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Pratt Institute
2018 DTA Medal
Medal design by Mansoo Han
"For 131 years, Pratt Institute has fostered many influential artists due to its good environment and excellent professors. The medal symbolizes the historic campus and students through the grid and the geometric shape. Pratt's mission is placed on the perimetric edge of the medal."
Damon Chaky
Distinguished Teacher 2018–19
Professor Damon Chaky has been teaching in Pratt's Department of Mathematics and Science since 2006 and is the coordinator of general education for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He was co-chair of the steering committee for Pratt's most recent institutional reaccreditation and has presented aspects of Pratt's innovative STEM and general education pedagogy at national conferences.
Chaky's background as an environmental chemist is strongly reflected in the theme of sustainability in his undergraduate and graduate science courses. He also serves on the capstone advisory committee of the sustainable environmental systems graduate program and is a guest lecturer in the undergraduate sustainability minor coordinated by the Social Science and Cultural Studies Department.
As this year's Distinguished Teacher Award recipient, Chaky expresses special gratitude to the students who participated in the nomination and review process. But he also takes this opportunity to thank all Pratt students—on behalf of all Pratt faculty—for inspiring us with your work and for giving us the opportunity to be so inspired.
Previous Winner (p)	Adrienne Jones
Next Winner (n)	Daisuke Endo
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Pakistan PM to launch 'mega CPEC City' project on Nov.18
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will launch work on a mega city development project on November 18 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Rashakai town under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The CPEC connecting China's resource-rich Xinjiang province with Pakistan's strategic Gwadar port in Balochistan is regarded as the flagship project of the multi-billion Chinese funded infrastructure schemes.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan announces provincial status for Gilgit-Baltistan
Imran praises Bushra Bibi's wisdom, says only a fool doesn't discuss everything with wife
According to the media reports, Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak announced that Khan will launch the 'CPEC City' in Rashakai.
While addressing a meeting on Sunday minister said, "the city will be constructed under the CPEC (project) and will consist of education and commercial zones, public buildings, apartments, golf course, theme park and sports facilities."
The CPEC is a flagship project of Chinese President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative that aims to connect Asia, Africa and Europe through a vast network of highways, rail lines and sea lanes.
In November 2016, CPEC became partly operational when Chinese cargo was transported overland to Gwadar port for onward maritime shipment to Africa and West Asia, while some major power projects were commissioned by late 2017.
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Pakistan a priority for China, Xi tells Imran
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday for bilateral talks, with the latter saying Beijing considers Islamabad a priority in its diplomacy.
Gwadar hotel attack a bid to damage Pak economy: Imran
An attack on a luxury hotel in the southwestern city of Gwadar was a bid to "sabotage prosperity," Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan said on Sunday, as police confirmed all the attackers had been killed.
Imran urges BRI nations to establish tourism corridor
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged for the creation of a tourism corridor between member countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in order to promote regional connectivity. While addressing a leaders' round table conference in China, the prime minister congratulated President Xi Jinping on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and said that China is an example of "a great success of the modern age."
Imran all praise for China's efforts against corruption
Prime Minister Imran Khan, currently on visit to China, has said that he wished he could follow the example of President Xi Jinping and send 500 corrupt individuals in Pakistan to jail.
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28 killed, 150 hurt in Pakistan mosque blast
The blast took place at the mosque where a large number of people had gathered for prayer, police official Sikandar Khan said. "A portion of the building had collapsed and several people are believed to be under it," Khan added.
Uzbekistan gas explosion kills at least five
The emergencies ministry said the explosion on Sunday damaged a four-storey building in the city of Nukus, the administrative centre of the autonomous Karakalpakstan region, which last summer saw deadly protests over self-determination.
A phone call was held between His Highness Sheikh Mohamed and Shahbaz Sharif, Pakistani Prime Minister, during which they reviewed UAE-Pakistan relations and agreed to schedule another visit as soon as possible.
Russia accuses Ukraine and its Western allies of committing war crimes
"The deliberate shelling of active civilian medical facilities and the targeted killing of civilians are grave war crimes of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters," the Russian foreign ministry said.
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Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these stories, he encounters a string of characters from Mother Goose's tales and has adventures that are not quite in keeping with her books!
Hear Heidi if you've ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you.
We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi's grandfather, and there with him the girl's sweet, free nature expands with the vista. The author's voice is straightforward, and so is our reader's, with the child's wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions. When Heidi is taken from the mountains and nearly doesn't make it back again, the most humorous as well as most heart-wringing scenes occur. All she learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds that will grow to benefit everyone around her.
This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them "house names". The "name" of the author who wrote this tale is Richard Barnum. It became very successful, the most well known of Richard Barnum's tales. So, if you want to laugh a little, even if you are not a child, read this book.


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Wearing her heart on her sleeve while sewing intimates for her clientele, Esther is the talented African American seamstress in turn-of-the-century New York who has built a savings for herself making beautiful undergarments—while earnestly daydreaming of new beginnings, romantic possibilities, and the lingering affection she shares with a Jewish fabric merchant. But when an egregious deception cuts short heartfelt desires, can class, culture and circumstance outmatch the strength of human spirit? Inspired by a true story, Intimate Apparel is a heart-rending contemporary work in the style of an enduring classic—from the first female playwright to win two Pulitzers.
Watch the trailer for Intimate Apparel, by Lynn Nottage, directed by Tazewell Thompson.
J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom Hall with her review of Intimate Apparel.


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Cassiodorus (Flauius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
m. 580
The 6th c. AD author that scholars today call Cassiodorus was known before as"Senator". He was born at Squillace in Calabria not after 490, during the final years of the 5th c. His family has emigrated from Syria, as their name is commonly attested there, especially near Antioch. The appellation Cassiodorus derives from Zeus Casius /Cassius, an epithet that Pliny the Elder and Ammianus Marcellinus tell us refers to a mountain range in northern Syria. From the first half of the 5th c. AD, direct ancestors of the author are known for military and diplomatic accomplishments: we hear of them preventing Gaisaric's Vandals from conquering Sicily during the fourty years of 5th c. AD, before the horde advanced to their famous sack of Rome in 455; they are known to have been amici of the general Flavius Aetius and to have participated in a dangerous but successful ambush of Attila during the invasion of the Huns (perhaps in 448); and Cassiodorus' father not only was among the first to join ranks with Theoderic when the Ostrogoths entered Italy (a move ordered by the eastern emperor that aimed at transferring control of the peninsula to Odoacer) but also served as praetorian prefect in the first years of the 6th c. Another relative, Heliodorus, held important offices in the eastern empire, serving as both prefect of Constantinople and praetorian prefect.
Cassiodorus served as Quaestor sacrii palatii from 507 to 511/12, an office that brought him into the king's chancellery and that gave him the extremely important role of advisor. He was then consul in 514 before holding the even more important position of Magister officiorum from 523 (the year of Boethius' incarceration) until the death of Theoderic in 526. This begins the period in which Cassiodorus had the greatest political weight, as he had already sided with Theoderic's daughter Amalasuntha, who was regent for her son Athalaric and widow of Cassiodorus' long-time ally Eutharic. During this time Cassiodorus wrote a series of official texts on behalf of Amalasuntha and Athalaric, the political goal of which was to forge unity between Romans and Italian Goths: if these two peoples could share the res publica between them, it was said that they would be capable of protecting the peninsula from any possible invasion of Germanic gentes or even imperial troops. He continued to serve in this role under Amalasuntha's second husband Theodahad, a marriage contracted in 534 after the death of Athalaric, who was not yet eighteen years old, in response to pressure from more extremist Ostrogothic factions. Cassiodorus was made praetorian prefect in 533, and maintained this post both after the outbreak of war between Constantinople and the Goths following the murder of Amalasuntha by Theodahad in 535 and after Theodahad was deposed for ineptitude following the capture of Naples by eastern forces in 536. He stood by Theodahad's successor Witiges, the husband of Athalaric's sister Matasuntha, until 538.
Byzantine forces took Ravenna in 540 and subsequently deported Witiges to Constantinople. Although scholarly opinion currently holds that Cassiodorus was also sent to the eastern capital at that time and that he remained there - virtually as a hostage - until 554, some have maintained that he stayed at Ravenna before retiring to Squillace to found his Vivarium monastery. It is certain, however, that he was present at Constantinople from 547 to 551, and the majority of his time there have presumablybeen spent studying the history of Christianity after his "conversion" from political to religious life - a transformation that occurred sometime between 538 and 540. Our picture becomes clear again in 554: from this date, although he was already about seventy years old, we find him directing Vivarium and monks in the economic and (principally) cultural initiatives of transcribing and translating texts. This work continued until he died at an advanced age, sometime after 580.
Cassiodorus' literary output can be divided into three clear phases. The first contains everything written through 538: the Variae, a collection of official letters sent on behalf of rulers or in his own name during the period when he was praetorian prefect; theChronica, a history from Adam to 519; a collection of speeches; and the twelve-book Historia Gothorum, a work commissioned by Theoderic and published under Athalaric (this is no longer extant, but we possess a summary of it that Jordanes compiled during his stay at Constantinople). The second phase begins with the De anima, which was written at Ravenna and transmitted together with the Variae, but in fact marks the beginning of a new period in Cassiodorus' literary career; also included in this group are the works he composed at Constantinople during his "conversion:" the Expositio in Psalmos; translations from Greek into Latin of bibliographies on the books of the New Testament; and possibly the Ordo generis Cassiodororum, a family history that survives to us only in very brief extracts. The final phase, which is often called "Vivarian," includes the Institutiones, i.e. the description of the studies activity in his Vivarium, as well as translations of Greek works that were arranged and executed by him in collaboration with the most learned monks in his monastery (Epiphanius, Dionysius Exiguus), e.g. the Historia tripertita, which was drawn from the three great histories of the Church composed by Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret; his last project, which is also part of this third phase, was an extensive manual on orthography written when he was more than ninety years old. [G. Polara; tr. C. L. Caterine].
List of Works:
Clementis Alexandrini Adumbrationes in Epistulas canonicas
Complexiones in Apocalypsim
De anima
De artibus ac disciplinis liberalium litterarum
De orthographia
De orthographia et de arte grammatica excerpta
De rhetorica
Didymi Alexandrini Enarratio in Epistulas canonicas
Expositio in Psalmos
Flavii Iosephi De antiquitatibus Iudaicis
Flavii Iosephi De Iudaeorum vetustate seu Contra Apionem
Historia Gothorum
Historia tripertita
Institutiones
Orationes
Ordo generis Cassiodororum
Variae
Anecdoton Holderi quod dicitur, scilicet excerpta ex Cassiodori libello de ordine generis Cassiodororum
Chronica (Cassiodorus)
De orthographia (Cassiodorus)
Institutiones (Cassiodorus)
Amory, Patrick People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554,
Å. J. Fridh Magni Aurelii Cassiodori Variarum libri XII
Barnish, S.J.B. The Work of Cassiodorus after His Conversion
Bertini, F. Il De orthographia di Cassiodoro
Bessone, L. La tradizione epitomatoria liviana
Biville, F. Normes "orthographiques" et oralité dans la latinité tardive: le latin du "De orthographia" de Cassiodore
Burgess, R.W.; Kulikowski, M. Mosaics of Time: The Origins and Development of the Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD
Christensen, A. S. Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth


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Consult your dentist about the options to have a custom-made mouthguard, as this will provide a comfortable fit and the optimal level of protection.


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Ezboni Mondiri Gwanza was a politician in Southern Sudan. He was one of the founders of the Southern Sudan Federal Party (SSFP) in 1957, which competed in the Sudanese parliamentary election in 1958. Later he was active in secessionist movements.

Early years

Ezboni Mondiri Gwanza was a student at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Khartoum, active in the Southern Student's Welfare Front. After graduating he became an official at the Shell Company.

First democratic period

Sudan became independent on 1 January 1956.
In 1957 Ezboni and other young intellectuals and university graduates from the south decided to found a party to advocate policies needed by the south. The founders called the party the Southern Federal Party, Federal Party and the Federalist Party.
The party constitution laid out principles that included calling for an equal federation of northern and southern states, with English and Arabic given equal recognition. The state would be secular, with Islam and Christianity recognized as the two major religions but respecting other religions. The south would have a separate civil service, educational system and army.

Father Saturnino Lohure Hilangi was another founder of the Southern Sudan Federal Party (SSFP), which beat the Liberals and won forty seats in the parliamentary elections held in February and March 1958. When the SSFP spoke up in parliament for the north to consider Sudanese federation, as promised, the government arrested Mondiri and the SSFP broke up.
In its place, Father Saturnino formed the Southern Block, with 25 members.

Later career
The Sudanese parliament was dissolved in November 1958 after a military coup by General Ibrahim Abboud.
In December 1960 Ezboni was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison.
In October 1964 General Ibrahim Abboud yielded to pressure and established a caretaker government of senior politicians to form the government until democratic elections could be held the next year. Sirr al-Katim al-Khalifa was appointed Prime Minister, with three southerners in his cabinet: Ezbon Mondiri Gwanza, Clement Mboro and Gordon Muortat Mayen.

The Southern Front Party, also called the Southern Professional Front, was apparently founded in Khartoum early in 1965 by a group of Southern civil servants, university students and professionals.
The Southern Front was officially registered as a party in March 1965 with Gordon Abei as President, Darious Beshir as Vice President and Hilary Logali as Secretary General.
In March 1965 the front nominated three senior members to take part in the caretaker cabinet: Element Mboro Bekobo for Interior, Hilary Paul Logali for works and Gordon Muortat Mayen for communications, replacing Ezboni Mondiri.

A Round Table conference was held in March 1965 to try to resolve the southern problem. A few months later the new Southern Front Executive Committee was elected. Clement Mboro Bekobo was President, Gordon Muortat Mayen Vice President and Hilary Paul Logali Secretary General. Ezboni Mondiri was a member.

In June 1965 Joseph Oduho and his supporters defected from the Sudan African National Union (SANU) and formed a new  secessionist organization called the "Azania Liberation Front" (ALF).
The executive of the ALF included Joseph H. Oduho, President, Fr. Saturnino Lohure, Vice President, Ezboni Mondiri, Defense Secretary,
George Akumbek Kwanai, Foreign Secretary and Joseph Lagu Yanga, Commander-in-Chief.
Later Ezboni announced formation of the Sudan Azania government in exile.

On 27 February 1972 the government of Sudan and the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) signed the Addis Ababa agreement to end hostilities, to be formally ratified on 12 March 1972. Ezboni Mondiri Gwonza was the leader of the SSLM delegation.
Dr. Mansour Khalid, Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed on behalf of the Sudan government. The agreement ended a 17-year conflict in which half a million southerners had died and many more had been displaced.
The agreement gave southern Sudanese religious rights and autonomy within a federal structure for the unified Sudan.
Ezboni Mondiri and Joseph Oduho were the two leading "outsider" candidates for presidency of Southern Sudan in 1973, but Abel Alier was named the SSU candidate before they could mount their challenges.

References

Sources

Southern Sudan Federal Party politicians

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Hellas (Greece)
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Zeus (father), Alcmeme (mother), Amphitryon (step-father), Hera (stepmother), Megara (wife, deceased), Deianira (second wife), Hebe (third wife/step-sister)
Iolas (side-kick/causal lover), Jason, Atlanta, Athena, Hermes, Hades, Prometheus
Hera, Eurystheus, Hydra, Atlas, Nemean Lion, Ladon, Stymphalian Birds, Calydonian Boar, Erymanthian Boar, Cretan Bull, Diomedes, Geryon, Orthrus Typhon
Heracles (more well known by his Roman name Hercules) is the mythical son of Zeus and Alcmene - although considered a hero in almost all the ancient myths, Hercules was actually a violent and brutal individual even by the standards of ancient Greece. Hercules is especially famous for his strength and this has remained his main focus in almost all media.
The story of Heracles starts as many stories of ancient Greece do, with a union between Zeus and a mortal woman. A man named Amphitryon, the grandson of the hero Perseus, another son of Zeus, had tried unsuccessfully to have a child with his wife Alchmene for several months before he was conscripted to fight in a war. In the end Amphitryon was drafted before he or Alchmene could tell if she was pregnant and he left swearing he would return to her. Amphitryon was wounded in battle and died of his injuries but with his dying breath he prayed to Zeus that his wife Alchmene would be safe and live to bare him a child. Zeus heard his great grandson's prayer and visited Alchmene that night disguised as Amphitryon. Zeus had relation's with Alchmene but left while Alchmene slept. Alchmene had no clue where her husband had gone but in a month's time received word that her husband had died in combat, leaving her to believe her night of passion with Amphitryon was just a vivid dream. However several months later Alchmene was surprised to find she as pregnant.
Alchmene bore a son and named him "Heracles," a reference to the goddess Hera, Zeus' wife, of whom Alchmene was a worshiper. Hera disliked the affairs of her husband and often punished the women who accepted his advances, in Alchmene's case she was unaware of it and besides was an avid worshiper of Hera so for perhaps this reason Hera spared Alchmene, she was unwilling to spare the child however and sent to serpents to devour Heracles while he was still in his cradle. Alchmene returned to the room to find the serpents about to kill her baby before Alchmene or the serpents could react Heracles grabbed and throttled the snakes and killed them with a simple grip, thrusting them about as if they were rattles. After the death of the snakes Alchmene and Hera both realized Heracles had phenomenal strength and Alchmene realized who it was that really came to her those nine month's prior.
Heracles would grow up using his strength to provide for his mother and hunt dangerous game for food, materials or money. Eventually Heracles met a woman named Megara, a princess of Thebes and the two fell in love. Megara invited Heracles to live in Thebes and the two settled down and had three children. Hera was never content to see Heracles living a simple carefree life and one day, in response to one of Zeus' other affairs, Hera took out her frustration on the adult Heracles. Hera placed Heracles under a spell and drove him to madness when he came home from a hunt one night, Heracles killed Megara and his children in his rage. By the mourning Heracles had come to his senses and was horrified at what he had done. Heracles could not bare to face Megara's father or the people of Thebes and ran off into the mountains in guilt and shame.
Over nebulous amount of time living in the wilderness Heracles came to the decision he had to seek forgiveness for his crimes to be free of his guilt. Heracles went to the Oracle of Delphi and asked what the gods would have of him to atone. The Oracle communed with the sun god Apollo and said Heracles must go to the city of Argos and speak with the king Eurystheus, who would test his resolve.
Heracles went Argos and sought out king Eurystheus, confessing his crime in the city's public forum and asking for some form of forgiveness. Eurystheus was considered a highly religious and spiritual king, unfortunately for Heracles though he was a devotee of Hera and communed with her over the situation. Hera told Eurystheus of many dangers that crept though the countryside, many of them monsters that also served her. Eurystheus told Heracles he would need to complete no less than ten labours to be forgiven by the gods and so began the legendary Labous of Heracles. He ended up completing twelve labors total, two more than the required amount.
Twelve Labors
1. Slay the Lion of Nemea
This vicious beast was terrorizing the town of Nemea and its hide was impervious to human weapons. Through brute strength alone did Heracles manage to kill it and he later adopted its skin as his armor.
2. Kill the Hydra
One of the children of Typhon and Echidna and raised by Hera just to combat Heracles, this multi-headed snake-whose heads regenerate after they are severed-was slain jointly by Heracles and his nephew who cauterized the bleeding stumps to stop the heads growing back. After severing the beast's final head-which is immortal-Heracles dips his arrowheads into its blood, making them dangerous.
3. Capture the Golden Stag
Sacred to the goddess Artemis and faster than an arrow in flight, Heracles spent a year chasing down this deer-with Artemis's permission-until he eventually captured it. After giving it to Eurystheus, he released it back into the woods.
4. Capture the Erymanthian Boar
This vicious boar was attacking villagers living near Mount Erymanthos until Heracles subdues it and brings it back to King Eurystheus.
5. Clean the Stables of Augeas
In an attempt to break the hero's momentum, Eurystheus has Heracles clean out the foul-smelling stables of King Augeas, which have not been cleaned for thirty years. Using his great strength and brainpower, he diverts two rivers flowing near the stables, which flush out the animal waste.
6. Drive Off the Stymphalian Birds
These vicious birds have fled to an island in Arcadia to escape a pack of wolves and now terrorize the villagers who live near Lake Stymphalos. Using a noisemaker crafted by Hephaestus, he frightens the birds and shoots them down with his poisoned arrows. The rest fly away and are never seen again.
7. Capture the Cretan Bull
This bull is the prized pet of Minos, the king of Crete (in another myth, the same bull impregnated his wife and is the Minotaur's father). A symbol of the Cretan dominance over mainland Greece, Heracles sails to the island, wrestles the bull into submission and sails back to Greece with it. Crete's days of ruling over the Greeks is over.
8. Capture the Horses of Diomedes
The pets of the tyrannical Thracian king Diomedes, these horses are savage because their master has fed them on the flesh of his enemies. Heracles travels to Thrace and shuts the king in the stable, where the horses savage him to death. Placated by eating their master, Heracles has the horses released into the countryside around Eurystheus's palace
9. Steal the Belt of Hippolyta
Heracles travels to Scythia, the homeland of a warlike all-female society called the Amazons. Their queen Hippolyta sports a magic belt which was given to her as a gift from her father, the war god Ares. Hera, who is the Amazons' patron goddess and a close friend of Hippolyta's, tries to sabotage the task by disguising herself as an Amazon and warning them that Heracles has come to capture the queen. The female warriors attack, but the hero fights them off and defeats Hippolyta, stealing her belt.
10. Capture the Cattle of the Geryon
A three-headed monster with a deadly familial line. Geryon is the grandson of Medusa - the Geryon lives on an island at the edge of the known world. Defeating the Geryon is only half the battle: the other half is finding it. Heracles sails to the island and after defeating the two-headed watchdog Orthrus, he shoots the monster with poisoned arrows. After the Geryon is killed, Heracles leaves with his cattle.
11. Retrieve the Apples of the Hesperides
Located in a garden at the far edge of the world, these apples are not only guarded by a giant snake, they are also the prized possessions of Hera. Heracles wanders the world in search of the sacred fruit until he comes across Atlas, a Titan who is forced to bear the earth on his shoulders. Atlas reveals he knows the location of the golden apples and offers to retrieve them for Heracles if he holds up the earth for him.
12. Retrieve Cerberus from the Underworld
Hera told king Eurystheus to send Heracles to present Cerberus, the guardian of the Underworld before him. Heracles first needs to wrestle Nereus - the old-man of the sea with the power to shape-shift. Upon winning the contested, Heracles is told by Nereus where to find the back entrance to the Underworld. Heracles travels to the Underworld, crossing the River Styx to the gates of the Underworld where he sees Cerberus. Cerberus is trained to let anyone pass him in, but none leave and so, though the hound growls territoriality at the living mortal it does permit him to pass, Heracles however had heard many stories of Cerberus, the Underworld and Hades, and so he initially ignores Cerberus to go in deeper to speak with Hades. On his way in he sees living mortals Theseus and Pirithous who were strapped to their chairs at Hades' dinner table. When Heracles asks why the living mortals are there Theseus explains that Pirithous wanted to take Persephone as a wife and he had gone with him to help him make off with her, Hades had invited them to sit down and wait for his wife but commanded the chairs to grab unto them and never let them go. Heracles frees Theseus as he is passing through but when he goes to free Pirithous the room began to shake with Hades ire and Heracles determines doing so would make him an enemy of Hades, and so he continues his quest inward to talk to Hades. Upon meeting Hades, Heracles explains to him his task and asks for permission to take Cerberus. Hades is flattered that unlike the half-a-dozen other heroes who broke into the Underworld, Heracles was not trying to subvert death and thought to ask Hades before taking something from it - as a result Hades granted Heracles permission to take Cerberus on a few conditions, the first was Heracles could not kill his beloved pet, the second was Heracles could not use any weapons, the third was Hearcles must return Cerberus when he was done and the final condition was Heracles must tell Hades who had put him up to the task, Heracles agreed, explaining it was King Eurystheus and putting away his weapons as he headed back the gate with Hades to meet with Cerberus. Hades unbound Cerberus and Heracles went to wrestle the three-headed hound. Hercles was just barely able to head-lock Cerberus as he dragged it back into the ferry, up the stairs, across the land and back to Argos. It took Heracles a year by some accounts to drag Cerberus all the way there on foot. When Eurystheus saw Heracles return with Cerberus he was terrified and hid. Heracles asked where Eurystheus wanted Cerberus put. Eurystheus cowered in a vase and told Heracles to just take the monster away. Heracles waited for Eurystheus to confirm the task was complete and when the cowering king confirmed it, Heracles began the arduous task of dragging Cerberus back. The night after Cerberus was returned, Hades appeared before Eurystheus to ask him why he dared to send someone to take his beloved pet, his anger shifted to Eurystheus instead of Heracles. Eurystheus broke down and admitted he was only doing what Hera told him to do, as he had with all the labors assigned to Heracles. Hades told Eurystheus he would be seeing him again very soon but left to Olympus. Hera was ambushed by Hades and told that if she sent Heracles on any more tasks she would have to answer to him. The next day when Heracles met with king Eurystheus to ask him if he had anymore tasks both he and Hera were too afraid to set further tasks for him, and thus ended Heracles's twelfth and final labor.
Though Heracles would be involved in several other adventures around Greece, such as traveling with Jason and the Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece or fighting the Centaurs of the north, completing the Twelve Labors officially pardoned Heracles for the deaths of his family and redeemed him in the eyes of the Gods. Zeus considered Heracles his favorite son, Hera considered her pride avenged, Hades saw to it Megara and Hercales's children were cared for in the Underworld and Heracles himself would eventually remarry a woman named "Deianira".
Hercales was quite happy to kill and although he was never a truly evil character he was in many ways a force of nature who could tear another man to shreds if it so suited him - this type of hero is common in mythology. Because Rome's and Greece's cultural heroes were based less on morals than on deeds, Hercules/Heracles managed to be one of the first genuine ancestral super-heroes, while illustrating profound character flaws.
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IN RE: COREY T.
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Docket: Cum–17–394
Decided: February 01, 2018
Panel: ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ. Kristina Dougherty, Esq., Wise Old Law, LLC, Portland, for appellant mother Janet T. Mills, Attorney General, and Meghan Szylvian, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Department of Health and Human Services
[¶ 1] The mother of Corey T. appeals from a judgment entered by the District Court (Portland, Eggert, J.) finding jeopardy as to the mother pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4035 (2017).1 She contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the trial court's finding of jeopardy.2 Because the record evidence supports the court's finding and determination of jeopardy, we affirm the judgment.
[¶ 2] The Department of Health and Human Services initiated a child protection proceeding, and the court (Dobson, J.) entered a preliminary protection order and placed the child in Department custody on April 22, 2017, the day the child was born. After a contested hearing, by order dated September 14, 2017, the court (Eggert, J.) found jeopardy to the child's health and welfare. The court based its jeopardy determination on the following findings of fact:
The mother ․ has been diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder, and she has been working with [a service provider] for at least the past year. Based on the testimony, it is clear that the mother struggles with daily functioning and social interactions due to her mental health diagnosis. According to her psychiatric nurse practitioner, the mother is only able to manage her own activities of daily living and there are no signs that she can do much more than that, preventing her from being able to appropriately care for an infant.
[The mother] has been living at [a women's homeless shelter] for the past seven years, but cannot live there with a child. She may soon be getting more permanent housing at a [supported housing] group home, which would provide her with 24–hour support and would be good for her. The group home is only for adults. There is no way to determine how long she would be a resident there, but estimates of six months to two years are too long to wait for permanency for this infant.
[¶ 3] Based on these findings, the court determined, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the child was in circumstances of "jeopardy to his health and welfare in the absence of a Jeopardy Order." See 22 M.R.S. § 4035(2). The mother timely appealed. See 22 M.R.S. § 4006; M.R. App. P. 2B(c)(1).
[¶ 4] Contrary to the mother's contentions, the court's findings are supported by competent evidence in the record that can rationally be understood to establish as more likely than not that the child was in circumstances of jeopardy to his health and welfare.3 See 22 M.R.S. § 4035(2); In re Nicholas S., 2016 ME 82, ¶¶ 9, 13, 140 A.3d 1226.
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1. The court also found jeopardy as to the father. The father filed an appeal that was later withdrawn.
2. The jeopardy order included a provision, based on the court's finding that continued reunification services were inconsistent with the permanency plan, relieving the Department of Health and Human Services of its obligation to provide the mother with reunification services pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4041(2)(A–2)(2) (2017). Although the mother challenges this finding and order, that part of her appeal is from an interlocutory order and we do not address it. See 22 M.R.S. § 4006 (2017); In re Z.S., 2015 ME 110, ¶ 8, 121 A.3d 1286 ("[T]he disposition ordered by a court after it makes [a jeopardy] finding is not appealable.") (second alteration in original) (quotation marks omitted); In re Johnna M., 2006 ME 46, ¶ 7, 903 A.2d 331.
3. The mother also made an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim in her direct appeal from the jeopardy order. Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims in child protection proceedings are an "area of evolving jurisprudence." In re Evelyn A., 2017 ME 182, ¶ 19, 169 A.3d 914. We need not reach the mother's argument because, even assuming that the claim is cognizable on appeal from a jeopardy order, such a claim would require a prima facie showing of ineffectiveness. See In re Aliyah M., 2016 ME 106, ¶ 12, 144 A.3d 50. Without deciding whether, and how, a parent may make a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel to challenge a jeopardy order, we conclude that the record does not support a genuine claim that counsel's performance rose to the level of serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention, or that "the [mother] was prejudiced by counsel's alleged failure[s]." In re Tyrel L., 2017 ME 212, ¶¶ 8, 12–14, 172 A.3d 916 (second alteration in original) (quotation marks omitted).
PER CURIAM


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On April 22, Sampson Masonic Lodge #298 hosted a successful fundraiser breakfast for Lutie School's Parent Teacher Organization, a group of parents and staff members who are working to raise money to help out with larger projects and everyday items that both students and teachers may need. PTO spokesperson Tracy Meal said, "With the generous help from the Masons we were able to raise enough money to give each graduating Lutie senior $25 this year and we have a small amount in the bank for a teacher appreciation luncheon in the fall. We enjoyed working with the Masons, even though it was an early start for most of us. The weather was cold and rainy, but they made it fun. We look forward to working with them again in the future. They are an important part of the community here in Ozark County."

Lutie PTO also co-hosted a student art show this year on April 28 (see photo at right). Meal said the show feature artwork by students in grades kindergarten through 12.

"The art display was very diverse; many artistic mediums were used including concrete and tile, papier mache, dioramas, fairy gardens, 3D geometric models, collages and hand-drawn art," Meal said. "It was a wonderful opportunity to see what the Lutie kids' creativity and talent have produced this year. It was a great way to celebrate art at the end of the school year." The art show was coordinated by PTO president Melissa Cockrum and staff member Brian Adams. Photos of the art that was displayed can be seen on the Lutie VI School District Facebook page.

The PTO has other plans for the upcoming school year, including a fall festival and an annual teacher appreciation luncheon in August. It's also working toward obtaining new playground equipment, providing a small scholarship for a graduating senior, and assisting staff members with funding for much-needed classroom items they would normally have to buy themselves, Meal said.

Information about the PTO's activities, meetings and how donations are used is share on the group's Facebook page. Search for Lutie R-IV School District PTO. Everyone is welcome to attend PTO activities and meetings.

Lutie PTO co-hosted a student art show April 28.

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British aerospace manufacturer Cobham has seen its share price plummet by 8% after revealing that its sales have suffered this year as a result of delayed US defence contracts.
The Dorset company has a strong presence in global aerospace and defence markets and makes a range of electronic communication devices for military applications.
In an interim mangement statement released today, it said that its commercial markets remain "stable, but fragile" and that its Aviation Services Division "has continued to deliver good organic growth." However, delays and deferrals of defence contract awards from the US have led to the Technology Divisions – Avionics and Surveillance, Defence Systems and Mission Systems – under performing against 2009's sales books.
Positively though, the firm has decreased its net debt from £373m at the end of June to £319m at the end of September, mostly, it says, because of strong operating cash conversion in the period and favourable exchange movements.
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Level 0 - no elements in common.
Languages, reference data, assumptions... all different. Integration can only occur in the data warehouse and then only after each data source goes through a mapping and normalization process.
Level 1 - simple reference data in common.
A shared set of reference data is produced by individual systems and other systems agree to use that reference data. For example: a standard list of countries and their codes, a standard list of products in the sale catalog. Notice that I said 'simple reference data.' I literally mean flat files, since this is the most common way to share simple reference data.
One common form of integration is done using shared databases. In this mechanism, multiple different applications produce updates and/or reports from a single database. This is the most clear case of 'shared data model' integration. Developers who work in this environment are required to learn a great deal about the 'data environment' created by that shared database in order to write valid applications. Under this scenario, a single process model is nearly always evident, with well understood state transitions. That said, the developers are not required to treat the system as 'event driven' in any particular way. They are aware of shared data, include the state machine(s), and use that information in their work.
Level 3 - synchronized database.
The next step in 'shared data model' integration, similar to the previous style but which leverage some form of data replication or synchronization under the covers. The database itself not only has common tables, but those tables are kept in sync through back end processes.
Synchronized database integration is an interesting bird. There is often no formal mechanism for knowing "when" a data element will be copied from one instance of the database to another, so you have to be careful to maintain integrity. When I've seen this kind of integration performed, the coders had to be very careful to insure that every database write was wrapped in a reasonable transaction. Otherwise, it was possible for the synch mechanism to pick up a partial transaction and attempt to ship it to the other database instance... and that data transfer, when it didn't fail, created a loss of data integrity. Declarative Referential Integrity (DRI) helps a great deal in this situation. If your database does not have DRI, then use this mechanism at your peril.
In this model, two or more systems share a logical data model, and event driven design begins to emerge. Each system may introduce their own events into their own database. The architect selects an event that is useful and decides 'on this event, we share data.' He or She publishes event data at that time and the consuming system may subscribe. Note that the databases are not synchronized at the database level. It is at the logical level. This decouples the databases from one another.
Synchronized referential events is so named because the events are usually tied to complete transactions, but they are not necessarily events that the business would recognize, and the vast majority of 'recognizable business events' are not used or made available for integration. It is a one-off integration mechanism used for point-to-point integration.
It is very useful, however, to help systems scale. In high performance environments, this form of integration occurs frequently, because it makes sense. Unfortunately, because the events are selected to be convenient to the business processes that the two systems decide to agree upon, you are very likely to end up coupling the integration mechanism to the business process itself, often at a point in the business process that the business itself wouldn't recognize.
As such, it is very difficult to create a 'network' of databases that each use synchronized referential events to communicate with one another, because the data will appear to transfer at nearly random times.
The business WILL recognize this list of events, because they helped to define it. These are the events that occur across multiple business processes and which indicate a key change in state for a key business object. (for example, a sale may change state from 'proposed' to 'executed', which implies a great deal about how data is handled and what obligations have been transferred from one business party to another. The business object is the sale record. The change in state is the point at which an obligation has been placed on the business. This one cuts across business processes fairly firmly).
The flipside is also true. Some folks have used complex event processing to find fraudulent transactions or 'sham' customer orders placed by less-than-honest trading partners in order to 'game' the system. Detecting these transactions can be very valuable to the business.
The most sophisticated integration level, Level 5, requires that IT folks do something they have not often done... ask the business about shared points in their myriad of business processes. Sometimes the finance team knows about a set of events that they helped drive. Other times, the legal department may impose a common event for the sake of a regulatory requirement. Many of the rest of the most common events, especially those in procurement, supply chain, and shipment, have been discussed in B2B settings. There are many sources. Go find them.
The most difficult part of building this list of events is a fundamental role reversal. IT is no longer sitting on the sidelines waiting for the next 'order' to arrive ("do you want fries with that?"). We have to become a proactive, value-added part of the business. We have to become the ones who reach out, educate, and create value.
My opinion: it's about time.
Excellent summary. I think every architect should look at something like this before embarking on any project.
I have a different take on Integration. First, how have we ended up in such a mess we are today around this area. I'm talking to a large financial institution that has 1400 applications. Their goal is to rationalize it down to 400!! Few are even closely integrated. Sad no?
On average, the companies we deal with have 6-20 different applications that on any given day, a user has to use most of, to do their tasks (The average is 8 for most call centers, we've seen as high as 40). Again, most are not integrated.
So, with all of the opportunities we have had to do this properly in the past, why do we think we will be able to make a difference in the future.
To your post, this is great. Why do most miss this though. I have one smaller theory to explain some of it and that's to do with developers themselves getting bored after 18 months and want to work on new stuff. This leads to the last 18 months of any project just "getting it done".
The reason that developers don't get it is that developers (and I include myself in my former roles) are incented to focus on 'solve the small problem' while they are fed bullsh_t about what the big problem is.
We (developers) share some of the blame. I cannot count the number of times that I've seen an analyst ask "show me an example of a good requirements doc" and had the developers respond with silence.
If we are not getting the information we need to help guide the business, but we are unable or unwilling to offer the right level of feedback about what 'good information' looks like, the we share some of the blame when incomplete information, or false assumptions, or bad ideas, are fed to us in the requirements document.
As for how we have ended up where we are, there is a good book called Enterprise Architecture As Strategy by Jeanne Ross, et. al. Read it.
As for why we think we can do better… I have been part of an effort to completely re-examine the entire framework that we use for initiative planning and IT project roadmap analysis. Myself and two others have invented a framework for creating alignment between the business needs and the applications such that overlaps and redundancy can be addressed and, over time, can be eradicated.
We developed this framework to solve our own problems, but it is immediately clear that other enterprises suffer from the same fate. So we are working with our consulting team to make sure that this 'good advice' gets packaged up and delivered as part of our consulting engagements with enterprise customers.


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Purdy, defense lead 49ers past Fins; Garoppolo breaks foot
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- - The Miami Dolphins hit San Francisco's vaunted defense with a 75-yard haymaker on the opening play and then watched 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo leave with a season-ending foot injury.
Everything was set up for another win for the streaking Dolphins, but backup quarterback Brock Purdy and the Niners had other ideas.
Purdy threw two touchdown passes after replacing Garoppolo and San Francisco used another dominant defensive performance to beat Miami 33-17 on Sunday for its fifth straight win.
"Guys were a little off, just in general collectively," Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said. "But I know one thing: It wasn't because of preparation, lack of detail. It was one of those things that you have to go through."
Tua Tagovailoa threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to Trent Sherfield on the opening play from scrimmage but struggled to do much else behind a patchwork line for Miami (8-4) against Nick Bosa and the Niners' defense.
Tagovailoa, who came into the game with three interceptions on the season, threw two in the third quarter to Jimmie Ward and Deommodore Lenoir to lead to a pair of field goals for the 49ers (8-4).
"It sucks that we didn't come out and say what we wanted to do collectively as a team," Tagovailoa said. "Obviously, it starts with me offensively. Turnovers, with third-down communication errors, in that retrospect it's hard to win a game when you're not on your Ps and Qs and you're not dialed in."
The 49ers had their four-game, second-half shutout streak snapped when Tagovailoa threw a 45-yard TD pass to Tyreek Hill in the opening minute of the fourth quarter but held on from there. They capped the performance with a strip-sack from Bosa that Dre Greenlaw returned for a 23-yard score.
Bosa finished with three sacks, taking advantage of a line missing starting tackles Terron Armstead and Austin Jackson.
"We didn't flinch," Niners linebacker Fred Warner said about the response to the opening play. "We came back to the sideline and you can't look at things like that emotionally. You've got to just look at it for what it is and and see how you can adjust. I guess that kind of allowed us to really settle into the game quicker, obviously when you when you have a play like that."
The Dolphins had their five-game winning streak snapped in coach McDaniel's first game against the 49ers after spending the past five years as an assistant in San Francisco.
Purdy, dubbed "Mr. Irrelevant" as the last pick of this year's NFL draft, proved to be quite important to the 49ers when Garoppolo broke his left foot on a sack on the final play of the opening drive.
Garoppolo was taken to the locker room on a cart and didn't return, leaving the game in the hands of Purdy, who had thrown his only nine passes in mop-up duty of a Week 7 loss to Kansas City.
Purdy capped his first drive of the game by throwing a 3-yard TD pass to Kyle Juszczyk to give San Francisco a 10-7 lead.
He then led a well-executed two-minute drive at the end of the half, completing six passes for 75 yards with a 3-yard TD to Christian McCaffrey with 4 seconds left in the half to make it 17-10.
Purdy finished 25 for 37 for 210 yards, two TDs and one interception.
"It's pretty crushing. We know what Jimmy's been through, how hard he's worked at this," coach Kyle Shanahan said. "That was a really cool game, just as a team and all the stuff that went on throughout the game and just be able to overcome some things. So it's such a special win. But definitely mixed emotions hearing about Jimmy."
Shanahan won two challenges in the fourth quarter to overturn completed passes by Miami. The second came on a fourth-and-2 play with the Niners leading by six with about six minutes left.
The Niners held the ball for nearly four minutes and made it a two-score game when Robbie Gould kicked a 48-yard field goal, his fourth of the day.
The Dolphins wasted little time showing off their speed when Tagovailoa connected on the long touchdown to Sherfield on the first play from scrimmage.
It marked the first time a team scored on the first play after the opening kick since the Niners did it in Week 2 of the 2020 season against the Jets with an 80-yard run by Raheem Mostert.
The touchdown ended a scoreless streak of more than 94 minutes for the 49ers, who hadn't allowed a point since the second quarter against Arizona two weeks ago.
Miami hadn't scored a TD on the first play from scrimmage following the opening kick since the final game of the 2004 season when Sage Rosenfels threw a 76-yard pass to Chris Chambers against Baltimore.
Dolphins: WR Jaylen Waddle left in the first half with a leg injury but returned to the game.
49ers: San Francisco already lost starting QB Trey Lance to a season-ending ankle injury in Week 2. The only other QB under contract is Jacob Eason, who is on the practice squad. ... DT Hassan Ridgeway (pectoral) left in the fourth quarter and didn't return.
Dolphins: Visit the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night.
49ers: Host Tampa Bay on Sunday.
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Cape Town - The Proteas have posted 146 for six in the final of the T20 tri-series against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club on Sunday.
Faf du Plessis top-scored for the South Africans with 66 off 57 balls, while Albie Morkel also shined with 34 off 23 balls.
Du Plessis said afterwards it is a "par" score, but they are confident of defending it on a slow wicket.


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Любимовка  — деревня в Тетюшском районе Татарстана. Входит в состав городского поселения Тетюши.

География
Находится в юго-западной части Татарстана на расстоянии приблизительно 3 км на северо-запад по прямой от районного центра города Тетюши.

История
Известна с 1646 года.

Население
Постоянных жителей насчитывалось в 1646 — 19, в 1782—108 (мужского пола), в 1859—269, в 1897—247, в 1908—522, в 1920—498, в 1926—419, в 1938—510, в 1949—420, в 1958—311, в 1970—204, в 1979—134, в 1989 — 69. Постоянное население составляло 32 человека (русские 94 %) в 2002 году, 15 в 2010.

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Населённые пункты Тетюшского района


We congratulate our journalist Maurizio Abbati for the coming out of his book with the foreword of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and Stefano Zunarelli, Transportation, Air and Maritime Lawyer and Law Professor at Bologna University.
Various case-studies and best practices help the readers to increase their Eco-awareness.
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Numerous social and web links make the manual an original "platform" constantly open to dialogue.
The book, based on authoritative sources and reports, is an excellent preparatory and interdisciplinary academic tool intended for IGCSE students or university students, scholars, professionals and anyone who would like to know more on the matter.
– He got two Second Level Masters' Degrees in: 1. International Relations – 2. Environment and Sustainable Development.
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– He has been working for several years as multilingual professional journalist mainly in the Principality of Monaco.
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I was using the Cream Supreme, and found out that Real Purity discontinued the product. That's a shame because it was a wonderful product, and in addition, it had very few ingredients that worked so well. I asked someone at Real Purity to tell me what would be a good replacement, and they suggested Anti aging dragon fruit facial cream. This might be a really nice face cream, but it's not working for me. I should have gotten a sample before I bought the jar. Real Purity has an extensive assortment of samples. Try the samples before you buy anything. It'll save a lot of stress and money. I really like Real Purity products, but for the life of me I don't understand why they would take a product off the market that had very few ingredients in it, it was a great moisture cream, and it was healthier than what is available now. I'm still searching for a good face cream. I've ordered a sample of the lite face cream from Real Purity. Hopefully that will be more to my liking.


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Key Biscayne files lawsuit over Miami show plans
The town of Key Biscayne, Fla., filed a lawsuit last week against the city of Miami over the city's decision to redevelop the Miami Marine Stadium grounds to host the Miami International Boat Show next year.
The Miami City Commission voted in early January to enter into a license agreement with the National Marine Manufacturers Association to bring the boat show to Virginia Key.
Under the agreement, the city will make as much as $16 million worth of improvements to the undeveloped land east of the stadium to host the boat show during Presidents Day weekend, starting in February 2016.
Miami officials have publicly said they don't know how else that property will be used during most of the year when the boat show is not in town. But Key Biscayne leaders worry that the city's large investment in the planned outdoor event space means it will hold multiple events a year and worsen traffic and safety issues on the Rickenbacker Causeway, according to the Miami Herald.
As expected, the village voted to file the lawsuit two weeks ago after officials said their requests to discuss the redevelopment plans and the village's concerns were ignored.
"For two months, we were diligent in communicating with Miami," Key Biscayne Mayor Mayra Lindsay told the paper. "We tried to be good neighbors and facilitate our being involved. Unfortunately, that did not get us far."
The village plans to halt the proceedings and enter into mediation. On Monday morning, the council agreed to start the conflict resolution process.
"We are putting the city of Miami on notice that this is moving forward," Lindsay said.
John Shubin, a land-use lawyer hired to represent the village, said no order to stay the proceedings has been entered because no judge has been assigned to the case. The complaint was filed Friday afternoon.
According to the complaint, turning the area that surrounds the Marine Stadium into an event and exhibition space violates Miami's Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan, the Miami 21 Zoning Code and the 1963 Marine Stadium Deed.
A city's comprehensive plan sets goals for community development. Miami's Future Land Use Map, which is part of the comprehensive plan, designates the Marine Stadium as public parks and recreation. The comprehensive plan defines public parks and recreation spaces as having "passive and active recreational and cultural uses."
According to the complaint, using the property as a commercial event venue violates the comprehensive plan because the property won't be used for recreational or cultural purposes.
The city's zoning code categorized the Marine Stadium as a civic space. The zoning code defines civic space as "a zone with mainly outdoor area dedicated for functioning for community purposes." According to the complaint, commercial use of the property is not permitted under the civic space classification.
In March 1963, Miami-Dade County deeded the city of Miami a 61-acre portion of Virginia Key to "be perpetually used and maintained for the operation of a Marine Stadium and allied purposes only."
The definition of "allied purposes" is up for debate, but the complaint said that commercializing the property is not an allied purpose and violates deed restrictions. Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez did not respond to the Herald's requests for comment Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the NMMA is moving ahead with plans to hold the 2016 boat show there, NMMA president Thom Dammrich has told Trade Only.
"Anybody who participates is going to have to rethink their whole approach to the show, just like we're rethinking how the whole show is presented," Dammrich told Trade Only in late January.
"People are focusing on the show coming up soon, and we'll be getting all the information out there about 2016," he says. "We'll have a display and a lot of information available this February in Miami about what things will look like. There will be site drawings. It'll be pretty clear."


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Merchina Peris Arraez (València, 1960) és una exfutbolista valenciana, generalment considerada com la primera a marcar un gol en un partit disputat al Camp de Mestalla, si descomptem les pioneres dels anys 30.

Filla de l'històric dirigent Vicente Peris, formava part de la Selecció València, l'equip de futbol femení vinculat al València CF. El 10 de setembre de 1970 va disputar un partit a Mestalla, previ al Trofeu Taronja. En aquell partit, Merchina, de 10 anys, va marcar el primer gol del partit.

Als anys 80 va jugar a Distrito 10, el principal club de futbol sala de la ciutat aleshores.

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Futbolistes del València CF de la dècada de 1970
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James Ramenda, FSA, CERA, senior vice president at SS&C Technologies, Inc.
The reason I ask is that people are living longer but many haven't saved enough to retire. The actuarial solution for this retirement gap is simple: More people will have to work beyond the "normal" retirement age. From an economic standpoint, however, this solution is not so simple.
1. White collar workers in their mid-60s may find a significant mismatch between the jobs available to them and the type of compensation that will maintain their lifestyles.
2. Mid-60s blue- and gray-collar workers may find the physical demands of continuing similar work to be difficult.
3. Everyone else may find that with this older working segment of the population struggling to maintain its lifestyle, overall economic activity could suffer—fewer job openings, less consumer spending, pressure on housing, etc.
As always, the economic data is subject to interpretation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor shows a shrinking pay gap between older and younger workers in the past few decades. Whether this reflects good news for older workers or bad news for younger workers is an open question. Moreover, the baby boomers are just entering "normal" retirement age. They will live longer and are less likely to have pensions compared to earlier cohorts.
Another dimension of the retirement gap that is worth discussing stems from the nature of the medical quest for longevity. Having been a caregiver for a 92-year-old parent, I've seen the health care system for the elderly up close and personal, including the medical wonders that have boosted longevity. However, as becomes obvious at advanced ages, the vast majority of these medical advances seem to have been targeted toward prevention and/or treatment of heart attacks, strokes and cancer, and not to the quality of life as indicated by physical and mental agility.
As I spent more time around assisted living and nursing facilities, it became obvious that progress with respect to musculoskeletal-related capabilities, dementia and Alzheimer's, has not matched the increases in longevity. In fact, some of the effects of medication seemed to diminish physical activity and mental acuity, even as vital signs were kept in desirable ranges. It was striking to talk with people struggling to manage their medicine regimens, walkers, wheelchairs, oxygen tanks, etc., only to realize they were at the facility to visit their parents.
The actuarial aspect of this issue as I see it is this: unless medical science can achieve similar gains in areas like dementia, Alzheimer's, vision, hearing, arthritis, osteoporosis, etc., as it continues to make strides in the fight against heart disease and cancer, it's impossible to assume a commensurately longer working life span. So pushing back retirement age in an actuarial model may not be a practical nor fair solution at some point. For example, moving the Social Security retirement age to perhaps 70, as is currently being discussed, may just be creating a waiting period for many people—a kind of deductible, really. This is just cost-shifting, not an expansion the labor pool.
I believe actuaries need to use the retirement gap data to inform medical research, specifically to guide it more toward sustaining mental and physical agility, not just pushing the limits of longevity. We've pushed longevity to 100 and beyond. Do we need to go beyond 110 before we think in these terms? 120?
A system in which retirees take care of retirees is not sustainable. It's been said that 50 is the new 40, but—keeping the same percentage—65 is not the new 52 in the workplace. Nor will it be until we are routinely hiring 65-year-olds for other than part-time jobs. For that to happen, we need advances in working longevity to catch up with age longevity.
Read the full article by James Ramenda in The Actuary as well as a letter to the editor in response to the article. Join the longevity conversation and submit your comments here!
By James Ramenda, FSA, CERA, senior vice president at SS&C Technologies, Inc.
Reach James Ramenda at jramenda@sscinic.com.
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No wise words, resolutions, or deep thoughts. I am grateful that another year has gone by and as children grow physically every year, so I have grown as a child of my heavenly Father. I look forward to another year to grow in His grace and in obedience to His will.
I want to count the blessings of good friends who will play volleyball from one year to the next; for brothers and sisters who will "polar bear plunge" into the pond with you; and for our wonderful Texas weather that allowed both of those things to happen. God is good.


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Public Not Optimistic Obamacare Exchanges Will Limit Premium Growth
As October 1st approaches, various government and nonprofit advertising campaigns are directing public attention to the new Obamacare health insurance marketplaces (also known as "exchanges"). Millions of Americans are expected to enroll in health plans through exchanges in the next several years. Various surveys in the past several years have demonstrated that cost is among the chief concerns Americans have regarding their health insurance. With the opening of Obamacare marketplaces only weeks away, HealthPocket surveyed 670 adults across the U.S. to determine whether they believed the new Obamacare marketplaces would decrease the rate at which health insurance premiums will grow.
The survey results indicated that although a significant minority of Americans is uncertain, "No" was still the most common answer to the question "Do you believe that the new Obamacare marketplaces will reduce the rate of growth for health insurance premiums?" Nearly half (48%) of survey respondents answered "no" as compared to the 36% who were uncertain with respect to the marketplaces' potential for containing the growth of health insurance premiums. Those that believed the exchanges would slow premium growth were the smallest portion of respondents at 17%.
The marketplaces themselves have several features that may positively contribute to premium containment, most notably an online venue that allows consumers to compare multiple health plans to one another. This competitive environment is intended to increase pressure on health insurance companies to offer premiums in the range of the other plans available on the marketplace. The commoditization of insurance benefits under Obamacare as well as the standardization of cost sharing across four metal plan designs also encourages insurers to compete against one another on price. The marketplace's choice of one of the insurers' silver plan as the benchmark from which all plan subsidies are calculated is another incentive for insurers to pursue low premiums. Those silver plans more expensive than the benchmark silver plan will have subsidies cover a lower portion of its premiums than the benchmark plan.
However, the exchanges do face an issue that will weaken their competitive potential. Not every health plan will be available on government marketplaces. Several large insurers including United Healthcare, Aetna, and Cigna have previously announced that in several states they will only offer health plans off exchange. HealthPocket's previous research on off exchange plans has demonstrated that these well-known brands avoiding Obamacare marketplaces have traditionally offered low monthly premiums.1 The absence of these plans may produce less robust price competition among insurance companies participating on the Obamacare marketplaces.
The pessimism and uncertainty about the Obamacare marketplaces' capacity to limit annual premium increases is a double-edged sword facing the administration. To their benefit, the low expectations could be turned into increased public support of Obamacare if the expectations regarding premiums are exceeded. However, should results confirm these expectations there may be increased political pressure to modify Obamacare.
Results are based on 670 responses to a nationwide online survey conducted from September 6, 2013 to September 8, 2013. Respondents were asked, " Do you believe that the new Obamacare marketplaces will reduce the rate of growth for health insurance premiums?" Respondents had the option of selecting one of the following answers: "Yes," "No," and "Not Certain." The answer options were displayed in randomized order. The survey was displayed within a network of over 100 different news web sites and other content sites. Demographic inferencing and methodology to acquire survey respondents who approximate national statistics on age, gender, income, and region was performed by Google-administered technology. Race, education, and health insurance status were not examined. Margin of error across survey responses is estimated at + 4.9/-4.7.
This survey analysis was completed by Kev Coleman, Head of Research & Data at HealthPocket.com. Correspondence regarding this study can be directed to Mr. Coleman at kevin.coleman@healthpocket.com.
Feedback and questions are welcome but, given the volume of email, personal responses may not be feasible.
1 Kev Coleman. "Many Big Brand and Lower Cost Insurers Deserting Obamacare Exchanges." HealthPocket.com. /healthcare-research/infostat/off-exchange-vs-on- exchange-premiums. Accessed September 11, 2013.
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Kev Coleman is the Head of Research & Data where he is the author of the HealthPocket InfoStat Reports. Mr. Coleman performs research across the healthcare market, leveraging emerging sources of data from government, nonprofit, and private sectors. Key areas of study for Mr. Coleman include healthcare consumerism and issues associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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