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Angels sign Huston Street to 2-year, $18 million extension
The deal will keep Street under Angels' control through the 2018 season.
By Chris Cotillo@ChrisCotillo May 13, 2015, 6:07pm EDT
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The Angels have signed closer Huston Street to a two-year contract extension that includes a club option for 2018, according to a team announcement. According to reports from Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times and Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com, the deal will pay Street $18 million over the next two seasons, with the option being valued at $10 million. Overall, Street's new deal can pay him up to $27 million over the next three years.
Street, 31, was slated to become a free agent after this season and has been negotiating with the Angels about a new deal since during spring training. Despite negotiating without an agent for the first part of the process, he re-hired his old agent, Alan Hendricks, to handle contract talks during the season and was able to accomplish a deal that will keep him under Angels' control through 2018.
Street has been very good for the Angels since being acquired from the Padres in a deadline deal last season, posting a 2.25 ERA while saving 28 games in 42 appearances during that span. He has been one of the best closers in baseball since breaking into the bigs back in 2005 with the Athletics, notching 286 saves in eleven years with the A's (2005-2008). Rockies (2009-2011), Padres (2012-2014) and Angels (2014-2015).
At first glance, today's extension seems to be a great move for the Angels, who secure long-term stability at the back-end of their bullpen for the near future at a low price. With Street teamed with young arms Joe Smith and Mike Morin at the back of the team's bullpen, the Angels have both proven big-league success and cost certainty in hand for years to come.
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"The emperor has no clothes!" That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up.There is much in common between Andersen's emperor and President Obama; both have no real interest in governing, both refuse to accept criticism, and both care more about appearance and posture rather than accountability and results. Obama has refined the nature of governing one step further in part by putting all of his efforts into propping up his approval rating forfeiting his sworn obligation to "do the right thing."
The yellow brick road to understanding Obama is paved with narcissistic denial based on a self-induced blindness that staunchly refuses to accept responsibility and comprehend the impending failure unfolding before our very eyes. It seems that no one around the emperor or President Obama is willing to speak up, even when he has made the most outlandish and strategic mistakes. Everyone is afraid of being charged of disloyalty. After all, despite the emperor's clothes revealing only bareness, and Obama's Presidency having no tangible successes after 4 years of governing, it is not politically correct to suggest that there is actually nothing there.
For many it is somewhat depressing to look back and remember what soaring hopes America had only four years ago. Yet in Obama's re-nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, he told us that America's problems were tougher to solve than he had originally thought. And that's why he has kindly agreed to give us more time. Obama's willingness to stick around for four more years and give "us" more time to turn things around is very much like the emperor of yore, Obama continues to parade around in his magical clothes, isolated from reality by like minded advisers and shielded from criticism by a weak and acquiescent media. Our "mom-in chief", really opened up our eyes when she so movingly explained to us that "being president doesn't change who you are - it reveals who you are." I couldn't agree more with mom. However, the past four years of the Obama Presidency has not shown Obama to be the man she so adamantly describes in her speech. Instead, the Obama Presidency has revealed Obama to be a divisive, insincere, and a political leader not to be trusted with America's future.
Unfortunately not many in the national media are going to point out that the President is naked, metaphorically speaking. Obama's promise to create 5 million green energy jobs seems in retrospect to be a delusional claim; his pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term exposes his basic ignorance of budget management. Sadly, the President is naked but no one in the national media is willing to neither point that out nor admit that he is unfit for office and that things are just not working.
Getting back to Andersen's tale, on the day of the Great Procession, Andersen's emperor marches through the streets under a royal canopy, haughty and proud of his superior taste in attire, assured that he is fit to continue governing and wearing absolutely nothing. Once again, every observer fears that he may be unfit or stupid, so no one dares to say a word. Not until a small child sees the emperor in the buff and points it out. "But he has nothing on at all!" cries the child. At first everyone balks, not wanting to admit the evidence of his own senses. "But he has nothing on at all!" cries the child again, unwilling to be silenced. So, finally, everyone looks with his own eyes, and soon everyone realizes that it is true. Despite all his talk of "smart" governance, this arrogant and foolish leader really understood nothing of how to govern. He has spent enormous sums of taxpayer money that came to nothing, and now, quite literally, he has nothing to show for it.
On a more personal note, as the son of parents who spent most of their adult lives owning and operating a small candy store on 170th Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx working 18 hour days, Obama's remark telling small-business owners: "You didn't build that." Real credit for your success belongs not to you — you think you did well because of your smarts and sweat?" he asked mockingly — "but to government that built the infrastructure without which you would have nothing", is an insult to the tenacity and sacrifice of generations of small entrepreneurs, making the American dream a reality.
Is this the type of governing philosophy that we want for America? Is this what we want for the next four years? Obama, "has no clothes", he is a leader empty of any meaningful ideas worth implementing, devoid of any real experience in creating or sustaining an economic recovery for America.

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If you're in the market for a new home or just quietly considering taking the big leap onto the property ladder, you're no doubt saving to get your deposit together.
Parkside, a stylish new development of three and four bedroom houses situated in Dublin 13, is being launched on Thursday, 24th September, and with prices starting from €299,000 it is just too good of an opportunity to miss out on.
Located in a superbly landscaped setting beside Father Collins Park, just off the Malahide Road, this new development features beautiful A-rated family homes. And with a number of shops and parks within walking distance, you'll need to be quick to nab one of these gorgeous red brick houses.
If you are trying to save for a deposit, the following ten tips will help you put even more money aside.
The next time you're in a dressing room trying to decide whether or not you should buy that top, remember the Rule of Three.
Do you already have at least three items you can wear it with? Will you definitely wear it three times or more within the next three weeks/months? If the answer is yes to those questions, then it won't be a waste of money. Otherwise just put it back.
Websites like Irish Opinions pay people to fill in surveys relevant to their interests. You might get €1.50 - €3 per survey, but it quickly adds up.
You can withdraw the total amount anytime you wish. It won't be paid in cash but rather in the form of a voucher for a shop such as Boots.
If you are serious about saving, then sites such as jumbletown.ie, freetradeireland.ie and freebiesireland.com are a godsend as you can pick up useful items for free!
Coupons can save you a lot more than you realise. Ever heard of Jordan Cox? He's the British teenager who made headlines when he paid just 4p for £600 worth of groceries in Tesco. The coupons he collected covered the rest of the bill!
Sell off your unwanted clothes on Depop. This is a free-to-join app where you can buy and sell clothes, shoes and accessories.
To improve your chances of making a sale, take bright clear photographs of the items, provide plenty of details and be realistic with your prices.
If you have a decent spare room in your apartment or house, then why not consider renting it out to tourists on Airbnb?
Take a look over your bills and see which ones you can renegotiate. Car and home insurance are two areas where you should haggle for the best deal possible.
Supermarket own-brands cost a fraction of the price and some of them taste the very same as their famous cousins, if not better.
Develop a habit of emptying all your loose change into a money jar each evening and let it build up over the course of a year. Throw in a few notes when you can.
Depending on how well you stick to the routine, you could end up with anything from a few hundred euro to a few thousand. Either way, it's a nice addition to the deposit fund.
People are always shocked when they add up how much they spend on things such as magazines and coffee over the course of a year.
If you are really dedicated to saving for a deposit, then forgoing your daily coffee won't feel so bad.


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Teach myself HTML & CSS.
A place to post about all things audio related.
To that end, this site *may* have some "up's and down's" as I progress with building things out.
If things don't seem to be working correctly, I am probably working on back-end stuff or experimenting.


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Cherry Blossom Report: Tokyo
Sean's Japan Travel Journal
by Sean, staff writer of japan-guide.com
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2013/03/21 - Cherry Blossom Report: Tokyo
For those who don't already know, the cherry blossoms at Tokyo have been making news recently for a record-setting start to the season. The official recorded date is March 16, ten days faster than the average year and spectacularly two weeks earlier than last year. Comparisons can be made between this Tokyo report and our reports at similar timings in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The reason for the quick start this year was a significantly warmer than average first few weeks of March, especially in the Kanto Region. With conducive temperatures forecast to continue over the next couple of days, the cherry trees of Tokyo are expected to reach full bloom over the weekend. This might have thrown some travellers off their travel plans; for those looking for Plan B, please check out this page for alternatives.
Elsewhere in the Kansai Region, temperatures had also risen suddenly in March after a cold winter but changes had been less dramatic. Thus, the start to the cherry blossom season here is expected to be early but not quite as much as in the Kanto Region. Cherry blossoms in Osaka opened today, and the ones in Kyoto are expected to start blooming on March 25. The recent situation can be seen on Scott's report yesterday.
Further south at Kyushu, the season has also started much faster than in the average year. Scott will be in the area to report about the cherry blossoms there over the next few days. Over at the northern end in Hokkaido and the Tohoku regions, temperatures hadn't varied that much from the average year, and therefore it is likely that we would see a relatively typical season.
Ueno Park
March 21, 2013 - approaching full bloom (50-80%)
Those that are coming to Ueno Park this weekend for hanami (cherry blossom watching) parties are in for a good time. Today, the trees were around the halfway mark. Many of the lower branches were already pretty full-looking while many buds on the higher branches seemed like they needed only another day or two of warm weather before they start unfolding. As tomorrow and Saturday is forecast to be warm, peak season is expected to arrive at the park this weekend.
Ueno Park in the morning
Nice blossoms
Early blooming variety Okanzakura were starting to shed petals
Some blossoms around the park's Shinobazu Pond
Sumida Park
March 21, 2013 - opening (10-50%)
The cherry trees at Sumida Park were at a less advanced stage than those at Ueno Park. Only about a quarter of the blossoms were in bloom for most trees, although some of them were more anxious to show off their pretty petals than the others. Visitors this weekend should be able to see some nice views here, although peak might arrive a day later than at Ueno Park.
Sumida Park, Sumida River and the Tokyo Skytree
Full-looking buds
Koishikawa Korakuen
March 21, 2013 - opening (10-50%) (Somei Yoshino)
March 21, 2013 - petals starting to fall (Weeping Cherries)
I was very surprised to see that the main weeping cherry tree close to the entrance at Koishikawa Korakuen had already passed its peak. Although weeping cherry blossoms generally bloom earlier than the mainstream variety of Somei Yoshino, I was expecting to see the tree at full bloom yet. The strong winds last night might have shortened the lifespan of its fragile flowers.
Interestingly, of the two other weeping cherry trees that were less than 50 meters away, one was in full bloom and the other was just starting to shed petals. The late blooming yaebeni weeping cherry tree which stood beside the main tree had only its first flowers open. The Somei Yoshino cherry blossoms were still about three days ahead of their peak, which means visitors to the garden can expect pleasant views for a week from now and possibly beyond.
Branches of the main weeping cherry tree (foreground), weeping cherry tree at full bloom (background)
Close up of some Somei Yoshino blossoms
March 21, 2013 - full bloom (Early blooming varieties)
Shinjuku Gyoen is a great cherry blossom spot because its spacious grounds is home to a wide variety of cherry trees. The range of cherry trees from early to late flowering ones prolongs the season here, and consequently visitors tend not to be disappointed.
Today I found several early blooming varieties at the park at their peak, while the Somei Yoshino, the most numerous cherry trees, were about at the quarter mark. However, many of the buds were full-looking and I wouldn't be surprised if peak is reached over the weekend as well.
Picnic-goers at Shinjuku Gyoen
Typical state of the blossoms at Shinjuku Gyoen
Early blooming cherry blossom varieties attracting lots of attention
Beautiful Edo Higan tree in full bloom
List of Posts:
2014/05/09 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hakodate
2014/05/08 - Cherry Blossom Report: Matsumae
2014/04/23 - Cherry Blossom Report: Fujigoko
2014/04/17 - Cherry Blossom Report: Takato
2014/04/11 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kyoto
2014/04/10 - Cherry Blossom Report: Yoshino
2014/04/09 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hikone
2014/04/05 - Cherry Blossom Report: Matsuyama
2014/04/03 - Cherry Blossom Report: Fukuoka
2014/04/02 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kumamoto
2014/03/06 - Shopping around Northern Osaka
2014/01/23 - Nikko in Winter
2013/12/31 - Sean's Travel Highlights 2013
2013/12/06 - Kamakura Report
2013/11/26 - Tokyo Report
2013/11/22 - Kyoto Report
2013/11/21 - Miyajima Report
2013/11/19 - Korankei Report
2013/11/11 - Sakurayama Report
2013/11/08 - Karuizawa Report
2013/10/29 - Nikko Report
2013/10/18 - Nasu Report
2013/10/14 - Mount Fuji Report
2013/10/10 - Oze Report
2013/09/27 - Alpine Route Report
2013/09/13 - Nakanojo Biennale 2013
2013/08/07 - Exploring Tokyo 2: Around the Tokyo Imperial Palace
2013/05/20 - Tottori Sand Museum 2013
2013/05/07 - Fuji Shibazakura Festival
2013/05/02 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hirosaki
2013/05/01 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kakunodate
2013/04/30 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kitakami
2013/04/23 - Northern Kanto Flower Report
2013/04/17 - Cherry Blossom Report: Takayama
2013/04/12 - Cherry Blossom Report: Matsumoto
2013/04/10 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kanazawa
2013/04/04 - Cherry Blossom Report: Gunma
2013/04/02 - Cherry Blossom Report: Osaka
2013/03/31 - Visiting Shodoshima for the Setouchi Triennale 2013
2013/03/26 - Cherry Blossom Report: Nagoya
2013/03/12 - Tokyo Early Cherry Blossom Report
2013/02/17 - Tokamachi Snow Festival
2013/02/16 - Zao Snow Monster Report
2013/02/15 - Yokote Kamakura Festival
2013/01/10 - Winter Visit to Manza Onsen
2013/01/02 - Tokyo New Year Report
2012/12/11 - Autumn Color Report: Tokyo
2012/11/26 - Autumn Color Report: Kyoto
2012/11/19 - Autumn Color Report: Takaosan
2012/11/15 - Autumn Color Report: Shosenkyo
2012/11/07 - Autumn Color Report: Yamadera
2012/11/06 - Autumn Color Report: Naruko
2012/11/05 - Autumn Color Report: Hiraizumi
2012/11/01 - Autumn Color Report: Kuju
2012/10/26 - Autumn Color Report: Minakami
2012/10/24 - Autumn Color Report: Nikko
2012/10/16 - Autumn Color Report: Norikura
2012/10/12 - Autumn Color Report: Oze
2012/10/05 - Autumn Color Report: Route 292
2012/09/28 - Autumn Color Report: Kurodake
2012/09/27 - Autumn Color Report: Kogen Onsen
2012/09/26 - Autumn Color Report: Asahidake
2012/09/17 - Exploring Tokyo: Gate Bridge
2012/08/20 - Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2012
2012/06/27 - Hiking at Mount Azuma
2012/06/18 - Legoland Discovery Center opens in Odaiba
2012/06/18 - Hydrangea Flowers in Kamakura
2012/06/04 - Tokyo Skytree
2012/05/09 - Cherry Blossom Report: Sapporo
2012/04/28 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hiraizumi
2012/04/25 - Cherry Blossom Report: Sendai
2012/04/24 - Cherry Blossom Report: Fukushima
2012/04/10 - Cherry Blossom Report: Hiroshima
2012/04/02 - Cherry Blossom Report: Kagoshima
2012/03/08 - Plum Blossom Report from Kairakuen, Mito
2012/03/07 - Trip to Iwaki, Fukushima
2012/02/21 - Plum Blossom Report from Tokyo
2012/01/30 - Skiing in Inawashiro, Fukushima
2012/01/27 - Kusatsu Hot Springs


18th Annual Ann Liguori Foundation Charity Golf Classic Glistened at Friar's Head & Was Huge Success!
(Westhampton, NY – May 26, 2016) – The 2016 Ann Liguori Foundation Charity Golf Classic held at Friar's Head on the East End of Long Island, this past Monday, May 23rd, was the most successful event yet in its 18-year run.
Under glorious sunshine and clear skies, the Ben Crenshaw-Bill Coore design glistened and hosted the sold-out charity tournament for the third straight year.
The annual outing benefits a number of organizations that work in the field of cancer prevention and research including the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, cancer research grants and Kids Need More, a camp for children with cancer and their siblings in August on Shelter Island.
Enthusiastic golfers gathered in the morning for a huge buffet breakfast in the breath-taking clubhouse which is situated on the bluffs of Baiting Hollow, overlooking the Long Island Sound. After warming up on the club's sprawling practice facility, they were off to enjoy a picture-perfect day on a picture-perfect course. Gene Michael of the NY Yankees and TV/Radio/Film personality Bo Dietl joined in the fun.
Ann Liguori, Golf Correspondent for CBS Sports Radio Network and WFAN, author and host of 'Sports Innerview with Ann Liguori' radio and cable series, has hosted and organized the charity golf tournament every year in The Hamptons since 1998. Eight years ago, Ann founded the Ann Liguori Foundation, which supports a variety of local, regional and national not-for-profit organizations each year.
Each year, the Foundation recognizes an individual who excels in both the business world and the philanthropic arena. This year's honoree was Robert Catalano, President of Total Fire Protection, and the Founder of The Kids for Kids Foundation, which has raised nearly 6.7 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
This year's sponsors included Maui Jim Sunglasses, Platinum Maintenance, TaylorMade Adidas and Tharanco Lifestyles/Greg Norman Collection.
Nine teams won prizes for low gross and low net scores. Sandy Schoenbach of New Jersey had a hole-in- one on number 17!
Winners picked prizes from a selection of premium items donated by companies in the golf industry including Biion Golf Shoes, COOLA Suncare, Joann Dost's 'The Ultimate Round' Pebble Beach Golf Links, OGIO Golf Bags, RMS Golf Gloves, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Swing Lube, , Tour Edge Golf, VK Sport and Worth New York.
Auction items included golf trips to Ireland, donated by North and West Coast Links; Casa de Campo Resort & Villas, Dominican Republic; PGA National Resort & Spa, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; Royal Isabela, Puerto Rico; Elbow Beach Resort & golf at Port Royal and Tuckers Point, Bermuda; table for eight at RAOS donated by Bo Dietl; opportunities to play Shinnecock, Sebonack, The Bridge, Winged Foot, tickets to HAMILTON, trip to Bali and more.
The evening program included Tournament Co-Chair, Len Gallo, urging the men in the audience to check themselves for lumps and get tested for testicular cancer. Melissa Firmes, the Founder of KIDS NEED MORE, shared her inspirational story. Firmes organizes camps for young people with cancer and raises money to support those in need. The Long-Island based Firmes is battling leukemia herself and despite her own life-threatening struggle, continues to devote her time and efforts to KIDS NEED MORE.
The charity golf classic has been played in the Hamptons every year since 1998 on such noted courses on the East End as Westhampton Country Club, Hampton Hills, Maidstone Golf Club, Sebonack Golf Club, The Bridge and Friar's Head.
Thank you to everyone who came out on Monday, May 18, 2015 to the 17th Annual Ann Liguori Foundation Charity Golf Classic at Friar's Head, Baiting Hollow, NY. The event was a huge success and we couldn't have done it without all of you!
Click here for event program.


The Complete Rolling Stones Albums collection. Fans are allowed to post their albums comments.
Shine a Light is the ninth concert album to be released by the Rolling Stones.
The album used a stripped-down style reminiscent of Some Girls, but with a harder, more contemporary edge.
James Brown, Al Green, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Sly & The Family Stone, The Beach Boys etc. Everyone is on here.
A unique 4-CD collection of classic interviews with The Rolling Stones, spanning the whole of the band's turbulent existence from the early 1960's to the present day.
This is the seventh live Stones album and the second to appear in three years.
It's no use comparing Stones albums to Exile on Main St. anymore; the world's greatest rock & roll band clearly substitutes finances for passion these days.
Often viewed as the band's last great album, Tattoo You contributed one true classic, "Start Me Up," to the Stones' canon.
1977's Love You Live lands near the top of the list of the Stones' half-dozen live albums; especially for the brief set of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf stuff recorded at Toronto's El Mocambo (while Keith Richards was waiting out the legal hassles of a heroin bust five days earlier).
From the swaggering frustration in the first song ("I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping," Mick Jagger sings in the hyper "Rocks Off"), the Stones speed through familiar neighborhoods of country, blues, and R&B on Exile.
"Sister Morphine," the heart of guitarist Mick Taylor's first full studio album with the Stones, doesn't get the airplay of "Brown Sugar" or "Wild Horses."
Introduced at the beginning of their second live album as "the greatest rock & roll band in the world," the Stones come off instead as perhaps the world's sloppiest.
One of the Stones' most beloved albums, 1969's Let It Bleed was a benchmark for several reasons.
This second greatest hits collection serves up the band's classic mid- '60s period, capped off by the death of Brian Jones for whom this collection is dedicated.
Opening with "Sympathy for the Devil," the Stones' infamous we-are-evil poem, this all-original 1968 album began a quality streak almost unmatched in rock & roll.
The Stones began their transitional period, from reinvigorating R&B standards (on their early albums) to reinventing rock & roll (on the brilliant four-album streak beginning with Beggars Banquet), on this underrated 1967 collection.
Clearly their answer to Sgt. Pepper, or at least "All You Need is Love," Satanic Majesties is actually as sloppy an artifact as Flowers.
So the Stones take off a few months to write, get arrested, the usual, and their U.S. label tosses together the 1967 version of December's Children, complete with tackily precious "psychedelic" artwork.
For this 1966 album, one Stone asserted himself even more than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who for the first time wrote all the album's songs.
The covers on this 1965 gem are a bit more obscure than on the Stones' first two long-players, not a bad thing for a band still getting its writing chops together (if admirably; "Heart of Stone" and "Surprise, Surprise" are particularly strong).
Before this 1965 blues-rock masterpiece, the Stones were the best of the many British bands living out their Muddy Waters dress-up fantasies.
The best of the Stones' first three albums of hopped-up R&B, 12 x 5 hints at why there was more to this quintet than to blues-reviving brothers like the Yardbirds and the Animals.
The Stones got their groove on early, making one of the few originals here, the blues pastiche "Little by Little," a standout in terms of cool-eyed intensity.
The first in a series of three box-set collections, 1963-1965 pulls together the US and UK singles and EPs from the onset of the legendary band's recording career.


One of my favourite stamp manufacturers is "Darkroom Door". They are Australian owned and they use quality rubber to make their stamps. I find the Darkroom Door stamps are great to use as they give you a lovely, clear image every time. I think my most used Darkroom Door stamps are the background stamps. They are sized so you can stamp a background for a card in one go but my favourite way to use them is for creating texture on scrapbooking pages and mixed media projects.
I created a border for this page using the new chicken wire background stamp.
To use the background stamp to make a border like this simply hold the stamp so it makes a "u", roll the curved part of the stamp on a stamp pad then roll it onto the edge of your page starting off the edge and rolling onto the edge as shown in the photo.
And here is the page with the completed border.
I have also used this rolling technique to add the white splatters to this canvas with the Darkroom Door splatter stamp and paint.
*If using paint on your stamps apply it with a foam brush so there is an even layer and clean the stamp straight away or the paint will dry and you won't be able to remove it.
I hope this inspires you to get out your background stamps.


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Evert Taube, är en staty i brons av Eino Hanski upprest 1996 på Jussi Björlings plats intill Operan i Göteborg. Den föreställer Evert Taube i naturlig storlek blickande västerut.

På bronsplattan kan man läsa:

"Evert Taube född 12/3 1890, Stora Badhusgatan 7, Göteborg. Statyn i skala 1/1 (168 cm hög) utförd av Eino Hanski. Rest den 10/8 1996 av Västanvind, Astri & Evert Taubes vänner."

Statyn finansierades genom bidrag från Länsstyrelsen i Göteborg, företag och privatpersoner samt medlemmar i föreningen Västanvind, och avtäcktes den 10 augusti 1996 av kommunstyrelsens ordförande Göran Johansson. Medverkade gjorde även Everts syskon Barbro Undset och Gösta Taube.

Varje år på trubadurens födelsedag den 12 mars hyllas han här på sin plats med blommor, sång och musik.

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Has anyone else received this notification ?
Wow, just MY Jeep ??
Ironically, I was just at the dealer a couple days before and specifically asked them to check for any TSB's or recalls. They said "Nope".
Just checked ours and there are no recalls showing for ours either. Best of luck getting this resolved quickly!!
I checked Alldata at work last week, nothing showing up on the module. Less than one page of TSB's TOTAL for the Renegade. Ford Fusions have pages, and pages, and pages of TSB's. LOL!
You can check for any recalls affecting your vehicle by visiting https://www.mopar.com/en-us/my-vehicle/recalls.html. If there is an open recall, you can click on the recall number to open a PDF with details on the recall, service info, the recall assistance number, etc. If you have any questions, just PM us!
Thanks for the heads up, Jennifer.
The web site shows the same recall that my Jeep phone app shows, almost verbatim. Even the "repair parts not available" statement. I did fill out the notification option so I can be advised when parts will be available.


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InSoundtrack Musicians RuPaul soundtracks, songs and movies
RuPaul was born in 1960 in San Diego, California, USA. RuPaul married Georges LeBar in 2017. Also known as Glamazon, Supermodel of the World, The World's Most Famous Drag Queen. RuPaul played in 76 movies.
RuPaul songs featured in 1 movies: But I'm a Cheerleader
Songs and soundtracks
RuPaul's songs and soundtracks
Party Train RuPaul
Similar to RuPaul - Snapshot
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But I'm a Cheerleader Soundtrack
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The intercooler tubes are constructed of 2.5" mandrel bent aluminum tubing for maximum flow then powder-coated textured-red for heat and corrosion resistance. The smooth bends and larger diameter tubing allow for low turbulence, increasing horsepower, torque and lowering EGT's.
*This system is not CARB exempt at this time and is not legal for sale in California or use on vehicles registered with the California Department of Motor Vehicles..


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Squire & Smith Bio's
Charlie and Tom first met in March 2016 after Charlie placed an advert looking for a guitarist in the music shop that Tom works at. They instantly hit it off and discovered that they both share a love of lots of similar music, and that they both studied at the same University in London. Since then they have moulded their own style and really enjoy making songs their own. They have gigged all around Essex at Wedding Parties, Pubs, Festivals, Restaurants and House Parties and are really looking forward to the summer.
Hi, I'm Charlie
Charlie has been singing for as long as she can remember. She was classically trained at the age of 12 and continued studying singing and music up until the age of 22 when she obtained a BMus Degree in Popular Music Performance at Vocal Tech in London.
When Charlie was 25 she was lucky enough to land her dream job, which allowed her to do the 2 things she loved the best… singing and travelling. She was flown to Egypt and Crete where she worked as one half of the 'Resident duo' in TUI's Sensatori 5* hotels. Here she performed 6 days a week 2 or 3 times a day for many months and had the time of her life.
Since then she has performed and Recorded in many different Bands and Duo's in and around the London and Essex area. She also enjoys writing lyrics, songwriting and collaborating with other artists.
Charlie's musical influences include Musical theatre, Alanis Morrisette, Skunk Anansie, Eva Cassidy, Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin. She also has a massive love of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Blues brothers, Queen, Muse, Kings of Leon and Guns n Roses.
Hi, I'm Tom
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W. Graham Scroggie, in "Sunday School Times," Col. 1:15-17, – God the Father is eternally hidden and unknowable, – Col. 1:15, Ex. 33:20, Matt. 11:27, John 1:18; 6:46. I Tim. 1:17; 6:15, 16, – No man by searching can find out God. Direct and immediate knowledge of Him is impossible. He is the "invisible" and, therefore, the unknowable God.
If Christ be not God He cannot be either Creator or Redeemer. Christ is not merely like God, but is God, and therefore pre-existent and uncreated, absolute in His eternity. – Phil. 2:6. Christ is the originator of all things. "In him were all things created." – Col. 1:16, 17. All things were created by Christ and for Him. Christ is the controller of all things. "In him all things consist." Christ is as certainly at work in nature and in history as in His church. Back of both is the divine Thinker, the infinite Wisdom, the almighty Power, who is the Son of God and our Redeemer, in Whom all things have their center of unity, who appoints to everything its place, who determines the relation of things to one another, and who combines all into an ordered whole so that this universe is a cosmos and not a chaos.
Christ is the perfecter of all things. Not only is He the Origin, and the Head, but also the Goal of the whole universe; the creative Cause, the continuous Cause, and the consummating Cause of all things. The world advances towards the fulfilment of its destiny in God through Christ. The time is sure when all things shall be summed up in Him. – Eph. 1:10.
By Christ the Father's purpose passes into actuality and attains its end. He who is the Agent of creation is also its Aim, the Starting-point is also the Goal, the Alpha is also the Omega, the First is also the Last; that which proceeded from Christ and is sustained by Him also converges toward Him. The Creator and Redeemer is the Perfecter of all things. We should ever endeavor to see in one view the eternal Christ, and the historical Christ, the Creator and the Redeemer, not two persons but one. – Edinburg, Scotland.
Rev. C. H. Pridgeon has written: "The word "person" is inadequate when referring to the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Augustine, Calvin, and others express their regret at having to use so imperfect and misleading a word; but it was the best known word they had or we have. The words "subsistence" or "hypostasis," are more accurate, but are too little understood. There are three such subsistences or hypostases in the Godhead and the Three make One. There is but one tree, not three. God the Father is the root, the Hidden God: God the Son is the part of the tree above the ground, He is the Manifest God: and the Holy Spirit is the Life that flows from one into the other and then outward. Again, God the Father may be compared to a great Love-Fire, which eternally begets the Son, who is the Light: and the Holy Spirit is the heat and chemical rays that proceed from both.
"In man desire generates images and thoughts. In God such generations are eternal realities. In His Deity the Son of God is uncreated: in His humanity He was created.
"Some one has said that we should read the Bible only from one standpoint, to know the Lord Jesus Christ; and if one studies the Bible for any other purpose he will not understand it. The Bible begins with Jesus ( Gen. 3:15), and ends with Him. In fact it is a revelation of Jesus Christ. The revelation of "God in Christ" – II Cor. 5:19. Christ is not only the central figure of the Bible, but the "First and the Last." – Rev. 1:8; 22:13, Isa. 41:4; 43:10.
The fact is the Emperor Constantine only submitted to christian baptism on his death bed. He was afraid of forfeiting salvation before this, on account of his sins, which he had no desire to relinquish.
Some one has reflected as follows on this subject: "Why did not the saints in the second and third centuries cling to the great names of their Lord (in the Word), and find in Him all the mysteries connected with the Godhead? But instead of doing this some began to preach from the philosophy of Rome, Egypt, and Babylon, by which they tried to explain the Godhead.50 Hence Sabellianism, Arianism, and Athanasianism, the outcome of which was, and is today, a furious battle among God's people. Oh that we would endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, and at once throw all these isms into the garbage can, clinging to the prophetic and apostolic teaching, magnifying the Father in the person and name of the Son, by the power and the love of the Holy Spirit, seeing and preaching the fullness of the Godhead in the Lord Jesus Christ, according to the Scripture." And I say, Amen ! ! !
The following beautiful poem, author unknown, we give in prose, to economize space: "Our Lord Jesus Christ." – "Thou art Alpha and Omega, Living Word, of men the Light. Son of God, the Well Beloved, Source of Heaven's great delight. Everlasting Father, Dayspring, Smitten Rock, Foundation Sure. Thou art laid elect and precious, as the Cornerstone secure.
"Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Israel's Sceptre rising strong. Branch of David, Root of Jesse, Great Messiah promised long. Son of Man, Jehovah's Servant, Glory of the Chosen Race. Faithful Witness, Prophet, Shepherd, Thou host Thy law enlarged through Grace.
"Man of Sorrows, Galilean, Nazarene, despised, oppressed. Bread of Life, with body broken, open Door to peace and rest. O Immanuel, the Holy, God, indeed, with us Thou art. Jesus, Savior, great Redeemer, Bleeding Lamb with broken heart.
"First Born from the dead, we hail thee, Resurrection and the Life. Heir of all things, Thou hast conquered, through the grim and awful strife. Thou the Church's Head, all glorious, art the Lord our Righteousness. Wonderful, we laud, adore Thee, Mighty God, thy name we bless.
Rev. A. C. Dixon, D. D.: "A child shall be born, a son shall be given, and he shall be called the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." – ( Isa. 9:6.) The birth Jesus was therefore the incarnation of Deity. When we think of God we are apt to think of Him in human form. God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form.
"Jesus was the Son of Man; not a Son of Man. The blood of the whole race was in His veins. There51 is a universality in the character of Christ which you find in no other man. There is nothing of nationality in Him. There is nothing peculiar to any particular age of the world in Him. His was a heart pulsating with the blood of the human race.
"Jesus taught that He was God. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." – John 14:9John 14:9, "He that seeth me seeth Him that sent me." – John 12:45. His mission was to manifest God in His own person. "God was manifest in the flesh." – I Tim. 3:16. Jesus taught the impossibility of knowing God the Father except through Himself. "No man knoweth the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him" – Matt. 11:27. He claims identity of divine nature with the Father. "I and my (the) Father are one." – John 10:30. He calmly claims attributes which none but God can possess. He declares that He is eternal. "Before Abraham was, I am." – John 8:58. He claims to be omnipresent as to place and time. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" – Matt. 18:20. "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." – Matt. 28:20.
"Jesus taught that He was God, and John crowns Him Creator of the universe. – John 1:3. "This is the true God (Christ) and eternal life." – I John 5:20. Paul's Christ "who is over all God blessed forever," ( Rom. 9:5), is the true Christ. Jesus Christ was either deceived, madman, a bad man, or God. He was either God or the worst of men. We have just seen that He claimed the attributes of Deity. "Why callest thou me good, there is none good, but one, that is God." – Mark 10:17, 18. To say that I am good is equal to saying that I am God. All admit that He is good; and if good, He is God. Christ was more than man, and as I see Him standing out distinct from and above all others, I cannot resist the impulse to fall at His feet and say with Thomas, "My Lord and my God." – A. C. Dixon.
Neander: "The God who dwells in a light inaccessible into which the human spirit cannot penetrate must descend to humanity, bringing Himself into the limits of Man's own finiteness in order to be truly known by him. Not until the incarnate manifestation of Deity through Christ, could the God afar off draw near mankind. For the first time, through this image of the Divine in human nature, was the idea of God enabled to enter in a vital and substantial way, into the thought and consciousness of the human race.
Zachary Eddy, D. D.: Let us not think of Christ as a man created by divine power, and then taken into intimate union with God – not as God and man morally – but as GOD-MAN, the true holy of holies wherein God personally dwells, and will dwell henceforth, even forever. There is the Well-Spring of life for a dead world; there is the light of men, the Son of truth and wisdom; there, is the image of the invisible God, and the brightness of His glory; there, is the Lord God our Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the Savior. Yes, we adore Thee, Son of the Virgin, Son of God. Seeing Thee we see the Father. We worship Thee, in whom God is become man and man is taken into God.
Dr. Wm. L. Pettingill, Pres't of Phila. Bible School: "All53 christians will one day be fundamentalists. That day will be when we get to heaven. Only those who believe in Christ as God, in His virgin birth, and in his resurrection – an irreducible minimum of christian faith – will go to heaven. Those who deny this will be lost and go to hell." This would surely be a bad line-up for Pentecostal people.
Dr. Campbell Morgan says: "When Jesus told the young ruler there was "none good but one – God," He meant to declare that He Himself was God. – Matt. 19:17.
Rev. Elijah Hedding, in a Sermon preached before the Annual Meth. Conf., at Bath, Maine, in 1822, made the following statements, with a host of ample Scripture reference to prove his assertions. We have only room for the statements. " John 1:1, 2, – Of the word it is here affirmed He is God. Jesus Christ is the Supreme God. Father and Son are one and the same Being. Christ is the true God, and Eternal Life. Christ is God over all. Jesus Christ is the Lord God of the holy Prophets. Jesus is Jehovah. Christ is the One Eternal Supreme Being. Christ is the Immutable Being. Christ Omniscient Being. Christ is the Omnipresent Being. Christ is the Almighty Being. Christ is the proper Object of worship. Christ is the Creator of all things. God and the Word are the same Being." This was the belief and teaching of Early Methodism.
L. T. Townsend: "If John believed that Jesus Christ was united to Deity, in such manner as to be God's real Personality, he could have expressed himself in no other way so briefly, so directly, so clearly and so well as to say, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." – John 1:1. Rev. 3:1; 15:3; 17:4.
"It must be clear to all that Jesus Christ, in John's Christology is the God whose glory Isaiah saw in the vision, when it47 filled the temple and shook its foundations – Isa. 6:1-5, John 12:41. He is Alpha and Omega. – Rev. 22:13. The true God. – I John 5:20.
Jesus in the Scriptures is called God, or by a name implying it, no less than 15 times. Seventy-seven times He is called Lord; ten times are the same things spoken of Him as God; and 52 times He is presented as an object of worship. 15 as possessing eternal life; in 17 as Judge of the world; in 20 as the bestower of rewards; and in 24 as the executor of the punishment of the wicked.
"The Incarnation is called "the mystery of godliness." As the Cherubim bent in reverent perplexity over the Ark of the Covenant, so do we devoutly ponder this fundamental truth. The angels desire to look into it. – I Peter 1:12.
Adam Clarke, on I Cor. 15:27, 28: "He is excepted," i.e., the Father; who hath put all things under him, the Son. This observation seems to be introduced by the apostle to show, that he does not mean that the Divine Nature shall be subject to the human nature. Christ, as Messiah, and Mediator between God and Man, must be considered inferior to the Father; and his human nature, however dignified in consequence of its union with the Divine Nature, must be inferior to God. The whole of this verse should be read in a parenthesis.
"The Son also himself shall be subject." Then the administration of the kingdom of grace is finally closed; when there shall be no longer any state of probation; and consequently no longer need a distinction between the kingdom of grace, and the kingdom of glory; then the Son, as being man, shall cease to exercise any distinct dominion; and God be all in all; there remaining no longer any distinction in the persons of the glorious Trinity, as acting any distinct or separate parts in either the kingdom of grace, or the kingdom of glory;55 and so the one infinite essence shall appear undivided and eternal." – Clarke.
"The Redeemed Hebrew": "Does not Dr. Isaac Lesser translate Isa. 9:6, as follows, "Counsellor of the Mighty God, of the Everlasting Father," etc.? Lesser renders it so, but he had an object in so doing. It was his intention to distinctly obliterate the most powerful pre-designation of the coming Messiah. In the first place, Lesser does not believe in the Messiah, and in the second place, it was his wish that no one should apply this passage to a Messiah in whom he himself did not believe. The Yiddish translation, and all English, Greek, and other translations give it that the Messiah was to be "The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father," etc. Dr. Torrey, in a sermon on "The Deity of Christ," at The Bible Institute, Los Angeles, some years ago, condemned this translation of Dr. Lesser's on Isa. 9:6.
Another well known preacher, at one time head of the Christian Missionary Alliance has recently called attention to the fact that Jehovah, the "I Am," the Logos, the Lord Jesus Christ, was the past, present and future of' God. Hence all of God. He was the form God took to reveal Himself to man, so we could know Him. This preacher expressed his conviction that this Jehovah-Jesus is the only God we will ever see.
What a contrast are these expressions to that of a recent teacher in our midst who writes as follows: "Our Christianity has become a Jesus religion, and it is no wonder that strange and fantastic creeds have grown out of It." He declares we are all orphans because of this fact. Possibly forgetting that Jesus Himself said, "I will not leave you "orphans"; I will come unto you." – John 14:18. "He that hath seen me hath47 seen the Father." – John 14:7-9. "I and the Father are one." – John 10:30. Some have foolishly asked the question, "Is Jesus then his own Father?", thinking thus to dispose of these sublime declarations. The whole trouble with our treatment of this subject is the fact that we have tried to reduce the Godhead to human analogy, reasoning humanly of the nature of the Deity of Christ and the relationship of the Godhead.
Millions of the devoted dupes of Rome hail "the man of sin" as "our Lord God the Pope." Should christians refuse equal homage to our Lord Jesus Christ? The Antichrist will soon set himself forth in the temple "as God." – I John 5:20. Antichrist is "against Christ." It is Christ or Antichrist. Which one shall be God? If Christ, then follow Him. One or the other must be God.
Too many christians, like Philip, are still looking for the Father apart from Christ. They are still begging to be shown the Father. "Doest thou not know me, Philip? "He that hath see me hath seen the Father." – John 14:9. When the Father gave His Son He gave Himself also. We have no Father apart from Jesus. Tradition would have us running up and down stairs in the Ark, trying to find God. But Jesus is the Ark. We are safe in Him. Though there are three stories, there was only one Ark. "That we might know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and eternal life." – I John 5:20. Dr. Torrey, with most capable Bible students, applies this Scripture to Jesus. Jesus is the very unoriginated God. – John 1:1; 20:28, Acts 20:28, Rom. 9:5, Col. 2:9, Phil 2:6, I Tim. 3:16, Titus 2:10, Heb. 1:8.
"Unto a dispensation of the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ." – Eph. 1:10. "Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and not after Christ, for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in Him." – Col. 2:8-10. All we can know of the Sun is what reaches our earth. So all we can know of God is what is revealed to us, or reaches us, through and in Jesus Christ.
"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him (Christ)." – Eph. 1:17. "Searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them (the prophets) did point unto." – I Peter 1:11. "That they may know the mystery of God, Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden." – Col. 2:2, 3. "To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." – II Cor. 4:6.


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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – A group of Saudi women have turned up at a voter registration office in a rare public protest against the male-only electoral system, one of the activists told AFP early Sunday.
"We want to make our voices heard," Nayla Attar, a businesswoman among a small group of activists, told AFP after making a symbolic attempt Saturday to register for upcoming local elections in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
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Women in Saudi Arabia are also banned from driving and cannot travel without being authorised by a male guardian. When in public, they have to cover from head to toe.
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Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. , a global consumer products company offering a broad portfolio of leading brands and focused on driving innovation and providing exceptional customer service, announced today it will release its fiscal 2019 second quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2019 before the markets open on Wednesday, May 8.
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ugh, another man's card to make, this time for my Grandad. I always struggle making mens' cards. This time I used an anchor image by Oak Pond Creations as he likes boats (sort of relevant) and went for papers by My Minds Eye. I also used a PL journaling card and used wood veneer stars to finish off.
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India's Enterprise Mobility Market (excluding devices) currently stands at USD 244 million. Over the last three years, enterprise mobility in India has seen exponential growth, and this trend is likely to continue for the next five years. We expect the country to have more than 100 million active mobile Internet users in the next five years. And we will see 40 percent year-over-year growth during the next five years, amounting to a billion-dollar potential over the five-year period.
Add to this a combination of demand-side trends, and it's clear that there is no looking back. As more and more employees get exposed to next-generation technologies and devices, the enterprises are beginning to follow suit.
Industries leading the way in applying mobility services include banking, manufacturing, retail, hospitality and healthcare. Upcoming adopters like automotive, logistics and consumer goods companies are increasingly using mobile supply chain systems to streamline inventory management, replenish stock, track demand, and manage shelf space and storage in an optimal manner.
It is also encouraging to see how the start-up ecosystem is evolving. Of the 750 digital start-ups in India, around 23.6 percent are in the mobility space, indicating a healthy entrepreneurial trend in this segment. Many tech companies such as RIM, Qualcomm, etc. are looking to provide seed funding and venture capital to start-ups working in the mobility space in India.
The Zinnov study found out that increased adoption of the majority of mobile platforms is a key motivation factor for start-ups. As platform adoptability improves along with network penetration and connectivity, more business functions like ERP, CRM, SCM, sales force automation, unified communication and billing are coming under the enterprise mobility ambit. This is coupled with maturing organizations that are trying to mobilize departments like HR, retail, customer service, finance and field service.
India already has an 840 million mobile phone subscriber base with 15 percent smartphone penetration. The tablet PC market in India sells about 1 lakh tablets per annum. OEMs are experiencing a tablet revolution. Almost all OEMs are coming up with innovative tablet offerings to tap the fast-growing market (e.g. Apple, BlackBerry, Samsung, Motorola, Acer, HCL, Beetel, G'Five, Huawei, etc.). All these facts point to a good device penetration that is further fueling the growth of enterprise mobility.
Networks and connectivity are also growing quickly and will continue expanding over the next five years.
As enterprise mobility moves from being a concept to reality, a variety of innovative use cases are simultaneously emerging. Companies are now looking at enterprise mobility for functions like ERP, CRM, SCM, sales force automation, unified communication and billing – moving beyond traditional email and social networking uses.
As enterprise mobility matures among organizations, departments like HR, retail, customer service, finance and field service will look to mobilize in the next 24 months. This is over and above the early adopters like marketing, sales, IT, and corporate management.
While mobility has a significant cost advantage from a business perspective, another noteworthy fact is the cost optimization within the enterprise mobility ecosystem, which acts as a double bonanza for the industry.
However, we note a reason for caution. The Zinnov study revealed that, while the market is looking up, there are some key challenges that the industry needs to overcome to ensure that the enterprise mobility growth story remains intact.
Today, the average salary per employee in India is relatively low, and it is difficult for enterprises to give devices more than the salary of the individuals. Hence adoption is restrained to only the senior level.
Also, as Indian customers are found to be very demanding, the user expectation is to get everything delivered on the phone.
And last but not the least, successful India case studies are not being preached in the market.
However, sustained initiatives and innovation by all the stakeholders in the ecosystem including hardware vendors, independent service providers, value added re-sellers, system integrators, wireless carriers and middleware players can ensure that the above challenges are easily met.
They are only going to gain from the fact that network and connectivity will significantly improve in India over the next five years.
'The Enterprise Mobility Study – Indian Market Analysis" talks about India's rapidly growing enterprise mobility market and how it is likely to change the innovation landscape over the next five years. It highlights interesting case studies, market trends and challenges. Click here to access the study.
Praveen Bhadada is Director – Global Consulting at Zinnov Management Consulting. Anurag Verma is a consultant at Zinnov and has worked with technology companies on syndicated studies and papers on topics such as IP capacity landscape in India, sectoral growth of Indian businesses, China R&D landscape, etc. He has also been a key resource working on syndicated studies for industry bodies such as NASSCOM and India Brand Equity Foundation.
Founded in 2002, Zinnov – meaning Zeal in Innovation – is a leading management consulting company providing advisory services in the area of global sourcing, emerging markets expansion and human capital optimization to Fortune 1000 and reputed SMB companies. Zinnov works collectively with clients to provide solutions that help in integrating organizational vision, business definition and processes.


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The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala
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The family tree of flowering plants
The diversity of living things can be represented as a family tree. In the Botanical Garden we have created a planting to show this. Modern classification and naming of plants is based on our knowledge of their relationships. Come and discover the exciting diversity of plants!
The first flowering plants
The origin of all flowering plants lies about 150 million years ago when the first flower evolved. The first flowering plants also had seeds enclosed in a fruit, something that all flowering plants inherited and that is one of the special features that distinguishes them from other kinds of plants. In our planting this shared inheritance is represented symbolically by a mosaic at the base of the family tree of flowering plants.
The systematic beds
Most botanic gardens have systematic beds, where the plants are organised according to how they are related. Increased knowledge about the evolutionary history of the flowering plants has necessitated changes in the plantings. In the middle of the 1990s the Botanical Garden's systematic beds underwent a complete restructuring. However, during the years that followed it became clear that new discoveries in plant systematics, based on comparisons of their DNA, would necessitate another complete revision. In the autumn and winter of 2011/2012 the current family tree of flowering plants was laid out.
The new planting
The new systematic plantings are in the form of a stylized tree, with the flower beds forming the leaves and the paths, the trunk and branches. The plants growing in each "leaf" are more closely related to each other than to the plants in other "leaves". The branching pattern of the "tree" shows how the different plant groups ("leaves") are related to each other. The flowering plant lineage has branched again and again over time, giving rise to nearly 400 000 species living today. Of course we cannot show all that diversity, so we have selected almost 300 plants to represent the most important groups. All of these plant lineages can ultimately be traced back to the common ancestor of flowering plants, 150 million years ago.
Some evolutionary events
Moving up the tree along the trunk we soon encounter a mosaic representing a pollen grain with three pores, the type of pollen found in around two-thirds of all flowering plants. These plants belong to a group called the eudicotyledons, which all share a common ancestor. Beside the branch to the right that leads to the Caryophyllales is a mosaic depicting the chemical formula of the pigment molecule betalain, which arose in the common ancestor of these plants. The betalains are red-coloured pigments, such as that found in beetroot. The branch to the left leads to the large plant group known as asterids, which comprises a third of all flowering plants and half of all eudicots. Asterids are characterised by flowers with fused petals, forming a tube or trumpet.
Similarity suggests relatedness – but not always
The classification is not based on isolated key characters but rather on a hypothesis of evolutionary relationships (substantially based on DNA comparisons). Closely related plants often resemble each other, but plant groups that have secondarily lost a characteristic can still belong within a larger group where that characteristic is typically present. For example, the selleri group (Apiaceae) has free petals even though it belongs within the asterids which typically have fused petals, and the carnation group (Carophyllaceae) lack betalain pigments even though they belong within the Caryophyllales which usually have them.
Mats Lindegren designed the family tree bed. The shape of the tree and leaves is modelled on a lime (linden), honouring Carl Linnaeus whose surname (devised by Carl's father) derives from "lind", Swedish for lime tree. In the 18th century, Linnaeus was the first botanist to propose a natural classification for the plant kingdom: ORDINES NATURALIS.
The four mosaics illustrating different characteristics that have arisen during the evolution of plants were created by the artist Liv Saetre Valeri.
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Book review: The Fall of the House of Credit, by Alistair Milne
The logic of Milne's microeconomic explanation for the banking crisis is compelling; his conclusions less so.
by John Kay.
Last Updated: 25 Oct 2010
There are already more books about the credit crunch than solvent banks, ranging from racy descriptions of how bond salesmen plied their trade in German brothels to clunking accounts of the intricacies of risk-management models and debt-based securities. This book is at the heavy end of the spectrum, as the credentials of the author suggest. Milne, an economist, has worked on the supervision of financial institutions at the Treasury and Bank of England, and is now reader in banking and finance at Cass Business School.
If you want a serious, clear and authoritative guide to the crisis, this book is as good as it gets. Milne writes extremely well, both in his prose style and in his clarity of exposition of complex issues, and his book shows no signs of the speed with which it was written. The author not only knows his CDO from his ABS but can ensure that you will too. He moves comfortably between macroeconomic issues of global imbalance and the microeconomics of securitisation, regulation and risk management within the financial system.
Milne describes two broad explanations for the crisis. The mainstream view starts with the macro-economics. Asia ran a big trade surplus, matched by corresponding deficits in the West - primarily in the UK and the US. Trade surpluses were matched by capital inflows into the debtor countries. These inflows not only financed excessive consumption but fuelled asset-price bubbles, especially in the housing market. The bubbles burst, leaving banks that acted as intermediaries in the process with large losses from excessively risky lending. They responded with indiscriminate withdrawal from both good and bad lending, plunging not only debtor but creditor countries into recession.
Milne prefers an alternative explanation, focusing on the microeconomics. What happened inside banks is key. He examines the creation of tranched mortgage-backed securities (MBSs).
In tranching, business risk is divided into more and less safe components, with compensating differences in expected return. The idea is as old as the business loan.
In Milne's illustrative example of an MBS, a single pool of mortgages was divided into 12 tranches of escalating riskiness. Banks engaged on a massive scale in a trade in which they funded senior tranches of securitised products with short-term borrowings, benefiting from an interest margin that they believed made the instruments low-risk. When, after the sub-prime crisis, confidence in the value of securitised products evaporated, banks couldn't refinance their borrowings and the system imploded.
For those who emphasise the macroeconomics, the remedies are macroeconomic too. You must address the risky lending and its consequences for both over-indebted households and over-lent banks.
For those emphasising the microeconomics, the remedies are principally microeconomic. Milne stresses that much of the difficulty banks encounter lies not with toxic assets - the riskiest layer of securitised products - but with slightly tainted ones, the senior tranches, which they hold in large quantities. For him, the fundamental problem is not that such assets are impaired but that panicky investors no longer trust them. He advocates large-scale insurance by government of senior asset tranches. Then the banks will start lending again.
I'm not sure the options are so distinct. Unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances made unpleasant global adjustments inevitable, while the microeconomic foolishness of banks made a financial crisis inevitable. In 2007-08, these weaknesses coincided to created that perfect storm. And are more senior tranches of asset-backed securities sound but seriously undervalued? I don't know, and nor does Milne or anyone else - which is why the market in them is so thin.
Milne wants to believe that matters are fundamentally okay because, like others, he desperately wants to keep the show on the road. But the general rule of the market economy is that failed firms with failed business models are left to fail. That process of failure and rebirth gives a market economy its dynamism and promotes the kinds of innovation that offer consumers new products and services.
The major banks in Britain today were the major banks in Britain at the end of the 19th century. No other industry shows that stability. We gave banks a deal in which relative freedom from product market competition was tolerated in return for economic stability. The banks reneged on that deal, and we should tell them it is off. We should break up banks and establish smaller institutions in a more competitive market.
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It has also claimed the title of the most successful new video game franchise launch of all time, and said Destiny is the highest-selling day one digital console release in history. Sounds like a lot of people bought the game through the Xbox Store and the PlayStation Store.
By comparison, earlier this year Ubisoft said Watch Dogs was the best-selling new IP in video game history with four million copies sold in the first week on the market.
"Based on extraordinary audience demand, retail and first party orders worldwide have exceeded $500 million for Destiny," Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick said.
"This industry milestone marks another blockbuster success for our company and demonstrates our unique ability to create some of the most successful entertainment franchises in the world. The success of Destiny, along with the recent introduction of Blizzard Entertainment's Hearthstone, is further validation of our unique capabilities to create great entertainment franchises from the ground up."
Destiny launched for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 at over 11,000 midnight openings around the world. It is the first step in a decade-long deal for Bungie and Activision, who plan to release multiple games in the franchise over the next 10 years.
"Since the beginning, we've been confident that our investment and belief in Destiny would pay off. But not many people believed we'd be able to say it did so on day one," said Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg.
"Destiny is officially the biggest new franchise launch in our industry's history. It's also the highest-selling day one digital console release in history. We have more confidence than ever that Destiny will become one of the iconic franchises of this generation and Activision's next billion dollar brand.
"Most importantly, it's just a great game which we can't stop playing. A big thanks to our incredibly talented team and partners who helped make this happen; most importantly, our partners at Bungie."


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Watch the trailer for the Netflix series The Boss Baby: Back in Business from DreamWorks Animation. With a little help from his brother and accomplice, Tim, Boss Baby tries to balance family life with his job at Baby Corp headquarters.
Premiere Date: April 6, 2018
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Sequel
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The Boss Baby is back in business and trying to balance family life with Baby Corp work with a little help from his brother and accomplice, Tim. New Dreamworks Animation series launching April 6, only on Netflix.
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We've had two issues come up in the MOOC in last few days that I think are worth discussing here, as they're both related to the issue of relying — or not — on other people's resources.
First: For some of the Unit 2 homework questions, I had pointed to students to a metadata record from Europeana, and asked questions like "What's the name of the property in such-and-such property-value pair,"etc. Well, about 3 days after that homework was released to the students, the Europeana site went down, as best as I can tell for about 24 hours. Needless to say, more than a few students then got an error message when they tried to view that metadata record. Some students realized that this was a problem with Europeana, but some seemed to think that it was a problem with Coursera or the link we had provided. Now, it doesn't take a big stretch to imagine that we may have crashed Europeana's servers. I don't know how many students would have hit that one record all at the same time, and I'd like to believe that Europeana's infrastructure is more robust than that… but it is quite a coincidence.
So, Lesson Learned #1: Don't direct thousands of students to a website outside of your control if you can possibly avoid it. Instead, a screenshot might just possibly have been a better solution.
So what we did instead was write short-answer questions that took regular expressions as their response. This is a very cool feature of the Coursera quiz functionality: they have a special category of short-answer questions for which you can specify regexps as the answer. Now, I cut my teeth on Unix, back in my misspent youth, and I'm just a big enough geek that I love regular expressions. So I thought this would be a great solution to the problem of lacking a DC validator. And, if I say so myself, my regexps were good. The problem was, I believe, simply that that the questions were harder than I thought they were. So quite a few students were unable to get the correct answers to these questions, which led to a lengthy and angry thread on the discussion forums. I'm still convinced that having the students write markup is the way to go for those homework questions. But I realize now that without a validator, writing markup was probably a profoundly bad idea, in a course geared for beginners.
So, Lesson Learned #2: If you don't have the right tools available, and you can't to develop them yourself, don't try to be clever. A simpler fallback position is a better option than something more complicated.


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Theresa May Survives a Critical Brexit Vote
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a critical vote in Parliament on Tuesday that could have delayed Brexit, undermining her strategy for leaving the European Union and undercutting the country's constitutional protocol.
Mrs. May's latest political escape came when lawmakers failed, by a 321 to 298 vote, to approve an amendment giving Parliament the power to instruct her to seek a delay to avoid a disorderly, and possibly chaotic, exit that Britain faces on March 29 if there is no agreement.
The stakes were high not just for the Brexit process but for the future of Britain's democracy under its unwritten constitution, under which the government initiates legislation and Parliament amends it and votes on it.
Mrs. May had scathing words for the amendment, put forward by lawmakers Yvette Cooper and Nick Boles, which she said seeks "to create and exploit mechanisms that allow Parliament to usurp the proper role of the executive."
In her speech to Parliament before the vote, Mrs. May warned that "such actions would be unprecedented, and have far-reaching and long-term consequences for the way the United Kingdom is governed."
As the vote approached, Mrs. May appealed to rebel lawmakers to hold their fire, promising them another chance to vote against a no-deal exit in February.
While Mrs. May survived to fight another day, her options are narrowing, and she faces an ever harder task in trying to reverse Parliament's landslide rejection of her Brexit plan earlier this month.
In effect, she is back where she started before the amendment process. Her only card remains that, even if Parliament thoroughly dislikes her Brexit plan, Britain's politicians remain divided and paralyzed over the alternatives.
After almost two years of negotiations over Brexit, Britain faces its biggest political crisis in decades, with Parliament plainly opposed to Prime Minister Theresa May's plans but apparently unable to find consensus on an alternative approach.CreditDan Kitwood/Getty Images
Mrs. May, who has turned survival into a political art form, promised hard-line Brexit supporters in her own party that she could rework a carefully crafted, 585-page legal text, negotiated for almost two years, that European Union negotiators say cannot be reopened.
Until recently she herself insisted that it would be impossible to renegotiate this withdrawal agreement. Mrs. May argued on Tuesday that, while challenging, it could be done.
If European leaders stick to their word, Mrs. May is likely to have to settle for less fundamental, and more cosmetic, changes to her Brexit plan that went down to a seismic 230-vote defeat in Parliament earlier this month.
Mrs. May's main hope remains that a Parliament that cannot agree on any other course will ultimately opt to support a modestly altered version of her deal for fear of a disastrous no deal Brexit. Critics think she is in reality trying to run down the clock to present them with two bad options: her plan or no deal.
Protests for and against Brexit near the Parliament building in London.CreditMatt Dunham/Associated Press
Yvette Cooper, one of the authors of the amendment that narrowly failed, said that she had believed that Mrs. May would not allow Britain to leave without a deal because of the damage it could cause.
"I've always believed the prime minister would not let this happen," she said. "She is not the sort of person who would want to make other people suffer because of her delays and mistakes. When I look into her eyes now, I am worried that has changed, because she is trapped."
Other lawmakers spoke about the dangers of a no deal Brexit, including Oliver Letwin, a senior figure who warned that, were "terrible things" to happen, the Conservatives "will not be forgiven for many years."
With the deadline pressing, Mrs. May's next move will likely be to return to Brussels before going back to Parliament to try to convince lawmakers again.
But on Tuesday Dominic Grieve, a pro-European Conservative lawmaker, said that Parliament was "mired in complete paralysis," while one of his like-minded colleagues, Kenneth Clarke said that Britain faced a constitutional crisis, with voters looking on at the political system "with something rather near to contempt."


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Each year, over eight million people visit Stanley Park, a 400-hectare (1000-acre) haven of beauty that offers a backdrop of majestic cedars and firs and an environment teeming with wildlife just steps from the sidewalks and skyscrapers of Vancouver. But few visitors stop to contemplate the secret past of British Columbia's most popular tourist destination.
Officially opened in 1888, Stanley Park was born alongside the city of Vancouver, so it is easy to assume that the park was a pristine wilderness when it was first created. But much of it had been logged and it was home to a number of settlements. Aboriginal people lived at the villages of Whoi Whoi, now Lumberman's Arch, and nearby Chaythoos. Some of the immigrant Hawaiians earlier employed in the fur trade took jobs at the lumber mills that dotted Burrard Inlet from the 1860s and settled at "Kanaka Ranch," which was located just outside the park's southeast boundary. Others resided at Brockton Point on the peninsula's eastern tip. Only in 1958 was the last of the many families forced out of their homes and the park returned to its supposed "pristine" character.
Working in collaboration with descendants of the families who once lived in the park area, historian Jean Barman skilfully weaves together the families' stories with archival documents, Vancouver Parks Board records and court proceedings to reveal a troubling, yet deeply important facet of BC's history.


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As a writer, Renee is a featured contributing blogger for Elephant Journal. Renee has also contributed chapters to the anthologies Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now (Hierophant Publishing, 2012) and The Five Principles of Everything (Five Birds Publishing, 2012). She makes her home in the CA Desert, and Whidbey Island.
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