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well the aol stuff i was just trying to explain that guys comment, i knew that it was a lot better than that foolishness that aol thiks is innovative.
i think i will give it a try since it does seem like it can be usful, especially in combination with firefox as you suggested.
probably best think about it is the ability to make own commands i guess.
Thanks for clarifying on what it's actually about. So AOL keywords were something AOL made for people to stupid or lazy to remember URLS... this actually seems interesting. A search engine with advanced options but one that doesn't require dropdown menus and blah blah blah.
only one thing on my mind: someone should integrate this to a toolbar applet (unless it already has been, havent searched for it yet).
random guy wrote: only one thing on my mind: someone should integrate this to a toolbar applet (unless it already has been, havent searched for it yet).


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Tuned In Travel - ArcTanGent Festival 2018 Review - Intimate and rocking!
5000 people boarded trains and coaches to see the best of Math, Post, Noise and Alt Rock, performed across four epic stages. Hosted on Fernhill Farm, the festival is a little out of the way for those who don’t drive. Luckily Tuned in Travel provided shuttle buses from Bristol Temple Meads and the airport straight to the festival, as well as many return coaches across the country, making it super easy to get there.
Upon arrival you immediately noticed how the strict, small capacity gave the festival a cosy feel, with friendly faces everywhere. While there wasn’t the traditional glitter covered crowd you come to expect at festivals, there were true music fans, plush with band knowledge and all with a recommendation of who not to miss. For an ArcTanGent newbie this was really helpful!
The music was incredible, with bands and artists putting their heart and soul into the performances. From the moment the music started, people were at the stages truly making the most of each act. Thanks to the intimate, smaller site, it took only a matter of minutes to move from one stage to the next meaning the crowd could get to the next act without delay!
Thursday was an epic opening to the festival and Jamie Lenman was just one of the many outstanding acts to play the Arc Stage. Showcasing a mix of old and new music, he had the crowd going wild with his sharp wit and fierce lyrics. For me, the highlight of the festival was watching And So I Watch You From Afar who concluded the opening night. Their energy was electric, with each musician taking ownership of the stage and connecting with the crowd. This instrumental band have blessed the ArcTanGent stage before and their confidence at the festival really showed. It was a perfect way to launch into the weekend.
The following days were no less spectacular with God Mother crashing onto the stage on Friday with endless energy. Lead singer Sebastian Campbell held nothing back in his performance, getting into the crowd and really using the space to ensure everyone was engaged. On Saturday La Jungle set the day off in all the right ways with their upbeat sounds that the crowd were more than happy to dance away to. All of the bands made a great impression and had a special something that set them apart from the others. The vast selection of music available meant it was likely you’d be able catch a band you hadn’t heard of before.
Once the live performances stopped the silent disco came alive with masses of people turning up each night to enjoy. A sea of people wearing headphones and dancing the night away was a genuine pleasure to witness and partake in. You could rent the headphones for the entire weekend which was brilliantly convenient, you just had to be sure not to lose them!
Although there were no showers provided to general camping, the facilities were overall very good, with an abundance of friendly staff who were happy to help in any way they could. Running water taps were provided to keep you hydrated and allow for a little more than a wet-wipe clean! Plenty of portaloos were also on site which were cleaned regularity and (almost) always has loo roll. As well as this, a wellness tent was pitched and ready to welcome those who may have partied a little too hard. Best of all, there were plenty of little stalls selling everything from camping chairs to portable chargers.
The food selection was divine with something to suit everyone’s pallet. For me, the best was the freshly made onion bhajis; exceptionally tasty and satisfying. Another favourite food stop was in the shisha tent where you could grab a hot mug of chai and a delicious breakfast wrap to start the day right. This bohemian pit-stop was a great place to lounge around mini tables upon a mass of comfy pillows and watch the world of ArcTanGent go by. I was also very grateful to be able to grab a cup of good coffee dancing the nights away.
Overall, ArcTangent took me by surprise, taking everything I thought I knew about what was needed to make a festival epic and turning it on its head. It had me falling in love with the intimacy of a small crowd, meeting passionate fans who didn’t mind the music stopping and starting earlier than larger festivals, and best of all listening to bands whose names I’d never heard of before but now can’t get enough of. ArcTanGent again may only just be over but I’m already excited for 2019 to come around and to throw myself into the weird and wonderful world of ArcTanGent.

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Show your love of math with this simple (and working!) abacus necklace.
The chain is 47 cm long. This necklace is made out of stainless steel.

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text: We wanted to do something that had heavy elements of performance from the band married to some twisted visuals. We shot internally at night, which provides unique challenges! Mainly you can’t find the incredible important thing that you just put down.


text: Our 2009 straw feature was built in celebration of the Westminster Clock Tower’s 150th birthday. Snugburys fully working and luminous clock helped to mark this fantastic anniversary. The Straw Big Ben even bumped its name sake out of the lime light – featuring on ITV’s news at 10! It was also seen on BBC, CNN news and many newspapers including the Daily Mail, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sun, Express and Hello magazine. We also heard reports of sightings in Australia, China and South Africa!


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The Ministry of Science and Technology of South Korea made a big step towards the preparation of its first party of specialists in blockchain.
The Department of Information and Communications of the Ministry of Science and Technology of South Korea held its first lecture on blockchain on September 3rd.
This marks the beginning of an investment of $ 90 million (100 billion won) by the South Korean government to represent the development strategy of blockchain technology.
Candidates for the course were selected through a series of applications. As a result 42 candidates were successfully selected for this course.
As part of this program, students will receive daily technical training and technical training for the next six months to create experts who can immediately start working after graduation.
Indeed, the academic interest in technology is not limited to public research and teaching. A recent survey conducted by Coinbase showed that almost half of the world’s best universities now teach at least one blockchain course.
Considering the popularity of cryptocurrencies in South Korea, the government is trying to provide those wishing to get an education in this area.

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It’s no surprise that Food For Friends has won so many awards, to put it simply, it’s vegetarian cooking at its absolute finest.
The food is inventive, tasty, honest, and totally homemade, using the freshest produce. The dishes feel classy and elegant, but come served without a high price tag, in a refreshingly relaxing environment. With the absence of meat, the focus shifts to flavour and unusual combinations, which is why they are so popular with all lovers of food, vegetarian or not. Vegans can rejoice too, as some of the best stuff on the menu is suitable for you. If you are visiting Mon – Fri between 12 & 5pm then consider taking advantage of their Desert & Cocktail for £10 offer or their Tasting Platter For Two served with a carafe of house wine for £34, or non-alcoholic cocktails for £31.

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text: Advantage Rigging offers Shackles in many sizes. Shackles can be used for lifting or pulling and have hold limits based on size. Our most popular shackle is the the green pin shackle which we stock in a range of sizes. Green Pin Shackles are made from high tensile steel and have a safety factor of 6 X WLL making them extremely useful in most situations. If you need a custom shackle size just let us know.

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text: The new EZ-Clone Pro System has been made from fully recyclable HDPE which highly chemically resistant and extremely durable. With 459 cloning sites, the possibilities are endless when your purchase your new EZ-Clone Pro System. The system features a standard 120v outlet, pull out trays and wheels on the bottom of the system for easy mobility. With a 2-hour clean up time and estimated $1 per day to operate, the system is designed to pay for itself in it’s first cycle.


text: Present-day elliptical, spiral and irregular galaxies are large systems made of stars, gas and dark matter. Their properties result from a variety of physical processes that have occurred during the nearly fourteen billion years since the Big Bang. This comprehensive textbook, which bridges the gap between introductory and specialized texts, explains the key physical processes of galaxy formation, from the cosmological recombination of primordial gas to the evolution of the different galaxies that we observe in the Universe today. In a logical sequence, the book introduces cosmology, illustrates the properties of galaxies in the present-day Universe, then explains the physical processes behind galaxy formation in the cosmological context, taking into account the most recent developments in this field. The text ends on how to find distant galaxies with multi-wavelength observations, and how to extract the physical and evolutionary properties based on imaging and spectroscopic data.


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Are you searching for web designers? Gilbert Web Design is a unique online marketing and website development firm. Our web developers provide Silicon Valley quality at Midwest prices. We run an efficient, low-overhead operation and pass the savings to our clients. As you will see proudly displayed in our portfolio, we have a diverse client base. We can adapt our web design style for any type of business, from corporate to retail, and from traditional or elegant to high-tech or edgy. We won’t stop the design phase until you are 100% satisfied with your new web design. In addition to web development, we also develop mobile websites and apps, eCommerce websites and custom web applications. We are Gilbert’s top WordPress developers. We also specialize in responsive web design and custom HTML5 web site development. As a creative agency, we strive to provide the best web design Gilbert has to offer.
Although we offer web design in Gilbert, we are best known for our Internet marketing and search engine optimization services. At the end of the day, all we care about is reducing your marketing and advertising costs and increasing your revenues. We really like creating custom website designs, but we LOVE creating websites that make money for our clients. Our exclusive Gilbert SEO® brand of search engine optimization service is all about getting your phone to ring more and filling your inbox with quality email inquiries.
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text: Burstner Motorhomes for sale from Becks Motorhomes Norfolk. A.B.S, Alloy Wheels, Blinds And Fly Screens, Cab Air Conditioning, Cab Blinds, Cab Central Locking, Cassette Toilet, Cruise control, Cycle Rack, Double Glazed Windows, Drivers & Passengers Air Bag, Electric Mirrors, Electric Windows, Fresh & Waste Water Tanks, Fridge (12V/240V/Gas), Garage, Grill/ Oven, Heater, Heki Rooflight, Hob, Immobiliser, Leisure Battery and Charger, Mains Hook Up 240v, One Owner, Power Steering, Radio/CD Player, Rear 3 Point Seat Belts, Reverse camera, Satellite Navigation, Shower, Swivel Front Seats, Traction Control, T.V. Aerial, Water Heater (Gas/240V), Wind Out Sunblind.

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Eleven attorneys from the Florida offices of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin have been selected to the 2018 edition of Florida Super Lawyers magazine. A Thomson Reuters business, Super Lawyers is a rating service of lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in each state are selected by Super Lawyers and no more than 2.5 percent are selected for the Florida Rising Stars list. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. A description of the selection methodology can be found at http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.
Michael J. DeCandio, Construction Litigation. Mr. DeCandio, Senior Counsel in the Jacksonville office, concentrates his practice in the defense of construction and design professionals. Additionally, he defends both products and premises liability as well as trucking cases. He has tried almost 100 cases to verdict.
Elizabeth B. Ferguson, Construction Litigation. Ms. Ferguson, a Shareholder in the Jacksonville office, has been Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar since 2009. She defends clients against claims of liability, breach of contract, construction defect, design defect, delay, liens/bonds, insurance coverage issues, and licensure issues. She also provides transactional support for her construction clients.
Michael J. Bradford, Civil Litigation Defense. Mr. Bradford, a Shareholder in the Tampa office, is a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. He focuses his practice on admiralty and maritime claims, insurance coverage, property and casualty defense, construction negligence, and commercial litigation.
Julie Cunningham Aiello, Transportation & Maritime. Ms. Aiello, an Associate in the Tampa office, focuses her practice in the areas of insurance defense, insurance coverage, personal injury defense, property and casualty, admiralty and maritime, and transportation.
Kimberly Kanoff Berman, Appellate. Ms. Berman, Special Counsel in the Fort Lauderdale office, has litigated numerous appeals in Florida state and federal appellate courts across a wide variety of subject matters. Additionally, she provides litigation support in bad faith, casualty, construction defect, insurance coverage, premises liability, and professional malpractice cases.
Ryan D. Burns, Personal Injury Defense. Mr. Burns, a Shareholder in the Fort Lauderdale office, practices in a wide variety of casualty matters including negligent security, product liability, premises liability, asbestos and toxic tort litigation, maritime litigation, general negligent business operations, automotive liability, as well as general PIP and insurance coverage.
Lindsay G. McCormick, Construction Litigation. Ms. McCormick, an Associate in the Tampa office, focuses her practice on construction defect litigation and general professional liability defense, providing defense against claims of construction defect, design deficiencies, breach of contract and liability.
Chanel A. Mosley, Health Care. Ms. Mosley, an Associate in the Orlando office, devotes her practice to defending claims involving medical malpractice, long-term care, and other health care and general liability matters.
Alan C. “A.C.” Nash, Civil Litigation Defense. Mr. Nash, a Shareholder in the Fort Lauderdale office, focuses his practice on the defense of claims made and suits brought against insureds and businesses in product, automobile, commercial, liquor liability, construction and premises liability matters.
Amanda J. Podlucky, Personal Injury Defense. Ms. Podlucky, a Shareholder in the Orlando office, handles premises liability matters in a variety of industries, including retail, restaurant and multi-family housing. Additionally, she represents clients in automobile negligence matters.
John K. Weedon, Personal Injury Defense. Mr. Weedon, Special Counsel in the Jacksonville office, handles the defense of casualty claims, including matters involving personal injury, automobile accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and neglect, product liability, negligent security and construction defect.

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Trudy Schiller, ’18, left for basic training only days after the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. After serving in the Air Force for nearly five years as a medic, she wasn’t sure what was next.
For six years after leaving the military, she avoided going back to school. Then she learned of Davenport University’s Veterans to Bachelor of Science in Nursing pathway. The pathway is designed for service members with military medical experience, helping to fast-track their academic pursuits by granting advanced standing for transcripted military training or credit by exam in DU’s BSN-Pre Licensure program.
Last May, Schiller walked across the stage to receive her diploma after completing the Veterans to Bachelor of Science in Nursing pathway at DU’s Warren Campus.
Getting her degree was no easy feat.
Schiller says graduating is an accomplishment she couldn’t have done without her family — both at home and at Davenport.
“My professors were always checking in on me, asking if I needed accommodations or if I needed help or just wanted to sit and talk. It was very nice to know if I needed something, I had support,” she said.
Outside of the classroom, Schiller had the support of her husband, Jason, and the entire VBSN team.
While Schiller had worked with patients for several years as a medic, she still found the human patient simulators a valuable experience.
VBSN students also enroll in a transitions course. Schiller said her class’ faculty member, Rebecca Ventura, made an indelible impact on her experience as a student.
Schiller began her nursing career after graduation in Novi, Michigan, working in a clinical decision unit. She hopes to work in emergency medicine in the future.
*This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UF1HP26488 and title “Veterans to BSN Program” for $1,527,068, with 0% financed with nongovernmental sources. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government. This grant is for programmatic funding and excludes student tuition and fees.

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here we go, my todo list manager tells me that I need to do my every 10 day report about Indefero.
Thomas Keller (tommyd) is now part of the project admins. Thomas is very active in fixing issues, getting things in order, implementing stuff, I think this is the normal step to promote him as project admin. Thanks a lot Thomas for your work!
This is the first report, I will try to keep it running nicely.
develop and master branches. You will notice that since a couple of week, the work is done in the develop branch, with regular merges into the master branch. We now try to follow the workflow proposed by nvie1.
You can see the milestone tag here with the issues left to fix before the 1.1 release (still a few more to mark) and the ones already fixed.
So, things are going ahead smoothly, maybe not as fast as expected, but ahead.
For the moment, not a single line of code was written for Indefero 2 at the exception of the work on the Photon framework (next generation Pluf framework currently used by Indefero 1.x).
Céondo Ltd - Forge hosting farm and other stuff.
You know that Indefero is used to make money too. That is, not a lot, but it is growing nicely. In October I got 9 new customers and 6 in November. At the moment, the forge has 78 paying customers. This means that from an infrastructure point of view, it is making money.
I still need to finish some work for a company using Indefero, some nice addition to the git view of the source code. It has been long overdue, so, I need to move ahead with it. This is going to bring some money to sponsor some of the work for Indefero 2.
As a company, Céondo Ltd has at the moment a nice contract going through the paper work steps (legal dpt in big company) which is bringing 6 to 8 months of cashflow for 2 months of work (4h/day). And another one in the pipeline for April/May for normally the same kind of amount. So, basically, the company is secured until end of 2011. With the growth of Indefero and Cheméo, this also means that I am going to see a slow shift between consulting and product, with more product and less consulting. At the moment, product (Cheméo + Indefero) is less than 10% of the turnover. The goal is to achieve 50% of my turnover with my products by the end of 2011 (calculated on the 2010 turnover). Basically, getting around 3 to 4000€/month with the products. Indefero 2 is going to be critical in achieving this.
I hope these news are of interest for you, do not hesitate to tell me what you would like to read in the next report and I will try to satisfy you.


text: As a women's organization, Chicago Chapter takes to heart issues which affect women solely or primarily. Chapter members have been involved in the Y-Me Mother's Day Walk for the Cure, as well as the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Chapter members donate time, energy and resources to women's shelters, and support children who have immigrated from refugee camps.


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If you are interested in products from one of our New Brands, please contact us for product information, pricing, and to place your order.
At Cedar Performance, we are continually adding new Brands and new Products to our line up. Once we have a new supplier or manufacturer agreement, it takes a considerable amount of time to load all of their products to our site. While we are working to update our website, we want you to know that Cedar Performance is ready to sell and ship these Brands and their Products today!


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This manual will guide you step by step for creating a Voucher-code sale. For example, you can choose to sell tickets with a specific discount, or give your customers the opportunity on a limited edition of a specific sort of ticket.
If you are willing to offer a product with discount, please follow Step 1. If you want to use the voucher codes only for a limited time, please go to Step 2.
The first thing you have to do is to create a product with a reduced price.
The sales period for a product with discount must always be set up in the past.
We advise you to create a different point of sale than your regular ticket sales. There is a possibility your customer will become confused if they have the opportunity to buy a ticket with discount (voucher) and a regular ticket.
To create a voucher sale, please make sure you create a new voucher point of sale.
To create a new point of sale. First log in to the Backoffice, open the ‘Manage’ tab and then open the points of sale.
Afterwards you can click on the ‘Create new sales channel’ button, marked with the green plus (+).
To create a new point of sale, you have to choose a name for this point of sale. For example: Voucher Point of Sale.
Good job! Now you must choose whether this voucher code is a required for your consumer or not. This can be found at the “frontoffice flow”.
You can choose between “with voucher” or “with mandatory voucher”.
The difference between the two options is whether the voucher code is mandatory or not. The other options in this menu can be ignored.
Now that you created the voucher point of sale it is time to add that point of sale to your event. You can do this by going to the ‘Events’ tab and selecting the correct event from the list. You will be back on the Event dashboard now.
Open the points of sale list by selecting the ‘Points of sale’ button in the ‘Configuration’ list.
The points of sale list will now be visible. Select the voucher point of sale you have created previously and click the ‘Save changes’ button.
You also need to add the point of sale to your products. Go to Manage > Events > Products. Select the preferred product from the list. On the next screen you select the voucher point of sale for this product.
This step is different, depending on what kind of voucher codes you want to use.
There are a few possibilities. For example, you can make the decision to create only 1 code, that can be used multiple times, or several codes that can be used multiple times.
There is also the possibility to create a multiple codes that can only be used once for one or more tickets.
“I want to use multiple voucher codes”.
Well, in this case we advise you to create these different codes using this website.
If you want to create more than 3,000 unique codes, please contact your Paylogic Account Manager. Our system does not allow automatically to create more than this amount.
If you want to use just 1 voucher code, you won't need to use the given file, but you can just make up your own code.
Once you created the codes using the website, please download the file as a .CSV.
You’re almost done! To create a voucher group open the tab ‘Manage’ and select the event you want to use the voucher code(s) for.
Now you are on the Event Dashboard again click on the ‘Vouchers’ tab under the ‘Configuration’ list.
In this screen you will be able to create a voucher group by giving the voucher group any name you like and clicking the ‘Add voucher group’ button.
Click on the voucher group you created. The voucher group can now be configured to your likes. You can add the codes individually by pressing the ‘Add’ button, marked with the plus (+). Or you can add multiple codes by uploading a .CSV file with all the different codes.
You will also be able to link the codes to the products you made before. Make sure that you select the correct products and tick the box of the previously made voucher point of sale.
Once you fully configured the voucher group click the ‘Save changes’ button and you will be able to sell the products connected to the voucher codes.


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Intelligence is an innate ability of the human mind to process information, memorize words, numbers, events, and associations, derive a solution of a problem and find links between associated details. Although it seems immeasurable, yet over past decades, leading psychologists have developed a way to test and measure this intelligence form to yield the result in a numerical score. This type of evaluation is known as an intelligence test.
The IQ tests are numerous and varied, yet they share the basic structure and the primary form of testing. You are required to choose one option from multiple answers to a question. There is always a chance of selecting the right reply through guessing and therefore the problem ‘is there any accurate IQ test‘ surfaces in the minds of people.
The truth is that when carefully evaluated, one will realize that to some extent the traditional intelligence testing is biased, and this leads to a significant degree of variation in the measurement. To query into the accuracy or biases of intelligence testing, you will have to answer some of these questions shortly outlined.
Are there various types of intelligence and if there are, what are they?
Do IQ tests measure these various types of intelligence?
On what platform and which parameters do IQ test used in determining intelligence and so forth.
What an accurate IQ test can measure?
The question – is there any accurate IQ test- can be understood by taking a look at intelligence itself. Several studies conducted in the recent time showed the biases of intelligence testing, but these studies do not in any way opine that IQ tests should be discarded. According to some studies, IQ tests measure only one kind of intelligence whereas there are different kinds of intelligence. That makes it highly insufficient or better put, limited, in defining the intelligence of a person and in classifying people based on their intelligence.
It is important to note that an intelligence testing which takes into consideration all the types of intelligence available has not yet been devised, but lots of research are already going on in this field. As pointed above, these stated points do not imply that IQ tests should be thrown in the trash bin. Even though the answer to the question, is there any accurate IQ test is not very encouraging, yet the benefits of intelligence tests are many.
You know a lot of factors influence your IQ results. This tendency is another significant weakness of the IQ test because you can score different results with the change of variables. For instance, a test taker may be likely to be distracted by his surroundings, and at the end of the day, the test result would be low, but this does not in any way imply that his intelligence is low. More so, nowadays where IQ tests can be taken online, several free IQ tests are available online, and since these tests claim to measure your intelligence, the biases of IQ tests is even more significant.
It has been proved that your lifestyle or way of living goes a long way to affect your IQ test scores. Having low scores because of your lifestyle does not imply that you are not intelligent. Again, people who play video games and some other games which emphasize on short-term memory are more likely to score higher on IQ tests than people who do not. More so, it is often observed that smokers, irrespective of their intelligence, are more likely to score lower on IQ tests than non-smokers when they are not allowed to smoke for some longer time.


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Billy traces Scottish nationalism from the identity forged in the fires of the Wars of Independence to the rise of modern nationalism in the second half of the 20th century.
We hear the voices of people commemorating the Battle of Bannockburn and the Declaration of Arbroath. Historian Fiona Watson speaks movingly of one of the great unsung heroines Isabella Countess of Buchan who forsook her wealth, her husband and her status to crown Robert the Bruce at Scone - for this she was imprisoned in a cage in Berwick. Former First Minister Alex Salmond recalls stories of the men of Linlithgow he got from his grandfather and how they fired his imagination.
In this episode, Billy traces modern nationalism back to 19th century industrial unrest when socialists like Keir Hardie and Cunninghame Graham founded the Labour Party, and eventually the SNP.
He begins at The 1820 Society's commemoration of the skirmish at Bonnymuir during the radical uprising when men were hung and beheaded as traitors for demanding reform and the restoration of a Scottish parliament. The Strathaven weavers carried a banner with the words "Scotland Free or a Desert" and we hear a moving piece of music by young Sarah MacNeil, a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland who was inspired by the sacrifice of the three martyrs James Wilson, John Baird and Andrew Hardie....the music is led by Sarah on clarsach and the suite is called "Free or a Desert".
Billy explores this link between the struggle for democracy and the demand for a Scottish Parliament in the rise of socialism with James Keir Hardie and R.B. Cunninghame Graham's founding of the Scottish Labour Party in 1888 with Scottish Home Rule at the core of its philosophy. Historians trace the formation of dedicated nationalist parties in the 1920's and '30's and the creation of the SNP. Tom Normand of St Andrew's University highlights the role of writers and artists in the period and the involvement of people like Compton Mackenzie, JD Fergusson and Hugh MacDiarmid.
"It was a sect. It was curiously like Trotskyism actually, and it was something that at that time was a blind alley." The intellectual Tom Nairn on Scottish nationalism in the early 1960's.
We detail the gradual transformation of the SNP from a small, marginalised "sect" to an organised political machine capable of achieving sporadic but spectacular successes such as Winnie Ewing's victory in the Hamilton by election of 1967. Winnie herself describes the personal abuse she endured at Westminster until Harold Wilson and Emrys Hughes put a stop to it. Profesor James Mitchell of Strathclyde University traces the hostility between Labour and the SNP to this period when Labour was challenged in its former heartland.
We hear how the story of Wallace inspired Scots through the ages. In modern nationalist history, we focus on the heady years of the early '70's when Gordon Wilson's "It's Scotland's Oil" campaign led to the "high" of the SNP electing 7 then 11 MP's in 1974. We contrast this with the deep depression which emerged following the failure to reach the 40% vote for Yes in the 1979 Referendum.
Something akin to Civil War broke out in the SNP with the socialist wing led by Margo MacDonald, Jim Sillars and Alex Salmond vying with the fundamentalist wing of the party for supremacy. The First Minister describes the hurt he felt when he was expelled from the Party, and the "speech of my life" he gave to have him and other members of the '79 Group re-instated.
We trace the growing feeling of alienation among Scots of different political persuasion under Thatcher's Tory government leading to a huge surge in demand for a Scottish parliament which culminated in the successful Referendum of 1997. We celebrate the international dimension of Scottish nationalism expressed in Hamish Henderson's song "The Freedom Come All Ye" which became an anthem for the pro parliament groups in the period.
In this episode, Billy examines the coming of the Scottish Parliament and how it transforms the SNP. Peter Lynch of Stirling University contrasts the sacrifice of previous generations with the present situation where you can actually have a career with the SNP - "older nationalists would have thought they had died and gone to heaven" in such circumstances. We contrast the civic nationalism of Scotland with ethnic nationalism elsewhere, but show how the SNP has had to deal with groups which endangered the democratic credentials of the party.
In this, the final episode, Billy considers what happened to the national movement over a turbulent and emotional period covering the Yes campaign, the Referendum and its dramatic aftermath. This saw a surge in SNP membership and the resurrection of the movement culminating with an SNP landslide in the 2015 General Election. When Billy asked Alex Salmond to sum up what had taken place in the Cause's recent history, he replied. "Well, I suppose, in a nutshell, we lost the Referendum but we might be well on our way to winning the country."
We focus on the creativity and diversity of the Yes campaign where disparate groups like Women for Independence, Business for Scotland, and the artists of National Collective came together in a common cause. Billy interviews Chris Law MP, whose beautifully refurbished fire engine, "Spirit of Independence" inspired people to join a burgeoning campaign. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the engagement of the grass roots events that she attended made this "the most energising experience" of her life.
Dundee had a vibrant Yes team, and Billy records their highs and lows. Harry Marshall was responsible for registering over 3000 people to vote. One of those queuing to register told Alex Salmond he was doing it because it was the first time in his life he had experienced something worth voting for!
The Referendum defeat was one of the worst experiences of these peoples lives, yet within days the surge of people joining the SNP gave the party and the Cause renewed hope for the future. Energised once again the new momentum carried into the General Election victory. Everyone Billy spoke to, young and old is now convinced that Scotland will be independent within their own lifetime.

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TEXT and WRITING STUFF, LIKE THAT.
We exist in a land of wandering, and lost, we are its explorers. The beginning of this exploration is not of our choosing, the end is yet to come. What belong to us are the middle and the means. We build a fire, and the flames illuminate the chasm that separates us, casts our shadows in opposing directions. In time, it is certain we will part one another's company, and yet somehow it already seems that this new world is already a twilight civilization. Though scattered, we follow one path. Tonight, we will light torches in this shared pit, and find out by trying.

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74. Mining regulations of the Democrat the Congo make a distinc- tion between local traders, or negociants, who are licensed to buy in the field and to sell to any domestic ex comptoirs, which are only li- censed to export. The comptoirs often use the excuse that, because they are not theoretically involved in buyin they are unaware of the origin of the minerals they buy. But many negociants have told the Group that comptoirs need to know where their as the ore content varies from one area to the next. In addition, these buying houses are aware of the presence of armed groups, as their t prices higher. In practice, many comptoirs work with preferred negociants who they know and trust, pre-financing their activities. These neg devel- oped close relationships with FDLR at mining sites.
75. The Group has analysed hundreds of official mineral trans- portation documen Government authorities present at transit centres where minerals arrive before being loaded onto trucks for Goma, Uvira, Butembo and Bu documents confirm that certain negociants have purchased consistently from areas controlled by FDLR and have sent the product consiste comptoirs. 76. The Group has also reviewed official export and mining min- istry documentation that indicates that certain comptoirs buying areas sell their product to a narrow range of foreign companies. The Group has learned from many negociants and the director of a foreign company that some of the foreign companies pre- finance their “own” comptoirs, in other words, acknowledging a chain of financing that flo companies down to the FDLR-con- trolled mining pit.

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Friday, December 1 at 3 p.m.
Saturday, December 2 at 1 p.m.
Harriett and her husband “Bud” were well known long time Amesbury Residents. Harriett grew up on the famous Woodsom Farm and Bud ran Gould Insurance for decades. Discovered in the estate to be auctioned are the personal belongings of Jon J. Gould, son of Harriett and Bud. Jon was a former Vice President of Paramount Pictures and shared a special bond with Andy Warhol, becoming Andy’s closest friend and companion in the 1980’s.
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The 2013 Annual Art Auction will take place on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. The Silent Auction will take place in the Matz Gallery from August 30, to give visitors an opportunity to see the exhibit of paintings and bid early. Great interest is generated throughout the month as the bid book fills up. The Vocal Auction will be held on October 2, at 7:00 PM. A preview party will precede the auction. Light refreshments are available and a performance of live music is presented. The final vocal auction is always an exciting event. This is an important fundraiser for the library, so please come for an entertaining evening and take home a piece of Cape Ann art.
Click on the picture above to see a slideshow from the Art Haven buoy auction on Friday night!
Doors open at 6 pm for final preview and light refreshments.
This year’s auction introduces several NEW features!
Join us on opening night for an exclusive opportunity to meet the artists and preview the outstanding selection of auction paintings, while enjoying live jazz music, creative hors d’oeuvres, open wine bar ….and beautiful views of Gloucester Harbor at sunset!
· More paintings than ever before with over 100 works of art, this year’s auction offers exceptional variety of subject and style – truly something for everyone!
That the National 10 class was originally known as the Turnabout class, built in 1953 by Harold R.Turner as a small wooden single or double handed dinghy class at the Parker River Marine. The boats were initially built as a junior training boat, although adults enjoy the boats as well. The class has grown mainly in the New England and Northeastern regions of the U.S. Fleets are located in Northern Lake George, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and New Jersey. This turnabout, located in Annisquam on Lobster Cove, is said to be the first turnabout ever built.
I went by the Art Auction display at the library this morning and leafed through the bid book. there were many gorgeous paintings without any bids.
My suggestion is for you to go to that auction tomorrow night (Wednesday) for the live auction and you might just walk away with a great piece for very little dough.
The live auction will take place December 8 at 7pm. with a Preview Party at 6pm. Please join the Library for this very special evening.
Sawyer Free Art Auction! Only a Few More Days Left!
This the last full week for bidding on the Paintings that are up for Auction at The Sawyer Free Library.
This is a great Video Joey did of last years Art Auction. It describes How the Silent bidding works at the Library Art Auction.
I usually Contribute a Traditional Cape Ann scene. This Year I entered a Bright Floral Painting. I was a little bummed out Saturday when I checked the Bid Book. So far there are no bids on it. Bidding on the Painting starts a $50.00.
Even If it doesn’t sell I Have the perfect spot for it. it will be my Xmas gift to myself.
Click the Links Below to Check out more Info on the Sawyer Free Library Art Auction.
There are works by Jeff Weaver and Bittman that are going for fractions of their worth.
Here are some Photos from this years Sawyer Free Library Art Auction Exhibit.
There are 71 paintings up for Auction this year.
The bidding starts low and if your lucky you can get a great deal on a work of Art by some of the best artists on Cape Ann.
The Silent Auction will be taking place all through the month of November.
The Bid book is located along with the paintings in the front lobby.
You are warmly invited to attend the Annual Art Auction, featuring live music and refreshments at the 6pm preview party, followed by the live auction. Proceeds support the Sawyer Free Library’s museum passes, programs, scholarships, art books and materials.
Paintings make great gifts to others, or to yourself! Please join us!


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AECEA is pleased to present this year's Leader's Day and Essential Pieces Conference, along with our first ever Student's Day*!
* Please note, the Student's Day on April 25 is only for students currently enrolled in post-secondary programs related to early learning and child care.
Join ECE leaders in an engaging day of learning, building relationships, and conversation with your peers. Learn about AECEA's work and mission of professionalizing the early learning and child care workforce and how you can become a leader within the field.
Complete registration through the online form.
Each session has capacity limits, register early to avoid disappointment.
There will be no changes to session selection once you are registered.
Once payments are processed a receipt will be issued and emailed to the payee (primary contact). Please ensure accurate email information is included when registering.
Registration is transferable. If you cannot attend the conference, you must contact the AECEA office to transfer registration. Transfers will be accepted until April 19, 2019.
Authorized credit card only. Cheques or cash will not be accepted for payment.
All refunds are subject to a 50% cancellation fee. All cancellation requests must be received by April 12, 2018 to receive a partial refund. No refunds will be made for requests received after April 12, 2019. Refunds will be issued in the same form payment was made. Please allow up to two weeks for processing.


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The Colour Card is a solid background the same size as the camera. The Colour Card lets you fill the scene's background with a solid colour when there is no background image. If no background or colour card is added to the scene, the resulting export will appear with a black background.
By default, the Colour Card has a Z ordering value of 12 Backward. This puts the Colour card behind all elements that have a value lower than 12 Backward. Most of the time, the Colour card will appear automatically behind all the scenes elements as they are all set to 0 Backward, unless you have changed the Z ordering of the scene components. If so, the Colour Card will be in front of the elements that are pushed back to more than 12 fields backward.
The value used to determine composition order when the Z value of two elements is the same.
Offset Z The front-back position of the Colour Card layer in 3D space. This value can be verified in the Top view.
The colour and transparency of the Colour Card. You can also attach these parameters to function columns to change their values over time.
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Last week we asked each of the three candidates for the Ward 4 City Council seat a question. All three were kind enough to answer the question for us. Tim Flynn and Robert A. McCarthy will each appear on the ballot on Tuesday, November 7. They each collected the required 25 signatures of Ward 4 registered voters prior to the deadline. Ana Campos came in after that deadline so is therefore a sticker (write-in) candidate.
“Highland Avenue has been developed and built on consistently over the last 50 years, the hospital expansion is the most recent project to get local approvals. How would you approach working with the Mayor and State officials to alleviate traffic concerns?
First, I would like to thank Salem Digest for taking the time to ask us a question and post our responses.
While growing up in Salem I’ve noticed a big change in the amount of traffic that our residents have to deal with on a daily basis. If I am successful in the upcoming election my main focus is on taking care of the problems in Ward 4. It is pretty clear that Highland Avenue is already too heavily congested. Whether you’re heading inbound or outbound, the traffic in this area is a nightmare. I feel that before any new major businesses are developed on Highland Avenue there needs to be a more thorough study performed on how traffic and the neighborhoods will be affected. Even though it is nice to have a new development bringing in tax dollars, I feel the quality of life for the neighbors is far more important. I don’t think that it is a good idea to build the proposed Cinema World Complex on Highland Avenue. Since the land has already been purchased, maybe the developer could decide on a better use for the area. Many people supported buying a high priced parking lot on Derby Street in order to have more green space. Maybe the city should of looked into trying to keep the land that Cinema World wants to build on as green space. I am sure a lot more wild life will be displaced by a new development there as opposed to the Derby Street parking lot. I would be willing to work with who ever is elected on November 7th but keep in mind the best interest of Ward 4 will be my priority. As far as solving the traffic issues on Highland Avenue, you have to look at it with common sense. It is already far too congested and adding any major developments will only increase the problem. I feel bad for anyone that has to travel daily on Highland Avenue, especially those that live from Barcelona Avenue up to the Lynn line. Next time you’re on Highland Ave in a traffic jam, think to yourself how hard it would be for a police car, fire truck or an ambulance to get through.
In a perfect world I believe the answer would be to work on widening the roads however, that would seem improbable. Based on astudy that was done in 2015 by Cinemaworld, Highland Avenue sees roughly 30,000 vehicles daily and growing year over year. I believe it would be in the city’s best interest to reevaluate the peak hours of traffic and adjust the traffic lights timing. By adjusting the timing and making certain areas unison, I believe the potential is there to help reduce the current headache.
Also, I believe it is extremely important that we avoid adding anymore cut through traffic through Ward 4 and other Wards. Speed limits are ignored by many drivers and the safety of families is a concern.
When thinking about Highland Avenue and traffic concerns, we need to put in place strategies to reduce the current load, and carefully think through any new development projects along that corridor to minimize future additional traffic. Our main priority right now should be increasing and improving public transit options to reduce cars on the road. This will improve traffic conditions and efficiency for those of us who live in the more residential neighborhoods of Salem and rely on cars for transportation.
While Highland Avenue itself has numerous bus stops with the 450/450W and 456 MBTA bus lines, our bus stops need an overhaul. Without seating and shelter, residents are not encouraged to make use of the bus lines, especially during the winter seasons. I will advocate for the implementation of bus shelters, to improve conditions for those who depend on mass transit, and encourage more use of mass transit. These bus lines are also inconvenient for most of the Ward 4 neighborhoods. There is currently no public transit option along Marlborough Road, which feeds traffic onto Highland Avenue. So, for example, someone living in the Circle Hill Road area has an almost 25 minute walk to get to the nearest bus stop, at Highland Ave and Greenledge Rd. I will advocate for the implementation of a regular and reliable shuttle, to provide mass transit options for those of us who live along the Marlborough Road corridor. A shuttle running along Marlborough would greatly reduce traffic by providing mass transit to downtown Salem and clearing the roads for those who need cars to get around.
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With most communication expressed nonverbally, these insights should help you make a little more sense out of someone’s puzzling gestures, handshake, or posture.
Wordless communication—or, body language—can be a powerful tool.
But it can also betray you, bringing to the forefront some opinion or feeling that you’d rather the world not see.
It also suggests that most of our communication is nonverbal, with gestures accounting for 55 percent of our communication, compared to 38 percent vocal, and only 7 percent the actual words we use. (It should be noted that this statistic, also known as the “Mehrabian Myth,” is one that is often contested among various circles of professional communicators).


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We are thrilled to announce that Five Acres Animal Shelter is our BOGO recipient from September 1-15. We asked Director of Development, Lauren Bosecker, a few questions to get our supporters familiar with the impact FAAS is making on the animals and people in their community.
PBC: What is your organization's story?
Lauren: Five Acres Animal Shelter is the only no-kill shelter in St. Charles County, Missouri. We were established in 1973 as a foster-based organization and we currently operate on an old farm on 5 acres. We find loving homes for dogs and cats that have either been surrendered to us by owners that can no longer care for them or pulled from shelters where they face euthanasia. All of our animals are spayed or neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and tested for heartworm disease, FIV and FelV before they are adopted. Our mission is to end pet homelessness, promote responsible pet owners and advocate for animal welfare.
PBC: How many dogs did you save last year? Tell us about a memorable rescue.
PBC: Tell us one of the most challenging moments in the rescue and how you guys got through it.
Lauren: When it takes an animal longer to get adopted than the average shelter animal, it is easy for them to develop unwanted behavior traits like aggression, anxiety, etc. Fortunately we did not have this issue with Tres though it can be common. Many of our longer residents are paired up with a shelter buddy to hopefully prevent them from developing certain behaviors that make then harder to adopt. A shelter buddy is an active volunteer that dedicates at least one day of the week to the animal they are paired with so that animal gets one on one special attention. The volunteer will work with that animal on things like obedience, tricks, socialization and simply just taking them outside of the shelter environment so they can take a break. Because we are trying to find homes for these animals, that volunteer will also take their buddy out in the public to meet new people and hopefully find their forever home.
PBC: Let us know anything else you wish to share about Five Acres Animal Shelter.
Lauren: Five Acres Animal Shelter is unlike any shelter in the area. When you walk in the door there is a much different feeling that what you would get walking into another facility. Animals typically are not hiding in corners, our facility is very clean and does not have a very sterile feeling. The animals, staff and volunteers are all very happy and you can see that as soon as you walk in the door. We are also unique because we are one of the only shelters in the area that will care for and find homes for special needs animals, specifically FIV and FelV positive felines. We also have several dogs throughout the year that undergo heartworm treatments. Many of these animals would not be given a chance at an underfunded and overcrowded facility, but Five Acres Animal Shelter believes in giving second chances.
Support Five Acres Animal Rescue by getting a collar and/or leash from our BOGO collections, and one of their adoptables will get one too!

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HYDERABAD, FEB. 23. The Endowments Department has taken a policy decision to conduct religious discourses on a continuous basis for turning the people to God and to the country's spiritual heritage and culture.
To start with, a one-week "Bhagavatha saptaham" will be organised at Telugu Lalitha Kalathoranam here from February 25 by Sri Siddeswarananda Bharatiswamy, head of Sri Siddeswari Peetham, Kurtalam.
"blessings" of the Kanchi pontiff before facing the examinations. Parents were also welcome. This would be followed by a spiritual "raga sagara" programme by Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamy on March 22, a day before Ugadi, at L. B Stadium.
Answering questions, Mr Ramanachary said the policy would be implemented in coordination with the Dharma Prachara Parishad of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and with sponsorship, if any, from donors etc. Also proposed were harikathas and burrakathas .


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INCOME is a collaboration project within systems medicine. Systems medicine allows to integrate heterogeneous datasets to achieve a comprehensive understanding of all processes within the human body. Thereby, it improves disease prevention, diagnosis, and therapy.
INCOME aims to facilitate a networking community that brings models and datasets as well as their developers closer to each other. Most research projects are limited to individual pathways, models, and datasets that are rarely used again. The main reasons are that model re-use, extension, and integration remains challenging due to improper annotation, non-standard implementation, and inaccessibility of the experimental data.
Within e:Med many pathway models have been created in a wide variety of projects. The main objective of INCOME is to interlink and connect these models as much as technically possible.


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For an ISTD brief project we had to dwell into the topic of typography. I decided to choose the theme of electricity and create executables related to it. This is what I managed to make.
I created an anniversary around the creation and formation of the concept of electricity. This execution was a challenge as I was adamant to make use of my 3D abilities to create something relevant to the brief. The most difficulty I had with this was trying to match the audio with the visual representation of the words. I did this by adding sound to Cinema 4D and then painstakingly key framing the camera to animate at the right timing. With the number of words that the animation has, one can imagine that this would’ve taken a rather long time. Another issue I encountered was in relation to render times. Initially I wanted to have a complex 1850’s street-type scene that would be more revealed at the end. The problem with this is that the render would have just taken much too long. I managed to circumvent this by making the scene black and then having it light up the scene at the end.
The intension of this one was to highlight the concept of having “communication” broken down without electricity. I liked this as it has it’s own strong message, however, it did not align very well with th message I was trying to convey in the original video I was supporting.


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Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe is filled with the stuff of legend. I’m not being whimsical here, there are artifacts and tools of the trade hanging upon the walls from not only Pecos Bill himself, but Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Jim Bowie and a host of others. Many of these pieces have been presented to Pecos Bill by friends and adventurers who have passed through is sleepy corner of the Magic Kingdom. Such as this ax, hanging high near the rafters of the ordering stations and fixin’s bar.
While meandering through the restaurant, you may notice that each of the characters represented have a tie to Disney’s film and animated history, and Paul Bunyan is no exception. A short about the life and times of Paul Bunyan, and titled after the colossus himself, was released in 1958. Paul was voiced by the incomparable Thurl Ravenscroft and the narrative was told by the Disneyland musical act The Mellomen. The short highlights a few of Paul Bunyan’s, shall we say, taller tales and includes the story of how he met Babe, the Blue Ox.
I suppose Paul has given up his lumberjacking ways if he gave his ax to Pecos. Of course, the ax could be seen as fair compensation considering how much it would take to satisfy the hunger of a giant who is 63 ax handles high.
Would love to see more photos of Pecos Bill's; I've never been inside, but it's on my top to-do list for my next trip.
Paul Bunyan is one of my favorite Disney short films; it was great to see it turn up on the Rarities treasures DVD. Great song, too -- I wish there was some kind of compilation mix available for listening.
This is such an absolutely awesome detail, and I've never even noticed it!


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By Feb. 15, the president and Congress must reach a budget deal to keep our government open. The president says he needs $5.7 billion to finish a wall, and Congress has offered him money to maintain and expand the existing system. There's a lot of misinformation about this wall, the money and another possible government shutdown.
President Trump made a campaign promise for a border wall, 35 to 40 feet tall, running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, which would stop all illegal immigrants, all terrorists and all contraband from crossing our southern border.
Some political supporters of Republican Donald Trump think this border wall could be completed with the requested $5.7 billion. That promise is gone for good and has been for a long time. Some possible prototypes of a small size “wall” were built but none have been adopted or constructed at any point along the border.
For the border, last year, Republicans gave the Department of Homeland Security $1.375 billion. The money funded repair projects and an extension of existing fencing. One of the projects fell behind schedule and remains uncompleted. Yet, some Republicans lie about the projects.
The four projects included a steel bollard wall, a primary pedestrian wall, a secondary border wall and a levee wall system. When and if all the repairs, replacements and extensions are completed, we would have worked on 84 miles of fence.
For this year, 2019, the Democrats offered him the same amount of money as the Republicans in 2018, $1.375 billion. The president rejected that money and shut down the government. The immediate economic cost of the shutdown exceeded the $5.7 billion. That was fiscally irresponsible .
Had the Republican Congress of 2018 or the 2019 Congress given President Trump $5.7 billion, that broken promise of a wall would still be a broken campaign promise. There's no wall being planned. The uncompleted projects are merely repairs, upgrades and extensions of existing fence. The huge new money could have been used to hide cost over-runs on bad promises and poor execution of old plans.
No money. No wall. No more lies.

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Jan Rodriguez is assistant general counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Ball Corporation, headquartered in Broomfield.
Rick Samson is founder of Samson Law Firm in Longmont.
“Jan and Rick not only bring financial and legal experience to the board, but also a demonstrated commitment to the community,” said Ryan McCoy, foundation executive director.
At Ball Corporation, Rodriguez provides legal assistance for various business groups throughout the company.
She graduated from Northeastern State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majoring in accounting. She received her law degree from the University of Tulsa.
“Jan began her studies at a community college and is very sensitive to the unique needs of some of our students,” McCoy said.
Samson has long placed great value on public service, donating time and expertise to a broad spectrum of non-profit, educational, and community organizations. He was a member of the St. Vrain Valley school board for eight years and spent three years on the board of directors of Bethany College.
Samson has received the Ron Porter Community Service Award from the Boulder County Bar Association, the Lee Shepard Memorial Volunteer of the Year awarded from Partners of Boulder County Inc., and the Larry Nelson Community Service Award from the Longmont Twin Peaks Rotary Club.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College, majoring in history and political science, and graduated from Washburn University Law School.
See more information on the FRCC Foundation.


text: Distinguished for their verdant vegetation and the cleanest waters of the Aegean, the Sporades Islands are waiting for you to discover them. Skiathos, the queen of the Sporades, will astonish you with the unparalleled beauty of the natural scenery and it will seduce you with the turquoise waters of the seashores while Skopelos, the greenest island of the country, invites you to discover its intoxication verdant sceneries. Undeniably, the stigma of Alonnisos is the beautiful pine forest that gives an aura of brightness and freshness to this tiny paradise. It is no coincidence that Alonisos has the privilege to host the largest Marine Park in Europe, known as the residence of the sweetest monk seal Monachus Monachus. Of course, one could not forget Skyros, the biggest island of the Sporades that holds a bucket of experiences enchanting the travellers with the alterations of natural sceneries.

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text: Just got back from Something's Gotta Give with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. It was hillarious and completely fab. Stay til the very end or you'll miss Jack singing.

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This cardigan by Be Pure is lovely to wear during colder times. This item comes in a pink hue which looks beautiful with any outfit and is made with incredibly soft material. Comfortable and stylish!
These mid-rise jeans by Lois Jeans are perfect for any casual outift! The slightly destored and wassed effect give the jeans a sturdy look.

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Loa’s Tire & Auto Service provides Heater Hose Replacement services to Corpus Christi, TX, Rockport, TX, Ingleside, TX, and other surrounding areas.
Why Should You Have Heater Hose Replacement Services Performed at Loa’s Tire & Auto Service?
We proudly service the Heater Hose Replacement needs of customers in Corpus Christi, TX, Rockport, TX, Ingleside, TX, and surrounding areas.


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Too much risk is bad for business. Too much control is bad for performance. That’s why you need smart technologies and processes that automate Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) management and help you keep the right balance.
See how one customer saved €2.5 million annually by using ARIS to automate GRC management. Read other reasons you’ll like ARIS for faster—and easier—regulatory compliance to keep your business safe.
Identify internal measures to ensure compliance. Establish a schedule to assess effectiveness, and report to the authorities about status and findings. Adapt faster to new laws and regulations, and create synergies between overlapping regulatory requirements by creating one company-specific requirements catalog.
Define the right controls to mitigate risks and install effective measures to reduce their consequences if they occur. Use heat maps and bow tie methodology to visualize and analyze risk status. Determine risk probabilities and damage distributions by simulating risk events along business-process chains.
Analyze and assess quality by scheduling audit-related tasks, managing paperwork, organizing findings and reporting results. Reduce costs of temporary staff, such as auditors, and reuse best practices. Gain insight into upcoming tasks and preparation times. Get a real-time overview of your company’s risk and control landscape.
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Digitalization presents new opportunities, new risks and new regulations. Read 10 key takeaways you need to know about a digital GRC management system to keep everything under control.

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There was this thing my grandmother used to say – and my mother sometimes, too – when I was a kid and I did something silly… fà nén l’ulùk, which is Piedmontese dialect, probably specific to the Turin area, for don’t play the fool, or don’t be silly.
Now I must say a lot of terms my grandmother used were extremely strange, exotic and never fully explained. To me as a kid was like she was some kind of character that came from another world, full of strange words whose meaning I extracted from context.
It’s too similar not to raise some suspicion.
Skywalker hoolock gibbon (Hoolock tianxing).
And I wondered whether, for some strange circuitous reason, the word entered the Piedmontese dialect. Don’t play the monkey.
Zoo, circus, popular adventure novel? Whence did it come from?
But it got at the same time simpler and stranger.
Talking with a friend that’s more versed in our native dialect that I am, turns out ulùk is in some areas of Piedmont the name of the owl.
And by checking the Hobson-Jobson, I found out the name of the gibbon is derived from Bengali hulàk, and possibly in turn from the Sanscrit huluk – which means owl.
Isn’t this whole language thing wonderful?
One way or another, I find this connection or similarity quite fascinating.


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1745 was a busy year in the history of the misnamed British Isles, with Bonnie Prince Charlie doing his best to end the reign of the Hanover Dynasty in England, so I guess it is excusable that no note was taken of the birth date of John Barry in Tacumshane, County Wexford, Ireland. During his childhood John received, along with all the other excellent reasons given to Irish Catholics over the centuries to love Britannia, good reason to look askance at the British when his father was evicted from his poor little farm by their British landlord, and the family went to live in the village of Rosslare.
Yet the nameless landlord, completely unintentionally of course, did John a good turn, because it was in Rosslare that young John found his life’s calling: the Sea. Nicholas Barry, his uncle, lived there and was captain of a fishing skiff. John decided to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and seek his fortunes on water.
This was a completely rational choice on the part of John. The British imposed penal laws, summarized by the great Edmund Burke as follows: “For I must do it justice; it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and deliberate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Rendered helots in their own land, almost all ambitious Irish Catholic lads and lasses had to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Additionally, for a poor ambitious young man in Europe in the Eighteenth Century, the Sea offered a path to wealth and social advancement. If he was willing to work hard, learn to read, and learn enough math to chart the course of a ship, a poor sailor, with luck, could rise to be captain of a ship one day. Compensation for the crew of a merchant vessel was often based on a share of the profits, with the merchants who bankrolled the vessel usually taking between a half to two-thirds with the remainder being divided among the crew: the greater the rank, the larger the share. An able captain could eventually become a wealthy merchant. His daughters might marry into the aristocracy. His sons might become wealthy bankers and eventually be ennobled if they played their political cards right. Although this path was precluded to Irish Catholics by the anti-Catholic Test Act, a poor sailor in the Royal Navy might end his days as an admiral, and there were always a few admirals in the Royal Navy in the Eighteenth Century who had begun their careers in just such a fashion.
However, if the Sea offered opportunities it also had severe risks. Life aboard ship was cramped and unpleasant, with bad food and putrid water tossed in as a garnish. Discipline was often brutal and risk to life and limb was an every day occurence. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson, “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” Ports were filled with crippled sailors who eked out a miserable existence with any light work they could get, selling wood carvings and begging. As Lord Nelson noted, the average British sailor, due to a hard life, was dead by forty-five.
Defying all challenges, John flourished at sea. Flying through the ranks of cabin boy, seaman, able seaman and a mate’s rating, he proved himself tough and determined. It also didn’t hurt that he was as strong as a sea-going ox, and grew into a giant of a man, standing six foot and four inches in a time when the average height of an adult male was five feet and five inches. During his career he would suppress three mutinies aboard his ships single handedly, and his great physical strength was a key asset in the very rough world afloat. In 1766 he achieved his dream of becoming a captain and skippered the Barbados with a home port of Philadelphia. It was on the Barbados that he began his habit, that he kept up in peace and war, in having the day start with a reading from the Bible to the crew. Captain Barry fell in love with Phillie, a town where he could freely practice his Catholic faith, and a bustling, prosperous port.
Barry specialized in the West Indies trade and enhanced his reputation around town when it was noted that he successfully sailed various ships to and from the Indies in nine profitable voyages. In 1772 he was placed in command of the merchant vessel Peg owned by one of foremost mercantile houses in Philadelphia, and in 1774 he began a life-long collaboration and friendship with Robert Morris, a future signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, and who earned the title Financier of the Revolution by putting his considerable financial skills at the service of his country during the War for Independence. Barry was assigned command of the 200 ton Black Prince in 1774 and in that year set a speed record that endured throughout the Eighteenth Century, traveling 237 miles in a 24 hour period. As he grew in wealth he never forgot his humble origins. Early in his career as a ship captain he joined the Charitable Captains of Ships Club, an organization dedicated to supporting the widows and orphans of sailors.
Not only Barry’s financial life prospered but also his personal life. In 1767 he married Mary Clary, a Protestant, at Old Saint Joseph’s Chapel. She converted to the Faith during their marriage and died tragically at 29 in 1774 while John was away at sea. In 1777 he married Sarah Keen Austin. Sally as she was called, also converted to the Faith, and although their marriage was not blessed with children, they joyfully raised two of John’s nephews after his sister Eleanor died. The Barrys attended mass at Old Saint Joseph’s, Old Saint Mary’s and Saint Augustine’s in Philadelphia.
As soon as John Barry returned to America in 1775 from his latest merchant voyage, he volunteered his services in defense of his adoptive homeland. If the colonists faced long odds on land, disorganized colonial militias and a fledgling Continental Army confronting the well-trained Royal Army and a British Treasury that had limitless funds to hire mercenaries from Germany, the war at sea appeared hopeless for the Americans. The Royal Navy was the largest Navy in the world, their seamen were the best sailors, and their officers the finest in the world. However the Americans were not completely defenseless at sea. The New England colonies had a long seagoing tradition. Letters of marque and reprisal were issued by the Continental Congress and the new state governments, and the seas soon swarmed with Yankee privateers attacking the British merchant fleet. By the end of the war American privateers had taken about 600 British ships, thus doing huge damage to British commerce. The British also armed privateers to attack American merchants, but with less success since the American merchants were usually armed and would rarely submit without a fight. This often overlooked aspect of the American Revolution is set forth well in the modern “sea chantey” Barrett’s Privateers.
Although privateering proved damaging to the British long term, the Americans also founded a Navy, and it was in this service that Barry rose to fame. Hopelessly outnumbered, the United States Navy fought a gallant, and surprisingly successful, struggle. The spirit of daring that motivated many American naval captains was summed up well in this passage from a letter of John Paul Jones: “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm’s way.” No one, including the legendary Jones himself, typified this spirit among the officers of the new Navy more than John Barry.
Barry was placed in command of the USS Lexington, 14 guns, on December 7, 1775. Captain Barry took the Lexington on its maiden voyage on March 26, 1776. On April 7, 1776, Barry had his initial victory of the war, taking H.M.S. sloop Edward after a short but fierce engagement. This was the first naval victory of the new Continental Navy. On July 27th, 1776 Barry captured the British privateer Lady Susan. Early in September the Lexington took the British sloop Betsy.
Late in 1776 Captain Barry was placed in command of the USS Effingham, a frigate of 32 guns. At about this time Barry received an offer from a British spy. Turn the Effingham over to the British and he would be paid 20,000 pounds sterling and a commission in the Royal Navy. Barry indignantly refused the offer, stating that “Not the value and the command of the entire British fleet can lure me from the cause of my country.” Being a sailor and Irish, I have no doubt some other colorful choice phrases issued from him on this occasion.
A lull occurring in the naval war during the winter of 1776-77, Barry organized a company of volunteers and fought under Washington at Trenton and Princeton.
In early 1777 Barry was placed in command of the port of Philadelphia and busied himself preparing its naval defense. The space of a blog post does not allow me to go into detail as to the brilliant operations conducted by Barry on the Delaware River after the British captured Philadelphia. Suffice it to say that he continually impeded the progress of the British fleet up the Delaware and remained a constant menace to the British as long as they occupied Philadelphia. On March 8,1778, Barry, commanding a “fleet” of row boats, barges and long boats, surprised and captured on the Delaware two armed sloops, an armed schooner and several transports. The captured transports yielded much needed supplies for the Continental Army This action caused General Washington to send this letter to Captain Barry.
“Head Quarters 12th March 1778.
I have received your Letter of the 9th. inst. and congratulate you upon the success which crowned your gallantry and address, in the late Attack upon the Enemys Ships – altho circumstances prevented you from reaping the full benefit of your conquest, there is ample consolation in the degree of Glory which you have acquired – You will be pleased to accept of my sincere thanks, for the good things which you have been so polite as to send me, with my wishes that suitable Success may always attend your Bravery.
I am Sir Your most obedt Servt.
Captain Barry was given command on May 30, 1778 of the USS Raleigh. In an ill-fated voyage, Barry encountered a British fleet and after a 48 hour chase and a 7 hour battle, he was forced to abandon ship off the coast of Maine. Captain Barry saved most of his crew but the Raleigh was captured. Barry received a commendation for his gallantry during this action.
Being temporarily without a Continental Navy command due to lack of ships, Barry accepted command of the privateer Delaware, 12 guns, on February 18, 1779. During his cruise in this vessel, he captured HMS Harlem, a sloop of war of 14 guns.
Captain Barry remained in command of the Alliance till the end of the war. He fought the last sea battle of the Continental Navy on March 10, 1783 off Cape Canaveral when the Alliance defeated HMS Sybylle in order to protect the Duc de Lauzon, a transport carrying 72,000 spanish silver dollars to the Continental Congress. The Sybylle surrended, but due to other British ships chasing the Alliance, Barry could not take it as a prize. John Barry thus began and ended the war at sea for the Continental Navy with victories.
After the war Barry returned to the merchant trade and helped to open up trade between America and China.
His country called upon him again on June 5, 1794 when Secretary of War Henry Knox advised Barry that he had been chosen to be senior Captain of the United States Navy. Barry supervised the construction of the frigates authorized under the Naval Act of 1794. During the Quasi War with France, Barry was addressed by the courtesy title of Commodore due to his seniority whenever he commanded a squadron of American ships. He thus became the first naval officer of flag rank in American history. In command of the frigate USS United States, he took several armed French vessels and exercised operational command of the American squadrons in the West Indies during the war. Considering that this post now exceeds 2000 words I will forego a detailed description of his actions in this war, except to note that it was through his training of young officers who went on to distinguish themselves in the War against the Barbary Pirates and the War of 1812 that he became known as the Father of the Navy, and that the US Navy was victorious in the Quasi War. Barry retired in 1801.
Shortly before his death he was offered command against the Barbary Pirates. For the first and only time in his life the old sailor had to decline the call to duty due to ill health. John Barry died on September 13, 1803 and was buried in the Old Saint Mary’s cemetary in 1803 in Philadelphia. Both of his wives are buried beside him, Sally Barry surviving him until 1831. There have been five US Naval vessels named after Barry. The latest is a guided missile destroyer. President Reagan proclaimed Commodore John Barry Day on August 20, 1981, to be observed each September 13. Commodore John Barry Day is one of the four official holidays observed by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The finest tribute to Barry of course is the United States Navy, a service that continues to uphold the traditions of courage, determination, daring and victory he helped forge. Not bad for a poor boy from Ireland.
Serious thanks for making the post on Barry availab le to all of us, Irishmen or not!
Serious thanks for posting on John Barry; an informative treat to read Irish or not!
Thank you Betsy for your kind comment!