dams in our river", Arnaldo Kabá Munduruku, Munduruku General Chief, told Greenpeace. The association has carefully recorded the events, saying that: "In the last few months, more than 1.2 million people around the world joined the Munduruku call to stop the São Luiz do Tapajós project and demanded multinational companies like Siemens and GE distance themselves from it", following the example of ENEL that told Greenpeace it doesn't want to support this dangerous project.
There are at least another 40 hydroelectric projects planned in the river basin. Which explains the hunger for energy in a country that is growing at a rocketing rate but that doesn't always care about preserving the most important and valuable thing it has: the forest and its rivers. "This is a great victory for the Munduruku Indigenous people who live in the Tapajós region and whose traditions and rights were deeply threatened by the dam", said Danicley Aguiar, Greenpeace Brazil campaigner. "It is a great victory also for everyone who cares about the Amazon forest and supports the Munduruku globally". Foresta amazzonica e dei suoi abitanti, umani e non, e che hanno voluto sostenere i Munduruku in questa battaglia".


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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Jalen Finch had 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists as Jacksonville State topped Southeast Missouri 66-54 on Saturday.
Darian Adams had 13 points and six rebounds for Jacksonville State (12-7, 8-5 Ohio Valley Conference), which earned its fourth consecutive road victory. Amanze Ngumezi added 12 points. Kayne Henry had nine rebounds.
DQ Nicholas had 13 points for the Redhawks (7-12, 5-8). Eric Reed Jr. added 12 points. Nana Akenten had six rebounds.
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Home Company Press Center Press Releases Kentico CMS 1.7 Enables On-line Forms
Kentico CMS 1.7 Enables On-line Forms
Brno, Czech Republic, October 2, 2005 – Kentico Software, a web content management solutions vendor, has released Kentico CMS 1.7 for ASP.NET. The new version enables creation and publishing of on-line forms without programming.
The new version 1.7 of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET introduces a new BizForms module that allows content editors to easily create and publish data entry forms on the web site. The captured data is sent to e-mail and stored in the database. The editor can then create simple reports and export data to Microsoft Excel.
Creating on-line forms, such as "contact us" forms, surveys or event registration forms requires no longer an expensive development. Instead, every end user can design a web form using various fields and add form to the page.
"The new BizForms module enables end users to easily create web forms without programming. It results in a shorter time-to-web cycle and higher interactivity of the site," says Petr Palas, founder of Kentico Software.
Kentico CMS 1.7 also comes with new Content Staging module. It allows organizations to edit and preview the whole web site on the staging server and publish it to the production server after careful testing. It also improves the security as the editing interface can be placed behind the firewall.
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Study brings sickle-cell gene therapy one step closer
By Dr Nicoletta Charolidi
A genetically engineered virus that triggers the production of an alternative form of haemoglobin has reversed the symptoms of sickle cell disease in mice.
Researchers believe that they have jumped the final hurdle and will now gain approval for a clinical gene therapy trial that could begin early next year.
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the gene that makes haemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells, causing the cells to become stiff and sickle-shaped. This leads to anaemia as well as pain and tissue damage.
However, it was discovered in the 1980s that people with a second mutation – in the BCL11A gene – are unaffected by sickle cell disease. It turns out BCL11A acts as a switch, turning off the fetal haemoglobin that is used to get oxygen via maternal blood in the placenta, and turning on adult (beta) haemoglobin. Only adult haemoglobin is affected by the sickle cell mutation, and people are able to function normally with fetal haemoglobin in their blood.
Using this insight, researchers at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center in Boston, Massachusetts, genetically engineered a harmless virus to create blood stem cells that had their BCL11A gene suppressed. The blood cells produced 80 percent fetal haemoglobin – well in excess of the 50 percent they were hoping for and which would avoid sickle cell symptoms. When they transplanted these modified cells back into mice with sickle cell disease, it reversed their symptoms.
They performed the same gene therapy technique on blood from four sickle cell patients and achieved the same level of fetal haemoglobin.
'The tendency for a red blood cell to sickle is proportional to how much non-sickling versus sickling hemoglobin it has,' said Dr David Williams, president of Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Center the senior author of the study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. 'BCL11A represses fetal hemoglobin, which does not lead to sickling, and also activates beta hemoglobin, which is affected by the sickle-cell mutation. So when you knock BCL11A down, you simultaneously increase fetal hemoglobin and repress sickling hemoglobin, which is why we think this is the best approach to gene therapy in sickle cell disease.'
The team first tried silencing the BCL11A gene in mice red blood cells in 2011, but they discovered that switching off the gene had a secondary effect of preventing blood stem cells from grafting onto bone marrow (see BioNews 629). In this new study they inserted the virus into precursor blood cells, which avoided this problem.
Following this successful study, the team expect to get approval from the US Food and Drug Administration next month to begin a clinical trial for sickle cell gene therapy in early 2017. They also believe that this approach could be beneficial for other blood diseases, such as beta-thalassaemia.
BCL11A-based gene therapy for sickle cell disease passes key preclinical test
Eurekalert (press release) | 6 September 2016
Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Aces Vital Preclinical Test
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 7 September 2016
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease passes key preclinical test
Harvard Gazette | 6 September 2016
Gene therapy for sickle cell moves closer as scientists clear unexpected obstacle
STAT | 7 September 2016
Lineage-specific BCL11A knockdown circumvents toxicities and reverses sickle phenotype
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Hopes of sickle cell cure with genome editing
26 February 2018 - by Anna Mallach
Genome editing has been used to correct the mutation causing sickle cell disease in stem cells from the blood of patients...
Sickle cell reversed with gene therapy in teenager
6 March 2017 - by Ayala Ochert
A teenage boy in France appears to have been cured of sickle cell disease using a gene therapy. He has been free of all signs of the disease for 15 months...
Second team corrects sickle-cell mutation using CRISPR
14 November 2016 - by Sarah Gregory
Researchers have had further success using the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique to repair the mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia...
CRISPR success in repairing sickle-cell anaemia mutation
17 October 2016 - by Sarah Gregory
Researchers have used the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technique to correct the mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia...
Gene therapy reverses inherited blindness
3 May 2016 - by Sarah Gregory
A trial of gene therapy for choroideremia, a rare form of inherited blindness, has partially restored the vision of several patients...
Gene therapy given green light in Europe
11 April 2016 - by Rebecca Carr
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Clemson University, formerly known as the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, is a public university in Clemson, South Carolina. The university, which is home to more than 23,000 graduate and undergraduate students, was founded in 1889 and boasts the second largest student population in the state of South Carolina. The school's motto is "The Engaged College with a Personal Touch."
The current school president is James P. Clements, who leads an academic staff of 1,431 and an administrative staff of more than 3,500.
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School Colors: Clemson Orange and Regalia
Campus Location: Clemson, South Carolina
Mascot: The Tiger, The Cub
Tuition: In-state: $14,712 Out-of-state: $35,654
Attendance / Number of Students: 23,406
Conference: Atlantic Coast Conference
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"The primary responsibility of the Cheerleading Program is to support the Clemson Athletics sports teams through crowd involvement efforts using cheers, signs, partner stunts, motions, dancing (females), pyramids, and tumbling. Team members are expected to uphold, reflect, and project the goals, ideals, and image of Clemson University," the school's official website reads.
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Nickname: Tigers
Head Coach: Brad Brownell
School Rank: No. 20 (AP), No. 5 seed (NCAA Tournament)
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Clemson appeared in the AP Top 25 Poll for the first time during the season in Week 8, before reaching as high as No.11 and finishing at No.20. The Tigers earned a 25-9 record this season.
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Pantera Capital CEO: "We're heading towards a post-capitalist era"
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Bitcoin is the biggest disruption of this generation, said Pantera Capital CEO and chief investment officer Dan Morehead in a conference call this week.
Despite the recent downward trend in Bitcoin's value, Morehead remains optimistic about the potential of the virtual currency and the blockchain technology behind it, reports CCN. Rather, he claims that the value drop simply presents investers with an opportunity to buy.
"That's actually a good time to increase your position," he said. "It's highly likely to be the low point for the industry. My normal view is that it's going to return to its trend."
Back in May, Warren Buffett dubbed Bitcoin "rat poison squared", and in reply, Morehead said: "It is rat poison; it's just the banks and credit card companies are the rats."
The space of cryptocurrencies is built on the dichotomy between decentralised banks and crypto investors, and Morehead joins a chorus of voices predicting that blockchain technology will cause and seismic shift in the financial world.
"I think we're heading towards a post-capitalist era," he added. "Now we're going to have 'cooperatively owned' technologies that are very valuable."
We previously reported that top CEOs believe banking will run on blockchain within five years, with ING's Ralph Hamers saying: "I think the banks are really working on this now because the potential is so huge and if the top five, six global banks would put their minds to it and agree on a standard, you could force [that] standard onto the globe. And I think that you can actually then get to a timeframe of five or six years in which this will work."
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Expat Assignments: Are You Addicted?
By Andrea Martins
28 August 2008 • 00:01 am
Expats usually earn a very attractive salary and lead a very good lifestyle
If you love living abroad, you see your passport more than your home country, you enjoy a much-envied lifestyle and you hate the thought of repatriating, there is a good chance that you, like many expats before you, have been seduced by the addictive nature of international assignments.
So what exactly is it that makes such assignments so addictive? The answers are many and varied, but here are six of the big ones:
1. Money And Lifestyle
Expats sent abroad by their employer usually earn a very attractive salary and lead a very good lifestyle.
If they didn't, what initial incentive would they have to uproot their partners, families and/or belongings in the first place?
Expat assignments are typically characterised by: exciting work travel; increased means and opportunity for personal travel; the financial ability to indulge in a dining-out culture; first-class education for accompanying children; and higher-quality leisure time – thanks, more often than not, to less personal responsibility for home maintenance and more money to indulge in exciting leisure-time pursuits.
Joe Hepworth, a Brit in Dubai, who has lived abroad in eight countries, explains it like this: "International assignments are something you naturally want to prolong/repeat… [due to] the ability to enjoy a lifestyle beyond your normal means at home and the enjoyment of living and working in different environments".
2. Excitement
Living abroad and immersing yourself in a foreign culture offers potentially endless stimulation and a true feast for the senses.
This is best summed up by Marcus Jenkins, a British expat in Spain and co-author of Going Native in Murcia, who has lived in Hong Kong, China and Germany. Marcus describes expat life as "an almost inexhaustible supply of novelty".
It follows then that repatriation, in comparison, would be like visiting a small-town museum when you have just seen the wonders of Disneyland.
3. Challenge
Few experiences compare to the high-intensity challenges that expats encounter overseas.
On a personal level, there are cultural adjustment issues, language barriers to overcome (often) and an urgent need to build new social support networks.
On a professional level, there are increased pressures and responsibilities at work, plus a rapid need to prove that your competence matches your salary.
These dynamic challenges combine to produce an exhilarating cocktail that either leaves you with a stinging hangover, or a perpetual love of the chase.
Richard Henry, executive principal of Global Jaya school, is an Australian who has been working in Jakarta for eight years. Richard professes: "I am sure that one year in my job is the equivalent of ten years in a similar job back home… but if I am honest, it is that very same stimulation that keeps me here."
Yvonne McNulty, founder of TheTrailingSpouse.com is an Australian in Singapore and a leading authority on expat return on investment. Yvonne adds: "I think what makes expat assignments addictive is the empowerment one gets from facing so many challenges and being successful – including overcoming the failed moments and crises.
"You come out stronger and you emerge bolder… I believe what that does is make you feel a little bit invincible and prepared to take even more risks… you want to put all that into practice and do it again."
4. Elevated Status
Rightly or wrongly, many expats are given an elevated status abroad. This comes sometimes via greater authority in the workplace, sometimes simply due to a distinctively non-local physical appearance and other times from a multitude of different reasons.
It is easy for an expat to develop a penchant for this new-found sense of importance, because who doesn't like feeling special?
Simon Harris, a Brit in Spain and author of Going Native in Catalonia offers: "[Expat living] certainly is addictive. I came to Barcelona 20 years ago and was quickly seduced by the climate, food and drink, and the lifestyle… speaking Catalan so well [now] makes me something of a celebrity… this means that it's easy to make friends and I have a much more positive view of myself than I did when I was [back home]."
5. Great People
Like many things in life, it is the people that can make the real difference.
Expats on assignment routinely meet people from all over the world that are both "interesting" and "interested" in each other's travels and experiences.
This understandably makes for lively and engaging conversations in a gathering of like-minded people. Again, this is difficult to replicate back home in surburbia.
Ruta Puskorius, a Lithuanian-American who recently moved from Mexico to Turkey for her husband's position with the International Finance Corporation comments: "I love being an expat because of the fascinating people I meet and the friendships that form.
"Everyone is in the same situation… so friendships form fast and furiously, crossing cultural, racial, religious, and political boundaries…"
Rebecca Grappo, founder of RNG International Educational Consultants, an American repatriate who has lived in nine countries, agrees: "One thing that I know I will really miss is the wide variety of interesting people that we get to meet.
"Perhaps the hardest thing about going home again after living abroad is that quite frankly, nobody really cares about all your adventures."
6. No Incentive To Repatriate
Repatriation can be exciting to look forward to, but like returning to school after a summer vacation, once you have been reassured that your friends still love and remember you, you are already planning your next escape.
Kimberly Vierra, Senior Consultant at ORC Worldwide, is an American who lived in Vietnam and now lives in Singapore. Kimberly corroborates: "There are two key reasons why expatriates have difficulty repatriating. One: We want to use what we have learned overseas when we return home.
"Unfortunately, my experience as a practitioner involved in global mobility is that the majority of returnees are not assigned to jobs that recognise or utilise their international experience effectively. Two: Because we have been "changed" by our international experience, we can never return 'home' and pick up where we left off."
An Eternal Expat
Someone once said to me: "Once an expat, always an expat, even if you repatriate. It gets in your blood and you won't be able to shake it."
In hindsight, I think there is a lot of truth to my friend's confession.
Andrea Martins is the co-founder and director of www.ExpatWomen.com – an inspirational resource site for all expatriate women living overseas.
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BlacKkKlansman is, unbelievably, based on a true story, but how much of Spike Lee's tale of a black detective who infiltrated the KKK over the phone and had a white officer play him in person actually happened? In short, a surprisingly large amount.
Starring John David Washington and Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman takes a very comedic approach to its storytelling, constantly pointing out the ridiculousness of the investigation. The movie even opens with a tone-setting claim that "Dis joint is based on some fo' real, fo' real sh*t". This, along with the heavy use of race-based Hollywood propaganda - Birth of a Nation and Gone With The Wind are repeatedly cited - creates a sense of almost heightened reality.
However, the core of the story really did happen. Spike Lee isn't just trying to dramatize a piece of long-past history; BlacKkKlansman is intending to show how, while the white hoods are gone, the racial hatred that defines the KKK is still coursing through America's veins. To do that, he made sure the movie held up to factual scrutiny, with most changes done to amplify the parallels between Ron Stallworth's investigation and what's happening now in Trump's America.
The core of BlacKkKlansman's story is rooted in the real Ron Stallworth's detailed account of the investigation (from his 2014 book Black Klansman). He was the first black officer on the Colorado Springs police force, first went undercover to a Stokely Carmichael speech, and as a detective, set up the Ku Klux Klan investigation almost by accident. He got in contact the KKK after seeing an advertisement in the local paper and, after feigning a white racist attitude (including bemoaning a fictional black man dating his daughter), was invited to meet the chapter of the organization. A white colleague was used for the in-person Ron, and everything snowballed from there.
So, the majority of the first act of the movie is, dramatic license allowed, true. Even Ron's reason for giving his real name - he didn't expect it to become an undercover investigation - and the single time his different voice was challenged - explained as a sinus infection - are accurate.
The big differences is in how Ron first made contact. In the movie, Washington calls a number, leaves his details, then gets a return call. However, in reality the KKK advert only had a P.O. Box: Stallworth sent a letter and later got a followup call. This change was clearly done for pacing, getting to the investigation quicker (and also showing the Klan's immediate enthusiasm).
While Ron Stallworth in BlacKkKlansman is pretty accurate to the real man (who Lee and Washington met before making the film), the same can't be said for Adam Driver's Flip Zimmerman. A white police officer did successfully infiltrate the KKK, but there are some key factual differences.
Stallworth's real colleague wasn't called Flip Zimmerman - his true identity remains a mystery, in accounts known only as Chuck - and there's no indication that he was Jewish. This means the entire subplot involving Flip's heritage and the conflict it creates both internally and within the KKK is a fiction made for the movie (that also means the lie detector and Ron's window-smash are false). Considering how conveniently it reflects Ron's arc, that isn't too surprising, but the depths it takes the story to make the change understandable.
There's also nothing to suggest that Flip's identity was ever discovered by an ex-con as happens in BlacKkKlansman's final act; as we'll see, the surrounding events to that shocker didn't happen and the investigation was shut down for entirely different reasons.
A key subplot in both Ron's personal life and the KKK investigation involves the Black Power Movement, with Stallworth finding himself romantically involved with "pig"-hating student activist Patrice Dumas just as the Black Student Union she runs is making waves in Colorado Springs.
Verifiably true is that Stallworth attended a black student event shortly before the investigation started and the KKK were, naturally, negative towards civil rights. Beyond that, though, this entire aspect of the film fictional; Patrice didn't exist, with her character a composite of women in the Black Power Movement with no links to Ron. Essentially, Lee seems to be taking the time's wider national situation and transplanting it to this one town for the sake of contrast.


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God@Work in the life of Aaron Pacheco
"God gives His toughest battles to His strongest warriors."
This is a phrase that many of us would never think of when we didn't know God or weren't walking close to Him. Aaron Pacheco would have never thought this as a child growing up. But today? This is a motto that he lives by.
Aaron grew up in a good home with caring parents. "I was raised in the Catholic Church, was baptized as an infant, attended CCD, and had my first Holy Communion, but church was never the focus of our lives. It seemed to get in the way of too many things like sports and football. Our schedules were always so busy, and there just wasn't time. We never attended church between my second grade and sixth grade years."
Bullying is something that most parents hope their child never faces. Aaron was picked on incessantly as a child, simply for being small. "All I ever wanted was to fit in and be like the other kids. It can be a lonely and depressing world trying to defend yourself. I would get into fights, run home crying, and thought often about changing schools."
One of Aaron's childhood friends, who remains his friend to this day, was Andrew Janus. "The entire Janus family played a huge role in my life. They were like a second family to me. I would go there often for dinner or to just hang out and talk to the family about life. When I was about 11 years old, Andrew invited me to youth group at their Presbyterian church." Aaron now sees the Janus family as God reaching out to him. But there was a lot that happened in the middle.
On one youth retreat, Aaron was able to connect with other middle schoolers and to God. "I was so inspired and loved it so much that I ended up working there as a counselor from my sophomore year to my senior year of high school."
Away from the retreats and the youth groups, Aaron still struggled. "I remembered the days of bullying that went on for years, and even though I had grown taller and played high school football, I still hurt deep inside."
Aaron was a volunteer firefighter/EMT since the age of 14. However, he began drinking and smoking weed to hide his pain and continued through high school graduation. "After breaking up with my girlfriend, I started getting anxiety attacks and basically lost faith in humanity. I began "cutting" myself and continued drinking heavily. I lost most of my friends. I stopped attending college, and my parents never knew. I would leave the house each day and go drink by myself in parking lots."
In October 2015, Aaron had come to the end of his rope and attempted suicide. He was found unconscious and was admitted to Virtua Mt. Holly where he was monitored for a week and released. Aaron went back to his old life. Nothing changed.
In December 2015, in a drunken stupor, Aaron intentionally drove his car into a tree. The people who found him were from FAC, Mark McGuigan and Rich Plowman. "I see now this was no mere coincidence!" Aaron recalls. "They visited me in the hospital often and were to play a major role in my life from that day forward. They became my brothers and mentors."
Less than a week later, tragedy struck Aaron ― hard. Two of his friends, one from school and one from the fire company, committed suicide. Aaron was devastated. His world was closing in on him again. On Mother's Day 2016, Aaron and his mother had a huge fight, and he was asked to leave the house. He stayed with his grandparents for a while and then with a girlfriend and her parents. But nothing really changed ― especially not his behavior. In June 2016, he moved back home.
A third attempt to take his own life landed him in the hospital again. "Mark and Rich visited me often and told me it was time to change my life or I was really going to die. They talked to me about God and invited me and my dad to Alpha. We both attended, and we loved it! God was really getting my attention. He was so real to me. I started attending FAC and that brought back all those good memories of the youth retreats.
"I was sitting in church one Sunday with my dad, Mark, and Rich; and Pastor Marty was preaching about starting a brand new chapter, a brand new life, and giving everything including pain and struggles over to the Lord. Then he invited anyone who wanted to be baptized to come forward."
Feeling overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit, Aaron knew he needed to do this. "I asked Mark if I should go and Mark told me to 'go with the Spirit.' So, I walked out the back doors, around the corner, got a robe, and the next thing I knew I was on stage with Pastor Don asking me questions. I couldn't believe I was actually talking in front of all those people. But I knew it wasn't me talking. It was the Holy Spirit!"
Aaron can hardly describe the feeling he had when he came up out of the water. "It was an amazing feeling. I was totally free from my past! I was new, and I had a new life ― in Jesus!"
Aaron's story is far from over. Today, he no longer feels hopeless. Aaron knows he is here for a reason. "I want to help, to serve, and to love people. I want to help them when they are going through similar situations and feelings. I know why God saved me! And, I know beyond a shadow of doubt that God had been with me all along!"
Aaron continues to work as a firefighter/EMT, volunteers on the medical team at FAC, is part of the Venture ministry led by Brian and Lisa Russell, and would someday like to become an ER tech and then, perhaps, a pediatric nurse or a full-time firefighter. At the age of 20, he is looking forward to what God has in store for him.
Aaron is reminded daily that God did battle for his soul and won. His favorite verse is Colossians 1:17 ― "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." Aaron now looks at life as a gift that only God can hold together. He knows that God and church will always be part of his life.
"There is a purpose to everything in my life, and now I want to share my story to help others. I am Aaron Pacheco, and God is definitely at work in my life."
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