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Call It Seashore or First Landing — It's the Beach's Crown Jewel
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I like it best in winter, sheltered from the wind and cold among the tall cypresses and live oaks. Atop the forested dunes, gazing across the waters of Broad Bay, you feel as though you can see forever. And after a snowfall, bare branches transformed into crystal matrices, this place is magical. In the depths of winter, the park is about 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding area.
But it's wonderful in the fall, when sassafras puts on a multi-colored show. Golden sweetgum leaves cover the path like bits of fallen sunshine, and the Spanish moss hangs heavy and full. Spring brings unfurling ferns and pairs of nesting osprey, when the park bursts with so much new growth and chatter it seems like the jungle primeval at the dawn of the world.
Now it's summer, and First Landing State Park is glorious — and 10 degrees cooler than the surrounding area. It's the best part of Virginia Beach, after the ocean. Put on mosquito repellent and dive in.
Most of what you'll find looks much as it would have to Capt. George Percy on April 26, 1607, on the expedition of three ships led by Christopher Newport, destined to establish the first permanent English colony in America. "There we landed and discovered … fair meadows and goodly tall trees," Percy wrote, "with such fresh waters running thorough the woods as I was almost ravished at first sight thereof … ." They named the area Cape Henry, after the elder son of King James I, a place of high dunes and maritime forest about 8,000 years old.
If it's your first visit, enter on Shore Drive and stop at the Trail Center for a map and information. The park holds an unmatched variety of plants and animals, a unique mixture of the northernmost southern plants and the southernmost northern plants. Families with young children will want to walk the Bald Cypress Trail, a 1.5-mile self-guided tour of dark lagoons, Spanish moss, huckleberries and those famous cypress knees. A wooden bridge takes you right into the heart of the cypress pool, where you can get close to wide-based, fluted, 100-foot tall cypresses and tupelo gum trees. The curious-looking cypress knees are part of the root formation, drawing oxygen down to the roots through the mud. That tannic water, which looks darkly unappetizing to us, was treasured by early sailors for its purity and ability to stay fresh for long periods.
One of these was Edward Teach, the infamous pirate called Blackbeard. His headquarters was reputed to be on a nearby island at Lake Joyce, once open to the Chesapeake Bay, at Chesapeake Beach off Shore Drive. The legend that he buried treasure in the park was fueled by Edgar Cayce, another famous Virginia Beach resident. Cayce declared that Blackbeard's treasure was in the White Hill area of the park, which caused some misguided folks to surreptitiously start digging. Treasure hunters, beware: Destruction of the dunes and trails is a first class misdemeanor, punishable by a year in jail and up to a $25,000 fine.
Fred Hazelwood, the affable district manager in charge of First Landing, is justifiably serious about protecting this unique environment from treasure hunters, off-path bikers and trailblazers — and non-park uses. "People don't realize just how threatened state parks are to encroachment," he says. "There are always threats to usurp park use, statewide." In recent years, parts of First Landing have been actively targeted for an airstrip, a public school and as the original site for the Virginia Beach Marine Science Museum. The 1966 Virginia Beach Master Plan proposed two major roads through the park, linking Great Neck Road to Atlantic Ave. and Shore Drive to 49th Street.
Parts had already been eroded by early sand excavation and lumbering, and later by federal condemnation to create Fort Story in 1914 and expand it during World War II, and by the widening of Shore Drive in the early '70s. Mosquito ditches, which let in too much salt water and may have done more harm than good, crisscross the marshes. The last encroachment came after the 1962 Ash Wednesday storm, when the state dug what became the lake along the south side of the Cape Henry Trail, after it crosses 64th Street.
The park almost didn't happen. The first attempted land grabber was colonial baron Adam Keeling. In 1770, Keeling applied to the governor and the council for a patent to 5,000-plus acres known as The Desert, an uninhabited area at Cape Henry used by fishermen and roughly the area from the Lesner Bridge to Atlantic Avenue. The council protested and petitioned the governor to let "the land remain a common for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the Colony." And so it remained until after the Civil War.
Under debt demands, in 1866 the state sold patents to individuals for timbering and fishing in The Desert. But in 1890, the farsighted Cape Henry Park and Land Development Company purchased 10,000 acres at Cape Henry for lumbering and to develop a Winter Park, selling land on the Atlantic Ocean to create the resort of Virginia Beach in 1903. The rest would come to be deeded to the State Conservation and Development Commission in 1933, through the perseverance of local civic leaders who wanted to create a park here. With an eye on the trail-blazing Shenandoah Park, newly opened in 1929, the Commission established a timeless goal for Cape Henry: "… to establish in this region while yet there is still time, a place that will give Virginians a chance to have a place to call their own forever by the sea."
Development of Seashore State Park (renamed First Landing in 1999) began in the October 1933, when the first of 660 black Civilian Conservation Corps workers set up camp at Cape Henry. When it officially opened on June 15, 1936, the park was only 1,000 acres and included horse trails. More land was purchased from the syndicate in 1938, and the CCC continued to develop the park until 1940, when the state took over. So it is particularly ironic, though not uncommon for the period, that when four "persons of color" attempted to use the park facilities on June 16, 1951, they were denied access. They filed a suit, which led to the park being closed from 1955 to 1961 in order to preserve segregation. When the campground quietly reopened with no publicity in 1962, the first visitors were greeted by barbed wire still stretching across the gate.
Now it's the most popular park in the Commonwealth. Here are the numbers: The park covers 2,888 acres, including 222 campsites (i.e., spaces for tents, RVs and pop-ups), 20 two-bedroom cabins, 1.5 miles of Chesapeake Bay beach and miles of walking and biking trails. More than 1,200 volunteers belong to the Friends of First Landing State Park, with a core group of 300 dedicated folks.
"We get about 1.6 million visitors a year now," says Hazelwood, but that's just an estimate. People like me walk or bike in from 64th Street several times a week, but who's counting?
You don't have to know that there are 14 distinct biological communities here, and many rare and endangered plants and animals. You don't have to think about where the Chesapeake Indians lived and how they used Spanish moss for diapers (without the chiggers, one hopes). You don't have to know beans about ecology to enjoy this place.
I'd never heard of the Virginia Beach bug, Pycnoderiella virginiana, until Erik Molleen set me straight. He's the district resource specialist, who tracks salinity in the marshes and counts bat species, among other responsibilities. "The maritime forest here is globally rare," he says, "and the Virginia Beach bug is unique in all the world." Wow! Fred Hazelwood pulls out a full-color poster of this critter, which looks a lot like a flea to me, ominous in close-up but actually gnat-size. Since it was found in the '80s, the Smithsonian named it and kept it. Rare it may be, but I doubt it would get any votes as the symbol of Virginia Beach.
But First Landing State Park deserves to be at the top of the list of special places. Bike from the boardwalk or the North End, enter at 64th St. and take the Cape Henry Trail all the way to the Trail Center off Shore Drive. You can follow the extension through the woods and beyond, crossing the park road as the bike path continues through neighborhoods past Great Neck Road and as far as the Lesner Bridge.
Or walk along any of nine interlinking trails, 19 miles of well-marked paths through salt marshes, over high dunes, and deep into maritime forests. "The Tidewater Striders [a walking and running club] named one trail The Dolly Parton," Molleen tells me, "because it was so hilly, full of ups and downs."
Look for fiddler crabs scurrying in the marshy flats and painted turtles sunning on logs in the ponds. Huge osprey nests are common, but you may spot a bald eagle feeding near White Hill Lake. Listen for the hollow tapping of a pileated woodpecker reverberating through the hush, almost invisible if not for its bright red crest. Six hundred separate species of plants live here. Wild grapes and blueberries abound, along with sweet pepperbush, whose fragrant white flowers come in late July.
And there's this: As often as I go in, I always feel safe and nurtured. The beach is great, of course, no argument there. But First Landing is the first place off the beach that I take visitors, my favorite destination for a walk in winter, a bike ride in fall, the place to explore in spring and summer. Its beauty astounds me in every season, every condition — wet and dry, warm and cold, bare and lush.
This article originally appeared in our Aug. 2003 issue.
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Fujifilm entered into an agreement with its subsidiary Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fuji Xerox) and Xerox Corporation to the effect that Xerox will make Fuji Xerox a wholly-owned subsidiary – and that the company will own 50.1% of the shares of Xerox after it makes Fuji Xerox a wholly-owned subsidiary. Fuji Xerox and Xerox will be combined under the Fujifilm group umbrella, will be defined as the "combination of the two companies," and will be named New Fuji Xerox in a transaction estimated at $6.1 billion (USD). On the negative side, Japan's Fujifilm Holdings said it's cutting 10,000 jobs globally in addition to its joint venture with Xerox Corporation, to cope with a decline in the photocopying business worldwide.
Rationale for combining the two companies.
New Fuji Xerox will become the largest document solutions company in the world in revenue size, and by deploying its operations worldwide with a uniform management strategy, it will realize "further acceleration of business growth and new value creation for customers." In addition to its size, New Fuji Xerox will also have management resources such as high-value brands, as well as the cutting-edge technology and human resources that support those brands, as well as global marketing power and a superior customer base. New Fuji Xerox "will accelerate business reform" not only as an office document business, but also as a leading company engaged in a wide range of businesses in fields such as commercial printing centered on inkjet technology, as well as various types of industrial printing, and solutions and services that improve business process and productivity.


I have always been intrigued with sign language. Every semester on the first day of class that I teach at FCC I compare photography to sign language because, to me, they are so much the same---they are visual languages! I was so excited to get an assignment to photograph sign language recently.


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Don't forget to check out the many restaurants located in and around North Truro, MA and Provincetown, MA.


For vintage Seiko lovers, the 6309-7040/49 "Turtle" diver is a must for any collection. It is still Seiko's top selling diver to date, and even inspired a rerelease in 2015. It's instantly recognizable, and a personal favorite. Production began in 1976 and continued through 1988 when Seiko transitioned over to the 7002 model. However, in 1982 a slimmer 6309 emerged, and possibly served as a testing ground to gauge interest in the next generation of Seiko divers. Of course I'm referring to the 6309-7290, or what many collectors refer to as the "Slim Turtle." It's likely that you've seen this model while perusing forums or auction sites, but in almost every instance they have been fitted with inferior aftermarket dials, hands, and bezel inserts. A shorter production run paired with a smaller market distribution makes finding an original "slim" quite a challenge. In fact, this example from October of '87 is the first original we've acquired and been able to offer. The dial is immaculate. The soft matte black is even throughout, and the printed text is crisp with no fading in the bright red "water resist" lettering. The stippled luminous plots show no degradation, and only a slight cream patina. The hands have aged well with only minor oxidation, and no visible corrosion. The bezel rotates with a firm click in either direction, and the insert bears only light wear with the original lume pip and acrylic lens still in place. The case appears unpolished overall, but it may have been touched up at some point. The 6309A is keeping near perfect time post service, and the crown and case back both screw down tightly to protect it. It's completely original aside from a replacement crystal and strap, and truly one of the nicest original examples we've seen. We've paired it with a rich olive green heavy NATO that pairs nicely with the dial and offers comfort and security on the wrist. Whether your looking for the missing piece in your collection, or a smaller alternative to the original, this is sure to be a favorite.


Gian Carlo Varela Castillo (Born September 29, 1993, professionally known as Gian Varela, is a Panamanian DJ, Producer and Composer. His Works are known for fusing Dance with Latin Music.
Born in Panama City, Panama to a father who produced events and a mother as a radio Host: he was introduced to the World of Music and Entertainment at an early age. He began Djing at the age of 11 performing in private events like friend's parties, school events, and such.
He started getting his first bookings as a mobile Dj at the age of 15. He gained national recognition when he performed for the first time in his Nation's carnivals in the town of Penonome to more than 8,000 people live. This gained him the attention of latin booking agency: Feel the Club International, where they would hire Gian to open to, at that time's #1 Worldwide DJ: Tiesto.
Once he completed his presentation, he is signed by the same booking agency.
At the age of 16, he moves to United States: Connecticut to complete his high school years. Being 2 hours away to New York, he begins his training as a musical producer. At this time, he also began touring the American continent as the support Dj for many of the bigger EDM acts. At the same time, balancing his studies with his musical training and touring.
In the summer of 2011, he creates his first Dance Music Festival: Paradise 507 which in the future would become one of Panama's more emblematic festivals. This would impulse him as a Pioneer in his country's dance music scene and introduce him not just as a DJ/Producer, but as an entertainment entrepreneur and visionary in the Panamanian market.
Once he graduates high school, he moves to Washington DC, where he would assist American University and work a side Job in the DC Dance Scene. In his first year he began working with Panorama Productions: the leading Dance company in DC owners of various clubs and Echostage. This impulse him to showcase himself across various of Panorama's clubs and bars. He was also a promoter of the concerts and nocturnal events of the company.
In his second year he certifices himself as a musical producer through Dubspot Academy and as a dance music composer through Point Blank Academy. Meanwhile, he still toured the American continent with Feel The Club International. In his third year in college he had already toured the entire American continent with the biggest acts of dacne music such as David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Avicii, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Axwell Ingrosso, Chuckie, Paul Oakenfold and many more.
To add to that, his national business ventures with his festivals had grown in the span of the years and what began as the creation of one festival, continued to the creation of a company with his older cousin and two close friends. This company began managing the same carnival he performed in 2011, various festivals and micro events. It also helped bigger concerts and festivals from other companies in the region such as The Day After.
In His last years of college he had created a very strong college following in DC as a DJ, mainly being the latin community. This impulsed him to mix latin music with dance music in his presentacions which would also push him to combine the sounds in his musical productions.
He graduated American University in 2016 and he returned to his country with a bachelor degree in the business of entertainment plus 6 years of musical training.
When he returns, he meets: Rodney Clark: better known as El Chombo. EL Chombo is recognized as one of the founding fathers of "PLENA" and "DEMBOW": the origins of the reggaeton gender. Who produced the now a days: Tu Cosita Challenge. Clark took Gian as his pupil and guided him through the sound and creation of latin music and its elements. In January 2017, Gian releases his first single featuring El Chombo and one of Panama's top urban vocalists: Mr. Fox. In less than two weeks his song goes viral in panama. This, with his strong network in the Panamanian entertainment market: catapult him to tour across his country and through creatively mixing latin with dance music: gets to open for leading latin artists such as: Ozuna, bad Bunny, Arcangel, Chino & Nacho. He is also invited to be the opener for Justin Bieber in his Purpose World Tour: Panama.
In a tour with Chino & Nacho in Panama, he meets the duo: San Luis, which offer him a remix of their latin hit: Se Acabo. This release is signed with Sony Music and it hits Gian's first million plays in the Spotify platform.
After the rupture of Chino & Nacho, he releases his second single: Los Dueños De La Calle with Chyno Miranda. In the second month of the song's promotion, the song charted the top 5 in radio with Panama, competing with Fonsi's Despacito, Maluma's Chantaje, and Nacho's Bailame. Universal offers to sign the song for a relaunch.
In February of 2018, he releases his collaboration with his mentor in the latin urban world: El Chombo: Creating a Re Work of "El Gato Volador" song which hit worldwide in the 90s. In it's first months, the song has hit half a million streams in Spotify and enters the Spotify Viral Charts of: Mexico, Australia, Spain, and Panama.
In the present, Gian continues to tour producing new music and getting ready to release all his repertoire.


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Built in handmade wine racks are a brilliant way to store drinks neatly, it doesn't have to take up a lot of room but is effective and a handy addition to your kitchen. It also adds a lot of sophistication to the appearance of a room.
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Historic tunnel under the Bosporus to go ahead
The Istanbul Strait Road Tunnel Crossing project in Turkey has secured the final funding and approvals needed to get the scheme moving into the full construction phase.
The 5.4-km tunnel will connect the European side of the historic Bosporus Strait with the motorway network on the Asian side, and will ease traffic congestion on the existing bridges.
It's due to open to traffic in 2017.
The tunnel will connect the European side of the strait with the motorway network on the Asian side.
Arup has been working as the lenders' technical adviser on the proposed tunnel since 2009 when concessionaire, Avrasya Tuneli, was appointed preferred bidder.
"The road tunnel will bring tremendous benefits right in the heart of Istanbul, easing congestion and reinforcing trade links, so it is great that we now have all the key elements in place to get the works started," said Koray Etöz, Arup director.
The project also includes the construction of 10km of access roads, two toll plazas and the operations buildings for the tunnel.

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There's something to be said for keeping your kitchen clean and colorful, because if your kitchen is a nice place to be, you'll want to cook more!
Spring is the perfect time to breathe a little life into your kitchen. With all the spring cleaning you've no doubt been doing, the sun shining every morning and flowers in bloom everywhere you turn, now is when you can be inspired to infuse the same kind of new life into your home!
Pastel-colored blenders and bowls, flower-shaped cookie cutters and fun fruity tools are exactly what you need, and lucky for you, we've rounded up our favorite springy kitchen products below for you to shop!


The gorgeous fabrics that I used are from the In The Sahara collection from Blend Fabrics. I love the cheetahs and impalas that are peeking around the pockets. They ship to quilt shops next month!
about 1 yard of fabric total (I used a bunch of different prints).
Hint: it fits perfectly in the Patchwork Charm Tote sewn from my class Colorful Patchwork Bags and Baskets.


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The Scary, Silly Hypocrisy of "White House Down"
reelchanger / July 1, 2013
If future historians are ever looking for evidence of the political schizophrenia and tribalism that engulfed American in the post-9/11 era, they could do much worse than White House Down, a film that presents itself as an argument for peace and reason but is built on a foundation of cartoonish, consequence-free movie violence and a sentiment of bloodthirsty revenge against public officials.
But let's get this out of the way first: White House Down is immensely enjoyable as long as you are willing to leave your ethics and intellect at the door. It's silly in almost every way, from its hammy, quip-heavy dialogue to its mawkish patriotism, but it is at least serious about its silliness. The craft of an action movie is often taken for granted, and I've seen some incoherent ones in the last few months (Jack the Giant Slayer and A Good Day to Die Hard, I'm looking at you), but White House Down is an exceedingly well-made popcorn movie. Sure, it's sometimes unclear whether you are supposed to be laughing with the film or at it, but if you're laughing, do you really care why?
John Cale (Channing Tatum) works security for the Speaker of the House (Richard Jenkins), but he longs to join the Secret Service and protect the president, mostly to impress his political junkie daughter. He brings her along on his job interview at the White House, where he is rejected for his past transgressions (he's a maverick!), but he soon gets a chance to prove he is right for the job. Domestic terrorists launch an incredibly well-orchestrated attack on the Capitol and the White House, and almost all of the president's security is taken out, leaving only Cale to save both his country and his daughter.
The details that director Roland Emmerich lays on top of this plot are decidedly liberal. The characters display a great reverence for government, like the Secret Service agent who tells a colleague that theirs is "the best job in the world" or Cale's daughter, who feels adoration for the president that most normal 11-year-olds reserve for Justin Bieber. The opening sequence, in which the president requests that his helicopter fly low over the National Mall so he can appreciate the grandeur of Washington, is thick with reverence and plays like a bad episode of The West Wing.
Further, President Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) is an undeniable stand-in for Obama: a former academic who loves basketball and is trying to quit smoking. But Emmerich makes him more of a liberal fantasy than a realistic depiction of Obama. As the film begins, he is working to create peace in the Middle East by passing the biggest aid package in history. Unlike our current leaders, he believes that the best way to prevent crime – even on a global scale – is to feed the hungry. It is a stark contrast to the approach put forth by our current government, especially the hawkish neo-conservative faction of the modern Republican party.
President Jamie Foxx
But the best way to determine a film's values may be to look at the motives of its villain. White House Down offers us a smorgasbord of motivations – indeed, each member of the domestic terrorist team has a different right-wing motive – but we eventually learn that the entire villainous plot has been cooked up by the "military-industrial complex" (so name-checked in the film), who aim to overthrow the president and launch a never-ending war with Iran, keeping their companies perpetually rich in government contracts.
Depicting defense contractors as ruthless war mongers is not a brand new plot-device – the Iron Man movies have consistently painted arms manufacturers as the cause of war – but it is still encouraging, as it shows that their destructive influence on our foreign policy has become conventional wisdom. White House Down, after all, is a big summer movie that needs to make a lot of money to turn a profit; the filmmakers gain nothing from confronting the audience with ideas to which they are unaccustomed.
So are we looking at a major milestone here – the first left-wing summer action blockbuster? Not so fast. The film's purported commitment to promoting peaceful solutions and its thoughtful approach to foreign policy is thoroughly undercut by its violence. It is packed with wall-to-wall violence, but no blood – a trick that makes the mayhem seem consequence-free and allows the viewer to ignore its moral implications. But even worse, inherent in the plot is a gleeful anti-government message that caters to the worst impulses of the American electorate – a desire to put the hurt on the bureaucrats in charge.
Here's just one example: two terrorists enter a room where several cabinet officials are hiding. Bad Guy #1 pulls his weapon and shoots one official in the head. "You just killed the Secretary of Defense," says Bad Guy #2. "He wasn't doing a very good job," says the first one. The line is played for laughs, but there's catharsis in it, too. Underneath the quip beats the heart of an angry, disenfranchised American who wouldn't mind a little violent revenge on the government – and there are certainly many of them out there. We can only hope that this film offers them an emotional release for their violent tendencies, instead of stoking the fire of their anger and resentment.
So what are we looking at here? How do we rectify the liberal details and the great reverence for the government with these Tea Party tendencies? Does White House Down mean to build up the office of the presidency or tear it down to shreds? I'm not sure it even knows.
But neither do we. In order to make his movie palatable to a mainstream audience, Emmerich has peppered his explosive action film with some pleasing rhetoric about peace. Take a look at your favorite cable news network, and you might see the same thing. Our government is run by public officials who claim to have learned the lessons of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan – in fact, our commander-in-chief was elected based largely on his opposition to the Iraq War – yet they all seem to favor getting involved in a similar imbroglio in Syria, taking sides in a potentially long civil war and arming rebels who have known ties to Islamic radicals. White House Down holds a funhouse mirror up to our silly, hypocritical government. It reflects a class of decision-makers who are trying to fool the electorate into thinking it wants peace, while laying the groundwork for more and more senseless destruction. And when that destruction occurs, they'll hide the blood from us, too.
White House Down didn't fool me into thinking peace was more than a marketing campaign. But I had a great time, anyway, because, you know, it's a movie. But let's be clear that real life won't wrap up so neatly at the end.
My Rating: See it in the Theater (and take a shower immediately afterwards to rinse off the scum)
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2 thoughts on "The Scary, Silly Hypocrisy of "White House Down""
Holy crap is this movie dumb as hell. But, I will admit that I had fun with it so I can't complain too much. Good review.
reelchanger says:
Thanks! I felt the same.
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Mayor Michelle Wu has given city workers plenty of time to get vaccinated ahead of the city's requirement. This week's delay should be the last.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated January 25, 2022, 12:28 p.m.
Mayor Michelle Wu speaks at a press conference on Jan. 1.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
With another wave of COVID bearing down on Boston earlier this month and thousands of residents still unvaccinated, a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu could impose a vaccine mandate on city workers starting Jan. 15.
It was the right ruling, for the right policy, one that recognizes the enormous benefit to overall public health when everyone receives the highly effective shots. With the deadline approaching, though, the city postponed the mandate for a week. And this weekend, the mayor provided another one-week reprieve.
It should be the last.
Omicron may be in retreat, but the region is still in the midst of a full-blown public health crisis, and it's impossible to predict when another variant might emerge.
Many private employers already enforce vaccine mandates. City workers — paid by the public and tasked with tending to some of Boston's most vulnerable residents — have an even greater obligation to get the shots, and the vast majority have done so. The rest must get them as soon as possible.
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At a Monday morning news conference, Wu said the city is delaying the mandate while it makes progress in vaccinating holdouts — and in negotiating with city unions over how the mandate will be implemented. The mayor didn't rule out another extension but said she expected the policy to go into full effect in a week.
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Workers who are not vaccinated by the deadline will be placed on unpaid leave. They could eventually be fired if they don't comply.
Police and firefighters unions have aggressively opposed the mandate, arguing in court that the administration shouldn't be allowed to unilaterally override an earlier agreement that allowed unvaccinated workers to be tested and remain on the job.
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Her vaccine mandate has also paid dividends, even before its full implementation. Wu says more than 1,600 city workers have provided proof of vaccination since she announced the policy on Dec. 20 — on top of the thousands who had already gotten the shots. Over 94 percent of city employees are now vaccinated.
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Те́рренс Де́йвин Ко́тен (; род. 14 мая 1976, Трентон) — американский боксёр, представитель лёгкой и полусредней весовых категорий. Выступал за сборную США по боксу в середине 1990-х годов, бронзовый призёр летних Олимпийских игр в Атланте, чемпион американского национального первенства среди любителей. В период 1996—2012 годов также боксировал на профессиональном уровне.

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Терренс Котен родился 14 мая 1976 года в городе Трентон штата Нью-Джерси, США. Проходил подготовку в Филадельфии в зале Джо Фрейзера.

Любительская карьера
Впервые заявил о себе в 1993 году, приняв участие в национальном турнире «Золотые перчатки», где боксировал в полулёгкой весовой категории.

В 1994 году поднялся в лёгкий вес и выступил на Играх доброй воли в Санкт-Петербурге. В рамках матчевой встречи со сборной Германии встретился с известным немецким боксёром Марко Рудольфом, но уступил ему со счётом 13:19.

В 1995 году боксировал на международном турнире «Хиральдо Кордова Кардин» на Кубе, где в четвертьфинале был остановлен кубинцем Лоренсо Арагоном. Одержал победу на чемпионате США среди любителей в зачёте лёгкой весовой категории.

Благодаря череде удачных выступлений удостоился права защищать честь страны на домашних летних Олимпийских играх 1996 года в Атланте — в категории до 60 кг благополучно прошёл первых троих соперников по турнирной сетке, в том числе в одном из поединков взял верх над будущим олимпийским чемпионом из Узбекистана Мухаммадкадыром Абдуллаевым, однако на стадии полуфиналов со счётом 12:15 потерпел поражение от болгарина Тончо Тончева. Таким образом, получил бронзовую олимпийскую медаль.

Профессиональная карьера
Вскоре по окончании Олимпиады Котен покинул расположение американской сборной и успешно дебютировал на профессиональном уровне. В течение трёх последующих лет одержал ещё 14 побед, не потерпев при этом ни одного поражения. Впервые проиграл среди профессионалов в августе 1999 года в бою за титул чемпиона Североамериканской боксёрской ассоциации с Тедди Ридом — проиграл ему техническим нокаутом в четвёртом раунде.

В период 2000—2004 годов сделал серию из 11 побед подряд, завоевал несколько второстепенных титулов, но затем дважды проиграл — Дайро Хосе Эсаласу и Полу Уильямсу.

В декабре 2007 года в претендентском бою за титул чемпиона мира по версии Международной боксёрской федерации в первом среднем весе встретился с Сечью Пауэллом и уступил ему техническим нокаутом в четвёртом раунде. В дальнейшем больше проигрывал и после очередного поражения в 2012 году принял решение завершить карьеру профессионального спортсмена.

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In Colorado, fall arrives in different ways and at different times around the state.
It generally starts in the high country during August, where green alpine tundra begins to show reds, yellows and browns; colors which persist through the first snow storms of mid-September. Fall colors move downslope with cold air drainage along streams, where willows turn yellow, followed by the cottonwoods along the rivers which carve their way through the mountains. By September, aspen forests turn to shimmering gold, starting in the upper montane and shifting quickly to lower elevations within the mountains.
By October, trees showing yellow and a few dark reds are sprinkled among the many still green trees in cities like Denver along the western edge of the Great Plains. The grasslands of the eastern plains have generally turned to straw colors in the drought of late summer, but with cold nights the shrubs and trees along creeks and rivers provide yellow, orange and red highlights.
Some wildflowers continue to bloom in fall. They tend to be on warmer, south facing slopes, and tend to be few and scattered. The arctic gentian (Gentiana algida) is one of the late bloomers, starting in very late summer and still blooming well after most plants in the alpine tundra have shut down for the season. The common harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) at low to medium elevations is another wildflower that still has occasional blossoms in the fall.
Fall can be a spectacular time of year here, with gorgeous colors set against a dusting of white snow on the higher peaks and the occasional late blooming wildflower. Fall scenery usually changes quickly, and is subject to high winds or a sudden hard freeze. Fall reminds us that winter is just around the corner.
The arctic gentian (Gentiana algida) flowers from late summer into the fall.
Wood's rose (Rosa woodsii) adds a splash of red leaves under the yellow canopy within an aspen stand.


If you grew up in the early '90s, chances are you have fond memories of you and a chum hacking-and-slashing and side-scrolling your way through Golden Axe on the Sega Genesis. That was nearly twenty years ago, old-timer.
That long time span makes Sega's decision to revive the franchise with Golden Axe: Beast Rider seem strange and maybe ill-advised. After all, how many gamers even recognize the name Golden Axe? Secret Level promised us that Beast Rider would provide that same wonderful hack-and-slash gameplay but in three glorious dimensions for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Sadly, when they informed us earlier this year that it wouldn't have the co-op play the original was so revered for, many fans simply dismissed it as not being worth their time. Those fans were wrong to do so, however, as Golden Axe: Beast Rider is entirely dismissible exclusive of that omission. You could stick any title on this game and it would still stink.
That 'bad game feeling' pervades through Beast Rider right from the opening cinematic, which abruptly ends without transition, right through to the final one that cuts out mid-dialog. The presentation reeks of a title that got shipped before it was finished. Screen-tearing, mid-fight stuttering and slowdown, bitty animations, pop-ups and jagged edges all constantly rear their ugly heads. There are so many unnecessary invisible walls to be found that it almost feels sadistic. If it wasn't for these issues, the graphics would actually be quite reasonable. They're slightly lacking in hue, but that's arguably to be expected from a title set in a Conan-esque universe. Sadly, those issues are very much there and they can significantly interfere with what's meant to be fast-paced gameplay.
As for the story; it's delivered in short but well-made cinematics, but there aren't very many of them — maybe just reaching double figures. All background exposition is in the form of text, specifically scrolls containing two or three short sentences about things you come across as you explore the world. This choice of storytelling is pretty archaic and very lazy, but when the plot is so vague and cliché maybe there's an argument for "less is more." In these regards, Beast Rider is a very poorly presented product.
So what awaits beyond the non-existent polish? You play as Tyris, the bikini-clad swordswoman from the original Golden Axe, and you are tasked with taking down the evil Death Adder. You do so by fighting your way through his nefarious army of beasties with the help of your trusty blade, a bit of fiery magic, some beastly steeds of your own and the Golden Axe itself. You'll travel through several worlds over the course of 15 to 20 hours, decapitate and dismember to your heart's content. And you'll do it all alone, too (minus said steeds). Golden Axe: Beast Rider can feel pretty lonely at times — I wonder how they could have solved that problem, hmm?
Tyris herself actually looks great and controls decently too. Her combos and spells are easy to learn and master, but that's mainly because there aren't many of them. She has three attack moves involving two face buttons, and a mix-up of these produces no more than a few combination attacks. One of the face buttons is reserved for magic, two fire spells and the Golden Axe, pre-selected using the D-pad. As the game goes on, those two fire spells evolve into optionally more powerful versions, selectable by repeated pressings of that face button. The remaining face button is reserved for jumping which does add a few more attack possibilities, but don't expect to pull off any Devil May Cry-style juggling. Tyris has a health bar that she can replenish with food, a mana bar that is replenished with potions and a 'tribute' score that goes towards unlocking those spell-based goodies. That score goes up based on how well your perform in the stage or 'challenge' as it's called, a feature more similar to Devil May Cry than the aforementioned jump-attacks.
Wading through enemies early on is fairly simple, but soon the game forces you to adapt evasion and parrying techniques as one of its main shticks. Initially this works quite well; your enemy's blade will either glow orange or blue signifying evade or parry respectively. You have a small amount of time to activate these with the two shoulder buttons before you're hit. A successful parry or evasion allows you to unleash a stronger attack that's vital for taking down the chunkier baddies. Sometimes an Assassin's Creed-like cut-scene special move is activated that destroys all nearby adversaries. Unfortunately these moves only shine when you're fighting just one or two enemies. As the number of foes increases, it becomes way too tricky to activate special moves reliably, ultimately becoming more frustrating than it's worth. With no additional weapons to be found in the story mode (except for the final boss battle), vastly limited magic to choose from and a serious lack of combos to pull off, the addition of color-coded defense does little to threaten the deep slice-and-dice gameplay of Devil May Cry 4 and Ninja Gaiden II.
The other major gimmick is, as suggested by the name, getting to control the beasties. Every so often you'll get the chance to don your riding boots and plonk yourself on the saddle of one of about half a dozen grim-looking monsters. They are all controllable using the same two face buttons/three combinations as Tyris but with one major difference; two of these attacks will deplete some of the beast's health. This startling decision creates a serious flaw because the majority of players will have no problem dealing with enemies by spamming the one attack that doesn't harm your beast. Yes, those two other attacks are more powerful and often look cool (including huge lightning attacks and tornadoes), but there's not nearly enough incentive to use them thanks to the big chunk of health they drain. It's a shame because despite the stiffness of the creatures' movement there's an undeniable sense of fun to stomping through a sea of enemies with one of them, especially with the larger beasts when the scale becomes entertainingly ridiculous.
Beast Rider includes some extremely basic puzzles involving chucking the Golden Axe at targets, the return of the infuriating gnomes from the original series, the inclusion of a couple of uninspiring challenge modes, the exclusion of any multiplayer modes and finally a couple of harder difficulties which I predict you won't touch with a ten-foot barge pole.
This game isn't that remarkable. Even with all the limitations to the combat, Golden Axe: Beast Rider is just below-average. The fact that it's enclosed within such laughable presentation makes it one winter title you probably ought to avoid.


Eatigo is a restaurant reservation application (app) founded in 2013 which offered an alternative way of connecting diners to restaurants. The aim was to improve restaurants' profitability by filling up empty restaurant seats during off-peak hours, by offering time-based discounts ranging from 10 to 50 percent. The market for restaurant reservation apps showed potential but there were already entrenched players. With dogged determination to develop a unique value proposition and careful crafting of its business model, the founders managed to shape diners' behaviour and disrupt the modus operandi of the industry to become a leading restaurant reservation app with presence in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines. As business gained traction, the founders needed funding to sustain growth. They explored funding options available to small-medium enterprises in Singapore and Bangkok – loan from credit card and banks, government grants, and investment from venture capital companies. There were pros and cons. The size and cost of funding were important considerations. Whilst meeting investors' demands was necessary to secure funding, it may lead to excessive dilution of owner's control. There was also the question on the correct valuation of Eatigo. Which type of funding should the founders choose?


Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American physicist, historian, and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift", which has since become an English-language staple.
Kuhn made several notable claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields undergo periodic "paradigm shifts" rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way; that these paradigm shifts open up new approaches to understanding what scientists would never have considered valid before; and that the notion of scientific truth, at any given moment, cannot be established solely by objective criteria but is defined by a consensus of a scientific community. Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable; that is, they are competing accounts of reality which cannot be coherently reconciled. Thus, our comprehension of science can never rely on full "objectivity"; we must account for subjective perspectives as well, all objective conclusions being ultimately founded upon subjective conditioning/worldview.
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By Nick Riemer on	 January 7, 2020 Australian Politics
If politics has to change after the fires, that means that everyone has to change the way they relate to it. We need a more oppositional political culture now, writes Nick Riemer.
Amidst the bushfire devastation, it's natural to hope that one saving grace pulled from the ashes might be greater public resolve to convert the desire for climate action into policy.
It'd certainly be reassuring to believe, as some have claimed, that now that people have experienced the consequences of global heating directly – and on such a massive scale – the political necessity of a zero-carbon future would just be 'common sense'.
But trauma isn't always conducive to clarity, and experiencing the effects of climate change personally doesn't necessarily induce a green epiphany. Lost houses, uprooted families and the panic of a ruined environment are likely to produce widespread uncertainty about who's really responsible and what should be done.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, fronting the media after disappearing to Hawaii on a family holiday in the midst of a major bushfire crisis.
The web of interests we call the 'coal lobby' will lose no time exploiting public disorientation. They and their political puppets will make gargantuan efforts to stymie action and prevent threats to their income-streams. Indeed, they've already started.
Their job will be facilitated by the fact that Australia going zero-carbon is only one component of the overall global action that's needed to maybe – maybe – avert global heating's most dangerous effects. So you simply can't promise people that shutting down mines in Australia means a reduction in the ferocity of droughts and fires: the relation of cause to effect isn't linear, but conditional on how much the rest of the world does the same.
That argument will be relayed ad infinitum by the sclerotic, coal-obsessed Australian ruling class. It is a formidable enemy, commanding massive influence. Against it, there's only one conceivable counter-power: society as a whole, taking action into its own hands in an authentic political impulse rooted in people's actual lives.
Only a bottom-up movement of this kind, 'owned' by everyone who identifies with it, can embed the demand for change in people's day-to-day existence, and give them the confidence and sense of legitimacy they need to stand up to the huge power of the fossil-fuel lobby and its pyromaniac lackeys in the media and politics.
Opposition leader, Anthony Albanese… Labor failed while in office to introduce sufficient climate change action. (IMAGE: Nic MacBean, Flickr)
Given the staggering dereliction of the political establishment, anyone to whom that sounds radical or utopian needs a reality-check. To change things seriously in Australia, we need serious oppositional action – strikes, direct action, mass protests – and all the community infrastructure that enables it – local committees, support networks, union groups. That will only come from the community, not political parties, and it requires everyone who agrees that climate matters to take responsibility for it happening.
You can't spirit that out of nothing, but, as the huge climate demonstrations around the country last year show, a base for this kind of democratic grassroots movement thankfully already exists.
People are rational, and there are many whom the fires will galvanize into climate action. With over a third of the population affected, the perception that politics-as-usual cannot go on has become commonplace.
But if many commentators have declared the need for change, fewer are clear about what abandoning politics-as-usual actually means. Real climate action demands far more than just voting the Liberals out or trying to force proper climate policies onto a servile ALP still unconscionably committed to coal.
We need more than a changing of the guard in the existing parties, more than a new generation of leaders.
To implement the reset we need nothing less than a different relation to politics itself.
Australia lacks the overtly oppositional political culture of many other countries. We're inclined to be indulgent to politicians and their parties, give them the benefit of the doubt. We call them by their first names –Tony, Bill, Tanya – or by familiar nicknames – Scomo, Scotty, Albo – like we do our friends.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and current Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, pictured in October 2015. Dutton and Abbott are recorded on microphone insulting Pacific Island leaders and joking about the effects climate change.
We often attribute policies with which we disagree to political leaders' 'incompetence', or 'lack of intelligence', as though all they need to come over to our point of view is a patient and cooperative explanation of the facts.
An urgent dose of oppositional consciousness is needed. Australians could learn a lesson from the Arab world and Latin America, where the power of collective movements has toppled dictators and successfully pressed the demands for social justice. We need to accept that the major parties – both of them committed to the corporate-driven system by which they have been shaped and to which their representatives are beholden – are simply not on our side.
People who consider themselves progressive can't afford more complacency, whether out of loyalty, timidity, or political 'common sense' or 'sophistication', towards the ALP or pro-coal voices elsewhere. These forces are blocking a just transition to a zero-carbon economy, and thereby contributing to the suicidal status quo. Their lectures about the need for 'pragmatic' or 'realistic' public policy should be rejected out of hand: those words are just excuses for not doing what's needed.
Given the circumstances, distinctions between wet and dry, hard and soft, right and left in the ALP are ridiculous hair-splitting. Of course, there are 'good people' in the Labor Party. But they are no match for the careerist opportunists, apparatchiks-in-waiting, and nostalgists who will stick with the party regardless of what it actually stands for.
With its fixation on coal, which shows no sign of wavering even now, Labor has demonstrated that it cannot be a vehicle for real climate progress. It does not deserve any further support or concessions, no matter how reluctant.
Its 'good people' need to be part of a political project that might actually realise their ideals. Once freed of ties to their reactionary party apparatus, they would have much to contribute.
These fires could last for months, but when it comes to forging a new politics, we don't have the luxury of time. A shift of seismic proportions is needed. Ordinary people have to stop being spectators to politics, and become its collective actors.
That starts with making the representatives of the bipartisan political consensus accountable for their inaction.
It's not just Morrison who should be shamed out of town, they all should.
Friday's national demonstrations will demand Morrison's removal. That's nowhere near enough, but it's a start.
If there's a protest where you live, you should be there.
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DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The Davao City Police Office said it will undergo reorientation and police officers evaluation to ensure its personnel are ready to provide active support in the war on drugs.
In a press conference City Police Spokesperson Chief Inspector, Andrea Dela Cerna on Wednesday, December 6 said that police officers should go through intensive screening.
"We will try to make sure that all policemen has no derogatory records or any connection with regards to illegal activities especially on drugs," Dela Cerna said. Police officers that are positive in using and are involved in illegal drugs will be dismissed in service, she said.
She said evaluation and re-orientation on how to conduct anti-illegal drug operations will be conducted among police officers before deploying them to various units. .
"We do not want this to be a 'bloody' fight. That is why we had 'Tokhang', it's one way to make this fight bloodless," Dela Cerna said.
Under the memorandum, the PDEA remains the overall lead agency in the anti-illegal drug campaign.


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Megaliths, medieval dungeons and Calypso's Cave – The Maltese Islands are positively mythic. The narrow meandering streets of their towns and villages are crowded with Renaissance cathedrals and Baroque palaces. As the countryside is dotted with the oldest known human structures in the world, the Islands have rightly been described as an open-air museum.
The Maltese archipelago lies virtually at the centre of the Mediterranean, with Malta 93km south of Sicily and 288km north of Africa. The archipelago consists of three islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino with a total population of 400,000 inhabitants over an area of 316sq km and a coastline of 196.8km (not including 56.01 km for the island of Gozo).
Malta is the largest island and the cultural, commercial and administrative centre. Gozo is the second largest island and is more rural, characterised by fishing, tourism, crafts and agriculture while Comino is largely uninhabited.
With superbly sunny weather, expansive beaches, a thriving nightlife and 7,000 years of intriguing history, there is a great deal to see and do. With a little help from any guidebook, captivating places of interest are immediately identified – the world famous Hypogeum selected as a place of World Heritage by UNESCO, prehistoric temples and grand palaces are but a few.
The long relationship between the Islanders and the various nationalities that occupied Malta over the centuries has created a marriage of styles and traditions, giving the Islands a fascinating eclectic culture. Contact us if you would like to book your private yacht charter in Malta
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The greenway neighborhood of Beaverton, Oregon goes East, starting at Murray Blvd, to Hall Blvd, and south, from Brockman/Greenway to Scholls Ferry Road. This area features Wildhorse Park, Buckskin Park, Forest Glen Park, Hiteon Park and the 85 + acre park, Greenway Park.
As of 6/20/2008 here are the stats for the Greenway Neighborhood. This week I've changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.
For a complete list of homes for sale in the Greenway Neighborhood please call or click here to request a update of homes in the Greenway Neighborhood of Beaverton, Oregon.


It came down to a very basic belief: If you believe in change, you have to do it, embrace it and be prepared to lead it.
When I first started in advertising I – like almost all graduates – was schooled at the training courses on offer at "The IPA" (The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising), the UK's trade body for advertising agencies.
Luminaries in the advertising industry had led it. A quick look at the forty or so of past presidents told the story of a great deal of social change and how the advertising industry had evolved over the last century or so. But in the 94 years of its existence, the IPA had never been led by a woman. And so when I was asked if I would take on the presidency, it seemed crazy to me that in a forward-thinking industry like advertising, there could still be a glass ceiling we had yet to smash.
But I had to think carefully about it. Sure I considered whether I could do it, if I had the right qualities and if I could make a useful contribution. I also had to weigh up how I could keep my focus and energy on my business at the same time as taking on such a challenging role.
It came down to a very basic belief: If you believe in change, you have to do it, embrace it and be prepared to lead it. Someone had to say yes and become the first woman to lead the industry. I know that – at great loss to the industry – many brilliant and pioneering women had been overlooked and passed over. And also others – including those I look up to and admire - were asked but said no. I just felt it had to be done.
Whilst I became the first and in time there will be a second, we set about making changes to encourage younger women to take on executive positions. We also worked to provide mentoring and advice, to celebrate and champion women and to overcome the inherently male infrastructure.
And the great lesson – and one you can't stop learning and relearning – it's amazing how much people want, accept and embrace change. The modern workplace is filled with talented and open-minded people who are always looking for a better way to do what was done before.
I never wanted to go through life and feel that I should've , could've, would've done something. The support for what we did reinforced my view that when you are faced with two futures – to lean in or to lean back – the way to make a difference to you and to others is to lean in.