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Crash (b. John Matos, Bronx, New York, Oct. 11, 1961) is a graffiti artist. As early as 13, John Matos was spray painting New York City trains, the full image art as opposed to simpler tagging soon transferred to silk screened canvas.[1][2] He was first noticed through his murals on subway cars and dilapidated buildings, he is now regarded as a pioneer of the Graffiti art movement.[3] His work is said to convey a 'visual link between street life and established society'.[4] In 1980, Crash curated the now iconic exhibition:'Graffiti Art Success for America' at Fashion MODA, launching the graffiti movement that has remained very active through today. By the 1980s Matos had exhibits across the United States and abroad. Galerie Yaki Kornblit was the first instrumental gallery in Amsterdam that help launch his career in Europe. In 1981 Crash, along with 10 other artists were chosen by The Public Art Fund to design animated imagery for The Spectacolor Billboard in Times Square. He was given his first gallery showing by Sidney Janis at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1983.[1][3] Chase Manhattan, N.A., as well as CITIBANK, N.A., and other collections came calling. In 1984, Crash along with Keith Haring painted mural installations for the 5/5 Figuration Libre France/USA at the Musee d'art Moderne de la Villa de Paris. In 1988 he sprayed Notes in the Wind measuring 178 x 178 centimetres to be exhibited and eventually to be owned by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation in Zevenaar, Netherlands. In 1995, Crash was commissioned by British American Tobacco to create a commission for Lucky Strike brand cigarette, joining fellow artist Keith Haring, to create a special work for this company and their collection.

In 1996, Crash painted an Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster and gave it to the artist as a gift. Clapton went on to use the specially designed guitar through his 2001 tour and later appeared with another. In total Crash has created 5 guitars for Clapton, though only three of them have made public appearances. One of Clapton's 'Crashocasters' (nicknamed by Eric's former guitar tech, Lee Dickson) auctioned for $321,100 (USD) by the name of 'Crash-3' and was used extensively during the first Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004. Soon after Fender Musical Instruments commissioned the creation of 50 such graffiti designed guitars from Crash and named the line 'Crashocasters.' Crash went on to also design a line of custom painted Telecasters with matching Fender amps.[5][6] Other artists such as John Mayer have used the custom painted Crashocaster guitars.[7]

In July 2006, the pieces titled 'Aeroplane 1' (1983) and 'A-U-T-O-matic',(1985), along with other paintings from their permanent collection were displayed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art in a featured exhibit titled 'Graffiti.'[1][3][8] In 2009, Crash held his first exhibition of painted guitars and guitar related artwork in NYC.

In 2010, Crash held a 30 year retrospective at Fairfield University's Walsh Gallery. Crash was asked by Sanrio to create a series of paintings to be shown at Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL, featuring Hello Kitty and other characters from Sanrio's catalogue. Also, in 2010, Crash was commissioned to create a special limited edition luggage for TUMI, Inc.[9] A painting was created and used for the design, which was released world wide in 2011. Same day releases were coordinated in Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Germany, Paris and London. Crash is one of the New York artist featured at MOCA, The David Geffen Building, Los Angeles' 'Art in the Streets', April–August 2011. In 2011, Crash held his first print survey exhibition in Southport, Ct., at Southport Galleries.
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Crash (b. John Matos, Bronx, New York, Oct. 11, 1961) is a graffiti artist. As early as 13, John Matos was spray painting New York City trains, the full image art as opposed to simpler tagging soon transferred to silk screened canvas.[1][2] He was first noticed through his murals on subway cars and dilapidated buildings, he is now regarded as a pioneer of the Graffiti art movement.[3] His work is said to convey a 'visual link between street life and established society'.[4] In 1980, Crash curated the now iconic exhibition:'Graffiti Art Success for America' at Fashion MODA, launching the graffiti movement that has remained very active through today. By the 1980s Matos had exhibits across the United States and abroad. Galerie Yaki Kornblit was the first instrumental gallery in Amsterdam that help launch his career in Europe. In 1981 Crash, along with 10 other artists were chosen by The Public Art Fund to design animated imagery for The Spectacolor Billboard in Times Square. He was given his first gallery showing by Sidney Janis at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1983.[1][3] Chase Manhattan, N.A., as well as CITIBANK, N.A., and other collections came calling. In 1984, Crash along with Keith Haring painted mural installations for the 5/5 Figuration Libre France/USA at the Musee d'art Moderne de la Villa de Paris. In 1988 he sprayed Notes in the Wind measuring 178 x 178 centimetres to be exhibited and eventually to be owned by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation in Zevenaar, Netherlands. In 1995, Crash was commissioned by British American Tobacco to create a commission for Lucky Strike brand cigarette, joining fellow artist Keith Haring, to create a special work for this company and their collection.
In 1996, Crash painted an Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster and gave it to the artist as a gift. Clapton went on to use the specially designed guitar through his 2001 tour and later appeared with another. In total Crash has created 5 guitars for Clapton, though only three of them have made public appearances. One of Clapton's 'Crashocasters' (nicknamed by Eric's former guitar tech, Lee Dickson) auctioned for $321,100 (USD) by the name of 'Crash-3' and was used extensively during the first Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004. Soon after Fender Musical Instruments commissioned the creation of 50 such graffiti designed guitars from Crash and named the line 'Crashocasters.' Crash went on to also design a line of custom painted Telecasters with matching Fender amps.[5][6] Other artists such as John Mayer have used the custom painted Crashocaster guitars.[7]
In July 2006, the pieces titled 'Aeroplane 1' (1983) and 'A-U-T-O-matic',(1985), along with other paintings from their permanent collection were displayed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art in a featured exhibit titled 'Graffiti.'[1][3][8] In 2009, Crash held his first exhibition of painted guitars and guitar related artwork in NYC.
In 2010, Crash held a 30 year retrospective at Fairfield University's Walsh Gallery. Crash was asked by Sanrio to create a series of paintings to be shown at Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL, featuring Hello Kitty and other characters from Sanrio's catalogue. Also, in 2010, Crash was commissioned to create a special limited edition luggage for TUMI, Inc.[9] A painting was created and used for the design, which was released world wide in 2011. Same day releases were coordinated in Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Germany, Paris and London. Crash is one of the New York artist featured at MOCA, The David Geffen Building, Los Angeles' 'Art in the Streets', April–August 2011. In 2011, Crash held his first print survey exhibition in Southport, Ct., at Southport Galleries.
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Yesterday, at the request of fossil fuel lobbyists, President Trump signed two executive orders that attempt to hinder states' authority to protect clean water from fossil fuel pipelines and other projects. The move was intended to make it faster and easier for oil and gas projects to sidestep states' concerns about impacts to water quality from large fossil fuel projects under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. States have historically retained the right to evaluate projects' impacts to state waterways, and states like Oregon and Washington have used this power to deny destructive projects that received lax reviews from federal regulators.
Advocates for climate action and public health in the Pacific Northwest denounced Trump's move.


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The loves and losses of six young men and women from the Midlands in the mid-twentieth century, Money on't Table is the true story of building new lives and a new Britain.
'Walking up Quarry Street, Albert felt a huge surge of pride. His first pay packet. He'd earned it all himself. His heart nearly burst out of his chest as he placed the money on the kitchen table in front of his mother.
Their parents worked as miners and lace workers, but by the mid-twentieth century new opportunities beckoned for the children of the Midlands.
Derek, Betty, Albert, Pauline, Doreen and Bob came from families where every penny counted. Education meant sacrifice, and even children had to help their family through illness, poverty and disaster. Leaving school as young as thirteen, they went to work at the Great British companies Boots, Players and Raleigh. Their new lives took them from cigarette packing, sewing machine piecework and selling rubber 'prophylactics' to places their parents could not have dreamt of – selling lingerie, working on the Queen Mary and even becoming a director at Boots.
Following the loves and losses of six young men and women, Money on't Table is the true story of building new lives and a new Britain.
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Meander Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio, specifically the counties of Mahoning and Trumbull.
It is a tributary of the Mahoning River. The creek is impounded by the Meander Creek Reservoir.

The creek was so named on account of its meandering course.

See also
List of rivers of Ohio

References

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Rivers of Trumbull County, Ohio
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SOURCE– I think with Brady, any time you have a little bit of a dip in performance, you have to ask. The main problem here is you don't get a warning. It just happens so fast and then that's it. I do think it's something worth asking. The main thing for the Patriots is they need to know what they have…If they know Brady is limited, I think they'll spend the bye week figuring it out and then they'll problaby end up being fine because they'll gameplan around it.
You can't make this stuff up. Every single year these takes get recycled over and over and over again. Lazy hot take artists act like they are the smartest person in the room and are saying something that hasn't been incorrectly said for the last half-decade.
They think they are geniuses for say the Patriots dynasty is over. That the Patriots will never go back to another Super Bowl. That Tom Brady is going to fall off a cliff. That Tom Brady will be a bum in short order.
It doesn't matter which network it's on. It doesn't matter if you're watching TV or listening to the radio. Everyone and their mother lovesssssss to predict the demise of the New England Patriots. I don't blame them either. The Patriots run has been so so so long. I mean we are talking 17 years of Tom Brady and the Patriots winning championships. It has to get old. I mean as a Celtics fan, I can't wait for Golden States' run to end. The Warriors have been dominate for only the last 5 years. So I get the reason why everyone hates. I understand why everyone wants someone new to get a shot at a championship. The fact of the matter is that unfortunately for all the haters, of which there are many, Tom Brady is not falling off the cliff.
The Patriots are fine. I understand they haven't looked great, and when you compare this team to some of the other Patriots teams in the past, they might not stack up that well. But the truth is that the Patriots are still on the best teams in the league this year. They are going to win the division, they are going to get a bye, and they are going to go back to the AFC Championship. Obviously, where that game is played is going to have a big factor if they make it to the Super Bowl. However, when you look at the rest of the Patriots schedule, you can see they have a real shot at winning out. I am sorry to disappoint the haters. But the Patriots and Tom Brady aren't going anywhere.


40-year-old 'Lucifer' actor Tom Ellis, emerges from a pool of water as he announces the fourth season of Netflix's hit show LUCIFER.
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Powering Trench Burners
The McPherson family got a unique start to their business venture when they saw a local need for peanut-drying equipment. They started their operation with just a 12- by 18-meter (40- by 60-foot) shop equipped with a few welders and a metal shear — working with local peanut-drying operations to provide the necessary equipment.
After a few years, they had the knowledge and expertise to modify existing equipment designs, switch their business model, and begin manufacturing refractory-lined pit burners and trench burners powered by John Deere engines. Three generations later, McPherson Systems, Inc., of Tifton, Georgia, has been burning through the competition ever since.
Zach McPherson, engineer at McPherson Systems, Inc., began his journey with the family business at just 12 years old; working his way through the ranks assembling machines and even stepping into fabrication before he left for Georgia Southern University.
"I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree and then started working for Flint Power, a John Deere Power Systems distributor, as an application engineer," says McPherson. "And that's actually how McPherson Systems got into using John Deere engines."
Engineer brings insider expertise to trench burner business
Working at Flint Power, McPherson had the opportunity to change his perspective as an agent representative and application engineer for his family's company.
"McPherson [Systems] bought one or two John Deere engines while I was at Flint, and I actually did the application testing on the first unit," he says. "It was nice to go back and oversee that process and be a major player on both sides."
After working with Flint Power for three years, he changed roles again — this time making his way back home to McPherson Systems, Inc.
"We hit the ground running with the John Deere PowerTech™ EWX 4.5L engine at 74 hp (55 kW). It just fit the bill perfectly," details McPherson. "We didn't have any complaints. We have several of them that have put in several thousand hours in an incredibly harsh environment."
That environment includes temperatures as hot as 2500 degrees Fahrenheit and surrounding air filled with smoke, ash, and soot.
McPherson Systems benefits from close integration
When McPherson returned to his family company, he brought with him a developed skillset and deep knowledge of John Deere engines. This enhanced the dynamic of a typical distributor-customer relationship.
"It really gave us an advantage. We don't have to go back and forth too terribly much as far as what engine we need, what size, or what particular requirements we have," says McPherson. "If we have an issue, we know who to talk to about it, and we've built a good-standing relationship. It takes me about an hour and half to get out of there, talking to and catching up with everybody."
Right out of the gate, McPherson knew exactly what he needed from Flint Power and how to better integrate the engines.
He knew he and his team didn't have to worry about the already hardened John Deere engine, even in the harshest of applications. Taking into account special requirements upfront, like having a rigid frame to withstand high amounts of vibration, has made a positive change in the longevity of the McPherson's burners.
Trench and pit burners built to last
McPherson Systems, Inc., prides itself on building "the heaviest machine possible," as McPherson describes.
With a heavier, more durable machine, you can achieve a hotter burn — and the hotter the burn, the cleaner the burn. This means the machine is working as efficiently as possible. In fact, many of McPherson's customers will tell anyone looking for a burner, "If it's not a signature McPherson machine, don't hook it to your truck."
After years of refining equipment designs and working with (and briefly for) a John Deere distributor, Zach McPherson has continued the family legacy of McPherson Systems, Inc. Their strong, durable, and innovative equipment has met its match in a strong, durable, and reliable engine that will continue to empower them to provide a safe, clean way to dispose of wood waste. Using a trench or pit burner is more efficient and compliant with state and local laws than open burning.
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Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
the Lord stood above it and said: "I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.


This is the smaller Taiko-bashi (Sori-bashi) located in front of the Romon (Sakura Gate) on the right. The Wisteria Festival of Kameido Tenjin Shrine held from mid-April to mid-May every year is a harbinger of summer. There are many other events held at the shrine. The parents of young children release carp into Shinji Pond during the Shichi-Go-San Festival on November 15 to pray for the healthy growth of their children. Masaoka shiki wrote the haiku poem: "Sori-bashi, the wisteria are purple and carp red".


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Ni price will increase?
News from Yieh United Shanghai
Nickel prices have rebounded after last week fell to a low of nearly seven years, amid speculation the heavily indebted miner Glencore after cutting its output of copper and zinc, or nickel output will be suppressed.
Glencore but the world's fifth largest nickel producer, the operations in Australia, Canada, Norway, New Caledonia and Dominica, the majority of the assets of its 2013 acquisition of Xstrata (Xstrata) obtained after.
Glencore may refuse to comment on the speculation. The company shares due to fears that its debt burden who were suppressed.
Minelife commodities analyst Gavin Wendt said, "In the nickel market, and of copper and zinc, as Glencore cuts could have a huge impact."
"Not only to investors and bankers Glencore pass the correct information, but also saves money for the company, perhaps in the production process can boost nickel prices."
Three-month nickel on Tuesday in London to $ 10,460 a tonne, compared with August 12 hit low since December 2008 up 15% to $ 9,100.
LME nickel inventories currently up to 44 tons, the market volume was 2 million tons per year.
UBS analyst Daniel Morgan expects the price of today's computing by nearly 50% of global nickel output are at a loss, this is a very extreme phenomenon minerals.
"Nevertheless, the closed mines are few, compared to other commodities, such reaction is the worst," Morgan said in a report, adding that if the manufacturers to reduce the supply, prices will be very supportive.
By far the largest rate cut in Canada to count Sherritt International. The company in July 2015 nickel output will target ten thousand tons from the previous forecast of 8-8.6 reduced to 7.8-8.2 million tons.
Glencore nickel business performed poorly, worse than copper and zinc.
Nickel production sector in the first half revenue fell 25% over the same period revenues of copper and zinc sector decreased by 12% and 8%, respectively.
Copper prices rebounded from lows in September for six years, before Glencore represent and copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia operations will be suspended for 18 months, so that the market supply will be reduced by 400,000 tons.
On Friday zinc price rose 10 percent, the highest in at least 10 years, the biggest single-day gain. Glencore had said it would cut zinc production of 500,000 tons, equivalent to 4 percent of the global supply.
"Copper and zinc price trend implies that Glencore or will be treated the same way as the nickel assets," commodities analyst Daniel Hynes said.
Glencore trying to cut one third of the $ 30 billion debt, showing that no longer need to abandon the ruthless ambition nickel assets.
The company in June to Cosmos nickel ore sold to 24.5 million Australian dollars, this is only Xstrata in 2008 to A $ 3.1 billion acquisition of its then owner Jubilee Mines fraction.


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Sadly, unless 53 has changed their ways, essentially WE the public are paying for the donation. They recently were a part of a huge suit due to overdraft charges being applied to deliberately overdraw accounts as much as possible.
If they're truly so generous, why not offer it freely? Makes me skeptical.
Thanks for a great time visiting your site. Pretty good post.
This is a great article and a great idea! Everyone could do with a little extra cash now and then.


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Stage 7: Eschenbach / Atzmännig – Arosa
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Friday, 15th June 2018
Emmental as anything
Sweet dreams are made of cheese - who am I to dis-a-'brie'…?
If you have looked across my Tour de Suisse landing page, you will see, amongst Tour de Suisse trivia and other journalistic bric-a-brac of varying degrees of usefulness, an introductory paragraph full of Swiss cultural (mis)appropriations and puns. I had intended to thread these masterfully through the stages as a reward for regular readers, and as an earnest tribute to this beautifully unique (and occasionally odd) country.
I got off to a good start too, with a cringe-worthy knock-knock joke heralding the opening of the stage 1 team time trial - the future yode(l) well. Then the reality of covering a multi-stage race on my lonesome interceded, meaning I haven't been able to bring you the lighter (and oft wonderful) sides to Switzerland in the way I would have hoped.
Enter stage 7, and, with only 2 more stages after this, I am solemnly recommitting to Swiss cultural anthropology. Starting with cheese.
Sure, the French will claim that cheese is their 'thing'. The US might argue it is now theirs - producing over a quarter of the world's supply. TItalians might point to the fact that it was popularised by the Roman Empire, while Germans consume an average of over 25kg per person, per annum. With no definitive archaeological records to pinpoint exactly where or when cheese was first produced, or who the clever devils were (a region of modern-day Poland currently has the strongest claim) - there are no shortage of 'holes' in the backstory.
Still, for today - and stage 7 - at least, it is all about Swiss cheese (despite the term being a North American appropriation for a variety from Emmental, Switzerland). It started with an impromptu tasting of local produce at Goldberg BnB... for breakfast! My host, Meinrad, brought out an impressive selection for me to sample - all of which looked much more upmarket than the selection at the Volg grocery store that I had been frequenting for dashboard delicacies. I cut a generous slice from each of them, before going back for seconds. Noticing my interest in the wares, Meinrad disappeared back to the kitchen and returned with an even larger selection.
This was followed by a lesson in local cheese appreciation, which I followed along as best I could. Still, at one moment Meinrad seemed to be talking about the cheese having an aroma of flowers, when all I could smell were feet (or socks).
This cultural consternation came at a price - I was running very late (which was not very 'Gouda' - a Dutch variety). Still, I was glad to see I wasn't the only one - I was narrowly beaten to the village by the Trek Segafredo bus. Birds of a 'cheddar', so to speak.
After the obligatory sign-on photos, I was heading back to the car when I spotted Nairo Quintana riding past with a big, cheesy grin on his face. He even held out his hand with a 'thumbs up' for the gathered press. I guess he was feeling 'grate' today - a sign of what was to come?
Take it cheesy
My first spot was a switchback on one of today's smaller climbs. I wasn't far ahead of the riders but I still managed to make a cheese sandwich (following Meinrad's selection advice), eat it gleefully, and then arrange my slightly-damp washing on the parcel shelf of the Skoda. Ah, the glamorous life of Beardy's Caravan.
Ditching followers
The second location was sight-unseen, but, with mountains in every direction, it didn't take long to find a nice spot; albeit lying in the ditch by the side of road. As I waited for the riders, I passed the time posting to Instagram. A cyclist pulled up on his bike, gave me a strange look and said 'Hey, I think I follow you on Instagram?'. I replied that, yeah, that was likely me - and that I had just posted some new images. I wish I'd had a sticker to give him to say thanks.
After the riders flashed by, I said auf wiedersehen to my new friend and headed off for the main event - the climb to Arosa. I had checked up on this location and was hoping that there might be some spectators to add a bit of life to the shots. The climb was long (almost 30 kms), yet by the time I had almost reached the top, the riders weren't far behind. They must have been drilling it!
The climb wasn't as spectacular as I had hoped, and the lack of crowd atmosphere meant I only had one choice; find the steepest section and shoot tight. Each of the riders contorted their faces, seemingly correlating their expression to the gradient of the climb. That was, except for Quintana who looked as cool (and comfortable) as a cucumber and Richie Porte, who gave me a big smile.
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Home / Alberta Politics / Has St. Albert mayoral candidate Cam MacKay moved from opposition to a branch library to opposition to libraries?
PHOTOS: A children's reading event at the St. Albert Public Library, illustrating the level of partication in some of the library's programs. (Photo: YesForTheLibrary.ca.) Below: Councillor Cam MacKay, who is running for mayor of St. Albert on a platform that prominently features opposition to a new branch library, and St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse, against whom Mr. MacKay had expected to run. (Photos: Cam MacKay Twitter account and Fort Saskatchewan Record).
Based on a social media post yesterday morning, St. Albert mayoral candidate Cam MacKay now appears to think public libraries are all but obsolete and ought to be shrinking, not growing.
Having made opposition to development of a branch library in St. Albert one of the few key policy planks in his campaign to replace Mayor Nolan Crouse, who is not seeking reelection, Mr. MacKay suggested in the Twitter exchange that libraries are heading toward technological extinction much like commercial video rental stores.
Never mind that the data suggest the opposite as libraries move into the digital era, with the addition of Internet, ebooks and other digital services among the changes that are bringing patrons in increasing numbers through the doors, literally, of Canadian public libraries.
Since 1984 in St. Albert, there's been an increase of more than 1,000 per cent in program participation at the St. Albert Public Library, driven in part by an 84-per-cent increase in the city's population. Library space, as is well known, is unchanged.
But such arguments find little sympathy among many of the core supporters of Mr. MacKay's campaign, who in the social media forums they favour have shown increasing hostility toward library users, frequently dismissing them as elitists and members of a special interest group. If you disagree, you can't argue with them in places like the so-called St. Albert "Citizens' Coalition" section on Facebook, because dissenting voices, no matter how respectful, are swiftly excommunicated.
Still, Mr. MacKay's Twitter exchange with a representative of T8N Magazine represents a troubling shift in the evolving positions taken by the candidate on the branch library in particular and the St. Albert Public Library's services in general.
Back on Nov. 26, 2015 – along with Councillors Sheena Hughes and Bob Russell, often his sidekicks in opposition to Mayor Nolan Crouse and the rest of the current council – Mr. Mackay voted in favour of approving the branch library's community charter, a key first step to building the facility at a time library supporters were working hard to build support for the project.
On Dec. 12, 2016, the three councillors joined the rest of council in unanimously approving funding to build the branch library.
And on April 18 this year, the three councillors again voted with the rest of council to give first reading to the branch library-borrowing bylaw, in which the budget envelope had been set foolishly high at close to $22 million for the $17.5 million expected to be required for the project.
But as St. Albert began to move into the season preceding the Oct. 16 municipal election, now drawing near, the campaign to replace current councillors with a hard-edged anti-spending council led by Mr. MacKay seemed to hit on the library as an issue around which to build a coalition that could win.
Despite the two councillors' earlier votes, members of both Mr. MacKay's and Ms. Hughes' families were closely involved in a petition campaign last spring created to block the library funding bylaw.
In mid-June, city officials ruled the petition to be invalid, based on the number of signers whose signatures had not been properly sworn to be genuine by the activists who were gathering signatures. The actual validity of the approximately 6,700 signatures on the petition was never checked by city officials.
Later, councillors MacKay, Hughes and Russell all voted against the funding bylaw on second and third reading and successfully pushed for a plebiscite on the library as well as recreation facilities during the Oct. 16 election. Supporters of the library development argued the plebiscite was worded to encourage a no vote. Last night, city council voted to change the wording, excluding controversial cost estimates, a change that is certain to further inflame library opponents.
It's important, of course, to separate the plan to construct a new branch library from broader hostility to library services – the direction in which Mr. MacKay's Tweet makes it appear he is moving.
It's perfectly reasonable in a democracy for a municipal politician to take the position a new library is simply not affordable, or merely that it is not on the politician's promised list of priorities. In the recent past, this seemed to be Mr. MacKay's position.
But the rhetoric many of the library proposal's opponents direct toward library supporters, and even library users, suggests Mr. MacKay's campaign is tapping into quite something different here – a deep resentment among a small group of far-right activists that is not likely to contribute to a healthy community.
Beyond opposition to the branch library, anger about painted crosswalks, opposition to public transit, and strong personal antipathy to Mr. Crouse – against whom Mr. MacKay had expected to run – the campaign doesn't yet seem to have much of a platform on many of the significant challenges facing the city.
As part of the MacKay campaign, an effort seems to be under way to rebuild the slate supported by the anonymous "St. Albert Think Tank" in the 2013 election.
Library users in St. Albert, regardless of their position on the branch development, are within their rights to wonder what Mr. MacKay actually now thinks the future of library services should look like in St. Albert.
And voters generally may want to ask themselves if Think Tank 2.0 is a group they want running St. Albert.
11 Comments	to: Has St. Albert mayoral candidate Cam MacKay moved from opposition to a branch library to opposition to libraries?
Painted crosswalks… why would anyone object to those?
So will MacKay & his like also oppose any institution I.e., schools, hospitals, etc based on their ill'logic' model? Good grief, have they never ever considered how we go about building a democratic civil society?
As much as I love your insight, I have must digress! How many millions of dollars will be spent to deliver nothing to no one in this post modern howl at the moon? If you're lot win it's a fail!
This comment underlines the need for libraries, if for no other reason so we can all learn how to use grammar and spelling tools built into most word processing programs. I'd also love to hear some clarification on what, precisely, a "post modern howl at the moon" is.
trying to slander the ONLY councillors –Hughes*** McKay*** Russell….that have a LICK of common sense?. Crouse is the most unethical mayor that a city has had the misfortune to elect! He has been caught "red handed" on many occasions.. and now you are SKEWING the words to fit your agenda. NEW Library to accommodate : dancing, bike repair classes, smurf wars, senior travel club, whist, and bridge clubs, health classes etc. WHY DID WE SPEND MONEY ON A UPDATED SENIORS CENTER? But hey… my spin of Tues meeting….. translated to these words… St AB has not had a major building in over FOUR years… so we MUST build the SECOND Wasteful building…. after all we ared still paying for the GREEN ELEPHANT. Some of you people are so stuck on your wants you forget the ACTUAL EXPENSES! A million $$$$$$ to operate ANOTHER facility … great cough up your RETIREMENT fund… I sure and the hell will not!
Oh my goodness gracious, Edwards. Am I safe to assume that if there is something you yourself desire, it is a common sense need but if it is something someone else desires (or maybe even needs) it becomes a frivolous and wasteful want? Bless your heart.
Actually most public libraries are full of children, their young adult parents, and teenagers. Better treat them well Edward, they will be the ones who chose the type of nursing home you go into: either private and abusive or public and supportive – your choice.
Who knows, you might even want to borrow a few books on history.
Cam MacKay is engaging in wedge politics.
The Library has become the scape goat or if you prefer the whipping boy for MacKay and Hughes. Everything that Mr.Cuff said causing the current council to be dysfunctional was in full display at the last council meeting.
Librarians and library supporters tend to be articulate, well organized, and passionate. Brad Wall backed down in the face of their wrath, Mackay would do well to keep that in mind.
The "Library Plebiscite Update Cards" carry the implied message that only the MacKay slate will ensure that the branch library ( as envisioned) will NOT be built after the election . I hope that voters are under no other illusion.


It's now February, and if you're like most people, you've probably given up on your New Year's resolutions, whether you had planned to spend less and save more, exercise regularly, lose weight or take steps to earn a promotion. In fact, these goals probably fell by the wayside weeks ago, or around January 17 according to a recent examination of data by one social network for athletes.
But here's some good news: you don't have to wait until December 31 to try again. stickK, a community-driven online commitment-setting platform, can help you achieve your goals –New Year's and otherwise– by empowering behavioral change.
RewardExpert recently spoke to Jerry Brown, product manager at stickK, about the inspiration behind the platform and how it uses loss aversion and accountability to help members stick to their commitments.
stickK was founded in 2007 by Dean Karlan, Ian Ayres and Jordan Goldberg, two of whom were professors at Yale University.
It was a smart plan, but it didn't work. Something was missing.
Brown said that the limiting contract the professors created evolved into the Commitment Contract structure used on the stickK platform when it officially launched in 2008.
Combined with social accountability and the possibility of financial penalty, more than 437,000 Commitment Contracts have been created by users determined to reach their education, career, health, fitness, weight loss and lifestyle goals.
Using stickK to help you achieve your goals is completely free and easy to do. Brown said that the first step is to determine your goal. It's important to keep that goal actionable and specific. "For example, you might say that you want to lose five pounds before the end of the month," he explained.
Next, you'll need to set up your Commitment Contract. This involves describing your goal and its parameters as well as setting milestones where you'll check in with the platform and generate a report. "If you want to lose five pounds by the end of the month, you might break that down into one pound a week for five weeks and check in every week," Brown continued.
The accountability step comes next. Users can choose a Referee to hold them accountable for each milestone. "If your goal is to lose five pounds, it would make sense to choose someone who can observe you weighing in on a scale, like a significant other or a sibling," Brown said.
Each time you submit a report on your progress to stickK, the system will confirm it with the Referee. The company's data show that adding a Referee to your Commitment Contract can double your chances of success.
You can set any type of a goal on stickK, from commitments related to advancing your career, saving more, spending less and investing regularly to exercise, weight loss, family and relationships or hobbies and recreation. The platform has a community for every category where members can support each other in their goals.
The Weight Loss community has 79,000 members and Exercise and Fitness has 65,000. Money and Finance has 13,000.
While stickK is obviously useful for individuals, the company also offers tailored corporate solutions to businesses that want to use behavioral economics to help their employees.
"Most commonly, corporations are using stickK as part of a health and wellness program or initiative where they want to incentivize their employees to maybe spend some time away from the computer and more time outside, or follow a certain diet, or participate in a company-wide competition or activity," Brown explained.
He said that stickK works closely with its enterprise clients to identify their objectives before creating a custom program using behavioral science-backed features and tools.
Brown said that stickK has a lot of new developments planned for 2019. The first to launch will be a campaign tool that will allow users to set up a series of commitments, generate an activation code, and then distribute that code to whoever they want to commit to their campaign.
Brown added that the campaign tool will include administrator dashboard access with data analytics and user list management.


Are you looking to complete the Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail? Omarama offers a central point to complete the cycle way in sections.
The Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail stretchs 312 kms through the Mackenzie Basin and down the Waitaki Valley to Oamaru and the Pacific Ocean; beginning at the base of New Zealand's highest peak and passing a number of glacial lakes while descending 780 metres to the Pacific Ocean.
The trail will continue through The Mackenzie Basin, past Lake Ohau, Omarama, Otemetata, Lake Benmore, Lake Aviemore, Lake Waitaki, Kurow, Duntroon, past Elephant Rocks and Vanished World sites and into Oamaru.


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Omicron boosters are 84% effective at keeping seniors from being hospitalized with Covid, CDC says
Sources December 16, 2022 in World Tagged Biotech and Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Breaking News: Business, Business, business news, Coronavirus, Disease outbreaks, Epidemics, Health care industry, Pandemics, Politics, U.S. Economy - 2 Minutes
The latest omicron boosters are 84% effective at keeping seniors 65 and older from being hospitalized with Covid-19 compared to the unvaccinated, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.
And seniors who received the omicron booster had 73% more protection against hospitalization than those who only received two or more doses of the original vaccines that were not updated to target omicron, according to the CDC.
The study was conducted from September through November when omicron BA.5 and the even more immune evasive BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants were dominant. About 800 seniors with a median age of 76 were included in the analysis.
In a larger study that looked at more more than 15,000 adults ages 18 and older, the omicron booster was 57% effective at preventing hospitalization. Adults who received the booster had 38% additional protection compared with people who only received the original shots.
Neither study examined how well people were protected against hospitalization if they were vaccinated and had natural immunity from a previous Covid infection.
A previous study from the CDC found that the boosters were less than 50% effective at preventing mild illness across most age groups. But prominent scientists and public health experts said the shots' effectiveness against hospitalization would almost certainly be higher.
U.S. health officials have repeatedly called on everyone who is eligible to get an omicron booster ahead of the holidays. But the administration has focused in particular on making sure more vulnerable populations, such as older adults, stay up to date on their Covid vaccines.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid taskforce leader, has said most of the people dying from Covid right now are seniors who not up to date on their shots or are not receiving treatment when they have breakthrough infections.
"There are still too many older Americans who have not gotten their immunity updated, who have not gotten themselves protected," Jha told reporters at the White House yesterday.
The Biden administration is launching a campaign to increase vaccinations in nursing homes, whose residents are some of the most vulnerable to severe Covid. Less than 50% of nursing home residents have received the updated booster.
Overall, only 35% of seniors have received an omicron booster, while 14% of people ages 5 and older have gotten the updated shot, according to CDC data.
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Pertti Olavi "Pertsa" Ukkola (ur. 10 sierpnia 1950) – fiński zapaśnik. Złoty medalista olimpijski z Montrealu.

Walczył w stylu klasycznym, w kategorii koguciej (do 57 kilogramów). Brał udział w trzech igrzyskach (IO 72, IO 76, IO 80). Był mistrzem świata w 1977, brązowym medalistą tej imprezy w 1975 i 1981. Stawał na podium mistrzostw Europy (złoto w 1977). Zdobył cztery złote medale na mistrzostwach nordyckich w latach 1971 - 1976. W 1977 został wybrany sportowcem roku w Finlandii.

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Fińscy zapaśnicy
Fińscy medaliści olimpijscy
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1972
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Are you one of the braves ones that finally made the decision of moving to the land of the sun and the siesta? Well aren't you lucky, you have just landed in the right load of information. We will tell you exactly what steps you need to follow if you are planning on living in the country where the mid-morning break is practically part of its own religion. No joke. So if you are looking for a new working experience in Spain, whether it is Madrid, Barcelona or Granada, you might want to scroll down and check out all the information about the current Spanish working permits or permanent residency process in España, within many others.
So chitchat aside, buckle up because here is exactly what you need to do in order to move to Spain and make your whole process simple and easy – the good old Spanish way, ahem.
In a nutshell, if you're an EU, EA, Swiss, Iceland or Norway national, you'll probably be saving yourself a bunch of "standing in lines" experiences, because you are allowed to work and live in Spain without a visa or working permit. Happy times, you can scroll down to step number 1 on how to get your "Empadronamiento".
If this is not your case and you are planning on staying more than 90 days in the country, you must then get hold of the respective long stay residency permit. This could either be organized by the firm or company you are coming to work for, or by applying for one of the following visa options.
3. Visa for retirement or family reasons.
In order to apply for one of these, you will have to contact your embassy first, they will be able to tell you exactly what your requirements are. However, please have in mind that there is a non-refundable fee of 60€ when applying for one of these visas in Spain.
Once your residency has been organized and you know exactly what your current situation in the country is; you must then direct yourself to your local town hall to do the "Empadronamiento". This basically means that you are registered in your local area, in the case of a big city like Barcelona or Madrid or in your small town/village if you are escaping the concrete jungles.
How to get the "Empadronamiento" in Spain?
1. This is by far one of the easiest paperwork you will ever do in Spain. First of all, find someone who can indicate you where the "Ayuntamiento" (Spanish for town hall) is. There is always someone willing to help you in Spain, fact.
2. Once you made it to your town hall simply ask where you have to go to get your "Empadronamiento".
3. Once there, they will give the "Hoja de Empadronamiento" and simply fill it in and present it with your according documents. And voilà, you can now tick off your first Spanish paperwork of your list.
What documents do I need to get "Empadronado"?
• You will need any type of document that proves your identity (and those of your children in the case of applying as a family): DNI or national identity card, Passport, residency card, NIE, etc.
• You will also need something that proves you live in your house. This can be a rental contract, the energy or city bill.
Nestpick Tip: Ayuntamientos tend to work the least hours, so have in mind that to be able to get your Empadronamiento, you might want to be there at around 9 AM in case of a big city or around 10 AM in the case of smaller towns. Even though you shouldn't be surprised if they still haven't arrived or they are having their morning coffee on another floor. Ay, España…!
What is the NIE and what do you need it for?
• Applying for utility services like a phone or Internet contract, private TV cable, etc.
How to apply for the NIE?
In order to apply for the NIE, you will have to go to the closest police station. They are in charge of processing all these documents and telling you exactly what to do. However, if you want to strategically reduce your waiting time when doing so, have a look at the list of requirements below, before heading to the police station. Thank us later.
When will I get my NIE number?
If you are one of the lucky ones who need no visa to live in the country, you will get your number instantly. In the case of non-EU members, you might have to be a little bit more patient, since the waiting time to process your documents might take longer to arrive.
• The NIE application form (EX-15 Form) which you will get at the time of the application. There is also an English translation available online (English version), but the final form must be presented in Spanish.
• Your original passport (current and not expired) and one photocopy of it.
• A government fee of EUR 10,71 (2018) applies when soliciting this document. This fee can be paid for at your local bank by using the 790 NIE form.
The process is practically the same as in other European country. In the case, you were a student they might ask you for a specific college proof that shows you are a student for example. Just to be sure, bring along anything that proves your name and looks like an official document. Here are some of the things we would recommend to have with you at the time of opening a bank account in Spain.
• Buckets of patience – It will take a while!
Please Note: The bank opening hours in Spain are roughly from 9 am until 2 pm practically everywhere in Spain. It can slightly vary according to where you are, but they will surely not be opened in the afternoon.
Nestpick Tip: If you are still a bit insecure with the Latin language, you might want to ask the bank you are planning on going to, whether they have someone at that office that can help you out with the paperwork. Some offices do have translators or employees who speak English to perfection. In the case they don't, you will then have to kindly blackmail one of your Spanish-speaking friends. No Spanish-born would ever be able to say no to a very cold caña at the closest bar in exchange!
When moving to Spain, there are several factors you should have in mind for you to be able to live happily ever after without suffering of a heart attack every time you have to apply for a new type of paperwork, or every time the system changes to the worst. It is all okay, this is just how Spain rolls. So before jumping on the plane that will soon be landing on the land of the sun, read these.
This is something that only happens in Spain (and Italy, too!) The August Factor is a summer virus that will literally take over the peoples working skills and will automatically put everything on standby. So make sure you either do all your paperwork before August or after it. September is the month of reactivation. The town halls will be overwhelmed with work but at least the system is back on track.
Oh dear patience, please stay with me.
What a beautiful thing to have, especially when you live and work in Spain. If you are moving to Spain from the UK after Brexit or you decided to leave the grey Berlin sky behind, the amount of waiting time you are about experience might shock you. Don't panic though, everything will be fine, it's just going to take a teeny little longer. So start embracing the caña or random-coffee-at-any-time component. It will help you take life easier and keep your nerves in place. Remember you just moved to the country where they rest from 1:30 pm until 16:30, simply because… "siesta" anybody?
This one is just part of society. It's like every Spanish-born was born with the necessity of the mid-morning coffee. As soon as the little hand of the clock grazes number 11, the corridors become a scene of Jumanji. The coffee machines of "the bar next door" start warming up, like they were coffee-maker athletes, ready to feed all those caffeine-addicted hard workers, who have been dreaming of that coffee/chitchat break since the day before. So make sure you complete your paperwork either before or after the crucial coffee time in Spain.
So are you ready to take a leap of faith and move to sunny Spain? Let Nestpick help you! If you are looking for a flat in Madrid, Barcelona, Granada or other cities in Spain just have a look on our website for the biggest selection of furnished apartments for rent for mid and long term.
In the end I found it easier to pay a company to get my NIE number. I used a UK one called https://mynie.co.uk and it only cost £20. Maybe you should offer this as well.
Hello! I have a question regarding the NIE. I read somewhere that in order to get it, you have to prove that you´re able to, let´s say "survive" in Spain, by showing that you have more than 5.000 Euros in your bank account. Do you confirm this information or is it an old procedure? I´m an EU citizen and I´ll be doing my Erasmus in Andalucía, I still want to be able to work part-time though and no NIE means no job apparently. Hope to hear from you!


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Migration: Sharp increase in violence against migrants since border closures in the Balkans
On 9th March 2016, European leaders announced that the so-called "Balkan route" was closed after Croatia, FYROM and Slovenia completely shut their borders to people trying to pass through to seek asylum in northern Europe. For thousands of people fleeing, this route represented one of the few ways to reach safety and protection in Europe. Today, hundreds of vulnerable people are still stranded in Serbia, FYROM and Bulgaria, trying to reach their final destinations through dangerous routes in the hands of smugglers or stuck in transit areas at the Serbia/Hungary border.
People surround the only water tap for 1,000 people.
Médecins Sans Frontières teams in Serbia have observed a worsening humanitarian and medical situation directly linked to the restrictions at the borders for thousands of migrants and asylum seekers. "In the last months, an increasing number of our patients reported cases of violence and abuse and showed physical trauma directly associated with violence. Many of these cases were allegedly perpetrated by Hungarian authorities" said Simon Burroughs, Médecins Sans Frontières' Head of Mission in Serbia. "We strongly condemn the use of excessive force and we urge the Hungarian authorities to take the necessary actions for these practices to stop". In recent months, the possibility to apply for asylum in the EU through Hungary has been drastically reduced. It reached a new low in early July with a new policy that extends border controls to an eight-kilometre area inside Hungary, effectively allowing push-backs of people to Serbia. Dozens of families are stuck with the dilemma of waiting in appalling conditions or being exposed to further violence and abuse along dangerous smuggling routes.
"An increasing number of our patients reported cases of violence and abuse and showed physical trauma directly associated with violence. Many of these cases were allegedly perpetrated by Hungarian authorities"
"We are extremely worried that the new measures recently adopted by Hungarian authorities will lead to increased violence against migrants, who are increasingly treated like criminals," added Burroughs. These restrictions have also created a particularly worrying situation in the transit areas at the border between Serbia and Hungary where Médecins Sans Frontières is running several mobile clinics providing medical care, psychological support and basic sanitation services. "Conditions here are unfit for human beings. Families are living in inappropriate tents, with no shower, clean water and with no access to basic services" continued Burroughs. "Although we have been calling for months on Serbian authorities for an improvement in these conditions, very little has changed: people are desperate, and this situation is having a direct impact on their physical and mental health."
"Médecins Sans Frontières has seen a steady and significant increase in conditions that reflect the psychological impact of restrictive border regimes; this includes depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety." EU policies have stemmed the flow of people looking for protection in Europe through the Balkans, yet thousands of people have been abandoned out of sight, much more exposed to violence, destitution and despair. Not only are European and Western Balkans governments failing to respond to the needs of thousands, but they are also promoting policies that have detrimental consequences on the wellbeing of already vulnerable people. "Once again we urge European leaders to provide safe and legal alternatives to those seeking protection", concluded Burroughs. "Restrictive policies at the Serbia/Hungarian border must be reviewed and conditions for the people in transit must be improved."
EU state's dangerous approach to migration places asylum in jeopardy worldwide
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Idomeni: Médecins Sans Frontières resumes activities after clashes and tear gas cause a temporary suspension


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Trending in China: China's Highest Earning Dog Inspires Online Shop
Ruonan Zheng
Wang Sicong's pet dog receives Hermes as gifts. Photo: Wang Keke/Weibo
Highest-earning dog in China making fortune off its fame
The pet dog of Chinese richest son, Wang Sicong, called Wang Ke Ke, who was made famous by wearing luxury items like a Fendi bag and an iPhone smartwatch, has now become "the highest earning dog." Last April in 2016, one of Sicong's friends, an e-commerce veteran, saw a potential business opportunity from the star puppy (who has 2.35 million fans on his own Weibo account), and used the dog's name to open an official Taobao store that sells dog merchandise. The star effect brought him 130,000 yuan in sales on the first day. He said the KOL Dog's fame saved him 2 to 3 years of hard work to jumpstart the online store but in order to make the business sustainable, he needs to focus on providing quality products and 24/7 customer service.
Weibo comment: "My KOL business couldn't bring as much money as Wang Sicong's puppy."
Recommended Reading9 Slang Terms That Explain Chinese Consumer CultureBy Ruonan Zheng
Edison Chen. Photo: Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Streetwear founder Edison Chen shows off picture of his newborn daughter
It has been almost 10 years since the controversial celebrity Edison Chen retired from the entertainment industry. He now walks back into people's conversations with a new title: founder of streetwear brand CLOT, and father. He recently posted a picture on Instragram of his newborn daughter in front of a stack of cash, which has attracted a lot of attention. Under the picture, he wrote, "young money," which was criticized by Chinese netizens as too flashy. With an estimated annual sale of more than 60 million yuan, his brand CLOT has become a leading streetwear brand that has won the hearts of trendy Chinese teenagers. 10 years ago, when he noticed the absence of streetwear culture in China, he got the idea for his brand.
Weibo comment: "He was just angry about his friend posting his daughter's 100th-day picture. Now he's showing off again."
Chinese professor comments on the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor
A financial professor from a top tier Chinese university, the head of China's Family Finance Report and Study, Gan Li, posted on his Sina column about his latest finding on Chinese economic state which ignited heated debate about the gap between rich and poor. He mentioned there are two problems that Chinese society is facing in transitioning from a manufacture to consumption economy: not spending enough domestically and savings interests rates are too high. Because the poor don't have the disposable income to save, the high-interest rates penetrate the gap between the rich and poor.
Weibo comment: "The housing market ate up all my savings."
Recommended ReadingChinese Millennials Spend More on Credit Alipay Report SaysBy Yiling Pan
Members of China's younger generation are expected to see a spending growth rate that is twice as high as the older generation. Photo: Shutterstock
New Chinese slang has emerged among Chinese millennials
Chinese millennials likes to make fun of themselves, and to get their jokes, you need to immerse yourself in their idiosyncratic culture. One recent phrase became very popular online: "You can inherit my money if I die." The intent of the phrase is to make fun of the Chinese millennials' poor financial situation. Considering the popularity of mobile payment, the slang further evolved swapping the word "money" for "Hua Bei," which is a popular credit software from Ant Financial. In other words, they're saying, "You can inherit my debt-filled credit card if I die."
Weibo comment: "I think someone can inherit my 2 million Weibo fans."
clot, huabei, mobile payment, streetwear, taobao, wang sicong
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China's 2019 Luxury Market: It All Comes Down to Pricing
Condé Nast Launches Vogue Business in China on WeChat


It's been a long time since I threw my last dinner party, it's like riding a horse if you fall off you've got to get straight back on. I haven't actually fallen off the proverbial horse but I was in hospital for a while and the desire to entertain was left in hospital…. Anyway sob story over in the words of some famous actor "I'M BACK"! I decided to throw a small dinner party for my two mates Ben (The Hair) and Ronnie (Lil' Flip) to try out my old trusted Mediterranean Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup (see here for details and a new recipe Cajun Chicken, Chunky Chips, Home Made Pesto and a Raita (recipe and instructions to follow). I followed those two courses with my mother's home made brownies and Häagen-Dazs Pralines and Cream Ice Cream (sadly no photos of this one). It was on the whole a success although I think I'd serve something green on the plate next time as the colours were a bit monotone. Keep your eyes peeled for more dinner party pics and more new recipes.
Don't forget to get involved at Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Google+ and Pintrest Are you having a Dinner Party, share your recipes, ideas and photographs with us on our social networking pages. We'd love to hear from you we want you to get involve and help Wheelie Good Meals develop. If you have any questions you'd like to ask about either myself or the Wheelie Good Meals concept please feel free to drop us a line on enquiries@wheeliegoodmeals.co.uk. Come back again soon and, together, we'll make more Wheelie Good Meals!


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Q: the number of words with n letters from A,B,C without sequences AA,BB,CC the number of words with n letters from A,B,C  without sequences AA,BB,CC why is it $a_n=2a_{n-1}$? I didn't see how it fitting the  restriction

A: Simply because the last letter in a string corresponding to $a_{n-1}$ ($n \geq 2$) is exactly one of A or B or C, and let's assume It's A without loss of generality.
Since you can't have them repeat twice, you can either have one of B or C at the end of a string corresponding to $a_n$. So in total you will have:
$$a_n=2a_{n-1}$$
one for B  in the end, and one for C in the end.

A: Directly:
First letter: 3 choices. Each other letter: 2 choices. Number of words of length N = product of the numbers of choices for each letter = $____$.
Recursively:
Word W of length N+1 = word U of length N + any letter which is not the last letter of U. Thus, two choices for the completion of U into W.


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'As long as you're a golf member, you're open to playing all the tournaments and games,' Dale says to me. 'There's something for the ladies, and then if couples play together, we have a couples' golf on Sundays. We have a senior group, and then a young under-forty-year-old guy group.' He shows me a schedule pinned to a corkboard near the door. 'These are kind of the core golf groups. And then we have a formal Men's Golf Association as well, one tournament per month. If they win that tournament, there are parking spots up for grabs, if you want a nice parking spot – or some trophies. You know, when you love a game and you watch it on TV, to be able to still play it and go out there with a large group of guys, and then win a tournament? These guys are having a blast. They feel like they're on the PGA Tour. That's what it's all about.'
Dick DeVos, on stage with his wife, echoed her sentiments with a lament of his own. "The church—which ought to be, in our view, far more central to the life of the community—has been displaced by the public school," Dick DeVos said. "We just can think of no better way to rebuild our families and our communities than to have that circle of church and school and family much more tightly focused and built on a consistent worldview."
I am an IBO for the second time in my life. I tried when I was 20 and in the Air Force. Gonna make it rich in a year. Pffft. Naw. Can you get rich in Amway? Absolutely? Will you? Probably not. Same as any business you really have to work hard and put in a lot of time and capital in the beginning with little to no return. But you stick with it, don't quit before the miracle happens. This time around, I just want to work the business, maybe grow it a little, and make enough money to maybe get my wife home to raise our daughter and home school her full time. So, hey, if I can get it to $3000 a month....great. If not.....great. I love the products anyway and if some people want to come with me and maybe make a few bucks or just enjoy some good products, great. I'm happy with it and other people's opinions of me or my Amway business are none of my business. No need to be defensive....Amway's reputation speaks for itself.
Like my friend, I was struck by the fairy tale numerology that invested even tennis shoes with a mythic charge. In Amway, extravagant desire is the motive force: To desire what your upline has, even those things that nobody could realistically hope for, is what keeps the scheme in motion.[11] Josh and Jean's wish list, as well as the many other "visualization" exercises involved in dreambuilding, was simply part of their training to ever more expansively want. But to what end? What desire had propelled them into Amway in the first place?
Such pandering to heartland values has (along with record-breaking donations from Rich DeVos) endeared Amway to the Republican Party. But the company has also had its share of critics. In the seventies a succession of defectors charged that The Business (as the faithful call it) was a pyramid scheme, a fraudulent enterprise that made money by recruiting new members and channeling their fees to higher-ups in the organization. A 1979 Federal Trade Commission investigation concluded that Amway was not in fact a pyramid scheme—only that some of its claims to prospective distributors were overly optimistic—because most of its revenue came from sales of actual products.[1] But that didn't end the company's troubles. During the Reagan years, Amway was the butt of jokes and the target of exposes. Senior distributors set up private "distributor groups," organizations dealing in motivational materials and notorious mass rallies.[2] Dexter Yager, founder of the Yager Group, was known to leap around stages brandishing a giant gold crucifix.
I shopped with Amway about 20 years ago when a neighbor in my apartment building became a sales rep for them. I really liked the cleaning products which were pure and did a great job of cleaning everything! I had a terrific rep who sold the various products that interested me. I was always very impressed by Amway. To my knowledge, Amway has always had an impeccable reputation and the highest quality products. I didn't find any reason to dislike the company back then and certainly have no reason to dislike it now!
In Amway's eyes, your friends and family are all potential cash cows you should be milking -- you're trained to go after the people closest to you first (to rack up those sweet pity sales). "I was thinking that every friend that didn't join my network didn't want success for himself or me, that he was somehow against me." This crazy train of thought led Kyritsis to harass his loved ones in an attempt to better their lives. Desperate to convince someone of the amazing untapped Amway potential, Kyritsis pushed the Amway rhetoric on anyone who would listen, especially his girlfriend. He would tell her that her studies were pointless when she could be making so much more money, dragging her to seminars and showing her the Amway tapes like a really boring version of The Ring.
In making the correct make-versus-buy decisions on ingredients, as well as the decisions of where goods should be made, Dr. Calvert singled out his engineering group and trade groups for praise. "Analytics! One way we win is because of the strength of this function." Their core engineering group does very detailed analyses with quick turnarounds surrounding these decisions.
It's not because we're better or entitled to more money; we have been entrusted with it, and therefore need to be especially responsible. We just make sure personal spending doesn't become a priority over the giving side. Once you learn the budgeting process of setting aside for giving first, then what you have left you can allocate elsewhere – including a home or an airplane or a boat. One could always argue that these things aren't necessary and that you could give away more, and that's always true. But if you look at it that way, you'd never do anything more than take the bus.
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As global leaders in phytonutrient research, skincare, water and air purification advancement, nearly 1,000 Amway scientists, engineers and technicians collaborate to create new products that support IBOs and the needs of their customers. The company's global research projects influence not only Amway's product development, but also contribute to the larger R&D community.
[12]Amway gives some idea of real chances for success in its "Amway Business Review" pamphlet, which the FTC requires it provide to all prospects. The "Business Review" is an ingenious mixture of mandated honesty and obfuscatory spin: The average monthly gross income for "active" distributors, for instance, is revealed to be a meager $65 a month; but the "Review" leaves out the median income and the net profit, both of which would probably be negative. Likewise, it states that "2 percent of all 'active' distributors who sponsor others and approximately 1 percent of all 'active' distributors met Direct Distributor qualification requirements during the survey period." From this, it derives the optimistic conclusion that "once again, the survey demonstrates a substantial increase in achievement for those who share the business with others." Increase implies that there are some non-sharing distributors who succeed; an alternate reading of the statistics would be that all distributors try to share, none succeed without sharing, but only half are able to share. It's also a measure of Amway's PR savvy that every article I've seen (even the critical ones) that mentions the number of Directs uses the 2 percent, rather than the more accurate 1 percent, figure.
Sales pitch though it was, E2020 subscribed to a worldview that's now ubiquitous in the wider culture. Its central metaphor was overheatedly Darwinian—the global economy as nature run riot, lush for the dominant, unforgiving for the slow to adapt—but also strikingly theological. In the next millennium, a resurgent Market would act as the vengeful (invisible) hand of God, laying waste to the Second Wave's many Towers of Babel—government planning, welfare states, unions, warehouses, consolidated factories, even mega-conglomerates. Thus, "progress" required that we bury our arrogant bids for security and clear the ground for a new order of pure Nietzschean struggle.
"Amway is my favourite company ever! It is very popular in my town and has a lot of experience, so I trust it completely. All of its products have high quality and are guaranteed to work well. If you have any problems with your purchase, you can send it back and get either another one or a refund. I like their customer service a lot. I have had issues several times but the representatives of the customer service helped me to resolve them really fast."
Sustainability is a core principle, as well, and has been for decades. Amway controls much of the process, from where ingredients are sourced (some come from nearly 6,000 acres of Amway-owned certified organic farmlands), to where they are manufactured. In addition, 50 percent of the energy powering Amway's world headquarters in Ada, Michigan, is wind-generated. These are best practices in the industry and they have been a part of Amway's DNA from day one.
I loved the days when we'd go to the Bayou Club as a family. We began going immediately after joining Amway, when I was in second grade. The development was new, still under construction. There was space between the houses and the far stretch of the golf course undulating luxuriously around them. Model homes rose from the landscape like castles, bigger than any houses I'd ever seen – and vacant. Never occupied. Empty dreams, waiting to be filled.
Attaining goals for greater success and profitability depends on each distributor's ability to sponsor other distributors, who comprise their 'downline.' Patience is a characteristic much required in this step because a distributor can advance in profitability and standing only to the extent that the downline distributors actually sell products and keep on generating volume.
We drove our teal '88 Oldsmobile Delta to the Bayou Club Estates for our requisite 'dreambuilding' and toured the brand-new houses: big mansions with tall, echoing ceilings and screened-in pools, shiny state-of-the-art kitchens, garages big enough for three Mercedes, a golf course in the back, vanity mirrors and crystal fixtures in every bathroom. We drove to the yacht dealer and toured the Princesses and the Prestiges, lying on cabin beds and ascending the wooden stairs to stand on pulpits, gazing toward imagined horizons.
Group distribution. Amway will deliver bulk orders to where their Platinum level representatives are (or greater) completely free. This encourages all representatives to maintain relationships with their clients. At one factor clients were able to receive free shipping by getting on their own if they exceeded a certain dollar quantity, but this is no more the case as a result of policy changes.
This collective approach is how the family runs their home lives, too. The DeVoses' myriad properties are managed through a single private company, RDV Corporation, which both manages the family's investments and operates as a home office, paying the family's employees, maintaining the DeVoses' residences and assuring them as frictionless a life as possible. (The duties outlined by one recent property-manager job with RDV Corporation include "ensur[ing] doors are well-oiled to avoid squeaking" and that "broken toys [are] repaired or disposed of.")
When it came to designing the architecture required for its IoT platform, Amway used AWS Professional Services to help it create a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to automate delivery of platform software updates. The pipeline picks up source code changes from a repository, builds and packages the application, and then pushes the new update through a series of stages, running integration tests to ensure all features are intact and backward-compatible in each stage.
In the roughly two hundred pages of Cross's book, however, there is virtually no discussion of how Amway actually works. Among entire chapters dedicated to Amway's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and its pioneering move onto the World Wide Web, the 'Amway Distributor Profile,' its 'Bootstraps Philosophy,' and Amway's foreign expansion strategy, the closest Cross comes to summarizing Amway's business plan is in this passage:
In the decade since that loss, the DeVos family, with Dick and Betsy at the helm, has emerged as a political force without comparison in Michigan. Their politics are profoundly Christian and conservative—"God, America, Free Enterprise," to borrow the subtitle of family patriarch Richard DeVos' 1975 book, Believe!—and their vast resources (the family's cumulative net worth is estimated at well over $5 billion) assure that they can steamroll their way to victory on issues ranging from education reform to workers' rights. "At the federal level, when GOP candidates are looking for big donors to back them, they have options," says Craig Mauger, executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. "If you don't get Sheldon Adelson, you can go to the Koch brothers, and so on. In Michigan, the DeVos family is a class of donor all by themselves."
In the 1960s and '70s, Ed and Elsa Prince advanced God's Kingdom from the end of a cul-de-sac just a few miles from Lake Michigan. There, they taught their four children—Elisabeth (Betsy), Eileen, Emilie and Erik—a deeply religious, conservative, free-market view of the world, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance and sending them to private schools that would reinforce the values they celebrated at home, small-government conservatism chief among them.
Amway's eSpring water filter was introduced in 2000. According to Amway, it was the first system to combine a carbon block filter and ultraviolet light with electronic-monitoring technology in the filter cartridge and it became the first home system to achieve certification for ANSI/NSF Standards 42, 53, and 55.[53][54] According to Amway, eSpring was the first water treatment system to receive certification for all fifteen NSF/ANSI 401 contaminants which include pharmaceuticals, pesticides and herbicides.[53][55] The company also claims that, in addition to these 15 contaminants, eSpring is certified for more than 145 potential contaminants, including lead and mercury.[53]
If Engler thought he had anointed a rubber stamp, he quickly learned otherwise. In January 1997, DeVos cleared house, unilaterally firing all of the party's top directors and pausing all contracts with vendors, blaming them for the party's losses months earlier. "Betsy regarded the governor's input as good advice, not an order," Greg McNeilly, a close associate of Betsy DeVos, told an Engler biographer years later. "That's when the problems started."
It started with a guy I randomly met at Target. Now that I think about it, it's almost as if he was waiting for a prospect right outside the store. He entered the store right behind me and then he entered the aisle I went into shortly after I did. Not that it's relevant, but I was there to buy deodorant because, well, we're not apes anymore. Anyway, he pretended to be interested in the same product that I was looking at and was like "Oh you're a Degree guy too?" I was a bit weirded out at first but I was like, I don't know, he seems harmless. We started talking about success right off the bat and how he wants to live the better life/easy life (yachts and fancy cars). He came off as very ambitious. I am too, I own a small business and I'm looking to grow it, so of course, I related to him, and that's where he thought he had me. That's right, it felt like he was out to get me.
The main difference was that all "Independent Business Owners" (IBO) could order directly from Amway on the Internet, rather than from their upline "direct distributor", and have products shipped directly to their home. The Amway name continued being used in the rest of the world. After virtually all Amway distributors in North America switched to Quixtar, Alticor elected to close Amway North America after 2001. In June 2007 it was announced that the Quixtar brand would be phased out over an 18- to 24-month period in favor of a unified Amway brand (Amway Global) worldwide.
Rolling Stone's Bob Moser reported that former Amway CEO and co-founder Richard DeVos is connected with the Dominionist political movement in the United States. Moser states that DeVos was a supporter of the late D. James Kennedy, giving more than $5 million to Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries.[91][92][93] DeVos was also a founding member and two-time president of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing Christian organization.[94]
In a column published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper in August 1997,[77] reporter Molly Ivins wrote that Amway had "its own caucus in Congress...Five Republican House members are also Amway distributors: Reps. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, Jon Christensen of Nebraska, Dick Chrysler of Michigan, Richard Pombo of California, and John Ensign of Nevada. Their informal caucus meets several times a year with Amway bigwigs to discuss policy matters affecting the company, including China's trade status."[78]
"We formed the DeVos Family Council, which is made up of our children and their spouses and meets four times a year. The Family Council just approved a family constitution that essentially captures our family mission and values. … The Family Council also articulates how the family will work together in managing our shared financial interests and our philanthropy.
It may come as a surprise to Jessica and Richard, but 50% of all people are below average. IBOs are successful only if they exploit those that are feeble minded enough to buy Amway's crappy products: i.e cleaning products loaded up with salt. No ethical person would consider doing this. If the average IBO income is only about $200 and the median a lot less ~$30, then the scam is obvious! Perhaps Richard and Jessica always load up on Lotto tickets because the potential return is huge. Richard loves to focus on the good stuff and gets blinded by the false hope. Don't be a sucker, MLM is a scam.
The Club Level at the Amway Center -- between the Terrace and the Promenade -- splits into several types of premium seating. There are suites, including the Founders Suite which can accommodate 16 and the larger Presidents Suite, each providing a plush and roomy space from which to enjoy the game. Loge seats are among the most popular though, combining great additions like all-inclusive food and drink with a close-to-the-action feel.
When I told my parents about the business, they were immediately skeptical, but since my dad is a salesman he was supportive. The next week I was in the middle of teaching and got a phone call from the girl. She claimed that she had gotten a "last minute ticket" to their Thursday night meeting. She tried to describe how exclusive it is and basically hinted how honored I should feel to be invited. Unfortunately, it was so last minute we just couldn't do it. We were too tired after a long day at work. The following Thursday we went to the meeting. It was the strangest experience, and it was WAY too long. We didn't get home till 11 o'clock, and my husband had to be at work by 7:15. We were exhausted. Every few days we were having to meet for training with our mentors as well as watching videos and listening to CDs. They make sure to consume your life with a little bit of positive Amway, so you don't listen to the negative Amway. Guys, this literally can be described as a brainwashing method.
Amway breaks down its commission by PV and BV. The PV is your total point value for monthly sales, while your BV is percentage cash value based on the PV. There are possible bonuses at certain PV levels. The actual cash value of your downline is predictably complicated and, like credit card points, cleverly encourage more spending on Amway's products.
Whether there is more emphasis on referrals or sale of products is very debatable. It pretty much depends on the individual IBO involved. In the Amway gathering I went to, the IBO making the presentation stressed the prospect of saving through the "discounted" prices on the hub rather than trying to sell us the idea of making a lot of money. Some IBOs might try to sell you the idea of making a fortune right away. Some are pushy, some are nice people.
The company offered plenty of learning experience but is all about what you put in, to get out. Good for friends to get involved with and also families to work on the side of other full-time positions. Otherwise, it can become overbearing if you are not an "on your feet" thinker and planner. A very competitive environment with teams all over the US.
As secretary, it's likely DeVos will pursue a national expansion of school choice and charters. In this, DeVos has an ally in President-elect Trump. "There's no failed policy more in need of urgent change than our government-run education monopoly," Trump said in a September 8 speech. "It is time to break up that monopoly." In that speech, Trump proposed a $20-billion block grant program to fund national vouchers administered at the state level. "Parents will be able to send their kids to the desired public, private or religious school of their choice," Trump said.
These five distributors now appoint five distributors each. So we now have 25 distributors at the second level. Each of these distributors now in turn appoints five distributors. So we now have 125 distributors at the third level. If the chain continues, at the 12th level we will have around 24.45 crore distributors. This is equal to around 20% of India's population. The total number of distributors will be around 30.51 crore.
Imagine that you've struck a deal with a company to give you discounts for buying in bulk: If you buy $100 worth of stuff, they'll send you a 3 percent rebate. For $300 or more, it goes up to 6 percent, $600 or more, 9 percent, and so on up to $7,500 and 25 percent. Now, let's say you're unable to spend more than $100 a month, but manage to get seventy-four other people to go in with you. Together, you spend $7,500 and divide up the 25 percent rebate. Everyone saves money, and the rebate is shared equally. That's the idea behind a consumer co-op or wholesale buying club.


Structure Fire: 1620 Dolores Street, Grand Junction, Co.
Units from the Grand Junction Fire Department were dispatched to a structure fire at 1620 Dolores Street. around 01:41 hrs. on 12/11/2105. First arriving units reported A working fire on the detached structure from the main address. The neighbor initially witnessed the fire and was able to call 911.
GJFD crews where able to gain access to the detached structure and knockdown the fire using CAFS (Compressed Air Foam System). The fire area was focused around the stove that was in the involved detached structure.
GJFD fire investigators found that it was possible the stove may have been the source of the fire. The Fire is still under investigation.
Safety Note: Make sure your chimney is clean and clear prior to lighting a fire. A chimney inspection will ensure that your chimney liners are intact and serviceable. This includes wood and pellet stovepipes as well. Also, Make sure your fireplace is professionally installed and preventative maintenance is always done by a professional.
No one was injured during this incident and the property was turned back over to the owner upon GJFD clearing the scene.