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Worcester oldies singers
Can't get enough of the Oldies? We've got just solution: book an Oldies Singer to perform at your next event! Whether it's a birthday, an anniversary celebration, or just a fun gathering with friends, our the Worcester, MA area directory will help you find the best one.
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Al Rosen began playing music almost forty years ago. During that time he has played in clubs, parades, legion halls, assisted living facilities and many other venues. Two memorable gigs were opening for Twist king, Chubby Checker, at the Paradise Theater, and playing rock and roll in Caracas, Venezuela with the band Junk Mail. Through the years, Al has played many styles of music, but has now gone back to his roots playing piano and singing classics by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles,... (more)
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FEC Commissioner Uses Russian Meddling As Excuse To Restrict Internet Speech
David Warrington Vice President for Election Education, Republican National Lawyers Association
October 12, 2017 11:31 AM ET
Anti-free speech liberals have long sought to regulate and restrict Americans' freedom of speech on the Internet. Now, their longtime champion, FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, has found her latest excuse to restrict American citizens' free speech on their own websites, blogs, YouTube, and social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Speaking about Russian meddling in the last election at a recent meeting of the FEC (at minute 10:55), Weintraub stated:
If you're interested I'm happy to talk about it but I'm not here proposing that we reopen the entire Internet rulemaking from 2006. I think that's something we might want to talk about at some point because, if only because technology has dramatically changed since then, and you know what the state of play back then and the state of play today is just very different, and that might have some ramifications that we might want to think about.
Earlier in the same meeting (at minute 4:20) Weintraub emphasized how technology has changed since the FEC adopted a rule in 2006 leaving free Internet postings free of regulation. Her observations sounded like the predicate justification to change policy.
That's how government restrictions on civil liberties always begin – a conversation of the avaricious about changes in circumstances that might warrant additional regulation, with a spice of Russian meddling thrown in for demagogic context.
Weintraub's most recent choice of words is akin to the proverbial camel's nose under the tent. Rather than lead with what she actually wants – full regulation of speech on the Internet – she was careful to open her conversation without a specific proposal. She knows the public backlash her fellow traveler former FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel encountered after she voted to regulate YouTube videos disseminated for free accompanied by a clarion call for the FEC to change its restrained approach to political speech on the Internet.
That was a big mistake, substantively and politically. But Ravel was an inveterate Internet regulator. She had been pushing greater regulations on bloggers and online speech long before she came to the FEC.
Weintraub is more slippery than Ravel. Where Ravel would walk off a political plank, Weintraub knows how to be politically expedient above all else. For example, pining for support of Senator Schumer's law firm to keep her post (she's 16 years into a six-year term and wants to stay), she recently broke with reformers in voting to greenlight a Democrat group's online fundraising application. That vote earned her rebukes from reformers, but might have won her quid pro quo political support to stay on the FEC a little while longer.
And Weintraub watched Ravel vote to punish Fox News for the crime of adding candidates to its debate stage. Weintraub stepped back from the plank, voting to find that Fox News violated the law, but not to punish in an abundance of political "discretion."
But Weintraub's regulatory plans for the Internet have been just as clear as Ravel's in a series of votes in FEC regulatory actions. She voted with Ravel to regulate videos posted for free on YouTube.com by a group called Checks and Balances as "independent expenditures" requiring disclaimers and expenditure reports. Weintraub did so even though she had voted in 2006 for the regulation that exempts free online postings from the definition of "expenditure."
She also voted with Ravel to prohibit a group from webcasting videos featuring interviews with candidates, even though the 2006 Internet rule left groups free to post electoral content on their own websites.
It's ironic that Weintraub used to claim credit for launching freedom on the Internet in the FEC's 2006 rulemaking, but now says Internet speech freedom went too far. It's too free, she now maintains, and she's calling for a retrenchment. You know you've been at the FEC too long when you start cannibalizing your own policy achievements.
More recently, she has used the Russian meddling situation to justify disclaimers on all paid online posts, including small screens like iPhones, even if the wordy FEC disclaimer leaves no space for a political message. Imagine small banner ads on your iPhone that say "Vote Smith. Paid for by American Citizens and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.AmericanCitizens.org." The message, "Vote Smith," would account for just two of 15 words.
Ravel also has been busy calling for all new regulations on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. She is calling for the federal government to regulate social media platforms like public broadcasters and public utilities (it was just a matter of time) and make them responsible for policing advertisement sponsors as well as the truth or falsity of social media posts.
Ironically, a look at Ann Ravel's twitter account reveals that she recently tweeted a fundraising solicitation for a Democratic congressional candidate. Guess what: no FEC disclaimer! Was Ravel's invitation to a fundraiser authorized by the candidate? Americans need to know, the argument goes. Watch out @AnnMRavel, Commissioner Weintraub is coming after you!
Weintraub said she will start her attack on online free speech small by tweaking FEC disclaimer requirements for online paid ads. Republican Commissioner Lee Goodman, an Internet freedom advocate, said (at minute 13:30) he was suspicious of Weintraub's objectives, because demanding disclaimers on foreign ads would be illogical. Foreign paid ads already are prohibited by law. Adding a disclaimer requirement for ads that already are illegal would not be effective. Furthermore, he questioned whether the United States could effectively police disclaimers on ads posted by foreigners, on foreign computers, through foreign servers, on foreign soil—it is, after all, the World Wide Web.
Given these obvious limitations, Weintraub's true aim, just like Ravel's, must be greater burdens on all political communications by American citizens online. YouTube videos, Facebook posts, and webcasts streamed over the websites of American citizens will be fully regulated—starting small with disclaimers and soon moving to expenditure reports and even censorship of links, re-tweets and free online interviews under broad theories of "coordination" and prohibited corporate in-kind contributions.
No doubt, Democrats like Weintraub and Ravel will use reports of Russian meddling as an excuse to abolish the civil liberties and First Amendment rights of American citizens, from the FEC to the FCC. The Russia subject has become an excuse for all sorts of official curiosity, fishing expeditions, inquisitions of tech leaders, subpoenas, eavesdropping and wire-tapping, and calls for restricting the civil liberties of American citizens. The Russians are likely pleased with that result.
David Warrington is a partner at the national law firm of LeClairRyan and chairs the firm's political law practice. He is Vice President for Election Education for the Republican National Lawyers Association and Chairman and General Counsel for America's Foundation for Law and Liberty.
Views expressed in op-eds are not the views of The Daily Caller.
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'More presidential' Trump uses fake Indian accent to mock call center workers
Less than a week before delivering a speech his campaign said would make him seem more 'presidential,' Republican front-runner Donald Trump used a fake "Indian" accent during a campaign rally on Friday, The Hill reported.
"You want to find out about your credit card — guess what, you're talking to a person from India," Trump said during an event in Delaware. "How the hell does that work?"
Trump said he called a credit card customer service number and asked the person helping him, "Where are you from?" The real estate mogul then impersonated the accent, saying he was told, "We are from India," and punctuating the exchange by gesturing like he was hanging up.
As Reuters reported, Trump's campaign said he will deliver remarks to the National Press Club next Wednesday, which aides have said will present him in a more serious light.
His advisors have also suggested to Republican donors that he has been "playing a part" during the party primaries, and will shift tone should he win the party's presidential nomination.
Watch Trump's remarks, as posted online on Friday, below.
Donald Trump says he called his credit-card company just to see if an Indian call center answered https://t.co/Cdv0korqNo
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 22, 2016
Russian Twitter propaganda predicted 2016 US election polls
When Robert Mueller completed his long-awaited investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, he left many questions unanswered.
But one conclusion was unequivocal: Russia unleashed an extensive campaign of fake news and disinformation on social media with the aim of distorting U.S. public opinion, sowing discord and swinging the election in favor of the Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Beto O'Rourke calls for a 'war tax' in release of health care plan for veterans
The Democratic presidential candidate uses his eighth policy announcement to focus on an area that he prioritized in Congress.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Monday morning released a plan to improve the lives of veterans, returning to an area of priority during his time in the U.S. House for his latest 2020 policy rollout.
In keeping with measures he supported in Congress, the plan calls for a "responsible end" to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — reinvesting $1 out of every $2 saved in veterans programs — and the creation of a Veterans Health Care Trust Fund for each future war. The fund would be paid for by a "war tax" on households without service members or veterans.
Conservative Ben Shapiro tweeted something many found offensive — so now he's calling his critics 'garbage'
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
Right wing "thought leader" Ben Shapiro appeared today to say not using the "N" word is nearly impossible as he defended conservative, pro-gun teen Kyle Kashuv, one of the Parkland survivors who just had his acceptance to Harvard rescinded over his racist remarks, which included repeated use of the "N" word.
To be clear, Shapiro denies that's what he meant.
Here is Shapiro on Twitter, in what many took as him appearing to call not using the "N" word – in Kashuv's case, repeatedly, over and over and over again, "an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet."


Vijay Mallya, the fugitive billionaire wanted in India for defaulting on loan worth crores, said today that it is his democratic right to vote in Karnataka but he "cannot travel".
The liquor baron was at a UK court today for the hearing on India's request for his extradition. He has argued against being dispatched to India on grounds that the jails are in very poor condition.
Outside the court in London, Vijay Mallya spoke to NDTV on the elections next month in Karnataka, his home state, one that he represented as a parliamentarian.
"It is my democratic right to vote in Karnataka but as you know I am here and cannot travel. I had the proud privilege of representing Karnataka but I am far removed now... I haven't been following the politics so closely," said the 62-year-old, who skipped the country in March 2016, when a group of banks had just started its efforts to recover over Rs 9,000 crore in loans to his collapsed Kingfisher Airline.
The businessman has been charged by Indian courts with fraud and money laundering. He is currently on a 650,000 pounds bail since his arrest on an extradition warrant by Scotland Yard in April last year.
At the last hearing on March 16, the judge had noted that it was "blindingly obvious" that rules were broken by Indian banks that sanctioned loans to the Kingfisher Airlines.
If the judge rules in favour of the Indian government, the UK home secretary will have two months to sign Vijay Mallya's extradition order.
However, both sides will have the chance to appeal in higher courts in the UK against the verdict.


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Oil strong as U.S. decision on Iran sanctions looms
May 4, 2018 3:24 AM Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices strengthened on Friday but stayed below recent highs as global supplies remained tight and the market awaited news from Washington on possible new U.S. sanctions against Iran. U.S. light crude was 30 cents higher at $68.73.
Brent crude oil was up 30 cents at $73.92 a barrel by 1110 GMT. The benchmark contract hit a 3-1/2 year closing high of $75.17 on Monday.
"The energy complex is entering a consolidation phase as a wait-and-see approach takes hold ahead of next week's Iranian sanctions waiver deadline," said Stephen Brennock, analyst at London brokerage PVM Oil Associates.
"Expectations that the United States will pull out of the (Iran nuclear) deal and refrain from extending sanctions relief are keeping both crude markers near three-year peaks," he added.
ANZ analysts Daniel Hynes and Soni Kumari said Brent could reach $80 a barrel by the end of this year, attributing recent strength to rising geopolitical risks and tighter global supply.
"We expect the market to tighten even further in second half 2018," they wrote in a note to clients.
Investors are concerned that sanctions against Iran could cut oil supplies.
Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday that U.S. demands to change its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers were unacceptable as a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Europeans to "fix" the deal loomed.
Trump has said that unless European allies rectify the "terrible flaws" in the international accord by May 12, he will refuse to extend U.S. sanctions relief for the oil-producing Islamic Republic.
"Prices reflect a premium for Iran uncertainties. Investors are worried about supplies after Iran took a tough stance in its response to the United States," said Wang Xiao, head of crude research with Guotai Junan Futures.
European powers still want to hand Trump a plan to save the Iran nuclear deal next week. But they have also started work on protecting EU-Iranian business ties if the U.S. president makes good on a threat to withdraw.
Iran resumed its role as a major oil exporter in January 2016 when international sanctions against Tehran were lifted in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program.
Aside from security concerns, growing U.S. crude supplies are capping price gains.
Surging production in the Permian shale basin is outpacing pipeline capacity, while local refining issues have exacerbated oversupply in the region.
The United States now produces more crude oil than top exporter Saudi Arabia.
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The future of our planet rests in the hands of our children, whether you are talking about the environment or the economy. It follows, therefore, that the importance of a quality education and schooling cannot be overstated. However, there have been some disturbing developments in the UK's education system over the past week.
Leaked letters showed that the regulator Ofqual had urged an exam board (Edexcel) to alter its GCSE English grade boundaries just two weeks before the results were published. Despite claiming that the grades were 'fair' Ofqual's chief regulator, Glenys Stacey, faces calls to resign.
I do not doubt that fresh revelations will be forthcoming over the coming weeks. It is doubt which creates the biggest problem in all of this. If we cannot trust the exam boards and regulators to provide a fair check on the standards that our young people are achieving, then we will lose an important benchmark for the education system as whole.
In August's QW magazine, I wrote that league tables were losing value, and that proper accreditation and regulation would be the key to improving standards. The fact that the GCSE grade boundaries were changed at such short notice is a worrying development. The boundaries should be carefully thought through and implemented with care. On the existing evidence, there is an urgent need to drive improvement in the exam system.
This entry was posted in Education and tagged education, GCSE, Ofqual, Quality, standards on 14 September 2012 by The Chartered Quality Institute.


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Beatles, The - Magical Mystery Tour
Limited edition 180-gram, audiophile vinyl LP pressing of this album from the Fab Four comes housed in replicated artwork. One of the two masterpieces of the second half of their career as a rock band, The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" is solid rock 'n' roll and songcraft on a lot of mind-altering substances. Nobody writes "I Am the Walrus" or "Strawberry Fields Forever" without having experienced a significant amount of LSD. Yet, the lads from Liverpool keep it together for other great tunes such as "Hello Goodbye," "Penny Lane," "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and the classic "All You Need Is Love." Mix that in with the high-energy title track, and you have one of The Beatles' best albums. This vinyl pressing contains the 2009 digital remaster of the album, making it sound more vibrant and electrifying than ever before.


President Bernardo's response to John Ullom. Later General Manager Peter Grenell confirmed that the "2006 market study" Commissioner Bernardo referenced in his email below was never produced.
Thanks for writing the San Mateo County Harbor District.
I know that the District's General Manager, Peter Grenell has already been working with you on your Public Records Act (PRA) requests. Please continue to work with him directly.
With all due respect, I find it deeply offensive that you have compared our San Mateo County Harbor District to the Mosquito and Vector Control District because it implies that my fellow Commissioners (Sabrina Brennan, Jim Tucker, Pietro Parravano, Will Holsinger) and I have done something improper or illegal.
In 2000, the SMC Harbor District borrowed $19.7 million from the State Department of Boating and Waterways (now a division of CA State Parks) for key infrastructure projects. By 2013, we have reduced that debt amount to $7.1 million. Additionally, we are on track to pay off the remaining debt amount one year early (in 2018).
In 2006, there was a market study that showed how our leases were undervalued and that the District was providing generous long-term leases to our tenants. Basically, we weren't charging enough consistent with the San Francisco Bay Area's very high cost of living.
So, when tenant leases came up for renewal, we modified each of them to maximize District revenues. For example, we've raised monthly ground rents for our Pillar Point fish buyer tenants and we have added a new revenue stream by collecting unloading fees from fish buyers--which had not been done previously. That translates into $50,000 of new revenues from the just the period between April – October 2013!
When the South San Francisco Commuter Ferry terminal was created, General Manager Grenell got the Water Emergency Transit Authority to give $3.6 million to the Dept. of Boating and Waterways to cover a projected loss of revenue for the removal of 2 docks. This $3.6 million went to help retire our debt principle even further. Plus,San Mateo County benefitted by receiving another commute option: a regular ferry service to the East Bay.
Additionally, we have set aside a restricted fund of $1.5 million--which cannot be touched by the District--toward paying off our debt principle.
These are just some examples of how the San Mateo County Harbor District has shown effective leadership and strong fiscal management over the years. I have not even mentioned the superior search and rescue work that our harbor patrol does on a daily basis (On October 30, 2013, the California Association of Harbor Masters and Port Captains recently bestowed their 2013 Distinguished Service Award to three of our deputies for rescuing 2 people trapped by incoming tides in a coastal cave).
We continue to be both fiscal and environmental stewards (NOTE: We were recently bestowed the status of "2013 Clean Marina" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
We've accomplished all of the above through strong adherence to governmental accounting standards and best practices. Last month, an independent auditors' report (JJACPA, Inc.) stated that our finances are in "accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America" (see page 2 of the auditor's report).
I am proud to serve as the Harbor District's president this year, and therefore, I do take strong offense at any attempt to discredit the great work that Harbor staff has been doing over the years—and continues to do.
As always, thanks for your continued interest in our Harbor finances and operations. Happy holidays to you and yours.
I hope this one finds you all well. Now some facts that to me indicate a huge mess. The following numbers are derived from the San Mateo County Harbor District Audits.
In fiscal year 2008-2009 Harbor District Revenue Operating Revenue were 3,461,953 and Receivables were 12,408.
In fiscal year 2009-20010 Harbor District Revenue Operating Revenue were 3,286,209 and Receivables were 19,582.
In fiscal year 2010-2011 Harbor District Revenue Operating Revenue were 3,406,534 and Receivables were 64,259.
In fiscal year 2011-2012 Harbor District Revenue Operating Revenue were 3,524,119 and Receivables were 104,174.
In fiscal year 2012-2013 Harbor District Revenue Operating Revenue were 3,428.764 and Receivables were 175,665.
As can easily seen, even though revenue has been static over that 5 year period, Receivables are up by a factor 14 and some change.
So I asked for the AR Reports. What I got didn't make sense. There are tens of thousands of dollars in negative balances on the AR Reports that represent liabilities to the Harbor District. When I first asked about them at a District meeting, I was told that those negative balances represented deposits. I was told that when people leave the Marinas, they often leave their deposits behind. I pointed out that some of the those negative balances were for 5000 and 10,000 dollars. "Who," I asked, "Would leave a 10,000 dollar deposit behind as they sailed off into the sunset?"
Their story changed. Now they are asserting that those large negative balances represent "Prepayments". I figured if that was the case, I'd be able to track the prepayments and see the balances reduced from month to month. But, that does not appear to be the case.
Here is the problem. I can't definitively say what is going on because Grenell has ordered staff to redact both the customer names and customer ID's from the report. Thus I can't compare totals from month to month.
The thing to notice is that Mr. Grenell told me that his staff had given me access to unredacted AR Reports.
For your information and understanding, Government Code Section 6254 (c) of the Public Records Act provides that disclosure of certain personnel information would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. The AR reports you request contain individuals' names and account numbers which can link to their tenant information which can include social security numbers and driver license numbers which are confidential. Hence the requested reports are again redacted.
Got that folks? First Grenell says I blew my chance to see the unredacted AR Reports then he cites a California law that per his logic, proves that his staff violated personal privacy laws.
So here is where I am at. The accounts receivable have increased 14 fold even though revenue has remained flat. There are tens of thousands of dollars in negative balances on the AR Reports. The story has changed as to what those balances represent. I can't verify the new story with the redacted data I have been supplied. Grenell's excuse for not providing unredacted reports keeps changing and appears to be contradictory.
Notice that in the above story, the District Trustees and Manager were blamed for enabling the embezzlement. A contention bolstered by the fact that the Board's Insurance Company declined to pay for the fraud. The Board Members themselves may very well end up paying restitution.
Is there anything any of you can do to help me get that unredacted AR Reports without having to resort to a Public Records Act lawsuit?


Preparations for the installation of the bronze Abraham Lincoln statue at President Lincoln's Cottage are well underway. The hole for the statue's base was hand-excavated on Thursday, October 30, 2008. On-site during the excavations was Lynne Lewis, Senior Archaeologist for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Lynne kept a watchful eye on the excavation work, monitoring the digging progress in case any archaeological artifacts or finds should surface.
Excavating the hole for the new statue's base in front of President Lincoln's Cottage.
The finished hole for the statue base was 32″ deep and approximately 5′ x 6′ wide. During the digging, Lynne and the workers collected several artifacts of interest from the hole, including a white clay pipe bowl and fragments of a Yellowware bowl. While none of the artifacts recovered are indisputably "Lincoln" in nature, they're a gentle reminder of the past and the continual reuse of the property for over 150 years. The artifacts will be thoroughly cataloged and stored along with the rest of the archaeological collection. Soon, the new Lincoln statue at President Lincoln's Cottage will become a part of this dynamic landscape.
Lynne Lewis, Senior Archaeologist with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, monitoring the excavation activity.
Ms. Derr is the Administrative Assistant at President Lincoln's Cottage.


Commentators have routinely noted the complexity, opacity, and multiple functions of U.S. personal jurisdiction doctrine. Yet underlying this comparative chaos are two important concerns. Both commentary and Supreme Court cases have long recognized that a court's assertion of power over a particular defendant and case may have two undesirable consequences. First the burden on the defendant of having to appear before a certain type of court or in a particular location may be unacceptably high. Second a court's jurisdictional overreaching may encroach upon the sovereignty of other states or nations and in so doing, may foster uncertainty about which sovereign's substantive standards apply to particular conduct. Personal jurisdiction, to some extent, addresses both of these issues. But with respect to both goals, it has competition. Multiple protections, including venue and forum non conveniens, help to ensure that defendants are not unfairly burdened by litigation. An even greater variety of doctrines, such as dormant commerce clause protections, choice-of-law restrictions, and limits on punitive damages, restrict the ability of states to regulate distant conduct and thereby exceed their sovereign boundaries. In light of these additional protections, this Article suggests reorienting personal jurisdiction toward functions not well served by other doctrines, and proposes three possible goals that meet this standard providing redundant protections to foreign defendants, screening out cases likely to create difficult questions of choice-of-law constitutionality, and adding the factor of purposeful availment to the analysis of defendant fairness. Surveying the four personal jurisdiction cases the Court has recently decided, this Article finds that they have addressed the first of these goals to some extent, but have slighted the second and third.
Katherine Florey, What Personal Jurisdiction Doctrine Does -- And What it Should Do, 43 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1201 (2017) .


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City of Philadelphia Department of Public Property, African American Museum HVAC Upgrades
The African American Museum at 701 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA was constructed in 1976. The previous HVAC systems were representative of that era and the equipment had largely exceeded its expected service life. Arora was retained to provide engineering services for HVAC upgrades at the museum.
In the late summer of 2015 it was decided that the Museum would serve as the location for a major function during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The building's HVAC systems, especially the 1976 vintage steam fired direct expansion rooftop air handling units, were in a general state of unserviceability. Arora Engineers, Inc. (Arora) was brought on board in July 2015 to immediately begin the design process to allow procurement of construction to be completed in time for the Convention, factoring in the long lead time of any newly purchased equipment. Arora provided Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing, and Construction Administration Services for the HVAC upgrades to the African American Museum.
Assessment of Existing Conditions
On-site assessment of existing HVAC systems and controls to determine the needs of the building.
Results of the observations and recommended actions were submitted as an assessment report, including opinions of probable construction costs.
Creating engineering bid drawings describing the HVAC renovations and control systems, as well as any electrical and/or plumbing systems modification required by the renovations.
New controls systems were designed in conformance with the City of Philadelphia Building HVAC Controls Guidelines for New and Existing Buildings.
Provided Construction Phase support to achieve a successful, on-time completion.
Arora performed an existing conditions assessment to prioritize the needed upgrades with associated costs to inform the decision-making process by the City as to what work needed to be done before the Convention. During the initial site investigations, Arora determined that the current purchased district steam was hopelessly uneconomical and performed a life cycle cost analysis indicating the substantial savings to be gleaned by divorcing the building from the utility district steam supply.
The building was designed with a new high efficiency gas fired condensing boiler system to serve the existing interior space heating equipment. A new gas service was provided from a nearby high-pressure utility gas main located in front of the adjacent Federal Reserve Bank, discovered by Arora after an on-site meeting. The rooftop units were replaced with gas fired units, with the new gas piping routed in the location of the former steam mains. Creative design work was required as the 1976 vintage rooftop units were from a manufacturer that was long out of business and of a configuration that is not made by any current manufacturers. The design needed to account for the very different unit layouts and duct connections to mate with the existing building ductwork.
The project was completed on time for successful use during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. It was also the subject of a local TV news report, which reported an increase in patronage, as well as visitor and staff commentary on how comfortable the building was compared to its previous conditions.
City of Philadelphia, Department of Public Property


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My Festival Romance
by Thomas Brooman CBE
Womad co-founder Thomas Brooman CBE reflects on a lifetime of festivals his autobiography My Festival Romance.
Art & Sound of The Bristol Underground
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Brooman was one of the organisers of the first Womad festival, held at the Royal Bath and West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in 1982. That first event was an artistic triumph but a financial disaster. Womad survived, just, and Brooman went on to organise more than 150 Womad festivals around the world.
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InsideWis: No longer exclusively biotech: Emerging companies in Wisconsin become more diverse
by Tech Council | Oct 31, 2019 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still
MADISON, Wis. – Throughout the 1990s and well into the 2000s, biotechnology seemed to be the only "tech" in Wisconsin when it came to startups and other emerging companies.
And why not? The state was and continues to be a hotbed for genomics, personalized medicine, stem-cell research and assay tests used for pharmaceutical testing, laboratory medicine and more. It was a specialty consistent with the state's academic research base in Madison and beyond.
Without diluting those life sciences sectors, others have risen. Medical imaging and medical devices were quick to follow biotechnology as related "cousins" in the sense both revolve around health care. Growing slowly at first but expanding rapidly in the last 10 years was health information technology, led by Epic Systems and its game-changing influence on digital health.
Today, the landscape has broadened to include advanced manufacturing, such as next-generation robotics and changes driven by the "internet of everything," software of all descriptions beyond digital health, gaming, consumer products, agriculture and natural resources, business services and sustainability. Not that those tech sectors were non-existent in the past, but they had yet to grow to a noticeable size in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is no longer a one-trick-tech pony, as the upcoming Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium demonstrates.
The two-day conference, which runs Wednesday and Thursday at Madison's Monona Terrace Convention Center, will feature 43 presenting companies plus more than 40 others that are engaged in one-on-one meetings with investors. Health care is well represented throughout, of course, but so are other sectors that appear to be drawing market interest.
There is also more geographic spread than in past years, when Madison companies held a lop-sided edge in the selection process because they were often more mature and in tune with investor interests. Next week, five of the 25 companies presenting in the main five-minute tracks are from Madison, three others from other Dane County communities and the rest hail from across Wisconsin or other states.
The same holds for the 90-second Elevator Pitch Olympics, which will feature another 18 companies, often younger but just as spread out when it comes to industry sector. Here are just a few examples of presenting companies that represent the growing range of tech startups in Wisconsin:
American Provenance is a Mount Horeb-based manufacturer of natural personal care and wellness products hand-crafted in southwest Wisconsin.
Blue Line Battery is a Whitewater-based manufacturer of intelligent lithium-ion batteries that can improve the efficiency of operations.
Evolve Brands of Jackson, Wis., is expanding the availability of organic and plant-based, single-serving snacks.
Hive Central is a student-led Oshkosh agri-tech company that has developed tools for beekeepers to help improve the over-winter survival rate of bees, which are essential to pollination, among other tasks.
HuTerra Rewards is a Green Bay customer loyalty program that offers a way to dramatically improve fundraising for sports teams, bands, schools and nonprofits.
SeedLinked is Viroqua-based firm that uses crowd-sourced data and advanced analytics to enable plant breeders, seed sellers, farmers and gardeners to choose, acquire, breed and sell place-adapted, specialty seed.
Upstream is an Eau Claire company offering solutions for delivering audio-visual over internet protocol to make audiovisual systems easier to use, faster to install, and more flexible.
The Virtual Foundry, based in Stoughton, provides a path to pure metal from the desktop with its metal and ceramic 3D printing filaments that work in printers designed for plastics.
Again, there is no shortage of med-tech companies on the presentation docket, but the diversity is noticeable and offers at least anecdotal evidence that tech entrepreneurs are springing up in cities outside Wisconsin's largest metros.
Preceding the Early Stage Symposium on Tuesday, also at Monona Terrace, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will present a different set of emerging companies and technologies during the annual WARF Innovation Day. It's a combination that should leave attendees feeling impressed about what tech entrepreneurs in Wisconsin can do.
Still is president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He can be reached at tstill@wisconsintechnologycouncil.com.


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The official Bluetooth site has a list of products using Bluetooth, although it's kind of annoying to find that there are no URLs available for any product. I found a couple other Bluetooth specific sites/blogs including Apple.com, Ericsson, The Bluetooth weblog but none of these sites has a listing of Bluetooth products. I want something like gizmodo for but Bluetooth (ie: tell me what fun Bluetooth products I can buy once I have the above mentioned phone!).
Reading this book made me want to start working with distributed intelligence and AI… Where would one start if you wanted to work in this industry? Go back to school? Write some software that emulates distributed intelligence? Cry for mommy?
Currently in Mammoth hanging at my parents house where we're in the midst of a[nother] snowstorm. This one could dump as much as 2 feet!
So far I've finished 3 books on this trip: Bots: The Origin of New Species by Andrew Leonard, The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig, and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. All great books, I've got a ton of dog eared pages for each book that I'd like to blog… but using the computer is off limits on vacation, right?
Got into LAX ok, relaxed in the spa last night at Courtyard Marriott, had dinner at Maggianos and just finished Bots: The Origin of New Species by Andrew Leonard. Vacation rules.
Going back to Cali… Cali. Flight to Charlotte. Flight to LAX. I can taste Del Taco already.
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The Remote Display tool for seeing a Pocket PC screen on your desktop over TCP/IP is a Microsoft PocketPC Power Toy.
The .NET IL Disassembler is called ILDASM.EXE and if you have the .NET SDK, this is installed on your system already in the Framework's BIN directory. It's your best friend.
LSW DotNet – Reflection Browser is yummy, it's better than just ILDASM, it's an object browser and Disassembler that lets you see the disassembled source in C#!
Ghost-It 1.04 rocks, it lets me make any window (like chat windows, or notepad) easy transparent via a tray icon.
Lutz Roeder is my new best friend (noone's told him yet) because of Documentor, Reflector, and Resourer.
QuickCode.NET makes demos cleaner and less error-prone…let them do the typing.
Scott has some well written notes on ASP and .NET, particularly interesting was a post on patterns, including a link to the Portland Patterns Repository.
Proud to say that A Woman's Concern (where my wife works) now has a site for people that want to learn about and support their ministry. They're still entering all their content and creating their pages using the web-based content management tools I built, but I'd love any feedback on the site. Check it out!
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Spins and Thrills Ahead for Liverpool FC
Tom Simmons
The past couple of seasons have seen plenty of success for Liverpool Football Club. The Champions League trophy is back at Anfield after that great win over Tottenham. This season is going even better with a big lead at the top of the Premier League. Now there's a slot machine dedicated to the football club!
From December 11, you'll be able to spin the reels of the Liverpool slot machine. Hopefully your luck will be in and you'll become a winner just like Jurgen Klopp's team. The slot has been produced by Aspect Gaming. They've been responsible for successful games such as 'Lotus Lantern,' 'Love Story' and 'Typhoon Cash.
The game has five reels and four rows of symbols. Several of the symbols are Liverpool FC related. For example, there's an image of Anfield, the club logo, the famous Shankly Gates, a 'This is Anfield' scarf and players including Nathaniel Clyne and Jordan Henderson. It's got 50 betways and you will be able to play the game on your desktop, tablet or mobile.
The maximum win you can get is 100,000 coins and it can be played from as little as 50p. There are free spins, wild and scatter symbols and apparently the game has two colours – red and green. Now I wonder, which one will be the most popular choice.
With the club having their own Liverpool Slot it's a sure sign they are becoming even more popular. That's perhaps inevitable after the recent success the club has been achieving. The slot game is out next month, and December is already looking to be a massive month for the club.
Their eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League could be even larger by then. Liverpool have five more Premier League games to play in the next three weeks, not to forget the final two games in their Champions League group. That includes the mouth-watering clash with Napoli at Anfield on 27 November.
Three of those Premier League games are at home. December begins with a midweek match at Anfield against local rivals Everton. The hectic month continues with two more league games away at Bournemouth and home to Watford. Then the cup competitions take centre stage for Liverpool starting with the Carabao Cup quarter final away to Aston Villa.
Manchester City successfully completed the domestic treble last season, could it be Liverpool's turn this time around? It'll be a tough game though as Liverpool are in danger of becoming a victim of their own success.
The Carabao Cup tie is being played on December 17 (six days after the release of the slot game), which just happens to be the day before Liverpool play in the World Club Championship, more of which in a moment.
The Villa match will be a test of the strength of Liverpool's squad for sure. That's because two squads are going to be playing that week due to that World Club Championship game. Liverpool's best players can be playing the new slot game while on their way to Qatar.
They may appreciate some hot weather in December as they bid to win another tournament. The championship takes place between 11 and 21 December. Liverpool have already won the European title and the European Super Cup, so what better way to end the year by becoming World Club Champions.
The Reds don't play their first game until the 18th, that will give them plenty of time to play the new slot game. They are due to play the winners of the second-round clash between Monterrey from Mexico and the victors from the first-round match between Al Sadd from Iraq and Hieghene Sport from New Caledonia.
If Liverpool can win that semi-final, then just four days before Christmas Day, they'll be in the final. Possible opponents include River Plate (Argentina), Flamengo (Brazil), Esperance de Tunis (Tunisia), Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan) or Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia) If they lose their semi-final then they will be in the third and fourth place play-off.
After their World Club Championship exploits, there's a bit of time to celebrate Christmas (though not indulging in too much of the turkey and mince pies and no to that extra roastie) and carry on playing that slot game.
They return to Premier League action on Boxing Day with a trip to Leicester City. That's a fixture that won't be an easy one after City nearly grabbed a point at Anfield earlier in the season.
Their final fixture of an amazing 2019 sees them host Wolverhampton Wanders on 29 December. Another important game and hopefully the chance to complete another calendar year without losing a home Premier League game at Anfield. Who could have imagined that when suffering a home Premier League defeat by Crystal Palace on 23 April 2017, Liverpool would get all the way to November 2019 without losing another one?
Liverpool haven't been this successful in years and 2020 could be an even more exciting year for them. They look certain to enter the new year (and decade) top of the Premier League and probably reigning World and European Champions. Becoming English champions is the dream though.
Liverpool fans haven't been able to celebrate that since the 1989/90 season. What a way to celebrate a 30th anniversary! It must be in the stars as Liverpool were also League One Champions in the 1979/80 season. Could 2020 be another new decade that sees its title winner be Liverpool?
There are plenty of dreams that could be fulfilled by Liverpool in the coming months. Going through an entire Premier League season unbeaten would be as thrilling as winning the top prize in the new slot game.
Liverpool haven't lost a league game yet and their current record is out of this world. At the time of writing this article, they have lost just one of their last 51 Premier League games and an unbeaten run of 29 since that loss to Manchester City on 3 January 2019. They have just eight league games to remain unbeaten in to reach a whole calendar year without a Premier League defeat.
It's going to be a hectic schedule for Liverpool but one that promises an extra-special 2020. All those top games to look forward to and the chance to win some great prizes when playing the Liverpool FC slot game. Bring it on.
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Eliciting customers' implicit needs with Questioning Skills, so they can make their needs explicit.
Staff need to know that using these skills and interacting with the customer is part of their job. And that it is important, worthwhile and sound business practice.
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Laws and rules that will apply to particular sectors of staff.
Such knowledge should help them more fully explain the benefits to a customer. Would that not make for a more eager customer?
Where should the department store assistant, receptionist or call-centre operative direct callers to help them get their needs met as quickly and easily as possible?
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A guest in a certain London hotel forgot his laptop when he left for New York. He realised his mistake only that evening, when about to prepare for a presentation he was due to give the next day. He immediately phoned the hotel, if only in the hope his laptop had not been stolen.
Imagine his surprise and delight when the chambermaid who was sent to check his room arrived in New York and handed him the laptop in time for his presentation!
She had blown her 'delight the customer' budget on one guest.
A chambermaid – with a budget? She did what? What do you make of it? She certainly acted flexibly. Did she act responsibly? The story went round the frequent flyer community like wildfire – and business boomed for that hotel. Maybe the PR was worth it. On the other hand, the chambermaid could not spend any money at all on delighting a customer for the rest of the budget period. Maybe that would be OK, though. She might just have had to think more creatively.
What matters is that individual members of staff will be more willing to go the extra mile if they know it's OK by you. So discuss it with them. If needs be, document their delegated authority. How far you empower staff depends on your present organisation culture. The chambermaid's example might be a step too far in your context, but you get the idea. Empowering people involves a leap of faith, and it is sensible to take precautions. As the Arabs say, 'Trust in God and tie your camels'.
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Some people would see a maintenance man's job as menial – not in the story below, however. That guy did more than most people would see as his job. He took responsibility for the end result. He also acted flexibly. He made a real difference to the customer's stay. Look at the benefit for the organisation. Oh, by the way, he got his reward too.
I spend half my life in hotels, and to be honest most of them get the basics right – well they have to. One hotel that does stand out for me is in Belfast. The basics are all there – the friendly staff, the nice décor – but it feels like they make just that little bit of extra effort. Maybe it's the plastic duck in the bathroom, which always gives me a smile. They also publish a newsletter covering the whole group of hotels and there is a copy in your room. I like reading about their staff changes and what famous guests they've had – it sort of feels like I am 'in the club'.
It's not just the frills either. Once, there had been a leak onto the bathroom carpet and when I reported it they sent someone straight away. The maintenance man who came and looked at it immediately rang reception, arranged for me to change rooms, and offered to get a porter to help move my stuff. In other hotels people just come and do their own job, but this guy fixed the whole situation for me. OK the leak caused me a nuisance, but within 35 minutes of letting them know there was a problem I was settled in a new room – with very little hassle.
Now that's what I want from a hotel. I always recommend this hotel group to anyone going to Belfast.
The maintenance man may have been naturally helpful, but how was he managed? For a start, he must have been empowered to see an incident through to conclusion. His personal objectives must have been more strategic than 'fix x per cent of failures in the hotel structure and utilities within y minutes of them being reported'. They may well have included something about behaviour or end results. His pay was clearly not based on piecework. Performance indicators may have included qualitative aspects. There can have been nothing like 'spend no more than ten minutes on any incident'.
The hotel systems clearly allowed him to engage support from reception staff. The structure obviously enabled him to step outside a narrowly defined maintenance role. Maybe that flexibility was enshrined in his job description.
What behaviours, beliefs and values is it most useful for customer service staff to exhibit, to achieve excellent customer relations?
Remember a time when you (or someone you know) went out of their way – maybe stepped out of line – to do something that would delight a customer, maybe draw them back again and again?
How was that rewarded? How can this kind of behaviour be encouraged in your own organisation?
What behaviours, beliefs and values do your management information, performance management, reward and appraisal systems encourage in staff?
How free might the organisation want staff to be – free to go above and beyond the expected for a customer? What needs to be in place for that to happen?
Prompt and positive feedback encourages desired behaviours.
Andore Foldes, a Hungarian-born concert pianist, observed that a well-timed specific piece of praise often led to students outdoing themselves.
He tells of how he first realised the power of such praise. Foldes had made his debut at the age of eight, and at 16 was facing a crisis about his music and falling out with his music teacher.
Foldes was lifted out his crisis and went on to become a world-renowned pianist.
Few of us receive praise of this order. Even so, well-timed, specific praise motivates people like nothing else.
Some people get their greatest satisfaction simply from knowing they have done a good job. A lot of people though, like to know that someone else has noticed. Most of us respond better to praise than criticism. Try regularly telling a colleague what (specifically) they are doing that works well. You may be surprised by the positive effect. They are likely to do more of what you have praised them for. It seems as though this kind of feedback overlays – or leaves less space for – any undesired behaviour.
That's too late and too vague.
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The We Luv Wine event at Cape Gate Mall on Thursday and Friday evening seems set to beat the winter chill with winemakers, wine lovers and celebs joining in the fun. Landskroon Estate's winemaker, Abraham van Heerden had the pleasure last week of meeting up with models Sheree-lee & Michelle Gildenhuys to share some wine expertise.
Landskroon Estate is one of the exhibitors at the Cape Gate Shopping Precinct's Centre Court on 20 and 21 June from 17h00-21h00 and grabbed the opportunity to show off some of their wines and their much-loved "Port" as a preview to the festival.
Wine lovers can taste and buy more than 150 wines directly from the producers. A wide selection to suit every palate and wallet, ranging from red, white, dry and sweet right through to Cape Ruby (Port), bubbly and pot-stilled brandy, is on offer.
The exhibitors are Avontuur Estate, Checkers Oddbins, Checkers Wines of the World, Croydon Wine Estate, Du Toitskloof Wine Cellar, Groenland, Hidden Valley Wines, Kleine Zalze Wines, Koelenhof, Landskroon Wines, Lord's Winery, Lourensford Wine Estate, Orange River Wines, Perdeberg, Quoin Rock, Rhebokskloof, Riebeek Cellars, Solms-Delta Wine Estate, Two Oceans – Quay 4 Wines and Vergenoegd Wine Estate.
abuzzWine, in association with Cybercellar, will be introducing their new smart phone or tablet apps at the fest, which provides information, tasting notes and purchasing & delivery options about all of South Africa's top wines in the most user-friendly way .
Comfy chill area's inside the wine tasting area will create a party atmosphere and visitors can purchase some warming winter fare from local charity organisation Shiloh Synergy(who is also the main beneficiary of the event), to ensure a feeling of well-being before having to face the elements again.
Caption: From left to right is Sheree-lee Gildenhuys, winemaker Abraham van Heerden and Michelle Gildenhuys, with an array of Landskroon's wines.


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What the Judge's Ruling Means
I'm getting a lot of e-mails from people who say they're confused by the media reporting on the latest ruling in my case, and I was going to wait to comment on it if I got a phone call. We haven't gotten any phone calls about that, so let me use the e-mails as the peg, if you will, around which to try to explain this to you.
It is not nearly as complicated as the reporting has made this out to be. You have to understand, as I have learned, my case is a story just like Iraq is a story and just like anything else is a story, and for the media — particularly the local media here in south Florida — there is an action line, and that action line is: Anything bad for me moves the story forward. Anything that happens favorable to me is not considered news because it doesn't move the story forward or it doesn't move the action line.
The action line is that I'm wrong; they're right, and anything that they twist and turn to fit that template, they will do. Now, on Monday, Judge Crow ruled in a way sort of split the baby. The subject that was being argued in court was that prosecutors went in, and they wanted the judge essentially to let them talk to my doctors.
Now, this is after two years of claiming that they needed my medical records. Remember two years ago they're out there saying that they already had evidence of ten counts of felony doctor shopping. They already had that. They leaked that to the media. It was all over the place. Everybody assumes that they've got that; it's looking really bad.
Then they demanded to see the medical records and they said, during the appeals process, until they saw the records they wouldn't know what, if anything, to charge. Well, what about those ten felonies they already had? Well, they didn't have anything because there aren't any. So the appeals process goes on and on and on.
They finally get the records. They get the records within the dates of the search warrants, and there's nothing in those records to show doctor shopping. So they go back to court, say: We need to talk to Limbaugh's doctors.
Well, there's a problem. Florida statute says there is confidentiality between a doctor and a patient. It's called the doctor-patient privilege. It's like any other privilege that exists, lawyer-client, what have you — and the prosecutors went in and they basically said to the judge: Judge, look, this is silly. We're investigating a serious crime here, and we can't talk to the doctors. We don't have any element of one crime. We don't have the elements of one crime here 'til we talk to the doctors.
The judge said: Well, the statute says you can't. There's a privilege — and the prosecutor said: Well, come on, Judge. Common sense is we can't go anywhere unless we talk to the doctors.
So that was the argument. We made the argument that the privilege stands no matter what and they can't compromise it. So the judge in his ruling on Monday said: Well, we'll let you issue subpoenas because I can't — the judge said, I can't — stop you from issuing subpoenas.
There was a two-pronged ruling. You can subpoena the doctors. Now they wanted to subpoena the doctors under what's called ex parte, which means they want to issue subpoenas to talk to the doctors to go fishing to see if they can find evidence of a crime.
The judge said: You can't do that. You can't talk to the doctors about Mr. Limbaugh's condition unless he waives that privilege — which of course I haven't and won't.
They said: Well, we want you to waive it for us, Judge, because we can't move our investigation forward.
So we all waited on the ruling. That ruling came Monday. The judge said: You can go ahead and subpoena the doctors, but you cannot ask them one thing about Limbaugh's medical condition. You cannot ask them one thing about what they said to him or what Limbaugh said to the doctors.
So the press goes to the state attorney's office and their spokesman says: We got what we wanted. We can subpoena the doctors.
That's why you saw reports that the prosecution won. They said: We got what we wanted. We can subpoena the doctors.
Well, they can subpoena the doctors all day, but they can't talk to the doctors about anything they said in court that they wanted to talk to them about. They just can't — unless they cheat, unless there's nobody in there to ride herd on them, unless there's nobody getting a transcript. They can't do it.
Now, they can bring the doctors in and I have no doubt they'll try to intimidate them and frighten them into saying something, but they can't do it. So they didn't win anything, but it was reported to the press as a win because "subpoena the doctors" moved the action line forward. It advanced the story along the lines of the media, the local media, is interested in being advanced.
But they — the true definition of this is, it was two parts.
I can't stop you from subpoenaing the doctors, the judge said, but nothing has changed. The statute is the statute, and I can't change it, and you can't get any personal information from Limbaugh or his doctors without them waiving the privilege, which hasn't been waived.
So the bottom line to this is, if you want to know the truth: This prosecutor has said in open court: We have not one element of any crime. He has said: We don't know what, if anything, to charge until we see the records.
They got the records. They've had the records since May. They can't find any crime. Now they want to talk to the doctors. It's a clear fishing expedition. They can't talk to the doctors. They can subpoena them. They can bring them in. They can ask the time of day. They can ask the doctors how they conduct their office procedures, but they can't discuss a thing about me. They can't ask them, and the doctors don't have to answer.
So the upshot of this is that this is a loss for these people, but in this case, since this is not really a legal proceeding anymore. They're gonna go — I don't know this, but I would bet you they're going to — try to bring in a doctor or two and try to intimidate them and see what they can make out of it, and they'll report that and the media will move the story forward and so forth, and people will be waiting with bated breath.
Much of the confusion on this has come from the spokesman for the state attorney's office and much of the confusion, most of it's been, on the TV side. Because here is what TV has widely reported, and this is wholly inaccurate. The TV has reported this: ?Florida prosecutors are claiming a small victory in the Rush Limbaugh case. A judge has ruled the prosecutors can subpoena Limbaugh's doctors if the discussion is relevant to the prosecution of a crime, but they won't be able to look at Limbaugh's medical records.? Well, the state has based its whole case on the medical records. So if they can't look at the medical records, and if there's nothing in them anyway that gives them a crime — and they've admitted this in open court — then they're blocked. There's nowhere to go. But the press, all they heard was: We can subpoena the doctors, and we can talk to them, and if it's relevant to the pursuit of crime, why, we can talk.
Bammo! That fits the action line and moves the story forward.
Now, this records argument is what the state attorney's office made in court but they essentially lost that. They were given the records [last July], but then they were told after that [Monday]: You can't talk to the doctors about what's in the records.
This was — you don't know all this because I haven't given you… Well, it is actually on the website, if you want to follow the follow the progression of events here. But I understand the confusion, and the confusion is simply the way it's been reported.
My attorney, Roy Black, put out a statement and we put it on the PR Newswire on my website, and it spells this out in crystal clear fashion. But one of the things that happened, we put out a statement and the state attorney's office had a live voice talking, and as far as the media is concerned, a live voice talking carries more weight than a printed statement, and that live voice from the state attorney said: We got what we wanted. We can subpoena the doctors, period — and so that moves the action line forward. That advances the story along the lines local media wants it to be advanced, which is: They're going to get Limbaugh.
And, of course, I have no idea what's going to happen next. It's been over 26 months now — 26 months — and two or three times the prosecutor's gone into open court and said: I don't have evidence of a crime. We don't know what, if anything, to charge 'til we see the records.
Then they saw the records. Now that's not enough. Now they want to talk to the doctors, but they can't talk to the doctors about me or my condition or what I said. Yet it's all been portrayed as a victory for the prosecutors.
I mean, you go figure it out. It's no different than the way the Iraq war is being reported. It's no different than the way half the other news in the country is being reported. The amazing thing is there's nothing we can do about it. We can play the process out and keep responding to these people as they take their aggressive action. But it's what the legal process has become. You know, people trying to criminalize political enemies, and it's taken on a life of its own.
I go back: You know, I came out of the rehabilitation center in November, two years ago, and the first week I'm greeted with this news that they've got ten counts already. Before they'd even seen the medical records, they've got ten counts of felony doctor shopping.
Where…? I know that this is BS, but of course it's in the media, everybody believes prosecutors never lie. Why would they go to the trouble? They always — everybody, it's just human, everybody does, everybody — believes prosecutors tell the truth. Well, what happened to those ten counts if they go to court, all these: We don't have any evidence of the crime. We need to talk to the doctors. We don't know what, if anything, to charge, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And now this ruling on Monday: Yeah, you can subpoena the doctors, the judge says, because I can't stop you from issuing subpoenas, but you can't talk to them about what you want talk to them about. [But] you cannot ask them what you want to ask them about, and yet it gets reported in the press as a big victory.
That's the source of the confusion.
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The smart elevator market is a hot topic in 2014 and a recent industrial market research report predicts that this market will continue to register a high growth into the year 2020. A new report published by Allied Market Research suggests that the global smart home and buildings market is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.5 % during the period 2012 – 2020. It is estimated that the overall smart elevator market will grow up to $35.3 billion by 2020.
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Then it goes on to point out that God didn't give the talent he took from the lazy man to the man who doubled 2 talents, but he gave it to the man who doubled 5 talents…. Why would he do that??… Because he wants more profits… who doesn't???
I searched the scriptures if I could find a single example of a lazy man God used and I realized God rather prefers a man who is hard working although he may be doing the wrong thing… at least he can help him channel his energy aright… than a man who knows the right thing but is lazy… he'll rather use a man busy doing the wrong thing than one busy doing nothing….
So, I studied some examples of men God called and the similarities in their identities. They were busy doing something.
Moses was tending his father in law sheep, although he had suffered disappointments and discouragements, he wasn't mopping around, when God called him.
David was tending his father's sheep in the wilderness, yet God sent for him in his obscurity.
God found Saul of Tarsus' devoted passion appealing though wrongly channeled; he had to be used… and notice here that he used the same energy and even more by the grace of God upon him to work more than all other apostles.
Even Samuel who was sleeping when God called him was still busy opening and closing the door of the tabernacle. Trust me, God has no dealings with lazy men… he simply has no use for them.
I hear people say there is no work but I beg to disagree. There may not be many jobs available, but there are lots of works to be done so get busy. Do something and stop lazing around.
God said I will bless the work of your hand… it means, if you don't have a work of your hand, no matter how much God wants to bless you, he can only bless nothing. .. Back in elementary schools, we learnt that zero multiplied by anything; no matter how big the number is, amount to ZERO.
There was the story of a man, who was so poor and can't even afford to feed his family, yet he wouldn't work or wants his wife to work because he believed God has not called him to secular jobs, yet he prefers to beg from other believers. Now, that is not spiritual in my opinion, but rather it is a total display of ignorance of the word of God, because James 2:17 says "Faith without work is dead".
Men are called into every facet of life. Just like God called a man to be a full time pastor, evangelist or missionary, he also called some to be a banker, an engineer, a doctor, a teacher, He also called some to be bakers, tailors, hairdressers, carpenters just to mention but a few…. not all men will work in the white collar organizations, not all men will hold the microphones and stand on a well-furnished platform, in a fully air conditioned room; some are meant to get dirty with their hands and still be fulfilling purpose.
So here are few tips to help you get started.
Learn a skill: you don't have a job yet, don't worry, just go out and learn a skill, get training, learn something and be useful to yourself and your community. There are lots of skills to be learnt and developed.
Volunteer somewhere: everybody likes free labour; someone who gets a job done without costing them anything. No one can really resist when you ask to give your voluntary service without pay…. but while at it, do a good job…you may just get retained.
Give free services: you have a skill for doing something, yet no one is calling you. you can sing, bake, decorate, paint, make hair or any other skill you have, yet no one is giving you contracts; identify someone that needs it, give free service to the person and do an excellent job at it, even if you don't get paid, someone may like it, you can get referred and next time, you will definitely get paid for it.
Be excellent: you say you don't know what you should be doing now, no problem, do whatever your hands find doing (as far as it's not illegal) and do it well. Let excellence be your watch word. Don't get too spiritual about things, just do a good job. Even Jesus was a carpenter before he commence full time ministry.
This is the secret to making something that seemingly look small look grand… by putting all your energy and channeling your passion to that which your hands find doing, you can make a huge thing out of it and be of great blessing to people around you.
So my final advice for you my friend, get BUSY!!!
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Shaw was part of the deep political orbit  of the Dulles brothers and Sullivan & Cromwell.
The Permindex operational link to the Schroder Bank places it in the same milieu as the Himmler Kreis , the industrialists and financiers who financed the workings of the SS through an account in the Schroder Bank.
Shaw was a friend of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, who became the finance minister of the Third Reich and was very close  to the Dulles brothers.
As discussed in FTR #'s 1031  and 1032 , JFK was an early critic of the French policy in Algeria, criticizing it on the floor of the Senate in 1957.