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New look for English Lake District supports local business and sustainability
Business, Commercial, communications, Culture, Lake District, Uncategorized, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage UK
Local businesses in the English Lake District UNESCO World Heritage Site are showing their support for its new global recognition with huge enthusiasm. Today, at the Westmorland County Show, the partners that developed the successful bid for inscription launched their branding for the UK's most recent World Heritage Site – with great popular appeal. Taking a simple but welcoming approach the brand clearly identifies the place but cleverly encourages its adoption by local people for use in promoting activities, destinations, services and products using the specific font style.
On display at the showground today, ably hosted by team members from the Lake District National Park Authority and the National Trust, were some great examples of how locally produced goods are promoting themselves and the World Heritage Site as a result of this partnership. From local 'Lovingly made in….' cosmetics, to Cumbrian beer and coasters, even a 'World Heritage relish' and the Herdwick wool handbags made famous on Kate Humble's recent BBC programme, 'Back to the Land'. These will all benefit from their association with the World Heritage Site and vice versa as the site is promoted through these local products.
It's a win-win plus as sustainability is at the heart of this initiative. Sustainability of the land and its heritage conservation, sustainability of the local economy required to underpin it, and sustainability of the local communities that live and work here. And what a great showcase this will be for the visitors who will come here from across the world as a consequence of the UNESCO network of World Heritage Sites. There was a great sense of pride around this event today, and with good reason. The English Lake District is really making the most of its hard-won world heritage status.
You can meet Alex and Mairi (above) at the World Heritage UK conference at the Tower of London on 15th and 16th October where they will be with other UK World Heritage Site Coordinators. There are still some tickets left and you can register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/setting-the-scene-for-world-heritage-tickets-46877370477
September 13, 2018 worldheritageuk Tagged Cumbria, England, English Lake District, Heritage Alliance, kate humble, local produce, sustainability, Tourism, World Heritage, World Heritage UK
Blenheim Palace UNESCO World Heritage Site to Host Jousting Tournament
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Blenheim Palace will be alive to the thunder of hooves and the clash of lances on shields as it hosts the Knights of Royal England's Jousting Tournament from May 5th-7th. Visitors will be transported back in time to a medieval tournament; complete with authentic tilt yard, royal box, falconry, archery and hand to hand combat.
Recreating the glorious jousting matches of Britain's past, knights in shining armour will take to the field on their noble steeds in a momentous display of bravery and skill beneath the spectacular backdrop of Blenheim Palace. Knights and horses will be costumed with chainmail and steel armour for the period 1200-1250. The knights will be using 14-foot-long lances and riding at full gallop. There will be approximately 15 participants all dressed to assume their part in this authentic and thrilling re-creation of the Tournament.
The weekend will be packed with historic action and family friendly entertainment, from thrilling falconry displays to 'have-a-go' archery. For the younger children there will be baby dragons to meet and the chance to join the Dragon Procession. Hatched from a small dragon sanctuary in the Welsh Marshes, these delightful creatures are very friendly and well mannered, although a dragon is never entirely predictable… Families can enjoy food, refreshments and tournament treats on the South Lawn along with a medieval stand with lots of historically themed goodies.
The Blenheim Estate is no stranger to genuine jousting tournaments. In 1389 John, Earl of Pembroke, was killed in a jousting accident while a Christmas guest at the old Woodstock royal palace.
WHAT: Spring Jousting Tournament at the Blenheim Palace UNESCO World Heritage Site
WHEN: May 5th-7th
WHY VISIT: Knights on horseback, battles, falconry displays, dragons, archery and much more!
ADMISSION: Park & Gardens ticket required: Adult £16.00, Child £7.40, Family (2 Adults & 2 Children) £43.00
WEBSITE: blenheimpalace.com
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/264025969
April 23, 2018 April 22, 2018 worldheritageuk Tagged Blenheim Palace, Heritage Alliance, Heritage Education, Tourism, UNESCO, UNESCO National Commission, VisitEngland, World Heritage, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage UK
Blenheim Palace wins VisitEngland award
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Blenheim Palace has been awarded the highly regarded VisitEngland Quality Assured Visitor Attraction. The accreditation offers prospective visitors from all over the world the reassurance of an official endorsement of high quality and showcases the UNESCO World Heritage Site's tireless commitment to excellence.
With scores of more than 80% in each category, judges found Blenheim Palace to have a 100% score in its Retail Category and an impressive 93% score in the Attraction Category.
Judges from VisitEngland commented "Blenheim Palace achieved an overall score of 89% under the VisitEngland Visitor Attraction Quality Scheme. The broad range of well-publicised tours and experiences particularly impressed this year.
They continued: "Excellent customer service was the overriding quality delivered throughout the day with some outstanding individuals at the visitor information desk, two of the retail facilities and the buggy tour driver."
Heather Carter, Operations Manager at Blenheim Palace says: "This represents another great audit by an internationally recognised body of quality for our visitors. VisitEngland have given us a very positive score which we are all thrilled with. She continues: "I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our staff who work so hard to maintain this standard of excellence."
Built in the early 18th century to celebrate Britain's victory over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession, Blenheim Palace is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
For more information please contact: Melodie Manners | melodie@flamingo-marketing.co.uk | 07815 709548 or 01637 873379
September 11, 2017 worldheritageuk Tagged Award, Blenheim Palace, Tourism, UNESCO, VisitEngland, World Heritage, World Heritage UK
Business speakers for 'Communicating World Heritage' conference announced #communicatingWH
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Dominic Hare
In the 'Communicating with business and funders' session of the conference we are pleased to have the new Chief Executive of the Blenheim Palace World Heritage Site, Dominic Hare, as a speaker. Blenheim Palace is a great example of a successful World Heritage business and is particularly imaginative and creative in its thinking and practice. For the last 14 years, Dominic has served as Finance Director at Blenheim Palace and was appointed Chief Executive Officer for the Blenheim Estate in January 2017.
Richard Church
Also speaking on the business theme will be Richard Church, Project Director at BatteredSuitcase.com, who will be talking about his experiences in special interest tourism to World Heritage destinations as one of the popular 5 minute elevator pitches that are a feature of World Heritage UK conferences. Batteredsuitcase.com is one of the most recent companies to join World Heritage UK as a corporate member.
Hear from both these presenters on Monday 9th October and book your tickets at: www.communicatingworldheritage.wordpress.com
August 15, 2017 worldheritageuk Tagged #communicatingWH, Business, communications, Tourism, UNESCO, World Heritage, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage UK
VisitEngland and Heritage Alliance – new speakers for communications conference
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Very pleased to announce these new speakers to the conference programme. Andrew Stokes is the England
Director for Visit England and he will join the join the 'Heritage Leaders' session to present the latest information on the value of World Heritage to the tourism market and how this can be communicated.
Lizzie Glitheroe-West is the Chief Executive of the Heritage Alliance, and who better to speak as part of the session on 'Communicating with each other' in the heritage sector and the UNESCO family. Both World Heritage UK and the IIICH have recently and simultaneously joined the Heritage Alliance so Lizzie will be in good company along with other HA Members in the audience.
You can see more information about the conference and get your ticket at a discounted 'early bird' rate if go to the conference website where you can book to participate in any combination of days in this four day event. There you will also find details of local accommodation at Ironbridge and Telford which is best booked early!
August 7, 2017 August 3, 2017 worldheritageuk Tagged communications, conference, economic impact, Heritage Alliance, Ironbridge Gorge, partnership, Tourism, UNESCO, Visit England, World Heritage, World Heritage Sites
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Up for Sale a very well established, PROFITABLE Pet Grooming Salon for a WELL UNDER MARKET VALUE.
THE SELLING PRICE IS REDUCED TO SELL QUICKLY DUE TO A HEALTH ISSUE.
Excellent business opportunity for (1 or 2) OWNER/OPERATER individuals. If one OWNER/OPERATER you just need a bather and you ready to go. THIS WAY IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO EARN A BETTER THAN AVERAGE RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT.
Only the 2 owner working without employee for the last 8 years.
You can expend the business by hiring more groomers, sell products, add new website etc.
The phone number and client list will be given at sale. Open 5 days only. CLOSED MONDAY AND SUNDAY. Grooming around 3000 pets yearly. COULD DO MORE BUT WE ARE COMFORTABLE TO GROOM THAT MANY.
The salon in business for 9 + years with 2 more years left from signed lease which expire in September 30th 2020. Option to lease 3-5 years at the time. The only reason for selling moving out of state, retiring HEALTH ISSUES.
Very profitable business with very reasonable monthly rent of $1320 including CAM and water. Not much overhead. No employee to be responsible for. THE RENT IS VERY LOW COMPARING TO OTHER GROOMING SHOPS. GREAT LOCATION TOO.
The salon is leased (880SQF). Including 3 separate rooms. 4 station right now. You can add more easily.
The business is in a very busy shopping mall and easy excess from any direction.
We have a very loyal customer base since we opened adding new customers daily all from referrals by word of mouth. Making beetwen $85,000 - $95,000 a year with only the two OWNER working.
WE SELLING the GOOD WILL not the store.
Please only SERIOUS and QUALIFIED buyers to reply. PROOF OF FUNDS (Bank statement) requried to see if able to purchase our business. DOWN PAYMENTS $39.500.
Big potential for the business to grow! Hiring more groomers. Add new Website again. Open more then 5 days. Selling product for pets. Grooming cats also. Grooming large size dogs too.


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The past academic year has been unlike any other. It was the year of distance and remoteness. Faculty, staff, and students had to learn entirely new ways of doing things. Information technology was tasked with making part of the shift occur - to enable remote and hybrid learning, to enable offices to stay open virtually and process paperwork digitally, to enable students to access the resources of the university, to continually provide new answers to new questions, and to provide a new, technological platforms for student, faculty, and staff interaction and collaboration. It was a scenario that went beyond anything IT had faced before.
The work within IT and at the campus was only possible with a great team of collaborative partners. The University Senate's Information Technology Committee (ITC) has been instrumental this year in its support, leadership, and assistance to the university. The Center for Teaching and Innovation (CTI) was also vitally important, as many of the new initiatives in teaching and learning had their roots in projects the CTI was already undertaking. The Applications Coordinating Team (ACT) made sure that as we enabled services, such as physical mail scanning, the data would be secure, encrypted, and protected. Every member of IT, the ITC, ACT, and the CTI played a role in confronting and overcoming the challenges of this year. From pre-planning "what if" meetings to inventing technology "drive-throughs," the university relied on its technology leadership groups for solutions. As remote-learning and remote-working became the new normal, these groups continued training, problem-solving, and adapting for a hybrid and online Fall '20 and Spring '21 semester. It was truly a team effort.
As the institution looks to return to a post-COVID "new normal," it does so with the awareness that any "restoration" of past practices will be informed by recent experiences to produce something altogether new—what we used to do will be reimagined and reconfigured by all that has been learned in the past year. The coming years will be neither like the past year nor like the years that preceded it, but an entirely new amalgamation. Our task, then, is to learn from this past year in order to cull out from the ad hoc and provisional what are positive institutional, procedural, and technological changes worth adopting on a more permanent basis. Accordingly, the IT leadership teams recognize that they must not simply be restorative but also transformative as we return to regular operations. Specifically, IT will be:
Rescaling where appropriate
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Recognizing what is no longer relevant
IT is excited to be part of the future of CCSU in a post-COIVD workplace and support the 2030 CCSU strategic plan. Through technology, we hope to give students, faculty, and staff the best experience possible to help assist in their success. I am exceptionally grateful to the IT members and all of our collaborators across the university for their help as we navigated the constantly changing environment of COVID.

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For over four decades Joyce has sought a vitality and innovation in his writing that continues to distinguish his poetry among national and international communities of poets. Here, formal constraint is an enabling device through which the chosen themes, ideas, and source texts are aligned and vivified. Joyce's willingness to delineate these sources indicates a poetry always in excess of its constituent parts. Sources recur across collections and the notes that organize one poem become a palimpsest for another. Director and co-organizer of the SoundEye poetry festival since its inception in 1997, Joyce is a dynamic force in Irish poetry as it continues to change and evolve.
Joyce was born in Dublin on October 26, 1947, and grew up in the city, spending summers with relatives in the Galway Gaeltacht. His literary heritage relates back to his great-granduncles, Robert Dwyer Joyce and Patrick Weston Joyce. Both men were eminent writers and collectors of Irish music whose influence is carried through in appropriations of their work in Joyce's poetry. Joyce met Michael Smith in the mid-sixties and together they founded New Writers' Press. The press provided a forum for young poets, national and international, whose work was not receiving an audience in an Irish publishing community preoccupied with the construction of Irish cultural identity. From the outset, NWP worked to make innovative poetry available to a wide audience through large print runs and low-cost production. Joyce's Pentahedron (1972) serves as an example of the editors' commitments with a combined total of 1200 hardback and paperback copies printed. In his opening address at the inaugural SoundEye festival in 1997, Joyce reflected on the aspirations of the Press, stating, "We certainly saw what we were doing as alternative to the status quo, but we never saw it as eccentric." As well as publishing some of the most innovative poetry of the sixties and seventies, NWP was intrinsic to the recovery of Irish modernists of the thirties such as Brian Coffey, Thomas MacGreevy, and Niall Montgomery.
Between 1967 and 1976 Joyce published four collections with NWP, Sole Glum Trek, Watches, Pentahedron, and The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine. In 1983 he visited the People's Republic of China as a member of the Ireland-Chinese Cultural Society before moving from Dublin to Cork in the following year. After a nearly twenty-year hiatus, Joyce returned to publishing in 1995 with a collection titled stone floods which began a period of extraordinary productivity for the poet. Syzygy and Hellbox were published in 1998 and Without Asylum followed in 1999. In 2001, with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold appeared, a veritable "body of work" bringing together The Poems of Sweeney Peregrine, Pentahedron, stone floods, Hopeful Monsters, Trem Neul, and a variety of poems spanning the course of his writing career. In 2007, Joyce published an extensive collection of new work titled What's in Store and this was followed by Courts of Air and Earth in 2009 and The Immediate Future in 2013.
Critical analysis by Keith Tuma, Nate Dorward, Alex Davis, Marcella Edwards, and John Goodby among others offers strategies for reading Joyce's poetry. This scholarship attends to the poet's place within the national literary history and European modernist tradition and also considers, among other things, the importance of translation, theory, and philosophy to his writing. Such criticism did not always reach its deserved readership, either because of low print-runs or the ephemeral nature of poetry magazines and journals. The bibliography published with this essay consolidates that critical history and acknowledges the contribution of a variety of publishers to Joyce's poetry. Since submitting the bibliography for publication several more references have emerged, and more will follow as Joyce continues to write and publish poetry.


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Are you getting into the Christmas spirit? So are we, so we've put together a list of amazing (alcoholic) Christmas drinks for you to impress your friends. Let's get started!
Mulled Wine is a classic and can't be missed during the festive season. It's an iconic Christmas drink. We have a simple recipe here so you can make it yourself!
Keep the wine hot on a medium/low heat to let the flavours infuse with the wine for roughly 20 minutes.
Serve your wine in hot glasses or mugs.
For those who like their Whiskey, this Christmas drink's for you! We have a tempting Whiskey cocktail with an orange twist to keep you in the Christmas Spirit.
Place your sugar cube in the glass and add the orange bitters. Add half a teaspoon of water and let this soak until the sugar starts to dissolve. Stir until the sugar has almost dissolved.
Add your Whiskey, fill with ice to the top of the glass and stir.
Rub your orange peel, slice or wedge around the edge of the glass.
Squeeze your peel or wedge to release some oil or juice into the glass.
Place the peel or wedge in and enjoy!
Separate the eggs and place the yolks and whites in separate bowls. Cover the whites and refrigerate until needed.
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Serve the eggnog and enjoy!
Make sure to consume this one within a day as we are using raw eggs in this recipe.
That concludes our Christmas drinks list, we hope you have a great time with them and make sure to drink responsibly!


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After decades of taking names and kicking ass in universities around the world, Halifax-bred oceanographer Anya Waite comes home to launch her next, excellent adventure on the high seas of academe
Once, many years ago and for no particular reason, a Portuguese cop proclaimed that the future scientific director of the Ocean Frontier Institute in Halifax was a prostitute.
"I was 20, alone in the Azores, waiting to join a five-week research cruise of the North Atlantic," Anya Waite recounts. "Suddenly, this guy grabbed my arm and started dragging me down the gangway. He saw I was the only woman among 100 scientists and crew on board. He was sure I was. . .well, you know."
Then again, people have been saying strange things to the good doctor, about the good doctor, for as long as she can remember.
There was that time, for example, when an academic superior tried to corner her by insisting: "Feminism is over; stop fussing and get back to work."
There was that other time when a lab supervisor attempted to compliment her by professing: "Your data set gives me a hard on. Thanks."
And how can she forget the moment when the new dean of one university, which employed her as the sole female acting head of school, commented that it did not, in fact, employ any female acting heads of school?
It's not that she goes out of her way to attract the attention of weirdos, she says. It just seems to come naturally (like the violin, which she plays avidly when she's not examining the biological-physical couplings of marine organisms).
Or maybe it goes with the territory of having worked on almost every continent, doing some of the most prestigious academic jobs, in oceanography and environmental systems engineering, the world has to offer.
"You have to put yourself in the way of things," she smiles broadly. "It's about the life deeply lived."
That should come in handy now that she's at the helm of one of Canada's more intriguing and recent experiments in public-private sector collaborations. Part think tank, part incubator, part Dragons' Den, the Ocean Frontier Institute came to life 28 months ago thanks to a $227-million investment from the feds and various non-governmental agencies to push the limits of collaboration between marine researchers and the rest of us.
Global warming has started the countdown on sustainable innovation in ocean sciences, where practical applications already affect everything from offshore fisheries and aquaculture to transportation and renewable energy. The Institute, which is led by Dalhousie University and its partners at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Prince Edward Island, aims to cultivate the best, newest ideas for everyone, everywhere.
According to Waite, who became its science head only last year, it's exciting, timely and necessary. "We're trying to move ocean studies to a more useful place in the conversation," she says. "Historically, research is an ivory tower, and we're really working to break that down; to make the dialogue easier between academics and their potential stakeholders, which include governments, industries and communities. In fact, it won't be easy, and it certainly won't be a straight line."
That, alone, may render her the perfect candidate for the job.
Born and raised in Halifax, the youngest daughter of a famous historian and a woman who had once been arrested for anti-Nazi agitation in her native Croatia, Waite's early life wasn't exactly placid or predictable.
"Dad taught classes and wrote books, but most of all he loved to just get up and head out the door and into the woods," she says about her father P.B. Waite, now 97. "My sister Nina and I would put on back packs and go with him when we could. He was passionate about conservation. He actually wanted to be a forester. In fact, he was one of the reasons Crystal Crescent Beaches became a provincial park. He and three of his walking buddies from Dal arranged to have the land purchased from the owner – who had wanted to turn it into a gravel pit – and put into the Province's hands."
Her late mother Masha, meanwhile, was a force to be reckoned with. "She once hosted a delegation of Chinese economists in the 1970s before that country's markets had opened up," Waite says. "At one point during dinner, my mother blurted, 'Chinese economists, eh? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?' To their credit, they loved it. The thing about her was that you couldn't really get away with anything. She expected us kids to perform academically, engage with the world, stay fit, and, above all, challenge shoddy thinking wherever we encountered it."
It was a tall order, and Waite did her best to fill it. After high school, she studied violin, thinking she might become a concert musician. She switched to English because, she says, she loved to write. In the end, though, biology grabbed her and held on tight. And she was good at it, though that did not always guarantee smooth sailing.
The thing about inheriting both your father's and mother's passions and principles – in this case, and in equal measure, wanderlust and intellectual honesty – is that you tend to invite a certain amount of disruption into your life. So it was for Waite in the early 1990s, when – having earned a BSc from Dalhousie and a PhD from the University of British Columbia – she entered a post-doc program at the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. She hated it. "I left because I was devasted that the conversation there wasn't about science anymore," she says. "It was about money just when funds were shrinking."
She thought about becoming an orthodontist because, she laughs now, "At least I'd have a dental plan." Instead, she took a job running a microscopy lab in New Zealand. Then, after conducting a seminar for that country's National Institute for Water and Atmosphere, she fell in love with oceanography all over.
She embarked on research excursions, honed her academic skills and credentials, published original papers on complex topics, and embraced the rigours of teaching and training young minds. In 1997, she moved to the University of Western Australia in Perth, where she rose to the lofty position of Winthrop Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering. Still, eventually, she ran afoul of that institution's old boy network. "I was there for 17 years, most of them good ones," she says. "But, it sort of closed in on me. There were serious gender issues. As I was getting more and more senior, I was getting more and more push back to the point where I was worried about my career."
Then came an offer in 2014 from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, of section head for polar biological oceanography to lead studies in, among other things, the micro-environments of the tiny marine plants and animals known collectively as plankton. The move was a sea change, both figuratively and literally. "I thought here's a spot where I can actually say what's on my mind. I came from a place that said, 'Please do sit down and be quiet,' to one that said, 'Speak up, we hired you for your brain. . .der kopf.'"
As chance would have it, that cognitive derring-do was precisely what Halifax's Ocean Frontier had been searching for. So far, Waite has not disappointed. "From the moment she arrived last year, her enthusiasm at being back in Atlantic Canada and for ocean research were immediately evident," OFI's chief executive officer Wendy Watson-Wright (who holds a PhD in Physiology from Dalhousie) says. "Her abundant energy and ideas will certainly help us achieve a lasting legacy."
Adds Waite's long-time colleague Paul Snelgrove, OFI's Newfoundland-based Associate Scientific Director who undertook his own post-doc at Woods Hole when Waite was there: "Working with her again, I can see her passion has not diminished whatsoever. It's great to have her back playing a critical role for ocean sciences here in Atlantic Canada. She is already making a difference."
Waite admits she wasn't looking for a move back to her origins. But the timing seemed as irresistible as the opportunity. After 30 years abroad, here was a chance to bring it all home – to square the big, broad circle that has been her life.
Now comfortably ensconced in her hometown with her husband and kids, in a job she's frankly crazy about, is she worried that things will get strange again – that the weirdos will come out to play again?
She shrugs and smiles slightly.
She hopes so?
After all, it's about the life deeply lived. Is it not?
For: Halifax Magazine, October 2019
Tagged Anya Waite, Dalhousie University, Marine sciences, Ocean Frontier Institute


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Las elecciones al Consejo Insular de Menorca de 2007 se celebraron el 27 de mayo de 2007. En ellas, todos los ciudadanos de Menorca mayores de 18 años según el censo electoral de 1 de marzo de 2007 fueron llamados a las urnas para elegir por primera vez de manera directa a los 13 diputados del Consejo Insular de Menorca. Hasta entonces, los diputados del pleno eran elegidos de la misma candidatura presentada por cada partido a la circunscripción de Menorca para las elecciones al Parlamento de las Islas Baleares. Es decir, había una única lista de cada formación política para las dos instituciones, si bien existía un mecanismo de renuncias que permitía a los electos pertenecer sólo a una o a la otra. A partir de las elecciones de 2007, tras la aprobación del nuevo estatuto de autonomía, los ciudadanos eligen a los consejeros insulares de la institución en listas separadas de las del Parlamento.

Estas elecciones se celebraron junto con las elecciones autonómicas baleares, el resto de elecciones a consejos insulares y las elecciones municipales.

Resultados
Los resultados no variaron apenas respecto a los de elecciones anteriores. El vencedor fue de nuevo el Partido Popular, que repitió con seis escaños. La diferencia de votos respecto al PSOE, sin embargo, se redujo a apenas 130 votos, obteniendo este también seis escaños. PSM-Verds mantuvo el escaño que había conseguido el PSM en los anteriores comicios.

a Coalición de Partit Socialista de Menorca (PSM-EN) y Els Verds de Menorca.
b Respecto al Partit Socialista de Menorca (PSM-EN) en 2003.

Tras las elecciones, PSOE y PSM-VERDS llegaron a un acuerdo que permitió a Joana Barceló continuar como presidenta del Consejo por otros cuatro años. El 12 de septiembre de 2008 Joana Barceló renunció a la presidencia del Consejo de Menorca al ser nombrada consejera de Trabajo y Formación y portavoz del Gobierno de las Islas Baleares. Fue sustituida por el también socialista Marc Pons.

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UK's Extinction Rebellion pauses radical tactics to seek wider support
Marie HEUCLIN, Anna MALPAS
Extinction Rebellion climate campaigners have announced a temporary halt to public disruption in the UK as they seek broader support, even as other activist groups vow to maintain radical tactics.
A loosely linked network that originated in the UK in 2018, Extinction Rebellion has pushed businesses and the government to take action on the climate crisis with eye-catching but non-violent acts of civil disobedience that have led to mass arrests.
XR, as it is also known, has spawned more radical groups such as Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil, whose recent stunts include throwing soup at the glass covering Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery.
But in a surprise twist on New Year's Eve, Extinction Rebellion announced in a post: "We quit".
It said it was trying a different approach and would "temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic".
Spokeswoman Marijn van de Geer concurred with an interviewer's suggestion on a television chat show that the "tactics have alienated the public".
"We've listened to the public. They say over and over again, 'We support what you stand for but we don't like how you do it'," she said this week.
Other related groups expressed solidarity but vowed to keep up disruptive tactics.
Just Stop Oil, which wants a halt to new oil and gas projects and has blocked busy roads for hours by climbing onto gantries, responded by saying: "We must move from disobedience into civil resistance."
Insulate Britain, which is pushing the government to fix draughty housing, said its supporters "remain committed to civil resistance".
"Public disruption is vital to demand changes that governments are not willing or are too scared to address," it said.
Animal Rebellion, which has freed laboratory test dogs and spilled milk in supermarkets, said it was "committed to continuing its nonviolent actions, whether that involves disruption or not".
Greenpeace UK, which trains activists for direct action, has not reacted publicly and declined to comment.
- 'Brick wall' -
Extinction Rebellion's shift in tactics appears to be "a way of trying to engage more people with less risky but still radical activism", Oscar Berglund, a lecturer at the University of Bristol who researches climate change activism, told AFP.
He said Extinction Rebellion has long sought to direct protests not against the general public but at specific organisations, such as Rupert Murdoch's media empire over its reporting on climate change.
The movement's spokeswoman said this week it would continue to target the "pillars of power".
In recent years, XR activists in the UK have glued themselves to corporations' doors, smashed windows, sprayed graffiti, blocked roads and bridges and chained themselves to the gates of parliament.
"My hunch is that after several years of trying a similar approach... they had seen their tactics hit a brick wall," said James Ozden of the Social Change Lab research organisation.
By positioning themselves as more moderate than groups such as Just Stop Oil "it's very possible they will see increased support, as well as higher mobilisation than (at) recent events", he suggested.
The government has responded to recent protests by toughening legislation to punish activists, although experts said this was unlikely to be the driving factor in Extinction Rebellion's shift.
"There certainly has been increasing government repression towards non-violent protestors but this probably isn't the main cause for this change in strategy," said Ozden.
"Many activists are extremely committed, and willing to bear the legal consequences of their actions."
- 'The Big One' -
Extinction Rebellion is now seeking a turnout of 100,000 for a protest outside parliament starting on April 21, called "The Big One".
"I think XR might be able to use their new less disruptive strategy to mobilise this broad base once again, bringing numbers onto the streets that we haven't seen since 2019," Ozden said, referring to the movement's first mass protests, which saw over 10,000 people turn out.
XR spokeswoman van de Geer told ITV the shift in tactics was because the movement needs more people to demonstrate.
"We need more people. We need the people who perhaps aren't comfortable getting arrested," she said.
Extinction Rebellion "have more of a brand than they have activists", Berglund commented, questioning whether they can achieve such a large turnout by April.
"A mass movement isn't something you can just click your fingers and create. It's often very unpredictable," he said.
At the same time, "these are good organisers with plenty of experience".
"They might pull it off".
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Dale Richard Schubert, age 73 of Defiance, went to Heaven on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Mercy Hospital of Defiance.
He was born on July 8, 1948 in McComb, Ohio to Wilbur and Ruth Anna (Beemer) Schubert, who both preceded him in death. Dale proudly served our country in the 555th U. S. Air Force Band. On June 10, 1972 he married Sharon (Brown) Schubert, who survives.
Dale earned his Master's Degree and spent the majority of his teaching career as an Instrumental Music Teacher for 30 years at Defiance City Schools and Napoleon City Schools. After retiring, he became an Educational Sales Representative for Rettig Music Inc. He inspired and encouraged all he knew. He was a friend and mentor to many area band directors and former students. Dale was the Conductor of the Black Swamp Community Orchestra. He founded Brass Works and played the Tuba in the Lima Area Concert Band. He was a faithful member of First Church of God in Defiance, OMEA Ohio Music Educator's Association, and Gideon International.
Dale was a highly valued and integral member of the team at Macie Publishing Company and Ed Sueta Music Publications where he served as a nationally acclaimed clinician and trusted advisor. For over 30 years, Dale generously shared his vast knowledge with music educators at universities, workshops and conferences throughout the United States.
Dale adored his family and was a loving husband and father. He enjoyed the outdoors and creating his yearly garden. He will be remembered for his strong faith and kindness to all he met.
Dale is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Sharon Schubert of Defiance, his daughter, Laura (Jim) Dotson of Pikeville, NC, his sisters, Beverly (Richard) Williams of Waverly, OH and Debra (Gerry) Troyer of Cygnet, OH, and several nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and great-nephews.
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I just drew this little cartoon for my friends over at Dell. Feel free to print it out, use it to make t-shirts or whatever for your own personal use etc etc.
But that's what inspired the cartoon.
I know Dell is a global company. I know they've got big plans for China and India. That being said, I don't think one can overstate JUST HOW MUCH of Austin's culture is hard-wired into Dell's company DNA.
A big part of why so many people work for Dell is quite simply, it allows them to live in Austin.
And although Austin has doubled in size in the last decade or so, at its core it remains what it's always been- a pleasant, genial, small college & government town.
Austin is a fabulous place. People live there because they love it. The locals are very passionate about the city they call home.
After finishing college at UT Austin, Michael Dell could have set up his company anywhere he wanted. He could have easily have moved it back to Houston, where he grew up. Or maybe the West Coast. East Coast. Whatever. He chose not to.
Does Austin have a unique vibe, a sensibility, a set of values that can be exported globally? The way, say, Apple exports Californian culture globally, or Starbucks exports Seattle culture globally? I think it does. I think it can. And I think Dell's the right company for the job.
[NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO WORK AT DELL:] Remember where you're from. Austin, Texas. Love it. Cherish it. Never forget it. Rock on.
Too cool. Having spent 4 years at Dell and then having to leave Austin in conjunction with my choice to leave the company in early '06, I am the poster child for this post! While we feel pretty settled in DC now, I have come to realize that you never get over Austin. Ever.
Lionel Menchaca & Co are certainly making the Dell brand something that millions in ads never could – personal. And maybe a little weird too.
I like the weird/wired justaposition. I spent a week in Austin at a PPA conference a few years ago and had a fantastic time. The town has a definite unique vibe. I raved about it so much my daughter(recent college grad) is planning to move there next spring. Then I will have an excuse to visit there more often. Wahoo!
Brilliant, Hugh! See you next week, right here where we're keeping Austin weird.
That's a great challenge to lay down. Personal and provocative. Some people will say that their products won't ever be weird but they're missing the point. Austin weird is not the same as worldwide weird.
Like a lot of us in the area, I'm a huge fan of Austin. Besides that, I like your explanation behind it. I think you're onto something.
I'll share this with the the broader Dell team.
I've been reading your stuff for a while and never been compelled to comment until this genius post. It's got a "you can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can never take the trailer park out of the girl" flair to it. Does this describe how I feel about Dell? No. But as a student of urban geography – it speak leagues to the impact surroundings have on corporate culture. I wonder what kind of company Dell would be if they were from Toledo?
When deciding to go weird taxes are not a consideration. Sorry.
Interesting question. Interesting thought experiments along the same lines could really be a useful tool for companies to figure out their value statements. Far more interesting than the cr@p they frame and hang in their boardrooms.
Let's not forget that a lot of people who work at Dell live in Round Rock or beyond. A place where you see bumper stickers that read "Keep Round Rock Normal." I know people love the Austin connection, but let's not overstate it.
Dell's headquarters looks very corporate (security guards at the reception desks, cubes galore, buildings that all look alike, warnings about bringing weapons on campus) and not too unlike most of their PC-selling competitors to tell the truth. They hire a lot of MBAs from the nation's leading business schools, have highly-automated factories, hire Ph.D.'s to secure patents that hang on the walls, and are masters at negotiation with overseas and local suppliers to make possible their lean manufacturing model. They got into gaming by buying a company that sold edgy products. Dell doesn't create markets, they proudly commodotize them.
Don't get me wrong. It is a great company and I have lots of friends and colleages that have made excellent careers in and around Dell. However, there isn't much about Dell that is the funkiness that Austin is known for (in one person's opinion).
Hmmm …. I'm not too convinced.
If the coolest thing you can say about Dell is the reflected glory that they come from a cool city, I think the whole effort is in trouble.
Surely there are some *intrinsic* properties of Dell that I should care about? Since when has "weirdness" been it? Are they really gonna go head-to-head against Apple as the choice of the "Creative Class"?
This annoys me because it's too much like the old, fake, advertising : glamour and desirability stuck on the side, not baked into the product.
Phil Jones, yeah, you're talking about "Borrowed Interest", a term frequently used in advertising circles.
Though this is not really about that. I'm interested in DELL as a social entity, as much as a producer of products. To me, the social context is where everything begins. The product comes after the fact.
Still, I admit I was harsh. You had a right to snap. OTOH I'm proud to be a geek and care about the real products, not just the hype.
But go on. Convince me. I see how wine is social. I see how bespoke tailoring is a high-touch service compatible with blogging. I see how Microsoft used to be a world changing company and have aspirations to get their mojo back. But – except, after reading Howlett, maybe in the field of accounting – I don't see how weirdness turns up in Dell's social context.
Maybe there's a pent-up yearning there. For employees who live in Austin and don't like to feel they've sold out to a staid enterprisey corporation, this is a flag to rally around; a call for Dell to be the kind of radical, cool, interesting company they'd really like to work for. Obviously, I wish them and you luck. But I would also like to see the weirdness come out in products.
Yeah, I slept on it, and in the morning decided you deserved a more thoughtful answer. Funny how you interpret comments differently after a good night's sleep.
The thing about the "Keep Dell Weird" idea is, it's not an advertising campaign for the external world… a "message", as it were.
It's more of an idea for the people who work there to think about. Who they are, where they're from, and what they want to do with their lives.
Having spent a few years at Dell in Austin spanning the bubble bursting a handful of years back… I love this cartoon, hugh.
However I can't help but think that while a lot of the foot soldiers at Dell are Austin natives, there are many transplants who bring a different mindset to the firm. While Dell was growing boundlessly in the late nineties, they systematically recruited seasoned "professionals" and "managers" to stabilize what was feared to be on the verge of scaling chaotically. They wanted these West Point alums, these Motorola vets, these IBM management science wonks to establish order over what was a vibrant, kwan-like environment… not to mention back then, pre-PC-price wars, raking in cash for Dell while skewering its competition was easier and more palpably rewarding than it is today.
Like many post-boom companies… Dell is now being driven by folks more prone to 9 to 5 work days than years bygone… but thankfully they're love of Austin has kept them around. Perhaps they only gel with the weirdness after hours, and the lackluster corporate culture starves itself of 9-5 expression of local passion, reserving for purely leisure hours.
I also know that Austin faithful are wary of the gentrification that is occurring, the importation of East and West coast yuppification. I refer to this scar as 4th street culture. Austin's weirdness emanates from 6th street… from hill country… from the Salt Lick… do not abandon the old standbys as you embrace the esoteric. Hold on to it.
All that rambling as context and colour… I think what I am getting at is…Dell itself represents a modernitizing force on the city that inspired the Keep Austin Weird slogan. How does Dell stop being a perpetrator of the demise of weird, and help be a globalized gesticulation of it?
I am not sure slapping pretty colors on staid hardware will do the trick. I think they know this already too… it shall be interesting to see what emerges.


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Lobster Dinners Lead Investigators To OC Teen Who Beat Elderly Neighbor To Death
A teen who inserted himself into his neighbor's brutal murder became the prime suspect. Surf-and-turf dinners led detectives to him.
By Joe Dziemianowicz
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For Jane Thompson, a 72-year-old retired Hollywood set designer, the sun and safety of Laguna Niguel in Orange County, California made this upscale community an ideal place to live.
Tragically, it was also where she was brutally murdered. On June 27, 2004, Thompson was found bludgeoned to death by officials who responded to a 911 call by the victim's concerned friends.
"She sustained a massive trauma to the head and face and was lying on top of congealed dried blood," Brian Sutton, a retired investigator with the OC Sheriff's Department, told "The Real Murders of Orange County," airing Sundays at 7/6c and 8/7c on Oxygen.
There was blood spatter on walls and furniture, indicating Thompson, who'd stopped returning friends' calls on Friday, June 25, had been beaten repeatedly. The day of the discovery she appeared to have been dead "at least a couple of days," said an investigator.
Thompson's autopsy showed she suffered more than a dozen blows, suggesting a personal motive. There were no signs of a sexual attack, but signs pointed to rage. Detectives dug into Thompson's background to determine who had reason to kill an elderly woman with close friends and no apparent enemies.
Police learned there'd been two recent burglaries in Thompson's neighborhood. Could the thief have graduated to homicide?
They also discovered that Thompson's $100,000 life insurance policy named her longtime close friend and TV producer, Marian Rees, as the beneficiary. Investigators learn that the two women had quietly been in a committed relationship for years. Was money a motive?
"There might be parts of the country where $100,000 might get you killed but in Orange County, that's not the jackpot," said former Los Angeles Times journalist Geoff Boucher. "That's not going to get people killed."
Rees, who was devastated by Thompson's murder, had a solid alibi and was cleared as a person of interest. Police also considered that the women's relationship could have put a target on Thompson's back. No evidence of a hate crime turned up.
Detectives dug deeper into the nearby robberies and discovered Thompson had been robbed of jewelry, perfume, a credit card, and a flashlight. She didn't report the theft to the police, but she had called her credit card company about unusual activity on her Visa cards.
Investigators learned about this from a message left on Thompson's answering machine. Charges at local restaurants had been made two week before the murder.
The bill for several steak and lobster dinners at the Beach House in nearby Dana Point was $533, with a $100 tip. The tab at the Chart House was over $200. The signature on both bills was Sam Adler.
Detectives searched for a "Sam" in Thompson's orbit. They recalled a 15-year-old neighbor who'd made inquiries about the murder when they canvassed the area after the killing. His name: Sam Nelson. His back door faced Thompson's house. He could see her comings and goings.
By age 15 he'd already had scrapes with the law, including a bust for possession of a stolen vehicle. He was on probation for possession of stolen property and spent two months in juvenile hall.
At the Beach House restaurant, a manager picked Nelson out of the detectives' photo array.
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Investigators asked Nelson, now a prime suspect, if he would be willing to come to sheriff's headquarters in Santa Ana for an interview, and he agreed. Although it's unusual for a minor to be questioned without a parent present, detectives were fully within their right to talk to Nelson, according to "The Real Murders of Orange County."
When detectives asked Nelson about the credit card charges, he claimed that he stumbled upon the cards in a purse that had been tossed into a culvert near the victim's house. He used Thompson's cards to treat other kids to dinner to impress them, he told investigators. He then claimed he found the cards on a Tuesday, but the charges had been made days before that.
As the long interview continued, Nelson admitted that he'd broken into Thompson's home and stolen the credit cards and other items. He eventually owned up to the fact that he'd slipped into her house on three occasions.
Detectives pushed Nelson to get to the truth. They presented a slip of paper that supposedly showed his sweat on the victim's blouse. Why would his body fluid be on the victim, they asked. The teen began to get rattled.
Investigators eventually asked Nelson if it would be easier for him to write down what had happened. Nelson penned a chilling account of the murder.
"He admitted to going in there and killing Jane Thompson with a hammer," said Dan Salcedo, a retired investigator with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. "He said he did it because he needed money for a trip that he was planning."
"I went to her house to take some stuff," Nelson told police in a taped interview. "I really needed money for Colorado. I walked by her and she woke up. I freaked out and I hit her in the head several times."
Acting out the crime, Nelson detailed hitting about 10 more times with a hammer.
On June 30, investigators recovered items Nelson had stolen from Thompson's home from an area where he said he'd dumped them. Gloves and clothes Nelson had worn were also recovered. The clothing tested positive for traces of Thompson's DNA.
Nelson was arrested for Thompson's murder as well as neighborhood robberies. He and his lawyer opted for a court trial, not a jury trial.
In March 2008, four years after the vicious murder, Nelson was found guilty on all counts. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
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We've a mile and a half of Tour de Yorkshire route, let's make it look amazing!
The signs are up, the bikes and bunting are nearly ready - yes, the Tour de Yorkshire is coming through Elvington on Thursday May 2nd.
We know there will be road closures, and cars WILL NOT be allowed to be parked on the route, but apart from some of the inconvenience, it looks set to be a great day with the fun kicking off on the green around lunchtime and the caravan of cyclists and promo vehicles stopping in the village at 3.30 for around 20 minutes.
The road will be closed when the caravan stops, and will reopen for a short while after until cyclists will pass through around 4.45 - 5.15, with the roads fully open once the last bikes and accompanyiong vehicles pass through.
There's plenty going on in the village - there's kids fun, the Yorkshire Air Museum are kindly popping an aircraft on the green, the Rostic Rover pizzas, a pop up gin and cocktail bar, pop up cafe in the village hall, a charity bike ride outside the pub, and our giant big screen to keep up with all the action!
This (Easter) weekend we're asking everyone to get decorating the village, so if you want to decorate your front garden, or ev en whole house, or simply lend a hand, keep an eye out over the weekend and take a look at social media https://www.facebook.com/groups/1681014785529550/ https://www.facebook.com/elvingtonpc/ or request to join https://www.facebook.com/groups/572027353238436/
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Elvington is up for Best Dressed Village from the Tour de Yorkshire - vote now!
Elvington is up for an award for Best Dressed Village in the Tour de Yorkshire, but voting is only via Twitter, and only for one week!
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On Saturday May 11th and Sunday May 12th, Against the Odds will return to Yorkshire Air Museum.
The village of Elvington lies to the south east of York on the west bank of the River Derwent. As well as a thriving residential community, the village has a number of businesses and industries, a medical practice, a primary school and a church.
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9-11 Volume 2 was released to raise money for 9/11 support charities. It features 39 stories and even more art pieces relating to the destruction of New York's World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon. As well as completely original stories there are many that feature DC Comics and Wildstorm characters, including John Constantine.
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Join an incredible array of award-winning comic book writers and artists as they explore September 11th, 2001. Original stories and powerful illustrations, both heartwarming and heartwrenching in turn. Among the almost 200 contributors: New York Times bestselling fantasy author Neil Gaiman with his first new Endless story in two years, legendary sf novelist Michael Moorcock's autobiographical musings, Marvel Comics co-creator San Lee tells a lost Aesop's Fable, Will Eisner (whose name graces comics' equivalent of the Academy Award) searches for 'The Real Thing' and MAD Magazine's Sergio Aragones' tale of the man who had to push the button.
And Superman bemoans the fact that he's 'Unreal'.
'Exposed'
Back in London for the first time in ages, John Constantine meets up with Paul, a friend and voodoo practitioner turned insurance executive. Paul tells him about the day after the towers fell: his boss, Vivienne, called everyone into the office and announced that their business had been exposed to the financial fallout from the towers, but that they could minimise the damage by sticking tightly to the rules. Which meant demanding full documentation for every claim - including documents that were destroyed in the WTC collapses.
Constantine 's weltschmerz.
Paul objected but was overruled. John says that he should have let it go, but Paul says that this time had to be different - it couldn't just be another horrific event where everyone cries and moves on. A couple of days later he brought her a claim for a young boy who'd lost his legs after his step-mother took him to the WTC for a trip. Vivienne was unmoved until she found out that the step-mother was her estranged sister.
She immediately had a change of heart and declared that claims could be passed based on file copies rather than original documents. John compliments his detective work but Paul says that it was just a lie that he'd fabricated. Finishing his drink, Paul gets up and leaves. The barman asks John, 'Same again?' 'Well,' says John, 'that's the big question.'
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The FP Debate: Should the U.S. Abandon Pervez Musharraf?
Is it time to send Pervez Musharraf packing? Two top experts on South Asia, Daniel Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations and Husain Haqqani of Boston University, square off on the tottering Pakistani president's fate.
The United States should hold its nose and stick with Musharraf. He currently occupies a unique position in Pakistani politics and could still serve as an essential transitional figure during the next few weeks, months, and possibly even years.
In the immediate term, Musharraf offers Washington continuity in the face of uncertain political transition. He is a familiar face, a leader with whom the Bush administration has established a sustained working relationship. Under even the smoothest possible transition scenarios, Musharraf's departure would interrupt bilateral cooperation on military, counterterrorism, and intelligence matters for days or weeks—with uncertain consequences for U.S. security.
With a watchful eye, Washington should stand by Musharraf not for what he is—an unpopular military leader—and not for what he has been—an imperfect ally—but for what he might still be: a transitional figure who offers near-term continuity and medium-term potential for founding a new, more effective configuration of power and governance in Islamabad.
Daniel Markey is a senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the U.S. State Department's policy planning staff.
Washington has consistently overestimated Gen. Pervez Musharraf's value as an ally in the war on terror. Under Musharraf's military rule, terrorism in Pakistan has increased and terrorist safe havens have expanded. Billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Musharraf's authoritarian regime has done little to stem the tide of anti-Americanism sweeping this nuclear-armed Muslim nation of 160 million people.
After Musharraf's decision in early November to suspend Pakistan's constitution and impose martial law under the guise of emergency rule, even his limited utility as Washington's partner has dissipated. And now that Pakistan's military, police, and intelligence services are busy arresting Supreme Court judges, beating up protesting lawyers, and tracking opposition politicians, they certainly aren't able to focus their energies on flushing out terrorists.
By abandoning Pervez Musharraf, the United States could signal that it will not tolerate Pakistan becoming "Myanmar lite," a nation permanently dominated by its military. Once Washington makes it clear that it will no longer support Musharraf, Pakistan's military will have to start negotiating with the country's political parties and civil society instead of dictating to them. Only then will Pakistan be able to emerge as a normal country with predictable patterns of political change, which will make it easier to ensure the security of its nuclear weapons and to fight the terrorists who benefit from the country's present chaos. It is time for Musharraf to go and for civilian rule to return.
Husain Haqqani is a professor and director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, and author of Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005).


© The Ecological Society of America. Urban ecology has quickly become established as a central part of ecological thinking. As cities continue to grow in size and number, two questions serve to unify this broad and multidisciplinary research landscape: (1) how can urban ecology contribute to the science of ecology, and (2) how can urban ecology be applied to make cities more livable and sustainable? In spite of the advances made thus far, there are many unexplored ways of integrating the science and application of urban ecology. Although scientists assess and make predictions regarding the connections between environmental and socioeconomic processes, practitioners involved in real-world application deal with urban planning and with designing ecosystem services to improve living conditions for all urban inhabitants and to make cities more sustainable. Research in urban ecosystems can be developed from many different perspectives, and we suggest that each perspective has something to offer both society and the science of ecology. We present several research perspectives and describe how these can integrate conceptual and applied aspects to bridge the figurative gaps between trees, buildings, and people.


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JLG to Demonstrate LiftPod at BOMA 2011
McConnellsburg, Pa. (June 21, 2011) — JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company [NYSE:OSK], will exhibit its line of LiftPod® personal portable lifts at booth # 1427 during the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International Conference & The Every Building Show®, which will be held June 26–28, 2011, at the Gaylord National® Resort & Convention Center in Washington, DC.
The JLG LiftPod provides the stability of a work platform, and does not require an OSHA-regulated two-man operation. Instead, one worker can enter the platform and begin the job at once. The LiftPod helps building owners, property managers, and facility maintenance professionals improve fall protection for workers, which is the second most frequently cited standard by OSHA.
JLG will be displaying the new LiftPod FS60 and FS80 models. Because both models consist of just three lightweight components, each weighing about 50 pounds, they can be assembled and disassembled in less than 30 seconds. With an attachable work tray that holds up to 33 pounds of tools and materials, the LiftPod has a 330-pound rated capacity. Once disassembled, the LiftPod can fit in the back of a pick-up truck, van or SUV for extra convenience when moving between work sites. The LiftPod is powered by an 18-volt cordless drill or an optional Power Pack Kit for ease of elevation.
"JLG is dedicated to continually enhancing and promoting safe workplace practices. The LiftPod directly contributes to the overall safety of any building work site" said Randy Marzicola, JLG Industries director of channel development. "Because the LiftPod is lightweight and portable, it increases productivity. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of the LiftPod FS60 and FS80 models during this very important conference."
Workers using the LiftPod have complete, hands-free 360-degree range of motion in an enclosed carriage and a secure platform.
The FS60's 30-inch base makes for easy passage through doorways without having to disassemble. With a 12-foot working height and a 6-foot standing height, the FS60 has nonmarking rear caster wheels for enhanced mobility. The FS80 has a working height of 14 feet, and an 8-foot standing height.
The JLG booth will also feature a monitor that will play videos from LiftPod's YouTube channel. The videos showcase the aerial work platform in a variety of applications, including office buildings, healthcare, schools, hospitality, industrial and commercial facilities. Attendees will also have the opportunity to register for an onsite demo through JLG's LiftPod Demo Tour.
Building owners, property managers, facility managers, asset managers, leasing agents, brokers, developers, engineers and architects will attend the 2011 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International Conference & The Every Building Show® in Washington, D.C. on June 26–28. BOMA International is a federation of more than 100 local associations and affiliated organizations.
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This is an interesting time in the codec world, an inflection point where the power of an expensive standard is being challenged by a free, open source codec. And that open source codec will soon be supplanted by another free codec from an alliance of high-tech royalty with dominating positions in the codec, content, mobile, OTT, and CPU/GPU/SOC camps.
The expensive standard is HEVC (H.265), for which known annual royalties could exceed $60 million, with many IP owners not yet part of a pool.
The free codec is Google's VP9, which, as of April 2015, had already streamed over 25 billion hours of YouTube content. While VP9 originally seemed destined for the same obscurity suffered by its older sibling, VP8, recent support from bigwigs like Netflix, JW Player, Brightcove, Telestream, and Amazon show an upturn in overall market acceptance and deployment.
The alliance-based codec is AV1, the first codec created by the Alliance for Open Media, with a scheduled ship date of Q1 2017. The Alliance is promising an improvement of 50 percent over VP9 and HEVC with "reasonable increases" in encoding and playback complexity. Since AV1 is largely built on Google's VP10, which was pretty far along before the alliance formed, there's a good chance that AV1 could ship on time and on target.
The Alliance's membership assures that AV1 will enjoy prompt deployment once available. Members Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla ensure fast integration into Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, while members Amazon, Google, and Netflix should start distributing AV1-encoded content soon after playback is widely available. Members AMD, ARM, Intel, and NVIDIA should offer support in their CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, and other hardware components, which Google and Microsoft should rapidly deploy on their mobile platforms, and Amazon and Google quickly integrate in their OTT devices.
The outcome won't be binary. HEVC will dominate traditional broadcast markets, at least in the short term, while VP9 and AV1 will win the browser wars. But the broadcast market largely exists to feed living room TVs, which are now smarter and increasingly less connected to traditional broadcast channels. In April 2015, Netflix's Reed Hastings proclaimed, "Linear TV has been on an amazing 50-year run. Internet TV is starting to grow. Clearly over the next 20 years internet TV is going to replace linear TV." You can't call Hastings neutral on this issue, but you also can't find many people who disagree with him.
What happens to broadcast standards when the broadcast model wanes, and the streaming that used to be the tail of the distribution ecosystem becomes the dog? We're about to find out.
To find out, we spoke with David Ronca, Netflix's director of encoding technologies, who describes Netflix's efforts with VP9. Netflix is a charter member of the Alliance and VP9 is the technological precursor to AV1. Netflix's experience is a good reality check as to where VP9 stands from a performance, usability, and deployability perspective.
Streaming Media: When did you start using VP9?
Ronca: Our VP9 effort is currently in development. We are not yet streaming VP9.
Streaming Media: Why did you start looking at VP9?
Ronca: At the low end, VP9 provides efficiency advantages over AVC for VP9-capable mobile devices. At the high-end (4K, 10-bit) VP9 offers an alternative to HEVC.
Streaming Media: How are you packaging VP9?
Ronca: We are using fragmented 14496-12 streams that follow the draft VP9 MPEG specification written by Kilroy Hughes and David Ronca.
Streaming Media: Any issues with DRM?
Ronca: For fragmented MP4, Common Encryption (ISO 23001-7) works well.
Streaming Media: Where are you distributing VP9-encoded files? Assume compatible browsers, what about Android or compatible OTT?
Ronca: The primary VP9 targets will be mobile/cellular and 4K.
Streaming Media: What's the data rate savings compared to H.264 and HEVC?
Ronca: We are hesitant to make broad statements with respect to codec efficiency without providing the supporting data. That said, we are seeing very good results with VP9 vs. x264.Our current data suggests that VP9 is less efficient than HEVC, but still very good. We are currently conducting codec comparisons, and will publish our results around the end of summer.
Streaming Media: How does encoding time compare to H.264 and HEVC?
Streaming Media: What encoding technique are you using? For example, JW Player will be using capped CRF, and obviously single and two-pass CBR and VBR are available.
Ronca: We are exploring all of the opportunities that libvpx provides and have not yet settled on a recipe.
Also, Netflix has inked an agreement with CW to provide full series streaming for its shows after the finales air. it's good for Netflix, but bad for Hulu.
When viewing a program, people who have streamed a full-length show in the last six months far prefer streaming their content to watching live TV.


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Two High Court Verdicts On Affirmative Action
By Mark Walsh — June 23, 2002 1 min read
A divided U.S. Supreme Court sent two messages on affirmative action this morning: It struck down the University of Michigan's method of using race in undergraduate admissions, but upheld the Michigan law school's differing admissions approach. While the court's 6-3 majority in the undergraduate case agreed with the university's position that racial and ethnic diversity is a worthy educational goal, it said the point system used to weigh undergraduate applications amounted to a quota system. The vote upholding the law school's more subjective use of race in admissions was 5-4.
More Education Week coverage—and links to the decisions—will follow on the Web later today and in the next print edition, dated July 9.
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The Austin Neighborhoods Council (ANC) is Austin's only comprehensive representative of the City's neighborhood associations. More than 40 years old, ANC consists of over 80 member neighborhood associations representing hundreds of thousands individual residents all across Austin.
Whether you have lived in Austin a short time or have been here for decades, you know that Austin continues to be a thriving and dynamic city that is growing in size and complexity. If you are a leader in your local community or would like to help shape and influence your community, consider joining the Austin Neighborhoods Council (ANC). Being an informed community member can be challenging, and even overwhelming; one way to be better informed and to participate in neighborhood issues is to become a member of the ANC.
Founded in 1973, the ANC serves as an umbrella organization that supports neighborhood interests. The ANC provides an important neighborhood forum where information about a variety of topics is shared. ANC is a valuable resource for neighborhoods that is not available elsewhere. ANC is a great place to learn, meet new people, solve problems, and "network." ANC's motto is "strength in numbers."
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Experience and Expertise: The ANC membership includes a wide array of professions and diverse backgrounds. Many members are subject matter experts in various fields, or have become very knowledgeable on specific issues. They can be used as resources to a "short cut" for an informed opinion or how to initiate a process. Sometimes the most valuable information is knowing who to call to get started on an issue.
Network of Contacts within City and County Government: City Council members and key department heads look to the ANC when they seek neighborhood involvement. Our membership is quite active and visible at public hearings and planning processes where input is solicited. Both sides value this positive rapport and "personal connection" that can be used to make introductions to new ANC members and community leaders.
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Legioenzegels zijn Nederlandse postzegels en Belgische niet-officiële zegels (cinderella's) uitgegeven tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in verband met de strijd aan het oostfront.

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In Nederland werden in 1942 legioen(post)zegels in vellen en in blokken (Legioenblok) uitgegeven met toeslag "ten bate van het voorzieningsfonds van het Nederlandsch Legioen 1942". De zegels en blokken waren ontworpen door de NSB'er W.J.H. Nijs (1902-1961), nadat een paar bekende postzegelontwerpers nee hadden gezegd. De rode zegel van 7½ cent had een toeslag van 2½ cent, de blauwe zegel van 12½ cent een toeslag van maar liefst 87½ cent. De blokken met zegels van 7½ cent bevatten tien zegels en werden verkocht voor f 1,–, de blokken met zegels van 12½ cent bevatten vier zegels en werden verkocht voor f 4,–. De zegels kwamen uit op 1 november 1942.

De zegels werden vooral door sympathisanten van de Duitse bezetter gekocht. Brieven gefrankeerd met deze zegels zijn zeldzaam, vooral met de zegel van 12½ cent. Een groot deel van de oplaag is verkocht op de tentoonstelling 'Herlevend Nederland', over de geschiedenis van de NSB, in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam op 18, 19 en 20 december 1942. Daar was een tijdelijk postkantoor gevestigd, waar de zegels en blokken voorzien konden worden van een speciaal stempel.

Van de zegel van 7½ cent werden 1.088.134 exemplaren verkocht, een opbrengst van de bijslag van 27.203,35 gulden, en van de 12½ cent 527.532 exemplaren, dus een bijslag van 461.590,50 gulden. Van het blok van 7½ cent werden 131.424 stuks verkocht, bijslag 32.856,– gulden, en van het blok van 12½ cent 121.211 stuks, bijslag 424.238,50 gulden. De totale opbrengst van de toeslag was dus 945.888,35 gulden.

België
In België werden legioenzegels uitgegeven in 1941 (Vlaams Legioen), in 1942 (Waals Legioen/Légion Wallonie) en in 1943 (opdruk op de zegels Vlaams legioen). Deze zegels waren gedrukt in velletjes van vier zegels. De Vlaams legioenzegels vermelden de tekst: "veldpost / vrijwilligers / legioen Vlaanderen / voor onze jongens aan het Oostfront".

Literatuur
 Gert Holstege en Jan Vellekoop, Achtergronden van de Nederlandse postzegelproduktie tijdens de Duitse bezetting in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Philatelistenclub 'Rotterdam', 1990, blz. 73-84.

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Trumpet was spoiled rotten for Christmas, and this box just added on to that.
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Yappy Howlidays Treats (6.99) - These were far too hard for Trumpet, he was not a fan and actually wasn't even interested in trying them. I passed them to my mom for her bigger dog (that will eat literally anything that doesn't eat him first).
Gingerbread Man Toy ($9.99) - Surprisingly, this is STILL alive. He still loves this gingerbread man, it's the perfect size for him to carry around and designed well enough to throw and play fetch with (even though he doesn't quite understand the letting go part of fetch). I really just loved everything about this toy!
Candy Cane Collar ($7.99) - Unfortunately, no matter how much I love candy cane/peppermint scented stuff, I didn't put this on Trumpet. He has been dealing with some skin allergies, particularly on his neck/chest, and we've been managing that. I was afraid to put this on him, just because I didn't want to exacerbate the issue.
Candy Cane Toy ($8.99) - Another toy that lasted quite a bit longer than I ever would have imagined. He actually just pulled the squeaker out of this toy the other day (probably because he was mad that I took a different toy away that he had made a mess with). He is a magician and can pull out a squeaker without leaving a bit hole in the toy so he's still playing with this and carrying it around.
Somehow not pictured individually: Pawprint Ornament ($7.99) - After reading horror stories of dogs eating these off of Christmas trees, I did pass on using this. It's a very cute idea but I would prefer to do something with clay that wouldn't be as attractive to dogs.
The box value for December was $41.95, well over the cost of the box. It was a very cute box, perfect for the Christmas season, and the toys were just precious.
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