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Bajaj Pulsar RS200 was the most searched motorcycle on the Yahoo search engine for 2015. The flagship Pulsar is the first ever Pulsar with full fairing offered from Bajaj. Ergonomics inspired by a sportsbike, new Pulsar RS200 immediately managed to strike a chord with thousands of budding bikers who were looking either looking to buy their first motorcycle or upgrading from a 150cc. Aggressive price tag (starting from INR 1.02 lakh) also helped in attracting more buyers.
Honda Livo came in next among top 10 searched bikes on the internet. The Honda Livo in the commuter segment is seen as a top performer where fuel efficiency is concerned. Priced at INR 52,989, the Honda Livo was launched in October 2015 as a replacement to the CB Twister which could not garner sufficient interest in Indian markets.
Bajaj Pulsar AS 200 and Pulsar AS 150 were launched in the adventure sports segment. While the Pulsar AS200 is priced at INR 91,500, the AS150 is priced at INR 79,000 and have proved to be quite popular with prospective buyers searching the internet due to its performance and efficiency.
The facelifted Bajaj Avenger Street/Cruise 220 stood out in power and performance while overall looks too were revamped. The bike has contributed efficiently to company sales while its popularity can be gauged by its online search numbers.
Mahindra Mojo is available in India at a price of INR 1.7 lakh. It receives a 296cc engine and has appealed to the younger and more adventurous buyers in the country. Mojo's success helped Mahindra push sales over the 19,000 mark in November 2015.
Yamaha YZF-R3 was the winner of the Indian Motorcycle of the Year 2016 award. Powered by a 320cc engine, the bike has competed efficiently with others in the entry level performance segment that includes KTM RC390 and Kawasaki's Ninja 300.
Bajaj CT100 priced at INR 35,034 was the most popular commuter bike from Bajaj Auto Limited. It received a makeover in 2015 and the company announced sales of over 1.5 lakh bikes in 100 days of launch.
The premium looking Suzuki Gixxer SF is priced in India between INR 88,600 and INR 90,200. It is its performance, handling, comfort and efficient 150cc engine besides the fact that it won several awards during the past year, which has made it a popular buy in the country.
Scrambler – The newest and most in demand Ducati today.
Ducati Scrambler is powered by an 803cc L twin engine and borrows design cues from the original Ducati Scrambler of 1962. The most affordable bike in the company lineup, the Scrambler is priced at INR 6.62 lakhs and has seen immense response among netizens.
Last but by no means least, Yamaha Saluto also featured on the list of top 10 bikes searched on the internet during 2015. Launched in April 2015, the Saluto is offered in two variants – Standard and Disc Brake and in 6 attractive color options.
In brief, here are the top 10 in order – Bajaj Pulsar RS 200, Honda Livo, Bajaj Pulsar AS 200, Bajaj Avenger Street/Cruise 220, Mahindra Mojo, Yamaha YZF-R3, Bajaj CT100, Suzuki Gixxer SF, Ducati Scrambler and Yamaha Saluto.
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Newbie Areas - places to go.
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An obituary of Carroll Quigley in The Washington Post, Thursday, January 6, 1977,
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Carroll Quigley, 66,
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Carroll Quigley, professor of history at Georgetown University for 35 years, died Monday of a heart attack at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 66.
Dr. Quigley retired from teaching last June after being honored by the student body with its Faculty Award for the fourth consecutive year. His Development of Civilization course was cited by the university's Foreign Service alumni from 1941 to 1969 as the most influential course in their undergraduate studies.
Dr. Quigley, a native of Boston. received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He was an instructor in history at Princeton and a tutor in government, history and politics at Harvard before coming to Georgetown in 1941. In the 1950s, Dr. Quigley was a consultant to the Defense Department, the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, and to the Navy. He also advised the Smithsonian Institution on the layout of the American History section of the Museum of History and Technology.
Dr. Quigley was the author of two books, "Evolution of Civilization" and "Tragedy and Hope: The World in Our Time," and many scholarly articles. A colleague at Georgetown, Dr. Jules Davids, said, "The key to Carroll Quigley's success as a teacher and as a scholar was in his creative intellect, the depth of his perceptions, and the wide interdisciplinary range of his interests, which encompassed the fields of history, economics, philosophy and science."
Dr. Quigley received the university's 175th anniversary Medal of Merit in 1964.
He is survived by his wife, Lillian; two sons, Denis C. and Thomas F., both of Washington, and two brothers, Dr. John A., of Hudson, N.H., and Arthur J., of South Bend, Ind.
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Suspend new cash withdrawal limit – Reps orders CBN
Ayo Ayedun Published December 8, 2022
The House of Representatives has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to halt the implementation of the new cash withdrawal policy slated for January 9, 2023 pending compliance with the provisions of the Act establishing the bank.
The House also summoned CBN Governor, Godwin Emiefele, in accordance with the provisions of the Central Bank Act to brief the Chamber on several policies of the bank in recent times.
There was anger in the House on Thursday as members took turns to condemn the new cash withdrawal policy, saying it will grossly affect small businesses and the economy since most rural communities don't have access to banks.
However, following a point of order raised by Mark Gbillah on the provisions of the Central Bank Act, the House directed the CBN Governor to appear before the House on Thursday, December 15, 2022 to brief the House on why the policy should be allowed to stand.
Sponsor of the motion, Magaji Da'u Aliyu, said the new policy by the CBN, which limits daily cash withdrawal to N20,000 daily should not be allowed to stand as it will adversely affect the Nigerian people, especially those running small-scale businesses.
He said while the country was trying to come to terms with the decision to redesign the currency, the CBN was coming up with yet another policy that will adversely affect the masses without proper advocacy.
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Matt_W 2018-08-28 15:28:04 UTC #883
Anyway in other news. Angry racist white boys are ruining another thing I love
I actually think it's very nice of them to make a list of comic book creators that I should be checking out.
theclockworkrat 2018-08-29 03:03:35 UTC #884
More hilariously overblown "criticism" of Corbyn:
Corbyn's comments most offensive since Enoch Powell, says ex-chief rabbi
Jonathan Sacks says Labour leader is antisemite who has given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate
In a speech to a meeting convened by the in 2013, Corbyn spoke about the importance of history and of how necessary it was for people to understand the origins of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
He then praised a speech he had recently heard by Manuel Hassassian at a meeting in parliament in which the Palestinian ambassador to the UK gave an "incredibly powerful" account of the history of Palestine.
Corbyn then added: "This was dutifully recorded by the, thankfully silent, Zionists who were in the audience on that occasion, and then came up and berated him afterwards for what he had said.
"They clearly have two problems. One is that they don't want to study history, and secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, don't understand English irony either. Manuel does understand English irony, and uses it very effectively. So I think they needed two lessons, which we can perhaps help them with."
Truly horrific words from the current Labour leader, easily on par with the famous speech from Britain's most notorious fascist in history. Say what you will, but calling a Zionist a Zionist is tantamount to calling for a century of pogroms.
Sarfrin 2018-08-29 08:12:23 UTC #885
theclockworkrat:
Say what you will, but calling a Zionist a Zionist is tantamount to calling for a century of pogroms.
The point is that he's saying Jewish people who have lived in Britain their whole lives (i.e. are British) aren't like 'us'. While I agree it's not equivalent to the rivers of blood speech, it is a kind of 'othering' that Jewish people have historically very good reason to be concerned about.
Zephro 2018-08-29 09:27:20 UTC #886
Eh the whole "English irony" thing very much slipped into lazy racist generalisation. It's not Rivers of Blood but it's fucking bad and there's no point trying to disguise that.
Also Britain's most infamous facist is obviously Mosley. Powell is just the most infamous Tory racist.
I was under the impression that a Zionist is a person of a particular political persuasion, and not a catch-all derogatory term for Jews.
Pink_Gregory 2018-08-29 12:20:23 UTC #888
People, even well meaning people, are not very careful with their language. And I really wish they would be.
Being against the Israeli government expanding into Gaza, shooting protesters and generally being quite nasty is a longer way of saying it but it's easy enough to understand without using a trope that's too ambiguous to not be misconstrued.
At least it's a minority of people I've seen throwing the word 'Rothschild' around of context. Then again I've heard that in person once from someone who was pretty transparently right-wing.
I need to read comments less.
That's true, and I think Corbyn's response to this latest smear demonstrates awareness of the issue.
Shadoko 2018-08-29 13:52:19 UTC #890
The "Comicsgate" stuff is both hilarious and depressing.
I mean it's litteraly "I don't like women and people who don't look like me" there's really nothing more to it. I'm genuinely impressed. Who's the offended snowflake here ?
Though I've noticed that it has become a depressing trend lately to suppose that when a media/franchise was loosing sales, it was because of the womenz and crazy SJW. Wether it's for Star Wars, comics, or BF5 pre-orders, the rationale is always the same, "they loose sales because womenz". I wonder if it's just lazy sexism and average internet stupidity, or a much deeper refusal to actually analyze why a beloved media/franchise is not as popular as it was - and confront the truth of this decline.
It's depends on who's saying it usually, Zionist this is. Depending on context it can range from anyone vaguely in support of Israel's right to exist, to support for the settlements, to batshit crazy elders of zion conspiracy racism, to just all Jews. So it's usually safest to just not fucking say it and be misconstrued, especially if you're a god damned politician.
So yeah maybe he was saying it to mean some sense of "people who support Israel even the bad bits, including non Jewish people on the Labour right", but there's no fucking way to tell. It's also the follow on sentence, "One is that they don't want to study history, and secondly, having lived in this country for a very long time, probably all their lives, don't understand English irony either." Emphasis mine. It does not sound to me like he's including people of different races but the same political persuasion instead it seems to be making some generalisation about people not assimilating.
Also he didn't fucking apologise properly but just argued semantics. Which is seriously crap.
Matt_W:
Goddamn it Louis you asshole.
Louis CK:
I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.
It hasn't been long enough Louis.
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LexW 2018-08-29 19:19:29 UTC #893
Seems like an actual "lazy racist generalization" would be something like "black people tend to be criminals more than white people", which is actually a rather false face to the reality that black people get criminalized more than white people (quite different from being more likely to be a criminal).
Whereas it's at least somewhat fair to say that any extreme Zionist (in the political sense) is almost certainly completely lacking in any sense of irony, whether they're Jewish or not (and most extremist Zionists seem to actually be Christian Americans). You absolutely have to lack a sense of irony to be an extreme Zionist. It's hard-required. If you had a sense of irony, you'd be going "Hey isn't Israel basically doing a variant of what was done to Jewish people's ancestors at various times, and y'know, ramping up to be more and more horrific? Generally replicating the worst of colonialism at an accelerated pace?". Instead of saying "This is great and totally different to anything that has happened before! We just need to go further!".
Sarfrin:
Even if you argue that, this particular level of othering is extremely common for politicians, and completely ignored most of the time (like the countless times it's been directed at Eastern Europeans by Tory and even Labour politicians). What Boris Johnson said recently was vastly worse, and raised about 1/3rd as much stink. A huge proportion of the entire Brexit thing from the Brexiters featured this type of "othering" and was considered acceptable by both major parties.
Not only is this "not equivalent", it's not even the same category of speech.
Depending on context it can range from anyone vaguely in support of Israel's right to exist, to support for the settlements, to batshit crazy elders of zion conspiracy racism, to just all Jews.
None of those are remotely how it's normally used or how Corbyn is using it.
Arguably not, because it was directed at native British citizens rather than people who have migrated here. Regardless, the fact that both main parties and a chunk of the media chose to overlook the vileness surrounding the Brexit campaign doesn't mean it should never be addressed.
somini 2018-08-29 23:43:46 UTC #895
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I think Corbyn touched a nerve with all the talk of nationalizations and overall leftist ideas, and powers that be are scrambling for dirt, because they sure as hell won't win the elections based on popular policies. Attacking him over identity politics is par for the course.
See Also: Bernie Sanders and Clinton. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.
The risk is that Corbyn lacks political experience to get out of the mud into the open road of "Nationalize the Trains", "NHS 4 Lyfe" and the other rallying cries. Not that the Labour establishment will lift a finger to help him.
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What the fuck is wrong with this guy?
You don't think it's strange he hasn't sued me? He was offered free legal services.
Seriously, what the hell.
I think he probably understands what he could say and do to better avoid being constantly dragged through the mud. However, he is a rare, principled politician - for better or worse. I kinda wonder how Seumas Milne feels about all this.
Xercies 2018-08-30 05:35:28 UTC #899
To be honest at this point it is very obvious that Corbyn is an anti semite.
There has been to many times where he has been caught just happenning to be with a holocaust denier…or people saying Isreal are just as bad as the nazis…or laying a wreath for Palestinian terrorists…or praising a mural that has an illuminati eye at the top of a table of jews…or saying all jews are zionists…or…
To be honest what I find interesting that Louis ck that made louie one of thr most humane and empathetic shows I've seen is the same louis ck that will force people to watch him masturbate… Talk about split personality…
Regardless, the fact that both main parties and a chunk of the media chose to overlook the vileness surrounding the Brexit campaign doesn't mean it should never be addressed.
Oh come off it, this isn't "addressing" anything, this is digging through dirt desperately.
We have fresh giant piles of shit pooping out of Tory arses, like Boris "Outright Dehumanization and Blatant Racism" Johnson, and that seems to have got about equal coverage to some vague dumb waffle from Corbyn in 2013. (And I agree it was a dumb thing to say.)
And you think this is appropriately "addressing" a problem?
No. It's very clear evidence that the establishment has a huge problem with Corbyn (no news there), and is totally desperate to find anything that sticks. UR A TERORIST!!! didn't stick. U <3 TERROISTS didn't stick. You're an anti-Semite hasn't stuck like, the last four times, especially as it's often obvious horseshit (like with Hodge, where her entire outburst was irrational), but I guess they think if they say it enough times it will work?
And nobody seems to think long-term, and see how labeling this sort of thing, which is, at absolute WORST mild othering of certain Jewish extremist factions (and less bad than, say, oh I dunno PREVENT even existing!), at worst again, as extreme anti-Semitism comparable to "rivers of blood" might, y'know, be crying wolf. Might inure the British public to claims of anti-Semitism (as it obviously is doing). Might lower the tone of debate. Might seem desperate. Have any of these allegations ever even damaged his rating? His rating kept climbing in the midst of "U <3 TERRORISTS!!!" whilst we had multiple terrorist attacks even.
I don't think any major political party is adequately addressing any problem really. The Tories and Labour are busy fighting amongst themselves and the Lib Dems are practically invisible. And the whole country will be flushed down the no deal Brexit bog as a result of their failure to do anything.
BillButNotBen 2018-08-30 13:06:34 UTC #902
Xercies:
I can't say I've been following it that closely, but I might go out on a limb and say that that's far from obvious. I haven't seen any evidence of it yet.
At a stretch, you could probably say that it's obvious he's anti-Israel… though it seems more like he's pro-Palestinian.


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Samuel: Cultural change must come from the top
Elizabeth FryMarch 14, 2019 - 2.04pm
Executives should be paid properly for the job they are expected to do, and rewarded for an outstanding job, says former chair of Australia's antitrust regulator, Graeme Samuel.
At CMSF on Thursday, Samuel said executives and others within an organisation should be rewarded if their performance is beyond what is expected of them but he is completely against bonuses should be part of the package.
At the conference, the former ACCC chair was discussing the role of remuneration structures in driving the greed and misconduct which emerged as a key theme of the banking royal commission.
"Corporate culture, like any organisational issue, starts from the top – the tone is set by the chair, the chief executive, the board of directors and senior management.
"They are all involved in setting the tone of the organisation, setting its vision, setting the values and importantly ensuring those values are subscribed to by everyone in the organisation from the top right through to bottom."
He said culture fails where those governing the organisation don't sincerely believe in the values they have set out in writing.
"They {executives} talk about vision statements; they might talk about values but it's not part of their DNA…. and that message then starts to flow through the organisation."
A clear sign is when remuneration structures don't reflect the correct values of the organisation.
"Those at the top will protest certain values such as the customer must always be put first but then they will endorse or sanction activities that clearly don't put the customer first or members of a superannuation fund.as the case may be, "he argues.
In his view, the tone must start from the top. Critically there must be a very visible chair, a very visible board, a very visible chief executive and a very visible senior management.
"All of them must insist that the values of the organisation are subscribed to and those who don't belong in the organisation."
After overseeing the prudential regulator's recent Commonwealth Bank enquiry Samuel said he would target corporate governance, culture and remuneration in assessing companies.
"The remuneration structures of organisations and businesses can so often incentivize the wrong sort of behaviour or the wrong culture," he warns.
He pointed out that the royal commission revealed situations where employees were paid for behaviours that were labelled as misconduct by Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and the community generally.
Samuel also argued that the push for cultural change is best done internally and with limited involvement from external consultants.
"You don't need to spend millions on hiring consultants – a chief executive who understands the company values doesn't need an outsider."
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I wouldn't even want to be seen around this car.
I thought they used the 'Gran Fury' in '77 - and they were white with that same shield on the doors...?
Excellent job. Anybody know if all N.Y. state sheriff cras were Gran Fury's in '81?
Do they even make Signal-Stats anymore?
Houston, TX PD used these type lights from the mid-1960's to 1973. The light is a Federal Beacon Ray Model 175H. Excellent at night...lousy during bright daylight. I remember the hill light reflecting off the side of buildings in downtown during low light periods.
Is this a Delaware State police car? They did'nt look this way in 1977. Someone should tell the owner.
That was a Nassau County Police in-house shop built light bar.
Dave is really talented with a camera.
And by being in two places at the same time.
I agree Dave. GREAT PHOTO!!
Wow. That's hot. Great photo Dave!
That would be nice. Mine too is trashed and the replacement fabric I found is big $$. Love to see this one in person. Maybe next year!
Because I've been to the NYC show 5 times with three different cars and have never even received an honorable mention. My wife and I were sitting in the back row chowing down on burritos when my name was called. I was wiping re-fried beans off my face while walking up to get my trophy. In other words, I was in shock.
Guess the R-body was a Hit.


Today, an international team of scientists describes what they say is a huge new impact crater that lies under northwestern Greenland's Hiawatha Glacier. If confirmed, it would be the first impact crater on Earth discovered under ice, the team reports in the journal Science Advances. At an estimated 19 miles wide, it would rank among the top 25 known craters in the world.
"Until 2015, no one had paid much attention to this part of the planet," says study co-author Joseph MacGregor, a glaciologist with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland. But that year, scientists began flying over the area with highly sensitive scanning instruments, such as lasers and radar, through NASA's Operation IceBridge.
Like all IceBridge data, the scans were made public, and a group of Danish glaciologists noticed something interesting when they reviewed the material: a large, bowl-shaped depression was clearly visible in the bedrock under the ice.
As they looked closer, someone on the team also pointed out that a large meteorite in the collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark—near where they parked their bicycles every day—had come from that same region of Greenland.
"We asked ourselves, could the two be linked?" says lead author Kurt Kjær, a glacial geologist and curator at the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen.
To find out more, the Danish scientists reached out to MacGregor, who is the chief scientist for the IceBridge project. To get more high-resolution scans of the Hiawatha Glacier, the team also enlisted the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, which provided them with additional surveying flights in May 2016 carrying newer, more sensitive instruments. They also sent a ground team in July 2016 to map surrounding structures on the surface and collect samples of sediments that had drained out from under the glacier.
With the precise radar data, the team was able to more completely work out the shape of the proposed crater. The walls of the circular rim are roughly 320 metres (1,050 feet) above the floor of the crater, they found. The team also identified an uplifted area 50 metres to 70 metres high in the centre of the crater, which Kjær says is an expected feature and is the result of the force of the strike.
In the sediment samples, the researchers found grains of what's known as shocked quartz—a rare form of the ubiquitous mineral that has been deformed in a characteristic way by very high-energy events, such as in a large impact. Some of the grains also showed a brown color known as toasting, again a sign of intense energy release. Other minerals showed signs of shock metamorphism, to the point of turning into glass.
Based on the size of the crater, the team estimates that the asteroid would have been around 0.75 miles across and would have weighed 11 to 12 tonnes as it entered the atmosphere. And based on their mineral analysis, they believe it was an iron-rich space rock—the same type of rock as the meteorite fragment in the museum, although more tests would need to be done to establish a firm link, Kjær notes.
Now that he knows the circular depression is there, Kjær adds that he can even see its outline on the surface of the ice.
But impact crater expert Ludovic Ferriere of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, who was not associated with the study, is sceptical of these conclusions.
"I can say what they are presenting as shock quartz is definitely shock quartz," says Ferriere, who is also a National Geographic Explorer. But he cautions that he would like to see a larger sample size of sediments tested, as he isn't sure that the quartz taken from under the glacier necessarily came from the presumed impact crater.
Ferriere also says that the uplift the team reports for such a large impact crater is too small for what should be expected. Either it isn't what they suspect, or the uplift feature has been heavily eroded. Kjær responded that the impact through the ice sheet can explain the more muted central uplift, as well as the debris and sloping sediments they observed with radar.
Both Kjær and Ferriere agree that the next steps likely include additional analysis of the existing samples, including the possibility of radioisotope dating, as well as collecting more material from the site. Ideally, the scientists say it would be best to drill through the glacier—which is nearly 1km thick over the crater—and into the rock below. A heavy drilling operation in such a remote area would be challenging and expensive, but not without precedent.
The scientists also don't currently have enough information to assign an age to the proposed impact crater, but based on their analysis, they have suggested bookends for the date of the event. Given the structure of the rock and ice that can be 'read' with radar, the team believes that the glacier was in place at the time of the strike, and that the impact punched a hole in the ice and resulted in a significant amount of melting and refreezing. That would suggest that the impact happened sometime before the end of the Pleistocene epoch around 11,700 years ago.
If the discovery holds, the Hiawatha Crater could therefore be a tantalising new piece of evidence for a very controversial idea. Called the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, the notion is that some kind of large impact occurred in northern North America about 10,900 to 12,900 years ago, during the Younger Dryas Ice Age. This impact, the idea goes, caused massive wildfires across much of the continent that in turn led to the extinction of many of the large Ice Age mammals, like mammoths and mastodons, as well as the human Clovis culture.


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The country's unequal wealth distribution and rapid population growth have made it one of the poorest in Latin America, writes Anna-Claire Bevan.
Asi es la vida en los trópicos ('such is life in the tropics') is an expression that follows catastrophe in Guatemala. Whether it is raining lava, the ex-president is being investigated for money laundering or an iconic folk singer has just been shot dead, life carries on. The aroma of freshly made corn tortillas will continue to permeate the air three times a day, the sound of cuetes (fireworks) will stir you from your siesta and chicken buses will tear past you at inconceivable speeds.
People say Guatemala has no middle class – just a ruling class and an exploited class – and nowhere is this more evident than in its capital, Guatemala City. Skyscrapers and contemporary malls eclipse shanty towns that dangle off cliff edges, while disabled beggars peer in the windows of blacked-out SUVs hoping for fichas (loose change). Guatemala's unequal distribution of wealth, coupled with its rapid population growth, has given it one of the highest poverty rates in Latin America and has no doubt also contributed to its reputation as one of the most violent countries in the world.
Guatemala's troubled present was born out of a bloody past. Once the site of the impressive ancient Mayan civilization, it was conquered by the Spanish in 1524 and endured three centuries as a colony. Since its liberation in 1821, the country has been stained by further bloodshed: US-supported military dictatorships, social unrest and guerrilla uprisings culminated in a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996. The conflict was one of the most brutal in the northern hemisphere: over 200,000 people died and up to 50,000 were reportedly 'disappeared'. Only now are a handful of those responsible for the atrocities being brought to account. Government forces have been found guilty of genocide and recent landmark prison sentences saw four ex-soldiers jailed for 6,000 years each. The President, Otto Pérez Molina, himself an army general during the war, will be scrutinized by human rights activists in coming months as to how he handles these investigations.
Although the Peace Accords were signed 15 years ago, people say that many parts of the country are more dangerous now than they were at the height of the conflict. Daily newspapers regularly feature body counts into double figures, bus drivers face extortion by criminal gangs and even fast-food restaurants have armed guards.
The country's turbulent history is matched by its landscape. Sitting on three tectonic plates, surrounded by active volcanoes and bordered by both the Caribbean and the Pacific, Guatemala is precariously positioned and repeatedly falls victim to natural disasters. In the past, major earthquakes have razed cities and left millions of people homeless. Hurricanes that used to be a rare occurrence now arrive annually – bringing with them clean-up operations that exhaust already scarce resources. In 2010, Volcán de Pacaya erupted during the rainy season, blanketing the capital with thick ash that then blocked drains.
Despite these adversities, Guatemalans remain positive about their country's future and are intensely patriotic. This long-suffering people does not expect wealth or a lawabiding government, but yearns for the national football team to make it to the FIFA World Cup.
Many Guatemalans rely on family members working illegally in the US sending money home.
Though indigenous people are in the majority – with their colourful handicrafts decorating market stalls and their ancient ruins among the most popular tourist attractions – they remain on the bottom rung of the socio-economic ladder. Most live in the highlands, are poorly educated and poorly provided for – and their plight is unlikely to be improved by a government preoccupied with increasing security and tackling the endemic drug war.
GNP per capita $2,740 (ElSalvador $3,360, United States $47,140).The agricultural sector accounts for nearly 15% of GDP and around half the labour force. Since the end of the civil war, foreign investment has increased, but insecurity remains the largest stumbling block – not least for the tourism industry.
14.7 million. Population growth rate 2.7% pa. People per sq km 134 (UK 253).
Infant mortality 25 per 1,000 live births (El Salvador 14, US 7). HIV prevalence rate 0.8%. Lifetime risk of maternal death 1 in 210 (US 1 in 2,100). Some 20% of Guatemala's population lacks healthcare – mostly in rural indigenous areas. Children regularly die of diarrhoea, chronic malnutrition and respiratory diseases.
Fragile ecosystems are not just under threat from volcanic eruptions and increasingly frequent tropical storms, but also from private companies eager to manipulate land for financial gain. Water contamination, soil erosion and deforestation are all major problems.
A diverse ethnic mix: more than 50% are indigenous, the rest are either mestizos/ladinos, whites descended from European settlers, or Garifunas, who are of Afro-Caribbean descent.
Predominantly Roman Catholic, although in recent years there has been a surge in conversions to evangelical churches. Many indigenous follow the surviving Mayan faith.
Although Spanish is the national language, there are 21 official Mayan languages spoken widely in indigenous areas. Two other languages are also used: Garifuna on the Caribbean coast, and Xinca near the Salvadorean border.
0.574, 131st in the world (El Salvador 0.674, US 0.910).
One of the most unequal countries in the world. Some of the richest Guatemalans commute to work by helicopter, while the poorest live on less than $1 a day.
74%. Primary net enrolment rate is 95%: more children miss out on primary school in rural indigenous areas.
71 years. Up from 65 years when last profiled (El Salvador 72, US 78).
Guatemalans live in fear of criminal gangs and widespread corruption; often people refuse to report crimes for fear of the consequences. Although press freedom is enshrined within the constitution, journalists are careful what they say and whom they say it about.
Traditional machismo still rules and almost half of all females have suffered multiple forms of violence. Indigenous women are especially vulnerable.
Homosexuality is not illegal, but sexual minorities struggle for recognition within the legal system of this conservative country. Guatemala's healthcare system has been accused of discriminating against LGBT people, preventing them from receiving adequate HIV treatment.
The rightwing Partido Patriota of General Otto Pérez Molina came to power in November 2011, promising to govern Guatemala with an 'iron fist' and use the military to improve internal security throughout the country. The presidential race was characterized by violence and unregulated campaign financing. Latin America's one-term presidential policy – a safeguard against dictatorship – is in practice limiting all presidents from making the real changes that are so desperately needed.
This article is from the May 2012 issue of New Internationalist.
Anna-Claire Bevan is a freelance journalist currently based in Guatemala City.


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Nata a Ijuí, comune del Brasile nello Stato del Rio Grande do Sul, e laureatasi presso la Pontificia Università Cattolica di Rio Grande do Sul nel 1988, ha vinto oltre 40 premi nazionali e internazionali di reportage giornalistico. Ha lavorato 11 anni come reporter del giornale Zero Hora, di Porto Alegre, e 10 come reporter della rivista Época a San Paolo. Dal 2010, è giornalista freelance.

È autrice di un romanzo Umas Duas e di tre libri reportage: Coluna Prestes - O Avesso da Lenda, A vida que ninguém vê, vincitore del Premio Jabuti di Reportage nel 2007, e O Olho da Rua, e di un libro di racconti A Menina Quebrada, que raccoglie 64 dei suoi articoli pubblicati sulla rivista Época.

Ha inoltre partecipato alla realizzazione di reportage speciali su Dignidade! libro di Medici Senza Frontiere, insieme ad autori come Mario Vargas Llosa.

Dal 2009 al 2013 scrive sulla rivista Época, e dall'ottobre 2013 sul giornale El País. Il 28 gennaio 2010 è stata una delle vincitrici del 27^ Premio Internazionale di Giornalismo Re di Spagna, per il reportage "O Islã dos Manos", sulla presenza della religione islamica nelle periferie delle città brasiliane, tema pubblicato sulla rivista Época, nel mese di febbraio dell'anno precedente. Nel giugno 2013, Eliane ha lanciato una raccolta di 64 racconti e articoli di opinione in origine pubblicati sulla rivista Época, e ha vinto nello stesso anno il Prêmio Açorianos di Miglior Libro dell'Anno per "A Menina Quebrada".

E' co-direttrice di tre documentari: Uma História Severina, Gretchen Filme Estrada e Laerte-se.

Nel settembre 2022, ha lanciato il progetto giornalistico trilingue Sumaúma, con sede ad Altamira nello Stato del Pará, insieme a Jonathan Watts, Global Environment Editor presso The Guardian, Carla Jimenez, ex-direttrice di El País Brasil, Talita Bedinelli, ex-editrice di El País Brasil, e la giornalista peruviana Verônica Goyzueta.

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Businesses can now quickly and accurately put a global standard value on their owned media assets and generate new, highly profitable revenue streams, according to Sonder Communications.
Investment in owned assets such as stores, websites, apps and packaging has traditionally been regarded as a cost of business – one that must be accepted and written off as a necessity. Sonder co-founder Angus Frazer says this behaviour has created "lazy assets" that aren't being leveraged for maximum value.
Sonder says it addressed this issue with the launch of MAVmetric in November 2016. The software's patent-pending algorithms use paid media cost per thousand (CPM) as the reference data (to ensure the source data is industry standard). It then extrapolates these CPMs into owned channels. MAVmetric factors-in the brand positioning, customer profile, business category and the fact that it's an owned media environment (low clutter and high contextual relevance).
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Mr Frazer says MAVmetric is of value to any business that has owned media assets that connect with an audience.
Sonder is working with both retailers and FMCGs to realise the commercial potential in their owned media assets. For example, it helped George Weston Foods (GWF) identify that it produces 17 million bakery units per month, giving the group access to a huge audience.
Mr Frazer says businesses are under-utilising a variety of owned media assets.
"For a retailer, the most obvious asset is their store, but their website, website video, mobile apps, social channels, email database, delivery trucks and activation zones are all extremely valuable owned assets," he told Retail World.
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The Continental Arena got built to provide Jahn Regensburg with a new modern home. It replaced the old Jahnstadion.
The stadium officially opened on 18 July 2015, though a first match, a test match between Jahn and a team of regional players, had already been played 11 days earlier.
The Continental Arena came at a cost of 52.7 million euro. It was named Continental Arena following a naming right sponsorship deal with tyre manufacturer Continental.
The Continental Arena is located on the southern edge of the city of Regensburg at roughly 3 kilometres from Regensburg's main railway station and a kilometre more from the historic centre.
The stadium lies right next to the A3 motorway and is thus easily reached by car. Take exit 100a-Regensburg-Universität.
The stadium can about just be walked to from the main railway station. The walk takes a little over 30 minutes.
Alternatively, the stadium can be reached with bus 3, 20, or 21. Take bus 3 to Graß, bus 20 to Luckenpaint, or bus 21 to Alteglofsheim/Afhausen. All buses stop right at the Continental Arena. Bus 20 and 21 depart from the main railway station while bus 3 can be caught from the historic centre (Dachauplatz) as well. Bus 3 is the most frequent, the journey takes about 12 minutes.
On matchdays, there are also shuttle buses that run from the railway station straight to the stadium.
Tickets for Jahn Regensburg matches can be bought online, at the Fanshop at the Continental Arena, or at one of the other sales outlets, which include the Galeria Kaufhof department store at Neupfarrplatz 8 in the historic centre.
If still available, tickets are also sold at the ticket booths of the stadium on the day of the match.
Tickets cost either €28.00 or €34.00 for a seat at one of the sides or €12.00 for a standing place behind the goal. Tickets are €4.00 (standing €1.00) more expensive for a number of high-profile games. Tickets are also €2.00 more expensive if bought on the day.
Ssv-jahn.de – Official website of SSV Jahn Regensburg.
Regensburg.de – Regensburg tourist information.


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Q: Enable PowerShell remoting on new Azure VM I've created a new VM in Windows Azure to use to act as a host to learn a bit of Powershell Remoting. After the VM was created I RDP'd onto the box and enabled remoting via the following command:
 Enable-PSRemoting

I confirmed both prompts with 'a' replies and it finished without errors. If I run
  Get-PSSessionConfiguration

I can see that three endpoints (?) have been set up. In the Azure portal I can see that the Powershell port is open - both 5986 is open as a public and private port.
I've added the public IP address of the machine to my hosts file, but when I try the following:
  Enter-PSSession -ComputerName AZURESERVERNAME

I get an error:

Enter-PSSession : Connecting to remote server AZURESERVERNAME failed
  with the following error message : A specified logon session does not
  exist. It may already have been terminated. For more information, see
  the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. At line:1 char:1
  + Enter-PSSession -ComputerName AZURESERVERNAME
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (AZURESERVERNAME:String) [Enter-PSSession],
  PSRemotingTransportException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CreateRemoteRunspaceFailed

I've also tried setting all hosts as trused as follows:
  cd wsman::localhost\client
  Set-Item .\TrustedHosts *
  Restart-Service WinRM

But that doesn't seemed to have helped either.
Is there anything else I need to do to get this working?
Thanks

A: OK, figured this out thanks to the awesome Secrets of Powershell Remoting ebook. Looks like you must add the machine directly to the TrustedHosts via IP address:
Set-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value '11.22.33.44'

Then use that IP address and specify credentials in the Enter-PSSession:
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 11.22.33.44 -Credential 11.22.33.44\username

You should then get a prompt for your password and voila! :)

A: I've successfully created a SharePoint farm in Azure using the scripts from Automated-Deployment-of-SharePoint-2013-with-Windows-Azure-PowerShell
On that page there are steps that configure PowerShell to work with Azure
Set-ExecutionPolicy ByPass

Enable-PSRemoting

Enable-WSManCredSSP -role client -delegatecomputer "*.cloudapp.net"

$regKey = "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Credssp\PolicyDefaults\AllowFreshCredentialsDomain"
Set-ItemProperty $regKey -Name WSMan -Value "WSMAN/*.cloudapp.net"

Get-AzureSubscription -ExtendedDetails

You may also need to do this

Run GPEdit.msc You must also enable delegating of fresh credentials
  using group policy editor on your client machine. Computer
  Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Credentials
  Delegation and then change the state of "Allow Delegating Fresh
  Credentials with NTLM-only server authentication" to "Enabled." Its
  default state will say, "Not configured."
In the Add Servers sections add the following.
WSMAN/*.cloudapp.net

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Popham is een civil parish in het bestuurlijke gebied Basingstoke and Deane, in het Engelse graafschap Hampshire. In 2001 telde de civil parish 44 inwoners.

Civil parish in Hampshire


The Grand Slam 5 can throw balls throughout the entire spectrum of the court with customizable speed, spin, trajectory and oscillation. This unique system enables the machine to simulate true match play to let you work on your style in realistic conditions.
The Lobster Elite Grand Slam 5 ball machine has three positional settings: narrow, medium and wide, which enable you to groove your forehand and backhand ground strokes or warm up your shots.
Attack/Defend – a sequence of slow and fast balls to either forehand or backhand, of variable depth. Repeated after a 6-second delay.
Forehand Plus – a similar sequence to the Approach mode, with 2 balls on the backhand side to be hit with a forehand. Repeated after a 6-second delay.
The handle, which enables you to easily pull and push the machine, is 3ft. (91cm) long and secured by two removable pins: take them out to make the machine more compact when you want to transport it. The oversized 8" (20cm) wheels make it easy to move the equipment over any surface. There is also a court placement indicator, which allows full corner-to-corner sweep, and an elevation indicator, which provides a clear view of the shot height. The machine has moulded handholds on its underside to facilitate lifting it; they have non-slip pads for added safety.
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Schnitzelburg Area Community Council: Spring Schnitzelburg History Walk - This Saturday!
Spring Schnitzelburg History Walk - This Saturday!
on Ash Street about 1940-41.
The Spring Schnitzelburg History Walk is this upcoming Saturday, May 16th. Walkers will meet at 10 am at the All Wool & Yard Wide Club for coffee and Nord's doughnuts before embarking on their journey back in time.
Schnitzelburg History Walks occur once in the Spring and once in the Fall. For each Walk, the route changes, so if you have been on a walk before, you may learn something new this time! Saturday's route will include parts of Hickory, Burnett, Shelby, Milton, Hoertz and Ash Streets.
Schnitzelburg and Germantown were well-known for all the taverns, even today. At one time, there were five saloons on Hickory Street alone, and two other places you could buy beer. In Schnitzelburg, beer was part of the diet with most German families. Each night, Dad would walk to one of the corner taverns, usually Flabby Devine's Tavern, and get his soup pot filled with draft beer for $1.00. When he got home he would sit the beer pot on ice in the sink and us kids would get out of bed and enjoy a glass of brew and peanut butter crackers.
After I was older and dating, Dad would be waiting on the porch when I arrived home and we would go to Flabby's for the pot of beer. We would also frequent other taverns such as Tim-Tam Tavern and Speckt's. Of course, a few glasses of beer would be consumed at the tavern to quench the thirst while talking with old friends. Some would enjoy playing the pinball machines, as most taverns had pinball machines and would pay off games won at 5 cents a game.
There are still a few spots available, so reserve your spot today by emailing germantownpast@yahoo.com. The walk is free and takes about 2 hours. Be sure to wear comfortable shoes.


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A Newmarket medical practice has retained its overall 'good' rating following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
The Rookery Medical Partnership was found to provide safe, effective, caring and responsive services to its 14,100 patients across population groups including the elderly, people with long-term conditions, those experiencing poor mental health and dementia, families, children and young people, working age people and those whose circumstances could make them vulnerable.
The practice offered a wide range of services and clinics, said the report, including asthma, diabetes, weight management and minor surgery and had a comprehensive website providing a wealth of information for patients. The inspectors reported that patients found the appointment system easy to use and were able to access care when they needed it. They were treated by staff 'with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect,' said the report.
Other key points highlighted by the inspectors were the practice's provision of clear and appropriate systems to safeguard people from abuse, particularly in the case of children and vulnerable adults, and weekly clinical meetings with safeguarding as a standing agenda item.
'Staff were encouraged to to report safeguarding concerns and the information was shared with other relevant agencies," said the inspectors.
Also contributing to the practice's 'good' CQC rating were its provision of advanced care clinics for patients with leg ulcers, weekly visits by GPs to patients in care homes which helped reduce admissions into Accident and Emergency and reviews on patients taking multiple prescriptions with the aim of stopping the use of unnecessary medicines and reducing side effects.
The practice was also praised for its routine reviews of the effectiveness and appropriateness of the care provided with audits at all levels and the strong focus on continuous learning and improvement of staff throughout the organisation.
Practice manager Scott Burley said: "The report is testament to the hard work of all the staff. Everyone is equally important in the chain and I am extremely pleased for the whole team.
"We are already above the national average on just about everything but we shall be continuing to work hard with the aim of achieving an 'outstanding' rating next time".


The escalating war between brand-name and generics companies isn't getting any easier, making it difficult to pin down patent expiration dates. Recent regulatory and legal decisions continue to muddy the field. In particular, a US District Court Judge ruled on the trigger date for 180-day exclusivity, a controversial ruling that has the generics industry up in arms.


Real wood, with its luxurious texture and wood grain is the ideal floor for many homeowners in Columbus. Hardwood floors signify tradition and quality with timeless beauty that is perfect for almost any room in your home. Today hardwood floors combine the traditional beauty of the past with the latest technology for greater ease of cleaning and maintenance. For a floor that gets more beautiful with age, hardwood is the choice!
You have a choice: solid or engineered wood floors. A solid wood floor is the same classic look as when your grandparents grew up. For over 100 years, solid hardwood has been among the most popular floor styles.
Perfect for remodeling, engineered hardwood floors are assembled from multiple layers of hardwood, bonded together in a cross-grain fashion. This makes engineered floors exceptionally strong and durable. Engineered floors can be installed over most sub-floors including concrete.
Hardwood floors come in the traditional width of 2 ¼" and the new, contemporary widths of 3"-5". With either choice, you're getting the styling and durability you desire.
If you have hardwood currently in your home, generally it is wise to stay with the same width, but again, it is a matter of your personal taste…because your home deserves the very best!


As farming practices change, so do your equipment needs. Keep your operation moving forward with our equipment loan — an affordable option for purchasing or upgrading your equipment.
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These Farm Service Agency (FSA) guaranteed loan programs are used in central Illinois counties to offer a reduced rates of interest for beginning farmers and customers with tighter cash flows. Interest can be reduced by 4% for those who qualify, with loan limits per borrower. These loans are guaranteed by the federal government and therefore do not require a family guarantor or co-signer.


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The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance, 2020
The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance, 2020 was promulgated on October 28, 2020. The Ordinance provides for constitution of a Commission for
Air Quality Management
The National Food Security Act, 2013
An Act to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
Public Distribution System (PDS)
The Companies Act, 2013
This Companies Act 2013 passed by the government includes several changes to govern the operation and social responsibilities of corporates. It will replace the Companies Act, 1956.
The National Food Security Ordinance, 2013
The National Food Security Ordinance, 2013 notified by the Union government entitles 67% of the population to receive subsidised grains from government every month. Read full text.
National Litigation Policy Document

The Centre has formulated a National Litigation Policy to reduce the cases pending in various courts in India under the National Legal Mission to reduce average pendency time from 15 years to 3 years. This was announced by Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice while announcing the National Litigation Policy.

Government Of India (GOI)
The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010

The National Green Tribunal Act 2010 approved by the President of India on June 2, 2010. It provides for establishment of National Green Tribunal- a special fast-track court for speedy disposal of environment-related civil cases.

Water Cess Act 1977
Forest Act 1980
Air Act 1981
Industrial Disasters
Environment Act 1986
Water Act 1974
The Lokpal Bill 2010

The Lokpal Bill 2010.

The right of children to free and compulsory education act, 2009
The right of children to free and compulsory education act, 2009. This act states that every child of the age of six to fourteen years have a right to free and compulsory education in a neighbourhood school
Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008
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Rural Habitat
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
An act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect of fo
Forest Villages
Forest Rights Act 2006
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
The purpose of this Act is to consolidate the laws relating to food and to regulate the manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import of food.
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Tales of Tallahassee: Florida's state capital worth a visit
Updated Jan 13, 2019; Posted Jun 15, 2016
Gallery: Tallahassee
By Julia Sayers | jsayers@al.com
This story appears in Birmingham magazine's June 2016 Issue. Subscribe today!
When most people plan a trip to Florida, they think only of the beautiful beaches, the vibrant nightlife in Miami, or Disney World for the kids. But there's another city in Florida just as deserving of that attention--the state's capital city of Tallahassee.
With a historic downtown arranged around park squares and Spanish-moss draped live oaks stretching across the famous canopy roads, the city feels a bit like Savannah and Charleston combined. And with a rapidly-expanding food and beer scene, it's right on trend with other growing Southern cities.
But where Tallahassee really thrives is in its outdoor activities. Tallahassee--nicknamed "Trailahassee"--has more than 600 miles of trails for biking, hiking, running, and horseback riding. The Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail stretches 20.5 miles from Tallahassee to the coast and is extremely popular with bikers. It's a completed section of the developing, 120-mile "Capital City to the Sea" trail.
Get Out and Active
Tallahassee isn't on the coast, but the Wakulla River is just south of the city, where you can spend a day on the water. T-n-T Hideaway offers guided canoe, kayak, and stand-up paddleboard trips down the river, where you may see manatees, turtles, fish, and alligators (don't worry--they're not aggressive). The river is spring-fed, making the water clear enough to easily spot the wildlife. After the trip, you can visit Wakulla Springs state park and take a swim.
For those wanting to get their adrenaline going, the Tallahassee Museum, located on 52 acres, offers Tree to Tree Adventures, where you can explore Tallahassee up to 60 feet off the ground. The combination zip line and ropes obstacle course is broken into three sections: Canopy Crossing (introductory), Soaring Cypress (more high-stakes), and Treemendous Adventures (for the kids).
The course tests your skills, balance, and ultimately your bravery. It's completely safe--you're hooked into a harness the whole time and attached to a "life line" if you were to lose your balance, but when you're skirting across swinging logs and skinny tight ropes, you'll definitely feel your heart rate increase. You'll cross swamps, zip over the museum's animal exhibits, and see the native flora and fauna. It's an adrenaline junkie's dream.
For a less heart-pumping way to get your outdoor fix, take a stroll through Cascades Park, the newest social center of the community. Opened in 2014, the 24-acre park is actually a stormwater facility that doubles as an urban park. With beautiful landscaping, ponds, and fountains, the park also features a 3,500 seat amphitheater, a community garden, and shadow homes to commemorate the old Smokey Hollow neighborhood that once stood there.
The Craft of Cuisine
After all the outdoor activity, there are plenty of options to fuel up at the restaurants in town. Overlooking Cascades Park is The Edison, a restaurant serving internationally-inspired gourmet cuisine, located in an old electric plant. Chef John Minas brings influences of his Armenian background, Boston roots, and experience in the Florida culinary scene to the menu. They show through dishes like the Mezze Board with hummus and labneh; the Lobster Roll on a split potato roll; the Pasta Carbonara with fresh peas and ham hock; and the Grouper a la Plancha with succotash and pickled vegetables. The restaurant also has an excellent craft cocktail program--the Rosewater Gin Lemonade is not to be missed.
Craft--although sometimes used loosely--seems to be an accurate word to describe Tallahassee's food and drink scene, and the people driving it.
Byron Burroughs hones his craft at Proof Brewing Co. As he walks among the large steel tanks brewing flagships and variation beers, it's obvious his is a craft. He speaks to his passion of bringing a craft beer scene to Tallahassee, something the city was missing.
"Since 2006, my wife Angela and I have been helping, through various businesses, to develop and grow the craft beer scene in Tallahassee," Burroughs says. "We have always believed that a strong local craft beer scene helps to nurture and support craft breweries and the passion for local craft beer in Tallahassee has definitely had a reciprocal effect in helping Proof grow exponentially."
Proof brews beers of multiple styles, and Byron mentions they use a reverse osmosis system to alter the city's water to match the mineral make-up of the region a typical beer style comes from. The flagship beers include Eightfive-O (American Pale Ale), Guru IPA, Mango Wit, and Assassin Caterpillar (brown ale). Both the Eighfive-O and Guru IPA have won gold medals as Florida's Best Beer.
Burroughs also loves trying experimental brews. The Mango Wit, in fact, was an experimental batch that got so popular it became a flagship. If you visit the taproom at any given time, you're sure to see a rotating batch of experimental and seasonal beers on tap. The Hello Dolly porter evokes flavors of the favorite cookie bar of the same name, while a Berliner Weisse Lemon Evil Kiss has that Warhead candy pucker.
Craft is also seen at Lofty Pursuits, where Gregory Cohen makes ice cream, milkshakes, and Victorian candy. The walls of Lofty Pursuits are covered in memorabilia collected by Cohen. He has a yo-yo museum, an old-fashioned telephone that "dials out" to a number of pre-recorded voicemails, and even a collection of greeting cards he designs.
It's amazing to watch Cohen make hard candy--where he takes a molten hot sugar mixture, adds color and flavor, stretches and pulls it, rolls it until it cools and slices it into pieces. It's a meticulous process, but Cohen takes his time, making sure not to skip a step. He sells it in his shop, along with a rotating 200 flavors of ice cream and soda shop favorites like shakes, malts, freezes, fizzes, egg creams, and more. He does everything as traditionally as he can, and his dedication to the craft is unwavering.
In the heart of Tallahassee is Paisley Cafe, where owner Kiersten Lee gave up a 19-year career in banking to follow her passion to open a cafe. She is fiercely dedicated to using the highest-quality, freshest local ingredients and making everything in house--including all the sauces, soups, and sides like creamy smoked gouda grits and edamame salad. On the Turkey with Apple Butter and Brie sandwich, turkey breast is roasted and sliced, slathered with house-made apple butter. For the Prime Rib Press, prime rib is prepared and shaved, topped with homemade boursin cheese and pesto.
"Paisley's foundation has been built with lots of love, providing the highest quality ingredients with local help from farms, preserve companies, and our Florida-based purveyors," Lee says. "You have to be true to your vision and protect it."
The cafe is open for lunch and brunch, and features daily specials highlighting in-season produce. Don't pass on the homemade baked goods--including Nutella Bread Pudding and the Slutty Brownie (a brownie layered with Oreos and chocolate chip cookie dough).
It's not hard to see the passion people like Lee, Cohen, and Burroughs have for bringing the best to their city. And while Tallahassee already has a natural draw with its outdoor beauty and variety of activities, they're helping to make it a destination for many more visitors to come.
For more information on Tallahassee, go to visittallahassee.com.
Tallahassee's Famous Sausage
While in Tallahassee, pay a visit to Bradley's Country Store, where the Bradley family has been making sausage since 1927. Along a beautiful canopy road, the general store sells sausage, old-fashioned candy, sodas in glass bottles, and their own country-milled grits. Both the sausage and the grits are made in buildings on the property.
The country store is a popular lunch spot and you'll often see people sitting outside on the rocking chairs enjoying a sausage dog. The sausage, made from the meat of top-quality hogs and seasoned with black pepper, red pepper, sage, and salt, contains no preservatives or additives. Sausage links in natural casings are hung in the smokehouse to cure using the smoke from oak and green hickory wood.
Frank Benton Bradley--age 90 and grandson of Grandma Bradley, who came up with the sausage recipe--still runs the production, from overseeing the grits mill to checking the smokehouse to mowing the lawn.
Bradley's Country Store
10655 Centerville Road
Where to Eat:
470 Suwannee St.
Paisley Cafe
1123 Thomasville Rd.
Uptown Cafe
1325 Miccosukee Rd.
Lofty Pursuits
1415 Timberlane Rd #410
Where to Drink:
Proof Brewing
644 McDonnell Dr.
Sidecar Gastrobar
3945 Museum Dr.
T-n-T Hideaway
Wakulla Springs
465 Wakulla Park Dr.
Where to Stay:
The Park Avenue Inn
323 E Park Ave.


New York State's Dignity for All Students Act (Dignity Act) seeks to provide NYS public elementary and secondary school students with a safe, supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function.
The 6-hour certification training consists of two parts: Part 1 is a 3-hour online training with accompanying assessment, which must be completed within 4 weeks of log-in information being emailed or at least five (5) business days prior to admission to the in-person training (whichever is sooner) to attend Part 2. Part 2 is a 3-hour in-person training.
The Warner School offers this workshop, administered by Genesee Valley BOCES, twice each academic year-one time in the fall semester and a second time during the spring semester. The Warner School covers the registration fee for students matriculated in a program that leads to NYS certification. Log in information for the online session will be emailed within two (2) business days of receiving registration. Online training must be completed no later than October 12, 2018 to be eligible for the Fall 2018 DASA workshop. Registration is required.
Registration is limited to 50 participants per session and sessions are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Late arrivals will not be admitted. Laptops and cell phone usage are not allowed.
Upon completion of the workshop, BOCES will upload certificates of completion for students with a TEACH account.
For further information, contact certification@warner.rochester.edu or (585) 276-5405.


SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento authorities have arrested a 58-year-old man suspected of committing at least 10 rapes across Northern California between 1991 and 2006.
The Sacramento Bee reports Roy Charles Waller was arrested Thursday by Sacramento police. Waller is a safety specialist at the University of California-Berkeley's office of environment, health and safety.