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Afghanistan: Will this be Obama's Vietnam?
Editor, August 8, 2009
US AND British military chiefs have been quick to label their July offensive against the Taliban in south east Afghanistan a "success". In reality the main achievement of the British "Operation Panther's Claw" and the US "Operation Thrust of the Sword" has been to refocus the attention of an increasingly sceptical public at home on the military quagmire and political impasse that is present day Afghanistan.
By Peter Hadden, Socialist Party
True, THE Taliban have, for now, been pushed out of some parts of their Helmand stronghold. In the main this has been because they have switched tack, retreating from direct confrontation with the superior firepower ranged against them, to concentrate on guerrilla attacks such as deadly roadside bombs. In the words of one commentator, the offensive might more accurately be described as "Operation thrust sword into the air".
The cost of the offensive to the US, British and other occupying forces has been the highest monthly casualty figures since the 2001 invasion. 75 US and NATO troops were killed in July. August has continued in the same vein with six more US soldiers killed in the first two days.
The scale of the current fighting is clear evidence of just how little has been achieved in eight years of occupation and this despite the more than $170 billion spent by the US and the £12 billion spent by Britain on this unwinnable war – and despite the almost 750 US and nearly 200 British troops that have died.
For the people of Afghanistan the cost, inevitably, has been much higher. As in Iraq, none of the occupying forces bother to keep an accurate count of the Afghan combatants and civilians who have lost their lives. The Independent on Sunday recently estimated that 30,000 have been killed. The true figure is anyone's guess. Meanwhile 3.7 million Afghans have fled into exile, mostly to Pakistan and Iran.
A failed strategy
The new offensive and the change in tactics now being attempted by the Obama administration is an admission that the strategy pursued up to now has failed. A Centre for Stategic and International Studies (CSIS) report published in July warns that Afghanistan could become "Obama's Vietnam" and concludes that: "the situation has deteriorated into a crisis where the Taliban and other jihadist movements are now winning."
To date the strategy of the occupying powers has been to try to smash the Taliban and enforce the rule of the puppet Karzai government by military means. This strategy has backfired completely. The US has relied overwhelmingly on air strikes, mortar fire and night raids to try to push the Taliban back and extend the authority of Kabul. They have also attempted an eradication programme to destroy the poppy production that accounts for 60% of the Afghan economy and provides much of the Taliban's income.
During the campaigns of the last two summers US bombers were dropping 22 tons of ordnance on Helmand every month. With this Cambodian-style assault it is little wonder that an estimated two-thirds of those killed by the pro-government forces have died as a result of air strikes.
Unremitting poverty
Meanwhile daily life for the vast majority of the population is little or no better than under the Taliban. Eight years on from the invasion and 77% of people have no access to clean water. Five out of six people living in rural areas are not connected to the electricity grid. For those who are, including those in Kabul, power is only available at fluctuating voltages for a few hours per day. Female literacy – at 18% – has barely improved on what it was under the reactionary rule of the Taliban. With 42% of the population forced to survive on less that $1 dollar per day, life for most Aghans is one of unremitting poverty.
When they first came to power, the Taliban were made up in the main of fighters trained by the Pakistan military with recruits drawn from the exile population. Having grown up in the refugee camps in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and other parts of Pakistan, they had few social roots and very little base in Afghan society.
The methods used by the occupying powers – together with the total failure of the corrupt Karzai government to improve the life of the people – have only served to broaden the base of the insurgency, with local tribes and disaffected young Afghans prepared to join the fight.
By the time Obama took office – and with Afghan presidential elections due to be held on 20 August – the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul with much of the Pashtun areas to the east and south under their effective control. The writ of the government did not run much further than the capital. Most of the territory nominally under its control was actually run by Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara and other warlords, who pay lip service to Kabul while continuing to rule and enrich themselves in their own areas.
Opium stockpiles
As for the opium eradication, the reality is that Afghanistan – Helmand in particular – has since 2005 been producing twice the world's supply, much of it now stockpiled by the Taliban to keep up the price and ensure that the $3 billion or so annual income from this crop is maintained.
Obama has responded with a change in top military personnel and a change in tactics. There is to be less reliance on air power and more on troops on the ground. The military objective is to take areas and then try to hold them and build support among the local population. Troop levels are to be increased to 100,000. But more troops on the ground and less air strikes to obliterate opposition inevitably mean more casualities. As more soldiers come home in body bags, and as opposition to this futile conflict mounts, the danger is that the war will not be lost in Helmand but on the streets of US and British cities.
The US and British governments have been forced to recognise that there can be no purely military victory. Their aim is to deal a stunning blow to the Taliban while working out some political arrangement that would "put an Afghan face on the way forward". Thus they hope that – somewhere way down the line – an exit strategy will eventually take shape.
This may look well in the Pentagon's war games rooms, but implementing it in Afghanistan is a different matter. The only "Afghan face" available at the moment is the Karzai government, and the chances that it ever could be made credible to the majority of Afghans are slender indeed. Although he was on only 15% in an early private opinion poll it is likely that Karzai will win the presidential election – but only because of the complete lack of any alternative candidate.
Hopes that a new Karzai government may be less corrupt and less inept than the present one have been dealt a blow by his decision to appoint notorious warlord, Mohammad Fahim, as his running mate.
The CSIS report advocates that, for the Kabul government to maintain control, it would need a 240,000-strong army plus 160,000 police. To date the efforts of the Coalition to build the strength of the police and army to 134,000 over three years have failed. The Kabul government is a fiction, with real power in the hands of the warlords, and the country, in reality, divided along national and tribal lines. The idea that this government can somehow acquire the authority to command a force of 400,000 seems little more than wishful thinking.
As Max Hastings, writing in the Financial Times, puts it: "If the west loses it will be for the same reason the US lost in Vietnam: 'our' Afghans may prove no more viable than were 'our' Vietnamese".
George Bush's "surge" in Iraq was, as much as anything else, a surge of money handed over to former enemies. In the Anbar area the US paid 100,000 Sunni insurgents $300 per head per month to recruit them as a peacekeeping force. Now there are reports that the Obama administration, in its attempt to split the Taliban, is considering a payment of $150 per month to up to 250,000 current fighters if they switch sides.
The Anbar initiative worked for a period in Iraq, but at the cost of possible future clashes between Sunni forces and the Shia-dominated government forces. In Afghanistan things are much less likely to go according to plan. The Pakistan government has set a precedent with a series of deals with Taliban and other Islamic militants. All have come to grief – the collapse of the deal struck with the Taliban in the Swat valley area in February is only the most recent example.
Which brings us to perhaps the biggest obstacle standing in the way of the US administration – the situation in Pakistan. Imperialist intervention in this region over several decades – going back to the support given via the Pakistan military to the mujahideen groups who fought the Russians – has regionalised this conflict.
The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a line drawn by an Englishman, Sir Mortimer Durand, in 1893 to mark the limits of Britain's military advance, not the recognition of any differences between the people of the area. Now the Pashtun areas on both sides of this line are in revolt. The Pakistan military, under US pressure, are conducting a brutal offensive against Pakistani Taliban and other Islamic groups, that, up until very recently, they had been arming and training.
The recent offensive in the Swat valley involved 40,000 troops and resulted in the displacement of two million people. These methods, if they are pursued in other Taliban strongholds in the tribal areas, threaten to create a second Afghanistan within Pakistan. Obama, while concentrating on his limited "surge" in Helmand, can find himself faced with a much wider insurgency that could pose the break up, not just of Afghanistan, but also of Pakistan.
This deepening quagmire is the legacy of decades of imperialist intervention in the region. It is the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan who are now paying the price. At present they have only the choice of military oppression by government or foreign troops, or domination by warlords or reactionary religious zealots.
An alternative is needed. All foreign troops should be immediately withdrawn from the region. It is the people of the area who must find a way out. The working class, especially the working class of Pakistan, have the key role in fighting for a socialist alternative that would unite all the oppressed across tribal, national and religious barriers.
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Q: HttpListenerException "access denied" for non-admins I have written a C# application that uses HttpListener to listen for HTTP requests -obviously! The namespace prefix I use is also registered using netsh for the current user (as suggested by everyone on SO).
The problem is despite using netsh my application still throws an "access is denied" exception for non-admin users. The OS is Windows 7.
Update: It appears as though my application is not executing the netsh command when I run it with a non-admin user. Is there any problems with my code? There are no exceptions thrown.
    AddAddress("http://localhost:8400/", Environment.UserDomainName, Environment.UserName);

    HttpListener _listener = new HttpListener();
    _listener.Prefixes.Add("http://localhost:8400/");
    _listener.Start();

    ...

    /** method stolen from an SO thread. sorry can't remember the author **/
    static void AddAddress(string address, string domain, string user)
    {
        string args = string.Format(@"http add urlacl url={0}", address) + " user=\"" + domain + "\\" + user + "\"";

        ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo("netsh", args);
        psi.Verb = "runas";
        psi.CreateNoWindow = true;
        psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
        psi.UseShellExecute = true;

        Process.Start(psi).WaitForExit();
    }

A: The line that I use when I'm doing an HttpListener is:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8008/ user=Everyone listen=yes

The user can be an individual user or a user group. So if you want only Administrators to have access, for example:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8008/ user=Administrators listen=yes

You can get help on the command:
netsh http add urlacl help

Note that the url= is optional. Also, older versions of the command require true or false for the listen parameter. Current versions use yes or no.

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La gare de Cents-Hamm est une gare ferroviaire luxembourgeoise de la ligne 3, de Luxembourg à Wasserbillig-frontière, située sur le territoire de la ville de Luxembourg, elle dessert les quartiers de Cents et Hamm, dans le canton de Luxembourg.

C'est une halte ferroviaire mise en service en 1993 par la Société nationale des chemins de fer luxembourgeois (CFL). Elle est desservie par des trains Regional-Express (RE) et Regionalbunn (RB).

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à  d'altitude, l'arrêt de Cents-Hamm est située au point kilométrique (PK) 3,150 de la ligne 3, de Luxembourg à Wasserbillig-frontière, entre les gares de Luxembourg et de Sandweiler - Contern.

Histoire

Le point d'arrêt de Cents-Hamm est mis en service en 1993 par la Société nationale des chemins de fer luxembourgeois (CFL).

La gare est réaménagée dans le cadre de la pose de la seconde voie entre Luxembourg et Sandweiler (quais reconstruits et déplacés d'une centaine de mètres, ascenseurs) à partir de 2016. Les travaux s'achèvent le  par la mise en service du nouveau pôle d'échanges intermodal sur le nouveau pont-route.

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
Halte CFL, c'est un point d'arrêt non géré (PANG) à accès libre. Elle dispose d'abris et d'automates pour l'achat de titres de transport.

Desserte
Cents-Hamm est desservie par des trains Regionalbunn (RB) qui exécutent les relations suivantes :
 Ligne 30 : Luxembourg - Wasserbillig - Trèves-Hbf.

Intermodalité
Un parc pour les vélos (6 places) y est aménagé, tandis que le stationnement de véhicules est difficile à proximité. Les lignes 7, 15, 25 et 29 des autobus de la ville de Luxembourg et les lignes 302, 411, 421, 422 et 502 du Régime général des transports routiers desservent la gare.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste de gares au Luxembourg
 3, Luxembourg - Wasserbillig-frontière

Liens externes

 Site rail.lu : Gare Cents-Hamm

Ligne 3 (CFL)
Gare à Luxembourg
Gare mise en service en 1993

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BI-LAWS OF THE WENONAH SWIMMING CLUB
WENONAH SWIMMING CLUB, INC. P. O. BOX 204 WENONAH, NJ 08090
Adopted 7/30/1989 Revised 7/1/1990 Revised 7/4/1993 Revised 4/16/2013 Revised 2/17/2015
BY-LAWS OF THE WENONAH SWIMMING CLUB
The name of the Club shall be Wenonah Swimming Club. The mailing address of the Club is P. O. Box 204, Wenonah, New Jersey 08090.
ARTICLE II
PURPOSE: The purpose for which this Club is formed is to establish and maintain a private club for the athletic, recreational and social enjoyment of its members and in pursuance thereof to construct, own, and operate a swimming pool and other recreational facilities, together with such incidental objects as we are appropriate in the conduct of its activities in the Borough of Wenonah, County of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey for the exclusive use of its members and their guests.
SECTION 1. The Club shall be managed by a Board of Trustees consisting of nine (9) members, who shall take office at a regular re-organization meeting to be held no sooner than October 1st or later than October 15th of each year.
SECTION 2. Three trustees, together with any other candidates for unexpired terms, shall be elected each year from among the adult members as defined hereinafter, exclusive of special members.
SECTION 3. The trustee's term of service shall be three years.
SECTION 4. Any member of the Board of Trustees who shall cease to be a member of the Club shall automatically cease to be a member of the Board of Trustees.
A). There shall be a Nominating Committee to be composed of five members of the Club. Two members shall be elected at the Annual Election Meeting of the Club; the other three shall be elected by the Board of Trustees, from among the Trustees. A vacancy occurring among the two club members shall be filled by the remaining members. A vacancy occurring among the three Trustee members shall be filled by the Trustees.
B). The Nominating Committee shall nominate the candidates for the vacancies in the Board of Trustees to be filled at the Annual Election Meeting and two candidates for the next year's Nominating Committee and shall report such nominations to the Secretary on or before August 15th.
SECTION 6. Independent nominations of candidates for the vacancies on the Board of Trustees for election a the Annual Meeting may be made by a letter; signed by twenty-five (25) adult members and delivered to the Secretary at least seven days before the Annual Election Meeting.
SECTION 7. A copy of the Annual Budget will be mailed with the notice for the Annual Meeting, that is held the 1st Sunday in December. If a quorum does not attend said Annual Meeting to vote on the Budget the Board of Trustees may assume that the Budget has been ratified by the membership.
ARTICLE IV
SECTION 1. Consistent with these BY-Laws, the Board of Trustees shall have the authority to:
A). Transact all Club business and make and amend rules for the regulation of the use of Club property. It may appoint and remove such clerks, agents, servants, vendors, or employees as it may deem necessary and may fix their duties and compensations.
B). Approve applications for membership.
C). Enforce, impose and establish penalties for violations of these BY-Laws and rules for the Club.
D). Elect officers from its own members at the annual reorganization meeting or as necessary.
E). Fill vacancies of the Board of Trustees until the next regular election with preference given to unsuccessful candidates from the immediate preceding election.
F). Act on an emergency basis and take necessary steps for the protection of the Club property. All such action shall be reported to the membership within thirty (30) days of said action.
G). Fix the terms and conditions upon which guests of members may use the facilities of the Club not inconsistent with these BY-Laws.
SECTION 2. The Board of Trustees shall designate the bank or banks in which the fund of the Club shall be deposited and determine the manner in which checks, drafts, and other instruments for the payment of funds of the club shall be executed. However, the Board of Trustees shall always require that at least two officers sign all checks, drafts, or other instruments for the payment of money drawn in the name of the Club.
SECTION 3. The Board of Trustees shall cause the books of the Club to be audited annually by auditors selected by the Board of Trustees, who shall neither be a Trustee, officer of the Club, or their relative, but who shall be a member of an independent public accounting firm which shall be engaged to perform such audit no later than September 1st of each year and said audit shall be completed and filed with the Board of Trustees no later than November 15th. The report of the auditor shall be available for the Annual Meeting and shall otherwise be available to the members at all times at the Club facility or upon the forwarding of the self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Club office. The form of audit shall be a review audit borne by that member unless it can be shown that the audit contains substantial discrepancies, in which case, any member can request (in writing) that a full and formal audit be performed and the Club/Board of trustees shall be responsible therefore. If no substantial discrepancies are shown by the formal audit the cost of the audit shall be paid by the requesting club member(s).
SECTION 4. Regular public meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be held at least once per month and at such other times and intervals as the Board may deem necessary. No action may be taken except at a public meeting. The Board of Trustees shall publish an annual list of meeting by the Annual Meeting. Minutes of all meetings shall be full and complete and shall be made available at the next regularly scheduled meeting and shall be made available at the Club office or upon the forwarding of a self- addressed, stamped envelope to the Club address. The term published shall be by written newsletter or other written means.
SECTION 5. Five members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum.
SECTION 6. The Board of Trustees shall not be authorized to borrow any funds without the approval of two-thirds of the vote of the membership entitled to vote and present in person at the Annual Meeting or a special meeting called for such purposes.
SECTION 7. The Annual Meeting shall be held on the first Sunday in December of each year, at which time the membership shall approve the budget and set the amount
of the annual dues for that fiscal year. The budget submitted by the Board of Trustees at the Annual Meeting must be a balanced budget.
SECTION 8. The Board of Trustees shall, at its Annual Reorganization Meeting, adopt a temporary four-month (October-January) operating budget. This budget shall be limited to providing payment of the following:
A). Fourth Quarter real estate taxes; (November) B). Monthly payments of principal and interest of any outstanding debts; C). Utility bills (electric, telephone, water/sewer); D). Miscellaneous bills outstanding or to be incurred during the four month period which shall in the aggregate not exceed 2% of the previous year's total budget;
E). Funds may not be expended for any other purpose until the full year's formal budget is approved by the membership.
F). Should the budget not be approved prior to January 31st, then the budget for the year shall be 90% of the previous year's budget.
SECTION 9. The Board of Trustees shall, at the Annual Meeting, present a detailed, minimum 60 line month by month, balanced budget for approval by the membership. The budget shall include both revenue and expense projections for the current fiscal year. The revenue projections will include estimates for proposed dues (with costs of certificate holder, spouse, and other income as determined by the Board. Expenses will include all estimated costs necessary for operation of the Club for the fiscal year as well as minor and/or major capital expenditures. The format shall follow the sample budget attached to these BY-Laws.
SECTION 10. Any Trustee may be removed from office by a majority of the members entitled to vote present and in person at either an Annual Meeting or at special meetings called in accordance with these BY-Laws.
SECTION 11. All Trustees are required to attend meeting regularly. Should any Trustee fail to attend three consecutive meetings or attend a minimum of ten meetings in a twelve-month period, except for reasons of illness, said seat shall be declared vacant by a majority of the Board of Trustees.ARTICLE V
SECTION 1. The officer of this Club shall be: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and if deemed necessary by the Board of Trustees, an Assistant Secretary and/or Assistant Treasurer. The President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected annually by he Board of Trustees from its membership following the Annual Election Meeting of the Club. The Assistant Secretary an/or Assistant Treasurer, who need not be member of the Club, shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees and hold office at its pleasure.
SECTION 2. The President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Club. Said person shall preside at all meetings of the members and directors; that person shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Trustees are carried out; that persons shall execute all contracts; that person shall have general superintendent and direction of all other officers and shall see that their duties are properly performed and that person shall be ex- officio, a member of all standing committees an shall have the powers, duties and management usually vested in the office of president of a corporation; that person shall appoint, subject to the confirmation by the Board of Trustees, all standing committees, designating the chairman thereof, and all special committees as may be deemed necessary.
SECTION 3. The Vice President, in the absence or disability of the President shall act in their stead. The Vice president may also be appointed to any committee and shall be eligible to be chairman of any committee.
SECTION 4. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees as one of the members, and act as clerk thereof. That person shall record all votes and minutes of all proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose, affixing the corporate seal thereto where necessary, that person shall, when required, perform a like service for all standing committees: that person shall send notices of all meetings to the members and to the Board of Trustees and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Trustees or the President, under whose supervision that person shall operate. That person shall be the custodian of the corporate seal and all of the books and records of the Club, except as may be otherwise provided.
SECTION 5. The Treasurer, under the direction of the Board of Trustees, shall collect the revenues of the Club, shall have charge of its funds, and shall deposit the same in the name of the Club in depositories designated by the Board of Trustees. That person shall pay all vouchers or orders properly attended and approved by the Board of Trustees and shall make a complete and accurate report of the finances of the Club at each Annual Meeting of the members and at each regular meeting of the Board of Trustees and shall perform such other duties pertaining to his or her office as may be assigned by the Board of Trustees or by the President. Such person shall be bonded in such amount as my determined by the Board. No bill shall be paid without the specific approval of the Board of Trustees.
TREASURER'S RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. By November 10th have met with Club's Finance Committee for the purpose of reviewing and preparing a detailed minimum 60 line, 12 month (month by month) budget for recommendation to the Board. 2. Prepare for presentation a twelve-month detailed recommended budget for
the fiscal year at the November Board meeting. 3. Present the Board-recommended budget at the Annual Meeting. 4. Prepare for presentation to the September Board meeting a proposed
temporary budget for October-January of the upcoming year and provide a
detailed sixty line, month by month budget statement for the current fiscal year. The statement should be historically accurate for the first eleven months (October-August) and include a best efforts estimate for the month of September. 5. Maintain and report monthly the balance of all checking and escrow
accounts, specifically including:
a. Bond receipts and repayments; b. Bond applications fees; c. Improvements/Renovations; d. Activities; e. Swimming and Dive Teams
ARTICLE VI
SECTION 1. All meetings shall be held in accordance with Robert's Rules of Order.
A). The Annual Meeting of the Club shall be held on the first Sunday of December of each year as such place and time as the Board of Trustees may determine. The meeting shall be held with no less than thirty (30) days notice by mail to each perpetual member.
B). The Annual Meeting shall be for the purpose of presenting committee reports, approval by the membership of the budget, approval of the dues and for the transaction of such other business as may be indicated in the notice or may be brought before it.
SECTION 3. Special meetings of the Club may be called at anytime by the Board of Trustees. Also, upon the written request of the fifty (50) voting members to the Secretary, stating the purpose for which a special meeting is to be called. No other business shall be transacted thereat. Written notice of any such special meetings must be mailed to the membership.
SECTION 4. Special meetings may be called by the Board of Trustees during the pool season, while the Club is in active operation, by the posting of such notice in two conspicuous places at the Club, one of which must be the notice. This provision shall negate the necessity for mailing as above while the Club is in active operation.
SECTION 5. Only certificate holders and adult members above the age of twenty-one at the time of the meeting to be attended in good standing in the Club, exclusive of special members, shall be entitled to vote at meetings of the Club. A maximum of two votes for each certificate shall be permitted. Voting may be by voice vote, however ten or more voting members present shall have the right to demand voting by roll call. No proxy votes are permitted.
SECTION 6. Twenty-five voting members, present in person, shall constitute a quorum at all Club meetings.
SECTION 7. Whenever in these BY-Laws notice to certificate holders is required, the mailing of such notices to the last known address of the certificate holder shall constitute notice. Such mailing shall be by regular mail.
SECTION 8. Special meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be called by the Secretary upon the request of the President, or on the request of any three members of the Board.
ARTICLE VII
SECTION 1. The standing committees shall be: Pool, Buildings, Grounds, Activities, Membership, Finance, Rules/BY-Laws, Personnel, and Swim/Dive Teams.
SECTION 2. The duties and powers assigned in these BY-Laws to the Standing Committees shall be subject to the authority of the Board of Trustees. Each committee shall be chaired by a member of the Board of Trustees and as many of the members in good standing as may desire shall be members of each committee.
SECTION 3. The pool committee shall exercise supervision over the pool, shall attend to the improvement and maintenance of the pool and operating equipment.
SECTION 4. The Buildings committee shall exercise supervision over the buildings, shall attend to the improvement and maintenance of the buildings operating equipment.
SECTION 5. The Grounds committee shall exercise supervision over the grounds, shall attend to the improvement and maintenance of the grounds and its operating equipment.
SECTION 6. The Activities Committee shall prepare the program of activities and entertainment.
SECTION 7. The Membership Committee, in accordance with Article VIII, shall investigate and report to the Board of Trustees upon the qualifications of applicants for membership. The Membership Committee shall further keep record of bond resignations in accordance with their date of receipt so that certificate repayments can be made to those oldest resignees first upon the receipt of bond funds from new applicants. The Board of Trustees, at the reorganization meeting of the Board, shall point two members of the club who shall constitute a Membership Committee for the ensuing year. It shall be the duty of this committee to meet from time to time in the case of vacancies of the
membership of the club, to consider applications for membership in the Club and to recommend applicants to the Board for membership.
SECTION 8. The Finance Committee shall assist the Treasurer in preparation of the annual and temporary budget for submission to the Board and approval by the membership and shall review the financial transactions of the club.
SECTION 9. The Rules/By-Laws Committee shall prepare rules of health, safety and good conduct in connection with the operation of the pool and its facilities. In addition, said committee shall review the BY-Laws of the Club from time to time and make such recommendations as may be necessary to the board of Trustees for amendment to these By-Laws.
SECTION 10. The Personnel Committee, consisting of Trustees and the Pool Manager, shall be responsible for the hiring, supervision, and dismissal of personnel necessary for the operation of the pool and facilities. This committee shall review the Pool Manager's daily log.
SECTION 11. The Swim/Dive Team shall be responsible for organizing swim team functions and fund raisers. All funds so obtained shall be deposited in a separate escrow account for the uses of the swim/dive team and its operation and expenses.
SECTION 12. The Chairman of each committee shall be responsible for budgetary appropriations and expenditures of his her committee and shall report monthly to the Board as to the status thereof.ARTICLE VIII
SECTION 1. Membership in the Club shall consist of individuals who shall fall within one of the following classes:
A). Perpetual Member – An individual adult admitted to membership upon favorable action by the Board of Trustees as a holder of a certificate of interest in the Club.
B). Active Annual Member – Any adult (age 21 or older member of the immediate household of a Perpetual member for whom application for membership is made by the Perpetual member.
C). Junior Member – Any dependent member of the immediate household of a Perpetual member for whom application for membership is made by the Perpetual member.D). Special Member – Any family member of a Perpetual member not residing in the immediate household of the Perpetual member, or any other person whose application for special membership is approved by the Board of Trustees in accordance with established standards for membership.
SECTION 2. Candidates for membership shall be personally known and recommended by at least two members in good standing of the Club. The Board of Trustees shall vote upon each applicant recommended by the Membership Committee, and shall confer membership only upon those applicants who shall be approved by the majority of the Board.
SECTION 3. Any member of the Club may withdraw from membership at any time but without waiver or refund of dues for the current fiscal year unless the bond holder shall have notified the Board of Trustees of intended withdrawal in writing prior to October 1st for the ensuing fiscal year. When notice is properly received by the Club, the resignee's name will be duly registered on the Club's official list of resignees and recorded chronologically in date order received based on the postmark date of the notice.
SECTION 4. Perpetual Members with their account in good standing may petition the club to transfer their bond at any time to any prospective new member. They may do so by sending written notice to the Club office stating the name and contact information of the individual who would like to become the new Perpetual Member. The prospective new member, if approved, then becomes responsible for all dues and assessment obligations.
SECTION 5. Perpetual Members may withdraw from membership and request that their certificate be transferred at the Board established value at any time by tendering formal written notice to the Club sent to the Club office at Box 204, Wenonah, New Jersey 08090. No other form or method of resignation, oral or written, no matter how or to who tendered is acceptable.
SECTION 6. All bonds will be transferred and resignees repaid on a first-in/first- out basis from subsequent bond sales to newly approved members. Bond repayments will be made by the Club a minimum of once each fiscal year by August 30th. The Club shall not be responsible for repurchase of any certificates, but will act strictly as a non compensated broker in this regard.
SECTION 7. All funds obtained from the purchase of bonds shall be deposited with the Treasurer in a separate trust account, to be utilized ONLY for the purpose of paying certificate holders who have resigned in good standing.
SECTION 8. Failure of any member to pay dues, late charges, or assessments as requested, or to withdraw from membership in accordance with these BY-Laws, will result in said member or any person obtaining benefits under his certificate, a denial of participation in any Club activity and shall be prohibited from using any Club facility and otherwise being a member in good standing.
SECTION 9. Any member may, for cause and after having been given an opportunity for a hearing before the Board of Trustees, be suspended for a period not exceeding three months by a two-thirds vote of the entire Board, or expelled by a three-
fourths vote thereof. Cause for suspension or expulsion shall, in general, consist of violation of these BY-Laws or of the Rules of the Club, or of conduct unbecoming a lady or gentlemen.
SECTION 10. The Board may delegate to the Pool Manager the power to suspend, or deny Club privileges to any member for the violation of Club Rules and Regulations, provided such suspension or denial does not exceed seven days. Any person so suspended shall have the right of appeal to the Board of Trustees. A report of such action containing reasons therefore must be submitted by the Manager to the President and/or the Board of Trustees within twenty-four (24) hours. A permanent record of such suspension or denials shall be kept in the Manager's daily (log) report. Pending appeal, a suspension shall not be effective.
SECTION 11.
A). All classes of members of the Club shall be accorded the facilities of the Club, subject to the pool rules and regulations which shall be posted at all times.
B). The Board of Trustees at it's discretion, may extend the privileges of the Club to any person or persons.
C). The Board of Trustees shall fix the terms and conditions upon which guest members may use the facilities of the Club.
D). Any property of the Club broken or damaged by a member of any class, or guest can have no claim against the Club, for the property of members of any class, or any guest, which may be brought into or left in the Club buildings, or on the grounds.
E). The Club assumes no responsibility, and members (of any class) or their guests can have no claim against the Club, for the property of members of any class, or any guest, which may be brought into or left in the Club buildings, or the grounds.
F). The Club assumes no responsibility, and members (of any class) or their guests can have no claim against the Club, for any accident or injury to any person or their property.
G). The number of perpetual member certificate holders of the Club shall be established at not more than 350.
ARTICLE IX
SECTION 1. Dues shall be established at the Annual Meeting in December by the membership upon approval of the budget. The Board of Trustees shall establish fees for special members and guests for the ensuing year, which fees shall be announced at the Annual Meeting of December 1st.
SECTION 2. All dues to be payable as follows:
A). Billing will consist of a set of equal monthly payments beginning on or about October 1st with the last payment being due on or about April 1st.
B). The April 1st payment may be larger or smaller than all other payments if the structure of the membership has changed, i.e.: Bondholder and spouse has become a single family bondholder, a family member is added or subtracted, etc.
C). All dues must be paid in full no later then April 15th.
SECTION 3. Failure to pay dues, fees and/or assessments pursuant to the BY- Laws shall result in a late fee in the amount of $50.00 for each thirty (30) days delinquency or any part thereof. At such time as the late fees exceed the value of the Certificate or June 1st, whichever is sooner, the Certificate shall be forthwith forfeited to the Club and the Club shall have no further responsibility for the transfer thereof for the benefit of the former certificate holder. The Club may dispose of said certificate in any fashion that it sees fit.
SECTION 4. No dues, fees, and/or assessments nor any part thereof shall be refunded in the event the Club is required to suspend its operations for any period.
SECTION 5. In the event of failure of any class of member to pay any dues, fees, and/or assessments within the time stipulated by these BY-Laws, said member will forfeit all rights and privileges and the use of the Club facilities until final payment of all charges.SECTION 6. The Board of Trustees shall also provide for application fees to be payable by all candidates for membership to the Club. Application fees shall be no- refundable upon approval by the Board of Trustees.
ARTICLE X
A). Each person who acts as Trustee or Officer of the Club shall be indemnified by the Club against expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him in connection with the defense or any action, suit or proceeding in which he is made a party by reason of his being or having been a Trustee or Officer of the Club, except in relation to matters as to which he shall be adjudged in such action, suit or proceeding to be liable for gross negligence or willful misconduct in performance of his duties.
B). The right of indemnification provided herein shall inure to each Trustee and Officer referred to in the above paragraph, whether or not such individual is a Trustee or Officer at the time such costs or expenses are imposed or incurred, and in the event of his death, shall extend to his legal representative.
SECTION 2. Any questions as to the meaning or proper interpretation of any of the provisions of these BY-Laws shall be determined by the Board of Trustees or by a two-thirds majority of the membership.
SECTION 3. Whenever mention is made herein as to the age of members, excepts as otherwise set forth in these BY-Laws, it shall be the age attained by April 1st of the current year.
SECTION 4. These BY-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of these members entitled to vote present in person at any meeting of the club, provided at least seven days notice of such amendment by mail shall be given to each member.
SECTION 5. No perpetual member or member of his household shall be entitled to own more than one certificate.
SECTION 6. The Board of Trustees shall be prohibited from selling, conveying, or otherwise disposing of the capital assets of the Club in excess of $1,000.00 per year in aggregate without approval of two-thirds of the entire membership in writing.
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Q: What tense is this sentence? The room is filled with a lot of junks.
What kind of tense is this?

A: This is present tense of the verb to be .

The room is filled with [full of] a lot of junk [note: singular].

Past tense:

The room was filled with a lot of junk.

Less ambiguous present tense:

The room is full of a lot of junk.

A: It is the present tense (is) used with the past participle for the passive voice.

The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence.
Example: The passive voice is used frequently.
Sometimes we use the passive voice because we don't know or do not want to express who performed the action.

That last sentence seems to described your example. We don't know (or don't care) who filled the room, just that it is (now) filled.
p.s. "junk" is uncountable so it should be "filled with junk" not "junks"


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Overwhelming voter passage of Mendocino County Measure V!
When we wrote to you at this time last year we were still gathering signatures for the placement of what became Measure V on the Mendocino County ballot. Since then Forests Forever collected over 1100 signatures of the total 4900-odd submitted— over one-fifth of the total.
We recruited volunteer signature gatherers and after the measure qualified we identified sympathetic voters, by phone and in the field, and conducted get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organizing on Election Day.
"Hack and squirt" was being practiced on a landscape scale in Mendocino County, mainly by Mendocino Redwood Co. (MRC), which had poisoned over five million trees since 2012.
"Hack and squirt" is a forestry procedure in which a worker chops or saws an incision into the bark of a tree and applies herbicide to the open wound, killing the tree.
MRC has been poisoning millions of hardwoods—primarily tanoak—and leaving them standing in the forest. The reason: to make way for its next crop of more-lucrative redwood trees.
The chief herbicide it uses is Imazapyr, banned in Europe, where it is deemed "harmful to aquatic organisms... (and) may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment."
When the votes were counted Measure V had won handily, with some 16,300 yes votes of over 26,000 cast.
Since then, however, MRC has dragged its feet. Despite the electorate's strong expression of opinion against the tree-poisoning practice, MRC recently made it known that it continues to use "hack and squirt" on its holdings, which total some 227,000 acres in Mendocino and Sonoma counties.
Litigation may be the next stop. Moreover, if the company defies the strongly expressed will of the voters it does so at considerable risk to its goodwill in the community.
It's time to turn up the heat on MRC! Please write a letter to one or more North Coast newspapers today and tell them you expect to see MRC obey the will of the people and comply with Measure V!
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Teaser Poster for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios have just unveiled the teaser poster for their upcoming sequel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Set to star Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Frank Grillo, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Maximiliano Hernández, Robert Redford and Georges St-Pierre, the story picks up where Marvel's The Avengers left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C.
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters on April 4, 2014.


We had beautiful warm and sunny weather for my Sunday morning photo shoot this week, and this meant that there was lots of insect activity.
In particular, the Butterflies (Lepidoptera) were out in force, with this meeting with a Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io) resulting in my favourite shot this week.
This particular Peacock was looking a bit ragged and faded, but he still seemed to be enjoying zooming around dad's garden collecting pollen from here, there and everywhere!
...as was this Speckled Wood Butterfly (Pararge aegeria).
There were plenty of Flies (Diptera), although most of them were resting in sunny spots, readying themselves for a day of buzzing around.
While most Flies chose leaves, this hairy chap seemed content to sun himself on the petals of an Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare).
I was pleased to see that there were an abundance of Hoverflies (Syrphidae) back after the winter break. I hadn't seen so many recently, but it seems they were waiting for the right time to return.
I hadn't seen one of these Stretch Spiders (Tetragnatha) in quite a while either, and was glad to come across one hiding in the tall grasses behind the greenhouse.
When I was a kid, we used to call this Cuckoo Spit, because it coincided with hearing the first call of the Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). However, it has nothing to do with Cuckoo's, and is actually what a Froghopper (Cercopoidea) nymph uses to protect itself from predators.
Talking of predators, I wish there were a few more Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) to rid both mine and my dad's garden of these little Greenfly (Aphid) menaces.
Despite it being a mostly bright and beautiful day, when it clouded over for a while, there was still something colourful to shoot, with a family of Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) regularly passing across my lens.
When the blue skies returned, ironically, there was something black and white to photograph, with a flock of Black Headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) hunting down scraps from neighbouring gardens.
This Blackbird (Turdus merula) was on high alert, and was feeding her young who had taken up residence in a Camellia bush next to the garage.
While this juvenile Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) was quite comical to watch as it wrestled with a piece of bread that it obviously thought was a worm.
This House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) looked on from the Firethorn (Pyracantha) bush, waiting for the coast to be clear before swooping down to the lawn to collect some crumbs.
New blooms to dad's garden this week included this Climbing Hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala) blossom, which was attracting quite a few insect admirers.
We've already seen a Greenfly enjoying one of these pretty Geranium blooms, but luckily, not all of them had a green coloured passenger.
The Oxalis had also begun to come into flower, and was looking particularly beautiful.
Finally in dad's garden, his Queen Elizabeth Rose (Rosa) had once again begun producing flowers.
Over in my own garden, I had a Rose of my own on show, and this one is variety 'Sweet Dream', and eventually opens up into a lovely mass of apricot coloured petals.
My Portuguese Squill (Scilla peruviana) was almost beginning to show in all her glory, but wasn't quite there yet.
I had a number of Foxgloves (Digitalis) bursting into bloom, with this one being my favourite at the moment.
I was pleased to see the return of my Verbascum 'Southern Charm', although it seems to have returned with a slightly darker colour this year.
I'm absolutely amazed to see this Granny's Bonnet (Aquilegia) 'Black Barlow' return, as those who have followed my gardening experiences will know, I'm hopeless at keeping these plants alive - while everyone else complains that they grow like weeds!
Finally for this week, my Larkspur (Delphinium) plants were putting on a magnificent display, and looked stunning against my black painted fence.


Berlin artist Sebastian Mögelin collages cut-outs of the media and society with portraits of single tragic individuals. In combination quirky and bitter scenes as well as stories of pseudo-glamour and Berlin urban life emerge.
Mögelin makes use of his painting techniques like set pieces, which support and strengthen the composition. The result are collages in a mixed media technique on canvas and printed plexiglass, respectively paper collages on acrylic glass in white wooden boxes, back-lit with program-controlled LEDs.


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Q: Connecting to FTPS server from EC2 instance I have a PHP script running on my EC2 instance which uses cURL to connect to a remote FTPS server on port 990. When I run the script in local or in my other production server, the script runs without problems but from EC2 I only get the message
"Failed to connect to aaa.bbb.ccc port 990: Connection refused".

I checked inbound and outbound rules for the instance's security group, created new rules, allowed all traffic, tested different combinations, etc. I even created a new security group exclusively with rules for allowing inbound and outbound traffic, but it's not working.
I don't know if besides the security group rules there is something else I have to configure. I don't know what else can I check. Normally, when I wanted to access through SSH to my EC2 instance I only had to configure the inbound rule with my IP and that all, but with this I'm a bit lost.
Thanks in advance for your help!


Health minister Andy Burnham will host a webchat this afternoon to answer questions from the public.
The chat will focus on his experiences and observations from the seven days he spent shadowing a variety of frontline NHS staff last year.
Health secretary Andy Burnham has been called on to keep up momentum on NHS reform.


One of Wailea's newest jewels, the Kai Malu at Wailea is Maui living at its finest. One hundred and fifty 2-plex condo units atop 25 meticulously manicured acres in one of Hawaii's most sought-after areas will please even the most discriminating buyer. It provides an excellent value for those in the luxury real estate market. The Wailea Blue course surrounds this gated community, which offers many high-end amenities, to include a 75-foot long infinity pool, a spa, sauna, walking paths, community center and fitness room. The community center is aptly named Hale Nanea, which is loosely translated to "House to lounge in peace and pleasure". Homes are situated along a view 'horseshoe' in order to maximize every home's view corridors, ambiance, and privacy.


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AerinX
Kecskemét, 2018
Aviation is an industry highly optimized and defined by cost-effectiveness, where minutes of delay can result in thousands of dollars of loss for an airline. Airplane utilization is high and the aim is to maximize time spent in the air. AerinX developed a cutting edge solution that revolutionizes the way skin inspection is carried out for airplanes.
www.aerinx.com
ChatBoss
Győr, 2018
Chatboss Ltd has built a modular platform which enables to create and host AI based chat assistants for large enterprises in Hungarian or in English language to support customer service or corporate education or to support colleagues in on-boarding process. The platform has its own NLU and low-code chatbot building capability and an interface to enable the management of chatbots.
GreenVill develops and utilises optical networks for telecommunicational purposes.
Mathiász Innopark
Mathiász Innopark is an innovation center and industrial business incubator in Balatonvilágos. Besides being an innovation center, Mathiász Innopark offers its mobile homes developed by its own know-how for rent.
Mitochon Technologies
Orosháza, 2018
Mitochon Technologies develops small molecules to treat mitochondrial, orphan diseases. The company's lead molecule is in phase 2 clinical trial.
Neumann Diagnostics Kft.
December 2014, Pécs
Neumann Diagnostics focuses on research involving the diagnosis of endometrial cancer, and on marketing the resulting know-how. The company seeks to identify and apply biomarkers that are more successful in diagnosing the disease than the current processes.
Newstream is a news platform where the media and the news agencies can manage and extend their reporter network, and exchange news content with each other. Newstream provides a whitelabel solution for news companies with which they can track their reporters on the field, communicate with them real time, receive audiovisual reports and live streams from them. Besides the whitelabel solution, Newstream also provides a Marketplace option for companies and agencies where they can share their reporter networks with each other, resell and buy news content from each other.
Plantcraft
Plantcraft Innovations Ltd. is a plant-based protein innovator.
Offering a safe alternative to harmful processed meat products, Plantcraft created a nutrient-dense clean-label deli range, using natural plant protein, a mix of unique ingredients, without soy, gluten or additives. The initial product range includes farm-house style pate, pepperoni and hickory ham style slice.
www.plantcraft.com
Számlaközpont Zrt.
October 2010, Pécs
With its headquarters in Pécs, Számlaközpont Ltd. (Invoice Centre Ltd.) was established in the spring of 2010. The company's mission is to enable its clients to change over to electronic-based document handling as much as possible, to avoid unnecessary use of paper. The company provides complex electronic invoicing (incoming and outgoing), archiving, and related IT services to its clients.
Vudbenk Life Sciences Kft.
April 2015, Orosháza
Vudbenk Life Sciences Ltd. is researching the use of a particular molecule in the treatment of heart failure, myopathy, dystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.


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Mural brings history into public's view Mural…
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Andrew Williams poses without his shirt behind his backpack at a park near his home in Warren, Pa. AP Photo
PUBLISHED: June 20, 2007 at 7:21 a.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2021 at 2:42 a.m.
POTTSTOWN – History is taking shape on a series of murals on a former factory building behind the Pottstown Public Library.
Students from Pottstown High School, under the guidance of artist Robert Williams, have been working since October on the planning and execution of the murals, which depict scenes, figures and symbols in the history of the Pottstown area.
The mural includes numerous elements of the community's past, including a Lenni Lenape Native American paddling the Schuylkill River; a portrait of Gen. Arthur St. Clair, a one-time Pottstown resident who served as president of the Continental Congress; an apple pie to represent Mrs. Smith's Pies; and a milk bottle to represent Clover Leaf Dairy.
Sponsored by the TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc., the project encompasses six local school districts: Pottstown, Boyertown, Upper Perk, Spring-Ford, Owen J. Roberts and Pottsgrove, according to Dale Mahle, chamber president.
'The foundation has sponsored these murals as a career opportunity for the students,' Mahle said.
Joining Williams in Pottstown on a
hot afternoon Wednesday were Pottstown junior Saryn Williams; her sister, freshman Marah Williams; 2007 graduate Preston Johnson; senior Eric Evans; and senior Zach West-Ricketts.
They worked with Williams to breathe life and color into the large scenes on cinderblock portions of the former factory and bakery building that faces the library's rear parking lot.
Murals completed through the foundation's sponsorship include the one on the side of the Pottstown Farmers Market, painted by Pottsgrove students led by artist Sue Douby. Owen J. Roberts' mural, directed by Arts Sphere, was painted on the side of the Schuylkill River Greenway building. Boyertown students, working with Williams, completed their mural on the State Theatre building. Upper Perkiomen students, also working with Williams, created the historic scene on the Pennsburg Pharmacy building.
A mural by Spring-Ford Area High School students is next. The location has not been decided, Mahle said.
Harleysville National Bank, Waste Management of PA, Martin Stone Quarries, National Penn Bancshares and Susquehanna Patriot Bank are among the companies that contribute to the foundation and helped to fund the murals project.


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Colts player honors late teammate prior to MNF game
"He was truly like a brother to me."
NFLBy Reice Shipley on November 28, 2022
Prior to Monday night's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Parris Campbell was warming up in attire that paid tribute to a former teammate, Dwayne Haskins, the former Steelers quarterback who was tragically killed in a dump truck accident in April.
Campbell was one of the top receiving options for Haskins at Ohio State. The two Buckeyes were selected in the 2019 NFL Draft.
In pregame warmups on Monday, Campbell honored his late college teammate by wearing a hoodie with Haskins' face on it.
Parris Campbell paying tribute to his college teammate Dwayne Haskins 🙏
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— NFL (@NFL) November 28, 2022
Haskins' passing rocked both the NFL and college football world. Campbell spoke about Haskins to Nate Atkins of The Indianapolis Star in November.
"Dwayne has had a huge role in my life," said Campbell. "It was the bond we had, the brotherhood we had, how we grew together that entire season, how I'd seen him grow from some freshman on campus to one of the greatest to play quarterback at Ohio State. It just grew much deeper than football. He was more than a friend. He was truly like a brother to me."
While Parris Campbell came to Indianapolis with a ton of hype, he has struggled to stay healthy during his four-year tenure with the Colts.
That has changed this season, and he is undoubtedly having the best year of his career with the organization in the 2022-23 season.
He is clearly playing with a heavy heart considering the passing of Haskins, but thankfully that has not stopped him from making a real impact on this Colts team.
Campbell will look to continue his success this year in what looks like a pivotal matchup on Monday against the Steelers.
[NFL on Twitter, The Indianapolis Star]
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About Reice Shipley
Reice Shipley is a staff writer for Comeback Media that graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Sports Media. He previously worked at Barrett Sports Media and is a fan of all things Syracuse sports.
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Jones is the longest player in the Senior Bowl's 73 year history.


New Browns owner's first question: Can Brandon Weeden play?
In a strong indication of how important rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden is to the future of the franchise, new Browns owner Jimmy Haslam says the very first thing he inquired about when talking to the team's football boss, Mike Holmgren, was the progress of Weeden's development.
Haslam told the Canton Repository that when he sat down with Holmgren for the first time, he got straight to the point, and asked whether Holmgren believes the team has its quarterback of the future.
It's not surprising that Haslam didn't ask whether Colt McCoy can play — everyone in Cleveland seems to have agreed that McCoy is the past and Weeden is the present and future. It's also not surprising that Holmgren — who took Weeden with the 22nd pick in this year's NFL draft — answered that he thinks Weeden can play very well.
"He said, 'Yeah. He can throw the ball. He can throw the ball. He can play,'" Haslam relayed Holmgren saying.
Haslam also wanted to know whether the Browns' second-round draft pick, Mitchell Schwartz, will be ready to play at right tackle and give Cleveland another good starter on the offensive line along with left tackle Joe Thomas and center Alex Mack.
Haslam wouldn't say anything about the job security of Holmgren, G.M. Tom Heckert or head coach Pat Shurmur, other than it's fair to say that Haslam wants to see progress during the 2012 season.
And there would be no greater sign of progress than Weeden establishing himself as a franchise quarterback.
At least he knows a little something about football instead of an owner who probably thought the Browns were a new start up soccer team so he purchased them.
"He said, 'Yeah. I could use another $10 million per year,'" Haslam relayed Holmgren saying.
Watch out AFC North! The new Browns owner is a poker faced SHARK!
Gee whiz its only the toughest division in the NFL, no pressure!
I have a question that I hope hasn't been answered, but is he still involved with the Steelers? Did he sell his intrest in the Steelers or what? I haven't been paying attention obviously, but I was curios.
It's refreshing to finally see Cleveland get new owner-ship and start cleaning house. Holmgren was a great coach in Green Bay and Seattle where the official's stole the game from Seattle in the Super Bowl against Pittsburg, with all those F-ed up call's and flags. The whole world knows that, but it time for him to leave the front office and let the browns , become the Browns once more. Give Weeden the ball, and throw him in the fire, he's a mature QB and should be ready. Yea he's going to make mistakes, but it's time for Cleveland to make they're move, let Weeden go and clean house.
don't know the average age of PFT readers, but does anybody besides myself remember when the Browns were good? I 'm kinda hoping the Brownies get there crap together and start being a relevant franchise again, instead of the shadow of a joke it's been since coming back. It would be good for the game.
I'm old enough to remember when the Browns were good … which is one of the reasons why I'm so disgusted with what I've seen since 1999. You're exactly right, they've been an absolute joke. But for us Browns fans, it's an old, tiresome and unfunny joke.
Randy Lerner inherited the team. Nice try at being clever, though.
The Browns have had so many GM's, President's, Coaches, and of course starting QB's since 1999 it's sick.
Every 3 years it gets blown up and the new coach/gm starts from scratch with the roster.
Weinke could play in college, too.


Was able to put together something fun for Illustration Friday. More experimenting with a slightly altered technique. Kinda diggin' this direction.
I have no idea why I came up with this, but I'm liking it. It ended up being an excuse to test different pens on a larger sized piece and to play with filters on the iPhone's photo app. I'm liking the filters and the way they give a printed feel to things.
I decided to try another one, this time on white paper (the last one was on tan paper). I think overall I like using the tinted paper, then picking highlights out. It gives it a certain character that I like…sorta like an old comic on yellowed newsprint. But, aside from that, I think this came out pretty well. I'm still playing around with filters and find that I keep gravitating back to posterization. I think it's for the same reason, where it looks something like old printed comic books, and it add in some texture that I find interesting.


Handcrafted glass bead in a vibrant green-yellow with sparkles and a crosshatched surface for tactile interest. Bookcased with two Swarovski crystals and hung on a sterling silver loop along with a crystal charm dangle.
* Pendant measures almost 2 inches long.


The jury for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, National Native American Veterans Memorial has unanimously selected the design concept submitted by Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne/Arapaho) titled, "Warriors' Circle of Honor." Groundbreaking for the memorial is slated for September 21, 2019. It is slated to open late 2020.
Native Americans serve at a higher rate per capita than any other population group. Few outside the military and American Indian Nations know that Native people have served in the U.S. armed forces since the American Revolution and continue to serve today. The nation's capital is known for its grand monuments and solemn memorials, including many honoring the nation's veterans. Yet no national landmark in Washington, D.C., focuses on the contributions of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians who have served in the military since colonial times.
Pratt is a multimedia artist and recently retired forensic artist, as well as a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. His design concept is a multisensory memorial. An elevated stainless steel circle rests on an intricately carved stone drum. Listen to Pratt describe his design concept in detail. The selected design will undergo further development in partnership with the museum.
The museum worked with the National Congress of American Indians and other Native organizations to create an advisory committee composed of tribal leaders, Native veterans and their family members from across the country who assisted with outreach to Native American communities and veterans. The advisory committee and the museum conducted 35 community consultations across the nation to seek input and support for the memorial. These events resulted in a shared vision and set of design principles for the National Native American Veterans Memorial.
Mark Kawika McKeague (Native Hawaiian), director of Cultural Planning, Group 70 International Inc.
More information on the competition regulations and process is available in the Design Competition Manual: https://nmai.us.fluidreview.com/res/p/regulations/. For more information about the memorial, visit AmericanIndian.si.edu/NNAVM.
This project is made possible by the generous support of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Bank of America; Northrop Grumman; the Citizen Potawatomi Nation; the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians; Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker LLP; General Motors; Lee Ann and Marshall Hunt; the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community; and the Sullivan Insurance Agency of Oklahoma.


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If You're Happy and You Know It, Wag Your Tail: The RSPCA Builds a Modern Customer Experience powered by Vonage
The oldest and largest animal welfare charity in the UK, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), offers a modern, innovative customer experience with interactions powered by Vonage.
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Modernize, enhance and streamline the customer experience, innovate income generation and ultimately improve animal welfare - all on a tight budget
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Improved customer satisfaction by 30%, provided omnichannel advice and resources for animal welfare and introduced a new SMS option for donations
Founded in 1824, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is the oldest and largest animal welfare charity in the UK and its vision is a world where all animals are respected and treated with kindness and compassion. Its Control Center cruelty line takes over a million calls a year from the public ranging from reports of animals in crisis to questions on how to best provide care. Their staff rescue, save, care for, rehabilitate, rehome and return to the wild hundreds of thousands of animals every year – and it all starts with a call.
The Vonage Communications Platform (VCP) provides the RSPCA with a fully programmable contact center application that enables flexible, scalable, intelligent and personal omnichannel communications, incorporating purpose-built solutions including the Vonage SMS API, Intelligent Routing through Salesforce and Conversation Analyzer. To modernize the customer experience and improve outcomes through digital transformation, the RSPCA relies on Vonage.
Jacqs Harper, Customer Experience Consultant for the RSPCA explains, "Over the past year or so we've really focused on modernizing our customer experience, and we're really trying to move from quite a monochannel world to a much more omnichannel world, where we integrate our people and digital channels. We've found that Vonage has been a great partner to help us on the journey."
Flexibility to Innovate
Though the RSPCA is proud of its nearly 200 year history of service, the team was eager to update its customer experience and increase the flexibility of its solution. As a charity, it focuses on its mission – animal welfare – and needed a partner that was agile and willing to work with it in a way that was not time-consuming or costly. Its principal approach to improvement and change has been to run trials and small-scale pilots of new channels and functionalities.
Vonage provides the RSPCA with a range of communications APIs and contact center solutions that can be built, revised and integrated into its existing platform at a moment's notice to serve what it calls its "always be in beta" mindset.
"At any one point in time, we might have 10 different customer experience pilots going on where we make a change to the customer journey. One of the things that's been super helpful working with Vonage is just the level of support that we've had from our success manager," said Harper. "Rapid iterations and a 'test and learn' culture require that we meet regularly with our Vonage success manager and work in a very agile fashion."
The Vonage team has also supported the RSPCA with idea generation and problem solving. Examples of solutions built for other Vonage customers that have proven to be impactful become a "shortcut to success" for the RSPCA team.
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With more than a million calls a year to process, it's a big challenge for RSPCA to ensure that it is answering and responding to those that are most important. And as a charity with limited resources, it's very important that its contact center agents are empowered to work smarter - not harder. The RSPCA needed a communications solution that allows it to not only offer self-guided advice and solutions via Interactive Voice Response (IVR) while routing calls to the correct agent when needed, but also to provide follow up information through additional channels and touchpoints, like SMS.
For example, legally, stray dogs are the responsibility of the local council, and the RSPCA cannot respond to incidents involving them unless the dog is injured. That's information that can easily be given to people in an automated message or even a text with a link to contact the right organization. Leveraging modern technology allows the RSPCA system to sort incoming calls and separate urgent issues from those that can be addressed quickly and simply via voice or text.
With a single, integrated cloud communications platform, Vonage offered all of the tools needed to build an engaging, intelligent experience for callers and agents. Vonage's intelligent routing and deep Salesforce integration helps ensure that crucial calls are answered by the right agents, and that responses to frequently asked questions are available via IVR, while Vonage APIs allow agents to push additional resources and information to people via additional channels. The team's latest pilot test is of the Vonage Conversation Analyzer which gives the RSPCA the power to analyze and review calls to ensure that it is identifying and addressing issues as they arise. And adapting its system is made simple by the flexibility of the Vonage platform.
"One of the things that we've found very useful about the Vonage Communications Platform is that it's extremely user friendly for us to make adjustments to our own system," said Mike McCahon, Operational Services Manager at the RSPCA. "This self-reliance allows us to react swiftly as situations evolve. At the start of the COVID crisis, we were able to quickly put up messages answering questions like, how is pet care impacted by the pandemic? Is it okay to walk your dog? Should you be worried about transmission via animals? The top questions we were being asked could be swiftly recorded, posted onto our IVR, and available to the public within days.
"Similarly, Vonage enabled us to successfully navigate the COVID pandemic because it empowers remote delivery of our services. We were able to transition our several hundred agents from working in one large building to all working remotely - which meant that we kept our people safe. Thanks to Vonage, we had the power to do that practically overnight, while some of our competitors were still wondering, "How are we going to manage?"
"Throughout our partnership with Vonage, we've focused on improving experience, raising more money for the charity, collecting customer feedback and removing dead ends from customer journeys to create a better overall experience. If we do all of those things really well, it ultimately translates to better outcomes for animal welfare."
- Jacqs Harper, Customer Experience Consultant
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Feedback + Adaptation = Improved Customer Experience
Feedback and adaptation are crucial to a modern customer experience. Using the Vonage SMS API, the RSPCA has been soliciting direct customer feedback following calls, and then taking action based on what it learns.
"When I joined the RSPCA in August of last year, I realized we didn't have a mechanism for measuring how satisfied our customers were with us," said Harper. "So quite quickly, we got together a small group of RSPCA employees and our Vonage customer success manager, and we were able to deploy a small survey that allowed us to understand better the experience our customers were having. The really great news is that since we deployed that survey and we were able to get the feedback, we've actually improved our customer satisfaction by around 30 percent."
Call to Action Increases Charitable Donations
As a charity, every single penny counts - particularly during the COVID crisis. Income generation is such a focus for the RSPCA team, and it's always looking for new and better ways to connect with and encourage potential donors. The Vonage Platform has enabled the team to follow up with callers using SMS with a call to action to support the work that the RSPCA does. Now, its contact center agents can provide a memorable customer experience, and then turn that directly into lasting support for animals.
"When we started the donation SMS pilot program, the agents in our contact center were so passionate about it. They believe they're delivering a great experience and the types of people who contact us really would want to be supporters of the RSPCA," Harper explains. "So the agents started to tell callers about the fact the donation ask was coming and encourage them to look out for it and take action. To see that passion from our team just lets us know that we're on the right track, and the things that we're doing genuinely are making a difference - for our customers, for our agents, and for animals."
Partnership is Key
While the flexibility, reliability and intelligence of Vonage's solutions are valued by the RSPCA, just as important is its relationship and confidence in the Vonage team. Knowing that Vonage is a trusted communications partner allows the RSPCA to focus on what truly matters - the animals in its care.
"In the end, our whole purpose is animal welfare," said McCahon. "And like every charity, we have to make the money we have count. We need our communication systems to work well and be capable of being made better. We have the same drives as any commercial organization in terms of we want to manage our call center, we want to manage the experience of the people coming in and talking to us and we want to efficiently move information elsewhere into the organization. And Vonage has helped us do that."
Harper added, "Working with Vonage allows us to be agile and feel secure in knowing that, when we hit a roadblock, there will be a quick resolution. Hours, not days. As a business leader, that's what you're looking for. You don't really want to have to get drawn into the technical detail, you want to be confident that your experts are empowered to get things done. Vonage gives us that confidence."
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Spring, come back, it has turned cold again!!
I'm really jealous...it's been raining up here in the northeast for days now...we'll be lucky to see spring sometime this July!!! My kids are more stir crazy being stuck in the house than they were all winter...at least then they could go out sledding! Enjoy the warm weather!
I have a total photography crush with kids on grass.
Great little collage :) cute girls. Man, they are always so done up. My kids look like orphans until around noon, then things go up a few notches. lol.
So cute! I sure wish the weather here would figure out which way it wants to go! Its either really cold or then really hot or rainy!
Cute pic of your girls!
AMEN!! So happy for it to finally be here!!
Spoke too soon! Oh well, it gives me some time to get some crafting done! (w/o feeling like I need to be outside playing! :) ) I posted your vinyl giveaway today on my blog- I am so excited! Thanks again!
Darling pics! Your girls are beautiful! They have their MaMa's Smile!
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Kids can explore a real Naval submarine at OMSI.
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When I Grow Up: Portland Attractions for Career-Oriented Kids
Delight little ones who love firefighters, pilots and police officers at these educational and entertaining attractions.
When traveling with kids, the sight of someone in uniform — be it a police officer, firefighter or boat captain — can be more exciting than anything you planned. Why leave such a highlight to chance? At these Portland attractions, your little ones can walk in the shoes of their heroes for a day.
For Kids Who Love Firefighters
Historic Belmont Firehouse
Your children's wish for a fire pole at home may never come true, but they can slide down the real deal at the Historic Belmont Firehouse. Check out the century-old station's steam-powered fire wagon, then listen to actual 911 calls on an antique rotary phone. Before you leave, don't forget to sit in the cab of the real fire truck. Open every Wednesday and the second Saturday of the month; tours can be scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
For Kids Who Love Astronauts & Pilots
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
One hour southwest of downtown Portland, McMinnville's Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is home to the Spruce Goose — the largest flying boat ever built. The museum's fleet of aircraft also includes space rover replicas and an arctic rescue helicopter nicknamed the "flying banana." Your own tiny aviator can climb into the cockpits of Howard Hughes' legendary plane, a B-17 and a helicopter. Experience what it would be like to see a rocket launch in the museum's simulator (complete with shaking walls). Keep an eye out for the museum's emerald-vested volunteers, who can answer curious flight aficionados' questions. Check out their badges for clues to their interests and military ranks.
For Kids Who Love Police Officers
Portland Police Museum
Typically, a jail cell is the last place you'd want to find your kids. In this case, however, there's nothing to fear. Curious children can visit a real (but now defunct) jail in the Portland Police Museum downtown. Housed in Portland Police Bureau headquarters, the free museum includes uniforms from different eras, bad guys' fingerprints and a vintage motorcycle, complete with sidecar. Scope out vintage badges on display, then surprise your kids with one of their own. (Replicas are for sale in the gift shop — just prepare for endless games of cops and robbers when you get home!)
For Kids Who Love Sailors
USS Bl\ueback
Aspiring seamen — and women! — ages 3 and older can explore this decommissioned Navy submarine docked behind OMSI. (Tickets for submarine tours are available inside OMSI and on their website.) During the 45-minute tour, offered multiple times daily, kids can experience what it was like to serve on the Bl\ueback. That includes kicking back on a tiny bunk, spying the Willamette River through a periscope, pushing buttons in the control room and even touching a torpedo. Although naval crews lived on the vessel for months at a time, your tour lasts just 45 minutes (phew). Kids 12 and over who want to go even deeper can attend a three-hour "tech tour" led by a submarine veteran on the second and fourth Sundays of the month.
Educational Attractions
Enjoy family fun and learning in one at these local attractions.
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Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
With a planetarium, a giant-screen theater, a retired navy submarine, traveling exhibits and "After Dark" events, OMSI has lures for all ages.
World Forestry Center Discovery Museum
Tree- and forest-lovers of all ages can learn about sustainability and experience a Portland icon at the World Forestry Center Discovery Museum.
The Oregon Historical Society collection includes thousands of historic artifacts (including the "Portland Penny"), permanent and rotating exhibits and an extensive research library.
End of the Oregon Trail
At the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and Historic Site visitors can discover what it was like to be a pioneer.
Historic Sites & Features
Portland may seem like a young city, but you can still find plenty of history everywhere you look.
Oregon Rail Heritage Center
The free museum features three vintage steam locomotives, including the one that pulled the U.S. Bicentennial Freedom Train in 1976.
The West's oldest zoo, located just minutes from downtown Portland in visitor-friendly Washington Park, is home to 2,200 animals.
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Welsh slate, riven, 1000mm x 550mm x 60mm. Brough churchyard, Yorkshire.
This memorial was made for a Yorkshire man hence the Yorkshire Rose. The clients wanted something with a natural feel to it and yet simple.