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Valley Views was now open year-round and winter was a nice time of year to stay, with more settled weather, fires to keep warm and the view of snow-capped peaks, Mr Tyrrell said.
There were some very cool touches: from the outdoor baths with deer antlers for towel racks, to the basket, housed in a tent, which Mr Tyrrell’s grandfather used to pick citrus.
Mr Tyrrell described himself as a "bit of an eco". That was how he was brought up, and his mother had never used chemical spray.
His passion was to bring people to New Zealand, because of its natural beauty, and bring them "back to nature".
In a world filled with plastic and material things, people were increasingly getting removed from the "reality of earth".
The couple refused to install Wi-Fi. Instead, guests would wake to a sunrise and hear the sounds of nearby cattle and birds, while watching the ever-changing reflection of the Waitaki River.
Valley Views was solar powered, its water came from a spring in the mountains and everything was recycled.
"That’s the fulfillment of the dream. I love being out here, love getting in the dirt like when I’m a little boy," Mr Tyrrell said.
"You know what I say to people? Live your dream. Go with your passion. You might not find your passion right now but keep focus and you’ll find your passion. Life’s a choice. You make whatever choice you want."
Trae Tha Truth - "Who Dey Rockin Wit"
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As he prepares for the February 5 release of "Tha Truth 2," Hustle Gang's Trae Tha Truth enlists the assistance of Memphis' own Yo Gotti for "Who Dey Rockin Wit." The Banger was produced by J. Oliver, and is just one of the many hits you can come to expect from Trae's forthcoming "Tha Truth 2" project.
For now "Tha Truth 2" is available for presale on iTunes (CLICK HERE). Guest appearances include Rick Ross, Young Thug, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign and more.
It's no secret that times are tough for the Gray Lady. A recent round of buyouts has seen a pack of top-level talent walk away from the paper, including a managing editor, John Geddes, and prolific tweeter and editor Jim Roberts. With so much talk of the papers' woes and past glories, it seems fitting that the Times is announcing a new, forward-facing startup incubator initiative, dubbed TimeSpace.
The project aims to bring "entrepreneurs to our headquarters to refine and grow their businesses," according to its well-manicured launch site. The program is said to last four months, and the Times is looking for between three and five companies for its inaugural round. Judging by the TimeSpace application page, the program sounds similar to incubator programs at media companies like Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, which has had tech companies working among the ink-stained wretches in the hopes of selling off some proprietary technology to the paper.
While programs like TimeSpace are exciting and indicative of the forward-thinking mindset organizations like the Times need to weather the coming years, these types of incubator programs haven't been without friction. In November, Adweek noted that an incubator at the Philadelphia Media Network outraged Newspaper Guild members, who felt the program was funneling resources and funds away from the newsroom.
While the Times is most certainly looking for a feel-good story, the proximity to a very public series of buyouts could cue grumblings from the media chattering class. More than anything though, TimeSpace is indicative of the direction the paper is heading, where high-rent space at the top of the masthead is being traded for a more affordable shot at a nimble future.
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Pictured is the Association Bar, on Corporation Street, Chesterfield.
A thug who punched and broke a reveller’s jaw during a night out at a Chesterfield bar is due to be sentenced.
Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on Wednesday, May 11, how Daniel Fletcher, 26, of Blunt Avenue, Mastin Moor, near Staveley, had been in the Association Bar, on Holywell Street, when he put his arm around complainant Nicholas Grayson before punching him in the face.
Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “The complainant was on the dance floor and remembers Fletcher bumping into him several times and the defendant walked to the edge of the dance floor and he was waving towards him.
The court heard how Mr Grayson could taste blood in his mouth after he was punched and he had to spend two days in hospital and have a plate fitted in his fractured jaw.
Mr Grayson stated that he did not know why the defendant had hit him and he has since been left nervous about going to bars and clubs.
Fletcher was seen assaulting Mr Grayson on CCTV and following his arrest he claimed to police that he had felt intimidated by three males in the bar and he had swung out.
The defendant, who has a previous conviction for wounding, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm after the incident in November, last year.
Defence solicitor Felicity Coats said: “He accepted throwing the punch but he said one of the other males had his arm around him suggesting they would get him outside and he was intimidated.
The probation service also revealed that Fletcher had been celebrating the life of a friend who had recently passed away.
District Judge Andrew Davison committed the case to Derby Crown Court for sentencing on June 1.
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Google formally acknowledged the significant achievement and named Yell as the winner of a Google EMEA AdWords Authorised Reseller Award in the Fastest Growth in Active Advertiser Base category.
Yell fully manages all aspects of Google AdWords for its advertisers, from creating campaigns and choosing appropriate keywords to managing budgets and tracking performance.
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Chris Brake, director of next generation products for Yell in the UK, said: “This is a significant achievement and proof that our alliance with Google is resulting in success. The award is an important milestone in our business strategy to be the best provider of marketing solutions to UK SMEs.
Yell offers quality business leads and marketing solutions to small and medium sized enterprises in the UK, US, Spain and some countries in Latin America through an integrated portfolio of simple-to-use, cost effective advertising. Our products are available through printed, online, telephone and mobile based media. Yell’s principal brands include: in the United Kingdom - Yellow Pages, Yell.com and 118 24 7; in the United States - Yellowbook and Yellowbook.com; and in Spain - PaginasAmarillas and PaginasAmarillas.es.
Published: Nov. 26, 2014 at 01:40 a.m.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2014 at 08:28 p.m.
Robert Griffin III has been benched for Colt McCoy. That's a sentence that would have been hard to fathom in 2012 when RGIII was lighting the league on fire. Now it feels the next logical step in Griffin's depressing devolution with the Redskins.
This is the second time in as many seasons a coach has taken Griffin out of the lineup, although former Redskins coach Mike Shanahan claimed last year it was for Griffin's safety. NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport indicated Tuesday night that the decision to start McCoy was not necessarily permanent, but organizations don't lightly decide to bench a No. 2 overall draft pick.
Griffin's erratic play is the biggest factor here. He's been tough to watch the last two weeks, and doesn't look comfortable in head coach Jay Gruden's offense. Gruden has made it clear he doesn't have a ton of patience to let Griffin learn on the job. There is also the question of whether Griffin's teammates are confident in him. There have been indications to the contrary.
So where does Griffin go from here?
Rest of 2014: Gruden is trying to win games, and believes McCoy gives the team a better chance to win in the short term. It just won't be particularly easy with a trip to Indianapolis on Sunday before a matchup with the dangerous St. Louis defense. If McCoy plays well, it's hard to imagine we'll see Griffin again this season. This is a tough decision to come back from.
Trade potential: There are a lot of variables at play this offseason. The first is Gruden's status as the team's head coach. If he's back in Washington, it's easy to imagine the Redskins dangling Griffin for a potential deal. The Redskins gave up three first-round draft picks and a second-round pick for the right to take Griffin in 2012. Getting even one second-round pick for him now sounds like an uphill battle.
Still, Griffin is due "only" $3.267 million in 2015. That is a low number, and it only takes one team out there that wants to give Griffin a test drive. Heck, Kevin Kolb once fetched a second-round pick, a Pro Bowl cornerback and a $30 million contract. Griffin is still a young quarterback that has been productive, although Vince Young is a reminder that a Rookie of the Year trophy only gets you so much. RGIII's value is at a low, and working out a renegotiated contract with a new team would be tricky.
Griffin's 2016 player option: The Redskins will have to decide by May 3 of next year whether to pick up the fifth-year option on Griffin's rookie deal. That one-year option would likely be over $17-$18 million. The contract is guaranteed only for injury, meaning the Redskins could decide to pick up the option in May and still release Griffin at no extra cost before the 2016 season. Considering Griffin has struggled to stay healthy and can't even keep a starting job, it's hard to imagine the Redskins taking any extra risk.
Griffin has the arm strength contract of a top-shelf prospect, but the Redskins are no longer treating him like one.
There are three types of insecure attachment: anxious-preoccupied, dismissive-avoidant, and fearful-avoidant. Please keep in mind that these styles aren’t as set-in-stone as the labels suggest; you’re looking to identify which style most readily describes your behavior most of the time in relationships. Someone with an anxious-preoccupied style actively seeks out relationships; she doesn’t like being on her own, and may even say that she somehow isn’t “complete” if she’s not coupled up. Her extreme neediness makes her open to the blandishments of partners high in narcissistic traits; she’s not likely to identify love-bombing or the whirlwind courtship with quick declarations of love as problematic. She needs and wants validation—that’s a direct consequence of how she felt marginalized, dismissed, or ignored in childhood—and when she finds it, she’s likely to seize on displays of aggressive courtship as proof of the “real thing” even if it isn’t. But for all that she needs love and a partner, she’s also highly distrustful and terrified of being hurt. I always describe this daughter as one who goes sailing on a cloudless day and spends it looking anxiously at the sky, expecting a storm. Her childhood treatment has made her hyper-vigilant to being slighted or left; that’s why the attachment style is called anxious-preoccupied.
These women are volatile, and quick to react if they detect even a whiff of betrayal or possible rejection. They often suffer from what experts call rejection sensitivity, which basically involves seeing rejecting behaviors or slights in every corner even when there aren’t any. This Goldilocks is in a perpetual defensive crouch, unable to believe a partner’s declarations of love and reassurance even though she desperately wants to believe them. As researchers point out, her rejection sensitivity often becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy as her reactivity may weary a potential partner.
Over the course of researching and interviewing women for my book, Daughter Detox: Recovering from an Unloving Mother and Reclaiming Your Life, certain discernible patterns emerged. A daughter with an emotionally unreliable mother—one who is sometimes attentive and sometimes dismissive or ignoring—becomes that wary sailor scanning the skies for trouble. The problem is that she never knows which Mommy will show up, and the lesson she draws from her experiences is that love isn’t stable and can be withdrawn or replaced at a moment’s notice; that’s what reinforces her preoccupied and worried stance. A daughter of a hypercritical and demanding mother is also likely be anxiously attached; she’s super-sensitive to any kind of criticism, no matter how mild or well-intentioned, and she’ll go into over-drive at a moment’s notice. Again, despite their real need for love, support, and attention, these women often come across as “high maintenance” and overly demanding to their partners and lovers even though that’s not precisely true; they’re simply not capable of regulating their emotions and putting on the brakes.
Daughters of mothers who are self-involved or high in narcissistic traits may also display an anxious style, although they may also develop one of the two styles of avoidant attachment depending on the position they occupy in the household. This mother is the sun around which her children obit in an effort to get her love and attention and, of course, to prove themselves worthy. Mind you, she sees her child or children as extensions of herself so she focuses on performance, adherence to her wishes and desires, and, most of all, making her look good. These mothers care a great deal about how they and their household appear to the outside world; there’s no room for the off-beat or quirky, much less a child who looks like a failure or flop. This mother also pits one child against the other; while in some families, the role of the trophy or golden child is fixed on one individual and the role of the scapegoat or trouble-maker on another, in some families these are rotating roles. While some daughters weary of the constant jousting and develop a dismissive-avoidant style in adulthood, others are made hungrier and more desperate by the occasional scrap of affection and attention thrown their way; they are likely to develop an anxious-preoccupied style.
Unfortunately, the importance the unloved daughter puts on romantic connection—and her understanding of what passion and romance look like—often puts her at risk of being attracted to potential partners who are more like her mother than not. That’s actually true of everyone—we are attracted to the familiar—which is great if you received love and affection growing up since it increases your chances of being drawn to people who are just like your mother or father. It’s obviously a real problem for the daughter whose emotional needs weren’t met in childhood.
We learn about love secondhand and so, unconsciously, we bring those mental models of what relationships look like into adulthood until we bring them into conscious awareness and change our behaviors. These daughters often mistake the love-bombing of someone high in narcissistic traits for romance or confuse volatility with passion; because of their childhood experiences, they think that love must be hard and fought for. When they’ve paired up with someone with an avoidant style, they’re likely to dig in their heels and try even harder to get that person to be close to them because that’s what they learned in childhood. Alas, they have no clue to what real love, built on interdependence and true independence, looks like.
Sadly, this daughter is also likely to spurn someone who’s securely attached, mistaking the lack of drama for boredom or lack of passion; the slower pace of how he gets to know her may also seem unromantic or too cautious. And if she doesn’t spurn him, her bouts of jealousy and constant need for reassurance may simply be too much for someone whose vision of love is based on stability and dyadic communication. That’s the self-fulfilling prophesy part of rejection sensitivity.
The good news is that once you become aware of how your behavior is being directed by old, unconscious scripts, you can change. It takes time and effort, best accomplished by working with a gifted therapist but can be bolstered by self-help.
April 16 (Reuters) - Foxconn’s Chairman Terry Gou said on Tuesday he is considering contesting Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election and the company said he would withdraw from the daily operations of the world’s largest contract manufacturer.
* Gou is Taiwan’s richest person with a net worth of $7.6 billion, according to Forbes.
* Taiwan is gearing up for presidential elections in January at a time of heightened tensions with China.
* Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, is due to hold its annual general meeting in June.
* Founded in 1974, the Foxconn group is the world’s biggest contract manufacturer, assembling goods for various global tech firms, but analysts say it relies on Apple for more than half its annual revenue.
“As the president and chairman, how can he balance his own interests and the interests of the country? That will be the challenge if he’s going to run.
“I don’t think the United States would be too happy to see him running because he is close to China and, right now, the U.S. is wary about China.
“Because he has a lot of wealth in China, in other words, China has some control over him, so I think the U.S. government would have to be very cautious about him running for political office.
“It’s not good news for Taiwan. He has too much at stake, politically. He has too much stake in China, so I don’t think he would do anything against China and this of course is not acceptable for the Taiwanese.
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Members of non-governmental organizations and social movements march in this capital today to demonstrate against the interference policies of the international right-wing and show their readiness to defend the Constitution and peace of Venezuela.
Summoned by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), thousands of Venezuelans gathered from 09:00 (local time) in Morelos square to move to the corner of San Francisco, in the vicinity of the National Assembly headquarters.
We reject the pretensions of the deputies of the opposition coalition Democratic Unity Table (MUD), whose leadership intends to remove magistrates from the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the head of the Parliamentary Homeland Group, Héctor Rodríguez, stated yesterday, during a press conference.
The Parliament, which remains in contempt, fails to comply with the terms established in the Constitution as part of a coup plot and repeatedly attacks the other public authorities in the country, said the PSUV leader.
‘We have to express our rejection this Thursday and every day in the streets of the town, in a peaceful way, but also with strong conviction,’ said Rodríguez.
He also denounced the call by the leadership of the National Assembly (opposition majority) to a mobilization, also today, to support the Parliament’s decision to dismiss the TSJ magistrates for allegedly punishing a legal coup.
Deputy Freddy Guevara, who serves as vice-president of Parliament, called an opposition rally on Francisco Fajardo highway, the largest in Caracas.
Last Tuesday militants of the PSUV and sympathizers of the MUD also concentrated, but while the defenders of the Bolivarian Revolution did it in a peaceful way, the opponents carried out violent acts against the Bolivarian National Police.
Mark Gottfried is taking the positive view on his Alabama team's standing in the Southeastern Conference Western Division.
The Crimson Tide is in third place � or is it last?
Either description works, even if one makes the coaches and players feel a bit better.
Four of the division's six teams head into their final three league games locked in a tie behind Mississippi State (10-3 SEC) and Arkansas (7-6). If that sets the stage for a potentially dramatic final scramble for SEC tournament seeding, it also means that two-thirds of the West are stuck with 4-9 league records.
Alabama, Mississippi, LSU and Auburn are vying for that not-so coveted No. 3 spot. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, are 19-8 and need to win only one of their final three games or have Arkansas lose once to secure the title.
They seem like the only SEC West team in a comfortable position for the NCAA tournament. Comfort and the West just don't seem to go together.
The current situation can't match last year's drama, when four teams entered the final weekend of the regular season in a dead heat for the title. Mississippi State secured the top SEC West seed in the league's last game the Sunday before the tournament.
That title didn't bring enough credibility to land an NCAA tournament berth. Only Arkansas went from the West.
Let the race for No. 3 begin.
'There's just a lot of teams that are very similar, and it's just going to be who's going to be able to steal a couple on the road coming down the stretch here,' said Auburn's Jeff Lebo, whose team is 14-12.
'It's going to be the difference between being third and sixth. It's going to be a couple of plays here, a couple of plays there, much like it was last year,' he said.