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Doug Hudson (he/him)
Lived here for: 4 years
Originally from: Kodiak Island, Alaska
Notable: The artist and veteran donated a carving and a painting to a recent Vietnam Veterans of America car show in Bellingham.
How did you get your start in art, and what do you do?
I taught art at Ketchikan Gateway Borough schools for 20 years.
I was teaching junior high school, and the Native people in Ketchikan had gotten a grant and they came into my classroom and said, ‘We're going to take your Native kids and teach them how to carve.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no, you're not. You're gonna come and teach us all how to carve.’
So they taught us all to carve and taught me, and within two weeks they made these knives (pointing to a table in his garage) and brought them to me. I carved close to half a million dollars worth of sculpture with these things, or more.
I did paint a lot, too. I still do.
Which tribe were you working with?
They were Tsimshian. The kids were Haida and Tsimshian. They all have a different carving style than they do here.
Have you sold a lot of your work?
They’re all over the world. I had a guy that was a count in Italy [who] came in and bought two sculptures for one of his palaces in Italy someplace. And I do a lot of work for individuals. I think half of southeast Alaska has my carvings, too.
How do you navigate the issue of cultural appropriation in your art?
About my second year into it, I was doing a lot of carving using some of [the tribe’s] older styles. And I realized that hey, you know, I'm not Native. I better be very careful with this. I found my style, which I've been doing now for probably 40 years minimum.
Tell me about your involvement with Vietnam Veterans of America.
I joined them because I wanted to join a group. I had been in Veterans of Foreign Wars. I've been in American Legion. Basically, the Vietnam Veterans are like brothers. Everybody, whether they're Navy, Air Force or you name it, they all had a mission to survive. And I thought, I'm ready to go and help them if I can. So I'm giving back any way I can.
Do you talk about your experiences in the Army in Vietnam?
Most veterans try to not talk too much about it because we don't feel like most people would understand.
I’ll just tell you, the first experience I had was landing in the airport in Saigon and getting on a helicopter to go out to the base that I was assigned to. And the pilot said, ‘Hear those bees? Those are rifle rounds passing by.’
And that just woke me up, just like that. That's what you went through, and — I don't know. Some people fretted about it. Some people were just numb.
As I tell people who thanked me for it, I say it was my honor, and it wasn't pleasant. And that's where I leave it. But we survived.
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After several years of planning, Cahaba Medical Care was given the opportunity to open a dental office in Centreville, AL in 2016. After an 120-day implementation phase and the purchase and renovation of a new building, the hiring of staff, the purchasing of supplies, and the installation of new software, the Cahaba Medical Care - Dental Office opened its doors to patients on October 7, 2016.
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Retaining walls built to hold back Langford Lake could be hurting the long-term survival of the endangered western painted turtle.
That’s the finding of a 90-page report conducted by four Royal Roads University environmental sciences students, who spent almost a year studying the population of the turtles in and around the Langford Lake systems.
The group’s research was presented to Langford’s Parks, Recreation, Culture and Beautification Standing Committee on Aug. 24.
The group found that retaining walls built by many Langford Lake residents disrupt the natural shoreline and make it hard for the turtles to find appropriate nesting areas.
The students suggest that Langford could offer incentives that encourage homeowners to remove retaining walls.
However, the issue could be tough to swallow for some waterfront residents who say retaining walls are needed to prevent loss of property.
Morry Stearns, a citizen representative appointed to the committee, moved to the lake front 17 years ago. He didn’t have a retaining wall and was losing about a foot of his backyard to the lake every year. His solution was to build a sandy beach near the lakeshore and have a wall set a ways back so it did not obstruct the shoreline.
His neighbours on either side have built large retaining walls and their yards are now three to four feet higher than the lake. Residents were only doing what they felt was the right thing at that time, he said. To now try and tear down those walls would put them in a very difficult position as they would likely end up losing property to the advancing lake.
“All you can do is try to prevent more (walls from being built) in the future,” Stearns said.
A compromise solution suggested by the group is to encourage partial walls, that still allow turtles to access land, or using alternatives to walls such as native vegetation that acts as a natural ground stabilizer.
But the fate of those recommendations is still unknown. Members of the city’s planning department may choose to do their own report with some or all of the recommendations and present them to council at a future meeting. No decisions have been made as of yet.


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Call for women’s representation
3 June, 2023, 10:30 am
Having women representation in the Great Council of Chiefs is nothing new because the Soqosoqo Vakamarama represented female views and brought their issues to the table in 1965.
Adi Lagamu Baledrokadroka said this while presenting the Soqosoqo Vakamarama i Naitasiri submissions to the GCC Review Committee yesterday.
She said women should be represented in the GCC meetings because no-one could raise issues concerning females and children like a woman.
Ms Baledrokadroka said women should be the third representative of each yasana (province) to the GCC forum.
“Gender balance should be seen in the representation to the GCC meeting,” she said.
“The Fiji Bureau of Statistics census of 2017 showed that women, or females make up 49 per cent of the population in Fiji and this is why we need to be part of the GCC.”
She said women’s participation in the GCC would benefit communities.
“The participation of women is important as they would raise ideas that would support and the chiefs in their leadership roles.
“The ideas they raise could also help solve the issues and problems we face in our villages and province.
“These issues include the segregation (bula biligi), oppression, and gender-based violence that our women and children endure.”


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American Idol: Taylor Hicks on Ellen, Simon and the New Season
Posted By Greg Barber at 1:35 PM on January 14, 2010
FOUR YEARS AGO, Taylor Hicks rode a wave of support from a dedicated group of fans to a win in a competitive “American Idol” season that included contenders like Katharine McPhee, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler, who’ve all gone on to some measure of professional success.
He released his second album last March, and he’s currently touring the country as the Teen Angel in a national production of the musical “Grease.”
I talked with the Soul Patrol sovereign ahead of “Grease’s” stop at D.C.’s National Theatre in February. I’ll have more on that in a couple of weeks. But here are some of Hicks’ thoughts on “Idol’s” recent judging changes and an activity contestants should steer clear of during the show’s run.


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As someone who really loves cooking, I never really had a problem finding the ingredients that I needed in Norwich.
Until I went to a cookery school in Thailand. There I learned to make proper Thai food including spring rolls, penang curry and coconut rice.
Obviously I wanted to try to make my own back in Blighty, but I couldn’t help thinking that I wouldn’t be able to make pad thai or green curry properly because I wouldn’t be able to get the right ingredients back here.
And while I knew that I could get lemongrass in most supermarkets, where would on earth could I get kaffir lime leaves in Norwich? Thai aubergines? Holy basil? Or fish sauce?
About a week after landing back in the UK, I started to get an itch for tom kha gai (spicy coconut soup with chicken) and tom yum (spicy clear soup) soup and decided to take matters into my own hands. After asking around a few places, I got recommendations for a cash and carry out on the ring road and a stall on Norwich Market.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Oriental Express is a treasure trove of exotic foods, spices and fresh vegetables. Their two market stalls (side by side) momentarily transports me back to the food market in Chiang Mai, with its smells and colours – but less of the sunshine.
I can honestly spend ages poring over the different premixed soup bases, the curry pastes, the spices and the snacks. I never thought I’d see tamarind sweets in Norwich!
Quality and service
The tins of coconut milk are cheaper there than in the supermarkets (I think – I’ve bought most of my coconut milk on the market since arriving back home), the pastes are excellent value for money (go easy on them, they’re very spicy) and the herbs and vegetables all seem very fresh.
But the best thing about going to Oriental Express is their advice. I always find that if I’m not sure of anything, that they can answer questions or suggest ingredients that can be substituted into dishes. They’ll even sometimes give you a rough idea of the quantities that you’ll need too. It’s honestly invaluable when you’ve gone out and forgotten to check the recipe (which is nearly every time I go out).
Even if you’ve never cooked Thai food before, I recommend you go and take a look. There are loads of fun things to try, including Thai tea, aloe vera water, coconut water and sweets. It’s a culinary adventure I defy you to enjoy!

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Combined Properties Launches Massive Overhaul of DC Portfolio
In a grand experiment, Combined Properties—owner of dozens of shopping centers in DC and California—is starting construction on $290M of mixed-use projects totaling 1M SF in NoVa within the next year. The projects are part of an effort to transform itself into a different kind of real estate company, and there's more to come.
Founder and chairman Ron Haft tells us two projects in particular will signal the beginning of the company's diversification away from being a pure shopping center owner. The first, South Alex, is a half-mile from the Huntington Metro stop in South Alexandria, with construction slated to start by year's end. The 453k SF, $130M mixed-use development will bring 400 units and 44k SF of retail when it delivers in 2017, he says. Some 25k SF of that retail will be a specialty grocery, offering fresh fruits, vegetables and prepared foods. It's also targeting a brewpub or bar, a coffee shop and a high-end pizza place with art projects infused throughout.
Second will be the $160M Scout on the Circle, close to the Vienna Metro in Fairfax City (at the Fairfax Circle intersection of Routes 50 and 29), with about 400 apartments delivering in 2017. Scout will have 82k SF of retail with a 54k SF grocery store. Anchors for both projects are in lease negotiations and can’t be disclosed, Ron says. The other retail at Scout will be restaurant-focused, which Combined VP of development and acquisitions Randy Kenna said helps create a sense of place.
In addition to the two projects in NoVa, Combined has two dozen holdings in the DC area. Four—another in Fairfax, one in White Flint, one in Greenbelt and one on Rockville Pike—are being considered for their mixed-use possibilities. Ron is banking that South Alex and Scout on the Circle (with an aerial rendering above) will represent a successful shift not only for his company, but for suburbs as a whole. “Just because people can’t afford Arlington or DC doesn’t mean they can’t keep aspiring for the same thing,” he says.

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Cape Fear Valley Health System
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This $110 million expansion to Cape Fear Valley Health System's flagship hospital, which will add 100 beds to the facility’s capacity.
This expansion is part of the health system’s long-term master planning and will help reduce delays in the emergency department. The complex construction includes adding two stories above a structure flanked on one side by a busy ER entrance and on the other side by an equally busy main hospital entrance. Upon completion, 40 percent of the new beds will be designed as ICU beds, with the remaining beds designated for medical/surgery inpatient and observation.
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Firefighters battling Lawrence blaze pushed back by explosions
Large number of oxygen tanks found in Olive Street home
Firefighters were pushed back by explosion as they battled flames at a Lawrence home late Wednesday night.
The fire broke out at 11:30 p.m. on Olive Street. Flames were shooting through the roof when crews rushed into the building as they arrived.
A large number of oxygen tanks inside the home quickly made for a very dangerous situation.
The fire chief said it's not clear why so many oxygen tanks were in the home.
No one was injured, but the family's dog is missing.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation.

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Ed Note: This is the general stock commentary on Marks Daily VRTrader more specifc commentary on Stocks is contained in his daily letter, not shown here. Mark on track to be the Timer’s Digest #1 Stock Market Timer of the year in 2011 so far, an award he’s won previously. Mark Leibovit is currently ranked the TIMER DIGEST #1 U.S. Gold Timer. To sign up for the Leibovit VR Gold Letter go to www.vrgoldletter.com. For stocks, Gold and Bonds with VRTrader go HERE.
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‘Turnaround Tuesday’ had minimal impact to the current uptrend when you usually come to expect at least a one-day reversal of a trend – in this case a push lower which did not materialize. Today is Pearl Harbor day -as we all know a ‘day of infamy’, according to FDR. It is also ‘Weird Wollie Wednesday’. “Weird Wollie Wednesday”, created by Don Wolanchuk, references the Wednesday prior to options expiration. The observation made by Wolanchuk stipulates that this day is made up of manipulated price action which is primarily related to the faster deterioration of options premiums during the week prior to options expiration; many traders are rebalancing and rolling their options forward. Using WWW as a guide, it is not uncommon to see strong moves down in the market place on the Wednesday prior to options expiration week. Like ‘Turnaround Tuesday’, nothing is carved in stone.
As you know, there is a big European summit Friday and now the talk is that they will not just print 400 billion of whatever but 900 billion.
My sources that the real number is closer to 25 trillion. Hardly a dent and even so the sheer size of the bailouts needed will ultimately lead to the demise of European fiat currencies and the likely breakup of the Euro. Perhaps only the strong ones will survive or perhaps countries will go back and print their own sovereign currencies and be able to rob Peter to pay Paul the way we do it here in the good old U.S.A. Like the U.S.A, the people who are attempting to fix the problem (the Timothy Geithner who is in Europe this week) are the ones who caused the problem. It’s like having a thief teach morals to school children. There is also talk that the ECB is going to lower its interest rate, which currently stands at 1.25%. Such a move will make the ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ Wall Street crowd along with CNBC real happy. What it really means, of course, is that the ECB is trying to prevent ‘Eurogeddon’ and it ain’t good news at all! According to the New York Times yesterday, “A rate cut in Australia and lowered economic growth estimates by the Asian Development Bank on Tuesday highlighted the extent to which the economic woes of Europe and the United States are spilling over into this part of the world.” That said, the ‘Santa Claus’ rally begin in early December and it appears it may still have a ways to run. I’m hoping for a correction to get back long (for a trade), but may not play ball this time around if we don’t get that pullback.
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The FCC approves the change to SpaceX Starlink regardless of objections
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with 58 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband internet network and three SkySat Earth image satellites will launch from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral on August 18, 2020, Florida.
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The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved SpaceX’s proposed change to the Starlink satellite license, a win for Elon Musk’s growing broadband network, despite objections from competitors like Amazon, Viasat, and others.
“We conclude that the granting of the SpaceX Third Modification Application is in the public interest,” the FCC wrote in the order. “Our action will allow SpaceX to make safety changes to the deployment of its satellite constellation to deliver broadband services across the United States, including those living in areas underserved or unserved by terrestrial systems.”
SpaceX tabled the amendment a year ago asking for its first 1,584 satellites to be raised to an altitude of 550 kilometers. The FCC approval comes at a crucial time for SpaceX as the company has nearly 1,400 satellites in orbit and likely would have had to suspend its quick start campaign if the FCC hadn’t approved the change.
Starlink is the company’s capital-intensive project to build an interconnected internet network of thousands of satellites, known in the aerospace industry as a Constellation, designed to deliver high-speed internet to consumers around the world.
Opponents submitted numerous responses to the change proposed by SpaceX. Companies like Amazon said doing so would disrupt other satellite networks. SpaceX’s competitors also argued that the change was too significant for the FCC to treat as a simple modification, saying it should instead be included in a wider round of processing with new satellite systems.
The FCC dispute between SpaceX and Amazon became public in January when Musk claimed on Twitter that his competitor was trying to “impede Starlink,” adding that Kuiper was “at best several years away from operations.” While Amazon hasn’t announced when its first Kuiper satellites will launch, the system’s approval by the FCC last year requires the company to deploy half of its planned satellites within six years. This corresponds to the provision of around 1,600 satellites by Amazon in orbit by July 2026.
The regulator denied allegations of signal interference in approving the SpaceX change.
“We also conclude that this change does not cause significant interference issues that would warrant treating the SpaceX system as if it were submitted in a later processing round,” the FCC wrote.
The FCC’s appointment requires SpaceX to issue a report twice a year that includes the number of Starlink conjunctivities – that is, near misses with other satellites – over the past six months and the number of Starlink satellites that have been discarded or re-discarded -enter the earth’s atmosphere.


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This Sunday, October 2, chef Kent Rathbun of Abacus, Jasper's and Blue Plate Kitchen, and his wife, Tracy, will host their eighth annual Art Party benefiting the Dallas Division of March of Dimes. The event will feature works by local artists along with gourmet food and drinks. "Together with thes ... More >>
Richard BlaisA few viewers questioned Richard Blais' decision on last week's edition of Top Chef: All Stars to serve a tuna dish in a silver tin, but experts say restaurant goers should get used to more creative plating techniques. "You're trying to create a memorable dish, and part of that ... More >>
Casey Thompson: It's my pantry, and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Casey Thompson, executive chef at Lynae Fearing and Tracy Rathbun's Shinsei on Inwood Road, may be an evil genius. Dunno much about her, other than what the editors have chosen to show of Thompson during the early going of ... More >>
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Saturday, July 01, 2006
Georgia on my mind...
Tonight on my drive home I was tuning into my local NPR affiliate (WCPN) where they were featuring Ray Charles via the American Routes program. Now, I am somewhat familiar with his work well the hits ( Hit the road jack, What I'd Say, I got a woman etc) but I had no idea he covered "Elenor Rigby" ,"Ring of Fire" and "Your Cheating Heart" amoungst many others. If you are like me and have not heard these covers here you go. Mr. Ray Charles is a true genius. I am in awe of his talent it is too bad he has left us, but at the same time he has left such lasting impact on music, he will not soon be forgotten.
(mp3) Eleanor Rigby - Ray Charles (Beattles cover)
(mp3) Ring of Fire - Ray Charles (Johnny Cash cover)
(mp3) Your Cheating Heart- Ray Charles (Hank Williams Sr. cover)
I also wanted to share with you a cover of a song he did that used to be a favorite of mine. Back in my youth I used to go to see the Ted Daffan back in 1942.
(mp3) Born to Lose - Ray Charles (Ted Daffan cover)
I wanted to post the Bouncing Souls cover but I can't find mine, anyone get else got it?


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With a ruthless criminal loose on the Suffolk coast, life is anything but peaceful for the Anglian Detective Agency . . . Vera Morris returns with the fourth instalment in her much-loved Anglian Detective Agency Series.
With a ruthless criminal loose on the Suffolk coast, life is anything but peaceful for the Anglian Detective Agency . . .
At Rooks Wood Farm, Rosalind Breen's twin sons grieve her death. Daniel shoulders the burdens of running the farm and caring for his brother, Caleb, who's shunned for his strange appearance.
Meanwhile, Minsmere Bird Reserve is suffering a spate of vandalism and senior partners of the Anglican Detective Agency, Frank Diamond and Laurel Bowman, are enlisted to find the culprits. But shortly after taking the case, Laurel discovers the body of a young man dumped in one of the meres and the detectives are caught up in a murder enquiry.
All evidence points to one suspect but can the Anglian Detective Agency catch the killer? Or will it take another death for the truth to be finally set free?
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A self-confessed bookworm, Vera Morris studied Zoology at university and then went on to become a science teacher and, later, headteacher of a secondary school in Oxfordshire. After retiring, she turned to crime writing and hasn't looked back since. The Ship of Death is the fourth book in her much-loved Anglian Detective Agency series, set on the ever-changing Suffolk coast, an area Vera loves and knows well.

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the frog is the same as Kiki's frog hat, just a very lively odd version. I love to paint him- and did so a lot lately. ^_^
PS. This is a mug design (very much because I wanted it myself so badly). The mug is available in the store, you just have to click on "buy print"... and actually read my comment
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Decided: March 9, 1949.
NATHANIEL W. FRANZBLAU, PLAINTIFF,
CAPITAL SECURITIES COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION, DEFENDANT
Civil action. On motion for summary judgment.
[2 NJSuper Page 520] The plaintiff holds 300 shares of the preferred capital stock of the defendant company. The total number of such shares, presently issued and outstanding, is 12,122. Those shares are of the par value of $30.00 each and entitle the holders to cumulative dividends at the rate of 7% a year. Also presently outstanding are 238,299-3/5 shares of the company's common stock, originally of the par value of $10.00 and now, by reason of the reduction hereinafter mentioned, of the par value of $1.00 each. The said two classes of stock were authorized by the company's certificate of incorporation, filed on September 26, 1927. Dividends on the preferred stock were paid to and including the installments due on August 1, 1931.
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No dividends have been paid since that date and as of December 31, 1948, there were unpaid and in arrears 69 quarterly dividends at the rate of 1-3/4% each. Those cumulative and unpaid dividends amount to $36.22 1/2 per share and to $439,119.45 on the entire outstanding issue of preferred stock. During this period of default no dividends were paid on the common stock. It is not disputed that the company's failure to pay dividends during this period of over seventeen years was due to insufficiency of earnings; that for many years within that period the defendant company's business was operated at a deficit, which deficit was charged off against capital surplus created in 1932 by reducing the par value of the common stock from $10.00 each to $1.00 each. This $9.00 reduction in par amounted to $2,249,809.74. In 1932 that amount was transferred from capital to capital surplus and against that capital surplus was charged off each year the company's operating deficit. Thus the impairment of capital was avoided. The financial statement of the company as of the end of 1948 shows that its total assets amount to $2,280,865.79 and that its true net worth amounts to $1,248,663.64, of which $580,299.60 represents its capital and $668,364.04 represents its capital surplus. As already indicated, this surplus does not reflect any earnings of the company but is what remains of the result of the reduction in 1932 of the par value of the common stock from $10.00 to $1.00 per share.
On September 30, 1948, the directors of the company inaugurated what has been called the "plan of conversion" for the purpose of satisfying, and thus eliminating, the dividends in arrears on the preferred stock. The plan was to change and convert each of the presently outstanding 12,122 shares of 7% cumulative preferred stock, with a par value of $30.00, together with all accumulated and unpaid dividends accrued and in arrears thereon into one full paid and non-assessable share of 5% Cumulative Prior Preferred Stock of the par value of $50.00, and upon such conversion also to pay in cash to the preferred stockholders $2.50 for each share of the old preferred stock converted into the new preferred stock. The plan was declared advisable by a resolution of the board of directors,
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under which the capital structure of the company was by amendment to its certificate of incorporation to be reclassified, so that it would consist, as heretofore authorized, of 300,000 shares of common (same being inclusive of its presently outstanding shares of common stock) of the par value of $1.00 each and a new issue of 12,122 shares of 5% Cumulative Prior Preferred Stock of the par value of $50.00 each. The proposed amendment included certain other new features intended for the benefit and greater protection of the holders of the preferred stock.
At a duly called stockholders' meeting held on January 17, 1949, the Board's resolution, proposed amendments to the charter, and the entire underlying plan of conversion were considered by the stockholders of both classes. Fifty-five preferred stockholders holding in the aggregate 10,493 shares of preferred stock voted in favor of the resolution, the amendments and the plan of conversion. Only twenty-two persons holding 1629 shares of preferred stock did not appear or vote. No negative votes were registered. Of the holders of the common stock one hundred thirty-nine persons holding 181,583-1/10 shares voted in favor of the proposed project. There were no negative votes. Thus 86.56% of the preferred stock and over 76% of the outstanding common stock voted in favor of the plan of conversion. This was substantially more than the two-thirds vote required by the statute (R.S. 14:11-1,-2,-3).
The complaint alleges that at the conclusion of the stockholders' meeting the defendant's president, who presided thereat, announced that the plan of conversion was effective and was binding upon all the holders of the company's stock. The plan itself, transmitted to the stockholders in advance of the meeting, clearly indicates the intent to make the plan mandatory. It is clearly stated that when the certificate of amendment is filed, the holders of the existing preferred stock would be required forthwith to surrender such stock for cancellation and that thereupon the new stock would be issued and the cash payment made, and that after the date of such filing the holders of the old preferred stock "shall have no further or other rights or interest by reason of the ownership thereof, except such as
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arise from the right of such holders to receive, upon such surrender of such certificates, certificates for an equal number of shares of the 5% Cumulative Prior Preferred Stock and also the cash payment hereinafter provided" ($2.50 per share).
Plaintiff attacks the plan of conversion as both illegal and unfair and charges that the plan violates not alone his rights as a preferred stockholder but also the rights of those other preferred stockholders who did not assent to the plan by voting therefor. The plaintiff asks for a judgment declaring the plan of conversion illegal and inequitable as against the non-assenting preferred stockholders and he seeks injunction against the plan being enforced against him and them. The other non-assenting preferred stockholders are before this court by force of its order appointing the plaintiff as the representative of the whole class of non-assenting preferred stockholders and directing that the plaintiff give notice to the others of the nature and pendency of this action and of the opportunity afforded by the Court to intervene within twenty days after such notice is given. The notice was duly given but no other preferred stockholder intervened.
Is the plan of conversion illegal as against plaintiff and the other non-assenting preferred stockholders or is it binding upon all of them? Plaintiff argues that the certificate of incorporation of the company constitutes a contract not alone between the company and all its stockholders but also between the stockholders inter sese , that that contract assures to the holders of the preferred stock the ultimate payment of the accumulated and unpaid dividends, that the dividend rate is similarly assured and may not be reduced, that the foregoing rights constitute vested property rights which may not be altered or impaired by any number of stockholders less than all and that such immunity may be invoked by a single dissenting stockholder. With this general statement there can be no quarrel, but it has no application to the case at hand. That the company's charter constitutes a binding contract is so uniformly established and recognized that it would be quite idle to furnish the authorities in support of it. Equally settled, however, is the rule of law that every corporate charter is granted with reference
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to the state of the law at the time the charter is issued and that, unless the instrument itself contains language to the contrary, there is present in each charter by legal implication every right and power, as well as disability, expressed in the then prevailing law applicable to such a corporation. The legislative act under which a charter is granted is an integral part of the charter itself as fully as though it were literally incorporated in the charter. In Gen. Invest. Co. v. Amer. Hide & Leather Co. , 97 N.J. Eq. 214, at 224, the Court of Chancery held that upon the incorporation of a company the existing state of the law becomes part of the charter of the company, "subject to which every one is presumed, to have purchased his stock." When that case was reviewed on appeal (98 N.J. Eq. 326, 129 A. 244), Chief Justice Gummere, in writing the majority opinion for the Court of Errors and Appeals, said:
"It is further argued in support of this point that the proposed change is not permitted by the articles of incorporation; that those articles constitute a contract between the stockholders inter sese , which cannot be altered except by the unanimous consent of such stockholders. The answer to this argument is that the fifth section of the statute declares that 'this act shall be a part of the charter of every corporation * * * hereafter formed hereunder;' and that, consequently, the twenty-seventh section of the act, the scope of which we have discussed, is in an integral part of the stockholders' contract, and, so, is binding upon every stockholder."
The fifth section, lastly referred to, is now R.S. 14:2-8.
When the defendant company was incorporated in September, 1927, the prevailing state of the law on the plan of conversion here involved was reflected in an amendment and supplement enacted in 1926 and what is now 14:11-1-2-3. It provided, amongst other things, that any corporation could (a) "Create one or more classes of preferred or prior preference or other special stock;" (b) "Provide for funding or satisfying rights, in respect to dividends in arrears by the issuance of stock therefor or otherwise;" and (c) "Make other provisions for the readjustment or reclassification of all or a part of its capital stock". These three powers were the result of an amendment and supplement to the General Corporation Act which became effective on March 31, 1926,
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Chapter 318, Laws of 1926, p. 529. The powers last enumerated were, however, subjected to express limitations. Those pertinent to this case are that no corporation having outstanding any preferred stock could (1) reduce the dividend rate, (2) reduce the right to cumulative dividends, or (3) provide for funding or satisfying rights in respect to dividends in arrears on its preferred stock unless two-thirds in interest of the holders of the preferred stock should vote in favor of the change. The proofs before the court establish that the required vote was given to the changes here under attack. It is plain that the company's right to make the change by the required statutory vote was an integral part of the contract, subject to which the plaintiff and all the other stockholders purchased their shares and by which they are bound.
Plaintiff's counsel in his brief refers to Lonsdale, &c., v. International, &c., Co. , 101 N.J. Eq. 554, 139 A. 50. There it was held that where the preferred stockholders have become vested with the right to share in an existing surplus to the exclusion of the holders of the common stock, equity would not permit the majority of the stockholders to deprive a nonconsenting preferred stockholder of that right. The controlling circumstance in that case was that there the defendant company had been incorporated in the year 1902. Tested by the state of the law which existed in 1902, the proposed reorganization in the cited case offended the Corporation Act and sought to divest rights which the statute in its then state did not permit to be disturbed. Plaintiff also has relied on Wessel v. Guantanamo Sugar Co. , 134 N.J. Eq. 271, 35 A. 2 d 215, affirmed 135 N.J. Eq. 506, 39 A. 2 d 431. There a reorganization plan proposed to convert preferred stock of $100.00 par by giving to each such share a debenture of $40.00 and 14 shares of new $5.00 par value common capital stock. It was held that although the company could under the existing statute change its preferred stock into common stock, it did not have the power to destroy the cumulative portion of the contract held by preferred stockholders to be paid their dividend arrears. Here, too, the determinative fact was that the corporation was organized in 1905 and the preferred stock authorized by charter
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amendment in 1922, both dates being before the 1926 amendment and supplement (above mentioned) came into effect. It is quite clear that had the defendant company in the cited case been created subsequent to the 1926 amendment and supplement, the reorganization plan there advanced would have been well within the corporate power.
One other case cited by plaintiff is that of Buckley v. Cuban American Sugar Co. , 129 N.J. Eq. 322, 19 A. 2 d 820. There it was held that the corporation may provide for "funding or satisfying rights," in respect of dividends in arrears, by the issuance of stock therefor, but that such action must preserve vested rights and contractual obligations and that the existing certificate of incorporation of the defendant company created a contract between the company and its stockholders in which the latter are vested with property rights of a fixed and determinate value, for which there could not be substituted, over the objection of any stockholders, rights of lesser value. The significant fact in that case is that the company was incorporated in 1906, long before the 1926 amendment gave to corporations the express power of satisfying dividends in arrears by issuing stock therefor "or otherwise".
In the case sub judice the plan of conversion would wipe out the dividend arrears of $36.22 1/2 accumulated on each share of preferred stock. As against that result the par value of the new preferred stock would stand raised from $30.00 to $50.00. The differential of $20.00 would become immediately an additional base for the computation of dividends. In other words, a preferred stockholder would have a $50.00 principal investment to which the dividend rate would be applied. True, the dividend rate on the old stock was 7% while the proposed rate on the new stock is 5%, but the reduced rate of dividend would, however, produce for the investor a greater dollar yield than the former higher rate. Under the new stock he would receive 5% of $50.00, or $2.50, as against 7% of $30.00, or $2.10. In addition to that beneficial change, each stockholder presently receives on the conversion $2.50 in cash per share. Cumulatively the preferred stockholders receive $52.50 (in stock and in cash) against their present claim of $66.22 1/2 [2 NJSuper Page 527] (the $30.00 par plus the $36.22 1/2 dividend arrears). Mathematically the differential is $13.72 1/2 but it is more than offset by the advantages flowing from a present cash payment plus a new security unencumbered by dividend arrears which, from the proofs before me, could not be satisfied for many years to come and then only if the present real estate market continues energetic and office space continues to be greatly in demand. The defendant's principal asset and source of revenue is the Military Park Office Building in the City of Newark, which only during the current period of real estate prosperity has operated at some profit. That holding represents 86% of the company's gross assets. The pronounced advantages of the plan have strongly appealed to stockholders having large blocks of the old preferred stock, who urged upon the company's officers the plan as one which would furnish immediately some cash to the stockholders and, in the form of new stock, a much more desirable and marketable security than the existing stock with its heavy load of accumulated unpaid dividends, which accumulations the company has no present capacity to pay and has only remote hopes of paying in the future. I am also impressed with the very preponderant number of stockholders in favor of the plan and with the further fact that the plaintiff, who holds only 300 shares, is the only objector. He argues that the company should be held to the payment of the accrued dividends since, as he claims and the proofs show, it has a surplus of $668,364.04, substantially more than the total of all unpaid dividends. This claim overlooks the fact that that surplus is purely a paper asset, artificially created many years ago by the reduction of the par value of the common stock from $10.00 to $1.00 per share. It is not supported by cash or liquid securities. The company's financial statement shows that it had at the end of 1948 $190,000 in cash, out of which will be carved the cash payment required by the plan of conversion. The retention of the remaining cash for operating expenses, to meet amortization of mortgage, to furnish a reserve for future dividends, and for other corporate purposes is something that is committed to the sound judgment and good faith of the directors. With
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matters of business policy and discretion, exercised in good faith, the courts will not interfere. There has not been in this case the slightest intimation of bad faith. On the contrary, plaintiff's counsel stated to the court that the conversion plan was undoubtedly adopted in good faith but that the plaintiff could not be bound without his present specific assent. I have already indicated that by force of his contract he is bound by the action taken, for he has by implication of law agreed to be bound in the particulars here involved by the action of two-thirds of his fellow holders of the company's preferred stock.
I have here gone into the details of the plan in respect of its apparent advantages. This was done only because the plaintiff claimed the plan to be unfair. My attention to that complaint is not to be misunderstood. The fairness or unfairness of corporate action may not be considered where that action is in exercise of a power conferred upon the corporation by the Act under which it was organized. In Gen. Invest. Co. v. Amer. Hide & Leather Co. (supra) , it was stated by the Court of Errors and Appeals that even injury to the preferred stockholder cannot operate to nullify the corporate power conferred by law, that "The power thus conferred is only curtailed by those other provisions of the statute which declare the limits beyond which the corporation may not go in issuing such new stock", and that "the power thus broadly conferred by the legislature is not to be limited by judicial decision." I have considered the matter of the fairness of the plan only because it was strongly assailed and as vigorously defended. In view of the plaintiff's admission that the plan was conceived in good faith, I believe it to be fairly due to the directors of the company to clear them of the charge that they acted unfairly and unjustly. My view is that the plan is not only fair but decidedly advantageous to the preferred stockholders.
The defendant has asked for summary judgment on the pleadings and proofs before the court. None of the facts is in dispute. The plaintiff seeks both an injunction and a declaratory judgment. The defendant resists the injunction but prays
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for judgment declaring the plan both legal and fair and one mandatory and binding upon the entire class of preferred stockholders, which can mean, of course, only the non-assenting stockholders. Those who assented are not within this contest. The injunction sought by plaintiff will be denied and a judgment may be entered for the defendant declaring the conversion plan lawful and fair and mandatory and binding upon the plaintiff and all other non-assenting holders of the company's preferred stock.


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The zones affected by this extreme weather are located between 3,500 and 5,000 meters above sea level. The population in these zones comprises mostly poor farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock since the altitude of the zones limits their crop production to subsistence.
An ACT appeal was issued on 2 August 2002 to respond to this emergency and included proposals from Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and PREDES. The implementation of the activities is in process, however, due to the delay in the arrival of funds it is foreseen that they will not be finished within the original timeframe of the appeal. Therefore, Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and PREDES have requested an extension of the date of completion of the appeal from 31 December 2002 to 28 February 2003. The ACT CO has agreed with this extension.
Thank you for your attention.
For further information: ACT Web Site address: http://www.act-intl.org
ACT is a worldwide network of churches and related agencies meeting human need through coordinated emergency response.
The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Switzerland.


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This Is All I Ask is a sweeping, emotional novel capturing all the passion and majesty of the medieval period. Set near the Scottish border at a rugged castle on the edge of the sea, this is the story of a courageous lord who lost everything he held dear. Of a strong young woman willing to sacrifice everything for happiness.
Since the blurb is cryptic, here's a quick description: Gillian is a young woman who is heavily abused by her father. Christopher, the fearsome Dragon of Blackmour, marries her because he promised her brother William he would give her a safe place to live if William died. However, he doesn't wish to love her because his first wife betrayed him before she died. He's also afraid Gillian will despise him if she discovers his secret: he's blind. Neither expects how their lives will change once they marry.
The book is a historical romance set in the medieval period. The characters are well-drawn and act in realistic ways. The pacing is good, and every scene serves a purpose. There are no explicit sex scenes, but the main characters do have sex after they're married. There are three witches (of the "brewing potions" kind) that are minor characters, though no actual magical potions are consumed. One of these witches can see the future because she has "the Sight," and she helps move events in subtle ways. I'd rate this as "good, clean fun" for those who like a little heat in their clean romances.
Excerpt: Chapter One
The twigs snapped and popped in the hearth, sending a spray of sparks across the stone. One of the three girls huddled there stamped out the live embers, then leaned into the circle again, her eyes wide with unease.
"Is it true he's the Devil's own?"
"'Tis the rumor," the second whispered with a furtive nod.
"He was spawned in the deepest of nights," the third announced. She was the eldest of the three and the best informed on such matters. She looked over her shoulder, then looked back at her companions. "And I know what happened to his bride."
Gillian of Warewick paused at the entrance to the kitchens. She didn't like serving girls as a rule, what with their gossiping and cruel taunts, but something about the way the maid uttered the last of her boast made Gillian linger. She hesitated, waiting for the girl to go on.
"'Tis said," the third began, lowering her voice and forcing the others, including Gillian, to edge even closer, "that his lady wife found him one night with his eyes as red as Hellfire and horns coming out from atop his head. He caught her before she could flee and she's never been heard from since. 'Tis common knowledge that he sacrificed her to his Master."
Gillian felt a shiver go down her spine. Her knowledge of the world outside the castle walls was scant indeed, but she could well believe that England was full of witches and ogres who wove their black magic in the dead of the night. Her brother had told her as much and she'd had no reason to doubt his tales.
"He never leaves his keep, or so I'm told," the second girl said suddenly, obviously trying to sound as important as the third. "He has familiars see to his affairs."
"Perhaps he fears someone will learn what he truly is," the youngest of the three offered.


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The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a six-month extension of the debt service relief granted to 28 low-income countries.
The benefitting countries are Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo and Yemen.
In a statement on Monday, the Bretton Wood institution said grants will be disbursed under the CCRT for payment of eligible debt service falling due to the IMF from October 14, 2020.
“Subject to the availability of sufficient resources in the CCRT, the debt service relief could be provided for a total period of two years through to April 13, 2022, estimated at nearly $959 million,” the statement read.
“Relief on debt service will free up scarce financial resources for vital emergency medical and other relief efforts while these members combat the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
It said the debt service relief under the CCRT requires $1.4 billion and so far, it has received about $506.5 million from donors, including the UK, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, China, Mexico, Sweden, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, and Malta.
Together with the World Bank, the IMF has urged bilateral and multilateral lenders to offer debt relief to the world’s poorest countries to allow governments to concentrate on health spending.
Nigeria is one of the International Development Association (IDA) countries that received debt relief in March.

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Mumbai: A gang of masked men robbed United States Petro Finance Limited's 'Gold Loan' office in Tulinj area of Nalasopara and escaped with valuables and cash on Friday morning. According to the police officials, they also escaped with gold worth Rs 1.25 crore.
“Six men entered the branch of ITI Gold Loans with guns. These unidentified accused demanded the staffers to hand over cash and valuables in the branch.
The accused had their heads and faces covered with monkey caps,” said a police official. He further said all the activities of six accused have been recorded in the CCTV camera installed near the entrance gate of the branch.
The robbers took around 10 minutes to execute the robbery. “It must have be a planned robbery and soon we will register an FIR. We will interrogate the staff at the branch and they will be questioned to assess the amount of cash and valuables robbed apart from assessing the records,” he added.
They left behind the vehicle they had arrived in and are believed to have fled using local train and other vehicles.


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Today they are reversing and it is all about the bold Micron upgrade from BMO Capital.
Today felt like the inverse of what we saw in August and September.
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New LED drivers from TI help designers reduce power consumption and improve total system efficiency in human-machine interface applications
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In a market downturn, investors will need to be selective in the sector.
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November 27, 2018, 10:30 a.m. Mountain time
Highest-resolution single-chip mmWave sensors enable intelligent autonomy at the edge
Though both companies offered light revenue outlooks, their numbers and commentary point to a moderate industry downturn rather than a massive one.
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The U.S. economy extended its nine-year expansion last quarter, Commerce Department figures confirmed Friday, but slowing global trade, as well as the prospect of rising interest rates at home and political tensions abroad, could challenge President Donald Trump ambition for a 3% annual growth rate.
At ±0.1°C accuracy over a wide temperature range, TI's single-chip digital temperature sensors help engineers reduce design complexity
Global stocks were awash with red in overnight trading Thursday, loping billions in value from equity markets around Asia following last night's late-trading collapse on Wall Street which has erased year-to-date gains for benchmarks around the world amid concerns over weakening U.S. earnings growth, rising geo-political tensions and the unknown outcome of trade disputes between Washington and its major economic partners.
This is serious: The market is ignoring legitimate, positive earnings, says Jim Cramer, and tariffs and rates are the culprits.
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2 Days Tsavo East Tour & Saltlick from 325 €/person
Tsavo National Park is one of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya and it is a natural home to abundant wildlife, birdlife, endangered animals, and largest mammals with mesmerizing landscapes. A tour to Tsavo National Park can give you an incredible experience that you can always cherish. Witness the live wildlife around you and watch all the animals walking around, doing their natural activities in their natural habitat. Take great opportunity to capture some memorable photos and an amazing experience to share with everybody. Get an option to watch animals drinking and playing in water very close while you are resting in the unique styled Saltlick game lodge. Watch the elephants taking dust baths, different bird species, and huge game drive which you might have watched on television.
Your 2 Days Tsavo East Tour & Saltlick safari will commence in the early morning, drive through the largest Tsavo East park, with a chance to spot herds of Red Elephants, Lions, Giraffes, Zebras, Gazelles, Buffaloes, Leopard, Waterbucks, Impalas and different bird species. After exiting from Tsavo East Voi gate, give a pause to your journey for refreshment and lunch at a restaurant.
After lunch, you will be heading to the privately-owned Taita Hills Sanctuary. Check-in at Saltlick game lodge. While proceeding on a game drive beholds the captivating views of the private Taita Hills Sanctuary. It hosts varied species of birds and animals that include lions, elephants, giraffe, Zebras and much more you can observe. In the evening return to the Saltlick lodge to witness a large number of wildlife, especially the elephants gather at the waterhole to form a magnificent sight to behold as they drink at the watering hole near it. Take your dinner and overnight stay at Saltlick lodge.
Enjoy your early morning and late afternoon game drives in Salt Lick Lodge as this unique architectural concept provide an ideal opportunity to witness wildlife from very close proximity. You also get a prospect to capture the photographs of varied wildlife especially elephant, lion, when they come to quench their thirst at the waterhole. During the morning game drive, you will be in search of herds of Red Elephants, lions, crocodile, hippos, giraffes, zebras, gazelles, buffaloes, leopard, waterbucks, Impalas and different bird species in their location. After taking your lunch, you will be driven back to your coastal resorts to conclude your 2 Days TsavoEast Tour & Salt Lick safari in Kenya.
• Enjoy two days in the world’s largest game reserves
• Encounter Tsavo National Park’s famous red elephants
• Informative, friendly and professional guide
• Chances to meet big four and many wildlife animals
• Game drives through the private sanctuary
• Safe access and photography to a variety of animals
• Explore the park’s breathtaking landscape
Day 1 – Tsavo East /Saltlick – 2 hrs
You’ll be up from the hotel at 0500 hrs. Drive to Tsavo East through Bachuma gate and embark on morning game drive in search fo animals; Simba, cheetah, hyena, elephant, buffalo zebra or bird as you concentrate towards the direction of Tsavo East Voi gate. Exit and settle down for lunch at a stopover restaurant/hotel. After lunch depart to Taita Hills Sanctuary. An afternoon game viewing en-route to the Lodge Salt Lick Lodge which is a truly unique architectural concept, with luxurious oval-shaped rooms, overlooking a waterhole that attracts a large number of wildlife, especially the elephants. In the evenings the animals gather at the waterhole a spectacular sight to behold as they drink at the watering hole. Dinner and overnight at Salt Lick Lodge.
DAY 2 – Saltlick / Mombasa
Pre-breakfast game drive. Return to the lodge for breakfast and proceed on for a morning game drive in search for lions, buffalo, elephants, giraffe, zebra, antelopes, monkeys among many other animals. Lunch at Taita Hills Lodge. After lunch depart for Mombasa arriving late in the afternoon. You’ll be dropped back to the hotel.
Daily departure, minimum of 2 persons
High Level Lodges/Camps
2 persons booking together in a safari vehicle: 395 € per person
4 persons booking together in a safari vehicle: 375 € per person
6 persons booking together in a safari vehicle: 365 € per person
Standard Level Lodges/Camps
2 persons booking together in a safari vehicle: 365 € per person
4 persons booking together in a safari vehicle: 345 € per person
6 persons booking together in a safari vehicle : 325 € per person
Higher level Logdes/camps – SaltLick Lodge,
Standard level lodges/camps – Taita Hills Lodge.
This price includes:
All park entrance fee including government taxes.
Service of an English speaking professional driver/guide.
Fullboard Accommodation at the lodges(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Game drives as detailed in the itinerary.
Transport in a 4x4WD safari tour van with a game viewing roof hatch and UHF radio.
Mineral Water while on safari.
This price does not include:
Optional Masai Village visit
Items of a personal nature
Christmas and Easter Supplements
NB: 4×4 WD Landcruiser Jeep can be provided at an extra cost on request.
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Bridgestone has a diverse selection of golf balls available. The options can be overwhelming and make it difficult to find the ball that’s right for you. To help with the selection process, we have written this quick guide to help!
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LaMar Lighting Company has received UL approval to offer many of its recessed fluorescent fixtures with various types of modular LED light engines. With one of the broadest product lines in the industry, LaMar can now factory-install LED engines in most of its linear fluorescent fixtures, including surface- and pendant-mount luminaires, through the LED Express capability.
LED Express offers a lighting solution that delivers the energy savings of LED technology while allowing for easy fixture installation, maintenance, and part replacement. Customers can select a luminaire and then specify one of three robust, high-quality modular LED engine options: an LED engine driven by a fluorescent ballast, a built-in LED driver or an external LED driver. All fixtures are factory-wired for safe and easy installation and comply with UL standards. Each option can accommodate the specific project needs of new construction or retrofit.
Fixtures with ballast-driven LED engines present a cost-effective and easy path to the benefits of LED lighting. Some models are compatible with programmed-start and dimming ballasts and an emergency battery backup suitable for fluorescent lamps. As both LED engines and ballasts are rated for about 50,000 hours, they can be easily and cost-effectively replaced, ensuring the longevity of the fixture. Modular LED engines offer efficiencies of 110 lumens or more per watt and beam angles of up to 240˚.
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Arnold Appleforth claims getting old is all about attitude. And if that’s the case he needs all the attitude he can get, because his journalistic career is on life support, his sex life non-existent (except for a recent regrettable incident at a well-known chain restaurant), his financial position precarious and his alcohol consumption prodigious. Add to that his abysmal parenting of his three (or is it four?) children and the biohazard status of his flat, and life isn’t a bed of roses.
So Arnold decides to keep a diary, a daily dose of inspiration to keep his blood pumping. It’ll deal with his own life with intimate, eye-watering honesty and also include pungent political comment on the disgraceful state of contemporary Britain. With a view to publication of course – who wouldn’t want to enjoy his wit and wisdom?
So join Arnold as he drops pearly bon mots before swine and makes one last grab for literary immortality. And struggles to survive in a sadly unappreciative world….
William Humble has written a number of highly-acclaimed films for BBC TV, including the Emmy award-winning On Giant’s Shoulders starring Judi Dench, and the BAFTA-nominated Hancock, with Alfred Molina as Tony Hancock. He wrote Virtuoso about the concert pianist John Ogdon, also with Alfred Molina, as well as Alison Steadman. Other BBC films include Ex, a comedy starring Griff Rhys Jones; and another comedy, Royal Celebration, with Leslie Phillips, Minnie Driver and Rupert Graves. Also Poppyland directed by John Madden, and Talk To Me, both starring Alan Howard.
For ITV, he wrote the film Whatever Love Means, with Laurence Fox, and Too Good To Be True, a psychological thriller with Peter Davison and Niamh Cusack. He dramatised Every Woman Knows A Secret from the novel by Rosie Thomas, and wrote the six-part series An Unsuitable Job For A Woman – half based on the novel by P.D.James, half an original story. He also dramatised another P.D.James novel, The Black Tower, as a series with Roy Marsden and Pauline Collins; and Mary Wesley’s The Vacillations of Poppy Carew as a film with Tara Fitzgerald.
He has also written for Churchill – the Wilderness Years, Poirot, Granada TV’s Maigret starring Michael Gambon, Flambards, All Creatures Great and Small and Juliet Bravo.
His stage plays include: What a Performance, starring David Suchet as comedian Sid Field, on tour and in the West End. Facades, with Frances de la Tour as Edith Sitwell, directed by Simon Callow. Fly Away Home, with Hywel Bennett and Diana Quick. Talk To Me with Alan Dobie and Robert Daws. And Virtuoso, with Oliver Ford Davies.
He has also written several radio plays and – a million years ago – a novel.
Urbane is delighted to be publishing “The Diary of a Has-been” autumn 2016. Full details very soon!


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Davarynejad, G. H., Nyéki, J., Szabó, T., Tornyai, J., Szabó, Z., Soltész, M., & Davarynejad, E. (2010). Comparison of varying pollen source on productivity of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) cultivars. International Journal of Horticultural Science, 16(1), 23–26. https://doi.org/10.31421/IJHS/16/1/857
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Fruit set of five sour cherry cultivars (‘Újfehértói fürtös’, ‘Éva’, ‘Petri’, ‘Pándy 279‘ and ‘Csengôdi’) of eight years-old trees grown in Újfehértó, located in the Eastern north part of Hungary have been studied over two years (2008 & 2009). Following reciprocally cross-pollination, free-pollination, self-pollination (autogamy) artificial self-pollination (geitonogamy) were studied. The results show that both maternal and paternal parent cultivates had significant effects on the percentage fruit set. Significant differences have been found in fruit set among years and among pollination treatments. Fruit set of free-pollinated Pándy 276 cultivar was low and seasonally highly variable. The yield of this cultivar on self-pollinated flowers was nearly 0%, and in this treatment the maximum yields did not reach 10% in any of the examined cultivars. There was no significant relationship in the fruit set of free-pollination and natural self-pollination treatments.

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Strategic software implementation can make any business more successful. Whether it’s inventory and warehouse management, marketing software, or accounting tools, implementing new systems can help streamline internal processes, save thousands of dollars, and boost team productivity.
But our research shows that only 28% of ERP/Business Operations systems are successfully implemented when businesses try to do it them themselves or use the implementation services provided by the software provider. As a result, businesses are very reluctant to move to modern technology as evidenced by nearly 90% of businesses running on desktop software and other legacy solutions.
The key to getting the most out of any new software is hiring independent software consultants. With a well-qualified, experienced implementation consultant or coach, almost any of the well-known ERP/business management solutions can be successfully implemented.
In fact, our research shows that 72% of ERP/Business systems are successfully implemented when a business hires a software consultant. See the table below for details. Moreover, over 85% of new implementations across all systems in 2022 where very successful or successful when implemented by consultant versus only 67% when self-implemented including software provider assisted implementation.
The Coachbar team works with coaches that have successfully implemented countless systems across a range of industries. There are 10 systems that software consultants can implement more successfully than the software providers:
- Cin7 Omni
- Cin7 Core (formerly DEAR)
- Finale Inventory
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Consultants can make almost any software package work well, whereas only a few systems can be self-implemented
How to read this table:
Only 5 of the systems are successfully self-implemented, whereas 13 of the systems are successfully self-implemented by consultants.
This means working with a software consultant to do your implementations, your odds of being successful are high for 13 of the systems.
More remarkable is that 10 of the systems that don’t work when self-implementation is tried, do work well for implementation by software consultants.
Essentially, by picking a software consultant first, you can get good results on 13 of the 18 systems.
But, if you go with self-implementation on a few systems (5) work well for self-implementation.
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Boghazköy: Bronze Age. Fragment of clay, approximately 2" x 1.5", bearing an inscription in cuneiform. This fragment of tablet was found in Boghazköy, the site of the ancient Hittite city Hattusa, and dates sometime from 1800 BC to 1200 BC. The text is likely either legal or mercantile related.
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Events leading up to the attack on Sharpeville Police Station in March, 1960
Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 5:09am
Afrikaner Broadcasting Corporation
The literary work by P.C. Swanepoel titled Really Inside BOSS, was used as a source of reference for the following article. During the terrorist attack on the Sharpeville Police Station, Mr. Swanepoel was an employee of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) and describes in detail the causes which led up to the events at Sharpeville on 21 March, 1960.
The South African Government and Police were vilified following the Sharpeville attack. The most common criticism accused a lack of compromise and negotiation by the State when dealing with the terrorist element in question. The police were facing extremist terrorist leaders determined to undermine the State and the terrorists did not hesitate to sacrifice innocent lives in pursuit of their aims. The police were not trained as negotiators. Ordinary policemen were fulfilling their designated duty to uphold law & order helping to maintain the peace. The situation which transpired at Sharpeville spiralled out of control, the police reacted accordingly defending life and property.
The ANC embarked on a ‘potato boycott’ in May, 1959, after sensational reports in a journal aimed at black readers alleged a potato farmer in the Bethal district had mistreated his workers. A ‘stay-at-home’ was organised as a reinforcement of the boycott. Simultaneously a crowd of several thousand rioters had gathered at the Cator-Manor slum on the outskirts of Durban. The rioters initially attacked the municipal beer hall.
The police were called to the scene and rumours spread of the police being vastly outnumbered. Strong suspicion was present of ANC cadres instigating the beer hall attack. The police would baton charge the attackers, who would retreat and subsequently regroup a short distance away, repeating the attack on the beer hall. The police would withdraw, whereupon the mob would attack the police with stones. The situation was seemingly close to resolution.
In a sudden turn of events a school bus filled with small black children drove slowly past the rioters. The black mob assaulted the driver of the school bus, smashing the bus windows with the petrified children inside; they set the bus on fire. Two of the rioters stationed themselves at the door of the bus preventing any children from leaving. The children were forced to escape through jagged glass windows, falling to the ground bloodied and bruised, whereupon the mob would beat the small children with sticks. Mr. P.C. Swanepoel was an eyewitness to these events.
The Government had implemented the liquor act, forbidding blacks from buying European liquor. The regulation was not distinctly South African. The precursor to the United Nations, The League of Nations mandating the territory of South West Africa to South Africa, specifically forbade South Africa from allowing access to European liquor by the indigenous black population. Reluctantly the police were obligated to enforce this act, increasingly turning the natives against them. The raids in Cato Manor were conducted by black and white policemen and were greatly resented by the black inhabitants. All liquor discovered was destroyed on site. A few weeks before Sharpeville, one of the raids went badly wrong. A raiding party of black and white policemen were surrounded and attacked by a crowd of several hundred blacks. The white policemen were armed with revolvers, the black police carried batons. Despite screams from their black police comrades soliciting them to use their revolvers, the white policemen attempted to reason with the mob, resulting in the entire group being murdered.
Previous to this incident, in the 1950’s a similar situation transpired. Sergeant Shorty de Lange, a fluent Zulu speaker, led a party of policemen to a dagga (cannabis) plantation in Natal. The party was surrounded by approximately a hundred Zulus. The black policemen pleaded with him to command the opening of fire, refusing and opting to negotiate instead. Resulting in all the white policemen and most of the black policemen being killed.
Against this background occurred the events at Sharpeville. The global outrage was the fact that white policemen had fired upon black rioters. Quoting the CIA financed New African (January, 1962), “Sharpeville would have had less impact had a white reporter not been there”. A few years after the Sharpeville attack, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered by their black countrymen in Central Africa, no one in Europe had knowledge of this genuine massacre.
At Sharpeville, the police were aware of the riotous mob surrounding them. With hundreds of sticks and traditional weapons threatening the lives of the few policemen. The defence of the Police Station was of critical importance, this had been emphasised during their police training, since it was a bastion of the State and a symbol of authority, to be defended at any cost. In defence of a Police Station the use of firearms was rightly justified.
Tom Lodge offers an account of what occurred in Sharpeville.
The Pan African Congress began their preparations at Sharpeville in March, 1960. The instigators would confront people at bus stops compelling them to burn their identity documents (Passbooks a form of Passport used by migrant labourers on work contracts in the Republic of South Africa). On the night of the 20th of March, 1960, the terrorists targeted the residences of the local bus drivers, kidnapping them. The following morning the township population was impeded from getting to their place of work. The terrorist instigators pressured the general population to head towards the police station. Two Impala Airforce Jets patrolled the skies above the crowd of over 5,000 armed people surrounding the police station, for three hours the instigators challenged the police to arrest the intimidating multitude. The police refused and called for reinforcements which arrived in Saracen armoured vehicles after midday. The perimeter fence around the police station was breached by the threatening crowd; they proceeded to attack the outnumbered police officers. For thirty seconds the police fired in self-defence, dispersing the crowd and leaving 67 fatalities and 167 injured.
The attack upon the policemen of Sharpeville was a premeditated attack against the State, the guarantors of the authority of the State, the police were left with no option being confronted with an armed and violent crowd vastly outnumbering the few policemen. The terrorist leaders & instigators achieved their initial objective; by sacrificing the lives of their supporters they could draw the hysteria of the global media.
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Really inside BOSS: a tale of South Africa's late intelligence service (And something about the CIA)
by P.C. "Piet" Swanepoel
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