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Hollywood films are notable for always hitting the right beats at the right times, to the point that it's almost more noteworthy when a film _doesn't_ do this than when it does. However, most Hollywood films aren't what I'd call "well-constructed." They're like stories told by drunk people. They have the outer form of a coherent narrative, but the actual events don't add up.
For me, a well-contructed story needs to do more than have tension that rises and falls at the right moments. It requires a broader coherence between plot, premise, character, tone, and theme. Essentially, the events in the story should be the right ones to bring out the conflict that's inherent in the premise. The most illustrative examples in this vein tend to be noir thrillers. One of the best-constructed books I can recall reading is Scott Smith's A Simple Plan (which was filmed more or less faithfully by Sam Raimi). In the novel, three friends find a bag containing four million dollars, and in order to make sure that nobody comes looking for it (they have an inkling that the bag is from a bank robbery) they decide to wait at least six months before spending it.
Obviously this theme is an age-old one, and I don't know that A Simple Plan is particularly thought-provoking in its treatment of it. The breakout character of the novel is actually the protagonist's wife, who initially seems like a voice of reason and then gets more and more wrapped up in the plot. Otherwise everyone behaves more or less as they need to.
I wonder now if the book's strength isn't actually its weakness. Its tight construction means that there aren't very many opportunities for the protagonists to slip their leash and truly act against type.
I'm revising my own second YA novel now, and in every phase of revision I've tightened the construction. Where once it was shaggy and meandering (and ran to over 90,000 words), it's now narrow, tightly-focused and clocks in at just over 60,000. The plot proceeds with what is, to me, relentless focus, and every element is carefully aligned to increase the pressure.
And yet I wonder how different the book truly is from the previous, much shaggier versions. There's an aesthetic joy in a well-turned plot, but I don't know that it's the kind of thing that makes a book truly timeless or great. Yet for some reason I've found myself obsessed with aligning all the story elements–to the point where I literally rewrote the entire book just four months ago, and now in this second revision pass, have rewritten at least 25% of it.
So much of writing a book is a matter of structure. It's my feeling that if you can write something that feels novel-like, then you've come most of the way towards writing a salable book, even if your plots, characters, and premises are shop-worn and your writing is merely serviceable. The mechanics of pulling people through a book really are sort of a simple thing, but they're so essential to the novel.
What's hard, I think, is integrating that sense of mechanics with the story that you want to tell. Because at least for me the story doesn't automatically come out fully-formed. And every attempt to turn the story into a better-formed object has the potential to lead you down a false path, because when trying to craft a plot, it's very easy to reach into the old familiar bag of tricks. You find this oftentimes when getting comments from veteran editors or grizzled old writers. They almost have an intuition for twisting your story into something that can sell. But the result is oftentimes not the story you want to tell.
And yet some stories cannot be told. Protagonists, in my experience, need to have at least a hint of the heroic. Most attempts to tell a story about 'ordinary people' (where ordinary is synonym for weakness, self-pity, cowardice, and selfishness) are doomed to failure, simply because those are precisely the qualities that are unworkable within a traditional story structure. In order to even enter into your story (to fight to keep the bag of money, for instance, instead of chickening out at the first sign of trouble and reporting it to the police) your protagonist needs a hint of the larger-than-life.
Which leaves authors in a troubling position. The more unrealistic your characters, the easier it is to tell a story with them. And if your aesthetic aim is to present characters who are real, or at least more human than normal, then your job becomes correspondingly harder. And perhaps that's where my obsession with well-crafted stories comes from. Because the truth is that structure is the glue that holds together the story, and if you want to make something truly striking and unique, then you need a glue that's much stronger then if your story is merely following convention.


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Yemen needs quick truce to avert chaos - ICG - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive
Yemen needs quick truce to avert chaos – ICG
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 28, 2011 | Middle East |
SANAA, (Reuters) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh and tribal leaders must agree a broad cease-fire immediately to prevent wider conflict that would plunge Yemen into civil war, an influential think-tank said in a conflict risk alert.
Fighting this week has killed some 115 people, prompted thousands of residents to flee Sanaa and raised the spectre of chaos that could benefit the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda and threaten adjacent Saudi Arabia, the world's No. 1 oil exporter.
"To prevent further escalation and loss of life, the most urgent step is for both sides to immediately accept a cease-fire mediated by Yemen's statesmen and tribal leaders," the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a conflict risk alert issued late on Friday.
The latest fighting, pitting Saleh's security forces against members of the powerful Hashed tribe led by Sadeq al-Ahmar, was the bloodiest since pro-democracy unrest erupted in January and was sparked by a Saleh refusal to sign a power transfer deal.
"While fighting has centred primarily on these two groups, it could easily escalate, drawing in other tribal factions," the ICG report said.
On Friday, Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to the president 100 km outside Sanaa, widening a conflict hitherto concentrated mainly in the capital near the home of Ahmar.
The fighting has overshadowed a largely peaceful protest movement that started months ago aimed at ending Saleh's 33-year-long autocratic rule and inspired by the movements that brought down the long-standing leaders of Tunisia and Egypt.
"Urban youth and civil society activists, who initiated the protest movement, stand to lose the most from this turn of events," the ICG report said. It said any truce should be bundled into a deal that eases Saleh out of power.
International powers should be involved, it said, "but, given the deeply personal and tribal nature of the feud between the Salehs and al-Ahmars, it cannot be addressed effectively by international mediation or initiatives alone."
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Global powers have little sway in Yemen where tribal allegiances are the most powerful element of its volatile social fabric and the fighting already appears to be playing out along tribal lines.
Mediators have become exasperated with Saleh, saying he had repeatedly imposed new conditions each time a Gulf-led transition agreement was due for signing, most recently demanding a public signing ceremony.
Machinegun fire and explosions rattled Sanaa this week before clashes eased after mediation efforts. Ahmar's fighters evacuated government ministry buildings they had grabbed in return for a cease-fire and troops quitting their area.
"We are now in mediation and there has been a ceasefire between the two sides," Ahmar, close to an Islamist opposition party, told protesters on Friday in "Change Square."
The cease-fire applies only to the area around the Ahmar compound in Sanaa — a city now split between the two sides.
There was also an informal truce in place in an area northeast of Sanaa where tribes said on Friday said they had seized a military post.
Yemeni air force fighters had strafed those tribal fighters with bombs and broke the sound barrier in flights over Sanaa.
There are worries that impoverished Yemen, where some 40 percent of the country's 23 million people live on less than $2 a day, could become a failed state located on a shipping lane through which 3 million barrels of oil pass daily.
In the south, dozens of armed men believed to be from al Qaeda appeared to have full control of city of Zinjibar in the flashpoint province of Abyan on Saturday, a day after storming the city and chasing out security forces, residents said.
The United States and Saudi Arabia, both targets of foiled attacks by the Yemen wing of al Qaeda, are concerned any spread of anarchy could embolden the militant group.
With Saleh's government mired in worsening political strife, the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is likely to have more freedom to apply a proven talent for daring and inventive bombing plots, analysts said.
"Given how distracted Saleh's government is in its attempts to cling to power, AQAP has much more open space in which to operate at the moment," said Yemen scholar Gregory Johnsen.

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Our justice system is not perfect. Sometimes innocent people are convicted. Sometimes guilty people are acquitted. Yet most of the time, we get it reasonably right.
When we are wronged and the perpetrator does get away with it, be assured that their escape is temporary. Just as we can be assured of our salvation by believing the Gospel, we can be certain, by that same Gospel, that God will judge all sin. People may have gotten away with sin before a human court, but they will never be able to escape God's judgment forever.
That all sin is punished is good news to those of us who believe the Gospel because the judgment for our sin has been paid for by Jesus Christ. He is the One who will judge the living and the dead.
If you're living in fear, trying one way or another to cover over your own wrongs, you'll never find rest. But if you have trusted Christ, give thanks to Him for having paid the judgment for your sin. Either you will have to die spiritually for your sin or you can live by accepting Jesus' death in your place.
Insight: We have all sinned, but at the cross, Jesus took the judgement upon Himself for the sin of all who believe the Gospel. Believe God and be set free!


Eric Alterman's July 2 "Full-Court Press" insinuates that the Hudson Institute "sent [scholar Evan Gahr] packing" because Gahr called Paul Weyrich an anti-Semite. This charge has no merit and presents a false impression of the institute. Alterman made no effort to contact us before writing his piece. Had he done so, he would have learned that Gahr's firing was an internal matter, unrelated to any ideas Gahr advocated.
For forty years, Hudson Institute has been a research organization that encourages debate among peers, affording scholars considerable latitude to express their ideas. Our researchers regularly voice opinions more controversial than Gahr's comments about Weyrich. Gen. William Odom (ret.), director of security studies at Hudson, was in fact quoted in the June 18 Nation, arguing for the dissolution of the CIA. Evidence for Hudson's eclecticism can be found in the fact that our scholars are Democrats and Republicans, liberals, moderates and conservatives. Moreover, in the past few months alone, two prominent contributors to The Nation–David Corn and Rick Perlman–have spoken at institute-sponsored events.
Eric Alterman apparently thinks lying is a form of mooning. In his case it's also compulsive, relentless and boring. For the record, I am obviously not a "staunch defender of the anti-Semites' right to blood-libel Jews," as he hilariously proposes; nor did I "expunge" or remove a single word, sentence, paragraph–let alone an entire article–by the equally addlebrained Evan Gahr from my website. Nation readers interested in the facts–Gahr's original article and Weyrich's, my commentaries on Gahr and Weyrich, Gahr's infantile complaints, Crouch's column, my answer and an account of the slanders against Laszlo Pastor by the Soviet occupiers of Communist Hungary, which Alterman and Conason eagerly spread–can find them with ease on my "censorious" website (www.frontpagemagazine.com). Such a waste of valuable Nation space that could have been put to better use defending the oppressed.
Weinstein says that I "insinuate" anti-Semitism on the part of the Hudson Institute. That's silly. I "insinuate" only cowardice. His defense, meanwhile, in making reference to Nation contributors sounds a great deal like the "some of my best friends…" line. When using it, however, he would be wise to get the names of his friends right. It is "Perlstein," not "Perlman." I hate to stereotype, but I hear Jews can be quite touchy about that kind of thing.
As for David Horowitz, well, I don't write about David Horowitz unless I'm getting paid for it.
Doug Ireland writes an article ["Those Big Town Blues," June 4] and a letter ["Exchange," July 2] asserting his positions on city politics and the Working Families Party and manages to make such an incorrect statement about one of the candidates that one wonders what else he has wrong. Ireland dismisses Gale Brewer's increasingly successful run for the City Council by describing her as "a longtime patronage employee of the Manhattan Borough President's Office." For the record, Brewer never worked for the Borough President's Office. She came onto my Council staff when I was first elected, in 1978, with no party or patronage ties of any kind. She established a record in that office of being available to constituents, solving problems of every type, attending to the needs of people who had never called a legislative office in their lives and training at least thirty student interns every year for eleven years. She won us the Daily News designation of Most Accessible Council Office. It is a great tribute to Gale that the contacts she made in the district in the 1980s are standing her in great stead in this campaign. Mayor Dinkins hired Gale to do the city's federal relations and to increase government accessibility. She also worked for Public Advocate Mark Green and for a private contractor increasing services to public housing residents in Queens. Quite a record, none of it in the Borough President's Office and all of it on her own merits. No wonder the Working Families Party, trying to change politics in New York, picked her as a candidate.
My only point about Gale Brewer was that she could hardly be included on a list of "nontraditional" candidates, because she had spent quite a few years as a political appointee on the public payroll–which Messinger's letter confirms.
Thanks for David Potorti's excellent article on the nuclear waste battle in North Carolina ["Nuclear Danger Zone, NC," July 2]. Most media have ignored the key facts of Carolina Power and Light's creation of the nation's largest storage site for "spent" nuclear fuel–the $7 billion corporation has worked hard to mute criticism. And the potential for horrific fires from high-density waste pools at nuclear plants across America has been left out of the nuclear revival debate.
Loss of cooling pool water at most plants could result in a fire that would spread across the entire pool (in CP&L's case, four pools). Since most pools have been tightly packed with thousands of assemblies (compared to hundreds in a reactor core), such a fire could exceed the Chernobyl disaster.
The dirty secret is that an NRC security assessment program concludes that US plants are highly vulnerable to terrorist attack. Even after being allowed to bolster security in advance of scheduled drills, at nearly half the plants mock intruders not only got inside but also were able to simulate meltdown of the reactor core. Now the industry is furiously working to abolish the NRC program.
You'd think Democratic rising star and "populist" Senator John Edwards would be standing up to CP&L and the NRC on this hometown debacle, especially with the NRC under investigation for colluding with CP&L. The only logical reason for his silence is the nuclear industry's prominence in funding presidential campaigns.
Saved by the hip editor. I suggest that a poll of the American people would consider The Nation obscure. But a poll of Nation readers would not consider Dissent obscure.
Even before I saw the footnote, I'd reached for my pen: Dissent is hardly "obscure," and a less-than-majority poll vote won't establish that it is.
Dissent is clearly targeted to the academy and to a broader "intelligentsia," and in this regard is not at all "obscure." All academic journals are obscure to the general population, so a poll of "the American people" would prove little. Journals tailored to a specific subdisciplinary group, such as Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (now in its thirty-third volume), are even more "obscure" to the public, but even this example is one of the leading sources of citations in its field. Dissent might even be called popular when judged within its context.
I am not particularly erudite but I did subscribe to Dissent for a year. I must have picked it up at a bookstore; as I recall it had an article by Dr. Gerda Lerner, whose books I had read. I found it to be, well, challenging–but obscure? If a lab technician in Rochester has read it, it's not obscure.
Richard Pollak did a fine job of summarizing the sad saga of GE, PCBs and the Hudson River ["Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson?" May 28]. Unfortunately, there's another GE-type destruction in the making. People who value the historic and natural beauty of the Hudson Valley do not want to read "Is PG&E Mightier Than the Hudson?" years down the road. Largely because of a faulty and undemocratic state permit process, Athens Generating (a subsidiary of PG&E), a 1080-megawatt, gas-fired electric power plant, was recently given final approval by the Army Corps of Engineers. New York State's sham of an energy deregulation process, including corporate "gifts," behind-the-scenes political maneuvering, community profiling, disregard of environmental policies and public sentiment, amounts to an unholy alliance between a huge corporation and a state bureaucracy. The press, the politicians, even environmental groups have been silenced or have treated the project as a done deal. This story, and its ramifications for the whole Hudson River Valley, needs to be brought to light and now. Have we learned nothing from the GE story?
As a result of your exposé, I decided to sell all my shares in GE. Thanks for helping me to make my decision.
Any day now the Bush Administration will begin sending out its much-touted tax rebate. How should progressives who believe this rebate is wrong both as a matter of principle and policy respond to this "windfall"? Spend it on themselves? Send it back to the government? We'd like to propose another possibility: Use it against Bush and his right-wing compatriots by sending it to The Nation. Use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house! We plan to send a portion of our rebate to The Nation and the rest to progressive PACs that will have the greatest impact during the next election cycle. When other media are complicit in this Administration's mis-exercise of power, The Nation continues to speak truth to power. You are a national treasure!


The first show of the year….YEAH!
I have two paintings that will be on display in the President's 6th Annual Art Exhibition in the The Brent and Jean Wadsworth Family Gallery at my alma mater, Lewis University. The gallery is on the main campus in Romeoville, IL. Please visit the campus and take in the beauty of all the artwork.
This is a free exhibit and is open to the public and will be on display from 9:00 am-9:00 pm weekdays and 9:00 am-5:00 pm on weekends from Feb. 3-27.


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You will be dropped off from your Basic Fjordsafari, then hike up to a small mountain farm where you will enjoy a local lunch made with goat cheese from the farm.
We start the day with a FjordSafari on the Aurlandsfjord and to the great Sagfossen waterfall in the Unesco listed Nærøyfjord. On the way back we go ashore at Skjerdal wharf, where we start the hike towards Leim mountain goat farm. The hike takes about 1-1,5 hours and we will be ascending the valley going up to 400 meters in altitude. During the hike you will be surrounded by breathtaking scenery, fjord view and waterfalls.
Upon arrival, the hostess will give you a tour of the farm and show you some secrets behind making the traditional goat cheese. In this magnificent setting, you can relax on the farmhouse terrace and enjoy a goat cheese tasting and a delicious lunch made of local produce. We hike back down to Skjerdal and go back to Flåm by minibus.
Please inform us in advance if you have any allergies or are pregnant. The cheese served at the farm is unpasteurized.
No hiking experience needed, but a reasonable physical fitness level is required for the up hill hike. The trip is suited for those wanting an active trip.
You'll need sturdy walking shoes/trainers and clothes suited for the outdoors, rain attire if needed. Bring a water bottle.
NB! The farm is open from July 1st - August 31st. Daily tours from June 1st with packed local lunch and cheese from the farm.


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Community Season Finale Review: "For a Few Paintballs More"
Eric Hochberger at May 13, 2011 10:42 am .
It sounds strange to say it, but I couldn't believe how much I was looking forward to this week's Community. Don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite shows on television, but how often are you really that excited for a weekly comedy to return?
But after last's week's part one of this round of paintballing adventures turned out to be one of my favorite episodes ever, I couldn't wait for this second installment. It was going to be my reward for a hellish day.
So, possibly because I way over-hyped the episode, "For A Few Paintballs Or More" just did not do it for me as one of my favorite show's second season finales.
Allow me to go over what I thought worked and what didn't work.
The Stars Wars motif. The western theme of last week's episode was phenomenal. This week, the meta joke about switching to Star Wars was funny, but then the actual switch never really happened. Outside of Abed's Han Solo impression and the storm troopers, there was very little Star Wars. Heck, Chuck did more of it this week.
Annie and Abed. These two are some of my favorite characters...but apart. I don't know what kind of pheromones Star Burn's stinky jacket were giving off, but Abed could do all the Han Solo impressions he wants and I still don't see the chemistry between these two.
Annie and Jeff, despite their creepy age gap, share more chemistry in a parodied look.
City College's plot. From the moment the ice cream mask came off, the episode kind of went downhill for me. I like the rivalry, and the creepy sexual tension between the Deans, but for whatever reasons, these guys just did not work as the bad guys this week.
Cougar Town. I love the continuing nods and references Community makes to Bill Lawrence's little cul-de-sac crew. But having Dan Byrd (Travis) and Busy Phillips (Laurie) quietly guest star in the crowd? Amazing!
Jeff Winger. For once it was nice to see the usual lead man taken down. Taking that bullet early was one thing, but even going so far as to almost pass, or at least share the torch, with ...
Troy. He's easily one of the least utilized characters on the show. He's often given so little, but does so much with his material. Seeing him given the chance to lead the group a little, I have to wonder if that was a meta reference for them giving him more story lines in season three. I sure hope so because as much as Jeff wants a "more Shirley" campaign, I feel the same with Troy. Speaking of ...
Shirley. My colleague Jeff, who usually reviews these episodes, must have reached the top with his "more Shirley" campaign. She was fantastic as she took matters into her own hands and channeled the old Shirley from her security guard episode. It was great when it seemed she was Greendale's last chance as she grabbed Britta in her golf cart and drove off for one last impossible mission. That was until you remembered ...
Pierce. Clearly the show has been setting something up with Pierce all season. His biggest change into the evil villain definitely came during "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons," but the whole season has been about building Pierce up to be a jerk. But for what? This week we may have finally learned what this season long arc was all about.
So the major revelation was that Pierce has been a Greendale student for twelve years. He's gotten close to the school, but never with another student for more than a semester before this study group and he's been purposely sabotaging his relationship with the group.
But the real question to me is more from a casting perspective. Was the cliffhanger of Pierce leaving and making him out as a jerk as an easy way to write of Chevy Chase? I'm guessing this guy costs serious buck even at this age.
Plus the show seems to have Ken Jeong on lockdown and with his movie career, he's a bigger name with this generation anyway. Plus, Chang has the evil outsider thing down pat. Plus with Joel McHale headlining, do you really need another name.
So what do you think, will Chevy Chase be returning as Pierce next season as a regular? Will he rejoin the group or continue to be an outsider? And what did you think of the Community season finale?
I know you're all going to disagree with my rating, but keep in mind, if I were reviewing last week's "A Fist Full of Paintballs," there would have been a 5.0. This just couldn't touch the ridiculousness.
For A Few Paintballs Or More Review
Editor Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Rating: 4.6 / 5.0 (114 Votes)
Eric Hochberger is the programmer of TV Fanatic, so please forgive his mediocre writing. His programming is far better. Follow him on Twitter and/or email him. Just don't request threaded comments. They're coming.
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A Briton who devours eight hotdogs for breakfast has won the dubious accolade of being named the world's fattest man.
Keith Martin, 42, tips the scales at 58 stone, and is so large that he is bed-ridden.
His needs are putting an extra drain on NHS resources and costing the taxpayer thousands of pounds as he requires an army of 18 medical professionals to look after him, including ambulance staff, carers and nurses.
Eight ambulance workers must be on hand to help hoist his giant frame to a reinforced vehicle for frequent hospital visits close to his home in Harlesden, North-West London.
Trips for health checks are the only occasions in the past ten years on which he has left his bed. He also requires four carers to visit him twice a day and four nurses three times a week to wash him and monitor his health as his staggering weight is putting massive strain on his heart and other internal organs.
Medics say he would need to shed half his bulk before he could even be considered for a gastric band to aid his weight loss.
Mr Martin took the crown of heaviest man on the planet after the previous title-holder – a 90-stone Mexican – went on a crash diet. Manuel Uribe, 44, is still listed as the heaviest man in the Guinness Book of Records but is believed to have shrunk to a relatively svelte 31st 6lb. Mr Martin has also overtaken another former world's heaviest man, fellow Brit Paul Mason.
Mr Mason, a 51-year-old former postman from Ipswich, slimmed down from 70st to 49st after being warned he was dangerously close to death.
At the height of his binge-eating, Mr Mason would consume in excess of 20,000 calories per day and would be wheeled to local takeaways daily by his carers.
By 2002, he was so big that a 5ft window at his former home had to be removed and a forklift truck brought in to lift him when he needed to go to hospital for a hernia operation.
But the subsequent fitting of a gastric band coupled with a healthy diet finally saw him reach a manageable weight.
Super-sized Mr Martin seems to have no plans to follow Mr Mason's lead, and tells a Channel 5 documentary, due to be aired next week, that his life of excess was triggered by the death of his mother when he was a teenager.
Breakfast: Keith Martin typically starts the day with eight hot dogs and four slices of bread, or a pile of ham sandwiches followed by coffee with sugar.
Lunch: A selection of chocolate bars, cakes, a packet of biscuits plus more coffees with sugar.
Dinner: Two whole roast dinners with all the trimmings, or 16 sausages plus a family-sized bag of oven chips washed down with coffee.
about what happened to me – I ate anything and everything,' he said.
Mr Martin has not had a girlfriend for 20 years and can no longer find clothes that fit him, as he is 5ft 9in with a six- foot waist.
He relies on round-the-clock support from carers and relatives with his two sisters taking it in turn to carry out house visits. He spends his days watching television and gorging on sweets, cakes, biscuits and sausages.
Mr Martin is one of several morbidly obese Brits to appear in the TV programme Big Body Squad, which aims to raise awareness of the plight of more than a million similarly overweight people who cost taxpayers millions of pounds in home help costs every year.


Tire chains are cool. They allow a tire to get purchase on ice or snow.
The tire armor starts with a set of tire chains and attach around the tire in the same way. In between each horizontal chain (that traverse the tread surface of tire) there is a metal plate. It is this plate that contacts the road. The road facing side of each plate is bare metal, or will be pretty quick. The tire side has a piece of tire glued on to make it more snuggly.
Metal plates will wear down fast if you are driving 100 mph on the highway. But if there has been an apocalypse and you are worried the road surface might have shrapnel / gyrocopter pieces / tiger teeth car traps / zombie bones all hankering to perforate, the rhythmic clanking of your tire armor will be a soothing lullaby to your worried mind.
Note: since the provenance of each armor plate is different (salvaged from different sources! Collect them all!) each clank is also slightly different. BUNGCO recommends that you adjust your speed such that clank sequence matches the rhythm track of your driving music.
Here's hoping your bearings are similarly robust.
You have invented a single-wheel tank track. This avoids the advantages of the single pneumatic-tired wheel AND the tank track with remarkable elegance. Instead of being grippy, light and smooth rolling like a normal wheel/tire it's slippy, heavy and clunky like a tank track. Conversely, instead of spreading the load over a large area and being shaped for climbing uneven surfaces, you've selected the load and climbing characteristics of a normal wheel.
If I may, I'd like to suggest a vehicle to which this should be fitted. Consider a four wheel drive vehicle. Driving all four wheels provides better traction at the cost of extra weight and complexity. What if we could keep the weight and complexity, but lose the extra traction? So, we have a two wheel drive vehicle, but the driven wheels are on the same side. Now, we still need the transfer box, shafts to the front and rear and gearing to send the power out to the wheels. If we avoid the advantages of a central diff lock we have a heavy inefficient car that will spin a wheel as soon as it's off road. With luck it may also have some alarming handling characteristics.
It's called a "pedrail" wheel, and it's Baked.
As [bs] says, it neatly combines all the disadvantages of a track with the disadvantages of a pneumatic tyre.
bs0u0155, I admire your "glass not completely empty" attitude along with your schemes to empty the glass completely, an endeavor always close to my heart.
8th I disagree that this is a pedrail wheel; this to my read being a device with sticking-out bits meant to smoothen motion. I do not think the armor I describe would smoothen anything except a ride over thumbtacks. But I thank you very much for the link, which I would not have found myself. I think I may go to work on HG Wells after finishing off my current crop of books.
Always a pleasure to provide such a service. I think it's related to dreaming, only the reciprocal.
Sounds like a fun bit of present day hobby or post (fill in blank) apocalypse fabrication, though you'd need to have side, not just tread, plates, as I have it on good authority that the post apocalypse will be rife with tire sidewall piercing bullets, harpoons, etc.
Though they'd lack the clanky cache, I'd be inclined to just use solid rubber tires (from a loader or tractor) – If I could get 'em. The idea earn my [+]-because anybody with a welder and scrap metal plate could armor a regular inflatable tire.


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Neuroanatomy, Spinal Cord Veins
Keva Green
Jeffery Hogg
Scientists who sought to understand the spinal venous system thought of it as the fourth venous system, the other three systems being the portal, caval, and the pulmonary venous systems. The spinal venous system consists of a network of valveless veins grouped into three intercommunicating drainage systems that empty into extra spinal veins, ultimately returning venous blood to the heart. Since the system is valveless, spinal venous drainage is influenced by gravity, body position, intraabdominal and intrathoracic pressure. Knowledge of this system equips clinicians to diagnose and treat pathology that results from its failure.[1]
The spinal venous system consists of the intrinsic, extrinsic, and extradural systems. During IVC occlusion, the spinal venous system can serve as a collateral drainage system due to its connection with both pelvic and cranial veins.[1] During the collapse of the internal jugular vein in the upright position, venous drainage from the brain can be achieved via the vertebral veins,[1] demonstrating its interconnectedness. Veins of this system vary in their number and diameter depending on their location along the cord.[2]
Development of spinal cord veins begins around week 4 of gestation with the common cardinal vein, along with the right and left anterior and posterior cardinal veins. Paired supracardinal and subcardinal veins develop inferior to the common cardinal vein. Simultaneously, the paravertebral plexus forms around the developing spinal cord and the cardinal veins connect to the paravertebral plexus via transverse intersegmental veins. Several transverse intersegmental veins form from the cardinal veins along its length. In the mature fetus, the transverse intersegmental veins in the cervical area become the vertebral veins, the right supracardinal vein persists as the azygos vein, and the left supracardinal becomes the hemiazygos and accessory hemiazygos veins. The anterior cardinal veins become the internal and external jugular veins, while the right posterior cardinal vein becomes the arch of the azygos in the mature fetus. With the regression of the cardinal veins, the paravertebral plexus drains into the ascending lumbar and azygos veins. Several anastomoses also form during development and the azygos veins are connected to the common iliac via the ascending lumbar and subcostal veins.[1]
Blood Supply and Lymphatics
The intrinsic venous system refers to the collecting veins within the spinal cord parenchyma and further divides into central and peripheral drainage systems. In the central region of the cord, blood is drained centrifugally via numerous sulcal veins located both ventrally and dorsally. Ventral sulcal veins drain the medial portion of the anterior horn, the anterior commissure, and the white matter of the anterior funiculus.[1] The dorsal central veins drain the gray commissure and the white matter near the posterior median sulcus. The remaining areas of the cord are also drained centrifugally by peripheral radial veins.[3] Numerous anastomoses called transmedullary anastomotic veins link the radial and sulcal veins.[1] Blood from the sulcal veins empties into the anterior spinal vein, and blood from the radial veins drains into the posterior spinal veins.[2] Radial veins also form a venous ring at the surface of the spinal cord, which anastomoses with the anterior and posterior spinal veins as well as the pial plexus on the surface of the cord. These both belong to the extrinsic venous system.[3]
The pial venous network, radicular veins, as well as longitudinally oriented anterior and posterior spinal veins, comprise the extrinsic system of the spinal cord, which collects blood from radial and sulcal veins. The usually paired anterior spinal veins course from the medulla oblongata to the filum terminale. While the anterior spinal veins are typically in pairs in the cervical and thoracic regions, they become a single vessel in the lumbar area. It is located within the anteriomedian fissure and runs anteromedially, alongside the anterior spinal artery. The posterior median spinal vein begins at the conus medularis and can extend the length of the cord usually within the posterior median fissure. It is often a single vessel but can be paired or even form a plexus.[3]. Numerous ventral and dorsal radiculomedullary veins collect blood from the anterior and posterior spinal veins.[1] These veins course with the nerve roots without draining them.[3] The largest radiculomedullary vein, called the great anterior radiculomedullary vein (GARV), drains the thoracolumbar cord and can be mistaken for the artery of Adamkiewtz due to its size and common location.[1][2] Radiculomedullary veins exit the dura usually with the nerve root. They are then joined farther distally by veins draining the nerve root, called superficial nerve root veins. Radiculomedullary veins then empty into the internal vertebral venous plexus of the extradural system.
The vertebral venous plexus, also called the Batson plexus refers to veins located extradurally within the spinal canal (internal plexus), surrounding the vertebral column (external plexus) as well as horizontal basivertebral veins that run through the vertebral bodies (basivertebral plexus).[1][2] These veins comprise the extradural spinal venous system and drain both the spinal cord and the vertebral column. The internal vertebral plexus is made up of two anterior longitudinal veins coursing on either side of the posterior longitudinal ligament and two posterior veins coursing anterior to the ligamentum flavum.[3] The internal plexus communicates with various intracranial venous plexus. Intervertebral veins link the external and internal vertebral venous plexus, and via segmental veins, drains blood into the extraspinal system.[2]
Intervertebral veins of the cervical cord empty into the vertebral, deep cervical, and jugular veins. Those of the thoracic cord drain into the hemiazygos and accessory hemiazygos veins on the left, and the azygos vein on the right. Intervertebral veins draining the lumbar region empty into the azygos and ascending lumbar veins.[1]
Pathology within the spinal venous system can cause ischemic myelopathy via venous hemorrhage or venous obstruction.
Venous hemorrhage directly into the cord can result from trauma or vascular malformations, and ultimately disrupts the normal functioning of the parenchyma. Intrathecal hypertension can result from cord hemorrhage with consequent venous engorgement and rupture of the internal vertebral venous plexus.[1]
Venous occlusion due to emboli or thrombus from sepsis or malignancy or occlusion of the vertebral venous plexus during decompression sickness can also cause ischemic myelopathy.[3]
Additionally, spinal stenosis and intervertebral disc herniation can cause radiculopathy via venous obstruction of radicular veins with consequent dilation of the veins and compression of nearby nerve roots.[1] Venous occlusion at the intervertebral foramen by a severely herniated disc can cause myelopathy via venous hypertension, albeit rare,[1][4] even in the absence of arteriovenous malformations. The herniated disc causes obstruction of veins in the intervertebral foramen resulting in decreased venous return from the spinal parenchyma. [1] This causes venous congestion of the spinal cord since the veins are valveless. This congestion causes increase venous pressure and subsequent vasodilation of intramedullary arteries resulting in increased pressure in the tissues, intramedullary edema, decrease perfusion pressure and ischemic injury.[1]
Cord compression can cause both upper motor neuron and lower motor neuron disease. Compression involving descending motor pathways and motor nerve roots can affect lower motor neurons that could result in flaccid paralysis of the muscles innervated if there is no prompt identification and correction of the underlying cause.
Physiologic Variants
Numerous variations exist throughout the spinal venous system.
Variations of intramedullary veins:
Venous angiomas, also called developmental venous anomalies are normal variants of intramedullary spinal veins and are thought to be associated with cavernous malformations.[1]
Variations of the anterior spinal vein:
There is considerable variability in the course that the anterior spinal vein takes in becoming the vein of the filum terminale. It has been shown to deviate from the conus medullaris and course along a sacral or lumbar nerve root.
Variations of the posterior spinal veins:
The position, course, and anastomotic pattern of the posterior spinal veins show considerable variability. It is usually a single vessel near the conus, but it can be paired or form a plexus called the posterior venous plexus.[3] Truncular type drainage exists in 80% of cases and plexiform type drainage 20% of cases.
Variation of radicular veins:
While 60% of radicular veins exit the dura with the nerve root, 40% have been shown to exit through different foramina between adjacent spinal nerves.[1]
The great anterior radiculomedullary vein (GARV) due to its large size (diameter up to 2mm) and location in the thoracolumbar region, may be confused with the artery of Adamkiewicz. However, the key to the differentiation of these two vessels is that the artery of Adamkiewicz often has a very sharp 'hairpin' configuration at its junction with the longitudinal spinal veins of the extrinsic venous system, while the GARV forms a less acute angle described as a 'coathook' configuration.[1][2]
Spinal venous pathology can be due to vascular, neoplastic, or infectious etiologies.
The presence of a spinal epidural abscess usually results in congestion within the internal vertebral venous plexus. This enlarged venous plexus can mechanically compress the spinal cord resulting in myelopathy. Sepsis can also result by way of the vertebral plexus. Also, since direct connections exist between the pelvis, the Batson plexus, and cranial venous sinuses, emboli and malignancies can disseminate via this hematogenous route.[1]
The most common pathologies involving the spinal venous system are arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and arteriovenous malformation (AVM), of which there are four types. Myelopathy can result from several mechanisms depending on the location and classification of the lesion. Possible mechanisms include hemorrhage into the cord parenchyma or mass effect from hemorrhage, vascular steal, venous hypertension, and congestion. The typical result of all these mechanisms is venous outflow obstruction and compressive myelopathy. Other vascular lesions include aneurysms and neoplastic vascular lesions such as hemangioblastomas and cavernous malformations.[5]
Type 1 AVFs are called dural AVFs and occur when a surface spinal cord vein directly receives blood from a nearby radicular artery. This vascular lesion consists of a single vessel, is located on the dura [5] and most commonly occurs where radicular veins exit the dura, given that its integrity becomes compromised in that area. Type 1 AVFs have a predilection for the thoracolumbar region.[1] Blood flow is usually slow and can flow either forward into the vertebral venous plexus or backflow into the spinal veins of the extrinsic system With the feeding artery directly draining into the radicular vein; the vein becomes arterialized with increased venous pressure, hyalinized thickened walls and also becomes more tortuous.[5] This pressure often backs up into the perimedullary venous plexus on the surface of the cord, and ultimately within the intramedullary radial veins.[6] Venous hypertension results over time, which causes decrease perfusion of the cord parenchyma, cord edema, decreased arterial perfusion, ischemia, and hypoxia; this manifests as progressive myelopathy.[7] MRI is diagnostic and usually shows hyperintensity with peripheral sparing (cord edema), serpentine and dilated intervertebral veins, along with flow voids within engorged perimedullary venous plexus. Flow voids are seen with T2 weighted images and refer to the loss of MRI signal in flowing fluids such as blood, CSF, and urine. It is related to the velocity of moving protons within the flowing fluid.[6] This backward flow causes damage to the spinal cord parenchyma. A complete angiographic workup is needed because 15 to 20% of people with Type 1 AVFs have other AVMs.[5]
Type 2 Intramedullary AVMs are usually found in younger patients and most commonly in the thoracolumbar (70%) and cervical cord (30%). Lesions are located intradurally within the spinal cord parenchyma and usually consist of a medullary artery draining into a nidus. Flow is high, which may cause arterial steal from adjacent spinal cord segments. Patients often present with hemorrhage into the spinal cord, resulting in damage via mass effect, vascular steal, or venous hypertension. The rate of hemorrhage is similar to cerebral AVMs - 4% annually and 10% if a prior bleed has occurred. They are considered the true AVMs of the spine and are similar to cerebral AVMs.[5]
Type 3 AVMs are called juvenile AVMs. They involved both intradural and extradural areas simultaneously such as the spinal cord parenchyma, the vertebrae, and paraspinal muscles. This malformation is large, and the nidus usually receives blood from several arteries that enlarges the vein. Hemorrhage is the presentation in 33% of cases, and 50% of patients have associated aneurysms. The annual hemorrhage rate is 2.1%. Patients may present with symptoms of venous congestion, mass effect, and arterial steal syndrome. These AVMs are called Cobb syndrome when the complete somite is involved.[5] There is an association of this malformation with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
Type 4 AVMs are called Intradural-perimedullary AVFs. These are direct shunts between the pial venous plexus and arteries on the surface of the spinal cord,[1] which results in a dilated aneurysmal venous pouch. They are intradural but extramedullary. The pathophysiology of myelopathy resulting from this lesion is due to an increase in spinal venous pressure.
In addition to ensuring that spinal cord blood flow is preserved following surgery for AVFs obliteration, it is essential to accurately identify all the arterialized veins draining the fistula, and to achieve complete interruption of the fistula as recurrence can cause progressive myelopathy.[8] Traditional methods to confirm fistula obliteration are invasive intraoperative intravascular pressure measurements and intraoperative angiography, followed by postoperative angiograms at follow-up. The use of Doppler technology intraoperatively has several benefits. It allows for fistula identification before entering the dura, which allows for a more restricted hemilaminectomy. Doppler is also a noninvasive way of confirming obliteration of the fistula and even may eliminate the need for follow-up postoperative angiograms.[8]
Multiple sclerosis patients have been shown to have chronic internal jugular, vertebral, and azygos vein obstruction, which causes congestion in the spinal venous system. It is still uncertain if this chronic cerebral venous insufficiency plays any role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.
Image courtesy Dr Chaigasame
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Azawakh Joins The Pack As Newest AKC-Recognized Breed
The American Kennel Club (AKC®), the world's largest purebred dog registry and leading advocate for dogs, announced today that the Azawakh (pronounced Oz-a-wok) has gained full AKC recognition. This new addition to the AKC registry became eligible to compete in its group on January 1, 2019.
American Kennel Club Azawakh
"We're excited to have the Azawakh join the AKC family," said AKC Executive Secretary Gina DiNardo. "This wonderful breed has been around for thousands of years, and we're happy to introduce it to dog lovers in this country. As with any breed, it's important to do research and find the right one to fit your lifestyle."
An ancient hunting sighthound from West Africa, the Azawakh joins the Hound Group. The breed originated as a guardian, hunter, and companion to nomads. They would hunt hare, antelope, and wild boar, and are tough, durable, and very fast. The Azawakh is leggy and elegant-looking, with a short, fine coat that needs occasional brushing. They are relatively calm dogs indoors but have tremendous energy and endurance outside and must have regular exercise. Azawakhs bond strongly with their owners and are affectionate, playful companions. They can be aloof towards strangers.
To become an AKC recognized breed there must be a minimum number of dogs geographically distributed throughout the U.S., as well as an established breed club of responsible owners and breeders. Breeds working towards full recognition are recorded in AKC's Foundation Stock Service® (FSS®). Additional information on the process can be found at akc.org.
Download hi-res images of the Azawakh HERE.
About the American Kennel Club
Founded in 1884, the American Kennel Club is a not-for-profit organization which maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world and oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States. The AKC is dedicated to upholding the integrity of its registry, promoting the sport of purebred dogs and breeding for type and function. Along with its more than 5,000 licensed and member clubs and its affiliated organizations, the AKC advocates for the purebred dog as a family companion, advances canine health and well-being, works to protect the rights of all dog owners and promotes responsible dog ownership. More than 22,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred dogs are held under AKC rules and regulations each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog tests. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Humane Fund, AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Reunite and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org.
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Strong customer relationships are fundamental to the success of all financial institutions. Community banks and credit unions have made personal service a cornerstone of success, and have differentiated themselves from larger competitors through an emphasis on member and customer service. Consumers now have rapidly changing expectations for how they communicate and how they interact with all businesses, and your institution must keep pace with those expectations to engage customers and increase loyalty.
Enhancements in technology, including the ubiquitous access to smartphones, have fundamentally changed how financial institutions must interact with consumers. Digital banking options span a wide range of delivery channels, products and services that can be deployed. What is the right strategy for your organization? Below are three steps that you can take to develop an effective road map for digital banking investment.
It is important to align digital banking initiatives with your strategic plan. Your target market segments, deposit and lending growth goals, and product strategies must be considered when evaluating and prioritizing digital banking options. Self-service capabilities in branches can lower expenses and support expansion to more markets.
In addition, applications supported through online and mobile banking channels can drive loan and deposit growth. Online functionality support tailored to small businesses can improve your ability to acquire and retain these profitable relationships and garner additional fee income. Developing a digital banking road map that supports your business goals will serve as the basis for prioritizing future investment and managing the implementation of new digital banking services.
Your customers and members have an increasing number of banking options. Digital banking capabilities allow consumers to perform the majority of banking activities from anywhere at a time that is convenient to them. This ability to make banking convenient to the consumer builds loyalty and threatens financial institutions that do not have digital capability.
Assess the digital banking systems that you have in place today. Identify gaps in the services that you have deployed, compared to the competition's offering and with services that support your strategic goals. Identify potential system providers for solutions that are a match for your needs.
In addition, compare vendors against your financial institution's requirements and priorities, and validate that potential solutions are aligned with your technology infrastructure. Review your organizational structure to determine if appropriate management, oversight, and roles and responsibilities are in place to support the digital banking strategy.
Financial institutions, especially community banks and credit unions, often choose to work with an independent consultant with broad experience in the industry to guide the organization through the assessment process. A qualified consultant understands that a digital banking strategy must fit your organization and brings knowledge across the landscape of solutions available in the market, as well as unbiased guidance to determine the best match for your financial institution.


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Q: how to emulate Copy menu function to reproduce a Classroom for the next term? The Google Classroom class cards page provides the function / option to COPY a classroom (reproduce) for purposes such as a new term.  This COPY feature is not exposed in the Classroom API.
How might I emulate it?

A: At the moment there is no direct way of cloning a classroom in the Classroom API. There is the IssueTracker 150669916 which requests that feature, you could go and give it a +1 to increase in popularity. In #2 there is a workaround that could be used as an alternative, you can follow it to emulate this behaviour.

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Q: Delete the non-duplicate row from actual Database Table in SQL Server 2008 R2 I have a table variable @Temp and a database table Master.
This is sample data in both tables:
@Temp:
EMPID      ID
1           1
1           3
2           2
2           3

Master:
EMPID     ID
1          1
1          2
1          3
2          1
2          2
2          3
3          1
3          2

Now I have to delete rows from Master table where the pair of EMPID & ID is not matched from @temp table. It should delete 2 rows (for which the pair does not exists in the @Temp table). I also want to keep such records whose EMPID doesn't exists in the @Temp table. After deleting the records my Master table should have below records.
OUTPUT
Master

EMPID      ID

1          1
1          3
2          2
2          3
3          1
3          2

A: you can try this
DELETE FROM Master WHERE EMPID IN (SELECT EMPID FROM @Temp) AND NOT EXISTS
(SELECT 1 FROM @Temp WHERE EMPID=Master.EMPID AND ID = Master.ID)

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Mexico offers promise for tenacious investor
Andrew LeckeyTHE BALTIMORE SUN
CANCUN, Mexico -- With a lot of U.S. investor money lookin for a place to land, Mexico is being touted as a land of opportunity in 1993.
The psychological groundwork has already been set. In this resort city, for example, economic "hands across the border" remain locked in a firm, friendly handshake. Tourists greeted by the likes of McDonald's, Domino's Pizza and Gold's Gym here understand the desire of U.S. firms to profit from tourists and locals.
However, the concept of an individual investing in this economically awakening country remains a new and worrisome concept.
"We own shares of Telephonos de Mexico [Telmex] and Cifra, which we bought on a tip," said the woman seated across the aisle from me on my flight down, a travel agent vacationing with her husband. "We're not sure whether they've peaked and we should sell."
Many investment experts believe the best is yet to come from Mexico and its investment opportunities, thanks to free-enterprise policies of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, a Harvard Ph.D. who keeps in touch with needs of even the poorest citizens.
"President Salinas is a good guy, not a crook like some politicians," said one laborer I chatted with, offering his grandest compliment about any government official.
The U.S. investor must bear in mind that market ups and downs are considerably more pronounced and frequent south of the border. The $125 billion Mexican stock market is up a commendable 19 percent in 1992. It accomplished that with a big early run-up, followed by a long steady decline. This was followed with a revival sparked by a pre-election statement by Bill Clinton that, if president, he'd support the North American Free Trade Agreement to strengthen economic ties, with certain amendments.
"Investors must be aware of the tremendous volatility, in which stocks move 5 percent up or down in a matter of hours," warns Eduardo Cabrera, manager of Latin American equity research for Merrill Lynch & Co. "Even Telmex, the bellwether which holds a third of the Index of Prices and Quotes, can fall or rise two points in a day, so it's not for the faint-hearted."
Merrill Lynch lately turned positive on Mexico because interest rates have declined there, its foreign exchange rate continues steady and its economic downturn has bottomed out. Third-quarter corporate profits were down, but not as much as expected. Salinas is a key.
"I hope that when Salinas is done in Mexico, he'll come run the U.S. government, for he's bright and disciplined, with a coordinated plan to govern the economy," says Alan Rappaport, president of the $109 million Mexico Equity and Income Fund, a NYSE closed-end fund up 19 percent in market price this year.
Don't invest short term.
"If you're a medium-term investor, this is a good time to buy," says Soraya Betterton, portfolio manager of the $120 million G.T. Latin America Growth Fund, an open-end fund down 7 percent this year and temporarily closed to new investors. "About 47 percent of our fund is in Mexico now because we see its prospects as bright."
The good news for the concerned shareholder on my recent airline flight is that both Telmex, the $4 billion telephone monopoly, and Cifra S.A., the largest Mexican retailer, are highly recommended by Cabrera and Betterton. Those stocks are sold in the United States as American depositary receipts (ADRs), Telmex on the NYSE and Cifra over the counter.
In a country with only six telephone lines per 100 people, Telmex offers opportunity for growth. While the Mexican phone market will be open to competition in 1996, few threats to Telmex are seen. Meanwhile, Cifra, holding one-third of the market share in Mexico City, is expanding throughout the country. Its joint venture with Wal-Mart Stores in Mexico bodes well.
Cabrera also likes Tolmex, largest subsidiary of Cementos Mexicanos, which, holding 27 percent of the cement market in Mexico, should benefit from many large projects. It's sold over the counter as an ADR here.
Among the three closed-end NYSE funds specializing in Mexico, Thomas Herzfeld, president of Miami-based Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors Inc., believes Emerging Mexico Fund Inc. stands as the least expensive. However, Mexico Equity & Income Fund and the Mexico Fund are also reasonably priced.
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Have you been to a BODYATTACK class? Regardless of your answer did you know?? BODYATTACK burns approximately between 600 and 900 calories per class (this is dependent on your age, size & fitness level) and is a sports-inspired cardiovascular workout for building strength and stamina. It is a high-energy interval training class combines athletic aerobic movements with strength and stabilization exercises. Upper and lower body conditioning exercises are involved.
There are many ways to create a progressive overload. All should be applied with the correct form & technique. Whether you add more reps, shorten your rest time, up the weight, use different techniques such as drop sets, negatives, high/low's etc, it is extremely important to make it progressive and not sudden.
Increase your weights in small increments over time, not in a session because some smaller guy is pumping out 50kgs Dumbbell bench and your best is 40kgs so you try 50kgs not to look weak against a smaller bloke. That's crazy! A lot of the increments I recommend from your maximum lifts may be 1.25kgs each side until you can lift that effectively, but more importantly safely to prevent injury. Train for you, compete against you and try to be just a little bit stronger or fitter over a long term period.
So set a plan, have targets and have a specific goal (I want to run 10km at a 5 minute per km pace). Keep a log to track and monitor your progress so that you can see all the hard work you've put in. Don't progress to 50kgs when you can only lift 40kgs. Go to 42.5kgs and work with that until you can go to 45kgs.
I know this way your training will be long term which means you'll create a lifestyle rather than a phase.


The government says that the new weekly retail price mechanism for petroleum products will not only benefit the consumer but also petrol station operators. In a statement announcing the retail prices of fuel for the first week of January, finance minister Lim Guan Eng said that the new pricing structure takes into account the additional commission or gas station operator margin for dealers, which was approved by the cabinet earlier this week.
"The readjustment of the retail price of petroleum products has taken into account the views of all parties involved, including that of the Petroleum Dealers Association of Malaysia (PDAM), which applied for a review of the petrol station operator margin rate components under the Automatic Pricing Mechanism (APM) formula that is used to set retail prices for petroleum products," he said in the statement.
Lim said the government has agreed that the petrol station operator margin rate be adjusted by an additional 2.81 sen to 15 sen per litre for petrol products and an additional three sen to 10 sen per litre for diesel products over the current rates. He said the last time the margin was revised was in 2008.
Consumers, meanwhile, will benefit from the weekly price format by enjoying any price changes faster in line with any downturn in petroleum prices in the world market.
However, the government reiterated that it will protect consumers from the effects of potential price increases by capping the price of RON 95 petrol at RM2.20 per litre and Euro 2M diesel at RM2.18 per litre even if crude market prices rise and push the pump price up beyond that level. This will remain until the implementation of targeted fuel subsidies announced during the tabling of Budget 2019.
The retail price of petroleum products will be readjusted on a weekly basis according to the controlled float method under the Automatic Pricing Mechanism (APM) formula. Fuel prices are set to be announced every Friday, and will be effective from Saturday until the next Friday.
For the period from January 5 to January 11, the retail price for RON 95 petrol will be lowered to RM1.93 per litre (down 27 sen from RM2.20 previously), while RON 97 petrol will be priced at RM2.23 per litre (down 27 sen from RM2.50). Euro 2M diesel will be priced at RM2.04 per litre (down 14 sen from RM2.18).


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Malcolm Parks has lived in Mifflin County almost his entire life. He was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn Highlands High School in 1972. He went on to receive an Associate Degree form Brandywine College in Wilmington, Delaware. Following college Malcolm worked in the construction field and eventually started a landscaping business in which he later sold in 1988.
Malcolm entered the financial services industry in 1989 working with the Prudential Insurance Company as a Registered Representative. After fourteen years with Prudential Malcolm became employed within the banking industry as a Registered Representative and eventually as an Investment Adviser. He has been associated with helping customers in the banking industry for about twelve years. Malcolm works with individuals as well as businesses to create and implement sound financial and investment strategies. Malcolm holds a series 7,65,6 and 63 registrations as well as his life and health insurance license which provides his clients with a variety of investment and insurance related options.
Malcolm has been involved with coaching soccer and travel softball and is currently serving on a couple of travel softball boards. He had been active with the Boy Scouts of America for about 10 years proudly watching his son achieve the status of Eagle Scout and most recently moderating a Personal Management merit badge. Presently he enjoys watching his daughters participate in sporting events and hunting with his son when possible.
Malcolm's wife Kelly is a teacher in the Mifflin County School District. He has six children and two grandchildren to keep him busy when he is not working.
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Pastor Shares How to Identify a Prosperity Gospel Church
By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post Contributor | May 25, 2018 2:47 PM
While there are numerous prosperity gospel churches around the world, they don't advertise themselves as one. But one pastor is offering some guidance on how to tell if a church promotes the "health and wealth" gospel.
Tim Challies, a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Canada and an author, cited Kate Bowler's book, Blessed, to compile his list and the first thing people should watch out for, he said, is the church's name.
"Words like 'victory,' 'abundant,' or 'conquerors' provide what may be key information," Challies wrote in his blog.
During church services, people can also determine whether the language used emphasizes "their core conviction that faith is the instrument through which believers attain their desires." Key phrases that may be used include "releasing your faith," "speaking your faith," or "believing God for" things.
A church's website is another place one can gain clues as to whether the church may be a prosperity gospel one. Challies noted that if a website "prominently features the pastor," that may be an indication that it's part of the prosperity gospel movement.
"Prosperity churches tend to align their identity with their senior pastor," Challies said, noting that "71 percent of American prosperity megachurches use the image of the senior pastor as the primary advertisement on the church's homepage."
Also, prosperity gospel churches usually offer books by some of the leading personalities of the movement. Challies identified Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Paula White, Benny Hinn, or T.D. Jakes as among those leaders.
He also noted that the "few superstars" who are in the prosperity gospel movement "tend to appear at the majority of the big events."
Education is another indicator. Prosperity gospel preachers usually come from a "limited number of educational institutions such as Rhema Bible Training College or Oral Roberts University."
Furthermore, prosperity gospel churches are not affiliated with denominations, but to less-formal networks or associations, including the Association of Faith Churches and Ministers and Creflo Dollar's Ministerial Association.
Bowler's book was released in 2013 and is described as "the first comprehensive" American history of prosperity gospel.
Bill Gates Recommends Christian Memoir of Prosperity Gospel Scholar in Top 5 Summer Books
Preachers Who Entertain, Teach Prosperity Gospel 'Hinder' the Church: Baptist Pastor
Benny Hinn's Nephew Calls Bethel Church Leader Kris Vallotton 'False Prophet' Who 'Deceives People'
Prosperity Gospel Scholar Says Belief That Pain Will Always Bring Reward Is a 'Beautiful Lie'
"Introducing readers to its most famous faces—celebrities like Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jakes, and Paula White—this book gives an intellectual framework for understanding the theology and everyday lives of people who tune in to hear its familiar message: God desires to bless you," says an introduction to the book posted on her website.
Influential evangelical John Piper, the chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary, has also spoken about ways to identify prosperity gospel churches.
Piper said to look for the absence of a serious doctrine of the biblical necessity and normalcy of suffering, the absence of a doctrine of suffering; the absence of a clear and prominent doctrine of self denial; the absence of serious exposition of Scripture; the absence of dealing with tensions in Scripture; exorbitant lifestyles of church leaders; and preachers' prominence of self and a marginalization of the greatness of God.


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Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans
By: Associated Press May 7, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other.
With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debating a Democratic plan to keep college loan interest rates for 7.4 million students from doubling on July 1. The $6 billion measure would be paid for by collecting more Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from high-earning owners of some privately held corporations.
Republicans want a vote on their own bill, which like the Democrats' would freeze today's 3.4 percent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans for one more year. It would be financed by eliminating a preventive health program established by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Each side scoffs that the other's proposal is unacceptable, and neither is expected to garner the votes needed to prevail. Even so, everyone expects a bipartisan deal before July 1 because no one wants students' interest rates to balloon before November's presidential and congressional elections.
"We're still pushing on that," said Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, chief sponsor of the Democratic bill. "But I also think I recognize if there is another proposal outside of going after the health care fund, we'll certainly listen."
Stafford loans are made to low- and middle-income students. With student loans of all types a growing household burden that now exceeds the nation's credit-card debt, the fight in Congress has come to symbolize how each party would help families cope with the rugged economy and how to pay for it.
Budget and defense issues, Export-Import bank also on agenda
Lawmakers face a pile of other issues this week as well.
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee plans to vote on GOP-written legislation renewing federal efforts to prevent domestic violence. The Senate voted to renew the Violence Against Women Act two weeks ago and included provisions, such as requiring groups receiving money to show they don't discriminate against gays, that drew opposition from conservatives. The House version is expected to leave out such contentious language.
That same day, House-Senate bargainers plan to start talks on overhauling federal transportation programs. Congress is under pressure to act because the trust fund that pays for highway aid to states is forecast to go broke next year. Transportation programs have limped along under nine short-term extensions since the last long-term transportation bill expired in 2009, and the current one expires June 30.
The House Armed Services Committee plans Wednesday votes on a defense budget that may defy administration preferences to close more military bases and retire some of the Air Force's high-altitude Global Hawk drones.
The House also turns this week to a Republican measure cutting more than $300 billion from the federal budget over the coming decade. The cuts would prevent the Pentagon from getting smacked with a $55 billion cut in its budget next year, due to the failure of last year's deficit "supercommittee" to strike a debt-cutting deal. They would also preserve $24 billion for domestic agency budgets.
The GOP cuts hit programs for the poor such as food stamps and Medicaid, and also strike at Obama's revamping of health care and financial regulations. They'll be dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The House also is set to vote on renewing the charter of the Export-Import Bank, the federal agency founded in 1934 that helps finance American companies' overseas sales. House leaders late Friday broke a political logjam that had been holding up the charter renewal, something usually accomplished with little or no controversy.
As for the student loan fight, it is chiefly an exercise each party is using to vilify the other to voters, as Obama illustrated Friday in remarks to a cheering crowd at a high school in Arlington, Va.
"We shouldn't have to choose between women having preventive health care and young people keeping their student loan rates low," he said, continuing a Democratic theme that the GOP doesn't care about women's issues.
'Political playpen for the presidential race'
This week's White House schedule underscored the president's willingness to use student loans as a blunt political instrument. He planned a Monday conference call on the subject with local officials and student leaders, Vice President Joe Biden was discussing it Thursday at the White House with students and others, and top administration officials were holding student loan events in at least nine states.
Republicans were giving as well as they got.
In a written statement, Senate Minority Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the student loan issue was a phony fight designed by Democrats as a distraction for young people who "can't find good jobs in the Obama economy." Others also called it a charade.
"It seems like once a week, they begin the week by turning the Senate into a political playpen for the presidential race," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., sponsor of the GOP student loan measure, said in an interview. He added, "I certainly don't support the idea of raising taxes on small business men and women at a time when we're trying to grow jobs."
On April 27, the House approved a student loan measure similar to the one by Senate Republicans. House leaders scheduled that vote soon after Mitt Romney, the likely GOP presidential nominee, built pressure on them by saying he favored extending the current loan interest rates.
If the loan rates rise to 6.8 percent on July 1, it would affect more than 7.4 million students expected to seek subsidized Stafford loans in the year running through June 2013. The Department of Education projects those students will borrow $31.6 billion, averaging $4,226 apiece.
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Anyone thinking of buying or selling a business can now take advantage of free legal guidance at any time of the day or night.
A new app launched by Vertex Law has been designed to help people understand how a corporate transaction works – and some steps they can take to avoid making costly mistakes.
Known as Vertex Law Transact, the app takes users through a series of questions designed to highlight some of the key issues that they need to consider. A free summary report is available at the end plus there is a glossary of terms as well as FAQs covering issues such as valuations, funding and dealing with potential buyers/sellers.
Salim Somjee, a partner in the Corporate Team at the Kent-based firm, who has extensive experience of helping clients buy and sell businesses and the types of issues that need to be dealt with, has worked with an external design team to put together the interactive tool.
"Vertex Law Transact has been developed to help people who do not have experience of a corporate transaction, to provide an introduction to how they work, as well as provide a refresher for those who may not have been involved with one for a while," he said.
"At the very least I hope this app will save people some money on their legal fees. It will reduce the time lawyers need to spend on explaining the basics of a corporate transaction and give users better value for money from their expert advisers.
"In addition, though, giving would-be buyers and sellers this core information can also help them avoid mistakes at an early stage that can end up costing them dearly at a later date.
"We often come across situations where people have agreed on something that would appear to be totally innocuous without realising the full implications of what they have done.
Vertex Law Transact can be downloaded for free, without obligation, from the App Store.
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Gościeszyn – dawna gromada, czyli najmniejsza jednostka podziału terytorialnego Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej w latach 1954–1972.

Gromady, z gromadzkimi radami narodowymi (GRN) jako organami władzy najniższego stopnia na wsi, funkcjonowały od reformy reorganizującej administrację wiejską przeprowadzonej jesienią 1954 do momentu ich zniesienia z dniem 1 stycznia 1973, tym samym wypierając organizację gminną w latach 1954–1972.

Gromadę Gościeszyn z siedzibą GRN w Gościeszynie utworzono – jako jedną z 8759 gromad na obszarze Polski – w powiecie żnińskim w woj. bydgoskim, na mocy uchwały nr 24/19 WRN w Bydgoszczy z dnia 5 października 1954. W skład jednostki weszły obszary dotychczasowych gromad Budzisław, Cegielnia, Gościeszyn i Ryszewo ze zniesionej gminy Rogowo w tymże powiecie. Dla gromady ustalono 17 członków gromadzkiej rady narodowej.

31 grudnia 1959 do gromady Gościeszyn włączono wieś Mięcierzyn ze zniesionej gromady Lubcz w tymże powiecie.

10 kwietnia 1956 (z mocą obowiązującą wstecz od 29 lutego 1956) z gromady Gościeszyn wyłączono wieś Zalesie, włączając ją do gromady Lubcz w tymże powiecie w tymże województwie.

1 stycznia 1972 gromadę Gościeszyn połączono z gromadą Rogowo, tworząc z ich obszarów gromadę Rogowo z siedzibą Gromadzkiej Rady Narodowej w Rogowie w tymże powiecie (de facto gromadę Gościeszyn zniesiono, włączając jej obszar do gromady Rogowo).

Zobacz też: gmina Gościeszyn.

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