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To follow one’s passions and to be able to survive is something largely lost in society today. The influence and restriction of money, the corruption of intent it induces, negates the ability to follow your interest. For an example you need only look to parents who decide what career their child will take based on its average salary.
The world now contains 6.5% of all humans that have ever lived. That number may seem small but when stretched over our evolutionary existence it puts the magnitude of our species in perspective. We inhabit every continent, indulge in every climate, and sustain ourselves with widespread luxuries. Yet with all our numbers we are failing to provide the same opportunity that was presented to each successive generation of our ancestors. Some blame this on over-population, but I say it is under-utilization. People today live by working jobs that serve the purpose of upholding the functioning of a society that has grown to its seams. We produce food for our population with only 2% of our workforce being in agriculture. That means that the other 98% are working jobs that do not directly bring food to their plates. They pay for it with money they earn but the jobs they do are not working fields and tending cattle. This is an advantage over every single earlier generation where large portions of the population were directed only towards providing sustenance. Yet because of this we have the development of an economy largely aimed towards production of unnecessary goods and overconsumption. We structure our ideology and goals to be excessive beyond measure and individualistic to desensitize ourselves to the injustice and irrationality that simultaneously creates billionaires and starving children. This ability to create that has been given to us by agriculture’s mechanization is usurped by the necessity to be a “productive member” of the society that has no long-term purpose.
Is this the height of civilization? Has there been a civilization that does not claim to be an improvement on its past? Cries for revolution seldom come in the form of “follow me and I will make it worse.” However, intentions and implementation are two things that seldom overlap. Robert Michels had a theory he called the “iron law of oligarchy.” It stated that the one thing that was certain for a civilization is the eventual conglomeration of power in the hands of a few. In representative democracy this claim extends to a façade being created in which the rule of an elite is made legitimate by what is presumed to be the “popular vote.” This elite has worked our political structure to place blame on the public. They use the argument that bad rulers are the fault of the electorate that voted them in. I have often said that I prefer a monarchy to the bureaucracy of democracy. When something went wrong, when the country was failed, when oppression became too great…you knew who to point towards. The failures of today are remedied by plausible deniability and scapegoats. The improvement on the past is one enjoyed solely by the elite who continue to rule. Democracy, much like technical advancements that enable eavesdropping on every citizen of the digital world, has confined us.
We live lives that are cut out for us within the structure made by “job creators.” The mass populace is looked on as sheep that need to be led to pasture and told what to eat. We fit where we are told we fit. Those who revolt are left to exist at the bottom. Only by changing yourself to what is called the “gentlemen ideal,” the set of values as described to be that of an elite, successful, moral person, will one become successful and integrated into the economic structure of society. That is a world ruled by necessity.
Now imagine if those 98% of individuals were able to wake up and follow what they found to be their life’s purpose. To take the passion they have been dreaming about or saving up for and start that business or write that piece of music. What would the world be like if the people who were versed in civil code and statutes instead placed their abilities in philosophy and rationality?
As a species our issue is not that we see ourselves only as individuals, though that is a fallacy, but that as individuals we are unable to cohesively work together for a common purpose.
The error is in our inability to act as the person you are, not the person you have to become. There is no end goal in that way of life, only a purpose. That pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will always be out of reach. This society that creates blind individuals to their true selves and instead creates their egotistical counterpart remains crippled. If our social structure allowed for the lowering of inhibitions and induced the confidence that comes from experience, we would have a population of humans on this world that fully loved what they did and cared for each other as people and not as means to an end.
The communist spirit. Excellent execution of the more specific contradictions one may face under modern "democratic" capitalist society. The end goal serves no purpose, looking around my college campus I hear a multitude of conversations based solely within the perameters of the system we live in. The system where in order to survive you must topple over and crush other sections of people in devastating ways. The business major, the engineer, when asked why they are doing what they are doing it is simply "because it pays a lot". Though their statements are true, the purpose and the big picture behind these paths lack the true interests lying within that person, as well as the interests of humanity.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that the only reason people follow that line of work is the money. There are absolutely people who have a passion for leadership and design. What I am saying though is that the underlying motive of money to take that position is incorrect. Basing your vocation by the salary it pays is ridiculous. Those who do will then live their life in a time of work then leisure and trap themselves trying to find a way to compensate for the half of their day they despise. Which in capitalism means buying goods, going on vacations, and drinking in front of a TV. Not a bad life. But very short-term in their thinking.
I agree with you Daniel, many people are not interested in taking upon a career that benefits their interest. I think for the most of us, at least in this generation, we aim toward a career that is going to make us good money. It is not really about the passion anymore, its about the money. They cant blame the youth though, that is what this nation is raising. Money hungry kids. I also agree there are many actions that this nation exerts that doesn't even apply to living in a "democracy". We will continue to live in a capitalistic society until we finally rise as a nation. Before that happens, we must concentrate on unveiling the truth to the greater society.
I agree with the"Rod24". It is not about if your happy with what you do on a daily basis at work. The question many people have in mind today in society when looking for jobs is, "What is going to pay well, offer me benefits so that I can take care of my family." I can relate to this because growing up I always saw my parents coming home from work exhausted. When I asked them, "How was your day today at work?" They would just look at me and say, "horrible." People do not care what the job tasks consists of. All they care about is the money so that they can "survive" and "make it" in society today to live a decent life. What happens if one goes out for a job that they completely love but can not pay for food on the table. Of course people are going to go look for another job weather they like it or not just so that they can afford food on the table for their families.
There is a relationship between the "horrible" job conditions that most people face and the insufficiency of pay and benefits. People will put up with the bad job conditions not because they are indifferent to that but because they feel they have no choice. Capitalism is responsible for both of these problems, not the job seekers themselves. I don't think it was Rod24's point that people don't care about the nature of their work. It's that capitalism denies most people both decent conditions of work AND sufficiency of pay.
I agree Daniel, to an extent. Yes there is an overwhelming number of people that do choose a certain career merely for the sake of the high salary or benefits that are tied to that particular field. That being said, there is still a number of individuals that are lucky enough to have their passion also pay well. A number of my friends, myself included, are fortunate enough to have passions in high paying career fields. However, at the same time, in order to carve out a place for ourselves in these high paying jobs, there is a high price to be paid for the education and certifications that are required. Take, for example, doctors. Even if that is someone's passion, by the time they have finished their education, most of them have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Therefore, for a number of years, that high salary is going to be dedicated primarily to paying off the debt accrued.
I agree with what Daniel is saying here, we as people are inherently social beings and we seek human connections no matter how small they come out to be. Capitalism has crumbled our true foundations, our true potential, to become helpful to each other. Slowly destroying the planet and making it harder for future generations to live is not the path human kind should be taking. We should be more considerate of our actions because we can only benefit from it, and not in the capitalist sense of currency but in the social sense of community.
You make a great point in my understanding that these days many people simply want to follow the capitalist spirit and not because they have a passion in doing what makes them happy. Capitalism oppresses our idea that we should do what is good in the long run for ourselves and humanity, instead tells us we need to be the best and be on top.
This article makes a great point, often times college students go for majors that they will end up paying high salaries. We no longer follow the purpose in life that we feel we were born to do. Money is a much more important aspect in our lives than ever before. If a person does not have money or power then the person looses in our society. Moncrief makes the statement that we no longer know how to work together and I agree. If we knew how to work together we would have a much better society where everyone would have the same opportunities. We wouldn't have the ruling class, middle, lower or prison population like we do today. We would live in a eutopia where capitalism did not exist and the prison industrial system was demolished. It was very shocking to learn that out of all the population in the world only 2% work in agriculture. Agriculture is how we survive, yet it's the smallest career and controlled by very few capitalist companies.
The 2% figure is within the US I think. Personally I don't believe in utopias. But there are systems and the logic of those systems determine overall the conditions that people live under. Capitalism's logic is quite simple: profit trumps everything else.
To add on to AP58's comment, I believe that depending in the environment you grew up in your motivation to pursue education will vary. If you grew up in a lower class like the poor your motivation will most likely be money because that is what you see is the problem. Middle class mostly will be comfortable with their way of living so their motivation will mostly be what they like instead of money. In addition if you are raised by your parents telling you that you need to go a certain path or that you can only go so far in life it will affect you in that its what you will only seek. This ties to labeling theory in which somebody is labeled a deviant so they eventually identify with that and act on it. For example in the new jim crow on page 171 it states how a way to cope with a srigmatized identity is to embrace that identity one puts on you. This all ties to embracing the identity one puts on a person when a powerful influence says they can only go so far in life.
In general those in the middle class have to struggle a lot to avoid falling into the working class. Those who come from poverty will sometimes make their lives all abt $ but b/c of their experiences many of them will be more aware of the ravages of class and more open than those from the middle class to radical and revolutionary alternatives. There is nothing automatic about this, however, as it depends upon struggle and leadership.
This article makes me wonder about how different our society would be if people felt free to pursue what they truly wanted, instead of the all mighty dollar bill. I've worked with some inmates at the NorCo CRC through Dr. Reese's prison education program. And after talking to some of the students, I realized that few of these men were stupid or uncivilized. In fact many of them were extremely well spoken and very creative. I had a student who's photo-realism skills were so developed that everything he drew looked like a photograph. But the fact is that they were still inmates. They committed a crime to be where they are today. Many of them told me that growing up, they felt that all they could do was take to the streets and underground markets. It was a game of survival. So now I wonder what it would've been like for these men if they were encouraged to pursue what they wanted, instead of being confined to simply surviving.
I agree with "TiffyWiffy" to a certain extent. Many people want to purse a career in something that they truly want but do not have the educational background and experience that they need. Many people today work for survival purposes and not about "just the money." If we lived in a perfect work people would pursue their career on something they enjoy doing while helping others while performing the job because of the annual salary.
My father has often said to me, "You won't make millions being a Sociologist. Maybe u should minor in x,y,z". We have had many discussions about this and often the conversation ends w/me telling him to stick it where the sun doesn't shine as this is my passion.
Dr. Loo: my passion is to help women/children in 3rd world countries who are brutalized & left to die (fistula's), have acid thrown on them b/c they seek divorce, villages that don't have potable h2o, that lack something as basic as aspirin. It would b difficult for me to follow my passion/contrib ute financially in an attempt to right the injustices that women/child endure. It is my father's belief that capitalism makes u "wealthy" that I am able to follow my passion. How do u/I justify that?
Justify it to your father? I'd begin w/ this: you need to justify it to yourself and not be too concerned abt your father seeing the light as his outlook is very bourgeois and he's going to have trouble w/ your decisions b/c you're coming fr a different value set. How does making money or even, should you get lucky and make a lot of $, compare to the passion you have to address the issues you list? In the end you will have just made $ and not made the world better. What life is that?
I find your desire to pursue your passion rather than the mighty dollar inspiring. I believe that If we all found a way to make a living while pursuing our passion we would live in a much happier, healthier and more compassionate world. I do not know your father or his values but I know as a parent I want my girls to follow there passions but I do worry a out them not earning enough to survive. Life is expensive and passion does not pay the bills however, I have remain optimistic that passion and faith will provide them with life's essentials needed to survive. I too, am pursuing my passion to help the under privileged children and abused women. I wish you the best of luck.
Bland: Thank you. I know that I am fortunate to have financial stability and because of it, I am able to press full steam ahead w/my desire to help those that can't help themselves. Being a parent myself I also encourage my daughter to follow her dreams/passions . Without them, we are just an empty shell putting one foot in front of the other. While my ambitions are mammoth in terms of the country I seek to do humanitarian work, small scale/local efforts are just as important/honor able. If the cause is worthy such as we are suggesting, efforts will snowball touching many individual lives. Wishing you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
I agree with Ap158, everything revolves around money. Individuals are more focused getting into job positions with high salary that they forget to work together in groups. They prefer to work independently in their desk, instead of interacting and socializing with others. People care more about money and power, no matter what the consequences of their actions may be. Individuals are more interested in obtaining money and power that they commit illegal acts to obtain profit,just like white-collar crime. White-collar crime is corporations who already receive enough money from their products and goods, but they still do illegal activities to maximize profit. Even if corporations already have enough money to be in business, they still want more. Corporations carry out illegal behavior causing harm towards their employees and the environment. Corporations’ lack of caring for the environment has resulted in the severity of toxic waste, and pollution.
I ask myself if suicide rates will increase or have been increased? Quoting Durkheim in Suicide: A study in Sociology “No living being can be happy or even exist unless his needs are sufficiently proportioned to his means”; if our needs aren’t able to be met through these jobs that are being created and the ones that are being offered, does this increase suicide among our society?
21 US vets commit suicide every day. This is an enormous figure and it's been elevated since the Afghan and Iraq invasions. It's not hardly talked about. The war on terror's reality is something that soldiers experience firsthand.
I really enjoy how all of the articles on socialism keep tying together. It is really eye opening when you see how our society is structured. I long for a simpler time where we work for ourselves. When I read that only 2% of the jobs are for producing food the rest of the 98%, I found that shocking. It is just unfortunate that money is mostly the driving force behind people working anymore. The more you have the better off you are just seems sad to me. I feel that, as a society, we are losing the real meaning of self accomplishment in relation to work.
AP158: Not only do we need Agriculture to survive, but we, as a society, need to have some sense of real worth to keep us happier with our places in life. I just don't see how our current social structure is going to continue on. There is going to be some kind of breaking point between the super rich and the super poor. This isn't going to end well for everyone.
I agree that the capitalistic society in which we live makes it hard to find a purpose to our lives. We rather concentrate on the ways in which we can fit in and be like everyone else, we don't like to be unique anymore. As long as there are classes it will be hard for youth to feel like they can become something other then meshing with the crowd. Because there is a class structure it makes it easier for minorities to engage in self fulfilling prophecies where they automatically become what society says they will become. I don't believe there is such a thing as a democracy within capitalism because they are so contradictory in meaning. The U.S. will continue to work in capitalistic ways until there are no more classes in existence.
Well this article really made me think about how much money has taken over our society. The "American Dream" is what everyone is searching for especially those who come from different countries. The truth is you cannot have that dream without money. We work for money to have what we want and we keep on working to pay those things. It is a never ending cycle. It would be amazing to see what people would do with their lives if the incentive was not money. I believe our world would be a totally different place. I actually watched a documentary called "Happy" directed by Roko Belic and they talked about how when asked what people wanted they said happiness and in order to achieve that they needed copious amounts of money. People in Japan were working themselves to death that they even came up with a word for it which was "karōshi." It is so sad that for wealth people are losing their lives.
This article hits on a core issue in our society. We, as a society, have become so involved in consumerism that many people believe that it is a requirement to have a high paying career in order to be happy. While I don't feel that money is required for happiness, and it certainly isn't everything in life, having a moderate paying salary does make your life easier by not having to worry about bills or anything of the sort. Parents want to be able to give their children the best and more than what they had growing up, and that drives them to seek careers with higher paying jobs, or strive to receive more and more promotions in their chosen fields. Consumerism and pushed society as a whole more and more towards this notion of "money means happiness", and it will continue to do so unless there is a drastic shift in the way society thinks.
You want to distinguish here between "We, as a society" and the different groups within society and their differing levels of power. Capitalism didn't come into being and doesn't persist because of consumerism and because the general public mistakenly puts money before other values. Capitalism dictates that money is the be all and end all. It's a system and those empowered by the system, the capitalist class, set the terms. The solution isn't for the public to stop being into money per se. The solution is to change the system.


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Thanks to the Middle Tennessee Honda Dealers Association, they have created a program called "Wildlife on Wheels".
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This little guy's name is Diego, and he is a Harris' Hawk! Make sure to visit the Nashville Zoo to visit this beautiful creature and many many more!
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I recently had the pleasure of setting up a Jasig CAS server on campus. The install went without a hitch. I initially brought it online with a self signed certificate, which was a no brainer as the Tomcat docs are great.
Once we got our SSL certificate though, I realised that the private key and keystore I had initially generated for the self signed certificate wasn’t used for the the Certificate Signing Request that the sysadmin’s had sent away to the Certificate Authority. So I had a private key for the SSL certificate but the one in the keystore was different. Problem 1. And it’s not possible to import a private key into a keystore using keytool because it doesn’t have this ability. Problem 2.
The alias 1 is required to tell keytool to import the first certificate in the PKCS12 file.
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Investing isn't all about stock and bond markets. One of the best ways to ensure your future success and happiness is to invest in you. Here are three things that will pay dividends in the future.
Whether you hit the sack or hit the hay, catch some Zs or grab some shut-eye, very few of us get enough sleep. But getting into healthy sleep habits could easily be argued as the most important change you can make to improve your mental and physical well-being.
And it isn't just about avoiding cavernous yawns and face-planting your keyboard. According to The Sleep Council, sleep pays a significant role in healing and repairing your heart and blood vessels. It helps us maintain a healthy weight and good hormonal balance. All these benefits are before we get to improved memory, enhanced problem-solving, better decision-making and stress relief when we're awake and working towards that pay cheque.
The Sleep Council recommends seven to nine hours of sleep for adults aged between 19 and 65. Make sure they count. Leave your laptop and tablet in the living room. Get rid of your bedside digital alarm clock and anything else that has an LED display.
If you do use your phone for an alarm, make sure you use your "do not disturb" function. Make sure the notification lights can't be seen from your bed (I leave mine face down on the floor) and absolutely no scrolling for the half hour before you snooze.
The only reason exercise has been edged into second place on this list is that going without exercise for a month might mean you might get a little cuddly. One day without sleep and you might start randomly crying in your office lifts. That said, we're all functional adults. We can and should do both.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week, and I'm afraid there isn't much room to wiggle round the recommendation.
The number covers all healthy adults between 16 and 84. It covers people with hypertension and diabetes. In fact, it covers all people, and I quote; "irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity or income level". In short, unless a medical professional has told you otherwise, the good people at the WHO are pretty damn sure you can do a few star jumps now and again.
The good news is, it can be done more or less how you like. Exercise can be walking or cycling to work. It can be an exercise class at the gym, or swimming. It can even be dancing, but I feel I should point out that this last one doesn't count if you're boogying off nine beers.
Otherwise, exercise can also be spread out however you like, as long as each session is 10 minutes or more.
In return you can expect lower risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, various cancers and depression. The importance of the mental health benefits of exercise cannot be overlooked.
Also, you'll look way sexier. The WHO refused to endorse this final point for me.
We're all pretty familiar with calorie counting. We all know we need to eat more vegetables, drink more water and eat less bacon. Most of us are also aware that moderating your drinking will reduce the likelihood of developing a range of medical problems.
But there are other bad health habits - not directly associated but often linked to alcohol - of which you should also be aware.
According to The Good Pub Guide, the average price of a pint of beer in London is £4.20, but paying more than £6 for a beer in the City of London is far from a rarity. A glass of wine can comfortably be higher still.
According to the University of Liverpool, this is because alcohol affects your "inhibitory control". As an example of how alcohol could skew your dietary goals beyond the drinks consumed, a McDonald's Big Mac has around 500 calories. In and of itself this is not egregious, but a Big Mac also has almost 40% of your daily salt intake and almost 50% of your recommended saturated fat intake.
Although you may fall asleep more quickly after a tipple, The Sleep Foundation has found that you can also disrupt your circadian rhythm. This is the process by which your brain determines its waking/sleeping cycle.
It also blocks the most restful "REM" (rapid eye movement) portion of your sleep cycle. And if that isn't enough, alcohol is a diuretic. This means it will likely lead to extra night time bathroom trips.
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weird sound through new cab..
Discussion in 'Amps and Cabs [BG]' started by steve-o, Feb 5, 2003.
it is a 215 212 carvin cab.
i had a 410 before this i like the 15's better. but it just muddies up.
and also how can i check the ohms?
it says 2.6. but i was told that it is 8 ohms.
cts speakers. good bad? any problems? aren't these the speakers that ampegs used?
What kind of speaker cables are you using? Too long and thin?
What muddies up the 215, 212 or the 410 you use to have?
If it says 2.6 ohms then it probably is.
I haven't seen any CTS speakers since my old Kustom 200. They sounded great.
Jesus ... oh never mind.
Mopar....15's NATURALLY have less definition than 10's. Most people use a combination of 10's and 15's because 15's give the low end rumble while 10's give the chest-hitting definition. Your 15's will never be as defined as your 10's were.
yes i do know that but i was hoping that the 12's would help that.
wait so this cab has 2 15's and 2 12's? that must outweigh some rhinos I've seen... Which carvin model is this?


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3. What Documents are required to incorporate an IBC?
An IBC, like any other Bahamian company, is constituted by Memorandum and Articles of Association. These documents take on a different form, however, making them less cumbersome than other companies.
The Memorandum of Association – The memorandum is required by an IBC contains information regarding the name, registered office and registered agent, purposes and powers of the company and share capital of the corporation. The standard purpose clause of an IBC allows the company to engage in virtually any legal business activity.
The Articles of Association – This document as required by an IBC is much like bylaws of an American corporation, setting forth the rules governing the company’s affairs, such as number of directors, their terms, powers and responsibilities; the role of officers; meetings of members, and such other business as required or allowed by the IBC law.
4. Are there any capital requirements for an IBC?
There is no fixed minimum authorized capital requirement nor is there a maximum limit on the amount of authorized capital. However, an authorized share capital of US$5,000 is the maximum authorized capital permitted for the minimum annual license fee.
5. How many subscribers to the memorandum are required for the incorporation of an IBC?
Two or more persons must subscribe to the Memorandum of Association. These subscribers are generally provided by the law firm, bank or trust company that will provide the registered agent/registered office service.
6. What Kind of Share Structure is possible in an IBC?
It is possible for an IBC to issue many kinds of shares including fractional shares, registered shares and bearer shares. Moreover, the shares in an IBC may be issued in various classes. An IBC also has an option of stating in its Memorandum whether or not it will issue shares register is to be kept at its registered office. It can purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire and hold its own shares, but only out of surplus or in exchange of newly issued shares.
7. Who Manages an IBC?
An IBC is managed by board of directors consisting of at least one director. The initial board of directors is appointed by the Subscribers to the Memorandum and Articles of Incorporation.
8. Is the Board of Directors required to meet regularly?
The Board of Directors is not obligated to hold Director’s meeting with any specified frequency. Moreover, when meetings are held the Act provides that such meeting may be held by telephone and other electronic means. It is further provided that an alternate may be appointed by director to attend such meetings in his place.
9. What are the terms of director’s appointment?
The terms relating to a director’s appointment an service on the Board of Directors are all provided for in the Act, subject of course to any alternations which may be made in the company’s constitution.
10. Are decisions taken required to be invoked by resolution?
Yes, all acts undertaken by the company are affected by resolution. The IBC, however, does not subscribe to the concepts of special and extraordinary resolutions. Thus acts of the company, whether initiated by members or directors, are affected by resolutions passed by a simple majority of the board.
Many acts do require that the Memorandum and Articles of the company are amended. Such amendments may be effected by resolution of the members or directors, and filing the amendment with the Registrar.
In order to register exempt company we need to provide the inland Registered Agent with name, address, and contact phone number of the original director of the company as well as the copy of his passport. This information will be retained by the Register Agent of the company for the due diligence purposes and for annual maintenance cost forwarding.
Please note that above information is not public and can be released only upon request of authorized authorities.
Bermuda has always considered itself the premier offshore jurisdiction, having successfully attracted many Fortune 500 companies to its shores. Bermuda is the largest market for insurance and reinsurance after London and New York, with a gross premium volume in 1992 of over $15 billion. Some 25 per cent of Bermuda-incorporated companies are insurance related, including the new breed of property and catastrophe reinsurers with their multi-million dollar capital bases.
The island is known for its reliable and sophisticated infrastructure and stable environment. The governing legislation for Bermuda companies is now the Companies Act 1981. This permits incorporation of limited liability companies with a share capital; companies limited by guarantee; mutual companies; limited duration companies; unlimited liability companies.
Bermuda companies which are owned by non-Bermudians are designated as exempted and, as such, must carry on their business outside Bermuda. Only local companies at least 60 per cent owned by Bermudians are allowed to carry on business in Bermuda.
Bermuda-exempted companies are designated as non-resident for Bermuda exchange control purposes and may conduct their business in any currency other than Bermuda dollars. There is no income, corporation or capital gain taxes in Bermuda, and the Government routinely grants an assurance under the Exempted Undertakings Tax Protection Act of 1966 that no such taxes will be imposed with respect to a particular exempted company until 2016. This assurance date has been regularly extended far in advance of the expiration date. No business license is required for an exempted company, but an annual government fee must be paid by January 30 of each year. The fee is US$500.00 for a small FSC and US$1,000.00 for a regular FSC.
The minimum share capital of an exempted company is US$12,000.00 (except for mutual funds and insurance companies) which must be represented by par value of shares, and not by the premium paid on shares. A Company does not have to have Bermuda resident directors, but must appoint a resident representative in Bermuda, which may be, and usually is, a corporate body.
Every company must have either a President and a Vice-President or a Chairman and a Deputy Chairman, and these officers must be directors. The board of directors appoints these officers each year. In addition, a company must have a secretary. Other officers, such as Treasurer, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and assistant secretary are optional. There is an implicit requirement that one Board meeting be held each year to approve financial statements. However, directors' meetings can be held by telephone and directors may act by unanimous written resolution in lieu of a meeting.
As part of the incorporation process, an advertisement must be placed in a Bermuda newspaper that lists only the name of the proposed FSC and its business purpose.
The BVI comprises some 50 islands situated in the Caribbean approximately 100 miles east of Puerto Rico. It is a British Crown Colony with a democratic form of government comprising a British appointed governor and a Legislative Council elected by the population of some 12,000 people. The BVI enjoys high standard of living, low unemployment and very stable government.
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is easily the world’s most popular offshore jurisdiction, having over 200,000 IBC’s on file (of which it is estimated that 100,000 are owned by way of Hong Kong). Reasonable incorporation and annual fees, clean reputation, fast incorporation and document retrieval times, and excellent political stability have assisted the BVI to maintain its place at the top of the offshore world. The US dollar is the currency of the Islands, there are no exchange controls, and there are no income, capital gains, inheritance, stock transfer, profits or trade taxes on IBC’s, and no restrictions on the flow of funds into or out of BVI.
The formation and operation of International Business Companies, (hereinafter referred to as "IBC") in the British Virgin Islands, are matters that are basically governed by the International Business Companies Act (Cap. 291) of 1984.
BVI IBC's are companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands under the International Business Corporations Act, 1984 but whose business is to be conducted outside the Territory. An IBC is completely free of all BVI taxes and pays only its initial registration fee and thereafter an annual license fee.
BVI has no capital gains taxes, inheritance taxes or death duties. Government revenues are derived from local income tax, import duties, stamp duties, license fees and company fees.
The normal authorized share capital is US$50,000 with all of the shares having a par value, this being the maximum share capital for the minimum duty payable upon incorporation and annually thereafter. The share capital may be expressed in any currency. The minimum issued capital is one share of no par value or one share of par value.
Companies with an authorized capital up to US$50,000 pay US$300 per year.
Companies with a share capital more than US$50,001 pay the sum of US$1,000 per year.
Companies with a share capital that does not exceed US$50,000 and having some or all of its shares with no par value pay the sum of US$350 per year.
The minimum number of directors is one. They may be natural persons or bodies corporate. They may be of any nationality and need not reside in the British Virgin Islands.
A company secretary may be appointed. The company secretary may be a natural person or a body corporate. They can be of any nationality and need not reside in the British Virgin Islands.
The Cayman Island is the group of three islands: Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. Grand Cayman is the largest, and George Town is the capital. Grand Cayman is locates approximately 500 miles south of Miami. The three Islands have a total land area of about 102 square miles. The population of the islands is about 30,000 people of which 28,000 live on Grand Cayman.
The islands are the British Dependent Territory, which has consistently rejected all offers of independence. Representative government was introduced in 1832 and today the islands have a high degree of internal autonomy. The Territory has a written constitution, which was first extended to the islands in 1962 and since then has been amended several times. The Islands are governed by an elected Legislative Council which enacts the laws that govern the Territory, and Executive Council which is responsible for Government Policy. The Queen is represented by the Governor, who is empowered to appoint three members of the Legislative Council and acts pursuant to instructions from Her Majesty.
The Islands have their own currency which is tied to the US Dollar at a fixed rate of CI$1.00=US$1.20. There are no exchange controls or restrictions on the flow of money into or out of the Islands.
Unlike most other Caribbean islands, the Cayman Islands were not used for agricultural purposes, i.e. growing sugar cane. Therefore, the Islands lack a legacy of racial and economic conflicts that remain an undercurrent are some other islands of the region. The Islands are virtually free of serious crime.
The registration and control of companies is governed by the Companies Law (Cap. 22) (R), originally enacted in 1961 but revised in 1994, with several sets of regulations. Its administration under the Financial Secretary is conducted by the Registrar of Companies and his staff, housed in modern facilities on the ground floor of the Tower Building, Grand Cayman.
The Registrar is allowed to release only the name and type of company, the date of registration, and the address of its registered office. This assures a rigorously upheld standard of privacy for companies transacting a wide range of legitimate business.
The Confidential Relationships (Preservation) Law as amended ensures that all information is kept in the strictest confidence. Any breach of the law will result in heavy fines and/or imprisonment. It is an offense to divulge or to seek to obtain information. If bribes are offered or taken, the penalties are doubled.
The Cayman Islands have entered into a mutual legal assistance treaty with the USA which allows information to be obtained and exchanged between the countries in respect of matters which are regarded as serious criminal offenses in both countries. Offences which have tax implications are not included in the treaty and very stringent procedures must be followed prior the exchange of any information. The treaty is evidence of the Islands’ determination to prevent and discourage those who would seek to use their laws to carry out the interest of the public at large while ensuring that the flexibility given to the financial world is not used by persons who seek to use their laws in unscrupulous ways.
Complete absence of direct taxation - no corporation, capital gains, payroll, property or withholding taxes - and this can be backed by a 30-year Government guarantee.
Anonymity - there are well-established mechanisms for cooperation with law enforcement agencies, both locally and overseas, to assure the highest standards of probity throughout the Islands' financial industry. Within this framework, protection of the legitimate interests of clients is safeguarded. Except where assistance to law enforcement agencies is mandated or authorized, disclosure of information by government officials, professional agents, attorneys and accountants and their staffs is forbidden by law under severe penalties.
Ready availability of investment, legal and other advice and good management services at prices competitive with those in other offshore centers.
Ability to form a company with only one shareholder, with no minimum capitalization requirements.
Company must have minimum one director.
The directors may be natural persons or a corporate body.
Directors may be of any nationality, and need not be resident in the Cayman Islands.
It is customary to appoint a secretary, who may be either a natural person or a body corporate. However, the Cayman Islands Companies Ordinance does not make any specific reference to a requirement for a company secretary.
Nevis is an island located in the Eastern Caribbean Sea. Nevis is a member of the sovereign Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. It is a democratic independent member of the British Commonwealth with a population of 9000. It has an excellent international telecommunications network. The island is easily accessible via local connecting flights through Antigua. Official currency - Eastern Caribbean Dollar. English is the official and commercial language of the Island.
Nevis is a commonwealth, an independent democratic state associated in a common allegiance to the British crown. Political structure is based upon British Parliamentary system with an elected local Assembly. It was a British colony through 1983 when the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis was formed. Nevis is considered as politically stable country.
The legal system is based on English Common Law served by a High Court of Justice, a Court of Appeal and Her Majesty's Privy Council in London. Offshore legislation was introduced in 1984. A set of modern corporate statutes was entitled: the Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance of 1984 (thereafter--the Ordinance). The Ordinance is based on the legislation of the state of Delaware, US. It includes numerous features of the British corporate law and it is very flexible. The island offers the most comprehensive range of offshore products and services.
Registration in Nevis is simple and may be accomplished by using the services of a registered agent. An offshore company may be registered in a matter of hours and the registration fee is one of the least expensive in the world. Offshore companies registered in Nevis may be used for a variety of international activities including international trade and investment, property ownership and finance.
A company may be incorporated to conduct any lawful business and there the incorporation instrument is not required to contain a purposes clause. Companies registered in Nevis are required to maintain a registered office and a registered agent at all times. The office of the registered agent may act as the office of the company. An offshore company allows for minimum reporting requirements and for maximum privacy conditions. An offshore company may not trade or own real estate within the island. It is also prohibited to get engaged in banking, insurance, investment fund management, and other activities associated with those industries.
The Republic of Panama, with an area of approximately 76,900 sq km, is located between Costa Rica and Colombia, forms the narrowest and lowest portion of the isthmus that links North and South America. Panama is famous for its Canal which joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. With a population of about 2.8 million and due to the importance of the Canal, Panama has excellent telecommunications as well as international airline links. There is a sophisticated banking and financial system together with a major Free Trade Zone. Now firmly established as a democracy, the Country has legal system based on a constitution and is politically stable with a continuously growing economy.
There are absolutely no exchange controls or currency restrictions in Panama. Panama is home to one of the world's largest banking centers and the relaxed banking laws make it easy to move funds in and out of the country.
Panama offers the most favorable and most flexible incorporation laws available in the world. Individuals from all over the globe who are interested in asset protection, tax minimization, privacy, investment diversification, affordability and convenience use Panama corporations.
Panama uses the most solid banking and corporate book secrecy laws in the world. These secrecy laws are engraved in its constitution. With Britain's proposed regulation for removal of bank and corporate book secrecy in Britain's offshore territories, it is clear that Panama remains the most secure offshore financial center - where privacy and confidentiality is not only respected, but also vigorously protected by constitutional law. Panama is a sovereign nation, that is, not governed or controlled by any other country in the world. Panama does not have any MLAT's (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties) with any other country. Panama is a genuine international trade and banking center that is well known and respected throughout the world.
Both corporations and natural persons may act as directors. Panamanian Law requires a minimum of three (3) directors and three (3) officers. These three directors may also act as officers of the company i.e. President, Secretary and Treasurer, or other positions as desired. Directors and officers need not be shareholders and they may be non-resident aliens. Directors may be companies or natural persons. The minimum number of shareholders is one.
The standard authorized share capital is US$10,000 divided into 100 common voting shares of no par value. The capital may be expressed in any convertible currency. The minimum issued capital is either one share of no par value or one share of par value. Higher capitalization requires higher government fees. Bearer shares are allowed.
No requirement to disclose beneficial owners; bearer shares permitted.
No requirement to file annual return/financial statements or hold annual general meetings of shareholders or directors.
Full exemption from taxation on any business activity or transaction carried on outside of Panama.
Reasonable formation and maintenance costs and fees.
No minimum nor maximum capital requirements.
Minimum registration fee on capital.
Corporations may engage in any lawful business in any country and may carry on transactions in whatever currencies they choose.
Companies may issue Registered or Bearer shares, preferred shares and non-voting shares.
The shareholders, directors and officers may be of any nationality and may be residents of any country.
Neither the directors nor the officers need be shareholders.
Shareholders and/or directors may hold their meetings in any country and they may attend such meetings by proxy.
The legal tender is the US dollar as Panama's official currency.
Panama offers low taxes and favorable investment and financial incentives.
Unregulated money exchange and unrestricted movement of capital.
No tax liability on interest earned from bank deposits or CD'S held in banks located in Panama.
An attractive fiscal structure that operates on the "local source income" principle, meaning taxes are levied only against income generated by operations conducted in the territory of Panama.
The best corporate book secrecy laws in the world.
Import and export of goods and merchandise.
"Piercing the Corporate Veil" is not a principle contemplated in Panamanian Law.
Panama Corporations offer "Bearer Shares", for shareholders to maintain complete anonymity and privacy.
In order to register exempt company we need to provide the inland Registered Agent with names, addresses, and contact phone numbers of three original directors of the company as well as the copy of their passports. This information will be retained by the Register Agent of the company for the due diligence purposes and for annual maintenance cost forwarding.

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That's right! Most you likely know my opinions about anatomy, but I want to put those aside and learn it for real. I mean the nitty gritty of bone shapes, muscle groups, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and my personal favorite: Impossible-to-pronounce latin terminology.
Here's the deal though: I need your help. So come prepared to do some anatomy google searching on my behalf and by the end of this project we all will know anatomy 237% better!
Previously Recorded April 9th, 2019. Chat is now closed.
nekronavt see u amigo ! it is Always a plesure !
nekronavt I think I see what you mean and what's valuable to you in the "anatomy" chapter. I'm learning that people want different things out of it. I'll have to ponder a better way to teach it.
Did you sculpt the skull you shared mmalhomsi?
mmalhomsi My anatomy has that feature and it helped me a lot.


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BARIIRE, Somalia - At least 10 people have been killed in an attack carried out by the Somali and U.S. forces on a farm in a small town in Lower Shabelle region on Friday morning, Garowe Online reports.
Ali Nur Mohamed, deputy governor of the Lower Shabelle Regional Administration, told GO over the phone that the deadly raid has occurred near Bariire village, about 40KM west of Somali capital, Mogadishu.
U.S. and Somali special forces using two helicopters have swooped into suspected farm in the area, and shot dead ten farmers, including elderly men and snatched others alive during the undercover operation, according to Mohamed.
"We don't know yet the cause behind the deadly attack by the allied troops targeted the farm, which belongs to a local farmer named HusseinTabliq and why they killed the civilians," he added.
Names of the Farmers killed in the U.S.-Somali raid.
Hundreds of residents in Bariire protested against the US-Somali air raid killed 10 innocent civilians on the farm, and called on Somali Federal government to probe into the incident and to bring to justice all those responsible for the "mass murder".
Somali government is yet to release its own statement concerning the attack, but, several Federal lawmakers have condemned the civilian killings and joined their voices on the call for an investigation.
Bariire, which an strategic small town located in Lower Shabelle was recaptured by Somali forces, backed by AMISOM and U.S. troops following a joint offensive against Al shabaab militants.
May 5th, a U.S. Navy SEAL member, Kyle Milliken, 38, was killed and two troops were wounded in a raid on an Al Shabaab in the area, becoming the first US serviceman to die in Somalia since 1993.
BARIRE, Somalia - The Al Qaeda-linked Somalia's armed group al-Shabab has attacked a military base in Lower Shabelle region on Friday morning, killing an unspecified number of government soldiers, Garowe Online reports.


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Portrait of painter, Dante Horoiwa | oil and gold leaf on wood | Ignore Por Favor.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: I originally discovered you while researching contemporary Brazilian artists. While some of your pieces do have a definite Latin feel, your name “Horoiwa” is Japanese, yes? And you have participated in a group exhibit at the Hong Kong Contemporary. Do you straddle both the Asian and Latin cultures then?
Dante Horoiwa: Yes, I have Japanese ancestry. My grandparents came from Iwate-ken, Japan, in the early twentieth century. Somehow I’ve always felt very connected to Japanese culture, even growing-up on the other side of the earth, here in Brazil. But after all, we are all human beings belonging to the same family, regardless of geographic region.
Dante Horoiwa: Currently, I’m living completely alone in the mountains of Minas Gerais, in the middle of nature, a place rich in natural beauty, It is entirely surrounded by hills and some waterfalls, very far from the noise and rush of the city.
Dante Horoiwa: Returning to nature and being completely alone with yourself, I believe, is a way to be free of influences of society. The city feeds the need for psychological security. This psychological structure is one of greed, envy, anxiety, fear. We are always living for the future, for security, and consequently, establishing a meaning for our actions in an illusion.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: Do you ever miss any aspects of your former life?
Dante Horoiwa: I do not miss anything. But also, I do not wish I had done this earlier either; it was the right time for the right moment.
I had a dream in which a strange woman with a golden ball on her forehead appeared, levitating on the outside of my studio. She told me that I should let the “branches” grow outside of the window.
She told me, “You´ll find me in the forest.” Then she moved away, levitating, towards the moon.
One month later, I became intoxicated by the turpentine fumes I was working with in my small, poorly-ventilated studio, and I realized that the dream was an inner-calling, a sign to move to nature and let my “branches” grow outside of the window.
The word ‘alone’ came from “All One,” meaning, alone in the sense of solitude, not of isolation.
Dante Horoiwa: I am presently working on a new series of paintings. It has been a cure for myself, exploring that state between sub-consciousness and consciousness and between self-consciousness and the world. Soon I´ll be able to share them.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: How old were you when you first started to draw? When you painted your first mural? What were the reactions of those around you?
Dante Horoiwa: I started to draw when I was three years old. My first public painting was when I was around seventeen. The reactions were always good. I always have had great support from my family.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: What is it like to see your work up on display in such large dimensions, there, on the side of a building for all to view? Is this different than when you have a piece showing in a private gallery?
Dante Horoiwa: In public spaces you are able to follow the creative process. When I was painting the mural in Rotterdam [Netherlands], every day a man used to pass by on his bicycle, and he would stop and take pictures of the whole process, from beginning to end.
Dante Horoiwa: And he continued to photograph the mural even after it was finished, following the degradation of the painting through the seasons.
Dante Horoiwa: After a mural is finished, people will begin to picnic in front of the painting. It is almost impossible not to look at it if you are passing by.Whereas in an indoor space, you only enter if you intend to. There is less opportunity for encountering the artwork.
Dante Horoiwa: But for me, I create everything I do with the same intensity. In this sense there is no difference. If there’s connection made between my work and a viewer, it will be the same.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: Do you consider yourself a street artist or a contemporary painter? Does the distinction matter? Does taking one label or another affect how your art is perceived?
Dante Horoiwa: I do not consider myself a street artist. It’s been about four years since my last mural, the one in Rotterdam. But the importance isn’t in the names and labels. The word is not the thing.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: In your blog, you honor Mauro Hiroyassu Shoyama. Was he a teacher of yours?
Dante Horoiwa: Actually, I have not studied in any art school, but he was a master and a mentor, like many other people I have met in my life. Besides being a painter, Mauro worked producing canvases, so I met him because of that. I started ordering my canvases from him and we became friends. I used to visit his studio to watch him paint and listen to his stories. He had a unique technique; he could create any metallic color just by overlapping the colors. One day, I was watching him paint. At first, the painting was red, then he began to cover it all up with black, and after some minutes it became golden. The final result: iridescence.
People, such as Mauro, whom I have met in my life, these encounters, when we look back, we realize how crucial these individuals were in directing the course of our lives.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: What makes an effective work of art?
Dante Horoiwa: I don’t know what you mean by “effective work of art,” but I believe the beauty lies in our willingness to abandon ourselves. How silent and alone we can be. Both for those who express and for those who observe, same thing, this strange force that move us so deeply.
Dante Horoiwa: I believe “bad art” is everything that is reduced to the level of merchandise to be sold and purchased, consumed as soon as possible and then discarded. The whole world is being sold, as well as the acts of people, the reason so many live and the reason they create. Things that are produced inside this sphere of psychological safety can not touch the silence. But who am I to say what is “good” or “bad”?
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: Where would you like to see your work go in the future? What sort of questions do you wish to explore next?
Dante Horoiwa: Where it deserves to be. I’d rather not hold myself to the future.
Deanna Elaine Piowaty: Advice for an up-and-coming painter?
Dante Horoiwa: Do not seek for results, expecting or wanting something out of it, if you really love it, you never get tired of it.
Thank you Deanna and Dante for this very inspiring interview. You are very right Dante, aloneness is a vital aspect of a true human relationship with ourselves and others. The ‘political’ world wants power over us so we are trained to be lonely rather than to understand the nourishment and power of solitude and living from our souls.
It’s great to be introduced to your art too.
“It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely – it means the mind is not influenced & contaminated by society” J. Krishnamurti. ‘Solitude is the price of greatness’ Yogi Paramahansa.
Just wanted to say thank you, Deanna, for the attention, and to your readers for the lovely comments and for taking the time to read and stop by.
It´s great to be introduced to your poems too, John, amazing and inspiring interview!
Very interesting article! I lived for eight summers alone in the woods on an island, at one point in my life.
My real friends were the deer, wolves and of course my cat. I really think it saved me. Solitude is wonderful!

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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A user migration Lambda trigger allows easy migration of users from your existing user management system into your user pool without a password reset.
Before making changes in your iOS app, set up a user migration Lambda for your user pool.
To learn more about Lambda triggers see Customizing User Pool Workflows with Lambda Triggers.
For more information about migrating users with a Lambda trigger see Importing Users into User Pools With a User Migration Lambda Trigger.
Update your AWSCognitoIdentityProvider iOS SDK to version 2.6.12 or above.
You can authenticate your users and validate their passwords against your legacy system and seamlessly migrate their profiles into your user pool. However, the service needs the legacy password to avoid a password reset. So, if explicitly enabled in the authentication flow, the SDK will send your users’ passwords to the service in text over an encrypted SSL connection.
If you are using AWSCognitoIdentityUserPoolConfiguration to configure your user pool, change your initializer to one that supports the migrationEnabled flag.
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Currently closed down by the police because of more gang violence, so they're closed for "refurbishment " again while the council decide what to do with them. The place has becone a complete blight on an otherwise wonderful area, so If you want to get stabbed or shot after paying over the odds for a limp sandwicesh and a pint of flat lager then this is the place to be! However, if you want a good time with friends then there are many better places nearby.
This place is a trendy pub/club complete with bouncer and rope outside for queuing along. I bet they have a guest list!
Not for me I�m afraid.
Never saw the place before the referb so cannot comment on that. Decent service - Pilsner Urquell on tap, comfy sofas etc. Pool tables downstairs. Fairly modern, yuppy feel to the place - but if that's what you're into you should like it.
They've just closed this palce for refurbishment � looks like it'll be really poncy when it re-opens and will lose all of its soul.


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Dan River Prison Work Farm is located on a 187.5-acre site in the west-central area of Caswell County, near Yanceyville. The prison was officially dedicated on March 25, 1996.
The modern architecture of this facility differs markedly from traditional prisons and was designed to be built and maintained at less cost. The facility has an administration building, central complex building comprised of food service, staff offices, visiting area, clothes house and central control office, and segregation building. The dormitory building is 60,000 square feet that contains 10 inmate housing areas, 10 day rooms, two canteens, 10 shower and lavatory areas, medical and program departments, barber shop, library, classroom, chaplain's office and two control rooms.
Dan River houses felon and misdemeanant minimum custody adult male offenders. Inmate work assignments include food service, maintenance, janitorial and other institutional jobs.
Other assignments include working at Correction Enterprises Laundry, maintenance work at Caswell Correctional Center and the inmate construction program.
A joint venture with the N.C. Wildlife Commission and Dan River has offenders working restoring forest land, parks and lakes all across North Carolina.
In cooperation with Piedmont Community College, the facility operates the Roxboro Satellite Training Center, which uses the building that once housed Person Correctional Center. The Training Center's programs include carpentry, masonry, information systems technology, horticulture, basic electricity, and human resource development for 130 inmates.
Visitation takes place in alphabetical order three times a day on Saturdays and Sundays. Inmates in segregation are allowed visitors on an appointment basis Monday through Friday.
The visitation policy requires all visitors to complete an application prior to visitation.
From East/Raleigh, take I-40 west. Take the Hillsborough exit. Proceed through Hillsborough onto NC 86 N. Take NC 86 N to Yanceyville. In Yanceyville, turn right onto NC 86 N toward Danville, Va. At the second stoplight (intersection of NC 86 and 158), turn right onto County Home Road. Go approximately a quarter-mile and turn left onto Murray Road. Follow Murray Road for approximately 1 mile. Dan River Prison is at the end of Murray Road.
From West/Greensboro, take I-40/85 east, then get on NC 29 N toward Danville, Va. In Reidsville, take the NC 158 exit to Yanceyville. Proceed through the stoplight (intersection of NC 86 and 158), onto County Home Road. Go approximately a quarter-mile, turn left onto Murray Road. Follow Murray Road for 1 mile. Dan River Prison is at the end of Murray Road.

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I was quite hooked on this game. Despite the namesake, there was never a part II, but there was another game release by the same developer called Hard Nova, considered by many to be a sequel to Sentinel Worlds. This little gem was designed and developer by Karl Buiter and released back in 1989. I played it on an old Tandy laptop. It was no surprise for me to see that this game is mentioned on over 14,000 web pages at the time of this writing (2017), not bad for a Dos CRPG that was released nearly 3 decades ago!
Sentinel Worlds is set in space within a system containing 3 planets and while space combat and hostile boarding is part of the game, most game play takes place on the planetary surfaces. You control a party of 5 crew members, some of which looked suspiciously like well know actors at the time including Ripley from the Alien franchise and Arnold Schwarzenegger, though this is only inferred.
Each character can be fully customized in terms of starting stats and focus on skills and as a very young min-maxer, I spent quite a bit of time reading up on the details and hammering out starting skills for each of the 5 characters to make sure that I was prepared for all scenarios.


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A Pico Rivera, California employment contract is an agreement where the employer and employee each intend to legally bind the other to specificed conditions in the work relationship. Most California employment contracts can be negotiable since both parties benefit from a suitable agreement that is unique to their circumstances. If conditions are met, the employment contract for a set amount of time will provide the employee with a guarantee of job security. It also gives employees some degree of control directly over employee productivity.
California employment contracts typically include many terms such as a description of the job, employment duration (generally at-will employment), compensation/benefits, and grounds for terminating. However, there are also other, less common, clauses that are worthy of notice. First, an arbitration clause requires parties to forego their rights to access the courts for any employment dispute.
Furthermore, a severance clause or "termination clause" outlines the process for ending the employment. Courts have held employers liable for wrongful termination when violating such clauses. Third, work that is completed by an employee, or information obtained by them are covered in clauses known as confidentiality clauses and non-compete clauses.
How Can a Pico Rivera Lawyer Help?
Pico Rivera lawyers who specialize employment laws for the state of California can help you out in understanding the contents of any given employment contract. A lawyer can also lend counsel about what is fair to you in the contract, and can negotiate specific terms that will address your individual concerns as you enter or leave employment.


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Technology offers new and exciting ways for your children to learn and for you to increase your involvement in your children’s education. Children given technology opportunities at home watch less television, improve problem solving and critical thinking skills and excel in written communication skills, math skills and computer skills according to the Department of Education. Parents have found that new technology in schools increases communication with their children and their children’s teachers. Be sure that as a parent, you stay up to date on the evolution of technology in education so that your kids can reap the benefits.
The integration of technology and education has encouraged enthusiasm from students, elevated achievement levels, created richer classroom content and has improved retention rates for students according to the National School Boards Association. Students who use technology in school can enhance their communication and research skills as well as become more analytical in their thought process. If you give children the tools to research their interests, their education could be limitless. Not to mention that having even basic technological skills can exponentially increase their value in the job market.
School districts and administrators across the nation have been focused on advancing their services through technology.
Schools across the nation have implemented online, progress-monitoring solutions to track students’ scholastic progress and help identify areas of struggle for individual students. The Yearly ProgressPro™ program by McGraw Hill integrates each state’s standards into the tracking system so educators can compare each student’s progress with state accountability exam standards. This program also gives teachers the freedom to build their own assessment for each classroom of students.
Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard and Schoology are tools that connect students, teachers and parents through a social-network platform. Kids can reach out to one another for homework advice or collaborate on special projects while communicating any potential road blocks with teachers. In addition to the networking function, educators can manage their classrooms online through LMS. They can set deadlines, give quizzes and even post homework assignments. Think of LMS as a Facebook for school but with the added security and services that school districts require.
Get your kids familiar with technology so it’s not as intimidating when they start school.
Giving children a head start in technology is just as important as starting them off reading and writing at an early age. The more comfortable children are with technology, the less of a shock it will be for them when they are introduced to it in an educational environment.
Children need to come to school with a respect for the technological world. Just as parents have rules about crossing the street, they need rules about Internet use. First and foremost is the emphasis to maintain privacy. No matter where they are, children should never post personal information and never divulge passwords to anyone, including friends.
Even the most well-behaved children check their good judgment at the keyboard. Talk to them about their integrity and reputation by considering long-term consequences. Children are used to hitting delete and their words are gone. They need to understand their digital footprint; the idea that their words may not disappear permanently when delete is pushed, as some social networking sites archive information. Ask them how they would feel if a college admissions staff member or employer were sitting beside them as they typed? Check that their words in emails reflect the way they want to be understood.
The responsibility for teaching digital citizenship is not solely on parents. Schools actively engage in teaching digital citizenship as well as technology skills. However, parents are key players by maintaining a dialogue with their kids and creating guidelines for safe Web use.


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Recently we had to integrate one of our .NET applications with an Axis Web Service using basic authentication over an https connection.
The purpose is to gain access to the message information in code by extracting it from a raw email message. For this we will parse the content of the email using the IMessage interface.
One of the early marketing tools on the Internet which was used to reach the ever growing number of Internet users was the email. Today we have even an organization which establishes the standards for the newsletter code, but also for the email clients like Thunderbird, Outlook, Lotus Notes or Evolution.
Where you can use Joomla Many companies and organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla package. In those cases, Joomla’s powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla into virtually unlimited directions.


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Strom Thurman Realty Partners, Llc.
The Graham Seeby Group is by far the best real estate broker in the Atlanta area. They helped me stage and sell my house at a high market value. In addition, they guided me through each step of the process to insure a smooth sale with no surprises. Highly recommend!!!

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Due to arrive any day now this month is the NECA Predator Series 8 Jungle Extraction Dutch Schaefer figure. Based on the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in the 1987 Predator movie, this 7-inch figure looks like it stepped right off the screen.
For those wanting to take a better look at the figure, Pixel Dan has managed to get his hands on an early production sample and has done an excellent video review of the figure. Check out the video below, and then head on over to online retailer BigBadToyStore and place your pre-order for Series 8 Jungle Extraction Dutch figure, along with the other two figures from Series 8.


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The Fourth Estate and the liberal elite in this country have yet to demand that John McCain’s grimacing mug be blasted into the side of Mount Rushmore. But give them time.
Meanwhile, in response to negative comments uttered recently about the ailing senior senator from Arizona, who has been on an extended leave from D.C. since mid-December as he battles brain cancer, the punditocracy has declared an 11th Commandment for U.S. politics: Thou shalt not take John McCain’s name in vain.
At least not without some punishment.
In fact, it seems everyone from CNN’s Jake Tapper to McCain’s daughter and The View cohost Meghan McCain wants to see White House staffer Kelly Sandler prostrate herself and beg forgiveness for the grievous sin of disrespecting McCain in an offhand comment uttered at a closed-door White House meeting, in reference to McCain’s opposition to President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.
McCain, who was tortured during the five-plus years he spent as a POW in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and who has made a show of opposing so-called enhanced interrogation techniques as a U.S. senator, cited Haspel’s testimony as reason enough to disqualify her for the position, making his opposition known in a May 9 tweet.
Considering McCain’s indefinite and perhaps permanent absence from D.C., his antagonism toward the Haspel nomination carries limited weight. It should be no surprise that members of the Trump administration have expressed as much in internal meetings.
That same day on the Fox Business Network, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney defended the efficacy of torture, using McCain as an example.
McInerney, a noted birther who’s infamous for his kooky statements and conspiracy theories, was referring to the physical abuse that McCain, a Navy pilot, endured at the hands of the North Vietnamese after he was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 during his 23rd bombing mission. McCain broke both arms and a knee while ejecting from his A-4E Skyhawk and parachuted into a lake in central Hanoi.
During his time in captivity, like almost all of his fellow POWs, McCain was tortured into signing a “confession” to his crimes as an “air pirate” and forced to record a statement later played over Radio Hanoi, in which he expressed gratitude to the Vietnamese people and praised the medical assistance granted him.
The notion that McCain was a “songbird” while a POW is largely a myth concocted by McCain’s critics on the far right and those enraged by his stance in the 1980s and 1990s that there were no live POWs left in Vietnam after the U.S. withdrawal from the South. However, as McCain notes in his 1999 memoir Faith of My Fathers, the fact that his dad, John S. McCain, Jr., was a high-ranking admiral and was to become commander-in-chief of all U.S. forces in the Pacific, did assist him in weathering the hardships of imprisonment.
McCain famously refused an offer of an early return home (as did other POWs) and was tortured for his defiance. Because of the poor medical care he received, McCain’s wounds never fully healed and to this day he cannot raise his arms above his head as a result.
The senator’s trials as a POW have become synonymous with his political career, and as a result, the guardians of his reputation — his wife Cindy McCain and his daughter Meghan McCain — were quick to lead the backlash against both McInerney and Sadler.
The day McInerney made his comments, Payne publicly apologized, saying the general’s statement did not reflect the views of Fox Business. The Washington Times and other outlets reported that the network had announced McInerney would not be back as a commentator.
Trump himself tweeted a response on May 14, focusing on those who leaked the Sadler quote, blaming the “Fake News Media” for the “massive over exaggeration” of the story, and calling the leakers “cowards and traitors” who will be rooted out.
From the other end of the Hollywood political spectrum, Barbra Streisand, septuagenarian diva and cloner of dogs, lamented in a tweet that the Trump White House had failed to condemn Sadler’s remarks.
The entire kerfuffle has boosted the cult of McCain to an all-time high, which bodes well for sales of the 81-year-old’s third and likely final memoir, The Restless Wave, due out May 22. An HBO documentary about McCain, For Whom the Bell Tolls, is to be broadcast about a week later.
The current spurt of praise conveniently falls into a familiar meme: the valiant senator vs. the coarse orange tyrant who inhabits 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. For haters of Trump, the enemy of their enemy is their friend — and who better than an old Republican warhorse to serve as a foil for the foul-mouthed chief executive?
The problem with this recurring trope, as I note at length in my recent ebook, The Stains of John McCain, is that it is extremely disingenuous.
McCain publicly has said and done things far more objectionable than Sadler’s callous remark — from his use of the racial slur “gook” during his 2000 presidential run to his flip-flop on the Confederate flag to his initial opposition to a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
There’s worse, most of which I cover in Stains: McCain’s ceaseless warmongering; his support for the disastrous Vietnam War and the bombing of Cambodia; the Keating Five scandal, when McCain and others took money from S&L swindler Charles Keating, then pressured government officials to lay off the tycoon as he bilked taxpayers for millions; McCain’s cheerleading for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as he helped to spread the false rumor that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; his enthusiastic support for a theocratic dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, which suppresses women, tortures detainees into confessions (sound familiar?), and sentences bloggers and dissidents to long prison terms, floggings, and the occasional public beheading.
McCain also tried to help his wife cover up her opioid addiction after she was caught swiping pills from a nonprofit she ran. And he hoisted Sarah Palin onto the national stage as his 2008 running mate. As for torture, McCain has painted himself as steadfastly against the practice, but the reality is, he has played politics with the issue, disappointing many who saw him as bulwark against the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques.
Off-color jokes? Are you kidding? The ex-Navy man has told more than his share. There was the one about “ugly” Chelsea Clinton, who was in her teens at the time. And the jest about a woman who enjoyed being raped by an ape. These weren’t imparted during closed-door meetings, either; they were told in front of crowds.
McCain’s tenure in public office has been marked by fits of childish temper and obscene invective directed at his colleagues. Once he even got into a shoving match with South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond on the floor of the Senate. Thurmond was 92 years old at the time.
Outfit McCain in heavenly robes if you must. Affix his wings and polish his halo if it makes you feel good. But the nature of the man and the history of his deeds on earth remain unchanged.
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I love the part where they torture him , beat him, break both his shoulders and force him to confess to war crimes , and then they want to let him go …and John says “No! I’m staying!” And the VC say , ” whatever you say John. You’re in charge! If you want to stay, we we’re not gonna throw you out. ” Yeah!!! That’s how it happened! Just like that!

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It took a long time...to build my time-travel infographic.
It mostly just has a handful of key examples of time travel from movies and TV, so there may be some big things missing, but the most important part is the breakdown of logic and matter conservation issues.
Next year should be exciting, though. I'll be moving back to working on more artwork, so there will be more cool stuff showing up on here.
So, my story that's sort of about Noah's Ark is about to finally mention the ark.
The numbers are real cuneiform script, and should all be correct for the dimensions. The design takes great inspiration from ancient Egyptian ships recovered by archaeologists. The papyrus texture multiplied over the drawing in Photoshop is from LunaNYX over on DeviantArt.
I've decided to launch the novel I've been working on for the last several years as a web serial, on wattpad.
It's launching April 1 at blues.diamondplatestudios.com, which, yes, is April Fools Day, but this isn't a joke or a lie, so don't start worrying now.
There will be actions, fightings, excitements, and other goodnesses, so stay tuned!
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