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Jason Levin placed on administrative leave
Teacher Who Sought to 'Demolish' Tea Party Placed on Leave From School
By Jana Winter
- FOXNews.com
An Oregon teacher who announced his intention to "dismantle and demolish the Tea Party" has been placed on administrative leave until his school district finishes its investigation into whether his political activity crossed the line
Teacher Jason Levin is under investigation after his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site called on supporters to infiltrate anti government protests. (KATU)
An Oregon teacher who announced his intention to "dismantle and demolish the Tea Party" has been placed on administrative leave until his school district finishes its investigation into whether his political activity crossed the line.
The state's Teacher Standards & Practices Commission is also conducting an investigation into Jason Levin, a media teacher at Conestoga Middle School in Beaverton.
"Jason is on paid administrative leave," Maureen Wheeler, the school district's spokeswoman, told FoxNews.com. She described the suspension as "standard practice during an internal investigation."
Levin has come under fire for saying he'd do anything short of throwing rocks to bring down the Tea Party. In the last two days, the Beaverton School District has received thousands of e-mails and phone calls from people across the country who said they were outraged at his behavior.
The school district is defending Levin's right to free speech, but it's investigating whether he used district computers to spread his political message or worked on his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site during school hours.
Levin has said he would seek to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets and acting as offensively as possible -- anything short of throwing punches.
A source within the district said parents at Conestoga did not initially appear upset at Levin's anti-Tea Party activism -- but that changed in recent days as controversial statements continued to emerge.
Now, the source said, parents have become outraged by the severity of his political activism, and many have told the school board members that it has no place in a public school system.
Parents supported teachers who wore Obama buttons during the 2008 presidential election, the source said. But they say Levin has crossed the line.
Levin's Web site has since been changed, and the calls to infiltrate the Tea Party have been removed. The home page now simply reads: "Want to Show your support for Jason Levin? BUY A TEA-SHIRT."
In a recent interview with Talking Points Memo, Levin said of his plans, "Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!'"
In a now deleted post on his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site, he called on his supporters to collect the Social Security numbers -- among other personal identifying information -- about as many Tea Party supporters as possible at the numerous rallies that took place on Thursday, Tax Day.
"Some other thoughts are to ask people at the rally to sign a petition renouncing socialism. See just how much info you can get from these folks (name address, DOB, Social Security #). The more data we can mine from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!" he wrote.
The state agency is investigating whether this is a hint at identity theft, and whether it is appropriate behavior for a public school teacher. It also will investigate charges that Levin used school computers during school hours to work on his Web site. Levin teaches 6th, 7th and 8th graders about computers and technology.
According to the school district laws regulating teacher conduct, which are posted online: "The Beavertown School District rules involving teacher use of the district's electronic system clearly state: The district's electronic communications system shall be used for educational purposes consistent with the district's mission, priorities and beliefs. Educational purposes do not include commercial use, use for personal financial gain or political advocacy."
The investigation will be assigned to a case agent who will compile a preliminary report that will be presented before the commission. The commission members will then decide whether to charge Levin with misconduct or dismiss the case due to insufficient evidence, said Melody Hanson, the director of professional practices.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04 ... ve-school/
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Good Riddance Commie...
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WOW! Can you imagine, you are at a Tea Party Rally and someone asks you sign a petition to help Repeal the Health Care Bill and then you find out it was a troll for this guy?
I am so glad someone was able to track down who was behind this web site and expose him for who he is.
I hope he loses his job - he should not be in a Tax Payers funded job as he is not honoring our founding fathers.
Found this on another site:
HELP FIGHT AGAINST THUGS!
Tea Party members: Here is information to the organizer of the Tea party crasher. He is a special technology teacher named Jason Levin. He is not licensed by the State of Oregon, but you can express your disappointment how they can allow a teacher to send out political messages all day through Twitter, while he is being paid taxpayer money, when he should be focusing on teaching the children. Make sure that you cite his Twitter account and the numerous political posts he makes throughout the day.
http://www.katu.com/news/local/90815614.html
1) Feel free to call his principal at Conestoga Middle School - Mr. Zan Hess, at this number 503) 524-1345 email zan_hess@beavton.k12.or.us and website: http://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/conestoga/encore.htm
2) Beaverton, Oregon Middle School District - 503-591-8000
3) Send him a personal email, letter, or call him to tell him that he shouldn't sabotage free speech. Here is his email: xenex11@gmail.com; Registrant Name:Jason Levin
Registrant Street1: 8575 SW Birch Street, Portland, OR 97223:US.
Registrant Phone: (503) 936-6588
4) Here are the websites that he is responsible for:
http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/
http://twitter.com/tpartycrasher
http://www.facebook.com/crashtheteaparty.org?ref=sgm
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Tea Partiers Seek 'Teachable Moment,' Not Oregon Teacher's Job
The Tea Partiers are taking the high road. Just because Oregon middle school teacher Jason Levin has publicly denounced them as a bunch of "racists, homophobes and morons," they say that's no reason for him to lose his job.
Teacher Jason Levin is under investigation after his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site called on supporters to infiltrate anti government protests.
All Levin really needs, they say, is some sensitivity training and some anger management therapy.
Levin, who declared his mission to "dismantle and demolish" the Tea Party on his "Crash the Tea Party" website, was placed on administrative leave last week while a state education board and his school district investigate whether the technology teacher promoted identity theft against Tea Party activists and misused school property.
But the Oregon Tea Party seems to be sipping chamomile. It doesn't want his neck -- just an apology from Levin and the Beaverton School District.
"We don't want to see Jason Levin fired, we want to see him helped," said Oregon Tea Party founder Geoff Ludt. "We want to reach out to him and we want to use his actions to create a teachable moment."
Levin, a media lab teacher at Conestoga Middle School, was placed on leave last week pending the conclusion of an investigation by the Beaverton School District into whether he used school hours or computers to work on his anti-Tea Party website, and if his political activity was appropriate behavior for a teacher of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students.
He is also being investigated by his state's teachers licensing agency, which was inundated with complaints after his incendiary statements became front page news.
In recent weeks, Levin announced his intention to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets and acting as offensively as possible -- anything, he said, short of throwing punches.
In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Levin said, "Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!'"
And in a now deleted post on website, Levin called on his supporters to collect the Social Security numbers -- among other personal identifying information -- about as many Tea Party supporters as possible at the numerous rallies that took place last Thursday.
"The more data we can mine from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!" he wrote.
But the Oregon Tea Party says the teacher's actions are cause for a "teachable moment," not a trip to the unemployment line.
Ludt said his group sent out a press release to both the state agency and school district -- the same school district Ludt attended as a child -- on Monday in which they listed their demands.
The group is calling on the Beaverton School District to:
-- Apologize for inadequately supervising their teacher
-- Issue a written pledge to thoroughly investigate whether Levin encouraged his students to repeat overtly racist statements
-- Send a letter to all staff reminding them of district policy prohibiting teacher engagement in political activity on school time or using school resources
Despite being called "that loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and moronsâ€
A TV news station in Portland, KPTV, reported that a parent of a Conestoga Middle School student who did not want his identity revealed found Levin's behavior unacceptable, saying, "Everyone has their private life and the right to do these kinds of things, but I do find it kind of disturbing that a teacher is using these hate-mongering kind of tactics to denigrate a group of millions.â€


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Lab-profile: Dr Richard Harbottle – Imperial College London, UK
Posted on 24 Jun 2011 24 Jun 2011 by Anna Webb
This month's lab-profile introduces Dr Richard Harbottle, a Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London. Dr Harbottle heads the Gene Therapy research group at Imperial College and is studying gene therapy as a potential treatment for BHD syndrome. Dr Harbottle is a founding member of the British Society for Gene Therapy and he is also a member of the American and European Gene Therapy Societies.
Gene therapy involves the insertion of genetic material into a cell to correct for a mutated or deleted gene. The genetic material is delivered to a cell using a vector, which contains the desired gene along with all the additional elements needed for gene expression. The biggest challenge in gene therapy is delivery of the gene construct to the cells and maintaining appropriate levels of expression of the inserted gene.
The most effective gene delivery systems to be developed are based around viruses, due to their ability to insert genetic material into a host cell. However, Dr Harbottle and his research associate Dr Suet-Ping Wong are developing non-viral methods of gene therapy in the hope that these methods will be less toxic and more versatile.
Dr Harbottle and Dr Wong have developed a non-viral S-MAR plasmid vector which replicates episomally in vivo (Wong et al., 2011a). The vector has successfully been used to insert the Bcl-2 gene into the liver of mice and expression was observed for over 3 months (Wong et al., 2011a).
The Gene Therapy lab at Imperial College is now trying to apply this technique to BHD syndrome, by constructing vectors which contain FLCN. The hope is that these vectors can be delivered to the kidneys, or to skin and lung cells, of BHD patients to overcome the symptoms caused by the mutated FLCN gene.
To learn more about Dr Harbottle and Dr Wong's on-going BHD research, watch the video interview available on BHDsyndrome.org, along with the accompanying audio-only and written transcript files. The following publications may also be of interest:
Wong SP, Argyros O, Coutelle C, & Harbottle RP (2011). Non-viral S/MAR vectors replicate episomally in vivo when provided with a selective advantage. Gene therapy, 18 (1), 82-7 PMID: 20739959
Wong SP, Argyros O, Howe SJ, & Harbottle RP (2011). Systemic gene transfer of polyethylenimine (PEI)-plasmid DNA complexes to neonatal mice. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 150 (3), 298-306 PMID: 21192993
Argyros O, Wong SP, Fedonidis C, Tolmachov O, Waddington SN, Howe SJ, Niceta M, Coutelle C, & Harbottle RP (2011). Development of S/MAR minicircles for enhanced and persistent transgene expression in the mouse liver. Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany), 89 (5), 515-29 PMID: 21301798
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Prof Alain Miller says:
22 Jun 2012 at 12:44 PM
We are developing a portable, doxycyclin-mediated switchable (P tet-On) gene promoter system for cloning terminally differentiated quiescent primary cells. This S/MAR-based vector aims at producing human cells for in vitro (ADME-Tox) and in vivo applications (Cell therapy, organ regeneration). I wonder whether you could help us in designing such a family of vectors. Sincerely

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Q: Why is ExecuteReader only giving me 1 row of data back? I have this code and its only returning the first string [0] and errors on the rest of them saying the index is out of the array which means only 1 row is getting pulled BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY!!!
MySqlConnection connection = new MySqlConnection(MyConString);
MySqlCommand command = new MySqlCommand("SELECT email_address FROM account_info", connection);
MySqlDataReader reader;

try
{

    connection.Open();
    reader = command.ExecuteReader();
     if (reader.HasRows)
    {
        while (reader.Read())
        {
            textBox1.Text = reader[0].ToString();

            textBox2.Text = reader[0].ToString();

            textBox3.Text = reader[0].ToString();
        }

        reader.Close();
    }

A: reader[0] accesses the first field from the reader, not the first row.  Check out the sample code from MSDN.
// Call Read before accessing data.
while (reader.Read())
{
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}, {1}",
            reader[0], reader[1]));
}

This writes out the first and second columns of each row.
Also, I'm not really sure why you're not using a using statement, and why you're calling ExecuteReader in the finally block - those both look odd.

A: You're only getting one row because you're only calling reader.Read() once.  Each time you call Read(), the reader advances to the next row and returns true; or, when the reader advances past the last row, it returns false.
The indexer returns data from additional columns, and you have only one column in your query; that's why index 1 and 2 are failing.
EDIT:
IF you're trying to loop through the reader, you need to put your three textboxes in a structure where they can be looped through as well.  Simpler, but less flexible, but correct:
if (reader.HasRows)
{
    reader.Read()
    textBox1.Text = reader[0].ToString();
    reader.Read()
    textBox2.Text = reader[0].ToString();
    reader.Read()
    textBox3.Text = reader[0].ToString();
    reader.Close();
}

more flexible:
List<TextBox> boxes = new List<TextBox> { textBox1, textBox2, textBox3 };
for (int index = 0; index < boxes.Count; index++)
{
    if (!reader.Read())
    {
        break;  // in case there are fewer rows than text boxes
    }
    boxes[index] = reader[0].ToString();
}

A: Here's the basics of what I do, replace the string EmailAddress part with whatever you need:
        using (SqlConnection SQL_Conn01 = new SqlConnection(SQLSync))
        {
            bool IsConnected = false;
            try
            {
                SQL_Conn01.Open();
                IsConnected = true;
            }
            catch
            {
                // unable to connect
            }
            if (IsConnected)
            {

                SqlCommand GetSQL = new SqlCommand("SELECT email_address FROM account_info", SQL_Conn01);

                using (SqlDataReader Reader = GetSQL.ExecuteReader())
                {
                    while (Reader.Read())
                    {
                        string EmailAddress = Reader.GetString(0).TrimEnd();
                    }
                }
                GetSQL.Dispose();
            }
        }

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I have a major June 1st deadline that is fast approaching, and I happen to be behind in my mental...shall we call it schedule? This means I'm pretty stressed, and all things that aren't related to this project, my job, or my family have gotten the cold shoulder. Well, my version of it, anyway. I'm still doing what I love, but I've really learned with this book just how much work writing can be. It's still satisfying, creatively challenging, but not always fun one moment to the next. I was spoiled by the writing schedule I had with The Darkwood Mask. My day job has been frantic, between our office move from Midtown to Lower Manhattan (depicted above) and some heavy process changes that aren't worth talking about on a website like this. Marisa and I have been taking care of a stray cat and her newborn kitten. They're street cats but extremely friendly, and we still don't know what to do with them. We can't keep them for a few reasons, but neither can we just neglect them. We're suckers, and the mother cat knows it. Stupid cat. I'm a dog person, but friendly cats win me over—damn them. This is the third stray we've cared for, and the first whose promiscuity has led to the creation of yet another, but so far we haven't found a home for mother and child. The last two we were able to find a "no-kill" shelter. Anyone want a very young cat and a kitten?
Today's art preview now showcases the other side of the gith coin, the githyanki, that astral-dwelling, psionics-using former illithid-enslaved race of once-humans who bring war to peaceful locales, live violent lives of unswerving loyalty to their lich-queen, hate the githzerai with a passion, wear ornate and crazy baroque armor, have yellowish, mottled skin and sometimes carry lifeforce-severing silver swords formed of astral material.
Once again, Michael Kormack is the artist of the day. Granted, the githzerai and githyanki were pretty cool-looking in 3rd Edition, but now? Even better.
As Wizards of the Coast counts down to the release of 4th Edition (and even dreaded by many and positively anticipated by others), they've been posting up the artwork for some of the monsters that will appear in the first Monster Manual. Today's art preview showcases the githzerai, that psionics-using former illithid-enslaved race of once-humans who bring order to chaos with the force of will, live monastic lives of intense discipline amidst roilng elements, and also happen to have yellowish, mottled skin and say cool things like, "Endure. In enduring, grow strong." And "There cannot be two skies!"
And people who who were familiar with the Planescape setting or even just played the game Planescape: Torment know what that means.
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Not much going on over here at the moment. Been busy on all fronts.
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There is a man named Nicholas Logue. He needs to be stopped. But I don't think anyone's up to the task. Given that, I'll just have to promote him instead and hope this appeases him and perhaps we won't cast his enthusiastically baleful eyes upon the rest of us.
But see, Nick didn't stop there. He'd cloned himself so that he can write even more. One of his clones went rogue and established a company of his own called Sinister Adventures. Do check it out. I understand, in the coming apocalypse, he will be overlooking those who visited his slick, and appropriately sinister, new website.


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Hepatitis B: 300 Million Carriers and Growing
Hepatitis C: The Silent Killer
Hepatitis G is transmitted by blood-borne routes and was just discovered in 1995. Risk groups include intravenous drug users, hemodialysis patients, and transfusion recipients. Acute infection is diagnosed by antibody tests or by molecular techniques like PCR that detect the presence of RNA from the virus.
People can remain infected for many years. The first major study of virus has reported that those infected by means other than blood transfusions did not develop chronic liver disease. Because it was only identified recently, it isn't clear at this time how widespread hepatitis G is and what its precise effects are on infected patients.
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This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details.
On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward's councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto's ridings is Etobicoke—Lakeshore (Ward 5). Two candidates responded to Wikinews' requests for an interview. This ward's candidates include John Chiappetta, Joseph Mignone, Peter Milczyn (incumbent), Arthur Roszak, and Bojidar Tchernev.
Interviewed are newcomer Joseph Mignone, and incumbent Peter Milczyn. Click on either of their names to read their responses.
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According to the SEMPO report released yesterday, search marketing spending ended up being even higher than expected last year. Good news for people like us in the SEM space. Most of the money is going to paid search (87%) with organic SEO picking up about 10%.
The North American SEM industry grew from $9.4 billion in 2006 to $12.2 billion in 2007, exceeding earlier projections of $11.5 billion for 2007.
North American SEM spending is now projected to grow to $25.2 billion in 2011, up significantly from the $18.6 billion forecast a year ago.
Marketers are finding more search dollars by poaching budget from print magazine spending, website development, direct mail and other marketing programs.
Paid placement captures 87.4% of 2007 spending; organic SEO, 10.5%; paid inclusion, .07%, and technology investment, 1.4%.
Google AdWords remains the most popular search advertising program, but both Google and Yahoo sponsored search spending has decreased from a year ago.
It's not really clear how they came up with the spending figures for this report. If this data is simply coming from the SEMPO survey, I'm not sure how it could be accurate. They must be pulling from other sources, right? Also, this only includes search, not contextual ads, because if it did include other non-search ads run through the search engines, the figure should be much higher than $12 billion. Google did $16B total revenue themselves last year, mostly from PPC advertising (search/contextual). Even if it is just search, the $12B figure still seems low to me. Also, I'm not sure how Google and Yahoo spending could have decreased with the overall total going up so much from the previous year, especially when Google's own financials tell a different story. Perhaps those surveyed just said they were spending less?
Regardless of the details, the search marketing pie is growing and is projected to double by 2011. In our country's current economic situation, I expect we'll continue to see a shift of marketing dollars from less cost-effective media like print and broadcast into search marketing. People are going to put the money into the marketing channels that yield results.
Great post! This year the growth will slow down but overall we are all in for a great SEM ride!
Nice post, it is interesting to see how much money businesses will spend on SEM.
Double by 2011 – so still lots of opportunity left to go!
Yes, It is true that SEM industry growing very fast. Also in India its growing in a right pace.


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USF junior, Hunter Gaias, performs a routine medical examination on a Cheetah at Feracare Wildlife Center in South Africa.
University of South Florida Junior, Hunter Gaias, has always had a passion for animals. Her love for dogs and cats has not only led to a part-time assistant vet position at a local animal hospital but has also driven her towards pursuing a career in veterinary medicine. This summer, the Integrative Animal Biology major, earned the opportunity of a lifetime, as a summer internship landed her in South Africa where her patients were a bit larger than usual.
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In April 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated all the challenged claims of the podcasting patent, finding that the patent should not have been issued in light of two earlier public disclosures, one relating to CNN news clips and one relating to CBC online radio broadcasting. Personal Audio appealed that decision to the Federal Circuit. On August 7, 2017, the appeals court affirmed the PTAB's ruling. Personal Audio then filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the decision. On May 14, 2018, the Supreme Court denied that petition. With that order, the PTAB ruling invalidating the challenged claims became final.
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AW Rostamani Group, also known as "AWR", is a privately held company established in 1954 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Al Rostamani brothers, Abdullah and Abdul Wahid Al Rostamani. The company is headquartered in Dubai and employs over 3,800 workers. The Group operates 12 companies in seven diverse sectors: automotive, real estate, retail, lighting, travel and logistics.

History

AW Rostamani began in 1951 when Abdul Wahid and his brother Abdullah Hassan Al Rostamani, two sons of a local pearl trader, took the decision to set up a family business on the shore of the Dubai Creek. Inspired by their passion for reading, the Al Rostamani brothers opened Dubai's first bookshop, Al Ahliya Library, in 1954, importing much sought after books from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon by Gulf Air through Bahrain. Currently, the AW Rostamani Group is a conglomerate of 14 diversified companies.

Milestones

1954 Abdul Wahid Al Rostamani and his brother Abdullah opened Al-Ahliya Library, Dubai's first bookstore.
1957 General Trading company is established.
1968 Arabian Automobiles is established, an automotive and car dealership company.
1979 AW Rostamani Building Industries, a provider of services for the architectural and interior fit-out markets, is launched.
1981 Al Rostamani Real Estate is established to offer property development, leasing and asset management.
1982 Arabian Automobiles enters into partnership with INFINITI, Real Estate is established to offer property development, leasing and asset management services
1996 Sponsored the first Dubai Shopping Festival and its entertainment -Aqua Fantasia, a water themed fireworks show.
1998 AW Rostamani Logistics, a global logistics service provider, is established. AW Rostamani Lumina, manufacturer of luminaires and lighting control equipment, is launched Certified Quality Cars is established, subsequently renamed as Certified Pre Owned.
1999 AW Rostamani Lumina forms partnership with Spanish lighting brand, Frater.
2004 Start of partnership with Oracle.
2005 Arabian Automobiles enters a partnership with Renault.
2006 AW Rostamani Shift Technologies, an IT and business consulting firm, is established.
2007 AW Rostamani Group brand is established.
2008 AW Rostamani Shift Car Rental is established. AW Rostamani Excellencors, a consulting and training firm, is established.
2009 AW Rostamani Trading, distributor of various allied automotive products and services, is established.
2010 AW Rostamani Group enters the Indian market as Prime Honda AW Rostamani Trading enters Saudi Arabia as the distributor of ZNA cars and genuine ZNA parts.
2011 AW Rostamani Arabian Automobiles is the first automotive company in the region to implement a Customer Loyalty Program (Nissan Road Miles). AW Rostamani Trading appointed as the sole distributor of ZNA cars and genuine ZNA parts in Oman. AW Rostamani enters a partnership with KAR Freight & Forwarding to provide global customised and integrated logistics services.
2015 GE Lighting signs a partnership agreement with AW Rostamani Lumina.
2016 AW Rostamani Lifestyle expands retail stores with the launch of Georg Jensen, Graffiti Fashion Zone and Apartment 51.
2017 AW Rostamani sets up shop for multi brand secondhand cars.
2018 AW Rostamani acquires a majority stake in car retailer Brayleys.
2019 Hilton signs an agreement with AW Rostamani Group to develop a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Bur Dubai.

Key People
Khalid Abdul Wahid Al Rostamani is the Chairman of AW Rostamani. He started his career with the family group in 1993. Since then, he has been involved in managing and growing the diverse portfolio of companies under AW Rostamani. In addition to his management functions, Khalid manages AW Rostamani's corporate functions and corporate governance structures.

Huda Al Rostamani is the Managing Director and board member of AW Rostamani since 2007. She is the performance manager of the lifestyle companies under AW Rostamani Group.

Amina Al Rostamani is the Director and Board Member of AW Rostamani Group, and the Chief Executive Officer of AWR Properties. Previously group CEO of TECOM group, she is also currently a Board Member of Dubai Healthcare City Authority and Noor Bank.

Since 1990 Michel Ayat heads the Automotive division of AW Rostamani that consists of Arabian Automobiles, AW Rostamani Trading, Certified Pre-owned and Shift Car Rental.

Group Companies

AWR Properties

AWR Properties has developed a portfolio of property since 1982. The Real Estate arm of the Group is split into Property Development, Leasing and Facilities Management of both commercial and residential units alongside retail. The real estate branch of the company handles over 2.5 Million sq. ft. of residential and commercial space in the UAE.  It is responsible for the development of the 21st Century Tower on Sheikh Zayed Road and the AW Rostamani head office building in Deira. Al Rostamani Properties residential towers include the 21st Century Tower, which was previously named the tallest residential tower in the world, DXB Tower and Al Mada Tower. Other properties include the Jaddaf Views, and Trio which comprises three connected apartments. The Real Estate subsidiary of the Group has an integrated approach, from sourcing the site to placing a tenant in the residence.
The Group maintains its diverse range of retail and commercial assets across Dubai and the Northern Emirates.

The new addition, Mankhool AWR Properties, comprises 327 hotel rooms, ten floors of commercial offices and 182 units of residential rooms. Established properties in the commercial division include vehicle sales showrooms for Nissan, INFINITI and Renault.

AWR Properties manages all its internal operations, from the point of origin to the point of delivery. For the logistics requirements of the diverse departments in the Group, there are multiple warehouses, offices, business centres, labour camps and showrooms.

Arabian Automobiles
Established in 1968, and are the exclusive distributors of Nissan, INFINITI, and Renault,  in Dubai, and the Northern Emirates. The company operates a large network of showrooms, service centers, spare parts outlets and a "certified pre-owned division" across Dubai. The network includes 13 Nissan showrooms, 6 INFINITI Centres, 4 Renault showrooms, 6 used car facilities, 16 service centres, 14 spare parts outlets, and 1 24 hour service center. Renault vehicles include electrical cars Zoe, Twizzy and Kangoo.

Prime Honda
A wholly owned subsidiary of the AW Rostamani Group, Prime Honda is the authorised Honda dealer in India. Recognition received include Gold in the World Skill Contest, the All India Technician Contest (DT & BT category), Prime Honda Capital Cars Pvt. Ltd. Parts Excellence Award and in 2016, the Best Inventory Management (Parts) and Winner of all India highest Certification (Auto Terrace).

AW Rostamani Trading
AW Rostamani Trading, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, with brands such as TOTAL lubricants, Ceat Tyres, Sava Tyres, Amaron batteries, Fortron Automotive Treatments and XCool heat control films in the UAE. One of the strategic units within the Group, AW Rostamani Trading diversifies its automotive services by offering allied products and services.

Shift Car Rental
The fleet currently stands at 8,000 vehicles,  supplies Nissan, INFINITI and Renault models on short and long-term lease.

AUTOTRUST
AUTOTRUST is a multi-brand car service company in the UAE that provides repair, service, and sales of certified pre-owned cars. The company operates  three workshops, located in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. AUTOTRUST offers integrated multi-brand vehicle care, protection and sales options.

Brayleys
AW Rostamani acquired a majority stake in Brayleys, the London and South East England car retailer, for an undisclosed sum in November 2018. This is the company's first investment in the UK's motor retail sector.

AW Rostamani Lifestyle

AW Rostamani Lifestyle, started in the year 2012. AW Rostamani Lifestyle are into fashion, jewelry and homeware sectors regionally, with a portfolio that includes international and regional brands such as Georg Jensen, Graffiti, Vhernier, Angels, Apartment 51 and American Rag.

AW Rostamani Lifestyle is the Vhernier brand agent in the UAE. Established in 1984, Vhernier is an Italian jewellery store. It is a high-end Italian brand, renowned for its contemporary and unconventional jewellery.

Launched in Dubai Mall in 2015, Graffiti is a kid's fashion store.

Angels is a designer children's-wear chain with 4 stores in Dubai. They are a multi-brand kids wear concept specializing in luxury garments and accessories for boys and girls.  The portfolio consists of brands from French and Italian design houses such as Burberry, Kenzo, Fendi and others.

Georg Jensen A/S (originally Georg Jensens Sølvsmedie A/S) is a Danish designer company with focus on silverware. It was founded by famed silversmith Georg Jensen in 1904. Georg Jensen first store in the UAE was opened in April 2016 at City Walk, Dubai.

American lifestyle multi-brand retail American Rag Cie opened in Dubai Mall in September 2018. The brand's Dubai venture is in partnership with AW Rostamani Lifestyle, exclusive licensee for the MENA region. The store was established in 1984 in LA Brea, Los Angeles. Brands available includes Carven, Stine Goya, Paige, Levi's and Puma for women, and Barena Milano, Editions Mr, Kappa, Needles and BALR for men.

The Apartment 51 brand is a concept store in Dubai. The available 36 brands at Apartment51 online store are mainly European brands such as Baci, Historia and Riviere.

KAR Freight, Forwarding & Transport
Formed in 2012, KAR Transport is a land transportation service provider based in Dubai that manages the national and regional supply chain operations for Arabian Automobiles and AW Rostamani Trading. Operating principally in the UAE and the GCC, KAR Transport maintains a network of international partners across the Middle Eastern countries. Currently operate a modern fleet of over one hundred trucks and purpose-built trailers.

AWR Lumina
Incorporated in 1999, AWR Lumina is a provider of lighting products in UAE. AW Rostamani Lumina delivers lighting products to largescale hospitality, retail and commercial developments with presence in 22 countries across Africa, Middle East, and Asia. Brand partners include GE Lighting, Philips, Koledo, Dyna Light, Britop, Tridonic, Floss, Tryka, Leviton, Opple and Eaton Cooper.

CSR
AW Rostamani officially launched its corporate social responsibility platform in 2018, Enriching Communities, with the aim to give back. Employees have volunteered to a range of causes, including a visit to Dubai Autism Center and collaborating with Zayed University to support students of determination.

Awards and honors

References

Companies based in Dubai
Privately held companies of the United Arab Emirates
Conglomerate companies established in 1954
Conglomerate companies of the United Arab Emirates

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Devil's Pocket
By John Dixon
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Phoenix Island, which reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show Intelligence.
With a chip in his head and hundreds more throughout his body, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman was turned from an orphan with impulse control issues into a super-soldier. Forced into the mercenary Phoenix Force group, he begins to fear he'll never escape. Sent to a volcanic island to fight for them, he'll compete in a combat tournament that awards teens with survival for merciless brutality. But just when all looks lost, he spies a friendly face…and possibly a way out.
GUARDS STEPPED ASIDE, and Carl strode into Training Base One. New recruits stood in ranks near the loading bay of an equipment shed, their freshly buzzed scalps shiny in the bright sunlight and streaked red by the clipper blades. The formation vibrated with fear.
Drill sergeants lurked, scowling.
At a glance, Carl noted injured sergeants—split lips, bloody noses, the red O of a bite mark on one forearm—and a massive kid sitting on the ground with splayed legs and his back to the loading-dock wall. The kid stared straight ahead, looking stunned, holding his nose.
Had this huge newcomer gotten into it with the sergeants? No. He wasn't restrained, and no one was eyeballing him. Not him, then—someone else.
Bang-bang-bang.
The metal shed door rippled with impact. It sounded like a mule was trapped in there, kicking its way out.
Someone had knocked it with the big kid and the cadre, and now they had him locked up in there.
And Carl knew in his gut who it was.
Dubois. The exact individual Stark had sent him to "check on"—Stark saying it the way he said so many things, giving Carl an order but not really explaining it.
Carl, of course, had agreed. During the six months since he'd surrendered his freedom, he had played the willing apprentice. Soon, he would have what he needed to burn this organization to the ground, but for now, he continued to play his role.
The loud pounding stopped, and muffled shouting started in the shed, curses and threats.
Drill Sergeant Rivera saw him and came away from the formation, smiling. They shook hands, Carl genuinely happy to see the man. The other drill sergeants eyed Carl like they might a Bengal tiger. Now the recruits were staring, too, their eyes going from Carl to the drill sergeants and back again to Carl.
Good. Let them wonder. Let them fear.
"Freeman," Rivera said. "Glad to see you."
"You, too," Carl said, speaking casually with Rivera—a sharp contrast to the contempt with which he habitually addressed other sergeants. "What's the sitrep?"
Rivera glanced toward the metal door. "We got a bobcat caged up in there."
"His name Dubois?"
Rivera tilted his head. "How'd you know?"
"Is he armed?" Carl asked.
Bang. Bang. Bang. The pounding started up again, hard as hammer blows.
Rivera raised his brows. "Sounds like he picked up something."
"Well," Carl said, "I guess I better go in."
"Your call," Rivera said. "I'll send these kids back to the barracks and keep a couple of drill sergeants here. Martinez worked on a CERT team, cell extractions, all that."
"No," Carl said. Even without thinking the problem through, he knew the answer. Strange, the way he understood things so intuitively now—a phenomenon that had nothing to do with the chip in his head and everything to do with Stark, the man constantly lecturing about leadership. "The recruits need to see this. And I'll go in alone."
Rivera hesitated only for a fraction of a second—even with his rapid processing and accelerated powers of observation, Carl barely caught the pause in his old drill sergeant's eyes—and then nodded. "Lima Charlie, Freeman. Whatever you say."
They climbed the stairs to the loading dock, drill sergeants stepping aside for them. Toppled chairs and electric razors lay on a many-colored carpet of freshly shorn hair. Feeling the hot sun on the back of his neck, Carl recalled his own day on the loading dock, Campbell trying yet failing to save his dreads.
Campbell.
Reflexively, Carl pushed his friend from his mind.
"Watch out," Rivera said. "Dubois looks like a Chihuahua, but he fights like a pit bull."
Inside the shed, muffled threats and curses joined the pounding. Carl glanced at the shaking door and wondered what was so special about this guy that Stark wanted Carl to check on him. Well, he'd find out soon enough. He motioned to Rivera and another soldier, and they unsnapped hooks at the base of the rolling metal door.
The banging stopped.
Probably waiting just inside, ready to clobber me, Carl thought, but this, of course, was of no real concern now that the chip was a part of him.
When he lifted the door a few inches, Dubois's voice called from farther back in the shed, "Come on in, boys. I got something for you."
Carl opened the door the rest of the way.
The kid stood maybe thirty feet away, looking small yet sturdy beneath a flickering fluorescent light. He had a grin on his bloody face, a broken mop handle in one hand, and the tall black pompadour of an Elvis impersonator. Ridiculous.
Carl stepped forward.
He and Dubois stared silently at each other. The light buzzed erratically overhead, and Carl smelled clean linen, a scent strangely out of place in this tense moment.
Dubois began pacing back and forth, slapping the stick in the palm of his hand.
Considering the damage the kid had done outside, Carl had expected someone bigger. And considering Stark's interest, he'd expected someone more impressive.
Dubois strutted, eyeing Carl.
He didn't look afraid. Carl had to give him that much. What he looked like, Carl thought—the guy rugged but short, maybe five-five—was a fighting rooster. He even had the comb, all that tall black hair piled on top of his head.
Turning to the sergeants, Carl said, "Close the door."
One of the soldiers started to protest, but Carl's glare stopped him. Rivera hooah-ed, and the door rattled down.
When Carl turned back around, Dubois had closed half the distance and stood there grinning. From a gash in his hairline, blood streamed down the middle of his forehead and forked at the bridge of his nose, drawing twin lines of crimson to his jaw. Between the hair, the grin, and the oddly symmetrical blood, he looked like a psychotic clown.
"Come to see the sideshow, boss?" Dubois asked with a country twang.
"Something like that," Carl said, keeping his voice flat.
Dubois rolled his head atop his shoulders, a classic prefight gesture. "Guess you're the breaker, huh?"
"Breaker?"
"You know, the resident skull knocker. You look like a breaker."
Carl guessed probably he did. People back in Philly wouldn't even recognize him. Several months ago, when he'd first arrived on Phoenix Island, he was five foot nine and weighed 152 pounds. Now he was six foot two and 205. During his time here, he'd been beaten and burned, sliced and shot. Add to this bulk and these scars his crooked fighter's nose, his battered knuckles, and his Phoenix Forcer uniform—boots, cargo pants, tank top, and beret, all black, save for the flaming red phoenix on his chest—and yeah, he must look like the resident enforcer. "What if I am?"
Dubois took up a batter's stance. "Then you got your work cut out for you, buddy."
"Relax," Carl said, and raised his hands. "I came to talk, not fight."
The kid looked doubtful. "This ain't my first square dance, boss. I heard that one before."
Keep him talking, Carl thought. "You been a lot of places like this, ones with breakers?"
Dubois grinned, and Carl saw he was missing a tooth not too far back on one side. "They been sending me places like this since I could tie my shoes. I tell them, send me someplace with a revolving door, because they won't keep me long, either. Shoot, I don't even bother unpacking no more."
Carl let a smile come onto his face, figuring he'd ease the tension. Stark told him to check on the kid, not crush him. What was so special about Dubois, anyway? So far, he seemed like one more 150-pound knuckle-tosser, fearless, sure, but the streets were full of kids with big mouths and bad haircuts. "Well," Carl said, "you better plan on staying here a while. How old are you?"
"Sixteen and a half."
Same age I was when I came here, Carl thought. "My name's Carl Freeman."
Dubois straightened, lifting his chin. "Texarkana Reginald Dubois."
He pronounced it Doo-bwah, but what really caught Carl was the first part. "Texarkana?"
Dubois tensed with the question, and Carl thought, His whole life, he's been carrying that name around like a KICK ME sign taped to his back.
"It was my granddaddy's name," Dubois said.
"I thought it was a place," Carl said.
Anger flashed in the boy's eyes. Whatever potential Stark saw in the kid, this hair-trigger temper would likely ruin it. "It is a place—and a name, kind of like Washington. You ever hear of anybody named Washington before, genius?"
Carl said nothing, picturing not someone named Washington, but rather someone from Washington. Someone with beautiful gray eyes and a streak of white in her hair . . .
Texarkana Reginald Dubois ran a hand over his pompadour, seeming to relax again. "People call me Tex. Hey, you got a cigarette?"
Carl shook his head.
Tex sighed. "Figures. Probably all out of beer, too."
"Yup," Carl said. "So what happened out there?"
Tex snorted. "See, I got a problem with people trying to push me around."
Me, too, Carl thought, but said nothing.
Tex shifted the mop handle to one hand, leaned on it like a cane, and nodded toward the door. "You see that boy out there, kid about eight feet tall, built like a gorilla?"
"I think so," Carl said, remembering the enormous recruit slumped against the wall.
"Well, old King Kong's been riding me since we climbed onto that bus back in Mexico. Hitting me in the back of the head, saying he'd never seen a white boy with an Afro, stuff like that." Tex ran a hand gently over the thick mane like someone caressing a beloved pet. "I tried to ignore him, stay out of trouble, but then he started getting the other kids going, too. You don't stand up then, someday you have to fight them all."
Carl nodded, picturing it: Tex with his funny hair and his strut, not even five and a half feet tall, and with that country twang—exactly the type of guy some big, mean kid would push and push. He remembered his own start on the island—Davis, Decker, Parker . . . all of them pushing—and how difficult it had been, holding back.
Tex laughed. "We was formed up out there, waiting on haircuts. I knew what I had to do. Didn't say a word, just turned around and gave him the old Texarkana haymaker right between the eyes." He demonstrated, throwing a looping punch in the air. Not the greatest technique, but fast, and he shifted his weight with it. A strong punch. "Knocked him on his butt. He just sat there, blinking, and I told myself, 'Texarkana, you got to fix this old boy right now and fix him good enough that everybody'll leave you alone.' So I grabbed him by the ears and put the knee to him."
Carl let the hint of a smile creep onto his face. "The drill sergeants didn't like it?"
Tex spat blood and grinned, one of his front teeth red. "Didn't seem to, the way they hollered and put the boot leather to me."
Carl laughed. Against all odds, he actually liked the kid. His guts, his sense of humor.
Tex said, "I knocked a couple of bulls down, too, but there sure was a bunch of them. They shoved me in here and locked the door, so I picked up this mop, broke off the handle, and here we are." He shrugged, looking at the makeshift weapon. "Look, buddy," he said, some of the tension going out of his muscles. "What are we doing here? You come to dance or fight?"
"I'm here to see you," Carl said, and remembered Stark saying the same thing, a long, long time ago, when Carl was locked in the sweatbox, waiting to die. "We don't have to fight."
Tex nodded. "Guess I don't need this anymore, then, huh?" And he tossed the mop handle across the room.
Good, Carl thought. Stark would be pleased that he had defused the situation.
"Say your name was Carl?"
"Right," Carl said.
"Had a cousin named Carl," Tex said. "Guess I still do, though I ain't been home in so long, it's hard to say. Given his habits, he might've gone to his reward in heaven by now."
Carl said nothing. Let the kid talk, he thought. Make him comfortable.
"He was a snake handler, my cousin Carl, you know what I mean?"
"Ballsy, man. It was a church thing, back in the mountains. Pentecostal. Gospel of Mark and all that. The kid fourteen years old, leading the congregation, standing up there on this little, old, nailed-together stage, handling rattlesnakes as big as your leg and speaking in tongues." He let out a stream of garbled nonsense that degraded into laughter. "You a snake handler, Carl?"
"Not me," Carl said.
"So . . . let's get this straight," Tex said, squinting one eye. "What are you, the man around here? I see the way the bulls act around you. They're wearing the boss hats, you're half their age, and they still do what you tell them."
"No," Carl said, "I'm not the man, but I guess you could say I'm the man's man."
"The man's man, huh?" Tex said, and spat on the floor again.
"Look," Carl said, "you relax a little, I might be able to help you."
Tex nodded thoughtfully. "Truth be told, I reckon I could use a hand right about now."
"Hey," Tex said in a soft voice, his eyes looking hopeful. "You reckon I really gotta get my head shaved?"
"Your grape," Carl said.
Tex squinted. "My what?"
"Your grape," Carl said. "That's what they call your head around here. Might as well get the lingo straight. And yeah, they're going to shave it."
"That right there is the worst news I had all day." He whistled and ran a hand once more through his thick hair. "But I suppose, when in Rome . . . get your grape shaved."
Carl laughed. "Pretty much."
A look of concern came onto Tex's face. "What are they going to do to me, Carl? One guy kept talking about a sweatbox, and I'll tell you right now, I can't hack small spaces."
"Don't worry," Carl said. "I can make this go away. No sweatbox, and a fresh start."
Tex whooped and clapped his hands. "You are the man!"
Carl smiled, but picturing Stark, he said, "No, trust me . . . when you meet the man, you'll know it." He turned and crouched, reaching for the door handle. "He's the most—"
And then he was ducking, rolling sideways, his body reacting automatically before his conscious mind even registered the footsteps racing up behind him. Tex's boot slammed hard into the metal door, right where Carl's head had been, and the shed filled with insane laughter.
"Wake up, boss!" Tex shouted, leering at Carl through wild eyes. "Almost took your grape off with that one!"
He almost had, too. A kick like that could've broken his neck. Rage leapt up in Carl as hot and fast as a flame, and then he was smelling ashes again.
Tex raised his fists. "Come on then, Carla. Let's see what you got. I do love to fight!"
Carl advanced slowly and silently, outwardly calm. He'd been nice to Tex, helped him, and the second he'd turned his back, the kid had tried to take his head off—would have taken his head off if it weren't for the chip.
Rage roared, demanding retribution. Control it, he cautioned himself.
Tex backpedaled to the far wall and picked up the broken mop handle.
Carl walked toward him, arms loose at his sides.
Behind him, the door rattled open, and men's shouting filled the shed.
"Come on in, boys!" Tex shouted. "The more the merrier!" And he swung the makeshift club with a whoosh.
Without even looking in the soldiers' direction, Carl stuck out a palm. "Stand down."
He walked toward Tex, saying nothing.
"You can't sweet-talk Texarkana Reginald Dubois," Tex said, and charged, raising the mop handle overhead like a chopping ax.
For Carl, the world decelerated as the chip worked its magic. Tex swung the stick in slo-mo. Carl slid easily under the attack and drove an uppercut into the kid's stomach.
Tex dropped to the floor, gasping. The broken handle clattered away.
Seeing the traitor crumpled at his feet, Carl braced himself for the red wave. For the chip had done more than make him faster . . .
His eyes found the sharp end of the broken handle a few short strides away, and the beast within him demanded he drive the pointed end into the exposed neck of the sucker-punching thug lying helpless as a sacrifice before him.
Carl's body took one step in that direction, but he gritted his teeth and stopped himself. No, he told himself, fighting the rage that lived within him now like a dark twin. Don't do it, don't give in. When that didn't work, he thought, Remember Sanderson.
The memory slapped him hard with its sun and sand and screams, allowing him to wrestle his rage temporarily into uneasy submission.
Tex stirred. "Punch," he gasped, "like a girl."
"Shh," Carl said. He plunged his hand into the thick black pompadour and lifted Tex's head. "Nap time."
The strike was short and sharp, a palm heel to temple, and Tex went instantly limp, snoring the way some guys do when they get knocked out.
The dark twin within Carl roared, and Carl stepped back, afraid that if he lingered even briefly, he would pick up that broken handle. He turned to discover Rivera and the others staring at him with fear and awe.
"Toss him in the sweatbox," Carl told them, "but first, shave off that stupid hair."
Photograph by Andrew McLean
John Dixon is a former Golden Gloves boxer, youth services caseworker, prison tutor, and middle school English teacher. You can visit his blog at JohnDixonBooks.com.
Publisher: Gallery Books (August 4, 2015)
Fiction > Coming of Age
Fiction > Action & Adventure
Fiction > Science Fiction > Adventure
In Stoker-winner Dixon's adrenaline-infused sequel to 2014's Phoenix Island, 16-year-old Carl Freeman, now a highly trained fighter implanted with body-enhancing microchips, is part of a three-man team representing Phoenix Island, which is ruled by the tyrannical Stark, in the Funeral Games, "an annual underground tournament held at an undisclosed location and hosted by the Few, a small group of enormously wealthy elitists who happen to love blood sport." Each participant will fight four bouts in four days. The winner of each weight class will receive $10 million. The games turn out to be on an island called Devil's Pocket, where Carl, who's posing as a loyal Stark supporter, is startled to encounter Margarita Carbajal, whom he knew as Octavia, his love interest, in the previous book. Octavia and Carl join forces in a desperate attempt to destroy Stark and the Few. A former Golden Gloves boxer, Dixon combines futuristic technical advances with graphic fight scenes for a satisfying adventure thriller.
"Devil's Pocket is the best kind of sequel, one that doesn't just repeat the original, but boldly strikes out for exciting new territory—and conquers it! This makes The Hunger Games look like Chutes & Ladders."
– Peter Clines, bestselling author of The Fold and Ex-Heroes
"This action-packed novel (with YA crossover appeal) combines adventure with extreme violence and concerns a young boxer sent to a very special youth boot camp.... When things come to a head, Carl finds that all of his suspicions about the island prove even worse than he thought in this crisply written and imaginative effort. Dixon's page-turner will keep readers of all ages enthralled. A fast-paced, exciting novel with the promise of future installments."
– Kirkus on Phoenix Island
"100% great!"
– Cemetery Dance Magazine on Phoenix Island
"An unusual premise makes Dixon's thriller debut a welcome series kickoff... the pacing and smooth prose will have suspense fans waiting for the next book, as well as the upcoming CBS adaptation, Intelligence."
– Publishers Weekly on Phoenix Island
"Filled with both menace and heart, Phoenix Island stands out in all the right ways."
– New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr
"Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke. A tribute to the indomitable human spirit that challenges the mob and chooses values over expediency."
– F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling creator of Repairman Jack
"[Phoenix Island is] fast-paced and thoroughly engrossing – I could not put it down!"
– Lissa Price, international bestselling author of Starters
"Mesmerizing and intense… [Dixon] bring[s] this story right off the pages and make[s] it a visual sensation that touches readers' imaginations. All fans can hope for next is that these books will be added to a movie screen very, very soon."
– Suspense Magazine
Bram Stoker Award
Book Cover Image (jpg): Devil's Pocket
Author Photo (jpg): John Dixon
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Divers retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet on Tuesday, an Indonesian investigator told Reuters, a key step towards determining the cause of the crash that killed 162 people.
Indonesia AirAsia's Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors.
When asked if the so-called black box was found, Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, told Reuters: "We can confirm".
Together the black boxes, which are actually orange, contain a wealth of data that will be crucial for investigators piecing together the sequence of events that led to the Airbus A320-200 plunging into the sea.
The cockpit voice recorder was on board an Indonesian navy vessel and expected to be sent to the capital, Jakarta, for analysis, MetroTV said, quoting a transport official.
Investigators may need up to a month to get a complete reading of the data.
Dozens of Indonesian navy divers took advantage of calmer weather this week to retrieve the black boxes and now hope to find the fuselage of the Airbus.
Forty-eight bodies have been plucked from the Java Sea and brought to Surabaya for identification. Searchers believe more bodies will be found in the plane's fuselage.
"Even if both (black boxes) are found, it doesn't mean that our operation is over."
"Even if the search has to last for a month, we are still hoping to find them," said Lioni, who lost four family members in the plane crash. "If they can find even one (of my family members), we would feel a little bit relieved."


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Civil Rights: A Lesson in History
The struggle for equal rights for Black people left an indelible mark on our society. Students can learn about this important period in our nation's history by visiting the many museums, memorials and historic trails that explore the civil rights movement.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute | Birmingham, Alabama
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute highlights the struggles Black people faced in the 1950s and 1960s. On display are water fountains and streetcars separated by "White" and "Colored" signs. Also displayed are models of 1960s "Black" and "White" classrooms, illuminating a stark disparity. Civil rights-era artifacts and videos of student freedom marchers directly affect visitors.
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail | Alabama
This Historic Trail honors those who walked its route during the 1965 Voting Rights March and those who paved the way for peaceful protest. The Selma to Montgomery march publicized that while the 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote, a policy of segregation had left our nation divided. Walking this trail, students could imagine the mindset of the tense foot soldiers who marched on Bloody Sunday. Unlike the Americans of yore, your students will freely cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel | Memphis, Tennessee
The National Civil Rights Museum is a series of museums and historic buildings built around the Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. The many student-centric exhibits include Standing Up by Sitting Down, housing the original lunch counter where four North Carolina college students peacefully, yet emphatically sat, and We are Prepared to Die, which explores the role of student freedom fighters.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site | Atlanta, Georgia
A young dreamer named Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of our nation's civil rights movement. At this National Historic Site, students will learn volumes about the man who changed history while simultaneously visiting his birth home and sitting in the pews of his church.
Civil Rights Memorial | Montgomery, Alabama
The Civil Rights Memorial tells the story of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1968. Lecia Brooks, Civil Rights Memorial Center director, notes the wall behind the memorial's granite table is engraved with Martin Luther King Jr.'s well-known paraphrase: "We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Focused on education, the Memorial Center brings to life the stories of individual civil rights martyrs. Students have an hourlong guided tour, watch the 20-minute film Faces in Water, and attend a question and answer session. Older students also discuss contemporary social justice issues. Upon departure, students enter their names on the center's 40-foot digital Wall of Tolerance.
International Civil Rights Center & Museum | Greensboro, North Carolina
The former site of Woolworth's—and the lunch counter from which four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students launched the 1960's Greensboro sit-ins—is now occupied by the International Civil Rights Center & Museum. Looking at a backdrop of the famous lunch counter, students will be keenly aware of the impact people can make, regardless of their age. The Battlegrounds area of the museum houses 14 permanent teaching exhibitions that bring the events of the 1960s to life.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia | Ferris State University: Big Rapids, Michigan
The artifacts at the Jim Crow Museum are meant to shock visitors. David Pilgrim, founder and curator, has created provocative exhibits that stir emotions and make people think. On display are the racist and anti-Black images that permeated the American culture for decades. The full-size replica of a lynching tree will stun students, as will the pervasive presence of derogatory words. After seeing these disturbing artifacts, students enter a Room of Dialogue and engage in discussions about promoting tolerance and social justice. Pilgrim believes generating awareness through outrage puts us one step closer to change.
These civil rights exhibitions bestow critical knowledge upon our nation's future leaders. Working with your SYTA member tour operator, you could help your students learn one of history's most invaluable lessons. Please be mindful of student age and maturity level when planning these learning experiences, many of which can happen remotely.
Written by Lisa Stickler. The original version of this article appeared in the March 2016 issue of Teach & Travel.
Photo courtesy of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.


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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 4, 2010) - Canadian adoptions from Nepal have been suspended due to concerns about fraud and child trafficking.
A recent report by the Hague Conference on Private International Law revealed that there is strong evidence that documents are being falsified on a regular basis and false statements are regularly made about a child's origins, age and status – and whether they have been abandoned.
Based on this evidence, and the recommendations of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and with the support of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), the provinces and territories have agreed to suspend adoptions from Nepal.
Provinces and territories are responsible for approving adoptions. CIC is responsible for granting the adopted child citizenship or allowing them to immigrate as a permanent resident. HRSDC's role is to encourage communications and co-operation with provincial and territorial, federal, and foreign government counterparts in the adoption community.
"We know how disheartening this must be for the parents concerned, but several authoritative sources, such as The Hague Conference and UNICEF, have raised serious concerns about the use of fraudulent documents and the prevalence of child trafficking in Nepal," said Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. "It is important to get a reformed system in place in Nepal before proceeding with adoptions."
Proceeding with adoption cases from Nepal could violate Canada's obligations under The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoptions. Both CIC and HRSDC work in close coordination with provincial and territorial adoption authorities and are monitoring the situation in Nepal.
"There are a number of Canadian parents seeking to adopt children from Nepal who are understandably anxious but our priorities remain the best interests of the child and the prevention of child trafficking," added Minister Kenney.


The way in which augmented reality, technology and the creative industries are combining to form a new engine for economic growth was the subject of the 2018 Beijing International Forum on Creative Economy and Summit on Augmented Reality Industry Development which took place in Beijing from May 28 to June 1. Delegates explored how augmented reality, technology and the creative industries are combining together.
In his address to delegates, President Xi Jinping's issued a call to boost the vitality of the domestic cultural and creative sector by upgrading its industrial structure, fostering major brands and boosting consumption.
China has consistently moved toward a more creative, consumer-driven economy. The value added from China's culture-related sectors clocking $463.9 billion in 2016 a 13% rise from the previous year, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
The full article can be read on the UN conference for trade and development website.


PD-1 inhibitors, delivered through one or two quick infusion treatments, uncloak cancer cells and allow the body's T-cells to fight cancer the way they fight other diseases. But though these drugs are promising and lifesaving in some cases, they are not the magic bullet for many cancers. Thanks to extensive media coverage, many patients have sky-high expectations for all types of immunotherapy treatments and are now asking about their treatment options. Unfortunately, the truth is that PD-1 inhibitors are not 100 percent effective in all patients or in all cancer types.
With hundreds of clinical trials underway across the country, our goal is to determine exactly when PD-1 inhibitors are most effective. In trials, these drugs are being used on almost all cancer types, and at many different stages of cancer growth. So far, research suggests that they may be effective at treating any cancer type if those cancer cells have a high mutational burden. However, researchers and physicians still have a lot of work ahead of them in identifying exactly which biomarkers indicate effectiveness.
Still other trials are examining when these drugs should be delivered, searching for any benefits to pre- or post-operative use. Currently, PD-1 inhibitors are typically used after chemotherapy treatment, and mostly only in patients with late-stage disease. In the future, it's likely that these drugs will be used much earlier in the disease process and perhaps even earlier in the care plan.
As more and more patients receive this treatment, it's vital that oncologists and other providers work together to spot any unhealthy side effects of immunotherapy, such as autoimmune colitis, skin rashes, or issues with the thyroid, kidney, or adrenal glands. When caught early, these side effects are often reversible. If you have a patient who has received immunotherapy and exhibits these side effects, please contact his or her oncologist.


Among data entry service delivery entities, SITS occupies a unique and somewhat pivotal position, primarily because of the sector-specific experience and impeccable quality standards our deliverables have come to be associated with. We have been long time associates of major business houses engaging actively in areas as diverse as consumer goods manufacturing, market research, advertising agencies, academia, business services etc.
Our personnel possess the experience and the expertise to handle wide variety of data content services. Buttressing this workforce is an infrastructure that's state-of-the-art and attuned to fulfill client requirements rather than support company processes. The services are customized for each of our clients and will be handled by personnel possessing relevant task-based and job-based experience behind them.


Aug. 30, 2009 WOW! Check out this monster that Brian shot with his new Elite GT500 bow! Read his hunt story and watch some video.
Aug. 21, 2009 Rick and his guide spot and stalked to within 65 yards of this buck and Rick made the shot. What a buck! They say it..
Sept. 09 Here is what Shawn wrote about his hunt: "This is my first Coues deer. I shot him out of a ground blind at 37 yrds. I..
2009 Here is what Johnny had to say about his hunt: "I have been blessed again this year with another archery Coues. Last year, I..
Aug. 2008 " The 2008 Arizona August archery deer hunt will always be one to remember. I shot this brute on opening day, sitting..
2008 WOW, this buck green scores 122 inches! Here is a little story about the hunt" "I was in a stand and about ready to leave..
Aug 2008 "I was blessed with this beautiful buck on opening morning. I had been up scouting new trails, water holes every other..
Aug 24, 2008 Brian Fish, Grant's brother sent in these photos and said Grant killed this buck out of a groundblind at 17 yards. He..
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Aug 2008 Geoff and his friend Josh Epperson hunted this buck from a treestand. It's a brute of a buck that green scores about..
Aug. 2008 Opening day Jody and her husband were able to get this buck on a spot and stalk hunt. The shot was threaded through some brush..
Aug. 2008 (aka HuntnCoues) This is Troy's 2nd Coues with a bow! And he wrote a humorous story to go with it (it's based on..
Sept 2007 (aka LoneWolf) Unit 33, AZ Here is what Alton's son wrote about the hunt: My dad Alton took this beautiful buck on the..
Sept. 9, 2007 Unit 23, AZ This is Stanley's first buck with a bow! Gross score is 82 inches.
Sept. 2007 Gary got this buck from a treestand with a 20 yard shot. It's his first coues buck with a bow! Congratulations Gary!
Aug. 2007 This buck gross scores about 103.
summer 2006 Unit 33 This is Tyson's first Coues buck! It grosses 106 (including velvet) and nets 101. This is not only his first..
Sept, 2006 (aka bowhunter4life) Mike got this fine buck on opening day with Bowtec, 100 grain muzzy broadhead. This buck went about 30..
Sept. 2006 Unit 33, Arizona Marty got the buck of his dreams this year! Marty has been hunting for 30 years (started when he was 16 years..
Sept 2005 Unit 33, Arizona Rolando got this buck with a 60 yard shot to the lungs. The buck's right antler seems to be broken off..
Sept. 2005 Shane got this fine buck on Sept 12, 2005.


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Thank you for considering Calvary Christian Academy as you seek to bring up your child in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). It would be a privilege for us to come alongside your family in this important calling.
Calvary Christian Academy (CCA) was founded in 2004 as a ministry of Calvary Chapel of Silver City, New Mexico. The Board and Faculty at CCA are committed to serving parents who seek to educate their children in a truly extraordinary way. Our commitment is to provide an education that is at once Classical and Christian.
By calling our education Classical, we commit ourselves to a specific way of integrating the various subjects into a seamless whole. Through a proven, centuries-old pattern of education called the Trivium, we teach our students in accordance with their natural, God-given developmental stages. Our goal is to graduate students who not only understand facts and ideas, but have acquired the critical abilities to analyze and interact persuasively with those ideas. After a century of dormancy, the classical movement is being rediscovered and is growing by leaps and bounds all over the nation.
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Max becomes the Monster of Mary Shelley's iconic novel Frankenstein, which provides the language for this photobook. Monster sets up a sympathetic creature—a dog with whom we're more likely to connect than some members of our own species—as the Other, the despised, the "unfortunate and deserted creature." Who among us hasn't experienced this before in one way or another? Vivid photographs of Max elicit empathy for a being who feels such despair, reminding us that prejudice will exist as a part of flawed humanity, but that it's our duty to continue to examine our behavior, its impetus, and its effect.


Monitoring is an important piece in the DevOps puzzle. Azure has many built in tools and services to help you monitor the entire application stack. I will demonstrate how you can monitor applications and infrastructure and get the insight you need to verify that your application is healthy from both an operations, developer and end-user perspective.


After reading this answer on error in contrasts and reviewing my data I am still stuck with a problem when trying to combine packages 'plm' and 'effects'. This might be impossible as John Fox does not discuss this possibility in his effects document (link is not allowed apparently - Google: "john fox effects package" if you want to have a look). So if it is indeed impossible please tell me.
Now to the best of my ability, I do not see a factor with less than 2 levels so I don't understand where this error comes from. My eventual goal for using the effects package is to be able to plot the marginal effect of cddom (and cddom2 which is the squared version of cddom) on my response variable. Of course in my full data set I have about 15 more controls, none of which are factors with a single level, but I keep getting the same problem.
I hope someone can advise!
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