Sunny Beach JSC insists on immediate legislative changes that would regulate strict rules in trading activities, temporary sites and the way the infrastructure in the tourist complex is managed. The imperfections in the laws and the inability to apply the legislation effectively unlock all the crises and raise tension in the resort, said Zlatko Dimitrov, CEO of the company, at a working breakfast with journalists. Dimitrov took office as an executive director of Sunny Beach JSC in November, this year, after being a Chairman of the company's Board of Directors for two years. He is determined to continue the current policy of imposing order, legality and security in our largest resort, despite the opposition on behalf of some of the hotel owners. The balance of the last season shows the effectiveness of the measures taken so far. Their legality is proved by a resolution of the Supreme Administrative Prosecution Office, under which all security measures, monitoring regime and transportation introduced in Sunny Beach are lawful.
In order to organize a successful tourist season in next year too, the company's management needs legislative support as well. Its proposals for law changes are addressed to the relevant government institutions, and several meetings with their representatives were held.
'We consider the implementation of the proposals indispensable, and even very late', Zlatko Dimitrov said. The most - pressing problem of all tourist resorts in the country is the correct regulation of the commercial activities and the temporary sites. There is no legislative will for its settlement and the law enforcement is cumbersome and ineffective. Over the past 15 years hundreds of illegal sites crowded in Sunny Beach, their number now exceeds 800. Huge restaurants are rife in the central squares and gardens, kitschy street-stalls and shacks form insurmountable wall and prevent the access to the beaches. Although they are strictly illegal, they continue to work undisturbed and their owners do not pay rent. The removal of the illegal buildings has always been opposed. It is disadvantageous for some business circles, who want to gain illegal profits from the chaos. The existing legislation does not help for establishing order. Sunny Beach JSC offers not to enforce article 56 of the ZUT (Law on Territory Planning) for the 7 resorts in the country because of their special status. The permits for placement of temporary objects should be issued according to in advance approved by the MRRB (Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works) schedule, detailing the size, materials and the method the objects must be fixed and fastened, regardless the ownership of the land /schemes are now required only for state and municipal land/. The company wants to have filled in the ZUT (Law on Territory Planning) an outright ban on deployment of movable objects on properties where construction has reached the limit of structural indicators. If the objects could lead to damage to the green areas they also should not be authorized. The Black Sea coast law should provide an explicit prohibition on placing establishments offering food on the beaches, with the exception of trade with bottled drinks and packaged foods.
The company management insists too on a precise definition of "movable" objects. In order to create a harmonious architectural environment, the Ministry must approve a scheme for a unified vision of all the temporary objects. For years now Sunny Beach is filled with different by style, rusted and rotten sheds of the type "country custom market," creating a repulsive appearance of the complex. The company can't cope with them, because the law makes no distinction between "construction" and "movable" object. This leads the court to decide that a rusty shed is actually a "building site" and the order for its removal to be declared null and void.
According to the proposal of the joint stock company, once approved, the scheme for the temporary objects can not be appealed and changed. The issuing or not issuing a permit to place an object could not be disputed too. Only parts of the scheme involving the stakeholders will be a subject to appeal.
Sunny Beach JSC wants a simplified procedure and short terms for removing the illegal sites. To avoid spreading responsibility between municipalities and state supervisory authorities, the company offers RDNSK (Regional Directorate for National Construction Supervision) to be the only authority in power.
The streets of Sunny Beach as well as those in all major towns in the country are blocked by a particular category of points of sale the Bulgarian legislature refuses to deal with. Carts, places for cooked corn sale, punching bags, tables and shelves for fruit, glasses, balloons and more hardly fall under the impact of the law. They are mobile, fast and can change their location many times. The Company's management believes that by non-compliance with the general trade system, these traders must be considered violators of the public order and become subject to fines and property forfeiture.
Zlatko Dimitrov is convinced that only with legislative changes and their strict application the state will be able to hold its line of conduct for management and development of the resorts. The Union of the Bulgarian Architects agrees with the offers for ZUT (Law on Territory Planning) changes. They are included in the summarized offers for changes in the law made by the SAB (The Union of the Bulgarian Architects) and submitted to the Regional Ministry.
To ensure reliable support of the infrastructure in the complex Sunny Beach a change in its status from urban village to a resort of national importance is offered too. This will enable the tourist tax to be collected in the state budget and then reinvested in the infrastructure of the resort.
Despite the economic crisis and the opposition on side the supporters of the chaos in the complex, the company's management succeeded in providing safe and peaceful stay for the tourists last season. In the summer 2011 Sunny Beach - East, whose infrastructure operator is the joint-stock company of the same name, started to become really a modern European resort and to take care of its impaired image. A special scheme for deployment of the commercial sites, consistent with the current ZUT (Law on Territory Planning) and Nessebar municipality was developed.
Monitoring regime of access to the alleys and the hotels in the complex was introduced that ensures the safety of the holidaymakers. High-tech control systems with optical connectivity track the traffic at the 8 checkpoints and the key intersections, and assist the police. Optical infrastructure provides to the owners of objects quality communications services. The company plans to build a wireless internet connection, available to all tourists in the resort too.
In 2011 a new transport scheme was adopted, that ensured smooth running of the cars and the tourists in the resort. The access of vehicles to the bikeways was restricted as well as the parking of vehicles on the sidewalks. Three new parking lots with 160 parking spaces, 818 parking spaces for SMS parking and 130 places for taxi ranks were set up. Each of the taxis had a distinctive sticker and each of the drivers - shirt with the logo of Sunny Beach JSC.
The introduction of the new transport scheme by Sunny Beach JSC failed to meet all its objectives. According to preliminary plans, the parking places in the Blue Area should have been 1122. Zlatko Dimitrov said the reason is that on many of the hotel parking lots there are commercial objects and guests are left without the possibility to park their vehicles. To ensure maximum comfort of holidaymakers and maintain good relationships with the hoteliers the joint-stock company has reduced the number of the parking spaces in the Blue Zone by 304.
Sunny Beach - East becomes visibly more attractive and greener. This spring there were planted 5,470 new ornamental shrubs, the lighting in alleys was replaced and the curbs are now compliant with the requirements for access of people with disabilities. The management plans to restore the previously existing floriculture unit in order to ensure the maintenance and the landscaping of the alleys in the complex. The old conservatory will become a modern cultivation base for the cultivation and storage of all types of ornamental plants, including cut flowers. The new facilities will be available to hoteliers and restaurant owners for winter storage of portable plants.
At the beginning of the last tourist season the emblematic for the complex central bridge was restored. The company invested 350,000 leva in its reconstruction and in this way gave back to the visitors their favorite place for walks, abandoned and even become dangerous in the recent years. The bridge enables the local people to revive a basic livelihood and provided to the holidaymakers the opportunity to go for a row with a boat and to travel by sea.
Sunny Beach JSC is the owner of the material-technical base in Sunny Beach - East with a balance value of 55,451,000 leva and valuation of the assets equal to 110 million leva. The company manages a significant infrastructure and in order to change the resort to a higher class tourist destination while at the same time optimizing the maintenance costs, it applies different techniques permitted by the law. This year it proceeded to cancellation of the valid till year 2010 contracts that have negative impact on its financial interests.
To reduce the costs, hoteliers, restaurateurs, retailers and traders were involved in the maintenance of the infrastructure. During the first nine months of 2011 Sunny Beach JSC realized savings in its activities expenses equal to 2,739,000 leva.
The entire maintenance of the complex is provided by the operating revenues of Sunny Beach JSC and its management strives to increase them. The owners of hotels however do not understand this approach. For years now they refuse to pay the set in their contracts infrastructure fee. "I understand their disagreement with the method of forming the tax, maybe we have to find a new formula", Zlatko Dimitrov said. The hoteliers are frustrated too by the fact that they have to pay for infrastructure but the other businesses that operate within the complex don't. The future statute of the infrastructure of the complex is discussed in the Privatization Agency and the after privatization control too. 'It is out of the question to give it away to Nessebar Municipality', Zlatko Dimitrov said.
This year the company plans to raise at least 50% of the due infrastructure charges - 2,487,000 leva. The collected amount however equals to only 315,000 leva of which 138,000 leva are taxes for year 2011 and 177,000 leva for previous years. However, the financial statements show a revenue growth. In the first nine months of 2011 they were 883,000 more compared to the same period of 2010. The greatest increase is in the amounts collected by the monitoring regime in the complex - with 207,000 leva more than the last year.
Sunny Beach JSC managed to reduce its net loss to 3,300,000 leva. The nine months of 2011 the company ended with a loss of 1,623,000 leva compared to the 4,932,000 leva for 2010 This is the evidence that the measures taken by the Board of Directors are effective and this puts an end to the trend of false accounting and constant accumulation of losses. Sunny Beach JSC is a public company with 75% state share and its overall financial situation is important for the state as well as for its minority shareholders.


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Robert Dołęga (Polish pronunciation: ; born December 31, 1977, in Łuków) is a Polish weightlifter. He won a silver medal for the heavyweight division at the 2000 European Weightlifting Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, and bronze at the 2008 European Weightlifting Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy.

Dołęga competed in the men's heavyweight class (105 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He did not finish the event, after failing to lift a snatch of 180 kg in three attempts.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dołęga competed for his second time in the men's 105 kg class, along with his younger brother Marcin. Unlike his previous Olympics, he placed eighth in this event, as he successfully lifted 184 kg in the snatch, and hoisted 221 kg in the clean and jerk, for a total of 405 kg.

References

External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile

Polish male weightlifters
1977 births
Living people
Olympic weightlifters of Poland
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
People from Łuków
Sportspeople from Lublin Voivodeship
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
21st-century Polish people
20th-century Polish people

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How much would you save if you recycled two buildings?
I'm sure there are people out there wanting an answer to this question!!! Read on to find out!
US$319 000 is the answer, and I found this out in the regional roundup section of BioCycle (1), as I was screening this morning. The news item was reporting on how contractors in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, recycled 98.8% of two buildings during demolition. The buildings had to be demolished to make way to the new Green Square Complex, which is a two-block sustainable development project that includes an office building for the state's Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR) and an expansion to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. As it was a sustainable development project wanting LEED certification, recycling the demolished buildings was an attractive option.
To help obtain points for LEED certification on the new structure, extensive efforts were made to recycle as much as possible during demolition. Contractors successfully recycled and salvaged 98.8% (5 502, out of 4 556 tons) of the building. Based on landfill tip fees of US$33/ton, the disposal cost of these materials would have been about US$150 000 plus hauling fees of $40 000. When considering revenue from recycling some materials like metal for example, and lower tip fees for processing others like wood for example, the site generated a net revenue of $169 000 (hauling cost subtracted). The demolition project therefore had a total cost savings of $319 000 due to its recovery and recycling efforts.
Let's hope other building contractors in the USA and elsewhere in the world will see the financial benefit of recycling, rather than throwing away materials during demolition and follow the example of the North Carolina contractors.
(1) BioCycle, 2008, vol 49 (12), Pg 16.
I have a good friend that is a demolition contractor in coquitlam and after reading this i would want to ask him the question of are we doing this? If not, why not? Seems like a very good idea. Thanks for posting!


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Black Soundset for Zebra 2
FANTASTiC | 31 May 2018 | 1.62 MB
Black soundset for Zebra 2 contains a total of 128 patches. All patches have modwheel control and the 4 XY pads assigned to control various elements. The set is also available in a Dark Zebra version where the original 128 patches have been enhanced and given a more analog and darker feeling to be fully used with the ZebraHZ version. The sounds have a dark, mysterious and ominous character. The soundset found its inspiration in the works of Salvador Dali, the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and the music of Boards of Canada, Jon Hopkins and the soundtracks of Westworld (Ramin Djawadi) and Mr. Robot (Mac Quayle). This soundset explores deep, rich and unknown worlds.
Black, Fantastic, Soundset, Zebra, Zebra 2
Perfect Claps WAV
P2P | 31 May 2018 | 20.5 MB
Perfect Claps. This is a drum library consisting of unique one-shots, each of which has been carefully crafted, tested for sounding in the mix and is ready for use. The high quality won't leave you indifferent! Each one-shot from the collection sounds just like the ones in the tracks of top producers! Analogous drum machines, synthesizers, drum sets and percussion instruments were used for the creation of the library. Mono-microphones and stereo-pairs, which were used for recording some elements in stereo, add a sense of space and depth to the sound.
claps, P2P, Perfect, WAV
Future Music – July 2018
English | 116 pages | PDF | 44 MB
THE JOY OF EFFECTS
Broadly speaking, there are two ways to use effects in music production as mix tools, or as creative processors. These two applications are effectively the polar opposite of one another. The former is all about transparency trying to improve the sound of an audio signal without making it obvious that an effect has been used on it. When it comes to creative processing though, the sound of the effect is precisely what we're after. Whether that's the spaced-out ambience of a long, drawn-out reverb, the wobbling repeats of a vintage delay, or the harmonically rich crunch of an analogue reverb. It's these creative effects we're focusing on in this issue. This month's two main tutorial features are all about finding new and exciting ways to push sounds as far as you can, to create out-there, ear-catching results.
2018, Future, Future Music, July, Music
Ableton Push Masterclass TUTORiAL
P2P | 31.05.2018 |742 MB
Ableton Push is the world's best controller for Ableton Live – so much so that it feels more like you're playing an instrument! In this course you'll get taken through using Ableton Push for music production to get the most out of this incredible device, with 2 hours of world class tuition from one of the world's top tutors.
Ableton, Ableton Push, MasterClass, Push, TUTORiAL
WRECKER Wave Folder v1.0 for REAKTOR ENS-ZEUS
Presets, REAKTOR
WRECKER v1.0 for REAKTOR
ZEUS | 30-05-2018 | 8.5 MB
WRECKER is a Multi-function Effects Processor Ensemble for use with Reaktor. With focus on Wave Folding Effects, WRECKER also includes a Pulse Modulator, a State Variable Filter, a Pan Modulator and an Oscilloscope.
REAKTOR, Zeus
REASON EUROPA v2.0.0 WiN CE-V.R
Audio Software, WiNDOWS
REASON EUROPA v2.0.0 WiN
Team V.R | May 30 2018 | 36 MB
Europa by Reason is an infinitely powerful spectral wavetable synthesizer capable of morphing waveforms into sounds you didn't know were possible. Combining 30+ wavetables, 24 filter types, advanced modulation and powerful effects, Europa is capable of creating epic pads, huge chords, aggressive biting basses, and everything in between. Get great sounds quickly with 500+ presets from leading sound designers, or load your own samples for limitless sound design possibilities.
CE, Reason, V.R, WiN
Mix Magazine – June 2018
English | True PDF | 52 pages | 49 MB
Mix is the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry. Mix covers a wide range of topics including: recording, live sound and production, broadcast production, audio for film and video, and music technology.
2018, June, Magazine, Mix, Mix Magazine

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Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings
Chris Ryan
by Chris Ryan
1. Mario Manningham, Hands
At the risk of ostracizing myself from my employer and my hometown, I am giving this week's Rankonia scepter to Mario Manningham. I can't believe I am about to write these two words about a New York Football Giant: Nice. Catch.
2. Eli Manning, Better Than You Thought
Here, friends, is Sarah Larimer, president of the Eli Manning Fan Club: "Look, I took a lot of shit for being pro-Eli earlier this season, and NOW LOOK WHO IS RIGHT, DUDES OF GRANTLAND/AMERICA. This girl.
"For reference, here are some stories about Eli Manning being an Elite Player, Eli Manning being a Totally Sweet Dad, and (an oldie but a goodie) Eli Manning being a Good Son.
"Seriously, it's enough to make you forget all about this. Well, almost."
3. Jeremy Lin, Point Guard, Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made
Jay Kang nominates the man who is going to turn Toney Douglas into a plumber. In a week during which New York's football team won the Super Bowl, Lin is somehow New York's most beloved athlete. Go figure. Also? Greatest nickname generator in pro sports.
4. Clint Eastwood, Car Salesman
Mark Lisanti, who may or may not own Every Which Way But Loose on Blu-ray, nominates this lion of American cinema and automobile hustler: "It's halftime in America, bitches, and if you're not ready for the second half, Dirty Harry is going to shoot you in the face."
5. Sam Gagner, Edmonton Oilers
Coldhearted Katie Baker nominates this skater of frozen lakes: "Scored four goals and had four assists for eight points last week (tying an Oilers record held by Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey) and has scored four more points in two games since then."
6. This Lady, a Lady
Michael Weinreb respects this woman's troll game:
7. The Anfield Cat
Both Bill Barnwell and Brian Phillips nominate the cat that ran on the pitch during Liverpool's 0-0 draw with Tottenham. There's some debate about the cat's name. One man claims the cat goes by "Kenny" and is a local Liverpool stray, "wayward offspring of Pako." (God bless British newspapers.) Another Liverpudlian suggests the cat's name is "Socks." Apparently, "there ain't much to say about Socks. He is a cat who has been around Anfield for a while now." Whatever his name is, he has a Twitter account.
8. Gisele, Ride-or-Die Chick
So, Wes Welker is probably not coming over for postseason caipirinhas then.
9. Kevin Love, Kick-Puncher
Rafe Bartholomew nominates this bearded beast of the north, who used Luis Scola's face as a shoehorn this past Saturday.
Rafe actually wanted to give Love some kind of negative ranking and compare him to Christian Laettner. (Seeing as how Rafe is not Shane Ryan, I'm assuming this would be an unflattering comparison.) But then Chuck Klosterman chimed in with this: "I don't know. I think Love's apology was weirdly 'complete.' He basically apologized to everyone except the Sandinistas."
10. Marcus Denmon, True Tiger
Sarah Larimer has a lot of Missouri pride. I'm just going to get out of her way here: "Marcus Denmon had 29 points (29!) and nine rebounds to lead the no. 4 Missouri Tigers past the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday, in what was the biggest Mizzou game of the season/decade/my life. (Possible exaggeration.) This was a Border Showdown game, and it might have been the last time these two teams met in Columbia. EVER.
"Anyway, the thing is, Mizzou totally almost lost until Denmon caught fire in the final two minutes of the game and Mizzou went on to beat the Jayhawks, 74-71. KABOOM, right?! Hooray, Mizzou! I'm starting to forget about Quin Snyder! (Not really.) Booches for everyone!"
Filed Under: Chris Ryan, Clint Eastwood, Jeremy Lin, Kevin Love, Mark Sanchez, Missouri, New York Giants, Rankonia, Super Bowl
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Chelsea's Pedro Deal Makes Manchester United Look Weak August 20, 2015
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package fr.pizzeria.model;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import fr.pizzeria.exception.CreditException;
import fr.pizzeria.exception.DebitException;

public class Client extends AbstractPersonne {

	private static final int SEUIL = 5000;

	public static int getSeuil() {
		return SEUIL;
	}

	public Client() {
		super();
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
	}

	public Client(int id) {
		super(id);
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
	}

	public Client(String nom, String prenom) {
		super(nom, prenom);
		this.solde = 50;
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
	}

	public void crediterCompte(double montant) throws CreditException {
		double nouveauSolde = this.solde + montant;
		if (nouveauSolde >= SEUIL) {
			throw new CreditException();
		}
		this.solde = nouveauSolde;

	}

	public void debiterCompte(double montant) throws DebitException {
		double nouveauSolde = this.solde + montant;
		if (nouveauSolde < 0) {
			throw new DebitException();
		}
		this.solde = nouveauSolde;

	}

	// En cours
//	public List<Client> xmlToClass(File fileClient) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException {
//		final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
//		final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
//		final Document document = builder.parse(fileClient);
//		final Element racine = document.getDocumentElement();
//		final NodeList racineNoeuds = racine.getChildNodes();
//
//		for (int i = 0; i < racineNoeuds.getLength(); i++) {
//			if (racineNoeuds.item(i).getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
//				final Node objet = racineNoeuds.item(i);
//			}
//		}
//		// lister les champs
//		Field[] champs;
//		if (Client.class.getSuperclass().getDeclaredFields().length != -1) {
//			champs = Client.class.getSuperclass().getDeclaredFields();
//		} else {
//			champs = Client.class.getDeclaredFields();
//		}
//		for (Field field : champs) {
//			if (!Modifier.isStatic(field.getModifiers())) {
//				System.out.println(field.getClass().getConstructors());
//			}
//		}
//		return null;
//
//	}

//	public static void main(String[] args)
//			throws NoSuchMethodException, SecurityException, IllegalAccessException, IllegalArgumentException,
//			InvocationTargetException, SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
//		final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
//		final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
//		final Document document = builder.parse("data/Client.xml");
//		final Element racine = document.getDocumentElement();
//		final NodeList racineNoeuds = racine.getChildNodes();
//		List<Element> liste_objet = new ArrayList<>();
//
//		for (int i = 0; i < racineNoeuds.getLength(); i++) {
//			if (racineNoeuds.item(i).getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
//				Element objet = (Element) racineNoeuds.item(i);
//				liste_objet.add(objet);
//			}
//		}
//		Field[] champs;
//		if (Client.class.getSuperclass().getDeclaredFields().length != -1) {
//			champs = Client.class.getSuperclass().getDeclaredFields();
//
//		} else {
//			champs = Client.class.getDeclaredFields();
//		}
//		Client client = new Client();
//		Method monSetter;
//		for (Field field : champs) {
//			if (!Modifier.isStatic(field.getModifiers())) {
//				String nomChamp = field.getName();
//				String nomMethode = "set"
//						+ nomChamp.replace(nomChamp.substring(0, 1), nomChamp.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase());
//				monSetter = Client.class.getMethod(nomMethode, field.getType());
//				for (Element myObject : liste_objet) {
//					monSetter.invoke(client,myObject.getElementsByTagName(nomChamp));
//					System.out.println(myObject.getElementsByTagName(nomChamp));
//				}
//				System.out.println(client);
//			}
//
//		}
//	}

}

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Over the years it has become more and more popular to deep-fry your Thanksgiving turkey. This may be a delicious and fast way to get your turkey to your Thanksgiving table but it could also spell disaster if you are not careful.
Turkey fryers should always be used outdoors, located a safe distance from buildings and any other flammable materials.
Never use water to extinguish a grease fire. Remember to use your best judgment when attempting to fight a fire. If the fire is manageable, use an all-purpose fire extinguisher. If the fire increases, immediately call 9-1-1 for help.
You can find some pretty spectacular examples of the power of a turkey in a fryer on youtube by searching "Deep fat turkey fryer fire".
Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving from Georgetown Insurance Agency.


I love not having to cut stabilizer. These sheet are the perfect size for my 5x7 hoop. I tear them in half for my 4x4 hoop. They are the perfect weight. The first time I used for an applique with heavy stitching, I tore it pulling my hoop out. I've been more carefully since and not had another single problem. After using 100 sheets, I'm back to reorder!


The Most Attended and Successful Jeans Challenge Yet is In the Books- It's All About The Jeans!
The 6th Annual group of Jeans Challenge Ladies showed us how it is done and will be wearing their new Jeans this Thanksgiving Holiday!!!
The 2017 Shore Results' Jeans Challenge program began with 40 women in September. The women participated in a challenge to drop 2 jeans sizes in 8 weeks and the best part was that the results were guaranteed.
The Journey was worth the end result!
Our participants began the program with a positive attitude and lots of energy! Extensive support; participants agree that this is the number one differentiating factor and one that drivessuccess. During the ongoing nutrition meetings participants discuss obstacles to success, get feedback on food choices and adhere to a strict set of nutritional guidelines proven to increase fat loss while sustaining muscle. Just when they are ready to throw in the towel – the group energy and encouragement gives them the drive they need to stay on track!
The women were required to try on their jeans by November 14th and attended the completion party to celebrate their success! Of those following the guidelines and completing theprogram according to recommendations, all fit into their jeans! Each successful participant received a gift bag including gift certificates and samples from our program sponsors; Arbonne, Color Bar, Eyes on First, Peach, and Eastpointe Integrated Health Care as well as a free jeans gift card from Lucky Brand in the Grove. The women will attend a personal shopping event specifically for our Jean's Challenge winners at Lucky Brand in the Grove this weekend and sport their "new" size jeans for the upcoming holiday!Are YOU up for the Challenge?!!
Our Next Shore Results program – The New Year New You Body Transformation Contest – Starts in (mid to late) January! Look for details soon.


Shahrooz is a leader in high-quality acrylic furnishings. Its founder and designer Shahrooz Nia has been instrumental in contributing to the success of the acrylic furniture market worldwide, developing innovative, original ideas on how to use this medium. While acrylic is transparent like ice and clear like crystal, it still can come in remarkable varieties. It can be painted with translucent colors or transformed into a semi-transparent or matte material, resulting in pieces that are more like art than furniture.


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Mississippi Genealogy and Ancestry Research
This page will provide you with information that will help you in your genealogy and ancestry research for the state of Mississippi. It includes a timeline for the state, when the state began recording vital records, what US and State census records are available, a map of the counties in the state and link to page showing when counties were formed, and links to a variety of genealogy and ancestry resources for the state of Mississippi.
Mississippi State History Timeline
There are more detailed timelines for Mississippi in the links below
1540 – 1540 to 1541: Spanish explorer, Spanish Hernando de Soto (1500-1542) becomes the first European to enter Mississippi and discovers the Mississippi River
1673 – The Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) and the French Explorer and fur trader Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) explore the Mississippi
1680 – Father Louis Hennepin (1626-1705), the Flemish Recollect friar and explorer, sees the Falls of St. Anthony, future site of Minneapolis
1682 РFrench explorer Ren̩-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) navigates the Mississippi River to its mouth and claims it for France
1699 – Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville (1661 – 1706) and his brother Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur D'Bienville (1680-1768), establish the first capital of the French colonies
1700s – French fur trading era begins
1729 – French settlers at Fort Rosalie are massacred by Natchez Indians
1732 – The French retaliate for the massacre at Fort Rosalie decimating the Natchez Indians
1756 – 1756 to 1763: The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
1763 – 1763 to 1767 Legal battles were settled by a survey — which resulted in the Mason-Dixon line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, establishing Maryland's northern boundary
1775 – 1775 to 1783 – The American Revolution creates the United States of America. The Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes and total power to legislate any laws governing the American colonies. George Washington led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence)
1776 – July 4, 1776 – United States Declaration of Independence
1778 – July 10, 1778 – France declares war against Britain and makes an alliance with the American revolutionary forces
1779 – Bernardo Galvez (1746-1786) captures Natchez but the area is reclaimed by America
1783 – September 3, 1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed by the victorious United States and the defeated Great Britain
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase – In 1803, the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France. The U.S. Secretary of State, James Madison paid 15 million dollars for the land
1805 – By the Treaty of Mount Dexter, the Choctaws sell 4.5 million acres of land to the U.S. government and this opens up land to white settlement
1805 – Zebulon M. Pike (1779-1813), a native of New Jersey, explores Upper Mississippi
1812 – 1812 to 1815: The War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate but confirmed America's Independence
1817 – Statehood – The Date that Mississippi was admitted to the Union – December 10, 1817. Constitution – Mississippi was the 20th State to be admitted to the Union. State Motto – " Virtute et armis " the State Motto is translated as " By Valor and Arms ".
1822 – Jackson becomes the capital.
1830 – The Choctaw give up their land in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. They are forced to move to Indian Territory in the coming years.
1861 – 1861 to 1865: The American Civil War. Mississippi secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy.
1863 – The Battle of Vicksburg is fought. The Union wins and gains control of the Mississippi River.
1865 – The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signaled the end of the Confederacy.
1865 – 1865 December 6 1865: The Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially abolishing slavery.
1870 – Mississippi is readmitted into the Union.
1898 – 1898 to 1901 The Spanish American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
1907 – Boll weevils appear and destroy much of the cotton crop
1969 – The segregation of public schools ends.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina strikes the coast causing severe damage.
Mississippi Vital Records
By law, the State of Mississippi was not required to keep birth or death certificates until 1 November 1912. Birth and death records since 1912 have been kept by the Mississippi State Department of Health,
FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com have a variety of online collections, which I've included in the links below.
Mississippi Census Records
Population Schedules
Indexed: 1820, 1830 (part), 1840, 1850, 1860 (part), 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
Soundex: 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
Industry and Agriculture Schedules
Mortality Schedules
Slave Schedules
1850, 1860 (part)
Union Veterans Schedules
In 1817 Mississippi became the twentieth state to enter the union; therefore, the first federal population census available is that of 1820. Variations of this census appear in three printed forms, none of which include slave or miscellaneous information.
An early census of the Natchez District, taken in 1792 from the Spanish Provincial records, has been printed in Dunbar Rowland, History of Mississippi, The Heart of the South, 4 vols. (Chicago: S. J. Clark Publishing Co., 1925). Other censuses from the Spanish Colonial period (1784, 1787, 1788, and 1794) can be found in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba (The Cuban Papers) located at the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain. See Roscoe R. Hill, Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents Relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1916).
TERRITORIAL AND STATE
Territorial census reports were authorized by the legislature of Mississippi Territory at different intervals from 1798 until 1817. A useful start with territorial census information may be found in Norman E. Gillis, Early Inhabitants of the Natchez District (Shreveport: the author, 1963). Although the information was gathered from secondary sources, it still remains a helpful tool.
See Census Records for Mississippi for more information.
Mississippi Counties
Mississippi Counties Map
You can find location of county on the map, County address, date formed, parent county(ies), dates first recorded marriage, land probate and Court records at Mississippi County Resources originally written by Kathleen Stanton Hutchison for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Mississippi Genealogy and Ancestry Links
Anestry.com has a variety of collections. Membership may be required.
Mississippi Data Collections
Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935
Mississippi, U.S., State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866
Mississippi Birth, Marriage & Death
Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890
Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1826-1900
Mississippi Court Records, 1799-1835
FamilySearch.org has a variety of free online sources
Mississippi Online Genealogy Records
Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911
Mississippi, Tippah County Marriages, 1858-1979
Mississippi Deaths and Burials, 1822-1921
Mississippi, Adams County, Natchez Death Index, 1835-1905
Mississippi, Death Certificate Index, 1912-1943
Genealogy Trails – Mississippi
http://genealogytrails.com/miss/
MSGenWeb –
http://msgw.org/ct-map.htm
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
https://raogk.org/mississippi/
GenealogySpot – Mississippi
http://www.genealogyspot.com/state/ms.htm
GenealogyBuff.com – Mississippi Genealogy Data
http://www.genealogybuff.com/ms/
LDS Genealogy – Mississippi
https://ldsgenealogy.com/MS/
The Ancestor Hunt – Mississippi Birth, Marriage and Death Record Links
https://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/mississippi-birth-marriage-and-death-bmd-record-links#.X-eVemRKgUE
Mississippi Genealogical Society
http://msgensociety.org/
Mississippi State History Timeline Links
eReference Desk – Mississippi History Timeline
https://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/state-history-timeline/mississippi.html
DatesandEvents.org – Mississippi History Timeline
http://www.datesandevents.org/american-timelines/24-mississippi-history-timeline.htm
Timelines of History – Mississippi
https://www.timelines.ws/states/MISSISSIPPI.HTML
Ducksters – Mississippi
https://www.ducksters.com/geography/us_states/mississippi_history.php
Mississippi History Timeline – Mdah.mos.gov
https://www.mdah.ms.gov/timeline/
Sutori – Mississippi
https://www.sutori.com/story/timeline-of-mississippi-history–uDkt4MQhjFXmEPoBW6Nm5aq5
Attribute: Map of Mississippi – This map was created by William Dollarhide and was published in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/Map_of_Mississippi (Accessed 26 December 2020).
Mississippi Family History Research – originally written by Kathleen Stanton Hutchison for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/Mississippi_Family_History_Research (Accessed 26 December 2020).
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Raymond McCullough hosts and produces the popular, 'Celtic Roots Radio' show – downloaded by around 10,000 listeners, in more than 110 countries around the world. The show features a wide range of Celtic and roots music – Celtic, folk, folk/rock, Appalachian, bluegrass, Scottish, Irish, Breton, Cajun, singer/songwriter – plus a regular helping of northern Irish craic from Raymond. This blog makes available the scripts from that section of the show.
Celtic Roots Craic! 48 – 'Up the Lagan in a bubble?'
Lagan Canal and Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Co. Antrim
On the last show I was describing how, many years ago, my father had sowed grass seed with a device called an 'Aero' fiddle. Just the other night I was with some friends in a small pub called 'Paddy's Barn', in Saul, Co. Down – and there, hanging up from the ceiling rafters was a perfect example of one of these devices – which I haven't seen in over 50 years. It's a small world, eh?
That got me to thinking of another event from way back, which my father had told me about. I'll tell you about it in a minute. First a wee bit a' background. I was brought up in Co. Down, as I've said before, but I went to school in Lisburn, which is mainly in Co. Antrim.
The two counties are separated by the River Lagan, which flows from Slieve Croob – a hill in Co. Down near Ballynahinch – firstly west through Dromore, then north east to Lisburn and through Belfast, into Belfast lough – dividing East Belfast off from the rest of the city. There is a beautiful Irish song, 'My Lagan Love' – the air made famous by Horslips as 'Fantasia' – and the ballad itself has been covered by The Corrs, Celtic Women, Phil Coulter and a whole lot of others.
The south eastern part of the city of Lisburn is across the Union Bridge over the Lagan and is usually referred to by locals as 'over in the County Down'. Just downstream from the bridge is what's known as The Island – a bend in the river below a weir, which was cut off by a section of canal and a lock. This was once completely occupied by the old Island Spinning Mill, which eventually became derelict. It's now the site of the new Island Arts Centre – a venue for concerts, art exhibitions and all sorts of events.
The Lagan Navigation, as it was called, was begun in 1756, to connect Belfast Lough with Lough Neagh, the large inland lake which borders five of the six northern counties. When my father was an apprentice in what was later Barbour Threads – formerly The Linen Thread Company – he can remember the horse-drawn canal barges, known as lighters, delivering coal from the docks in Belfast to power the machinery in the Mill. The lighters also carried sand and bricks from Lough Neagh back down to Belfast.
The canal has been in disuse since 1958, with the M1 Motorway being built along eight miles of the canal basin in the mid 1960s. The tidal section of the Lagan through the city of Belfast became navigable again in 1994, when the new Lagan Weir was completed. This keeps the water level upstream at a fairly constant level by raising and lowering five gates which can also protect from floods during extremely high tides.
You can enter the enclosed basin for an hour or two either side of high tide, so we have taken our boat, 'Warrior Maid', up through Belfast Harbour and into the basin – mooring it overnight at Donegal Quay, right next to the city centre, and also upstream at Stranmillis – at 'Cutter's Wharf' pub – which is as far as you can go upriver at the moment. There are plans, though, to re-open the whole navigation in the near future.
We've taken three trips in all from Groomsport, where our boat is moored, round to Belfast, also staying at the new concrete pontoon in a basin behind the Odyssey Complex and taking friends and family for short trips around the Harbour and up and down the river. On one of these trips the personnel on the Weir had forgotten to inform me when we went through the night before that the outgoing Gate 4 was not going to be in use next day, and so we ended up bumping our keel on the top of the partially closed gate! Needless to say, the weir staff weren't very pleased about this.
In 2001, when the Island Arts Centre was opened in Lisburn, that section of the canal was also restored, and the local branch of the Inland Waterways Association were invited to bring small boats along to celebrate the opening. We also own a 14 ft. wooden dinghy, so I borrowed a boat trailer and arrived on opening day with my 79-year-old dad, my three-year-old grandson, my wife, Gerry, and another young friend. We launched the dinghy from a slipway, collected the rest of our crew at the canal basin and, after negotiating the lock and accepting the loan of a small outboard motor, headed downstream for a mile to the next weir and lock, which was still closed.
On the way I happened to remark to my Dad that I bet he'd never been down the middle of the Lagan before. He agreed that he'd never done it in a boat. When I asked what he meant he replied that he HAD travelled down the centre of the river before, but on a pushbike! We were a bit puzzled until he explained that one winter when he was young, the river had frozen over completely and he and friends had cycled along the centre of the frozen river.
It was as we were happily discussing this interesting anecdote, that my little grandson mentioned that his feet were getting wet. We all looked down and sure enough the water was nearly over his shoes. On further investigation I discovered that the bung was missing at the stern of the boat and water was flowing in like a tap turned on full! We were in danger of sinking! My young friend started bailing out the water and we headed upstream as fast as our 2 HP outboard could take us – yelling ahead to our friends as we approached the lock, to keep the gate open for us. As my friend kept on bailing, and we rose slowly in the lock, we managed to get my father, wife and grandson up the ladder to solid ground.
As soon as the lock gates opened my young friend and I headed across to the slipway, still bailing out as we went. That concluded our trip on the Lagan – though we did have a nice meal in the new centre afterwards. We have an expression here in case anyone thinks we might be stupid, or gullible – 'Do you think I came up the Lagan in a bubble?'
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Celtic Roots Craic! 47 – Sowin' wi' a fiddle!
The 'Aero' fiddle seed dispenser
Last week I talked about drivin', our latest Belfast sculpture and about the things we used to do when we were kids. I mentioned how flax used to be grown a lot and how it was retted in a Flax Hole. I never actually witnessed that process because, although my Dad used to work for what was then called, The Linen Thread Company, by the time I was around man-made fibres had taken over and very little linen was being made.
I DO remember when the neighbour's field behind our house was used to grow corn. Now corn, means different things in different parts of the world. In the USA it normally means maize, which we used to call 'Indian corn,' here in Ireland – it was first introduced here when America first sent us some as famine relief in the nineteenth century. In England corn means wheat, but in Ireland corn always referred to oats – the cereal that looks most like grass, in my opinion. We don't grow much oats any more, because it mainly used to be grown to feed horses – in the days when horses where used for agriculture.
Then tractors began to appear on the scene and horses became a thing of the past. The first tractors we saw were mostly old Ferguson 35s, before it became Massey Ferguson. These started on petrol and then ran on something called TVO – Tractor Vehicle Oil. Diesel tractors came a little bit later. In fact, out in the country we improvised our own tractthers, usually by chopping the body off an old car and adding a sort of trailer body – more like an early pickup truck than anything – but you could use one to go around a field, spreading manure, or picking up hay at haytime. Yep, it was right out of the Beverley Hillbillies!
I drove one of these – belonging to my uncle Wullie, who lived just up the road – when I was only about six, or so. When I say 'drove', I just steered it in a straight line, while it crawled along in first gear, while my father and cousin forked peat litter (from the hens we kept), off the back of it. When we got near the hedge my Dad would jump down and steer it back towards the other end of the field, then go back to work.
When our neighbour's corn (oats, I mean) was ripe in the field behind us, they brought in an old Ferguson 35 tractor, towing what we in Co. Down called a 'r'aper' – in other words a former horse-drawn reaper, trailed behind the tractor – to cut the corn. The sheaves were then bound by hand and stooked together to dry – the whole family taking part. After a few days drying the big event took place – the thresher arrived! This was an old – originally horse-drawn – thresher, made mostly of wood painted with orange lead paint, that had faded to a sort of pink colour. It was trailed into the field behind a tractor and then belt driven from the tractor to thresh the corn. No such thing as a combine harvester in those days!
Back then, practically everything was done by hand. When our hay was ready to cut in June a neighbour would come and cut it with a r'aper, then, in the evening, the whole family would rake the hay into rows, with huge wooden handrakes. Even with my mother and uncles and cousins helping it took hours to row eight acres – and the next day they'd have to be spread out in the sun again! We didn't have such a thing as a baler, either, so when the hay was ready it was loaded by hand with a pitchfork onto a trailer, or one of those pick-ups, and hauled in to the yard, where it would be pitchforked again into the shed.
Our neighbour on the other side had about twenty acres, which he farmed full-time. He would stack his hay in fairly small stacks and then later collect it with a buckrake, a large pronged implement on the back of the tractor, which reversed under the stack and lifted it up. What usually happened, though, was that the front of the small tractor would lift up instead – so my neighbour's sons and daughter would have to sit on the front of the tractor – just like Ellie-May Clampett! – to balance the load, and they would proceed across the field see-sawing up and down – great entertainment for my brother and I.
We had one very steep field, with maybe a 40 degree slope! It's known as the Dam Bank, because it's opposite the river, which used to have a dam back then, so that it could feed water to power a couple of watermills. My father decided to re-sow this field one year and a neighbour ploughed it for us one-way – in other words, down the slope. There was some room to line up at the top – though it must have seemed like jumping off a cliff – but very little room to turn at the bottom – a very hair-raising and dangerous enterprise, which nobody would dream of attempting nowadays.
After it was ploughed and harrowed my father sowed the field – again by hand, using a piece of equipment which was common enough in those days. It was called a fiddle, because you held it in you left hand like a fiddle, with a small a mount of seed in a bag attached over your shoulder, and you played back and forwards with a bow in your right hand, whose string went around a cogged wheel. This wheel flung the seed out in each direction as you played and all the sower had to do was walk back and forth across the length of the field, re-filling the bag and sowing as he went. I helped by bringing him by marking the soil already sown and bringing fresh seed – but by the time we had that field sown my Dad and I were both pretty well sunburned!
A Wee Taste a' Craic
by Raymond McCullough – All the Irish Craic from the popular 'Celtic Roots Radio' shows, 2-25
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About Raymond McCullough
Raymond McCullough
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Raymond McCullough is a Media Producer with his own company, Precious Oil Productions Ltd. He regularly hosts Celtic Roots Radio, (which is webcast and also broadcast on satellite and FM stations, as well as on Apple Podcasts, etc.); 'In tha Name a' Gawd!' (music, news & interviews – broadcast on UCR/GloryStar satellite radio, webcast & podcast); and 'Fresh Bread: Your Kingdom Come' (based on his recent book and now broadcasting on satellite radio). Raymond (with his wife, Gerry) co-edited the book, 'Ireland, now the good news!' published 1995; and recently released two new books, 'The Whore and her Mother' (9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King) in August, 2011; and 'A Wee Taste a' Craic', in October, 2011. He has also filmed and is currently editing & producing a TV documentary involving Ireland; Scotland; Native American First Nations in Manitoba, Canada; and Israel - to be called, 'Broken Treaties.' (See the Precious Oil website – http://preciousoil.com – for more information on these and other projects).
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Visual Artist, Seattle WA
M.F.A. painting graduate, 2007
Cooning is best known for creating large-scale integrated art installations. Aside from various exhibitions, her work adorns city parks, storefronts, special events, and the stage. 2013 marked the transformation of Cooning's signature cut paper aesthetic into a permanent outdoor sculpture for the city with support from 1% for Public Art and Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture. Bounty functions as a threshold for Jackson Park Perimeter Trail in north Seattle's Pinehurst neighborhood. The stylized, ornate fronds function as a bouquet of sorts extolling the virtues of the Pacific Northwest landscape.
Celeste was the first Artist in Residence at Amazon Corporate Headquarters in 2018. More of her artwork lives at Harborview Medical Center West, Starbucks Global, Theo Chocolate Tour Hopper, and Amazon's Bigfoot building in downtown Seattle.
© 2020 Celeste Cooning Studios


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Online hate spreading like wildfire, cannot be left unchecked: race foundation
Aug. 2, 2022 10:20 a.m.
The executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation is warning that unless action is taken to combat hate, including online, it will continue to spread like wildfire.
Mohammed Hashim says hatred online is so prevalent it risks becoming normalized, with those affected changing their behaviour to deal with it, including by not reading social-media comments.
His remarks come as Statistics Canada reports a 27 per cent increase in hate crimes in 2021.
But Hashim warns against a mass scraping of data to combat online hate, and calls for checks and balances in a forthcoming federal bill including over which social-media posts are sent to the police.
A report published today by the foundation calls for greater federal help for victims of hate, many of whom do not qualify for financial compensation because their abuse does not count as a crime.
The report also suggests the establishment of a federal fund to pump millions of dollars into community organizations, where many victims of hate turn after experiencing abuse.
Expansion of prison needle exchange programs going ahead despite pandemic delays
Canada sanctions Russian military officers over atrocities in Bucha


With the 25th anniversary of the movie "Die Hard," the recent release of a new sequel and the release of a new DVD set containing the original and all the previous sequels, a lot of people are writing about the 1988 original and how great it was.
1) I think it's arguably the best action film of all time. Sometimes I consider all action films that came after it to be redundant.
2) As far as I'm concerned, there is no "Die Hard franchise." There's the original movie — end of story. I saw the first sequel, "Die Hard 2: Die Harder," wasn't impressed, and haven't bothered with any of the others. The WHOLE POINT of the first movie is that John McClane isn't a super-powered operative who routinely gets in epic adventures, but a regular guy who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. So I'm writing as if the sequels didn't happen. Which they shouldn't have in the first place.
Anyway, it's easy to think of it as JUST an action movie. It hits all the beats. The explosions. The fist fights. The catchphrases. But I've got a couple of other interpretations.
A while ago, I did a review of Richard Fellinger's excellent short story collection "They Hover Over Us" from Snake Nation Press (available on Kindle and all other e-readers). If you read this blog regularly, you'll know I'm more partial to genre fiction than the kind of literary fiction that Mr. Fellinger writes. But these stories of regular folks in Rust Belt Pennsylvania really impressed me. You can see the review here.
Where do you live and what's your full-time job?
Did you say full-time job? I'm a writer, which means I piece together jobs that aren't quite full-time, or at least don't pay full-time. I work at Elizabethtown College in two roles–I'm an adjunct writing professor and writing fellow in charge of the college's Writing Wing.
How did you get into writing in the first place?
I was a newspaper reporter for about 15 years, and later in my newspaper career I began penning short stories and enrolled in the MFA program for creative writing at Wilkes University, which is a terrific program, by the way.
Was there any particular reason why you gravitated toward short stories?
Well, my first book was a collection of short stories, but I've been working on a novel for the past three-plus years, so I don't gravitate toward short stories any more. Part of the reason I did, I think, was because as a journalist, my mind was trained in shorter mediums.
Where do you get ideas for stories?
Anywhere. A lot come from personal experience. My short story collection is entirely about people from the Pennsylvania Rust Belt, where I grew up, so that area was a big influence on me. My novel is set in a fictional Central PA town, where I live now. My fictional town is tidy, small and gossipy, a lot like my new home.
Raymond Carver was a big influence on me when I was younger, but as I matured I made an effort to be less of a minimalist, and writers like Tobias Wolfe and Richard Ford have been big influences on me lately.
As a writer, how much of your own marketing are you obliged to do?
In my case so far, almost all of it. My short story collection was published by a small literary press that publishes the winner of a literary fiction award called the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, so it seems most of their effort goes into the award and they hand off all of the marketing to the writer. It's a challenge, to put it mildly.
A lot of writers I interview for this blog do genre fiction. The advantage for them, it seems to me, is that the readership tends to be relatively easy to identify and reach. As a writer of literary – as opposed to genre – fiction, how do you identify potential readers and persuade them to read your book?
I don't think a writer of literary fiction worries too much about identifying readers. When I was in grad school, for instance, some faculty members discouraged me from writing short stories because they're hard to sell. And that's true, believe me. But I think we plow ahead with our stories because we feel like they're inside us waiting to come out, and we feel a need to write them regardless of commercial value.
Hi folks. This is God. That was a lightning bolt. You're welcome.
Are you one of those people who's been working on a novel for the past 20 years, and you're almost up to Chapter 4? Be forewarned. The next sentence may make you want to kick yourself.
At 30, Jessica McHugh has 12 books published.
So quit making excuses and start writing! Actually, before you do that, read her novel "Pins" – a thoughtful coming-of-age story masquerading as a sordid thriller about a crazed killer offing strippers. I reviewed it here.
Also, before you dive back in on your own novel, you might want to read the following interview with Jessica. Maybe you'll be inspired.
You're how old? And you have how many books published?
I'm 30 years old, (when I say that, I hear Natalie Wood from "West Side Story" desperate praying "Please let it not be true!") and I've had 12 books published by indie presses in the past 4 years.
How do you manage to get so much writing done?
If you read my book reviews, you may notice that they're overwhelmingly positive. And you may think to yourself: Does this guy like every freakin thing he reads?
The answer is an emphatic "No." More on that in a second.
You may also notice that most of the books I review are relatively obscure. They tend to be volumes from small, independent publishers that aren't likely to get reviewed elsewhere.
I just tried to do a Google search (always an excellent way of getting accurate and precise information) to find out the number of new books published every day. A lot of online sources are using the number 1,500.
I don't know if that's true or not. Let's just say that a buttload of new books are coming out all the time.
One day, a college professor was addressing his class.
"But I didn't say anything yet," the professor protested.
"Aren't you assuming …" the professor began, but the young man cut him off once again.
"I don't know," the professor said.
And the name of that young man … was George Washington.
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Today Punxsutawney Phil predicted that the skies will rain fire and blood and a Beast will rise, bringing about the end times. I think he's starting to take himself a little too seriously.


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November 24, 2007 by dandelionsalad
Darkness falls on the Middle East By Robert Fisk + Calm but no consensus in Lebanon (video)
By Robert Fisk
11/24/07 "The Independent"
In Beirut, people are moving out of their homes, just as they have in Baghdad
So where do we go from here? I am talking into blackness because there is no electricity in Beirut. And everyone, of course, is frightened. A president was supposed to be elected today. He was not elected. The corniche outside my home is empty. No one wants to walk beside the sea.
When I went to get my usual breakfast cheese manouche there were no other guests in the café. We are all afraid. My driver, Abed, who has loyally travelled with me across all the war zones of Lebanon, is frightened to drive by night. I was supposed to go to Rome yesterday. I spared him the journey to the airport.
It's difficult to describe what it's like to be in a country that sits on plate glass. It is impossible to be certain if the glass will break. When a constitution breaks – as it is beginning to break in Lebanon – you never know when the glass will give way.
People are moving out of their homes, just as they have moved out of their homes in Baghdad. I may not be frightened, because I'm a foreigner. But the Lebanese are frightened. I was not in Lebanon in 1975 when the civil war began, but I was in Lebanon in 1976 when it was under way. I see many young Lebanese who want to invest their lives in this country, who are frightened, and they are right to frightened. What can we do?
Last week, I had lunch at Giovanni's, one of the best restaurants in Beirut, and took out as my companion Sherif Samaha, who is the owner of the Mayflower Hotel. Many of the guests I've had over the past 31 years I have sent to the Mayflower. But Sherif was worried because I suggested that his guests had included militia working for Saad Hariri, who is the son of the former prime minister, murdered – if you believe most Lebanese – by the Syrians on 14 February 2005.
Poor Sherif. He never had the militia men in his hotel. They were in a neighbouring building. But so Lebanese is Sherif that he even offered to pick me up in his car to have lunch. He is right to be worried.
A woman friend of mine, married to a doctor at the American University Hospital, called me two days before. "Robert, come and see the building they are making next to us," she said. And I took Abed and we went to see this awful building. It has almost no windows. All its installations are plumbing. It is virtually a militia prison. And I'm sure that's what it is meant to be. This evening I sit on my balcony, in a power cut, as I dictate this column. And there is no one in the street. Because they are all frightened.
So what can a Middle East correspondent write on a Saturday morning except that the world in the Middle East is growing darker and darker by the hour. Pakistan. Afghanistan. Iraq. "Palestine". Lebanon. From the borders of Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean, we – we Westerners that is – are creating (as I have said before) a hell disaster. Next week, we are supposed to believe in peace in Annapolis, between the colourless American apparatchik and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister who has no more interest in a Palestinian state than his predecessor Ariel Sharon.
And what hell disasters are we creating? Let me quote a letter from a reader in Bristol. She asks me to quote a professor at Baghdad University, a respected man in his community who tells a story of real hell; you should read it. Here are his own words:
"'A'adhamiya Knights' is a new force that has started its task with the Americans to lead them to al-Qa'ida and Tawheed and Jihad militants. This 300-fighter force started their raids very early at dawn wearing their black uniform and black masks to hide their faces. Their tours started three days ago, arresting about 150 citizens from A'adhamiya. The 'Knight' leads the Americans to a citizen who might be one of his colleagues who used to fight the Americans with him. These acts resulted in violent reactions of al-Qa'ida. Its militants and the militants of Tawheed and Jihad distributed banners on mosques' walls, especially on Imam Abu Hanifa mosque, threatening the Islamic Party, al-Ishreen revolution groups and Sunni endowment Diwan with death because these three groups took part in establishing 'A'adhamiya Knights'. Some crimes happened accordingly, targeting two from Sunni Diwan staff and one from the Islamic Party.
"Al-Qa'ida militants are distributed through the streets, stopping the people and asking about their IDs … they carry lists of names. Anyone whose name is on these lists is kidnapped and taken to an unknown place. Eleven persons have been kidnapped up to now from Omar Bin Abdul Aziz Street."
The writer describes how her professor friend was kidnapped and taken to a prison. "They helped me sit on a chair (I was blindfolded) and someone came and held my hand saying, 'We are Muhajeen, we know you but we don't know where you are from.' They did not take my wallet nor did they search me. They only asked me if I have a gun. An hour or so later, one of them came and asked me to come with them. They drove me towards where my car was in the street and they said no more." So who are the A'adhamiya Knights? Who is paying them? What are we doing in the Middle East?
And how can we even conceive of a moral stand in the Middle East when we still we refuse to accept the fact – reiterated by Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, and all the details of US diplomats in the First World War – that the Armenian genocide occurred in 1915? Here is the official British government position on the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. "Officially, the Government acknowledges the strength of feeling [note, reader, the 'strength of feeling'] about what it describes as a terrible episode of history and recognises the massacres of 1915-16 as a tragedy. However, neither the current Government nor previous British governments have judged that the evidence is sufficiently unequivocal to be persuaded that these events should be categorised as genocide as it is defined by the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide." When we can't get the First World War right, how in God's name can we get World War III right?
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Calm but no consensus in Lebanon 25 Nov 07
AlJazeeraEnglish
Lebanese were disappointed that their leaders failed to reach a consensus on a president.
But they are at least relieved that they have a consensus on maintaining peace.
Tensions, however, are escalating.
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TRM | November 24, 2007 at 6:21 PM
What in the hell does the Armenian thing that happened decades ago have to do with a damn thing today?


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I went looking for 2Flowers after an aborted bedtime routine and found this scene; 2Flowers snuggling her great-aunt, who was singing Primary songs. How many kids know their great-aunts well enough snuggle with them?
This particular great-aunt lives with us part time because she manages Grandpa's business now that he is gone. She is easy to talk to and fun to be around. She tells me stories about the family from before I married into it. She relates to my struggles as a young mom and is encouraging and uplifting to talk to.
She does the dishes. She holds my babies. She talks to me. She recommends books to me. She has a bajillion other things to do, but she spends time with me... and with my kids.
I love when she comes to stay.


The children were very excited about playing the game.
Many had trouble using the joystick, but had no issues with the keyboard keys.
The first few levels should be more gradual, giving children a bit more time to understand the concept of fraction comparison.
Longer exposure to the game will result in better understanding of fraction comparison.


We need only look at the attempts of moralists in that favourite fashion, and we shall find at one time the special constitution of human nature (including, however, the idea of a rational nature generally), at one time perfection, at another happiness, here moral sense, there fear of God, a little of this, and a little of that, in marvellous mixture, without its occurring to them to ask whether the principles of morality are to be sought in the knowledge of human nature at all (which we can have only from experience); or, if this is not so, if these principles are to be found altogether a priori, free from everything empirical, in pure rational concepts only and nowhere else, not even in the smallest degree; then rather to adopt the method of making this a separate inquiry, as pure practical philosophy, or (if one may use a name so decried) as metaphysic of morals,* to bring it by itself to completeness, and to require the public, which wishes for popular treatment, to await the issue of this undertaking.
* Just as pure mathematics are distinguished from applied, pure logic from applied, so if we choose we may also distinguish pure philosophy of morals (metaphysic) from applied (viz., applied to human nature). By this designation we are also at once reminded that moral principles are not based on properties of human nature, but must subsist a priori of themselves, while from such principles practical rules must be capable of being deduced for every rational nature, and accordingly for that of man.
* I have a letter from the late excellent Sulzer, in which he asks me what can be the reason that moral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, yet accomplishes so little? My answer was postponed in order that I might make it complete. But it is simply this: that the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavour to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it. For the commonest understanding shows that if we imagine, on the one hand, an act of honesty done with steadfast mind, apart from every view to advantage of any kind in this world or another, and even under the greatest temptations of necessity or allurement, and, on the other hand, a similar act which was affected, in however low a degree, by a foreign motive, the former leaves far behind and eclipses the second; it elevates the soul and inspires the wish to be able to act in like manner oneself. Even moderately young children feel this impression, and one should never represent duties to them in any other light.
* The dependence of the desires on sensations is called inclination, and this accordingly always indicates a want. The dependence of a contingently determinable will on principles of reason is called an interest. This therefore, is found only in the case of a dependent will which does not always of itself conform to reason; in the Divine will we cannot conceive any interest. But the human will can also take an interest in a thing without therefore acting from interest. The former signifies the practical interest in the action, the latter the pathological in the object of the action. The former indicates only dependence of the will on principles of reason in themselves; the second, dependence on principles of reason for the sake of inclination, reason supplying only the practical rules how the requirement of the inclination may be satisfied. In the first case the action interests me; in the second the object of the action (because it is pleasant to me). We have seen in the first section that in an action done from duty we must look not to the interest in the object, but only to that in the action itself, and in its rational principle (viz., the law).
* The word prudence is taken in two senses: in the one it may bear the name of knowledge of the world, in the other that of private prudence. The former is a man's ability to influence others so as to use them for his own purposes. The latter is the sagacity to combine all these purposes for his own lasting benefit. This latter is properly that to which the value even of the former is reduced, and when a man is prudent in the former sense, but not in the latter, we might better say of him that he is clever and cunning, but, on the whole, imprudent.
* It seems to me that the proper signification of the word pragmatic may be most accurately defined in this way. For sanctions are called pragmatic which flow properly not from the law of the states as necessary enactments, but from precaution for the general welfare. A history is composed pragmatically when it teaches prudence, i.e., instructs the world how it can provide for its interests better, or at least as well as, the men of former time.
If it were only equally easy to give a definite conception of happiness, the imperatives of prudence would correspond exactly with those of skill, and would likewise be analytical. For in this case as in that, it could be said: "Whoever wills the end, wills also (according to the dictate of reason necessarily) the indispensable means thereto which are in his power." But, unfortunately, the notion of happiness is so indefinite that although every man wishes to attain it, yet he never can say definitely and consistently what it is that he really wishes and wills. The reason of this is that all the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, i.e., they must be borrowed from experience, and nevertheless the idea of happiness requires an absolute whole, a maximum of welfare in my present and all future circumstances. Now it is impossible that the most clear-sighted and at the same time most powerful being (supposed finite) should frame to himself a definite conception of what he really wills in this. Does he will riches, how much anxiety, envy, and snares might he not thereby draw upon his shoulders? Does he will knowledge and discernment, perhaps it might prove to be only an eye so much the sharper to show him so much the more fearfully the evils that are now concealed from him, and that cannot be avoided, or to impose more wants on his desires, which already give him concern enough. Would he have long life? who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? would he at least have health? how often has uneasiness of the body restrained from excesses into which perfect health would have allowed one to fall? and so on. In short, he is unable, on any principle, to determine with certainty what would make him truly happy; because to do so he would need to be omniscient. We cannot therefore act on any definite principles to secure happiness, but only on empirical counsels, e.g. of regimen, frugality, courtesy, reserve, etc., which experience teaches do, on the average, most promote well-being. Hence it follows that the imperatives of prudence do not, strictly speaking, command at all, that is, they cannot present actions objectively as practically necessary; that they are rather to be regarded as counsels (consilia) than precepts of reason, that the problem to determine certainly and universally what action would promote the happiness of a rational being is completely insoluble, and consequently no imperative respecting it is possible which should, in the strict sense, command to do what makes happy; because happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds, and it is vain to expect that these should define an action by which one could attain the totality of a series of consequences which is really endless. This imperative of prudence would however be an analytical proposition if we assume that the means to happiness could be certainly assigned; for it is distinguished from the imperative of skill only by this, that in the latter the end is merely possible, in the former it is given; as however both only ordain the means to that which we suppose to be willed as an end, it follows that the imperative which ordains the willing of the means to him who wills the end is in both cases analytical. Thus there is no difficulty in regard to the possibility of an imperative of this kind either.
* I connect the act with the will without presupposing any condition resulting from any inclination, but a priori, and therefore necessarily (though only objectively, i.e., assuming the idea of a reason possessing full power over all subjective motives). This is accordingly a practical proposition which does not deduce the willing of an action by mere analysis from another already presupposed (for we have not such a perfect will), but connects it immediately with the conception of the will of a rational being, as something not contained in it.
* A maxim is a subjective principle of action, and must be distinguished from the objective principle, namely, practical law. The former contains the practical rule set by reason according to the conditions of the subject (often its ignorance or its inclinations), so that it is the principle on which the subject acts; but the law is the objective principle valid for every rational being, and is the principle on which it ought to act that is an imperative.
* It must be noted here that I reserve the division of duties for a future metaphysic of morals; so that I give it here only as an arbitrary one (in order to arrange my examples). For the rest, I understand by a perfect duty one that admits no exception in favour of inclination and then I have not merely external but also internal perfect duties. This is contrary to the use of the word adopted in the schools; but I do not intend to justify there, as it is all one for my purpose whether it is admitted or not.
3. A third finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities. He asks, however, whether his maxim of neglect of his natural gifts, besides agreeing with his inclination to indulgence, agrees also with what is called duty. He sees then that a system of nature could indeed subsist with such a universal law although men (like the South Sea islanders) should let their talents rest and resolve to devote their lives merely to idleness, amusement, and propagation of their species — in a word, to enjoyment; but he cannot possibly will that this should be a universal law of nature, or be implanted in us as such by a natural instinct. For, as a rational being, he necessarily wills that his faculties be developed, since they serve him and have been given him, for all sorts of possible purposes.
4. A fourth, who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: "What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as Heaven pleases, or as he can make himself; I will take nothing from him nor even envy him, only I do not wish to contribute anything to his welfare or to his assistance in distress!" Now no doubt if such a mode of thinking were a universal law, the human race might very well subsist and doubtless even better than in a state in which everyone talks of sympathy and good-will, or even takes care occasionally to put it into practice, but, on the other side, also cheats when he can, betrays the rights of men, or otherwise violates them. But although it is possible that a universal law of nature might exist in accordance with that maxim, it is impossible to will that such a principle should have the universal validity of a law of nature. For a will which resolved this would contradict itself, inasmuch as many cases might occur in which one would have need of the love and sympathy of others, and in which, by such a law of nature, sprung from his own will, he would deprive himself of all hope of the aid he desires.
* To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction.
* This proposition is here stated as a postulate. The ground of it will be found in the concluding section.
* Let it not be thought that the common "quod tibi non vis fieri, etc." could serve here as the rule or principle. For it is only a deduction from the former, though with several limitations; it cannot be a universal law, for it does not contain the principle of duties to oneself, nor of the duties of benevolence to others (for many a one would gladly consent that others should not benefit him, provided only that he might be excused from showing benevolence to them), nor finally that of duties of strict obligation to one another, for on this principle the criminal might argue against the judge who punishes him, and so on.
This principle, that humanity and generally every rational nature is an end in itself (which is the supreme limiting condition of every man's freedom of action), is not borrowed from experience, firstly, because it is universal, applying as it does to all rational beings whatever, and experience is not capable of determining anything about them; secondly, because it does not present humanity as an end to men (subjectively), that is as an object which men do of themselves actually adopt as an end; but as an objective end, which must as a law constitute the supreme limiting condition of all our subjective ends, let them be what we will; it must therefore spring from pure reason. In fact the objective principle of all practical legislation lies (according to the first principle) in the rule and its form of universality which makes it capable of being a law (say, e.g., a law of nature); but the subjective principle is in the end; now by the second principle the subject of all ends is each rational being, inasmuch as it is an end in itself. Hence follows the third practical principle of the will, which is the ultimate condition of its harmony with universal practical reason, viz.: the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislative will.
In the previous imperatives, namely, that based on the conception of the conformity of actions to general laws, as in a physical system of nature, and that based on the universal prerogative of rational beings as ends in themselves — these imperatives, just because they were conceived as categorical, excluded from any share in their authority all admixture of any interest as a spring of action; they were, however, only assumed to be categorical, because such an assumption was necessary to explain the conception of duty. But we could not prove independently that there are practical propositions which command categorically, nor can it be proved in this section; one thing, however, could be done, namely, to indicate in the imperative itself, by some determinate expression, that in the case of volition from duty all interest is renounced, which is the specific criterion of categorical as distinguished from hypothetical imperatives. This is done in the present (third) formula of the principle, namely, in the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislating will.
* I may be excused from adducing examples to elucidate this principle, as those which have already been used to elucidate the categorical imperative and its formula would all serve for the like purpose here.
The conception of the will of every rational being as one which must consider itself as giving in all the maxims of its will universal laws, so as to judge itself and its actions from this point of view. This conception leads to another which depends on it and is very fruitful, namely that of a kingdom of ends.
* Teleology considers nature as a kingdom of ends; ethics regards a possible kingdom of ends as a kingdom nature. In the first case, the kingdom of ends is a theoretical idea, adopted to explain what actually is. In the latter it is a practical idea, adopted to bring about that which is not yet, but which can be realized by our conduct, namely, if it conforms to this idea.
We can now end where we started at the beginning, namely, with the conception of a will unconditionally good. That will is absolutely good which cannot be evil — in other words, whose maxim, if made a universal law, could never contradict itself. This principle, then, is its supreme law: "Act always on such a maxim as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law"; this is the sole condition under which a will can never contradict itself; and such an imperative is categorical. Since the validity of the will as a universal law for possible actions is analogous to the universal connexion of the existence of things by general laws, which is the formal notion of nature in general, the categorical imperative can also be expressed thus: Act on maxims which can at the same time have for their object themselves as universal laws of nature. Such then is the formula of an absolutely good will.
Empirical principles are wholly incapable of serving as a foundation for moral laws. For the universality with which these should hold for all rational beings without distinction, the unconditional practical necessity which is thereby imposed on them, is lost when their foundation is taken from the particular constitution of human nature, or the accidental circumstances in which it is placed. The principle of private happiness, however, is the most objectionable, not merely because it is false, and experience contradicts the supposition that prosperity is always proportioned to good conduct, nor yet merely because it contributes nothing to the establishment of morality — since it is quite a different thing to make a prosperous man and a good man, or to make one prudent and sharp-sighted for his own interests and to make him virtuous — but because the springs it provides for morality are such as rather undermine it and destroy its sublimity, since they put the motives to virtue and to vice in the same class and only teach us to make a better calculation, the specific difference between virtue and vice being entirely extinguished. On the other hand, as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense,* the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings, which naturally differ infinitely in degree, cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has anyone a right to form judgements for others by his own feelings: nevertheless this moral feeling is nearer to morality and its dignity in this respect, that it pays virtue the honour of ascribing to her immediately the satisfaction and esteem we have for her and does not, as it were, tell her to her face that we are not attached to her by her beauty but by profit.
* I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether it be immediately and without a view to profit, or whether profit be regarded. We must likewise, with Hutcheson, class the principle of sympathy with the happiness of others under his assumed moral sense.


Indians on Wednesday. His average increased to .321.
Ryan left in the 8th inning with lower back tightness.
effort reduced his ERA to 3.48.
to third. That lowered his average to .225.
effectiveness. This lowered his ERA to 2.25.
don't sleep on aaron poreda for the white sox. veryjewy.
I'll have to check him out.


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import autoslug.fields
from django.db import migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('blog', '0007_blogpost_image_credit'),
    ]

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        migrations.AlterField(
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Hillman-Coatalen Motor Car Company was established by William Hillman and Louis Coatalen in Coventry,England, in 1906 to build automobiles. In 1909 Coatalen left the company to work for Sunbeam and sold his shares to Hillman who pursued with the business, changing the Company name to Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910. The first Hillman cars were large, but when the Company introduced a smaller model, the sales increased considerably. In 1919 a sports car model was introduced. Until the 1930's one of the main Hillmans' features was an attractive V-radiator. Hillman was one of the few automobile makers that produced cars to the public during the war. In 1928 the company was taken over by Humber and in 1931 Rootes bought both Hillman and Humber. Hillman cars were solid, reliable and not to expensive which permit the brand to assume a leading position within the Rootes Group. In the 1960's, following important financial losses, Roots was taken over by Chrysler in 1967. The last Hillman model, the Avenger, was produced in 1970 but Hillman´s name was dropped in favor of Chrysler in 1979.