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A Working Holiday in Japan is the OG workation. This visa type allows you to both travel and work in Japan — legally. Imagine a gap year, but with the ability to work and top up your travel funds as you go. Yeah, they're pretty great.
However, before you get too excited there are a few things you need to know. For example, not everyone can get a Working Holiday Visa, and you have to apply in advance. There are also a few bureaucratic things you should know about to make sure you're doing everything by the book. But don't worry, a few of us here at Tokyo Cheapo started our lives in Japan with Working Holiday Visas, and we've compiled our knowledge here for you.
NOTE: We are not visa experts. While we do our best to make sure all information presented here is accurate, we're not perfect. Before making any decisions about visas be sure to consult official sources like the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
What is a Working Holiday Visa?
Who can get a working holiday visa?
What kind of job can you do?
Extending your stay
Starting your life in Japan
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A Working Holiday Visa (often abbreviated to WHV) is a type of visa that allows you to holiday in Japan for an extended period of time, and work to supplement your travels.
Unlike other categories of working visa, a Working Holiday Visa doesn't require a company to sponsor you. You file the application by yourself in your home country. There also aren't as many restrictions on the type of work you can do on a WHV, compared to a regular working visa.
It's not uncommon for people to come to Japan on a Working Holiday Visa, and then decide to stay. However, if you do that you will need to follow the correct immigration procedures to switch visa type — and you may have to leave the country in the meantime.
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A quick terminology breakdown
Let's just make sure we're clear on a few key terms before we go any further.
Working Holiday Visa: This is what we're here to talk about. A special type of visa that allows holders to work while on holiday in Japan. They are usually valid for six months to a year.
Working Visa: A visa category that allows holders to live and work in Japan long term. There are numerous types of working visa, usually specific to the type of work you're allowed to do. These visas are often sponsored by your employer, and are usually valid for one to five years.
Residence Card: A card that is issued to foreign residents of Japan by the Japanese Government. It serves as an identity card, and includes details like your name, nationality, visa type, address in Japan and period of stay.
City/Ward Office: A local government office that handles various bureaucratic tasks including the registration of residents, health insurance, and pension/welfare benefits. Not all City/Ward Offices have English speaking staff or resources, especially those in regional areas.
Period of stay: The number of months or years that your visa is valid for. For Working Holiday Visa holders it's usually six months or one year. Your Residence Card will have the period, and the visa expiration date, written on it.
Who can go on a working holiday in Japan?
There are 26 countries that have Working Holiday Visa agreements with Japan. The earliest countries to sign on were Australia, New Zealand and Canada in the 1980s. After that, a fair few European countries joined the program including the U.K., Germany and France. The only Asian countries that have WHV agreements with Japan are the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. There are also two South American countries on the list — Chile and Argentina. Notably, the U.S.A does not have a Working Holiday Agreement with Japan.
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You can find the full list of countries here. If your country isn't one of the 26, then unfortunately a Working Holiday isn't an option for you. However, the list is steadily expanding with the most recent additions of Sweden, Estonia and the Netherlands in 2020, so don't give up hope.
While the requirements for a Working Holiday Visa are similar, there are some differences depending on your nationality. For the most accurate information check the website of your country's Embassy or Consulate-General of Japan. Here are some of the general requirements though, to get you started:
Be aged 18 to 30 years old at the time of application (this goes right up until the day before you turn 31).
Have a valid passport.
Have proof of a return ticket OR proof you have enough money to buy one.
AND have proof of enough funds to support yourself for the first few months after arrival.
Be in good health.
In addition to these, you must never have recieved a Working Holiday Visa for Japan before, and you should be "intending primarily to spend your holiday in Japan for a specific length of time" (source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs website). Basically, don't hop around between Japan and other countries too much, or spend most of your time in Japan working. Oh, and while you can go on a Working Holiday with your partner (if they also meet the requirements), you can't bring dependents (children) with you.
How do you apply for a Working Holiday Visa?
Your first step should be to check the Embassy of Japan or Consulate-General of Japan website for your country. Here is where you'll find country specific requirements. Keep in mind that in most cases you have to apply in person from your country of citizenship. For example, if you're an Australian citizen currently living in the U.K, you have to return to Australia to be able to apply, even though both Australia and the U.K have Working Holiday Agreements with Japan.
The website will have a list of documents required for your application. Again there are some differences between countries, but some of the documents you might need to prepare include:
A completed Visa Application Form and 35 mm x 45 mm passport style photo
An up-to-date CV or resume
A proposed itinerary/schedule
A statement of purpose
Proof of funds*
Proof of good health
*Your Embassy or Consulate-General will usually have a suggested amount. It varies a lot though, expect anywhere from ¥200,000 to ¥400,000 for a single person with no return ticket.
Once you've filled out all your documents, you'll need to submit them to your Embassy/Consulate-General of Japan. This is usually done in person, but some countries may accept postal or online applications.
Then it's just a matter of waiting. Usually, you'll be contacted regarding the outcome after one or two weeks. The next steps normally involve handing over your passport to get your Visa stamp, and possibly more form-filling.
But once all that's done, congratulations! You're ready to get on the plane.
What jobs can you do on a working holiday in Japan?
An English language teacher is teaching English at a classroom to elementary school children at a Japanese elementary school.
The Working Holiday Visa has surprisingly few restrictions regarding what kind of work you can do, or how many hours you can work. You can't work in "premises affecting public morals" — think bars, nightclubs and gambling establishments — or you risk deportation. However, pretty much anything else is fair game.
Common jobs for Working Holiday Visa holders include English teaching, and hotel/hostel and ski resort work, as these can be more accommodating of short term workers. Also, because of the COVID-19 pandemic remote work has become more common in Japan. You might be able to find remote work jobs in the tech or games industries, in addition to education, sales and translation.
Nobody likes job searching, but in the context of a Working Holiday Visa it can actually be kind of exciting. It's an opportunity to gain experience in a completely new industry, or get international experience in your industry.
If you're especially keen you could start looking online for work before you arrive in Japan. There are lots of job search websites out there, including a large number of English language sites specifically for foreigners.
However, if you start looking for jobs after arriving you can visit in person job search centers like Tokyo Employment Service Center for Foreigners and Hello Work (website in Japanese only).
Working Holiday Visas come with an initial period of stay that's usually around six months. Often, Working Holiday Visa holders can apply at the Immigration Office to have their visa extended by another six months.
If you want to stay on after using up your extension, you may be able to change to another visa type. A Working Visa is a popular choice, especially if you've found an employer that you like, or a Student Visa if you'd like to study at a Japanese language school or graduate school. However, depending on your nationality, you may not be able to change visa type from within Japan. Instead, you may have to return to your home country and apply for another visa from there.
In case we haven't said it enough in this article, check the requirements specific to your nationality.
Pro tips for making the most of your Working Holiday in Japan
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So, here we are. You've got your Working Holiday Visa and you're ready to live your best (Working Holiday) life. Here are some tried and tested pro tips from us here at Tokyo Cheapo to help you make the most of it.
Get a Japanese phone number before you arrive. Even if it's only temporary, it will save you some hassle, especially when trying to open a bank account.
Get a room in a sharehouse or homestay to start out. You can't register a hotel or a AirBnb address at your City/Ward Office. And without an address you can't open a bank account.
Speaking of which, open a bank account with Japan Post Bank (Yūcho Ginkō). Some other banks won't allow you to open a bank account until you've been in Japan for six months. JP Bank lets you do it right away.
Pack smart: Some medicines and products might be hard to get in Japan (just make sure you get the proper paperwork for medicine). Also keep in mind that Japanese clothes tend to be on the smaller side — good luck if you are tall, have big feet or wide hips.
Seasonal work, at ski resorts for example, is a great way to start out.
Know your rights as a worker in Japan. Here some of the basics: The minimum hourly wage depends on the region you're in but it's usually ¥850 to ¥1,000. If you work more than six hours in a row you're entitled to a 45 minute unpaid break, if you work for eight hours you get a 1 hour break. Generally, you shouldn't work more than 40 hours per week (excluding breaks).
You are allowed to leave Japan during your period of stay, but you need to get a re-entry permit from the airport on your way out.
Pros and cons of a Working Holiday in Japan
We know this is all a lot of information to take in. Maybe you're even questioning whether you want a Working Holiday Visa after all. Here's a quick run down of the pros and cons of a WHV to help you make up your mind.
Don't have to commit to an employer you've never met Can be challenging to find short term work
Can work in a variety of industries Moving around a lot in Japan means a lot of paperwork
No maximum/minimum number of work hours Might not be able to find work when you need it
Don't have to work at all if you have enough funds Short term/temporary work can be low paying
Not tied to one location or one job –
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To get off on the right foot, here are some things you'll need to take care of after arriving in Japan.
Get a SIM card
Consider transfering money to your new bank account
Find a place to stay
Visit the City or Ward Office to: register your address, and sign up for National Health Insurance and the National Pension
Now, you might have noticed we bolded that last point. That's because it's a legal requirement to register your address at the City or Ward Office within 14 days of moving in. The address will be printed on your Residence Card, and when you move out you have to go back and notify them that you're moving. This is what we meant when we said moving a lot will mean a lot of paperwork. Signing up for National Health Insurance and the National Pension are also legal requirements. Even if you have insurance and a pension in your home country, you still have to sign up for the Japanese ones while you're here. Both of these things will involve regular payments after signing up.
NOTE: City/Ward Offices don't always have English speaking staff or resources, especially in regional areas. The camera function on Google Translate, while imperfect, can be really helpful when filling out paperwork.
Is it hard to get a Working Holiday Visa? If you meet all the requirements and submit the correct documentation, it's normally pretty easy. However, some countries have a maximum number of applicants that are accepted each year, so that might be something to consider.
How many times can you get a Working Holiday Visa? You can only get it once. However, if you are impacted by unforeseen circumstances (like COVID-19 travel restrictions), you might be able to apply again.
Is it worth getting a Working Holiday Visa? Our biased answer is yes! It's a great way to travel in Japan while still being able to earn some money.
Can you get a JR Pass while on a Working Holiday Visa? Nope. Working Holiday Visa holders are considered residents of Japan, and therefore aren't eligible for country-wide JR Passes. However, there are some regional JR Pass available to foreign residents of Japan.
How much does a Working Holiday Visa for Japan cost? Working Holiday Visas are free. However, you Embassy/Consulate-General of Japan may charge a processing, issuing, or visa fee of some kind. If you extend your visa after arriving in Japan, you will have to pay a fee of ¥4,000 at the Immigration Office when you pick up your new visa.
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On Tuesday's Megyn Kelly Today, 47-year-old Kelly questioned why wearing blackface for Halloween costumes is considered offensive during a segment in which she slammed some universities for being too politically correct in banning certain costumes. Kelly later received serious backlash on social media for her controversial comments, and in an email sent to her colleagues, she apologized.
Kelly said she had come to the conclusion that her initial opinion was "wrong" by listening to feedback from friends and family.
"One of the wonderful things about my job is that I get the chance to express and hear a lot of opinions," the letter reads. "Today is one of those days where listening carefully to other points of view, including from friends and colleagues, is leading me to rethink my own views."
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"I realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong, and I am sorry," she added. "The history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent; the wounds too deep."
Kelly called for more "understanding, love, sensitivity and honor."
"I've never been a 'pc' kind of person -- but I understand that we do need to be more sensitive in this day and age," she wrote. "Particularly on race and ethnicity issues which, far from being healed, have been exacerbated in our politics over the past year. This is a time for more understanding, love, sensitivity and honor, and I want to be part of that. I look forward to continuing that discussion."
"I'm honored to work with all of you every day," the email concluded.
Kelly was passionate during the Halloween segment on her show on Tuesday, which also included television personalities Jenna Bush Hager, Melissa Rivers and Jacob Soboroff.
A number of celebrities weighed in on Kelly's comments, including Patton Oswalt, who wrote, "Dear @megynkelly -- you and I are approximately the same age. Blackface was NOT okay when we were kids. Take it from a big-hearted boy who just wanted to show his love for Nipsey Russell on the worst Halloween of my life."
Meanwhile, Padma Lakshmi commented, "Because @megynkelly: minstrelsy is the basis for the coining of the term 'Jim Crow' laws which served to humiliate & target Black Americans. Because caricaturing another race perpetuates the dehumanization of POC who are being killed & jailed at a disproportionate rate in the US."


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Everything you need to know about Common Ground
The Common Ground Music Festival runs from June 27-30, 2019 in downtown Lansing. (WILX)
By Barrett Tryon |
Posted: Thu 9:07 AM, Jun 27, 2019 |
Updated: Mon 2:04 PM, Jul 01, 2019
LANSING, MI (WILX) -- The 20th annual Common Ground Music Festival kicks off Thursday in downtown Lansing. It runs until Sunday.
Since it began, more than one million people have attended the festival at Adado Riverfront Park, the festival said.
Tickets begin at $89, plus fees, for general admission for all four days. A limited number of VIP passes are also available for $240, plus fees.
You can purchase tickets online.
Children 5 and under are free in the General Admission area with a paid adult. However, children of all ages must have their own full priced "VIP" Uncommon Club ticket AND must be accompanied by a "parent" at all times while in the "VIP" Uncommon Club area.
Festival hours
Friday: 4 p.m. - midnight (gates close at 9:30 p.m.)
Saturday: 3 p.m. - midnight (gates close at 9:30 p.m.)
Sunday: 3 p.m. - midnight (gates close at 9:30 p.m.)
Full line-up
Zedd and Playboi Carti will take the stage Friday evening. Tracy Lawrence and Cole Swindell are among those performing Saturday. Big Boi and 2 Live Crew are set to perform Sunday.
You can view the full line-up here.
All shows are rain or shine, the festival said.
Road closures in effect
If you're not going to the festival itself, there are road closures around the festival area.
Grand Avenue between Shiawassee Street and Saginaw Street, and the northernmost westbound lane on Shiawassee Street between Grand Avenue and Cedar Street, will be closed until Tuesday.
The southernmost bike and pedestrian travel lane on Saginaw Street between Washington Avenue and Grand Avenues are also reduced.
Grand Avenue will be reduced to two lanes between Ionia Street and Shiawassee Street.Northbound Grand River traffic will be allowed to travel either east or west onto Shiawassee Street.
To detour, northbound Grand Avenue traffic should travel west on Ionia Street or Shiawassee Street to Walnut Street, north on Walnut Street to Saginaw Street and then east on Saginaw Street to return to Grand Avenue.
Those who use the Lansing Community College parking structure located on Grand Avenue will follow Saginaw Street east to Grand Avenue, and then south on Grand Avenue in the designated travel lane to access the entrance into the parking structure.
There is free parking available in downtown Lansing, and in the nearby Old Town neighborhood. Parking ramps are also available for $15 a day.
Read more about parking online, including a map to the garages available.
Bag restrictions
Bags will be restricted to small purses, fanny packs, and single pocket drawstring bags only.
Bags may not exceed 14" x 11" x 5" and must have only one singular pocket or opening.
Backpacks and bags with multiple pockets are prohibited.
Hydration packs are allowed but must be emptied of all liquid and have no more than two pockets in addition to the one holding the water reservoir.
PROHIBITED bags include, but are not limited to: Bags that do not comply with the bag policy listed above, coolers, briefcases, backpacks, seat cushions, luggage of any kind, computer bags and camera bags or any bag larger than the permissible size.
Other restrictions in effect
The following are not permitted at the festival and cannot be brought onto festival grounds:
- Oversized umbrellas (golf umbrellas) or umbrellas with a pointed and/or metal tip
- Outside food or beverages
- Cans or glass bottles
- Alcohol, Contraband
- Pets (except service animals)
- Selfie/GoPro sticks
- Video equipment
- Professional cameras
- Recording devices
- Laser pointers
- Skateboards
- Inline skates
- Coaster wagons
- Kites, Frisbees
- Picnic baskets
- Weapons of any kind
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With increasing work pressure, longer commutes and strained work-life balance, it's safe to say that modern organizations need to put more effort into keeping their staff motivated.
New businesses have been on the forefront of this modern office revolution, but even large businesses have begun to re-evaluate their policies and take a more employee-friendly approach. If you're wondering whether you're working for or running a progressive organization, here are a few things your office should be missing.
The boxed-in office segregation is old school and counterproductive to communication. Today, most office spaces don't even have the space to accommodate the many walls that cubicles require. Open office designs, which focus on wall-less interiors and shared workspaces are perfect for the modern office. In addition to being airy and uncluttered, this sensibility encourages a more approachable, collaborative atmosphere among employees.
While the 9 to 5, Monday to Friday routine was the norm even a decade ago, the great candidates of today will have nothing to do with old-fashioned timing policies. Offering your employees flexible work timings or work-from-home options can help them maintain a healthy work-life balance. It could even make employees more productive as their focus shifts from clocking in exact daily hours to creating great work.
Office setups that follow a strict chain of command are out of favor with the new crowd. The best talent is always in search of a flat hierarchy. As with an open office, this encourages collaboration, participation and makes interaction with managers and seniors more casual. This approach also encourages innovation and accountability as employees take ownership of their role and tasks in the organisation.
Your employees spend the majority of their waking hours at the office five days a week. That's a lot of time, and more of the same can get boring sooner than you may think at first. Given the increasing importance of the workspace as a means of attracting and retaining talent, it's important for organizations to mix it up with a new look and better furniture at regular intervals. How do you make this viable, given the high cost of furniture? Consider a furniture rental solution.
Performance reviews can take a toll on employees, who dread that time of the year when all their hard work is reduced to a few rating marks by their managers. It's no easier on management though, who generally have more pressing things to undertake over pondering the difference between "Good" and "Excellent". The solution: constant interaction and regular feedback with constructive criticism, as well as praise and encouragement.
Scheduling one-on-one meetings every month or two with your team members can help you steer them in the right direction and improve your organization's overall productivity and capabilities. It also reinforces your trust and commitment to your employees when you spend time with them individually.
In a nutshell, for modern businesses to achieve their full potential, they will need to provide their employees with a flexible, invigorating environment that channels new ideas and improves productivity.


Application program interface (API) is a set of Instructions, protocol, or implementation that is created to be accessible in client side application. It is also used for securely transmitting of data when it comes to the database application. It Controls data flow and limit client side application to have a full control of the main data. A good API can secure database from being vulnerable to hacking.
API Concept is to transmit data from a Database and used it in a Client side application like Websites or windows application through our Web API.
Instead of using actual database connection from a database, we are going to use an Array of data to represent our database and process data in Web API, and pass data to our client application which I'm going to use JQuery in receiving data from the API.
I uploaded myWebAPI.php in 000WebHost and consume it using xampp Localhost in my local Computer.
Common problem encountered in JQuery is the Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) that is block in most of the hosting sites. As a work around we used JQuery JSONP datatype.


Details: Cheap. The sushi is good and doesn't make you sick. $1 is good for beginner sushi eaters. (Crab & Shrimp are white people/picky eater favorites) If its cold, get the Miso soup. It's like $1. The $6 mixed drinks are large & strong. The beer is beer. They have a TV that usually has on ESPN. It gets crowded by 6pm and you may have to wait for a table. Its a cozy restaurant, not very loud, not very big. They do have other Chinese food options if someone in your group doesn't like sushi. Wok N' Roll is pretty much the best place to go before a weekday game, if you like sushi.
Female Situation: This is not the place to pick up chicks. However, If you invite a girl to go with you, its money in the bank. Girls love the non-bar atmosphere and the mixed drinks. Its quiet enough to talk and pretend to listen. But lets get back to the drinks. Big. I'm not gonna put down any guarantees, but lets just say after one of these drinks, your lady friend will have, uh, less inhibitions? She'll be feelin it like Blink 182. If you are lucky, you may not even attend the game.


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The Theory of Dynamical systems is a branch of the theory of Differential Equations. It was founded as a separate discipline by Poincare, and developed by Birkhoff and Smale. Substancial contributions were made by mathematicians of the Moscow school, e.g. Kolmogorov, Arnold, Alekseev, Anosov, Sinai, and others. The proposed course is an introduction to the subject. It contains a survey of the field. The basic theorem is proved; the ideas of the proofs of more difficult results are explained without technical details.
Prerequisites: An introductory course to Ordinary Differential Equations.
Introduction. Philosophy of general position
Generic dynamical systems in the plane. Limit behavior of solutions; Andronov-Pontryagin criterion of structural stability; Poincare-Bendixson theorem
Elements of hyperbolic theory. Hadamard – Perron theorem; Smale horseshoe; elements of symbolic dynamics; Anosov diffeomorphisms of a torus and their structural stability; Grobman-Hartman theorem; normal hyperbolicity and persistence of invariant manifolds; structurally stable DS are not dense.
Attractors. Lyapunov stability of equilibrium points and periodic orbits; maximal attractors and their fractal dimension; strange attractors; Smale-Williams solenoid.
Dynamical systems in low dimension. Diffeomorphisms of a circle; rotation number, periodic orbits; conjugacy to rigid rotation; flows on a torus; density; uniform distribution.
Elements of ergodic theory. Survey of measure theory; invariant measures of dynamical systems; Krylov-Bogolyubov theorem; Birkhoff-Khinchin ergodic theorem; ergodicity of nonresonant shifts and Anosov diffeomorphisms of a torus; geodesic flows; mixing.
V. I. Arnold, Geometric theory of ordinary differential equations.
B. Hasselblat, A. Katok, Introduction to the modern theory of dynamical systems, Cambridge Univ. Press.


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The inter-generational politics of 'travelling memories': Sahrawi refugee youth remembering home-land and home-camp
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Drawing on primary research conducted with Sahrawi children and youth in the Sahrawi refugee camps, Cuba, Spain and Syria between 2001 and 2009, this article explores the Sahrawi politics of 'travelling memories', assessing how, why and to what effect memories of both the Western Saharan home-land and of the Algerian-based home-camps 'travel' between older and younger generations and across geographies in contexts of ongoing mobility. I start by exploring the ways in which Sahrawi children and youth 'inherit' and negotiate memories of their home-land and home-camps when they are temporarily separated from their families for educational purposes. In particular, this raises the question of whether the transmission of memories in such contexts of separation takes place in spite of children's distance from their families and home-camps, or because of this. I then examine the ways in which youth's memories 'travel' with them to their refugee home-camps upon graduation, analysing how their memories relate to those memories prioritised both by the international community mandated to secure a political solution to the protracted conflict, and by the older Sahrawis who monopolise not only the political infrastructure in the refugee camps, but also the 'official memory' of home-land and home-camps alike. Overall, I argue that the transmission of memories of the home-land are complemented and at times superseded by the development of and longing for memories of youth's home-camps. As such, multiple processes of memory-making and memory-recuperating underpin diverse political commitments to a plurality of home-spaces, including both the home-land and the home-camp. Recognising the intersecting and at times conflicting nature of memories of home-land and home-camp leads us to question the implicit assumption that political mobilisation revolves around memories of the home-land alone, or that the home-land should itself be the focus of political action and change.


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60 Minutes, Part 2, Gospel For Teens (Part Two)
produced by Shari Finkelstein, fl. 2001-2015, Columbia Broadcasting System, in 60 Minutes, Part 2 (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2011), 11 mins
Lesley Stahl spends a year following the inspirational leader of a gospel music program for teenagers in Harlem and her students as they learn to sing this original American art form and build the confidence and character it inspires. This is part two of a two-part segment.
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60 Minutes, Part 1, Gospel For Teens (Part One)
Lesley Stahl spends a year following the inspirational leader of a gospel music program for teenagers in Harlem and her students as they learn to sing this original American art form and build the confidence and character it inspires. This is part one of a two-part segment.
Vocal groups, Singing, Choirs, Political and Social Movements, Family and Culture, African Americans
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The White Mountains are the place to come for year round adventures. If you are tuned into the winter sports: skiing, snowboarding, ski-blading, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing come join us for that winter adventure with All Seasons Adventures equipment or join one of our seasonal tours. We cater to individuals, families and groups. We can customize a tour to meet any ability level.


Positive Media presents a look into how a Honolulu District of 18 public schools in Kaimuki and McKinley were able to help their students do better academically and build a stronger community at each school site. They made savvy use of a Federal grant offered to public schools called the 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant. Led by a passionate Grant Project Director, Pam Kohara and her District Office team nurtured the 18 schools to create unique programs for the students. The funds were used to provide extra tutoring for students, create family events to increase parental involvement with the schools, and bring in artists, musicians, athletes and science professionals to offer programs for the students. Watch as these lucky students got to dance ballet, sing, make robots, do capoeria martial arts, produce videos, play tennis, make pottery with their families and more!
Video produced for the Hawaii Department of Education by Positive Media Hawaii. Our youth program, Keiki Voices, is also featured in this video as one of the Community Partners hired by the schools to provide enrichment activities for their students.
Interviews in this video include school principals reflecting on how the grant has enhanced their school, as well as hear from students and families in the program.


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The Comedy Annual
ITV stand-up. 2 episodes (1 series), 2010 - 2011. Stars Phillip Schofield, Jason Manford and Dave Lamb.
The Comedy Annual Menu
Some of the biggest names in British comedy come together to take a look back at the year
Phillip Schofield, Jason Manford and Dave Lamb
Kevin Day, Paul Powell and Colin Swash
Some of the biggest names in British comedy - including Jason Manford, Jenny Eclair, Alistair McGowan and Jason Byrne, Mark Watson, John Bishop and Patrick Monahan - come together to take a look back at the past year and deliver their verdict on the most brilliant, outrageous and infuriating moments of the year.
From 2010's volcanic ash cloud to vuvuzelas, no comedy stone will be left unturned.
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Tuesday 20th December 2011 on ITV at 9pm
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BOTSWANA'S Minergy, a coal development company due to list in London next year, said it would attempt to sell coal to Eskom, the beleaguered South African power utility, after an earlier proposal was turned down because it did not have a black owner.
"I've flirted with the Eskom opportunity. I just can't get to the coal people because there are some serious gatekeepers in the way," said Andre Bojé, CEO of Minergy in an interview.
A previous inquiry to sell coal to Eskom was turned down because the utility said it could only buy coal from black-controlled companies – a strategy Eskom CEO, Phakamani Hadebe said was no longer in place.
Eskom is urgently trying to secure four million tonnes (Mt) of coal of which only 1.1Mt had been contracted as of November 20. This is following the failure of mines formerly owned by Tegeta Mining and Resources which has since gone bankrupt and the mines – Optimum, Koornfontein and Vlakfontein – placed in business rescue.
Minergy is due to produce its first coal from Masama, a property situated in Botswana's Mmamabula coalfield. Construction on the mine site was only started a year ago whilst the mining licence was granted as recently as August by the Botswana authorities. Nonetheless, Bojé said the operation would be ready to start in February on time. Civils on the mine were far advanced and a process plant was being railed from South Africa.
Bojé said that both Botswana and Minergy had a significant role to play in fulfilling the increased demand for coal, with four million tonnes of coal exported from South Africa to the African continent in 2016, which is forecast to rise to 38Mt by 2030.
"The thermal coal price has also increased 33% over the past 18 months, making it one of the world's top five highest-performing commodities," said Bojé. "The price of coal is rising, there is a deficit in supply and a strong demand, especially in the developing world, which is driving up the prices and keeping them high," he said.
When Minergy lists on the Alternative Investment Market next year it will attempt to win over investors by highlighting its position as the first of several companies to turn significant reserves of Botswana coal to account. The development of a bridge at the border of Botswana and South Africa by Transnet Freight Rail will significantly increase capacity.
It will be interesting to see if the Botswana government, who are very keen to diversify their economy away from diamonds, will have anything to say about a SA government entity putting in place non-tariff barriers to Batswana exports. Perhaps Botswana should put up a few barriers to SA exports in retaliation? They could start with mining supplies, like explosives, for example. The Southern African Customs Union must offer some sort of recourse to countries barred from exporting to fellow members of the union.


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Could Environmental Chemicals Create "Progesterone Resistance", Endometriosis and PCOS?
If you have purchased The Natural Diet Solution for PCOS e-book, you may have been put off by the recommendations to eat organic, grass-fed meats or wild game instead of the ordinary supermarket meat or processed meats we all eat every day. Even worse, there are no dairy products in the recommended diet.
Are the authors out of their minds, or what? Why would they be so strict and impractical?
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The main problem is fat. Fat is what makes meat so delicious and easy to chew.
But -- fat is where the body stores toxins. That's true for humans. And for animals.
So when you eat the fat of animals, you also eat the toxins they have stored. These toxins end up in YOUR fat cells, where they are stored indefinitely.
Grass-fed livestock and wild game is much lower in fat than animals fattened up in feed lots and pens.
Should we care?
Dioxins Are Bad News for Endometriosis and Maybe PCOS
Let's take dioxins for example. "Dioxins" is a label applied to a large family of chemicals. Perhaps the most well-known dioxin is Agent Orange, used to defoliate the jungles in the Vietnam war. Dioxins are everywhere in our environment. They get stored in fat cells and remain there for a very, very long time.
They have been linked to all kinds of diseases, including cancer, thyroid disease, immune disorders, diabetes, endometriosis and nervous system damage.
So what about PCOS? Is there any connection between dioxins and PCOS?
Consider one of the dioxins called TCDD, which is possibly the most toxic of the dioxins. TCDD is a pervasive chemical that is a known hormone and immune system disrupter. The ingestion of contaminated food is the primary source of TCDD exposure. TCDD accumulates within the human body, especially in areas of fat storage; it has an estimated half-life in humans of 11.5 years.
For these reasons, TCDD is a significant contaminant in the human breast. Breast milk samples have been found to contain very high levels of this compound, even in populations from poorly developed regions, reflecting the widespread transfer of dioxins and other toxicants from their point of origin. Very high levels of TCDD have been reported in breast milk in Belgium women, a country noted to have one of the highest incidences of endometriosis.
Progesterone Resistance
Endometriosis is a condition where cells of your uterus get outside of your uterus and start growing on your ovaries and elsewhere. Endometriosis is difficult to treat and can be quite painful.
A number of medical studies have demonstrated that exposure to TCDD can induce endometriosis. The evidence suggests that TCDD interferes with the progesterone communication system in your tissues.
Thus, progesterone cannot regulate your body as it is supposed to. This is referred to as "progesterone resistance".
In addition, TCDD is known to disrupt ovarian progesterone production.
Your inability to produce and utilize progesterone is a primary reason why you have problems having a normal cycle and are less likely to become pregnant.
But this is not the end of the TCDD story. In mice, TCDD has been shown to affect future generations. Embryonic mice and young mice exposed to TCDD appear to have progesterone resistance that carries on for several future generations. The same could turn out to be true for humans.
Progesterone resistance appears to be clearly linked to endometriosis. There is also some evidence that this hormone disorder occurs in PCOS.
Here's the bottom line: Environmental chemicals like TCDD are screwing up your hormones. If your hormones are screwed up, then you have PCOS and a whole bunch of other health problems.
How to Get Dioxins Out of Your Diet
OK, let's get back to the diet. As we said, a lot of these chemicals are in the foods you're eating, especially in animal fats.
For most of us, the diet is a major source of these toxins. See the chart below, which indicates where your total dioxin load is coming from.
As you can see, beef and dairy are the highest sources.
One purpose of The Natural Diet Solution ebook is to reduce your exposure to all dioxins. Dioxins are proven to mess up your hormones. That's why the authors were so picky about what they recommend.
Regardless of the diet suggestions in the ebook, do what you can to reduce consumption of land animal fats.
In summary, dioxins and other hormone disrupting environmental chemicals have been implicated in polycystic ovary syndrome, insulin resistance, fatty liver disease, dysfunction of female sex hormone action, and much more.
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Why this Hormone is Important for PCOS Management
Kaylon L et al, Dioxin and Endometrial Progesterone Resistance, Semin Reprod Med. 2010 January; 28(1): 59-68
Savaris RF et al, Progesterone Resistance in PCOS Endometrium: A Microarray Analysis in Clomiphene Citrate-Treated and Artificial Menstrual Cycles, J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Jun;96(6):1737-46
Chart from EPA Dioxin Reassessment Summary 4/94 - Vol. 1, p. 37 (Figure II-5. Background TEQ exposures for North America by pathway)
Hart RJ. Physiological Aspects of Female Fertility: Role of the Environment, Modern Lifestyle, and Genetics. Physiol Rev. 2016 Jul;96(3):873-909.


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Wrong Notes and Left Turns
September 06, 2016 / Kyle Sorenson
In my previous post I was writing about some of my frustrations with branding and forming a strong musical identity. I was discussing how I dislike sticking to one style, and how the variety of my music makes it hard for me to apply a meaningful genre label to myself.
Continuing on this same "branding-and-promotion" track of mind, I've found myself doing a lot of thinking lately about other qualities of my music that make it distinctive, but possibly less accessible.
One thing that immediately occurs to me—as a songwriter friend of mine endearingly once put it—is that I have tendency to throw "left turns" into my songs. My melodies are often peppered with "wrong" notes, or notes that seem to subtly violate expected progressions/form slightly dissonant intervals with underlying chords.
Examples in My Music
The "ay-yi-yi-yi-yi" refrain in "I'm Not Cool Anymore" abruptly and unexpectedly shifts the mood of the song (at 0:15 and 0:33 in the first verse):
The verse melody in "Creation" turns suddenly minor towards the end of the phrase (0:13, 0:32), and does so again at the end of the chorus (1:20):
"Coat of Arms" also has an unexpected tonal shift at the end of each verse (1:10, 2:00).
I love these things, and really I don't think I tend to hear many such "turns" as dissonant or even particularly unexpected. Certainly as a listener, when I hear "surprising" moments like these on the radio, that's when my ears really perk up.
Examples in Other Music
Sergei Prokofiev, the 20th century classical composer, was characteristically known for writing "wrong notes" into his melodies, and this is perhaps why I've long felt we share kindred souls when I listen to his music. The short third movement of his first symphony offers a great example of a melody that sounds distinctly traditional, but veers into unexpected melodic places just often enough that you're never quite able to anticipate where it's heading. In the modern day, Danny Elfman has a penchant for these sort of melodic turns as well (see the main title theme from the original Spiderman).
The Beatles, of course, used left turns all over the place (the minor turn at the chorus in Fool on the Hill comes immediately to mind, or the titular refrain of In My Life). It probably comes as no surprise that I really love the Beatles.
Despite my own personal love for the well placed "wrong note," in my years of demoing work for others, I've often gotten comments like "you're ending on that note?" or "is that how it's supposed to sound?", so clearly some of these "left turns" aren't appreciated by everybody.
Generally though, my impression is that these sort of moments are pretty well liked. Still, sometimes I can't help questioning myself a bit. I can find myself wondering if I've gone so far down the rabbit hole of developing hyper-individualized musical tastes that I've lost track of what others are likely to hear and enjoy.
That's certainly one of the challenges of becoming a songwriter or any kind of craftsman: as you develop in sophistication, your tastes invariably change, and it's not uncommon for those tastes to start to deviate pretty far from the mainstream. It's definitely an ongoing source of worry for me, since above all else, I see songwriting as a battle against alienation: if it's not connecting with people, it's not working.
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Virtuozzo
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Virtuozzo 7.0.0 (or newer), or its community edition OpenVZ, provides both
types of virtualization: Kernel Virtual Machines and OS Containers.  The type
of instance to span is chosen depending on the ``hw_vm_type`` property of an
image.

.. note::

   Some OpenStack Compute features may be missing when running with Virtuozzo
   as the hypervisor. See :doc:`/user/support-matrix` for details.

Configuration
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To enable LXC, configure :oslo.config:option:`DEFAULT.compute_driver` =
``libvirt.LibvirtDriver`` and :oslo.config:option:`libvirt.virt_type` =
``parallels``. For example:

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   [DEFAULT]
   compute_driver = libvirt.LibvirtDriver
   force_raw_images = False

   [libvirt]
   virt_type = parallels
   images_type = ploop
   connection_uri = parallels:///system
   inject_partition = -2

To enable Virtuozzo Virtual Machines, set the following options in
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   [DEFAULT]
   compute_driver = libvirt.LibvirtDriver

   [libvirt]
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Snowden at Moscow Airport, No Aeroflot Flight Booked for Days
ReutersA screen showing whistleblower Edward Snowden at a cafe in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Wednesday.
A former U.S. spy agency contractor sought by Washington on espionage charges appeared on Wednesday still to be in hiding at Sheremetyevo Airport, and Russia's national airline said he was not booked on any of its flights over the next three days.
Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong after leaking details of secret U.S. government surveillance programs, then flew on to Moscow on Sunday, evading a U.S. extradition request. President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he was in the transit area of the airport and that Russia had no intention of handing him to Washington.
"They are not flying today and not over the next three days," an Aeroflot representative at the transfer desk at Sheremetyevo said when asked whether Snowden and his legal adviser, Sarah Harrison, were due to fly out on Wednesday.
"They are not in the system."
Snowden has not been seen in public, but Russian officials say he is at the airport, awaiting a response to an appeal for asylum in Ecuador. The logical route to be taken — and one for which he at one point had a reservation — would be an Aeroflot flight via Havana.
The choice of alternative public flights, while the U.S. presses other countries not to take him in or to arrest him on arrival, would be limited.
WikiLeaks said Wednesday that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was "safe and well," a brief statement that gave no indication of how the information was obtained and did little to clear up the mystery concerning his whereabouts.
The group, which says it is helping Snowden to seek asylum, has declined to reveal details about Snowden's plans, citing security concerns.
Putin denied Snowden was being interviewed by Russian intelligence and said any U.S. accusations that Moscow was aiding him were "ravings and rubbish."
That prompted a new extradition demand by Washington, which said there was a "clear legal basis" to do so.
The row threatens to further fray ties between the United States and Russia, which have argued over human rights and Putin's treatment of opponents in a year-old third term and have squared off over the Syrian conflict in the UN Security Council.
Relations between the U.S. and Ecuador are also under threat as the South American nation considers Snowden's request for asylum, a process that the Ecuadorean foreign minister said Wednesday could take months to complete.
Speaking during a visit to Malaysia's main city, Kuala Lumpur, Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino compared Snowden's case to that of Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, who has been given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
"It took us two months to make a decision in the case of Assange, so do not expect us to make a decision sooner this time," Patino told reporters.
Asked if Ecuador would provide protection to Snowden while considering his request for asylum, Patino said through a translator that if Snowden "goes to the embassy, then we will make a decision."
Patino refused to say what criteria Ecuador would use to decide, but added that his government would "consider all these risks," including concerns that helping Snowden would hurt trade with the U.S. and damage his country's economy.
In another development in the Snowden story, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon said Wednesday that he had decided not to represent the leaker. A statement from his law firm provided no further explanation.
Garzon, who has fought on WikiLeaks' behalf, became famous for indicting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 and trying to put him on trial for crimes against humanity. He was suspended from office in Spain for overstepping his powers by starting an investigation into killings committed on behalf of former Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
Material from The Associated Press is included in this report.
U.S. Taps Kerry's Deputy as Point Man With Russia on Snowden
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Palo Alto High School Principal Kim Diorio released to Paly student media today a letter of reprimand she received from the interim assistant superintendent of human resources, as well as her response to the letter. The letter alleges that Diorio and other administrators failed to properly comply with Title IX and Board policy after learning about a Title IX incident that stemmed from an alleged sexual assault in a Paly bathroom.
Read The Paly Voice article on the letter and response here, and click through the timeline below for a complete series of events.


Title Future of Work: How can Germany be a leader in the Digital Economy?
Abstract This is a panel and audience discussion on how Germany can be a leader in the Digital Economy. Rather than copying the Silicon Valley model, Germany can forge a new "Way of Innovation" that ensures that a more tech-driven economy doesn't further enlarge the gap between "haves" and "have-nots." The right policies will build on German strengths in a way that enhances the virtuous circles of social capitalism.


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Well, since the Great Disappointment was a proto-Adventist concern, the Anglicans and Lutherans would be less likely to feel the same "pinch" with regard to premature "ship dates".
Yes, SDA base packages won't be shipped until everything is ready. They are working hard on it and it is scheduled to ship late this month. Thanks everybody for hanging in there with me.
Things are looking great for a release of the SDA base packages at the end of May. Everybody is working quite hard on this.
Are you sure you will make it to Prayer meeting, or will you be too busy trying out the new toy? Ahem I mean tool.
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please don't forget that Logos is working on Pacific time (you posted around 7 AM for them) and shipping sometimes occurs rather towards the evening or "staged" in batches.
A last minute technical glitch was fixed over the weekend, and all 3 SDA base packages should go live today, anytime. I'm awaiting word and will announce when I hear it. Actually, the techs might push the green button any moment, and you might know before I do on this wonderfuly, very busy day!
about 10 minutes ago I got the email that's it's ready to be downloaded.
Looks good, I'll do presentation tonight at work.
Made it to Prayer meeting..
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Madison high school students joined Assembly Democrats Tuesday to call on legislative leaders to take action on gun safety measures to protect students.
After previewing his priorities for this week's floor session, Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, said the biggest issue in this state and country is what is not being addressed. He then gave the floor to high school sophomore Lydia Hester who is concerned about gun violence in Wisconsin.
School shootings have been a reality for Hester her whole life, she said. Learning how to sit under a desk and be quiet as a 5-year-old is not something students should have to do, she added.
Assembly Democrats sent a letter to Gov. Scott Walker, Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Speaker Robin Vos, asking them to take action on "common sense gun safety" measures.
Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, was one of the members to sign the letter and believes Wisconsin can do more.
The requested bills include Assembly Bill 65, Senate Bill 34, Assembly Bill 567, Senate bill 563 and Assembly Bill 616. These bills would institute universal background checks, prohibit individuals convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor from possessing a firearm, and prohibit the sale, manufacture, transfer, use or possession of bump stocks, respectively.
Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, believes these bills are an important step in the right direction.
There is no reason the U.S. is one of the deadliest countries in the world, Taylor said. Something can be done changing that.
Taylor also said student support, especially college students' voices, can help lead the fight for stricter gun control laws.
According to the Assembly Democrats' letter, thoughts and prayers are not enough anymore, and making sure dangerous people do not have access to guns should be first priority. Additionally, the letter stated these bills are a real way the state of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin children can be kept safe.
According to a press release from Taylor's office, this effort follows a school shooting in Florida that occurred on Feb. 14 in which a 19-year-old entered a school with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, killing 17 people. This was the eighth school shooting in 2018, and one of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern history, the release said.


- According to the Alfa Romeo Museum Archives this original right hand drive 1750 Spider was manufactured on March 4th 1968 and was invoiced by the factory to Alfa Romeo England on March 9th 1968. The original paint colour was red with a black vinyl interior (just as it is now) and it was first registered for road use in England on April 4th 1968.
- This is a very rare car as only 633 1750 Spiders (105.58) were manufactured by the factory with right hand drive steering.
- A copy of an early registration document on file for this exceptional Spider shows that it was acquired by a Mr Phaedon Ellinas of Harrow, London, in May 1983. In a telephone conversation that we had with Mr Ellinas at his home in Cyprus in July 2014 he very kindly informed us that he had purchased the car from a Greek student named Vangelis who was studying at Watford University. Mr Ellinas was also studying at Watford University and he had mentioned to Vangelis (his first name) that if he ever wanted to sell the Spider then he would be interested in purchasing it. After two or three years of owning the car Vangelis eventually wanted to return to his home in Greece so Mr Ellinas bought the car from him. At the time the car was painted white and the registration number was 236-EYE.
- Mr Ellinas recalled that he had taken the car to a couple of Alfa Romeo Owners Club events during his ownership, and also enjoyed an unforgettable journey home to Cyprus. After leaving England (via the Dover to Calais ferry) he drove though France and Switzerland to Italy where he caught the Venice to Patras ferry to Greece. He then left Greece for Cyprus on the Pireas to Limassol ferry. On the return trip, after arriving back in Italy he drove up through Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. Amazing.
- In January or February 1986 he sold the car to an Alfa Romeo specialist in Watford, Hertfordshire.
- The Spider soon found its way to former Alfa Romeo specialist Alan Bennett of BenAlfa Performance Cars in Westbury, Wiltshire who registered it in his name in September 1987 in order to remove the 236-EYE number plate. The DVLA issued the replacement registration number PHR-74F, which it still wears now.
- According to a letter and sales invoice on file Mr Bennett sold the car in June 1992 to a Gentleman in Ealing, London.
- The next six years were spent accumulating parts and in 1998 the Gentleman sent the Spider to Alfa Romeo specialist restorer Roger Longmate of Spiders Web in Thetford, Norfolk.
- Mr Longmate was very methodical in detailing his invoices and the Gentleman was equally methodical in retaining them, so fortunately we have a very detailed account of the total restoration along with many photographs of before, during, and after the process.
- There are restoration bills on file from Spiders Web totalling over £20,000 but these do not include many parts and panels that the Gentleman supplied for the restoration, all of which are detailed in the invoices as being supplied to Spiders Web rather than being supplied by them.
- The engine was rebuilt (with new pistons and liners) towards the end of the restoration and all of the works were completed in around May 2001 when the Spider had its first post restoration MOT test.
- The replacement speedometer fitted during the restoration records that only about 900 miles have been covered in the thirteen years since the restoration was completed.
- In early 2013 the Gentleman lost the secure garaging that this Spider and his 1974 2000 GTV enjoyed. We purchased the GTV from him last year in which he had covered just 750 miles during his 22 years of ownership, but his fondness of the Spider allowed it to remain in his care for a few more months until we acquired it from him.
- This very rare Spider is in fantastic condition having been superbly restored, and then seen very little use. These Spiders rarely come to the market and correctly restored ones like this are even scarcer. Many of these Spiders were sold to the right hand drive market of South Africa but we feel it is lovely when an example has always remained in the UK. We encourage a future owner to request the DVLA conduct one of their V888 ownership history reports to reveal the earlier history of this fabulous car.


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Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Dies at Age 80
Watts is widely considered one of the most important drummers in the history of rock 'n' roll
Charlie Watts, shown playing drums with the Rolling Stones in Denver in 2019, was the reliable backbone for the group.
Photo: Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images
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Charlie Watts, the influential longtime drummer for the Rolling Stones, has died. He was 80 years old.
Mr. Watts died at a London hospital on Tuesday surrounded by his family, his spokesperson said in a statement.
"Charlie was a cherished husband, father and grandfather and also as a member of The Rolling Stones one of the greatest drummers of his generation," the statement said.
Earlier this month, the band said Mr. Watts was unlikely to perform with his bandmates when they resumed their "No Filter" tour because he was recovering from an undisclosed medical issue.
Steve Jordan, a veteran drummer and music producer who has worked closely with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, was tapped to fill in.
"For once my timing has been a little off," Mr. Watts said in a statement earlier this month. "I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today accepted on the advice of the experts that this will take a while."
Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones in 2016.
Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/Associated Press
Since joining the Stones in 1963, a year after the band was formed, Mr. Watts hadn't missed a show, according to Rolling Stone magazine. He underwent treatment for throat cancer in 2004.
Mr. Watts is widely considered one of the most important drummers in the history of rock 'n' roll.
"I don't know a single drummer that hasn't studied what Charlie does, and I haven't heard of a single one who has been able to pull it off," said Daniel J. Levitin, a professor emeritus of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University and author of "This Is Your Brain on Music."
Deeply influenced by jazz, his inimitable drumming style helped define the sound of the Rolling Stones by giving it a sense of swing. On songs such as "Tumbling Dice" from the Rolling Stones' 1972 masterpiece "Exile on Main St.," for example, he played slightly behind the beat, giving the song a slinky, sexy groove as memorable as its lyrics and guitar riffs.
While most Stones songs are credited to singer Mick Jagger and Mr. Richards, Mr. Watts indirectly played a role in the band's songwriting, too, by acting as a foil for Mr. Richards as he jammed and tinkered with anchoring riffs.
"To me what was amazing about the Stones was Charlie's drumming—which always sounded to me like a train that was about to go off the rails but it never does," said Mr. Levitin. "That makes it really exciting and scrappy. It avoided the kind of perfection sheen that characterized a lot of bands."
Compared with his rowdier bandmates, who have been known for their drug-taking and jet-setting, Mr. Watts had the image of the mature Stone, providing a reliable backbone for the group, as symbolized by his sartorial flair—though he too struggled with substance-abuse issues in the 1980s.
Charles Robert Watts was born June 2, 1941, in London, and grew up in the northwest neighborhood of Wembley, where he would later perform sold-out stadium concerts. By the time he was 16, Mr. Watts was drumming in jazz groups and frequented London clubs, according to a biography provided by his spokesman.
He initially turned down an invitation to join the Rolling Stones, continuing to work as a graphic designer at an advertising agency. But six months later, in January 1963, Mr. Watts made his first appearance with the band at the Flamingo Club in London's Soho. He finally gave up his graphic design job after the band was signed to Decca Records, and would remain behind his drum kit for more than 50 years.
Colleagues across the music industry mourned the loss of Mr. Watts Tuesday.
"It was a shock to me," Ringo Starr said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. "He was a beautiful human being, a great guy."
The Beatles drummer posted a photo on social media of the two legendary drummers together. Friends for decades, the men bonded not just over anchoring two of the most renowned and successful rock bands, but also over their shared minimalist styles. "We liked to laughingly say that as a drummer he played even less than I did," said Mr. Starr.
"Charlie Watts was the ultimate drummer," Elton John posted on Twitter. "The most stylish of men, and such brilliant company."
Paul McCartney, in a video posted online, called Mr. Watts steady as a rock. "Love you Charlie. I've always loved you," the Beatles member said.
—Alan Paul contributed to this article.
Write to Talal Ansari at talal.ansari@wsj.com
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For new Town Board members, last Tuesday was their first experience of the quarterly report on the town's finances from Town Comptroller Rob Deary. It was a sobering report mainly because the town—and Moody's—would much rather see an amount in reserve funds equivalent to 15% of the entire town budget rather than the 8%—around $3 million—that coffers hold currently.
And while some unexpected expenditures—associated with the retirement of the town's administrator and with legal fees for Chappaqua Crossing—caused some reworking of monies, there were several pleasant surprises Deary was able to report to Town Board members.
The town operates on a budget of around $37 million, $20 million of it from taxes, $17 million from revenues; the average tax bill for residents is $2,400.
In last year's budget Deary, who admits he budgets conservatively, anticipated mortgage tax revenues at $900,000. They ended up around $1,195,000. County sales tax, anticipated to come in at $2.15 million, turned out to be $2.45 million. And last year's revenues from building permits rose from an anticipated $430,000 to an actual $1,062,000.
The town is in good health, with a Triple-A rating from Moody's, and the Town Board intends to bond, at favorable rates, Deary explained, around $6.5 million in 2014 for capital improvements in 2015 to the town's aged water and sewer lines that run mainly under South Greeley. Here, too Deary had good news: It looks as though some of the very robust reserve funds belonging to the town's Water Department—reserves equivalent to nearly 100% of its $7.8 million budget—may be able to be applied to the infrastructure fix, since the water mains are directly related to the water delivery system.
Move town hall to Chappaqua Crossing?
So on Tuesday's work session agenda was the question of whether to fund a title search and appraisal for the ten-acre, town-owned, town hall property. Phase One could cost $10,000; Phase Two, another $23,000, to "drill down" for a more detailed view of the site's properties.
Town Board member Lisa Katz asked whether such an assessment wasn't premature, though she later agreed that to proceed at least with Phase One was appropriate. And a resident, Betty Weitz, when invited to comment, asked "What about 'Plan first, then develop'?" She noted that the "Spa at New Castle" proposal currently before the Town Board was another case of putting the cart before the horse," ad hoc treatment of issues that should be decided according to a vision derived from a Master Plan.
Greenstein responded that there would be no point in talking about moving town hall to Chappaqua Crossing without knowing what the town hall property can and cannot support. The appraisal of the property, he said, was in any case necessary also for the Master Plan review, which typically examines and quantifies all of the town's assets and resources.
Aside from what form a review of the 1989 Master Plan should take, one of the questions right now is where to find money to fund it. The review has had real trouble getting started. In Town Board elections two years ago, all candidates cited it as a priority, yet two years later little has been done.
Only once in office did it become clear to Greenstein that there was almost no money in the previous Town Board's 2014 budget for the review. Over 2013 the five-member Steering Committee organizing the review with the help of the Town Planner, Sabrina Charney, has lost members, substituted others, and suffered several false starts.
In the meantime, the Planning Board's required review of the proposed grocery-retail zone at Chappaqua Crossing—non-binding advice the Town Board was obliged by law to seek from its Planning Board—had morphed from emumerating the deficiencies of the proposal into an expression of what principles should guide development not only at Chappaqua Crossing but in the town overall. In its critique of the Chappaqua Crossing proposal for the Town Board, the Planning Board endorsed the concept of "traditional neighborhood design"—walkable, mixed-use development, wherever and whenever development is considered.
Post-election, Greenstein announced even before taking office that he had begun talks with Summit Greenfield and intended to find a "win-win" solution for the town and property owner, now almost in his tenth year of trying to develop it. Greenstein took with him Tom Curley, a member of the Planning Board who is an experienced architect. Emphasizing that it should not be taken as approval of any particular development proposal at Chappaqua Crossing, Planning Board members sent Curley off with a hearty endorsement to advocate for the Planning Board's "traditional neighborhood design" development principles.
In the two months since, Curley and Town Planner Sabrina Charney have met long hours with Summit Greenfield and its development team to reconfigure the puzzle-pieces of office, residential and retail uses. Last Tuesday Curley and Charney presented the latest drawings in a videotaped Planning Board work session. See Tom Curley shows PB latest drawings of "new neighborhood" at Chappaqua Crossing, NCNOW.org, 2/10/14.
Did he say "Master Plan"?
So back to the Master Plan effort. As reported above, there are already "masterplannish" actions afoot—focused, for example, around appraising town hall property and picturing what development that comports with the Planning Board's principles for development might look like at Chappaqua Crossing. Although the elements of a whole-town Master Plan review are still being figured out, Greenstein said in Tuesday's work session that he has, in fact, come up with funds to undertake the community outreach portion of the Master Plan review—to hire an consultant to gather input from residents by various means, including community meetings.
The Master Plan Steering Committee is undergoing some recomposition and both Greenstein and Sabrina Charney have emphasized that Summit Greenfield is not pressing for any deadline. Curley, too, says neither he nor the other Planning Board members are in a hurry to push the Chappaqua Crossing application forward. The Planning Board is scheduled to discuss the residential part of Curley's redesign in its next meeting, on February 18.
Town Board of New Castle Work Session 2/4/14 from New Castle Media Center on Vimeo.
You are misrepresenting what Deary said, he did not say legal fees had anything to do with the retirement of the town administrator- why are you trying to distort this? Or can't you read?
And while some unexpected expenditures associated with legal fees for Chappaqua Crossing and the retirement of the town's administrator caused some reworking of monies, there were several pleasant surprises Deary was able to report to Town Board members.
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I'm sharing a quick and easy birthday card. I'm working on creating all the birthday cards that I'm going to need for 2019 and getting my stash done early!
I might have gone a little overboard with the sequins!
But, hey… it's a birthday card and they should sparkle!
This was for a sketch challenge over on The Stamp Nation and it is for the Birthday Bash Birthday Card Stash Challenge, so I am using Catherine Pooler stamps, inks, papers, and sequins for this card.
The patterned paper is from CP's Cake and Confetti paper stack. Her patterned papers are nice heavy weight card stock. Aren't the colors fabulous?
The papers coordinate with the Birthday Icons stamp and die set and the Milestone Birthday stamp and dies. I've used the Birthday Icons here for the cake and the sentiment comes from the Milestone Birthday sentiments set. The sequins are from the Inspiration Point mix.
This was a quick and easy card to make and it went together fast. I love the sketch layout for the card. I consider this to be a classic card layout that works well with for so many stamps and sentiments. It creates a nice way to highlight the sentiment and you can use some of your patterned paper scraps or do a fun background technique as your focal point and leave the little cake off the card.
I think this is a perfect card for a spring birthday!
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you find time to craft this weekend!


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Iranian General Vows Provision of All Services Needed to Help Flood Victims
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Ataollah Salehi made assurances that the forces would do everything in their power to provide relief for the flood-stricken people in the northern provinces of Mazandaran and Golestan. - Society/Culture news - "We all have gathered in Golestan Province at the behest of Leader of the Islamic...
Armed Forces to Massively Participate in Relief Operations in Northern Iran
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces announced that its forces are planned to be deployed to the flood-hit areas in the northern provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran to take part in relief operations. - Defense news - In a statement released on Saturday, General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces expressed sorrow over the problems created for residents of the two...
General Soleimani Awarded Iran's Highest Military Order
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei awarded Iran's highest military order, the Order of Zulfaqar, to Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani. - Defense news - General Soleimani is the first Iranian military official to receive the order after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. After the...
Navy Foils Pirate Attack on Iranian Tanker in Bab el-Mandeb
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Iran's naval forces saved one of the country's oil tankers from a pirate attack in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, a Navy official said. - Defense news - According to the official, the pirates launched the attack early on Thursday on board 11 speed boats. However, commandos of the Navy's 60th flotilla of warships,...
Iran Army University Ready to Admit Foreign Students: Commander
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Iranian Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said the AJA University of Command and Staff is prepared to educate students from other countries. - Politics news - "In terms of hardware, scientific, content and experience-based infrastructure, and (presence of qualified) professors, the university has the capacity to admit foreign students," Major...
IRGC Develops Weapon to Counter US Anti-Drone Laser System
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri said the Navy has developed a weapon to beat the American anti-drone laser weapon system. - Politics news - In an interview with Press Shia Agency, Rear Admiral Tangsiri said the IRGC Navy has worked on a weapon to counter the US anti-drone laser weapon, adding, "The...
Video Shows Moment Iranian Submarine Launches Cruise Missile during Exercise
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A video released by Iranian State TV shows the moment Iranian Navy's Qadir-class submarine fired a cruise missile during an exercise in country's southern water. - Defense news - On the third day of the war game on Sunday, the Iranian Navy's submarine launched an anti-ship cruise missile.Since the submarine-launched missiles have a limited operational...
Iranian Official Warns of 'Camouflaged Threats'
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization warned of the rise of camouflaged threats resulting from the nature of modern technologies. - Society/Culture news - In comments at a conference on Sunday, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said the complex relation between technology and threats has confused many decision makers.Highlighting the synthetic nature of...
Video of Iran's Naval Drill in Southern Waters
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – The Iranian Navy began a three-day massive drill on Friday, code-named Velayat-97 in an area of 2 million square kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz to the northern parts of the Indian Ocean. - Defense news - A new domestically made submarine dubbed "Fateh (Conqueror)" and the Sahand destroyer, which recently joined the Iranian Navy's fleet, are...
IRGC General Brands Saudi Arabia 'Heart of Evil'
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) denounced the Saudi regime as the centerpiece of evil in the world. - Defense news - "Today, Saudi Arabia is the heart of evil in the region and the world," Brigadier General Hossein Salami said Tuesday in an address to a ceremony in commemoration of the IRGC personnel killed in a recent...
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