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Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers were true trendsetters in the early days of rock and roll. TheThey were the yardstick by which hundreds of kiddie vocal groups gauged their capabilities in order to bring themselves to the public’s attention.
Groups like the Students (Checker), THE CHANTERS (Deluxe), RONNIE AND THE HI-LITES (Joy), Nicky and the Nobles (Gone), THE KODAKS (Fury), THE DESIRES (Hull), Tiny Tim and the Hits (Roulette), and even Frankie’s brother’s group LOUIS LYMON AND THE TEEN CHORDS, are just some of the many who tried for the bras ring in the footsteps of Frankie and company. Some of those fans that made it big include Diana Ross, Millie Jackson, Ronnie Spector, and Tim Hauser (THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER).
A fateful meeting on 164th Street (where Sherman lived) led to the foursome calling themselves the Coupe De Villes. Across the street lived a family with four brothers, Howie, Timmy, Louis, and Frankie Lymon, all of whom would sing with groups in the future.
The four Coupe De Villes became the Premiers and alternated their practices led to performances at neighborhood talent shows, and one was scheduled for the school auditorium. The Premiers decided to get in some extra practice after a dress rehearsal and entered one of the classrooms. A young teen who was also scheduled to perform with his brother’s mambo band came in and asked to sing a few songs with the group. It was Herman’s neighbor from across 164th Street, 12-year-old Frankie Lymon. They sang “Why Don’t You Write Me” (THE JACKS), “Painted Pictures” (THE SPANIELS), and “Lily Maebelle” (THE VALENTINES), and had such a good time they agreed to do it again, but no one formally asked young Frankie to join.
After the talent show (where Frankie played bongos and his brother Howie played congas with their Latin group), Frankie just started hanging out with the older guys and became first tenor to Herman Santiago’s lead.
Frankie came from a gospel background. His father Howard sang with the Harlemaires and Frankie, Louie, and Howie sang with the Harlemaires Juniors. This seemed to have little impact on his early occupation as a 10-year-old hustler of prostitutes in Harlem. His father was a truck driver and mother a domestic, and it wasn’t easy to feed a family of seven. Frankie also worked in a grocery on his corner as a delivery boy, so pimping was not necessarily his preferred source of income.
By 1955 the quintet was calling themselves the Ermines when they weren’t lapsing back to the Premiers. ON one fateful evening the hallway kids (as they were designated by neighbors) were practicing in Sherman’s hall when they were confronted by a man named Robert, who often stopped and listened to them before entering his apartment.
According to author Phil Groia, he said, “My old lady [her name was Delores] sendsme letters in the form of poems. Being that you’re always singing the same old songs,why don’t you get some original material of your own? I’m giving you some of these poems; see what you can do with them.” The Premiers/Ermines sorted through them and started working on one in particular called “Why Do Birds Sing So Gay.” Frankie worked on a melody line and the others formulated a harmony while tenor Jimmy Merchant came up with a vocal bass intro. It started out as a ballad but soon evolved into an uptempo rocker.
Many evenings later they were rehearsing their repertoire at Stitt’s Night Community Center when in walked the revered Valentines, who also practiced there. Lead singer Richard Barrett had heard there was a hot neighborhood group sing his song and was very impressed by the Premiers’ interpretation.
Barrett’s version of hiss meeting with the group is slightly different: he claims they camped under his 161st Street window and sang until he came down and agreed to hear them audition at Stitt’s the following Monday.
The final (and most probable) version was that Barrett took the group to Goldner, auditioned right after THE CLEFTONES had done so, and were told they had a deal. Herman sang lead on “Why Do Birds Sing So Gay,” “That’s What You’re Doin’ to Me” (THE DOMINOES), and one of his originals, “I Want You to Be My Girl.” He also sang a duet with Frankie. Then Lymon sang a song he’d done with brother Howie’s group. Goldner then suggested Frankie sing “Why Do Birds,” changed the title to “Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” moved Herman to first tenor, and told the teens they had a deal.
Within months the record and group were international hits: “Fools” reached number one in England, the first R&B/rock and roll record by an American vocal group to do so. Not bad for three 16-year-olds (Jimmy, Joe, and Sherman), one 15-year-old (Herman), and one 13-year-old (Frankie).
In April their second 45, “I Want You to Be My Girl,” hit the airwaves. Once again the first printing read “The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon,” but the second was changed to read “Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.” Herman Santiago wrote “Girl”; given the typical practices of the day, it’s not surprising that the writer’s credit was given to Goldner-Barrett. “I Want You to Be My Girl” skyrocketed like its predecessor, reaching number 13 (#3 R&B).
Their first big tour started on a dubious note: the Teenagers and co-billed acts THE FLAMINGOS, THE PLATTERS, THE CLOVERS, THE FLAIRS, and Carl Perkins all stood around the Hotel Theresa in New York ready to hit the rod except for one small detail. Frankie Lymon was nowhere to be found. Sherman Garnes then marched the group up to the High School of Music and Art to recruit their friend Jimmy Castor (of the Junior, Wing), who had a style similar to Frankie’s. Jimmy left school that same day and the tour got underway. Frankie showed up later on with little in the way of explanation.
A similar incident happened on another tour when Richard Barrett stepped in as lead in Detroit.
In the summer of 1956 Gee cajoled the group into doing Jimmy Castor and the Juniors’ “I Promise to Remember.” It reached only number 56 (#10 R&B) and its solid rocker flip “Who Can Explain” made R&B number seven.
The group appeared in Alan Freed’s classic teen film Rock, Rock, Rock, which was filmed in the Bronx at the Bedford Park Studios and the nearby botanical gardens. They sang “I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent” (written by Bobby Spencer of the Cadillacs and the Valentines, though the label credit read “Goldner”) and “Baby Baby,” which became their next single.
The British loved “Delinquent.” It reached number 12 in Britain in early 1957 (and the flip “Baby Baby” reached number four), but U.S. kids nixed the cutesy rocker and it failed to chart.
The group also did a British tour in 1956 that included a performance at the world-famous London Palladium and a command performance in the Queen’s chambers for Princess Margaret. The outstanding ballad “Out in the Cold Again” became their last R&B chart record, reaching number 10.
While still on the six-week European tour, Goldner started tampering with the chemistry that made the quintet so successful. Frankie began recording solo; the results were languid and desperately in need of the Teenagers’ enthusiastic backing. Though the label of the 1957 single “Goody Goody” read “Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers,” The Harlem teens were nowhere to be found on the released recording. It reportedly had the pasteurized harmony of the Ray Charles Singers accompanying Frankie. It reached number 20 Pop and number 24 in England but never made the R&B chart.
The quintet continued to tour through mid-1957 and Gee then moved Frankie to Roulette Records for a series of lackluster singles like “So Goes My Love.” “Little Girl,” “Footsteps,” and Elvis’s “Jailhouse Rock.” In 1960 Frankie charted for four weeks with a remake of Thurston Harris’s “Little Bitty Pretty One” (#58). Meanwhile, the Teenagers were mismatched with Bill Lobrano, a white-sounding cross between Frankie Avalon and an imitation Elvis, for two singles, “Flip Flop” (which it did) and “Mama Wanna Rock” (which it did) and “Mama Wanna Rock” (which didn’t wanna rock). In 1960 they recorded a credible cover of THE SHIRELLES’ “Tonight’s the Night” with Kenny Bobo, formerly of the Juniors, on lead and a second single (both for End), “A Little Wiser now” with Johnny Houston upfront sounding like Jackie Wilson leading the Flamingos. The Teenagers certainly had diversity, but it didn’t help them sell records.
The Teenagers and Frankie reunited in 1965 for a brief period but no recordings resulted. The four Teenagers performed but no recordings resulted. The four Teenagers performed one last time in 1973 with Pearl McKinnon of the Kodaks on lead (whose vocal likeness to Frankie was startling). Sherman Garnes passed on after a heart attack in 1977, and Joe Negroni died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1978.
In 1981, the 25th anniversary of their first hit, the Teenagers were re-formed at the suggestion of Herbie Cox and Charlie James (the Cleftones), Ronnie Italiano (U.G.H.A. founder), and Joel Warshaw. The members were Jimmy Merchant, Herman Santiago, Eric Ward (of the soul group Second Verse), and Pearl McKinnon. The group, managed by Warshaw and helped by Ronnie I., began performing to overwhelming adulation.
By 1983 Ward had been replaced by Derek Ventura, and in 1984 Phil Garrito took over for Derek. Roz Morehead replaced Pearl, and Marilyn Byers moved into Roz’s lead spot.
In the early ‘80s they opened for Manhattan Transfer, thanks to Tim Hauser, who tracked them down and arranged the gig.
The group did a PBS documentary as a tribute to their music and to Frankie, who died of a drug overdose in his grandmother’s apartment at the age of 26. The show was aired on August 14, 1983.
In 1983 Pearl McKinnon discovered that Frankie was buried in an unmarked grave at St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx.
In September 1985, thanks to Ronnie Italiano, a benefit was held to raise money and a headstone was bought. It now sits in the window of Ronnie’s Clifton Music at 1135 Main Avenue in Clifton, New Jersey, while three so-called widows of Lymon’s, Emira Eagle, Zola Taylor (formerly of the Platters), and Elizabeth Waters, fight over Frankie’s half a million dollars in royalties.


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I am a therapist who would like to be put out of a job because people become so well-equipped at caring for themselves and each other that I am not needed. I am a therapist who questions the mental illness paradigm and deeply wishes for people to see their mental suffering outside of a box of pathologies and disconnected individual treatment. I am a therapist who wants to share as many of the tools that I have as possible with communities of color so that we feel empowered to meet each other’s suffering with presence and love.
In the aftermath of violence (relentless violence) mental health professionals are often called upon to act as emergency responders. And the truth is that even if there were enough of us to respond to the countless acts of violence that happen every day, in the immediate aftermath of trauma there is not much to do outside of being with each other and holding each other’s very real pain. I do not mean that people might not need professional help for things like posttraumatic stress disorder. What I mean is that I believe that ordinary, non-certified people have the power and ability to be with each other through the immediate aftermath of overwhelming and devastating events in a way that meets each other’s needs.
I am having a hard time taking in the continued onslaught of violence against Black people and violence against queer and trans people of color because the scale of it is overwhelming to my senses. After years of doing trauma work, my immediate response to mass devastation is often numbness, silence, stillness, and in my person life, avoidance (very common trauma responses). And while these are all psychological protective defenses to avoid pain, I know that the only way to truly deal with pain is to let it in and witness its truth.
The load that Black people and QTPoC are carrying is way too heavy to bear alone. We took care of each for thousands of years through tragedy and loss before therapy was invented. What I want to offer today are some simple steps we can take to be with each other through pain.
Because I know that so many of us have a hard time being in large groups after devastating and overwhelming acts of violence, I am offering a simple approach to being together in pairs. Most often after overwhelming trauma, we need to be with each other, be seen, and be heard. Much of grieving is a process of being, not doing.
Step 1: Make an agreement to spend sacred time with a friend or partner (even if you don’t know them that well – this could be an opportunity to connect).
Step 2: Arrange the physical space in a way that feels supportive and honors who you are and perhaps honors your ancestors as well. This might include creating an altar or attending to one that you already have. You might light candles, paint a picture, light incense, put down fabric or lay out special stones. Make a ritual of laying out material items that feel sacred or simply speak to you right now. Do this with minimal talking with the person/people you chose to do this with.
Step 3: Take a moment to sit and face each other, or sit side-by-side facing in opposite directions with your right arms touching. Or, if neither of these positions feels right, choose another way to sit that feels right, but try to have some contact whether it be physical or visual. Connection is key after traumatic events that send the message that you do not belong.
Step 4: Breathe into your belly for 10 breaths. You may close your eyes or keep them open. Your choice. If you keep your eyes open, pick one spot to rest your gaze rather than look all around the room. Inhale through the nostrils and exhale through the nostrils or the mouth. Breathe slowly. Count your inhales. Count your exhales and exhale for at least one more count than your inhale (the exhale is the more grounding breath and thus should be longer to produce more grounding energy). After a few breaths, try to sync your breathing with your partner’s breathing (this further cultivates connection).
Step 5: In silence, notice 3 colors in the room. Then notice 3 sounds. Feel the chair or ground underneath you. (This anchors you in the present moment. Do anything else that brings your attention to the present moment).
Step 6: Now begins the talking part or whatever else may come up (tears, singing, sounds, anything vocal).
Pick a person to start speaking first. Allow this person to express whatever is present for them right now. There is no directive for this. It is open stream of conscious expression. The only thing to avoid is very detailed descriptions of violence or abuse (i.e. then the person did this and I felt that, and then they x, y, and z). Of course you can talk about the violence and abuse, but avoid recounting the specifics in a narrative fashion as if you are re-living an event out loud. This can be re-traumatizing and often leads to a sense of being revved up rather than relieved. Besides this, share anything that comes up, even if it doesn’t feel like it makes sense. There is no way to do this wrong.
While the first person talks, the other person listens without interrupting. I suggest timing the initial sharing (i.e. select 3 minutes or 5 minutes), but if this does not feel right, you do not have to. If the person talking finishes talking before the timer goes off, simply sit in silence and wait for the alarm to sound and close the first sharing. If you use a timer, choose a calming chime to signal the end of the time.
Once the first person has shared, both people take 3 deep breaths.
Then, the listener reflects back some of what they heard the person share. I.e. “You feel angry, and devastated and weak and just want to curl up. You also want to go home and be with your family.” The listener does not have to reflect back everything they heard, nor do they have to repeat the exact words of the speaker. The listener reflects back what they are able. You may also time this. If you time this, make this time a littler shorter than the time of the person who spoke first. The listener does not have to get it perfectly. The aim is to be able to reflect back some of what has been said so the speaker feels heard and seen and so that the listener is focused on the person talking rather than focusing on their own internal reaction.
When complete, take another round of 5 deep breaths.
The listener and the speaking person then switch. The speaking person’s goal is not to respond to what the first speaker said (though there might be some thoughts inspired by the first speaker), but to express whatever is on their heart and mind in this moment.
The same process of speaking without interrupting and then listening with reflection is repeated (with the same time if used).
When the 2nd sharing and reflecting is complete, take another 5 deep breaths.
Turn to look at one another if you are not already facing each other. Look at each other, into each other’s eyes, for at least one minute in silence. You may giggle, or feel awkward. That is ok. Keep looking. Bear witness. Be with.
Notice what is happening inside your body, emotions and mind.
You may then begin to speak in a normal conversation, opening with the question, “What do you need right now?” This does not have to be something you need from each other, but simply begin to articulate any needs that are present.
Be with each other in conversation, or in silence, until you both feel complete. Respect boundaries for needing to end at a certain time and be ok with whatever arose, even if it was not what you expected.
You are not responsible for the other person’s pain. You should not be trying to solve problems or fix anything. You are simply being with each other and bearing witness to each other’s pain. This must be clear and agreed upon at the start. A lot of us are in caretaker roles in our relationships, and this is not an exercise to perpetuate this dynamic. This is an exercise of balance and equal partnership.
Pause and breathe if you feel overwhelmed. Remember that although Black people and QTPoC are not safe in this society, in this very moment you are ok, in this place, with the person you chose to be with.
If you are a person who needs boundaries to feel calmer, decide on a time frame for all of this, so it does not begin to feel exhausting or go on too long. I often find that much can be gained from doing all of this in a short amount of time (like, a 50 minute therapy session, for example J).
There is no one right way to experience pain. If you feel nothing, it’s ok. If you feel everything, it’s ok. There is no one right way to grieve. There is, however, a less difficult way to grieve, and that is to meet whatever is present for you and your loved ones with compassion and radical acceptance.
CarmenLeah Ascencio is a public health social worker, community theatre facilitator, trauma-sensitive yoga instructor, educator and proud Boricua 2nd generation queer femme. She is the director of Get Free and the creator of Freedom Labor Love. She speaks and facilitates BGD Get Free workshops at organizations and schools. To find out about booking CarmenLeah, go here.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


text: 'Alaskan white' sounds like an ice-cold upholstery, but it is not. Only the colour is reminiscent of the region in the far north of North America. The sofa itself is nice and warm. Nice to crawl on when it is still fresh in the morning or when it has cooled down too much in the evening to sit outside.

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The Cerro Moro Project belongs to Estelar Resources, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Extorre Gold Mines, and is located 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Puerto Deseado, province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. The project has a series of epithermal gold and high grade silver deposits.
Knight Piésold was engaged to develop the tailing storage facility (TSF) detail engineering, which included drafting all documentation needed to begin the bid for the TSF construction; contemplating various construction aspects; drafting a project execution plan (PEP); estimating the CAPEX-OPEX; and making a detailed construction Gantt diagram.
The general objective is to develop the technical documentation, including defining all the technical aspects of the completed works, the materials to be used, and the procedures for monitoring and controlling the execution. This allows the client, on the one hand, to participate in the bidding and hiring processes with well-defined and determined costs and execution and control procedures, and, on the other hand, to provide the contractor with construction engineering that makes every operation related to the work execution predictable and controllable.

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DPMC was formed as a result of a report that recommended establishing structures to provide two separate streams of advice to the Prime Minister.
These streams were a new government department to supply impartial, high quality advice and support to the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC); and a Prime Minister's Private Office (which is not part of DPMC), to provide personal support and media services, and advice of a party political nature.
DPMC was established on 1 January 1990. Government House was included in the scope of the department in August 1990, after a review of the Governor-General’s support requirements. The External Assessments Bureau (now called the National Assessments Bureau) became part of DPMC on 1 July 1991.
The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management became a business unit within DPMC in April 2014.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) became a departmental agency within DPMC in February 2015. On 1 March 2016, to coincide with the wind down of CERA, a new business group - the Greater Christchurch Group - was formed to focus on the ongoing regeneration of Christchurch and support the transition of leadership from central government to local institutions. CERA was disestablished on 18 April 2016.
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Buying souvenirs when traveling is an exciting part of any trip. All of the colorful and shiny trinkets staring at you. Some are cheap mass-produced products, and others are of higher quality and locally made pieces. While I usually opt to support local business owners, I seldom purchase souvenirs, because, #teamjustlooking and #teamcarryonidonthavespaceinmybag. However, there is one souvenir that I buy no matter where I visit, and that is postcards.
Whenever I get to a new destination, the first thing I look for is postcards and stamps. I have all of my families’ and close friends’ addresses in my agenda and phone, and I write a quick note and mail it to them. Sitting at a coffee shop or park (people watching, reflecting, and jotting down my experiences, feelings, memories, and thoughts at that moment to share with my loved ones) is the perfect way to do it. I also mail one to myself and store them in a box at home to periodically stroll down memory lane.
I’m always touched when I look back and read the messages to myself. Most are funny, a few speak of loneliness experienced while traveling solo, others compare past countries and cities, and some just want to hurry up and head to the next destination. It is like stumbling on a time capsule. I am instantly shifted to that exact moment.
I love receiving postcards from friends, and I know it is a pleasant gift for them as well. Postcards last longer than any other souvenirs I have ever collected, and they mean so much to me.
Do you collect any souvenirs on your travels? I would love for you to share them with me below!

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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At the bottom of the ocean, no one will hear you scream! In Captain Sonar, you and your teammates control a state-of-the-art submarine and are trying to locate an enemy submarine in order to blow it out of the water before they can do the same to you.
All the members of a team sit on one side of the table, and they each take a particular role on the submarine, with the division of labor for these roles being dependent on the number of players in the game: One player might be the captain, who is responsible for moving the submarine and announcing some details of this movement; another player is manning the sonar in order to listen to the opposing captain’s orders and try to decipher where that sub might be in the water; a third player might be working in the munitions room to prepare torpedoes, mines and other devices that will allow for combat.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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The following APIs represent the endpoints that are shared across one or more of our products (namely Switch and Signal). Not every API is available in every product, so you should consult your contract or ask us if in doubt.
Property Key defines the attributes that determine applicability for a set of rates within a tariff, such as connection type or city limits.
Typical Baseline is a year of typical hourly usage (8760) for a specific type of building in a specific geography.
ZIP Code tells you details surrounding a specific ZIP code, such as the name of the city and county containing that ZIP code or time zone.

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With more than 50 years in operation, Temple Electric, Inc. has built a reputation as one of the most established and respected electrical contracting firms in West Texas. To learn more about the services offered by Temple Electric, Inc. please browse the rest of this site at your leisure and feel free to contact us at any time with questions you may have. We look forward to adding you to our long list of satisfied customers.
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industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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What kind of factory audits do we do?
Our auditors visit your factory, analyze, and report on their findings. Our basic audits are designed to provide a sufficient overview to make informed decisions, and our extended audits deep-dive into even more.
• Overall factory metrics including revenue, staff counts, etc.
• Check for the presence, clarity, and access to production process charts.
• Ensure factory departments and responsibilities are clearly defined and organized.
• Ensure an active business license is on-file and document information.
• Check maintenance logs and report on all production-line machinery.
• We analyze a production line and measure production capacity over a period of time.
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• Ensure that law-body issued environmental certificates are on-file.
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• Check working conditions and ensure proper protocol is in-place for healthcare, water, etc.
• Check for engineers, lab equipment, and analyze on-going R&D operations.
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industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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The performance offered by a Bentley differs radically from the adrenaline surge generated by any of the other vehicles on this website. When it’s excitement you crave, choose another vehicle. Bentleys fill a niche, sitting somewhere in between the Rolls-Royce, known for style and elegance, and Aston Martin, famous for their performance and speed.
As soon as you get behind the wheel of a Bentley, you know you’re in for an experience. That steering wheel you just put your hands on is made with the world’s finest leather, stitched by hand. Bentley’s craftspeople manually mark the leather with an ordinary kitchen fork before proceeding with each stitch, perfectly placed. The process takes five hours, during which 10 metres of thread are used for 620 separate stitches. And that’s just the steering wheel.
Your Bentley is designed for comfort; the exquisite interior finish wraps you in a cocoon of luxury and complete calm. The interiors have been so superbly crafted, with a wide range of materials – from a variety of woods to more exotic materials such as gold and mother of pearl. Maintenance issues with the interior are non-existent.
We do find, however, that owners may have other vehicles, often leaving their Bentley parked for weeks at a time. These cars carry an impressive array of highly complex computer systems which draw power from the battery. Although there are two big batteries on board, if the car isn’t being charged when it’s parked, you can experience some electronic issues, such as lights or power windows not working.
Of course the best way to keep your Bentley in tip-top shape is to follow the manufacturer’s recommended maintenance schedule. The first happens at 40,000 kilometres and involves a variety of different inspections, adjustments and changes. Tires will be rotated, for example, and the engine oil and filter will be replaced. Suspension components, power steering fluid levels and half shaft dust boots will also be checked and the exhaust system will be given a full inspection.
The next major service happens at 48,000 kilometres and will include many of the same inspection points as the 40,000 kilometre schedule. Additional items will include checking the car’s shocks and struts, the radiator, coolers and heater and replacing the cabin air filter (if necessary depending on the situation). The 72,000 kilometre maintenance will include checking the car’s battery, exterior lamps and other items like the horn. All of the car’s turn signals and hazard warning lights will also be checked, which is designed to uphold the highest level of safety. The clutch operation will also be inspected, as will the coolant recovery reservoir and the engine accessory drive belt.
If you’re in need of Bentley service and repair, our trained and talented team of passionate professionals, technicians, mechanics and self-proclaimed agents of oil change have everything you need to help protect your Bentley, both now and in the future. We also gladly accept any and all special service requests that you may have.
Contact us for all your Bentley service and repair needs. Whether you cruise majestically around town or head out on an extended Grand Tour, we’ll go above and beyond to ensure your vehicle receives the best care, so you can ride in comfort – and drive with peace of mind.
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Yesterday I had my most embarrassing Mom moment to date.
I run to the grocery store before dinner to grab a quick loaf of bread.
Me: "Baby! That is not kind. We don't talk like that. You don't even know that lady. I'm sure she's very nice."
Lady: "Why don't you like me? I'm a nice lady."
Me (feeling awful): "I'm so sorry! Mackenzie, you need to apologize to the lady for talking unkindly."
Mackenzie starts to smile realizing that the lady really is nice.
The lady smiles back, turns around and starts to walk away but is still very close by.
Mackenzie (again very loud): "Mommy! She is a nice lady! She just has scary teeth!"
What's your most embarrassing Mom moment?
Wow...I really don't know what my most embarassing is, I will have to think on that. Also I don't have any Panera recipe secrets but if you go to www.panerabread.com and go to the nutrition guide I bet you could really piece together some awesome recipes. If you made a cheese sauce, much like you made the broccoli soup, I bet it would taste awesome. Just stick to milk, cornstarch or flour, white cheddar, and maybe some garlic seasoning. I bet it would taste awesome.
my daughter asked if the man ahead of us in line ate a lot of pizza.
doesn't sound so bad except I had just finished explaining to her that we don't eat pizza very often because otherwise we'll get fat.
thankfully he either didn't hear us or pretended not to (probably that one) and I told her that is not nice.
LOL I just slapped my head when I read that! Just when you thought you were in the clear!
When my daughter was 4 we went out to a restaurant. There was a very large woman in a wheelchair at the next table. My daughter got out of her seat walked over to the woman pointed at her and said "Mommy is she in a wheelchair because she is so fat!" I wanted to die, seriously. Why do children have to be so candid all the time.
In Idaho, most of the population is white. I was shopping with my two year old and she pointed to a lady with dark skin and yelled "Scary Monster!" I turned her another direction and asked if she had seen a scary monster toy in the back of the store, and she said "No, Scary Monster there! Right there!" as she pointed again.
I was totally mortified. I have no idea where she would have picked that up, but we were done shopping quickly.
we were at church, and it was communion time. we were doing it differently than normal in that we were going down front to tear off a piece of bread and taking a communion cup of "wine." my son, who was almost 3 at the time, saw this and loudly said, "i want bread. i want butter on my bread." he kept saying it, and our fellow church goers were just giggling. my husband and i both turned a 100 shades of red.
PS - i liked your post - makes me kind of ready for things like this that will happen, Im sure.
Ohh! What a article it is. I love the way write and describe everything. Its really good read.


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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Estate planning can be a difficult topic to broach. But Karen Cohen, vice president and trust officer at Home Savings Bank, says it’s better to have the conversation as soon as possible rather than waiting until it’s too late.
Cohen says dealing with estate planning well in advance avoids unexpected obstacles and issues for beneficiaries. And for those who don’t have children, there are significant ways to direct their assets.
“A lot of people who don’t have children give a sizable amount of their estates to charity, and we can plan that with them,” Cohen says.
With 28 years of estate-planning expertise, Cohen, a certified public accountant, is well versed in navigating the challenges and issues. At 1 p.m. Nov. 15, she will share her knowledge as Home Savings Bank and The Business Journal host “An Estate Plan for Us All” webinar.
During the webinar, Cohen will discuss misunderstood aspects of estate planning such as asset ownership, beneficiary designations, the probate process and the use of trusts. Her objective is to dispel many myths about the process as well, she says.
“I’m there to make clients comfortable and to get their estate where they want it to go. At Home Savings Bank, we could be taking care of their families for generations,” she says.
The topic of step-up-in-basis often plays a role in inheritance, she notes. Step-up-in-basis is the readjustment of the basis of an appreciated asset for tax purposes upon death.
“When we have assets that have highly appreciated during an individual’s lifetime, we might not want to give them away until after death. Things like stock, your house, businesses – they get a step-up in basis,” Cohen says. Taking advantage of the step-up benefit will save income tax when the beneficiaries dispose of the property they have inherited, she explains.
When dealing with some assets, Cohen says establishing a trust is often the solution to more tricky situations.
“Depending on the situation the client is in, it can be a difficult process. But a trust can help in significant ways,” she says.
A trust gathers assets and “gets them where you can see them” to manage them more effectively, she explains. Additionally, a trust can provide asset protection against creditors and can control the distribution of income to beneficiaries over many years to come.
With changes from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act taking effect, she encourages everyone to take part in the Nov. 15 webinar and begin their estate planning process sooner rather than later.
“Exemption from estate tax is now $11,180,000 per person. Less than 1% of the population will need to worry about estate tax. This makes people think they don’t have to worry about their estate just because they don’t have a tax problem,” Cohen says.
For more information on An Estate Plan For Us All and to register for the webinar, go to businessjournaldaily.com/webinars/an-estate-plan-for-us-all/.

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Lindsey Buckingham is gunning for something with his brand new touring plans. Earlier this year, the longstanding member of Fleetwood Mac was fired from the band he helped to rise to cultural and artistic prominence, and while Buckingham hasn't spoken out much about the job termination, his newfound solo tour suggests he might be looking to stick it to the band for leaving him behind. Indeed, Buckingham announced that he is going on tour this fall, and he'll begin his own tour just a mere four days after Fleetwood Mac begins its own fall tour in early October. That means Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac are going to be on the road at the same time, but in completely separate venues.
The upcoming solo tour was announced earlier this week, and the tour dates include venues in Portland, Oregon (where the tour will begin on October 7th); San Francisco, California; Los Angeles, California; San Diego, California; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, DC; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; and a few more locations. The solo tour will call it quits at the beginning of December in Pennsylvania. Tickets have already gone on sale for the big Lindsey Buckingham tour.
Lindsey Buckingham's anticipated tour doesn't seem to be quite as extensive as the one Fleetwood Mac will depart on in Buckingham's absence, but it is fairly ironic that Lindsey Buckingham is going on tour at all, considering how there were rumors (or, perhaps, Rumours) among the worried fans that the terminated musician was axed from the group because he didn't want to go on tour later this year, hoping to make another album instead. If that is the reason for his termination (and, again, that is only a rumor and not confirmed at all), then this tour is a bit of a slap in the face. If those rumors aren't true, then this tour could simply be in promotion of Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham, out on October 5. Perhaps there's a little bit of both coming into play.
As for the new album, in addition to announcing the upcoming solo tour, Lindsay Buckingham also unveiled a three-disc compilation of his solo material, which he plans to release in anticipation of his own forthcoming tour.
WhenLindsey Buckingham was asked about his recent dismal from the iconic band earlier this year during a political rally for environmental attorney Mike Levin's bid for California's Congressional District, the guitarist expressed his disappointment in the decision but didn't have discouraging words to say about the remaining members who made the call. Either his opinion changed or he's simply trying to prove to the band that he can draw a crowd away from their accompaniment. Either way, we should expect to see Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey Buckingham on the road later this fall -- just not together, sadly. Will they ever make amends? It's hard to know, but you don't work for 43 years together without a few bad days.

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Distance between Parry Sound and Mississippi Mills. How many miles from Parry Sound to Mississippi Mills.
The straight distance between Parry Sound (Ontario) and Mississippi Mills (Ontario) is 186.86 mi, but the driving distance is 239.85 mi.
It takes 4 hours 49 mins to go from Parry Sound to Mississippi Mills.

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Balai Kota Jakarta or Jakarta City Hall is located on Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan No 8 – 9 Jakarta Pusat/Central Jakarta. This City Hall officially used at 1919. Since the City Hall office at Old Batavia moved to Jl. Tanah Abang Barat No. 35 in 1913. This building was initially used as the residence of Burgemeester (Mayor) besides being the Jakarta government administration office. Then it completely became the City Hall office; after the official residence of the mayor was moved to Jl. Suropati No.7, Central Jakarta.
During the expansion of Batavia towards the South (Weltevreden), the government offices also moved. The City Hall office (Stadhuis) moved from Old Batavia to Jl. Tanah Abang Barat No. 35 (1913). Then in 1919, it moved to Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan No. 8-9 Central Jakarta. On 1 October 1926, the Gemeente Batavia office was changed to the Stads Gemeente Batavia office until the Japanese colonization era.
During the Japanese colonization (1942-1945), this building was the Jakarta Tokubetsusi office with the head of government called sityoo. Then during the Indonesian Independence era, the name Jakarta Tokubetsusi was changed to Jakarta National Government with the head of government called the mayor. The Jakarta National Government office was then called Balai Agung, with Suwiryo as the first mayor.
In 1961, President issued a decree concerning that change the name of Jakarta from Kotapraja Jakarta Raya to Jakarta Capital City Government, the head of government was no longer the mayor, but the Governor. Since then, the City Hall has been used as the office of the Jakarta Capital City Government.


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Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal. One of my favorite things to make this fall has been apple slices in the slow cooker.
Slow cooking the apples allows the natural sugars to come out so much less sugar needs to be added. It will also fill your house with a pleasant aroma eliminating the need for any scented candles.
Try my Crock Pot Applesauce sometime too.
I also love oats and created this dish to combine the two together. It came out really good! This dish would be perfect for a holiday brunch or for Christmas morning.
You can cook the apples overnight or the night before so the dish can come together pretty quickly. They freeze well too just in case you may have leftovers. Another great thing to use the apples in is my Healthy Apple Cobbler. Yum!
For the slow cooker apples, put all ingredients in the crock pot.
Turn on high and cook for 3 hours. Stirring occasionally.
Once the slow cooker apples are done, preheat oven to 350.
In a large bowl, combine the oats and applesauce.
Using a slotted spoon, add the crock pot mixture to the oats and spoon onto a greased jumbo muffin pan.
Sprinkle the top with a pinch of sugar.
Do you have any baked oatmeal recipes where you add an egg? Just curious. Thanks!
I’d like to make in a 13x9 for a potluck. Should I increase amounts or leave as is?

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Krystal Pena and Horacio Escobedo are parents of a son, Abran Zaul Escobedo, born Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Abran has three brothers, Jayden, 7, Kayleb, 2, and Juan, 1, and two sisters, Sheccid, 4, and Yeila, 3. Grandparents are Maureen Mueller, Monroe, Steve Mueller, Monroe, Rick Reinhold, Illinois, Susana Alanis, and Horacio Escobedo, both in Mexico.


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KitToken Blockchain Payment Platform:The Token Sale Is Extended!
The innovative, advanced and one-of-a-kind digital mobile payments platform KitToken has extended its ICO sale to August 31st, 2018 to address some minor listing procedures and high demand for KIT. This will give buyers and investors alike to GRAB the opportunity to collect KIT with 20% BONUS.
The CEO of KitToken Inc., Mr. Amir Mohamed said“… while crypto currency has already revolutionized into a wide range of industries and sectors, its potential to improve payment platform has not been fully understood– this was until now. KitToken has decided to take a leap and bring the power of decentralization to overcome the shortcomings in this crypto industry. Its robust platform built on standard functions of trusted ETHEREUM blockchain technology with digital fiat capabilities has paved the way to a more secure, fast, affordable, the organic growing token with more comprehensive support features of its KitPay wallet”.
KitToken Public Outreach has attracted over 16,000 telegram followers and has outperformed its peers during the same period and ICO dateline. Its proposed business ventures to accomplish its objectivity of being a utility token has successfully gathered the overwhelming confirmed response from the five leading corporate companies to purchase over 2.8 billion KITs. Following the recent developments, the token sale of KitToken is still live and has been receiving a steady response from both the corporations and the crypto community.
The first phase of the token sale (ICO1: Sales with 30% Bonus) had ended on Aug 10th 2018 and 117,293,800 KITs were sold. The second phase of token sale (ICO2) is almost ending. Until 31stof August 2018, KitToken is available at USD0.05 each with a 20% bonus during the next 7 days. The total supply of tokens through the ICO is expected to be 3.2 billion sold and 300 million KITs will not be subscribed and burnt.
With a vision to create a global community of KitToken® users who can transact KIT as a mode of payment utilizing KitPay® as the payment gateway, KitToken Inc Pte Ltd is collaborating with a major international health company with presence in 74 countries and 90 health licensed outlets. The use of KitPay as a Payment Gatewayand KIT as a mode of payment will allow users from these countries to remit KIT across continents and borders with lower costs, faster, safer and more secure. KitPay® system, a centralized crypto & fiat capable wallet (carrying decentralizedcryptoassets)is protected by firewalls, cyber security protection and implements Know Your Customer(KYC).
In the country of origin, Malaysia the company has simultaneously reached an understanding with a Malaysian company which processes a collection of over 160,000 corporate clients using its KitPay Wallet as a payment gateway for its corporate clients.
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But to call us “snowflakes” for crying?
So Trump just got elected. It’s two days after Trump just got elected, November 10th. I just exited an Environmental Ethics lecture, where the professor actually, posited the question of whether our generations are quote, end quote “snowflakes”. And by that meaning oversensitive, think we’re all special. And I’m here talking about this because, I’m a white woman...but I’m also bisexual, and my brother is bisexual. Sorry, gay actually. I have gay friends. I know trans people. I am friends with people of color and we’ve all been told our lives don’t matter! They don’t matter because, now the most powerful man in the world has openly disparaged all of these groups!
We now have a president who has been accused of sexual assault by several women, as well as bragging on tape about sexually assaulting women. And I sit next to someone who tells her story of sexual assault and is now traumatized and re-traumatized every day, because the most powerful man in the world, a man who we yet to call “our president,” has sexually assaulted women. And that’s the reality we’re living in! But to call us “snowflakes” for crying? To even legitimize that, that term? Call her “Crooked Hillary,” I can take that. I can talk through that.
Do not dare go after my ability to feel, and my ability to comfort my friend, and hold my friend! And people I don’t know, the ability to, to try to see the goodness in humanity that-that that view is just taken away from us. I mean whatever your political affiliation, try and see, like, whatever policy he’s actually able to get across, and I hope they’re zero to none. Donald Trump has put forward this idea that it’s okay. It’s okay to call women “pigs.” It’s okay to say "she wouldn’t be my first pick" when referring to someone accused of a sexual assault. It’s okay to call Latino people "bad hombres", and “rapists", and "drug dealers", and to suggest that all Muslim people are immigrant terrorists, and that we need to get them out to protect our country. To suggest that that rhetoric is okay, that’s enough to make me wanna cry, to say that, well not the majority of the popular vote, but this huge chunk of our country thinks that’s okay at this point.
I’m gonna cry, I’m gonna go ahead and cry, and I’m gonna hold my friend, and that’s what, I feel, makes me a good friend, and makes me the best person I can be right now, and tomorrow I’ll fight. Today I cry, but tomorrow I’ll fight!
I’m not a snowflake. I’m strong ‘cause I can wrestle with all these things and I can find strength in my friends. That makes me strong, not weak. So, screw that. Screw that argument.


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The home of Tim Menzer burns in Choctaw, Okla., on Thursday afternoon. Gusting winds and dry conditions fueled wildfires across Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday.
His house surrounded by a raging wildfire scattering embers everywhere, Fred Blackwell finally had to give up the fight and evacuate.
The 40-year-old oil field worker hoped he would find his house intact when he returned, but he knew better.
Sure enough, Blackwell's 1920s-era brick home was among dozens destroyed by wildfires that killed at least three people and scorched more than 100,000 acres of drought-parched Texas before high winds that fanned the flames eased Friday.
Blackwell and other residents of tiny Stoneburg in the tree-dotted grasslands of North Texas were no match for the 60-70 mph winds that shifted and tore a blackened swath through the heart of town Thursday.
A day after deadly wildfires swept through North Texas, residents in Montague county survey the damage and what's left of their homes.
When Blackwell returned around sundown, what remained bore little semblance to the two-story brick structure that once was his home.
"That rock was glowing," said Blackwell, standing amid twisted tin and mounds of ashes. "I knew everything else had been burned down because there was nothing else around it."
Blackwell also lost a large workshop behind the house.
"It tore me up," Blackwell said. "Like I said, I was hoping it missed. But I kinda had a feeling it didn't. When I saw it, that's a whole different thing there when you see it."
Across the highway, a building that once housed a general store that had been a Stoneburg staple for decades was in ruins, just down a gravel road from an auto salvage yard with a long row of burned-out cars. A metal auto repair shop next door still stood, but the torched inside included a vintage jeep.
Parts of Stoneburg still smoldered Friday, including railroad ties under the tracks that dissect the town. A few miles away, the remains of about a half dozen head of cattle could were visible in a charred pasture.
Firefighters battle a blazing wildfire on Thursday, April 9th.
Firefighters were still battling blazes in other parts of Montague County, about 55 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham said one couple died when fire overtook their home near Montague and another woman died after calling for an ambulance as a fire spread through an unincorporated part of the county. Her cause of death was unclear.
"We've lost communities, pretty much," Cunningham said. "Stoneburg is pretty much gone."
Authorities identified the dead couple as former reporter Matt Quinn and his wife, Cathy. Matt Quinn quit ABC News after two years to join WFAA-TV of Dallas-Fort Worth in 1980 and retired in the early 1990s. Their son, Chris, was in fair condition with burns at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, the television station reported.
"Things are starting to look a little better," Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Misty Wilburn said. "Today the Texas Forest Service is definitely on the offense, not on the defense."
Gov. Rick Perry on Friday asked FEMA to issue an emergency declaration that would provide federal assets and resources for 199 threatened counties.
Not far from Stoneburgh in Sunset, a town of about 350, buildings were destroyed Thursday in a seemingly random fashion. Some houses were blackened and burned to the ground, while others still stood and residents armed with garden hoses scrambled to save their homes. Fire Chief Alan Campbell said the high winds sent embers flying, resulting in the patchwork of fires.
Tim Gortney was out of town when the fire swept in, but his home was untouched thanks to neighbors who fought the blaze. His mother-in-law who lives next door wasn't so lucky.
Linda Freeman, 64, was returning from her job at a nursing home Thursday night when she saw the thick smoke everywhere and was told she needed to evacuate. She hurriedly grabbed a few pictures, then went to her son's house about 10 miles away where "he turned on the news and I saw my home burning."
Friday, steel stairs that once led to her mobile home's front door were all that remained. Next to the stairs, the blackened hulk was so thoroughly burned that it was difficult to identify any personal items.
"Everything she ever worked for is right there," Gortney said, pointing to the rubble. "It took her 60-something years to get it and about 20 minutes to lose it."
Glenda Freeman said her mobile home burned to the ground, but she is still grateful.
"I lost everything that I had except the clothes I had on," she said.
"Thank God we got out when we did because you know it could've been worse."
Campbell said nine homes were destroyed in Sunset.
Wilburn said some of the fires around the state had been contained by Friday, but she didn't have precise figures.
The fire spanning Young and Jack counties, which had destroyed at least seven homes and 36 other structures, was burning 28,000 acres and about 30 percent contained Friday. Wilburn said more than 120 homes had been evacuated.
The Wichita County fire near Electra covered about 4,500 acres but 75 percent contained by Friday. It destroyed one agriculture company's buildings and warehouses, Sheriff David Duke said. About 800 residents and a nursing home were evacuated, but they were allowed to return home by Thursday evening.
Help fighting the blazes has come from across the state and includes 67 fire engines from various fire departments, 37 bulldozers to cut fire lines, and 21 aircraft, including two Texas Military Forces Blackhawk helicopters and contract aircraft, the governor's office said.
Widespread rain and thunderstorms are expected to descend on the North Texas region hardest hit by the wildfires by late Saturday, the National Weather Service said.


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Alarch is one of just seven new detached homes in a pretty cul de sac - ideal for individuals, couples or families seeking breaks in one of Anglesey's top resorts and conveniently located just off the Holyhead road from Trearddur Bay - a few minutes walk of the village and the super beach and ample Inns, Restaurants and other informal eateries within the vicinity. The cosy First and Second floor rooms in particular have views of the sea and Holyhead mountain over undulating fields.
Within a 30 minute drive from Snowdonia National Park. Alarch is well placed for enjoying Anglesey's extensive quality tourist attractions . Close to local amenities, a short walk from beaches and within a mile of an 18 hole golf course Alarch is well placed for touring Anglesey, the Snowdonia area and the North Wales Coast. Nearby Holyhead with its busy ferry port, has a wide selection of shops and restaurants and offers fishing trips and day excursions to Ireland.
Alarch has achieved a Four Star Grading (of a maximum of Five) with the Wales Tourist Board (now referred to as 'Visit Wales'). The grading system is an international standard and is testimony to the quality of the environment.
The large kitchen achieves first class contemporary specification with the full range of equipment and appliances to cater easily for small or larger groups. An useful cloakroom sized ground floor toilet is accessed via kitchen or rear door.
The living area, provides full range seating for large groups incorporating modern leather suites enhanced by oak furniture in the modern and antique style. In warmer weather the lounge gives access to the rear patio via French windows.
The generous dining room again provides ample space for groups. Furnished in a contemporary style with oak extending tables and chairs, this area offers an elegant but intimate dining experience.
There are two Double bedrooms with one as the Master with en-suite facility. Both Double rooms are furnished in oak in the Arts & Crafts style. There are also two Twin bedrooms with great views to the rear. The Twin rooms are furnished in the New England cottage style. The fifth bedroom is awaiting designation.
The Second floor Landing is a generous size furnished with comfortable seating and lighting.
En suite to Master bedroom with toilet, washbasin and shower. Master bathroom on the First Floor with bath, shower, washbasin and toilet.
To the front of the property is a sheltered porch overhang fronted by a small parterre garden. The rear is south facing and sheltered from the winds. There is garage and parking for up to three vehicles.
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“Kizami” is the process of making a hole in a timber, making a cutout, and transforming wood from a simple “material” into a “member” constituting a building. This process with hands is called hand-carving by carpenters, “te-kizami”. In contrast, when mechanical processing is carried out in an automated factory rather than by human workers, this is known as “precutting”. Currently, more than 90% of the houses built by the wooden framework construction method are constructed via precutting.
In the case of carving, air dried lumbers are used as the structural material. A lumber has its own nature. The carpenter examines the nature of the lumber and puts it to the right place. It is also possible to identify the peculiarities of the wood and perform processing that cannot be done by precutting.
In the traditional construction method, the framework itself is more important factor for resisting earthquake, rather than the wall. Frictional resistance due to many wooden contact points of the framework and sinking of wood are important elements to resist earthquakes. This gives it a tenacious structure. Because there are many contact points, there is also a damping effect during an earthquake.
A joint that connects a lumber material as a structural material in the longitudinal direction is known as a coupling joint, called “tsugite”, and the one connecting in the perpendicular direction is a junction, called “siguchi”. While pre-cut parts are made on the premise that the connection is fixed with hardware, in the traditional construction method, both couplings and junctions are processed so that woods are combined and connected without using hardware. Note that “without using hardware” is important. Because metal will draw moisture and rusts gradually. The wood connected to the rusty damp metal will also rot eventually. If couplings and junctions are rotten, they cannot stand up against an earthquake. It is important to select couplings and junctions that can withstand earthquakes without using metal hardware. And it is very important for the master carpenter to identify the nature of a wood, to select the proper couplings and junctions, and to determine the right way to build a house.
A penetrating member, called “Nuki”, is a horizontal member that passes through a pillar by penetrating. The penetrating member plays the role of the undercoating for the earth wall, and prevents the house from breaking down. Since the framework built by a penetration structure theory has high deformation performance, even if the building is greatly inclined when exposed to external forces such as earthquakes, it will not collapse completely. This provides time for evacuation in case of emergency, and protects the lives of the residents.
Diagonal braces and plywood, which are often found in modern wooden houses, strongly resist external forces within an expected range. The inclination of the house is small. However, when an unexpected force exceeding the capability is applied, the house will break down right away. When the brace or plywood breaks, the resistance of the building itself in the horizontal direction disappears, and the building will collapse. The house built by the penetration tie technique prevents from complete collapsing, provides time for evacuation in case of emergency, and protects the lives of the residents.
Earth wall, called “tsuchi-kabe”, is literally the wall made of earth. Mud is painted on a mesh-shaped bamboo net, called “Takekomai”, which is stretched between the pillars, to form the earth wall. Takekomai bamboo net is made of many cracked and thin bamboo, called “shinodake”. When Takekomai is being knitted, the bamboo net and penetrate members are entwined with straw ropes. How to make the mud for the earth wall is to mix water and straw sash with clay-based soil. And leave the soil until the straw ferments and the mud has enough stickiness. And it takes 1 or 2 months to dry for the painted mud of the bamboo net.
Earth wall is excellent in humidity control and heat storage performance. Because the moisture absorption and release performance is high, earth wall absorbs moisture when indoor humidity is high, and releases moisture when it is dry. The indoor humidity is kept at about 50% to 70% relative humidity. Also, the earth wall has high thermal storage performance and can store heat or cool air in the room. For this reason, the indoor temperature is not so affected by the outside air. The earth wall suppresses the sudden change of indoor temperature.
The earth wall is also excellent as an element of resistance to the earthquake. At the time of the earthquake, the earth wall will be broken at first, because it is hard and brittle. When it breaks, it will consume a lot of energy and have a high damping effect. After the earth wall breaks, the coupling and the junction (wood contact point) will resist the earthquake shake.
“Itakura” is a construction method in which thick and bold wooden plates are fitted between pillars and columns to make walls, floors and roofs as earthquake resistant elements. The “Itakura” construction method has been used frequently to build a shrine and a granary since many years ago. It has long been a method of setting up buildings to protect what is important to us, and long been necessary for our Japanese faith and living. That method has been of course used for a long time as a construction method for building a house.
One of its major features is the comfort in the indoor environment. Since a cedar plate, which is usually used for the “Itakura” method, contains a lot of air; it feels soft, and has an excellent moisture absorption, a release performance and a thermal insulation performance. We feel comfortable in the interior, because the room is all surrounded by cedar plates. The structural materials, walls, floors, and roofs are all made of cedar. The “Itakura” construction method is suitable for Japan with abundant forest resources.
The method is also superior in terms of structure. An “Itakura” house tenaciously resists to the external forces such as earthquakes, with the help of many contact points of the wooden plates, like the penetrating construction method.
There is concern that wood is weak against fire, but there is a characteristic that thick and bold wooden plate does not burn rapidly. The speed at which the plate burns is 0.8 mm per minute. In other words, even after the plate burns for 30 minutes, it burns only up to 24 mm deep. The thick and bold plate is an important factor to prevent spreading fire as it takes time to burn down with fire.
A house built by the traditional construction method can be reused for relocating or diversion, because the house can be dismantled by the reverse procedure of the building. In case of field rebuilding and relocation, almost all materials can be reused by exchanging only the damaged part of the wood and by remaking the soil. Also, trees and paper can be used as fuel, so even if the materials can not be reused, they are never discarded. The materials used for traditional construction method, which are wood, soil, stone and paper, will all return to the earth. The traditional construction method is very friendly to the environment.
Moisture greatly affects the life of a building. Most of the materials used in the traditional construction method can adjust the humidity by themselves by drawing in or letting out moisture. Although moisture rusts metal, moisture is not much a problem for wood. Dry wood will not decay and last longer. In order to protect the material from moisture, put out the eaves deeply to avoid rain, or stretch the waist wall at the part wet by rain.
When the house is damaged by an earthquake or the like, if you can apply partial repair, you will soon reuse the house. It is important to acquire “Shinkabe-zukuri” wall building style. You can see the structural materials of columns and beams, and can easily find damaged parts in the house. On the contrary, you cannot see the structural materials in “Ookabe-zukuri” wall building style. Even if the structural material is damaged, you cannot easily find out the place. Therefore, when you try to confirm damages in the house, the whole building construction is required.
If you can see the structural material in the house, you can repair relatively easily not only earthquake damage but also the parts that have been rotten due to rain. When you change the layout with renovation, you can plan remodeling that will not hurt the structure. If you can easily reform the house according to the needs of the residents, you will be able to continue living in the house for a long time.
A Building requires energy ① to build ② to use ③ to break, and ④ to reuse. When building a wooden house, the energy required is about one-third of the reinforced concrete structure and about a half of the steel frame.
When dismantling wooden houses, if you burn the dismantled waste materials, nothing will remain except the soil. Using the waste materials as fuel is not so unusual. Wooden houses built by traditional construction methods can be reused if they are carefully dismantled. Even if you disassemble or reuse the house, only a small amount of energy is needed. On the other hand, the iron recycling consumes enormous amount of electricity and water. The concrete elements should be crushed into pieces for recycling or reclamation. Moreover, we have to prepare the crushing facility and the landfill sites.
The wooden shaft assembly method used in the traditional construction method has the characteristic that the frame itself has strength, and apertures can be installed in many places. When you open many apertures, the wind flows in and out the house. On the contrary, in the construction method that relies on the wall, the position and size of the aperture are quite limited.
The structure made by the traditional wooden shaft assembly method is the design itself. When you enter an old private house, you will look up the ceiling, and be fascinated by a roof truss structure arranged in an orderly manner and a powerful beam structure. In the modern construction method, the ceiling is covered and the wall hides the structure with an “Ookabe” wall building style, but the traditional construction method shows the beauty without hiding the structure.
There are also many sights where the function expresses the design such as the depth of the eaves and the lattice of the window.


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The Envoy AMT & Related amendment round interest arbitration took place the week of October 3, 2016. Attorneys from each side submitted their post hearing briefs in December 2016 and the panel had 60 days to render a decision.
The Arbitration panel, Union and Company board members convened an executive session in late January to discuss the case. The Union and Company are now waiting for a draft decision from the panel. We are hopeful that this will occur in the next week or so. Once the parties review the draft decision and submit their opinions, comments and concerns to the Arbitrators, a final award shall be rendered.

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MUNCIH. As announced, Telefónica is launching its first smartphone with Firefox OS in Germany. For the first time, O2 customers can now use an innovative open operating system developed by a non-profit organization: the Mozilla Foundation. For this reason, we have taken a close look at the new ALCATEL ONETOUCH FIRE E, presenting an extensive video test by our O2 Gurus.
Firefox OS is the first mobile operating system to rely entirely on open web technology, combining security, customizability as well as attractive and user-friendly application. A vast, open community of developers from all over the world contributes to the design of the system, which puts users’ benefit first. The ALCATEL ONETOUCH FIRE E is the best and fastest smartphone so far to use the new operating system. It will be available in O2 shops from the beginning of August – with the pre-sale starting on July 17th on our website. New from O2: Firefox as a mobile operating system The ALCATEL ONETOUCH FIRE E is intended especially those users who enjoy trying out new things and are mindful in particular of the security of their personal data. “Firefox OS will compete with Apple’s operating system iOS, with Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Google’s Android system, which is currently in control of the market,” says the newspaper DIE WELT. “The new system was created by the developers of the internet browser Firefox, which is particularly popular in Germany for security reasons.” The driving force is the charitable Mozilla Foundation, which focuses in particular on protecting users’ private information according to the highest standards. Firefox OS provides the same extraordinarily high level of security, privacy, adaptability and user control as consumers are accustomed to from their Firefox web browsers.
The ALCATEL ONETOUCH FIRE E will be available at O2 for a one-off price of only 29 Euros if combined with the booking of a mobile tariff. The O2 Blue Select is a good choice and comes with a flat rate for calls within the German O2 mobile network, a flat rate for calls within a selectable network or 100 free minutes for all networks as well as a flat rate for text messages within all German networks. The plan even includes an internet flat rate with 300 Megabyte at full speed. What a hot deal!
In addition to its innovative operating system, the Alcatel Onetouch Fire E stands out for its unusual design. The cool metal look creates a sophisticated appearance with a great feel to it. Its 4.5-inch qHD display applies the same IPS technology as is used by the iPhone. This allows for ideal legibility and perceptibility even from the most extreme of angles. Inside it is driven by a dual-core processor with 1.2 Gigahertz for each core and 512 Megabyte working memory. “That might not sound like a lot,” explain our O2 Gurus. “However, you have to take into account that Firefox OS is extremely resource-saving.” The video shows clearly how all sites and images scroll smoothly and that apps open directly on command. Another advantage: With its undemanding hardware, the phone’s battery life is particularly long-lasting.
Of course, the operating system used is the latest version available: Firefox OS 1.3 comes with additional camera functions and an easier access to the phone’s music player. Its intelligent groupings arrange the apps installed for particularly clear categorization. An update to the latest version is also possible: Once Mozilla releases its Firefox OS 2.0 in a few months, the ALCATEL ONETOUCH FIRE E will also be updated.
What makes Firefox OS so special is that it is based entirely on open web technology. The whole phone works like a single browser and can yet be used as normal even without access to the internet. The user interface with notifications, shortcuts and settings looks just as before. There is no need to adapt to new processes and users will understand the new operating system within minutes. Firefox OS provides all those functions you would expect of a smartphone: phone calls, messaging, emails, camera, an integrated connection to Facebook and Twitter, location-based services such as Nokia HERE-maps, popular applications such as the Firefox web browser, Firefox Marketplace and many more. The great advantage: All apps are basically just little websites, which means they are always up to date. The end of time-consuming search for updates! So get clicking and pre-order the ALCATEL ONETOUCH FIRE E from O2! (Pre-sales online from July 17, 2014).


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One thing that can happen if you survive long enough in business is that the world eventually comes around to your way of thinking.
Herb and Marion Sandler have been watching bemusedly as executives, Wall Street and politicians rediscover the virtues of gobbledygook-free financial reports, of keeping a lid on expenses, of securities analysis based on the crunching of numbers as opposed to the jabbering of CEOs -- all principles they've operated by for more than 40 years.
Chief executives and chief financial officers being forced to certify their financial results? "We always thought we were certifying our financial statements," Herb Sandler was saying one day recently.
"Yes, when we signed them," Marion added.
lers were off on a favorite subject -- the inability of corporate CEOs to comply with the moral and legal imperatives of running a public company.
In unstylish Oakland stands the headquarters of the decidedly unstylish yet enduring and eminently successful Golden West Financial Corp., parent of one of the last of a breed known as thrift companies, World Savings & Loan. The Sandlers have been the company's husband-and-wife co-chairmen and CEOs since they took it over in 1963.
In the intervening four decades, they have outlasted California booms and busts too numerous to count, a deregulation period that exposed the weaknesses of the S&L; business the way a receding tide uncovers ancient wrecks on a harbor bottom, and more investment fashions and fads than one might see on 7th Avenue.
For a sense of how difficult it has been to survive in this environment, consider that of the 20 largest thrifts in 1989, only World Savings remains in business. Right now, Golden West shares are trading near their historic highs, and the company recently reported record quarterly earnings.
The rule behind this success is simple: Take care of the business, and the bottom line and stock price (and stock analysts) will follow.
Not long ago Marion went on the radio show "Marketplace" to explain that Golden West has never ever made financial forecasts for Wall Street, because the only reason to do so is to hype a stock. When a company is wrong, as it sometimes must be, it gets unduly punished. Instead, she said, "We don't talk about what we're going to do; we just do it."
The show aired about the time that Coca-Cola Co., McDonald's Corp., Home Depot Inc. and other big companies announced they were swearing off quarterly forecasts.
But they already were at a disadvantage. Because they had taken the forecasting drug in good times, they were widely presumed by Wall Street to be giving it up because the results they would have to project from here on out would be lousy.
As Marion might have observed, it's easier to avoid a bad habit from the start than to have to break it later.
One thing people have always found intriguing about Golden West's duumvirate is how complementary they are. Marion, 72, and Herb, 71, don't complete each others' sentences so much as step on each others' lines.
It's not uncommon for Marion to start answering a question with a learned observation on macroeconomics or sound operational principles, only to be interrupted by Herb with a telling anecdote, which places the facts and figures in a historical context.
"There's a funny story about that," he'll say. "Actually, it happened to Marion."
Their relationship gives new meaning to the adage that two heads are better than one.
"It's an unusual but highly desirable situation," Marion says. "You have somebody who can be a sounding board, whose motives you can completely trust, who you can unburden yourself with, who you will always get the best advice from, who knows precisely what you're talking about, who has experienced precisely what you have experienced."
Together they have built a business model that allows Golden West to roll atop the ebbs and swells of the economy. The company's lending is centered on adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs); even last year, when historically low interest rates lured millions of homeowners to lock in fixed-rate loans, 91% of Golden West's originations were ARMs. Although it will issue a fixed-rate mortgage in a pinch, it sells those off as fast as it can, keeping the ARMs in its portfolio.
Some analysts believe this strategy leaves Golden West so flexible that it should not suffer even if an expected rise in rates this year cuts sharply into mortgage volumes.
Observing recently that the refinancing boom is about to run out, and that higher interest rates will probably narrow net interest spreads (from which banks make their money), Salomon Smith Barney analyst Michael Diana actually raised his 2003 earnings-per-share estimate for Golden West to $6.50 from $6.28.
Part of Golden West's secret is how much of its operation it conducts autonomously.
The company, for instance, relies on its own staff of appraisers rather than accept the judgment of independent outsiders. It does not use credit scores, those mysterious numbers spit out by statistical formulas, but rather on its own underwriting judgments.
It even uses its own home-grown financial index as the basis for the interest rate charged on its adjustable-rate mortgages -- the Golden West cost of deposits index.
Does this old-school approach work in the modern world? All you need to know for the answer is that Golden West's net loan charge offs have been 0% for five years in a row.
Many of the principles by which the Sandlers operate were forged amid the absurdities of traditional savings and loan regulation -- and the subsequent absurdities of deregulation in the early 1980s. Until deregulation, thrifts were expected to make 30-year loans to home buyers but were forbidden by law from taking certain steps, including issuing ARMs, which could help them hedge their interest-rate exposure. When Fed Chairman Paul A. Volcker raised interest rates to fight inflation in the late '70s, tough times befell the industry.
Deregulation was supposed to be the solution. Golden West took advantage of the sudden removal of restraints on S&L; portfolios to balance its borrowing and lending, so it would no longer be whipsawed between the high rates it paid depositors and the low-rate mortgages still on its books.
But many of its rivals chose a different course, plunging into flashy new businesses they thought could drive growth.
The Sandlers recall learning from a friend in 1979 that the thrift industry's share of commercial real estate loans had soared from near zero to 49% in a couple of years. "The moment he said that, we knew we were in for a debacle," Herb says. "For one thing, the thrifts knew nothing about the field. Plus, their timing could not have been worse."
Around that time, the couple was traveling in Texas and "saw something very unusual," Herb recounts. "You remember see-through office buildings? These were see-through shopping centers. They'd have one tenant -- the S&L; that made the loan to build them."
Still, the pressure on Golden West to branch out into new lending lines was intense.
"This is the situation where 'everybody is doing it,' " Marion says. "We thought, let the others do it, and if it's successful, we could always join them."
This addresses another of their rules: There is no percentage in being first at anything.
"I have a funny story about that," Herb says. It was the time Gibraltar Savings & Loan, a competitor of World's, decided to open its branches on Saturdays. "They poured a ton of money into it. Newspaper ads, TV ads. I said, 'Marion we have to ... ' Marion says, 'Relax, they have to re-educate the public.' So on Saturdays we would visit Gibraltar's offices and, guess what? Nobody was there."
Marion: "I'd have people in the parking lots of various branches with clickers, counting the number of people going in. And when it got to be a critical mass, we decided we're going to be open on Saturdays."
"Gibraltar must have spent tens of millions of dollars," Herb says, "for us!"
Michael Hiltzik can be reached at golden.state@latimes.com.


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Theatre Under the Stars is gearing up for a high-flying, vibrant 2019 season. Audiences will bathe in the warmth of a Greek island summer and sing along to the irresistible songs of ABBA in Mamma Mia! directed by Shel Piercy. On alternate nights Disney’s Newsies will seize the day with its soaring spectacle of song and high-kicking dance, directed by Julie Tomaino.
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) invites audiences to a summer of inspiration with Mamma Mia! and Disney’s Newsies, running alternate evenings from July 5–August 17, 2019, at Stanley Park’s glorious Malkin Bowl.
A beloved Vancouver tradition since 1940, TUTS’ 2019 season offers two stunning musicals: one that tells the lighthearted tale of a mother and a daughter who embark on a hilarious quest to discover the identity of her true father; the other shares the stirring account of a ragged band of newspaper boys and street urchins who strike for fair pay and humane working conditions in 1899 New York City.
Two-show subscription packs are now on sale through May 4. Best seats to both shows are just $80 for Adults and $50 for Youth/Children. Subscriptions can be purchased at tuts.ca or by calling 604-631-2877. Single Tickets on sale May 15.


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A theater production about being a small person in a rather marvelous world.
Small musical and pictorial stories forms the frame around a stream of close and moodful moments.
A white and open tent encircles the audience in a safe and gentle way, and is told in a bright universe of stars, with the joy of recognition and the amazement of memory.
“Songs from above” is a co-production with Theater Refleksion.
Space requirement 9,5 x 8,5 x 3,5 m. – Audience included.
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New entry on racing team Wega!
Racing team Wega is expanding and will welcome the French pilot Emmanuel CARCASSONNE.
Wega has always supported sports, and if we can apply that ideal to support for our employees, all the better!
Therefore, we are announcing our sponsorship of Arnaud Dupuis, director of our Asian sector. In fact, our Far East man will race in an exciting and dangerous automobile race: the ASR HONDA FIT CHINA!

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We would like to offer you a chance to get away as couples and be refreshed and refocused in God. We have Abiding Retreat on April 13 - 15 at The Autumn Creek Chalet - autumncreek.co. Autumn Creek is a luxurious retreat home tucked into the mountainside of Breckenridge, Colorado. The home is situated on 11 acres of riverfront land backing to National Forest.
The Abiding Retreat is built on the truths revealed in John 15 - Jesus is the Vine, The Father is the Vinedresser, and we are the Branches. Moving through scripture, we will discover God’s intended plan for intimate relationship with Him personally, how to walk in unity as husband and wife, and His desire to produce supernatural fruit in every facet of our lives (marriage, family, business, ministry, etc). Each person will need to bring a cross reference Bible. A workbook and journal will be provided. The material is covered in a super casual, interactive way, and there is intentional down time to relax and enjoy each other as couples.
There is no required fee to attend one of our retreats. However, we do appreciate any donations to help subsidize these retreats and assist our other ministry efforts. As a point of reference, our retreat costs average $400 per couple for lodging, all meals and materials. Our ministry will cover retreat expenses above any donations received.
There are only a limited amount of spots available - 5 couples per retreat. Let us know soon if you have interest or further questions. Hope you can join us!