An updated rendering of The SoNo Collection, without the hotel that had been planned to be built over Bloomingdale's.
Attorney William Hennessey, right, represents GGP at Tuesday's Common Council meeting in City Hall.
NORWALK, Conn. – Yes, Norwalk is going ahead with allowing mall developer GGP to make its pitch to various governmental bodies, asking to build The SoNo Collection without building a hotel over Bloomingdale's, to pay the city $3.5 million instead.
The discussion at Tuesday's Common Council meeting featured GGP defending its request, responding to public criticism, and Mayor Harry Rilling explaining what commenter Diane Cece, at the beginning of the meeting, called the "back room negotiations" to arrive at what was announced seemingly as a done deal.
"The meetings that were held with Council leadership and others were to try to come to an agreement or an arrangement that we felt everybody could buy into. A proposal," Rilling said.
"In other words, we are still on Let's Make a Deal instead of The Price Is Right," Council member Steve Serasis (D-District A) said.
"If that's the way you want to put it," Rilling said, laughing along with others.
From left, Common Council member Shannon O'Toole Giandurco (R-District D), Corporation Counsel Mario Coppola and Attorney Eric Bernheim confer before Tuesday's Common Council meeting in City Hall.
The Council voted 12-1 to go ahead with the process after adding a requirement that at least two public hearings be held, at the request of Council member Shannon O'Toole Giandurco (R-District D) and Minority Leader Michelle Maggio (R-District C).
That was after Redevelopment Agency Executive Director Tim Sheehan explained that three public hearings were likely. RDA will hold one hearing each on the proposed changes to the Urban Renewal Plan and the Land Disposition Agreement; Planning Committee Chairman John Kydes (D-District C) said his Committee would also hold a public hearing.
Public comment is welcome at all the meetings, Sheehan said. The Zoning Commission will also have a public hearing, Attorney William Hennessey said, representing GGP.
Although GGP is requesting an expedited process, Sheehan acknowledged that the Boards and Commissions will take the time needed to consider the request.
GGP is reportedly planning to begin digging a foundation in early May ahead of the approvals in an effort to open in October 2019 to satisfy its deals with Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's. If that deadline is not met GGP will lose one of its anchors, Hennessey said.
"I strongly believe that a project that will produce in excess of $5 million annually in tax revenue and over 2,400 full-time jobs should at least have its developer heard and the request entertained," Kydes said, opening the conversation.
GGP hired a hotel architect and a hotel construction company, trying in earnest to make the hotel work, and spoke to "upwards of 12" hotel vendors, GGP senior planner Doug Adams said.
"The feedback was very consistent," he said.
Last summer and fall, GGP began discussing the possibility of not building a hotel, and in December one of the final candidates backed out, he said.
"I think everyone here is disappointed but again we are out of time in terms of trying to get something to work, when we are certain it won't work," Adams said.
Council Finance Committee Chairman Bruce Kimmel (D-At Large) asked Adams to respond to criticisms levied by Bob Welsh, who studied GGP's figures and concluded that dropping the hotel will save the company $2 million a year, while Norwalk gets the equivalent of $200,000 a year for 17.5 years.
"The net operating income of the property doesn't include a lot of the other corporate overhead," Adams said.
Adams spoke of dividends to shareholders and the cost of capital.
You might say you could build a house for $550,000, knowing that the end result will be worth $300,000, and accept the $200,000 loss, he said.
"There is a value to that income stream that is just unsustainable to just accept that as a loss. It takes the overall project to a place where the company would not invest the capital," Adams said.
Again, GGP does not develop hotels and needs a partner in the venture, which would look at it as an independent investor would, he said.
Serasis asked why 50 percent is not feasible.
The property is unique; to build the core asset, the mall, "there are certain dimensions and size that need to be maintained and the site is extremely tight with boundaries that cannot be modified," Adams said, mentioning the railroad line, West Avenue and Interstate 95.
Kimmel, earlier in the meeting, asked Sheehan if alternatives could be discussed as part of the ongoing process. Those could include the $3.5 million, or a YMCA or Boys and Girls Club, or an incubator, which were all mentioned by public commenters.
Council member Rich Bonenfant (R-At Large) suggested that perhaps the Enterprise Zone could be scaled back.
Hennessey, defending the request to change the definition of Class A anchor, said GGP is obligated to have Class A anchors 17 years from now.
"This mall is being built not to be up for 15 years, this mall is being built to be up and be a proud part of this community for decades and decades," Hennessey said.
Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom have agreements with GGP that go beyond 10 years, but at some point GGP may need to replace them, he said.
"We want to be in the position where we can do that responsibly in a way that always maintains this as a class a mall. Our goal is your goal in this endeavor. We are completely aligned in our interests," Hennessey said.
Council member Tom Livingston (D-District E) said that last week there was an article about high end malls thriving.
A Class A mall in an affluent area thrives, Hennessey said.
"We believe this is the perfect spot in America to build this facility, and when this facility is built it will a Class A mall. It will be at the top of the food chain in terms of retail facilities," Hennessey said.
The vote on Giandurco's amendment, to specify public hearings, had one no vote, from Kydes.
Bonenfant voted against going ahead with the process.
Council members Mike DePalma (D-District D) and Doug Hempstead (R-At Large) were absent.
Hempstead announced last week that he is recusing himself from the GGP discussions, because he is working with the company as a Stew Leonard's executive.
Why two additional public meetings, five meetings in total? I'm all for public participation but why? So the same people can come and make the same arguments over and over again against the mall? Thank you John Kydes for voting no.
"I strongly believe that a project that will produce in excess of $5 million annually in tax revenue and over 2,400 full-time jobs should at least have its developer heard and the request entertained," Kydes said." Ditto. Plus it would add an asset to Norwalk, replacing a 20+ year-old dead zone of activity seen predominately from I95.
Are we looking at stall tactics? Is GGP looking for a way out? I was under the assumption that the building was to begin December 2016, and that it was ready to move forward. I also kept saying that GGP has malls all over the country and that they certainly would not be building another if they thought it would fail. Are they now rethinking the viability of the project and looking for legal outs by way of stalling, changing, and possibly loosing their anchors (because of the stalling, changing and delaying)? I can't believe that GGP would have agreed to a required hotel before verifying the viability of it. I am not getting a good feeling about his project moving forward, too much posturing still happening when it was supposed to be a go….Just my thoughts.
@Sue Haynie, you're absolutely correct. No reason for additional public meetings when the council clearly has little interest in listening to the public's opinion on how this developement is executed. Committee members, the mayor and the RDA meet behind closed doors with GGP reps, hammer out a deal that excludes public input, returns to the public with proclamations that what we were originally promised cannot happen, and we are all supposed to sleep well at night. When elected and appointed officials are asked how we got here, they blame the developers. It's never them. Well, the failure of this plan to get off the ground in a timely manner and including all the promised components of a mixed use development can't be laid entirely at feet of the developers. The people we empower to negotiate with GGP bear equal responsibility for how this developement is executed. The mayor for one has a performance problem. He campaigned on this issue and has now reneged on that promise.
Thank you Bruce Kimmel and Doug Adams for speaking to my questions about a deal in which GGP pays Norwalk the equivalent of $200k per year for an increase in income of $2 million per year.
Doug Adams didn't dispute the figure of $2 million in increased income for GGP. What he seems to be saying is that the increase is not all profit. That's like saying a $10,000 raise isn't really a $10,000 raise because the government collects 40% of it in taxes. Except in this case, the "taxes" are dividends to GGP shareholders. I didn't hear any numbers in Doug's response. I'd like to hear GGP's own calculation of the yearly monetary benefit achieved from dropping the hotel, and hope to speak again with Doug on this, if he's willing.
@Sue and @Donna – interesting the you both assume the public opinion is against this – I've only attended two meetings on the proposal, but at both meetings the comments have been predominantly in favor of the project.
My sense is the train has left the station, like it or not we are aboard, and we're now negotiating which stop we're going to for what ticket price.
I was encouraged that Council members seem to want to negotiate the $3.5 million, which in my mind is way too low.
Thank you also to the many Council members from both parties who insisted on the RDA's confirmation that last night's vote doesn't require Norwalk to accept the deal as-is – changes are still possible to achieve a more balanced deal and greater community benefit. That includes Faye Bowman, Travis Simms, Steve Serasis, Bruce Kimmel, Michelle Maggio, Rich Bonenfant, and Shannon O'Toole-Giandurco.
Taxpayers need to remember how Rilling and the council did not support the will of the people with this disaster. They need to all go come November.
Question: Was the hotel something that Norwalk insisted on initially – or not?
I have not met one person in Norwalk that is for this disaster. That is in the real world and not the Internet blogs.
@Claire Schoen, I'm glad to hear that most of the public comments at the meetings that you've attended have been in favor of the mall. I stand corrected. I was basing my comments off of what I've read on this topic and the negative comments have seemed to predominate. I guess I had better attend one of the next 5 meetings and add to the chorus.
Norwalk insisted on a mixed use component. There were studies done on the feasibility of residential space, office space and a hotel. GGP always said it doesn't develop hotels, residential or office, but came to speak optimistically about putting a hotel on the site.
@sue haynie – hope you will encourage all your friends and neighbors to attend as many public comment and hearings opportunities as possible – pro or con! Our government works best with an informed and engaged public.
Having said, though, regrettably public sentiment doesn't always make a darned difference – dozens and dozens spoke against the Big Box application for main ave and that was approved, and perhaps a hundred or more spoke against the cranbury zip line but council simply pulled the item, and never voted on it, and opted not to kill it in committee (meaning the proposal can come back at any time). Hundreds begged city officials to kill the East Ave bridge height clearance project, and our elected officials did little or nothing to help.
I have always been in favor of this mall. Tom Livingston is right to point out that there is ample evidence that high end malls in affluent areas are striving, especially if these malls are forward-thinking with an emphasis on experience and lifestyle. Old, tired, and blend retailers are struggling, not solely because of the internet, but mostly because shoppers are gravitating to more exciting retailers and experiences. Here is a link to an article which is particularly illuminating as to what success looks like in retail today. Hopefully, this is what GGP is building for us.
Considering the scale and long-term impact of this project, a business-savvy mayor would have hired experts to advise the city. Much like GGP hired expect Larry Cafero to advise them on navigating Norwalk politics. An expert would have told the city a hotel was never going to work and would have helped formulate more creative and suited alternatives that would both have satisfied the city's desire for public realms and non-retail use, as well as help GGP create a 21st-century complex, not just a mall.
Bob – the increase in $2.0 million of NOI (Net Operating Income) is before any financing costs – debt or equity. Remember someone has to pay for this and those that pay require a return. So a significant portion of the NOI is used to pay back banks and equity participants. Likely to the tune of 70-90% of the available NOI so the real profit to GGP is more like $200,000 to $600,000.
Here's the interesting part that GGP did not explain well. If the NOI is $2.0 million lower the overall value would be approximately $36,360,000 lower. Now that's a real loss of tax revenue to have a project like this worth $36 million less.
How much, (($36,360,000 x .7)/$1,000) x 25.444 = $647,600. So in addition to losing the $200,000 GGP is offering we would also potentially lose $647,600 in additional tax revenue.
GGP paid $35 million for this land in 2013. At that price I would never expect to call this a public private partnership so maybe we should stop acting like it is. It's now 2017 (4 long years later) and RDA wants more public meetings and input from people who really have little or no concept about how these projects work or are financed. Clay Fowler has the best analogy –"it's like me telling GE how to build a nuclear power plant". We are wasting time, the window is closing.
The Norwalk process is broken and this is yet another prime example – calling for more public meetings so that good intentioned but un-informed people can throw more wrenches in works. If GGP can't complete by 2019 we (not they) we, as in Norwalk and GGP, stand to lose Nordstrom's and Bloomingdales. And for what?
GGP paid top dollar for the right to build a successful project, let's let them do that. Scrap the LDA, it's already caused two other well qualified developers to walk away. Let's not make it three.
Sidebar – The City should have a professional real estate consultant model this development in ARGUS which is the industry standard software for the financial modelling of complex commercial properties. This would take a pro about a couple of days to load in all the data. It may take several weeks or a month to gather the data but it appears much of that is already done, but I'm sure some is data missing based on experience. Once loaded the various scenarios can be run, with hotel, without hotel, etc. Any variable can be tested.
We can even adjust for time to show the huge costs our process imposes on a developer. Very sobering. This would give the CC that ability to conduct feasibility study in almost real time reflecting any reasonable development variable.
The cost to the City to have a pro do this (ARUGUS modeling) ~ $7,000 – $10,000. This would give the CC the power of knowledge from which to make informed decisions.
@Claire, my comment was not based on the assumption that more Norwalk citizens are against the mall than for the mall. It's that citizens have not always played much part in how decisions are made. I don't object to development of this site by GGP. It's the execution and the change in the LDA that I object to. And in my opinion all the responsibility for this failure lies with our city officials.
To be absolutely fair, GGP *IS* starting the project shortly. They are going shovels in the ground on the dig for the underground parking lot, even as this item is negotiated, because if they don't start now, they can't complete in time to meet the 2019 opening date required in the contracts with the anchors.
As far as the hotel component goes, they opted for the hotel as the most viable choice among the uses that qualify for mixed use. They knew they'd need a partner and they've been unable to secure one–reportedly because of the economics of the project.
Unfortunately the consultant report that was provided to show the numbers supporting the conclusion that the hotel was unfeasible started with assumptions about a full service hotel, with a banquet hall and all kinds of things that were not under consideration when the hotel was added to the plan in the first place. GGP concluded back in 2014 that a "limited service" hotel was the only thing they thought the market would support.
At the end of the day, Mr. McGuire is correct. Since GGP has been unwilling to provide the calculations, and we have no before and after comparisons of anything OTHER than the property tax calculations used to propose a payoff amount, there is no way for Council to evaluate whether it makes more sense to facilitate the project, and at what cost.
As for scrapping the LDA (or more to the point–the requirement for mixed use), everyone should be reminded that the requirement is partly there to ensure that full public benefit is reaped from properties taken by eminent domain. No private entity is supposed to benefit from an eminent domain taking–so let's stop pretending that this one should be treated solely as a business proposition.
Also, pretending that the only other option is the "hole in the ground" just because the land has never been developed before now. We have no idea what other options might have been brought over the years if the LDA didn't require mixed use. If I were one of the previous owners, I'd be really ticked that the city held to the rules all these years and then changed them now.
Mike is right about the city needing help with it's commercial real estate modeling. We don't do this well at all as a city. I have a spreadsheet that I have been maintaining and we have lost millions of dollars due to our commercial property not being assessed correctly.
Isabelle – those articles you are reading really apply to low end malls or malls in the middle of America. If you read all the the numbers the high end malls especially in coastal communities are thriving. They are building malls in areas with higher densities and the easy ability to move goods. Our community fits this requirement perfectly.
The issue with this project is that it shouldn't be mixed use. There should never been a hotel attached to this project.
This is a good project and the city needs to streamline the approvals and get the shovels in the ground. I am tired of all of the public hearings and all of the naysayers. Start digging and start building!!!!
And there goes the magic word "naysayers".
Nora, would you kindly share your spreadsheet with the rest of the citizenry via NON? I just reached out to the city to try to figure out a way to assemble this information. Someone else was speculating that our commercial real estate is chronically undervalued and I thought I'd try to help get the question answered. It sure would help if various well-intended citizens weren't duplicating efforts.
It would also help for all of the "experts" in real estate to explain to the rest of us how the introduction of a massive new retail center fixes the undervaluation of commercial property elsewhere in Norwalk. Aren't the odds in favor of this project being undervalued and under-collected too?
Especially since GGP has a history of challenging its assessments? A history of rewriting its own agreements with the city?
Real estate is the only non-renewable resource in the city. Some of us are tired of seeing our city fall piecemeal to every wacky proposal that comes with a little (future) money attached to it.
We need clear planning, clear thinking and clear results and we need decision-makers who aren't afraid to demand those results and second-guess decisions made by previous leaders at every turn, just because we can't imagine anything more from an "up from zero" valuation of any proposal.
If Norwalk had considered, through thoughtful and diligent planning, that the best way to develop that site was to lift the mixed use requirements , it should have done so BEFORE any proposal was on the table. If that property had gone on the market without restrictions, we can't know what kinds of developments might have been attracted to the site.
The fact is, eminent domain was used to take those properties and the city's decision with respect to that site, even as recently as 2014 was to retain mixed use on the site.
GGP bought the lot, knowing the requirements. They gambled that they could talk the city into modifying the agreement. At the end of the day, we are being offered NOTHING that we wouldn't have received if the lot were sold to GGP unencumbered.
They still would have purchased the air rights, made minimal investments in signage, infrastructure, way-finding, connectivity and public realm. We'd still be getting the exact same potential property tax revenue and the same potential number of jobs, and potential associated economic activity for the area.
Which brings us back to erasing the history of how we got to where we are and evaluating this deal as if it were being brought to us for the very first time, on an unencumbered site, with the enterprise credits and tax abatements attached. I maintain that, on balance, Norwalk fares extremely poorly vs the benefits for the rest of the region, and it will bear a huge brunt in impacts to the area that offset what the property taxes might be. And that only holds if all of the economic assumptions about the success of a class A mall hold for this area. If it doesn't, we are going to be in a world of hurt.
Great points by Debora. There should be no more subsidies for this project. No more enterprise zone. No more LDA. No involvement by the Redevelopment Agency. No more Redevelopment Agency.
and to Bill and Debora – thanks for the illustration of the root-cause-analysis, which Norwalk neither embraces nor respects when others conduct it! I concur with Bill's conclusion.
Agree with Debora on the "naysayers" comment. Thank goodness for those brave souls in this city who dare to ask questions; challenge the status quo; and refuse to accept "because we said so" as an appropriate answer to taxpayers.
After years of allowing Clay Fowler to sit on the property and build NOTHING, not only aren't there any punitive penalties imposed, we actually reward the guy by extending the coveted enterprise zone tax deferral status! and for what? so he can sell the property to a mall developer, one who either assumed or was outright told they could build just a mall, and there would never end up being a mixed used requirement.
People need to start asking the basic questions, starting with the most important : Why did GGP buy a property emcumbered with mixed-use restrictions? Why did our Common Council allow the transfer of the LDA to GGP? How can GGP satisfy the URP by claiming its fulfilled by OTHER developers already?


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Fulham Release a List of Players Who Are Departing
There are really no surprises here. Almost almost all these players were on our list of likely departures.
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Fulham have announced a list of players who will be departing. Damian Duff, Steve Sidwell, Giorgos Karagounis, Mahamadou Diarra, John Arne Riise, Derek Boateng, John Heitinga, Matthew Briggs, and Neil Ethridge were all senior players who were let go. If there are any surprises it would be Matthew Briggs and Neil Ethridge. Both are still young enough to keep around and could probably do a job in the Championship, even if it's only to be a backup. The club does have a lot more information about them than I do, so I'm not going to get too worked up over them.
Some youth players were also let go. Charles Banya, Alex Brister, Dino Islamovic, Ronny Minkwitz, Max Oberschmidt and Josh Pritchard are all leaving the club. I don't know enough about any of them to be upset. If there's anything of interest it's that Muamer Tankovic wasn't listed even though he's publicly stated that he's leaving.
I would like to take a moment to reflect back on the players who were especially good servants to the club. Especially Damian Duff and Steve Sidwell. They weren't always perfect, but they played hard. And they had two of the best songs of all time in the Ginger Iniesta and Duff Will Tear You Apart.

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Romanian emigre writer and broadcaster, 1923–2008
From 1967 to 1992 Monica Lovinescu was the inimitable voice that kept millions of Romanians updated on the latest cultural and political trends in the West and the dissident movements in other Soviet bloc countries, at the same time offering critical analysis of the myths surrounding the totalitarian regime at home.
After completing her literary studies at the University of Bucharest, Lovinescu received a scholarship to study in Paris in September 1947. Three months later the communists took power in Romania and blacklisted the works of her late father, literary critic Eugen Lovinescu. This led her to request political asylum, which France granted in 1948.
Numerous articles in European and Romanian-language cultural journals established Lovinescu as a prominent voice among Romanian emigres. (It also made her mother, still in Bucharest, a prime blackmail target. In 1958 the 71-year-old Mrs. Lovinescu was jailed for "undermining state order"; she died in prison after refusing to press her daughter to inform on dissidents in France.) Lovinescu's standing rose further in 1967, when she became the mind and the voice behind the Radio Free Europe programs Theses and Anti-Theses in Paris and Romanian Cultural Events. Following in the footsteps of her father, well-known as a promoter of modernist literature, she would read from new work and review both underground and mainstream Romanian authors.
Disturbed by her influence and the authority she wielded in Romanian cultural life, Nicolae Ceausescu in 1977 sent two assassins to Paris to have her silenced (according to onetime Securitate chief Ion Pacepa, who defected to the United States in 1978). Lovinescu recalled that two masked men savagely beat her in the courtyard of her house, leaving her unconscious. She returned to her listeners after five days in the hospital.
After the overthrow of Ceausescu, Lovinescu visited her home country several times and in 1999 was awarded Romania's highest civil honor, the Order of the Star, but she continued to live in Paris, where she died on 20 April 2008 at the age of 84. Her post-1990 published works include radio scripts, a novel, two volumes of autobiography, and six volumes of a diary, which raised a stir in Romania over her intransigent judgments of important cultural figures and her disenchantment with post-revolutionary times.
Lovinescu courted controversy again in a 2002 magazine interview in which she offered barbed criticism of former dissident intellectuals who she said should have gotten more involved in Romanian politics after 1989. She took aim what she considered a thriving "Homo Sovieticus" mentality in Romania and the pervasive nostalgia for a communist-era "golden age," and decried the country's failure to hold a Nuremberg-style trial of communist leaders. "The only solid base for change is one of mentalities," she said. "Without that, even the few good things that have been done are built on quicksand."
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At Compiegne, servants of Mr Camus, the manager of Gournay, abandon Julie in courtyard of an inn.
Unable to walk and not knowing anyone, she receives the hospitality of a charitable family. But her reputation as a devotee is dangerous in a city that favors the Revolution, and to evade her pursuers, she is forced to change hiding places five times in a three years.
Totally paralyzed and lonely, she lives united to God who reveals her mission: She sees a group of sisters,in a religious habit she has never seen before, gathered around Jesus on the cross. The features of the sisters are so clear to her that she is later be able to identify actual persons she has seen in the vision. At the close of this experience she hears the words:
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My Lemon Tree, which has been in the conservatory through last winter and is still there, has developed a sticky substance on the leaves that then drops on to the floor. Is this anything to worry about and how can it be treated?
It sounds like the tree has either aphids or scale insects feeding on the plant. Look on the under sides of the leaves. The aphids or scale insects will be there. These can be treated with an insecticide.


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Dates: May 21st, 23rd and 25th of May.
Time: 6 – 9 pm each night. Matches for U8s will finish before 8 pm.
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Schengen Visa Turkey
Is Turkey Visa-free Travel To The Schengen Area Is Back On The Agenda ... So Is It Possible?
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WHEN WILL TURKEY GET VISA-FREE TRAVEL TO THE SCHENGEN AREA?
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "Turkish visa liberalisation can be implemented, this is a promise" and the possibility of visa-free travel in the Schengen Area has come to the table again. What happened in this process, which was raised by the refugee crisis? What does the EU want? Is visa-free travel possible?
Relations with the EU have been Tidal since time immemorial, while Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announcement of "Turkey visa liberalisation" on January 18 caused the critical issue to fall back on the agenda. Cavusoglu said: "If I said today that 'new chapters can be opened immediately' related to the negotiations, we would not be telling the truth. Not because we don't want it, but because there are problems with enlargement policies because the European Union doesn't want it. But visa liberalisation can come to life, that's a promise," he said.
RAISED BY REFUGEE CRISIS
In 2013, when the refugee crisis broke out, in which refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria and seeking to enter the EU illegally used Turkey as a transit zone, the Readmission Agreement was signed, one of the articles of this agreement was to apply visa liberalisation to citizens of the Republic of Turkey on short-term trips to the EU. Accordingly, citizens of the Republic of Turkey would receive the right to travel 90 days every 180 days.
KEY TO FREE MOVEMENT: TURKEY - SCHENGEN
Luxembourg has 26 European countries under the Schengen Treaty, signed in 1985. Norway, Iceland and Switzerland, which are not EU members, are also in the Schengen area, while the Republic of Ireland, among the EU countries, does not use Schengen. EU member Croatia, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria are in the process of being nominated to enter the Schengen Area.
On 18 March 2016, when the Joint Action Plan associated with this agreement was implemented, the refugee agreement included financial assistance of 6 billion euros to Turkey in two equal installments, ease of visa for Turkish citizens for EU countries and acceleration of Turkey's EU entry process. He said the possibility of a positive outcome in the negotiations, which have been re-raised, would be possible.
"By re-creating an agenda with the European Union, in fact, it is desirable to create the basis for negotiations and create engagement by re-bringing the old agenda to the forefront. In today's conditions, we can't call it 'useless'. Because if a dynamic of negotiations is created between the parties, regardless of whether this is realistic or not, there is a possibility that this dynamic of negotiations will revive the relations between Turkey and the EU, which have been frozen for quite some time and have a negative image." was said.
EU CUSTOMS UNION ISSUE MORE IMPORTANT
"Here, too, expectations and the flow of Information need to be managed very carefully. Because "we have reopened this agenda and it has not happened again" by saying that the whole relationship should be prevented from reaching a point that will cause more damage, " said Prof. Dr. "There are already two common issues that Turkey can discuss constructively with the EU and have overlapping interests. One is the issue of visa liberalisation. The other is undoubtedly the process known as 'renewal of the customs union' in public opinion," he said.
"The second is more important than the first, "Han said." in the second, the EU shows that today Turkey is not ready and willing to hold these talks with Turkey, which it considers to be making progress on certain criteria."
T.C. 72 criteria that must be met when placing the visa liberalization roadmap on the official website of the European Union presidency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Document Security, Migration Management, Public Order and safety, Fundamental Rights, Repatriation Of Irregular Migrants, he notes that it consists of themes.
So far, 67 of these 72 criteria have been met, leaving 5 critical items. The 5 items in question are as follows:
In line with EU recommendations, measures should be taken to prevent corruption.
National legislation on the protection of personal data in accordance with EU standards needs to be harmonized.
There needs to be a deal with Europol.
Turkey needs to work with all EU members on criminal issues.
Turkey must comply with terrorism laws that are in line with European standards.
LIKE BANKER BILO...
Prof. Dr. "The EU will probably raise the same issues," Khan says at this point. Han also said," because it is the admissions center, as in Banker Bilo, "Look, we didn't do these things, but ask why we didn't do them," theses that will suggest that we are very right in saying and not doing them-regardless of the rightness or injustice of these theses - do not seem to result in the opposite party confirming US."
TURKEY PRESIDENT ERDOGAN ALSO STRESSED
Addressing the issue in the early days of 2021, President Erdogan also said that the customs union should be updated, visa liberalisation for Turkish citizens and steps should be taken in membership negotiations. President Erdogan stressed that it is necessary to restore mutual trust, re-operate consultation mechanisms, and end exclusionary, discriminatory actions and rhetoric against Turkey, a candidate country in the negotiation process other than a neighbor.
"Citizens of the Republic of Turkey, who must pay 80 Euros, except for the service fees paid to brokerage firms for each Schengen visa application, will not have to pay this fee with the right to free movement."
Citizens of the Republic of Turkey, who must pay 80 Euros, except for the service fees paid to brokerage firms for each Schengen visa application, will not have to pay this fee with the right to free movement.
In accordance with the memorandum, there was no progress on articles other than the Europol agreement, which is under discussion about granting Turkey a visa exemption, Turkey decided to grant visa liberalisation to citizens of 5 EU member states and the United Kingdom at the Brexit stage in February 2020.
Citizens of Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland and the United Kingdom, members of the Schengen area of the European Union, have been granted visa exemption for 90 days every 180 days on their tourist trips to Turkey from March 2, 2020.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hami Aksoy
"With this step, it is aimed to increase our tourism potential with the countries mentioned, as well as to further develop our commercial, economic and cultural relations," Aksoy said in a written statement, but the pandemic dropped the accounts at home on tourism.
GERMANY MERKEL: WE WANT A POSITIVE AGENDA
Speaking at the EU leaders 'summit in October 2020, Angela Merkel said:" We want a positive agenda with Turkey. I have met very often with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently. In relations, a positive agenda is in the interest of both sides. The issue of visa liberalisation will be discussed in December," he said. Merkel pointed out that Turkey is a neighbour of the EU and a member of NATO, while stressing that the issue of visa liberalisation "must be worked out robustly" by December.
At this point, the professor also drew attention to the dynamics of relations Dr. Ahmet November Khan said: "the dynamic here is very simple. You don't have to be a social scientist for that. Before you is a merci. He's got what you want. The decision will be there. They set criteria for making that decision. They also unilaterally have the authority to accept these criteria. Therefore, it is important that you tell yourself, but it is also impossible to force yourself to accept a party that says, 'you have never fulfilled them.' It's a matter of whether you're right or wrong.
TURKEY MINISTER: VISA LIBERALIZATION CAN COME TO LIFE
The visa liberalisation dialogue Memorandum and Readmission Agreement were signed on December 16, 2013, and the following discourses were noted if it was necessary to return to that critical day. The Foreign Minister at the time, said: "We have three stages ahead of us. The first is the stage of psychological revolution, which will begin today. Perceptions will change, visa liberalisation and a new era of communication between the peoples of Turkey and the EU will begin. In the second phase,work between institutions will accelerate and our capacity will increase over the next 3-3.5 years. Most importantly, in the long term, the peoples of Turkey and Europe will engage in intense interaction," he said.
Speaking at the ceremony, EU interior Commissioner said that an important step has been taken for cooperation between Turkey and the EU. "we are launching two important initiatives in parallel and thus uniting our peoples and building mutual trust. These will have an extremely important impact on our bilateral relations, and our citizens will be able to see the positive effects of this in the near term," he said.
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The Cut: How to Build A Sex Scene
Between Normal People and I May Destroy You, we get good sex, bad sex, and everything in between, with the latter focusing on sexual assault and non-consent. Ostensibly, these two shows are very different outside of this emphasis on intimate content, which is perhaps why they also find common ground in a shared production member: British intimacy coordinator Ita O'Brien.
Intimacy coordinators play a new role in the entertainment industry; as the name implies, they oversee and help direct intimate scenes. When used correctly, they're brought in early in the filmmaking process, while the scene in question is still on the storyboard. O'Brien describes her job as akin to the stunt coordinators', which, if you've ever watched a Fast & Furious film, is requisite. "They listen to the director, read the script, find out what the storytelling is for that stunt, what the risks are and then teach their actors or stunt doubles techniques in order to make that stunt safe. They put in place things like crash mats and then choreograph the whole thing really clearly," she said when we spoke over Zoom last week. "Just as a stunt coordinator does, we're putting in our 'crash mats.'"
Hiring an on-set intimacy coordinator became more common in the wake of the Me Too movement, but O'Brien had been working closely on sex scenes for years before. She used to work as a movement director — she created a set of guidelines and best practices around scenes with sex and nudity in 2014 — and in 2017, she was hired in that specific capacity for the first time.
The Cut spoke with O'Brien about her job, the film industry's relationship to intimate content today, and how she built sex scenes for two shows that explore completely different kinds of intimate encounters.


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El 1932 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics de Los Angeles, on va guanyar la medalla de bronze en la competició del pes semipesant del programa de lluita grecoromana.

El 1925 fou medalla de bronze al Campionat d'Europa del pes semipesant de lluita grecoromana.

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Medallistes italians als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1932
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 Headache, with restlessness, icy coldness of the body, bleeding of the nose, constriction in the throat, thirst, nausea, and vomiting ; mostly present when awaking, in the open air, from a draft of air, in the sun.
Dimness of, or spots on the cornea.
 Vomiting of acid or yellow substances, with cold perspiration in the face, and cutting pain in the abdomen.
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MTN is hosting a screening of art21's "Investigations" episode featuring artists: Thomas Hirschhorn, Garciela Iturbide, and Leonardo Drew
The Twin Cities Paranormal Society will discuss their type of investigations with a Q&A to follow before the screening of art21's "Investigations."
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Episode 1: Investigation
How do artists push beyond what they already know and readily see? Can acts of engagement and exploration be works of art in themselves? In this episode, artists use their practices as tools for personal and intellectual discovery, simultaneously documenting and producing new realities in the process.
While enlisting the participation of the residents of a Bronx public housing development to develop a sprawling installation out of everyday materials, Thomas Hirschhorn poses political and philosophical questions, and searches for alternative models of thinking and being. The process leads to the creation of a new kind of monument that, while physically ephemeral, lives on in collective memory. For Graciela Iturbide, the camera is a pretext for understanding the world. Her principal concern has been the photographic investigation of Mexico—her own cultural environment—through black-and-white images of landscapes and their inhabitants, abstract compositions, and self-portraits. Whether photographing indigenous communities in her native country, cholos in Los Angeles, Frida Kahlo's house, or the landscape of the American South, her interest, she says, lies in what her heart feels and what her eyes see. Leonardo Drew, whose art career began as a child in inner city Bridgeport, Connecticut, transforms new materials—through processes of decay, oxidization, and exposure to weather—in his sculptures. Never content with work that comes easily, Drew reaches daily beyond his comfort zone, charting a course of experimentation with his materials and processes and letting the work find its own way.
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Investors are finding slim pickings in emerging market US$ Eurobonds with the average spread on emerging market eurobonds over US Treasuries as measured by the JP Morgan EMBI+ Index at just over 200 bps. Spreads did widen to as much as 250 bps following the subprime driven flight to quality and this afforded astute investors an opportunity to pick up higher yielding bonds.
The 50 bps rate cut by Feds Chairman Bernanke has resulted in yields dropping as investors return to emerging market debt. Five years ago these same bonds offered investors a spread of over 600 bps above US Treasuries. Some of the factors that are causing emerging market bond yields to fall may also provide an opportunity for investors.
Fundamentals in many emerging market economies have improved significantly over the past five years driven by high commodity prices, strong global economic growth and sound economic management. This has resulted in strong fiscal and external account positions which have been rewarded with higher credit ratings from the rating agencies.
As credit ratings have gone up, yields have come down.
Currently, an investor will have to go out more than 20 years to get a yield above 6.50 per cent on a BB rated US$ Eurobond.
Many of these emerging market economies have accumulated substantial foreign reserves as direct foreign investments have been flowing into their expanding economies. Economic growth combined with low to moderate inflation rates has given a boost to the currencies of many emerging market countries.
Some countries, such as Brazil, have been prepaying their US$ debt which has helped the currency appreciate even further.
According to market analysts, some of these emerging market currencies have the potential to appreciate further given their strong fundamentals and therefore present an opportunity for investors to pick up attractive returns by investing in local currency bonds.
Governments of countries such as Brazil and Colombia recognise the attraction of local currency bonds to international investors and have tried to make it easier for investors to participate in real and peso denominated bonds respectively. Both countries have issued local currency global bonds that can be bought and transferred in international financial markets and that are not subject to local taxes.
An investor in Trinidad, for example, could buy Brazilian real denominated bonds from a broker in New York and hold it in an account in New York. That bond can then be sold in New York and proceeds received in US$.
The attraction of local currency bonds to international investors are two fold.
Interest rates in the local currency are still attractive as central banks focus on controlling inflation. For example, a Brazilian real denominated 2016 bond yields approximately 9.40 per cent while a 2017 Brazilian US$ Eurobond currently yield below six per cent.
The second and potentially more lucrative return is from currency appreciation where over a short period of time changes in the currency can generate a large percentage return. A nine per cent bond in a stable currency is a good investment. The same bond in an appreciating currency is an even better investment. The Brazilian real has advanced 3.2 per cent since the Fed funds rate cut; even reaching its strongest for 2007 so far at 1.8365: US$. Recently declining to 2.1385 a US$, it has since risen to 1.8450 a US$, appreciating by 6.3 per cent for the month of September alone.
One of the obvious concerns about investing in a local currency bond is the possibility of a severe depreciation in the currency. Emerging market currencies have grown a lot more resilient over the past few years. This is evidenced by the fact that with the recent turmoil in financial markets related to the subprime issues, the sell-off in emerging market currencies was not significant.
Exchange rates move more quickly and by larger amounts in percentage terms than bond prices so anyone taking currency exposure must monitor the market closely.
In addition, not all emerging market countries have issued global bonds so certain currency exposures can only be taken by investing within those countries. For such investments it is important to be aware of all the taxes (both on income and on redemption) before making an investment.
Local-currency denominated bonds have the potential to be the next major investment frontier but investors need to ensure they have the risk appetite for this investment before taking the plunge.


This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B, and Part C. Remember, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have five minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET I.
Now look at Part A in your test booklet.
6、What is Saffo according to himself?
10、What does Saffo consider to be essential to the work of a team?
Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk about naming newborns. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 11-13.
11、What do we often do with the things we love?
A. the family tree is fairly limited.
B. the family tie is strong enough.
C.the name is commonly used.
D.nobody in the family complains.
A.show the beauty of its own.
D.help form the baby's personality.
Questions 14-16 are based on the biography of Bobby Moore, an English soccer player. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.
14. How many matches did Moore play during his professional career?
A.England's footballer of the year.
B.a soccer coach in West Germany.
C.a medalist for his sportsmanship.
D.a number of the Order of the British Empire.
D.developing a sports marketing company.
Questions 17-20 are based on the on the city of Belfast. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.
18、Which of the following does Belfast chiefly export?
D. In the 17th century.
20、 What happened in Belfast in the late 18th century?
B. The harbor was destroyed.
D.The city was taken by the English.
Many theories concerning the causes of juvenile delinquency (crimes committed by young people) focus either on the individual or on society as the major contributing influence. Theories (21) on the individual suggest that children engage in criminal behavior (22) they were not sufficiently penalized for previous misdeeds or that they have learned criminal behavior through (23) with others. Theories focusing on the role of society that children commit crimes in (24) to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status (25) as a rejection of middle-class values.
Most theories of juvenile delinquency have focused on children from disadvantaged families, (26) the fact that children from wealthy homes also commit crimes. The latter may commit crimes (27) lack of adequate parental control. All theories, however, are tentative and are (28) to criticism.
Changes in the social structure may indirectly (29) juvenile crime rates. For example, changes in the economy that (30) to fewer job opportunities for youth and rising unemployment (31) make gainful employment increasingly difficult to obtain. The resulting discontent may in (32) lead more youths into criminal behavior.
Families have also(33) changes these years. More families consist of one parent households or two working parents; (34), children are likely to have less supervision at home (35) was common in the traditional family (36). This lack of parental supervision is thought to be an influence on juvenile crime rates. Other (37) causes of offensive acts include frustration or failure in school, the increased (38) of drugs and alcohol, and the growing (39) of child abuse and child neglect. All these conditions tend to increase the probability of a child committing a criminal act, (40) a direct causal relationship has not yet been established.
[注释]"MOST THEORIES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY HAVE FOCUSED ON CHILDREN FROM DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES,THE FACT THAT CHILDREN FROM WEALTHY HOMES ALSO COMMIT CRIMES."(大多数关于少年犯罪的理论都聚焦在贫困弱势家庭,而忽略了富家子弟也会犯罪这一事实。)后半句是伴随状语从句。A CONSIDERING"考虑";C HIGHLIGHTING"强调",这两项都与句意不符合。D DISCARDING"抛弃",这些理论是没有注意到状语从句中所表述的事实,而不是有意舍弃这些事实,故此题选B IGNORING.
Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site's "personal search agent". It's an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. "I struck gold," says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company. With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you:"Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility." says one expert. For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept ―― what you think you want to do ―― then broaden it. "None of these programs do that," says another expert. "There's no career counseling implicit in all of this." Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again."I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me," says the author of a job-searching guide. Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. When CareerSite's agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs ―― those it considers the best matches. There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them ―― and they do.""On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp increase in our traffic," says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for CareerSite. Even those who aren't hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder. "You always keep your eyes open," he says. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.
41. How did Redmon find his job?
A.By searching openings in a job database.
B. By posting a matching position in a database.
C.By using a special service of a database.
D.By E-mailing his resume to a database.
42. Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?
[注释]细节题。第二段最后一句话,NARROWING YOUR CRITERIA…放窄标准会对找工作不利。第三段第一句,FOR ANY JOB SEARCH…在找工作时,一般是从较狭窄的意向开始,即你要干什么,然后再放宽一些,但有位专业人士说,"NONE OF THESE PROGRAMES DO THAT","THERE'S NO CAREER COUNSELING IMPLICIT IN ALL OF THIS."
44、Why does CareerSite's agent offer each job hunter only three job options?
A.To focus on better job matches.
B.To attract more returning visits.
C.To reserve space for more messages.
D.To increase the rate of success.
45、Which of the following is true according to the text?
A.Personal search agents are indispensable to job-hunters.
B. Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands.
C.Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed.
D.Some agents stop sending information to people once they are employed.
Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.
It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoe Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K. Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi). The world's three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) are all close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanese characters. As are the world's five richest men (Gates, Buffett, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht).
Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. So short-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked the improving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. At the time the alphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape. Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly. The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.
46. What does the author intend to illustrate with AAA A cars and Zodiac cars?
A. A kind of overlooked inequality.
B. A type of conspicuous bias.
C. A type of personal prejudice.
D. A kind of brand discrimination.
47、What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?
A.In both East and West, names are essential to success.
B.The alphabet is to blame for the failure of Zo? Zysman.
C.Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies' names.
D.Some form of discrimination is too subtle to recognize.
A.questions are often put to the more intelligent students.
B.alphabetically disadvantaged students often escape form class.
C.teachers should pay attention to all of their students.
D.students should be seated according to their eyesight.
49、What does the author mean by "most people are literally having a ZZZ" (Line 2-3, Paragraph 5)?
B.They are noisily dozing off.
D.They are busy with word puzzles.
50、Which of the following is true according to the text?
A.People with surnames beginning with N to Z are often ill-treated.
B.VIPs in the Western world gain a great deal from alphabetism.
C.The campaign to eliminate alphabetism still has a long way to go.
D.Putting things alphabetically may lead to unintentional bias.
When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isn't biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting, filling or polishing as many nails as she'd like to, either. Most of her clients spend $12 to $50 weekly, but last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. "I'm a good economic indicator," she says. "I provide a service that people can do without when they're concerned about saving some dollars." So Spero is downscaling, shopping at middle-brow Dillard's department store near her suburban Cleveland home, instead of Neiman Marcus. "I don't know if other clients are going to abandon me, too" she says.
Even before Alan Greenspan's admission that America's red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to Gap outlets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending. For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last year's pace. But don't sound any alarms just yet. Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt-tightening. Consumers say they're not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good. Home prices are holding steady in most regions. In Manhattan, "there's a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses," says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. "Instead of 20 to 30 offers, now maybe you only get two or three," says john Deadly, a Bay Area real-estate broker. And most folks still feel pretty comfortable about their ability to find and keep a job.
[注释]词义题。这一题的关键在于作者巧妙地使用了一个双关语PUN,BITE ONE'S NAILS,或形容词NAIL-BITING,指陷入困境,焦虑不安。指甲美容师SPERO面对经济衰退,虽然生意少了,没有指甲可修,但并未陷入绝境,所以说ELLEN SPERO ISN'T BITING HER NAILS JUST YET.
A. Spero can hardly maintain her business.
B. Spero is too much engaged in her work.
C. Spero has grown out of her bad habit.
D. Spero is not in a desperate situation.
52、 How do the public feel about the current economic situation?
53、When mentioning "the $4 million to $10 million range" (Lines 3-4, Paragraph 3) the author is talking about.
54、 Why can many people see "silver linings" to the economic showdown?
A. They would benefit in certain ways.
B. The stock market shows signs of recovery.
C. Such a slowdown usually precedes a boom.
D. The purchasing power would be enhanced.
55、To which of the following is the author likely to agree?
A. A now boom, on the horizon.
B. Tighten the belt, the single remedy.
C. Caution all right, panic not.
D.The more ventures, the more chances.
Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education ―― not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren't difficult to find.
"Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual," says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Razitch's latest bock, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society."
"Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege," writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children:"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized ―― going to school and learning to read ―― so he can preserve his innate goodness.
Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country's educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise."
56. What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school?
A. The habit of thinking independently.
B. Profound knowledge of the world.
C.Practical abilities for future career.
D. The confidence in intellectual pursuits.
A. a pioneer of education reform.
B. an opponent of intellectualism.
C.a scholar in favor of intellect.
D.an advocate of regular schooling.
60、 What does the author think of intellect?
A. It is second to intelligence.
B. It evolves from common sense.
C.It is to be pursued.
The relation of language and mind has interested philosophers for many centuries. (61) The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be. Only recently did linguists begin the serious study of languages that were very different from their own. Two anthropologist-linguists, Franz Boas Edward Sapir, were pioneers in describing many native languages of North and South America during the first half of the twentieth century. (62) We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages. Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from "exotic" language, were not always so grateful. (63) The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data Native American languages are indeed different, so much so in fact that Navajo could be used by the US military as a code during World War II to send secret messages. Sapir's pupil, Benjamin Lee Whorf, continued the study of American Indian languages. (64) Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society. He reasoned that because the structure of habitual thought in a society. He reasoned that because it is easier to formulate certain concepts and not others in a given language, the speakers of that language think along one track and not along another. (65) Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society. Later, this idea became to be known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but this term is somewhat inappropriate. Although both Sapir and Whorf emphasized the diversity of languages ,Sapir himself never explicitly supported the notion of linguistic determinism.
2) interpret its meaning, and.
3) support your view with examples.


Highly anticipated game Kingdom Hearts 3 has been launched with a twist – the ending comes separately.
"It's definitely an unusual move. It is the first time I've heard of a game doing this," said Caspar Stewart, media analyst at research company Enders.
It blends characters from Disney's animated films – including Buzz and Woody, from Toy Story, and Elsa, Anna and Olaf, from Frozen – with Square Enix's science-fiction franchise Final Fantasy.
"It's been a long wait and the game is heavy on narrative with lots of video, so the epilogue will be important to the die-hard fans," said Mr Stewart.
"As a deterrent to piracy, I'm not sure how effective it will be, but the real value lies in the publicity this will generate on the day it is released," he said.


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uk.org.mygrid.cagrid.servicewrapper.service.interproscan.job.stubs.service

Interface InterProScanJobServiceAddressing

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getInterProScanJobPortTypePort(org.apache.axis.message.addressing.EndpointReferenceType reference)

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getInterProScanJobPortTypePort

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ASSET TEAM
"Finding a job after being incarcerated can be really tough. The minute they find out you've been in prison, the door often closes."
- John Gammon, Director of Re-entry
The sun is just peeking over the eastern edge of Chapel Hill Apartments when Asset Team members begin to arrive, some holding cups of coffee or a quick breakfast. It's Friday, so before work, the team meets to review the previous week, set goals for the coming week and support each other along the way. After working 40 hours Monday – Thursday, the most important work is happening at this weekly Friday meeting.
Founded in 2017, Renewing Management's Asset Team helps returning citizens find new life after prison. The Asset Team is a one-year intensive program that gives participants a job, new work abilities, life skills and one-on-one mentoring. In addition to learning skills in renovation and maintenance, participants focus on character development.
The Asset Team is a diverse group – men, women, black, white, hispanic – all coming together to support one another in the quest for a transformed life after incarceration.
"We talk a lot about integrity," says Director of Re-entry, John Gammon. "If the heart ain't changed, nothing is changed." Integrity rolls right into being a productive, law-abiding citizen. Coming to work, paying bills, solving conflicts, and building meaningful relationships all take honesty and reliability.
"Life outside of prison is tough," says John. "You've got lots pulling on you – the old friends, the old ways, drugs or whatever got you in the first place. We teach people how to anchor their lives in Christ first, and then we work on fundamental issues like boundaries, budgeting and building new, productive habits."
Head, Heart & Hands
Mentoring takes place one-on-one on the work site, but also in weekly Friday morning meetings. In the meeting, members are free to voice frustrations, fears and failures. But, it's also a light-hearted and supportive place where members listen, laugh and learn to love.
The group focuses on three areas of transformation, categorized "Head, Heart or Hands." Head training are online classes focused on learning about things like safety, fair housing, communication and conflict resolution. Heartexercises focus on items such as personal responsibility, good relationships, finances and setting goals. While Handstraining include all the hands-on jobs in maintenance and remodeling participants receive.
"We're impacting a generation," says Director of Asset Management, Keith Baptiste. But he believes the benefit goes both ways. "I'm learning so much from the Asset Team," he says. "Watching them grow and change is rewarding."
John Gammon agrees. "This is a calling, not a job. Without a father, many of us didn't know what it was to be a true man or woman of integrity. Here at Renewing Management, I learned what it was to be a trustworthy man, and thanks to my Savior, Jesus Christ, I'm passing that on to my team."
For more information about the Asset Team program, email Renewing Management.
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Dungeon Siege combines the immersive elements of a role-playing game with over-the-top intensity and non-stop action. Dungeon Siege plunges you into a continuous 3D fantasy world where you face off against an army of evil that has been unleashed.
You begin as a humble farmer, and as you travel through the world and gain new skills, you can gather a party of up to eight characters to aid you. Dungeon Siege impels the player into one over-the-top battle after the other as the storyline unfolds and a larger plot begins to reveal itself.
It's been a generation since you vanquished the evil that plagued the Land of Ehb, and now…a new menace has awakened. In Dungeon Siege II, the sequel to the best-selling RPG from Gas Powered Games, you will be called on to again wield sword and spell to save the world from a growing abomination many years in the making.
A thousand years ago, the crusaders of Azunai crossed swords with the legions of Zaramoth in the final battle of a century-long rebellion. As the tyrannical god Zaramoth struck the final blow through Azunai's trembling shield, the earth shook. In that moment, the forces of magic were unchained, and both armies were consumed in a brilliant cataclysm that stretched for leagues across the Plain of Tears. Only a scarred wasteland remained as final testament to the First Age of Man.
And for a millennium, magic has continued to spread to the farthest corners of the world, freely flowing to any who would command it. But the tide of magic has begun to wane, heeding instead the call of an ancient legacy. From the Plain of Tears a new heir beckons, and with each day his strength grows. Consuming those who submit, eradicating those who resist. With none to oppose his ascendance, the circle will be complete, and an ancient age will begin anew.
What fate will befall the Second Age of Man? The time for judgment is nigh.
For centuries legionnaires have protected the nation of Ehb until they were betrayed and all but driven to the brink of extinction. Now that evil has returned to Ehb the people turn to the few remaining Legionnaires for the protection of the past. As an heir to the legion will you accept this plea for help? How it will all be resolved is up to you!
Dungeon Siege III is an Action RPG that seamlessly blends intuitive fast-paced gameplay, a robust RPG system featuring a large selection of abilities, loot galore and the depth of story Square-Enix and Obsidian Entertainment are known for creating. Players will be able to adventure by themselves, on the couch with friends, or online in a fully multiplayer experience.
In Dungeon Siege III: Treasures of the Sun, players will extend their journey and travel beyond the borders of Ehb to an all-new environment: the Aranoi Desert. On their search for a lost Legion hero, players will fight through hordes of new villains only to find a forgotten abbey hiding a long-lost secret: the greatest treasure of the Azunite faith.
New abilities: Players will be able to attain mastery of the arcane through powerful new attack, defense and healing abilities.
Level up to 35: Treasures of the Sun will further power up players by raising Dungeon Siege III's existing level cap from 30 to 35.
More monsters and items: Players will encounter new monsters in the Aranoi Desert—including mummies and giant skeletons—and will find more powerful items, adding to the thousands already available in Dungeon Siege III.
Reallocate Talent & Proficiency Points: Players can reallocate points spent in Proficiencies and Talents, enabling changes to character customization throughout the campaign.
New Enchanting System: Transmuting items now gives players chances at gaining powerful new Vials that allow them to enhance their weapons and armor through the DLC's new enchanting system.


We have learned about Entity Relationships and their mappings. Till now we have simply used lists and maps in entities. The requirement may arise to use maps in these relationships. For example, Consider employees having multiple phones assignned to them. These phones should be stored according to work and home type. How can we achieve this? This JPA MapKeyColumn Annotation Example will help understand the same.
Phone entity has fields idPhone, phoneNumber, provider and owner.
We are modelling the relationship as private Map<String, Phone> phones = new HashMap<String, Phone>(); and we will use MapKeyColumn because the key is basic type and it is not part of target object, i.e. type is not a persistent field in Phone entity. Database diagram for these two tables will be as follows.
Notice the @MapKeyColumn annotation here @MapKeyColumn(name = "phones_keys") . It is used to specify that there is a column called phones_keys in database table on the Many side of relationship i.e. Phone table. It is used to store the keys of phones field in Employee.
Now that we have defined both entities, let us test them out.
Is the key not stored in database for phones table? You mentioned "we will use MapKeyColumn because the key is basic type and it is not part of target object, i.e. type is not a persistent field in Phone entity." But I see there is a phones_keys column in phones table and the value is either home or work. Please clarify.
Also, I understand this is a kind of ManyToOne mapping but ease of access is given to pick a particular row based on a particular column (Phones_keys). Please clarify.
Hi Anasuya, type is not persistent field of Phone entity means "there isn't any field in Phone object which represents type. We have only four fields, i.e. idPhone, phoneNumber, provider and owner. There is an extra column phones_key in database but that is not part of Phone object. It is simply an extra column which provides some more info." When you say a field can be persisted, it means it has java representation as well as database representation. Having only database representation and not java representation cannot be termed as persistent. So in this case, phones_key is simply an extra column which doesn't have representation in terms of java object.
Hi Prasad, congratulations for such clear and helpful articles. I'm currently facing a challenge with EclipseLink JPA involving the @MapKeyColumn annotation and the @Inheritance annotation.
I was trying to merge the example in this article with the one in the article for JPA Joined Inheritance (http://www.thejavageek.com/2014/05/17/jpa-joined-inheritance-example/). My entities are BankAccount and Meeting, both have a collection of different types of Document entities, and those Document entities need to have the reference to the owner entity.
I can make things work using @OneToMany and @MapKeyEnumerated in my BankAccount and Meeting entities, this creates the join tables BANKACCOUNT_DOCUMENT and MEETING_DOCUMENT. In the Document entity I use the @Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED) annotation which creates tables for the different types of Document, which are BANK_ACCOUNT_CREATION_DOCUMENT and MEETING_ATTENDANCE_DOCUMENT.
Everything works fine but I don't manage to have a reference from the Document entity to its owner entity, either BankAccount or Meeting.
I could make it work by using @Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE) in the Document entity, but I want to avoid null values for the bankaccount_id and meeting_id foreign keys.
I wonder if this can be achieved taking advantage of the already existing join tables BANKACCOUNT_DOCUMENT and MEETING_DOCUMENT created with the @OneToMany and @MapKeyEnumerated annotations in the owner entities.
Maybe I'm not correctly defining my model and I have to use a different approach, that would be fine for me as long as that approach does not create null value columns in the database tables for foreign keys.
Could you please clarify your requirement ?


Such a cute picture I'm now following your blog on bloglovin'! I'm having twins at the end of June, but they are identical boys. Looking forward to reading more from you!
Thanks for following! Congratulations on your twins! It's such an exciting thing to experience. Not gonna lie, it's hard. But you get through it, and it's so much fun to watch them discover each other. Please let me know if you have any questions about the first few months. I'm happy to share my experience and tips! Take care.
Thanks for sharing this. I love that yours is black and white too. I don't know why, but I just felt like it was a black and white kind of moment. So precious.
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Road closed as boy, 17, is airlifted to hospital after crash between Vauxhall Astra and motorbike in Louth
Other emergency services are also at the scene
A motorcyclist has been airlifted to hospital after a crash in Louth.
An air ambulance was called to the scene after the 17-year-old riding a Yamaha motorbike was involved in a crash with a black Vauxhall Astra at the junction with Ticklepenny Lock on Eastfield Road at 8.45am this morning, Tuesday, August 28.
Police and an ambulance crew have also attended and a decision was made to close the road, which remains shut as of 12.30pm.
At that time, Google Traffic data was showing some delays in the affected area.
Delays as three police cars attend after crash between Mazda and van at 'dangerous' Boston junction
The teenager has been airlifted to Hull Royal Infirmary, East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) has revealed.
A spokesperson for East Midlands Ambulance Service, whose staff were also present, added: "We received a call at 08:35 to attend an incident on Eastfield Road, Louth.
"The caller reported a road traffic collision involving a motorcyclist and a car.
"We sent two LIVES responders, a double crewed ambulance and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance.
"One patient was flown to Hull Royal Infirmary Hospital."
The air ambulance was called out to the crash (file) (Image: Getty)
Lincolnshire Police say his injuries are not thought to be serious.
A spokesperson for the force said: "Incident 79 of today, August 28, was reported to us at 8.45am.
"It was a RTC between a car and a motorcycle at the junction with Ticklepenny Lock.
"A road closure has been put in place and the motorcyclist, a 17-year-old man, has been airlifted to hospital with a minor injury.
"Any witnesses should call 101."
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