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The movement to add four seats to the Supreme Court would require Democrats to take the White House, the House and the Senate in 2020. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
Meet the man trying to convince America to swell the Supreme Court
By MATTHEW CHOI
For more than 10 years, Aaron Belkin slowly and methodically worked to shift public opinion on "don't ask, don't tell," chipping away at the hardened view that openly gay Americans had no place in the military.
When the law was repealed in 2011, the San Francisco State University political science professor felt vindication in his belief that an aggressive communications campaign can bring success to long-shot causes.
Now Belkin has a new target: the Supreme Court.
Belkin and fellow academic-activists have launched the 1/20/21 Project, which aims to add four seats to the Supreme Court soon after Inauguration Day after the 2020 election. Though Belkin said he isn't looking for a partisan shift in the court and is instead taking back seats he claims Republicans stole, adding four seats could pave the way for an influx of progressive justices that could tip the high court way to the left.
To call this effort a long shot would be an understatement. It would require Democrats to take the White House, the House and the Senate in 2020, combined with a groundswell of support from the general public to blatantly pack the court.
But Belkin said his experiences with the "don't ask, don't tell" debate give him optimism that if he can spread information about the need to change the courts, eventually the public will get behind it.
"It led me to ... believe that despite all the discussion of fake news and all the efforts to lie and try to distort public policy conversation ... if you just tell the truth about what's going on and you do so repeatedly and aggressively, eventually public policy can catch up to the truth," Belkin said.
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Belkin took that approach to the fight to allow gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military. As the founding director of the activist group the Palm Center, Belkin harnessed research, strategically timed news articles with a human touch and a relentless messaging campaign to try to debunk what he called a "10,000-pound boulder" — the entrenched idea that openly gay service members would hurt the cohesion of military units.
The campaign lasted more than 10 years before it produced legislative results, but the results both in and outside the Capitol were considerable. More than 100 generals and admirals wrote advocating the end of "don't ask, don't tell" after the Palm Center's information campaigns and the majority of Republicans and regular churchgoers eventually opposed the policy as well.
While the circumstances around changing the structure of the Supreme Court are wildly different from the debate over gays in the military, Belkin is starting with some momentum.
The bitter partisan fight over President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh — who accused Democrats of ginning up sexual assault allegations to carry out "revenge on behalf of the Clintons" — has stoked fears among liberals that the Supreme Court could forcefully tilt right and unwind protections for women's health and minority groups.
According to a Data for Progress and YouGov poll conducted from Oct. 11 to 15, 43 percent of Democrats already agree that the Court should be expanded, 28 percent disagree and 23 percent are undecided.
The campaign's digital media director, Sean McElwee, has also had a hand in turning a far-out idea into a major legislative priority. He was one of the key advocates in the movement to abolish ICE, which under the hashtag #AbolishICE has become a common call among far-left Democratic candidates in this year's midterm elections. McElwee hopes to repeat that fervor expanding the courts.
"We have too long tried to take on the court with the tools of law, but if the court is in fact a political branch, then instead of using the tools of law, you need to use the tools of politics," McElwee said.
The project's Twitter account is currently a flurry of hip memes and witty cultural references — a clear reflection of McElwee's well-known Twitter presence — and has gained over 1,000 followers in only a few days.
But there will inevitably be fierce resistance as liberal activists attempt to pack the court.
Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett, who has written on libertarian interpretations of law and is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, characterizes the project as another resistance movement targeting respected institutions. Barnett said some of the same people who argued that Trump is a threat to democratic institutions are arguing for the dismantling of institutions themselves, from the Electoral College to the Supreme Court.
Barnett cited the conventional method of replacing disagreeable justices: electing a president who can replace them.
"Under our current institutions, we have a Supreme Court that has had a stable number of justices for a very long time," Barnett said. "But now, because finally it may be the case that the left has lost a majority of the court, because of that and only because of that, we're now supposed to change the court so we can ensure the left wins again."
President Trump Says He Wants to Reform Prisons. His Attorney General Has Other Ideas.
By JUSTIN GEORGE
The project organizers counter that Republicans' tactics to obstruct presidential nominations to the courts merit an institutional change to the courts themselves. Former President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland is the most glaring example, they said, and several of Obama's nominees to lower federal courts were stalled on the Senate floor.
If the project reaches the momentum it's aiming for, it would be the first change in the number of justices since Reconstruction and the first major movement to expand the Supreme Court since President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
But it would not be without precedent. Arizona State history professor Calvin Schermerhorn said the courts have long been a partisan battleground, with court expansion used as a tool in the 19th century for political means by presidents from all parties.
Barnett also said he hopes Democrats run on a platform centered on changing the courts, because he feels it would be widely unpopular. He was skeptical Democrats will be able to gain the seats necessary to change the court's composition.
And with attention firmly fixed on this year's midterms, the 2020 elections feel an eternity away.
But Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet, a member of the movement's advisory board, said that, if anything, he hopes the project will get members of the public thinking about the courts critically instead of cementing their attitudes in deference to tradition. Tushnet has written about alternative forms of judicial review and the role of the Supreme Court and said that, even if Democrats lose in 2020, at least the discussion will be out there. The project's organizers also argued that Republicans already spread demonizing information about Democrats, and Democrats still manage to score victories.
Belkin spoke from experience when he said a project like his will take patience. And he said that despite the project's name, he won't stop fighting if Democrats can't take Congress or the White House in two years.
"No one's going to go away if the Democrats don't win," he said.
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Suggestions on speakers for Naim 112x and 150x.
Discussion in 'Home Cinema Speakers' started by paulg1979, Jan 5, 2007.
Just purchased myself a Naim 112x and 150x (now converted to Naim for life ) which i'm currently running with some Mordaunt Short 902i standmounts. I obviously want to upgrade these but wondered what good standmounts are about. Looking at £500-£600.
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Hi, a few weks ago I heard some speakers by Revolver,r 33 I think they were,had the best bass i'd heard from a standmounter,was so well controlled with great definition,a great clarity in the midrange,it put a smile on my face.
The Epos speakers would also be fast and fun with Naim.
Sound good. Never heard of Revolver but have heard of Epos. What are the PMC's like?
My DB1+'s sound fantastic with my Arcam set up, but when I heard them on a Quad amp they seemed to lose something. I would recommend you demo any you want to listen to on your own kit if possible.
Within your budget, one of the best matches we have found is the Dynaudio Audience 52's. If you extend the budget a little, there will be a few more options from Spendor with their S3e, the Proac Studio 110, as well as Dynaudio's Focus 110 model. All are quite different presentations therefore relies heavily on personal preference as to your choice.
I've just upgraded from Dynaudio Audience 40's to their Focus 110 speakers.. i'm running off a Nait 3R with CD5i source... all connected with Chord cables.
I am selling the NACA5 cable and Audience 40's soon and will add an advert in the Classifieds when i do. As for which speakers to go with i prefer the midrange of the 42's over the increased bass of the 52's... the 52SE area different ball game and go extremely cheap on eBay (£475 for instance!) If you do like the sound of the Focus 110 then Audio Excellence have a pair of ex demo (so full warranty etc) in Maple for £600... and that's a bargain!
Am not a great fan of PMC with Naim, don't seem quite "right" to me.
If you ca live with going second hand, then seek out a pair of Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mk II's........there are quite a few over the years (months) who've had this combo and love it. I've never heard with it personally, though have heard Naim and Dyns together.
This highlights a need to listen!
Though Craig you do say you've never heard them and then on the other hand say you personally think they're a lot better!?
I have to totally disagree however, the 1.3's never gelled for me, far too much bass from the box which ruined the sound... i also don't believe the 150x has enough grunt to drive them properly. I would say that 52SE, 110 or 140 are not only a better match but a better speaker... to start with they have the latest version of Dynaudios own MSP drivers, let alone the fact that the Focus range use the latest Esotec+ tweeter (as does the 52SE) the cabinet design is very clever, can't quantify the benefits but sonically they're clear! Basically see if you can track some down to hear, but personally i don't believe they're a patch on the others above.
Sorry Scot. I wasn't clear.
The comment about better refers mainly to the 1.3 II over the Focal 140 and the 52se. I tried them against 140 before xmas and it was clear for me that the 1.3 was the better speaker. Have previously had the 52se's and 1.3's side by side and that again for me was clear.
However, I know what you mean with the bass, in a way, as I gave up on the 52se for the same reason. So many of these issues are room-acoustic dependent so I perhaps there's no hard and fast way of knowing which is best before you get me em home.
It's only my opinion, of course, but I have managed to listen to them all in one combo or another. There are a few on wigwam and HFC who easily used 1.3's together with the Nait 5i, so I'm not inclined to jump on the power bandwagon.
edit: FWIW, I'm not a die on the beaches Dynadude, I will probably be parting with my Dyn's within the next year.
Not a problem, was a little puzzled!
I'm genuinely surprised you found them better, but hey it's what makes us different -would be dull if we all liked the same thing eh!?
Certainly see your point on an odd upgrade path, v.strange from 52SE to 1.1... though the others kind of figure i guess For me the 52SE were way too much, the Focus 110 are about the limit of bass tolerance in my room, so it's certainly a case of a home dem required!!
I think i am a Dynadude as i keep listening to lots of other speakers but they just seem to "work" for me... i'll be intrigued what you change to!
I did miss something out, and that was B&W 705's. the 52se's boomed like concorde in my then living room, so a change was necessary. Dealer allowed me to hoodwink myself into a pair of 705's.
Change of apartment brought change of room acoustics, and then went back to Dyn's but this time the 1.1, and from there we've come to the 1.3 II.
Anyway, to get back to the point with the OP's question, perhaps the Neat Motive 3 should be on the shortlist? they're a decent match for Naim, I hear, so worth a shot.......IIRC many Naim dealers sell Neat too.
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Shortly after the end of World War II, Noriko Oba (Nanako Matsushima) starts a small dressmaking class in the Kansai region. She opens a school for dressmaking and their ornaments. Noriko gains recognition in the fashion world, but, at the same time, she is not welcome there due to jealousy and vanity.
Based on novel "Onna no Kunshou" by Toyoko Yamasaki (published 1961 in Mainichi Shimbun).


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GSM and CDMA
In CDMA, each phone's data has a unique code.
TDMA is also used as the access technology for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). However, GSM implements TDMA in a somewhat different and incompatible way from IS-136. Think of GSM and IS-136 as two different operating systems that work on the same processor, like Windows and Linux both working on an Intel Pentium III. GSM systems use encryption to make phone calls more secure. GSM operates in the 900-MHz and 1800-MHz bands in Europe and Asia and in the 850-MHz and 1900-MHz (sometimes referred to as 1.9-GHz) band in the United States. It is used in digital cellular and PCS-based systems. GSM is also the basis for Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (IDEN), a popular system introduced by Motorola and used by Nextel. AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM.
CDMA takes an entirely different approach from TDMA. CDMA, after digitizing data, spreads it out over the entire available bandwidth. Multiple calls are overlaid on each other on the channel, with each assigned a unique sequence code. CDMA is a form of spread spectrum, which simply means that data is sent in small pieces over a number of the discrete frequencies available for use at any time in the specified range. Verizon, Sprint and most other U.S. carriers use CDMA, which means no SIM card.
All of the users transmit in the same wide-band chunk of spectrum. Each user's signal is spread over the entire bandwidth by a unique spreading code. At the receiver, that same unique code is used to recover the signal. Because CDMA systems need to put an accurate time-stamp on each piece of a signal, it references the GPS system for this information. Between eight and 10 separate calls can be carried in the same channel space as one analog AMPS call. CDMA technology is the basis for Interim Standard 95 (IS-95) and operates in both the 800-MHz and 1900-MHz frequency bands.
Ideally, TDMA and CDMA are transparent to each other. In practice, high-power CDMA signals raise the noise floor for TDMA receivers, and high-power TDMA signals can cause overloading and jamming of CDMA receivers.
2G is a cell phone network protocol. Click here to learn about network protocols for smartphones.
Next, we'll look at 3G.

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Lyft just gave us the first look inside its financials — and its revenue is growing much faster than its losses
Graham Rapier
Roman Tirapolsky/shutterstockFiat 500 painted pink and carrying a Lyft logo is parked in the streets of Manhattan.
Lyft made its IPO documents available to the public for the first time on Friday.
The ride-hailing company's S-1 shows growing losses as the company scales, but with revenue that's growing even faster.
Lyft has finally publicly filed its long-awaited IPO documents.
The S-1, unveiled for the first time on Friday, is our first look under-the-hood, so to speak, at the company's financials. Unlike it's much larger competitor, Uber, Lyft has not publicly released much about its financial situation.
Lyft is losing money – and at a quickening pace – but its revenues are growing even faster.
Lyft made $US2.1 billion in revenue in 2018, the document shows, by providing more than 1 billion rides. That's up more than six times its $US343.3 million from 2016 and double 2017's $US1.06 billion.
Losses are also growing
The company posted a $US911.3 million loss in 2018 – its biggest annual loss in the past three years. For 2016 and 2017, its losses were $US682.8 million and $US688.3 million. At this rate, losses have been growing at about 33% per year, much slower than its revenue has grown.
"Our expenses will likely increase in the future as we develop and launch new offerings and platform features, expand in existing and new markets, increase our sales and marketing efforts and continue to invest in our platform," the company said in its filing.
Revenue as a percentage of bookings, a key factor for all ride-hailing companies, is also steadily growing. In its most recent quarter, that percentage had topped 28%. The company says this measure is key because helps to gauge driver utilization on the platform, and "earn increased service fees and commissions from drivers."
Then there's the per-ride question.
Lyft makes about $US36 per rider, it said – that's up from nearly half that in 2016 as the company finds ways to make each and every ride on its platform more profitable. Products like Lyft Line, a shared ride with multiple customers, can help the company boost that per-ride revenue number given there's only one driver to pay for each shared ride.
Here's its most recent financial data, from the filing:
More from Lyft's IPO filing:
Lyft kicks off 2019 unicorn IPO spree with public S-1
Lyft and Uber will let some drivers get stock at the IPO price
Read the letter Lyft's founders wrote to investors that was included in the company's IPO filing
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What does it mean for Aotearoa, and Rotorua specifically, to host the World Indigenous Business Forum?
Aroha Armstrong: Rosa Walker created the World Indigenous Business Conference 10 years ago, when she realised indigenous business issues were being discussed at length by non-indigenous people at international business conferences.
Māori are often acknowledged internationally as indigenous leaders. We are renowned for our language retention strategies, for maintaining our cultural integrity in a modern world, and more recently for our prowess in commercial activities.
Hosting this international event was huge for my hometown of Rotorua – and fitting. We are known for our Manaakitanga, our ability to host, and our commercial success in the tourism and primary industries. I grew up surrounded by Māori businesses, standing proud in our cultural identity and bringing the world to our doorstep.
A wide number of experts from around the world – and particularly Aotearoa – took part in the World Indigenous Business Forum. What does that support mean?
It's gold. Having 500 international, indigenous business leaders come to New Zealand to not only share learnings and journeys but to challenge each other as well was a massive opportunity for everyone to grow. Some significant business deals and relationships were formed over the duration of the conference.
This is a global network of some of the world's smartest commercial operators all with shared values around community, future generations, the environment, sustainability, and truly caring about each other's success. With a network of connected global indigenous businesses, who knows where this can lead? We can change the world.
How do Māori cultural values match the growing social enterprise/business for good movement?
I feel the world is finally catching up with the Māori way of doing business. We've always cared deeply about the environment, people and our community. Our decisions consider the long-term and have future generations in mind.
A growing body of research shows us that consumers and entrepreneurs – especially millennials – are serious about social enterprise. New Zealand is producing great examples of this type of organisation, including Banqr in financial literacy, Simplicity with Kiwisaver investments for good, Eat My Lunch of course, and heaps more.
But Māori have been balancing profit with social benefits for a long time – before the "social enterprise" label was thought up. It's something that really shone through with the indigenous rangatahi we hosted at the conference (our group was young people 16-30ish). They were talented, motivated and serious about business that makes a difference – especially in the environmental space. Some already had start-ups going, including one with a platform connecting young people to employers and career opportunities.
You've also been involved with Kōkiri, a unique business accelerator dedicated to speeding up the development of Māori businesses. What are some of the lessons from the Kōkiri Māori Accelerator that can be applied on a wider scale to Māori businesses, and especially those being started by rangatahi?
Kōkiri is unique as an accelerator because it takes a broader view of business success measures to include social and environmental impact. I think this is something the wider accelerator system can, and should, learn from.
The benefits of our "wananga" style of learning environment (living together) and the resulting whanaungatanga (kinship and support) created over the course of the programme should not be underestimated. The way the start-ups helped each other out, and still do, is the kind of collaboration we don't see enough of in our wider innovation ecosystem. It's especially important for founders and entrepreneurs who tend to isolate themselves at a time they should be reaching out for support.
Kōkiri was successful on a number of levels, including all the teams securing funding before the final demo day. But big questions remain. Are we doing enough to have our people thinking about growing global/exponential Māori businesses from day one? Or are we still thinking incrementally? Are our global thinkers stuck with incremental growth because of lack of resources? What we hear time and time again from our counterparts and the people we work with is that Māori and kiwis in general have a lack of ambition, and fear of failure. How can we shift our mind-set, so that failure becomes a natural and important part of the journey to great success?
What comes next? What's the future of Kōkiri, and what about Māori businesses?
Māori entrepreneurs generally don't apply for accelerators and similar business programmes, often because they lack confidence, or don't know about it. But when Kōkiri launched, heaps put their hands up to join and we even encouraged some to apply for other accelerators where they did really well. I'm still getting Māori asking me about the next round of Kōkiri, some even say they can do better than this year's cohort! Realising that accelerators are places where we as Māori can excel represents a huge shift in attitude.
We have some great youth enterprise programmes running across the country (Young Enterprise Scheme, for example) but Māori participation in these programmes is still shamefully low. For me, the challenge goes beyond providing opportunities and access. We know a huge hurdle is attracting rangatahi to these opportunities and then giving them the confidence to give it a real go (particularly those that are disengaging early from our education system). Newer initiatives we support like Āmua Ao, lifting Māori participation in STEM subjects, will help to close this gap.
Working with the Rangatahi and Technology Zone for the first time at any WIBF conference was an eye-opener for us. We realised we spend a lot of time as indigenous people talking about future generations – but have we provided a voice for them at the table? Our leadership is often older, and in a world affected by technology and change we need to ensure our rangatahi are contributing to decisions about their future.
At the event, the rangatahi panel stunned the audience with their world views, confidence and advice. The panel was diverse. It included two female tech founders, an environmental activist, two social enterprises. The youngest person was 17, and the oldest was still well under 30. We were left feeling very much like the future is in good hands!
There is certainly more to be done to ensure our rangatahi have a voice in designing programmes and solutions. Growing soft skills like confidence, communication and empathy, as well as solid business abilities, is more important than ever. With a young population, Māori will make up almost a quarter of NZ's workforce by 2038. We need to give rangatahi the best tools and opportunities we can because they'll be key to building a brighter future for us all.


I recently bought a PRINK PRIMA ECO casue Linux was a supported OS. I got the drivers from its website and managed to install the printer, so far so good.
Problems started when I tried to install the scanner: their instrucctions weren't complete and the bash script that installs has to be fixed.
I'm very new to the scanners and I'd like to know if any of you did manage to configure a PRINK scanner in Mint or if you can help me to fully configure the scanner in my system. I don't know what other iformation could be interesting in order to debug the problem.
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Finally, after dealing with PRIMA support, they admited that the driver is not working and they have to rewrite it (even upgrade printer's firmware [sic]).


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Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 6 January 1866
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll regarding modifications he has made to his Submergence Theory which held that the level of the ocean would not be lowered by the accumulation of ice due to Lyell passing on some calculations as to the amount of water needed from the oceans to form an ice-sheet of sufficient mass to alter the earth's centre of gravity. He encloses a letter to the Reader to put the matter straight and asks for Lyell's approval. 6 January 1866.
Dates: 6 January 1866
Identifier: Coll-203/1 folio(s) 595
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll regarding another alteration to his Submergence Theory which he explains in sheets which he encloses for Lyell to send to The Reader with his earlier letter (See Lyell 1/593-594). His alterations concern the structure of ice caps which have a solid crust covering and a liquid nucleus, 8 January 1866.
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll apologising to Lyell for inadvertantly misrepresenting Lyell's view of the Submergence Theory causing him to write a letter of explanation to the Reader. Croll outlines how such a thing could have happened and points out why he thinks Lyell is mistaken in his objections to the theory, 16 January 1866.
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll, 8 February 1866
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the effect of ice-caps upon the level of the ocean and announcing the publication of an important paper by Rev. G Fisher on the subject, 8 February 1866.
Dates: 8 February 1866
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the extent to which the centre of gravity of the earth would be displaced by ice caps 2000 feet and 3000 feet thick, 16 February 1866.
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the calculations made by himself and Charles Moore as to the shift in the centre of gravity due to ice-caps and concerning Solstitial points and Perihelion in the earth's orbit, 28 February 1866.
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the view of "the most eminent physicist that Scotland Possesses", Lord Kelvin, that a paper by Mr (Douglas) Heath is full of glaring errors and that Croll expects the Philosophical Magazine for the following month to have something further on the subject, 6 March 1866.
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from James Croll concerning the quantity of heat received from the sun between two equinoxes, the effect of Perihelion and Aphelion on the length and strength of summers and winters and the effect of the formation of ice and snow on the levels of heat given off from the earth, 17 April 1866.
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Home News War in the air: Ukrainians cheer as they shoot down two Russian aircraft and destroy helicopter near Kyiv as president Zelensky berates Nato over lack of no-fly zone
War in the air: Ukrainians cheer as they shoot down two Russian aircraft and destroy helicopter near Kyiv as president Zelensky berates Nato over lack of no-fly zone
Shocking battlefield footage from today shows Ukrainians cheer and applaud as they appear to shoot down two Russian aircraft in the Chernihiv and Mykolaiv oblasts as forces were also earlier said to down a Russian helicopter near Kyiv.
This comes as Volodymyr Zelensky in an address this morning urged Ukrainians to continue fighting Putin's forces. The comic-turned-wartime president then thundered 'what more is needed' to convince Joe Biden to enforce a no-fly zone – an action which could widen the war and suck in NATO – after he accused the West of cowardice in the face of Russian aggression.
Video from the frontlines, shared on social media, showed clips of an aircraft dropping rapidly from the air as cheers form Ukrainians could be heard in the background.
Those who shared the content online say the incident was filmed in Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine. Further video then shows two pilots parachuting as they flee the aircraft; photos and clips shared on Twitter claim one of the pilots survived while the second died.
More footage then showed the captured Russian pilot, bloodied from his escape, being questioned by Ukrainian forces as they demanded to know his name and orders.
In another video soldiers can be seen filming with the captured pilot as they get him to say 'glory to Ukraine'. They can be heard asking 'why were you bombing people' as the man numbly replies that he was ordered to.
They then say, 'you didn't know anything?', to which he replied that he didn't, prompting the soldiers to say 'that's your (Russian soldiers') favourite phrase'.
Ukrainian soldiers could then be seen calling someone on the pilot's phone, seemingly saved under a pet name, with graphic threats of what they will do to him.
Another photo shared on Twitter appears to show a man, understood to be the captured pilot in the videos, stood next to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
It is understood that the aircraft which was shot down is a Sukhoi Su-34; a fighter-bomber which had also been used in Syria.
A second Russian aircraft was also captured going down in the country's Mykolaiv oblast; another video on Telegram seems to suggest the pilot was captured as a man was filmed being questioned.
A third video from this morning also seems to show an aircraft soaring before it is targeted by Ukrainian weapons.
In the clip, it can then be seen lighting up in flames as it pummels down, exploding in a fireball as it reaches the ground.
Footage shows a Russian helicopter as it appears to go down in flames as it is downed in Ukraine
The footage shows the helicopter flying low over a field as the Ukrainian weapon targets it, in a viral video shared on social media
The video shows the helicopter being hit as it goes up in flames, beginning to go lower and lower down
The video has been widely shared on social media. Although it is unclear how the footage was captured, some on Twitter have suggested the clip was taken by a drone.
It is not clear when or where the video was filmed but investigative journalism group Bellingcat have geolocated the footage to have taken place in Kozarovychi in the Kyiv Oblast - around 25 miles from Kyiv.
The group has been focusing on verifying footage from the conflict since it began on February 24.
The video was also shared by Kyiv Independent reporter Illia Ponomarenko, and now has more than 39,300 likes.
It appears the original video was shared by a Kyiv resident on Facebook.
A translation of the caption, in Ukrainian, seems to say the country's forces 'shot down a Russian combat helicopter' as 'aerial reconnaissance shares an operational video'.
'Glory to Ukraine!,' he adds.
It is not clear when or where the video was filmed but investigative journalism group Bellingcat have geolocated the footage to have taken place in Kozarovychi in the Kyiv Oblast - around 25 miles from Kyiv
The aircraft can be seen lighting up in flames as it pummels down, exploding in a fireball as it reaches the ground
Footage from the frontlines seems to show the aircraft soaring before it is targeted by Ukrainian weapons and going down in a field
Users on social media have also speculated the helicopter is a Mil Mi-24 Hind gunship, which was in use by Soviet forces from 1972.
The model was often referred to as the 'flying tank' by Soviet pilots.
It was famously featured in Cold War-era flicks Rambo 2 and Rambo 3, although in both films, the aircrafts were Aérospatiale Pumas mocked-up to look like the real deal.
The UK has already shipped 2,000 Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapons (NLAW) to Ukraine, whilst the U.S., Germany, and Belgium are among other countries that have sent or are set to send weapons.
The west has supplied Ukraine with anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) as they continue to resist Russia's invasion, according to defence media site Shephard.
Although it is unclear how the footage was captured, some on Twitter have suggested the clip was taken by a drone
A Mil Mi-24 helicopter near the village of Oktyabrsky, Belgorod Region, near the Russian-Ukrainian border last month
A file photo showing troops using a Stinger missile using Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADs) off the coast of Crete, Greece in November 2017In January, the U.S. sent a plane loaded with 300 Javelin missiles worth some $50million to Kyiv.
A day after the invasion began on February 24 it was reported that Ukrainian forces claimed to have shot out of the air up to four Russian KA-52 Alligator attack helicopters during a battle for Gostomel air base.
A fifth helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at the field under heavy fire.
The Ukrainians had then also reported their MiG jets shot down at least one Mi-8 helicopter and their forces also claimed to have shot down six Russian jets sky over the eastern Donbass region while another plane appeared to fall from the skies near the capital.
'Russia violated ceasefire shelling while civilians fled': Ukraine
War in the air: Ukrainians cheer as they shoot down two Russian aircraft and destroy helicopter near Kyiv as president Zelensky berates Nato over lack of no-fly zone Reviewed by free heip on March 05, 2022 Rating: 5


i used to hang out at bondi every day.
back then there was a job agency for backpackers at george street.i found my housekeeper job there!i am not sure if its just for housekeepers and nannys,but i think they had farm work,too.
problem is,i forgot the housenumber.i was right in the city though,somewhere near myers (if thats still there).
Gooooott, wie abartig cool einfach nur.
Wow echt traumhaft! Viel Glück bei der Arbeitssuche!
Da bin ich in ein paar Monaten hoffentlich auch wieder!


This application will find the mean coordinates of all patches with abundance greater than zero, for each time step of the simulation, and calculates the change in position of the mean from the previous time step. That is, the application tracks the movement of the unweighted centroid of the metapopulation.
Note that the output now includes the patch size threshold, and the number of retained patches.


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In 2004 and early 2005 there had been a small number of successful bond issues by commercial banks including a bank in which EBRD was a strategic investor. The purpose of the FIRST funded project was to prepare the ground for issuing non-bank corporate bonds and to work with some of the commercial banks' corporate clients, thereby broadening the capital markets, injecting some investment banking skills into selected commercial banks and developing better corporate disclosures in prospectuses. FIRST initially regarded this as a high risk project and expected initial success to be limited to maybe one or two issues of relatively short maturity in the range $500,000 to $1 million. The expectation was that most of the issues would be subscribed by banks, with the risk that the banks would consider that sponsoring their clients to issue bonds might meet with resistance, since it would substitute for their direct lending to those clients at premium rates.
The project exceeded expectations. Between March 2006 and October 2007 the volume of issues exceeded $21 million and more than 75 bonds were issued. Of these, over $7 million were for non-bank corporate bonds, including an electronics company ($2.5 million), a brick manufacturer ($2 million) and leasing companies (over $2 million). FIRST funded consultants played a major role in the initial issues but more importantly the banks are now sponsoring issues under their own initiative, so the process is now sustainable. As a further development some corporate equity issues are now in preparation.
The groundwork was also laid to justify the development of collective investment products. FIRST responded to a request from the State Securities Commission of Azerbaijan (SCS) to amend the project to include drafting of a Collective Investments Law: this draft has been completed, translated to Azeri, approved by the SCS and is now with the President's office for approval, prior to submission to Parliament. The SCS is now moving towards membership of IOSCO.
The main output was manifest by identifying issuers, mainly through their banks, and then facilitating the whole process of bringing those issuers to the market. More of an investment banking exercise than a series of specific documentary outputs. Nonetheless, the project succeeded in bringing several non-bank corporate bond issues to the market for the first time.
This project is likely to be unique in FIRST's portfolio because the background circumstances to the project were themselves rare. The financial sector in Azerbaijan was in many ways at an early stage: the banks were relatively small; the insurance and pensions sectors were undeveloped; in these circumstances the conditions in which to develop capital markets would not have appeared ripe for success. The macro-economic situation was more promising because GDP had been growing strongly on the back of the developments in the oil and gas sector with the completion of the pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean coast via Georgia. Liquidity was starting to build up in the banking sector and among consumers.
Secondly, the main thrust of FIRST's support was more analogous to investment banking than a pure capacity building technical assistance because the FIRST consultants needed to help launch some successful bond issues and use this experience as the capacity building tool for the underwriters, stock exchange and regulator. FIRST was fortunate to be able to work with a team of consultants led by Denholm Hall (UK firm) that had substantial prior experience in working in Azerbaijan with the regulator using a combination of European and Russian consultants.
Thirdly, the regulator was taking on the role of market promotion, which in most other countries would be seen as outside the remit of a regulator.
The project was actually introduced to FIRST by the EBRD (local office and London office). This was the first occasion on which FIRST and the EBRD had an opportunity to cooperate. The opportunity was facilitated because several stakeholders were in strong support: the regulator, the EBRD, commercial banks, the stock exchange and several prominent private sector corporate groups. Although this was initially considered a high risk project, the outcomes did demonstrate that with a combination of macro-economic factors and strong stakeholder support it is possible to achieve success.
This project did not involve a great deal of formal training or drafting of documents. Its success was largely reflected in the number of bond issues that took place: in that sense, there is little that can be disseminated.
Where else could a similar type of project be supported by FIRST? There needs to be a market where there is demand for investment product, consequent liquidity, good regulation and market infrastructure but a shortage of investment product supply. Secondly, there needs to be a lack of, or deficiency in, investment banking skills available to bridge the demand-supply gap in investment product for FIRST to be able to justify its "added value" criterion. Such situations may be few and identifying them may require some research effort.
Projects awarded in Azerbaijan
Development of Supervision Framework for Operational Risk
Operationalizing Systemic Risk Response Framework (SRRF)
Systemic Risk Response Framework
Capital Market Development Plan
Establishment of Management Information System for Banking Supervision
Advice on Insurance Law
Non-Bank Corporate Bonds


What a life I live, what a beautiful blessed life I live. Is it perfect? Absolutely NOT. But am I so abundantly blessed beyond my own belief and even comprehension? YES! Yes I am! And you know what I am so secretly grateful for? My trials, yes my trials. I look back and reflect, reflect on the times that I felt my Savior near, where I was humble, humble enough to drop to my knees and plea for comfort plea for him to be there by my side, and he was! He was there he is always there. But it take humility. Humility isn't a sign a weakness. Its knowing things are beyond what you, I am able to hold or handle. I've been praying, pleading lately to have humility… kind of strange right…. the times of trials is when I have felt a feeling of humility the most and I want that feeling to return. But humility is MORE…. more then crying our for help. Its knowing knowing there is a power greater whether it be a trial I don't think I can make it through or constantly falling short as a mother. Knowing that through our Father we can become a better version of ourselves. Here is what LDS.org has to say about this topic. How perfectly defined and laid out.
To be humble is to recognize gratefully our dependence on the Lord—to understand that we have constant need for His support. Humility is an acknowledgment that our talents and abilities are gifts from God. It is not a sign of weakness, timidity, or fear; it is an indication that we know where our true strength lies. We can be both humble and fearless. We can be both humble and courageous.
Jesus Christ is our greatest example of humility. During His mortal ministry, He always acknowledged that His strength came because of His dependence on His Father. He said: "I can of mine own self do nothing. . . . I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me" (John 5:30).
I love this! I always thought of humility as a something we become during a big trial or a big learning moment, but no, that not the complete definition. We can be Fearless and Courageous, but still be humble. I pray I will acknowledge HIM in all I do. I pray to know His counsel and guidance. I pray to be HUMBLE enough to hear and act upon the promptings of the Holy Ghost. Really what it comes down to is Faith they truly go hand in hand. Without humility there is no faith and without faith you are hopeless no humble. I have so many short comings but I know and have faith that through Him I will I will become that better version of me. Constantly steadily working on being stretched and moulded in what HE sees I can become. Something I'm not even capable of imagining.
"Mom you know what we should do?"
"We should take pictures of me and sell them all over the world."
"What then we can be rich, don't you think that would be a good idea?"
This is the same girl that asked for a maid or at least cleaning ladies today..... she dreams big, what can I say?
We have lived here in Germany for the past almost three years. What an amazing opportunity and adventure we have been on. We have traveled every chance we have gotten and have really enjoyed and appreciated the experiences we've shared as a family. Tye also deployed for a year. What a challenging, character building, lonely, exciting year that was. I will expand on that another day. Tye has been home for about seven months now and we have been enjoying our time together as well as adjusting to being a family again. While Tye was deployed he decided to re-enlist for three more years in exchange to move to Hawaii. Oh boy are we excited! Sometimes we wonder WHAT were we thinking, but then we quickly think of that warm sunshine beating down on our faces, and then it doesn't seem so bad.
As of right now we will be moving in 3 months. Tye's unit is disbanding and that means a lot of people moving all at once. But these are not just people they are our friends. It's like slowly pulling the band aid off. As each one leaves my heart breaks a little more. It sounds so cliché but seriously these ladies are just like family. In fact often times they know us our kids and our hearts better then our families. We are there for each other no matter what.
Our neighborhood is a very special one. I know that there is always someone to help with the kids or barrow this or that. That's what we do, no questions asked. There have been many late nighters, meal making and gab sessions that have gone on amongst this fine group of women. They say you never should say goodbye, but honestly a see you later doesn't seem to make this time any easier. I know I will see many of them again, but at the same time we will never have this same tight nit run over to each other's houses kind of bond again. Our kids know our friends better then their own aunts uncles and grandparents. We each care for them as if they were our own loves and hugs at all. And with all that sometimes the kids fight like siblings but at the end of the day they are connected they look out after each other.
Its not just my neighbors though, it is my adorable friend from church as well. They have each helped to strengthen my testimony so much. They have been beautiful examples to me and I am forever grateful. I can not tell you how many gut rolling laughs I have had with these admirable ladies. I am so thankful how they kept me strong during deployment both spiritually and mentally. My heart will truly break to say goodbye! They have empowered me in ways I could have never done on my own. I will always be so grateful for all my friends that Germany has brought to me.
Do you see why I love these lovelies so much?
To help pass the time while Tye was away, my friends and I decided to have a Valentines day party. The kids loved it and these pictures will be so fun to have for when they are older.
Oaklee and I went back east to see my sisters!! I flew in to Atlanta and Addie and Char met us a few days later.
So this is a funny picture, when Addie and Char arrived from NC, James had an (as the Noblits call it) ooodalally in his pants. Me being pregnant refused to change the three year old's pants while Holly was picking up the girls. So Addie the sweet aunt she is changed him, but mind you this was definitely a team effort.
This is Tye getting ready to go back to AIT after we spent Easter with him. I just love this sweet picture of Oaklee helping him get ready. Oh so sweet.
We were able to go see G-pa and G.G. in Nauvoo. G-pa makes a great horse for our little cowgirl. I'm not so sure he would be that great at the barrels though.
At the Nauvoo Temple. This temple is so beautiful and is one of my favorites.
Oaklee loving the beach in North Carolina. It was so much fun staying with my wonderful sisters while Tye was away. They are both seriously the BEST!
Oaklee loves her night gown so much, I can barely keep it washed for her. Thanks aunt Holly!
Camree decided to do the girls hair and make-up an hour before I had to leave. Gotta love it!
This is me and Holly prego!
The day before Tye left for Germany my water broke at 22 weeks, (more details to follow in later posts) needless to say I spent the next 7 weeks on hospital bed-rest.
This is my Grandma's brothers and sisters. They were all in the area for a family reunion and they were so sweet to come see me!
Thank you to all those special people in my life who were there to help the time be more bearable. I Love you all!!
July 7th, 2010 our sweet Lincoln arrived at 28.6 weeks!
Nothing short of a miracle and gift from our Heavenly Father.
Oaklee turned 4! For her birthday we talked the doctor into letting her hold her new brother. What a sweet sister she is.
This whole month was such a blur for me because most of it was spent in the NICU with Lincoln. We just couldn't stay away from our sweet boy.
Oaklee started dance. This is with one of our sweet nurses little girl. We love you Kori.
We moved to Germany! We love it and love all of our amazing new friends!
And this is a random one I had to throw in. Oaklee playing super heroes with Lincoln.
Decorating our tree. This year we cut down our own tree in a tree lot, well I didn't realize how much smaller they look outside. When we got our tree home it filled our whole living room (which isn't tiny). So we ended up moving our kitchen table out and we put the tree in its place. But oh how we love our tree.
We were fortunate enough to have Tye's family come for Christmas this year. Although their bags still remain lost it was such a wonderful time!
Although this year has been a tough year as far as being apart and the trails with Lincoln, we feel so overwhelmingly blessed. We couldn't be happier to be right where we are in our lives. Over the past year so many new people have came into our lives. They each played different roles, but each are so very dear to my heart. I feel so blessed to have a Heavenly Father who loves me and watches over me. The power of prayer is real, he hears you. This I know of assurity as I look around and see how sweetly I have been blessed.
I just thought I would share this to show my gratitude for all of the military spouses. It is such a difficult thing being away from you companion and best friend, leave alone worrying and wondering about their safety.
What I can say for certain is that because of your unselfish acts of bravery and your husbands willingness to stand up for those who see him as "just another soldier" - - I will never have to walk in your shoes.
I do understand that as a military wife you are expected to uphold a certain amount of control, but I never understood how you could do it, until now. I have figured out that you are not like other women. You are of a special breed. You have a strength within you that holds life together in the darkest of hours, a strength of which I will never possess. The faith you have is what makes you stand out in a crowd; it makes you glow with emotion and swell with pride at the mention of The United States of America.
I will never be able to repay this debt to you, as it is unmatchable. However, I hope that you know that no matter where you are...what you are doing...what has happened today...or what will happen tomorrow...Your husband will NEVER be "just another soldier" to me.... And you, dear sweet lady, will never be forgotten.
It is so crazy to me, that sometimes in our we don't understand our trials, and why things happen the way they do. Until one day we look back and realize the opportunities those hardest moments and darkest hours open up in our lives. As I look back at what Tye and I have gone through, and thank our Heavenly Father for those trials and where they have gotten us today. I know that if Tye had not had the these specific trials in his life, he wouldn't have been in certain situations to share, to be an example to people who may of never opened their hearts to just the simple knowledge of a Father in Heaven who loves them. Although I know that it has been extremely difficult for Tye, his mission is different than others. I am so proud of him, and even in his hardest moments he opens his heart to our loving Heavenly Father and is able to bless so many. God has a plan for each of us, and individual plan. Sometimes our missions are not clear, but if we cling to our Father in Heaven we will be able to make it through anything placed in our way.
This little bundle of joy is scheduled to arrive Sept. 23, 2010. We are really excited for this little one to join our family. Although we've been wanting another baby for awhile, we were suprised that it finally happened. Our Heavenly Father has his own timing and it truly couldn't be better timing. Even though I have been sick it has really helped all of us have something exciting to keep our minds off of missing each other so much. Oaklee is soo excited to be a BIG SISTER! Ever since she saw an episode of Calliou she has been wanting soo bad to be a big brother. We had to convince her that she couldn't be a big brother but she could however be a big sister. I had a feeling that something wasn't quite right the day after Tye left. I didn't know when I would be able to talk to him again so I went to the store and hesitantly bought a pregnancy test. (I didn't want to jinx anything.) After finally getting to talk to Tye I hurried and took the test, just in case I needed to tell Tye the news. When a positive popped up, I hurried and sent him a picture of the test. He was in TOTAL shock, but so happy. (He is way more baby hungry than me!) We decided we would wait to tell everyone, however.... in the mist of all this Oaklee walks into the bathroom and started asking a lot of questions, so we told her, and that it was a secret. She was soo excited. Later on that night my brother Adam missed Oak so he asked if she could come over. When he and his girlfriend brought her back he gave me that look... like he knew. If you tell Adam so juicy new you know he is going to have the hardest time keeping his mouth shut. Then after pulling him aside he tells me what Oaklee had told him. She said "Adam I have a secret, but you can't tell nobody, you can't tell grandma, papa, Cindy (the dog) Koda (adams dog), well you can tell Cindy and Koda. She then proceeded, My mom peeed on that thermometer and it says, My mommy is having a baby." So then after Adam left I ask her in a very sweet tone, Oaklee did you tell anyone our secret? She says very confidently "Yes, I told Adam and Ashley. Then as my expression turned stern, she covers my face and say in a very reasuring voice "No, mommy its Ok it is there secret too." I couldn't be mad at that poor little three year old. After that she did really well at not telling anyone, until she came to me and said, "Mommy, I don't want it to be a secret anymore." So we decided together to tell everyone. Meanwhile little did I know that Tye, bless his heart, had called is Grandma and Grandpa Giles first thing, and let them know. They are so proud to be great-grandparents again. We are so happy and feel so blessed to be able to be parents to this precious lil one, and the wonderful little girl already in our lives.
Oaklee growing up won't slow down or wait until im ready. I am so greatful that my husband is able to provide the opportunity to be at home and be a mom and a wife, really this is my ultimate dream job!!
Last night Tye and I thought it would be funny to crawl under Oaklee's bed and scare her. Then the paln evolved into a better idea. While I was hiding under the bed, Tye told her that her wand was magic and made her bed move. So everytime she would say the magic words her bed would rise. Then we would get her out of the room and hurry and switch places so she could show me. She never caught on to it. We told her that like cinderella the magic would only last so long. Later she was in her room for like 20 min just yelling with so much frustration ABRA KA "BRAGRA." Then this morning she tried it once asnd it didn't work and she got the saddest look on her face.
Well for Halloween Tye and I decieded that we would get festive and carve pumpkins. So Papa Newman sent Oaklee (jellybean) and entire bin. She was so excited because he put her name one it and made sure that nobody touched them until she got her pick. He made sure that he sent her the biggest pumkin he could find. She was so excited. Thanks Papa Newman!
This is a blog about our lives. It may be a crazy life but it is our life!


Blackside Customs was born with the goal of bringing excellence in design and craftsmanship to the portions of your EDC kit that are typically overlooked. The first release is The Modular Belt Buckle for up to 1.5" belts. Unless you are a rodeo star, you probably have not given too much thought to that ubiquitous buckle holding up your pants. Blackside Customs Modular Buckle elevates it to a functional piece of art. Designed from the ground up to be modular in nature means that the Modular Belt Buckle is actually a system of interconnecting parts that the user can easily configure. From different materials, designs, and integrated tools, there will be almost endless combinations as Blackside Customs releases future parts.
This version of the Blackside Modular Buckle is precision machined in the USA from aircraft grade aluminum with a choice of hard anodized color finishes. Fully compatible with Blackside Customs other buckles, so you can combine parts to make your buckle unique.


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Auto deploying Go binaries to Github

  <time datetime="2018-04-12T00:00:00+02:00" class="post-date">12 Apr 2018</time>

When I write tools in Javascript it's easy for people to download them through npm.
But as I recently started developing in Go, I encountered some issues. As far as Go goes, there isn't exactly an npm alternative for people to quickly install binaries. And having them install directly through a curl just takes away the versioning control of a tool.

Until I found goreleaser. Goreleaser is a tool that allows you to easily build and release your Go binaries to github without a hassle. Ofcouse I needed a way to automate this and came up with the following implementation for one of my latest tools on CircleCI 2.0:

#gorelease.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
version=v$(./bin/promote -v |awk '{print $3}')
message=$(git log --format="%s" -n 1 $CIRCLE_SHA1)
if [[ `</span>git tag <span class="nt">-l</span> <span class="nv">$version</span><span class="sb">` == $version ]]; then
    echo "Tag $version already exists"
else
    go get github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser
    echo "Tagging new version $version"
    git config --global user.email "segers.n@hotmail.com"
    git config --global user.name "Niels Segers"
    git tag -a "$version" -m "$message"
    git push origin "$version"
    goreleaser
fi

During the CircleCI build process I build a linux binary, using GOOS=linux go build -o bin/promote, just to test if it actually builds the tool. Later on in the CI build I run the release script that you see above. I check if the output of promote -v has changed in comparison with my Github tags. So untill I actually manually change the version of my tool no new releases will be made. So the only thing I have to do now, whenever I want to create new release, is change the version number from eg. 0.1.1 to 0.1.2 and CircleCI will automatically create the tag on Github for me and push a release using Goreleaser. This requires you to set a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.

#.goreleaser.yml
builds:
  - binary: promote
    goos:
      - darwin
      - linux
    goarch:
      - amd64
archive:
  format: binary

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Hermann Missouri has some of the most amazing wineries in the state, and possibly the country. You can visit each winery and sample some of the award-winning wines that have come from our very own beautiful town. Even if you have sampled the wines and seen the sights from each of the different Hermann Missouri wineries, you won't want to miss the Hermann wine trails that take place throughout the year.
Each wine trail has different reasons to visit. With their own unique flavors and experience to add to each wine, you will not be disappointed. Wine enthusiasts have loved all the different kinds of wine trails offered in Hermann Missouri for many years. There are currently 5 different wine trail events to choose from.
Berries and BarBQ Wine Trail – This wine trail will tempt your sweet tooth with natural berry flavors and savory BBQ. Your summers are never complete without a Bar-B-Que experience and how can you forget picking berries with the family. On this wine trail you can experience all these and more.
Holiday Fare Wine Trail – The harvest has just come in and the berries are resting for their winter hibernation. This doesn't mean that there isn't a party going on outside the barrels. Food, friends, and choice wine are the highlights of this wine trail including the winter holiday festival atmosphere.
Say Cheese Wine Trail – Cheese and wine have been a natural pairing tradition through the ages. Hermann Missouri welcomes you to visit each of the different wineries and try out what they have in store. Creative new concoctions are always being made to tempt the taste buds of this wine trail visitor. Luckily, for those in a holiday festive mood, this wine trail runs in accordance with the Kristkindl Markt in Hermann.
Chocolate Wine Trail – Diamonds may be a girls best friend, but chocolate brings lovers together. During the month of love, February, this wine trail will pair Hermann Missouri's finest wines with delicious chocolate. Valentine's sweethearts will not want to miss this occasion.
Wild Card Wine Trail – What do the wine experts have in mind for this Wild Card event? You'll have to find out. Each Wild Card Wine Trail pairs the wines from award-winning wineries in the Hermann Missouri area with a mystery ingredient. Check out the schedule to find out what they have created this year.


Military Aerospace Engine refers to the engine used in military aerospace. Military aircraft are heavy-duty machines – built for extreme stresses and breathtaking maneuvers. Accordingly, the requirements imposed on engines are very stringent.
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'I Can't Breathe' now a federal super PAC to support candidates that favor criminal justice reform
Eric Garner's dying words are now the name of a federal super PAC.
The "I Can't Breathe PAC" received the Federal Election Commission's stamp of approval this week after New Yorker Tarik Mohamed, a visual communications strategist for Outfront Media and a volunteer for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign, filed paperwork registering the group.
The super PAC is named to honor the man whose death in July while in New York City police custody — and captured on video — has sparked nationwideoutrage and protests.
Mohamed said he got the idea for the super PAC, which may raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against political candidates, while participating in a recent "die-in" in New York City's Grand Central Station protesting police mistreatment of minorities.
U.S. Regulators Approve Risk Retention Rules For Mortgage Backed Securities
Consumer Finance Watch
By: Daniel A. Cozzi
On October 22, 2014 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA); and Department of Housing and Urban Development adopted rules to implement the credit risk retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires the implementation of stricter rules governing mortgage-backed securities. The adopted rules seek to balance the importance of the securities market in providing credit to homeowners with appropriate underwriting standards, in light of the 2008 financial crisis. ("During the financial crisis, securitization transactions displayed significant vulnerabilities arising from inadequate information and incentive misalignment among various parties involved in the process.") See Joint Final Rule to implement the requirements of section 941 of the Dodd–Frank Act.
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Congress votes unanimously to extend SCRA one-year foreclosure protection period
Congress has unanimously approved legislation to extend until January 2016 a provision of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) that prohibits foreclosing on a servicemember's house for one year following the servicemember's return from active duty. The CFPB has made SCRA compliance a priority issue.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse proposed S.2404, known as the Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2014, last May. The Senate approved the measure on December 11, and the House of Representatives approved the measure the following evening during a special 10-minute session.
"After fighting for our country overseas, our troops shouldn't have to fight to keep a roof over their heads when they return home," said Sen. Whitehouse in a press release. "Servicemembers returning from active duty often need time to regain their financial footing, particularly those in the National Guard and Reserves who give up their full-time jobs to fight for our freedom. We should ultimately pass legislation to make this protection permanent, but I'm glad we were able to secure peace of mind for our veterans for one more year."
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Bank of America CEO defends taking on chairman's title
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on Friday defended the Charlotte bank's decision earlier this year to give him the chairman's title, saying the lender was motivated by a desire to have the best board leadership.
"The board's view is that to become more of a normal company, like our peers, it was the right thing to do," Moynihan said in a wide-ranging, half-hour interview with the Charlotte Observer.
The bank announced in October that Moynihan would be the bank's first chief executive to hold the chairman post since Ken Lewis was stripped of the title five years ago. Bank of America split the roles after shareholders in 2009 voted to separate them in the fallout from the bank's handling of its Merrill Lynch purchase.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/12/19/4417028/bank-of-america-ceo-defends-taking.html#storylink=cpy
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Third Whistleblower to Collect Reward Related to Bank of America Settlement, Source Says
A former Countrywide Financial Corp. manager is the third whistleblower to receive tens of millions of dollars as part of a record $16.65 billion federal penalty against Bank of America Corp.
Shareef Abdou, who first joined Countrywide Home Loans in 2006 and eventually rose to a senior vice president at Bank of America'sLos Angeles office, will receive around $48 million for his cooperation in the investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter. He oversaw residential mortgage-backed securities claims at Countrywide.
Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/third-whistleblower-to-collect-reward-related-to-bank-of-america-settlement-source-says-20141219-00578#ixzz3MVGp2zY5
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Mortgage firm in line for $8.5M whistleblower payout in Bank of America settlement
A New Jersey-based mortgage company will receive an $8.5 million whistleblower payout as part of an investigation into Bank of America's practices by the U.S. attorney's office in Charlotte, a lawyer in the case told the Observer Friday.
Mortgage Now filed one of four whistleblower lawsuits that were rolled into the $16.65 billion settlement that the Charlotte bank reached with the U.S. Justice Department in August over the bank's packaging of mortgage loans into securities, according to court and settlement documents.
Mortgage Now's complaint was unsealed by a federal judge in August, but the amount of the payout wasn't known until Friday. Unsealed court documents and media reports this week have revealed details about the other three settlements, which total more than $160 million.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/12/19/5395279/new-jersey-firm-in-line-for-whistleblower.html#.VJZL914DsA#storylink=cpy
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Article World cement - april2018 - Cem'In'Eu - A European Network
Thibaut Hans
, Consultant MOA
Cem'In'Eu - A European Network
1. A EUROPEAN NETWORKIntroduction Cem'In'Eu is an industrial start-up, developing new cement production and marketing concepts in Europe, with a flexible approach to the business and strong breakthroughs in supply, logistics, production, and the selling of cement. Current projects Cem'In'Eu has launched several identical cement grinding projects that will cover part of the European market. France Aliénor Ciments Built on a fully-owned property located in Tonneins and connected to the rail network by a private junction, Aliénor Ciments will serve the markets of southwest France. Vincent Lefebvre, Cem'In'Eu, discusses the growth of cement plants in Europe. CimSaRo Located in the Port of Chalon-sur-Saône, on a plot with a long‑term lease directly connected to the rail network and the Saône river, CimSaRo will offer its products in Auvergne-Rhone-Alps, Burgundy-Franche Comté, and French-speaking Switzerland. Rhône Ciments Located on land of the Port of Valence with a long-term lease, using rail and the Rhône river, Rhône Ciments will supply the customers of Rhône Alpes, Auvergne, and the Mediterranean Coast. Ciments des Trois Frontières (C3F) Located on land off the Port of Mulhouse‑Ottmarsheim with a long-term lease, using rail and the Rhine river, Ciments des Trois Frontières will supply customers in Alsace, Baden-Württemberg, and German-speaking Switzerland. Val de Loire Ciments Val de Loire Ciments is located in Montreuil Bellay, in western France, on fully‑owned land with its private rail branch, and will deliver to the markets of western and central France. Poland Pomorski Cement Pomorski Cement is located in the Port of Gdynia, with a long-term lease on a plot at 800 m from the bulk docks. It will deliver to the markets of northern Poland around Gdansk.
2. Reprinted from April 2018 World Cement UK Cem'In'Eu's project will be on the River Thames, in the east of the Greater London area. It will deliver to the souteastern part of England, where 50% of the national GNP is concentrated. Industrial and production model The modular grinding plants of Cem'In'Eu are highly versatile and adapt themselves to a large variety of possible installations. They occupy a reduced land area (about 2.5 ha), are modular, removable, entirely above ground, and built on simplified civil engineering. As such, they are adaptable to a variety of topographic configurations, and allow the installation of two grinding mills with an output of 30 tph each. The second mill is designed from the very beginning, but not built in the first phase, allowing a smooth ramp-up to a production of 250 000 tpy before eventually doubling the capacity, depending on market demand. The use of the best technologies available in terms of environmental protection (dust and noise) and the supply of raw materials by environmental friendly logistics (maritime, river, or rail) allows Cem'In'Eu to implement plants in places where a bigger and traditional cement mill would never be possible. Cem'In'Eu conducts the engineering of the plants internally, working with talented manufacturers from the EU to ensure the highest standards in term of safety, environmental protection, and cement quality. Each grinding plant will employ around 30 people, including local administration and sales. The CAPEX involved for the various French plants varies from e18 − 20 million, depending on the size and design of the clinker hall as well as the following civil engineering conditions: ll Raw materials storage of 5000 – 10 000 t (Serru, France). ll Cement ball mill of 30 tph with the lastest generation of cement separator to ensure high‑efficiency particle separation (Intercem, Switzerland). ll Six cement silos of 500 t each for bulk loading with two weighbridges (Orhand, France). ll A cement bag hall with a third weighbridge (Serru, France). ll An Adams packing machine for polyethylene bags production (clean and waterproof) and a Batipal palletiser with paletless stretching technology (Haver & Boecker and Newtec, Germany). ll An electric crane bridge and automatic tilting tray (Secam, France). ll An electric and fully automatised control system (Ibitek, France). For the bagging process, Cem'In'Eu has chosen polyethylene sealed plastic bags, using an Adams Chalon Montreuil Bellay Tonneins Portes Ottmarsheim Sète Figure 1. France project map. Poland Project in Gdynia Figure 2. Poland project map. UK Project Figure 3. UK project map.
3. Reprinted from April 2018 World Cement system coupled with a palletless Haver & Boecker. This will allow a direct supply of cement at the jobsite, with self‑discharging trucks, regardless of the weather. Logistic model In France, Cem'In'Eu imports the clinker by sea freight, thanks to its large-capacity storage in the port of Sète (60 000 t). The discharging of the clinker from the boats is completed by a hydraulic crane (Liebherr, Germany) into the dedusted hopper of Cem'In'Eu (RBL, France). In Poland and the UK, the port sites are at the heart of the targeted markets. The clinker storage capacity of the two sites will be optimised by combining their supply and by benefiting from the return freights available. Due to the high density of 1.4 t/m3 of the clinker, Cem'In'Eu decided to containerise it in order to use container trains instead of bulk car wagons. Cem'In'Eu has designed a specific 20 ft container, reinforced with two manholes and a tilt door. This allows the loading of 32.8 t per container and a total payload of 1350 t per train. This train, which consists of 21 wagons and is 290 ml long, is much smaller than a 400 ml conventional bulk carriage train, allowing the use of private junctions on much smaller pieces of land. At the plant, the train is unloaded by a reach-stacker on tyres, operated by the ports. On the sites only connected by rail, where reach-stackers are not available, there is a fully‑automatic electric crane bridge that discharges and recharges full and empty containers efficiently. The transfer to bulk storage is completed by an automatic tilting tray, which drains through the tilting door of the container. Commercial model Cem'In'Eu implements its grinding plants at the heart of the targeted markets, minimising the outbound logistics by truck comparative to integrated plants that have to reply on geography. Locations are selected in mature markets where two to three international cement players currently share a volume of 3 − 4 million t. Therefore, the plant of 250 000 tpy will capture a 7 − 8% market share, not enough to destabilise it. The company divides its targeted market into three equal segments: prefab concrete, ready-mixed concrete, and bags. Thanks to its fully‑sealed and waterproof plastic bags and palletless technology, Cem'In'Eu can deliver its bags directly to the end user (Masons) at the job site. Figure 4. Aliénor plant. Figure 5. Plans for Cimsaro plant. Figure 6. 3D view of Séte.
4. Reprinted from April 2018 World Cement Therefore, Cem'In'Eu is able to avoid a lot of inefficiencies linked to the traditional model of selling bagged cement through building material distribution chains. These inefficiencies include the following: ll No double transport (cement plant to warehouse, warehouse to jobsite). ll No cost for handling and dry storage. ll No cost for commercial intermediaries, ll Direct access to the end user for more efficient marketing. The digital package offers precise geo-tracking and personalised quotes, as well as the benefit of a dynamic pricing linked with Cem'In'Eu's logistic planning and savings. Planning The company started in summer 2014. During the first 18 months, it developed the design and engineering of the plants, and selected the various markets it wanted to be in. It secured the land for its first three French plants during 1Q16. The process to obtain the construction licence and the environmental and operating licence lasted roughly one year in France, after at least 6 months of preliminary studies. All permits for Aliénor Ciments were obtained in June 2017, and the civil engineering started in September. The commissioning of the plant is due mid‑May 2018. The CimSaRo plant has obtained all its necessary permits, and plans to start its construction are due to commence during the summer of 2018, just after the start of Alienor plant. C3F already has the construction permit, has passed all the steps of public enquiries, and expected to receive the final environmental and operation licence during 1Q18. The two other French projects (Rhône Ciments and Val de Loire Ciments) are at an earlier stage of development. The land is secured, and the process of licencing and permitting will start in early 2018, with all permits expected to be granted by the end of the year. In Poland, the land was secured at the end of 2016. After a long process of detailed engineering, the construction permit and environmental licence are expected to be obtained 2H18, with a construction period of 10 − 12 months, dependent of the weather conditions. In the UK, the land is almost secured, with a permitting and licensing process of 6 − 8 months, and a similar timeframe for construction. Conclusion By 2020, Cem'In'Eu expects to have built a network of seven identical cement grinding plants, in strong markets currently served by very few established cement players. With its innovative concepts, it aims at offering an alternative to its future customers. About the author Vincent Lefebvre has been the Founder and Executive Chairman of Cem'In'Eu since 2014. Previously, he worked for Holcim for more than 20 years, as Executive Committee Member and CEO in France, Belgium, and Spain. Figure 7. Lastest workshop plan for the containurisation of Séte plant. Figure 8. Plan for the bridge crane.
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At Bangor debate, Caron gives no hint if he'll stay in governor's race
The independent from Freeport, who is under pressure to drop out, says he'll make an announcement in a few days.
By Dennis HoeyStaff Writer
2018 governor candidates
A panel of journalists spiced up Sunday night's televised Maine gubernatorial debate by asking a "unique" set of questions that instead of focusing on broad policy issues targeted individual candidates.
The hourlong debate, which was held at Gracie Theatre on Husson University's campus in Bangor, also gave candidates the opportunity to ask questions of their opponents.
And the big question that has lingered for several days now – whether independent Alan Caron of Freeport would drop out of the race – was addressed.
Caron's reply to the question about whether he would continue campaigning was met with a round of laughter. Last spring, Caron, who lives in Freeport, made a pledge to withdraw by mid-October if he saw no way of winning the election. He made the pledge in a March 23 op-ed column in the Portland Press Herald.
"I have been waiting patiently for many weeks for my opponents to get out of the race," Caron said Sunday night, tongue in cheek.
Caron went on to say that he would make an announcement regarding his political future within the next few days. A limited number of polls conducted in the race show Democrat Janet Mills and Republican Shawn Moody vying for the top spot with Caron and independet Terry Hayes trailing far behind them – typically in the single digits.
Caron, whose campaign has been self-financed, said he offers bold ideas and a commitment to reducing the use of fossil fuels through his support of solar power.
While Hayes has promised to stay in the race until Election Day, Caron has come under increasing pressure to drop out in order to avoid the split electorate that lifted Republican Paul LePage to victory in the 2010 governor's race with just 38 percent of the vote.
Reporter Mal Leary, one of the Maine Public panelists at Sunday night's debate, commented that Gov. LePage's eight years in office had been marred with controversy. LePage rarely talks to the media and has been highly critical of the Legislature. Leary asked Moody – whose campaign manager is LePage's daughter Lauren – if he would govern differently.
Moody took issue with the question, commenting LePage's tenure "has also been laden with results." Moody pointed to LePage paying off hospital debt and making the pension system solvent. Moody, 58, of Gorham founded Moody's Collision Centers, a successful chain of auto body repair shops, 40 years ago, and said he has a track record of collaboration.
"When I show up on the job, good things happen," Moody said. "I'm just going to be myself. I'm a collaborator. We'll get along as long as we get ahead."
Democratic and left-leaning voters have expressed concerns that the two independents could have a "spoiler effect" by siphoning off votes from Mills and setting Moody up for victory.
Hayes, is a Clean Election candidate from Buckfield. She currently serves as Maine's state treasurer, and has shown no indication that she will drop out of the race. A former legislator, Hayes was asked how she proposed getting the parties to work together.
"It comes down to this: It's a relationship business," Hayes said. "You have to be able to work with other folks. We've had a Legislature that has been at war with the executive branch."
Hayes vowed to meet with legislative leaders on a regular basis, if she is elected.
Republican Party ads have accused Mills of being a career politician. "Are you?" panelist Steve Mistler asked Maine's attorney general, a former district attorney and state legislator.
Mills said she is proud of her career and for her efforts to protect the interests of Maine people.
"I feel public service is an honor and a privilege. I know I've tried to do my best," Mills said. "As attorney general I've fought the good fight."
She cited her involvement in a multistate settlement involving Volkswagen and its affiliates Audi and Porsche, in which the car manufacturers agreed to pay more than $157 million to 10 states – including $5.1 million to Maine – to settle lawsuits challenging the companies' secret use of software that caused tens of thousands of tons of pollutants to be emitted into the air.
Candidates were also asked to state their positions on how they would address the state's opioid epidemic, how they would attract more workers to Maine and their ideas for reducing health care costs.
Maine voters will elect a new governor on Nov. 6. LePage has been termed out of office and recently stated in an interview that he plans to get out of politics.
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Ready, Set, Go! at X Games for Driver in 'Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show' at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Eduardo Marques, Jr., has entertained countless fans at Disney's Hollywood Studios as a driver for the high octane "Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show." Now, the Brazilian-born stunt car driver will be returning home to compete on a bigger stage, ESPN's X Games Foz do Iguaçu.
Later this week, Marques will be competing at RallyCross, which pits 16 of the world's best drivers side-by-side, drifting and jumping through an exciting dirt track. Of course, that should be nothing new for Marques, as his precision driving skills are routinely on display with edge-of-your-seat jumps, slides and spins as a part of the daily Lights, Motors, Action! show.
We slowed down Marques before his trip to Brazil, just long enough to ask him about his journey to Disney and the X Games.
If you want to catch Marques, and the other high-flying athletes of X Games Foz do Iguaçu, tune in April 18-21 to ESPN/ESPN2.
And, of course, you can regularly see all our talented stunt performers in the thrill-a-minute "Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show," featuring gravity-defying automobile, motorcycle and watercraft stunts at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
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I've seen the Lights, Motors, Action! Stunt Spectacular many times, and what they do there is unbelievable! Disney is so lucky to one of their precision drivers representing them at the X-Games! What a great opportunity for them to show the world the class of drivers they have at Hollywood Studios! Congratulations Disney, and Congratulations, Eduardo! We are rooting for you!
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church to host support group
HOPKINTON — Single Again, a new support group for people who — though divorce, death or other circumstances — are single again, will host an event at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 61 Wood St. Anyone interested in exploring Single Again is invited to attend.
"The Single Again support group is gaining momentum, and we hope to continue to attract new members at our August meeting," said Laurie LaBrecque, of St. Paul's, who will lead the meeting. "The purpose of Single Again is to reach out to people who may feel alone by offering support, caring, prayer, resources and activities."
LaBrecque reiterated that is not a dating group, and while it is a faith-based ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, it is open to everyone.
For information: 774-253-4432; stpaulhopkinton.org; single.again@stpaulhopkinton.org.


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Hand-drawn landscape design sketch for the McLoughlin House.
Lord & Schryver landscape architectural records, 1929-1970
Elizabeth Lord (1887-1976) and Edith Schryver (1901-1984) founded the Lord & Schryver landscape architecture firm in 1929 in Salem, Oregon. Working from Lord's family home in Salem, Oregon, the pair established themselves as the first firm of professional women landscape architects on the West Coast and designed gardens for locations throughout Oregon and Washington. Their practice primarily focused on garden design for private residences however, they also designed the grounds for Reed College (Portland, Oregon) and the College of Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington), several parks and schools in Salem, Oregon, two churches, and a variety of city- and state-owned public buildings. The Lord & Schryver landscape architectural records contain landscaping plans and drawings, correspondence, office files, subject files, photographs, brief biographical sketches, and notes relating to Lord's and Schryver's work as landscape architects. Additionally, the collection includes Edith Schryver's teaching files from Oregon State College (now Oregon State University), as well as radio scripts for Lord's and Schryver's "Home Garden Hour" which detail a day in the life of a landscape architect.
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Q: ADO SQL: No value given for one or more required parameters Can someone please check my sql statement. I've checked that each variable a to e does have a value. And I am calling all the correct columns. I'm just not sure if my statement is correct.
But I am getting a error: No value given for one or more required parameters.
This is being run in a HTA vbscript.
sub updateUser(a,b,c,d,e)

SQL_query = "UPDATE users_tbl SET fname = '"& b &"', user_type = '"& c &"', email = '"& d &"', department = '"& e &"'  WHERE uid= '"& a
conn.Execute(SQL_query)

end sub

A: If your uid is character type, use this:
SQL_query = "UPDATE users_tbl SET fname = '"& b &"', user_type = '"& c &"', email = '"& d &"', department = '"& e &"'  WHERE uid= '"& a &"'"

if it numeric type, use this:
SQL_query = "UPDATE users_tbl SET fname = '"& b &"', user_type = '"& c &"', email = '"& d &"', department = '"& e &"'  WHERE uid= " & a

Note, that your manner of using parameters is security prone.

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