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Women will be recruited from the EMPOWER clinic when they present for care; they may be given
a flyer as part of their clinic entry paperwork, or approached by a study staff member in the
waiting area of the clinic. Women who are clients of Sanctuary for Families may find out
about the music workshops and the study through Sanctuary for Families staff, who will post
flyers in their noticeboards or offices.
This study will use a repeated measures survey design to evaluate the effect of a musical
workshop intervention to aid in the management of mood, anxiety, and stress among women
enrolled in the EMPOWER clinic for survivors of sex trafficking and sexual violence.
Assessment of the feasibility and acceptability of this music intervention will be carried
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Is Montessori for my Child?
All children – rich, poor, gifted, from a variety of different cultures – have benefited from a Montessori education. Your child will also prosper in his or her own subtle, creative way. Your child is coming to our school because you sense that this is the right time.
Perhaps the toys at home no longer seem interesting. Perhaps your child is bored and needs new friends and new experiences.
When your child is ready for an experience apart from you, he or she will benefit and grow in our Montessori environment.
The Montessori Classroom
Not only is the Montessori classroom a place for individual learning, it offers a mixture of ages. The older child learns through teaching the younger child. The younger child, in turn, is inspired to do more advanced work by having the older child in the same environment. After showing interest in an activity and receiving a lesson from the teacher, the child continues working with the material and returns it to its proper place. Therefore, the Montessori classroom is a community of workers with freedom of movement and choice.
Although most of the class time is spent in individual or small groups, some part of each day is spent in whole class activities, or “circle time”. These activities would include singing, storytelling, movement exercises, or large muscle activities. In Montessori, we begin with practical and social skills, not just academic. Keeping track of belongings, putting things away, dressing oneself, sharing materials and respecting the limits of the community, are some of the initial benefits of total development of the Montessori classroom. These form foundations for growing independence.
Seeing is believing. Something as involved as a complete educational system cannot be explained in a website or brochure. Something as important as your child’s basic development and education should not be chosen on the basis of a pamphlet or a phone call. We invite you to come to our school, observe a Montessori classroom, and talk to our staff.
Dr. Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in the town of Chiaravalle, in the province of Ancona, Italy, on August 31, 1870, she became one of the first female physicians in Italy upon her graduation from medical school in 1896. Shortly afterwards, she was chosen to represent Italy at two different women’s conferences, in Berlin in 1896 and in London in 1900.
In her medical practice, her clinical observations led her to analyze how children learn, and she concluded that they build themselves from what they find in their environment. Shifting her focus from the body to the mind, she returned to the university in 1901, this time to study psychology and philosophy. In 1904, she was made a professor of anthropology at the University of Rome.
Her desire to help children was so strong, however, that in 1906 she gave up both her university chair and her medical practice to work with a group of sixty young children of working parents in the San Lorenzo district of Rome. It was there that she founded, on January 6, 1907, the first Casa dei Bambini, or “Children’s House.” What ultimately became the Montessori method of education developed there, based upon Montessori’s scientific observations of these children’s almost effortless ability to absorb knowledge from their surroundings, as well as their tireless interest in manipulating materials. Every piece of equipment, every exercise, every method Montessori developed was based on what she observed children to do “naturally,” by themselves, unassisted by adults.
Children teach themselves. This simple but profound truth inspired Montessori’s lifelong pursuit of educational reform, methodology, psychology, teaching, and teacher training–all based on her dedication to furthering the self-creating process of the child.
Maria Montessori made her first visit to the United States in 1913, the same year that Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel founded the Montessori Educational Association at their Washington, DC, home. Among her other strong American supporters were Thomas Edison and Helen Keller.
In 1915, she attracted world attention with her “glass house” schoolroom exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco. On this second U.S. visit, she also conducted a teacher training course and addressed the annual conventions of both the National Education Association and the International Kindergarten Union. The committee that brought her to San Francisco included Margaret Wilson, the daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
The Spanish government invited her to open a research institute in 1917. In 1919, she began a series of teacher training courses in London. In 1922, she was appointed a government inspector of schools in her native Italy, but because of her opposition to Mussolini’s fascism, she was forced to leave Italy in 1934. She traveled to Barcelona, Spain, and was rescued there by a British cruiser in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War. She opened the Montessori Training Centre in Laren, Netherlands, in 1938, and founded a series of teacher training courses in India in 1939.
In 1940, when India entered World War II, she and her son, Mario Montessori, were interned as enemy aliens, but she was still permitted to conduct training courses. Later, she founded the Montessori Center in London (1947). She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times–in 1949, 1950, and 1951.
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A bit of a cold front came through the region slowing the fishing a bit, but providing continued cool water temps and a bit of rain that the rivers and fish both liked. You will still find the rivers in good shape and fishable including the Manistee and Boardman.
Hatches have been pretty much limited to Tricos in mid-morning – with late morning being the case after a cold night. Attractor patterns and terrestrials (hoppers, Foam and Rubber) are bringing some fish up to the surface and more often than not they are looking for that bug to be chugging, twitching and skittering rather than dead-drifted. Below the surface, look for medium sized streamers fished on either floating lines or small sink-tip lines to tease some fish into playing our game.
Bass and bluegill fishing on the lakes is still a good bet with water temperatures staying cool. Some days are better than others and I suspect the forecast over the next 10 days will provide some stable and warm conditions ideal for getting these fish back on the feed. Surface and subsurface flies are working – it’s just a matter of which or what they want any particular day.
With the recent rains, cool down and northerly winds, a few salmon have staged at the river mouths and even a few have slipped into the local rivers. The warmer weather in store should put a hold on the migration until later but there is no doubt fall is right around the corner – what happened to summer?
Tricos and Terrestrials for Trout – July and August fly fishing for trout on the Upper Manistee River Salmon- Fresh fish can enter rivers as early as mid-August and offer great fishing through September. Fall Steelhead- From the end of September through November – this is the time of year for Steelhead. | <urn:uuid:3acf7e1d-0216-450a-8794-308f7a23bd6b> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://thenorthernangler.blogspot.com/2014/08/tks-fly-fishing-report-for-traverse.html | 2017-08-22T05:10:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886110471.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170822050407-20170822070407-00374.warc.gz | en | 0.967606 | 385 |
The average annual and hourly salaries for first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers in the state of Texas are shown in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. The comparison of the salary statistics of first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers among Texas areas is shown in Table 3. The salary statistics are based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 and published in April 2018 .
|Percentile Bracket||Average Annual Salary|
|10th Percentile Wage||$39,860|
|25th Percentile Wage||$52,520|
|50th Percentile Wage||$70,850|
|75th Percentile Wage||$99,800|
|90th Percentile Wage||$144,670|
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers in Texas in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $144,670. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $70,850. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent is $39,860.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers from 2012 to 2017.
|Year||Median Salary||Yearly Growth||5-Year Growth|
Table 3 shows the median annual salary of first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers in some Texas cities and metropolitan areas. We note that the median annual salary of first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers in state of Texas ranges from $48,800 to $84,530. The highest paying area for first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers in Texas is Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area with a median annual salary of $84,530. The second highest paying city/area in Texas State is Midland (mean annual salary $81,510). The lowest paying area is Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area with a median annual salary of $48,800.
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|Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown|| |
|Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington|| |
|Beaumont-Port Arthur|| |
|Wichita Falls|| |
|San Antonio-New Braunfels|| |
|College Station-Bryan|| |
|Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos|| |
|Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood|| |
|Central Texas nonmetropolitan area|| |
|Fort Worth-Arlington|| |
|Gulf Coast Texas nonmetropolitan area|| |
|Corpus Christi|| |
|San Angelo|| |
|North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area|| |
|Southern Texas nonmetropolitan area|| |
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..I do not understand or subscribe to romance. I think it often belittles the true love that motivates small daily gestures. It too often clouds the reality of a relationship – the lack of solid foundation, the acts of cruelty, the lack of common goals and interests...
..I am fighting for recognition and respect for all types of families – blended families, queer families, multi-racial families, adoptive families, families of choice, childless and child-free families, single people, and many more. I am fighting for the right to marry my partner so that we will enjoy the same protections that other couples take for granted. Heck, if someone can come up with a better system that will allow for greater flexibility and protection for all types of families, then I will fight for that too...
In honor of all kinds of love and as part of the fight for marriage equality Sam and Kelly have a few ways that you can participate.
- They're selling ceramic hearts that you can then leave places or take images of.
- They are doing he(art) bombings where one or many people go and hang the ceramic hearts in public places
- They're asking for your stories of all kinds of families and love. You can find out more how to get involved here. Check out the website for some he(art) bombings that have already taken place.
Last weekend I went to the beach with a family of mine that would not be recognized or valued by many people in America. It was a lovely simple weekend. A nice end to the summer. I so enjoyed taking images of the Love is a Radical Act hearts in this setting knowing that I was living exactly what this project is about.
My partner of nine years was with me. He is a true and trusted partner. He's my best friend. I so relate to what Sam wrote above about how the romance that most people think is so important is actually just an illusion. That idea actually belittles the true real love of everyday kindness and partnership. That is what I have with my partner.
We don't live together, we aren't married, but we have a strong equal partnership and his love and friendship has changed my life so much for the better. Some people have and will dismiss our relationship, but it is strong and just as valid as any other couple or family who love and care for each other every day.
Family is where you find the people who most care for you, who want the best for you, who accept you as you are. This can come in many different forms. One is no better than the other. The fact that love can be divided as good or bad or right or wrong is absurd.
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Hello everyone. I would like to get into a good MBA program (who wouldnt) and I was looking for some advice on how to strengthen my chances.
There is a shorter summary at the bottom in case you want to skip all of this!
I am currently a junior majoring in Mathematics and Finance with a minor in Spanish. I have a 4.0 GPA so far (Im almost through with my math major but still have quite a few finance classes). I will probably graduate with a 4.0 or something close since the hardest of my math classes are over. I love to learn and pretty much everything I have been presented with comes to me naturally. The only problem is that I go to a relatively unknown state university. Its a legitimate university and it certainly isnt easy, but outside of the tristate area, I doubt many people have heard of my school. I mostly came here because I got it all paid for and since my parents dont have a lot of extra money, they encouraged me to go here also. I am starting to regret not going to a better school, but there is not much I can do about that now, so I am just moving forward.
As far as the GMAT is concerned, I have always excelled on standardized test (34 composite on the ACT with a 36 on the math section and a 35 in reading/English) and I plan to put in the necessary work to do well on that. Im not taking it lightly, but it isnt a major concern for me compared to other areas.
As far as leadership and school involvement go, I tend to be pretty involved. I am in the Honors program as well as a math and finance honor society. I have been nominated for student of the year in the College of Engineering and Science (math is in that college). I hold a leadership position in our schools investment club as we are starting a student managed investment fund. Once that is started, I will be one of the leaders or managers for that. I am also active in doing community service, both through religious avenues and non-religious avenues. I also hold a leadership position in the Financial Management Association.
Also, throughout college, I have consistently held a job. In fact, I have consistently held a job since I turned 16. These jobs havent been directly related to business (food service, veterinarians office, farm hand, library, customer support), but I have been able to maintain a 4.0 GPA throughout college and high school while working and being involved.
I also have good communication skills and most people that meet me like me. I usually interview well.
Once I graduate, I plan to work for three years or so before I apply to an MBA program. What sort of job should I be looking for? Im hoping to work for a local bank or something to do with investments.
To summarize: 4.0 GPA in Mathematics and Finance, minor in Spanish from an unknown school; probably do pretty well on the GMAT; good community service, school club involvement, and good leadership; no idea what sort of job I need to get after college. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! | <urn:uuid:b9c6bf76-6ab6-4b12-a0be-9539fcae0cc0> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-school-mba/1111168-advice-strengthening-my-top-mba-chances.html | 2014-04-18T23:38:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535535.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00401-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979283 | 648 |
A CBS News story reports on an exciting discovery:
A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is providing the first physical evidence of a Jewish community that thrived there a thousand years ago.
On Thursday Israel’s National Library unveiled the cache of recently purchased documents that run the gamut of life experiences, including biblical commentaries, personal letters and financial records.
Researchers say the “Afghan Genizah” marks the greatest such archive found since the “Cairo Genizah” was discovered in an Egyptian synagogue more than 100 years ago, a vast depository of medieval manuscripts considered to be among the most valuable collections of historical documents ever found. [...]
The Afghan collection gives an unprecedented look into the lives of Jews in ancient Persia in the 11th century. The paper manuscripts, preserved over the centuries by the dry, shady conditions of the caves, include writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judea-Arabic and the unique Judeo-Persian language from that era, which was written in Hebrew letters.
Unfortunately, they only acquired “29 out of hundreds of the documents believed to be floating around the world,” but hopefully they’ll be able to get more. I’m not sure what’s intended by the phrase “unique Judeo-Persian language” in the last quoted paragraph; Judeo-Persian is no more and no less unique than any other language (and of course there were comparable Jewish forms of just about every language spoken in areas where there were substantial Jewish communities). At any rate, you can see a selection of images at the library site. Thanks, Paul! | <urn:uuid:0a64ce02-602c-40f1-9db5-0527d81f38c9> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://languagehat.com/afghan-genizah/ | 2014-09-24T00:22:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657140890.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011220-00129-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939872 | 349 |
Join us for a light breakfast at Tortilla Coast for an off-the-record conversation with Congressman Donald Norcross.
On November 12, 2014, Donald Norcross was sworn into the 113th Congress to represent New Jersey’s First Congressional District, which includes 52 towns throughout Camden, Gloucester, and Burlington Counties.
Donald has long been active in local community service organizations, serving as chairman of the Camden County United Way, and a member of the Home Port Alliance, which was instrumental in bringing the Battleship New Jersey to Camden’s Waterfront. Donald also managed a non-profit organization that connected local families with community resources, built wheelchair ramps for seniors and disabled veterans, and offered job training for local residents.
As a graduate of both Camden County College and a skilled apprenticeship program, Donald fully understands the value of a quality, affordable education that connects young minds with rewarding careers. He played a key role in historic higher education reforms that established New Jersey as a research and medical education hub. He worked with Rowan and Rutgers Universities to form partnerships with our local county colleges to make earning a degree more affordable for local students. He also created pipelines for local employers to hire talent from vocational and technical schools, and has championed programs to expand and diversify the workforce through the recruitment and hiring of women and minorities.
Donald previously served in both the New Jersey General Assembly and State Senate where he developed a reputation as an effective, bipartisan reformer. Among his accomplishments, he led the charge to increase New Jersey’s minimum wage and championed a groundbreaking effort to improve our economy and bring new, family-sustaining jobs to the region. These efforts have led to the announcement and opening of new manufacturing, service, and retail businesses along Delaware River ports and throughout South Jersey.
In addition, he successfully fought to improve public safety and keep violent offenders out of our communities by overhauling New Jersey’s antiquated bail system. And thanks to his efforts on behalf of veterans, New Jersey’s colleges and universities now offer in-state tuition rates to all service members, and local governments are encouraged to partner with veteran-owned businesses and those that employ our nation’s finest.
Donald was selected to serve as Assistant Whip in the 114th Congress, and is also a member of the House Armed Services Committee, House Budget Committee, and was appointed by the members of his Caucus to the Steering & Policy Committee, and the Communications Committee.
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Among Ventura County players competing at the college level this winter, Kyle McMorrow of the University of Washington is having as good a season as any of them. The Thousand Oaks High graduate was in Southern California last week and his three-day stay provided two of his most severe tests of the dual campaign.
McMorrow is well positioned inside the top 25 on the latest Men's Division I singles rankings and last week he drew a pair of other top-25 players — No. 9 Sebastian Fanselow of Pepperdine and No. 20 Andre Dome of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Both matches lasted well beyond two hours and although the 14th-ranked McMorrow split them, the one victory was especially rewarding.
Playing the deciding match at No. 1 singles, McMorrow outlasted Dome 4-6, 7-6, 7-5 as the No. 17 Huskies defeated No. 52 Cal Poly SLO 4-3 last Friday afternoon at Pepperdine's Ralphs-Straus Stadium. Dome, a 5-foot-11 junior from Arroyo Grande who hits two-handed forehands and backhands, was unbeaten in dual matches this season before that match.
The win was McMorrow's fifth over a top-25 opponent this season as Washington cooled off a Mustangs team that had won 10 of its last 11 matches.
Two days earlier, McMorrow was locked in another grueling battle against Fanselow, a 6-4 junior from Essen, Germany. Fanselow battled from behind to take a 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 victory as No. 8 Pepperdine earned a 7-0 home triumph for its eighth straight victory.
McMorrow, who will return to Ventura County next month for the 112th Ojai, received high praise from his coach, Matt Anger, for his clutch performance against Cal Poly's Dome.
"I love having Kyle out there for us with things on the line," Anger said. "Dome is a talented guy and hit shots all over the court. They were both coming up with shots. It was pretty good tennis."
Other area college players who making news this winter:
William Duncan, Carnegie Mellon: The Newbury Park High graduate, who is having an excellent freshman season for the Division III school in Pittsburgh, defeated Evan Charles 6-3, 6-4 to earn the clinching point at No. 3 singles as the 21st-ranked Tartans defeated Mary Washington 6-3 on Saturday. Duncan is 9-2 in dual-match singles play and is playing well at No. 1 doubles.
Daniel Nguyen, USC: The Oxnard native was named the Pacific-12 Conference Player of the Week on Monday as he helped the top-ranked Trojans defeat No. 10 Florida 6-1 on March 19. Later on Monday the Trojans routed Boise State 6-1 and Nguyen, playing No. 1 singles for just the third time this season, earned a 6-2, 6-1 win over James Meredith. Nguyen, ranked No. 13, has a 10-match winning streak in singles.
Moira Hedberg, Eastern Washington: The Oxnard High graduate, named the Big Sky Conference athlete of the week two weeks ago, is playing quite well at No. 1 singles and doubles in her freshman season for the Eagles. Hedberg and her Eastern Washington teammates were in Northern California last weekend and lost to Sacramento State and San Jose State. Despite absorbing singles and doubles defeats in both matches, Hedberg has a 7-7 record in singles and doubles this season.
Sam Querrey's ATP Tour ranking has slipped to No. 102 following the BNP Paribas Open and a second-round loss at the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open, and will likely not be enough to help the Thousand Oaks High graduate climb back into the top 100 when the new rankings are released on Monday. South Africa's Kevin Anderson ousted Querrey from the Sony Ericsson with a 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3 victory last Saturday. Querrey had held a 5-1 record vs. Anderson in their head-to-head matches before Saturday's encounter. ... Lauren Wagner of Oak View defeated Carlotta Trevino of Ojai 6-2, 7-5 to win the women's open title at the 12th annual St. Patrick's Tournament at the Oxnard Tennis Center. The men's open championship was played Wednesday night between Fabian Schaefer of Ventura and Guillaume Gauthier of Camarillo. Schaefer defeated No. 1 seed Ethan Lopez of Oxnard in the semifinals, 6-4, 6-3. ... Brendan McClain of Ventura won his first two matches in the Boys 18 main draw of the USTA ITF Claremont. Sivan Krems of Thousand Oaks and Dominique Schaefer of Ventura each won their opening match in Girls 18s, but both players lost close second-round matches on Tuesday.
ITF — International Spring Championships (Carson), April 2-8
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Thanks to its always-growing restaurant and bar scene, Charlottesville has established itself as a known foodie city. However, its status may not be entirely coincidental. The City of Charlottesville lies on the 38th Parallel, a latitude line that runs through us as well as some of the food capitals of the world — Spain, Italy, Greece, Lebanon, Turkey and the Napa Valley to name a few. The 38th Parallel is a mild, temperate region across the globe that lends itself to the cultivation of fine food and wine. Some might say that Charlottesville’s connection to the line has contributed to the city’s food prowess. And in 2013, experienced sommelier and restaurateur Justin Ross decided to turn that idea into a restaurant of its own. However, Parallel 38 is a restaurant we almost weren’t able to keep. After several years in Stonefield just past the Barracks, Parallel 38 closed its doors in January of this year — some thought for good. However, the restaurant had already won the hearts of Charlottesville, having won Best New Restaurant of 2014 from C-VILLE Weekly. Their closing was a hit to Charlottesville’s burgeoning food scene, and it seems they couldn’t keep their doors shut forever. As of just a few weeks ago, with a sleek new location on West Main just a step away from Grounds, Parallel 38 is ready to reclaim their spot on critics’ lists. The restaurant combines Italian, Greek and Middle Eastern influences into a hip and modern tapas bar. Decorations are sleek and subtle, and the bar is lit only by tiny, individually placed spotlights. Walls are slate gray or jet black and often placed at sharp angles in the small, loft-like space of the interior. Soft, wordless funk beats play over the speakers and diners upstairs are lit by cool blue lights overhead. Parallel 38 has the vibe of the complete modern restaurant — suave, sophisticated and exciting. But unlike the decor, the food takes us back to a more classical era. Some dishes stand out as modern twists, like beef tartare served with quinoa and molded into a perfect cylinder, but many of Parallel 38’s standout dishes are more traditional — cheesy Italian meatballs, hummus dip with homemade pita and garlic-sauteed shrimp and onions. Classic fare at Parallel 38, however, still manages to stay exciting through bright flavor combinations and regional variety. Combining the small plates feels natural, like pairing the acidity of marinated artichokes with sweet, cool tzatziki dip or matching Italian risotto and calamari. Parallel 38 is not about a single dish, but the shared experience of consuming many. I will say this idea of an overarching experience also meant that one dish did not manage to blow me away. The closest was crispy cauliflower thoroughly seasoned with Indian masala, but even that did not stand out as the shining star of the meal. Every dish I had I would absolutely eat again, yet there were none that I will be reminiscing about for days to come. Tapas at Parallel 38 work best in tandem rather than standing out as single dishes, complementing one another to create an overall dining experience. However, if there’s one thing Parallel 38 can deliver, it’s experience. I am partial to tapas-style dining and the atmosphere it creates, but Parallel 38 goes far beyond just serving tiny portions and having an extensive menu. Parallel 38 combines a killer theme, a fast-paced atmosphere and an assortment of worldly food to bring you around the globe and back again in one night. It’s perfect for joining a friend — or several — around a shared experience or taking family out to prove your hip restaurant taste and worldly palette. And with their opening happening just a few weeks ago, now is the perfect time to get in and get it while it’s hot. | <urn:uuid:de345262-0931-44f2-b2b8-132f711a0904> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2017/10/parallel-38-back-on-the-scene | 2017-12-15T04:46:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948563629.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215040629-20171215060629-00138.warc.gz | en | 0.962639 | 793 |
NEW DELHI: The BSE Sensex dropped over 100 points in early trade on Friday as investors and funds preferred to book profits, tracking weak global cues.
At 10:00 am, the 30-share BSE index was trading at 17,746.16, down 102 points or 0.57 per cent. Infosys (1.07 per cent), RIL (0.8 per cent) and ICICI Bank (1.05 per cent) led the losers' pack. The index has hit a high of 17,822.50 and a low of 17,734.26 today.
The 50-share Nifty index was down 0.63 per cent or 34 points at 5,381.90. It has hit a low of 5,373.90 and a high of 5,399.65 today.
"The rupee declined by 18 paise to 55.44 against the dollar in early trade today, snapping four sessions of gains, at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on fresh demand for the American currency," PTI reported.
"Besides increased dollar demand from importers, a lower opening in the domestic equity market put pressure on the rupee, forex dealers said," said the report.
IFCI Ltd dropped over 14 per cent in early trade on Friday after the government approved conversion of Rs 923 crore of debentures held by it in IFCI into equity, which also raised the government's stake to 55.57 per cent.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd slipped over 2 per cent in early trade following reports that the company has slashed its forecast to 2 per cent for sales growth of the farm equipment in India as the worst rainfall in three years delays crop sowing.
Coal India Ltd moved 1 per cent higher after the coal ministry asked the state-miner to quickly approve the model fuel supply agreement to be inked with power firms.
Reliance Industries Ltd, which led the Sensex lower in Thursday's trading session, is under pressure in today's trade also. The oil & gas major slipped 1 per cent in the opening trade to Rs 786.
The BSE Realty Index was trading 1.07 per cent lower, the BSE Capital Goods Index declined 0.89 per cent and the BSE Metal Index was down 0.8 per cent. The BSE HealthCare Index was up 0.1 per cent, followed by the BSE FMCG Index, which was trading flat.
The top traded counters on BSE included SBI, Tata Steel and L&T.
Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (2.02 per cent), JP Associates (1.6 per cent), Axis Bank (1.7 per cent), Tata Steel (1.8 per cent) and Jindal Steel (1.5 per cent) were the major Nifty losers.
ONGC (0.6 per cent), Coal India (1.1 per cent), Wipro (0.5 per cent), Cipla (0.7 per cent) and ITC (0.2 per cent) were the major Sensex gainers.
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How to successfully Delegate
One of the fundamental problems that people have when making the step up to management is the inability to delegate effectively. This eBook provides a practical process you can follow to ensure you delegate appropriate tasks.
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When I went into marriage, I knew I would take on the role of a dutiful wife, whatever the heck that meant.
But what I didn’t expect was to become my husband’s 24/7 personal shopper.
I’m not exactly sure when it started, but I’d guess it probably began in childhood with a mother who always stocked her boys’ closets and ironed their clothes.
But it also could have started when we were dating. I do seem to remember buying him a “cool” Abercrombie sweatshirt or two. I also definitely convinced him to wear a certain tight white polo I loved so much.
But while the early signs were there, I was still slightly taken aback when we settled into our routine as husband and wife — and I realized that I was now responsible for all shopping, forever and on.
It’s not like my husband abhors shopping or refuses to do it on some stubborn manly level. It’s just that it simply doesn’t cross his mind. He would be quite happy wearing tattered shirts and squeezing into jeans that may have fit a couple of kids ago. He wouldn’t notice until every last scrap of toilet paper was used up, would have no problem scrubbing his hair with a bar of soap, and might never wonder how the wet wipes disappear so quickly.
And while, from time to time, it amazes me how much shopping I do for everyone in this family — because, of course, our four children also need to be clothed, fed, and all that stuff — I also have to confess something.
I kind of enjoy it.
Because I know that if it came right down to it, my husband is fully capable of taking on the shopping responsibilities. I mean, maybe with a starter list or something from me, but still, he could do it. I’m pretty sure. Probably.
And like I am finally coming to realize, marriage is not a constant battlefield of who-does-what or an everlasting struggle to keep the “score” even, but at some times, an embracing of roles.
For me, shopping fulfills some kind of weird need deep inside of me to take on the nurturer and caretaker roles for my family and my husband. I like shopping, I like making sure he has nice, respectable clothes for work and play, and when it comes right down to it, I suspect that part of my “love language” is taking care of the small things in our marriage.
Do I hear lyrics to a popular song in here somewhere? I just shopped to say I love you?
Call me crazy, but somehow, through every new shirt, shiny pair of shoes, or bottle of cologne that I buy because I love the smell (hey, I’m not a saint), yes — I am really saying, I love you.
And if I happen to have a coupon, then I really, really love you.
Do you do the shopping in your relationship? Does it bother you?
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donderdag 4 november 2010
closer to the soul intro
Closer to the soulintro
Closer to the soul intro
Hello, allow me to present myself. My name is ‘combination’. Of course I also have a name which my family passed me on. In Dutch it means ‘he that watches from a mountain’. If I was to give a definition of my name, I would give you a philosophical meditation I once wrote :
everybody has a name
everybody has a name My name is combination. I combine. The innocent aspirations of youth, with the illusions and the wrong mirrors of reality, of growing up, with the hope for new illusions to believe in, with the fate that we evolve to the real lessons, to the real feeling, to the best act in real art's NOW------ I combine. The pains and joys of the past, with understanding the present ones with the aspirations of tomorrow with all the energy deep inside me----- I combine. The political theories with the working conditions, with the real emotional world of daily people, with wanting to change things----- I combine. The news on war, poverty, famine, with all kind of wealth diseases , with all kinds of unhappiness that reigns, with breaking the solitude of the individual------ I combine. The living and the dead, with the longing for fulfillment with wanting to recognize , who in fact I am, with observing all kinds of forgotten energies------ I combine. Friendship and Love and Lust with satisfaction and negative emotions, with solutions and new problems, with rest and unease---- I combine, I combine, I combine. I cannot do otherwise, al dough I try, I always have to combine. Because combination shall be my name until it's no longer necessary... And I become part of another world ? combination Is there an energy with a comparable consciousness as ours, which did not need to follow the same evolutionary road ?
Not just by coincidence, Life that has existed for ever, used it’ s current big bang cycle to try to make us aware of It’ s meaning. When you study science you will discover the wonder that preceded us. Then you might have the following feeling that will occur in your mind :
"Peace will come in the hart of the ones with the honest souls. Preserve the earth from destruction and lead the people towards better lives. The world is one, never ever forget. There is only one life and one world, take your responsibility and live as conscious as possible.
Be light to be a guide. Go to the streets, speak of joys to be. Your place is everywhere you will feel free. Observe, restrain your forces.
Show them what the material world and the spiritual matter is all about. The truth is very simple. It's hidden in the past, lives in the present and needs the future. Why is there so little joy to be found amongst many ? People do not wonder enough about who they really are and what the life they lead really means. They should be more philosophers, they should ask themselves why they live in a society of wealth and poverty, peace and war, stress at work and unemployment. But there are other reasons for the lack of joy also...
reasons one cannot write about yet...and reasons one cannot write about."
Looking back at those words at the end of july 2006, I can indeed say that peace can only come in my heart the day more people start thinking and acting to make this world a good place to live for everyone. Why should we let the direction of this world in the hands of a tiny minority exploiting it for the sake of the same minority ? Why should we be forced to sit down and watch this world go to pieces more and more, day by day ? The ones we are used to see on our screens, shaking their 'important' hands, having a drink behind their long reunion tables, planning wars and presenting themselves as the heroes of the human race, in fact are the same ones that feed barbarity.
They prevent people from having a meaningful job and hold them into a kind a slavery. They control States and companies and therefore have a great power over our lives. They in fact dictate what news is to be brought and they keep on writing their own blood version of history
And what about we ? We accept the hundred ways in which they control our lives. When will it get through to a majority of us...the condition this world is in, is the result of our unconsciousness and our unwillingness to do something about it...we gave and give them a free hand. Will we further allow them to lie to us about what real freedom and human values are all about ? We won't...and 'we' begins with us.
Which are the reasons why we often have a lack of joy and personal and social commitment ? If we want to know where our negative emotions come from and who in fact we are...we should not go to our different kind of existing churches for an explanation.
If you like to go to churches and read some ancient texts, then do it in a way that you keep in mind that the people who wrote those texts were a product of their time as much as we are now. Philosophical answers and faith can as well be found in the things that science reaches us then in several holy texts. It is to be said that some of them have become outdated, especially those who consider humor a dangerous thing and who teach that one kind of believers is 'better' then another one. But let us consider ourselves as humans instead of uncritical followers of some kind of believe. By connecting philosophy with science I'll try to prove that believing in what science teaches us does not necessarily go against religious aspirations as eternal life.
What we really are and where we came from.
In fact in our search for the meaning of life, we can start by realizing that something can only exist if it has a meaning, a sense.
Why is that ? Because something without a form cannot exist...every kind of matter that tends to take a space which tends to approach or equalize to 'zero' ...it explodes. It's just like 'the' or one of the 'big-bangs' of the history of universe. Too much pressure on a certain point, makes everything explode, in both the micro and macro world...who in fact are one : stars, atoms, cells, ...even our relations...too much pressure makes new developments possible...if these are improving the position of the old situation...we call something 'meaningful'.
The laws of nature developed very ideal conditions for life as we know it, to get started. After the big-bang there wasn't really anything one could 'touch'. Matter existed as different kind of radiation. In Dutch the word for 'radiation' is 'straling'...when someone is happy we say he looks 'stralend'. It were the laws and try-outs of radiation that produced the first atom and later on the planets and the climate conditions that created the first cell and so on. It really is an amazing story which one can look up for oneself. So next time you walk through a forest be also aware of the speed with which the earth under your feet still travels in the direction it was pushed some 15 billion years ago.
All that beautiful past, all the wisdom the first cells attained when they learned how to divide to stay alive...all of that stuff is still living the very moment you read these words. When we die a part of us becomes minerals and so on, but the radiation leaves our bodies...the study of the way our mind observes and some personal experiences I prefer not calling 'mystical', as well as some scientific studies lead me to strongly believe that our lives not only have a social meaning...but on a personal level we interact to create the conditions that bring us closer to our soul. Our soul, not only the pieces of genetic heritage going back to the first cells...but the essence that is really ours...maybe it's our continuous enriched radiation from so long ago.
In fact, isn't everything that exists not only one soul ? We see 'God' as the ideal abstract person which controls everything, but in fact the purpose of our evolution is to make this world work so that we materially can live in peace to spend more and more time in comparing the ways in which we give meaning to our lives. To someone who believes in reincarnation we would say that the same person can appear under approximate the same conditions after a billion big-bangs for example...or maybe we could answer that we were already there as a piece of all the ones we descended from. We are a great mix, but the navigator inside us should always follow the line of his hart, not the line of how much money he can make or how he can take a revenge on someone. We should all try to overcome all our philosophical, religious and personal differences and negative emotions based on what ever happened in the past and forget our bloody history and start again by focusing on the present and wishing good things for the future to come.
Matter and spirit have always been one. Matter was energy and energy always means the possibility of creation and evolution.
Even if one tries to destroy energy you always get a change of form, no vanishing into nothing.
'The meaning of life' is something that has always been there. The journey from nature to human culture was a very long one.
Matter contains energy that has prepared the coming into being of spiritual energy...or maybe matter originally always was the total collected energy between two big bangs. The first meaning of life is therefore the coming into existence, the maintenance and growth of spiritual matter. All chemical and physical powers like temperatures, distances, speeds, pressure , time as well;
all movements from atoms and cells ...everything serves the growth of spiritual energy.
It has always been like this, because electrons cannot be destroyed. Our mind is not only composed by the electrons of all our brain cells, but of the atoms of all our other cells. In fact we can say that all our cells have a specific consciousness.
The question 'who are we', can best be answered by 'where do we come from'. That question no longer is a monopoly of religion. 'Religion' comes from the French word 'relier', combining. Combining science and philosophy and politics and psychology, helps us to understand the real meaning of our lives. 'Faith' can be based upon a beautiful smile or brilliantly used words or notes as well...the answer to the question 'the meaning of life', never only is intellectual.
In fact the ones who wonder to much about whether there is or isn't a God, are occupied with the following question : 'Is there an energy that has less or as much or more consciousness as we...and did that energy not have to travel all the way from radiation to atom to cell and human being to achieve this consciousness ' ? What kind of energy is present in and before a big-bang : t the enriched energy of the previous cycle of big-bang and collapse in one point again ...or is it every time the same kind of energy starting all the way from the same energy level ?
So in fact what some call 'god' could be the expression of the longing for more energy, more enriched consciousness...in the present, future and past, the past, being the previous energy level situation. In fact when we die we maybe still have our radiation as a form of being aware.
It thus seems that the creation of endless energy always restarts with not wanting to be nothing or nobody...both non existing things. 'Radiation' thus is the combination of all kinds of energy that existed in a cycle between two big-bangs and which wants to start again and start something new.
Is it Einstein and others and their books and heritage or the radiation they are amongst us that makes me conclude all this after years ? Who knows and how to make it concrete...by literature maybe...if not in daily life, there are a lot of strange things happening ?
Rather than being divided into traditional believers and their divisions on the one hand and those who believe in another way and it' s divisions... aren't there enough other questions we should resolve ?
Why isn't there a system for managing society that makes ignorance, war, poverty and famine impossible ?
How come the relationship between 'lovers' or other relationships can be so complicated ?
So, in one question : 'why does man have so much difficulties with those strange 'things' like god, dead, history, money or values like friendship, family, pleasure, lust, ... ' ?
I think for one part it is because we haven't learned to observe objectively enough...aren't our observations continuously being deformed by our own or the negative emotions and ignorance of others ?
On the other hand it seems like maybe even before the ejaculation and the landing of the egg, there's a game between coalitions of genes going on...like as if our past seeks to continue it' s story in the future already...
not wanting to become 'meaningless' but learning the lessons the previous generations we ones were still had and have to learn. So in fact life has always been and is an endless school, teaching in many ways.
In this part of my writing I will not talk a lot of Life in it’ s social and political appearance. Those economic conditions do influence our relations and awareness a lot and history tries to invent a more neutral system to manage society on a world scale starting from the place you work or live. Later on I will give you a link where an alternative for the current systems is presented.
It is important to keep in mind that in order to abolish poverty and war and so many forms of needless exploitation it is necessary to become aware of one’ s personal evolution. When to many people keep on being prisoners of their own negative emotions or those of others, this will put too much weight on the historical process of renewal. That is the way the total hierarchy of all kinds of evolutions work.
To show you why Life’ s good energy comes along more often on times when you understand more about your personal or total environment of relations, I will tell you the stories of a number of people whose lines crossed directly and indirectly those of the preacher whose autobiography I am trying to write. We have agreed that he can intervene in these texts, whenever he feels like it. | <urn:uuid:59c80edb-cd39-47a5-99d3-5ad0bfd99a4c> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://closertothesoul.blogspot.com/2010/11/closer-to-soul-intro-hello-allow-me-to.html | 2018-02-17T19:03:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891807660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180217185905-20180217205905-00031.warc.gz | en | 0.963933 | 2,968 |
Aug 1, 2013, 2:40 PM EDT
Talk about perfect timing — the Red Wings have just announced that Nicklas Lidstrom’s No. 5 will be retired on March 6, 2014, when Detroit hosts the Colorado Avalanche.
(It’s Red Wings day on PHT, if you haven’t heard.)
“For a long time, there was no doubt in ownership’s and management’s mind that Nicklas Lidstrom would play his entire career with the Detroit Red Wings and that his sweater would fittingly go up into the rafters along with the other all-time greatest Red Wing players – Abel, Delvecchio, Howe, Lindsay, Sawchuk and Yzerman,” said Wings Senior Vice President Jim Devellano in a release.
One of the greatest defensemen in NHL history, the Lidstrom ceremony should be a special one, as Wings fans have yet to really honor him in person since he officially retired. The seven-time Norris Trophy winner called it a career on May 31, 2012.
One question we still have — will Lidstrom be part of the Winter Classic festivities? Remember, there’s an alumni game on New Year’s Eve at Comerica Park.
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28.06.2018 - Milan, Italy
Everyday Wonders book presentation
On Thursday, June 28th, Cino Zucchi together with Orsina Simona Pierini, Nina Bassoli and Ginevra Bria will be presenting the book Everyday Wonders. Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Milano: the Corso Italia complex published by Corraini.
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KARIN SLAUGHTER would like it to be known that Karin Slaughter is not a work of fiction.For the rest, clickety-click here:
“Yes, that really is my real last name,” says the Georgia-born author with a laugh. “There’s a village in the Cotswolds called Lower Slaughter. I went there on my vacation last year just for the photo op. There’s a place called Slaughter Manor, a beautiful old manor. I asked for it back and they said no.”
CRIMINAL is Slaughter’s 11th novel. An intertextual mingling of characters from a disparate series of bestselling books, it features the Atlanta police detective Will Trent as he investigates the kidnap and murder of young women, the twist being that the killer’s modus operandi is remarkably similar to that of Will’s own father, a notorious murderer who has recently been released from prison.
Much of the story takes place in 1975, however, as Slaughter explores the time and place that made Will’s boss, Amanda Wagner, the woman she is today.
“I’ve been writing about Amanda for years,” says Slaughter, in her soft Southern drawl. “She’s kind of a ball-breaker, and I started to wonder about how she got that way. Every woman I know, and most men I know, have an Amanda Wagner in their lives. A woman who got to the top – and, instead of helping everyone else, she kicked the ladder away and told them they had to crawl across glass to follow her. So I wanted to explore why she got that way, and the best way to do that was to start talking about how things were when she started on the police force.”
“Metta Fuller Victor started it all for America, she was the first author to write a novel-length detective story. Poe gets a lot of credit for the first detective short story, but she really was the one who created the whole genre. And we don’t really talk about her. As a woman in a field that is very male-identified in many ways, I thought it was important to talk about the fact that it was a woman who gave all of us our start.”For more on BOOKS TO DIE FOR, clickety-click here … | <urn:uuid:c39a641d-91d9-4511-9569-faaef0398700> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.ie/2012/07/to-slaughter-manor-born.html | 2016-10-24T15:49:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00534-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980265 | 499 |
CodeNgwana, literally translated as code child, is an organisation that offers coding and computational skills to children between the ages of 3 to 12 years.
CodeNgwana was founded in 2019 and formally registered as a non-profit organisation in 2022.
CodeNgwana has a presence in South Africa and in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its unique value proposition is its focus on the African child, which distinguishes it from other coding initiatives, and offers a lasting solution to building coding skills in Africa’s future generation.
CodeNgwana is driving a digital culture in kids through various programmes such as after school programmes, coding camps, holiday programmes and private coding lessons. The non-profit helps children solve everyday problems and get set up for a lifetime of opportunities by teaching them coding.
CodeNgwana teaches children how to remodel the technological world around them and help them become creators rather than just consumers of technology.
CodeNgwana’s mission is to equip children with the requisite problem-solving and coding skills to create a future digital workforce that is able to solve African problems using technology, and contribute to technology, rather than simply consume it.
Codengwana offers the following services:
Coding Lessons – A Science Technology Engineering Maths (STEM) embedded coding curriculum that helps students to integrate their learning through technology. By doing this children’s digital and problem-solving skills are being developed.
Tailored Technology Literature – CodeNgwana differentiates itself from other coding initiatives through its tailored curriculum and technology literature for kids, which serves as a standalone framework for teaching coding. CodeNgwana is bridging the digital divide by providing technology related textbooks and stories to children in under-resourced communities with no access to technology.
Teacher Development – CodeNgwana expands the reach of the initiative through knowledge transfer. The teacher development process ensures that teachers are equipped with the requisite skills to teach coding and empowered with technology tools that can help enhance their teaching experience.
CodeNgwana’s impact is aligned with several Sustainable Development Goals listed below:
Goal 4: Quality Education – CodeNgwana ensures that learners have equal access to quality education and contribute to the supply of qualified teachers in developing countries.
Goal 8: Decent work and Economic Growth – CodeNgwana uses recent graduates and unemployed youth in the communities and therefore promote youth employment, education and training.
CodeNgwana’s model has far reaching impact beyond the children being taught. Education can drastically change the course of a child’s life. CodeNgwana is supporting a future-ready Africa. By providing opportunities for university students to become tutors, it not only cements their coding knowledge but also equips them with crucial work readiness skills – currently some of the biggest employability barriers. CodeNgwana strengthens the coding community and make unique knowledge contributions by developing coding material that is relevant to the African child. Moreover, CodeNgwana has developed a framework of coding for the African child that it has taken to the Democratic Republic of Congo and potentially to other countries across Africa.
CodeNgwana has been named Best Technology Inclusion and Equality Initiative 2022 – South Africa by Corporate Vision. What sets it apart from other coding providers is that it also contributes to the body of knowledge when it comes to kids and coding or technology.
To date, CodeNgwana has published four stories of technology for children, including a coding encyclopedia for kids which has been translated into a few African languages. By this it is bridging the digital divide by making literature available to communities where taking a computer or coding course might be challenging due to infrastructural challenges.
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The most anticipated series is back! We looked at the data for each incoming J.O. freshman on each event to see which gymnasts are at the top of their class across the apparatuses and in the all around. This week we’re looking at the top 10 floor routines for 2021.
We’ve ranked every single gymnast from the Class of 2020 who competed level 10 within the last two years by a modified average score. We took scores from the last two J.O. seasons (beginning in November 2018), dropped the single highest score and any scores that are extremely low (like ones that you’d expect from injuries mid-routine, not falls) and averaged the rest. We didn’t include athletes with three or less scores on a certain event over the past two years.
The top 10 you’ll see in these lists are the top 10 in the country by modified average, no exceptions. The honorary mentions are a little more subjective: They’re usually athletes who ranked quite high, but they also have something a little special that makes them stand out.
If you’re wondering where Brooklyn Moors and Irina Alexeeva are, don’t worry! We’ll be reprising our Most Anticipated Elite Freshmen series later in the summer.
10. Andrea Li, California (9.6200 modified average score, 9.850 highest score)
Li is an exciting floor worker. Her routine includes difficult tumbling passes, expressive dance moves and a gorgeous en pointe pose. Among her most difficult elements are a piked full-in, a 2.5 twist and a Memmel turn. She has some minor form issues on her opening tumbling pass and on her twisting elements, but her overall routine is strong. California struggled at times on floor last season and will be happy to count on a new strong routine in 2021.
9. Nhyla Bryant, Georgia (9.6219 mod, 9.700 high)
Although Bryant doesn’t compete the most difficult routine (double pike, 1.5 twist to front layout, double tuck), her form is exquisite. Her tumbling passes are sky-high and in control, and she brings a very elegant look to the event. Georgia has graduated Sabrina Vega, one of its best floor workers, and Bryant will do a good job replacing her.
8. Sherry Wang, Yale (9.6250 mod, 9.800 high)
Wang will be a sensation for Yale on this apparatus. Her routine opens with a full-twisting double back and dismounts with a double tuck. Her routine has the potential to score over 9.9. Yale doesn’t make the news much, but it already has a talented floor roster—Jade Buford scored as high as 9.925 in 2020. Given that she graduated, however, Wang will fill her shoes nicely.
(Tie) 6. Jaylene Gilstrap, Utah (9.6312 mod, 9.850 high)
Gilstrap has exquisite lines and a great toe point on floor, as well as superb dancing skills. We hope Courtney McCool Griffeth will be able to emphasize these qualities in her choreography next year. Gilstrap’s routine is not the most difficult (double pike, front double twist, front full to front layout), but it is precise. She will want to lose the elite habit of hopping instead of lunging, though. Utah had some trouble on floor last season and has graduated Kim Tessen and Missy Reinstadtler. Gilstrap will be a nice addition to the lineup.
(Tie) 6. Gabby Perea, California (9.6312 mod, 9.850 high)
Perea’s tumbling passes are not the hardest. She performs a double tuck, a front through to double twist and a double pike. She can perform them well, though, and she can dance well too. With Rachael Mastrangelo graduating and some gymnasts in and out of the lineup, co-head coaches Justin Howell and Elisabeth Crandall-Howell will be happy to have a larger pool of talented floor workers to choose from.
5. Naomi Morrison, Michigan (9.6444 mod, 9.900 high)
There are not many recent videos of Morrison’s floor work. In the most recent one from 2018, she competed a double pike, a front layout to Rudi and a double tuck. Her form was good, but she had some foot issues and trouble with her middle pass. More recently, however, Morrison must have improved dramatically. Last year, she tied for second place on floor at J.O. nationals (Senior C) and in her last 2020 competition she scored a 9.900. She will be an exceptional replacement for Lexi Funk at Michigan, and with her addition the Wolverines’ floor lineup will look very strong.
4. Chae Campbell, UCLA (9.6781 mod, 9.850 high)
Campbell is an elegant dancer and a good tumbler. She tied with Morrison for second place on floor at J.O. nationals last year. Although her passes are not the hardest—she competes a double tuck, a front double twist and a front full to front layout—she performs them with confidence and poise. Campbell will be stepping into exceptionally big shoes at UCLA, as she will be asked to replace Kyla Ross, Felicia Hano and Gracie Kramer, who all scored perfect 10.0s in their careers as Bruins. But no worries—she will be up to the task.
(Tie) 2. Abbie Thompson, Denver (9.6846 mod, 9.850 high)
Thompson saves the best for last. She opens her routine with a double pike, goes on to perform a front layout to Rudi and dismounts with a huge triple twist. She does have the smallest knee and foot issues on her tumbling passes, but they are negligible. She will replace Maddie Karr at Denver easily.
(Tie) 2. Mya Hooten, Minnesota (9.6846 mod, 9.875 high)
The 2019 J.O. national champion (Senior B) achieves stunning elevation off the floor and is a very expressive dancer. She performs a sky-high full-in, a front double twist to front tuck and a double tuck. Minnesota had a fantastic season in 2020 but could not quite figure out floor. Hooten could be the game changer here. Expect her to anchor the floor lineup already as a freshman.
1. Haleigh Bryant, LSU (9.7063 mod, 9.900 high)
The 2017 J.O. national champion (Junior D) is a powerful floor worker. She opens with her trademark skill, a huge double front, performs a front layout to Rudi as a middle pass (though at the 2020 Nastia Liukin Cup she downgraded it to a front layout to front layout) and dismounts with a front double twist. She crosses her feet ever so slightly on her twisting elements, but it may not get deducted. She and Kiya Johnson will be expected to go fifth and sixth in the lineup at LSU next year.
Abby Mueller, Illinois (9.6192 mod, 9.825 high)
Quinn Smith, Oklahoma (9.5750 mod, 9.825 high)
Kendall Whitman, George Washington (9.5679 mod, 9.875 high)
Carina Jordan, N.C. State (9.5361 mod, 9.875 high)
Sara Kenefick, Penn (9.4607 mod, 9.875 high)
Alexa Rothenbuescher, Maryland (9.900 high)
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Malcolm Washington is an American film director, writer, actor as well as a producer. However, he is famous for being the celebrity son of American actor, director, and producer, Denzel Washington. Moreover, Malcolm was interested in films and filmmaking from a very young age. Besides acting, Malcolm used to play a basketball player in his college days. Despite being a celebrity son, he has established his career through hard work and dedication.
Malcolm Washington was born on April 10, 1991, in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is famous as the son of Denzel Washington(father), an American actor, director, and producer, and Pauletta Washington, an actress. Moreover, he has three siblings; John David Washington, Olivia Washington(twin of Malcolm), and Katia Washington.
He holds an American nationality and belongs to black ethnicity. Besides, he attended the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 for learning filmmaking academically. Apart, he also played basketball for his school and college.
Is Denzel Washington's Son Malcolm Washington Dating?
Well, 29 years old Malcolm is neither dating nor married. Moreover, he is living a single life with his family. As he is very private about his personal life and keeps it as far as possible from the media and the public. Besides, we don't have any information about his rumors or relationship yet.
Moreover, he is one of the most eligible bachelor's who has gained massive attention from young ladies. Apart, Washington is currently focusing on her career building rather than wasting his time in relationships. Besides, he might also be waiting for the girl who can hold his hand in every up and down of life. As of now, he is enjoying a happy single life with his family.
Three-Decades-Long Married Life of Parents
Well, Malcolm's parents' are living a happy married life right now. Moreover, Denzel and Pauletta met for the first time on a set of a movie, Wilma back in 1997. Besides, Denzel asked Pauletta to marry him three-time and later he finally agreed her to walk down to aisle. The duo exchanged the wedding vows on June 5, 1983.
It has been around 37 years of their married life, but still, the couple is living a blissful life together. However, every relationship has up and down. So, back in 2013, there was rumored that the duo is about to get a divorce. But, the gorgeous couple decided to remain with each other in any condition of life. As of now, the duo is living a married life with their four children.
How Much Is The Net Worth of Malcolm Washington?
The five feet and nine inches (1.75 m) tall, Malcolm might have accumulated a decent amount of fortune from his career as actor and director. However, his exact net worth figure is quite difficult to predict. But, his estimated net worth is $1 million as of 2020.
Besides, he is the son of a famous Hollywood actor and director, Denzel Washington. So, Denzel reported net worth is estimated to be around $250 million as of 2020. Apart, his father also earns an annual salary of $60 million from his work.
On the other hand, his mother Paulette also has a decent amount of money from her career as an actress. As of now, Malcolm is just enjoying a lavish life with his parents and siblings in the USA.
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In which Scrabble dictionary does SQUASH exist?
Definitions of SQUASH in dictionaries:
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any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
- noun -
edible fruit of a squash plant
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a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- verb -
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.
The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.
To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush.
To put down or suppress; quash: squash a revolt.
To silence or fluster, as with crushing words: squash a heckler.
To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.
To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.
The act or sound of squashing.
The fact or condition of being squashed.
A crushed or crowded mass: a squash of people.
A racket game played in a closed walled court with a rubber ball.
A citrus-based soft drink.
- v -
to press into a pulp or flat mass
There are 6 letters in SQUASH: A H Q S S U
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After a year of near-non-stop action, the crypto market has finally slowed to a snail’s pace, with prices grinding to just shy of a halt. While many have claimed that this non-action is here to stay, a multitude of analysts are adamant in their claims that Bitcoin (BTC) and its altcoin brethren are on the verge of a monumental breakout, or as one analyst put it, a “storm.â€
Calm Before The Crypto Storm
Issuing a post on Seeking Alpha, Victor Dergunov, founder of emerging market-centric Albright Investment Group, has claimed that BTC will move “substantially higher over the next several years,†echoing comments made by his fellow savants.
Dergunov, touching on the fact that BTC’s volatility has all but dissipated, noted that this “phenomenon,†as he dubbed it, could be a precursor to the conclusion of crypto’s multi-month bear market, which has stretched investors to their mental limits.
The Connecticut native wasn’t all by his lonesome with this sentiment, interestingly enough, as Fundstrat Global Advisors’ Rob Sluymer recently explained that an “incremental ‘Silver Lining’†has begun to develop within the cryptosphere. Sluymer, who is in cahoots with his peer Tom Lee, explained that declining volatility and volume levels could be seen as “encouraging technical developments,†even though other reports have signaled that retail interest is on its last legs.
Speaking of Tom Lee, during a recent installment of CNBC “Squawk Box,†pointed out that crypto’s resiliency in a tumultuous legacy equity market has made him “pleasantly surprised,†adding that BTC has evidently found a floor at $6,000 and could be due for a foray to the upside in a few months time.
Almost as if all the crypto industry’s analysts and forecasters will corresponding with each other, Bloomberg’s McGlone explained that non-action can coincide with the subsequent arrival of market bottoms.
Some, like investor/analyst Crypto Rand, have even claimed that the bull market, or its earliest stages at the very least, are already upon the crypto space. Rand, who took to Twitter to convey his thoughts, explained that the aggregate value of all cryptocurrencies has broken out on both linear and logarithmic scales — a double whammy to the health of crypto’s bears.
Regardless of these calls’ timelines, these predictions, which were all made in rapid succession, truly highlight the growing presence of bullish outlooks for the prospects of crypto assets and the networks they represent.
A Bull Run May Be Inbound, But Where Will The Market Head?
Although a majority of this market’s outspoken analysts are pointing to the sky, many have failed to come to a consensus on where this market will head, and why.
In early-October, as reported by NewsBTC, Spencer Bogart, a partner at Blockchain Capital, explained that positive institutional news, like the arrival of TD Ameritrade, Yale, and the Intercontinental Exchange, will likely be the primary contributor to crypto’s impending bonfire, as it were.
In contrast, Nikolay Storonsky, CEO of Revolut, has recently claimed that retail investors will drive 2019’s crypto bull run, going against the popular sentiment that the launch of the institutional-focused Bakkt and Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) will propel crypto to Main Street after Wall Street fills their bags.
Still, these two predictions both indicate that a bull run is in the cards. But then again, will the next influx of fiat be siphoned into BTC or altcoins?
In August, prior to the arrival of the launch of FDAS, Bakkt, and others, Novogratz, a leading proponent in the race for institutional investors in crypto, explained that BTC dominance will hold its ground for a while. This predicted hegemony, he explained, can be chalked up to the fact that interested institutions have an unbridled penchant for Bitcoin, not for altcoins. Others have begged to differ, but as always, investors, whether from the Bitcoin maximalist or altcoin advocate camp, stick to what suits them best, even while it may not be representative of this market’s future.
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Hochhauser Auditorium, Victoria and Albert Museum
Dr Hongnam Kim, former Director of the National Museum of Korea and a leading thinker on cultural policy, gives a special lecture at the V&A. She will explore the changing role of cultural institutions in Korea and other Asian countries, as they respond to the challenge of demonstrating their value to their societies in the post colonial era. A drinks reception will follow the lecture at 20.00. | <urn:uuid:00e7451d-5bcf-4b97-a612-ac3f36fab2a0> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://asianculturalstudies.blogspot.com/2010/05/ | 2018-03-20T00:07:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647244.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319234034-20180320014034-00020.warc.gz | en | 0.894093 | 99 |
Aberdeen Asset Management is mourning the loss of Andrew McMenigall, a senior investment manager in the global equity team based in Edinburgh, Scotland and Toby Wallace, a senior relationship manager in its Philadelphia office, who were yesterday involved in a fatal cycling accident in Cornwall, England.
According to the firm, the pair was on a charity bicycle ride from Land's End to John o'Groats to raise funds for their colleague Kirsten Scott, who lost her battle with cancer in October 2011.
“The fact that they died in such tragic circumstances while trying to help others less fortunate tells you much about their selflessness and humanity,” stated Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management. “This is a terrible time for the company. More importantly our thoughts are with the families of Andrew and Toby. We will be doing everything we can to support them.” | <urn:uuid:19fe236e-f24e-4785-a2c5-7d25f915a782> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://www.financial-planning.com/news/aberdeen-mourns-executive-losses | 2018-01-17T08:38:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886860.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180117082758-20180117102758-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.974428 | 180 |
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It’s been 20 years since researchers first linked cycling to erectile dysfunction (ED), a groundbreaking revelation that spawned a revolution in the design of bicycle saddles. But have center cutouts and other newer designs had any impact on the cycling world’s most delicate problem?
A new study conducted by a professor of urology from Stanford University and a longtime bicycle saddle designer hopes to find an answer. Called the Stanford CYCling and Lower Effects (CYCLE) Study, it plans to conduct detailed surveys with no less than 10,000 cyclists, to determine — among other things — whether new saddle designs have curbed ED.
“We think this will be the biggest, most extensive health study ever done of cyclists,” said Dr. Roger Minkow, one of the study’s two authors. “No medical study of [bicycle seats and ED] has ever considered all of the factors that we will be looking at in ours.”
Dr. Minkow recently retired from Specialized, where he helped develop the bicycle manufacturer’s line of Body Geometry saddles and other products during his 19 years with the company. He is working alongside Stanford urologist Dr. Michael Eisenberg on the study.
Dr. Minkow has done previous research on the correlation between saddles and erectile problems, including blood flow studies on live patients. He said the problem with these studies is that researchers do not know a test subject’s history with previous saddles, bicycle fit, or even injuries. There were simply too many variables to determine why a test subject showed or did not show signs of ED.
“We were able to measure penile blood flow but we couldn’t prove anything because if a rider had used a poorly-designed seat for years he could have already done damage,” Dr. Minkow said. “Likewise, no medical study has ever been done to consider bicycle fit and it’s impact on penile blood flow.”
The two researchers have created a detailed survey that takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. The survey asks participants to identify their saddle history from a variety of popular shapes. It also asks them to list their riding history, waist size, preferred bicycles, and details about bike fit. The survey also targets saddle issues that are common among female riders.
The study does not include a blood-flow test.
Minkow hopes the survey will shed light on which saddle designs eliminate problems for riders with specific body types and fit styles. As of now, the study does not have an end date.
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These days, you can’t make it through a piece of media content on Millennials in the workplace without coming across the same, solemn prognosis: “Need for constant feedback.”
Houston, we have a problem here. It’s not the prognosis itself that bothers me as a Millennial (it’s accurate) so much as the dismissive, condescending, and ultimately misguided belief that it always belies: My generation’s need for constant feedback is ultimately founded in narcissism, self-absorption, or some other greater failing of our overall character.
Stop to consider this for a second: Maybe workforce-age Millennials haven’t figured ourselves out yet. And no, I’m not talking about existential ideas of “What fulfills me?” or “What is my purpose in life?” I’m talking about fundamental, concrete questions every professional asks oneself: “Am I good at what I do?” “Am I meeting expectations?” “Where are my professional weaknesses?”
Recently, a New York Times feature on Millennials concluded with this wry quip from a group of marketing researchers: “No one truly understands millennials. Not even millennials.”
Isn’t this indicative of a generation that is not so much narcissistic as we are uncertain? Everyone’s calling for humility, but what I see is a need for direction. On a professional level, there is compelling evidence that Boomer and Gen-X mentorship is the cure for bridging the generation gap and “fixing” Millennials, for the betterment of all parties involved.
To that effect, here are the three biggest reasons we Millennials need elder generations to adopt and mentor us in the workplace.
1. We’ve Come of Age During a Time of Massive Uncertainty
9/11. A Great Recession. A taxpayer-funded bailout. Two lingering wars (never mind the War on Terror). Record-low approval ratings for Congress.
I could go on, but the point here is that my generation has been uniquely, dramatically shaped by the major events (mostly lowlights) of the new Millennium. Moreover, we are entering an increasingly globalized world where everything is constantly changing and the idea of a “heroic” public figure seems as antiquated as a $20 CD.
The result: We have no reason to trust institutions, and that goes for employers as well.
The proof here is in the pudding. At 28, I can count on one hand the number of peers I know still working for the same employer they joined upon graduating college. Contrast that with my Greatest Generation grandfather, who spent his entire career working for Heinz.
Small wonder that Gen-X journalist Rick Newman recently presented one of the fairest appraisals of my generation I’ve yet heard: “Cynical, untrusting and mercenary,” that is, the traits we consider “necessary to survive.”
Look: We watched the CEO of the world’s sixth-large energy company refuse to accept blame for a devastating oil spill. From his yacht. Yes, we badly need respectable professional mentors.
2. We Are Conditioned to Expect a Constant Feedback Loop
It’s no secret that Millennials are the most educated and tech-savvy generation in history. Our generation (myself included) entered law school in record numbers, completed unprecedented Ivy League applications, and now shoulder monumental levels of student debt.
Why? Our parents drilled into us a desire to succeed, to set ourselves apart, to become the unique, special snowflakes we’re rapidly learning to be as real as Tyler Durden in Fight Club.
The need for constant feedback, on a subconscious level, goes back to these origins. Studies have identified that Millennials were raised with a heavy emphasis on structure and measuring systems, constant coaching, and feedback. And now, we expect it to continue in the workplace.
Bottom line: Our desire for parent-like oversight, nurturing, and feedback in the workplace at times borders on unreasonable. That being said, the indicators, here and elsewhere, point to mere occasional doses of coaching as an effective solution for addressing Millennial need for feedback. Experts have denoted that “encouragement doesn’t always need to be a substantial time investment” and that “even a few minutes can help make employees feel valued and strengthen company ties.”
3. We Sense Your Antipathy and Measure Ourselves Against Peer Success
Ticking off some of the most recent, unflattering characterizations of Millennials—“narcissistic, godless, precious, lazy and probably much worse,” Newman drives home an important point about workforce-age Millennials: We hear all the disrespect, disdain, and downright antipathy being heaped upon us by our elders.
When major news articles are declaring you likely the most maligned generation in American history, you know where you stand.
If we seem obsessed with how we are performing, it’s because we Millennials have spent years being bombarded with not just a constant stream of negative mainstream media coverage, but daily, self-promotional social media updates from friends and acquaintances celebrating promotions, graduations, and career milestones, ad infinitum.
Case in point: I failed the bar exam, twice. Both times, I watched my successful colleagues unleash a non-stop wave of jubilant posts all over Facebook and social media.
All this goes back to the fact that Millennials, subconsciously, measure ourselves against our parents’ generation, and against one another. We think about the six-figure student loan debt on our back. Most critically, we recognize the fortune and opportunity that comes with our youth: We still have time to reach our maximum potential. Here, ultimately, is where the pleas for coaching and constant feedback originate.
Baby Boomers and Gen-X workforce members: Expect a return on your investment if you adopt a Millennial in your workplace.
Why take my word for it?
Six months ago, I entered Lamp Post Group, a startup incubator in Chattanooga, populated by Millennials and run by Gen-X entrepreneurs-turned-venture capitalists, who started mentoring me the second I arrived. They have enabled me to unlock untapped potential, set new professional goals, and provide a vital role to my company, Ambition. That’s the power of mentorship.
So I beseech my prospective Boomer and Gen-X mentors out there: Mentor a Millennial. A lot of my colleagues are where I was six short months ago—they could use your help, too.
Photo of man on bench courtesy of Shutterstock.
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From the Editors: A Long Time Coming
Erie has been at a crossroads for a while, and the time has come to take that proverbial turn.
This moment has been anticipated for a long time, and we don't mean Halloween. Erie's mayoral race has been at the forefront of our minds for years now. Ever since Joe Sinnott ran unopposed for his third and final term, Erie has looked ahead to this decision. Speculation ran rampant for years, as various people threw (and sometimes withdrew) their hats from the ring.
By the time of the May 16 primary election, there were nine candidates running. Depending on which ballot you had in the closed primary, voters either had two Republicans to choose from, or a whopping seven Democrats. While Erie's registered Democrats outnumber its Republicans by a roughly 3-to-2 margin, there was still an unfortunately low voter turnout at around a mere 26 percent. When the dust settled, the Republicans had John Persinger, the 35-year-old MacDonald, Illig, Jones, & Britton lawer, while the Democrats voted in Joe Schember, the 66-year-old former city councilman and vice president at PNC Bank. While neither candidate was our first choice, they were far from our last. We've had the privilege of speaking with both candidates at length. Both men bring new ideas to the table. Each wants to open up City Hall and increase the public visibility of the mayor's office. Most interestingly, both ran remarkably clean campaigns, with nary a bit of mud slung throughout summer and into fall.
Yet, as nice as these candidates are, that isn't enough.
Erie has been at a crossroads for a while, and the time has come to take that proverbial turn. Both candidates want to make the right decisions, to push Erie into a better place. Simply having good intentions, however, counts for next to nothing. Erie needs an executive that is willing to take calculated risks and propel us through our shifting post-manufacturing economy.
Let's not make the mistake of believing the burden rests on their shoulders alone, however. The second-most watched race in our region is that of the Erie County Executive. In mid-October, we, along with the Jefferson Educational Society, presented debates for both offices. While the mayoral race was mostly mild and well-mannered, the debate between incumbent Kathy Dahlkemper and challenger Art Oligeri displayed a strange, captivating tension, the audience erupting in applause and even some vocalized partisan name-calling. The role of County Executive requires someone knowledgeable, experienced, and level-headed, and, as per every race, we hope voters will choose wisely.
There are a lot of faces to be considered. In addition to those mentioned above there's Erie City Council to consider. In this issue, hear from that race's top vote-getter, Liz Allen, on why she decided to run in the first place. In these pages you can also listen to Erie School Board candidate Tyler Titus on how he might just make history if elected.
There are other faces you can find outside of the ballot. The Jefferson Educational Society's ninth annual global summit is set to be underway. There you'll encounter 12 respected speakers over 16 days, each with their own fascinating point of view to share with you.
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Another major issue at this round of talks was actually a hangover from COP24 in Katowice. The shorthand is “Article 6” – referring to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which deals with international cooperation between countries to result in an overall decrease in emissions. Mainly this has focused on controversial trading of “offsets”.
Market mechanisms have long been a bone of contention in the climate talks, going back at least 2 decades to the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. Back then, a so-called Clean Development Mechanism was set up with the intention to help developed countries meet their emissions reductions targets under the Protocol through the purchase of emissions reductions credits.
However the actual result was that some people made rather a lot of money selling these “credits” to people who wanted to pollute more but not have said pollution “on their books”, while very little progress was made to actually cut emissions. Concerns around the actual function of the scheme expressed themselves in terms like “efficiency”, “additionality”, “carbon leakage”, and the simpler “human rights violations”.
For years afterwards, negotiations attempted to establish global carbon markets, voluntary trading schemes and so forth. As opposition to carbon markets is a core tenet of climate justice, many groups did not even engage or follow this process, which usually ended in no agreement between countries, although of course some countries did set up their own domestic markets which they hoped would one day allow for international emissions trading.
In the process of negotiating Paris, market mechanisms did not feature. They suddenly appeared towards the end in Article 6, which established a “Sustainable Development Mechanism.”
Now we have to reckon with the reality. There are markets whether we like it or not. We can oppose them while also attempting to reduce the harm they cause.
In Katowice, the section of the “rulebook” dealing with these was not agreed and became a major sticking point. The talks nearly collapsed in spectacular fashion, and eventually the formal conclusion taken was that there was no agreement.
The scene was thus set for a pressurised round of talks in Bonn, as the deadline they set to conclude this last remaining section of the Paris rulebook was December 2019, at COP25.
They had a lot of ground to cover, as the starting point wasn’t even agreed.
Nor was the way forward.
But absent from the debate was any real answer to some important questions, like does this market approach actually reduce emissions? Does it help vulnerable people? Do transfers of credits actually even benefit the seller country? Are forests and biodiversity going to be traded away? Are we going to hold the rest of the talks to ransom for this?
The most they were able to agree upon was to forward the decision-making to SB51 in Santiago, setting the scene for an even more pressurised negotiation.
As per TWN’s reporting, “on the last day of negotiations, three separate set of draft conclusions on each of the three items under Article 6 (i.e. on the international transfer of mitigation outcomes [ITMOs] under Article 6.2; the sustainable development mechanism under Article 6.4 and the framework for non-market approaches under Article 6.8) were proposed for consideration by the SBSTA Chair Paul Watkinson (France) .“
“Each of the draft conclusions contained three paragraphs: the first para recognised the work carried out at the Bonn session; the second stated that there is agreement to continue consideration of the draft decision text (to advance further negotiations on the matter) at the next session of the SBSTA in Dec. 2019 (with the decision text referenced in a footnote) and the third para provided a placeholder for intersessional work (i.e. for a technical paper and workshop) within brackets, due to different views of Parties on the matter.“
“Following these extensive interventions, the SBSTA Chair Watkinson after hearing “divergent views” on intersessional work said that there was “no consensus” and therefore suggested that the draft conclusions ‘do not include intersessional work'”.
“He also said that draft decision texts “do not represent a consensus among Parties,” and assured Parties that there would be no further iteration of the texts (prior to the meeting in Chile). He also clarified that the only editing that would be taken into account are such as “brackets are correctly inserted” and ‘accurate representation of inputs of Parties'”.
We should be talking about real solutions. Instead all the attention and effort is on what we know are false ones.
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Right-Wing Lays Out Agenda for GOP Leaders, Calls For "Restoring Traditional Moral Values"
A large coalition of right-wing leaders have signed on to a letter addressed to Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Haley Barbour calling on the GOP to focus on a core set of principles as it moves forward with setting its agenda:
Dear Senator McConnell, Representative Boehner, and Governor Barbour:
On behalf of conservatives from across America we write to you on the occasion of this tremendous Republican victory to express our support, as well as our expectation that this victory will be used to restore the principles of limited, constitutional government.
We are united in strongly urging you, for the sake of our nation and its future, to go before the American people jointly and present a unified vision of what this Republican victory will stand for grounded upon these principles:
• A commitment to restoring free enterprise and implementing tax and spending reduction, deregulation, and other policies that promote economic growth and prosperity.
• A commitment to protect individual liberty by reducing the size and scope of the Federal government and to reducing government spending to only those functions entrusted to it in our great constitution.
• A commitment to restoring traditional moral values by passing laws that recognize the sanctity of life, promote rather than penalize traditional marriage and the family, and respect freedom of religion.
• A commitment to rebuilding our nation’s military and establishing a foreign policy grounded upon America’s national interest, rewarding our allies, and removing threats to freedom and security from abroad.
Among those who have added their names to this letter [PDF] are:
Tim & Beverly LaHaye
Richard A. Viguerie
Mat & Anita Staver
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We have decided to auction these on Ebay and all proceeds will go to the Prince William & Miss Catherine Middleton Gift Fund. I haven't been able to find out when this closes and if we are too late, then it will go to the Prince William & Prince Harry Foundation. The auctions finish on Thursday between 7.30 and 8.00 pm. If you would like to bid, their item number and link is supplied under each item.
So, in the order in which they arrived here at Great British Yarns are the entries:
This lovely keyring is from Emma Varnam. This is brighter in real life than the photo and is beautifully worked and presented. The pattern is available free of charge on her website or Ravelry. The Ebay item number is 170632423438.
The second to arrive was this fabulous blanket from 'SIBOL'.
This is the Sunshine International Blankets of Love organisation and is managed by Sue. Sue and her 'SIBOLETTES' (who, by the way, come from all around the world), make fabulous blankets to give to the elderly, especially those in nursing homes. A wonderful idea. This blanket has been made from people in the UK, USA, Netherlands, France, Belgium and Australia. Sue co-ordinates the squares, and then sews up and finishes them. This came beautifully packaged in a gold box with a crocheted butterfly. It was tied up with gold ribbon and another butterfly and was a real treat to open. If you would like to bid on this item the Ebay number is 180658275817.
Thirdly, this lovely little wedding cake arrived from Linda Ulfsparre Sewell - it's very pretty and cute. It is also beautifully made.
As I have a very pure mind, I didn't get the W C bit until Ian pointed it out. Very witty!! Anyhow, this is a beatiful work of art and any WC would be enhanced by having one of these discreetly placed.
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This week on Daily Beauty Reporter, we waxed poetic about Oribe Supershine Light Moisturizing Cream and screamed "OMG, Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes look exactly alike!" Here's what I was reading when I was trying not to think about the fact that this is my last Alluring Links ever. ::Sob:: Farewell, Allure!
You know 2013 is nigh when the Best of 2012 posts begin. Check out BellaSugar's take on the hottest nail art of the year. Jessica Biel's metallic tips are definitely worth a second look before your holiday parties this weekend. And remember that time Kelly Osbourne wore $250,000 polish? Oof. Why don't we just flush a bunch of diamonds down the toilet? [BellaSugar]
I am so excited about Oxygen's new modeling competition show The Face, and not only because Naomi Campbell yells and storms off multiple times in this trailer. The first episode will feature a shoot with Patrick Demarchelier—my god, that is NO JOKE. Calling in the big guns immediately! Also, I have such a crush on Nigel Barker and it's completely unrelated to his accent or his talent as a photographer. He's just one of those guys who really pulls off bald. It makes me crazy. I am 99 percent sure I would embarrass myself if he ever talked to me, and I've interviewed Beyoncé while cool as a cucumber. Check out Allure's February issue, on newsstands in late January, for Kurkova's take on the show, how she became a mentor to younger models even before The Face, and what it's like for those girls from teeny-tiny towns to suddenly feel the pressure to become international superstars. [NY Mag's The Cut]
I know you're already thinking about your New Year's Eve beauty look. Don't even front. Try out this sparkly smoky-eyes look posted on Shine Latina. Cherie's Beauty Blog's Charleen Gonzalez incoporates shadow shields in her how-to video, which I have never used before. (I usually just chant, "Careful, careful, careful," to mixed results.) Have you tried shields? Are you into them? [Shine Latina]
Almond-shaped eyes? You can still do heavy, dark eye makeup without making your eyeballs disappear! Watch this instructional vid with Refinery's Charlene Chang and makeup artist Bethany Brill. [Refinery 29]
Oh hey, you're using dry shampoo wrong. Here's how professional hairstylists roll. [Glamour's The Girls of the Beauty Dept.]
I love Allie Riley Jones's idea of wearing red lipstick every day until January 1st. 'Tis the season, after all. Too bad I sip tea near constantly and this kind of lip upkeep just won't work for me. Laziness > Prettiness. [XOJane]
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Health Care Lobbying Spending in Calif. Increased by 10% in 2013
Spending on health care lobbying in California increased by more than 10% in 2013, totaling nearly $37.7 million, according to reports filed with the Secretary of State, the Sacramento Business Journal reports.
Details of Spending on Lobbying
Lobbying funds could be spent on:
- Contract lobby firms;
- In-house lobbyist salaries; and
- Policy advisers.
According to the reports, the top 10 spenders paid nearly $13 million in health care lobbying efforts last year, compared with $11 million in 2012.
Kaiser Permanente spent $2.4 million on lobbying in 2013, while the California Association of Health Plans spent $1.2 million on such efforts last year.
Charles Bacchi, executive vice president of CAHP, said, "Health care is a big part of the gross national product nationally and in California, and it's going through a time of great change."
Reason for Increased Spending
According to the Business Journal, the increase in spending could be in response to Affordable Care Act implementation and the creation of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange.
Jim Gross, a partner at the lobbying firm Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, said groups also could have increased their lobbying in response to an expansion of Medi-Cal -- the state's Medicaid program -- and Sen. Ed Hernandez's (D-West Covina) scope of practice legislation (SB 491, SB 492 and SB 493) (Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 2/4).This is part of the California Healthline Daily Edition, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription. | <urn:uuid:147b8a6c-a7de-4141-875d-ee5382ec572e> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://californiahealthline.org/morning-breakout/health-care-lobbying-spending-in-california-increased-by-10-in-2013/ | 2018-09-19T07:37:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155942.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919063526-20180919083526-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.928396 | 363 |
At Sim, we value diversity and work hard to foster a culture of inclusion, understanding and growth. With the purpose of promoting education and exploring ways in which we can engage and partner with underserved communities, our Sim DE&I Committee recently hosted the first installment of our DE&I Screening series, featuring a screening of a short film that Sim supported followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers behind it.
Our August event focused on Perfect Daughter, a short film that was one of two 2020 recipients of the BIPOC TV & FILM “Reel Work” award, which aims to empower BIPOC creatives by providing them with funding. Sim was a proud partner, providing the filmmakers with camera services to turn their creative vision into reality. The film centers on a young woman who grows suspicious of her new neighbor’s seemingly flawless daughter.
“Pitching the film to BIPOC TV & Film was a dream come true,” explained Leo Award-nominated Writer/Director, Jasleen Kaur. “They supported us every step of the way, including the sponsorships, especially with Sim, which gave us the opportunity to have a really great look for the film.”
“Reading the script, I felt such a connection between the dualism and the battle between the expectations and realities of these two very different families. Being a child of immigrants myself, I also experienced the same struggles which drew me in to being involved with the film,” said the film’s Producer, Tania Quiroz, a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver. “What I particularly liked is that the film wasn’t just about the juxtaposition of the families , but it also had a fun sci-fi twist which made it a compelling story, in addition to centering around people of colour as well as having two female leads.”
When asked about what advice they have for emerging female and BIPOC creatives, the two filmmakers shared the following sentiment, “the more uncomfortable you feel in taking the next step, it’s usually because you’re going in the right direction; you’re stepping out of what has been historically comfortable.”
We look forward to hosting more screenings of Sim-supported films created by underrepresented filmmakers and learning about the challenges, and triumphs the filmmakers faced during production, and the inspiration behind their films.
The Sim DE&I Initiative was created because we believe passionately that a diverse and inclusive company makes for a more innovative, engaged, and dynamic team. Continuing to reshape Sim’s culture will allow us to create from a wider palette of experience and insight, which will enable us to thrive beyond current boundaries. We’re actively working with industry stakeholders to increase diversity in film. Please get in touch if you have ideas about how we can collaborate. | <urn:uuid:33e8ac6b-f3dc-4c6d-8a5e-3986ed8910b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.siminternational.com/sims-dei-committee-launches-screening-series/ | 2022-07-01T08:13:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103922377.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220701064920-20220701094920-00765.warc.gz | en | 0.971099 | 592 |
Situated high in the picturesque mountains of Mescalero, New Mexico just outside of Ruidoso, guests return time and time again to Inn of the Mountain Gods to enjoy the clean mountain air, stunning panoramic views, and exciting entertainment options. Upon your arrival, you’ll be greeted by a stunning lobby featuring a sweeping view of the snowcapped mountains, lake and championship golf course. Guests have come to expect all of the little extras that come standard here at Inn of the Mountain Gods. From the moment you arrive, you’ll be enchanted by original works of art throughout the property, roaring fireplaces in the lobby, and a tranquil setting that makes the everyday world feel a million miles away. Beyond that, discover an endless variety of activities, entertainment and escapes to make it a getaway you’ll never forget. | <urn:uuid:1028df32-c429-42f1-9522-e95a1c8b41d8> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.newmexico.org/listing/inn-of-the-mountain-gods/406/ | 2018-12-15T13:47:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826856.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215131038-20181215153038-00389.warc.gz | en | 0.911528 | 173 |
Before I start another travel series from Japan, I thought I’d humor you a little through these photos I took at Singapore’s Trick Eye Museum.
Trick Eye Museum is an interactive 3D museum that originated from Seoul, South Korea. It was such a hit that it has now branched out to Hong Kong, China and Singapore. Basically, Trick Eye Museum makes use of the Trompe-l’oeil technique which basically means “to deceive the eye” in French or “trick of the eye”–hence the museum’s name. Here, 2D paintings on walls and floors create 3d effects through the utilization of optical and scientific principles. Art comes to life and become complete when visitors participate, touch and interact with them.
To be honest, I thought the concept might be a little too kiddie for my taste. I was thinking, maybe I’ll go around and stay for an hour–tops. But to my surprise, my friends and I had so much fun we stayed for close to 2 hours! You see, the world of fantasy and imagination has no age limit. No matter how old you are, it’s bound to fascinate you. At Trick Eye Museum, I was able to dance like a ballerina, fight off monsters, run from dinosaurs, perform in a circus, skydive, fly like an angel, sit on the moon and so much more. Heck, I was even a mermaid at one point. The fun just kept coming. Family and friends will enjoy it for sure!
But before you scroll down to view the craziness that are my photos, I thought I’d share a few tips with you, just in case you plan to visit Trick Eye Museum.
1. Wear pants or shorts. You’ll be sitting on the floor and doing all sorts of positions so you shouldn’t be worrying about your underwear getting exposed.
2. Wear a form-fitting top. This way, your torso won’t look off when you pose beside leg paintings and all.
3. Bring a camera that has a wide lens. There’s not a lot of space at the museum and you need to make the entire painting fit in one frame. The camera I used for this trip was Sony A6000 with 16-35mm lens.
4. Pay attention to the instructions and sample photos. In order for the optical illusion to be successful, you have to take the photos from a certain standpoint. If you’re the subject, you have to know how to pose as well. Don’t worry, there are instructions on the walls and floors. Take your cue from there.
5. Don’t use flash. Lighting plays a key role in the optical illusions. Putting your camera on flash mode might affect the result.
5. Get creative! let your imagination run wild and be one with the art! There are no right or wrong poses, only play it safe or crazy cool.
6. Last and most importantly, use my discount code CAMILLECO to receive 20% discount when you purchase Trick Eye Museum tickets here or at Trick Eye Museum’s on-site ticket booth.
Trick Eye Museum Singapore is located at Resorts World Sentosa and is open from Monday to Sunday, 10AM to 9PM. It features 6 themed galleries which are The World Of Masterpieces, Dreams Of Fairytale, Safari Kingdom, Love In Winter, Star of Circuse and Adventure Discovery. For more information, visit Trick Eye Museum’s website. | <urn:uuid:90bdd220-c0b9-4017-9478-a8c0e67f3fad> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://itscamilleco.com/2015/07/trick-eye/ | 2017-03-22T22:17:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218186353.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212946-00631-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9362 | 745 |
Don’t know if you have overtime in scrims but I’ve played 5 matches in pug so far and 2 of them ended in a draw, draws are really anticlimactic ending to a good match so cross my fingers and hope you consider it.
The best balanced solution would be an option for overtime. If user’s want it they can vote it and we can have an overtime game. We will implement something along this line.
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Vietnam Tries to Tame Its Corporate Offspring: Southeast Asia
Vietnam’s state coal miner may make it onto a list of the world’s top mining companies by just one measure: its workforce. With almost 140,000 staff, it has more than BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) and Rio Tinto Plc (RIO) combined.
Vietnam National Coal Mineral Industries, known as Vinacomin, had about $4 billion in sales last year, compared with a combined $123 billion for BHP and Rio Tinto, the world’s biggest mining companies. The difference in productivity shows the challenge facing Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party as it pledges to overhaul state enterprises.
The government says it will prepare a roadmap by June for the restructuring of its biggest companies to help revive an economy that grew at the slowest pace in 13 years in 2012. While the changes proposed include altering the constitution to lessen the role of the state enterprises, their size and influence have stymied previous efforts to make them more market-driven.
“It’s difficult to impose meaningful reforms,” said Jonathan Pincus, an economist with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Vietnam Program in Ho Chi Minh City. “They have resources, they have influence on the party, on local government.”
While the ruling Communist Party has missed a series of its own deadlines in the past, the stakes are higher this time. Entry into the World Trade Organization in 2007, as well as negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are forcing the country to open up to competition, while the 89 million population has come to expect rising living standards after two decades of growth averaging more than 7 percent.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last month approved a master plan to restructure the economy and speed up share sales of state-owned companies by the end of 2020. The central bank said today the government will set up a committee to overhaul the banking system by 2015, and introduce new measures to monitor troubled lenders.
Deputy Finance Minister Truong Chi Trung said on Feb. 1 that the government plans to sell all state firms’ non-core units by the end of 2015, while retaining majority stakes in most of them.
“They’ve talked about this repeatedly,” said Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report. “They are serious, but implementation is another story.”
Plans to find ways to improve the efficiency of the state sector date back to the 1990s. In January 2011 the prime minister’s Government Office promised to speed up share sales in the enterprises. At the start of 2012, Dung urged faster restructuring.
A year ago, the State Securities Commission said the government would accelerate share sales in state-owned enterprises, especially bigger ones. The same day, Vietnam National Textile & Garment Corp. (0204793D) said it would hold an initial public offering six months later.
Vinatex hasn’t held an IPO yet, nor has Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Co., which said in 2007 it planned to do so.
“The reason deadlines keep getting missed is because of the enormity of the challenge,” said Dominic Scriven, the Ho Chi Minh City-based chief executive of fund manager Dragon Capital. “Carrying through with this will challenge the status quo.”
To weaken the power of the government companies, the Communist Party has proposed amending the constitution to remove language that stipulates the state sector will “assume the leading role” in the economy.
“That would be a positive step,” said Raymond Burghardt, a former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam. “But I still don’t see the people who truly understand reform as being in control.”
A draft decree seeks to improve transparency by requiring state companies to make more information public, such as project lists, bank loans, employee wages and total debts. Chief executives could also be fired if their company loses money two years in a row.
Still, allowing fair competition would threaten the revenue streams of state enterprises and reduce the government’s ability to control inflation by capping prices of goods such as coal.
The government’s “Master Plan on Economic Restructuring in 2013-2020” lacks details about implementation, HSBC Holdings Plc said in a note this month. “Concrete actions to improve the efficiency and accountability of the state sector are missing,” the report said.
“Vietnam’s lost a lot of goodwill and confidence in the market because people don’t think they’re serious about taking action on state-owned enterprises,” said Deepak Mishra, the Hanoi-based lead economist for the World Bank.
After reaching a record 1,170.67 in March 2007, the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange’s VN Index tumbled by 80 percent over the next two years, and as of March 14 was down 59 percent since its peak. The Vietnamese dong has lost 0.5 percent against the U.S. dollar over the last year, compared with a 5.3 percent appreciation by the Philippine peso and a 3.9 percent gain by the Thai baht.
Coal miner Vinacomin illustrates the government’s difficulties. Standard & Poor’s cut the company’s credit rating in November, partly because “loss-making” sales to state-owned Vietnam Electricity may grow to 40 percent by 2014, from 25 percent in 2011. Vinacomin sells coal domestically at below- market prices according to S&P.
Vietnam Electricity, or EVN, fired its chairman last year after losing as much as 13.3 trillion dong ($635 million) in two years. The company is building a 33-story, twin-tower headquarters of glass and steel next to the centuries-old traditional houses of Hanoi’s old quarter.
The problems facing state companies came to the forefront in 2010, when Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corp. (0652582D) defaulted on a $600 million loan. In 2012, eight former executives of the company were sentenced to prison for economic mismanagement, including the company’s ex-chairman.
The proposed overhaul may also lead to large-scale job losses. The government expects “the private sector is going to pick up the surplus,” said Paul Nguyen, chief executive officer of KiemViec.com, an online career website. Investment by foreign manufacturers, especially from Japan, will help absorb some of the workers, he said.
They include Japan’s Brother Industries Ltd. (6448), which plans to open a sewing machine plant next year that will employ about 400 workers, and Shiseido Co. (4911), which expects to more than double its local workforce to about 860 by 2016, after shifting some production from Japan.
The party has had some success in restructuring state enterprises. Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-Stock Co. (VNM), known as Vinamilk and founded in 1976, began selling shares to investors in 2003 and is now the second-biggest company on the main bourse. The government still holds a 45 percent stake.
“Where the government sells down its stake and the right corporate alignment and incentives are put in place, privatized companies can be successful,” said Scriven, whose funds hold shares in Vinamilk.
Power Engineering Joint-Stock Co., a former unit of Vietnam Electricity, sold shares in 2005, when it had 74 billion dong in annual sales. Last year, revenue rose to about 400 billion dong, said Chairman Le Minh Hai.
“Our company’s operations became a lot more efficient,” Hai said. “Our employees are much more motivated to work now.”
Vietnam Airlines Corp., the national carrier, appointed advisers for an IPO to sell between 20 percent and 30 percent, the Vietnam Investment Review reported in January.
“The way they’ve done it in the past has been to equitize, not privatize, which typically means selling 10 or 20 percent with no ability for the new investors to exercise control, and with the previous management staying in place,” said Louis Taylor, Vietnam chief executive for Standard Chartered Plc (STAN).
Full privatization “would require relinquishing of state control over many industries, and I’m not sure that’s on many people’s agenda,” Taylor said.
Often, the shares are sold to local authorities, government ministries, or other state companies, said Pincus.
“What was once an ideologically motivated decision to retain industrial and commercial power in the state sector has been cemented in place by interests that profit from the absence of both market competition and administrative discipline,” he said.
The kinds of changes required, such as introducing more competition, creating independent regulatory agencies and enforcing corporate governance codes mandating independent directors, would challenge the concentration of economic power in the hands of a loyal political elite, according to Pincus.
“You have to watch out that what you think might be some kind of reform of the state-owned enterprises doesn’t actually become a new form of crony capitalism,” said Burghardt, the former U.S. ambassador.
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I recently found out that information about the number of drones that are registered with the FAA is freely available at this website. The FAA calls them Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) but most people just say “drones.”
I spent some time going through the data, looking at the town I live in and places near me.
The data is pretty interesting. It is divided by hobbyist/non-hobbyist and then lists the number of drones that are registered in every town in the United States (not just states, but also places like Puerto Rico, American Samoa and military bases).
After looking at this massive spreadsheet for a while, I began to wonder if somebody had put this information into a map to make it easier to digest. Searching around the internet I found a few maps but nothing had exactly what I was looking for. Time Magazine’s map was close … but it was using old data.
So I set out to make my own. More on that later … Let me get to the maps and then anybody who is interested in how I made them and some of my assumptions can keep reading below.
Choropleth Maps of Hobby Drones by County
One thing I didn’t know before making these maps is that they are called “choropleth” maps.
All the maps and stats below are dated February 14, 2017.
This map above shows the total number of registered hobby drones in each county in the U.S. Please note that the range of values that each color represents changes as the colors get darker. The only thing interesting about this map is how uninteresting it is. Counties with higher populations appear to have a higher number of drones registered.
Because of this I wanted to make a per capita map, as well.
As you can see the per capita map is much more homogeneous. This is to be expected based on how the map of the total number of drones seemed to correlate with population. The Midwest counties seem to have higher per capita counties but that could be a result of some of them having very low populations.
Also interesting is that the counties that border oceans tend to have higher per capita drone registration, even within the same state. For example, Washington and Oregon tend to have higher per capita registration in the counties that are next to the ocean than the counties that are inland.
Interesting Facts about Hobby Drone Registrants
Total # of Drone Registrations: 667,637
State with the Highest # of Drone Registrants: California, with 78,890 registrants
State with the Highest per capita: Hawaii, with 16.92 registrants per 10,000 residents
County with the Highest # of Drone Registrants: Los Angeles County, California with 17,560 registrants
County with the Highest per capita: Prairie County, Montana with 82.95 registrants per 10,000 residents
# of counties with 0 Drone Registrants: 7
How I made the Maps and Processed the Data
As I said above, the data came from here (Excel file). It has columns for country, state, city, zip code and number of drone registrants from each zip code. (One note about this … the FAA requires people to be registered, not drones. So if one person has 5 drones, they only have to register once. )
I used Python to process the data and make the maps. I’ve fully automated it so I should be able to update these maps and statistics as soon as new data is available.
I used this map as a template. It is an SVG file, which means its an XML based image file. XML can be edited with any text editor or any number of programming language libraries. In my case, I used the Beautiful Soup Python library to read and edit the SVG file.
The map template has an ID tag for each county. The ID uses the FIPS county code. The first two numbers in the FIPS code identifies the state while the last three numbers identify the county.
This posed a problem for me because the drone registration data was given based on zip codes, not FIPS county codes. Fortunately, I was able to find data that relates zip codes to FIPS codes.
This led to 2 further issues I had to resolve. First, some zip codes are located in multiple counties. I solved this by assuming that the drones that were registered to any particular zip code were distributed based on the population. For example, let’s say 100 drones are registered in a zip code 12345. And zip code 12345 is split across 2 counties, with 60% of the population in county A and 40% of the population in county B. In this case, I would assign 60 registered drones to county A and 40 registered drones to county B. The zip code-to-FIPS file that I linked to above actually has a column in it that tells the percentage of the population of a zip code that is found each county that it is located in. This is one of the things I did differently than what Time Magazine did.
The second issue I came across was that because the drone registration data is from 2017 and the zip code-to-FIPS data I had was from 2010, I had a number of new zip codes that had been created since 2010. I had no easy way of converting these to FIPS so – for now – I am leaving these zip codes out of the calculations for the map.
In order to calculate the per capita information I needed the population of data of each county. I took that from this file (.csv file). This is estimated population of each county in 2015, based off of the 2010 census.
Another issue I found with the data was that the zip code didn’t always match the city and/or state that was listed. For example, there was one entry where the City and State columns of the data listed Ames, Iowa but the zip code was 43205, which is a zip code for Indianapolis, Indiana. For the maps and stats above, I assumed the zip code was correct in those cases, not the city/state columns.
Let me know if there is any other data you’d like to see. If it’s fairly easy for me to process I will update the post to include it. For example, I only included people who registered as “hobbyists.” I could make maps for the “non-hobbyist” registrants, as well, if there is any desire. | <urn:uuid:d4e1ef87-71d5-47b3-8ff6-4183e7ae0697> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://learningrc.com/number-of-drones/ | 2017-08-18T14:22:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104681.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818140908-20170818160908-00454.warc.gz | en | 0.962438 | 1,348 |
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Strategic Memorandum
Date: Monday, February 18, 2002
To: Low-Tax Jurisdictions
From: Daniel Mitchell, Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow
The OECD February 28 Deadline
Less than two years ago, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was an immense threat to taxpayers in general and low-tax jurisdictions in particular. The
Paris-based bureaucracy was aggressively moving forward with its so-called "harmful tax competition" initiative, and it was widely expected that blacklisted jurisdictions would surrender their fiscal sovereignty by
the OECD's self-imposed deadline.
Fortunately, the world has changed. Thanks to strong opposition in the United States and the election of a market-oriented President, the OECD was forced to substantially narrow its
imperialist agenda. The "line-in-the-sand" deadline has been delayed two times. Perhaps most importantly, key OECD member governments clearly are much less committed to organization's assault on low-tax
But what happens now? The OECD's latest deadline is quickly approaching, and many jurisdictions have to make a choice. There are five powerful reasons why low-tax jurisdictions should not
These points are discussed in greater detail below. Individually, they are powerful arguments for fiscal sovereignty and resistance to the OECD's imperialist agenda. Combined, they strongly
suggest that persecuted jurisdictions should hold firm. It would be a shame if governments that have defended the interests of their people for nearly two years were to lose their resolve at the last moment.
1. The OECD is a paper tiger. The Paris-based bureaucracy has no power to impose financial
protectionism or any other sanction against low-tax jurisdictions. As has been discussed in previous memoranda, the only real concern is whether the OECD's member nations might take such steps. And that is not a
real threat unless the United States decides to act in concert with Europe's welfare states. Simply stated, it does not matter if irrelevant nations like France eliminate financial ties with low-tax
jurisdictions. The key question is how the United States will respond, and the following two factors suggest that it is very unlikely that America will join any coordinated assault against taxpayer-friendly
- The Bush Administration is not the Clinton Administration. While there are a handful of presidential appointees (and certainly many career bureaucrats) that do not appreciate tax competition,
President Bush and his team generally understand that tax harmonization policies such as "information exchange" are contrary to America's economic interests. This is the Administration, after all, that
forced the OECD to alter its agenda. This is the Administration that blocked the Clinton-era IRS regulation to help foreign governments tax the deposits in U.S. banks. And this is the Administration that is
aggressively pursuing tax rate reductions to make America more competitive.
- The new tax treaties between America and several low-tax jurisdictions eliminate any incentive for the U.S. to join forces with Europe's welfare states. In other words, now that the United
States has greater ability to impose taxes on an extra-territorial basis, it is has no reason to impose protectionist policies. Such an approach, after all, would undermine the competitiveness of American
financial institutions just so European nations can collect more tax revenue. Needless to say, the Bush Administration is not likely to pursue such a self-destructive policy. This is very important since
low-tax jurisdictions easily can withstand sanctions from other nations so long as they can conduct business with American companies.
2. The real deadline is 2003. Being on an OECD blacklist, in and of itself, has very little impact. As discussed above, the only real risk is that OECD member nations may choose to impose financial protectionism at some point. But that risk is not real until 2003 at the earliest. Even for those low-tax jurisdictions that have a pessimistic attitude, there is nothing to be gained by surrendering before the deadline for sanctions.
3. Communicate with each other. At the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, one of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, remarked, "We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." These powerful words succinctly explained why the colonies had to be united to overcome the British Empire. The same principle applies to low-tax jurisdictions. If persecuted jurisdictions unite, the OECD has very little chance of success. This is why it is so important for leaders in the targeted regimes to communicate – especially since OECD representatives frequently attempt to mislead (a polite word for lie) low-tax jurisdictions by claiming that others governments are about to capitulate. Whether through the International Tax and Investment Organization (ITIO) or other mechanisms, targeted jurisdictions should compare notes, develop strategies, and present a united front. Remember, the bureaucrats in Paris do not want low-tax leaders to communicate. They suffered a serious setback early last year in Barbados largely because leaders finally had a chance to compare notes and grasp the full magnitude of OECD perfidy. All the more reason, then, for persecuted jurisdictions to cooperate.
4. Insist that OECD nations comply with same standards. The OECD specializes in
hypocrisy. It seeks to impose rules on small, relatively powerless jurisdictions, but does not subject its own members (or powerful non-members) to the same rules. It threatens low-tax jurisdictions with
financial protectionism, even though such policies would violate international trade agreements that OECD nations piously invoke when seeking to reduce barriers to their exports (and then has the unmitigated
audacity to call this protectionism "defensive" – similar, one supposes, to Hitler's "defensive" attack on Poland). But every dark cloud has a silver lining, and the OECD's blatant hypocrisy creates a marvelous
opportunity. Low-tax jurisdictions should say that they are willing to consider (not sign, just consider) the OECD's demands after all OECD nations have enacted (not promised, but actually enacted) the same
policies. This point has been made quite effectively by several jurisdictions. And even governments that capitulate can do so in a meaningless fashion. The Isle of Man's decision to acquiesce to the OECD, for
instance, is not effective until and unless every OECD member nation agrees to abide by the same rules. Needless to say, that is not very likely. Indeed, we are more likely to see the bureaucrats at the OECD
volunteer to give up their tax-free salaries before member nations agree to abide by OECD rules. This strategy may not have much impact on French politicians, but it will be extremely effective for dealing with
both the press and American lawmakers.
5. Appeasement does not work. Last but not least, it is important to resist the OECD
because of what will happen next. Politicians from high-tax nations believe in tax harmonization, and they will seek it implicitly (with information-sharing) and they will seek it explicitly (by setting minimum
tax rate requirements). While it sounds difficult to believe, they actually believe that economic activity should be determined on the basis of pre-tax income rather than post-tax income. As such, they will
continue their efforts until all differences in tax burdens are eliminated. Needless to say, this means that low tax burdens will be adjusted upward. For those who think this is an exaggerated fear, I invite you
to save this memo and re-read it ten years from now.
As always, please keep us informed. The constant flow of information from persecuted nations – as well as the inside information from moles at the OECD and friends in various Treasury Departments and
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Mobile data consumption is up 81 percent due to many more people using tablets and smartphones, especially to watch video. See graph below.
Mobile access now accounts for 25 percent of global web usage, up from 14 percent a year ago. Mobile internet traffic is growing at a rate of 1.5 times that of conventional broadband.
Meeker sees it growing at an annual rate of 81 percent, with mobile video largely driving that growth.
- Global mobile internet usage leaped from 14 percent to 25 percent between May 2013 and May 2014.
- In North America, it jumped from 11 percent to 19 percent and in Europe it increased from 8 percent to 16 percent.
Comment: This author finds it remarkable that “We now spend more time on mobile than on print and radio combined.”
In 2013, people spent 20 percent of their time on mobile devices, yet only 5 percent of the ad spending was allocated to mobile Internet access. One would expect the latter to increase substantially in the years ahead. Meeker estimates there’s $30-billion per year to be made in mobile ads. Therefore, advertisers, marketers, and media companies will try to get a good chunk of that ad revenue.
Meeker lists community, content, and commerce as the “Internet Trifecta.” With the ever expanding number of consumers online, there is a natural desire to connect with others through content. Marketers who provide context to the content they are creating and sharing are the ones who are able to increase connectivity within their communities of interest and grow stronger, which leads to brand loyalty.
Meeker said that there’s now clear evidence that people want to share information more privately. Mobile messaging services like WhatsApp (bought by Facebook for $19B), Tencent (QQ Instant Messenger in China) and Line (a South Korean-Japanese proprietary application for instant messaging) are growing at exponential rates — a trend that companies like Facebook and other social networking companies have noticed.
People were said to be “media junkies,” sharing articles via social media and tapping into streaming services. Apps are replacing linear TV channels as the way to consume video, with Americans aged 16 to 34 watching just 41 percent of their TV live, she said.
Google’s YouTube is also booming with consumers. “They are increasingly loving short-form video,” she said. “Consumers even love ads.” Indeed, 22 percent of video watching globally is done on mobile devices. On-demand mobile video apps, such as WatchESPN, BBC iPlayer, and HBO Go are all gaining popularity with mobile users. She says that 40 percent of Internet TV watchers are already using mobile devices (This author finds that to be incredible as most people we know do not watch Internet TV on their mobile devices except for video clips).
Meeker observed that 84 percent of mobile owners use devices while watching TV. They use them, in order of popularity for Web surfing, shopping, checking sports scores, looking up information about what they’re watching, and talking to friends/family or tweeting about the program. (That is something I certainly relate to as I do it all the time).
The country to watch is China, according to Meeker. China has more Internet users than any other country by far – about 618 million Internet users last year. Approximately 80 percent of those only access the Internet via mobile devices. Four of the world’s 10 largest Internet companies are Chinese, up from one a year ago. [This author thinks they are Tencent, Baidu,
Rakuten, and Alibaba].
In conclusion, the mobile Internet will continue to experience solid growth. Therefore, it is imperative for Internet and e-commerce companies to develop content that resonates well with mobile audiences.
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The Unified Ceilometer Network (UCN) is a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) on a ground-based ceilometer network to support activities that will provide a comprehensive three-dimensional assessment of the chemical and dynamical processes in the lower atmosphere by coupling surface measurements, ceilometer and satellite observations that can aid future policy decisions and strategies to key questions on the influence of gases and aerosols in air quality, atmospheric composition and climate.
In 2009, the National Research Council released the report titled “Observing Weather and Climate From the Ground Up: A Nationwide Network of Networks“. This report recommended a “network of networks” which builds upon already existing radiosonde launch sites, wind profilers, and lidars into a national network to address the current inadequacies in determining the Mixing Layer Height (MLH). They stated that after sixty (60) years of remote sensing research, it is astounding that the MLH, an important meteorological variable, is not measured regularly throughout its diurnal cycle.
Due to the harmful effects on health caused by particulate matter and ozone, accurate forecasting of air quality conditions is needed for the public well-being. The MLH is one of the key diagnostics for identifying uncertainties in forecasting models as it contains most of the aerosols and its height determines the volume of the air available for pollutant dilution. Models with inaccurate MLHs will generally not predict surface pollutant concentrations correctly, likely an indication of inadequately simulated meteorological setup. Because of this, tools and methodologies that can accurately determine the height of the mixing layer are needed.
Ceilometer networks have been typically established by national weather services around the globe primarily designed for detection of clouds. The instrument capability of providing observations of the vertical structure of the boundary layer makes it a resourceful tool to study atmospheric phenomena. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirement to state and local air quality agencies to measure hourly mixing layer height (MLH) at the national PAMS, will be the first concerted effort to use the ceilometer aerosol profiles for the determination of MLH in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL). The primary purpose for the hourly MLH under PAMS was driven by the state’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) modeling data needs.
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Following a World War II combat nurse who inadvertently travels through time to the Scottish rebellion, the anticipation for season three has been dubbed #Droughtlander. The season two finale aired in July 2016, after the announcement of a two-season renewal of the popular show, which has been praised for being feminist.
Deadline reported that Carmi Zlotnik, president of programming at Starz, said, "While 'Droughtlander' will last just a little longer, we feel it is important to allow the production the time and number of episodes needed to tell the story of the Voyager book in its entirety. The scale of this book is immense, and we owe the fans the very best show. Returning in September will make that possible."
Season three, which will be based on the book Voyager, will see Jamie and Claire Fraser going from Scotland to South Africa. It follows a record-setting second season of the show.
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Polydome is a revolutionary approach to greenhouse agriculture that offers the possibility of commercial scale, net-zero-impact food production. The Polydome system strategically interweaves a wide variety of crops and animals, taking advantage of every inch of the greenhouse while eliminating the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
With its high yields (60 – 90 kg per square meter), and diverse outputs (over 50 crops, two mushroom varieties, chickens, eggs, fish, and honey), even a small Polydome system can provide a richly varied food supply for a large population.
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It is estimated that by using Polydome, even cities as densely populated as New York City could provide the majority of their own food supply using available roof space. A less dense city like Rotterdam could provide an estimated 80% of its food needs using only 3% of its surface area.
Though it uses advanced greenhouse technology, Polydome’s true inventiveness lies in a non-technological strategy: it maximizes food production and variety by operating more like a self-maintaining ecosystem than an industrial farm.
While greenhouses generally produce only one kind of crop, Polydome is a polyculture system with many crops and livestock growing at once. Plants, crops, animals, and insects are strategically interwoven to connect waste, water, and energy flows and capture the benefts of varied space and light conditions. Animals within the system range freely and live naturally, while the design of the crop layout limits the need for repetitive human labor.
The main design challenge behind Polydome was the creation of successful “crop clusters,” groups of interacting plants that use space and nutrients to maximum effect. These crop clusters are like interchangeable Lego blocks, with many functional combinations that can be mixed and matched depending on the desired output of the greenhouse and local market demand.
Depending on the mix of crops and animals, Polydome systems can be fully zero-waste. Plant waste is reused as mulch, compost, or fish feed, while animal wastes are processed into plant nutrient supplements. Rather than shading plants using mechanical screens, shade-loving plants are intercropped below plants with a high demand for direct sunlight.
Mushroom cultivation, chickens, and composting provide supplemental CO2 rather than generators or the combustion of fossil fuels. Using temporal and spatial stacking, companion planting, and the layering of soil crops with hydroponically-grown crops, the Polydome design allows for greater production density than in any other cultivation method.
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On a socio-economic level, the model shows that this system is highly profitable. It allows for high-density production, the capture of several high-value niche markets, and savings on technological inputs. Rather than focusing on the large-scale production of a single, relatively valuable crop (tomatoes, peppers), Polydome produces many high value crops that usually have a limited local market (herbs, mushrooms, berries).
Potential for Urban Agriculture
By combining a Polydome system with a shop or restaurant, food can be sold directly to customers. Shrinking the distance between producer and consumer also translates into higher profits. Polydome also provides possibilities for urban agriculture that with traditional systems might not be feasible or desirable.
Polydome is designed to last a minimum of 30 years, largely because it relies on many perennial crops that do not need to be replanted every year. This means that an investment can be made in its physical structure and appearance, ensuring that it provides a positive aesthetic contribution to the built environment.
Polydome systems are a step towards truly sustainable agriculture: they produce high quality food efficiently and locally while creating environmental benefits and caring for human and animal welfare. They provide a realistic way of doubling our food production by 2050 while reducing the overall impact of agriculture.
The Portal to Venlo offers the greenhouse industry in the east of the Netherlands a model to develop a sustainable industry. The project re-imagines an existing greenhouse industry area, currently fragmented, inefficient, dangerous for bicycle tourists that cross the area and in general rather unappealing.
The Hortus Celestia is a vertical farm tower, designed for Naaldwijk, the Netherlands. The tower rises 28 stories high above the greenhouse-filled landscape, offering 14 farming floors with embedded expo centers.
The tower functions as a demonstration center for innovative Dutch greenhouse industry partners, and attracts international visitors from around the globe.
We developed a roadmap of the Dutch meat process sector, production and processing companies and their suppliers, together with DNV. The road map shows opportunities for optimal use of all energy and material flows in the product chain of chicken, pork and beef, and maps their sources. The maps bring insight to all stakeholders involved, and enables decisions on improving entire sections of the production chain at once.
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I did have a few days off over Easter in my normal pattern of working days and thoroughly enjoyed not only the weather but also seeing my team, Crystal Palace, scrape a win against Leeds United on Easter Monday which virtually guaranteed our survival in the Championship. I'm hoping for a better season next year as that was much too close for comfort!!
And then the Royal Wedding… WOW!!! I hadn't really given it too much thought as it seemed to come around so quickly, but I sat down to watch it before leaving for work and was transfixed. Everything went so smoothly and looked so amazing, but the thing that really moved me was the music… I'm not ashamed to admit that at one point I had a tear in my eye.
I thought the choir were superb and the musical arrangement of Jerusalem was the best I have ever heard. I'm convinced that nobody in the world could have put on this particular event better – I was very proud and wish the royal couple all the best for a happy future together.
The rest of 'my' Royal Wedding day was spent at QVC but I didn't mind – an hour with Lulu and 2 hours with Simon Wilson… and that's supposed to be work!! LOL!!
And then of course came Zumba. Although I'd heard of it, as there are some classes in my area, I'd never tried it before. The day prior to the TSV day, Sophie, my daughter, and I put on the beginner DVD and had a go.
I think of myself as being reasonably fit but after the instuctional DVD and the 20 minute workout I was 'glowing'!!!! I was wondering how I was going to get through a whole hour and talk at the same time but Matt and Enrico made it such fun that it passed in a flash. Let me know how you get on if you bought it.
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The Tarot deck this week is not mincing words nor sparing feelings, but isn't it a relief to have someone in your corner that tells it like it is? The name of the game this week is courage. We're not out of the tunnel yet, and the light at the end may only appear dim now but staying the course will pay dividends in the long run. A quick glance at the spread reveals that four of the five cards are reversed, indicating lots of challenges this week. All four suits are also present which tells us that this is a complex situation with several overlapping layers that affect us in different areas of our life. This reading also emphasizes the fact that the task falls to us alone to balance ourselves and navigate the difficult moments. We must summon our courage and step up to the plate. Let's take a look at the spread and dive into the overall vibe this week.
Weekly Tarot Reading
The Current Situation
While the six would generally bring us balance after a difficult situation, when it's reversed, we can lose our equilibrium which makes it challenging to get our bearings about us and move forward. This card is the Lord of Science turned on its head. Science, which brings progress and embodies advancement, has been stopped in its tracks for the time being and this lack of movement can be quite uncomfortable. Any loose ends that need to be tied up are likely to remain undone for a bit longer. These unresolved affairs stir the pot and anxiety at this time is coming to a slow simmer. The stagnation affects us most in the mental arena as our mind launches into overdrive, but the churning of the wheels is rather unproductive without much action to propel the energy forward. Don't be surprised if friends and colleagues are too wrapped up in their own process of wading out of the darkness to lend a hand. This lack of support can get to us, but it's up to us to view the situation from a more macro level and have compassion for others on their own journey. If you're embroiled in legal matters, don't expect them to be resolved this week and if they do manage to reach a conclusion there is a real possibility that it won't be in your favor. This clearly isn't the chipper weekly memo we would like to receive in our inbox, however we can use the time in a productive way by leaning into the stillness to sort out our own mental space before it's time to get up and get moving again.
As we've seen, the current situation foretells of an uncomfortable stillness and lack of movement this week that largely affects our intellectual prowess, although the real challenge is going to be in managing our emotions. This dark night of the soul globally has dug it's heels in and sometimes it's hard to look up and project a positive future. The stagnation can cause us to want to throw the towel in and give up. This situation can lead us to sadness and even to lose faith in being able to turn it all around. We can start to feel removed or disconnected, apathetic and dissatisfied. The challenge for us this week is to do an emotional screening to see where we're being inflexible and resisting to go with the flow. Clinging to the past, or outworn modes of thinking, no longer serve us so we need to follow the course of the river.If there's a bend, curve along with it because you'll need a lot more hydropower to channel the flow into a new stream at this point. Some self-reflection will help determine where we create instability in our own lives through that inflexibility. Times are changing and we can sail along willingly or be swept away with the current.
Finally a card in the spread that's upright! We've changed suits once again and the environment this week will be supportive of our practical talents. Work will be a welcome distraction, especially if it entails organizing your space, applying practical solutions to the task at hand and tapping into the more nurturing side of your character. With the tumultuous elements of water and air reversed in the two previous cards, here we see the stabilizing energy of earth supporting us along our journey for security. Earth is the realm of the physical world and pertains to material matters. There may even be a woman in your environment that embodies the Earth Mother archetype and her generous and charitable nature will certainly be a welcome respite when faced with so much uncertainty. Don't get lost in your thoughts nor swept away with your emotions, but instead focus on the concrete actions you can take this week to move toward the life you want to manifest.
The advice this week is more about observation and prevention than an action to be taken. We may very well be confronted this week with an unstable character in our environment and the best thing we can do is be aware of the true nature of this person and behave accordingly. Avoid getting entangled in any arguments with this person as it will likely be a waste of time. This person is cruel and wants to dominate the situation at any cost. Being conscious of this person's capacity to act against us gives us some perspective on the situation which circles back to the challenge this week of not letting our emotions get out of control. Stay practical and don't let it get to you. Things will get moving again, even if they take time and you'll need to harness that courage to withstand the pressure of the situation, if not it will only lead to a broken heart. If we deny the reality at hand it will just cost us more in the long run. Ignorance is not bliss so it's time to take off those rose-colored glasses to get a glimpse of the true hue of this work in progress called life.
Ok, so the Knight of Cups reversed as the final result doesn't look stellar, but at the end of the day, the power is in our hands to shape our reality. This could just be a wake up call to take a bit of extra time and analyze all of the possibilities before us. We may end up so desperate for movement that we throw due dilligence by the wayside and accept any proposal that comes our way... not a great idea. Crooks, swindlers and tricksters love to prey on desperation and won't miss an opportunity to cozy up to people who are unwilling to see the truth for what it is. This can lead to risky propositions that will end in more heartbreak. Open your eyes, and combine your intuition with those practical talents so you heed the warnings and make good decisions. There are people lurking around that are not to be trusted but if you can see the situation for what it truly is, you'll be good to go.
There's work to be done and now it's time to get to it. Let your mystic revolution begin!
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Russia’s Ministry of Defence has announced that it successfully intercepted and destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones in a recent wave of attacks. The drones were targeted at various locations in the Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula, the Black Sea, as well as other parts of Russia. The Russian defence ministry stated that the attacks were an attempted terrorist attack by the Ukrainian government, and it was able to thwart the assault using its air defence systems.
The ministry did not provide any information regarding any potential casualties or damage resulting from the attacks. However, this incident highlights the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the increasing sophistication of Ukraine’s offensive capabilities.
Since the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, Ukraine has vowed to retake the Black Sea peninsula. As a result, Ukrainian forces have frequently launched aerial attacks targeting Crimea. This includes strikes on Russian Black Sea fleet command posts, as well as attacks using surface seaborne drones.
The recent drone attacks, which Russia successfully intercepted and destroyed, suggest that Ukraine possesses growing offensive sophistication. Military analysts have noted Ukraine’s ability to execute complex operations, such as launching missile and drone attacks against Russian targets. This indicates that Ukraine’s offensive capabilities surpass those of Russia, according to Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews.
While the Russian government has downplayed the incident and claimed that Ukrainian attacks are being successfully repelled, tensions between the two nations continue to escalate.-
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– Ukrainian military
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The American Goldfinch is one of 69 bird species documented at Loyola’s Retreat and Ecology Campus.
Despite several degrees and years of experience that indicate otherwise, Stephen Mitten, S.J., doesn’t think of himself strictly as a scientist. “I see myself more as a naturalist,” he says. “I’m an ambassador for the environment.”
As spiritual director and resident ecology faculty at Loyola’s Retreat and Ecology Campus, Fr. Mitten teaches several biology and conservation courses. But his real love is avian ecology. Last summer, he and student Edgar Perez took a census of the birds and their breeding grounds on the rural campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Perez was an intern at the campus last summer, and will be again this summer, but he and Fr. Mitten have known each other since Fr. Mitten’s previous tenure at St. John’s Junior College in Belize, where Perez was a student. Now both are here, and both are highly invested in the research and restoration taking place at the Retreat and Ecology Campus.
Although the plant life at the campus had been surveyed and documented, the fauna had been much less so. The parts of an ecosystem are all connected, however, and birds can serve as good indicators of the health of the biological community. The data collected by Perez and Fr. Mitten will provide a baseline for the ongoing restoration of the campus’s woodlands and wetlands.
“When we do restoration you may lose some species and may gain others,” says Fr. Mitten. “How do we maintain biodiversity while meeting the goals we have for restoration?”
According to the final report, 69 bird species were documented, 40 species were found breeding or holding territories on the campus, and an additional 29 species were detected as flyovers or occasional visitors. The most common species were Red-winged Blackbirds, Gray Catbirds, American Robins, Northern Cardinals, Black capped Chickadees, American Goldfinches, and Brown-headed Cowbirds.
Both Fr. Mitten and Perez have been interested in ornithology and ecology since childhood.
“When I was a kid, I used to ask my dad a lot of questions—what is this, what is that,” says Perez. “If he didn’t know, I went to find out. I was always curious about the environment. I purchased a bird book myself. I started to look over it and read it and learn the different parts that make a species.” Perez eventually became involved with the Audobon Society, and participated in bird counts on the society’s behalf in Belize. At St. John’s, he was further encouraged by Fr. Mitten’s own interest in birds.
Fr. Mitten is a local—he’s from Zion, Illinois, and earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. “I wanted to major in biology ever since I stole my Dad’s Kodak instamatic camera in fourth grade and set out to take pictures of all the birds in the back yard,” he says. “They were all just black specks, because I couldn’t really get close enough to get a good photo.”
The restoration process at the Retreat and Ecology Campus will take a long time. “The watershed basin has been really altered by past anthropomorphic ditch-digging,” Fr. Mitten says. The area was originally drained to create land for cattle grazing. Long-term goals are to remove invasive species like buckthorn and honeysuckle, restore the oak-hickory woodland, and reestablish the fen, a kind of wetland created by the retreat of glaciers.
Fr. Mitten will continue to work toward the restoration and contribute to the new Institute of Environmental Sustainability. He is developing a course in avian ecology, and he teaches a study abroad course in Belize in January. He hopes to instill in his students the idea that local actions can have global consequences. “What I do in Chicago has an impact on whether these tropical ecosystems will be around in the future,” Fr. Mitten says. And although he misses the biodiversity of the tropics, he values the particular ecosystems here as well. “Northern Illinois has things the tropics don’t. If we don’t have a glacier fen, we’re deprived,” he says. And, like St. Francis (which is Fr. Mitten’s middle name), he sees the divine in even the Gray Catbird. “They’re all God’s creatures—I can’t say one is better than the other,” he says. “They all reveal the imagination of our Creator.”
Perez will spend another year at Loyola, and then he plans to return to Belize and St. John’s to develop the environmental science program there. He is also particularly interested in the effects of toxic chemicals, such as pesticides, on biological systems. “Belize doesn’t have any ecotoxicologists,” he says. “I hope to become the first one.” He believes his scientific knowledge carries with it a responsibility to act. “Now that I have the knowledge I was after as a child, I realize there’s more to it than that,” he says. “I see environmental degradation, pollution, global warming. Hopefully I can do something with this knowledge that will help.” | <urn:uuid:e98bb7a8-76dd-4cc2-a8d7-3e0d6e9fdc8d> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://fore.yale.edu/news/item/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers/ | 2016-05-06T03:34:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861718132.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164158-00010-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972341 | 1,191 |
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WIKIMEDIA, TOM MALLINSONDelivering DNA that results in the production of a tumor cell-specific reporter protein detectable in the blood could be a new method for earlier tumor identification, according to a proof-of-concept study published today (February 23) in PNAS.
“Conceptually, this is transformative. There are many studies that put . . . gene-delivery systems into cancer cells and try to kill the cancer cells,” said Shuk-Mei Ho of the University of Cincinnati, who was not involved in the study. “[Instead] we might be able to do a lot of things to kill the cancer cells, including radiation or surgery, if we detect them early enough.”
Tumor cells generally release so few cancer-specific biomarker molecules into the bloodstream that these markers cannot be reliably used early disease detection. To circumvent this problem, Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir and his colleagues at Stanford University designed injectable tumor-detecting DNA “minicircles.” Minicircles are similar...
“It’s unconventional . . . that they tried to use an engineered biomarker,” said Andrei Drabovich of the University Toronto who was not involved in the study. He raised concerns about the reported rate of false-positives, since low amounts of SEAP were also produced in mice without tumors. “It’s probably not ready yet for screening applications in the general population, but you can definitely find some niche when it comes to cancer patients or suspected cancer patients,” Drabovich said.
“I wouldn’t say that it would be so safe and with no concerns that we could apply it to everybody, but it does open up opportunities to screen high-risk patients,” agreed Ho.
“The system sounds nice and it is quite interesting, there is no question about it, but the claims in the paper go far beyond what is actually demonstrated in my eyes,” said Harald Mischak of the University of Glasgow who was not involved in the research. “I see no value in a general tumor marker. It would just produce a lot of anxiety in the patients, and is of no help if you don’t know where the tumor is,” added Mischak—particularly if the tumor is too small to be clinically relevant.
Gambhir countered that the current system is not powerful enough to be concerned about detecting insignificant tumors. “We think we can get down into the cubic millimeter range, which is still millions of cells, but we don’t think we could detect one or 10 or 100 or 1,000 cells sitting somewhere in your body. So sensitivity is probably a bigger problem than specificity,” he said, adding: “The problem is more [that] when you don’t see SEAP in the blood, [it] doesn’t mean there isn’t a tumor.”
Ho, on the other hand, said the sensitivity appeared quite good but that specificity could be an issue due to a “leaky” or poorly regulated promoter. But both the promoter and the reporter genes could be switched out for different purposes, Gambhir pointed out. “The system was designed to be fairly modular so that you could take minicircles and disrupt [them] in different ways and still get signal in the way you would desire,” he said.
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[12/04/06 - 10:36 PM] Love, Longing and Lots of Sand When Amanda Bynes Finds Herself 'Lovewrecked' January 21st on ABC Family The original movie stars Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Jonathan Bennett, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Fred Willard, Kathy Griffin and Lance Bass.
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LOVE, LONGING AND LOTS OF SAND WHEN AMANDA BYNES FINDS HERSELF �LOVEWRECKED� JANUARY 21ST ON ABC FAMILY
Burbank, CA (December 4, 2006) � Imagine if you had the chance to be deserted on a tropical island with one of today�s hottest men. Would you see it as an opportunity for a Justin Timberlake-type to fall madly in love with you or would you be desperate to be found? This January, Amanda Bynes (�What a Girl Wants�) finds herself in that very predicament in the ABC Family original movie LOVEWRECKED, Sunday, Jan. 21 (8:00 � 10:00 PM ET/PT). The film also stars Chris Carmack (�The O.C.�), Jonathan Bennett (�Mean Girls�), Jamie-Lynn DiScala (�The Sopranos�), Fred Willard (�Monster House�), Kathy Griffin (�My Life On The D List�) and Lance Bass (�On The Line�).
Jenny Riley (Bynes), who is always looking for �Mr. Right,� and her best friend Ryan (Bennett) are spending the summer in the Caribbean for a work study program. The calm relaxing summer the two had planned turns chaotic when Jenny�s pop star idol, Jason Masters (Carmack), shows up at the resort on break from his concert tour schedule. Determined to get close to him and show him they were meant to be together, Jenny follow Jason onto a dinner cruise that hits some choppy waters. Once marooned on a deserted island with Jason, Jenny sees this as her golden opportunity. But can she convince Jason that they are soul mates before they get rescued or will she realize that the real love of her life has been right under her nose the entire time?
LOVEWRECKED was directed by Randal Kleiser (�Grease�) and written by Stephen Langford (�Just Deal�). The film was executive produced by Lance Bass, Derek F.C. Elliott, Kelli Konop, Matthew F. Leonetti Jr. and Simon Lo.
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If you’re looking for a healthy Valentine’s Day class party idea, have a “Red Tasting Party” and let kids sample all kinds of red fruits and veggies.
If you’re looking for a healthy Valentine’s Day class party idea, here’s one that’s especially fun for preschool or young grade school children: Have a “Red Tasting Party” with fruits and veggies in all shades of scarlet.
Set out a buffet of red (and even pink) fruits and veggies like the ones above. More ideas:
- Pomegranate seeds
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- Pink grapefruit
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- Red onion
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Give everyone a fun Valentine plate and have kids get their samples using toothpicks or tongs–or have grown-ups distribute the fruits and veggies. You can taste things one by one as a class and talk about flavor, texture, aroma, and color. You could give it an educational spin too. When I’ve done tastings with preschoolers and kindergarteners, we’ve had fun making a big chart together and having each kid graph their favorite.
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And chances are, someone’s going to taste a food they’ve never had before–or try something again they didn’t think they liked. Seeing your peers tasting new foods is a powerful and positive influence.
So if you’re looking for a healthy Valentine’s Day class party idea that’s fun and outside-the-box, give this a try!
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Exhaust/Water Hose Without Wire - Series 200 (Shields)
Marine Exhaust / Water Hose is reinforced with 2 or 4 plies of synthetic cord and is made of black, heavy-walled synthetic rubber.
This hose is primarily used for straight connections in wet exhaust systems and engine water circulation lines. It is resistant to engine heat, exhaust fumes, ozone, mild chemicals, antifreeze and saltwater. This hose also has double the ozone resistance required by SAEJ2006. The temperature ranges from -20°F - + 200°F continuous, +250°F intermittent. The hose meets SAE J2006 Type R1 standards. | <urn:uuid:e46aa886-627c-4b14-8857-aedd71b2ce08> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.iboats.com/Exhaust-Water-Hose-Without-Wire-Series-200-Shields/dm/view_id.21416 | 2015-05-03T22:02:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1430451423003.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20150501033703-00039-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893446 | 138 |
Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership
Eastern Michigan University’s doctorate in educational leadership is designed to develop leaders with knowledge, skills and attitudes for helping to build learning communities within a culturally diverse society. Practicing administrators will find the program designed to support the application of educational leadership theory to meet the challenges of practice in a changing environment; the emphasis is on applied research with immediate application; and the focus on gaining insight and skills for initiating improvement within educational organizations. Courses are available on-campus, off-campus and in compressed weekend formats.
Designed for a master's or specialist's degree holder, EMU's doctoral program provides collaboration through a student cohort experience and research leading to improved leadership practice in K–12 programs, higher education institutions and/or other education-related settings.
Number of Credits
- 30 credit hours in the educational leadership major
- 10 credit hours of cognate courses
- 8–10 credit hours of research support
- 12 credit hours of dissertation research
Total: 60–62 (minimum) credit hours
Program of Study
A doctoral student’s individualized course of study is normally expected to encompass a minimum of 60 credit hours of course work beyond the master's degree. The exact number of hours will be determined by the student's program advisor, based on a review of previous graduate work/transcripts, the student's professional and personal aspirations and the doctor of education degree requirements as set forth by the Graduate School and the Leadership and Counseling Department. Therefore, some plans of study will have only 60–62 credit hours while others may include additional hours, either courses designed to remove deficiencies or courses to enhance opportunities for leadership success, at the discretion of the program advisor.
- EDLD 710 Leadership Theory (3)
- EDLD 714 Data-Driven Decision Management for Educational Leaders (3)
- EDLD 794 Advanced Seminar in Educational Administration (3)
- EDLD 740 Organizational Theory (3)
- EDLD 810 Ethics and Policy Analysis for Educational Leaders (3)
- EDLD 820 Politics of Educational Leadership (3)
The remaining 12 credit hours are selected according to the student's professional and personal goals, including considerations of career advancement and certification, and as approved by the student's doctoral advisor. Previous graduate course work in educational leadership which was taken as part of the specialist degree can be used toward the EDLD major at the discretion of the student's advisor.
The EMU College of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and approved by the Michigan Department of Education for the preparation of educational personnel.
For More Information
The Department of Leadership and Counseling
Educational Leadership Program
Doctoral Coordinator of Advising
Eastern Michigan University
John W. Porter Building, Suite 304
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734.487.0255 | Fax: 734.487.4608
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Aspergillosis in parrots is the name for a serious disease encountered in parrots. It sometimes takes the form of a fungus, but can also lead to other disorders. Prevention remains the best weapon to avoid it. This is based on impeccable hygiene.
Ensure irreproachable hygiene of the “habitat” of the parrot, its environment and its living conditions, give it a quality diet, etc. are essential conditions for the well-being of the parrot.
It can also prevent him from developing certain diseases. Aspergillosis has a poor prognosis. A fungus (Aspergillus), can be the cause of mycosis. This fungus grows easily in wet and soiled environments. Hence the importance of good hygiene and good ventilation of the animal’s living space.
Several forms exist: chronic or acute. First, symptoms may take some time to appear and are not significant to the disease.
A respiratory gene, a state of “weakness”, a term plumage, a modification of his voice… are all disorders that must in any case encourage the master to consult the veterinarian who knows the species well.
Young parrots are more sensitive to it
Young birds may be more sensitive to it, due to an immune system that is not yet performing.
It should be noted that this disease if it is not contagious, can affect several subjects as soon as the “conditions” favorable to its development are met.
To refine his diagnosis, the veterinarian has several tools. The main thing is that this disease is taken in time (drug treatment, even surgical) to have chances of being treated and not be fatal to the animal.
The parrot and animal
health insuranceSantéVet, a specialist in dog, cat, and NAC (new pets) health insurance offers a formula that reimburses veterinary expenses in case of diseases and accidents in the parrot.
This includes consultations (including in the context of an emergency), analyses and x-rays, drugs prescribed by the veterinarian, hospitalization, surgeries, etc.
SantéVet’s parrot insurance formula also offers a prevention package (serology) subject to conditions.
Mushrooms are not always good
Ha! The mushrooms! There are oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, and truffles to the delight of gourmets. There are those yeasts that make bread rise and those that ferment hops and other grains to produce a popular drink. Lovers of good beer know this. Other fungi that are called saprophytes actively participate in the ecological balance. They recycle materials that are no longer useful by breaking them down.
Opposed to the good mushrooms, there are those who could be described as “terrorists”. They do not hesitate to parasitize living beings and their presence causes enormous damage. Several fungi have specialized in this art. In parrots, there is such an infection called ASPERGILLOSIS.
Coco the African Grey Parrot is a bon vivant. He talks a lot and is very active. He takes pleasure in destroying the paper at the bottom of his cage as soon as Rosalie, his owner, installs a new one. Such a waste! A little desperate, Rosalie decides to use a more convenient solution. It spreads a good layer of cracked corn ( corn cob) on the floor of his cage. Eureka! Coco is not at all interested in having fun in this place anymore.
Rosalie also finds it very interesting that the product is very absorbent and that it controls odors well. She can even go a few weeks without changing it, nothing shows. It’s been a year since the parrot’s environment has been linked with these little granules when Rosalie notices changes in the behavior of her bird.
Coco’s tone of voice sounds different. She doesn’t worry too much, Coco is such a good impersonator. He must have taken it from TV. Sometime later, Rosalie notices that he tends to run out of steam a little faster. As Coco is still eating well, she decides to wait a bit before consulting. Maybe it’s old age, Coco is still 20 years old …
One morning, when she finds her parrot’s cage, Rosalie notices that things are not going well at all. Coco is at the back of his cage and he is breathing with his beak open. His tail moves at every breath.
There is even a little blood flowing from his nostrils. You have to go quickly to the vet. She takes Coco with a towel and to her surprise, he does not resist. Normally he would have struggled and screamed. He had never accepted being touched. Rosalie notices with amazement his great thinness.
The bone in his chest is very prominent. The parrot’s breathing quickens, wheezing breathing noises are heard and the African gray dies in the arms of its mistress.
The autopsy of this parrot revealed that it died of complications from aspergillosis. His lungs were invaded by the fungus which had also started to colonize the air sacs. The syrinx (the organ that allows birds to produce sounds) was also affected, hence the change in voice that had taken place in this bird.
Death was rapid because a major blood vessel in the left lung suddenly burst. Its wall had thinned dangerously after being badly damaged by the fungus. A big question now arose: where could Coco have become infected, he who always stayed inside and had no contact with other birds?
A microbiological analysis of a few particles of cracked corn, taken from the bottom of its cage, gave the answer: they were contaminated with Aspergillus sp. Thus, over a long period of time, his African Gray had breathed in a large number of spores from its environment.
What can be done to ensure that such a story does not happen again? First, clean the bottom of your parrot’s cage frequently. Any build-up of organic material and moisture provides fungi with an excellent growing medium. It is safe to use cracked corn as long as a wire mesh prevents the bird from touching it.
It should also be changed frequently. The accumulation of stool, food, and moisture from the water bowl greatly promotes the growth of fungus in this type of litter. Second, the annual check-up allows the problem to be detected early and intervened quickly.
Third, remember that the bird is a champion at hiding its symptoms of illness. Weight loss is easily concealed by feathers, and a simple change in personality can sometimes signal a serious problem. Aspergillus sp mainly colonizes the respiratory system.
We note that the African gray, the blue-fronted Amazon, and the mynah are particularly susceptible to this type of infection. The disease is not transmissible from bird to bird. Instead, the bird becomes infected by inhaling spores from a contaminated environment.
Individuals with compromised immune systems ( blue-fronted Amazon and mynah are particularly susceptible to this type of infection. The disease is not transmissible from bird to bird. Instead, the bird becomes infected by inhaling spores from a contaminated environment. Individuals with compromised immune systems ( blue-fronted Amazon and mynah are particularly susceptible to this type of infection.
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Do you occasionally feel like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, pressed for time and harnessed to a big watch? Discover the spirit of Santa Fe! We take relaxing-into-the-moment seriously, so I think you should leave the planning to us. Making the most of limited time means doing only what’s necessary, then letting the professionals take over. Once you’ve made plane reservations or tuned up the truck, pick out a great hotel (a tough choice you’ll have to make for yourself), then take a break by touring with adventurous experts who make it their business to see that your getaway is grand.
Lose Yourself in a Legendary Landscape
The vistas here are so large and the possibilities so many that it takes a pro to know where to start. You can’t do better than Georges and Sue Mally of Santa Fe Walkabouts, ranked #1 for Santa Fe activities on TripAdvisor. This dynamic duo and their powerful Pinzgauer (not their dog, it’s their fun all-terrain vehicle) get you out of town and into nature in informative and entertaining style. Want to explore the otherworldly Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks? You can scramble to the top or gaze at the azure sky from the bottom of a slot canyon. Hiking can be an easy excursion past ancient petroglyphs or a challenging climb in Georgia O’Keeffe country.
Mountain biking your thing? Take a canyon-rim cruise or a strenuous trek straight up the mountain, as Georges paces you pedal for pedal. And then, there’s the Pinz … be it a rocky road to a remote area or a glorious sunset tour to say goodnight to Santa Fe, this is a one-of-a-kind ride you won’t forget in a hurry! You may lose yourself in wonder at what you see, but in the expert care of Walkabouts, you’ll never get lost in anything but dreams!
Feed Your Fantasies in Santa Fe
Fun in the sun makes for a delicious day, but you can combine seeing sights with scrumptious flavors in a foodie-style adventure with Food Tour New Mexico. Ranked as TripAdvisor’s #1 Santa Fe sightseeing tour, these rambles through regional specialties should not be missed. And there’s more than one recipe for a nosh through our noteworthy cuisine.
The Taste of Santa Fe includes such notable spots as La Casa Sena (tucked inside Santa Fe’s most beautiful courtyard), Taberna La Boca, James Campbell Caruso’s temple of tapas, and Kakawa Chocolate House, recognized as one of the country’s best places for hot chocolate. The Sample Santa Fe tour takes a similar tack, with stops at the San Francisco Street Bar & Grill (a locals’ favorite), Upper Crust Pizza, and Senor Murphy, Santa Fe’s historic chocolatier, tucked alongside the historic La Fonda Hotel. And for those who love a sippin’ sampler, there’s even a Culinary Cocktail Tour — that’s one with shaken or stirred skills to take home!
On the subject of testing the palate with pleasurable potions, be it wine, beer, or spirits, the City Different accommodates different drinking desires. Given that foodies like us like vino, it’s no surprise to learn that you can spend an awesome afternoon tasting local vintages at Estrella del Norte Vineyards.
A 15-mile drive north gives wine lovers the flavor of the northern New Mexico terroir and a scenic road trip. Throughout summer, there’s a smattering of wine dinners and classes, and there’s even an April 19th vineyard planting if you want to literally get into la tierra.
If beer’s a beloved buddy (I cherish my hoppy memories), there’s always plenty of brew bubbling. My recommendation is Small Batch Saturday at the Santa Fe Brewing Company. Originating with a local homebrew organization, these 10-gallon gatherings give local beer-loving club members a chance to brew with the experts and share the craft results. Brewery tours or tastings are every bit as tasty as you’d expect from Santa Fe’s oldest brewery, with 20 or so beers in rotation; favorites are always on tap!
Santa Fe is a spirited town, and the inroads made by Santa Fe Spirits are proof positive. In just a few short years, Colin Keegan, the don of distillers, has managed to put not only whisky, but vodka, gin, and an apple brandy into the mix. A short drive takes you to an artisan adventure in locally crafted spirits, and it’s enlightening to discover that what we enjoy at leisure commands so much expert attention. A distillery tour is my choice, because I like combining a sip with an education, but knowledge is on hand at the downtown tasting room if you’re afoot and footloose on a sunny Santa Fe afternoon.
Follow the Leader and Do It Yourself
If you’re one for marching to the beat of your own drum, make the most of Santa Fe by merely following a beaten path laid out by trail-blazers just like you. If you’re firmly convinced (I am) that a chocolate a day is the key to keeping the doctor away — it is a proven fact that chocolate is good for you – spend a sweet afternoon on a Chocolate Lovers’ Odyssey. You might want to pair that sweet tooth with a caffeine fix, in which case, a Coffee Tour will hit the spot.
And eventually, when it’s time to settle down for a real meal, a detour to hunt down your favorite version of our famed Green Chile Cheeseburger simply has to be on the agenda.
Leave the Driving to Us
Even if your trip is just a short hop, I commend you for coming … and I assure you, you’ll be back. The spell of Santa Fe is simply too magical. But if you only have a weekend, take a tram tour to plan for deeper exploration next time. Seeing the sights seated on your keister saves time and foot-power, because there’s just so much to see.
Custom Tours by Clarice shuttles the curious on daily tours of our historic downtown four times a day, seven days a week, and if Clarice herself is at the wheel, the friendly flow of conversation is wide-ranging. The Loretto Line Tour Company is Santa Fe’s oldest tram tour, but the enthusiasm and expertise of their guides is fresh as a daisy. Running three times a day every day of the week, Loretto tours cover all the legendary downtown spots, leaving you with a comprehensive overview and a plan for returning to places that piqued your interest.
Leave the Planning to Us
We’ll take good care of you once you get here; after all, we appreciate our renown as the cultural hotspot of the Southwest. And that means lots of locals make their living by welcoming with open arms and minds full of fascinating facts the visitors who want to enjoy our historic city. Why not leave the selections, explanations, and driving to us? You just kick back and enjoy the scenery, the flavor and the fun! My way of getting the best of the adventure is by spending the least amount of energy planning. Try seeing Santa Fe my way — I know you’ll like it! | <urn:uuid:b3e0f307-b806-451f-a069-7f991e5f6618> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.santafe.org/blog/post/make-your-next-visit-to-santa-fe-a-tour-de-force/ | 2023-06-01T11:47:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647810.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601110845-20230601140845-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.917739 | 1,582 |
ROSEWOOD CORNICHE RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN HOTELS IN SAUDI ARABIA
Jeddah’s leading hotel ranked as one of the Top Hotels and Top Luxury Hotels at the 2014 TripAdvisor Traveller’s Choice awards
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 23 February 2014: TripAdvisor.com, the world’s largest travel website has recognised Rosewood Corniche as one of the top ten hotels in Saudi Arabia at the 2014 Traveller’s Choice awards.
The hotel ranked seventh in the Top Hotels and fifth among the Luxury Hotels category out of the 25 shortlisted hotels. The Traveller’s Choice awards winners were determined based on the reviews and opinions of millions of TripAdvisor.com travellers over the past 12 months around the globe, and are recognised as a direct reflection of guest opinion.
In its 12th year, the awards have identified the most outstanding properties worldwide, in the categories of Top Hotels, Luxury, Bargain, Service, Small Hotels, and Bed and Breakfast (B&B) and Inns.
Hans Peter-Leitzke, Managing Director of Rosewood Corniche claimed that the hotel’s unique Rosewood way of looking after guests, personalised services, and catering to their most discerning requests set it apart from the competition.
Leitzke said: “This award is an acknowledgement of the effort of all my team members and I am delighted to receive it. The Traveller’s Choice awards recognise and celebrate the people who make the tourism, culture, and leisure and hospitality businesses in Saudi Arabia so special. These people make a difference by turning an average visitor experience into an exceptional one.
“In recent years, Jeddah has been positioned as a lucrative business destination. Yet more than a business hub, Jeddah is also the Kingdom’s favourite leisure destination and we are counting more and more holidaymakers and honeymooners from across the GCC and the Middle East.”
In addition to the Traveller’s Choice Award, Rosewood Corniche was also presented the Best Guest Review Award for 2013 by Booking.com, for achieving a score of 8.3 out of 10, and the 2013 Certificate of Excellence by TripAdvisor.com for the second consecutive year. The hotel was also the recipient of Saudi Arabia’s Leading Hotel at the Middle East World Travel Awards in June 2013, a title held for four consecutive years.
Rosewood Corniche opened in September 2007 bringing a new level of quality hospitality and personalised services to Jeddah. Since then the luxury property has introduced many new concepts to the hospitality industry including specially trained Fragrance Butlers, a seemingly unusual amenity to offer guests a choice of exotic scents, and the Rosebuds programme for young children.
Situated on Jeddah’s Corniche, Rosewood Corniche is an ideal place for business and leisure travellers. The celebrated Jeddah Corniche runs parallel to the Red Sea for more than 32 kilometres and provides convenient access to the city’s business and leisure areas.
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‘Conveniently’ Furnished Bedrooms
Restaurant & Coffee Shop
Gym: open from 06:00 till 22:00
Auditorium that seats 400 pers.
Five Multipurpose Halls
"Tizkarat" Gift Shop
Secretarial Office Providing Business Services
Underground Parking Facilities
Duty Manager 24 hours
Major credit cards accepted
Babysitter upon request
Taxis available 24 hours
Multi-Lingual hotel staff
Walking distance from Our Lady of Lebanon & the Basilica
WIFI internet connection
The decoration of our rooms reflects warmth, elegance and home-like atmosphere.
53 comfortably appointed guest rooms including a variation of 8 beautiful Executive Rooms,
2 Junior Suites, 24 Deluxe Rooms and 19 Standard rooms, most of them overlooking Jounieh Bay, Our Lady of Lebanon & the Basilica.
"Bethania" guests enjoy the services of five churches,where confessions are secure, holly masses are held, and spiritual counseling is available
For a real unique experience and a variety of exquisite dishes, look no further!!
Savor luxury combined with pleasurable ambiance to make your moments at the Bethania Harissa restaurants unique and unforgettable.
Being a great coffee shop isn't just about the quality of your espresso, we also offer a variety of tasty dishes, awesome desserts and a world renowned breakfast buffet.
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Published: 1 December 2005 at 11:58
A mock trial was staged in Cambridge for students on the Anti-Social Behaviour Practitioner Course, the first of its kind in the country.
The trial, held in the former Crown Court at The Guildhall, was part of the new, groundbreaking Undergraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Anti-Social Behaviour Practitioner Studies. The course is run by Anglia Ruskin University, in collaboration with Government Office for the East of England (GO-East) and Cambridge City Council, and is designed to give those already working in the field of anti-social behaviour (ASB) a formal qualification, with an option to extend into a full MA.
Students range from police officers to local community safety representatives and ASB practitioners, from all over the East of England.
Legal professionals from national law firm Weightmans Solicitors, based in Leicester, who specialise in police and local authority law, drew on their wide experience of ASBOs and other anti-social behaviour measures to devise realistic scenarios.
John Riddell, a partner at Weightman's Leicester office, devised and wrote the mock trial, producing the witness statements of over 20 witnesses and court documents.
The police officers and ASB co-ordinators played roles of the accused and victims alongside a real judge and local barristers from Fenners Chambers in Cambridge.
Stephen Moore, Anglia Ruskin's course leader, said:
Alastair Roberts, GO-East's Regional ASB Advisor and lead officer for the Cambridge Partnership, said: | <urn:uuid:c6594a30-539c-4427-9801-d57ba4010f98> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.anglia.ac.uk/news/students-in-mock-up-court-day | 2017-11-22T07:24:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806509.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122065449-20171122085449-00710.warc.gz | en | 0.94465 | 325 |
An Anime Cartoon is a film produced in Japan. Animated figures are manipulated so that they appear as moving pictures. Traditional animation involves drawing or painting images on celluloid sheets and exhibiting them on film. Computer-generated animation is more recent and uses a computer to create and edit the animation. Here are some things to know about animation เว็บดูการ์ตูนออนไลน์. The process of making an Anime Cartoon is a complicated one.
First, anime is a Japanese animation form. This subset of cartoons is very diverse. Some are purely educational, while others are designed for a young audience. Many of the cartoons produced in this style have a very specific theme or plot. Some are based on a comic strip, while others have a more adult story line. Some even combine elements from both anime and cartoons, making them appealing to a wide variety of audiences.
Anime has a large fan base. However, many people are not familiar with anime because of its limited genre and storytelling style. The majority of anime programs are made for a younger audience, so the characters are not complex or multi-faceted. Furthermore, there are no complex stories, violent fight scenes, or solid language. Moreover, cartoons have a definite moral, so they don’t offer much scope for adult imagination.
Another characteristic of Anime cartoons is the fact that they are not as complex as their real-world counterparts. For example, if you’re a parent, it’s important to keep in mind that children’s cartoons are often more juvenile and aimed at the young audience. Besides, they usually don’t have very high production values. If you’re interested in an Anime cartoon, consider the following facts.
Anime and cartoons are similar, and fans of both may enjoy them. Both styles have their own audiences and characteristics. For example, one is aimed at a younger audience. Similarly, a cartoon will appeal to a larger crowd. Regardless of your age, there is a cartoon for you. If you’re looking for an anime for kids, there are tons of options out there. Just remember to watch it with an open mind.
Despite their devoted fan base, anime doesn’t always have a happy ending. Anime cartoons feature characters in their early childhood and their adolescent years, and often cover a variety of genres. In fact, they’re even more diverse than their American counterparts. Unlike cartoons, however, many of their features come from manga. They’re highly visual, with a wide range of genres and a large number of characters.
Anime is often censored in the United States and other countries. While it’s not illegal to watch a cartoon with children, some parents do not want to watch it because it contains sexual content. They should be sure to find something appropriate for their children. In general, Anime is less serious than its American counterpart. But the goal of an Anime is the same: to entertain its audience. The goal is to entertain viewers and to teach them. | <urn:uuid:c3cb0e37-28fd-4334-8724-d6998f1bd471> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://dadsaywinslot.top/2022/01/22/what-is-an-anime-cartoon/ | 2022-05-19T12:59:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662527626.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519105247-20220519135247-00656.warc.gz | en | 0.965004 | 650 |
To enter, just guess how many Christmas cookies I will bake this year, and put your guess in the comments or tweet me. Tonight I'm planning to make more dough but not actually bake anything, so you have until I give a tally update Friday night to enter. Some hints:
- I have made 192 cookies so far.
- I will make 8 kinds of cookies. I'll make two batches of some of these.
- The first six dozen were for a cookie exchange.
- With the rest, I'm doing cookie trays for three events, plus some family favorites to just have around the house Christmas week, plus maybe a few small cookie boxes for friends.
- I will be done by Sunday night.
Anyway, this was just a fun spontaneous little thing that I have now codified because I just can't help myself. SO. Guess away! Have fun! (And if you guessed on Twitter last night but want to change your guess based on the information provided here, be my guest.) | <urn:uuid:a8421e09-b806-4c5e-8b19-cb8c560ea1ea> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | http://www.katelinneawelsh.com/2013/12/christmas-cookie-guessing-game.html | 2019-01-24T05:19:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547584518983.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190124035411-20190124061411-00147.warc.gz | en | 0.969546 | 207 |
On the ancient site of Ashaval and Karnavati, Ahmedabad was found on 1411. The City of Ahmedabad has some of the finest India, Islamic monuments and exquisite Hindu and Jain temples. Its carved wooden houses are another unique architectural tradition.
A special feature of Ahmedabad is the plan of the old city comprising numerous pols, self-contained neighborhoods, sheltering large numbers of peoples. 20 years old Heritage restaurant and enjoy Fafda Jalebi Some of these virtually small villages, traversed by narrow streets, usually terminating in square with community wells and chabutaras for feeding birds, gates, Cul-de-sacs and secret passages. To experience the glory of Ahmedabad, it is necessary to walk through an old quarter and truly observe the nature of its architecture, its art, religious places, its culture and traditions.
With the purpose of unveiling the city to the tourists and the citizens themselves, Akshar Travels Pvt. Ltd. has arranged this HERITAGE WALK OF AHMEDABAD.
A special slide show and guided tour are available. During the walk the guide explains the historical background and important of the places covered under the route. The tour commences at Swaminarayan Mandir, Kalupur at 8.00 a.m. daily and terminates at Manek Chowk Jumma Masjid at 10.30 a.m.
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Being selected for a house at Hogwarts is quite the big deal. It’s called sorting, and is very important because when you’re at Hogwarts, away from your family and loved ones, your house becomes your only support system.
Now, the question is – which house would you end up in if you were to be sorted at Hogwarts? Well, that’s what we are here to find out. Let’s explore the common traits associated with each house.
There are a number of positive words that can be associated with Gryffindor – daring, chivalrous, adventurous, loyal, and brave are just a few. Bravery is the most significant Gryffindor trait. So, if all those terms have been used to describe you at any point in time, there’s a good chance you would end up in Gryffindor. But these aren’t the only qualities of a member of Gryffindor. There are many others, which is why it’s the most well-rounded house at Hogwarts. In fact, the people who get sorted into Gryffindor are more than qualified to get into any of the other houses. The Gryffindor motto is “Do what is right.”
Like Gryffindor, Ravenclaw is another group that can be mostly described using positive terms. The house is known for creativity, intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, and general cleverness. This group epitomizes “brains over brawn.” But, with great intelligence comes quirkiness and that is true for many of the house’s members. “Do what is wise,” is the motto and, more often than not, that’s exactly what the members do. In fact, some of them are so smart and right that it gets annoying after a point. Dealing with know-it-alls isn’t always a pleasant experience. Nevertheless, it doesn’t make them any less right.
Hufflepuff is all about virtues such as fairness, loyalty, patience, dedication, and hard work. The members of Hufflepuff are what we in the actual world would refer to as the “salt of the earth.” The house’s motto is “Do what is nice,” and the members truly live by it. In fact, they’re so nice that they often keep the truth away from people if they believe that it would hurt them. However, that doesn’t mean they are willing to risk what’s right in the name of kindness. Hufflepuffs are smart, and they know when to prioritize what’s right over what’s kind. The goal of a typical Hufflepuff member is to spread joy and happiness around.
So, are you known as the nice one in your circles? Well, you’re a Hufflepuff then.
Finally, we come to the most misunderstood house of them all – Slytherin. Slytherin is described using terms that most would deem positive under normal circumstances. Pride, intelligence, resourcefulness, determination, and ambition are good qualities to possess as long as they can be regulated and controlled. However, the house does end up inviting a few bad apples due to the very same virtues it extols. Pride can often turn into narcissism, ambition can turn into tyranny, intelligence can be used to manipulate, and resourcefulness can turn into exploitation.
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BNP Paribas has chosen banks to prepare a multi-billion dollar stock market listing for its U.S. unit First Hawaiian Bank, sources close to the matter said.
Three sources told Reuters that Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch had been appointed as co-ordinaters for the French bank’s move. One of the sources said BNP Paribas was estimating the value of the business at between $4 billion and $5 billion.
Neither BNP Paribas nor Goldman Sachs would comment. Bank of America Merrill Lynch was not immediately available for comment.
In December, BNP Paribas said it was looking at “strategic options” for First Hawaiian as part of its plans to improve its finances and to respond to new regulatory requirements.
The bank said at the time that realizing value from First Hawaiian Bank could strengthen the parent bank’s Common Equity Tier 1 ratio – a key measure of bank capital stability – by up to approximately 40 basis points. BNP had a 10.7 CET 1 ratio as of end-September.
BNP Paribas operates in the United States through BancWest Corporation in the United States, the holding company for two retail banks: Bank of the West and First Hawaiian Bank.
BancWest, with $71.7 billion of assets, is the third-largest commercial bank based in California and operates a network of more than 600 retail, wealth and corporate banking offices in 22 states.
First Hawaiian Bank, with $18.9 billion of assets, has 62 branches throughout Hawaii, Guam and Saipan.
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Know What To Do When Your Car Breaks
Having the power of knowledge in your hands concerning auto repairs is nothing to take lightly. They can arise at any given time, and they can really irritate and side track all the events in your life. However, with the knowledge you're about to read, you will now be able to handle those situations much better.
When you run into car problems, you should first turn to the Internet to learn what the problem could be. You may find that it is an easy to repair problem that you can do on your own. This could save you hundreds of dollars in labor fees if you had to take it to a shop.
If your vehicle begins making a louder noise than usual, you should suspect the muffler needs replacing. This is a job best done at a shop because it is difficult to work under a car without a lift. You can get a warning or even a ticket if your muffler sounds too loud.
Referrals will lead you to a great mechanic. Ask the people you know and trust who they take their vehicles to. This lets you ask them about their experiences with that mechanic, how much it cost, and if they were satisfied. Those close to you will be able to give you an honest retelling of their experiences with certain mechanics.
Understand the repair costs prior to leaving your car with any shop. Labor costs especially can run at different levels from shop to shop, especially if a specialist is involved. You'll want to know what you are getting into prior to learning about it the hard way days later.
Friends and family are a good source when you are looking to get some work done on your car. Ask around to see if anyone can suggest someone to you before you go on your search. Never go with the opinion of one person. Ask a few and see what other answers you get.
Keep your car's owner manual handy. Knowing vital car information can really help when something unexpected occurs. If you know your car's controls, you may even avoid a trip to a mechanic. If you do need a mechanic, you should have the make, model, and trim level available so that they can figure out things like your transmission configuration, size, etc. much quicker.
Contact your local Better Business Bureau if you need more information on a mechanic or a garage. If some complaints have been filed against them, your Better Business Bureau will tell you. Ask your friends and family about the different mechanics they have dealt with in the past to get some recommendations.
Take action if you believe a garage or dealership ripped you off. Notify one of the manager and give them a chance to issue a refund. If you are still not satisfied, contact your local Better Business Bureau to file a complaint. Your city or state consumer affair office is also a good resource.
Save some money by using your local auto parts store's diagnostic equiptment. Many are more than happy to let their customers use it because you may then purchase parts at their store. You benefit because you may have a small problem you can fix or you can just tell your mechanic what you want done.
Replace your light bulbs on your own. Having a mechanic do it is horribly expensive. If you are not confident, ask a friend or family member if they can help you.
Ask your auto mechanic about their A.S.E. certification. The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence has a test twice a year for it. To earn this certification, mechanics must pass a written test while also having about two years of work experience in auto mechanics and repair. This certification increases your chances of finding competent mechanics.
Memorize each light and symbol on your dash instrument panel. When one lights up, it helps to understand what you're dealing with. They are meant to help; use them to your advantage. Ignoring those for a long time can worsen issues later.
If you need to fix a scratch or paint over an area, make sure you select the right color. Check the owner's manual to see if you can find a code for the color of your car or look for a sticker located under the hood or on the driver's side front door to find the color code.
Be responsible when performing DIY auto repairs. Just about every item you might replace or repair on a vehicle is environmentally unfriendly. Take care to dispose of liquids such as motor oil and coolant properly. Take used parts to your local junk yard or recycling center. Don't toss plastic bottles about the landscape. If you are unsure of where you can dispose of these items, check with your local waste disposal agency or an automotive supply store.
Make sure you take this advice to heart as you continue along. Smile knowing you have what it takes next time your car decides to take a break. You can confidently say "no more" and work towards the best solution. Always remember to keep learning more about vehicle repairs so that you stay current. | <urn:uuid:31cb2e2f-0ffb-40f4-863a-141b7cdfe2a5> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://garagedoorrepairjournal.digital/2022/03/08/know-what-to-do-when-your-car-breaks | 2023-02-04T06:38:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500094.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204044030-20230204074030-00663.warc.gz | en | 0.958408 | 1,010 |
|You Only Live Twice (1st edition cover)|
|Hardback:||(UK) 1964 (U.S.) 1964|
|Paperback:||(UK) 1965 (U.S.) 1965|
|Cover artist:||Richard Chopping|
|Preceded by:||On Her Majesty's Secret Service|
|Followed by:||The Man With The Golden Gun|
You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel—and twelfth book—by Ian Fleming featuring James Bond, secret agent 007; it was published in 1964, around the time Fleming died. It was adapted by screenplay writer Roald Dahl as the fifth entry in the James Bond movie series, which was released in 1967, starring Sean Connery as James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was made by EON Productions. This film is the first Bond movie to deviate from the source material. Other than the Japanese setting, and several characters, the two stories are very different.
You Only Live Twice is the concluding chapter in what is known as the 'Blofeld Trilogy'. The trilogy began with Thunderball and after the interlude novel The Spy Who Loved Me, resumed with On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
It has been suggested that Fleming had chosen to retire the Bond series with this novel, but later changed his mind and wrote The Man with the Golden Gun.
You Only Live Twice also marks the final appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld and references to his criminal organization, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in Fleming's novels. A later novel, For Special Services, by John Gardner, features a rebirth of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. as well as Role of Honour and Nobody Lives For Ever.
The title of the novel is often mistaken as being the work of a Japanese poet named Matsuo Basho; however, the unique title comes from a haiku that James Bond wrote for his friend Tiger Tanaka. It is also mentioned in the novel that it isn't a haiku at all, that in actuality it is a failed attempt by Bond after being taught the basics for creating a haiku.
In the epigraph (and explained in the novel), the haiku is listed as being "after Basho", meaning written in the poet's style.
- "You only live twice:
- Once when you're born,
- And once when you look death in the face."
James Bond, his career fading after the wedding-day murder of his wife, Tracy Bond, is promoted by M to a special branch of MI6. M, was actually going to offer him dismissal from the secret service, but later changed his mind as a "last chance" opportunity for Bond to shape up. Bond is subsequently re-numbered as 7777 ("four sevens"), and assigned an impossible mission: Convincing the head of Japan's secret intelligence service, Tiger Tanaka, to provide information about an informant within the Soviet Union, information referred to as Magic 44.
Heading to Tokyo, Bond quickly befriends Tanaka, but seems unable to persuade him to do the British such a large favor. Finally, after two months of friendly boozing and not-so-friendly haggling, Tanaka tells Bond of a Swiss gentleman Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, a botanist who has built the Garden of Death, a secluded castle on a volcanic island off Kyushu stocked with boiling geysers, carnivorous fish, and poisonous plants and reptiles for the suicidal to use in ending their lives.
In exchange for the Magic 44, Tanaka asks Bond to kill Dr. Shatterhand. Bond accidentally discovers that Shatterhand is his nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and gladly takes the mission and dicovers that Statterhand is actually Blofeld. Bond keeps his knowledge of Blofeld a secret so that he can exact his revenge. Aided by former Japanese movie star Kissy Suzuki, and, with make up and training, James Bond learns to live and think as a Japanese in order to penetrate Shatterhand's castle. Bond is renamed by Tiger while on this mission as Taro Todoroki.
Bond ultimately exacts revenge on Blofeld in a sword fighting duel, but, on escaping, suffers a head injury leaving him an amnesiac living as a Japanese fisherman with Kissy, while the rest of the world believes him dead. While Bond's health improves Kissy conceals his true identity so as to keep him forever to herself, even going as far to marry him in a Japanese ceremony (Kissy never officially becomes his wife). At the novel's end, however, Bond finds a paper slip with the name Vladivostok written on it, making him wonder if the far-off Russian city is the key to his missing memory. Unbeknownst to Bond, Kissy reveals, in thought, that she is pregnant.
At book's end, is an obituary written by M for Commander James Bond, C.M.G., R.N.V.R., featuring the majority of his biography, per Fleming. It includes his parents' names, their fate, and Bond's Royal Navy service. Most notably, the obituary refers to a series of sensational novels about his exploits — a clearly post-modern reference to Fleming's work, and the source of rumours that James Bond was based upon a real man. The book, James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 is based upon that premise. Additionally, the same chapter includes an epitaph by Mary Goodnight (M.G.).
- This is the only Fleming novel in which Bond is given a designation other than 007. He was never again referred to as 7777, and by the next novel had returned to double-oh status.
- David Niven is specifically mentioned by Kissy Suzuki as the only respectable man in Hollywood. Niven later played "Sir James Bond" in the 1967 spoof, Casino Royale. Niven had also been considered for the role officially for Dr. No in 1962.
- Bond quips to Blofeld that his plot should be made into a Broadway theatre musical, set by Noel Coward. Coward was a long-time friend of Ian Fleming's, and they both spent the latter part of their lives living in Jamaica. Coward had also been invited to play Dr. No in the first Bond film, but had declined.
- The first volume of The Moneypenny Diaries by Samantha Weinberg (published under a pseudonym) covers some of the events occurring between On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice.
- Fleming did not resolve the issue of Kissy's pregnancy in the remaining Bond stories he wrote before his death. Bond's son appears for the first (and only) time in Benson's sequel, "Blast from the Past".
Comic strip adaptationEdit
Ian Fleming's novel was adapted as a daily comic strip published in the British Daily Express newspaper, and syndicated worldwide. The adaptation ran from May 18, 1965 to January 8, 1966, was written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky. It was the final James Bond strip for Gammidge, while McClusky returned to illustrating the strip in the 1980s; the strip was reprinted by Titan Books in 2004.
In the segment featuring Bond's obituary there is a reference to "sensationalistic novels" written about Bond's adventures (as in the novel's plot summary, above), wherein artist McLusky uses actual covers of Fleming's books.
|The James Bond novels|
|Ian Fleming (1953-1966)|
Casino Royale -- Live and Let Die -- Moonraker -- Diamonds Are Forever -- From Russia with Love -- Dr. No -- Goldfinger -- For Your Eyes Only -- Thunderball -- The Spy Who Loved Me -- On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- You Only Live Twice -- The Man with the Golden Gun -- Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Kingsley Amis (1968)
John Gardner (1981-1996)
Sebastian Faulks (2008)
Jeffery Deaver (2011)
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“Self-preservation is a strong motive in politics” – Mal Colston, The Odd One Out, 1975.
Other than indulging in a serious case of closing the gate after the horse has bolted, Labor’s left unions should be very careful about trying to retrospectively disendorse Senator-elect Joe Bullock or force him to step aside for the more prospective candidate, Louise Pratt.
Parliamentarians placed under similar pressure have been known to inconveniently jump ship, particularly when they’re offered attractive inducements by the other side to do so.
Federal Labor’s most notorious rat, Senator Mal Colston, was lured away by the newish Liberal PM John Howard in 1996. Colston was peeved that his own side wouldn’t nominate him to become deputy president of the Senate, a plum role he’d held previously from 1990 to 1993. So after advances from the Coalition, Colston resigned from Labor and became an independent. Later that day he was nominated by the government and duly elected as deputy president.
Colston’s defection gave Howard one of the two extra votes he needed to get government legislation through the Senate. Brian Harradine, the canny former Labor man and staunchly conservative independent Senator from Tasmania, wielded the other. Notwithstanding the price Harradine extracted for his votes, this was easier for Howard than having to negotiate with Labor, the Democrats or the Greens.
Labor didn’t take this well. They hounded the turncoat Colston for (previously forgiven and other) travel allowance indiscretions, causing him to resign from his cherished deputy president position less than a year after he regained it. He was charged with 28 counts of fraud for misusing his travel allowance, leading Howard to vow that the government would not accept the disgraced Senator’s vote in the Senate (although this undertaking proved to be short-lived). Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Colston was never prosecuted for his alleged misdeeds.
If you thought one unedifying saga involving a MP with questionable party loyalty and an appetite for the spoils of office would be a salutary lesson for all concerned, then think again.
Proving that Labor can just as easily play this game, the Gillard government tried to turn not one but two disaffected Liberals to shore up its numbers in 2011. Initially Labor tried to entice Queensland Liberal Alex Somlyay with the deputy speaker position in return for his support in no confidence votes and budget bills. When this strategy failed, Labor’s sights moved to Somlyay’s nemesis and neighbour in an adjacent electorate, Peter Slipper.
Slipper accepted the government’s nomination for deputy speaker (over their own Anna Burke) but insisted he’d made no deals with Labor to support them in parliamentary votes. Yet a year later, when speaker Harry Jenkins resigned from the chair to shore up the minority government’s precarious numbers, Slipper accepted the government’s nomination to become speaker and promptly resigned from the Liberal Party to become “truly independent”.
The Liberals were no less assiduous in their pursuit of turncoat Slipper than Labor were with Colston. Even if the James Ashby allegations had not emerged, it’s likely Tony Abbott’s opposition would have pursued the man who was arguably the most impartial and effective Speaker we’ve had in recent times, on travel allowance misuse.
Tragically for both Colston and Slipper, their fondness for the perks of office ultimately made it easier for their political enemies to tear them down.
And today, as Abbott surveys the political landscape emerging after the Western Australia Senate election re-run, he cannot but consider the opportunities presented by a disgruntled Joe Bullock.
Depending on the final outcome of the WA ballot, Abbott may need up to seven of the eight crossbench votes in the Senate to pass his totem bills. If we are to believe media reports, Bullock and Abbott were once good friends with similar political philosophies but who ultimately took divergent paths once they left university. Considering their comparable views, the defection of Bullock to the crossbench could make Abbott’s negotiation task just that little bit easier.
Of course, Bullock would have to feel disaffected enough by his own party to want to leave. Despite the calls from the left for Bullock to step aside, so far the right-wing Labor Leader Bill Shorten is standing by his man. But watch Bullock closely if Shorten starts to wobble.
Even then, Abbott would have to provide the Senator-elect with something valued if the PM is going to have any chance of luring Bullock away from Labor.
Does this portend yet another Labor turncoat being nominated by the Government and elected as deputy president of the Senate?
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Cuba’s dramatic announcement last February that Fidel Castro was stepping down as head of the Cuban government presented Barack Obama with an unprecedented opportunity to establish his foreign policy credentials and set himself apart from Hillary Clinton, as well as the Bush Administration and its heir-apparent, John McCain.
It should have been an easy shot: President Bush said U.S. policy toward Cuba, particularly the longstanding U.S. embargo, would not change one iota until “free and fair elections” were held in Cuba and the country had embraced his vision of democracy. McCain quickly echoed Bush’s Cold War declaration, which basically amounts to a call for regime change in Havana.
Clinton, asked during a debate if she would be willing to sit down with Raul Castro, Fidel’s successor, replied in similar language. Not “without some evidence that [Cuba] will demonstrate the kind of progress that is in our interest,” she said, pointing out later through a spokesperson that she “supports the embargo and our current policy toward Cuba.”
Obama, true to his pledge to change the U.S. approach to the world, said he would meet with Cuban leaders “without preconditions” because it’s important for the United States “not just to talk to its friends but also to talk to its enemies.” Despite calls from some of his advisers for America to trade with Cuba just as it does with China and Vietnam, however, Obama has been silent on lifting the embargo, though he has called for getting rid of restrictions on remittances and family travel to that country. More recently, Obama has completely abandoned the skepticism about the embargo he expressed during his 2004 run for the Senate. In a May 23 speech to the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami, he flatly declared that, as President, he will “maintain the embargo. It provides us with the leverage to present the regime with a clear choice: If you take significant steps toward democracy, beginning with the freeing of all political prisoners, we will take steps to begin normalizing relations.” The declaration drew cheers from the virulently anti-Castro crowd. With Cuba, therefore, we have the basic outline of the foreign policy debate of 2008: more of the same from the Republicans, a generally hawkish approach from Clinton, and a nuanced stance from Obama that underscores his differences with both Clinton and McCain while demonstrating his fealty towards U.S. national security interests and the Democratic foreign policy mainstream. These differences show up also on Iran.
When Clinton vowed to “totally obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, Obama sharply criticized her comment, saying that’s “not the language we need right now, and I think it’s language reflective of George Bush.”
While Clinton’s team talked recklessly of brandishing nuclear weapons, Obama endorsed proposals to eliminate nukes, and flatly ruled out the use of tactical nuclear weapons against terrorist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan (eliciting a warning from Clinton that Presidents should refrain from publicly discussing “the use and nonuse of nuclear weapons”).
Now that Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee, predicting what his actual policies will look like requires a careful look at the people he relies on for advice on foreign policy.
Obama’s jost important foreign policy adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. In that role, he backed Carter’s aid to the brutal Indonesian government in East Timor, and he infamously pushed for funding the jihadist rebels in Afghanistan against the Soviets. But his hawkish views have mellowed over time. Last August, Brzezinski endorsed Obama and blasted Clinton’s foreign policy approach as “very conventional.” In contrast to Clinton’s advisers, who speak wistfully about Iraq as a policy gone wrong, Brzezinski denounces the war in unequivocal terms. Writing in The Washington Post in March 2008, he called the war a “national tragedy, an economic catastrophe, a regional disaster and a global boomerang for the United States,” and argued that it was “started deliberately, justified demagogically, and waged badly.”
Obama also relies for advice on Tony Lake, who was Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, and Susan Rice, a former assistant secretary of state for African affairs (she’s been busy lately moderating Obama’s stance on Cuba). Obama also listens to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism czar, and Ivo Daalder, a former official in Bill Clinton’s NSC, who heads up Obama’s nonproliferation policies.
Leading Obama’s military advisers is retired Air Force General Tony McPeak, who backed George Bush in 2000 but began working with Obama after meeting him last year. McPeak says he was attracted by Obama’s strong opposition to the war in Iraq and his emphasis on diplomacy. Speaking last January during a West Coast campaign swing, McPeak said Obama would seek to negotiate with Iran, pointing out that, after the September 11 attacks, Tehran cooperated with Washington in tracking Al Qaeda suspects and donated more than $300 million to post-Taliban Afghanistan. The Bush Administration, he said, should have used that “constructive back-channel” to open discussions on other issues-implying that Obama would seize on such opportunities.
Obama, he believes, will usher in a new era of foreign policy after the disasters of the Bush-Cheney era. “Our country’s international standing has been frittered away by people who don’t have the foggiest understanding of how the hell the world works,” McPeak told Rolling Stone last March. But McPeak has a hard edge. According to the journalist Allan Nairn, he oversaw the delivery of advanced fighter jets to Suharto in 1991, just after Suharto’s forces had carried out a deliberate massacre of anti-Jakarta demonstrators in Dili, East Timor.
One of the key planks of Obama’s foreign policies is his commitment to “soft power,” such as foreign economic aid, to expand American influence. Last year, he pledged to double U.S. foreign aid by 2012 and increase “both the numbers and capabilities of our diplomats, development experts, and other civilians who can work alongside our military.” Advising him on these issues is John Brennan, a thirty-year veteran of the CIA who once ran the National Counterterrorism Center.
Brennan, like many of his former colleagues in the CIA, believes that military power must be augmented by intelligence, diplomacy, and foreign aid, and in a recent interview with a Washington newsletter argued that “there needs to be much more attention paid to those upstream factors and conditions that spawn terrorists” (Brennan is now the CEO of the Analysis Corporation, the same company that, ironically, employed the contract employee who illegally accessed Obama’s passport data at the State Department earlier this year).
In some areas, Obama’s national security policies might be closer to McCain’s. He has said he would act unilaterally to take out “high-value terrorist targets” in Pakistan if Pervez Musharraf failed to take action himself. Like McCain, he has also criticized Jimmy Carter for meeting with Hamas.
And on trade and economic policy, Obama has two sides as well. He has approached Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who has critiqued corporate globalization and has estimated the cost of the Iraq War at $3 trillion, as a possible White House adviser. (Stiglitz returned the favor by declaring his support for Obama and calling the candidate’s economic ideas “brilliant.”)
On the other hand, he is also advised by Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist who reportedly told Canadian officials that Obama’s critique of NAFTA was “political positioning” and would not become official policy in an Obama White House.
Although Goolsbee denied the reports, in an April interview with U.S. News & World Report, he downplayed Obama’s opposition to free trade agreements, saying that “as long as I have known Senator Obama, he has believed that you can’t build a moat around the country, and that trade overall has been good for the economy-but that there have been a lot of people left out.” That’s certainly not the denunciation of free trade deals that many trade unionists are looking for.
One person to watch is Richard Holbrooke. Bill Clinton’s U.N. ambassador, Holbrooke saddled up with Hillary. But ever since he left the Carter Administration, he has been widely viewed within the Democratic Party as a Secretary of State in-waiting, and he himself has strenuously campaigned for the job. If he is elected in November, President Obama would come under enormous pressure from both the Clinton camp and his Democratic supporters-including John Kerry, who relied on Holbrooke during the 2004 campaign-to make him Secretary of State.
Holbrooke, however, carries a lot of baggage-some of it pretty unsightly. He was a State Department official in Vietnam during the 1960s, and under President Carter served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. During those years, he helped provide key assistance to U.S.-backed dictators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia. His constant refrain was the preservation of U.S. national security interests in the region.
After Park Chung Hee, the South Korean dictator, was shot to death in 1979 after eighteen years of increasingly brutal rule, for example, Holbrooke exploded in anger when Christian dissidents protested the continuation of martial law. Their actions, he complained in declassified documents I obtained in 1996, were making it difficult for the United States to avoid “another Iran” in that country.
And like Brzezinski, Holbrooke lent enormous assistance to Suharto’s military to put down the Timorese resistance. Among the weapons systems sold to Suharto with U.S. support were A-10 Broncos that were used to strafe Timorese villages. “If you look at the statistics, from 1976 to 1978 we massively increased our assistance that made the occupation and quelling of the [East Timor] rebellion possible,” Edmund McWilliams, a longtime U.S. diplomat who served in Indonesia during the Clinton Administration, told me. “To my mind, that was when the great bloodletting took place, and it was all done during the watch of Richard Holbrooke and Jimmy Carter, the human rights President.”
Holbrooke also was hawkish on Iraq and has had harsh words for Iran, comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler.
Many liberals, including those in the Obama camp, seem to believe that Holbrooke has changed his spots and would make an excellent choice as America’s top diplomat. Last February, Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a former Obama adviser, spoke at a foreign policy forum in Reno, Nevada. I was in the audience, and asked her if Holbrooke would have a place in an Obama Administration.
Power, who won a Pulitzer for her book on genocide, was still working as Obama’s top foreign policy adviser at that point. She replied that, in her opinion, Holbrooke “had evolved” from the 1970s, and regretted some of his actions during that period, particularly in the Philippines, where he backed Ferdinand Marcos (she didn’t mention Korea or Indonesia). Despite his position as a senior adviser to Clinton, Power added, Holbrooke would be welcome in an Obama cabinet. “We won’t exclude people working for Hillary Clinton,” she said. “Ours will be a broad tent.”
While Obama would be the first community organizer in American history to become President and promises to bring a dramatic new face to the global scene, we may end up with a lot of old faces.
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I was just posting a new video, entitled “A Smart Girl Correcting a Bucking Horse,” and was thinking what a big role tact plays in a rider’s success. When a horse begins to resist a rider, it’s not just what you do, but how you do it that will define the result. Trying to bully a horse into compliance never works—it only makes the horse more frustrated and fearful You have to remember that the animal is so much larger than us that it’s dangerous to have outright warfare with it. This doesn’t mean that you can’t be the boss; it’s just means that you have to be a benevolent dictator.
At horse shows, I often see riders schooling their horses in a frame for too long without a break. (A horse needs a break on a long rein about every five minutes, and the total time for working on the flat should be about 20 minutes.) The result of working too long without a break is that the animal becomes uncomfortable and frustrated, so it begins to resist the rider. Since the horse is resisting, the rider usually decides to work it even more! This is a vicious cycle, with the rider insisting that the horse improve, while the animal is unable to be compliant because it is so uncomfortable and is literally trying to pull the reins out of the rider’s hands or raise its head to get out of the uncomfortable position. If you horses becomes worse in the course of a workout, the problem is probably you!
In the video I mentioned above, the issue is not the frame of the horse, but rather the horse’s desire to buck, move sideways, switch leads, etc.—probably because it was feeling frisky and maybe because it was a little herdbound or green. What I loved was that the girl only did what she needed to do to get the horse back on track in its training. She didn’t jerk, kick, beat, or overwork the animal, but rather did what she had to do to get the horse moving forward safely. Whatever was causing the problem, she tactfully worked through it, and the horse is now a better-trained animal because of her. I think it’s a wonderful example of good riding and hope you’ll take the time to give it a look.
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Stolar’s now using his years of mixed experience as an advisor to the industry – and it’s first stop Ireland. Stolar, along with Havok’s Paul Hayes, was the keynote speaker at a workshop held by Enterprise Ireland, aimed at giving the Irish games industry a helping hand up – or a swift kick up the behind. In all about forty people turned up for the informal three-hour session. Stolar provided the experience, but it was Irishman Hayes, whose company’s middleware is undoubtedly this country’s greatest gaming success story so far, who had the best piece of advice to offer: “If you don’t believe in your game, if you don’t love games, just go home.”
It’s harsh but necessary advice in an industry where Stolar says he’s seen 120 companies come and go. Granted, Stolar’s been in the game a long while – most recently as President of BAM, along with stints at Sega, Sony, Mattel, and Atari along the way – but it’s worth keeping your feet on the ground as the stakes become ever higher.
The battlefield is bigger than ever and still growing says Stolar, as the world’s biggest hardware company is pitched in battle with the world’s biggest software company and the world’s biggest kids’ company. “The PC is basically non-existent,” Stolar says, “the fight for this business will come to the living room, where the entertainment factor takes place.” The future of this industry will rest under your TV, it will do much more than play games, and it will almost certainly come with a ‘Microsoft’ or ‘Sony’ logo on its casing.
Broadband will be there, he says, but Stolar tellingly skirts around the issue. Not just because online gaming has been touted as taking over since Stolar launched the modem-equipped Dreamcast; it’s that broadband is just a means for delivery. It’s the content which, as usual, is king.
“The most significant thing we have is the brand,” says Stolar, “you have to build the IP (intellectual property) and own it.” He illustrates with an example from his time at Sony, where two guys from an unknown company called Naughty Dog showed him sketches of their game, Crash Bandicoot. Stolar gave them $4 million to build the game and Sony later bought the studio, making those two young men very wealthy indeed. “All because two young guys sat in front of me and poured their hearts out.”
This is going to become the predominant method of making games as smaller publishers die out and the games industry moves closer to a Hollywood model, where many small groups of developers become attached to a small, powerful number of publishers – the EAs, Activisions and THQs, who will become the equivalent of Paramount, Universal and 20th Century Fox.
But how is this going to work in a country where, Paul Hayes says, “the graduates are leaving. They’re all leaving.” Ireland, both men note, has the education, the talent and the desire to become a player in the development scene – it just needs the will. Perhaps Dublin’s Digital Hub has the potential to become the centre of a thriving Irish industry.
As a country that’s punched above its weight in the literature, stage and film industries, we’ve clearly got creativity in our blood. What it takes is practical measures to put that creativity, and the current good vibe amongst the nascent games industry, to use.
Get it down on paper and get it out there is the message from Stolar. “Put a plan together. You need to be at developer’s conferences, you need to come and meet with publishers in the US to get on the radar. Show them what you’ve got.” Again Stolar points to the Crash Bandicoot example, as well as to Sonic the Hedgehog, which was commissioned on the basis of a graphic. “Just don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.”
Needless to say, it’s not as simple as that. Cold, hard cash is needed, and lots of it. Stolar says a PS3 game is going to need a development budget of $10 million – and Hayes notes that if it’s $10 million to make it, it’s going to take $40 to market. And if you thought those figures were high, Stolar points to his former employers, BAM, who went through $150 million in one year. “Of course,” he jokes, “they did a lot of stupid things.”
Of course, console development is not the be-all and end-all of the games industry, and there were many in the audience involved in the – much cheaper – mobile gaming development. The handheld business is set to restart after years of a Nintendo monopoly, when Sony launches the PSP next year. “Sony are going to pour so much money into it, it’s going to get a lot of attention,” says Stolar, pointing to companies such as Samsung who may also become involved in the industry in the next few years.
Of particular interest to the m-gaming representatives at the workshop was Stolar’s observation that the entire mobile gaming industry is trying to find the right business model – no one’s really sure how to make money out of it yet. But as the mobile industry moves closer to consoles in terms of authenticity and realism – moving away from something that looks just ‘like a game’ to something that looks real – the potential for growth is limitless.
Again, the most insightful comment came from Hayes, who noted that there is an entire world of people out there who are not yet playing games. “Even though we’re quite big, we’re by no means mainstream,” Hayes says. “We’re not going to be mainstream until we sell games in 15 minute chunks of time, which is what normal people have.”
Stolar’s been in the business for a long time because, he says, “Every time I put a controller in my hands, I feel like I’m 15 again. It means I’ve never had to grow up.” A fine way to live, but it’s past time the Irish industry grew up. Enterprise Ireland can provide some support, but it’s up to us to make it happen.
Contact Enterprise Ireland at (01) 8082000 or at http://www.enterprise-ireland.com
Alternatively, you can contact mailto: Michael.Kenna@enterprise-ireland.com
Michael.Kenna@enterprise-ireland.com, or in the Enterprise Ireland US offices, mailto: Colm.McGinley@enterprise-ireland.com
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Year 4 Senior Citizens Tea Party
Well done to the Year 4 pupils who organised a Senior Citizens Tea Party this afternoon. The pupils worked very hard making flyers, baking lots of delicious cakes and getting their artwork ready for display. Everyone had a wonderful afternoon. The pupils really enjoyed chatting to our visitors and playing games such as snakes and ladders and card games with them. The children had made so many lovely cakes that we had lots left over. These were sold at a cake sale after school and we raised £86 for Age Concern. | <urn:uuid:d38f6a46-6844-4ff6-b7b5-afc7814e84ab> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://arkconway.org/node/108771 | 2019-08-22T21:15:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317359.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822194105-20190822220105-00418.warc.gz | en | 0.990228 | 107 |
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The article focuses on the latest transfer rumours across the major football leagues
1. Mauro Icardi to Juventus:
Inter Milan had announced earlier in this month that Mauro Icardi is not in their plans for next season and told him to find a new club for him. Juventus are keen to take advantage in this situation, by cashing him for a low price of €50 million. With Gonzalo Higuain in the same position as Icardi, Juventus are looking forward to bring in a striker.
2. Harry Maguire to Manchester United:
According to reports there already is a contract agreement between Leicester City and United worth €80 million for Maguire. The signing now looks imminent, and will make him the most expensive Centre back. Leicester had earlier rejected a €60 million bid from Manchester United. United look to strengthen their defence and Maguire looks the right man to do it.
3. Gareth Bale to Beijing Guoan:
With Zinedine Zidane openly asking Gareth Bale to find himself a new club, and not including him even in the friendly matches, he may leave soon. Chinese club Beijing Guoan have reportedly made a €1 million per week offer to him. The 30 year old has still got a lot of football in him, and he may reject the move.
4. James Rodriguez to Atletico Madrid C.F:
James is very close to a move to his Madrid rivals. Real Madrid are holding onto him and would only let him leave if a deal worth €40 million is placed on the table. Real Madrid had invested €85 million in the signing of the Colombian. Napoli are also looking to make a move for him. James just returned from a 2 year loan spell at F.C Bayern Munich, who had a buying clause worth €35 million but chose not to buy him.
5. Hirving Lozano to S.S.C Napoli:
Carlo Ancelloti is looking forward to sign Hirving Lozano from PSV Eindhoven, if a deal for James Rodriguez fails. The latter looks imminent as Atletico Madrid look favourites to land the Colombian. The Mexican forward has been very impressive for both club and country and will most likely be available at a bargain price.
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Waking up in Shanghai this morning I’m greeted with a flood of emails, facebook messages, and phone calls. The world now knows what we here at Spicy Horse have known for some time: We’re making a sequel to “American McGee’s Alice” with Electronic Arts (EAP to be exact).
Not much can be said about the new project at this time. We are building it here in Shanghai. RJ Berg, who wrote the original and served as Executive Producer on the project, will reprise that role. The game will be delivered on PC, PS3, and 360. More details will come later of course. Until then, you can read the official press release. Or read EA’s official news blurb.
For me and the studio this obviously represents huge news. The original Alice was a good bit of fun – and aspects of the original are still quite compelling. The challenge for us – to build a great game, and a sequel worthy of the original – is real, but not daunting. Over the past few years we’ve assembled a really amazing team. I have full faith in their ability to create something amazing.
For me, this is a dream come true. The project will be fun, the studio can grow (and move – check out my flickr for pics of our new space), and we’ll eventually ship something unique. Lots of potential wrapped up in this news – I know I’ll be doing everything I can to make something great of it.
Check back here or in the forums for future updates. Can’t say I expect there to be much more news for a while – probably months. But if it’s allowed, I try to post some project updates, art, etc.
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In an effort to address the concerns of the Indian government regarding the spate of brutal lynchings based on viral hoax messages circulated via WhatsApp, the CEO of the Facebook-owned company, Chris Daniels, met India’s IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Tuesday. According to PTI, the two parties discussed a variety of issues during the meeting, ranging from WhatsApp Payments to the spread of fake messages and revenge porn through the platform.
Speaking to the media after the meeting, Prasad termed the talks as ‘productive’, and reiterated the government’s stance that the ball is in WhatsApp’s court in terms of finding a technological solution to the spiraling violence and revenge porn issues that he described as ‘sinister developments’.
“I had a productive meeting with Chris Daniels, the CEO of WhatsApp. I complimented him for the awakening, which WhatsApp has led in the entire country… But there are also sinister developments like mob lynching and revenge porn. You must find solutions to these challenges, which are downright criminal and violate Indian laws”
Prasad also threatened WhatsApp with abetment charges if it failed to comply with all the demands of the government. He claimed to have made it abundantly clear to Daniels that the company will need to set up a corporate entity in India and appoint a grievance officer if it has to be in compliance will Indian cyber laws.
He also doubled down on the government’s earlier demand that the company should find a technological solution to trace the origin of fake messages on its platform. “It does not take rocket science to locate a message being circulated in hundreds and thousands … you must have a mechanism to find a solution”, he said.
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Hello all, newbie here. Glad I found this site, hoping to find resources to help me on journey to restore a 1965 lg1. This was my mom's guitar that my brother tore apart 40 years ago with the idea of restoring it. He didn't get far, and it has been sitting for decades now. With the experience of building a few dulcimers under my belt, he agreed to turn it over to me to restore. The original top is gone, but otherwise it is in surprisingly good shape. I took it to a Luthier to make sure there were no fatal flaws before I embarked on this project. He thought the neck was pretty solid, and might not even need re-fretting. The biggest question I have is how to do the new top without the original soundboard as a template? How can i find out where and how big to make the sound hole, and where to place the bridge? I have the original bridge, I'll make a rosewood one to replace it. My research says the original bridge was screwed on. Is this the correct way to install the new bridge? My moms other Nylon String acoustic guitar, has the bridge glued on. Since there is no reason to restore this as original, without the original top, I am planning on doing cross bracing rather than ladder bracing for the top. My brother also gave me the sitka spruce he got 40 years ago for the top. I have that planed down, glued up and rough cut to shape. I assume the pick guard is just glued on the top, but I saw a picture of one with the guard removed and it almost looked like the pick guard had been in a routed recess in the top. Any suggestions, advice, information on resources would be appreciated. Thanks.. Cjr
Any number of people on this forum will be able to help you (and better than I can) but I got here first. First , your questions, which will be the tip of the iceberg of questions:
1) Making a new top will require more than just "repair" skills, so you need to start gathering information on how to build a top as well as what the bracing of the LG1 (which I'm pretty sure was X-braced) was. There are a bunch of books (you might remember books) on building steel string guitars (Cumpiano comes to mind) so start collecting them. Your new bracing does not need to be identical to the original but needs to be suitable and well done.
2) Sound hole size and bridge placement. You need to do the research. While you might find someone with plans for the top, you should be prepared to make many searches as well as asking questions at forums like this. But here is your first (at least from me) glimmer of light. I have an LG-O that I tried to "improve" as a youth. This is the same size but a model lower than your guitar. I'll make a tracing of the outside of the top with the sound hole in place. This may be helpful but you'll be gathering lots of info and stuff. I could show you the bridge placement , but it will be wrong. The bridge placement is dictated by the fingerboard (for scale length).
The sermon: While it is no sin to ask questions, your research should have told you how to place a bridge. You get the picture.
3) How to affix the bridge and pick guard - The bridge and pick guard should be glued to the top unless you are bound and determined to make the guitar as original, with all the bad design of the original. "You mean a Gibson Guitar might exhibit design flaws? In a word, yes. Your research will bring you to discussions about these flaws. That being said:
The bridge (either plastic or wood) was original screwed to the top as was (probably) the pick guard. Don't do this. The pick guard was not inlaid in the top, at least not by Gibson. Get online and find the proper way to do install the bridge and pick guard. There will be lots of discussions and exhibits. I'll send you a tracing of the LG-O pick guard with thickness. Your pick guard need not be as thick (this is an understatement).
You are in a good position. You have the carcass of an inexpensive instrument and the motivation to repair it. There is no downside unless you start thinking about paying yourself for your time. So don't think that way. When you're done you'll have your Mom's guitar back in playable condition and you'll have done the work. It doesn't get much better than that.
Or maybe you'll end up with that carcass as an artifact. Not the end of the world. You can blame your brother.
I've got a basement full of stuff like that. I should take a page from your book and get off my ass.
ps. Is the neck on or off the guitar? If it's still on, take it off (and be able to say why you removed it). Hint: No cutting tools are involved, Also, if you have the discipline, take lots of pictures.
One last item. Find some space that will be covered with this project for a long time. No, you'll need more space than that.
Good luck. This is going to be a lot of fun.
Thanks Joshua, appreciate the advice. and the offer for a tracing of your LG0.. that would be helpful. Thanks for the suggestion of a old fashion book.. hah, I hadn't even thought of that... oh how times have changed. Google is an imperfect science... so far unable to find anything on sound hole size, placement, VSL etc. of the LG-1, or even LG-1 plans. But it did bring me here! The original bracing was ladder bracing. Some say it gives a unique sound suitable for blues playing, but from the Youtube videos and my reading, I think I'll prefer the sound of the x-bracing more. I found lots of pictures of the cross bracing of the LG-2, which will be useful. Thanks for the info on the pick guard and bridge attachment, that is what I assumed, but wanted to double check. I have the original pick guard, but it is scratched, so I want to replace it. As for the neck, no I haven't taken it off..... I was hoping to avoid that. Some pics below. There was only some top left under the neck. I cleaned that out and I can slide the new top in underneath the neck. I'd have to do some creative clamping, but hoping I can do this w/o removing the neck. (The clamps in the pictures are just holding the top in place for the pics.) (BTW, We have a full shop, only space problem is that we are currently building a wood strip tandem Kayak, which is taking up a lot of room.) Last picture is of the two dulcimers I built....
This is where a bunch of people jump in to tell you why you need to remove the neck, but once again, I'm here first. If you put the top on as you've pictured, it will be torturous to remove the neck at a later date. This is because the dovetail holding the neck slides forward for removal. The way you have things, the top will have sealed the dovetail in its slot. But Gibson did this on occasion and it makes repair people even more unhappy with them.
You may ask why the neck would need to be removed. Go to Frets.com and look up neck resetting. Then report back to us.
When I was learning to be a teacher, this was called the discovery method. Fortunately for everyone, I did not go into teaching.
Nice dulcimers. You're up to this. And you might be able to polish the scratches out of the pick guard. I would bet there is enough meat on it to stand up to some thinning.
Appreciate the encouragement! Also, too bad you didn't go into teaching.. never heard the term "discovery method", but I buy into it completely.. much prefer to have the direction to the right resources to learn rather than just being told what to do.... will look a the neck resetting... and come back...
Thanks Andrew and Mark.. Mark, I'll take look at fretted strings, Davis is a drive, but totally doable. I did take the guitar to cb Perkins before I embarked on this project. Andrew, I've read now about neck resetting, watched some videos and read some photo journaled reset jobs, and some info on how to evaluate a neck. Included a nice video of a removal reset on an lg2... Problem is that without a top and bridge, its a little difficult to evaluate the neck. I set a straight edge on it, and took a couple of photos ... below. The neck looks pretty straight to me. I don't see any obvious bowing or angling. Perhaps since it had been unstrung 40years or so? But as yet, if the neck doesn't need resetting, I can't see a need to remove it just to replace the top. I. may be missing something here? Perhaps the best thing is to get the top done with sound hole and bracing so it is nice and flat without flex, and locate the bridge and double stick tape the bridge in place, clamp the top on and check the neck at that point. Would be easier to assess with a bridge in place. I imagine either cb Perkins or the place Mark mentioned would look at it for me. Oh, and thanks for the comment on the sides, there is some flex there, so yes getting that right poses some challenges..
There are people who are much wiser than me on these matters, but here are the problems I would be trying to solve if this were my project, and some musings on the solutions.
First, there is a need to accurately register the position of the top for installation. You need to be able to consistently place the top on the guitar in the same place, so that your bracing, bridge plate, and bridge end up in the right place. This is complicated by the fact that the body can flex, and the neck block can move.
I suggest that you need some kind of jig or mold to lock the whole body and neck into a very precise position. Once you are able to lock the body and especially the neck into the position you want them to be in, it will be much easier to set the neck angle and place the bridge. This will also allow you to make sure that the sides aren't bowing out anywhere.
Then, once you know that the top will be in a particular place, you need to set up the bracing so that the bridge plate is in the correct place to back up the bridge.
Now you can brace the top, cut the sound hole, and glue the whole thing to the body. The soundhole placement will be based on the bracing, and that is based on the bridge placement.
If this was my project, I'd be hunting up a piece of 3/4" plywood that is bigger than the instrument, and placing wood blocks on the board to position the sides and neck exactly where they should be. The neck will be a little tricky, you will have to make a bridge for the guitar, place it on the top, and set your ruler just as in the pictures above to get the angle right. You can then back up the headstock with a block of wood and strap it in place to keep it rigid.
If you instead chose to remove the neck, you would have more freedom to place the top on the body, correcting for side flex of course, and then you could adjust the neck to fit the body, rather than adjusting the body to fit the neck. I don't know if there is any particular advantage to either approach, except that removing the neck can present a separate group of challenges.
Those are my thoughts, and they have value roughly equal to what you paid for them. :) I'm sure there will be other ideas and corrections from folks on this board.
My suggestion of Fretted Strings come from the fact that Harrison Phipps does a fair number of rebracings of guitars from ladder to x bracing, and he would be worth discussing this with. He does have a fee structure for students to come in and work with him, I'm sure you can discuss that.
Excellent input Mark.. very helpful. I have an adjustable jig I made up to build the dulcimers.... I 'll have to check if it is wide enough, it would be perfect to hold the instrument if I go that route. I think I'll need some kind of temporary internal braces to hold the sides out... I actually had to do this with one of the dulcimers, so I have some ideas. I'll contact Harrison Phipps...
Very nice dulcimers. I noticed that you went with an evenly tempered scale rather than the one I usually see on these. Looks like a very good job.
You have my sympathy. I'm saying that because I'm pretty sure that this is turning out to be more than you might have bargained for. It's all part of the fun and you will probably know much more about Gibson LG guitars and acoustic guitar construction in general than you thought you would need before you are finished.
You appear to be falling into a very common trap. It's very common for beginners to underestimate the amount of work involved in a repair job. This is pretty big... do-able but not a simple fix. It can be disheartening to hear someone suggesting that you make what sound like more work before you make the fix but it's pretty common in repair work. You have received some very good advice... but you are resisting, probably because it will add to the work and you may not be too sure of your abilities.
Pull the neck. If it doesn't need to be reset, which you can't truly assess now, you will be able to fit it right back into place once the top is in place. If it does need to be reset, you will have removed when it will be about as easy as it ever gets. You need to get it out of the way. You will probably have your hands full just getting everything aligned again without having it in the way and until you have the top in place and a bridge that is ready to fit, you don't need it anyway.
Plan everything out completely before you do anything else. You really need to know what NEEDS to happen and when before you jump in or you're probably going to learn how much fun it is to scrape, plane, pry or rip out/off what you finished doing to the project. With the building you have done, you should be able to do this but repair is not the same as building. There is a different mind set and working with something that someone else made... decades ago can have some pitfalls that may not be all that easy to see.
Since you want to go with an X brace, I would suggest that you invest in some plans. There are plans for a '37 L00 on both the GAL (Guild of American Luthiers) site or on the Lmii site ( same as the plans on GAL) that will work. It's NOT an exact fit but it will get you close. The LMII plans are found here. I gave a link to them simply because they are a bit cheaper.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a hobbyist, not a pro. I've done this for quite a while now but my production is very low in comparison to the professionals. There's a lot to learn and a lot of help available here but you should always remember that the instrument is in your hands and the results are dependant almost completely on your knowledge, and ability. The more you know and the better your skill, the better the result will be. Your dulcimers go a lot way towards showing that you probably have the ability to do this but don't underestimate the amount of information you will need to do this properly.
Andrew,Ned... so very much appreciate your input-- and everyone else, been so helpful. I'm not worried about the work involved in pulling the neck, and I'm not worried about the amount of time this takes. My fear with the neck is re-setting it, and screwing it all up... Cutting the sound hole, placing the bridge, dealing with the binding, doing the bracing etc., I have some at least similar experience with those tasks. But, setting a neck is far afield of anything I've done so far -- therein lies the resistance. I have a steamer that I can rig up with some kind of fine nozzle that I can get into a 1/16" hole as I have seen done.... I'm pretty sure I'll be able to remove it OK. Sounds like that is what I need to do. I'll check out those plans for the bracing. As a side note, we are building a woodstrip tandem kayak, really my husband's project. So, I'm working on the guitar while he is working on the Kayak, and I'm there to help with the Kayak when there is stuff for me to do... So, really little downside to tackling the restore. Oh, and yes, the Dulcimers are chromatic rather than diatonic, which is the traditional dulcimer. It has become pretty common to add a 6.5 fret, then a 1.5 fret etc., to dulcimers.. so heck why not go chromatic? Some traditionalist balk. But heck, the "original" dulcimer didn't have frets that went all the way across, and they were never played chord melody style, etc., so, chromatic is just another evolution... | <urn:uuid:3a80ccf4-f02a-4674-93f1-86c5be513031> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | http://fretsnet.ning.com/forum/topics/help-with-restoration-of-gibson-lg1 | 2019-12-06T10:28:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540487789.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20191206095914-20191206123914-00090.warc.gz | en | 0.976638 | 3,738 |
Massimo & Panetta, P.C. v Centeno
2006 NY Slip Op 52574(U) [14 Misc 3d 1232(A)]
Decided on September 29, 2006
District Court Of Nassau County, First District
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.
Massimo & Panetta, P.C. v Centeno
Decided on September 29, 2006
District Court of Nassau County, First District
Massimo & Panetta, P.C., Plaintiff,
Joaquin Centeno, Jr., Defendant.
Massimo & Panetta, P.C.
99 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd.
Garden City, NY 11530
FAX #(516) 794-9039
Paul R. Delle, Esq.(Attorney for Defendant son)
725 Front Street
Hempstead, NY 11550
52 Roslyn Rd.
Mineola, NY 11501
Gary F. Knobel, J.
This is a small claims action by plaintiff law firm to recover $5,000.00 in legal fees for services it provided to the defendant's father, Joaquin Centeno, Sr. The amount allegedly owed is more than $5000.00, but the plaintiff chose to limit itself to the monetary limit of the small claims part. Plaintiff claims that the defendant, Joaquin E. Centeno, Jr., retained plaintiff's services to represent his father, Joaquin R. Centeno, Sr., and agreed to be liable for all legal fees incurred as a result. The defendant son claims he signed the retainer agreement on behalf of his father, with the understanding that he would not be personally liable for any legal fees incurred for the plaintiff's representation of his father. Defendant further contends that there was no meeting of the minds between the plaintiff and himself and as such, no contract was ever formed between the parties.
Plaintiff's partners testified at trial that the defendant son retained plaintiff's services on April 16, 2001, pursuant to a signed agreement to represent defendant's father, who had been arrested for the attempted murder of defendant's mother. Plaintiff contends that the retainer agreement was between the law firm and defendant and that it was understood that defendant, not his father, would be responsible for the payment of any and all fees. Plaintiff's partners testified that the services provided to defendant and his father included visiting the father in jail numerous times, hiring a Spanish interpreter to go to the jail with them, going to court on Centeno Sr.'s behalf approximately 16 times (including the date of arraignment), and negotiating a plea bargain for the father on February 14, 2002, that resulted in a nine and one-half year prison sentence. Plaintiff claims that the retainer agreement was clear and unambiguous and that the defendant son fully read and understood the terms of the agreement to include his responsibility for payment of plaintiff's services.
Defendant testified that he and several other family members were at his
father's arraignment on April 14, 2001, when they were approached by attorney Panetta, a [*2]partner of the plaintiff law firm. At that time, defendant's father did not have any representation. Defendant contends that while he was under extreme duress due to the nature of the circumstances, attorney Panetta told him that his father would need an attorney and subsequently offered to handle his father's arraignment for $300.00. Defendant further testified that attorney Panetta never discussed the option of obtaining a Legal Aid attorney to represent his father; any further representation of his father would require defendant to come down to plaintiff's office to sign a retainer agreement. Defendant testified that when he expressed his hesitation at getting involved due to a lack of finances, Panetta told him "not to worry" because defendant's father had assets, including a 401k plan and a home, which "would insure that the plaintiff law firm would get paid." When the defendant went to plaintiff's office on April 16, 2001, he asked attorney Panetta what would happen to his father and was told not to worry because they had "plenty of experience with this." (Record pg. 91) Defendant testified that he repeatedly told plaintiffs that he did not want to sign the retainer agreement and that he wanted the plaintiff law firm to get his father to sign it instead, because he did not have the money to pay for their services. Defendant contends that he only signed the retainer because attorney Panetta told him he would have to if he wanted someone to represent his father, and that the law firm would obtain a power of attorney from his father, which would allow defendant to legally sign for him, without binding himself to the agreement. Defendant further testified that he never received a copy of the signed retainer on that day, but did receive a copy in 2003, when plaintiff started an action against him. Defendant also testified that while he signed his name at the end of the retainer, the only other information handwritten into the retainer at the time of signing was the amount of $15,000.00. In fact, attorney Panetta admitted to adding the handwritten words to the beginning of the retainer, "I Joaquin Centeno " to represent my father, Joaquin Centeno" sometime after defendant signed the retainer. Not only was this done without his knowledge, the correct party, Joaquin Centeno, Jr., was not identified. Defendant further testified that he was directed by Mr. Panetta to sign his name on authorizations that would enable plaintiff attorneys to obtain his father's medical records.
Defendant paid plaintiff a total of $8,000.00 using his father's credit card and by withdrawing cash from his father's bank account with his ATM card. Defendant has receipts for all of these payments. The additional $300.00 for the father's initial arraignment came from defendant's sister-in-law. The defendant testified that attorney Panetta told defendant to try and get a loan to satisfy the retainer fee by using a power of attorney given by the plaintiff law firm. When the bank rejected the first power of attorney, the plaintiff law firm gave defendant a second power of attorney, which second attempt also failed. Defendant also testified that he was told that with the father's power of attorney, he would be able to obtain money from his father's credit card. After the initial $6,500.00 was paid within the first week after the retainer was signed, defendant claimed that he was called into plaintiff's office on November 14, 2001, to ask him for more money. Defendant testified that when defendant told Panetta that he only had his father's credit card, Panetta swiped the card, but it was declined. Defendant contended that attorney Panetta dialed the telephone for the defendant and directed that defendant request an increase in his father's credit line from the credit card company and that he should tell the credit card company that he was in fact Joaquin R. Centeno, Sr. in order to get the increase. Defendant obtained another $1,500.00, which he gave to the plaintiff.
Defendant maintained that although he asked plaintiff to notify him of all of his father's [*3]court appearances so that he could attend as many as possible, plaintiff did not always do so. He further contends that neither he nor his father were ever told that the plaintiff law firm could be dismissed as counsel at anytime for a refund of monies received but not earned.
The inquiry into whether a written contract is ambiguous is an issue of law within the province of the Court (see, RAD Ventures Corp. V Artukmac, 31 AD3d 412). "In cases of doubt or ambiguity, a contract must be construed most strongly against the party who prepared it, and favorably to a party who had no voice in the selection of its language" (Jacobson v Sassower, 66 NY2d 991, 993); see, Ling Cheng v Modansky Leasing Co., 73 NY2d 454, 460). In addition, as a matter of public policy, "attorney-client fee arrangements are a matter of special concern to the courts and are ... affected by lofty principles different from those applicable to commonplace commercial contracts" (Matter of Cooperman, 83 NY2d 465, 468, 472 [quoting Sir Francis Bacon in the Essays of Francis Bacon at p. 18, "the greatest trust between people is the trust of giving counsel."]; see, King v Fox, 7 NY3d 181; 191; Campagnola v Mulholland, Minion & Roe, 76 NY2d 38, 43). Consequently, "it is the attorney that must shoulder the burden of demonstrating that a fee contract is fair, reasonable, and fully known and understood by the client' (Jacobson v Sassower, 66 NY2d 991, 993; Koral v Koral, 185 AD2d 298, 299-300).
Indeed, even in the absence of fraud or undue influence, an agreement to pay a legal fee may be invalid if it appears that the attorney got the benefit of the bargain, unless [he] can show that the client was fully aware of the consequences and that there was no exploitation of the client's confidence in the attorney' (Jacobson v Sassower, 66 NY2d at 993, quoting Snitas v Rickett, 102 AD2d 928, 939" (Ween v Dow,AD3d,NYS2d, 2006 NY Slip Op 7227, 2006 NY App. Div. LEXIS 12033 [1st Dept., October 5, 2006]; King v Fox, supra).
The beginning of the retainer states "I, Joaquin Centeno," but it also states further in the agreement that "my failure to pay the aforementioned monies" and "if I fail to show up in Court and required [plaintiff] to stay a warrant.
In this case, I find that there has been no meeting of the minds as to who was responsible under the terms of the retainer agreement for paying plaintiff's legal fee of $15,000.00. The language of the contract is ambiguous in that while defendant signed and dated the retainer, the information stating which Joaquin Centeno, father or son, would be paying the legal fees was not clear. Furthermore, although defendant son signed the retainer, the plaintiff did not cross out under his signature "Client/Parent" to leave only "or person retaining Massimo and Panetta." I find that defendant agreed to sign the retainer because he was told by the plaintiff attorney that he had to sign it if he wanted his father to be represented by them and, more importantly, because he was told that his father would be responsible for paying the legal fees. It is clear that on more than one occasion, defendant expressed his concern to the plaintiff about signing the retainer for fear of being held financially liable, only to be reassured by plaintiff that he would not be liable. In addition, when defendant initially protested to signing the agreement, Mr. Panetta went to speak with Mr. Centeno, Sr. after his arraignment, only to return and tell defendant that his father had the money to pay him. Mr. Panetta then asked defendant if he knew where his father's credit cards were. As such, it does not seem possible that plaintiffs could have been unaware of the fact that defendant was more than reasonably concerned about not being held responsible for paying his father's legal bill.
The fact that the plaintiffs collected the $8,000.00 from defendant via his father's credit card and bank account further is evidence the that plaintiff law firm never had any intent to collect [*4]money from defendant, which also lends credence to the fact that there was no meeting of the minds. There has also been no indicia that defendant ever intended to be financially responsible due to the fact that he never made any payments towards his father's legal fees out of his own money. Plaintiff also never gave or forwarded any receipts or financial statements to defendant, which one would expect if defendant were the financially liable party or, in a case such as this one where several payments were being made towards the total fee.
Based upon all the credible evidence presented to the Court, the Court finds that the contract signed by the defendant son was ambiguous and not definite enough to cast liability for the fee sought by plaintiff. The defendant son signed a retainer with the plaintiff on behalf of his father since the partial fees paid to the plaintiff were from the father's funds. The Court also finds that the defendant did not make an oral promise to pay for his father's debt (see, Martin Roofing Inc. v Goldstein, 60 Ny2d 262; Carey & Associates v Ernst, 27 AD3d 261).
Accordingly, the plaintiff's claim is dismissed.
The foregoing constitutes the decision, order and judgment of this Court.[FN1]
HON. GARY F. KNOBEL
District Court Judge
Dated: September 29, 2006
cc:Massimo & Panetta, P.C.
Paul R. Delle, Esq.
#(516) 539-0055FAX #(516) 485-2968 Footnotes
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The Northern Midlands Council is responsible for an overall road network of approximately 566km of sealed road and 413km of unsealed road. This is made up of major urban roads, minor town streets and rural roads. The road network provides access to individual properties and facilitates the general circulation of our communities.
The responsibility for road infrastructure and safety funding is shared between Commonwealth, State and Local Government.
The Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resource (DIER) has responsibility for the provision, management and maintenance of State classified roads. Each local council has the same responsibility for classified local highways in their municipality.
Tasmania's State roads are those owned and managed by the State Government through the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources (DIER). Vehicles up to the size of tri-axle semi trailers have general access to the whole road network. The Approved Higher Productivity and Higher Mass Limits networks allow movement of vehicles up to the size of B-doubles along most of the important freight routes. This network is administered by the Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resources (DIER).
State roads are classified under the Road Hierarchy categories as either:
Roads Maintained by DIER within the Northern Midlands Municipality are:
Local Council Roads and Streets
Each of the Local Government Authorities are responsible for the 'local highways' within its municipality commonly referred to as 'local roads' or 'council roads and streets'. Council is not responsible for unmade roads/streets or private roads. If you are unsure if your road/street is maintained by Council please call the Works and Infrastructure Department on (03) 6397 7303.
A driveway crossover is the section of the driveway in front of the property front boundary (including any kerb and channel and footpath) that you use to get your vehicle from the road to the driveway within your property. In Tasmania the owner of the property is responsible for providing and looking after the driveway crossover. Council is responsible when damage to the crossing is caused by Council's works or if Council's services need replacing.
On public roads the Council sets the standard for constructing and maintaining the crossings. If Council is reconstructing the the whole road or putting in a new footpath the driveway crossings are usually done as part of these works.
Vehicular / Driveway crossings must be constructed by contractors with experience in the construction of kerb and channel and crossovers. Council may require crossovers to be removed if Council is not contacted for an inspection prior to pouring of the crossover. Unless agreed otherwise with the Works & Infrastructure Manager, all driveway aprons must be constructed in concrete. When constructing the crossover please pay particular attention to ensure that the approach and departure angles are suitable for low vehicles.
All new and replacement driveway crossovers will need a Council permit - there is no fee, only a procedure to follow. Once your application has been received, our inspector will look at your plan and the site. If something needs to be changed the inspector will call and see you. You will then receive your permit to start work. Most permits for a standard driveway crossover are issued in ten working days.
If the crossover is to be provided for access related to an approved development under a Council Planning Permit the location must be in accordance with the approved plan. Please see the application form for details.
For advice and more information, call the Customer Service Team on (03) 6397 7303.
Common rules for maximum dimensions and mass limits for the vehicles and their loads govern the use of vehicles in all Australian states and territories.
For a vehicle to carry a load in Tasmania that exceeds statutory dimension or mass limits, a permit or exemption is required.
A permit may be by General Exemption Vehicle and Traffic (Vehicle Operations) Notice or by way of a Special Permit issued by the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources (DIER).
To request an exemption for a road in the Northen Midlands please send in a written request to Council, PO Box 156, Longford TAS 7301.
Temporary load limits may be applied to road at certain times depending on road conditions. Permanent load limits exist on the roads listed below:
Conara Road - 15t Load Limit
Clarence Street Perth - 10t Load Limit
Arthur Street Perth - 10t Load Limit
Logan Road Evandale (last 500m of gravel section) - 15t Load Limit
English Town Road - 5t Load Limit
The Roadside Crash Marker Program is a road safety initiative that has been operating in Tasmania since 2002. The program has been developed through a partnership between the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources (DIER) and participating local government authorities.
Roadside crash markers are standard roadside guideposts placed adjacent to where a fatal or serious injury crash has occurred.
There are two types of Roadside Crash Marker posts:
Black Markers to identify the location of a fatal crash. These posts have a small red or white reflective cross. Fatality markers will be installed following consultation with next-of-kin family members.
Red Markers to identify the location of a serious injury crash. These posts have a small red or white reflective dash. Serious injury markers are placed at the request of individuals and next-of-kin family members.
For further information on Roadside Crash Markers and the guidelines for installation please follow this link to the Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resources.
People wishing to apply for the installation of a serious injury Crash Marker should contact the Road Safety Operations Branch.
Road Safety Operations Branch
GPO Box 936
Telephone: (03) 6233 5290
This information is provided as guide to damage caused by trees either on your property or on a neighbour's property, specific situations may vary. This information provides general information only and is not legal advice and should not be relied on. If you require specific advice you should seek your own legal advice.
Trees can add a great deal of splendour to a garden. They could be fruit bearing trees, a place in which to retreat to the shade and they can also add a great deal of colour to a garden. However, they can also cause a nuisance to a next door neighbour when they start encroaching onto your side of the fence, with problems ranging from attracting unwanted insects like bees and wasps, blocking out your light and shedding their leaves all over your garden. Therefore, it’s important to know what your rights are and what you can and cannot do.
Many people use our footpaths - postmen, joggers, people with disabilities and the elderly. A clear height above the footpath of 2.5 metres should be allowed, so that people may walk underneath with safety.
As a guide, all foliage and vegetation should be cut back to your boundary fences and should not obstruct street signs or traffic.
There is no legislation that specifically covers damage caused by trees, overhanging branches etc. It's always best to try to come to a negotiated settlement with your neighbour, and/or use some form of mediation.
The tree belongs to the person upon whose land it has originally grown. Even if its branches or, worse still, its roots have begun to grow over or into a neighbour’s territory, it belongs to the landowner where the tree was originally planted. Even if the tree bears fruit or flowers on branches which overhang into your land, it’s an offence to keep them or to take cuttings of flowers, for example. Obviously, many neighbours will not tend to worry about that too much but should a neighbour, for example, see you collecting apples from their tree even though the branches have grown onto your side, they are legally entitled to ask you to return them.
If the branches of a neighbour’s tree start to grow over to your side, you can cut them back to the boundary point between you and your neighbour’s property, as long as the tree is not under a tree preservation order. If you are unsure you’ll need to seek further clarification from Council. However, the branches and any fruit on them which you may have cut down on your side still belong to the tree owner so they can ask you to return them.
Alternatively, you can return them and ask your neighbour to dispose of them themselves should you wish to do so. What might seem a bit of a strange anomaly, however, is that even though any leaves from your neighbour’s tree may fall into your garden in autumn, you have no right to ask them to come around and sweep them up.
On the other hand, should these leaves blow into any of your gutters and block your drains, you can ask your neighbour to pay to have them cleared or to pay for the cost of any damage they might have caused. If they refuse to do so, you can legally sue them and force them into paying. If you lop off any branches on your neighbour’s (the tree owner) side of the fence, you are not entitled to gain access to their property to cut off some more. This is trespassing and you could be prosecuted.
Trees are affected by the natural environment and they will, randomly and inexplicabley, shed branches, fall over, drop foliage or their roots can affect underground structures. A number of gum trees are renowned for dropping branches. If a branch falls off your neighbour's tree and damages your property, you may be entitled to compensation if there is evidence that the owner of the tree has been negligent in its maintenance, or knows of a specific problem with a tree and has failed to rectify it, and due to that problem the tree causes damage.
If this happens, get legal advice.
If you believe your neighbour's tree is likely to damage your property, it's best to discuss this with your neighbour. If they refuse to do anything about it you may be able to take action to prevent any potential damage, please seek legal advice.
You may find that a neighbour's tree blocks a view or casts an unwanted shadow onto your property. What can you do? Check with Council's Planning Department, and it might be worth trying mediation - but you might have to accept that there is no real remedy.
Get in touch with your plumber to see if they can analyse where the blockage is coming from, if proven to come from your neighbours tree you should then ask the neighbour to pay for the damage to your pipe or drain. If they refuse, before you get involved in legal action, it would be a good idea to convince your neighbour to try mediation.
Otherwise the laws of nuisance or negligence may allow you to claim compensation, but you should first seek legal advice.
Council inspects its footpaths every year, the inspection program identifies hazards, such as uneven footpaths, damaged signs, potholes and trees overhanging the footpath.
These hazards are attended to as soon as possible to ensure safe pedestrian access. If you wish to report a footpath hazard please use our customer request form here.
Nature strips add value, amenity and ambience to towns. Nature strips also provide an important corridor for the provision of underground services. The maintenance of nature strips has long been regarded the 'civic duty' of the residents of the Northern Midlands which assumes residents occupying adjacent property will maintain nature strips.Council encourages all residents maintain their nature strips as part of their front lawn.
Roadsides in rural areas are the responsibility of Council. Council has a maintenance program for the slashing of rural roadsides, this is carried out by Council's contractor. Trimming of hedges is carried out in winter and slashing of Council maintained roadsides is carried out from November to January.
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On the 18th of September 2004, I unveiled the first post on girtby.net.
Well, maybe not the last for ever, but I'm certainly not planning any further posts here for the forseeable future.
Some time after you read this I'll be converting the blog to static HTML and moving to its new semi-permanent home courtesy of Matt Quail, to whom I am much indebted. The painstakingly-chosen domain name will remain and hopefully none of the links will break.
To the regular readers and commenters, thanks so much for making the effort to visit and contribute. I'll leave the syndication feeds in place, so by all means stay subscribed on the off chance that I publish anything further here. By all means unsubscribe to the comments feed though.
Frankly I'm just not excited about it any more. I am not a naturally gifted writer — oh no stop it, you are too kind — and so each article took a huge amount of careful crafting and ruthless editing before it reaches even my low quality standards. After a while this just started to feel like work.
Other factors were in play also. Blogging as a whole seems to be in something of a decline, so there's not that degree of inter-blogger interaction which we saw back in the heyday. Fewer bloggers, fewer posts, fewer readers. And for me, just not quite enough feedback or reward.
Also spammers are definitely one the reasons for closing the blog. I'm going to be fucking glad not to have to deal with their shitting in my nest.
I'd much rather close the blog rather than simply abandon it like most people seem to do. I offer no explanation for this.
Highlights and Lowlights
Here are some posts that I'm particularly proud of. You might wish to revisit them if you're feeling particularly nostalgic or bored.
- Bayes' Theorem 1, Mandatory Filtering 0
- The infamous Blogging Horror post. Years from now I'm going to introduce myself with "you may remember me from such incendiary blog posts as..."
- My Developer Essentials manifesto. That post was about 5 years in the making.
- Vendor Lock-In, mainly because it got an approving link from Bruce Schneier
- C++ 1, Unicode 0 and The Other Kind of Reentrant, both coding war stories.
- The one in which I decloaked
- Some extended ranting on the subject of (believe it or not) WYSIWYG editors.
- Ripley's Design It Or Not, a moderately successful satirical UI rant.
- The Virtual Furniture Police, a combined book review and rant against IT department idiocy.
- Internet Explorer Makes Me ☹. And it still does.
- No Patentisation without Implementation. These days I feel even more revulsion for the patent system, and dirty when I think of my participation in it.
- What does this button do? My first, and probably best, UI rant.
- Scheduled Task Slippage and Breakage. I wonder if this is fixed in Windows 7?
- The Catachresis of the Year still makes me smile.
Had I the inclination to continue publishing this blog, I might have updated the Virtual Furniture Police article with an example from the NSW education department. They are handing out the federal government-sponsored laptops but are constricting them so desperately as to make them almost completely useless. No internet access, and no installing new software, even for teachers. WTF?
Without a doubt, the lowlight would have to be one individual who responded to the Blogging Horror post with some moderately offensive comments. And the spammers. Oh the spammers.
Instead of blogging here, I intend to participate more actively on other forums (the terrible state of forum software notwithstanding), microblogging at identi.ca, and other social networking sites.
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The awful and unnecessary Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 is creeping into force, having been partially commenced by the rubber stamping of this Order:
2. The following provisions of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 shall come into force on 16th February 2009--
(d) section 76 (offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc), together with Schedule 8 (offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc: supplementary provisions);
The War on Photographers , and Military Historians and Biographers etc. intensifies, by making it a serious terrorist crime to "attempt to elicit" information e.g. name, address, photograph etc.,about a current or former member of the Police, Armed Forces or Intelligence Services.
It does not matter if there is a legal defence available to you in Court, it is too late for your liberty and career, once you have been tainted and blacklisted, by being arrested under a terrorism law, even if you are never charged or are found not guilty.
How soon before this law is used to threaten, harass and arrest political demonstrators or activists, who take photos of the Police etc. who are taking photos of them ?
Why are former members of these organisations covered, without exception i.e. including all those who have been kicked out for treason, espionage, corruption etc and those Walter Mitty fantasists or con artists, who exaggerate their former military careers, skills or experience, for vanity or to swindle people.?
How soon before this law is invoked by those in the Police, Military or Intelligence services who want to hide or cover up incompetence, corruption or worse from investigative journalists or other investigators ?
Why are other people who are just as much targets of terrorists e.g. Judges, juries, prison officers etc. not covered by this law ? If they are adequately covered by the pre-existing Terrorism Act section 58, then why is this new Terrorism Act section 58A needed at all ?
(j) the entries in Part 2 (disclosure of information and the intelligence services), Part 4 (financial restrictions proceedings), Part 5 (control orders) and Part 6 (pre-charge detention) of Schedule 9 (repeals and revocations).
Keep guard of your teacups, they may be stolen from you by official burglars or undercover agents, who want to secretly sample your DNA or fingerprints, if Home Office Minister Admiral Lord West's ideas on how this bit of the Act is going to be used are true.
N.B. the main sections 19 to 21 Disclosure of information to the intelligence services were commenced on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2008, so, perhaps "Santa" or his little helpers were really after your DNA and fingerprints rather than mince pies etc..
Minister of State
19th January 2009
Coaker joins a long list of Labour Home Office Ministers who have legislatively signed away the freedoms and liberties of the innocent majority, without any proportionate decrease in crime or terrorism.
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Pity the second born child. Before it’s even born it’s ignored. For instance, how many of you had a baby shower for your second? Not many, I bet. And what was the reaction to your scan pictures second time round? Did you get all the oooohs and aaaahs you were expecting? Or was it more like: “Cute. What’s for lunch?”
Even as a mother you don’t focus nearly as much on the pregnancy second time around. For one, you’ve done it before so there’s not so much pondering about every little twitch and itch. For two, you simply don’t have time. You’re too busy running around after your firstborn.
Then of course, the baby is born and immediately you’re launched into the nightmare scenario of who gets your attention first: the toddler busy exploring the toolbox accidentally left out, or the crying baby who isn’t going anywhere soon. No prizes for guessing who I chose to go to.
It’s fair to say that I’m a much more relaxed mum second time around. There’s no choice. I’ve had to chill out about the children’s diets, playdates, mess and so much more. I actually think it makes me a better mother. I’m not sure it’s too healthy to focus your entire being on one small person, like I did with Evie. So far Frankie seems to be taking it all in his stride too. It helps that he doesn’t know any different. Plus he has the benefit of an amazing big sister to give him loads of attention.
Still, sometimes I do get a bit of mum-guilt about all the things I could be doing better. Take a look at what he’s missing out on in my picture gallery …
How have you changed as a mum since having a second child? Share your stories below
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