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Changing habits and overcoming cravings can be challenging. It doesn't take a psychologist to know obstacles to success often begin in the mind. But transformation and growth is possible. Here are three powerful steps to get your mind on board and replace old dysfunctional patterns with new, more useful ones.
What stories do you tell yourself about your habits and cravings, and are they true? Many of us grew up with sugar as a reward for nearly everything, so it makes sense that the stories we have about sugar relate to "celebration," "affection" and "connection." But if our waistlines are expanding and our blood sugar rising – which both increase risk of heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention – what's the real story behind habitually indulging in sugar? Write your stories down to better understand how they might be thwarting your efforts to make lasting change.
When we become mindful of our habits they lose power over us. We no longer go through life on autopilot, shocked when we realize we over-ate again, had one too many drinks, or spent the last hour fretting over something completely out of our control. Instead, we become the observer of the craving – poised, curious and observant. Like mindfully watching an itch come and go without reacting to it, we learn to stop impulsively grasping at thoughts and instead appreciate that they are simply passing through and impermanent.
When we're able to bring this kind of awareness to our habits and cravings before we're entangled in them, it's as if something magical happens. An incredible sense of empowerment comes with this type of transformation. But it takes time, practice and discipline to fully reprogram habits. It's like convincing your brain to travel down a new road when it's used to speeding down a well-known superhighway.
For more, visit YouTube to watch Anderson Cooper's piece titled "Mindfulness" from the "60 Minutes" news show. Also, Time magazine published in its June 1 issue an article titled "The Art of Resilience," which discusses the science behind meditation. And check out Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan's website mindfulnationnetwork.com to see how mindfulness can create healthier schools and stronger communities.
Search for meditation groups in your area to build your own sustainable practice, since a little formal training goes a long way. Watch how bringing acute awareness and mindfulness into your own life positively affects the lives of others.
I would love to hear about your experiences with habits, cravings and meditation. Email me to share your story.


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Geekumentary: Monster Camp
Monster Camp is a rare and fascinating glimpse into the world of live-action role playing or "LARPing," a real-life version of "World of Warcraft" where gamer stereotypes are simultaneously shattered and confirmed.
The most recent item unearthed in my geekumentary quest is Monster Camp, a LARP documentary released in 2007 chronicling the activities of the Seattle, Washington chapter of NERO, a well-established LARP association with chapters all over the country. Apparently, the NERO scene on the East Coast is livelier (not surprising, given it stands for New England Roleplaying Organization), and the relative lack of support staff to run these labor-intensive events is one of the factors that contributes to the story here.
My husband's played NERO when he was younger, and though he doesn't seem too keen on the possibility of going back now that we're all grown up, I love the stories he tells about zombies attacking taverns, and people venturing off into the woods to investigate the tales of an old witch's cottage.
Monster Camp is not the first LARPing documentary on the scene; Darkon was released a year earlier, and followed a group of Maryland LARPers (definitely check out the trailer), but the flavor of LARP is quite different between the two. Darkon's LARPers are involved in a more political, kingdom-based style of play, while Monster Camp depicts pretty much what I imagine when I think of LARPing; people dressing up in monster costumes and throwing seed-filled beanbags at each other while shouting "Lightning Bolt!"
Between the two, I have to say I preferred Monster Camp, partly because the political intrigue thing just isn't as interesting to me (plus I watched Darkon right after The King of Kong, so my expectations could have been unfairly high for a purely fact-based documentary). Monster Camp did a good job at keeping the story moving, with a good mix of funny and poignant situations. It provided priceless section intro titles like, "Paul's father Steve is a monster." and quotes like, "This is technically my 5th year as a high school senior..." I think this is what they were referring to when they said stereotypes were confirmed, but they ARE then shattered in the sense that you (or at least I) grow to see these guys as human beings with feelings, just participating in a social hobby they enjoy. Or maybe you'll just see them as a freakish curiosity, but if so, the most masterful documentary wouldn't be able to sway you, and you probably wouldn't be reading this. Since you're a cruel and cold-hearted jerk.
I recommend Monster Camp to anyone who's curious about the LARP scene. Darkon's a good movie too, but in the end I think Monster Camp is a more accessible addition to the geekumentary family. But heck, if you're as into geek docs as I am, see them both!
One thing I should warn you about, though, is that they do diss on pen and paper D&D a bit. From what I heard, that remark led to a massive geek gang battle, straight out of Weird Al's Eat It. It was pretty intense, D20s and beanbags flying everywhere, armor checks and critical parries...but that's a story for another time.
Read about other geekumentaries in my Top 10 Geekumentaries article.
Labels: geekumentary, LARP, Monster Camp
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Another world record – Pakistan makes largest human flag
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LAHORE: Pakistan made another world record by making the largest human flag. On Punjab Youth Festival, Pakistani students made a largest picture of country flag. This is a largest human national flag made by Pakistani students or youth, which break the previous world record. 24,200 students put the color boards …
Pakistani national anthem – Punjab youth festival world record
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Lahore: According to some local news channels Pakistan made world record in Punjab Youth Festival, where almost 70,000 participants are found singing the Pakistani national anthem. Pakistanis have written their names in the Guinness Book of world record in golden worlds by showing their patriotic emotions together with one voice. …
Pakistan Army and Female Soldiers
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Pakistani female soldiers from the Pakistan's armed forces are playing a vital role in the success of Pakistan military. We have a great respect in our hearts for both male and female soldiers. It is also worth mentioning here that when the time of war comes, the Pakistani female soldiers …
Cash Investment in HYIP Programs is Investment Fraud
In these days a lot of best HYIP programs are working in the market. A lot of people are also willing to invest in these programs keeping in view the ROI (Return on Investment), but some of them remain successful to withdraw their earnings at the right time, while the …
Twitter to start its own video hosting service
San Francisco, USA: One of the famous social networking sites, Twitter is working to start its own video hosting service, while at this time it is utilizing the third party image hosting services for its applications. When this video hosting service will be started by Twitter, then it will be …
World's Tallest Gate to be made in UAE – Another World Record
Abu Dhabi: According to the media report, United Arab Emirates (UAE) is going to build the world's biggest gate in the capital city, while already having world's tallest tower and highest residential buildings. According to a report issued regarding the gate, the construction of 25 meter tall gate has been …
100 Years Old French Man Made a 100 KM Cycling Record
Lycon: A 100 years old Frenchman set a record by cycling 100 kilometers i.e. 62 miles on Friday. The man has outdone himself. It was a great effort by the old man who has taken the decision to make record of cycling in the age of above 100. This …
Weird Things That Only Happens in Pakistan
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Pakistan is one of the developing countries, but instead of improving itself it is being deteriorated day by day. The political situation in Pakistan is not so good, and it is going through the shortage of electricity and a lot of things of daily use. At this time only the …
Cosmo Rays Are Entering Earth From Mars, NASA, BBC
This is a fake news about the cosmo rays, that these rays are entering the earth from Mars. A lot of people over the internet are worried about the cosmo rays and searching over the web about the authenticity of the news, and discussing with each other. But this is …
World's Most Expensive Hand Woven Sari
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New Delhi, India: A leading garments company Chennai Silks, which is based in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has woven the most expensive sari of the world. The company has made the world record by presenting the sari that is most expensive in this world. The sari has …


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Форланнет () — норвежский национальный парк на северо-западе архипелага Шпицберген. Включает Землю Принца Карла (616 км²) и прилегающую акваторию (4031 км²).

Парк создан на основании королевской резолюции от 1 июня 1973 года.

Национальный парк Форланнет признан пределом ареала ластоногих в северном полушарии. Здесь также обитает самая северная популяция тонкоклювой кайры. На территории парка сохранились многочисленные археологические останки норвежских и русских охотников и китобоев.

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Fifth Division March 13, 2009 No. 1-07-1209 and 1-07-1232 (Consolidated) ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nona L. McGahan; Unknown Heirs and/or Devisees of Nona L McGahan Jarvis Court Condominium Association; Coinmach Corporation a/k/a Macke Laundry Services; and Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 96 CH 17856 Honorable Darryl Simko, Judge Presiding.
1. ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc. v. McGahan (20090402192527_1071209.pdf).


The history of cycling, a.k.a. bicycle racing, naturally begins with the history of the bicycle. The development of the modern bike, which seems to us like a fairly simple mechanism, took much longer from conception to full realization than the development of the automobile.
It began in 1690, when the Comte de Sivrac of France came up with a two-wheeled vehicle propelled by the rider, pushing it along with one foot while the other foot rested securely on the backbone connecting the two wheels. He called it a celerifere, or "fast-goer." We would probably call it a scooter.
Several types of scooters were developed during the 18th century, including one called the velocipede, which was shaped like a small wooden horse. But the first real advance in design wasn't made until 1816, when Baron Karl Drais von Sauerbronn of Mannheim added a padded seat and a steerable front wheel.


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Security Negligence? Johnny Tyronne Webb Jr. Injured in Dubuque, IA Gas Station Store Shooting.
Johnny Tyronne Webb Jr. Injured in Dubuque, IA Gas Station Store Shooting. (Stock Photo: MurrayLegal.com)
Did negligent security contribute to this shooting and are justice and compensation available to the victim? Read Our Legal Take below to find out what legal options are available.
Gunfire erupted early Sunday morning, February 23, 2020 at a Dubuque, Iowa gas station leaving one man injured.
As reported by KWWL.com, "Dubuque Police…responded to [a gas station store] at University and Asbury Road around 1:08."
CBS2Iowa.com is reporting, "[o]nce officers arrived they found a man who had been shot. The victim was identified as 21-year-old Johnny Tyronne Webb Jr."
The victim was taken to Mercy Hospital and later transported to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Gas Station and convenience store patrons have a right to feel safe and secure while on the premises they are visiting. The level of security provided at the property is of significance, and is a relevant consideration when analyzing whether this shooting may have been prevented. The following questions are also important in assessing whether this incident may have been avoided:
What security measures, such as monitored surveillance cameras, clear windows, and visible security personnel, were in place to deter crime and protect the victim at the time of the shooting?
Was there any suspicious people or activity on the property prior to the shooting?
Property owners are generally required to protect against foreseeable harm to anyone and everyone legally on the premises. Should the investigation into this incident reveal facts that establish that the property owner or management lacked adequate security to protect its visitors, Johnny Tyronne Webb Jr. may seek justice and elect to pursue legal claims and substantial compensation for his injuries.
The Murray Law Firm has extensive and successful experience in handling security negligence claims on behalf of victims and their families, and suggests that an immediate, unbiased inspection of the property will need to be performed so as to limit evidence from being altered, damaged or destroyed. The complexities of pursuing a negligent security case are well understood by the legal team at The Murray Law Firm, and it is imperative that Johnny Tyronne Webb Jr. retain a capable law firm who will work without delay to protect his interests.
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Police have reported an active shooter situation at the Plaza Mall in McAllen in south Texas, saying that officers from several law enforcement agencies were heading to the site.
Police said later in a tweet that it was an attempt to rob a jewelry store at the mall, and that it had been prevented. Five alleged perpetrators have been detained, with the incident being resolved without fatalities or injuries.
The law enforcers attributed earlier reports of gunshots to the sound of glass cases being smashed.
McAllen, which has a population of around 130,000, is the largest city in Hidalgo County, located near the Mexican border.


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Chronicles of the journey of refugees through Hungary, Croatia, and Serbia September 2015.
In a bid to reach a better life, hundreds of Moroccan kids sneak into Melilla, a Spanish enclave in the north of Morocco. This is the story of Said, a deaf Moroccan boy stuck in this Spanish portion of Africa, awed by a false sense of prosperity, tries to jump into one of the many boats that will take him to the peninsula and eventually to the fulfillment of his European dream.
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Generally speaking, public discussion, research studies, and news reports regarding migration processes focus on exhaustively counting, analysing, describing, and questioning the migrant population. The camera spotlight, newspaper headlines, and political debates portray the migrant population as a problem to be resolved though integration, persecution, and forced expulsion, thus normalising the violence of the migration control system.
This talk approaches the current situation from a different perspective, exploring the legal systems created by European governments to regularise violence against the migrant population. It also looks at the exaltation and constant defense of pro-colonial symbols and narratives as a means of supporting racialized structures, and the role of Europe's human rights and charity industry within the framework of systematic violence.
Tarajal: Dismantling Impunity on the Southern Border is a documentary research project by the production company Metromuster, which previously produced the influential activist documentary Ciutat Morta. It has been commissioned by Observatori DESC, which is collaborating in the research process. Tarajal is based on statements from migration experts, journalists, lawyers, police spokespersons, and activists, as well as official declarations from the Interior Ministry, edited together to reveal the many contradictions in the accounts of the events leading to the death of 15 migrants at Tarajal. Above all, it suggests that the events may not have simply been a matter of police negligence, but part of a strategy designed for the application of migration control policies.


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Reporting the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
and the Union Victory That Precipitated It (SOLD)
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION], Newspaper. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, N.Y., October 11, 1862. 16 pp., 11 x 16 in.
Reporting the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, and the occasion for Lincoln to issue his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation warning the South to return to the Union or face losing their slaves.
Item #22501.41, SOLD — please inquire about other items
The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
and Pivotal Battle of Antietam (SOLD)
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION], Newspaper. Harper's Weekly, October 4, 1862. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Contains a Thomas Nast illustration: "McClellan Entering Frederick, Maryland" on the front page. Inside: The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862. View of Harpers Ferry and Maryland Heights. War map of Kentucky. Capitol grounds at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania turned into a camp. Centerfold: Battle of Antietam. Grand depot for General Grant's army at Columbus, Kentucky.
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George McClellan Boxing with Robert E. Lee:
Cartoon Celebrating the Union Victory at Antietam (SOLD)
[ANTIETAM]. [ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Lithographic Print, "The Last Round. Little Mac vs Big Charley," from Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, New York, N.Y. [after September 17, 1862]. 1 p., 15 x 12 in.
This political cartoon celebrates the Union victory in the Battle of Antietam, depicting the bloodbath as a boxing contest between Confederate General Robert E. Lee (labeled "Charles" Lee in reference to the Revolutionary War traitor) and Union General George McClellan. European leaders watch as Jefferson Davis exclaims "My Game is Up" and Abraham Lincoln encourages his champion to "Give him fits my darling!" The handlers are African Americans, and Lee appears ready to throw in the sponge. The printer is unspecified, but it was issued by Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, a New York publication that appealed to upper class sports aficionados.
A Confederate Newspaper Prints Lincoln's Response
to Horace Greeley's "Prayer of Twenty Millions" Anti-Slavery Editorial
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspaper. Richmond Whig, Richmond, Va., August 30, 1862. 2 pp., 17 x 24 in.
On the front page under "News from the North" is the text of Abraham Lincoln's reply to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. Greeley's letter urging Lincoln to emancipate all slaves in Union-held territory was known as "The Prayer of Twenty Millions." It was first published on August 20, 1862. Lincoln responded on August 22, declaring that his paramount goal is to save the Union, regardless of its effect on slavery, as well as his personal views that all men should be free.
Six Months of Britain's Punch Magazine,
with Numerous Engravings Showing Lincoln's Frustration
at the War's Progress
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspapers. Punch, or the London Chariari, London, England, July 5, 1862 through December 27, 1862. Bound volume of 26 weekly issues, 9 x 11 in., tight, gold-embossed boards.
Lincoln's Compensated Emancipation Proposal
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspaper. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1862. 8 pp., 15½ x 20½ in. With "Message from the President...Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolition of slavery." [Printing Lincoln's March 5 message to Congress on page 1.]
The United States is the only nation in history to end slavery through Civil War. Nations as diverse as Russia, the British Empire, France, Brazil, and others around the world ended their reliance on slave labor through legislative means that included some form of compensation to slave owners for their lost "assets." Here, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the front page that Lincoln presented a special message to Congress with a plan to end slavery through compensation. There would be no takers among the slaveholding border states.
Peter Cooper's Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation
PETER COOPER. [SLAVERY], Pamphlet. Letter of Peter Cooper, on Slave Emancipation, Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1862, 8pp., disbound.
"It is a fact that the enslavement of human beings has so far infused its insidious poison into the very hearts of the Southern people, that they have come to believe and declare the evil of slavery to be a good, and to require the power of Government to be exerted to maintain, extend, and perpetuate an institution that enables thousands to sell their own children, to be enslaved, with all their posterity, into hopeless bondage...."
The founder of New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art echoes the language and logic of the Emancipation Proclamation (as well as citing some Southern pro-slavery arguments to demonstrate their ridiculousness) in this open letter to President Lincoln. Cooper and the Cooper Union had long been advocates of abolition and both Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had famously lectured at the institution.
Lincoln Calls for the public to supports the U.S. Sanitary Commission
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. HENRY W. BELLOWS, Printed Circular Letter, to "the Loyal Women of America." Washington, D.C., October 1, 1861. 3 pp., 8 x 10 in.
"The Sanitary Commission is … of direct practical value to the nation, in this time of its trial. It is entitled to the gratitude and confidence of the people… There is no agency through which voluntary offerings of patriotism can be more effectively made. A. Lincoln."
The Inauguration of President Lincoln (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspaper. Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1861. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
"touched...by the better angels of our nature..."
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Lincoln Raises the Flag
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspaper. Harper's Weekly, March 9, 1861. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
President Lincoln hoisting the 34-star American flag on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, with his speech. United States arsenal at Little Rock, Arkansas surrendered to the state troops. Interior of the new dome of the capitol at Washington. Front view of Fort Pickens, Pensacola. Inauguration of Pres. Jefferson Davis at Montgomery, Alabama.
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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, Appealing to the "Better Angels of Our Nature" (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspaper. New York Semi-Weekly Tribune, New York, N.Y., March 5, 1861. Lincoln's inaugural address, given the day before, is printed on the front page. With other substantial content about the inaugural ceremonies and the swearing in, including Roger Taney's disposition right after he swore in Abraham Lincoln: "The Chief Justice seemed very much agitated..." . 8 pp., 16 x 21½ in.
"One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.... I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Reporting Lincoln's Journey to Washington
for His Inauguration
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Newspaper. New York Times, New York, N.Y., February 23, 1861. 8 pp.
Abraham Lincoln: Large 1861 Inauguration Chromolithograph
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Chromolithograph. Presidents of the United States, [Philadelphia]: Published by F. Bouclet, lithographed by A. Feusier. Sheet size: 21 in. x 27 in. Image size: 24½ in. x 18¾ in.
Lincoln Thanks Former Pro-Slavery and Newly Republican Congressman for a Fiery Anti-Slavery Speech at a Philadelphia Campaign Rally (SOLD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Autograph Letter Signed, to John Hickman. Springfield, Ill., July 29, 1860. 1 p., 4½ x 7 in. With original envelope addressed to Hickman in Lincoln's hand, with "Free" and "Springfield, IL July 30" postmark. [Lincoln didn't have the franking privilege at the time, but it was free to send mail to members of Congress.]
John Hickman, a pro-slavery Pennsylvania Democrat, became fervently anti-slavery over Buchanan's moves to expand slavery into Kansas. Hickman migrated into the "anti-Lecompton" wing of the Democratic party, then towards the Know Nothings, and finally becoming a founder of the Republican Party. In the May 1860 Wigwam convention that chose Lincoln as the Republican Presidential nominee, Hickman was a candidate for the vice presidency; he came in third, after Hannibal Hamlin and Cassius Clay.
At a July 24, 1860, Philadelphia rally, with the nominees in place, Congressman Hickman made his case in support of Lincoln and Hamlin against the "extravagant and unconstitutional demands" of the South regarding the expansion of slavery. "We can only make it effectual in one way—by the support of Mr. LINCOLN. He is honest and capable, and attached to the principles of the Constitution, and his election will assign limits to sectional oligarchy, and make labor honorable and remunerative...." Less than a week later, Lincoln received a copy of the speech from Hickman and thanked him with this brief letter. Clearly, the battle lines of the watershed election of 1860 had been drawn.
A significant portion of Hickman's speech was soon printed in pamphlet form attached to Lincoln's already famous Cooper Union speech. Titled The Republican party vindicated--the demands of the South explained : Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, at the Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860. The pamphlet adds to Lincoln long excerpts from Hickman's speech, pieces arguing against the Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas ("The Dred Scott Decision and Douglas' Endorsement Thereof," and "Practical Operation of Douglas' 'Non-Intervention.'"), and his running mate ("Herschel V. Johnson's Views").
To accompany our letter, we include a first edition of the pamphlet (#24290.03). A digital copy of the whole pamphlet can also be seen: https://archive.org/details/republicanparty00linc
Abraham Lincoln Famous Nomination Photograph (SOLD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Platinum print photograph, 20½ x 26½ inches. One of three images taken by Alexander Hesler on June 3, 1860 in Springfield, Illinois. After the war, Philadelphia photographer George B. Ayres purchased Hesler's studio and negatives. This massive print was enlarged from Hesler's negative by Ayres ca. 1897, with original blind stamp in each of the lower corners, "G. B. Ayres, Copyright 1897." Framed to 30¾ x 37½ inches.
Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln Thanks a Supporter for Chicago News, with Republican Convention Materials (SOLD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Autograph Letter Signed, to P.A. Hackleman. Springfield, Ill., June 8, 1860. 1 p. 5 x 8 in. With a 5 ½ x 3 in. envelope postmarked "Rushville Ills. June 13" and "Springfield, Ill." With: A pair of exceedingly rare broadsides from the Chicago convention that nominated Lincoln for the Presidency.
In June 1860, Lincoln had only recently gained the nomination as Republican Presidential candidate. A month earlier, he had been locked in a tight battle with heavy favorite William Seward. Lincoln's surrogates packed the Chicago Republican convention hall with supporters and enlisted the help of a local newspaper editor to secure the votes of the Ohio delegation. After a raucous debate and inside dealings worthy of Chicago's political reputation, Lincoln won the nominated on the third ballot.
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A First-Day New York Printing of Candidate Lincoln's
Cooper Union Speech (SOLD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Newspaper. New York Evening Post, New York, N.Y., February 28, 1860, 4 pp., 26 x 30½ in. Disbound. Lincoln's speech is printed on the front page and continued on page 4. With British Museum stamp next to masthead.
"Let us have faith that right makes might."
The 1858 Debates that Propelled Lincoln to National Attention
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Book. Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster, and Co., 1860. 3rd edition, with publisher's advertisements bound in. 268 pp., 6½ x 9½ in.
The Lincoln Nomination Chair (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN], Chair, bentwood hickory; painted black. [Springfield, Illinois?, ca. 1860].


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'A Journal For Jordan' Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Clip Explores Why Chanté Adams Was The Perfect Dana
Shadow and Act has an exclusive clip from behind-the-scenes of A Journal for Jordan.
In the clip, discover how director Denzel Washington decided Chanté Adams would be the perfect Dana Canedy.
In a prior interview with S&A, Adams talked about working with Canedy on the portrayal.
"She made herself available and open to me from day one," she said. "From our first conversation she just told me, 'I'm an open book, you can ask me anything you want, no matter how personal.'"
Adams took advantage of that advice and over time developed a close relationship with Canedy.
"I took advantage of [her offer], but tried to be mindful of her time towards the beginning," she continued. "But by the time that we started filming, I was probably on the phone with her every day and I was just like 'this woman has a full-time job,' but she always made time for me so I was very grateful for that."
The film is based on the true story of Sergeant Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan), "a soldier deployed to Iraq who begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy (Adams) revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child. A sweeping account of a once-in-a-lifetime love, the film is a powerful reminder of the importance of family and the all-too-human cost of war."
A Journal for Jordan will be available on Digital Feb. 22 and Blu-ray March 8.


Shujaa's gallant run at the Canada Sevens ended at the last hurdle, finishing second overall after a 31-12 cup final defeat to Fiji on Monday morning.
Nelson Oyoo started Kenya's first attack with an excellent turnover at the breakdown. Quick hands kept the ball moving at pace and a final overhead pass out to Willy Ambaka ensured that he had the time and space to surge over the line. Samuel Oliech added the conversion.
Fiji's responded with a converted try of their own.
Eroni Sau's offload off the deck was absolutely outstanding and it found Josua Vakurunabili who didn't need to break his stride to score. Vatemo Ravouvou added the conversion to tie the match at 7-7.
Kenya knew that they had to be so clinical in this final and they were certainly doing that. Oliech produced a monster fend and touched down at pace. This time the conversion didn't have the distance and Kenya had to settle for five points.
The last word of the half went to Fiji after a Kenyan error off the restart. Sevuloni Mocenacagi plucked the ball athletically out of the air, went through the gears and leveled the scores going into the break, all square at 12-12 with all to play for in the second half.
Fiji enjoyed a purple patch after the restart and took their output up a gear. Mocenacagi soon added his second, Amenoni Nasilasila and Alasio Naduva then provided electric impact off the bench before Naduva added their fourth try to go 26-12 up.
It was soon 31-12 to Fiji. They kicked for the corner off a penalty and went to the short side of a well-taken lineout. Paula Dranisinukula had his eyes firmly set on the line and Kenya's final defenders just could not stop him.
The Kenyans were still fighting, staying hungry and tenacious despite the score. Ambaka flew down the left-wing and looked like he was to go over to give Kenya the last say on the scoreboard however the determination of Jerry Tuwai was shown in full force. Tuwai bundled his opponent into touch and after that his side controlled possession until the hooter sounded.
The full-time whistle signaled Fiji's victory and as a result they became to the first team to record two tournament titles this season. As for Kenya's Shujaa, they live to fight another day, Innocent Simiyu must be proud of his charges performance and will certainly want more as the series heads into its final four rounds. He will also keep tabs Commonwealth Games and Rugby World Cup Sevens as well, looking to best the best out of Shujaa.


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NYSE's Top DMM – GTS – Takes Stake in Boutique Investment Bank Mischler Financial Group
– GTS and Veteran-Owned Mischler Financial Group Forge High-Tech, High-Touch Alliance to Serve Corporate Issuers, Investment Managers and Other Market Participants –
New York, NY – November 19, 2018 – GTS, the New York Stock Exchange's largest Designated Market-Maker ("DMM") and a leading electronic trading firm, and Mischler Financial Group, Inc. ("Mischler"), the financial services industry's oldest minority broker-dealer owned and operated by service-disabled veterans, today announced a strategic alliance that will establish a best-in-class offering for primary debt and equity market underwriting as well as secondary market best execution across the capital markets.
The partnership, which is anchored by a technology-powered offering for public companies and a broad universe of capital markets participants, will yield a low-cost, more efficient and more effective trade execution experience. Mischler will become a "forward operating base" for the growing GTS capital markets franchise, affording clients access to technology and sources of liquidity that are generally only available to the world's most sophisticated investors.
(l)Ari Rubenstein,GTS co-founder & CEO (r) Dean Chamberlain (SDV),CEO,Mischler Financial Group
Founded in 2006 as a proprietary, quantitative trading firm, GTS is now a recognized leader in market structure and proudly oversees trading for more than one-third of NYSE-listed companies. The firm has an extensive track record developing and deploying proprietary, industry-best technology to bring better price discovery, trade execution and transparency to the markets.
"This is a high-tech, high-touch partnership designed to meet the needs of a new generation of issuers, asset managers, and trading and investment professionals seeking low-impact market liquidity and best-in-class execution," said Ari Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GTS. "Clients are rightfully demanding innovation in the marketplace, and this alliance is uniquely designed to provide that and much more."
Mischler, established in 1994, is an active underwriter across global equities, corporate and municipal debt, government securities and structured products. In the last three years alone, Mischler has played a role in almost 700 primary debt and equity market transactions. The firm also provides conflict-free share repurchase services for corporate treasurers as well as secondary market trade execution in equities and fixed income for a discrete universe of public plan sponsors and institutional investment managers.
Dean Chamberlain, Mischler's Chief Executive Officer and a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army Officer, added: "The combined GTS-Mischler offering holistically provides a powerful arsenal of primary and secondary market solutions for the most demanding capital markets constituents. Mischler's pedigree, capital markets expertise and front-line position – where we engage with a discrete network of corporate treasury executives and investment managers – is now further strengthened by the unrivaled technology and multi-asset trade facilitation platform that GTS has pioneered."
Mischler is a fully-certified Service-Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (SDVOBE) and FINRA's oldest veteran-owned investment bank and institutional brokerage. "For issuers and investment managers focused on retaining truly expert capabilities while fulfilling their Diversity & Inclusion goals, the combined GTS-Mischler platform will not merely meet, but will exceed all expectations," added Mr. Chamberlain.
Mr. Rubenstein concluded: "This partnership is another trans-formative moment for the build-out of our capital markets business and reflects the next phase of an evolution in which GTS and Mischler constituents can more easily access and benefit from quantitative, algorithmic, and next generation AI applications. The current environment and the landscape of the future will reward market participants who responsibly leverage technology. If we can arm all investment professionals with these assets, they can thrive in new ways."
To read the entire story, please visit www.mischlerfinancial.com/mischler-gts-connection
Tagged ari rubenstein, dean chamberlain, electronic market-maker, minority broker-dealer, mischler financial group, nyse dmm gts, veteran-owned brokerdealer mischler financial
Veteran-Owned Broker-Dealer's Memorial Day Month Pledge
Since its inception in 1995, boutique investment bank and institutional brokerage Mischler Financial Group ("MFG") has been devoted to meeting the capital market needs of the nation's leading corporations, municipal issuers and a broad spectrum of the industry's most demanding investment managers and public plan sponsors. Positioned as a firm that 'punches above its weight class in every metric', Mischler is viewed by corporate treasurers and 6-pack banks as a 'pure complement' to the role played by lead underwriters. The firm's highly-coveted middle-markets investor base, comprised of public plan sponsors and investment managers are notoriously 'under-covered' by the big Wall Street banks, and Mischler's ability to bring these relationships to primary market offerings floated by Fortune corporations is a noticeable value add. The firm is also known for being the sell-side's first and arguably, most foremost minority broker-dealer owned and operated by Service-Disabled Veterans.
Of equal importance, throughout its history, the firm has committed resources and year-round financial support to veteran-centric legislative initiatives, career building and mentoring veterans. This includes support of philanthropic programs focused on improving the quality of SDVs and their families' lives as well as charitable programs that concentrate on supporting the families of military men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in the course of serving our country.
Mischler Financial Group CEO Dean Chamberlain
In connection with the firm's year-round philanthropic mission, the months of May and November are specifically dedicated to honoring Memorial Day and Veterans Day. During these two months, Mischler contributes a percentage of the firm's profit to select organizations that according to Chief Executive Officer Dean Chamberlain, a West Point grad and certified SDV, "We deploy support to organizations that have a positive impact on the lives of vets, SDVs and Gold Star family members who simply do not have the depth of resources that so many of us take for granted."
In honor of "Memorial Day Month 2018," Mischler announced its annual pledge to the Semper Fi Fund, one of the country's highest-rated charities. Formed in 2004, "SFF" is committed to providing immediate financial assistance, education scholarships, career transition programs and life-time support to post-9/11 combat wounded, critically ill and catastrophically injured members of all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families. Since its inception, Semper Fi Fund has distributed over $167 million to more than 20,000 service members and their families and MFG is therefore privileged to continue our support of SFF.
Stated Chamberlain, "On behalf of the entire Mischler Financial Group family, we are grateful and honored that clients of our firm will be supporting our Memorial Day Month 2018 pledge via our trading and capital markets desks and/or direct contribution to SFF.
Tagged Gold Star families, memorial day pledge, minority broker-dealer, mischler financial group, Semper Fi Fund, service-disabled veterans, veteran-owned broker-dealer
As Fortune CEOs Take Unequivocable Stand -This BD Bids On
August 15 2017-A Special Editorial from BrokerDealer.com: Most Fortune CEOs, as well as leaders of Investment Banks and Broker-Dealers (aka BD) are typically loathe to take a political stand. For the former, making pronouncements that will raise the ire of the current president are likely to be met by "injury by twitter," or worse still, federal agency scrutiny of the company, which could prove devastating for public company shareholders. For the universe of corporate leaders with a conscience and also recognized thought-leaders, only a few have yet to prove unequivocal when reacting to the equivocal comment made by President Trump when framing his first view of what US Attorney General Sessions labeled as a"domestic terror event." We're referring to the white supremacist rally that led to 3 deaths and multiple injuries in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend.
For investment banks and broker-dealers, let's face it-politics and business mix best with each other when done over cocktails or discrete 'off-site' meetings to discuss new capital market initiatives, deal issuance and/or asset management mandates. After all, most traditional broker-dealers eschew taking a political stand that opposes the federal government administration, simply out of fear that the long lips of the current WH CEO will whisper to administration-appointed SEC bureaucrats with a message akin to 'the right industry regulator might want to make this [firm] go away.." Most, but not all is the catchphrase that compels a re-distribution of a capital markets desk commentary that focuses on fixed income markets and along with a smidgen of geopolitical observations and delivered to a captive group of leading Fortune 500 corporate treasurers, as well as a select group of sell-side syndicate desk 'book-runners'. Here's the extract of the day's piece, titled Risk On, Risk Off, US-NOKO Tensions Subside; Ugly Heads of Racism Take Top Headline…
Investment Grade Corporate Debt New Issue Re-Cap – A View About Charlottesville and the Aftermath
Risk was clearly back on in the financial markets today, as U.S./NOKO tensions fell to the wayside. Unfortunately prejudice and racism reared their ugly heads in the Charlottesville, Virginia riot over the weekend. On Monday, Fortune 500 thought leaders Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck & C0., Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, and Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour each took a stand by protesting the 'equivocal' comments made by President Trump in his first response to the domestic terrorism acts in Charlottesvile, which were advanced by self-proclaimed alt-right and white supremacist neo-Nazis. Our firm stands with every corporate executive who stays true to their own right-minded beliefs and their company's dedication to doing right and doing good, many of whom also maintain proactive Diversity & Inclusion initiatives. For those corporate executives who spent all of their undergrad time in finance and accounting classes, and perhaps not as familiar with the history of the United States as they could be, racism and bigotry are diseases, and cancers that every generation of this country has been working to eradicate.
To the above point, one only need to re-read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to appreciate that D&I is actually part of our country's DNA. It is also part of the cultural foundation of many Fortune 500 corporations, including Intel, including Merck, including Under Armour and including many others! D&I means respect for and appreciation of differences in ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, education, and religion. But it's more than this. We all bring with us diverse perspectives, work experiences, life styles and cultures and we presumably all share a disdain for anyone and any group that attempts to dismantle, disrupt and or destroy. Kudos to Mssrs. Frazier, Krzanich and Plank for putting themselves in harm's way and risk of "injury by Twitter" for being true leaders and staying true to their convictions and their constituents. Kudos also to the many Fortune executives who have raised their own voices and to those who, like Jamie Dimon, have opted to protest by remaining that much more proactive in the WH-appointed roles in which they serve as volunteers.
Today's VIX closed 3 bps tighter versus Friday's close. Also a reminder that tomorrow is August 15th – "mid-August" – that's when North Korea's illustrious "bad boy" proclaimed that he'd have his master plan ready to bomb Guam developed by. One week from today on Monday, August 21st begin joint U.S-South Korean military exercises referred to as Ulchi-Freedom Guardian. The exercise began in our Bicentennial year of 1976. North Korea has annually perceived the joint exercise as "preparation for war." It is the world's largest computerized command control implementation. Up to 80,000 American and South Korean troops have participated in this exercise in the recent past. The game will go on for two weeks before concluding on Thursday August 31st. Enjoy the show Mr. Jong-Un. You'll have front row seats though I recommend binoculars. Here's lookin' at you kid!
If you ask me this is the perfect time for corporations to issue bonds. Not a bad thing will really happen, risk is back on and summer vacations are quickly approaching. My prediction – expect Amazon to the hit the tapes first thing tomorrow morning. Free market enterprise at work. Ya gotta love it!
Today's IG Corporate dollar DCM finished with 5 issuers that priced 7 tranches between them totaling $4.10b
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Boutique Broker-Dealer Makes Veterans Day Month Pledge
Mischler Financial Group Annual Veterans Day Month Pledge: Three Philanthropic Missions;
Securities Industry's Oldest SDV-Owned Firm Gives Back and Pays Forward
(AP Newswire) Stamford, CT & Newport Beach, CA –November 1, 2016 —Veterans Day is observed by Americans each year on November 11; the day that is dedicated to honoring and extending our gratitude to the millions of men and women who have served within the US military. At Mischler Financial Group ("Mischler"), the financial industry's oldest institutional brokerage and investment bank owned and operated by service-disabled veterans, Veterans Day is observed every day, and each November Mischler pledges a percentage of the entire month's profits to carefully-vetted charitable organizations that support veterans and their families in recognition of this national holiday.
To honor Veterans Day Month 2016, Mischler Financial Group has made a financial pledge to three separate organizations that go above and beyond the call of duty to support military veteran families and local communities. Those 501c3 organizations are Bob Woodruff Foundation, The Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund and Buildon.org.
Stated Dean Chamberlain, Chief Executive of Mischler Financial, a 20-year veteran of the securities industry and a U.S. Military Academy at West Point alumni, "There are now more than 20 million Americans who have served with integrity and honor in the US Armed Forces, yet when transitioning back to civilian roles, too many are encountering challenges as they seek higher ground. The Mischler Financial year-round philanthropic mission is dedicated to the military veteran community at large, and Veterans Day Month provides a special opportunity for our trading desk and our clients to work together to give back and pay forward to the veteran community in ways that can truly help change lives for the better."
Added Chamberlain, "This past May, we made our Memorial Day Month pledge to crowdfund campaign Veterans Education Challenge, as we believe that advanced education is a core component to both personal and professional success. The organizations that we have pledged our Veterans Day Month support to provide equally unique runways by which veterans can further bolster their knowledge base and self-confidence, and in turn, help them to more easily target and capture opportunities as they advance forward."
About The Bob Woodruff Foundation (501c3)
Mission Statement: Founded in 2006 by ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff and his wife Lee after Bob was hit by a roadside bomb while covering the war in Iraq. The Bob Woodruff Foundation has led an enduring call to action for people to stand up for heroes and meet the merging and long-term needs of today's veterans. To date, BWF has invested more than $33 million to find, fund and shape programs that have empowered more than 2.5 million impacted veterans, service members and their families. To learn more, visit their website
About The Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund (501c3)
Mission Statement: Committed to providing support to those most affected by the Global War on Terror. Assistance includes: College scholarships and grants; Financial aid for professional certification programs and non-degree programs; Educational career counseling and mentorship. To learn more, visit their website.
About Buildon.org (501c3)
Mission Statement: To break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service learning programs in many of America's most under-resourced high schools. Buildon.org is dedicated to engaging and training high school students in the country's most challenging urban areas by providing those students with the tools to proactively advance programs that can better the quality of life for members of their communities who are in need. To learn more, visit their website.
About Mischler Financial Group Inc.
Established in 1994, Mischler Financial Group, Inc. ("Mischler") was the first broker-dealer certified as a Service-Disabled Veteran owned Business Enterprise (SDVOBE).Since that time, Mischler has become widely-recognized by Fortune corporate treasurers, public pension sponsors and the industry's leading institutional investment managers for "punching above its weight class" while serving as a boutique investment bank and conflict-free institutional brokerage. Mischler is unique among its peers for its capital markets capabilities, as well as the firm's year-round advocacy and support of veteran-centric causes. Mischler maintains offices in 8 major cities and is staffed by more than 55 securities industry veterans whose expertise extends across virtually all primary and secondary debt and equity capital market silos. In addition to traditional DCM and ECM services and secondary market best execution, Mischler administers corporate share repurchase programs for leading Fortune companies, cash management for government entities and corporations, and asset management programs for liquid and alternative investment strategies. The firm's website is www.mischlerfinancial.com
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Chicago Politico & Owner of Cabrera Capital Mrkts in 4mil Loan Default
(Crains Chicago Business)-Martin Cabrera, Jr, the chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission, who's also on the city's Public Building Commission and who's also owner/founder of minority broker-dealer Cabrera Capital Markets, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging he has defaulted on a $3.3 million loan.
Martin Cabrera Jr., founder and CEO of Cabrera Capital Markets, positioned as a minority-owned broker-dealer, hasn't paid anything on the loan since March 2015 and now owes a total of $4.1 million, including accrued interest and attorney fees, according to the complaint, filed last month in Cook County Circuit Court. Cabrera, a broker-dealer that seeks to leverage their diversity profile to win contracts from cities and states that have diversity and inclusion mandates has also been subject to Finra disciplinary actions.
Martin Cabrera, Jr.
Cabrera, a leader in Chicago's Hispanic business community, borrowed the money from a venture led by a man named Ventura Carlos Rojas Cardona. Court documents did not state the purpose of the loan, which Cabrera took out in April 2014.
"It's unfortunate that it got this far, but it's a complicated matter, and we hope to resolve it soon," Cabrera said. He declined to comment further, saying he shouldn't discuss pending litigation.
Cabrera Capital is a financial services firm that offers investment banking and sales and trading and is often involved in underwriting government bond offerings. Martin Cabrera also is part of the well-connected group in line to manage a $248 million redevelopment of Midway International Airport.
Ventura Carlos Rojas Cardona wound up in the national news about four years ago, when it came out that he and his brother, Alberto Rojas Cardona, were major fundraisers and donors for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. The Obama campaign returned more than $200,000 in donations from them after the New York Times reported that their brother was Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, also known as Pepe, a Mexican casino owner who had fled drug and fraud charges in the United States.
Efforts to reach Ventura Carlos Rojas Cardona directly were not successful. An attorney representing him did not return calls. Alberto Rojas Cardona, who signed the loan to Cabrera in April 2014, said he was no longer involved in that investment.
Cook County property records show that Cabrera provided the Cardona venture a $3.3 million mortgage in May on a Pilsen apartment building he owns, a sign that he may have offered the property to secure the defaulted loan.
In 2012 Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed Cabrera chairman of the Plan Commission, a panel that reviews zoning change requests. Cabrera has served since 2011 on the board of the Public Building Commission, a city-county agency that approves public building projects. Cabrera also is past chairman of the board of the City Colleges of Chicago and a board member of Museum of Science and Industry. Full story from Chicago Crains here
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Case Study: Hungry Jack's National WiFi roll-out
Hungry Jack's® is a franchise of the international Burger King Corporation and has operated in Australia since 1971.
The first store opened in Innaloo, a suburb of Perth, on the 18th of April 1971. Today, long after that first store opened, Hungry Jack's is in every state in Australia with over 340 stores, 900 managers and over 18,000 crew members to run the day-to-day operations.
Hungry Jack's has become an iconic Australian brand, delivering quality products within the Quick Service Restaurant industry. A clear and consistent delivery of their corporate promise – Hungry Jack's Makes It Better – has created a strong and well-loved brand in Australia.
Hungry Jack's needs to grow revenues while getting a better understanding of its customer demographics eventually decreasing waiting times for its customers. Deploying a WiFi network nationally throughout its 340+ stores would move it closer to being able to deliver their objectives.
Technical situation
The Wireless Infrastructure was developed as part of a $6m networking and telecommunications contract with Primus Australia. Primus worked with a number of vendors noted for their pioneering work in the WLAN and data security spaces to deploy the WiFi solution for Hungry Jack's, including Emerging Systems, Aruba Networks and Check Point Software Technologies. The new wireless LAN platform is being billed as the only wireless LAN platform with integrated application intelligence and controls to optimise application delivery and therefore, increased performance.
Based on Hungry Jack's marketing and business requirements, Emerging Systems designed, built, staged and project managed roll out and customisation of Amigopod/ Clear Pass guest portal for Guest registration & staff access.
Emerging Systems deployed the service and has an ongoing maintenance and support contract for the system at 360 Australian Hungry Jack's Stores. Emerging Systems also provided internal training for Hungry Jack's personnel in the ClearPass Guest Portal.
This project was seen as a source of competitive advantage through:
Increased in-store traffic volume (offering customers 30 minute sessions of free WiFi access and 100mB download per visit). Busiest store currently averages close to 300 sessions per day.
In an effort to improve the experience for customers on the hotspots, each store's wireless connection is limited to 20 simultaneous users evenly distributed to maximise bandwidth over the ADSL connection.
Analyse customer usage patterns so Hungry Jack's can develop effective niche marketing campaigns. Business intelligence data collection and reporting to match and deliver dynamic marketing content aimed at a targeted demographic.
Increased ROI on marketing spend - Delivers targeted messaging, advertising or multimedia content to in-store customers via Images, YouTube videos, Text (Web / SMS), Flash and Raw HTML.
Full campaign management to easily deploy digital targeted marketing campaigns and detailed reporting (i.e. number of impressions by month, year, age, gender etc).
Grow Hungry Jack's corporate and franchisee revenues.
Future plans for Hungry Jack's include pre-ordering while in line and the ability for customers to collect the order by the time they get to the counter by swiping or scanning the order from their selected device.
According to Hungry Jack's National IT Manager Joey Butler, the WiFi solution embodies Hungry Jack's motto of "makes it better".
Products and Services Used
After researching multiple WiFi vendors in the marketplace Emerging Systems chose Aruba Networks based on the Amigopod/ClearPass Guest & Policy Manager device, the 3600 mobility controller in an HA configuration with AP93 access points at each of the 360 sites around Australia. Emerging also chose Check Point to deliver stateful packet inspection and URL filtering. Emerging designed, configured, integrated and built the "free public WiFi network" and provides maintenance and support services while generating monthly reporting on WiFi usage statistics.
Services provided by other groups or companies
Primus worked with a number of vendors noted for their pioneering work in the WLAN and data security spaces to deploy the WiFi solution for Hungry Jack's, including Emerging Systems, Aruba Networks and Check Point Software Technologies.
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Mrs. Marie Verhulst, 90, 2412 W. Science Ridge Road, Sterling, died Thursday afternoon at the Sterling Care Center after a short illness.
Funeral services will be held Monday with a prayer service at 9:30 a.m. at the Grennan Funeral Home. The mass of the resurrection will be 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church. The Rev. Richard Russo will officiate. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Tampico. Visitation is Sunday from 2 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Verhulst was born July 18, 1893 in Meulebeke, Belgium. She came to the United States in 1921 and married Alfons Verhulst on July 24, 1921. They farmed near Ottumwa, Iowa, until 1942 when they moved to rural Prophetstown to continue farming.
Survivors include five sons, Joe, Ottumwa, Iowa; George and John, both of Sterlling; James, Maryland Heights, Mo.; and Ernest, St. Charles, Mo.; four daughters, Mrs. Maurice DeWitte, Shullsburg, Wis.; Mrs. Charles DeWitte, and Mrs. Adolph Wambeke, both of Moline; and Mrs. James Behan, Orion; one brother Charles Madden, Belgium; two sisters Germanie Landuyt, Lyndon Station, Wis.; and Margrette VanTorre, Norwick, Ontario, Canada; 39 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1951.


Do you love Fleetwood and the Fylde Coast? Why don't you visit and see the past come to life! Fleetwood Museum is a historically important building in its own right. It houses an important collection of history from the fishing industry and from the local area.
The Museum is the only officially accredited one on the Fylde Coast and has a unique position within local heritage tourism.
This seaside town has a fascinating past – it was one of the first planned towns in the UK. When you know it's secrets and where to look you can still see traces of its history all around you. You might know the names of Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood and Decimus Burton. Find out all about the town's founding father and his renowned architect.
The Museum building itself is one of the earliest buildings in the town. Come and look round inside to find out about its origins as the Customs House. Follow the exhibits up and down the corridors and stairs and see how the building has changed over the years.
Each room, nook and cranny houses artefacts, photos, and relics from the past. Exhibits bring the industrial heritage of the area to life. Learn about the salt mines and chemical manufacture. Plus of course the fishing industry on which the town was built.
Visit the huge boatshed to the rear of the main building. Inside is housed the Harriet, Fleetwood's last remaining fishing smack.
The boat is literally moored on dry land inside the shed – from the floor it looks huge! Find out how the boat sailed dangerous waters to feed local people – and the fishermen who braved the voyage.
Just get in touch – phone 01253 876621 or email info@fleetwoodmuseum.co.uk – and please mention you saw it on Visit Fylde Coast!
No trip to a museum is complete without a visit to its shop. Take away a memento of the town – you'll find some interesting products on sale including an interesting range of local history guides.
Fleetwood Museum also has an exceptionally good coffee shop too. Just through the main doors and on your left you'll find the gift shop and coffee shop. And you don't have to pay the museum entry charge to use either of them. Why don't you pop in and have a brew and a bite to eat?
There's a busy programme of events throughout the year at Fleetwood Museum. There's all kinds of things to do, for local adults and children and the many visitors to the Fylde Coast.
During the winter months Fleetwood Museum still welcomes visiting groups. It's a perfect time to bring a large party of people and have the place to yourselves!
The world is changing ever more rapidly and Fleetwood Museum offers and ideal window into the past for today's young people.
School visits to Fleetwood Museum are hands on and involve active participation and object handling. There's a variety of different sessions to choose from. Your school could make several visits!
Due to the historic layout of this listed building, access to some areas is difficult. Please get in touch before your visit so your time can be as enjoyable as possible. Assistance dogs are welcome.
Fleetwood Museum is opened and operated by an amazing team of more than 50 volunteers and one member of staff.
Volunteers needed to help out at the Museum. Could it be you?
They produce the exhibits, man the building, serve in the cafe, operate the gift shop. They do literally everything to keep the place open for visitors.
There's a task for everyone and all kinds of skills are needed. From practical, hands-on building skills to creative people to put sets together. People who like doing paperwork to those with good people skills.
Why don't you get involved? Not only is it rewarding, but you'll make lots of new friends.


half a bottle of champagne, a star, candles, 2 glasses.
the birdhouse the wind blew down.
i raised the blinds and there they were, sitting on my mother's picnic table, making me laugh right out loud. not an easy before breakfast accomplishment. i quick took pictures through the window screen while my oatmeal cooked.
later she told me they'd had one of those days the morning before, she and a friend, and so they'd sat on the back porch, drinking champagne and smoking the blues away with cigarettes, talking the way women do when life requires talking, and she said she'd meant to go back and pick up the bottle, but forgot, and i thought my mother would like that, that our back porch, though interrupted by cold weather, was being used, that her old table was a bit of sanctuary. we still don't have lights up, but candles are doing the job just fine.
Beautiful image of a perfect still life; still, but alive with story.
I love how even the remnants, on someone else's table would just look sloppy, look so pretty here. And, the story behind it is even better.
I wish I lived in your neighborhood. The view is pretty, and the company = divine. Lucky!
Thats a bit of ordinary magi..
That's where you get it from, right? Your love of magic? From your Mom. The open hearted way you both embrace the gifts life brings - magic.


Those who make very fine emulsions (which naturally resist creaming) can be dismayed to find that the emulsion quickly coarsens. This is because of Ostwald Ripening, the unfair process where large drops get bigger at the expense of smaller ones.
Ensure that your oil has a low solubility, c, in water.
Add a small amount of hexadecane to your oil - for reasons explained below.
There are two lessons about choice of surfactant.
A low interfacial energy stops Ostwald ripening (the driving force decreases) so choosing a surfactant that brings the formulations close (but not too close as this destabilises via a different mechanism) to HLD=0 gives a lower interfacial energy and a greater stability.
If you have an inefficient surfactant which is spending a lot of time as micelles in the water phase then it is relatively easy for the oil to be "soluble" in the water phase within the micelles and to hitch a ride from drop to drop. This accelerates Ostwald ripening and is factor in addition to the actual solubilty of the oil in the water.
One intriguing way to stop Ostwald ripening if you have an oil with a relatively high water-solubility is to add a small % (say 10%) of an insoluble oil such as hexadecane. There a various equivalent ways to describe the effect (e.g. via osmotic pressure) but the simplest is to say that as the soluble oil leaves the smaller drops, they start to contain lots of the insoluble oil which cannot take part in the ripening process so the ripening quickly stops. This is one of those important tricks that all practical formulators should know about, just in case.


In order for this RPG to run effectively, we will need at least 3-5 people ready to start at the same time, myself counted if need be.
Therefore, I will start to publicise this site a little bit so that a small community can be built to start from.
The idea of starting with at least 3 people comes about from the prospect of being in a ship's crew, and how there are four starting oceans - as long as each person doesn't start in a different ocean (it would be best if we all started in the same one) then everyone can meet each other and become the pioneer crew of the site.
Learning the rules with this basic startup will also help the original set of people to introduce further people, and from there, the memberbase can snowball.
Therefore, if you stumble upon this site and it still has a small memberbase, please do make an account, check back daily and stick around until we have everyone we need to be able to open the floodgates! Thank you!


The other explanation for the removal of articles is that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is using its power to crackdown on civil society. The articles removed for security reasons both spoke about military officers.
A protest against taking Transit web journal offline is planned outside Goethe on Wednesday under the name #OccupyGICairo. Ebitihal Shedid, Transit's editor-in-chief, has submitted her resignation.
I'm not as thick skinned as I appear. I mock displays of sensitivity but not sensitivity itself. I hurt inside all the time and the rest of what I do is about hiding it. I think about what I must do to be perceived as normal.
I hide everything because I never gained much by revealing anything. People tell you that talking about it can be beneficial but that hasn't been the case for me. It's beneficial for them so that they can counteract your sentiments that may be directed against them, not to empathize and understand. I've always been hurt when I reveal myself.
My hidden thoughts and pain simmering within me serve me well. Out in the open they're criticized and rebuked which causes me more pain. At least when they're inside there's hope that they would be understood if I just spoke up to the right person at the right time.
So I hide those feelings to seem strong. I'm not. I'm just resilient. I bend so as not to break and try to regain form. I'm insistent on my position but not unhinged. I insist on making people's lives better by keeping my irrational sensitivity aside.
I've tried to keep things inside in the past, but I wasn't always good at carrying out that decision. My feelings oozed out at times and burst at others. The results weren't pleasant. I got the worst of both worlds. I wasn't understood and I lost the hope of being understood. I've told myself to keep it all in no matter what and now I'm better at it. I'm better at putting on a show. It's always taken time to heal. I become the face that I pretend to be.
Displays of weakness are only appealing in a movie as the sad music plays in the background. It also helps when you're a charismatic actor who's loved even before you embody a role. When you see George Clooney or Brad Pitt crying, you don't feel sorry for them, you empathize because you know they are cool and will rebound. Because you value them, you also consider what they're feeling more seriously and less critically.
In real life it's pathetic. There's no close up, no camera zoom. Your weakness is an inconvenience in the real plot. In reality your face and each line that reflects your emotion isn't magnified. The light doesn't hit your face in a way that reflects your mood. There's no music to fill the silence surrounding your sobs and whimpers, in reality all you have are the people around trying to fill that empty silence with meaningless talk.


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Shavuot May 29-30, 2020 | 6-7 Sivan 5780
First Day: Exodus 19:1-20:22; Second Day: Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17
Maftir: Numbers 28:26-31
Haftarah First Day: Ezekiel 1:1-28; 3:12; Haftarah: Second Day Ashkenazi: Habbakuk 3:1-19; Sephardi 2:20-3:19
Shavuot and Mother's Day
Dr. Joshua Kulp, Rosh Yeshiva, Conservative Yeshiva
When I was younger, and I would forget to call my mother on Mother's Day, and someone would call me out for my neglect, I would respond, "Every day is Mother's Day." Of course, there is some truth to this—children should thank their mothers (and fathers) every day. On the other hand, we all know how that works out in reality. Below, I want to suggest an analogy between Shavuot and Mother's Day.
For about 1500 years, Shavuot has been associated with the Revelation on Sinai. On Shavuot, we read the Ten Commandments. In the liturgy, we call Shavuot, "the time of the giving of the Torah." But there are two Torot in Israel, the Written Torah, the Five Books of Moses, and the Oral Torah. It is fairly easy to identify the Written Torah—these are the Five Books of Moses from which we read at least four times a week. But Jews are not primarily "people of the Torah." Our religious lives feel very little like the religious lives of the main characters of the Torah. We do not sacrifice animals, nor does the concept of ritual purity and impurity play a large role in our lives. Our financial lives, our inheritance laws, our penal systems, operate in ways very different from those prescribed by the Torah. Rather Jews are people of the Oral Torah, the non-written book that was not written down until a much later period. But when was the Oral Torah given? Are we celebrating it also on Shavuot?
We read in rabbinic literature that two "Torot" were given to Israel. The earliest such example is a tannaitic midrash on Bamidbar, "'These are the statutes, and the judgments and the instructions (Torot)': "The statutes"—these are the midrashoth, "the judgments," these are the laws; "the Torot"—this teaches that two Torot were given to Israel, one in writing and one by mouth." According to this ideology, the Oral Torah was already given to Moses on Sinai and it is as old, as Divine and as authoritative as the Written Torah. As such, Shavuot should be the day on which we celebrate the Oral Torah as well.
But anyone who studies rabbinic literature, immediately senses that this statement does not accord well with the nature of rabbinic literature. One reads the Mishnah and the Talmud gets the sense that while sometimes rabbis are transmitting received traditions, much of the time they are arguing based on their own logic. The Oral Law, despite the ideological statements made occasionally by rabbis, does not seem to go back to Sinai.
Rather, the Oral Law is the living, breathing, changing, amorphous relationship between Jews, their received texts, their intellect, their traditions, and ultimately, their perception of Divinity. Every single day the Oral Law is adapted to the conditions in which Jews find themselves (a process we have witnessed acutely over the last few months). It is the open-ended tradition which we build every time we study Talmud, every time we adapt the Talmud's rules to our changing lives. It is also uniquely Jewish, sharing its DNA, if you will, with the body of Jews that have lived over the past three thousand years, changing with them as they have moved all around the globe and adapted their ways to the ways of those living around them. The Written Torah was given in the desert so that it would be available to the whole world, Jew and non-Jew alike. The Oral Torah was developed, as its name indicates, in the mouths of Jews and as such, it is the beating heart of the Jewish people.
Shavuot is Mother's Day—the one day we celebrate the giving of the Torah on Sinai. It is the day we single out to appreciate this gift. But just as we honor our parents every day, we celebrate the Oral Torah every day, every time we study its words, pray or observe one of the mitzvoth. It is a gift inspired by the Written Torah but a gift the Jewish people, and especially its leaders and teachers have been giving itself for as long as we have been around.
The Torah of Kindness (Chesed)
Text: Ruth 1:19-21
(19)And the two of them [Naomi and Ruth] went until they came to Bethlehem, and it happened as they came to Bethlehem that the whole town was astir over them, and the women said, "Is that Naomi?" (20)And she said: 'do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara, ... (21)I went out full, and empty did the Lord bring me back…
What do you think that the women meant when they asked, "Is this Naomi?"
How is Ruth feeling in this episode? She walked in with Naomi, yet nothing is said to her, nor is she mentioned. How is the town treating her? Why?
Note Naomi's response to the women. Why do you think that she does not address the unspoken questions about Ruth?
In contrast to the chorus of the town's women, we hear the voice of Boaz, the relative of Ruth's in-laws of whose existence she is unaware and into his field she wanders searching for a place to gather left-over grain: (Boaz, without introducing himself, offers her protection in his field. Later, he tells his workers to discreetly drop extra stalks for her.)
(11) It was told to me all that you did for your mother-in-law after your husband's death, and that you left your mother and father and the land of your birth to come to a people that you did not know in time past.
What is the reason for Boaz's treatment of Ruth? What might we have expected it to be?
Who does he compare her to in his description of her as having left her parents and the land of her birth? In what ways is she like that biblical character, and how does she differ?
Why do you think that Boaz does not reach out with an offer of help to Naomi and Ruth, but tells his workers to make sure that Ruth is able to collect enough grain?
Commentary: Midrash Ruth Rabbah 2:14
Rabbi Zeira says: "This book [of Ruth] does not have anything in it concerned with impurity or purity nor what is forbidden and what is permitted. So why is it written? To teach us the greatness of the reward for acts of lovingkindness (Chesed)."
Why do you think that on the day that we celebrate the receiving of Torah, we choose to read about acts of Chesed, not observance of Mitzvot from the Torah?
D'var Haftarah: The Angel's Legs and Prayer
Rabbi Mordechai Silverstein, From the Archives
Ezekiel's vision of the divine chariot serves as one of the fundamental metaphors of the Jewish mystical tradition. In this vision, Ezekiel sees four heavenly creatures whose form was, at once, human together with other characteristics which are bound to strike the reader as bizarre. Ezekiel describes their manner of standing this way: "the legs of each were [fused into] a single rigid leg (regel yisharah)". (verse 1:7)
Rashi gives two interpretations of what this might have looked like. In the first, he describes the legs of the creature as "directed one toward the other". Rabbi Joseph Kara (12th century France), interpreted this to mean that the feet of these creatures faced in all directions so that like their faces, their feet also faced in all directions. According to Rashi's second interpretation "regel yisharah", literally "straight leggedness" means that these divine creatures "did not have joints in their knees and were therefore incapable of sitting or lying down."
The Talmud (Berachot 10b) contends with an ancillary question. How many legs did each of these creatures have? Did they have one leg or two legs? On this question there is no clear answer but the following passage allows us to infer an answer: "And Rabbi Yose the son of Rabbi Hanina said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov: 'One who prays [the Amida] should align his legs [emulating the posture of the divine creatures], as it is written: 'and their legs were a straight leg.'" Rashi, in his commentary to this Talmudic passage, interprets this to mean that when a person recites the Amidah, their legs should appear as if they are "one leg." R. Jacob ben Asher, (14th century) explains that one should position one foot alongside the other foot while praying. (Tur Orach Hayim 95)
This physical posture causes us to emulate the angels when we pray, offering us the opportunity to allow our prayers to soar heavenward. The Hafetz Hayim, Rabbi Israel Meir Hakohen, explained it this way: "since we are speaking with God, it is necessary for a person to remove all bodily thoughts from one's heart and to try as best one can to be like an angel." (Mishnah Berurah Orach Hayim 95:1) Ezekiel's prophecy then becomes not only a model for the mystical tradition but also a model for our every day communion with God.
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