text:
The real is-ought problem
I think most people who have heard of the is-ought problem would say that it is about the fact that you can not derive an 'ought' from an 'is': nothing follows from facts about the way the world is, concerning the way the world ought to be; nothing follows from the way people do behave, about the way we ought to behave. Of course, this is not a problem unless people try to produce such derivations, and it may seem like we do. For example, people often say silly things like "That would be cruel, therefore you shouldn't do it."
But that is not a derivation; it is ordinary enthymematic reasoning. If it is to be a derivation, then we have to add a principle, say, "If the purpose of an act is to derive enjoyment from the suffering of another being, then it ought not to be done." This was Hume's point when he filed his original complaint.
In truth, deriving an ought from an is is no more problematic than deriving an is from an is or an ought from an ought. No statement, by itself, implies any other statement. P does not even imply P except in light of the principle: If A, then A (where A is any proposition, e.g, P.)
Now I told you that so I can tell you this: There is an is-ought problem, it's just not that one. The real is-ought problem is this:
We often fail to distinguish the ought from the is.
In the simplest and least interesting case, this is just because we are liars. We are asked what is the case, and we say what ought to be the case instead. When James says No when Molly asks whether he is having an affair, he is affirming the way the world ought to be, not saying how it is.
Things get more interesting when the questions challenge us epistemically. We can have a hard time telling the difference between is and ought, and sometimes we just can't tell at all.
Why? Let's start at the bottom.
Perhaps there is a way the world fundamentally is, but that world is not simply Given to us in perception. Kant was the first to fully penetrate this illusion, teaching that our shared empirical reality is something our minds construct using a shared set of rules, what he called "apriori intuitions." Quine later naturalized the Kantian insight as the scientific project of discovering the rules by which the "meager input" of sensory irritation is amplified into the "torrential output" of our theoretical vocabulary. And cognitive neuroscience now aims at exactly this: producing a materialistically adequate account of this process, the mathematical rules by which the brain sustains and deploys an internal model of the world on the basis of meager electronic pulses generated by specialized nerve cells in our sense organs.
Whether you think of them as mental categories or as regulated patterns of neural activity, the rules of cognition and perception are fundamentally tools for norming our sensory input. We expect the world to behave as it ought to, and that is how we always initially try to represent it. Now, of course, we survive because our default expectations can be swiftly overridden when things go obviously awry. But usually the world appears just slightly off. And in such cases we naturally and unconsciously resolve ambiguity in the direction of the normal. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go nuts.
Fortunately, the requirements of sanity are usually compatible with the way the world works. Weirdness is almost always just random fluctuation from the norm. Strange sounds in the night, strange feelings in the body, strange looks from other people are usually meaningless. (We just remember the ones that aren't.)
But even when it's not just noise, denial can be useful. Honey, is something the matter? No dear, why do you ask? But that's not true, is it? The truth, if you could attend to it, is that your partner coming home from work with a nasty cold has made you upset, and in fact upset with her. Now there will be no movie; now there will be no sex. But these are feelings you are ashamed of and your morals swiftly denihilate them.
The use of fundamentally moral rules to resolve epistemic ambiguity is a very common, but largely hidden phenomenon. Some of my favorite examples are from sports. Umpires and referees are paid to make the call, even when it is just too close to call. In these cases, officials must see the world as it ought to have happened. Was he really tagged out at second? He deserved to be, he had no business stealing. Was that ball really wide of the line? It ought to have been, she shanked it.
This is an example of what Daniel Kahneman calls substitution. We answer a different question than the one being asked, because it is more available, and because it is typically a satisficing substitute.
But I called this the real is-ought problem. What makes it a problem? The answer is just that our instinct to norm the world can go too far and we recognize only too late that we have a major problem on our hands. It is too easy to be glib here: The signs of a failing marriage or a weakening economy or a climate disaster or an imminent terrorist attack were all around us. How could we have missed them? Someone must have been asleep at the wheel. Well, that's called hindsight bias, and it is typically a gross exaggeration. Sure, the signs were all around us, right there with all the signs that everything was just dandy.
The real is-ought problem, then, is not an error, it is a task. It is the task of getting better, both as individuals and as a group, at distinguishing signal from noise, at discerning when the world is not behaving as it ought.
G. Randolph Mayes
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Sacramento State University
Labels: ambiguity, is-ought, Kuhn, neuroscience, norms, Quine
Emrys February 13, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Randy, I'm not entirely convinced by you opening analysis of the is-ought problem as bequeathed to us by Hume. I agree that any derivation of one proposition (Z) from another (A), if it is to be logically watertight, requires a justifying principle of derivation (B). I believe this point is made by Lewis Carroll in 'What the tortoise said to Achilles." He then argues that this leads to an infinite regress, since to accept that A plus B implies Z, we need a further justifying principle (C), which say that A plus B plus C implies Z, etc. etc.
I don't think Hume's problem is with that. I think it's more directly with statements like "If the purpose of an act is to derive enjoyment from the suffering of others, then it ought not to be done." This statement says that a descriptive statement ("The purpose of my action was to derive enjoyment from the suffering of others") implies a normative statement ("I should not have performed the action"). Hume is aware that the conditional statement expresses moral common sense. As a good guy, he'd doubtless agree with it. But he doesn't see how to justify it.
Contrast that with this conditional statement: "If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal." I don't think Hume would see this as problematic (although Lewis Carroll would). He'd say that recognizing its truth is a hallmark of rationality. Anyone who doubts it shows themselves to be intellectually deficient. But in he is-ought case this isn't so. Perhaps they show themselves to be morally deficient according to conventional moral norms. But they aren't being irrational. For "It is not against reason that I should prefer the destruction of half the world to the pricking of my little finger."
Emrys
G. Randolph Mayes February 13, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Hi Em, thanks for the comment. That all sounds right to me. I think Hume's issue is about where our moral principles come from. Where do we get principles that are antecedently descriptive and consequentially normative? This is essentially the same problem as his problem of induction, where we are divining the oughts of nature rather than the oughts of morality.
I am inclined to think that Hume would have profited from Caroll's sophistication, because he would not (like everyone else at the time) have labored under the false belief that "If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal." is a hallmark of rationality. If he could have appreciated that it is just as much in need of logical justification as the sorts of claims he was concerned with, then he might not have regarded is-ought principles as singularly problematic..
Put differently, he would have seen that his naturalistic solution of characterizing moral principles and the principle of induction as features of our cognitive and emotional architecture applies equally well to the sorts of principles he was unperplexed by.
G. Randolph Mayes October 6, 2014 at 10:23 AM
In her October 10th talk at CSUS on Judging others: the limits of perspective taking, Jennifer Zamzow pointed out that in the Milgram experiments everyone predicted that they would never shock the subject at the highest level, but 65% did. This might be explained as above. Subjects substitute a normative judgment for a prediction because that is what is available.
Science, technology, and the meaning of life
Instrumental technology and the responsibility pro...
Knowing without caring: unmotivated psychopaths
Are clinical trials outsourced to the developing w...


text:
The CADTM downgrades its IMF rating and places this institution on very negative outlook.
6 February 2012 by CADTM
The Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) has decided to downgrade the IMF IMF
International Monetary Fund Along with the World Bank, the IMF was founded on the day the Bretton Woods Agreements were signed. Its first mission was to support the new system of standard exchange rates.
When the Bretton Wood fixed rates system came to an end in 1971, the main function of the IMF became that of being both policeman and fireman for global capital: it acts as policeman when it enforces its Structural Adjustment Policies and as fireman when it steps in to help out governments in risk of defaulting on debt repayments.
As for the World Bank, a weighted voting system operates: depending on the amount paid as contribution by each member state. 85% of the votes is required to modify the IMF Charter (which means that the USA with 17,68% % of the votes has a de facto veto on any change).
The institution is dominated by five countries: the United States (16,74%), Japan (6,23%), Germany (5,81%), France (4,29%) and the UK (4,29%).
The other 183 member countries are divided into groups led by one country. The most important one (6,57% of the votes) is led by Belgium. The least important group of countries (1,55% of the votes) is led by Gabon and brings together African countries.
http://imf.org 's rating due to this institution's heavy share Share A unit of ownership interest in a corporation or financial asset, representing one part of the total capital stock. Its owner (a shareholder) is entitled to receive an equal distribution of any profits distributed (a dividend) and to attend shareholder meetings. of responsibility for the deterioration of people's living standards in countries subjected to austerity policies it has openly imposed or dictated from behind the scenes. The resulting high levels of unemployment, aggravation of the crisis and the increase in public debt of the States following its counter productive and unjust recommendations justify downgrading the IMF's rating from NNN to NO- with a further very negative outlook.
The IMF was very active in the Global South since the 1980's and into the 2000s, imposing structural adjustment Structural Adjustment Economic policies imposed by the IMF in exchange of new loans or the rescheduling of old loans.
Structural Adjustments policies were enforced in the early 1980 to qualify countries for new loans or for debt rescheduling by the IMF and the World Bank. The requested kind of adjustment aims at ensuring that the country can again service its external debt. Structural adjustment usually combines the following elements : devaluation of the national currency (in order to bring down the prices of exported goods and attract strong currencies), rise in interest rates (in order to attract international capital), reduction of public expenditure ('streamlining' of public services staff, reduction of budgets devoted to education and the health sector, etc.), massive privatisations, reduction of public subsidies to some companies or products, freezing of salaries (to avoid inflation as a consequence of deflation). These SAPs have not only substantially contributed to higher and higher levels of indebtedness in the affected countries ; they have simultaneously led to higher prices (because of a high VAT rate and of the free market prices) and to a dramatic fall in the income of local populations (as a consequence of rising unemployment and of the dismantling of public services, among other factors).
IMF : http://www.worldbank.org/ plans in favour of creditors: drastic reductions in social spending, massive privatisations, deregulation of the economies and the local markets favouring multinationals rather than local producers. The recipe has been unsavoury.
Totally de-legitimised by the social failures of its poisonous remedies, the IMF found itself bordering on bankruptcy during 2007 - 2008 as most of its principal debtors made advance repayments to free themselves from the IMF's burdensome supervision.
Thanks to the present crisis the IMF has managed a come-back in Europe. Back in the saddle with the assistance of the G20 G20 The Group of Twenty (G20 or G-20) is a group made up of nineteen countries and the European Union whose ministers, central-bank directors and heads of state meet regularly. It was created in 1999 after the series of financial crises in the 1990s. Its aim is to encourage international consultation on the principle of broadening dialogue in keeping with the growing economic importance of a certain number of countries. Its members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, USA, UK and the European Union (represented by the presidents of the Council and of the European Central Bank). summits, the IMF has multiplied its lending to Greece, Ireland and Portugal, which, in their difficult situation, are forced to compensate by the implementation of brutal and unjust austerity measures.
The same causes produce the same effects, Europe has now been affected but fortunately the people are not just letting it happen. Even if the IMF wants to make the most of its thirty years of unequalled experience in the safeguarding of private financial interests to the detriment of the people, the emergence of citizens' public debt audit groups in numerous countries have led the CADTM to downgrade the IMF's rating and to issue a serious warning. We hope that these citizen resistance movements against an institution that is increasingly unpopular and illegitimate, will very soon incite us to downgrade this rating even further.
The CADTM insists on the immediate abolition of the IMF and its replacement by a radically different and democratic institution focused on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs.
Translated by Mike Krolikowski in collaboration with Judith Harris
Other articles in English by CADTM (87)
8 September 2021, by CADTM , Eric Toussaint , Milan Rivié
CADTM Summer University 2021 webinars, registration open
6 September 2021, by CADTM
CADTM University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice!
16 July 2021, by CADTM
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st century: an ABC
Thomas Piketty and Capital in the 21st century: accuracy in research and confusion in theory
5 May 2021, by CADTM
Thomas Piketty: a progressive global tax on capital
26 April 2021, by CADTM
Thomas Piketty, the CADTM and Public Debt
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21th Century: an ABC
Neoliberalism: An increasing gap among incomes and tax gifts to Capital
Series: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21th Century: an ABC
The evolution of wealth inequalities over the last two centuries
1 April 2021, by CADTM
Series: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st century: an ABC
Concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1%
29 March 2021, by CADTM
[Video] « SYSTÅM DËBT - How to become a wealthy creditor! »
24 March 2021, by CADTM , ZinTV , Entraide et Fraternité
For an immediate release of Fatima Zahra Ould Belaid, member of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
2 December 2021 - [fr] ATTAC/CADTM Maroc [en] ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
[Press release] 9 days of events in Dakar to boost the CADTM international network's struggle against illegitimate debt and to contribute to internationalist and feminist answers to the multidimensional crisis of capitalism
5 November 2021 - CADTM International
More than 350 personalities from all over the world support the Manifesto "End the Private Patent System"
8 June 2021 - CADTM International
Solidarity with the Palestinian People
25 May 2021 - CADTM International
Latest IMF controversy unveils biased policies and a Harvard economist's skewed views
12 January - Patrick Bond
How the Exploitation of Africa Helps Fuel Global Capitalism
8 January - Chris Dite, Maha Ben Gadha
Afghanistan Facing Famine
15 November 2021 - Human Rights Watch
The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector
10 November 2021 - Mike Rogan, Max Gallien, Vanessa van den Boogaard
The latest Bretton Woods bean-counting scandal nearly evicts IMF director Georgieva: "Torture the data until they confess" (or until you're busted), economists profess
13 October 2021 - Patrick Bond

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Formerly known as: Agropyron elongatum and Elytrigia elongata. Cool season, late maturing, coarse, productive bunch grass growing to 5 ft. or more. Extremely saline-tolerant, able to establish on soils with pH of 10.0. Adapted to both deep and shallow, well-drained and imperfectly drained soils; able to tolerate flooding and shallow water tables. Generally good palatability year-round.


text:
Abenberg steht für:
 Abenberg, Stadt im Landkreis Roth, Mittelfranken, Bayern
 Abenberg (Berg) (430 m), Berg bei der gleichnamigen Stadt
 Abenberg (Adelsgeschlecht), ehemaliges fränkisches Adelsgeschlecht
 Burg Abenberg, Burg in der gleichnamigen Stadt
 Abenberg (Pöttmes), Ortsteil des Marktes Pöttmes, Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg, Bayern

Siehe auch:
 Abensberg (Begriffsklärung)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
<#
Displays basic AspNet session settings for the selected Computer. Run on any Computer.
#>
################
Get-WebConfigurationProperty /system.webserver/asp/session  -name * | select  allowsessionstate, keepsessionidsecure, max, timeout

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Dustproof Auto Rubber Wire Harness Protector from electrical control parts to front wall of Automobile.
We develop rubber products only when we fully understand your application needs.
High quality, Low cost, Strong logistic ability, Professional service.


text:
Brinkley Fellowship
Member's Circle
WKU NPR
Lost River Sessions
Composer's Datebook
Stained Glass Series
About WKU Public Radio
Code of Editorial Integrity
CPB Compliance Forms
WKU Public Radio Governance
Trade Disruptions Contribute to Decrease in 2019 Kentucky Soybean Acreage
By Rhonda Miller • Apr 2, 2019
Credit University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture
Trade disputes between the U.S. and other countries are leaving many Kentucky farmers uncertain about the global market for soybeans. The crop has been the state's largest agricultural export.
Kentucky farmers told the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service regional office in Louisville they're expecting to plant 1.75-million acres of soybeans this year. That's down from two million acres of soybeans last year, a decrease of 12 percent.
Director of the regional office David Knopf said there's a natural rotation of fields between soybeans and corn, and Kentucky's soybean acres planned for this year are within a five-year average. But Knopf said the 12 percent decline is noticeable.
"This year may be a little bit stronger downward trend in the soybean acres. That, of course, is being influenced by the market uncertainty resulting from the trade disruptions," said Knopf. "So, I think that's an added contributing factor to this year's decline in soybean acreage."
Tariffs on trade with China have had an impact on soybean farmers across the U.S. At the end of last season, some soybean farmers in Kentucky said they were storing a portion of their crop because of the tariffs.
Kentucky's 12 percent decline in soybean acres for the 2019 season is more than the national decline in acreage. Across the U.S. soybean acreage is down five percent compared to last year.
As far as the forecast for 2019 corn production, Kentucky farmers are planning an increase. Growers in the Bluegrass State said they intend to plant about 1.43 million acres of corn this season, an increase of 90,000 acres over last year. Knopf said that planting is just getting underway.
"April 1st is the kind of target date for growers to start their corn planting. It starts in southern Kentucky and western Kentucky and moves from west to east and south to north," said Knopf. "So as the weather permits, we should start to see a lot of corn going in the ground here the next several days."
Across the U.S. corn growers expect to plant 92.8 million acres this season, an increase of four percent over last year.
Henderson Tops in Kentucky Soybeans, Christian County Leads Corn Production
By Rhonda Miller • Mar 25, 2019
Warren County Agriculture/Shutterstock
The U.S. Department of Agriculture 2018 crop report for Kentucky shows both Henderson and Christian counties among the state's leaders in production.
Henderson County led the state in soybean production with 5.4 million bushels grown on 102,400 acres.
Christian County was the leader in corn production with 12.8 million bushels grown on 72,500 acres.
But Ohio County came in strong by getting the most yield per acre for both those crops.
Ohio County farmers harvested 59.6 bushels of soybeans per acre last year, compared to Henderson County's 53 bushels per acre.
Tariffs Create Marketing Challenge for Kentucky's Record Soybean Harvest
By Rhonda Miller • Feb 13, 2019
USsoy.org
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that Kentucky soybean farmers harvested a record breaking crop last year, with 103 million bushels. That's up one percent from the previous year. The increase was due mainly to more acreage, with 50,000 additional acres of soybeans planted across Kentucky last year.
But that record harvest is facing market forces impacted by America's tariff and trade disputes, especially with China. Some Kentucky soybean farmers are storing the beans, trying to wait until market conditions improve.
USDA Crop Reports for Kentucky Resume with End of Government Shutdown
By Rhonda Miller • Jan 31, 2019
United Soybean Board
Kentucky farmers will soon be getting crops reports they use for market information and to make decisions about spring planting. The U.S. Department of Agriculture office in Kentucky that does those reports was closed during the government shutdown, but now - it's open.
David Knopf is regional director for the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, based in Louisville. He said crop reports that were due out on Jan. 11 are now scheduled to be published Feb. 8.
Knopf said the report on corn, soybeans and wheat that's in storage is especially valuable to Kentucky farmers.
Kentucky's 2 Million Acres of Soybeans Suffer from Excessive Rain
By Rhonda Miller • Nov 19, 2018
Kentucky soybean farmers are expected to harvest a slightly larger yield than last year, but less than initially predicted.
David Knopf is director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service in Kentucky. He said the initial forecast for Kentucky soybeans was a yield of 57 bushels per acre this year. The current estimated yield is 54 bushels per acre, slightly above last year's yield of 53 bushels per acre.
Kentucky farmers planted nearly two million acres of soybeans this year. Knopf said about one-quarter of those beans have not yet been harvested. He said excessive rain over the past couple of months is one factor that's reduced the quality and yield of this year's crop.
Distress Grows For Ohio Valley Farmers As Trade Deals Stall
By Liam Niemeyer • Mar 18, 2019
Liam Niemeyer
Western Kentucky Farmer Barry Alexander doesn't have an answer on when the Trump administration will reach a trade deal with China, now a year into tariffs that have hamstrung some Ohio Valley industries.
Alexander is optimistic these continued negotiations will be worth it, but his plan in the meantime lies in massive, silver storage bins on Cundiff Farms, the 13,000-acre operation he manages.
He pulls a lever, and out tumbles a downpour of pale yellow soybeans.
Click to hear Liam's story about how small farmers in the region are feeling the impact of tariffs.
© 2019 WKU Public Radio
WKYU Public File
WKPB Public File
WDCL Public File
WKUE Public File
WKU PBS


What better time to check out bargains and deals than over a long weekend? From high quality mattresses to branded sportswear and even home decor, get ready to shop the best discounts today!
Looking to get the best sleep? It all starts with the right mattress! Drop by Sri Petaling Hotel this weekend to check out the massive discounts up to 70% OFF on high quality bedding and mattresses starting from Dreamland and Furgano. Prices start from as low as RM80.
Here's another great place to look for bargains on bedding this weekend! Drop by Star Avenue Mall in Shah Alam for discounts up to 70% OFF! Last chance to grab a comfortable sofa home at an affordable price – until this Sunday, 23rd September 2017 only!
Shop all your favourite sportswear brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma, Asics, Mizuno, Li-Ning, Lotto, Teva, Diadora and Prince at crazy discounted prices. Make your way to Citta Mall today before sizes run out!
The perfect lighting can help create the right ambiance for your home. Shop classical, trendy, modern, vibrant and even colourful decorative lamps and chandelier for your home at Seng Hup's great warehouse sale at any of their outlets in Petaling Jaya, Kuantan and Klang. Factory prices guaranteed!
The KK Home Deco sale is back with plenty of red hot bargains up to 80% OFF on home decor! Prepare yourself and most definitely your wallet for this exciting event happening at KK badminton court, Serdang.
Grab all your favourite pieces from United Colors of Benetton at up to 80% OFF this weekend. Not only that, shoppers are entitled to an additional 10% OFF when you spend RM200 and above in a single receipt. Drop by the Bargain Corner at One Utama Shopping Centre today!


text:
Image credit: AOL
'Anniversary' iPhone reportedly crams big screen into smaller device
The flagship will have curved glass up front, but the OLED display itself will be flat.
Steve Dent, @stevetdent
04.18.17 in Mobile
Apple is prepping up to three iPhones for a possible fall launch, including a flagship stainless steel and curved glass tenth anniversary model, according to Bloomberg's Apple guru Mark Gurman. That jibes very closely with past rumors from Fast Company and others that believe Apple will release two iPhone 7s models along with a pricey high-end version. Unlike others, however, Gurman thinks the new model will not have a curved OLED display, but merely curved glass on the back and front.
Recent supply leaks hinted that the next iPhone design would use a curved OLED display, but apparently Apple abandoned that idea, possibly over supply concerns. Even if it's not curved, it'll still have an OLED screen that takes up most of the front of the device, though. It would thus have a screen around the same size as the current iPhone 7 Plus, but crammed into a body the size of the iPhone 7.
That said, Apple is apparently testing multiple devices and hasn't quite settled on a final design. For instance, it developed one prototype that uses a dramatically curved glass back like the original 2007 iPhone, which would be appropriate for a tenth anniversary device. However, suppliers reportedly struggled to build the highly curved glass, so it has also tested a slightly larger version with an aluminum back.
The one most likely to ship, however, is a device that uses subtly curved glass on both the back and front, Gurman's sources believe. Whichever way it goes for the screen, it's likely that Apple will use stainless steel rather than more expensive aluminum for the frame.
Apple has reportedly tapped Samsung for the OLED screens and ordered up to 100 million of them, as other suppliers don't have enough capacity to meet expected demand. The screen is said to look dramatically better than those on the current iPhone 7 models, according to Fast Co's sources.
As for the rest of the device, Apple is supposedly testing a vertical rather than horizontal dual-lens camera for the overhauled iPhone. It's also trying a dual-lens front camera with a Sony sensor similar to those used on the back of the iPhone 7 Plus (above), along with the previously-reported depth sensor.
Apple has been experimenting with a screen-based Touch ID fingerprint reader, but it's not clear whether that feature will make it into the next-gen iPhone. It has also been testing a 10-nanometer processor that would be more powerful and efficient, giving the device decent battery life without expanding its battery size over past models.
Much of this information isn't new, but Gurman has one of the best track records for predicting new Apple devices, so the report helps further clarify its plans. It seems that Apple still hasn't settled on an exact design for the iPhone 8 or X, or whatever the next-gen device will be called. Even if the company does unveil it this fall (which seems a stretch if all this is accurate), don't count on buying one immediately afterwards -- it could take several months for Apple to get all the parts it needs, Bloomberg says.
In this article: apple, applenews, Bloomberg, curved screen, gear, iPhone, iPhone8, mobile, OLED, Rumor, TL17i8


text:
Led by Johnson, Pistons bash Knicks in Summer League opener
Vince Ellis
ORLANDO, Fla. – After a promising rookie season, Stanley Johnson was given off-season homework assignments.
And it was apparent early in the Detroit Pistons' summer-league opener today that Johnson attacked the lesson plan.
Johnson scored nine of the Pistons' first 14 points on his way to a 15-point outing in the 81-49 thumping of the New York Knicks' summer-league edition in the Orlando Summer League opener at the Amway Center.
Johnson did cool off and finished 5-for-13 from the field. Tasked with improving his shooting form in the off-season, he was 1-for-6 from three-point range.
But he was also informed to improve attacking with his left hand and his first bucket came on a left-hand drive against former Piston DaJuan Summers.
Johnson added eight rebounds, three steals, three assists and four turnovers.
In his professional debut, Pistons rookie first-round pick Henry Ellenson finished with 12 points on 4-for-13 shooting. The power forward was 2-for-5 from three-point range.
Rookie second-round pick Michael Gbinije, auditioning for the team's third point guard spot, was shaky at times, but he did stuff the stat sheet with 10 points, seven rebounds, two steals, five assists and one turnover. He was 2-for-10 from three.
Fellow point guard Lorenzo Brown scored an efficient 12 points on 6-for-10 shooting.
Summers led the Knicks with 12 points.
• Out of Al Horford running, Pistons sign forward Jon Leuer
• NBA free agency tracker: All the moves so far
Contact Vince Ellis at vellis@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @vincent_ellis56.
Download our Pistons Xtra app on iTunes or Android!


Courses are conducted in person in Mumbai and I offer both an intensive course as well as a crash course, for those students who are in the city for a short while.
A 40-hour intensive course, twice a week over 3 months, culminating in a burst of daily sessions the week before the exams. The first month is dedicated to teaching you concepts and techniques and making sure you are able to grasp them perfectly. You will spend the next two months perfecting the techniques and concepts you have acquired by going through my vast collection of interactive exercises that I have painstakingly put together and my collection of SAT papers for practice.
International students who come home for the summer or winter can opt for my 3-week crash course. The crash course is tailor made, depending on how long you are in Mumbai. Typically, you will finish the ideally required 40 hours by coming to me on a daily basis – Monday through Friday.
If you have a learning disability I will customise the course for you. I will also help and guide you through the SSD process, which can be very confusing for parents and children.
A 40-hour intensive course that stretches over 3 to 4 months. The first month is dedicated to teaching you concepts and techniques and making sure you are able to grasp them perfectly. From the second month you will work interactively with me perfecting the techniques and concepts you have aquired. You will not only go through my vast collection of exercises but also work online, for this is, after all, a Computer Adaptive Test.
International students who come home for the summer or winter can opt for my 2-3-week crash course, which is tailor-made to your requirements, depending on how long you are in Mumbai.
The application process especially for B schools can be quite harrowing. I help and guide you with your application essays. I review and critique them; for the not-so-confident student I review the content, language, word length requirement, the flow of ideas and content along with sentence structure. If the essay needs a revamp I will guide you how to do it.
Whether you are still in university or are working, the Verbal section of the GMAT requires hard work for it tests your very ability to infer, analyse, correlate and deliver correctly. My techniques will help you to reach into the recesses of your mind to remember long forgotten grammar rules, and of course learn new strategies.
Writing is sometimes the most difficult part of the SAT or the GMAT.
If you are far away and need help working on your essays, I am the person to come to.
I conduct online one-on-one essay sessions over 10 essays that will benefit you greatly.
We will discuss essay techniques, I will critique your writing through track changes and you will then write new essays for practice.
After going through a rigourous 10 essay course with me, you will be able to write a well balanced, well thought out and well sequenced essay.
I've taught SAT aspirants since 2004 and 70% of my students have not had to repeat the SAT. Every one of them has gained admission into the university of his/her choice.
I've taught GMAT aspirants for over 8 years and my students have achieved a high score of 780.
My students have achieved high scores of 12 at the SAT and 6 at the GMAT – both at the top of their respective ranges.
Bringing yourself to study for the SAT or the GMAT can be quite a daunting prospect. Let me do that for you.
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved teaching. While studying for my Bachelor of Commerce degree and my ATCL diploma in Music I began my career in education by teaching singing, music and the piano to primary and secondary school children. I found I enjoyed teaching so much that I went on to graduate from the Bombay Teachers Training College in 1981, where I majored in teaching English and Economics. Since then I have been dedicated to teaching English.
During my years as a secondary school teacher I realized that there are many children with special needs who find it difficult to cope with English and so I studied again, to help those children who need that little extra something.
With 20 odd years of experience teaching English I make an otherwise boring learning experience fun and interactive, all the while keeping in mind the goal at hand – the perfect score.
Email or SMS is best.


text: Q: question about R : Making equal values unique in a dataset I need to make a mixed model of a ecological dataset. I need to find the response in wing length of a species to 2 types of managment (intensive and extensive). So the model would be something like length~managment. The dataset provided has 2 sites in every managment type (so 4 in total) and every site has 10 subpopulations in it (so 40 subpopulations). So managment would be the fixed effect and site and subpopulation would be the random effects. The problem is the data set numbered the subpopulation 1-10 in every site. So different sites would have the same subpopulations, which in not true. I can't fit a decent model, because R now tells me the variation caused by subpopulation is too low to be considerable. I want to know how I can easily change the subpopulation numbering to be unique for each site.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


The members of the isg spent december6th in a grand procession through the corridors of power.
Her brother had made a living on the merrygo-round of get-rich-quick gambles and moonlight flits until last year when he had lost heavily on his speculations in gold bars and had then received a prison sentence for embezzlement; he was still in prison at that time.
There's a hurricane lamp it's not dark.
It was time for political musical chairs again in the country.
It's a game of musical chairs as editors move from one newspaper to another.


Researchers Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell conducted a 10-year study of over 17,000 C-suite executives as a part of the CEO Genome Project in order to discover what sets successful people apart.
They found that it takes the average CEO 24 years to become head honcho but that some people — who they refer to as "CEO sprinters" — do it even faster.
After closely studying these CEO sprinters, Botelho and Powell came to a surprising conclusion: The quickest way to the top is not perfection. The people who became CEOs the fastest did not have MBAs from Ivy League schools and they weren't long-time employees with squeaky clean track records.
"Sprinters don't accelerate to the top by acquiring the perfect pedigree," they write for Harvard Business Review. "They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top."
"The path to CEO rarely runs in a straight line," write Botelho and Powell, with the help of Nicole Wong. "Sometimes you have to move backward or sideways in order to get ahead."
The study found that 60 percent of sprinters opted to take a smaller role with greater responsibility at some point in their careers.
By choosing to work for a smaller company, moving to a leadership role on a young team or launching a new initiative, sprinters were able to gain significant management experience that later catapulted them ahead of their peers.
Adam Poswolsky, author of "The Quarter-Life Breakthrough," says that thinking about a career like a straight and simple ladder is a mistake that limits your ability to experiment and reach your fullest potential.
Instead, Poswolsky says that young professionals should conceptualize their careers as a series of jumps to different lily pads in a pond.
Over a third of the sprinters made a big leap in the first decade of their careers. These CEOs were handed an opportunity that was beyond their experience and rather questioning if they were qualified, they went for it.
By accepting an opportunity that they were not fully prepared for, these sprinters learned on the job and ended up gaining experience that benefited them later on in their careers.
If you haven't had a golden opportunity fall into your lap yet, don't fear. Botelho and Powell say that CEO hopefuls can help make their own luck by seeking out big projects, constantly asking for more responsibilities and saying "yes," no matter what.
Brian Wong, the 26-year-old CEO of mobile advertising company Kiip says that the most common mistake that young professionals make is failing to build confidence.
"Thinking that people won't take you seriously before you enter a conversation is one of the biggest mistakes [early-career] professionals make," Wong tells CNBC Make It. "Confidence and poise are critical."
One of the fastest ways to prove that you are prepared to be a CEO is to prove your worth during a difficult time say Botelho and Powell. Their research found that over 30 percent of sprinters led a team through a big mess.
"When faced with a crisis, emerging leaders have an opportunity to showcase their ability to assess a situation calmly, make decisions under pressure, take calculated risks, rally others around them, and persevere in the face of adversity," they write. "In other words, it's great preparation for the CEO job."
Drew Westervelt, the 32-year-old COO and founder of Hex says that persistence and perseverance through difficult times is a necessary part of finding career success and reaching the c-suite.
"In any endeavor, there are almost always significantly more valleys than peaks," he tells CNBC Make It. "Staying positive to keep driving forward is what the process is all about. Each challenge is a learning experience you can build from and grow from."


text:
Meals and Picnics
Fantasy-Angels
Historic Fashion
Childrens Portraits
Mens Portraits
Womens Portraits
Madonna and Child
Cuisine Still Life
Work and Professions
Renaissance Images
44 Items Found | Page 2 of 2
Saint Martin and the Beggar, 1597/1599
Venus and Adonis, c. 1560
Piero di Cosimo
Allegory, probably c. 1500
Portrait of a Youth, c. 1482/1485
Giovanni di Paolo
The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise, c. 1435
Florentine 15th or 16th Century
Lorenzo de' Medici, 1478/1521
Hans Holbein the Younger
Edward VI as a Child, probably 1538
The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot, c. 1489/1490
Gerard David
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1510
Summer, c. 1546/1548
Master of the Saint Lucy Legend
Mary, Queen of Heaven, c. 1485/1500
The Nativity with the Infant Saint John, c. 1495/1505
Masolino da Panicale
The Archangel Gabriel, c. 1430
Fra Filippo Lippi
Madonna and Child, c. 1440
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Madonna and Child, c. 1470/1475
Filippino Lippi
Portrait of a Youth, c. 1485
Madonna and Child with Angels, 1465/1470
Follower of Titian
Girolamo and Cardinal Marco Corner Investing Marco, Abbot of Carrara, with His Benefice, c. 1520/1525
Giovanni Battista Moroni
"Titian's Schoolmaster"


(misc.). 100 Years of Fishing. The Ultimate Tribute to Our Fishing Tradition. Photo available. Stillwater. Voyageur Press. 1999. 4to. Hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color. Contributors include: Zane Grey, Sigurd Olson, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, Patrick McManus, Norman Maclean, Jimmy Carter and more. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
(misc.). Earth Sheltered Housing. Design. Guidelines, Examples, and References. Photo available. New York. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1979. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Near fine copy (very light edge soiling).
(misc.). The Westerners Brand Book. Volume XVIII. Photo available. Chicago. The Chicago Corral. 1961. 96 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Important reference work. Fine copy.
(misc.). Tillamook Memories. Places We Love Come Back to Us as Sweet Music. Photo available. Tillamook. Tillamook County Pioneer Association. 1988. 4to. Soft cover. Second edition. Illustrated. Fine copy.
(Modell-Eisenbahn). Internationaler Modell-Eisembahn-Katalog. TT + N + Z - international. 3000 Modelle in Farbe. Photo available. np. Weltbild Verlag. 1980. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Fine copy.
(Montgomery Ward). Rural Telephone Lines. How to Build Them. Photo available. Chicago. Montgomery Ward & Co.  1970. Octavo. Soft cover. Facsimile edition. Illustrated. Fine copy.
(NASCAR Editors). Thunder and Glory. The 25 Most Memorable Races in NASCAR Winston Cup History. Unopened DVD. Photo available. Chicago. Triumph. 2004. 4to. Hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Unopened DVD. Fine (owner inscription one end paper) copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
(National Automobile Club). Touring Guide of the Pacific Coast. Photo available. San Francisco. National Automobile Club. 1967. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Maps. Very good copy. Light shelf wear.
(Newnan Junior Service League). A Taste of Georgia. Photo available. Newnan. Newnan Junior Service League. 1988. 592 pps. + index. 4to. Spiral bound. Reprint. Illustrated. Fine copy.
(Nissan Motor Co.). The Dawns of Tradition (Japanese culture). Photo available. Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co. 1983. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Fine copy.
(Nissan). Service Manual. Model L13, L16 & L20 Engines. Photo available. Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co. c. 2000. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Very good copy. Light shelf wear.
(Norfolk Southern). Eat Steel & Spit Rivets. Norfolk Southern Employees Reflect on 30 Years of Change, Challenge, and Achievement. Photo available. np. Self published. nd. 139 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Fine copy.
(NRA). NRA... Illustrated Firearms Assembly Handbook. Photo available. National Rifle Assn. c. 1960. 160 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.
(NRA). The NRA Guidebook to Handguns. Firearms Assembly II. Photo available. Washington National Rifle Association. 1952. 206 pps. 4to. Soft cover. Revised and enlarged edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.


text:
Investigative Law
National Law/Justice
Global Law & Crime prevention
National Politics >
Saskatchevan
Global Business >
Global Economic Development
National Business >
National Health >
Arts/Architecture/Archeology
Book/Arthur/Movie Reviews
Canada-India News
Celebration/Observance/Recognition >
Global Celebration/Observances/Recognitions
National Celebration/Observance/Recognitions
Education/Culture/Festivals
Entertainment >
Intern'l Entertainment/Hollywood
NationalEntertainment
Entertainment-TIFF
Entertainment/Regional/Bollywood Films
Food/Nutrition/Agriculture
Libraries/Museums/Archives >
Global Libraries/Museums/Archives
National Libraries/Museums/Archives >
Nat'l Museums PhotoStories
Astronomy >
ESA Photo Stories
NASA Photo Stories
NASA Videos
Biodiversity/Wild Life/Ecosystem
Earth Scie/Biotech/Archaeology/Agriculture
Environment/Climate Change/Forests
Fisheries & Oceans
Sci & Res
Domestic/Sexual Violence
FAO of UN
Gender issues >
National Gender Issues
Global Gender Issues
Human Rights/Child rights
Immigration/Refugees/Citizens
Floods/Fire/NaturalDisasters/Accidents/Deaths
Peace/Security/Gun Violence >
Global Peace/Security/Gun Violenece
National Peace/Security/Gun Violence
ILO Videos
Lib of Congress Videos
UN Photo Stories
UN videos
UNHCR Videos
WHO Videos
World witnesses 'Super Blue Blood Moon'
#SuperBlueRedMoon, #SolarSystem, #Moon, #SuperMoon, #Earth'sMoon, #NASA
Washington, Jan 31 (Canadian-Media): For the first time in more than 150 years in the United States, a total lunar eclipse coincided with a blue moon and a supermoon looking like a red fireball appeared in the sky early this morning, media reports said.
The rare blue blood moon was reportedly the combination of a supermoon, a blue moon, and a total lunar eclipse and is significant for three reasons: the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit and about 14 percent brighter than usual -- known as perigee -- and it's the third in a series of "supermoons,".
It's also the second full moon of the month, commonly known as a "blue moon." This super blue passes through Earth's shadow to give viewers in the right location a total lunar eclipse.
Lastlty the moon in the Earth's shadow takes on a reddish tint, known as a "blood moon."
Today's "super blue blood moon." was visible before sunrise in North America, Alaska and Hawaii, while those in the Middle East, Asia, eastern Russia, Australia and New Zealand, it can be seen during moonrise today evening.
Super blue blood moon: NASA website
hose living in North America, Alaska, or Hawaii, could reportedly see the eclipse before sunrise on Jan. 31, while for those in the Middle East, Asia, eastern Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the "super blue blood moon" can be seen during moonrise today's evening.
"Weather permitting, the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii will have a spectacular view of totality from start to finish," Gordon Johnston, program executive and lunar blogger at NASA Headquarters in Washington was reported to state.
"Unfortunately, eclipse viewing will be more challenging in the Eastern time zone. The eclipse begins at 5:51 AM ET, as the Moon is about to set in the western sky, and the sky is getting lighter in the east, said Johnston.
Stages of the Jan. 31, 2018 "super blue blood moon" depicted in Pacific Time -- reportedly moonset times, for major cities across the U.S. -- was visible today while viewers along the East Coast could reportedly see only the initial stages of the eclipse before moonset, and those in the West and Hawaii could reportedly see most or all of the lunar eclipse phases before dawn.
For viewers in New York or Washington, D.C., reportedly, the moon entered the outer part of Earth's shadow reportedly at reportedly about 5:51 a.m..
The darker part of Earth's shadow will begin to blanket part of the Moon with a reddish tint at 6:48 a.m. EST, but the Moon will set less than a half-hour later.
"So your best opportunity if you live in the East is to head outside about 6:45 a.m. and get to a high place to watch the start of the eclipse—make sure you have a clear line of sight to the horizon in the west-northwest, opposite from where the Sun will rise," Johnston was reported to state.
Viewing of this phenomenon was much better for those living in the Central time zone since the action started when the Moon was higher in the western sky.
The eclipse was not very visible in the lightening pre-dawn sky, and the Moon set after 7:00 a.m, the time when the Sun rises.
"So if you live in Kansas City or Chicago, your best viewing will be from about 6:15-6:30 a.m," Johnston was reported to state and continued. "Again, you'll have more success if you can go to a high place with a clear view to the West."
In the Rocky Mountain region, the peak of the blood moon eclipse was at about 6:30 a.m. local time, and the Moon set shortly after 7 a.m.
For Californians and viewers in western Canada the umbral eclipse began at 3:48 a.m. Pacific Time. and best viewing between about 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. local time, the totality phase ended about 6:05 a.m.
Changing colors of the super blue blood moon: Pixaby
Johnston had been following and writing about the Moon since 2004, when he and about 20 colleagues at The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) -- an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research -- headquarters would get together after work during the full moon in, which for Johnston meant his signature bow tie.
"I have always been fascinated by the night sky. Most of what we can see without a telescope are points of light, but the Moon is close enough that we can see it and the features on it, and notice what changes and what stays the same each night," Johnston was reported to state.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)


text:
NFL's greed, stubbornness as clear as ever amid Week 12 COVID crisis
By Joe Pantorno Posted on November 29, 2020
At this point, it's only fitting that the game many are claiming to be America's new pastime — football — is trying its best this year to wrestle the title of most incompetent away from two of the institutions that have long embodied the country: Professional baseball, and the federal government.
The NFL is in the throes of dysfunction after another trying week amidst the second major spike of COVID-19 and they're too stubborn and inconsistent to offer any sort of tangible game plan as to how they'll continue dealing with the virus moving forward.
Leading up to the thick of the Week 12 action, nearly 20 members of the Baltimore Ravens have tested positive for COVID-19, including star quarterback Lamar Jackson, and their mammoth NFC North tilt against the Pittsburgh Steelers was pushed back from Thanksgiving Day to Monday night.
Meanwhile, the Denver Broncos have zero quarterbacks available because they were close contacts and the team was forced to play during its originally-scheduled time slot Sunday afternoon against the New Orleans Saints.
The San Francisco 49ers have no place to play after Santa Clara tightened its COVID-19 restrictions.
The Saints and Patriots were fined a combined $850,000 for violating NFL protocols pertaining to the virus.
The league is a mess.
Yet commissioner Roger Goodell continues moving forward with what can only be described as a money grab of a season, putting players and personnel — and their families — in danger every week just to get his product on television.
There are no legitimate contingency plans, no true punishments for players and teams who violate the rules. Fines and late-round draft picks are simple slaps on the wrist for multi-billion-dollar teams.
Teams who are lower on the standings and have been impacted by the virus have seemingly been left out to dry — just look at the Broncos' treatment compared to that of the Ravens.
Granted, the Broncos did nothing to help their case by not quarantining a quarterback for a scenario just like this.
It's clear that health and safety is not the top priority of the NFL, just money — which should really be no surprise. The NFL profits off their Breast Cancer Awareness month with players and stadiums alike drenched in pink, allocating a ridiculously small amount to actual research. Over-the-top displays of patriotism, including the national anthem and flyovers have long been linked with paydays for the league as well.
None of it really feels authentic, and the league's handling of the virus feels exactly the same way.
Governor Cuomo appointing Wilpon, Dolan, more to NY re-opening advisory board
Jets select Mekhi Becton with 11th pick of 2020 NFL Draft
2020 NFL Draft: Jets greatest picks, values, whiffs
2020 NFL Mock Draft 3.0: Giants stay O-Line, Jets need WR, 3 trade options


Inspire your students to make SMART goals. This SMART Goals rack card sets students up for success by encouraging them to make goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. This rack card is the perfect addition to any counseling office, and it's an excellent way to initiate conversations on goal setting.
Encourage your students to make goals that set them up for success. The SMART Goals rack card teaches students the importance of setting goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound—while providing helpful examples of each. This rack card is the perfect addition to any counseling office, and it's an excellent way to initiate conversations on goal setting.


text:
Home »	Search Center » Results: Minions Dominion
Results for "Minions Dominion"
ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEWS February 23, 2007
Delfeayo Marsalis: Minions Dominion
By JOEL ROBERTS
Delfeayo Marsalis, one of the less famous members of the most famous family in jazz today, has made his name mostly behind the scenes as a Grammy-winning producer of more than 75 albums for, among others, older brothers Wynton and Branford, Harry Connick, Jr., Marcus Roberts, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. But he is also ...
ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEWS October 9, 2006
By JIM SANTELLA
Recorded in 2002, Minions Dominion features trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis with two quintets in a program of straight-ahead bliss. His compositions burst with the pride of tradition while emphasizing innermost feelings in every bar. Drummer Elvin Jones carries both quintets with a powerful rhythmic drive that just won't quit. Marsalis solos with authority, inserting musical ...
By DAN MCCLENAGHAN
Marsalis may be the most recognizable family name in jazz today, due to patriarch Ellis and his four sons: trumpeter Wynton, saxophonist Branford, trombonist Delfeayo and drummer Jason. The oldest of the four brothers, Wynton, has the highest profile, and Branford falls in not far behind. The third son, Delfeayo, with only three releases in the ...
Luiza Zan


This week we again hear about John the Baptiser, this time from the Gospel of John. While both Mark, who we heard from last week and this gospel writer are using a similar tradition about the Baptiser, how this gospel writer presents him is very different.
This gospel writer is very focussed on Jesus. So focussed that he is not interested in the Baptisers own contribution apart from his pointing to Jesus. We hear very little about his ministry other than his pointing. And that is because this gospel is also not so interested in what Jesus did but to help us see underneath the outward observable actions to see the inner true meaning of who Jesus is. For this Gospel it is all about Jesus the Word, the Logos, the Logic by which all of creation makes sense. In Jesus we encounter The Eternal Word in flesh and blood.
There are interestingly a number of similarities in how John and Jesus are presented. Both are sent by God. Both are referred to as Moses or Elijah. Both bear witness to God. But the baptiser is clearly being presented as simply a sign post to Jesus, who in turn is the means by which we are pointed to God. The light and life that is God's is now made accessible through this Jesus, the Word.
In the first week of Advent we also heard from Isaiah. We heard of hopes not realised and were invited to reflect on our own experience of unrealised hope and what that meant as we approach Christmas. This week we hear again of hope in the passage made more familiar by Luke 4. This time it is not our hope that is in question but all that God hopes for. We hear that God loves justice. God's hope is in justice. Of course, how we hear this hope will depend on whether we are the ones with the land, or the ones longing for a return of the land; whether we are the ones with resources, or the ones longing for enough to live by. As we enter into the second half of Advent we are invited to made God's life and love our central focus, and to join God yearning for justice no matter the cost.


There's great news … or you do not have to be super-creative to create your own unique product. To create your own product, you need to do some things to get the highest outcomes for your job, and one of your deficiencies can destroy your chances of success.
You need to centralize a customer group that you can and can really understand. A great target market is a group of people who share the same basic issues, spend cash, and have previously bought things related to the subject. If you notice such a group, you are ready to buy.
We've purchased the specific things people want to buy. Never find a net business idea. Instead, look at the existing products and directly ask the people you are looking for. As soon as you know that you are following your target market, you can quickly produce your winning product quickly and know where it will be fruitful.
Once the product issue has been completed, it's time to issue a basic, yet effective sales letter that demonstrates the benefits of buying your customers from you. All you have to do is tell them honestly what questions they are solving, promising concrete results, and offering them a very high bid for too good refusal.
Now that your machine is ready, you are ready to start selling. Research where customers can find and place their sales content in these places. If you can return at least $ 0.50 each visit, you succeed. Then you have to concentrate on reaching 1,000 people a day. If not, simply modify your sales demo until it works better.
You need to maximize the lifetime of every customer. The first sale is simply eliminating marketing costs. Then your real profit begins. It's time to keep up to date with the fresh offers you want to buy from you. You are able to create your own or simple reseller deal with additional sellers. Simply make sure you send a fresh quote at least once a month.


text:
define(function() {
	var exports = {
		go: function() {
			return 'Hello';
		}
	};
    console.log(exports.go());
    return exports;
});


text:
Q: How to simultaneously clip a ViewGroup's children *and* its background Drawable? I have a custom LinearLayout class which I'm using to clip all of its child Views through Canvas#clipPath():
public class MaskedLinearLayout extends LinearLayout {

    protected Path mMaskingClip = new Path();

    (...)

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);

        // Update clipping path
        mMaskingClip.reset();
        (...)
        mMaskingClip.close();
    }

    @Override
    public void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        int save = canvas.save();
        canvas.clipPath(mMaskingClip);
        super.dispatchDraw(canvas);
        canvas.restoreToCount(save);
    }
}

The code above works great, but the background Drawable that I've set for the same MaskedLinearLayout is not clipped to the path that I've defined (only its children).
How should I accomplish this? Some things that I've tried include overriding method onDraw() (with similar code shown in method dispatchDraw() above) and setting its background Drawable boundaries manually (Drawable#setBounds()), both without success.
Note that I cannot use static Drawables in this layout, because the latter should be able to be resized/masked dynamically while being displayed on the screen.
Thank you in advance for any answer.


text:
Professional Ratings
Everyday Achievements
What is a Plaque?
<< Back to Search
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Loading your recognition...
Other recognitions for University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler:
America's Most Honored Professionals 2018 - Top 1%
America's Top Doctors for Cancer 2017
America's Top Doctors 2017
America's Most Honored Businesses 2016 - Top 10%
America's Top Doctors 5th Anniversary
America's Top Doctors for Cancer 5th Anniversary
Newsweek Magazine's America's Top Doctors for Cancer
America's Top Doctors
America's Top Doctors for Cancer
Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2013
Diplomas & Certificates
It's easy to get in touch with us.
1020 NW 6th Street, Unit D
EMAIL info@americanregistry.com


text:
Philippines' Duterte says Xi offering gas deal if arbitration case ignored
Duterte gestures during his fourth State of the Nation Address at the Philippine Congress in Quezon City, Manila. File photo/ Reuters
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said his Chinese counterpart has offered Manila a controlling stake in a joint energy venture in the South China Sea, if it sets aside an international arbitral award that went against Beijing.
Duterte said Chinese President Xi Jinping told him during their recent meeting that if he ignored the Permanent Court of Arbitration's 2016 ruling, China would agree to be the junior partner in a joint venture to develop gas deposits at the Reed Bank, located within Manila's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
"Set aside the arbitral ruling," Duterte was quoted as telling reporters late Tuesday in remarks provided by his office on Wednesday.
Duterte poses with Xi for a photo before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. File photo/ AP
"Set aside your claim," he said, quoting Xi. "Then allow everybody connected with the Chinese companies. They want to explore. If there is something, they said, we will be gracious enough to give you 60%, only 40% will be theirs. That is the promise of Xi Jinping."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying did not give specifics at a briefing on Wednesday on the exchange between the presidents, but said Xi noted that cooperation would yield greater progress in exploiting the sea's resources.
Hua said Duterte had expressed willingness to hasten maritime oil and gas exploration and development cooperation between China and the Philippines. With regard to some "specific situations," working groups between the two sides would consult closely, she said.
The tribunal in The Hague clarified maritime boundaries and the Philippines' sovereign entitlements, and in doing so, invalidated China's claims to almost the entire South China Sea. China does not recognise the ruling.
Duterte has sought to befriend Xi, hoping to secure billions of dollars of investment, avoiding challenging China over its activities in the South China Sea, including its militarised artificial islands.
BIG SETBACK
Any agreement to forget the arbitral award and team up with China would be a major setback to other claimants, especially Vietnam and Malaysia, which like the Philippines have experienced repeated challenges from China's coastguard inside their EEZs.
The United States has called that bullying and coercion aimed at denying rivals' access to their energy assets.
Duterte did not say if he had agreed to Xi's offer, but said the part of the arbitral award that referred to the EEZ "we will ignore to come up with an economic activity".
The tribunal said the Philippines had legal rights to exploit gas deposits that China also claims at the Reed Bank, about 85 miles (140km) off the Philippine coast.
The Philippines only accessible gas resources at the Malampaya fields are set to run out by 2024.
A joint project with China has been talked about for decades, but has gone nowhere because of the competing claims. Joint activity could be deemed as legitimising the other side's claim, or even relinquishing sovereign rights.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin on Wednesday told news channel ANC that a preliminary agreement between China and the Philippines would avoid stating which country was entitled to the gas.
"It's very clear - no legal position is compromised if we enter into this agreement," Locsin said, adding that putting aside the arbitration case was immaterial, because an international court had already made its decision.
"It's final and binding," he added.
Philippines Rodrigo Duterte China Xi Jinping South China Sea
China denies hit and run as pressure builds on Duterte to speak up
China has rejected Philippine allegations that a Chinese fishing vessel abandoned 22 Filipinos after it sank their boat in the South China Sea, as pressure builds on President Rodrigo Duterte to take a tougher line.
Philippines' Duterte accepts China's joint probe offer
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted China's proposal to jointly investigate allegations that a Chinese fishing vessel abandoned 22 Filipinos after it sank their boat in the South China Sea,
Xi, Macron hold talks as France seeks EU unity on China
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron were due to hold talks in Paris on Monday with the host leader seeking to forge a united European front to contend with Beijing's advances.
Journalist at site critical of Duterte arrested in 2nd case
The head of a Philippine online news site, among media agencies deemed critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested again on Friday, this time over an alleged investment violation.
Eastern Libyan protesters close Zueitina oil port
Dubai Police are keen to establish strict security measures that ensure the application of safety procedures following international standards and the latest technologies supported by artificial intelligence systems, he noted.


text:
See historic Waldorf Astoria artifacts at a NYC museum this spring
The New-York Historical Society will display some of the hotel's most iconic objects
By Amy Plitt@plitter Mar 27, 2019, 11:10am EDT
Cole Porter's Steinway grand piano, which will be restored and returned to the Waldorf Astoria once the hotel reopens.
Ben Salesse for Noe & Associates
The legendary Waldorf Astoria hotel won't be open to the public again for at least a few years, but in the meantime, artifacts from the storied hotel—which previously played host to presidents, dignitaries, celebrities, and regular old tourists—will be visible to the public while it's being converted into a hotel/condo hybrid.
Anbang Insurance Group, the Chinese firm that picked the property up for nearly $2 billion in 2014, announced that it has partnered with the New-York Historical Society to showcase three of the Waldorf Astoria's most famous vintage items. Those are:
Cole Porter's 1907 Steinway grand piano, which will be restored at the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens before it's situated at N-YHS. Porter lived in a huge suite on the Waldorf's 33rd floor—where the piano was also situated—for many years, and wrote some of his best-known songs ("You're the Top," "Anything Goes") there.
A rocking chair, a gift from President John F. Kennedy, that sat in the Presidential Suite.
The iconic World's Fair clock, which once sat in the hotel's lobby, and was originally designed for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. It will eventually return to the lobby.
The grand World's Fair clock in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria, circa 2017.
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The items will be on view at the Upper West Side museum while the Waldorf is under construction, as Anbang revamps the circa-1931 building into a hybrid of condos and hotel rooms. There'll be more than 300 of each, along with transformed public and event spaces, with a design helmed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Some of the hotel's interiors—including the West Lounge, formerly known as Peacock Alley, which is located on the first floor; the Grand Ballroom and balconies on the third floor; and the Park Avenue lobby, with its 13 murals and a floor mosaic designed by French artist Louis Rigal—were designated landmarks in 2017, so will look much the same once the hotel reopens in 2021.
The Waldorf Astoria's prestigious 85-year run, captured in historic photos
Waldorf Astoria New York
301 Park Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10022 Visit Website
Next Up In NYC Hotels
Waldorf Astoria condo conversion launches sales
First look inside the Waldorf Astoria's condo conversion
Why the de Blasio administration wants to limit hotel development in NYC
Waldorf Astoria's 375 new condos to hit the market this fall
New York hotel-to-condo conversion moratorium expires
The TWA Hotel, a spectacular midcentury time capsule, finally opens
Some New Yorkers can change the colors of skyscraper spires with this invite-only app If you have forever longed to control the glittering lights city's evening skyline, great news! Now you can—assuming you know the right people.
A guide to NYC's major apartment-finding websites Looking for a new apartment? Bookmark these sites (or download these apps) to stay on top of what's new to the market.
How to pick a New York City neighborhood Eleven things to consider before choosing your new home


text:
Wade Robidoux #10
Agawam Boys Volleyball
Class: Senior | Pos: OH
Digs
2013-2014 135 19 7 1
Career Totals: 135 19 7 1
04/04/2014 vs. Sabis L 0-3 7 — — — — —
04/11/2014 @ Holyoke W 3-0 9 — — — — —
04/14/2014 vs. Putnam W 3-0 9 — — — — —
04/15/2014 vs. West Springfield W 3-0 6 — — — — —
04/22/2014 @ Sci-Tech W 3-0 9 — — — — —
05/01/2014 vs. Ludlow W 3-0 10 — — — — 1
05/05/2014 @ Central W 3-0 11 — — — — —
05/07/2014 vs. Minnechaug W 3-0 5 3 — — — —
05/09/2014 vs. Chicopee Comp W 3-2 11 3 — — — —
05/13/2014 @ Ludlow W 3-1 14 6 — — — —
05/27/2014 vs. Sabis W 3-0 8 1 — — — —
05/29/2014 vs. Westfield W 3-0 9 — 3 — — —
06/02/2014 vs. West Springfield W 3-0 12 3 — — — —
06/09/2014 vs. Xaverian W 3-0 6 3 2 — — —
06/13/2014 vs. Newton South L 0-3 9 — 2 — — —
Season Totals: 135 19 7 — — 1


There is one summary for H.Res.108. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
if they do not reach a settlement and a shutdown occurs, the President should use all tools at his disposal to end the dispute, including authority under the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act), to intervene in the matter to protect the U.S. economy.


text:
Q: Coding dojos on regular basis Do you find reasonable to practice coding dojos on a regular basis? I understand dojo may be a good starting point to introduce somebody to some approach but what is the point of making  similar dojos regularly?
So currently we have two teams which are working on real project written in TDD. One team wants to work on TDD-oriented dojos regularly and other prefers to practice it only on real tasks. Who is right?

A: They both are. Teams should determine their own working rules and guidelines. If one wants to practice techniques (e.g. TDD) in real tasks, let them. If another prefers to practice in tasks that are designed to sharpen TDD skills, but aren't applicable to the project, let them.
If one team wanted to do daily stand-ups where they went around the room in clockwise fashion and the other wanted to use a token that got tossed to the next person to speak, would you try to make one team right and the other wrong?


What do we have in fact? Member State leaders bargaining behind close doors on filling the posts of European Council (EuroC) President and Foreign Policy (FP) Chief, before clarifying their respective roles. And seeking understandings on other posts eg Council Secretary General. And consensus among the 27 (and the European Parliament, and the Commission President) still being sought. Consensus is desirable, but should not be paramount, inevitably resulting in weaker compromise appointees. It is clear that there is no consensus, and it does no harm to use the democratic tool of voting the best persons for the two jobs.
But what are the two jobs? As the post of 31 October explains, there is a built-in conflict between the roles of EuroC President and FP Chief. The Lisbon Treaty prescribes for the former a chairperson with an essentially internal job. However, the President also ensures the external representation of the Union on issues concerning its common foreign and security policy, without prejudice to the powers of the FP Chief. This is hardly consistent with the treaty provision that the latter represents the Union in matters relating to the common foreign and security policy, conducts political dialogue with third parties on the Union's behalf, and expresses the Union's position in international organizations and at international conferences.
Most major issues have both internal and external dimensions. Who attends, for example, summits with third countries? The Commission President, the EurC President, the FP Chief, the 'rotating' president? And who speaks on what? And what is the telephone number for FP matters?
Instead of resolving this conflict before making the appointments, the EurC seems instead intent upon leaving the issue to be resolved afterwards.
To make matters worse, the Socialists have put their flag on the FP Chief, notwithstanding that there appears to be no qualified candidate, who must necessarily come from a big country and have international recognition.
If David Miliband continues to rule himself out, then appoint Chris Patten and give the EuroC Presidency to a Socialist woman, Tarja Halonen, the current Finnish President. Or, appoint Peter Mandelson as FP Chief – an idea worth consideration.


text:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>How We Facilitated a Huge, Participatory, Highly Charged SRCCON Session, a Guest Post from Alyson Hurt | Knight-Mozilla OpenNews</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3"  href="http://planet.opennews.org/rss" />
     <meta name="Description" content="Knight-Mozilla OpenNews is about creating a diverse ecosystem to help journalism thrive on the open web. It's about producing open source code that solves real problems in news. It's about supporting communities of developers and journalists as they make, learn, and invent together. And it's about deploying fellows—and code—into news organizations to collaborate in new ways..">
    <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width">
    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Knight-Mozilla OpenNews" href="http://www.opennews.org/feed.xml">

    <link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen,projection,tv" href="/media/css/normalise.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen,projection,tv" href="/media/css/devices.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/css/snap.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (min-width:30em)" href="/media/css/desktop.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//mozorg.cdn.mozilla.net/media/css/tabzilla-min.css" />

    mozilla

what we do

who we are

get involved

blog

How We Facilitated a Huge, Participatory, Highly Charged SRCCON Session, a Guest Post from Alyson Hurt

by Alyson Hurt

Mid-discussion at SRCCON 2015. (photo/Erik Westra)

For SRCCON in 2015, Tiff Fehr and I presented a session about burnout.

We had proposed separate but related sessions—mine about burnout in the newsroom and hers about self-assessments and “unlearning” habits and assumptions—and, perhaps seeing some compatible themes, the conference organizers paired us up.

As the SRCCON organizers reminded us, our job was to facilitate a session, and our topic in particular felt like it was meant to be a conversation (rather than, say, a skill-share or lesson). We had some thoughts and past experience to share, but we by no means considered ourselves experts. In a group setting, we could all learn from each other about ways—as individuals, as managers, as teams, as organizations—folks are dealing with burnout and job satisfaction now, and maybe devise new strategies to try in the future.

Our session planning started with a few emails and quickly moved into a Google Doc brain dump. First we outlined the themes we wanted to tackle and filled in everything we could think of that we'd want to cover. Then we started to plan out how we wanted the conversation to go. Tiff created really useful structure for it: A bulleted list of key themes/goals, time allotted and a few sample prompts/themes. For example:

We tried to heed SRCCON organizers' advice about audience and flexibility. Because we didn't know how many people would attend, we also tried to game out how this conversation might go with a small group versus a very large group. And we needed to allow for some flexibility in timing and structure, depending on how people were responding. For example, we figured that if we had a large group, we might break the conversation up into small-group conversations. (While we did end up with a large group, the full-room conversation went so well at the beginning that we ended up not breaking into small groups after all.)

We “overprogrammed” our session a bit so we had some material to fill in awkward pauses—and some easy things to cut if the session ran long.

At the beginning of the session itself, we also established ground rules. People have lots of feelings about burnout and being overwhelmed and it's cathartic to have a space to talk about it—especially with a group that's likely faced similar issues. But with only an hour scheduled, the conversation in this session needed to focus more on solutions and coping strategies. We also asked folks to abide by “FrieNDA” and not share others' personal stories outside the session without permission.

To facilitate the conversation, we created a separate Google Doc with only the key prompts. We planned to project the questions in large type on the screen in the room, and then, underneath, take notes as the conversation went on. The latter became one of the happiest surprises in the session: Folks in the room spontaneously took over as scribes and the doc became both a live reflection of the conversation in the room and a kind of backchannel/forechannel. The anonymous, brightly colored cursors on the screen typed useful suggestions into the doc and became part of the audible conversation in the room. The doc may also have been a way for folks not comfortable speaking openly to contribute quietly.

And because the doc was sort of like another person in the room, the larger group could serve as a check against the rare comment that started to cross a line (like jokes about alcohol as an antidote to work problems) or veer too far off-topic.

By the end, we had a fantastic document of the room's collective wisdom on this subject. (In another setting with a different group of people, this could have gone horribly off the rails. But here, it didn't. I'm proud of this supportive community and grateful to be a part of it.)

Happy planning!

posted July 12, 2016 | posted in

  SRCCON

comments

    Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Meet the 2016 Fellows

Our 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellows will work from seven newsrooms around the world. Find out more.

Learn More About...

Fellowships

Program Details

The Fellows

Fellowship Partners

Conferences

SRCCON

MozFest

Community Support

Source

Code Convenings

Community Calls

Event Support

Travel Scholarships

The latest from the OpenNews team

Read all our news in our OpenNews feed

The latest from Source

Read more at Source or subscribe to the Source feed

OpenNews is funded by

Connect with OpenNews

Get the latest by subscribing to our news feed

Connect on Twitter @opennews

Join our mailing lists

Contact us

About Knight

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality
journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the
arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are
informed and engaged.

For more, visit knightfoundation.org

About Mozilla

Mozilla is a global non-profit dedicated to putting you in control of your online experience and shaping the future of the web for the public good—by creating great software and fostering communities that build and grow the open web.

Sign up to hear more, and, if you're willing, please join Mozilla.


text:
Posted on May 5, 2016 by Nathan Jolly
"In a little while from now, if I'm not feeling any less sour", Gilbert O'Sullivan relates, in the most chirpy of clipped tones, "I promise myself to treat myself. And visit a nearby tower." Oh, well – not the most exciting of field trips, but anyone who refers to their own mood as being 'sour' would probably enjoy a nice tower visit. Oh no, wait. The verse continues, and he is planning to jump from that tower – throw himself off, actually, as if taking agency completely away from his action. Moreso, this is in an effort to show people the effects of being stood up at your own wedding – "left shattered". He recalls the pitying whispers at the church, the day before when he was happy. The tower visit seems to be both a desperate demonstration of his angst, and a very serious plan to end his lonely suffering.
Oddly, this snappily depressing song sat at number one in America for six weeks in 1972, and was the fifth most-played song on radio throughout the entire decade. This was the '70s, when radios were more important to cars then mufflers, and the format was the main portal to new music for teenagers. Kinda like MySpace is these days.
'Alone Again (Naturally)' is darkly compelling for reasons aside from the subject matter. Firstly, there's Gilbert himself, looking like a diet Bee Gee beamed in from some Irish dancehall recital we shouldn't have access to. There's the jaunty music, which sounds closer to the theme from a '70s kitchen-sink drama shown in reruns on the BBC between 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Are You Being Served?' than a US #1 single about death and loneliness. Most distressing of all is his honeyed voice, and the thoroughly removed way in which O'Sullivan relates these horrible, personal tales, including the death of both his parents which he recites as if a bus route.
He rejects the idea of God, he is stood up at his own wedding, he plans his own suicide – all while cheerfully bashing out this tune on a grand piano – stately strings his only companion. He seems numb, either by grief or hypnosis, and coupled with the above creepy, empty clip, the effect is doubled. It reminds me of the weird DHARMA Initiative videos from 'Lost' in a way that I cannot put my finger on but which involves the feeling of some found relic from an ancient, warped civilisation.
Each verse ends with the resignation that he is alone again, naturally – as if any intervening happiness or companionship over the years has been marred by his knowledge of its impermanence. It doesn't mean he is thrilled by this, either, just that wishing for anything above the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs seems foolish to him. He is destined to be alone, and it's his natural state.
Gilbert saves the true darkness of the song until the final verse. There's an ornate musical break in order to deepen the final blow, then he details his father's passing with all the glassy sadness he can muster. Then his attention turns to his mother.
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Brutal. But it gets worse. The idea of starting over without the love of her life is too much, and so, even with her son's love, she gives up.
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Gulp! Did she kill herself, or simply give up on life? Despite the details, the results are the same, and Gilbert remains naturally, inevitably alone… again. Christ, this is bleak stuff. Where's a tower when you need one?
1970s 200 sad songs alone again naturally gilbert o'sullivan keiren jolly nathan jolly


Eileen enjoyed this book, which can be found on the shelves, or reserved at, Low Fell Library.
Eileen thought that this book told an interesting story.
The Kashmir Shawl is an epic story of wartime, family secrets and forbidden love, set against the exotic backdrop of 1940s Kashmir.
Nerys Watkins leaves Wales to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Deep in the heart of Kashmir lies the lakeside city of Srinagar where the British live on houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw closer and life in Srinagar becomes less frivolous when the men are sent away to fight. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship; by the time she is reunited with her husband, the innocent bride has become a different woman.
Years later, when Mair Ellis is clearing out her parents' house, she discovers an antique shawl with a lock of child's hair in its folds. Mair then begins a journey following her grandmother's path in India, a quest which will change her life forever.


McCoo's staff are local mountain enthusiasts that know Whistler inside and out. We've got the 411 on what you need.
McCoo's offers a massive selection of gear and outerwear. In fact, we have the largest selection of goggles in Whistler!
We've been here forever because we believe our customer relationships are the most important thing. Period.
We are always having fun. We really love all that McCoo's embodies – a care-free mountain lifestyle.


History-ENG - WBA Blindajes Alemanes S.A.
In 1840 Wendler emerged in Reutlingen Germany as a builder of carriages and horse carriages, then car bodies such as Mercedes Benz, Maybach, Bentley, BMW, VW and Porsche to become one of the first armoring companies worldwide.
In 1996 Blindajes Alemanes was born with the technical assistance of Wendler GMBH Germany, perfecting the German technology for the Latin American market where the daily reality are threats with firearms. A few years later WBA Group emerges as a single brand that brings together Wendler from Mexico, Blindajes Alemanes and Wendler GMBH.
From this union emerges a new generation of industrialized automotive armor.
Over 10,00 vehicles produced in Mexico.


North Carolina's Clean Water Management Trust Fund (CWMTF) was established by the General Assembly in 1996 as a non-regulatory organization with a focus on protecting and restoring the State's land and water resources. We award grants to non-profit and governmental organizations to protect land for natural, historical and cultural benefit, limit encroachment on military installations, restore degraded streams, and develop and improve stormwater treatment technology.
Click here for a list of 2018 Grant Applications.
We protect our natural, cultural and historic resources and military buffers through grants to fund voluntary land conservation.
We improve water quality and sustain water resources by funding projects to restore the habitat of fish, wildlife and other species, enhance the filtering of runoff and prevent pollutants from entering water supplies.
We help protect downstream communities from the effects of urban runoff by funding the development of better stormwater treatment technologies.
TEAM (Tool for Environmental, Agricultural and Military Reporting) is a web-based conservation mapping tool to help landowners and conservation partners identify opportunities and match them with potential funding sources.
There are several committee meetings scheduled for April and May. Our next full board meeting will be on May 21st. Click the link above for more information.
CWMTF provided $440,287 to North Carolina Coastal Land Trust (NCCLT) to acquire approximately 600 acres along Waccamaw River, just downstream from the Waccamaw State Park in Columbus County. This award was matched with a $459,500 acquisition of almost 700 acres, funded by Department of Justice settlement funds, creating a total protect area of almost 1,300 acres.
In 2014, CWMTF provided a portion of the funding that permanently protected The Orchard at Altapass. This is the oldest orchard along the Blue Ridge Parkway and is a popular attraction, hosting approximately 50,000 visitors a year.
Two projects funded in 2017 in the New River Watershed will employ quite different techniques but complement each other's work to restore water quality in the New River and its tributaries. Click through to read more about these projects from the New River Conservancy and Greater Lansing Area Development.
Willow Pond, a stormwater basin on the grounds of the North Carolina Arboretum in Buncombe County, will be converted into a constructed wetland that will address on-site stormwater challenges while enhancing habitat of the rare mole salamander. Educational activities at this facility will also serve to educate landscape professionals, adult students and youth.
Click here for more information about applying for CWMTF Grants.
Get relevant news and events about CWMTF via our listserv.


SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) is pleased to announce the award of a contract to Kentz, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, by ExxonMobil, for a new oil processing facility to increase production at its West Qurna 1 oil field in Iraq. Kentz, with its regional partner, is providing the front-end engineering design (FEED), detailed design engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning and start-up of the new facility, capable of producing an annual average of 100,000 stock tank barrels of crude oil per day.
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today the company has been awarded an extension to its existing Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract for the UZ750 project in the Upper Zakum (UZ) field, located 84 kilometres north-west of Abu Dhabi. The value of the contract has not been announced.
Wood Group has been awarded an offshore maintain potential programme contract by Saudi Aramco for greenfield and brownfield engineering services, procurement, and construction management support for new facilities in the Arabian Gulf. The six-year contract, which includes options for two three-year renewals, includes the establishment of an offshore engineering centre of excellence in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Technip, in partnership with UNICO, a Japanese engineering consultant, was awarded a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract on a reimbursable basis, for the upgrading of the Basra refinery. This contract, awarded by South Refineries Company (SRC) – Ministry of Oil, covers the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up and warranty management phase of the refinery upgrading project(1), located in Basra, Iraq.


Give us a ring at 1-844-285-0094 to get information on a loan with the best companies Reverse Mortgage Lenders in Earp California. The best reverse mortgage company in California. If you're in need of receiving more information about reverse mortgage loans or need help in getting a reverse mortgage loan in Earp California, call us right now for your Free No Obligation Informational Guide. Look, we take pride in serving our clients with top of the line. Contact us today! Check out what Bill Medley from the Righteous Brothers is saying about our reverse mortgage specialists. Our licensed specialists are reverse mortgage experts, and they're with you throughout the entire process €" from start to finish. Over the years, reverse mortgages have been given a bad rep due to false info being spread about the risks involved. But done the correct way, reverse mortgages are able to remove financial burdens from homeowners who want nothing more than to be able to stay in their own home. When reverse mortgages were created, they helped to let a widow the choice to remain in her home, even though her husband had passed away. As reverse mortgages evolve with the changing of the markets, their use stays the same; to allow seniors the ability to reach financial freedom during their retirement years. Federally insured, hundreds of thousands of seniors have taken advantage of the benefits of reverse mortgages. Over the years, some of the same questions seem to pop up. We have answered these questions in one convenient location. If you still have questions after reading this, or if you wish to speak with an specialist, give us a call today 1-844-285-0094. For decades, reverse mortgages have been assisting homeowners like you to remain in their home while allowing them to pay unexpected costs, such as medical bills or renovations. Making the equity in your home to work for you is what we do best. Give us a call today and see how your home can work for you. Our reverse mortgage lenders are waiting to answer any questions you have and decide if a reverse mortgage is right for you. We would love to make you our next satisfied client.
A reverse mortgage is a loan that will allow you to access a portion of your equity to receive tax-free cash without having to make monthly loan payments. Unless you choose to voluntarily make payments to your remaining balance, no payment is required until the last surviving homeowner leaves permanently, passes away, or decides to sell the house.
Give us a call right now at 1-844-285-0094 to get information on a loan with the top rated Reverse Mortgage Lenders in Earp California. The best reverse mortgage company in California. If you are interested in receiving additional information in regards to reverse mortgage lending or need assistance in getting one in Earp California, call us for your No Cost No Obligation Informational Guide. Look, we pride ourselves in offering our clients with the best quality service. Contact us today! Check out what Bill Medley from the Righteous Brothers has to say about reverse mortgage loans. Our licensed specialists are reverse mortgage experts, and they are with you throughout the whole €" from start to finish. Over the last few years, reverse mortgage loans have been given a bad rep due to false information being spread around about the risks involved. But if done right, reverse mortgages are able to help with financial boundaries from homeowners who want nothing more than to be able to stay in their home. When reverse mortgage loans were created, they assisted to let a widow the ability to remain in her home, even though her husband had passed away. While reverse mortgages evolve with the changing of the markets, what they are used for stays the same; to allow seniors the ability to reach financial freedom during their retirement years. Federally insured, hundreds of thousands of seniors have taken advantage of reverse mortgages. Over the years, plenty of the same questions seem to pop up. We've taken the liberty of answering these questions in a convenient location. If you still have questions after reading this, or if you wish to speak with an specialist, call us today 1-844-285-0094. For years, reverse mortgage loans have been helping homeowners such as yourself to stay in their own home while allowing them to pay unexpected costs, such as medical bills or renovations. Making the equity in your house to work for you is what we do best. Give us a call today and see how your home can work for you. Our reverse mortgage lenders are waiting to answer any questions you may have and decide if a reverse mortgage is right for your situation. We would love to make you our next satisfied client.
A reverse mortgage is a loan that will help you to access a portion of your equity to receive tax-free cash and not make monthly loan payments. Unless you make up your mind to voluntarily make payments to your outstanding balance, no payment is required until the last surviving homeowner leaves permanently, passes away, or decides to sell the house.