I know many grownups that cannot choose. It just so happened they were kids who could not choose and their parents did not help them overcome this. Not being able to choose is being overwhelmed by choices. Sometimes, it is so severe they struggle even when they have only two options to choose from. For some, it is a character trait (those kids seem to be procrastinators), but most have just had no chance to practice choosing and enjoy the ride.
The best way to get over this is to teach kids strategies for making decisions and to give them opportunities to practice. The most wonderful thing is that you need to do it systematically only for three weeks to start noticing change. Many of my clients, even those parenting babies and teenagers, say their kids have fewer "tantrums", they express themselves better, it is much easier to communicate with them and they are more confident, more decisive and less "hormonal".
Kids need to learn to make choices and it is our job to give them opportunities to do so in situations that are not so critical to allow them to gain confidence and learn that there are advantages and disadvantages to the options in front of them. You can give your kids opportunities in many areas of life.
In our home, we have been creating systematic ways to give the kids opportunities to make choices regarding food. They can choose what they want for dinner, what to make (if they are making it), what to buy from the market and how much to put on their plate.
When I was a girl, my mom used to serve us food and we had to eat whatever she put on our plate. Sometimes, she would put too much and we were forced to finish it. I never liked it and always thought it did not show respect to us kids and did not help us make our own judgment about how much would make us feel full. Kids can always have "seconds" and no one likes waste. Gal and I decided that in our family, the kids would serve their own food. When they were too young, we put a little bit and asked them, "One more spoon?" or "Would you like some more?" before putting it on their plate. Kids need to learn to say to themselves "That is enough for me" or "That is too much for me". Let them serve their own food.
From time to time, you can give them an opportunity to choose what they want to eat. You can pick a day a week that each family member can choose what to make for dinner or what they will make for dinner. This is an awesome way to get your kids more involved and more appreciative of what is served. If you have 3 kids and everyone makes dinner once a week, you have to make a lot less and more of what you make will be eaten. When kids make the meal, they also have to do the shopping and to think of things ahead of time to make sure what they need is available, they may need you to buy things at a special store and they need to allow enough time for preparation. The more they cook, the better they will become.
Going with kids to the fruits and vegetable market can help them practice choice as they need to help you find things within your budget and learn how you choose apples, eggplants or cucumbers. Kids tend to think you just go, pick something and come home, but if they come with you, they can see that the cheapest is not always the best and the most expensive is not always worth buying. They also learn things about the quantities you need, so you can give them a bag and tell them to choose 14 cucumbers, 2 for each day of the week, and they will learn things about your thinking process.
Some families get to eat out a lot. This is another wonderful opportunity to teach your kids to choose. If they can read, let them choose what they want to eat from the menu. If you have budget limitations, let them know they can choose within that budget. If you have junk limitations, let them know that too. Gal and I do not drink soft drinks at home, but when we go out to eat, we are not fussy about that. Our kids can choose whatever they want to drink and most of the time, they order fruit juice.
When we lived around the world, we ate a lot in restaurants (mostly local family places, not fast food). In Thailand, we ate outside the house about 5-7 times a week (there were food hawkers at the entrance to our complex). Our kids could always choose what they wanted to eat and they became wonderful eaters and very adventurous with food. If we go to a new restaurant, they will choose things we can share, safe things (that they know they like) and new things to try. Gal and I are very proud of them for that. For our birthday, each of us chooses any restaurant we want and this had worked since Eden was 3-4 years old.
Kids can choose what to wear. We had this thing sorted since Eden was about 1 year old. I would show her two sets of clothes and ask, "Which one you want to wear today?" and we never had fights over clothes. Although she did not pick the two options, she felt she was making a choice.
I remember Eden at the age of 5 in Texas during one of the hottest days of the summer, going to her daycare with boots and a wool sweater. Everyone asked me, "Why did you let her?" and I said, "I believe she needs to make her own choices about what to wear and she will learn from it something that words cannot teach". And she did.
Other than that, follow your own desires, make your own choices until you find the right thing for you.
Every morning, when we drop Eden off at the bus station, we stand in front of the light and have two choices: we can go straight and drop Tsoof off at the bottom entrance of his school or we can turn left and drop him off at the top entrance. Every time we stand at the light, I ask the kids, "Straight or left?" and they have about 30 seconds to decide. Anything they say is good, so it has become a game. In the first weeks, it took them time to reply and I would make the choice myself, but after a while, they became so fast that they answer in a flash.
Pocket money is a wonderful way to give kids opportunities to practice choice. They need to plan, they need to wait and they will need this skill for the rest of their life. In our family, pocket money is given as soon as the kids can count to 10. Eden was so good at it, she saved lots of money. As I was her bank, I realized she had lots of money and never used it. She was 10 years old with over $1,000 (this is what happens when you start saving when you are 2-3 years old).
I realized she was good at saving, but not good at using her money (I did not write "spending", because I do not think that using and spending at the same). I went o her and said, "Eden, I would like you to take $100 and use it to do something you love. Money is not for saving. It is for using and enjoying". She said to me, "There is nothing I need. I don't want to use it". So I realized Eden lived in a home where there was always money, she never needed anything and she had everything she wanted, so her "money-using muscle" was very weak. I tried to convince her that this was for her own good and when that did not work, I told her she had a month to use this $100 or I would take it out of her account anyway". She was angry with me and said, "This is my money. You can't do that!" That was true, but I did not reply. After two weeks, she said she wanted to have a haircut and at the end of the month, she bought herself 2 pairs of jeans. She was just 10 at the time and since then, she has used her money wisely and enjoying life very much. She is also very rich for her age with lots of savings.
See also Young Kids and Money and Ronit's Parenting Bible: Money.
Having a (birthday) party is a wonderful way to help kids practice choice. I know that some people are afraid of allowing kids to choose, but I think it is OK to give the kids limitations and tell them to choose within those limitations. No, you do not have to spend a fortune on it and have 150 kids in your balcony, eating just junk, but you can allow your child some freedom on their special day. You can tell your kids your limitations and then work with them. They can choose a theme, they can choose who to invite, they can choose the invitation style, they can choose whether to make a cake or to buy one (and what kind), the decorations, the goodies for the goodie bag, the games and lots more.
All kids must learn to manage their time. Managing time is another way of saying "choosing well how to spend your time" and this requires practice. When kids are young, their parents manage their time completely and gradually, they are asked to take more and more responsibility for this. The first thing we can do to help kids practice good time management is to give them a sense of time, which can be done even without them being able to read a watch. When they play, come to them and say, "We are going to dinner in 10 minutes", then come after 5 minutes and say, "It's a good idea to wrap things up now. We are leaving Donna's house in 5 minutes". This does not have to happen to the second, but when you do these things, you are telling the child they can choose what to do with the last 10 minutes of the game.
When the kids are older, you can say, "Would you like to do math before dinner or after dinner?" or "What is more important to you now, doing your assignment in science or finding information about the famous person you need to write about?" The questions will help the child weigh the two options and this is a very important skill.
When you go to the video store, your kids probably want to take half of the videos and watch them day and night. You can say, "You can only choose one movie a week and it must be G or PG rated, but choose any movie you like".
On a 2-week school break, when your child really wants to watch 4 movies (which you are OK with the rating and everything), you can say, "We can watch one movie a week. You can pick any movie you want to see this week and one more to see next week". If you think one of the films did not get great reviews, let go. Kids enjoy different things. It is OK for them to go watch a movie and say, "It wasn't very good". Do not be tempted to say, "I told you so", because that is external pressure. You can say instead, "I'm happy you've watched this movie and that you've developed your critical thinking". Sometimes, we need to see bad movies to learn what is good and what is bad. I promise they will make better choices next time.
I believe every area of life can provide opportunities to let your kids practice choice and this requires us, the parents, to let go of our desire to control our kids and to appreciate the process that every person must go through in order to gain confidence in their ability to make decisions.
Join me next week for the next chapter of Kids' Declaration of Independence and I will share with you some techniques for making choices.


Today is Jasper's first birthday. We love you, big boy!
A man of many talents... And at only one year of age!
Oh my gosh. What a cutie!
Happy Birthday, Cutie Patootie Jasper!
I love the "birthday shirt". And the birthday head sausage!
he's adorable! LOL at the sausages. :) happy birthday!
He sure can! Happy Birthday baby Boy!


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This Is What Venus Looks Like From Saturn
Mike Wall for Space.com 2013-03-04 21:21:40 UTC
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Venus gleams over Saturn's enormous shoulder in two stunning new photos captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting the ringed planet.
Earth's hellishly hot "sister planet" peeks through Saturn's iconic rings in one image, which Cassini took last November when it was in Saturn's shadow. Because of the vast gulf between the two worlds, the Earth-size Venus appears as a bright white dot, just above and to the right of the picture's center.
When it took the photo, Cassini was about 498,000 miles from Saturn and looking toward the unlit side of the rings from slightly below the ring plane, researchers said. Each pixel in the image covers about 28 miles.
Cassini captured the other image on Jan. 4, when the probe was approximately 371,000 miles from Saturn. Venus appears near the top of the photo, sandwiched between Saturn's bright, curving limb and its G ring. The scale in this view is 20 miles per pixel.
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The broad, fuzzy streak lower down is Saturn's E ring, which was generated by the icy plume of particles erupting from geysers on the planet's enigmatic moon Enceladus. The luminous point to the left of the E ring is a distant star, researchers said.
This isn't the first time Cassini has seen a planet from the inner solar system from its vantage point around Saturn. In 2006, the spacecraft snapped an amazing view of Earth as it appeared from the ringed planet. That photo, called "In Saturn's Shadow," is one of the most popular Cassini images taken to date, researchers said.
Though Venus is about the same size as Earth and has a similar rocky composition, conditions on the two planets' surfaces are very different. Astronauts walking around on Venus would experience pressures 100 times greater than those on Earth's surface and temperatures around 870 degrees Fahrenheit (466 degrees Celsius) — hot enough to melt lead.
Both of these extremes are a result of Venus' thick, carbon-dioxide-dominated atmosphere, which has created a runaway greenhouse effect on the second planet from the sun.
The $3.2 billion Cassini mission is a joint effort involving NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Cassini launched in 1997 and arrived at the Saturn system in 2004. It is now studying the ringed planet and its many moons on an extended mission that runs through at least 2017.
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Moody's: Climate Change Will Affect Your Credit Rating
The agency has created an economic incentive for cities, states and counties to deal with environmental threats.
December 21, 2017, 7:00 AM PST
By Katharine Jose
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In a new report, Moody's Investor Services becomes the first of the three major credit-rating agencies to outline how the threat of climate will affect the bond ratings of a given city, county or state.
The company plans to take into account both the actual risk of the effects of climate change—floods, wildfires, rising sea levels, hurricanes—and whether or not appropriate measures have been taken to prepare for those risks.
At NPR, Nathan Rott quotes a Moody's executive:
"'If you have a place that simply throws up its hands in the face of changes to climate trends, then we have to sort of evaluate it on an ongoing basis to see how that abdication of response actually translates to changes in its credit profile,' says Michael Wertz, a Moody's vice president."
Rott writes that in some places, like South Florida, a fair amount has been done to mitigate potential effects a changing climate, but that "it can be difficult for a policymaker to justify a big investment when the associated benefits or risks seem a long way down the road."
Significantly, "Moody's announcement may change that," Rott writes, effectively created an immediate economic incentive to include climate change preparedness in city and state budgets.
FULL STORY: Credit Rating Agency Issues Warning On Climate Change To Cities
Friday, December 1, 2017 in NPR
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Living With Record Tides in Florida's Key Largo
South Florida's annual "king tides" were especially brutal this year. Residents of one Florida Keys community have experienced what it's like to live on the front lines of sea level rise.
December 12, 2019 - The New York Times
Tampa Bay Isn't Prepared for the Hurricanes of the Future
The area is especially vulnerable to storm surge, and increased development means more people are at risk when major hurricanes push through.
September 26, 2019 - Vox
When Coastal States Kill Building Codes, FEMA Pays
Despite the increasing number and intensity of natural disasters, some vulnerable states are relaxing building regulations and leaving the federal government to pick up the tab when tragedy strikes again.
April 5, 2018 - Bloomberg


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Imagination Technologies está presente nos seguintes lugares: Kings Langley, Hertfordshire (Reino Unido)  Chepstow (Reino Unido), Leeds (Reino Unido), Frankfurt (Alemanha), Califórnia (EUA), Taipei (Taiwan), Tóquio (Japão), Seul (Coreia do Sul), Shenzhen (China) e Pune (Índia).

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Best Large Building General Contractors in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is one big place. In fact, it is the second-largest metropolitan area in the entire United States, behind only to New York. It is also quite rich, in more ways than one, having a diversified economy and a productive culture that contribute to economic development and cultural enrichment; not only for the city and the state, but also for the entire United States.
As such, the demand for large-scale construction is high. Here, we are listing the top 15 contractors who are proven to get things done and deliver some of the largest projects in the city.
Top Architects
McCormick Construction
2507 Empire Ave, Burbank, CA 91504
About McCormick Construction
McCormick Construction is a Burbank, CA-based family-owned and operated general contractor and designer-builder servicing California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Washington. From its humble beginnings in 1914, this fourth-generation firm has grown into a premier builder that specializes in general construction and construction management of mid- to high-rise commercial and institutional buildings, industrial projects, retail and medical facilities, multi- family residential and interiors for both the public and private sectors. McCormick has been the recipient of many awards, including the Design-Build Institute of America National Award of Merit, the Engineering News Record Best Project Awards, and the ENR California Award of Merit.
In Manhattan Beach, McCormick delivered design-build services for a high-security facility for the Hughes Electro-Optical & Data Systems Group Strategic Defense Initiative. The project was composed of two six-story buildings totalling 300,000 square feet. Some of the high-tech features included Department of Defense-controlled access booths, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) areas with sound masking, eight computer rooms, a telecommunications command center with fully redundant backup systems, electronic component development laboratories, and multiple focal plane laboratories for laser research.
McCarthy Building Companies
20401 SW Birch StNewport Beach, CA 92660
About McCarthy Building Companies
McCarthy Building Companies is an 100% employee-owned general contractor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with offices in 15 cities across the country, including San Francisco. Grown from an Ann Arbor-based lumber business founded in 1864, McCarthy now prides itself on its substantial nationwide portfolio in a wide variety of markets including hospitality, healthcare, education, science, commercial, government, renewable energy, and civil. Over the years, the firm has earned many awards, including the Society for College and University Planning Jury's Choice Award, the San Francisco Business Times & Silicon Valley Business Journal Healthiest Employer Awards, the AIA Awards, and the ENR California Best Project Award.
In Irvine, McCarthy built the 20-40 Pacifica Office Buildings. The complex is a set of two 15-story, Class-A speculative office buildings totaling 660,000 square feet with surface parking for more than 350 cars. Clad in rich Italian travertine, the towers are located adjacent to the I-405 freeway.and has convenient pedestrian access to the Irvine Spectrum Center. McCarthy made the building sustainable through numerous features, such as floor-to-ceiling, high performance glazing, and efficient water, lighting and energy systems.
Bernards
555 First St, San Fernando, CA 91340
About Bernards
Principals and brothers Doug, Greg and Jeff Bernards formed Bernards in 1974, a San Fernando-headquartered, employee-owned builder and construction management firm. The company is currently staffed by 260 employees, including 50 LEED Accredited Professionals across the company's five California offices. Bernards has won many of the industry's most prestigious awards, such as the AIA LA Design Awards, the Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Awards, the ENR Best Projects Awards, and the DBIA National Design-Build Award of Merit.
Bernards was responsible for the Camden Apartments in Hollywood, a 700,000 square-foot mixed-use development that promises "sophisticated living along the Walk of Fame." The complex is composed of four five-story towers over a two-story podium, and features 290 contemporary housing units for Hollywood's young entertainment professionals. A notable fact about the project is its challenging site conditions, in which Bernards met the tight spaces and restrictions from a neighboring landlord with multi-phase construction and careful crane repositioning.
C.W. Driver Companies
468 N Rosemead Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107
About C.W. Driver Companies
Pasadena-based C.W. Driver Companies is a premier builder serving California since 1919. The historic company proudly celebrates its 100-year anniversary this year. As a leader in general contracting and construction management services, C.W. Driver Companies are on the cutting edge across a broad spectrum of industries, including education, commercial/office, technology, healthcare/biomedical, mixed-use, assisted living, entertainment, retail, industrial and civic. Ranked in Engineering News Record's Top 150 General Contractors and Top 100 Construction Managers, C.W. Driver Companies has the ability to build a variety of projects, from large tenant improvements to small renovations and specialized projects through its affiliates Driver SPG and Good & Roberts. C.W. Driver's extensive resume of achievements and recognitions include the LA Architectural Award of Excellence, the AIACC Award of Honor, the AIA Los Angeles Design Merit Award, DBIA-WPR Awards of Distinction and Excellence, ENR California Best Projects Award and ENR National Best Projects Award.
The new 460,000 GSF senior living facility, located in the Playa Vista area of Los Angeles, is a continuing care retirement community that includes 175 independent living residences, as well as 24 assisted living and memory care apartments. The structure also includes one level of basement parking with 218 spaces. Amenities include a courtyard and patio at the ground level with a café, bar, and outdoor dining area; theater; full-service salon and day spa; library and business center; art and activity studio; fitness center; and a rooftop featuring a swimming pool, garden, café with outdoor dining.
Hensel Phelps
18850 Von Karman Ave, Ste 100, Irvine, CA 92612
About Hensel Phelps
Hensel Phelps is a Colorado-headquartered employee-owned general contractor and developer with offices in California, Arizona, Colorado, Florida Hawaii, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Formed in 1937, the company has a diverse portfolio of projects within the country and abroad. These projects include aviation and transportation, commercial office, educational, government, healthcare, mission-critical, hospitality and leisure, industrial, justice and public safety, lab and research, multi-residence, museum, and library. In recent years, Hensel Phelps has been the recipient of the Associated General Contractors Build America Award and the DBIA Award.
In Anaheim, Hensel Phelps built the 640,000 square-foot Kaiser Permanente Anaheim Medical Center. The hospital is made up of a six-story 430,000 square-foot main building, a three-story 32,000 square-foot Central Utility Plant, and 180,000 square-foot Hospital Support Building. The complex houses a number of medical facilities, including 262 beds, 13 operating rooms, an MRI facility, 10 delivery rooms, 36 ER bays, 24 pediatric beds, 20 neonatal intensive care bassinet rooms, an inpatient pharmacy, a laboratory, central sterile, dining services, and a morgue. The center is built on a 27-acre site on which Hensel Phelps installed 50 specimen oak trees at least 72 box and larger, five water features, and 25 rocks weighing over 8,000 pounds each in addition to the complex.
Morley Builders
3330 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405-3240
About Morley Builders
Santa Monica-based Morley Builders is an employee-owned, full-service general contractor that serves southern California. The company specializes in general construction for major civic structures, educational and research facilities, parking structures, commercial, retail, medical and healthcare buildings, and multifamily residential complexes, and is experienced in design-build, seismic strengthening, preservation, modernization and sustainable projects. A spot in ENR's Top 400 Contractors and an Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award are just some of the accolades achieved by Morley.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles called upon Morley to build the 480,000 square-foot Cathedral of Our Lady of The Angels at 555 West Temple Street. The church replaces the former Cathedral of St. Vibiana as the seat of the Archdiocese. The current cathedral has the capacity to seat 3,000 people, and accommodate 5,000 more in its grand public plaza. Notable features include the largest installation of alabaster windows in the world, faceted architectural concrete walls with hundreds of non-repeating angles, integration of commissioned artworks, seismic base isolation and architectural concrete designed for a service life of 500 years. Called by the Wall Street Journal as "the most impressive large interior space ever built in Los Angeles," the cathedral won ENR's Top Seismic Project Award.
Suffolk Construction
550 S Hope St, Ste 700, Los Angeles, CA 90071
About Suffolk Construction
Suffolk is a Boston-based general contractor with offices in several locations across the country, including Los Angeles. Edward Fish, Sr. established the firm in 1982 as an open-shop contractor, then immediately transferred full leadership and management to his then-23-year-old son John Fish, who still leads the company as Chairman and CEO. The company livestrue to their motto, "build smart", by encouraging employees and associates to innovate in their work. Suffolk has received numerous recognitions for its work, including the Associated Builders and Contractors National Award for Excellence in Safety, and the NAIOP Public Service Award.
Suffolk recently topped the 560,000 square-foot residential tower at 888 South Hope Street. The 34-story apartment complex features 530 residential units on top of ground-floor retail space, as well as a penthouse clubhouse, a 33,000 square-foot open-air amenity deck, and additional amenity space on the eighth floor.
Matt Construction
261 S Figueroa St, Ste 120, Los Angeles CA 90012
About Matt Construction
Matt Construction is a general contractor established in 1991 by late founder Paul Matt, Executive VP Al Matt, and current CEO Steve Matt, and currently headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm's portfolio ranges a wide variety of projects, from mixed-use to commercial, institutional and hospitality. Matt earned the AIA Los Angeles Building Team of the Year Awards twice, as well as the AIA Los Angeles Presidential Award.
In Hollywood, Matt renovated, expanded and converted a landmark hotel into the Marriott Renaissance Hotel, located near the Chinese Theatre and the Walk of Fame. The work included the addition of a new 22-story tower to the 560,000 square foot landmark hotel, which also stands 22 stories tall. The resulting structure features 640 rooms, 33 luxury suites, a conference center, and a 270-degree panoramic view of Hollywood.
Hathaway Dinwiddie
811 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 1500, Los Angeles, CA 90017
About Hathaway Dinwiddie
Founded in 1911, Hathaway Dinwiddie is a San Francisco-based construction company with offices in Santa Clara and Los Angeles. The firm is currently composed of more than 300 regular employees, a third of which are LEED Accredited Professionals. The company is particularly experienced in a wide variety of project types that include commercial office, higher education, biopharmaceutical, healthcare, technology, entertainment, finance, and special use facilities. President and CEO Greg Cosko currently leads the company, which has been honored with several awards, including the ENR California Contractor of the Year Award and the DBIA National Award of Merit.
Hathaway Dinwiddie is currently building EPIC, an office tower at 5901 Sunset Boulevard. The 15-story, 750,000 square-foot tower is divided into four major components: a nine-story, 340,000 square-foot office space, 15,000 square-foot ground floor retail, a 5-story 300,000 square-foot above grade parking, and 2-level 100,000 square-foot below grade parking. The towel also includes a rooftop central plant, outdoor terraces, extensive lush landscaping, and associated sitework. EPIC is targeted to achieve LEED Gold Certification.
Charles Pankow Builders
1 Sutter St, Ste 200, San Francisco, CA 94109
About Charles Pankow Builders
In 1963, Charles Pankow established his eponymous firm with its high-quality design-build services. Today, Pankow is a reputable designer-builder with more than 1,000 projects under its belt, based in California and with a wholly-owned subsidiary in Hawaii. As one of the founding organizations behind the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), Pankow has dedicated itself to delivering exceptional projects from inception and design to construction and completion. Through the years, Pakow has received numerous recognitions, including the DBIA National Awards, the ENR Best Project Awards, and the American Society of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence.
The Emerson is a 20-story, 270-unit high-rise residential tower with four levels of parking that Pankow built for Related California. The ground floor houses a restaurant, cafe, main lobby, technology center, office space and a fitness center. The primary residence hall follows from the 2nd to the 18th story. The top or 20th story is the Penthouse level, which contains a large rooftop terrace, a party room, a kitchen, dwelling units, and accessory building service rooms.
One California Plaza, 300 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90071
About AECOM
AECOM is a Los Angeles-based global infrastructure firm established in 1990, after a handful of employees from design and engineering companies shared a dream of creating an industry leading firm dedicated to making the world a better place. This Fortune 500 firm employs 87,000 professionals across seven continents. AECOM earned revenues of approximately $20.2 billion during fiscal year 2018, as well as a laundry list of awards, including the Institution of Structural Engineers Supreme Award, the Environmental Business Journal Industry Leadership Award, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) LA Design Award.
The 1.5 million-square-foot LAC + USC Medical Center at 2051 Marengo Street is one of AECOM's major contributions to Los Angeles. Taking the lion's share of the project is the 680,000-square-foot, 600-bed in-patient tower, which is joined by the 430,000-square-foot seismic base-isolated diagnostic and treatment building, the 330,000-square-foot outpatient building, and the 50,000-square-foot below-grade central plant.
Clark Construction
About Clark Construction
Founded in 1906, Clark Construction has grown from a small local excavator into one of the most capable and trusted contractors in the entire United States today. The firm is proud of having balanced its heritage as a local contractor with its reach throughout the country. With over 4,200 employees spread across its regional offices, the company has the experience and capability to tackle every project of every size imaginable, and successfully deliver them with impeccable service. The firm has won many awards, including the Associated General Contractors Build America Awards, ABC National Excellence in Construction Eagle Awards, ENR Best of the Best Awards, DBIA Awards, and Sustainability Awards.
The California Department of General Services tasked Clark to construct the State's Department of Transportation's District 7 Headquarters at 100 South Main Street under the State's Excellence in Public Building Program. The office tower stands at 13 stories with a floor area of 756,000 square feet. The 1-2 million square-foot complex also include four levels of underground parking for more than 1,100 cars.
Swinerton
865 S Figueroa St, Ste 3000, Los Angeles, CA 90017
About Swinerton
In 1888, a young Swedish migrant in Los Angeles started a brick masonry and contracting business that grew into Swinerton, a San Francisco-headquartered general contractor with 3,500 employees and 15 offices across the country, including the origin city of Los Angeles. In addition to the past, the firm also looks towards the future, being member of the USGBC, and establishing the Center for Excellence in Project Delivery in 2012 to pursue their commitment in sustainable construction. Their efforts have been recognized through a laundry list of awards, including the Associated General Contractors of California Safety Excellence Award, ENR CA #1 General Contractor, CEA Award for Excellence in Safety, ENR California Best Project Awards, and AIA Award of Honor for Excellence in Design and Execution.
Swinerton designed and built Crescent Heights' high-rise apartment complex Ten Thousand at 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard. Built as the most high-tech residential complex in the United States, this 40-story tower features a plethora of electronics-based amenities such as a proprietary concierge app and a staff of robotic butlers named Charley, as well as one-of-a-kind amenities such as on-site Botox doctors and a rentable Rolls-Royce Phantom. The complex houses 283 units plus a penthouse level on the top floor.
Webcor Construction
6624 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
About Webcor Construction
Bill Wilson, Ross Edwards, Dave Boyd, and Miller Ream founded Webcor Construction in 1971 in San Mateo, with the goal of delivering projects with unmatched innovation, efficiency and personal involvement. In 2007, Webcor became the latest acquisition by Obayashi, a major Japanese general construction firm. Webcor has a headquarters in San Francisco, and offices in Los Angeles, Alameda, San Jose and Honolulu. Webcor has received a multitude of awards, including the Gold Nugget Grand Award, the ENR California Contractor of the Year Award, and the ENR Top 400. Webcor also received an ISO 9001 Certification in 2013, the only California-based general contractor to have done so.
At 889 Francisco Street, Webcor is making its final push to deliver the mixed-use development Metropolis Los Angeles. The project is composed of four towers 18, 42, 40 and 56 stories high with a combined unit count of more than 1,500, together with a city center, and a connected parking for more than 1900 cars. Common amenities include community spaces, landscape features, pools, lounges, fitness spaces, and meeting and convention space. This 2-4 million square-foot development is aiming for LEED Silver certification.
Turner Construction Company
555 S Flower St, Ste 4220, Los Angeles, CA 90071
About Turner Construction Company
Turner Construction Company is a New York-headquartered international general contractor established in 1905. From humble beginnings, the firm now boasts a staff of 5,200 employees spread over 57 offices around the world, and an annual global portfolio of 1,500 projects and an aggregate value of $10 billion. Turner's Los Angeles office was its first in California, established in 1964. The firm's projects in Los Angeles have earned many accolades, including the ENR Top 100 Green Buildings Contractors, the BDC Top Contractor, the National Building Museum Honor Award, and the AGC in the Community Award.
Turner built the Wilshire Grand Central at 900 Wilshire Boulevard. The tower is the tallest building in the United States west of the Mississippi River at 73 stories high. This supertall mixed-use building houses 900 luxury hotel rooms, 20 floors of rentable, Class-A offices, more than 45,000 square feet of restaurant and upscale retail space, a 70th-floor sky-lobby with a signature observation deck and pool with sweeping views, a variety of innovative public plazas and gathering spaces, and below-ground parking for 1,250 cars. A testament to the building's size is the concrete pour done for its foundation. The building achieved the largest continuous concrete pour in the world as certified by the Guinness World Records at more than 21,000 cubic yards, a record held from 2014 to 2015.


If you are confused about your doctor's bill, you are not alone. Medical billing is so complex these days that even your doctor's staff is often perplexed. In this article I'll try to demystify some of the common billing terms.
For each service he bills, the doctor needs to justify it with the diagnosis which includes symptoms and signs. For instance, he provides an office visit (the service) because you have a sore throat (the diagnosis). If he gives you a joint injection and marks high blood pressure as the diagnosis, the insurance company will deny the claim, because hypertension is not a valid reason to do a joint injection. This seems like a simple concept, but it is not always so intuitive. If you have a bone density test, the diagnosis cannot be osteoporosis (which seems plausible), but it can be a loss of height.
Simply choosing the right visit code is a complex task. No doubt you've been miffed when the doctor has spent 5 minutes with you and charged a high fee. But time is not usually a consideration. The three key components in choosing the level of service are the comprehensiveness of the history and examination, and the complexity of the medical decision-making. See more about E/M coding.
There are rules about what services can be billed together. For instance the doctor cannot charge an office visit and a procedure the same day. If you go to the dermatologist to have skin tags removed, she cannot charge you for both the office visit and the skin tag removal. The only way she could justify that would be if you came in for another purpose, perhaps a rash, and while you were there she took off your skin tags too. But seriously, how often does that happen? She is more likely to schedule a return visit for the skin tag removal.
Sometimes a service is not covered at all. You take your daughter to the doctor for a sports physical, and you end up paying out-of-pocket because your insurance will not cover it. You complain that your insurance provides an annual physical, which seems like the same thing to you. But it is an entirely different service as far as your insurance company is concerned. What you should have done is schedule your child for an annual checkup (if due) and take the form with you. They may charge you for the form, but at least you won't have to pay for the examination. Alternatively, if your child has had the annual checkup recently, your doctor may be willing to complete the form without doing another examination.
Often patients will ask the staff to change the diagnosis so that insurance will pay. This is fine if it was a true diagnosis at the time of service, but they cannot make something up. That's called fraud and abuse.
Medical coding is necessary so that computers can process the high volume of medical claims. Coding converts your services and diagnoses into a uniform alpha-numeric system that is used across all providers and insurance companies in the U.S. and beyond. You will find these codes listed on your encounter form and billing statements. It may help you decipher your bill if you learn a little about the coding.
99213 - Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient.
Diagnosis Codes. Dx codes are much more interesting. Perhaps the doctor didn't tell you your diagnosis, but you can look it up yourself. The International Classification of Diseases,Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) is provided by the National Center for Health Statistics. Here's a free lookup site from Medilexicon. You will be amazed and amused at what you can find in the ICD-9 dictionary. Go ahead and type in any crazy thing you can think of. A fall from a haystack is code E884.9. A legal execution is E978. But you would be more likely to find on your encounter form code 278.0 for overweight or 997.91 for high blood pressure. In the example above, I have the same diagnosis for each service: 327.23 -Obstructive sleep apnea.
This mini-lesson has only scratched the surface of course. Even as a 21-year medical practice veteran, I still went to our billing manager with my invoice and pleaded, "Mary - just tell me what I owe you." Likewise I recommend that you speak to your doctor's billing staff when you don't understand a charge or think something is amiss. Mistakes do happen in this complicated business, and most billing people truly want to get it right. If you cannot resolve the matter with your doctor's office, go to your insurance company, and if you are still not satisfied, you can file a complaint with your state's insurance department. I guarantee that will get everyone's attention.


Welcome to Kempinski Summerland Hotel & Resort Beirut, the only 5-star luxury beach resort in Lebanon with its own private beach. where luxury unfolds in the heart of a historic city. A mesmerizing and iconic city resort with a vast array of leisure and business facilities meeting all the needs of the frequent traveler.
Facilities include 153 modern and warmly decorated rooms and suites embracing a Mediterranean flair, a labyrinth of pools with a sit in pool bar, including the legendary Summerland "Cascade Waterfall".
Private sandy beach, tennis court, water sports facilities, exquisite gardens, a cigar and single malt whiskey lounge, the largest outdoor glamorous venues in Beirut to host the city's most prestigious events and the only hotel resort with day use beach bungalows with Jacuzzi and direct pool access & personal butler service in Beirut and a choice of restaurants and bars each creating a unique culinary journey.
Spa discount of 25% all year round.
Start your day with a refreshing healthy breakfast serving home made pastries to your hearts' delight, a selection of cereals, fruits, cold cuts, charcuterie, yogurt, fresh honey comb, breakfast desserts as well as our signature local corner. Order your fresh eggs off our menu and kick start your day feeling energetic.
" B " offers beach goers an opportunity to enjoy a fresh shawarma straight off the Grill, or savor the taste of our signature Kempinski Summerland Burger which will leave you craving for more. A fresh salad is always refreshing under a hot sun and " B " is the place to be.
After a hectic business day, or a long day in the sun, our Roof Top Bar & Lounge provides the perfect chill out lounge to relax and unwind over Beirut's skyline view. Enjoy sunset drinks, mezze set menu and a shisha overlooking the Mediterranean Sea; as well as live oriental entertainment every Saturday.
Indulge in the finest selection of Lebanese seafood Mezzes set directly on the Mediterranean Sea. Pier78 Restaurant offers a large variety of Lebanese specialties served with a twist. Following a spectacular meal, enjoy an Shisha served on the terrace overseeing a breathtaking sea view.
Relax and unwind in our Lobby Lounge Le Salon, where you can enjoy the finest selection of pastries, chocolates, tea and freshly roasted coffee whilst gazing at the spectacular views from the terrace. Smoking is only permitted in our outdoor lounge.
We offer you a getaway Golden High Tea everyday from 5PM to 7PM.
1897 bar & lounge is a custom made outlet for Single Malt whiskey and Cigar lovers. A variety of fine cigars and Single Malt Whiskey that are paired with shareable mini bites to enhance your experience, this lounge is a perfect getaway to enjoy exclusive brandy and the finest drinks.
Every Friday & Saturday night, we welcome different live entertainment to set the perfect mood for you.
Our seasonal pool bar offers a wide array of sandwiches and fresh salads to refresh you in the heat of the scorching sun. No need to interrupt your session in the sun, sit back, relax and ask your waiter for a refreshing drink and it will be delivered to your sunbed.
Sunset has never been more dazzling than seen from our Jet Bar, directly on the Mediterranean Sea. An adult only area where signature drinks & skewers can be appreciated.
The legendary Summerland Cascade Pool Bar is back to revive the memories of loyal beach goers and city guests alike. The bar is enclosed underneath a waterfall, the Cascade falls, which gives you the feeling you are under the stars at night. A unique opportunity to enjoy a refreshing drink within a cosy setting.
Our seasonal Upper Pool bar offers a wide array of healthy organic drinks. Sit back in the heat and enjoy the freshest cold organic drinks.
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Indoor mask mandate ordered across Louisiana
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Published: Aug. 2, 2021 at 2:36 PM CDT|Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 5:53 PM CDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has implemented a statewide indoor mask mandate to combat the spread of COVID-19 and the delta variant of the virus.
Gov. Edwards made the declaration during a news conference Monday, Aug. 2.
The new mask mandate is set to expire on Sept. 1, 2021, but could be extended if needed, the governor said.
While the order technically takes effect Wednesday, Aug. 4, the governor urged all Louisiana residents to start wearing masks indoors immediately.
The indoor mask mandate applies to anyone age five or older in all public places in the state, including K-12 schools, regardless of whether people have the COVID-19 vaccine or not. The governor made the announcement surrounded by health care leaders from several different parts of the state.
"This is obviously not something I wanted to do," Edwards said. "But Louisiana is not in the place where we want it to be or need it to be."
His declaration comes on the heels of 11,109 new COVID-19 cases reported over the weekend in Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Health also reported 27 new COVID-19 deaths over the weekend. The agency says 90 percent of all COVID-19 cases documented in the state between July 15 and July 21, 2021 were among those who were not vaccinated or not yet fully vaccinated.
There are currently 1,984 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Louisiana, including 213 on ventilators, the state reported Monday, August 2.
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The main sources of income for small-scale farmers in the Tolay region in the southwest of Ethiopia are cereal growing and livestock production. However, many farmers are facing numerous problems presently. Alongside depleted soils, they also have to wage a fight against two dangerous enemies: the stem borer moth and the striga weed. The stem borer moth lays its eggs on maize and sorghum plants; the larvae then bore into the plant's stem, eating it from the inside. Striga is a parasitic weed that penetrates the maize roots, drawing nutrients and water from the plant. If stem borers and striga occur together, they can cause huge crop losses – with fatal consequences for a region such as Tolay, where many live below the poverty line.
The Push-Pull method helps to defeat both enemies. The leguminous plant desmodium is planted in between the rows of maize or sorghum. It then suppresses the growth of the striga weed by natural means – as opposed to the patented alternative of chemical company BASF, which offers hybrid maize varieties resistant to Imazapyr, a herbicide (StrigAway®) that kills the striga seed as it germinates. The smell of desmodium repels the stem borer moths and drives them away from the main crop (push). Around the fields, the farmers plant napier grass, which attracts female stem borer moths (pull). They place their eggs in the grass where, once they try to bore into the grass, the hatched larvae die in the sticky substance the grass produces. Soils and livestock also benefit from Push-Pull. Like other leguminous plants, desmodium fixes nitrogen from the air with its root nodules. Its organic matter and the animals' manure can then be composted and used to boost soil fertility. The napier grass serves as a highly nutritious extra fodder for the cattle that increases milk production. Farmers can also generate an additional income by selling the remaining grass.
Push-Pull was developed in the 1990s by scientists around Professor Khan at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Kenya, in collaboration with farmers. In 1995, Hans Herren, then Director General of the icipe, was awarded the World Food Prize for leading a biological pest control campaign in Africa, successfully fighting the cassava mealybug – one of the reasons he was later appointed Co-chair of the IAASTD. His Biovision Foundation helps to spread the Push-Pull method from farm to farm. The method has proven successful and has been adopted by more than 130,000 farmers in East Africa.
In order to introduce the Push-Pull technique in Tolay, icipe is closely cooperating with the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. In 2013, the first trial fields were planted. Since then, almost 200 "demonstration farmers" and 18 agricultural advisers in and around Tolay have been trained to use and disseminate Push-Pull. Scientists are monitoring progress to be able to adapt the method to the local conditions. In East Africa, a new desmodium species has been introduced which is more drought-tolerant.


Do you remember the four pig cutting boards from my August finds post? The one on the far left has actually been used as a cutting board and the three others were cut out and never used.
I wanted to give the new pig cutting boards a darker finish so they looked older too.
I searched for non-toxic stains on the internet and stumbled onto a post from Vintage Fan Girl in which a new cutting board was darkened with a propane torch.
You must keep the torch moving and just burn the board lightly. The technique did work well on my pigs.
To further darken the wood and enhance the grain, I rubbed on Miss Mustard Seed's Hemp Oil. Also non-toxic.
This CD crate was purchased a while back at a thrift shop too for $2.
I removed the label and washed up the crate.
Next, I brushed on one coat of Rust-Oleum Painters Touch in Colonial Red . It is a satin latex. I then brushed on two coats of Dutch Boy Chalky finish paint in Antiquated Lace. I purchased this paint at our local Menards. I then moderately distressed the crate with a wet rag. The chalk paint rubs off with a little pressure and the wet rag, but the latex enamel stays in place.
I sealed the crate with Varathane Clear Matte Polyurethane . It's a non yellowing water based poly for easy clean up, and a lot less hassle than wax.
Lastly, I cut a sign board out of a free paint stir stick and painted it with Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint in Walnut . I then stenciled on PIG PEN with Momenta Alphabets and Numbers Adhesive Stencil , stencil paint from Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint in Light Ivory , and a stencil brush from my Dreamweaver Brush Set . The star is from another stencil in my stash. I nailed on my stir stick/pig pen sign and added my pig boards.
I LOVE THEM, and I'm keeping them!
They fit perfectly on the left side of my kitchen's corner display area.
A welcome addition with my other cutting boards and farmhouse decor.
The PIG PEN sign is kind of a groaner pun, but it makes me smile every time I walk by!
Love your piggy's and their crate. Your really did a wonderful job on them and thank for the information on Pig Cutting Boards. MY son has a collection of cutting board and I am going to order one for him for his birthday, thank you for the information.
We have a "pig board" that we use as a "guest book".... We keep it in the kitchen and have guests sign it when they come to visit... usually at dinner. It is a nice "history" of our home.
How cute! I love anything pigs. Fun idea by turning the crate into a pig pin for the cutting boards. I'm glad your keeping them, I know I would.
We tried the torch technique once on a bar table the hubby was making. It worked great!
Your "pig pen" makes me smile too. Beautifully done!
Your little piggy's and their pen are so cute and look great in your display!
That is really cute! Love all your creative ideas!
Too fun! Those little piggies won't want to go to market when they have such a cut spot in your kitchen!
Oh my goodness, that is just too cute! I have a pig cutting board someone made us for a wedding gift many, many years ago. It looks like the one on the far left. :) Love the "pig pen" too. Fun!


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The Pyramid Code is a documentary series of 5 parts that explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues to matriarchal consciousness, ancient knowledge and sophisticated technology in a Golden Age. The series is based on the extensive research done in 23 trips to Egypt and 50 other countries around the world by Dr. Carmen Boulter in the Graduate Division of Educational Research at the University of Calgary.
The first episode titled "The Band of Peace" focuses on six different pyramid sites. They follow the Nile River and evidence points to the fact that the river itself was next to the pyramids at the time they were built than where it is today. Over time the Nile has migrated to the east, thus putting the river further from the pyramids than when they were built.
The Band of Peace is the area in which six different sites sit, among them the Great Pyramid at Giza. One scholar insists the pyramids were not built by slaves. So who actually built these structures? Although they are long gone, the three pyramids at Giza each had a top layer of smooth stones over the stones that we see today. One was red, one was black, and one was white.
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Chief Of Turkish General Staff Says Al-Bab Is Liberated. Is There Another Town With Same Name In Syria?
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The northern Syrian town of al-Bab has been liberated from ISIS terrorists and Turkish troops are now working to clear the area from mines and explosives, the Turkish daily "Daily Sabah" reported, citing Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar.
The operation to liberate the northern Syrian town of al-Bab from Daesh terrorists has almost been completed and Turkish troops are working to clear mines and explosives, Chief of General Staff Gen. HulusiAkar reportedly said, Turkish Sabah daily's Ankara Bureau Chief Okan Müderrisoğlu reported.
According to Müderrisoğlu, General Akar told journalists accompanying President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on his three-day visit to Gulf countries that the al-Bab Operation has been finished and explosive ordnance disposal teams are currently working to clear the region.
Müderrisoğlu quoted Akar as saying that two large bomb-traps have successfully been detonated, and other bombs and mines are being cleared.
Probably, the Turkish chief of general staff forgot that pro-Turksih militant groups, backed up by the Turkish army, had retreated almost from all areas seized in the ISIS stronghold of al-Bab. Thus, the only side controlling al-Bab is ISIS.
Is this statement a bad propaganda move for the internal audience or a grand mistake by some journalists?
Either Al-Bab has fallen, or it hasn't. Somebody's either telling nonsense, or a miracle happened and ISIS withdrew from the city overnight. Potentially its possible, considering the close ties ISIS had with Turkey.
Liberated? Rather changed occupying forces, from Turkish proxy ISIS to pro-Turkish militants and Turkish forces.
Turkey is depending on lies as foreign policy.
Looks like ISIS received new orders from above. Hasakah all over again?
I don't believe so, last movement was by ISUS to take back the highway area.
The TU/FSA where in a bad spot at the round about. Tadif was not taken and held by SAA as reported. Maybe SAA pulled back and had a good laugh about their situation.
Syria has no love for the invaders.
SAA never took Tadef.It never attacked it according to trusted pro goverment sources.
Agreed. They held back to let the Turdkish terrorists and IS kill each other while they sweep Eastwards and look to block the kebabs from advancing towards Raqqa.
The Tigers are well led and have a winning strategy here.
I wish there where more of them!
BTW this was reported by Daily Sabah.


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Q: Use Sqlalchemy to Connect SQL Server - Pandas Try to write the dataframe into DB, but getting the error below.
Create Dataframe
import pandas as pd
d = {'col1': [1, 2], 'col2': ['VIP', 'Eco']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)

Connect to SQL Server at Azure
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
engine =  create_engine
('mssql+pyodbc://user:pass@dns:1433/database')

Try to Insert the data into DB
from sqlalchemy.sql import table, column, select, update, insert
from sqlalchemy.types import Integer, Text, String, DateTime

df.to_sql(
    'Table_Test',
    engine,
    if_exists='append',
    index=False,
    chunksize=100,
    dtype = {
    "ID" : Integer,
    "Type" : String(10)}
    )

Error
ValueError: ID (<class 'sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.Integer'>) not a string

Pandas Version: '1.1.5'
full error
try:...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<ipython-input-19-993c20acc8ac>", line 2, in <module>
    df.to_sql(
  File "C:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\generic.py", line 2605, in to_sql
    sql.to_sql(
  File "C:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sql.py", line 589, in to_sql
    pandas_sql.to_sql(
  File "C:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\sql.py", line 1816, in to_sql
    raise ValueError(f"{col} ({my_type}) not a string")
ValueError: ID (<class 'sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes.Integer'>) not a string

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Q: Positioning absolute on iPad does not set the element on the desired position Hi I seem to have some issue regarding the absolute positioning on iPad. Here is my issue.What I am trying to create is a tooltip when a user taps on an image the tooltip will appear.
Here is what I have done so far:
var div = createTooltip(toElement);

$(toElement).click(function () {
     showTooltipNow(toElement, div);
});

function createTooltip(toElement, div){
 var div = document.createElement('DIV');
   div.style.zIndex = 100000;
   div.style.visibility = 'hidden';
   div.style.position = 'absolute';
   div.style.left = 0;
   div.style.top = 0;
   document.body.appendChild(div);
}

 function showTooltipNow(toElement, div) {
    $(div).addClass('tbxtooltip-close');

    var positionedElement = $(div);
    var toElem = $(toElement);

    positionedElement.css({ top: toElem.position().top, left: toElem.position().left, position: "absolute" })

    alert("Top Position " +positionedElement.position().top + " Left Position " +positionedElement.position().left);
    alert("Top ToElement Position " + toElem.position().top + " Left ToElement Position " +toElem.position().left)
    div.style.visibility = 'visible';
}

When I initialize this I get the following readings from the alerts:

Top Position:  363.375  Left Position 300
Top ToElement Position 485  Left ToElement Position 400

What I expected to happen is the positioned element to get the same position as the clicked element but as you can see this does not hapen.
I first assumed that the position is set from another place in the aplication but if I do not called this line :
    positionedElement.css({ top: toElem.position().top, left: toElem.position().left, position: "absolute" })

in the showTooltipNow function the element is position at top:0 left:0 as it is set in the createTooltip function.
I should also mention that on all desktop browsers this works correctly IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome do not have this behavios and the element is se tat the desired position.
Does anyone know why my element is not set to the correct position?

A: I have made some small arrangement of your code and tested it on iPad (Safari and Chorme) and it worked fine.
var div = createTooltip();

document.getElementById("toElement").addEventListener("click",function () {
    showTooltipNow(this, div);
});

function createTooltip(){
    var div = document.createElement('DIV');
    div.style.zIndex = 100000;
    div.style.visibility = 'hidden';
    div.style.position = 'absolute';
    div.style.left = "0px";
    div.style.top = "0px";
    div.style.width = "100px";
    div.style.height = "100px";
    div.style.backgroundColor = "green";
    document.body.appendChild(div);
    return div
}

function showTooltipNow(toElement, div) {
    //$(div).addClass('tbxtooltip-close');

    var positionedElement = div;
    var toElem = toElement;

    positionedElement.style.cssText += position:absolute;top:"+toElem.style.top+";left:"+toElem.style.left+";";

    alert("Top Position " +positionedElement.style.top + " Left Position " +positionedElement.style.left);
    alert("Top ToElement Position " + toElem.style.top + " Left ToElement Position "+positionedElement.style.left);
    div.style.visibility = 'visible';
}

Here is a fiddle exaple.
Hope this help.


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The Secretary shall provide technical assistance to and participate in programs sponsored by a non-profit organization specifically established for the purpose of reducing construction-related damage to underground facilities.
The Secretary may make grants to a non-profit organization described in subsection (b).
In addition to amounts authorized under section 6107, there is authorized to be appropriated for making grants under this subsection $500,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2006. Such sums shall remain available until expended.
Any sums appropriated under this subsection shall be derived from general revenues and may not be derived from amounts collected under section 60301.
2002—Pub. L. 107–355 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to study of existing one-call systems, purpose and considerations of study, report by Secretary within one year of June 9, 1998, and discretion of Secretary as to whether to carry out study.


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Hirsingue (en Allemand Hirsingen) est une commune française située dans la circonscription administrative du Haut-Rhin et, depuis le , dans le territoire de la Collectivité européenne d'Alsace, en région Grand Est.

Cette commune se trouve dans la région historique et culturelle d'Alsace.

Ses habitants sont appelés les Hirsinguois et les Hirsinguoises.

Géographie

Urbanisme

Typologie
Hirsingue est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Hirsingue, une unité urbaine monocommunale de  en 2017, constituant une ville isolée.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Bale - Saint-Louis (partie française), dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (45,6 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (47,5 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (44,8 %), terres arables (25,9 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (19,7 %), zones urbanisées (9,5 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
 Hirsunge (708), Hirsingen (837), Hirsuongen & Hirsungen (1221), Hirsungen (1308), Hyrssingen (1498), Hürsingen (1579), Hirsingen (1793 & 1801).
 En allemand : Hirsingen.

Histoire

Période révolutionnaire
Le château des comtes de Montjoie-Hirsingue fut pillé les 29 et , « les portes, fenêtres et volets sont démolis » et « le mobilier emporté ». Le château en ruine resta vide quelques années, parfois occupé par des soldats, puis fut vendu comme bien national et entièrement détruit par ses nouveaux propriétaires pour éviter le retour du comte (et de sa famille) qui s'était enfui vers Remiremont puis vers Bâle, en conservant des liens étroits avec le futur Louis XVIII.
Après le départ du comte, le village est administré comme une municipalité. En 1794, l'arbre de la liberté de la commune ayant été renversé, les reliques de saint Fortuné, qui avaient été remises à la paroisse en 1736, sont brûlées en représailles. Le presbytère est démoli sous la terreur et les cloches fondues pour contribuer à l'effort de guerre.

Histoire industrielle
Vers 1856, Emanuel Lang, Jacques Lang, Gabriel Lang et M. Bloch tous originaire de Durmenach, installent un atelier de tissage, avec 4 métiers à tisser, dans l'ancien moulin à eau de Waldighofen.
En 1865, la société Les Fils d'Emanuel Lang voit le jour.
En 1870, la société emploie 300 personnes et 550 métiers à tisser. Après la guerre de 1870 et l'annexion de l'Alsace par l'Allemagne, l'usine de Waldighofen ferme et la société quitte le Sundgau pour s'établir à Nancy où ils construisent une importante usine.
En 1888, l'usine de Waldighofen est rouverte par Raphaël Lang qui y fait construire la cheminée, toujours visible de nos jours.
En 1908, Paul Lang crée une filature et un tissage à Hirsingue, sous le nom de Lang Frères, qui est agrandie en 1912 et endommagée par un incendie le .
Après la guerre, l'Alsace redevenue française, la famille décide de réunir les usines de Nancy, de Waldighofen et de Hirsingue sous le nom de Établissements des fils d'Emanuel Lang.
Jusqu'en 1962, la petite société familiale prospère et fait prospérer les régions où elle est installée.
En 1963, elle rachète l'usine textile Schlumberger-Steiner située à Roppentzwiller, fondée par Camille Gabriel Schlumberger et Charles Frédéric Steiner.

En 1968, elle rachète l'usine de filature et de tissage Xavier Jourdain, fondée en 1827 et située à Altkirch. L'entreprise prend alors le nom de Siat .
En 1971, l'usine Schlumberger-Steiner de Roppentzwiller ferme ses portes. L'entreprise se recentre alors sur les tissus de haute couture.
En 2003, la Société Industrielle Altkirchoise de Textile-Lang licencie, dans un premier temps, 87 employés sur 2 de ses 3 établissements puis deux mois plus tard 115 autres salariés des sites de Hirsingue et d'Altkirch.
En 2005, l'entreprise, qui emploie encore 370 salariés, est placée en redressement judiciaire.
En 2006, une nouvelle procédure de dépôt de bilan est lancée à l'encontre de SIAT et de ses 3 sites (Cernay, Hirsingue, Altkirch) et est placée sous administration judiciaire.
En 2007, afin d'apurer les dettes, l'usine SIAT d'Altkirch cesse toute activité et les ateliers sont démolis. L'entreprise, qui n'emploie plus que 173 salariés, se concentre sur Hirsingue, mais l'usine est scindée en deux entités : Siat et Lang pour la création et la vente de tissus et S&L Productions pour la teinture et le tissage.
En , un incendie se déclare dans l'unité de production. En août, le tribunal de grande instance de Mulhouse prononce la liquidation des 2 entreprises. En octobre, le plan de reprise est accepté par le tribunal mais il s'accompagne de 90 licenciements supplémentaires. L'entreprise prend le nom de Virtuose SAS et reste à Hirsingue.
Après deux années positives, la flambée des cours du coton met l'entreprise de nouveau en difficulté. En , la municipalité d'Hirsingue propose une aide de  euros à travers une offre de leaseback qui ne verra jamais le jour.
En , le tribunal de Mulhouse prononce la liquidation judiciaire de la société Virtuose et rejette le plan de reprise qui aurait pu sauver 35 des 58 emplois. En mai, 13 salariés font encore tourner l'usine d'Hirsingue afin d'honorer les dernières commandes, avant qu'elle ne ferme définitivement ses portes en .

Le , la Cour d'appel de Colmar confirme la liquidation.
Le , une poignée de personnes employées par une société d'intérim assure la production d'une commande pour Mark & Spencer. Parallèlement, Pierre Schmitt et Christian Didier, les repreneurs potentiels, poursuivent leurs négociations pour pérenniser le redémarrage de l'entreprise qui reprend son nom historique d'Emanuel-Lang.
Le  a lieu la vente aux enchères des machines qui sera annulée à la suite des manifestations d'élus, d'ancien salariés et d'habitants.
Le , visite sur le site de Hirsingue du ministre du Redressement productif, Arnaud Montebourg, qui annonce la mobilisation des services de l'État pour permettre la reprise de l'entreprise par Pierre Schmitt.
Le , le juge commissaire de la chambre commerciale accepte le rachat des actifs au prix de 1,510 million d'euros incluant l'ensemble du parc des machines, le stock de chemises, la marque et les brevets.

Héraldique

Politique et administration

Tendances politiques et résultats

Liste des maires
Depuis la Libération, quatre maires se sont succédé :

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Budget et fiscalité 2015

En 2015, le budget de la commune était constitué ainsi :
 total des produits de fonctionnement : , soit  par habitant ;
 total des charges de fonctionnement : , soit  par habitant ;
 total des ressources d'investissement : , soit  par habitant ;
 total des emplois d'investissement : , soit  par habitant ;
 endettement : , soit  par habitant.

Avec les taux de fiscalité suivants :
 taxe d'habitation : 16,62 % ;
 taxe foncière sur les propriétés bâties : 10,87 % ;
 taxe foncière sur les propriétés non bâties : 62,97 % ;
 taxe additionnelle à la taxe foncière sur les propriétés non bâties : 50,60 % ;
 cotisation foncière des entreprises : 19,48 %.

Démographie

Enseignement
Hirsingue a un collège public d'enseignement secondaire, le collège Jean-Paul de Dadelsen.
Hirsingue a également une école maternelle et une école élémentaire (6 classes).

Lieux et monuments

Patrimoine religieux
 Église néoclassique Saint-Jean-le-Baptiste (1772-1774),
 son orgue de Joseph Callinet et Christian Guerrier ,
 et une des plus grandes sonneries de cloches de village d'Alsace.
 Couvent des Pères capucins (1958).
 Synagogue (vestiges 1848).
 Synagogue (1911-1912).
 Chapelle Sainte-Catherine dite des Montjoie (1111).
 Itinéraire des 15 croix et calvaires (1736-1945).
 Monument aux morts.
Patrimoine civil
 Mairie (1844).
 Ancien tribunal cantonal (1909).
 Maison commune antérieure à 1831.
 Bâtiment annexe du château des Montjoie (1745).
 Pont en pierre - D'HoliBroucka (1751).
 Pont en pierre dit des Montjoie (1745).
Patrimoine agricole, rural et industriel
 Grange à bois long (1777), rue de Bâle.
 Moulin (1808).
 Ferme à colombages (bois longs et courts).
 Usine textile dite usine Emanuel Lang

Personnalités liées à la commune
 . Xavier Haegy, autonomiste alsacien (1870-1932).
 Père François Marie Meyer, fondateur de lunettes sans frontière (1929-2010)
 Élizabeth Rachel Felix, dite Rachel, tragédienne.
 Jean-Baptiste Artzet, maire « optant » (1863-1872).
 Marc-Antoine Berdolet, évêque du Haut-Rhin.
 Johann Caspar Bagnato (1696-1757), architecte, constructeur du château des Montjoie (1744).
 La famille de Montjoie ou von Froberg.
 Simon Nicolas de Montjoie, prince-évêque.
 François Joseph Antoine Hell, bailli (1731-1794).
 Sigmund Jelsch, un bouillonnant pré-révolutionnaire (1712-1788).
 Pierre Schneyder, architecte et archéologue (1733-1814).
 François Joseph Fues, curé historien à Hirsingue (1868-1878).
 Gabriel Ignace Ritter, ornementaliste néoclassique (1773).
 Carlo Limido, peintre (1939).
 Joseph Jelsch, chapelain (1722-1808).
 Thiébaut Schott, maire bâtisseur (1789-1843).
  Joseph-Aloîse Froberger, père blanc, enseignant, linguiste et auteur (1871-1931).
 Edouart Schuster (1881-1956), maître luthier.
 Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, poète (1913-1957).
 Isidore Ygon, héros de la Libération (1920-1944).

Voir aussi

 Liste des communes du Haut-Rhin

Bibliographie
 Le patrimoine et l'histoire de Hirsingue
 Le pont du Moulin
 Les Paroisses du canton de Hirsingue, leurs antiquités et sanctuaires, leurs prêtres séculiers et religieux réguliers, leurs familles nobles et personnages de renom, Une contribution à l'histoire de l'Alsace de François Joseph Fues
 Bref résumé de l'histoire de Hirsingue
 Les israélites de Hirsingues
 les synagogues de Hirsingue
 La drôle de guerre 1939 - mi-1940
 Chiffres clés publiés par l'institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Dossier complet
 Inventaire national du patrimoine naturel de la commune

Liens externes
 Site officiel de la commune de Hirsingue
 Hirsingue sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Le patrimoine architectural et mobilier de la commune sur le site officiel du ministère français de la Culture (Bases Mérimée, Palissy, Palissy, Mémoire, ArchiDoc), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (archives photographiques) diffusion RMN, et service régional de l'inventaire général de la direction de la Culture et du Patrimoine de la Région Alsace
  Site de la Direction Régionale de l'Environnement, de l'Aménagement et du Logement (DREAL)

Notes et références

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Again, let the engine paint dry before moving on.
Now cut a length of ribbon that is double the length that you want your wreath to hang and tie it in a circle around your wreath.
Turn any excess ribbon from your knot into a bow. See the photo above for reference.
Next, fold more ribbon from your spool in on itself 4-6 times as pictured.
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Lastly, attach the twist tie to the bottom of your tied ribbon hanger and fluff the folds into a bow.
Turn your home into your own personal Candyland starting with this glittery DIY candy wreath! Even better, this is totally easy to make and will make you totally excited every time you come home from the holiday chaos during the season. Now it's time to check out all of the other amazing wreaths created by my friends below. Don't forget to check the series introduction for more Christmas DIY projects and a list of all of the upcoming candy fun!


Riddleblog - The Latest Post - Number 27!
If you read this blog, you know that I am a die-hard Yankees fan. I've been one ever since my parents took me to see the Angels play the Yankees back in July of 1964. I remember that game like it was yesterday.
The game was at Dodger Stadium because Anaheim Stadium had not yet been built. My sister got Albie Pearson's autograph on my baseball glove (he was an Angels outfielder and a leader in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and I still have that glove). Jim Bouton pitched for the Yankees--I remember that his hat kept falling off because of his odd follow-through. The Yankees won 5-0.
My folks were hoping I'd become a fan of the new local baseball team (the Angels). We are Orange Countians after all, not New Yorkers. But when the Yankees took the field, it was love at first sight.
And now here we are, forty-five years later and I am as thrilled today, as I was on July 29, 1964.
Don't give me the same old line about A-Rod and Pettitte being cheaters, or that the Yankees bought the pennant. They've spent big bucks every year from 2001-2008 and didn't win the World Series. A-Rod and Pettitte came clean and the PED issue is a much bigger story than these two guys.
The Yankees won this year because they played very good fundamental baseball, which made them a blast to watch, and in the end ensured their twenty-seventh World Series victory! And I am thrilled!
I can't stand the Yankees and yet there was something about this particular team that was different. And who can't enjoy Mariona Rivera, the greatest reliever of all time (hands down).
Perhaps what the Yankees needed those last few years was a different manager?
Give the Yanks credit. At least their owner spends the money to win. What more can a fan of a sports team want?
One of the things that was "different" about this year's Yankee team, in my observation, was excellent management. Sure, they've got the talent, but you can still lose with that if you don't take proper advantage of it. I think manager Joe Girardi along with his coaching staff did just that. Plus, there was team captain Jeter always making sure that he was aware of everything that was taking place on the field defensively, especially changes in the pitching signals. As much as a hate to say it, my hat's off to that team this year.
The last several years, I have gone from being a Yankee hater to one who is fairly indifferent to baseball. One helped to lead to the other. I do not like the direction MLB has gone. The Yankees this year have been effective in utilizing free-agency and the economics of baseball in general to field a very strong team. Sure, the things money cannot buy came together this year as well. I really don't have any bad feelings about any Yankee player. I had the opportunity to shake Joe Girardi's hand at a Starbucks in Costa Mesa last year, when things were not going well for him. He seemed like a very nice guy. (I would have preferred to bump into D. A. Carson there, but this is not a perfect world.) I realize that MLB is first and foremost big-business and secondarily sports. Genuine competition seems to be eroding. That is just the way things are and I accept that. Still, the net result for me as I get older is that baseball seems to be an unneccessary diversion from things that matter so much more.
I guess baseball's not enough of a diversion from what really matters to keep you from taking your valuable time in drafting such a long reply . . .
You could have just read the post and not commented, or even just offered a brief word of congrats. Oh well . . . As for me, I'll enjoy the moment. These diversions are way too short and way too infrequent not to.
A soon as I heard the Yankees won it, I thought of you, Kim. I'm rather happy about it myself since they had a 9-year dry spell and they are probably the greatest franchise in the history of team sports.
How is this for a short response? ugh.
I really appreciated this post! I'm a huge Yankees fan as well! Born and raised in upstate NY. Although I currently live and work in Philadelphia so the last few weeks have been interesting to say the list. The city of brotherly love is currently bitterly loud.
win!!!!!!!! John Sterling could not have said it better. Great to see them and thanks for the post. For a Yankee fan from the South, living in the Boston area, it could not have been sweeter.
I'm just glad that loving the Yankees isn't one of the basic tenets of the Reformed Faith.
Boo!! I remain a (jealous) Yankee hater. My only consolation comes in that I was sitting in the 300 level of then Bank One Ballpark when Luis Gonzalez hit a flare over the glove of Derek Jeter, driving in the winning run in game seven of the 2001 World Series.
I do offer my congrats to the Yankee fans though and think that Jeter and Rivera are two of the game's true greats.
I'm a Yankee fan all the way down in Alabama...started pulling for them becasue my dad pulled for the Braves! Let's Go Yankees!
Congratulations, Kim! I think you're taking this WAY too seriously though--just kidding.
Yankee fans living outside of the NY area are an absolute violation. Root for your teams in CA.
Like you said, enjoy the moment. For those of us that love our theology, sports can be our one true worldly pleasure!
Felix is right. Go, Phillies.
Let's see...Ken Samples team (L.A. Lakers) took the NBA Championship and now Pastor Kim's Yankees win the World Series. That can only mean one thing - my team (Denver Broncos) will win the Super Bowl this year.
It is a GREAT year to be a member of Christ Reform Church.
Yep. Only took 9 years of the highest payroll in baseball and the raiding of other teams' best players to finally find that right combination. Most teams scout and develop talent. The Yankees, they just buy the best players until a good combo is found.


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Qatari Women Robbed of $5M In Latest Paris Heist
November 22, 2016 /0 Comments/in Crime /by Joe Levin
Two women were robbed of valuables worth at least $5.3 million by masked men who held them and their driver up on a freeway in Paris, according to media reports.
The Qatari women, aged in their sixties, had left Le Bourget airport north of the French capital in a Bentley when they were targeted, sprayed with tear gas and robbed, AFP reported.
It said the stretch of freeway is frequently used by robbers to target wealthy foreigners in luxury cars — the thieves often strike during traffic jams.
Other victims include a Saudi prince who was robbed two years ago and a Korean art collector who was relieved of $4.3 million worth of jewelry last year, according to media reports.
Other parts of Paris have also been the scene of a number of high-profile incidents recently.
The robbers often take advantage of traffic jams to pounce.
Last month, a taxi transporting the CEO of a French furniture chain among other passengers was held up after leaving Le Bourget.
The three robbers made off with an estimated 100,000 euros in valuables.
A Korean art collector was the target of a similar heist last year, with three attackers snatching four million euros in jewels from her car.
Within Paris itself a number of high-profile robberies have led the government to step up security around tourist spots.
Earlier this month, Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat and her partner Cyrille Auxenfans were teargassed and assaulted as they arrived at Auxenfans' apartment building in the 16th arrondissement. The masked attackers fled empty-handed after failing to snatch Sherawat's bag, according to media reports.
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West was targeted at her hotel in Paris in October, when robbers threatened her with a gun, tied her up and locked her in a bathroom before fleeing with jewelry worth an estimated $11 million.
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