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Protests Helped Save Black-Owned Business That Coronavirus Nearly Killed
CPR News | By Taylor Allen
The COVID-19 pandemic almost forced Tommy Rhine to shut down his shoe repair business in downtown Denver after four decades.
Tommy Rhine, 70, has been repairing shoes in Denver for more than 40 years. He's repaired shoes for everyone from Broncos and Nuggets players to doctors and lawyers at Rhine's Shoe & Boot Repair.
But three months of the COVID-19 pandemic almost forced Rhine to shut his doors.
"I mostly deal with downtown businesspeople," Rhine said. "Half of them are not working or if they are working, they are working at home. They don't need to dress up or have the shoes right now so that kind of killed everything."
Rhine said he went four months without being able to pay his rent due to the lack of business. He tried applying for small business loans but never heard back.
When the Black Lives Matter protests began late May in Denver, Tommy Rhine Jr., Rhine's oldest son, put a sign in the window that says, "Black Owned Business." The idea was to promote support for the business and to deter any potential vandalism.
Rhine Sr. has not been a part of the Black Lives Matter protests downtown, but he said he was more active in the 1960s as a young man when he was living in Fort Worth, Texas. He remembers having to ride in the back of the bus and using segregated water fountains. When he moved to Denver in 1970, he said he was often stopped by police.
"I can't tell you how many times I was profiled ... just for being Black," he said. "They used to call it DWB — driving while Black — and that's real."
The "Black Owned Business" sign caught the attention of Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner, and he tweeted about Rhine's shop. A few hours later, a family friend noticed how much attention the post was getting and contacted the son to suggest making a GoFundMe to help his father.
The funds kept pouring in, and Rhine now has tens of thousands of dollars for his shop. The original goal was $8,000. The GoFundMe is still active, and Rhine has also received mail every day from people all over the country donating money.
"I've got people saying they want to send their shoes here from California, Illinois," Rhine Sr. said. "I tell them to send them in. I'm right next door to FedEx."
Since the media coverage began, he's been constantly working. He's been taking orders while repairing shoes.
"I never had to put people off for two weeks, I usually do a two- to three-day turnaround," he said. "Now I have to say a week."
Julia James, a lifelong Denverite, stumbled on Rhine's story by chance the day after the original tweet went out. Immediately afterward, she drove down to his shop.
She bought two pairs of shoes from him and asked if it was OK if she shared his story on her Facebook page and started another fundraiser. She now periodically pops in to give Rhine a check. The last one was for $3,000. That fundraiser is also still active.
"There's this nostalgia for what he does, and I think also he's a black-owned business that has been in business for 40 years," she said. "People stepped up and are continuing to step up."
Despite having all that extra money, Rhine said he doesn't have a desire to get a bigger shop. He said he's happy doing the trade he's been doing since high school.
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This job i'd gotten from d onset of time….
even the bible says everything should be done with moderations.
some thing GOd created for pleasure IN MARRIAGE should not lead us to HELL… self control & discipline is the key.
Abike has been through hell, she doesn't deserve that.


Som Chai opened last month on Jalan Kerobokan, Seminyak and you would have to say the Sarong Group, who brought Bali the award winning and downright fabulous Asian cuisine inspired Sarong, Mamasan, Hujan Locale and Tiger Palm restaurants, have done it again.
Som Chai is another stylish and authentic Southeast Asian restaurant and notch in the belt for the Sarong group, this time concentrating on delicious Thai cuisine and an abundance of Thai style. You would think that Will Meyrick, after so much experience already in Thai food, travelling the country extensively and cooking some of the finest Thai in his many restaurants, would have enough fire power in his little black book of recipes to open another restaurant without too much effort, but no, as we all know, the man is possessed and once more was out on the mostly unridden trails of Thailand searching for new dishes for this new project. He did a trip for almost two months with his perennial offsider and sous chef Palm Amatawet and new Som Chai head chef, Wayan Suprapta. They travelled throughout Thailand before sitting down to develop the menu and according Meyrick the menu is influenced by the era of the first Kings of Siam.
We arrive early, around 7pm and walk through the heavy wooden front doors and are greeted by the young lady at reception who takes us straight through to the main dining area. We pass a corridor-like lounge area draped in silk and chiffon curtains, with swings, as in the kids swings hanging limply waiting for someone to take the required position.
The main dining area is enormous, with what could be called Bali's largest vaulted roof. Large, Thai-style metal lanterns hang from the ceiling, while rattan patterned panels divide the dining sections. Comfy chairs and sofas surround multiple solid tables and a full-wall, vertical garden on one side definitely brings an organic touch to the elegance, and the large container look bar tops off a very inviting and interesting look and atmosphere. The décor is reminiscent in many ways of the Kempinski Bangkok's fine dining restaurant, Sra Bua by Kiin Kiin.
Dining at Som Chai starts with great service. The attentive staff are obviously trained to a T and show great poise and style, knowledgeable of each dish and helpful with selection. The dishes could be complex for the novice Thai diner so this does help. A nice touch was one of the waiters first coming around with the house wines on a trolley for us to taste while checking the extensive menu. This makes the selecting of wine a breeze.
Since we were on a night out, we first ordered signature cocktails Barrel Aged Manhatten (Rp 135k) and Drunken Monk (Rp 120k) for the lady. While sipping on those delightful, infused kickstarters we order a number of entrees.
The extensive menu consists of entrees, salads, mains, curries, stir-fries and noodle and rice dishes – just what you would imagine on any fine Thai menu.
The four entrees start with the signature Will Meyrick starter, betel leaf topped with coffee wood smoked mackerel and Jeow Bong relish (Rp 45k), crispy shell crab som tam with green apple (Rp 120k) substituting the typical green papaya with green apple for a new sensation, and two specially prepared entrees by the chef, Stir Fried Pumpkin (Rp 70k) and a Pork Rib Soup (Rp 120k). The flavours of the fresh local produce and Thai spices burst from the plate and onto the palate. The waiters also asked, as we ordered, if we liked our food spicy or not, which is something to keep in mind as some of the dishes are rather spicy.
For the mains we moved straight to the crispy barramundi with pineapple holy basil lime leaf and three flavors sauce (Rp 195k). The whole grilled fish had a sweet and tangy sauce and was perfectly tender and juicy. The other main was a grilled "Aeb pla" of barramundi marinated in chili turmeric kaffir lime leaf wrapped in banana leaf served with nam pla prik (a hot Thai sauce) and sticky rice (Rp 170k). "Aeb pla" means wrapped in banana leaf in Thai.
We finished off with a delicious selection of the Som Chai dessert favourites, which is aptly called the Chef's Dessert Selection (Rp150k). After all that food we were lucky to be able to move at all, but after finishing dinner we did manage to move to the front bar area for a couple of drinks and to see what exactly happened with those swings.
By this time, and I believe it's Thursday to Saturday nights only, the Som Chai Lounge area turns into what appears to be a dark, smoky den of iniquity that they say harks back to the old hedonistic days of Bangkok's Chinatown. It also leans to the risque of modern clubs in the bustling and cosmopolitan new Bangkok like Maggie Choo and Sing Sing. We enjoyed another drink while the boudoir attired girls swung languidly on their swings nearby.
It's an all-round fun and a sensorial experience at Som Chai and a perfect addition to Seminyak's dining scene. The food is as delicious as you would always expect from Will Meyrick and the Sarong Group and for the service, style and excellence in cuisine, it is definitely excellent value for money. It ticks all the boxes.


Physical therapy, also known as Physiotherapy, is one of the allied health professions that, by using mechanical force and movements, manual therapy, exercise therapy, and electrotherapy, remediates impairments and promotes mobility and function.
Physiotherapy helps to restore mobility and normalcy in a patient's life after he/she is affected by any injury, disease or disability, in general.
Components of a physiotherapy session include manual therapy, advising and educating the patient. Physiotherapy can help a patient of any age to manage further pain and prevent subsequent injuries or diseases. In a nutshell, physiotherapy helps a patient improve and maximize his/her physical strength, functioning and general well-being while taking care of the underlying issues.
It adopts a more holistic approach to a patient's treatment process by taking into consideration his/her lifestyle and other dimensions of their lives.
Physiotherapy helps prevent disability and injury, manages chronic as well as acute health conditions, manages and betters physical performance of the patient, provides rehabilitation from the injury and educates patients on how to prevent any further recurrence.
Manual manipulation: Moving the soft tissues and the joints betters circulation, flushes excess fluids from the body and relaxes overtly tight muscles and spasms.
Electrical stimulation of the nerves: Delivering electric currents in controlled intensity to the affected part helps to contain the pain signals, thus preventing them from reaching the brain.
Acupuncture: This is a great way of stimulating the CNS while dulling the pain and relaxing tight muscles.
Demonstration: Teaching and demonstrating proper movement patterns to the patient help them to recuperate on their own.
Functional testing: This involves examining the patient with regards to their physical movements to better assess his/her condition.
There is nothing as a non-eligibility criterion for physiotherapy. Anybody who has sustained an injury, disease or has been rendered disabled from a trauma can go for physiotherapy for improved functioning and mobility, obviously after due consultation with the doctor in charge.


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JLM vice-chair called a 'fifth column' for denouncing antisemitism in Labour
Jewish Labour Movement vice-chair has issued a complaint over the remark
By Mathilde Frot	April 1, 2019, 12:36 pm Edit
Mike Katz addressing the Labour Party conference 2016
Jewish Labour Movement vice-chair Mike Katz has lodged a complaint after a member of the Hampstead and Kilburn Constituency Labour Party reportedly described him as a "fifth column."
The term, which refers to a group or individual who undermine a larger group from within, was coined to describe supporters of General Franco's fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
It has often been used to refer to Nazi sympathisers living in Britain during the Second World War.
The remark appears to have been made last Thursday by general committee member Joe Black during a heated discussion of Jewish News' coverage of a motion of support for Chris Williamson.
Katz said: "It's bad enough to seek to silence those calling our racism in the Labour Party but to do it using tropes referencing treachery and dual loyalty is something else.
"If anyone thinks this will stop me, or JLM, in challenging antisemitism wherever it occurs, they're sadly deluded."
A member, who did not wish to be named for fear of expulsion, revealed the remark was not retracted despite calls from members to do so due to the term's origin and historical usage.
A source who attended the meeting told Jewish News: "This is not the first time there has been antisemitism in Hampstead and Kilburn Labour Party, so it was extremely depressing."
Later, the CLP chair Katherine Bligh proposed a motion which in part called for the reinstatement of members "subjected to extensive allegations of antisemitism and abuse in the media by leading party member".
However, the group passed an amendment which removed this part of the motion.
Hampstead and Kilburn Constituency Labour Party has been approached for comment.
Hampstead and Kilburn Constituency Labour Party
Labour Antisemitism

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Newsletter - Sep 2013
Newsletter - Nov. 2010
Newsletter - May 2010
Unit History & Info.
War Roster - Updated
Mission Lists
Bomb Raid Photos
The Airman's Psalm
The Saga of Old Battler
"Foo Fighter" Sightings
GOOGLE(c) Site Search
Veteran Pages A - L
Barnes, Lamar
Birch, John
Bremner, Harry
Corey, Robert B.
Covington, Bill
Dalto, Joe
Dean, Willis C.
DeRaimo, Freddie
Fayta, Arthur
Hale, Donald D.
Harper, Charles B.
Howe, Clarence M.
"CM" Howe - Page 2
Hudson, Elwin
Kelleher, Joseph
Kenney, George
G. Kenney - Page 2
Kirk, Bart
Lane, Richard
Veteran Pages M - R
Miller, Uline C.
Misterly, John
Mitchell, Nile
Moser, Alan
Nolfo, Frank
Pierro, Leon
Price, James R.
Ransleben, Guido
Roberts, Roland D.
Veteran Pages S - Z
Sabo, Pete
Pete Sabo - Page 2
Salk, Paul
Schleicher, James L.
Schneider, Howard
Schumacher, Robert
Bob Schumacher - Page 2
Sirotiak, Harold
Smith, Donald
Spellmann, Robert
Stoltz, Charles
Thatcher, Robert H.
Trask, Harold
Vaughn, Herschel R.
Vergenz, Ervin
Weber, Dean
Weber, Leon
Welch, Tom
Wilkins, Sherman
B-29 Aircraft and Crews
676th Squadron
Guido Ransleben
AACS (Army Airways Communication System) India, 1944 -'45
Dedicated to G.R. Ransleben who was attached to the 87th Air Service Group.
All of the items on this page were donated by him (except where noted).
AACS insignia
Handwritten entries are almost illegible. It reads:
PRESENTED TO Corporal Guido E. Ransleben Jr. FOR MERITORIOUS ACHIEVEMENT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF OUTSTANDING SERVICES FROM 17 August 1944 TO 26 April 1945 WHILE A MEMBER OF THE Station 506, 129th A.A.C.S. Squadron.
GIVEN THIS 26th DAY OF April 1945
This is the 1945 annual mug shot required to maintain my top secret crypto clearance- Age 19 at the time.
My barracks at Dudhkundi.
My bunk.
"Jocko" hung around looking for handouts and beer.
A view from the control tower during a review held on November 15, 1944. General LeMay was there to present several medals to deserving airmen.
20th Air Force / XX Bomber Command, 58th Bomb Wing HQ - India
Notebook Sketches & Photos - Dudkhundi India
The Three Feathers
The Li'l Herbert
The Droop Snoot was a P-38 modified with a plastic nose and provided with accommodations for a bomb sight and bombardier. This plane flew the lead when the P-38's made bomb runs. When the bombardier dropped his bombs, everyone else dropped theirs. I have been told the concept had mixed results.
How about 100 missions?
444th BG Airfield - Dudhkundi, India, 1944
444th BG Memories - Guido Ransleben
During the past sixty-one years, I had wondered about the locations of some of the XXBC bases in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />India. I was familiar with the Hijli headquarters of the Bomber Command, along with the bases at Kharagpur (Salua), Kalaikunda, and Dudhkundi, because I had been to those places while stationed in the area. All I knew about Chakulia and Piardoba was that they were "further up the road". Although I was stationed at Dudhkundi only two months after the 444th BG moved there from Charra, I had never heard of Charra until I became a member of the 444th BG Assn. a few years ago. No one ever mentioned it while I was there, to the best of my memory.
When I found out about Google Earth a few months ago, I downloaded it to see if I could locate the runways of the bases. Google Earth is great if you know where to look, especially in the less densely populated rural areas. In those areas, the image resolution is not good enough to resolve individual roof tops, but runways can be seen. I found Chakulia, because it is actually labeled by Google Earth. I found some other runways while scrolling through the area, but did not know what they were.
At that point, I posted some inquiries to see if anyone had a map of the base locations which would give me a clue as to where to look. I had two responses. One, from Katie Kirk, gave me a great description of Charra, and I found it right away. The other was from John Icenhower (the contact for the 462nd BG web site), who e-mailed a map showing all the bases in the area. This led me to Piardoba and named all the other area bases.
I found that the web site for the Indian Institute of Technology, which sprang up after the war around the building used as headquarters by the XXBC, had a map of the campus, which shows the old building. It is now a museum, housing artifacts and memorabilia from the pre-independence British oppression. I found enough large landmarks on the campus map to locate the building on Google Earth.
The map sent by John Icenhower shows an airbase located roughly half-way between Salua and Kalaikunda, labeled 22nd Air Depot. I know from another site that there was a 22nd Air Depot unit somewhere in the Kharagpur area, but scrolling through that whole area on Google Earth doesn't reveal anything to indicate the presence of anything resembling such a base. I never heard of it while I was there. There is something on Google Earth at about 12 miles north of Midnapore (half way to Piardoba) which looks like it could be two intersecting runways with parking areas at the far end of each.
The map I e-mailed to you was generated from measurements on Google Earth.
A website named Warbirds of India (West Bengal) states that the Indian Air Force has closed down all the area military airbases except those at Kalaikunda and Panagarh. A pop-up at Chakulia indicates that the base there is still used commercially.
It was interesting to me to find an isolated runway near Bishnupur. I believe this was where I once landed by mistake. In late 1945, after I had been transferred to Barrackpore, on the north edge of Calcutta, I had a few days off so decided to visit some of my friends who were still at Dudhkundi. I boarded a C-47 shuttle flight which made a regular round from Barrackpore to some of the former XXBC bases. The first stop was to be Piardoba, but about half-way there the plane collided with one of the large Indian vultures. There was a loud crashing sound, and the whole airplane shuddered. Looking out the window, I saw a large dent in the leading edge of the wing, a red sploch extending over the top surface, and a single black feather sticking out of the edge of the de-icer boot. The pilot decided to make a straight-in approach to Piardoba, in order to land quickly and assess the damage. He had never flown that route, and was unfamiliar with Piardoba, so as he began the descent all I could see ahead of us was a single strip completely surrounded by jungle, which I knew could not be Piardoba. When we landed, there were no buildings, aircraft, vehicles, or humans in sight, except for a lone Indian sentry standing next to the runway with his mouth agape. The pilot contacted the Piardoba tower and was informed that we had landed at an abandoned British fighter strip. He was given directions to Piardoba, and we were there after a short hop. I don't know how he managed to get 17 miles off course on a 70-mile flight, but he may have become disoriented after the bird strike and picked the first runway he saw.
Regards to all --- Guido
Bombs on the Runway
This is a story I have been itching to tell for years, but have hesitated because I never knew the true facts of what led up to it. All I know for sure is what I saw. That much can be verified by the hundreds of people who witnessed the incident and may still be around to talk about it. I never recorded the date or the S/N of the airplane involved, but it must have happened in early 1945.
The 444th had been on an all-day mission directly from Dudhkundi, and when the time neared for their return, a large crowd gathered in front of the headquarters building to watch them land. I was standing in front of the message center (next door to HQ). Two officers and two women (from the distance, I couldn't tell if they were nurses or canteen workers) had taken a jeep and drove right up to the edge of the runway for a better view as the planes rolled by.
The first indication I had that something was wrong was when the people in the jeep suddenly jumped out and started running as fast as they could, without bothering to try to start the jeep. Then I noticed that the plane that had just touched down had a couple of objects bouncing up and down on the runway beneath it.
The mind can assume strange ideas about anything unusual it sees. My first impression was that he plane may have landed short and snagged a fence, and was dragging a couple of fence posts by the wire. But, in the same instant, I remembered there were no fences in the area and what I saw was two bombs hanging on by their arming wires while they were being dragged down the runway.
At about that time, I became aware that most of the crowd had disappeared. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open. The two bombs hung on for about half the length of the runway (about even with the point where I was standing), before they finally came loose. They were just lying there until the bomb crew drove out to pick them up.
As I said at the beginning, I never really knew what led up to this incident, One story I heard was that when the bombardier released the bombs, he was not aware the bomb bay doors had jammed shut, and the bombs were just lying on the doors until the plane touched down. The doors then popped open, dumping the bombs on the end of the runway (except for the two that hung on).
This incident could have been disastrous, but no one, to my knowledge, was hurt. All I know is that the images of the bouncing bombs and the people running from the jeep were forever etched in my memory.
Guido Ransleben, March, 2006
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Deputy President William Ruto has now, for the first time, acknowledged that the land that his Weston Hotel sits on was illegally acquired.
Speaking on BBC HARDtalk show hosted by Stephen Sackur, the Deputy President said he "innocently" bought the land from its original owners, who had "illegally" obtained it.
Mr Ruto, however, says he is doing everything possible to ensure that the illegalities are corrected.
"Tell me about the Weston Hotel, which you own, which is worth an awful worth of money, and which is sitting on illegally acquired land," Mr Sackur posed the question to Mr Ruto.
"Weston Hotel is a big story…," said the DP, who, was thereafter, interrupted by the host.
"It is, Kenyans are following very closely; and maybe [that is] why you are top of that [Ipsos] poll [which placed you at the top of the list of leaders Kenyans perceive to be most corrupt]…," said Mr Sackur.
"You would want to believe that Weston Hotel occupies half of Nairobi. Weston Hotel sits on 0.7 hectares of land…," responded Mr Ruto.
"For your information, Weston Hotel was bought…," replied Mr Ruto.
The Deputy President, thereafter, let the cat out of the bag, admitting that the Weston land was, indeed, illegally acquired – by its original owners.
"Not bought illegally. In fact, for the record, the National Land Commission has made a finding that Weston was an innocent purchaser for value from somebody who got it illegally, and preparations have been made constitutionally to restore that land to Kenya Civil Aviation Authority by demanding that those who sold the land to us must pay," said the Deputy President.
According to KCAA's legal services manager, Cyril Wayong'o, the land where Weston Hotel sits on, originally belonged to the East Africa Community which collapsed in 1977.
It had been developed and was being used as storage premises for the machinery and aviation equipment of the then Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA).
However, on June 29, 1999, then-Commissioner of Lands, Sammy Mwaita, wrote to the Directorate of Civil Aviation, indicating he had received an application from a church group that wanted to build a church on the site.
Lawyer Ahmed Abdullahi who represents the DP, told the national land commissioners that Mr Ruto acquired the land in 2007 for Ksh.10 million from Priority Management Ltd and Monene Investments Limited.
NLC, in its recommendations, said they could not verify if the process of land allocation was illegal as none of the parties had presented evidence before it.
NLC, however, went ahead, to confirm that the controversial Weston land belonged to KCAA.
In the BBC interview, the DP also addressed claims that Kenyans perceive him to be the "most corrupt" politician in the country.
"If you look at that Ipsos list that placed me as a leader perceived to be the most corrupt, it had William Ruto, a former president [Daniel Moi], the current president Uhuru Kenyatta, the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga… Largely, all the political leaders that exist today in Kenya were in that order. That tells you that the whole corruption narrative has been politicized," said Mr Ruto.
The DP replied: "Of course, it does. It doesn't make sense to you?


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ATS to Acquire Production Process Optimization and Digitalization Solutions Provider IPCOS
November 29, 2022, 5:00 p.m. ·6 min read
CAMBRIDGE, ON, Nov. 29, 2022 /CNW/ - ATS Corporation (TSX: ATS) ("ATS" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IPCOS Group nv ("IPCOS"), a Belgium-based provider of process optimization and digitalization solutions with six locations across Europe, the US, and India. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the transaction is subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions.
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IPCOS will join ATS' Process Automation Solutions ("PA") business, a leading provider of complete automation and digitalization solutions for the process and manufacturing industries. With a strong focus on process optimization, IPCOS will accelerate PA's strategy to drive productivity improvement through digital solutions. In synergy with the existing PA portfolio, it furthers PA's value proposition of creating solutions for customers through automation integration, data analytics, and process optimization.
"IPCOS broadens our process optimization and digitalization capabilities in our key focus sectors," said Dr. Christian Debus, President of PA. "Its strong domain knowledge, which has been incorporated into their digital solutions, can be offered to our existing customers as a value add to our leading digitalization platform. Additionally, IPCOS will significantly accelerate PA's growth trajectory, and further strenghten our unique value proposition. We are looking forward to welcoming the IPCOS team to PA."
"Being part of PA will accelerate IPCOS' strategy to grow in the area of digital services and in new customer segments by leveraging PA's extensive technological expertise, global footprint, and customer access," said Filip Stroobant, CEO of IPCOS.
About IPCOS
IPCOS was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. IPCOS is a Digital Solutions and Services provider, focused on maximizing plant efficiency, increasing business productivity, and enhancing environmental sustainability, through the smart application of latest Industry 4.0 technologies. IPCOS serves a wide range of international process and allied industries with six locations across the US, Europe and India. Visit the company's website at https://ipcos.com/ for more details.
About Process Automation Solutions
Process Automation Solutions GmbH is one of the leading, manufacturer-independent suppliers of complete automation solutions for the process, manufacturing, and automotive industries. As a strong partner, PA's 1,400 automation experts in Europe, America and Asia support their customers during all phases of automation from planning to implementation and commissioning – and if desired, throughout the entire lifecycle of the plant through aftersales service. Visit PA's website at www.pa-ats.com.
About ATS Corporation
ATS Corporation is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies. ATS uses its extensive knowledge base and global capabilities in custom automation, repeat automation, automation products and value-added services including pre-automation and after-sales services, to address the sophisticated manufacturing automation systems and service needs of multinational customers in markets such as life sciences, food & beverage, transportation, consumer products, and energy. Founded in 1978, ATS employs over 6,000 people at more than 50 manufacturing facilities and over 75 offices in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and China. The Company's common shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ATS. Visit the Company's website at www.atsautomation.com.
This news release contains certain statements that may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws ("forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that ATS believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including, but not limited to: completion of the acquisition; expectations related to the achievement of PA's strategy, including its growth strategy, and value proposition, and expectations related to IPCOS' growth strategy.. Such forward-looking statements are inherently subject to significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of ATS, or developments in ATS' business or in its industry, to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance, achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Company, its employees, customers, suppliers and the global economy; impact of regional or global conflicts; general market performance including capital market conditions and availability and cost of credit; performance of the markets that ATS serves; industry challenges in securing the supply of labour, materials, and, in certain jurisdictions, energy sources such as natural gas, impact of inflation; interest rate changes; foreign currency and exchange risk; the relative strength of the Canadian dollar; recessionary risk; impact of factors such as increased pricing pressure, increased cost of energy and supplies, and delays in relation thereto, and possible margin compression; the regulatory and tax environment; that closing is delayed or prohibited as a result of the inability to complete closing conditions; the expectations related to the achievement of PA's strategy, including its growth strategy, or in relation to its value proposition, are not realized as expected, or within the expected timeframe or at all; the expectations related to IPCOS' growth strategy are not realized as expected, or within the expected timeframe or at all; performance of the market sectors or customer segments that PA and IPCOS serve; and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in ATS' filings with securities regulators, including, without limitation, the risk factors described in ATS' annual information form for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, which are available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") and can be accessed at www.sedar.com. ATS has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from current expectations, however, there may be other factors that cause actual results to differ materially from such expectations.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based on a number of estimates, factors and assumptions regarding, among others, management's current plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions, the future performance and results of the Company's business and operations; and general economic conditions and global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Forward-looking statements included in this news release are only provided to understand management's current expectations relating to future periods and, as such, are not appropriate for any other purpose. Although ATS believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and ATS cautions you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. ATS does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements contained herein other than as required by law.
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British Open coverage features first "Segwaycam"
Thursday, July 20, 2006 - 4:42 pm
This weekend s coverage of the British Open from Royal Liverpool in Liverpool, England, will feature a broadcast first: use of the Segway Human Transporter as a camera mount.
Everybody is fascinated by it, says Joe French, technical manager for UK outside broadcast vehicle provider Visions which is working with Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi. It can move quite fast and the operator can control the camera by shifting their way. I can see it as being useful for all sorts of events, like a marathon where the cameraperson needs to move fast.
BBC Resources Engineering Manager Peter Wright is in charge of the BBC s host broadcast operations and says the idea came out of a meeting with BBC cameramen. And not only the broadcasters are intrigued. It s managed to turn the heads of players like Vijay Singh as it follows them down the fairway.
It s easier for the cameraman to get around and they can use the Steadicam system a lot longer, says Wright.
The Segcam is one of 62 standard definition cameras that will grab widescreen images for the host broadcast feed that is sent out to broadcast partners like Turner Sports, ABC Sports, and TV Asaki. Wright says 48 of the Sony cameras are hooked up via fiber while six use RF. Miniature cameras are also located behind the par 3 holes and a single camera is provided in the press center for clubhouse interviews.
The four TV partners share that camera so there isn t a mad rush to get interviews, says Wright. The floor manager co-ordinates one-minute interviews that give each network some sound bites.
The biggest challenge for everyone is simply that the last time the British Open was held in Liverpool was during the hey-day of Beatlemania in 1967. It was a 12 camera, monochrome production and one that no one currently working on the broadcast was involved with first hand.
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Q: Reconnecting to ZMQ feed after disconnect I have this simple python script which connects to a ZMQ feed and spits out some data:
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import zlib
import zmq
import simplejson

def main():
    context = zmq.Context()
    subscriber = context.socket(zmq.SUB)

    # Connect to the first publicly available relay.
    subscriber.connect('tcp://relay-us-east-1.eve-emdr.com:8050')
    # Disable filtering.
    subscriber.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "")

    while True:
        # Receive raw market JSON strings.
        market_json = zlib.decompress(subscriber.recv())
        # Un-serialize the JSON data to a Python dict.
        market_data = simplejson.loads(market_json)
        # Dump typeID
        results = rowsets = market_data.get('rowsets')[0];
        print results['typeID']

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

This is running on my home server. Sometimes, my home server loses connectivity to the internet, the curse of being a residential connection. When the network does drop out and come back on, however, the script stalls. Is there any way to reinitialize connection? I'm still new to python, a point in the right direction would be wonderful. =)

A: Not sure this is still relevant, but here goes:
Use a timeout (examples here, here and here). On ZMQ < 3.0 it would look something like this (not tested):
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import zlib
import zmq
import simplejson

def main():
    context = zmq.Context()
    while True:
        subscriber = context.socket(zmq.SUB)
        # Connect to the first publicly available relay.
        subscriber.connect('tcp://relay-us-east-1.eve-emdr.com:8050')
        # Disable filtering.
        subscriber.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "")
        this_call_blocks_until_timeout = recv_or_timeout(subscriber, 60000)
        print 'Timeout'
        subscriber.close()

def recv_or_timeout(subscriber, timeout_ms)
    poller = zmq.Poller()
    poller.register(subscriber, zmq.POLLIN)
    while True:
        socket = dict(self._poller.poll(stimeout_ms))
        if socket.get(subscriber) == zmq.POLLIN:
            # Receive raw market JSON strings.
            market_json = zlib.decompress(subscriber.recv())
            # Un-serialize the JSON data to a Python dict.
            market_data = simplejson.loads(market_json)
            # Dump typeID
            results = rowsets = market_data.get('rowsets')[0];
            print results['typeID']
        else:
            # Timeout!
            return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

ZMQ > 3.0 allows you to set the socket's RCVTIMEO option, which will cause its recv() to raise a timeout error, without the need of a Poller object.

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A Cage Match
2013 Short Fiction Contest
By Richard Harlan Miller
Middle-aged snowbirds, vacationing in Mexico during the frigid Minnesota winter, pass through the surreal fantasy world surrounding all-inclusive resort life. It's a story of privilege and absurdity, gazing across the distance between expectations and reality. — Jacob Jones
Bobby opened the red door and swept his arm forward as if we were royalty. He was damp. His polo shirt swelled with his beach-ball stomach. Snacks appeared — pu-pus, he said — and drinks were put in our hands.
A dozen people were standing and talking. "No one told me it was gold jewelry night," I said quietly. Karen's smile said, "you're not funny." Bobby led us to a horseshoe-shaped couch. He lifted a velvet cushion to show the white concrete underneath.
"We're a modern stone-age family."
"You can hose it off," I said. "Good for wild parties."
Karen smiled again. The same smile.
"Pu-pu?" Bobby pushed the tray toward us and left to check something in the kitchen. Either the alcohol or the extra weight made him walk like he was pushing a wheelbarrow, like a quick turn could send him keeling.
The kitchen was outside on a terrace that thrust like a tongue over the bay. Potted palms blocked the far end, apparently to keep curious visitors from peeking over, getting vertigo, and flailing down past 32 floors of startled vacationers before they splattered on the shiny white tiles next to the twin rectangular pools.
I saw her feet first. Gold ankle bracelet, gold toe rings, gold toenail polish.
"Excuse me, do either of you play cribbage?"
We looked up from our small island of beach towel.
Her face was a fingerprint whorl of fine wrinkles, and she wore a shiny gold swimsuit of notable elasticity. Her visor said Paradise in red sequins.
"She plays,'' I said.
Karen gave me her "you'll pay for this later" smile, but wrapped a big purple scarfy thing around her waist and left. When the incoming tide got too close, I sat down under their palapa.
"People should be so lucky," a woman with orange hair was saying. "We should have it so good." After a while I understood she was comparing mink and fox. A fox coat, you see, is warmer, but both animals live on special ranches — more like spas, really — where they are fed and groomed and treated better than humans. "It's a great life," Carol said.
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Then she started on the free-range chicken scam. "Chicken are shy and they like to stay where it's safe," she said. "Just plain cruel to force them into the open."
The waiter brought six more Coronas sloshing in a bucket of ice. I took a another beer. I began to feel sorry for the chickens.
Bobby and Toni were from Chicago. They wintered in Acapulco, waking at 10 with vodka and grapefruit, lounging in this same beach palapa all afternoon. Other snowbirds would stop by, duck their heads under the brown fronds, stay for a drink or two.
There was a retired judge from Florida, whom everyone called Martha. There was Marty, who smoked cigars and invented the slogan, "You deserve a break today," and his wife, Mary Beth, who carried a dog named Taco in her purse. There was Luis, who bought wholesale jewelry in Los Angeles and sold it to tourists in Mexico.
I've forgotten most of it, but I remember that Martha was named after Martha Stewart because of his aesthetic sensibilities and sexual preference. And that a bunch of ad writers were agonizing over a slogan when Marty said, as history will long remember, "You know what? We deserve a break."
Karen's drink came in a green coconut shell decorated with pineapple and maraschino cherries. She had to bend the straw down to mouth level.
"It's not free-range at all," Carol said. "The cages are in a warehouse. Even if a chicken wants to risk going out, it would find a concrete floor and fluorescent lights."
At best, a patch of hard dirt. No grassy meadows. No ladybugs to peck. No breeze ruffling their feathers. No wonder they like to stay home. Might as well kick back in your cage and have them bring you food.
Karen made a little gasp of empathy. She was on her third coconut and had a dewy look. She'd need ibuprofen later. The waiter brought another bucket of beer and a plate of nachos.
Karen and I were at La Tranquila, just across from Disco Beach. With Jake finally in college, we'd put Baxter in a kennel, and booked two weeks, all-inclusive. We had ideas about a second honeymoon. At least I did.
Our first had been 20 years earlier. Nassau. TV taught us. For the first week, we were in a sit-com: More coffee, Honey? Just a touch, Dearest. Here you go, Darling. My pleasure.
We were scared and improvising. But everyone, from the waiters to the taxi drivers to the hotel clerk, was on our side. And we succeeded. Maybe it wasn't thrilling anymore, but it worked. I made coffee, she cut up fruit for breakfast. She put the dishes in the dishwasher, I took them out.
But I'd been thinking that in Mexico we could break loose a little. I'd also imagined long days of Karen lounging by the pool in her new bathing suit. The humidity would thicken her hair and her skin would smell of coconut oil. She'd be slick with oil and sweat. She'd take my hand and lead me to our room with its slow turning ceiling fan, brisk air-conditioning and shower built for two.
But instead of going back in time, we'd jumped ahead: Karen playing cribbage in a palapa, then easing herself into the tepid surf, her expansive backside crisscrossed by the pattern of the chaise lounge.
When she kept groaning into her pillow, I knew she'd had too many coconut drinks. She usually sleeps quietly, another nice thing about her. I'd already got over the fun of watching Homer Simpson speak Spanish, so went for a walk. The air was a warm washcloth. At Café de Luz, a man strummed a guitar while people played chess at a sidewalk table. At Baskin-Robbins, white-haired Americans lined up for frozen yogurt.
Down the block, a burro stood outside a bar. Inside, waiters weaved through the crowd. Two industrial-sized women stood on their barstools and swung their hips dangerously to the music. The walls were river rock, and lined with license plates, posters and cardboard egg containers.
I sat just inside the front door, watched the dancers, listened to the music: Queen, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rolling Stones, Madonna. The TV showed two women fighting in a ring. Kickboxing, perhaps, but without rules. The black woman was wiry and had dreadlocks. I rooted for her. The big blonde looked indestructible, but the dreadlocked one kept circling, taking her shots even though it seemed to be futile.
A whistle blew in my ear. Long black hair, black eyes. Her bandolier was filled with shot glasses. Her gun belt held a bottle and a bota bag. The neck of her T-shirt was ripped out to show her lacy pink bra.
She circled, blowing the whistle in three bursts, stopped in front of a beefy man, poured a glass of pink liquid into his mouth, and patted him on the cheek. He beamed.
A handler led the burro through the dancers. A woman in her 60s clutched the saddle horn with one hand, her purse with the other. The man next to me patted the burro's head. About Jake's age, overweight with fair skin and a bad sunburn. He wore a Raiders cap with mirrored sunglasses perched atop the black bill.
The woman blew her whistle at him. He opened his mouth like a baby. She held the bota bag a foot from his lips and streamed the pink drink into his mouth. Then she held his face and gave it a little shake. He pulled her forward, burying his face in her cleavage, burrowing in deep.
She blew the whistle, one long shrill cutting blast, and tried to get away, her butt pushing back against me.
I was getting ready to stand up and pry his hands off her shoulders when three waiters pulled the man out the door and set him down at one of the outside tables. He sat there, looking at the ground. His sunglasses were gone.
Someone took the man's barstool. The crowd sang along with "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." The blonde feinted with her right, slammed the dreadlocked woman with a left hook, sent her hard into the ropes. Dreadlocks sagged, looked beat, then kicked out hard: Both legs caught the blonde in the chest and sent her sprawling.
She raised her red gloves over her head and did a little dance. It was leverage, you see. Leverage is the key when facing a bigger opponent, leverage and surprise. I went back to our room and took a shower.
The next day was someone's last day. Or someone's first day, always one or the other. So Bobby had invited us to the party at Brisas del Mar.
Bobby kept bringing more beer. Plates of appetizers changed places. Karen's margarita was refilled. "Just a slosh more?" Bobby said. "There's scurvy going around. Or rickets."
Tom and Donna, retired from Omaha, had braced Karen in a corner. Carol sat next to Tom.
Fur haters wanted to ban silk next because it upset silkworms. "Silkworms would die without us to take care of them," she said. "And why worry about them? They don't give a good goddamn about us."
People nodded. Why disagree with an elderly orange-haired woman? Why not smile and drink and enjoy the view? Lights twinkled in the humid air. Way off to the left, a disco swept green and red lasers against the sky and Christmas bulbs glowed in the rigging of a passing boat. People on deck took photos of the shoreline. Flashes sparked against the black water.
Back in St. Paul, Donna was saying, a snowstorm had dumped nine inches overnight. Schools were closed. Roads impassable.
Weather back home is a huge topic here. Each city is worse than the rest, all reduced to Arctic tundra, all wandered by wolves in search of a frozen house cat.
Maybe that heightens the joy of being a snowbird. Or maybe it comes with age. You're still figuring out how to live and why, then, one day, you wake up, and you have an ache, you have a twinge — and it's in part of your body you'd rather not acknowledge. So you consider the morning light filtering through the curtains, and you say, "I wonder what the weather's like someplace else?"
Bobby fluttered about with trays of food, and the conversation turned to grandchildren. I flipped through a white photo book on the concrete table. It was about half full of party pictures, each showing eight or ten tiny faces. The humidity had washed the color out of the older ones, leaving silver figures against a pale background.
An hour later I was drunk, watching the tourist boat float in a pool of its own colored lights.
"You OK?" Karen asked.
"I'm pissed about those silkworms. Little moochers."
"She's nice. Her husband died last year."
I took her hand. She smelled of limes.
"These people have known each other forever," she said.
I put my arm around her waist. Bobby came outside.
"No kissing. Makes the rest of us horny," he said. "Some of us have blood-pressure issues."
"Picture time," he said.
We sat on the crescent-shaped concrete couch, leaned our heads in, and smiled into the flash. I'm sure the photo is still there. Should be toward the middle, in a plastic sleeve on the top right, colors easing away. Maybe someone we know will see it. Jake, it could be, on his own honeymoon. He'll leap up, book in hand, mouth open in excitement. ♦
Richard Harlan Miller lives in Pullman, Wash., where he works in communications at Washington State University. Miller previously spent 20 years as an editor with The Spokesman-Review. His second novel, The Gas Hat, is scheduled to be published in January.
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A galiot, galliot or galiote, was a small galley boat propelled by sail or oars. There are three different types of naval galiots that sailed on different seas.

A galiote was a type of French flat-bottom river boat or barge and also a flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail for transporting wine.

Naval vessels
 Mediterranean, (16th–17th centuries)
 Historically, a galiot was a type of ship with oars, also known as a half-galley, then, from the 17th century forward, a ship with sails and oars. As used by the Barbary pirates against the Republic of Venice, a galiot had two masts and about 16 pairs of oars. Warships of the type typically carried between two and ten cannons of small caliber, and between 50 and 150 men. It was a Barbary galiot, captained by Barbarossa I, that captured two Papal vessels in 1504.
 North Sea (17th–19th centuries)
 A galiot was a type of Dutch or German merchant ship of 20 to 400 tons (bm), similar to a ketch, with a rounded fore and aft like a fluyt. Galiots had nearly flat bottoms to sail in shallow waters. These ships were especially favored for coastal navigation in the North and Baltic seas. To avoid excessive leeway, or leeward drift due to their flat bottoms, smaller vessels were usually fitted with leeboards. After 1830, a modernised type of galiot was developed that featured a sharper bow similar to a schooner. These vessels rarely had leeboards.
 Naval ships (17th–19th centuries)
 A galiote (or galiot) was a French type of naval warship that might have two masts with lateen sails and a bank of oars. It might also be relatively small with only one mast, and be little more than a large chaloupe or launch.
A galiote a bombes was a French term for a galiote armed with a mortar and functioning as a bomb vessel, i.e., a vessel armed to shell coastal forts, towns, and the like.

Canal and river boats
A galiote was a horse-drawn barge pulled along canals or rivers banks, which were popular in France from the mid-17th century through the 19th century.

A galiote, or scute, also was a type of flat-bottomed boat with a simple sail that traveled French rivers transporting wine in the Anjou region as far as Les Ponts-de-Cé.

See also
Flatboat
Warship

Citations, and references
Citations

References
Carse, Philip (1959) The Age of Piracy. (Hale).

Poitrineau, Abel (1989) La Loire – les peuples du fleuve. (Ed. Horvath, Saint-Etienne).
Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing).

External links
 Pictures of a 1738 Baltic Sea galiot model High resolution photos

Ship types
Sailing ship types
Sailboat types
Age of Sail ships
Tall ships

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Reagan Defense Forum
Mattis: Cutting defense will not help deficit
U.S. Secretary for Defence Jim Mattis, in an October file photo, appeared at the Reagan National Defense Forum Dec. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Saturday threw his weight behind an op-ed from two top Republicans calling for greater funding for the Defense Department — and lining himself against Trump administration guidance to cut fiscal year 2020 defense spending.
"Fiscal solvency and strategic solvency can co-exist," Mattis said at the Reagan National Defense Forum.
In a Friday Wall Street Journal editorial titled "Don't cut military spending, Mr. President," Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Calif., and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., warned that a smaller defense budget won't have a major impact on fixing the national deficit, but would have painful repercussions on military equipment and end strength.
"Our top priority is the troops," the pair wrote. "Any cut in the defense budget would be a senseless step backward."
Republicans blast Trump's Pentagon budget cuts as 'dangerous'
Congressional leaders want the president to aim for $733 billion in military spending next year.
Mattis, in his speech Saturday, explicitly cited that op-ed approvingly, especially the idea put forth from the two members that cutting defense spending will not impact the deficit. Instead, major budget cuts "would be a dangerous disservice to our troops and the American people they serve and protect. We all know that America can afford survival," he said.
The Pentagon had been preparing for a $733 billion budget for FY20, until a surprise announcement by President Donald Trump cut that to $700 billion. Pentagon planners have been scrambling the last few weeks to find ways to make those numbers work.
In a Q&A session afterwards, the secretary tried to downplay the potential chaos of such a surprise cut, calling it "the normal give and take of building the president's budget," adding "it should be challenging. We don't want to spend any money in excess of what is needed on our defense."
Mattis sees progress in Afghanistan, but no plans for troop drawdowns
The defense secretary said if U.S. forces leave today, it will mean new attacks on the American homeland.
But Mattis indicated that he would push for more money behind doors, noting that Inhofe and Thornberry have laid out their view and "I would just tell you that the issue is in play, and I'll give my advice to the president, I owe him the courtesy of that in private before I speak about it in public."
"We have go to make certain we can restore America's strength," he added. "It's up to me to make the logical argument about what the president's submission should look like to the Office of Management and Budget, to the Congress ... at that point, the Congress will take our input on board.
"I'm optimistic at the end of the road we'll have what we need to keep the country safe," Mattis concluded.
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Eder Chaux (born  20 December 1991) is a Colombian association footballer. Chaux plays as a goalkeeper for Junior de Barranquilla  in the Colombian Categoría Primera A.

International career
Chaux was named in the provisional Colombia squad for the 2019 Copa America.

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Colombian people of Swiss descent
People from Ibagué


Paloma Modern Kitchen, a former gourmet taco bar in Oshkosh, will transform its menu to "Refined Wisconsin Dining" and reopen June 1.
OSHKOSH - A former taco bar on Oshkosh's west side will transform this month from an American twist on a Mexican favorite to "Refined Wisconsin Dining."
Paloma Modern Kitchen, 1160 Emmers Lane, will be closed through May 31 as the restaurant — owned by Grant Schwab, Tom Taggart and Aaron Weigandt — revamps its menu, courtesy of Chef Ryan Nolan, owners announced Wednesday.
Originally billed as a gourmet taco bar with a twist — think tortillas filled with such creations as Korean beef; Caesar salad fixings; Wisconsin bratwurst, cheddar and sauerkraut — Paloma has undergone at least one menu revamp in the past few months.
When it reopens June 1, owners say it will feature Nolan's own "creative twist on Wisconsin dining," along with wine, craft beer and craft cocktails.


CHARLESTON—A group of 50 Catholic physicians, nurses and other health care workers spent Oct. 23 celebrating their faith and profession during the first annual diocesan White Mass and luncheon held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
The Mass, which takes its name from the conventional color worn by health care workers, is a tradition around the country.
During the lunch meeting, speakers addressed issues facing Catholics in the industry, including moral and ethical problems raised by recent legislation.
Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone welcomed the group and told them caring for the sick is not just a job, but a vocation that challenges the mind, heart and spirit.
The bishop said it was important for the professionals to have a support network where they can strengthen their faith and discuss the challenges of living in a culture that promotes abortion, contraception and other issues in opposition to church teaching.
Dr. Peter Bleyer, a family practice physician from Longs, spoke about "Christ-like Medical Care and the Role of Catholic Medical Guilds." He is president of the newly-chartered Blessed Clemens August von Galen Medical Guild, which currently has 11 members.
Bleyer gave an overview of the history of medicine, the Hippocratic oath, and how both the doctor-patient relationship and the physician's traditional commitment to preserve life have been eroded.
He said the role of truly Catholic physicians took a hit after the development of the birth control pill and the resulting controversy when Pope Paul VI wrote "Evangelium Vitae" in 1968, which reinforced the church's stance against contraception.
He said there were 100 Catholic medical guilds nationwide in 1967 with 10,000 members, but enrollment quickly dropped to about two guilds with 300 members because many physicians disagreed with the teaching on birth control.
"There was disappointment because the Catholic Church in America used to stand for something, and contraceptives made Catholics just like everybody else," he said.
In recent years, however, he said enrollment in guilds is increasing.
"People are seeing the power of following Christ in their practice," he said.
Dr. Mark O'Rourke, a Greenville oncologist, discussed the ethical challenges physicians face when dealing with end-of-life issues, and presented five steps that can help patients, doctors and family members fully understand a diagnosis and plan a course of treatment.
Dr. Melvin Hecker, an emergency room physician from Conway, and Dr. Bowen Truluck, a Myrtle Beach cardiologist, spoke on the importance of having Catholic views represented on hospital ethics committees.
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby, diocesan vicar for vocations, spoke on "A Catholic Approach to Human Dignity and Suffering." He said his first assignment as a priest involved ministry to the sick and dying, and sometimes it seemed too much to bear. The priest learned that assisting people through illness or the dying process was a part of helping them live a sacramental life.
Agnes Edwards, a social worker for Georgetown Hospital System and a member of St. Cyprian Church, said she would be able to apply many of the topics to her work, such as information about advance directives and dealing with ethics committees.
Dr. Hiep Phan, medical director of geriatric and palliative care at Greenville Memorial Hospital, said he deals with issues such as commitment to preserving life and dignity daily.
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I'm not above making something from a box as long as it's healthy and isn't loaded with crazy stuff that I cannot pronounce. We tried a new pizza crust mix the other night. Another find from an obscure part of the grocery store. It's made with brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, and yellow corn meal. If you're in a pinch and don't feel like whipping up a batch of pizza dough from scratch, this is quite good. Just add eggs, water, and olive oil. It had the crispy edges I love and was soft (not too soft) and fluffy in the middle.
*Makes two 12 inch pizzas.
Got 2 thumbs up from the hubs and me. I think it would also make a nice cracker if it was rolled very thin, brushed with olive oil, and sprinkled with kosher salt and herbs. Break it into rustic pieces…yummy.
Yes, I'm happy to see allergen free foods becoming more mainstream. Unfortunately, living gluten free has kind of gotten some negative hype because celebrities are using it as a fad diet. As more research is done and more people are diagnosed with gluten intolerance and Celiac's disease, I think we'll see a shift and hopefully a better awareness of how what we eat does more than just cause heart disease and make us fat. It's shocking how many diseases have a root cause of gluten intolerance and Celiac's.


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By Ian Ratner Jun 14, 2010, 10:38am EDT
Last month, news broke that hedge-funder David Tepper spent as much as $50 million on a 6.5-acre oceanfront spread in Sagaponack. Recently recorded deeds now shed more light on the transaction, indicating that he only paid a measly $43.5 million (even though brokers were told nothing under $50M would fly). Regardless, the deal is still well on its way to becoming 2010's most expensive Hamptons transaction. [Real LI; previously]


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Preamble and Resolutions Adopted by the Convention of the State of Mississippi, November 30, 1850. All documents courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi declaring secession to be the proper remedy for the Southern States, November 30, 1860. (Senate Journal 1860) All documents courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
A Declaration of the Immediate causes which induce and justify the Secession of Mississippi from the Federal Union and an Ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Mississippi and other states united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America." January 9, 1861. All documents courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Speech of Jefferson Davis on retiring from the U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861
All documents courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
John A. Quitman (1799-1858). A state's rights advocate, Quitman was elected governor of Mississippi in 1849. Known as Mississippi's "Father of Secession." Photo courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
The Road to War (1846-1860)
By Clay Williams
The Road to War Timeline
The American Civil War (1861-1865) left Mississippi in chaos with its social structures overturned, its economy in ruins, and its people shattered.
Historians continue to debate why Mississippi and her sister southern states chose to leave the Union. Issues such as state's rights and high tariffs are frequently cited as causes of the war, but Mississippi's defense of the institution of slavery was the ultimate reason the state seceded from the Union. Indeed, a Declaration from its January 1861 state convention on whether to secede from the Union stated, "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world."
Slavery grew rapidly in Mississippi during the decades before the Civil War. By 1860, its Black slave population was well over 430,000 while there were only 350,000 Whites in the state. Yet, most Whites were not slaveholders and even those who did have slaves — other than plantation owners — had less than ten. The state's economy was primarily based on the production of cotton, which depended heavily on slaves to provide the necessary labor. Slavery was as much a social structure, however, as it was an economic system. Most slaveholders believed in the inferiority of slaves and thought their Black servants to be no more than property.
As the "peculiar institution" further entrenched itself on the state's economy and its people, more and more of its White citizens felt the need to defend it against increasing attacks from the growing abolitionist movement. Not only did White Mississippians defend slavery at home, they felt it was their right to carry slaves into new territories as well.
Most Mississippians felt secure in their institution's continued existence as long as a balance remained in Congress between free and slave states. The country maintained this balance through compromises. When a new free state entered the Union, another slave state was also accepted to maintain the balance. Mississippi's greatest fear was that free states would outnumber slave states. The state believed if this happened it could lead to legislation limiting and eventually abolishing slavery. The balance was maintained until the late 1840s when territories gained by the American-Mexican War (1846-1848) threatened to upset this equilibrium.
The American-Mexican War
The American-Mexican War had barely begun in 1846 when the question of slavery in the territories became an issue. The introduction of the Wilmot Proviso, a bill that prohibited slavery from all lands acquired from Mexico, enraged many Mississippians. Although the bill was not passed, it was simply the first in a series of events that moved Mississippi closer to secession.
California's desire for entry into the Union as a free state set off the next round. While Congress grappled for a solution that would satisfy both the North and South, Mississippi delegates met in October 1849 in Jackson. They demanded prompt action from their state leaders should the Wilmot Proviso or other legislation like it be passed. They also encouraged slaveholders to migrate to the southwest. More importantly, the delegates called for a southern convention to be held in Nashville in June 1850.
Before that Nashville meeting, Democrat John A. Quitman was elected governor of Mississippi. Known as Mississippi's "Father of Secession," Quitman encouraged the state to leave the Union. He feared that California and other western lands would become free states and stressed Mississippi's need to maintain state sovereignty. Quitman opposed the idea that the federal government could exclude slavery in the territories and could deny slaveholders the right to capture runaway slaves. Lawmakers in Mississippi followed Quitman's lead by naming delegates to the Nashville Convention. They also set aside money to protect the state's rights if Congress proceeded with any legislation similar to that of the Wilmot Proviso.
The Nashville Convention met in June 1850 with Judge William Sharkey of Mississippi presiding. After all the anticipation, the convention produced few results. Delegates favored extension of the 1820 Missouri Compromise line of 36º30' to the Pacific. Delegates then adjourned to see how Congress dealt with California and other issues.
After months of intense debate, Congress passed the Omnibus Bill known today collectively as the Compromise of 1850. California was admitted as a free state, the longtime controversy over the boundary of Texas was decided, the territories of New Mexico and Utah were organized without restrictions on slavery, the slave trade was ended in the District of Columbia, and a stronger fugitive slave law was passed. Many in the nation cheered this solution and hoped that the secession crisis had passed.
Quitman and many other Mississippians disagreed; they were angered by the Compromise of 1850. Mississippians strongly supported the American-Mexican War in hopes of gaining new slave territory, and the compromise now excluded them from receiving benefits from their efforts. California's entry as a free state, with New Mexico and Utah soon to follow, also threatened the critical balance between slave and free states. Governor Quitman convened the state legislature to call for a special convention hoping that a secessionist majority would withdraw the state from the Union. Quitman had opposition from Mississippi's U. S. Senator Henry S. Foote, a Unionist who campaigned for passage of the Compromise of 1850.
Mississippi voters in 1851 had two chances to decide the fate of the state. In the September election for delegates to the special convention, Unionists won 57 percent of the vote. This ensured secession would be voted down. Secondly, Foote, nominated by the Union Party, challenged Quitman in his second run for governor as a state's rights Democrat. Due to the Unionist victory, Quitman pulled out of the gubernatorial race. With only a few months before the election, Mississippi's other U.S. senator, Jefferson Davis, became the Democratic Party's nominee for governor. Davis fought a hard campaign, losing to Foote by less than 1,000 votes. Foote's victory ended any thought of immediate secession.
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
Additional territorial issues continued to push Mississippi towards secession. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act presented "popular sovereignty" as a solution to the slavery question. Under "popular sovereignty," the people of the territories, before applying for statehood, would decide whether or not to allow slavery. This solution failed as pro-slavery and abolitionist advocates invaded the area. Both sides intimidated voters and caused fraudulent elections, which led to widespread violence.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act angered many Mississippians since they continued to believe that Congress could not prevent slavery from being brought into the territories. Most of their anger was aimed at the bill's author, U. S. Senator Stephen Douglas, a Democrat whom they had always considered to be an ally to their cause. The U. S. Supreme Court soon validated their wishes with the famous 1857 Dred Scott decision. The southern-dominated court ruled that Dred Scott, a Missouri slave, was not a citizen and not eligible to sue for his freedom. Moreover, the court ruled that Congress had no power to prevent slavery in the territories, thereby declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
Another event that moved Mississippi toward secession was John Brown's Raid in 1859. Brown, a violent abolitionist, raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, hoping to incite and arm a slave uprising in the South. The raid failed and Brown was eventually captured, tried, and hung for his crimes. Brown's raid heightened fears of slave revolts. The Mississippi Legislature passed a handful of resolutions urging other southern states to resist antislavery aggression. The legislators authorized the governor to send a commissioner to Virginia to pledge Mississippi's support in case of assault upon the Old Dominion's rights.
Unionist sentiment waned as 1860 approached. Mississippi elected secessionist senators and governors. Newspapers were filled with passionate articles on abolitionists and rumored slave revolts. After Mississippi narrowly avoided secession in the early 1850s, the chain of events from Kansas-Nebraska to John Brown moved Mississippi closer to the edge.
Black Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln's election as president in November 1860 finally pushed secessionists over the edge. Lincoln's Republican Party pledged to restrict slavery. This was a sure sign to Mississippians that abolishment of slavery was imminent. Governor John J. Pettus wasted no time in calling the Mississippi Legislature into session. The legislators called for a state convention on January 7, 1861, to determine Mississippi's future.
This time, secessionists dominated the special session. The debate centered on whether to follow South Carolina and secede immediately, or to wait and go out in a group with other states. With fears that Lincoln and his "Black Republican Party" would move immediately against slavery, Mississippi delegates voted 84-15 to leave the Union.
In February, six other states joined the Magnolia State in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the Confederate States of America. Mississippi's own Jefferson Davis, who had recently resigned from the U. S. Senate, was elected president. The Civil War began a few months later at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
Mississippi's secessionist journey resembled that of many other southern states. Secessionist sentiment ebbed and flowed until events simply spiraled out of control. Passion, pride, and ego outweighed logic and rationality as Mississippians finally felt that secession was the only way to preserve slavery and their way of life.
Clay Williams, is director of the Old Capitol Museum, Jackson, Mississippi.
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Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis, The Man and His Hour, A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
Gonzalez, John Edmond. "Flush Times, Depression, War, and Compromise." In A History of Mississippi. 2 vols. edited by Richard Aubrey McLemore, pp. 284-309. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1973.
Gonzalez, John Edmund. "Henry Stuart Foote: A Forgotten Unionist of the Fifties." Southern Quarterly 1, pp. 129-139. January 1963.
Hearon, Cleo. "Mississippi and the Compromise of 1850." In Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, edited by Franklin L. Riley, vol. 14, pp, 7-230. Jackson: Mississippi Historical Society, 1914.
May, Robert E. John A. Quitman, Old South Crusader. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
McLendon, James H. "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor." Journal of Mississippi History 15, pp. 73-89, January 1953.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
Moore, Glover. "Separation from the Union, 1854-1861." In A History of Mississippi. 2 vols. edited by Richard Aubrey McLemore, pp. 420-446. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1973.
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Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
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Skates, John Ray. Mississippi, A Bicentennial History. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1979.


Can we spend years practicing and dissecting Warrior Two? Absolutely!
But what else is there to practice? What's next? If your intentions are pointing to your curiosity for advanced asana, this intensive workshop is for you. We're going big with arm balances, inversions, and back bends.
Participants must have prior approval from Devin because the poses are challenging and safety is always our primary focus. Apply below for registration.
Each section of the workshop is not entirely movement based. Participants will have time to rest and watch demonstrations, learn anatomy, use props, and then practice. While it is an advanced practice, don't worry, it's not necessarily 4 hours of advanced asana!
*CAN I ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP?
This may be one of the very few times we tell you no - solely for safety reasons.
Practice means consistency. We do next necessarily require each participant to masterly perform each of these poses every time they do yoga because we know each person has strengths in poses and do take into consideration injuries and conditions that may prevent certain movements. However if the participant can not yet confidently balance in crow for about 4+ seconds for example, we may suggest waiting on this workshop.
We will require a minimum of four (4) participants for each day registered by 3/15 for those programs to run.


Sometimes, when you are watching a movie, you are faced with a fact that you cannot really believe.
Some of them are bad, some are outstandingly bad.
But on Monday, I was faced with one that I really didn't want to believe.
In the truly bad screen version of "On Your Toes", which had almost nothing to do with the famous Broadway musical hit, beginning actor, Edddie Albert, who could barely dance, was forced to dance opposite famed ballerina, Vera Zorina, in the muscial's famed ballet, "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue".
I felt sorry for Vera Zorina.
I felt sorry for Eddie Albert.
And I knew that, for me, I had inadvertently stumbled into REALLY BAD MOVIEMAKING.
It could not get any lower.
Has anybody here had a similar experience?


I was doing the migration from HP Quality Center 10.00 to Spira and got an error message " Spira Test Import Failed. Error: Item does not exist". I am using the Quality Center Importer to do the migration. Does any one know how to fix this issue?
I would log a help desk ticket and include a screenshot and copy of the QC_Import.log file that will be stored on your desktop.


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