Up till now only a simple stone with a short text tells of the destruction of the synagogue in Eberswalde on November 9th, 1938 during the so-called Reichskristallnacht. In 2010 the Eberswalde municipality commissioned several artists to draft suggestions for a new monument or commemorative site where the synagogue once stood. The entry by Hoheisel & Knitz was chosen and executed in 2011: a memorial in permanent growth – never to be completed.
two and a half metre high wall will be erected on the outline of the destroyed synagogue's outer walls.
It will have neither windows nor doors, nor gates, nor entrance, nor exit. The interior cannot be accessed. "
"The rediscovered foundations of the destroyed synagogue carry the memorial"
The interior remains inaccessible. A few small trees were planted inside during commemorative ceremony on November 9th, 2012 as the sculptural wall neared completion. Then the final segment was hoisted into place and the memorial was sealed never to be entered again. Natural vegetation will fill the space over time. Inside will grow what wishes to grow. In forestry terms it will be a natural piece of forest in the heart of Eberswalde. As years go by and the trees grow they will express the volume and the structure of the former synagogue. Just as the trees grow so does memory change too."
On the outside of the memorial wall a text tells of Eberswalde's Jewish history. The rest of the property will have benches and lawns, just like any town park has.
For most of us totally unexpected; the former synagogue foundations were found and uncovered.
The following text was cast on to the outerside of the sculptural wall.
For over 700 years Jews lived in our town and region and celebrated their services in different places. The Jewish community that had grown to 200 souls inaugurated their synagogue on this site in 1891. Lightening set fire to the building in 1931 Neighbours hurried to the scene and helped to put out the fire. On November 9th, 1938 citizens of Eberswalde destroyed the synagogue. Already the next day, the town council ordered the Jewish community to remove the remains and cover the cost of the work. Members of Eberswalde Police Force deported the last Jews from the town during the War. Many Jews from Eberswalde perished in the concentration camps or on the death marches, some committed suicide. Others were able to escape their home town in time. Since then, Eberswalde lacks these people, these friends, these fellow pupils, these neighbours, these colleagues. This memorial expresses in its sealed nature, "that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children."
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"Welcome to Tibet״ a monk wearing a dark rouge colored robe greeted us, at an alley outside Lābǔléng Sì in the city of Xiàhé. It was early afternoon, hundreds of monks just finished their prayer and lunch ritual, so most of the monastery's streets were deserted. The low earth buildings that make up the monastery's labyrinth gave shelter to the monks in the midday heat.
We followed many sweeping recommendations from fellow travellers to visit Xiàhé and not more than a minute from when we got off the bus was needed to comprehend- why. The enchanting feel must have something to do with the hundreds of Tibetan pilgrims who arrive in Xiàhé every day.
The Tibetan residents and pilgrims still wear their traditional clothes: men in heavy cloaks (even during the hot summer days) with long sleeves reaching beyond the knees, while women dress in more colorful robes with excessive jewelry and hair decorations, most of them tying 2 long black braids down their backs. These Pilgrims of all ages circuit the monastery on a daily basis, via a special path, called a "kora", passing through hundreds of prayer wheels and two large stupas on their way.
The Lābǔléng monastery is one of six big Tibetan monasteries of the Galupa lineage – distinct by their mustard colored hats. It is located in an area locally known as "Amdo" region. Amdo was once one of larger Tibet's three kingdoms. In a very uncommon manner we decided to take a guided English tour inside the monastery. We hoped to learn about the lives of the monks, their beliefs and the history behind the religious monuments inside the premises.
Leaving Xiàhé to visit the city of Hézuò, where a 9 story temple – a very rare sight in the local landscape, had an intensifying effect. Compared to Xiàhé, the beautiful site is not at all touristic and so we managed to be almost the only visitors to the major prayer temple that was unlocked by one of the monks. We climbed barefoot all the way to the top of the inimitable structure and looked out beyond the flapping colorful prayer flags into the horizon.
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Around 200 family members, friends, and colleagues of Xiyue Wang GS gathered at a candlelit vigil on Friday night in his honor. Wang is a Ph.D. student in the history department and a naturalized U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned in Iran for the last 13 months. An appeal of his conviction and sentence was denied last month.
After more than a year of private bereavement, in addition to unsuccessful work with the University and the U.S. government on securing Wang's return, his family and friends, including his wife Hua Qu and history adviser professor Stephen Kotkin, publicly addressed the audience to clarify Wang's situation. They urged others, even those beyond the University community, to keep his imprisonment in the government's consciousness in hopes of his liberation.
Qu met Wang in Hong Kong in 2009. She was attracted to his endless curiosity, spanning the world's cultures, languages, and countries. Wang's curiosity was inextricable from himself as a person. She recounted him taking her to Beijing bookstores and pulling out history books at random, telling her anecdotes and stories about the places on the pages.
"He told me that his intellectual dreams began within these books and that one day he would contribute to a historical field that would matter to all," Qu said.
The predominantly Muslim countries of Central Asia particularly fascinated Wang. After a brief time with Qu in Beijing, he worked for Red Cross as a translator in the war-zones of Afghanistan. Afterwards, in 2012, they married back in Beijing and had their son, Shaofan. But Wang, a "born academic" in Qu's words, couldn't stop thinking about the troubling events he witnessed in Central Asia, and decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Eurasian studies at the University.
His friend Zhan Zhang commented that Wang was the ultimate language nerd, at one point learning Manchu, Persian, and Russian simultaneously. Conversations between them were dominated by scholarly topics. All his friends were impressed by his family and its collective willingness to bear the year of distance and loneliness for the sake of academic pursuit and cultural understanding.
One of his professors, Janet Chen in the East Asian studies department, remarked that Wang was unusual among her students for needing to be reminded to slow down his pace and limit his scope, recounting how he at one point was trying to tackle six academic fields at once.
"I remember telling him 'You have your entire life to be a scholar, slow down a bit,'" Chen said.
At the vigil, people were quick to indicate not only Wang's rapacious mind, but also his generous and attentive spirit. A friend, Fauzia Farooqui, described a couple days in which Wang stayed at her family's house upon his arrival at the University.
Another friend and colleague, Elisa Prosperetti GS, offered anecdotes at the vigil of Wang's deep care for his friends. Twice while Prosperetti was researching in countries roiled by terrorist attacks, once in France and another time in Ivory Coast, she received an email from him within hours of the event asking if she was okay. He even beat her parents. During a particularly lonely birthday, he organized a "Chinese feast" for her and invited their friends.
Wang's family happily reunited a year later in 2014, lifting his spirits according to his friends. Chen noted how he stood taller and smiled more when Qu and their son Shaofan arrived. Wang proved to be as devoted to family as he is to scholarship. Xue Zhang, a friend and fellow student, related how every day after studying in Firestone, Wang would return home with his son and cook dinner for the family, as Qu came home late from her job working as an attorney in New York City.
"He soon became the best cook among friends and even got a nickname, Cook Wang," Xue said.
Xue Zhang recounted her favorite memory of the family. Accepting Wang's dinner invitation, she arrived at their house on a late summer evening in 2015 and saw Wang peeling potatoes while Qu read a book to their child. Their situation finally seemed settled: Wang studying at the University, Qu working in New York, and both raising their child at home.
At 2:20 a.m. on Aug. 7, 2016, Qu awoke to a call from Wang, who was conducting research in Iran. He had been doing research there since May for his dissertation. During the phone call, she learned that three weeks earlier, the police had confiscated his passport and laptop and demanded he leave the country immediately. He was in the process of buying a ticket back home. She sent an anxious text back, but received no reply. Days later, she learned he was held in prison.
They were once again separated by thousands of miles, but this time the possibility of reunion was uncertain. Qu desperately searched for a way to bridge the distance. She became obsessed with Google Earth.
"I zoomed in to examine the landscape and the clusters of gray architecture as if I could find him behind the walls," she said.
Thus began a grim year for Qu and her son as they tried to maintain their normal life while trying to secure Wang's release.
While speaking of how she has managed to survive the ordeal, Qu revealed many vulnerable times when grief and uncertainty overcame her.
"I have learned not to weep every time that I think about him," she said. "I have stopped imagining how he spends his days and how long the next 10 years may mean to my family." She expressed particular concern about providing her husband access to medical care as his physical and mental health deteriorates.
But Qu has work through her grief by assuming the role as her husband's advocate. She is appealing to the University community and the federal government to protect Wang and, in doing so, prove its commitment to "freedom of thought, international scholarship, and cultural understanding that Wang Xiyue embodies," she said.
While desperate bereavement tinged the speeches as the uncertainty of Wang's fate hovered, a sense of community permeated as the crowd silently filed out of East Pyne courtyard, holding candles.


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Reversing a History of Exclusion through International Labour Law
Claire Hobden
Although domestic workers provide crucial care services that make all other work possible, their labour too often is not seen as real work meriting legal protections. This view has resulted in 100 million women and girls left unprotected by national labour law in nearly half the world's countries. Until recently, domestic workers were excluded even from international labour laws, which is symbolic of the slow evolution of social perceptions of women's work generally and of domestic work in particular. Reducing the exploitation of domestic workers will therefore require both normative change to reverse the history of exclusion, and social change to actualize their rights. An international labour standard on the rights of domestic workers is essential to achieve both.
Time for a new Paradigm
Sharan Burrow
These are truly times for anger.
The world is barely re-emerging from the deepest economic crisis in a century, yet the very policies and mindset that caused the problem in the first place are back with a vengeance. Indeed, the world economy risks sliding back into crisis as dangerously short-sighted policies are put into place. The brave words of reform from world leaders in the G20 meetings of 2009 are now largely forgotten and have been replaced with the old scriptures of fiscal consolidation and calls to address the "fundamentals".
And thus the world is fast slipping into a self-defeating round of "competitive austerity" where everyone seeks salvation from austerity at home through export-led growth. This is a strategy that might have worked for some for a time, but those days are gone: credit-driven consumption in a few key countries can no longer make up for the lack of wage-driven consumption worldwide.
Europe's Hidden Inequality
The European Union (EU), in its founding treaties, set itself the aim of economic, social and territorial cohesion. This aim is generally interpreted to mean that the EU will strive to reduce income inequality within its area of integration. Reducing inequality is, as recent studies continue to show, an important and just goal since inequality blights the lives and prospects of those affected.
Unequal Income Distribution in Europe
As a result of a number of enlargement rounds since 1972 the EU consists of member states at widely varying stages of development and divergent income levels: besides small, rich countries, such as Luxembourg (annual per capita income: around 60,000 euros), there are also large, poor countries, such as Romania (annual per capita income: around 2,900 euros). A comparison of Europe's regions reveals even more egregious differences between the richest region (Luxembourg) and the poorest: annual per capita income in the poorest regions of Bulgaria and Romania is even lower than the national average.
Domestic Workers in Switzerland protected by the Country's first Sectoral Employment Contract
Mauro Moretto
Vania Alleva
In Switzerland as elsewhere, the State has been retreating on social policy in recent years. This is leading to a decline in social service provision and, consequently, to an increase in demand for domestically based services. Nobody knows exactly how many waged employees are currently at work in Swiss private households (as many are unreported), but statistical estimates suggest that their numbers are continually increasing. At the end of 2007, the Unia trade union, on the basis of various studies(1), put the number of full-time jobs in the sector at about 125,000 (approx. 4 per cent of the total workforce). More than 90 per cent of these employees are women. Many are migrants, often without any legal residency status. They come from a whole range of countries where they had often previously gained academic qualifications and worked in other occupations. Recently, increasing numbers of women from the new EU member states have been finding jobs in Swiss private households.
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The phrase "you've gotta be in it to win" is an often overused cliché that's generally spouted by some sort of gameshow host or salesman. Equally, "once in a lifetime" can be a bit of an exaggeration. In the case of Eastern Suburbs' very own Will Richardson, both sayings could not be more apt. Because this young Kiwi is getting the chance to do what every football fan across the globe dreams of doing, walking out on the biggest stage in international football, the World Cup Final.
Will, who plays for the ESAFC 10th grade Yellow Team, was one of over 1000 youngsters aged between 6-10 who entered a McDonalds Skills Zone Day on the Auckland Domain. His mum Victoria explained how it all came about.
"We were sent an email through from the club about the McDonalds Day and we took both Will and his sister down to have a go. We didn't hear anything else about it until two weeks later when a PR guy from McDonalds called".
It was then that Victoria was asked several questions relating to Will's suitability, age and, tellingly, passport. Finally as the conversation neared a close it was revealed that Will had in fact won, and his mum was given the unenviable task of having to keep it a secret.
Thus following a full three days of blissful unawareness the surprise was finally sprung on Will by All Whites Tim Payne and Matt Ridenton amidst something a media frenzy.
"Will was absolutely speechless", Victoria revealed, "it really is once in a lifetime".
Victoria is not wrong, of course. Not only will Will and his mum get the chance to soak up the atmosphere and drama of this most prestigious of international tournaments, they get to do so in one of the World's great cities.
As part of the prize for winning, the Richardson's will be housed in the shadow of Sugarloaf Mountain and Christ the Redeemer, on Ipanema Beach.
Will also gets the opportunity to play against the other 21 lucky winners, tour some of Rio and sneak an early look at the spiritual home of football that plays host to the final, the Maracana.
"Messi – I'd like Argentina to win".
Time will tell who the eventual tournament winner will be, but for Will Richardson, he's already a victor in the eyes of every football fan across the country. For following the rather ignominious defeat to Mexico in the Playoffs it seemed inevitable that there would be no New Zealand representative at this year's World Cup.


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> academical and of little use."  I am totally shocked by that statement.
> on 64-bit platforms unmodified at this point.
> 32-bit chroot with debootstrap to run those things in.
you are running a biarch system and not pure 64bit.
> still a little shocked about that.
i386/amd64 and C) pure 64bit amd64 userspace.
system (Except your time and willingness to port stuff).
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14 books, 116 scientific papers, 66 presentations, 25 research projects in marine engineering, 5 universitary research grants, 16 testing stands for marine equipments, 5 inovation claims (1 approved), 2 international awards, 5 courses of lectures in marine engineering, membership of 5 national and international scientific societies, 2 postdoctoral work abroad. Ph. D. supervisor in Mechanical Engineering.
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• Cristian Dinescu, Emil Oanta, Nicolae Buzbuchi, Valentin A. Soloiu. Method Prediction for In-Cylinder Flows in Reciprocating Engines. Bulletin of the Eighth International Congress of IMAM, Istanbul Technical University, Maritime Faculty, 1997.
• Nicholas Buzbuchi, Emil Oanta, Cristian Dinescu. Marine Engine and Engine Room Simulation in System Design and Training in Constantza Maritime University. In The Proceedings of the International Maritime Lecturers' Association Newletter, the Third International Conference on Engine Room Simulation ICERS3, Svendborg, Denmark. 1997.
• Nicholas Buzbuchi, Dinu Taraza, Dimitrios. V. Lyridis. Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Torsional, Bending and Axial Coupled Vibration of Marine Diesel Engine Shafting System. In Bulletin of the Marine Engineering Society in Japan (MESJ), the Fifth International Symposium on Marine Engineering ISME, Yokohama. 1995.
• Dinu Taraza, Nicolae Buzbuchi, Jean Sever Popovici. Calculation of the Harmonic Structure of Marine Propeller Torque and Thrust. SAE Technical Paper Series 941698, 1994.
• Dinu Taraza, Nicolae Buzbuchi. Optimum Phasing of Engine and Propeller in Marine Propulsion Systems with Direct-Coupled Two-Stroke Engines. SAE Technical Paper Series 941697, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1994.


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The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. First mentioned in a 1985 New York magazine article, it is now usually defined as the cast members of two specific films released in 1985—The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire—although other actors are sometimes included. The "core" members are considered to be Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy.

Membership
The term "Brat Pack", a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and 1960s, was first popularized in a 1985 New York magazine cover story, which described a group of highly successful film stars in their early twenties. David Blum wrote the article after witnessing several young actors (Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Judd Nelson) being mobbed by groupies at Los Angeles' Hard Rock Cafe. The group has been characterized by the partying of members Estevez, Lowe, and Nelson.

However, an appearance in one or both of the ensemble casts of John Hughes' The Breakfast Club and Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire is often considered the prerequisite for being a core Brat Pack member. With this criterion, the most commonly cited members include:
 Emilio Estevez
 Anthony Michael Hall
 Rob Lowe
 Andrew McCarthy
 Demi Moore
 Judd Nelson
 Molly Ringwald
 Ally Sheedy

Absent from most lists is Mare Winningham, the only principal member of either cast who never starred in any other films with any other cast members. Estevez was cited as the "unofficial president" of the Brat Pack. He and Demi Moore were once engaged. In 1999, McCarthy said he was never a member of the group: "The media made up this sort of tribe. I don't think I've seen any of these people since we finished St. Elmo's Fire."

The initial New York article covered a group of actors larger, or more inclusive, than the currently understood meaning of the term "Brat Pack". For example, most of the cast members of The Outsiders were mentioned, including Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio, none of whom starred in any other 1980s movies with any "core" Brat Packers, besides Swayze. Charlie Sheen appears in several lists – more for his family relationship to Brat Pack leader Emilio Estevez and his partying than for his collaborative film work with other members.

James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. have also been considered members, and performed alongside other Brat Packers: both of them with Andrew McCarthy in Less than Zero; Spader with McCarthy in Mannequin, with Lowe in Bad Influence, and with McCarthy and Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink; and Downey with Anthony Michael Hall (Weird Science and Johnny Be Good; and the cast of Saturday Night Live) and with Molly Ringwald (The Pick-up Artist). Other actors who have been linked with the group include Kevin Bacon, Matthew Broderick, Jon Cryer, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Jami Gertz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Sean Penn, Kiefer Sutherland, and Lea Thompson. In her autobiography, Melissa Gilbert connects herself with the Brat Pack, as her social life centered on Estevez and Lowe (to each of whom she was engaged at different times). Through frequent collaborative work, the actor Harry Dean Stanton, then in his late 50s, became a mentor for the group of young actors.

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David Blum's New York story, titled "Hollywood's Brat Pack", ran on June 10, 1985. It was originally supposed to be just about Emilio Estevez, but one night, Estevez invited Blum to hang out with him, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, and others at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was a typical night out for the group, who had gotten close while filming St. Elmo's Fire. That night, Blum decided to change the article's focus to an entire group of young actors at the time. The St. Elmo's Fire crew members did not like Blum and sensed that he was jealous of the actors' success.

When the piece ran, the actors all felt betrayed, especially Estevez. The article mentioned people in several films but focused on Estevez, Lowe, and Nelson, and portrayed those three negatively. The "Brat Pack" label, which the actors disliked, stuck for years afterward. Before the article ran, they had been regarded as talented individuals; after the article, all of them were grouped together and regarded as unprofessional. Interviewed for Susannah Gora's 2010 book You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact on a Generation, Blum admitted that he should not have written the article.

With the increased negative attention to them, the actors soon stopped socializing with one another. On the group's camaraderie, Ally Sheedy later said the article "just destroyed it. I had felt truly a part of something, and that guy just blew it to pieces."

Legacy
During the late 1980s, several of the Brat Pack actors had their careers mildly derailed by problems relating to drugs, alcohol, and in Lowe's case, a sex tape. According to Susannah Gora, "Many believe they could have gone on to more serious roles if not for that article. They were talented. But they had professional difficulties, personal difficulties after that." By the 21st century, the term "Brat Pack" had lost its negative connotation.

The films themselves have been described as representative of "the socially apathetic, cynical, money-possessed and ideologically barren eighties generation." They made frequent use of adolescent archetypes, were often set in the suburbs surrounding Chicago, and focused on white, middle-class teenage angst. According to author Susannah Gora, these films "changed the way many young people looked at everything from class distinction to friendship, from love to sex and fashion to music." They are considered "among the most influential pop cultural contributions of their time."

In 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed The Breakfast Club as the best high school movie ever made. On VH1's list of the 100 greatest teen stars, Molly Ringwald was ranked No. 1, Rob Lowe was ranked No. 2, Anthony Michael Hall was ranked No. 4, Ally Sheedy was ranked No. 34, and Andrew McCarthy was ranked No. 40.

In 2020, Estevez expressed frustration at the persistence of the "Brat Pack" name, saying "That [term] will be on my tombstone ... It's annoying because Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon have worked together more than any of us have. We just made two movies and somehow it morphed into something else."

Filmography
Beyond the two primary films, there is no generally accepted list of "Brat Pack" movies. While Blum's article credits Taps, a 1981 sleeper starring Timothy Hutton with Cruise and Penn, as the first Brat Pack movie, the list of movies below represents the more traditional filmography, with each movie including at least two core members in starring roles:

Other 1980s films, many with similar coming-of-age themes, that starred only one core Brat Pack actor with one or more close contributors include:
 Tex (1982) with Emilio Estevez and Matt Dillon
 WarGames (1983) with Ally Sheedy and Matthew Broderick
 Bad Boys (1983) with Ally Sheedy and Sean Penn
 Repo Man (1984) with Emilio Estevez and Olivia Barash
 No Small Affair (1984) with Demi Moore and Jon Cryer
 Heaven Help Us (1985) with Andrew McCarthy and Mary Stuart Masterson
 Weird Science (1985) with Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Downey Jr.
 One Crazy Summer (1986) with Demi Moore and John Cusack
 Youngblood (1986) with Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze
 The Pick-up Artist (1987) with Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr.
 Less than Zero (1987) with Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., and James Spader
Mannequin (1987) with Andrew McCarthy and James Spader
 Johnny Be Good (1988) with Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Downey Jr.
 Young Guns (1988) with Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, and Kiefer Sutherland
 Kansas (1988) with Andrew McCarthy and Matt Dillon
 We're No Angels (1989) with Demi Moore and Sean Penn
 Young Guns II (1990) with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland
 Bad Influence (1990) with Rob Lowe and James Spader

Some films have been dubbed "Brat Pack movies" despite having no stars from the core membership, including 1984's Red Dawn with C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Swayze, and Lea Thompson, 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off which starred Matthew Broderick with Grey and Sheen in supporting roles and 1987's The Lost Boys with Kiefer Sutherland and Jami Gertz in key roles.

Later acting careers
Many of the Brat Pack members have continued to act past the 1980s.

 Molly Ringwald continued acting in films throughout the 1990s and in 2001, began performing as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of Cabaret. In 2013, she released a jazz record called Except Sometimes. She also began starring in television shows such as The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Riverdale.
 Rob Lowe saw a massive downturn in his career following a 1988 sex tape scandal, while his opening number at the 61st Academy Awards further aggravated his image and career and eventually his film career declined. However, his career saw a resurgence when he ventured back into television with The West Wing and since has had significant roles in various television shows including Brothers & Sisters (2006–2010), Parks and Recreation (2010–2014), and currently stars on 9-1-1: Lone Star.
 Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson also continued to act. Nelson has performed on three seasons of the show Suddenly Susan and Bad Kids Go to Hell. Estevez would star in several films, with the most notable being The Mighty Ducks trilogy, and would go on to have a career as a director.
 Ally Sheedy has acted, mostly in independent productions like Kyle XY, and also teaches at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts.
 Andrew McCarthy has acted steadily in smaller TV and film roles and later began directing TV shows such as Gossip Girl, The Blacklist starring James Spader and Orange Is the New Black. In 2022, he joined the cast of The Resident.
 Anthony Michael Hall eventually overcame his geeky persona by starring as Bill Gates in the 1999 television film Pirates of Silicon Valley as well as in the lead role of The Dead Zone (2002-2007) for six seasons.
 Demi Moore overcame the associated curse expeditiously when she starred in the blockbuster Ghost (1990). She followed this success with leading roles in consecutive box office hits: A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), Disclosure (1994) and by the mid-90s became the highest paid actress. However, her starring roles in The Scarlet Letter (1995), The Juror (1996), Striptease (1996), and G.I. Jane (1997) were widely panned and marked an end of her career as a leading actress.

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See also

 Brit Pack
 Child actor
 Dreamlanders
 Frat Pack
 Splat Pack
 Teen film
 Typecasting

References

External links

American male film actors
American film actresses
Groups of entertainers
Nicknames in film
1980s in film

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HEATON Hannah Todd3, (Samuel2, Christopher1) born Feb. 17, 1679-80; died April 1739, married June 2, 1701, Seth, son of James and Sarah (Street) Heaton, who was born March 25, 1676, died April 8, 1741.
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But Macron said on a visit to the Niger capital Niamey that the Sahel would remain a focus for the French army, should it be required in the future. Speaking during his visit to Niger, Macron also announced an additional 10 million euros to help educate girls, one of the priorities promoted by President Issoufou to curb migration.
Jovsset Ante Sara, 25, has been successful in two previous challenges to reduce the size of his herd, suggesting he can not make a living with such a large cull. "We will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights and he will not have to reduce his reindeer herd", Sara's lawyer Trond Biti Pedersen told NRK .
Also the Turks stole the handwritten books in Mahmoudia Library and took them to Istanbul. The remarks received harsh criticism from top Turkish politicians, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said the Ottomans had done nothing but serve to protect the holy cities of Islam.
Acevedo said Miranda-Alvarez had recently had a miscarriage, which she had been attempting to hide from her boyfriend, when she killed Flores on Tuesday and then took Shamali. The police chief said later the suspect, Miranda-Alvarez, who was an acquaintance of the family, was due to have a baby in January but had miscarried; he said that she continued to fake her pregnancy.
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What McConnell did, unprecedented for a Republican national leader was to decide not to provide any financial support for Moore, which undoubtedly supplied the margin of victory - and more - for Democratic Sen. Ryan said Republicans would make entitlement reform a priority after passing their tax bill. We've moved the Supreme Court right of center for a generation.
Two of those detained were Belgian-Turkish nationals, the agency added. However, Rosenfeld did not mention the exact allegations against them, saying they were detained following "an incident" near Temple Mount. At the forefront of global condemnation of Trump's announcement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Dec 10: "We will not abandon Jerusalem to the mercy of a state that kills children".
Three people were killed in Bukidnon province, while politicians in Lanao del Sur province said 18 people had drowned in flash floods there. On Saturday, some residents in Lanao del Norte were burying the dead, even before the storm was over, said Sohaimen M.
The leaders said that relations between the world's two most populous countries have maintained the momentum of steady development over the years. "The prime minister fondly recalled his visit to Xiamen for the 9th BRICS Summit in September, and his meeting with President Xi Jinping there".
Horan Securities Inc. now owns 1,511 shares of the oil and gas company's stock valued at $122,000 after buying an additional 260 shares in the last quarter. Therefore 68% are positive. EQT Corporation had 76 analyst reports since July 21, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The firm earned "Hold" rating on Friday, November 3 by Cowen & Co.
About 334,900 shares traded. It has outperformed by 13.55% the S&P500. The insider THISSEN KAREN WILSON sold $61,690. Efg Asset Mgmt (Americas) stated it has 3,066 shares. (NYSE:AMP) by 6.6% during the first quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Bridges has 40,920 shares for 0.78% of their portfolio.
Redmond Asset Management Llc who had been investing in Intel Corp Com for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $218.56B market cap company. The stock decreased 0.13% or $0.06 during the last trading session, reaching $46.7. Since July 31, 2017, it had 0 insider purchases, and 10 insider sales for $31.43 million activity. Illinois-based Whitnell & Communication has invested 1.42% in Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC).
What actions should you take? If you can control your income, particularly if you have commission-based earnings orare self-employed, it may pay to deferthose earnings to 2018. You can claim a charitable tax deduction for the full value of the property and you have the added benefit that you will never be taxed on the growth of the investment's value.
The stock increased 4.29% or $0.86 during the last trading session, reaching $20.9. About 542,941 shares traded. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has risen 19.47% since December 23, 2016 and is uptrending. Employees Retirement Association Of Colorado reported 5,451 shares. Advsr Asset holds 0.16% in Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE:CMP) for 4,009 shares.
That's 93 percent of the 321,451 who enrolled during the 2017 open enrollment. But the Trump administration allowed for a shorter enrollment period this time around - roughly half as long - and cut the vast majority of funding for enrollment promotion, leading many to fear enrollment would take a drastic dive.
The trooper who police say was shot by Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty on Friday has been released from the hospital. Marsico also said that El-Mofty recently traveled to the Middle East and had ties there. The suspect then allegedly opened fire on them with two handguns, Marsico said. Law enforcement officers in Pennsylvania have shot and killed a gunman who fired at police in several locations in Harrisburg, the state capital.
And instead of the motto of the United States, " E Pluribus Unum ", the coin says, " Make America Great Again ". "For the commander in chief to give a political token with a campaign slogan on it to military officers would violate the important principle of separating the military from politics, as well as diminishing the tradition of the coin", Trevor Potter, a Republican former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, told the Post .
The resolution bans the supply of almost 75 percent of refined oil products to North Korea, puts a cap on crude deliveries and orders the repatriation of all North Korean nationals working overseas by the end of 2019. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has described the U.S. president as "mentally deranged". He said Trump was seeking "total subordination of the whole world".
Patrick Jiron, 80, and his wife Barbara, 70, drove from California to Vermont with the 27kg stash of weed in their auto but were arrested in Nebraska after being pulled over for traffic violations. Patrick Jiron, 83, and his wife Barbara Jiron, 80, were both cited for marijuana possession during a Tuesday traffic stop in York County, Nebraska.
In a picture shared by Rohit's wife Aesha Dhawan on Instagram, their son Zoravar fast asleep in Anushka's lap. We think the picture's cuteness quotient is just too much to put into words! In a video, the actress is seen dancing with Dhawan.
Police investigators say they have established probable cause to charge the juveniles, determining that the sandbag was thrown deliberately off the overpass and did not fall by accident. Byrd had severe head injuries. Police arrested the juveniles after seeing them leave the area near the overpass. According to Blade records, this is the 39th homicide in the metro Toledo area in 2017.
The stock increased 1.45% or $0.67 during the last trading session, reaching $47.01. New South Capital Management Inc, which manages about $3.52 billion and $4.19B US Long portfolio, upped its stake in Howard Hughes Corp (NYSE:HHC) by 138,773 shares to 1.11M shares, valued at $131.23 million in 2017Q3, according to the filing.


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A recent study reported a national decline in the number of history majors over the past six years. But at Yale, history remains the third most popular major for the class of 2019 as the department sponsors new efforts to bolster its global focus.
Last week, the American Historical Association published a study comparing the percent change in various fields of undergraduate study from 2011 to 2017, which found that the number of history majors has decreased by roughly 30 percent in the given time frame. This decrease marked a dip even below the major's previous popularity decline in the 1980s. Despite national trends, Yale's undergraduate program remains one of the five most popular majors at Yale, with 129 students declared in the class of 2019 alone.
While history has long been a renowned program at Yale, the number of history majors at Yale was in decline just five years ago, according to Edward Rugemer, director of undergraduate studies in history. He said the financial crisis may have factored into the major's decreasing popularity as students turned to fields such as economics that are "perceived as more practical." Similarly, the National Center for Education Statistics reported a decrease in history majors nationwide from nearly 35,000 students in 2008 to fewer than 25,000 in 2017.
Yet, Rugemer attributed the current upward trend in undergraduate interest in history to changes in the major, including new "tracks" focused on different regions or themes. Regions include the United States, Latin America and Middle East/Africa, while themes — dubbed "pathways" — vary from cultural history; to science, technology and medicine; to the world economy.
According to Rugemer, the department is currently looking for one more professor in African history. With the addition, the study of African history at Yale would be the largest in size during his memory at Yale, with three experts on the area. Meyerowitz, also a history professor, added that ongoing hiring searches in Japanese colonial history and Southeast Asian history will expand the number of faculty in those areas beyond the number in recent years.
"I think we need to broaden what we cover as much as possible while retaining depth in Europe and the United States and the parts of the world where the department has always focused," Rugemer said.
David Engerman, a professor of history at Yale, echoed the sentiments of his colleagues, saying that the history major is "thriving." He added that while some of the new hires would replace faculty members who had left the department, the addition of more global scholars is essential for a top department in the field.
Across peer institutions, history faculty members at Princeton and Brown told the News that their departments remain strong. Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University's director of undergraduate studies in history, said that their number of concentrators in the field has also been increasing.
He added that enrollment in history classes among students not specializing in the field was also increasing. Between October 2017 and September 2018, Brown has increased its course offerings in history from 42 to 46 classes, with 1,082 students and 1,385 students, respectively, enrolled.
Yair Mintzker, a Princeton University professor of history, said that the school's department experienced a temporary decrease in history enrollment after the 2008 financial crisis. Still, he said, the institution maintained history's status as one of the institution's most popular majors by increasing hires of junior faculty members in history.
The most popular major for the class of 2019 is economics.


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Tucked away and being a similar size to some 2 bedroom properties, this wonderfully presented coach house needs to be seen.
With skylight windows flooding the property with natural light, 2 off road parking spaces and a garage this home is a must view for any investor or first time buyer.
Entering the property through the front door the hallway has a telephone point and carpeted stairs rising to the first floor landing.
The landing is carpeted with wooden banisters, two storage cupboards, loft access and a skylight making the area very light.
The carpeted lounge with 3 front aspect windows with views and flows seamlessly into the kitchen area.
The kitchen is lit up with a skylight and comprises of tile effect vinyl flooring, matching wall and base units, stainless steel sink and drainer and splash back.
The modern kitchen also houses built in cooker, hob, fridge/freezer, dishwasher and washing machine.
The master bedroom is carpeted with a window to the front making the most of the vista, skylight and space for a multitude of wardrobes.
The upgraded bathroom has tile effect vinyl flooring, skylight, w/c, pedestal wash hand basin, bath with shower over, part tiled, extractor fan and shaver point.
To the front of the property are two allocated parking spaces and access to the garage with up and over door.
The garage has light, power, storage cupboard and rear door which leads to the private rear garden.
The rear garden is fully enclosed by wooden panel fencing and comprises of a raised lawned area, shingle area and a potting area.


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Poured from a 12 oz bottle into my stout glass. The appearance is that of a typical stout; nearly solid black body with a brown foamy head that retains decently. Good lacing is left on the glass, and a small amount of carbonation can be seen.
Roasted barley and nearly burnt coffee are the main aromas. These mix with toasted malts, faint dark chocolate, and a bit of a sour/lactose twang at the back end.
Sierra Nevada's Stout is medium-bodied; soft and smooth in the mouth, going down with little carbonation harshness. There is much more going on in the flavors than the nose suggests. The dark chocolate, coffee, and barley notes are more intense and blend quite well, and a good dose of hop bitterness on the back end mixes well with the semi-sweet malt base. Lingering bitter dark chocolate notes coat the mouth.


Unfortunately, due to illness, the Ladies Championship and Two-Wood finals have had to be postponed - hopefully they'll be played soon.
As always, all competitors are to be commended for the spirit in which they played the finals. As is traditional, the club finals represent the conclusion of the outdoor bowling season for the year - RUBC's most successful season for a long time (see the entry on how the men's team barely missed out on promotion to Division 2). We intend to go one better in 2012!!!
Pat Evans, Betty Condron and Lily Lyons of Railway Union Bowling Club today reached the final of the Rhona Eager Memorial Trophy (Senior Triples), defeating a team from Bray 24 shots to 16 at the Ladies Bowling League of Ireland (LBLI) Championship Finals being held this week at Skerries Bowling Club.
The ladies now go on to play in the final against either Westmanstown or CYM, to be held on Thursday 11th August at 11am.
The very best of luck in the final, ladies!!!
The 2011 Bowling League of Ireland Championship has proved to be a great one for Railway Union Bowling Club, with RUBC teams winning both the 2011 BLI Tyler Cup (Junior Pairs) and Mecredy Cup (Junior Fours).
So having won the Mecredy Cup in 2009, and the Tyler Cup in 2010, this year we've gone one better and won them both!
Adam & Derek Kells won the Tyler Cup on Friday evening, defeating D Richards & P O'Flaherty of CYM Bowling Club 22 shots to 16. This means that RUBC retain the Tyler Cup, which was won by Ultan & Nigel Daly in 2010.
John Mellon, and Ultan, Vivion & Nigel Daly then won the Mecredy Cup on Saturday afternoon, defeating J O'Rourke, G O'Brien, P O'Flaherty and D Richards of CYM Bowling Club 15 shots to 13. This follows their narrow loss in the final of last year's Mecredy Cup.
Well done to all the lads on a great achievement. This is a golden era for Railway Union Bowling Club!!!
RUBC in Final of Tyler & Mecredy Cups for 3rd year running.
Teams from Railway Union Bowling Club have reached the final of the BLI's Tyler Cup (Junior Pairs) and Mecredy Cup (Junior fours) for the third year in a row.
In the Tyler Cup semi-final, Adam Kells & Derek Kells emerged with a 22 - 20 victory over P Traynor & R Trayler of Greystones Bowling Club, while in the Mecredy Cup semi-final, Ultan Daly, John Mellon, Vivion Daly & Nigel Daly beat W Hyland, B Fairbrother, J C Lee & M Cowley of Crumlin Bowling Club 27 - 14. Meanwhile, Zach Martin of Railway Union was unfortunate to lose out to J Byrne of Crumlin Bowling club in the semi-final of the BLI's Railway Union Cup (under 25s). Hard luck Zach!
Derek & Adam now play in the final of the Tyler Cup on Friday 29th July at 6pm, where they hope to retain the cup won for Railway Union last year by Ultan & Nigel while, in turn, Ultan, John, Vivion and Nigel play in the final of the Mecredy Cup on Saturday 30th July at 2pm, where they hope to go one better than last year, when they were beaten in the final by one shot.
And we're not forgetting, of course, that Fiachra Tierney, Adam Kells, Wally Jackson & Derek Kells won the Mecredy Cup for Railway Union in 2009, while Fiachra & Derek were runners up in the Tyler Cup that same year.
Bests of luck in the final lads!!!
Railway Union Cup (Under 25s) - Zach Martin has reached the semi-final, knocking out two under-25 internationals along the way.
Tyler Cup (Junior Pairs) - Derek & Adam Kells have reached the semi-finals, Derek for the second time in three years.
Mecredy Cup (Junior Rinks) - John Mellon and Ultan, Vivion & Nigel Daly have reached the semi-finals for the second year running. Ian MacArthur, Ciaran Carrick, Zach Martin & Gerry Dolan were defeated in the quarter-finals in a closely fought match.
Nassau Cup (Junior Singles) - Adam Kells and Nigel Daly were both defeated by the narrowest margin possible - one shot - in the quarter-finals.
BLI Cup (Junior Triples) - Ultan, Vivion & Nigel Daly were defeated by one shot in the quarter-finals.
LBLI Rhona Eager Memorial Trophy (Senior Triples) - Lily Lyons, Pat Evans & Betty Condron have reached the semi finals of this senior competition.
Railway Union's Ladies and Mens 2011 League match dates are now available on our club calendar.
Men's Division 3 kicks off on Saturday 30th April, and our first match is away to Leinster.
Men's Division 5 begins on Tuesday 26th April, with our first match at home against CYM.
Ladies Division 3 starts on Thursday 28th April, with our first match at home to Ierne.
Click here to see all our match dates on our club calendar.
Men's Club Champion: Ultan Daly; Ladies Club Champion: Pat Corcoran.
All competitors are to be commended for the spirit in which they played the finals, and for the way they played in what were sometimes very trying conditions. As is traditional, the club finals represent the conclusion of the outdoor bowling season for the year - RUBC's most successful season for a long time. We intend to go on to every greater things in 2011!!!
RUBC win Tyler Cup, runners-up in Mecredy Cup. Railway Union's Ultan Daly & Nigel Daly have won the BLI Tyler Cup (pairs) - the first time RUBC have taken home the cup since 1943. Railway Union's Ultan Daly, John Mellon, Vivion Daly and Nigel Daly were also runners-up in the BLI Mecredy Cup (foursomes), having been narrowly beaten after an extra end when the match ended all-square after 21 ends.
This is the second year running that RUBC have won one cup and been runners-up in another. In 2009, Railway Union's Fiachra Tierney, Adam Kells, Wally Jackson, Tadgh Kenneally and Derek Kells won the Mecredy Cup, 19 years after RUBC last won it, while Fiachra Tierney & Derek Kells were runners-up in the Tyler Cup in another very tight match.
Click here for the full results of the 2010 BLI Championships.
RUBC reach FINAL!!! Railway Union's U Daly, J Mellon, V Daly & N Daly have reached the final of the BLI Mecredy Cup, to be held in Crumlin Bowling Club on Saturday 31st July at 2pm. They meet G Gibson, A Kelly, J Lee and Q Teggin of Bank of Ireland in what is a local derby game (Railway Union Bowling Green being the home green of both teams).
Railway Union are the defending Mecredy Cup Champions, with F Tierney, A Kells, W Jackson (T Kenneally [sub]) & D Kells having won it last year for the first time since 1990.
Click here for the results of the 2010 BLI Championships as they happen.


Water as it supports life and the quality of what we drink are the topics of a photographic exhibition showing this month in Gilbert.
Both photographers find beauty in their surroundings but impart warning messages: One observes the gradual decay of water quality, and the other notes the perils to life within and around the water.
Strom's images were taken on a variety of isolated beaches along the Pacific Coast. When seas rise, warm and acidify as a result of global warming, it stresses the lives of the creatures that make their home in the tidal zones.
"In geologic terms, the pace of change now is frenetic, and the effect on tidal zones is no longer languorous. For the creatures who live here, there are fewer options. They're not coming back, those old rhythms," he said.
In a state where the quantity of water is a big concern, Velo highlights the importance also of its quality.
Her color photograms were created along the Colorado River, from its headwaters in Northern Colorado all the way into Mexico. The project shows a visual comparison of water in different locations with color influenced by whatever is in it.
To make the images, Velo goes into the water long after dark and submerges color photographic paper. At the right moment, the paper is briefly exposed to a light source, while underwater, to create a photogram of the water contents and movement.
According to the Save The Colorado Foundation, every drop of the Colorado River's five trillion gallons of water is drained every year and diverted to farms and cities.
When the water is returned to the river, it contains pollutants from agriculture, pesticides, municipal wastewater systems, livestock feedlots and prescription drugs, among others, Velo said.
"The contents of the water interact with the photographic emulsion of my paper and an alchemy takes place, which effects the color and shows the viscosity of the water – a visual effect that is captured in my photograms," she added.
Velo has shown her work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including at the Southeastern Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. She also teaches traditional and digital photography in Arizona.
Velo's underwater process to create work is equaled by Strom's photographs, which are equally painstaking to generate.
A former research astronomer, his communion with the beaches are during the lowest tides of the month and at dawn, when, under a full moon, the ocean waters recede.
"For a few hours, another world is revealed: sand engraved with transient patterns imprinted by the ebbing tide and by marine life scurrying for sustenance; flora and fauna clinging to rocks, finding nourishment before the waters return; rocks and shells polished by tide and time, arranged on a canvas of sand," he said.
Strom's work captures expansive vistas and intimate portraits. He outlined the lives of mussels that are upended by the environmental changes.
Mussels, gathered in tidal zones in a "living blanket" might appear to be still, but they are restless with hunger and an urge to stay alive. Each mussel stays attached via a foot that secretes a kind of glue and grips the surface; they congregate and sidle up to one another.
However, increasingly acidified ocean waves slosh around and under the mussel beds and eat away at those threads, changing the proteins in the silky glue, weakening the mussels' attachments, he said.
Meanwhile, "seawater is slowly rising, and more violent storms hammer the coasts, pound the mussels whose threads, stretched by the force, sometimes snap," he said.
Mussels can't detach and migrate to a better place.
Strom accepts that change is inevitable over the years. For millions of years, the sea has risen and fallen, and life forms have managed to adapt or not.
"But the current pace of change confronts us with a new and urgent question: Can these balanced systems evolve rapidly enough to enable continued sustenance and maybe even a new beauty?" he asked.
Velo hopes her photograms will make people wonder what's in their water and advocate for better water quality.
"We can all do our part," she said.
Water Flow and Tidal Rhythms is on through Oct. 27 with a closing reception from 4-6 p.m. on that day at HD South, home of the Gilbert Historical Museum, 10 S. Gilbert Road. Details: 480-926-1577 or hdsouth.org.
Both photographers have published books connected to their photography: "Water Flow: A Journey Through the Colorado River" by Kathleen Velo chronicles the three-year process of creating camera-less, underwater photograms ($40 at kathleenvelo.com) and "Tidal Rhythms: Change and Resilience at the Edge of the Sea" with Barbara Hurd (George F. Thompson Publishing, priced at $35.17 on amazon.com), which features about 100 tidal photos.


We have had a few request to post a review of our tow vehicle and our trailer. We now own the truck for a year, and we added 20,000 km on the motor. As you may recall, we got the trailer last fall (2010) and did a great trip from Vancouver out to Saskatchewan and back to Victoria. That trip was over 5000 km, and we got a really good feel for the trailer and the truck.
Overall the truck is just fantastic, we would not change anything. The 6 cylinder 6.7 liter cummins diesel motor has an incredible amount of power and torque. Really, if you need more power, you should get a dump truck or a Terex Titan like the one below.
Anders just had to check it out. This is in Sparwood, British Columbia.
With the trailer loaded up and tanks full, we pull around 9,000 lbs which the truck pulls up and down the Rocky Mountains (on cruise control) with a smile, and with lots of power to spare. The truck has full torque at very low rpm (1,300 rpm) and produces somewhere around 650 ft lbs of torque.
The truck is further equipped with a 6 speed automatic transmission that is just great. You can gear down manually just with a toggle switch on the gear shift if you choose to.
A great place for information on the Cummins motor is the Cummins Forum, also you can check out the Diesel Truck Recource for more of your questions. At both places you can get any question about diesel motors or trucks answered.
I did a lot of research prior to buying our truck. I compared the Chevy, Ford and Dodge. At the end we picked the Dodge (and it's really personal preference) and one of the reasons was the cummins motor. I did go out and test drive all three brands.
At first we were going to buy a new truck, but when we saw the difference in price, we settled on a two year old unit with 52,000km on the motor. By the way, I have been told, a cummins motor is just getting broke in at 50,000km.
Further we were also fortunate to have some family giving us feed back. My brother in-law Allan and his son Jason, who farm in Saskatchewan have nothing but good things to say about the cummins motor.
Allan and his family have several trucks on the farm. They have one Dodge Ram that has over 1 million km on it. I also read an article that stated that most big Semi Trucks on the road have a straight 6 cylinder motor.
Another article that I read stated that (now referring to 2008 models) the Cummins motor was rated for a re-build at 350,000 km compared to 250,000 for both Chevy and Ford motors.
I'm not sure what they have done with the exhaust system on these trucks, but it is the best in the industry. You can smell less fumes from our exhaust then you do from a car.
The quad cab in our truck is perfect for us. It gives us extra room in the back should we have extra people with us. When we are on the road, we most of the time keep our (hiking) back packs and a cooler with lunch and snacks in the back, so the extra room is nice.
Never really thought I was going to talk about a sun roof, but it is very nice and I'm happy we got that option.
The sunroof option gives you a different point of view.
When driving in the mountains you do get a better view of the surroundings, and when you run in to some wild life on the road it's a great place to shoot a movie.
I asked my wife Liz to write a comment on the truck to get a woman's perspective on things. She does drive the truck and trailer when we are out camping and it is great for me to sit in the passenger side as well.
To share the driving will be especially important when we go across Canada and back this year, we will drive around 20,000 km from May till the end of October.
"Our truck is great for towing our 5th wheel. I feel confident that it has the power to get us up the mountains, and more importantly has the capacity to control the weight and push when we come down mountains.
At first I was very apprehensive to drive the truck pulling the trailer. But I feel confident, that the truck and I can handle it. I have been driving through the mountains and passes no problems. In the cities with the trailer I am still a bit cautious. In the city without the trailer is fine, although in my opinion this truck is way too big and parking is a challenge.
I still call it the beast, but I have learned to tame it."
Our truck is equipped with a full tow package including Tow Haul and Exhaust Break, these are features that should not be overlooked when purchasing a truck as a tow vehicle.
Tow Haul. The Tow Haul is a feature that is activated with the press of a button (at the end of the gear shift). The Tow Haul feature keeps the transmission in the first 4 gears (out of 6). It will gear down on it's own when you let off the throttle and especially when it senses a load pushing from behind, like 9000 lbs, in the form of a 5th wheel trailer. It is a feature that I would not want to be without. We even use the Tow Haul when driving in the city. It is great, because the truck does not go in to over-drive ( gear 5 and 6).
Exhaust Break. Exhaust break is what the big truckers refer to as a Jake. On our Dodge Ram it is activated by pushing a button on the dash. What happens is that the exhaust path of the motor is closed off by a valve, and the motor has to force the compressed gases past the valve, slowing the motor down.
Driving with the exhaust break is a bit louder, especially when you go down hill, but here again, a must feature if you are thinking of buying a truck to tow. Now they can be installed after-market as well. According to the Dodge Ram manual, if you turn the exhaust break on when you start the truck up, it will help to warm up the motor faster.
These two features together make towing a trailer down hill a breeze, and you do not ride the breaks. It is very rare that we use our brakes coming down most hills.
With the 29 ft trailer behind us, we came across the Coquihalla, Highway 5, coming down to Fraser Valley and Vancouver last fall. With the Tow Haul and the Exhaust Break engaged I had to touch the manual breaks once or twice in the steepest part. During the rest of the downhill grade, I had to keep the foot on the throttle or it would slow down too much. The grade on the Coquihalla is 8.5% in some places, and it drops 3000 ft in 20 km.
The truck has better fuel economy than we expected. It is improving as we go along. At first, at 52,000 km, we got around 18 liters per 100 km (13 mpg), by now at 72,000 km it improved to approximately 13-14 liters per 100 km (18 mpg).
When pulling the trailer we average about 18-20 liters per 100 km (11-13 mpg). We travel at a speed of 90-100 km/hr if roads are good, otherwise we drop down to 70-80 km/hr.
The side mirrors on the truck flip up for tow mode. This is a great feature, easy to do and works like a charm.
Extras we purchased for the truck are, a tool box for the back that fits under the cover (referred to as "underbody tool box"), a soft roll top cover, a lock for the tail gate, a TomTom XXL GPS and a set of Uniden Two Way Radios. We use the radios for backing up when parking in tight campgrounds. If you want more info on those, just let me know.
The only extra that would be nice to have in a truck, is a built in GPS. As you know we purchased a free standing unit (see above picture). I don't like having the GPS on the front window, so I will show you later, in a separate blog how we handled that situation.
On second thought, maybe it is better to have a free standing unit. Reason: you have to think about how all technical gadgets change from year to year. The GPS units have come a long way since 4 years ago. So maybe it is better to have a free standing unit that you can replace when you would like to.
Next time we are in the market for a GPS, I will also look at possibly using an iPad, Galaxy or BlackBerry tablet. By using a tablet with a GPS app you can look at your route and plan the next day much easier. You can get a TomTom app for both the iPhone and iPod touch. If you have a Google phone like me, I use an HTC Desire Z smart phone and it has a GPS app. I have not used it yet so I can not give you any feed back there.
We will cover the hitch and the trailer in the next two blogs.
PS. Just in case we forget, remind me, and I will let you know how we set up for our on wireless Wi-Fi network when we are on the road.
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I agree with your point. Auto dealerships can offer different pricings and customer service experience. Typically tow truck near me in Vancouver allows me to put my mind at ease. They're fantastic.


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Northrop third-quarter results top estimates, 2015 profit outlook raised
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hours after winning a multibillion-dollar contract to build a new U.S. bomber, Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue and earnings on Wednesday, and increased its profit outlook for the full year.
A B-2 Stealth Bomber performs a flyover at the 126th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, in this file photo taken January 1, 2015. REUTERS/David McNew/Files
Northrop, maker of the current B-2 bomber and Global Hawk unmanned planes, reported a 9 percent rise in third-quarter net profit to $516 million, or $2.75 per share, from $473 million, or $2.26 per share, a year earlier. Revenue edged up to $5.99 billion from $5.98 billion.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S looked for earnings per share of $2.19 on revenue of $5.86 billion.
The company's share price jumped 5.5 percent to $190.60 on the New York Stock Exchange.
On Tuesday Northrop beat out a Boeing Co (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) team to develop and build a next-generation long-range strike bomber for the U.S. Air Force. Analysts said the deal could be valued at up to $80 billion.
In a conference call after the earnings release, Chief Executive Officer Wesley Bush said an organizational realignment announced earlier his month was not intended to separate its services businesses.
The realignment would lower costs in the long term, but the company did not expect any material effect on costs this year, said Chief Financial Officer Ken Bedingfield.
Northrop raised its outlook for full-year 2015 earnings to $9.70 to $9.80 per share, from $9.55 to $9.70. It now expects 2015 revenue at $23.6 billion to $23.8 billion, raising the lower end of the previous range from $23.4 billion.
Overall operating income rose 3 percent and the operating margin increased to 13.3 percent from 12.9 percent due to higher pension adjustments and a $21 million decrease in corporate expenses.
Northrop said at the end of the quarter, $4.6 billion remained on its share repurchase program, but it will not introduce a new target for buybacks.
"Going forward we will return to our prior approach of assessing our repurchases from time to time in the context of our capital deployment strategy which has not changed," Bush said during the call.
Bush said the international market accounted for 15 percent of its business so far this year and it was seeing interest from Europe on the Triton plane.
Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Idrees Ali; Editing by W Simon and JS Benkoe


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Roger Moore, Who Played James Bond the Longest, Dies at 89
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*Actor Roger Moore, whose tenure as James Bond was longer than other actor in the iconic role, has died. He was 89.
Moore, who earlier made his reputation as a suave leading man on the television series "Maverick," "The Saint" and "The Persuaders!," died, with a message from his children shared on the actor's official Twitter account reading: "It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed away today in Switzerland after a short but brave battle with cancer."
After George Lazenby originated Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), Moore took over the role in "Live and Let Die" (1973) and stayed for "The Man With the Golden Gun" (1974), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), "Moonraker" (1979), "For Your Eyes Only" (1981), "Octopussy" (1983) and "A View to a Kill" (1985), which hit theaters when he was nearly 58. He said it was his choice to leave the franchise.
Moore's Bond films earned more than $1 billion at the box office. But he considered himself to be the fourth-best 007, trailing Connery, Daniel Craig and Lazenby. And after leaving the series, he acted only sporadically.
In 1999, Moore was awarded the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, and knighthood followed in 2003. He spent the past several years doing charity work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Survivors include his wife Kristina, whom he married in 2002, and children Deborah, Geoffrey and Christian.
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Mich. principal censors investigative story and editorial on lawsuit facing school
MICHIGAN — Student journalists at Utica High Schoolare fuming after their principal censored their award-winningschool newspaper's coverage of a highly publicized pending lawsuitinvolving allegations that the school district's bus depot causeshealth problems for area residents.
Principal Richard Machesky forced the Arrow staff toremove a front-page story written for the March 15 issue of thepaper about a lawsuit the school faces from a resident claimingschool bus exhaust fumes caused his lung cancer. Machesky alsoobjected to an editorial and accompanying cartoon that suggestedthe bus depot should be moved from its current location, whichis near an elementary school, playing fields and a neighborhood.
"The Arrow is a school-sponsored, curriculum-basedpublication, over which the school exercises a great deal of control,"Machesky wrote in a letter to the staff. He said he chose to withholdthe items due to "factual errors," and SuperintendentJoan Sergent supported his decision.
Utica administrators declined to comment about the incident,but said in letters to the students that they did not think theiractions constituted censorship, since they do not see the Arrowas an open public forum.
The day the issue was set to go to press, March 7, the Arrowstaff replaced the controversial article with a story titled "Welderscompete at regionals." They replaced the pulled editorialwith one that attacked censorship and outlined freedom of speech,accompanied by a large black box in which the word "Censored"appeared.
Julie Wojciechowski, the Arrow's senior managing editor,said the staff was "upset and confused" over the pulled article.
Katy Dean, the author of the article, has vowed to sue theschool if necessary and is currently looking for legal representation.
The rest of the Arrow staff is determined to get realanswers from the administration as to why the story was pulled,Wojciechowski said.
"We just want reasons as to why our story was censored,because we don't really have any rights now," she said. "So,we're going to go down and we're going be investigators and reporters,who we've been trained to be."
"One of the most important freedoms Americans have isfreedom of the press," reads an editorial Wojciechowski andother staff members wrote. "Papers around the world arecensored for trying to cover important issues. The struggle toprotect our freedoms does not begin in Afghanistan, but righthere in our classrooms. We must fight for our freedoms at homeas well as abroad."
The editorial refers to the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decisionin Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier saying, "Schoolshave the right to censor in specific instances, but only whereit interferes with their 'pedagogical functions.' While [Hazelwood]does apply in some cases, it is not a blanket right to use inall instances. The high school newspaper should not be a publicrelations tool of the district."
The Macomb Daily ran all of the material Machesky pulledfrom the Arrow on April 7, unedited.
"A lot of the teachers have been telling me that if [theadministration] hadn't censored the story, they would have beenbetter off, because in reality it's a student newspaper,"Wojciechowski said. "You would have had maybe 200 studentsread the newspaper, 50 parents, and just let it go. They wereapparently concerned with their image, and now they destroyedit even more by letting it get to the big paper."
Read the Arrow's censored story and editorial, printed in the Macomb Daily on April 7.


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A New Way Your Family Can Help You Pay For Expensive Fertility Treatments
Presented by Future Family
You never know where you're going to find answers and inspiration— or money—to help you pursue your dreams of building a family.
For LaMonica McNair, it came when she was getting a manicure. She and her husband, Howard, had been trying to have a baby without success for more than eight years. Their infertility struggles not only strained their marriage but caused them personal anguish, even shame. They continually wondered: Why were so many people around them having babies and yet they couldn't?
Fertility Loan Tips in the Nail Salon
McNair hadn't felt comfortable talking to anyone about her fertility struggles for a long time, but she finally confided in her nail technician, Dee, whose son and daughter-in-law had faced fertility issues. Dee had helped them with research and advice, and inspired McNair, who says, "She really lifted me up."
Dee turned McNair onto Future Family, a company that offers guidance and financial support for people on complicated fertility journeys.
For so long, McNair and her husband had despaired of finding answers. After years of blood tests and ultrasounds, holistic treatments, weight loss, surgery, and a failed IUI, they decided to keep trying, to move past their devastating loss. It was then that she found out that IVF, which was recommended as a next step, would cost around $20,000.
She thought, "Who has $20,000 laying around?"
McNair had researched many options, but it was Dee's knowledge of Future Family and its Grandbaby Plan, that gave her real hope.
Getting to Yes for a Fertility Loan
In the summer of 2019, when McNair was on a mothers-and-daughters family trip, she told her mom about their hope to pursue IVF and about the Future Family loan options.
McNair says: "Her only concern was that she didn't know anything about IVF. She was concerned that it was a big, major surgery. I explained it all to her and she asked me how I felt. I said, 'This is the move I need to make.' She said, 'If you feel all right about it, then let's do it.'"
"We filed the Future Family Grandbaby Plan form online together. A few minutes later, an email came in saying that we were approved and both of us started crying."
McNair didn't tell her husband right away, but when she heard from her medical provider that should return for IVF preparation testing, she finally did.
McNair says: "When I told him we were approved for IVF funding and treatment, he just grabbed me and hugged me. That was the moment that confirmed that this was the right thing."
When I told (my husband that) we were approved for IVF funding and treatment, he just grabbed me and hugged me. That was the moment that confirmed that this was the right thing.
Support + Financing = Hope
Claire Tomkins, the founder and CEO of Future Family understands how difficult dealing with infertility can be. She lived through it herself and since launching Future Family in 2017 has heard from thousands of clients. They have had similar experiences—of feeling isolated and overwhelmed by the costs and the physical, emotional, and psychological struggle of finding the right path.
Tomkins's motivation for the company came from going through six rounds of IVF; she ultimately had three children. The infertility experience strained her relationships with her husband, friends, and colleagues, who didn't understand what she was going through and couldn't truly help.
She says: "I was lucky enough to have kind nurses who were supportive and upbeat, but not everyone does. That was the inspiration for creating not only fertility financing but also an affordable fertility coaching program at Future Family. All of our loan packages come with a dedicated Fertility Coach."
Says Tomkins, "Our Fertility Coaches not only have technical knowledge, with each being a registered nurse with at least ten years clinical experience, but they are also deeply empathetic and compassionate. They help clients feel informed and emotionally supported."
That connection has been invaluable to McNair. She was happy to have been approved for the Grandbaby Plan loan, and then surprised and even more relieved that for a small fee, she gets the Future Family coaching as well.
I was lucky enough to have kind nurses who were supportive and upbeat, but not everyone does. That was the inspiration for creating not only fertility financing but also an affordable fertility coaching program at Future Family.
McNair says the nurse-coach "keeps in contact often and answers all my questions, and on the days that I need encouragement, she seems to 'know' and she reaches out. She's also there for my husband."
Tomkins says that the Grandbaby Plan idea came from input from women who had signed up at Future Family and were active on online forums: they needed help for the big investment required for IVF.
According to Tomkins, "The Grandbaby Plan is a way for a grandparent-to-be (aka a parent) to take out a customized fertility loan for IVF (and egg freezing) on behalf of their child. If you don't have a parent, we will accept a sibling or extended family instead. The idea is to allow family to help each other in this sensitive time."
How to Have the Money Talk
In McNair's case, she and her husband will be paying the loan payments, with her mom as co-signer. She was able to have a heart-to-heart talk with her mom, who then supported her decision to pursue the loan. However, it's not always easy to share with family how expensive fertility care can be, and harder still to ask for financial help.
Thomas Farley, a.k.a America's Etiquette Expert "Mister Manners", is often asked how to approach this conversation with family. He says, discussing money issues can be a deeply personal conversation so those planning their fertility path should approach family members with thought and care.
Here are the steps he recommends:
If this is a couple going through the fertility process (as opposed to an individual), before broaching the conversation, they should be in agreement about the scope of involvement they will be requesting from their family or families.
They should be clear what decision-making input their parents or other relatives will have. Once they've reached consensus with one another and are ready to engage in the conversation, they must take great care to ensure that the parents or family members don't feel guilted into giving.
The discussion with family members should ideally be had in-person, and in a pressure-free, open manner. If there is receptivity to the idea, the would-be parent or parents should have a detailed budget and a set of goals to share.
The prospective grandparents must be given ample time to consider the request, and to speak with their own financial advisor or retirement planner about what sort of contribution they can realistically make.
If they ultimately decide to proceed, the parents should not use the fact that they are subsidizing or underwriting the process as a rationale for directing it.
All parties to this arrangement must establish clear parameters. Is this a loan? Is it a gift? What is the maximum amount everyone agrees to spend, regardless of how the treatments go? Establishing goals and committing to an understanding of the expectations and roles will help prevent misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and resentment.
Once the terms are set—even if the terms are "no strings, no budgetary limit"—the agreement should be put in writing, not only for the sake of the individuals directly involved, but also for the sake of siblings or other family members who may (for example—rightly or wrongly) feel their future inheritance is being spent disproportionately on a sibling. (Editor's note: the Future Family Grandbaby Plan is a legal document that accomplishes this purpose.)
If the parents ultimately determine that financial assistance is not within their means, the would-be parent or parents should not harbor any feelings of ill-will but rather take comfort in the much-needed support their families can provide in many other ways, from emotional support to logistical support."
Staying Optimistic Even with an Unexpected Path
Knowing that there is financing in place, McNair says she and her husband can focus on preparing for their IVF cycle—going to the doctors, taking medications they need, working out, staying optimistic, and keeping their stress levels down.
She has come to an understanding, saying: "I had some shame about feeling that I was less than a woman because I couldn't have kids. I've come to realize that we all have issues, and this just happens to be my and my husband's issue. This is our story. I'm glad for the road that we've had to take. I've found out that so many people have gone through this and found success. We're no different than them and we can, too."
Find out more about the Future Family Grandbaby Plan here.


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10 Facts, Stats, & Records (either tied or broken) in the Giants 41-27 win over Cleveland
Posted by fantasyfurnace on October 8, 2012
Posted in: NFL.	Tagged: Ahmad Bradshaw, Cleveland Browns, David Wilson, Football, N.Y. Giants, NFL, Seattle Seahawks, Sports, Trent Richardson, Victor Cruz, Washington Redskins.	8 Comments
Every so often a regular season NFL game comes along with an inordinate amount of interesting and little known facts accompanying it. Thus was the case in the Giants 41-27 defeat of the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. At least five records were either tied or broken at Met Life Stadium on a rainy & chilly October afternoon. Here are some of the more interesting stats that we were able to extrapolate from this game…
1. The Giants came into this game averaging 89.5 yards on the ground per game. Sunday they had 243 rushing yards on the day.
2. RB Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for a career high 200 yards.
#44 RB Ahmad Bradshaw, after fumbling on the Giants first drive of the game, went on to rush for a career high 200 yards on 30 carries and a TD. Photo: Nick Laham/Getty Images)
3. Cleveland has now lost 11 games in a row dating back to last season.
4. RB David Wilson collected his first NFL touchdown.
5. WR Victor Cruz had a career high three touchdowns in one game.
#80 WR Victor Cruz had a record setting afternoon vs the Browns on Sunday, scoring a career-high 3 TDs. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images
6. With just under four minutes left in the 1st quarter, the Giants scored on a 92 yard drive; their longest of the season.
7. RB Trent Richardson became the fist rookie to score five touchdowns in his first five games in franchise history.
#33 RB Trent Richardson set a franchise record with five TDs in his first five games. Photo: Image source: Browns Facebook page
8. RB Ahmad Bradshaw became the ninth 200 yard rusher in franchise history.
9. The Giants 41 points were the most scored in a regular season game since their 41-7 win over Seattle on 11/7/10. The last time they scored over 41 points in a regular season game was on 12/21/09 in a 45-12 victory over the Redskins in Washington.
10. The S.F. 49ers and the N.Y. Giants scored a combined 86 points in their games on Sunday. They will face each other in week #6…
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8 comments on "10 Facts, Stats, & Records (either tied or broken) in the Giants 41-27 win over Cleveland"
tournamentace on October 8, 2012 at 8:52 am said:
Victor Cruz is the man!
fantasyfurnace on October 8, 2012 at 9:33 am said:
No question about it!
Alan aka tophatal on October 8, 2012 at 12:06 pm said:
The Niners put up over 600 all purpose yards of offense on a porous Bills' defense ! The Bills don't circle the wagons , they allow their opponents to come in and burn the whole damn thing down . Chan Gailey's days are numbered as the Bills' head coach .
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Steven Jeffries on October 9, 2012 at 6:59 pm said:
What a great one this should be! Will the 49ers run or pass more? I know Eli will take to the air…Cruz gets 3 TD's in this one! Great stuff as usual, Hank!
fantasyfurnace on October 9, 2012 at 10:17 pm said:
Thanks so much Steven! The Giants lost by a touchdown in their regular season game last year in week #10 on 11/13 vs the 49ers; 27-20. The Giants rushed for a total of only 92 yards and oddly enough the only TD's through the air were by Mario Manningham (now a 49er), and Hakeem Nicks (OUT this week).
Fan On Fire_Maurice Barksdale on October 9, 2012 at 9:39 pm said:
I like the concept behind this article Hank. It taught me lots of things I would have never known had I not read it, and I'm glad I did.
Thanks Maurice! Really appreciate the kind words.
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Commission on Audit (COA) Commissioner Roland C. Pondoc administered the Integrity Pledge to officials and employees of COA Regional Office No. VI on 8 February 2019 as part of the Commission's Integrity Management Program to strengthen the moral uprightness of COA employees.
Commissioner Pondoc stressed the importance of integrity, quoting Amy Anderson's article in Forbes that noted integrity will last longer when success have come and gone.
While Regional Director Atty. Chona P. Labrague pointed out that the Integrity Pledge is the time when employees renew their promise to faithfully perform their duties and responsibilities as servants of the public.
COA Commissioner Roland C. Pondoc joins officials and staff of COA Regional Office No. VI led by Regional Director Chona P. Labrague during the Integrity Pledge ceremony on 8 February 2019.
Atty. Gileo S. Alojado, Chief of the Legal Services of COA Region VI, lectured on RA 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees, RA 3019 or the Anti-graft and Corrupt Practices Act and the Revised Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for COA Officials and Employees. A role play showcasing audit experiences and positive work behavior was likewise held.
COA Regional employees solemnly swore to and abide by the responsibilities and obligations of public service and thereafter individually signed and submitted their respective Integrity Pledge documents.