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Those of us who follow the sport of mixed martial arts on a daily basis know that if you search beyond typical news headlines and fight announcements, you can find a handful of fighters who dedicate their time and money to supporting a good cause. Names like Justin Wren, Joe Lauzon, and Brian Stann all come to mind; three men known for punching faces, but also for their charity work outside of the cage. News of MMA and boxing promoters doing the same seems to be less prevalent (though certainly not unheard of), which is why it’s refreshing to hear of an event that is centered around donating profits towards something other than a follow-up show. One such event takes place this Friday, October 21st from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA. Its name is Atlanta Corporate Fight Night, and it will be the 12th time that promoter and IWB Hall of Famer Terri Moss will put on such a show. Moss, a former narcotics investigator, has a long history in combat sports. Before making the leap to fight promoter, she would fight professionally in three different weight classes for five different championships. “I had to learn how to fight while I was actually fighting,” said Moss, who was too old at the time to qualify for amateur bouts against competition at her skill level. Despite the age and skill discrepancy, Moss would go on to accomplish some historic feats. “Going Pro at 36, I fought for five world titles, got inducted into the Hall of Fame last year, set a Guinness World Record – I was able to do some things considering I was the least likely to succeed,” said Moss with a hint of humor in her voice. After retiring, she would dedicate her time to training other boxers, an occupation that helped spark the idea and brand of Atlanta Corporate Fight Night. “I had a lot of people tell me, ‘I wish I could just have one fight,’ and I thought maybe I need to figure something out about that,” said Moss. It was during a trip to New Zealand to train a fighter that she noticed a man in a button-up shirt that had a camera crew in tow. After inquiring about his presence at the gym, she learned that he was involved in promoting shows that featured corporate figureheads fighting one another in the name of charity. Fast forward to 2016, and Terri and her team have put on 11 different ACFN shows. Each event has been more successful than the year previous and has helped raise money for charities such as the Wounded Warrior Project, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Semper Fi Fund, PAWS Atlanta and many more. This year’s show is the largest yet, and for the first time ever will feature an MMA fight as its main attraction, a decision that was easy for Terri to make considering the popularity of promotions like UFC and Bellator. This year’s main event features BJJ brown belt “V” Johnson, who trains at ATT in Atlanta against undefeated amateur Rakim Thorpe (2-0). Continuing its tradition of giving back to those in need, proceeds of ACFN 12 will go to the non-profit organization charity: water which brings “clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.” You can learn more about what charity: water is doing on a daily basis by visiting their website here. If you’re in Atlanta, GA this weekend and want to enjoy a fun night of fights for a good cause, head on over to the ACFN website for tickets, and keep an eye out for the ACFN brand, which aims to put on more shows down the road, including the possibility of a U.S. vs. U.K. event that is sure to garner attention and benefit those less fortunate than many reading this article. Ray Higginbotham is a writer and avid fan MMA. For more content like this, including list-based articles and fighter interviews, follow him on Twitter @_MMARAY and while you’re at it, check out his Facebook page.

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Discussion in 'Random Discussion' started by Doc Holliday, Jan 26, 2006. Over the years I have gone through "several" different cell phones. Needless to say, I have kept these units hidden in my closet. So, on to the question.....Is there a place that accepts old cells for donations to help those less fortunate or shall I take the easy way out & toss these cells in the garbage? In my hometown...the schools collect them! Try there!

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Staples is the world’s largest office products company. Their diverse range has everything needed for the smooth running of the office. Within Europe, Staples has been growing steadily and services businesses of all sizes. The vast majority of Staples’ Italian and French customers are SME’s of 3 or less employees. Staples’ average response rate from prospect catalogues in France and Italy is just 0.28%. In Italy alone, they were planning to spend over a million euros purely on sending out catalogues. Surely there was a more effective, engaging way to reduce costs and increase response from the vast amount of small businesses they were targeting? In seeking a solution to this, some of their additional investment was set aside to test new campaign ideas and brand awareness for new customers, which is what brought them to us. One of the several new campaign ideas that we devised was focused on the fact that paper is bought by over 62% of all new customers. This insight into the buying behaviour of Staples’ customers also revealed that it is only when paper runs out that most people will do a full stationery order. A common office mini emergency is the running out of paper, so we created the ‘In Emergency – Break Glass’ Box; a visually striking and tongue-in-cheek 3D red box that held an emergency sheet of white A4 paper behind a sheet of acetate. An accompanying letter introduced Staples and their diverse range of products, with an incentive to save €25 on every €50 spent on a new order. The huge challenge facing Direct Marketing is to make something tangible that the recipient is less inclined to immediately dispose of. This amusing DM was certainly more disruptive then a prospect catalogue, and was a unique creative that could be kept and placed on the wall. There was a highly targeted mailing volume of 20,000 per country, making it logistically very challenging, but our thorough researching of the Italian and French postal systems ensured everything ran smoothly. The campaign achieved over 30% increase in response rate, compared to the average catalogue sending campaign, a very pleasing increase. In both Italy and France, Staples’ sales and redemptions typically had a heavy northern cities bias, but our campaign’s positive response rate was across a far more even geographical spread, reflecting the universal appeal of the idea. As part of the campaign follow up, we hired native speakers to carry out a thorough call around in both countries to gauge success and response. From this, 34% of those spoken to were interested in the offer. This was a great response for a DM that, alongside our other touch points, such as the Emergency Stickers, certainly helped further the Staples brand across Europe. I contacted Gasp after reading their monthly newsletter, which was not only creative but also conveyed their sense of fun (important when dealing with big asks and tight deadlines). They answered some very tough briefs and deadlines with imagination and complete commitment, and managed to achieve a balance between innovation and pragmatism that is vital to a successful, large scale DM campaign. There is no doubt that they have assisted in furthering Staples sales and awareness (Holland is now covered with our reindeers!). You work with companies again that you trust to get the best job done. I look forward to working with Gasp again soon.

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The present appeal was filed in regard to issue related to assessment of market value of the land in question. The land in question was notified Under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act) for the purposes notified therein. A declaration Under Section 6 of the Act was made and the award Under Section 11 of the Act was subsequently made giving the assessment of market value of the land. The aggrieved land owner preferred a reference under Section 18 of the Act wherein the value was enhanced with other statutory benefits. An appeal was moved under Section 54 of the Act claiming further enhancement whereby marginal enhancement was done and against the said finding present appeal was filed. It was contended by the claimant(s) that the land ought to have been assessed at the rate on which the land covered by the same notification Under Section 4 of the Act in the neighbouring village were assessed. On the contrary it was submitted that the market value of the land cannot be assessed on the basis of compensation paid in the adjacent village for the reason that the land is not similar in any circumstance, either in quality or geographical situation/location, and thus, there was nothing on record on the basis of which it could be held that the claimant was entitled for the same compensation as given to other claimants in different villages. The Court observed that the scheme of the Act is that every man’s interest is to be valued on as it occurs at the time of the notification Under Section 4(1). The assessing authority must take into consideration various factors for determining the market value, but exclude the advantages due to the carrying out of the purpose of acquisition and remote potentialities. It is the duty of the claimant that he must produce the relevant evidence for determining the market value while filing his claim Under Section 9 of the Act atleast before the trial Court or before the reference court for the reason that the Appellate court may not permit the party to adduce additional evidence in appeal. The market value of the land is to be assessed as per Section 23 of the Act. Valuation of immoveable property is subject to uncertainties and no strait-jacket formula can be laid down for arriving at exact market value of the land. There is always a room for conjecture, and thus the Court must act reluctantly to venture too far in this direction. The factors such as the nature and position of the land to be acquired, adaptability and advantages, the purpose for which the land can be used in the most lucrative way, injurious affect resulting in damages to other properties, its potential value, the locality, situation and size and shape of the land, the rise or depression in the value of the land in the locality consequent to the acquisition etc., are relevant factors to be considered. Section 23 mandates that the market value of the land is to be assessed at the time of notification Under Section 4 of the Act. Therefore, value which has to be assessed is the value to the owner who parts with his property and not the value to the new owner who takes it over. Fair and reasonable compensation means the price of a willing buyer which is to be paid to the willing seller. Though the Act does not provide for “just terms” or “just compensation”, but the market value is to be assessed taking into consideration the use to which it is being put on acquisition and whether the land has unusual or unique features or potentialities. The Act provides for compensation for acquisition of land and deprivation of the property which is reasonable and just. The court must avoid relying on a sham transaction which lacks bona fide and which had been executed for the purpose of raising the land price just before the acquisition to get more compensation for the reason that fraudulent move or design should not be considered as a proof in such cases though such a conclusion can be inferred from the facts and circumstances of the case. The market value of the land should be determined taking into consideration the existing geographical situation of the land, existing use of the land, already available advantages, like proximity to National or State Highway or road and/or notionally or intentionally renowned tourist destination or developed area, and market value of other land situated in the same locality or adjacent or very near to acquired land and also the size of such a land. Thus, the market value of the land is to be assessed keeping in mind the limitation prescribed in certain exceptional circumstances Under Section 23 of the Act. A guess work, though allowed, is permissible only to a limited extent. The market value of the land is to be determined taking into consideration the existing use of the land, geographical situation/location of the land alongwith the advantages/disadvantages i.e. distance from the National or State Highway or a road situated within a developed area etc. In urban area even a small distance makes a considerable difference in the price of land. However, the court should not take into consideration the use for which the land is sought to be acquired and its remote potential value in future. In arriving at the market value, it is the duty of the party to lead evidence in support of its case, in absence of which the court is not under a legal obligation to determine the market value merely as per the prayer of the claimant. There may be a case where a huge tract of land is acquired which runs though continuous, but to the whole revenue estate of a village or to various revenue villages or even in two or more states. Someone’s land may be adjacent to the main road, others’ land may be far away, there may be persons having land abounding the main road but the frontage may be varied. Therefore, the market value of the land is to be determined taking into consideration the geographical situation and in such cases belting system may be applied. In such a fact-situation every claimant cannot claim the same rate of compensation.The present appeal based on the facts and records was dismissed.

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During my Master’s project at the University of Glasgow, I dealt with the use of mobile and motion tracking components to help raise awareness and socially connectedness within working environments. I developed an application for a semi-public screen which is supposed to be placed in common areas of working teams – called SocioScreen. Team members can then interact with this screen via mobile phone and whole body gestures. It is possible to post content to the screen from the phone. This enables one to share information, like invitations for lunch, with team members. The application was designed in a calming way with the theme of an underwater world with slowly moving bubbles. The SocioScreen application is able to detect the presence of people and unobtrusively tries to draw their attention to the screen by sending a ripple through the underwater world. This internship abroad was kindly enabled by the ERASMUS placement grant for students.

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Caithness.org Message Board - Have your say here. A breakthrough as the Health Board announce the Review finds in favour of keeping services local. Check out what Susan Deacon the Health Minister for Scotland said in her September press release following publication of the Arbuthnott Report on allocations of expenditure for rural areas. The report has a short summary of the main points as well as the full report. The report by Professor Sir John Arbuthnott entitled Fair Shares For All - The Report of the National Review of Resource Allocation for the NHS in Scotland. The report goes into great detail about the problems of rural areas although it can be difficult comparing areas of deprivation - of poverty and poor services in large cities against rural areas like Highland. One of the problems can be the perception of ideal lifestyles in the Highlands which may be the case if you have a job and an income to cope with the greater distances. Also the Highlands is very diverse and the political structure pushes this vast area into one political region. This has been pointed out by many members of the public. And it has not gone unnoticed that the health services under a Caithness set up were in the Black and the health service as provided by an Inverness based set up is now heavily in the red. Is Caithness and Sutherland having to bear the brunt of a debt it did not incur. The people of the north did not want the present NHS Trust set up to be brought in and they were ignored. Will the same thing happen to maternity services. Any downgrading of the services will be to the detriment of local people. Thurso's people turned out in droves last night to attend the meeting called by the reference group. Many people were turned away as the hall was full to overflowing. Jamie Stone MSP and councillors once again heard the feelings local people about possible downgrading of maternity services in the county. The same scenario of the need to keep skills up and possible shortages of qualified staff were put forward but these were firmly rejected by local people faced with the prospect of women travelling up to 130 miles to Inverness especially in winter conditions such as Caithness had in the last few weeks. These are the biggest turnouts Thurso and Wick have seen with people coming from all parts of the county to hear the arguments on what is seen as a life or death issue for women and their babies. None of the local people want to see the downgrading of the service they already have. People want a quality service and it is up to the managers within the health service and the politicians to see it is delivered. Thurso has also seen an upturn in its local economy with major recruitment by employers. This could be put in jeopardy if it was felt Caithness had second rate health services. Employees might be reluctant to come to an area with poorer maternity services especially younger families still having new babies. The MUMS action committee will be taking things forward. The meeting in Wick High School was packed out on Monday night as the people in East Caithness reacted to the perceived threat to maternity services. The representatives were grilled and in typical Wick fashion the audience demanded improvements not downgrading to services. Notwithstanding the threat to Obstetricians people said they wanted more than just to retain the services they wanted improvements such as a Pediatrician service also to ensure better facilities in Caithness. It was standing room only in Wick with over 500 people so over to you Thurso and the West side lets hear your voice loud and clear at the town Hall on Tuesday night. Councillor Deirdre Steven got a huge round of applause as she demanded that the services of consultant obstetricians be retained in Caithness. Any hint from the Health Board side of suggesting that a mid-wife led service would still provide an excellent service were greeted with howls of disbelief. Many questions were aimed at the panel and several examples given of how mothers and babies would have died in the past if it were not for the expertise available in the county. Recent weather conditions were highlighted to show how impossible it was to reach Inverness when road, rail and air services marooned Caithness. Also highlighted were the increasing employment opportunities now coming to Caithness which were at least partly based on the good health services available and this could be put in jeopardy were they to be downgraded. The chairwoman had difficulty in closing the meeting following John Rosie's impassioned plea and determination to fight any lowering of the standards of maternity services. Highland Health Board have denied that any of the local staff have been warned not to talk about the review to members of the public. Robert MacLennan took up the matter with the Health board following reports he had received. Sally Amor, Child Health Commissioner said that their had been no gagging of NHS staff. The winter weather has forcefully convinced Caithness people that what they have said all along is true. that an area as far away from the main centres must have its own dedicated services especially in vital areas of health like maternity where emergencies do and will happen when the weather cuts the county off. Caithness was all but marooned this week with roads blocked and train and air services halted. This makes the point better than many arguments put so far. But still people must make their views known and write to the people carrying out the review. Mr Stone called on all constituents, as many as possible to in Caithness & Sutherland to write and make their views known. The Caithness Courier article today set out Mr Stone's view on the matter and made it clear that now was the time for people to put pen to paper. Graeme Smith a member of the Wick Community Council and Highland Councillor is encouraging people to think more about how a concerted campaign might affect the outcome of the Review into Maternity services in the county. He encouraged people to think in terms of a campaign involving community councils and the Association of community councils acting in concert with MUMS (Maternity Unit Must Stay). Tww members of the local maternity unit have been asked to be on the Maternity Services Advisory Group allaying Mr Smith's fears about under representation from Caithness in the process. Alan Ferrier, Chairman of Wick Community Council still fears that the threat to the maternity unit would just be the start and add to losses of ancillary services. As reported in the JOG this week a review is to be started in January. A reference group and very wide consultation is to be carried out. Have a look at the article and lets all wait and see. However people in Caithness are very sceptical folloing the wide public consultation for the reorganisation under "Designed To Care" when the New NHS Trusts were brought in. Despite local opposition and after "Widespread Consultation" the changes went ahead anyway. Keep your eye on this one and see if anything is different this time round. Counsultation may become a dirty word if it means people are told theri views have been noted but the changes are "Necessary", Best Practice" Required for Reasons A B C etc. Note the Swimming Pool debate also - new rules being enforced against local wishes. We will see. Well if things were looking quieter on the public outcry front about possible downgrading then the latest drama in Caithness certainly underlines the need for people to be concerned. Fortunately for all concerned the skills in the maternity unit were able to deal with the problems. Fears are that things would not have turned out so well in a downgraded unit. With the air ambulance not available and the road south blocked at the same time it is just this type of problem that people are afraid would happen. With wick also not to get its second runway upgraded even this lifeline might not be available in if the wind is blowing the wrong way. Helicopters cannot fly in foggy conditions and Wick has plenty of years where it is bad for flying. There are not many roads south and if the main one is blocked a three hour drive south could become a real nightmare for an expectant mother. Surely this requires some statement to assure people in the north that these vital services will not follow so many others south. This is life and death - much more than just economics. Can we please have some confirmation that notwithstanding the need to kep skills up to date the unit will retain the present cover. Surely it is not beyond ingenuity to come up with a solution if maintaining skills is the only concern. The Maternity Review is certainly going to stack up the reports with the Caithness Economic Partnership going to carry out an economic assessment of the impact of changes to the service if any are brought in. This seems sensible but can it be taken in isolation. There is a general feeling that is growing that services in general for Caithness are longer so important as cost savings. Will the north always suffer when the Highland structure requires to cut costs. We already have plenty of evidence that since "Designed to Care" abolished the Caithness & Sutherland NHS Trust and split into Acute and Primary Trusts with management control effectively shifted to Inverness that decisions taken have an adverse effect on Caithness & to a lesser extent Sutherland. The imminent closure of the laundry in Caithness to have all the linen transported to Inverness is yet another example. All of the decisions are being taken independently without it seems thought to the overall cumulative effect. Loss of managerial posts, closure of the laundry, downgading of maternity seems to be a drip drip downward spiral each one leading inexorably to the next. The maternity unit is a domino in another set. If it falls other services will go as that knocks on into other professions within the hospital. Before long the necessity for a range of other services will be brought into question on cost grounds. Health services in rural areas will always be more expensive on a unit cost basis - they always have been. The quality of care is expected to be the same for everyone but if that quality is said to be the same by the population making ever more trips to Inverness then something is going seriously wrong. Dirty linen trundling up and down the road from Caithness is bad enough but patients is even worse. Sit down and make a list of all the withdrawals of all of the withdrawals of government departments, local authority cut backs over the last 10 years - look at the numbers of jobs gone and you will understand how the economy is also tied to these decisions. The list is long and getting longer. Thurso has been saved from much of the impact by the new firms attracted and the continuation and recent expansion of work at Dounreay but the drip of other jobs in the health service has a definite economic impact as well as for services to people on the area. Anyone can put their comments on to the Caithness.org Message Board - lets hear them. Castletown and District Community Council have now discussed the review with its implications for downgrading services in the maternity unit. The references they made concerning the abolition of the Caithness NHS Trust show that Caithness people feel they were right to be concerned about the abolition. Now that the moves on units like maternity are being made and the trust controlled from Inverness has a budget deficit peripheral areas will suffer. Caithness and other outlying parts of the Highlands already feel powerless to control their own destiny in important matters. Is it any wonder that their is less and less interest in decision making which seems to take for ever and invariably goes against the wishes of people in the furthest rural areas. Many people already have extreme problems with transport and are used to making ever more journeys to Inverness. This is one journey no woman should be forced into making with all the difficulties for families in visiting a hospital for some over 130 miles away. This would be a real retrograde step. And what's next if this is allowed to happen. There will always be another crisis as an excuse to close or downgrade. Skill shortages, lack of staff, too few patients and so on. This does not give any feeling of confidence in local structures once thought of as reliable. This continuing struggle to retain good services in rural area does nothing for confidence that rural is a good place to be. It may all be part of a national picture but as Post Offices, petrol stations, primary schools continue to close this will just be another nail in the coffin of rural life. Last nights meeting of MUMS the campaign to ensure maternity services in Caithness were not reduced held one of its now regular meetings. The meeting brought together members of other organisations to decide upon future strategies to combat what is seen as the threat to services in the county. The group are now looking to expand the membership of the group to drive forward the campaign. The decision to delay the review by the Health board looks as if it is giving the group time to mobilise public opinion and consider many of the factors seen as detrimental to the area if the review suggests down grading the service - particularly less cover at consultant level. Monica Mouat has stood down from her position as chair of the review group looking at maternity services. A new chair will be appointed. Ms Mouat is a representative on the Highland Health Council and did not feel that the two roles were compatible when she was expected to represent the views of patients. This week saw Deirdre Steven talking to her fellow labour party member Health Minister Susan Deacon. Following a meeting in Inverness Mrs Steven put the local view to the minister. No announcements have as yet been forthcoming. The review appears to have been put off until next year and local opinion is still that it is a delaying tactic waiting on public opinion to subside. Perhaps the onset of a general election may have some influence on this as the outcome of the review may not be available until after the election now that it has been delayed. If you have any thoughts on this manouvre perhaps you might like to put them on the Message Board. The Campaign Pressure Rises Steadily. No one in Caithness can be unaware of the mounting pressure being built up by the MUMS campaign in Caithness. Local opinion is being guaged by petition in every part of the county now. Every group where mothers meet is discussing the topic and every person in Caithness is being made aware of the threat not just to the maternity service itself but the possible knock on effects of other hospital based services. People are beginning to realise that several services provided in the hospital might be no longer considered viable and so like dominoes they would fall on e after another - maternity first, then possibly anaesthetics and who can guess next as one tier knocks on to a reduction in the next and so to it also coming under threat in turn. The campaign team are speaking to politicians in all parties and at all levels. Letter writing is going on and no post bag is going to be empty for long on this topic until it is resolved. The Health Board decision to delay the review which was to have started shortly is seen as a delaying tactic by many people in the hope that the campaign may die out. This is unlikely as several politicians of several parties are now swinging in behind the campaign. This is too close to people to be left to chance and everyone in Caithness is likely to support this highly local issue for any number of reasons. Perhaps the minister should consider whether months of campaigning is really necessary if assurances could be given not to down grade the service but put all the energy which will be required to take on the whole Caithness population into finding a solution to ensure that clincal standards and training of medical staff can be kept up to acceptable levels. No one doubts that the low birth rate now evident in the north is a problem for the staff in maintaining their skills. This is in part to other outside economic forces as unemployment and education takes young people away from the area. Caithnessians are having babies but they are having them in every other part of the country or indeed the world as they leave to get work. Just look at the reunion pages on this web site. We already know of young Caithness families in Australia and elsewhere with up to four children. The primary schools in Caithness certainly wish they were here. But that problem cannot be solved quickly despite years of trying by the authorities. The fact is that if the services are down graded they will probably never be reinstated and Caithness will become even less attractive to people thinking about bring their young families to the county when mothers would be faced with over 240 miles round trip to see consultants or feel insecure in the knowledge that expertise was only available at the end of a phone. No assurances from the Health Board at the Wick community Council meeting this week does not give any comfort to people who are worried about the future of maternity services in the county. The delay in commencing the review - it has been put back to January 2001 looks to councillors like a way of trying to allow the very public campaign to die out according to Graham Smith - Wick Councillor. Deirdre Steven - Wick West Councillor is also on the case pointing out that the people in Caithness were given assurances about services in the county not long ago when the new Trusts were set up. Although the review is about clinical matters there is deep supicion fueled by leaked reports about possible savings which could alleviate the budget deficit. Again this is a front page story in the Courier this week. There has been huge publicity on the maternity services in Caithness since the news leaked about the review and then the financial problems of the Trust. Given the assurances given at reorganisation under the "Designed to Care" proposals less than two years ago people in Caithness would appear to have been right to worry about the changes that many did not want. The drive towards centralisation yet again appears to threaten services in peripheral areas strengthening the view that the former district councils and locally based hospital trusts gave a better safeguard for locally based services. A clinical review as now being undertaken by the Health Board will undoubtedly conclude that the doctors skills cannot be maintained in Caithness under present arrangements as the birth rate is too low. This means that doctors in hospitals cannot get the experience and practice to maintain their skills and therefore are not persuaded to take postings in remote areas. The arguments may well follow that mothers and babies are put at risk by this factor and this line of reasoning may take us back to proposals to provide the service from Raigmore one way or another. Following a review nearly three years ago fears were allayed about possible down grading of the services at the Caithness General Hospital. The matter is again to be looked at and the maternity services review committee will start its work shortly. The committee is to be chaired by Monica Mouat from Highland Health Council. There is a feeling from the Health side that the public disquiet is somewhat premature as the committee has not even started its work. However there is considerable local fear that the current financial problems of the NHS trusts may have some bearing on the eventual outcome. A local committee to fight closure (which is not suggested as an option) or down grading to midwife only service, has been formed and is led by local councillors. There has been a series of stories running in the local and other Highland papers. The John O'Groat journal deveoted its whole front page to the matter last week. Letters from members of the public expressing their fears about the long journey to Inverness (100 - 140 miles) 3 to 4 hours by road. Also letters from mothers who have experienced problems with childbirth and the possible consequences if expert medical treatment had not been available locally. This issue is growing in the public mind and is a wide spread topic of discussion in many quarters. A petition has been in shops and offices for the last two weeks. The committee were out on the streets of Caithness getting signatures on Saturday. The Caithness Courier again has it as its front page story. Last week the John O'Groat Journal and the Press & Journal ran stories revealing a secret cost cutting plan to try and tackle the Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. the maternity unit was specifically mentioned as being inefficient and recommended the relocation of specialist staff to Inverness. The inefficiency comes not from any short comings of the staff but from the low birth rate in recent years in Caithness. The fact is that people of child bearing age are leaving the area and many reports point to demographic changes in the age structure of the population due in part to economic factors. More stories are coming forward almost daily of the problems women have had in the past which would not have been coped with if they had had to go to Inverness. Everyone is waiting for developments or statements but to date no assurances about the services have been given by either the Trust or the Health Board. If anyone has information or would like to say what they think on the matter the Message Board already has a section to use. Any significant details will be transferred to these pages over the coming months. Highland Health Council have issued a statement on 22 September.

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[es] In her new historical novel, La Romana Indómita, Costa Rican writer Anacristina Rossi leaves behind her familiar Central American territory and ventures across the sea to ancient Rome. She takes as her protagonist the daughter of Emperor Augustus ­– Julia, another in Rossi’s line of strong heroines. As a conspiracy takes shape against the emperor who had turned a republic into an autocracy, Julia finds herself caught between sympathy for the conspirators’ goals, allegiance to her sons (designated Augustus’s political heirs), and her love for Augustus. To supplement her research, she drew heavily on her own imagination for Julia’s story, which Rossi presents, almost movie-like, as a series of scenes. She told a writer for the Buenos Aires newspaper Crónica, “There was so little information about her, that really the reconstruction comes more from inside me than what history could say.” Julia is so unknown,” she told Víctor García Esquivel, “that there are few facts about her, for the most part she is accused of being a prostitute and a bad woman,” but that image, Rossi believes, derives from Julia’s father’s effort to destroy her reputation because she opposed the tyranny of his rule. La romana indómita, published in Mexico by Planeta, is available as an e-book from the publisher and from online bookstores, including Amazon.

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PF will win 2021 because people are hungry – Sinkamba – Zambia: News Diggers! Green Party president Peter Sinkamba says the Patriotic Front will win the 2021 elections because Zambians have embraced the ‘sebanya wikute’ culture where citizens are willing to embarrass themselves for personal benefit. And Sinkamba says Zambia has the worst managed economy among sub-Saharan countries, listing the debt distress as a testimony of that. In an interview with News Diggers! Sinkamba said regardless of how much damage the PF would do to the economy, they would still win the elections in 2021 because the poverty situation in Zambia has made citizens desperate to make ends-meet. “There is a mismatch between economic performance and voting patterns because of poverty. We think that we have a problem of poverty. You know, poverty is a very, very huge problem and that is why the whole globe has pushed their efforts to try and eradicate it. ‘Insala nga yacilamo, ilaleta umusebanyo’ (too much hunger brings shame) the approach is ‘sebana wikute’ (the embarrassment doesn’t matter as long as you get something out of it). You know, you can afford to do all sorts of things, including embarrassing themselves, but provided their stomach is full. It’s not just politicians, it’s a lot of Zambians doing this. So, the PF will win 2021 because people are hungry! So, they will win, provided that at the time of elections, they give them the chitenge material, some food items and the like. You know, we have reduced elections to that kind of threshold; where you provide chitenge, you provide shake-shake, you provide T-shirts and you sing and dance, then you are the best,” Sinkamba lamented. Meanwhile, Sinkamba said Zambia had the worst managed economy among sub-Saharan countries. “If you look at the regional management of economies, if you look at how our colleagues in Rwanda are performing, you will find that their total GDP for 2018 is projected to be far better that of Zambia. When you look at, particularly running of the economy, we are the worst in the region and it’s because of this government. So, whether or not the voters will appreciate that message is a different story. I think we have over-emphasized this point that at the time our colleagues took over government in 2011, they found the external debt portfolio, which was at US $1.9 billion. And also, the domestic debt was less than $2 billion. So, combined, domestic and external, debt was less than US $3 billion; today, we are talking about a combined debt of about US $13 billion. You heard what the Minister of Finance said last week that external debt has risen to about $9.3 billion, whilst the domestic debt has also risen to about US $5 billion,” said Sinkamba.

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As machines get smarter and/or more capable, they can take over more tasks that used to be done by humans. From ATMs to self-help kiosks at fast-food restaurants, the past several decades have seen many machines come onto the scene that can do valuable jobs. While ATMs and self-help kiosks have changed what some bank tellers and fast-food restaurant cashiers do, they haven’t replaced them completely, just pushed them to fill roles that require more distinctly human capabilities. What other roles could robots fill, and who is truly at risk for job displacement due to automation? Could robots do police work, for instance? Dubai Police have been experimenting with robotic police for the past couple of years, and the organization says it wants 25% of its patrolling force to be unarmed robots by 2030. Dubai Police used the first automated police officer in the region to patrol areas of the city, help identify wanted criminals using facial-recognition software, and provide a way for the public to report crimes. In China too, police robots are patrolling busy areas, looking for known criminals and simply being available to “protect against violence or unrest”. China’s AnBots can navigate autonomously through crowds, and they can even fire stun guns, which are remotely controlled by a human police officer. With the era of autonomous vehicles approaching, perhaps robots will also begin to take over traffic cop duties. Last year, Ford filed a patent for an autonomous police vehicle that can recognize traffic law violations and pursue the assailant’s vehicle. The patent reads: “Routine police tasks, such as issuing tickets for speeding or failure to stop at a stop sign, can be automated so that human police officers can perform tasks that cannot be automated.” While it may take many years before robocops and autonomous police vehicles take over some basic duties from human police officers, the idea that they someday could is indicative of just how much change is coming thanks to automation. Perhaps even lawyers and doctors may one day need to be “reskilled” to take on new tasks within their field of work. Case Crunch already proved in its Lawyer Challenge, an AI (artificial intelligence) vs. lawyers competition, that artificially intelligent systems can reliably predict legal decisions—in some cases much better than human lawyers. Doctors, too, could feel the effect of automation, thanks to the rise of robotic surgery, virtual medicine, and even AI-enabled health apps. In reality, though, humans who work as police officers and other first responders, as well as lawyers and doctors, aren’t the ones who are most at risk of job displacement due to automation. In most, if not all fields, tasks that can be automated only make up a small portion of what a human in these roles can accomplish. High-risk jobs are those that include manual, relatively uncomplicated labor in industries like manufacturing, retail, and logistics, among others. As for who will be affected by automation, a working paper on demographics and automation published by the National Bureau of Economic Research reports the demographic change—i.e., an increasing ratio of older to middle-aged workers—is associated with greater adoption of robots and other automation technologies, suggesting these workers may be more at risk of job displacement. As populations in many nations age and stay longer in the workforce, governments and industries must consider how to reskill these workers so they can continue to contribute in a valuable, fulfilling way.

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Grebe, (order Podicipediformes), any member of an order of foot-propelled diving birds containing a single family, Podicipedidae, with about 20 species. They are best known for the striking courtship displays of some species and for the silky plumage of the underparts, which formerly was much used in millinery. The speed with which grebes can submerge has earned them such names as water-witch and helldiver, while the position of the feet near the tail is responsible for the early English name arsefoot, from which the family name was derived. Adult grebes range in weight from less than 150 grams (5 ounces) to more than 1.4 kg (3 pounds) and in total length from 21 to 73 cm (8 to 29 inches). They vary principally in bill shape and ornamentation of the head. The group is found on all of the continents and on many island groups as well; however, it is best represented in temperate regions. Seven species each are found in North and South America, five in Eurasia, and three each in Africa and Australia. The species range from conspicuous and gregarious to solitary and skulking. Both parents share in nest building, incubation, and care of the young. The long pair bond that makes this possible is formed and strengthened by elaborate courtship displays, including ritualized preening, head shaking, diving, weed carrying, and rapid water treading with the body in a nearly vertical position. These displays may be combined into complex ceremonies such as the discovery ceremony of the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus), rednecked grebe (P. grisegena), horned grebe (P. auritus), eared grebe (P. nigricollis), and related species or the rushing display of the western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis). In nearly all courtship ceremonies, the roles of the sexes are interchangeable. The same is true of the precopulatory displays, and reverse mounting has been reported for all species that have been thoroughly studied. Courtship feeding, where one bird feeds another, is known only in the closely related Clark’s grebe (A. clarkii) and western grebe (A. occidentalis). In both species the male feeds the female. Grebe vocalizations include advertising calls, copulation trills, “conversational” notes, and duetting trills. In the courtship of more secretive species, such as the pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) and the dabchicks (a name given to several of the smaller grebes in genus Tachybaptus), vocalizations are relatively more important than visual displays. Following pair formation, grebes build one or more floating platforms of aquatic vegetation. On these mating takes place and three to seven unmarked chalky white eggs are laid. On leaving the nest, adults often cover the eggs with the soggy nest material, and, by the end of the incubation period (usually three to four weeks), the eggs are strongly stained. In most cases the nest is deserted after the young hatch, and the small young spend most of their time on the swimming parents’ backs, which they reach by clambering up the adult’s foot. On hatching, the downy young are marked with bold longitudinal stripes, though such stripes are rarely visible on the gray young of the western grebe. Remnants of the head stripes are carried over into the juvenile plumage. In addition to the stripes, the young have either one or more patches of rufous down or a bare spot on the crown. The skin of the latter changes in colour from pink to red when the young become excited. Grebes breed on still or slow-moving bodies of fresh water. The dabchicks and the pied-billed grebe are most numerous on small waters with much emergent vegetation, the western grebe on large bodies of open water. Some species winter on sheltered coastal waters. Grebes’ diets are made up almost entirely of animal matter. The western grebe feeds largely on fish, the eared grebe on small invertebrates, and the pied-billed grebe takes many heavy-bodied crustaceans. Other species, such as the horned and red-necked grebes, have more varied diets. Grebes are noted for swallowing feathers, which form a plug in the pyloric pocket of the stomach and effectively filter material passing to the intestine. Adults feed feathers to the young, establishing this plug shortly after hatching. Grebes feeding on invertebrates containing much chitin regurgitate pellets rather frequently; fish eaters tend to maintain masses of feathers in the main portion of the stomach, presumably to hold fish bones until they are digested. Grebes can be distinguished by their lobed toes with flat nails, greatly reduced tail feathers, and satiny breast feathers. The last is due to the relatively loose structure of the feathers on this part of the body and to spirally coiled barbules (the secondary branches of the feathers), which lie parallel to the barbs (the primary branches). As with most diving birds, the conspicuous features that distinguish species from one another are found on the head and figure prominently in courtship. Heads of typical grebes. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. In winter plumage, most grebes are brown, black, or gray above and white or light brown below. In summer plumage, rufous, buff, black, or white markings or elongated plumes are found chiefly on the head and neck, and the males tend to be more brightly coloured and have somewhat longer plumes than the females. The males also tend to be larger and larger-billed than the females. Grebes’ wings are short, and the wing bones are small in diameter. Some species nesting in cold regions are migratory, and major flights are usually made at night. One species, the short-winged grebe (Rollandia micropterum) of Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia, is flightless; two others, Taczanowski’s grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii) of Lake Junín, Peru, and the giant pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus gigas) of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, have somewhat reduced wings and fly little, if at all. While on the surface, grebes usually swim with alternate strokes of the feet. Underwater, the feet move simultaneously. Between recovery and power strokes, the feet are turned 90° so that the broad side can be used for propulsion; just before the recovery stroke, the feet are rotated in the opposite direction. While resting, grebes keep one or both feet shipped under the wings, and the head is kept forward with the bill under the neck. Grebes are ancient, highly specialized diving birds with no obvious close relatives, living or fossil. The earliest fossil is possibly Neogaeornis wetzeli, a diving bird that dates back to the Late Cretaceous Epoch (about 80 million years ago) of Chile. Statements to the effect that N. wetzeli was “primitive” or “reptilian” are erroneously based on a superficial resemblance to the toothed Hesperornithiformes (see Hesperornis), an order of birds from the Cretaceous Period (146 million–65.5 million years ago). In addition, a fossil grebe, Podiceps oligoceanus, uncovered from late Oligocene deposits (about 25 million years ago) in Oregon, bears many similarities to modern species. Grebes comprise a single family, Podicipedidae, of the order Podicipediformes. There are approximately 22 species, usually placed in five genera: Aechmophorus (the western grebe), Podiceps (most species), Podilymbus (the pied-billed grebes), Rollandia (Rolland’s and short-winged grebes), and Tachybaptus (dabchicks). The order and family are defined on the basis of structural features, especially the form of the nostrils, the absence of certain processes in the skull, and the absence of the ambiens muscle in the leg. The knee process consists of a large pyramidal patella (kneecap) and a large projection on the tibia (the main bone of the lower leg). The wing is diastataxic (that is, there is a space where the fifth secondary feather is located in many birds), with 12 primaries, seven of which are attached to the metacarpus (midhand). The oil gland is tufted and has two openings. Only the left carotid artery is present. The intestinal caeca (blind pouches) are small. The names Colymbus, Colymbidae, and Colymbiformes were formerly applied to the grebes in North America and to the loons (Gavia) in Europe.

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3D printing with "wood flour" University of Washington Open3D student Meghan Trainor and her colleagues Juliana Meira do Valle and Kate Lien are experimenting with 3D printing using "wood flour" made from finely ground walnut and pecan shells and wood bark. They're also expanding into 3D printing with iced tea! A year ago Open3D student Meghan Trainor started doing tests on 3D printing in wood. Later on students Juliana Meira do Valle and Kate Lien took over the experiments and worked to improve the results. The team now 3D print in black walnut shell flour, pecan shell flour, wood bark flour & wood flour. The team uses a powder based 3D printer which is basically a hacked version of a commercial system. In this case the team has used UF glue as a binder. The recipe for 3D printing in wood is to use 4 to 5 parts wood or nut flour and 1 part UF glue. The initial results are intriguing and prove once again that the Open3DP team is really pushing the envelope on hacking and improving 3D printers and 3D printing materials.

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The new bar of Ben Wilson (BWS), the Bula Bar. The Bula bar has a minimalist design and an above the bar depower system. The depower system uses an easy cleat clamp. Ben Wilson makes kitesurf gear dedicated to wave riding. So is the Bula Bar. The Bula bar is made in collaboration with R3 Designs. The Bula bar has, in contrast to the Ben Wilson Blue Chip bar, an above the depower trim system. You can easily trim the bar because of the action roller so you can pull the depower without using a lot of strenght. The depower is secured by the cleat lock. The cleat lock has a handy velcro strip where you can attach the depower line to so that there is no long line tangeling around your bar when you are completely depowerd. The minimalist design is also found in the 'all-in-one' center line, this way there is only one line through your bar. The center line has a 12mm diameter and is made of PU. The center line houses the flag out line and the power line. The integrated bar ends ensure that the lines are less likely to tangle around your bar during a wipe out. Under the Ben Wison Bula bar there is a handy swivel to unwind your power lines. The Ben Wilson Bula is available from the beginning of July.

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I need the driver for the RTL8187L. That doesn't appear in the defconfig list. I *think* I'm supposed to use the rtfwifi? In lines 10 & 11 you have rt28703070. Do I change that to rtlwifi? Last edited by Devil_D; 2014-03-04 at 14:45. Last edited by Devil_D; 2014-03-04 at 15:03. Last edited by J0K3R-BHS; 2014-03-06 at 13:10. I notice rtlwifi installs drivers for RTL8188, 8192 BUT NOT for RTL8187. Can you make a deconfig to install the drivers for RTL8187 please? Thanks for getting back to me. User Mentu says that he tried that but it did not work. I will try it myself and report back. Last edited by Devil_D; 2014-04-21 at 09:46. I've followed your instructions, the fixed channel -1 is gone now, but my alfa AWUS036NHA with ath9k driver is now stuck on channel 1! airodump-ng can scan only on channel 1 and if I try manually to look for a network on another channel just doesn't show up.. How can I fix it? Same problem here. I've had this -1 error since the first release of backtrack 5. Been able to fix with compat-wireless and patch but now with backports and your fix I get channel one. Your kernel headers are incomplete/not installed. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) - does not fix the error? (no linux-headers3.12-kali1-amd64 found ) How can I fix that problem? Hi, same issue here! Same card as well. Did you manage to fix it? it cause patch failed and probleam not fix correctly. So far I've tried to do this at least six times with Kali 1.0.6, and every single time I have managed to bork my wireless to the point where I have to reinstall. The last time I did it, I just reinstalled Kali 1.0.7 over it hoping that the problem would be fixed. Needless to say, it wasn't. I've tried using the "-ignore-negative-one" flag when I capture, but it doesn't seem to work. One thing I had noticed is that when I applying the patches, I was getting errors. Unfortunately, the only way I could show what errors I got was if I attempted it again, and I finally got my install to where I like it, so needless to say, that's all but a non-starter. Is it possible there's something I'm missing? I can't understand why it's not working for me when it's working for everyone else. I've been struggling with this for a week now. I just did a complete reinstall, updated & upgrade. Confirmed that reaver doesnt work, aireplay gets stuck on channel -1, but airodump does properly hop through channels. Hunk #1 FAILED at 826. Hunk #1 succeeded at 1490 (offset 8 lines). I too am looking for a fix as well, have not been able to fix channel -1 issue in Parrot os, and Ralink RT2870/3070 driver when running reaver has issues, failed to associate, even used airplay to authenticate, my ath9k driver seems to work thought im confused. I have been having the same issuewith the aircrack suite, I was reading somewhere that it was the libpcap0.8 and i downgraded it and it ended up uninstalling a bunch of tools. I have the 3.14 kernal, I just upgraded from backtrack to kali.. Will the patch work with 3.14 kernal or do i need another patch ? i reinstalled kali, and now with no luck at all at getting this to work, the new kernel in kali 1.07 3.14 i cant seem to make this meathod work. I have tried different backports, 3.14.1 and 3.16.5 and have followed the same steps, I was told before to use make defconfig-wifi instead of make oldconfig, i have tried both, ive tried make menuconfig etc with no luck, i still am getting the channel -1 error. Any input would be great i cant get past this issue. Please and thanks, Also Devil when i apply your negative one patch it fails to patch correctly. Anyone help me out. please . help me out , please. I saw so many pain in the *** with same issue, over, and over again. I'm sure that you are just lazy like any *** on summer day. Maybe our wiki is not good for you, or it can't click and make copy/paste in your place. This tutorial was tested with "Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter" some China SignalKing adapter. Same ralink run with Alfa AWUS036NH version. I will try to resolve all this mess from last few months with one line of command (or two, first need reboot), if you you have some issues, keep me posted or move your *** and give some solution. I don't have time to write bash script for this. First run system update. Tested on adapter with Atheros AR9280 chipset. hi guys, can someone help me? Hunk #1 succeeded at 480 with fuzz 1. Hunk #1 FAILED at 252. Hunk #1 FAILED at 1482. Hunk #1 FAILED at 480. I appreciated dataghost reply.... despite the fact that it was rather surly, he did summarize a lot of things with enough detail to remove some prior confusion. However.... I encounter the same issue as others in this thread... Namely when it comes to running the apparent "custom patch" , or -Ocompatdrivers_chan_qos_frag.patch from http://www.pastie.org/pastes/8846771/download. Hunk #1 succeeded at 251 (offset -1 lines). Hunk #1 succeeded at 689 with fuzz 1 (offset 209 lines). Now iirespective of the output of the remaining steps, I highly question the integrity of any of it since I get this error (shown above). And...just as an FYI... this exact same problem has happened to me since the beginning of the thread.... I always get an error when patching with this "custom" patch. Thanks you for an advice in advance. By the way, I am using this for airbase-ng, and other items, primarily in trying to (once again) fine-tune an easy-cred type script based on some recent defcon presentations. PS: I am using ath9K (AR9271 chipset). that is problably hapenning because who created the thread does now know very well how things work . and then he tells everybody to download another frag+ack patch because it have the correct offset !!! so why did he write the first patch ? this is the most confuse explanation in this forum . I downloaded the latest backports 3.17 rc3 , and i am figuring out how to do it correctly , but i think you only need these patches : 1 & 3 , or 2 & 3 , and not 1,2,3 . I don't know why, but works. I'm trying to patch my rtl8188eu. Is there any patch for this available? How can I find it? I figured out that this is a pretty recent driver, right? It's never shows up when I run airmon-ng after I try to patch it as suggested at the beginning. That's important to say that I'm trying this with a Kali installed in a VirtualBox. Hunk #1 succeeded at 784 (offset 107 lines). Connecting to www.pastie.org (www.pastie.org)|162.159.243.119|:80... connected. Hunk #1 succeeded at 1542 (offset 60 lines). Hunk #1 succeeded at 633 with fuzz 1 (offset 153 lines). Connecting to pastebin.com (pastebin.com)|141.101.112.16|:80... connected. Last edited by pedropt; 2014-09-15 at 11:37. first off big thanks to everyone who has attempted to fix this over the last couple of months. I run kali and keep it upto date on a separate laptop (just a compaq of all things) and use both the internal wifi card (ath9k) and a Danets NextG Yagi (rt2870/3070usb). i beleive that i have pretty much ran into the same errors as everyone else but from following this thread, this link (Black Hat Sec Forum) and then following it up with this link Auto Script by D4RkNiK0l4s. Between these 3 activities i have managed to get my internal card (ath9k) back and working well without the need for --ignore-negative-one switches however the RT2870/3070 is now not recognised at all. I have read also that the patch detailed above, only resolves issues with 1 card and cant work where multiple cards are present on the one machine. Not sure of the validity of that however thought i would put it out there. If anyone who has successfully resolved the issue with the rt2870/3070 drivers has information on how to proceed then it would be greatly appreciated, however from the findings i have seen it looks like i should be best off getting another card which is backports compatible? I tried this, but it didn't work due to various errors when patching after that when running make. Also my RT2870/3070 card sometimes is able to inject packages, but then I run reaver or airodump-ng for example and after that it gets the No Answer... 0 APs found error. It's quite obvious that reaver CAN'T work for me, if packet injection suddenly stops working; because of that I tried to run the patch, but obviously failed terribly. I'm really confused about Kali in general aswell. After I installed it freshly, it works fine, but then I run the general updates & upgrades and after that it gets fsck error when booting up - reinstalled Kali 4 times so far, but that's just a side now really.

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"I have always been interested in all aspects of music and its creation. Starting as a guitar player and drummer, I was always interested in recording my own bands so I sought out to do exactly that. After a humble beginning recording in my mother's garage, I built and operated my own facility alongside engineer and musician, Garry Dubay, (These Selfish Things) in Reno, NV. A few years later I was offered a temporary position at Ronnie's Place Studio in Nashville, TN and then moved to Philadelphia, PA shortly after, where I currently own and engineer at Drowning Fish Studio with my partner, Jason Dunkerly (Meredith Bell and The Kickbacks). "I've worked in many studios around the country, on both sides of the glass. Everywhere I've worked, the 312 preamp is a must-have. When I was first introduced to it, I was hooked and had to get one for my own studio. I can honestly say it's the only piece of gear I use on every session. Any style, any genre. It has an insane amount of headroom, and to me, the perfect character. Aside from the sound quality, the build quality is phenomenal as well. There's a reason why API has such a great reputation in audio. It's comforting to know as an engineer, that every time I turn on the rack, I have a reliable and great sounding unit. "It really shines on kick and snare. Very quick, and big sounding. Running guitars and bass through it just adds that excitement on the track that I'm always looking for. It is the key ingredient to any rock or pop tune. API is simply a must in my studio." Drowning Fish is a professional recording facility in Philadelphia, PA. They are equipped with the best of both analog and digital recording tools to capture the sound you're looking for. The goal of Drowning Fish is to provide musicians with a quality acoustical space along with accuracy and strong attention to detail when recording your project.

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We hope you’re as excited as we are about our fall slate of entertainment. Cozy back up to returning Turner series and discover your next favorite. Here’s what you need to know about what’s on at our networks. Will Letty and Javier stay out of trouble in season two? It’s highly questionable from the looks of this clip. They Cuyler family is back for season 11, and they’re none the wiser this time around. But they sure are funny. Enjoy this Bob Mould cover of the theme song. A new animated series from Tyler, the Creator, and Lionel Boyce about a human teenager who is shocked to discover his jellyfish parents aren’t his birth parents. Yes, really. A fresh, new take on an essential homemaking that’s part hospitality, part variety and talk show with the charm and silliness that only Amy Sedaris can deliver. A Snoop-ified reboot of the iconic game show “The Joker’s Wild,” which was Snoop Dog’s favorite while growing up. Epic comedic rap battles between celebs that are not necessarily known for freestyling. Based off of the “The Late Late Show” segment of the same name and hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin. “Too Soon” on Super Deluxe’s Facebook channel. The LAPD Major Crimes Unit delivers the drama for one last season. The second season of this charming and funny comedy finds Dory and her crew dealing with a very real-world problem.

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Elly Stone, now aged 87, will forever be associated with the songs of Jacques Brel. Here she talks about her music and her life, both on and off stage. Elly Stone is a modest 87 year old New Yorker ("born and dragged up"), whose sublime voice will forever be associated with the songs of Belgian chanteur Jacques Brel. In My Childhood, Song for Old Lovers, The Old Folks and Carousel she brings a new perspective to Brel's familiar emotional intensity and piercing social commentary. Twenty years after her retirement from the stage, she offers a rare insight into her life and what music has meant to her - in a quiet New York studio, out on the streets of her bustling city and at Sardi's, the famous theatre restaurant. Running through Elly's own story - from troubled childhood, through Broadway success, to marriage, motherhood and mid-life epiphany - there's a musical counterpoint that can be traced in the songs she famously made her own in the musical revue Jacques Brel's Alive and Well and Living in Paris. You can listen to Elly Stone's final, and unreleased, recording here.

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OXFORD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In India, farmers growing crops for seed company Mahyco get a text message after they deliver their harvest, noting its weight and how much was usable - followed quickly by another text saying their money is in the bank. That reliable flow of cash through their accounts means when a farmer goes to ask for credit, the bank is much more likely to give them a loan, said Usha Barwale Zehr, director and chief technology officer for the Maharashtra-based seed firm. As climate change makes farming far tougher and more young people reject it as a career, technological innovations to make the work more secure and appealing can help, agricultural specialists told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford this week. Giving small-scale farmers access to the right-sized farm machinery, for instance, can help reduce backbreaking labor and keep more people on the land, Zehr said. But mobile phone apps that connect farmers with other rural entrepreneurs who invest in wheat-combines for hire, for instance, can give farmers access to easier harvests at a low cost - and provide an income for the harvester as well. “We’ve seen a lot of excitement from farmers for these digital applications,” Zehr said. In Ghana, farmers struggling with worsening pest and plant-disease problems related to climate change, as well as wilder weather, can now access a call center staffed by young agronomists, said Willy Foote, CEO of Root Capital. In a region without enough on-the-ground agricultural advisers, the farmers use mobile phones to get fast advice on what to do when termites invade a field, for instance, said Foote, whose non-profit invests in such innovations. “Agronomists can go out on a motorcycle (to visit) if needed, but 80 percent of the issues can be addressed right there,” Foote said. Technology also is making it easier for African nations to judge what size harvest their farmers will bring in, without the need for slow and costly field visits, said Agnes Kalibata, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Countries such as Rwanda used to send out analysts each season to look at 30 percent of the country’s farms - each with an average size of a third of a hectare - to plan ahead and try to ensure an adequate food supply, said Kalibata, a former Rwandan agriculture minister. Now, AGRA has partnered with Atlas AI, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence firm, to create satellite-based “predictive analytics” for harvests in 11 African countries, including Rwanda, saving time and effort, she said. As climate change makes harvests more unpredictable, “we need to give countries a sense of what is going to happen, how to plan”, she added. AGRA also has worked with African countries to end the popular but volatile system of providing free internationally sourced seed to farmers, and instead to support the development of private local seed distribution systems, Kalibata said. Poorer countries are often under pressure from agribusiness to use land more efficiently by consolidating it into larger, highly mechanized farms, said Debra Dunn, who helped launch a sustainable food systems program at Stanford University. “The environmental and human health costs of that approach have been enormous, and a lot of farmers have been taken out of farming work,” warned the co-founder of the FEED Collaborative. In African countries, and in India - where there are not enough alternative jobs for displaced farmers - “the wholesale adoption of these approaches would be disastrous” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, she said. Making small-scale farming more productive and boosting farmers’ incomes, even in the face of climate change, is a better option, the experts told a panel discussion. “I keep telling big business: You don’t need land, you need produce. Buy from small producers,” Kalibata said. Some places like Ethiopia - infamous for famine sparked by drought and poor governance in the 1980s - are already showing what is possible. In recent years, Ethiopia has faced drought as severe as in the 1980s, causing food shortages but no widespread starvation, Kalibata said, thanks to mapping of the country’s soils and careful use of fertilisers to dramatically increase harvests. Root Capital’s Foote said that in the places his organization works, climate change had become “an existential crisis” with farmers “absolutely on the frontline”. It was now crucial to “ensure farmers, and especially the most vulnerable, have access to the information and skills and capital they need to adjust”, he added.

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BUTTE COUNTY — The death toll for the Camp Fire soared to 23 on Saturday, as authorities began the grim task of discovering bodies in the ashes of Paradise, a town overcome by the firestorm this week. The fire, roaring about 100 miles north of Sacramento, is already the most destructive fire in California history, consuming 105,000 acres and destroying nearly 7,000 structures — in its first 48 hours. And it may soon become the deadliest. Four of the bodies were discovered in the town of Concow, just west of where the fire started early Thursday morning. Ten more were discovered Saturday in Paradise, where officials had already announced on Friday nine people were killed. Only two fires have claimed more lives — the 1933 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles, which killed 29, and the Oakland Hills fire in 1991, which killed 25. Last year, several fires across Northern California killed 44 people in the Wine Country. Authorities said they were unable to identify many of the remains because they were so badly burned. They are turning to a Department of Justice DNA lab truck and California State University Chico anthropology team to help identify the remains. With heavy winds expected to last through Monday, officials fear the historic blaze is far from finished with its ruinous path. Wind gusts are expected up to 50 mph, triggering Red Flag Warnings for high risk fire danger, and northeasterly winds are pushing the Camp Fire’s thick unhealthy smoke into the Bay Area, canceling outdoor events through the weekend. Typically, the region sees more rain in the fall, but this year has been especially dry. There may be “a hint of rain” the week of Thanksgiving, Powell said, but until then firefighters are working under tough conditions. And while air crews tried to take advantage of calmer winds Saturday to attack the deadly blaze burning near Paradise, the fire was just 20 percent contained and spreading on two fronts, to the north toward Stirling City and south toward Lake Oroville, home to the nation’s tallest dam. In February 2017, more than 180,000 residents were evacuated from the region near the Oroville Dam when a damaged emergency spillway threatened to release a 30-foot wall of water into nearby communities after a winter of heavy rains. Dam officials frantically shored up the spillway and lowered the lake levels to avoid a catastrophe. Now, construction operations at the Oroville Dam spillways have been shut down because of the fire, said Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for the Department of Water Resources. The department is wetting down areas at risk of catching fire and placing backup generators in key locations to prepare for a possible power outage or the loss of power lines. Some workers have lost their homes in the blaze already, and the department was drawing up plans to continue managing water storage and delivery operations remotely in case the dam needs to be evacuated. “It’s just an awful thing to see happen year after year,” Mellon said of California’s recent rash of deadly wildfires. Darvis McCoy is bracing for another order to flee his home. He retired from the Santa Clara Valley Water District a few years ago and moved to Oroville. Already, the Camp Fire has forced 52,000 people from their homes. On Saturday, the blaze was still threatening some 15,000 structures, and dozens of people are reportedly still missing. Marie Wehe’s family was desperate to hear from her after she was last seen leaving her home in the tiny town of Concow, just west of where the fire started, in a silver 2001 Chevy Silverado pickup truck with disabled plates. Paradise, just days ago home to about 26,000 residents, has been reduced to charred rubble. Few structures remain standing. On Saturday, fire crews and PG&E workers fanned out across the town, combing through ashes, looking in burned out cars and checking power lines. Old Town Plaza, a popular shopping center, was destroyed. A home for disabled people on Ripley Lane was in ruins, save for a fireplace and chimney, and abandoned wheelchairs left behind. Just east of town, the historic Honey Run Covered Bridge — one of the last surviving bridges of its kind — was gone. Brad Weldon, who had his ailing blind 90-year-old mother at his home, decided to stay in Paradise and battle the flames licking at his home himself with a garden hose. “It was like fighting an elephant with a piece of spaghetti,” Weldon said. His home survived. But on Saturday, Weldon — searching for gas to run his generator — was warned by law enforcement he wouldn’t be let back into his neighborhood if he went too far. In nearby Magalia, Cindy Seeley and about 30 other residents, with their dogs and cats, rushed to safety in the Magalia Pines Baptist Church. Fire resistant and protected by firefighters, the church and its refugees survived while flames burned around it. Not everyone has been so lucky. So far, 6,453 homes have been destroyed and the fire has scorched an area three times the size of San Francisco. Around 4,050 firefighters and law enforcement from across California and out of state are battling the inferno “all over the perimeter doing different tasks,” said Cal Fire spokesman Kevin Tidwell. Meanwhile, in Southern California, the Woolsey and Hill fires have forced more than 250,000 people in Los Angeles and Ventura counties to flee their homes, destroying Malibu mansions and houses built deep into canyons in the area. Despite the terror still shaking so many parts of the state, President Trump took to Twitter Saturday morning to blame poor forest management for California’s fires. The comment drew immediate ire, with many on social media pointing out the federal government maintains the vast majority of California forests and arguing that climate change is the real culprit. Staff Photographers Jane Tyska, Karl Mondon and Randy Vazquez contributed reporting.

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I’ve been a wreck this summer. It does feel like every passing summer is getting hotter and hotter still. Either the twelve months in between make me forget what summer is really like, or the wretched truth is that it is actually getting warmer by the year. Entirely possible given the rate at which the trees are being stripped off and construction sites are sprouting around me. In Panjim at least the reduced green cover, soaring temperatures, and an unnaturally high, oppressive kind of humidity has been palpable this year. I’ve spent most of summer indoors, which seems like the better bet, but is somehow equally draining. Makes me want to nap at odd hours, not want to cook elaborate meals, wear objectionable clothes and spend time just sitting directly under a fan or right in front of the blast of the air-con. Entire meals are being made from all things liquid, buttermilk, watermelon juice, mango milkshake. Doing anything around the house is doubly hard and procrastination has become my middle name. I begin each day by obsessively checking the weather app and scrolling frantically to see if there’s a hint of rain to give us some respite. Let’s just say I’m ready to say goodbye to this summer. Last week when I landed in Goa and called home, I was surprised to be greeted by an irritable VC. It doesn’t happen often, so I knew something was up. A long cab ride back home, I walked in to the house, climbing up the stairs I felt the hot air cling around me, tighten its grip and immediatly felt bullets of sweat squeeze out of the surface of my skin. I knew at once, the heat was probably driving VC crazy. And I was right, so I dumped my luggage, quickly freshened up and we left soon after to catch dinner. Our criteria to pick a restaurant: air-conditioning. There were were VC, at the Chinese restaurant, downing our suimai when I saw a group of people walk in, drenched to the bone. It didn’t make sense, and I couldn’t see what was happening outside, but it looked like there had been some rain. Lots of it.Serious attempts were made to conceal my excitement and relief. By the time we finished and got out, we were in the thick of the downpour. Let’s just say I’m ready to say goodbye to this summertime misery. Sure, a few months into the rain there will be a different kind of misery. Wrapped in mildew and mustiness, and I will be back ranting about it. Is it just me or has anybody else felt like this year the summer has pushed all previously held benchmarks of tropical misery? It’s been downright horrid for me, and I am ready to welcome a splash of monsoon, which will hopefully come at us with a crash and a bang, cool temperatures, settle the dust, bring back lush life into the dreary expanses of dry-land around me and hopefully renew the enthusiasm to be up and about again. I’m ready for that kind of rain-soaked misery. Anything to get on and out of this misery now. It *is* getting warmer each year. My ambitious career goals have bitten the dust. Now all I want is a job that will allow me to live in the hills or in a country with cooler climes during summer, and in the city in India during winter. Since I’ve grown up by the seaside, I can handle humid weather quite well. Atleast there’s cool air coming down when I turn on the fan. I simply cannot deal with the dry heat of Delhi/Hyderabad. I feel like I’m trapped in a giant oven and there’s no escape. I don’t have an appetite. I can barely step outdoors. It’s like hell on earth. Till about two weeks ago, the weather in Delhi has been surprisingly pleasant so we’ve been making the most of it by doing outdoorsy things. But it’s definitely heating up (and how!) so I’m going to have to start thinking of interesting indoor excursions in the city. Atleast you have just a few more days to go before the blessed monsoon hits you. I have to deal with this godforsaken heat for a couple of months more. Gah!! First time commenting here, though i’ve read your posts now and then !! Goan monsoon is not very different from Mumbai, so I hear your pain. I love it though, because everyhtign gets very green and lush and until the mildew and mugginess catches up, I like to enjoy the cool weather a little. SO refreshing after the wretched summer. This summer has been miserable. It rains off and on, but it only seems to make the weather hotter. The funny thing is the winters are getting colder here in Bangalore, so it’s veering towards extremes here. We’re definitely veering towards extremes, and I think that itself is an imbalance.. Its pretty scary to watch it change right before your eyes. Goa is known to be hot in summer, but I know im not alone when I say this year its been off the charts! Unnaturally so. At least we had our bouts of rain, I suspect its worse for you!

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Freedom Friday - Jan 24 news - GummyBro in the Sours Stole Christmas! GummyBro in the Sours Stole Christmas! Play GummyBro through the snowy land of Gummy Island as he journeys to get Christmas back! The vile, odd-tasting Sours have stolen his family Christmas tree, along with the gifts and the Holiday mood! To be released on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. 2013 DonutzArcade© -Happy Holidays! Curiosity (The Concept), GummyBro in the Sours Stole Christmas!, Machine Runner and Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor make up your extremely long winded title champions of 2014! Also they are apart of Freedom Friday. Friday, friday everybody get down on... *cough* okay its Friday meaning one thing, four fantastically free games for the budget aware gamer in us all! First head on the Freedom chopping block is Curiosity (The Concept) for Windows. Curiosity is a First Person Puzzle Platformer set in a beautiful sci-fi environment. The concept version features 6 levels, 3 unique environments, a tutorial level and a soundtrack by the up-and-coming EDM artist SirensCeol. The second brain container in the basket is GummyBro in the Sours Stole Christmas! for Windows. Play GummyBro through the snowy land of Gummy Island as he journeys to get Christmas back! The vile, odd-tasting Sours have stolen his family Christmas tree, along with the gifts and the Holiday mood! Nothing like nice and late holiday games to round up a Freedom Friday! The heads continue to roll down the Freedom Hill with the third game Machine Runner for Windows. Machine Runner is a 2D, continuous-runner, platform game for the PC where you control R.0.B, a disgruntled Runner-Bot, tired of the daily drudgery of life in Robot-City. This is a fast-paced arcade game, where you will die quickly and often. The free release of the game features 16 pre-set randomly appearing foreground parts, which make up the continually scrolling foreground terrane. The last hea.. game making it's way to Freedom today is Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor and aside from having a huge name you can play it on a Windows system. Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor is an old-style point-and-click adventure game, inspired by the great Sierra and Lucas 90's classics. It has an old-fashion graphic style, totally hand-drawn. The drawings were scanned and colored with simple photo-editing programs. Game interface is old style too. The dialogues, the characters and the situations have a sense of humor inspired by games like "Day of the Tentacle" or "Monkey Island". I hope you're all full as a bull on this weeks selections. Come back next week for more Freedom!

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Real Madrid get their Champions League campaign back underway on Wednesday evening as Santiago Solari’s side travel to face Ajax in the first leg of their round of 16 match-up. Despite a frustratingly inconsistent season, Los Blancos remain one of the favourites to lift the trophy at the Wanda Metropolitano in May. Here are four reasons why Real Madrid can win a fourth consecutive Champions League title in 2019. Sergio Ramos is a weird bloke – as proven by the recent revelation that he has a statue of Michael Jackson outside of his toilet – but he’s also a natural born winner. He’s proven time and time again that he will do absolutely anything to win. Anything. Even if that means committing GBH on an opponent’s best player in the Champions League final – just ask Liverpool. He is far from perfect and one could even make the argument to suggest that he has been on the decline this season, but his insatiable desire to win is likely to act as a driving force for Real – especially as they delve deeper into the tournament. Plenty of people have already written off Real and, if you were to go off their form during the first half of the season, you can understand why. Under former manager Julen Lopetegui they looked a shadow of their former selves and his ill-fated tenure came to an abrupt end after he oversaw an embarrassing 5-1 loss in El Clasico back in October. Santiago Solari took over the reigns and whilst he didn’t have an immediately positive impact, things are slowly starting to fall into place. Real are hitting a purple patch at just the right time. Heading into their round of 16 clash against Ajax, Solari’s side are unbeaten in their last seven matches and most recently prevailed 3-1 against bitter rivals Atletico Madrid. Real have managed to close the gap to Barcelona at the top of La Liga to just six points, but challenging for the league title may still be beyond them at this stage. They are instead likely to prioritise the Champions League and, as has been proven countless times in the past, that’s a high risk strategy which usually pays off for Los Blancos. Their squad depth isn’t necessarily as strong as some of the other teams left in the competition, but if they fall any further behind in the league then you can guarantee that their league position will quickly become a periphery target. Should we really be questioning if Real can win the Champions League again this year? The same question has been asked time and time again and Real always manage to find the answer. Simply put, they know what they are doing when it comes to the Champions League. Granted, Real won three consecutive titles under the tutelage of Zinedine Zidane, but Solari’s inexperience won’t count against him when he can rely on the wealth of experience at his disposal. Other than the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, not too much has changed since Real began their era of European dominance back in 2016. That can only spell trouble for the other 15 teams left in the competition.

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Happy New Year everyone! I wanted to start my new year by sharing my goals and resolutions for the year! I’m going to jump right in! Ok, I’ll admit. I’m not the best about posting regularly. I’m actually really bad at it. This year I want to really work on my blog. I want to post on a schedule. I made this blog to inspire, help, and share with people and the only way to do that through my posts, is to post! I’m aiming for new posts every Tuesday and Thursday! I know… everyone usually puts something like this for their goals/resolutions. I’m guilty. I have had this written down for so many years and here I am going through the drive thru instead of cooking, or being “too tired” for the gym. This year it’s time to throw the excuses away and GET HEALTHY! I want to do this for not only my health, but to set a good example for my children and encourage them to be healthy as well. This somewhat goes along with the above goal of getting healthy, but drinking water does SO much for you. Drinking water is so important, so this year I want to really work on getting my water intake in and also encourage my daughter (eventually my son also, but he’s on formula right now) to drink water. I know I’m not the only one who has fallen asleep with their makeup on to wake up in the morning with raccoon eyes. I fall asleep with my makeup on more than I’d like to admit. This year I want to take the time for me and the good of my skin to actually take my makeup off, do a face mask sometimes, just take care of my skin. This goes for my hair as well. I use heat, I’ll admit it. I have gone 3 years before without cutting my hair and it was fried and dead. This year I want to make it a priority to get trims, do hair masks, and get my hair healthy! I’m so bad at this. I’m talking the kind of procrastinating that gets me running around finding outfits for the kids, getting them ready and packing the diaper bag 20 minutes before leaving. If you have kids, you know this usually is never enough time, especially with a two year old. This year I want to pack my bags before bed, pick out outfits the night before, do the dishes before bed, do the work when it’s assigned instead of when it’s due. Not only will it make the days easier, but not procrastinating will take away SO much stress! I am really bad at this as well. I’m always doing stuff with my husband or the kids or running around, cleaning, school, work, etc. I want to start making time for me. Even just a bath with a bath bomb and some wine, watching an episode of my show under a fuzzy blanket, even just listening to a podcasts while I’m shopping. Just something for myself. Jacob would label me as a hoarder and sometimes I can’t argue. I keep so much stuff we don’t even use. I like to say I’ll use it eventually or it has meaning, but honestly we both know I’ll never use some of this stuff. One of my goals this year is to really declutter. Get rid of the old toys, the clothes that don’t fit, the things we aren’t using anymore. I just want to really declutter, organize and keep clean! I have always loved reading. I used to have kicks where I would hide out in my room and read all the time and then I wouldn’t open a book for months. Reading is definitely something I want to get back into this year. Another way for me to make time for myself! Feel free to comment book suggestions!! I get so anxious when it comes to trying new things and meeting new people. I become so awkward and quiet. This year I know it’s time to break out of my comfort zone and do things I wouldn’t usually do. Like take the kids on play dates, meet other moms. (They go on play dates now, but with people I already know.) Join some kind of club or something. Just something to help break out of my comfort zone! I am guilty of letting the kids play solo sometimes while I scroll through Facebook or checking my phone while I’m at dinner with my husband. Sometimes my full attention is not where it should be and I’ll be the first to admit that. This year I want to really work on putting the phone to the side and spending more time with my family. I am extremely determined this year. I have my goals listed and I have started plans on how I’m going to achieve them. I am so excited to see what all this year brings for myself, my family, my friends, and you guys! Also.. I would love to hear everyone’s goals and resolutions for this year, so feel free to comment them. I’m also accepting tips and encouragement on reaching my goals. Lastly, don’t forget to comment book suggestions! Previous Previous post: My Favorite Christmas Movies!

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New product introduction volume continues to increase. Lilly Pulitzer’s analytics platform helps hone in on the winners. In an omnichannel world, customer satisfaction is key, which means merchandise must be available when shoppers want it. By extending its partnership with First Insight, Lilly Pulitzer will continue to use predictive analytics to make faster and more accurate design, buying and pricing decisions, and gain the insight needed to mitigate risks associated with new product introductions. For example, its not uncommon for Lilly Pulitzer to navigate among thousands of new products and designs. The retailer begins to streamline its journey by engaging customers through online social tools to gather real-time data on new products. This data is filtered through predictive analytic models to determine which products present the greatest opportunity. “First Insight’s analysis of consumers’ merchandising preferences, print favorites, and style trends provides our teams with pre-season insight into new product performance, giving them more confidence in the buying decisions and allowing us to tailor our assortment to match our consumers’ needs,” said Kate Kenny, VP of merchandising and planning, Lilly Pulitzer.

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BARCELONA — Most people in the media and marketing industries know that Red Bull is amongst the most celebrated of pioneer companies when it comes to branded content. The soft drink brand creates and publishes about extreme sports activities around the world to amplify its tagline, “Red Bull gives you wings”, the most notorious of which was a skydive from space. So what is the secret recipe for content marketing success? Speaking with Beet.TV in this video interview, Red Bull Media House chief technology officer Andreas Gall explains – it’s about social, not analogue. “It’s like a formula,” he says. “Keep the people in your network, make them happy, produce the right content, and go step-by-step with these learnings in to the next successful area. Last month, Red Bull Media House unveiled a raft of extreme sports experiences available via virtual reality. Gall says Red Bull is hot on performance media. “We try to avoid broadcast – it’s much more complex,” he says. “In the digital world, you have direct response. These numbers are so relevant for us.

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While SCADA networks aren’t new, the utilization of both SCADA networks and IoT application has only recently become popular. The fact of the matter is integrating an IoT application along with your SCADA network is an excellent way to take your business to the next level as it allows business to better collect and analyze data, which allows the ability for businesses to make more informed decisions. Especially when in need of a SCADA .Net, it is important to use a quality SCADA network for your IoT application. What is a SCADA Network? Before revealing the best SCADA networks, it is important to have an understanding of exactly what a SCADA network is and how you can use it to gather accurate data on business processes. SCADA, which stands for supervisory control and data acquisition, is a system of software and hardware elements that allows industrial organizations to control industrial processes, gather and process real time data, and directly interact with devices. While the concept of SCADA sounds complicated, it is actually quite simple in practice. In essence, SCADA networks allow you the ability to better collect organizational data and gives you the ability to better analyze that data and gain as much useful information on your business as possible. Why Use an IoT application with your SCADA Network? So why should you integrate an IoT application with your SCADA network? While traditional SCADA can work well for basic data collection and some simple analytic tasks, using a SCADA network for your IoT application can really enhance your business’ ability to gather and accurately interpret data, which will lead to more informed business decisions, better customer satisfaction and much more. Cimplicity is a proven automation platform that provides a great SCADA network. With cimplicity, you will be able to decrease operator response times, accelerate time-to-value and improve your business’ security. Cimplicity’s SCADA network also offers situational awareness, faster configuration and deployment, highly reliable software, superior alarm capabilities, OPC UA connectivity and security and extensive drivers. Due to the vast amount of advanced features and outstanding track record, Using a Cimplicity SCADA Network for IoT application is a great way to optimize your operator efficiency. Citect is another great SCADA network for IoT application that makes it easy to increase your business’ operations. Citect also includes an out of the box library of symbols, faceplates, navigation and alarming tools. Also, with integrated alarm cause, you can easily process information which is easily accessible. iFix is another great SCADA system that allows your business to transfer data to and from SCADA systems to IoT learning engines and cloud platforms. iFix, which is powered by GE, is constantly integrating the latest SCADA technologies to best gather and analyze useful business information. The benefits of using iFix’s SCADA network for IoT application include a high performance HMI, rapid application development, easier upgrades, reliable and secure design, context rich, model based navigation, intelligent alarming and highly extensible architecture. Utilizing iFix with your IoT applications is a great way to increase productivity, learn your customers interactions with your products and so much more. Another fantastic SCADA network for IoT application is RSView. RSView has provided trusted SCADA HMI systems for a while and can be trusted to do the same with your business. SImilar to the other top SCADA network systems, RSView’s SCADA system allows for maximum data collection and analytic properties, which leads to increased productivity, better customer service, more informed business decisions and much more. While RSView isn’t as popular as other SCADA network systems, it is certain to be able to meet whatever business demands you may have. SCADA networks and IoT systems are strong by themselves. When combined in the right manner, however, they can provide extremely powerful information for your customer’s interactions with your products, your employees efficiency numbers and much more. These four SCADA networks for IoT applications should be able to meet whatever data collection and analysis business needs you may have. What are your thoughts on the future of SCADA and IoT? Leave us a comment with your thoughts in the section below. How to transfer files and send messages between computers.

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The Atlantic puffin and denomination 200. Watermark is made after photo by Tom Schandy. About Atlantic puffin, please, read obverse description. The motive for all banknotes of the new series was the theme "The Sea". A banknote of 200 Kroner displays the theme "The sea that feeds us". On foreground is the Atlantic cod. The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a benthopelagic fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans. It is also commercially known as cod or codling. Dry cod may be prepared as unsalted stock-fish or as cured salt cod or clip-fish. It can grow to 2 meters in length and weigh up to 96 kilograms (212 lb.). It can live for 25 years and usually attains sexual maturity between ages two and four, but cod in the northeast Arctic can take as long as eight years to fully mature. Colouring is brown to green, with spots on the dorsal side, shading to silver ventrally. A stripe along its lateral line is clearly visible. Its habitat ranges from the shoreline down to the continental shelf. Several cod stocks collapsed in the 1990s (declined by >95% of maximum historical biomass) and have failed to recover even with the cessation of fishing. This absence of the apex predator has led to a trophic cascade in many areas. Many other cod stocks remain at risk. The Atlantic cod is labelled VU (vulnerable) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. On background, 3 times, are depicted Atlantic herring. Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) is a herring in the family Clupeidae. It is one of the most abundant fish species in the world. Atlantic herrings can be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, congregating in large schools. They can grow up to 45 centimeters (18 in.) in length and weigh up to 1.1 kilograms (2.4 lb.). They feed on copepods, krill and small fish, while their natural predators are seals, whales, cod and other larger fish. The Atlantic herring fishery has long been an important part of the economy of New England and the Canadian Maritime provinces. This is because the fish congregate relatively near to the coast in massive schools, notably in the cold waters of the semi-enclosed Gulf of Maine and Gulf of St. Lawrence. North Atlantic herring schools have been measured up to 4 cubic kilometers (0.96 cu. mi.) in size, containing an estimated 4 billion fish. On the banknote are shown The Atlantic puffin (three times) - in profile (in the upper right corner), flying - to the left of the center and with the fish in the beak - on the reverse. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin, are found in the northeastern Pacific. The Atlantic puffin breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and many North Atlantic islands, and as far south as Maine in the west and the British Isles in the east. Although it has a large population and a wide range, the species has declined rapidly, at least in parts of its range, resulting in it being rated as vulnerable by the IUCN. On land, it has the typical upright stance of an auk. At sea, it swims on the surface and feeds mainly on small fish, which it catches by diving underwater, using its wings for propulsion. This puffin has a black crown and back, pale grey cheek patches and white underparts. Its broad, boldly marked red and black beak and orange legs contrast with its plumage. It moults while at sea in the winter and some of the bright-coloured facial characteristics are lost. The external appearance of the adult male and female are identical except that the male is usually slightly larger. The juvenile has similar plumage but its cheek patches are dark grey. The juvenile does not have brightly coloured head ornamentation, its bill is less broad and is dark-grey with a yellowish-brown tip, and its legs and feet are also dark. Puffins from northern populations are typically larger than their counterparts in southern parts of the range. It is generally considered that these populations are different subspecies. Spending the autumn and winter in the open ocean of the cold northern seas, the Atlantic puffin returns to coastal areas at the start of the breeding season in late spring. It nests in clifftop colonies, digging a burrow in which a single white egg is laid. The chick mostly feeds on whole fish and grows rapidly. After about six weeks it is fully fledged and makes its way at night to the sea. It swims away from the shore and does not return to land for several years. Colonies are mostly on islands where there are no terrestrial predators but adult birds and newly fledged chicks are at risk of attacks from the air by gulls and skuas. Sometimes a bird such as an Arctic skua will harass a puffin arriving with a beakful of fish, causing it to drop its catch. The striking appearance, large colourful bill, waddling gait and behaviour of this bird have given rise to nicknames such as "clown of the sea" and "sea parrot". It is the official bird symbol for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The background drawing shows mesh from a fishing net. Also - right of center - Signal flag: Letter N (Negative). Denominations in numerals are in top left corner and lower right. In words on top. Pixel motif on the horizon: Fishing boat. The designs are by The Metric System and Snøhetta and use an abstract geometric design influenced by the Beaufort scale. Cubic pattern: 8 m/s (flag and waves on fishnet background). Organic pattern: Gentle breeze. Wave heights of 1 meter or more (Beaufort scale - level 3). In lower right corner is the sea mark (Sjømerker) - a lateral mark indicating direction of buoyage. Along the Norwegian coast there are a number of daymarks that help seafarers navigate during daylight hours because it is difficult for those in unfamiliar waters to know which inlets are navigable. For visitors, the archipelago can seem like a maze, where an overview of waterways between shallows and reefs requires extensive experience and local knowledge. These lateral marks traditionally consist of a wooden grid on an iron pole mounted in the rock bed of a reef. The mark indicates the side of the shallows on which to navigate. Such sea marks can have one or more "flags" indicating direction of buoyage for a waterway. There are also traditional iron stakes without a grid or "flag" that indicates shallows or a reef that can be sailed around on several sides. In the 1800s, these stakes were often made of cast iron and had a diameter at the bottom of approximately 20 cm. To secure them to the rock bed, a deep hole of at least equal diameter had to be chiselled by hand. This was done manually by three men on a simple rig of pipes. Such work could only be done in calm weather. One man held the chisel, while the other two took turns swinging their sledgehammers. It is estimated that around 35 000 blows were needed to chisel a hole for such a stake. Landscape formations and characteristics and place names were originally used to navigate along the coast. Pilots and fishermen memorised these, or they compiled the information in books containing descriptions of the underwater landscape and waterways based on cross bearings and manual soundings taken using lead lines. The large number of sea marks contracted with the development of the network of lighthouses during the 1800s, when the government took overall responsibility for the establishment of aids to navigation along the coast. Some key sea marks were, however, already mentioned in the Sagas. The fact that very many of the burial mounds from the Bronze Age are situated near important coastal waterways is also indication that marking waterways past archipelagic islets and inlets goes far back in history. The location of inland burial mounds can often make much more sense when post-glacial rebound is considered. What were once historical waterways now appear as dry land because of the change in sea level. The motifs on all of the new banknote series denominations show the importance of the sea for the prosperity and welfare of the people of Norway. The primary motif on the front side of the 100-krone banknote is a Viking ship, while on the 200-krone note, a cod is portrayed facing left. On the back sides, abstract representations of a cargo ship (100-krone note) and a fishing boat (200-krone note) can be seen on the horizon. The banknotes were designed by Norges Bank's banknote designers Arild Yttri and Morten Johansen. The designs on the front sides of the banknotes are based on the proposal from Metric Design and Terje Tønnessen. The proposals for the back of the notes were submitted by Snøhetta Design. The primary motifs were drawn by the artist Sverre Morken. The Atlantic puffin watermark motif is based on a photo taken by photographer Tom Schandy. The new 100-krone and 200-krone banknotes were printed by Oberthur Fiduciare in France. The official launch of the new banknotes will take place in Svolvær on 30 May 2017 at 2.00 p.m. From that time, the new 100- and 200-krone banknotes will be made available to banks at Norges Bank's central bank depots in Tromsø, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger and Oslo.

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Stayed here for one night few nights ago. Wonderful wildcamping spot. Most of parking area is under tree canopy. It's a pay and display car park and the sign says that any vehicles left in at 8pm will be locked in for the night and the gate is unlocked at 7am. I spoke to the chap locking up at 8pm, nice guy and no problem to wildcamp all night for free. Best to arrive after 7pm then. Car park is big and I was the only one there, very quiet place. 5 min walk away is the Golden Galleon pub, which also is a wildcamping spot and that looked great also. I was interested in your post as we are only 10 miles from there, if that, and we pick up our van at the wknd and would love to head there. Where exactly is it? Is it in one of the car parks off Litlington Road, or the road called The Lane? I've been reading up that they do not allow overnight camping but that may be the National Trust car parks. I'm happy to be locked in overnight. Can you confirm where it is exactly please! Not sure which one this is, there's the Forestry Commission car park at Friston Forest here: 50.781025,0.151657 (Friston Forest Car Park) - Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=50.781025,0.151657+%28Friston+Forest+Car+Park%29&aq=&sll=50.780971,0.151649&sspn=0.001252,0.002411&ie=UTF8&ll=50.781086,0.151663&spn=0.019917,0.038581&t=h&z=15) - handy for loo emptying! We were down that way a few months back, The Golden Galleon were happy for us to stay in their car park (requested to use the top one, not the main one by the riverside) but we didn't really fancy the pub so stayed up on Firle Beacon instead. Wow that's very helpful of you... thank you for going to so much trouble!! We know both those places too so maybe we'll head there this Saturday as we've just found out we can pick up our van Sat am!! YAY!! My only other question is do you know if either of those have height restrictions? I can't say we've ever paid any attention in the past as we didn't have a van then! That's great news.... bring on the weekend!! CR Westdean is in the POI download file, available to full members. I put the Tomtom file onto my Tomtom and it took me right there. It is at the Seven Sisters location but not the car park on the main road. When you come down the road from the Galleon pub, on the right hand bend you take the left turn to Litlington and then the car park I am talking about is immediately on the right. It's a pay and display and completely under tree cover so the google map doesn't show it. It's therefore good for wild camping as once in, you cannot be seen. I loved it! We stayed at the next car park along from there (2nd on the right) and it was the perfect first night in our new van. We were expecting to either get locked in or asked to move at 9pm but apart from a few other people that turned up and then left soon after, we were undisturbed until morning when we woke up under the tree tops with blue sky above! I'm really gonna love this life !! Following your recommendation we tried the 2nd carpark on the right and a wonderful spot it was too. Then at 9pm a young woman came to lock the gate and asked us to leave. She said she was locking up for her parents and they would never allow wilding there. So we moved down the road to the Seven Sister carpark and had two great nights. Sorry to hear you got moved on. It really is an amazing spot - almost too good to be true! Is Severn Sisters car park the one on the main road on the bend (opposite the National Trust buidling and with the canoe club in the back of the car park)? If so, did it have any height restrictions when you were there recently? It's hard to tell from the google map picture and it's probably an old picture anyway? We might head there this weekend for a night and it would be nice to know we can definitely get in! The campsite you describe is Cuckmere Haven Nat Trust car park-paying.You might be better going a mile up the road to Crow Link car park -more secluded although I've never stayed overnight. We stayed at the carpark right next to the NT buildings. It's almost opposite the one with the canoe club, just on the right inside Litlington Road. It's more undercover than the one on the main road and well tucked away. When we woke up in the morning the warden was just starting work and he asked us (in a friendly way) to make it look like we hadn't been there all night. It's the one JRS described. No height barriers on either site. i drive buses past the one by the waters edge several times a day, there is a height barrier but for most of the summer it has been swung open during the day as coaches full of school kids visit the nature conservancy center. not sure if it is closed at night though. crowlink is also national trust with no sleeping in vehicles signs!

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http://www.colonialseaport.org/blog/ NEW BLOG! check this out! OK! tomorrow we meet with our largest tentative partner. If this goes well we will have a serious foot in the door in the national maritime museum world! Ahoy all, Today found Tom W., Larry, Talon, the shipwright and myself onboard Luna. We split our efforts and made progress on projects and getting ready for new projects. We have a major project beginning a week from Monday (yikes, thats a week from tomorrow!). We have found someone who is going to rebuild the bowstem, or front end of Luna! We knew from the start that we had to replace this huge chunk of oak and kicked many ideas around about how to do this. Here are some of the discussions: A solid replacement piece of oak weighs close to a ton and would take almost two years to dry once it was cut…. IF we could find a solid piece to start with. Piecing smaller blocks of oak together would be weak. Marine plywood would be manageable and lighter, but would take a long time to fit and could possibly rot. So with this in mind, we now beging the dissasembly of the bow. Below are some pictures of what we will be removing. Luna’s original bow stem, or front of the ship will begin her rebuild next week. The flat beam going top to bottom in the picture is coming out. The interior of the bow. the beam running up and down the middle of the picture is rotten and is coming out. The worst is visible at the bottom of the picture. Our gentle reader, you may be asking what we are going to do with this bow….. Stand by for more pictures next week. You’re not going to believe how were doing this! Talon and I were in the aft cabin installing new but blocks. Not much exciting there but a necessary job. The but blocks ensure that two ends of planks are solidly joined. The ones we worked on today will be visible so they need to be just right. Now onto exciting work. Tom W. and the shipwright joined forces and began installing the railcaps! These are the tops of the rails on the deck. The shipwright installing railcaps on the starboard side. We are able to reuse most of the original material. This will be fiberglassed over and a new wood one will go ontop of it. A new cap is cut and being glued together in place. Unfortunately, we had to use new material rather than the original, but this will be fiberglassed over and great! A thing of beauty to come! This is the point where the shear, or side profile of Luna changes and where the two sections of rail cap come together. This step will be fiberglassed, but looks mighty plain. Traditionally figures are carved and placed here. Often they are mermaids, fish, animals, ornaments of some sort… Our youngest shipbuilder, Pere, will be taking these two carvings on (one to port and one to starboard) and we can’t wait to have them on board! And finally, what is Larry working on and whats it for? You’ll see shortly! OH HAPPY DAY! Blog to follow on Monday! How did you careen ships in the tideless Caribbean? to careen without a tide swing is doable but takes some planning. all of the above techniques are correct but is missing a step in areas with little tide fall. Go to the charts and find a place with deep water next to shore. These can be most often found on the back sides of sandbars or islands at the mouths of rivers with a strong current when the tide ebbs. beach along side one of these, then use the above techniques to haul the vessel over. I would carry cribbing to block up the bow and stern since all the weight and force will be at the widest point of the hull. If you have a few crusty old commercial fishermen I bet they may be able to direct you to where they used to do this in the days before boat yards with fancy lifts. well..... the visitor count was over 15,000. As silver has pointed out, unfortunately not everyone was dressed out..... But what a grand time! major luna progress! a major milestone is now on its way to us! more to follow once i tell the crew! Ahoy shipmates! hot off the presses is our Fall 2013 newsletter! The third attempted, first annual................... August 7, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ocracoke-Hatteras to present Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree OCRACOKE--The Hatteras-Ocracoke Council of the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce will present Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree, a weekend pirate fest Friday, Oct. 25 to Sunday, Oct. 27, on Ocracoke and Hatteras islands. Chief activity of the jamboree will be a historically authentic encampment Saturday by Blackbeard’s Pirate Crew, a 12-member living history organization from Hampton, VA., from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the grounds of the historic Wahab House, 161 Irvin Garrish Highway, Ocracoke. The festival will begin Friday evening with a meet-and-greet at Hatteras Landing with a dozen of the pirates from the crew. Among the re-enactors will be Captain Horatio Sinbad and the Devilmen of Cape Feare, who will arrive in boats and conduct and authentic ship-to-ship battle on Saturday. The 10-person Devilmen on their longboat The Flory, will battle with Sinbad and his crew on the Meka II. Other activities for the festival include a scavenger hunt in Ocracoke Village, book signings, sing-alongs and a memorial remembrance Sunday morning at 10 at Springer’s Point, the site of the demise of Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard. “We wanted to have an event to promote the area in the shoulder seasons on both islands,” said Daphne Bennink, an Ocracoke business owner who spearheaded the event. “This was Blackbeard’s favorite place and we want it to span both islands.” This is the first year of this jamboree (despite its having to be canceled in 2011 and 2012 due to hurricanes), building up to a grand event in 2018--the 300th anniversary of Blackbeard’s death. Organizers want the yearly dates for the event to be the last week in October. Updates will be posted on the website www.piratejamboree.com and the Facebook page: Ocracoke/Hatteras Pirate Jamboree. Ahoy one and all! Despite not posting lately we have been hard at work onboard Luna between our festival obligations. Here we have a couple of pictures from our latest efforts. This is the poop deck, so yes, the Captains cabin is now roofed over! The clamp at the back is holding a stick which will mark the railing height. ( 42 inches). It's not really obvious in this photo but the deck has a heck of a camber, or curved slope, to it so we will not be regularly using this area- also the boom will be at chest height here so under sail it will be a no go place. The main companionway is to the left forefront and the deckhatch is about center. And here is a view of the cabin top/poop deck from the port side looking back. Pretty, isn’t she! Our shipwright coming up from the cabin! what a great look! the cabin face is spanish cedar and it is beautiful! The camber is evident in this shot.

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This program of the Native Plant Society of Texas is how we partner with local nurseries within our chapter to promote the availability of native plants for purchase at the commercial retail level. Participating nurseries agree to carry in stock the NICE! plant of the season and our North Central Chapter chooses what the NICE plant of the season is (appropriate to our area). For the participating nurseries, we provide signs with photo and growing information about the plant to be displayed and made available to retail shoppers.

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NEIGHBOURS BUILDING? KNOW YOUR RIGHTS RE PLAN APPROVAL | Goldberg & de Villiers Inc. Your neighbours apply to the municipality for approval of building plans. You object strongly – if allowed, you say, the new building/addition/alteration will seriously impact on your property’s appeal and value. It will be unsightly and objectionable. It will ruin the neighbourhood. How must the municipality’s “decision makers” assess the plans in light of your concerns? A long-running legal fight over just that question has finally been resolved by the Constitutional Court. The Court’s decision is a vitally important one for all property developers and owners planning to build, as well as for their neighbours, for the simple reason that no construction work can proceed without municipal approval of the building plans (although note that some categories of “minor work” may not require plan approval – ask your local authority for details). The owners of a seventeen story city building had been allowed to build balconies right up to the neighbouring four story building’s boundary. The neighbouring building’s owners applied for approval of plans to add another four stories. The problem was that the balconies on three floors of the first building would touch the top stories of the new additions. Predictably, strenuous objections to the building plans were lodged, but in the end result the municipal decision makers approved the plans, and building commenced. Had the plans been properly approved? A string of court battles later, the highest court in our land has had its (final) say on the matter. It will probably or in fact derogate from the value of adjoining or neighbouring properties”. The Court’s decision – the building plans had not been properly approved. They must go back to the municipality for re-assessment, and the developer is accordingly back to square one. Presumably a demolition order will be on the cards if they are ultimately unsuccessful in having their plans passed. A decision maker must, held the Court, in assessing the 3 factors above consider the impact of the building proposal on neighbouring properties, from the perspective of a “hypothetical neighbour”. In a nutshell, will it probably, or in fact, be so disfiguring of the area, objectionable or unsightly that it would exceed the neighbour’s “legitimate expectations”? And whilst it has always been clear that neighbours have to be considered in regard to the “derogation of value” (i.e. reduction of value) aspect, this decision for the first time confirms that their viewpoints are relevant, and must be considered, in regard to all three aspects. That certainly doesn’t mean however that neighbours can willy-nilly object to plans and expect the municipality to back them regardless of the facts. On the contrary, the Court made it clear that “The legitimate expectations test is not a subjective test determined by the whim of a sensitive neighbour. The test is objective and based on relevant facts, which would, in the ordinary course, be placed at the disposal of the decision maker”. The important thing remains that your rights as the “non-building neighbour” just got a lot stronger. Protect them! For more information contact the professional team at Goldberg & de Villiers Inc on 041 5019800.

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The wind is in from Africa; last night I couldn’t sleep. It sure is hard to leave you, but it’s really not my home. This Joni Mitchell line sums it up this week. The Meltemi winds have arrived, sleep eludes me, and as our time in Greece comes to an end, we’re all feeling excited to go home, but also sad to leave. We’ve been reflecting a lot on the last 14 months. A year ago now, we were on the island of Rhodes and getting ready to embark on our fantastic central European tour, though I don’t think we had it totally planned out. We had registered for school, but I had put that out of my head with six more weeks of summer and on account of being terrified of a local upon receiving my first email not recognizing a single word. Gulp. There’s a lot we’ll miss here. We’ve met such wonderful families at school. Our school and they way they ‘handled’ us was just excellent. Our neighbors are so great. Greeks are such good-natured people. For all their emotion and passion and risky driving habits, they are generous, kind, patient, understanding and fun. Learning the language and the expressions and a lot of Greek history really explains them as a culture. And they all — ALL — love kids. Nowhere else have I seen so many complete strangers (I’m talking adults) rub the boys’ heads, ask them a question, insert themselves into their mini-soccer game, or high five them for wearing the ‘right’ soccer jersey. One day in the Supermarket, a man saw Peter’s jersey, asked his name, and congratulated him on rooting for Olympiacos. On the flip side, last week in Monasteraki, a waiter snatched Peter’s red and white komboloi, saying ‘this taverna only allows Panithainiakos’ paraphernalia. Of course he was kidding and Peter knew it — both giggled. In our plateia, the taverna staff will kick the ball with the kids, or go fetch them when the food arrives, carry them to me and bring ice when they fall, and one server even gifted them a basketball. We watch Peter, who has changed and grown so much, with his big English vocabulary and his perfect Greek accent. He’s learned the language so well and so fast, he doesn’t even have to think about Greek anymore. It just comes straight out. His English teacher told me that when kids didn’t understand things in English class, he explained it to them in Greek. He’s always singing or humming a Greek song. This summer I saw only Peter’s feet sticking out of the water; he must do 50 water hand stands a day. And Michael, whose quiet confidence and leadership skills have increased tenfold. He did his schoolwork faithfully and without complaint, and he’s got Greek grammar rules down cold. He brought soccer cards to school every day to play with anyone who wanted to and his classmates all drew him goodbye pictures. And when we go to the beach he grabs his mask, snorkel and fins at a speed like he’s in the transition area in a triathlon and is in the water faster than I can chase him with the sunscreen. He emerges 20 minutes later with some treasure in his hand — a clam, the aforementioned sea stars, a hermit crab. Yesterday, Demetri saw a sea turtle on his swim. Total thrill. At this moment, what everyone says they’ll miss is the obvious things: Papou of course. Greek food. Our cousins and how close we’ve gotten to them. Living a block from the sea and watching the marine traffic pass all day — sailboats, yachts, ferries, cargo boats. The plateia. The laiki, especially in summer with peaches priced at €1.50/kilo and figs for even less. Watermelon. But these are the things in our immediate reach; in our everyday lives. It will be interesting to see in a month or six what we miss that will be more significant to our souls. I wasn’t familiar with the acronym FOMO until recently. Inversely, over the last year we enjoyed JOMO — the joy of missing out. Part of it was because we were fairly insulated — we didn’t watch the news because we couldn’t understand it; we didn’t hang around school to absorb any gossip, and again, not sure we would have understood it. We didn’t have jobs so didn’t get enmeshed in office or local politics. We also didn’t feel like we missed much at home; we didn’t wish to have been there more than we wanted to be here. And what this experience did for our family is something that we (the parents) wouldn’t change for the world. We are closer to each other as a foursome, our marriage is stronger, we understand each other better, we admire the bravery in each other for different things we took on this year and we learned that we don’t need stuff to be happy. We just need each other. Will we do it again? Θα δουμε. Quite possibly. What an awesome year you all have had. I can’t wait to visit you again in a new country!!!

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Google Shopping offers the ultimate way to level up revenue for many Shopify stores. We have managed approximately one hundred Google Ads accounts for various stores, and it’s common for my team and I to produce a return on investment for our clients of 300-2000%. While these results are not possible for all businesses, the Google Shopping channel is a golden source of customers wanting products. By searching, they are wanting. Maybe you work with an ad agency who actually do little behind-the-scenes to improve your campaigns. Perhaps you implemented Shopify’s own Google Shopping channel then had its automated bidding burn through ad spend. I’m sick of seeing people lose money in their businesses all because of bad freelancers, agencies, or information. While it makes great business for me, it is heartbreaking to see people lose on business ventures they pour their hearts, souls, and finances into establishing. So after 10 years of Google Ads management and 4 years working only with Shopify stores, I rolled up my writing sleeves to distill everything I have learned about Google Shopping. The end result is the Google Shopping For Shopify: The Definitive Guide. The book sheds light on the tried and tested strategies of what works, and what hasn’t, for our clients on the channel. Don’t be fooled into thinking you can fudge your way through this. Paid advertising is most successful when you know all the levers you can pull that make up the whole ad platform then benchmarking these against quantifiable metrics to determine performance. Otherwise it’s all too easy to pour money down the drain that could have been spent elsewhere in your business. I created this guide, not only as an easy reference for clients and team, but as a way to squelch a lot of the misinformation out there about Google Shopping basics. This is a step-by-step guide to show you how to get started and grow any shopping campaign. See exactly how Google Shopping can make a store succeed overnight. You’ll understand why Google wants you to succeed and how the channel is growing. I’ll show you the three reasons its a killer platform then round it off with the whole truth by covering the downside. In this chapter we’ll dive into the nuts and bolts about how Google Shopping works and the lesser known ways the channel can help your store growth. Success on Google Shopping comes down to your goals, people wanting what you offer, and competition. You will struggle to do well on the channel if you have unreasonable goals, people don’t want what you have, or competition is fierce. In this chapter you learn how to set advertising goals, understand search intent, and conduct competitor research. With these three factors lined up, you can profit from the channel. I walk you through the various account types you need to setup and how to do them right the first time. With this understanding, be ready to profit from Google Shopping ads. Learn how to create the most effective structure for your ad campaigns. By implementing appropriate campaign structures, you’ll be able to more easily manage, optimise, and track your Google Shopping ads. Now it’s time to learn the juicy part of Google Shopping campaigns: optimisation. I provide a methodological framework to scientifically optimise your campaigns where they need it the most. These are insider tips we use to grow top performing, multimillion-dollar clients. There are strategies to squeeze even more sales out of Google Shopping by applying for Merchant Center programs. The programs give retailers more value for shopping ads. Learn about dynamic remarketing, Merchant Promotions, Local Inventory Ads, and more. Even better, I’ll show you how to implement each of these programs in Shopify. In this final section, we’ll look at channel expansion beyond Google Shopping Ads. While I’m clearly a big fan of Google Shopping, it’s just one way to generate revenue for your store. You can leverage the work and data insights from the channel, for YouTube, remarketing, display and Bing Ads. Start reading Google Shopping for Shopify: The Definitive Guide. With a strong understanding of how Google Shopping operates that you’ll gain from this guide, you too can create a strong foundation for implementing effective shopping campaigns for your Shopify store. I keep the guide up-to-date with the latest strategies and tactics that change with technology and consumer behavior so rest assure its the most comprehensive guide ever written.

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Such a proverb is very apt for Thai politics where rich tycoons like Thaksin are seen to use proxies in the country to carry out their political activities and protest on the streets at politically advantageous times. Once a goal is achieved or the objective is no longer attainable, the foot soldiers are often discarded by the big men who contracted them in the first place. In the cartoon, the de-facto of Pheu Thai head Sudarat is represented by a buffalo that Thaksin can finally slaughter after she has had her chance to carry out his goals. Sudarat is widely reviled by the rural kingpins who make up the bulk of Thaksin supporters in the Northeast. She has several strikes against her as a woman, a person with little political influence in the Northeast, and a person thought to be resistant to Thaksin’s direct control. Even before the elections there was widespread news that Thaksin wanted to replace Sudarat as the party’s main PM choice with another person. However, Sudarat is incredibly popular and seems to embody the Thai concept of a good, modest person who would be a good ruler. Even a chance appearance by her cute daughter landed Sudarat on the covers of newspapers and magazines for weeks as the press seems particularly interested in her life and family. For Thaksin Sudarat might have seemed a good choice to lead the party, as she could not be pegged as a direct Thaksin “clone” (as Thaksin himself once described his sister Yingluck). However this also raised the prospect that Sudarat might drag her feet on enacting his desire to rewrite the charter and gain a pardon for himself. Even the way the Pheu Thai designated their PM candidate and titles for top people–not allowing Sudarat the sole honor of being the head of the party and sole PM candidate–bespoke the desire to able to shift her aside if the Pheu Thai won big and could really form the next government on its own terms. The Pheu Thai did not win big. It lost the popular vote. Despite suspicions that the voting was not entirely free and fair, past elections when the Democrats squared off against other Thaksin-directed parties were lopsided in MPs tallies, but much closer in total votes. The new proportional political system, created in the charter, takes advantage of this, putting more weight on the overall votes. The Pheu Thai was always facing an uphill battle in forming a government under this new system, but the failure of the Pheu Thai to win the popular vote is a devastating surprise. This obviously means Sudarat as a leader is finished–at least in the Pheu Thai as a Thaksin proxy. She was always hated by the bulk of the party’s faction leaders and even Thaksin was hesitant. Without both the MP count and popular vote under their belt, the ability to show the world the injustice of the Pheu Thai being shut out of the new government is much lessened. Not quite, Sudarat is an urban queen to allow PT men and PT supporters who are from rural areas to take root in Eastern suburbs of Bangkok.

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Oh man, when I read Heather Shumaker's essay in Salon Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let's ban elementary homework, I reached out to her immediately. In her excellent article, Shumaker articulates exactly what I have been grumbling about (and fighting with my ex about) since my kids were in preschool. I wanted to know: Would she be my BFF? Make sweet love to me? Talk to my school/ex/annoying parents who dominate the PTAs and playgrounds and support all the over-parenting pressure that is actually corrupting kids, holding women back professionally and financially, and are generally an irritant to the establishment? Shumaker, a Minneapolis based journalist and married mom of two, agreed to be interviewed on this show, and I am so glad she did. This is a home girl, a sister-in-arms in reasonable parenting that supports kids and families in ways that promote health and reason, and not the homemaker fantasy that dominates school schedules and curriculums, and pressure to spend inordinate and unprecedented hours with our children even though science negates any benefit and personal and macroeconomics suffer at the hands of such practices.

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The Great War (now known as World War I) rages on in Europe. Most tennis takes place in the United States, where Norwegian transplant Molla Bjurstedt dominates the game for the second year running. Status: results are somewhat scanty. When further time permits I will scan the New York Times for fuller results. FI: Valborg Bjurstedt (Nor) d. ?? Jimbo has also provided many results from the Wright and Ditson Annual. Last edited by Rollo; May 11th, 2016 at 07:11 PM. "No less than 1,800 francs was handed to the South African Ambulance as a result of a tournament held on the famous Beau Site courts at Cannes. Mr George M. Simond acted as honorary referee, and there was a large attendance of French and British wounded officers. The most interesting event was a series of singles in which, on level terms, Suzanne Lenglen tested her skill against well-known professionals and amateurs. Driven from her home near Lille, the girl champion has been spending the winter on the Riviera, where, with good opportunity for practice, she had strengthened her game in all departments. "In her first match against Charles H. Ridding (the professional attached to Ranelagh and to the Beau Site) she was obviously somewhat nervous, and did not reveal her true form. Moreover, the heat was well-nigh overpowering, affecting both players, who confined their games almost entirely to baseline driving. After Ridding had won the first set at 6-2 and led 4-3 in the second, Mlle Lenglen retired. "In her next match, against Mr B. Marion Crawford, the French girl played faultlessly, defeating the amateur with the loss of only one game in two sets. She also defeated Mr Simond with a comfortable margin, completely tiring out the veteran by the steadiness of her returns, and passing him shrewdly whenever he came to the net. "But the single in which Mlle Lenglen 'startled' the gallery (the word is that of a competent eye-witness) was against Tom Burke, who, despite his years, remains a very sound player, retaining all his strategical skill. Burke opened with a 5-3 lead, going strongly; but his opponent took the next four games in succession and the first set. There was all-round play - both came up on good length driving - and some excellent rallies, in which the girl's greater activity just gave her the advantage. The first game of the second set was a very long one, embracing eight deuces, which Mlle Lenglen lost. She was love-forty and a bad decision robbed her of the game. This upset her. She lost the second game easily; and retired after a long third. "The umpiring had not been strikingly sound, to say the least. In the first set, without an appeal from either player, the umpire gave a let because a ball rolled across the court, and just when Burke was returning a ball in the middle of a rally, which he hit out. "The finals in the ordinary singles were rather one-sided. In the men's singles Marion Crawford beat R. Dunkerley (6-0, 6-2, 6-3); in the ladies' singles Elisabeth D'Ayen beat Mme Puget (6-1, 6-4). The mixed doubles was won by Marion Crawford and Mlle Lenglen, to whom G.M. Simond and Mme Puget retired at 1-1, after Simond had twisted his ankle." FI: Irene Bowder d. Miss Humfress ???? Last edited by Rollo; Aug 21st, 2016 at 10:07 PM. Mrs Bruce was Ethel Sutton before her marriage. The event aided the South african Ambulance Hospital in Cannes. Simond hurt his ankle and had to retire in the final. FI: Miss Gertrude Greely d. Miss Florence Ballin ?? CR: Greely d. Miss Eva Baker ?? DF: Miss Adele Bull/Miss Marguerite Taylor d. ?? Last edited by Rollo; Nov 26th, 2014 at 03:09 PM. "The Red Cross Mixed Doubles Tournament at Queen's Club, organised by Lady D'Abernon in May, was won by King Manoel of Portugal and Dorothea Lambert Chambers. Receiving four-sixths from Wollmar Bostrom and Mlle Mishu in the final (in which four nationalites were represented, by the way), the pair was favoured before the match, and though the score of 7-5, 6-3 in their favour suggests a fairly level contest, the lady champion and her partner were never actually threatened. "Nevertheless, they might have forfeited the first set if their opponents, after 3-5 had been called against them and after they had drawn level at 5-5 by winning Dom Manoel's service in the tenth game, had won Miss Mishu's subsequent service game - a game in which the points were level. The Romanian lady, however, chose this moment to become erratic on the drive, and with Bostrom in poor volleying form - to say nothing of a doubtful decision recorded by the linesman in the gallery - the chance was sacrificed. "In the second set Mrs Lambert Chambers and Dom Manoel, chiefly by sound driving from the baseline (there was, in fact, no volleying worthy of the name throughout the match), secured a lead long enough to minimise the risk of overhauling, and the confidence thus generated was reflected in the greater firmness of their strokes. Mrs George Greville umpired the final, which was decided on the floor of the New Court." The doubles final, played on May 26, could not be completed. The committee agreed to play the event a day earlier than expected so Miss Guthrie could catch a train to Pittsburgh in the evening. The ladies played until it was pitch black at 7:45, at which point Guthrie/Wagner defaulted as Martha had to leave to catch her train. She ended up missing the train anyway. Last edited by Rollo; Apr 6th, 2016 at 02:55 AM. *Holder Bjurstedt "sits out" until the Challenge Round. The New York Tribune (source for the first day) lists the Preliminary Round as the first round. Miss Helen Pouch and Mrs Helen Pouch are daughter and mother. The quarterfinals of the mixed=the third round. Florence and Marie Henrietta Ballin were sisters. Both attended Bryn Mawr. Emma Betz=Mrs John F Betz 3rd. May E Currie (or Curry) played for the West Side TC, New York. Also listed as C Currie. Pouch=Helena Hellwig. Listed in papers of era as Mrs W. H. Pouch. Her daughter was Miss Helen Pouch. Edwina C Hensel is from Merion. Mrs Isaac Schluichter=Helen, nee Ehret. Mrs David S Sterns is from New York. Margaret Walbridge, nee Buffum=Mrs Charles A Walbridge, who represented the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Edith H White and May E Curry are from the West Side Club and staying as guests of Hannah C Parks. Susanne White is from Baltimore. Thanks to The Computer for some results. Norsewoman Molla Bjurstedt set a record (for the time) of winning a final in only 25 minutes. Though the field was quite large, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy and Mary Browne were "particularly missed", as no challenger for Molla could be found. The Philadelphia Public Ledger describes her famous forehand shots as "wallops", also writing that "Miss Bjurstedt's driving constantly brought forth applause from the gallery." Raymond's "stage fright" made the final a nightmare. Never once did it appear she would offer up a challenge. Mercifully it was over in 26 minutes. This is the shortest and most lopsided US ladies final in history aside from the 1964 final. Louise got to deuce only 3 times and won 24 points in all. Mrs Raymond won her few points at net, but never really pursued a change in tactics to get there more often. An exciting doubles final gave Mrs Raymond a chance for revenge. Molla and Louise were given a 30 minute rest after the singles final. In a corker of a match Edna Wildey performed brilliantly. Louise Raymond again failed to ply up to her usual standards, giving Bjurstedt and Eleanora Sears enough room to get by 10-8 in the 3rd. Miss Sears also won the mixed with Californian star Willis Davis. A drizzle kept spectators in the semis down to "a few dozen." Throughout the week Bill Tilden wrote articles on the event for The Evening Ledger. Last edited by Rollo; Aug 21st, 2016 at 10:05 PM. Holder J.S. Taylor did not defend. Purley Bury Tennis Club was founded shortly before the First World War and, with 15 grass courts, was the largest club in the south of England (even, in those days, bigger than Wimbledon!) It was built in a wooded valley, discreetly secluded, ten years before the first houses appeared on what are now Purley Bury Avenue and Brancaster Lane, running on either side of the club. The grass courts were converted to allotments during the Second World War and it is believed that a VE day celebration bonfire was lit where the present courts are. After the war the land was restored, as the Purley Bury Social and Sports club, with three sections: tennis, bowls and croquet. In 1985 the tennis courts were changed from clay (with overhead watering) to today's hard court, all-weather surface, relayed in 1999 and resurfaced in 2008. Holder Molla Bjurstedt did not defend her title and defaults challenge round. "Teams organised respectively by Dom Manoel of Portgual and Mrs Madeline O'Neill met at Queen's Club on June 20 on behalf of the Red Cross. Several well-known players took part, including Norman E. Brookes, commandant of the Australian Red Cross, who made his first appearance in this country since he won the Championship at Wimbledon two years ago. "Dom Manoel's side won by four matches to three, two of the latter ties being abandoned. When partnering Dorothea Lamber Chambers in his first match, the distinguished Portuguese amateur had the misfortune to fall in running for a wide ball; a sprained ankle necessitated his retirement. "Considering his lack of practice and his not very robust health, Brookes was playing remarkably well, more especially in his second tie, when the champion and Lady Domini Crosfield defeated Major Ritche and Phyllis Satterthwaite in two sets. The former couple were not so successful against the well-balanced volleying combination of George and Edith Greville, who were nearly at their best. "The closest tie of the day, remarkably well contested, was that between Stanley Doust and Mrs O'Neill and Arthur Wallis Myers and Mrs Lambert Chambers. Mr Doust and his partner, the latter playing faultlessly, got away with a 5-0 lead, and were soon 5-1 and 40-0; but their opponents squared the set, only to lose it at 7-9. The second set ended with the same score, after Wallis Myers and Mrs Chambers had led 5-3,and appeared to be the fresher of the two pairs." * This was Russian-born Countess Anastasia Mikhailovna de Torby, otherwise styled Lady Zia Wernher (1892-1977). FI: Irene Adger d. ?? DF: Mrs Henry Carrier/Mrs John Milam d. ?? MX: Irene Adger/J.O.Erwin d. ?? Bingham was later the girlfriend of Helen Jacobs. "Miss Maude Mutch carried off the Ladies' Singles Handicap in brilliant fashion" Last edited by Rollo; Apr 6th, 2016 at 02:53 AM. MX: Mrs Malcolm McNeil/Burdick d. ?? DF: Mrs G.H.Smith/Mrs Thurston d. ?? "For the second successive year the Herga Club at Harrow organised a series of matches in aid of the military hospitals in the district. Mr T.H. Ingram had charge of the arrangements, and had the satisfaction of welcoming a gallery of over 500, of whom about 60 were wounded soldiers - a most enthusiastic 'front row'. "In an opening double William Ingram and Hamilton Price played a very level match against N. Shimidzu, of Japan, and Arthur Wallis Myers - won by the former pair with a score of 9-11, 6-2, 7-5. Phyllis Satterthwaite and Wallis Myers then beat Agnes Morton and Albert Prebble by two sets to one (6-4, 3-6, 6-1), proving, on the day, a superior combination, although Miss Morton was conspicuously out of practice. "Rain delayed the programme a little after tea, but there was light enough for Ingram and Price (Price playing very steadily) to beat Shimidzu and Prebble, and for Ingram and Miss Morton to draw with Shimidzu and Mrs Satterthwaite. "A most successful charity event was concluded by a concert. Mr Charles Fraser volunteered his services as umpire." "The 'Star and Garter' Fund benefited materially as a result of the mixed doubles tournament held at Queen's Club on July 22. One of the few fine days of the summer rewarded the executive; the only adverse condition for the players was a fairly strong down-court wind, a rather familiar handicap at West Kensington. "The eighteen competing pairs were divided into two sections according to standard, those in the first section incluidng several well-known couples, between whom there was a very close contest for first place. Each pair played eight games against the eight other pairs - a total of sixty-four. Arthur Wallis Myers and Phyllis Satterthwaite, winning forty-two games, proved the winners. They beat Major Ritchie and Agnes Tuckey (6-2), William Ingram and Charlotte Sterry (5-3), and George and Edith Greville (5-3), all partnerships having a lady volleyer at the net. "Against Albert Prebble and Madeline O'Neill, another of the stronger couples, they took the first four games, losing the subsequent four - a result to which the wind must have contributed. The only pair to beat the winners were the Belgian pair, William Du Vivier and Anne de Borman, who, if a somewhat uncertain combination, in this contest showed great brilliancy. Ingram and Mrs Sterry were second with forty games, the lady ex-champion showing surprisingly good form. "[...] In the second section Mr Robert and Mrs Dorothea Lambert Chambers were handicapped to the extent of giving 15, but even with this penalty they succeeded in coming out second to Nicolae Mishu and Miss Mishu of Romania, who made a well-balanced combination. "[...] A men's double in which Percival Davson and Albert Prebble beat Charles Dixon and William Ingram by two sets to love was added to the programme - admirably controlled, by the way, by Mr Frank R. Burrow, who lent his services as referee." Note: The second section also included the following two pairs: Geoffrey E. Fowler/Clementine Churchill and Otway G. Toler/Lady Drogheda [Kathleen Burn Moore]. FI: Pearl Newby d. Margaret McKee ?? MX: Marie Kettenbach/Curley d. Mrs Stafford/Shannon ?? Last edited by Rollo; Nov 26th, 2014 at 03:44 PM. FI: Katherine Brown d. Lucille Sharitt * ?? DF: Katherine Brown/Luali Sharritt * d. Miss DEming/Miss Helen Peters ???? MX: Katherine Brown/Cullen Thomas d. Miss Fagen/McNagney ?? MX: Mrs & Mr A.H.Chapin d. ?? "A substantial sum to aid the local war hospitals at Surbiton was raised at Berrylands on August 5, when a larger gathering, including a party of wounded soldiers, attended to witness a mixed doubles tournament. Mr Alfred Sterry, honorary secretary of the Surbiton Club, was responsible for the arrangements, which included the provision of excellent courts and 'peace-time' stands. "Although several first-class players participated in the programme, the system of pairing most of them with relatively weak partners was not a success from the spectators' point of view, the standard of play falling automatically to a low level. But the cause was everything, and the quality of play of very little moment. "In one section Major Ritchie and Lady Domini Crosfied, owing 15, had a relatively easy victory, thanks to the steadiness of Lady Crosfield. James Powell (father of the late Kenneth Powell) and Miss [Catherine] Douglass were second, the former playing remarkably well. "The second section was won by Stanley Taylor and Gwynifred Palmer. The Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who partnered Dorothea Lambert Chambers, found the heat too oppressive for a sequence of matches, thereafter watching the progress of his son and daughter [Michael and Anastasia (Zia)]. Countess Zia Torby and George Greville were third in their section." DF: Mrs L.P.Chandler/Mrs W.Sprague d. ?? "Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, a place of sweet memories to lawn tennis votaries, wore a very animated appearance on August 14 and 15, when a garden fete was held on behalf of the local Red Cross. How zealously Mr A.E. Brown laboured for the success of the venture, how loyally he was supported by assisting entertainers and by the public, and how discreetly helpful was the rain by ceasing at noon the first day, may be gathered from the fact that between £600 and £700 was collected for the greatest of all war charities. "Not the least attractive - indeed, to be truthful, the main - feature on the programme was the series of first-class lawn tennis matches, played on a perfect match court which had been prepared under the lee of the silent committee box. Stands flanked it and were well filled. A background of khaki, even the sky-blue uniform of the convalescing, were found not to be so troublesome after all for the server's eye - which is another of way of saying that these little technical matters, seemingly so crucial in peace time, lost their importance in war days! "On the first day the drought-ending rain curtailed the programme; but three close matches were followed with keen interest by the large crowd. Albert Prebble and Mabel Parton (the former very good when he had setteld down) just got the better of George and Edith Greville with a score of 2-6, 9-7, 8-6. "George Greville and Percival Davson, of whom only the first was in practice, beat King Manoel of Portugal and Major Ritchie in two sets (6-3, 6-4). Then Prebble paired with Charlotte Sterry, ever a favourite at Eastbourne, and defeated Davson and Mrs Parton after a very level mixed double (7-5, 1-6, 6-4). "On the second day, though the sun shone brightly, a gusty wind made play difficult. The chief match of the day was a five-set double between Stanley Doust and Arthur Wallis Myers and Ritchie and Davson. The remarkable score of 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1, 6-1 was registered in favour of the the first-named pair, who proved slightlty more aggressive on the volley. "Later on in the afternoon there was a return match of three sets. Again each side won a set at 6-1, and then, the sequence being broken with a vengeance, there was a set of 22 games, won at last by Ritchie and Davson. "In the other ties Ritchie and Aurea Edgington beat King Manoel and Mrs Parton after three sets, and in both his subsequent doubles, proving how much his game has advanced, the King won a set." MX: Helena Pouch/Jova d. ?? DF: Miss Amanda Falker/Miss Mary Katherine Voorhees d. ?? MX: Mrs Walter Ellis/Ketchum d. ?? FI: Mrs Robert Herold d. ?? MX: Miss Phyllis Walsh/Bew d. ?? "To aid the local hospital at Folkestone a programme of matches was arranged at the Pleasure Gardens on August 26, when, despite threatening weather, the stands were well filled. In the opening match Albert Prebble and Phyllis Satterthwaite beat Stanley Doust and Mabel Parton by two sets to love (6-3, 9-7). The losers led in the second set, requiring at one time only a point to win it; but Mrs Satterthwaite was the steadier of the two ladies, while Doust (on short leave from military duties, which he had recently taken up) was feeling the effects of a long train journey. "Charles Dixon being absent owing to illness, William Du Vivier, the Belgian player, paired with Prebble against William Ingram and Doust in a men's doubles, which the latter couple won with a safe margin. Subsequently Ingram and Mrs Satterthwaite played a closely contested mixed double against Prebble and Mrs Parton, winning with a score of 5-7, 6-3, 6-3. Mr Potter, the manager of the Pleasure Gardens, had prepared an excellent court for the afternoon." Last edited by Rollo; Nov 26th, 2014 at 03:38 PM. MX: Mabel Hollar/Hollar d. ?? DF: Myra Lambuth/Louise Yandell d. ???? MX: Louise Yandell/Louise Van Kuran d. ???? FI: Miss A.M.Doyle d. ?? "On September 8 and 9 – on a date corresponding in normal times with their annual tournament – the directors of Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, acting on a suggestion made by Sir Hedley Le Bas to the editor of 'The Field', organised a series of matches in the interests of the Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund. Mr E.A. Brown, manager of Devonshire Park, prepared a couple of match courts which would have done credit to Wimbledon, and he flanked them with stands which were filled to overflowing. Indeed, with good weather, a fine gate in a fine cause, and a stimulating sequence of first-class matches, the event was a gratifying and a complete success, worthy to find an honoured place in the lawn tennis annals of Eastbourne. "King Manoel [of Portugal's] volleying has not yet developed sufficiently to make him a dangerous mixed doubles player, and he and Edith Greville were beaten somewhat decisively by Charles Leonard Lyle and Madeline O'Neill [6-3, 6-1]. In the afternoon the well tried combination, George Greville and Ritchie, just got the better of Davson and Dixon in two 'vantage sets [7-5, 7-5], Davson proving himself to be short of practice, while Greville scarcely made a serious mistake. "A finely contested mixed between Edith and George Greville and Wallis Myers and Madeline O'Neill was won by the latter pair [6-4, 2-6, 6-4], both ladies, and especially Mrs O'Neill, playing remarkably well. The match was essentially one of strategy exploited by exponents familiar with each other's methods. "Davson and William Ingram beat Ritchie and Paul de Borman in a three-set match [6-3, 2-6, 6-3], the old Belgian captain, though serving well, being a little slow in getting to the net. Finally, Dixon and Wallis Myers waged a remarkable match against Albert Prebble and Greville, who, racing away with the first set, led 3-2 and 40-15 in the second. As in the morning, Dixon and Wallis Myers recovered to such good purpose that they squared the match, which was eventually left drawn [1-6, 6-3, 6-6] owing to darkness. "The wind had dropped on the Saturday, and the playing conditions were well-nigh perfect. Maintaining his record as a bad starter, Wallis Myers, paired with Mrs O'Neill, found himself in an almost hopeless position against Ingram and Mrs Greville. Ingram was hitting with great power and accuracy, Mrs Greville was at her best at the net. They were on a point of being led 5-3 in the final set, but thoroughly earned their victory [6-1, 4-6, 7-5]. "A very long and exhausting contest between Dixon and Ritchie and Davson and Prebble ended in favour of Davson and his partner [6-2, 2-6, 9-7], who were slightly more aggressive in the critical rallies of the last games, Davson showing a marked improvement on his form of the previous day. Later Prebble paired with Wallis Mayers against Ingram and Davson, their superior service returns giving them victory in the third set [6-3, 3-6, 6-3]. "The Grevilles were at their best against Dixon and Mrs O'Neill, and, though pressed in the second set, deserved every game they won. [Score: 6-1, 8-6] Partnered respectively by Greville, Ritchie and Prebble, King Manoel lost three doubles; but both with Greville and Prebble he won a set, using his forehand drive with success on many occasions. The King, however, has yet to acquire greater control on the backhand. In two of these ties, as when partnering Dixon later, Leonard Lyle gave proof of his steady improvement. "An exciting finish to the improvised tournament was provided when Ingram and Wallis Myers opposed Greville and Ritchie. Each side won a set at 6-1, the second set revealing Ingram and his partner as a particulary aggressive pair. The third set went with the service until, by capturing Wallis Myers' service, the Queen's couple led 6-5. Greville's service was then taken comfortably, and thence onwards the sides ran dead level. In the twenty-sixth game, when all four were feeling the strain, Ritchie, visibly tiring, served a brace of doubles faults. Ingram and Wallis Myers thus won at 1-6, 6-1, 14-12, Wallis Myers retaining his unbeaten record in men's doubles during the two days. "As umpires Messrs Fraser, R. Reader Harris and Robert Lambert Chambers earned the thanks of the executive. A word of praise is also due to Hedges, the professional, for the services he rendered." Guthrie hails from Pittsburgh, PA. Finalist Ruth Davis is from St Paul, Minnesota. Marguerite Ruth Davis went by "Ruth" The Ardsley event was usually held in September. The doubles final was a family affair, as the winners were sisters (Mrs Homer Green was born Adelaide Brown) and the finalists Augusta (AKA "Mrs George") Chapman and Miss Chapman were a mother/daughter pair. FI: Mrs Gardner Bell d. ?? MX: Miss Blair/Lewis d. ?? Last edited by Rollo; Nov 26th, 2014 at 01:28 PM. "In aid of the Kitchener National Memorial Fund, a series of first-class matches took place on the covered courts at Queen's Club on October 21. The galleries were well patronised. A single between Major Ritchie (covered court champion) and Arthur Lovibond (American doubles covered court champion) proved a very one-sided contest, the Englishman winning with the loss of only two games in three sets. Thoroughly familiar with his home floor Ritchie's strokes were too well-controlled for Lovibond's somewhat tentative volleying, nor was the American's service a weapon of attack which gave his opponent any trouble. "A close and stimualting mixed double was played between Charles Dixon and Madeline O'Neill and Arthur Wallis Myers and Phyllis Satterthwaite, the former couple winning with a score of 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. Both ladies, and especially Mrs Satterthwaite, were at their best; Wallis Myers was evidently short of practice, and this factor appeared to turn the scale. "Albert Prebble and Winifred McNair, combining very well, beat Ward and Mabel Parton, 6-4, 6-3; Paul de Borman and Edith Greville beat William Ingram and Mrs O'Neill, 6-3, 7-5. In a men's double decided in failing light, Ritchie and Prebble beat Dixon and Wallis Myers in three quick sets." Last edited by Rollo; Nov 26th, 2014 at 01:22 PM. DF: Miss Myra Lambuth/Miss Louise Yandell d. ?? MX: Miss Louise Yandell/Van Kuran d. ??

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The Amendoeira Golf Resort is located in the central Algarve, near the city of Silves and a 35-minute drive from the airport of Faro. It's ideal for golfers and family vacations and it's located in the central Algarve. The resort offers an excellent base to explore the surroundings area and the nearby activities. The resort is situated in an area of exceptional natural beauty in large, landscaped gardens. The Monchique mountains are a beautiful background and the resort is close to the historic Silves and Armação de Pera with its sandy beaches, restaurants and bars. This modern villa with a spacious living room has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, a private swimming pool, a covered terrace and a roof garden. From the living room the French doors will bring you to the terraces and the well-maintained garden.

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Meito Sumiyaki "Charcoal Roasted" Coffee Candy is yet another product from Japan. The "Charcoal Roasted" candies are aromatic and full-flavored, it is almost like drinking a cup of freshly-brewed coffee. Available in Hong Kong at HKD 15. UFC Ice Coffee is a product of Thailand. UFC Ice Coffee is chilling and enjoyable to drink. Best of all, it is one of the can coffees with the lowest price. UFC Ice Coffee retails at 11 Baht at Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand. Pokka Cappuccino tastes more like milk coffee than cappuccino. It’s somewhat on the sweet side and do not have essential espresso a cup of cappuccino would have. Pokka Cappuccino retails at RM 1.69 at Tesco. Coffee World’s Mocha Chip Frappe is tantalizing and amazingly delightful. It also has plenty of mocha chips as you can see from the pictures. When you are in Bangkok, remember to drop by as Starbucks is not the only place to have good gourmet coffee. What’s more it is also less expensive. Mocha Chip Frappe is available at 115 Baht at Coffee World, Siam Paragon, Bangkok.

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My name is Hope Arden, and you won’t know who I am. But we’ve met before — a thousand times. A couple of days ago, Orbit unveiled the cover (above) for Claire North‘s highly anticipated next novel, The Sudden Appearance of Hope. Given how much I’ve loved all of Claire North’s books, this is very easily in my top five most anticipated novels of 2016. Maybe even the most anticipated of the year. You might have met Hope Arden before. In fact, you might have met her a hundred times. But there’s no way that you’ll remember who she is. Because Hope’s unique problem… is that she’s the girl the world forgets. It all started when she was sixteen years old. A slow declining, a kind of isolation, one piece at a time. Her father forgetting to drive her to school. Her mother setting the table for three, not four. A teacher forgeting to chase her missing homework. A friend looking straight through her and seeing a stranger. No matter what Hope does – the words she says, the people she hurts, the crimes she commits – you will never remember who she is. That makes her life tricky. But it also makes her dangerous. The Sudden Appearance of Hope is due to be published in all English-language territories in May by Orbit in UK, Redhook in US (there may be a slightly different cover for the North American market, but I’m not sure — I’ll share if there is).

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We're all familiar with stories of men gathering to drown their sorrows at their local pubs but the results of a new survey suggests that this might no longer be the case. The survey, commissioned by men's mental health charity The Lions Barber Collective ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sunday, revealed that men are now spending more time in their barbershops each month than at their local pubs. Majority also prefer to discuss sensitive issues with their barbers. According to the survey, 92 per cent of men said they visited their barbershop or hair salon at least once a month. Compared to 70 per cent that visit their local pub at least once a month. 69 per cent also rated their relationship with their barber far better than their relationship with their local pub landlord. The survey also found that men are much more stressed today than they were ten years ago; with a staggering 62% of those aged 35 or over saying they feel greater pressure in 2017 than they did in 2007.

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Our view of WW1 has been considerably coloured by political histories written by individuals eager to exonerate themselves and place the blame on others for the conduct of the war. Satirical films, TV comedy series together with the later views of the war poets have all contributed to the formulation of our perceptions of the war and the men who fought it. Whilst the men who were engaged at the front were very reluctant to talk about their experiences they have left behind a legacy of material culture that can help archaeologists and anthropologists gain a view of their inner most feelings, associations, loyalties and fears. One such culture is the graffiti left behind on a variety of medium. Generally the study of WW1 military graffiti has centred on the view that the individual wishes to leave personal details behind for posterity. We generally find that when individuals can be fully identified, graffiti is used to track down relatives and to discover what happened to the individual, a picture of their life both before and if they survived after the war can be built up. But it tells us nothing of the individual whilst they were on active service. In this paper I would put forward the concept that the individual soldier is telling us much more about himself his fellow soldiers, their current beliefs and affiliations, social, personal and political thoughts and how they view themselves within their environment. The study material is drawn from over 2,500 recorded items predominantly written from around May 1916 to June 1917 and is associated with the British Tunnelling Companies and the Canadian Corps during their preparations for the Battle of Arras 9th April 1917. A designed Victorian garden cemetery and active almost continuously ever since; Arnos Vale is a commentary on historical events both in and beyond Bristol over the last 175 years. It is the final resting place to an estimated equivalent of one third of the population of the city today. Within it, around 600 individuals who lost their lives serving during the two World Wars are also part of this ‘deathscape’ and many more memorialised. Little focus has been placed on the cemetery itself during wartime and on those who interacted with it on a regular basis during these periods. Nor how it affected both the landscape and the individuals who lived and worked there; those who came to mourn and the local community. This paper highlights some of these issues, exploring their significance and considers aspects such as air raids and the reserved occupations of employees. The necessary business associated with death needed to continue, if not intensify during wartime. Insight into events and occurrences specific to the wartime cemetery will be examined to place emphasis on this type of site and investigate some of the complexities raised during a conflict situation. To what extent do physical remains contribute to our knowledge of thankful villages in Somerset? Across Britain, memorials to the dead of the First World War have become as iconic as the post box, bus stop and phone box. However, 51 villages in England and Wales do not have such a memorial. These are the thankful villages, those that sent all their men (and in some cases, women) to the war and all returned alive. Despite this astonishing fact, few people know about these villages and their unusual history. My paper focuses on the thankful villages of Somerset, where 18 per cent (9) of these villages are located, and looks at how these communities have commemorated their thankful status, and what the upcoming centenary means to them. Through fieldwork, interviews and archive research, I found that roughly half the villages were ‘proud villages’ –they have some kind of memorial to their lucky status, whilst the other half I have called ‘reluctant villages’ where the locals either felt embarrassed by their luck compared to their neighbours, or did not feel lucky as they had lost friends and relatives elsewhere. My undergraduate dissertation was the first academic work to focus on this fascinating area of modern conflict archaeology, and I am keen to share what I have discovered. Too many airfields but not enough land was the essence of military airpower manifest in the rural landscape of East Anglia as the Second World War progressed. Popular perception presents a scenario of military personnel happily existing cheek by jowl with local communities in a unified cause. And it is not an inaccurate image; it was however fraught with problems of scarce resources, competition for land use and the longer term legacy in an already changing landscape. Whilst military exigencies and the availability of suitable topography made the eastern counties the ideal platform for air warfare between 1939 and 1945, a serious dichotomy arose between land desperately needed for ever-intensifying agricultural production in the wartime economy and the strategic will to pursue an end to that war. Negotiations and diplomacy involved in the selection of sites for airbases were complex and often protracted, particularly with the ominous threat of compulsory requisition and dispossession. What remains is a fascinating meeting of archaeology, history and the machinations of government agencies and the military, all swept up in the then relatively modern concept of total war. This paper explores the issue of the value, contribution and role of archaeological, documentary, aerial photographic and cartographic sources of evidence when investigating Second World War anti-invasion defences in two case study areas in Wales. It addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the individual evidence types and assesses their individual and collective contributions. Is archaeology capable of revealing the full story independently or is the discipline destined forever to be the handmaiden to history? Can this commonly portrayed binary opposition be laid to rest and can a consensual and inter-disciplinary approach prevail? During the Second World War, resistance within occupied countries was coordinated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Following the entry of the Americans into the war, the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) was established with a similar function to SOE. Essential to the operational capacity of the European resistance was the provision of supplies: without war material, the ability of the resistance to contribute to the wider effort would have been limited. In order to ‘pass’ in occupied countries, supplies often had to be cleverly camouflaged so that they would not draw attention to the operative. SOE became proficient at disguising material from their facility in Hertfordshire. These supplies were stored in purposely designated sites prior to being packed in containers to be transported to occupied Europe. This paper will examine the facilities established by both SOE and the OSS in order to supply the European resistance with the material required to undertake an operational role. It will also examine the changing nature of these facilities as the war progressed and as SOE gained operational experience. “Four brave men who do not know each other will not dare to attack a lion. Four less brave, but knowing each other well, sure of their reliability and consequently of mutual aid, will attack resolutely”. – Du Picq, 1921. The purpose of this study was to explore how British military material culture, namely the weapon of choice, the Heckler and Koch SA-80A2, has been developed in order to create a sense of military community between soldiers. Furthermore it reflects on how a rifle, so often thought of as the basis for statistical and technical study, truly influences the life of and defines the modern British soldier who uses it; ultimately affecting the way in which they fight their enemy, protect those they fight alongside and approach battles which they believe they can win. The study examines how the weapon system used by the British army, the SA-80A2, was adopted in order to design a change in the nature of the soldier structure in the army through developing group cohesion. This process of change has influenced the ability of soldiers to take the lives of their enemies, when necessary, and has revolutionised the world of small arms and how small-arms units fight. Ultimately this study argues how a rifle, often characterised by statistics of its use, can actually be explored and characterised through ideas of material and bodily culture, and that the modern British soldier is defined through the biographical object which protects his life; his weapon. There were many cultural challenges facing the British army on the Western Front of the First World War. From simple tools that seemed entirely alien, the importance of a good meal, and the difficulties with marching songs. However, one of the most persistent was the repeated instance of British soldiers struggling to understand the variable nature of the French will for a glorious offensive and their tendency to form lasting truces on some parts of the line. This paper will look to highlight and examine some of the many cultural difficulties and confusions that marked Tommy-Poilu relations during the First World War and how whilst some gaps could not be bridged, some French approaches began to have an influence on the behaviour of British soldiers. The content is drawn from my recently completed PhD thesis ‘Unwilling Allies?: Tommy-Poilu Relations on the Western Front 1914-1918’. It features research conducted at the Imperial War Museum London, National Archives Kew and the Archives de l’armee de terre Vincennes, along with published diaries and memoirs from British and French Soldiers who fought alongside each other in France across the war. The hand grenade has a long history; potentially dating back to the Byzantine Empire in the 8th century, its usage spreading to Europe in the seventeenth century. With the development of trench warfare the hand grenade came into its own as a weapon, with the now familiar design of the Mills Bomb ‘pineapple’ grenade being developed in 1915 and around seventy five million being manufactured during the first world war. During the twentieth and twenty first century the imagery and design of the hand grenade have been reused for myriad purposes from cigarette lighters to health supplement packaging to depictions in artwork by artists such as Banksy. In some instances the apparent popularity of the reuse of the grenade design is at odds with its origin as a weapon. This paper will look at the history of the hand grenade and the reasons for the subsequent reuse of its imagery in apparently unconnected contexts, and also the reasons for its popularity as an image.

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The City of Kingston enacted By-Law 2018-53 to regulate nuisance parties within the city of Kingston. This By-Law provides Kingston Police with the authority to declare a social gathering a nuisance party. Create, cause, host, sponsor, conduct, continue, permit a nuisance party, s. 4.2. Fail to comply with order to cease a nuisance party or leave premises, s. 4.6. Permit subsequent nuisance party after receipt of warning notice, s. 4.10. Use closed highway, s. 5.3. Remove or deface a device placed on closed highway, s. 5.4. Obstruct or hinder an officer, employee, or agent, s. 6.2. Attempt to obstruct or hinder an officer, employee, or agent, s. 6.2. If you are charged under the Nuisance Party By-Law you will be required to appear before a Justice of the Peace in Kingston, regardless of where you live, and you will not have the option to settle the charge by mail, phone, or online. The goal is to ensure people charged with an offence account for their actions in person. In addition to the new Nuisance By-Law the City of Kingston in co-operation with Kingston Police and Queen’s University has developed the University District Safety Initiative. As a result of unsanctioned street parties the Initiative was brought into effect to help ensure the safety of our community. Similar to the Nuisance Party By-Law, if you are charged within the parameters of this Initiative you will be required to attend court in Kingston. The following offences fall under the University District Safety Initiative. Person under 19 years having or consuming liquor, s. 30(8). Having liquor in open container or consuming liquor in other than licensed premises, residence, or private place, s. 31(2). Being intoxicated in public place, s. 31(4). Make, cause, permit noise by operating a device for the amplification of sound at prohibited time, s. 4.2, Sch. B, s. 6. Make, cause, permit noise by yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, singing, or the playing of musical instruments at prohibited time, s. 4.2, Sch. B, s. 15. Move-in Day and Orientation Week: From August 30, 2018, at 1:00 a.m. until September 10, 2018, at 12:00 p.m. (noon). Homecoming Weekend: From October 19, 2018, at 1:00 a.m. until October 22, 2018, at 12:00 p.m. (noon). St. Patrick’s Day Weekend: From March 15, 2019, at 1:00 a.m. until March 18, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. (noon). The Nuisance Party law is in effect all year long. Serving our community since 1841.

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Here are the 10 markets that, despite the nationwide trend of deceleration, have had the greatest year-over-year rent growth as of May 2017. Strong demand and increasing rents have fueled a wave of new development in the multifamily industry. As a result, rent growth has been decelerating in the majority of markets across the nation, with some even experiencing declining rents. Below is a list of the 10 markets that, despite the nationwide trend of deceleration, had the greatest year-over-year rent growth as of May 2017 based on data compiled by Yardi Matrix. Reno, Nev. made our top 10 list for markets with the greatest occupancy growth over the year, so it is no surprise that rents followed a similar pattern. Reno is an attractive market for businesses, including Tesla and Apple, driving up employment growth to 4.9 percent in 2016. Despite the surge in supply last year of 4.1 percent, Reno has seen both occupancy and rents increase, indicating the market still has healthy fundamentals ahead. Colorado Springs, Colo. is substantially more affordable than nearby Denver, drawing in residents looking for a lower cost of living while still having access to the city. Colorado Springs’ economy is strongly tied to its military base, but tech firms and start-ups have been expanding and diversifying the market in recent years. Colorado Springs has experienced substantial population and employment growth, and with no corresponding growth in supply, rents increased considerably over the 12-month period. Sacramento, Calif., is benefitting from the affordability issues in San Francisco and Oakland, where residents are fleeing and choosing to live in markets with a lower cost of living despite the long commute to the Bay Area. A surge in supply of 4.2 percent last year wasn’t enough to hinder rent growth, and with little development planned for the remainder of the year, rents will likely continue on the upward trend. Tacoma, Wash., is a growing market, drawing in residents and businesses driven out of Seattle as the metro becomes increasingly unaffordable. With a growing population and employment growth of 3.5 percent last year, demand for apartments has been strong. Limited new supply was added to the market last year, and with just a small development pipeline through 2017, the current trend of increasing rents will presumably continue. Spokane, Wash., has had the perfect conditions necessary for rent growth; strong employment and population growth, high occupancy rates and nearly no new developments. The Fairchild Airforce Base drives the local economy, but the health care and education industries have been fueling new employment growth in the market, and demand for rental units remains strong. Eugene, Ore., is home to the University of Oregon, a public research university drawing in a young and educated talent pool. The city is centered between the ocean and the mountains and has a reputation for its outdoor lifestyle. Demand for apartment units has been high, with occupancy rates slightly above 97 percent as of May 2017. Both rents and occupancy rates continue to rise despite the 2.8 percent increase to inventory last year, indicating the market still has room to absorb new supply. The Tri-Cities consist of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, three bordering cities in Washington. The U.S. Department of Energy’s cleanup efforts at the Hanford nuclear waste site contributes to the local economy, bringing an educated workforce to the area. The market had fairly substantial employment growth in 2016 of 3.3 percent, and strong demand matched with limited new supply is driving rent growth in the Tri-Cities. Midland – Odessa, Texas, may be experiencing an inflection point. The market’s economy is heavily dependent on the petroleum industry, and with prices of oil and natural gas fluctuating in the past year, the market has experienced some growth. Despite unfavorable market conditions and a remarkable 5.6 percent loss in employment, both occupancy and rents have increased in the market. The high-tech industry in Boise, Idaho, is becoming increasingly important to the economy, with approximately 20 percent of workers holding a STEM degree. The market is growing in every respect, with population, employment and supply growth throughout 2016 and into the current year. Occupancy remains high and rents continue to rise despite the increased development last year. Portland, Maine, has been benefiting from the revival of its port, which drives the local economy. The market had a surge in supply last year, with a 5.6 percent increase to existing inventory. With occupancy rates high and continued rent growth, the market has been able to successfully absorb the surge in new supply, particularly in the high-end luxury segment. Written by Meeghan Fuhr | June 29, 2017 | © 2017 Multi-Housing News Online. All Rights Reserved.

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Produced by Ram Mohan under the Kalpataru Pictures banner, this Sasikumar film went on the floors recently in Chennai. Sasikumar, who was last seen in Petta, has started shooting for his next, an action-adventure with NV Nirmal Kumar of Salim fame. Produced by Ram Mohan under the Kalpataru Pictures banner, this untitled project went on the floors recently in Chennai. According to sources, the makers will head to Mumbai next for a 25-day schedule. “Sasikumar mostly features in rural films, and this is the first time he will be seen doing an action film. Talks are on with a few actresses, and the team is yet to finalise the female lead and rest of the cast,” says a source, adding this film is set in an urban milieu. The technical crew includes DoP Ganesh Chandhrra, who handled cinematography in Salim, besides art director Anand Mani and stunt choreographer Sakthi Saravanan. Meanwhile, Nirmal Kumar is awaiting the release of Sathuranga Vettai 2, with Arvind Swami and Trisha. The original was helmed by H Vinoth, who is busy with Ajith’s Nerkonda Paarvai. Sasikumar has Kombu Vecha Singamda, Enai Nokki Paayum Thota, Naadogial 2 and Kennedy Club in the pipeline.

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Spanish railways operator Renfe has awarded Talgo the contract for the supply of 15 very high-speed trains, with a maximum commercial speed of 330 km/h, to be operated in Spain and France. Talgo has won the tender by offering a custom designed version of its Avril high speed train design (version G3), a design under development since 2008 and already approved for commercial services in Spain since 2016. The total contract value amounts to 787 million euro including both the manufacturing of the initial batch of 15 trains and their maintenance for 30 years. The contract included an option to buy a second batch of 15 sets (in tranches of 3 if needed) and to extend the maintenance period by a further ten years. Talgo shall deliver the first batch in 36 months. update: In May 2017 the option officially became a fixed order. So Talgo will deliver 30 trainsets now. For all 30 sets, a maintenance contract for 30 years is included. By using a highly competitive tender process, the Spanish railway operator has tried to get the best offer for its passengers and for the Spanish taxpayers. Talgo, which submitted two different bids, beat Alstom (2 bids), CAF and Siemens (2 bids). Bombardier’s offer did not pass the initial cut and was disqualified. Now it is up to Talgo to make it happen. Talgo guarantees Renfe a 99.09% availability during the whole contract period. Having won the tender process, Talgo’s President Carlos Palacio said: “By choosing Avril, Spain and Talgo will reinforce their position worldwide as reference of quality in the very high-speed market,” said Talgo’s President Carlos Palacio. Each of the Avril trains will have a maximum commercial speed of 330 km/h and a total capacity of 521 seats. We see a 14-car train with the powered motorcars and a 3+2 (Turista class) and 2+2 seat configuration (Preferente). Like all other Talgo designs, this train features the Talgo-typical single-axle short body design, which has different dynamic characteristics compared to a more conventional train (featuring Jabobs bogies or conventional bogies). Because of this, a Talgo train features extra body width: The Renfe Avril will be 3.2 meters wide. Remarkable is also the low floor height for a high speed train, only 760 mm, enhancing the accessibility of the train. The preliminary design impressions on this page tell us that the motor cars do not feature the characteristic cab design of the Talgo Avril prototypes (sometimes referred to as ‘Swan’) anymore, which was developed by design studio Pininfarina. This design still resembled the ‘duck face’ design of the older Talgo/Bombardier trains for Renfe (type Talgo-250 and Talgo-350). With the new trains, Renfe wants to establish a fleet to improve its offering along the Mediterranean coast and to cross the Pyrenees to serve destinations in France. To this end, the Renfe Avril trains will be capable of running under three different catenary systems: 1.5kV DC (France, conventional network), 3kV DC (Spain, conventional network) and 25kV 50Hz AC (high speed lines). They will feature the signaling systems ERTMS and ASFA for the use in Spain and TVM and KVB for France.

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 Chabi - Meaning of Chabi, What does Chabi mean? [ syll. (c)ha-bi, ch-abi ] The baby girl name Chabi is pronounced as -AABiy †. Chabi is primarily used in the Spanish language and it is of Hebrew origin. Chabi is a form of Isabel. Chabi is not frequently used as a baby girl name. It is not ranked within the top 1000. In 2017, within the family of girl names directly linked to Chabi, Isabel was the most commonly used. Baby names that sound like Chabi include Abey, Abi (Scottish), Aabbee, Aba (African, Fante, and Twi), Abah, Abba (English), Abbe (English), Abbea, Abbee (English), Abbeigh, Abbey (English and Irish), Abbi (English), Abbie (English and Irish), Abby (English and German), Abbye (English), Abha (Indian), Abie (English), Afaaf, Afaf (Arabic), and Afya (African and Swahili). † approx English pronunciation for Chabi: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"

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It would be impossible to write a list of the seven wonders of Hangzhou without first writing about the incredibly beautiful XiHu or ‘West Lake’. As mentioned in the introduction, Hangzhou is actually one of the most popular cities in China for domestic tourism and I strongly believe that the West Lake and its surrounding area is the main reason for this. There are several old stories or myths that you can find out about while touring the lake and these bring a different perspective to landmarks such as the broken bridge once you hear the history behind them. If you time your trip right and come in the evening it is even possible to watch a light show. The West Lake is just a short walk from 3 metro stations – Fengqi Rd, Wulin Square and Longxiangqiao. Lingyin Temple is a Buddhist temple located quite close to West Lake and just a short bus journey from the city centre. It features lots of shrines and rock carvings from periods throughout China’s history. If you can walk to the upper part of the temple then you can be served tea in the teahouse and have a traditional Buddhist lunch. Lingyin Temple is usually best avoided on national holidays as it is very busy due to Chinese people coming on these days to pray and donate. Get to the temple by bus from the East railway station, or a cheap taxi ride. West Lake is not the only thing that has put Hangzhou on the map. It is also famous for two of its exports, ‘Longjing’ or ‘Dragon Well’ Tea and world class quality silk. If you want to sample the tea, then the best thing to do is to head up to Longjing tea village. Here you can buy some to take home or just taste some of this famous tea. Come at the right season and you can even pick some actual tea leaves yourself! Number four on this list is a little way out of town but still worth a visit. The Xixi Wetlands are a fairly large expanse of land full of wildlife and stunning foliage. There are multiple bus routes so that you can come here to get away from the hectic city centre and embrace the natural side of this Chinese city. The Grand Canal is a world UNESCO heritage site and, although it may be hard to believe, it runs all the way from Beijing to Hangzhou. This makes it the largest artificial river in the world passes through four separate Chinese provinces! What makes it even more incredible is that it was completed in 618 AD! You can take a relaxing cruise on this canal or even take a boat further afield to see another of China’s beautiful cities- Suzhou. So, going to a tea village was not enough for tea for one trip? Well, then there is always the China national tea museum! Drinking tea and tea culture is kind of a big deal here in China. So, as you can imagine, if somewhere calls itself the China national tea museum, it must be a pretty important place. Here you can learn all about the history of tea and the best way to prepare the different types. Take bus number 27 or 87 to get here. Just on the edge of the West Lake there is a tower called the Baochu Pagoda. It was built in around 960 AD so that people could pray for their king to have a safe journey into central China. Maybe that seems an excessive construction for just one trip, but at least it still looks nice today. If you climb the mountain that the pagoda sits on you will also be rewarded with a panoramic view of the West Lake and Hangzhou city. The 7 Wonders of Hangzhou is written by Chris Berry. Chris Berry is a teacher living in China. Follow Chris Berry at With A Backpack and Facebook. Have you visited Hangzhou? What are the places that you have visited in Hangzhou that you feel should make into the list of 7 wonders? Wow, the pictures you found look great! Thanks for publishing! U missed a Feilai Feiqu mountain, a wonderful place! I’ve just come back from my first trip to China , and spent 9 days in Hangzhou. The city is truly amazing , food was fabulous, the people were so friendly and getting around the city was easy on the subway . The architecture in the city was truly amazing, love , love, love this city and what it has to offer .

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Hi Carol - the unit we were in only had the one. Not sure if that's the case with all of them. Recibe una respuesta del personal y antiguos clientes de Maroochy Sands.

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I only landed at Biggin Hill once, in the 1980s. My wife and I were returning from a touring holiday in France in our Skybolt and found our way blocked by weather. Biggin was scarily large and the circuit was busy with a steady stream of clipped voices on the radio. I did my best with my amateurish transmissions (made worse by the open cockpit) and landed without incident. Biggin charged a whopping landing fee, although it did give us a refuge when we needed it. They were tolerant, but brisk and formal. I could have done with a map of the taxiways and only just avoided disgracing myself by steering in the wrong direction. Frankly, I was glad to leave the place behind. Since that visit the airport has expanded its name, not unreasonably, since trains from Bromley South Station take just sixteen minutes to reach London Victoria: it’s now London Biggin Hill Airport. This also reflects the airport’s growing role as a base for business jets. On more recent visits − by road, rather than by air − my image of Biggin was substantially altered by the family whose businesses Falcon Flying Group and Falcon Flying Services have more or less taken over the airport’s light aircraft side. Amarjit Singh Bamrah runs a maintenance and aircraft leasing business with one son, and his other son, Anoop, runs the flying clubs and flight training operation. They are truly nice people, warm and friendly, shrewd businessmen and hard-working, with a love of aviation. There have been two recent changes to further improve my image of Biggin. One is the return of Spitfires and Hurricanes − no fewer than eight warbirds are now based at the airport. The other is the recent appointment of Will Curtis as Airport Director. That’s the Will Curtis, known to me from my short spell as an aerobatic display pilot. Now retired from display flying, he was sponsored by Honda and flew Pitts Specials and a Sukhoi when I last met him. He is not quite the person I would have expected to find running a business airport. So this is going to be interesting, I think, as I head around the M25 for my latest visit. And it’s Friday the Thirteenth. And the weather is distinctly iffy. Biggin isn’t the kind of airfield I can just drop in on for a profile in Pilot − my visit has to be by appointment and I have to be accompanied. As luck would have it, the only date available was this supposedly unlucky one and, this being December, it’s proving true to type with bands of rain and low cloud. Still, it’s not too bad as I leave the M25 − from which London Biggin Hill Airport is signposted, I note − and head up through green and leafy commuter Kent. As I’m getting nearer, my thoughts stray to Biggin’s role in WWII, especially when I head up Westerham Hill, which is long and steep. The gradient is a challenge in third gear for my fourteen-year-old Honda Civic, and prompts a memory of reading that in 1940 it was notorious for bringing to grief the open-top sports cars of the Brylcreem Boys. I should think it was even worse for them going downhill. The airport’s history actually goes back a lot further. It was established in the Great War initially for experiments with radio. It’s sometimes forgotten that the primary purpose of aircraft in those days was artillery spotting, so enabling the pilot to broadcast where the shells fell in relation to the target was a top priority. The Zeppelin scare led to a build-up of home defence and from 1917 Biggin became a base for Bristol Fighters defending London from bomb attack. It remained an RAF base throughout the inter-war period and was substantially expanded in the early 1930s. The airfield played a key role in the Battle of Britain as a fighter base and command centre and was heavily bombed, but remained operational. The hundreds of aircrew and ground personnel casualties are commemorated by a remembrance chapel on the site, still open to the public today, reached off the main road at an entrance flanked by a Spitfire and Hurricane ‘gate guardian’ pair (both replicas). The RAF continued flying from Biggin post-war, but from the mid-1950s it was increasingly a civil airport, particularly after the closure of Croydon. The London Borough of Bromley bought it from the RAF in 1974. An RAF Officer and Aircrew Selection unit was on the site from 1958 to 1992 and, when it closed, RAF involvement finally ceased altogether. A 2001 court ruling prohibits schedule or holiday charter operations, but allows business aircraft, training, club aircraft and private charter. I remember a lot of twins, complex singles and other light aircraft when I landed at Biggin in the 1980s, but no jet aircraft. On my visit today, it’s mostly light-to-medium jets I see in the hangars, taxying or flying, plus some turboprops and a handful of club aircraft. There are, however, several dozen light aeroplanes parked outside Falcon Flying Services and the weather isn’t really suitable for pleasure flying, so I imagine there must be more in the hangars. How do you feel about mixing it with jets and turboprops? I prefer affordable, scruffy little aeroplanes. However a great many Pilot readers lust after the big, fast shiny machinery, both to admire and to fly. If you fly a ‘humble’ PA-28 and are a fan of business jets, Biggin as it is today would be an ideal destination. Even for non-fans, there is a strong case for having lots of business aircraft at Biggin, because they make the airport profitable enough to afford light aviation, which is never going to earn enough to support all those acres of grass, runways and buildings. With jets, of course, come hi-viz jackets, health and safety involvement, and more rigorous procedures for radio, taxying and noise abatement. Microlights are forbidden at Biggin, as are photographs that allow executive aircraft registrations to be read. I arrive, as directed, at the security gate outside the passenger and executive terminal. The security man has my name on his list and allows me to park and go inside. I’m twenty minutes early, and sip coffee in the entrance lounge and watch aircrew photographing each other by a Christmas tree hung with lights. A stream of delivery men with packages and taxi drivers collecting passengers arrive. The passengers include two rather glamorous tall and thin ladies in expensive hats. Then my host for the day arrives. For an airport public relations man, Simon Ames OBE is more switched on to aviation than I expected. His full title is PR and Marketing Support Executive. He learned to fly at nineteen in the Navy and at various times has been Secretary General of the Royal Aero Club, CEO of AOPA UK, Editor of Light Aviation (the title published by AOPA, not the LAA one), and a member of the Tiger Club and has flown everything from a Sea Hawk to a Turbulent. We climb into his car and he drives through automated security gates, activating them with his pass, and out onto the main road. We re-enter the airfield at the South Camp (so-named by the RAF, which divided its airfields into four camps). On the way he points out Rizon Jet’s huge blackened glass building − Rizon is one of the latest and biggest arrivals on the site. I ask about other aviation companies at Biggin. “Too many to list, but you’ll find them on our website,” says Simon. I look later and just within the airport there is an inflight catering company, Air Culinaire; and several jet charter, management and maintenance businesses, including Avbase, Avalon, AYR, Centreline Air, Global Flight Solutions; Interflight; JETS; London Executive Aviation; Perfect Aviation and Sovereign Business Jets. (JETS is one of the biggest and is also the latest to be set up on the airport; it’s an FBO and MBO for − judging by its website − just about every jet type in operation.) There is an aircraft paint specialist, RAS Completions and a TV aerial filming business called Arena, which also supplies helicopter charter. Then there are the businesses run by Falcon, including three flying clubs: Alouette, Surrey and Kent, and EFG, and Falcon’s maintenance business. Plus a business we’re going to visit later: Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar. This is without including the mainly non-aviation businesses on Biggin Hill Airport Trading Estate and in the Concorde Business Centre (including a guitar maker and a company making parking clamps). Simon has arranged a series of appointments. The first is with Amarjit at Falcon Flying Services. His son Anoop joins us from the EFG Flying School on Amarjit’s speaker-phone, explaining that he could limp over, but he’s pulled a tendon playing football and is on crutches. (I blame Friday the Thirteenth.) Amarjit and Anoop are positive and don’t complain, but they’ve been struggling with falling demand, rising costs and increasing bureaucratic interference. This is mainly from the CAA, NATS and EASA, but not entirely. Amarjit quietly slips me a circular to read later. It’s from Will Curtis addressed to all users and tenants and headed Managing Director’s Instruction re-Security Passes and General Safety. Basically it’s a tightening up on health and safety and security procedures. To get a full airside pass applicants have to fill in a form, provide a criminal records check and undertake GSAT training. There is a lesser demarcated-zone-only pass aimed, I imagine, at visitors and students that waives these requirements. The circular is firm: failure to follow VFR noise abatement procedures and published routeings, for instance, is met with a £75 fine. Amarjit thinks prices and over-regulation are driving Group A pilots to microlights on grass airstrips. I say, “Yes, but many microlight pilots still think anything less than a PA-28 isn’t a proper aircraft. Some switch to a Group A licence later. Plus microlights aren’t actually much cheaper, because so many are new and still being paid for, unlike Pipers and Cessnas, which were paid off decades ago.” He seems to agree, but he’s far too nice to argue, so maybe not. Anoop is worried about plans to build a hotel where his flying school is currently sited. He’s been promised relocation to a better building, but it will be further from the road and there will probably be a security gate. “People see the gates now and get put off,” he says. Simon says he thinks people will get used to them once they find that they’re automatic and no barrier if you have a pass. Until recently they say that they benefitted from customers left stranded by the collapse of Cabair and Class Air. EFG has actually added another aircraft to its fleet recently − it now has eight, 100 flying members and eight instructors. The Surrey and Kent flying club (also run by Falcon) has five aircraft and seventy members and the Alouette club has forty pilots on its books and aircraft averaging 600 hours a year. Surrey and Kent has 4,500 movements a year. This prompts me to ask about handling charges. £22.10 for a landing sounds quite reasonable, should I want to fly in here, but not if I’m going to be hit with a handling charge. The handling fees on the airport’s website are daunting. Simon hastens to explain that handling is optional for non-commercial flights and £22.10 is all I would have to pay, unless I chose to park overnight, and even that would only add £9.30 to my bill. “And we have very attractive Avgas prices, since we order it in bulk,” he adds. Our next meeting is with Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Ltd. This is amazing−a building stuffed with Spitfires and Hurricanes and Spitfire parts. (There are also a Harvard and an L4 Cub.) Most are ready to be wheeled out and flown, while others are undergoing restoration or maintenance. (The maintenance company is The Spitfire Company Biggin Hill Ltd.) There to meet us is the manager, Joe Hirst, and Paul Campbell, a graphic designer who works for the business part-time. The business has five employees and several sub-contractors and holds open days for the public once a fortnight. Joe says, “We started here because one of the Spitfire owners lives nearby, plus the airfield is open all year round − having no grass runways − and has all the facilities we need. Then of course there’s the history, Biggin being 11 Group Sector’s HQ in WWII. I grew up near here, both grandads flew warplanes and I used to see warbirds thundering over my house as a kid. I wanted a job here from the start−my first was cleaning Learjets. I progressed to engineering.” I ask him what were the most ambitious things he’s done, and he tells me an engine change on a Learjet, and a ground-up rebuild of a Spitfire, RW382. He continues, “Biggin is a great place to be based. I can be downwind in the L4 with a Gulfstream in the circuit ahead of me. It prepares you for the larger airports. If you learn at Biggin, you can fly anywhere.” Paul takes bookings for airshows, events and open days. In 2008 he got chatting with a Spitfire owner who asked him what Paul thought of his display. “I suggested a few things from my marketing and design background and my involvement grew from there,” says Paul. The company has been at Biggin since June 2011. Our next meeting is to be with the airport management in the board room in the passenger and executive terminal. But first Simon wants to show me the £6 million Terminal Hangar, which opened in 2011. As we head towards it, he fills me in on one of the major tenants, Formula One Management. Bernie Ecclestone acquired the West Camp, built a new hangar and refurbished another for the company’s aircraft. The West Camp includes the buildings left empty when the RAF departed. The airport freehold is owned by the London Borough of Bromley, while a private company, Biggin Hill Airport Ltd, owns a 125-year lease (begun in 1996). Biggin Hill Airport Ltd is owned by Regional Airports Ltd, which also owned Southend until its recent sale. The Terminal Hangar is vast, spotlessly clean and as impressive as you might expect. Mostly empty this morning, it is actually fully occupied, as most of the tenant aircraft are outside on the equally generous apron or away. The building incorporates a substantial suite of offices and the hangar doors have a tail dock to accommodate aircraft with a high fin such as an Airbus Corporate Jet or Boeing Business Jet. Business Aircraft Europe had its third show at London Biggin Hill Airport this year, with record attendance, Simon tells me. On the other hand, it’s unlikely that the old annual air show will return − it ran from 1963 to 2010. We’ve a minute or two to spare before our meeting in the board room, so Simon gives me a quick tour of the passenger terminal, which takes private charter passengers such as the French rugby team, who came through here recently on an Air France charter. Waiting in the board room I meet one of the directors, Robert Walters, whose father is the company chairman. He tells me he enjoys flying in light aircraft and intends to learn, “If I ever get the time”. He says, “Biggin Hill has long been an important site for light aviation, and the recent decline in activity hasn’t deterred us from investing in the light GA side, for example with a self-refuel facility, a light aircraft ramp and new premises. We think strategically about light aviation and want to consolidate our light aviation assets to secure them for the long term. However, what will change, inevitably, is the regulatory environment, airfield security, access and egress and airspace control. And while we are sensitive to the need to keep club flying competitively priced, we do have to take into account our cost base, which is different from other airfields. “On the corporate aircraft side, we have benefitted from considerable technical improvements in aircraft. Corporate aircraft are getting bigger, and bigger aeroplanes seem to be more recession-proof. Certainly the medium-to-long range business aircraft market is healthier than ever. A Gulfstream Five can carry up to fifteen people for a twelve-hour flight endurance. These new generation jets are quieter, fly higher and burn less fuel. We had one come here direct from São Paulo and a Global Express departure from here to Beijing. Another departure from here recently went to Melbourne, with a single stop-off at Mali. The growth of world trade is changing business travel patterns. Where once a business airport like London Biggin Hill saw mostly flights to Europe with a few to the U.S., nowadays it’s more global. Will Curtis arrives, apologising because he’s been held up. I recognise him straight away − a likeable, charismatic man with a personality that is quiet and determined. The mystery of how the dare-devil airshow pilot I used to know is now MD of a place like this is quickly solved. Will explains, “I learned to fly at 25 and flew business jets for twenty years. In 1998 I sold a business and had some spare cash and some time. I had recently sampled a Pitts Special and fallen in love with aerobatics so I bought a Pitts and started learning. I chose the display route over competition aerobatics and brought to it my management expertise and knowledge of how corporate multi-nationals think... which is how I got Honda to sign up as my sponsor. The business he sold in 1998 was Hawk Air, an air taxi company he started at Cambridge Airport in his late twenties as a newly qualified commercial pilot. He laughs when he says this: “No one would employ me”. After selling the business, he went into partnership with David and Ralph Gold in GoldAir, which was moving from King Airs to the new generation of business jets. It was his background in GoldAir’s management that made him the ideal candidate for the CEO role at Biggin. I have one more thing to do before calling it a day: fly a circuit with an instructor and take some overhead photographs. Simon drops me off at EFG where Anoop is waiting to introduce me to Ray Watson, the school CFI, previously at Cabair and before that, flying 27 years with the RAF. He also worked at British Aerospace and has 19,500 flying hours. Most remarkable of all, Ray ran the OTUs for the Victor and the Valiant and has photographs of both on his office wall to prove it. You can get a Commercial rating at EFG, and Ray is one of the instructors who will help you gain it. He also trains and examines the flying school’s other instructors. We go out to the line of parked aircraft and strap into a PA-28, but while we are running through the start-up checklist, some ominous rain drops appear on the windscreen. Ray gallantly does what he can, but there are delays with getting the engine to start, the handbrake to release and with the Controller, who perhaps understandably wants to know exactly what ‘taking overhead photographs’ will entail. “I phoned him earlier and told him all about it,” says Ray. I’m getting that Friday the Thirteenth feeling again. “Not much going on at the club,” I say to him once we finally get taxying. “No,” says Ray, sadly. “We told a couple of students and a trial lesson not to come this morning, but the weather’s actually been better than forecast.” ‘Until now,’ I say to myself, because the light’s definitely starting to go. We arrive at the runway threshold eventually, are cleared to take off and are soon climbing away. Unfortunately, it’s a right-hand circuit and I need to take my photograph through the tiny window on the left. We had hoped to get clearance for a left orbit from downwind, or even a left-hand circuit, but there is other traffic about, and it doesn’t happen, at least not on our first circuit. Now the weather is really clamping in and we’re having difficulty in maintaining circuit height without entering cloud. “Want to try a second circuit?” asks Ray, but I can see it’s hopeless and say better not, probably to his relief. By the time we’re on final, the rain has started in earnest and mist is closing in. We taxi back to the clubhouse and I dash out to take a final photograph while Ray ties down the PA-28. Then I discover that I can’t get from the aircraft parking line to shelter, because I don’t have a pass that will unlock the gate. So I keep dry under the wing of a Cessna 152 until Ray’s ready to let me in. After thanking Ray and saying goodbye to Anoop, I head back towards the M25. A half-mile down the road the traffic stops. Five minutes later, the police car in front of me makes a one-eighty and heads back the way we came. He must know what he’s doing, I think and follow him. It’s a disastrous decision. This is the hour when mums collect the kids from school and traffic is heavy. I find another route, but end up in the dark in rain and fog on a narrow country road. The satnav sorts me out, but I lose an hour getting to the M25. However, that appears to be it as regards bad luck: the rest of the journey is straightforward. I hope Biggin’s luck remains good, and I think it will. The airport looks more than viable financially and set to become even more profitable. Hopefully the pressure on the flying clubs and light aircraft maintenance business will ease soon and the good times return.

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The world is orienting technologically and mobile phones are a crucial part. 97% of the people in the world own a mobile phone and 65% of them have a smart one whether it be android, ios, or windows phone. There is a big pool of choices for one to choose a smartphone of their choice with their favorite features. For the ones who are a fan of camera and speed, this article is a treat and a guide. Here is a list of top 10 smart phones with the best camera and processor. With 8 MP front and 12.2 MP back camera, Google Pixel 2 is one of the best camera smartphones available in the market. It also has 1.9GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor which makes it super-fast. Samsung galaxy Note 8 has an 8 MP front and 12 MP rear camera. Not only this, the features that it offers are amazing including the blur background effect. It also has Octa-core (2.35GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad), 64-bit, 10nm processor. S8 is one of the most successful Samsung phones ever. It has an 8 MP front and 12 MP rear camera. Apart from the camera, the smartphone is has features that everyone would love to have in their phones. It also has the same processor as Note 8 i.e. Octa-core (2.35GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad), 64 bit, 10nm processor. Apple is known for providing both the things that we are looking for in this article, processor and camera. iPhone X has arguably the best camera Apple has ever offered in an iPhone. It has 7 MP front camera and 12 MP back camera with auto focus options. With 8 MP front camera and 12 and 20 MP dual back camera makes this phone and it’s camera unique. LG is one of the best smartphone brands out there and it’s V30 is a real gem. It has a 5 MP front camera and 16 and 13 MP rear camera. It has a Octa-core (4×2.45 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo) processor. With 7 MP front camera and 12 MP back camera, iPhone 8 Plus makes it to the 7th place of the list. It has a 2691 mAh battery and a Hexa-core (2x Monsoon + 4x Mistral) processor to speed things up. Huwaei P10 Plus has 8 MP front camera and a dual 20 MP and 12 MP back camera which makes it an absolute treat for the camera lovers. 3rd iPhone in the list. iPhone 7 Plus has 7 MP front camera and dual 12 MP camera. It is one of the most successful iPhones ever launched by apple. The only HTC phone that could make the list is U11. U11 has a 12 MP back camera and a record 16 MP front camera. This is the best for the ones who can’t start and end their days without clicking some selfies.

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Think Inc provides a range of creativity and PR courses in London, across the UK and beyond. They include half-day and one-day workshops, as well as shorter, lunchtime or breakfast talks, on subjects including Creativity in PR and Viral Marketing; How To Run a Brainstorm; and Think Differently: How To Become More Creative. 1. PR, marketing and advertising agencies, under constant pressure to produce more and better ideas – both to win clients and to keep them. 2. In-house PR, communications and marketing teams wanting to generate their own ideas instead of relying on agencies – whether to save money, take control or simply learn new skills. 3. Individual PR/marketing professionals and interested others. As well as in-house creativity and PR courses, tailored to the needs of corporate clients, we also run occasional open or public creativity and PR courses in London, across the UK and beyond. These are open to both PR/marketing professionals and other interested individuals. Want to go viral? A good idea wins attention that money can’t buy; indeed, without one, it’s now hard to get attention at all. But how do you generate ideas for stunts, creative PR and viral marketing that cut through the clutter and spread virally? What are the secrets of creative thinking and idea generation that help you do so? What makes something go viral at all? This hands-on, practical and fun workshop provides the answers. The business world has never been tougher. Businesses, brands and others therefore need to think differently and learn to be more creative. Creativity, in fact, is often the only way to get noticed – to achieve cut-through in a noisy market and get your message across … even, indeed, to your own staff. It’s the way to make your money go further and, as one expert put it, “one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition”. But how do you learn to think differently and to generate your own ideas for new, different and better ways of doing things? Learn and use some simple “creativity hacks’ – practical techniques for coming up with more and better ideas; not every now and then but regularly and when you need them. Just attended another useless brainstorm? Learn to run one that works. A well-run brainstorm can be the best way to produce lots of great ideas in a short time – but a badly run one can be a shambles, wasting everyone’s time. So, what makes a good brainstorm? What are the secrets of running one and the mistakes to avoid? This hands-on, practical workshop shows you the answers. Want to know more about Think Inc’s creativity and PR courses in London or beyond? Please email info@think-inc.co.uk or call 020 7100 6777. Our creativity and PR courses blend theory and practice, with an emphasis on hands-on, practical exercises, giving the chance to learn from doing and to get feedback from both the tutor and fellow class-mates. Peter Freedman is the Director of Thinking of Think Inc. He has over 15 years experience working for clients ranging from Craigslist and Apple to Marks & Spencer, Badoo.com, Lulu.com, VisitScotland, Kellogg’s, British Gas, Walt Disney, The Football Association and UNICEF. He has delivered training and talks on creative thinking and creativity in PR in the UK and abroad – to everyone from British Gas, the BBC and the Royal Academy to tech start-ups and PR agencies. Before founding Think Inc, he was journalist, who wrote widely for national media, edited magazines and reported for BBC TV. Want a fuller example of our creativity and PR courses? A good idea wins attention that money can’t buy; without such ideas, it’s now hard to get attention at all. But how do you create PR and marketing ideas that cut through the clutter and spread virally? What are the secrets of creative thinking required? What makes a story go viral? This hands-on, practical and fun workshop explains. The precise contents of this course – as of all our creativity and PR courses for corporate clients – will depend on discussion with the client. We normally start by outlining what’s possible and then tailor the course to each client’s specific preferences and needs. We can, for example, tackle real cases, problems and challenges that our client is currently handling. An in-house PR or communications team wanting to learn how to come up with its own ideas rather than always relying on agencies. The course, however, is also suitable for any PR or marketing professional who wants to come up with ideas that cut through the clutter, spread virally and so help their client or brand stand out from the crowd at a cost-effective price. Course Content: What will it cover? What will I learn? All our creativity and PR courses for corporate and agency clients are, as mentioned, tailored to the needs of each client and normally include references to real campaigns, problems and/or clients that they’re working on. Having said that, however, the following list gives a pretty good idea of the sort of areas that this course tends to cover. The first step is to identify the clichés, conventions and stereotypes of your subject – the next is to manipulate and subvert them in fun but relevant and deliverable ways. First you identify the clichés, conventions and stereotypes of the subject in question – then you manipulate and subvert them. The course oultines six techniques for doing so. The colours blue and green. Length: Ideally, one day. But we can also deliver a shorter version lasting half a day.

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This episode is about helping people instead of being a savior. Candace is a health practitioner suffering from work-related anxiety. She is wondering how to decrease the amount of anxiety that comes from feeling responsible for helping people, and she questions whether or not she is good enough to truly help them. We cover why we should not take on the responsibility of helping others, why it’s important to be of service, and not a savior, and what is truly at the root of a desire to help or save others. I asked Candace why she worked in a health and service position. She said it makes her feel she has a purpose. Having a purpose is wonderful, but when your purpose is tied to core issues from your past — you are attempting to heal through your work — you will perpetuate an unhealthy attachment to your work, and you may suffer from anxiety or not-enoughness. Her unresolved hurts around her emotionally unavailable parents are creating a huge attachment to her work, and anytime we have huge attachment, we feel a huge burden of responsibility, which creates self-doubt, because we are taking on way too much responsibility. We become saviors instead of truly being of service. It’s not our responsibility to make sure people change, and it is not our responsibility to make sure they don’t suffer. I know it hurts to watch other people suffering, but we can not take away other people’s pain. By holding a space for the suffering, instead of taking it on, we can truly help by way of compassion. The more comfortable we get with our own suffering, the more we can hold a space of love and compassion for others. If we take on the belief that it is our responsibility to fix someone, then we assume they are broken, and not equipped to heal themselves. One of the biggest gifts we can give to others is to see them as whole, and having all the inner resources they need. People save themselves. Sign up for my weekly blog and vlog. Last week I posted, How to Make and Nurture Friendships. Friendship is a key ingredient to your well-being so, don’t neglect it Also, subscribe to Christine Hassler on Youtube. ● Do you enjoy helping people? Do you find yourself overinvested in making sure they change or heal? ● Does your sense of worthiness or value come from being needed by others or helping others? ● If you are in a helping profession, do you ever feel like a fraud, or like you don’t have what it takes to truly help? ● Do you suffer from anxiety at work, or do you ever feel depleted or drained after being with someone who is struggling or suffering? Candace wants to free herself from the anxiety she feels from her alternative health work. ● Helping people gives her purpose. ● She had to beg for attention as a child. ● She is trying to give others the attention she didn’t get as a child. ● She feels emotionally drained at the end of the day. ● She is continuing to do to herself what her parents did to her. ● She has anger towards her father. ● She should recognize it is not her responsibility for her patients to get better or for her to fix them. ● She should stop projecting her fears onto the people, and give them the dignity of their process. ● She should make a list of her new beliefs about her clients. ● She should make a list of self-care practices she will start, stop, and modify. ● Use Expectation Hangover to work through forgiving her parents. ● Give your younger self the attention and love he or she needs. ● Move into forgiveness of anyone from your past who is reinforcing a negative pattern of taking on responsibility. ● Get crystal clear on what your responsibility is, and what is not your responsibility. ● Up your self-care game. Pick one thing you want to stop doing, one thing you want to start doing, and one thing you want to modify or change. Do it for 40 days. ● Share this episode if you feel someone else could benefit from hearing this information.

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Formula 1 on mobile devices has a lot of traditions – Codemasters studio knows it, which has just announced the start of work on the latest game in this series. In recent years in Poland, the topic of Formula 1 was interested only and exclusively its die-hard fans – after several years of Robert Kubica's performances in this elite racing class an accident happened, after which the first Pole behind the wheel of an F1 car had to give up competition. Years of rehabilitation allowed, however, to return to the track, this time, however, as a test driver of the Frank Williams team, unfortunately – one of the weaker in the group. Anyway – the hopes and interest of the fans have been awakened again. In the meantime, Codemasters was still involved in creating new hits of the F1 series for mobile devices with Android and iOS. The latest one is F1 2016 , after which the "Code Masters" took a rest that lasted nearly three years. It turned out, however, that the company does not intend to fall asleep pears in ash. This development team has just informed about the work on a completely new production, F1 Mobile Game. The title is created in cooperation with the Eden Games studio – PC and console players can associate this developer from the Test Drive Unlimited series, while mobile users can taste their capabilities in the field of car games playing at Gear.Club. In a word – it's a studio that undoubtedly has a lot of experience in this topic. What will we find in the new production of these two developers? Of course – based on the official license – in the game we will be able to meet all teams, cars and drivers who take part in this year's competition on F1 tracks on virtually all over the world. The creators ensure that all elements will be reproduced in accordance with the realities, just like the performance of vehicles. Thus, for example, it will be difficult to distance the Ferrari car behind the wheel of Williams' vehicle. Manufacturers also promise a realistic driving model for demanding players , although probably – as in the previous editions – the developers will also serve a special, much simplified control system that will certainly suit Sunday Formula 1 drivers in virtual reality. A huge treat for all players should become multiplayer in real time, which means that we will get the opportunity to race directly with other players during official competitions. To keep your finger on the pulse, the developers will also serve us a whole lot of events accompanying the real competition, so you can expect a regular portion of additional attractions. Next ArticleThe durability of the OnePlus 6 was tested. Was the glass casing a good idea?

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Looking for a vet? many vets practice in the area and which Veterinarian to choose? Ensuring our pets receive the best of veterinary care is a very important factor many pet owners are concerned about. These days, veterinary hospitals and clinics seem to be popping up on every street corner. So, selecting a veterinarian most suited to your pet can be quite daunting. So, in this article, we’ll briefly cover the steps you should take in order to pick the best vet for your pet! Do you have a dog? a cat? or a crazy exotic pet? When it comes to choosing the best vet, you want to look for a clinic that’s best suited to your pets needs. In Australia, you can have different types of veterinary practices. This can include small animal clinics, mixed practice, exotic only animal clinics, large animal clinics or small animal only clinics. Sometimes pet owners often find their ideal veterinarian based on what they’ve heard about a specific vet. This means that when searching for the perfect veterinarian you should ask other pet owners what vet they take their pet to and how the service is. If you’re unsure as to who and where you can ask. Try visiting your local dog parks, pet stores or pet rescues. Speak to people who you know take good care of their pets. simply take them with a pinch of salt. That is, if you see a couple of bad reviews then that doesn’t necessarily mean the vet practice is bad. Most veterinary clinics often have an active Facebook page as well. Since veterinary clinics are a business you’re going to be able to see all the recent reviews posted by clients. The purpose of reading reviews is to simply give you a glimpse of a clients perspective. While some reviews can be biased or unfair, it is important to not penalize the veterinary clinic based on their rating and review. Sometimes if you want to choose the right vet then the best thing to do is to take your pet to a veterinary clinic of your choice. The number of staff present: All clinics have a different vet to vet assistant ratio. Generally, the busier the clinic, the more staff you’ll have. If the staff seem like they aren’t bombarded with a lot of work and can help you with your queries then this is a good sign of adequate staff numbers! The waiting time in the waiting room: Do the staff members attend to you and your pet almost immediately? Generally, you may have to wait no more than 10 to 15 minutes in order to a vet technician to come and take your dog. Vet techs are the people who will take the basics such as heart rate, breathing rate, temperature and weight. Get To Know Your Vet and their Staff! In the Veterinary School at Massey University, New Zealand. The Veterinary Institute teaches future vets how to properly interact with people. In fact, one of the most common issue clients complain about is a vet inability to properly communicate with their customers. Think about it! You love your pet and want to make sure that they will be well cared for. If you have an intimidating veterinarian things might not be as appealing. However, if you have a veterinarian who’s sincere, bubbly, and truly concerned about your pet’s health then you’re more likely going to visit that vet again. If you don’t have pet insurance, then you probably know that vet bills can get really high. If you believe you may not be financially capable of paying a few veterinary bills then its highly recommended that you speak to your vet about fees & payment plans. Many veterinarians who offer flexible payment plans or financial advice on funding a surgery, do it because they truly care about the well-being of a pet. Ideally, you should speak to your veterinarian about the cost of routine procedures such as vaccinations, deworming, routine blood tests and physical exams in order to get an idea of the average yearly costs you might expect to spend. While vet care can be pricey, it’s important to remember that sometimes emergencies happen! So, as pet owners, we need to make sure we have taken all the precautions in case of emergency. This is why pet insurance can become a lifesaver for your wallet! Not only will pet insurance save your pet but, it will also ensure you vet is paid the full amount. Why Doesn’t My Vet Make Prices Cheaper? Veterinary bills can indeed be pricey and it can also be the most frustrating time for pet owners. It’s important to remember that veterinarians and vet technicians are perhaps the most underpaid and overworked people in the medical field. Unfortunately, veterinarians cannot completely cross out your vet bill because they too need to support their families. However, veterinarians who provide a flexible payment plan tend to be more understanding, have your petcare policy upto date to help with unforeseen vet bills. Take Your Pet To Other Vets! You are by no means obligated to take your pet to a single veterinarian. So, if you have more than one cat or dog you can try and take them each to different veterinarians. This will allow you to explore and engage different clinics. When it comes to choosing the right vet for your pet, there are many considerations owners must take into account. However, it’s crucial to remember that all vets go through extensive training and education in order to do what they can. So, from a medical perspective, all vets are equally good at what they do. It’s also important to bear keep in mind that some veterinarian clinics may have specialists who undergo more training in a special field. So, generally, if a clinic has a few specialists then this is positive and can indicate the clinics’ popularity. Do you have tips on how to find the right vet? Let us know in comments below!

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At the end of the family weekend at Peaks of Otter Kate, Dazey, and I ran down to Roanoke for a day trip. To get from Peaks of Otter to Roanoke the quickest route is on the Blue Ridge Parkway which you can learn all about here at the wikipedia’s. There are lots of great views on the road and they built a crap ton of pull off spots for you to get out take photos and have lunch. Please don’t stop in the middle of the road to look that views. We stopped in Roanoke for a beer and walked around downtown. Its a pretty cool town and a place I would be interested in exploring more. I have always heard that fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains is a sight to behold, but being from Colorado I always took the attitude that altitude was better. It turns out I was wrong and the Blue Ridge Mountains really are a sight to behold in the fall. Kate’s family has been coming to this area for decades to hike up Peaks of Otter and remember family and friends. This year Kate and I were able to join them and got a few photos. What a strange name right? Apparently there have never actually been Otters in this area. The names likely come from Scottish settlers in the 1700’s who named the places after their homeland. Here is the wikipedia page talking about the Peaks of Otter. We hiked up the second highest one called Sharp top cause guess why? The rocks on top are sharp and stuff. At the foot of Sharp Top is the visitor center and next to that is Abbott Lake and the Lodge. At the Lodge on Thursday through Sunday night you might catch some live local bluegrass musicians, highly recommended. There is a huge field of grass next to the lake and visitor’s center so we had Photos with Grass on the grass! Its an agronomists delight! There are 52 RV spots in this campground. They are not the most level and there is no hookups. They do have dump stations and potable water available but not at any of the individual sites. It was pretty chilly when we were there so make sure your propane is filled up too. The drive into the camp is narrow and winding. If you take the 43 from west of Bedford it gets pretty hairy in places with less than no shoulder on some turns. I would advise not taking that route if possible. When we lost Zeke on October 1st Kate and I separately started looking at different dog rescue websites in Ohio and the surrounding areas including North Carolina. We knew that the best way to remember Zeke would be to rescue another dog that was in the same situation as him. What better way to honor his life than by giving someone else the same love and attention? One problem we immediately encountered was that most rescue organizations will not even consider an out of state adoption let alone one from a fulltime RV couple with a constantly changing address. Kate was undaunted though and after a week or so of searching found Claire at The Fort Rescue in North Carolina. The Fort has been around since 2012 focused on rescuing Pit Bull breeds and were open to adopting to people in our situation. Kate emailed them about our situation and Zeke’s recent passing and they replied immediately and enthusiastically that it would not be a problem for us to adopt one of their rescue dogs. The main reason Kate reached out to The Fort was because of Claire. Besides being really cute Claire was also good with other dogs, children, and pretty much super relaxed. Since we are travelling the country in a trailer we need someone who can handle all types of situations with ease and it looked like she would fit that bill without a problem. So on Monday October 13th 2014 on our way to Raleigh North Carolina we stopped by The Fort and met Claire, her foster family, and Jake (the owner of The Fort). We spend a couple of hours learning about her past. Apparently during one of The Fort’s adoption events a volunteer found her and her puppies in a garbage dumpster. They rescued her and treated her for a number of infections and parasites and fostered her to Karen and Abbey who cared for her while they searched for a forever home. Thats when we showed up. When we first met Claire she immediately wanted to get into our truck which we took as a good sign. She is about 40 pounds but has the strength of a dog twice her size. She doesn’t bark and only cries lightly when she needs to go potty. She is a cuddler and love bug and loves getting pets and snacks. When we drove away she immediately stood up on the center console and let us know she was keeping an eye on the road with us. Kate and Dazey first ride in the truck. We knew from the start that she was going to get a new name to keep Kate’s tradition of naming her dogs with a ‘Z’ in their name. After throwing a few different ideas around we decided on Dazey since she is beautiful like a flower and she accepted it right away. So now Claire is Dazey and we are “Driving Miss Dazey” and we get to say “Upsie Dazey” when she gets into the truck. Its a good time for all. Dazey and Maizey playing on the floor. As you can see we haven’t had any problems getting some good photos and are pretty sure this will be a regular tradition moving forward. If you are thinking of getting a dog or cat please find a rescue like Dazey or Zeke. They need your love. PS – If you cannot adopt consider donating to a rescue organization or volunteering. When we started planning to go fulltime RV in May of 2014 the main catalyst was Zeke’s health problems. He started having problems with wetting the bed and subsequent visit to the vet diagnosed him with lymphoma cancer. The news was pretty devastating and made us realize how temporary life is and that we need to be sure to live it fully. We rescued Zeke in September of 2012 and it was one of the best decisions we ever made. He brought us so much joy and got us to go fulltime rving so we wanted to remember him. We rescued Zeke so hopefully sharing our experience will encourage others to always rescue dogs. Zeke was also considered by many to be a dangerous breed because he looked like a Pit Bull. While he wasn’t one it always frustrated us that people would make judgments before meeting him and learning that he was the nicest dog or living being you could ever meet. Zeke came to us from the Phoenix Small Dog Rescue in September of 2012. At 80 pounds he was hardly a small dog and as we quickly learned he was one of the most unique beings we have ever met. Our oldest dog Bonzai had started to let us know that she needed a companion after our Boxer Ozric had passed away in June of 2012, you can read my memory of him here: Ozric. Kate found Zeke on the Small Dog website and stopped by the foster home on her way back from work. When she got home she let us know that the next day Bonzai and I would be joining her to bring Zeke home. Of course the final decision was based on if Bonzai got along with Zeke. We even asked the foster family if we could bring Zeke back after one night just in case things didnt go well. In retrospect that was one of the funniest requests ever made cause there was no going back once we let this guy into our lives. When we got Zeke he was called Humphrey by his foster family and before that his original owner called him Tamu. Neither of these names were particularly appealing to us nor did they match his personality. Kate has a tradition of naming her dogs with a ‘z’ somewhere in their name. It started with Beezle, then Bonzai, then Scuzzlebutt, then Ozric, so we had to come up with something to keep the tradition alive. I also wanted to have a short name that was easy to call out and Kate mentioned our nephew Tate’s rabbit was named Zeke. Figuring that one syllable was short enough we settled on Zeke and he immediately accepted it as his name. He was anything but a small dog either in size or heart or appetite or love. Before we left the foster home the mother gave us a warning that Zeke, as we would come to name him, was not the best at riding in cars and to be ready for that. So we loaded him into the back of our Honda Pilot with Bonzai with me in the back seat to ensure he wouldn’t act up. Within 5 blocks our concerns were abated as he curled up next to Bonzai and started napping like he had been with us forever. This had not been Zeke’s first foster or rescue. His original owner had died at home and when his body was discovered 5 days later Zeke was lying next to his body obediently waiting for his first friend to wake up. Dehydrated and malnourished he had been taken to a vet hospital for treatment and was released to his first rescue. Unfortunately she ended up being an hoarder. After a few months he was rescued from that rescue where he apparently had spent hours in a kennel surrounded by other terrified animals. From there he was rescued by the good people at the Phoenix Small Dog Rescue and went to his first foster family. While his breed is unknown to exacting standards we think he is a bit of American Bulldog and a few groomers have mentioned Argentinian Dogo, which his white coat and spots under the fur seem to confirm in a very unscientific way. Nevertheless he was assumed by many to be a Pit Bull and people shied away from him with the ignorance of people who judge others by sight before knowing the individual. Even if he were a Pit Bull he was still the most gentle dog we had ever met. The most force he would use towards people would be in lifting your arm with his nose to get you to pet him. While at his first foster home he had met a few potential owners who eventually declined to take him simply because he looked like a dangerous animal. That foster returned him to the rescue and he went to his second foster home where Kate found him. When we got him home there was some confusion and he ran to the neighbors house. I probably overreacted a bit but the thought of losing this dog before even getting him in the house was tragically comedic. Kate was more composed and recovered him from the neighbors driveway and calmed me down. The first night I took out my camera and snapped our first photos. He was a joy from the start and we loved him right away. There would be no need to take him back to the foster family and he had found his forever home and we found another reason to never judge a book by its cover. Zeke loved people. He loved getting pets and laying at your feet. He loved going on walks and meeting more people who could give him more petting. For the most part everyone who saw him loved him. One of the best things that happened on walks was when grown men mentioned how ‘handsome’ he was. Bonzai and Zeke hit it off right away and became inseparable. Occasionally we would need to take one of them to the vet for an appointment and the other would worry and pace the house until their best friend got back home. As with Bonzai and Ozric, Zeke was a vegan. We fed him V-Dog brand dogfood to ensure he got all of the nutrients he needed and he was very healthy. He also loved vegetables and would patiently sit near us whenever food prep was happening. There was very little that he would not chomp on and then come back for as much as he could coax from us. There is so much to write about Zeke but I want to keep things reasonable here. If you have a Zeke story or photo please share it in the comments below. He was a very special being and we will always have him in our hearts.

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In the story, thirty-something-year-old Ben Benjamin, who is an author who no longer writes and a father who no longer has a family, has taken a job as a caregiver to a teenage boy named Trevor, who has Muscular Dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair. Both Ben and Trevor share the commonality of not living in the present. Ben can not comprehend the events of his past. The loss of his young son has paralyzed his life. Trevor can not comprehend his foreboding future; and the random and unfairness of it all. They both are in a bad place in their lives. Each is in a grief ditch, one in which neither can seem to climb out of. With each passing day, grief deepens their respective ditches in their lives. The statistics of Trevor’s disease say his health will progressively get worse, and ultimately he will die a premature death. Ben has been dead ever since he lost his son. The universe has orchestrated chaotic events to bring each into the others lives. Ironically, more out of need than design, Ben has taken a job to take care of another human being when it is quite obvious that he can hardly take care of himself. Trevor, who all has but succumbed to his fate and demise has allowed Ben to see the vast difference between merely existing and truly being alive. Trevor then reveals to Ben his map of roadside attractions that he has privately kept. “That is the The Worlds Deepest Pit,” he says. He adds that he’s drawn to the name because of how depressing it sounds. “Wouldn’t it be great to take a road trip and see it in in person?” Ben asks. They climb the steps to the tower and look over the guard rail down into the “Worlds Biggest Pit,” and a funny thing happens. They prepared to look into the darkness of an abyss and unexpectedly the magnificence of the universe appeared instead. To their surprise, the “Worlds Biggest Pit” is filled with pristine aqua blue water. They are mesmerized by what they see. Their only desire is to appreciate the moment. Ben no longer carries the burden of his past while Trevor lets go of his fear of the future. When one looks into the abyss, the absolute worst in life, expecting only to see ruin and destruction, life’s beauty is revealed instead. The journey has a way of making both the past and future inconsequential, compared to the magnificence of this moment. I have looked over the guard rail of my life a couple of times in my journey with the “Worlds Biggest Pit,” and each time when I saw no foundation for my footing for my next step, a single stair miraculously appeared. “Divinely Orchestrated Chaos,” the 4th book in the “Every Breath is Gold” series will be released in October 2016. There is no accident that I have read your books at certain times in my life! They were most definitely divinely orchestrated and placed in my hands at the RIGHT time!!! God bless you Mr. Passaro for pouring your heart out on paper and sharing your journey with us!!!! Your raw emotions have helped me answer many questions at the most opportune times in my life!!! I know that many questions will not be answered here on this earth but am assured that they will have answers when I arrive in heaven!!! You’re very welcome. It’s funny you mention you know you may not get answers here on earth, as many of the chapters are on that very topic. The trust and the indescribable knowing that all the dots when connected will be part of a much bigger picture. All the best.

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4025.2:Artist statement article, Part 2 - Jack Does Good - Visual communicator on a mission to do good well. On September 16, 2010 by Jacklynn // design., learning. This is just an addition to my last post and does not need to exist. I didn’t want to write it yesterday because I thought I had already rambled on for a disgusting amount of time. So, why did I bring out artists statements in the first place? I mean, yes, I’m a quasi-artist-student-mutant thing, but just because you are a QASMT doesn’t mean you need an artist statement. I’m just making a website right? The design program at UW wants you to have concept behind all your design. My website, after all will be a design. I believe that my professor’s website is designed meaningfully so that it represents why she believes design is important. The website is not just there to look pretty, but be an example of yourself and your art. So my idea was to write an artist statement which then reflected in my website. For example, my professor, Jenny Venn, believes that good design is like a city plan, I has a foundation which you work off of to create a successful city. Once you’ve laid all the grid work, then you can work on making the city functional. She applies this to design, I’m paraphrasing here, by saying your design must have a good concept backing all of it and then you make things look pleasing. Applied, Jenny’s website is literally a map of a city and your portfolio is spread on different locations of the map. It’s just very successful. So basically, that’s why I want my website to have an artist statement in general, even if it’s short and snappy, so that I have something to design around. This entry is part of an assignment in an English class called “Writing for the Web: Digital Story Telling” in which we have to post research relevant to our final project. My final project will be the creation of a professional website.

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There are things to nitpick and the twist ending still doesn’t work, but M. Night Shyamalan’s follow-up to The Sixth Sense seems even fresher in the midst of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Unbreakable always struck me as hushed and measured, but now, in comparison, it almost seems to move in slow motion (and that’s a compliment). Bruce Willis stars as an unwittingly invincible security guard who must be convinced of his powers by a sickly comic-book aficionado (Samuel L. Jackson). It’s a superhero origin story as emotional awakening, especially considering Willis’ father and husband is on the brink of divorce. Willis and Robin Wright, as his wife, move and speak with an aching vulnerability, giving the movie a mournful tone more than anything else. Shyamalan employs an upside-down visual motif—when a comic book appears on screen, it usually has to be turned right side up—and if he doesn’t accomplish anything quite so dramatic with the superhero genre, he at least comes at it from an undeniably unique angle.

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Banwo & Ighodalo has once again received remarkable Tier 1 rankings in the Nigerian legal market, across its Banking & Finance, Corporate/Commercial and Energy & Natural Resources practices in the Chambers Global 2016 Guide. The Firm’s Intellectual Property was also ranked in Tier 2. In addition, B&I earned unequivocal and positive reviews/commentaries in the Guide; revalidating its exceptional team of lawyers and staff, market expertise and unwavering client commitment. We truly thank our cherished clients for the positive recommendations conveyed to Chambers Global; which have earned us these exceptional rankings. "They are all thoroughly professional and accessible" "Very Strong for finance and capital markets." "One of the top firms. Extremely Professional." "Exceptionally great people. They are very passionate about they do." "They are very good. Really good team of Associates as well." The Chambers Global is the leading international legal directory established in 1990, now covering over 190 jurisdictions throughout the world. The Guide ranks both lawyers and law firms based on an in-depth unbiased research, including interviews with clients and law practitioners.

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The court granted defendant's alternative motion to transfer for improper venue because a rented server did not qualify as defendant's regular and established place of business. "Servers are not real property; they are personal property. To the extent the servers provide 'space' from which a business may operate, any such space would be virtual space and virtual space explicitly fails the [In Re Cray Inc., 871 F.3d 1355 (Fed. Cir. 2017)] test. Accordingly, the Court finds that [defendant] does not have a physical place in this district, merely a virtual space. . . . The undisputed facts establish that [defendant] rents a server rack from a third party that owns the data warehouses in Ashburn. The 'place' in question, then, is not [defendant's] place, but the third party's place." Following dismissal for lack of patentable subject matter, the court denied defendants' motions for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because plaintiff's litigation positions were not baseless. "⁠[T]he Court agrees with [plaintiff] that the Court need not and should not consider issues of infringement, prior art or claim construction in deciding the instant motions, as the Court did not consider these issues in disposing of the case. Nor did [plaintiff's] inclusion of eligibility-related defenses in its complaint amount to an admission that its litigation position was weak, as claimed by Defendants. . . . [T]hough this Court eventually found that the claims of [plaintiff's] asserted patents were not directed to specific improvements in the functioning of a computer, the claims nonetheless recited computer components and were not found to be objectively baseless." Following dismissal for lack of patentable subject matter, the court granted defendants' motions for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because plaintiff's litigation positions were unreasonable. "Patient treatment and monitoring methods such as those claimed by the [patent-in-suit] had been declared ineligible long before [plaintiff] filed its 2016 lawsuits. . . . The numerous cases invalidating claims directed to information collection and analysis, such as the [patent-in-suit's] claims, stood in stark contrast to the handful of cases reaching the contrary conclusion. . . . There were of course gray areas, but by the time [plaintiff's] lawsuits were filed, it should have been clear that the [patent's] claims were 'manifestly directed to an abstract idea.'. . . The weakness in [plaintiff's] § 101 position is by itself a sufficient basis for finding the cases exceptional." The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s Pokemon GO mapping patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "⁠[T]he Court is persuaded that claim 1 is abstract. The claim is best described as a method for: (1) receiving a request for a specific map, (2) determining information about the requested locations based on rules associated with the location, and (3) communicating on the map whether a person may or may not enter the location based on those rules. The Court agrees with [defendant's] assessment that the 'rules' in practice are nothing more information that can be analyzed by a generic computer, or by the human brain. This claim is thus directed to the receipt, processing, and display of data. . . . Even limiting the claim to permitted traverses or visits to locations, the claim would still be abstract because it encompasses a mental process and is directed to the analysis of information." The magistrate judge recommended denying defendants' motion to dismiss or transfer for improper venue because defendants waived their venue defense due to their delay. "Defendants have waived their venue because of their untimely challenges combined with the inefficiencies a transfer would cause on the judicial system. Even after the Supreme Court's decision in TC Heartland, [one defendant] waited nearly four months before raising the issue with the Court, and [the other] waited over five months. . . . But by then, the parties were to have been immersed in claim construction discovery, have exchanged proposed claim terms and preliminary constructions, and proffered a joint claim construction statement. . . . Regardless of any venue-related conversations between the parties, Defendants (not [plaintiff]) chose to wait months before raising the issue with the Court." The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s physician efficiency software patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims lacked an inventive concept. "⁠[Plaintiff] argues that the use of rules, such as assigning physicians to report groups and assigning episodes of care to physicians, and the limitation of calculating scores based upon 'predefined sets' of medical conditions is inventive. However, the use of these assignment rules and the limitation of using predefined sets is simply a way of organizing data and then performing an algorithm. . . . There is also nothing about the ordered combination of these steps that makes this abstract process less abstract because the steps still amount to collecting, organizing and analyzing data to calculate physician efficiency scores. [Plaintiff] argues that the asserted claims disclose a very specific method of calculating physician efficiency that is patent-eligible. . . . [H]owever, the problem with that argument is that the claim language, as opposed to the specification, is extremely broad." The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s software license verification patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "The claims of the [patent] are not focused on how usage of the BIOS to store the verification structure leads to an improvement in computer security. Instead, the claim calls for the set-up of the verification structure data in the erasable, non-volatile memory of the BIOS, a memory that is typically used to store data. The ease or difficulty of altering this data does not change its function, or represent an improvement in its function. . . . Reading the claims as a whole it is apparent that their focus is on the abstract concept of selecting a program, verifying whether the program is licensed, and acting on the program according to the verification. The requirement that the verification 'key' be placed as data within the BIOS memory is at best a limitation of the invention, and does not make the concept of the claims any less abstract." The court ordered plaintiff and its counsel to show cause why it should not be responsible for defendants' attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 after granting summary judgment that defendants did not infringe plaintiff's patents due to statements made by plaintiff during its appeal of inter partes review proceedings. "⁠[Plaintiff] argued . . . the claimed invention does not require that the server determine the second process’s online or offline status solely by checking its database at the time of the first process’s query. But [plaintiff] has repeatedly told the Federal Circuit that its claimed invention requires precisely that. Indeed, the Federal Circuit . . . went to great pains during oral argument to pin down this exact point. Having won on invalidity based on those representations, [plaintiff] cannot now take a different position for purposes of proving infringement. . . . [Plaintiff] and its counsel . . . shall show cause in writing why they should not be held liable for defendants’ attorney’s fees by virtue of this being an 'exceptional' case within the meaning of [35 U.S.C. § 285]." The court granted in part defendant's motion for a protective order to limit the topics of plaintiff's venue-related deposition. "Whether [defendant] has owned or leased a place of business in the district is relevant, but whether a third party that provides 'services' to [defendant] has a place in the district is not relevant. . . . [T]he time period is overly-broad. Venue is determined at the time the complaint is filed -- not as early as six years before the complaint was filed. . . . An employee who works from home within the district might be relevant to the inquiry. . . . The name and location of anyone that 'provides services' to the defendant, however, is too broad. . . . While [information about retailers in the district] may be relevant to jurisdiction, or even to infringement or damages, the location of a retail store that is not owned or leased by the defendant is irrelevant to the venue inquiry." The court granted defendant's motion to compel the production of documents reviewed by plaintiff's "dual hat" expert that plaintiff withheld as privileged because plaintiff failed to establish a clear distinction between the expert's duties as both a consulting and testifying expert. "Plaintiff [argues the expert's] consulting role . . . was a 'separate engagement' . . . that there is a clear distinction between [the expert's] consulting and testifying roles because the information he considered in his consulting capacity, which was broader in geographic scope and included information on additional products, extends beyond the information he considered in his testifying capacity. . . . Plaintiff's assertion that [its expert's] consulting and testifying roles are separate engagements is belied by the fact that Plaintiffs have presented only one engagement agreement for [the expert]. . . . That [he] considered information in his consulting role beyond that which he considered in his testifying role does not establish a clear distinction. Since the information considered by [the expert] for his consulting role included United States sales data and other information relevant to the current case, it is difficult, if not impossible, to believe that it did not inform the opinions in his testifying expert report concerning damages. Accordingly, Plaintiff must produce the documents it exchanged with [the expert] in his consulting role." Following a jury verdict of willful infringement, the court granted plaintiff's motion for an ongoing royalty, but only as to the accused products at trial. "⁠[Plaintiff] argues that it is 'entitled to an ongoing royalty for any [defendant] product that is not "colorably different" from the adjudicated infringing products.'. . . At this juncture, it would be inappropriate to expand the jury’s verdict to encompass not only products which were identified at trial but also products that were not previously accused of infringing or otherwise identified in this lawsuit. Such a result raises many concerns. If [plaintiff] believes that certain newly-released, unaccused products infringe its patents, it can seek appropriate relief as part of a new action." The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss or transfer for improper venue and rejected defendant's argument that there must be a nexus between its action of infringement and its regular and established place of business in the district. "Defendant devotes much of its motion to the argument that 'the patent venue statute requires a connection between the alleged acts of infringement and the regular and established place of business.' It supports this argument by reading into the statute a level of ambiguity, invoking the 'policy underlying the patent venue statute,' and examining the provision’s legislative history. The Court need not consider these contentions, because it concludes that the plain language of the statute does not include a nexus requirement. Courts should 'ordinarily resist reading words or elements into a statute that do not appear on its face,' and this is one of the many cases where that is true." The court granted in part defendants' motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiffs' damages expert because his royalty base was based on a composite rate. "Defendants explain that to reach his damages calculation, [the expert] applies a royalty base that includes units accused under any asserted patent to a royalty rate with contributions from every asserted patent. . . . I do not believe that use of a composite rate is consistent with Federal Circuit case law. . . . [The expert's] royalty rate assigns to each accused product the same per-unit royalty regardless of how many patents that product is accused of infringing. Thus, his analysis results in a damages calculation that overcompensates Plaintiffs and does not appropriately reflect the inventions' footprints in the marketplace." The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss for improper venue because defendant did not have a regular and established place of business through its work-at-home employees who resided in the district. "Although [defendant] has nineteen employees who are permitted to work from their individual residences in the Eastern District of Texas, the Court finds that none of these residences are 'places of the defendant'. . . . [Defendant] does not lease, or own any portion of these employees’ homes in the Eastern District of Texas. [Defendant's] employees do not regularly maintain physical inventory in this District, are 'free to live where [they] cho[o]se as far as [the defendant] [is] concerned,' and do not receive reimbursements and support conditioned on their location within this District. . . . [Defendant] emphasizes that '⁠[t]he territory to which [its] sales teams are assigned often bears little relation to the team members' place of residence.'" The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s email transmission patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "The Court finds that [the patent] is directed to the general concept of using an intermediary to exchange messages, and is therefore directed to an abstract idea. The idea of using an intermediary to exchange messages is not a foreign concept. . . . While [plaintiff] argues that the purpose of 'claim 1 is to benefit the interface service computer system that is providing the communications,' the [patent] does not recite any specific method through which an interface server’s website is able to retain visitors to its site, or that the purpose of the [patent] is to result in this benefit. . . . The patent provides no meaningful limitations on the functions of these components; instead, they form an existing technological environment in which the abstract idea of using an intermediary to exchange messages or information may be accomplished." Following an evidentiary hearing, the ALJ determined that one of complainant's garage door opener patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "The language of the claim is itself dispositive, but the [asserted] patent’s focus on calculation is strong circumstantial evidence that claim 15 is directed to a software-based routine, or algorithm -- an ineligible concept under 35 U.S.C. § 101. . . . [T]he only structures implicated by these claims are a movable barrier and motor, but even then, they are not actually part of the claimed methods. Rather, they are recited to explain the identity of data values like 'characteristic force value' and 'motor operation compensation value'. . . . Setting aside whether or not Respondents omitted discussion of key limitations, I find the [asserted] patent claims can be performed in the human mind because of their precise wording." The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' ANDA infringement action for improper venue because defendant did not file its ANDA in the district. "⁠[T]he plain language of the patent venue statute provides that venue is proper 'where the defendant has committed acts of infringement.' In the Hatch-Waxman Act context, because the generic drug is not yet being marketed, the only act of infringement that actually has occurred is the filing of the ANDA. . . . The commencement of a lawsuit effectuates the purpose of the Hatch-Waxman Act; it is not necessary to recognize additional speculative acts of infringement to give the statute effect. . . . This Court declines to find that an act of infringement occurs wherever an ANDA filer intends to market the accused product." Following plaintiff's voluntary dismissal, the court granted defendant's motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because plaintiff's litigation positions and tactics were exceptional. "⁠[Plaintiff's] behavior is consistent with the filing of patent infringement actions to force settlements with no intention of testing the merits of the claims. Its lawsuit against [defendant] was one of 20 lawsuits filed the same day concerning the [same] Patent. Most of the cases promptly settled for between $3000 to $15,000. . . . [B]efore a ruling on [defendant's] § 101 motion, [plaintiff] offered to walk away provided that [defendant] would forego its right to seek fees. . . . [Defendant] countered it would agree to a dismissal, but would not waive its right to seek fees under § 285. [Plaintiff] refused that offer, which suggests exposure to an 'exceptionality' finding was on its mind. . . . This shows the driving factor in its decision not to dismiss the case was its exposure to attorney’s fees, not the underlying merits of its position. . . . Simply put, refusing [defendant's] offer made no sense if [plaintiff] believed it had a meritorious case and that a § 285 motion would have been frivolous." The court granted plaintiff's emergency motion to sanction defendant and removed defense counsel from the case. "⁠[Counsel] has repeatedly violated the standards of attorney conduct as adopted by this Court’s Local Rules and the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct and has violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. Despite multiple warnings from the Court to perform in a responsive and diligent manner, [counsel] has continued to ignore communications from [plaintiff] for unproduced and overdue discovery, emails and phone calls from the Mediator to schedule mediation in accordance with the Docket Control Order, and orders from this Court to appear at mediation and to appear in-person for a show cause hearing. In addition, [counsel's] conduct has not only wasted the Court’s, Plaintiff’s, and the Mediator’s time and resources, but has significantly harmed his client’s defense. . . . The Court finds that the interests of the Parties, as well as the administration of justice, require that [counsel] be removed from this case."

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In a competitive dog show, three different breeds and their owners battle to be the best. MONISHA ISWARAN reviews a show that looks at what impact that has on the dogs – and on us. In a competitive dog show, three different breeds and their owners battle to be the best. Audience members get to see a different side to the effect this process can have on the pups we love so much. Dog Show aims to raise awareness of the impossible standards we place on ourselves and those around us, presented via a dog show. Actors Simone French, Alex Roe and Adam Ibrahim played both the dogs and their owners, sliding in and out of their challenging roles apparently effortlessly. All three committed wholeheartedly to the canine physicality they embodied at many points throughout the show. The conventions of a dog show proved to be a creative and effective means of portraying the central theme to the audience, wi tithe performance culminating in the dogs rebelling against societal pressures and being liberated. The intimate setting and audience participation allowed viewers to feel continually involved in the show. However, if it had been put on for a larger audience, the realistic atmosphere of being in the stands of a dog show could have been heightened. Nonetheless, the movement between the three different actors and their extremely different styles kept the audience on their toes – there was never a dull moment. Another interesting element was the choice to have audience members reading out lines that pertained to the expectations of the dogs at the show. It emphasised that a lot of the pressure we face as a society comes from our own dictation. It was also amusing to see different audience members take on their own part in the performance. Ibrahim was a true highlight. His prowess as a dancer was showcased for a large percentage of the show, as he filled the performance space with his energy and commitment to character. At times he overshadowed his cast mates, although every performer on stage was good. The true climax of the show came in the closing scene, wherein the dogs remove their collars and embody the beasts they truly are inside – displayed through dance, expressions of sexuality and dimmed lighting. It was the perfect conclusion. While the show’s overall message was in some ways dark and designed to provoke thought, it managed to do so in ways that had the audience laughing all the way through. It offered a fresh perspective, an interesting style of storytelling and actors extremely talented in physically demanding performance.

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Powered by EI Design Pvt. Ltd. eBridge is an online platform that allows you to review, collaborate and optimise your eLearning course development process. eBridge is not like any other eLearning review tool. It is an online collaborative platform designed and developed by EI Design to enable the creation of quality eLearning courses. A product from our Innovation team, this eLearning collaborative tool can also be customised to your eLearning development process. The tool can be integrated into eLearning courses developed through multiple authoring tools (like Trivantis Lectora, Articulate Storyline and Adobe CS6 to name a few). It provides an online review link for SMEs/reviewers. They can add feedback directly into the eLearning course. The tool supports multiple authoring tools so you can provide the same interface to your customers across different tools. SMEs can see each other’s comments and self-consolidate the feedback. 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Day of the Dead or Dia de Los Muertos is a Mexican holiday that focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration begins at midnight on Halloween and continues until November 2nd. It has become one of the biggest holidays in Mexico, and celebrations are becoming more common in areas of the United States. It is also a time to celebrate the lives of our 4 legged family members that have passed over to the rainbow bridge. I’ve collected some inspiration from around the web to inspire you for Dia de Los Muertos.

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We are building a U.S. map dashboard with various locations using Latitude and longitude. We also have a column called region code. We don't want to use the native Tableau regions. We want to use our region codes. How do we get the U.S. map to shade different colors based on our 5 regions? Even if we could just use a State --> Region code, and color code the states based on that region code, that would be perfect. Hi Don, have you tried grouping the regions on your map visualisation into your own customer territories? Then you'd be able to colour them independently and filter them accordingly.

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The Movie - Sailor Moon. Pure Romance - Junjo Romantica. ClaraAckermann added Eren Jaeger. Unfamiliar with the neighborhood where the party was, the boys rang the doorbell of the wrong house. Victorique de Blois Gosick. Galaxiena added William T. Arthur Kirkland England Hetalia. Which of these 13 aesthetics is yours? They are not only cute and pretty, but also incredibly talented, smart and efficient. I dont wear any makeup. Would you vote for Thanos to be the president? Would you dare stare into her eyes? Despite being completely different from each other, the two are able to frequently confuse people around them by switching places. The Avengers or Justice League? Top 20 Anime Girls with Brown Hair on MAL The world of anime is home to all kinds of characters, with unique hairstyles, as well as unique hair colors. Where do u guys think the teenage mutant ninja turtles come from? The DiamondDust Rebellion - Bleach. The owner of the home, Rodney Peairs , then opened the door armed with a. Misaki Takahashi Junjo Romantica: The Will of Fire. When they got no answer, they started walking back to their car. Victorique de Blois Gosick.

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1.1. Article manuscripts submitted for Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics should be about 8000 words in length, including references. 1.2. Other contributions (book reviews, researcher presentations etc.) should be 500-800 words in length. 1.3. Submission implies that a similar manuscript has not been published nor is being reviewed for publication somewhere else. 1.4. The text should be double-spaced throughout, pages numbered and with wide margins. Text should be standard Times New Roman font 12 point. The manuscripts should be submitted in Word DOC or RTF format. 1.5. Manuscripts should be written in British English. The preferred source is the Oxford English Dictionary. Non-English authors are encouraged to seek professional editing help before submitting the manuscript. 2.1. The title and the abstract of the article should reflect the content of the article. 2.2. The text of the article should be divided into chapters with short informative headings or sub-headings. 2.3. The authors should consider carefully the structure, style and logic of their argumentation in their article especially considering the multidisciplinary nature of the journal and its audience. 3.1. Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. 3.2. Figures should be submitted as separate files and they should be given descriptive filename. 3.3. Figures and tables should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). Figures and tables must be referred to by their numbers in the text. 3.4. Figure captions should be given on a separate page (see 1.6.) and numbered correspondingly. 4.1. Long quotations should be indented. Short quotes should be inside the text marked with quotation marks. 4.2. Acknowledgements, end notes and references should appear at the end of the article. 4.3. References in the text are made by giving the author’s name, the publication year and a page number. Example: (Isaksson and Jokisalo 2005, 206–207). Footnotes for referencing are not allowed. 4.4. The reference list should be arranged in alphabetical order. In case of several papers by the same author, the references follow date order. 4.5. Russian titles should appear in the transliterated version followed by the title in English in square brackets. Konstantinova, L., 2009. Transormatsiya sotsial’noi politiki: problemy sootvetsviya institutsional’nyh, prakticheskih i discursivnyh parametrov [Transformation of social policy: compliance issues of institutional, practical and discursive parameters]. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstevnnogo universiteta.Filosofiya.Sotsiologiya. Politologiya, 2, 26, pp.49–60. 4.6. Authors are responsible for correct quotations, references, and any permissions needed for the article. Larner, W. and Walters, W., 2002. The political rationality of “new regionalism”: Toward a genealogy of the region.Theory and Society, 31, 3, pp. 391–432. Magis, K., 2010. Community resilience: An indicator of social sustainability. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, 23, 5, pp. 401–416. www.finnmarken.no/lokale_nyheter/article4390755.ece (Accessed 3 January 2014). Ihamäki, E., 2004. Prostitution and Border. At the Meeting Point of Russian Women and Finnish Men. In: A. Saarinen and E. Carey-Belanger, eds., Crisis Centres and Violence against Women. Dialogue in the Barents Region. Gender Research: Methodology and Practice 7. Oulu: Oulu University Press, pp. 127–144. Bayliss, P.D., 2003. Building an inclusive community. In: M.L.H. Hui and D.R. Howson, eds., Inclusive education in the new Millennium. Hong Kong and Macau: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 152–168. Relph, E., 1986. Place and placelessness. London: Pion. Mazmanian, D.A. and Kraft, M.E., 2010. Toward sustainable communities: Transition and transformations in environmental policy. MIT Press. Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, 2013. Mineral Strategy. Available at: www.regjeringen.no/pages/38262123/strategyforthemineralindustry_2013.pdf (Accessed 3 January 2014). Report of UN conference on sustainable development, 2012. UN Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20–22 June 2012. A/CONF.216/16. Available at: http://www.uncsd2012.org/content/documents/814UNCSD%20REPORT%20final%20revs.pdf (Accessed 3 January 2014). ja sosiaalipoliittinen avainkäsite. [Feminism and social policy. Gendering social theory and social policy]. Tampere: Tampere University Press. 5.1. The manuscript submission is electronic. The manuscripts should be submitted via email to the editor-in-chief of the issue. Please check the contact details from the current call for papers. 6.1. 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Established in 1981 by four health care professionals, it is now the largest Arab NGO operating in Israel. NGO Monitor is featuring this organization as an example of an NGO working in the field of civil and human rights in the Middle East that has not allowed an ideological bias to undermine its purposes. Amnesty International faces a litany of charges of distorting contexts through misleading generalizations, minimizing objective difficulties and misusing legal authority (especially international law). CPAP conference; "Israels Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing" A recent National Post editorial noted that Canadian officials "met secretly last March to discuss whether some of their overseas projects put them in violation of Ottawas new Anti-terrorism Act, which makes it a crime to fund terrorist groups." The highly politicized and inaccurate positions of local YMCAs were jeopardizing its ability to undertake humanitarian programs, many national YMCAs issued strongly worded protests prior to the World Council meeting in Mexico last July. Advocacy Net and Grassroots International raise considerable funds from organizations as diverse as UNICEF, AI, governments, private donors and interest groups, but have ideological agendas, cushioned in the name of human rights values. The international prominence of Miftahs leaders and heavy networking with diplomats, civil society institutions as well as the media has spread its reports far. Despite its universal goals, the organization has a highly partisan political agenda.

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With warm and dry weather in the forecast, forest officials are urging Vermonters to help prevent brush and forest fires. Grass, leaves and brush can be a fire hazard in early spring before things turn green. Officials are already investigating a forest fire that spread through the Green Mountain National Forest in Mount Tabor on Tuesday. Officials say their initial investigation indicates the fire was brought under control, and may have been intentionally set. U.S. Forest Service law enforcement personnel are hoping to identify several people who were seen near the Mount Tabor Work Center on Wednesday afternoon.

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World Tourism Day 2014 is being celebrated on Sept. 27 under the theme Tourism and Community Development to raise awareness of how tourism can be an engine for community development, one of the building blocks of a more sustainable future for all, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The official WTD celebrations will be hosted by Mexico in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. The UNWTO said that tourism is driving economic growth and development worldwide.

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