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Occupy: From Encampments to a Movement
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Since the first US encampment on Wall Street, hundreds of others have emerged outside of banks and city halls across the nation. The Occupy movement has called on millions of Americans to take to the streets and call for change, but what exactly is this movement about?
This round-table discussion featuring Maria Poblet, executive director of Just Cause/Justa Causa; Steve Williams, co-executive director/co-founder of POWER; and Needa B, participant of Occupy Oakland, takes a closer look at Occupy from the perspectives of community organizing. It explores the meaning and tactics of the movement, and asks whether Occupy is the seed to long-term systemic change.
The program starts with an excerpt from a speech by Robert Reich.
See below for the full script.
Maria Poblet, executive director of Just Cause/Justa Causa; Steve Williams, co-executive director/co-founder of POWER; Needa B., participant of Occupy Oakland and member of People of Color Committee; Lisa Gray-Garcia, co-editor of Poor Magazine and author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing up Homeless in America. Robert Reich, Public Policy Professor at University of California Berkeley, and former Labor Secretary.
Just Cause/Causa Justa
POOR Magazine
Oakland Local
Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:
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Occupying, Organizing and Movements that Demand Both by Rinku Sen
Why OWS Should Matter to POC
There Is Diversity at Occupy Wall Street
Queers and Occupy
Applying the Successful Strategy of the Civil Rights Movement to a National "We are the 99%" Movement
10 Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything (new book from YES!)
NY Times Occupy Wall Street Slideshow
Occupy is Here to Stay
America Is Not Broke, Foreign Policy in Focus / Institute for Policy Studies
WBAI programs from Occupy Wall Street
KBOO programs from Occupy Portland
video: Why Occupy Wall Street? 4 Reasons
Organzing Upgrade -Occupy Strategy Lab
Women's Magazine KPFA on Occupy and Patriarchy
Feminists Occupy Occupy
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FULL SCRIPT
Meaghan LaSala: This week on Making Contact:
BILLBOARD: (Steve Williams) We're really building on a level of organizing, a level of mobilization that puts us in a position to begin transforming what it is that we've previously thought of as a liberation movement in this country.
Meaghan LaSala: "We are the 99 percent" has become a rallying cry for people occupying their cities and towns across the United States… people uniting to change a system based on greed and exploitation. Many are now asking how to move towards a common vision that addresses the needs of everyone within the 99%. But especially of those who are who are hit hardest by the current economic system.
BILLBOARD (Maria Poblet) What if the 99% in the US called for no war, build the economy for people and the planet. What if we did that?
Meaghan LaSala: On this edition, we'll look at what it'll take to transform this movement moment to long term solidarity for systemic change.
I'm Meaghan LaSala, and this is Making Contact. A program connecting people, vital ideas and important information.
OCCUPY OAKLAND SOUND COLLAGE: (Music)
Voice 1: It's woken up so many people. I mean, look at this crowd! Ages, races, colors, genders, you know, people are waking up together so I'm hopeful that we're going to make a change. I know we are making it already.
Voice 2: You know, until about a week ago I also supported the occupy movement, but its just grown to be a bit unruly and at this point I don't really understand what its standing for.
Voice 3: The first step to change is an awakening of awareness to the connections between problems and what the real problems are.
Voice 4: I think it's in the beginning stages just like the civil rights was and its ok that we might not know the direction because I'm sure Martin Luther King and neither did Malcolm X or anybody else know within the first two months of the great civil rights movement know where they were going.
Meaghan LaSala: We'll hear a round table discussion about the future of the occupy movement. But first, we bring you excerpts of an address given by former Secretary of Labor and professor of public policy, Robert Reich. On November 16th, the day of the UC Berkeley general strike, he spoke to a crowd of thousands on campus, just after an Occupy Cal encampment was forcibly removed.
Professor Robert Reich: Now the first amendments, right to speech, that is not always convenient, it is not always inexpensive, it is sometimes messy. And because it's sometimes inconvenient and sometimes expensive and sometimes messy, just like democracy, there is a temptation sometimes to want to contain it, to limit it. But it is more important than it has ever been, that we all go out of our way, every one of us, leaders, politicians, those of us who have authority, and those of us that do not have authority, it becomes doubly important that we honor the first amendment and make ourselves willing to pay the price of freedom of speech and indirectly, and because freedom of speech is so related to democracy directly, the price of a democratic system of government. (Applause) Some of you are concerned also about the increasing concentration of wealth and income in our society. An increasing concentration that has meant that the top 400, the 400 richest Americans now own more of America than the bottom 150 million Americans. (Boos) Let me try to connect some of these dots.
Fundamentally, the problem with concentrated income and wealth, and fundamentally the problem with an educational system that is no longer available to some many young people and can, and even a K-12 system that is letting so many people down. The fundamental problem is that we are losing equal opportunity in America; we are losing the moral foundation stone on which this country and our democracy are built. (Applause) Now there are some people out there that say, "We cannot afford education any longer. We cannot afford as a nation to provide social services to the poor." We cannot, some people say, any longer afford as a nation to provide the safety nets for the poor and the infirm or for people who fall down for no fault of their own. Well how can that be true if we are now richer than we have ever been before? How can that be true that we cannot afford what we need to do for our people when we are the richest nation, and continue to be, the richest nation in the world? And again let me connect the dots, because over the last three decades, this economy has doubled in size, but most Americans have not seen much gain, if you adjust for inflation, what you see is the median wage has barely risen. Where did all the money and resources go? They went to the top. And look it, let's be clear about this, we are not vilifying people because they are rich. The problem here is that when so much income and wealth go to the top, political power also goes to the top. The problem has to do with what that does to our democracy—it undermines our democracy. When all that money can come down from the wealthy, the corporations, when there are no limits to the amount of money that can infect and undermine our democracy, then what do we have left? What do we have left?
The occupy movement, the Occupy Cal, the Occupy Oakland—occupations are going on all over this country—are ways in which people are beginning to respond to the crisis of our democracy. Ways in which… (Applause)…and I am so proud of you here today. Your dedication to these principals, your willingness to spend hours in general assemblies, your willingness to put up with what you've already put up with, is already making a huge difference. (Cheers) You're already succeeding. Some of you may feel a little bit like, "What are we doing here? What exactly is our goal?" I urge you I urge you to be patient with yourselves. Because with regard to every major social movement of the last half century or more, it started with a sense of moral outrage. Things were wrong. And the actual coalescence of that moral outrage into specific demands for specific changes came later. The moral outrage was the beginning. The sense of things going wrong. (Cheers) The days of apathy are over folks! (Cheers) Once this has begun, it cannot be stopped and will not be stopped.
Meaghan LaSala: That was the voice of Robert Reich, speaking on the day of UC Berkeley's general strike at an event to memorialize Mario Savio, a free speech movement organizer and UC Berkeley student of the 1960's. Up next, a round table with three guests from the San Francisco bay area discussing how the movement of the 99% can move forward, toward long term solidarity.
Meaghan LaSala: Neeta Bee is one of the original participants at Occupy Oakland, and is a member of the People of Color Committee. Maria Poblet is the Executive Director of Causa Justa, Just Cause, a housing rights organization that's working with the occupy movement to fight foreclosures. And Steve Williams is the co-founder and co-director of POWER also known as people organized to win employment rights. Making Contact production intern Christopher Holmback moderated the discussion.
Christopher Holmback: I'd like to begin by asking you, Maria, what went through your head the first time you heard about OWS.
Maria Poblet: Well my very first thought was, "Yes! Yes. Finally the people of the US have taken issue with the corporations of the US that have done so much harm to our communities inside the US and also in other countries. I remember thinking, maybe not everybody is asleep. Maybe people have noticed what's been happening over the last 10 yrs, 20 yrs, 30 yrs, maybe now the US people's movements will actually show their face and show their allegiances, and their allegiances will their corps, but instead with regular everyday people. And it just seemed like such a timely critique. And the fact that it was just out in the streets where nobody could deny it, and where it was control of everyday people, it was inspiring.
Christopher Holmback: Do you have the same immediate sense of joy, Steve?
Steve Williams: Well, no. I think I was a little less optimistic and hopeful. I remember actually seeing the call that went out in Adbusters and I remember being like really? These are the people that are going to Occupy Wall Street? As somebody has spent more than a decade organizing in African American, working class and Latino communities, I know that our communities have been deeply impacted by financial institutions and by the system of capitalism. And I didn't think that it was going to be the readers of Adbusters that were going to take the first step to begin confronting financial institutions in this country.
Christopher Holmback: And what about you Neeta?
Neeta Bee: I first got involved because I was watching what was going on Wall Street and really was pleasantly surprised that white middle class America was standing up and kind of being disgruntled as many of And I kept my eye on it because I thought it was very powerful to be putting Wall Street on front and having the slogan of the 99 vs. the 1 percent. That whole slogan, 99 against 1. I think that was really powerful to me. And I kept my eye on it and I was really surprised to watch it spread like wildfire across the US. That got me really interested in like, wow, what's going on. And really seeing this as an opportunity that people were linking not just on a national level but an international level. And when they did that, that was like the impetus for the entire nation to start social change. And that's what I saw here which is why I got involved. If it was just an Oakland thing, I probably wouldn't have gotten involved.
Christopher Holmback: …You've all mentioned or you've all been calling this movement middle class, or middle class and white so it seems like a good time to play a clip for you from a protest in the Bay Area Poor Peoples Decolonization March and Lisa Gray-Garcia, one of the organizers, had some things to say about the occupy movement.
Clip from Lisa Gray-Garcia: "We're poor people. We're occupied with things like budget cuts, and whether we're going to feed our children tomorrow. I think a lot of the occupy movements are more focused on middle class folks. And that's not a critique. It's a beautiful thing. That isn't where we're coming from. I don't actually feel part of the 99%. I think that the 99% are part of the people that oppress us. A lot of the movements are actually filled with a lot of racist and classist stereotypes and unfortunately don't even know how to relate to folks in poverty. And there's been a lot of racial tension. There is a lot of folks with race and class privilege who take part in the occupy movement. Again this is not to splinter or take down their movements, but to help them understand that they need to get race consciousness. They need to get consciousness about poverty. They need to recognize the connections"
Christopher Holmback: What's your reaction to what Lisa Gray-Garcia says here?
Maria Poblet: I think a lot of us people of POC who've interacted with the occupy camps who've interacted with the camps can certainly identify with that feeling of the camps not having enough clarity about race and racism and what it does to communities. And gender inequality and poverty and issues of class. I think that critique is right on. I think the challenge before us is: can we lead from a place of unity? What is the unity that you can accomplish? A lot of people want to do something, but the idea that we should work together, choose a target, choose demands, is not an automatic thing. And so those of us who have been doing community organizing have that and can contribute that to the movement if the dynamics are such that there's space for that.
Maria Poblet: So then there's all these sort of political cultures intersecting. There's the way that Unions do their work, think about their work, communicate their work. The way that community organizations like mine do it, and then this camp that has this own culture that also draws on some anti-hierarchical traditions, anti-authoritarian commitments—and then there's everything else.
Steve Williams: …it is also important to acknowledge that in different encampments across the country, those political cultures are coming together and sort of innovating new models. In New York, and also in San Francisco, one of the things that the general assemblies have established are these action committees, where existing community organizations, trade unions, other affinity groups, are able to select a representative to come to a weekly meeting to then talk about how it is that those existing memberships can engage with the general assembly process and more broadly with the "we are the 99%" movement. I think that it is important to acknowledge that each of the particular encampments are just struggling to innovate new models that both ensure direct democracy but also connect with existing organizing efforts in the communities.
Maria Poblet: Some people have a critique of community organizing, or non profits or other forms of organization and that's where they're coming from and I think that's a useful political dialogue to engage in. It's not all about doing it the way we've been doing it so far because if everything we've been doing so far was perfect, we would have had this movement a long time ago, right? Community organizations and unions and the sort of more institutionalized progressive movement hasn't been as nimble, or militant, or creative or committed to movement building as we've needed to be and we're one of the organizations committed to changing that and that means taking risk and trying things you haven't done before.
Christopher Holmback: So Neeta do you think that the model that Steve told about that is in New York and other places, could work in Oakland?
Neeta Bee: I think that kind of model can definitely work in Oakland… that move is definitely being made where organizations that have been in the trenches and doing the work for decades are coming together, and linking it to, to just this concept of the 99%. My thing is like, if you're going to be talking about 99%, let's really break that down, let's make a pie chart and figure out what that really means. (Laughter) Who's really the 99%? How this political and economic fiasco affects the different sectors in the 99% is very different. And I think that's related to the class and the race analysis. When we start looking at each other's experiences here, that broadens the potential of what we can be fighting for. So that everyone walks away from this winning.
Meaghan LaSala: We'll be right back.
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(Music in Background)
The time has come for us to voice our rage
Against the ones that trapped us in a cage
To steal from us the value of our wage
From underneath the vestiture of law
The lobbyists at Washington do nah
At liberty the bureaucrats guffaw
And until they are purged we won't withdraw
We'll occupy the streets
We'll occupy the cause
We'll occupy the offices of you till you do
The bidding of the many not the few
Meaghan LaSala: We now return to our round table with Maria Poblet, executive director of Causa Justa, Just Cause, Steve Williams, co-director of POWER—people organizing to win employment rights, and Neeta Bee an Occupy Oakland organizer… On building a long-term movement of the 99%. Moderated by Making Contact production intern, Christopher Holmback.
Christopher Holmback: Steve Williams, you have long experience organizing poor people and people of color. What's your reaction to these problems?
Steve Williams: Well, I think the challenges that Anita and Maria are pointing to are exactly right. I mean, they're at play in encampments all over the country. But it's also a predictable challenge that the movement has to face. In a country with the history of white supremacy, colonialism, genocide, slavery, we know that we're going to encounter some particular challenges around racial consciousness, around the leadership of women, around the role of young people. But what the "we are the 99%" movement has created is an opportunity for us to actually engage in those struggles from a progressive standpoint. And the movement is still very new, so the language is all coming together, but in my mind this movement is a movement of the 99%. The occupations are a particular tactic of that movement. So there are a lot of people participating in the movement to confront financial institutions and capitalism that aren't sleeping out at the various parks across the country. And its critical for us to figure out ways for people to engage constructively because our organizations, organizations that are rooted in working class, communities of color has been doing the organizing around a particular strata of the 99%. It is important to acknowledge that the petty bourgeois and technocratic professionals who are now disaffected by the way that capitalism is operating– it's important to acknowledge that those people should be mad. But we also have to then figure out the programs and solutions and demands that we are all going to fight for that doesn't throw sections of the 99% under the bus.
Maria Poblet: On the national scale now white, working class communities who've been impacted by these measures of austerity and by this corporate takeover, they have a choice between the Tea Party and Occupy. And I want all of them to choose Occupy. It's very needed in this country for people to have a choice that takes them to the left in the face of corporate domination, instead of basically everybody joining the Tea Party and moving to the right and blaming immigrants, blaming People of Color. And while these racial dynamics get handled in the camps, that's where and how we'll see if the movement will be able to proceed in a way that actually builds the capacity of the movement to build more unity and move towards a progressive outcome, actually. An outcome that benefits all communities.
Christopher Holmback: Since we're leading up to the next presidential campaign, how should occupy movement engage with electoral politics? Steve.
Steve Williams: Well I think the critical thing is that the "we are the 99%" movement has to develop a vision of what our alternative is. The exciting innovation with the camps is that different groupings of people who have been disaffected and disenfranchised by this economic system have had a space to come together. So folks who have had their homes foreclosed upon, folks who are in debt and can't find a job after graduating from elite universities are coming together with homeless people and are coming together with other folks who have just seen public services cut and attacked over the last few years. And I think what's happening with that is that people are beginning to develop more and more of a systematic analysis of what is wrong. But ultimately that means that we have to do more, way more, than elect a sympathetic person into elected office.
Maria Poblet: In the more institutional progressive sector, there's the idea that you elect somebody who's a democrat and then you look the other way and cross your fingers. And that has never worked for us. It's never worked for people of color to do that. In fact in any time where people of color have won great demands in this country its by actually challenging the democratic party to represent its interests by all kinds of different tactics, including threatening to start another party, starting another party and it always has to go back to this platform, this list of what we want, this vision of where we're headed and then we say to any elected official, get in or get out. Right? And this is where we're headed. Come with us or don't.
Christopher Holmback: Neeta, from being inside Occupy Oakland and working with the people there, do you think the time is right now for the occupy movement to move foreword and build a political platform together? And start making a list of demands?
Neeta Bee: I think one, It's essential if this is going to move forward…Our focus can transition into something, into broadening the movement and its demographics. And to actually developing a platform and developing some demands. There are some demands. But they're very broad and they're not really asking for things. It's very much we are against this. But it's not saying what we want. If we're against this, what do we want?
Steve Williams: The only way that any movement is able to defend its principled demands is to have clarity about what direction it's moving in. So one of the things that we clearly saw for example in the south African anti-apartheid movement was that time and time again, the apartheid regime tried to figure out measures to be able to give concessions to some section of the community and at the same time sell out the larger majority of the population. it was only through the freedom charter and the clarity of the anti-apartheid movement in south Africa to a vision of what a truly democratic society would look like that they were able to hold on to that vision, fight for it through all the twists and turns and then ultimately able to establish at least politically a democratic system in that country. Now, I think that the challenge for us in the United States is that for too long we've been told that capitalism is the only way to operate an economy. And I think that that its one of the things that is important right now is for us to take lessons from the mass mobilizations that have been taking place around the globe, from Cairo, to Barcelona to Athens, to the successful movements in Latin American, Cochabamba, and other places, and so I think that in being able to sort of the lessons, insights, of those movements we, here, in the United states can begin developing a notion of a transformative vision and a new liberatory economy.
Christopher Holmback: How can we use this movement and moment to build long term solidarity and political education? Maria?
Maria Poblet: In addition to demands which we've talked about a fair amount here, I think we need to get clear about the role of the US in the international arena. Our government is the 1% to the rest of the world. I've had the opportunity to be part of the world social forum process and the US Social forum process. And there's strengths and weaknesses to that that can be compared to Occupy movement, and existing organizations and that relationship because its space of convergence. And actually convergence is the first step to joint action which is what we need actually. Because then we can actually move towards something that would be much bigger like, what if the 99% in the US called for no war, no warming, build the economy for people and the planet. What if we did that? What would that look like? What would the details of that look like? That would then say, instead of there is no alternative, there is one… and we're building it right here, right now, because another world is possible, but also it's absolutely necessary. And in order for another world to be possible, another US has to come into being. and this occupy movement and the convergence between that and previous generations and community organizing and other sectors of progressives, that convergence is actually going to make that other world possible.
Neeta Bee: here on a local level what we should be thinking about is doing some kind of educational campaign both for our own communities that don't connect the dots between our lives here and Wall Street… I think there's a disconnect. Wall Street is something over there that rich people play with. It's not something that actually trickles down. You talk about these trickle down economy. And it definitely trickles down. Not the money, but the problems. And I think that we on one level an educational campaign which is also like outreach into our own communities and helping connecting those dots. And I think within the existing occupy Oakland movement, and educational campaign around race and class and immigrant status so that we're starting to kind of break these ideas that people have. That we're not all this monolithic 99%.
Steve Williams: I think one thing that we've absolutely got to concentrate on is defending the encampments. Folks have created a space for various sections of society to come together and engage in a level of conversation dialogue and conspiring that hasn't been possible because of the disenfranchisement and alienation that our society has promoted. And so I think that defending either the encampments or other spaces that allow all of these folks to come together is absolutely critical. I think that it's important for us to understand that these movement moments happen at a time where things feel very fast. But things are actually happening at sort of different time periods. So in some ways like talking about New York as only having six weeks more than occupy San Francisco or occupy Oakland just shatters my mind… I mean it feels like they've been at it for two or three years… the lessons that we've been able to learn over the series of just a couple months are equivalent to what it is that we've learned over two or three decades previously. I think it's critical for us to understand that at this particular moment because of the changing demographics, the changing economic system, the changing politics in the United States that this movement didn't come out of nowhere. That we're really building on a level of organizing, a level of mobilization that really puts us in a position to actually be able to begin transforming what it is that we've previously thought of as a liberation movement in this country
Our nation was built upon the right
Of every person to improve their plight
The laws of this republic they rewrite
Meaghan LaSala: And that's it for this edition of Making Contact. You have been listening to a round table discussion with Maria Poblet, Steve Williams and Neeta Bee, moderated by Making Contact Producer Christopher Holmback.
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I chose Highpoint Dental Care as my dental provider because it has great reviews online. I went to their website and it was very informative and easy to understand. They can do pretty much everything in office and have a very flexible schedule. I felt it was a great fit. The staff was welcoming and the available treatment plans fit my needs and my budget. I was made to feel comfortable from the beginning to the end of my visit. It really does feel like a family. They keep a meticulously clean office. Everything from the lobby to the dental treatment rooms to the actual dental equipment are kept looking impeccable. Hygiene is clearly top priority. As you walk inside and into the treatment rooms, you can see the photos of the staff hanging on the wall, pictures as a group and individually. This made me feel extremely comfortable as these are clearly people who care about each other! The staff is very friendly, caring, and professional and they treat each other this way as well. They make me feel so comfortable, at ease and ultimately fulfill all my needs to the fullest every single time. Dr. Baltz is an amazing person with a heart of gold. He is humble, selfless, caring, kind and understanding. He is always a professional with a great sense of humor and is very knowledgeable in his profession. He always makes sure you're comfortable and ready before starting any procedure, and stays attentive to your needs while making you feel at ease. The treatment plans he presents you with are designed to bring you the best results while saving you the most money. I was personally very insecure about my smile when I first walked in. I was in a lot of pain, rarely smiled and was concerned about the cost. Dr. Baltz helped me in more ways than I could have ever imagined, because when my dental work was completed, it all turned out to be very affordable. I gained the confidence I never knew I had. I love my new smile and I am relieved to no longer be in pain. I am extremely thankful and appreciative to Dr. Baltz and his staff for giving me this amazing gift. I feel so lucky to have walked in to this office, it has changed my life. Highpoint Dental Care is, hands down, the best dental office I have ever had the pleasure of walking into. I can assure you that you will always leave here with a smile. Thank you Dr. Baltz!
Highpoint Dental Care is the best dental office. I have ever been to, for so many reasons. I feel comfortable the moment I walk in, I love the staff and how Dr. Rowe treats his staff; from days to the spa to the many other things like buying them all coffee. My teeth were no in the best of shape when I first started seeing them 5 years ago and I have come a long way since. My top teeth were discolored and not straight. I was very self-conscious when I smiled. Dr. Rowe recommended veneers and explained what they would do for my smile. I was so nervous about the whole thing. Dr. Rowe and his staff ensured me I would love my smile after. It has been 3 months since Dr. Rowe seated my veneers, my smile has changed and so did my self-confidence. Dr. Rowe is a perfectionist wanting them to be just right he sent them back the first time because he did not like the color. You can feel how much he cares when I smile at him and let him know I cannot thank him enough for changing my life!
I had a bad experience with a dentist who tried 3 times to get two crowns to match my teeth. The temporaries were perfect and I wish I could have kept them in my mouth. The first crowns that came back were as white as Chicklet gum. The second time around, the color was close but one crown was filed down so far on top, that silver showed through and looked like I had a piece of foil on my tooth. Third time was not a charm! The dentist let me know that he did not have the time to bring someone from the lab in to match the color. These crowns were towards the front of my mouth and very noticeable and I was extremely self-conscious. While visiting in Colorado, I came to Dr. Rowe's office. Dr. Rowe took the time to match the color correctly and replaced the two crowns so they matched my teeth. He is a great dentist and the office staff is wonderful. I would definitely recommend this office to anyone looking for a great dentist and dental experience. Whenever I need dental work other than a cleaning, I may wait until I am in Colorado again.
It was disheartening wat first that I had to lose some teeth due to bone loss. However, the experience with Dr. Rowe and the whole staff made it an easy transition. Dr. Rowe was very kind and helped me understand my options. The overall experience was pleasant all things considered. Going for the implants was a big decision but the few short weeks before the implant after extractions made me very grateful to get the implant and to work with Dr. Rowe and staff. I am very pleased both with the quality of work and how comfortable they made the experience, and even more so after the work is complete. I am so happy with the implant and we bee ever so grateful for the work done and plan to be a long time patient and fan of Highpoint.
The first appointment that I had with Dr. Rowe was very easy and the staff made me feel very comfortable. I have been to a lot of dentists and have never found a practice at which I did not feel scared or uncomfortable. Dr. Rowe has made my fear of dentists go away. Before my treatment I never smiled and always tried to hide my teeth. I find now that I smile all the time and I have Dr. Rowe and staff to thank for that. I am very thankful for this practice.


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Accelerated Shallow Lakes and Wetland Enhancement - Phase VII
This proposal will address a backlog of shallow lake and wetland habitat work that will otherwise go unfunded. These projects will address work called for in the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan, Long Range Duck Recovery Plan, and Shallow Lakes plan.
Accelerating the Waterfowl Production Area Program - Phase VI
Pheasants Forever with USFWS
This program accelerated the permanent protection of 2,267 acres of wetlands (465 acres) and grasslands (1,802 acres) as Waterfowl Production Areas open to public hunting in Minnesota. Over the course of the appropriation, PF acquired 18 parcels for a total of 2,267 acres which exceeded our total acre goal of 2,250 acres by 17 acres. Breaking down acres by ecological section we exceeded our acre goal for both the metropolitan area by 61 acres and in the prairie area by 346 acres. We have exceeded anticipated match of $5,125,000 by $771,500.
Accelerating the Wildlife Management Area Program - Phase VIII
This proposal accelerates the protection of 680 acres of strategic prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitat as State Wildlife Management Areas open to public hunting.
Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program, Phase 4
The Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program, managed by the Department of Natural Resources, provided 56 competitive matching grants to non-profit organizations and governments, appropriating all the available ML12 funds.
Conservation Grazing to Improve Wildlife Habitat on Wildlife Management Areas
Grassland ecosystems evolved to depend on periodic disturbances, such as fire and grazing, to maintain their health and stability. Periodic disturbances help control invasive species, add nutrients back into the soil, germinate plant seeds, enhance wildlife habitat, and more. In Minnesota habitat managers have used fire as a disturbance tool for decades but the use of grazing has been much rarer, mostly because of a lack of necessary infrastructure such as fencing.
DNR Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement
Good habitat is critical to sustaining quality fish populations in both lakes and rivers. DNR proposes to restore or enhance aquatic habitat under two programs: stream restoration, and Aquatic Management Area (AMA) enhancement. Stream restoration includes major channel restorations and fish passage projects such as dam removals intended to improve or provide access to critical aquatic habitats.
DNR Grassland Enhancement Ph X
This programmatic request will build on the DNR's previous efforts to enhance and restore grasslands, prairies, and savannas. We will use the Prairie Conservation Plan and Pheasant Summit Action Plan to guide these efforts in a strategic and targeted manner. This proposal will work on a number of types of permanently protected habitats, most of which are open to public hunting, including; DNR WMAs, SNAs, AMAs, Prairie Bank Easements, State Forests, as well as USFWS WPAs and Refuges.
DNR Grassland Phase 5
The following table provides a short summary of the accomplishments under this appropriation. In total, the DNR enhanced and restored 283 sites for a total of 17,087 acres.
Activity Sites Acres
Diversity Seeding 42 1,031
Prescribed Burn 148 10,365
Restorations 4 144
Woody Removal 92 5,666
DNR Wildlife Management Area and Scientific & Natural Area Acquisition
Our program will coordinate with partners emphasizing Prairie Conservation Plan implementation through fee title acquisition of priority lands for Wildlife Management Areas and Scientific & Natural Areas for public hunting, trapping and compatible uses consistent with the Outdoor Recreation Act.
DNR Grassland Phase VI
Restoration and Enhancement of Prairie on WMA's, SNA's, AMA's and Native Prairie Banks in Minnesota.
Restoration and Enhancement of Bluff Prairies on State Forest Land in Southeast Minnesota.
DNR Grassland - Phase 8
We propose continued efforts to restore and enhance prairies, grasslands, and savannas on state protected lands (WMA, SNA, Native Prairie Bank) as well as on bluff prairies on State Forest lands in southeastern Minnesota.
Grassland Conservation Partnership Phase II
This project will protect high priority grassland, prairie and wetland wildlife habitat with 400 acres in conservation easements throughout western Minnesota's core prairie areas. Grasslands represent one of Minnesota's most threatened habitat types.
HCP VII - Shoreland Protection Program (3a)
Minnesota Land Trust
With this appropriation, the Minnesota Land Trust plans to protect approximately 500 acres of critical shoreline habitat along Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, rivers, and streams by securing permanent conservation easements and dedicating funds for their perpetual monitoring, management, and enforcement. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Becker, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Otter Tail, Pope, and Wabasha counties.
Living Shallow Lake Enhancement & Wetland Restoration Initiative - Phase VII
This Phase 6 request for Ducks Unlimited's Living Lakes program will enhance 1,000 acres of shallow lakes and restore 50 acres of small wetlands by engineering and installing water control structures for Minnesota DNR and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on public lands and wetlands under easement. Structures will be used by DNR and Service partners to restore wetland hydrology and actively manage shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other birds, and hunters in the Prairie Region of Minnesota.
Living Shallow Lakes & Wetlands Initiative Phase IV
Phase 4 of our ongoing Living Lakes program will enhance 4,000 acres of shallow lakes and wetlands for waterfowl in the Prairie, Transition, and Metro Sections in partnership with Minnesota DNR, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and other agencies.
Living Shallow Lake Enhancement & Wetland Restoration Initiative - Phase V
This Phase 5 request for Ducks Unlimited's Living Lakes program will enhance 2,000 acres of shallow lakes and restore 50 acres of small wetlands by engineering and installing water control structures for Minnesota DNR and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on public lands and wetlands under easement. Structures will be used by DNR and Service partners to restore wetland hydrology and actively manage shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other birds, and hunters in the Prairie Region of Minnesota.
Minnesota Prairie Recovery Project – Phase 3
The Nature Conservancy
The goals for this project were to: protect 1,200 acres native prairie/wetland/savanna; restore 250 acres prairie/wetland; enhance 6,000 acres grassland/savanna with fire, invasive species removal, and grazing; and continue a new prairie conservation model. This phase resulted in a total of 1,425 acres protected, 22,298 acres enhanced, and 110 acres restored. When combined with phases 1 and 2 of the Prairie Recovery Program we have cumulatively protected 4,070 acres, enhanced 58,134 acres and restored 314 acres using OHF funds.
Minnesota Prairie Recovery Project, Phase 2
Goals for Phase 2 of the MN Prairie Recovery Program were to: protect 1200 acres native prairie/savanna; restore 250 acres grassland; enhance 6000 acres grassland/savanna with fire, invasive species removal, and grazing; and continue a new prairie conservation model.
Minnesota Prairie Recovery Project
This program initiated strategies toward a 15-year goal to provide protection to the remaining 90,000 acres of native prairie/savanna, a 20-year goal to restore and protect an additional 500,000 acres of diverse grasslands/savannas, and a 10-year goal to increase management capacity to annually manage 300,000 acres of grassland and savannas per year. This proposal took the first steps to achieve these goals by initiating a comprehensive, coordinated and collaborative prairie conservation initiative. Annual investments by the LSOHC will be required to realize these ultimate outcomes.
MN Prairie Recovery Project - Phase VII
This project will advance the prairie protection, restoration and enhancement goals established in the 2011 MN Prairie Conservation Plan. It builds upon the successful model established in Phases 1 - 6 and seeks to protect 200 acres in fee without PILT obligations to be held by The Nature Conservancy, protect an additional 100 acres with PILT for inclusion in the State's Wildlife Management or Scientific Natural Area systems, enhance 7,500 acres of permanently protected grasslands, and restore 100 acres of prairie habitat.
MN Prairie Recovery Project - Phase VI
This project contributes to the goals of the MN Prairie Conservation Plan by protecting 800 acres of prairie/wetland/savanna habitat; restoring 150 acres prairie/wetland; and enhancing 6,000 acres of prairies, wetlands, grasslands and savanna.
Native Prairie Stewardship and Prairie Bank Easement Acquisition
Prior to European settlement more than 18 million acres of prairie covered Minnesota. Today less than 1% of that native prairie remains, and about half of those remaining acres are in private landownership without any formal protection currently in place. Through this appropriation the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will work with private landowners of high quality native prairie sites to protect remaining native prairie using a variety of tools. Approximately 200 acres are expected to be permanently protected through Native Prairie Bank conservation easements.
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, Phase IX
The Nature Conservancy; USFWS
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will cooperate to permanently protect native prairie and associated complexes of wetlands and native habitats in western and central Minnesota by purchasing approximately 540 acres of fee title properties and/or permanent habitat easements. Approximately 270 acres will be native prairie. Work will be focused in areas identified as having significant biodiversity by the Minnesota Biological Survey and located in priority areas in the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan (Prairie Plan).
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge Land Acquisition , Phase 4
The Nature Conservancy with USFWS
This appropriation allowed the permanent protection of 769 acres in western Minnesota. These properties included 287 acres of remnant native prairie, 112 acres of associated wetland complexes, and 19,500' of stream front. For this phase, we committed to protecting 500 acres with a minimum of 250 being native prairie. Both targets were exceeded – 153% of total acres and 115% of native prairie acres. The lands and easements purchased with this funding by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) have been transferred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and are now units of the Northern Tallgrass
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge Land Acquisition, Phase 3
This appropriation allowed the permanent protection of 977 acres in western Minnesota. These properties included 752 acres of remnant native prairie, 78 acres of associated wetland complexes, 8,950' of stream front, and 9,400' of lakeshore. Lands and easements purchased through this program by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are transferred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and become units of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge. These lands are owned and managed by the FWS.


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MediaTek is on a roll. It is no longer that small chipset manufacturer that nobody save for a few "dirty" Chinese OEMs cared about. Even the big boys are listening. Buoyed by the successes it has had with low end and mid-range devices that pack its chips and have been a hit in the Asian market, Market already has an octa-core chip in the pipeline and as of next year will start boasting of high profile customers like Samsung. Samsung is reportedly warming up to MediaTek for its processor needs for low end and mid-range devices.
MediaTek has been around for a while and has a reputation for producing cheap chips that power popular devices found in markets like India and China. You obviously won't see Samsung flagship devices like the Galaxy S line powered by MediaTek chips but you will see it in budget devices from the Korean electronics giant. High end Samsung devices will still be powered by Samsung's in-house developed Exynos processors. MediaTek comes in to replace Broadcom has for a long time now been the supplier of chipsets on Samsung's mid-range and low end devices.
MediaTek's chips aren't known for jaw-dropping performance since they simply get the work done but place a lot of emphasis on battery consumption.
Are they cheap chips, chip cheap, chip cheap chips, cheapskate or cheap motherchipping peaches?
Break down their Record 85 Million Smartphones over the last 3 months and that means Samsung has sold an average of 1 Million Smartphones a day! Now let's see Apple do that? lol… never going to happen!
Because…. even in their best quarter they've barely broke half that, with Samsung just having Tripled up on Apple's Sales Globally over last Quarter. Basically tossing Apple out of the back seat into the truck of their Steamroller Smartphone Sales Machine!
SAMSUNG …. for the WIN!!! ….AGAIN!!!
Lol, nice way to put it. It's Samsung's turn to eat.


Small tree, rounded to irregular form. Slow growth rate for many cultivars but the species is a moderate grower when young.
Leaves opposite, 2 to 5" long and wide wide, palmate with 5, 7 or 9 lobes, deeply cut, doubly serrate, dark green. Autumn color is yellow to orange, red or purple.
Afternoon shade, shallow roots, plant in wide hole and prevent compaction around. Evenly moist soil.
There are several groupings of Japanese Maples - dissectum (dissected leaves) vs. non-dissected, purple leaves vs. green leaves. Dissected Japanese Maples have fern-like foliage, 7, 9 or 11 lobes finely cut to the point of attachment and incised, almost threadlike.
'Bloodgood' - non-dissected, deep red-purple leaf color (new growth rosy-red), good color retention, 15-20' tall, good autumn color.
'Crimson Queen' - purple-leaf, dissected, long lasting color but in the warmer regions tends to bronze, 8-10' tall, 12' wide, layered to weeping form, RHS Award of Garden Merit 2002, introduced to cultivation in 1965.
Introduced in 1820. Native to Japan and South Korea. First published in Syst. Veg. (ed. 14) 911 in 1784.
Acer rufinerve Siebold & Zucc.
I purchased a seedling at Pendleton King Plant Swap in May 2007 and potted it up in a large pot. It grew rapidly in the pot. I planted it out in the back garden in summer 2009. It held its own although looked ragged for much of the summer, getting full sun and a lot of wind burn too. It did continue to grow at a fairly fast rate. In spring 2010 I potted it up again to use in the conservatory as a screen during the summer. The leaves are medium green, often tinged with red on the edges.


Camp Fire has been the most destructive wildfire in Californian history: 18,000 buildings gone, 62,000 hectares scorched and a death toll of 85. Paradise was almost completely destroyed when the flames swept through the town in November 2018.
With their critically acclaimed fifth studio album 'Let's Go Sunshine' released last year, the Brighton band are at the top of their game. For this Berlin leg of their tour they play tracks from the recent album as well as old favourites.
On one side is President Maduro, supported by Iran, Cuba, Russia and Turkey. On the other side is Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed president, recognised by the USA and a majority of EU countries.
Considered the land of opportunity, the USA attracted 30 million Europeans to its shores during the great migrations of the 19th century. These men and women left behind poverty and persecution to make a new life in the new world.
A visit to five cities of the Balkans mixing history, culture and the future. Ljubljana is sometimes called Little Venice due to its waterways and bridges. The small and beautiful Slovenian capital is bursting with ideas and creativity.
The Four Seasons Recomposed, a score of Max Richter inspired by Vivaldi, is carried off by fifty-four dancers in an impressive staging. This ballet is dedicated to the forces and forms of nature; a hymn of magnetic power.
Blanco White's intimate blend of folk is as much influenced by the Villagers or James Vincent McMorrow as Andalusian and Latin American music. Recorded live in Groeningen, the Netherlands.


This Gluten-Free Coconut Banana Bread makes for one luscious and hearty loaf perfect for breakfast, a snack or a healthy treat!
This bread turned out incredibly tasty!
It has a delightfully crisp coconut-ty crust, and with the use of coconut flour, coconut oil, coconut sugar and shredded coconut, it has multiple layers of delicious coconut flavor coupled with the lushness you would expect from any good banana bread--not to mention a little extra depth with the addition of Greek yogurt.
It is sweet, but not too sweet--making it a great treat any time of the day!
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper, set aside.In a large mixing bowl, combine wet ingredients. Mix & mash until smoothly combined.In another large bowl, combine dry ingredients & stir until evenly mixed.Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients & stir until just combined.Pour into your prepared loaf pan.Slice your reserved 1/2 banana into fourths, lengthwise. Lightly press into the top of your poured batter. Sprinkle with reserved coconut & sugar.Bake for 1 hour, or until top is firm & golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.Enjoy!


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2012–13 KHL season
The 2012–13 KHL season was the fifth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began on 4 September with the Lokomotiv Cup between last year's finalists Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk. For the first time, the league consisted of 26 teams from 7 different countries.[1] Dynamo Moscow successfully defended their title after beating Traktor Chelyabinsk in the Gagarin Cup finals.
– 17 April 2013
Number of teams
Total attendance
4,126,720 (Regular season)
Continental Cup winner
SKA Saint Petersburg
Season MVP
Sergei Mozyakin
Dynamo Moscow
Western runners-up
Traktor Chelyabinsk
Eastern runners-up
Ak Bars Kazan
Gagarin Cup
Finals MVP
Alexander Eremenko
Dynamo Mosocw
KHL seasons
← 2011–12
ChangesEdit
Team changesEdit
After withdrawing from the previous season in the wake of the plane crash that killed the team's entire active roster, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl returned to the KHL with new players.
Lev Poprad was disbanded, but a team of the same name, Lev Prague, was established in Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava joined the KHL and thus continues the league's presence in Slovakia.[2] Also HC Donbass from Donetsk, Ukraine joined the league. The team previously played in the VHL.[3] This brought the total number of teams to 26, representing 7 different countries.
Salary capEdit
The salary cap changed from a soft cap to a hard cap, set at 1.1 billion rubles (approx. US$36.5 million), but each club can waive the cap for one player transferred directly from the NHL, if he is eligible to play for the Russian national team.[4]
Season structureEdit
The regular season consisted of 52 games for each team — twice (home and away) against each other team in the league and two extra games against a selected "rival" opponent (typically a geographically close team). This was a change from previous seasons, where all intra-division opponents were played more frequently. The top 8 teams from each conference qualified for the play-offs, which are played as best-of-seven series in each round.
Nadezhda Cup tournamentEdit
In January 2013, a new repechage tournament known as the Nadezhda Cup (Cup of Hope) was announced, which was held alongside the playoffs. Six teams from the Western Conference and four teams from the Eastern Conference who had not qualified for the playoffs competed in the tournament, whose prize includes the first overall pick in the next KHL Junior Draft. The new tournament was intended to extend the season, and help maintain interest in hockey for fans and players in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics.[5] The first Cup of Hope was won by Dinamo Riga.
Regular seasonEdit
The regular season started on 4 September 2012 with the Lokomotiv Cup between the finalists of the previous season, Dynamo Moscow and Avangard Omsk and ended on 17 February 2013 after every team has played 52 matches.
Notable eventsEdit
NHL lockoutEdit
The league set up rules for the NHL lockout which lasted 16 September 2012 to early January 2013. According to the special regulations, each KHL team was allowed to add up to 3 NHL players to their roster, among them at most one foreign player.[6]
List of NHL players signing KHL lockout contracts
Source: eliteprospect.com[7]
NHL Team
KHL Team
Evgeni Malkin (C) (from) Pittsburgh Penguins (to) Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Sergei Gonchar (D) (from) Ottawa Senators (to) Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Ruslan Fedotenko (LW) (from) Philadelphia Flyers (to) HC Donbass
Alexei Ponikarovsky (LW) (from) Winnipeg Jets (to) HC Donbass
Anton Khudobin (G) (from) Boston Bruins (to) Atlant Moscow Oblast
Ľubomír Višňovský (D) (from) New York Islanders (to) Slovan Bratislava
Kaspars Daugaviņš (LW) (from) Ottawa Senators (to) Dinamo Riga
Nikolai Kulemin (RW) (from) Toronto Maple Leafs (to) Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Ilya Kovalchuk (RW) (from) New Jersey Devils (to) SKA Saint Petersburg
Jakub Voráček (RW) (from) Philadelphia Flyers (to) Lev Prague
Niklas Bäckström (G) (from) Minnesota Wild (to) Dinamo Minsk
Semyon Varlamov (G) (from) Colorado Avalanche (to) Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Alexander Ovechkin (LW) (from) Washington Capitals (to) Dynamo Moscow
Pavel Datsyuk (C) (from) Detroit Red Wings (to) CSKA Moscow
Ilya Bryzgalov (G) (from) Philadelphia Flyers (to) CSKA Moscow
Jiří Hudler (LW) (from) Calgary Flames (to) Lev Prague
Nik Antropov (C) (from) Winnipeg Jets (to) Barys Astana
Artem Anisimov (C) (from) Columbus Blue Jackets (to) Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Mikhail Grabovski (C) (from) Toronto Maple Leafs (to) CSKA Moscow
Sergei Bobrovsky (G) (from) Columbus Blue Jackets (to) SKA Saint Petersburg
Vladimir Tarasenko (RW) (from) St. Louis Blues (to) SKA Saint Petersburg
Dmitri Kulikov (D) (from) Florida Panthers (to) Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Nikita Nikitin (D) (from) Columbus Blue Jackets (to) Avangard Omsk
Pekka Rinne (G) (from) Nashville Predators (to) Dinamo Minsk
Anton Babchuk (D) (from) Calgary Flames (to) HC Donbass
Andrej Sekera (D) (from) Buffalo Sabres (to) Slovan Bratislava
Victor Hedman (D) (from) Tampa Bay Lightning (to) Barys Astana
Evander Kane (LW) (from) Winnipeg Jets (to) Dinamo Minsk
Zdeno Chára (D) (from) Boston Bruins (to) Lev Prague
Tom Wandell (LW) (from) Dallas Stars (to) Severstal Cherepovets
Andrei Markov (D) (from) Montreal Canadiens (to) Vityaz Chekhov
Anton Volchenkov (D) (from) New Jersey Devils (to) Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Joe Pavelski (C) (from) San Jose Sharks (to) Dinamo Minsk
Sergei Kostitsyn (LW) (from) Nashville Predators (to) Avangard Omsk
Ryan McDonagh (D) (from) New York Rangers (to) Dynamo Moscow
Nicklas Bäckström (C) (from) Washington Capitals (to) Dynamo Moscow
Joffrey Lupul (RW) (from) Toronto Maple Leafs (to) Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Viktor Stålberg (RW) (from) Chicago Blackhawks (to) Atlant Moscow Oblast
Ryan O'Reilly (C) (from) Colorado Avalanche (to) Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Kris Letang (D) (from) Pittsburgh Penguins (to) SKA Saint Petersburg
Proposed matches in New YorkEdit
Two regular season games between Dynamo Moscow and SKA Saint Petersburg were planned to take place in the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in January 2013. However, the KHL reverted this decision in October 2012 and thus these matches will be played in Russia.[8]
All-star gameEdit
The 5th KHL all-star game was played on 13 January 2013 in Chelyabinsk, with Team East, captained by Aleksey Morozov, winning 18–11 over Team West, captained by Ilya Kovalchuk.
League standingsEdit
Source: KHL.ru[9]
Points are awarded as follows:
3 Points for a win in regulation ("W")
2 Points for a win in overtime ("OTW") or a penalty shootout ("SOW")
1 Point for a loss in overtime ("OTL") or a penalty shootout ("SOL")
0 Points for a loss in regulation ("L")
The conference standings determine the seedings for the play-offs. The first two places in each conference are reserved for the division winners.
Western ConferenceEdit
1 c – SKA Saint Petersburg BOB 52 36 1 1 2 1 11 182 116 115
2 y – CSKA Moscow TAR 52 23 5 8 1 0 15 151 109 96
3 Dynamo Moscow BOB 52 27 3 6 1 1 14 150 115 101
4 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl TAR 52 24 2 8 0 0 18 131 121 92
5 Severstal Cherepovets TAR 52 21 1 6 3 5 16 137 117 85
6 Slovan Bratislava BOB 52 17 3 8 5 0 19 124 127 78
7 Lev Prague BOB 52 23 0 1 2 3 23 132 133 76
8 Atlant Moscow Oblast TAR 52 19 1 3 4 4 21 137 141 73
9 HC Donbass BOB 52 17 2 5 6 1 21 134 142 72
10 Dinamo Minsk TAR 52 18 5 1 2 3 23 125 148 71
11 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod TAR 52 19 0 2 4 4 23 142 146 69
12 Vityaz Chekhov BOB 52 11 1 6 6 2 26 119 151 55
13 Spartak Moscow TAR 52 11 4 2 5 2 28 106 151 52
14 Dinamo Riga BOB 52 13 2 2 2 2 31 109 151 51
y – Won division; c – Won Continental Cup (best record in KHL);
BOB – Bobrov Division, TAR – Tarasov Division
Source: khl.ru[10]
Eastern ConferenceEdit
1 z – Ak Bars Kazan KHA 52 28 1 5 5 3 10 157 112 104
2 y – Avangard Omsk CHE 52 26 6 3 4 2 11 149 121 102
3 Traktor Chelyabinsk KHA 52 28 0 3 6 2 13 152 120 98
4 Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHA 52 27 0 0 7 5 13 167 121 93
5 Salavat Yulaev Ufa CHE 52 24 2 3 6 0 17 148 140 88
6 Barys Astana CHE 52 23 3 2 2 4 18 175 161 85
7 Sibir Novosibirsk CHE 52 21 1 5 4 3 17 124 119 84
8 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk KHA 52 17 5 5 4 2 19 144 150 77
9 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk KHA 52 19 4 3 3 0 23 153 163 74
10 Metallurg Novokuznetsk CHE 52 15 3 1 3 2 28 132 177 58
11 Amur Khabarovsk CHE 52 11 1 4 1 0 35 115 167 44
12 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHA 52 7 0 1 7 5 32 104 180 35
y – Won division; z – Won conference (and division);
CHE – Chernyshev Division, KHA – Kharlamov Division
Player statisticsEdit
Scoring leadersEdit
Updated on 17 February 2013. Source: khl.ru[11]
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
Sergei Mozyakin Metallurg Magnitogorsk 48 35 41 76 +21 6
Alexander Radulov CSKA Moscow 48 22 46 68 +12 86
Evgeni Malkin Metallurg Magnitogorsk 37 23 42 65 +23 58
Patrick Thoresen SKA Saint Petersburg 52 21 30 51 +17 49
Jori Lehterä Sibir Novosibirsk 52 17 31 48 +18 48
Evgeny Kuznetsov Traktor Chelyabinsk 51 19 25 44 –1 42
Dmitri Kagarlitsky HC Donbass 51 14 30 44 –5 12
Mikhail Varnakov Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 51 22 21 43 +9 62
Nikolay Zherdev Atlant Moscow Oblast 50 15 28 43 –7 29
Dmitri Makarov Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod 52 13 30 43 –2 14
Leading goaltendersEdit
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOP = Shootouts played; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Rastislav Staňa CSKA Moscow 34 1944:58 18 6 2 57 4 .934 1.76
Lars Haugen Dinamo Minsk 22 1289:29 13 7 1 39 2 .933 1.81
Alexander Eremenko Dynamo Moscow 30 1783:44 17 7 6 55 5 .931 1.85
Stanislav Galimov Atlant Moscow Oblast 25 1389:58 14 6 3 45 4 .943 1.94
Sergei Bobrovsky SKA Saint Petersburg 24 1419:36 18 3 2 46 4 .932 1.94
PlayoffsEdit
Main article: 2013 Gagarin Cup playoffs
The playoffs started on 20 February 2013 with the top eight teams from both conferences and ended on 17 April with the last game of the Gagarin Cup final.
During the first three rounds home ice was determined by seeding number within the Conference, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with better seeding number had home ice advantage. If the seeding numbers were equal, the regular season record was taken into account.[13]
Conference Quarter-Finals
Conference Semi-Finals
Gagarin Cup Finals
Ak Bars 4 1
Ak Bars 4
Neftekhimik 0 5
Salavat Yulaev 3
Avangard 4 Eastern Conference
Sibir 3
Traktor 4
Barys 3
Metallurg Mg 3 2
Avangard 1
Salavat Yulaev 4 3
(Pairings are re-seeded after the first round.)
Dynamo Msk 4
SKA 4 1
SKA 4
Atlant 1 5
Severstal 0
Lev 0
Slovan 0 Western Conference
Lokomotiv 2 2
Severstal 4 3
During the first three rounds home ice is determined by seeding number, not position on the bracket. In the Finals the team with the better regular season record has home ice.
Playoff scoring leadersEdit
Petri Kontiola Traktor Chelyabinsk 25 10 9 19 +10 12
Viktor Tikhonov SKA Saint Petersburg 15 10 8 18 +11 20
Jakub Petružálek Dynamo Moscow 19 9 7 16 +4 4
Tony Mårtensson SKA Saint Petersburg 15 6 10 16 +8 8
Denis Kokarev Dynamo Moscow 18 1 15 16 +11 0
Playoff leading goaltendersEdit
Updated on 17 April 2013. Source: khl.ru[14]
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Alexander Eremenko Dynamo Moscow 21 1309:24 16 5 0 38 3 93.4 1.74
Rastislav Staňa CSKA Moscow 9 551:12 5 4 0 16 0 93.9 1.74
Konstantin Barulin Ak Bars Kazan 18 1233:41 11 7 0 36 2 94.1 1.75
Ilya Ezhov SKA Saint Petersburg 11 645:27 6 4 0 19 2 93.3 1.77
Jeff Glass Sibir Novosibirsk 7 406:47 3 4 0 12 2 94.1 1.77
Nadezhda CupEdit
Dinamo Riga vs Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod(4–1, 3–4, Riga wins extra overtime)
Spartak Moscow vs Vityaz Chekhov (2–2, 1–0)
Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
W14 Dinamo Riga 2
W9 HC Donbass 2
W10 Dinamo Minsk 0
W13 Spartak Moscow 0
E11 Amur Khabarovsk 1
E12 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 2
E9 Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk 2
E10 Metallurg Novokuznetsk 1
Final standingsEdit
Avangard Omsk
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Severstal Cherepovets
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Sibir Novosibirsk
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
Lev Prague
Atlant Moscow Oblast
Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
HC Donbass
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Vityaz Chekhov
Amur Khabarovsk
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Players of the MonthEdit
Best KHL players of each month.
September[15]
Konstantin Barulin (Ak Bars)
Yevgeny Medvedev (Ak Bars)
Jori Lehterä (Sibir)
Daniil Apalkov (Lokomotiv)
October[16]
Alexander Eremenko (Dynamo Moscow)
Anton Belov (Avangard)
Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA)
Nail Yakupov (Neftekhimik)
November[17]
Rastislav Staňa (CSKA)
Victor Hedman (Barys)
Artem Anisimov (Lokomotiv)
Viktor Antipin (Magnitogorsk)
December[18]
Karri Rämö (Avangard)
Sergei Gonchar (Magnitogorsk)
Evgeni Malkin (Magnitogorsk)
Alexander Sharychenkov (Dynamo Moscow)
January[19]
Vasiliy Koshechkin (Severstal)
Dmitri Kalinin (SKA)
Igor Skorokhodov (Yugra)
Valeri Nichushkin (Traktor)
February[20]
Yakov Rylov (CSKA)
Mikhail Varnakov (SKA)
March[21]
Michael Garnett (Traktor)
Dominik Graňák (Dynamo Moscow)
Viktor Tikhonov (SKA)
KHL AwardsEdit
On 22 May 2013, the KHL held their annual award ceremony. A total of 23 different awards were handed out to teams, players, officials and media. The most important trophies are listed in the table below.[22]
Golden Stick Award (regular season MVP)
Sergei Mozyakin (Magintogorsk)
Oļegs Znaroks (Dynamo Msc)
Alexei Cherepanov Award (best rookie)
The league also awarded six "Golden Helmets" for the members of the all-star team:
Alexander Radulov
Viktor Tikhonov
Ilya Nikulin
Ilya Gorokhov
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Swift code is a standard format of bank identifier codes. It's a unique identification cypher for a particular bank. These codes are utilized when transferring funds between banks. It is heavily used for international wire transfers. It is also called BIC code, which is part of 150 9362 standards. BIC stands for bank identifier codes. Swift code or BIC code is a special code to recognize financial and non-financial institutions. The systems are also used in trading messages among banks. The routing number, or transmit number, on the other hand, is a nine-digit number that is used to identify financial organizations within a transaction. The routing number is a way for money to go in and out of the bank. Along with your account number, this allows other financial institutions to put money in your account, such as the case with a direct deposit. The routing number is often decided by the state branch where your account was opened.
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Das Mittelfränkische Becken ist eine flache bis hügelige Landschaft in Franken und zu einem kleinen Teil in Baden-Württemberg.

Geographie
Mit seinen 2200 Quadratkilometern Fläche ist es eine Haupteinheit in der naturräumlichen Haupteinheitengruppe Fränkisches Keuper-Lias-Land im Südwestdeutschen Schichtstufenland. Es grenzt – im Norden beginnend – an das Itz-Baunach-Hügelland, das Vorland der Nördlichen, der Mittleren und der Südlichen Frankenalb, an das Östliche Albvorland (der nunmehr Schwäbischen Alb), an die Schwäbisch-Fränkischen Waldberge, an die Frankenhöhe, den Steigerwald und die Haßberge.

Die nördliche Grenze liegt nördlich von Nürnberg, im Osten etwa auf einer Linie von Röthenbach an der Pegnitz nach Freystadt, im Süden auf Höhe Gunzenhausen und im Westen etwas westlich von Ansbach. Im Südwesten gibt es eine Ausbuchtung, die über Dinkelsbühl hinaus bis zur A 7 reicht.

Die Flüsse Zenn, Bibert, Schwabach, Mittlere Aurach und die Fränkische Rezat gliedern das Mittelfränkische Becken. Sie haben sich in den hier dominierenden Sandsteinkeuper und zum Teil auch bis hinunter in den Gipskeuper eingeschnitten. In dem Gebiet wird intensiv Landwirtschaft betrieben, Ackerflächen, Grünland und Waldgebiete wechseln dabei recht kleinräumig.

Naturräumliche Gliederung
Das Mittelfränkische Becken gliedert sich in:
 113 Mittelfränkisches Becken (3996,10 km²)
113.0 Dinkelsbühler und Feuchtwanger Hügelland
113.00 Dinkelsbühler Hügelland
113.01 Königshofener Heide
113.1 Feuchtwanger Becken
113.2 (alt) Feuchtwanger Hügelland
113.2 Ansbacher Hügelland
113.20 Südliches Ansbacher Hügelland
113.21 Ansbacher Talkessel
113.22 Nördliches Ansbacher Hügelland
113.3 Südliche Mittelfränkische Platten
113.30 Ornbau-Gunzenhäuser Altmühltal
113.31 Bibert-Schwabach-Rezat-Platten
113.32 Cadolzburger Höhenzug
113.33 Südliches Vorland des Spalter Hügellandes (mit Brombachgrund)
113.34 Östliches Vorland des Spalter Hügellandes
113.35 Rednitzaue
113.4 Spalter Hügelland
113.40 Südliches Spalter Hügelland
113.41 Nördliches Spalter Hügelland
113.42 Spalter Talkessel
Zeugenberge
113.43 Abenberger Hügelgruppe (bis 430 m)
113.44 Heidenberg (bis 462 m)
113.5 Nürnberger Becken mit Sandplatten
113.50 Rother Sandplatten
113.51 Reichelsdorfer Schotterterrassen
113.52 Lorenzer Reichswald
113.53 Stadtgebiet Nürnberg–Fürth
113.54 Altdorfer Dünengebiet
113.55 Knoblauchsland
113.56 Röthenbacher Sandplatte und Pegnitzaue
113.57 Sebalder Reichswald

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When I was a little girl, I was what you call a hurricane child. I was always running here and there, banging into stuff and creating a storm everywhere. So it became highly important for my parents to channel my energies into something more constructive. They put me into basket ball, lawn tennis, skating and what not. But every time I came back home bruised and bleeding because I was a very aggressive player, so I always ended up either fighting with other kids.
While they tried all kinds of sports, dance lessons, piano lessons, and what not, what actually caught my fancy was stamp collection.
Those were days when people posted letters and the internet had not taken over. So every time a letter came, I rushed to get the stamp from it. It was not something I did everyday but it always fascinated me. Colorful little squares with pictures that were considered precious.
When I got a little older I understood what mint condition stamps are, first edition and limited stamps are. My dad bought me stamp album and some beautiful limited edition stamps to encourage me to continue the hobby.
Watching my dedication towards collecting stamps, my grandmother gave me a handful of coins. And not ordinary coins, but coins that were used in her youth and she had saved them over the years. Most of these are no more issued so they have become like a collector's item now.
Over the years I got more coins at dirt cheap price from a dealer in Kurukshetra. The oldest coin I have is of the year 1835 when the British ruled India.
These hobbies were a big part of my life till the time video games and email took over. Once "Road Rash", "Need For Speed" and "Tomb Raider" came, I forgot all about these precious little treasures I had. I did get stamps sometimes from different countries, but it was never a full blown passion like it used to be.
But now, as I write this post, I feel like I've neglected a part of my life. So I got down and searched my entire cupboard and found that old stamp album and a piggy bank where I kept those coins.
Going through them I felt so good! They are a part of my childhood and I shall forever be indebted to my dad and grandma for introducing me to these tiny little treasures.
She sat down under the huge banyan tree. It was at the very edge of the cliff. Sitting under that tree you could see the entire valley spread out like a painting in front of you.
She loved coming here. It was their spot. He had brought her here on their first date. She had found it odd when he told her that they were going away from the city for their first date. Usually people chose a nice restaurant or a coffee place.
But the moment she laid her eyes on this place, she knew that no other place could have created the magic that this place did. They sat there for hours, talking away on random stuff.
He had a brilliant sense of humor. Though he looked like a serious type person, he was a lot more fun to talk to.
They started dating and both got on like a house on fire.
She was the non emotional type. Fun, bubbly and never actually getting serious in life or in relationships. He was the complete opposite. Serious and nerdy. He never made many friends and preferred to stay alone.
Both of them in the very beginning of their relationship understood that each wanted different things from each other. He was in for the long haul. Falling more and more in love with her with every passing day. She on the other hand was just casually dating.
She tried explaining it to him innumerable times that she was phobic to commitment and would probably never commit for life. But he always just smiled and changed the topic.
Nevertheless they were together. Like chalk and cheese they were completely opposite. And this was probably the reason they went along so well. They filled each other's gaps and completed the picture together.
She slowly started getting him out of his shell and his influence made her more practical and patient.
They were the perfect examples of the theory which says opposites attract. And eventually she too fell in love with him.
Sitting under that tree today, she remembered the day he was to come to her place and ask her father for her hand in marriage.
She had barely slept last night and she impatiently walked up and down the hallway waiting for him.
She ran towards the door when she heard a car pulling into her driveway. Her dad welcomed them home and within the next 6 months they were married.
Together they built a marriage which lasted nearly five decades. She loved him with all her heart and laughed at herself, thinking how childish her thoughts on commitment had been.
He was there with her through every up and down and they together sailed their ship through the sea of life.
She was lost in her memories when she heard somebody call out to her from behind.
It was their 2 year old grandchild. She smiled at him. He has his grandfather's eyes.
She took out a single red rose from her bag and laid it under the tree. It was his favorite flower. He often bought bouquets of fragrant crimson roses for her.
It has been 7 years since he left them for his heavenly abode, and every year, this day she comes here and relives that first date. The fateful day when she met her soul mate.


I am thinking about getting a bike. I used to cycle a lot when I was younger but like lots of things you let it go. I need to keep fit however and I've never liked running (too exhausting), so I thought why not get back on my bike.
I've had a look through the various bike sales sites and found there is a huge difference in price. I do wonder is the quality all that different between a top name and one of the cheaper ones. If bikes are like anything else then I doubt it.
Cycling has become such a popular sport/activity. you see so many people out now doing it which is great to see. I guess it must be due to the increase in cycle paths and of course how well Britain do in cycle events.
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By Robert Dietz on January 3, 2014 • (0)
With the end of 2013, NAHB's Eye on Housing would like to take one last look at the updates that attracted the most readers over the last year. In October, we used Census data to examine how long it takes to build a single-family home – our most popular post of the year. A follow-up post examined how long it takes to build multifamily housing.
The 2012 Survey of Construction (SOC) from the Census Bureau shows that on average it takes about 7 months from obtaining a building permit to completing a new single-family home. Looking at the houses completed in 2012, houses built for sale, on average, register the shortest time from permits to completion – between 5 and 6 months. Houses built on owner's land take longer – about 8 months if built by a contractor and more than 11 months if they are owner-built (i.e., where the owner of the land serves as a general contractor). Single-family homes built for rent take, on average, between 8 and 9 months from permits to completion.
In most cases, no time is wasted from the moment a permit is obtained and construction is started. Most homes built for sale and on owners' land are started prior or within the same month as authorization. Houses built for rent, on average, register a slight delay of one month before construction is started.
The time from permits to completion varies across the nine Census divisions. New England and Middle Atlantic register longer times of between 9 and 10 months. Pacific and East North Central division also show above average time of 8 months to completion. Builders in the East South Central Division manage to complete a home in 7 months, on average. The rest of the country registers times between 5 and 6 months.
For houses built for sale, the SOC also gathers information on sales, registered at the time when a buyer signs a sale agreement or makes a deposit on the home, not the final closing. For new single-family homes sold in 2012, the average time from completion to sale is under one month. However, this average is highly skewed by a relatively small number of homes that are not sold prior or while under construction. Looking at new single-family homes completed in 2012, more than three quarters of these properties were sold before or during the completion month, including 30 percent that were pre-sold (i.e., sold before being started). Only 6 percent of homes completed in 2012 remain unsold as of the first quarter of 2013. So, for most new single family homes there is no additional lag from completion to sale.
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By Newsdesk on January 12, 2016 Sports
MUMBAI: An Indian squash player has taken the unusual step of putting his kidney up for sale to raise funds ahead of next month's South Asian Games, according to local media reports.
Ravi Dixit, who will turn 23 this week, is part of the home squad for the event taking place in northeast India and has used social media to offer up an organ for an asking price of 800,000 Indian rupees ($11,952.79) due to a lack of sponsors.
His father's employer, the Dhampur Sugar Mill, has provided financial assistance in the past but according to Dixit, the funds were no longer enough to support him.
"I need at least Rs 1 lakh (Rs100,000) to participate in the South Asian Games but have not been able to find any sponsor," Dixit was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper on Tuesday.
"So, I have decided to sell my kidney for Rs 8 lakh (Rs800,000) so that I can participate in other tournaments as well for the rest of the year."
Cricket is an obsession for many Indians and around 90 per cent of advertising revenue targeted at sports goes to the country's most popular game, analysts say.
When contacted, the governing Squash Rackets Federation of India did not immediately respond for comment.
Dixit's attempts to sell the kidney, forbidden by law in India, is also a cause of concern for his parents.
"I have spoken to Ravi. He is in Chennai right now but I spoke to him on the phone. His mother and I are imploring him not to take the step," Ravi's father, Ramkailash, told the Times of India newspaper.
"Together, we will figure out a way to deal with this crisis. This way, he will ruin both his life and career.
"I funded my daughter's wedding with Ravi's winnings. Since he has to support the family as well, he cannot use much of what he gets for himself."
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