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Celebrated Name: George Jung
Real Name/Full Name: George Jacob Jung
Birth Date: 6 August 1942
Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Wife/Spouse (Name): Mirtha (m. 1977; div. 1984)
Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): Yes (Kristina Sunshine Jung)
Is George Jung Gay?: No
Profession: Drug trafficker, Smuggler
Net Worth in 2023: $10 thousand
George Jacob Jung is an American former pusher and smuggler who was a serious figure within the cocaine trade in the US. He was best referred to as Boston George and El Americano. Jung worked with the Medellin cartel. They were liable for up to 85% of the cocaine smuggled into us. Jacob was an expert in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia on an outsized scale.
Maybe you know about George Jung very well, but do you know how old and tall is he and what is his net worth in 2023? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of George Jung's short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today's net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you're ready, let's start.
George Jung was born to Frederick and Erminalia Jung in Boston, Massachusetts. He was raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Jung did not excel in academics, but he was an exceptionally good football player. Jung was called "a natural leader" by his classmates.
Jung had his first arrest by a police officer, for solicitation of prostitution. After he graduated in 1961 from Weymouth High School, Jung went to study at the University of Southern Mississippi. He studied for a degree in advertising but unfortunately never completed his studies. Jung got into using marijuana as a mode of recreation.
He had been staying at the Playboy Club, where he met a connection that helped him devour the marijuana. The connection was arrested for heroin smuggling. However, he informed the authorities about Jung to urge a reduced sentence. After arguing with the judge about the aim of sending a person to prison "for crossing an imaginary line with a bunch of plants," Jung was sent to the Federal penal institution, 'Danbury.'
From 1977 to 1984, George Jung had a short-lived marriage to a Columbian woman Mirtha. She was a junkie and an accomplice to George in perpetrating a number of his drug crimes. She had equally spent some years in jail at some point in her life. Their union produced a daughter Kristina Sunshine Jung born on Lammas, 1978.
The drug smuggler has had a long-strained relationship together with his daughter, who can't seem to totally forgive him for his conspicuous absence and legacy in her life. Since after his release from jail in 2014, he has tried to form up for his wrongdoings. One of Jung's current life priorities is to smoothen the broken relationship between them and do right by her. The duo, who has been seen together at public events and functions, has thus far made progress in rekindling their relationship.
Being born on 6 August 1942, George Jung is 80 years old as of today's date 28th January 2023. His height is 1.79 m tall, and his weight is 85 kg.
Before his drug smuggling days started, George had unsuccessfully tried to study advertising at the University of Southern Mississippi. Soon he began his marijuana business on a small scale. After being busted with an outsized quantity of marijuana, Jung eventually landed in jail, but that sentence changed his life forever.
While serving his sentence at Danbury prison in Connecticut, Jung accidentally got a link, which might eventually help start one among the world's most powerful drug cartels. It had been there that he met a Colombian and fellow inmate Carlos Lehder, who later introduced him to cocaine. Both men were released around the same time, and after joining the Medellin cartel, they devised easier and evasive ways to smuggle drugs from Colombia into us.
In a moment, their cartel, which was supplying 80 percent of the world's cocaine, was booming, and therefore the market expanded. Though Jung and Lehder eventually fell out as partners, it opened a much bigger window of opportunity for Jung to partner with the famous drug baron and narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar.
After being found with several pounds of cocaine in his possession, Jung was arrested but later skipped bail. Needless to say, he soon went back to his smuggling business and again was caught and sentenced to 60 years in prison. But after a plea bargaining to testify against former accomplice Lehder, George Jung's sentence was reduced to twenty years. He was released from jail in November 2014. Two years later, he was sent right back to a California jail for violating the terms of his parole. the person was eventually released from prison in July 2017 after completing his sentence.
He earned his fame from the large quantity of cocaine he used to smuggle into the US.
In 2001, filmmakers created a biopic on him called "Blow" that features Johnny Depp.
In September 2014, Jung contributed to Heavy along with T. Rafael Cimino, nephew of director Michael Cimino. Heavy may be a fictional story that details how Jung escaped from a Cuban prison and fled to Guatemala.
Net Worth & Salary of George Jung in 2023
George Jung Net Worth
As of January 2023, His net worth of $10 thousand. He earned this money through cocaine trade everywhere us between the 1970s and, therefore, the 1980s. He became a part of the Medellin cartel that smuggled the utmost cocaine into the US. The Medellin cartel became liable for 89% of smuggled cocaine. Jung got his cocaine skills from his days in Colombia as he smuggled an out-sized of marijuana.
Jung was the Pablo Escobar in Columbia. No other American drug dealers ever had the connections and influence that George Jung had. Jung made a living by smuggling drugs into the US in large quantities. Eventually, he joined the Medellin cartel and, with them, became liable for 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into us during the late 1970s and early 1980s.


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The System of Infants' Schools ... Third Edition
Tekijät William Wilson (Vicar of Walthamstow.)
teacher should endeavour to select those modes of expression which approach the nearest to the language of infancy; or, if this should be impossible, to model the lesson so as to excite some pleasurable sensation in its attainment.
Metrical compositions, for instance, are very frequently even more difficult of comprehension than the language of common life. They are, however, more easily committed to the memory, and are retained with greater facility by an infant, because they excite and bring into play powers of which he is conscious, and from which he derives a sort of involuntary pleasure. They are remembered as a rhythmical arrangement of sounds, rather than as words calculated to convey ideas to the mind.
Among other things, then, which will hereafter be mentioned, the memory of an infant may with excellent effect be exercised in the attainment of some of the more simple principles of number, or the various useful tables ; in learning some of the more plain moral precepts, the more simple texts of scripture, or hymns in the plainest and most familiar language; together with whatever else may, in the judgment of the teacher, be calculated to aid the future efforts of the child in the attainment of knowledge.
The JUDGMENT, also, as the subject of educa; tion, may be considered in two respects; and in the exercise of this faculty, the superintendant of an infants' school must arrange his subjects under two divisions. The former will regard only the exercise, or development, of the mental energy; the latter will direct that energy to some subject which has been entrusted to the
memory, for the purpose of future instruction.
It is, in the first place, of the utmost importance, in the correction and improvement of this faculty of the opening mind; to teach children to think and to speak, as far as may be possible, from a clear conception of those things which are the subjects of their knowledge. The subject itself is of little importance. If it be suitable, it will, almost necessarily, be puerile; but whatever it may be, the mode of thought and of expression should be, by all means, , correct.
In order to attain this desirable object, the teacher can be at no loss for subjects of instruction. may
commence, however, from those things which are present with the senses, which convey directly ideas to the mind, through the eye, or the ear, or the touch. He may next proceed to those which are absent; and in the progress of his attempt to call this faculty of his
little school into correct action, he may at last suggest to their inquiring minds those things which are contingent or possible. · Colour, form, posture, and other accidents of things, may be the subjects of idea, of comparison, and of judgment. The room around him, the garden, the fields, the common instruments of a life of labour, will offer those things on which he may lead forth the early energies of the infant. The arts also, as far as they may possibly be subject to the observation of a passing child, and the trades, by which the sustenance of their families is obtained, may in succession be brought forward; and he may be taught to think accurately, and, according to his capacity, and the small range of language which is possessed by him, to define correctly.
It has been hinted, that it will be necessary, at this early age, not unfrequently to commit to the memory of the infants that which they are unable at present, with any sufficient accuracy, to comprehend. Now this will also suggest to the teacher another field on which to bring into action the intellectual powers of the little multitude. · In the progress of discipline the minds of the children will become considerably more capable of instruction; and the skilful teacher, ohserving the advance of these mental powers, will endeavour, by every means which his ingenuity
may devise, to throw light upon those lessons which have been committed to the memory. Events will constantly rise to illustrate the moral precepts or the passages of holy writ, or the hymns which the child may have learned. Not one of these will he willingly lose. The memory, he will bear in mind, is the book of the intellect. And that which is written there needs, not unfrequently, as much of explanation and of personal diligence and thought, in order to its just comprehension, as would the passages of a scientific work if we were ignorant of the principles of the science.
MORAL POWERS.—Some difference of opinion seems to exist on the best mode of cultivating the moral powers in the early age of infancy. The question is one of the utmost importance, and one on which the success or failure; the benefit or the uselessness of the system of infants' schools, very materially depends. It cannot then be doubted, I presume, that howsoever ignorant children may be of the particulars of true morals, there is a certain consciousness of right and wrong, which is coeval with the first rays of rational light in the mind. It is the business of true morality to give practical force to these incipient energies, and to bring the habitual pursuit of that which is right, and the habitual avoidance of that which is wrong, to form a constituent part
of the active life of the future man : for it is contrary to all just analogy to believe that, although all other human faculties are capable of cultivation and improvement, the conscience will approach to its perfection-without adventitious aid. It would have been well for human society if the correction of this faculty had, at all times, formed one principal object in the education of the young; and if it had thus kept pace with the improvement of the intellectual powers, and the strength and have been given to the memory.
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If, then, it be allowed that the cultivation and improvement of the conscience ought to form one important subject of the infant's education, the question will offer itself to us with increased interest. How is this important end to be approached ? Moral suasion, it is evident, can have little effect on infants. In like manner, the energies of the reason can throw very little light on their minds; so as to display the nature and the real character of those things which are right or erroneous. Nature herself seems to direct us to a higher source of influence from which we may reasonably expect the rapid improvement of this faculty, and its preparation for the many important duties of life. The consciousness of right and wrong, in an infant, very early attaches itself to certain natural im
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A Time to Break Silence
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On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for about an hour at Riverside Church in New York City on the Vietnam War. I was sixteen at the time and my parents were skeptical of Dr. King's motives, and, to be honest, some of that rubbed off on me. It was also around this time that I listened to a radio address by another famous preacher, Dr. Stephen Olford from Calvary Church in New York. Olford, like King, called for peace in Vietnam. These two preachers from across the Christian spectrum got my attention. Their passion for Jesus's Kingdom ethic and the fullness of their moral vision got me thinking for the first time about racism and war.
Dr. King explained that he was compelled to break his silence and speak out against the Vietnam War because "a time comes when silence is betrayal." He said we must accept the "vocation of agony" and "with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision" we must speak. He gave seven carefully nuanced reasons for his passionate plea to his "beloved nation" to end the war in Vietnam. They are all significant, and the speech is well worth reading in its entirety, but it was his sixth reason that stood out to me.
He explained that the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize had placed a burden of responsibility on him that took him "beyond national allegiances." But that "burden" was second to his "commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ." To those who questioned his motives, Dr. King said,
"Could it be that they do not know that the good news was meant for all [people]—for Communist and Capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the One who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them? What then can I say to the Vietcong or Castro or to Mao as a faithful minister of this One? Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life?"
After King gave his seven reasons for breaking his silence over the war, he went on to "ponder the madness of Vietnam" by describing the tragic history of Vietnam. He carefully laid out the history of colonialism, dictatorial rule, and American involvement, before urging "our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful commitment." Dr. King's speech does not end there. He went on to say, "The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit." He called for "a radical revolution of values." He said, "We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society." Dr. King's moral vision for America called for a true compassion for all people, a transformation of values based on social justice and real democracy. To that end, we have a long way to go.
I read Dr. King's speech a few days after the mayhem in Washington D.C. and the storming of the U. S. Capitol by an angry, violent mob of pro-Trump supporters who were bent on overturning the 2020 Presidential election. They believed the lie that the election was "rigged" and "stolen." Who could blame them? The President of the United States had said so a thousand times. Since that day of insurrection and infamy, we have witnessed a steady video record of rage as "Christian conservatives" and white supremacists joined forces to threaten our democracy and the U.S. Constitution. It will go down as a sad and tragic day in American history.
But I hope and pray that Christ's followers have reached a tipping point, that we have reached the time to break silence. The faculty and staff of Wheaton College, my alma mater, released a statement that said with courage what needs to be said. It reads in part,
The January 6 attack on the Capitol was characterized not only by vicious lies, deplorable violence, white supremacy, white nationalism, and wicked leadership—especially by President Trump—but also by idolatrous and blasphemous abuses of Christian symbols. The behaviors that many participants celebrated in Jesus' name bear absolutely no resemblance to the Christian teachings or ethics that we submit to as faculty and staff of Wheaton College.
Furthermore, the differential treatment displayed by those with a duty to protect in their engagement with rioters who trespassed on the Capitol grounds illegally, when compared to recent protests over police brutality in D.C. last summer, illustrates the ongoing reality that systemic racism in our country is tragically and undeniably alive and well. These realities are reprehensible. Our Christian faith demands shining a light on these evils and the simultaneous commitment to take appropriate action. . . .
Our Christian faith demands greater courage. We repent of our own failures to speak and to act in accordance with justice, and we lament the failures of the Church to teach clearly and to exercise adequate church discipline in these areas. Moreover, we grieve over the inadequate level of discipleship that has made room for this type of behavior among those who self-identify as Christian. We pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal to us all manner of idolatry, and we commit to speaking plainly against it wherever and whenever we find it. . . .
Dr. Douglas Webster is professor of pastoral theology and Christian preaching. He will take part in a virtual MLK Day panel on Monday, Jan. 18, at 6 p.m. on Facebook sponsored by Samford University's Office of Diversity and Intercultural Initiatives.
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Frontline workers given 'leftover' vaccines to avoid waste as county on track to meet targets
'You have to use it then within a specified time period'
Phoebe RamDigital News Correspondent
Signage outside the Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Richard Herrod Centre in Foxhill Road, Carlton. (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)
More details have been revealed on the vaccine roll-out in Nottinghamshire including how many deaths can be prevented, how many vaccines are going to waste and what challenges the huge programme could face.
With two Covid-19 vaccines approved and already being given out across various sites in Nottinghamshire, Dr Andy Haynes, Executive Lead, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System has addressed some of the questions so far.
Currently the number of vaccines administered in the county has not been validated but the data is expected to come out nationally from next week.
But Dr Haynes added: "Clearly we have significant numbers going through at the moment."
When asked about missed appointments, he said levels were "very low" with only "a handful" of waste vaccine doses.
This partly been addressed by giving out leftover vaccines to frontline workers.
Dr Haynes explained: "Because of the logistics, particularly with a vaccine that needs to stay in very cold storage, once you've broken into the cohort of the vaccine you have to use it then within a specified time period.
"Health and care workers are defined as critical workers now in Government guidelines and where there are vaccines that would otherwise be wasted we know that frontline and health and care workers are now part of the priority cohort so they are being vaccinated."
With around one in 50 people across Nottinghamshire affected by Covid, Dr Haynes also explained how crucial the two approved Covid-19 vaccines would be in preventing deaths in the community.
"For care home residents, we'd need to vaccinate 20 to reduce the number of predicted deaths - to prevent one predicted death," he said.
"For the over 80s it's 160 that we need to vaccinate to prevent one death, so in fact, if we vaccinate that care home resident population and the over 80s, we'll prevent two-thirds of the predicted deaths.
"That contrasts to the under 50 population where we'd have to vaccinate nearly 50,000 to prevent one death so the whole programme is based on minimising the number of deaths we can expect from this wave of Covid in the coming weeks and months.
"It's targeted towards getting those care home residents and 80-plus year olds vaccinated and we expect to do that by the end of January with their first doses.
"Then moving into the over 75s, over 70s and within that protecting health and care workers partly because of their risk but also because they can transmit virus' between patients so there is a clear rationale here."
Before Christmas, Nottinghamshire Live reported health bosses in Nottinghamshire hoped to be able to deliver 80,000 vaccines a week by the end of January, which Dr Haynes said is "coming online as planned".
He added: "The (vaccination) sites are coming online as they've been approved and we've been able to get them up and running.
"The staffing for those sites is now in place all the way through until mid-February and therefore we're in a position to use the vaccine supply that we have.
"We are being flexible, more sites are coming and we will after yesterday's (Government) announcement be seeing more vaccinations through GP surgeries in the coming weeks and community pharmacists possibly as well."
When asked about potential challenges, Dr Haynes said the issues are likely to be related to the longevity of the programme and the impact from transmissions.
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. So it's great we're having the rotas filled for the next three or four weeks but clearly we're going to need to continue beyond that, so I think sustaining the workforce is important."
Dr Haynes said more than 1,000 people have been employed from more than 2,500 applicants so far, but encourages people to keep coming forward.
He added: "Obviously, we don't know what the impact of the high level of community transmission is going to be but it clearly is likely to impact those staffing rotas if 1 in 50 people are infected as well as nine to 10 percent sickness rates in our organisations."
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Students set up aid station for protesters
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Student leaders at Seattle Central College Associated Student Council are offering a helping hand – and some water and first aid supplies – to the people protesting police brutality towards Black people.
The aid station was set up on June 7 at the south plaza of the Seattle Central College Broadway campus, on the marching route of protesters. It offers activists water, snacks, basic first aid supplies, and protective personal equipment.
The station is funded through donations – no college or ASC funds are involved – and staffed by volunteers.
"We have raised $4,000 in three days," said ASC member Michael Harris. "We are evaluating our spending and will most likely increase our goal to $6,000. We hope that we can keep the traction going for this effort."
The idea for the station came out of a student petition asking Seattle Central College to offer more support to the students, faculty, and staff at Seattle Central College who have marched since the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. Student leaders met with the student organizing the petition, Jade Linton, to see what the ASC could offer.
"In our first meeting he brought up the idea of creating an aid station at SCC south plaza," said Camila Christensen, a member of the ASC. Christensen and Harris then approached Seattle Central College President Sheila Edwards Lange, who gave them permission to use the location in the south plaza for an aid station.
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Cut your ironing time by putting a piece of aluminium foil under the ironing board cover. The foil would reflect heat so you'd actually be ironing from both sides at once.
Progress from articles or garments needing the lowest temperature to those requiring the highest.
For a perfect fit, place your ironing board cover on the board while it's still damp, and let it dry in place.
To avoid creases, place a rolled up towel in a sleeve before ironing. To prevent wrinkles, keep moving freshly ironed surfaces away from you.
To prevent collars, cuffs, and hems from puckering, iron them on the wrong side first.
Iron double-thickness fabric on the inside first, then on the outside.
Acrylic knits can stretch out of shape if moved when wet and warm. Press each section dry, and let it cool completely before moving it on the ironing board.
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Revive the nap of velvet or corduroy by pressing it right side down on a piece of the same fabric.
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Please make sure you have your reservations for the 2016 Rhino's Golf Tourney secured with Brad Vier at 761-755-4561 (or e-mail at Bvier@comcast.net). We have reached player capacity, but we do have all foursomes reserved for those that have indicated they will be there. Check with your team captain first and make sure they have the reservation, if not, call Brad.
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We are still accepting new sponsors and we can always use prize donations for our tournment to help make it the best tourney of the year.
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Hartford Trying To Take Another Step Back To The NHL
Posted on March 9, 2017 by ericthephantom Standard
As reported in January, Hartford is taking the first tangible steps to make a returned Whalers move from nostalgia and dreams back to having an NHL franchise again by proposing to upgrade the 41 year old XL Center by a $250 million renovation with seating increased to a more than adequate 19,000. When I heard about it, I wondered if it would not be better to build a brand new modern arena, provided the cost could kept at the Quebec Videotron level, of under $400 million. Costs for a new arena have been set as high as over $500 million but if Quebec can build a cheaper arena, why can't Hartford?
Whatever, whether it is a new arena or a renovated old one, what is important is that a returned Hartford Whalers is no longer dormant but has the possibility of reality. In 2010, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman made a tour of the three NHL cities that lost their teams in the 1990s, Quebec, Winnipeg, and Hartford, and outlined three reasonable conditions for returning to the league: Great fan-base (which all three cities have), a proper NHL-size arena, and acceptable ownership (no mention of a $500 million entry fee). The tour produced immediate results in Winnipeg and Quebec. Winnipeg is already back in the NHL and Quebec built the Videotron arena, but is stuck at the ownership factor.
But no response came from Hartford. The then mayor declared his support for a new arena and a returned Whalers as part of a large downtown reclamation project but no action occurred until last year's proposal for a renovated XL Center.
Now Hartford has taken another tangible step to try and get back into the NHL, but not by expansion but relocation. The target is their closest neighbor, the New York Islanders, a franchise with known arena problems.
Currently the Islanders play in probably the worst arena in the NHL, the Barclay's Center which has poor ice, the second smallest seating capacity in the NHL, and is the only NHL arena with obstructed seats for hockey. Their fans have shown how much they like the arena by giving the team the second worst attendance in the current season. The Islanders are under contract to play there for two more years but already there is talk of either moving back to their old, newly renovated home on Long Island or building a brand new, larger, modern arena in Queens.
Recently, the Governor of Connecticut and the Hartford mayor signed a letter addressed to the Islanders ownership and management proposing that the team be moved to Hartford when either renovations are completed or a new arena built. They point out that 3.1 million potential fans live within an hour's drive of the arena and that the team would now be located much closer to its farm team in Bridgeport. And they project that a renovated arena would turn a $2.1 million annual profit.
There has been no response to the letter by the Islanders. The only talk is about being committed to the Barclay's Center for the immediate future, and the possibility of the Queens arena being built.
From the NHL's viewpoint, there are three advantages to shifting the Islanders to Hartford. First it honors Bettman's 2010 promise of bringing back the three lost franchises if they meet his conditions. The second is that the Islanders move out of a bad arena into a better one. The third is that by relocating instead of expanding, the NHL would only have to add one more western expansion team to balance up the conferences and realign into an NFL type structure. And a returned Hartford would be able to renew its rivalries with the New York area teams, the Rangers and Devils, any Quebec based teams, plus possibly Buffalo, Ottawa, and Toronto and above all the Boston Bruins.
The difficulty with shifting the Islanders to Hartford is their heritage and history. Does the NHL want the only American NHL franchise to win four consecutive Stanley Cups, a feat only accomplished twice before by Montreal, and the American expansion franchise currently tied with the Pittsburgh Penguins for most Stanley Cup victories by an expansion team since 1967 to disappear? Losing a 45 year old franchise with such a glorious history like the Islanders would be damaging to the league's image and prestige. It was one thing to shift inglorious, unwanted, Atlanta to Winnipeg. It would be much tougher for the Islanders to leave.
Probably the NHL secretly would prefer the Queens arena proposal and hope everything works out. It is doubtful that the Islanders will remain in the Barclay's Center when their contract expires. But perhaps the governor and mayor have targeted the wrong Eastern Conference franchise. It would be much easier shifting inglorious Florida or Columbus, two other teams with serious attendance problems.
Also with Bettman making proposals to bring back the three lost franchises plus expanding to Las Vegas, it shows that the NHL is willing to expand past the symmetrical 32 team barrier to the next symmetrical number of 40 (2 conferences with 4 divisions each, with 5 teams to a division). And offering Hartford an expansion team instead allows the league to collect another $500 million expansion fee.
But whether if by arena renovation, or new construction, expansion or relocation, the important thing is that the Hartford Whalers are now being talked about as becoming a reality again, instead of memories and nostalgia. The important thing is that significant public officials as well as their old fans want the Whalers back. Perhaps the next tangible step will be when a suitable rich investor who believes in a returned Hartford Whalers steps forward to make that dream come true.
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Young Stars Are In The Right Cities
As The Coyotes Play… #2


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Николай Петрович Евтеев (2 мая 1912, Рязанская губерния — 5 января 2002, Тула) — мастер Тульского машиностроительного завода Министерства оборонной промышленности СССР. Герой Социалистического Труда (28.07.1966).

Биография
Родился 2 мая 1912 года в Рязанской губернии (ныне — в ).

На протяжении многих лет трудился участковым мастером инструментально-производственного цеха на Тульском машиностроительном заводе, ныне АО «Акционерная компания "Тулмашзавод"». Николай Петрович один из разработчиков мерительного режущего инструмента, штампов и пресс-форм, которые используются при изготовлении оружия.

В годы Великой Отечественной войны завод эвакуировали, Евтеев отправился работать вместе с ним на Урал. Лишь в 1946 году он вернулся в Тулу.

Закрытым Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 28 июля 1966 года ему присвоено звание Герой Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Жил в городе Тула. Умер 5 января 2002 года. Похоронен на Тульском городском кладбище № 1.

Награды
 Герой Социалистического Труда (28.07.1966)
 Орден Ленина (1966)

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Greeks are renowned for having amazing youthful looking skin, leaving so many people asking 'What's your secret?'. To think of something that represents Greece, one would without a doubt say the olive tree. Not only do we eat its fruits but we use olive oil in almost everything. We cook with it, we slather it in our hair, on our bodies and even use it on cracked heels. Traditionally an olive branch was used as a symbol of peace, and according to Hippocrates, olive oil was used for healing skin conditions, stomach problems and ear infections amongst other things; Homer even referred to it as 'liquid gold'.


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It's not as if we're asking _much_ of them.
> the $ARCH movement already.
Of course, and we currently strike a balance which is working very well.
level, before letting the affected packages get into the repository.
To require anything less than that is completely batshit insane.


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Designing the Adventure Setting
Adventure works well for a number of different genres. When deciding which one you want to play in, consider what other reference material, such as movies, television shows, and books, you have to draw on. Reference material can inspire you with adventure ideas, setting particulars, and interesting characters.
Wild West: One of the most chaotic genres, the Wild West features gun fights, chases on horseback, and the lure of hidden wealth, usually in the form of gold, but sometimes a coveted piece of land. Generally, technology is low, though weird science is possible.
Pulp Fiction: Set during World War I and World War II, the pulp fiction genre emphasizes excitement over complicated plot development, mission-oriented adventures over long puzzle-solvers. Few "civilized" people deal with magic, though technology is being developed so fast that almost anything seems possible.
Real World: The game setting is not far removed from the real world of today. Often, however, there is at least one change — maybe magic has suddenly become possible, or aliens have invaded, or the time period has changed from the twentieth century to somewhere in the past.
Super Heroes: Super hero adventures usually happen in the present or not too distant future. Special Abilities are common place, coming from scientific experiments, random mutations, weapons, equipment, training, and more.
Espionage: Plot and character development — along with lots of ultra-high-tech equipment — dominate the espionage setting. Full of secrets, and double crosses, violence is generally more subtle than in other genres, though there's still plenty of room for a car chase with big guns.
Designing the Fantasy Setting
The system and information in fantasy suits two types of fantasy subgenres: high and low. The primary difference between the two lies in the amount of magic available, which in turn affects the types of characters played and monsters encountered.
High Fantasy: Myths, legends, and magic are the keywords in a high fantasy campaign. Magic is common, ranging from every village having its own wizard or witch, to certain castes or groups limiting spell casting to their members. Often, the characters are larger-than-life heroes who are battling an even larger foe. Good and evil are living entities, and quests are popular adventure hooks.
Low Fantasy: A low fantasy world is much more "gray" than high fantasy. Magic is mysterious, and spells are difficult to cast (represented by a higher base Spell Total). Monsters are dangerous and often few and far between. Not everyone in the world is either good or evil, and the players' characters may be of mixed morality.
Designing the Sci-Fi Setting
This book offers several features common to many, but not all, science fiction settings. You, as the Game Master, need to decide what you want to include before you create your adventures. You'll also need to let your players know the details, so everyone experiences the game from a similar viewpoint.
Aliens: Aliens generally allow players to explore one or two key aspects of the human condition in depth, without actually being bound by the stereotype of "Human." However, you might decide that, though Humanity has never met any alien cultures, the Human colonists have grown so far apart that they've practically become their own species — at least culturally.
Of course, if you decide to make interstellar travel prohibitively costly or even scientifically impossible, unless the aliens come to the players, it's likely that they'll never meet another species outside of their own.
On the flip side, you could decide that Humans are the minority rather than the norm in your setting.
Cybernetics: Cybernetics allow players to have amazing Special Abilities. You might decide that you don't want to deal with that, instead ruling that the setting hasn't reached a level of technology beyond installing prosthetic devices. Or, you could take a middle ground and limit the Special Abilities available for installation with cybernetics.
Metaphysics: Extraordinary mental abilities exist as another feature that can really throw off the fun factor in a game — or it can open up new horizons. You decide on how much you feel that Humans and aliens have tapped into the power of the mind. Perhaps it's strictly random, and you randomly assign the Metaphysics attribute to one player in the group after character creation and at no additional cost (and give everyone else an extra piece of equipment as a consolation prize). Or you could limit Metaphysics to certain alien species or make it much more difficult to use than it currently is.
Space Travel: Easy access to interstellar travel means that you'll need to come up with new planets and, possibly, new alien races. You can avoid this by deciding that the society has not yet reached that level of technology. Alternatively, you can limit the speed of interstellar travel, having it take months or years to reach the next solar system. Pirates and interstellar police forces are less likely, but divergent cultures are much more possible.
If you want plenty of contact between various species and solar systems, you can make space travel faster than the default listed in this book or use a combination of the default rate plus special artificial wormholes or gates.
Scope of the Galaxy. Space can be be big and teeming with life or it can be sparse and lonely. The more you allow access to easy interstellar travel, the more fun it is for the players to regularly encounter alien and Human offshoots, lost civilizations and treasure planets, and pirates and interstellar military forces.


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India's software market to touch USD 5.1 bn by 2018: IDC
The Indian software market continues to be one of the fastest growing and dynamic markets within the APeJ (Asia Pacific excluding Japan) region, IDC said in a report.
December 19, 2017, 07:20 IST
India's software market is expected to grow at 11.9 per cent year-on-year to touch USD 5.1 billion by the end of 2018, research firm IDC said today.
"Digital transformation initiatives and the drive for application modernisation have led the growth story for the software market over the last 12 months, and are expected to attract sustained investments by Indian enterprises in 2018 as well," it added.
According to IDC, applications contributed to the bulk of the spending with a 57.3 per cent share in the first half of 2017.
This was followed by Application Development and Deployment and System Infrastructure (SI) software with shares of 24 per cent and 18.7 per cent, respectively, in the said time period.
IDC India Associate Research Manager (Software and IT Services) Sandeep Kumar Sharma said organisations across all industry verticals and segments have jumped on the digital bandwagon, resulting in spend on software like customer relationship management (CRM) to optimise their business processes and enhance customer engagement.
The report said there was an increasing thrust on security software as well -- second fastest growing software market in the country -- in the first half of 2017.
This is on account of evolving threat landscape (especially with attacks such as WannaCry and Petya) and a rise in awareness of the criticality of security to allay business risk.
"Security software investments are being contemplated with an increasing level of intensity by a large section of Indian enterprises," Sharma said.
This is indicated by sustained investments in several security software categories such as end-point security, identity and access management, and messaging security, he added.
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This is the 2nd post in a series entitled "10 Things That Will Kill Your Church's Orphan Ministry." This series is born out of several years of consulting with and observing many churches across America develop orphan care ministries. Over time, I have noticed some common mistakes that cause these ministries to struggle and even fail. Over the next few weeks, I want to share those observations with you in an effort to help and to stir a discussion about the good things being done to minister well in orphan care.
The scope of the global orphan ministry crisis creates a healthy sense of urgency in us all. Recognizing the enormity of the challenges posed by the needs of of orphaned and vulnerable children particularly the scores of children that will "age-out" of institutions this year, we can easily fall into the trap of rushing headlong into ministry without enough care or consideration.
We have to balance the urgency of the need with our capacity to do ministry well.
Alerting the church to the crisis with no plan for how to address it - Remember the old adage, "To fail to plan is to plan to fail." If you pour on the statistics and videos during Orphan Sunday but don't give the church a way to respond, all you are going to do is stir emotion and frustration. Moreover, you are teaching the church it is acceptable to be emotionally moved but inaction is equally acceptable to God.
Failing to choose partners well - I will talk more about this in week 5, but suffice to say that beginning to work with an ethically questionable partner because you rush into a ministry relationship because you "just have to do something quickly to respond to the orphan crisis" will eventually lead to problems (and possibly disaster).
Missing opportunities because the church's bandwidth is maximized - We can't do everything, and no single church is going to solve the orphan crisis. You have to be strategic about growing in doable increments. If you stretch your people and resources to their absolute maximum, you leave no freedom to respond to great unexpected opportunities for ministry that come up along the way. Always leave a little wiggle room.
Contributing to the notion that orphan care is a fad - Orphan care is a marathon not a sprint in every way. We have to be committed for the long haul. If we begin with a big splash that gains a lot of attention but is not sustainable, we reinforce the notion that orphan care is the evangelical cause of the moment. Fatherless kids have been disappointed and abandoned enough. We can't be guilty of contributing to their hurt. What we begin, we must be able to maintain.
"Slow and steady wins the race." How are you building orphan care ministry for the long haul? Let me hear from you! Comment here.