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Dopo i connazionali Gunnar Nordahl, Lennart Skoglund e Kurt Hamrin, fu tra i primi attaccanti svedesi a costruire i propri successi internazionali all'estero. È considerato uno dei più forti giocatori di tutti i tempi del , che spinse con i propri gol a vincere la prima Coppa dei Campioni per una squadra olandese e due campionati nazionali.

Vita privata
Sposato con Sylvia nel 1966, dal matrimonio nacquero Ulrika Kindvall, Niclas Kindvall e Tina Kindvall. Niclas e Tina intrapresero a loro volta la carriera nel calcio. Il fratello di Ove, Kaj Kindvall, era un noto presentatore radiofonico. Anche il padre aveva giocato nell', ma non aveva mai debuttato in prima squadra.

Caratteristiche tecniche
Si mise in luce già in giovane età per le sue doti realizzative. Il suo gioco era semplice ed efficace, non aveva un fisico potente e il tiro in porta era piuttosto debole. I suoi punti di forza erano la velocità, l'intelligenza di gioco, il senso della posizione in area di rigore e l'intuito per il gol. In particolare aveva uno scatto bruciante difficile da contrastare. Quando era in forma era quasi infallibile nel trasformare in rete le occasioni che si presentavano. In Svezia non si gioca in inverno e il suo rendimento nel Feyenoord fu molto inferiore con le temperature basse e i campi ghiacciati o fangosi nei mesi invernali. Quando stava giocando male tendeva a impegnarsi maggiormente e retrocedeva a procurarsi la palla a centrocampo, ma il suo allenatore Ernst Happel lo rimandava in attacco per sfruttare il suo opportunismo sotto rete. È diventato famoso anche per i gol decisivi segnati in gare particolarmente importanti.

Carriera

Club

Norrköping

Cresciuto nelle giovanili dell', il club principale della sua città, debuttò nel massimo campionato svedese (Allsvenskan) nel maggio del 1962 nella partita tra il Norrköping e il . Fu impiegato in totale 5 volte senza realizzare alcuna rete, e a fine stagione la squadra vinse per la decima volta il titolo nazionale. Nell'ottobre di quello stesso anno Kindvall fece il suo debutto internazionale segnando il suo primo gol importante nel primo turno della Coppa dei Campioni 1962-1963 contro il Partizan Tirana.

Nell'Allsvenskan 1963 il Norrköping si confermò campione nazionale, Kindvall trovò un posto da titolare e ripagò la fiducia con 14 gol in 22 partite. Fu l'ultimo campionato svedese che vinse ma la squadra rimase comunque ai vertici e Kindvall continuò a fare progressi, nell'Allsvenskan 1964 fu secondo nella classifica marcatori con 19 gol in 19 partite. L'anno dopo fece il suo esordio in nazionale maggiore e in campionato realizzò 17 reti. Il Norrköping si piazzò secondo nell'Allsvenskan 1966, campionato nel quale Kindvall fu per la prima volta capocannoniere siglando 20 reti pur giocando solo 16 dei 22 incontri previsti. Fu venduto a stagione in corso e si congedò dai propri tifosi segnando 4 gol nella vittoria casalinga per 6-0 contro l'AIK. In quella stagione ricevette il premio nazionale Guldbollen riservato al miglior giocatore in campionato. Nelle sue prime 5 stagioni in massima serie mise a segno un totale di 70 reti in 84 incontri.

Feyenoord

Prima della fine del campionato 1966 passò al professionismo con gli olandesi del , con cui avrebbe raggiunto i traguardi più significativi in carriera. Aveva fatto un provino positivo l'anno precedente e divenne il primo straniero mai impiegato nel club. Kindvall rinunciò ai più vantaggiosi contratti offertigli da società spagnole e italiane e scelse di trasferirsi nei Paesi Bassi, dove il calcio aveva una dimensione più umana che preferiva. I primi sei mesi ebbe difficoltà ad ambientarsi e fu spesso tenuto in panchina, ma in seguito si riprese e chiuse la stagione segnando 22 reti nelle 23 gare disputate. Nei primi due anni la squadra si piazzò al secondo posto della Eredivisie, il massimo campionato olandese, e Kindvall fu il capocannoniere della Eredivisie 1967-1968 con 28 reti. Nella stagione successiva con 30 gol si confermò capocannoniere, questa volta alla pari con Dick van Dijk del Twente '65, e vinse il suo primo campionato olandese (il nono per il Feyenoord), oltre a vincere la Coppa dei Paesi Bassi. Nella classifica del Pallone d'oro 1969 si piazzò quarto alle spalle di Rivera (vincitore), Riva e Gerd Müller, a pari merito con l'astro nascente del calcio mondiale Johan Cruijff e davanti a Best, Pallone d'oro uscente, e Beckenbauer.

Con il Feyenoord del nuovo allenatore Ernst Happel, accanto a giocatori come Israël, Hasil e soprattutto il regista Van Hanegem, conquistò la Coppa dei Campioni 1969-1970 (prima vittoria europea di un team olandese), battendo in finale il  per 2-1 segnando il gol decisivo al 26º minuto dei tempi supplementari. Con 7 reti fu secondo nella classifica dei cannonieri del torneo vinta da Mick Jones del  che ne segnò 8. In campionato il Feyenoord arrivò secondo alle spalle dell'emergente  e Kindvall fu vicecapocannoniere con 25 reti dietro a van der Kuijlen con 26. In agosto arrivò il trionfo nella Coppa Intercontinentale 1970, superando nelle due partite di finale gli argentini dell'Estudiantes. Con la Svezia eliminata al primo turno nella fase finale dei mondiali in Messico di quell'anno, Kindvall fu solo 14º nella classifica del Pallone d'oro 1970.

Iniziò male la stagione 1970-1971, affaticato dall'impegno estivo dei mondiali e disturbato dalle voci secondo cui stava giocando con scarso impegno in vista di un presunto trasferimento. In seguito si riprese e contribuì al nuovo trionfo del Feyenoord in campionato laureandosi di nuovo capocannoniere con 24 reti davanti a Cruijff con 21. Divenne così il primo straniero a vincere per tre volte la classifica marcatori in Eredivisie, impresa che sarebbe stata eguagliata da Romário nel 1991. Quelli del 1971 furono gli ultimi titoli vinti da Kindvall; lasciò il Feyenoord a fine stagione nonostante le insistenze del club che gli offrì un vantaggioso rinnovo del contratto. Sia lui che la famiglia sentivano nostalgia di casa e avevano già pianificato da tempo il ritorno in Svezia e non cambiò idea. Con 129 reti segnate in 144 incontri di campionato e quelle realizzate nella vittoriosa Coppa dei Campioni 1969-1970, è ricordato come uno dei più grandi calciatori nella storia del club.

Ritorno al Norrköping e fine carriera al Goteborg
Finito il campionato olandese, Kindvall tornò quindi al dilettantismo svedese e si trovò un lavoro a Norrköping. Rientrò comunque nella sua vecchia squadra e fece in tempo a disputare buona parte dell'Allsvenskan 1971. Nei 5 campionati giocati con il Norrköping dopo il rientro dai Paesi Bassi mise a segno 34 reti in 98 partite, con la squadra che stazionò nelle zone medio-alte della classifica.

Attorno alla metà della stagione 1975 passò infine all', squadra di grandi tradizioni che era da qualche anno in seconda divisione. Nello scorcio di stagione che rimaneva segnò 12 gol in 13 partite e nel 1976 contribuì alla promozione con 15 gol in 24 incontri di campionato. Si ritirò alla fine della sua ultima stagione nel massimo campionato svedese, l'Allsvenskan 1977, nel quale collezionò 21 presenze e tre reti.

Nazionale
Fece il suo debutto con la nazionale maggiore della Svezia nel maggio 1965 per l'incontro pareggiato 2-2 contro la Finlandia a Luleå. Con i gialloblu prese parte alle fasi finali dei mondiali del 1970 e del 1974. Tra le sue partite in nazionale viene ricordata soprattutto quella giocata nel 1969 contro la Francia allo stadio Råsunda di Solna, valevole per le qualificazioni al . L'incontro terminò 2-0 per i padroni di casa con entrambi i gol segnati da Kindvall, decretando l'eliminazione dei transalpini e l'accesso alla fase finale dei mondiali per la Svezia, che dopo il brillante secondo posto ai mondiali casalinghi del 1958 non era più riuscita a qualificarsi per le fasi finali della manifestazione. L'impresa gli valse numerosi riconoscimenti, in particolare la prestigiosa medaglia d'oro Svenska Dagbladet per il 1969, riservata al miglior sportivo svedese dell'anno. La sua ultima apparizione fu nel 1974 per la gara persa in casa 2-0 contro l'Irlanda del Nord, valida per le qualificazioni al ; chiuse l'esperienza in nazionale con 16 reti in 43 incontri.

Dopo il ritiro
Una volta terminata la carriera agonistica, Kindvall intraprese l'attività di commentatore TV, facendo spesso coppia con il popolare telecronista svedese Bosse Hansson della televisione di Stato SVT per le gare della nazionale maggiore. Fu il primo esperto ad affiancare un telecronista in una partita di calcio nella storia della TV svedese.

Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Norrköping: 1962, 1963

Feyenoord: 1969

Feyenoord: 1968-1969, 1970-1971

Competizioni internazionali

Feyenoord: 1969-1970

Feyenoord: 1970

Individuale
Capocannoniere dell'Allsvenskan: 1
1966 (20 gol)

Capocannoniere della Eredivisie: 2
1967-1968 (28 gol), 1968-1969 (30 gol, a pari merito con Dick van Dijk) e 1970-1971 (24 gol)

Guldbollen 1966 (miglior giocatore del campionato svedese)
Stor Grabb 1968 (riconoscimento per sportivi svedesi distintisi a livello internazionale)
Medaglia d'oro Svenska Dagbladet 1969 (riconoscimento per il miglior sportivo svedese dell'anno)
Inserito nella Hall of Fame del calcio svedese (2008)

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Kindvall, Ove
Kindvall, Ove
Calciatori della Nazionale svedese


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What I do have for you is a photo of some packets of crisps.
There you go, Paprika flavour crisps, the ultimate expression of the Nordic potato-based snack. This brand, Potetgull ("Potato Gold") is pretty good. Nice crunch. Slightly old-fashioned, too: none of this artisan stuff, just a big family-sized bag of thin crisps. Great if, like us, you face a seven-hour drive with uncertain dining prospects en route.
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How can I check on the safety of foreign countries while traveling?
Unfortunately, travel to a foreign country can potentially expose the military traveler to dangers relating to civil unrest, terrorism, criminal activity, etc. The U.S. State Department maintains an "Alerts and Warnings" website to advise the traveler of current conditions that may warrant traveler caution or even cancellation of planned travel to a foreign location.
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We strongly urge all travelers to review these Travel Alerts and Warnings prior to planning travel to any foreign destination. If traveling Space-A, your Space-A Passenger Service representative may also be able to advise of any safety concerns regarding travel to your planned foreign destination.
The U.S. State Department also offers a program called the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). This is a free service that allows travelers abroad to inform the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate about details of their trip. This will allow the traveler to get information from the embassy about safety conditions in the destination country. It also enables the embassy to contact you in case of an emergency, natural disaster, civil unrest or family emergency at home. Travelers may sign up for STEP at the following website: https://step.state.gov/step/.


Filmmaker Prakash Jha, known for serious big screen outings like 'Aarakshan' and 'Satyagraha', is happy to produce a non-star cast comedy 'Crazy Cukkad Family' as he wants to back small films and fresh talent.
'Crazy Cukkad Family', directed by debutant Ritesh Menon, stars singer-composer Swanand Kirkire in his acting debut and Shilpa Shukla of 'Chake De' fame.
"Over the years I have done my films but also supported small films. It is time that new talent and content driven cinema gets the focus. The industry has been taken over by the corporates and they don't invest and develop. They are always into big stars and projects.
"I felt I should give chance to younger talent. It is a very conscious decision that I will keep making movies which are my forte but there are others whose stories I like so I will support them," Jha told PTI in an interview.
The director said he was attracted to the relatable and entertaining story of the film.
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Mannophryne lamarcai is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae.
It is endemic to Venezuela and inhabits a narrow altitudinal band in the Ziruma mountains between the states of Zulia, Falcón and Lara.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and rivers.
It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

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Amphibians of Venezuela
Endemic fauna of Venezuela
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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STATUTORY INFORMATION THAT NOW MUST BE INCLUDED ON OUR WEBSITE
The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 states that:-
From September 2012 schools in England no longer have to publish an annual school prospectus. However there are changes to the law on what must be included on school websites. The changes are contained in the School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012. Click here to view the amended Regulations.
Below is our documentation to meet these requirements, if there is any information you require that isn't listed here please contact us using the details below.
Founded in 1928 under the Trusteeship of the Sisters of Mercy, Broughton Hall Catholic High School, provides the very best in modern education for our pupils based on the Gospel values of mutual respect and care. Our school motto 'Cor Unum et Anima Una' - One Heart and One Mind - reflects the strong sense of community amongst staff, pupils, parents and governors.
The central aim of our school is to provide excellent educational opportunities enabling each girl to develop her God-given talents, to grow in confidence and self-esteem and fulfil her potential.
The Catholic Ethos of the school strives to demonstrate that we respect and value every member of the school community. We have high expectations of all our pupils in terms of the quality and presentation of their work and of their general conduct.
Improvements to our site have enabled us to offer a wide range of courses at all levels with access to the most up to date equipment. We have now moved into our "state of the art" 21st Century new buildings. Our facilities are bright, spacious, high tech and designed to meet the needs of all our pupils.
We can now offer one of the best learning environments in the country. A full range of extra-curricular activities are provided to further the aesthetic, sporting and academic talents of each pupil. This commitment has recently been recognised by the Artsmark Gold Award and the International Schools Award. Through our Community courses and family of Schools, we have extended educational opportunities to all ages, locally, nationally and internationally.
Our pupils achieve outstanding results; develop as well rounded individuals with skills for life in the 21st Century founded on the values of our Trustees the Sisters of Mercy. We believe that by fostering self-reliance, self-control, initiative and the ability to make reasoned judgements, our pupils, with God"s help, will develop into caring adults, showing concern for others and contributing much to the development of society in the 21st Century.
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Literacy & Numeracy Catch Up Funding 18 - 19
The allocation for 2016-17 for Numeracy & Literacy Catch up funding has not yet been allocated to the school and Broughton Hall is not aware of an allocation that is due currently. Further updates on this will follow and for the catch up strategies that will be put in place irrespective of funding.
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At Broughton Hall we want all pupils to receive the very best possible education. Our aim is to help each and every pupil to develop to their full potential, bearing in mind their individual needs and abilities. We recognise, however, that all children are different and may have very different needs.
The four broad areas of need are:
• Communication and Interaction
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or a combination of these needs.
The school operates a graduated approach to the identification of students with Special Educational Needs and Disability. The subject teachers will use a four step model; Assess, Plan, Do, Review. Evidence of individual performance based on learning outcomes will lead to intervention being put in place. If the student requires further additional intervention the SENCO will organise a consultation with the Educational Psychologist.
Girls with special educational needs are helped in a variety of ways:
• As well as receiving information from primary schools and level 2 NCT tests, they are tested very soon after coming to school and these base line scores are used to ensure they are in the correct groups for their needs.
• Parents are contacted early in their daughter's life in Broughton Hall and their needs are discussed with the SENCO and any outside agencies which already have an involvement with a pupil. There are Annual Reviews for pupils with EHC plans.
• Students identified as having Special Educational Needs and/or Disability have a Learning Support Profile for all members of staff to access and plan work accordingly.
• Lexia is a piece of software that is recommended by the British Dyslexia Association to support Year 7 and 8 students with literacy difficulties. Symphony Maths supports Year 7 and Year 8 with numeracy difficulties.
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• Learning Support Managers are designated to offer pastoral support for learning.
• Students identified with cognitive and learning needs work in small groups with a Teaching Assistant in most subjects.
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As a parent/guardian, what do I do if I have a concern about how my child's special needs are being supported?
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Today, the Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan is a popular retirement savings option for self-employed sole proprietors and partners. However, before you open a SEP, it's important to understand the distinction between contributions made under a SEP for employees and contributions that benefit the self-employed sole proprietor or partner.
When making SEP contributions for employees, the employer must base contributions on an employee's compensation (as reported on a W-2 form). However, if you're a self-employed sole proprietor or partner, the SEP contribution is based on your earned income. Earned income is generally defined as net earnings from self-employment in a trade or business in which the personal services of the taxpayer produce income.
For tax purposes, net earnings for a self-employed sole proprietor are gross income less business deductions as shown on the Schedule C tax form. Net earnings for a partner, however, include the partner's distributive share of partnership income or loss (other than that from separately treated items such as capital gains or losses). According to IRS Publication 560, "Guaranteed payments to limited partners are net earnings from self-employment if they are paid for services to or for the partnership." But distributions of other income or losses to a limited partner are not considered net earnings.
For 2015, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) limits SEP employer contributions to the lesser of 25% of compensation or $53,000 (subject to inflation indexing). The maximum amount of compensation eligible for consideration for qualified plans is $265,000. Contributions may grow on a tax-deferred basis. As with other qualified retirement plans, distributions taken before the age of 59½ may be subject to a 10% Federal income tax penalty.
Additional rules apply to a self-employed sole proprietor or partner when the maximum allowable contribution to a SEP is calculated. Because a self-employed person's compensation is his or her net earnings from self-employment, the net earnings of that person must be adjusted by reducing the plan's contribution rate. For self-employed individuals who are not considered employees of their own corporations, the limits result in an allowance of only 20% of self-employment compensation.
In addition to the limits on contribution amounts, the IRC places a limit on the deductibility of employer contributions. Employers can deduct contributions to a SEP of up to 25% of participants' compensation in a particular calendar year. When the taxpayer is a self-employed sole proprietor or partner, that person must report the deduction directly on his or her return for the appropriate tax year (the deduction for employees is claimed on a sole proprietor's Schedule C, and tax deductions for the sole proprietor's contribution are claimed on IRS Form 1040).
Self-employed sole proprietors and partners are in a unique situation with SEPs as both employer and employee. So, it's possible to reap the tax benefits of making a potentially substantial contribution to a retirement plan on your own behalf. However, you need to stay informed of the contribution limitations set forth under the IRC.


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glass beach's debut album the first glass beach album is the first album from glass beach. That's a good place to start, but the album's plain & descriptive title does little to explain exactly what goes on in the hour-long adventure contained therein.
the first glass beach album was initially self-released by the band in Spring 2019, but it's roots date back to as early as 2015 - songwriter & band leader j mclendon started demoing songs for the album when they first moved to Los Angeles & spent three years polishing those first demos into these songs with bassist Jonas Newhouse & drummer William White. On their Bandcamp page, the band describes their sound as the accumulation of jazz, new wave, synth music, and emo distorted through the lens of punk.
The songs that make up the first glass beach album are ambitious, theatrical and chaotic. Abandoning genre limitations makes glass beach's talent for songwriting all the more apparent - mathy guitar leads, catchy drum grooves and the constant interplay of horns, synths, and even the intermittent theremin set the perfect scene for j's stunning vocal performance, which can shift from a charming falsetto to the lead of a sing-a-long in an instant.
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Hey New Yorkers, get your shit together and go see my hombre Andrew Dinwiddie and his resurrection of Jimmy Swaggart. GET MAD AT SIN!:
In meticulously recreating one of Mr. Swaggart's early 1970s culture-war sermons (from a vinyl record) in "Get Mad at Sin!" Andrew Dinwiddie reintroduces us to a gifted orator, compelling performer and thunderous moralizer in his prime. It's a surprisingly generous act of resuscitation.
Strutting back and forth on a pink carpet, kicking up his legs and swooning at his own rhetoric, Mr. Dinwiddie as Mr. Swaggart breaks into a sweat but never loses his cool. He tosses in theatrical pauses and even some slang to attack the evils of homosexuality, premarital sex and acid rock. Mr. Dinwiddie's powerful voice contains the echo of the great Baptist preachers as well as a breathy rumble that approaches the erotic.
But this is no Reverend Billy-like satire featuring winks at the hipster crowd or political cheap shots. The director, Jeff Larson, lets this fascinating historical document, which diagnoses a culture lurching toward oblivion, speak for itself, absent biography, context or comment. It's an interesting strategy and emphasizes the stemwinder as a work of theater.
I'll spare you the lengthy cultural diatribe, but I'm fucking pissed that I'll miss this by a week. It's exciting to see my erstwhile creative peers begin coming into their own, and I really like the sound of this work. First of all because Andrew could conjour humidity on stage like nobody's business, and I have no doubt this performance is something of a tour-de-force; but moreover because of how it's constructed.
See, my generation — if I may be so bold — is post-post-modern. Not to be cheeky (we'll find a better term) but the simple deconstructive irony that seemed so bold and vital say 20 years ago is, well, boring. You can't just mock something and expect that to work. Nor can you reduce something to a pile of pieces and say you've done anything really worthy of anyone's attention.
In the spirit of those oversmart drunk-asses in Portland, I'd say we're moving on into a phase of (re)-reconstruction, or maybe we've come all the way 'round to some sort of neo-modernism. Faced with an ever-growing Undercurrent of Doom There's a yearning out there for answers, even if they may be wrong, even with the knowledge that they are almost certainly wrong. Failures pave the way to truth, and we're at a point as a culture, as a species really, where we can't just sit back and take potshot questions anymore.
It's who dares wins in the 21st Century, and you might start by reducing everything to base components, but you can't stop there. You can't just shamble around in a pile of cultural detrus and expect some thinly-veiled autobiographical content about your sex-life to pull it through. No siree, these days, you have to actually attempt to say something.
And in a way I hope that's what my man is doing. By presenting something in a juxtaposed context and letting it really be, in letting us hear the words of yesteryear's fallen moral tyrant, there's something to be said, something expressed. Even if it isn't correct — even if in hindsight is borders on the tragicomic — there's something being said there. As someone who's grown to know and love the "successful fail," I like that.
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Gregory Campbell's Determination Didn't Surprise Bruins Because 'That's Who He Is'
by Mike Cole on Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:22PM
The Bruins know that Gregory Campbell is one of the toughest hockey players in the league. The rest of the sports world learned that as well Wednesday night.
Campbell's stock on the Boston sports scene has skyrocketed since Wednesday night, and his blocked shot in the Bruins' win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals has become a pivotal moment in Boston's latest push for the Stanley Cup. Campbell's sacrifice — which cost him his season — was still being talked about Thursday, one day after the double-overtime thriller.
One of the people talking about Campbell's gutsy play was his head coach, Claude Julien, who unsurprisingly raved about his forward's determination.
"You get that from him every game," Julien told reporters after a limited Bruins practice Thursday at TD Garden. "That's the kind of player he is. He's a real dedicated individual to his work and to his game, from off ice, to on ice, to taking care of himself, demeanor, everything else.
"What he did yesterday surprised a lot of people but it didn't surprise us because that's just who he is, stay in there and make sure he finishes his shifts. As a coach you probably wish he would have stayed down, but that's not his job."
The Bruins will now have to move on without Campbell after a broken right fibula ended his postseason. While Campbell won't be joining his teammates on the ice, his sacrifice won't be soon forgotten.
"I think our team wants to do it for all the right reasons, and that's one of them," Julien said when asked if the Bruins will try to win it for Campbell. "When you see a guy go down like that and the way he went down and what he did — what he's done for the team and what he did last night to block that shot, the guys are going to want to rally around that. But it's also got to be more than that, but he's certainly part of that equation."
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This breed is also available in Australia under the name Africander. Bred from the same base, taken to Australia. This breed has adapted well to the change in climate. A breed, native to South Africa with deep roots in its history books.
Afrikaner cattle are selected for functional traits, a process which has given rise to good functional animals.
Animal scientists are propagating the idea that the cattle industry should be divided into father and mother lines. The industry thus requires a mother line with a small to medium frame that can be mated to a large-framed bull to produce a heavy weaner.
The history of Afrikaner cattle in South Africa is an interesting one and is closely associated with the history of the country's people. These typical Bos indicus animals, the most important of our indigenous breeds, were the first cattle encountered by Jan van Riebeeck shortly after he had arrived at the Cape. Little is known about the origins of the breed. The most likely theory is that, in its most primitive state, it originated on the steppes of Asia from the wild cattle of that time. Since then, it had descended from the lateral-horned Zebu without any infusion of foreign blood.
South African cattle farmers began to appreciate the Afrikaner's outstanding qualities only in about 1912. Then, largely due to the efforts of Alex Holm, Director of the Potchefstroom College of Agriculture and a champion of the breed, a studbook was formed so that planned breeding could take place for controlling the breed's development into the Afrikaner we know today. Not many people are aware that, some years earlier, the breed was almost exterminated when huge numbers died of rinderpest or were destroyed during the South African War. As a direct result, various exotic breeds were imported, mainly from Britain and Europe, to build up the country's depleted cattle numbers.
The Afrikaner does not have the compact, block-like conformation of many of the British beef breeds. It has longer legs, yet good depth, and a muscular back, loins, rump and thigh, but a fairly shallow body.
It seems almost a pity the characteristic long, wide and elegantly turned horns have had to be polled in so many commercials and even purebred herds. A mature Afrikaner bull weighs 820–1 090 kg and a cow 450–600 kg. Steers reared on the veld with only a phosphorus lick and salt and slaughtered at the age of 27–30 months on average yield a carcass of 250 kg.
The Khoikhoi and the Boers used the Afrikaners for meat and milk and the Boers improved them to use as draft animals. It was Afrikaner oxen which drew the wagons that carried the Voortrekkers on the Great Trek. Afrikaners have been bred into other lines used in the tropics because of their fertility, docility, heat and disease resistance, adaptability as well as greater weight gain potential.
In a crossbreeding programme the Afrikaner improves the quality of the meat of the breed with which it is crossed, especially with regard to tenderness (De Bruyn, ADSRI, Irene).
Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of the Afrikaner is its suitability for cross-breeding with exotic beef breeds. The value of purebred Afrikaner sires in commercial herds, when mated to grade cows of mixed parentage has been repeatedly shown in the good development and excellent prices realised by progeny.
Another outstanding characteristic is the Afrikaner's resistance to most of the country's endemic, such as redwater, hartwater and gallsickness.
When bred in an area in which these diseases prevail, young Afrikaner cattle acquire immunity through their dam's milk.
The cattle are well adapted to veld conditions in the warm, arid and extensive grazing areas of the country.
This exceptional characteristic is attributed to the ample area of its thick hide, which has twice as many sweat pores as those of cattle bred in Europe.
The short, strong, shiny hair also discourages tick attacks.
The breed thrives in extreme heat.
The cow has excellent mothering abilities.
Few if any calving problems.
The Afrikaner is also remarkable for its longevity and it's not unusual that at least 10% of the cows in a stud herd are 16 years & older.
The oval-shaped conformation and slightly sickle hocks of the Afrikaner enable it to walk long distances without effort. Farmers have reported it can cover up to 40 km a day, even in rough or sandy country.
The Afrikaner is one of the beef breeds that can be finished for marketing in the shortest time.
It is practically the only breed that can be finished off the veld within the most desirable age and its carcass mass ranges to produce the ideal carcass.
The beef is tender and juicy and carcass in demand by consumers. Its meat is of high quality and tender, tasty and succulent, and in a crossbreeding programme the Afrikaner improves the quality of the meat of the breed with which it is crossed, especially with regard to tenderness (De Bruyn, ADSRI, Irene). Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of the Afrikaner is its suitability for cross-breeding with exotic beef breeds. The value of purebred Afrikaner sires in commercial herds, when mated to grade cows of mixed parentage has been repeatedly shown in the good development and excellent prices realised by progeny.
The Afrikaner cattle breed is a proudly indigenous breed to Southern Africa. It is a well-researched fact that Afrikaner beef is of the best quality beef when compared to beef from other breeds. With the unique qualities of Afrikaner beef and the awakening of the food revolution at the start of the 21st century led to an increased demand amongst beef connoisseurs. To meet this increased demand in a feasible and sustainable manner, Original Afri Beef was registered as a quality product at the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ("DAFF").
Innovative business principles, and best practice processes were also put in place with leaders in the industry to ensure Afrikaner cattle genetics can be verified and an uncompromised quality product are delivered to the market with full tractability across the entire value chain.
The result is a world class quality product delivered with a host of benefits to all stakeholders involved.
Research shows that Afrikaner beef is of the best quality beef in Southern Africa. Beef from the Afrikaner cattle has a fine grain and comprises of the highest frequency of the dual DNS tenderness gene (RPO, Dr Scholtz) of all the cattle breeds in South Africa.
In addition research shows that beef produced from a free-ranging natural diet, as in the case of Afri Beef, in general contains a better balance of vitamin A, omega 3 and 6 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid per edible portion compared to grain finished beef (Schonfeldt & Hall, 2015).
The production of a high quality beef for the beef connoisseur market by ensuring best practice during each step of the value chain.
Management principles to minimise stress and meeting required health standards.
Responsible use of veterinary medicines.
Prohibit the use of hormonal or steroid growth implants.
Prohibit the feeding of animal by-products.
Traceability across the value chain.
Systematic auditing by an independent party (the South African meat Industry Company) across the entire value chain.
Precautionary measures should be undertaken to prevent diseases being imported into a livestock herd in the following cases.
Exceptional meat qualities such as a tenderness (duel tenderness gene), fine grain and good marbling.
Contains a better balance of vitamin A, omega 3 and 6 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid per edible portion compared to grain finished beef.
No added growth hormones or stimulants.
All cattle are free range.
No residual antibiotics in the beef.
Peace of mind that Original Afri Beef was produced following best practice across the value chain.
Original Afri Beef not only provides benefits for the consumer, but also for the producer (farmer). The farmer now has the opportunity to join a structured programme that provides a framework to add value to its product (beef), resulting in a premium and therefor an increased profit in its business.
The Afrikaner cattle is a proudly indigenous breed of Southern Africa and has over the last century proven its worth as a breed to be reckoned with in the meat industry. With Original Afri Beef the Afrikaner cattle breed has now also started a new and exciting chapter in its already rich history.


SMRTV San Marino, the Sammarinese national broadcaster has confirmed to esctoday.com that Valentina Monetta will represent San Marino at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark next year.
Hence we have the very first Eurovision candidate for Eurovision 2014. We must also note that it is the very first time a country has announced their candidate 11 months prior to the contest, hence it is the earliest announcement on record.
After the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden the Director of SMRTV revealed his wish to invite Valentina Monetta once again to represent San Marino.
A pre agreement was signed today at the SMRTV headquarters in San Marino by Valentina Monetta,Mr. Ralph Siegel (producer and composer)Mr. Fabrizzio Raggi ( artistic director) and Mr. Carlo Romeo ( Director of SMRTV). Mr. Alessandro Capicchioni ( Head of Delegation of San Marino for Eurovision) was also present during the signing of the accord.
It will be the 3rd consecutive time that Valentina will fly the Sammerinese flag at the Eurovision Song Contest along with Mr. Ralph Siegel. Valentina represented San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2013.
San Marino debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 and is yet to win the event. The country has never qualified for the final. On the last 2 occasions San Marino was 14th and 11th in its semifinal. Will Valentina succeed in taking San Marino to the grand final in 2014?
Stay tuned to esctoday.com for the latest news on San Marino and the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.


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CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan — Marine Corps Base Camp S. D. Butler opened the gates to the Central Training Area, Feb. 19, to students from Ginoza Elementary School for a class field trip.
Twenty-seven students and accompanying parents were treated to a morning of hiking through the thick jungle surrounding Landing Zone Dodo, a portion of the CTA, which lies just outside Ginoza Village.
The entire sixth grade class from Ginoza Elementary was able to see the harsh landscape within the CTA fence line and develop an appreciation for some of the things U.S. Marines are expected to do when training.
The highlight of the field trip was the climb to Gadamako Mountain, which stands at an elevation of almost 300 meters, sitting just north of LZ Dodo.
Shoko Chinen, sixth grade teacher, said the hour-long hike up the steep terrain is a trip the six grade students and their parents look forward too.
Along the way the students were given instruction from their guide on their natural surroundings and also how Marines use the facility to train. Climbing up the muddy ground while penetrating the scattered clusters of spider webs made the experience more enjoyable for the enthusiastic children according to Chinen.
Although the elders struggled to make it to the top, the children within the group raced to the peak as fast as they could. Once at the top, both students and parents took time to rest while taking in the sights of Ginoza Village, its surrounding areas and the horizon of the Pacific Ocean.
Chinen said each student was very thankful for the opportunity to climb Gadamako Mountain.


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#include <asm/cpu-features.h>

#include <asm/netlogic/interrupt.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/common.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/haldefs.h>

#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_XLP)
#include <asm/netlogic/xlp-hal/iomap.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/xlp-hal/xlp.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/xlp-hal/sys.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/xlp-hal/pic.h>
#elif defined(CONFIG_CPU_XLR)
#include <asm/netlogic/xlr/iomap.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/xlr/pic.h>
#include <asm/netlogic/xlr/xlr.h>
#else
#error "Unknown CPU"
#endif

unsigned int get_c0_compare_int(void)
{
	return IRQ_TIMER;
}

static cycle_t nlm_get_pic_timer(struct clocksource *cs)
{
	uint64_t picbase = nlm_get_node(0)->picbase;

	return ~nlm_pic_read_timer(picbase, PIC_CLOCK_TIMER);
}

static cycle_t nlm_get_pic_timer32(struct clocksource *cs)
{
	uint64_t picbase = nlm_get_node(0)->picbase;

	return ~nlm_pic_read_timer32(picbase, PIC_CLOCK_TIMER);
}

static struct clocksource csrc_pic = {
	.name		= "PIC",
	.flags		= CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
};

static void nlm_init_pic_timer(void)
{
	uint64_t picbase = nlm_get_node(0)->picbase;
	u32 picfreq;

	nlm_pic_set_timer(picbase, PIC_CLOCK_TIMER, ~0ULL, 0, 0);
	if (current_cpu_data.cputype == CPU_XLR) {
		csrc_pic.mask	= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32);
		csrc_pic.read	= nlm_get_pic_timer32;
	} else {
		csrc_pic.mask	= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64);
		csrc_pic.read	= nlm_get_pic_timer;
	}
	csrc_pic.rating = 1000;
	picfreq = pic_timer_freq();
	clocksource_register_hz(&csrc_pic, picfreq);
	pr_info("PIC clock source added, frequency %d\n", picfreq);
}

void __init plat_time_init(void)
{
	nlm_init_pic_timer();
	mips_hpt_frequency = nlm_get_cpu_frequency();
	if (current_cpu_type() == CPU_XLR)
		preset_lpj = mips_hpt_frequency / (3 * HZ);
	else
		preset_lpj = mips_hpt_frequency / (2 * HZ);
	pr_info("MIPS counter frequency [%ld]\n",
			(unsigned long)mips_hpt_frequency);
}

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Grosskreutz: VfB Stuttgart sack ex-Dortmund defender after fight
Kevin Grosskreutz has had his contract terminated by Stuttgart after a late-night brawl that left the ex-Germany international in hospital.
Update: March 3rd, 2017 12:36 EST
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Former Germany defender Kevin Grosskreutz has been sacked by VfB Stuttgart after a late-night brawl left him hospitalised earlier this week.
The 28-year-old drew the ire of the German second-tier club after reportedly taking three youth players with him on a night out that ended in a mass brawl.
The ex-Borussia Dortmund man hit the back of his head on the pavement during an altercation that resulted in the arrest of four suspects.
Grosskreutz: "I have made an error"
"I have made an error and I have apologised for that," an emotional Grosskreutz said in a hastily-arranged press conference.
"I accept the consequences and regret that my time at VfB has ended this way. I don't want anything to do with football for the time being."
Mutual termination of contract with Kevin #Großkreutz 👉 https://t.co/UMkuzPC9Xi pic.twitter.com/g9iPFnaznY
— VfB Stuttgart_int (@VfB_int) March 3, 2017
Fall from grace for World Cup winner
The incident marks a spectacular fall from grace for Grosskreutz, who was an unused member of Germany's 2014 World Cup-winning squad.
"Players from the first team have a particular function as role models for the club as a whole, but above all for our young players," said Stuttgart sporting director Jan Schindelmeiser.
Grosskreutz won the Bundesliga twice in a succesful six-year stint at Dortmund and also played in their 2013 Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich.
Kevin Grosskreutz
Germany national football team


Essential for fighting fires, hydrants are also access points to our distribution systems, and are important tools for maintaining water quality. This course explores hydrant design, safe operation, maintenance, and flow evaluation. Operators will have an opportunity to disassemble and overhaul several types of hydrants. Also curious about colour coding and Fire Code requirements? Here's the course!


Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Welcome to the greatest show on earth!! Well, not quite… Universal Studios Japan welcomes visitors from the world over. From kids cartoon attractions to the latest offerings from "Cool Japan" to the classic blockbusters Universal Studios became known for. This world renowned theme park offers year-round fun for the whole family!
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We are developing a central system of cover support for when staff are absent. This will include both teaching and non-teaching staff.
We appreciate smaller schools, in particular, may struggle when key staff are absent. By being part of a larger Trust that takes on some of the central administrative and financial functions, you can be reassured that the wheels will keep turning.


I was hoping it might mean i could have a day off 6th form tomorrow but i don't think thats going to happen.
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Was I the only person to notice it *was* a butterfly?!
And, Meeee, tough luck on the school... Still, think positive - holiday soon!
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Erm... if Lou's gone do we now only have one girl, one pretend girl and a bunch of guys posting in here? This ratio produces a poor forecast on the dating front, which I do believe was at some point in the distant past the point of this thread.
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A Will is a legal document that sets out how someone's estate is to be distributed, after they pass away.
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Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1950).

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Elarbee Thompson is honored to receive a Tier 1 ranking for Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management and Litigation – Labor & Employment as part of the Atlanta metropolitan rankings in the U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers 2015 "Best Law Firms" rankings.
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Brandy Watts
BRIT Librarian
FWBG Staff Visit BRIT Library
FWBF Staff from left Raelynn Asher, Sam Scarborough, Iris Cervantes, and Tyler Cobbs as well as BRIT Library volunteer Valerie Daniels (in the background).
I was pleasantly surprised when I walked into the Library early this morning and found among the Library's stacks several fellow FWBG staff reading books and milling about scanning the shelves. In an effort to escape the unusually frigid fall rain and with a particular interest in seeing the collection, they came inside BRIT to the Library. I was so delighted at seeing them using the Library that I offered to give them a tour, showed them how to use the Library's online catalogue, as well as help them locate specific books of interest.
Now that the rainy season has begun, as the BRIT Librarian I want to invite all FWBG staff to visit the Library when the weather is less than ideal for working on the grounds throughout the Garden. Within our collection we have books and journals on botany as well as horticulture. With upwards of 100,000 volumes, which include floras, monographs, periodicals, and more, the Library's Collection has something for everyone, including those with a particular fondness for plants and the planet.
For further questions, please contact Brandy Watts by email at bwatts@brit.org or by phone at 817-463-4102.
BRIT® and the Fort Worth Botanical Garden Partner to Strengthen Shared Mission
Chris Chilton | February 01, 2018
by Chris Chilton
Starting in March 2018, BRIT and the Fort Worth Botanic Garden will launch new education and volunteer opportunities as part of an innovative public-private partnership between the institutions. The partnership, signed by the Fort Worth City Council and the BRIT board of directors in the fall of 2017, transfers responsibility for the Garden's education and volunteer programs to BRIT. "There's potential for enormous synergy between BRIT as a scientific and education organization and the Fort Worth Botanic Garden as a municipal garden," says BRIT Executive Director Ed Schneider. The organizations, which have shared a campus since 2009, are making use of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model of shared responsibility that has grown in popularity in the U.S. and around the globe. It is bas...
Mary Sophie Young
Women in Botany
In honor of International Women's Day 2019, on March 8, 2019, BRIT Library highlighted the botanist Mary Sophie Young. As one of the earliest botanists at University of Texas, Mary Sophie Young's extensive collecting throughout Texas greatly contributed to the flora of Texas as well as the holdings of the University of Texas herbarium. The estimated number of her collection is thought to be in the vicinity of 10,000. Young was born in Glendale, Ohio, in 1872. She earned her B.A. at Wellesley College in 1895 and her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1910. In 1912, she became the curator of the University of Texas at Austin herbarium as well as a faculty member in the botany department.


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By Jake Whitney
ON A RAINY NOVEMBER morning in 1990, an eighty-nine-year-old widower from Burbank, California named Anthony Elliott, after discovering that he had lost his life savings, climbed into his bathtub and slit his wrists with a straight razor. Three days earlier, on Thanksgiving Day, he had typed a suicide note. It read: "There is nothing left for me ... My government is supposed to serve and protect, but who? Those who can gather the most savings from retired people."
Elliott had been a victim of "predatory lending," and the financial institution that coaxed him out of his $200,000 nest egg was Lincoln Savings and Loan, run by the now-infamous Charles Keating. Federal regulators had been watching Lincoln, but Keating recruited Alan Greenspan, former chairman of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors and soon to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to get them off his back. Greenspan told the regulators that Lincoln was "financially strong" and presented "no foreseeable risk" to investors. It collapsed soon afterward.
Elliott's suicide is but a footnote in Michael W. Hudson's new book, but it resonates nonetheless. If predatory lending played a role in the S&L debacle, how could we have allowed it to thrive again? Once the deregulation of financial institutions began, so did the skullduggery of those who ran them.
Deregulation started all the way back in 1979. The Carter Administration removed rules governing what S&L's could invest in, and almost immediately CEOs such as Roland Arnall, who launched Long Beach Savings and Loan and later Ameriquest, began concocting schemes to exploit the looser regulations. Those schemes would create great wealth for Arnall and his ilk while placing investors in increasing peril—an imbalance that became more extreme as deregulation progressed over the next three decades.
Along with deregulation came something more insidious: a campaign by the big banks to push homeowners into second mortgages and home-equity loans. Hudson reminds us that before the 1980s, "the idea of borrowing against the family homestead … was considered vaguely disreputable, an act of desperation or irresponsibility." But that changed after Citicorp and the large S&L's bombarded homeowners with advertisements telling them to liquidate their equity. In a bit of wordplay that would make Frank Luntz proud, the ads invariably replaced the stigma-holding term "second mortgage" with the friendlier "equity access." While this campaign was initially aimed at the economically stable, it did not take long before an alternate industry emerged to target the poor and financially unsophisticated.
Retirees such as Elliott, lenders quickly learned, were among the most easily manipulated. "Remember," executives from one firm wrote in an internal memo, "the weak, meek and ignorant are always good targets." Hudson offers multiple examples of this type of targeting, first by the shadier S&Ls in the 1990s and then, most prolifically, by modern subprime lenders. Hudson's delineation of a systematic effort to deceive these borrowers rebuts arguments that the borrowers themselves bear most of the responsibility for the subprime crisis. On the contrary, the dishonesty of many lenders was mind-bogglingly ubiquitous, and went beyond lying about mortgage rates and prepayment penalties to forging signatures and doctoring loan applications.
Hudson focuses on Arnall, among all other potential targets, because Arnall spent virtually his entire career as a predatory lender. Ameriquest, his flagship company, became the largest and perhaps the most devious of the subprime mortgage lenders. He was also among the first to partner with Wall Street to securitize subprime loans. This turned out to be a watershed moment, because it was not until investment banks began bankrolling mortgage lenders that the stage was set for a major crisis. And here Hudson turns to Lehman Brothers—the investment bank that gambled biggest on subprime—to explain how our housing mess sparked a global meltdown.
The Monster is among a wave of books and films that attempt to shed light on the subprime crisis and the 2008 crash, but it is remarkably comprehensive on its own—a sweeping, detailed, and forceful account of the events, the people, and the policies that led to our current economic woes. Hudson's wisest decision was to avoid obsessing over infamous and arcane Wall Street creations, such as derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and credit-default swaps, even though they played a role in the market crash. Instead he chose to focus on people—the perpetrators and the victims of mortgage fraud, and the brave few who tried to stop it.
In the end, though, Hudson's book is about something broader than mortgage lending; its true subject is the insular world of corporate sales, and the dire consequences that ensue when sales departments are usurped by a culture of absolute greed. (The title refers to a deceptive sales tactic wielded by First Alliance Mortgage Company.) Hudson portrays Ameriquest and First Alliance as paradigms of this culture: where cut-throat competition and complete disregard for a client's best interests were the rule, where movies such as Boiler Room were worshiped, and where managers pressed for more loan volume, regardless of how it was achieved. Absent deregulation and the culture that gave rise to it, Hudson asserts, the crisis would not have occurred.
So why was it allowed to thrive again after wreaking such havoc only a few years earlier? The truth was that this culture was viewed not as a danger but as a virtue by those in positions of real power. Deregulation had been gospel for twenty-five years at the executive level, and Greenspan refused to step in during the crisis. While Greenspan gave lip service to concerns about "questionable practices," his true philosophy was summed up in 1963 in an essay for Ayn Rand's journal: "It is precisely the 'greed' of the businessman which is the excelled protector of the consumer."
Hudson's book is an utter repudiation of that philosophy. "All we care about is fucking making money," one Ameriquest manager wrote in an email, "Nothing else matters." Here, embodied by Arnall and his company, is Greenspan's "'greed' of the businessman" in its purest form. While conservatives continue to insist that it was government action, not government inaction, that caused the crisis, the culprits they point to—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Community Reinvestment Act—were minor players in the orchestra that ushered in the collapse.
No, here was an unfettered market that failed to "self-correct," and Greenspan, in what were perhaps his final hours upon the world stage, admitted as much. In a chilling exchange with Rep. Henry Waxman before a House Committee, Greenspan lamented that the crisis had exposed a flaw in the philosophy that he had promoted for more than forty years. "What I'm saying to you is, yes, I found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is, but I've been very distressed by that fact." Not as distressed, certainly, as many other Americans.
Jake Whitney is a journalist in New York.
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've Played Dota and you liked? Then try it out a few different version. Game Dota 2 - is a multiplayer strategy game that has a business model of free-to-play. In other words, it is available to users free of charge. The game was created before the popularity of DotA developers and improved it compared to the first version. The advantage is that in Dota 2 problem with delays and lags between servers and optimized network code meets the minimum. These two games have some common features, especially as in the creation of Dota 2 was IceFrog - the main developer of the original game. In Dota 2 online you will notice a lot of innovations and improvements, for example, is provided at break reconnect the main connections are job training for beginners, as well as present dividing players by area and much more. As well as in the virtual world of Dota, you will need to fight the enemies and defeat them. In Dota 2 online you will be able to acquire and accumulate experience using krill acquire items that you need and the items and reach level 25. Dota 2 registration - this is the first thing to do wanting to play this game. To do this, you must specify your account and come up with a password, repeat password, specify your mailbox and also to repeat it, to give answers to security questions, enter the characters from the image to confirm that you are at least 13 years, as well as read and accept rules of the game. Then click on the "Create Account". Making sure that your computer meets such parameters: - Windows XP / 7 / Vista / Vista 64 - OS; - Pentium 4 March. 0GHz processor; - DirectX 9 compatible video card; - 5 GB of free hard disk space; - 1 GB of RAM. Now you can play Dota 2. To start with the choice of your character, which you will command throughout the game. In addition, you will need to upgrade your character with the purchase of new weapons and uniforms, get their use of a variety of artifacts. Game Dota 2 implies two teams of five. One game at a dark side, and the other - light. Teams diverge on the line where there is a struggle with opponents. Purpose Dota 2 online - together with the team to destroy the main building enemies, while not forgetting to remove Denies that appear every thirty seconds on the bases, and destroy the enemies of the tower. Each player from time to time gets the gold from its base and can replenish its reserves by killing enemy creatures and heroes. The winner is the team that first eliminates pivot building opponents. In Dota 2 you need to play with the team. Each player is important to remember about pumping his hero, enhancing its capabilities by using the items. Also, thanks to the integrated voice chat, you can chat with other players. Participate in competitions, pass the levels, collect artifacts, and lead the team to victory. Good luck to you and easy victories!


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Most of us have friends, colleagues, or relatives who have served in the military. Perhaps you have an older relative who served in Vietnam, Korea, or even World War II. Imagine being away from home for months or even years, wondering how your family is doing. (For those older veterans who served before cell phones and internet, that often meant being totally out of communication, feeling lucky to get a letter at some point.) Imagine being called on to do things that you thought were impossible, either mentally or physically. Imagine seeing your friends not survive a day of battle, and why it was them instead of you.
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