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MassachusettsGazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter (March 8, 1770).
"The Landing of – Troops in the Year 1768."
At the time of the Boston Massacre, more newspapers were published in that city than any other in the colonies. The Boston Chronicle, the Boston Evening-Post, the Boston-Gazette, and the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post-Boy all came out on Mondays. Later in the week, the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter and another edition of the Boston Chronicle both came out on Thursdays. The Boston Massacre occurred on a Monday evening, by which time the newspapers usually published on that day had already been distributed to subscribers. That meant that the News-Letter and the Chronicle were the first newspapers to appear after the "BLOODY MASSACRE perpetrated in King-Street, BOSTON on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th REG[IMEN]T" (as Paul Revere described the event).
Both carried limited coverage of the Boston Massacre. The Chronicle, notorious for its pro-British sympathies, stated, "We decline at present, giving a particular account of this unhappy affair, as we hear the trial of the unfortunate prisoners [Captain Thomas Preston and eight soldiers] is to come on next week." The News-Letter issued a Postscript supplement that acknowledged the event but provided only a brief overview. Its publisher, Richard Draper, also tended to support the British perspective, though usually not as vociferously as the publishers of the Chronicle. Draper indicated that "A Number of Gentlemen are collecting Evidences of the whole Transactions, as soon as these are done, an Account will be drawn up and Published in the Papers." Four days later, Benjamin Edes and John Gill, vocal patriots, published an account of the Boston Massacre and the funeral procession for its victims in the Boston-Gazette, complete with a woodcut depicting the coffins and heavy black borders to denote mourning.
In the aftermath of the Boston Massacre, Edes and Gill ran an advertisement for their "North-American ALMANACK, AND Massachusetts REGISTER" in the March 8, 1770, edition of the News-Letter. The list of contents made it clear that the publishers placed far more emphasis on the patriotic propaganda in the register than the astronomical calculations in the almanack, especially more than two months into the new year. Edes and Gill had previously placed the same advertisement for their almanac and register in the News-Letter, but it did not run in the issue of that newspaper that came out immediately before the Boston Massacre. It did reappear in the first edition published after the "tragical Affair," as Draper described it. Edes and Gill led the list of contents with a description of an illustration of "a Prospective View of the Town of Boston … and the Landing of – Troops in the Year 1768." Those troops eventually fired on the residents of Boston, killing and wounding many of them in the "Bloody Massacre." Although coverage of the "Proceedings of that Evening" was tentative and abbreviated in the first issue of the News-Letter after the Boston Massacre, the patriotic tenor of the advertisements for Edes and Gill's almanack and register took on new urgency in the wake of recent events on King Street.
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Boston-Gazette (February 19, 1770).
"List of Commissioners and other Officers of the Revenue, WITH THEIR SALARIES!"
In the third week of February 1770, many printers continued to advertise almanacs, hoping to relieve themselves of surplus copies that counted against any profits they might earn on the venture. In contrast, Benjamin Edes and John Gill, printers of the Boston-Gazette, advertised that they had plans within the next few days to publish their "North-AmericanALMANACK, AND Massachusetts REGISTER, For the Year 1770." They either identified demand, even that far into February of the new year, or believed that they could incite sufficient demand to merit the expense of pursuing the project.
In presenting this edition of their almanac to the public, Edes and Gill focused on the contents of the "REGISTER." They listed the contents, including useful reference material from tables of colonial currencies to descriptions of "Public Raods, with the best Stages or Houses to put up at" to dates of "Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England." Many of the contents had a decidedly political tone, making it clear that Edes and Gill marketed this almanac and register to supporters of the patriot cause. The printers led the list of contents with "A Prospective View of the Town of Boston the Capital of New-England; and the Landing of – Troops in the Year 1768, in Consequence of Letters from Gov. Bernard, the Commissioners, &c. to the British Ministry." This woodcut, fashioned by Paul Revere, depicted eight British warships delivering troops to be quartered in Boston. In addition to that frontispiece, the almanac and register also contained an overview of many of the other sources of tension between the colonies and Britain, including a "List of the Importers and Resolves of the Merchants &c. of Boston" and a "List of Commissioners and other Officers of the Revenue, WITH THEIR SALARIES!" More than just a handy register of practical information, this was a primer in patriot politics. Even items intended for amusement had a political flair, such as "Liberty Song" and "A New Song, to the Tune of the British Grenadier, by a SON OF LIBERTY."
It was rather late in the year for Edes and Gill to publish an almanac, but they apparently considered it a good time to disseminate patriot propaganda. The "Judgment of the Weather, Suns and Moon's Rising and Setting," and other material commonly contained in almanacs did not receive much notice in their advertisement. Instead, they emphasized contents related to colonial grievances, presenting consumers with new opportunities to participate in acts of resistance by purchasing items that documented the events unfolding around them. By bringing those narratives into their homes, colonists would become better informed and perhaps even more politicized in favor of the patriot cause.


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The property features 89 well-appointed, spacious guest rooms, including 15 luxurious suites, spread between the main palace and four riads. All rooms and suites enjoy views over the atlas mountains, the palmeraie desert landscape or the pool and gardens. An oasis in the desert, the location of the hotel is right on the outskirts of Marrakech, a half hour's drive from the city's medina.
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Stuart Church, the designer of the complex was responsible for everything from the overall site plan down to the delicate floral patterns in the coffered ceilings. He found architectural influences for the layout of his main block in the galleried courtyards of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai.
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What's the very first step you should take to build your identity in the market and business success? Is it which social media to post on? Whether to use video? If you should get a new website? Actually, none of those. That critical first step is to create your Unique Value Proposition—or UVP. Your UVP states, simply and directly, a believable promise of value to your customers that sets you apart from your competition.
Hi, I'm Perry Alexander, and today, we're going to get down to basics and lay out what a Unique Value Proposition is, why it's essential that you get it right, and how to craft yours, to inform your marketing, guide your company, and build your success. And, having a strong UVP is just as important for non-profits.
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Developing a Unique Value Proposition that seriously works for you deserves far more than a just few minutes of quick thought, jotting it down, and moving on. There's a systematic way to get to a UVP with the power to separate you from the crowd.
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Not as well-known as Apple, of course, is an app called LessAccounting. Their UVP could be stated simply, "Bookkeeping, without the hassle." Aimed at small-business owners and freelancers, it's an accounting app focused on providing their users simple, painless bookkeeping. Everything about their product and messaging supports that concept. A UVP that's believable, relevant, and worth a look.
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Each year, roughly 0.1% of Tennessee students graduate with degrees in paralegal studies. In other words, every year an estimated 181 paralegals graduate from Tennessee's 20 paralegal schools.
Daymar Institute-Murfreesboro, which was ranked 73rd nationwide in 2010, is the top-ranked school in Tennessee that has a paralegal program. It is located in Murfreesboro. 6 students graduated with a degree in paralegal from Daymar Institute-Murfreesboro in 2010. Daymar Institute-Murfreesboro charged in-state students $15,120 in tuition fees per year.
The second-ranked school in Tennessee with a paralegal program is The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which is located in Chattanooga. In 2010, it was ranked 73rd nationwide. In 2010, 20 students graduated from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga paralegal program. Students at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga paid $6,062 per year in tuition fees.
Miller-Motte Technical College, which was ranked 73rd nationwide in 2010, is the third-ranked school in Tennessee that has a paralegal program. It is located in Clarksville. In 2010, Miller-Motte Technical College graduated 2 students from its paralegal programs. The tuition rate at Miller-Motte Technical College was $9,712 per year.
A paralegal degree from a Tennessee school... what next?
According the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of paralegals is expected to grow by 20% by 2018. There are projected to be 4,970 paralegals working in the Tennessee then.
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In today's modern world, it is easy to get caught up in personal struggles. There are always things like work and other activities getting in the way of family time. It is important to take time to stop whatever you think is important and value your family. Many people are so wrapped up in becoming successful that family gets pushed to the wayside. But no one is quite the same without their family. Family is often made up of the people who give us the confidence to rise in our success in the first place. At the very least, family are the people who have brought us into the world. There are many ways you can value your family. You can buy your kids religious children gifts like religious children jewelry. You can create a game night and a special time in which you concentrate on nothing but your family. Keeping in contact with family is the only tried and true method of valuing their place in your life. This contact, no matter how small, can make a huge difference in the way your life looks and feels to those around you. When someone is lying on their death bed, they rarely say that they wished they had worked harder so they could achieve more success. Instead, people wish that they had honored and valued their family more by spending more time with them and showing them their love and caring feelings.
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All of the book software examples that I wrote are licensed using the LGPL license version 3.
I use a variety of 3rd party JAR files contained in the lib directory.
While most of the software is written in Java, I have made an attempt to also support people who prefer JRuby, Clojure, or Scala with wrappers for those languages.
I have written compatibility wrappers so the book examples can use either the open source Sesame RDF repository or the commercial AllegroGraph product. My wrapper for Sesame adds support for geolocation and text indexing and search.
Using the free community version of IntelliJ 10, make sure the Clojure and Scala plugins are installed (should be by default), set default JDK version to 5.0, create a new project "Create Java project using existing sources" and make sure do include all of the JAR files in the lib sub directory into the project's required resources (do this by "Open Module Settings", click the "Dependencies" tab, Add -> "Single Entry Module Library…", select all JAR files in lib and the Sesame sub directory of lib, hit "Apply". Then make sure the test directory is in your source path.).
You should then be able to run any of the examples by right mouse clicking any file in the test directory and choosing the "Run…" option.
The directions are similar to those for IntelliJ: create a new Java Eclipse project, import the example directory from this git repository, make sure that all JAR files in the lib directory are imported as external JAR files, and then run the Java test programs in the test directory. Note: I am not an Eclipse user: if anyone will donate directions for installing and running the Eclipse Clojure and Scala plugins, I will add those directions here.
11/11/2013 note: the Clojure code is in the ZIP file CLOJURE_CODE.zip. UnZI this file first if you want to use the CLojure examples.
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Donald Trump is expected to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, two sources close to the transition process told NBC News on Saturday.
The 64-year-old veteran oil executive has no government or diplomatic experience, although he has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pick would put to rest weeks-long speculation of who would earn the post as the U.S.'s top diplomat, and would place Tillerson fourth in line to the presidency.
He will also be paired with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton as his deputy secretary of state, one of the sources added, with Bolton handling day-to-day management of the department.
Chairman and CEO of US oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, speaks during the 2015 Oil and Money conference in central London on Oct. 7, 2015. Ben Stansall / AFP/Getty Images
The sources cautioned that nothing is final until the president-elect officially announces it, which could happen as early as next week.
Tillerson, who was once dubbed "T.Rex" by Sarah Palin, met Saturday with Trump at Trump Tower in New York City, the president-elect's spokesperson confirmed.
Whether I choose him or not for "State"- Rex Tillerson, the Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobil, is a world class player and dealmaker. Stay tuned!
In a pre-taped interview set to air Sunday on Fox News, Trump discussed why a businessman such as Tillerson would be a good fit as America's chief diplomat.
"Well, in his case, he's much more than a business executive, I mean he's a world-class player," Trump said, acknowledging Tillerson's relationship with Russia through his business dealings.
"To me, a great advantage is he knows many of the players, and he knows them well," Trump added. "He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company — not for himself, for the company."
Trump spokesman Jason Miller said no official announcement on the secretary of state pick is expected until "next week at the earliest."
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Tillerson, of Wichita Falls, Texas, has already notified his corporate board about taking on the new role, sources told NBC News. He is set to retire from ExxonMobil next year since the company has a mandatory retirement age of 65, Reuters reported.
He has never previously worked in government, but reportedly holds conservative political views.
Tillerson has made tens of thousands of dollars worth of political donations over the past two decades to Republican groups and candidates, including to President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Tillerson backed Jeb Bush during the GOP presidential primary and did not donate to Trump's campaign.
Little is known about where he stands on foreign policy, and as secretary of state, he would have to hit the ground running on major issues. Among them: handling the nuclear agreement with Iran that the Obama administration made in 2015; the sanctions imposed on Russia; disputes with China and North Korea; the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria; and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq.
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While he has spent his entire career in the energy sector, Tillerson does have experience dealing with foreign governments since ExxonMobil operates in more than 50 countries.
He already has links to Putin as well, after representing the company's interests in Russia during the Boris Yeltsin administration.
In 2013, the Kremlin bestowed the country's Order of Friendship honor on Tillerson.
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At an ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting in May 2014, Tillerson touched on his disapproval of sanctions.
"We do not support sanctions, generally, because we don't find them to be effective unless they are very well implemented comprehensively and that's a very hard thing to do," he said, adding, "We always encourage the people who are making those decisions to consider the very broad collateral damage of who are they really harming with sanctions."
One of ExxonMobil's and Russia's biggest deals fell victim to the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration in reaction to Russia invading Crimea in 2014. That deal to drill in the offshore Arctic Kara Sea oil field would have reportedly been worth $500 billion.
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But not every Republican has championed Tillerson.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told NBC News on Saturday he has concerns over Tillerson's ties with Russia and that it would be the subject of any Senate confirmation hearing.
The news of the Tillerson pick comes less than a day after reports that the CIA concluded that Russian hackers did intervene in the U.S. presidential election to help Trump win over rival Hillary Clinton.
In her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," Palin went after him for how ExxonMobil handled the media attention and dialogue between the Alaskan government and the company over a proposed oil pipeline in her state.
"We knew we were headed in the right direction when the threats from some oil industry players began — everything from nasty emails to multimillion-dollar ad campaigns. Though none of the Big Three oil companies wanted to move away from their relationships with the previous administration, ExxonMobil seemed particularly hostile," the former Alaska governor wrote.
Tillerson's role and financial stake in ExxonMobil — the fifth-largest publicly traded company in the world with a $369 billion market cap — could open up cases of conflict of interest. His ExxonMobil shares are reportedly worth about $151 million.
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was on the short list and among the leading names of potential candidates for the post, and despite clashing with Trump on the campaign trail — even trading bitter barbs with one another — the pair seemed to reconcile.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also was reportedly in the running, although he said Friday he had taken his name out of consideration.
Bolton, 68, had been floated as a possible secretary of state candidate as well. He was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006 under George W. Bush.
While he is a self-described advocate of the Ronald Reagan foreign policy idea of "peace through strength," his hawkish stances have not been without controversy, and he was a vocal proponent of the war in Iraq.
"We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq," Bolton had said in 2002 while serving as George W. Bush's undersecretary of state for Arms Control and International Security.
He continued to defend his position even after it was discovered that Iraq harbored no weapons of mass destruction.
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Radio Prague logo on a broadcasting schedule from first half of 1990s At the end of 1989 the Communist regimes of central and eastern Europe collapsed like a house of cards - an end to four long decades of oppressive rule. Both Czechoslovak Radio and the people of Prague played an active role in these events. Democracy had finally arrived.
After the "Velvet Revolution" the most compromised employees and secret service agents left Czechoslovak Radio. Radio Prague gradually returned to its original mission - to provide the world with balanced and unbiased information about events in Czechoslovakia. Programmes once again began with a horn fanfare from Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony, as they had before the war. From the early 1950s to 1989, Radio Prague's signature tune was the rousing Communist anthem "Forward Left".
From April 1 to May 7 1990, Radio Prague fell silent. Only the Czech and Slovak language expatriate programmes and Interprogram stayed on the air. The reason for this pause was the uncertain position of the international service, combined with programme, personnel and technical cutbacks at Czechoslovak Radio. The Arabic, Italian and Portuguese for Latin America broadcasts had already been cut. Eight languages had been reduced to five: Czech/Slovak, English, German, French and Spanish. The "central departments" - that symbolised the "party line" - were reduced. Programmes were cut back sharply and many staff were laid off. In 1989, Radio Prague had some 360 employees: four years later that number had fallen to just over 50.
In the spring of 1990 a number of transmitters were taken out of service their output reduced. Until this time four 250 kW shortwave transmitters, seven 100 kW transmitters and two medium-wave transmitters with a combined output of 500 kW were in use. Following the renewal of broadcasts in May 1990, Radio Prague was using just two 250 kW shortwave transmitters in Rimavska Sobota and two 100 kW shortwave transmitters in Litomysl. Following the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Rimavská Sobota transmitting station was given to Slovakia and Litomysl to the Czech Republic. Radio Prague used the more powerful transmitter at Rimavska Sobota until 1995, when it had to cease using the Slovak facilities for financial reasons. Since then Radio Prague has used only the Litomysl transmitter site. The 1287 kHz medium- wave frequency was withdrawn from Radio Prague in 1990. This channel is used to this day by the Czech service of Radio Free Europe.
Interprogram also faced reductions. In 1990 it cut programmes to just English German and French, and was finally shut down in 1992. In the same year, the central departments were also closed down once and for all. The international service ceased covering international news and began concentrating solely on events in the Czech Republic.
In 1992 a new law made Czechoslovak Radio a public body, and a Czechoslovak Radio Supervisory Board was created to guarantee the station's independence. The Board was appointed by parliament, not by the government or the party apparatus, as had been the case for the previous nearly 50 years. In 1993, following the division of Czechoslovakia and Czechoslovak Radio, the international service became an independent broadcasting body within Czech Radio.
Radio Prague broadcast schedules, with new logo used since 1996 Even the name Radio Prague - which is used to describe the international service in this publication - has an interesting past. It is necessary to distinguish between the internal administrative term used within Czechoslovak Radio and the term used in the programmes: i.e. the name used by the station to describe itself in its broadcasts. Before the war the station introduced itself as "the shortwave Czechoslovak station Praha" or by the transmitter's call sign OLR. After the war several monikers were used in various languages: "Station Prague", "This is Prague - Czechoslovakia", "Prague Calling" etc. The name "Radio Prague" first appeared in the 1950s. It was used in DX programmes, and several language sections began using "Radio Prague - Czechoslovakia" as a call sign. The name "Radio Prague" was used mainly in written correspondence with listeners, and can be seen on various broadcasting schedules, QSL cards and other printed material from the 1960s. It was not, however, used universally. It was not until the 1990s (in the early 90s the station was called "Radio Czechoslovakia International") the name Radio Prague stuck for good. As for internal administrative use within Czechoslovak Radio, before the war the station used the words "shortwave department", after the war "shortwave broadcasts", from the 1950s "the foreign language broadcasts", or ZV for short. In 1996, when Czech Radio stations were given Despite all the technological advances of the last few years, shortwave remains the new names, "Radio Prague" became the name used both internally and externally. The station's official name is "Czech Radio 7 - Radio Prague". On air, presenters use the phrase - "Radio Prague - the international service of Czech Radio".
Radio Prague also has its own methods of financing. While Czech Radio is funded by the licence fee, the international service is financed from the state budget. From 1993-1996 funding came from the Office of the Czech Government; since 1997 Radio Prague has been financed via the Foreign Ministry. In 1994 the government announced a tender for operating the international service. Not surprisingly, this was won by Czech Radio. Radio Prague's "foundation charter" is an agreement between Czech Radio and the Foreign Ministry, in which the extent and form of broadcasts and financing is laid out in full. The budget for the international service fell from 90 million crowns in 1993 to 45 million in 1997. In 1997 there were further cuts planned. All shortwave broadcasts were originally to be closed down with the exception of the Czech and English services; other language services were to be available only via the Internet. Luckily this plan was never realised. In 2000 the budget was raised to 62 million crowns (1.5 million USD) and Radio Prague was able to launch a Russian service.
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require 'rails_helper'

module ContactCenter
  RSpec.describe Concerns::AgentStateMachine, type: :model do
    describe "#status" do
      let(:agent) { create :agent }

      it "defaults to 'offline'" do
        expect(agent.status).to eq Agent::OFFLINE
      end
    end

    describe "#available!" do
      context "given an offline agent" do
        let(:agent) { create :offline_agent }

        it "transitions into available status" do
          agent.available!
          expect(agent.status).to eq Agent::AVAILABLE
        end
      end
    end

    describe "#offline!" do
      context "given an available agent" do
        let(:agent) { create :available_agent }

        it "transitions into offline status" do
          agent.offline!
          expect(agent.status).to eq Agent::OFFLINE
        end
      end
    end

    describe "#on_a_call!" do
      context "given an available agent" do
        let(:agent) { create :available_agent }

        it "transitions into on a call status" do
          agent.on_a_call!
          expect(agent.status).to eq Agent::ON_A_CALL
        end
      end
    end

    describe "#not_available!" do
      context "given an agent on a call" do
        let(:agent) { create :on_a_call_agent }

        it "does not transition to not available" do
          expect { agent.not_available! }.to raise_error(StateMachine::InvalidTransition)
        end
      end

      context "given an available agent" do
        let(:agent) { create :available_agent }

        it "transitions to not available" do
          agent.not_available!
          expect(agent.status).to eq Agent::NOT_AVAILABLE
        end
      end
    end

    describe "after state transition" do
      before do
        @subscriber = ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe("contact_center.agent_status_change") do |*args|
          @event = ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event.new(*args)
        end
      end

      after do
        ActiveSupport::Notifications.unsubscribe(@subscriber)
      end

      context "when the status changes" do
        let(:agent) { create :offline_agent }
        before { agent.available! }

        it "publishes the status change" do
          expect(@event).not_to be_nil
          expect(@event.payload[:agent_id]).to eq agent.id
          expect(@event.payload[:username]).to eq agent.username
          expect(@event.payload[:status]).to eq agent.status
          expect(@event.payload).to include :timestamp
        end
      end

      context "when status doesn't change" do
        let(:agent) { create :available_agent }
        before { agent.available! }

        it "does not publish the status change" do
          expect(@event).to be_nil
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Dennis Avner: Cat man or Stalking cat
Dennis Avner is an American born in 1958. He is more known under the name of "Cat man" or by his native american name; "stalking cat".
Cat man is a descendant from the American indians Lakota and Huron . He was inspired to achieve his look by a native chief to "follow the ways of the tiger".
Cat man has spent large sums of money to surgically modify his body to make him look like a tiger.
Cat man has gone through 14 surgical procedures, such as: hairline modification, implants in the face, filing and capping of his teeth, surgically pointing of the ars, silicone injection in the lips, cheeks, chin and a split upper lip.
Cat man (Dennis Avner) in profile
Cat man also has a lot of piercings, tattoos and cat-like contactlenses to complete his look.
Cat man holds the Guinness World Record for "most permanent transformations to look like an animal"
Cat man enjoys climbing trees and eating raw meat – just like a real tiger. But he has to work in office and make TV appearances to bring in money – because he is still a hunan with human needs.
Cat man is a former navy sonar technician and is currently a computer programmer. He is now somewhat of a celebrity with appearences on "Ripley's believe it or not!", "Larry King Live" and "Kerrang! radio".
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Stalking Cat's official website
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OpenGov rakes in $51 million in series D
The leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions to governments has announced that it has raised $51 million in its series D round of funding. The financing round was led by Weatherford Capital and 8VC with the participation of Andreessen Horowitz.
The company has now raised in excess of $140 million since its founding in 2012 from Andreessen Horowitz, JC2 Ventures, 8VC, Emerson Collective, and other top investors. The fresh funding will be used by OpenGov to enhance the go-to-market, "end-to-end budgeting, performance communications, and reporting solutions for government."
OpenGov CEO Zac Bookman said: "This new investment validates OpenGov's position as the leader in enterprise cloud solutions for government, and it fuels our ability to build, sell, and deploy new mission-critical technology that is the safe and trusted choice for government executives."
The company has one of the strongest boards in technology with big names like Joe Lonsdale, Katherine August-deWilde, Marc Andreessen, John Chambers and Zac Bookman serving as the board members.
Recently, OpenGov had announced partnerships with the State of West Virginia, the State of Oklahoma, the Idaho State Controller's Office, the City of Minneapolis MN, and Suffolk County NY. The OpenGov CloudTM is being used by over 2,000 governments.
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Happy Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah!
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Records were often hard to find in th eighties. For many years i only had a tape of the Chevalier Brothers LP. Recently i discovered that there are some video's on YouTube of the band. So here they are, after a quarter of a century waiting (for me, maybe not for you), the Chevalier Brothers!
I can recall a Stargazers gig in Utrecht – way back when and probably without you Anders – because most of the crowd were annoyed by the fact that the bassplayer didn't or couldn't slap his bass. I can't remember anything else in particular from that gig.
I can recall how I first heard heard the Stargazers LP. Frank bought their LP in France while on holiday and I got a tape (those were the days)… Every song was a gem and It really hit the roof and I still like the Stargazers after all this time. The way the songs were recorded, it also sounded fresh and made rocks wanted to dance (an it still does). Beside that the design of the LP was also really enjoyable.
Let alone the fact they also made a couple of EP's, which I found in an obscure musicstore in Haarlem. ..
I also do remember The Chevalier Brothers, 'One more drink bartender' and the ballad 'no better lover than you (if that's the title)' spring to mind immideately.
Great bands – not availabe on spotify yet….!
@Anders: good to hear that there are 3 lp's in stead of one! I put them on my wantlist.
One of my memories is that my love back then was quite charmed by you and i didn't really like that!


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Qatar FM has 'positive' meeting with Egyptian counterpart in Cairo
Qatari FM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukry meet in Cairo, March 3, 2021. (Twitter/EgyptMFASpokesperson)
Qatar's foreign minister met with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Wednesday on the sidelines of a meeting of Arab states, Qatar's state news agency reported, two months after the end of a bitter regional dispute that placed the countries on opposing sides.
Egypt, along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, had cut ties with Qatar in 2017 over accusations that Doha supported terrorism, a charge it denies. But in January of this year, the Arab bloc agreed to restore diplomatic, trade and travel ties with Qatar.
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on the sidelines of an Arab League meeting, QNA reported.
Sheikh Mohammed was cited as saying both countries were keen on a return to warm relations and that the meeting was characterized by a positive spirit and of optimism.
Egypt's foreign ministry confirmed in a tweet the two had met.
https://twitter.com/MfaEgypt/status/1367099583407480838
Egyptian and Qatari delegates met in Kuwait last month for the first time since the dispute ended.
The United States, which has close ties with all states involved, has seen the rift as a threat to efforts to contain Iran and pushed for a united Gulf front.
The row also rattled Arab power politics in the region, where Gulf states have used their financial and political clout to influence events in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
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Proper interpretation of imagery is critical to effective use of these resources.
A direct route from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis overlaid on the January 10th Winter Precip Radar Mosaic reveals significant weather along the planned flight path.
On my way home from Oshkosh Air Venture last August, I observed the billowing anvils of thunderstorms south of my flight path. Both the radar and satellite pictures showed buildups advancing northward, which would cut directly through my route. So, I took the safe option and landed at Dalhart, Texas for the night. The ability to read effectively these images is critical to flying IFR—especially in today's high-tech world of in-flight weather.
There is a difference between summer and winter in the ability to read and interpret radar and satellite imagery— the latter are not as easy to decipher. All the images shown with this article were captured at the same time. Viewing all these perspectives gives a broader understanding of what we could be facing. Let's see what they say about a planned IFR flight from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis on January 10th. Assume the performance ceiling of your aircraft is 13,500 feet MSL maximum, and you are estimating seven hours of flight time.
An AIRMET exists over the central half of the flight for Icing from the freezing level (near the surface) to 11,000 feet. When you get briefings from Flight Service they are required by the National Weather Service to inform you of any AIRMETs within 3,000 feet altitude of your flight level, because their estimates are just that— estimates.
During winter, the biggest problem with individual radar sites, like the one shown based at Cheyenne Wyoming, is that levels of precipitation are deceptive in two ways. This picture (right) shows a large area of green with a small spot of yellow— that in the summer months is associated with light to moderate lower level precipitation, something most IFR pilots find easy to fly through. The problem with individual sites is that returns diminish with distance and mask the extent of the activity. In this picture it looks as though you could potentially circumnavigate to the north.
The Mosaic Summer radar picture combines all the data from various sites—giving you a greater understanding of the true coverage of weather systems. It is important to know where the holes in coverage are, because the individual sites are far enough apart that anything low-level can hide behind higher returns. One of these holes exists northeast of Cheyenne, so it looks like there could be an opening in far Northwestern Nebraska, which an aircraft might slip through.
Radar has a more difficult time picking up snow and ice than it does rain. During the winter time the thin pale blues and greys present a subtly sinister reading. Even a pale area of grey could mean there is light precipitation in the area—and flying through it could cause ice accumulation. A smudge of light to deep blue can mean more significant icing is possible or that a small intense snowstorm is blowing through an area. Just because it is small doesn't mean it's harmless.
If you are using WSI or other private vendor radar products, the colors may be altered by their computers—in most cases they will show winter radars that have green for rain, pink for a rain/ice mix, and blue for snow. The worst flight condition is a rain/ice mix—that's where you can accumulate the heaviest icing on an aircraft. Become familiar with the variations of each vendor's radar interpretations.
The Winter radar mosaic above shows the areas of precipitation as being more widespread than the summer weather radar mode, but they both indicate there may be a passage between the systems. The colors of the NWS winter radar give indications of cloud temperatures. Let's go to the satellites and see if they can broaden our understanding.
The visible satellite image produced at the same time as the others is more difficult to interpret in the winter months.
Remember, radar gives you a picture of the sky from the ground upwards on a slant angle, while satellites look down from above. If there are layers between what is seen on the top and bottom, they could be hidden from view.
The visible satellite picture in winter lacks the brilliant white bubble tops of summer cumuliform clouds or the smooth thick creamy swaths of early morning fog banks with sharply defined edges. The challenge lies in determining whether the shadowy shades of gray are streaming at high or low levels and whether they hold moisture warm enough to constitute a problem for your aircraft.
If they are cold enough, the tiny ice crystals will bounce off the aircraft rather than adhering. The Visible Satellite shows the cloud activity is widespread and dense in the northern plains—including the area we were hoping to see a passage through. However, we get no sense of cloud heights or whether they contain dangerous icing.
Due to the rotation of the earth, weather satellites are able to view every spot on earth twice each day. The infrared satellite image is more pronounced.
The infrared picture on the right presents more dramatic tonal contrasts. The temperature grid across the top tells you how cold the clouds are based on their shade of white or gray. Now we can at least see lower layers in California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, but the higher, colder clouds are obscuring what is going on in Colorado, Wyoming and the northern plains states.
Looping both these images showed the mass of clouds at upper levels generally stretching northwards while the entire area swiftly tracks from west to east with a slight counterclockwise rotation in the northern Texas panhandle.
Looping also gives a glimpse below the highest layer of clouds, which in this case shows a grey lower layer— the one you are really concerned with. It appears to be consistently the same shade of grey indicating one lower level below the more visible upper layer. Between these two layers could be altitudes free of cloud activity. Zoom in as close as possible to see if there are shades of gray distinctly different from the lowest and highest cloud shelves.
The Satellite picture contradicts the idea of a hole along the line of precipitation as it shows the clouds stretching in an unbroken line. You see no holes through the widespread cloud activity at the lower levels. METARs also indicate marginal VFR to IFR conditions at the surface.
Looping the images is integral for determining whether to go direct, take a routing to the south, or spend the night and go in the morning. In this case the sequence shows the system to be rapidly moving east. The next morning showed the area of freezing temperatures and precipitation had moved well into Minnesota.
By leaving Salt Lake City in the late morning and assuming a six-hour flight, the arrival at Minneapolis in the early evening was free of icing as we snuck in behind the frontal activity. Getting used to the seasonal differences in radar and satellite imagery takes a bit of practice.
Keep in mind that where summer images are stark and dramatically colored, winter's colors are more subtle, but essential to safely planning long distance flights.
Rose Marie Kern was a certified aviation weather forecaster when she worked as a Flight Watch specialist. Her book, Air to Ground, gives pilots a good overview of aviation weather products as well as information about Air Traffic Control. www. rosemariekern.com.
This article originally appeared in the April 2018 issue of�IFR Refresher�magazine.