Sunday, March 27, 2011

The March Madness of Italy and Illinois

I'm on the home stretch of 19 days of flying and living in Rockford, Illinois. This temporary home and work was preceded by 10 days off adventuring through Italy.

Hello Work Life. Living life near Chicago

Travel Fun and The Duomo. Florence, Italy

Besides the obvious of being located on another continent and conversing in a different languages, the cultural and daily aspects of life also contrast. In Italy, and all of Europe, walking is as normal as breathing. In Rockford, Illinois, sidewalks are basically non-existent, and it's typical to ask the hotel driver to take the other stews and I across the intersection to Starbucks. Walking through the canals of Venice somewhat lost

Starbucks.

That brings me to another point. As Starbucks is7 U.S.C.A. § 71 et seq. "Probe" sample grades were first taken from the loaded boxcars by state inspectors at various points between the appellants' warehouses and the terminal locations. Two "belt run" samples were later taken simultaneously by state and federal inspectors as the unloaded flax was being received in the terminals. The federally taken "belt run" samples produced the "federal appeal grades" requested by appellee and upon which appellee based its settlements with appellants. The handling of the remaining carloads differs from the above procedure only in that no federal appeal grade was taken, settlements being made on the state "belt run" grades. Appellants claim that all settlements should have been made on the grades determined from the earlier "probe" samples taken in the loaded boxcars.