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The SS Jaguar 100 is a British 2-seat sports car built between 1936 and 1939 by SS Cars Ltd of Coventry, England.

The manufacturer's name 'SS Cars' used from 1934 maintained a link to the previous owner, Swallow Sidecar, founded in 1922 by Walmsley and Lyons to build motorcycle sidecars. In March 1945 the S. S. Cars shareholders agreed to change the name to Jaguar Cars Limited.

In common with many products of the thirties the adoption of an animal name was deemed appropriate  and the model name "Jaguar" was given to a new SS saloon car in 1935, and then to all new SS models.

The '100' was for the theoretical 100 mph maximum speed of the vehicle.

Construction
The chassis had a wheelbase of , and was essentially a shortened version of the one designed for the 2½-litre saloon, a car produced in much greater numbers, and first seen in the SS 90 of 1935. When leaving the factory it was originally fitted with 5.50 or 5.25 × 18 inch tyres on 18 inch wire wheels. Suspension was on half-elliptical springs all round with rigid axles. The engine was a development of the old 2½-litre Standard pushrod unit converted from side valve to overhead valve with a new cylinder head designed by William Heynes and Harry Weslake. The power output was increased from  to . Twin SU carburettors were bolted directly to the cylinder head. In 1938 the engine was further enlarged to 3½ litres and the power increased to . The four-speed gearbox had synchromesh on the top 3 ratios. Brakes were by Girling. The complete car weighed just over 23 cwt (2600 pounds, 1150 kg).

On test by the Autocar magazine in 1937 the 2½-litre (20 RAC hp rating) car was found, with the windscreen lowered, to have a maximum speed of  and a 0– time of 13.5 seconds. With the 3½-litre (25 RAC hp rating) the top speed reached the magic  with a best of  over the quarter mile and the 0– coming down to 10.4 seconds.

In 1937 the 2½-litre car cost £395 and in 1938 the 3½-litre £445. The fixed head coupé, of which only one was made, was listed at £595. A few examples were supplied as chassis-only to external coachbuilders.

Legacy

Widely considered one of the most aesthetically pleasing sporting cars of the 1930s the SS100 is also very rare, with only 198 2½-litre and 116 3½-litre models made. While most stayed on the home market, 49 were exported. Cars in good condition will now regularly fetch in excess of £300,000. A near concours example was auctioned by Bonhams at the 2007 Goodwood Festival of Speed for £199,500. Due largely to its rarity, auction prices for the SS100 have since risen strongly.

More recently a beautifully restored former Pebble Beach concours winning 1937 S.S. Jaguar 100 3½ Litre Roadster - was sold by Gooding & Co. at their August 2010 Pebble Beach auction. It fetched a noteworthy £666,270 ($1,045,000).

It was on an SS100 that the famous Jaguar 'leaper', the marque's signature feline bonnet ornament, was first displayed. In mid 1936 the first version of the Jaguar mascot was reputedly described by Sir William Lyons, founder of the company, as "looking like a cat shot off a fence".  A later publicity photograph of the new Model 100 "Jaguar" (registration mark CKV 250) parked outside the offices of SS Cars Ltd in early 1937 shows a revised Jaguar 'leaper' mounted on the radiator cap. It is this more stylised 'leaper' that became the trade mark for Jaguar Cars, Ltd., remaining in use to this day.
The CKV 250 car was ordered as a gift for the 16th anniversary birthday of young king Mihai the 1st of Romania. As a car enthusiast, he declared that this was his favorite car and drove it consistently until he left power and fled Romania forced by the communists forces.

The unnamed owner of the Belgravia vintage car dealer in James Leasor's 'Aristo Autos' novels, 'They Don't Make Them Like That Any More', 'Never Had a Spanner on Her' and 'Host of Extras', drives an SS100, and the car features prominently in the books.

The late Alan Clark (1928-1999) MP owned an SS Jaguar 100, and during his time in Margaret Thatcher's government was often to be seen piloting his SS100 away from the House of Commons after late Parliamentary sittings.

Of the 49 exported models, one notable example, CNP 947, was driven and raced by pioneering American television host Dave Garroway. His white 3 1/2 Litre car still bears the alligator hide trim on its instrument panel, seat surfaces and steering wheel from his ownership. Jaguar Motorcars provided Garroway the first XK 3.8 litre engine sold privately, a race prepared unit which remains with the car. At Gooding's January 2017 auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Garroway SS100, with both the XK engine and a correct 3 1/2 litre Standard engine, sold for £493,000.

Replicas and recreations
A number of Jaguar SS100 replicas and recreations of varying material quality and execution have been manufactured since the 1960s. Significant makers include the Birchfield Motor Company, the Steadman Motor Company, Suffolk Sportscars and the Finch Motor Company. In recent years, even these replicas regularly bring in excess of £50,000.

Birchfield Motor Company
In 1982, the first Birchfield Sports was produced but it was only intended to be a one-off. A company called Shapecraft in Northampton, UK, then developed the concept further as a (small) production-run vehicle using Jaguar XJ6 mechanicals, with the looks of the SS Jaguar.

Due to the complexity of the design, and the advanced degree of engineering knowledge needed to deal with the Jaguar parts, the car was not very successful as a kit car. For this reason, only 18 were ever produced in the UK.

After production ceased in the UK, a Shapecraft employee emigrated to Australia taking with him the Birchfield drawings and the last production car (#18) to use as a pattern. By 2004, at least two cars had been completed in Australia and two more were in production.

Steadman Motor Company
The Steadman TS100 manufactured during the late 1980s and early 1990s by Ottercraft Ltd in Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom, is described as a 'reproduction'  of the SS100.

The actual build numbers for this car are unknown, but it is thought that a maximum of twenty-eight of these vehicles were assembled, and were also referred to as the Jaguar Steadman TS100. The Steadman TS100 was never intended to be a replica of the SS100 of the 1930s, but was designed to be a sports car in its own right.

With a hand-built aluminium body, the Steadman TS100 used unadapted Jaguar XJ6 running gear and was sold as a high quality, more modern version of the SS Jaguar 100.
Dimensionally and visually, the Steadman TS100 was quite different from the original SS Jaguar 100. These differences occurred because the manufacturers were forced to change the original proportions to both accommodate the wider track of the donor car and allow the use of more readily available smaller, wider wheels.
Attention was paid to styling detail during design (such as the use of appropriately large headlights) and at the time of production, the Steadman TS100 was regarded as more successful than most other evocations. With an unknown number surviving, this re-creation is a rare sight at classic car events.

The Steadman TS100 Enthusiasts Club was established in 2011 to maintain the vehicle's marque and to bring together owners from around the world.

Suffolk Sportscars

Suffolk Sportscars were based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom and built glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) SS100 replicas.  Upon receiving an order, the replica car was built individually by hand to the customer's own specifications. Alternatively, a replica could be ordered in component form for skilled home assembly.

The Suffolk SS100 used the Jaguar XK6 engine, and commonly the 4-speed Jaguar 'Short Compact' gearbox as the drivetrain. Some examples of the Suffolk were built with automatic transmissions, 5-speed gearboxes or in LHD. The company were even able to offer further modern comforts such as electric power steering and air conditioning.

The Suffolk Sportscars SS100 was probably the most prolific replica of the SS Jaguar 100. As of 2017, Suffolk Sportscars Ltd. report that they have built over 315 examples of their Suffolk SS100, therefore outproducing the original SS100s production run of 314 vehicles.

However, Suffolk Sportscars went into liquidation in 2020.

Finch Motor Company
The Finch Motor Company is based in Mount Barker, South Australia.

Finch's approach to the Finch SS100 is somewhat different to the other SS100 replica manufacturers. Finch endeavoured to recreate their Finch SS100 as faithfully as possible and do not use the XJ6 as the base donor car. Finch sourced original factory drawings and build their SS100 chassis to the original design. The bodies of the Finch SS100 are made from aluminium metal-shaped to fit the traditional wooden frames built by Finch. Finch SS100 mechanicals are sourced from 'deceased' MkIV and SS Jaguars to obtain contemporary components.

A Finch SS100 won the Australian Concours d' Elegance.

References

External links

 Jaguar Heritage website (official)
 Photograph of the SS100 coupé
Replicas
 Steadman Jaguar TS100 Enthusiasts Club
 Suffolk Sportscars SS100 Replica
 Finch Motor Company SS100 Replica
 Best Cars Web Site (in Portuguese)

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Iran is facing what is what is potentially the greatest existential threat it has faced since its inception in 1979.
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"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana
In face of unprecedented US hostility buoyed by a host of regional adversaries like Saudi Arabia and Israel, the ruling establishment in Tehran needs to tread cautiously if it is to manage what is potentially the greatest existential threat it has faced since its inception in 1979.
The choices before them are simple: continue as before and risk greater economic hardship, more internal unrest and possible military conflict; or provide instead through dialogue and engagement, real possibilities for economic recovery and a final end to Iran's international isolation.
In a difficult ride that has endured one crisis after another, the Islamic republic has successfully managed not just to retain total control at home but to extend its influence as a powerful regional player. Yet, its economy is in tatters and the gulf between ordinary people and the regime in general and its hardline ideologues in particular has seriously widened with the passage of time.
Following President Trump's announcement to withdraw from JCPOA and to reinstate previously removed sanctions, earlier promises to revive Iran's ailing economy by creating jobs, curtailing inflation, salvaging the national currency and promoting over all prosperity by resolving the 'nuclear dispute' seems little more than a fading mirage.
Although the European signatories of JCPOA along with Russia and China have remained faithful to their commitments so long as Iran remains compliant to its obligations, the reality is that the scale of investments and technology transfers needed by Iran is simply beyond their grasp in face of persistent US opposition. The French president, Emanuel Macron, has been quite succinct in pointing out the reality that no European government can force any major private entity to risk jeopardizing its US operations for the sake of doing business with Iran.
The situation was further exacerbated when Mike Pompeo sent a 12-point 'set of demands' to the Iranian leadership - telling them amongst other things to give up Iran's ballistic missile program, end all enrichment activities and cease involvement in every regional country it is currently involved in. Expectedly, his message was immediately rebuked by Ayatollah Khamenei and countered by Iran's own '15 point demand list' as later announced by the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif.
Yet somehow, irrespective of the current toxic atmosphere, the possibility for a potential 'new deal' with Iran has deliberately not been blocked by no lesser figure than president Trump himself. This was made abundantly clear in the tail end of his speech removing the US from JCPOA and repeated in more precise terms during the course of his press conference with the visiting Japanese prime minister in early June. This flexibility suggests that much like his earlier hard rhetoric against North Korea, the US President in concert with a responsive Iranian leadership could be a willing partner to once again confound everyone by squaring the circle.
Such a supposition would suggest that any initiative for exploiting possibilities for a more comprehensive 'deal' capable of meeting Iran's broader expectations must now come from the Iranian leadership. Anticipating the urgent nature of this matter, some 100 well known Iranian political and social activists have signed an open letter demanding that direct negotiations with the US should now be actively pursued. While this call has been strongly rejected by hardline quarters close to Ayatollah Khamenei, the spirit of their message has received a positive response from a number of senior advisers close to president Rouhani.
Responding to this challenge while strategically strong in the region, is an obvious advantage for Iran's bargaining position in what one Iranian journalist has dubbed as the ongoing "public negotiations' following the 'maximalist positions' that have been advanced by both Pompeo and Zarif. The alternative, in the event of added altercations leading to further diplomatic discord and possibly military confrontation with the US, would in all probability weaken Iran's bargaining position and play more directly into the hands of its regional competitors such as Saudi Arabia and Israel. Such an outcome in concert with continuing domestic protests, could lead to seriously detrimental consequences not just for the ruling establishment but also for the country.
Responding to this challenge while strategically strong in the region, is an obvious advantage for Iran's bargaining position
The Iranian leadership has never been in a better position – i.e. given the existing level of international irritation with the Trump administration - for advancing its arguments for a more comprehensive new deal following America's withdrawal from JCPOA. It is ironical that Iran stands to potentially gain a great deal more than an alternative scenario that would have had the US in the agreement but still obstructing the resumption of normal economic ties between Iran and the rest of the world.
It is now incumbent on Ayatollah Khamenei in particular to respond in support of Iranian national interest by not obstructing the start of direct Iran-US talks with the clear purpose of reaching a durable agreement that no longer leaves Iran reliant upon partners incapable of meeting its crucial economic needs. While president Rouhani's pragmatic government might be amenable to such an outreach, it is those self-serving quarters associated with Khamenei who grudgingly continue to label any rapprochement with the US as a betrayal of the Islamic Revolution.
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The Past's Future
PURPOSE: Digitization creates new possibilities for making culture accessible, for creating public access to historical knowledge, and for presenting culture as the collective memory of society. However, it also raises complex questions in relation to methods of interpreting and using knowledge.
Collaborating with three Danish national cultural heritage institutions – the National Gallery, the National Museum and the Royal Library – and with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Director of metaLab at Harvard University, participants in the project wish to analyze the concept and framework of education in light of the digital transformations – and how these transformations affect the future of the past as collected, preserved and disseminated by cultural heritage institutions.
METHOD: the project combines disciplines and approaches: (a) history of ideas & cultural history: working with sources, both empirical and theoretical, and understanding ideas and cultural concepts as something that are themselves historically conditioned rather than eternally fixed (b) literature and media studies: working conceptually with the notions and genealogies of curation, Bildung and individuation; and drawing on theoretical frameworks such as post-structuralism, curatorial studies, information technology studies and infrastructure studies; (c) computer science: applying traditional computer science methodology for IT-system development; and d) design and copyright: looking at the implications of copyright for design and museum studies in the digital age.
PARTICIPANTS: the Project Leader is Professor (MSO) Helle Porsdam, SAXO Institute. The other participants are Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Graduate School of Design and metaLAB, Harvard University; PhD fellow Jeppe Eimose Waagstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen; Postdoc fellow Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, SAXO Institute and Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen; and Ass. Professor Stina Teilmann-Lock, Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark.
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Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about  south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants .

A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It was the capital of the Kingdom of the Burgundians in the early fifth century, hence is the scene of the medieval legends referring to this period, notably the first part of the Nibelungenlied.

Worms has been a Roman Catholic bishopric since at least 614, and was an important palatinate of Charlemagne. Worms Cathedral is one of the imperial cathedrals and among the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Germany. Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages as an imperial free city. Among more than a hundred imperial diets held at Worms, the Diet of 1521 (commonly known as the Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms, in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic. Worms is also one of the historical ShUM-cities as a cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages. Its Jewish sites (along with those in Speyer and Mainz) were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021.

Today, the city is an industrial centre and is famed as the origin of Liebfraumilch wine. Its other industries include chemicals, metal goods, and fodder.

Geography

Geographic location
Worms is located on the west bank of the River Rhine between the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mainz. On the northern edge of the city, the Pfrimm flows into the Rhine, and on the southern edge, the Eisbach flows into the Rhine.

Boroughs
Worms has 13 boroughs (or "quarters") around the city centre. They are:

Climate
The climate in the Rhine Valley is temperate in winter and enjoyable in summer. Rainfall is below average for the surrounding areas. Winter snow accumulation is low and often melts quickly.

History

Antiquity
Worms was in ancient times a Celtic city named Borbetomagus, perhaps meaning "water meadow". Later it was conquered by the Germanic Vangiones. In 14 BC, Romans under the command of Drusus captured and fortified the city, and from that time onwards, a small troop of infantry and cavalry was garrisoned there. The Romans renamed the city as Augusta Vangionum, after the then-emperor and the local tribe. The name does not seem to have taken hold, however, and from Borbetomagus developed the German Worms and Latin Wormatia; as late as the modern period, the city name was written as Wormbs. The garrison grew into a small town with a regular Roman street plan, a forum, and temples for the main gods Jupiter, Juno, Minerva (whose temple was the site of the later cathedral), and Mars.

Roman inscriptions, altars, and votive offerings can be seen in the archaeological museum, along with one of Europe's largest collections of Roman glass. Local potters worked in the town's south quarter. Fragments of amphorae contain traces of olive oil from Hispania Baetica, doubtless transported by sea and then up the Rhine by ship.

During the disorders of 411–413 AD,  Roman usurper Jovinus established himself in Borbetomagus as a puppet-emperor with the help of King Gunther of the Burgundians, who had settled in the area between the Rhine and Moselle some years before. The city became the capital of the Burgundian kingdom under Gunther (also known as Gundicar). Few remains of this early Burgundian kingdom survive, because in 436, it was all but destroyed by a combined army of Romans (led by Aëtius) and Huns (led by Attila); a belt clasp found at Worms-Abenheim is a museum treasure. Provoked by Burgundian raids against Roman settlements, the combined Romano-Hunnic army destroyed the Burgundian army at the Battle of Worms (436), killing King Gunther. About 20,000 are said to have been killed. The Romans led the survivors southwards to the Roman district of Sapaudia (modern-day Savoy). The story of this war later inspired the Nibelungenlied. The city appears on the Peutinger Map, dated to the fourth century.

Middle Ages

The bishopric of Worms existed by at least 614. In the Frankish Empire, the city was the location of an important palace of Charlemagne. The bishops administered the city and its territory. The most famous of the early medieval bishops was Burchard of Worms. In 868, an important synod was held in Worms. Around 900, the circuit wall was rebuilt according to the wall-building ordinance of Bishop Thietlach.

Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages. Having received far-reaching privileges from King Henry IV as early as 1074, the city became an imperial free city. The bishops resided at Ladenburg and only had jurisdiction over Worms Cathedral itself. In 1122, the Concordat of Worms was signed; the 1495 imperial diet met here and made an attempt at reforming the disintegrating Imperial Circle Estates by the Imperial Reform. Most important, among more than 100 imperial diets held at Worms, that of 1521 (commonly known as the Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms, in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic after refusing to recant his religious beliefs. Worms was also the birthplace of the first Bibles of the Reformation, both Martin Luther's German Bible and William Tyndale's first complete English New Testament by 1526.

The Free Imperial City of Worms, known in medieval Hebrew by the name Varmayza or Vermaysa (ורמיזא, ורמישא), was a centre of medieval Ashkenazic Judaism. The Jewish community was established there in the late 10th century, and Worms's first synagogue was erected in 1034. In 1096, 800 Jews were murdered by crusaders and the local mob. The Jewish Cemetery in Worms, dating from the 11th century, is believed to be the oldest surviving in situ cemetery in Europe. The Rashi Synagogue, which dates from 1175 and was carefully reconstructed after its desecration on Kristallnacht, is the oldest in Germany. Prominent students, rabbis, and scholars of Worms include Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi) who studied with R. Yizhak Halevi, Meir of Rothenburg (Maharam), Elazar Rokeach, Maharil, and Yair Bacharach. At the rabbinical synod held at Worms at the turn of the 11th century, Rabbi Gershom ben Judah (Rabbeinu Gershom) explicitly prohibited polygamy for the first time. For hundreds of years, until Kristallnacht in 1938, the Jewish Quarter of Worms was a centre of Jewish life. Worms today has only a very small Jewish population, and a recognizable Jewish community as such no longer exists. After renovations in the 1970s and 1980s, though, many of the buildings of the quarter can be seen in a close-to-original state, preserved as an outdoor museum.

Modern era
In 1689 during the Nine Years' War, Worms (like the nearby towns and cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Oppenheim, Speyer, and Bingen) was sacked by troops of King Louis XIV of France, though the French only held the city for a few weeks. In 1743, the Treaty of Worms was signed, forming a political alliance between Great Britain, Austria, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1792, the city was occupied by troops of the French First Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars. The Bishopric of Worms was secularized in 1801, with the city being annexed into the First French Empire. In 1815, Worms passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in accordance with the Congress of Vienna, and the city was subsequently administered within Rhenish Hesse.

After the Battle of the Bulge in early 1945, Allied armies advanced into the Rhineland in preparation for a massive assault into the heart of the Reich. Worms was a German strongpoint on the west bank of the Rhine, and the forces there resisted the Allied advance tenaciously. Worms was, thus, heavily bombed by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces in two attacks on February 21 and March 18, 1945, respectively. A postwar survey estimated that 39% of the town's developed area was destroyed. The RAF attack on Feb. 21 was aimed at the main railway station on the edge of the inner city, and at chemical plants southwest of the inner city, but also destroyed large areas of the city centre. Carried out by 334 bombers, the attack in a few minutes rained 1,100 tons of bombs on the inner city, and Worms Cathedral was among the buildings set on fire. The Americans did not enter the city until the Rhine crossings began after the seizure of the Remagen Bridge.

In the attacks, 239 inhabitants were killed in the first and 141 in the second; 35,000 (60% of the population of 58,000) were made homeless. In all, 6,490 buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. After the war, the inner city was rebuilt, mostly in modern style. Postwar Worms became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate; the borough Rosengarten, on the east bank of the Rhine, was lost to Hesse.

Worms today fiercely vies with the cities Trier and Cologne for the title of "Oldest City in Germany". A multimedia Nibelungenmuseum was opened in 2001, and a yearly festival in front of the Dom, the Worms Cathedral, attempts to recapture the atmosphere of the pre-Christian period.

In 2010, the Worms synagogue was firebombed. Eight corners of the building were set ablaze, and a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a window, but with no injuries. Kurt Beck, Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, condemned the attack and vowed to mobilize all necessary resources to find the perpetrators, saying, "We will not tolerate such an attack on a synagogue".

Main sights

The renovated (1886–1935) Romanesque Cathedral, dedicated to St Peter (12th-13th century)
Reformation Memorial church of the Holy Trinity, the city's largest Protestant church (17th century)
 St Paul's Church (Pauluskirche) (13th century)
 St Andrew's Collegiate Church (Andreaskirche) (13th century)
St Martin's Church (Martinskirche) (13th century)
Liebfrauenkirche (15th century)
Luther Monument (Lutherdenkmal) (1868) (designed by Ernst Rietschel)
ShUM city of Worms, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Rashi Synagogue and Mikvah
Jewish Museum in the Rashi-House
Jewish Cemetery
Nibelungen Museum, celebrating the Middle High German epic poem Das Nibelungenlied (The Song of the Nibelungs)
 Magnuskirche, the city's smallest church, which possibly originates from the eighth century

Twin towns – sister cities

Worms is twinned with:

 Auxerre, France
 Bautzen, Germany
 Mobile, Alabama, United States
 Ningde, China
 Parma, Italy
 St Albans, England, United Kingdom
 Tiberias, Israel

Notable people

Samuel Adler (1809–1891), German-American Reform rabbi
Curtis Bernhardt (1899–1981), film director
John Derst (1838–1928), baker
Marvin Dienst (born 1997), German racing driver
Hans Diller (1905–1977), classical scholar specializing in Ancient Greek medicine
Ferdinand Eberstadt (1808–1888), textile merchant and mayor of Worms
Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918), anatomist and neurologist
Saint Erentrude, or Erentraud ( 650–710), virgin saint of the Roman Catholic Church
Hans Folz (1435/1440–1513), notable medieval author
Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916), composer, conductor and pianist
Florian Gerster (born 1949), politician (SPD), former chairman of the Federal Employment Agency
Petra Gerster (born 1955), television journalist (ZDF)
Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721–1781), poet
Siegfried Guggenheim (1873–1961), lawyer, notary and art collector
Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi (died 1070), French rabbi
Heribert of Cologne ( 970–1021, archbishop-elector of Cologne and Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empıre
Timo Hildebrand (born 1979), footballer
Richard Hildebrandt (1897–1951), politician in Nazi Germany and member of the Reichstag executed for war crimes
Hans Hinkel (1901–1960), journalist and Nazi cultural functionary
Hanya Holm (1893–1992), choreographer, dancer, educator and one of the founders of American Modern Dance
Vladimir Kagan (1927–2016), furniture designer
Solomon Loeb (1828–1903), American banker and philanthropist
Meir of Rothenburg (1215–1293), rabbi and poet
Conrad Meit (or Conrat Meit) (1480s–1550/1551), Renaissance sculptor, mostly in the Low Countries
Minna of Worms (died 1096), influential Jewish citizen, victim of the Worms massacre (1096)
Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040–1105), rabbi, studied in the Worms Yeshiva in 1065–1070
Juspa Schammes (1604–1678), caretaker of the Worms Synagogue and writer
Alica Schmidt (born 1998), track and field athlete, fitness coach
Hugo Sinzheimer (1875–1945), legal scholar, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1919
Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), organic chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953
Rudi Stephan (1887–1915), composer
Monika Stolz (born 1951), politician (CDU), Member of Landtag Baden-Württemberg since 2001
Ida Straus (1849–1912), wife of Isidor Straus, voluntarily remained with husband on board the RMS Titanic
Emil Stumpp (1886–1941), cartoonist, died in jail after doing an unflattering portrait of Adolf Hitler
Rod Temperton (1949–2016), English songwriter, record producer and musician
Markus Weinmann (born 1974), agricultural scientist in the area of plant physiology

See also
Wormser

References

Further reading
 Roemer, Nils H. German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms (Brandeis University Press, 2010)  online review

External links

The Official website of the city of Worms
Explore the ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture
Nibelungenmuseum website
wormser-dom.de, website of the Worms Cathedral with pictures  (click on the "Bilder" link in the left panel)
Wormatia, Worms football club

1789 disestablishments
Historic Jewish communities
States and territories established in the 11th century
Former states and territories of Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhenish Hesse
Holocaust locations in Germany

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Gilleleje is een plaats in de Deense regio Hovedstaden, gemeente Gribskov, en telt 6350 inwoners (2007). De plaats ligt op het noordelijkste punt van Seeland grenzend aan de overgang van het Kattegat naar de Sont.
De vuurtoren ligt circa 30 meter boven de zeespiegel en is gebouwd in 1772. Vanop het pad bij de vuurtoren is er uitzicht over de streek en de zee.

Zie ook
 Parochie van Gilleleje

Plaats in regio Hoofdstad
Gribskov


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Buys-Ballot és el nom d'un cràter localitzat en la superfície de la cara oculta de la Lluna. Es troba al nord-oest del petit mar lunar Lacus Luxuriae i al sud-est del cràter Freundlich. Altres cràters propers són Dante i Anderson.

Aquesta formació té un configuració diferent de la d'altres cràters, ja que és molt més ample en la part sud i gairebé duplica l'ample màxim de la part nord. Vagament recorda a la forma d'una pera. Té un diàmetre de 66 km i el seu nom honra al químic i meteoròleg holandès C.H.D. Buys Ballot.

Cràters satèl·lit

Els cràters satèl·lit són petits cràters situats propers al cràter principal, rebent el mateix nom que aquest cràter acompanyat d'una lletra majúscula complementària (fins i tot si la formació d'aquests cràters és independent de la formació del cràter principal).

Vegeu també
 Llista de cràters lunars
 Selenografia

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'The Future We Want' | "Global Possibilities"
Twenty years ago at the first Earth Summit in Rio, Severn Suzuki a twelve year old girl, made an impassioned plea at the conference. She had come to Rio with the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a group of 12 and 13 year olds. 'We've raised all the money to come here ourselves,' she said, 'to come 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future… I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ending poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.' She was pleading for the rights of her generation and of generations to come.
I was at that first Earth Summit in 1992. I was calling for a paradigm shift in our global environmental policies: for a new model of development incorporating respect for human rights, good governance, social and economic justice, environmental protection and respect for the rights of indigenous and tribal people. I was campaigning for governments and corporations to be held accountable for their actions.
Twenty years later I am still calling for the same changes, and for corporations to be held accountable for crimes against present and future generations. Why have we made so little progress on these issues? Global carbon emissions have increased by around 50 percent since the first conference. If you had told us at the 1992 Earth Summit that this would be the case, we would have been horrified.
Why was this opportunity so shamefully squandered?
While the 1992 Earth Summit was three weeks of consistent close negotiations, Rio+20 was just three days long. Many world leaders did not attend. President Barack Obama, Chancellor Merkel and President Vladimir Putin were absent. UK Prime Minister David Cameron did not attend despite the Summit being rearranged to avoid clashing with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and his pledges two years ago, upon becoming Prime Minister, to lead the 'greenest government ever.' There was an indefensible lack of political will to address the most pressing issues of our time.
Chinese Premier Hu Jintao was there as was the French President Francois Hollande, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton represented the US, and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg represented Great Britain. And of course President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil was hosting the conference.
The outcome document 'adopted' at Rio+20, 'The Future We Want' is a miserable failure; 283 paragraphs of platitudes and unenforceable commitments which will not take us into the 'Future We Want.' Once again politicians have abdicated responsibility for our future, and that of our children and grandchildren.
'The document is not legally binding. It is at best, a roadmap containing broad 'Sustainable Development Goals' or SDGs, which echo the Millennium Development Goals. These SDGs have been agreed only in principle. There is no detail, and no targets. Even these are voluntary national commitments. 'The Future We Want' 'affirms,' 'recognizes,' 'underscores,' 'urges,' 'acknowledges' and 'expresses concern' over a wide range of issues. The word "reaffirm" is used 60 times.
The text of 'The Future We Want' was, already, at the beginning of June, a compromise. It contained little that was not on the table at the 1992 Earth Summit. Have they been able to accomplish anything these 20 years, except political grandstanding?
Twenty years later, and world leaders still aren't listening to her.
By the 21st of June, when 'The Future We Want' was submitted to leaders, it had been diluted even further. 'The Future We Want' has glaring and serious omissions.
'The Future we Want' 'reaffirms' the intention to "phase out harmful and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.' However, this is not a commitment. It is not even a new promise. The G20 agreed to this in 2009. And we have seen no results.
Initially, fossil fuel subsidies were not even on the agenda at Rio +20: rightly causing public outcry.
350.org with the global campaign group Avaaz launched a 'twitterstorm' on June 18th, calling on leaders to use Rio+20 as the opportunity to act: to set deadlines, and devise implementation to end nearly $1 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies, to 'turn one triillion green.' I joined and supported the Twitterstorm. Avaaz also took out advertisements in Friday's Financial Times calling on Brazil's President Rousseff to demand a timeline for ending subsidies. Ending subsidies for fossil fuels became a rallying cry for Rio+20. #endfossilfuelsubsidies trended on Twitter at number two in the world. It was this worldwide protest that forced fossil fuel subsidies onto the agenda on the evening of June 18th.
Even after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which forced 150, 000 people to flee their homes due to radiation, leaving large parts of Japan still contaminated, the document fails to question or even mention nuclear energy.
The document fails to discuss the shift to renewable energy: the most urgent and necessary transition of our time.
Let me be clear. By once again delaying these tough decisions, world leaders may well be condemning the planet to death.
On Friday June 22nd, Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International delivered a statement, 'End Corporate Capture of the UN,' to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, condemning the influence oil companies like ExxonMobil, Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Shell, all of which are involved in human rights violations and the destruction of the environment, and large multinational corporations like Dow and Coca Cola exert over the United Nations. 400 organizations representing millions of members of civil society around the world signed the statement.
These companies have no place in a UN dialogue. Oil companies have perpetrated some of the most appalling human rights and environmental crimes in our history. Dow owns Union Carbide, which has been responsible for one of the most egregious corporate human rights violations the world has ever seen, the Bhopal disaster. They have caused untold suffering to hundreds of thousands of people.
Some countries seemed to be using Rio+20 as a get together, an opportunity to strike deals. On June 22nd Brazil and China announced a $30 billion bilateral trade deal at the Summit, which includes Chinese investment to build oil drilling platforms in Brazil.
This is what President Dilma Rousseff was doing to tackle climate change.
I was very encouraged by the UN Women Leader's Summit on the 21st of June, chaired by former President of Chile and current UN Women's Executive Director Michelle Bachelet. The Summit called on governments to prioritise gender equality and opened up the dialogue regarding women in development.
Climate change, economic crisis, fuel shortage; all these issues affect women differently and disproportionately to men, due to traditional roles and gender stereotypes.
Current and former heads of state such as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark, Laura Chinchilla Miranda, President of Costa Rica, Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, President of the Swiss Confederation, Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica, Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, among others participated, as well as Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
But, disappointingly, none of their concerns made their way into the text of 'The Future We Want.' Strong wording on reproductive health programs and improved access to free contraception were quashed, leading to a protest at Rio Centro on June 19th. The text shamefully ignores women's reproductive rights.
There is no mention of military spending or disarmament in the document. In 2011 global military spending on jets, tanks, ships, bombs, missiles, landmines and nuclear weapons amounted to $1740 trillion. Meanwhile 1 billion people suffer from chronic hunger and more do not have access to safe water or adequate health care and education. Even in the developed world millions are without work. The Millennium Development Goals cannot be realized while the world invests such a large proportion of its wealth on military equipment.
The connection between peace and sustainable development has been ignored for too long. An appeal, 'Disarmament for Development,' was issued by laureates of the 'Right Livelihood Award' (otherwise known as the alternative Nobel Prize), including myself, in advance of Rio+20.
Do we want a future where our basic human rights are swept under the carpet? I am outraged, to put it mildly.
All the while, three thousand kilometres north, and unbeknownst to most participants at Rio +20, the Brazilian government is carrying out an objectionable project: a series of dams in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
If construction is allowed to continue, Belo Monte will be the 3rd largest dam in the world. It will divert 80% of the flow of the Xingu river, displacing at least 20, 000 people. It will flood indigenous settlements and a quarter of the city of Altamira, and have devastating consequences on the environment in the region. Belo Monte is in flagrant violation of communities and indigenous people's rights, and an environmental crime.
On the 16th of June 2012, protesters stormed the construction site of the Belo Monte Dam. They dug a channel through the earth coffer dam, chanting 'Free the Xingu.' They lay on the dam, their bodies spelling out the words 'Pare Belo Monte:' Stop Belo Monte.
Indigenous protester and armed Brazilian police.
Warriors from the Xikrin and Juruna indigenous groups have occupied the coffer dam since Thursday June 21st, to protest the violation of their rights and the dam building consortium's non-compliance with socio-environmental mitigation measures. The groups are demanding a meeting with the Norte Energia (NESA) dam-building consortium and the Brazilian government.
I have written a full report on this abysmal project, 'The Belo Monte Dam, An Environmental Crime,' which is a result of eight months of research and a fact finding mission to the Brazilian states of Para, and Rondonia. It is available on the Huffington Post.
Please read it, and support their cause. The people of the Xingu desperately need our help.
All that was accomplished in Durban was that world leaders agreed to postpone a legally binding climate agreement until 2020. How can you build on a lack of progress?
The Kyoto Protocol is the only legally binding international mechanism that requires industrialized nations to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It expires in December 2012.
To date, world leaders have failed to agree a legally binding Kyoto Plus. A new international framework urgently needs to be negotiated and ratified that can deliver stringent emission reductions.
Waiting until 2015 or worse until 2020 as suggested at COP17 could be fatal. It is not an option.
At COP15 in Copenhagen, US$30 billion dollars was committed to developing countries, with balanced support for both mitigation and adaptation. This funding was crucial for developing countries that will be first and hardest hit by the effects of rapid climate change. 'The text of 'The Future We Want' failed to stipulate funding figures to achieve these goals.
What we urgently need is a critical, constitutional moment to avert catastrophic climate change and redefine our models of development. What we got at Rio +20 was a document with no teeth. And we are running out of time.
In the past decade the earth experienced the two warmest years on record, in 2005, and 2010 – the latter was the warmest year in recorded history. The earth is perilously close to dramatic climate change that threatens to spiral way out of control.
At the end of May 2012 monitors in the Arctic showed the highest ever recorded levels of Co2, at 400 ppm. The rest of the planet will soon follow suit, unless concrete action is taken. We have already reached the stage of dangerous climate change. The task now is to prevent irreversible climate chaos.
Today the planet has concentrations of around 392 ppm.
Global climate expert Professor James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is emphatic that the safe upper limit of CO2 levels is 350 ppm.
Are our leaders so divorced from reality that they fail to see the danger they have placed us and the planet in with their prevarication?
Since the Earth Summit in 1992 I have attended many UN climate and sustainability conferences. I often leave feeling that yet another critical opportunity was wasted. COP 15 should have been one of the most important climate negotiations of our time. We arrived with our expectations high, hoping that the negotiations would effect real change. We left with nothing accomplished. COP17 was yet another let down. But after each COP and Earth Summit we see politicians and UN officials congratulating one another, slapping backs and shaking hands. If one didn't know better it might appear as if each one had been a great success.
What has been achieved in the twenty years since Severn Suzuki asked for us to 'change our ways?' Do our leaders really believe that the Rio+20 document will help us achieve the future we want?
Year after year these meetings deliver roadmap after roadmap, with no binding commitments. We have been waiting in the departure lounge for 20 years. When will we get moving? When will we get the critical action we need to prevent catastrophic climate change?
Not all is lost. There are things we can do. There have been some positive initiatives, some of them outside the official Summit.
– reduce food waste at the farmer level through lack of suitable storage and among consumers.
There is some vagueness about how these aims will be implemented. But the Zero Hunger project delivers sound objectives, and Great Britain has vowed to allocate 150 million pounds from the International Climate Fund, primarily to farmers in Niger and Ethiopia, who are experiencing food shortages.
I hope it materialises. The success of the Brazilian 'Fome Zero Programme,' launched in 2004, and on which the Zero Challenge is based, suggests that it is achievable.
I was recently appointed Ambassador to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Plant a Pledge Campaign to support the Bonn Challenge target, to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020. This is the largest restoration initiative the world has ever seen. On the 12th of June 2012 I launched Plant a Pledge in London, UK.
The Bonn Challenge target was set last year in Bonn, Germany, by representatives of governments and the private sector as well as indigenous and non-governmental organizations.
The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) has mapped two billion hectares of deforested and degraded land across the globe – an area the size of South America – with potential for restoration.
Over half of the planet's original forest cover has been lost in the past 200 years. Today forests continue to be destroyed at an alarming rate. Every year approximately 13 million hectares – an area the size of New York State – is lost.
On the 18th of June the GPFLR, the IUCN and myself held a press conference at Rio +20 where we announced landmark restoration commitments totalling 18 million hectares. The United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service pledged 15 million hectares, the government of Rwanda 2 million hectares, and the Mata Atlantica Forest Restoration Pact of Brazil, a coalition of government agencies, NGOs and private sector partners 1 million hectares.
We also welcomed the commitment to the Bonn Challenge of the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests, a forum of indigenous peoples and forest communities who together have legal rights over more than 50 million hectares of territorial forest in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. We look forward to receiving their specific pledge of hectares.
It is very encouraging that countries and landowners are signing up to restore degraded and deforested land by 2020; in great contrast to the lack of progress at the Rio+20 negotiations. The pledges of more than 18 million hectares take us over 10 per cent closer to achieving the Bonn Challenge target of 150 million hectares by 2020. But this is only the beginning. We still need to put pressure on governments around the world to achieve this unprecedented initiative.
In the lead up to the Rio +20 summit, more than 1 million people voted online in the Rio +20 Dialogues to identify the most important recommendations to transmit to heads of state at the summit. The results, announced on the 17th of June, clearly demonstrate that restoration should be at the top of the political agenda: the public voted the restoration of 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands the number one proposal on forests, and number two overall.
Global deforestation is threatening our future, and that of the planet. The removal of trees is causing damage to habitats, biodiversity loss and species extinction; forests host 80 per cent of the diversity of all life on Earth. Deforestation causes serious soil erosion, aridity and desertification. As forests vanish the carbon being added to the atmosphere – some 15 per cent of total greenhouse emissions – is accelerating climate change.
Environmental destruction goes hand-in-hand with human rights. They are interconnected. Forests sustain our most basic needs. They are vital for clean air, food, three-quarters of the world's fresh water, shelter, health and economic development. 1.6 billion people – almost a quarter of the world's population – depend on forests for their livelihood. 300 million people call forests their home.
Damage to our forests and ecosystems could reduce global GDP by about 7 per cent and halve living standards for the world's poorest communities by 2050.
We urgently need to put public pressure on governments and others who own or manage land to contribute to the Bonn Challenge target.
The Plant a Pledge campaign, devised by the IUCN and sponsored by Airbus, aims to do just that. Each pledge at www.plantapledge.com supports a global petition directed at world leaders, which I will personally deliver, in my capacity as IUCN Plant a Pledge Campaign Ambassador, to the UN climate change talks, COP18, in Qatar this year. We can ensure that governments put pen to paper on the specifics – 'where, when and how?' – to achieve the Bonn Challenge, and inspire others to do the same.
Restoration of degraded and deforested lands – as called for by the Bonn Challenge – is not simply about planting trees. Achieving the target will bring about transformative, measurable change. With restoration we will repair the damage not only to ecosystems, but, crucially, to human lives. We will put people and communities first, transforming barren or degraded areas of land into healthy, fertile working landscapes. Restored land can be put to a mosaic of uses such as agriculture, protected wildlife reserves, ecological corridors, regenerated forests, managed plantations, agroforestry systems and river or lakeside plantings to protect waterways.
With global climate negotiations foundering, it is through initiatives like Plant a Pledge that we can effect change. Through restoration we can help lift millions of people out of poverty and inject more than US$80 billion per annum into local and global economies while reducing the gap between the carbon emissions reductions governments have promised and what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change by 11 to 17 per cent. We can make the world a more sustainable place – for everyone. And we will see these benefits not only in our lifetime, but in years to come.
I urge everyone in the across the world to play their part. Go to www.plantapledge.com, and click to sign our petition. This is a unique opportunity to renew our forest landscapes now.
Politicians at Rio+20 should have taken note. They should remember that their decisions, or lack thereof, will affect everyone across the world now and in the future.
What Rio+20 has demonstrated is that we can no longer stand by and wait for world leaders to provide solutions to prevent us from reaching the tipping point, or point of no return.
What the protests of the last few days have shown us, what the phenomenon known as the Arab Spring has shown us is that together we have great collective power. We don't have to let Rio+20 be the end of our hopes. The future of the planet lies not only with governments and politicians, but in grassroots movements, NGOs, protesters, the responsible business community. We must not give up. What is at stake is our future and that of future generations. These are global objectives which require global collective action.
I hope that, at the very least, we have acquired a sense of urgency from Rio+20 and a consciousness of the consequences of inaction. There is no room and no time for political squabbling, or point scoring. At this critical juncture in history we will either stand or fall together.
Plant a Pledge is an IUCN campaign sponsored by Airbus.


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Assignment 2: New Zealand Limited (NZL)This email provides you with the information and instructions for Assignment 2. This assignment comprises two parts, Part A on consolidation and Part B on fair value.
Part A
You are on an internship with the Accounting Team at New Zealand Limited (NZL). As you have studied consolidations in your advanced financial accounting paper at Massey University, the Accounting Team has requested your assistance in preparing the consolidated financial statements of NZL and its subsidiaries for the year ended 31 March 2016.
New Zealand Limited (NZL) is a major trading company. It embarked on an ambitious expansion programme in 2015 including the acquisition of two other companies, North Island Limited (NIL) and South Island Limited (SIL). All three companies have financial years 1 April to 31 March
NZL partly acquiring NIL
New Zealand Limited (NZL) acquired a 60 per cent interest in North Island Limited (NIL) on 1 April 2015 for $2 million. All assets and liabilities are fairly valued in the books of NIL limited. The equity section on the balance sheet of NIL at the date of acquisition appears below:
Share Capital 2,000,000
Retained Earnings 600,000
NZL partly acquiring SIL
NZL Limited acquires a 55 per cent interest in South Island Limited (SIL) on 1 April 2015 for $1.6 million. All assets and liabilities are fairly valued in the books of SIL limited. The equity section on the balance sheet of SIL on 31 March 2015:
End of year financials
The trial balances of the three entities as at 31 March 2016 can be downloaded in a spreadsheet by clicking here.
Plant and equipment
On 1 April 2015, NZL Ltd sold plant to NIL for $15,000. The plant cost NZL $10,000 on 1 April $2014. Both companies apply a 10% p.a. straight-line method of depreciation in relation to these assets.
During the current year, NZL sold inventory to NIL Ltd for $18,000 recording a profit of $2000. NIL has not resold any of these items.
During the current financial year, SIL Ltd sold inventory to NZL Ltd for $23,000 recording a profit of $3000. NZL has since resold half of these items.
During the current year NIL sold inventory to SIL Ltd for $15,000 recording a profit of $1000. SIL has resold all of these items.
During the current financial year, NIL paid $1000 to NZL Ltd for services rendered.
Goodwill from investment in SIL has not been impaired while the goodwill from the investment in NIL had an impairment loss of 30 per cent during the current financial year.
The group has adopted the policy of measuring non-controlling interest at a proportionate share of the acquiree's identifiable net assets.
You may ignore tax implications for the purposes of this assignment.
Prepare the consolidated financial statements for NZL and its controlled entities as at 31 March 2016. You have been provided with an Excel template for entering the $ amounts for the items in the consolidated financial statements. To download this Excel template click here.
Complete the Excel template and submit after renaming it as follows:
C12207077_110309Ass2_Jieyu_Liu.xlsx
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The partner in charge of the technical department has asked you to focus on NZ IFRS 13, which defines fair value, sets a single framework for measuring fair value, and requires disclosures about fair value measurements.
Prepare a short article for inclusion in News Brief which:
Discusses the differences between the various levels in the fair value hierarchy and whether values produced under all levels should be described as 'fair values'; and
Reviews The Warehouse Group 2015 Annual Report to illustrate the application of fair value accounting. You should identify at least five different items for which fair value has been applied and discuss the valuation approach and the input levels used for each item.
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System for safe disposal of used needles, for example: sharps container or empty jar. Used needles can usually be disposed of at the municipal solid waste centre.
Remove the two-chamber vial containing 100 mg Solu-Cortef Act-O-Vial from the packaging.
Press the yellow cap down, so that the solvent can mix with the powder (100 mg hydrocortisone).
Mix the contents gently, making a semi-circular movement with your wrist (do not shake) until the powder is completed dissolved. The powder (hydrocortisone) is completely dissolved once the solution is clear.
Tear the packaging of the 2ml syringe halfway down the back, and do the same for the packaging of the drawing-up needle. Place the drawing-up needle on the 2ml syringe, push the needle on and turn it slightly.
Remove the protective disc from the centre of the yellow plastic cap of the vial.
Use a gauze dressing dipped in alcohol 70% to clean the rubber stopper of the vial with a circular motion.
Insert the needle into the vial. Turn the vial upside down. Ensure that the opening of the needle is at the 'bottom' of the vial.
Once all the liquid has been drawn up, turn the vial the right way up – with syringe and needle still inserted – before you remove the needle from the vial.
Draw in a little air and put the cap back on the needle.
Remove the injection needle from its packaging and replace the drawing-up needle with the injection needle.
Check the syringe for air bubbles. If there are any air bubbles in the liquid, remove them by flicking gently against the syringe body, holding it upright with the needle pointing upwards. There needs to be a little air above the liquid, where the bubbles can go.
Now gently expel all the air from the syringe by pushing on the plunger. Check the opening of the needle and stop pressing the plunger as soon as a drop of liquid appears.
Put the protective cap back on the needle.
You can give an injection in the buttock or in the upper leg muscle. If you are injecting yourself, you can only do so in the upper leg.
Upper leg muscle: draw imaginary lines to divide the upper leg into three equal sections, choose the middle section and select a site on the outside of the leg.
Buttock: draw imaginary lines to divide the buttock in half in both directions. Select a site in the upper outer quadrant.
Take hold of the prepared syringe with Solu-Cortef Act-O-Vial.
The muscle at the chosen location needs to be relaxed.
Spread the skin slightly between thumb and forefinger.
Hold the syringe like a dart, and push the needle for 2/3 of its length into the chosen injection site at a right angle to the skin.
Draw the plunger back slightly for 5 seconds, to ensure that you have not pricked into a blood vessel.
If blood appears, stop and withdraw the needle; then repeat the above instructions at a different injection site.
If you draw no blood and feel some resistance, depress the plunger slowly and inject the liquid.
When you have finished, remove the needle in a quick, smooth movement.
Cover the injection site with a gauze dressing. Do not massage the skin. A little blood may ooze out.
If the injection site bleeds, cover it with a sticking plaster.
After having (or giving) an injection with Solu-Cortef it is always necessary to get in touch with the treating physician or the internal medicine specialist or endocrinologist on duty. This also applies if your GP has given the Solu-Cortef injection. The specialist will determine whether the patient also needs to be examined at A&E and will make any necessary arrangements.
© 2013, UMC Utrecht, Internal & External Communications Dept.


A valet for an electronic card is provided through which a user may track and tally transactions via speed nodes that relate to predetermined spending categories and that permit the user to assign budget amounts to each such category. The valet may include means for securing a card, a balance reader, data processing means, memory, data transfer means, and security means.
This application is based on U.S. Provisional Patent Application Number 60/026,247, filed September 17, 1996.
electronic cards, including smart cards, to users.
pre-qualification as to credit history, income, or the like. At any one time, a "Smart"
financial transactions until a zero balance is shown. Then the owner pre-pays a new amount, and the Card is activated again. A Smart Card is typically activated by a personal PIN number to protect the owner from theft; thus, the Smart Card is of no value to anyone except the owner, who possesses the PIN number.
and convenience of credit cards. In some countries, such as France, the Smart Card is a cash alternative for a wide range of goods and services, including telephone calls, highway tolls, retail store purchases, restaurant charges and taxicab charges.
The enhanced privacy of the Smart Card is not without certain disadvantages.
users of the Smart Card or other microchip-embedded electronic cards the multiple conveniences of complete user privacy, ongoing tracking and tallying of purchases, and user-directed accounting in their financial transactions.
classification and causes the amount and classification of the transaction to be stored in memory.
transaction identifies the transaction as associated with a particular classification and causes the amount and classification of the transaction to be stored in the balance reader.
electronic card in the category.
national and international purveyors of electronic cards.
alternative to cash purchasing through an electronic mode and/or electronic interactivity between the electronic cash card and the present invention.
means of accounting complex personal financial transactions or business financial transactions, and with the use of an electronic transfer card, transfer data to a personal computer or its equivalent.
designated outcomes that can be retrieved visually through a display window or downloaded to a personal computer or its equivalent.
It is another object of the present invention to compensate users of "Smart"
Cards or other electronic credit cards who may wish to have or gather on a regular basis the identification, allotment and distribution, per user-specified categories, of their history of card or "cash-less" purchasing that is presently not available to them as card holders.
It is a further object of the invention to permit users to budget for specific categories of transaction, by assigning sub-balances of a Smart Card balance to such categories.
It is yet a further object of this invention to ensure consumer privacy in their purchasing practices while enjoying the convenience of payment by electronic card.
and user-friendly "cash-less" payment system.
It is another object of the invention to provide an electronic card container that is simple to use and can be handheld and can be easily carried by the person.
It is thus a feature of this invention to provide a complete user-specified accounting of financial transactions and transfer this information by electronic means to another location.
cards and other types of cards.
FIG. 1 is a front facial view of the present invention in a bi-fold embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the internal electronic components of the present invention.
be attached to a briefcase.
FIG. 5 is a front facial view of the present invention in an embodiment adapted for the special demands of business use.
FIG. 6 is a view of a reduced-size embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a view of the invention suitable for attachment to a filofax. FIG. 9 is a flow chart of the main steps of the operation or the valet.
FIG. 12 is a flow chart of the steps of the data input operational mode of the present invention.
FIG. 13 is a view of an embodiment of the invention adapted for use by frequent travelers.
FIG. 14 is a view of a receipt generator for the present invention.
means for recording a transaction record, comprising a pen 82, and a notebook 84.
a storage chip 180 for long term storage of items in memory.
include a clip 93 for attachment onto a briefcase 94 or a filofax 92.
cable 103 connected to an input/output slot 105 located in a corner of the valet 20, as in FIG. 15.
84, a currency slot 128, a large receipt slot 130, a pen holder 132, a second card slot 138, a protected slot 140, a protective cover 142, made of clear plastic, and speed node identification tabs 144.
container, or a six-fold container. In other embodiments, the invention may include an accordion fold, a fold-over fold, or magnetic latch strips. The latch strips may include a latch lock.
the notebook, the pen, or the like.
but certain receipt slots may be replaced by a slot 148 for a passport, a slot 150 for an international driver's license, a slot 151 for a driver's license, a coin purse 153 and a slot 155 for an electronic translator.
Referring again to FIG. 5, the device may include wide slots 188, a vertical slot 190, horizontal slots 192, a schedule 194, a schedule holder 198, a calendar 200, a calendar holder 202, and an internal frame 182.
64 may be a hard paper strip, which could be blank and pre-printed. The valet 20 may include any number of speed nodes 58, constrained only by the size of the container 24 and the number of desired categories. The speed nodes 58 comprise buttons that are activated by pressing. Pressing a speed node 58 instructs the electronics of the valet 20 to initiate the functions that relate to the speed node 58.
balance of the card, the current sub-balance of the card that is assigned to a particular speed node 58 that is budgeted for spending in a particular category, or similar data.
58 will be reduced to zero. The user can thus conveniently track the personal or company budgeting process through the smart card valet.
smart card valet, or it may be a separate component that is secured to the valet.
associated receipts and records of financial transactions executed using such cards.
further contributes to the utility of the valet 20 as a general personal organizer.
valet 20 by a pair of pins 160, 161 that may be disposed in a pair of slots 162, 163 on the valet 20. The printer 154 may be any conventional printing device that is connected to the memory 42. Thus, the valet 20 may be equipped to print a receipt for any transaction.
below. FIG. 2 identifies the primary electronic components of the internal valet 20. The components may be connected by conventional electrical circuit components by conventional means.
circumvented by approaches that rely on repetitive entry of multiple personal identification numbers until a correct number is obtained.
embodiment permits the transfer of data from the memory 42 of the valet 20 to the computer, which permits the user to retrieve, store and manipulate the data with conventional financial computer software programs.
valet 20 may also be programmed to permit the user to enter a range of dates via the data entry means 68 after pressing the balance button 118 and the speed node 58, so that the valet 20 may retrieve from the memory 42 and display on the speed node display window 60 the sum of the transactions assigned to the pressed speed node 58 during the entered range of dates.
The valet 20 may also include the cancel button 121 , which causes the valet 20 to cancel any current function.
functions. All of these items may be of the conventional type and may be made of conventional materials.
latches may be modified according to the preference of the user.
Referring to FIG. 7, the personal computer embodiment of the invention is further described. The data interface 99 provided to a personal computer (not shown). The interface 99 may be any conventional means, such the computer diskette 101 or an input/output cable 103, as shown in FIG. 15. The card slot 99 is provided for the diskette 101. The data transfer on/off button 174 initiates the operation of the interface 99.
program, such as a program for tracking financial transactions.
flow chart 204 combines with the other flow charts shown in the subsequent figures to illustrate the entire operation of the valet 20.
to select the mode from a list displayed on display means 50, or the like. In an embodiment of the invention, the operational mode is determined by the duration and sequence of pressing buttons dedicated to the valet 20 and the speed nodes 58.
Card in a step 378. Next, in a step 379, the electronics are instructed to store the balance of the card in memory and to display the card balance on display means 50.
transfer data indicating the balance of the card from memory to a computer via the interface 98 which may be the electronic transfer card 102. If the user wishes to transfer the data then a transfer step 380 is completed. If the user does not wish to transfer the data, or upon completion of the transfer step 380, the user is returned to the step 370 to determine whether the user wishes to continue in the data retrieval operational mode.
span of dates is entered with the data entry means 68 at the step 398, in a step 400 the electronics retrieve from the memory 42 the tally of all transactions made with the card during the date span entered by the data entry means 68. The electronics then display on the display meters 50 the sum retrieved from the memory 42 of all transactions during the date span.
a step 402 to indicate whether the user wishes to transfer the data retrieved from the memory 42 to a personal computer by the interface 98 and the electronic card 102. If the user does not wish to transfer the data, or upon completion of the transfer at the step 102, the user is returned to the step 394 to determine whether the user wishes to continue to obtain historical information tallied by the valet 20.
the user is then prompted in a step 418 to indicate whether an additional speed node 58 is to be selected.
selects an additional speed node at the step 408. If the user does not wish to proceed with an additional speed node 58, then the user is returned to the step 370 to determine whether the user wishes to continue in the data retrieval operational mode. If the user does not wish to continue in a data retrieval mode, then the user is returned to a step 210 on the flow chart 204 of FIG. 9.
in keeping track of historical spending in various predetermined categories, each of which is assigned a speed node 58. The transaction execution mode also permits the user to reduce the balance assigned to the speed node, permitting a dynamic budgeting process for each category of spending.
step 262 and store the difference, equal to the amount of the transaction, in memory.
tally for the new speed node in the speed node display means 60. Next in a step 272, the valet 20 displays the new balance for the speed node 58 in the speed node display means 60. Alternatively, the valet 20 may proceed immediately to a step 244 to determine whether the user wishes to continue in the transaction execution mode, with or without displaying the new tally or new balance of the speed node 58.
the user is returned to the step 212 of the flow chart 204 of FIG 12.
with the total balance of the card.
adjustments to the balances of the speed nodes are desired.
the speed nodes, user is prompted to determine whether user wishes to adjust the tally for another speed node in a step 330. If the user does not wish to adjust the tally, then the user is returned to the flow chart 204 and operation of the valet 20 is complete. Although steps for data retrieval, transaction execution, and data input are disclosed in the flow charts of FIGs. 9, 10 and 11, variations of those steps are within the scope of the invention and would be recognized by one of ordinary skill in the art.
to predetermined budget categories, and permits transfer of data to a personal computer.
embodiments shown and described in detail, various modifications and improvements thereon will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the spirit and scope of the present invention is to be limited only by the following claims.
display means, for displaying data output by the data processing means; and speed nodes, capable of identification, classification and tallying of individually- specified purchase types, wherein the activation of a speed node prior to a transaction identifies the transaction as associated with a particular classification and causes the amount and classification of the transaction to be stored in memory.
means for storing other cards.
3. The valet of claim 1, further comprising: means for identifying speed nodes disposed proximal to the speed nodes.
5. The valet of claim 1 , further comprising: means for securing a calculator to the valet.
6. The valet of claim 5, further comprising: a calculator secured to the valet.
7. The valet of claim 1, further comprising: slots, for receiving receipts, wherein the slots are of varied sizes.
means for receiving a calendar.
9. The valet of claim 1 , further comprising: means for recording a transaction record.
10. The valet of claim 1 further comprising a notebook.
12. The valet of claim 1, further comprising: a folding container.
13. The valet of claim 1 , further comprising: means for providing user privacy, wherein the means for providing user privacy comprises a microchip responsive to a personal identification number.
14. The valet of claim 1, further comprising: means for attachment onto a filofax.
15. The valet of claim 1, further comprising: means for attachment onto a briefcase.
means for interface to a computer.
wherein the means for transferring data comprises an electronic transfer card.
19. The valet of claim 18, further comprising: means for identifying speed nodes disposed proximal to the speed nodes.
20. The valet of claim 18, further comprising: data entry means, for manipulating data in memory.
21. The valet of claim 18, wherein the speed nodes are used to tally owner-specified cost items.
means for providing user privacy, wherein the means for providing user privacy comprises a microchip responsive to a personal identification number.
an interface for transferring data from the electronic card valet to the computer.
# providing means for storing other cards.
providing data entry means, for manipulating data in the memory.
a microchip responsive to a personal identification number.
29. The method of claim 24, further comprising: providing an interface between the electronic card valet and a computer.
30. A electronic card valet, comprising a plurality of speed nodes, each speed node associated with a budget and a total for a category of transaction, each speed node capable of tracking the budget and the total upon a transaction of the electronic card in the category.
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easy. Why not take a spree to close by Pirate Blacklight Golf for a fine game of mini golf. Everybody enjoys a fun journey to nearby Lazer FX Lazertag; if you came to camp Fort Bragg Clay Target Center is a glorious place to do that.


In a recent report, subscriber Matt Dupon recommends a September mule deer hunt in California with guide Josh Schulgen of Kika Worldwide (www.kikaworldwide.com; 909-702-0515). Although Dupon did not hunt one of California's 'prime deer' areas, he did need preference points to draw the tag; he is a resident of the state. We corresponded with Dupon for more information on his hunt.
"I had seen some of the animals Kika Worldwide has produced over the last couple of years, especially the new CA state record desert bighorn, 'Goliath,' that Jason Hairston killed. I called them about a mule deer hunt, and they suggested a unit to apply for in the Central California Sierra Mountains. I decided to go with their suggestion, and am glad I did.
"I'm a California resident so I had pretty good drawing odds. I had 9 points going in, but I don't know how many it actually took to draw (it wasn't 9 points). The tag I drew is considered a better unit but probably not a prime unit. It would have taken me several more years to draw are prime area like Goodale (G3).
"The guide on my trip, Josh Schulgen, did an excellent job and ran a very good camp. We slept in wall tents and the food was great, too. He also had two other assistant guides, Jake and Clint, who joined us. The pack out was a few miles and in somewhat rough terrain, so their presence was very helpful.
If you pulled a draw tag and take a hunt this fall in the US west (guided or DIY) let us know how it went!


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06 Jan Annual Independent Evaluation of the Homeless Initiative Shows Los Angeles County is Making an Impact
Posted at 20:30h in News Releases
Los Angeles County is housing more people than ever before as it confronts a large and growing homelessness crisis, a new independent performance evaluation shows. The annual performance evaluation assessed outcomes in fiscal year 2018-19, known as Year Three, of a comprehensive set of strategies approved by the Board of Supervisors in 2016 and carried out by the County's Homeless Initiative...
16 Dec County develops action plan for homelessness prevention
Los Angeles County has developed a homelessness prevention action plan based on predictive modeling research that can identify residents at high risk of becoming homeless. The new predictive model, developed by the California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab, uses Los Angeles County data to predict those most likely to become homeless soon. Of the people who were identified...
14 May L.A. County Makes $460 Million Investment in Fight Against Homelessness Year 3 Measure H Spending Plan Funds Expansion of Housing and Prevention
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $460 million spending plan for FY 2019-20 to widen and intensify its fight against homelessness. The five-member board unanimously adopted dozens of recommendations for the third-year budget of Measure H, the voter-approved quarter-cent sales tax dedicated exclusively to providing services and programs to prevent homelessness and combat the County's...
04 Feb Thinking Outside the Box to Address Homelessness, L.A. County Awards $4.5M for Innovative Housing Solutions
Today, the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative announced the winners of the first-ever Housing Innovation Challenge, a call for proposals that has awarded $4.5 million in Measure H funding for game-changing creative and scalable permanent housing solutions for those experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County. The Housing Innovation Challenge has made four awards at the $1 million level and one...
24 Jan L.A. County Makes Increased Investment in Partnership with Cities in Fight Against Homelessness
Building on their regional approach to tackling homelessness, the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative and United Way of Greater Los Angeles announced the award of more than $3.8 million in Measure H funding to bolster the work of cities in implementing city-specific plans to combat and prevent homelessness. This funding award is a significant next step in strengthening the collaboration...
27 Nov L.A. County Enhances Interim Housing Standards for the Homeless
Bolstering the countywide movement to combat and prevent homelessness, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today approved an ordinance to establish a new public health permit and licensing requirement to ensure uniform Countywide standards for interim housing facilities that serve people experiencing homelessness. The ordinance is the first element in a three-pronged approach to strengthen the coordinated system of interim...
26 Nov LA County & City Officials Announce Thousands of Homeless Have Been Housed and Launch 2019 Homeless Count Volunteer Drive
Standing in the courtyard of a brand-new affordable housing apartment building, LA City Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA County Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Janice Hahn, and Los Angeles City Councilmember Joe Buscaino announced that tens of thousands of families and individuals throughout Los Angeles County have been placed in permanent homes and interim housing since voters approved landmark initiatives to combat...
09 Nov L.A. County Engages Tech Industry in the Fight Against Homelessness
The Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office/Homeless Initiative and the Chief Information Office have launched a new initiative to enlist the technology industry in the Countywide effort to prevent and combat homelessness. In a bold move to harness the resources and expertise of tech companies and foster more strategic investment in the sector, L.A. County issued a call for solutions...
04 Sep L.A. County Makes Increased Investment in Partnership with Cities in Fight Against Homelessness
Building on its regional approach to tackling homelessness, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved $9 million in Measure H funding to bolster the work of cities in implementing city-specific plans to combat and prevent homelessness. This is a significant next step in strengthening the collaboration between the County and cities in the region, which are united...
30 Aug Measure H Year-One Report Card: Nearly 7,500 Permanently Housed and Thousands More Helped with Interim Housing and Services
Results of the first full year of Measure H funding are in, demonstrating widespread progress as services ramped up and thousands of individuals and families were housed temporarily or permanently. Significantly, 7,448 homeless families and individuals are now in permanent housing, thanks specifically to funding from Measure H since services began in July 2017. More than 2,200 of those placements took...


Previous posts have looked at the 'Information Wanted' ads placed in Irish-American newspapers during the 1860s, where family members sought to discover the fate of soldiers who went missing during the war (see here and here). The conflict split families apart, and papers like the Boston Pilot also carried ads from serving and recently mustered-out soldiers who could not locate their wives and children. For some men, their proximity to death prompted them to try to get in touch with family whom they may not have seen in many years.
Information Wanted OF CATHERINE ARMSTRONG (husband's name Bernard Corrigan), who, when last heard from, nine months ago, was in or about South Margin street, Boston, Mass. Her husband, who had enlisted, is now home again, and wants her to come to him. Any information concerning her will be thankfully received by Bernard Corrigan, Savannah, Carroll county, Ill.
Information Wanted OF MARY ELLEN WELCH, before marriage her name was Ryan, together with her children Hugh Jane [Eugene] Welch, Thomas and Michael Welch; when last heard from they were at Helena, Arkansas, about four years ago. I (William Welch) left them in Green [Greene] county, Illinois; since then I have joined the Army of the Cumberland, and can get no information of them. Mary Ellen Welch is my lawful wife, and the above named children are my lawful heirs. Any information respecting them will be thankfully received by William Welch, Co D, 129th Ill Vols, Inf'y, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, via Chattanooga.
Information Wanted OF JOHN, Thomas, Mary and Margaret WELCH, who left parish of Killskully [Killoscully], county Tipperary, about nine years ago. Any information will be thankfully received by their brother, William Welch, Co D, 129th Ill Vols, Infantry, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, via Chattanooga.
Information Wanted OF the wife and child of WILLIAM POWERS, who went to Canada West in 1853 from Thorndike, Mass. Her father's name was John Shannon. Any information will be thankfully received by George Bradshaw, Spraguetown, Connecticut, or her husband, William Powers, Co E, Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Information Wanted OF Mrs MARGARET REILY, and daughter, Bridget, of the town of Galway, Ireland, and Mrs Mary Anderson and husband; when last heard from, December 5th 1856, were living on corner of F and 23d streets, Washington, District of Columbia. Any information of them will be thankfully received by her husband, James Reily, Company K, 12th Regiment Illinois Infantry, Corinth, Mississippi.
Information Wanted OF Mrs DORA SMITH, wife of Peter Smith. They became separated from each other on the cars of Syracuse, NY, on the 28th of last July. He enlisted in the Second New York Artillery, and is now a paroled prisoner at Annapolis, Md. The above reward will be given for information of where she now is. Address Rev J F Bradley, Annapolis, Md, or Peter Smith, 2nd New York Artillery, Com B, Paroled Camp, near Annapolis, Md.
Information Wanted OF MARY McKEY, wife of Laurence McKey, of the Second Kansas Cavalry. She left her home in Kansas City about three months ago, for Fort Leavenworth, and from there she started for Weston, where she was seen; when she left, she had on a purple colored dress, black silk shawl, and small spotted shaker on her head. She was out of her mind when she left. She is a native of Tahart, county Cavan, and is about the medium size. Her husband, Laurence McKey, has been in Benton Barracks Hospital for 9 months and 18 days, but is now in Kansas City Hospital. Any information concerning her will be thankfully received by Laurence McKey, care of Rev. Bernard Donnolly, Kansas City, Missouri.
Information Wanted OF Mrs ELLEN MURPHY, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, but who left that city for St Louis six years ago and is now supposed to reside there. Any information of her whereabouts will be thankfully received by her husband, who has served four years and a half in the army and has just returned home. Direct to William Murphy, 23 Hope street, Chicago, Illinois.
A very thought provoking post… things that I had not realized nor considered.
Many thanks- the information wanted ads are an amazing resource and bring home just how easy it was to lose contact with friends and loved ones in this period. They are something I think I will be returning to again and again.
Thanks for passing on his info! I wonder did he ever find Dora, I would love to find out.


When the Isle of Jade begins to rumble, the islanders cancel the player's expedition to the inland. However, it is still a beautiful day for a pearl dive. Can the players find fortune in the tranquil waters of a hidden cove, or does something more sinister lurk there?
This mini-adventure sets up the events of Folio #14, and is for characters levels 1-3 in both 1E and 5E formats.


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Puerto El Morro Dolphin Watching Activity from Guayaquil
Nature & AdventureNature & PanoramaDolphin & Whale WatchingWater SportsViewing PointsEcotourismAnimal UseActivities with Animals
Discover bottlenose dolphins and other wildlife in Puerto El Morro. See a wide variety sea birds and marine life on a boat accompanied by dolphins.
Experience wildlife close up in Puerto El Morro
Travel by boat to see a wide variety of bird and marine life
Marvel at the bottlenose dolphins around the boat
Visit the rural parish of Puerto El Morro on this 5-hour excursion. Take in a range of natural attractions including extensive mangrove forests, birds and bottlenose dolphins. Among the native plant species you're likely to encounter are carob, cullulle, acacia, cascol, plum, rattan and kapok, among others. See birds such as gulls, herons, pelicans, albatrosses and mockingbirds. At times there will be sightings of sea lions, blue-footed boobies and a variety of whales. The bottlenose dolphin lives in the vicinity of Puerto El Morro and Posorja. Head out in a tourist boat escorted by dolphins and further explore the natural wonders of the area.
All taxes, fees and handling charges Box lunch Hotel pick-up and drop off
Drinks Optional gratuities
Confirmation will be received at the time of booking
The tour may be conducted by a multilingual guide