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Updated: 5:33 PM EDT Sep 12, 2018
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WEBVTT ANGELA, COULD THERE BE MORE VICTIMS OUT THERE? ANGELA: WE TALKED TO THE DEPUTIES HERE AND THE SHERIFF AND THAT IS WHAT WE BELIEVE. I SPOKE WITH A GENTLEMAN WHO LIVES IN ONE OF THOSE HOMES. HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO ON CAMERA, BUT HE'S ANGRY. PEOPLE WE TALKED TO IN THE COMMUNITY SAY IT IS HARD ENOUGH TO FIND AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TO HEAR SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS JUST SAD. >> I DIDN'T REALLY RECOGNIZE HIM. ANGELA: JOSEPHINE KNIGHT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THIS PHOTO OF CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS., BUT SHE SAYS SHE AND HER SON WERE INTERESTED IN RENTING ONE OF THE HOMES PURCHASED BY A COMPANY DETECTIVES WITH THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAY WILLIAMS ALLEGEDLY REPRESENTS. SHE ADMITS SHE MAY HAVE DODGED A BULLET. >> ABSOLUTELY. HE NEVER DID GET BACK WITH US, BUT I KEPT RIDING THROUGH HERE, BUT I NEVER DID SEE ANYONE MOVE INTO THE HOUSE. ANGELA: SO YOUR SON TRIED TO MOVE IN HERE? >> HE TRIED. I EVEN TRIED CALLING THE NUMBER TO MAKE CONTACT. ANGELA: ST. LUCIE COUNTY SHERIFF KEN MASCARA SAYS ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS, THAT PROPERTY AND THREE OTHERS HERE IN THE COUNTY HAD BEEN SOLD THROUGH A QUIT CLAIM DEED, REPORTEDLY TO WILLIAMS WHO WAS REPRESENTING A COMPANY CALLED ROCKING AND ROLLING INVESTMENTS. DETECTIVES SAY THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY OWN THOSE HOMES HAD NO IDEA THE PROPERTY HAD BEEN SOLD, AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, THEY SAY WILLIAMS THEN SOLD THE HOMES TO UNSUSPECTED BUYERS. >> HE WROTE A QUIT CLAIM DEED, PUT PHONY WITNESSES, SIGN IT, AND THEN HE WOULD GO AND FILE IT WITH THE CLERK OF THE COURT'S OFFICE, WHICH WOULD THEN BECOME, IF YOU LOOK IT UP, HE WOULD BE THE NEW OWNER OF THE HOME. ANGELA: THE SHERIFF SAYS WILLIAMS WAS BOOKED INTO THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY JAIL. HE FACES GRAND THEFT CHARGES AND IS ON AN $800,000 BOND. HE SAYS IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE BEEN DEFRAUDED, CONT
Detectives with the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office have arrested a Fort Pierce man they say was involved in an alleged real estate fraud scheme.Sheriff Ken Mascara said 45-year-old Christopher Phillip Williams was arrested Monday on racketeering and grand theft charges.According to the sheriff, in September 2017, the Sheriff's office Economic Crimes Unit was notified of a case of suspected real estate fraud in involving a home in the 3600 block of Avenue G in Fort Pierce. The home was owned by a man and woman living in Haiti who had hired a property management company to renovate, maintain and then rent the property."When the caretaker arrived at the home, the lockbox was removed from the door and the locks had been changed," said Mascara. "He called the owner and was told he had no information as to why."Mascara said the caretaker searched Clerk of Court records for the address and found the house had been sold through a quit claim deed to Christopher P. Williams, representing Rocking and Rolling Investments, LLC.The sheriff said detectives began an investigation and learned three additional properties had been purchased by quit claim deeds reportedly processed by Williams.Detective James Jennings said three of the four homes allegedly had been sold by Williams and the fourth home was being lived in by Williams and his family."He erect a quit claim deed, put phony witnesses, signed it, and then he would go and then file it with the clerk of the court's office. Which would then become, if you look it up, he would become the new owner of the home," said Jennings.Williams was arrested and booked into the St. Lucie County Jail on an $800,000 bond."We believe there could be others in the community who may have been defrauded by Christopher Williams." said Mascara. "If you have, please contact detectives at 772-462-3230.
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Detectives with the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office have arrested a Fort Pierce man they say was involved in an alleged real estate fraud scheme.
Sheriff Ken Mascara said 45-year-old Christopher Phillip Williams was arrested Monday on racketeering and grand theft charges.
According to the sheriff, in September 2017, the Sheriff's office Economic Crimes Unit was notified of a case of suspected real estate fraud in involving a home in the 3600 block of Avenue G in Fort Pierce. The home was owned by a man and woman living in Haiti who had hired a property management company to renovate, maintain and then rent the property.
"When the caretaker arrived at the home, the lockbox was removed from the door and the locks had been changed," said Mascara. "He called the owner and was told he had no information as to why."
Mascara said the caretaker searched Clerk of Court records for the address and found the house had been sold through a quit claim deed to Christopher P. Williams, representing Rocking and Rolling Investments, LLC.
The sheriff said detectives began an investigation and learned three additional properties had been purchased by quit claim deeds reportedly processed by Williams.
Detective James Jennings said three of the four homes allegedly had been sold by Williams and the fourth home was being lived in by Williams and his family.
"He erect a quit claim deed, put phony witnesses, signed it, and then he would go and then file it with the clerk of the court's office. Which would then become, if you look it up, he would become the new owner of the home," said Jennings.
Williams was arrested and booked into the St. Lucie County Jail on an $800,000 bond.
"We believe there could be others in the community who may have been defrauded by Christopher Williams." said Mascara. "If you have, please contact detectives at 772-462-3230.


Earlier this month, Pleasantview Home went public with its fundraising effort to help pay the cost of a two-fold expansion project.
Pleasantview is seeking to raise $5 million – half the cost of a new memory care unit and the renovation of the original building into assisted living apartments.
"The project itself involves two phases," Pleasantview Executive Administrator Nick Jedlicka said. "One would be assisted living, and the other would be a new memory support unit.
Director of Advancement Larry Swartzendruber said that the project has been in the works for several years.
"This is board-driven, and they saw the need," he said. "Plans have been put in place and mulled over. When it was approved, we started the process of doing some feasibility work and determining whether the community can handle a project of this magnitude.
The assisted living project involves a renovation of the original Pleasantview building, which opened in 1958.
He said the vast majority of the renovations would take place on the second and third floors of the original building.
Swartzendruber explained that assisted living is a moderate level of care that falls between independent living and full nursing care.
Pleasantview has 68 independent living cottages currently.
"The other level is full nursing care," he continued. "That's where all of their needs are met by our nurses, aides and staff. Everything is done for them.
Swartzendruber said that the aim is to make the apartments as homelike as possible.
Pleasantview's current memory care unit is located on the third floor of the original building, which Jedlicka said needs to be updated.
"We've had a dementia care unit for several decades, and it's served us very well, but it does need to be updated," he said. "When it was developed, it was not required that it meet ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) standards. That from limits us as to who can be in that section of the building right now.
The proposed new construction will be an L-shaped ground-level wing that will connect to both the north wing and what is currently the north side of the lobby.
That would create an enclosed courtyard, giving memory care patients a safe place to go outside.
Jedlicka added that the new memory care unit would allow Pleasantview to go from nine beds to 14-16 beds.
Much of the timing depends on fundraising.
With an overall $10 million price tag, Pleasantview is looking to raise about half of that through donations.
Jedlicka said the project could break ground once half of the fundraising goal is reached.
"Fundraising has been done in a private fashion, but there was some knowledge in the community prior to our public announcement (at the Nov. 2 Benefit Sale)," Jedlicka said.
Proceeds from the 2017 and 2018 Benefit sales went toward this project.
"We hope the 2019 proceeds go to this as well," Swartzedruber said.
To date, Pleasantview has raised nearly $1.7 million for the project.
Swartzendruber said that Pleasantview is mainly looking for commitments at this point.
He added that all sorts of gifts can be made.
There are naming opportunities as well.
"If someone wants to preserve their legacy or their parents' or grandparents' legacy, we have naming opportunities for a certain threshold of giving," Jedlicka said.
Swartzendruber said that any and all levels of giving to the project are accepted and appreciated.


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It was a gentler time, a kinder time: Vale Max Bygraves, dead at 89. Thanks for the memories, Max.
Posted: September 2, 2012 in Popular Culture et al
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Max Bygraves
When I was a child, I was often taken to the Pier Theatre in Bournemouth to see "Maxy" – his career started out with him being called Wally, ironically enough, given the change in the meaning of that word in the intervening period, as his first name was Walter – either in a variety show (remember them?) or playing a lead like Buttons in a pantomime.
A family entertainer. There used to be lots of them, although they now seem an endangered species.
My dear old mother adored Max. He was whimsical, funny, and clean (mother was a bit of a puritan on the quiet) and had a beautiful and peculiarly accented voice which was utterly unmistakable.
His punchline, "I wanna tell you a story" was instantly recognised, impersonated and repeated around the Anglophone world. Only bad luck prevented him becoming as big a star in the States as he was throughout the British Empire.
And now, he's dead, of the same disease that took my Mum – Alzheimers – in World Alzheimer's Awareness Week, too.
Max seems to have been following me around the world. We used to live in the same town – Bournemouth, or "Costa Geriatrica" as my friends and I called it – although if I recall correctly he lived in a clifftop mansion right in the middle of the swankiest bit of town overlooking the sea, with a Roller parked in the drive, and we lived in a modest bungalow a few streets back from the sea in an unfashionable suburb.
Max Bygraves as "cheeky chappie" Max Miller
Then again, he was a megastar, and I was the son of a widow who worked as a school playground attendant. But when Maxy smiled at you, it was obvious, despite his legendary "tightness" with money, that the warmth of his love for his audience matched that of theirs for him. Then Bygraves and his wife moved from Bournemouth to Queensland, Australia, in 2008. She died there in 2011, aged 88. I hope they both enjoyed the sunshine.
Tight with money?
Yes, so it was rumoured. Like many who make it big in entertainment, he originally came from straightened circumstances. Bygraves was born the son of poor Catholic parents in London. He grew up in a two-room council flat with his five siblings, his parents and a grandparent. His father was a professional flyweight boxer, known as Battling Tom Smith, and a casual dockworker. Presumably money came into the household sporadically. He attended St Joseph's School, Paradise Street, Rotherhithe, and sang with his school choir at Westminster Cathedral.
War-time found him an apprentice carpenter by day and, by night, entertaining in local air raid shelters. With two younger sisters evacuated, a brother serving and his docker father often posted to ports throughout Britain, the flat seemed spacious.
The docks proved to be a magnet for enemy bombers and took a pasting. Infuriated by a near miss whilst repairing war damage, he volunteered for the RAF two months before his eighteenth birthday where he appeared in well over 1,000 RAF concert parties acquiring on the way the title of the 'Best Act in Fighter Command' as well as being Aircraftsman Second Class 1212094 and doing his share of guard duties on draughty airfields.
His peak year as a singer came in 1958. His two most famous hit singles, "You need hands" and "Tulips from Amsterdam" both went to number 3 in what we used to call "the hit parade" and were played constantly for a generation. When he later morphed into a game show host he just built his popularity further. His two most famous songs can be heard here:
Max Bygraves started in show business with impersonations of Charles Chaplin and Max Miller. As a boy, he had seen the legendary entertainer at the New Cross Empire. "He was magic to watch. There was nobody to touch him," says Max. His namesake was much later a poignant guest on Eamonn Andrews' 'This is your Life' which featured Max in 1963.
At much the same time he found himself sitting next to Charlie Chaplin whilst waiting for a haircut at Ivan's in Jermyn Street!
After being de-mobbed from the services, Max learned his trade in the 200 variety theatres that, together with radio, made up the popular entertainment world of the day. He had become a top act by the fifties, as well as making his name in radio at a time when audiences made up half the nation, and television was in its infancy.
Max Bygraves and Judy Garland – his fellow stars loved him as much as the public.
The London Palladium was then the world's premier variety theatre, attracting the world's top acts. His first appearance there was to deputise over three shows for the long-established Liverpudlian comic, Ted Ray, whilst still carrying out an engagement at the Finsbury Park Empire.
This was in 1950 when Dorothy Lamour somewhat improbably adorned the top of the bill following her success in the Road films with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Max seized his opportunity and impressed the great Val Parnell and was rewarded with seasons starring Abbott and Costello and then Donald Peers. All in all he appeared in fourteen shows at the Palladium in ten years.
An appearance on the Palladium bill with Judy Garland led to an invitation to appear with her at the Palace Theatre, New York. Max opened there on his 29th birthday and went on tour America in 1950-52 (when he took along the entire Bygraves family). Son Anthony's first claim to fame at the age of five was to be rescued from drowning from a Hollywood pool by actor James Mason and Frank Sinatra accompanied by Ava Gardner (and an anxious dad).
As one of the first UK imports into the US from the world of variety since Harry Lauder, Max made a raft of friends amongst the top rank of American stars including Milton Berle, Clark Gable, Jack Benny, Jimmie Durante, and many other superstars of the time. All of which made for a rich vein of anecdotes to be mined for his various books.
What a line up. I can hardly imagine what a show like this would cost today.
It was only a prolonged strike by the Musicians' Union which prevented him taking over the Jackie Gleason Show on prime time television during the great man's absence on holiday. Having run out of dollars (this was the time of exchange controls), he spent some time in Bermuda preparing and waiting for the strike to end. How differently things may have turned out if the dispute had been settled earlier! Eventually a young family and heavy commitments at home caused him to abandon his ambitions in the new world and return home where he was already a headline act and stardom beckoned.
He starred in a number of West End shows like 'Do Ra Me' which ran for eight months of 1961 at the Prince of Wales but found the constraints of musical theatre, where each performance had to be identical and the cast were dependent on each other for their cues. Max was happier to evolve and develop a performance, reacting to audiences and circumstances. He found himself working the club scene more as variety theatres morphed into bingo halls and rock and roll took over the entertainment world.
The decades passed with television keeping him in the public eye with summer seasons in the UK followed by winter tours in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Canada. Max managed to circle the planet no less than thirty times during his career.
Max's first TV performance was transmitted live in 1947 from Alexandra Palace. This was eventually followed by a multitude of guest appearances on shows like 'Saturday Night at the London Palladium', and 'The Black and White Minstrel Show'. 1972 saw the start of the series 'Max' with band leader Geoff Love, a much-loved (if you will pardon the pun) partnership that lasted over fifteen years. This success lead to 'Max at the Royalty', and 'I Wanna sing you a story' and then 'Singalongamax'.
These programmes often attracted audiences in the region of 25 million apiece, enormous by present day standards, and they also helped generate huge record sales.
It is not widely remembered that Max had a film career of sorts. His feature films included 'Charlie Moon' (1954) and 'A Cry from the Streets' (1960) where he drew no salary, successfully gambling on garnering a percentage of the profits. These led, many years later, to a long meeting in London with famed film director Alfred Hitchcock, who liked what he saw in 'A cry from the streets', when he was offered a part in the film 'Frenzy'. A variety date in Manchester proved impossible to shift and the part went to another. Hitchcock did promise to consider Max for a part in his next film but 'Frenzy' proved to be his last and he passed to the great projector room in the sky soon after.
Max Bygraves' first appearance at a Royal Command variety show was before George VI in 1950. It was scripted by Eric Sykes who remained a close friend (and who died very recently as well) and was followed by no less than sixteen further Royal Variety appearances.
His first Royal Command appearance in 1950 led to him join radio's 'Educating Archie' which made him a household name and where catch phrases like 'Big 'ed', 'Good idea…………son!', and 'I've arrived and to prove it I'm 'ere' passed into the language and are often repeated today, fifty years later, without realisation of their origins! The show ran for 11 years on BBC radio (the main writer was close friend Eric Sykes) and was also the springboard for a golden age of top names including Julie Andrews, Eric Sykes, Beryl Reid, Harry Secombe, (who sat at the next desk to my father at school in Swansea), Hattie Jacques and Tony Hancock.
Max was awarded the OBE for his services to entertainment. Thanks for the memories, Max. Sleep well.
"One of the greatest entertainers Britain has ever produced": Tributes paid to Max Bygraves who has died aged 89 (mirror.co.uk)
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Thanks for the memories. Something you won't have heard from the Legion of illegitmate children he fathered.
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Jennifer Chesebro, Professor of Nursing at the College at Brockport, moves a patient with seniors, Jonathan D'Addesio, Kaitlin Terry, and Ondrea Carpentieri.
Three seniors in the nursing program at the College at Brockport follow Professor Jennifer Chesebro through a long nondescript room with eight occupied hospital beds along the walls.
Chesebro addresses each patient by name, and handles them with the tender touch that she's developed in 21 years of nursing.
Each patient has their own unique ailments for the students to practice treating, but they stare up with hard fixed plastic eyes. The patients in this room don't respond to their caregivers—they're mannequins.
Here, and in another demonstration lab across the hall, students practice drawing blood, inserting I.V.s, and moving patients.
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According to OSHA in 2011, hospitals in the U.S. reported 16,680 cases of workers with musculoskeletal injuries—injuries to the bones, muscles, or ligaments — forcing them to miss work. Most of those were nurses or nursing assistants.
These stats are no surprise to Chesebro's students.
Jonathan D'Addesio came to nursing school after working in Emergency Medical Services. He understands the importance of following safe lifting practices in his budding career.
"We want to get the patient safely from point A to point B. I've seen the results of when you don't. I don't want to be 35, 40 and having back surgery," D'Addesio remarked.
Nursing Unions contend that some of these injuries also come from overwork. Long hours on the job can lead to mistakes.
Senior nursing students, Jonathan D'Addesio, Kaitlin Terry, and Ondrea Carpentieri, discuss how they came to the program at the College at Brockport.
Chesebro says the health care industry is a delicate balancing act—one that weighs patient and employee needs, against costs.
"As much as we try to make sure that we're focused on the taking care of the patients health care when it comes down to it is a business. And you can't run a business profitability if you're spending a lot of money on staffing when you're getting so little money back from insurance companies."
Unions are pushing state and federal legislation to require staffing ratios that meet patient needs but don't overextend health care professionals.
Hospital administrators at both Strong and Rochester General say they've been aware of the problem for years. Both have "Safe Patient Handling Task Forces" that make sure every nurse is trained in proper lifting techniques. Additionally, hospitals use equipment that will bear a patient's weight if it's more than one or two nurses can handle.
Regardless of a patient's size, the nurse's fitness and strength come into play, as well. Strong Memorial's Chief Nursing Officer Patricia Witzel explains the idea behind a pilot program designed to help nurses create an exercise and physical therapy regime to strengthen nurses and avoid injuries.
"What are those exercises that will help nurses and prevent back injuries? So, we're really trying to be proactive and come up with all sort of new programs to be able to help staff," Witzel said.
Back at Brockport, Professor Chesebro says hospitals in the greater Rochester area do more to support nurses than she's seen in other parts of the country.
Although Chesebro teaches about these risks every semester, she hasn't lost enthusiasm for the job.
"I'm completely biased, but it's the best profession in the whole world. There's not another job that you can go to and every single day you are doing something to change somebody's life."
NPR is doing extensive coverage of the issue of injured nurses. You can find that material here.This is the first installment in a nurses' health series. Here are links to the other stories in the series:
Nurses Unions Propose Solution to Nurse Injuries, Improved Patient Safety
1 in 10 Nurses Assaulted by Patients
Hospitals Attempt to Help Nurses Cope with High Levels of On-The-Job Stress
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Promise of school and Mohalla clinic in every village, also announced to give unemployment allowance
Goa: Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is making several promises to the people of Goa in an attempt to tarnish the prospects of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress in the upcoming Goa Assembly elections. On a two-day visit to Goa that began on Sunday, Kejriwal promised to improve the state's government schools, build mohalla clinics and provide free electricity to domestic consumers up to a certain number of units.
Residents of Moxi village in Porim assembly constituency overheard the AAP national convener saying that if his party comes to power in the next state elections, it will change the face of education in the region.
"We have improved the condition of government schools in Delhi to the extent that private school students attend." "We will build such schools in every village of Goa," Kejriwal promised the Moxi villagers. "Like in Delhi, every village in Goa will have a mohalla clinic providing free medicines, tests, consultations and electricity." "Employment will take time, meanwhile, a monthly unemployment allowance of Rs 3000 will be provided," the AAP leader promised, reiterating his earlier statements.
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Trump's First Year: First, the Good News
By Dan McLaughlin
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President Trump delivers his inaugural address, January 20, 2017. (Reuters photo: Carlos Barria)
Taking stock of a busy and unusual presidency.
This week marks one year since Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. If you follow politics, you can be forgiven for feeling as if it's been a lot longer than that, given Trump's penchant for generating drama, distorting the reality of his supporters, and inciting madness in his detractors. But after a year in office, we can start judging presidents on their records and not just our predictions of what they might do.
Trump deserves most of the blame for the bad parts of his record, for good reason: They usually involve Trump personally saying or doing something in the public eye. While much of the positive progress involves a lot more work by key aides and in some cases congressional allies, however, it's worth remembering that the administration ultimately answers to the president, and its staffers all owe their jobs to him. So, while we're blaming Trump for his own shenanigans, let's not begrudge him the credit where credit is due to people he's appointed.
On the whole, it's been a good, not a great, first year on matters of policy — but the bill has only begun to come due on the political and moral price to Republicans and conservatives, and the cost to the nation's institutions, from Trump's tenure. As a result, no positive grades for his presidency can be awarded without some very big asterisks. Over this three-part series, I'll take a look at the top ten things Trump and his administration have produced to make conservatives and Republicans happy, miserable, and scared of the future. Today: the good news.
If you focus on the positive side of the ledger, the Trump administration has not been short on good news for conservatives. Let's count ten ways:
One: Justice Gorsuch & Co. If there's one area where Trump has kept his promises, exceeded the expectations of conservative critics (myself included), and properly focused on long-term policy gains, it's the judiciary, starting with his A+ selection of Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Trump has, with the help of Mitch McConnell, gotten appellate judges confirmed at a historic clip, and while his judicial-selection team has had a few misfires who were underqualified or had sketchy opinions, Trump's judges at all levels have predominantly been in sync with a conservative judicial philosophy. While I remain skeptical of Trump's very-late-in-life conversion to the conservative side on many social issues and even more skeptical of his respect for the rule of law, he has clearly — so far — decided that keeping social conservatives happy on this crucial front is a priority. That's all good, and, more so than any other good thing Trump has done, it will long outlast his presidency.
Two: Tax cuts. After a long year of legislative frustration, the GOP tax bill was a big shot in the arm to Republican morale, and a major positive for the economy going forward. The bill itself was a compromise, so not what I or really anyone else would have written from scratch, but its business tax cuts are a long-overdue pro-growth step, and the moves in the direction of larger child tax credits and caps on the use of large deductions for mortgages and state and local taxes for high-income taxpayers are welcome steps towards a fairer tax code. It even got rid of the hated Obamacare mandate, a policy so unpopular that Obama himself had campaigned against it in the 2008 Democratic primaries. In a bad year for Republican health-care policy, that's a plus.
Three: Regulatory relief. Trump's administration has moved on numerous fronts — from net neutrality to environmental regulations — to reduce regulatory burdens on the economy. Most of those steps can be undone by the next administration — but not all, given the use by this Congress of the Congressional Review Act to enact legal barriers to several of the Obama administration's last-year regulatory initiatives.
While presidents in general, and presidents in their first year in office in particular, tend to get too much credit and too much blame for the economy, the combination of promised (then delivered) corporate tax cuts and relief from regulatory burdens has undoubtedly contributed to a booming stock market and some fairly solid economic growth in Trump's first year.
Four: A Strong Defense Posture. Trump's campaign embraced a Michael Moore/Howard Zinn view of American defense policy: Every bad thing was the fault of Americans standing up for American interests abroad. It was also most charitably described as dangerously naïve about Russia. But the current national-security team doesn't just include a lot of serious people, led by Defense Secretary James Mattis, U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, and national-security adviser H. R. McMaster. It has also pursued a serious posture on defense and security issues across the board, which among other things has produced the eradication of ISIS's hold on territory and forced North Korea of late into a more conciliatory posture towards the South. There are many hard calls ahead, and Trump's mouth may make some of them harder than they should be, but so far, the administration's bite has mattered more than its bark, and that's a good thing.
Five: Executive Modesty. Yes, "modesty" is maybe the strangest word one could associate with Donald Trump, but his administration has frequently done the strangest of all things in Washington: renounce power. In multiple areas, the administration has taken a narrow view of executive powers over domestic policy. On immigration, not only has the administration renounced Obama's unilateral arrogation of legislative power in DACA and DAPA, it has avoided substituting its own policy in place of it, instead pushing the lawmaking role back to Congress in search of a (perhaps elusive) bipartisan compromise. On net neutrality, it has done the same thing. Even Jeff Sessions's announcement of his intention to reinvigorate enforcement of the marijuana laws is a statement that the job of deciding which laws to repeal is for Congress, not the Justice Department. After eight years of Obama's relentless expansion of executive power over legislative and judicial functions while picking and choosing which Acts of Congress to actually enforce, it's been refreshing to see a presidency that, for whatever reasons, doesn't want the president making laws for the whole country on his own.
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Six: Paris. Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords was a bold step, and one that in even the most conservative Republican administration would have provoked ferocious internal debate. But Trump pulled the trigger, collapsing a symbolic sham of an agreement that ill-served American interests. The contrast to the prior administration's literally chasing the Chinese delegation to beg them to sign something is a dramatic one.
Seven: Downfall of the Bannonites. Given how many leading Republicans were excluded from this administration, either by choice or because they were blackballed for having taken public, principled stands against Trump, the administration at the outset looked like it might end up as a sort of Island of Misfit Toys. But along the way, a lot of the worst people on the team — especially those loyal to Steve Bannon and his ideological commitments — have washed out, leaving the team around the president looking much more like a conventional Republican administration. Bannon himself has been humiliated, defunded, declared insane by Trump, and defenestrated from Breitbart; Michael Flynn has been prosecuted; Sebastian Gorka has left the building; and the vision of a wholesale restructuring of the GOP around trillion-dollar infrastructure bills, isolationism, and trade wars is mostly history.
Trump himself remains, as do such true believers as Stephen Miller and Julia Hahn. But below the president, the policymaking team is far more the kind of people Mike Pence would choose than the kind of people who would get invited to an alt-right convention.
Eight: Immigration. I don't count myself an immigration restrictionist, and I'm hesitant to give too much credit for permanence to the immigration steps taken thus far by the Trump administration: No deal has been struck yet in Congress, no Supreme Court decision has settled the refugee controversy, no wall has been built. Nor have the administration's actions been nearly as large a break with the Obama record as either side would have you believe. But without question, for now, the tide of federal policymaking has shifted in a direction that should please the restrictionists, and that's a direct consequence of Trump's election, followed through in practice.
Tax cuts and regulatory relief have undoubtedly contributed to some fairly solid economic growth.
Nine: Culture War. The federal government shouldn't be the front lines of culture-war issues, but it is, and the Trump administration has taken stances across many areas — from life and religious liberty to due process for men on campus accused of sexual assault — that show conservatives that elections have consequences.
Ten: Jerusalem. The decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel, eventually, to Jerusalem is more symbolic than anything, and will still take some time to carry out, time enough that a successor administration might yet frustrate it. But give Trump credit: It's been two decades since Congress passed a law directing that this action be taken, and subsequent administrations of both parties have offered empty promises while going wobbly before pulling the trigger. Trump, unconcerned as he is with how his actions look, finally did it.
Tomorrow: the bad news.
Donald Trump's First Year in Office: A Solid Start
Give Trump Credit Where It's Due
Who Deserves Credit for the Trump Administration's Victories?
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online. @baseballcrank


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In stunning move, high court strikes down Northern Ireland's pro-life laws
By Laura Nicole | October 4, 2019 , 01:48pm
The High Court of Northern Ireland ruled today that the country's attempt to restrict abortion is a breach of human rights. The High Court has the authority to strike down any laws it deems to be incompatible with human rights.
The case was brought by Sarah Ewart, 29, who was denied an abortion when doctors discovered at her 20-week ultrasound that her preborn daughter, Ella, had anencephaly, a neural tube defect where a baby develops without a portion of the brain, skull, and scalp. Babies with the condition live from a few hours to a few weeks after their birth. In Ewart's case, doctors described her baby as "incompatible with life."
Ewart decided to seek a late-term abortion, and was "shocked" when she was unable to have that done in her home country, but would have to go across the channel to England. When she returned to her country, she filed a case about the "horror" she endured having to seek a late-term abortion abroad instead of at home.
Since the Republic of Ireland struck down its constitutional amendment protecting the unborn and subsequently legalized abortion last year, the pressure has mounted for Northern Ireland to liberalize its pro-life laws, where abortion is currently an offense except if a mother's life as at risk. In addition to Ewart's court case, there has been pressure from outside groups despite a pro-life resistance.
READ: British MP: People of Northern Ireland must not have any say in abortion law
In July of this year, Westminster passed a law to forcibly legalize abortion in Northern Ireland, due to the fact that the country's government hasn't met since 2017 on account of an impasse and falling-out between the two major ruling parties. Although abortion was supposed to be a "devolved" issue that only Northern Ireland could legislate and which Westminster had no authority to touch, the UK government found a loophole and used the passage of the abortion law as a threat to force the Northern Ireland government to meet before a deadline of October 21st, at which point the abortion law would go into effect.
In response to these heavy-handed measures, church leaders from the Church of Ireland, the Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church, and the Irish Council of Churches put forth a joint statement this week expressing their "grave concern" about the way in which abortion was about to be legalized and saying that that current measures could remove all protection for unborn babies up to 28 weeks, and could potentially cause a five months' vacuum where unregulated abortion could exist while the procedure would be legal but before any regulations could be passed.
They referenced the fact that Northern Ireland has one of the most recent referenda on abortion when a measure to liberalize abortion laws failed in 2016. "There is no evidence that these changes reflect the will of the people affected by them, as they were not consulted. They go far beyond the 'hard cases' some have been talking about."
The statement also called on the government to reconvene, to which one of the major ruling parties responded positively. However with the High Court's ruling today, it is unclear what recourse Northern Ireland has for the preborn at this point in time.


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The Kadett's training computer displays many measurements, including but not limited to time elapsed, oar strokes, rowing speed, and distance. This unit weighs in at 66 pounds; it measures 59" x 67" x 18" when in use and 59″ x 20″ x 18″ when in storage.
Given the outrigger design of this rowing machine, a rower should have roughly 6 square feet of space to operate this machine.This rower made it to one of our top picks of the best rowing machine for this year.
This rowing machine uses pistons and an outrigger style to simulate realistic rowing on water, which is a plus for people who want their rowing machine to feel like a real rowboat.
The high carbon steel frame is solid and built well, so much so that Kettler has put a lifetime guarantee on it. It can hold up to 250 pounds comfortably, and most of its parts are durable and long-lasting.
The frame may be solid, but it is still relatively easy to store as this rower folds up to a compact size for easy storage.
Users can adjust the rowing settings to fit their heights easily, and the seat track is long enough to accommodate tall rowers.
There are 12 levels of resistance, so rowers can exercise at whatever resistance level is right for them.
The LCD display is a nice size and is easy to read; users can even set achievement targets in various categories and the display will beep once the users have achieved their goals.
The console also includes a pulse monitor, so users can add cardio training as part of their workouts.
When in use, this rower is relatively quiet, so users will not have to put up with loud or irritating noises while exercising.
The thick padding on the seat ensures that users will not get uncomfortable from sitting during long workouts. The seat is also sturdy and does not wobble like some rowing seats will.
The pistons are covered by a 3-year warranty and are fairly easy to replace if they break or wear out.
The realistic rowing motion may be unappealing for people who prefer the motion made by standard rowing machines.
The foot rests are uncomfortable and can break or malfunction fairly easily; they also may move and shift during exercise.
Changing the resistance levels on this rower may be awkward; a possible solution is to make sure that the triangle tip is pointed towards the right resistance number.
The measurements are displayed using the metric system, which may confuse American users not familiar with that measurement style.
In some cases, rowers may feel as if they are pulling at a harder resistance level on one side than on the other.
Some find this rower hard to assemble and to move around due to its lack of wheels.
Some believe that the cost of this rower is too high for what it does.
The Kettler Kadett rowing machine's realistic sculling motion, sturdy construction, and adjustability make it a desirable rower. While some users have complained of poorly constructed foot rests, the high quality and durability of the rest of the rower can make up for loose footrests. The complaint of feeling different resistance levels can be attributed to human error and/or different levels of strength on the respective sides of the human body. Pricing complaints are subjective; each rower will have to examine the options and decide what rowing machine is the best value.
Those who do not like the rowing motion and the flaws of this rower may be interested in something like the Concept2 Model D indoor rowing machine, which costs more but delivers a smoother motion and has more features than the Kettler Kadett.


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هدف از این تحقیق، مطالعه امکان‌سنجی تصفیه‌پذیری فاضلاب‌های پالایشگاهی با بیوراکتور غشایی به منظور دست‌یابی به استانداردهای تخلیه و استفاده کشاورزی و در نتیجه کاهش مشکلات زیست محیطی ناشی از تخلیه فاضلاب‌های نفتی و مشکلات عملیاتی فرایند لجن فعال متعارف می‌باشد. برای این منظور یک پایلوت در مقیاس نیمه صنعتی ساخته و از پسآب خروجی واحد شناورسازی با هوای محلول تصفیه‌خانه پالایشگاه تهران به عنوان خوراک استفاده شد. سامانه غشایی مورد استفاده، یک مدول غشایی ساخته شده از 56 غشای اولترافیلتر صفحه‌ای از جنس پلی اتر سولفون بود که در درون بیوراکتور غوطه‌ور شد. درصد حذف پارامترهای مورد نظر نسبت به زمان مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. آزمایشات در سه شار و سه زمان ماند هیدرولیکی متفاوت انجام گرفت. در مرحله دوم آزمایش و با زمان ماند هیدرولیکی 87/15 ساعت، نتایج بهتری نسبت به مراحل دیگر به دست آمد. متوسط درصد حذف پارامترهای TSS ،TOC ،BOD5 ،COD، نفت و چربی و رنگ و مورد در این مرحله به ترتیب برابر 32/97% 58/92%، 36/96%، 99/99%، 18/99% و 58/95% بود. نتایج به دست آمده در همه مراحل بیان‌گر کیفیت مناسب پسآب تصفیه شده برای استفاده کشاورزی و یا تخلیه به آب‌های سطحی است. با افزایش غلظت MLSS از mg/L 6000 در ابتدای راه‌اندازی سامانه به mg/L 9900 در انتهای آزمایش، راندمان حذف از 00/86% به 32/97% در مرحله دوم و 22/95% در مرحله سوم تغییر کرد. نتایج حاکی از امکان‌پذیری تصفیه فاضلاب پالایشگاه نفت با این روش بود.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of treating refinery wastewater to meet the applicable discharge limits and agriculture use standard consistently using membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology to reduce either the environmental impacts of refinery waste water discharge or operational problems of common activated sludge process (ASP). A pilot scale submerged membrane bioreactor with a membrane module that consists of 56 flat sheet poly (ether sulfone) (PES) ultra filter membranes was used in this study. The effluent of the dissolved air floatation (DAF) unit from wastewater treatment plant of Tehran refinery was used as a feed. Trials on different membrane fluxes and hydraulic retention time (HRT) were conducted. The results have shown that the hydraulic retention time of 15.87 (hr) was more applicable. The percentage removal of COD, BOD5, TOC, Oil and grease, TSS, and color was 97.32, 92.58, 96.36, 99.18, 99.99, and 95.58 respectively. The results showed that the quality of the product consistently met the requirement for agriculture use and discharge to the surface water. Due to an increase in mixed liquor suspended solids concentration from 6000 mg/l to 9900 mg/l at the end of experiments, the removal rate was increased from 86.00% at the first stage to 97.32% and 95.22% at the second and third stage respectively. It was concluded that it was feasible to treat the wastewater using SMBR technology.
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. Scholz W. and Fochts W., "Treatment of oil Contaminated Wastewater in a Membrane Bioreactor", Journal of water Researches, Vol. 34, No. 14, pp. 3621-3629, 2002.
. Qin J., Htun Oo M., Tao G. and Kiran A. K., "FeasibiLy study on petrochemical wastewater treatment and reuse using submerged MBR", Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 293, pp. 161–166, 2007.
. Lesage N., Sperandio M. and Cabassud C., "Study of a hybrid process: Adsorption on activated carbon/membrane bioreactor for the treatment of an industrial wastewater", Chemical Engineering and Processing, Vol.47, pp. 303–307, 2008.
. Till S. and Mallia H., Membrane bioreactors: wastewater treatment applications to achieve high quality effluent, 64th Annual Water Industry Engineers and Operators Conference,2001.


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 il 9 novembre avviene il violento terremoto della media valle dell'Adige
 il 20 dicembre si apre il Concilio di Sutri, in cui papa Gregorio VI rinuncia al pontificato
 inizio del pontificato di papa Clemente II
 il 25 dicembre Enrico III il Nero viene incoronato imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero
Incendio nella cattedrale di Santa Maria, Hildesheim, Germania.

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from left: Elliot Heffler, Albert Vera, Richard Sharp and Steve Blumin.
40th Annual Lions Club Senior Citizens Thanksgiving Dinner served over 250 meals last week to seniors. Food was donated by Sorrento Market. Pictured on right are from left: Elliot Heffler, Albert Vera, Richard Sharp and Steve Blumin.


Anything if taken over permissible limit, does cause harm. The same goes with the types off food and drinks that we consume. What better example than that of alcohol. Though there are various researches which shows how various drinks such as beer and wine does have some health benefits, but if alcohol consumption crosses limits, it can be your worst enemy.
Better sleep: Though alcohol makes you fall asleep initially, it tends to disrupt sleep eventually. Another recent study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research found that drinking before bed increases alpha wave patterns in the brain. If you want restorative shuteye, those waves don't help. Once you give up alcohol, however, you'll start feeling more refreshed and sharp.
You will be richer! : Take a moment to sum up what you spend for drinks both at home and out on the town (factoring in tax and tip). Now you get it!!


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#1 Perry, David, 1741- Recollections of an old soldier.
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Q: How do I decode a dictionary of bytes to utf-8? I'm trying to figure out how to convert the values of a dictionary from bytes to strings as the backend only supports primitive types.
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As you can see, the values of this dict are bytes. Now this code will execute without errors on my test sample but the output has the b' prefix in front of the values (data), which will break the database. Dict's also have no decode() functionality which is why I used str(), but it must be doing something wrong since the values are still coming out with the b' prefix. Which leads to my general question, how do you decode the values of a dictionary to utf-8 format?

A: my_str = b"Hello" # b means its a byte string
new_str = my_str.decode('utf-8') # Decode using the utf-8 encoding
print(new_str)

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This weekend, the legendary circuit of Spa Francorchamps hosted the third round of the LM P3 Cup Championship, whose five other rounds of the season take place in the UK. For this escapade into the Belgian Ardennes, during the Spa Euro Race event, the competitors of the LM P3 Cup Championship shared the track with the GT Cup Championship field.
After two victories in Brands Hatch, Colin Nobel and Anthony Wells once more made the #1 Ecurie Ecosse / Nielsen Racing Ligier JS P3 shine. Having secured the pole position, they successively claimed the victory and second place in the two races of the weekend, solidifying their lead in the general classifications.
In the hands of Colin Noble, the #1 Ligier JS P3 also set the best lap times in both races this weekend.
The next rendezvous of the LM P3 Cup Championship will take place at the end of June at Snetterton.


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PICTURE BY VAUGHN RIDLEY/SWPIX.COM...Rugby League - Super League - Leeds Rhinos v St Helens Saints - Headingley, Leeds, England - 19/03/11...St Helens Ade Gardner.
Gardner: Warrington "too much to turn down"
By	James Gordon on 3rd November 2018 7:00 am Wolves News
WARRINGTON Wolves' new head of performance Ade Gardner says the club had too much to turn down.
Gardner, 35, joins the club on a two-year deal from St Helens and fills the void left by Jon Clarke's departure to rugby union.
He said: "Everything that Warrington offers is really innovative. I can't speak highly enough of the staff at the club, they are very organised and professional.
"If you want to stay ahead of the curve you have to put that investment into the playing squad and the facilities which they have done.
"Knowing the performance staff has such a good reputation with Jon Clarke outgoing and knowing how much time he's invested into improving the department I saw this as a really good opportunity for me to progress my career, from being an assistant at Saints coming into a top-notch high performance environment here at Warrington that rivals anywhere in Super League. It was too much to turn down.
"I will be looking to continue the good work that's already been done over the last couple of years.
"From my perspective having been at Saints and having had a Rugby League playing career before that I will continue to be hard working, putting a lot of effort into the boys and continuing the work already in place.
"I've had the luxury of working at Saints over the last few years, ticking a lot of boxes working through the scholarship, academy and first team.
"When I looked at my career path post rugby this is what I wanted to do, make that step up to a head role.
"I feel prepared as Warrington have an outstanding squad to work with, some fantastic athletes and a great coaching staff who have had a lot of success this year and we hope to take it one step further next year."
Gardner enjoyed a 13-year playing career making over 300 appearances across Super League and the Challenge Cup competitions. He signed for St Helens in 2002 from Barrow and played on their wing until 2013 joining Hull KR for one season in 2014.
While at St Helens he won the 2006 Super League Grand Final followed by the 2007 World Club Challenge. He also lifted four Challenge Cups; 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
His professional career also saw him represent both Great Britain and England, including the World Cup squad of 2008.
Head coach Steve Price said: "Ade had a distinguished playing career and he's been involved in a system that has performed outstandingly well.
"St Helens have been up there as one of the best in the league in terms of their conditioning, speed and dynamism. He knows about winning trophies.
"He comes from a hard-working background in Barrow and has invested in himself heavily since finishing playing.
"He went over to America, self-funded, to do CPD work with some renowned strength and conditioning coaches over in the States.
"He is highly rated within the St Helens camp; is young, ambitious and bright. He will be a great fit and acquisition for our club."


Possibly Acquiring a Turkish Mauser?
Discussion in 'Rifles' started by manceviller, May 11, 2014.
How much are Turkish Mausers worth in today prices? I've googled pretty extensively and all I can find is info from 2009 up until 2012. I would assume they've gone up just because everything has, but are they still around the $200 mark?
When I worked at a rural prison, I lived on the property in a travel trailer. There was nothing to do out there, so I bought surplus rifles and refinished them during my free time. One of the rifles was a Turkish Mauser and it goes down in my memory as a major dog. This was between 2005 and 2007.
The sight base was reinforced with wire that was soldered on.
The worst part was the barrel to receiver junction. There was 1/2 pitch difference in the internal thread of the receiver and the male thread of the barrel stub. The Turks had a solution for that mismatch.......TORQUE! They simply twisted the two different threads together and TA DA.......all fixed! Research that bit of history. It's all out there on the 'Net.
When I completed refinish job, the rifle looked great! In fact, I replaced the stock and still have the old one if you decide to go that way. After all of that work, I dumped it for $75 and was very relieved to get rid of it!
That's the truth as I experienced it.
Value? I have one. It is worth at least 4 times what I paid for it, oh by the way, it was FREE!
It shoots OK. 4-6" at 100 yards. Minute of Azzhole for sure.


With upwards of 15% of the population living in poverty, over the last few years shelters nation wide have seen a huge influx of owner-surrendered dogs and cats. For the most part, these animals are not unwanted. It's simply that the cost of keeping them happy, healthy, and well fed is more than many families can afford.
HSUS's PFL program was created not only to let people know that help is available, but to show exactly how to get it — warmly, easily, and without judgment. Whether it's purchasing food, managing behavior issues, providing medical care, or getting animals spayed and neutered, there are solutions.
Pets for Life is a community outreach program, now in operation in four cities around the U.S.: Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. The goal is to boost pet retention, improve the lives of companion animals and their humans, and provide services in areas of the country where convenient and low-cost care is lacking. Although it operates under the auspices of HSUS, Pets for Life is not a clinic or a storefront. "Our office is the streets," says the program's director, Amanda Arrington.
She means exactly that. Staff and volunteers use hands-on techniques to reach anyone who might be interested or in need, from literally knocking on doors to holding public training sessions to delivering extra pet food to those who could just use a little help. Arrington shares the story of Mark, a recently unemployed Philadelphia man who attended a community outreach event. When Pets for Life staff learned that Mark was struggling to make ends meet, they offered to load up his car with dog food. Mark explained that he'd walked to the event.
"So we got his address," Arrington said, "We told him we'd bring the food to his house when the event was over." Little did they know, Mark had walked three miles — one way —just to attend the event. "What a testimony to how much he cared and how far he was willing to go, both figuratively and literally, to get care for his pets," she said.
Since the event, Mark's dogs have each put on several pounds and are maintaining a healthy weight. And Mark still walks to PFL-sponsored training classes once a week.
Whether you're an individual looking to make a difference in your neighborhood or you're part of a shelter administration hoping to increase pet retention in your area, the Pets for Life program can be replicated in pieces or as a whole. Check out their comprehensive toolkit, downloadable free of charge. Chapter titles include Community Assessment, How to Talk to People, and Coalition Building.
Currently live in one of the Pets for Life locations (Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, or Chicago)? It's even easier to get involved. Learn more about open volunteer positions and sign up online as soon as right now.


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James Figg (* 1684 in Thame, Oxfordshire; † 8. Dezember 1734) war ein englischer Schwergewichtsboxer. Er gilt als erster anerkannter Schwergewichtsmeister Englands.

Auch wenn schon im 17. Jahrhundert in England geboxt wurde, konnte sich erst Figg, der auch in anderen Sportarten wie dem Fechten stark war, als ab 1719 allgemein anerkannter Meister etablieren und eine Boxschule gründen. Damals kämpfte man noch Bare-knuckle, also mit der bloßen Faust ohne den Schutz von Handschuhen.

Er war gut befreundet mit William Hogarth, sein Sponsor war der Earl of Peterborough.

Figg trat 1734 zurück, George Taylor, einer seiner Schüler, erklärte sich zum neuen Meister.

1992 fand Figg Aufnahme in die International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Weblinks

 Joachim Telgenbüscher: Boxpionier James Figg: Der wahre Muhammad Ali (Spiegel Online, 11. April 2015, abgerufen 12. April 2015)

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In my latest Kluwer post I wrote about the confusion caused by the most recent decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court concerning the doctrine of equivalence.
This confusion seems to have confused me as well. With respect to the background of the decision, it was actually the technical judge's expert opinion, which affirmed an infringement of the patent in suit, and the ruling of the Swiss Federal Patent Court dismissed the case by denying a literal infringement and an infringement by equivalent means (not the other way round as mentioned in my introduction). You find the amended version of the post here. I hope this helps avoid at least that you get confused.


Psychometrician July 2015 Board Exam Results (List of Passers, Topnotchers, Performance of Schools) - Balita Boss!
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) released the July 2015 Psychometrician Licensure Examination results. The official results were released on Friday, July 31, 2015.
The examination was conducted by the PRC on July 21 and 22, 2015 in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao and Legaspi.
A total of 2,061 out of 4,466 examinees passed the July 2015 Psychometrician Board Exam, according to PRC (via PRC Website).
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS graduate VAN ALISTAIR HORNILLOS FAELDON garnered the highest place in the July 2015 Psychometrician Board Exam with a rating of 84.20 percent.
To download the July 2015 Psychometrician Topnotchers, please click here or here.
To download the July 2015 Psychometrician List of Passers, please click here or here.
To download the July 2015 Psychometrician Performance of Schools, please click here or here.
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS emerged as the top performing school in the July 2015 Psychometrician Licensure Examination as per Commission Resolution No. 2010-547 series of 2010, with 89.25% passing percentage or 166 out of 186 passed the exams.
The Board of Psychology who administered the July 2015 Psychometrician Board Exam were Ms. Miriam P. Cue, as Chairman, with members namely Ms. Alexa P. Abrenica and Ms. Imelda Virginia G. Villar.
Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will be on August 5-7, 2015.
The date and venue for the oathtaking ceremony of the new successful examinees in the July 2015 Psychometrician Licensure Examination will be announced later, the PRC said.
Thank you for reading. Please follow Balita Boss on Facebook, on Twitter or on Google+ to receive updated information about the Psychometrician Licensure Examination.


It's finally landed (well, in most of the world anyway). Pokémon Go, the mobile IRL take on the classic Nintendo franchise, has sent kids worldwide running into the streets to catch 'em all and be the very best (like noone ever was).
But, almost as much fun as catching these little dudes is the opportunity for intricately staged selfie action to make you look and feel like a real life trainer. Let's round up some of the best so far.
1) When you are just chilling at home with a Nidoran on your shoulder.
3) Yeah, it's cute, but it can it handle a battle?
5) Just chilling in the park.
7) Um, you get that your friend has the photos already covered right?
8) They are attracted towards phone lights.
9) Think he's more of a Snorlax kind of dog.
10) Ok does Pidgey only hang around in fast food joints?
12) Shh. Don't tell them.
Got your own pic? Add it in below!
Pokémon Returns From Battle, Pikachu Is A Detective Now!


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Chilling Three Kings Day gift to Mexican governor, cartels leave him 6 bodies
Cannabis plant could provide elements to prevent COVID infections, according to study
Surveillance operation, after the discovery of a truck with 6 dead people in Mexico.
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In the Mexican state of Zacatecas, where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS) They fight the drug trafficking square, a truck with 6 bodies was abandoned outside the Government Palace, from where the Governor David Monreal. Curiously, the macabre discovery was made in this celebration of the Three Kings Day in MexicoUnofficial versions indicate that it was "a gift" from the cartels to the new governor.
-Read more: VIDEO: Hitmen are filmed when they murder a young girl // Even your children are going to kill CJNG threatens Guatemalan police, video
On your official Facebook account, Monreal published a video with details and highlighted that the victims were brutally murdered: "At 5:30 in the morning they inform me that a gray Mazda truck, which they came to leave here in front of the Government Palace with bodies of apparently beaten, injured and that they came to leave them here in front of the Palace ".
In the same video, he explained how they work to identify the driver of the truck, who the owners are and if he has reports of theft: "That vehicle, according to the C5 (center in charge of video surveillance), entered through the Quebradilla at 5:14 a.m. and at 5:20 p.m. leaving the vehicle here in the Palace with the lifeless bodies, and whoever was driving it apparently ran down the alley, it is an investigative work that is being done ".
Bloody battle
In recent weeks, violence has intensified in that state, due to the constant confrontations between gunmen from Nemesio Oseguera, alias El Menchor, with those of the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), whose founder is Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán. On December 22, 2021, there were shootings and fires.
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Bamboo Shrimp (Atyopsis moluccensis) has lots of different names – wood shrimp, singapore flower shrimp, fan shrimp and so on. However, all these are the names of one and the same type of shrimps.
Their way of feeding is their peculiarity. In this article we will tell you what kind of shrimp it is, all intricate details of how to keep it in a tank and why the shrimp is called so.
Bamboo shrimp comes from both Indo-Pacific region and Malaysia. They inhabit in large groups in slow rivers and streams, where they feed on various microorganisms, small particles of food. The shrimp has calm and peaceful temper which allows both settling it in a tank with small fishes and in a community tank with large fishes.
You should keep in mind that commercial attractiveness of the species let to appearance of a variety of new species of bamboo shrimp. Quite often one and the same bamboo shrimp type is sold under different names. Correspondingly, these shrimps may vary significantly, since they have no classification yet. In this article you will find general description of the species and how to keep it in a tank, which is true for all bamboo shrimp breeds.
Adult bamboo shrimp size is about 4 inches (10 cm). At that bamboo shrimp lifespan is about 2-3 years or a bit longer provided with good conditions of living. Unfortunately, large number of bamboo shrimps dies right after putting them into a new tank. Possibly, this happens because of stress they experience while transportation as well as new tank conditions they get exposed to.
These are larger than dwarf shrimp, growing to a maximum size of 3.5 inches.
Easy to keep in a home freshwater aquarium - no special equipment is needed for these exotic animals.
Bamboo shrimp coloring may be brown, red, sandy green or yellowish. It depends on many factors: the place where the shrimp was caught, peculiarities of its diet, shedding process, tank plants prevailing in the tank etc. That's why it's almost impossible to predict what color will bamboo shrimp get in a new tank. The shrimp has a white or light-yellow strip along its back.
The feature of this type of shrimps is a web-like fans as its first two pairs of legs. There are kind of hooks located on the fans that allow the shrimp to filter food from the water. The shrimp is rather large, which is necessary for it not be carried away with the water flow.
Bamboo shrimp uses its fan-shaped legs to filter water and capture microorganisms, plant remnants, algae and other small rubbish. Typically bamboo shrimps stay in the places with strong water flow, they rise their fan-like legs and filter the water. If you take a closer look, you'll see how it shuts its fan, licks it and then opens again.
Tank conditions acceptable for all bamboo shrimp species are almost the same. The tank water has to be neutral or slightly alkaline (рН value about 7 or higher). As for the tank water hardness, it should be not less then 6-80 GH.
Though it is possible to keep these shrimps in soft or even slightly acidic water. The tank with bamboo shrimps requires aeration, filtration and sufficient water flow.
As for ammonia and nitrites – they shouldn't be present in a tank with shrimps. Besides, it is recommended to keep nitrates levels as low as possible – in any case it shouldn't exceed 40-50 mg/l.
Tank water temperature should be within 75-81 F (24-28°С). When the temperature gets lower then 22°С, bamboo shrimp obviously doesn't feel good.
Bamboo shrimp looks very unusual in a community tank. They sit on some heights and catch water flow with their fans. Taking into account peculiarities of the shrimp feeding and behavior, we can conclude that good filtration and clean water are obligatory requirements to keep a bamboo shrimp in a tank. You can use both internal and external filters, the main thing is that they provide the required water flow intensity.
It is better to put stones, snags, large tank plants along the water flow. Your bamboo shrimp will sit on them like a monument and catch the food flowing by.
It is important to make sure that your shrimps don't starve, which can easily happen considering their unusual way of feeding. The first sign indicating that your shrimps are starving is that they start spending more time on the tank bottom and move looking for some food. Because, normally, they usually sit on some high places in the tank and catch the food from the water flow.
Though it is not a small shrimp, it can hide so good that it will be hard to find it even in an empty tank. If nothing scares bamboo shrimp, they sit swaggeringly on tank plants or walk along the tank bottom looking for food.
You can't imagine how they enjoy the moment when you clean the tank bottom, dig out tank plants or feed the fishes with small grained food like frozen brine shrimp. They try to get closer to the center of such events. Bamboo shrimp also becomes active when you wash your tank filter and small pieces of dirt and food fall from the filter and are carried away with the flow.
Keep in mind, that very often shrimps starve in pet shops! So when they get into a new tank, they start walking along the bottom and looking for some food. This is quite common behavior for shrimps bought in a pet shop. Therefore, be ready to feed them high at first.
Shrimps should be fed with high quality dry food for tank fish. Very small grained, slowly drowning pellets for fish juveniles will be especially good for bamboo shrimp. Frozen daphnia and cyclops, live brine shrimp nauplii and decapsulated eggs of brine shrimp will do as well.
Food gravitated to the tank bottom will be easily "swept" by shrimps. Sometimes it happens that there is no suspended food in a tank and there won't be for some period of time, but the shrimps refuse to go round the tank bottom and look for food there.
They are just sitting near the pump and filtrating the water flow to get some food (which is missing) and they may even die this way. In this case you should turn off the pump before feeding the shrimps. When the flow in the tank disappears, the shrimps will understand that the food will not come to them and they'll start sweeping the tank bottom.
If you (just like me) regularly feed your shrimps with artificial food, then the links below will be very helpful for you. I know what it's like when you pet shrimps die because of low quality food or get ill due to infection ingress into the tank with live food.
I've chosen the best food you can buy on Amazon.com for this kind of shrimps. I myself give some of this food to my pets and as for the rest I've heard and read lots of good reviews. Yet, all of the food is of high quality and it is the best one for this fish kind as well as it keeps the tank water clean.
Bamboo shrimp has very easygoing temper and it can live in groups. However, they tend to show territory dependence in small tanks, without hurting each other though. The main thing for them in this case is to push the other shrimp from its high place and get there.
Bamboo shrimp tank mates must be peaceful and small. When considering other shrimps, you may take Neocaridina davidi and Amano shrimp. The same advise concerns fish, if you choose them as bamboo shrimp tank mates. You should avoid тетрадонов, large барбусов, most of cichlid fishes. Bamboo shrimp is completely helpless and harmless.
How do shrimps grow? They shed their shin from time to time and right after shedding, when the new chitinous carapace is soft, they grow. We should mention that for shrimps shedding process is a serious challenge. However, if tank conditions are favorable the process ends successfully.
Let me remind you, that all crustaceans have to shed occasionally. They take off their old chitinous carapace, which becomes small. They literally shed their skin, which is not easy at all. But they still manage to do it every time. Moreover, while shedding they grow new parts of the body, instead of the ones they lost.
That's why you can take a risk and buy a shrimp with some missing limbs or antennae, which can be encountered very often in pet shops. All shrimps were taken to us from faraway warm countries and they have been through hard times while transportation and living in different tanks before getting here. So, create comfortable tank conditions for such a shrimp and in a few month all missing parts of its body will grow again.
You can see between bamboo shrimp female and male, because the female shrimp has larger abdomen and longer pleopods. Bamboo shrimp male is slimmer. Male shrimps have different first pair of limbs – they are more developed and have small claws, which they use while mating.
Bamboo shrimp breeding is quite complicated. Bamboo shrimp development cycle is rather complex and clearly indicates on estuarine or sea habitat of their ancestors. Bamboo shrimp females stick about several hundreds of small eggs (about 1.8 mm in diameter) to their pleopods and carry them for about 22 days. Small larvae which is able to swim hatches from these eggs.
These are larger than dwarf shrimp, growing to a maximum size of 3 1/2 inches.
These ship as as juveniles that are about 1 to 1 1/2 inches long.
But they soon die while shedding or get into the tank filter, or they are eaten by their parents, if you don't put them away timely. The thing is that Bamboo shrimp juveniles can grow successfully only in seawater or brackish water (with percentage of salt about 28 grams for 1 liter of water) and they require specialized died: first it is phyto- and then zooplankton.
In the wild bamboo shrimp larvae are carried down the river flow fast and they get to river estuarine into brackish water.
It is possible to grow the larvae in the home, but it is difficult. Without exaggeration, it will be quite a feat to feed bamboo shrimp larvae regularly and keep almost ideal hydrochemical conditions in the tank.


Hmm @RoverDude I'm just wondering, being a potential writer of a KSP mod (I'm an experienced software dev, but have never written C# or modded KSP) ... how hard would it be to write a mod to just re-root a vessel in flight? There's multiple mods, including this one, that really need that functionality sometimes (here for being unable to collapse ports because one is a root, KAS for being unable to destroy parts on vessels because they've become the root part too, RemoteTech too, IIRC.) BTW, to answer @Tonka Crash yes you can use Jr ports to collapse larger diameter parts together.
Craft parts getting weird offsets when reloaded in flight?
Thanks, I'll try that (I do quick load/save often, but probably not with the crafts in question).
Ground base construction: should I fix it to the surface?
The MKS mod has parts that will anchor themselves to the surface and I've found that to be a good solution for bases not moving around.
Finally installed manually (no sight of it on CKAN). Wow. Y'all have done amazing work with this release!
Since removing Dynamic Battery Storage I haven't seen the unbounded storage growth in new vessels.
I noticed Nertea's reference to that up above but I'm actually not sure what it is. It didn't occur to me that it was a separate mod. I'll investigate when I fire up the game tonight.
FWIW I've noticed the same unbounded energy in parts from other mods now also, so it's most likely nothing to do with this mod. Sorry for the noise!
I've just discovered this thread, yay! I've been making small edits to the MKS wiki as I find things that I feel could be explained better. I see there's some stalled efforts at other things going on here but I think I'll stick with my efforts for now unless y'all have a better suggestion?
Be aware that I've done this and the game has moved the root node back from the thing on top of the port to the port itself post launch. This happened in my most recent construction of a large interplanetary ship, I ended up having to launch a replacement for the (large, expensive) part that I couldn't re-root the darned node on. This is why I recommend manually choosing a root node back behind the construction port so it won't be moved to the port when the ship is reconfigured.